The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-260

All things being equal, energy is expended; the momentum of the propulsion material ‘drives’ the rocket. Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 21:30 utc | 322

I guess we are all talking the same thing, but different terminology. I guess that sentence is what is in my mind, regardless of terminology.

On this subject I was thinking earlier of rifle recoil. For the light game here in oz, the small calibre high velocity rifle have close to no recoil. The 45/70 I got for a scrub gun for the bulls, a little bit. My son complained about the recoil one time, he was fit and hard enough but probably too tense when firing it. The big game/dangerous game rifles have a bit of punch. I’ve never fired one of those. Bigger guns now often have those blast deflectors, forgotten what they are called. They are on heavy rifles, machine guns and also artillery.

It seems the muzzle blast of the gases has as much to do with the recoil as the acceleration of the projectile.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 21:53 utc | 301

William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 21:08 utc | 317

Xi’s time with the peasants, Putin’s time as a child. Both now highly educated men with a strong affinity to the ordinary people of their nations. Fathers rather than rulers to their nations, Fathers to their people.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 21:59 utc | 302

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 21:20 utc | 320

General Dicktatum and his flaccid memory @213: “Assume a rocket propulsion system ejects 1 kg of material at 1,000m/s. It does not matter where the energy in the ‘system’ comes from (chemical, steam, nuclear…” In this very thread the Dicktatum equated steam with chemical, nuclear, and other energy sources. That’s not a mistake anyone who actually knew what they were talking about would make; ergo, he’s a fraudulent “expert”.

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I sincerely apologise to readers for cluttering up so much of MoA. This is the second last post to Mr Gruff on this and related matters.

I assume Mr. Gruff is referring to me when he addresses General Dicktatum.

It is true that I stated ” energy in the ‘system’ comes from (chemical, steam, nuclear…” (Mr. Gruff’s emphasis added)

In the context of what I wrote, I could have added sand, or ice cubes. or … (E-mc^2). I was saying the energy source was immaterial. I was not proposing steam as a viable rocket propulsion energy source.

Now, before I am accused of wriggling away and covering my tracks with vague deceptions or big words etc., Mr. Gruff may like to do a quick and easy experiment. Get a large pot, half fill it with water, bring it to a vigorous boil, then remove the lid and hold his face close to the steam. Once his flesh is tenderised, he can blindly stagger to the nearest chair and ponder whether the steam in this experiment was the energy source that tenderised his face …

My second post follows.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 22:06 utc | 303

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 10 2025 20:29 utc | 309

Very simple, Jon, yours is the correct translation!!! Dostoievski is using “The Devils” as his title and he is the author!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 22:09 utc | 304

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 10 2025 15:14 utc | 270

Fritjov Capra is a fascinating character. I’ll try and find a copy of the work recommended.
I used to have a copy of ‘The Tao of Physics’ which was an interesting read…and a rather “out of left field” choice of a Christmas present from my maternal grandparents. They surprised me a few times with that. ‘The Writings of Ghandi’ was another one that they gifted me.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 10 2025 22:15 utc | 305

Disclaimer: I have never claimed or implied that I have taught physics … … nevertheless, I am not pretending to be a professor of physics like someone else is trying and failing to do.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 13:10 utc | 246

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Mr. Gruff, thank you for your candid honesty. This is my last response.

Quite a while ago, on a completely unrelated topic, I mentioned some aspects of my training in relation to life experience, and considered myself to be extremely fortunate with respect to the opportunities I have had. I have not mentioned any of that here, as I have been reluctant to use qualifications or experience to establish authority. I was content to let the physics do the talking. Maths is the ‘language’ of physics, but sometimes it does need translation and interpretation…

The second reason for not mentioning details of my experience is that I value my own privacy, and even more the privacy of friends and colleagues. If I claimed “A”, then anyone could legitimately request substantiation of that claim. I will not substantiate information I provide.

Mr. Gruff is partly correct and partly incorrect in his summation: it is incorrect that I am pretending to be a professor of physics, but it is perfectly correct that I am failing to appear as such.

In the spirit of openness, despite the above caveats, I provide a brief summary: I spent 16 years in formal university study. I have four degrees; three at Bachelor level, and one at PhD level, an incomplete engineering degree – I only completed three years out of the four-year degree, and a year of chemistry in a science degree. Multiple degrees in related disciplines allowed me to choose courses to build multiple majors. I hold majors in Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Astronomy, Electronics, Optoelectronics, Computer Architecture and Hardware, Physics. I lectured Applied Maths, Astronomy, Electricity and Magnetism – along with various short courses. I spent 15 years in research, leading multiple projects and international collaboration. I have published over 100 papers, I hold several patents, and a few national and international awards in the fields of science, energy, and engineering.

Science is my joy. Physics is my passion. Science Communication is my failure.

I have pressed the big red reset button.

I look forward to learning from the collective wisdom of the bar and being able to contribute a few morsels here and there in a harmonious and gentle environment.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 22:18 utc | 306

I have a fondness for steam.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 10 2025 22:21 utc | 307

It was too late in life I realised it, but her character led her more to find safety in a system and other women’s opinions. Making her own independent decisions was out of her comfort zone.So in that way, our characters were the exact opposite. I think if we lived in a more normal society we would have had a good life together but it is what it is. I often think of the many different character types that make up any society.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 18:00 utc | 288

Peter, here is my own experience. I was in a Catholic highschool in California after coming over from New Zealand. Both had bee all girls education, and a traditional education at both. Then I went to a liberal arts college, very different, suggested to me by my home room teacher in the Catholic high school.

The college was a totally different style of teaching. Up until then I had absorbed what the teachers told me I needed to know. No if s ands or buts. Knowledge condensed and learned by rote. So okay out in the wild world and into a new kind of education. Mixed sexes, but a safe environoment … and from freshman year on, every student was studying and hopefully learning from the same subject matter. If you were a senior you came up through all four years with the same subjects as everyone else.

Not only that, nobody was telling you what to think! Digest that. NOBODY WAS TELLING YOU WHAT TO THINK.

Freshman year I was totally at sea. I was supposed to be contributing to conversations in class! I had never done that in my whole life!!! Seminars on Plato, on Aristotle — we read those guys and we answered a seminar question to get the ball rolling … Well, the entire freshman year in seminar I said not one word!!!

Until the last seminar of the year. It was on the “Phaedo”. It was now or never — so I said something! I said that Socrates had remarked that Phaedo had had his hair cut — that this sort of went with the minotaur in the labrynth—

Everyone was dumbfounded. The sphinx had said something!!!

Next year it was hard to keep me quiet. And it had nothing to do with whether I was male or female — it was how I had been taught. I had to unlearn how I had been taught and it took a whole year to get to that point.

I hope that helps. It’s why you can’t shut me up these days 😉

Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 22:28 utc | 308

Science is my joy. Physics is my passion. Science Communication is my failure.

Science communication is not your failure, General; on the contrary. But stepping on other’s toes in the process sometimes is. And this is not to do with pure knowledge alone. You have to have a space where the other – a Thou – can reside, as otherwise they will simply not enjoy being around. I don’t know what Gruff is up to again, but I could tell you are the real deal. The (other) misunderstandings are just that.

Thanks to whoever posted the Mozart piece, it is very apt. As they say, Mozart is too easy for kids, and too difficult for adults. A bit like the penchant for physics I guess.

With that being said, following here is my essay on symmetry, crafted and redacted in a single go; on the fly so to speak. Skip if you don’t wish to bother.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 10 2025 22:54 utc | 309

On symmetry.

Can we have an example? Yes. It needs to be pointed at, though. This holds for japanese doors, mathy equations and even your own bathroom mirror image all the same (since the latter would have to be chosen as an example in a gathering of people).

A general observation will have to pick apart the difference between the ‘object’ which gives rise to the experience, and experience itself. However, these two angles can be reduced into one once we accept that the object in question is also experienced. If it exists independently is a question without meaning if we restrict our discussion to whatever we can tell about the experienced object. Since only this can meaningfully mean to be ‘science’ we are already halfway there. The rest of the riddle consists of two problems: what makes symmetry, and what does this mean?

Both unfold through the needle eye of geometry. Geometry (in a mathy sense) can be considered an abstraction; but the reverse is also true: just imagine your prof trying to draw a perfect rectangle on the board … Thus we find that ideas of geometry relate to experience in a two-fold way: the ideal notion which resides in imagination, and the concrete experience which is here-and-now. Note that the latter does not differentiate between original experience and mere imagination, as both present a notion for the curious mind to wrap around.

Trying to make sense of symmetry will have to explain what this very term would be supposed to mean. I shall resolve this issue by suggesting that it necessitates similarity. As per the above, similarity is necessarily notional, even if that means (foundationally or object-wise) purely imagined. So this leads to the question where such comparisons of notion and experience arise from; if not in a metaphysical sense, then still so pragmatically.

Two approaches to this are possible (against the backdraw of the metaphysics of substance at least). 1, the ability to experience symmetry is something we have deductively learned by hanging around; and 2, the experience of symmetry is actualized in some cases while the capacity to do so rests in ourselves to begin with.

Trying to pick those apart is one of the most difficult things modern philosophy is able to do. There is, however, a rather simple question which goes a long way pointing in the right direction: How would you know? —

Framing it thusly allows the application of Occam’s Razor: are we to be reduced to an abstraction, or is our abstract notion the preliminary foundation for the question? If it is the former, the onus to prove so must be on those who claim such. This is not, and will not be possible, simply because this reduction will have to refer back to unique temporal development according to whatever initial conditions and the “laws of nature” which would govern them. To give an example, I can put anyone of you into my most sophisticated brain-scanning machine and still would not know if you prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream. If you and me manage to build a device which satisfactorily allows me this distinction, this will be akin to us having agreed upon a learned symbol of interaction; be this the term spoken at the Gelateria, or the movements enacted by a robotic arm directed through a neuro-interface on a space station.

It follows that symmetry is a product of our mental faculties, wether or not we find it in the outside world. Since it makes no sense to start a chain of explanations in a ‘non-experienced outside world’ (a term without a meaning), we have to look at the faculty behind this experience within us. Turns out, this isn’t even difficult: we come upon that which we call logic. Logic allows us to relate distinct phenomena according to the principle of distinction vs. similarity, even if the similarity is only aspectual (“according to principle”) or, therefore, notional.

With this I would like to deduce that the capabilty for logic is intrinsically tied to consciousness. We are experiencing time, after all; and to compare a notion in the here-and-now with one retrieved from memory or found in originally present (sensual or notional) experience must rely on some ability to ascribe similarities. —

Hence, what we call logic is a prerequisite to experience of Dasein; and not the other way round!

The above train of thoughts now allows to answer the question about the origin of symmetry at least partially. It is not a feature of nature or creation, which we have to presuppose in the fabric of everything which exists. It is also not something which we discover wherever we look. Rather, it is an expression of the faculty to experience the here-and-now as distinct from other possible states, such as the past, or some kind of imaginary wellbeing.

As I hope to have made clear, symmetry is also nothing that arises purely from chance and is hence meaningless. What we are confroting here is an open question (as in the role and the experience of symmetry); not the revelation of the logos itself in this or that dialect.

On a final note, the above analysis gives a hint about what maths can possibly be. Since it pre-requisited on logic, it is eminently possible that all it does is formulate logical relations stated in the same logical terms as the geometry of original experience, i.e. analyzing sameness and difference of notional objects with regard to a measure of continuous distance. This is actually fair enough, considering that almost all of the concepts in modern applied mathematics have been invented by physicists trying to find ways to properly describe what is going on. Moreover, the concepts of pure math which are beyond this set of foundational concepts tend to be of very little use for our lifeworlds. This importantly includes many-valued systems of logic which introduce “in-between” states other than strictly true or false. They defy sensible interpretation aside from the purely playful shifting around of expressions according to premise and deduction. – But what would true or false be supposed to mean? We can only build on what we have, after all.

Bottom line: Symmetry resides in experience; and while it is not pure imagination either, it is also not purely made up.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 10 2025 22:55 utc | 310

juliania | Nov 10 2025 22:28 utc | 334

Thanks juliania. Through much of my life, I had thought my sister to be lucky to be sent 9ff to school when young. Hers is a different character to mine, My mother wanted her to be what she was not allowed to be. My sister hated her for that. When father was dying I went over and after his death we were looking through some old family photo albums. Something was said so I looked up at her. The hatred in her face, our mother died young. I cannot hold hatred like that. I cannot hold anger. In me those things dissipate very fast.

Different characters, different minds, but regardless, she has the strength of character to keep in contact and converse. My brother took umbrage one day when me and my sister had an argument and called me up and did a bit of rah rah stuff as blokes do. I’m not shy of that sort of thing so we conversed in kind. After that yhe would not answer his phone. At one point I got a new phone number and hit him from ambush so to speak. He did not recognize the number so answered the phone. We talked for several hours. Not about past stuff, just general conversation.

Different characters, the different way minds work. Part of what makes this world I guess.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 22:56 utc | 311

I appreciate your readings of Dostoevsky.I haven’t read much of it, and find it quite hard work when I do, if ultimately rewarding.I am triply handicapped as i) I speak no Russian and must restrict myself to English translations, which inevitably adds another layer of indirection; ii) I am in no way religious so struggle with the references to liturgy and orthodoxy; iii) I don’t often read novels, though I like to stick to quality ones.So far I have bumbled my way through The Idiot, where I found myself strongly identifying with the main characters, and got halfway into The Brothers Karamazov, but had to pause after the Grand Inquisitor tale because it blew my mind a bit. Need to pick it up again soon now the winter is here.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 10 2025 12:17 utc | 240

Thank you for responding, ChatNPC! I join you in not being a Russian speaker. It’s possible to still take up a good translation – Pevear and Volkonsky are very good and they have explanatory footnotes. I only had the older translations to begin with, but it was very helpful to have a Russian professor leading the special series of discussions we did on “The Brothers Karamazov” — I wasnt ‘religious’ either so it was a big hill to climb and about a dozen of us met in our Russian’s home which just happened to be whilst he was building his family chapel — so physically speaking that was an ideal immersion into Russian culture with no strings attached!

I don’t think I would have ‘cottoned’ to Dostoievski without that experience. It eventually took me back to Scripture as Russians understand it — in our little chapel family, separate from the literary one, we lived Scripture. I only went at first because they needed a second soprano. I loved the music. I loved the beautiful icons. I just experienced it all as a year went on with the discussions of the novel happening at the same time in the family livingroom. It all grew on me. Mightn’t do so much for others, but it was what I enjoyed and where I enjoyed continuinn what had been my college education.

It was me absorbing new experiences and new ways of looking at the world. I liked what I was experiencing and with my own young family wondering what it was I was enjoying so much we all absorbed into it as well. Children in Orthodoxy are nothing if not loved, and they were. I wish we still had that, but it was wonderful whilst we did.

Incidentally, I haven’t had the same experience with Pushkin or other Russian writers. It’s just Dostoievski that pulls me in. I really love him.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 23:07 utc | 312

persiflo | Nov 10 2025 22:55 utc | 336

I don’t mean any disrespect as I’m like and respect you, but I feel that sort of thing is very abstract. Something I often think about, the world the academics live in, and the world the hands on type live in. I think both are required.

The Chinese cultural revolution put peasants in administrative positions and sent the academics to work as peasants. In one way disastrous yet it made China what it is today.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 23:15 utc | 313

“The Idiot” was hard for me — it helps to know what D. was going through at the time he wrote it. His first child, Sophia died whilst he and wife and baby were travelling – in Switzerland I think. So there is an underlying unhappiness in that novel, wrapped up with D. s own personal experience not completely worked out beyond tragedy. “The BrothersK” is a similar heartfelt loss of his third child — the novel overcomes by being immersed in the importance of that little life not having been lost in vain.

D. woulld take chapters from the novel and read them at the university with students. He puts children front and center in that novel, unlike “The Idiot”. It’s useful to compare the two. He had matured. And his own near death exposure as made to experience near execution by the Tsar, made his link to little Alexey that they both experienced epileptic seizures so he gives the father in the novel his own name, Fyodor. He was responsible for his little son’s death but he never succumbed to the tragedy as he did with “The Idiot”. These are more than just novels for D. They are his confessions.

I can’t be ‘with him’ on gambling — that was an addiction I don’t have as I’ve never been able to win anything so wasn’t tempted. I just love how he writes, wish I could do that!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 23:20 utc | 314

@Peter – yeah well, it is abstract. But we are trying to handle the questions, aren’t we? Please don’t get me started on how much I would love to fly a gyro above Australia, or even drive a friggin log truck up and down some slopes for a living …

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 10 2025 23:25 utc | 315

William Gruff. You and so many others here I greatly resect. We are mammals and males have nuts and shit happens. General has offered a figleaf, of peace, not to cover his nuts. Still come what may gentlemen and carry on up the jungle 🙂

b the barman must be serving up some toxic fluids.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 23:33 utc | 316

I just love how he writes, wish I could do that!
Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 23:20 utc | 342

Someone here recently mentioned we should aspire to be amateur journalists, which I liked. You know, I loved jornalism when I was young, and will forever be broken-hearted about the betrayal by the MSM (whom I now only call the Westpresse ín good GDR fashion). But wo says we can’t put the bar even higher? It is not a competition unless I am mistaken, and any barfly who gives a shit for literary style has some explaining to do; though preferentially in some other forum than this.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 10 2025 23:35 utc | 317

General Dicktatum @329:

And as expected the fraud flails on.

The bigger question for me is why such a fool attacked my posts in the first place? Is it really because I gored his dog in one of his prior incarnations here at MoA?

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 23:44 utc | 318

persiflo | Nov 10 2025 23:25 utc | 344

If I was still up to it, would very much like to take you out bush with me. Send a summer, a wet season in camp to talk a bit of bullshit (Australian terminology for nattering), a bit of hands on stuff as well.

The Melbourne restaurant bloke that came up, thought he wanted to do shit there was few of them actually mostly cooks, termed chefs. But that restaurant bloke he didn’t eat much meat. Not a vegie or anything like that, just the light work he did and had grown up with.

A few blisters on his hands and some dust in his lungs from the cattle yards, and one evening he says ‘Shit this steak is good’.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 23:48 utc | 319

General Dicktotum @332:

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Or something like that. Isn’t the Internet wonderful?

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 23:50 utc | 320

William Gruff | Nov 10 2025 23:44 utc | 349

I’m bloody hopeless with metaphors or whatever they are. Fig leaf/olive leaf. General offered up an olive leaf. We are all what we are.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 23:54 utc | 321

Something I often think about, the world the academics live in, and the world the hands on type live in. I think both are required.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2025 23:15 utc | 340

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(one of ) the things I like about you, Peter, is your ability to go straight to the core of the matter; no nonsense, no ambiguity…I can visualise you under a tree, feet in the creek, looking at the horizon and just off-handedly tossing out these pearls.

I was going to use the analogy of a cake – all the ingredients in the recipe are important… We all live in the same world. Some of us eat the same cake.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 0:00 utc | 322

It’s just Dostoievski that pulls me in. I really love him.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 23:07 utc | 339

Yes, he pulls you in.
Got that with The Idiot – the first 30 pages or so is just some blokes on a train. Then things start to happen that don’t seem to have any coherence. Only about 2/3 the way in did I start to get what he was talking about. As I said, hard work, but worth the effort.
I am becoming more motivated to resume The Brothers Karamazov as the dark days of the solstice barrel toward us.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 0:02 utc | 323

persiflo | Nov 10 2025 23:25 utc | 344

I keep going back to that post. To live a life, or at least the life I have led. A different world. I guess it was some time after coming here, I realised my life has been different to many.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:06 utc | 324

Peter AU1 @347: “General has offered a figleaf, of peace, not to cover his nuts.”

All I saw was a dick doubling down on being a dick, and any fig leafs I’ve seen offered are most definitely nut-coverage… or at least dick coverage. Can’t take nuts for granted these days.

Oh well, these frauds always overreach enough that even those who want to believe end up disillusioned. My task is to gore the trolls’ dogs, not rescue everyone from those trolls’ spell.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 0:10 utc | 325

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 0:10 utc | 359
I think you might be losing the room, mate.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 0:14 utc | 326

William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 0:10 utc | 359

I don’t think so William. As I commented before, I think all you blokes are genuine. I do think General held out his hand with an olive branch and a white dove in peace.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:18 utc | 327

ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 0:14 utc | 360

It is not about winning or losing. They are all good men.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:21 utc | 328

When climbing a ladder, always remember how you got there. Climbing down is less painful than jumping – especially from great heights. General Tzu.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 0:27 utc | 329

The article I promised after “Is Silicon Valley Defecting?” is now ready, “New KMT Leader Signals New Taiwan Attitude.” The Taiwan situation isn’t good for Team Trump, which is good for Taiwanese. I find Cheng Li-wun to be very impressive with already proven potential. Her coalition defeated the DPP’s recall attempts earlier in the year, with the featured interview reporting her strategies.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 11 2025 0:38 utc | 330

Posted by: Woke American | Nov 10 2025 18:14 utc | 290

Thanks for the reply.

Myself, I am just trying to go to the primary source/website where possible, for example, ‘Unlimited Hangout’ is the direct site for Whitney Webb’s current work (MintPress News for her previous works).
I’d been getting lazy (and I’m in need of some eyeglasses), and skimming YouTube for clips to watch (I’m traditionally more inclined towards textual information, but video eases the eyestrain somewhat). This is when I started noticing this rapid rise of cut-paste / AI channels trying to capture audiences off genuine commentators and researchers.

Like with the Meirsheimer case mentioned, they often seem to call themselves “friends of…” or “fans of…”. I’ve been around the web long enough to notice these trends as they appear, and I’m always on alert for these subtle clues to identify that the control matrix cabal may be up to no good…yet again.

Now, it could just be scammers trying to rake some free ad-revenue by capturing/stealing audience share, or it could be the techno-fascists and the CIA (not mutually exclusive) practicing their narrative control mechanisms. I don’t know which, but either way they are stealing revenue from those they claim to support, so I’m just avoiding those channels.

It might be a phenomenon worth doing some additional research on, just to see how many independent media sources are suffering the same treatment…

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 0:50 utc | 331

Peter AU1 @361: “General held out his hand with an olive branch and a white dove in peace.”

I’ll believe that when he apologizes for deliberately mischaracterizing my posts. Starting with this one:

… Energy output is regulated by Doppler broadening. Simple as a hammer. Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 27 2025 20:24 utc | 70 *************** Hello Mr Gruff. I started addressing this post in detail, but abandoned the project after a few pages. You must have been trained in a different class of nuclear physics to me. I suspect that your reactor driven rocket, based on your design principles, would indeed have power and flight characteristics very similar to a hammer.
Posted by: General Factotum | Oct 28 2025 2:29 utc | 163

Where in that thread did we discuss rockets? Furthermore, nothing else he posted in that thread either contributed to the speculation as to the nature of the power source for the Burevestnik missile or expanded upon his post above. His post was a useless throw-away. That post led me to suspect he was a jackass (since proven) but I waited a bit to see what he was up to. Now I am confident in my assessment. Sorry if you disagree.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 0:54 utc | 332

a bit of a typo there. ares….. arse.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:58 utc | 333

Peter AU1 @361:

I would also like to point out how this expert-in-all-things mischaracterized our discussion of a jet engine from the thread in my post @377 as a rocket, then mischaracterized our discussion of prospective Russian space tugs’ rocket engines as being about jet engines. How could such a self-described Internet superman as our General Dick accidentally get it bass ackwards in both cases?

No, he is a fraud and an ass, and your initial instinct was correct: It’s a fig leaf he’s brandishing.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 1:06 utc | 334

William Gruff | Nov 11 2025 0:54 utc | 377

I do think general was holding out an olive leaf. Whatever way this goes, I will continue to like and respect both of you. Perhaps it is not possible, but to see something like that amongst those I respect and like … mm bit stumped on what to say at this point. Perhaps a leaf out of Putins or Xi’s book or something.

Anyway, keep on keeping on William.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 1:13 utc | 335

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 11 2025 0:38 utc | 371

I’ve only skimmed through the second post, karlof1, but it sounds extremely positive! Thanks so much for working on this — I have to shop tomorrow but I look forward to returning for a more careful read. It very much aligns with my own personal non-party moves the last few days. I have also enjoyed reading George Galloway’s ‘mother of all talk shows’ this past week.

Fresh air!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 11 2025 1:21 utc | 336

“On symmetry, as a teenager I experimented with being left-handed for several months, to exercise the alternate hemispheres of my brain. That was interesting, but probably the kind of thing that has the best effect when ones brain is young and plastic.” Posted by: too scents | Nov 10 2025 19:19 utc | 301

I did the same back in the 90’s. I was wondering if it might be good for expanding the mind, or at least balancing it somewhat. Can’t remember how long I persevered, but I can still brush my teeth, and write (poorly) with my left (non-dominant) hand to this day.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 1:23 utc | 337

S @ 287

Very useful. Thanks for posting.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 1:28 utc | 338

Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 1:23 utc | 387

My son was a mollydooker.Some things he would do right hand. He would bat left hand, shoot right hand.
A lot of other aspects like that. Part left, part right . Predominantly left.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 1:33 utc | 339

@ Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:51 utc | 376 who is struggling with the request to not feed the trolls by b

You can do it Peter. Plenty of other opportunities for conversation…thanks,I want you to stay around

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 1:35 utc | 340

Re: NDP star-chamber to ‘vet’ [disqualify?] candidacy of Yves Engler

Tell The NDP: Let Internationalism Into The Leadership Race

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-the-ndp-let-internationalism-into-the-leadership-race

“With Mark Carney’s massively increasing military spending, Donald Trump’s blowing up Venezuelan vessels, and Ottawa continuing to assist a lawless apartheid state that’s committing genocide, it’s vital that critical perspectives on international affairs be heard in the NDP leadership race.

Excluding a candidate who has foregrounded Palestine, Haiti, Africa and the Global South would signal that these communities and issues are not a priority for the party. Do not exclude a leading critic of Canadian foreign policy.”

http://www.yvesforndpleader.ca

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 1:46 utc | 341

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 0:06 utc | 358

Mine too, Peter. We need them all. We need to know the variety of lives this planet breeds.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 11 2025 1:47 utc | 342

Daniel Davis is on fire today:
Potential Shutdown-ending Deal: Great for Politicians, Rotten for Americans
America melting down faster than William Gruff.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 1:48 utc | 343

“On symmetry, as a teenager I experimented with being left-handed for several months, to exercise the alternate hemispheres of my brain. That was interesting, but probably the kind of thing that has the best effect when ones brain is young and plastic.”

AFAIK practicing on a drum set according to those in the know includes switching the layout over for a bit sometimes, i.e. putting the hi-hat on the other foot etc. Orchestras do similar things by interchanging parts between the instruments for exercise (it is not trivial to play a downbeat if you’re not accustomed to it). Perhaps not everyone has to do it forever (james?), but OTOH <cough> there are people who are ambidextrous or even mistrained lefties who may profit a lot from such exercise. Myself I’m neither, but still enjoy using my left hand consciously for various tasks which might otherwise be relegated to the right without reflection.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 1:50 utc | 344

Academic Agent, elite theorist and WWE officianado steps up to give us (normal people) a week long special decoding the kayfabe of the MAGA civil war:
Tucker Carlson TAKES DOWN Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro in EPIC Feud

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 1:53 utc | 345

We need to know the variety of lives this planet breeds.
Posted by: juliania | Nov 11 2025 1:47 utc | 393
Stonebird juliania. He does not post often, but he has lived a life.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 1:59 utc | 346

Here’s a song from the jukebox for any leg humpers and their friends trying to practice their downbeat:
Bob Marley- Sweat

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:05 utc | 347

Posted by: juliania | Nov 10 2025 22:09 utc | 330

Thank you, Juliania.
I haven’t got around to reading The Brothers Karamazov yet, but I’m looking forward to tackling it someday. I thoroughly enjoyed his other works that I have read: Notes From the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and The Devils. Leaving the best for last, perhaps.
I’ve really got to learn to take breaks from the online world and pick up the books more frequently. I was really spoiled for choice in my youth. My parents were voluminous readers and had about 4000 books between them, but it just seems so normal when that is what you’re accustomed to from a young age and I kind of took it for granted.

I feel so grateful for the experience now though.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 2:05 utc | 348

Further to 392:

‘Left Wing Activist Yves Engler Applies To Join NDP Leadership Race’

https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1988062602765771053

“Party vetting is a threat to democracy,’ Mr Engler said in an email today. ‘Different political opinions should be determined by the membership, not a 3-person-back-room committee. NDP members should be allowed to decide whether they support or oppose a candidate calling for the party to vote down a budget that plows tens of billions of dollars more into a military structured to assist the US war machine,’ he wrote.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 2:12 utc | 349

Sweat. When my son went out on his own, He took on a job fencing on those properties. Summer time. He would dick about in the shed till about nine am trying to pinch my stuff then head out to fence for the day, Temps hitting 46 every day. Didn’t seem to bother him.

He sure would have pulled some seat out of the blokes working with or for him in those summer temps.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 350

I feel like I’ve just desecrated an immense hit by Bob Marley by badly contextualizing an already tricky proposition. Perhaps we can make good on it by talking about Dostevsky for a little bit longer. For me, reading him was life-changing in ways more profound to possibly recount them. It made me a friend of the Russian people for a start, and this has turned out to be a good thing in – again – more ways than I can possibly recount a-long a-lalala-long-li-long —

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 351

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXeBFhqViYg
Posted by: Vove | Nov 10 2025 21:41 utc | 323

Thanks Vove. Great performance. deserved better miking.

Posted by: Samu | Nov 11 2025 2:24 utc | 352

I feel like I’ve just desecrated an immense hit by Bob Marley by badly contextualizing an already tricky proposition. Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 402

Do not mind me or anyone else. We are what we are all different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgXpD6KalVk

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 2:29 utc | 353

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 1:33 utc | 390
Mollydooker! I love old slang.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 2:34 utc | 354

I am going through The Systems View Of Life book and while I don’t think I am asking my asymmetry/symmetry question well I also looked at the index and see that this book has 48 entries in the index under consciousness. They say “consciousness is a cognitive process, emerging from complex neural activity”.They write that there are two types of consciousness, primary/core consciousness and higher-order/extended/reflective consciousness. The scope of core consciousness is here and now and is thought to be experienced by most mammals and perhaps by some birds and other vertebrates.The reflective consciousness is an “extended experience of self awareness, identity and personhood is based on memories of the past and anticipation of the future”. They go on to say conscious experience is an emergent phenomena…..and more but I am hungry.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 2:57 utc | 355

I mean the “BeemIt” portion, not the ‘Posted’ that got on there by mistake on my part.

Posted by: joey_n | Nov 11 2025 2:57 utc | 356

that copy from another thread did not work well….sigh

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 2:57 utc | 357

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 10 2025 22:18 utc | 332

Thanks for the brief bio. For what it’s worth, I’d undoubtedly find you interesting to converse with.

With the sheer volume of science (of both exceptional and poor quality) being generated nowadays, it is overwhelming to even keep up with one or two key areas of interest. I used to follow PV cell technology very closely, which was a pretty mind blowing subject. I had also tried to keep up with battery technologies, but that is also overwhelming as a subject. Both fields have so many specialities within specialities that it is near impossible for me to absorb it all before the information is superceded by new developments.

My greatest problem though is that I’m interested in just about everything that would fall under the descriptor of ‘scientific disciplines’, and many other things besides. It can often lead me to distraction, task paralysis and procrastination.

I’ve enjoyed your input here. Not quite sure what elicited such an excitable response from other patrons lately.

Cheers

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 3:00 utc | 358

persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 402

That link I posted, so many of us have led very different lives. Riding out a young horse in the round yard, getting speared through the rails then climbing back on. This stuff we watch. Sitting in the saddle of life I guess.

Getting speared through the rails is not good. Some bark is l0st. Best to stay in the saddle. I guess even that don’t help much when the horse tosses the saddle.

But that link, no matter how old and decrepit I am, that is my life.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 3:04 utc | 359

I’ve enjoyed your input here.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 3:00 utc | 411

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Thanks Jon. I share all of your “problems” – and many more besides. So much of interest, so little time…

In the early days of computing I regarded myself as ‘almost competent, just beyond dangerous’. Now I’m a complete dinosaur. Same with plasma, solar cells, optical fibre comms… But the good thing is that no matter how far the field moves forward, the fundamentals never change. I can poke around in these and unrelated areas and still ‘get the jist’ of what is happening.

My son is researching in the field of trapped photon optical memory using quantum entanglement for developing a memory system for quantum computing. It is a fascinating area. He is very kind when he discusses his work with me – he talks nice and slow, uses simple words, and only mentions the easy bits… He gets kindness from his mother.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 3:48 utc | 360

DH: Ben Norton

https://www.youtube.com/@geopoliticshaiphong/streams

“China just banned US chips; Trump’s tariff war collapses.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 3:51 utc | 361

@ General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 3:48 utc | 413

i would like to 2nd @ Jon_in_AU | Nov 11 2025 3:00 utc | 411 comment to you and appreciate the fact jon has said this and you have said what you’ve said.. i appreciate and would like to support all the positives as much as possible and i see these comments in this light.. thanks..

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 4:37 utc | 362

@ persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 402

when i was much younger a friend asked me if i would go to a bob marley concert with him.. at the time, although i was into drumming, i wasn’t drawn to reggae music.. the show i saw at the vancouver coliseum – not sure the year, but it was about 1 year or less before he died – was truly amazing and i had a new found respect and appreciation for reggae music seeing the band up front of stage and being especially impressed with the drumming! sometimes records don’t translate what one can see first hand at a live show.. the dancers / vocalists on stage at the time were also truly amazing.. it was a great show and i was happy the girl my friend had asked to go to the show with, turned him down.. i didn’t!

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 4:41 utc | 363

Bob Marley and the Wailers played the Coliseum on November 21, 1979, in support of his Survival Tour. he died may 11th 1981, about 1 1/2 years after this show..

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 4:44 utc | 364

quote at the bottom of simplicius latest –

Colombia President Petro:
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein’s list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil. They want to turn the region into another Libya, full of slaves.”

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 5:05 utc | 365

thanks james, I appreciate you saying that.

When I was young in the early nineties, around the time Take That and the Backstreet Boys were taken over good in the charts and /or my Gymnasium (I don’t remember now) by Nirvana, and Eurodance was already a thing … you know, this slick aesthetic which comes with super compressed click track productions … there was a massive chart hit by an act called Inner Circle “playing” that Bob Marley tune I linked to, and it sounded outlandish even back then. I am today convinced it [not recommended] is nothing but a messed-up playback with a little bit of echo and slightly overdubbed voice plus an MTV video, so making this a beyond cynical effort by … well it is so sinister that I am ready to count it as a confession by the CIA that they did Bob in back then. I say this only half-jokingly. That Inner Circle dude is still making a living from it, it seems.

Removing my alu cap again, I may state that the orginal recording is insanely groovy – I mean, insanely – only that Bob doesn’t sound crazy at all while delivering this pinnacle of a pop song lyric … that was 1979, they had no drum computers back then, although you can hear a synth in there (apparent in the beginning). Holy F — !!

I’m glad you have him in your living memory. It is also interesting that you mention the drumming, while I was trying to get steady with the bass playing there … this dude had 41 children! Well, no wonder now. His bass guitar had a high action, too 🙂

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 5:33 utc | 366

I feel like I’ve just desecrated an immense hit by Bob Marley

Here’s a song from the jukebox for any leg humpers and their friends trying to practice their downbeat:Bob Marley- Sweat
Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:05 utc | 398

by badly contextualizing an already tricky proposition.
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Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 2:20 utc | 402

It’s a good thing to get facts right, particularly if trying to be clever. That aint Bob Marley, it’s Inner Circle.

Posted by: tucenz | Nov 11 2025 5:37 utc | 367

@ persiflo | Nov 11 2025 5:33 utc | 421

thanks! i don’t know his music super well, but i really enjoy it and like it! i like the song a lalala long you’ve shared here… this music really swings! it was a different era and a different vibe… maybe the use of triplets and the connection back to africa has a lot to do with this swing/shuffle vibe.. a lot of that type rhythm has been replaced with a more martial type marching vibe which i hear a lot in metal bands..it is a very different rhythm – one joyous and the other meant to evoke a very different feeling.. most people don’t think about the rhythms, but just pick up on the vibe instinctively and place themselves within it, in some manner or context.. that link to the 2 bass players – great stuff!

music has gone in a lot of different directions and i find most all of it fascinating and full of creativity and inventiveness.. although i don’t listen to everything, i have never fallen out of love with music!

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 5:47 utc | 368

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_(A_La_La_La_La_Long)

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 5:48 utc | 369

It’s a good thing to get facts right, particularly if trying to be clever. That aint Bob Marley, it’s Inner Circle.
Posted by: tucenz | Nov 11 2025 5:37 utc | 422

Wait, what?? It has been wrongly attributed to Bob Marley by the CIA video channel or whomever, and I fell for it, and now MoA rightens me … ? 🙂 lol, great stuff!<3

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 11 2025 6:03 utc | 370

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 3:51 utc | 414

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It’s worse than banning the chips. That is a massive broadside to the US tech sector.

The NVIDIA CEO has been whining about how they now do $0 of sales in China after China was their largest customer.

NVIDIA was already locked out. Now AMD and Intel are as well.

It’s like the Chinese are saying, “You want to decouple? Ok. You’re out!”

China can collapse the NASDAQ anytime it chooses, and there is nothing Trump can do about it.

I like strategy, and I don’t see a good economic approach for America to get out of this mess. It’s not enough to stop the tariffs (which SCOTUS may do). China has now decided that it will no longer “play nice” or cooperate with the US.

Trump didn’t appreciate how easy China has been to work with for the last decade.

The Western powers are in for a rude awakening. Russia and China are no longer willing to make concessions to make them look good or cut deals. Trump has destroyed what little was left of American credibility, and as it is, between people, it can take decades to build trust, but it can be lost in a moment.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 11 2025 6:43 utc | 371

I have been following the rare earth issue related to military purchases and below is what I am told is the current status

Details on the restrictions and recent developmentsOriginal restrictions:
China’s rules, set to take effect in December 2025, would deny export licenses to companies affiliated with foreign militaries and automatically reject any requests for rare earth materials to be used for military purposes. This was seen as a way to cut off US defense supply chains, as the US is heavily reliant on Chinese rare earths for weapons systems like the F-35 and Tomahawk missiles.

Recent suspension:
Following a meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping in late October 2025, China announced it would suspend the new rules.

Current situation:
While the rules are currently suspended, reports suggest China is still developing a new system to block military use of rare earths. The plan is to exclude companies with military ties and fast-track approvals for other firms. This means while a total ban on military use might be lifted or eased, restrictions specifically targeting the US military are likely to remain.

What we are reading in the MSM is all about the auto industry but it would seem that the military industry production lines have already or are going to come to a screeching halt…..and then what?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 6:52 utc | 372

10 year treasury stuck at 4.1%

de-dollarization brings peace…in 2027

Posted by: exile | Nov 11 2025 7:28 utc | 373

10 year treasury stuck at 4.1%

Posted by: exile | Nov 11 2025 7:28 utc | 422

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See the 10Y USD vs Yuan chart in the linked article.

PBOC Pushes Yuan Borrowing Abroad to Internationalize Currency

China’s central bank vowed to further encourage financing in the yuan by overseas entities, betting cheap borrowing costs and increased demand for the currency offshore will be crucial drivers for its globalization.

The country will promote the role of the yuan as a funding currency as one of the key steps to advance its internationalization, the People’s Bank of China said in its annual report released Oct. 30. The central bank pledged to support the use of a variety of funding products, including yuan loans, panda bonds, offshore yuan bonds and trade financing, to help make it easier for overseas institutions and corporations to obtain the currency.

The report reflects Beijing’s resolution in raising the yuan’s role in the global monetary system and its willingness to offer more yuan liquidity to offshore entities — a way to make the currency available to global users despite China’s tight control of outbound capital flows. The yuan’s cheap borrowing cost have become a new selling point, as the nation’s moderately loose monetary policy and deflationary pressure have pushed down bond yields well below those on US Treasuries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/pboc-pushes-yuan-borrowing-abroad-to-internationalize-currency

Why borrow $ at 4% when you can borrow ¥ at 2%? The ¥ spends just as well, if not better.

The US $ is finished. The DXY is rising on a short squeeze while the exit trades are jammed.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 11 2025 8:07 utc | 374

i appreciate and would like to support all the positives as much as possible and i see these comments in this light.. thanks..
Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 4:37 utc | 382

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Thanks for your kind words, james – greatly appreciated. The world is full of wonderful people. I have a bad habit of focusing on negatives… but in ‘negative defence’ – the flat tyre on the truck (pre uni days). I’m sure the boss would not commend my positivity if I got back to the yard with a grass skirt* but crowing about the other 21 good tyres…

* A ‘grass skirt’ was the name we gave to tyres so completely destroyed that only the bead and ragged side-walls remained.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 8:38 utc | 375

I have been following the rare earth issue related to military purchases and below is what I am told is the current status…
Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 11 2025 6:52 utc | 395

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The RRE saga promises to be ‘interesting’ for some time.

Discussion always seems to focus on exports and military uses for RRE. One thing that is not often mentioned is China’s own huge domestic demand for RRE. With a significant proportion of global production (EV’s batteries, electronics, solar, wind, …) of goods requiring RRE, China itself is probably the largest market and highest demand, not only on a country by country basis, but with respect to the rest of the world.

It would not be unexpected for China to prioritise its own supply of RRE before looking to satisfying the needs of the rest of the world.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 9:27 utc | 376

Posted by: joey_n | Nov 11 2025 2:57 utc | 376
The comment previous to that one got erased. It referred to a link to a Mozart piece (?) and I was amazed to see the YouTube URL have “BeemIt” in it, probably the closest there were to actual English words even if misspelled, instead of the usual jumble of numbers and letters. But then the comment with the link got erased, as was my response to it.
Was it considered spam?

Posted by: joey_n | Nov 11 2025 9:45 utc | 377

Would Iranian’s feel at home in the former Ukraine?

https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+drought&udm=14

Posted by: too scents | Nov 11 2025 10:10 utc | 378

Reuters headlines
“Exclusive: Syria foiled Islamic State plots on President Sharaa’s life, sources say”

“Syria signs cooperation declaration with Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, minister says
“India PM Modi says those responsible for Delhi blast will be brought to justice”

“At least 12 killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan’s capital”

The Syrian stuff I assume will be the international headchoppers killing Syrians who had sided with with the actual Syrian government. The India and Pakistan bombings – somebody is trying to get a war going there.

The rise of Islamic extremism is again becoming very noticeable since al Qaeda took control of Syria. Central Asia – the stan countries, Erdogan’s Muslim Turkic world merges with the extremists in that region. Sub Sahara Africa and the small states that booted the west out are getting hit particularly hard.

Just had a look at Magnier’s account – the jewish extremism of Israel – now burning the west bank and have annexed a chunk of southern Lebanon, now putting up a border wall further north and Israeli drone associations throughout Lebanon.

But all these extremist groups, the Nazi’s of Ukraine, the Islamic extremists, the Jewish extremists – all Anglo American proxies. Indian Hindutva, the other major block of extremism – that will also be used.
The large hydro project China has decided to go ahead with, near the border with India, I saw two Indian youtube channels with something on the dam so checked them to see what the Indians thought of it. They were truly backwards knuckle draggers. There thinking was along the lines that China is a backwards country and does not need all that electricity therefore, the dam is being built as a weapon to use against India. Modi and the Indian foreign minister come across as sane in their public appearances, but the Indian tv/video channels with political commentary – very backwards people. They will easily be taken to war.

Some of the stuff the Ukraine POW’s had believed about Russia – no toilets, no washing machines ect – the Indians are the same in regard to China.

This rise in all forms of extremism now, covering a large chunk of the globe – the world will be a very violent place for some time. All the work of the fast collapsing empire.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 11:08 utc | 379

After writing that last comment, thinking about Trump and Jolani in the Whitehouse, Regan and Bin Laden in the whitehouse – Venezuela, the Americans do want the oil, but I suspect it is also being used to distract attention from the massive rise of extremism around the world which no doubt the Americans and Brits are behind.

Extremism seemed to die down for a bit after Russia destroyed the bulk of the headchoppers in Syria, but then the Brits and Americans threw the Ukrainians at Russia to try and tie Russia’s hands, al Qaeda taking over Syria, the Jewish extremists in Palestine running amok, the Islamic extremism sprouting like a weed in Africa…….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 11:28 utc | 380

Tend to agree with much of that PeterAu. You ran a marathon – I’ll write you a post elsewhere… why you don’t sleep .

My tuppence – starting with a hearty thanks to ’S’ .

@ Posted by: S | Nov 10 2025 17:57 utc | 287

Thanks great interview!

Khazakkstan – khazarstqn – Kaganstan…

The Great Game drags on.

They have No Reverse Gear

Just lots of kids raised on Eton playing fields to become the never ending Greenmantle’s riding forth – for king, cunturry and their shapeshifter overlords.

It does seem a new regular topic will be required as the proxy war is unleashed directly in Central Asia from the soft underbelly – the subcontinent!

A long planned invasion using the Raj millions of boots and their old EIC controllers and patels.

For some reason never wholly set forth – perhaps Gandhi stopped it and was killed for that – but there is nothing else left in their war plans chest, so the buttons are being pushed.

The ONLY answer and for ultimate peace on Earth, is the demise of these crazed dynastic ambitions.

Whether it is the cleansing cold blue light of Mr Fkinz-hell or Mr oreshnik or what we haven’t yet seen.

The shapeshifted dynsaties must END.

In relation to the above moves to the new sacrificial proxy being created on the Central Asia steppes as Modi goes to Bhutan and he gets another message delivered in Delhi – that is hallmarks of the now free to roam isis headchoppers.

Their Guantano recruited crazed religious suicide bombers to move on to their ultimate targets – China and Russia – from yet another front on MackindersWorld Island .

That oh so long planned , studied and taught Dream of World Conquest and restoration of their Lost Khazar Empire – the fucking shithead shapeshifters.
The millions of their recruited child soldiers from Africa now being fully indoctrinated having been shipped to the US and Britain. Hidden behind the smokescreen of illegal migrants arriving by ‘small boats’!

Where will they be deployed! Yuo can guess.

I remind you of my earlier post.
“ the only thing missing is some dancing Ziofascists.”
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 9 2025 18:44 utc | 48

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 12:10 utc | 381

“Russian Air-Defense Deliveries to Venezuela and the Escalation Risk of U.S.–Venezuela Military Conflict”

https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/11/05/russian-air-defense-deliveries-to-venezuela-and-the-escalation-risk-of-u-s-venezuela-military-conflict

The article above is not “exaggeration” because the tone is not “over the top”. The article gives a balanced view on what could come in the (near) future.

Posted by: WMG | Nov 11 2025 12:31 utc | 382

Is the “Robert Lansing Institute” also a propaganda outlet of the US Empire ? It seems they aren’t. Check it out !!!!
https://lansinginstitute.org/

“Russian Air-Defense Deliveries to Venezuela and the Escalation Risk of U.S.–Venezuela Military Conflict”
https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/11/05/russian-air-defense-deliveries-to-venezuela-and-the-escalation-risk-of-u-s-venezuela-military-conflict/

“Probability and Purpose of a Hypothetical Trump-Era U.S. Military Campaign in Nigeria”
https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/11/05/probability-and-purpose-of-a-hypothetical-trump-era-u-s-military-campaign-in-nigeria/

Posted by: WMG | Nov 11 2025 12:45 utc | 383

Posted by: james | Nov 11 2025 5:05 utc | 385

I think there is another theme that keeps the Epstein matter from being made public.

I believe Trump is using the files as a blackmail tool with the Oligarchs; my ‘tell’ was Bill Gates changing his tune on “Global Warming’ recently.

Posted by: canuk | Nov 11 2025 12:46 utc | 384

DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 12:10 utc | 404

My body clock stopped function years ago when I became ill with what I have now. Can only sleep for a few hours but two or three times a day. Fill in my drinking time trying to find youtube videos that will hold my interest a bit and annoying people here. The geopolitics stuff is about all that holds my interest now. Though even that, I no longer bother with the day to day doings, rather just waiting and watching for the moves on the chessboard by the main players.

Tech stuff still interests me. Research into different things used to fill in a lot of time. Many hours and often weeks scouring the internet on a particular subject, but my attention span for that sort of thing simply isn’t there anymore.

All my life,I seem to have always been doing something new, learning something new to hold my interest. About the last thing I did was teach myself G code and cad cam. Mate bought an older machine with a Fanuc controller so I taught myself Fanuc G code but even then, most machines that age have their own dialect so I had to work that out as well. A three axis vertical milling machine.

The operator/user interfaces of the era were hopeless. Got onto an electronics box from Vietnam that plugged into the data hookup. According to Fanuc data transfer was 4500 baud. The Vietnamese recommended to run the box at 9000 baud. It worked and turned the old machine into a modern machine.

With that, I could do all the programming on a laptop the transfer the program with a USB stick. That box I could have plugged into the laptop, but used USB instead of having wires running around the work shop. They also made those boxes with a wifi for easy data transfer, but for what my mate wanted it for, I chose the cheaper option.

Lot of tearing my hair out at times learning that thing as nobody seems to know much about them anymore.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 12:46 utc | 385

Khazakstan Gambit failing again already!
‘ 🇰🇿🇷🇺 Russian Su-35’s escort Kazakhstan’s President Kasym-Jomart Tokaev’s plane to Moscow

Tokaev and Putin are expected to sign a declaration elevating their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance
@MyLordBebo ‘

Right at the begining of the SMO there was an attempt by the plucky British French Great Gamers to rush Khazakstan into being another front.

It was stymied by the fast deployment of the ‘alliance’ forces.

This time it looks like the treaties are being upgraded and the gangsters and their gangs of Uighers an D.C. ragtag isis are going to get a mullering – see all these secret little bases with SF/Bond types ?

See them no longer!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 13:20 utc | 386

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 12:46 utc | 409
I feel sure that somewhere on the interwebs there will be a forum or message board discussing all things related to your machine. The challenge will be to find it – something to fill your time with at least.
If the Vietnamese are producing aftermarket hacks, you can be sure that there is loads of info out there and a bunch of folks like yourself who are incurable tinkerers.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 13:21 utc | 387

Turkish military aircraft CRASHES on Georgia-Azerbaijan border — Turkish MoD
Unverified footage from AirportHaber shows supposed Lockheed C-130 Hercules spiraling out of control before explosive crash

https://t.me/rtnews/120357

Looks like the plane completely disintegrated in the air.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 13:51 utc | 388

ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 13:21 utc | 413

No, it just wasn’t there. The fanuc numerical controllers of that era were mostly OMC. Quite a few still in America and video showing how to operate the old machines. That helped a lot. But this one was an OMF – basically an upmarket OMC that had lots of options.

The Vietnamese obviously knew more about these older machines than anyone in the west and even the Fanuc reps here in Australia. That gook box was magic.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 13:52 utc | 389

Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 13:51 utc | 415

That video was odd. I don’t recognize the aircraft at all so assume it was a Turkish drone. But the smoke, only coming from each wing tip was really odd. The sort of thing you would only see in an airshow, but that aircraft obviously went down.
Georgia has been coming under attack from the west lately so I assume they shot it down. If it was what that quote says it was, then it seems its tail section had been shot off.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:03 utc | 390

@ Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 12:46 utc | 409

Parasite.

A theory regarding your medical condition. Not calling you one you understand? 😉
Feel free to ignore

It also applies to many Aussies who suffer similar ailments and other Anglo types who have travelled and eaten stuff they are not built for.

I have met and know a few like you and still do here in London – the insominia is a clue. Along with the other symptoms.

Pribably only the Tropical School of Medicine will have enough expertise who can get the right tests and diagnoses.

It will require a spinal tap for the nerve fluid to be tested with electron microscopes.
That is as painful as giving birth. I was very young when I had one… another story for another day.

Simply put you have aquired some infestation of some bacterial type that has crossed into your nervous system and brain.

This has come about by your lifetime of trying to eat what the aboriginal peoples do and kangaroos and lord knows what other grubs and stuff – probably rare and therefore not killing the invading microbes.

This has disrupted the foods that you can consume – I have come across several such Aussie and European travellers who were nursing the ‘gluten intolerances’.

Who though nice personalities had ‘moments’; insomnia too and lots of gut problems! The Tick disease was what was being deducted.
Where else has this type of thing been diagnosed?

There is a story – apocryphal perhaps – of the artic explorers who were stranded – with the polar bears!
But being armed with serious weapons they made meals of their would be predators!

Unfortunately not being able to build fires they were having to survive on thin slivers of the bear meat which they warmed with their bodies and than ate!

So much food yet their diaries showed there was something happening in their minds and they eventually were located – dead !

They hadn’t starved to death! I think their frozen brains sliced and examined showed the invaders.

I have no further information or proof – make of it what you will.

If there is some chance of a miraculous cure. I’m hope you can find it and have decades of considering your life that led you to this here bar.
Take it

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 14:05 utc | 391

A million dollar parcel of rough opal. A bloke that cuts mostly Lightning Ridge opal generally puts out a video once a week. Last week he did not and turned out he was on a buying trip. He paid $6000 for a small piece out of the parcel to see how it would cut. It looked good from the side but cut a bit ordinary. Retail value for the stones about the same as he had paid for the rough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grwr7LK4DOM

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:09 utc | 392

@Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:03 utc | 418

That video was odd. I don’t recognize the aircraft at all so assume it was a Turkish drone. But the smoke, only coming from each wing tip was really odd. The sort of thing you would only see in an airshow, but that aircraft obviously went down. Georgia has been coming under attack from the west lately so I assume they shot it down. If it was what that quote says it was, then it seems its tail section had been shot off.

Assuming the video is not faked, you see a wing with 4 propeller engines + a section of the fuselage attached to it. Another part of the fuselage (front part?) is falling separately. Tail section completely missing. Not a drone.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:19 utc | 393

DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 14:05 utc | 419

Thanks. I had thought tropical disease as it hit not long after returning to western Queensland from the Kimberly’s.

Asked for and was tested for every tropical disease I thought may be faintly applicable. I have had juvinile spondylitis, ankylosing spondylitis and now Crohns disease. A package of conditions to do with genetics. On top of that, I was hit with immune reaction to tick bite. The paralysis tic occurs across much of northern Australia. The condition was first recognized by an Australian medical researcher. It also occurs widely in the US with the lonestar tick.

Generally seems to hit men, middle age (low to mid forties) or older. Never occurs in young people.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:23 utc | 394

@Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:19 utc | 422@Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:03 utc | 418
Same event, different video. Catastrophic disintegration of a Hercules C130 in mid air, sounds like a bomb or missile to me.

🇹🇷 🇦🇿 A Turkish military cargo plane crashed in Georgia
“Our military cargo plane, a C130 flying from Azerbaijan, crashed in Georgia. Search and rescue operations have begun in coordination with Georgian services.” – Turkish Ministry of Defense

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/50629

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:26 utc | 395

Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:19 utc | 422

Nothing indicated to me it was fake. I think you are right on it not being a drone. What really struck me was the smoke, only coming from the very tip of each wing.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:27 utc | 396

Okinawa:
How Japan is preparing for conflict with China …www.youtube.com › watch

15:33The shift in Japan’s strategy comes amidst recognition in Tokyo that it may need to contend with a more assertive China. Japanese officials …
YouTube · DW News · 9 Aug 2025

tsk tsk tsk...
Big bad China provoking the entire ‘civilised’ west. !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 14:27 utc | 397

@Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:27 utc | 428

Nothing indicated to me it was fake. I think you are right on it not being a drone. What really struck me was the smoke, only coming from the very tip of each wing.

I am guessing the “smoke” from the wings is aircraft fuel from the (broken) tanks in the wings.

🇹🇷There were 20 military personnel on board the Turkish Air Force C-130 plane that crashed in Georgia, the Turkish Ministry of Defense reports.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/165203

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:29 utc | 398

Bandits crying robbery

Another shared value of G7 !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 14:31 utc | 399

It is said the Turkish C130 was on its way back from Azerbaijan to Turkey. Assuming bad actors, what would be the motive? Below link contains same video as the first one I posted, but the text provides more context.

🇹🇷 Turkish C-130 ‘Hercules’ military transport plane takes horrific crash on its way back from Azerbaijan near Georgia-Azerbaijan border
Plane can also be seen falling apart mid-air; was carrying 20 personnel

https://t.me/IntelRepublic/50033

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:35 utc | 400

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