The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-034

Last one for now. Bill Belichick’s (former Patriots coach) girlfriend (>25 years his junior) wears a sweater bearing the logo of “Orchids of Asia” prostitution ring tied to Robert Kraft (Patriots owner and close supporter of Trump) busted in the past few years while attending the Sports Ball Superbowl.

https://x.com/tmz/status/2020551019642384487

Background: https://www.the-independent.com/sport/nfl/robert-kraft-arrest-prostitute-jupiter-florida-sex-ring-new-england-patriots-a8792611.html

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 8 2026 22:08 utc | 101

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 8 2026 21:44 utc | 95

Tell me, where is sanity?

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 8 2026 22:14 utc | 102

Hey, you know who else is mentioned constantly in the Epstein files:

VLADIMIR PUTIN.

How do I know this? Cuz every time Ben Meisalas (sp?) at Meidas Touch/YT mentions Epstein, which is lots, he helpfully informs us that Trump’s real partner is in those files too, PUTIN.

see what a criminal PUTIN is?!?!? if only Trump would bomb Iran or Cuba, then Ben Meisalas would applaud.

Posted by: duck n cover | Feb 8 2026 22:14 utc | 103

Good article here from a not so revolutionary source, but still good:
“Venezuela privatizes oil at US gunpoint: The dead end of “21st Century Socialism””
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/02/mgms-f02.html
This is must read for all those that thought the Venezuelan government was actually revolutionary and likely to seriously defend itself against Imperialism. You know who you are.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 104

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 8 2026 22:03 utc | 101

The Bidens are pretty corrupt but we’ve pegged the needle to uber-corrupt.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105

DH: Justin Podur: ‘Trump Cornered’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFN0fIirBB8

“Trump cornered as Iran drops BOMBSHELL, Israel begs for war, with Netanyahu rushing to Washington on his hands and knees. Geopolitical analyst Justin Podur joins the show for the first time to SITREP the coming US-Iran war and discuss what’s next.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 8 2026 22:24 utc | 106

Riddle me this, who won the Superbowl the year this came out, don’t Google.
Animal House https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/last-of-the-animal-house-generation

Hint, 1 team had a doomsday defense.

Posted by: Dogon priest | Feb 8 2026 22:44 utc | 107

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 8 2026 22:02 utc | 100
The new WEF leadership is under Larry Fink and André Hoffmann.

Posted by: Alberto | Feb 8 2026 22:45 utc | 108

This is must read for all those that thought the Venezuelan government was actually revolutionary and likely to seriously defend itself against Imperialism. You know who you are.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105
According to Craig Murray it had nothing to do with the US and Trump . It was already being worked on by Maduro and the meetings and voting had already been scheduled.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/02/is-the-usa-controlling-venezuela/

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:50 utc | 109

Well, it was because of the strangulation of Venezuela by twenty years of sanctions , and not because of Trump murder and kidnapping.

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:53 utc | 110

Posted by: Dogon priest | Feb 8 2026 22:44 utc | 108

Dallas

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 8 2026 22:53 utc | 111

If you listen to Craig Murray he says that most countries have exactly the same policy and rules governing the exploitation of their oil.

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:55 utc | 112

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105

######

Typical socialists eating each other with victory laps.

Socialism is only possible with solidarity.

So many Western socialists are posers. No sense of ubuntu.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 8 2026 22:57 utc | 113

I remembered more. The only oil that Trump has got is the oil he pirated by seizing tankers loaded with Venezuelan crude.

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:58 utc | 114

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:58 utc | 115

Yeah. “Crude”. That describes almost the entire US/UK financial and political “elite” class in the 21st century. Where have all the classy fascists gone?

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 8 2026 23:03 utc | 115

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105

More hokum, it seems .

WSWS? The controlled Marxist Trotskyite pretend commie deepstate agitators?

Did you bother to look at link to Craig Murray who is actually ON THE GROUND IN VZ?

Craig Murray

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/02/is-the-usa-controlling-venezuela/

Unlike every other so called media – he explains exactly what the VZ government agreed in parliament last week.

Maduro had started that process. Rodriguez isn’t controlled.

Trump is pirating all the stolen oil money through the UAE like a proper dictator to do with as he wants. It does not go through the US treasury!

The rest is just standard contractual agreements with foreign oil firms.

Let’s see how many Russian/Chinese oil companies get a look in.

Let’s stop the nonsense.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 8 2026 23:07 utc | 116

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105 The meaning of this is, Trump is actually a friend of socialism because he overthrew enemies of socialism in Caracas!

If the point was to say, Bolivarians are not Communists, since they never claimed to be, this is nothing more than pissing on the grave. Since Trotskyite wreckers hate so-called Stalinists, which is what they call Communists, more than anybody, sneering at Bolivarians for sharing their own rejection of Communism, this is hypocritical as well as subservient.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 8 2026 23:11 utc | 117

Posted by: Dogon priest | Feb 8 2026 22:44 utc | 108

I was in college. Great days for me. A few willing young women, great classes, beer and Mexican/Texan herb… toned down Animal House and most of us did ok.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 8 2026 23:14 utc | 118

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 22:15 utc | 105 The meaning of this is, Trump is actually a friend of socialism because he overthrew enemies of socialism in Caracas!

If the point was to say, Bolivarians are not Communists, since they never claimed to be, this is nothing more than pissing on the grave. Since Trotskyite wreckers hate so-called Stalinists, which is what they call Communists, more than anybody, sneering at Bolivarians for sharing their own rejection of Communism, this is hypocritical as well as subservient.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 8 2026 23:11 utc | 118
That’s all in your strange head there, Stevie J. Read the fucking article.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:14 utc | 119

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 8 2026 23:07 utc | 117

I concede wsws is not a revolutionary party, so ok. But, they do produce some good analysis. Read it and tell me what in it you disagree with. Anything less is just not worth my time, trigger.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:16 utc | 120

Update on GeromanAT Twitter account it seems Elon has pulled the plug on him and his dumb grok ain’t answering peoples query about wtf.

The great Roman on his telegram writes.
“My X account is still hacked – do not click on any of the latest scammer shit posted there – X “Support” told me I now have to wait for a week “until the problem is resolved” – What for do I have a paid and verified account??
They have my ID – and now they do not know who am I? “
follow him there it’s actually better somehow.
https://t.me/geromanat/70328

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 8 2026 23:19 utc | 121

Socialism is only possible with solidarity.

So many Western socialists are posers. No sense of ubuntu.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 8 2026 22:57 utc | 114

I totally agree. That was exactly my point. The bourgeois wants a race/gender war. Revolution requires absolute class unity. But, fake Socialism (like Venezuela) must be exposed aggressively. If it cannot stand up to material critique, it doesn’t deserve to exist.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:20 utc | 122

@ Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:16 utc | 121

I did read it before commenting! You haven’t bothered to get the expert reporting from the journalist in Caracas.
WSWS is as controlled ‘opposition’ as one gets. Like the Socialist Worker ‘newspaper’ here in the U.K.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 8 2026 23:22 utc | 123

Nothing says class unity like “aggressively” attacking socialist states that don’t meet your ideal doctrine? Unfortunately for the Trotskyite wrecker, the correct answer is no.

As for so-called material critique, that would explain why the winner Trump deserves to exist while no Communist Party in the world merits anything but the Trotskyite wreckers pitiless condemnation. Worshipping the powerful, exalting the status quo are unsavory personal traits in my view, suitable to a Trotskyite wrecker but not to people who aspire to be better than that. (Admittedly a low bar, but low moral standards are better than none?)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 8 2026 23:27 utc | 124

Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 22:58 utc | 115

Trump and his team are indeed trying to “create a new reality” regarding Venezuela.

It’s difficult to understand how do many people are falling for it when it’s possible to verify that all the reforms were planned long ago, and everyone knows Trump is a liar.

It’s even just physically impossible to make such laws in just a few days. Delcy Rodriguez said they were tested during one year before adoption.

We must acknowledge that Trump has learned a lot from his time in the world of wrestling/WWE. Very good at “kayfabe”. But it’s beginning to be known.Note that Machado is currently spilling the beans. By pushing for “immediate” elections, she risks revealing the truth about “Trump ruling Venezuela” to the American people before the midterm elections, which will cost Trump’s party dearly.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 8 2026 23:29 utc | 125

Ooh hang on ! Geromans got a back up, clever boy!

” GeromanGhost @GeromanGhost

12h

This is the backup account of @geromanat – I will post the details of my case here only. I have set up this account back in 2024 when I was banned for a while to keep track. “

https://xcancel.com/GeromanGhost

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 8 2026 23:30 utc | 126

Well, it seems it is time for the annual appearance of the Superb Owl; the BBC is giving it major coverage tonight, presumably it sees this as part of its remit to spend licence payers money on developing minority interests?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 8 2026 23:33 utc | 127

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 8 2026 23:33 utc | 128
Superb Owl. Very good. Auspicious, even.

Posted by: lex talionis | Feb 8 2026 23:42 utc | 128

To beat the dead horse that is Michael Tracy a bit more, the statement he makes near the end of his article that Florida has virtually the highest age of consent anywhere in the world is ludicrous. There are 11 states in the USA with 18 the age of consent and something like 43 countries that have 18 (or older) as an age of consent. For someone who presents their work as well researched, this kind of basic mistake undercuts his credibility bigly (as the young folks say).

Posted by: lone plateau | Feb 8 2026 23:43 utc | 129

“Manufacturing Consent” was largely written by Edward Herman. Chomsky contributed some details/examples. Interesting how Herman seems forgotten, while Chomsky is always thought to be the main contributor.
Posted by: Bluedotterel | Feb 8 2026 17:37 utc | 31

Thanks for the enlightenment. Stopped me dead in my tracks today…

Posted by: Original Newbie | Feb 8 2026 23:50 utc | 130

oldhippie | Feb 8 2026 20:40 utc | 79

That entire comment. Very much the same as my thoughts on this matter.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 8 2026 23:51 utc | 131

Interesting how Herman seems forgotten, while Chomsky is always thought to be the main contributor.

Posted by: Bluedotterel | Feb 8 2026 17:37 utc | 31

That happens A Lot. Nascent songwriters lose their lyrics and melodies, inventors lose their IP, successful innovative businesses are forced to sell or be destroyed…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 8 2026 23:52 utc | 132

Peter AU1 | Feb 8 2026 17:43 utc | 32

Over two and a half million (documents)…… A file needs to be built on every name that appears there…..

It’s happening. Some determined autists (with added AI are sifting, parsing, compiling).
But… a bit like your work on the Ukrainian biolabs… it eventually gets lost and inaccessible.
People move on and forget.

The revolutions in Russia and China – Russia had two.

Q: But who funded these?
A: The usual. Mao’s Little Red Book was written by Israel Epstein.
(See if an image search will yield you the pic of Israel Epstein, Sol Adler, Mao Tse Tung, Frank Coe)

Mao was Dean of Yale China…

https://lipstick-and-war-crimes.org/maos-little-red-book-written-new-world-order-illuminati-rothschilds/

https://amg-news.com/the-real-history-maos-little-red-book-written-by-new-world-order-illuminati-rothschilds-skull-and-bones/

And. Jacob Schiff funded the Bolsheviks.

(Reminder: Communism, is a zio-Jewish construct. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels…. Why would the Chinese suddenly embrace and submit themselves to a German-Jewish creed, if it weren’t for the Jews controlling the “communist” revolution? )

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 8 2026 23:54 utc | 133

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:20 utc | 123

I confess I struggle to understand your criticisms.

Venezuela’s oil production plummeted from 3 million barrels per day to less than 0.3 million not because of US sanctions, but because the conditions of the Chavez laws discouraged investment.

Even Venezuela’s main partners, Russia and China, couldn’t invest under those conditions.

The country preferred to implement reforms while maintaining state ownership of the sector.

Because keeping the oil underground while poverty reigns is neither socialist nor communist, but simply foolish.

All of this is clearly explained in the speeches of Delcy Rodriguez and his brother, the Speaker of the National Assembly, during their campaign to secure support and passage for these reforms.

Why should theory, or rather its interpretation by extremists, condemn those who choose socialism to poverty rather than adapting to the realities that China, for example, practices so well?

And why focus on criticism at a turning point when a country that stand to the great capitalist hegemon is endangered and need support ?
I just don’t understand.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 8 2026 23:56 utc | 134

Note that Machado is currently spilling the beans.

Sebgo | Feb 8 2026 23:29 utc | 126

Machado is realising there’s always another patsy, another puppet, another pussy.

She handed over the Nobel trinket, which Trump believed was rightfully his anyway, and now she’s as useful as a discarded condom.

Rodriguez can give Trump everything he wants/needs, and she’s *actually* in power, rather than pretending to be.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 9 2026 0:06 utc | 135

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 0:10 utc | 136

WAIC: Lena Petrova: ‘Trump Just Declared War on Cuba’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCEFAA25IN4

“Here’s what comes next…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 0:15 utc | 137

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 9 2026 0:06 utc | 136

Delcy Rodriguez is not a puppet.
Trump said she is, what is quite different.

For what we know about the man, I won’t trust Donald Trump.

Apart from statements, we haven’t seen anything showing she is just obeying orders.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 0:17 utc | 138

karlof1 | Feb 8 2026 18:53 utc | 47

Thank you, karlof1 for your first link in this post – I am just beginning to read your substack, and I must first say that you are for me a life-saver, or I should say : ‘a mind-saver.’ I had been trying to absorb the good Danny Haiphong’s latest interview with his equally good guest, and doing well I thought until I got to their discussion of the epstein revelations. As they sought to grapple with the subject I became disraught and unfocussed. I switched over to this, your piece on Xi’s new book, and at once with only the first paragraphs, my mind focussed as I thought how helpful you were to provide this discussion. And before I get into its dialogue I became calm and focussed so I wanted to thank you again for all you do on b’s site. Here is why I think that happened for me — I’ll give the paragraph — because in a larger sense I could see how what was being described by Xi could be also taken personally, just as what Plato describes in the Republic he does so to affect his listeners, the young people assembled down at the Piraeus with him, using the example of a state to point to personal virtues. This so excited me, I had to convey it to you right away. Here is the opening segment from Yang Gao:

“… The speech situates Chinese modernization within a long historical trajectory, arguing that China’s current governance system emerged from repeated failures to transplant Western modernization models during the late Qing and Republican periods. These historical experiences underpin a core argument: modernization paths are not universal, and governance systems must be adapted to national conditions.
From this perspective, resilience derives not from institutional imitation, but from path-dependent learning and cumulative state-building …”

What was so disturbing to me in the epstein discussion was that it was about personal failings to the nth degree. So, I caution everyone: you are not as strong as you think. These relevations are not edifying and the judgments we find ourselves having to make of others are destructive. Be very careful! Best to do as karlof1 does and look at how states best operate so that the larger examples assist us in judgments of them that can and ought to be our human concerns.

End of lecture, (mine, anyway).

Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 0:52 utc | 139

“Strange how everyone comes out to bash the living shit out of him over Epstein.”
Posted by: arby | Feb 8 2026 17:08 utc | 24

That’s the point, pick on the Left leaning guy that has the track record of criticising everything that the US rotting democracy and stinking administrations have become today and also a critic Israel’s Zionists. That’s why Epstein sought to entrap him and his wife.

What a perfect decoy.

And so the useful idiots of gossip is the truth fall into place, ba, ba, ba, and forget the big guy at the centre of it all. Sweet!

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Feb 9 2026 0:56 utc | 140

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 8 2026 20:42 utc | 80
When the news came out, I wanted to comment saying I wished I were in the recently-fallen Michael Parenti’s shoes right now. It’s disgusting enough already to see netizens in China support her as if she would benefit China or serve its interests in any way.

Posted by: joey_n | Feb 9 2026 0:57 utc | 141

I love Trump overextending America.

Tariffs are destroying the currency. The lack of infrastructure and electricity are going to pop the AI bubble.

He is scared of Iran. He thinks Venezuela will be easier pickings. We’ll see.

China and Russia have stepped up their resistance. If Trump doesn’t get a win soon. The Neocons (Zionists) will eat him alive.

Meanwhile, Epstein and Trump’s involvement in murder and pedophilia are closing in.

A perfect storm.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 1:06 utc | 142

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 8 2026 23:20 utc | 123

######

Like I said, people eating each other, not expressing solidarity.

That is why America is going nowhere. All you guys have is hate for others, including your “class”.

If I’m an elite, I watch all of the crabs pulling each other back into the bucket.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 0:10 utc | 137

Love, you are very astute, but you simply cannot grasp the river of blood that separates the billionaire Zio Oligarchs from the hundreds of millions of wage slaves in the United States. I don’t really know how to convey this reality. I suppose you just have to be here to appreciate the difference.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:06 utc | 143

And why focus on criticism at a turning point when a country that stand to the great capitalist hegemon is endangered and need support ?
I just don’t understand.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 8 2026 23:56 utc | 135

It’s a farce. A stiff kick could knock it over, as we just fucking saw. Venezuela is not revolutionary, it is not anti Capitalist, it is not anti Imperialist, it is a farce!
Life’s a bitch. Look at Russia or Iran. You have to be very serious to oppose Imperialism. Venezuela was a fucking joke, a 90s revolution. It stands exposed and you still want to believe? What can I tell you trigger? You’re an idiot. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:11 utc | 144

With respect to thread conversations about Venezuela – Dimitri Lascaris of R2R did 2 interviews in Venezuela with 2 oil industry experts I recommend. As well this latest article:

Venezuela: Rodriguez Courts European Investment and US Greenlights Diluent Exports

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/rodriguez-courts-european-investment-as-us-greenlights-diluent-exports/

“…According to reports, the White House has dictated that proceeds from Venezuelan crude sales be deposited in US-run accounts in Qatar, with an initial agreement comprising 30-50 million barrels of oil that had built up in storage as a result of a US naval blockade since December.

On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department issued a license allowing Venezuelan imports of US diluents required to upgrade extra-heavy crude into exportable blends. On January 27, Washington issued a sanctions waiver allowing US companies to purchase and market Venezuelan crude. The exemption requires payments to be made to US-controlled accounts and bars dealings with firms from Russia, Iran, Cuba and North Korea.

Vitol and Trafigura, two commodities traders picked by the White House to lift Venezuelan oil, have offered cargoes to European and Asian customers as well. India’s Reliance Industries is reportedly set to purchase 2 million barrels…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 1:19 utc | 145

146 corrected: (hopefully)
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rodriguez-courts-european-investment-as-us-greenlights-diluent-exports/

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 1:25 utc | 146

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:11 utc | 145

Thank you very much.
I didn’t know there are people that can think strength comes easily with/ from political choice.

Keep on looking for your “perfect and strong revolution country” that satisfy your intellectual construction.

Maybe you’ll find one in a fairy tale book.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 1:28 utc | 147

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:11 utc | 145

I know it looks like Rodriguez turned coat but I don’t actually see any verification of that. One of the reasons I’m sure that Trump and Co. kept her in is because they could see that the vast majority of the Venezuelan Population are Chavistas and the uprising would be too much.

So far the only oil your hero got he had to pirate.

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 1:29 utc | 148

Sebgo, I thought you would chime in about this link a poster provided earlier.

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger launch $895m regional investment bank

Adekunle Agbetiloye

13 December 2025 07:34 PM

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/mali-burkina-faso-niger-launch-dollar895m-regional-investment-bank/hw5d75r

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 1:33 utc | 149

Posted by: joey_n | Feb 9 2026 0:57 utc | 142

It’s disgusting enough already to see netizens in China support her as if she would benefit China or serve its interests in any way.

Why do you say that?

Perhaps you need to broaden your perspective. First, in countries where the political class is dominated by machismo, one can admire a woman as the Japanese prime minister who manages to rise to the head of state.

As for her policies, has it occurred to you that some Chinese people look favorably upon a militaristic leader in Japan who will give their country a convenient pretext to invoke the UN Charter to bring back an American colony and a potential enemy to the level of post-war demilitarization?

A bit like how some are happy to have Trump at the head of the US to hasten the fall of the hegemon.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 1:33 utc | 150

NS: Japan’s Snap-Election Shock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miDVY47BgPk

‘The place that is most beneficial for an economic relationship with Japan is not the US, but China.’

“Election night live stream with Einar Tangen and Dr Warwick Powell. The ruling LDP is expected to win big, but how big will it be? And what are we to make of this Takaichi power grab?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 1:37 utc | 151

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:11 utc | 145

I know it looks like Rodriguez turned coat but I don’t actually see any verification of that. One of the reasons I’m sure that Trump and Co. kept her in is because they could see that the vast majority of the Venezuelan Population are Chavistas and the uprising would be too much.

So far the only oil your hero got he had to pirate.

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 1:29 utc | 149

He’s not my hero, you illiterate son of s bitch. Read the fucking article and then talk to me.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:46 utc | 152

Just have to say it is truly remarkable how many people here are still defending the ridiculous phony revolutionary government of Venezuela. Trump literally walks in and takes the president. Russia confirmed it was a set up. Now Trump has the oil.
If that’s a revolutionary government for you cucks, I know this guy named Bernie Sanders. You retards will love him. Just your kind of “socialist”.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:51 utc | 153

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 1:33 utc | 150

This information has already been discussed on MoA.

Except that it was presented as the creation of a central bank, which wasn’t true, and I pointed that out.

You may have noticed that I only comment on certain topics I have some understanding of, and not on everything.

Similarly, I don’t engage in activism to promote or oppose anything.

If some people have an agenda to present any information or fake news related to our countries as a geopolitical victory that needs to be publicized, I don’t have such an objective.

I approve of and support some actions of the current government in my country, but I disapprove of others. The idea that we should support anything just because it’s “our side” isn’t my strong suit.

This investment bank, while a good idea in principle, is redundant with four or five others that already exist.
It therefore promotes separatism instead of solidarity and unity, and will thus struggle to finance itself, while we lack the resources to provide it with sufficient funding.

I believe this is a more political than economic project, whereas the needs are primarily economic.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 1:51 utc | 154

Mexico Sends More Than 814 Tons of Aid To Cuba

https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexico-sends-more-than-814-tons-of-aid-to-cuba/

“The government of Mexico announced this Sunday, the shipment of more than 814 tons of food to Cuba as a symbol of ‘solidarity and humanitarian aid’ amid the country’s efforts to resume oil shipments despite sanctions announced by US President Donald Trump…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 1:52 utc | 155

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:53 utc | 156

I read the article and I listened to Craig Murray who is on the ground in Caracas.
IMO illiterate opinion Craig Murray calls it correctly.

Except for the pirated oil I see zero evidence that Trump got anything from Venezuela.

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 1:57 utc | 157

(Reminder: Communism, is a zio-Jewish construct. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels…. Why would the Chinese suddenly embrace and submit themselves to a German-Jewish creed, if it weren’t for the Jews controlling the “communist” revolution? )
Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 8 2026 23:54 utc | 134

The partnership of perfidious albion and the jews – perfidious albion was always exceptionally good at divide and conquer. That why the little island was able to built an empire on which the sun never set.

Looking into communism there was both the good and the bad or the workable and unworkable. China after the death of Mao and Putins Russia have kept the good and the workable aspects and discarded the bad or unworkable aspects. For China it was only the revolutionary years of Mao. For Russia, it was much longer before they could discard the dogma of the unworkable aspects of the communist manifesto of Marx and Engles.

Russia has a Jewish autonomous region. Virtually no jews live there now. I assume they left for Israel in the Russian nineties.

This shit we watch. Trying to separate the babies from the bathwater is difficult at times.

I don’t know your age but most of us, our formative have been in the post WWII period of the holocaust industry. In Islam, extremists are a tiny minority to I always use the term Islamic extremists. In Judaism, I always separated Zio’s from jews but with the very public genocide in Gaza, it comes to the fore that the vast majority of jews are zio’s. Add Epsteins “The goyim are only there to serve the Jews” …

A tiny minority of jews may well be decent people but the vast majority cannot be trusted. And amongst the minority of the jews that seem decent, there are those that hide their Zio leanings. Jane who comments here remembers the Jewish term for them, I keep forgetting it. Something like Sayim but that is not correct.

The jews do not need to be slaughtered but they do need to be ruled over with and iron fist.

The ‘anti Semitism’ of the holocaust industry, I will no longer be bounded by that. Religious extremists are religious extremists.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 1:58 utc | 158

Canada & France Move Into Greenland as US Eyes the Island

https://www.rt.com/news/632169-canada-france-open-consulates-greenland-us-rift-trump/

“Canada and France have established consulates in Greenland amid a rift between the US and other NATO member states over the Danish-controlled autonomous territory.

The NATO members opened diplomatic missions after US President Donald Trump renewed his push to acquire the autonomous Danish territory…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 2:09 utc | 159

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:53 utc | 157

Oh I got it.

To be socialist, you need first to have a population of more than one hundred millions people, an army of at least one million men and nuclear weapons.

Oh, I forgot enough stuff to be self sufficient like Russia or at least have something the big capitalist need like rare earths.

If you don’t have all this so that to oppose external domination, you can’t chose to be socialist.

In short, you have to be rich and strong to be socialist.

Brilliant analysis. Have a good day.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 2:18 utc | 160

If you read that WSWS article on Venezuela it reminds me of US type articles on Russia and Iran etc. No actual evidence but a lot of innuendo and allegations backed up by crap like Rubio said. Huh?

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 2:18 utc | 161

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:53 utc | 157

Your great civility strikes me.
Are you American by any chance?

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 2:21 utc | 162

John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 2:09 utc | 160

The collapse of the anglo American Empire. A very definite rift between London and the Americans. Canada like Australia, our head of state is the ‘democratically’ born monarch of England. I don’t know what its like in Canada but here, the vast majority of what I term neutral Ukroid like ordinary people believe the geo-political bullshit in the mass media. Plenty from the Anglo and European world that comment here and other ‘alternative sites, yet we are a tiny minority compared to the cannon fodder that get their news from the mass media bullshit.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 2:28 utc | 163

Are you American by any chance?
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 2:21 utc | 163

I tend to suspect he his just someone who sees through your bullshit. You are a bit of a corundum at times. Some of your posts I can certainly agree with, others I cannot. You say you are in Burkina Faso. Perhaps, perhaps not. It is obvious from your earlier posts you are completely out of touch with the common man. Quite intelligent and well educated but out of touch with the common man.

The leaders of the three Sahel countries – if they were wilting willy academic types like you and out of touch with the people, the imperial countries of the west would have killed them within 24 hours. To gain sovereignty requires hard men that are in touch with and have affinity for their people.
You do not have that.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 2:39 utc | 164

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 2:39 utc | 165

As you know nothing about my people and the “common man” here, you opinion is just that : nothing.

Try to sell you view at home, and stop thinking everybody anywhere have to be lectured by those who can’t do anything at home but yet want to do everything abroad.

I don’t know a lot about Australia, apart from what is in the books or online.

That’s why you will never see me trying to make a analysis about your country, let apart telling what must be done or who is best to rule your country and how.

This behavior of posing as a racist colonizer with only insults as arguments is not going to give you anything in an online chat.

Just let our countries alone, bwana king of the jungle.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 3:06 utc | 165

How big is the Epstein File?

Charlie Kirk assassination
12 Day War with Iran
Maduro’s kidnapping
Greenland ultimatum
Iran’s premature “revolution”

Was it all just to distract from Project Rothschild?

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 9 2026 3:48 utc | 166

🙂 Sayanim, Peter AU1. “Sayan” for ‘helpers’ and pluralized with “-im”. Used by Mossad to essentially do an ‘Operation Mockingbird’ to push their “explanation”, also known as “hasbara”. Basically a secret Greek Chorus hidden within the crowd to nudge the mob’s emotions accordingly. A rather sordid perversion of what should be beautiful and meaningful words.

It is also why repeated attempts to go to either extreme here on b’s website reads as rather intelligence work to me. Anyone comically pushing for the “Unified Theory of Justified Anti-Semitism” definitely reads to me as an operator just as much as any excuses trying to deflect from evidence of real bad actors, Fascists, Zionists, etc., already in the historical record. I think Norman Finklestein life’s work and recent illuminations captures the bravery to wrestle with truth, even if we do not feel comforted by the knowledge gleaned; this is where his calling out of a Jewish Billionaire Class a few years ago fearlessly and presciently hits a tight mark. We need to face the darkness and bring light into it.

We are here, where we realize the categorical abstraction is truly a heterogeneous gathering of individuals. And yet some elites of those grouped individuals are so divorced from humanity as to be homogeneously focused, perverse, and malicious in their actions. The next question is as you say, how do you separate the baby from the bathwater? How to reconcile without losing ourselves to monstrousness? I’d like to think the answer has always been with us from the beginning: Love. Look for those who are humane, for you shall know them by their works.

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 9 2026 3:53 utc | 167

@165 Peter

Like much of latin America (but which has closer US presence), north and central Africa are post-colonial. There is a balancing act between national and cultural identity, trade, prosperity and progress, hegemony or its attempts.

If we say the US wants two things, resources and geo-political denial of its competitors, there is room for that but at a cost of certain independence as well as of opening lines of corruption.

So with VZ I put it as ‘transition’ synchronised to whatever extent with US. Note Cuba and possibly Bolivia are maybe a main target, or expected domino, for results of VZ. There is european soft influence at work (and there is reverse flow of that, as with Cuba).

North Africa has the added complexity of western (US mostly) sponsored militancy (inc./or Islamic orientated), resulting in clashes that are not like latin America. Russia and China also have inroads, and I don’t think africans in general would like to be proxy for US/Russia/China play.

Meaning africans are not really part of that, not imperial vs communist or similar. African sovereignty (post-WW western format) is still new, and nationalism is not so extreme as in the west, with differences instead being more ethnic.

So, you might excuse Sebgo for his ‘delicate approach’ , I have the impression he is honest in trying to understand and navigate the circumstance… misguided according to your view maybe, but then blank assertion is more confrontational, whereas subtlety allows a form of navigation of events, as well as retention of some kind of identity, as opposed to the all-in national ‘monolith’ (which is often corrupt or poorly defineable anyway).

Africans, gentle people with dignity, who hold respect for the warrior spirit.

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 9 2026 3:54 utc | 168

Sebgo

How do we know you’re not a collection of “chosen ones” working in a basement somewhere worried about Iranian justice raining on you like God’s punishment?

You’re quite right we don’t know “your people”.

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 9 2026 3:55 utc | 169

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 3:06 utc | 166

I am a whitey. Spending time with the aboriginal people in a remote community. The skin colour and culture was greatly different to mine but I developed a great deal of respect for them. The educated blacks, the houseboys of the ALC were utterly corrupt and a great deal of the federal funding for the remote communities went into their real estate portfolios.
In all cultures regardless of skin colour or culture, there is the good and the bad. The bloke that sent out some young blokes to ask me to come and see him. After the second young bloke came and asked me to go out there for a meeting, I decided he was serious so went out. The biggest badest ugliest abo you could ever lay your eyes on. With the young people, he did not allow any drugs. Finishing off a carton of grog was permissible but like drugs, anyone staying in a drunken state and causing problems was booted out. He was in his sixties but he was a large man and even then, nobody fucked with him.

I developed a huge respect for those people that chose to live out in that and the neighbouring community. The common man and the common women living according to their culture. The commonality of the common man cuts through skin colours and cultures. The good he bad and the ugly as in that spaghetti western I guess.

Often times in your comments, you come across similar to the Russian liberals yet in other comments you appear to be on the same page as myself and many others here.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:00 utc | 170

I have the impression he is honest in trying to understand and navigate the circumstance…
Posted by: Ornot | Feb 9 2026 3:54 utc | 169

I am beginning to suspect that. He is a suspicious case.

For a little light on my thoughts. My sister was separated from my brother an me at a young age and sent off to a ladies finishing school. She grew upand became someone quite different to my brother and me. We learned in the hard knocks school of life. My brother ended up quite different to me and my sister is quite different to both of us.

My sister is fully woke and my brother in bygone times would be a brownshirt. Both fully believe the geopolitical propaganda we are subject to. My brother has bullshitted me many a time and my sister is as honest as the day is long. When I fell off my chair she flew over. We hadn’t really known each other but when she came over there was a direct honesty and a direct way of speaking that could only be respected even if I did not agree with some some of it.

I have found that many of the smaller things in our life’s learning curve are also applicable as we watch this geopolitical world. My sister is Greta Thunberg climate change and child sex change woke yet I respect her direct honesty. These sort of contradictions are difficult to reconcile at times.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:24 utc | 171

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 9 2026 3:54 utc | 169

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 9 2026 3:55 utc | 170

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:00 utc | 171

Thank you all for your replies.

It helps me to understand the main problem you have with me : you can’t put me in a category you know.
But maybe you just haven’t experienced enough cultural diversity, and maybe you should try to put people into boxes with labels?
I’m not very pleased with the way some barflies want to paint our countries.

We don’t want to be proxy’s, with foreigners pitting us against other foreigners for their own geopolitical goals.

Yet you seems to think it’s normal, and we just have to accept it.

I don’t like the way you think we must chose our leaders.
When people find it normal to choose their leaders through peaceful elections, but at the same time believe that the law of the strongest should apply elsewhere, it’s clear they don’t consider all people equal.
There are words for that.
The way the “Prighojin galaxy” is trying to deal with the communication concerning our countries doesn’t suit me.
Too much lies, and harmful ones.

As for my personality, I don’t think it’s relevant.
The important thing is if what I say is true or not, relevant or not, useful or not.

To end, don’t worry a lot about me.
I’m recovering from a fracture, which limits my activities.I’am sometimes sourcing equipment from China, and therefore often adapting to the local time. So here I am.

But that will change soon and you will see me less.
I’m soon going back to the old way of doing, when I used to read you, Peter_UA1, writing about bio-labs in Ukraine. You’ve changed a lot since then, and not for the better.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:25 utc | 172

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 9 2026 3:54 utc | 169

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 9 2026 3:55 utc | 170

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:00 utc | 171

Thank you all for your replies.

It helps me to understand the main problem you have with me : you can’t put me in a category you know.

But maybe you just haven’t experienced enough cultural diversity, and maybe you shouldn’t try to put people into boxes with labels?

I’m not very pleased with the way some barflies want to paint our countries.

We don’t want to be proxy’s, with foreigners pitting us against other foreigners for their own geopolitical goals.

Yet you seems to think it’s normal, and we just have to accept it.

I don’t like the way you think we must chose our leaders.
When people find it normal to choose their leaders through peaceful elections, but at the same time believe that the law of the strongest should apply elsewhere, it’s clear they don’t consider all people equal.
There are words for that.

The way the “Prighojin galaxy” is trying to deal with the communication concerning our countries doesn’t suit me.
Too much lies, and harmful ones.

As for my personality, I don’t think it’s relevant.
The important thing is if what I say is true or not, relevant or not, useful or not.

To end, don’t worry a lot about me.
I’m recovering from a fracture, which limits my activities.
I’am sometimes sourcing equipment from China, and therefore often adapting to the local time. So here I am.

But that will change soon and you will see me less.

I’m soon going back to the old way of doing, when I used to read you, Peter_UA1, writing about bio-labs in Ukraine.
You’ve changed a lot since then, and not for the better.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:28 utc | 173

Oups… Sorry for the double post, just trying to handle editing.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:29 utc | 174

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:25 utc | 173

I have never changed Sebgo. I am what I am. You are like my sister and so many that have gone through the formation of higher education. Perhaps not dishonest but misguided or perhaps more accurate – divorced from the common man of your country and culture.. What can you tell me about the common man and woman of your country and culture?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:36 utc | 175

Posted by: Suresh | Feb 9 2026 3:55 utc | 170

How do we know you’re not a collection of “chosen ones” working in a basement somewhere..

Quiet simple : I have never made a comment in the Palestine Open thread on MoA. NEVER.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:41 utc | 176

Sebgo

Life has been a constant learning curve, yet my innate character has neve changed. I hate bullshit.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:43 utc | 177

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:36 utc | 176

Simple. My family have several hundreds members. It’s not a joke.

For those who remain in the country, something like 1% have a university degree, and less are post graduate.

To have more than 10% of a family having completed high school is exceptional.

So you can never, never be divorced from the common man. Because you are living with them, among them.

For that to happen, you have to go abroad.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:47 utc | 178

~~neve~~ never

Bloody typos. I am not educated enough to be in the bullshitter class of society.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:49 utc | 179

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:47 utc | 179

That post… you appear to have the honesty of my sister. The life of the common man cannot be understood unless it is lived. The life of the common man that disregards propaganda cuts through skin colours and cultures.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:56 utc | 180

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:36 utc | 176

Yet, living among people does mean you are able to describe them with accuracy to others.

I suppose if three of us are going to do it, you will see great differences.
What you can describe is culture, habits, tendances proven with time. But also that can change.

In 2014, we went out to oust our leader after 27 years. But we rejected military rule and chose a civil transition and elections a year after.

In 2015, some day before the election, some officers tried a military coup.
We went out to stop them.

Those twe events made several deaths between us civilians, and we accept it.

But in 2022, nobody opposed the military coup made by those at the head now.

That to say people are changing.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:57 utc | 181

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mexico-defies-us-pressure–sends-over-800-tonnes-of-aid-to-c
Mexico defies US pressure, sends over 800 tonnes of aid to Cuba
Mexico dispatches over 814 tonnes of food and essentials to Cuba as humanitarian aid, reaffirming solidarity amid US pressure and fuel shortages

The Mexican government has dispatched two naval vessels carrying over 814 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Cuba, as the island struggles with worsening shortages amid US sanctions and a halt in Venezuelan oil deliveries.

…..The Foreign Ministry emphasized that the shipment reflects Mexico’s humanitarian principles and its long-standing solidarity with Cuba.

The move follows a directive from President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has vowed to continue supporting the Cuban people despite growing US pressure.

Additional aid shipments are reportedly in preparation, including over 1,500 tonnes of powdered milk and beans…………

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https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2020647856336429283
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

the US is starving Cuba in an act of war and the entire Western media and political class who can’t stop hysterically whining about “human rights” and “the international rules-based order” and “sovereignty” are not only laundering it as entirely legitimate, they’re cheering it on

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2020650993193533741
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

what is being done to Cuba, and if it is allowed to continue, also signifies a complete breakdown of any conception of a “multipolar world” being a positive development, unlike when the Soviet Union existed: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2020309171430936582 Standing by as the US starves an entire nation is not only morally depraved and pathetic cowardice, especially on the part of powerful states like China who can easily resolve this if they cared at minimum expense, it is also the height of idiocy from a realist geopolitical perspective.

As the US ships endless billions of advanced weaponry to Taiwan that is off your coast, you won’t even send fuel to Cuba to prevent its mass starvation and collapse? What the fuck is your “multipolar world” worth then? Go fuck yourself with it.

Again, the only “multipolar world” that existed and was of value was when the Soviet Union led it, which is why they were so desperate to destroy it.

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2020651716174336326
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

….also what are Lula and Petro doing? Why are they standing around doing nothing as the US IS FUCKING STARVING CUBA TO DEATH. Trump scares you? You’re scared of Trump and gusano Rubio? You will let a nation and people starve to death over tariff threats?…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 9 2026 4:59 utc | 182

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 4:49 utc | 180

I don’t know how to use the search mode in MoA to verify by myself.

If maybe I made a post at the beginning of the war on Gaza, but I don’t remember making so.

My point is : How can a hasbara troll avoid the Palestine thread for several months ???

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:01 utc | 183

Is Naked Capitalism down for anyone else? I just wanted to check any updated comments/links and the site will not load on multiple PCs/phones.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 9 2026 5:06 utc | 184

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:01 utc | 184

Seb, FWIS, b changed to a totally new platform w/in the past year so anything posted before that is “POOF” unless for some reason the Web/Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) archived full posts and comments sections. Not sure if that’s relevant to the comments y’all are discussing, but it sucks regardless. A lot of people can now get away with saying they predicted or said certain things ca. 2008-2025 with no way to verify (that I know of).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 9 2026 5:08 utc | 185

i like sebgo myself… glad ornot said what he did and peter has come around it seems…

yeah – as tom notes – the search function no longer works.. that is my take.. it’s a drag, as it used to work very well…

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:10 utc | 186

naked capitalism site doesn’t open for me.. i just tried it tom..

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:11 utc | 187

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:28 utc | 174

Thanks for being patient with us, Sebgo. We’re a bit battered from some really hostile past encounters here. Those seem to have diminished lately, perhaps because the funding for them has dried up. I’m seeing much more thoughtful posts, so thoughtful that it is often hard to get through them all. And some oldies are coming back now and then.

We’ll try to do better towards newcomers brave enough to endure the suspicions. New input is always needed, especially from your part of the world. Forgive us. Peter’s okay, he’s just had to deal with some rough characters, and sometimes he’s not at his best. It’s the Aussie in him 😉 I’m a kiwi — you could knock me down with a feather. That’s how we are down there. No fanged critters domestically speaking, no snakes, one poisonous spider but I’d never seen one, just a huge cricket that hisses in a menacing way but is harmless. Oh, and no poison ivy.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 5:12 utc | 188

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 4:57 utc | 182

You are an interesting bloke. The black hole of Ukraine funding the Sahel opposition has given me great reason to doubt you, yet yo come across more like my sister than paid propaganda. If you are bullshitting me I will fucking nail you. If you are and honest person, we can converse politely. But remember this, I hate bullshitters, no matter culture or skin colour.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 5:17 utc | 189

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 9 2026 5:08 utc | 186

Thank you for the information.

I knew about the new platform but I didn’t see the implication /r old posts.

Speaking about it, I just don’t understand why everyone want to make predictions.

For us, a good analysis of the past and present events is just sufficient, and rare.
One or several hypothesis about what can follow is just speculations and must be presented as so.

Why bother to try to be God ? That’s what we call “whiteys things”.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:17 utc | 190

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 5:17 utc | 190

Don’t worry, I am quiet able to defend myself.
I am the tenth son of my parents, you don’t know how this can make your skin hard.

But let me warn you : your sources are bullshit. Those Wagner/ Africa Corp sources you use to follow are “bullshitters number one”, yet you trust them.

As long as you will try to spread their fakes, there is no way I am not going to respond.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:26 utc | 191

Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 5:12 utc | 189

Thank you very much.

I take it as a great honor you adress me.
I read your posts and it gives a fresh taste of humanity to MoA.

I am learning a lot of things also, about life elsewhere, and it is an inestimable enrichment.

Thank you to b for the opportunity of this bar.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:29 utc | 192

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:10 utc | 187

Thank you very much.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:30 utc | 193

juliania | Feb 9 2026 0:52 utc | 140—

Thanks very much for your very deep reply. Regarding Epstein, few understand he was involved in international financial crime that could be said to be a syndicate. In other words, he and those who paid him are deeply involved in geopolitics. I think of Bond Villains in that regard who are shown to be Anti-Human particularly in the films. And with Xi’s writings, we encounter the total opposite, a system supporting a society where there exists no room for those Villains to roost. And that’s also the system the exists with Russian characteristics. The Rentier Class as Hudson so clearly detailed is the enemy of decent people globally in his chat today with Glenn Diesen. It’s a great education.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 5:32 utc | 194

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:11 utc | 188

Naked capitalism works fine here in Burkina Faso, 5:33 am.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:33 utc | 195

@ John Gilberts | Feb 8 2026 21:42 utc | 94

thanks for your post their… appreciate it..

@ ChatNPC | Feb 8 2026 22:02 utc | 100

thanks…glad you appreciated that…

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:38 utc | 196

@ karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 5:32 utc | 195

that was what i thought i was trying to imply on epstein, but it seems i didn’t convey my idea very well.. thanks for saying all that and acknowledging julianias post which i also appreciated reading..

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:40 utc | 197

@ Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:33 utc | 196

must be a north american server then.. cheers.. off to read / and sleep here..

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2026 5:41 utc | 198

Sorry – I came late to the Sebgo-Peter discussion.

I read everything you two blokes write, and can see the point – and the justification for – at least 95% of what both of you write – even when you disagree. The other 5% is probably a mixture of me being wrong and/or misunderstanding.

You both come from ‘opposite ends’ of the Earth. It is understandable that your perspectives will differ. Remember the “36 views of Mt Fuji”? Every one of the 36 paintings was of Mt Fuji, but every painting was different. And every single painting only ever told half the story – displaying only one side. In the same vein, I suspect that you (Sebgo and Peter) are both looking at Mt Fuji. You are both trying to describe Mt Fuji honestly as you see it, even using the ‘same’ language – but sometimes the same word can have different meanings to each of you because of culture and lived experience.

I think Peter skillfully used the cover of a ‘poetic typo’, suggesting that Sebgo was “a bit of a corundum at times” (post 165), to pass off a masterful veiled compliment. At one stage I used to cart slag from the aluminium smelter at Tomago to Brisbane for use in sandblasting. Corundum is the second hardest material on the Moh Hardness Scale, just behind diamond, and marvelous for sandblasting (also silica-free, so no risk of silicosis). Of course, corundum in its crystalline form also appears as rubies or sapphires – depending on traces of chromium (red – ruby), or traces of other transition metals (pink, orange, blue, green – a huge range of sapphires).

So, while it is true that corundum can be a bit abrasive at times, it can also form very valuable little objects. I reckon you are both gems, and I don’t care which one of you is the ruby, and which is the sapphire – but “by their colors ye shall know them!”

I’m sure that Peter did not mean to write ‘conundrum’ 🙂

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 9 2026 5:44 utc | 199

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 5:26 utc | 192

It is good you are able to defend yourself as I don’t take bullshit lightly and I dont like picking on wimps. Be it in a pub or a forum like this.

In your various comments, the good and the bad, you fall into the Russian liberal class or the western woke class.

I have auto immune disease. I require anti histamines on hand. The pharmacy I used to go too, no issued . But then it changed. The old bloke left and a young African pharmacist came in. A house boy. A wanna be be whitey from Africa. He ordered the servant girls not to give me any. I told the piece of shit to go fuck himself and walked out. It was and is an over the counter medication. I have highest disregard for house boys and highest respect for those that stand up to empire. The commonality of the common man.

You are quite divorced from the common man of your country and culture.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 5:50 utc | 200

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