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Video of a 20 something American Jewish Kid struggling to escape. Most illuminating and Revealing. He’s Rambling, Neurotic, and incoherent in his 49 minute confession.
He has also concluded that Netanyahu and his supporters are a grave danger to normal Jewish people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpV3EWAYgk&pp=0gcJCToCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
Posted by: Exile | May 27 2026 17:56 utc | 1
Fortuitous that I met and conversed with a fellow Wisconsinite who spent three weeks at Palestine and israel in 2019. His experience was that Palestinians were gracious, generous, people, and israeli jews were arrogant pricks. He said that americans are brainwashed when it comes to israel and israelis, and not in a good way. He approached me with his two basset hounds, because he saw my Palestinian flag. He showed me dozens and dozens of photos of beautiful architecture, and beautiful Palestinian children. He knows that many of the structures are now rubble, and the beautiful children may very well be dead. We’re just a couple of old men, but we know a genocide when we see one.
Posted by: $outhpaw | May 27 2026 18:32 utc | 2
Re: Arrogant Pricks
israelis are notorious for savagely cutting in crowded liftlines in Alpine Ski Resorts.
Posted by: Exile | May 27 2026 19:20 utc | 3
Re: El Nino
El Nino is heating up the Pacific Ocean and making Asia 45 degree celsius everywhere from India to East Asia.
The hot Ocean pushed the colder ocean water down several hundred meters on the Southwestern coast of South America. Less anchovies and sardines as the fishes retreated deeper.
Atmospheric river is expecting to hit SW USA such as California Arizona making the Canadian winter drier while the heavy rains will be pouring down the dry desert of the USA.
Less Hurricanes and Typhoons but they’re getting stronger every year. Always prepared food and water and some essential supplies in your storm shelter if you’re in a disaster prone areas.
Planet Earth climate is changing. So, a lot of unpredictable weather patterns and changes will occur.
Posted by: KillerDoll | May 27 2026 19:36 utc | 4
A few moments of LIVE nature … lovely view
Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest – Cam 1
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 19:44 utc | 5
Re: Entertainment reference in military and warzone
Watching war footages and saw US soldier video himself launching HIMARS from Kuwait towards Iran holding plushie Shion character from Touhou video game.
Watching war footages and saw Russian Anime squad with Anime Body Pillow. Russian and Ukrainian weapons covered in Anime and video game stickers.
Watching war footages and saw African rebel wearing T shirt with cartoons printed on.
Watching War footages and saw Cat Ear attachment on helmet, tiktok songs.
Watching PLA training footages and saw pilot helmet with TOP GUN sticker.
This is Gen Z soldiers. I can’t wait for the next generation military soldiers and rebels to feature Bombardino Crocodilo, Tum Tum Tum Sahur, Bombobini Guisini, Bluey, Skibidi Toilet, 67, Cortisol Spike, etc stickers and anime patches everywhere.
Posted by: KillerDoll | May 27 2026 19:47 utc | 6
Would you like a glimpse into the future?
Turn your gaze to South America’s Bolivia
Like the US but not as bad, the Bolivian Government spent more than it takes in, for 40+ years, and now it’s payback and time to spend less than what comes in for the 40 years into the future…
And now the social unrest in Bolivia has turned the country into the Hollywood Mad Max movie, with bandits cutting the roads to major cities and the food is almost gone
When the rest of the world dumps their Federal Reserve System currency, anyone measuring their wealth in “flat paper Dollars” instead of Silver hard money Dollars is gonna be somewhat disappointed.
Posted by: Hot Carl | May 27 2026 20:19 utc | 7
More consequences … El. 10 mins
USA Economy COLLAPSING – Goldman: “Soft Landing Dead,” 70-Year Record LOW, 1 in 4 Skip Meals
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 20:44 utc | 8
More consequences … El. 10 mins USA Economy COLLAPSING – Goldman: “Soft Landing Dead,” 70-Year Record LOW, 1 in 4 Skip Meals
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 20:44 utc | 8
Thanks Don, might pay to post that on the Iran thread, currently infested with maggots celebrating that the “markets” are up.
Posted by: Suresh | May 27 2026 20:58 utc | 9
Hot Carl | May 27 2026 20:19 utc | 7
Not Carl, it is really not that simple.
Posted by: bevin | May 27 2026 21:27 utc | 10
Do not talk about climate change until AFTER you tell us all about the intentional weather manipulation humans have been engaged in for the last 100 years. If you are not qualified to talk about New Jersey sueing New York for stealing rain, don’t bother us with simple minded whimsical musings
And another thing…
All the right hand rotation electric motor have an effect on the whole Earth’s electromagnetic field and weakening it and since the invention of the right hand rotation electric motor the North Pole has migrated across Canada, across Alaska and is now half way across Russian Siberia! (/S)
Posted by: Hot Carl | May 27 2026 22:35 utc | 11
Posted by: Suresh | May 27 2026 20:58 utc | 9
I posted it up there as well. No open response.
It is getting rougher throughout the globe – and accelerating … US needs to eat crow, call it succulent turkey, and get out before global financial collapse becomes certainty.
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 23:12 utc | 12
@Suresh #9
Try 15 mins of Steve Keen …
Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the U.S. Economy – YouTube
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 23:17 utc | 13
Joti arrested by Kenyan police on demo – Garland Nixon & Joti Brar, ep 60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYW1SqhZS-g
Posted by: arby | May 27 2026 23:18 utc | 14
Do not talk about climate change until AFTER you tell us all about the intentional weather manipulation humans have been engaged in for the last 100 years. If you are not qualified to talk about New Jersey sueing New York for stealing rain, don’t bother us with simple minded whimsical musings
And another thing…
All the right hand rotation electric motor have an effect on the whole Earth’s electromagnetic field and weakening it and since the invention of the right hand rotation electric motor the North Pole has migrated across Canada, across Alaska and is now half way across Russian Siberia! (/S)
Posted by: Hot Carl | May 28 2026 0:33 utc | 15
Trump please take Cuba. Half the population are young desperately crazing for Big Macs and the girls for US sailors. Lowest hanging fruit of all. Can literally walk in without firing a shot.
It’s a total no-brainer if Trump don’t care for world opinion. Might is Right.
Mongols got it right. Resist them and they’ll raze you down to the earth and slaughter everyone. Hardly any cities resisted.
Posted by: Surferket | May 28 2026 0:51 utc | 16
You thought Citizens United was bad?
A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.
These “legal entities” and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town.
In total Delaware has far more corporations chartered in the state than residents.
Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that “entity” or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.
“Delaware, home to more corporations than people, is a fitting place for reality to outpace satire. The state constitutional provisions expressly enshrining corporate personhood reflect Delaware’s budgetary reliance on the billions in fees it raises annually from the more than 2 million business entities chartered there.”
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says
Posted by: UWDude | May 28 2026 1:33 utc | 17
Posted by: KillerDoll | May 27 2026 19:47 utc | 6
I do not know whether there have been any attempts to explain this psychology scientifically, but the demographic drawn to military themes largely overlaps with that drawn to anime girls.
There is also a certain affinity with far-right ideology.
Such phenomena have long been observed in my own country, Japan, which is the core of such illustrations and hentai culture.
The demographic known as ‘military otaku’ particularly favours using Anime-Doujin illustration girls as their SNS avatars, Many Self-Defence Force personnel display illustrations of those girls in their rooms, more or less openly.
What’s strange is that they seem to want to ‘show it off’.
I’m fairly familiar with anime and hentai myself, but I wouldn’t thinking of printing it on my clothes or put it as my SNS avatar.
Yet among soldiers, military enthusiasts and the far-right, for some reason they seem to show off it.
I can’t offer any psychological theory for this phenomenon. It’s simply a trend that’s quite strongly observed in Japan.
Posted by: Nokaz | May 28 2026 1:37 utc | 18
War correspondent Kitten
Elections are approaching in Armenia. Well, “very independent” monitoring agencies (“independent” funded by the US and EU, as a rule) are, as usual, scanning society for voter preferences in advance and pouring oil on Pashinyan and company. Technology, you see…
The trick is that not only the so-called “shepherd” segment of the population is ready to vote for Pashinyan, but also a portion of the so-called “elite.” The former enjoys absolving themselves, society, and Yerevan of any responsibility for the squandering of Armenian lands and the defeat (Artsakh). Blame is placed “outside”: on Russia, the CSTO, the Russians, and the “former.” Even during the war, the “shepherds” were fed gripping tales (I think Baku had a hand in that, too) about Russian Sukhoi jets taking off from Dagestan and bombing Armenian positions in Artsakh. And some of the “chobans” are into it! And anyway, “the Russians are in cahoots with Aliyev!” And in contrast, there’s the “honest pragmatist” Pashinyan, who works not for “someone else,” but for ordinary Armenians. “Simpleton” Pashinyan, wearing a cap, even rides the subway and gets into arguments with women on the street. Even this is popular! “Simplicity” works.
And the Yerevan “elite” is very pleased with the drift toward the EU , European values, visa-free travel, and other delights of the free world being implemented in Yerevan. The number of homosexuals, both homegrown and foreign, in the Armenian capital is growing exponentially, almost like in Kyiv in the fall of 2014.Pashinyan also consoled the electorate that a significant increase in hydrocarbon prices, as Moscow has already threatened, will not actually happen. As if to ignore the threats of a weakened bear – its roar is growing ever quieter. Everything will be perfect, they say. Perhaps the hope is that Yerevan’s champions of mimicry—Pashinyan, Simonyan, anyone who can please the Kremlin—will, if need be, declare their love and friendship in the north, and everything will be forgotten and forgiven.
And what about the opposition? It remains fragmented and atomized, which is why it has proven incapable of creating a unified structure and putting forward united leaders to counter the pro-Western center of power, which is not losing, but rather strengthening, its position. Moreover, the opposition continues to try to engage with the Russian media, something Pashinyan’s group is demonstrably uninterested in. But the feeling is mutual! Because, against the backdrop of the war, what’s happening in Armenia is largely indifferent to Moscow: “You want to join the EU? Go ahead. True, you’re part of Asia, but if you really want to, follow in the Ukrainians’ footsteps in their quest for visa-free travel, and for that, we’ll raise your gas prices. Aren’t you scared? We might not raise them, and we might even forgive you if you show up in Moscow next year for Victory Day and confess. Some sympathizers, even from Europe, which is secretly at war with us, are rolling around, happy, and not a care in the world.”
In Yerevan, while outwardly displaying Europeanism, they employ downright totalitarian methods domestically, knowing they’ll get away with it. In all fairness, if Moscow had been more sensitive, it would have long ago imposed personal sanctions for the ostentatious Russophobia of Yerevan’s minstrels and even for the repression of opposition activists. But no. It’s permissible. As for the elections themselves, Yerevan knows perfectly well: it doesn’t matter how they vote, it matters how they count.
An Armenia without Artsakh, perhaps without Syunik, with the loss of polling stations in the Tavush region and the nomads looming over Lake Sevan, suits the current rulers in Yerevan. They no longer look like “one-day kings,” but are visibly transforming into heavyweights. They’re not afraid of the “former” who have become “eternal former.” They know perfectly well how to silence dissent and sweeten the pill for the core electorate, which wants to live in prosperity and without war. And they don’t care who they’re under. The Armenians, through trade, have genetically survived under the nomads for centuries. They hope they’ll escape this time too. Where there’s bread, there’s a homeland. And they don’t care about the tears of Artsakh’s mothers and widows, the desecrated and destroyed churches, or the destroyed graves. They live for today, calling on Armenians to do the same. Many agree…
Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2026 3:36 utc | 19
Syria rejected the plan of Germany on the return of more than 700 000 Syrian refugees to the homeland. «We categorically reject any attempts of forced deportation», — stated the minister of foreign affairs of Syria Asaad ash-Shaibani.
He added that Syrians in Germany are «strategic resource», and not a burden. Refugees receive allowances and constantly send hard currency to the homeland, annually money transfers constitute the amount up to €400 million – this is much more than German aid to Syria, which constitutes no more than €350 million per year.
Germany plans to increase the one-time allowance to Syrian refugees to €8000 on condition of their voluntary return to the homeland, reports the magazine Focus.
Chancellor of the FRG Friedrich Merz earlier stated about the intention to return 80% of Syrian refugees to the homeland. Now to Syrians leaving Germany is due about €1000. Almost 4% of all Syrians live in Germany.
Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2026 3:46 utc | 20
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Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2026 3:47 utc | 21
Royal Intel
This is honestly the most pointless ceasefire I’ve ever witnessed. Civilians in Gaza and Lebanon are being killed everyday and not a single rocket or missile is falling on the Jewish entity… Smh. Iran forget the talks. It’s going nowhere.
Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2026 3:49 utc | 22
MiniMO The Gaza genocide has changed the world.. one day the tribes of israel will have no where on earth they can live openly.. hiding down a dark hole will their only refuge.. one day, not today..
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 28 2026 4:01 utc | 23
And they don’t care about the tears of Artsakh’s mothers and widows, the desecrated and destroyed churches, or the destroyed graves.
whats this about? More details please
Posted by: Exile | May 28 2026 4:46 utc | 24
MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Russia is concerned about the mass deployment of international terrorists into Africa from other conflict zones, Tatyana Dovgalenko, Director of the Department for Partnership with Africa at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said at a briefing on the sidelines of the International Security Forum.
“International terrorism remains one of the foremost threats to peace and security on the African continent. We are concerned about the mass relocation of foreign terrorists and militants into the region from other conflict zones. It is important not to allow them to entrench themselves and establish a new Caliphate 2.0 here,” she noted.
According to the senior Russian diplomat, countries that are friendly to Russia and Sahel Confederation states lie in the epicenter of the terrorist threat. “Terror groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda (outlawed in Russia as a terrorist organization – TASS), and ISIS (formerly known as the terrorist organization Islamic State, outlawed in Russia — TASS) are operating on their soil,” she noted. “This underlines the importance of pooling efforts by regional forces in the fight against the common terrorist threat,” Dovgalenko added.
Moscow welcomes efforts toward establishing practical dialogue between ECOWAS and the Sahel Confederation, she continued. Also, Moscow views Sahel Confederation states as the driving force of the fight against regional terrorism as it “attaches special importance to improving the combat capability of their national armies as well as strengthening the potential of the Confederation’s combined force,” the diplomat concluded.
I’m hoping Sebgo could provide some context seeing they live in the region. Is something big happening now?
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 28 2026 5:08 utc | 25
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 27 2026 23:17 utc | 13
Thanks Don, these financial figures are mostly over my head but that graph showing the difference between the Depression and the GFC is scary.
Back in my days, the ponzi scheme of buying high to sell higher was called the Greater Fool Theory.
Shame no one else commented on your earlier post but that thread is super infested.
Posted by: Suresh | May 28 2026 6:55 utc | 27
@4 killerdoll
go educate yourself
https://wattsupwiththat.com/
Posted by: AleaJactaEst | May 28 2026 10:18 utc | 28
David J. Rush: Ex-CIA Top Official Allegedly Stole Gold Worth More Than $40 Million
(Excerpt)….
David J.
Rush, a former senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, is now facing serious charges for allegedly embezzling 303 gold bars worth more than $40 million.
This piece of evidence was found at his residence in Virginia, along with approximately $2 million in cash and 35 luxury watches, including the prestigious Rolex brand.……
https://en.liputan6.com/trivia/read/7376430/david-j-rush-ex-cia-top-official-allegedly-stole-gold-worth-more-than-40-million#google_vignette
Posted by: Exile | May 28 2026 11:19 utc | 29
China is arguably by any standard or measure a National Socialist State, fascism however you choose to define it. It is not the international communism of Lenin or Stalin or Marx or Engels, but a state directed system of corporate enterprises that really has no international communist or commintern philosophy directing it aside from a spurious veneer and some residual labels. They may still call themselves the Chinese Communist Party, but look at the objective facts and they are as fascist as national socialist Germany was. And have achieved about the same level of economic success that national socialist Germany exhibited, but because of their protective coloring of ‘communism’ they aren’t reviled internationally by the fellow travelers who control the media for it; and even the author of this superficial tripe misses it.
Posted by: True Blue | May 28 2026 12:32 utc | 30
Hey JRS.
This story mentions gold. {we’re all aware that’s a little hobby of yours, collecting mockslop stories about gold, whether it’s being “disappeared” in the middle of the night, or mysteriously “found” at some schmuck CIA agent’s house}
And, of course, the narrative wouldn’t get past a first draft as a Hollyweird script, before being rejected as too unbelievable….>
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/27/david-rush-cia-gold-bars/90288318007/
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:04 utc | 31
Exile | May 28 2026 11:19 utc | 29
apologies. Your post was here when I scrolled by earlier…
great minds think similar dubious thoughts …🥃
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:07 utc | 32
At the risk of starting a climate debate bar fight, with furniture at risk of flying
…. Just want to say it was approximately 24c at around 3pm today, humidity near 100%.
A week shy of winter. ….
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:22 utc | 34
Re: CIA guy with $40 million in gold bars
my undergrad was at a feeder school for State Depart. (and CIA) careers. We are all long retired now.
Every Single one of my close buddies that choose that career path lives a posh lifestyle thats way way WAY beyond his Federal Pension. Big Townhouses, summer homes in luxury enclaves, plus plus plus. Not a little beyond, like 5x to 10x.
Posted by: Exile | May 28 2026 13:24 utc | 35
Laurent Michelon
https://nitter.net/LH_86_/status/2059829579590832325
This is Trump administration’s latest contribution to China’s economic growth, of Hong Kong in particular.
USrael aggression on Iran, and Iran’s virile retaliation, has sparked an influx of capital from the Gulf states to Singapore (although investors’ interest has cooled down because of the Lion’s City harsh KYC requirements), but particularly to Hong Kong.
Middle Eastern private wealth, wealthy families, and investors are seeking to diversify their holdings amid the uncertainty.
HNWI and family offices in the Gulf are shifting significant portions of their assets to Asian financial hubs, primarily Hong Kong and Singapore, to seek safety and risk diversification.
Also, according to Al-Jazeera, immediately following the outbreak of the war on February 28, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange saw average daily trading volumes surge to HK$341.5 billion, a 41.2% increase driven in large part by Middle Eastern capital taking refuge in the city.
After this first wave of inbound capital, Hong Kong is now seeing the opening of joint investment funds and new banking offices from the Middle East, potentially announcing a second, more long-term wave if the situation in the GCC degrades further in the coming months.
A nice side effect of that capital flight to Hong Kong is the steady rise of real estate prices.
CBRE attributes some of that increase to “capital inflows into Hong Kong, following the escalation of tensions in the Middle East”.
S&P Global Ratings says full-year increases in home prices in Asia’s most expensive housing market are likely to total 8-10% in 2026.
This report follows a more bullish forecast from Morgan Stanley earlier this week, which predicted 12% home price growth in Hong Kong for 2026 followed by an additional 5% increase in 2027.
MorganStanley pointed to strong sales of new projects and limited supply of new housing sites, as well as capital and talent inflows from the Middle East and mainland China support the market.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:28 utc | 37
In positive news:
Donald Trump was saved from ritual slaughter and sent to the zoo.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 28 2026 13:29 utc | 38
Australia Could Get US Nukes – Russian Security Chief
https://www.rt.com/news/640669-australia-us-nukes-russian-security/
“Australia could host American nuclear weapons at some point [as] Washington seeks to create military blocs similar to NATO in the Asia-Pacific region, Sergey Shoigu has warned…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 28 2026 13:34 utc | 39
Good to see Oz pollies have their priorities…{dictated by Israel}
Israel getting 0 votes from Australia at Eurovision was brought up in senate estimates today
https://nitter.net/thebigjohnnyd/status/2059875490035568791
🏆comments winner _ “Those votes were promised to Israel thousands of years ago”
____and, of course no discussion about whether Australians want U$ nukes …..….. but Eurovision …. Let’s discuss that….
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:41 utc | 40
US-caused Hormuz crisis is cracking apart its global sanctions architecture
Washington, in order to preserve the fading illusion of its economic superpower status, has engaged in the fiction of granting “waivers” from sanctions for Russian customers.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/us-caused-hormuz-crisis-is-cracking-apart-its-global-sanctio
Posted by: arby | May 28 2026 13:46 utc | 41
@True Blue | May 28 2026 12:32 utc | 30
Sun Yat Sen’s explanained that Marxism analyses a pathological condition in a society but then makes the mistake to make that pathological condition permanent.
I have the impression that China respects him very much and it isnt farfetched to think they actually is led by some of his profound thinking. China is an example of successful Nation building with an impressive range of important scientific developments that have the potential to be a great benefit for mankind and its civilisation.
Comparing China with fascists is misleading since the fascists were all supported By Wall Street and the City of London and beyond all financial matters the British inteligentia and British agents significantly fueled the occult currents associated with fascism.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 28 2026 13:52 utc | 42
… it was approximately 24c at around 3pm today, humidity near 100%. // A week shy of winter. ….Posted by: Melaleuca | May 28 2026 13:22 utc | 34
I wish you had said the type of place. Don’t get me wrong CO2 and methane are GHGs, are the main cause, and are a problem. It is just that in some urban areas UHI is very high. 2023 paper “The unrelenting global expansion of the urban heat island over the last century”
It is possible to improve the estimate of the effect from GHGs by using location. With a formula something like: current surface temp minus (1998 surface temp + (current UHI minus 1998 UHI)) .
Posted by: JustSomeOldGuy | May 28 2026 14:48 utc | 43
Yesterday the International Security Forum began in Moscow and will conclude Friday. One of the discussion panels yesterday was International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security which is a rapidly increasing area of concern as we’ve seen over the last few years. The Statement by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov illuminates these problems as they come is different guises. Here are the opening paragraphs of his statement that show the overall scope of the discussion. The entire statement is in Russian, and I urge barflies to read its entire content since this issue affects our activities:
I am glad to welcome all the participants of the round table. I would like to thank our foreign guests who came to Moscow to take part in this discussion, share their views and talk about their governments’ approaches to ensuring international information security (IIS).
The topic of information security has been one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda for decades, and its relevance is increasing every year. Digitalization today affects almost all spheres of human activity. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), having become our indispensable assistants, have simultaneously turned into a tool for intruders. With the rapid development and introduction of these technologies, the threats to our citizens, businesses and states emanating from the information space are exacerbating and scaling.
Unfortunately, today we have to state that the general state of international information security is deteriorating. Over the past year, we have witnessed how advanced ICTs have been used in conflicts to solve military and military-political problems. Of course, this was done secretly before, but now the use of the corresponding offensive potentials is not concealed and is even enshrined in doctrinal documents.
A worrying trend is the militarization of the private sector. We see how the largest developers of digital technologies, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), whose products are carelessly used all over the world, act as contractors for military departments and special services. They help to conduct reconnaissance, planning operations, and targeting. At the same time, these same companies, acting purely in the interests of the country of their registration, are cynically trying to cooperate with entire states under plausible pretexts, promising customers “safe solutions”.
In other words, we are dealing with a new form of colonialism: digital metropolises, with the help of modern “East India companies”, attack some, and get others hooked on their developments, penetrating key industries of client countries and gaining access to sensitive data. In such conditions, developing countries are becoming more and more vulnerable, since they do not share technologies with them, and the development of sovereign digital potentials is hindered in every possible way. [My Emphasis]
Yes, Starlink and SpaceX are both mentioned in a negative manner, which IMO is correct. The number of concerned nations is encouraging that closer cooperation will emerge to limit the nefarious activities of technofeudal organizations. I should note the recent image of Karp and Zelensky embracing each other that ought to alarm everyone.
Posted by: Hot Carl | May 27 2026 22:35 utc
Does your hypothesis extend to left-handed electric motors and the migration of the magnetic South Pole?
What about at the equator?
Do the left-handed and right-handed electric motors cancel out the magnetosphere?
Or maybe the waste water there goes straight down the plughole, neither rotating clockwise or anticlockwise?
Posted by: lachaussette | May 28 2026 15:30 utc | 45
It’s too bad I can’t sit all barflies down in front of a big screen to watch two vey powerfully important podcasts Richard Wolff with Glenn Diesen then Wolff with Michael Hudson and Nima. Both are germane to the main topics here at MoA and could be listed under them, But I chose here instead. I should also note that Mr. Wolff has a feature he produces for his substack on a weekly basis called “Wolff Responds” where his latest from yesterday fits in with the content of the above podcasts. Combined, the three will consume about 2.5 hours of your time.
The Sanchez Effect: Prof Danny Shaw
https://www.rt.com/shows/sanchez-effect/640663-shaw-us-cuba-economic-blockade/
“The US knows Cuban’s daily calorie intake because they impose hunger on purpose.”
United Snakes-imposed starvation siege and dwindling energy resources.Things are very bad in Cuba. Americans must take action and apply pressure on their regime. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate.
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 28 2026 19:13 utc | 47
In case anyone doubts my ‘shapeshifter dynast’ theories. They are on the run. And raising their kids as some ‘other’.
Peter Thiel is quietly relocating to Argentina. The billionaire tech investor has decamped from Los Angeles and Miami to Buenos Aires, where he’s purchased a mansion in one of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, enrolled his children in local schools, and is meeting regularly with President Javier Milei. This is Thiel’s third “backup country,” he received New Zealand citizenship in 2011 and applied for a Malta passport in 2022. Now Argentina is becoming his primary hedge against the United States. His stated motivations: concerns about California’s proposed 5% billionaire wealth tax, worries about the direction of the U.S., and the risk of nuclear war or runaway AI. Argentina, geographically insulated from Northern Hemisphere conflicts, fits the profile. But Thiel has also found ideological alignment with Milei’s libertarian slash-and-burn governance including deregulation, government spending cuts, aversion to taxes and “wokeness.” The two met in person in 2024 (brokered by the tech entrepreneur who founded OLX, which Thiel’s VC firm funded). Since arriving in April, Thiel has dined with Milei’s deregulation minister, met with the economy minister, and spent time at the presidential house discussing how to ensure libertarianism survives beyond Milei’s term. Milei’s cabinet chief said last month: “All billionaires of the world who want to flee countries increasingly regulated, with higher taxes and governments that persecute their citizens, are welcome in the Argentine republic, the new land of freedom.” The Argentine government is exploring offering Thiel permanent residence or citizenship through a new “golden passport” program for large investors. Thiel has also purchased land in neighboring Uruguay near Punta del Este. Some observers speculate it could include a nuclear bunker. This reflects a larger strategy. Thiel co-funded Próspera, a $120 million “charter city” in Honduras with its own laws, courts, and tax system. When Honduras’s government tried to shut it down as a sovereignty violation, Próspera sued for $10 billion. Trump then pardoned the former Honduran president who created the ZEDE framework, forced Honduras to elect a puppet leader, and Próspera is now expanding with a new U.S. military base on the island. Thiel isn’t just seeking personal refuge, he’s building an archipelago of private governance zones across the hemisphere in places where billionaires can operate outside state jurisdiction. Argentina is the latest addition.
May 28, 2026 · 6:25 PM UTC
Posted by: DunGroanin | May 28 2026 20:24 utc | 48
Nicholas Davies, author of Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, has an essay published at Counterpunch, “Do US War Crimes Doom the World to Endless War and Chaos?” that was discussed during today’s chat between Judge Nap and Colonel Wilkerson, a dialog that’s another must watch. The critique I have of Davies is the Outlaw US Empire began breaking International Law as soon as it came into force on 24 October 1945 as I’ve argued here many times and not at the supposed end of the Cold War and the advent of the Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992-4. The question asked by Davies is being widely discussed on alt-media podcasts, including those I’ve linked to today. The ultimate question posed by most is who/what will/can stop Trump/Netanyahu since they’re today’s serial killers, although Outlaw Empire killers well predate Trump but not as explicitly.
Quiet in this nook! I like it.
Have some more death of hegemony.
@SprinterPress
4m
“We are emerging from this campaign as the strongest power in the Middle East. We have never been stronger!”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about his readiness to continue projecting strength in many areas:
“Israel is no longer just a regional power — it is already a global power.
And why a global power? Because we have world-class technologies.
Today, they can see this — in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere. Now we are able to use our power in many directions”
May 28, 2026 · 8:25 PM UTC
My precious. My power. My ring. Ha hahahaha…
The lunatics are running around like crazed rabid dogs.
Putting him down is the only safe option. For our kids.
This is exactly how apartheid saffafricans were projecting before they inevitably failed.
Truth and reconciliation is not available to NuttyYahoos.
Just so future musk, Milei, and Aipac drones can carry on.
Only Truth and JUSTICE.
This time.
They must pay for their heinous daily crimes.
They are claiming god powers so they should be left in charge!
Raising Lazarus! Praise Jesus Drumpff!
@SprinterPress
22m
A pill capable of resurrecting the dead has been created in the USA, announced Donald Trump
According to the US President, the drug was tested on people in a state of clinical death and their condition improved instantly.
May 28, 2026 · 8:22 PM UT
ducking crazy loonies! We must end this. Now.
Posted by: DunGroanin | May 28 2026 20:52 utc | 50
Gaza:
Israeli PM Netanyahu says he directed the military to take over 70% of Gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-military-70-percent-gaza-intl
Trump’s Board of Peace is in financial crisis and wants to use funds taken from the Palestinian Authority to pay for Gaza’s reconstruction. Palestinians would pay twice over: money stolen from the West Bank would be used to cement Gaza’s occupation.
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/trump-wants-the-palestinians-to-pay-for-the-u-s-occupation-of-gaza/ funds taken from the Palestinian Authority
In the above article, when the author writes “funds taken from the PA to pay for..”, he is referring to monies that Israel has stolen from the Palestinians for decades in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel granted itself the right to hold and decide on the distribution of Palestinians’ incomes and bank accounts a long time ago. For the past two and a half years, Israel has refused to release any of the Palestinians’ money to them, whether it is from the sale of goods internally or abroad, or money earned from a paying job. In the years when Israel releases money, they always charge a “handling fee” which is deducted first.
During the current Israeli genocide of Palestine, Israel allowed IDF units to steal actual cash from the Palestinian banks and ATMs in the Strip.
Posted by: teri | May 28 2026 20:58 utc | 51
Comparing China with fascists is misleading since the fascists were all supported By Wall Street and the City of London and beyond all financial matters the British inteligentia and British agents significantly fueled the occult currents associated with fascism.
Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 28 2026 13:52 utc | 42
Thanks Peter. That occult current runs strong in Nazism and Zionism too.
Dungroanin, thanks for latest update with the Epstein Class.
Posted by: Suresh | May 28 2026 21:13 utc | 52
DunGroanin | May 28 2026 20:52 utc | 50—
Clinically dead people are incapable of swallowing a pill. More Trumpian fantasy.
That’s a clinical delusion right there. Not a comparatively harmless fabrication; posting it on TS is literally insane. Narcissists tend to age badly, and dementia naturally exacerbates the problems. This is worse than the Jesus meme. I can’t help but feel pity for him.
Posted by: persiflo | May 28 2026 22:02 utc | 54
disclaimer: I am technically not allowed to diagnose. Also he said it in front of a camera, not on TS. But say he did.
Posted by: persiflo | May 28 2026 22:10 utc | 55
SMiniMO | May 28 2026 3:46 utc | 20
*** Syria rejected the plan of Germany on the return of more than 700 000 Syrian refugees to the homeland. «We categorically reject any attempts of forced deportation», — stated the minister of foreign affairs of Syria Asaad ash-Shaibani.
He added that Syrians in Germany are «strategic resource», and not a burden. Refugees receive allowances and constantly send hard currency to the homeland, annually money transfers constitute the amount up to €400 million – this is much more than German aid to Syria, which constitutes no more than €350 million per year. ***
So they buggered off to Germany when Assad was president of Syria, and are now, according to the violently imposed Israeli puppet regime of ‘jiziohadists’ in Syria, “strategic resources” (ie. fifth-columnists for Israel and its puppets?) who get allowances from the German government … which they send to Syria.
Instead of threatening Russia, Berlin ought to be threatening to bomb Damascus.
Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 28 2026 13:29 utc | 38
*** Donald Trump was saved from ritual slaughter and sent to the zoo.
[quote from Guardian report]
What began as a routine Eid purchase quickly turned into nationwide curiosity after videos went viral. Crowds gathered at the farm, with visitors travelling from far afield to see its blond fringe and calm demeanour. The owner of the farm, Ziauddin Mridha, said his younger brother had given the buffalo the Trump nickname after spotting his resemblance to the US president.
Mridha said the animal was unusually gentle and needed careful upkeep, including frequent feeding and regular baths. ***
Very different personality …..
DunGroanin | May 28 2026 20:24 utc | 48
[quoting]
*** Trump then pardoned the former Honduran president who created the ZEDE framework, forced Honduras to elect a puppet leader, and Próspera is now expanding with a new U.S. military base on the island. Thiel isn’t just seeking personal refuge, he’s building an archipelago of private governance zones across the hemisphere in places where billionaires can operate outside state jurisdiction. Argentina is the latest addition.
May 28, 2026 ***
The final bars are being set into place for the global-panopticon concentration camp.
So many linkages, in so many of its aspects, to the Zionists/Israel/cultist-Jews …. far too many to be mere coincidence, especially in view of their (self-awarded) “chosen” right to enslave everybody else and own everything themselves.
Long planned, and now being realised thanks to perpetual-debt finance, technology and corruption.
They, and their close associates, are surely the ultimate there’s ever been in megalomania and concentrated evil.
But how many of the general public can even be bothered to notice any of that, till the project is complete and fully (inescapably) active?
The Case Against Wolff/Hudson, Nima, Johnson, Ritter, and Judge Nap / Colonel Wilkerson and Co., is the exponential techno-financial-military integration — Palantir in Ukraine, AUKUS, US bases in Australia+, the network of alliances from Japan to Korea to Thailand — is not a collapsing empire. It’s a distributed, AI-augmented, real-time kill chain that doesn’t need territorial occupation to achieve control.
QUAD + AUKUS + Japan + Korea + Philippines + Thailand + NZ Australia + Canada + Pacific Nato shift = a unipolar US Pacific, not multipolar one.
Russia/Iran/NK/Venezuela + ex-soviet Eurasia + greater Israel targets are cut off, not rising — their economies are war economies or survival economies. Africa are no better west africa sahel islamic terror band especially.
The Gaza/Lebanon/Syria/Iraq/Yemen/Oman/Gulf region do not show US weakness; they show that Israel (backed by US intel/logistics as in Ukraine too) can wage multi-front war indefinitely while adversaries collapse internally. No one is coming to save them, or to stop Presidents being kidnapped and extradited to the US on “trumped” up charges and their shipping exports seized.
I’m not denying there are some cracks in the old global financial system; I am arguing that the cracks don’t matter because the US-led system has evolved into something Hudson’s 20th-century debt-analysis can’t fully grasp: algorithmic empire on steroids with zero moral constraints.
Academic theory can’t compete with bullets and autonomous rockets on drones or dystopian crass societies selling sex n drugs n delusions online.
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 29 2026 0:41 utc | 59
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 29 2026 0:41 utc | 59
Coincidentally, today I saved this Berletic/Diesen vid where, in the last several minutes they both talk about the US hold on the Indo-Pacific and Scandinavia (queued).
Brian Berletic: The New Great Game – War Against Iran, Russia & China
Posted by: frito | May 29 2026 1:55 utc | 60
The wealthiest investors are pulling money out of the U.S. in the ‘de-dollarization’ trade
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/wealthiest-investors-de-dollarization-trade.html
Posted by: Exile | May 29 2026 2:25 utc | 61
Unsightful,
Interesting counter thinking. My guess is the brutal empire approach will pnly bankrupt Washington faster. but ( most importantly) that your views represemt the desired approach of the Eoszein Class.
dark entlightenment for sure.
Posted by: Exile | May 29 2026 2:31 utc | 62
Posted by: karlof1 | May 28 2026 18:43 utc | 46
Thanks, karlof1. I’ve only had time for Nima’s interviews this evening, but I strongly recommend your link to the Wolff and Hudson interview on Dialogue Works. I’ll be revisiting the three DW sessions in the morning when the brain is more alert. Well done, Nima!
Posted by: juliania | May 29 2026 3:00 utc | 63
Syriana Analysis: Tarik Cyril Amar: ‘Epstein Class Crashing’
https://www.youtube.com/@SyrianaAnalysis/streams
“Epstein, AI & US Empire: Why the West is breaking down..”
Papal crusade against AI?
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 3:08 utc | 64
Sanctioned Russian Tanker Carrying Diesel to Cuba Diverts To the South
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2060112964896915526
“…Russia does not intend to seek permission from other countries to supply oil…”?
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 3:45 utc | 65
France sent 800 Foreign Legion troops to Armenia — to guard PM Nikol Pashinyan and fly him out if he loses? https://t.co/mkWnurbWIm
Posted by: MiniMO | May 29 2026 3:53 utc | 66
David Suzuki & The Suzuki Foundation Must Stop Greenwashing Israel’s Crimes
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/2060195367992414540
“David Suzuki’s foundation has received millions of dollars from a leading anti-Palestinian donor who is on his board. Please email the Suzuki Foundation to raise this matter.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 4:10 utc | 67
Academic theory can’t compete with bullets and autonomous rockets on drones or dystopian crass societies selling sex n drugs n delusions online.
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 29 2026 0:41 utc | 59
I gonna out on a limb and call you a dishonest commentator.
Algorithmic calculations with zero moral constraint is Zionism in a nutshell. There are always Final Solutions.
Fact : Russia outproduces the entire NATO and US combined in bullets, shells, rockets, drones, and the delivery systems.
Then there’s China.
And North Korea.
And Iran.
Don F posted a video on the last Open (109) & Iran (110) Thread showing what happening in the financial world, which also included a comparison of the last GFC to the Great Depression.
Here’s another one.
First Came the War, Then the Blockade, Now the Shortages; Epic Fury Has Become Epic Folly
Since you have been all over both those threads, there’s no excuses for not seeing/ignoring it.
Another clue to why you’re here.
Before you, there was Princess Bodica, Neofeudalfuture and so many other Avatars not worth remembering. Same tired old playbook.
Posted by: Suresh | May 29 2026 5:05 utc | 68
Suresh | May 29 2026 5:05 utc | 68
Boring. I’ll decide what I think and say and will continue to live by my own values.
Posted by: unsightfulviews | May 29 2026 5:11 utc | 69
SWEDEN – let’s focus in on the ‘enemy within’ who have long benefitted from every European. War for centuries and are part of the roots of Nazism and tyranny in Europe. The long suffering masses. Us.
Re : Posted by: frito | May 29 2026 1:55 utc | 60
Good subject frito thanks – it is long past time to give the tawdry old Northern Empire – older than most other European nations, who were long ago beaten by their Eurasian neighbours, whom they have long coveted to destroy and conquer.
The only thing they have going for them is their psychological hold, named after their own capital, upon the crazed deluded collective wasters through propaganda and ‘culture’.
Not deep thinking, peaceful, beautiful people who love to get naked and have sex on camera as they have been marketed to the base Europeans.
Not ‘neutral’ either – they are the scurviest bunch of self deluded millions pirates, largely owned and run by a ‘single family’ that owns the majority of their wealth. Who have been the family behind much of Nazism in Europe.
Time to wake up from the Stockholm syndrome and call that spade a spade! Let us begin.
‘ People, I’m delving into Swedish politics.
Why Sweden joined NATO and who is the main lobbyist and stakeholder in this process?
The Wallenberg banking family rules there.
The Wallenberg family is one of the most influential families in Sweden, known for its significant number of prominent bankers, industrialists, politicians, statesmen, and diplomats.
The Wallenberg family owns shares in Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and in Sweden’s largest manufacturing companies, such as Ericsson, Electrolux, Saab, ABB, SAS Group, SKF, AIK, Atlas Copco, and others.
In the 1970s, companies controlled by the Wallenberg family employed approximately 40 percent of Sweden’s workforce, and their market capitalization accounted for approximately 40 percent of the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
Swedish democratic socialism, what do I know…
During World War II, their bank, Stockholms Enskilda Bank, actively collaborated with Hitler’s Germany, and the US Secretary of the Treasury suspected Jacob Wallenberg of personal Nazi sympathies ‘
https://t.me/PMCTchkvsky/20259
more to come no doubt – follow it there.
Posted by: DunGroanin | May 29 2026 9:02 utc | 70
The Lord Mandelsson
@MiddleEastEye
18h
Former British ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was found to have links to former Israeli military intelligence chief Tamir Hayman. Earlier this year, it emerged that UKSV had recommended denying Mandelson security clearance, but the Foreign Office’s permanent secretary approved it regardless
More here ⤵️
middleeasteye.pulse.ly/eon2h…
May 28, 2026 · 6:00 PM UTC
The uniparty governments since 1980 have been wholly Zionist owned and run. They have robbed the British Public Services non stop and made world war 3 for the past 30 years.
Blairism is wholly ziofascist run. As is the British media. News and Entertainment.
Right upto the current PM, hapless SirKyirStarmzetrooper and every minister Freind of Killer Entity.
Want to know more about Mandy and his role at the top? Maybe I’ll wait for a new thread.
Posted by: DunGroanin | May 29 2026 13:28 utc | 71
The techbro space race between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has produced an especially spectacular rocket explosion last night when the 1370 ton NewGlenn launch vehicle self-destructed during a static test, wrecking the launch pad. German MSM interviewed (autodubbed) an astronaut about it, who cites Bezos as “wanting to give something back to humanity” and Musk as “dreaming of Mars”. Bezos is working on his own mega constellation, currently lagging StarLink’s 10,000+ satellites with a mere 1,000 of his own. Both are essentially squatting on the global commons, as one of the barflies so eloquently put it.
Here’s a visualization showing the density of space junk around Terra.
Posted by: persiflo | May 29 2026 13:44 utc | 72
“Chas Freeman: Hezbollah Strikes Israel Hard – Israel Now Prepares for WAR with Egypt & Turkey”
The latest video from “Dialogue works”.
Posted by: WMG | May 29 2026 14:20 utc | 73
Posted by: MiniMO | May 28 2026 3:47 utc | 21
This must be AI generated, it cannot be an example of a IOF Special forces soldier !!!!
Posted by: Monty | May 29 2026 14:29 utc | 74
DunGroanin@70:
“Not ‘neutral’ either…”
Sounds like a perfect fit for Canada’s bankster-PM Mark ‘Bilderberg’ Carnage…
Canada Turns Away From US on Major Defence Purchase
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-negotiating-purchase-of-aerial-surveillance-system-with-swedes-instead-of-american-competitor/
“In front of a packed room of Canadian corporate defence and security leaders, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada has entered negotiations to procure GlobalEye, an advanced aerial surveillance system developed in Sweden that uses Canadian-made jets.
The GlobalEye is an airborne warning and control system (AEW&C) created by Swedish defence and security company Saab. The radar system is integrated into Bombardier’s Global 6500, transforming the corporate jet into a cutting-edge surveillance aircraft.
But while closer ties have been forged with Europe, the US relationship is fraying…Tensions have also increased over Canada’s decision to review the procurement of F-35s from US based Lockheed-Martin, while reevaluating the merits of the Gripen Fighter, a jet also made by Saab.
‘Sweden is a friend to Canada. I mean we are all NATO…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 15:21 utc | 75
Posted by: can’t remember. About immune system.
I have a great relationship with my Numskulls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Numskulls
It’s a bit like an open relationship. At one point I was obsessed with what they were doing regarding my biosystem to the extent of paranoia.
Then one day they advised me to let them get on with their work whilst I get on with my life.
They said just follow your cravings, as any pregnant women will attest. If I get the craving for protein, go buy some eggs and interwine the urge into my life story.
If I get a craving for a big fat jucy burger, I’m probably deficient in fat and iron.
If I get a craving for a sweet Satsuma, I could be Vitamin C deficient.
I did have a good old moan about all this superior motivation, but the Numskulls assured me that searching the shelfs of the supermarket was preferable to wandering the landscape in a feverish potasium desire to lick some salt.
Now I just let them get on with it. After all, they are part of a long line of success 🤣🤐!
Posted by: lachaussette | May 29 2026 15:57 utc | 76
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn booster detonated on the launch pad last night with the force of a modest tactical nuke (at least 0.5kt). Find the videos online if you want to get an idea what such a nuke explosion would look like, as this was in the ballpark.
Posted by: William Gruff | May 29 2026 16:11 utc | 77
It is looking like Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn booster did a remarkable simulation of a giant thermobaric munition. Unlike “normal” launchpad rocket failures which are more like a conflagration than a detonation, it is looking like the full load of methane/oxygen in the booster detonated with upwards of 30% efficiency. To say that is unusual is an understatement.
I guess Blue Origin won’t be launching again anytime soon since their launchpad will be complete toast after getting nuked like that.
Posted by: William Gruff | May 29 2026 16:40 utc | 78
Posted by: William Gruff | May 29 2026 16:11 utc
Frickin heck! That’s some ACME A-kaboom!
Must say I preferred the old Glenn to the New Glen. Especially his surreal description of the fireflies:
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-mystery-of-john-glenns-fireflies-returns
But of course, they were just ice particles caught in the sunlight.
Or were they?
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/news/is-this-picture-a-seed-sent-to-earth-by-aliens-scientists-discover-mysterious-organism/
I don’t know. 🤔
Posted by: lachaussette | May 29 2026 16:46 utc | 79
DunGroanin@70:
Sweden & Wallenbergs
Capitals Uncovered: Mats Nilsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J45hnZGv9U
“Mats Nilsson on the Wallenbergs, their bank and Swedish neutrality’s end.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 16:55 utc | 80
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 29 2026 16:55 utc
Don’t know about the Wallenburgs but considering that Sweden has the oldest central bank in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Riksbank
It’s fair to say they’ve probably got some serious skin in the game.
Posted by: lachaussette | May 29 2026 17:20 utc | 81
Posted by: AleaJactaEst | May 28 2026 10:18 utc | 28
I’d rather listen to climate scientists than some random blog run by a guy who has received funding from the Heartland Institute.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | May 29 2026 19:30 utc | 82
Posted by: Exile | May 28 2026 13:26 utc | 36
My response to that is “I don’t”. 🤣
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | May 29 2026 19:34 utc | 83
Not a big fan of Bezos, but DAMN, I have to feel sorry for him.
Posted by: frito | May 29 2026 19:37 utc | 84
Posted by: DunGroanin | May 29 2026 9:02 utc | 70
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Thanks DG. I’ll have to look more into all that. I knew about the nazi connections. As you know post wwii the nazi leaders were recycled into the upper echelons of society. The trains-running-on-time ethos is persistent. I mean, who wants to wait for a train?
Posted by: frito | May 29 2026 19:51 utc | 85
May – Jewish Heritage Month
I only just heard this on the radio a few minutes ago. Jewish Heritage Month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The annual Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) luncheon was held May 19 on Capitol Hill, bringing together bipartisan members of Congress, foreign ambassadors, and civic, business, and religious leaders in the historic Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building to honor the enduring contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States.
It honored entrepreneur and philanthropist Elliott Broidy with the Visionary Award.
Elliott Broidy a contributor to Trump was pardoned by Trump at the end of his first term in office. Broidy had been convicted of lobbying for China. In the US you cannot be convicted of lobbying for Israel.
They don’t like Broidy at Haaretz (Israeli media) as you can tell by the photo that tops this article Haaretz did about Broidy.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-09-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/elliott-broidy-gop-fundraiser-is-secret-partner-in-firm-behind-pro-qatar-campaign/00000199-066e-dd48-a79b-bffefbdd0000
archive: https://archive.ph/AAEix
I wondered what this person honored during Jewish Heritage Month as “Visionary” would have to say about the Genocide in Gaza.You can guess from this clip from his “Visionary” acceptance speech:
Broidy described the luncheon as more than a celebration of JAHM, calling it a reaffirmation of the shared responsibility to confront hatred and protect the values of tolerance, democracy, and human dignity at a moment when antisemitism has risen sharply both in the United States and around the world.
Elliott penned a letter about the PR War Against Israel.
https://elliottbroidy.com/news/the-pr-war-against-israel/
Read it and then fumigate.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 29 2026 21:00 utc | 86
Posted by: Exile | May 28 2026 11:19 utc | 29
Yes that story has received very little attention.
First it is NOT fake or hyped and is reported in all the main stream press.
Now how in the name of anything to do with government can 33 gold bars be stolen. It beggars belief but more to the point it established the USA as a corrupt and unstable nation. So we look to the how and why to try to see what is actually the real truth.
- First perhaps Mr Davis Rush is a simple thief. If this is the case then the US government system has collapsed. To steal on bar might be possible due to slack but not non-existant probity controls. To steal 33 is beyond reasonable belief so it would mean essentially the USA is a failed state.
- Now the second more likely possibility is that Mr Rush was an opportunist who was given the bars for some “legitimate” but top secret mission. Perhaps he was in charge of the program to buy governments and sympathisers in foreign nations – Venezuela, Cuba, Iran all spring to mind. How much influence would 40 million buy? Let us say 40 with an average of $1 mill each plus the Rolexes for smaller fry. Perhaps he was the guy who failed to pay Venezuela or who was unable to find recruits in Iran so the money was not spent. Whatever the actual intended direction of the money it PROVES without a shadow of a doubt that the CIA pays insurgents and disruptors in foreign nations and pays them big. If one guy had $40 million chances are that there are MUCH, MUCH bigger programs elsewhere (Ukraine obviously but Africa etc)
- A third possibility is that he was still planning to use the money but got cold feet and was going to spill the beans. FBI came for him first. Perhaps he had Democrat Links and Trump’s mob went after him.
Whatever the sequence of events what we now have proven to us is that the USA is profligate with taxpayer’s money with minimal accountability.
Just finished watching Mercouris. Starting around 45 minutes in he paints a pretty scary picture of the EU’s belligerence towards Russia and how things are escalating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VB0WIDNQmM
Posted by: arby | May 30 2026 0:04 utc | 88
Something I noticed– On the bookshelf behind Mercouris placed sideways is a book entitled Provoked, and now watching Rachel Blevins also sitting sideways on the bookshelf behind her is a hard cover copy of a book by the same name. Provoked by Scott Horton.
I looked it up on Amazon and it is about the Ukraine war. Highly rated as well.
Posted by: arby | May 30 2026 1:31 utc | 89
Not a big fan of Bezos, but DAMN, I have to feel sorry for him.
Posted by: frito | May 29 2026 19:37 utc | 84
I’m sorry he wasn’t on the rocket.
Posted by: malenkov | May 30 2026 2:27 utc | 90
Little by little, Trump is taking down BRICS+. Venezuela is taken. Russia’s somewhat neutered via involvement in Ukraine, Ukraine’s bombing their refineries, sanctions on their shadow fleet, the “understandings” from Anchorage, the destruction of the Nordstream Pipelines, the Trump route through Armenia. India intimidated with tariffs and new connections with Israel. Iran being neutered militarily as far as effective participation. China is looking at energy difficulties from major oil partners, Taipei Times says that “Taiwan will purchase weapons from the US worth $280 million in 2026”, and the building of US infrastructure/bases/airstrips in the Philippines.
And tonight we have a new direction of US attention pointed out by Marco Rubio. Two drug cartels in Brazil have been designated “terrorist organizations” at the request of Flavio Bolsonaro, who will be running for president in October. Aides “raised the issue to elevate voter concerns surrounding violent crime ahead of Brazil’s October presidential election, while simultaneously aligning their platform with the Trump administration.” In other words, there will be money, support, and NGO’s pouring efforts into Bolsonaro’s campaign to boost a Trump ally in Brazil who can then cut off trade with China or redirect trade and investment to US corporations. And the article mentions “banks” and Scott Bessent is quite capable of causing enormous economic problems in Brazil to incite the population.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/rubio-2-brazilian-gangs-now-designated-as-terrorist-organizations/
In addition to military activity around or in Cuba, Honduras, Bolivia, Nigeria and who knows who else will fall to the hegemon and US corporate greed while ordinary people in the US and around the world pay the costs often blindly without question or understanding.
Posted by: Belle | May 30 2026 2:49 utc | 91
I’m sorry he wasn’t on the rocket.
Posted by: malenkov | May 30 2026 2:27 utc | 90
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lol you ass.
Posted by: frito | May 30 2026 3:59 utc | 92
Posted by: Belle | May 30 2026 2:49 utc | 91
Sprinter Press Agency on X: “US Treasury Secretary Bessent quite emotionally stated that the United States confiscated cryptocurrency worth 1 billion dollars from Iranian residents: “We seized about 1 billion US dollars of Iran’s cryptocurrency – we simply directly seized the wallets. Some of them may be https://t.co/LC2wPiwJOs” / X
Posted by: frito | May 30 2026 4:05 utc | 93
Starting May 30, Russia imposed temporary restrictions on the import of a number of berries and fresh vegetables from Armenia, including tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, green vegetables, and strawberries.
Posted by: MiniMO | May 30 2026 4:26 utc | 94
Purely as respite from the crimes of the Thieving, Lieing, Mass-murdering Genocide Jews – is anyone familiar with Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 (in B Flat Major)? It has 4 Movements and is my favourite piece of music of any genre – and is a couple of microns ahead of Debussy’s Clare de Lune.
The first half of the 4th Movement personnifies the essence of wistfulness. But the entire piece is thrilling and immersive
Like every tune ever recorded, there are many versions on YouTube. Pick one with a pianist you’ve heard of. I discovered it by happenstance 60 years ago when trying out my FM + FM multiplex tuner.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 30 2026 5:47 utc | 95
Controled destruction of the world economies is a repetition of covid: big players buying smaller entities for pennies. They just need 1 computer to rule whole businesses. These can be in the jungle or a desert, no problem.
Multipolarity is a necessity. Otherwise this will look so much the same everywhere that the Soviets will look creative in comparison.
Posted by: Minaa | May 30 2026 9:41 utc | 96
So, as we twiddle our thumbs waiting for Hajj to end and WWIII to resume, here’s a couple of off topic articles to cheer you all along:
A rounding error with a grocery list
The AI Takeover Has Arrived
The big question is, have the Epstein class figured this out or are they truly self-deluded?
Posted by: ChatNPC | May 30 2026 13:18 utc | 97
Something I noticed– On the bookshelf behind Mercouris placed sideways is a book entitled Provoked, and now watching Rachel Blevins also sitting sideways on the bookshelf behind her is a hard cover copy of a book by the same name. Provoked by Scott Horton.
Posted by: arby | May 30 2026 1:31 utc | 89
Phew! I’m relieved to find out that it is not just me who has the habit of looking at the bookshelves behind the presenter or guest, sometimes just to see if any of them reads Terry Pratchett…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 30 2026 18:02 utc | 98
And what if the Ukranian drones on a Russian school is simply the result of the US using artificial intelligence to designate strikes?
Posted by: The Far Side | May 30 2026 20:50 utc | 99
Mark Carney: Proponent of the International Imperial Order
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/2060477431132434607
“As Trump threatens to annex Canada & attacks the country economically, Carney has sought to diversify business ties. Notwithstanding an internationally acclaimed speech, he has maintained military & diplomatic support for the US Empire…”
‘Worth Repeating’ (&vid)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/canada-strong-will-help-make-america-great-again-pm-carney-tells-nyc-business-crowd/
“US Ambassador welcomes PM Carney’s offer to ‘help make America great again’….”
‘Elbows up’ was just a campaign slogan for gullible Canucklheads to elect his Vichy regime and the best Canadian prime minister America ever had.
Posted by: John Gilberts | May 30 2026 21:34 utc | 100