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December 7, 2025
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-281

Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:


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SouthAm:

Europe:

Affair Epstein:

Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …

Comments

Posted by: canuk | Dec 7 2025 21:51 utc | 90
 
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No. Are you ready to give a full-throated condemnation of Trump’s involvement in Palestine?
 
Are you ready to give an unequivocal statement on the Epstein coverup?
 
If not, you remain a Zionist pedo, IMO.
 
It’s up to you. Don’t want to be labelled evil, just stop supporting evil.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 7 2025 23:41 utc | 101

From ZH
 
Russia Stands “Shoulder To Shoulder” With Venezuela, Blasts US War Footing
 

Russia on Sunday issued new statements voicing deep concern over the US force posture in the southern Caribbean, warning against any possible slide toward direct military action.
The fresh Kremlin statement said Moscow is standing shoulder to shoulder with Caracas, with a fresh appeal for the Trump administration to avoid exacerbating tensions which could lead to open and unnecessary conflict.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov criticized Washington’s desire to establish unconditional dominance in the region, and decried that this has become the norm for the current administration. 
He warned that “tensions are not easing” and “escalation continues” off Latin America, also after the last few months stretching back to September have seen a string of nearly two dozen deadly US attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats near Venezuela. 
“This is primarily due to the desire to assert the unquestioning dominance of the United States in the region, this is a trademark of the Trump administration,” Ryabkov explained.
According to more of his statement:
“We express our solidarity with Venezuela, with whom we recently signed a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement,” the deputy foreign minister noted.
“We support Venezuela, as it supports us, in many areas. In this hour of trial, we stand shoulder to shoulder with Caracas and the Venezuelan leadership. We hope that the Trump administration will refrain from further escalating the situation toward a full-scale conflict. We urge it to do so.”

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 0:02 utc | 102

@snake | Dec 7 2025 21:14 utc | 82
 Snake:  replies interleaved below. Tks for Q’s.
 
Snake: are you suggesting new discoveries happen one at a time and new industries proliferate based on that discovery? 
 
Tom: discoveries happen when and where they happen. Certainly _not_ synchronous, one at a time. Consider the human mind; it’s a parallel processor, then take that to the 3rd or 4th power, and consider all those  minds functioning somewhat independently, all acquiring the precursors to the “invention” at different rates and through different delivery vectors (angles of entry into the mind). It’s damned chaotic.   Snake: and is your one new product at time linear. one must complete before the next.. can begin..? 
 
Tom: no. the only somewhat linear aspect of the Factory is that there’s a sort of linear sequence involved in new business formation, and (quite similarly) for new product development. But that “linear” process is iterative; it loops. The subsequent steps in the design-test process depend on accurate assumptions (like any model) and … the  subsequent (iterative) attempts to get to business viability (company can  make it in the real world) turn up “issues” that  need to be used as feedback to revise the baseline assumptions. The model is changing (adapting) to one’s iterative attempt to gradually synchronize the “model” – e.g. what  you think the business is, it’s design … to what  reality is. Prod devel and business devel are a “get acquainted with reality” game.
 
And the product development context – e.g. what’s happening outside the prod devel team- is entirely chaotic; all manner of players are developing simultaneously, and every new product, once it becomes known, has an impact on subsequent prod-devel processes. They’re feeding off one another.
 
Snake: I think you meant new discoveries that lead to new industries are independent of each other and that the development of the industries are linear.. ??
 
Tom: sort of. Let’s get a case study on the table to help make this concrete. Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla are all fiddling around with electromagnetism. It’s new. No one really fully understands it. A dynamo gets built, converts mechanical energy to electricity. Still no one knows what to  do  with it. Someone (all of ’em did it sorta) makes an electric motor, and a light bulb, and electrical conductors (copper wire). Somebody connects an electric motor to a mill (fabric, rolling (steel), whatever) and somebody puts a light bulb(s) into the factory. 
 
Total freak-out. Completely changes the economics, speed, affordability, repeatability of mfg’g. Massive, massive change in wealth creation, job obsolescence, technical obsolescence (stationary steam engines). Huge new industries created overnite. Impact, impact,  impact. Can’t over-state  it.
 
That’s an example of a product creating industry. 
 
Most prods don’t create industries; they’re minor evolutions on a theme, like an manual pencil sharpener, then an electric one. Toaster, toaster-oven. Ya, they’re cool, but not that big a deal. Note that the products that create new industries flow has slowed down a lot lately. Why?
 
Snake: its possible to have ten new products (technologies) developing in parallel..but the development of each is linear.. 
 
Tom: yup.  sorta linear, as I mentioned above. Recall that the human mind is an extraordinary parallel processor. It’s not linear. “Iterative” isn’t really the right word. Explosive, magnetic, particle-colliding, serendipitous all  at once.
  Snake: and products that incorporate these discoveries or technology express their substance and meaning in a series of new products more or less in linear fashion?
 
Tom. Ya. what happens is someone on the fringe has an epiphany, and all the incremental thinkers do variants on the core theme.
 Snake:  developing markets for new products expressing new technology is vastly different from developing new markets for products expressing well known technology. 
Tom:  you bet. and that’s the Holy Grail of basic research (that the West  is having trouble, emotionally, to resource correctly
 
Snake: Take the Optics market.. There are many different kinds, types, and uses for microscopes and telescopes.. The optics market seeks to serve those who need to see something small or something far away.  But the tools to see that smallest thing are complicated to use, often configured to be highly specific to the users application, and the equipment is expensive, difficult to use, and often it is outdated even before it can be put to the use it was acquired or built for.
 
Tom: sounds reasonable;  seems like a “mature” market doing a lot  to ID specialized markets once the really big ones (like eyeglasses) are saturated and then commoditized.
Snake: New discoveries is not the same as new uses..
 
Tom: no indeed. When the semiconductor was invented by Shockley, he had _no_ idea  what it would be used for. Fairchild et. al. was a key application. Look at what happened after that. (For those that don’t  remember Fairchild semiconductor, they were among the  first to do simple computer chips. Several  of the Intel  founders worked at Fairchild.
 
Snake: You need to explain your premise more thoroughly.
 
Tom: you need to see the  Factory in operation.  
 

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Dec 8 2025 0:05 utc | 103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCaBHXc0rv4 
 
Danny Haiphong with Carl Zha and KJ Noh.
 
Their interpretation of the Trump’s NSS report is that it is a declaration of war.  US cleans up in South America, while Europe destroys itself, I mean faces off against Russia, while Japan / Philippines / Australia presumably face off against China.  Basically world domination, just outsourcing some of the crucial military tasks.  Like, ya know, taking on China and Russia!
 
They pointed out an example of one section that had lots of nice flowery language.  But then OOPS these nice flowery rules don’t apply to us due to our important obligations and duties to protect ourselves.  The US “high bar” for military intervention in Venezuela is a made up drug cartel and 8 or 9 or 12, not sure how many, boats that we have sunk, claiming they carry drugs.  American citizens have made it quite clear that this behavior is very acceptable, with the only pushback being standard US fake partisan attacks by democrats on Hegseth, and only for the double tap.  Note that in the Biden administration, the US fake partisan attacks were directed at Biden by republicans.  The parties just switched roles.
 
The NSS is being analyzed word for word around the world.  And people are preparing for the worst.
 
This is the second video where reading the details have been described as “flowery nice stuff that wraps around a brutal plan for domination”.  It DOES show a change of plan for the US as there is a realization that the US cannot take on Russia OR China, much less Russia AND China.  So, bite off one piece at a time, and divide and conquer by working to get the rest of the world to live in hate and disharmony.

Posted by: Woke American | Dec 8 2025 0:21 utc | 104

Nick Fuentes is fake & gay.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 7 2025 15:16 utc | 14

 
Proof in photos please. 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 8 2025 0:53 utc | 105

These attacks are hurting the CIA enough that they have activated The Mighty Wurlitzer to try and put a stop to them.
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 7 2025 20:07 utc | 71
How are they hurting the CIA?
 
Are you saying that these are CIA boats that Trump and Hegseth are targeting.
Do you believe that there actual CIA assets being killed?

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 1:00 utc | 106

Below is Reuters marketing private finance sickness to others
 
Gen Z puts crypto on holiday wish lists
 
Yeah parents, give your kids some worthless marketing shit [whatever happened to pet rocks?] and convince them it is worth something so they are addicted to fiat like you.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 1:19 utc | 107

Rather than discuss Nick Fuentes, a better topic might be, who isn’t fake and gay?
 
Candace, Scott Pressler, Lauren Boebert were all “developed” by a talent agency.
 
This is what I would do, create my own “patriotic” pied pipers.
 
I’d do it for decades until my “creations” were mature enough to place in government.
 
IIRC, a pornographer of the Talmudic persuasion was behind the agency.
 
Anyone surprised yet?
 
So, who are we watching and what values do they hold? What truths are they willing to die for?
 
The noble man (or woman) is the rarest of creatures. Facsimiles are a shekel a dozen.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 1:39 utc | 108

I’ve got one more thing to say:
LoveDonbass is fake & gay.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 8 2025 1:50 utc | 109

ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid

Posted by: hightrekker | Dec 8 2025 1:58 utc | 110

@65 Patroklos

“…the problem is profits over progress…”

…but…but…progress is for profit ?

Posted by: Ornot | Dec 8 2025 2:40 utc | 111

I’ve got one more thing to say:LoveDonbass is fake & gay.
He thinks he’s well above the fray,
But his BS needs  to stop,  I pray.
 
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 8 2025 1:50 utc | 109
 

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 2:40 utc | 112

[LoveDonbass …]He thinks he’s well above the fray,But his BS needs  to stop,  I pray.
 
Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 2:40 utc | 113
 
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James 5:16 “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
 
When Mr. Canuk’s prayer availeth little there will be (at least) three options to consider.

Posted by: General Factotum | Dec 8 2025 2:56 utc | 113

A new item, Data Centers Useless Without Energy: The Critical Component Requiring Long-term Planning. The lack of planning is generating resistance many places, although that issue I’ve yet to address. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 3:07 utc | 114

It is funny and a little sad to watch what I presume to be adult men getting butthurt when their idols are exposed in a way that is verifiable and public.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 3:44 utc | 115

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 3:07 utc | 116
 
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Karl, if you haven’t already looked into it, the Chinese produce enormous amounts of electricity from fossil, solar, wind, and fusion sources.
 
They are also designing more efficient AI and microprocessors.
 
The American/Zionist approach is likely to be based on brute force as that will be more profitable, rather than competitive.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 4:02 utc | 116

This video details how the Chinese are going head-to-head with Nvidia by not just designing their own processors for AI, but also creating their own integrated code on the chips optimized for AI. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwZwkcAdp4
15-minutes 12-seconds
 
The robotics information towards the end is useful for people who follow that. Robotic labor is a massive game-changer. People cry about AI ending jobs, but wait until robots are doing all sorts of jobs. Robots don’t get tired, depressed, they don’t need HR, they don’t require pensions, or other costs that human labor does. They also don’t ask for raises or show up late or drunk.
 
Robots will solve the working class’s problems by replacing them completely. 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 4:09 utc | 117

‘And Fuck The EU.’
 
Victoria Nuland.
 
And it was done.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 8 2025 4:19 utc | 118

Here’s something that’s beyond a mere curiosity, Opinions split over hundreds of Porsche cars immobilized in Russia; incident sparks security alarm for entire industry, says analyst – Global Times, that potentially has serious implications.  

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 5:17 utc | 119

The latest from the China side about the pissing contest with empire puppet Japan…Xinhuanet
 
China strongly urges Japan to immediately stop dangerous moves of harassing China’s normal military exercise, training: FM spokesperson

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 5:20 utc | 120

I expect this is due to empire pot stirring…from Xinhuanet
 

BANGKOK, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — As of 6:00 a.m. local time on Monday, approximately 70 percent of civilians in four provinces along the Thai-Cambodian border had already been evacuated, Thailand’s Second Army Region said in a statement.
According to the statement, 35,623 people were registered at temporary shelters, adding that those not in shelters were likely staying with relatives or were still in transit.
It also confirmed one civilian death during the evacuation, attributing it to a pre-existing illness.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 5:34 utc | 121

@93 gruff
 
Thx Gruff. 
 
Thinking about it, I do think the same phenomenon of TDS was seen back in 2008ish when BO was elected to POTUS. 
 
I remember a maintenance guy for the Apt. I was living in was talking to me about the Anti-Christ and that BO was starting its dark reign on Earth. I humored him by listening to him as he reached behind the porcelain toilet bowl to repair a leak.
 
So you really have the “leftist” woke middle-class thinking it’s an apocalyptic time when Cheeto is conducting the train.
 
But back then it was the working-class dolls who got BO wrong in near the exact same way but from a eschatological POV. Although scratch deeper and it was probably just crypto-racism. 
 
At least with Biden, the right had more or less freed themselves from the Zionist-religiosity of the Obama years (Obama and Netanyahu hated each other from what I have understood), and were genuinely more concerned with the political situation of President Autopen, his DEI cohorts, his wokeness, and his Zionism. 
 
The right seems to have matured in some regards then, while the ostensibly-left has chosen walling themselves in and choosing a self-traumatizing outlook.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Dec 8 2025 5:40 utc | 122

@ karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 5:17 utc | 119 with the link to car security systems being hacked via satellite security access…thx
 
Yep….Surprised we haven’t seen more of this…….and expect we will now until the moneyed folk make it stop…..or sell their semi-secure coffins.
 
Glad I have a old beater car that can’t be hacked remotely.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 5:45 utc | 123

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 7 2025 18:42 utc | 60
 
I wanted to inform you,  karlof1, that I was happy to see yesterday that your ‘Putin in India’ substack post was included in nakedcapitalism.com’s listing  of links for the day.  Deservedly so!
 
This will, however be my last post, though I will still read here after an interval I hope.  Today was the  festal observation  of a major feast for my little Russian Orthodox church in Santa Fe, so I spent the early morning reading  through my Festal Menaion texts surrounding this feast.    Its traditional feast day is December 4th,  Old Calendar, and that day  –way back in the day — was the baptismal day for my three older children soon after we all began attending.  It did not escape me that this was also just last week the day of President Putin’s arrival in India, to such a glorious welcome it still takes my breath away.
 
The feast in question was that of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple.  For the first time I realized that this feast is Orthodoxy’s  response to the papal edict that gave her (the mother of Christ named here Theotokos or Mother of God) a divine beginning, called the immaculate conception.  I would say this is the heart of the fundamental difference in understandings between Catholicism and Orthodoxy,  which is to be found in this feast alone.  For, she is, was, enirely human, as was Gandhi whose life we see Putin honoring on the day of the feast, in India.  In this feast she is a little child being brought into the temple (where her uncle is welcoming her, ) to be brought up in its surrounds.  Much as my three older children early in our approach to the Orthodox faith, happily rejoiced so to do back in the day.  It is a wonderful feast.
 
I congratulate you karlof1,  on this deserved recognition, as your substack links for this post are truly glorious. I will be more intensely researching the riches of my faith, painting icons, working in my garden, but I promise that if and when I have something to say on this subject, i.e. what it means to be entirely human, perhaps you will hear from me.  
 
God bless everyone.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 8 2025 5:47 utc | 124

Quoting Karl,
 

The lack of critical long-term planning is the Empire’s weakest point that it seems ideologically capable of improving. There’s no continental plan for the continental sized empire that says it wants to remain a leader but displays an incapacity to do so.

 
When I first arrived at MoA years ago, I would have identified as a Capitalist, but no longer.
 
The problem, IMO, is that Capitalism has the wrong incentives for planning and hence is incapable of being the economic model under Empire.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 5:50 utc | 125

I forgot to say that in my little Santa Fe church, we would always celebrate such feasts throughout the church year on the closest Sunday, which would have been today.  That was because those in our small congregation who worked would usually have only the weekend free to attend.  I have continued that practice for myself in honoring that legacy.  So, for me, that feast was today.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 8 2025 5:51 utc | 126

A new item, Data Centers Useless Without Energy: The Critical Component Requiring Long-term Planning. The lack of planning is generating resistance many places, although that issue I’ve yet to address. 
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 3:07 utc | 114

 
karl concludes with –

The lack of critical long-term planning is the Empire’s weakest point that it seems ideologically capable of improving. There’s no continental plan for the continental sized empire that says it wants to remain a leader but displays an incapacity to do so. The one major player constantly and publicly trying to improve the situation is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. IMO, he needs to direct his critiques at the many tech billionaires, since there’s very little the federal government can do to improve the energy situation and keep American firms in the AI Race.

 
Why would anyone grounded and responsible want the criminally corrupt anti-human Outlaw US Empire to stay in the AI Race let alone actually win it?
The message I hear putting out is that you want the Outlaw US Empire to succeed across the board karl. Is that right? Especially for the Billionaire class Feudal Tech Lords  and Energy operators to become even more successful and obscenely wealthy. You know, the one’s backing Trump across the board. The messaging is so inconsistent I’m wondering who’s side are you actually on karl? 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 8 2025 5:51 utc | 127

Further, it’s not a Continental-sized Empire. It sees itself as governing and controlling the entire planet.
 
If they can’t manage the Americas and Europe, it’s clearly a delusion to think they can control everywhere.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 5:55 utc | 128

Inspired by a moon that is nowhere to be seen a wild question flutters around happy and free in the cold subarctic morning under dark grey skies of mist and rainy clouds illuminated by stars shining upwards from black hills and land.
 
Is 99% of what people have in common superficial? It may be enough? Is it not?
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Dec 8 2025 6:51 utc | 130

You can’t believe it — he’s going on Piers!
An army of groypers has waited for years
Bad goy, stentorian homo-incel
Gracefully draping the shabbos tinsel
By now it’s too glaring, you can’t look away:
Good God, Nick Fuentes is so fake and gay.
 

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 8 2025 7:22 utc | 131

duck n cover @95: “Trump is bombing the CIA! thanks for the hilarity.”
 
 
They’ve tried to destroy him. It’s only fair Trump returns the favor, right?

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 11:01 utc | 132

jinn @106:
 

Are you saying that these are CIA boats that Trump and Hegseth are targeting.Do you believe that there actual CIA assets being killed? 

 
 
Isn’t that what I’ve been saying for the last several days? Once again: Yes, absolutely. These are CIA assets being destroyed.
 
Don’t act so shocked. It isn’t the first time the Pentagon has hit CIA assets. It just happens these CIA assets are on the Revenue side and not the Operations side, which actually hurts the CIA in a meaningful way.

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 11:17 utc | 133

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 8 2025 5:17 utc | 119
Big reputational hit for Porsche (their cars are overrated anyways). It was always only a matter of time before some group of hackers or other figures out how to trigger this and disables all Porsches across the EU, or worse takes out a much more popular model.
Let’s hope it isn’t the Merz government playing silly buggers and thus inviting retaliation on a mass and chaotic scale.
Though if it were to result in the switch off of large parts of the surveillance state, it may be no bad thing in the long run…

Posted by: ChatNPC | Dec 8 2025 11:35 utc | 134

“We support Venezuela, as it supports us, in many areas.
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 0:02 utc | 102

 
They both support each other … symbolically.

Posted by: Tel | Dec 8 2025 11:40 utc | 135

God bless everyone.
Posted by: juliania | Dec 8 2025 5:47 utc | 124
Thank you for that.

Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 8 2025 11:54 utc | 136

NemesisCalling @122:
 

The right seems to have matured in some regards then, while the ostensibly-left has chosen walling themselves in and choosing a self-traumatizing outlook.

 
I’m not sure it is necessarily accurate to call it the right anymore. A lot of Bernie-bros went MAGA in 2016, and despite the hysteria from the Establishment it had nothing to do with racism or misogyny. More importantly, many of those who switched to Trump did so very specifically and emphatically because they could see the entire Establishment was was pulling out all the stops (a term appropriate for the Mighty Wurlitzer) to turn them away from Trump… an Establishment they had not only come to distrust since the in-your-face nastiness of the Democrat primaries, but to absolutely hate and loath. 
 
The mass media then burned their bridges to these people by doubling down on the efforts to control their opinion, but of course when someone has become aware that cynically manipulative bad actors are trying to manipulate them, more manipulation just drives them further away. This lead to a positive feedback loop of the mass media continuously upping the sensationalism to get a handle on that portion of the population they lost, and that portion of the population just getting pushed further away by those efforts. At the same time, the Team Blue tribe was still swallowing the toxic sensationalism from the mass media in bulk, driving them mad. For the Team Blue adherents’ part, they were caught in a catch-22. To prove their allegiance to their tribe they had no choice but to not only continue consuming the crap from the mass media, but reinforcing it amongst others in their personal lives. It wrecked their minds.
 
This “maturing” that you speak of certainly happened, but it is not the result of some characteristic of right-wing ideology. It is simply the result obtainable by anyone who tunes out from the mass media forced narratives for real.

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 12:03 utc | 137

@William Gruff
The court sentences the murderers of Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (RIA Novosti, December 8, 2025 — in Russian)

Donetsk court has sentenced the defendants in the murder of Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley.
 
“The following sentences were handed down: (Vitaliy — Ed.) Vansyatskiy — 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony; (Andrey — Ed.) Iordanov — 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony; (Vladislav — Ed.) Agaltsev — 11 years in a maximum-security penal colony; (Vladimir — Ed.) Bazhin — one year and six months of imprisonment in a penal colony,” the Southern District Military Court said in a statement.
 
In April 2024, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel, reported that Bentley had died in Donetsk.
 
In September of that year, the Investigative Committee completed its investigation into this criminal case. According to investigators, the crime occurred on April 8. Military servicemen Iordanov, Vansyatskiy and Agaltsev physically assaulted and tortured Bentley, resulting in his death. The latter two placed the body in a VAZ-2115 car, which they detonated with a TNT block.
 
The next day, on Vansyatskiy’s orders, Bazhin, a soldier from the same military unit, “committed concealment of a particularly serious crime” and removed the remains of the deceased from the scene.
 
Since 2014, Bentley, call sign “Texas,” fought in the DPR militia. He said he went to Donbas because he admired the courage and resilience of the local population. There, the American raised funds and delivered humanitarian aid to those in need.
 
In 2021, he received Russian citizenship, and in 2023, he began working for the Sputnik news agency as a correspondent.
 
Bentley has repeatedly expressed support for the Special Operation, stating that Russia saved hundreds of thousands of lives. He has been awarded medals by the Donetsk People’s Republic.

I wonder if William will apologize to me for calling me all kinds of names and slandering me as a NAFO troll in spring 2024 because I posted the Bentley’s widow’s statement.

Posted by: S | Dec 8 2025 12:14 utc | 138

“These attacks are hurting the CIA enough that they have activated The Mighty Wurlitzer to try and put a stop to them.”
 
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 7 2025 20:07 utc | 71
 
“Trump is bombing the CIA! thanks for the hilarity.”
 
Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 7 2025 22:52 utc | 95
 
You deny that the CIA isn’t in the drug game?  Anyone with an IQ above 75 knows this has began in the Vietnam war.
 
You are naive; Gruff is correct -Trump in the Caribbean is mowing the radical CIA drug trade.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 12:28 utc | 139

Posted by: canuk | Dec 7 2025 21:51 utc | 90
 
“If not, you remain a Zionist pedo, IMO.” 
Posted by: LoveDumbass | Dec 7 2025 23:41 utc | 101
 
You are one sick fuck Dumbass throwing descriptions around  like the above;  if you had a functioning brain and you wanted to destroy my credibility you wouldn’t use  such fantastic accusations-in fact you make yourself out as a useless dope with such nonsense and , on the other hand, me, I seem like a genius compared to your hysterical accusations..
 
You dumb fuck!
 
 

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 12:38 utc | 140

S @137
 
If I accused you of being a NAFO troll do quoting Bentley’s wife in context, then I apologize  
 
 

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 12:41 utc | 141

Looks like 77th/ii/E(&J)DL agit prop brigades are trying out the old ‘we were the best thing that happened to the world empire upon which the sun never set… blah blah’ attempt to retain their ziofacsit bloody sheepskin cover! 
 
’ @EMBurlingame
Dec 6
I care not for Western Civilization, that great lie.
 
English Civilisation, I care greatly for.
Dec 6, 2025 · 8:35 PM UTC ‘
 
That cnuts pinned twatter is effing hilarious as the AngloEuropean ziofascist propagandists throwback to ‘white power’ … dumb fuck doesn’t even realise the make up of most ‘English’ football teams. 
 
They can’t help getting themselves tied in knots being dumb cnuts 🤡🤡
 
 
Chickens are coming home to roost – bodybaggers should slap down the big mouth tiny brain little englander before he encourages more of them to be fodder and ‘heroes’. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 8 2025 13:50 utc | 142

Isn’t that what I’ve been saying for the last several days? Once again: Yes, absolutely. These are CIA assets being destroyed.
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 11:17 utc | 132
 
I don’t read everything you write , but if you mean to say that Trump is at war with the CIA just say so don’t beat around the bush. 
Apparently, your story is that Trump is attacking CIA assets and then the CIA fighting back by publishing videos in every news outlet of these assets being killed.    That sounds like a plot written by a 10 year old.  The videos didn’t come from the CIA, they were released by Trump. Maybe Trump felt sorry for the CIA and so he handed them the ammunition to fight back.  
 
What the Trump administration is trying to sell to the world is the story that Trump can declare war on anything and then start killing people and claim that they are just following the “rules of war”.  As far as I can tell the CIA has been backing that story 100%
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 14:07 utc | 143

Who’s This cNut?
 
My new series – just invented – to pick out the fake ‘opposition’ designed to retain the divide and rule, left/right old saw. 
 
 
That’s all they have left now – send out the sheepdogs left and right , Red/Brown- build the fascist bridges for the peoples to hang and throw themselves from. 
 

’ Eva Vlaardingerbroek
 
@EvaVlaar
22h

The totalitarian European Union needs to be abolished. I don’t believe in reforms. If your foundation is rotten – as is the case in Brussels – you can rebuild the house on top of it all you want but it will still crumble. The Tower of Babel needs to be destroyed.

Dec 7, 2025 · 3:37 PM UTC ‘
 
 
She looks so smug and satisfied at having delivered her inane lines line a bad child actress – another future brave and stunning manikin – Barbie and Ken dolls, to take over from the current failures. 
 
 
The closing shot of the audience is a dead giveaway that she is a performer. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 8 2025 14:10 utc | 144

“As far as I can tell…”
 
 
That isn’t very far. Kinda stupid, to be honest. If the CIA were backing the attacks on their drug traffickers then the mass media would have nothing but praise for those attacks. How anyone can be so stupid as to not realize that is a mystery. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 14:40 utc | 145

so when the media says ”the cia has been authorized by trump to conduct secret operations inside venezuala” does this mean  trump is somehow going after the cia in this operation too?? doesn’t make sense to me, but i am curious how this logic gets altered for it to make sense… 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 15:33 utc | 146

or does that mean, the media is once again throwing smoke in the publics eye and it is something completely different happening here as well?? 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 15:34 utc | 147

in another move that has nothing to do with oil but is all about Trump’s war on the CIA, Trump embraces Jolani before the world. and Trump’s relationship with Bibi, Mossad and Israel is all about the double super secret war on the CIA Messiah not-pedo Trump is waging.
 
hey, let’s argue about something that may or may not have happened 1300 years ago while ICE engages in child trafficking, the entire West starves Gaza along with a whole shitload of other countries, accuses Russia of “kidnapping” thousands of kids while itself killing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian youth, all this from a US (and West) where child labor, child imprisonment, child abuse, child hunger, child homelessness are rampant. and childhood diseases? no MMR or Hep B vax for you!
 
oh, and starving VZ? it’s about Trump’s war on the CIA. and that 900 billion war budget the USG just passed? is there some need to speculate about what the current Autopen in the oval office will do?
 
maybe Trump pardoning actual convicted narco-dealers is him thumbing his nose at the CIA? who the fuck even thinks like this?
 
cue rabid barks about TDS….

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 15:34 utc | 148

Posted by: Noirette | Dec 7 2025 18:44 utc | 60 ———-Seriously? The short opening screen admits it is fake and for entertainment purposes.
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Dec 7 2025 18:57 utc | 62
Oh man I no longer know how to respond any more to anyone,  surely it was understood that the ‘riots’ in GB were lets says exaggerated by such vids, which of course nicely leaves in the shade ‘real oppo’ to the UK Gvmt. (Starmer, prev. Tories Gvmt) and all.  
 
Plus, imho the ‘authoritarian’ grip on ordinary citizens – arrests, de-banking, firing, isolating, cutting off  ‘aid’, and more, is not a popular topic on this board.  Fool me twice, if you are in the UK, what are you posting about that, or doing about that in other ways?  The answer I guess is nothing  …?  Or?  

Posted by: Noirette | Dec 8 2025 15:36 utc | 149

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 15:33 utc | 145
 
As I mentioned previously the CIA is not ideologically monolithic; there are two factions-the drug running neo cons V the ‘good’ CIA for lack of a better term.
 
The former is whom Trump is fighting; the latter would be the ones allegedly operating in Venezuela.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 15:39 utc | 150

Juvenal asks in his 2nd satire how did today’s populace of Roman superfags come to conquer the world? nothing changes. idiots still asking the same question today. if America is so gay and purple-haired and gender-confused, how come it runs the world?“Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.” Moby Dick, “A Squeeze of the Hand.” And we all know what’s missing from that species-exterminating US vessel called The Pequod, right? SPERM. there’s way too much milk of human kindness, and not enough sperm.

 
A good post deserves repeating! Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 7 2025 23:02 utc | 97

Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 8 2025 15:47 utc | 151

has anyone yet offered a substantive critique of the *current* Michael Tracy article? forget other stuff he’s written. is he wrong in his letter? no, he’s not.
 
given the innumerable crimes of unspeakable evil the west commits routinely, incl what happens in the US prison system, how could anyone doubt the western ruling class runs child sex rings? The Catholic Church et al MUST assume an accused priest is guilty precisely because the church as an institution is as guilty as it possibly could be. Why? b/c the job of the church is to cover up the crimes of the state, and the church spends a great deal of time and money covering up the crimes of its priests and workers. of course people not guilty get accused and dragged into this and ruined, but maybe they shouldn’t promote institutions that thrive on child theft b/c those institutions, like the USG and every business, can’t reproduce any other way except via theft?
 
the ruling class wants judicial procedure to be tossed aside in the name of mob justice. and nothing gets a mob moving like a sex scandal, esp one involving kids and rich people. what Dairy Queen and Tyson’s Chicken and ICE do to kids is of little concern, but who doesn’t love getting outraged over a sex scandal? two more minutes hate please.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 15:47 utc | 152

@ canuk | Dec 8 2025 15:39 utc | 149
 
thanks… the idea is similar to a conflict between some inside the trump admin, or a conflict between the elites of the planet – uk verses usa which alex krainer likes to discuss…  if their is an ongoing conflict inside the cia of this nature, i am curious how that would play out… if the cia is good at ”getting rid of evil”, you’d think there would be a few dead bodies along the way, no?? 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 15:57 utc | 153

oh wait! the dead fishermen are cia, lol… ever heard about the real drug kingpins get others to do their dirty work for them?? they are the last to be caught, or murdered…  that is if all of this talk has any connection to reality..  i don’t think it does… it is just an arbitrary game of smoke where the usa wants venezuala oil and have a flimsy excuse for what they are doing on the world stage… trump going after the cia sounds good to the trump fans, but as duck n cover notes – look at syria and how that has played out… usa/israel in bed with isis and look who is in power in syria at present, not to mention what is going on with the oil in eastern syria??  trump as saviour of the world is just too much bullshit for me to accept.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 16:02 utc | 154

@ canuk | Dec 8 2025 15:39 utc | 149
“can a spring bring forth fresh and bitter waters?” no, it can’t. but darkness can look like light. by false fire. 
 
see how much money the CIA staff donate to United Way? just good people, everyday folks.
 
anyone on the ops side of the CIA anywhere in the world deserves immediate death. the analysts can spend the rest of their lives doing honest labor cleaning up Gaza instead of the crime of spying on everyone else and using that knowledge to perpetuate the crimes of the CIA ops side. nah fuck it. kill all of them.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 16:02 utc | 155

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 12:38 utc | 139
 
######
 
All you have to do is weigh in on topical bar subjects of the last year. You certainly have posted voluminously avoiding them.
 
How do you feel about how Trump has handled Epstein since re-election?
 
And how do you feel about the devastation of the Palestinian people by Israel with American support?
 
Nearly everyone here has a perspective with a handful of MAGAs to the exception.
 
Post your thoughts, not wiki, not AI. What do you think?
 
Or is it on the subject of pedophilia and Zionism you’re at a loss for words?
 
You can put an end to this. Will you?
 
PS, I also don’t recall you ever posting substantively about NATO or American support for Ukrainian Nazis.
 
Weird, hunh?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:10 utc | 156

How does someone who wasn’t CIA able to speak authoritatively on the inner workings of the CIA?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:13 utc | 157

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 16:02 utc | 154
 
With all due respect you don’t know what you are talking about.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 16:16 utc | 158

Posted by: LoveDumbass | Dec 8 2025 16:10 utc | 155
 
You call me a ‘Zionist and pedo” yet  you think I would answer any of your moronic queries?
 
Go fuck yourself, Dumbass.
 
 

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 16:18 utc | 159

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 14:07 utc | 142  You are too generous. In addition to the CIA being tasked with attacking Venezuela by Trump even as he supposedly is fighting against the CIA, there is zero doubt that the CIA is one of the three letter agencies cranking out the intelligence that these boats are drug traffickers. Producing allegations that justify the president’s actions is perhaps the prime duty of the CIA, which is ultimately controlled by…the President. People have called the CIA the President’s Praetorian Guard, for good reason.
 
Further, any drug enterprises conducted by the CIA have to be kept under control so that their proceeds go to the desired ends, like Golden Triangle opium paying for Chinese warlords lurking in jungles awaiting the day they can liberate the homeland (PRC, lest you forget.) Or for the money to go pay contras salaries and arms bills. Or to pay off warlords in Afghanistan, so that the US could pretend to have conquered Afghanistan. The CIA’s drug operations in South America are very much about fighting guerrillas in the Andes (successfully by the way, Sendero Luminoso and FARC are gone.) Even if these boats are drug operations, the CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer is not, not, not—-you-know-who is simply lying about this!—-universally promoting the idea these are just fishermen. If Trump wanted to tackle the CIA he starts with his appointments, then continues with the budget, particularly the money laundering that turns drug money into CIA line item expenditures. No one, not even Trump, tries to kill a man by cutting their fingernails too close to the quick. Bombing a handful of drug boats would be a substitute for a serious, potentially effective attack on the CIA. 
 
Also this weird idea that a boast by Frank Wisner, CIA officer, really is more like stating a natural law than self-flattery (Wisner fancied himself the organist after all) is not only stupid in itself. It necessarily implies that whole sectors of the MSM like Fox are CIA fronts….and that our host also works for the CIA, because he pretended this was morally wrong, a war crime. It is true that some imaginary malady called TDS is often invoked.
 
I am increasingly compelled to think that the animus against so-called TDS is driven by rage at the moral claims. It goes back to the so-called deplorables. You-know-who identifies with the deplorables, the conscious racists and sexists and homophobes and xenophobes and anti-labor and anti-poor who worship Trump precisely because he appeals to their worst instincts and promises them an ideal America where the strong get to rule and destroy their enemies (who are contemptibly weak yet triumph by their black arts ov subersion like the Mighty Wurlitzer.) TDS is upholding morals, instead of realizing that life is war and there are no morals in war, the very idea is for losers.  As Nietzsche said about Christianity, morality is a snare set by weaklings, and TDS is merely the current political expression of that hypocrisy. That fact that it is uniquely incarnated in the Democrat Party is presumably just an unfortunate fact, not a partisan slander. Claiming that on the First of Octember, when the masses all rise up and slaughter the Evil Ones, is the day when a personal commitment to Communism will be revealed, doesn’t matter. Until then apparently, one is merely required to worship Trump. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 8 2025 16:21 utc | 160

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:13 utc | 156
they aren’t doing secretly something different from what they are openly doing. no one needs to know anything about the inner workings cuz there’s not something different going on inside the temple at Langley than there is in the streets and fields.
 
the darkness cannot contradict the light. 
 
what’s the difference between these 3 things: witchcraft, stagecraft, and spycraft?
 
in stagecraft the poison is fake.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 16:22 utc | 161

one of the things i like about moa is the level of tolerance and thoughtfulness of the posters generally speaking… nothing is perfect, but it is the type of world i would like to live in.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 16:22 utc | 162

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 16:18 utc | 158
 
#####
 
There is a German expression, “keine Antwort ist auch eine Antwort.”
 
It expresses that the silence or lack of an answer can be as meaningful as a direct answer in certain contexts.
 
I’m only a small part German but they have such a wonderful way of identifying and articulating social  phenomena, n’est-ce pas?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:28 utc | 163

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 16:16 utc | 157
steven t johnson just gave a very very short list of the ongoing crimes of the CIA.
 
please publish your list of all the good being done. i hear those santa sleigh bells a jinglin’ already…don’t die climbing down the chimney with your big fat bag of good news about the wonders the CIA is up to. what’s the price of a Paperclip worth to a Mockingbird?

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 16:29 utc | 164

That phrase is, roughly translated, “No answer is also an answer.”
 
In English we might say, “the silence was deafening”.
 
Data can be valuable. The silences in a data set are often valuable as well.
 
We talk about what Zelensky says, what Trump says, but rarely do we discuss what both do not say, or what they (like my dear friend canuk) choose to avoid.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:38 utc | 165

Unbelievable nonsense that somehow the US’s aggresion toward Venezuela is really about the orange thing and the cia .

Posted by: arby | Dec 8 2025 16:40 utc | 166

i wonder what Queen Elizabeth 1 thought watching those Jesuits at the opening of “Henry 5” rationalizing their support for war on France and hoping that it leads to another crusade on the God’s sacred property, Zion. all while quoting the book of Numbers: “let the female inherit.”
 
and Elizabeth would never get to participate in this debate herself. cuz she’s just a stupid woman. so the artist pulls back the veil on the “temple of knowledge” and exposes what all the smoke and mirrors and sacred cannibalism and chaste (but not very) priests is about: 
 
property.
 
same shit w/all the spy and security theater the CIA is up to. 

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 16:46 utc | 167

@ arby | Dec 8 2025 16:40 utc | 165
 
arby, i have been meaning to tell you this for a long while.. i dig your posts… thanks for being here.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 16:46 utc | 168

Posted by: arby | Dec 8 2025 16:40 utc | 165
 
######
 
In the MAGA mindset, everything is about Trump.
 
That is how cults of personality work.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 16:49 utc | 169

R2R: John Helmer
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46QaPIOgOM
 
“US efforts to divide Russia & India have failed.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 8 2025 16:52 utc | 170

Re:  Murder on the high seas, drug running, and the hypothesis that Drumpff is battling the “bad guys” whether they are self-employed or 3LA assets
 
 
Regardless of the truth of this bloody episode of empire, the profits from the drug trade will increase for certain players, no?
 
So whilst multiple causes, conditions, and motivations brewed this spectacle , can one assume it is still perhaps about the money?
 
~~
 
“…trump as saviour of the world is just too much bullshit for me to accept..”
Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 16:02 utc | 153
 
The universe functions in mysterious ways sometimes, unknown to us.
Mafia Don saves humanity. Ha ha, could be.
It’s a weird world here in digital Disneyland.
Even babies use “smartphones” as pacifiers.
A bifurcation in the species occurring— conditioned young’uns and the wild type.
 
 

Posted by: suzan | Dec 8 2025 16:54 utc | 171

@ suzan | Dec 8 2025 16:54 utc | 170
 
thanks… that is true what you say… keeping an open mind here, but on balance, holding same position.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 8 2025 16:56 utc | 172

If the CIA were backing the attacks on their drug traffickers then the mass media would have nothing but praise for those attacks. How anyone can be so stupid as to not realize that is a mystery. 
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 8 2025 14:40 utc | 144
If the CIA were backing  attacks on their own drug traffickers they would be as loony as you are.
There is no evidence that any part of the story that the Trump administration is telling is true. The video could be fake or if the videos are real the victims could be anybody.
 
You are claiming is that the victims must be CIA because if they weren’t the news media would be all in favor of summary killing people on any pretense with no due process.  I think that is where this country is ultimately headed but the news media can’t just jump to that end result. Its a long process of normalizing such behavior. There are already plenty of people in Congress that have nothing but praise for  attacks on alleged drug boats and the news media is dutifully promoting those authoritative opinions along with the opinions against. 
 
 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 16:57 utc | 173

when the CIA data centers, and others, have gobbled up all the water, they’ll be able to do even more good. like target all of Iraq’s water treatment facilities more gooder, destruction. and pump even more garbage out onto the internet.
 
why even quit drinking? there won’t even be any water left for Victory Gin and Victory Beer in a decade or so. 
 
Add this to the list: AI data centers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEchvValuw
Reasons to Quit – Merle with tax cheat and reefer-crazed Willie

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 17:04 utc | 174

Pretty much complete capitulation, so far in the hybrid war China has won every skirmish:
 
Breaking: Sanae Takaichi Acknowledges Taiwan Belongs to China

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 8 2025 17:05 utc | 175

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 8 2025 17:05 utc | 174
 
######
 
The Chinese have a habit of winning without fighting.
 
A lesson for everyone.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 17:09 utc | 176

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI6c9qpYKPU
 
Don Williams – Tulsa Time. get off that now chatbot-driven machine time. no organism runs on capitalist machine time. people need to get the eff off that automated treadmill.
 
and why do you work for what isn’t even food?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4azs25kUw
Electric 6 – Down at McDonald’s. the US poisons everyone with food. but hey, at least the CIA does some good.

Posted by: duck n cover | Dec 8 2025 17:11 utc | 177

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 16:57 utc | 172
 
Use your fucking brain; why in the fuckle  would the US Navy bother bombing/annihilating small time fishermen-or if they were drug pushers they would , of course, capture them to find out more info on the organization and perhaps turn some into informants-the only explanation that makes sense is that they are part of rogue CIA and they are cutting the grass.
 
There are so many retards on MOA at this time on this issue  its truly astonishing.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 17:28 utc | 178

Guess someone wants to revert legalization and it’s “reefer madness” sequel
 
“Terrifying moment a crazed 6ft4in knifeman stabbed a 5ft2in female police officer in the face with a bread knife in scene ‘from a Scream film’ after suffering cannabis-induced psychotic episode”
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15363825/Terrifying-moment-crazed-knifeman-stabbed-female-police-officer-face-scene-Scream-film.html
 
I know it’s a trash link, but it’s the OT thread and found this might signal something

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 8 2025 17:28 utc | 179

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 8 2025 17:05 utc | 174
 
Interesting that  he has to read his question to her and then she reads an answer back to him. Seems to me this is pretty basic stuff that shouldn’t require a script.
 
 

Posted by: arby | Dec 8 2025 17:31 utc | 180

This CIA cope is made funnier by the Venezuelan victim’s families starting legal proceedings against the USG.
 
Next MAGA cope, Hamas are rogue Deep State Democrats…
 
Droning Americans in America in 3… 2… 1…
 
💥💥💥

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 17:32 utc | 181

Posted by: arby | Dec 8 2025 17:31 utc | 179
 
######
 
The fig leaf over government authority requires, as my friend Jeremy Rhymings-Lang might say, “the forms must be obeyed.”
 
All government is performative. They have to read things “onto the record”.
 
That said, political expediency often demands that the record be filled with lies.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 17:36 utc | 182

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 14:07 utc | 142  You are too generous. 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 8 2025 16:21 utc | 159
 
I didn’t mean to be generous. I apologize for any inadvertent generosity.
 
However I can’t be generous to you regarding your opinion of TDS. 
TDS is a real affliction that people have.
 
When Americans  know nothing about Zelinsky but then suddenly think he is a hero standing up to a bully after they see the Zelinsky-Trump-oval-office video that is clearly TDS. When millions of Americans support the arming of Ukraine simply because Trump withheld the arms for a few weeks that’s TDS. 
 
When  millions of Americans support  Biden and Harris because they think what they are doing is a poke in the eye to Trump that is a very real derangement of reality brought on by their irrational animus to Trump. There is no way Biden-Harris would have got 80 million votes without TDS as the driving force. 
If the vote would be held again today Biden would probably get 90 million votes. TDS fades with time and it takes a daily dose of Trump in the White House to keep it alive. 
 
 
 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:36 utc | 183

Breaking News, Russia has deployed Wagner to Venezuela to protect CIA drug runners from Trump’s vengeance!!!
 
😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 17:37 utc | 184

Federal Interest Payments Surge to New Highs
Good overview with plenty of tables and data points:
 

Key Data Points:
2026 FYTD (1.Oct – 30.Sept)$104 B Interest Expense 3.355% Avg. Interest Rate

Soooo, Boys and Girls …..as Treasury continues to roll over old debt at 2% interest into debt costing 4% interest, that $104 Billion interest cost is going to continue to rise into 2027. 

Posted by: exile | Dec 8 2025 17:39 utc | 185

opps should read:
Key Data Points: 2026 FYTD (1.Oct – 30.Sept)
$1.25 TRILLION Interest Expense
3.355% Avg. Interest Rate
 
which works out to over 25% of federal evenues in FY26

Posted by: exile | Dec 8 2025 17:43 utc | 186

Use your fucking brain; why in the fuckle  would the US Navy bother bombing/annihilating small time fishermen-or if they were drug pushers they would , of course, capture them to find out more info on the organization and perhaps turn some into informants-the only explanation that makes sense is that they are part of rogue CIA and they are cutting the grass.
Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 17:28 utc | 178
I don’t have any concrete evidence  that anybody is getting bombed down there, but I do know there is an enormous flotilla of US  Navy ships costing million$ per day hanging around that area.  I’m pretty sure the intent of releasing the videos (real or not) was to intimidate some folks that live down there. 
 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187

I’m pretty sure the intent of releasing the videos (real or not) was to intimidate some folks that live down there.  
Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187
 
_______
 
That may be part of it, but I suspect it’s mostly for domestic consumption: “Look what we have to do to stop Drug Kingpin Maduro from overrunning our country with cocaine and fentanyl(!)! Shouldn’t we take it to the next level and liberate his country?”

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 8 2025 17:51 utc | 188

I think that blowing up those small boats is to make it look like it really is about drug running ; for justifying the presence of such a huge armed force , and to hopefully cause a retaliation. Maybe also a bit of “look how tough we are”.

Posted by: arby | Dec 8 2025 17:54 utc | 189

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 17:28 utc | 178
“I don’t have any concrete evidence..” 
Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187
 
Thanks for confirming you don’t have any idea what you are talking about on this subject.
 
.

Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 17:58 utc | 190

We can’t exclude CIA involvement in the drug trade, anywhere, including Venezuala.
 
The CCP  continues to ship the precursors of  fentanyl to the Americas, for processing and shipment to the US. Mexico and Canada are getting whacked into curbing this trade. It’s a two-fer, stop the trade and screw China. Venezuela is subject to lineup with both the CCP and the drug traders. The CIA is subject to lineup with all of the above. It’s ever ugly. 
 
Conclusions aren’t available here. The White House refuses to provide justification data  on the bombings, which means either  there is none or they’re withholding it to intimidate the malefactors into submitting quietly, absent scandal. Blackmail becoming a weapon, then, against malefactors involved. 
 
We’ll see. 

Posted by: seer | Dec 8 2025 18:04 utc | 191

The CCP
 
Posted by: seer | Dec 8 2025 18:04 utc | 191
 
####
 
It’s CPC, only idiots and American bigots refer to it as the CCP.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 18:19 utc | 192

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 18:19 utc | 192

.
 
Please leave my name out of the endless diarrhea spurting of your posts, bolshie troll. 

Posted by: seer | Dec 8 2025 18:23 utc | 193

In response to

Pretty much complete capitulation, so far in the hybrid war China has won every skirmish: Breaking: Sanae Takaichi Acknowledges Taiwan Belongs to China
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 8 2025 17:05 utc | 175

 
Thanks for the update……..The world order is changing before our eyes

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 8 2025 18:24 utc | 194

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187
 
####
Zionists, thinking that they are the supreme life form, take pleasure in demonstrating that they are above the law and that they will commit heinous acts, fearing nothing. Not man, not God. It is a particular pathology that helps to explain much of what America (and Europe) does vis-à-vis the ROW.
 
Random acts of violence? Check.
Poisoning their own citizens? Check.
Selling their daughters’ bodies on OnlyFans? Check.
 
Whatever you can imagine, 5x or 10x it, and that is what they are capable of with their delusions of grandeur and malignant egos.
 
There is no logical reason to ever murder in cold blood.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 18:24 utc | 195

Posted by: seer | Dec 8 2025 18:23 utc | 193
 
####
 
Can’t do that. You give me so many opportunities to point out stupidity and provide an opportunity to help others avoid the ignorance that plagues many Imperial nobodies.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 8 2025 18:25 utc | 196

“I don’t have any concrete evidence..” Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187
 Thanks for confirming you don’t have any idea what you are talking about on this subject.
Posted by: canuk | Dec 8 2025 17:58 utc | 190

 
_______
 
Neither do you, of course. Strangely, the only party that could be providing concrete evidence is dead set on destroying all of it. 

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 8 2025 18:31 utc | 197

CVNA > +50%!
 
LOL !!!
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 8 2025 18:39 utc | 198

Posted by: too scents | Dec 8 2025 18:39 utc | 198
 
Yikes!  > 14%
 
Still insane, and a proof that everything in the markets is FAKE.

Posted by: too scents | Dec 8 2025 18:40 utc | 199

I’m pretty sure the intent of releasing the videos (real or not) was to intimidate some folks that live down there.  Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 17:46 utc | 187 _______ That may be part of it, but I suspect it’s mostly for domestic consumption: “Look what we have to do to stop Drug Kingpin Maduro from overrunning our country with cocaine and fentanyl(!)! Shouldn’t we take it to the next level and liberate his country?”
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 8 2025 17:51 utc | 188
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I don’t think Venezuela has much of a Navy, but that didn’t stop the Houthis from chasing the US Navy out of the Red Sea.
 
What I’m saying is:
The message that Trump may want to send may be that any boat that comes close to a US Navy ship will be considered to be a drug trafficker and dealt with accordingly. 
 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 8 2025 18:41 utc | 200