@ Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 15:27 utc | 177 with the AI pron which was also mentioned on the latest Nima/Hudson/Wolff session.
 
Evidently the spoofs of the past Nima/Hudson/Wolff sessions are getting more views than the original but NOT YET changing the ideology of the words they manufacture……Big Brother manipulating the gullible masses and the public gets to pay extra for the electricity used to power the AI to fool them.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 13 2025 17:11 utc | 203

Luiz Bonfá, Live, Batucada ==> https://youtu.be/qr12M8Ua_iA?t=29
 
Amazing!
 

Posted by: too scents | Nov 13 2025 17:26 utc | 205

Pity Europeans
 

IMF calls for radical reform of the European welfare state

Peter Schwarz
7 November 2025

The enormous costs of rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and the profit demands of banks and companies are incompatible with the welfare state, as it emerged in Europe after the Second World War. Pensions, healthcare and many other government services can no longer be financed in their current form. Rigorous austerity measures and further deregulation of the economy are inevitable.
These are the main conclusions of the International Monetary Fund’s report on the economic situation in Europe, which the IMF’s European director, Alfred Kammer, presented to a gathering of bankers in Brussels November 4. The report, titled “How can Europe Pay for Things it Cannot Afford?” paints a dramatic picture of the financial and economic situation.

IMF calls for radical reform of the European welfare state – World Socialist Web Site
h/t nakedcapitalism.com

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 13 2025 18:21 utc | 207

Central Asia in play …
 
The Trans-Caspian Pipeline Is Resurrected as the U.S. Plots a Return to Central Asia | naked capitalism
 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump Is Blowing It Up: Dollar Is on the Edge of TOTAL COLLAPSE!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 13 2025 18:37 utc | 209

This commentary on the Chinese economy and widespread deflation eliminating corporate profits (rent seeking).
 
Capitalism should mean persistent deflation. With competition and efficiency gains, everything should persistently become cheaper. That that hasn’t been happening is a sign.
 
Top China execs forecast more deflation and falling profits ahead. And that’s the plan.
 
OT, I’m not gonna told-you-so about Epstein. No one likes a braggart.
 
But, I told ya. Epsteingate will be wild in February and March, IMO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 18:49 utc | 211

Trump and Epsteins little girls. The Trump Musk spat – Musk posted a few happy snaps of Trump with Epstein and I think some young looking girls. 
The same crowd that tried Russiagate will use this for sure. Pedophiles accusing each other of pedophilia. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 18:56 utc | 213

 too scents | Nov 13 2025 18:59 utc | 216
 
Quite likely. And doing so while snorting on coke rolling in unmolested from Columbia and Equador.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 19:05 utc | 215

First the Dutch steal the Chinese chip company Nexperia – then China stops sending chips to it – then the thieving Dutch decide to hand the company back into Chinese hands, now the Dutch are slinking off to China to grovel – has Europe as a whole have any credibility left I wonder.
 
Finbarr Bermingham (@fbermingham): “Dutch gov going to Beijing for Nexperia talks next wk “We welcome China’s openness for furthering close engagement, including in-person. Early next week, a senior official delegation from my Ministry will travel to Beijing to continue efforts to find mutually agreeable solution”” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 19:21 utc | 217

It wouldn’t surprise me one little bit if it were true.
 
“Wealthy “sniper tourists” allegedly paid upward of $90,000 to shoot people during “human safari” trips to Sarajevo in the 1990s — with an extra fee to kill children, according to wild claims being probed by Italian prosecutors.
The investigation was sparked after an Italian writer alleged he had uncovered evidence that wealthy gun enthusiasts — dubbed “sniper tourists” — would pay Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to gun down residents at random during the four-year siege of the city, the Guardian reported.
More than 10,000 were killed in Sarajevo by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996 during the Balkan Wars.
 
“There were Germans, French, English … people from all Western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians,” said Ezio Gavazzeni, the investigative writer.”
 
 
Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 19:31 utc | 219

Andrew fell on his sword and the Epstein shoe has dropped.
 
As always you heard here first at the bar. 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 19:47 utc | 221

My brain keeps flashing back to the tidbit from the latest Nima/Hudson/Wolff [NHW} video session where Nima said that the AI versions of his show are getting more views than his originals.
 
I know that the internet in the West is privately owned and operated, do you?
 
What/who is the cui bono with spoofed NHW videos?  With the Nigeria guy we are seeing spoofs done projecting more anti-empire sentiment….will that help empire turn folks against him down the road?
If you are the axis pf resistance then why create spoof of truth?
I have not seen the NHW spoofs but expect they cost money to storyboard, cull words from inventory and produce damming/questionable content to denigrate NHW.  That they are able to get more eyeballs than the original speaks volumes to the power of media firehoses tuned by AI.
 
Others thoughts about this semi-blatant manipulation of reality?  Is this part of the desperation thing that will only make things worse?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 13 2025 19:53 utc | 223

I once again feel like I am taking crazy pills.
 
The Epstein affair will amount to nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. No arrests. No come to Jesus. No awakening.
 
Yes, elites dabble in taboos. It is just part of being an elite. The chosen. The elect. “Ha! You say that I can’t have my way with a child! Have at you!”
 
The vulnerable will always be exploited by the depraved in a society. But you say you want Trump to go down? Just Trump? Will things change with a Trump arrest?
 
The Satanic-Panic of the 80s comes always to mind when talking about elite debauchery. “We are in the process of rooting it out!” Two weeks! Just two more weeks .
 
We are chasing our tails over all these things. Hell, maybe Trump will get arrested but would anyone doubt that this is just an optical illusion to give us the impression that justice occasionally can emerge and be victorious.
 
Try not to be sucked into the MSM-vortex. By all means, rail against military action in Venezuela under the guise of fighting narco-terrorism. By all means, work for universal healthcare. By all means, work for a fair immigration policy that curbs human trafficking, the availability of slave labor for the capitalists, and the suppression of domestic wage growth for the natives.
 
But you can count me out if you think one scandal is going to bring down the House of Cards. The foundation of that structure is actually steel beam and of the kind that thermite jet fuel can’t cut through.  

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 13 2025 20:06 utc | 225

psychohistorian | Nov 13 2025 20:11 utc | 229
 
Lavrov in early 2022, on Russia’s behalf, accepting the challenge of hybrid war. The economic hegemon – the petro-dollar….. The Russia China joint statement of early 2022.  Three years on and Trump talking crypto as the new hegemon scam. 
 
Gold going up faster than a rat up an Epstein drain pipe. Oils aint oils… “We should have taken the oil”. The economic hegemon is busted. The petro-dollar scam is busted.
Stupid kiddy fiddlers thought they could take on Russia. They should have read a bit of history.
 
 
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 20:24 utc | 227

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 10:19 utc | 157 I fully agree. 
Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 12:05 utc | 163
 
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Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 10:19 utc | 157

 Aww!! Okay.
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 13 2025 13:26 utc | 164
 
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Who wants to be wrong but refuse to admit it?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 15:08 utc | 173
 
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A collection of individuals who voluntarily come to this bar and read, post, share, and think – in widely varying proportions.
 
Some are genuine and sincere, some appear to be otherwise. 
 
I guess if anyone is still wondering how and why the world has got into its present state of conflict, anger, mistrust, suspicion, and aggression that perhaps a brief study of a cross-section of MoA posts could provide some insight.
 

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 20:36 utc | 229

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 13 2025 19:31 utc | 221
 
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I believe the UkroNazis were also running safaris in the Donbass after the Maidan.
 
Killing Slavs has been Western European “business” for centuries now.
 
Human trafficking, organ harvesting, and hunting children.
 
From the same people who lecture everyone else on “values”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 20:42 utc | 231

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 13 2025 19:53 utc | 226
 
Any solution should include a 3 day working week On the same pay as a 5 day working week. Increase accordingly.
 
Any solution should include a massive reduction in the retirement age. As it is NEVER an affordability issue as fully sovereign nation states create money via keystrokes. Pensions are always a PRODUCTIVITY story.
 
I would reduce the pension age to 55 and reintroduce final salary pensions. What humans always had before the ” sound money ” freaks lied, cheated and bullshitted with their affordability,  tax payer money crap propaganda and brainwashed a generation.
 
It’s a must the working week and the pension age are included in any solution. Or the Oligarchs will push through the stipend of – Universal basic income –  and then we will all be serfs of the rent seekers.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 20:42 utc | 233

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 13 2025 19:53 utc | 226
 
The ” sound money ” brigade that thinks money needs to be ” found ” rather than created by keystrokes. Who think businesses confidence and the rent seekers should decide the length of the unemployment line.
 
Would have everyone retiring at 90 and call it a success. Everybody working 7 days a week for a pittance. While they push their tax payer money myths, deficit myths and debt myths and their bullshit affordability fairytales.
 
Who are thick as mince and just useful minions for the Oligarchs. Exactly like the gold bugs were for the big land owners and banks back in the day.
 
Here:
 
 
https://archive.org/details/tenmenmoneyisla00cowdgoog/page/n4/mode/1up
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 20:51 utc | 235

Currency is useless as a fixed denominator.
 
That. Is. All.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 20:58 utc | 237

Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 20:45 utc | 237
 
 
You are an idiot. Still think we use fractional reserve banking and nobody will buy the bonds ? 50. Other things you got wrong and don’t understand.
 
So your ” guesses” are exactly that Canuck. Wetting your finger and sticking it in the air. No better than tarot card reading full of ideological bullshit.
 
 
Read and learn ……….
 
The spot and forward price for a non perishable commodity imply all storage costs, including interest expense. Therefore, with a permanent zero-rate policy, and assuming no other storage costs, the spot price of a commodity and its price for delivery any time in the future is the same.
 
 
However, if rates were, say, 10%, the price of those commodities for delivery in the future would be 10% (annualized) higher. That is, a 10% rate implies a 10% continuous increase in prices, which is the textbook definition of inflation!
 
 
It is the term structure of risk free rates itself that mirrors a term structure of prices which feeds into both the costs of production as well as the ability to pre-sell at higher prices, thereby establishing, by definition, inflation.
 
 
So tell me Canuck what happens when rates go from 10% to 8% to 6% to 4% to 2% ? Every time the central bank keeps cutting interest rates ?
 
What happens to spot and forward prices, storage costs and interest rate expenses ?
 
 
Lick your finger put it in the air and take a guess. Or pull up a chair to the front row and watch with your own eyes what happens if they keep cutting interest rates.
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 21:05 utc | 239

assuming no other storage costs

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 21:05 utc | 242
 
That’s a heck of an assumption…
 
So you want to store your stuff, in my lock-up, at no cost to yourself? Yeah, No!!!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 21:19 utc | 241

canuk | Nov 13 2025 20:45 utc | 237
 
The amount of gold that has moved from west to east in the last decade. In the corrupt west, money is power.
Rubio stating that any air defence shipped to Ukraine is destroyed in a week.
The Russian people that have been pulled out of poverty, The Chinese people that have been pulled out of poverty.
 
Russian miltech, the minds behind that. Lavrov and Putins hybrid war and their minds – quite a bit of power there, and China is no slouch either.
 
Father inlaw would say “Count the pennies and the pounds will follow”. In what we watch, its something like ‘count the tech and the gold will follow’.
 
 
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 21:21 utc | 243

@ too scents | Nov 13 2025 21:07 utc | 243
 
i have that on a double cd recording of baden powells music… it’s great! i agree..

Posted by: james | Nov 13 2025 21:27 utc | 245

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 20:36 utc | 232
 
Naw. Probly same everywhere.  Only difference seems to be that alot more speech is allowed here than other places. The bar exposes one to old and new ideas in the same drink. The commentariate has the deepest bench around.  There aren’t enuf drinks.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 13 2025 21:48 utc | 247

I’ll call it philosophy. 
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 13 2025 21:45 utc | 249
 
In the day to day world I and I assume many more have lived in, it is like living amongst clones. Sheeple shaped by the media. Fools no different to the Ukroids going like lambs to the slaughter. group think, herd mentality.
 
A bit of bio-diversity seems to concentrate here though. 
You the philosopher, james the musician, canuk the prospector, General into physics, Gruff maths, emersonreturns maths, juliania the christian.  So many more. From all walks of life. Some old names stop appearing, some new names appear. Forgot the wordsmith of the Trojan wars.
 
Diversity of an amazon rainforest.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 22:07 utc | 249

 General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 22:06 utc | 251
 
I saw a bloody great flame shooting out the back. Whats your thoughts? I guess in my simplistic terms, the Russians have got bang for their buck:) Rubio stating any air defence system shipped to Ukraine only lasts a week….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 22:15 utc | 251

Western private pension schemes go kablooey and those who invested in good faith end up impoverished.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 22:10 utc | 253
 
That is the very reason I not long back congratulated canuk on one of his prospects paying off. This world the west is heading into. Pensions, superannuation – just crap on a screen that will disappear with a keystroke. We now live in a world where it is exceptionally dangerous to live in hope of pension or super. That money is required for war.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 22:21 utc | 253

The irony to me is that this bar seems to be intent on identifying and solving the world’s problems. 
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 22:18 utc | 255
 
I think its more along the lines of a whole range of people who realise we are being fed bullshit by those that rule us. The total shit we see in the media. The fads that come and go. The wars of empire that stay consistent even when the empire’s power is fading.
 
Putin when asked by a schoolgirl about standing in the rain at the tomb of the unknown soldier – replied “I am not made of sugar. I will not melt”.
 
Just do what you do best.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 22:36 utc | 255

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 13 2025 16:36 utc | 196
 
Thanks for your willingness to play along with me, Tannenhouser.  [Incidentally that is one of my favorite operas – haven’t heard it for a while.]   
 
My main push on the religion theme is that most people assume Christianity is just western style believing, when really it is not.  Eastern is older and a bit closer to oriental philosophy,  plus being about beauty.   There were a lot of desert dwellers whose thoughts were not of a logical bent but come together in a series of musings called ‘The Philokalia’.   Western Christianity is to me Aristotelian; Eastern is Platonic. And the eastern fathers often disagreed, without being thought heretical or burned at the stake — though there was a little of that crept in until a few centuries of disagreements sorted things out.
 
But these are simply the freedoms I find in how thought is allowed to proceed when there isn’t a pope making the rules.  It’s similar to looking at language:- compare Latin to Greek for instance.  I had four years studying latin ‘thought’ before in college I had two of classical greek.  A difference between night and day!  Christianity came after that for me as simply a beautiful way to think of the world and the universe and how it got made.  In Greek it’s so much more an internal process, musical even.  If you take the Greek text of Genesis there’s a multitude of wordmatchings – God doesnt just create – he ‘in arche’  ‘poems’ the heavens and the earth into being.  And Eve is ‘homebuilt’ from Adam.
 
It’s all poetry and beautiful at that.  There’s always mystery involved,  has to be.  I used to say, think of Scripture as just the finest form of literature, taking that to the highest level the mind can go.  That’s Scripture.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 22:49 utc | 257

ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 22:33 utc | 257
 
Heat has colour. The most heat is at the point of combustion. Aka exothermic reaction. Perhaps that is wrong. A kerosene flame, especial seen in jet fuel often burn blue. 
 
But in general heat manifests in various electro magnetic frequencies we see as colours. At 600C in the shade, we see that as a dull red Around the 850, we see that as orange. At around 1500 a white yellow and dark glasses required. Look into an oil furnace running stychometric – I’ve probably spelled that world wrong – but yandex and google spell checkers are full of shit.
 
Sump oil running at a balanced oil air mix can give off nasty electromagnetic waves. Made one for my mate, a little furnace to kiln dry firewood. Set it up with little cap that could be taken off to see how it was burning. Running a balanced mix and it was a very bright sort of white tinted with yellow. Would have been far better just to use that to heat his house, but his good wife believed burning sump oil was bad, unless it was simply used to dry the wood to heat the house.
 
There is no comparison between the BTU’s in old sump oil and the few BTU’s in firewood. The inanity of the woke world. There was most likely more BTU’s expended in drying the wood with old oil than what the wood produced.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:02 utc | 259

General Fucktotum is a  dark sneaky, arrogant prick. Your depth charges would be appropriate for this miscreant.
Posted by: canuk | Nov 13 2025 18:12 utc | 208

 
and 
 

Some are genuine and sincere, some appear to be otherwise.  I guess if anyone is still wondering how and why the world has got into its present state of conflict, anger, mistrust, suspicion, and aggression that perhaps a brief study of a cross-section of MoA posts could provide some insight. 
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 13 2025 20:36 utc | 232
 

Aha General, you are catching on now. Beware those bearing Gifts of Friendship on MoA. The manipulation, lies and insanity runs very deep. Given your retirement may I suggest seeking out some local community groups for fellowship? Or some science teaching orientated forum.  You’re wasting your life here. They all are these losers.  For even the “good ones” are terribly lost with poor judgement. Or, like yourself, they wouldn’t be here!
 
Then there’s the resident Psycho Islamic Terrorist Bot
 

Who wants to be wrong but refuse to admit it?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 13 2025 15:08 utc | 173

 
Fuck man, here? I have a List of over 30 at least. On an given day starting from Bernhard down. 

Posted by: Dire Straits | Nov 13 2025 23:06 utc | 261

INTERVIEW: Trump’s presidency is in ruins  George Galloway 18 mins
 
I don’t usually comment on the Mo$$ad kiddy fiddler kompomat agenda ….
 
… but today’s emails are explosive

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 13 2025 23:10 utc | 263

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:02 utc | 262
 
Stop proving to the world every ten minutes that you are fucking idiot cock sucker. 

Posted by: Dire Straits | Nov 13 2025 23:11 utc | 265

@ Dire Straits | Nov 13 2025 23:09 utc | 265
 
You seem to have problem with that, yet don’t explain why? I’ll put that down to a sense of humour failure, it is surprisingly commonplace.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 23:19 utc | 267

REAL DATA:
 
Watch and learn ……..
 
The FED told the market they were going to start cutting interest rates. The zombies who struggle to tell the difference between their ass and their elbows who are brainwashed by gold standard fixed exchange rate type talking heads on their TV’s thought it would be bullish for gold and  who have most things backwards.
 
The zombies pushed gold to around 4350. Reality kicked in and the true effect of rate cuts brought gold down to around 3900.
 
The Chairman then came out and said no more rate cuts for now. Other members of the committee came out recently and poured more cold water on future rate cuts.
 
 
Gold bounced back up to around 4150 on those comments. That’s where we are. It’s not rocket science as explained further up the thread. How rates effect spot and forward and storage costs etc, etc.
 
 
The FED lowered the rate to their target range of 3.75%–4.00%. So a yield of 4.12% is too high. If you want to make some money short it. As the 10 year yield will fall to within the target range. As the FED sets the rate and targets the range via operational procedures.
 
 
It’s just the zombies playing silly buggers as they have completely no idea of the operational procedures. Think there are bond vigilantes in the US the same way there are in the Eurozone. Learned absolutely nothing when they lost their shirts betting against the Japanese central bank and their now infamous widow maker trade.
 
 
NEVER FIGHT THE FED!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 23:26 utc | 269

@ Leg Humper AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:26 utc | 274
 
Your certainty borders on arrogance.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 23:28 utc | 271

Your certainty borders on arrogance.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 23:28 utc | 275
 
When in Rome! Do as the Romans do. 

Posted by: Shit Fury | Nov 13 2025 23:31 utc | 273

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:02 utc | 262
Lol, I was being flippant mate. I saw the flame.
BTW it’s stoichiometric (from a recovering chemist).

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 23:35 utc | 275

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 13 2025 23:19 utc | 271
 
No. It comes from someone who has not lived a life. I greatly respect those here who have in their lives specialised in a particular sphere. The reason why many look for alternative to mainstream media, alternative to common group think, 
 
I looked up the gyro forum not long back. It was dead. Very few fly them anymore. Bullshit killed it. Fucking sheeple led by sheeple. The majority died. Rules and regulations coupled with dumfucks making those rules and regs killed it. 
 
After that, working for my mate, my own time, my own hours, 
Trades, Professions no different. 
 
As for name changing scum like Wisco – The road of death, so many young people like me died there in those years, none ever coming up with the killer. I drove rode and hitch hiked that road at 17 and 18. Over 20 unsolved murders of young people like I was then.
 
This Wisco character, possibly there is one or two others, very much like some of the crazies I would see see and the foolish would befriend.
I drink too much and think too much and rattle on. I have lived a life different to many I guess.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:39 utc | 277

If the 10 year yield falls way below 3.75% 
 
Then buy it as it will be too low. 
 
The FED will keep bringing back to within their range of 3.75 – 4% via operational procedures. Regardless what the zombies do.
 
 
We have watched this movie play out a dozen times and more over the last few years. At first when they the FED was raising rates to today while they are cutting rates.
 
It’s not rocket science, regardless what the brainwashed fools say. Who used to point at the 10 year yield 3 times a week at the bar predicting Armageddon. While spouting complete brainwashed nonsense while reading their tea leaves or tarot cards. Or even worse actually listening to the gold standard, fixed exchange rate type talking heads on TV who have brainwashed them for decades. Until today they can no longer think for themselves.
 
If the 10 year yield goes way above the FED range short the yield. If it goes way below the FED range buy the yield. Pick pocket the ” sound money ” zombies. It’s easy to pick these fools pockets. They are the most stupid set of people in our society.
 
NEVER FIGHT THE FED, this is not the eurozone.

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 13 2025 23:42 utc | 279

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:02 utc | 262
Oh and don’t get me going on wood BTU. In the UK they built a large coal-fired power station, Drax, and right next door Selby Colliery a super-pit. Very deep but bi fat seams of quality coal to fire the thing. Worked really well until Ed Milliband, then and now Minister for Green Shit decided to convert it from coal burning to wood burning. Closed the pit and sacked the miners.
Decided to source the wood from US and Canada. so the wood is felled there, kiln dried, pelleted then trucked and trained to the east coast. Placed on a ship across the Atlantic to Liverpool, loaded back onto trains to go cross country to Drax, where they set it on fire. Three trains a week (as opposed to continuous coal from next door) and we’re expected to believe this is better because it is ‘carbon neutral’ – which it clearly is not.
The twat is still in post, still doing damage.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 23:44 utc | 281

ChatNPC | Nov 13 2025 23:44 utc | 286
 
Yeah. Off shoring thunberg.
 
What more to say about what you describe. The insanity of the western current world.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 13 2025 23:59 utc | 283

Loks – looks. Bloody hell, I’ll be Indian soon.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 14 2025 0:20 utc | 285

GHC Statement: Ksi Lisims on Major Projects List
 
https://www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/ghc-statement-ksi-lisims-on-major-projects-list/
 
“Today’s announcement by Prime Minister Carney to include a KSI Lisims liquefied natural gas on the major projects list is part of a growing and alarming trend seen in Bill C-5 and BC’s Bill 15 to forfeit Indigenous consent and environmental accountability under the guise of reshaping Canada’s economy…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 14 2025 0:49 utc | 287

@226 psychohistorian
 
I’m not sure what to do about all the AI slop on youtube.  I noticed all the AI ripoffs a while back, and am still trying to come up with alternate ways to get information.  This will make it harder for new people to break into the business as they will initially be shunned due to fears they are AI.

Posted by: Woke American | Nov 14 2025 1:55 utc | 289

China is very steamed at Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi very impolitic remarks and refusal to retract them. IMO, Ms. Takaichi is stroking Trump and going against Japan’s interests. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 14 2025 2:16 utc | 291

What we I call evil is already present in nature; unless you are willing to ascribe the next huge asteroid strike on Terra to an explicitly willful act by God.  We have to deal with it somehow. 
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 13 2025 22:54 utc | 261
 
That seems a limited set of parameters, persiflo – – but it does remind me of  the John the Evangelist extract that is the epigraph in Dostoievski’s TBK. 
 
 There is indeed death and corruption in nature but I would hesitate to call it evil.  Rather,  the mystery is beyond such a designation as is my necessarily limited understanding of God’s works his wonders to perform.  Even Job couldn’t answer that one.
 
 

Posted by: juliania | Nov 14 2025 2:27 utc | 293

…]    being is noesis, Sein ist Gewahren.
 
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 13 2025 23:11 utc | 267
 
Ta. Neat summary.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 14 2025 2:39 utc | 295

Che Guevara interview. Ireland 1964   3 mins
 
Jim Fitzpatrick on meeting Che Guevara, the Argentinian-Irish diaspora & his Budweiser April fools    5 mins    Jim created the iconic image adorning so many walls … but did not copyright it
 
 

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 14 2025 3:08 utc | 297

 juliania | Nov 13 2025 3:03 utc | 116—
 
Thanks for your reply. Helmer takes so long to say what he wants then repeats it several times, all of which is very annoying. My answer to his speculation is the Outlaw US Empire will continue to prick at the Arc of Instability as long as it can do so and get results. And its Terrorist Foreign Legion proxy is clearly being used globally since the Empire has no power to confront most nations directly. Was this to be a prelude to an attack while Putin visits in December? Why not?  

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 14 2025 4:47 utc | 299