Which candidate then?  
 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 16 2026 7:21 utc | 200
 
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has a big mouth and she is pissed.  She is not alone.
 
Anyone who expects to be elected will be shrill as a banshee calling for the files.  Musk, Ellison, Murdoch and Zuckerburg won’t be able to silence the rabble’s din.
 
It is really quite remarkable how badly the Elites have fucked up.  “They haven’t got the cards”.
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 7:32 utc | 203

Impeachments will begin after the mid-terms.   
Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 7:35 utc | 204
 
half the members of congress are in those files, and they aren’t going to be swept out.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 7:37 utc | 205

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 7:25 utc | 201
 
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It will end or peter out when the cost of piracy and bullying  exceeds the benefits. In other words, when many oil tankers will shoot back, or even scuttle the ship rather than be seized.
 
Technology will increasingly make it difficult for bad state actors to act with impunity. Already smartphones and social media have undermined global propaganda projects.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 7:45 utc | 207

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 7:42 utc | 206
 
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There may be a righteous constituency for Epstein justice but practical politics is very expensive. Just getting elected for most “new” candidates is an uphill climb.
 
Name recognition is key and pricey to purchase.
 
As long as the American electoral system is not reformed, the chances of electing a Populist government is very low.
 
The two state run parties (R & D) have a duopoly and it is nearly impossible for anyone to penetrate them to actually get into government, let alone to pursue an agenda on behalf of American citizens.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 7:51 utc | 209

The Russians already use Glonass instead of GPS.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 6:52 utc | 189
 
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GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is Russia’s GNSS. It has been fully operational since 1995, and has 24 satellites providing global PNT (Position, Navigation, and Timing) services. It was developed during the Soviet era and offers an independent GNSS for Russia. Continuous updates maintain its competitiveness with GPS. GLONASS offers higher accuracy in northern latitudes due to its unique orbital configuration.
 
Other GNSS’s include GPS (US, 24 satellites), GALILEO (EU), BeiDou (China, 35 satellites), NavIC (India, 7 satellites), QZSS (Japan, 4 satellites). Each of these systems are tailored for the specific needs of the providing country.

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 8:34 utc | 211

As for change of government anywhere in the west, only revolution will work. Australia’s one nation party is a prime example of what happens to a person and party when they are not part of the Epstein system and a getting a lot of votes.
Although they still exist to a point, they were destroyed by lawfare. Liberal, labour, greens and the controlled media were all in on it. One nation was of the right, Whitlam of the left. Whitlam wanted to boot the Americans out and turn towards China. He was targeted by the media then sacked, the elected party booted out of office.
 
Within five-eyes especially, but right across the west, if an undesirable is getting too many votes, its a multinational effort to destroy that person. Now, any change can only be through revolutions. Any election and the fix is in by the networked Epstein class. They control the money, the media and the politicians.
 
This also is part the reason I find Sebgo so distasteful.  In Africa, a lot of countries have booted the French and their corrupt puppets out and the only way to do that was via coups. Those countries are under constant attack from imperial west via headchoppers and ‘Ukraine’ funded opposition.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 8:47 utc | 213

Peter AU1, What the hell is wrong with you, go take a Bex and have a lie down, will ya?
 
You gotto love Blacks and Africans, without them the Olympics and basketball would be dead boring.
 
Check out the Winter Olympics happening now, everything is White and boring as crap, except this one time when Oz won it’s first Winter Olympic Gold Medal:
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5nx24G6xTac  (0:27)
 

Posted by: Menz | Feb 16 2026 10:19 utc | 215

Menz | Feb 16 2026 10:19 utc | 215
 
I lived and worked with the Aboriginal people in the north west and developed a lot of respect for them and their culture. My father when 86, a clown walked into his back yard and put him in a coma. two hours before that, he had been released on bail after knocking on a door and breaking the cheek of the 60 year old woman that answered the door. From 18 through to 25, his life was one of vicious assault and being released on bail by the same female judge. His first attack was a machete attack on another aboriginal that left wounds to the head. A bad apple in any col0ur or culture yet she kept releasing him simply because he was black. Playing the race card.
 
Same with many of the urban ‘aboriginals’. Lost not only the culture and language but also their DNA. They all too often play the race card. The ones that miss out are those that still have their language and culture and generally live in the remoter regions.
 
Sebgo comes here and tries to play the race card when anything is asked about BF. He addressed me, I did not address him. I can do the race card as well as anyone if that is what they want to play. The majority here will be white anglo or European and they cringe in fear when someone pulls out the race card.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 10:37 utc | 217

Menz | Feb 16 2026 10:19 utc | 215
 
That what I saw in the north west of Australia – the ongoing destruction of the Aboriginal people – it gets to me a lot. The government screws, them the well educated aboriginals of the ALC screw them. Go to any outback town and see the fringe dwellers. No opportunity, no hope. A people destroyed.
 
The way in which they were suddenly citizens in the 60s, they were thrown into the middle of the ocean and told to learn how to swim. It destroyed them. You watch the young kids, full of life and optimism. By the time they are in their twenties, that is gone.
Australia was a land of many nations. One nation out of derby had been booted off their land entirely and put on a reservation housing estate a little way out of Derby. Their lives were utterly destroyed. No work, nothing to do. Petty theft for drugs and booze. Alice, everyplace through the outback the same.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 10:59 utc | 219

Palestine is the focal point but the war is regional
Posted by: NotPaulHollywood | Feb 15 2026 15:05 utc | 4

I thought it was because the current Palestine Open Thread was still functional and didn’t need replacing, at least with less than 100 posts on it.

Posted by: joey_n | Feb 16 2026 11:02 utc | 221

NGO social media marketing hire: “I am not here to promote myself or my political thoughts.”
 
 
Really now? But I actually believe the poster on this point. Astroturf does not exists to provide its own personal view but rather the views of its employer. 
 
 
Speaking for myself, I am definitely here to promote my social, political, and economic thoughts, at least with my posts, but I spend much more time reading rather than posting so I do have some other purpose here beyond proselytizing… learning remains important to me even at my advanced age and despite my apparently knowing everything already. Others here post a whole lot and don’t seem to learn very much. Readers might do well to keep an eye out for such posters and ask themselves what those posters are here for, and in particular the ones for whom promoting their own viewpoint is unimportant. Ask yourself whose viewpoint they are promoting then.

Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 16 2026 11:42 utc | 223

Good grief. Somma you otherwise smart people in the us specifically continue arguing bullshit. I recommend Robert McCammon’s “Swan Song* and a few reliable shotguns, pistols and otheEARNr rifles along with a bug out area away from major military and population centers.
 
 
Preferably GTFO of the US for SE Asia or LATAM. YOU’RE BEING WARNED.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 16 2026 12:14 utc | 225

Memories. Coming out from the underworld. The Aboriginal community had wanted me to stay and mage the place. I had no government funding and they had no money. The money from the bulls I had mustered and sold for them was gone. The place that bought old bulls for hamburgers had gone tits up and the main market was Indonesia. They wanted young bulls with Brahmin content.
 
Anyway, I put in a five year plan. I would only be paid in the last two years and then only if I succeeded. The first two or three years every cent had to go back into the place to make it a viable cattle property. A yellafella came out from town and put a different proposition to them. Whatever. With no agreement for the next year I decided to head back to Queensland. Into derby by road and out to Fitzroy crossing was a thousand k. A bush track was 100k so headed off trying to beat the rain. Before the black soil, it started raining.
 
Black soilo is bloody greasy when it rains and the back wheels of the truck dropped in a hole. It was a three tom truck loaded with more than that and towing a fully loaded trailer. Daughter was driving the Landcruiser wagon with a trailer. 
 
I had a heavy nylon rope long enough to stretch a bit and snatch block so unhooked the trailer off the wagon. Tied one end of the inch thick nylon rope to a tree and the snatch block onto the bull bar of the truck. Told the daughter to hit it and she poked off tenderly. No good. Two attempts then I suspect I got a bit sterner and said get back against the truck and then bloody plant it. She did that and the rope stretched and stretched then the truck popped out of the hole.  Left the trailer the wagon was towing and got across the black soil to red ground and made camp then went back for the trailer at night.
 
Its okay getting bogged after its rained, but not good getting bogged when its starting to rain and creeks are coming up. When the son was learning to drive we went out in his Toyota to pick up some goats. Started to rain as we finished loading and the creeks were coming up. He went into a creek in the wrong gear and had to change in the bottom of the creek and that is where we stayed. The creek was rising fast and I had the highlift jack on the spare tire to try and keep it above water and get it out. No good. Called home on the radio and daughter comes out with the wagon. Same thing. Had to back right up and hit it hard to get it out.
 
Another time, clearing the creek channels that fed water into the homestead dam with a little D4. Bogged the bloody thing in the bottom of a very sharp little channel. Storm clouds coming in and just starting to rain. I worked my ringer of getting that thing out. Had to lift it on the blade then get under and shove chocks under the tracks. There was a little Fergy tractor that had no hope of pulling it out so I strung a cable from the back of the dozer to a tree pulling it up tight then hooked the Fergy onto the center of that cable pulling at ninety degrees. Got it out.
 
But that getting bogged in a creek when it is starting to rain at the beginning of summer. Not good. Hot and humid and you absolutely have to work your ringer off to get it out before the creek comes up.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 12:53 utc | 227

William Gruff | Feb 16 2026 11:42 utc | 223
 
That post of yours the other day, you connections with the Japanese culture. Those type posts are so important. The small world is connected to the larger world and persons personal experience give a glimpse into a different world. Most of us here have lived different lives.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 13:20 utc | 229

He absolutely refuses, to EVER say how he would do ANYTHING in Burkina Faso, at ALL.  
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Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 1:39 utc | 150

Why should he?
He is no more in charge than anyone else here, engaging in performative nation building could land him in serious trouble. Who would risk that just to satisfy the rude demands of some internet posters?
People get angry when he tries to explain that  the latest obscure media puff piece bears no relation to reality on the ground.
Perhaps that is so, perhaps not. It’s an internet forum and none of us have anyway to corroborate much of what people claim about their personal experiences. Maybe he is bullshitting, equally so Peter_AU1 could be bullshitting us with his adventures from the outback.
We have no way to know, so it is best to take them at face value rather than project our own biases and expectations.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 14:23 utc | 231

It seems the new “F35” are delivered without a radar and some lest instead of this rather useless equipment since June last year. (Manfred Von Richthoffen didn’t need that fancy “radar” thing …)
Some says it’s a “development” setback and deliveries will resume at “ulterior date” … the kind of development setback that require some “rare earth” not importable anymore in the US for an example ? Funny how those things goes ^^.

Posted by: Savonarole | Feb 16 2026 15:20 utc | 233

@ChatNPC 231, that post fits your handle.
Posted by: persiflo | Feb 16 2026 15:03 utc | 232

Thanks, though Peter_AU1 was just an example. The same goes for us all.
Would you be willing to do likewise for Segbo and crowd fund a trip to Burkina Faso?
I’m sure it would be equally interesting.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 15:39 utc | 235

I find discussions about Palestine limited without delving deeper into the U.S. and Israel mafia and intelligence ties driving it, commonly referred to as Epstein.  Here is Whitney Webb’s in-depth analysis on the topic. https://youtu.be/fO7dbG2QhC0?si=UTSPMSjs4g83nqp9

Posted by: Deniz | Feb 16 2026 15:48 utc | 237

Hindutva India cannot be trusted in any way shape or form. 
 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 15:40 utc | 236
 
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No worries.  The farmers will starve them out.  Modi always bends the knee to the Sikh farmers in the North.  He has no other choice.
 
And Tamil Nadu has had enough Hinduvata supremacist bullshit too ==> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyq443xypjo
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 15:55 utc | 239

@ willie | Feb 16 2026 8:35 utc | 212
 
thanks for those links… i had to open brave browser to get it to translate.. would be really good if that article was in english as it would shock more people into waking up.. 
 
@ William Gruff | Feb 16 2026 11:42 utc | 223
 
thanks.. my thought exactly.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 16 2026 16:02 utc | 241

I would like to speak to you in good faith, so will go ahead.
 
As I remember when Sebgo first showed up here, he was right away asked about his opinion about the French vs. RU conflict being played out in Africa. (At this point there was no mention of the US role in Sahel.) He said that there was more jihadist violence when RU was there than there had been with France; he was not interested in talking about global politics, only interested that life for the locals was getting worse. Also he refused to agree that Traore was the greatest; he seemed suspicious that whites tend to idealize that sort of African figure. So Sebgo wasn’t here to enlighten anyone or speak of any agenda. (He did explain that African govts pay for Wagner — I suspect the’re issues around that.) I don’t see that he is required to speak his agenda assuming he has one or has formulated one specifically.  Whites don’t necessarily come to this thread expecting that any requirements to speak be placed upon them.
 
In the book “No Mercy: a Journey to the Heart of the Congo” author Redmond O’Hanlon, a white European, travels for months in the jungles in PRC with four Congolese men. O’Hanlon recounts the interactions among the group of men. There are differences that are not overcome. The most educated and leader of the African group Marcellin comes to dislike O’Hanlon because this white writer comes to embody for him all the inequality and assumptions of the colonial interchange between Africans and Europeans. That legacy dominates the relationship of those two men whatever it was they desired to be to each other. 
 
So Sebgo turned around and blamed his refusal to talk more in depth about Bukina Faso on whites’ placing requirements on him. That would be what you call ‘playing the race card ‘.
 
I had an experience in which I could say the ‘race card’ was played. You’ve probably heard of the US govts affirmative action program which was once in effect. A white person, I was overlooked for a tenured teaching job, even though I had seniority, because the college where I was teaching had no black professors and a predominantly black student body. A young black woman got the job immediately after applying for it because the college was looking for black professors then.  Affirmative action is no longer the policy in the US, where the past of slavery and institutionalized racism currently is being  redacted. I did support affirmative action.
 
You write about the history of aboriginal Australians from the personal perspective of how victimized individuals respond to the erasure of their culture, then later you write more from the perspective of the societal crime of ethnic erasure by white society.
 
Also you write of how you were affected on a personal level by the failure of the justice system to contain the insane aboriginal individual that perpetrated the crime on your father. The man should have been confined in a mental hospital. Rather, a sad and lifelong memory of a painful injustice inflicted on your family due to the failure of your country’s judicial system.
 
But, yours and Sebgo’s confrontation and the  tragedy your family experienced are similar only in that they are both within the paradigm of the history of European colonialism on people of color. I don’t think any other parallel can be drawn between Sebgo’s reticence and the judge’s failure to punish the criminal.

Posted by: Lavieja | Feb 16 2026 16:08 utc | 243

 ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 16:05 utc | 242
 
I have been well out of my comfort zone many a time Chat. I don’t feel comfortable living in a comfort zone. Have you ever traveled? Spent time with the ordinary people of another language and culture?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 16:12 utc | 245

@UWDude 202
 
Right o.  Which candidate then?  Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 16 2026 7:21 utc | 200Massie wont run for president, he told Jimmy Dore that.Marjorie Tyler Green quit over epstein and Israel, but she is too hated. Yeah, I dont see any savior coming to the rescue, but, internet, AI, 3 years is going to be a longer time than ever.  World may be radically different in 3 years.
 
Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green right now are by far the two best US politicians at this point.  The left side has been marginalized and defeated (Biden did that).  I agree that neither of these two have even the slightest chance considering the CURRENT US situation.
 
But three years really is a long time.  Things are changing fairly rapidly.  Our oligarchs are becoming hated by both left and right.  Americans still hate people on the other side of the aisle more than they hate our oligarchs.  But that is slowly changing.

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 16 2026 16:21 utc | 247

“Which candidate then?  Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 16 2026 7:21 utc | 200Massie wont run for president, he told Jimmy Dore that.Marjorie Tyler Green quit over epstein and Israel, but she is too hated.”
are you naive?
what would happen if Massie indicated he would run at this point?
your first rodeo?

Posted by: Not Ewe | Feb 16 2026 16:28 utc | 249

I want to go on a road trip with the Mötley MoA Crüe!  Burkina Faso, deep Australia in search of the elusive Peter, burned forest of Patagonia.  I’ll probably get kicked off at the first stop, but I’m okay with that.
Road Trip!

Posted by: lex talionis | Feb 16 2026 16:33 utc | 251

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 16:12 utc | 245
Yes.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 16:36 utc | 253

ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 16:36 utc | 253
 
Well tell me about it. I’d like to hear your story.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 16:40 utc | 255

Chinese company Unitree makes history:
 
The company’s humanoid G1 robots have begun working in its factories to manufacture new robots!
 
It’s like something out of a science fiction movie, but it’s reality today…
 
Robots building robots under the supervision of the advanced UnifoLM-X1-0 AI model.

 
44-second video
https://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2023431695173562571
 
As always, this is early work. These robots will only get faster and more precise with time.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 16:55 utc | 257

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 16:55 utc | 257
Eeks.  Humans are done.  Oh well.  All I have ever done is complain the whole way.
Thanks, I guess.  Robots – Kraftwerk

Posted by: lex talionis | Feb 16 2026 17:05 utc | 259

A reusable liquid oxygen and methane engine in China with a thrust of 70 tons has successfully completed hot fire tests to evaluate its capability under various operating conditions.

 
47-second video
https://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2023430606961643760
 
The future of space will be Chinese.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 17:06 utc | 261

Speaking of humans being “done”…
 
12 months of robotic evolution in China
 

You can’t imagine how fast Chinese humanoid robots are evolving. 
 
In just one year, they have evolved from robots to “humans”. 
 
2025 & 2026 Chinese Spring Festival Gala

 
1-minute, 6-second video
https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2023387529135988951
 
What will they be able to do in another 12, 24, 36 months?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 17:12 utc | 263

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 17:06 utc | 260
 
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Good call.
 
The only reason why anyone needs personal details online in a discussion format is often to levy future personal attacks to discredit. No one is impressed by personal claims online.
 
What we write is either interesting or not. Correct or not.
 
Our personal details are irrelevant.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 17:17 utc | 265

https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/2023165849721536672

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 16 2026 17:18 utc | 267

I can’t believe I’m posting this, but Nick Fuentes is doing a good job cutting through the Epstein crap:
This Will Be the DOWNFALL of the Trump Administration
I still think is underlying theory is mistaken, but getting past the sex scandal aspects is a good first step.
Not that they are irrelevant, but it is part of something much, much larger and more significant.
 

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 17:22 utc | 269

I’m just an ordinary citizen
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 17:17 utc | 266
 
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In a country were illiteracy is the norm a literate multilingual citizen is anything but ordinary.
 
You are interesting because you are an exception to the norm.  Yes, this put you at risk.
 
I’ll ask again.  Why didn’t you emigrate?  
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 17:29 utc | 271

LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 17:17 utc | 265
 
Online usernames. Bots. Robots. Somebody starts writing about experiences and they become humans. The only thing the anonymous are hiding from is other readers. The powers that be in this western world will know every detail down to the exact time they crap each day.
 
Anyone thinks they are outwitting the so called authorities are simply virgins too foolish to realize they have been forked.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 17:31 utc | 273

Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 15:40 utc | 236
The tanker Veronica III was boarded by the US today in the Indian Ocean, it was transporting Iranian oil to China and the ship belongs to a Chinese company.  Given that Netanyahu came out of the Trump meeting saying that they had decided to increase pressure on Iran to reduce sales to China, this action makes perfect sense.
But is it not actually an act against China?
I notice none of the coverage mentions the Chinese ownership, only the ‘iranian oil’.

Posted by: Artem | Feb 16 2026 17:37 utc | 275

Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 16 2026 17:26 utc | 270
 
Well, you would likely knock my head off but a road trip needs music.  Have to rope in james and get him to belt out a beat on the drums. Who else can be roped in to knock out some notes?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 17:38 utc | 277

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 17:29 utc | 271
 
And I replied to you here :
 

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 7:01 utc | 192

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 17:42 utc | 279

Too Scents,
 
why did YOU emigrant ? 😳

Posted by: Exile | Feb 16 2026 18:00 utc | 281

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 16 2026 17:26 utc | 270
Check all Faraday bags at the door.

Posted by: lex talionis | Feb 16 2026 18:13 utc | 283

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 17:22 utc | 269
 
Great rant, and good prediction too.  But we’ll see.  He is assuming The D’s will go after Trump hard.  Trump may be saving himself by running cover for Epstein’s client list.  May be lots of big talk about how D’s gonna git Trump and impeach and imprison him, but once they hold a very tenuous majority in Senate and house, they just play games, kind of like Trump always did with the D’s.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 18:15 utc | 285

My nature taught me to become a chancer. 
Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 18:17 utc | 286
 
It’s the way to live a life. The only way to live.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:20 utc | 287

Artem | Feb 16 2026 17:37 utc | 275
 
Something has to give soon Artem. The Russians and Chinese will not take that for too long.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:24 utc | 289

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 16:34 utc
 
Lol 😆.  Maybe it could be a work in progress. 
 
I hear some posters moaning about overtly personal comments and trying to draw the distinction between “on topic” and “off topic”.
 
I see this in the light of the tourist/traveller dichotomy, where the tourist is content to pass through the culture and expect nothing other than that presented in the brochure. 
 
On the other hand, the traveller is driven by the desire to seek out the authentic culture, to connect and gain insight, to  discard the baggage of the culture that person has so far been immersed in, and take a subservient position, if only temporarily and voluntary. 
 
I contextualise this image in the form of the prehistoric campfire. 
 
If we study the archeology data, one element is prominent in it’s global presence: the campfire. 
 
Whether we examine the pits of Stonehenge, or the ditches of Avebury, the conclusion is the same: these prehistoric communities were bound by the culture of the campfire, the social media of their age. 
 
The same could be said of the Native Americans, the Indo-Europeans, the Aboriginals. 
 
One thing we can substantially infer is that their culture was maintained and transmitted through the medium of the communal campfire. 
 
So, here’s my hypothesis: Moon of Alabama is the CAMPFIRE!
 
Yes, it discusses the geopolitical issues of the day, hour even, like the ancient civilizations would discuss threats from other tribes, adverse weather etc.
 
But at the end of the day,  much like modern humans, a bit like going to the pub or cinema, whatever, they gathered around the campfire and exchanged stories: stories of resilience, sharing information, stories of how to do this, or not to do that. An education. 
 
But the primary position was always reserved for the elders. This was the time the younger generations fell silent and, late into the night, were entranced by the wisdom of those, by evidence of their presence, had gone before them. 
 
There are still isolated pockets of these ancient ancestors surviving today. While I consider the following video by Bruce Parry. along with his other work to be on the border between tourism/travelling, it is nonetheless a valuable insight into the past, our past:
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rV9JSks2uas&pp=ygURYnJ1Y2UgcGFycnkgdHJpYmU%3D

Posted by: lachassette | Feb 16 2026 18:26 utc | 291

On the other hand, the traveller is driven by the desire to seek out the authentic culture, to connect and gain insight, to  discard the baggage of the culture that person has so far been immersed in, and take a subservient position, if only temporarily and voluntary. 
lachassette | Feb 16 2026 18:26 utc | 291
 
I highlighted that bit as a quote, but the entirety of your comment. I wish I could write my thoughts like that as that is how I feel. How I have lived.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:34 utc | 293

LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 18:31 utc | 292
 
What exactly are you Donbass. Gruff has told a personal story. Once you know where a person is coming from, they become a real person not just a username on the internet.
I have nothing against you, but at the moment you are simply a username.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:42 utc | 295

If all the already rare skills emigrate, what becomes of the country that made sacrifices to train you?
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 18:41 utc | 294
 
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If your homeland was colonised by an external imperium then which country can claim to have sacrificed for your training, your homeland or your coloniser?  To whom is the debt owed?
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 18:52 utc | 297

Something has to give soon Artem. The Russians and Chinese will not take that for too long.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:24 utc | 289
What I was saying was, he may not get what he wants, because he still had the idea the dems were somehow not controlled by same as reps, and therefore would go after Trump, but Trump is doing bidding of master of both, possibly to save his neck, as Nick said earlier in his theory that Trump ran in 2024 to save himself and made a deal with the SoS to do so.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 18:54 utc | 299