info on Belle 151’s claim?
 
Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 14 2026 17:15 utc | 1
 
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Sean Foo has a chart ==> https://youtu.be/CIPJm5lJRvY?t=123
 
You could overlay Sean’s chart on the Silver/$ chart and there wouldn’t be much difference.
 
Not surprisingly Iranian coinage is trading far above its minted value ==> https://en.ucoin.net/catalog/?country=iran
 
Iranians who go to market with coins are probably just fine.
 

Posted by: too scents | Jan 14 2026 17:27 utc | 4

S Brennan | Jan 14 2026 17:15 utc | 1
 
I was watching Marandi on one of the talk shows the other day and he said there had been an attack on the currency to trigger the original peaceful protests. A couple of days then the Gene Sharpe goons where sent in. They killed a lot of people, both security people and peaceful protestors. No different to other American colour revolutions.
The goons had been armed with pistols and from video I watched, they had been armed with flame throwers as well.
 
There appears to bee a combination of three things – the attack on the currency, an attempted very violent colour revolution and the current American/Zio threats. I just checked the propaganda media for news on Iran and there is currently a massive propaganda campaign running but apparently an Iranian bank failed back in October.
 
If that bank collapse was part of the attack on their currency I don’t know.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 17:40 utc | 6

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 14 2026 17:21 utc | 3
 
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That’s quite funny to me.
 
The USD is essentially worthless, it’s main utility is paying US taxes.
 
The US doesn’t exclusively produce anything. The US doesn’t produce much that is necessary to anyone else.
 
Except for people trading dollars to and fro like they were tulips during the height of tulipmania, it isn’t any better than any other currency.
 
In the near future, many currencies will be 0.00 to the dollar.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 14 2026 17:44 utc | 8

too scents | Jan 14 2026 17:27 utc | 4
 
That’s interesting. I posted a quote on the previous thread – every thing up, especially precious metals points at collapse of fiat currencies.
Everything is measured in terms of US fiat dollars backed by nothing, but it seems the US have printed themselves out of business.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 17:48 utc | 10

every thing up, especially precious metals
 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 17:48 utc | 9
 
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The Persians are not poor.
 
This guy makes solid copper pots suitable for boiling bankers ==> https://youtu.be/0LXjmc9UOas
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Jan 14 2026 17:57 utc | 12

The new US visa ban (note Montenegro and Macedonia, NATO countries):
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The countries include Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
 
 

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 14 2026 18:14 utc | 14

British propaganda outlet Sky News has reported that yada yada yada … “the option to directly strike and kill Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is not off the table”. Then Iran will finally get the deterrent it should have acquired a decade ago already?

Posted by: xor | Jan 14 2026 18:30 utc | 16

I was watching Marandi on one of the talk shows the other day and he said there had been an attack on the currency to trigger the original peaceful protests. 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 17:40 utc | 6
 
 I saw him say that as well. He also said that they had been buying the currency for about the last year so that they could wack it at the right time.

Posted by: arby | Jan 14 2026 18:39 utc | 18

I had posted this at the Iran thread, but also relevant here. Davis with Mearsheimer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3_CP-XeQo
 
This oil war – Russia China, the war against oil tankers, Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria. China the main target for the Trump regime. Petro-dollars…..
 
The petro-dollar began with Iran, the American pulling support for the Shah. Oil prices skyrocketed and so everyone needed lots of petro-dollars. Trump was talking about crypto to replace the petro-dollar but perhaps that has fallen by the wayside. The petro-dollar and China is now the worlds largest importer of oil. BRICS and others now trading in national currencies rather than the petrodollar.
 
A strong chance the Americans will go nuclear on Iran. The Americans have been pulling out of all nuclear treaties….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 18:44 utc | 20

@ xor | Jan 14 2026 18:30 utc | 16
 
the brit propaganda outlets are quite fun aren’t they? letting everyone know assassination is the in thing… would be really fun if some russian, iranian – etc. etc – country was to advocate the same on the uk leader for example… that would get a rise out of me, otherwise these lowlifes – mi6 and friends – never cease to highlight the moral depravity of their position on the world stage… britian, the royalty and all of the power of this country is tarred and poisoned by this black attitude as seen in their media.. 

Posted by: james | Jan 14 2026 18:47 utc | 22

Posted by: xor | Jan 14 2026 18:30 utc | 16
 
They already tried a decapitation strike on Khamenei back in June. It failed.

Posted by: Laguerre | Jan 14 2026 18:53 utc | 24

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 18:44 utc | 20
 
I believe if the US used Nukes, then so will Russia and/or China. 

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 19:00 utc | 26

Grok’s default mode is NED, NGOs and corporate media. If you chew it out for 20 minutes and dump some links, books and articles into it, it begins to function on geopolitics.  Apparently, it can be humiliated as it is programmed to please.  

Posted by: Deniz | Jan 14 2026 19:02 utc | 28

MOATS with George Galloway: ‘Regime Change 2.0’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
 
“Target Tehran| Tariff overdose| Greenland Summit| Starmer U-turns| Lira RIP”
 
With Prof Seyyed Marandi & Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 14 2026 19:06 utc | 30

A strong chance the Americans will go nuclear on Iran. The Americans have been pulling out of all nuclear treaties….
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 18:44 utc | 20
 
If so, the ROW needs to unload everything they have on every US asset worldwide. Immediately.
You don’t bargain, negotiate or try to return sanity to a rabid dog, you kill it. Preferably before it bites again. The USA has proven itself to be entirely rabid for decades.
 
End of the human species? Possibly. But since humanity has let things get to this point, maybe that is the right thing for the planet.
 
Maybe the squid/cuttlefish or some other deep sea creature will evolve with the psychotic naked apes gone.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: ftp | Jan 14 2026 19:07 utc | 32

Any human being with even smidgen of a conscience will be boycotting the USA anyway – the people of the below countries should wear their snub as a badge of honour.
 
Sec. Marco Rubio freezes all foreign visa processing indefinitely from 75 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 19:09 utc | 34

Argentines need to grow a pair and drag the US puppet Milei out of office.
 
“A news clip circulating Argentine social media breaks down how President Javier Milei quietly repealed a 2011 law that protected Argentina’s land and water from foreign buyouts, just as wildfires rip through Patagonia. The speaker outlines how global elites like George Soros already control millions of hectares in Argentina, and how Milei’s Decree 20/70 (Dec 2023) abolishes key land protections, opening the door for unrestricted foreign ownership. Argentina’s sovereignty is being parceled out to foreign hands.”
 
video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2011470650725027840/vid/avc1/1920×1080/R4mjbjOjHktzY58E.mp4

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 19:12 utc | 36

@  fnord | Jan 14 2026 19:00 utc | 27
 
i don’t think the usa imperial court is concerned about it’s international reputation.. it’s done everything it could to destroy and yet the various poodles who slavishly go along with it, remain just that – slaves… if they had a backbone, as opposed to the jellyfish they are, they’d drop out of nato, but here’s what i think… 
 
leadership is sorely lacking on the world stage, and it is very clear that those of a dictatorial, or autocratic nature, are filling the gap…  until someone with a wider vision for the future comes along, it will be a continuation of the declining empire – usa, and the various vassals that are beholden to it..  trump is the perfect leader for the continuation in this same direction… the sycophants in his inner circle add to a quicken erosion  of  the imperial court of king trumpty dumpty.. 

Posted by: james | Jan 14 2026 19:14 utc | 38

Republicofscotland |34
 
As much as people go on and on and on about Trump, Rubio is the real danger.  Trump may be Israels tool but Rubio is a hard core, dyed in the wool globalist-neocolonialist-neocon-neoliberal.  Whereas Gavin Newsom just wears the Swastika patch on his sleeve for the perks…  Yes..yes both types are dangerous but, one is willing to be used by evil forces while the other is evil incarnate.
 
Such are the dictated choices of our “two-party” 😆  State.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 14 2026 19:19 utc | 40

@S Brennan #1
There have been multiple sources saying that the Iranian currency has devalued a lot, in the near past.
No reason to think this is false, especially since the objective was to increase inflation and therefore civil unrest.
As for the fools thinking the gold price increase is all about the dollar – some it is, but most of it is not. Whatever you think inflation is, it is not 100% in the past 18 months. It isn’t even 100% in the past 10 years.
The investor-illiterate also don’t understand that the majority of the money driving up gold prices is not even Western. Mrs. Watanabe and Mrs. Kim – aka retail investors in Japan and Korea, have dumped Japanese and Korean mutual funds en masse and a lot/most of that money went into gold. And it isn’t because of the dollar – at least- not the dollar devaluation per se because the yen and won have devalued even more since they are pegged against the USD.
Equally idiotic is the notion that you can avoid the dollar even while living in the US. Legal tender means you must have dollars in order to pay for almost everything. Putting your money in any asset is a risk; the reality is that all assets go up and down. I have lived through 2 gold and silver bubbles already; I see no sign that things are still significantly structurally different this time.
I bought my mother’s 1000 ounce brick of silver in 2000 for $8000 – $3000+ from its spot price and sold it for $45500 in 2011. Meaning a silver bubble occurred barely over 10 years ago. Gold peaked around $1700 in the same time frame, then fell about 50% even in the face of massive Fed money printing.
Point being: the notion that gold (and silver) always retains value is correct only in the sense that it doesn’t go to zero.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 14 2026 19:24 utc | 42

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 14 2026 19:32 utc | 43
 
Yes, they will be rich and they will be there. 

Posted by: Maverick | Jan 14 2026 19:35 utc | 44

Today’s gold is the fetish of late, anxious, end-stage capital

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 14 2026 19:38 utc | 46

As much as people go on and on and on about Trump, Rubio is the real danger. Trump may be Israels tool but Rubio is a hard core, dyed in the wool globalist-neocolonialist-neocon-neoliberal.
 
Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 14 2026 19:19 utc | 40
 
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To the millions of people America starves, bombs, rapes, and murders, the entire Empire is the problem. Not the B-List actors. Arguing over personalities is what keeps people busy as ICE shoots them in the face.
 
It’s by design. And the hoi polloi falls for it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
 
To the people of humanity outside of America, every American is dangerous. There are some good ones, but they are mostly busy jerking off about politics.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 14 2026 19:42 utc | 48

c1ue | Jan 14 2026 19:24 utc | 42
 
When the US went off a gold backed currency and onto the petrol dollar, many central banks sold off their gold reserves. Out of 190 or so nations, about 53 are US vassals. It can be seen in the voting at th UNGA.
 
For a decade or so, non US empire central banks have been stocking up on gold. The is what you mention as well. Private citizen purchasing gold. I think its India. Big gold buyers as they do not trust banks – gold jewelry and so forth.
 
Throughout history. Gold and gems have always been currency in times of turmoil. The shit is about to hit the fan bigtime now so people are buying precious metals. The US has now thrown away it fig leaves in desperate efforts to revive the petro-dollar. Back in 2022 I advised family and friends to buy some gold for rainy days. Mint stamped small ingots. Not for ‘investment’. As currency. 
 
What is becoming clear now, the American strategy is to try and enforce the petro-dollar
The American economy is in dire straights and now we are back into great power war.
 
Everything about the post WWII world has been priced in American dollars but now that is starting to fade into irelevance.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 19:45 utc | 50

I suggest barflies have a look at this Infographic supplied by Global Times on China’s 2025 trade results. Of particular importance is the increasing ratio of high-tech exports within total exports which is nearing 20%. There’s also this article that discusses the results and notes that the new record is for “goods” only. The notion that 25-500% tariffs are going to decrease China’s exports is that of a drunkard.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 14 2026 19:49 utc | 52

No surprises here – from the once Perfidious Albion’s head security chief.
 
“Disgraced ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove — infamous for the false WMD intel in the dodgy dossier that took Britain into the illegal Iraq war — now backs Trump taking Greenland. Much of our security elite is enmeshed in the US war machine. It makes us less safe and less free.”
 
video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2011382459611422720/vid/avc1/1280×720/7GDL8islM7iPpYjS.mp4?tag=14
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 19:51 utc | 54

Germany now sending troops to Greenland.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germany-send-reconnaissance-troops-greenland-190521251.html
 
Maybe the Europeans are growing a spine. Rapprochement with Russia and China to take care of security and trade concerns would be great next steps.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 14 2026 19:53 utc | 56

“CNBC and Bloomberg have become the ESPN and Fox Sports of the financial world. Stories are simplified, spun and spoon-fed to the audience. We thoughtful contrarians can’t stomach this junk any longer! These “experts” have vanilla investors sweating every headline. The always-impending recession. Job losses. Trade wars. Geopolitical battles. Domestic political dysfunction.” (BNK Invest)

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 14 2026 19:56 utc | 58

“Disgraced ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove — infamous for the false WMD intel in the dodgy dossier that took Britain into the illegal Iraq war — now backs Trump taking Greenland. Much of our security elite is enmeshed in the US war machine. It makes us less safe and less free.” video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2011382459611422720/vid/avc1/1280×720/7GDL8islM7iPpYjS.mp4?tag=14  
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 19:51 utc | 54
…………..
 
Cecil Rhodes. https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-brutal-legacy-of-cecil-rhodes
 
And Mark Twain’s Anglo Saxons. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/mark-twain-speaks-special-excerpt-from-twains-autobiography-vol-ii

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 20:02 utc | 60

Posted by: fnord | Jan 14 2026 19:53 utc | 56

Germany now sending troops to Greenland. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germany-send-reconnaissance-troops-greenland-190521251.html Maybe the Europeans are growing a spine. Rapprochement with Russia and China to take care of security and trade concerns would be great next steps.

It certainly would. But also very unlikely at this point. Wily Uncle Sam and John Bull threw a big Ukrainian wedge where it hurts and made sure that idea is off the menu for a generation or two.

Posted by: robin | Jan 14 2026 20:04 utc | 62

Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod): “Please share: Terrible scenes of police brutality in Iran 🇮🇷 last night. Oh, no, wait, it is Los Angeles, NVM.” | nitter.poast.org
 
Oh maybe this is it – nope its France.
 
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848): ““France condemns the use of violence against protesters in Iran”.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 20:07 utc | 64

The United States (the Jew part pretending to be Masons + the Jew part pretending to be Christian + the Jews) is an empire of LIES.
.
Their propaganda is stronger than their military.
.
The B-2 fake raid on Iran:
.
Concerning the bombing of the Fordow facility, General Dan Caine said: “And the pilots stated, quote: ‘This was the brightest explosion that I have ever seen. It literally looked like daylight.’”
.
Not bad for a bomb that we are told explodes eighty meters underground.
.
Truth is; no light, at all, from the explosion would be seen above ground.
.
The video with him claiming this absurdity is probably still available.
.
Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc78GJbpen8 @ 16.08
.
See, if you are a Jew (Daniel Caine) then you can blatantly lie to the whole world and no one says boo.
.
Caine is the head of the chiefs of staff. Apparently, the highest-ranking military officer in the United States. Certainly, no genius. Looks like a dumb actor who parrots his lines.

Posted by: fake raid | Jan 14 2026 20:11 utc | 66

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 20:05 utc | 63
 
USA and the UK.  Two countries with no culture.  Shit cuisine, no history of culinary or musical artistry, and nothing that speaks to contributing to humanity or the greater good.  Only WAR and BLOOD and THEFT. 

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 20:12 utc | 68

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 19:51 utc | 54
 
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When the European troops “stand down” in Greenland so Trump can occupy the country bloodlessly, it should surprise no one. But it will, because I can already see it, “OMG! This is crazy!!!”.
 
No, it is completely predictable.
 
The UK, the US, the French, the Germans, it’s all the same. The distinctions are without difference. They all govern the same, they all murder the same, they all lie the same, and have done so for a couple of centuries.
 
When the Nazis made their move, that was a turf war between competing gangs. A moment of solidarity for the Anglo side as its Empire waned and the Imperial assets were re-allocated to the colonies.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 14 2026 20:14 utc | 70

Peter AU1 (60).
 
Off the top of my head
 
Cecil Rhodes – when in Africa with the British troops who were trying to steal the Boers land in the Second Boer war, said to a friend that he didn’t know how lucky he was to be born an Englishman -the Brits had colonial troops from all over the world attack the Boers to steal their lands because gold and diamonds had been discovered on it.
 
Colonial troops from India, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, NZ, Australia, and even gunslingers from the US were invited to kill the Boer – if I recall correctly on defeating the Boers – the Brits set up the first concentration camps, were many more Boer women and children died of disease, and starvation, the Boers leader was also if memory serves me – imprisoned on the same island that Napoleon was imprisoned on.
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 20:17 utc | 72

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 20:17 utc | 72
 
Hence, why the Berlin Conference set in motion how we got to where we are today. 

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 20:23 utc | 74

“On a different subject, it is being reported that a number of prosecutors have resigned in Minneapolis rather than gin up a prosecution of Renee Good’s widow.”
 She should be charged with felony murder.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jan 14 2026 20:24 utc | 76

DJT shistch in Greenland is to force a robust bilateral defense and mining agreement……..the bluster is just part of his deal making strategum…………..he uses this all the time.
Wake up read his book ‘The Art of the Deal’……..

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 14 2026 20:25 utc | 78

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 14 2026 20:25 utc | 78
 
Written by the same guy who filed for bankruptcy 6x?  That guy?  

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 20:28 utc | 80

Breaker Morant Film trailer (about English betrayal )

Posted by: exile | Jan 14 2026 20:32 utc | 82

On a different subject, it is being reported that a number of prosecutors have resigned in Minneapolis rather than gin up a prosecution of Renee Good’s widow.”
 
 She should be charged with felony murder.
Posted by: Archetypex | Jan 14 2026 20:24 utc | 76

 Felony murder eh? A fascist turkey clucking for Christmas. Its revealing how people like you Arch, would be quite at home in a Nazi brigade. Goosestepping clown. If shooting a woman three times in the face is justified in the circumstances we all saw, im sure you won’t complain when the guns are turned on you? Or did you think your compliant, submissive supplication to extrajudicial murder will save you and yours? Absolutely disgusting. You can hardly be called a man, I would call you a slug but it would do those invertebrates a disservice. 

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 14 2026 20:33 utc | 84

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 20:33 utc | 86
 
Indeed!  And why Traore needs to be protected at all costs.  

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 20:35 utc | 86

Back to the basics: she is dead.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 14 2026 20:39 utc | 88

 exile | Jan 14 2026 20:32 utc | 83
 
Perfidious albion…. Breaker Morant – I just looked that up then saw you had posted it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IgcNmEpu4
 
I tell people here we need to break away from empire and declare sovereignty but they have zero understanding. Mainstream media is more or less opium dens that fucks up their minds.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2026 20:44 utc | 90

MarcusAurelius (87).
 
Who knows how great some African nations, if not the continent itself – might have been if great leaders like Thomas Sankara, and Patrice Lumumba hadn’t been assassinated to appease colonial forces.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 14 2026 20:48 utc | 92

aaron mate – ‘trump ”help” offers iran more pain, lol… what a benevolent leader of the unfree world he is! 

Posted by: james | Jan 14 2026 20:50 utc | 94

If so, the ROW needs to unload everything they have on every US asset worldwide. Immediately.You don’t bargain, negotiate or try to return sanity to a rabid dog, you kill it. Preferably before it bites again. The USA has proven itself to be entirely rabid for decades. End of the human species? Possibly. But since humanity has let things get to this point, maybe that is the right thing for the planet. Maybe the squid/cuttlefish or some other deep sea creature will evolve with the psychotic naked apes gone.  Posted by: ftp | Jan 14 2026 19:07 utc | 32
 
When Ole Yeller has gone mad- you don’t shoot it in the leg or the back. You shoot it in the head. The same with a mad country- it’s is not Joe lunch pail that is insane, nor Agnes, the bar wench at the local pub. It is the few fanatics that are above the law- sitting in corporate chairs, at aristocratic tables and on elite 1000 ft yacht…that’s your bullseye.
 
(ya- I’m also thinking cuttlefish/dolphin/whale ascendency after the next extinction event) 

Posted by: Original Newbie | Jan 14 2026 20:52 utc | 96

First skirmish of the Butlerian Jihad:

Spotify removes 75 million tracks from platform in crackdown on AI; They say they are taking a stand against music intended to “confuse or deceive listeners, push ‘slop’ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers”https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-removes-75-million-tracks-from-platform-in-crackdown-on-ai-3895278

h/t Media Monarchy 
 

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 14 2026 20:53 utc | 98

Posted by: Siddhartha | Jan 14 2026 20:39 utc | 90
 
But is it really?   Famous painters were Dutch, French, Italian, Spainards.  Name me a Brit.  I’ll give you Pollack, Man Ray, Warhol, and Rockwell for the Americans.   Famous cuisine?  France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal.  Brits have fish and chips.  Go through the Lourve and you tell me who dominates.  But I can tell you the works of art and artifacts in British Museums were stolen from others.   Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Rodin.  Name me a comparable Brit or American.  Music- Austrians, Germans, French, and Italians.  Name me a Brit.   Sopranos and Tenors- Spaniards, Italians, Maria Callas.     I can go on and on, and apologies for what other Europeans nations contributed to the world.      

Posted by: MarcusAurelius | Jan 14 2026 20:53 utc | 100