Hamburger | Nov 18 2025 22:28 utc | 72
 
People are the same the world over. It is inly the propaganda or lack of that varies. The Romanian’s, There elected leader dumped and criminalized by von lying witchery and none said boo. That was a time for pitchforks and guillotines. They will all disappear up the black hole of the Euro arse.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 18 2025 23:47 utc | 103

Witkoff is meeting w/ Volodymyr on 19 November in Istanbul to tell him to to jettison Yermak.   In Yermak’s place, the U.S. will elevate someone else to serve as Volodymr’s Chief of Staff.
 
Although Europe is in charge of managing Project Ukraine, the U.S. is pulling the wings off the fly right now.  Volodymyr will have fewer & fewer of his loyal supplicants surrounding/protecting him.
 
Europe is publicly in charge of managing Project Ukraine, of course, but if DJT via Witkoff is telling Volodymyr to jettison Yermak and is filling that position w/ someone hand-picked, then DJT is quickly become King of Ukraine. 
 
It’s like the quarterback in American tackle football who finds the coach, the offensive coordinator and the team’s general manager fired from underneath his alfa-sierra-sieraa—plus the star receiver gets traded away for someday prospects.
 
Who remains loyal to the original quarterback-?
 
Oops, there goes gravity.  Oops, there goes rabbity.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 18 2025 23:50 utc | 105

Posted by: p3t3r | Nov 18 2025 23:33 utc | 99
 
The Soviet Union was destroyed by traitors, corrupted by the yankees. Necessary to read : 911, Collateral Damage. PDF file.

Posted by: Naive | Nov 19 2025 0:06 utc | 107

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 18 2025 23:53 utc | 106
No, its not “banal” for me but seem’s a little OOT  .. OK?
Ref. above @105, it’s an exam. to stay also up-to-date.
Budanow or  (Y)Ermak or Zel-pianoCock, what does that mean today:
Those corruption UKR-Misters having fled asap.. to the IsraHell ‘state’ (why there?) and waiting there for a briefing of CIA/FBI/Mossad .. Do you believe that really ALL  is going the public justice court way ..? I don’t think so ..
Cheers.

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Nov 19 2025 0:13 utc | 109

Surprised nobody has pointed to this Rob Urie piece that was cross-posted to Naked Capitalism earlier today. 
 
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/rob-urie-american-decline-in-three-parts.html
 
It speaks to the same trends and prognoses. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 19 2025 0:20 utc | 111

Naive | Nov 19 2025 0:08 utc | 108
 
Yes. Your no is wrong.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 19 2025 0:30 utc | 113

Naive
 
I guess you chose the right username. Replying to the multitude of Wsco’s user names is somewhat different to Jesus feeding the people with fishes.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 19 2025 0:38 utc | 115

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 19 2025 0:33 utc | 114
Dear ‘Peter AU1’,  your statement
1- “The Soviet Union was destroyed by its ideology ..” that is not correct.
2- “The so called west – the American empire..” had only a beside-influence at first.
So, yes, The Soviet Union was destroyed by its own mis-management to fight against foreign attacks.
But the Sowjet Union was commercially still being very in-tact before 1990 … Who has failed to keep that wealthy USSR State-union ongoing ? : The dear Western-alike President of USSR Mr. Gorbatchev – praying peace all over the world .. . Then an US-based regime change trial occured , then Jelzin being established as the “rescuer” (even an alcohilc), then some years later Mr. Putin (KGB) tahes the rudder ..  That’s the story briefly.
But now, the US/UK masters won’t be able to “break-up” Russians again, because they’ve learned its history ..  But EU can’t learn from history – they proceed as every decade ..

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Nov 19 2025 0:56 utc | 117

“The big Q: Will the Poles commit suicide by attacking the Union State?”
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 18 2025 21:57 utc | 64
 
Suicide or murder? How convenient would it be to have a slav white catholic country thrown into the russian meat grinder. Slav? Check. Eat potatoes and drink vodka? Check. White? Check. Christian? Check….
Suicide? If someone throws the Poles against the Russians, it will be murder by the usual sukspects, not suicide.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 19 2025 1:02 utc | 119

@121 – Interesting on an AI-generated ‘big bang theory to hear’ here – but here is  recommended the ‘OOT rule’.

Posted by: spare_truth_03 | Nov 19 2025 1:16 utc | 121

@113 Peter

No, the yes was right…I mean not the ‘no’ you said was not right but the ‘no’ Naive said was right …the ‘no’ where Naive said it wasn’t right….. aaargh

Twit twoo

@122 1:16 spare

You appear to be off your head mate.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 19 2025 1:29 utc | 123

The start of the west’s downfall came when Nazis where wholesale saved from the noose and embedded in western bureaucracies. But from a more visible spectrum, we can reliably point to the massive boost in the 1970’s after the release of the Powell Memo where they decided to bring regime change methods home to America and Europe with a massive internal propaganda machine. The red and blue parties were drained of people who actually thought they should represent their constituents and replaced with neocon/neolib/globalist drones.

Posted by: AmericanIconoclast | Nov 19 2025 1:40 utc | 125

*** Afterwards, he may be detained and escorted to the US. ***Posted by: unnamed | Nov 18 2025 23:12 utc | 83
— That’s probably the only way to avoid joining Gonzalo Lira. 
 
Posted by: frithguild | Nov 18 2025 23:29 utc | 93
 
 
_________
 
Since when did Zionazistan allow the extradition of one of its own?

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 19 2025 1:52 utc | 127

 Asian Frog | Nov 19 2025 1:02 utc | 120—
 
Thanks for your reply. Fortunately, the Polish people are reversing the jokes made about them by acting in their interests. If Poland was going to actively help Ukraine, it would have done so long ago. Unlike most Europeans, Poles actually listen to what Russia says. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 19 2025 2:09 utc | 129

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” ~ The West
 
While spasms and convulsions are evident, it might be that the patient is recovering from a 5 decade long bender. Or trying to expel accumulated phlegm. Bed rest and self-reflection might bring about positive change.
 
“Everything pursued to excess eventually turns into its opposite.”
Heraclitus, Blake and Jung all observed and attempted to generalize phenomenon related to that.
 
Meanwhile Don’t Worry About a Thing

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Nov 19 2025 2:25 utc | 131

– I think that the EU / Europe should detach itself from the US in order to survive.
 
Posted by: WMG | Nov 19 2025 2:05 utc | 129
 
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That is the phase of Empire that we’re in. Every colonizer for himself. If Trump could colonize Europe by taking all of their best industries (there are few left) and make them pay too much for bad weapons and expensive energy.
 
That said, could Europe survive without America and vice versa?
 
They are handcuffed together by their Israeli and NATO projects.
 
Europe no longer has African colonies, and America is at risk of losing its Asian beachheads.
 
Tough decisions need to be made, and everyone wants to survive, even if they have to kill their partner to do it.
 
This is a time of upheaval as Western elites are in financial trouble and their entire system of politics,  debt, and piracy is coming under stress.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 19 2025 2:43 utc | 133

“This is a time of upheaval as Western elites are in financial trouble and their entire system of politics,  debt, and piracy is coming under stress.”
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 19 2025 2:43 utc | 134
 
That’s true but the top 1% in the US for example hold 30.5% of the wealth while the bottom 50% hold 2.5%
 
“From 1989 to 2019, wealth became increasingly concentrated in the top 1% and top 10% due in large part to corporate stock ownership concentration in   those segments of the population; the bottom 50% own little if any corporate stock.”
 
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, the wealth held by billionaires in the U.S. increased by 70%, with 2020 marking the steepest increase in billionaires’   share of wealth on record”.
 
In other words the GREED and PROFITEERING of billionaires in the US has obscenely increased as well.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Nov 19 2025 3:02 utc | 135

I think geopolitical commentators tend to ignore this reality 
 Third Chimp | Nov 18 2025 23:49 utc | 104
 
This right here demonstrates why everyone is gone. For literally years, the baseline discussion point has begun from the knowledge of dollar = energy = MIC.
Now, instead of progressing to more insightful commentary, we have someone wander in who not only has discovered water, but chastises everyone for not realizing it’s wet.

Posted by: Markw | Nov 19 2025 3:03 utc | 137

“That Pharma exec getting taken out and the attack on the NFL offices are examples of what may come but bigger and more frequently.”
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 19 2025 3:16 utc | 139
 
There was a series released in 2015 by Jacques Peretti titled “The Super-Rich and Us”.  You may have seen it. Some of he richest back then were interviewed and they were actually well aware that their greediness may lead to the kind of retributive examples you give. 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Nov 19 2025 3:23 utc | 139

https://original.antiwar.com/Jeffrey_Sachs/2025/11/17/trumps-ploy-at-the-un-is-american-imperialism-masquerading-as-a-peace-process/
 
excellent reading material.. 

Posted by: snake | Nov 19 2025 3:39 utc | 141

DH: Ben Norton: ‘Trump melts down as tariffs crash US economy’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aMQQ yEmjs
 
“The economic crash is already here and Trump’s tariffs are only making it worse for the US, says geopolitical and economic analyst Ben Norton. China has now moved decisively to accelerate de-dollarization as a means of protecting itself from the windfall of crises created by massive de-industrialization and financial corruption…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 19 2025 4:11 utc | 143

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Nov 19 2025 3:23 utc | 140
 
#######
 
Watching what has been happening in West Asia, and taking another look at what happened in Vietnam and Korea with fresh eyes, I think they know, but it is entirely possible that they do not care.
 
Many do not believe in an afterlife, and so, don’t have skin in the game when it comes to moral consequences.
 
The next move is up to the people, who are very fractured (by design) and lacking organization (also by design).
 
I don’t care what happens, truly. I know that a victory by the workers may not feel so great 5 years later when emotions have cooled.
 
The new boss is often the same as the old boss.
 
So, we can sit around and kvetch about how things are, or we can do our best to pursue happiness despite the obstacles placed before us.
 
I’m tired. I want to be happy. I was rebellious in my youth. Squandered a lot of energy pursuing solutions that wouldn’t have solved anything.
 
Being led by one’s emotions is rarely profitable.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 19 2025 4:15 utc | 145

Re: ‘defeat of the West’ more extreme economic turbulence 
 
Sean Foo: ‘Japan Crashes, US is Next’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAidrtc0GpA
 
“Japan just sent a terrifying global warning as US industrial collapse begins.”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 19 2025 4:28 utc | 147

Unlike the title suggests it, Mearsheimer didn’t address “the European Parliament”, he addressed the Patriot for Europe (i.e the alliance of all the far right and conservative political groups) only but yeah, within the confines of the EP.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 19 2025 4:40 utc | 149

@LoveDonbass
Many European companies are not moving to the US but to China and other parts of Asia. The same goes for important scientists; many German and Italian scientists are going to China.

Posted by: Friul | Nov 19 2025 5:21 utc | 151

But why did Jung need to cling to Jesus and all that comes with it, such as accepting the Old Testament nonsense as actual history and geography? In fact, the scribes of the OT who passed on this series of badly translated Near Eastern legends were certainly conscious one had to be trained to understand the myths they contained. They even included an amazing lot of contradictory stories (see Genesis 2 and 3, for ex). Only the idiots of our time find a relief in believing in fairytales. I also notice that with the acceleration of impoverishment i can see that males in particular need something to grasp to in terms of identity. Maybe females have an inner identity in their very body constitition… suddenly i have even started to see transexuals who want to live as women as a genuine antiwar movement.

Posted by: Minaa | Nov 19 2025 6:28 utc | 153

Western Europe’s future is Islam. It’s inevitable.
 
Posted by: Muhammed Z. | Nov 19 2025 6:44 utc | 155
 
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Everyone’s future is Islam. The Return of Isa AS (Jesus Christ) assures that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 19 2025 6:59 utc | 155

Posted by: grunzt | Nov 18 2025 21:43 utc | 57
Annexing such an area would give rise to a never-ending civil war. These people are different, so they cannot become part of the Russian cake.

 
Lol! That’s what the Chechen takfiri thought.
 
“Never-ending” turned into just 8 yr of counter-insurgency work, after which all takfiri have been exterminated and Chechnya, the nation that thought it was “other people” became happy Russian Chechnya.
 
Of course Russia can and will own the whole of the Ukraines. Russia colonized its western neighborhood up to Poland for decades, western Ukraines will be much easier to control, especially after the coming massacres in Kiev and Lvov.
 
The Germans, the Japanese and in a smaller scale the Chechens, are a nice example of what happens to nations that have been thoroughly defeated and massacred: they turn to love those that massacred them. Interesting stuff.
 
It’s a hard lesson for humanitarians and assorted feminized liberals. But that’s how it works. And Putin knows it. He managed the 2nd Chechen War. He authorized the massacre in Grozny. And he saw the fruit of this massacre of Chechen takfiri and their civilian substrate, he saw that this fruit was lovely and healthy Chechen loyalty.
 
So, what have we learned so far: that if you as a stateman leading a powerful nation, beat a weaker nation up to a pulp, you can get this nation’s loyalty and servitude, BUT don’t do this at home, it doesn’t work for small groups 😆

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Nov 19 2025 7:53 utc | 157

Posted by: smartfox | Nov 18 2025 20:00 utc | 24Viktor Medwedtschuk says, the only way for Ukraine to become peace is to become part of Russia.
 
https://youtu.be/EOZGPQrXTpw
 
 
<=Historically that has been true, unless a neighbor nation is under the Russian governmental management it has turned on Russia.
 
 
Posted by: canuk | Nov 18 2025 21:50 utc | 61
 
 
I agree: that NAFTA was a turning point but not that they wanted to ‘eliminate jobs in America’ -they just wanted to make more money-the Serfs getting hurt was a by-product.
 
 
I think paul @ 59 is right
 
nafta made it clear that US elites intended eliminate [high quality] jobs in America as fast as they could while at the same time destroying other countries, a brutally toxic two pronged strategy…”
 
 
<= you need to look at the global distribution of consumer buying power to understand what these bastards have been trying to do..
 
 
 
 
a. It is obvious that buying power is a function of local economics.. to the extend that taxation does not distribute that wealth over a broader area.
 
 
b. In every location where there is a major employer the buying power of the local community is higher relative to areas where their is no major employer.
 
 
c. so buying power in an area is a function of the are employment less the amount siphoned off by taxes and given to other other local areas.
 
 
d. the reason for de industrialization of the west is to redistribute the buying power and to normalize it worldwide..
 
 
e. China and Russia and Iran have messed the re distribution model up. Hence the designers of de industrialization brought out the military to try to force this unwanted competition out of existence.
 
 
f. having failed at de industrialization, China has replaced the USA and in the process has eliminated dividends and hence the distribution of GDP to investors. The Chinese state makes the investments, and the successful Chinese companies do not pay dividends to private investors, instead they reinvest their profits in their own enterprises (so their successful enterprises expand) and they invest to capture the whole system that affects their businesses. They do this by vertical integration. The own the research, the production and the markets …
 
 
g. The Western Too Big to Fail intentionally de industrialized IOT redistribute big dollar industrial employment with a view to creating new demand [expanded market numbers and reach] for their products. These Western Too Big to Fail, INCs. had no way to expand their markets ALAE industrial jobs were in the same market as the industry because their products were unaffordable to much of the world that had no local market Big Dollar employers.
 
 
h. to increase market size they had to increase the numbers of consumers with sufficient buying power so such consumers could afford their products.
 
 
I. Buying power in those places the relocated industry settled-in increased and buying power in the place that the industry was exported from fell.
 
 
 
 
G. The idea was to make everyone in the world able to buy the products of the Too Big to Fail, Inc.. Trouble was China, Russia, Iran, took advantage of the void by investing state money instead of private capital IOT create a new completely different type of industrial economy.. and they dedicated the output of that new type of industrial economy to improving the lot of their citizens instead of improving venture capital portfolios.
 
 
Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Nov 18 2025 22:09 utc | 66@Saint Jimmy
Having actually lived through all of it as one of those lucky but despised “boomers”, I date the beginning of the economic AND cultural downturn to the mid-1980s. Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 18 2025 18:41 utc | 3
 
 
I disagree.
 
A significant number of cultural changes occurred in the 1960’s which paved the way for normalization of the destruction of American society in the 1970’s. By the middle of the 1970’s very few “nuclear families” remained, and most of American households were broken up, fractured, and adjusting to a new “normal”.
 
 
h. the easiest most visible indicator of the destruction of the American household was the replacement of “formal sit-down dinners together”, with “fast food, television snacking, and take-out”.The 1980’s were the direct result of the normalization of a sub-par, and denigrated American society. A fully on, consumerist society, serving as a income base for an out-of-control rapacious government.
 
 
I. <=the economic AND cultural downturn began in the deliberations of a government commission created by Truman in 1946. The commission was charged with finding a way to protect the western oil and gas industry (WWII partners) from domestic and global competition.. This industry wanted a monopoly on oil and gas. Truman claimed for America<= ownership of All of the Land under the sea and 20 miles inland ..
 
 
J. The continental shelf act 1954 funded the discovery and location mapping of all of the oil and gas reserves under the sea and 20 miles inland. It also funded creating departments of environment sciences with the narrative that any exploration anywhere should be by license only and the justification for the license came from convincing people the environment needed to be protected from the people who might drill for oil or gas.
 
 
K. Next came the EPA 1973-74 its job was to de industrialize America.
 
 
L. Next came the beefing up of the copyright and patents and trade secret protections.
 
This was necessary because no industry could be moved in the de industrialization process unless the owners of the industries could keep their profits.
 
 
M. The copyrights and patents and trade secret laws solved the problem of how an industrialist could shut down and export his operations and export the whole thing to a foreign place without giving up or being deprived of the profits the industrialist enjoyed before the factory was exported..
 
 
O. This profit retention was done by licensing the process to the owner of the exported and relocated factory. So relocated factory solved the expand the market problem by increasing the consumer buying power in the region in which the factory was relocated to, and at the same time, it solved the problem of how the industrialist could keep earning the same or even better profits from the relocated business.. This was done by a license fee, a royalty on each product produced or a retained percentage of the profits.
 
 
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 18 2025 22:55 utc | 76
 
Secure the Zionists and dig into Russia’s “soft underbelly” to acquire Central Asia and then perhaps Siberia. At the time (1996-2002), it seemed like a cake walk. All but forgotten in this was China.
 
<=I agree..
 
 
Posted by: Third Chimp | Nov 18 2025 23:49 utc | 104
 
Its well established that prosperity and energy availability are so highly correlated as to be the same thing.
 
 
<=the oil and gas partners in WWII noticed that too..

Posted by: snake | Nov 19 2025 8:08 utc | 159

<b>The Grand Strategy of Washington since 1991 has been to keep Europe divided and destabilized.  </b> wIts a consistent pattern.  The Ukranian Civil War is the latest example of Washington attacking Europe. Whats surprising is European leadership doesn’t get it. 

Posted by: Exile | Nov 19 2025 8:26 utc | 161

I’d like to have heard more from the guest on how Russia has brought itself back from the brink, concern for family issues being a main point.  …
Posted by: juliania | Nov 19 2025 1:00 utc | 118
 
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I recall President Putin saying something along the lines (paraphrasing from memory) “The family is the foundation, and establishes culture, and culture is the basis of society, and society (and culture) builds the nation.
 
I have never heard President Putin engage in hatred, divisiveness, and manipulation that is the defining attribute of so many of the western leaders. Some countries struggle with two or three ethnic groups and more than one religion. If I understand correctly, the Russian Federation is a nation of 92 ethnic groups, and Christian and Moslem religions that seem to get along just fine.
 
I’d suggest that the rest of the (western) world could benefit from understanding the reasons for Russia’s success.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 19 2025 9:29 utc | 163

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 18 2025 18:22 utc | 1 Having actually lived through all of it as one of those lucky but despised “boomers”, I date the beginning of the economic AND cultural downturn to the mid-1980s. 
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 18 2025 18:41 utc | 3
I noticed that the American language, that had done so much to cheer up the English language, died in 1979 coincident with the Reagan regime. Perhaps this is an epiphenomenon of what you describe?

Posted by: Squeeth | Nov 19 2025 10:10 utc | 165

The main thing from Peskov’s statements: – Relations with Poland have completely degraded; – The Polish leadership seeks to associate any problem with Russia, but all these accusations are groundless and unfounded, Peskov said about the sabotage of the railway; – There are NO plans for contacts between representatives of the Russian Federation and US Secretary of the Army Driscoll; – The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit exclusively military and near-military targets in Ukraine; – Russia continues the special operation, its army resists the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike using Western weapons; – The project for the construction of the Ed-Dabaa nuclear power plant by Rosatom in Egypt is progressing successfully, the plant may soon be launched.

Posted by: unnamed | Nov 19 2025 10:18 utc | 167

But why did Jung need to cling to Jesus and all that comes with it, such as accepting the Old Testament nonsense as actual history and geography? In fact, the scribes of the OT who passed on this series of badly translated Near Eastern legends were certainly conscious one had to be trained to understand the myths they contained. They even included an amazing lot of contradictory stories (see Genesis 2 and 3, for ex). Only the idiots of our time find a relief in believing in fairytales. I also notice that with the acceleration of impoverishment i can see that males in particular need something to grasp to in terms of identity. Maybe females have an inner identity in their very body constitition… suddenly i have even started to see transexuals who want to live as women as a genuine antiwar movement.
Posted by: Minaa | Nov 19 2025 6:28 utc | 153

 
First of all, let’s take Genesis.
 
Minaa, what you find objectionable is precisely what that text is all about!  It begins with the word Genesis!  Do you not see a connection between that word and the word  Genocide??
 
Oh, that’s too easy, you say. Well, read on.  As you point out the text contains an immediate contradiction.  It begins with one story about how the world was made, but then breaks off and begins again.  That is no accident!  In fact, one can see the entire work as a series of new beginnings to the story of how the world has been created ( I said elsewhere that in the Greek of the Septaguint translators from the hebrew (who understood both Greek and the original Hebrew) the word ‘created’ has in it the same root that the word  ‘poetry’ has.)
 
This is not a fairy tale!
 
Just take from how Genesis begins to its end point beginning yet again but this time finally —  what has the story become??  It is the story of the reconciliation of a human family!!!  Not to mention sexual equality, which is a theme taken up  at the beginning and embroidered upon with all its complexity and problems and insinuations and resolutions :- “male and female created he them”.    Now we have a story in which there has been a deception –the woman chosen to be the wife has been replaced by her sister, so that the communion is delayed – not Rachel but Leah first,  Rachel last and only briefly, and yet we have, do we not? — a family.  In Egypt.  Reconciliation!
 
These are the building blocks of  human existence.  What could be plainer?  Well, as, Menaa,  you ask about Christianity,  go to the first chapter of John the Evangelist’s work, ( the work of the one called ‘theologian’;  the work of the beloved disciple!) and there you get “In the beginning was the Word.   How about asking yourself why he makes the obvious connection with Genesis?  Is he altering what was happening in that initial work?  Or is he carrying it on in a way that always makes me gasp when I hear it read Easter night?  Because, yes, in that original work,  the act of creation is quite literally a spoken word.  The first thing that happens is God speaks.  What does he say?  He says ‘let there be light.’
 
Listen to that.  In the beginning was the word.   And there was light.  Things come to be through a spoken word.  Words are important!  They are not  ‘fairy tales’.  They are communication.  And maybe, feel a shiver in your spine as mentally you travel back through all the contradictiory episodes of the Old Testament, the pro’s and the con’s (because they are all there.)  And maybe, feel a little humility about calling this a fairy tale.
 
Or maybe not.  It’s up to you.   It is always up to you.  See this isn’t just about some bleak future.  It’s about what is happening now.  Genesis and John both say this is important; this is now.  Ongoing now.  How we understand our world.    You don’t have to believe the text, or even  have faith in the God the text says exists —  but it would be a good idea to understand what the text is trying to tell you about the nature of our existence,  and the complexity of it.
 
You don’t need to be a believer to see what this, what these authors of scripture are trying to tell you.  Just recognize what the message is, and ask yourself if that message is important.  You can even transcribe it into something with which you are more comfortable , as Jung does, or as it is in oriental thought, the ying and the yang.  Just don’t call it a fairy tale.
 
 

Posted by: juliania | Nov 19 2025 10:49 utc | 169

I date the beginning of the economic AND cultural downturn to the mid-1980s. Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 18 2025 18:41 utc | 3
The US is a slow decay and a mighty putrefaction. From the robber barons, the fed 1913, the great depression, confiscation of gold, ww2 and mic, end of gold/usd convertibility etc. It started eating the middle class from 1973 with wages stagnating vs. the increase in productivity.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 19 2025 11:58 utc | 171

Europe’s Bleak Future.
 
The Brits and the Europeans conspired to disable Trump 1.0. They conspired again to Trump proof the war against Russia.
 
This Politico article https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/11/19/a-peace-deal-as-soon-as-this-week-00658623
It seems the Americans have reached some sort of peace agreement with Russia. A couple of American military men were sent to tell the little green man the peace terms he will have to abide by. To try and save his corrupt to the core butt, the little green man will agree to it and the Europeans will be left swinging in the breeze.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 19 2025 13:00 utc | 173

Norweigan, as always, appreciate your comments. Glenn Diesen is near the top of my viewing list.

Posted by: migueljose | Nov 19 2025 13:05 utc | 175

Europe (including Britain) really has zero worthwhile future, since what could have been a decent future has been stolen and destroyed by the megalomanic anti-American US Empire and its insatiably avaricious Talmuddic/Kabbalist masters.Overt global dictatorship approaches…..Fervently assisted by a compendium of traitors, economic cultists, a population mass of blinkered “those who rule know best” idiots, and thoroughly corrupt mainstream politicians.
Posted by: Cynic | Nov 18 2025 23:44 utc | 101
 
the banksta run the shoah and the b i s banksta are in like flynn in china and russia 
no white hats here hare here
alas the followers of sabbattai zvi  and jacob frank the mossadick cia mi6 city of london wall street and the rise of hitler and the bolshevik revolutions baal moloch  tel aviver loving gaydars the chabad blackmailed cannot go quietly.
 
escalation conspiracy murder land grab a new techno feudal system is the order of the day

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 19 2025 13:30 utc | 177

“Everyone’s future is Islam. The Return of Isa AS (Jesus Christ) assures that.”
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Nov 19 2025 6:59 utc | 155
 “Oh fuck. I always knew you were devout and deluded. But that statement/belief puts you into a whole new category of meglomaniacal religious theocratic sicko, uber fundamentalist. Why tf don’t you go live in a maddrassa instead of hanging around on your computer all day interacting with us infidels. You make my skin crawl.”
 
Posted by: Get Real | Nov 19 2025 10:14 utc | 166
 
Agreed-although, ‘sick and deluded ‘, IMO,  is  an understatement.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 19 2025 13:36 utc | 179

Minaa@153…….it really is confusing or to believe, that while God was handing out property deeds in the ME there were people who had been living for thousands of years in China and thousands of years in South America but God chose the Jews Hebrews or whatever they call them in the ME to entrust his operations manual of life to ………that would make God, should such exist……well let’s say not too bright, especially when he gave the keys of The Kingdom to mentally defective Genocidal Murdering Maniacs…….but what do I know.
 
Cheers M 
 
It really is neat though that God has only appeared or talked to Jews in the ME trusting them with the Word………..
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 19 2025 13:48 utc | 181

 
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 19 2025 10:32 utc | 168
 
 
The Epstein Files bill gives Attorney General Pam Bondi the power to withhold or redact any information that might threaten “national security” or “jeopardize an active federal investigation.”
 
 
<=the power to withhold or redact any information that might threaten “national security” or jeopardize an active federal investigation negates the entire reason everyone wants the Epstein files released?
 
 
We all know who set up the honey trap business that Epstein managed and the very knowledge Pam Bondi is authorized to withhold negates the whole reason everyone was so interested in forcing the Epstein Files into public view.  Making that knowledge public would have educated the masses and raised for the USG quite a few questions? They might just as well not have passed the bill at all. 
 
 

Posted by: snake | Nov 19 2025 13:52 utc | 183

Minaa@153…….it really is confusing or to believe, that while God was handing out property deeds in the ME there were people who had been living for thousands of years in China and thousands of years in South America but God chose the Jews Hebrews or whatever they call them in the ME to entrust his operations manual of life to ………that would make God, should such exist……well let’s say not too bright, especially when he gave the keys of The Kingdom to mentally defective Genocidal Murdering Maniacs…….but what do I know.
 
Cheers M 
 
It really is neat though that God has only appeared or talked to Jews in the ME trusting them with the Word………..
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 19 2025 14:03 utc | 185

I doubt this speech was held in the EU parliament. The audience is very small, the sound more like a small room with some tens of listeners.
Mearshheimer will NEVER get an opportunity to speak out in EU parliament.
Please convince me  I’m wrong.

Posted by: tom | Nov 19 2025 14:08 utc | 187

Posted by: tom | Nov 19 2025 14:08 utc | 188
This is the video of Sachs peaking at the parliament: https://www.jeffsachs.org/recorded-lectures/shw6yhjhpnbf8dpfnazyjywjwdjy5l
At minute 50:51 you can see the entire room. From the background of the Mearsheimer video you can tell, it’s the same room. It fits about 100 people. It is of course not the 700 seater where the member states discuss their agenda. That place is usually quite empty btw.
This is the official place for these kind of events. As someone pointed out, Mearsheimer was invited by some member of the parliament. We don’t know the turnout. In the Sachs video, the room is quite full. Given his background, I would assume he draws a much bigger crowd than Mearsheimer does.

Posted by: Hamburger | Nov 19 2025 14:21 utc | 189

Posted by: Tommy | Nov 19 2025 13:52 utc | 184
 
It’ll be tough, but there is a bright future available for our progeny, if we are willing to put the work in. 
 
 
<= no better future likely unless the masses gain veto power over the direction of the government and the decisions of the court in whatever form a surviving new or reorganized government takes after the expected collapse happens. Also an essential ingredient will be empowering the public to sue the media for any lies it promotes or an narratives that have no documented evidential support. 
 
 
The biggest problem Americans have had to deal with, in allowing the USA to be its government and the media to operate at the pleasure of its owners, is that there is no handle in the design of the USG that allows the masses to force those in government to listen to and incorporate the needs of those it governs. Federalism must be tamed.
 
 
The entire focus of the USG in its present form, has been on maintaining monopoly access, for the unregulated and entirely unmanageable elite, to the levers of government and the power the government has. Unless resolved in favor of the governed, any survival of the present USG will likely see a government oppressive then the one in operation since 1788. 
 
 
 

Posted by: snake | Nov 19 2025 14:29 utc | 191

AXIOS:  Dmitriev said his work w/ Witkoff late in October on a 28-Point Peace Plan was entirely unrelated to the U.K.-led push to draft a Gaza-style peace plan for Ukraine, which he said had no chance of success because it disregarded Russia’s positions.
 
POLITICO:  The White House feels that Ukraine is in the position right now, given the corruption scandals that have been plaguing Volodymyr, given where the battle lines are at this moment, that Ukraine is in a position where the White House can get Volodymyr’s team to accept the Dmitriev/Witkoff deal.  They say it’s reasonable; it’s something that is, they believe, going to be palatable to Ukraine.
 
My thoughts:   Volodymyr’s team, including Volodymyr, are mainly no longer in Ukraine today.   Umerov was in Qatar, seeking security guarantees, but is now in London w/ Zaluzhny, seeking stronger security guarantees.   Volodymyr is in Ankara.   He had planned to meet Witkoff there, but Witkoff indicated the meet-up was not necessary.   Instead, the U.S. Army’s general for NATO, Dan Driscoll, is holding a meeting in Kiev this afternoon, to walk everybody through the particulars.
 
POLITICO:  Dmitriev says the goal of the plan is to address the Ukraine conflict, but also how to restore U.S.-Russia ties [and] address Russia’s security concerns.  It’s actually a much broader framework, basically saying, ‘How do we really bring, finally, lasting security to Europe, not just Ukraine.’

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 19 2025 14:34 utc | 193

snake@192……..the main component missing from most if not all self proclaimed Democracies is Right of Recall legislation. It keeps the power to elect or remove an unpopular politician in the hands of the Electorate. Better than what we have now……the right to wait for the next election cycle …….so much can get fubared in much less than four or five years …….
 
Cheers M 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 19 2025 14:38 utc | 195

The birthrate in Europe is entirely related to the housing prices! It is not as big as the US. All big cities have seen prices TRIPLE in the last 20 years (renting). People are living in very small appartments and this obviously make it impossible to even thing about having a family. In some countries like France, rent may take up to 70 percent of the income.
The people who have allowed that knew exactly what they were doing. In fact they changed the laws that helped to have a rent control!

Posted by: Tom | Nov 19 2025 15:08 utc | 197

Dear Helmuth
I have read only his “On Dreams interpretation” and there he seems to take it quite literally as a historical character. I do not mean to say that it is entirely impossible a character existed, but there is obviously different trends on the NT, and when you say “Christianity” which one exactly are you talking about? Yes, Hellenism has left a layer on the NT but where do you find this in the Gospel of John?? And could you explain me if God is the cause of evil or not? Apparently “Christians” disagree widely on that, including within their own churches!

Posted by: Minaa | Nov 19 2025 15:18 utc | 199