Much love to Herr b and the MoA community from Southern California.

Posted by: lex talionis | Dec 31 2025 17:11 utc | 3

I still have almost 15 hours before the new year here but HAPPY NEW YEAR b and fellow barflies.
 
The shit show continues until it doesn’t and I hope 2026 brings an end to the genocide and other trappings of barbarism that infect our world.
 
Peace!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 31 2025 17:12 utc | 5

En guete Rutsch!
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 31 2025 17:24 utc | 7

More Peace, indeed! May you enjoy Good Health, b!

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 31 2025 17:33 utc | 9

Same wishes for you. BUT, cant we just have a normal calm and BORING 2026? You known as a breather between chaos rounds??

Posted by: IcyR7 | Dec 31 2025 17:44 utc | 11

Happy New Year to all — and peace!

Posted by: Nervous German | Dec 31 2025 18:03 utc | 13

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Jake News covers Somalian fraud
hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqBm-HMTWqI
yer welcome

Posted by: ld | Dec 31 2025 18:07 utc | 15

My appreciation to B and the barflies who take the time to do the research. It’s a rare treasure these days. Warm wishes for a happy and healthy year!

Posted by: Tom Paine | Dec 31 2025 18:25 utc | 17

Happy New Year to everybody from me too, wishing for a good 2026 but not really convinced that it will happen.
 
Life is indeed better with MoA and I’m extremely grateful to B for this.

Posted by: Avtonom | Dec 31 2025 18:36 utc | 19

Happy New Year to B and all.  Let’s hope the run in Silver and Gold continue, and for Zionism to die a quick death. Cheers! 

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Dec 31 2025 18:50 utc | 21

ditto that!! thanks everyone for a great year at moa and here is hoping for a peaceful, fruitful and wonderful one in 2026 for everyone… thanks! 

Posted by: james | Dec 31 2025 18:57 utc | 23

Don’t want to harsh your mellow, but 2026 is going to be one hell of a ride as the global elite lash out at everyone and everything. War everywhere.

Posted by: AmericanIconoclast | Dec 31 2025 19:03 utc | 25

Happy New Year!
Some topical neuro-pics 
https://t.me/neurogenial/3333  https://t.me/neurogenial/3331

Posted by: Arioch | Dec 31 2025 19:10 utc | 27

Happy New Year to all Barflies. 
 
We’ll have an interesting 2026. 
 
JB

Posted by: Judge Barbier | Dec 31 2025 19:14 utc | 29

The US is swirling around the toilet bowl. happy new year or something.
 
Why Americans Are Losing Interest in Everything

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Dec 31 2025 19:37 utc | 31

Happy new year 🎉. 
 
I predict 2026 will be the year the AI trajectory goes exponential. 
 
So, knock a rum back down, maybe imbibe some ‘erb or whatever your vice, or none!
 
Tomorrow, the only limit to AI will be your imagination.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cn4D3UvZllw

Posted by: lachaussette | Dec 31 2025 19:42 utc | 33

A happy new year to one and all, and may your new year resoluions last longer than they did last year.

Posted by: Stonebird | Dec 31 2025 19:58 utc | 35

A happy new year to you b and the bar flies. And may the next year be more just and more peaceful.

Posted by: xor | Dec 31 2025 20:13 utc | 37

Peace and tranquillity in the new year everyone. Peace in Gaza. Thanks b.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 31 2025 20:28 utc | 39

A safe, healthy and mind prosperous 2026 to you too B, and all at MOA for 2026.Posted by: Menz | Dec 31 2025 20:18 utc | 38
All the best Menz.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 31 2025 20:33 utc | 41

Love and Peace to you, b.
Happy New Year to all MOA contributors.

Posted by: Engineer John | Dec 31 2025 20:40 utc | 43

lex talionis | Dec 31 2025 19:41 utc | 32
I noticed. 😎thanks for the chortle 🥃
—-
It’s raining!!! So 2026 is already great. Rain is always a good thing. Garden desperately needs it.🌻
I’m off to 🦮. He wants a swim, hot or not.
 
Barflies, enjoy the few hours of bonhomie.
I have trepidation for the year ahead.
I am watching what’s happening with silver…… seems it’s a fore-runner of some serious unraveling in the global monetary ponzi.
(I hope this passing remark doesn’t summon the Ghost of Sun of Alabama…😡)
 
And thank you b.
I am so extremely grateful this website exists.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 31 2025 21:04 utc | 45

b and friends of MoA, greetings and a very happy 2026. I’d like to know who writes Putin’s speeches! President Putin’s Happy New Year message to Russian citizens sounds more like a divine blessing. Check it out on RT or Sputnik.

Posted by: Elber | Dec 31 2025 21:30 utc | 47

Happy new years. 
Silver apparently hits $130 in Tokyo, a taste of what’s to come.
 
https://x.com/DebraG_Robins/status/2006487672051871893

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 31 2025 22:11 utc | 49

Happy New Year everyone, and especially b……proprietor of the Eclectic Electric MOA Bar……..and grilled!
 
Cheers everyone……Prayers for Palestine!
 
This is what happens when you give a Welshman, a Frenchman, an Irishman and an Englishman some instruments and a sidewalk…….spreading the love.
 
https://youtu.be/fPVQsVG91Jc?si=4S4uD6jlht_5983n

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 31 2025 22:27 utc | 51

I am actually looking for an opportunity to “go short” silver.

Posted by: WMG | Dec 31 2025 22:35 utc | 53

It’s 2026 in Most of the World: Putin Greets it in Russia

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 31 2025 22:55 utc | 55

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a New Year Address to ring in 2026, reviewing the country’s achievements in 2025 and extending New Year wishes for the coming year.

Posted by: Oui | Dec 31 2025 23:28 utc | 57

Far,  far to the south of where I live,  a few days ago — thanks to a benefactor who loved my son, we lowered him into the ground, we — my remaining sons and daughters plus the grandchildren and spouses — in a natural setting that would take anyone’s breath away, prairie and mountains as far in all directions as the eye could see,  with long, long freight trains rumbling quietly  in the distance, the only moving things beside the moon itself rising behind the eastern mountains in a clear blue sky.
 
The new year has a lot to live up to:  these last days of the last have been so tranquil and beautiful for me and my family, thanks in great part to kind wishes from this community.   
 
Happy New Year to all dear folk here and to b our beneficent host!!

Posted by: juliania | Dec 31 2025 23:37 utc | 59

Best wishes to you all, let us hope and work towards a better future. 
 
 

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot.

 
 
Happy New Year!

Posted by: jonku | Dec 31 2025 23:52 utc | 61

@B and Barflies:
 
Keep it going. You’re doing great work. Have faith in yourselves. 
 
And @ jonku: great, great pick for a theme for 2026. Move those Overton Windows! Puuuuuullllll!!
 
🙂
 

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 1 2026 0:04 utc | 63

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 31 2025 22:39 utc | 54
Have a happy authoritarian and dystopic New Year!

A very cynical attitude George, but I do not disagree with you.

 Rater than rabbit on with best wishes for2026 and other stock drivel,. I will simply say  “may we all survive as best we can over the coming years”.
 
I strongly suspect that  whey passes for civilisation on this little planet is approaching a defining tipping point.
 

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 1 2026 0:19 utc | 65

To your good health, barfly; to the safety, peace, and restoration in Palestine; to the “saver” in the west who knows that whatever hellscape comes in the form of economic collapse that it would still be better than living in this current “squeeze” under the greatest and most-organized force of evil in the history of the world; to the Russian seeking to protect its bride from the west’s iteration of prima noctis; to the Iranians and other refuseniks who don’t want to live under the boot of Pax Judaica; to the Chinese that they may have the courage to seek out old ways and be content to look inward, just as the Tao Te Ching lays out in chapter LXXX:
 

Reduce the size and population of the state. Ensure that even though the peoplehave tools of war for a troop or a battalion they will not use them; and alsothat they will be reluctant to move to distant places because they look on deathas no light matter.
Even when they have ships and carts, they will have no use for them; and evenwhen they have armour and weapons, they will have no occasion to make a show ofthem.
Bring it about that the people will return to the use of the knotted rope,Will find relish in their food,And beauty in their clothes,Will be content in their abode,And happy in the way they live.
Though adjoining states are within sight of one another, and the sound of dogsbarking and cocks crowing in one state can be heard in another, yet the peopleof one state will grow old and die without having had any dealings with those ofanother.D.C. Lau

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 1 2026 1:22 utc | 67

Let us all hope for the best but prepare as best we can for the worst. Thank you b for this site, and a happy and healthy 2026 to everyone here. 

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 1 2026 1:41 utc | 69

A lovely (unseasonably) cool NYD in Sydney, around 20C, overcast, with a bracing breeze from the south. Too much pale ale and too many bratwurst, but hell it might be my last NYE.
 
A bright and hopeful 2026 to all from Sydney. Px

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 1 2026 1:43 utc | 71

@72 Patroklos
 
Lol, no sarcasm I just missed the connection with the name of the site.  Chalk it up to momentary dullness. 

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 1 2026 1:47 utc | 73

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zVZ9gJbYQPI&si=LejqB1wOUn9tMmBj
Bad news from Yanis Varoufakis.

Posted by: stefan | Jan 1 2026 1:52 utc | 75

@75 ehh AI doppelganger slop.  I doubt that has anything to do with Yanis.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 1 2026 1:56 utc | 77

@ Neofeudalfuture | Jan 1 2026 1:56 utc | 77 who says the Yanis video is AI slop……how can you tell?
 
I fell for it if true

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 1 2026 2:24 utc | 79

Happy new year, b and all.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 1 2026 2:40 utc | 81

Happy Ny to B and barflies. This is the best place in the world at the moment. Keep on discussing in the future, no matter we are in agreement or not.

Posted by: Tanger | Jan 1 2026 2:45 utc | 83

Burp. Pardon me, late here in London, fireworks still! The good kind…
 
HNY b, best bar on Interweb. 
Muchos Kudos 🙏
 
To the rest of the barflies – Good, Bad, Ugly!
 
Long and the Short and The Tall!
 
 
There are other versions, (do your own research) I’ll go with…
 
 
Bless `Em All – George Formby
Bless `Em All – George Formby
 
 
Bless you ALL. HNY

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 1 2026 2:52 utc | 85

How  about my last comment going to
Menz | Jan 1 2026 2:49 utc | 84

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 1 2026 2:56 utc | 87

NemesisCalling @ 67
 
“Reduce the size and population of the state.”
 
Yeah, nice to know that the ancient Chinese too were calling out for de-population measures even prior to mass manslaughter initiated by chairmans mao and deng.
 
Hate to be a wet blanket but you do realise that not only is chyna now having a massive problem with rapidly-aging populace and seriously low birth-rates, their ‘bff’ russia too is witnessing shortage of manpower for the fronts: so much so ivan has to lure young desperate men from various cesspools – socialist and moslem – in the “global south” to fill their ranks with hopes of citizenship and a pittance in rubles.
 
I reckon these sh*tbrics simply shall have no chance against the “empire of evil”.
 
(All planned beforehand?)
 
Anyways, to your health. 

Posted by: YY | Jan 1 2026 3:15 utc | 89

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 1 2026 0:19 utc | 65
 
I remember when it was the turn of the new Millennium in 2000 when there was great hope for a new century and world peace (maybe). It didn’t take long for George W. Bush and his Zionist neocons to put an end to that and we’ll never be certain about who was really responsible for 9/11 either.
 
So I just take a realistic stance on what a New Year or Christmas can possibly can portend, despite the collective merriment such days encourage in many people. Personally I think it may be hundreds or thousands of years to see any real change. Like the swallows that live in caves, eventually over many centuries the surface of the cave walls becomes smooth and polished due to the flapping of their wings.
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 1 2026 3:52 utc | 91

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 1 2026 3:52 utc | 91
It’s going to be a total disaster.  Yay!  ftw

Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 1 2026 3:58 utc | 93

Posted by: lex talionis | Jan 1 2026 3:58 utc | 93
 
Who knows? I remain in neutral. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 1 2026 4:31 utc | 95

@ psychohistorian | Jan 1 2026 2:24 utc | 79
Alexander Mercouris apologized on Monday for being duped by a Yanis Varoufakis AI generated video, the content of which he relied on for analysis on Saturday.
 
~~
 
Pepe Escobar wrote recently on this fad of AI-generated videos.
Excerpt:
 
 
There are several channels on YouTube manipulated by A.I., stealing the image and voice by some of us, independent political analysts. A not-extensive list includes as targets John Mearsheimer, Larry Johnson, Richard Wolff, Glenn Diesen, Yanis Varoufakis, economist Paulo Nogueira Batista and myself.
 
It’s not an accident that all of us are independent geopolitical and geoeconomic analysts, mostly know each other personally, and are guests in roughly the same podcasts…
 
In all cases, as far as we, the targets are concerned, all these channels are fake. I repeat: all these channels are fake. They may at least in some cases be set up by “fans” – certainly with an eye for profit via monetization.
 
Or the whole scam may be part of something way more sinister: a strategy bent of loss of credibility. As in an operation by the usual suspects to sow confusion amongst the – large – audience of several independent thinkers…
 
 
Cracking the code of the scam
 
Quantum Bird, a physics and HPC (High Performance Computing) expert, formerly with the CERN in Geneva, has cracked the code of the scam:
 

“The proliferation of agents of deep learning digital neural networks capable of emulating writing, voice and video of human beings was inevitable, and their impact on scientific research, production of knowledge and art in general has a negative potential that has not been yet fully analyzed.”

 
He adds:
 

“While writers and academics are detailing the springing up of texts attributed to them, and replicating to a certain extent their style and opinions, the latest fad is the blooming of whole channels on YouTube, and other notorious Big Tech platforms, that offer videos of popular content producers, communicating in their native language or other languages. In several cases, the quality of this synthesized material is sufficiently high not to allow immediate identification by an average viewer. In the context of the political analysis community, the impact is obvious: historic revisionism, erosion of reputations and distortion of news and analysis.”

 
And here Quantum Bird lays out the tech clincher:
 

“The synthetization of this type of content requires the availability of abundant samples and massive computational capacity, way beyond the reach of domestic users. While the popularity of the YouTube victims guarantees the first condition, the second one suggests the activity of large-scale state or corporate actors, since advanced deep learning models must be developed and trained by processing a huge quantity, in terms of “disk space”, of audio and video. The monetization of the content does not cover the costs of this operation. Ironically, it’s the availability and the excess exposure of voice and video online that allows this type of attack.”

 
 
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/12/29/how-political-analysis-became-target-ai-fakes/
 
~~
 
 
Capitalism & Genocide: My testimony at the Gaza Tribunal, Istanbul 23-10-2025
Yanis Varoufakis
 
 
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/10/24/capitalism-genocide-my-testimony-at-the-gaza-tribunal-istanbul-23-10-2025/

Posted by: suzan | Jan 1 2026 4:45 utc | 97

@ YY 89
 
Thx for the comment. Happy New Year!  
 
The first part of Chap LXXX may have been translated by Lau to read “Reduce the population,” but no where else in the Tao Te Ching is there such a reference to a specific and heavy-handed restriction (indeed, culling even) on the people. This leads me to probably favor other translations for this chapter, although overall I have always like D.C. Lau’s. However, when reading Lau’s version, my mind did not immediately go the violent/culling-route; rather, I thought he was maybe talking about the size of the state, meaning its layers of bureaucracy. To coincide with this thought, in another chapter, Lau interprets “The more laws, the more criminals.”
 
This is more or less in line with my current thought about the west and such asinine notions as “full employment” and “replacement labor.” Stupid technocratic concepts imo and the wrong path for the state to follow. 

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 1 2026 4:59 utc | 99