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There are many signs that the Americans are trying to break away from London and the Jews. Perhaps they are misleading signs. Time will tell. US is a mixed up place. Its like they want to dump London and the Jews yet retain empire.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 12:26 utc | 401
The Duran:
Epstein rocks the UK establishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC4NMqLdmO8
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2026 12:48 utc | 402
@General Factotum #390 Feb 6 2026 10:57 et al.
Well written and very much needed remarks.
I would also like to reassure you about their general easiness and accessibility.
If anything, just to nitpick a bit, you could have avoided a few well intended abuses, without making the texts incomprehensible.
I am thinking especially of phrases like “6 trillion gamma rays” (in another comment) which may become misleading if, as you have shown, some commenters here do not have a clue about what a boson (much less BEC) is, and “when” it can be counted…
Posted by: MoaMetal | Feb 6 2026 12:52 utc | 403
Lol …
@MyLordBebo
15h
🇬🇧 During a TV interview of UK’s Kemi Badenoch, a rat can be seen in the background
Banedoch’s office is located at the Palace of Westminster, where British Parliament is
Feb 5, 2026 · 1:53 PM UTC
That there is the epitome of the Mossad Zionist Fascist Party control of Whitehall – that’s not just any old rat – that’s a HasbaRat!
Doing its job of keeping an eye on their ‘assets’ 😂😂😂
Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 6 2026 13:05 utc | 404
Goldman, JPMorgan Bankers See Bonus Pools Rise at Least 10%
‘JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. boosted their bonus pools for bankers and traders by at least 10%, as the businesses benefited from a banner year in dealmaking and market activity.’
The banker-Fed-Treasury apparatus allegedly can’t figure out whether to mess with the interest rate which will raise prices even more but may ‘help the job market.’
So in the current system you can have higher prices but perhaps with a few more job opportunities to pay for shit (get your gig on baby!) or you can have even less jobs that still don’t pay well, and prices will be a bit lower perhaps, but still high overall.
In the meantime, they’ve given themselves yet another raise with a dividend bonus on top.
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 13:08 utc | 405
Goldman, JPMorgan Bankers See Bonus Pools Rise at Least 10%
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 13:09 utc | 406
When you think Russian secret services can’t be any more incompetent than they are, they provide you with an unpleasant surprise.
Posted by: barahmasa | Feb 6 2026 13:22 utc | 407
304 Sebgo –“Understand that, contrary to the commentators on MoA, the major concern for the Sahelian countries is not geopolitical. The concern is security and economic”.
This makes sense. I had understood since reading a year or two back that the terrorists backed by the US were gaining territory in Mali, their presence being one of the main impediments to the successful building of the societies of the Sahel countries. I had thought Russia was helping to fight the terrorists. So this is why the conflict was invested with the geopolitical aspect. When, in 2023, Wagner’s Prigoshin died in a supposed accidental explosion in plane, the hope was that the renamed militia would fight the terrorists in the Sahel.
331 Sebgo — “… the Wagner group, now Africa Corp, is in CentrAfrican Republic (CAR) since 2020.They arrived in sahel in 2022-2023-2024 according to the country…”
What is the Africa Corp doing there?
I wonder what remains to be the relationship of this group with Russia, does Russia pay them? You say Russia can’t do anything (to help the situation for the Sahel countries). Is that because Russia is tied down in Ukraine? Likely, as you point out nothing good will come from the US there. IMHO I for one do not have expectations of Russia either.
This is not good news.
Posted by: barahmasa | Feb 6 2026 13:22 utc | 407
They prevent 99% of attacks but there are always some succeeding. That’s the cost of open borders, Britain uses the Stan’s to often ship in terrorists.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2026 13:25 utc | 409
Starmer is in trouble over Mandelson’s Epstein links. The root of Labour’s problem is the factional purity demanded by the right of the party. When Corbyn was leader he had a broad church shadow cabinet that included the breadth of the party. But when the right of the party under Starmer gained control, they purged the left of the party. At the centre of this factionalism, from the anti-Corbyn campaign to the purging of left-wingers, was Morgan McSweeney, who is now Starmer’s top adviser.
It’s too late to reverse the factionalism. It has already split the party apart. And Labour has badly squandered what should have been a Blair-like 10-15 years in power. Starmer and McSweeney need to be held accountable for that, as much as for ignoring Mandelson’s well-known baggage. They have removed real electoral choice – we lucky UK voters now have three Tory parties to choose between to run the country.
Posted by: Dave G | Feb 6 2026 13:26 utc | 410
I don’t think there exists a govt anywhere in the world with such casual disregard for the safety of their military leaders as Russia. And since NATO, and especially the UK have realised this, they will keep targeting them for recreation and have no fear of consequences at all.
Posted by: New Sage | Feb 6 2026 13:32 utc | 411
Ukrainians brought war and suffering upon themselves, and Kazakhs are doing the same, according to a Kazakh blogger (EADaily, February 6, 2026 — in Russian)
Ukrainians brought war and suffering upon themselves, and Kazakhs are doing the same, writes Kazakh blogger Alzhan Ismagulov.
According to him, to prevent Kazakhstanis from having to resist their own TCC-ers [Ukrainian military people-catchers — S] in the future, as in Ukraine, they need to come to their senses and stop the madmen pushing the country toward war.
“I read a Ukrainian woman’s thread. They say the children are freezing, they’re hungry, there’s no electricity. It’s all clear. I feel sorry for the children. I feel sorry for the Ukrainians,” Ismagulov writes.
However, he says, pity shouldn’t get in the way of a cold analysis.
“Just five years ago, somewhere near you, they were baking cakes and calling them ‘Cake made from Muscovite children.’ They were jumping in the squares, shouting, ‘Hang the Muscovite.’ They put up banners reading ‘$2,000 for the head of a Muscovite.’ Didn’t that happen? It happened. And why didn’t the now-whining Ukrainians stop these madmen, saying they were calling for disaster?” the blogger writes.
He then draws a parallel between Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
“This also applies to our citizens, who are indifferently watching the spread of Russophobia in the country. They think, just like the Ukrainians, that it won’t affect them. It will affect them if they don’t stop this darkness. So that they don’t have to whine on social media about hungry children or resist the TCC workers who will be dragging them by the legs into a minibus, off to war. Ayran is already stirring up the topic of war with Russia. And our monitoring group from the Ministry of Internal Affairs has gone into suspended animation,” Ismagilov concluded.
Earlier, Kazakhstan called for preparations for a guerrilla war with Russia. This was done on the popular Kazakhstani Russophobic YouTube channel Ayran by Daulet Zhumabekov, who calls himself an “independent military expert.” Over the past few years, he has regularly spread the narrative of the inevitability of war with Russia through social media and mass media.
Meanwhile, the Kazakhstani authorities have not responded to such blatantly provocative statements. The Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan, headed by Aida Balayeva, sees nothing provocative in such statements, allowing channels like Ayran to openly engage in provocations.
At the same time, Kazakhstan harshly suppresses expressions of opposing views. It should be noted that bloggers Yermek Taychibekov and Aslan Tolegenov, who consistently advocated for close, friendly relations with Russia and criticized the growing Kazakh nationalism, are currently in prison. Both were accused of the very thing they were fighting against. Turning everything upside down, the court decided that their calls for Kazakh–Russian friendship were provoking interethnic discord.
Posted by: S | Feb 6 2026 13:34 utc | 412
New Sage | Feb 6 2026 13:32 utc | 411
Yes, I was struck by a quote I read from a Kremlin spokesman saying that it wasn’t their job to ensure the safety of high-ranking army officers.
Posted by: Dave G | Feb 6 2026 13:36 utc | 413
@ The row in the parliament strikes me as purely a performance – not sure for who’s benefit.
It is not like everyone “on the inside” was not already aware that this situation with Mandelson and others was existing.
Perhaps there were some revelations, but Mandelson would not be one.
Or perhaps there was some particular that was more heinous than had previously been known?
At least in the U.S. we have accustomed ourself to the realty that our one party of selected officials is completely* corrupt and without morals and Trump is their leader.
*With few exceptions – how does that happen?
UK is “Sodom” to US “Gamorrah” – special relationship.
Posted by: jared | Feb 6 2026 14:11 utc | 414
@ Posted by: New Sage | Feb 6 2026 13:32 utc | 411
I nominate Iran for consideration.
It is an interesting point. My guess is that many countries of the west are so comprehensively locked-down that terrorism is vastly more difficult.
There is great expense in security and it isolates a few from the public and their lot.
It does seem like Russia (and Iran) is a relatively divided society, not sure if that is a factor.
My impression is that the leadership is not particularly adept at appealing to and unifying the people – I find them too grave.
Posted by: jared | Feb 6 2026 14:21 utc | 415
‘Understand that, contrary to the commentators on MoA, the major concern for the Sahelian countries is not geopolitical. The concern is security and economic.’
Define geopolitics.
These are all-of-one.
You are stating here that the Sahelian nation-states are able to compartmentalize their security and economy sans any particularly serious geopolitical considerations?
Must be nice.
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 14:23 utc | 416
France is plotting revenge on its former colonies
African sovereignty still seems to be perceived as a threat by Paris
https://www.rt.com/africa/632046-neo-colonial-operations-of-paris/
Posted by: arby | Feb 6 2026 14:42 utc | 417
Victor Gao to sanctimonious prick. Tim Sloughton
‘Cut the craps or else….’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3DAURcgtA
[12 m]
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 14:46 utc | 418
Expect another video from FSB soon with 30 camera angles, “preventing” another assassination attempt.
Posted by: Ban D | Feb 6 2026 14:47 utc | 419
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 14:23 utc | 416
You are stating here that the Sahelian nation-states are able to compartmentalize their security and economy sans any particularly serious geopolitical considerations?
No. What I’m trying to say is that when you don’t get the support you hoped for from your geopolitical alignment, when your survival is at stake, you may be tempted to change, or more simply not to be exclusive.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 15:23 utc | 420
Tim Sloughton personified pale faced, forked tongue…
‘Slave labor, HK genocide, Xinjiang genocide, cyber crimes, existent threats and all that jazz
Some guys just lie as naturally as breathing.
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 15:23 utc | 421
US labor market collapse
U.S. Labor Market CRASH – Layoffs EXPLODE 205% as Jobs Recession Accelerates (This Is Not Normal)
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 15:26 utc | 422
As I have posted in the recent past the Epstein operation was a CIA/MI6/Mossad honeypot trap for the influence, with Maxwell, the MI6 asset, was the ring leader.
And wonder why Maxwell was moved from a medium security federal prison to the resort like low security federal prison, and is appealing for her immediate release?
Epstein and Maxwell used his private islands and his Manhattan town home to compromise leading political and military figures including Bill Clinton, and Bill Gates, et al.
Nefarious London at work again………..the tool of the Zionists……
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:30 utc | 423
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall…..from Reuters
Iran says talks with US in Oman were ‘good start’, will continue
What does the US say?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 6 2026 15:30 utc | 424
Posted by: Lavieja | Feb 6 2026 13:23 utc | 408
There are two distinct aspects to cooperation between the Sahel countries and Russia.
State cooperation is governed by bilateral agreements, signed by the foreign and defense ministers.
It covers mutual consultation and coordination on national and international issues, arms deliveries, and military and technical training.
But there is another form of cooperation, managed through private contracts, for the provision of services to government officials.
This involves, on the one hand, the protection of individuals and military and political consulting, and on the other hand, comprehensive communications.
Russia provides the service provider, but the latter is paid by the government of the requesting state.
This role is played by Africa Corp, formerly Wagner, and its subsidiaries.
This “economic model” is the same in CentrAfrican Republic, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, for what we know.
In the Sahel countries, the agency’s personnel is small. They number at most one to two hundred.
The problem is the false claim that large russian troops are fighting in place of local armies. That was never the purpose.
In practice, they have only participated in counter-terrorism missions in Mali.
In Burkina Faso and Niger, their duties are limited to providing security for leaders and strategic locations.
The economic and financial context is not at all favorable.
Terrorism is hitting the economy hard, Western countries have withdrawn their support, and new partners are not providing an lot.
Trying to hide the problems with lies doesn’t help.
But it can be understood when you know that the ones doing the communication want to show their consulting services are bearings fruits and not the other way around.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 15:31 utc | 425
Russian patriots need to start talking about a post Putin Russia.
You cannot allow somebody to continue to rule when they deliver the lowest possible performance during the greatest crisis.
Leadership needs to become performance based.
Posted by: Enoch The Prophet | Feb 6 2026 15:32 utc | 426
NOt to be outdone, here comes
Aunt Jemima…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXQ-rrFJXRI
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 15:34 utc | 427
We may be excused for not realizing that the kidnapping of Maduro lies on the same trajectory as the Eichmann kidnapping in the 1960s. Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Argentina and “brought to justice” in Israel. What used to be an anomaly is now the precedent. This is all the more remarkable now that the US government had been killing dozens of sailors in their boats arbitrarily for months on unfounded allegations of drug trafficking, ultimately culminating in the Maduro “arrest”.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:35 utc | 428
saint jimmy 422 – these are AI layoffs…….we can thank the Musks and Bezos and Gates of the world. DJT is bringing back jobs from overseas, and these job gains will hopefully offset the AI madness.
DJT ‘s tariffs are generating hundreds of billions for the US treasury, and bringing back industrial jobs in steel, autos, iron, aluminum, mining, and petroleum.
DJT is doing just what he promised – deporting millions of illegal aliens, and fighting predatory trades practices with tariffs.
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:35 utc | 429
Russian patriots need to start talking about a post Putin Russia.You cannot allow somebody to continue to rule when they deliver the lowest possible performance during the greatest crisis.Leadership needs to become performance based.
Posted by: Enoch The Prophet | Feb 6 2026 15:32 utc | 426
Interesting.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:36 utc | 430
I have a very imperfect thought this morning, which is how colonies are formed. And I’ll give a hat tip to Alex Krainer for his latest conversation with Nima. It used to be thought that they are formed in different ways, depending on who came out originally to settle from Europe, and from Britain in particular. A big example is Australia, which was a penal colony at first and one of the furthest away from the ‘home country’. Those earliest migrant colonialists to that country gave character to those early colonies, character best exemplified in our own Peter AU1, who can be obnoxious or somebody worth knowing at alternate moments – sometimes we would colonize him if we could; other times he teaches us things worth knowing.
Another example is that of the US colonial occurrences: specifically Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. I’m not hugely conversant with either, but my limited understanding is that Jamestown, which ultimately failed as a colony, was more a state sponsored enterprise – they were there to establish ownership. Whereas Plymouth Rock exemplified what most of the later east coast colonials were — they were not out to be links back to their homelands — they were fleeing them. Sure they brought traditions from their home countries, but they were a different sort of immigrant from the first two.
Alex was making that distinction between Britain and the US, not linking them. I can see, given the small space Britain occupies, that it would favor the Zionist enterprise, that being also a midget operation as Britain has been. Different rules apply for them, rules which they have been attempting to reassert this century in ways whose results we are now dealing with. I grew up in a colonial nation which was deeply Britain-oriented. Not oriented towards Israel as a country, but as a poetically, religiously centered ideal. I came to the US my teenage years, not as an immigrant but as a sojourner. I stayed, and instinctively saw it was different, felt more freedom here without being exactly sure why that was.
Robert Frost poetized how colonials confront their exile: The land was ours before we were the land’s… I would modify that to say: We met the land before we were the land’s. Indigenous peoples have taken a long time to accomodate to the lands they occupy. Some feel they are its rightful owners; others know that nobody can own the land. The land doesn’t own us; we become partners with it; at best, we marry it.
The US broke free from rulership rules, while it kept the institutional structure from the Magna Carta on, which was also, for Britain, at first an attempt to regain democratic sovereignty. The realignment that more recently was forced upon its (the US’s) citizenry was and is unnatural to its founding heritage. The latter needs to be returned to, not to Jamestown, but to Plymouth Rock.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 6 2026 15:37 utc | 431
I sometimes think the Russian bureaucrats are in cahoots with the West to jointly make sure there’s a never-ending brain drain from Russia. What better way to ensure an uninterrupted flow of smart people than by running pretty much the very system they’ve painstakingly built?
Posted by: Borisovetal | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 432
DJT is bringing back jobs from overseas, and these job gains will hopefully offset the AI madness.
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:35 utc | 429
“So much for the ‘Golden Age of America’,” said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), as he noted layoffs surging to the highest levels in 17 years. https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-layoffs-january-2026
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 433
Princess 428 – no one was ‘kidnapped’. Maduro was arrested on federal felony warrants for drug trafficing, and money laundering charges by FBI agents, in Caracus. The FBI agents were accompanied by members of the 75th Ranger Regiment, who protected the agents from the Maduro’s Communist Cuban Commando Security Team.
Get your story straight, and stop the TDS nonsense.
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 434
Posted by: Enoch The Prophet | Feb 6 2026 15:32 utc | 426
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Can you name three Russian elected officials at the federal level other than Putin?
There are 450 seats in the state Duma.
If you cannot, is that a you problem or a Putin problem?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 435
France is plotting revenge on its former coloniesAfrican sovereignty still seems to be perceived as a threat by Paris https://www.rt.com/africa/632046-neo-colonial-operations-of-paris/
Posted by: arby | Feb 6 2026 14:42 utc | 417
Yep. The Americans and Brits are in there too. Th blackhole of Ukraine funds the so called opposition. Much machinations by the imperial powers. As the Sahel has came to the fore, a houseboy of empire has put in an appearance here. The Sahel is the main block of resistance in Africa to anglo European ambitions.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 15:40 utc | 436
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 434
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The US has no jurisdiction outside of its borders.
That was a criminal act, the entire world knows it, and America will pay at some point.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 15:44 utc | 437
The EPSTEIN Videos TOO EXTREME For Mainstream Media…
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 15:44 utc | 438
tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 434
Piss off. The bloody yanks with their district international law. Fuck the yanks. It is not law, it is a lynch mob. The UN charter and the UNSC are international law. Piss off with your yank crap.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 15:46 utc | 439
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 433
I think it’s a lot more than AI. This economy is rotted out.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 15:46 utc | 440
Posted by: Enoch The Prophet | Feb 6 2026 15:32 utc | 426
I am not an expert in politics, economics, or strategy. Nor am I an expert on Russia.
I am just an anonymous observer in geopolitics.
But I do know that a class of leaders in Russia, including Vladimir Putin, was able to pull their country out of the military, economic, and social collapse following the fall of the USSR and rebuild it into a global economic and military power.
They were also able to thwart Western schemes to destroy and subjugate Russia, from the rebellion in Chechnya to the crisis in Ukraine, including attempts in Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
They were able to withstand the draconian sanctions designed to ruin the country and have managed four years of war while maintaining a prosperous economy and even strengthening its self-sufficiency.
All that in opposition to more than fifty countries with several times their GDP, population and combined power. It is almost a fantasy tale.
So when commentators tell me that these Russian leaders, who have already done that, are incompetent and that they must be “removed from power”, I put them on the same level as Yevgeny Prigozhin, the cook who wanted to lead the war and the country.
Or I see them as trolls who think they can reach the goal of regime change by narratives where a hot war and “sanctions from hell” failed.
And I stop reading their comments.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 15:48 utc | 441
That yank crap posted by Tobius Cole. The exceptional nation. Fucking morons that think they rule the universe. Epstein Paradise.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 15:50 utc | 442
tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 434He was kidnapped.
Posted by: dp | Feb 6 2026 15:54 utc | 443
The Sahel is a major source of uranium and gold.
France made a lot of money by taking uranium out of the Sahel (primarily Niger) and using some and selling the rest across Europe.
Recently, a stockpile of Uranium in Niger, stored at the main airport in Niamey, was attacked by terrorists that had French troops embedded.
Nigerien special forces had learned of the raid and repulsed it, leading to some captured. The signals and intelligence capabilities in the Sahel have been greatly advanced through cooperation with the Russians.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b82Pb_18bzU
France is getting desperate as Russia is pushing against former French colonies that are independent but still in France’s orbit.
Europe is nothing without a steady flow of loot from its colonies.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 15:56 utc | 444
Tim Sloughton..
‘UNtil China surrender itself to international law…..’
OMFGAWD !
Are these people for real ?
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 15:57 utc | 445
Ethiopia was never colonized; it defeated all who tried.
Despite internal wars and external machinations, it remains a strong country, one of Africa’s leading economies, and a member of the BRICS.
Algeria gained its independence from France after a bloody war.
It is an African economic and military power, a key ally of Russia in the region.
Its choice of relative isolation from regional issues cost it its membership in the BRICS, but this is only a temporary setback.
Other examples exist, but these two demonstrate that resistance to the West is neither recent nor concentrated in the Sahel.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:03 utc | 446
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:03 utc | 446
Oh, and we are countries, peoples, nations, civilizations.
Not just a playing field inhabited by pawns serving as a ring for great powers.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:08 utc | 447
Tobias Cole, the real irony isn’t that the U.S. seized Nicolás Maduro, but that the narrative used to justify the intervention changed once he was in custody, exposing foundational procedural problems—especially the risk of improper burden-shifting in a criminal prosecution. In the superseding indictment unsealed on January 3, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine-importation conspiracy, and weapons offenses. Yet in the run-up to the operation, U.S. officials and political figures leaned heavily on the claim that Maduro led a powerful “Cartel de los Soles,” even treating it as a terrorist organization. The updated charging document quietly abandons that position. It no longer alleges a structured cartel or terrorist group under Maduro’s leadership, but instead refers to a loose “patronage system” or “culture of corruption” fueled by drug money among Venezuelan elites, with references to the term dropping from over thirty in the 2020 version to just two.
That shift is not merely rhetorical. It tacitly concedes long-standing expert critiques that “Cartel de los Soles” originated as 1990s Venezuelan media slang for compromised officials, not as a cohesive criminal organization with a defined hierarchy. More importantly, in legal terms, it introduces evidentiary elasticity that risks shifting part of the burden of proof onto the defendant—a fundamental prohibition in U.S. criminal law, where the prosecution must affirmatively establish every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. By pivoting to a diffuse framework, the government insulates its theory from precise factual challenge: evidence disproving the existence of a formal cartel or direct command responsibility can be met with claims of participation in, or protection of, a broader culture of corruption. The defense is then forced to negate an amorphous system rather than contest concrete acts, diluting the reasonable-doubt standard and raising due-process concerns under the Sixth Amendment.
This procedural nuance matters because international law does not turn on evolving domestic indictments or political messaging. Article 2(4) of the UN Charter bars the use of force against another state’s territorial integrity absent consent or Security Council authorization. Without Venezuelan consent, extradition cooperation, or a locally executable arrest warrant, the Caracas operation—Operation Absolute Resolve—was a military-intelligence-led seizure, not a routine law-enforcement arrest. U.S. special operations forces, with aerial suppression, secured Maduro and Flores; FBI elements appear to have been present primarily to handle formalities and contingencies once the targets were under control. Calling this an “FBI arrest” collapses exactly the distinction that matters under both international and domestic law.
The tension is sharpened by comparison to the 1960 Eichmann abduction, when Israeli operatives seized a Nazi fugitive in Argentina without consent, prompting UN Security Council Resolution 138 condemning the sovereignty violation, even as Israel later expressed regret without fully conceding illegality. That analogy is not invoked because genocide and alleged drug trafficking are morally equivalent, but because both cases involve non-consensual extraterritorial seizures followed by domestic prosecutions. They raise the same unresolved question: when, if ever, may powerful states override another state’s sovereignty in the name of enforcement?
U.S. courts will likely assert jurisdiction under the Ker–Frisbie doctrine, which permits prosecution regardless of how a defendant is brought before the court so long as the trial itself is fair. Yet that domestic rule remains deeply contested internationally as incompatible with core norms of non-intervention and respect for territorial integrity. In sum, the post-capture reframing of the charges—combined with the absence of traditional extradition mechanisms and the reliance on military force—reveals a stark contrast between operational shortcuts on the ground and legal formalism in the courtroom, and that contrast fuels serious, legitimate criticism of the intervention’s conformity with international law.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 16:10 utc | 448
@ Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:36 utc | 430
You find concern trolls interesting?
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 6 2026 16:11 utc | 449
@ Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:36 utc | 430
You find concern trolls interesting?
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 6 2026 16:11 utc | 449
I find the concocted argument “interesting” in a specific limited sense of the word “interesting”.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 16:14 utc | 450
Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:03 utc | 446
Algeria booted the French out for good long ago. The coup belt stretches across the region just below the Sahara and western terrorist proxies are targeting many of them. The three countries termed the Sahel have set up a joint central bank and now have their own currency rather than the French colonial currency. Much more of their mineral wealth will also flow back into those societies rAther than enriching France. The leaderships there appear to have an affinity with the common man.
I have watched that occur in other countries, and when the leadership has an affinity with the common man, the common man starts to prosper.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 16:14 utc | 451
Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 15:50 utc | 442—
Lavrov delivered this during today’s presser:
The question is easy. This story of the massacre in the village of Bucha is not mentioned by any other media. We have even reached Epstein Island, but we do not get around to Bucha. The question we are asking journalists is simple: UN employees and respected media outlets, please request a list of the names of those persons whose bodies were shown four years ago on the BBC television channel. [My Emphasis]
Murders and murderers. At the virtual funerals for Bucha victims only Lavrov attends, no obituaries are written and the existence of the victims forgotten much like those who died on Epstein Island. For those who missed my previous notice, The Epstein Case & American Elite Morality: A Chinese Perspective examines what underlays such events and happenings as Bucha, the Skripals, Epstein et al’s victims, and the thousands of Palestinians slaughtered and the millions of those murdered by the Outlaw US Empire during the Cold War. The use of Ukrainians is no different. It’s not an exact copy of the Indonesian Treatment, but the outcome for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians is no different.
Trump GREENLIGHTED EPSTEIN’S MURDER — claims Jeffrey’s brother Mark in a 2023 FBI tip
Because ‘he was about to name names’
Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 6 2026 16:15 utc | 453
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 15:39 utc | 433
I think it’s a lot more than AI. This economy is rotted out.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 15:46 utc | 440
Absolutely! To quote the same article:
Mohamed El-Erian, economist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, described the Challenger report as “sobering,” and pointed to a potentially ominous trend regarding wealth inequality in the US.
“These layoffs are occurring while GDP continues to grow at approximately 4%,” he observed in a social media post, “accelerating the decoupling of employment from economic growth—a phenomenon that, if it persists, has profound economic, political, and social implications.”
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 16:17 utc | 454
Breaking from The Telegraph:
Mandelson’s homes searched by police
Properties in London and Wiltshire raided as part of investigation into peer’s alleged misconduct in office.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 16:19 utc | 455
Debt spending (money printing) increases GDP.
Servicing the national debt (interest payments) increases GDP.
All while creating nothing new or productive.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 16:23 utc | 456
Sorry to foul your morning with such subject matter — I picked up a new vocabulary word last week to share with barflies near and far:
shart (n, v) a productive fart.
For MoA geopolitical analysts, this word appears in discussions of meetings with the leader of the free world, otherwise known (since The Apprentice days) as “Diaper Don.” There’s legendary video (unlinked here) of Trump tooting up a storm while seated between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Diane Feinstein — watch the expression on DiFi’s face: Was that last one “the fart that killed Feinstein”?
Back to current events, last weekend’s news conference just kicked off another “Shartgate”:
Allegedly, a White House media event for the signing of an executive order was abruptly ended, and journalists were chased from the room when President Donald Trump fouled his diaper. Snopes left the claim “unrated” because they could neither prove nor disprove Diaper Don’s whoopsie.
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/shartgate-nothing-to-see-here-please-keep-voting.html
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 6 2026 16:24 utc | 457
A Martian listening to these G7 diatribe on rule of Law, HR…would never in its wildest dream realise that these countries represent the most egregious land grabbers cum genocidaire in human history !
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 16:26 utc | 458
@441 Sebgo
Perfectly stated.
It also reaffirms that I made the correct decision by watching far fewer youtube videos about Africa, especially the Sahel States. So many lies.
There are a few that have less than 100 views or so that seem to provide honest and true information. Americans have a hard time figuring out what is going on in other nations even when we try and do research. The bits of truth we can find are hidden in piles and piles of disinformation.
Posted by: Woke American | Feb 6 2026 16:27 utc | 459
The US economy has been hollowed out for decades.
The party is ending, all that awaits are hangovers and regrets for the bad decisions made while inebriated.
There is always a lag in reporting, amplified by the media machine in place to confuse, mislead, and dissemble.
One can be broke and not know it yet.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 16:27 utc | 460
karlof1 | Feb 6 2026 16:15 utc | 452
How to contend with this stuff we watch Karl. It is a terrible thing. I often think of the destroyed families. Harden the heart? No. I guess its a matter of remaining standing when those about you fall. It gets to me though, all this killing death and destruction.
Ihave not been in combat but when young I travelled the road that is now called the road of death. When flying, I did not want to live. They all died and I lived. When I went down a year or so back, my mates came around and sat me back on my chair.
Small time stuff compared to the death and destruction we watch on a colossal scale. The sociopathic tendencies of the Epstein class, the Epstein strata of society. That so many believe the bullshit that is in the Epstein class media. Like the Ukroids that were too stupid to get out so now they are dying like flies as they are headed like cattle to the killing fields.
All up, its a terrible thing we watch.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 16:30 utc | 461
Some years ago I travelled with my family from Bangkok to Oslo with Thai International and for some reason we got upgraded to business class. I noticed there a face I recognised, the Norwegian ‘conservative’ politician Børge Brende just across the aisle. Børge Brende is the guy you know from World Economic Forum but you may not know the name of even though he is the president and CEO of the World Economic Forum.
Obvioulsy, according to Norwegian MSM, Børge Brende is implicated with Epstein, eating dinner with him in 2018. Other Norwegians implicated with Epstein include former PM Thorbjørn Jagland (heavily implicated), Terje Røed Larsen and Crown Princess Mette Marit.
It is time to purge the whole corrupt, pedophile gang.
Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 6 2026 16:33 utc | 462
Repetition is supposedly instructive. So let’s go for another round.
No. An officer in the army is not a common man nowhere.
No. We are not building great infrastructures at the speed of light in Burkina Faso, launching satellites and manufacturing EVs.
We don’t have the means to do so.
And no, there is not going to be a new currency for the three countries of AES soon, as there is none in the making for the foreseeable future. It’s all propaganda.
As I posted previously, Burkina Faso has been under IMF assistance since 2023, and the agreement runs until 2027.
There’s a good chance the program will be renewed because we’re not exactly model students.
It’s likely the problem of foreign sovereign debt will persist, and the domestic debt situation isn’t improving either.
It’s easy to verify with a simple search whether the country is indeed under IMF supervision or not.
Based on this information, you can judge for yourself whether being in such dire straits that you have to turn to the IMF, despite an anti-imperialist rhetoric, is compatible with the grandiose achievements regularly announced.
Regarding a possible new currency, the agreement with the IMF explicitly excludes this possibility for the duration of the agreement, that is, until 2027.
Furthermore, we guarantee the lending institutions managing our treasury bonds stability for the repayment period.
We last raised funds in January 2026, with the refunding continuing until 2033, in CFA francs, which means we have guaranteed to remain invested until that date.
You must also know that our neighbors in the Fcfa union and a few banks are the only ones who are still lending to us. Last year alone, they gave us loans for $1.785 millions dollar. Going out of the union means no one to borrow from.
Our foreign exchange reserves are exhausted because buying weapons, and despite the peak in the price of gold, we are not replenishing them, because rather than storing, we are selling to plug gaps.
The level of our change reserve and the maturity period of our bonds in Fcfa are available for who really care to search by himself.
Our two allies are in the same situation, and it seems obvious that one cannot open a new central bank without reserves.
Finally, we have this official publication :
On January 27, 2026, in an official statement, the Malian Minister of Economy and Finance, Alousseni Sanou, denied rumors of the imminent launch of a new AES currency. (In french)
https://www.sikafinance.com/marches/mali-non-laes-ne-prevoit-pas-lancer-sa-monnaie_59353
He was forced to issue this clarification because the rumors are costing us dearly.
We raised for the AES over $6 billion in total on the regional market in 2025, and these rumors have pushed our rates above 10% while our neighbors were around 6-7%.
False propaganda and real finances don’t always mix well.
NB : All the informations in this post are available by a simple search, Google or else.
And no, the dozens of websites and YouTube channels full of fakes videos doesn’t count as sources.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:48 utc | 463
Here is the bottom line…….DJT saved this country from a Soros coup, the face of which was Kamyhoe Harris, succeeding the senile, demented, corrupt and perverted Joey Boy Biden. Biden of course being the worst POTUS in US history, openingly receiving bribes from Ukronazi oligarchs.
The plan was to allow 20million MORE illegal alien criminals into the the US, register them to vote and basically overthrow the Republic, stack the USSC, and install the Soros operatives in every single state as commissar’s…Kamyhoe was and is an empty suit, incapable of coherent thought, and just a perfect figurehead President.
And their plan damn near succeeded. Only the presence of millions of heavily armed Patriots and the voting defeat of Kamyhoe, ended the socialist dream.
Never again will conservative Democrats and Republicans allow the Soros/Pelosi/Holder/Obama/Rice/Comey alliance to rig a national election with pre printed mail in ballots !
Want our firearms….come and take them from our cold dead hands!
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 16:52 utc | 464
Our two allies are in the same situation, and it seems obvious that one cannot open a new central bank without reserves.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 16:48 utc | 463
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Do you feel that your country is being held hostage so that “terrorists” can shape you destiny? If so, how can these chains be broken?
Posted by: too scents | Feb 6 2026 16:53 utc | 465
They hate us.
Epstein Files Reveal How Jews Talk About Non-Jews Behind Their Backs! w/ Keaton Weiss
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 16:53 utc | 466
My reply to a comment:
Are you threatening me??
You Europeans should learn to appreciate the fact that we decided to forgive you for your vast crimes against us.
But here you are, full of a bloated sense of entitlement, making stupid threats.
Why don’t you go and hug the Thames!
Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 12:26 utc | 401
Its like they want to dump London and the Jews yet retain empire.
Thanks for mentioning this; it is what I have been thinking recently as well. I also just watched Nima’s latest talk with Alex Krainer and I feel more convinced that you and he are on the mark. Trump seems to represent a faction within the US ruling establishment that does indeed want to break away from the remnants of the British Empire (and it’s associated financial dynasties), but they’re approaching the problem through the lens of a criminal syndicate, which makes sense as it relates directly to Trump’s past professional experience.
The goal on its face is laudable, but the last person/group to be enacting policy towards that goal is what we have in DC today. Which, when looked at it in a certain light is what makes Trump perhaps the only person to be able to at least start the process, given the opposing Globalist fascist-imperialist faction arrayed against such a project as decoupling from the zombified empire. Sometimes the recovery process requires brute force at the outset; this could be one of those occasions.My concern is that Trump doesn’t seem to know when to lay off the brute force.
Nice to see you around, Peter and I enjoy the horse stories ^_^
Posted by: robjira | Feb 6 2026 16:58 utc | 468
Millions of pre printed ballots delivered after the polls closed in November 2020. That was the Soros group game plan, and damn near succeeded.
The most massive election fraud in US history, now being investigated by DFBI, and DNI.
These fake ballots altered the results in Pa., Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Az.
DJT delivered the US from a socialist and fascist state engineered by Soros and Hussein Obama.
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 16:58 utc | 469
Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 16:30 utc | 461—
Thanks for your reply. You might recall a piece of music from the early 1970s by Emerson, Lake and Palmer called “Karn Evil 9” that most know from the lines, “Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…” the meaning of which at the time went over the heads of most. Then there’re the lyrics from “Lucky Man” where “No money could save him; so, he laid down and died” where many didn’t properly hear the word money. Very perceptive those poets and musicians, but where are today’s equivalents?
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 6 2026 17:04 utc | 470
Yeah. I saw them in 1976. One of the finest musical performances I’ve ever seen and I’m 68. The US/UK have been in definite intellectual, financial, and cultural decline for 30 years, or so.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 17:09 utc | 471
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 16:58 utc | 469
Valid concern about the ballots. But as Brian Berletic never tires repeating, the blueprint is the same no matter who is in charge. Trump just adds some showmanship and may have managed to fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time. Bannon seems to be building his case for Trump’s third term on the (alleged?) election fraud when he talks about the “will of the American people”. What does not look too good, though, is that Epstein gave his last interview to Bannon.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 17:09 utc | 472
The jokes coming from Reuters write themselves these days
The word on the Chinese street is that metals are the next hot thing. All you need to join the bull party is an online trading account, a bit of cash for the initial margin and access to the right WeChat chatroom to meet like-minded punters.
LOL! Its all China’s fault that gold is becoming worth more than fiat US dollars….to the barricades!!!!!
Will our species talk openly during this time about the pros and cons of public/private finance?
It might just do us a lot of good to do so, eh?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 6 2026 17:14 utc | 473
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 6 2026 17:04 utc | 470
Cold and misty morning I heard a warning born in the air
About an age of power where no one had an hour to spare
Where the seeds had withered silent children shivered in the cold
Now their faces turgid in the ranges of the jackals for gold
I’ll be there
I’ll be there
I will be there
~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 17:14 utc | 474
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 6 2026 16:58 utc | 469
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Who has been arrested or charged with election fraud in 2020?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2026 17:16 utc | 475
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 11:25 utc | 393
Youthful riding memories: Yes, racehorses. There were two at a friend’s dairy farm in New Zealand, and when as a young person I came for a visit, one was given me to ride – after the help had ridden her first to take the steam off. Both were retired of course but their memories were of racing days, so once the horses figured it wasn’t a race they were good riding horses, loose reined. The description you give, Peter, of the accident with the gate is one I saw happen to one of the helpers one time. He was riding the older horse Wirimu on a warm up. Wirimu was friends with the one sheep that grazed the home paddock. Wirimu was always flighty so I never got to ride him. That day he took off, and headed straight for the milking shed gate. I dont remember the horse being injured so he must have made it over, but concrete on the other side scraped the shins of our friend pretty badly.
Next day I was scheduled a ride on the other horse, Pola. She was opposite to Wirimu, very gentle, and the ride wasn’t doing much, so I broke an overhead branch to encourage her more than my bare heels were doing.
Big mistake. The race was on and we roared up and around the main house with me chucking the stick away. I managed to steer her into the upper corner where there were trees close behind the V of the fence. No use. She wheeled around and headed down straight towards the gate, the awful gate. She was going lickety split, bit between her teeth as they say and only a snaffle so impossible to stop. So, nothing for it, I rolled off and escaped onto the receptive paddocky grass. I was given the ‘right back on’ lesson, but no need really — I knew what I’d done wrong. She was calm as a daisy after that.
A young friend didn’t do so well escaping that way once on the beach. She died. I was lucky, very lucky.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 6 2026 17:23 utc | 476
@sebgo #446 Feb 6 2026 16:03
“Ethiopia was never colonized”
Wow! Really?
I guess that 25 metre tall obelisk that I saw once in a certain European capital, was looted secretly in the middle of a single night.
Using heavy transport helicopters (that were so popular in the first half of the 20th century) for sure…
Either that, or your knowledge of East Africa is sketchy at best…
Posted by: MoaMetal | Feb 6 2026 17:27 utc | 477
Posted by: too scents | Feb 6 2026 16:53 utc | 465
My personal analysis is that the Western project with terrorism was initially to force us to call on them for help.
And subsequently, to justify a significant deployment of forces by accusing our countries of “genocide.”
They would thus have occupied and created a mini-Kosovo in the Sahel, to serve their geopolitical objectives.
The fact that this territory also encompasses an area with rich mineral resources was an integral part of the project
The terrorists would have been replaced by knowledgeable “civil rebel leaders” to govern the “kosovo-in-Sahel” on their behalf.
All these projects are being challenged, firstly by Ukraine, and secondly by the regime changes in the Sahelian countries.
To get out of this situation, we need massive aid, first economic and then military.
Not in terms of troops, but in terms of strategy and technological intelligence.
There are no front lines; it’s an asymmetric war where the enemy is everywhere. Radars, large drones, and other such systems are not very suitable; we need to find a new approach.
The other current problem is that most of the actors benefit greatly from the status quo.
So we need to change the paradigm here too.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 17:28 utc | 478
🔘🔘🔘The Epstein Island and New Shocking Revelations
It has been reported that Epstein used captive women and children to feed sharks on his island. Despite the horrific nature of these events, the investigation is far from over: officials continue to analyze numerous files, and much work lies ahead before all details can be revealed.
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/55442
Count the number of arrests so far …
Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 6 2026 17:30 utc | 479
Posted by: MoaMetal | Feb 6 2026 17:27 utc | 477
Maybe you should read in full about your “obelisk” ?
Or simply Google it.
Have a good day.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 17:31 utc | 480
‘Based on this information, you can judge for yourself whether being in such dire straits that you have to turn to the IMF, despite an anti-imperialist rhetoric, is compatible with the grandiose achievements regularly announced.
Regarding a possible new currency, the agreement with the IMF explicitly excludes this possibility for the duration of the agreement, that is, until 2027.
Furthermore, we guarantee the lending institutions managing our treasury bonds stability for the repayment period.
We last raised funds in January 2026, with the refunding continuing until 2033, in CFA francs, which means we have guaranteed to remain invested until that date.
You must also know that our neighbors in the Fcfa union and a few banks are the only ones who are still lending to us. Last year alone, they gave us loans for $1.785 millions dollar. Going out of the union means no one to borrow from.
Our foreign exchange reserves are exhausted because buying weapons, and despite the peak in the price of gold, we are not replenishing them, because rather than storing, we are selling to plug gaps.
The level of our change reserve and the maturity period of our bonds in Fcfa are available for who really care to search by himself.
Our two allies are in the same situation, and it seems obvious that one cannot open a new central bank without reserves.’
Thank you for this information, Sebgo.
I wonder if China may be able to lend a hand?
While they of course are in no way obliged to help you as they themselves will insist, they nevertheless do say that they are interested in a multi-polar world and it would be great public relaions for them – a game they play with the best of them now – it would be great PR for them to offer better terms to you and your allies than the IMF does.
Do you know if anyone has reached out to Chinese lenders?
I understand that language in the IMF agreements may attempt to forbid this, but really, what are they going to do? Bomb China?
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 17:37 utc | 481
Meanwhile, the euro and gringo found their savior in India.
A Marsian watching The way they fawned over bharat would never in its wildest dream, imagined that India is the country which had gobbled up 10 nations since 1947, genocided all its minorities tribes…including Muslims in GUjarag, Kashmir and Tibetans in socalled Arunachal Prudesh !
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 17:48 utc | 482
Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 17:14 utc | 474—
Yes, an awesome group and very haunting lyrics. Also as Asia there were several notable productions.
@Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 17:31
Sir… Respectfully, I don’t need to “google” anything.
Since I used to live there, I know deeply about the atrocious colonial history of that country (Italy), both in general terms and with regards to Ethiopia in particular.
In writing nonsense like “Ethiopia is a strong country etc.”, you clearly show that your remarks are catering to the standard Anglo-Saxon audience, for which the entire remaining world is just a non-descript blob.
Ethiopia did resist fiercely to several stages of colonization attempts, but even today post-colonial weaknesses are apparent everywhere…
Posted by: MoaMetal | Feb 6 2026 17:53 utc | 484
Roll Call Factba.se – Remarks: Donald Trump Addresses the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol – February 5, 2026 Lyndon Johnson had a fight with somebody in Dallas or Houston with a minister and he didn’t like him and they didn’t like each other. And the minister thought he was terrible. And I guess he didn’t like the minister and he was a powerful president. He knew how to do things and he got something passed called the Johnson Amendment, which basically takes away your right of speech.
The Johnson Amendment says that non-profit organizations, which includes religious organizations (aka churches) that claim a tax exemption cannot engage as political partisans in elections. It is probably true that the pastor is the only person who counts in a church and therefore his opinion is the church’s opinion and he no doubt feels like he has the right and duty to order his congregation to support God or his designated emissaries in elections. I do not see why they should get a tax exemption on top of that. Tax exemptions by the way are a genuine example of privilege, unlike so many alleged about someone else. I say, abolish tax exemptions for non-profits, period. Also, religious broadcasting does not count as public service, if public service is required for a broadcast license.
I highly recommend that Trump cultists read as much of the transcript of Trump’s remarks as they can stomach. It seems there are secret X-Men, mutants with fantastic abilities, who somehow know that this stuff is vastly more competent and smarter than anything Kamala Harris would have said in a prayer meeting (including I’m sorry to say our host.) I say, read this whole thing again and admit the truth.
‘Melania’: The Movie. The Bribe. The Shame. – People’s World Yet because the The Washington Post is now owned by the man who spent $75 million on the movie ($40 million to make it, $35 million to promote it), I somehow doubt The Post will crap on it. (At least Monica Hesse, in her review for The Post, had the honesty to confess that “if you suspect I have come here today to trash a movie about the wife of a notoriously thin-skinned, anti-journalist president, which was bankrolled by the company owned by the man who also pays my salary—NOT TODAY, SATAN. Do you think I’m a moron?”)
I do not actually have a super high opinion of Robert Reich, whose leftism strikes me as compatible with Bernie Sanders, except Bernie Sanders wouldn’t associate with Communists ever, so far as I know. That is, of the kind that is completely compatible with a life career in the imperialist halls of power. I’m not sure the dude is qualified to do more than a movie review. But this is a good one, read it.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 6 2026 17:54 utc | 485
A Marsian watching G7’s diatribe on international law, HR and all that jazz,..would never it its wildest dream imagined that these are the most egregious land grabbers, genocidaire in human history
Harold Pinter on G7 depravity
‘It never happened, even when its happening, it never happened.’
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 17:55 utc | 486
A very good article that captures the zeitgeist:
Quote Origin: They Lie To Us, We Know They’re Lying, They Know We Know They’re Lying But They Keep Lying Anyway, and We Keep Pretending To Believe Them
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/10/14/know-lie/
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 17:58 utc | 487
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 17:37 utc | 481
.China’s economic aid model in Africa doesn’t involve budgetary aid.
They finance investments or provide advances for raw materials.
We already benefit from this; in fact, we’re even underperforming in terms of the number of projects submitted.
But given our situation, what we need is a debt buyout to get us out of our “defaulting country” status.
Unfortunately, we’ve fallen out with China. Niger tried to extort money from the state-owned oil company there, and we supported our ally until the Chinese management was expelled.
It’s becoming complicated to negotiate such a “release” after such a humiliating feat, which was widely publicized on the advice of the same “consultants”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 17:58 utc | 488
Posted by: MoaMetal | Feb 6 2026 17:53 utc | 484
Maybe we are not talking about the same thing. I don’t know the situation in Italy, nor it’s history.
But I know Italy tried to colonize Ethiopia, even occupied it, but at the end failed.
Several countries were temporarily occupied during wars by foreign armies.
It is not the same as being a colony.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 18:04 utc | 489
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 6 2026 17:52 utc | 483
Ummm…. Well, the first album, Pictures at an Exhibition, Brain Salad Surgery, and Works (volume 1) are by far their best stuff.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 6 2026 18:04 utc | 490
White supremacists , maga icon fucker carlson baiting the Africans…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBYVeAS1eg
[20m]
Thats all folks !
Posted by: denk | Feb 6 2026 18:05 utc | 491
The Sahel and France–
Just made me think of Haiti.. 200 years and they are still getting punished.
Posted by: arby | Feb 6 2026 18:08 utc | 492
Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 6 2026 17:54 utc | 485
Come to think of it, the role played by Bezos behind the Melania film has raised many eyebrows. Could that be connected to how he is now busy destroying the Washington Post all of a sudden with massive layoffs?
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 18:10 utc | 493
A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of a series of attacks on top military officials.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 18:12 utc | 494
Posted by: arby | Feb 6 2026 18:08 utc | 492
A Haitian friend told me that the situation in his country isn’t what we think it is.
According to him, the US is pulling the strings, and their primary objective is to force the population to leave by making the island uninhabitable.
When I asked him why, he told me that a president installed by the US had been kidnapped by them.
His “crime”? Requesting oil exploration on the island despite being advised against it.
Whether this have a bit of truth or it is a local legend, I don’t know.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 6 2026 18:17 utc | 495
Canada opens consulate in Greenland in show of support for Arctic island
New diplomatic mission comes as Ottawa shifts foreign policy to strengthen non-US alliances
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 6 2026 18:33 utc | 496
Memories Juliania. I had to laugh at that one.
The different memories but those early years and working my way around the north, then later working with my son when he was that age. No horses then but it was really good working with my son on mustering jobs. No horses then. Bikes and dogs. The son had my dogs. From age 16 he was generally best man on the ground.
There was one job, and every time I would put the manager and his offsider onto a mob of cattle, they would lose them. In the end I would tell them to get the cattle over to my son. He was about 16 at the time. He ended up walking the mob in.
When he threw a cow one time on broken ground, he had nothing to tie her with. Was trying to strap he back legs with his leggings. He was too far from his bike to hear me on the radio. I came in very low to pass him a rope. Few would have stayed when I came in like that.
Some of the jobs I had been on, the middle aged blokes or older would sometimes go and hide under the trees when I came in to give them a hand and leave me to battle it out with the animal. Its been an interesting life at times, but working with my son was the best.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 6 2026 18:39 utc | 497
Vance:
EU leaders publicly attack US for ‘threatening’ Greenland while in private they are very friendly and make all concessions for US to take it over.
Vassals be vassals, ain’t them gonna change even if fried in fat.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/02/05/europe-continuing-to-make-key-concessions-on-greenland-in-secret-vance/
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2026 18:41 utc | 498
To DunGroanin/Feb 6, 2026, 13:05 #404
Puddle-stick
Rats & ship do rhyme… a bit
Rat seen in ‘har-rowing’ skit
Leaking cyber bytes: AI Rodent
Sincerely… oars (*RAT resident)
*RAT: Republicain Associated Trust (another… ‘oar’ movie)
Posted by: kpax | Feb 6 2026 18:45 utc | 499
Sebgo,
thank you For adding your perspective. Valuable to hear from other cultures and Experiences.
Posted by: Exile | Feb 6 2026 18:50 utc | 500