Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 6 2026 1:10 utc | 400
Thanks for those links get to the heart of the matter.  From the link directly:

Cattle were essential in the daily life of ancient Israel. Female cows provided milk, while castrated males (“oxen”) plowed fields and hauled heavy loads. Both types of cattle grazed in fields and pastures (Num 22:4; Isa 30:24), ate food like fodder or silage (Isa 20:24; Job 6:5), and rested in stalls or sheds (Hab 3:17; 2 Chr 32:28). However, cattle were vulnerable to diseases like anthrax and cattle plague, which could devastate herds (Exod 9:3; Jer 21:6; Ezek 14:19). When healthy animals died, they also provided meat, hide, and by-products.
Uncastrated male bulls were even more important than oxen. Unlike oxen, bulls could breed and thus increase livestock numbers. Since they were “intact,” bulls were preferred over oxen for ritual sacrifices (Lev 22:24). Biblical Hebrew reserves the term par for bulls, usually bulls as sacrifices (e.g., Lev 4:3; Isa 1:11). No special term exists for oxen. (English translations do not always maintain the distinction between bulls and oxen.) Bulls were a costly sacrifice in ancient Israel, used to atone for deeply serious transgressions (Lev 4:3), to consecrate priests (Lev 8:14), and at major celebrations and festivals (1 Kgs 1:9). Some traditional interpretations of Lev 22:24b argued that castrated cattle were forbidden in Israel (b. Ḥag. 14b;b. Shabb. 110b). But that is unlikely, as gelding cattle to produce oxen was simply too useful for Israelite farmers.

Makes one wonder why in India – the Hindus I reckon – treat cattle with such respect.
But fact of the matter when it comes to survival one will eat beef as well as pork.  I mean if the choice is life of death then the meat will be consumed – will it not?
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So no judgement case upon those refuse to eat pork, but bacon is sustenance for those who need to survive – and survival takes precedence over religious views when push comes to shove and bulls are a symbol some take to extremes – but if you are in need of sustenance then I got a feeling you would eat just about anything including pork.
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So I literally “throw” this comment out there to get folks thinking about what really matters when it comes to life and death, but I put forth that Iran was in their rights to defend themselves and if this creates “troubles” for the offensive ones, then so be it.  Let them reap what they sow.  The rest of us just trying to get by day-by-day deserve better and these 20th century fools full of themselves can eat the scraps from manure of their minds for all I care – let them reap what they have sown.  They have literally caused so much harm – and better ideas beckon.  Tis known.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 6 2026 1:26 utc | 404

Nobody in Nunavut, or anywhere else in Canada calls themself an American. Ignorant bait comment.
Posted by: Crowhouse | Apr 5 2026 22:28 utc | 318
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If you travel in Spain and attempt to speak the local lingo with the locals, say you are a Norteamericano or estadounidense.
Do not say you are an “Americano” nor that you come from “America.”
 
I can’t make any suggestions for such communications while traveling in Latin America, never having been there.
HTH.

Posted by: Jane | Apr 6 2026 1:32 utc | 406

Brent crude up  110 dollers a barrel.
Thats a vote of no confedence in trump,
He’s haveing a bad hair day.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 6 2026 1:37 utc | 408

Simplicius has a wild 3 fisted story about the “rescue” of 2 US pilots.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/its-official-us-boots-on-ground-deep

The Osama bin Laden death scene sounds simple compared with this US flag boxer shorts waving tale of hundreds of hero warfighters. Leslie Nielsen will star in the Hollywood version as planes rain down like flaming cherry blossom petals in the Spring. Nothing is what it seems except of course a huge pile of wrecked planes.

And no one was hurt!!! Except of course Iranians.

Posted by: jonny law | Apr 6 2026 1:52 utc | 410

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 6 2026 1:32 utc | 407
The BH Surfers song is interesting in that it is quite cryptic in its words – its about American pain and the country’s historical secrecy (like now) but relevant to the civil war, Johnny Booth being the man who is purported to have shot/assassinated Abraham Lincoln as you would know. There is still discussion that he may not be in the grave and that Lincoln was the victim of a British spy at the time due to his wanting to stop British slavery.
Yeah – San Francisco (Scott McKenzie)  and a medley of other songs of time like The Mammas and The Pappas I well remember. I had a great friend here (Oz) from that era who sadly passed away last year; he came from Valeo and was still an archetypal hippy of the Haight-Ashbury district fame. A great man with a heart of gold. (never heard those songs set to Bass and Drums like that before.
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 6 2026 1:56 utc | 412

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Moves-to-Secure-Venezuelas-Gold-as-Influence-Deepens-After-Intervention.html
 
An article talking about how the US is allowing Venezuela to “sell” products to the US.  HOW NICE OF THE US.  The article also mentions the “brutal dictator” Maduro.  The US is definitely taking their gold, and figuring out how to get their oil as well.
 
https://youtu.be/-7UAwuqpw3s        Anti-Empire Project – there are multiple segment in the video.  Basic summary:
 
US / Israel could possibly win if they acted competently and strategically.  They win by the US and Israel surviving, and everyone else becoming weak.  If Greater Israel comes to fruition, and the US takes over enough of North and South America, then US / Israel can outlast even China.
 
Iran wins by removing the Israelis from West Asia.  It is as simple as that.  As a side project, US presence in West Asia has to be be reduced to either zero or very close to zero.  Basically, Iran has to outlast the US, who at some point will just leave the area, just as the US did in Afghanistan.  Meanwhile, the US will use all means to cause as much damage as possible to Iran and Russia and other nations.  Doing things like blowing up Iranian nuclear power plants.
 
Iran and Hezbollah are united in their joint effort to  remove the Israelis from West Asia.  Ansah Allah is also on board.  And so is Hamas when the time comes.  Iran would have control over most of the GCC nations, and Palestine would annex what is now called Israel.    Iran and Palestine want to win the war without destroying TOO much of the whole area.  Rebuilding it will already be quite expensive. 

Posted by: Woke American | Apr 6 2026 2:07 utc | 414

https://youtu.be/66boQoSFWLc?list=RD66boQoSFWLc 
 
Brutal leggo video.  Hard edged with packed with anger at the US.
 
One of the comments talks about the events in Iran as well as the videos being downright bullying, with Iranians being MERCILESS to invading Americans.

Posted by: Woke American | Apr 6 2026 2:18 utc | 416

According to available reports –
 
The pilot of the F-15E was rescued fairly quickly – on the first day.
 
Aircraft involved – 
 
2 x HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopters.
1 x HC-130 – support and refueling.
1 x A-10 Thunderbolt II – close air support.
 
Approx distance from Kuwait -> Kolah Ghazi National Park @ 500km (as the crow flies).
Pave Hawk combat radius @ 417km – hence air to air refueling, no need to land.
 
The aircrew would be using the AN/PRQ-7, Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) – short bursts of precise encrypted gps co-ordinates, over the horizon – not line of sight – totally secure.
 
 
In light of the above – 
 
The rescue operation for the Weapons System Officer initially involved – 
 
2 x MC-130J Commando II multi-mission combat transport/special operations.
 
1 x HC-130J Combat King II – refueling tanker.
 
2+? x HH-60W & MH-60 Black Hawk search & rescue.
 
2 x AH-6/MH-6 Little Bird recon/insertion/extraction.
 
Additional A-10 Thunderbolt II’s, F-35 Lightning II’s, F-15E Strike Eagle’s, MQ-9 Reaper’s, & a RQ-4 Global Hawk.
 
 
All this for a Weapons System Officer who happens to be a Lt. Colonel. This ‘WSO’ was controlling an ongoing covert operation. That F-15E was not on some run of the mill mission, 400km inside Iran, to kill some  school girls, it was there to co-ordinate some special forces operation that was in progress.
 
There was no way the US was going to let him fall into Iranian hands, even if it meant killing him.
 
Just my take.

Posted by: Persona Non Grata | Apr 6 2026 2:25 utc | 418

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 1:14 utc | 401 This was the original comment @337 
 

One Dim Party congresscritter from California. Stop the freakin’ presses.

 
First sentence deflects attack on Trump’s minion, by attacking Trump’s foe. Second sentence belittles the criticism as unworthy of comment with irony. It’s not a plausible interpretation that the point was meant to be “Just one guy unfortunately.” For one thing, that would be perfectly clear. If you’re BSing ambiguity is your friend. But you’re not open about how you don’t oppose Democrats because most of them (especially the so-called leaders) don’t really oppose Trumpery. You oppose Democrats because Trump told you too, and you dutifully hate them more. Unless you are just enthralled by Hegseth’s pose of manliness? 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 6 2026 2:41 utc | 420

on addition to Killer Doll‘s above…..
 
an 0-5 is going to be likely over 40 years old., thats ancient for a WSO 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 6 2026 2:50 utc | 422

sunday night NYC time

US 3-MO

3,71

US 10-YR

4,352

 
Bond vigilantes no likeee US treasury 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 6 2026 2:54 utc | 424

@ steven t johnson | Apr 6 2026 2:41 utc | 420
 
I’m continually amazed by your — no, not capacity, but outright willingess — to embarrass yourself.
 

First sentence deflects attack on Trump’s minion, by attacking Trump’s foe.

 
— in your imagination, of course, because 
 

Second sentence belittles the criticism as unworthy of comment with irony.

 
— that’s exactly the point of the first sentence.  Indeed a Dim criticism of a Rethug is hardly worth comment.  That’s what members of the opposing party do.  It would’ve been worthy of comment if a high-ranking Rethug had made the criticism.  (Tom Q, in one of his more lucid moments today, got this right, but erred in claiming that the criticism was noteworthy because it was unusually harsh; obviously he’d slept through the recent Pam Bondi hearings.) 
 

It’s not a plausible interpretation that the point was meant to be “Just one guy unfortunately.” For one thing, that would be perfectly clear.

 
It’s delicious how the two above sentences flatly contradict each other — but again, you can neither read, nor write, nor think.
 

You oppose Democrats because Trump told you too

 
I’ll forgive the obvious misspelling of the last word simply to point out that you’re, well, making shit up.
 

Unless you are just enthralled by Hegseth’s pose of manliness?

 
And when in doubt, there’s always homophobia.  Well played!

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 3:00 utc | 426

To add to speculation, how many paratroopers could have left the transport carriers long before they “crashed/were blown up etc.  Weren’t there a total of 5 flying about?
 
So we get hundreds air dropped in? Eject the pilots, shoot down the C130’s for good effect, spin yarns for distraction (like Covid 5G etc), and now, somewhere a team is waiting, assembling, ready.

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Apr 6 2026 3:41 utc | 428

Homophobia? Why didn’t you go for the double and throw in aNTiSemItismS?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 3:45 utc | 430

Posted by: Tichy | Apr 5 2026 22:14 utc | 307 I didn’t see much of DS9 but what I saw was a very affectionate old-movie nostalgic picture, defanged by not being warlike. The Bajorans were also modeled on Jews I think, but the Israeli kind.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 6 2026 0:45 utc | 392
Nah, they were Space Polacks. 

Posted by: Tichy | Apr 6 2026 3:49 utc | 432

But fact of the matter when it comes to survival one will eat beef as well as pork.  I mean if the choice is life of death then the meat will be consumed – will it not?
 
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 6 2026 1:26 utc | 404

 
If it’s a matter of survival … you don’t actually need meat at all … you can hang in there on basic grains, beans and nuts … especially if you have some half-decent multivitamin pills as supplements.
 
Meat is a good source of nutrition, but you can live without it.

Posted by: Tel | Apr 6 2026 3:53 utc | 434

There’s been so much silliness at this bar since about halfway through Trump’s first year in his first term in office regarding Democrats and Republicans. For the longest time, anyone who had the gall to defend or at least explain something a Democrat did, or the temerity to criticize Trump on legitimate matters (meaning NOT Russiagate) had “TDS” – this was the de-facto position and response of multiple self-styled left-marxists at MoA. Knee-jerk de-facto, I should add. 
 
I have never voted for Trump and I never voted for Obama, Hillary or Kamala but I truly do think that this war would not have happened if Trump wasn’t elected. I said as much several years ago right here in these pages. It’s amazing the types of attacks I’m going to receive for saying that, too. Which is why I’m not even going to qualify it and allow any would-be attackers to set their own traps for themselves.  It will be more fun watching the demonstrations of irrational failure to comprehend the written English language. But I suppose I will qualify it slightly: If this were the eve of the last presidential election and I had $100K in BTC that I had to wager, and a scenario something like “Which of these two is more likely to start a war on Iran?” I wouldn’t even try for a parlay or other means of hedging. I’d have put it ALL on Trump. Period. No second thoughts. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 3:55 utc | 436

@ Ahenobarbus | Apr 6 2026 3:52 utc | 433
 
I do think that if steven t dropped the occasional Marxist pretense, he could be a Daily Kos staffer — but in this particular instance I think he’s just in the thrall of crude binaries: if you say something negative about a Dim (which I didn’t even do in this instance), one must therefore support the Rethug. Which is nonsense of course, but exactly the kind of thinking one comes to expect from someone whose concept of American politics never advanced beyond the preadolescent civics class.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 3:59 utc | 438

Typos…. secound  para….“president trump has just used a fowl mouthed comment on his twitter account”. Time out for me now scwiffy eyes snd fat thumb syndrome.  
Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 5 2026 17:10 utc | 117
 
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Thanks Mark! I really do look forward to your comments, and read every single one. While your spelling and grammar are sometimes not quite text-book standard, your posts are well thought out, and easily understood; even though, at times, one has to concentrate a little harder while reading… and listen, rather than think.
 
There is (usually) no need for a follow-up post to correct a typo: maybe best to avoid the risk of introducing a new one 🙂 . And if I can presume a ‘Dad Joke’ without being thought offensive? … President Trump probably is more correctly described as a Rooster than a fowl.
 
 

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 6 2026 4:01 utc | 440

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 3:45 utc | 430
 
Well, Tom, would anyone accuse you of being “enthralled by” some guy’s “pose of manliness”?
 
Even people can hear some dog whistles. 

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 4:09 utc | 442

Well, Tom, would anyone accuse you of being “enthralled by” some guy’s “pose of manliness”? Even people can hear some dog whistles. 
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 4:09 utc | 442
 
Even us straight dudes can have bromances. Manliness is not a static or narrow term either, IMO. I didn’t pick up on any homophobia in stj’s comment. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 4:13 utc | 444

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 4:13 utc | 444
 
Well, while I retire for the night, you can bone(r) up on the meaning of “enthralled”. That ain’t characteristic of no bromance, at least no sane one.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 6 2026 4:19 utc | 446

@malenkov:
enthralled (adjective)
 

1. held in slavery.
2. filled with wonder and delight.

 
I’ve never once read any sexual or romantic meaning into the word unless it is explicitly stated or (clearly) contextually implied. I took it as simply held in thrall to the tough-guy-ness facade that the drunk-ass TV personality carries himself with (in the face of worthless Dim interlocutor(s)). 
 
No big deal either way. The dude’s a complete dumbfuck and while it isn’t rocket science pretending to manage the DOD/DOW, it is morally repugnant the way this clown has been handling it. Good night. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 4:27 utc | 448

Posted by: Tichy | Apr 5 2026 22:14 utc | 307 I didn’t see much of DS9 but what I saw was a very affectionate old-movie nostalgic picture, defanged by not being warlike. The Bajorans were also modeled on Jews I think, but the Israeli kind.Posted by: steven t johnson | Apr 6 2026 0:45 utc | 392Nah, they were Space Polacks. 
Posted by: Tichy | Apr 6 2026 3:49 utc | 432
 
the vorta are probably the best analogue to jews from ds9. 

Posted by: jinkydink | Apr 6 2026 4:28 utc | 450

 420 st johnson–  “…If you’re BSing, ambiguity is your friend. But you’re not open…”
It is  the case that he is disingenuous. And so are a lot of other anti-marxists on this thread; they’ll never come out and build a principled, knowledgeable argument. Its about their self-image or it’s just blather. Anyway, that discussion would have to be on the other thread if it were ever to take place. Then one wonders what’s to be gained …

Posted by: Lavieja | Apr 6 2026 4:31 utc | 452

Thrall .  Old Norse = slave,  bondsman/ woman

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 6 2026 4:43 utc | 454

Posted by: Organic | Apr 6 2026 4:40 utc | 453
 
Wrong thread for it, but the USSR wasn’t communist and neither is China. Nor did/does either call themselves such as states. The word “communist” in the CPC’s name is simply the party, not the entirety of the state/economy. But again, wrong thread so my apologies for latching on.
 
That said, one of the things you said is relevant.  It is a (mostly unstated) goal of the Globo-Cap empire to make its quarry and victims into “police states.” Police states are often needed to prevent countries and economies from falling into the clutches of the western Vampire Squid usurers who demand full fealty and unlimited access to resources, markets (read: privatized formerly state provided utilities and services) and governments. Endless economic sanctions, color revolutions, regime change attempts, insidious & persistent propaganda injections, etc. have two aims. One is to actually topple non-compliant “regimes”, the other is to force that “regime” to implement measures which can be packaged and sold to western audiences as propaganda demonstrating that “the bad guys” operate “police states.” Iran is no different. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 4:49 utc | 456

the vorta are probably the best analogue to jews from ds9. 
Posted by: jinkydink | Apr 6 2026 4:28 utc | 450The Vorta are loyal to their superiors.
Tom_Q: I’ll convince you! ;)Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: 
1 Once you have their money, you never give it back. DS9: “The Nagus”, “Heart of Stone”; PRO: “First Con-tact”17 A contract is a contract is a contract… but only between Ferengi.[4] DS9: “Body Parts”21 Never place friendship above profit. DS9: “Rules of Acquisition”; PRO: “First Con-tact”33 It never hurts to suck up to the boss.[6] DS9: “Rules of Acquisition”, “The Dogs of War”34 War is good for business.[7] DS9: “Destiny”, “The Siege of AR-558” Quark stated a corollary: “only from a distance, the closer to the front lines, the less profitable it gets”76 Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. DS9: “The Homecoming”91 Your boss is only worth what he pays you. LD: “Old Friends, New Planets”95 Expand or die. [9] VOY: “False Profits”; ENT: “Acquisition”125 You can’t make a deal if you’re dead. DS9: “The Siege of AR-558″168 Whisper your way to success. DS9: “Treachery, Faith and the Great River”239 Never be afraid to mislabel a product.[12] DS9: “Body Parts”Unofficial rules299 Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, it’s easier to exploit them next time.[16] VOY: “False Profits”Deep Space Nine writers Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe expanded upon the Rules and Ferengi culture in the non-canon books, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and Legends of the Ferengi.
Unofficial rules:60 Keep your lies consistent. The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition266 When in doubt, lie. The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition267 If you believe it, they believe it. 431 When the shooting starts, let the mercenaries handle it.

Posted by: Tichy | Apr 6 2026 4:57 utc | 458

The USA is full of people with their own version of Utopian Political system. Let’s see if the next version of the USA emerged and which ideology works and doesn’t work in a reality test. 
 
This is not on the news or public information but General Mark Milley great guy btw believed that democracy will fix itself like the invisible hand of the market. I hope he was right and the USA will fix itself. 

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 6 2026 5:07 utc | 460

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 5:00 utc | 458
My history teacher put Monty Python movie back in 2015/2016 while he was grading my class exams. I watched it once.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 6 2026 5:10 utc | 462

@ Archtypex
 
THX. The same mechanisms tried out under covid will be back in a much more rerfined form shortly one would think, under the same guise as “trust us experts.”
 
In the states it will probably hit full tilt in 2028 when the dems have commandeered the wreckage and the rubes will be hankering for a little spankering from Big Daddy Fed, because… “he’s OUR son of a bitch.”

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 6 2026 5:12 utc | 464

KillerDoll
 
Sounds like a great teacher. These days Monty Python would be forbidden. Check out “Life of Brian” among other works including their TV series. Won’t appeal to most younger people unless some time is set aside to just sit down and turn off the other devices to watch. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 5:13 utc | 466

@94It is also factually wrong – neutron bombs blasts have in comparison a much higher radiative component in comparison, but they level cities nonetheless.
Pure bile – guy must be seething.

Posted by: darkmoon | Apr 6 2026 5:17 utc | 468

The best therapy for DT would be that the media stop talking about him. Damnatio memoriae, in the 21st c.

Posted by: Minaa | Apr 6 2026 5:18 utc | 470

Trump is the most calculating President of all time. 
 
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 5 2026 23:07 utc | 339
 
—
 
Trump has been amped up on amphetamines ever since the February 28 Minab school attack.  Now he is crashing out.
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2026 5:21 utc | 472

That is all.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 5 2026 23:07 utc | 339
 
Sorry. Absolute nonsense. Trump is being USED by the most calculating string-pullers any American administration has been infiltrated by in a long time. Trump is also fully into the Israel-First inverted totalitarian “philosophy” – he’s the absolute peak puppet of the Zionists and Empire warmongers. And he doesn’t GAF about PR or is totally abstracted from it. Unlike those morons-by-comparison Bush/Cheney. All they had to do was pull the fucking trigger. Why murder 2,000+ New Yorkers and fake an anthrax attack? It was never necessary. At least now we won’t have to spend the next 20 years poring over newscasts, filing lawsuits and awaiting or FOIA’ing classified document releases. 
 
Trump “calculating” LMFAO – He’s been calculated.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 6 2026 5:25 utc | 474

@ GeorgeWendell | Apr 6 2026 5:22 utc | 472 who leaves out the fact that finance in China at the core is sovereign/public instead of supranational private like most of rest of the world…..key point, IMO
 
Being in control of sovereign national finance is how China can reign in their oligarchs.
 
Since finance in the West is run by a private God Of Mammon cult that is supranational they are not subservient to any individual nation, including the US……hence the centuries old top/bottom jackboot form of social organization.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2026 5:36 utc | 476

But my money is his posts are all vetted so there is little to no impulsivity or derangement present there.
 
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 6 2026 5:38 utc | 476
 
—
 
They’re all on drugs.  The White House is running a Dr. Feelgood pharmacy.  The doctor in charge has been the subject of open source essays.
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2026 5:41 utc | 478

I think history has it that Nixon who took the US off the gold standard in 1971 set the stage for the creation of the petrodollar with the empire created ME shiekdoms.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2026 5:11 utc | 462
 
 
The gold standard was removed in the 1930s by FDR for most practical purposes. The Bretton Woods system was nominally backed by gold for government-to-government transactions but dominated by the US dollar. Nixon removed the US from Bretton Woods in 1971. The term petrodollar was coined then, but the dollar had long been the dominant currency in the world prior to that.

Posted by: James M. | Apr 6 2026 5:44 utc | 480

@ James M. | Apr 6 2026 5:44 utc | 479 who seemed to miss that I was correcting the contention that the petrodollar was started by FDR

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2026 5:49 utc | 482

Archetypex @ 409
 
Huge numbers of Hindus regularly eat beef. 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 6 2026 5:53 utc | 484

 They engender a response and it rallies his base.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 6 2026 5:38 utc | 476
 
 
I don’t know that those two things are compatible, especially in that last post. His hardcore base will likely be Evangelical Christian – so swearing, and invoking “Allah” on Easter will engender a response, but not the one he wants, as it might not “rally” his base.

Posted by: James M. | Apr 6 2026 6:00 utc | 486

who seemed to miss that I was correcting the contention that the petrodollar was started by FDR
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 6 2026 5:49 utc | 482
 
 
But it was started by FDR. Petrodollar is a just a term that was coined in the 1970s to describe the dominance of the US dollar in the international system. That started with FDR, not with Nixon.

Posted by: James M. | Apr 6 2026 6:04 utc | 488

On the White House drug abuse epidemic. In the Epstein File, Jeffrey Epstein has a lost of all kind of drugs in thousands. He sold them in bulk.
 
This is the same White House that drug test everyone in the government but the elites don’t follow their own rules.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 6 2026 6:08 utc | 490

The only God Trump worship is the one he sees in the mirror. Perhaps Trump is a Polytheist because he also worships Mammon Money. 
 
Maybe Trump really did convert into Islam this morning and he can start calling him a Radical Muslim, Donald Jihadi Trump al Newyorki bin Al Americanki. The war on Iran can now be classified as Sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia xD

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 6 2026 6:12 utc | 492

The reason OPEC used the dollar for trading was because it was the dominant currency in the world at the time. That dominance was started after the gold standard was discontinued by FDR, among other reasons. The Bretton Woods system was dominated by the dollar, most other currencies under it fixed to the dollar. The dollar had some limited convertibility to gold under Bretton Woods, which Nixon did eliminate. However, most commodity prices were already set to the dollar before then.

Posted by: James M. | Apr 6 2026 6:16 utc | 494

I think most of us here know that the current White House is f!cked as well as the previous Biden one, and many others before that as well. Drugs are surely to be suspected as a legal and possibly illegal part of it, as well as rampant greed, a culture of gratuitous lying, and a whole host of suspected corrupt behaviours that are clearly able to be alleged.
 
So if there is this problem that so many notice, what can be done about it, and what are the alternatives? It may be better to think of the solutions for that than keep pointing out what we already know in excess.
 
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 6 2026 6:26 utc | 496

Much as I hate to make such a depressing and dangerous comment, I do not think the world will be safe until the USA is bombed, invaded and broken up.
 
Someone sane needs to take control of their nukes and their excessivly large armed forces need to be brought back to the level of a regional power.
 
I see 10 disrict egions in the USA plus 4 states that sort of stand alone. obviously Hawaii and Alaska are two such but i add Florida and utah also.
 
Other wise I see the USA as breaking down into:

1. New England – 6 states with a population of about 17 million. Optional additions might be upstate NY and Pennsylvania. Secession movement does exist albeit weak
2. York essentially NY city and Jew jersey pop 29 million
3. Rust belt or more politely the Lakes district 6-7 states with Pennsylvania  probably at least  optional. Big country with about 51 mill or more
4. Once were rulers.  Comprises DC, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia.  This nation is not a good fit with its neighbours because let us be ruthlessly honest it is very black. Still has 26 million people but I guess without a central US government this might shrink.
5. Cascades. Three states including Idaho. probably one of the most thought through exit movements
6. California and company. 4-5 states depending on Colorado. There is already a movement. In 30 years whatever happens these states will be majority Latino and probably essentially Spanish speaking. it would, still be a huge nation of almost 60 million
7. Texas another obvious and very large exit. Add probably Arkinsas and Oklahoma
8. Deep South There are 5 states i see as being in the deep south and not especially compatible with the others. These are N and S Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Potentially they could be linked to the former DC and surrounding states.
9. The remaining states belong in what is known as Flyover territory. They could form one large nation or two smaller ones. The main problem for this “nation” would be lack of access to the ocean. This is qite serious so they may opt to join another nation.

 
Only when something of this nature happens will the world be safe. Even then which of them can be trusted to take control of nukes.

1. Cascades

Posted by: watcher | Apr 6 2026 6:32 utc | 498

Information hygiene is very dirty.
 

Maron Sagron downed pilot claimed to be captured by Iran.
 
Iran tells US and Israel to disprove them or inform the world of her fate.
 
https://t.me/ToiletShares/6451
 

Posted by: too scents | Apr 6 2026 6:38 utc | 500