The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-260

Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:29 utc | 430

Quite likely. Its just that I have never seen that before.
Turk military plane coming down over Georgia. The Brits in tight with the Turks. The Brit hatred of Russia and Georgia coming under attack because it does not open a second front against Russia. Possibly all is above board and the plane simply fell apart, but I don’t think so. Something going on.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:37 utc | 401

DunGroanin

That package of conditions is linked to gene HLA-B27. Those conditions though are only symptoms that occur a different stages in life. The actual condition is I believe citric acid intolerance.

With celiac disease, gluten intolerance, there is no cure. It is a matter of eliminating every trace of that grain protein from the diet. As that protein only occurs in a few cereal grains, it still leaves a good and varied diet.

Citric acid intolerance means eliminate every trace of vegetable matter from the diet. Mammals provide every mineral than vitamin required so long as the entire animal is eaten – not so much the digestive tract as that is mostly just collagen, but all the other organs. Vitamin C? only primates do not metabolize vitamin C and require it in their diets. It high in the brain and spinal column of other mammals. But with this tick bite, all mammal products are out. Doesn’t leave me with much. Birds, frogs and lizards and stuff. Frogs and grubs and things I’m not too sure about, but I reckon a big desert lizard would be good tucker cooked on the coals.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 14:57 utc | 402

G7 aka 8NA have been courting the Mongols big time,.
Jp emperor paid a week long state visit to Mongolia just few months back.

Wonder what’re their shared value ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:10 utc | 403

While the west and Jp made their first pot of gold as pirates., the mongols are lousy sailors.
The one time they sent an armada to attack JP, those feared warriors ended up at the bottom of East China Sea.

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:18 utc | 404

G7 + Mongolia = G8 = revised 8NA.

Except MOngolia economy is a basket case.

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:22 utc | 405

denk
I doubt the Mongols will take the poison bait. Landlocked and sitting between Russia and China, I think they know who butters their bread.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:23 utc | 406

Re: Facebook revenue from fraudulent goods and services
This number is certainly low.
More importantly, it is the smaller fraction of overall online ad fraud as compared to fraudulent clicks/views. There are enormous bot farms that do nothing but “view” ads and “click” on them. This isn’t theory: Procter and Gamble – one of the largest online advertisers – cut their ad spend in 2017 by over $100m. This was roughly 20% of their overall ad spend – and they got better overall results.
The “long tail” of the internet includes a lot of legitimate small web sites, but also an enormous number of scam sites.
I have personal experience of this as well. A $100M+ annual revenue online car parts retailer – one of the their engineers was working on some web site related metrics. He sent queries from his computer inside the company’s own network, to the company web site. These queries came back tagged as “#rd party referred” meaning an affiliate would be paid for referring this traffic to the car parts web site. We were hired to investigate – we traced through to the online hosting company that said car parts web site was hosted on – but the online hosting company “lost” the records. Equally, the affiliate in question could not produce any documentation of its own referral traffic. So whether the online hosting company, or the affiliate, or both, or more were involved in the scam is unclear. The amount of fraud in this case was low 7 digit on the high end.
The customer wound up firing everybody.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 11 2025 15:25 utc | 407

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:23 utc | 444
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Cant fault them for trying tho.
The Mongols, Jp, INdians share a common value.
They all look down on their neighbors while trying to sup with the big cats far away.

Thats what make them the west’s favored Asians !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:28 utc | 408

c1ue | Nov 11 2025 15:25 utc | 445

This digital world, it is the future now and the clock cannot be wound back. I cant help but think of the early gold rush boom towns. The gambling sharks and the scammers would quickly move in to fleece fools. The early days of the digital age quite similar. And we are still very much in the early days.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:39 utc | 409

That MOdi/Trump bromance looks like a roller coastal circus show.

Barely one month after Trump’s exquisite insult on MOdi sent the Indians into flying rage, its buddy buddy again…

BBC
India-US sign 10-year defence pact amid tariff turmoil

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:41 utc | 410

denk | Nov 11 2025 15:41 utc | 448

Hindutva is a block of extremism that can and will be used. When that time comes, they will likely go the way of the Ukroids, but still, nuke armed extremists like the Hindutva…. it will be nasty.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:45 utc | 411

They might as well robe in Bharat to make it G9, an 8NA upgrade.

After all, the jawans had centuries of experience serving the Brit !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:48 utc | 412

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:45 utc | 449
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Since Mongols and Indians are lousy seafarers, this is no longer the Ring of Pirates.

How about the canovious clan ?

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 15:52 utc | 413

denk | Nov 11 2025 15:48 utc | 450

The mighty jawans. The Galwin valley fun and games. They ran like rabbits and left their mates to die of exposure in the cold mountain night.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:55 utc | 414

denk | Nov 11 2025 15:52 utc | 451

What is canovious clan . I have not read or heard that before.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:58 utc | 415

nuke armed extremists like the Hindutva…. it will be nasty.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:45 utc | 449
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Actually being India’s neighbors is very dicey affair.

In past missile testing, their home grown wonder usually exhibited kinda Brownian movement, or ended up in unpredictable terrain !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 16:03 utc | 416

What is canovious clan . I have not read or heard that before.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 15:58 utc | 453
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All G9 members are natural born canovious , aka predators !

Posted by: denk | Nov 11 2025 16:06 utc | 417

@Peter AU1 | #447
Disagree completely.
Among other things: the frontier town scammers you reference were individuals. The scammers today are aided and abetted by the platforms themselves, because said platforms get 30% to 50% of the revenue passing through said platforms.
So in a real sense, the platforms have a negative financial interest to fight fraud of whatever form – because it reduces their revenue directly.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 11 2025 16:06 utc | 418

To follow up on the above: Visa fraud is in the 0.5% range. Why? Because Western law places the burden of fraud losses on the Visa network. And so they are very, very efficient and good and detecting and terminating fraud.
If Visa were not responsible for fraud losses, would they try remotely as hard as they do now? I doubt it.
The above online platform complicity/complacence/useful idiot handling of fraud is criminogenic: defined as causing or likely to cause criminal behavior.
This is not a new phenomenon. The 1980s Savings and Loan scandal was the same type of dynamic – why Black wrote a book titled “The Best Way to rob a bank is to own one”.
This is related to enshittification in the sense of skewed and bad incentives: platforms are incentivized to make their experiences worse and more expensive because they are graded on things like time spend on platform – so let’s make everything less efficient and harder, but is worse because it is impossible for anyone in said platforms with half a brain, to not understand how fraud directly benefits said platforms.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 11 2025 16:17 utc | 419

Very useful. Thanks for posting.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 1:28 utc | 358

Thanks great interview!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 12:10 utc | 404

Glad you liked it. Amangeldy Yesenov has his own Telegram channel: RedKazakh.

Posted by: S | Nov 11 2025 16:18 utc | 420

c1ue | Nov 11 2025 16:06 utc | 456

The big winners of boomtowns were the owner of the gambling den, saloon, whorehouse. Often an all in one enterprise. Different time, different technology but the same thing. Sharks feeding on tadpoles.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 16:27 utc | 421

Some hope in Poland

‘Sovereignty is not for sale!’
Nationalists INCINERATE EU flag in Warsaw
Why would they do this? Don’t they want mass migration, climate taxes, and pride parades?

https://t.me/rtnews/120383

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 16:41 utc | 422

I’m putting S’s latest here as it is mainly al-qaeda’s white-house visit and a discussion that belongs on other topics
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/al-qaeda-in-the-oval-office-a-new

So the bogeyman is now welcome and the us thinks it made some good trades.

Let us dissect some of the issues.

One of the points that western media is pointing as a win is the autarky of RF and it’s main allies.

But in a moment where there is more than a slim chance that the western structure might collapse soon (as it did 1600 years ago (rome) and again 1600 years before that (most bronze age powers)) , that autarky is not a bug, but a feature.

Even the subsequent point about china’s energy surplus falls neatly into a question (being answered I would say) about what countries will endure a structural collapse of the current world order.

Thoughts?

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 11 2025 17:01 utc | 423

Thoughts? Posted by: Newbie | Nov 11 2025 17:01 utc | 435

Bin Laden in the white-house with Reagan.
The Russians and Chinese will be awake to what is happening.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 17:15 utc | 424

John Helmer discussed the White House visit and more, including the anniversary of the US Australian intervention known as ‘the Dismissal’, of which he reveals exclusive inside information. Superb analysis not to be missed.

DW: John Helmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCzc8JpFlg

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 17:28 utc | 425

Canuk
I’ve been thinking of trying to write my thoughts on something I looked into – within your area of expertise and perhaps interest. Will take a bit for me to write it so its readable.

Mineral deposits form in many different ways, magma intrusions, he alluvial or placer deposits and electrolysis in weathered zone. The electrolysis (I guess not the correct technical) – like electroplating, minerals are transported become concentrated at certain levels the chemically weathered zone.

I put in three or four months full time gold detecting, all alluvial stuff to see if I could make a living from it but was not well enough to put in the hours required. Made enough to pay for food and fuel, but not enough for longer term maintenance on the old landcruiser.

But opal is my thing, and that occurs within the mineralized zones in the weathered sediments. Through different weathering cycles, both acidic and alkaline, a number of different elements have concentrated in those zones. Always where sandstone meets clay, like two materials in a battery. Generally in relation to faults caused by uplifting pressure ridges in the basement rock fracturing the sediments that had hardened.

With opal, it seems many things have to come together. The initial sorting of sediments, the uplifting of the basement pressure ridges, then the right conditions for ion transfer similar to what occurs in electroplating.

Some anticlines produce opal, some do not. 95% of the worlds opal come from that sedimentary basin in Australia. Thinking about this stuff now is just a mental exercise for me, but back in 2000, if I knew what I knew now, I would have bought a drill. Was very tempted to at the time but simply did not know enough about the how where and why of its occurrence.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 17:54 utc | 426

Canada, Carney and Capitulation…

Anand Pushes Multilateralism as G7 Foreign Ministers Set to Meet in Niagara Region

https://nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/11/anand-pushes-multilateralism-as-g7-foreign-ministers-set-to-meet-in-niagara-region/

“Anand said she and Rubio agree…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 11 2025 17:57 utc | 427

Well, I’m not sure if events at the BBC have penetrated the bar – basically the DG and head of news had to resign because they faked some J6 report of a Trump speech. Trump is threatening to aue. A seemingly popular move as the BBC has its hated licence fee income and lots of nice sinecures for woke lefty luvvies and their administrators, right?
Well, not so fast, the truth is a bit thicker than that, and guess what, or who, is behind it?
Come on, you know who….
Office Hours: The Dark Truth Behind the COUP at the BBC
Every. Fucking. Time.
AA is on fire this week.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Nov 11 2025 18:29 utc | 428

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. Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 11 2025 14:05 utc | 403

Have been thinking about that a bit. I respect other cultures but live by the one I have grown up with.
As for aboriginal tucker, had a chance to try some lizard one time but did not. Should have. To cook a lizard, a long narrow trench is dug and coals placed in the bottom, then in goes the lizard. Then ashes and coals on top. From many videos and what I saw first hand, aboriginal food is well cooked and no parasites or microbes would survive.

Quite unlike the western yuppie stuff, basically seared raw meat. So many foody videos I see from the west – steak browned on the outside and blood red under the sear. Not my thing. And not the way the aboriginal people cooked their food either.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 19:11 utc | 429

DunGroanin
You managed to dredge up a few more memories. When camping, traveling, I always have some sort of grill. Not a greasy steel plate but a rack out of a fridge or expanded mesh or something of that nature. One day I went with dandy for some reason to the community he was from. Around lunch time or after we were getting a bit hungry so went around to his place to cook some rib bones. Aboriginal way of setting up a fire for a quick cookup is good. We threw on the grill and Dandy put the rib bones on and we sit there on the edge of the veranda talking watching the rib bones cook. I think Dandy had put them on so I thought I would see how he cooked them. So I’m watching the rib bones get blacker and blacker. After the ribs were well blackened, I asked Dandy if he reckoned they were done and he said yeah. The meat was blackened virtually to the bone but a bit of salt on the carbon and they were okay. It was only later I realized that because I was a whitey, he was waiting for me to say when they were done.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 11 2025 19:52 utc | 430

Re; Corruption in Big Tech:

around 15 years ago, the company I worked for started bidding on Google placement. It’s supposed to be an auction whereby companies bid to be the top result for certain key word searches. Our niche Industry is tiny with only 5 producers in the Americas, so we know the our competitors deeply.

Net, Net – it became obviously after 4 or so months of participating in the Google “auctions” that Google was shamelessly manipulating the “auction” to generate a big increase in payments to Google. Complete Shysters.
We stopped bidding. And the keyword search results didn’t change one bit, every years later.

Posted by: exile | Nov 11 2025 20:01 utc | 431

Posted by: QE2 | Nov 11 2025 21:43 utc | 445

*****

My goodness… Peter! You seem to have upset Queen Lilly – you naughty boy!

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 11 2025 22:17 utc | 432

@ QE2 | Nov 11 2025 21:39 utc | 444

Damn, Lavrov’s Jake Dog! You don’t even try to disguise your, umm, style, do you?

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 11 2025 22:54 utc | 433

I am waiting for a big blow up about this….from ZH

China Bars U.S. Military From Access To Rare Earths, Increasing Risk Of “Derailing” Trade Truce

China plans to ease exports of rare earths and other restricted materials to the U.S. through a “validated end-user” (VEU) system that would bar firms linked to the U.S. military while fast-tracking approvals for others, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
The VEU would let Xi Jinping honor his pledge to President Trump to facilitate exports while ensuring materials don’t reach military suppliers. If enforced strictly, the system could complicate imports for U.S. automotive and aerospace companies with both civilian and defense contracts. The plan remains subject to change, sources said.

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U.S. and European companies have reported reduced access to rare-earth magnets; Chinese exports to the U.S. fell 29% in September despite Beijing’s promises to relax curbs.

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Despite a recent U.S.-China agreement pausing some restrictions for a year, insiders say broader export controls remain in place. General licenses are expected to be harder to obtain for buyers linked to defense or sensitive sectors. Since April, EU firms have filed roughly 2,000 applications, with just over half approved.

This is not just about trade. This is a jackboot on the neck of the global military of the West

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 12 2025 0:01 utc | 434

I just had another look at the Turkish plane coming down
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1988239215297958384

I had thought it was smoke coming from each wingtip but looking at again, I wondered if that fuel rather than smoke. Still odd though both wing tanks would have ruptured only at the tips. Turns out the C-130 aircraft has the fuel dump nozzles in the wings and out from the engines and fuselage.
The pilot was dumping fuel on the way down.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 0:50 utc | 435

Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo🇺🇸🇷🇺 US calls for the removal of language condemning the “Russian occupation” of Crimea and new regions from the UN
“This is yet another example of Washington abandoning Ukraine’s core interests at a crucial moment for diplomacy” — European diplomat told Kyiv Post
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1988250922921623633

Just in the last few days, Jolani’s name was removed from the UN designated terrorist list. I wondered about that as it would require Russia’s agreement. Looks like Russia and US have done a deal regarding those two items at the UN.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 0:59 utc | 436

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 0:59 utc | 450

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Some like to complain that Putin works with leaders of poor character. I think the “concerns” reflect a naivete about high-level geopolitical matters.

Is Jolani a bigger murderer than Bibi? Than Trump? Than Zelensky?

But people lambast Putin for not sabotaging opportunities to “turn” a Western asset.

I don’t care if Jolani committed terrorism. Trying to get “justice” for past crimes is often a wild goose chase.

IMO, use Jolani now to advance Axis interests, or at least stall/stymie Western ambitions.

Again, being real. Jolani is a bad guy, but he’s no Erdogan, he’s no Bush, he’s no Tony Blair.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 12 2025 1:16 utc | 437

LoveDonbass | Nov 12 2025 1:16 utc | 451

Yes I also think similarly. Its the hypocrisy of the west I have contempt for. Bin Laden the freedom fighter in the whitehouse with Reagan, 9/11 and Bin Laden the terrorist and the fake American war on terror. al Jolani the terrorist head of al Qaeda, al Jolani the Syrian president.

The crap about democracy vs authoritarians. The unelected comic of Kiev, Jolani unelected. It just non stop hypocrisy coming from the west for the last decades yet a lot of people believe this rubbish.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 2:17 utc | 438

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 2:17 utc | 452
It’s quite insulting by those who notice. It’s like, “C’mon, show us some respect and keep the curtain down.” Like some nonce exposing themselves to a kid.
But that’s the puppet show of dermocracy for you.

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 12 2025 2:33 utc | 439

for the aussies in the audience, you might enjoy listening to the last 4 minutes of this interview with nima and john helmer on some of the history of austrailia politically speaking.. quite fascinating… john gilberts shared it earlier today @ 437 – thanks john!

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 4:14 utc | 440

‘2+2=5’: An Orwellian Newspeak Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61vALTJSGY

“Totalitarianism demands in fact the continuous alteration of the past and in the long run probably demands the disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.” – EB

This would also appear to be the aim and objective of ‘2+2=5’. How ‘Orwellian’.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 12 2025 4:17 utc | 441

‘2+2=5’: How ‘Orwellian’…(corrected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61vAlTJSGY

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 12 2025 4:20 utc | 442

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 11 2025 14:26 utc | 427

Interestingly, another C-130 (reg: 165000/ flight: Yanky72) had a similar mid-air breakup in 2017 over Mississippi. There is a wikipedia page for this accident.

The report says that an inner left prop blade detached and struck the fuselage, then causing a cascade of failures leading to breakup mid-air.

Curiously, the front end of the fuselage appears to have detached in a similar place in both incidents.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 12 2025 5:03 utc | 443

https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’
Vow Made To Hunt Down ‘Every Last One Of Those Shits’

WASHINGTON—Amid a series of sudden actions overhauling landmark federal conservation regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a public statement Friday warning monarch butterflies to “count your fucking days.”

EPA officials confirmed plans to roll back dozens of environmental protections for the vulnerable insect population, vowing to introduce new standards for decimating monarch habitats and saying they would take particular joy in dismantling rules that safeguard those “smug, spotted fucks.”

“Savor that nectar now, you sniveling moth pricks, because under this administration, you little shits are living on borrowed time,” said EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, who angrily raised a fist while insisting that the end was near for Danaus plexippus. “Let that be a warning to any of you fluttery dicks thinking of migrating back to the United States next year—there’s a target on your stupid orange wings, and I put it there.”……

…..The White House confirmed the far-reaching reform was part of a broader mission across the federal government to reverse protections of “jackass bugs, worthless fish, and other dumbass creatures,” ending what they referred to as an era of corruption in which President Barack Obama prioritized the survival of the “shimmering little numbskulls” above corporate interests.

Praising Zeldin and his team for “slashing through the red tape when it comes to bringing the hammer down on those wing-clapping fuckfaces,” President Donald Trump declared the initiative would usher in a new wave of innovation in American mass extinction events.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 12 2025 5:05 utc | 444

james | Nov 12 2025 4:14 utc | 454

That James. I watched that last segment on Australia and the dismisses. I have considered the Americanization of Australia began around 1980 so those two dismissals would have been very much the start of the Americanization process.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 5:27 utc | 445

~~That~~…. Thanks

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 5:34 utc | 446

From RT:

“TheUK has stopped sharing intelligence on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean with the US after the Pentagon began conducting lethal strikes on the vessels, CNN and The Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.”

I guess there are people who would believe that. 🙄

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 12 2025 11:41 utc | 447

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 | 386

Thank you too scents for the chart and article. Although, 87% of the world has been exiting the USD trade for 3+ years now, the various Vassals are likely to cling to USD long after its sell by date. My guess is there will be a fair amount of support for the USD in 2026 and possibly even into 2027.

I’m still holding to my forecast made in 2022 of the Federal Gov’t insolvency crisis in 2027.

Posted by: exile | Nov 12 2025 14:22 utc | 448

Yesterday I went up to Santa Fe. City of the Holy faith, Santa Fe –the Holy Faith of Saint Francis.

Yesterday I enetered the ninth circle. Of Hell.

Yesterday I thought I was going to paradise. It was past the end of the tourist season, Santa Fe ought to have been empty except for the natives. We should have had all our familiar haunts open to quiet recovery of sanity.

It was a mad place. All, all, all the rats were there. There was no room for anyone else. Where do the rats on a sinking ship which is the United States in a government shutdown go?

They come to Santa Fe. They stream down streets looking for one another. If they can’t get into the White House, they come to Santa Fe.

I came up on the train. It wasn’t excessively crowded, and I was fooled into thinking this would be an end of season delight. No, it was not that. But it fooled me completely. I had to be there – needed supplies and my son and I at least accomplished that. But even though we were early the restaurants were already crammed the parking lots full. Santa Fe is not built for this ; the streets are narrow and the restaurants were jammed packed crowded, waiters and servers frantically lifting plates high and clearing tables from the previous mad crowds. Everywhere, overflowingly streaming armslegsheads into not out of the poor bones of a destroyed sounding city ship.

Going down.

This is hell. Look at that White House photo of crazy laughing idiots – who are they? They are the demons who pleaded to leave the man who had contained them because they were legion they were crowded in they were suffocating – let us go into that herd of swine! More room! So they swarmed in, they swarmed into Santa Fe into all the ancient nooks and cranniues and see the pinion and juniper fields are being bulldozed for more apartments flattened into new circles of hell… But there’s no cliff, no lake, and it is full, full, full and getting fuller…..!!!!!

Look at that photo, government shutdown and inflow of headchoppers……..

They are all coming here, to the holy city that was. All the demons!!!!!!!!.

Nightmare!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:23 utc | 449

@ juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:23 utc | 463

i am sorry about your trip to santa fe… sounds like you are discouraging anyone from visiting as well.. it sounds like a bad dream you had, but i accept this was your experience.. i hope today is a better day for you! i am off to vancouver today... i hope it is different then your experience of santa fe yesterday..

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 15:29 utc | 450

@ Peter AU1 | Nov 12 2025 5:27 utc | 459

thanks peter.. i thought it was very interesting what helmer said and his relation to one of the people in the story too… he essentially says the australian political dynamic is heavily run out of the usa, or something like that..

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 15:30 utc | 451

Now I understand the Pushkin Poem:

Can’t be helped, the track is covered,
Hopeless! We have lost our way.
Demons must have taken over,
Whirling, twisting us astray.
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Look at them! They’re everywhere!
Hear the mournful tune they make!
What, a witch’s wedding fare?
Or a goblin’s gloomy wake?
[from “The Demons”
by Alexander Pushkin]

Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:31 utc | 452

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 15:29 utc | 464

james, don’t misunderstand me! I love Santa Fe. The bones of it are jawdroppingly beautiful — but right now in the circumstances it is the bottom of hell, just as is the White House. I can’t say otherwise! Where else are the rats to go? I mean, not any one individual person — the man in the Scriptural story is larger than an ordinary person – he’s like that corpse in ‘The Republic’ , bloated and dead. He needs to have all the demons leave and be human again!

They are all being driven out of the rest of the planet. It’s very clear! And there’s only the trickle of the Santa Fe River up there, no cliff , no lake. Well, I have a lake and the Rio Grande emptying in — plus the seventh largest earthen dam holding it back. … and sandhill cranes, lovely sounding birds, heading south. I will stay here for Thanksgiving. Winter is coming, the solstice will come, the sun will return.

That’s my vision, take it or leave it. I’m no Pushkin but he saw it for Russia back then and Dostoievski wrote it. All we have to do is read. And that photo of the laughing hyenas in the White House.

There it is.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:43 utc | 453

thanks juliania – yes, the water will hopefully return with winter… i know it really does here where i live…

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 15:49 utc | 454

Nightmare!
Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:23 utc | 463

There is a new family here in this rural neighborhood. They moved here last year from Montana. Apparently the tourists swarming into the National Parks there used their home city as base and departure point to enter the national parks. They found that made living there awful much of the year.

They were here in the area several summers ago for his work. They then went back home to Missoula and decided to make here home instead due to the tourist swarms. They purchased an old farmhouse and acreage to fix up. He works construction building homes. They have three young children, with twins on the way.

They are both first-generation Americans, he of Russian parentage and she of Ukrainian parentage. They met at an Orthodox gathering and are in their late twenties, early thirties. Nice family.

It is encouraging to see young people being so industrious, making their home a nice place to live, with gardens etc. — using their own labour creatively…

May your next grocery trip be more satisfying.
And may the hordes of demons find peace that there may be peace on earth

Posted by: suzan | Nov 12 2025 16:07 utc | 455

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCzc8JpFlg&t=1206s

Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 16:48 utc | 456

Juilianna,

are you familiar with the writings of J.B.Jackson ? He lived in Santa Fe, wrote about landscapes and city design. Born 1932.
https://placesjournal.org/author/j-b-jackson/?cn-reloaded=1

Posted by: Exile | Nov 12 2025 17:13 utc | 457

Nightmare!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 12 2025 15:23 utc | 463

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Amazon Forrest tribes feel the same way.

Indigenous Protesters Break Into Cop30 Compound ==> https://youtu.be/cKpret8q8WQ

Posted by: too scents | Nov 12 2025 17:32 utc | 458

Posted by: james | Nov 12 2025 4:14 utc | 454

Thank you, James.
I had not yet heard of Zelman Cowan, the CIA-sponsored replacement for John Kerr. Admittedly, he was Governor General when I was 5 to 10 years old.

Another thing to add to my ever-expanding list of subjects to read up on.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 12 2025 22:05 utc | 459

Juilianna, are you familiar with the writings of J.B.Jackson ? He lived in Santa Fe, wrote about landscapes and city design. Born 1932. https://placesjournal.org/author/j-b-jackson/?cn-reloaded=1
Posted by: Exile | Nov 12 2025 17:13 utc | 471

No, Exile; I am not. Thanks for the reference.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 0:43 utc | 460

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 0:43 utc | 474

For whatever reason, exile — I get ‘forbidden’. You will have to expand on whatever you were intending me to find. My own family experiences are sufficient to me for now. Time to return to patching my roof.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 0:47 utc | 461

Posted by: suzan | Nov 12 2025 16:07 utc | 469

Thanks, suzan ! I get the same encouraging signs from my own grandchildren. New Mexico continues to be my very favorite place to live, and it is certainly very true that places have a habit of changing from what they were when we first encountered them. My family home in New Zealand where my grandmother raised me – well when I returned on the trip I was dsecribing ten years after my parents and sister and I had our sojourn overseas — that magnificent homestead was gone and a Pizza Hut in its place! Probably that is the worst unsettlement of my own personal history — it happens!

Fortunately our memories remain and if anything, they deepen.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 13 2025 0:54 utc | 462

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