Peter
WRT your Biden video. Old Joe was a bit public about it because feeble-minded and later demented. They are all like this. All of them. Family training from an early age.
 
I don’t bookmark things.  There is a video from a few months ago of Pam Bondi taking a break and having lunch with an old girlfriend. Lunch in a public restaurant. She is caught on a shotgun mike speaking of what appears on all the thousands of videos from the Epstein trove. It’s all little children. You could find that vid.
 
Abusers want children the same age as they were when first initiated to perversion. The victims are emotionally stunted and isolated. No one is going to understand them except their little rich friends who have had the same initiation. It breeds family loyalty. It is a method to preserve family wealth over generations.
 
It is all of them.  

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 1 2026 14:44 utc | 3

With the latest release of Epstein material, I’m very surprised and somewhat disappointed that Michael Tracy has not given us the benefit of his sober, and sobering analysis. After reading his contributions thus far though, I can guess what he might have said – it’s a big ”nothingburger” 
 
 
Is there anyone else running cover for Maxwell and Epstein in the media space?

Posted by: will moon | Feb 1 2026 14:51 utc | 5

“Don’t worry. Boys are hard to find.” Part 1 o2 Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR
 
….(excerpt) During the years SR was trafficked within the Trump/Epstein ring, he was forced to perform sexual acts during the filming of several child pornography films, including a snuff film. He recalls at least 10-12 such films.
During the snuff film shoot, SR saw a girl child shot and killed during filming. After another film shoot, a girl child was taken to another room. SR recalls hearing gunshots. He said that when he heard the gunshots, he was scared.
 
He said that another perpetrator still in the room with him, sensing his fear, said, “Don’t worry. Boys are hard to find.” The films were produced within the Trump/Epstein ring.…..

Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2026 15:02 utc | 7

@ Exile | Feb 1 2026 15:02 utc | 7
 
Objective proof that demons walk among us, prowling the halls of power from Montezuma to Tripoli, for many years. The question becomes: Can decent people reclaim humanity from the death-clutch of demons?
 
Jeffrey Sachs’ recent forecast is the best I can do: “I’m not optimistic.”

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2026 15:16 utc | 9

The victims are emotionally stunted and isolated. No one is going to understand them except their little rich friends who have had the same initiation. It breeds family loyalty. It is a method to preserve family wealth over generations. It is all of them.  
Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 1 2026 14:44 utc | 3
Sociopath are above average successful.
Child abuse is the next best thing to achieve something similar.
( Germany has a range of boarding schools for the “upper class” that made news
with wide spread abuse. Parents pretended to be surprised ( haha )
though I do think that the specialty environment contidion was preknown and intentionally applied. How to advantage my offspring.)
pretended to be surprised
 

Posted by: MAKK | Feb 1 2026 15:29 utc | 11

Worth noting that today is the day that Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile 47 years ago. This day is celebrated every year for ten days as the birth of the Islamic Republic.
Clearly a period of unity, patriotism and military pride for the whole country – even those who oppose Khamenei. I’ve scoured the western press and seen no one celebrating their success in bringing this Islamic hell upon the Iranian people! Almost as though they want us to forget the truth.
Iran is changing. The Mullahs are weak. It started when Khamenei’s son was denied succession about 2 years ago, if I remember rightly. You will hear nothing about the morality police having been removed, about women walking freely in most places without head scarves, about the emboldened Iranians continually protesting over the last few years. 
And for those who still think that Tehran is being moved south because there is no water left – Iranian media talk about this every single year! – you just need to see the staggering amount of construction going on in Tehran at the moment to understand that it is pure fantasy. ))

Posted by: Artem | Feb 1 2026 15:30 utc | 13

Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2026 15:02 utc | 7 
 
Sasha’s claims are indeed shocking but he is in a tiny minority calling it “the Trump/Epstein ring” the rest of us thought it was Maxwell and Epstein doing the trafficking. The case in Florida was  focused on those two villains. the Virgin Islands claims against the Epstein estate featured considerable testimony from victims framing Maxwell as a significant part of operation 
 
 

Posted by: will moon | Feb 1 2026 15:38 utc | 15

tell me again there is a “polar vortex split” to be discussing…
@ oldhippie | Feb 1 2026 15:29 utc | 12
 
Since you ask. I prefer to quote Andrej Filjs, whose knowledge of such things, compared to my own, is the Pacific Ocean versus a snifter of soda. From the article linked above:

These shifts in the Polar Vortex core happen when there is some type of disruption, or a high-pressure area in the stratosphere. You can imagine the Polar Vortex as a balloon which, when squeezed, will elongate. This is how the high-pressure anomalies in the stratosphere can push the Polar Vortex core into North America.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2026 15:51 utc | 17

I don’t believe in coincidences. The Melania movie, directed by an Epstein associate, is a message.
 
Poor Baron. Poor Ivanka.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2026 15:57 utc | 19

This is also useful Kevin Warsh – Wall Street’s man – Michael Roberts Blog
 

But now in 2026, after the inflationary spike following the end of the pandemic slump, Warsh is not worried about the Fed lowering its policy interest rate and causing inflation because this time AI is going to save the day by boosting productivity so much that it will be a “significant deflationary force”. As his mentor Druckenmiller put it “Kevin right now very much believes you can have growth without inflation.”
The interesting contradiction is that Warsh still wants to stop the Fed expanding the money supply as that is inflationary, in his view. So if the Fed reduces its balance sheet further (which it did for a while under Powell) that could raise government bond yields – unless, of course, the government makes significant cuts in spending and inflation subsides.  Everything will depend on that AI productivity boost.

 
It is really hard to respect people who have to think Sir Keir Starmer is a gay guy before they think he is a bad guy. I thought the knighthood was practically official certification of that, especially since it seems to be automatic for a proven servant of a key instrument of power of the capitalists, namely, chief of Crown Prosecution Service. It is a truly perverse set of values that worries more about who he screws than who he screws over. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 1 2026 16:06 utc | 21

Repost from prior thread:
 
Healthcare workers confirm that ICE is abandoning half-naked detainees in the woods of Minnesota. “Individuals have shown up in emergency rooms who require amputations—some with cracked skulls.”
 “If you are taking your dog for a walk in a park—please keep an eye out.”
  “Make sure there are no individuals in there who may succumb to hypothermia—let’s share this and let’s come together.”
 Specifically around the Whipple Federal Building located in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2017206166670266370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2017206166670266370%7Ctwgr%5E888dd086d31abea73d0690fa36258d33cc7a0810%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2026%2F02%2Flinks-2-1-2026.html  

Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2026 16:14 utc | 23

“President Trump said Chinese automakers would be welcome if they built cars in the U.S. using American factories and workers.”

 
 
Great plan, except for the problem that the Xiaomi SU7 is built in a “dark factory” using Chinese robots and Chinese supply chains. The piece of real estate the factory sits on is irrelevant.

Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 1 2026 16:23 utc | 25

The failure to impeach Donald J. Trump for crimes and misdemeanors to his oath of conduct of office are numerous to ratified treaties that limit actions that can legally be taken. However the most egregious transgression is DJT’s his violation of Posse Cometas, the restriction of federal military to police the citizen; (See wikipedia for both Posse Cometas AND Posse Cometas Act) for details . All public office holders failing their own Oaths to the Constitution also must be held accountable as well. Failure for the courts to so find will mark the end of Constitutionally based Law as well as the Republic In the United States the substitution of “Democracy” for the Republic was an insidious device intended to obscure that destruction in a fog of myths and delusions. The U.S. Constitution is now mythology, no laws can be used based on its foundation.
‘b’, I noticed dome of my comments earlier have disappeared, I have not found them. This appears to be censorship, for what transgression , I haven’t a clue. This too I expect shall disappear as well. Earlier during the times of Covid19 the censorship cost your site was rabid and lost this reader. Poor Poet got no pottage then. Now that seems to be replicating itself and promises supporting never again. My voice is likely gone this site, your archives will be ‘clean’ but likely empty, blather excepted. TAE experienced reduction to a few that dominated the site, all other commentariat ignored and the site failed other than the originator’s postings. Sorry I do not trawl the iTubs to find agreement to post here. 

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Feb 1 2026 16:35 utc | 27

@ Formerly T-Bear | Feb 1 2026 16:35 utc | 27
 
i find it very odd the idea of b censoring you t bear… that just doesn’t make sense.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 1 2026 16:41 utc | 29

@Aleph_Null | Feb 1 2026 14:51 utc | 4
 
Super interesting about the polar vortex split!  So far in January, in southern Norway we have had mostly cold and much less snow than last year. I thought the “less snow” part was due to me buying a new snow blower, but I guess it is the polar vortex split 🙂  Right now we have -5C which is perfect, but the local prediction is significantly colder for the foreseeable future. Now I know why…

Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 1 2026 16:46 utc | 31

Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants
 
(Excerpt)…….
The recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in Minneapolis has generated a new wave of fury on the part of Americans upset about the mounting abuses that federal law enforcement personnel are committing.  The alarm is fully warranted.  ICE, the FBI, and other government entities increasingly both look and behave like ruthless military combat units.  Unfortunately, too many people who are alarmed about the recent incidents seem to believe that the problem originated with Donald Trump’s presidency and that removing him from that post would end the ominous threat to civil liberties.
 
That belief is delusional.  The dangerous militarization of law enforcement agencies and the corresponding contempt for constitutional rights that those agencies exhibit began many decades ago and the situation has inexorably worsened over that long period…….
 

Posted by: Exile | Feb 1 2026 16:53 utc | 33

b, that is quite a fascinating article from 2018 that you’ve shared…  the parallels with the usa at this point, are striking..  – others might enjoy this article too
 
– WHY MOSCOW’S FOREIGN PHILOSOPHY IS “WESTPHALIAN” – Patrick Armstrong
 

Posted by: james | Feb 1 2026 16:58 utc | 35

@Exile 33
 
Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants (Excerpt)…….The recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents in Minneapolis has generated a new wave of fury on the part of Americans upset about the mounting abuses that federal law enforcement personnel are committing.  The alarm is fully warranted.  ICE, the FBI, and other government entities increasingly both look and behave like ruthless military combat units.  Unfortunately, too many people who are alarmed about the recent incidents seem to believe that the problem originated with Donald Trump’s presidency and that removing him from that post would end the ominous threat to civil liberties. That belief is delusional.  The dangerous militarization of law enforcement agencies and the corresponding contempt for constitutional rights that those agencies exhibit began many decades ago and the situation has inexorably worsened over that long period…….
 
From what I can tell, elected democrats are 100% in favor of the ICE and FBI militarization of the US.  Democrats in congress are working on language to “officially oppose” the Trump administration in ways that do not hinder the efforts of the Trump administration.  Trump is just the guy that was selected to get the job done – US boots on the ground in the US – with democrats playing their part by reliably muting and brushing away any criticism from the left.
 
The actions of ICE are a bipartisan project.

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 1 2026 17:13 utc | 37

President Donald Trump said the United States was beginning to talk with Cuban leaders as his administration puts greater pressure on the communist-run island and cuts off key oil supplies.
He made the comment to reporters on Saturday night as he was flying to Florida. It comes in the wake of his moves in recent weeks to cut off supplies of oil from Venezuela and Mexico, which he suggested Saturday would force Cuba to the negotiating table.
 
His goals with Cuba remain unclear, but Trump has turned more of his attention toward the island after his administration in early January captured Venezuela’s then-President Nicolás Maduro and has been more aggressive in confronting nations that are adversaries of the U.S.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 1 2026 17:21 utc | 39

More Warsh in his own words:
Warsh being interviewed by the Hoover Institution rep

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 1 2026 17:24 utc | 41

All us Formerlys must stick together.  I believe b did delete or ban many of us during the Covid Hoax.  I also believe he was under tremendous pressure from his government.   I still remember videos of German police dogs mauling people who protested.    I also left the site for some time, but lately I must commend b for keeping this forum going.    I hope us Formerlys will forgive and come back.
 
Meanwhile, I have to say that my heart is finally completely broken.   The country of my birth, with a Constitution which I used to consider the most beautiful document I had ever read, has now gone to complete lawlessness.    Trump murders who ever he wants to where ever he wants for – well mostly money and to please his owners in Izzyhell.    Abandoning living beings in the bitter cold of Minnesota nights is for me the last straw.   Can’t stop the tears.   Later..

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Feb 1 2026 17:28 utc | 43

Woke American #37.   Of course.  Both parties are owned lock stock and barrel by Aipac, Nuttyyahoo,  Gates of Hell, Theil, Adelson….on and on.   ICE features methodology used in Gaza by IDF/Mossad because ICE is comprised of IDF/Mossad.    Until Murika and the rest of the world breaks free of the Murderous Aparrtide Thugs, there will be no peace in the world.    Trump is no more the a grifter writ large who is cashing in on the genocide.    Too bad so sad.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Feb 1 2026 17:34 utc | 45

1. Winter lasting unto spring 🙂
Aleph_Null ( Feb 1 2026 15:51 utc | 17 ):
Does he go into any detail about what the source(s) of the high pressure anomalies is/are? In particular why they change and move from year to year (or week to week, day to day)? (Please don’t say anthropogenic climate change; not nearly specific enough, no proven uninterrupted causal chain, no explanatory power. The same can also be said for Earth’s tilt etc.; it might well be the reason but there is still so much lacking in our understanding). (This topic is actually a rabbit hole but I am curious).
 
I like your posts anyway no matter if we disagree or not.
 
By the way someone somewhere said/claimed polar bears are getting fatter so at least that’s good then XD (no matter how scary such a thing is; people don’t realize those bears are the size of mini-vans when fully grown …with teeth, very sharp strong teeth).
 
· · · · · · · · · · · ·
 
2. Demons, antichrist, monsters under you bed XC
Difficult to be concise on this but I want to both warn people and perhaps explain why some Russian attitudes gets the eye-roll.
 
It is only my opinion and others are entitled to their own but maybe it is an angle many do not consider. I fully understand and sympathize with the rightful need for expletives and condemnations to give voice to ones disgust and opposition; to lend force to ones reaction. To categorize, simplify.
 
I would like to make people consider/understand that when one redefines human criminal assholes as demons etc. one is unfortunately and inadvertently buying into it (including their twisted power fantasy) and lending some kind of support to it. It is the same thing the German nazis did with appropriating, distorting, cheapening, and thus also harming, European pagan beliefs and religion, and also something similar has been done to judaism or even islam —it can be done to anything.
 
In this case (satan and whatever) it functions as scapegoating invoking a kind of inverted superlative where these criminals are no longer mere humans doing evil but instead falsely elevated into more powerful concepts be it something real, folkloric, imaginary, superstitions, or whatnot. That’s not helpful at all and also very often a strange obfuscation of whatever those references really are or originally were (not always but often). None of this is new btw, there are (and have been for thousands of years) people out there completely buying into the nonsense thinking they’re “satanists” or whatever when they only clueless and “tripping”.
 
To explain something about the misunderstandings looking at the idea of “the antichrist” might be helpful; people use it as some placeholder of (near-)ultimate evil that everyone will hate when the scary part of the original concept is that it is someone who will be near-universally loved and who will seduce he world as they falsely appear to save it and solve its ills. In other words the concept is being turned upside down and people stop watching for the real danger as they have never heard/understood what was being warned against.
 
The thing about figures like Napoleon and Hitler is that they were genuinely popular with many people however still nowhere nearly enough so to be called near-universal. Someone like Trump is not remotely close to those two in temporary popularity; people are not actually clamoring about how he is some kind of ultimate savior. JFK would have been much closer (!) .
 
Much more can be said on all of this but I am very tired, hopefully this is clear enough to be understood as a point of view no matter if one agrees or not :3
 
3. To those it concerns a thank you for replies in previous threads. I have hopefully seen them all but didn’t have anything in particular to reply back with and not much energy to enter into any would-be arguments (and time moves too fast for me both on smaller and larger scales; I was mildly shocked reading a comment which stated the murder of Soleimani (whose name I am always unsure how to correctly spell) was in 2020; already six years ago! Yikes those years have disappeared fast!).
 
All the best to everybody!
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Feb 1 2026 17:40 utc | 47

Apparently, there is a lot of Cobalt down there, in much higher concentrations than can be found on land.
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2026 17:27 utc | 42
 
—
 
It is a dangerously bad idea to mine deep sea nodules as they are catalysts that oxygenate the ocean ==> https://youtu.be/NlrHPycKKQ0?t=36
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 1 2026 17:41 utc | 49

 
The king’s speech – and why it has foreigners in South Africa worried

Posted by: WhatAbout? | Feb 1 2026 17:44 utc | 51

Tens of Thousands of Students Across US Join Minneapolis Movement Against ICE: LIVE UPDATES
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/31/vujl-j31.html
 
“As Trump’s border czar vows to continue kidnappings, students and workers denounced Democratic Party collaboration. Tens of thousands march in Minneapolis  against federal occupation, fascist dictatorship.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2026 17:52 utc | 53

I find those who still talk of the “working class” and trade unions etc to be quaint in a sort of way.   I grew up supporting unions and the concept of collective action and watched the movies and docos on the UK miners strikes etc with enthusiasm.  So my heart is with the union movement or at least the movement as it was in say 1895-1965.  However that movement no longer exists and is not coming back.
 
Manual workers who organised in 1925 are no longer needed, nor can they organise. The reasons (s0me):

• automation has reduced the need for workers,
• mobility due to car ownership means that workers no longer live and work in shared communities, making collective organisation impossible,
• the children of the old unionists went to university and are doctors, lawyers or financial analysts
• immigration has undercut wages (yes the REAL reason immigration is supported by mainstream parties is to crush unions. It succeeded
• Higher education opportunities has depleted what is left of blue collar industries of much of its leadership, to the extent that in the old days the movement was often led and inspired by those self educated workers, who read widely.  This group, now the kids/grand-kids of the old unionists may still have a commitment to social justice and may work as lawyers etc for unions or for human rights but they ae no longer at the coal face
• the rise of the gig economy which undercuts any union movement
• the collapse of the USSR and the support for the “communist” or socialist model, which removed the threat of blue collar resistance to exploitation and the tolerance of the business elite for unions as a safety valve against revolution
• economic headwinds in capitalist nations, which rather than encouraging unionism, undermine it.

 
Faced with the above, just how can any thing resembling the union movement return. Something might arise, but it wont be anything like the movement that was important in the 20th century.

Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 17:56 utc | 55

Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 17:56 utc | 55
 
I don’t disagree that unions in their mid-20th-century form aren’t coming back—automation, mobility, and platform work have clearly reshaped the terrain. But the causality in the post runs backward. The weakening of unions through law, policy, and globalization deals wasn’t a side effect of deindustrialization; it was one of its enabling conditions. Once unions lost leverage, offshoring, wage suppression, and automation without shared gains became easy. The precarity we now cite as an obstacle to organizing is, in large part, the product of that earlier defeat. So it’s not just that “the world changed”—it was changed on workers.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 1 2026 18:03 utc | 57

Posted by: b | Feb 1 2026 17:37 utc | 46 
 
That may have been the cause of disappearance, I do not recall the handle catdog/dogcat before who responded to something said to another participant here. Unfortunately I made no copies of my remarks as in the past none were needed so commentary is lost and I’m not able to repeat myself very well; plus my eyesight has deteriorated to the point making comments is difficult and reading quite time consuming and editing  remarks just beyond difficult which makes writing seldom enough.  I will refrain from finding fault for now but think a discussion on limits or application of deletion might be a useful item to transpire as ‘free speech’ is like holding on to a jelly-fish with a fork. Thank you for your timely response; I shall learn some more patience as well.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Feb 1 2026 18:04 utc | 59

Deindustrialization in the West wasn’t just economic drift; it created a serious strategic vulnerability. Hollowed-out manufacturing, offshored supply chains, and the deliberate weakening of unions stripped states of leverage over both capital and labor, leaving the US and Europe dependent on distant, potentially hostile suppliers for core industrial inputs—from steel and shipbuilding to semiconductors and rare earths. Russia and China took a different path. Neither preserved “strong unions” in a Western sense, but both subordinated labor organizations to the state, preventing unions from becoming veto points while still maintaining labor discipline and industrial continuity. In Russia, post-Soviet unions were absorbed into a state–corporate compact that preserved heavy industry under resource nationalism and strategic ownership. In China, the party-controlled union system and suppression of independent labor action kept wages, mobility, and capital flight politically manageable while the state scaled the world’s largest manufacturing base. The result is not worker empowerment, but industrial resilience: tighter control over production, shorter internal supply lines, and the capacity to sustain a war economy without relying on fragile global logistics. Deindustrialization, then, isn’t just a social policy failure in the West—it’s a defense handicap that Moscow and Beijing avoided by retaining control over labor as well as capital.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 1 2026 18:08 utc | 61

@Formerly T-Bear #59
Views on Warsh?

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 1 2026 18:08 utc | 63

Sunny Runny Burger | Feb 1 2026 17:40 utc | 47
 
Regarding the Russians using terms like Satan for Ukrainians – When the Russians captured Mariupol they also captured the Azov headquarters and barracks. At that time, Azov had become a large international near-nazi group.They had drawn in neo-nazis from around the world though mostly from the western world.
 
In the barracks they found books on satanism, symbols and ritualistic type stuff. Many of the neo-nazis were deeply into satanism as a kind of religious belief. I think it was around that time Russians began using the term Satan in connection to the Ukraine or the Ukraine nazis. The Chechens began calling them shaitans.
 
And from that resident post I quoted above, it appears Zelensky and many of the current heavily corrupt Ukraine elite, are into that sort of thing as well.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 18:13 utc | 65

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 1 2026 17:41 utc | 48
Absolutely
 
I have been blocked or removed on occasion. Once i seemed to be blocked and contacted b directly to ask why. it was obviously a glitch. I have had posts deleted, usually when part of a long off topic conversation.
 
Yes he is very sensitive to discussions of Covid. I do not blame him. I have been deleted for controversial comments on that topic.  There is a point to b’s concern.  Far too much irresponsible lunacy on that topic.
 
My only real concern about this site is in fact b’s tolerance for clearly racist anti-jewish nuttery. Mostly because I think this stuff is posted by trolls to denigrate the site.  Now I am appalled at the behaviour of Israel in Palestine, but I am careful not to use explicitly racist language.  The perpetrators of the crimes in Palestine are the forces of the Israeli government.  Israeli does not mean Jewish and not all Jewish people are insane genocidal Zionists. The perpetrators of the crimes in Serbia, Vietnam etc were forces of the USA, but not all Americans were responsible.

Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 18:14 utc | 67

Vijay Prashad: Greenland is Not A Prize
 
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/28/vijay-prashad-greenland-is-not-a-prize/
 
“The Inuit of Greenland call their country Kalaallit Nunaat: ‘Land of the Kalallit’ (Greenlanders). When Trump and his allies speak of Greenland, they never speak of the people. The Kalaallit.
 
Instead, Trump speaks of the strategic importance of the island and what the US government sees as the perils of its Chinese and Russian capture (never mind that neither China nor Russia has made any claims over the territory).
 
Greenland is always a place that someone else must hold, but not the Kalaallit. For people like Trump, or indeed for generations of Danish prime ministers (despite soft statements about the path to self-determination), the Kalaallit have no role as political subjects…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2026 18:25 utc | 69

Posted by: WhatAbout? | Feb 1 2026 18:20 utc | 68

Any datas to support that ?
We know that most Jews in Israel support their govt actions, but around the world I’m not so sure. Wealthy jews, probably, but regular Jews, that’s not a certitude.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Feb 1 2026 18:29 utc | 71

Posted by: WhatAbout? | Feb 1 2026 18:20 utc | 68

Here are some datas…
 
https://www.jpr.org.uk/insights/what-exactly-jewish-majority-view-israel

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Feb 1 2026 18:34 utc | 73

clearly racist anti-jewish 
Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 18:14 utc | 67
 
Is “Jew” a race? 
Is claiming “antisemetism” falsely often a convenient way of deflecting and derailing from valid points about the behaviour of a certain group, by that group? Is it used that way?
 
Yes, there are antisemites. Yes, some people hate Jews.  But FAR more foul to me is the constant use of “you are being nasty to us because we are Jews” when they are being assholes, when it has nothing to do with being Jews and would be just as vicious, evil and wrong if a non-jew did it.
 
I don’t hate Jews. I hate hypocritical and sanctimonious assholes who try to justify their inhuman crimes with “antisemitism” accusations.    Even if someone is antisemetic, it really kind of a minor issue compared to self proclaimed chosenites exterminating an entire people “Because our God says it is right”.
 
I am anti-Jews-being murderous assholes.    But of course, that is ANTISEMETIC!   I guess because it is wrong to notice the ones being murderous assholes, if they happen to be Jews.
 
 
 

Posted by: ftp | Feb 1 2026 18:50 utc | 75

 xiao pignouf | Feb 1 2026 18:29 utc | 71
 
I tried to judge that a bit with both the pro genocide and anti genocide protests in the west. There appeared to be far more jews at the pro genocide marches. The vast majority or all of Jews in Israel are Zionists even if a small minority have been anti genocide. At least half if not more of the jews outside Israel are also Zionist. So perhaps 75% of the world population of Jews are Zionists.
 
I think a reasonable proportion of Australian Jews were anti genocide. Those killings of Jews in Bondi was I believe a mossad operation. They were here immediately “to help Australian police investigate” the crime when it was none of their business.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 1 2026 18:51 utc | 77

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Feb 1 2026 18:11 utc | 64

1. St Bridget’s day (1 February) is the residual of the old Celtic festival of Imbolc. it was the day that dignified the start of the lambing season, Not quite spring start but associated with it.
2. The next big day is of course May 1 which is a true arrival of Spring/Summer festival associated with fertility and was in many places the main annual festival, even up to 150 years ago in rural England. It is associated with maypoles (you can probably guess what that is about) and often common law marriage.
3. 3 months later (1 August) is now virtually gone but remains in Ireland as Luhnasa. It is still the “horses, birthday) so I am guessing that in pagan times it was a horse festival. I marks the beginning of the end of summer or perhaps the beginning or Autumn
4. The fourth Celtic festival is of course Halloween (or 1 November) and is truly the marker for the arrival of the hard months of winter.

 
In between these four festivals which seem to be largely European/Celtic in nature are the four solar festivals,  which are also celebrated. 

1. Xmas is of course very close to the winter solstice (in the North) (21 December) and has long marked the beginning of the end of winter
2. The Summer solstice was long marked as St john’s eve (21 June) and is/was a fire festival. 
3.  The March eqinox is on course very close to (and connected with Easter/Passover, originally a fertility festival
4. The September equinox seems not to have much of a residual trace in European culture, but in Asia it is of course close the Moon festival

Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 18:54 utc | 79

Posted by: ftp | Feb 1 2026 18:50 utc | 74
 
What you do not seem to grasp is that people are born into a religion and a nationality.  They have no choice in the matter. That is why using racist terms is wrong. Sure it might (and is) true that the majority of Israelis support the genocide and  that this majority are mostly Jewish, but it is still racist to call them out because they are Jewish. 
 
It may even be the case that 90% of some ethnic group have ghastly personalities but it is racist the assume that all 100% of them do. What about the innocent 10%.
 
I am Australian. We participated in the genocidal activities in Vietnam and in Iraq. it is true enough that Australian governments supported genocidal activities. Does that make me and all Aust5ralians genocidal? 

Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 19:06 utc | 81

“Does that make me and all Aust5ralians genocidal? 
Posted by: watcher | Feb 1 2026 19:06 utc | 80 ”
 
Ask your Jewish friends if Israel should retain its “Jewish” character and majority? Then ask them if Australia should retain its Western, White, majority and its dominant Christian culture?   

Posted by: WhatAbout? | Feb 1 2026 19:13 utc | 83

China’s so-called “deflation crisis” is a complete misreading of what’s actually happening within China’s economy. I again highly suggest this Warwick Powell essay on the issue, China’s Post-GDP Prosperity – by Dr Warwick Powell. The key point deals with the utter inadequacy of GDP as a proper measure of an economy’s performance, which many understand well when it comes to the Outlaw US Empire’s fictitious GDP.
 
As for the weather/climate discussion, here o the West Coast we’ve had a massive and very powerful high pressure cell siting off Southern California for most of the year which has caused elevated temps and a drought. Now, that was preceded by numerous atmospheric rivers that originated Southwest of Hawaii and streamed into our region dumping copious rain but very little snow. Last year at this time, Mt Hood’s Timberline Lodge reporting station had 12 feet of snow, while today it has only 7 inches. The high is reasserting itself and we’ll see how long it lasts before it gets broken down. In California, this has caused the dreaded extremely thick “tule fog” throughout the Central Valley, which I know well having grown up with it. Usually, our storm lows originate in the Gulf of Alaska; this year we’ve had zero. Also, the usual frontal bands that generate violent weather in the Southeast haven’t appeared much at all meaning very few tornadoes and such. Yes, it’s cold, but other usual factors aren’t happening.   

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 1 2026 19:24 utc | 85

various weather comments
 
We once had a nicely balanced General Circus;ation Model that included two mid latitude jet streams, two polar vortices, north and south, and stable finer details like trade winds and what have you. It is all just gone. Watch the charts. The charts do not lie. Words to describe the charts are hard to find. The circulation these days is much simplified. Best description is simply chaos. 
 
The basic drivers have not changed. It is cold at poles, the sun is more constant and warmer at equator. The earth still spins. The continents and oceans are where they were. Ocean currents maybe not as strong and constant as they were, still there. But look at the charts and try to find the old jet streams or vortices. Not there. So weather is more chaotic.
 
Best descriptor I’ve seen of the process is older papers from Jennifer Francis. Her journal papers are quite readable. There are a number of standing lectures and discussions on YouTube, shorter and longer, if you like it that way. Just enter the name.
 
Describing what is currently happening using terms that no longer have any referent is deceptive.

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 1 2026 19:33 utc | 87

@ c1ue | Feb 1 2026 17:11 utc | 36  // steven t johnson | Feb 1 2026 17:42 utc | 50
 
hey guys… i appreciate what you have to share, but it would be more effective if you skipped attacking others when you say it…  try leaving out the venom towards each other and you will come across much more effectively and i will continue to learn something from both of you…
 
@ watcher | Feb 1 2026 19:06 utc | 80  – and all your other posts on the topic of censorship… 
 
i hear what you are saying… but it still needs to be said the ongoing genocide of the people in israel because they are not of the ‘right’ religion or race  what have you – is a huge problem that people are attempting to address directly here… people screw up, but if the jewish community want to rise above what happened to them by doing the same to another group – it isn’t going to work… shoah = nakba..  that is how i see it.. the nakba is ongoing.. when is the jewish community going to call their leaders to account?? we see trump’s inability to address the wrongs here… 

Posted by: james | Feb 1 2026 19:44 utc | 89

also on the topic of using the ”right” words to define the israel-jewish-zionist configuration… i like what peter au said.. thanks peter….  at some point these folks need to address an issue that is not going away – genocide of the palestinian people..

Posted by: james | Feb 1 2026 19:48 utc | 91

we see trump’s inability to address the wrongs here… 
 
Posted by: james | Feb 1 2026 19:44 utc | 88
 
Bingo!  A good predictor of what Trump is going to do are the poll numbers: Recent polling suggests there is no majority among U.S. Jews in favor of a direct U.S. attack on Iran. In a mid-2025 Jewish People Policy Institute survey, about one-third (≈33%) supported the U.S. joining a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, while a clear majority opposed direct participation; by contrast, around half (≈50–51%) supported the U.S. helping Israel with weapons, intelligence, or defensive support rather than offensive strikes. On broader intervention, another JPPI poll found roughly 31% of U.S. Jews favor U.S. military intervention against Iran, about 52% oppose it, and the rest are undecided, with attitudes sharply split by ideology—conservative Jews far more supportive of force, liberal Jews largely opposed. Overall, the data points to qualified, conditional support (defense and aid) rather than enthusiasm for a U.S.-led war.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 1 2026 19:52 utc | 93

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 1 2026 19:27 utc | 85
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Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 1 2026 19:54 utc | 95

Do read Larry Johnson’s newest for updated economic figures and metals market quotes, https://sonar21.com/trumps-plan-to-economically-bully-china-has-failed-scott-bessent-is-clueless/

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 1 2026 19:59 utc | 97

Trump’s recent plan to use U.S. control over Venezuelan oil to redirect global crude flows, pressure allies like India to buy Venezuelan instead of Russian or Iranian supplies, invite China to invest, and potentially revive production to lower U.S. prices to around $50/barrel is ambitious but faces serious hurdles. Short-term mechanics—releasing seized Venezuelan crude, granting tariff relief for India, and attracting initial U.S.-led investments—are feasible and could yield symbolic wins, like modestly reducing Russian oil revenue, but the broader goals are highly optimistic. Venezuela’s infrastructure decay, massive investment needs ($183 billion+ per Rystad), legal uncertainties, and political instability make scaling production and securing sustained foreign buy-in unlikely. Economic realities for buyers, geopolitical backlash from Russia, Iran, and even India’s non-alignment, plus uncertain deal confirmations, further complicate the plan. On a 1-10 feasibility scale, it lands around 4–5: plausible for short-term maneuvering but unrealistic as a long-term, transformative strategy.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Feb 1 2026 20:04 utc | 99