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February 15, 2026
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-040

Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:

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The Bezzle

Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …

Posted by b on February 15, 2026 at 14:34 UTC | Permalink
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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
 
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Good, let’s keep it that way.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 18:54 utc | 301

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 18:54 utc | 300
 
It’s not meant literally. Search the phrase.
 
It’s a meme in regard to the fact that, as you say, you are just a username, talking to another username.  

Posted by: ftp | Feb 16 2026 19:00 utc | 302

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 18:24 utc | 290
 
You don’t understand Fuentes.  I am watching his latest right now, and he is insulting every single super chat he gets.  $200? He don’t care.  He is calling them all poor losers and telling them they are chudding out over the Superbowl being in Spanish, and he prefers Bad Bunny’s music to Kid rocks.  Ye is rubbing off on him.  That black hussle attitude of quit crying, make stacks, flex, and don’t tell me I should be who you want me to be.
 
It’s fucking hilarious.  And he is dead on.  Even though the Seahawks, a team I once loved,  a team I once would literally get depressed about if they lost, a team I would throw my voice out cheering for and go to games of,  were in the superbowl, I worked on my project instead, and did not even know they won until about 5 or 6 days later, and did not give a single fuck.  they knelt during the coofer.  they forced their whole team to kneel during the coofer nineteen.  Half the teams have at least one tranny cheerleader.  Anybody who even tolerates such disrespect for that shit, deserves to rage out about a halftime show in spanish. 

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 19:02 utc | 303

UWDude | Feb 16 2026 18:54 utc | 299
 
The American stuff… Trump is a big time gambler. He’s doing a make or break for the US.
 
The Bloke that bought the property I lived on where my children had grown up was the same. A gambler. He gambled with his livestock and he gambled with Packer. There was a number of stories I was told by his employees. 
But one night a mob of them at a casino and Packer said give me your money and I will bet it. Everyone chipped in a hundred grand or so. Packer won big and divied up the money. Problem was, Sinclar had gone for a piss when Packer divied it up so he missed out.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:04 utc | 304

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 18:52 utc | 297
 
The debt is not to the administration of a country, including yours.
 
The debt is social, you owe to the family who supported you, to the people who paid taxes from witch your studies were paid, to the youth that consider you as a hope to get to a better life.
 
The only question is the balance between you and your family membres, on one hand, and the rest of your people, on the other hand, if there is a conflict of interest.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:06 utc | 305

Good, let’s keep it that way.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 18:54 utc | 301
 
I can do that, but it may not be pretty. 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:08 utc | 306

Oups… “Family members“… keyboard set to french.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:09 utc | 307

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 16 2026 13:38 utc | 230
Posted by: Artem | Feb 16 2026 17:30 utc | 272
Posted by: james | Feb 16 2026 16:02 utc | 241
Thanks guys for showing interest in those links.After james’ remark on translation I got back to the article  and found on the bottom of the source a link to international reporters,where you find the same article with an option to read it in english and italian.
As for the statue burning in Iran it shows that there is a strong eschatological component in both Iran and Israel to all their actions.Judging by Rubio’s speech in Munich and Hegseth’s tattoos the americans have kind of the same mindset.That leaves us europeans with nothing to show but originally Humanism-based and Enlightenment-based points of view that should cause a better world,but inevitably lead us into the quicksands of nihilism.
My personal remedy is studying the eschatological paintings of Hieronymus Bosch ,like the Garden of Earthly delights,the Haywayn,The Seven Cardinal Sins and the Last four Things.So much lessons to learn from them.There are some great art analysis channels found on youtube that dive into it in detail.Painted around the year 1500 in the province of Brabant.
If I were visiting Paris I would go to Le Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers,much to learn there as well.
Paris is in France,but it is not France.France are all the lesser cities with cathedrals .Beaune,Dijon,Auxerre,Troyes,Strasbourg,Carcassonne,Bourges,Nancy etc?greetings from the countryside where people haven’t the faintest hunch on what’s going on for real in the bigworld.Luckily or regrettably,I do not know.

Posted by: willie | Feb 16 2026 19:11 utc | 308

LoveDonbass
 
We move to a new paradigm. What are you hiding Donbass?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:13 utc | 309

if there is a conflict of interest.
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:06 utc | 305
 
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If?  Of course there is a conflict of interest.  The debt is an encumbrance loaned by an external entity.  Your Society’s future is mortgaged to an alien master.
 
Frequently promises (especially those about the future) are made in bad faith.
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 19:18 utc | 310

@ willie | Feb 16 2026 19:11 utc | 308
 
thanks so much for the additional comments willie.. i will take you up on that.. thank you! 

Posted by: james | Feb 16 2026 19:24 utc | 311

I can do that, but it may not be pretty.
 
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:08 utc | 306
 
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1. You don’t have a choice.
 
2, I’ve been here for years, and you have never been particularly pretty or pleasant to be around.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 19:29 utc | 312

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 19:18 utc | 310
 
That’s not my view.
 
What we do should be for ourselves or our loved ones, and not against any entity.
 
When you work and accumulate wealth and skills, your work, the house you acquire, the children you have enrich you, but they also enrich the community where you live.
 
If you feel connected to your community, the choice should be to do so there.
But there’s a conflict of interest if staying is too far removed from the interests of your immediate family.
 
Evaluating this balance and making the right choice is very personal, apart from security considerations.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:31 utc | 313

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 17:22 utc | 269
BTW, I had seen a couple of his interviews, but never a stream.  This was the first, I was impressed, and now I am watching his latest, and laughing my ass off, and I “get it”. 
 
It reminds me of another stream of a WN I watched recently that had an Iraq war vet now turned anti Israel crusader, and the streamer started whining about muslims, and the vet just went off, I think he even hurt his feelings because he simply did not give a fuck about “migrant rape gangs” and shit, because he, like me, has NEVER taken his eye off the ball, once he saw the ball.  That’s why Fuentes has black groypers and mexican groypers.  
He is casually racist, but I get it, just like I got the racism of the Panthers and the NoI.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 19:31 utc | 314

1. You don’t have a choice.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 19:29 utc | 312
 
That is an odd thing to say. As for your two, I am a bit of a newbie, but you have only been around for a couple of years. Some names are still here but many have gone. Most of us are getting old and I guess when the time comes fall off the perch. So many names I do not see anymore.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:35 utc | 315

That’s not my view.
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:31 utc | 313
 
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I am speaking of historically what actually happened.  Burkina Faso’s colonial masters saddled the country with odious debt.  There is no moral obligation to repay such debts.
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 19:42 utc | 316

LoveDonbass
 
Some post as bots, others post as humans. I may or may may not agree with them on some things, but they post as humans. You do not. Just an abstract voice on the internet.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:43 utc | 317

@ Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:35 utc | 315
 
ld reveals a lot about himself without saying much.. he excels at lying, if that wasn’t already obvious.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 16 2026 19:44 utc | 318

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odious_debt
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 19:44 utc | 319

james | Feb 16 2026 19:44 utc | 318
 
I’ve been trying to do a Lavrov But the clown from the Sahel and the born again Muslim are a bit much for me. Have to keep the tempo down a bit otherwise b will put on his gestapo hat. Problems problems problems.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:53 utc | 320

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 19:42 utc | 316
 
I understand what you’re saying.
 
However, I’m saying that deciding whether or not to emigrate is a personal matter, not necessarily linked to history or politics.
 
And for me, it’s a last resort.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:59 utc | 321

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 19:43 utc | 317
I don’t think LoveDonbass is a bot.
She has her foibles, sometimes infuriating, other times not.
Sometimes we agree, other times not. Occaisonally we come to blows, though not too often.
But I have never doubted that she is human.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:05 utc | 322

for me, it’s a last resort.
 
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 16 2026 19:59 utc | 321
 
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Fair enough.  We are all free to make our own choices.
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 16 2026 20:06 utc | 323

2, I’ve been here for years, and you have never been particularly pretty or pleasant to be around.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 19:29 utc | 312
 
You are a somewhat johnny come lately. I do have sharp edges and do tend to talk straight to bullshitters.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:07 utc | 324

ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:05 utc | 322
 
It’s not bot. Its a username impersonating a bot. And it is not a she, it is a he. But all it is is a username. An empty thing like google AI.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:12 utc | 325

Daylight here now. Moving from Atlantic tie to pacific time. Any takers. Going going gone. Will take on aftermarket aspersions.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:22 utc | 326

And it is not a she, it is a he.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:12 utc | 325

Which is the point of this whole conversation, isn’t it?
Who is who and how can we know?
A bot could easily supply a series of well crafted reminiscences that might convince a reader that they are human.
You can be sure that AI has already sucked up all of your anecdotes for future deployment.
Bots lack basic human emotion, have no concept of gender, have no sense of humour.
No need for a life story, just careful observation.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:23 utc | 327

Bots lack basic human emotion, have no concept of gender, have no sense of humour.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:23 utc | 327
 
Donbass to a tee. Though I do assume that username is human. This world of AI video we are moving into. Not good.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:30 utc | 328

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:23 utc | 327
 
You can still tell.  I knew PeterAU1 was not a bot when he came back, even though a bunch of people were trying to peddle this B.S.  People were trying to convince me he was a bot running on AI.  b eventually cut in and confirmed it is indeed him.
 
This is psychic warfare.  LoveDonbass is real.  There is so much to the human interaction and trolling that gives you clues to who is real, and who isn’t.
 
 
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You can be sure that AI has already sucked up all of your anecdotes for future deployment.Bots lack basic human emotion, have no concept of gender, have no sense of humour.
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XD XD XD
 
Was PeterAU1s opinions are worth training a bot on to redeploy?
 
Why do I find that hilarious?
 
Only one poster here is worth training a bot on.   Name starts with a U and ends with an e.  And I hope it catches that it does indeed use a and an correctly at least 95% of the time.  
 
 
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 20:31 utc | 329

UWDude | Feb 16 2026 20:31 utc | 329
 
I had to laugh at that U&E. Bloody hell mate. Cheers.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:36 utc | 330

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:30 utc | 328
We’ll have to agree to disagree then.
She certainly has a sense of humour – not the same as yours, but it is there.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:37 utc | 331

Was PeterAU1s opinions are worth training a bot on to redeploy?
Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 20:31 utc | 329

An angry old fart bot. Every forum should have one.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:39 utc | 332

ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:39 utc | 332
 
I dunno Chat. I guess you young blokes will grow up one day. 🙂

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:42 utc | 333

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:42 utc | 333
 
State of the world, I would not count on them getting the chance to.
 
Glad I am old.

Posted by: ftp | Feb 16 2026 20:44 utc | 334

ftp | Feb 16 2026 20:44 utc | 334
 
Yeah. Very much touch and go if they will get the chance to mature. 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:47 utc | 335

An angry old fart bot. Every forum should have one.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 20:39 utc | 332
 
Im hearing the opening to the six million dollar man right now.
 
 
Now I am seeing a boardroom full of suits, and Generals, and one has a power point presentation up, with a bold title “The Key to World Domination:  Capturing the Minds of the Alcoholic Geologist Helicopter Enthusiasts via AI Botnet Armies”

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 20:48 utc | 336

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 20:48 utc | 336
People aren’t wearing enough hats (prescient)

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 21:01 utc | 337

My nature taught me to become a chancer.Posted by: too scents
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thank you ; although its surprising to read that you found your adopted homeland as fascinating. Most observers describe that country as, perhaps, sturdy or stubbornly traditional. 😀
 

Posted by: Exile | Feb 16 2026 21:02 utc | 338

Further to 234, 298:
 
Sabby Sabs: ‘Connected?’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57j4Hm5fKNU
 
“Ghislaine Maxwell connections to 911.”
 
 
TRG: New Unredacted Names Located in Epstein Files
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-c113XYlqQ
 
Contexts and connections to Epstein.
 
 
The Class Line: Ep 03
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZFbJUgqDw
 
“Epstein: The personification of capital.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 16 2026 21:02 utc | 339

I dunno Chat. I guess you young blokes will grow up one day. 🙂
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 20:42 utc | 333
 
AI Masonic Agent Detected. 

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 21:05 utc | 340

Finally a little truth about the unreality of ‘supporting Cuba’:
 
CUBA STARVING, ABANDONED BY ALLIES & WORLD!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHg7CHDqAUQ
 
“Cuba is facing an unprecedented energy crisis that could result in a total economic collapse without help. Yet every single country is complying dutifully with the USA’s demands that they refuse to ship oil to Cuba or face possible tariffs.
 
‘Why are so many countries completely unwilling to defy the US, when the ‘threat’ is only tariffs?’

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 16 2026 21:24 utc | 341

OK, I’ve still got the severe hump with @ b over his Epstein ambivalence, breaking my silence though to highlight this piece, given John Helmer is a “go-to” for many barflies: https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dear-john
 
I’ve no idea who Julian Macfarlane is, I just found the link in the commentary at Larry Johnson’s Sonar 21 blog, but reading the article, he clearly lurks at the bar, citing @ b’s recent remarks about the Western Wurlitzer wishful thinking over Russia’s economy.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:25 utc | 342

Laith Marouf reports to Garland Nixon on what he saw during his travel to Iran last week. He also provides info on ofher areas in Western Asia and Africa.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uek0bhqkN6Q
 

Posted by: Richard L | Feb 16 2026 21:34 utc | 343

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:25 utc | 342
Good to see you back. Hope you get over your hump – the Epstein Affair has moved on and the truth will out eventually.
It would be wrong to abandon the bar for one post your disliked – smacks too much of cancel culture. IMO.
Julian Macfarlane runs the NewsForensics substack, which I frequently read. He occasionally posts here but doesn’t get too involved in discussions.
He is alt-alt-media, not afraid to call out alt-media groupthink, which I kind of like.
 

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 21:40 utc | 344

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 16 2026 6:57 utc | 191

I believe that too. The Epstein Class would have been Executed Long Ago in a China World….

Posted by: Nobody | Feb 16 2026 21:42 utc | 345

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:25 utc | 342
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Happy to see you’re still around. There are only a few people here who understand practical economics.
 
Don’t deny the world your voice because there are things you don’t agree with.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 16 2026 21:42 utc | 346

Save your keyboard. I don’t bother reading your stuff, specially long diatribes. Confine it to one sentence and I will read it.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 16 2026 16:19 utc | 246
 
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With respect, Peter: Could you put your interesting story about escaping floods into one sentence?
 
I tried, but it was pretty long and included many em-dashes, semi-colons, commas. It looked a mess, and I felt I was cheating. Maybe a better writer can produce a good example?

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 21:42 utc | 347

Cuban Intellectuals Call For Mobilization Against US Blockade!
 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuban-intellectuals-global-mobilization/
 
“The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba denounces the economic, commercial and financial blockade in place since 1962 against the Cuban people and its subsequent tightening, whose measures affect vital sectors such as health, education, transportation and energy.
 
The organization calls it ‘inadmissible’ to consider the country a threat to US national security. In this sense, the statement urged ‘honest and humanist’ men and women to prevent an act of genocide…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 16 2026 21:48 utc | 348

smacks too much of cancel culture

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 21:40 utc | 344
 
I dunno, if I have an emotional response that is informed by my bringing up and nurturing of two daughters (and two sons as well) who have gone on to create their own families, presenting Mrs. R-L and myself with grand-daughters, is that virtue-signalling? What kind of mindset gets turned on by immature females? And what kind of mindset sees “service providers” as an excuse for this turn-on?
 
Epstein’s initial conviction was a plea-bargain; “If you plead to this stuff we can actually prove, then we won’t dig further into stuff we can’t prove yet, but we have a lot of circumstantial evidence for”.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:56 utc | 349

With respect, Peter: Could you put your interesting story about escaping floods into one sentence? I tried, but it was pretty long and […] Maybe a better writer can produce a good example?
 
Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 21:42 utc | 347

 
When in Australia, always carry a rope in case it rains.

Posted by: persiflo | Feb 16 2026 22:05 utc | 350

Further to 339:
 
Trump, Epstein & the FBI Victim Interview
 
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188147484
 
“Frank Figliuzzi and Roger Sollenberger.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 16 2026 22:11 utc | 351

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:56 utc | 349
I can certainly understand your visceral response – I agree b went a bit too far in his defence of  Chomsky when he tried to minimise Epstein’s crimes. I tried to argue that point in the mega thread, but it got swamped by outraged posters.
A lot of people indulged in performative flouncing, which I thought was not the way to argue their point.
The horrors of the Epstein revelations are proving a lot for people to cope with, not just here, and with very good reason.
Anyhoo, things have reverted to normal, somewhat. For the time being.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 22:13 utc | 352

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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That is the most insidious form of late-stage colonialism. 
 
I look at all the “skilled workers” who emigrate to Australia. Doctors, dentists, scientists, engineers… brought here to ‘fill a need’ for a country filled with people too bloody lazy to make the effort to help themselves. (Yeah, like, ya know, … that maths and science shit is not so much fun – interferes with the party scene, ya know, like…) And then they are resented for stealing all the good jobs.
 
Personal experience:
A couple of years ago I literally had my life saved by major intervention. The lead surgeon was Iranian, assisted by a Chinese surgeon. There was one ‘Australian’ on the entire team. I use the term ‘Australian’ in the most bigoted sense, as the Iranian and Chinese surgeons were both Australian citizens. But nobody raises an eyebrow when they are referred to as Iranian or Chinese.
 
These people from ‘evil’ countries seem to undergo a miraculous transformation when they cross borders to help us deal with problems of our own making.

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 22:31 utc | 353

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
 
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Aye – the White Man’s Burden… ’tis indeed a heavy load we carry for all our noble deeds for those heathen savages. And the ungrateful wretches don’t even appreciate our sacrifices. Supplication, fawning, and gratitude should be our first priority in civilizing and training. You will appreciate and reward our efforts… 

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 22:38 utc | 354

Gary Marcus: We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans.
Agree with Marcus here – AI is getting too dangerous.
However Marcus himself is ambiguous – he really dislikes LLMs as he believes they cannot be intelligent no matter how big you scale them. He favours neuro-symbolic world models, though they are largely theoretical and by no means immune to the kinds of abuses we see emerging.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 22:43 utc | 355

Something is happening.  All these serious channels I was watching a couple nights ago about AI, gaming, and woke shows, have exploded into pure clowning.  The creators all decided it was April 1st or something.  it’s odd.  

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 16 2026 23:00 utc | 356

When in Australia, always carry a rope in case it rains.
Posted by: persiflo | Feb 16 2026 22:05 utc | 350
 
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Commendable effort, but unfortunately barely a passing grade.
 
You forgot the snatch block (and for those ‘foreign’ perverts, this is not a pair of steel underpants sometimes worn by suspicious pretty females!) and the tree (can be awkward to tramsport on a ‘just-in0case basis) on which to secure the remote end of the stretchy rope (stretchy being the critical operative term) and the spare vehicle on which to attach the mesal end of the stretchy rope, not forgetting the D-shackle, or snotter (not a face-punch in a bar-room brawl, but a unique ?? Aussie term for a short length of rope, usual in the form of a section of steel-wire rope with a spliced eye at each end, useful for hooking up things – if you have D-shackles) used to attach the snatch block to the bogged vehicle, as well as the spare driver who will be found to be indispensable for operating the second vehicle during the recovery process.
 
A diagram may be useful, but that would count for a thousand words. How many sentences in a thousand words?

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 23:07 utc | 357

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 22:43 utc | 355
 
Have you seen We Need To Talk About A I (2020)?
 
Or Machine (2019) and iHuman (2019)?
 
iHuman has Ilya Sutskever. A genius. Someone who knows what is coming. His insights are frightening.
 
And now that these are 5 years old, one can compare progress then and now.
 
All the players know this could go horribly wrong. They all keep going because, “if we don’t, the Russian, Chinese will”.

Posted by: ftp | Feb 16 2026 23:11 utc | 358

Bondi, Blanch & Wiles Must Go /Robert Barnes & Lt Col Daniel Davis
Apparently Suzie Wiles put the kybosh on DD joining the Trump administration.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 23:35 utc | 359

Further to 351…
 
Epstein Files 2001 Canyon: Forensic Volume Audit
 
https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/2023475213862924793
 
“It’s just a complete coincidence that the DOJ has completely withheld all the Epstein documents immediately before, during and after 9/11 right?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 16 2026 23:40 utc | 360

Posted by: ftp | Feb 16 2026 23:11 utc | 358
I have not seen any of those, but I will take a look if I can find any that aren’t behind firewalls.
It is interesting that they were all produced pre-COVID and also before it was decreed that AI was the ‘next big thing’ and thou shall worship as though it were God, even before the first software was released.
Frankly you don’t need to be Alan Turing’s smart brother to foresee the problems that might emerge. Any bad stuff humans currently get up to with the interwebs will be multiplied by orders of magnitude once AI bots get used to do it.
Doubly so since most people, including those developing it, have no  real clue how it works and need to employ an army of data fiddlers to correct its frequently erroneous output.
Imagine what might happen when they hand over stock trading to AI…
And they will try it – greed and lobby power will push it through. 
Hopefully the AI companies, hyperscalers and data-centres will go bust before we get to that.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 23:52 utc | 361

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 16 2026 23:52 utc | 361
 
It will become a giant money pit of AI wars.  Already HR AI’s are being gamed by gatecrasher AI’s, spamming each other trying to get  as many applications as possible.  People are reporting about half of jobs posted are fake, and an enterprising job seeker can send out 100’s of AI generated  resumes to see which one gets through.  I watched a guy named Joshua Fluke, and he realized using AI generated SEO and AI generated linkedIN’s, AI Generated resumes, had the best chances of getting through HR filters.
 
So its just going to be this total shit show of energy waste as each job application sent comes with 1000 others, and each job posted will have 10 fake ones.  And it will just take more and more “tokens” to fight each other.
 
As far as “I coded Chrome browser with AI and it only took me 2 hours” retard Click bait tutorials and videos are Rube Goldberg-esque techno-philia trash.  Its so silly, because originality and and change is where the issues are, and they could “code chrome Browser” even faster by skipping the AI and simply compiling the latest Open source version.    
 
There is a ton of hype around AI.  And stock trading is probably already at AI war.
 
Also China just came out with SeeDance 2.0 which is blowing away movie creation Ai’s.  Look it up to see how good it is.  There is a ton of AI, and a ton of good uses.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 17 2026 0:05 utc | 362

Streaming site.
 
iHuman 
https://uflix.cc/movie/ihuman-2019
 
We Need To Talk About A I
https://uflix.cc/movie/we-need-to-talk-about-ai-2020
 
Could not find Machine.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: ftp | Feb 17 2026 0:09 utc | 363

Further to 358:
 
911 & Epstein: A Call For Research into Suspicious Links
 
https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/2023227424243425367/photo/1
 
“The 3 million pages of Epstein documents released by the US Dept of Justice on Jan 30 host numerous suspicious links to 9/11 and its cover-up that our team discovered which warrant further investigation. Here is a few of the findings that we hope you will have the time to look deeper into:
 
1) Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell discussed a ‘Shadow 9/11 Commission’ in 2003…”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 0:10 utc | 364

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 16 2026 16:21 utc | 247
 
I think that the only way that the US electorate can win control from the Uniparty Inc, is to run a “United” ticket that can quickly bring in a broad base of support.
 
It would include people such as Stein, Massie, Taylor-Green, Omar, Khanna, Ron Paul and others. A good place to start would be the requirement that they don’t take money from representatives of any other nation.
 
They’d have to run on the single issue of cleaning house and getting rid of/purging the entire existing structure of corrupt kid-botherers and zionists from politics (including clearing out the 3LAs).
 
A policy of disclosure and honesty in government would be necessary. This would have to include striking down Citizens United and the Obama era ruling allowing government to propagandise the public.
 
Personally, however, I think civil unrest, internment camps, tanks on the streets, and more state-sanctioned murder are a far more likely outcome at this stage. This is why I also think you would need the army onboard 100% with the citizens to bring down the cabal (as they are sworn to uphold and protect the constitution, after all).

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Feb 17 2026 0:25 utc | 365

Robert Duvall, actor,  dies at 95. RIP ‘Col Kilgore’
 
One of the greats.
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 0:31 utc | 366

Kevork Almassian Warns: The Empire Above Jeffrey Epstein, some useful perceptions on how to deal with the shit as it becomes exposed.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 0:38 utc | 367

Posted by: ftp | Feb 17 2026 0:09 utc | 363
Thanks for those, will take a look but probably tomorrow. 
It’s late here.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 0:39 utc | 368

“If you plead to this stuff we can actually prove, then we won’t dig further into stuff we can’t prove yet, but we have a lot of circumstantial evidence for”.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:56 utc | 349 
 
I’m not sure about this Jeremy, they had Epstein, Maxwell and the rest of them “bang to rights” on federal sex trafficking charges (which can carry life imprisonment) yet chose to give them a pass
 
The state prosecutors were under instructions to not tell the presiding judge how many victims there were.  They also didn’t tell the victims about the plea deal. He served his ridiculously light sentence and the victims and their families had no idea about it.
“But emails and letters show that Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafaña wanted state prosecutors to tell the judge as little as possible, telling Epstein’s lawyers “I would prefer not to highlight for the judge’’ how many victims were involved — which at the time was almost three dozen girls, ages 13 to 17. Instead of being prosecuted for federal child sex trafficking crimes that could have sent him to prison for life, Epstein was inexplicably given federal immunity under an unusual agreement approved by then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta.“ 
 
and 
 
“As part of the arrangement, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to charges in state court. His victims were never told about the plea deal until well after Epstein was quietly sentenced, serving 13 months in a private wing of the county jail — along with liberal work release privileges and a private valet who drove him to his office every day. 
Last month, a federal judge ruled that Acosta and other federal prosecutors involved in the case broke the law by failing to inform Epstein’s victims about the plea, in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.” 
Professor of Legal Ethics, Bruce Green at Fordham Law School observed the Epstein criminal case was
 
 “a slam dunk.’’ “How hard was it to prove this case? I would have liked nothing better than to go after this case. Who is going to disbelieve 20 or more girls who tell the same story?’’
 
All quotes from the Miami  Herald in 2019

Posted by: will moon | Feb 17 2026 0:42 utc | 369

if you remember the video of Ghislaine Maxwell coming in to take the fifth released about a week ago….
 
 
AI analysis is showing it’s not Ghislaine Maxwell.  (Grok says 93% chance not, another says “highly likely it is not”)  Nose is shorter and stubbier and rounder, and chin ratios are off as well.
 
BTW, this is the kind of stuff AI is really good at.

Posted by: UWDude | Feb 17 2026 1:06 utc | 370

@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 16 2026 21:25 utc | 342
 
thanks… i always appreciate your posts and do hope you stick around as well…
 
regarding the link of the critic of helmers latest article, i have sent it to helmer.. he might get back to me. i am sure he will appreciate knowing about it… the writer does a good job of breaking it down.. thanks again.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 17 2026 1:51 utc | 371

UWDude@370:
 
“AI Analysis is showing it’s not Ghislaine Maxwell.”
 
George Galloway and Jimmy Dore agree with AI…This from GG’s Sunday MOATS program:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6N24eT9KU
 
ps: Here’s a picture of Ghislaine Maxwell hanging out with the Carneys in 2013. Mark Carney’s name also appears in the released Epstein files:
 
https://toronto.sun.com/opinion/columnists/mark-carney-pushes-back-on-photos-with-ghislaine-maxwell

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 2:03 utc | 372

372 corrected:
 
Galloway/Dore: Epstein Alive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6N24eT9KU
 
Ghislaine Maxwell Hanging with the Carneys (2013)
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/mark-carney-pushes-back-on-photos-with-ghislaine-maxwell

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 2:18 utc | 373

General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 21:42 utc | 347
 
Trying to work out how to do a raspberry and a middle finger on a keyboard. Will figure it out one day.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:25 utc | 374

@Jon_in_AU 365
 
Thank you for that post.  A reminder that peaceful solutions might still be found.  Odds not high, but at some point we have to think about how to deal with the US once the dust settles.  And the people you referred to would be a good set of people to start with.
 
I watched some the the recent Congressional take downs of Pam Bondi.  Massie was fabulous.  I would vote for him for President.

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 17 2026 2:40 utc | 375

Trying to work out how to do a raspberry and a middle finger on a keyboard. Will figure it out one day.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:25 utc | 374
Well, there is this;
https://emojicombos.com/middle-finger-ascii-art
 

Posted by: ftp | Feb 17 2026 2:46 utc | 376

ftp | Feb 17 2026 2:46 utc | 376
 
Thanks ftp.
 
Here ya go general. https://emojicombos.com/middle-finger-ascii-art

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:48 utc | 377

further to 373:
 
Worse Every Day: Former Tory PM Stephen Harper in Epstein Files
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVaP2Bp86A
 
“Did a Canadian Prime Minister accept $1 million from Epstein while still in office?”
 
In case you’ve forgotten Harpo, here he is doing what Canadian PMs do best – kowtowing to Israeli ones.
 
‘Hey Jude!’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzcL3jhb5y
 
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 2:57 utc | 378

378 corrected: Canada’s PM Stephen Harper serenades the Netanyahus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzcL3jhb5Y

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 3:02 utc | 379

ftp | Feb 17 2026 2:46 utc | 376 Thanks http://ftp. Here ya go general. https://emojicombos.com/middle-finger-ascii-art
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:48 utc | 377
 
***************
 
Great – thanks. Do you have a ‘scratch-n-sniff’ version? And make sure you look directly at me – no, no, not there… I’m over here!

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 17 2026 3:24 utc | 380

Academics. I like the science and stuff, but we have lived in different worlds.
The aboriginal people. The ordinary man. The peoples of Africa, different again yet the same. But I see the same thing many places in the imperial world and its conquests. House boys and leg humpers I don’t have much time for. Same goes for academics that try to baffle me with bullshit.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 3:46 utc | 381

@ John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 2:57 utc | 378
 
it is impossible for me to watch that first scatterbrained video you shared.. i thank you for sharing it and wonder if you could be so kind as to condense the contents so that i don’t have to try watching it… it is painful watching what some folks try to do to get attention.. thanks john.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 17 2026 3:57 utc | 382

General
 
You have been sniping from the cover of weasel words for some time. I tend to talk or write straight. Both bullshitters and those simply divorced from the reality of the ordinary man, be they black or white, I do tend to pick up on.
 
Playing the race card or trying to baffle me with bullshit. Fools.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 3:58 utc | 383

Posted by: james | Feb 17 2026 3:57 utc | 382
 
Hit the ‘more’ button below the video. Then hit ‘show transcript’.
 
I hate the way most people talk now. Three ‘like’ per sentence and two ‘yaknow?’.  Nails on chalkboard.
Now I just read transcripts.

Posted by: ftp | Feb 17 2026 4:03 utc | 384

@ ftp | Feb 17 2026 4:03 utc | 384
 
thanks.. i do the same, but this one is even too painful to do that!! i can’t… they have made it impossible for me to watch that, lol.. 

Posted by: james | Feb 17 2026 4:04 utc | 385

@151 will moon

“Maybe you could correct the record and produce another piece that provides your readers with the correct information and show the victims some respect?”

Maybe that is what has many upset, that endless info and knowledge of crime has been in the hands of three letter for decades, and it is only leaked/”leaked” afterwards, and only with official approvals.

This has turned what are serious crimes into a form of gossip and guessing game, where little of the information has had a thorough verification or investigative certainty, that people would be satisfied was objective and trustworthy.

If the three letters did not or are not acting with the information they obtain to safeguard the nation from corruption and crime, then it does present that there is a hidden and unaccountable entity behind the running of the US.

The other thing that I note is that presentation is much like psyop. Some say damage control or similar but I don’t get that feeling, instead a more insiduous form of management, i.e. ‘they’ know what they are doing and are making full use of information on public.

So anyone bear this in mind, as with Gaza and Palestine, equally you are actually an objective. With the level of control that is held, we might as well be sitting listening to someone narrating a story, one that we cannot change but only be affected by.

It isn’t defeatist to acknowledge the level of perception control held by some, it is important to know how to detach from it or how to understand it from outside of its influence. From that viewpoint, much information on the intent and workings can be gained.

After all, the objective would not be to go around feeling perpetually sorry or hard done by, for oneself or others, though necessary maybe it can become a loop. Instead it would be to understand who is acting (or not acting) and if possible why.

I don’t expect anyone here to provide answers to those questions, but for sure we are able to keep a sense of reason going as a line to walk for others, no matter (or thanks to) how disparate an approach so many have here.

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 17 2026 4:07 utc | 386

[I hope this formats OK.  I wish MoA had previews.]
@Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:25 utc | 374
One way to blow a raspberry is to use the Old English “thorn” character for a tongue followed by tildes.
þ~~~~~~

Posted by: Spiny Norman | Feb 17 2026 5:22 utc | 387

Spiny Norman | Feb 17 2026 5:22 utc | 387
 
I’ll have to remember that one. 🙂

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 5:59 utc | 388

james@385:
Apologies, awful it is.  But am very interested in the contention another Canadian PM may be included in the Epstein files and intend to pursue that possibility further. If you or anyone should hear more – please post.
 
ps Here is instead something delightful:
 
Studs Terkel Interview:  Arthur Miller Discusses Working in China (1984)
https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/arthur-miller-discusses-working-china
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 6:30 utc | 389

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 2:18 utc | 373
Well I always thought the idea that Epstein wasn’t really dead a conspiracy too far.
 
However, some days ago now a link was posted up from escapekey (h/t whoever that was):
Epstein The Switchboard Operator
which describes the complex network of financier and placemen he constructed and how he set about creating a replacement financial system – one which was based on digital money which could be tracked and traced, made programmable and have its spending limited to certain categories. Bitcoin was discounted  as it ‘was not backed by anything’, though that didn’t stop him scheming to hijack it. The answer eventually became CBDC which were to be used first for disbursements to charities by government (e.g. USAID!!) which could be tracked using the block chain for ‘transparency’ as a means to sell the idea and get the scheme up and running and debugged. Then it was to be rolled out for general use as a part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Having seen the ongoing slow motion attempt to bring this to fruition, I find myself wondering if indeed he is still alive. His network of minions and financial interests are still in place and working hard on this dastardly plan to bring us a global ID card and ration book in one.
Huge article that sat on my e-reader for some days, but worth the effort to dig through.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 12:10 utc | 390

Bitcoin was discounted  as it ‘was not backed by anything’, though that didn’t stop him scheming to hijack it. 
Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 12:10 utc | 390
 
Interesting. Sounds like the story that Epstein managed to infiltrate bitcoin is bullshit.

Posted by: arby | Feb 17 2026 14:08 utc | 391

Epstein The Switchboard Operator
 
is a must Barflies and its all from the Emails 

Posted by: Exile | Feb 17 2026 14:10 utc | 392

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 16 2026 23:07 utc | 357

If you need more than a Rope, you are a drongo Pussie, Mate! 😘🙋‍♀️

Posted by: Nobody | Feb 17 2026 14:16 utc | 393

Why would he not do both?
Tether is now being used to put UST backing behind Bitcoin.
A CBDC would be better as there would be no limit on the number of coins issued but still has blockchain to allow tracking and purpose limiting.
He had the means, motivation and opportunity to do both, so why not?
Both stories are backed by evidence from the various Epstein archives.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 14:19 utc | 394

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2026 2:25 utc | 374

🖕 No Raspberry so far…

Posted by: Nobody | Feb 17 2026 14:22 utc | 395

@ Ornot | Feb 17 2026 4:07 utc | 386
 
thanks ornot.. a good overview of where we are here.. i share a very similar viewpoint..
 
@ John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 6:30 utc | 389
 
thanks john.. i too am very interested in what is in the esptein dossier on harper…i never cared for him one bit… if you find out more – let us know.. 
 
@ ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 12:10 utc | 390
 
the link you provide requires a ”sign in”… 
 
@ Exile | Feb 17 2026 14:10 utc | 392
 
all of that substack writers posts are required reading.. someone shared one of them on the chomsky thread last week and since then i have read a number of them… i agree with you… he lays it out very clearly… 

Posted by: james | Feb 17 2026 15:15 utc | 396

@ ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 12:10 utc | 390 the link you provide requires a ”sign in”… 

Not really, on substack just hit the X (or No thanks) in the pop-up and you can read on unmolested.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 15:29 utc | 397

ps Here is instead something delightful: 
 
Studs Terkel Interview:  Arthur Miller Discusses Working in China (1984)https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/arthur-miller-discusses-working-china 

 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 17 2026 6:30 utc | 389
 
Thank you so much, John!!  That was simply delightful.  I had a hard time reading it though as the text was very light at first, and then some tool clicked in to be helpful in presenting it darker but that meant it was zipping through too fast to read.  I was struggling to read the last bits, but I finally did — I had forgotten (if I ever knew) that  Miller wrote ‘Death of a Salesman’ but I do remember we could watch it on tv, and it is a gripping play.  I wonder if it is available on youtube still.

Posted by: juliania | Feb 17 2026 15:52 utc | 398

the “scheming to hijack it link “–I don’t see any X. It asks for a sign in and does not look like a substack article.

Posted by: arby | Feb 17 2026 15:54 utc | 399

Oops! My bad. Here’s the good one:
The Hijacking of Bitcoin
 

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 17 2026 16:05 utc | 400

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