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April 9, 2026
Open (Not Ukraine or Iran) Thread 2026-071
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To avoid US-Israeli-indian.
I invite people to get rid after acronyms like global South or BRICS.
I an sure we have enough to separate real distinction like survivable and unservivable places on earth.
Posted by: Jenn | Apr 9 2026 15:51 utc | 1
Shermin of The Craddle interviews Zhang Sheng:: Why China will not openly support Iran…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo-rlHVT0Tw
Posted by: Richard L | Apr 9 2026 16:38 utc | 3
Re: water ?
Yup – water is important.
alreafy starting to collect rainwater for the backyard garden. I rustled up some trash cans ( gratis ) and can store ~400 USgallons of rainwater. Our garden is small, so 400 gallons covers our needs in event of 30-60 daxs w/o rain.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 9 2026 17:20 utc | 4
water levels just got lilely auto-nuked
Posted by: Exile | Apr 9 2026 17:28 utc | 5
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C’est la vie. Current drought and agricultural conditions are something to be aware of. They are unprecedented.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 17:33 utc | 5
Iran has folded to the Americans and Jews. The one state I thought would stand. Epsteins Jews will rule over the goyim of the Persian Gulf. It looks like the decapitation strikes did the job. Spineless pricks taking the place of men.
All those that stood up to America for so many years. All dead and this capitulation a stain on their memory. Venezuela, so many came out in support of Maduro, yet sold out from within. Syria sold out from within.Traitors to their people. Bought out by the American s and the Jews.
Iran is the one country I thought would stand. Traitors within every nation.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:00 utc | 6
Iran has folded to the Americans and Jews.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:00 utc | 7
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Its been argued that Iran is favoring a Chinese request.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 18:05 utc | 7
Those that have folded at this stage of the game are an absolute stain on the memory of those who died fending off the Americans and Jews. The Americans will now control the Persian gulf oil. Something I did not want to see.
The slaughter in Lebanon continues.Will they to fold under the mass slaughter of the Americans and Jews.The western media report on it like its just another day at the office. Jews riding the so called holocaust like surfers riding a wave.
Those about me don’t give a flying eff for the future of their children. All they care about is their retirement funds. The American sharks and the Jews will gobble those up.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:18 utc | 8
too scents | Apr 9 2026 18:05 utc | 8
It does not matter whos request it was. The replacement Iranians have folded to the Americans. Back to the days of the Shah for the Iranians and the Americans control the oil. An absolute disaster. Sellouts and traitors within.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:27 utc | 9
this stage of the game
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:18 utc | 9
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Marandi has said that a two week pause at this time puts the aggressors at a further disadvantage because of the deteriorating weather. Their sheltered basing locations have been destroyed over the last 40 days. Every day now will be hotter, drier, longer and windier.
It is probably best not to double guess Mojtaba Khamenei who has not yet spoken on the ceasefire negotiations.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 18:33 utc | 10
While searching for a link I wanted to contribute to the draught discussion I stumbled on the website of a German neo-shaman hippie psychotherapist who wrote something about the upbringing of children in self-organizing hordes. To my surprise I found his text rather worthwhile. It’s in German – I trust most barflies have access to a translation tool if necessary.
When I was working for a conservative party in Germany, we went to some lengths to establish a distillation of modern programmatic conservatism as a basis for our communication strategy. We found a lot of well thought out positions in contemporary Russia, but there was one thing I could not get myself to agree with just that easily, and that is the focus on the nuclear family as the sole building block for society. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not against this model, but I do wonder if it is the only or best possible option to move forward.
In any case, while searching for ways out of the current mess into a more livable future, it might be food for thought.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 18:37 utc | 11
Just West of the Rockies or global ?
Posted by: Exile | Apr 9 2026 18:29 utc | 11
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The American West looks to be primed for another Dust Bowl event. Globally the situation is complicated by rising costs for pumped irrigation. Overall the outlook is somewhat mitigated by elevated levels of precipitatable moisture.
NOAA has a pretty good website ==> https://www.drought.gov/international
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 18:45 utc | 12
persiflo | Apr 9 2026 18:37 utc | 13
The family is the basic building block of any nation. The west and Americanization have destroyed that.
Exile | Apr 9 2026 18:29 utc | 11
Droughts and rains. Heading home when the creeks are coming up. Racing the river to get ahead of it and get across.The land of droughts and floods. Sitting here in an urban environment is not for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigPx4xLtCw
Will be heading out to the opal fields if its the last thing I do. Have ground my fingers down to the blood but have turned up a gem or two in the process. Out in the bush with no tv, no internet and no bog paper news. That’s the place to be. The Persians folding has done me.
Time to head bush and find another 45/70. The one my son took was good. An old martini lever action. A good scrub gun.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 18:58 utc | 14
@persiflo | Apr 9 2026 18:37 utc | 13
The “nuclear family” can be much bigger than in Western tradition. Consider the word “cousin” and how far it reaches. In some societies cousin is synonymous with brother or sister, likewise elevating the role of aunt and uncle to mother and father status.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 19:01 utc | 15
too scents | Apr 9 2026 19:01 utc | 17
In the aboriginal community, everyone spoke about aunts and uncles. All older women were Aunts, all older men were uncles. A family group or clan within a nation.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 19:06 utc | 16
All older women were Aunts, all older men were uncles.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 19:06 utc | 18
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This is similar to the natives of the American Northwest. Aunts and uncles by bloodline are mothers and fathers and all the elders in the ingroup are aunts or uncles. This amplifies the social position of third generation elders with many descendants.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 9 2026 19:14 utc | 17
The arctile on kid hordes assumes that fathers are “typically” not known. It describes a world that is less organized than later empires (and hence lost to them), but not incapable of forming societal superstructures. It is especially interesting from a psychological point of view.
I’m not sure if Iran folded to lose the war. Perhaps they can see the USrael trajectory going strictly downward and are playing for time. Also, this war is not yet over.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 19:30 utc | 18
too scents | Apr 9 2026 19:14 utc | 19
The German bloke has probably hit on something. Took my sister up to see the graves of our forebears Much excitemet in an empty minded bimbo. The graves are to the right of me as I sit here, the old house I never knew to the left of me
Eff everything. I have to flog the crap I have bought then onwards to the opal fields. Find the stuff that makes a good woman sparkle.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 19:38 utc | 19
Persiflo @ 13:
Even in so-called “consetvative” societies, communal organisations based around religion, work and charity-related activities aimed at helping widows, orphans, youth and elderly people are important.
It might be worthwhile for you to research the social structures of Ethiopian peoples like the Oromo. They have aged-based structures in which boys and men are assigned communal tasks as they progress from childhood to adulthood: these tasks include herding animals, acting as lookouts, defence and finally participating in political decision-making and being able to marry. These social structures are part of the Oromo’s traditions.
I think this may be what you are looking for: some kind of community organisation that goes beyond family and clan-based structures, and some sort of code or structure that regulates people’s behaviour towards non-family members in their communities.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 9 2026 20:04 utc | 20
Here is the open thread – per the suggestion of James I call you Jenn and George to this thread.
Lets continue the discourse.
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 9 2026 20:15 utc | 21
Posted by: Jenn | Apr 9 2026 15:51 utc | 1
In response to Jenn #1 above on this “off-topic” thread – BRICS ain’t of the south perse – it works on all parts of the planet.
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 9 2026 20:17 utc | 22
While searching for a link I wanted to contribute to the draught discussion …
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 18:37 utc | 13
draught drought
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 18:47 utc | 15
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Draft??
“Whilst considering a preliminary draft submission on the familial inter-relationships of draft horses I quaffed a quick swig of Toohey’s Draft Beer which helped ameliorate the deleterious effects of the draft, caused by the worsening drought, intruding under the door.”
Bugger the English!!
Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 9 2026 20:37 utc | 23
Drought /draʊt/ proposal: I think you owe a round of beer, General.
It’s interesting to see how I make these types of mistake considering that I read and write much more English than I speak or hear. I keep being flummoxed by hearing words pronounced differently than I had imagined. To admire, but admirable, for example. It took me forever to figure out infinity, after first hearing finite and deducing I would need infinite at some point in my life as well. Back to the draught beer.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 21:04 utc | 24
Interesting report from Nigeria via DD Geopolitics’ Substack page. I don’t recall this being discussed at MoA with all the Iran war (crimes) dominating the discussion recently.
https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-spies-who-cried-genocide
Brief intro from the top of the article:
THE “SPIES” WHO CRIED GENOCIDE
An Investigative Exposé on the “Christian Genocide” Narrative and the Weaponization of Terrorism in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
“If the Nigerian government is not going to protect you, go and protect yourself… Whatever you feel you have the power to do, do it to protect yourself.”
— Judd Saul, Iowa insurance salesman, issuing a public call to arms for Nigerian civilians. March 2026.
When Your Source Is You, Yourself, and I
On March 20, 2026, the Nigeria-based outlet Sahara Reporters posted a video message from an American named Judd Saul, head of an Iowa nonprofit called Equipping The Persecuted, a missionary organization operating in the Middle Belt of Nigeria. In the video, Saul claimed inside intelligence on an imminent terrorist attack in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, naming exact dates, routes, and tactics. He said drone surveillance had verified machine-gun placements. Then he urged Nigerian civilians to arm themselves.
“More Attacks Coming! Be Vigilant!” -Judd Saul
The questions came immediately. Was he a missionary or a security expert? How does an insurance salesman from Sioux City, Iowa, obtain real-time drone surveillance of remote Nigerian river crossings? Why does he keep raising the same alarm pattern: terrorist incidents, herder-farmer clashes, and Christian massacres on a loop? And why does every alarm from this network arrive in the same packaging: there is a Christian genocide in Nigeria, and the Nigerian government is complicit in the systematic extermination of said Christians?
CTD.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 9 2026 21:09 utc | 25
@ Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 19:38 utc | 21 who is on a walkabout …..good luck with your opal search
Disconnecting from the strum and drang of the world is a good thing for folks to do, IMO
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 9 2026 21:20 utc | 26
Peter AU1, continuing on the joy of polishing a stone to see its inner fire come out, do you find that joy in any other stones? They don’t have to be precious, even the semi-precious have a deep lustre within waiting to be revealed. I ask because I am sure there are many inlay artisans out there willing to pair with a polisher.
In fact, this is also done with woods, such as marquetry (precious and semi-precious wood inlay for furniture) and parquetry (patterned wood inlay for flooring). Australia is well situated for receiving very valuable Southern Hemisphere tropical hard woods for decoration. Either semi-precious material polishing (stone or wood) could be tangential hobbies when you need a break from the challenges of opal, and can open doors to new friends! (Or work relationships, so as to keep you in profit to maintain your hobby. But I like making everyone whom I meet eventually called friends.)
🙂
Posted by: titmouse | Apr 9 2026 21:30 utc | 27
The Persians folding to the jews has done me.
Persiflo, you need to get into some good opal, the sort of stuff that makes a good woman sparkle. A few good women I have to find gems for.
Going for the good stuff and swimming amongst the sharks. Will l have to ask a good woman to say a prayer fas I now go where angels fear to tread.
Traitors. Let those maggots rot in hell.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 21:34 utc | 28
titmouse | Apr 9 2026 21:30 utc | 30
No titty bird. To dig in an arid land and see a gem emerge is something else.n
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 9 2026 21:46 utc | 29
PeterAU1. 16
I don’t think the Persians are done yet . Good luck prospecting and enjoy the peace and quiet. Agree it’s the place to be no one for 100k no electronic gadgets enjoying the wildlife. Use a 7.62×39 now as old bones don’t handle too much recoil.Sadly won’t be able get out to much now with diesel $3.50 per litre 3000k round trip bit much.
Posted by: Q-lander | Apr 9 2026 22:02 utc | 30
It is being noticed that the jug-eared creature of UK Establishment known as “King” Tampon III has — unlike his late mother — shown a distinct disinclination to be involved in the Christian events of Christmas and Easter.
A big part of the duties of the supposed head of the Church of England.
British people are falling for what seems to be a deliberate (but so far unattributed) line of disinfornation which suspects him of having become a closet Moslem.
Which is nonsense; what he is seriously likely to be is a closet Jew.
The Anti-Empire Project with Justin Podur: April 9, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur/videos
“Sudan War update.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 9 2026 22:17 utc | 32
Tom Q Collins @ 27:
Judd Saul looks like an Adrian Zenz cut-out. Zenz originally made his name writing a book about the Rapture b4 being called by his god to work for the emancipation of Uyghurs from godless Communism.
You might recall that some of the people who led the riots in Hong Kong back in 2019 – riots in which young people shone laser beams into police officers’ eyes, vandalised shop fronts and train station ticket barriers, and even fought with train commuters (and were apparently being paid to do so) – were Christian missionaries or pastors working in colleges and universities there. These missionaries and pastors were later deported back to the US.
No doubt Saul is being funded by the usual spook agencies for the purpose of stirring up tensions between Christian and Muslim communities, and keeping them divided.
Benyamin Netanyahu recently sent Easter greetings to Christian communities in Nigeria. One wonders what his agenda towards African countries and African Christians in particular might be.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 9 2026 22:50 utc | 33
Cynic @ 33:
King Tampon never met a Saudi or other oil sheikh despot whose principles spoke louder than the oil money offered to fund his lifestyle and huge numbers of staff.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 9 2026 22:53 utc | 34
Will we end up like those chimps? Or will we take the bonobo route?
Scientists have observed an extremely rare chimpanzee “civil war,” a conflict that has killed at least seven adults and 17 infants, and which sheds new light on the nature of warfare in humans, according to a study published on Thursday in Science.
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First there was an abrupt shift as chimp relationships became polarized into two distinct clusters: Western and Central. The chimps then spent the next two years increasingly avoiding those in their rival cluster; there were very few interactions across clusters, and Western male chimps started patrolling their territory, showing increased aggression toward Central males. By 2018 the fissure had become permanent.
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All the observed violent attacks were committed by the Western group chimps, despite being smaller in number. This contradicts the usual intergroup conflict models for imbalance of power, in which larger groups are thought to have the advantage.
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“If relational dynamics alone can drive polarization and lethal conflict in chimps without language, ethnicity, or ideology, then in humans, those cultural markers might be secondary to something more basic,” said Sandel. “If that’s true, then we may have the potential to reduce societal conflicts in our personal lives, and that gives me hope. As our paper concludes, it may be in the small, daily acts of reconciliation and reunion between individuals that we find opportunities for peace.”
Fascinating stuff:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/ugandan-chimps-split-into-two-factions-then-killed-rivals/
Posted by: Zet | Apr 9 2026 22:55 utc | 35
Refinnejenna | Apr 9 2026 22:53 utc | 36 *** King Tampon never met a Saudi or other oil sheikh despot whose principles spoke louder than the oil money offered to fund his lifestyle and huge numbers of staff. ***
Indeed so …. and it’s interesting which side these despots eventually turned out to really be on.
Here’s a 15min video of Rudolf Kaehr (cf. the previous OT) talking about AI. It’s in German, so I have to trust your AI to provide a good transcript. Some keywords: limitations of formal machines, the concept of trans-classical machines, cognitive and life process, recognition of I and Thou, kenogrammatics. The latter term is a concept developed by the logician Gotthard Günther, famous (not kidding) for his work on systems of logic that encompass more than the classical binary truth values, i.e. true or false. Lofty stuff, but pertinent for those interested.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:07 utc | 37
Drop Site News: ‘Will There Even Be A ‘Ceasefire’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fWAjCioN2I
“Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, and Ryan Grim break down the so-called ceasefire between the US and Iran, why Tehran sees it as a temporary pause rather than a real deal, and how escalating attacks in Lebanon could collapse it before it even begins.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 9 2026 23:13 utc | 38
it may be in the small, daily acts of reconciliation and reunion between individuals that we find opportunities for peace.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/ugandan-chimps-split-into-two-factions-then-killed-rivals/
Posted by: Zet | Apr 9 2026 22:55 utc | 37
I very much agree with that. What I found working with German conservatives is that many are simply not ready for this, while in my experience the small but sincere gestures of recognizing the Thou can go a long way of bridging differences. Of course it takes two sides, but …
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:14 utc | 39
Breaking: Netanyahu… (& vid)
https://x.com/FiorellaIsabelM/status/2042319518249181404
‘There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. We continue to strike Hezbollah hard and we will not stop until we restore your security.’ – BN-
So why is Iran going to Pakistan if Trump via threats said Iran’s 10 points will not be followed and Israel violated them already?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 9 2026 23:20 utc | 40
Re: water ?
Yup – water is important.
alreafy starting to collect rainwater for the backyard garden. I rustled up some trash cans ( gratis ) and can store ~400 USgallons of rainwater. Our garden is small, so 400 gallons covers our needs in event of 30-60 daxs w/o rain.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 9 2026 17:20 utc | 4
Wow. I get it. Remember water makes it grow:) ill use 100gal plus a month.
I have a large garden. 500 plus sq ft. 2 rain barrels that may be full of rainwater. I use a solar aeration pump and cheese cloth “bouquet garni” of mascerated comphrey and compost.
Have you heard of olla?
Its an ancient technique of burying unfired clay vessels that wick water into the soil and make evaporation trivial. If it isn’t already.
In a small garden tho it’s handy. Also a bit of clay in your soil helps it hold water.
Mine is mostly a herb garden. Its pretty easy to trade fresh herbs. I trade mine in at a local produce company for other vegetables or cash.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 9 2026 23:26 utc | 41
Let me add that I don’t think multi-culturalism should be forced upon a people, just to get this right. — Good night, MoA.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:45 utc | 42
Fighting dirty is deeply ingrained in the American psyche: one sees it over and over again in the movies, in teevee shows, and in “sports” like “professional wrestling”. It’s good when the “good guys” fight dirty because, well, they’re the good guys. This also explains why a majority of Americans approve of torture.
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 9 2026 13:19 utc | 879
I’m not sure if the US holds a monopoly on that now that I’ve seen some Russian- and Chinese-language comments wanting to bomb civilian targets in Europe and Japan respectively under the same flimsy grounds as the USA against Iran. But then depending on who you ask those could be some bad apples or the tip of an iceberg…
Posted by: joey_n | Apr 9 2026 23:51 utc | 43
I very much agree with that. What I found working with German conservatives is that many are simply not ready for this, while in my experience the small but sincere gestures of recognizing the Thou can go a long way of bridging differences. Of course it takes two sides, but …
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:14 utc | 41
Oh, German conservatives? I’m German and I’ve listened to them for now nearly 50 years and I can assure you that we’re dealing with individuals with deeply-rooted feelings of supremacy coupled with racism.
But anyway, I fully agree with your assessment. Empathy, in the sense of recognizing the other side, trying to see through their eyes, etc. is deeply impacted by the hyper-individualism worshipped in the West coupled with an ultra-short attention span we can observe everywhere.
I’m working in product management in the IT industry and one of the most important things I do daily is trying to put myself into the shoes of the users of a product so I’m used to it.
But when talking to developers or business types, the most common attitude I encounter is: “I don’t need it so nobody else needs it.” – they’re completely incapable of imagining that somebody else has other needs, it’s only “Me, myself, and I”…
Posted by: Zet | Apr 10 2026 0:41 utc | 44
@Ken Hausle | Apr 9 2026 20:15 utc | 23
The discussion died after James pushed it over here. Typical.
Don’t feed the troll, I do not need to explain to you what that means.
Rex Research was started by Jerry Decker of Mesquite, Texas a long time ago. Everything on the Civilization CD is available for free there on the website. I have no relation to Rex Research, business or personal.
I would draw your attention to this link from Rex Research:
https://www.rexresearch.com/zamshatorsion/shkatovzamsha.html
Scroll all the way down to the bottom, and look for a schematic on the bottom right. This circuit is very similar to what I am using. It is easy to build. It is possible to pull energy in from the ground and an aerial. Not rocket science. It is the opposed windings in the main L1 and L2 coils which generate torsion. This effect can be enhanced by using ferrite and bismuth metal as torus cores for the coils, and placing them in a bucking magnetic field, inside a PVC pipe lined with aluminum gutter flashing.
For a review of these sorts of ideas, buy a book by Dr. Moray King, called “Tapping the Zero Point Energy.
It is far easier to edit than to write copy, or build something…..far easier yet to criticize, ridicule and mock other people who freely share knowledge in a public forum without an agenda of their own. You should know who you are, because you sprinkle in just enough technical knowledge to retain a veneer of credibility, but underneath you are really nothing but a braying and disruptive jackass.
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 0:52 utc | 45
Honorable mention for bringing up Die Glocke
“For Whom the Bell Trolls”
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 1:03 utc | 46
🙂 I can only imagine… a dry and dusty land, so much beige, so seemingly still among the timeless wind and heat… and out of which an explosion of color is unearthed. Must feel as close to a metaphorical spiritual experience in the tangible world. Well, sometimes the search and discovery is its own reward, like a prayer of gratitude reverent of life.
😀 Happy trails!
Posted by: titmouse | Apr 10 2026 1:06 utc | 47
persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:45 utc | 45
We are what we are. You provide food for thought at times but we are what we are.
Q-lander | Apr 9 2026 22:02 utc | 33
My son took my scrub gun but flinches at the recoil.Giving away everything, I feel like a bare arsed baby. Need something that packs a -punch.
titmouse | Apr 10 2026 1:06 utc | 50
Digging a hole titty bird. Have you dug a hole. I dug till it was dark. Fucking nothing. Twenty foot away, I dug again. Ten foot down stuff that sparkeled in the twilight. I kept the dregs of it and nothing comes close to date.
Opal, whiskey and a good woman. What more could a man ask for.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:37 utc | 48
Opal, whiskey and a good woman. What more could a man ask for.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:37 utc | 51
See gars. Got to have a seegar.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:41 utc | 49
The ancient land of Persia surrendering to the Americans. It destroys the soul. Fucking faggots who put a shit stain on those defending their country.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:52 utc | 50
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 0:52 utc | 47
Noted and bookmarked – oh there is only so much time in the day, but I’ll get back to it – and warm regards to you – it is often the “side conversations” that hold the best info.
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:02 utc | 51
The replacement Iranians. Like the boy toys of ukraine sell their assholes to the highest bidder.No gems to be found in that shithole. The gems are all dead, Blown apart by american bombs.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 2:03 utc | 52
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 0:52 utc | 47
Moreover if you want others to listen to what you have to say you would be advised not to call somebody a jackass you rock head. That was uncalled for, but thanks for the link nonetheless. You sort of reveal yourself with that kind of statement – you do yourself no favors, but I know the world is full of hubris – and know it alls who feel compelled to lash out against those potentially advocating in their favor – sad times we live in – the remnants of the 20th century will die out eventually – I ain’t one of them and really – that was uncalled for, but no apologies requested and you got free will to express you opinion – but what do they say – you catch more flies with sugar and you sir seem to cast dispersions needlessly.
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:08 utc | 53
In response to
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See gars. Got to have a seegar.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:41 utc | 51
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I ended my nicotine addiction on a few year jag of wood tipped Swisher Sweets…went though a 5 pack a day.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 2:11 utc | 54
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 2:11 utc | 56
Uh – that hardly seems to be ending nicotine addiction – I mean Swisher Sweets are full of nicotine if you inhale the smoke from them…..
I mean really.
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:32 utc | 55
Just to prove I ain’t full of shit –
Swisher Sweets do contain nicotine, an addictive chemical naturally found in tobacco. The nicotine concentration varies depending on how it’s measured and the specific product. According to a 2005 chemical analysis using gas chromatography, Swisher Sweets contain 10.8 milligrams of nicotine per gram of tobacco, which is a significant amount. Another study estimated the actual nicotine intake users receive, known as mouth level intake (MLI), finding that a Swisher Sweets Cherry cigar delivers a mean of 1.20 mg of nicotine per cigar when smoked. This confirms that while the total nicotine per gram is high, the amount absorbed by the user per cigar is moderate but still substantial.
And really – on the “off topic” thread somebody calls somebody else a jackass – oh Lordy – ain’t that 20th century thinking.
https://search.brave.com/ask?q=Swisher+Sweets+are+full+of+nicotine&conversation=08f3c307a44b6f4a817d75abbd1c3c203097
Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:35 utc | 56
faggots taking the place of men. Capitulating to the Americans The Persians selling out to tbe americans is beyond me. Fucking traitors to their people.
In allowing the Iranians to fall, The Russians and and Chinese will; go down.
Opal, whiskey and a good woman. What more could a man ask for. The good woman is the hardest thing to find.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 1:37 utc | 51
hinese will also go down to the Americans and jews.
The americans can only be killed and killed till they stop coming.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 3:00 utc | 57
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has formally enacted legislation withdrawing the country from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), marking a decisive step in Chisinau’s gradual disengagement from Russian-led structures. According to Moldovan media, the decrees were signed and published on April 8, entering into force immediately, with authorities set to notify the organization as part of the formal withdrawal procedure.
The decision follows a parliamentary vote on April 2, when 60 deputies backed the move in its final reading. The process targets key legal pillars of Moldova’s membership, including the 1991 founding agreement, its protocol, and the 1993 CIS statute. Once the required notification and notice period are completed, the bloc will be reduced to eight member states, among them Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others. Turkmenistan will remain an associate participant.
Officials in Chisinau argue that the CIS no longer reflects its founding principles. They point to violations of territorial integrity and sovereignty, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, past military actions against Georgia, and the continued presence of Russian troops on Moldovan territory. As Foreign Minister Mihai Popșoi put it, the country is already “in the process of denouncing” the agreements that underpin its affiliation, adding that this will end Moldova’s legal status as a member, even though participation has already been suspended in practice.
The withdrawal is part of a broader geopolitical shift. Since Sandu came to power in 2020, Moldova has steadily distanced itself from post-Soviet frameworks and deepened ties with the European Union, which granted it candidate status in 2022 and opened accession talks in 2024. Chisinau has avoided CIS summits and systematically dismantled agreements linked to the bloc. Of the 283 CIS-related accords once in place, 71 had been terminated by early 2026, with dozens more under review.
Posted by: MiniMO | Apr 10 2026 3:33 utc | 58
@ Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:32 utc | 57 who seems to have not have understood that those little cigars were the last nicotine I imbibed….25 or so years ago.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 4:08 utc | 59
Below is a Xinhuanet posting full because of its importance in understanding where the rare earth situation is related to military use, eh?
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) — China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday that export applications for rare earths that meet relevant requirements, including those for genuine civilian use, will be approved in accordance with the law.
China remains committed to safeguarding the security and stability of global industrial and supply chains, fully taking into account reasonable civilian needs and concerns worldwide, including those of the United States, and actively promoting and facilitating compliant trade, said He Yadong, a spokesperson for the ministry, when asked whether the United States should worry about China reimposing restrictions on rare earth exports to the country.
Asked whether the two sides would discuss or consider further extending the suspension of rare earth export control measures after media reports said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer had indicated that the United States would hold working-level talks with the Chinese side, the spokesperson said the relevant export control measures China announced on Oct. 9, 2025, have been suspended until Nov. 10, 2026, in line with the consensus reached during the China-U.S. economic and trade talks in Kuala Lumpur.
China and the United States will continue to maintain communication on their respective concerns through the economic and trade consultation mechanism, the spokesperson said.
I read it as the suspension of rare earths for military purposes is still in effect.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 4:53 utc | 60
Below is a short Xinhuanet report of the China/Taiwan KMT chairperson meeting
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday morning met with Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, in Beijing.
Invited by the CPC Central Committee and Xi, Cheng is the first KMT chairperson that has led a delegation to the Chinese mainland in the past decade. The delegation had visited Jiangsu Province and Shanghai before coming to Beijing.
Does this represent the potential for movement towards reintegration?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 5:11 utc | 61
What is Rutte really doing there in DC?
He was chosen to represent his sugar daddy Nazi Shwab and the Nazio Eurocrats.
m he always looks and speaks like such a spoilt kept whore:
@SprinterPress
6h
DC Bilderberg Meeting kicking off April 9. Topics up for debate are out for off-the-record talks.
Among the lineup: Rutte, Carney, Stubb, King and Queen of the Netherlands.
Apr 9, 2026 · 10:40 PM UTC
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 10 2026 5:16 utc | 62
A couple of data points about gold from a ZH posting
China’s central bank increased gold reserves by approximately five metric tons in March, marking its largest monthly purchase in over a year and extending its accumulation streak to 17 consecutive months, even as bullion prices came under pressure during the Iran conflict.
The PBOC’s continued buying stands in contrast to selective selling activity elsewhere. Turkey’s central bank reportedly sold and swapped roughly 60 tons in March to support its domestic currency, highlighting diverging policy responses across emerging markets.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 5:53 utc | 63
Some info from a ZH posting about the coming crash
Six of the biggest names in private credit are blocking exits. Blackstone. Apollo. Aries. Morgan Stanley. When billionaires can’t get their money out, what exactly do you think happens to yours?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has admitted it outright: U.S. banks are the primary funding source for private credit. The separation of risk between your deposits and these shadow lending operations was an illusion on paper. Behind the scenes, exposure was growing quietly, well past anything seen in 2007-2008. And sitting on top of it all: $200 trillion in derivative exposure. Warren Buffett called them financial weapons of mass destruction. The conditions that triggered 2008 — rate stress, credit stress, liquidity stress — are all in jeopardy simultaneously.
Michael Burry said it this week: private credit insiders “are remarkably proficient at kicking the can down the road, but it looks like the end of the road to me.”
Two exits waiting there: a bailout that fires up the printing press, or a bail-in that uses your deposits to make the banks whole. Post-2008 rule changes made both legal. The FDIC currently covers 1.3% of total deposits. One large bank failure and it’s already gone.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 10 2026 5:55 utc | 64
recognizing the Thou
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 9 2026 23:14 utc | 41
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That is a big ask. Most don’t differentiate being from having.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2026 5:56 utc | 65
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds talks with Taiwanese opposition party leader in Beijing.
Cheng Li-wun with Xi Jinping ==> https://t.me/llordofwar/598523
Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2026 6:14 utc | 66
Not sure what happened in my last post. Cant read it. Going down big time I guess.
My mate was around just before. Showed him the opal then pulled out my old saw. He is good at porting things that make a noise. He ports that and the sweat will be running out in bucket fulls.
That year he said he was going to the fink again and asked me to go. I asked when and he said two weeks. He had his old race bike but hadn’t ridden in eighteen years. That old race engine he had ported cranked some horses. Everyone that tried it got spat off.
Living a life. Mostly in the past now. Have to head to the opal fields. I would expect some lively boys to be out there.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 6:38 utc | 67
I wonder what will happen to all those “African conflicts” once the GCC money will not flow in anymore … (It exclude the situation with DRC that has more “resources garbing/interdicting” motivations and can unfortunately “self sustain”.)
Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 10 2026 9:33 utc | 68
Latest Forecasts Show a Super El Niño Event Developing, Bringing a Global Weather Disruption in 2026/2027
By Author Andrej Flis Posted on Published: 09/04/2026 Categories
The global weather system is currently undergoing a massive atmospheric reset as the tropical Pacific transitions from a multi-year La Niña into a potential record-breaking Super El Niño. Latest subsurface ocean analysis reveals a rapid shift below the ocean surface occurring in the western Pacific, similar to how the past Super El Niño events emerged.
A Super El Niño acts as a massive planetary heat engine, releasing vast amounts of stored oceanic energy into the atmosphere and significantly altering the global jet stream. Studies have confirmed that a Super El Niño can affect global climate for several years, transforming typical seasonal patterns and altering everything from international agriculture to winter storm tracks.
In this article, we will analyze the latest oceanic data and compare the current 2026 signatures to the strongest historical events of recent decades. We will also look at the latest seasonal forecasts and why this El Niño could be a record breaker. Also, we will find the first major weather impacts across the United States, Canada, and Europe, from Summer to the Atlantic Hurricane season, and into the Winter 2026/2027.
MORE…
https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-2026-forecast-global-weather-shift-expected-united-states-canada-europe-fa/
Posted by: Menz | Apr 10 2026 9:48 utc | 69
In allowing the Iranians to fall, The Russians and and Chinese will; go down.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 3:00 utc | 57
Word is that China pressed Iran to compromise with the US reasoning it would have suffered had Trump carried through on his threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, bridges, and possibly even oil infrastructure.
In response, Iran threatened to destroy The Gulf’s as well which would have resulted in China losing close to 50% of the oil it imports by sea. The threat would have ended China’s rise to “Super Power” status.
This also partly explains why China is also reluctant to become physically involved in the ME conflicts.
Posted by: Menz | Apr 10 2026 10:08 utc | 70
For our french speaking audience : “the loneliness of an Easter bunny” by “L’odieux Connard” himself.
Stupidity is intelligence’s resting.
Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 10 2026 11:30 utc | 71
Ibrahim Traoré: We Do Not Want a Democracy That Kills
Recent comments by Ibrahim Traoré on democracy have spread widely in Western media following an interview, but interpretations that he rejects democracy appear to misrepresent his position.
The recent interview by Ibrahim Traoré, president of Burkina Faso, has caused widespread debate after going viral across global media platforms. Headlines, particularly from mainstream outlets, quickly
https://orinocotribune.com/ibrahim-traore-we-do-not-want-a-democracy-that-kills/
Posted by: arby | Apr 10 2026 11:43 utc | 72
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ukraine-talks-with-oman-kuwait-bahrain-security-cooperation-zelenskiy-says-2026-04-10/
American proxies have to be killed everywhere. The world sponsor of terrorism and genocide. Iran lets up now and it is finished.I have never criticized Russia before but if they want to survive, they have to kill off the Zelensky Jew regime. Kill the jews or become servants of the Jews. There are no other options.
The Jews now slaughtering the Lebanese to make their greater Israel. 250 dead the other day. Massive difference in the propaganda media between the Jews slaughtering thousands and Russia hitting one or two. The WWII stuff and the holocaust industry. I grew up with it and have now dumped that baggage. The Jews are an extremist organization and must be killed.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 11:49 utc | 73
Menz | Apr 10 2026 10:08 utc | 70
China is a bit of a pacifist culture, But unless they willing to fight for their freedom, they will lose it again. The Americans and the Jews must be stopped at all costs. They will never let up and must be destroyed.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 11:54 utc | 74
The Americans are slowly bring the pot to boil. Small countries going down. Destroyed by the Americans and Jews. If the Chinese and Russians don’t move, the Americans will boil them like frogs. Big war is bad. The alternative worse.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 11:58 utc | 75
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 11:58 utc | 75
Perhaps Two Cents and Exile are right, the quickest end is the death of the petrodollar.
Posted by: Menz | Apr 10 2026 12:15 utc | 76
Day Three of the massive farmer and truck blockades of major roads and ports in Ireland.
PM Martin postpones his trade trip to Canada.
Protesters demand relief from super high taxes on gas, diesel and heating oil.
Dep PM Harris scrambles for EU, says his hands are tied by EU regulations, an admission of the lack of soveignty over his own country.
Government in full crisis as protesters block Ireland’s only refinery, and the Port of Galway.
So where is the farmer, and truck and fishing industry outrage in the UK?
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 10 2026 12:53 utc | 77
Menz | Apr 10 2026 12:15 utc | 76
I think so. But the Americans and jews are slippery slimy buggers. They will create a new financial fraud. As Borrell stated, it will be decided on the battlefield. The battlefield of men and weapons systems, not the battlefield of financial fraudsters.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 13:15 utc | 78
So where is the farmer, and truck and fishing industry outrage in the UK?
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 10 2026 12:53 utc | 77
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Farmers and fishermen that are dependant on the very subsides that the Irish demand to be increased are captured in an upside down system where instead of rising prices to cover expenses the cost of inputs is lowered by the government.
A much better system would be to subsidize food, but that would serve everybody and not just fuel oil producers.
The fundamental problem is the peoples’ wages don’t cover the full cost of food.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2026 13:17 utc | 79
The pathetic story is Dep Irish PM Simon Harris going to the EU to ask for relief from EU carbon and VAT taxes for farmers, fishermen and truckers on diesel, gas and heating oil (Ireland has no freight railroads, since 1983 figure that one out!), like some EU supplicant!
Sad how this coalition government has lost all its mojo !
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 10 2026 13:47 utc | 80
Tobias,
Is it true that the Irish are no longer allowed to heat with Peat ? Whats that all about?
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 14:02 utc | 81
Food ?
i thought food as percent of household outlays went from 18% in the 1950s to around 6%today.
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 14:04 utc | 82
too scents | Apr 10 2026 13:17 utc | 79
The fundamental problem is apathy of the people. Like ostriches, they want to stick their heads in the sand and hope bad things go away.
War is here and must be fought. Every politician here in the so called west needs to be stung from a lamp post or bridge.
The Russians and Chinese, if they don’t want to be ruled by the US will have to destroy the US. The slaughter, the very public genocide in Gaza, the killings and slaughter of Trumps oil wars – That girls school in Iran where the Americans sent in missile after missile to ensure none survived. The Americans must be killed, destroyed wherever they are found. Big war is here and it must be fought.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 14:09 utc | 83
Back at iran’s latest thread I mentioned
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Burn all vassals against regional competitors seems the game the us is playing (and will keep playing until unequivocally informed that beyond a certain point they’ll be targeted) now for all those wanting to nuke warn or plain nuke em all crowd, that is not to happens short of stupid play by the us (yes, us can control its vassals , if and when needed, control or neuter) now if only the vassals grew a pair of neurons…. Not to mention balls
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 10 2026 1:34 utc | 388”
Maybe there is hope
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181578#
“”We cannot let Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait become a battlefield.” – Kuomintang leader Zheng Liwen of Taiwan after her talks with Xi Jinping.”
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 10 2026 14:14 utc | 84
The US ambassador has just arrived and it looks like Venezuela already is suffering a color revolution:
https://t.me/VenezuelaNetwork/19651
@Ken Hausle | Apr 10 2026 2:08 utc | 53
My comment about being a jackass was directed at @George the Zeroth. Apologies if you missed that. I thought it was self explanatory.
I’ll show myself to the door now, and here’s a tip for the bartender.
Too many planetary sized egos here….(look out here comes Jupiter next)
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 14:51 utc | 86
Uranus! All hail Uranus!
“Mordecai, ‘dis no place for you….”
Posted by: Local Oscillator | Apr 10 2026 14:53 utc | 87
Big war is now unavoidable. Mostly due to the apathy of the western populous. Merz Germany gearing up to follow in Hitlers footsteps, the Jews slaughtering every one about them, the Americans thinking they are the rulers of the universe and perfidious albion doing its scheming. Big war and much death and destruction, but the Americans and Jews will have to be stopped.
The networked circles of corruption that were very apparent in the Epstein files. And nobody gives a shit. Cannon fodder. Apathy. The people about me. Ostrich burying their heads in the sand hoping bad things will go away. And the slaughter in their name only increases.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 15:10 utc | 88
Reuters headlines
“Exclusive: Coordinated Telegram posts push pro-Orban narratives on eve of Hungary vote, research shows ”
Massive propaganda campaign by the Brits and Europeans to take down Orban. Hungary will likely fall.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 15:29 utc | 89
“It’s the Moon I tell you! The Moon!”
Great fanfare has been made of the successful Artemis mission and applauding the first human eyes to see the far side of the Moon.
What is lacking in these reports is that the whole of the Moon has already been imaged in great detail, but they won’t share that with you now:
https://www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib/
Something strange happened on the Moon. I don’t know what exactly. Of course, it started with the unauthorised Apollo downlinks, back in the days when amateur radio enthusiasts turned their antenna to the lunar transmissions.
Then came the Clementine project and the subsequent lunar image browser available to everyone. But then it disappeared. You would think that such an engineering achievement would be proudly available for all the world to see.
However, the more the anomalies stacked up, the more the data was restricted.
https://thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/41Group_Lunar_FYEO/02files/FYEO_Lunar_03.html
Inevitably, inquiring minds will ask, what is there to hide?
And then the early youtube day where the anomalies were uploaded. That’s all gone now. Some may say good riddance to cranks and conspiracy theorists. But what about open discourse and debate? Why the secrecy?
Their actions just don’t accord with the notion of truthful dissemination. It’s a shame but we’ll just have to let our imaginations run wild:
Moonraker soundtrack:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3gDboKGn-Sw&pp=ygUUbW9vbnJha2VyIHRoZW1lIHNvbmc%3D
Posted by: lachaussette | Apr 10 2026 15:36 utc | 90
Food ?
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 14:04 utc | 82
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It is subsidized. Farmers can’t afford to raise prices to cover their costs because consumers will not pony up to pay those expenses. Cheap subsidized imports and slave labor complicate pricing further, but help overall in driving down wages for farmers, farm labor and consumers alike.
Practically all of the inputs to farming are heavily subsidized everywhere. Input subsidies could be replaced with consumer subsidies that would allow farmers to raise prices. That would be better for agriculture, farmers and consumers. However for some reason that kind of reform is politically unacceptable.
Profit margins drive factory farming and industrial food production.
Posted by: too scents | Apr 10 2026 15:40 utc | 91
lachaussette | Apr 10 2026 15:36 utc | 90
The Americans and their propaganda bubbles. Like kids farting in the bathtub.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 15:43 utc | 92
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 15:43 utc |
It’s funny you say that 🤣. It was one of my earliest lessons.
Lighting uncontaned fart gas only resulted in a singed perianus, whereas doing it properly in the bath, igniting fart bubbles on the surface resulted in the most safe, satisfying pop-squeak.
It’s funny to recollect that’s exactly how I collected hydrogen years later. But that’s another story 👍.
Posted by: lachaussette | Apr 10 2026 16:14 utc | 93
This isn‘t the real Peter AU1 posting, language style all wrong
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 16:34 utc | 94
Exile | Apr 10 2026 16:34 utc | 94
Never before have I felt that big war is inevitable. Watching the day to day doings of the Americans and their wars it goes unnoticed but stand back and take stock and the world is now in a very dangerous place. b has a piece up now. today I have had the foreboding that the Americans and Jews were about to go nuclear rather than live through defeat.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 17:05 utc | 95
Peter AU1 | Apr 10 2026 17:05 utc | 95
LOL – thanks for proving beyond a Shadow of a doubt by that post that you aren‘t PeterAU1
🤣
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 17:48 utc | 96
Exile 81 – partially! New homes can not have stoves or fireplaces installed. Those who heat with turf or peat or pea coal can continue for now.
However, get this EU nonsense, farmers can not sell the peat from their bogs, and can only use it for private use. Many heat with pea coal, but that use has also been restricted, and the last Irish coal mine has been closed by government fiat.
Meanwhile Irish customers pay the highest rates for utilities in Europe, and the government has closed the Clare power station, the largest in Ireland and the last one to use cheap and plentiful coal as a source.
Stupidly the Martin – Harris junta (they cleverly excluded all populist candidates and independents from the Presidential ballot by the way), wants to convert the plant to use bunker oil (now in short supply), at much higher cost.
The Junta has no clue……….they are failing in rapid fashion and now facing a nationwide blockade of roads by the farmers and truckers and contractors……….UP the Rebels!
Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 10 2026 18:02 utc | 98
New homes can not have stoves or fireplaces installed – ?????
Posted by: Exile | Apr 10 2026 18:28 utc | 99
If I was Hungarian and heard Trump telling me to “Get out and vote for Orban!” and calling him “a true friend” I would be much less inclined to vote for Orban. If I was Orban, I would tell Trump to fuck off or at least shut up.
Posted by: Dalit | Apr 10 2026 18:41 utc | 100