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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-266
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
Gaza:
Europe:
Economy:
China:
Syria:
- Syria comes in from the cold – Indian Punchline
- > Syrian presidency dismissed reports that President al-Sharaa had cooperated with Western intelligence services since 2016 to eliminate al-Qaeda and ISIS. Al-Sharaa was Abu Mohammad al-Joulani — an ISIS emir who later became al-Qaeda’s Emir in the Levant. < – Elijah Magnier
- > Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister (formerly the head of MİT intelligence) announced publicly about HTS as: “We’ve had excellent cooperation on sharing intelligence to fight against especially DAESH leadership. They helped us a lot, but because of the sensitivities…” < – Husaan Hamoud
Miscellaneous:
- The vampires feed on us when we’re alone – Nefarious Russians
This parasocial technology took over from where television left off and pushed society even more radically into an atomized configuration.
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
The so-called Epstein Files are as chimerical as that long-ago nonexistent pee tape which VVP supposedly had in his possession. Recall how the legacy media, which serves at the pleasure of Permanent Washington, swarmed all over the assertion that VVP was controlling DJT from the Kremlin on account of this damaging tidbit of kompromat. Never-Trumpers picked up the thread. Former intel Major Players like John Brennan and James Clapper became fixtures on the Sunday News shows, speculating about the ways VVP was blackmailing DJT.
Ditto the dynamic right now w/ the so-called Epstein Files.
From a nytimes op-ed: “What unrevealed details make DJT so intent on preventing further disclosures from the Epstein Files-?”
As w/ the Russiagate allegations, circa 2016-2019, the more DJT objected to the ecosystem of accusations that was derailing his presidency, the more the media & pundits insisted that DJT’s protestations in themselves were damning—-the behavior of a guilty man—and the Hoax Industrial Complex was born.
Stephen A. Smith, the sports writer, ubiquitous jack-of-all-trades front-man for ESPN and cultural commentator, is noticing this media feeding-frenzy, and he is skeptical. Here’s Stephen A. on his podcast: “Ladies and gentleman, the Biden administration was free to open the Epstein Files at any time, if the Files even exist. Biden was there for four years. The Dems did not release the Epstein Files. What am I missing-? From my understanding Epstein material is being publicized right now, 23,000 documents, with various emails that could have come to light when Biden was in office. Well, why didn’t the Dems do it then if the Files are so important now-?”
If the Files even exist, Stephen A. said.
Like w/ the purported pee tape, which turned out to be fabricated, the Epstein Files have a powerful hold on the imagination simply because it’s not possible exactly to verify what they allegedly conceal and it’s not possible to judge when we have had enough of the information contained in the Files to say that we have even examined the Epstein Files.
The disgraced financier’s estate released 23,000 documents this past week to the House Oversight Committee, 100% of which have been published for public scrutiny. But these documents don’t seem to be the actual Epstein Files, because Congress is poised in this coming week to pass legislation forcing the White House to release the Epstein Files.
Two court trials associated w/ Epstein have already occurred, one convicting him of charges related to prostitution and one convicting Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges, and the proceeds of those trials are part of the public record. But it’s like that information was not Epstein enough.
And the 23,000 documents released this week seem not to have been Epstein enough.
If we each hold the Epstein Files in our hands, able to turn at will to whatever page we wish and read what is written there, will we believe that we finally have the actual Epstein Files and not just some cheap bamboozling knock-off, the Readers Digest version-? Or will we be left w/ the gnawing impossible-to-ignore sensation of never having gotten close enough to the real thing-?
Coda:
Epstein was not only a predator: he was a successful financier and Democratic Party fundraiser, as well as a Mossad agent for Israel. Merely hanging around Epstein or flying on his plane or visiting his island is not proof of being a co-pedophile. People named in the files as actually having had sex w/ minors could deny the veracity of the accusations, and then it would become a matter of building a prosecutable case based on hearsay. Very difficult to prove.
Guilt-by-accusation is not guilt.
There is a compulsion to find someone other than Epstein to blame, investigate, convict and imprison over these appalling crimes. Ghislaine Maxwell is on ice, serving a 20-year prison sentence, but that is not enough. Epstein himself appears to have escaped justice via death, so that leaves matters unresolved.
It is hard to know when we will reach Peak Epstein, when we will have consumed a sufficient quantity of Epstein ephemera finally to be able to say that we are Epstein Sated, but I think we all realize that that will not happen in this current media environment until DJT is implicated.
While Republicans in favor of releasing the so-called Epstein Files often cite their strong Christian faith alongside a belief in a hidden pedophile network of global elites connected to Israeli blackmail operations, Democrats seem mainly desirous of undermining DJT’s presidency.
Calls for the White House to release the so-called Epstein files fail to consider the role judges play in keeping the files sealed. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ asked a federal judge in Florida to unseal the grand jury material from Epstein’s 2008 criminal case, and on 23 July 2025 the judge refused. Bondi and the DOJ also asked two federal judges in New York to release the grand jury documents which led to the charges against Epstein in the 2019 case, and on 20 August 2025 both judges refused.
The Supreme Court could conceivably overturn the actions of these lower-court judges, but I can believe SCOTUS will not rush to take this case.
Which means we’ll be left in a state of suspended animation, Epstein-wise, unable to move forward until an authority assures us that we really really do know all there is to know: there is nothing more. Until that time we’re like the audience watching a horror flick, both wanting to see the monster but not really wanting to see the monster, because seeing the monster in a movie is always pretty deflating: our imaginations have soared to such impossible heights the real thing always disappoints.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 16 2025 14:43 utc | 12
Fantastic article at Unz on the European migrant crisis, The Genocide of Native Europeans.
Some great excerpts:
On the subject of the term genocide:
The word “genocide” — derived from the Greek genos, translatable as race, tribe, or kin — was coined in the 1940s by the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin. He was the initiator of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the United Nations in 1948, commonly known as the Genocide Convention. Lemkin stressed that his neologism was not meant to refer only to the systematic murder of all members of a group, but also to setting up conditions incompatible with long-term group survival. The Genocide Convention includes in its definition “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” and provides for punishment not merely of state actors but of all who publicly incite or are complicit in genocide.
Misguided idealism or plan to weaken the power of the lower classes?:
Ongoing immigration of non-Europeans is obviously not compatible with these principles. Mass immigration gives rise to ethnic conflicts likely to lead to war; it threatens the identities of nations; and it will eliminate national self-determination as soon as the political alliance between immigrants and disloyal native Europeans (commonly called “the Left”) outnumbers those who support national and cultural survival.
“We can’t do anything about it.” Sounds like it came from the Borg on Star Trek:
Many who favor mass immigration don’t even bother to argue for it. Instead of trying to convince people it will be beneficial — by now a nearly impossible task — they assert that it is inevitable. As Myron Weiner and Michael Teitelbaum explain in their book Political Demography, Demographic Engineering (2001), these advocates “prefer to describe international migration as an inexorable process, driven by hugely powerful economic, demographic, and social forces that overwhelm any efforts by government to affect them — a kind of human tectonics.”
I am sure many here who read posts like me would like to dismiss them as the workings of a racist, unevolved mind. I will admit that this question is intensely difficult for self-describing Christians such as myself to work out or justify.
Until, that is, you come to the last thought on the subject: TPTB understand that race and culture go a long ways in advancing spirit towards freedom. This effort has always been done by westerners (with apologies to eastern philosophy which I also intensely admire; though, if I am to come to the hard decision of what must be done, I need to shelve such notions of universality as a blanket framework for world governance). So, it brute power is to be held onto indefinitely, this means annihilating the cultural heritage of the Greeks, the Roman Catholic Church, the Magna Carta, the American Revolution, etc..
Or, at the very least, creating scapegoats in the form of burgeoning minority populations that will serve in the future to take the heat off the elites during violent civil strife.
From a Christian standpoint, then, we can understand that unfettered third world immigration will encourage violence in the future, and, furthermore, this violence will be in large part leveled at the useful idiots of TPTB and not they themselves that engendered to cause this strife.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 16 2025 18:15 utc | 53
On AI
The article posted by our esteemed host points in the right direction but the critique is insufficient. The analysis from the POV of continental philosophy and critical theory awaits. Matteo Pasquinelli’s recent book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence is a great start. The history is often lacking in analysis since technology is heavily freighted with historical forms of thought so Matteo Pasquinelli’s book is timely. To some extent there is another relationship between form and content that operates historically too: capitalism embeds all its technological innovation with its Protestant morality. The manipulation of images and content has motives with a long past—in the caves of Lascaux the painted images function cinematically (illuminated by flickering flames, smoke and half-darkness) in order to summon an ideal scenario of the relationship between hunter and prey. For us, since the secularisation of Protestantism in the late 18th century (which is, in turn, simply the transformation of the ascetic life into a code for everyday life), all interventions by humans into the world have been inhabited by this dual logic of material control and efficiency: God hates the body and waste… and he hates sociality. The social on the other hand is entirely material and laughs at efficiency: as Aristotle tells us in the Politics human beings realise their being-as-humans in living and sharing life together. Language, for example, is only possible and meaningful in sociality. The legacy of Mediterranean life since antiquity is the pursuit of a ‘good life’, which, for a great materialist like Epicurus, is an eminently simple matter: shelter, good food, a garden, some books, and, above all, friends to share it all with. It may sound ascetic but is far from it, because it understands that the form of the human realises itself in friendship. Now, this friendship is not reified nor is it an ideal; it begins with the practical recognition of oneself in the other (again Aristotle: ‘a friend is another self’), which means that friendship is a leap out of sameness and selfhood, a renunciation of the autistic tendency to reify consciousness to the exclusion of the world (remembering that αὐτός means both ‘same’ and ‘self’ in Greek). To be a friend is to abandon metaphysical identity and embrace social identity; to that extent in friendship our humanity reaches out for its greatest possibilities. This cannot happen in isolation: solidarity and identification with the other must happen materially—bodies in space, sitting around a table, laughing, drinking coffee, playing games, swapping stories around the fire, cooking and eating together, in a million little rituals of social formation that allow us to forget ourselves to become part of something larger, a group expressed in commonality. And it is all distilled out of our capacity for excess: what the Protestant calls wasted time is the very basis of friendship—hanging out, talking shit, playing games, making music, joking around, ostensibly ‘doing nothing’ while in fact ‘being everything’. This is what capitalism hates, and why AI is the great enemy of humanity, because in this sociality we thumb our nose at usefulness, efficiency, saving time and money, actions that do nothing except subvert the logic of capital (what greater joy is there in the smiles and laughter of friends?). For these retards like Zuckerberg and Musk, whose autism has been elevated to a virtue, nothing is more offensive than this humanity from which they have been exiled. One only needs to recall the pure play of children who can make up worlds together in their imagination to realise the banal coma the online scenario holds out…
Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 16 2025 19:46 utc | 73
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