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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-034
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
Gaza:
Europe:
The Bezzle:
L’affaire Epstein:
Media:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
China needs to be the perfect victim, too powerless to resist aggression from America.
Epstein’s victims need to be perfect, too powerless to resist coercion from sexual predators.
If they aren’t perfect, then they aren’t victims. The Americans and American-wannabes in the bar will cry out: “Do you condemn Hamas?” or “He was no angel!”
This doesn’t just apply to China. Every power that exhibits the slightest capability of challenging the American Empire is not deserving of support. Plenty of barflies complain about Russia and Iran not doing enough to undo the damage America wrought upon the world.
The ideal China for MoA barflies:
- Lets Japan gets away with salami slicing Taiwan away from China and salami slicing Japan’s way back into being full-fledged fascist military power because taking any action to deter proxies of American power is bad
- Yet at the same time, instead of performing triage, reacts to every fire lit by America around the world in the hopes that China overextends itself, so that once China collapses, Western “leftists” can alternately cry about the future that could be if only China had survived and laugh at China’s inability to withstand imperial assault because it was insufficiently “left” (choosing to serve the Chinese people instead of submitting to every whim of Western “leftists”)
- Gives material support to the “communist” labor aristocrats in the imperial core so they can wage a successful communist revolution (eventually, one of these days, when they get around to it, the labor aristocrats definitely do not intend to maintain their privileged existence in perpetuity)
History for the Israel-Palestine conflict began on October 7th, 2023.
History for China’s and Russia’s engagement with Palestine began with UN Security Council Resolution 2803, where to the disappointment to many Western “leftists” they failed to performatively vote against the resolution—these are the very same Western “leftists” who politely decline to overthrow their own bourgeois dictatorships while still constantly whining about it.
History for China’s and Russia’s engagement with Cuba began with the latest round of America-imposed embargoes and sanctions. The decades of quietly building up Cuba to be self-sufficient doesn’t exist in American minds.
China is already helping Cuba. But of course, if an American (wannabe or otherwise) is unaware of the existence of such aid, then the aid doesn’t exist.
China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba’s main benefactor, Reuters, By Dave Sherwood, June 30, 2025 (AUH note: written with an eye towards creating a rift between Russia and China and to further justify hate and war against Russia, but pay attention to the quoted statistics)
Officials at the February event announced China was participating in a project to modernize Cuba’s entire electrical grid, with 55 solar parks to be built in 2025, and another 37 by 2028, for a total of 2,000 MW – a massive undertaking that, when complete, would represent nearly two-thirds of present-day demand.
China’s Cooperation With Cuba in Energy Sector Remains Strong And Steady, Orinoco Tribune, November 16, 2025
The First Secretary of the Party Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, attended the inauguration of the seventh photovoltaic solar park of the 120 MW project donated by the Chinese Party, Government, and people.
“China’s cooperation with Cuba in the energy sector remains strong and steady, from ongoing projects, such as equipment and spare parts for distributed generation, the 5,000 photovoltaic systems for isolated homes, and the installation of other solar photovoltaic parks (PSFV) with a total capacity of 85 MW, to the next project to install another 200 MW and the new 5,000 photovoltaic systems for isolated homes.”
This was stated by the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the island, Hua Xin, during the inauguration in Guanajay, Artemisa, of the seventh 5 MW PSFV of the first stage of a donation from the Party, the Government, and the people of the sister country, which will add 120 MW to the National Electric System (SEN).
China slams Trump administration over US sanctions on Cuba, Beijing urges Washington to stop ‘depriving Cuban people of their rights to subsistence and development’, Fox News, By Michael Dorgan, January 27, 2026
China willing to help Cuba amid jet fuel shortage, foreign ministry says, By Reuters, February 10, 2026
Americans will never take responsibility for their own crimes and instead divert attention to China or Russia, just as those who patronized Epstein’s services will claim to be not at fault because Epstein’s victims were clearly willingly letting their patrons grab them by the pussy.
The Americans will say: “Why didn’t someone stop me from grabbing pussy? It’s their fault for not stopping me!”
Death to America
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Posted by: All Under Heaven | Feb 11 2026 1:12 utc | 419
karlof1 @410: “IMO, as the Guancha author notes, Japanese still view Chinese as inferior and many retain the fascistic attitude of their ancestors.”
I’ll start with a disclaimer. I absolutely adore practically everything about Japan and the Japanese people. Indeed, I find it difficult to to voice any criticism of them. The ultimate “weeaboo”, you might say. I lived there for many years, not as a occupation soldier or businessman like most westerners who experience Japan, but as someone deeply embedded in the culture and enthusiastically “going native” (strange for a nearly 2m tall Irish/Cherokee “white” guy, right?). My daughter and her mother, whom I love dearly, live there.
Now to the point. I have been relatively active in Japanese social media, though mostly lurking and observing. The sense of superiority you mention the Japanese having is very much real, but one should be careful about what that really is. It doesn’t manifest as genocidal hate like zionism does. A better understanding for a westerner (USUKEU person) can be found in an honest and close examination of western “woke” and “DEI” middle-class whites who are suffering so much intense psychological trauma under the current US Administration. These white middle-class liberals adamantly proclaim their anti-racism while being the most astonishing racists. After all, what is “DEI” other than a statement that Black Americans cannot succeed without artificial advantages handed to them by virtue-signalling white middle-class karens who know what is best for everyone? (Hint: “Freedom” and sovereignty can never be gifted. It can only be earned. The “gift” will forever include its own manacles that end up embedded in the mind… obligation that ultimately can only be resolved with blood).
To see the western white middle-class liberal sense of superiority in all of its glory, look no further their attitude towards those “deplorable MAGA chuds”. The white middle-class liberals among the Professional/Managerial Class bemoan their disconnect from the “Deplorables”, but with the critical aspect not being their inability to appreciate the perspective of those MAGA chuds, but rather their inability to convince the “Deplorables” of the correctness of their own “woke” middle-class views and the wrongness of the “Deplorables'” views. The white middle-class liberals never for a moment question the correctness of their perspective. It is assumed as a characteristic of their natural world, despite that world being a highly unnatural and contrived gated community one in all of its aspects (physical, intellectual, spiritual). !00% of their efforts to bridge the divide from the “Deplorables” involves them not seeking any sort of middle ground, but entirely focuses upon trying to bring the “Deplorables” around to accepting their “woke” correctness.
The sense of superiority is not something the white middle-class liberals overtly and consciously dwell upon. It is simply something taken for granted, like gravity. The superiority is a fundamental part of their reality. The superiority is baked into the very core of their worldview. They are college educated, so that their opinions carry more weight is beyond challenge. Their words, manners and affectations are more refined, as they understand refined to be, so their morality is assumed to be beyond reproach. Their elevated lifestyles, based in the perceived greater worth of their labor, demonstrates their superiority in concretely visible ways (aside: their worth is not actually greater, they are just rewarded more by our capitalist overlords to serve as an overseer class to keep the working class subjugated). The cars they drive, the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the entertainment they enjoy, the media they consume… all of it demonstrates their superiority in their most fundamental understanding of hierarchy.
The Japanese sense of superiority is not so loud, crass and simple-minded, but as with the western white middle-class liberals the Japanese sense of superiority is embedded in their psyche at a low enough level that it is not readily accessible to conscious consideration. They are superior because their culture is more refined and their per capita GDP, despite the resource-poor nature of their country, demonstrates their superior competence and industriousness.
Why this is important: The Japanese sense of superiority is not simple crass racism. It is actually very similar to the racism of the notionally vociferously smug anti-racism of western liberals, only without the smugness… with some actual humility mixed in, if one can imagine that. For me, witnessing the surge in anti-China sentiment in Japanese social media is painful and frustrating. It exposes a deep ignorance which needn’t exist. China is a cheap and easy couple-hour flight from Japan. They are as close as Canada is to the US, yet their view of the reality of contemporary China is no more accurate than that of the typical Yank or sLimey. They somehow honestly believe they can trounce China in a fight if things come to that, when in reality China can crush them like a bug, and even just as an afterthought instead of a concerted effort. As well, while the Chinese don’t really hold grudges, if it comes to a fight then China will not pull punches with Japan the way they would with Taiwan or the way Russia does with the Ukraine. I’d rather not see my favorite place and people on Earth, the actual world’s “Garden” that the idiot Europeans imagine themselves to be, smacked down the way they will be if they continue their current direction. This can all be avoided with just a more realistic understanding of China. It would be so easy. And Japan isn’t even in global economic hegemony competition with China. They can integrate with China even easier than they have with the US, so an economic shift would be relatively painless for them. Unlike the US, there is just no need for Japan to be adversarial with China.
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 11 2026 13:42 utc | 430
@428 Persiflo
“one of the reasons I chose math for university was that you need only pencil and paper”
It isn’t that simple though Persiflo.
There is an optimum position of balance for any writing instrument, and of course that will depend on its dimensions and mass, as well as the friction of both the writing point and the paper surface. To that needs to be added such variables as the size of the hand and writing style, for example position of the hand as it moves across the page.
Additionally there are calculations of efficiency, for example would one choose the smaller lighter pencil but which needs sharpening soon or the heavy pencil that has just been sharpened.
There are many more things to ponder as well. The size of writing that balances readability vs paper usage. Even the paper itself has endless variables for those discerning in such matters.
It is why when you look at a maths class there is often a sort of gormless air to the students, and many are to be found either staring at the ceiling in search of inspiration on what should descend from the blank roof to the blank piece of paper in front of them, or else have taken to a sort of manic desperation as answer and are busily scrawling the paper in front of them with the kind of attention and determination only found while learning to knit .
So it is natural philosophy flows from maths, because anyone half sensible would look for some kind of understandable explanation as to why they seem to be presented only with questions.
I like woodwork also, particularly making musical instruments by tradition (no power tools). That is always a challenge, because after making a particular kind, there is always the temptation to then use small battery tools the next time for the more tedious work, instead of learning a new skill, like carving for example. Actually power tools are hardly faster or easier than skilled manual work, and are definitely less involved and so less rewarding, which tends also to be visible/felt when appreciating the finished work.
It really requires an approach of appreciating the work in hand rather than being fixated on reaching the final objective.
I don’t know, small things pleasing small minds maybe, but the curl of a shaving off a plane, or the newly revealed texture and grain of worked wood, are the sort of things that can be found to be very rewarding.
Posted by: Ornot | Feb 11 2026 21:48 utc | 437
@440 juliana
Watercolours for artistry, and acrylic for large surfaces are my prefered.
Suitable acrylics or epoxy (relatively innocuos) for metals.
Very rarely will use polyurethane yacht varnish on wood (when there is no suitable alternative for the finish/durability) , but otherwise I don’t use solvent based coatings.
On wood natural linseed, or mixed with wax. Even wood shavings rubbed on wood gives a nice finish (on lathe say).
Burnishing also works.
Borax for mould and insects.
For fun, made mastic and pine resin varnishes by distilling own turpentine, but not really found a use for yet…might use as a varnish on one instrument or another maybe.
The scent of turps isn’t very appealing, to put it mildly…it’s one that sort of belongs in a shed to keep people away, sort of nostalgia at a distance.
Making pigments is fascinating also, and string or yarn… not something I have dedicated much time to.
Metals probably would not interest you too much.
Pottery, refining clays, firing in pit furnaces and similar… have not pursued seriously but one of those interests that is being learned slowly and haphazardly.
Painting icons or similar I have not tried, but in Spain I know people for who found that very rewarding.
In Spain christmas presents is Kings (12th day), unlike much of the rest of europe, and a cake with a clay religious figurine hidden inside was always the tradition (and a bean for who had to supply next years cake). Then new EU laws banned that, just cannot buy those anymore, only have them made at bakers, and even then have to try to find a figurine somewhere. Not the same as it no longer seems welcome and familiar, and the tradition gets slowly forgotten I suppose.
Using egg for paint body is an ancient technique with a lot of history, if I remember.
Posted by: Ornot | Feb 12 2026 0:45 utc | 442
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