10 year treasury at 4.26%
3 month at 3.86% !!!
 
 
de-dollarization brings peace in 2027

Posted by: Exile | Jan 22 2026 15:26 utc | 3

@ Caveman | Jan 22 2026 15:05 utc | 
 
nothing like a shostakovich waltz, first thing in the morning!  i never saw the movie you reference.. i’m not a movie person.. 

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 15:40 utc | 5

Posted by: octavian61 | Jan 22 2026 15:28 utc | 4
 
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It is predictable and inevitable that America will suspend elections at some point.
 
Elections are meant to portray the veneer of legitimacy and a might-makes-right government doesn’t have to seek legitimacy.
 
Election cancellation is coming for Canada and several European countries as well.
 
Not that it matters, elections are public formalities that the intelligence services operate behind.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2026 15:46 utc | 7

you other people out their in the world just aren’t grateful enough! 

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 15:49 utc | 9

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2026 15:46 utc | 7
 
There is no need for them to cancel elections because both Republican and Democratic parties represent the same evil masters. All the social issues are just meant to divide the people, and therefore keep them conquered. It’s all theater. 

Posted by: Maverick | Jan 22 2026 15:53 utc | 11

I disagree, Octavian and LoveDonbass – elections will NEVER be cancelled.  First, they make no difference anyway, and second, they are an essential feature of the opera bouffe of US politics. 
 

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Jan 22 2026 15:55 utc | 13

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 15:48 utc | 8
 
We all want to be designated as minor royalty! How much does that cost? When will the bidding begin? It comes with a big lifetime income, right?

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 16:02 utc | 15

@ Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 16:02 utc | 15
 
one thing for sure… outsized ego and a good dose of narcissism is built right into it!  i’m not joining! 

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 16:05 utc | 17

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 16:05 utc | 17
 
I want to be the Duke of North Texas. I bid…. $1million!

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 16:09 utc | 19

the book ‘a clockwork orange’ is for sale at the odd book  – 2025$ yikes! i guess it is the original print of anthony burgess book..

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 16:13 utc | 21

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 15:53 utc | 10
 
 
This is really great, I’d never heard of Ralph Towner before, sorry to hear he passed. I love the little music conversations they are having between jams. Makes me kinda wanna get the band back together and make some videos like this!
 
Wolfville! That place looks fantastic! I don’t have many biographies on classical composers, other than Wagner’s autobiography, Phillip Glass’s autobiography, and the Adorno book on Beethoven. I have some other books about Wagner as well, I would say he’s my main interest. I also haven’t gotten around to any of them yet, but I will! There are too many books and not enough time to read them all.
 
 
A Clockwork Orange is better every time I see it. Same with most of his films!

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 16:16 utc | 23

i am talking way too much today… maybe i could do a lovedonbass impersonation, lol… or a princess bodica!
 
Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 16:14 utc | 22
 
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It’s refreshing to read you posting and not trying to micromanage others.
 
Shows real growth.
 
Good job!!! 👍

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2026 16:19 utc | 25

Eyes Wide Shut, a very Epstein movie
@ Caveman | Jan 22 2026 15:05 utc | 1
 
Very Epstein indeedio! Kubrick spent (a record?) 400 days shooting that very strange, misunderstood but startlingly prophetic film, then died just a few months after finishing the final cut — before the theatrical release and, some say, before the final edit.
 
The production of Eyes Wide Shut was informed by painstaking research into the same demonic forces — leveraging sexual antinomianism, black magic, and blackmail — which gurgle throughout the Epstein swamp to this day. Nobody has ever asked one question of Les Wexner, the satanic billionaire providing most financing for Epstein, Inc. The Epstein swamp still engulfs us, whether Jeffrey himself was actually killed in that jail, or spirited away.
 
Charlie Kirk was turning on Trump because of Iran, Israel, and Epstein — so they killed him, with Kash (and carry) Patel ready to blame his public execution on transtifa. Kill two birds with one magic frangible thirty-ought six round. A fable so risible from day one, especially to anyone with firearms experience, that the official narrative practically amounts to ritual humiliation: ha-ha, we know that you know this is totally phony. But that’s the point: you’re now too helpless to matter anymore.
 
I hope I conveyed to some the continuing importance of this assassination to young US Americans, in the paragraph above: This event turned out to be a real turning point for untold thousands if not millions — and not just young folks. An irreversible initiation into what Lionel Nation calls The Conspiratorium. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Now I’m reading Chaos by Tom O’Neill and I can’t believe I’m already this far out on the tinfoil: I’m increasingly convinced the moon landing — the whole Apollo project — was a cold-war hoax.
 
My goodness, what’s happening to me? What’s the consensus of barfies (as if!) on the moon landing?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 16:23 utc | 27

I am missing PeterAU1 this morning.  Peter, if you are still reading, best of good health to you!
 
When Peter was very good, (and the last of his posts that I read were) he was very very good.  To you and to other memorable ones who have left us (or maybe returned in a different cloak)  all the very best to all of you as well!!
 
 As an additional thought for today — that is that I bet everything I own that Putin remembers his Alaska visit as significant and never to be forgotten.  That warms my heart.  And perhaps Trump remembers it that way as well,  although he rushed away before the important part.
 
I say to all Christian men and women and children  — go East for a meaningful faith!!
 
Alaska lives!!!  [Now, to that Shostakovitch waltz …]

Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2026 16:24 utc | 29

The joo [stanley kubrick] faked the “moon landings”?

Posted by: YT | Jan 22 2026 16:25 utc | 31

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 16:23 utc | 27
 
 
Yes, the Satan vibe is very tangible in Eyes Wide Shut, and Kubrick was in perfect health and probably should not have had a heart attack. 
 
Now that you bring up the moon landing, there are those who think Kubrick faked it, having mastered front screen projection, and released the still revolutionary looking 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. Some even claim that The Shining is his movie about having done it. Their claims at times are definitely quite interesting 

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 16:29 utc | 33

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 15:05 utc | 1
 
So beautiful, Caveman,  thank you!

Posted by: juliania | Jan 22 2026 16:31 utc | 35

Last night in Moscow another Security Council meeting was held, the second in two days, with what I would call a staged Q&A at its opening with Federation Council head Valentina Matviyenko charged with asking the Q as was done a few weeks ago:
 

V. Matviyenko: First. What is our attitude to the initiative of US President Donald Trump to create a “Peace Council”?
 
 
And secondly, what are our assessments and forecasts, and what is our position on the situation in Greenland?

 
The reason IMO it’s arranged is proven by Putin’s formulated response which I provide below in full:
 

V. Putin: As for the Peace Council. We have indeed received a personal appeal from the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, inviting us to join the new international structure, the Peace Council, which he is creating.

 

 
In this regard, I would like to thank the President of the United States for this proposal. We have always supported and continue to support any efforts aimed at strengthening international stability. We also note the contribution of the current US administration to finding a solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
 
 
As for our participation in the Peace Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to study the documents we have received and consult with our strategic partners before we can respond to the invitation.
 
 
The proposal we have received is primarily about resolving the situation in the Middle East and finding possible solutions to the urgent problems of the Palestinian people and the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
 
 
In this regard, I will note the main thing. The main thing is that the whole process should have a positive impact on the long-term settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on the relevant decisions of the United Nations. And the inherent needs and wishes of the Palestinians must be taken into account. This applies to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and its basic social infrastructure, health systems, water supply, and the establishment of uninterrupted food supply.
 
 
Therefore, even before we decide on our participation in the Peace Council and its work, given Russia’s special relationship with the Palestinian people, I believe we could allocate $1 billion from the Russian assets frozen under the previous US administration to the Peace Council.
 
 
By the way, the remaining funds from our assets frozen in the United States could be used to restore the territories that were damaged during the hostilities, after a peace treaty is signed between Russia and Ukraine. We are also discussing this possibility with representatives of the US administration.
 
 
I plan to discuss all these issues with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, with whom we will hold talks tomorrow, as well as with American representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who are also coming to Moscow tomorrow to continue the dialogue on the Ukrainian settlement.
 
 
Now, about Greenland. We don’t care about what’s happening in Greenland. But we have experience in dealing with similar issues with the United States: in the 19th century, I believe in 1867, as we know, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and the United States bought Alaska from us. If I remember correctly, Alaska has an area of approximately 1,717,000 square kilometers, which is slightly more than that. The United States bought Alaska from us for 7.2 million US dollars. Of course, these figures need to be verified, but I believe this is the case. In today’s prices, taking into account inflation over these many decades, this figure would be equivalent to 158 million dollars.
 
 
And the area of Greenland is a little bit more, I think, 2 million 166 thousand square kilometers, also with a tail. That is, the difference is somewhere around 449-450 thousand square kilometers. If we compare this with the cost of the acquisition of Alaska by the United States, then the price for Greenland would be somewhere around 200-250 million dollars.
 
 
If we compare it to the price of gold at the time, this figure would be closer to a billion. However, I believe that the United States can handle this amount. Additionally, Denmark and the United States have prior experience in this regard. In 1917, I believe that Denmark sold its Virgin Islands to the United States. Therefore, there is precedent for such transactions.
 
 
By the way, Denmark has always treated Greenland as a colony, and it has been quite harsh, if not cruel, towards it. However, this is a different matter, and it is unlikely to be of interest to anyone at the moment. However, it is certainly not our concern. I believe that they will sort it out among themselves.

 
 
News of the use of the frozen billion was published but without all the related context. Russia’s conditions for joining IMO will be rejected, although I also believe that when the documents are combed through by the MFA, Russia will reject becoming a lackey to what’s a unilateral piece of crap. Putin and Abbas are having talks today. Considering the Zionists refuse to obey the ceasefire demanded during Phase One, I don’t see anyway a Phase Two can be implemented as envisioned. I also don’t think Putin’s suggestion for the use of Russia’s frozen funds will be accepted since the Trump Gang wants to use them itself.
 

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2026 16:33 utc | 37

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2026 16:31 utc | 36
 
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I don’t post “so much”. b determines whether my posting content and volume are appropriate.
 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2026 16:37 utc | 39

@ c1ue 6
 
Will you then sell me your Silver doorstop box you’ve been kicking around your house because it doesn’t do anything? Or have you already sold it?
You just don’t get it or refuse to see: there is sooooo much money out there that silver will never go back under fifty and even if it does through their ability to smash the price, it will be snatched up at an even faster degree and will shoot back up.
 
for example, over a two year period, TSA flagged 700 million in cash going to Somali from Minneapolis. That’s just the Somalis!
 
Silver will be $150+ very soon.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 22 2026 16:39 utc | 41

@Caveman
Stanley Kubrick is a fraud
Kubrik plagiarized ideas from many European directors such as Pasolini, Bergman, Kalatozov, and Resnais. The hotel scene in The Shining is a complete copy of Bergman’s The Silence or Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad.  The violent scenes in Clockwork are plagiarism of Bergman’s The Virgin Spring. He also stole many ideas from Pasolini in Theorem when he made Clockwork.
Stanley Kubrick has been noted for taking heavy inspiration from Canadian cinema, particularly the work of experimental filmmaker  anglo canadian Arthur Lipsett and National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions.. Compare to Universe (1960) & 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).. 
 
He stole edit ideas from the Russian genious Kalatozov.

Posted by: Friul | Jan 22 2026 16:41 utc | 43

Posted by: Friul | Jan 22 2026 16:41 utc | 43
 
 
Interesting. I have seen at least one Bergman film (The Seventh Seal) and one Pasolini film (Salo) but I haven’t seen the ones you mention. I also haven’t heard of the other two directors, I’ll have to check out those films. Is it straight up fraud and plagiarism do you think, or is it tribute and what they used to call in composition (before the days of copyright and intellectual property) ‘quotation’? Kubrick was a big classical music fan, and would be familiar with quotation music. I wonder if maybe he was doing the same with film? I also wonder if I’m maybe just making excuses for him now? I’ll have to check out the films you mention and see what they’re all about. Thanks!

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 16:48 utc | 45

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 16:42 utc | 44
 
Some of the shadows in photographs aren’t right, though. They seem to go in different directions, suggesting multiple light sources. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 16:51 utc | 47

I love Shostakovitch’s waltzes too. He had a great hand for grotesque. It’s apparent throughout his life, though there seems to be a distinct point when it changed its nature from the more light-hearted to the tragic. The cinematic aspect to his expression may have something to do with him earning his money while being a student at the Petersburg conservatory as a pianist in movie theaters. Here’s him doing a film score for The Tale of the Priest and his Helper Balda. 
 
He did an opera once, called The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, portraying a woman who breaks out of her dull marriage through adultery and murder. It debuted in 1934, with Stalin in the audience, and reviews in the papers were rather frightening, accusing him of “formalism”. Probably it was his graphic musical description of a sex scene that found no acclaim with officialdom. Ever since then, Shostakovitch feared for his life and kept a suitcase ready under his bed in case the secret police were coming for him. It also marks a break in his style.
 
The biography I read, by a Polish guy who personally knew him, remarks that the political leadership knew well they couldn’t easily go over his sheer talent. His international success with the 7th Symphony Leningrad, pointed out here on MoA by someone else recently, may have something to do with it. During the siege of his city, he volunteered for front duty, but was only allowed to guard the conservatory; which he did, rifle in hand. 
 
For all of these reasons and more, Shostakovitch is sometimes called a chronicler of the Russian people. Notable works in this regard include his 10th Symphony from 1956, said to deal with his personal feelings about Stalin, and his 11th, named The Year 1905 after the first attempt at communist revolution, but subtextually also hinting at the suppressed uprisings in Hungary which is apparent in the second movement. You can literally hear the tanks rolling in.
 
Another fun little piece is called the Tahiti Trot.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 22 2026 16:55 utc | 49

As for silver never going under $50 – maybe. And maybe not. 
There is no actual driver for silver industrially, outside of solar these days. And solar is facing hard times. And as such, there is no actual short term upwards drivers for silver prices.
Good luck! You’re going to need it.

Posted by: c1ue | Jan 22 2026 16:58 utc | 51

@ Friul | Jan 22 2026 16:41 utc | 43
 
Deriving inspiration from other artists is not a just cause for allegations of aesthetic fraud. Even in the case of the most shameless rip-off artists, such as Elvis Presley or Brian Wilson, there can be considerable timeless artistry preserved in their magnificent work. The same criteria you use to dismiss Kubrick can be reasonable deployed against Shakespeare.
 
Kubrick’s finest contribution might be his genius integrating classical music into the cinematic form — most memorably with Wagner’s Thus Spake Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Most of his movies make great music even more memorable, in a manner nobody has surpassed. My favorite: his use of La Folia in Barry Lyndon.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 17:02 utc | 53

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2026 16:33 utc | 37
 
Now, about Greenland. We don’t care about what’s happening in Greenland.
 
Well he certainly is a very detailed source of information for a person disinterested in the subject! 
 
Yes a completely staged question and answer as you note. Somewhat theatrical I would add. 
 
As for our participation in the Peace Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to study the documents we have received and consult with our strategic partners before we can respond to the invitation.
 
And certainly they worked diligently and possibly throughout the night or at least very fast, after all it has been agreed with nuances. Did they even consult with strategic partners. 
 
I cannot comment on the visit by the israeli representatives, I will be labelled anti something 🙂
 
 
 

Posted by: Natalya Volkova | Jan 22 2026 17:08 utc | 55

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 22 2026 16:55 utc | 49
 
A+ post, my friend. I am now going to listen to ALL of that music. Thank you!
 
 
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 17:02 utc | 53
 
 
This Spake Zarathustra is actually Richard Strauss, not to be confused with Johann. The piece I remember from Barry Lyndon is the Sarabande by Handel (I almost wrote Haydn there, so don’t feel bad, it’s hard to keep all of this music straight in one’s mind!)

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 17:11 utc | 57

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2026 17:17 utc | 58
Right, I don’t know who that is and don’t care.

Posted by: catdog | Jan 22 2026 17:19 utc | 59

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2026 16:33 utc | 37
“Giving a billion to Palestine ”
had to love that lead balloon 
and the Greenland jabs at NATO HA! They must be cringing in Brussels
 
Putin trolling is the west is the best
Thanks Karl 
 

Posted by: ld | Jan 22 2026 17:27 utc | 61

persiflo 
 
 
That is not the first time he wrote a symphony were you can hear the tanks rolling in. 
 
Symphony no 7 was begun in the besieged city of Leningrad, though  finished  elsewhere. It was first performed in Leningrad whilst the siege raged on. It is also known as the Leningrad Symphony.
 
 
“Few important compositions ever been performed under quite so trying circumstances as Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7. It was August 9, 1942. Not only was Europe at war, but the German army stood at the gates of Leningrad. So long had the city been under siege that several orchestra members had succumbed to famine during the rehearsal period, and the ensemble, finding itself short of players, put out a call for help. The Russian military officer in command of defense forces released any soldier who could play an orchestral instrument reasonably well long enough for the performance, which was transmitted by loudspeakers around the perimeter of the city, both to hearten the Russian people and to make the point to the Germans that surrender was not at hand. During the concert, empty chairs were placed in the orchestra to represent musicians who had perished before the performance could be given. The Germans initiated an attack just as the concert was beginning, but Soviet commanders ordered their artillery to refrain from firing until the symphony had been played.” 
 
excerpt from Britanica

Posted by: will moon | Jan 22 2026 17:34 utc | 63

This Spake Zarathustra is actually Richard Strauss, not to be confused with Johann. The piece I remember from Barry Lyndon is the Sarabande by Handel (I almost wrote Haydn there, so don’t feel bad, it’s hard to keep all of this music straight in one’s mind!)
Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 17:11 utc | 57
There’s also a most delicious Schubert piece in Barry Lyndon, a violin/cello/piano trio. And, I think, a composition of Frederick the Great, which, admittedly, cannot fully keep up with the other music…
The notion that Kubrick is a plagiarist is ridiculous. That he was influenced by other directors is not the point, many directors do that. The way he composed these influences into coherent masterpieces is unique.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: mk | Jan 22 2026 17:38 utc | 65

Posted by: mk | Jan 22 2026 17:38 utc | 65
 
He was a true master of music in film. He had hired a composer for 2001, then decided to use all the temp music he had dropped in to mark scenes that needed music. The composer, Alex North, wrote an entire score, and didn’t find out until the premiere that Kubrick had used none of his music. Here is the opening scene with North’s score

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 17:50 utc | 67

Posted by: mk | Jan 22 2026 17:38 utc | 65

The notion that Kubrick is a plagiarist is ridiculous. That he was influenced by other directors is not the point, many directors do that. The way he composed these influences into coherent masterpieces is unique.

But very, very, few directors have created their own ideas from scratch (Bergman, Tarkovsky, Pasolini, Kobayashi, Dreyer, Resnais, Lang, Einsenstein, in other words a tiny group of pioneers in the 20th century).. and Kubrick is not one of them
 

Posted by: Friul | Jan 22 2026 17:55 utc | 69

The Heroes That Molded Me: Marcus Garvey
 
Most men pass through history unnoticed. They arrive quietly, lead a routinenized life, and die quietly, leaving nothing behind but paperwork for the state’s archives.
 
Then we have men like Marcus Mosiah Garvey, men who not only pass through history but rupture it.
 
Garvey was not a footnote in history; he was an eruption, a combined whirlwind and hurricane that blew everything in its path.
 
Marcus Garvey was a thunderclap in an age when Black people were trained not only to bow, but to whisper in the presence of White people. He was a dangerous man, precisely because he taught Black people to stand upright and look the world in the eye.
 
Of course, the custodians of Western mythology, the hagiographers posing as serious historians, did their best to neutralize him. They caricatured him as a charlatan, a naïve dreamer, a failed businessman. Unfortunately, many Africans bought into this false narrative of a man who, if appropriately assessed, would be ranked alongside another Black Genius, Imhotep.
 
The calumnies against Marcus Garvey are political assassinations, and not historical judgments. The West, which controls the world’s media, has always preferred to continue with the assassination of our prophets even after death.
 
Garvey terrified the system because he did not beg white people for mercy, reform, or inclusion. He demanded sovereignty.
 
An heresy in those dark, menacing times,
 
Garvey understood the risks he was taking; he warned: “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
 
That single sentence explains why he had to be mocked and erased. People with confidence cannot be governed as inferiors; they will not accept any inferior or subordinate role.
 
The plantation owners understand that.
 
Garvey’s true achievement was not ships, uniforms, or parades, although he liked to appear in flamboyant ceremonial dresses. But those were mere symbols as his real empire was built where it mattered most: inside the broken, colonized mind of the Black man.
 
Marcus Garvey restored something the slave system worked meticulously to erase – self-belief by Black people. His idea, which he distilled into his followers, was not borrowed confidence or Western validation, but an unmediated conviction that Black people were sufficient unto themselves.
 
Read the full article here: https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/the-heroes-that-molded-me-marcus
 
©️ Femi Akomolafe (1st Dan)
Blog: https://femiakogun.substack.com

Posted by: Femi | Jan 22 2026 18:15 utc | 71

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 18:15 utc | 72
 
Meant as a reply to Will Moon at 63.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 18:19 utc | 73

@ 51 “There is no actual driver for silver industrially, outside of solar these days. And solar is facing hard times.”
Total BS statement! 
Neither Solar or Silver are facing hard times. The only place there is no solar is up Trump’s rabbit Hole.
World wide Solar Power growth is exploding. 1 single commercial size solar panel uses around 21 grams of silver. So Silver is in, and will continue to be in high demand.
 Like it always has For Solar,  Electronics, Industry, and Jewelry. High tech and AI data centers that are being built all over the world are totally dependent on silver. 
 Silver production is  in deficit. More silver is needed than can be produced. Supply and demand will force the price of Silver to continue to rise. 
 
 Solar growth is up over 64 percent in 2025 and set to grow more in 2026.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/global-solar-installations-2025
 

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 22 2026 18:29 utc | 75

As usual, I must highly suggest spending an hour to watch the Hudson/Wolff chat, where you’ll discover that a general strike is planned for tomorrow in Minneapolis along with other important details.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2026 18:32 utc | 77

Just a question. What is Denmark getting out of the deal with Trump?The island of Manhattan was bought in 1626 from native Americans in exchange for goods, valued at 60 guilders, or $32. Four hundred years later, and with Greenland bigger than Manhattan, you would expect prices to be higher?

Posted by: The Far Side | Jan 22 2026 18:34 utc | 79

@ 75 “and? any less hot air being spewed on planet earth?”
Not a chance of that with Trump running loose all over the world
 

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 22 2026 18:42 utc | 81

Posted by: fnord | Jan 22 2026 18:51 utc | 82
 
Yep. All of you need to be homeless and destitute. 😉

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 22 2026 19:04 utc | 83

c1ue | Jan 22 2026 16:58 utc
 
Chinese are using about half an ounce in each electric car they build. Apparently they built over 12 million last year. That’s a lot of ounces.

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Jan 22 2026 19:20 utc | 85

Why doesn’t Mark Rutte give all the Dutch islands in the Caribbean to Trump? As a real estate investment, I think they are more valuable than Greenland.

Posted by: Friul | Jan 22 2026 19:45 utc | 87

36 mins Glenn Diesen
 
Jeffrey Sachs: Davos Revelation – US Empire Unhinged & Europe Subordinated – YouTube

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jan 22 2026 19:54 utc | 89

From Maria Zakharova’s Weekly Briefing:
 

Question: In light of recent statements by US representatives who are trying to conclude a deal with Denmark under international law, as was the case with the Virgin Islands, the United States is pursuing its own interests, while promoting the creation of a kind of “peace council” under its control, positioning it as a platform for global dialogue, an alternative to the UN.
 
 
Don’t you think that such contradictions are not just hypocritical, but prove that Washington’s true goal is not to build a just world, but to replace international law based on the UN Charter with its “right of the strongest,” where the sovereignty of other countries is a matter of bargaining?
 
 
Maria Zakharova: I hope that yesterday you followed President Vladimir Putin’s statements to the effect that the Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to work on the issue related to this initiative.
 
 
I can say that the Foreign Ministry is fulfilling the President’s instructions. It is being worked out. When the instruction is fulfilled, when this issue and this initiative are analysed, then we will be able to comment on it in detail. Who will be entrusted with this – the Foreign Ministry or the Presidential Executive Office – will also inform the public about this, given the interest in this topic and the resonance.

 
I don’t know who asked the Q but it was framed correctly.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 22 2026 20:02 utc | 91

Did someone mention BOLERO?
 
BOLERO Ravel ラヴェルボレロOrquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia ガリシア D: Vicente Alberola. Dvořák nº 8 – YouTube

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jan 22 2026 20:06 utc | 93

Very few directors blaze something new.
 
Robert Bresson in his later years was pure form.
 
David Lynch thought he was more of a sound man.
 
I think Terrence Malick is probably the only artist I can think of able to approximate a Heideggerian cinema. But there is Bergman in him, too.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 22 2026 20:23 utc | 95

Posted by: Femi | Jan 22 2026 18:15 utc | 71
 
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Great article. I love Marcus Garvey. His insights about a colonized mind remain incisive and true.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2026 20:30 utc | 97

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jan 22 2026 20:06 utc | 93
 
 
Fantastic rendition. That percussionist playing the snare drum has a perfect touch. Flawless dynamics start to finish. Thanks for sharing!
 
 
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 22 2026 20:23 utc | 95
 
 
Malick is indeed a fantastic director. I wonder how many filmmakers are undercut by studio bosses denying them a chance to make the film they want to make, stuck in the ‘this way sells so that way isn’t worth trying mindset.’ Probably more than a handful is my bet. Stuck making Starsky and Hutch 2: Starsky IS Hutch rather than having an actual chance to do something real

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 22 2026 20:38 utc | 99