Sean Foo: ‘US Begins Unthinkable Money Printing’
 
https://www.youtube.com/live/4JZ2Xz8uDw4
 
“USD collapses as great melt-up accelerates.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 11 2025 18:55 utc | 4

Via a boat? Did it have 4 motors?

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Dec 11 2025 19:01 utc | 6

I saw a youtube viddy with a guy claiming the Final Destination of the Tesla Cyber Truck is to be used as USM target practice.  He was talking about how insane it is already that when people imagine traveling from, for example, Phoenix to Tucson, they dream of a Cyber Truck and not a goddam train ride. Cuz cars=freedom, and Musk cars = more freedom, cuz he’s a libertarian.
 
But at the end of the video, which I can’t find, the guy gave the advice that instead of “helping the planet” by buying Musk, use this website to decide which philanthropy to support!
 
https://www.givewell.org/about/people
 
a great resource if you want to know what value bankers and lawyers and managers place on a kid getting a malaria shot: $148. 
 
The same financial geniuses who brought us Tesla, now the AI bubble, crypto bubble, tech bubble, housing bubble, etc, in the 1st place. These ngos, non-profits, “civil society” orgs, above all the church, have one message:
Be the Trickle You Want to See!
Be all the trickle you can be! 
 
anything more is of the commie devil.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 11 2025 19:03 utc | 8

Not political just kinda fun.
 
Carl Zha (@CarlZha): “Can your F35 do this? Chinese J20 toy” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 11 2025 19:27 utc | 10

A wee update on the US Terrorist States regime change in Nepal.
 
“How the US achieved regime change in Nepal, whose leaders had become “too friendly” with China TLDR SUMMARY: The US spent more than a million dollars in Nepal recently, specifically a) training journalists to accuse the govt of corruption; and b) training Gen-Z youth in political activism. The aim: regime change, after Nepal’s leaders said they wanted to follow China’s independent internet model, having seen the global success of Tiktok and other Chinese apps. Regime change was achieved. . A CRACK IN THE ARMOUR IN 2023, STRATEGISTS IN WASHINGTON DC spotted a worrying problem in Asia. A small nation, Nepal, wanted internet independence, like China had. The US used to sneer at what they called “China’s great firewall”, portraying it as a negative factor. But it was obvious by 2023 that such a view was a huge mistake.
 
By having its own internet, China had developed a large, thriving web ecosystem for commerce and information. And the apps the Chinese system produced were so good that they took over the world. TikTok beat its US rivals, Aliexpress sold twice as many goods as Amazon, Shein quickly became the world’s top fashion seller, and Temu was the hottest thing on the net. The Chinese firewall, rather than being a bad thing, was a massive advantage. The Europeans, in shock, realized the truth of this, too, but they were too late to do anything about it. Nepal was not too late. It wanted to follow the Chinese model—and were soon joined by Cambodia and Pakistan, who wanted to do the same. The US was horrified, and started distributing articles saying this was a terrible idea, such as one published on December 1, 2023: “Nepal Has a Lot to Gain from the Open, Global Internet.
 
So Why Is the Country Closing the Doors on It?” . ENTER THE N.E.D When Nepal refused to stop learning from China, the National Endowment for Democracy stepped up operations. In Nepal last year, NED operatives circulated reports, organized roundtable discussions and held briefings, all with one message: China is the enemy, the US is your friend. At the same time, US operatives organized sessions to train Nepalese reporters “to expose corruption and abuse of authority”. In a third operation, NED staff trained Gen-Z youth in political activism. All in all the NED, by itself, spent about 1.6 million US dollars stirring up activism in Nepal last year—a lot of money in that country. So far, so predictable. But what made this particular US operation special was the focus on technology and communications.
 
. ALL CHINA’S FAULT To ramp up the operation, the NED in February this year circulated a long and unintentionally hilarious report called “Data-Centric Authoritarianism” which purported to show “How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression”. In an astonishing feat of logical contortion, this 41-page report argued that it was a terrible idea for a country to have a sovereign internet system, free and independent of US domination. It would mean “a win for China”. “Pakistan, Nepal, and Cambodia, pursuing internet gateways that will funnel all international internet traffic through a government-controlled chokepoint, is a win for China,” the NED report said. “These moves enhance China’s prestige, positioning the once-unique ‘Great Firewall’ as a potential model for other countries worldwide.” The US was worried. If nations controlled their own information spaces, this would crash Washington’s all-encompassing grip over the global narrative. . BABY STEPS Nepal pressed ahead with the tiniest of baby steps. Earlier this year, it simply asked all social media websites to register with the Nepali government. The websites had to name a local contact, an authorized person to handle grievances, and a person responsible for self-regulation, by September 3. But here’s where things went odd. TikTok, which has a Chinese parent, was happy to sign up, as did an app called We-Talk, and one called Viber, from an Israeli company.
 
But the US apps, such as Facebook, Whatsapp and Linked in, refused to obey. The Nepalese government had no choice but to follow through on what it had said by halting them. That was when it became clear that a segment of Nepalese young people turned out to be Gen-Z youth which persons unknown had trained in political activism–and they hit the streets. . TRAGIC RESULTS In the ensuing chaos, lives were lost, property was destroyed, and the cost to Nepal, a poor country, has been enormous, reputationally and financially. It’s been tragic. But think about this. The call for protests came from the media sector—the sector trained by the NED to focus on anti-government articles. Is that a coincidence? The theme of the protests was “to expose corruption and abuse of authority”, exactly the theme NED suggested. But that may also be just a coincidence. The main participants were Gen-Z youth, the group NED had been training for political activism. That could be a coincidence too, in theory. And allegations are circulating saying that trouble is China’s fault, just as the series of 2024 briefings had suggested.
 
. WESTERN NARRATIVE WINS AGAIN This story has a sad ending. The Nepalese wanted an internet system of their own, so they could develop their own apps, keep foreign interference, out and have a measure of web independence. This would have been good for the people, especially creative young Gen-Z people in Nepal, who could create their own apps for their own market. Instead, they are stuck as a tiny subsidiary of the US system, locked into the western narrative. For example, going around people’s phones right now is a New York Times report titled “The Forces Behind Nepal’s Explosive Gen Z Protests”. It talks about govt corruption and Gen-Z activism, as if the NED itself had dictated the article. And it chooses not to mention any of the elements I’ve just told you about. Not one.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 11 2025 19:39 utc | 12

I take it –  Normal must equal white.
 
“Karoline Leavitt: “President Trump is not a racist. He doesn’t care if you’re black, brown, yellow or normal.””
 
Leavitt, is:
 
“An American political spokesperson who has served since 2025 as the 36th White House press secretary under the second Trump administration.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 11 2025 19:46 utc | 14

The US Terrorist State’s leader makes more threats – watch the short vid of him saying it.
 
Trump – Colombia will be next after Venezuela.
 
Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein): “BREAKING: Trump just threatened the President of Columbia. “He’ll be next”. “I Hope he’s listening, he’ll be next”.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 11 2025 19:58 utc | 16

Got to love the Duran’s newest headline:
 
“Pirates of the Caribbean”
 
Replete with pictures of Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio. 
 
Arrrrrrrh! Where’ s me parrot ! Where’s me liquid gold (oil) dabloons! Arrrrh!

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 11 2025 21:51 utc | 18

Lula ‘s support but remembering the BRICs veto… Maduro accepting to bow to lula so he doesn’t bow to trump?
 
https://tass.com/world/2057511
 
P.S. and brazil’s parliament comitee refused to ratify the no nukes treaty

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 11 2025 22:05 utc | 20

A paradigm I am thinking about…
 
America, as seen in the national security statements, is trying to do what the UK did as its power faded. America will hand out assignments to Japan and Western Europe to continue pursuing their Imperial ambitions while they feign a retreat.
 
The Western colonial Capitalist Talmudic machine is supranational and can be headquartered anywhere in the West. America is not important. Trump is not important. Those are abstractions that serve the Empire’s public perception needs.
 
With Britain in retreat in the early 20th century, they handed the baton to the Americans, and now that America is forced into retreat by China, Russia, and Iran. They are looking to keep their agenda going via proxies as they play dumb and quiet in the background.
 
Nothing tangible is going to change with America leading that global evolution. Change will happen, but much of it will occur on the Axis’ timeline and to the Axis’ vision.
 
The West has been trying for centuries to use West Asia as a transportation node between East and West. The conflict at this time is primarily over MENA (Middle East North Africa) and is being contested by Russia, China, and Iran in the east. Think Abraham Accords (quasi-legal framework), bombing Somalia, UAE stealing African gold from Sudan.
 
What the West wants is to leverage cheaper labor and access to resources (affordably via neo-colonialism) that are absent in the West.
 
Russia and China are sabotaging this strategy by raising labor prices in the global south through infrastructure investment, which was previously unavailable under colonialism.
 
Gaza is not just about psychopathic Zionists; it is about hegemonic maritime control of the world, which has been the game for centuries, and was previously centered around the Suez, but soon the Ben Gurion canal, which is the necessity for Greater Israel, which cedes absolute control of this key “hinge” to the West.
 
Russia (and China) have an ace up their sleeves with the development of the Arctic sea transportation route. Russia has already produced a lot of new Arctic maritime law, much of which presupposes that Russia will control the whole shebang.
 
Everything we see vis-à-vis Japan, Ukraine, and Palestine/Lebanon all play into this “big picture”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 0:44 utc | 22

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 0:48 utc | 24
 
A billionaires paradise state strongly defended by US and other Western weapons where they can act out their neofeudalism with impunity and expand take further territory from the serfs and keep them as an untermensch working class. I wonder how many Epstein – like cells around the world there are to facilitate this dream?

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 12 2025 1:14 utc | 24

And in an “anti-DEI” move, Little Marco has banned the use of the Calibri font.
https://gizmodo.com/marco-rubio-orders-state-dept-to-stop-using-calibri-font-in-anti-dei-push-2000698012
Because nothing says “woke” more than your choice of font (frankly I think that font sucks, but this is full-on clown show).
As the Empire crumbles.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 10 2025 21:26 utc | 136

The news itself was rather unremarkable to me, as I don’t use Calibri, its open-source substitute Carlito or any office suite that sets it as default – I use LibreOffice which has a proper serif face like Liberation Sans (metrically-compatible with TNR).My beef with Calibri is, it’s one of those typefaces where the 1 has a base (serifs*) on the bottom (and what that’s doing in a sans-serif in the first place is another question), but the tiny 1s in characters like fraction symbols omit the serifs. I like my fonts to have consistent letterforms, and this is why Roboto is one of my favorite typefaces despite being made by Google. To be fair, Calibri has an alternate 1 without the serifs as an alternate glyph, but not every program out there can support it.I dunno – Mr. Collins, maybe there’s some other reason you don’t like Calibri. Wouldn’t mind hearing it if it matters – this is an OT after all

Posted by: joey_n | Dec 12 2025 2:31 utc | 26

could you please give me the rundown on how this proprietary font shit works?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 11 2025 6:59 utc | 292

I think how it works is (and I could be mistaken), anyone using the fonts has to pay a licensing fee to the rights owner for commercial use.
The best example I can think of is when a 2002 issue of Rolling Stone was using Proxima Sans – the owner of a similar typeface ‘Gotham’ (Hoefler & Co.) thought that it was Gotham and wondered how Rolling Stone was using it without a license.
~
Fair warning: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier are property of Monotype Corporation. My beef with Monotype has to do with its monopolistic acquisition of formerly independent foundries like Ascender, Bitstream, URW, Hoefler & Co. and Fontworks. Monotype itself has been owned since 2019 by private equity firm HGGC. In the case of Fontworks in particular, and it’s bad enough already that Japan remains under the USA’s thumb:
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-game-developers-face-ridiculously-high-font-license-fees-following-us-acquisition-of-major-domestic-provider-live-service-games-to-take-the-biggest-blow/

One of Japan’s most widely used commercial font services has ended its affordable license plan for game and app integration, creating a complicated and expensive issue for domestic game developers. As reported by Gamemakers, the service, called Fontworks LETS, discontinued its game license plan as of November 28. Its replacement, offered through Fontworks’s new US-owned parent company Monotype, comes with an annual price tag more than fifty times higher, according to Game*Spark.
The old LETS plan allowed developers to integrate high-quality Japanese fonts into their game builds for roughly 60,000 yen a year (around USD $380). Under the new Monotype structure (which no longer has local pricing for Japan), a plan that permits game integration is reported to cost $20,500 per year. Even more problematic for developers, the contract includes a 25,000-user cap for applications using provided fonts, which, as Game*Spark points out, is completely unrealistic for most commercial titles nowadays.

Eventually those game developers complained, and Fontworks/Monotype relented.
Another issue is regarding Monotype’s support for US sanctions on Russia, which I learned about in an article (and if you can get past the bias):
https://www.nan.xyz/txt/type-sovereignty/

But Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 and this led to sanctions, American in particular. Monotype, as a U.S. company, enforced this policy. At the end of 2016, as a consequence of those sanctions, Monotype Imaging refused to licence Times New Roman and Arial to RusBITech, developer of the Russian operating system Astra Linux but also contractor with the Russian Defense Ministry.

and

In December 2018, Monotype Imaging refused again to license Times New Roman, Arial and Verdana. It seems that Monotype Imaging, for those matters, is also the copyright holder for Verdana, even if this typeface was initially commissioned by Microsoft.

With Monotype owning not only Arial, but also Helvetica, Univers and Frutiger, it makes sense for “import substitution” to do its thing – Paratype, a Russian foundry, has clones of Helvetica and Frutiger called Pragmatica and Fact.

Posted by: joey_n | Dec 12 2025 2:47 utc | 28

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 11 2025 19:41 utc | 13

 
Link or it didn’t happen.

Posted by: drinky crow | Dec 12 2025 4:07 utc | 30

“Meaning moving f______ “‡ Roadkill | Dec 12 2025 1:41 utc | 26
Only way dipshit gets it.
 
 
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 5:11 utc | 32

I wonder how many Epstein – like cells around the world there are to facilitate this dream?
 
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 12 2025 1:14 utc | 25
 
####
 
George, on non-metaphysical matters, I am incredibly cynical.
 
I assume everyone in every government is part of an Israeli operation until they prove otherwise.
 
That goes for all of the governments that MoA tends to be friendly towards.
 
I don’t think most people are willing to embrace that everything a Western person sees and believes is a complex mass delusion.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 6:05 utc | 34

Slovakia is predominantly Christian, with Roman Catholicism being the largest denomination (around 59.8% in 2021), followed by significant Protestant groups like Evangelicals, while a growing portion of the population (over 23%) identifies as non-religious, reflecting a shift from its heavily Catholic past. Christianity, including Orthodox and Greek Catholic adherents, still covers the majority (around 68.8%), but secularization is increasing.
 
Austria is predominantly Christian, with Roman Catholicism being the largest denomination, though its share is decreasing, alongside significant numbers of people with no religious affiliation and growing Muslim and Orthodox communities, reflecting a shift from its historically Catholic identity towards greater secularism and religious diversity, with strong legal guarantees for freedom of religion.
 
Christianity is the dominant religion in Hungary, particularly Roman Catholicism …
 
Italy …

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 6:14 utc | 36

What is fascinating to watch is the increasingly frantic attempt to continue the might-makes-right war approach to geopolitics by tempting China/Russia to respond militarily outside the Russia SMO.

 
‘specially when those efforts extend to trolling  MoA.
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 6:52 utc | 38

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 6:53 utc | 39
 
Not really my point in those quotations. I expect psychohistorian get it. …

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 6:58 utc | 40

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 6:53 utc | 39
 
So called Religions like Christianity in my view are incomplete in their teachings so there are many gaps that don’t help to make much sense of what is being promulgated.  It’s why so much is misconstrued and so many appear not to understand or act as though they have even read the Gospels or the teachings of Jesus who is said to be the manifester of Christ (where the word comes from). I think Christianity is a secondary religion that followed after more complete views that have a deeper history and can be accessed elsewhere. That’s why much was lost on the way. The West turned it into its excuse for imperialism/colonialism and use of warfare for suppression.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 12 2025 7:55 utc | 42

German State officers may now legally do ‘breaking and entering’, at least in Berlin.
New General Security and Public Order Act (Sicherheits- und Ordnungsgesetz) passed by the Berlin House of Reps:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/government-surveillance/germany-is-officially-a-surveillance-state-civil-liberties-destroyed/
https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/12/08/1919106.html
https://www.berlin.de/en/news/8580069-5559700-new-berlin-police-law-passed-by-interior.en.html
Berlin State officers may surreptitiously plant electronic devices in private buildings and houses, hack into mobile networks and personal gadgets to activate cameras and micros, implement AI systems to watch and report suspicious behavior now expanded to something called ‘latent danger’, detail people before committing a crime (Vorbeugende Gewahrsam) for a longer period, right-wing Gefährder (righ-wing threat or hazard) can now be prevented from finding work (which may please MoA leftists).

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 12 2025 9:37 utc | 44

Siversk and Lyman gone, the battle for Sloviansk set to begin.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Dec 12 2025 9:53 utc | 46

Posted by: joey_n | Dec 12 2025 2:37 utc | 28
It may surprise readers to know that, unlike rare earth metals, there is no critical global shortage of fonts.
There are more than enough open source, unencumbered fonts adequate for all but the most fussy of publishers. Let them pay the licence freight if they want, nobody should be coerced by  a licence for such a minor commodity product (unless you happen to be stuck like flies in a trap in a predatory late-stage capitalist “society”).

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 12 2025 12:46 utc | 48

Aww little Marco has been pulled from the big boys negotiation table give him a little job to keep him distracted .
 
 
The fat little ziolord Fauntleroy is really not capable of much beyond his little lost boy face. Awww bless! 
 
Probably best kept busy as the pencil monitor for the class as a very important job! 
He makes a good little font Nazi, demanding the New Roman Times be restored..!!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 12 2025 13:26 utc | 50

Parisian Guy@48…….there is no shortage of colour blind regional super powers and wannabe super powers …..
 
Cheers M
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 12 2025 14:29 utc | 52

@ too scents | Dec 12 2025 15:41 utc | 54 about the metal markets frothiness…thx
 
I watch Singapore and it has them all going back up and not as far down as you show…
 
I thought Shorty was going naked all the time now but you say he has found more collateral, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 12 2025 15:47 utc | 54

Naked?  The FED doesn’t want to see Shorty embarrassed. 
Posted by: too scents | Dec 12 2025 15:55 utc | 56

 
Is the collateral HP ink on all those new Benjamins?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 12 2025 16:04 utc | 56

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 12 2025 16:06 utc | 58
 
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Please post links when you cite “breaking news”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 16:07 utc | 58

Sensational, tabloid-cover developments today, three months after Charlie Kirk’s public execution, are more crucial than anything, geopolitically. It’s looking more likely every day, with behavioral and forensic evidence piling up that TPUSA is complicit in both the planning and coverup of the most high-profile assassination since MLK and the Kennedys, as the Zionist machine of Usrael apparently engineered an exemplary slaying. What would it mean, were the truth generally accepted? Proof of ZOG, leading to the demise of Zionism.
When connecting these dots, we understand why it’s such a priority in Usraeli media to forget all about Kirk’s execution, attributing his killing to transtifa fedslop from Fox. Enter Candace, who has built her persona on refusing to shut-up — weeks ago she vowed that only two people could ask her to stop: her husband (George Farmer), and Erika.
In the midst of a non-stop media-blitz ahead of TPUSA’s AmericaFest fiasco, Erika has finally turned to the camera and said just that, unmistakably to her former friend: “Stop!” Candace replied in the negative, revoking her promise. After a credible threat on her life from the French Foreign Legion, after 90 days of so many lies from the gang, it’s far too late to ask Candace to stop. There’s reason to doubt George Farmer could stop her, though he’s obviously under her magic spell.
Key players of the TPUSA gang comprise Tyler Bowyer, the amazing Mikey McCoy, Andrew Kolvet, Blake Neff, Dan Flood, Terrel Farnsworth — quite a cast of characters. Open-source investigator Baron Coleman calls them “the Flintstones” and leaves the joke unexplained (i.e. they’re having a “gay old time”). What have they done?
Listen: they — Farnsworth almost directly — electrocuted Charlie Kirk on-camera by ungrounding his hand-held microphone, synchronized with a gunshot to scare the crowd and make it seem like a shooting. That sounds outlandish today, but how else can we account for his hands, especially his left hand, showing immediate burn-scars? Electrocution explains that bizarre make-up covering the hands of the corpse, as complicit Erika wept over them. And it explains his death-grip on that mic. Attorney Coleman practically proves the case to the world jury in this post (along with the one about Dan Flood’s hand-signal, immediately before):
Does This Electrocute the Charlie Kirk Fed Slophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWeaaWt1K5E

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 12 2025 16:11 utc | 60

The recent discussions here about drug trade and the shady role of the US in this had me re-evaluate a story that I’ve heard. It’s quite a wild tale, and have nothing but hearsay on it, but unlike previously I’m not going to dismiss it outright.
 
The tale is about Ibogain, a lesser-known psychedelic drug made from a plant which is native to Africa. I haven’t taken it, and never heard a first-hand report from someone who did, but reports are extremely interesting. A proper trip is said to be very long, 24 hours and more, apparently inducing a dream-like state of complete introspection. What exactly happens there is hard to say, but some of the natural psychedelics have a quality of bringing about an encounter with other kind of beings, at least for some. That difference can be felt when comparing mushrooms to LSD, for example, while perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon involves DMT, the active ingredient of Ayahuasca.
 
DMT is a plateau drug, meaning there are several different levels of experience which one can enter. The uppermost level, also called the breakthrough state, reportedly pulls the user into a completely different sphere of existence, where typically other beings are encountered. They are usually friendly and will show you around, and here’s the intruiging thing – different users apparently meet the same beings, and are shown the same places. This goes so far that even travel guides about this sphere have been written. Again, I have not been there myself, but I do have at least two first-hand reports about that. FWIW, both of these psychonauts desired to repeat the experience many times over. It’s not an easy feat, however, because DMT (which is actually natural to the human body in minuscule doses) is quickly metabolized, such that the trip fades in mere minutes upon inhalation. Adventurous folks have devised intravenous drips to try and prolong it, while others made themselves a concentrated liquid which can comfortably be used with a vaping device; the process for that is said to be tedious and necessitates professional knowledge and equipment of a chemist’s laboratory. 
 
Anyway, back to Iboga. Apparently this trip has one encountering a unique and very helpful spirit, who helps to reflect upon your whole life, resulting in a profound healing experience. Remarkably, a single sitting is enough; most users will not wish to repeat it. And the consequences are such that massive personal issues are overcome, including a serious addiction to heroine. Now imagine that: an almost hopelessly wrecked individual can be cured with a single dose of a benign pharmaceutical in a matter of days! I might add that Ayahuasca also has healing properties, which recently led Brazil (where the drug is native) offering it to prison inmates in a controlled setting, in an attempt to cure antisocial behaviour which itself is often a consequence of deep trauma.
 
So, the rumour goes, there are reclusive clinics on remote tropical islands where paying customers can be administered a proper Ibogain experience. Of course, this is detrimental of the dirty business, which, so I hear, sees these clinics being raided in helicopter assaults, killing everyone and destroying the place. I dismissed these reports, because helo assaults are something that requires state actor level of ressources, much more than a cartel could reasonably muster. Imagine several aircraft involved, and a staging base somewhere within range.  But who could pull it off is a US special forces party brought in via an amphibious assault ship. Would you put it past them? I’m not so sure anymore these days.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 12 2025 16:58 utc | 62

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 12 2025 16:10 utc | 60
 
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So it was on the radio, you haven’t then seen the pictures?
 
Do I have too high a standard for information? That people speak with first-hand experience and share the source?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 12 2025 17:18 utc | 64

Sorry about typos am parked up in a dark layby .

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 12 2025 17:31 utc | 66

War on Drugs has been a Stunning Defeat
 

…..Major DEA campaigns against cocaine trafficking began in the early eighties. In 1982, the average retail price for a pure gram of cocaine was $433 ($1,500 in today’s dollars). Today, a pure gram of cocaine sells for an average of $150.
 
In other words, despite over forty years of “war” against drug traffickers, cocaine is now 90% cheaper in the United States than it was when the war began……

Posted by: Exile | Dec 12 2025 18:59 utc | 68

Free Trade = colonialism
Fair Trade = move to Sovereign trade or empire block/sovereign trade?
Sovereign Trade = trade without global private finance anywhere in the process
 
Will we get to sovereign trade?
I hope so
 
 
Why are humans so easily convinced of context that is not reality?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 12 2025 19:50 utc | 70

CNN: New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people
5 hours ago
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 21:28 utc | 72

I am very pleased B acted to remove both Pete au1 and canuck from the forum. Please do not let them back in the door B.  Appearances now show Laurence is likely the canadians name replacement, as in St Laurence. Please don’t feed or welcome the weakling.
 
Much credit due to “Internet Tough Guy” with their many names this year for their persistence, you know who you are. 

Posted by: Bully Gone | Dec 12 2025 23:14 utc | 74

Israel Views Syria As Space for Regional Expansion – Turkish Foreign Minister https://sputnikglobe.com/20251211/israel-views-syria-as-space-for-regional-expansion—turkish-foreign-minister-1123274647.html
 
😆 Suck on it. … You too,  `Bully’ boy. 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 12 2025 23:35 utc | 76

Colorado school district reinstates substitute teacher suspended over Charlie Kirk post
 
This is excellent news.  The hysteria and the ubiquitous “woke right” calls for bannings and firings and censorship  of people who criticized Kirk in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder was something to behold.  These same people who cheerleaded these abridgements of 1st Amendments rights were, just a year earlier, championing free speech.
 
This is what the disabled veteran teacher posted that got him fired for his opinion:
 

“Pretending that everyone deserves to be mourned is dumb as F***. Sometimes, the world becomes a better place. If I find relief in the passing of my own relative, then why the F*** would I need to grieve a propagandist that worked to make the world a more dangerous place,” Sutton wrote on his personal Facebook page after the murder. 

 
https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/substitute-teacher-plans-lawsuit-after-suspension-after-posting-charlie-kirk/73-767d9ebf-ddf4-4305-b497-e5bfd3d4de46

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy | Dec 13 2025 0:06 utc | 78

I have only called for fairness, and an unbiased and equal application of the rules of engagement.   One might say that I’m a “Due Process” absolutist.  
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy | Dec 13 2025 0:19 utc | 79

 
Given the SOP equal application of the rules of engagement is exactly what was served up. 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 13 2025 1:26 utc | 80

The Anti-Empire Project: Venezuela SitRep Dec 11/25: ‘Piracy & Restraint’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxVRX2tOyY
 
“Cira Pascual and Chris Gilbert join from Caracas. We discuss the Nobel Prize Committee asking Maduro to step down, the theft of a Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Cuba, the People’s Assembly For Peace & Sovereignty that just wrapped up in Caracas and the Venezuelan strategy…”
 
 
US Solidarity Delegation Discusses Legal Challenge To Trump’s Criminal ‘No Fly Zone’
 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/press-conference-challenging-trumps-venezuela-no-fly-zone
 
“The Peoples Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty of Our Americas convened in Venezuela, but many delegates were unable to attend due to the Trump administration declaring a no-fly-zone. The Workers World Solidarity Center hosted a press conference on December 10 to condemn this illegal action.”
 
 
CZ: Venezuela: The First Target of The New Monroe Doctrine
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8micC_eIQdU
 
“Diego Sequera – a ground report from Caracas.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 13 2025 2:07 utc | 82

Confusing post.  What is “SOP”?  C’mon lazy folks, explain your acronyms.  Not everyone automatically knows what your acronyms mean.  
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy | Dec 13 2025 2:06 utc | 87

 
Apologies, it’s very common. Standard Operating Procedure 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 13 2025 2:08 utc | 84

A MOA without PeterAU1 is a diminished site.

Posted by: tucenz | Dec 13 2025 6:00 utc | 86

I developed supply chain computer systems most of my career and had a philosophy of the appropriate application of technology which is a moving window, eh?
 
When I think about what I think governments should do I apply the same appropriate application of regulation and management philosophy and below are examples of China setting example
 
China issues mandatory standard to curb data leak risks in second-hand electronics
 

BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) — China has released a mandatory national standard regarding information erasure for electronic products to reduce data leak risks in the circulation of second-hand devices, authorities said on Saturday.
According to the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, this standard aims to standardize technical methods for erasing data from electronic products and guide recycling operators to improve management and technical measures, thereby preventing data leaks in the second-hand market.
The standard will come into force on Jan. 1, 2027.
Under the standard, manufacturers are required to provide built-in data erasure functions. If such functions cannot be developed, manufacturers must offer external erasure tools, inform users of available third-party tools, or provide free data erasure services.
Recycling operators must proactively remind users to erase their data before collection and are prohibited from accessing or retaining user data without consent.
They are also required to use compliant tools to erase user data, verify the effectiveness of erasure before resale, and ensure that devices containing uncleared data are not resold or exported.
Recyclers must keep records of erasure operations and verification results for at least three years.

 
China’s Hainan Free Trade Port prepares for island-wide special customs operations
 
Follow the link to see  Customs on a serious scale and with state of the art technology
 
 
Along with the appropriate application of technology comes the responsibility to maintain and upgrade the provision of government regulation and services to meet the evolving needs of the citizens…..will China set the example here as well?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 13 2025 7:08 utc | 88

About Peter AU1 seemingly permanently gone…I miss his contributions more than canuk who also seems to be gone for now.
 
That said, change is the only constant and it provides opportunity for growth so breathe into it and best to you Peter for the rest of your life….I don’t expect you to become less irascible.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 13 2025 7:15 utc | 90

 I have followed China’s 5 year planning efforts since I was studying the future in the early 1970’s.  Below is a posting about a meeting related to the major economic  components for the coming year.  I would think that all citizens would plan their lives around this public planning process
 
China holds Central Economic Work Conference to plan for 2026
 

China will adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability, better coordinate domestic economic work with struggles in the international economic and trade arena, and ensure both development and security.
The country will implement more proactive and impactful macroeconomic policies, formulate more far-sighted, more targeted and better-coordinated policies, continuously expand domestic demand and optimize supply, and develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions.
Efforts will be made to develop a unified national market and continuously prevent and defuse risks in key areas. It is imperative to secure the steady development of employment, businesses, markets and expectations, getting the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) off to a good start.
China will continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy and maintain necessary fiscal deficits, overall debt levels and expenditure scale, while standardizing tax incentives and fiscal subsidy policies.
Greater attention should be given to addressing local fiscal difficulties, and Party and government bodies will continue to keep their belts tightened.
China will continue implementing a moderately loose monetary policy, employ various monetary policy tools such as reserve requirement ratios and interest rates in a flexible and efficient manner to maintain ample liquidity.
China will guide financial institutions to scale up support for domestic demand expansion, sci-tech innovation, micro, small and medium enterprises, and other key areas.
The RMB exchange rate will be kept generally stable at an adaptive, balanced level, the meeting said, adding that China will make macro policy orientations more consistent and effective, and refine expectations management mechanisms to bolster social confidence.

 
If you are young and want to know where opportunity is
 

It will be essential to enhance innovation-driven development to accelerate the cultivation of new growth drivers. China will develop international technological innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Efforts will be made to advance the AI Plus Initiative, improve AI governance and foster innovation in science and technology finance.

 
And then one more quote from the posting
 

It is necessary to further advance energy conservation and carbon reduction in key industries, formulate an outline for building China into an energy powerhouse, expand the application of green electricity and strengthen the development of national carbon emissions trading market, said the meeting.
It also stressed the need to implement a comprehensive waste management initiative, solidly advance the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program and enhance the country’s capacity to respond to extreme weather events.
Prioritizing people’s livelihoods, practical measures will be taken to get things done for the people, the meeting said.
Efforts will be made to stabilize employment for key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers, adjust the distribution of educational resources, deepen the reform of medical insurance payment methods, and strengthen care and assistance for people in difficulty, the meeting said.
It is imperative to help maintain the birth rate at a stable level, the meeting said, adding that solid work should be done in workplace safety, disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief, and food and drug safety.

 
Where is public planning like this in the West?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 13 2025 7:29 utc | 92

I can be completely and utterly wrong about this; to me (far away and with little information) it looks like the US continues to use the Thai military as some kind of narrative device for manipulative purposes by attacking Cambodia whenever it suits the US to have something/anything happen.
 
Are they trying to use Thailand to make “Israeli” behavior look normal?
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Dec 13 2025 8:31 utc | 94

Sworn friend: What Western textbooks write about World War II (RIA Novosti, David Narmaniya, May 1, 2025 — in Russian)

History is traditionally considered the science that has suffered the most from politics. This applies even more to the way it is taught in schools. A striking example is the topic of World War II in Western textbooks. What idea of ​​the main conflict of mankind are they trying to instill in children? Read about it in this RIA Novosti material.
 
Comparing the incomparable
 
“Already from the illustrations placed in the books, one can judge the attitude of each people to this war. It is also manifested in the silences, in what is not said. Each nation, each social institution has its own ‘family’ secrets, the disclosure of which is by no means welcomed. This task is usually taken on by the former enemy,” wrote French educator Marc Ferro in his fundamental work The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught to Children.
 
This book was first published in 1981, but has not lost its relevance in four and a half decades: Western textbooks give a picture that is favorable to politicians even now.
 
There is no single textbook for schoolchildren across the country, either in the U.S. or in Britain. However, the narratives disseminated about the largest war in human history are surprisingly similar.
 
Take, for example, the American textbook AMSCO AP Edition World History: Modern (1200–Present) for high school students. In the sections devoted to the pre-war period, the authors note that the policy of appeasement, which the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain followed, allowed Hitler to arrange the Anschluss of Austria and then became the reason for the Munich Agreement, which secured the annexation of the Sudetenland. However, the authors ignore the fact that Poland simultaneously forced the Czech government to cede the Těšín region [Trans-Olza — S] to it. Nor do they mention the USSR’s attempts to prevent the Munich Agreement.
 
But literally every other paragraph they name the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as the reason that prevented London and Paris from agreeing with Moscow on the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition even before the start of World War II.
 
The authors write rather sparingly about the course of the war itself and the role of the USSR in it. In particular, in the paragraph devoted to the turning point in the European theater of military operations, equal attention is paid to the Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Stalingrad. In North Africa, according to various estimates, Rommel had from 80 to 120 thousand soldiers at his disposal. Meanwhile, the losses of Germany and its allies at Stalingrad alone were about one and a half million people. Unfortunately, the authors do not provide this data.
 
In addition to Stalingrad, only the blockade of Leningrad and the Battle of Kursk were awarded a couple of sentences. Only these three events on the Eastern Front are listed as key terms to remember at the end of the chapter, along with the battles of Guadalcanal, Midway Atoll, El Alamein and the Coral Sea. The latter are hardly comparable in scale to the events on the Eastern Front.
 
Prelude to the Cold War
 
A similar picture can be observed in British textbooks, for example, in GCSE Modern World History by Ben Walsh. Like the aforementioned American textbook, it is used to prepare for admission.
 
In terms of the causes of the war, the author goes further than his American colleagues and simply distorts the facts.
 
“Hitler openly declared his interest in conquering Russian lands. He actively criticized communism, arrested and killed communists in Germany. Despite this, Stalin failed to achieve any agreement with Britain and France in the 1930s. From Stalin’s point of view, the attempts were pointless,” Walsh notes.
 
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union had been trying to break out of its international isolation since the early 1920s and succeeded only by the end of the next decade. However, as already noted, the USSR’s desire to prevent Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of Hitler did not find a response in Europe and the U.S.
 
At the same time, the author writes quite honestly about how Moscow was perceived in London.
 
“In fact, many in Britain seemed to welcome the strengthening of Germany as a force capable of opposing communism, which they considered a greater threat to British interests than Hitler.”
 
However, the author acknowledges the key role of the USSR in the victory over Germany.
 
“Speaking in Berlin on October 4, 1941, Hitler told his people that the Soviet enemy was defeated and would never recover. This was one of his most profound miscalculations. Over the next two years, the Soviet Union became a veritable graveyard of German military efforts,” the textbook quotes British historian Richard Overy as saying.
 
There is also a quote from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “It was the Red Army that tore the heart out of the chest of the German army.”
 
The textbook also notes that throughout almost the entire war, 85% of the Wehrmacht troops were on the Eastern Front. It tells separately not only about the heavy fighting, but also about the feat of the rear.
 
The description of the military operations on the Eastern Front takes up less than a quarter of the entire volume. Exactly the same amount is devoted to the blitzkrieg in Europe, the Battle of Britain, the confrontation in the Pacific Ocean and the events after the landing in Normandy.
 
Meanwhile, not all British schools use textbooks that cover an event over a long period of time. Some textbooks are devoted to specific topics, such as the Cold War. And in them, the Tehran Conference is viewed primarily not as interaction between the allies, but as a prelude to the already emerging confrontation between the capitalist and socialist camps.
 
From such positions, it is easier to justify to the younger generation the further actions of the USSR’s Western allies. The delay in opening the second front in such logic exhausted both the German and Soviet troops, making the subsequent tasks of Washington and London easier. And the losses after the landing in Normandy were necessary not only to fight the Nazis, but also for a more advantageous division of spheres of influence in post-war Europe.
 
“We should not tell everything”
 
In French textbooks (for example, in the manual for admission to the famous Sciences Po Institute, where future diplomats are trained), the events on the Eastern Front are described in more detail. Unlike the British and American books, this one also pays attention to the Battle of Moscow.
 
One paragraph talks about the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. Another one talks about Soviet successes after the turning point in the Great Patriotic War. Special attention is paid to Lend-Lease. At the same time, the authors admit: “However, at the same time, the Soviet victory was based on the bravery of the troops and the patriotic upsurge that was facilitated by the softening of the political regime.”
 
The role of Marshal Petain and the Vichy regime is practically not mentioned. The authors only indirectly mention the problematic topic in the paragraph on the political structure of post-war Europe.
 
“In France, the question of power-sharing was a very delicate one,” the authors note. “How can you restore state power when, on the one hand, you have a collaborationist government and, on the other, rebels who are seeking legitimacy? If General de Gaulle had a point of view on this matter, his attempts to restore the normal course of events ran into the impatience of those who had distinguished themselves during the Resistance and considered themselves worthy of the right to participate in government. The great influence of the Communist Party complicated the task even more.”
 
Working with documents
 
German schools try to distance themselves from the Nazi past. The main content of the textbooks is not a description of events at the front, but the memories of ordinary soldiers.
 
The darkest pages are told through primary sources—in particular, the minutes of the Wannsee Conference, at which the “final solution to the Jewish question” was planned in detail, are given.
 
At the same time, most books do not mention that 85% of the Wehrmacht divisions were on the Eastern Front, and the authors pay equal attention to the various theaters of military operations. Jens Eggert’s textbook Deutschland von 1871 bis 1945: Das Kaiserreich – Weimarer Republik – Nationalsozialismus does not mention the Kursk Bulge, Operation Bagration, or the Battle of Berlin. However, it does mention the Normandy landings separately.
 
False Thesis
 
Some Japanese textbooks note a fact that is unpleasant to the U.S.: “Certainly, the Pacific Ocean was the main theater of military operations, where the battles of the Japanese fleet with American units took place. However, for the Japanese ground forces, the main battlefield remained the mainland. These units were the last to finish fighting, and only because the USSR defeated the Kwantung Army in Manchuria.”
 
In this regard, even the term “War in the Pacific Ocean” is proposed to be replaced by “Asia–Pacific War.”
 
At the same time, the particular tenacity of Japanese soldiers on the islands during battles with the Americans is emphasized.
 
The authors also separately discuss the reasons why the United States decided to use the nuclear bomb: Japan’s defeat was only a matter of time. The bombs were dropped on the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for foreign policy reasons. In its post-war Asian policy, the United States—especially in order to confront the USSR—sought to impose on the world the impression that they had dealt a “decisive blow” to Japan.
 
At the same time, the authors emphasize that it was precisely after the defeat of the Kwantung Army by Soviet troops that the country had no strength left to resist, so the outcome of the conflict was a foregone conclusion.

Posted by: S | Dec 13 2025 10:38 utc | 96

Maple syrup is one of the most unique tasting things on this planet, in a league with chocolate – nothing tastes like chocolate. Where I live it costs about ten times as much as sugar, so the question is how best to use it without breaking the bank. I have found the answer now: in yoghurt. The match is perfect, and a small amount of syrup will suffice, so it’s no sugar bomb either. I switched to low-fat variety (1.5%) for the first time in my life, since the almost liquid texture adds to the experience; it also has a bit more protein. I recommend to let the yoghurt warm up to room temperature before serving to further taste, but also because I may schlabber a bowl down in seconds.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 13 2025 12:33 utc | 98

Persiflo @ 108
Mmm Maple syrup yes please.
 
Simple problem to solve.
 
Try harvesting your own.  Its easy …google it.
Plenty for you and your family,  and maybe a very good income stream,  as you say it’s very expensive, so turn a problem into an advantage.

Posted by: Mark2 | Dec 13 2025 12:42 utc | 100