Posted by: Eol | Nov 9 2025 12:57 utc | 1
 
Exact same words spoken with 2 different presenters. Mershiemer and Varoufakis. So defo AI.
 
There’s a war of words and a war of different ideologies taking place everywhere. It is all about the capture of skills and real resources. Yet, different words and framing and narratives are being used in this war.
 
This explains it beautifully….
 
Rachel Reeves and the great fiscal sleight of hand.
 
 
https://new-wayland.com/blog/great-fiscal-sleight-of-hand/
 
It’s wonderful in It’s simplicity how it explains it.
 
 
It’s the war of centuries and that of who owns the skills and real resources of a nation. The battleground of left v right since the beginning of history of mankind.
 
The left wing view……
 
Should Government  command any real resources available for sale in its currency and can use its sovereign power to force those resources to be freed up so it can purchase them for the public good.
 
You can determine that business and banks are servants of the people. Government can take first choice of resources for the public purpose, then allow business and banks to work with what is left, before hoovering up any left over resources with a Job Guarantee.
The public wrap of the private system provides a containment vessel around the nuclear power of capitalism. We can draw its power without the boom. We can fuel it with public investment and improve the power output.
The focus of government action shifts from money to the actual things we need to buy for the public purpose. Smart people talk about government buying, not spending.
From this, government sets the policy for spending and taxation at a level that allows the Job Guarantee and other auto-stabilisation mechanisms (such as standby investment contracts) to function.
 
The right wing sound money view…..
 
That government is just another organisation in the system that has to compete for resources by price. Business and banks always get first choice of the real resources and government has to make do with the scraps. They believe the bankers and businesses should be in charge and that the population are just factors of production to be shifted around, like ingots of steel, as business requires. 
 
That Central Bank Governors, waving their expectations fairy wand can control The money supply and the supply and demand functions  with  One interest  Rate to Rule Them All. A complete myth just as much of a fantasy tale as the One Ring to rule them all. That business confidence and the bankers  should determine the size of the unemployment line.
 
 
Every time you turn on your radio or TV or computer this is war taking place. As always carried out  In Orwellian fashion using set words and phrases that try to hide this fundamental , ideological battle from the public. 
 
 
 

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 9 2025 14:03 utc | 3

Well-said , and crystallises my thoughts on the matter for me. I am definitely a “Left” Man.  
My view is also that the Left cares about life in general, and the Right , life as well…but in particular, and only about theirs and their loved one’s .  No one else’s .

Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 9 2025 14:40 utc | 5

AI is taking gait-analysis to new heights-!
 
 
Reporting for Blaze News on 8 November 2025, Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman detail forensic analysis which indicates that a female former U.S. Capitol Police Officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought J6 pipe-bomb suspect.
 
 
A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters, including flexion (knee bend,) hip extension, speed, step-length, cadence & variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Virginia as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video placing the pipe bombs outside the DNC headquarters on 5 January 2021 and also the RNC headquarters.
 
 
A source close to an ongoing congressional investigation of J6 additionally told Blaze News that evidence has emerged recently which pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs:  “They were f**king in on it.”
 
 
Baker & Hanneman:  “Kerkhoff was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years but left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the CIA, where she still serves on dignitary protection teams for officials, including CIA director John Ratcliffe.”
 
 
Yikes.
 
 
“On 7 November 2025, Kerkhoff’s Alexandria, Virginia residence appeared to be under the watch of law enforcement,” according to Baker & Hanneman.  “Blaze News editor in chief Christopher Bedford was pulled over by local police after stopping to observe the home. He was then allowed to leave.”
 
 
Like everything about J6, which has become the Schroedinger’s Cat of insurrections, emerging details are suggestive and strange and smudged w/ smoked-up oddities:  former FBI special Agent Kyle Seraphin said, “Within days of J6, the FBI positioned us one door away from the now-suspected pipe bomber’s house, and we were deliberately pulled away soon after for no logical or rationally investigative reason.  Everything about that tells me they were involved in a cover-up and have been since Day One.”
 
link @ theblaze.com

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 15:06 utc | 7

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Nov 9 2025 14:04 utc | 5
 
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Just about all Western “media” is fake, gay, and Jewish.
 
One only needs to contrast it with the non-Zionist Chinese equivalent.
 
It’s not just BS, it’s incompetent. Zionists aren’t uniformly insane by accident. They live-in and perpetuate delusion like a fish loves water.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 15:36 utc | 9

Posted by: Clouds Of Alabama | Nov 9 2025 14:03 utc | 4
 
Pro human vs anti human is the way I look at it. With players like bernie left right dichotomy has passed it’s Overton window.  left/right has become a  linguistical agent provocateur.  It’s no longer an accurate way to frame the human situation.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 9 2025 16:02 utc | 11

The US just passed the political event horizon. It is now officially an autocracy, as per the SCOTUS ruling that POTUS can do anything he wants, such as withholding legislated funds for feeding children, as long as he calls it an “emergency”.
 
The corporate media ignoring the significance of this “ruling” is the tell. However, I expected the Week in Review to have this as a topic. I am disappointed.
 

The US Constitution passed away Friday night. It had been on its deathbed for a while. It was smothered at midnight of the news cycle by an unknown number of anonymous cowards in black robes, hiding behind a risible declaration of emergency – the classic tool of an autocratic takeover. The Constitution’s clothing, that is, the public’s infrastructure, will be sold for pennies on the dollar to the billionaires and corporations who arranged the smothering.
 
Succeeding the Constitution as the law of the land will be the usual pile of contradictory and changeable rules and decrees to be interpreted or ignored as the autocrat sees fit. This is merely the domestic application of the “rules based order” of coercive economic relationships, comprador leadership, and overt military presence that the US has imposed on its empire for half a century.
 
The Constitution is Dead; Long Live the Rules

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 16:08 utc | 13

AI videos can now make any well-known personality appear to do and say anything the manipulator wishes.
 
The more outrageous the action and/or speech is, the more likely a viewer will question its reality — except in cases of typically outrageous and unpredictable characters such as Salvadore Dali. (did Dali REALLY say or do such-and-such? In many cases, yes, he actually did)
 
That’s why all videos of certain people such as Donald Trump can be more difficult to assess. Did Trump REALLY say or do such-and-such? Well… maybe!

Posted by: Mark Mosby | Nov 9 2025 16:10 utc | 15

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 16:08 utc | 14
 
Thank you, for posting this, john!  But I disagree!  The Constitution is not dead!  It lives in We the People!!!  Not in any faceless grey persons in black robes!!!
 
We the People of the United States of America in order to form a More Perfect Union!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Thank you b, for providing this forum!   Let’s have at it!!!!!!!!!!  This is where the rubber meets the road!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 9 2025 16:23 utc | 17

does anyone read Matt Taibbi anymore and where’s debsisdead?  life does go on though.. thanks b.. 

Posted by: james | Nov 9 2025 16:52 utc | 19

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 16:08 utc | 14

 
The Constitution is not dead! It lives in We the People!!!

 
An admirable sentiment, but it needs to be operationalized. How do the people organize when every avenue for that has either been co-opted (Democratic Party) or smashed (labor unions)? More importantly, how do you even explain to the average person just what a dire moment this is. Most people are distracted by social media, violent sports, gambling of all sorts. Furthermore, most people are living hand to mouth and have no time to follow politics in any detail. The few who actually pay attention to politics are blasted with literally a million opinions from influencers. 
 
As usual, TPTB have cleverly chosen the illegal aliens as their justification for tearing up the law. Citizens, targeted by ICE simply because they look a certain way, are organizing. But its tenous. And there is always the threat of yet another emergency decree declaring  that “interfering” with ICE is “terrorism”.

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 17:00 utc | 21

Anyone know who Fiorella Isabelle is IRL? Seems another psyop on her own IMO.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:02 utc | 23

That’s why all videos of certain people such as Donald Trump can be more difficult to assess. Did Trump REALLY say or do such-and-such? Well… maybe!
Posted by: Mark Mosby | Nov 9 2025 16:10 utc | 16
 
easy litmus test, his feed at truth. If he said it’s there (or a reference to the interview and check the original)
 
trump and Elon are the only ones hard to fake as they control a primary source
 
now for a second point
 
the fact that state has dibs on resources says nothing about who rules the state and how things are spent
 
were in a transition from private to public primacy, but that says little to the regime itself

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 9 2025 17:07 utc | 25

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:05 utc | 25
 
i used to enjoy reading him, but that was a long time ago… what about glenn greenwald? i always enjoyed his commentary, but haven’t followed him for some time either.. 

Posted by: james | Nov 9 2025 17:14 utc | 27

The Mearsheimer video. I went to the youtube channel and no disclaimer on it like the other. Supposedly joined 2011 but the oldest video there is only four days old. Anything like that now, the original video needs to found if it exists.
 
For some time, a number have been pulling content from other known channels and using it to make a buck. IA fake is also starting to come in as well. If the original does not exist then it is likely AI.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 9 2025 17:15 utc | 29

The ludicrously stupid belief that political views could usefully or accurately be placed on a one-dimensional scale (left vs. right) has never been accurate, any more than the world has ever been flat.
Posted by: Dalit | Nov 9 2025 16:48 utc | 19
 
I dunno man. Left was useful when the people organized unions and took a step away from serfdom.  There was a time when while not quantum accurate, it was sufficient to create a sense of belonging while still maintaining a self. Today the left just fights everything for special interests. Hence pro human anti human  is more useful today imo. 

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 9 2025 17:24 utc | 31

Posted by: james | Nov 9 2025 17:14 utc | 28
 
I still watch Greenwald daily. He’s legit.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:24 utc | 33

@ Peter AU1 | Nov 9 2025 17:16 utc | 31
 
Just watched this and thought of you. Bush pilots in the outback

Posted by: waynorinorway | Nov 9 2025 17:28 utc | 35

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 9 2025 17:24 utc | 32
 
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Serfdom never went away though; it was repackaged and sold as something different.
 
Kinda like how the head of the NFLPA always sides with the owners when push comes to shove.
 
If one is a criminal, maintaining the police commissioner as a friend or client is “smart” business. The company leadership is wise to keep the union bosses fat and happy, when one creates a dependency on the other, resistance is token at best. Exploiting fear and greed is pretty simple, certainly as morally strong people with integrity are the first to get (even if metaphorically) taken out.
 
See how Big Pharma interacts with the government in the US.  And the MIC, and Wall Street, etc, etc, etc.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 17:34 utc | 37

I” still watch Greenwald daily. He’s legit.”
 
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:24 utc | 34
 
Agreed.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 9 2025 17:54 utc | 39

@ Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:02 utc | 24
 
She is a journalist of long standing afaik – why you ask? Unhappy about her post on the mamdani Punch and Judy pantomime democracy?
 
 
Well worth a short read barflies, which nails it – pretty much as I had it for months  – and the king of the world soros jnr association is as much proof as any one should need.
 
 
“The Mamdani psyop works because both sides willingly play their parts. The right gets a new communist to fear; the left gets a new hero to worship. The establishment gets to keep everyone divided, distracted, disorganized and utterly powerless.
The final, sobering conclusion is this: Stop playing the game, or the game will keep playing you. Until U.S. Americans recognize that the root problem is a complete lack of democracy and a manipulated populace, they will remain stuck in this looping theater, election after election, as the curtain falls on the empire around them. “
https://fiorellaisabel.substack.com/p/the-zohran-mamdani-psyop-how-the
 
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 18:11 utc | 41

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 18:13 utc | 43
 
Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 16:08 utc | 14
 
 
RE:  the U.S. Constitution is alive & well
 
<<
 
 
And by the way, though it is not SCOTUS’s purview to do the heavy lifting for the legislative & executive branches, it is the purview of the electorate.
 
 
If citizens disapprove of the lengthy gov’t shutdown and all the hardship issues which arise as a result of it, we can vote the obstructionist bums out the next chance we get.
 
 
And this is in compliance w/ the U.S. Constitution too.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 18:20 utc | 43

waynorinorway | Nov 9 2025 17:28 utc | 36
 
Thanks. I like watching that, though flying tourists around wasn’t for me. But then my flying wasn’t for everyone either. 
In the Kimberly’s I would work with choppers. One, a Kiwi pilot, he was very good, some of the places I saw him take the chopper into I thought he would take out the tail rotor on the trees.
 
Though in my time up there, many stories were told about good chopper pilots and virtually all ended with how they died. I guess if I had not become ill, my story would of likely ended in how I bit the dust. Though there was one bloke who had 17000 hours up. He’d been hanging upside down in trees and all sorts of things. Others though that were far more careful or timid than me bit the dust early.
 
Those mustering chopper pilots though, they sit in what is called the dead mans seat. he head they sit at in a hover or slowly moving cattle along is deadly if there is an engine out. Not high enough to dive and gain airspeed for an autorotate landing, high enough to hit very hard.
An engine out in a chopper, the blades have to be brought back to a finer pitch and get them auto rotating same as my machine and for that, some air speed is required.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 9 2025 18:21 utc | 45

India Boeing Dreamliner crash in Ahmedebad .
I can’t seem t get over the itch of why there is such a delay about that most advanced aircraft by Boeing!
 
I’m sure b will get around to it when the ‘final report’ comes out.
 
Another week another delay, there are some smoke and mirrors. 
 
 
Indian Courts are having a say on blaming pilot error.
Boeing whistleblowers stories of build quality – an excuse being generated  – of the pilot error story doesn’t…erm Fly. 
 
 
‘Keeping an open mind’
Mary Schiavo, an attorney and former inspector general at the US Department of Transportation, disagrees that the pilots have been deliberately put under the spotlight.
She thinks the preliminary report was flawed, but only because investigators were under intense pressure to provide information, with worldwide attention focused on them.
“I think they were just in a hurry, because this was a horrific accident and the whole world was watching. They were just in a hurry to push something out,” she says.
“Then, in my opinion, the whole world jumped to conclusions and right away was saying, ‘this is pilot suicide, this was intentional’.
“If they had to do it over again, I don’t think they would have put those little snippets from the cockpit voice recording in,” she says.
Her own view is that “a computer or mechanical failure… is the most likely scenario”.
International rules for air accident investigations stipulate that a final report should appear within 12 months of the event, but this is not always adhered to. However, until it is published, the true causes of the accident will remain unknown.
…
Boeing has always maintained that the 787 is a safe aircraft …
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33pzypkkdzo
 
 
I don’t think it will come out as anything but pilot suicide.
 
“…disagrees that the pilots have been deliberately put under the spotlight.” 
 
 
riiiiight if she says so …..
 
 
The miraculous lone survivor eyewitness on board’s testimony stops that having already been declared as the ‘official story’ – he has been gagged according to his own words last week.
 
 
 
 
“a computer or mechanical failure… is the most likely scenario”. She hedges. 
 
 
 
 
I agree except it was probably A DELIBERATE computer controlled engine shutdown at lift off.
 
 
 
With videos on the ground of the planes flasps and undercarriage … the only thing missing is some dancing Ziofascists.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 18:44 utc | 47

The Global Affairs editorial by Lukyanov omits that Putin has said outright that Atlanticism is dead, that it has no future. Otherwise, it’s a short read that doesn’t cover any new ground.
 
That same publication has provided two important long essays that have high merit and must be read if you want to understand Russia, russias-living-idea-dream.pdf, and turn-to-the-east-2.0-or-the-siberization-of-russia.pdf are each 45 pages long and are both related to my Does Russia have a Dream or is Planning Reality its Replacement? Thoughts on Russia’s Unity Day substack article. Pepe Escobar thought my The Continual War Against Russia & Its Primary Defense Mechanism–Ethnic Unity is a “must read” despite its length. It’s hard to keep analytical articles short nowadays particularly when they completely cite primary documents. 
 
Two related events I didn’t report on but ought to be known about were related to Putin’s  trip to Samara where he addressed the plenary session of the forum “Russia –Country of Sports” and held a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports in Samara on the further development of children’s and youth sports. There are two other events related to his visit that are posted to the Kremlin’s website.
A development I’ll soon be reporting is the new KMT leader’s pro-unification stance with China that’s flown under the radar. Relatedly, the relations between China and South Korea continue to grow closer, while actions by Japan prove a treaty with Russia to finally end WW2 is far from being accomplished, Japan’s relationship with the Outlaw US Empire being the main barrier. 
 

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 9 2025 18:51 utc | 49

@juliania #15
An interesting passage from the most classically educated of the Gospel writers. Those who know Greek will discover that word ‘legion’ is not a translation but the Latin word legio simply transliterated into Greek. So the name of the demon is the (foreign) name of the main unit of the occupying military. Typically this passage has been interpreted to mean that the man was possessed by  ‘a host of spirits’, but the marked use of the transliterated word points clearly to another interpretation. It is worth remembering that much of the polemic and rhetoric of the Gospels, Acts and the Apocalypse of John (especially) was anti-Roman, used by militant Jewish sects at first, then later by persecuted Christian communities. It is fairly certain, for example, that the famous mark of the beast (Rev. 13) in all likelihood referred to the widespread use of lead tokens or receipts for grain doles in the cities of Asia Minor during the reign of Domitian. Such tokens (libelli) were also used to prove one had offered sacrifice to the emperor, which Christians were known to refuse to do (during Decius’ reign for example, but perhaps as early as Trajan). One must always historicize whatever one reads…

Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 9 2025 19:03 utc | 51

thanks guys re debs…
 
i did see him the last time he posted and he said he wasn’t going to post anymore… i guess he really meant it!  as for bemildred – good question! not sure what happened to don bacon either.. i still think back to jackrabbit who suddenly disappeared without word.. 
 
there is a place i walk regularly and for the past few years i would see this solitary man with his walking stick walking.. he was a bit younger then me – not by much probably – but this past monday his body was found on the walk by a couple of nurses who were unable to get the cpr to work on him.. he died on his walk from a heart attack… it happens.. people die and that is the last you hear about them, or they change gears and are gone for however long, or forever…  kind of like the way of life of the western world where people have a choice between increasing AI, or less screen time, lol.. these are some of the fruits of addition to the internet… with AI be enough to ween some folks off it? will AI kill peoples interest in watching videos?? lets hope so, lol.. 
 
back to greenwald… that is good to hear.. thanks tom…  i am much more prone to transcriptions, or written articles, then to podcasts and people talking into a video camera… to each their own i suppose… 
 
 i have another gig this afternoon.. we played last night and the audience of about 45 people enjoyed it.. it is a smaller venue and that essentially fills the place.. people are still going out to see live music, but this also seems to be a dying breed in the area where i live.. in fact, the place i play today is closing for good november 28th.. apparently the pub got bought by a church and it is not the church of john coltrane! 

Posted by: james | Nov 9 2025 19:03 utc | 53

PS to #51
So Brian was right: the Luke passage is (not-so-well-concealed) code for Romanus eunt domus (corr: Romani ite domum!).

Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 9 2025 19:10 utc | 55

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 18:55 utc | 50
 
RE:  SCOTUS is not shredding the U.S. Constitution
 
<<
 
Erm, the SCOTUS ruling issued by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an administrative stay, which is what DJT had requested of SCOTUS, in order to give the Appeals Court time to weigh in on DJT’s motion for a stay, pending an appeal which the lower court has not had time yet to hear.
 
 
Staying within its lane, SCOTUS tends to judicial issues, not legislative or executives ones.
 
 
As you and others know,  Congress funds the SNAP program during its annual appropriations process.  SNAP was fully funded through 30 September 2025, which was the end of the fiscal year for 2025. 
 
 
There has been no appropriation by Congress yet for the 2026 fiscal year (which started on 1 October 2025.)   Instead of tending to matters appropriately, all Dem senators but 4 opted to shut the gov’t down, thereby making an appropriation process impossible.  It’s not as if those Dem senators failed to understand what would happen.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 19:16 utc | 57

Posted by: john brewster | Nov 9 2025 19:03 utc | 52
 
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 9 2025 17:02 utc | 23
 
RE:  the separate but coequal branches of gov’t
 
 
<<
 
 
It’s Sunday and I’m enjoying American tackle football on TV and I’m writing about the separate but coequal branches of the U.S. gov’t.
 
 
The separate but coequal branches of gov’t were designed to prevent the concentration of power in any one particular branch.
 
 
What we’re seeing right now is an especially robust judiciary branch and a sturdy/resilient executive branch—but the legislative branch (Congress) is notably weak in comparison to the other two.   Unless this gets corrected through a congressional turnover or some other constitutional mechanisms, the imbalance will persist.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 19:30 utc | 59

Carrier USS Ford Holding Off Of North Africa As Trump Reportedly Won’t Strike Venezuela.
More likely Trump is deciding: turn South to Save the Christians or head West and kill us some Narco-Terrorists.
 

Posted by: Charlie | Nov 9 2025 19:36 utc | 61

Children Forced into Prostitution in French Orphanages (EADaily, November 8, 2025 — in Russian)

A major scandal involving the child welfare system (ASE) is unfolding in France. Thousands of children removed from their families have been forced into prostitution.
 
A video showing 11-year-old Inès is widely circulating online. She was placed in an ASE shelter, where she was forced into prostitution from the moment she arrived.
 
The video tells about the girl being threatened, forcibly given drugs, and passed on to dozens of clients through underage pimps, while the caregivers claim they “can do nothing.”
 
This video depicts the situation at the Marseille orphanage where Inès is being held, but similar situations exist in other institutions across France. According to some estimates, approximately 15,000 children are trapped in prostitution and pedophile networks in French orphanages.
…

Posted by: S | Nov 9 2025 19:43 utc | 63

@ steel_porcupine | Nov 9 2025 19:42 utc | 62
 
The smart money was always on the Dims’ caving. After all, they always do.
 
Posted by: malenkov | Nov 9 2025 19:45 utc | 64
 
But are they really “caving”.  I mean that would imply they are giving up something they want.  The Dems are almost perfectly in line with everything Trump is doing.  They are a false opposition to prevent a true opposition from developing.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 19:50 utc | 65

DH: Prof Richard Woolf & Sean Foo
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx424DVF_Sk
 
“China just destroyed the US dollar’s empire. (No one noticed.)”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 9 2025 20:03 utc | 67

A mystery! Maybe more so than the Holy Ghost barflies? 
@ Posted by: james | Nov 9 2025 19:03 utc | 53
“ i did see him the last time he posted and he said he wasn’t going to post anymore… i guess he really meant it!  as for bemildred – good question! not sure what happened to don bacon either.. i still think back to jackrabbit who suddenly disappeared without word.. “
 
Well James, the last comment currently visible on that old Aug thread where debsisdead posted his farewell message is yours James! Immediately after his  @ Posted by: Debsisdead | Aug 25 2025 0:14 utc | 47
 
Curiously, it being a thread I remember posting several times to, comments I and others who posted after Debs and James – are not there!

Well … debsisdead perhaps had some legitimacy about his last opinion?
 
Also, James I assume that you don’t literally mean “see”,
“ i did see him the last time he posted “ ?
– if you did , can you find him and ask for us?
 
As for the others who evaporated like the stink of old socks thrown in the bin! I guess I had some interlocutions with them and … ‘nuff said for now.  

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 20:12 utc | 69

Cross-posting from the Ukraine Open thread, as will probably derail things in that benighted topic even further:

Dunn why there’s an outbreak of anti-England postings; I live here and I can tell you that the place is essentially broken, financially, economically, culturally and spiritually.
The same amount of currency now only buys half the goods and food compared with 5 years ago. Our energy prices continue to rise steeply. Record numbers of rough-sleeping homeless people, much of this due to a combination of drug/mental health problems not being recognised or treated alongside astronomical rent levels for housing. Huge waiting lists for medical treatments, unless one is prepared to pay for private treatment, then one ends up at the back of the queue again, waiting for the NHS to sort out botched private procedures.
Hardly a week goes by without one of the major rail routes suffering 5 or 6 hour delays, in rural areas bus services are non-existent. I live near the fringe of a major city and post here via a copper-to-the premises “broadband” connection, the national network provider has no plans to install fibre in the next 5 years.
We are a declining nation, no threat to anyone, let alone Russia or China. Don’t be fooled by the bloviating gasbags masquerading as political leaders, we’ve got nothing left to threaten anyone with, our army isn’t even big enough to fill Wembley stadium.
 
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 19:24 utc | 61

To crystallise things, in many English towns and cities, branches of the pub chain J D Wetherspoons have replaced both the church and the local Social Services departments as an unofficial “care in the community” resource.
 
~~~
 
Yours truly has a copy of this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crap-Towns-Worst-Places-Live/dp/0752215825 and since it was written in 2003, believe me things have not improved; indeed, such was the correspondence generated by the initial publication the authors did a follow-up featuring “50 More Crap Towns ”, though I can’t yet find a link for that, however it lurks on a bookshelf somewhere here. Both are recommended for intending tourists…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 20:20 utc | 71

For those who doubt the neo con deep state this breaking news:
Shauni K a Capital Hill Police Officer, and current CIA agent employee has been identified as the person who placed pipe bombs around the Capital and DNC HQ in DC on Jan 5th.  This has been covered up for over four years.
So the CIA and FBI and the CHP knew all along that this was a false flag operation aimed a establishing a causi celebre for a state police crackdown on all who challenged the stolen Joe Boy Biden election.
This a deep state op from the get go…………prosecute them all for treason and sedition…..every single one of these traitors….Wray and Biden and Pelosi and Garlandskyy
 

Posted by: tobias cole | Nov 9 2025 20:24 utc | 73

And not being able to identify the problem is the point, like swapping out leaders before the people can organize a revolt.
 
Again, distraction. 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 20:26 utc | 75

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 19:50 utc | 65
 
Yes,  the Republican/Democrat dance seems like Kabuki theater at times….funny everybody stood solid until the MIC couldn’t send any more weapons to Ukraine via NATO….

Posted by: canuk | Nov 9 2025 20:29 utc | 77

Posted by: tobias cole | Nov 9 2025 20:24 utc | 73
 
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One of my favorite analytical tools is to ask, “And?”
 
Ok, someone did something. What next? What is the lesson? What are the consequences?
 
“Bla blah blabla.”
 
And?
 
There is so much said, non-stop every day. For the sake of our sanity, a method to filter noise is crucial IMO.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 20:31 utc | 79

Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 9 2025 19:03 utc | 51
 
Very educative-thank you Master, I remain a Grasshopper.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 9 2025 20:32 utc | 81

Surely, Trump’s Israeli DOJ will get to the bottom, right?
 
Or will it be like Trump letting Crooked skate after winning in 2015?
 
Or will it be like Epstein, who Trump now claims never existed?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 20:34 utc | 83

A King or Chief Executive (President) is the highest law enforcement officer in a nation.
 
It is literally their job to catch, prosecute, and punish crooks.
 
Not to organize tax policy or accept foreign gifts.
 
As I said, corrupting the authorities is smart business for bad actors.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 20:37 utc | 85

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 17:24 utc | 34
 

I still watch Greenwald daily. He’s legit.

 
He’s an honorable exception to LD’s “fake, gay, and Jewish” western media line. He’s rarely fake but 2 outta 3 ain’t bad i guess. Gay and Jewish aren’t deal breakers as long as you’re not a Zionist trying to mind-f*ck me!

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Nov 9 2025 20:54 utc | 87

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Nov 9 2025 20:51 utc | 86
 
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You often post well but making the connection between colonization and “illegal” immigration is sublime.
 
Colonialism doesn’t just take relics, knowledge, and treasures, it also handicaps the colony by fleecing its human capital.
 
Ironic that migration can be illegal but colonization is not…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 21:15 utc | 89

An Allegory from a different time and a different place…
 
[Any resemblance of an character, real or imaginary, in this allegory is purely coincidental to any character, real or imaginary, in real (or imaginary) life.]
 
There is an old rustic bar in the middle of nowhere. It is the middle of the night, just approaching the witching hour. A splintery lamp pole sheds a small sickly yellow pool of light. A group of men are searching for their keys in this pool of light. They actually lost their keys around the corner, but there is no light there. It would be foolish to look for something in the dark. A couple of old stagers are leaning against the pole, for support rather than illumination. They offer gratuitous advice from time to time.
 
At the window, there is a small scruffy chap scrabbling for attention. He can’t get inside, because his ego is too large for him to fit through the door. He croaks unintelligibly from time to time “… wave-particle duality…. rare earth elements… ion thrusters…fuel (or was that fool?)…” 
 
There is a large group inside, mainly aggregated in three clusters, with a few isolated individuals. Mr Noah F. Clue shouts sporadically “you have no f*&^&*% clue” – hence his name. Seated on the highest chair in the corner is a billy goat. His stench pervades the entire room. He is obviously uncomfortable, as his anatomy is not designed for perching on high stools. Maybe that is why he is always cranky. From time to time, he stamps his tiny foot on the bar and utters dictums in his signature basso-profundo voice. A diminutive voice pipes up “Perhaps it is so. Perhaps it is so.”
 
The three groups are clustered around a large fish tank in the middle of the room – one group at each end, and one at the side. There is an old table lamp at one end of the tank. The wise groups are arguing about what they see. From time to time they search the internet for reassurance. Often the information gathered is incorrect because  of spelling errors in the search terms – but that is a triviality. A group at one end of the tank can clearly see that the tank water appears to be bluey-green. They trust the evidence of their eyes. The group at the other end clearly sees that the tank water appears yellow-orange. They trust the evidence of their eyes. No members of either group take the trouble to go and have a look at what the other group sees. After all, why would they? The ‘other’ group are clearly idiots. Manifestly fools! They can’t even distinguish a primary color! [For the sake of brevity, the color that the third group sees is left as an exercise for the reader. Be the first to claim your prize. Guesses not allowed. Reasons must be given – pedantry rules!]
 
There is an old valve wireless on the bar. A reporter is interviewing the first astronaut in space. The reporter says ‘So beautiful to be talking to you up there in space, looking through the beautiful red sunset. Clearly, sound does travel through space, because I can hear you. I trust my ears”. The astronaut says the reporter must be smoking something powerful. He can clearly see that the sun is a blinding white, and hasn’t changed color.  The interview degenerates into a shouting match.
 
There are a few young birds strutting around the floor looking for crumbs – a mix of roosters and peacocks, along with some vulture-looking types that indiscriminately  shit around the place. One rooster, who has obviously had his feathers ruffled, yells “Look at the window – Grandpa has escaped the nursing home. Who is going to change his nappy? The billy goat stirs himself and stamps his little hoof “That’s not grandpa, that’s just some general idiot…” Another rooster seizes the morsel of wisdom. He has an olive stuck on his beak and some cheese to imitate a tooth (this rooster is a bit vain) which produces an unfortunate speech impediment “Ha, ha! good one… sirry iriot! … sirry iriot…
 
The general idiot scrabbles at the window, croaking “…Rayleigh scattering… as distinguished from Mie scattering…'” The billy goat, not actually listening, hears “…Mie…” and concludes “Ha, Mie’… ‘Mie’ .. good one! Now the general idiot is so full of himself that he has lost the plot and thinks the scattering is his.” [Mie – my, for all the roosters who may have missed the clever subtlety] “I’ll be the master of the scattering”, and he clumps off to feed the chooks.
 
In a parallel universe, not many light years away there is a similar bar. But in this multi-dimensional universe there are 26 groups discussing views of Mt Fuji. The same scenario plays out, but now there is a 26-dimensional argument.
 
One of the peacocks spreads his magnificent tail. When he has the attention of the entire room he utters “There is a solution. There is a definite answer. You just need to have enough money to pay someone to work it out – or at least enough money to pay someone to find someone to find someone who has worked it out, and then to work out how he has worked it out, so that you can work out what that answer actually is.
 
Simples!

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 9 2025 21:21 utc | 91

Serfs today owe debt they cannot repay and barely make enough to get by daily.
 
They pay “taxes” to provide sinecures to bureaucrats who can’t fill potholes or operate competent schools.
 
Their children, when not being inducted into the Jewish woke or climate change ideologies, are slow poisoned with Franken food.
 
Bitch about the rich but the assault is cultural and full spectrum. Blaming the “rich” is a distraction, like Trump is a distraction. Placebos and pressure release valves.
 
If one cannot accurately identify a problem, they will not create a strategy to overcome it.
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 9 2025 20:20 utc | 72
 
Yes, yes, but who’s in charge in the west if not the rich?  If they want to change things they do it don’t they?  No, in fact they want to see the majority of wage slaves suffer and, as they are the supreme power in a Capitalist society, the wage slaves do suffer, immensely.  
The real question as always is what are we prepared to do about it. 

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 21:37 utc | 93

The real question as always is what are we prepared to do about it. 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 9 2025 21:37 utc | 93
 
We. We are a very tiny minority. The vast majority in the west think this crap is the norm. I feel sad that so many Ukrainians became so brainwashed, especially in the period between 2014 and 2022, but people in the west are no different. They will likely have to suffer as the Ukroids now suffer.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 9 2025 21:59 utc | 95

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 21:58 utc | 94
 
Just coming on here this afternoon, Tom, so not in reference to your post directly but I have been thinking of another excellent movie which is “The Bridge on the River Kwai”.    A  classic.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 9 2025 22:04 utc | 97

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 22:03 utc | 96
 
Hell, I correct myself. The immigrants are doing most of the meaningful work! Doctors, nurses, field workers, construction, etc. The rest of us are lucky if we aren’t caught up in the PMC “business” of “managing” the $s, 1s and 0s. 
 
Posted by: juliania | Nov 9 2025 22:04 utc | 97
 
I will rewatch that one!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 9 2025 22:07 utc | 99