Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani arrived in Russia on January 30 to meet with President Vladimir Putin.
 
Then Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev flies to Miami
 
Gold has fallen, crypto has too, Epstein’s files have been published, is something going on or just a coincidence?

Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Feb 1 2026 0:06 utc | 603

 
I have not checked the links yet Suzan, but would you say the book is mainly about pantheism or panantheism? 
 
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Jan 30 2026 6:12 utc | 213
 
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Pantheism or panentheism?
 
I cannot intelligibly comment on Homer’s book, The Iliad, as I last read it at the inexperienced age of 16, over 50 years ago, and had not revisited it until the other night when I listened to Dr. Jiang Xueqin teach his Beijing students.
 
Jiang relied on modern thought in his talk, using Hegel, Freud and others to explain the Greek worldview of consciousness and the divine in Homer’s time.   
 
It appeared to be a view of both immanence and transcendence although what transcends are qualities like honor, loyalty, justice, from “the monad” and not from a big guy in the sky.
 
So, that falls into the panentheism category?   Which is an 18th century term?
 
I apologize for the delayed response.
I often  don’t respond when time has lapsed or when my response would add little other than conviviality to a thread but, I do enjoy and appreciate your many interactions and comments on MOA,  so thanks for your interest.
 
 
 
 
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Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe
 
 
In this Wednesday, January 28, 2026 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains the nature of consciousness as depicted in Homer’s Iliad.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&theme=dark
 
 
 

Posted by: suzan | Feb 1 2026 2:11 utc | 605

This stick in my craw…from Xinhuanet
 
Trump administration erases Native American, slavery history from U.S. national parks
 

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March 2025, directing agencies to eliminate content that “inappropriately disparages Americans” and instead to focus on “the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.”
However, historians say the administration is actually accomplishing something very different.
The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, the two major professional organizations for historians in the United States, issued a joint statement upon the signing of the executive order, calling the administration’s policies “a systemic campaign to distort, manipulate, and erase significant parts of the historical record.”
“Recent directives insidiously prioritize narrow ideology over historical research, historical accuracy, and the actual experiences of Americans,” the joint statement said.

 
Trump wants all of America to lie like he does.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 1 2026 6:21 utc | 607

psychohistorian | Feb 1 2026 6:29 utc | 608
 
That difference between China and the west when it comes to big data. The entire west now is little more than a security state overseen by Palantir.
 
The flood of undocumented immigrants into US and Europe world be a major [problem for any country. I can only assume it was done deliberately to change demographics and change voting patterns.
 
The ICE killings of American citizens in the US though have been particularly bad.
 
Trump increasing the military budget – what’s he going to use the military on? Throwing more money at the utterly corrupt MIC will not produce Russian grade weapons. It is likely the money is to purchase the loyalty of the military when they ordered to control the American civilian population.
 
I see now there is a major recruitment drive by the nazi press gangs in Ukraine. More cannon fodder being rounded up and sent to there deaths. The non nazi, what I term as the neutral Ukrainians. To stupid to get out in that time between 2014 and 2022. Now the borders are locked down and they can’t leave. Captive cannon fodder.
 
Some countries in the west may be heading that way. Where America is heading…….? Both Russia and China are too powerful to attack. Even Iran it too powerful for the US to attack without nuclear weapons.
The violence the US has unleashed on the world over the past decades is likely coming home to roost.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 8:59 utc | 609

The ICE killings of American citizens in the US though have been particularly bad. 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 8:59 utc | 609

 
Not really … American law enforcement kills something like 5 people a day on average and most of the names are forgotten. Comparatively speaking ICE have applied quite a light touch.
 
Besides killing people, they also ruin the lives of many others who get neaten up by cops only to eventually, after a long and expensive battle, end up innocent. It happened to Roger Stone, but it also happens to little people on a semi regular basis.
 
Then we could start discussing the damage caused by the war on drugs but it’s too big and too awful to fit in a blog post.
 
And after that, there’s the divorce industry complex and how they destroy families … horrific on a different level.

Posted by: Tel | Feb 1 2026 10:51 utc | 611

Some new Epstein files out. Some quite nasty stuff in them. 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAAIAuQXUAIRIAM?format=jpg&name=large
 
The Geroman twitter account has a bit on them and apparently George Galloway is going to do a talk on them
https://x.com/GeromanAT
 
The image of the email I linked came from the Geroman account. Several years ago, Mel Gibson put out a short doco on child trafficking. When in Hollywood, he became more of satanic rituals and child sacrifices. That email is about an informant or victim giving evidence to the FBI. It may or may not be true, but it is exactly the same thing as what Gibson spoke about.
 
He had teamed up with an ex CIA agent who was investigating the child trafficking. Off memory I think he was investigation a child trafficking case when he was pulled off it so he resigned and kept investigation Child trafficking. He managed to track down several kids and get them back to their parent.
Since 2014 at least, the main source of white kids is Ukraine. A lot of those kids will be bought by pedophile brothels or sold to wealthy pedophiles. These kids are shipped completely undocumented and if their bodies are found they cannot be identified and no missing person report so it makes it nearly impossible to investigate the murder. Babies and the youngest children will be sold as child sacrifices in satanic rituals.
 
When doing some research about the child trafficking out of Ukraine a found a British freelance journalist who had investigate the child smuggling route from Ukraine to the UK. It rune through albania, and in the UK, somebody high up in the foreign ministry and also a high level customs official were involved in getting the kids into the country. When in Ukraine he met with and SBU office who didn’t like what he was seeing with the child smuggling.
 
He collected a large amount of evidence including the interviews with the SBU officer. In the UK he went to the police with the evidence he had collected but the case was blocked from high up and never investigated.
 
Its seems many of the very wealthy and also the political elite are involved in this sort of thing. Truly evil people.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 11:04 utc | 613

ld | Feb 1 2026 9:14 utc | 610
 
Have just been watching the video you Linked on ICE. I cant see any difference between them and the nazi goon squads of Ukraine.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 11:51 utc | 615

might be a goodthing
 
The US federal government has entered a partial shutdown, the second such instance since last October, amid a bitter deadlock between Democrats and Republicans over immigration.
Starting early Saturday, the departments of War, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, State, Transportation and the Treasury have been left without federal funding, with the Executive Office of the President and the Supreme Court also affected. All other federal agencies have been allocated funds.
The $1.2 trillion funding package hit a snag in the wake of deadly incidents in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fatally shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good during a crackdown on illegal immigrants in Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier

Posted by: Jo | Feb 1 2026 12:18 utc | 617

The US Department of War is locked in a dispute with artificial intelligence developer Anthropic over restrictions that would limit how the military can deploy AI systems, including for autonomous weapons targeting and domestic surveillance.
The disagreement has stalled a contract worth up to $200 million, as military officials are pushing back against what they see as excessive limits imposed by the San Francisco-based company on the use of its technology, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter.
Anthropic has raised concerns that its AI tools could be used to carry out lethal operations without sufficient human oversight or to surveil Americans, sources told Reuters.

Posted by: Jo | Feb 1 2026 12:29 utc | 619

xiao pignouf | Feb 1 2026 12:10 utc | 616
 
During the Biden admin, there was a bit of a move at one point to push for allowing migrants, non US citizens to vote. If they voted, they would most likely vote for whichever party allowed them in. During the Obama and Biden admins, a huge amount of migrants when in via the souther border. In the US, the Dems have a number of times resisted voter ID.
 
The US is in a real mess now. Theres the Dems happy Trumps order for voter ID was thrown out by the court and and Trump’s ICE goons killing and kidnapping American citizens.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 13:23 utc | 621

the number I have seen for illegal/undocumented migrants in the US is up to 30 million.
 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 13:33 utc | 622
 
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Why shouldn’t the labour force be allowed to vote?  Without representation the “illegals” would be enslaved, which is of course the intent.
 
The way to reduce immigration is to crack down on their employers.
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2026 13:53 utc | 623

Peter AU1 // 613
 
When the Russians said last year that they were engaged in a war against “international Satanism,” you could almost feel the eye rolls here at MoA.  I haven’t looked through much of the Epstein documents.  There’s nothing there so far that I didn’t already know, or suspect.  The one image that struck me though was of two little girls playing child sacrifice.  They were fully clothed and smiling happily.  One girl was laying on her back on the floor where a Satanic pentagram had been drawn.  She was smiling with her arms stretched out.  The other girl was crouched over her holding a knife like she was about to plunge it into the girl on the floor.  She also was smiling broadly.  What type of fucked up life did those two girls have if playing child sacrifice was a normal part of their life?
 
Like Putin said, “International Satanism.”

Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 1 2026 13:59 utc | 625

Putin is too. Litvinenko was killed for exposing it and he told the KGB had video of Putin banging little boys.
 
Also, Putin did this, lifted a little boy’s shirt up to lick his tummy https://youtu.be/5uWEaKLzwUg

Posted by: uusrikas | Feb 4 2026 3:32 utc | 627