The failed EU experiment – must surely be dissolved sooner than later.
 
Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon (@echo_pbreyer): “🇪🇺Misleading headlines: #ChatControl is not dead, it is being privatized! 🚨 EU governments voted today for: 🔍 Warrantless mass surveillance 🆔 Mandatory ID for everyone (End of anonymity) 🚫 Digital house arrest for teens The fight continues! 👇 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 28 2025 19:07 utc | 204

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 28 2025 16:42 utc | 194
 
Traore is perhaps the ripped off person on youtube. I did see a documentary on him months ago but every video I have seen since is AI spoof. Seems to be just one group specializing in the spoofing of geopolitical figures and commentators. 
 
I saw one on Mearsheimer where they slipped something that could actually be checked and it was fiction. Its a sign when youtube pushes the AI rip offs to front and center and the originals kept hidden or far down the list.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 28 2025 19:10 utc | 206

The EU vile bigwig Kallas is so Russophobic – that she blanks out parts of history to demonize Russia/Soviet Union.
 
 
Paweł Wargan (@pawelwargan): “The EU’s attempts to rewrite history are as breathtakingly absurd as they are dangerous. In the years after 1917 alone, Russia was invaded by the UK, Japan, US, France, Poland, Greece, Estonia, Romania, Serbia, and the Czechoslovak Legions. Then came Germany, Romania, Finland, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia during World War II — not to speak of the unrelenting attempts at destabilization by the NATO axis throughout the Cold War.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 28 2025 19:26 utc | 208

Rahmanullah Lakanwal reportedly served. Apparently the horror of it shattered his mind.” | nitter.poast.org
 
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 28 2025 19:30 utc | 212
 
________
 
Or he just missed killing people.

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 28 2025 19:44 utc | 210

@ Merv Ritchie | Nov 28 2025 18:38 utc | 201
 
thanks merv… i appreciate your work in correcting the wrongs here and elsewhere..

Posted by: james | Nov 28 2025 20:06 utc | 212

Lex Talionis 
 
 
May I draw attention to this verse  Lex – a description of what exactly – politic, power, wealth?  – it might be a description of Pasolini’s film “Salo”. I think you posted a clip of  one     of the cast talking about shooting the  film – I couldn’t watch because  I have no virtual ID lol. Britain – the land of  surveillance and censorship.
 
“Mirrors on the ceiling,The pink champagne on iceAnd she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”And in the master’s chambers,They gathered for the feastThey stab it with their steely knives,But they just can’t kill the beast” 
The Eagles. – Hotel California 

Posted by: will moon | Nov 28 2025 20:13 utc | 214

It was absolutely fantastic to see the US and Russia working together in the pursuit of scientific endeavour.  The US contigent represnted by Christopher Williams, a medical physician researching the response of cancer cells in microgrvity a particularly noteworthy example. As the launch of MS-28 took place on a quiet day, thanksgiving, it was great to see it all over the news!
 
Oh wait a minute… No it wasn’t. 
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V650MhP4-Wg

Posted by: lachaussette | Nov 28 2025 21:00 utc | 216

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 28 2025 18:56 utc | 203
 
######
 
Agreed. I have been posting about Traore and AES for 2 years at MoA.
 
I follow Africa and China with the same zeal that Zionists follow Tel Aviv.
 
It’s nice to see Femi here. I hope someone else at the bar reads his writing.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 28 2025 21:17 utc | 218

Dumb and Dumber ….
 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2p7Czbjns
 
 
The judge and Ritter saying Russia is about to run out of roubles. The most ignorant discussion I’ve seen in the last 60 years apart from the Chuckle brothers at the Duran talking about economics.
 
Again, as if Russia uses the Euro. Gold standard fixed exchange rate type horseshit. Probably what both were educated in when they were 17. Don’t and NEVER have understood modern money.
 
Their followers sit there opened mouthed brainwashed out of their tiny little minds. Actually believe Russia is about to run out of keystrokes.
 
Unfeckingbelievable!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 28 2025 21:33 utc | 220

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 28 2025 21:20 utc | 222
 
Yeah but the QE debt is hughfrickinormouse and the interest is index linked to inflation.
 
Good job they owe the debt to themselves and the interest gets paid to the treasury.

Posted by: lachaussette | Nov 28 2025 22:02 utc | 222

Cheers, and happy whatever.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Nov 27 2025 20:49 utc | 83
For us, Yes! The warmest holiday on calender. Family gatherings, wonderful meals, and a day of being grateful to God for bounties.
For you, you can go with theatrics of boo hoo boo hoo over some dead Arabs, and don’t forget to use the chains and whips. And really, what the fuck are you doing over here if you hate us so much? Did we invite you over here Sakineh Begoom?

Posted by: pilgrim | Nov 28 2025 23:12 utc | 224

 Juan Moment | Nov 29 2025 0:38 utc | 228
 
Thanks. I guess the are just being kept out of harms way then.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2025 1:41 utc | 226

Jackson Hinkle did a short (13 min) video on the DPRK and how they, too, are becoming first-world relatively fast.
 
When the Koreas reconcile, the North will have a huge demographic and perhaps economic advantage.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAGcC0B0a8c
 
All of the “Sanctioned” are rising. Many of them are doing it together.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2025 2:30 utc | 228

Peter AU1 @ 218;
Hey Peter, I see Oz plans to make another contribution to Trump & Co on behalf of the failing NATO-nazi regime before the show closes…
 
Australia & New Zealand Join Forces To Fund NATO Weapons For Ukraine
 
https://thenightly.com.au/world/australia-and-new-zealand-join-forces-to-fund-nato-weapons-for-ukraine-c-20819893
 
“Australia and New Zealand are poised to tip around $65 million into a special NATO program that buys American-made weapons for Ukraine. Sources in Brussels, Canberra and Wellington confirmed to The Nightly that the two countries would become the first non-NATO nations to contribute to the Prioritised Requirements List (PURL) scheme…”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 2:40 utc | 230

Lest we forget the genocide…
 
Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning For Many Indigenous Communities
 
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/thanksgiving=day-mourning-many-indigenous-communities
 
“The National Day of Mourning project was founded by Wamsutta Frank James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal member and other Indigenous men and women in the region.
 
In 1970, Wamsutta had been invited by the Commonwealth of Massachussetts to given a speech at a banquet commemorating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims.
 
The organizers of the banquet imagined that Wamsutta would give an appreciative and complimentary speech, singing the praises of the American settler-colonial project and thanking the Pilgrims for bringing ‘civilization’ to the Wampanoag.
 
However the speech that Wamsutta wrote, which was based on historical face instead of the hollow fiction portrayed in the Thanksgiving myth, was a far cry from complimentary…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 3:31 utc | 232

Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning (corrected from above)
 
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/thanksgiving-day-mourning-indigenous-communities

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 3:34 utc | 234

Re: silver to unimperator, too scents
 
It has taken me a long time to be able to articulate why I feel and felt that silver is, pun intended, the silver bullet to take down the finance sector, including bitcoin in due time. 
 
But in truth, the answer has been there since the beginning and parroted endlessly by stackers: “if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.”
 
And…”it’s physical.”
 
Now the dumbasses that didn’t pay attention in English have a disadvantage for when it comes to explaining, eloquently, why silver being physical matters. 
 
We are left with an image of a sexy woman rolling around in money on a bed, except substitute an out-of-shape nerd with psoriasis for said sexy woman and he is just listening to the ring of pinging silver rounds coming together. Far less sexy. Borderline-Neanderthal.
 
Explaining why silver is so important, indeed, how it could be the whole linchpin of the financial realignment away from elite-control via the money-press and various other financial and investment shenanigans, is no small task.
 
It’s archaic. It’s dirty. It’s heavy. “Bitcoin solves all this.”
 
And, with this next point I do agree, economic velocity slows wayyyyyy down. Exchanging physical PMs will be a tall-order in the future, but we have no other choice. 
 
Trust is wearing down to the nubs. In institutions. In governments. In banks. Where is authority to lead us prudently? Wealth entrenchment abounds. Inflation means paper fiat savings are for suckers. But every company you could partake in practices stock buy-backs and is offering nothing in the way of innovation, let alone products that are truly unassailable investments.
 
Done. Done with all of it. Silver is the best “fuck you” I can think of then for us refuseniks. Screw velocity. Screw full employment. Screw fiat.
 
If you keep it, “THEY” can’t get it. They can cancel your bank privileges but good luck mustering up the foolish thugs to come door-to-door to try to get it back. Repo-ing cars is dangerous, sure, but silver? Suicidal. 
 
I really can’t think of anything better you can do with your money than buy silver and sit on it. Not financial advice, I should say. Heavens no! If you want a return, try the S&P or real estate or something else that screams, “I am fine with this system. I am looking forward to my social security payments after I retire.”
 
You are presuming they haven’t thought of every avenue of investment or narrative that could possibly occur and that they would NEVER front-run you, furthering the wealth entrenchment even more. 
 
There will be a movement soon that advocates going phone-less in the world. Going credit card-less. Humanity is too good to be incarcerated by our elites forever. We will push back. Consider the coin purse, then. Remember what it felt like to hold real money? It was physical. It was a sensation. There was proof there. It was for saving. But devaluing it meant people just came to resent the heavy load of clad metal in their trouser pocket and eventually did away with it entirely.
 
But something amazing to think about: four silver quarters could fill up your full size pickup today. Amazing!

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 29 2025 3:43 utc | 236

For sure.  The yay is still for crap here in SoCal.
maga. Riff Raff – Granny Sellin’ Dope
/;)s

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 4:08 utc | 238

@ lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 4:08 utc | 241
 
do a new mexico one and get juliania as the granny, lol.. 

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2025 4:17 utc | 240

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2025 4:17 utc | 243
? I don’t meth with that stuff.
Thanks for the tip on Carol Kaye, though. 

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 4:27 utc | 242

juliana @ 246:
 
Good luck with your search. If I should come across more I will post it. Cheers.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 6:06 utc | 244

239
Hey Nemesis, I like reading you, I don’t post much and I write badly.
 
egarding your Silver Bullet line, I’m sure we are being lead down the primrose path somewhere with metals, and as for crypto, I just don’t know, I disregarded it a few years ago.
 
I used to own it, along with metals. I made a comment that if it isn’t in your hand, it’s not yours and didn’t mean a rebel cry of “take it if you dare” but that was a warning to those who might decide to buy from the constant barrage of people who want to help you in your financial security on the internet. And end up with a certificate.
 
If I am reading you right then I must just say that you can’t eat metal and you can’t drink oil, I know the old adage of an ounce of gold would buy a house and 30 million Marks a toilet roll, from the Weimar days, but how do you sell?
And to whom? 
 
I hope I didn’t misundersatnd you, because you do post good stuff, and I only post when I’m hammered. But thats the loveliness of life, and being able to get hammered when you like.

Posted by: orson cart | Nov 29 2025 6:57 utc | 246

Nexperia issue not yet resolved despite Dutch government apparently backpedalling on some aspects of its wanton confiscation of private property
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202511/1349334.shtml

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 29 2025 10:14 utc | 248

CIA contractors revealed to be trafficking minor children through international US airports.
Interviewed border patrol officers said they were not checking any ID’s.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1994042267473219601

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 29 2025 10:43 utc | 250

I just looked up Palantair in Australia and this is the answer from google AI
 
Palantir Australia is the Australian branch of the data analytics company, Palantir Technologies, which provides software platforms like Foundry and AIP to help government agencies and large corporations make data-driven decisions. The company has a presence in Sydney and Canberra, with clients in sectors including defence, finance, and mining, and its technology is designed to integrate and analyze large, complex datasets for purposes like fraud detection and predictive maintenance. What Palantir Australia does
 
Provides data analytics platforms: The company’s core business is offering software solutions, such as Foundry and AIP, that help organizations manage and analyze vast amounts of data in real-time.
Serves government and commercial sectors: Palantir Australia works with a wide range of clients, including Australian government agencies and major corporations like Rio Tinto, Qantas, and Coles.
Focuses on critical challenges: The technology is used to solve complex problems, from predicting when a mining rig needs maintenance to dynamically allocating hospital resources and identifying fraud patterns.
Uses Australian-based cloud services: Its Australian operations deliver services through platforms like Foundry and AIP hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions within Australia, designed to meet the needs of local customers.
Company presence and operations
Offices: Has offices in Canberra and Sydney with about 60 employees in Australia, notes Capital Brief.
History in Australia: Has been in Australia for a significant amount of time, with a history that includes supporting the intelligence community.
Clientele: Key clients have included Austrac, Rio Tinto, and a number of state government departments
…………………………..
 
Looks is like Zio American AI is spying on us in Australia 24/7 and has been doing so for quite some time.
From Wikipedia –
“Palantir achieved its first profitable quarter in the fourth quarter of 2022,[19] taking roughly 20 years to become profitable.”
 
Who funded it? Also in wikipedia – 
“There are several versions of the story of the company’s founding. According to Gilman Louie, head of In-Q-Tel (a venture capital corporation associated with the CIA and the intelligence community[32][33]), after Thiel recruited Karp, the two founders came to him with some ideas but no clear problem to solve. After hearing his suggestions, they did a mock-up in two weeks.”

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2025 13:55 utc | 252

Apparently the two- tankers struck by the Neo-Nazi’s water borne drones are Russian.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- The moment Ukrainian USVs struck Russian tankers KAIROS and VIRAT in the Black Sea, just north of the Bosphorus. Both tankers have suffered critical damage, putting them out of future use. The Turkish Coast Guard rescued the crews of both tankers.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 29 2025 14:00 utc | 254

Sehr interessanter Artikel zu den globalen Machtverschiebungen und den komplexen Dynamiken in verschiedenen Konfliktregionen. Eine Frage, die mir beim Lesen in den Sinn kam: Wie wirken sich solche geopolitischen Spannungen eigentlich auf praktische administrative Prozesse für Ausländer in Europa aus, beispielsweise auf die Beantragung einer Sozialversicherungsnummer in Portugal? Ich habe kürzlich auf https://e-residency.com/niss-online/ gelesen, dass man den NISS nun komplett online beantragen kann, ohne persönlich erscheinen zu müssen. Hat jemand hier bereits Erfahrungen mit diesem digitalen Prozess gemacht oder weiß, ob solche Services angesichts der aktuellen politischen Lage verlässlich funktionieren?

Posted by: Andrew | Nov 29 2025 14:12 utc | 256

Republicofscotland | Nov 29 2025 14:07 utc | 259
 
I read that in Reuters not long ago. A US direct attack on Venezuela will end any chance of some sort of peace deal between US and Russia.
 
US appear to have set up for more a long term bombardment of Venezuela rather than invasion as such. Cruise missiles and air strikes. I guess at some point their proxy army/militias will make themselves known.
It may well be similar to what occurred in Iran only Venezuela not so well set up for the retaliatory strikes.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2025 14:32 utc | 258

Italy is taking its gold away from ECB jurisdiction proportional to its ownership. Another sign that the lifetime of ECB and Eurozone is rapidly approaching the end. 
 

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 29 2025 14:41 utc | 260

Orson Cart@250………the Prophet, Bob Marley, would counsel you and fellow imbibers to put down the bottle and partake of the sacred plant instead…….
 
…….alcohol is used as a Colonial bio weapon, well documented, playing out in the ERs of Imperial conquered countries world wide right now…….and every time I plant a seed, they say, “kill it.”………
 
As for those wee shrooms at the bottom of your garden, proceed with caution, I find, as many varieties are available here in the Big Colony, the field of micro dosing as a treatment for PTSD very interesting. To be honest, anyone who has passed through a birth canal, has some form of PTSD……..imagine being pulled out with a pair of tongs ……I still have the dent in my head 66 years later…..I know, lousy excuse for micro dosing ………:)
 
Cheers M 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 29 2025 14:50 utc | 262

 
 
Alright barflies, pull up a chair. Let me tell you how it all started that night. I come home from work, battered and beaten by the grind. Poplar to Dagenham, passing Canary Wharf every day, feeling like a nobody in a world that’s too busy to notice. I toss my coat on the chair, flick on the telly. The UK budget’s on. Politicians blabbering about cuts, debts, and promises that never seem to add up.
 
I reach into the fridge, grab my Stinking Bishop. Pungent, creamy, a bit rebellious, and slice off a generous chunk. Pour myself a glass of cheap white wine, the kind you get in a two-for-a-fiver. Sinking into my chair, I watch the numbers and figures, the imaginary black hole, the endless cycle of money slipping through our fingers. And that’s when it hits me. How much of life is just surviving, just trying to hold it all together with the crumbs from the table.
 
Then, as I take a bite of that pungent cheese, the world starts to melt away. The room blurs. The TV fades into the background. And suddenly, I’m somewhere else altogether. I see it clearly now. A colossal hospital, stretching as far as the eye can see. The whole of the UK, the NHS, a health service with a county attached, transformed into a living, breathing Medical Industrial Complex. Call it the MIC, not to be confused with the Military Industrial Complex. Indeed, it’s the very antithesis. 
 
Imagine corridors like endless highways, connecting every town, every city, every village. Autonomous electric wheelchairs zipping through the maze, ferrying everyone. Patients, doctors, nurses, professors, janitors, along the veins of this vast organism. At every node, there’s a canteen and ablutions, like those old motorway stops but on a grand, surreal scale.
 
Everyone’s caught in this system. We’re all both sick and healing, studying health and just trying to get through. Walls glow with a strange, pungent cheese aroma, like melted Stinking Bishop, transforming the very fabric of this utopia into something more magical, more mysterious. It’s as if the whole place is made of cheese, creamy and pungent, constantly melting into new forms.
 
And in that glow, I realize something profound: perhaps we’re all just parts of a cosmic cheese wheel, spinning in the darkness, nourishing us with its pungent, ineffable wisdom. No money, no debts, no stress, just a vast, interconnected machine that cares. Everyone has a role; everyone belongs. No one left behind in the endless corridors of this hospital-city.
 
As I wake from the dream, that cheesy scent still lingering, I wonder: maybe this isn’t just fantasy. Maybe, just maybe, we’re all patients in the grand hospital of life, waiting for the system to call us in for our dose of truth, or the final slice of that cosmic, cheesy wheel.
 
The next day I go to work as usual, dreading having to deal with another irate customer insisting the alternator he ordered doesn’t fit. 
I get on the DLR at West Ham and sit next to a lively Glaswegian. We get into conversation, putting the world to rights, talking about the economic situation in Scotland.
 
The conversation soon turns to literature and it turns out we both share a favorite author: Iaian Banks! We discussed a few of his books and I took the opportunity to share my dream. 
 
Anyway, as we clattered along I went into great detail about the Stinking Bishop, the wine and the dream. He looked at me with an expression of mild humour and a progressively raising eyebrow. Anyway, as he got off for his stop, he looked at me and said:
 
“Are you f¥cking mental Jimmy?”
 
Call me mad if you want. But sometimes, I think the world’s a lot stranger, and a lot more beautiful, than we’re willing to admit. Maybe all this chaos is just the cheese melting into the fabric of reality, whispering secrets we’re too blind to hear.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DrUB0g8Vjgg&pp=ygUKc2ltcGx5IHJlZA%3D%3D
 
 

Posted by: lachaussette | Nov 29 2025 15:16 utc | 264

 That’s my hope. 
Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Nov 29 2025 14:39 utc | 263
 
Mine too.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2025 15:53 utc | 266

“Jonathan Powell, formerly Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, spent 2024 overthrowing Assad in Syria, grooming Al Jolani from terrorist to tyrant, before becoming PM Starmer’s National Security Advisor.”
 
Some more info on Powell.
 
Jonathan Powell – Wikispooks

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 29 2025 16:23 utc | 268

De Gaulle on Nato – which is a US led body designed to control Europe.
 
A helpful reminder of what De Gaulle used to say about NATO and American hegemony over Europe. This is all extracted from the book “C’était de Gaulle” which gathers his words as compiled by his confidant Alain Peyrefitte. De Gaulle said: “France’s objective is to build Europe […] The whole point is that Europe should want to exist as its own self, independently from the U.S.[NATO is] quite simply putting Europe’s defense, nuclear and conventional, in the hands of the U.S. Europe is useless if it doesn’t control its own defense and therefore its own policy. NATO is a subterfuge. It’s a machine to disguise the stranglehold of America over Europe. Thanks to NATO, Europe is placed under the dependence of the U.S. without seeming to be.” He explains the “subterfuge” further: “Becoming used to submitting ourselves to a so-called integrated military command structure, which is itself submitted to the president of the U.S. alone, it is giving up the state and the country, it is losing our soul! Because our generals and colonels [would get] used to a command structure that’s denationalized, they would themselves denationalize. They would lose the sense of the state and the nation, the respect of national hierarchy, without which there is no more army, no more state, no more nation. And what goes for the military leadership also goes for governments.
 
If the government doesn’t assume the defense of the country, if it relinquishes this responsibility to the Americans, it loses its legitimacy and thus its authority. It doesn’t have the right to decide because it has renounced its duty to lead.” On calling out American hypocrisy over NATO: “If [the Americans] do not want to allow us a say in their strategy, which is likely, well we won’t allow them a say in ours. They know that and that’s what annoys them. Their reproach when it comes to our nuclear force is that it forces them to admit a breach in their monopoly. We expose their desire to be hegemonic, hypocritically disguised as ‘integration’. [My memorandum of 1958] was a way to pressure them diplomatically. I was looking for a way to exit NATO and be free again. […] So I asked for the moon. I was sure they wouldn’t indulge me. The Anglo-Americans wanted the ability to use force as they pleased, and they don’t want us for this reason. What they want is to dominate us.” To the question “Do you really believe we can leave NATO without getting shot down by the Americans?” he replies: “Of course we can! That’s what we’re doing bit by bit. We’re detaching ourselves from the Americans whilst remaining good friends. […] The Americans know well, or at least should know, that one doesn’t rely on what’s soft. One should rely on what’s solid. […] In truth they’re always tempted to rely on what’s soft rather than what’s solid. In all under-developped countries they’re tempted to rely on rotten elements who are favorable to them – all the more favorable that they’re the ones who made them rotten in the first place -, rather than rely on solid regimes backed up by a true popular will; because they fear those types of regimes.
 
During the war they relied on Pétain or Darlan or Giraud against De Gaulle even though I incarnated the nation’s will. […] The Americans can’t prevent themselves from boosting as much as they can the career of a Jean Monnet [A/N: who is known as ‘The Father of Europe’] because they recognize he is their man and to oppose De Gaulle, because he resists them. However they should recognize that the U.S.’s best ally isn’t the one who bows down to them, it’s the one who can say no to them.” Interestingly, he saw very much the same dynamic apply with American multinational corporations as with NATO: “The market has some good sides. It forces people to stretch themselves, it selects the best, it encourages you to be better than others and to improve yourself. But at the same time it creates unfairness, installs monopolies and favors cheaters. So don’t be blind when it comes to the market. One shouldn’t imagine that it’ll solve all the problems on its own. The market isn’t above the nation or the state. It is the nation, it is the state that must be above the market. If the market reigned supreme, it would be the Americans who would reign supreme over it via the multinational corporations which are no more multinational than NATO. All of this is simply a camouflage for American hegemony. If we follow the market with our eyes closed, we would be colonized by the Americans. We wouldn’t exist anymore, us Europeans.” In a way, it’s extremely sad to read all this from today’s vantage because he proved right on so many points. But it also highlights how incredibly prescient a man he was – he saw decades ahead! – and how well he understood the dynamics at play.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 29 2025 16:32 utc | 270

Merv Ritchie @ 201:
 
Thanks for posting your Canada-Libya material. Carney’s Canada continues to act as Great Satan’s little helper.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 17:11 utc | 272

Posted by: S | Nov 27 2025 19:47 utc | 75

If there’s anything you can’t possibly trust now, it’s the polls. Not only are they biased – like the medias, in France the polling institutes are the property of corporate moguls and oligarchs who sided a long time ago with the far right, they relentlessly prepare the ground for the 2027 election to avoid at any cost the victory of Mélenchon – but their methods are far away from any thorough polling procedures.
In short, they’ll do anything, from cherry-picking the sample groups to twisting the datas at will, to obtain the outcome they’re looking for. This poll encapsulates these practices and shows clearly it’s not about opinion survey but about opinion management. 
Besides the very small size of the sample, if IFOP focuses solely on Muslims in general, without distinguishing between immigrants and their descendants, it’s because it knows that the descendants of immigrants, born and raised in France, are much less conservative than immigrants themselves. It highlights indicators of increasing religiosity through mosque attendance, individual prayer, observance of dietary and dress rules, and the degree of acceptance of diversity. It recalls the criteria that were given to recognise religious radicalisation among Muslims, such as growing a beard or not watching TV anymore… So here’s a reading bias : according to this poll, the proportion of people observing Ramadan is on the rise, but is the practice of Ramadan really a criterion for religiosity? Not more than observing Christmas or Easter is in any way relevant to evaluate someone’s “Christianisation”.
Same goes for the supposed sympathy of the sample vis-à-vis islamism. As two experts on Islam stated :

The survey refers to Islamism without providing any prior definition, as if it were self-evident, as if it were a term on which there was consensus. What do the respondents understand by this word? Whether there is an increase in mosque attendance or individual prayer among younger generations of Muslims, so be it. Whether there is a rise in religious intransigence, why not: it can be observed in all faiths. But Ifop links this development to the influence of Islamist networks among Muslims in France, which is problematic.
So, people are asked if they feel close to the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, Wahhabis, Tabligh, Takfir, jihadists, etc. This type of question likely causes a classic problem in surveys: people don’t dare say they don’t know, but answer anyway. The result is that we end up with a figure of 24% of French Muslims who say they feel close to the Muslim Brotherhood. But were they asked, “Do you really know what a Muslim Brother is?” “What are their ideas?”

A recent report on the so-called Muslim Brotherhood threat in France turned out to be an unscrupulous as well as an inconclusive piece of work with some completely far-fetched assessments that are completely unsubstantiated.  Obviously it didn’t stop the right wing media to blow it up out of proportion, like the Figaro for instance, headlining about an “organisation that, like a spider, has spun its web throughout every corner of society“.
The vague impression is to be bamboozled by the right wing leaning media and political landscape that are at every steps of the same fear-inducing narrative loop : create it, maintain it, whine about it, create it, maintain it, whine about it…
Again,  it’s all about opinion management. 
A few days ago, a poll from Odoxa about the vote in case of a second round between Bardella and Mélenchon announced a score of 74% for Bardella, which is absolutely way above realistic. They could have done something more measured, more subtle. But in Odoxa’s board of directors, you’ll find Bolloré and Rotschild. No need to waffle on, it alone says a lot.
 

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 29 2025 17:17 utc | 274

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 29 2025 17:18 utc | 279

Thank you for your detailed answer!
 
I’m surprised to hear the situation with polling organizations in France is so bad.

Posted by: S | Nov 29 2025 17:59 utc | 276

BTN: Abby Martin
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFlDWo28xnY
 
“Empire Files journalist Abby Martin joins the show to discuss her new film, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, which exposes the US military – ‘The army of fossil fuel companies.”
 
 
 
Geopolitical Economy Report: The Truth About Palantir
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4J4lF1E-eI
 
“How the company profits from war and mass surveillance.”
Recommended.
 
These American Fascisti are the world’s enemy.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 18:32 utc | 278

CGTN: Prof Jeffrey Sachs
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKqvZJ4Jmb0
 
“Warns Japan militarism back.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 29 2025 18:56 utc | 280

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 29 2025 10:43 utc | 254
Thank you.  That guy is brave.  The scum he is exposing.
Posted by: JB | Nov 29 2025 13:46 utc | 255
I have gotten rid of all my Chomsky books aside from the one wrote about anarchism.  ZOG.

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 19:31 utc | 282

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/open-neither-ukraine-nor-palestine-thread-2025-272.html/comment-page-3#comment-1234726
Joe was a diplomat‘s son, sure gave him some insight. Just like Alex Christoforou

Posted by: steiniplatte | Nov 29 2025 19:54 utc | 284

@249 orson cart
 
Thx for the post. We will see why silver has been so manipulated for years and decades in the very near future. If my theory is correct, that the existing system of western finance is fracturing due to internal contradictions of unseen wealth entrenchment and ascending adversaries demanding a seat at the table (China and Russia), then silver will move beyond a mere supplement to the investment system, store of wealth, or hedge against inflation. You can view it as canary in the coalmine or as utility in the destruction of the existing system. Is it a tool of destruction or mere sign then of ongoing destruction? What was the original canary in the mine…a tool of the miners or signifier? Both? Interesting thought. Maybe silver has a life all its own and it is roaring back. Maybe it truly is God’s money (“The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts”). Silver is then maybe a tool and signifier, much like the canary.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 29 2025 20:38 utc | 286

The new website turns my    ;     )   into an emoji.  I did not put an emoji in my comment.  
 

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 23:41 utc | 288

 
 
FU↑ 
how interesting

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2025 0:52 utc | 290

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2025 1:02 utc | 295
Spasiba pazhalsta.  I have said in previous post things that I don’t like emojis.
I try to keep it trill.

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 30 2025 1:10 utc | 292

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2025 1:13 utc | 297
People ask me what my tattoo means.  
I respond, “I was stupid when I was 25.”
I am quite enjoying The Dawn of Everything 33 years later, so I might be cool.   As perflio mentioned, dosage… poison… teabags.. uh aluminum. or something.
Thank you.

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 30 2025 1:23 utc | 294

@  lex talionis | Nov 30 2025 1:23 utc | 298who si enjoying The Dawn Of Everything
 
Yep, that makes you cool….glad you are enjoying it
 
Would that the Western world could see beyond the boundaries of their history and enculturation….why can’t we change our form or social organization to make finance a public utility instead of the current private elite jackboot I keep writing about…..or at least talk about its reality.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2025 3:43 utc | 296

And while Trump is deciding about Venezuela we have a society leader
 
Xi stresses improving long-term mechanisms for cyberspace governance
 
It is a comprehensive admittance by Xi that the future of cyberspace is challenging for China and others

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2025 7:28 utc | 298

At least I didn’t say assume.  Annihilation is excellent. 
Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 29 2025 23:39 utc | 291

I teased you, of course.
 
As long as Houellebecq remained in the confines of petty bourgeois social chronicles, I used to find him exhilarating in spite of his clinical writing. But since he became political, he lost me, for obvious reasons. I have to say most of the French stuffs I read are essays, contemporary French literature has a knack for boring the shit out of me, with the notable exception of Jaeneda or DOA.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 30 2025 8:23 utc | 300