Posted by: jinn | Dec 9 2025 18:10 utc | 301  My memory doesn’t contain these facts. Biden did not become a viable candidate because Trump tried to force a foreigner to indict him.  Your version lapses into an imaginary secret history, good for a graphic novel maybe? Nothing else, sorry.
 
Biden always had a certain viability as an ex-VP, but to get him through the nomination process they had to set it up so that Sanders (and Buttigieg) would run out of money before Super Tuesday primaries. Those are so spread out but so significant it takes big bucks in hand to campaign so many places simultaneously. They did this by rescheduling the date of the SC primary, so that James Clyburn could deliver at long last an actual win for Biden.  Cutting off funding for Sanders (and Buttigieg) the only Democratic Party politicians to actually win voters was enough because no other candidates, not Warren, and certainly not Harris, were even as popular as Biden. Further, I think the real impetus driving Democratic Party big money donors to unite behind Biden was basically fear of the party [franchise] breaking down. Biden, the too little, too late man, the man who wouldn’t really change anything, was what they were willing to settle for. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Dec 9 2025 23:02 utc | 304

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 9 2025 1:12 utc | 227
Soleimani.
Posted by: Laurence | Dec 9 2025 2:49 utc | 242
 
What about him?
 
Why was my first reply deleted? That makes no sense at all.
 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 9 2025 23:58 utc | 306

I use various free VPN services for typical privacy reasons – is that why my comments were deleted? 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 0:21 utc | 308

There is nothing in this world that is more maddening than having one’s comments wiped without any reason given.  
One more time and I am out of here. I won’t have my time wasted like this. I’m not a two year old. 
 
Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 0:23 utc | 311

 
Except that it wasn’t deleted at all.  It’s right here, and now: Multipolarbear | Dec 9 2025 1:12 utc | 227

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 0:48 utc | 310

@309 Multipolar

Unless the script has been changed, when posting all comments now show once posted to the person posting (at least if ‘Save my name…’ is ticked) even if they are held back by a filter and are not visible to others. If you return to a page not logged in, a comment caught in filter would then appear as having been deleted, but in fact would have never been posted. The filter used is to stop spam etc. and I have had comments that would not post that I could not figure why, while further comments were allowed (i.e. was not being banned). b does also delete comments he finds inappropriate as well as allowing through appropriate comments caught in filter. As owner as well as host, and so responsible in whatever way for what is being published that is b’s responsibility/duty/right/privilege.

Just to say not to jump to conclusions, the first time a comment doesn’t appear or gets ‘deleted’ makes question a lot, but almost always it is technical etc. for sincere posts.

Typing out text as seperate document (not in browser) first is a good idea also.

Posted by: Ornot | Dec 10 2025 0:48 utc | 312

@ Multipolarbear | Dec 9 2025 23:58 utc | 307 your post @ 227 is still there.. was there another one i am missing?? 
Posted by: james | Dec 10 2025 2:13 utc | 315
 
Yes, two or three have disappeared. informative responses to good questions. nothing emotional btw. 

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 2:29 utc | 314

Here’s some musings on the term troll. It’s quite an intriguing and colorful concept, isn’t it? The etymology is rather ancient, almost dark, but I believe the word is related to trail. In German, the expression troll dich! (piss off; get lost) is still in fairly common usage. Like many scary notions from the Germanic language, the meaning harks back to dark forests and foggy swamps, where the will-o’-the-wisp (Irrlicht) can lead the careless wanderer astray, soon never to be seen again …As a character of tales and imagination, the troll is somewhat of an archetype. In that, he’s a companion of the harlekin, a today almost forgotten figure who was at home on theater stages in times before the enlightenment. The proverbial Pausenclown, his role was to draw psychological projections from the audience and act upon them – crude, selfish, bawdy, silly, utterly amoral  – a complete anti-hero, who isn’t even a real part of the plot. His job is to raise a mirror  in front of the public; if it works, they’ll stump their noses on it.  The moment is surprising, both funny and painful, yet essentially a resolution.The troll is different. He doesn’t live on the stage and entertains the public; he dwells in the woodwork. When he shows up, he brings his own motives, a crude and toxic agenda. His role doesn’t involve a moment of resolution. He does not come alive by projections from an unsuspecting audience; instead he brings his own. In that, he is the forgone ability to reason (Unvernunft) personified. The troll can’t be argued with. He lurks in the shadows, hungry for unsensibly administrated emotions, feeding himself on the dark and aimless energies. His natural habitat is not a theater stage, but a dim-lit tavern/bar/saloon; he resides at the bottom of a bottle of whiskey. A classic example of the type is Gollum from Lord of the Rings – ugly, slimy creatures, dim and shallow, yet possessing of a character, which gives them unique motivation and agenda. Best not to interfere with their ways, that’s the message of the Norse folk tradition in a nutshell.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 10 2025 3:37 utc | 316

I use various free VPN services for typical privacy reasons – is that why my comments were deleted?
 
Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 0:21 utc | 310
 
######
 
That is probably it. I assume MoA is using a WP spam filter bot, which would catch VPN IPs.
 
Those IPs are likely quite tainted, as they are what industrial-scale spammers use.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 10 2025 3:52 utc | 318

b is battling a troll who uses VPN and ever-changing alias; when he shows up he typically starts spamming the thread, and some unrelated comments may have been scrubbed during the cleanup. The troll feeds on a grudge, and is quite likely schizophrenic. I call him the Dog. 
Dog, if you’re reading here, I need to say something. It was me who alerted b to your outrageous shitposting (during what seemed like a psychotic break) – just when b himself was ill and couldn’t tend the place as usual. I had you script-blocked, but still it was utterly nauseating what transpired from the threads. It pains me that it hurt you so much, but to get things straight, what you were and are up to is way, WAY out of bounds, vandalism pure and simple (whatever psychological motives may be involved). Perhaps my confession helps you to remove the sting of slight, however insensible or not. Withdraw it, patch up the wound, and let’s get on with our lives, how about that?
Otherwise, with a nod to long-gone barfly Circe, you can die in a housefire – good riddance, I say.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 10 2025 4:15 utc | 320

Another $38 billion of Debt Just Auctioned Off – With France/UK Selling, Who’s Buying? ==> https://youtu.be/05GCVnAxdkk
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 10 2025 4:49 utc | 322

saying – seeing.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 10 2025 5:30 utc | 324

Below is the wording from the UN Charter
 

Article 53

1. The Security Council shall, where appropriate, utilize such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement action under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council, with the exception of measures against any enemy state, as defined in paragraph 2 of this Article, provided for pursuant to Article 107 or in regional arrangements directed against renewal of aggressive policy on the part of any such state, until such time as the Organization may, on request of the Governments concerned, be charged with the responsibility for preventing further aggression by such a state.

2. The term enemy state as used in paragraph 1 of this Article applies to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory of the present Charter.

 
From Reuters
 
Russian bombers join Chinese air patrol near Japan as Tokyo-Beijing tie strains
 
As I read the UN Charter, China and Russia could combine to crush Japan for its aggression just like Russia could do with Germany and be within the rules of the Charter.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 10 2025 5:33 utc | 326

AI Overview
 
UN Charter Article 107, part of the “Transitional Security Arrangements,” is an obsolete “enemy state clause” that validated actions taken by World War II victors against former enemy states, allowing them to settle post-war issues (like occupation or war crimes trials) without UN Security Council approval, but it’s now considered redundant due to the time passed and changing world conditions, with the UN intending to delete it.
Key Points of Article 107:
 
 
“Enemy State” Clause: It specifically addresses actions related to states that were enemies during World War II (WWII).
 
Exemption from Charter Rules: It stated that nothing in the UN Charter could invalidate actions taken or authorized by responsible governments as a result of WWII against these enemy states.
 
Post-War Authority: It provided the legal basis for the victorious powers to manage the aftermath of the war, including military actions, occupation, and tribunals, without needing new UN authorization.
 
Obsolete: The clause’s relevance ended with the resolution of post-WWII issues, and the UN General Assembly has recognized it as obsolete and planned to delete it.

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 10 2025 6:07 utc | 328

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 10 2025 4:07 utc | 321
 
😆` Nazi Dips Party. AKA: Zippers.

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 10 2025 6:16 utc | 330

Because barflies need to be exposed to more recent brain science
 
Your Brain Quietly Rewires Itself at 9, 32, 66 and 83
 

Summary: Researchers identified five major phases of human brain wiring that unfold from birth to old age, marked by four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. Childhood and adolescence are periods of rapid reorganization, while adulthood brings a long plateau of structural stability.

 
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20 years of the default mode network: A review and synthesis
 

The discovery of the default mode network (DMN) has revolutionized our understanding of the workings of the human brain. Here, I review developments that led to the discovery of the DMN, offer a personal reflection, and consider how our ideas of DMN function have evolved over the past two decades. I summarize literature examining the role of the DMN in self-reference, social cognition, episodic and autobiographical memory, language and semantic memory, and mind wandering. I identify unifying themes and propose new perspectives on the DMN’s role in human cognition. I argue that the DMN integrates and broadcasts memory, language, and semantic representations to create a coherent ‘‘internal narrative’’ reflecting our individual experiences. This narrative is central to the construction of a sense of self, shapes how we perceive ourselves and interact with others, may have ontogenetic origins in self-directed speech during childhood, and forms a vital component of human consciousness.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 10 2025 7:32 utc | 332

Dunno if this is been posted anywhere, apologies if it has, but a forty one minute explanation, rather than an interview, by Col. Douglas Macgregor explaining how the Venezuelans have been armed to the teeth with thousands of weapons, by the Russians. Pay back time is upon us and tRump’s got a real dilemma on his hands. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaF12i0tR0U

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Dec 10 2025 9:36 utc | 334

Replacing a window in your house in Westminster, UK can cost over 15k GBP with all the necessary government permits taking most of it.
 
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1998635897047392312

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 10 2025 9:52 utc | 336

Gee. Where are the close observers of geopolitical developments?  Nada on this topic, so here goes.
The Czech Republic just got itself a new Prime Minister…already forgot his name, but the important thing is that he has declared that his nation will NOT make any more contributions to the Ukie corruptives in the guise of military assistance.  He has firmly declared that his administration will focus strictly on the actual needs of his own country.
Imagine that!  Yet another Central European leader who thumbs his nose at the bureaucraps in Brussels and their bosses hanging out in City of London and at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Consider the upshot:  The resistance movement now includes in addition to the newbie Czechs, their former team-mate, Slovakia; Orban’s Hungary and generally speaking, the people of Serbia.  Looks like a nice tight bloc to me.  Meanwhile, the people of both Bulgaria and Romania are a bit restive over this whole EU/NATO crappola…that at the same time as the Italian people are thumbing their noses at the Yidistanis getting more genocide weapons trans-shipped through Italian ports.
Yes, Dorothy, there is an awakening by the ruled in much of Europe.  Even the French more and more detest that little Rottenchild stooge and his “girlfriend”.  Merz in Krauticana is dropping and fading in opinion polls, while the Starmer regime is utterly detested by native Britons.
WE, the common people of the world have nothing to lose but our financier masters.
 

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 10 2025 11:47 utc | 338

Otherwise, with a nod to long-gone barfly Circe, you can die in a housefire – good riddance, I say.
 
Posted by: persiflo | Dec 10 2025 4:15 utc | 321

 
I’m confused. Are you saying that “our” Circe died in a house fire, or is that something she wished on others? The latter would’ve been in character…

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 12:32 utc | 340

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 10 2025 5:33 utc | 327
 
Looks like a female flying that massive bomber.

Posted by: arby | Dec 10 2025 15:53 utc | 342

JT: David Hundeyin
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM8UKTh3NE
 
“Nigeria has signed its death warrant’: Benin crisis explained.”
 
Recommended.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 10 2025 16:35 utc | 344

Unfortunately, the internet allows anyone to be a huge ahole. As a general rule may try to avoid saying anything on the internet that would not say to someone in person. Self control is a valuable trait. Lot of the noise does not even merit a response. Just let them look the fool. If still want to hurt someone while in person may want to seek some help.

Posted by: Thurl | Dec 10 2025 20:02 utc | 346

I don’t get all this talk about JAGs. They all serve at pleasure of the president-cum-commander-in-chief and have been rubber-stamping the most egregiously illegal acts for at least decades. If they didn’t, they’d be out on their asses.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 22:27 utc | 348

I don’t get all this talk about JAGs. They all serve at pleasure of the president-cum-commander-in-chief and have been rubber-stamping the most egregiously illegal acts for at least decades. If they didn’t, they’d be out on their asses.
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 22:27 utc | 349

 
The idea that JAG “serves at the pleasure of the president” has things backwards.
 
JAG isn’t a personal advisory team — it’s an institutional legal corps created by Congress, embedded in the uniformed military, operating under Title 10. Multiple United States Laws. Individual officers can be reassigned, but the president doesn’t hire or fire JAG lawyers like political appointees.
 
More importantly, none of this changes the basic point: military operations run under a completely different legal framework than CIA covert actions or law-enforcement maritime interdictions.
 
That’s the only distinction I was making. No grand theory or ideology — just the correct legal lanes.

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 10 2025 22:58 utc | 350

@Nemesis  – indeed I missed out on RSH’s ideas concerning possible MoA meetups. Likely that was during the covid lockdowns, a time of heightened tensions for many, but luckily not for me. I was living in a shared apartment with an English Marxist, a Syrian ISIS warrior, and a German psychopath who invited me in so I could take a little care of her because she also has multiple personality disorder. It worked out really well for us, as everyone had very little social needs, which we could comfortably satisfy simply by meeting in the kitchen for dinner every once in a while. Our only visitor was Xanthippe, who came by once a month; then everyone but the ISIS guy (lol) came out and talked to her for a few minutes – that was enough for them. I soundproofed my door, established a regular amphetamine connection, and practiced shredding the electric guitar for two years straight. I even (mostly) skipped MoA during that time, after more or less consistent following here since 2010 or thereabouts.
 
Actually I think Circe’s wish is worse than RSH’s threats. I have no doubts he can and even wanted to kill in cold blood – he said as much when stating he spent considerable time in prison for his plans to “bury” the elite –  but concrete motives are likely absent; such that the point is rather a symbolic statement about his sensitivities. Circe, on the other hand, expressed a clear desire to kill for no apparent reason whatsoever, only acting out her deep-seated rage and frustration. You could dismiss her desire to see a barfly die in a house fire as simply colorful language, but then it must said that this is of outrageously bad taste. The very low threshold for such unwarranted and consequent sadism, even if only notional, is remarkable and disturbing. Alas! I hope she’s well, and the Dog be spared of any house fires and other accidents … he may consider calming his efforts and remember about the merits of being at least somewhat polite, however; I guess it won’t hurt.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 11 2025 0:11 utc | 352

R2R: Yves Engler
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFd7P-6t7U
 
“Electoral systems are rigged against anti-capitalists.” As evidenced by the NDP’s exclusion and smear of activist and author Yves Engler running for Party leader. This is consistent with fake-left sheepdog and system-pig parties like Canada’s No Difference Party – once accurately described as ‘a party of the working class, run by the middle class, in the interest of the ruling class.’
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 11 2025 2:15 utc | 354

MOATS, with George Galloway: ‘The Reckoning’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
 
“Trump Ukraine Deadline| Decayed Europe| Hand in your Socials|
 
With Larry Johnson & Andrew Napolitano

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 11 2025 2:24 utc | 356

persiflo@0.11
 
That is an amazing post. It has a sonorous rhythm – a seamless artefact rendered in prose – “I soundproofed my room and established….” Lol! Been a tough week for me – but it broke through my anaesthesia 
 
Thanks

Posted by: will moon | Dec 11 2025 2:38 utc | 358

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 11 2025 2:50 utc | 359
#####
 
I have seen a real video of Kansas City Chiefs WR Rashee Rice’s mother stealing someone’s parcel.
 
It happens for real.
 
What lawsuit? That person is on another person’s property and got painted while trying to move a box that isn’t theirs.
 
The doorbell cam is enough to exonerate any homeowner.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 11 2025 2:53 utc | 360

I don’t get all this talk about JAGs. They all serve at pleasure of the president-cum-commander-in-chief and have been rubber-stamping the most egregiously illegal acts for at least decades. If they didn’t, they’d be out on their asses.
Posted by: malenkov | Dec 10 2025 22:27 utc | 348

 
Need a hint? The issue is: No JAGs, no Executive or Congressional authority no `different legal framework’. Period.
 
 
CTV News
Japan and Australia urge calm after Chinese radar locks on Japanese jets
3 days ago
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 3:33 utc | 362

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 11 2025 3:46 utc | 363
 
Did not.  CTV News
 
Japan and Australia urge calm after Chinese radar locks on Japanese jets
 
3 days ago

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 3:52 utc | 364

Posted by: Multipolarbear | Dec 11 2025 3:53 utc | 365
 
Simpler version:  Chinese radar locks on Japanese jets
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 3:55 utc | 366

No authorities, no legal basis,  no oversight, no rules. Period.
 
Chinese radar locks on Japanese jets
 
“The point of a gun was the only law that Liberty understood …

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 3:58 utc | 368

anyone have any thoughts on the usa pirating the ship off venezuala with oil on it?? 
 
my own thought.. at least it is more apparent.. trump is all about getting the oil with venezuala.. the drug con is more trump bullshit con.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 11 2025 4:08 utc | 370

james | Dec 11 2025 4:08 utc | 370 One.
 
Global News: U.S. seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast, Trump says
CTV News: U.S. seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say
Al Jazeera: Trump administration says it seized oil tanker off Venezuela coast
The Squirrel: Trump news at a glance: Seizure of oil tanker marks new level of tensions between US and Venezuela
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 4:28 utc | 372

@ Laurence | Dec 11 2025 4:28 utc | 372
 
thanks for the media headlines… i wasn’t asking for media headlines, but thanks.. 

Posted by: james | Dec 11 2025 4:39 utc | 374

Lest we forget…2 years ago:
 
 
Trump Boasted He Wanted to Take Venezuela’s Oil After Overturning Its Government
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqE-WqxfT1E
 
“We would have gotten all that oil…”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 11 2025 5:10 utc | 376

Wild shit in Congress!? –Republican Congressman Thomas Massey introduced a bill on the withdrawal of the United States from NATO, a press release posted on the website of the Chamber: “We must withdraw from NATO and use this money to protect our own country, not socialist countries,” Massie stressed.
 
Someone needs to inform Massey the Outlaw US Empire is quite socialist in numerous ways. Afterall, he makes his living off the people’s taxes and the largess of other entities. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 11 2025 5:17 utc | 378

Multipolarbear | Dec 11 2025 4:28 utc | 373
 

My point was only about the legal distinction between Title 10 military operations, CIA covert action, and law-enforcement interdiction.

 
Understood;  my point is the same as the Chinese military radar when your point is immaterial to the status quo.
 
@james. Selectavision as a habit commends you not.
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 11 2025 5:53 utc | 380

Venezuela….which ship which flag which owner operator? International waters? Lloyds insured?
2 for 1 —venez and Iran oil? Temptation for a Venezuela military response or Venezuela going to let oil markets and business trade markets collapse, barrel price volatility? Shut HormuzIs this some weird practicing partnership with Isr. against Iran what might come next out there? Any
 
Can anyone list other tanker incidents that might indicate a much bigger tanker attack plan? Yup we have the Black Sea tankers France kidnapping one under false presence then letting it go also Norway? was it doing similar?
Were various mysterious tanks attacks out east a few years ago.
So what would happen if a Russian or Chinese taker was carrying oil from Venezuela? Are they going to show some kind of presence out there provide escorts or a sub just going to surface to say hullo?
USA sending any warnings to them keep out? Or R and C so happy they have pipelines thank goodness 
D
Does Russia now walkaway from any more engagement with the psychopath DT re Ukraine.
Is-hS DT walking walked from NATO and Ukraine to rogue elephant in Caribbean, with the new Security Policy saying yup this works?
 
Any knock onto NATO countries , further damage to USA-EU relations apart from oil prices , market instability, USA can profit for charging more for LNG etc, EU regret even more loss of cheap Russian gas? Is Orban still friends with DT?
 

Posted by: Jo | Dec 11 2025 7:16 utc | 382

Re: the future 
I figure we have 2 years or so until (as per too scents ) the conflagration strikes 
time to start slowly and quietly prepping for the worst.  Get to know your neighbors and develop positive relations with them. Stock up on a bit of soaps, cleaning stuff, and household medicines.  Figure out how to live car lite or car free. Finally get one of those little PV plug and play systems for camping that run around couple of hundred bucks.  (to charge electronics plus a few lights, maybe even the fridge ) Wood Stove to supplement space heating, if you live in a cold climate. 
Plant a few fruit trees if you have a garden.  On veggie gardening – it takes about 5 years to get one’s soil adjusted and for one to figure out the micro-climate subtlies. Starting now will reap big rewards later on. Start small. 
no need to go full tin-foil hat  crazy prepper; more akin to Grandma’s sensible Depression era lifestyle. 
 

Posted by: exile | Dec 11 2025 8:27 utc | 384

‘COMEX: the paper contract gig is up! We are here for the shiny!’
https://x.com/fiatmoneysucks/status/1998943236161941528

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 11 2025 11:33 utc | 386

Someone needs to inform Massey the Outlaw US Empire is quite socialist in numerous ways. Afterall, he makes his living off the people’s taxes and the largess of other entities. 
 
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 11 2025 5:17 utc | 378

 
Now, now, Karl! There’s a difference between socialism and parasitism.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 11 2025 12:30 utc | 388