The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-112

The piece on Hezbollah in “other issues” above (Hezbollah’s Greatest Hits Indi.ca) is worth reading in conjunction with today’s MSM headlines heralding the IDF “capture” of a “Crusader castle”.

Posted by: jayc | May 31 2026 15:15 utc | 2

Arch – Hezbollah‘s greatest hits is a must for you.

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 15:43 utc | 3

Trump bragged about passing his fourth cognitive test yesterday.

The test is Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

The more Trump keeps mentioning to the world he is mentally fit and physically fit as the President. The more I think he is getting closer and closer to his Reaper.

Posted by: KillerDoll | May 31 2026 16:13 utc | 4

Checking up Trump health report released by the White House. Everything seems fake and he is perfectly healthy for a man his age and even low cholesterol except one point on Trump hand bruising mentions Aspirin therapy.

Aspirin is a blood thinner and issued by doctor to patients that already had a stroke, heart attack, unstable angina or bypass surgery. Aspirin as a blood thinner outweighs the benefits for men over 70 as it can increase risk of stomach bleeding or hemorrhagic stroke.

If Trump is on Aspirin then there must be reasons not mentioned in the report.

Posted by: KillerDoll | May 31 2026 16:27 utc | 5

Killer,

this is how it musta been in late stage USSR when citizens learned to decipher official news to learn what was teally happening.

the difference is the USSR politburo went quietly. Our Epstein Class won‘t.

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 17:09 utc | 6

thanks b and posters to moa…

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 17:10 utc | 7

“ Zionist entity: “

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thankyou b, please keep that heading.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 31 2026 17:34 utc | 8

KillerDoll | May 31 2026 16:27 utc | 5—

Not to say Trump’s health is good, IMO it’s not, but low-dose aspirin–81mg–is SOP for us oldsters and is often paired with some other type of blood thinner to prevent stroke and further plaque build-up on arterial walls. I’ve been on such a regime for ten years since my first heart attack. Along with his narcissism Trump likely has plaque building in his brain. IMO, Trump’s actions prove his unfitness for any position of power, and the same can be said for his Gang.
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Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 17:34 utc | 9

Jeffery Epstein won Powerball

short Video
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/nSCtehV9-4c?ra=m

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 17:36 utc | 10

Karl,

wouldn‘t simply healthy eating and walking a few hours a day be better than all that Aspirin?

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 17:38 utc | 11

Thank you, b – so much you have provided to read, it will take another week!

I went first, I have to admit, to Sarah Kendzior’s piece entitled ‘The No War Order’ because her name is Sarah; but secondly as ‘No War’ felt to me a positive description. Unfortunately I was wrong in interpreting the title that way, but her article is full of facts that bring home how far the US has fallen , how and why. In spite of which I do recommend her article, much as I would recommend a consideration of Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’. The latter is not because, as one of my college classmates was promoting, Hamlet is an early champion of justice, but because, as I objected back then, the play exemplifies justice going terribly wrong at least as its protagonist is able to attempt its achievement.

As an additional component to my preliminary thoughts, I will add that when Plato’s dialogue The Republic gets underway with conversation between Socrates and the elderly Cephalus, a final thought from the former centers on whether it is just to withhold funds owed a formerly honest friend who has gone mad. At which point, Cephalus departs.

So, this being the Sunday of Pentecost, I shall follow Cephalus’ lead, not to propitiate the gods, but to tend my garden. But do read Sarah’s piece; there’s a lovely photo at the end of it.

Posted by: juliania | May 31 2026 17:42 utc | 12

On the topic of Chinese tech and its lead in AI, this Guancha article that’s in Chinese features “Professor Zhang Weiwei, Director of the China Research Institute at Fudan University, together with specially invited researcher and communications expert Mr. Wang Tao from the institute, analyzed the significant impact of DeepSeek V4 on the global AI ecosystem and how Chinese AI can break through.” Mr. Wang gives most of the talk in his remarks and the Q&A. Here’s his opening remarks:

On April 24, DeepSeek V4 was released, once again causing a global sensation. Why do we use the word “shake again”? Because a year ago, in January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 was open-sourced, causing the first shock. This release of the V4 version can be said to have once again “gone viral.” A key reason is that it has had a significant impact on the entire industry ecosystem.

The shock caused by DeepSeek’s first “breakout” a year ago was mainly due to two reasons: first, it brought about a disruptive revolution in algorithmic efficiency; The second is the fundamental change in business models brought by open source. These two are actually connected, because it is not the first open-source (large model). Previously, Meta’s Llama in the US, Google’s Gemma, and Databricks’ DBRX were all open source. DeepSeek R1 is a general-purpose large model with an order of magnitude improvement in algorithmic efficiency. It is open source, developed by a Chinese company, and at a critical time when the industry generally believes that American AI is already leading the world. All these elements combined to create the first shock.

The newly launched V4 version also brings many technical performance improvements. For example, with 1.6 trillion parameters and millions of words in context, efficiency is further improved, with inference costs only one-seventieth that of GPT-5.5. But these technological performance improvements are not the core reason behind such a huge shock. This disruptive breakthrough lies in the introduction of a key “virtual hardware layer.” So how do we understand this “virtual hardware layer”?

The first shock mentioned earlier was the dramatic improvement in efficiency, which reduced the demand for NVIDIA chips. Because on top of this hardware, there’s another ‘moat’ called CUDA, which is a hardware-based development platform. It has already become the de facto mainstream software development platform in the past. Software developed on this platform, although theoretically transferable to other chip hardware platforms, increases costs because it is more complex and time-consuming. Therefore, CUDA has a certain lock-in effect on NVIDIA chips.

With improved software efficiency, things that used to cost $50,000 in chips may now be done with just $10,000 worth of NVIDIA chips, but as long as you still develop software on the CUDA platform, you still have to use NVIDIA chips.

The concept of the “virtual hardware layer” is not DeepSeek’s first invention, but it was indeed the first to introduce this design concept on an AI platform. With the “virtual hardware layer,” software development can maximize reliance on underlying chips, essentially adding a universal software platform to different computing chips. We used to call it an operating system. With this AI operating system, it will be easy for people to develop AI software to run on chips from different manufacturers.

DeepSeek’s advances might be what caused NVIDIA’s Huang to join the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a move that surprised many. The article is rather technical, which ought to please many technophile barflies.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 17:46 utc | 13

El. 8mins. China shuts down access to Wall St.

Bessent PANICS as China Shuts Down US Stock Access – 100M Investors Ordered: SELL ONLY

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 17:52 utc | 14

In addition to the ‘Financial Curtain’ being drawn by China … we can add –

Yves here. It is mystifying and distressing to see Western powers in ever-be-escalating mode with Russia when Russia has moved from strength to strength and is at the cutting edge of combat practices, while NATO members are still cognitively stuck with old doctrine and have badly depleted their weapons caches. The objective where they might kinda-sorta succeed is in erecting an Iron Curtain 2.0. But how is that not a colossal act of self-harm, with Russia richly endowed with badly-needed and oft-scarce commodities, and besties with manufacturing/tech powerhouse China?

By Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political analyst who specializes in the global systemic transition to multipolarity in the New Cold War. He has a PhD from MGIMO, which is under the umbrella of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Originally published at his website

A New Iron Curtain Is Inevitable | naked capitalism

Short, sweet, and substantive.

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 17:58 utc | 15

Exile | May 31 2026 17:38 utc | 11—

Four low-dose aspirins are the same as one full-strength aspirin, and the regime of tests done bi-annually check to see if they are causing any damage, which is very rare. Your prescription is 100% correct as part of an ongoing management program for those with cardiovascular disease like me, which is often linked to insulin resistance. There’s clearly a causal connection that remains unclear to researchers. In my case, I take a special platelet separator versus the standard blood thinner, and my diet is tailored to deal with my insulin resistance. My biggest sin are the two beers I drink daily, which for many years was three and at times more. They cause triglycerides to escalate which are related to elevated A1-C levels. I’m 70 and stable but need to improve some numbers if I want to go as long as my mom who passed at 86. There’s a data number compiled based on numerous factors that provides your risk of another cardiac event that for many years now has hovered well below the danger level and even below the low-risk level.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 18:12 utc | 16

There is an aspect of the AI Bezzle that you missed. They are going to give away weapons grad plutonium to the tech bros.

From my substack

a bunch of fast-talking startups, heavily financed by and lobbied for by the usual megalomaniacs in Silicon Valley, have convinced Trump, on the basis of no evidence, that its time to massively rollout several unproven nuclear reactor technologies. Oh, and BTW, they would like the government to simply give them the US stockpile of weapons grade plutonium (WPu) for free. After all, that’s just “surplus waste”.

1. The Privatization Giveaway

The biggest elephant in the room here is the market price of WPu (for which there actually is no market, because only states have it). The news stories mention how much plutonium – either 34 metric tons (37.47 tons), which is the total stockpile, or 20 tons, which may be the amount proposed to be given away. But no one mentions how much the plutonium is worth. That’s because WPu is worth at minimum, $10,000 per GRAM. That’s $10M dollars per kilogram, or $10B dollars per metric ton.

So, 34 metric tons is worth at least $340 B; twenty metric tons is worth $200 B . And they just want the government to “dispose” of this “waste” to them for free. It is an obscene looting of the public treasury.

– arendt, The Great Plutonium Heist

Posted by: john brewster | May 31 2026 18:18 utc | 17

Don Firineach | May 31 2026 17:58 utc | 15—

Putin’s answer to the question who would he talk to from EU at his presser was humorous as only Putin can do:

Alyona Nefyodova: Izvestia newspaper. Can I ask my question? Alyona Nefyodova.

The EU is still undecided about who will talk with Moscow on behalf of Brussels. You have already proposed your preferred candidate – it was former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. And now the Europeans are discussing this matter. Unfortunately, they have ignored what you said and there was no response.

Vladimir Putin: No, they did respond. There was a response. I have noticed it, there were both a favourable and a negative reaction. There were positive responses too. So, what?

Alyona Nefyodova: Nevertheless, they are now discussing other candidates. There are several names.

Vladimir Putin: Which ones?

Alyona Nefyodova: Specifically, it is President of Finland Alexander Stubb, former Chancellor of Italy Mario Draghi, President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and President of the European Council António Costa.

Is there anyone among them whom Moscow would prefer as Brussels’ negotiator?

Vladimir Putin: I think that those are right in the European Council who say that they should designate the negotiator themselves. It is not up to us to appoint anyone on their behalf. And, when I mentioned Mr Schröder, I meant that he is the person who can be trusted. You know, they put all sorts of labels on him there, that he is my friend, and so on. Yes, we are friends. Is there anything to hide? What is so bad about it? Is it bad? But it inspires certain trust.

Meanwhile, despite our friendship, he always – I want to emphasise this, I want everybody here and in the Federative Republic to know that he has always prioritised the national interests of the German people and German state. We built, we started building the Nord Streams. So, what? Was it bad for the German state, for the German economy? And now, is it better after they rejected our energy imports? They are trying to get oil from Kazakhstan, but it is pumped via our territory all the same. They are trying this and that, I am not going to mention all of this. Actually, they are trying to restore some ties. Still, Schröder acted in the interests of the German nation.

Was all of it so easy then? We had both disputes and misunderstanding. But we always wanted to find a compromise and find compromise we did. He is someone you can talk to. But it is not up to us to decide. I simply mentioned that this could be Schröder or a person like him. It is not our business to choose the negotiator.

Naturally, it is up to us to decide whether to meet with this or another actor in today’s Western European politics. This is up to us. And we will see. They have yet to propose their pick, and we will also see whether they will do it or not, whether we need to meet with this or that politician or not, or whether we can trust them in one way or another.

There was a time when we held talks in Minsk and signed the Minsk agreements. Now we find out that they were signed to win some time and arm Ukraine instead of resolving all the existing issues peacefully, what we always sought and for what we are ready even now.

There’s more at the linked English transcript.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 18:22 utc | 18

…..many years now has hovered well below the danger level and even below the low-risk level. ……

good to hear – we need your efforts for a long while.

did you play any sports in HS ? On the debate team ? Suspect our paths crossed many MANY decades ago

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 18:49 utc | 19

A day of rest … LIVE in nature … take a few moments …

Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest – Cam 1

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 19:19 utc | 20

There was a time when we held talks in Minsk and signed the Minsk agreements. Now we find out that they were signed to win some time and arm Ukraine instead of resolving all the existing issues peacefully, what we always sought and for what we are ready even now.

…
Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 18:22 utc | 18

‘Peace’ for the present European elite, vassals of Empire and NATO, means they lose power. I’m not optimistic but the fact that there is, as yet, no substantive line of communication is simply criminal. Yes, VVP does have a wry sense of rumour and I suspect that he enjoyed a bit of mischief as a youth …

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 19:38 utc | 21

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 17:46 utc | 13

CUDA has been around for a very long time – if DeepSeek has circumvented it then this is a real threat to the nVidia garden.

Perhaps Huang is trying the approach that Microsoft have implemented many times over – EEE: embrace, extend, extinguish.

I’m sure the Chinese can see him coming.

Posted by: ChatNPC | May 31 2026 19:45 utc | 22

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 17:10 utc | 7

* So long as your opinion accords with general sentiment. This board is too tribal now. b bans the brash and opinionated and now MoEO is just a vaguely libtard circle jerk.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 31 2026 19:50 utc | 23

@ 23 patroklos

it seems to me you are free to post, although you appear hurt with the elevation of eo’s post which is a bit of a mystery to me psychologically.. it is more a reaction i’d associate with a dejected kid then what seems an intelligent adult to me…feel free to get into it more, but so far it just seems to me you are digging a deeper hole for yourself.. i’d be happy to be wrong here..

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 19:56 utc | 24

I go with you, james. When I read EOs post I thought b may pick it up.
Summed things up nicely (not a goog word for the s..t that‘s going on)

Posted by: steiniplatte | May 31 2026 20:05 utc | 25

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 19:56 utc | 24

Prob due to his parents aversion to ‘Poms’ … apples, Newton etc.

@Posted by: Patroklos | May 31 2026 19:50 utc | 23

Are you an Ozzie Republican perchance … ?

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 20:09 utc | 26

thanks guys.. the thing is, it’s b’s website.. he can decide to do whatever he chooses.. if someone gets there nose out of joint, which is what it looks like to me – so be it..

and many posters make great contributions to mos.. watcher made a doozy on that thead of eo’s.. it happens.. ultimately b decides what stays, goes, gets elevated or not…. we are blessed to have a place like this.. i think it was a stephen stills song with the appropriate title – you don’t know ehat you have til it’s gone..

peace out..

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 20:19 utc | 27

actual title is ‘love the one you’re with’..

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 20:21 utc | 28

Exile | May 31 2026 18:49 utc | 19—

Thanks for your reply and well wishes. I played sports avidly prior to adulthood, all sorts, but I ceased playing for school teams after we moved and I transferred to a completely different city and environment in 1970. I continued to bicycle to and from school and joined the bike club. Two sports I might have been good enough at to go pro was tennis and bowling. Puberty killed my upward growth at 75 inches and messed up my vision and thus my chances to become a power forward like those I followed in the NBA at the time, while my bat/ball coordination regressed because of my eyesight change. My profession in the food and entertainment worlds kept me lean for several decades, but that ceased when I returned to university at 41. I went to Los Gatos HS class of 1973. The draft lottery ended as I turned 18 and became eligible. That’s a small fraction of my bio.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 23:22 utc | 29

GE: Bombshell Study: World Sees USA as Biggest Threat, Instead Prefers China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UhHqPGFGos

“A comprehensive global survey found that people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and they prefer China over the US. Ben Norton analyzes the results of the Democracy Perception Index…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 31 2026 23:31 utc | 30

Sean Foo: ‘China Pulls the Trigger’

https://www.youtube.com/@SeanFooGold/videos

“China dumps $41.0 B US Treasuries as Japan threatens massive USD currency sell-off.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 1 2026 0:13 utc | 31

Karl,

oh sadly we didn’t cross paths in oir youth…I went to Wilson High in Long Beach. And yes when they ended the draft right before our 18th birthdays that was a gift from Heaven.

6‘3“ is still mighty tall.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 0:24 utc | 32

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 17:58 utc | 15
A number of readers of the NC piece don’t buy into the idea of the US being an innocent bystander, at least not when its fingerprints are still there as they were in 2014. I’d check them out.

Posted by: joey_n | Jun 1 2026 0:31 utc | 33

Posted by: joey_n | Jun 1 2026 0:31 utc | 36

Of course the US is not innocent – when was it ever – the piece’s main focus is that the \european elite are constructing this ‘curtain’ which is self-damaging – RF has factored this in for a while now – what the US would like is a war between Europe/nato and Russia – which would be total madness – then again the world is MAD enough at the mo. Ta for reading it …

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 1 2026 0:53 utc | 34

Colombia: far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella leads with nearly all votes counted…

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2061224090753437836

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 1 2026 1:11 utc | 35

Further to 41:

US Embassy Plot Amidst Colombia’s Presidential Race (& Spanish audio)

https://x.com/sovietwithsazon/status/2061210086157025509

“Leaked audio, authenticated by Colombian intelligence experts, revealing US Embassy plot to frame Petro’s party in drug case amidst Colombia’s presidential race. Read my article on this latest US election interference…“

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 1 2026 1:31 utc | 36

I think Karl is using a nome de plume. There there was nobody who graduated between 1918 and 1974 with that name. So he’s smart and didn’t need the advice, although I agree it’s sound and wise to operate anonymously – and to pollute the internet with as much garbage as possible where your identity is concerned. God knows they’re hoovering it all up and feeding it to “AI” models and massive data centers. Might as well feed them hallucination bait.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 1 2026 1:33 utc | 37

The world job markets are going through difficult economic and AI pressures but China is recognizing the challenges and responding

From factory floors to AI labs, China’s youth navigate a job market in transition

“The key is establishing a ‘grand employment concept,'” said Li Yu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, meaning every government department, not just the labor ministry, should treat employment as a core policy test.
“This year, we will work with relevant authorities to launch an AI technology skills enhancement campaign, strengthen AI general education, and continuously improve workers’ digital literacy and AI application capabilities,” said Zhai Tao, an official with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Taken together, the recently introduced measures aim to synchronize industrial upgrading with employment creation, ensuring that as China’s economy moves up the technology ladder, its workforce advances alongside it.
Beyond the goal of steadying this year’s job numbers, China’s national action plan aims to make the world’s largest labor market resilient enough to absorb challenges of the AI age and turn them into opportunities.

And how are other nations showing support for their work age populations?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 1 2026 2:35 utc | 38

Well, karlof1 is a nom de plume which I coined when I needed a username upon entering the online world in 1996, and yes, it’s connected to my bio. The portion of Los Gatos HS I graduated from no longer exists along with its records–it was the “continuation” branch and called Mark Twain; it was what the criminals and teen mothers attended. How I got there is best told face-to-face over some good stout. I’m in the three yearbooks from 1970-73. And NSA, et al have known about me since 1979 when I subcontracted for the Empire via the US Army. Now to the dart board.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 1 2026 3:47 utc | 39

@ Wisco | Jun 1 2026 4:17 utc | 51

You give me too much credit. I should hardly claim a “moral victory” by stating that the sun will appear in the east tomorrow morning.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 1 2026 4:19 utc | 40

Can anyone else name a regular commenter that literally always posts at least 2 replies to any given message?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 1 2026 4:21 utc | 53

Derek Henry / Sun of Alabama / Andrew [and a few other socks that escape me] usually posts 4 to 5 responses to anything, although with even less finesse than Wisco.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 1 2026 4:26 utc | 41

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 1 2026 4:26 utc | 54

Finesse is such a great word. But I would never apply it to the present case!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 1 2026 4:34 utc | 42

Sunday Night NYC

4.46% US 10 Year

1.70% Chinese 10 Year

just say‘g

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 4:43 utc | 43

6‘3“ is still mighty tall.
Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 0:24 utc | 35

***************

Pfffttt!

President Trump has a signed medical report that says that he is 190 cm (6′ 2.8″), and he doesn’t look tall ~~a tall~~ at all. Maybe his tiny hands give the illusion of tallness?

Does the US have a unique metric conversion scale, or is it just a ‘different world’ within the White House?

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 4:57 utc | 44

General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 4:57 utc | 61—

Yes, everything gets inflated there, egos in particular.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 1 2026 5:13 utc | 45

” vaguely libtard circle jerk.”
Posted by: Patroklos | May 31 2026 19:50 utc | 23
Point well taken. But, although feeling like a square peg myself, I do want to thank some for keeping me interested and informed, like John Gilberts (valuable links also) Suresh, Michaelj–(can’t remember his full moniker right now), Jane, belle, and others and b’s work and Karlov1’s translating, and I did enjoy reading and being challenged by your contributions, so will miss them.

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 6:24 utc | 46

“Dead Men and Prisoners Listed in Ukrainian Mobilisation Fraud Scheme”
Shades of Ukrainian satirical novelist Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls (1842).

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 6:34 utc | 47

@ 46 lavieja

thanks for saying all that.. i share in your appreciation of these posters too.. i find patroklos behaviour odd to say the least..

Posted by: james | Jun 1 2026 6:35 utc | 48

Derek Henry / Sun of Alabama / Andrew [and a few other socks that escape me]
Posted by: malenkov | Jun 1 2026 4:26 utc | 41

fwiw – Echo Chamber/Clouds of Alabama 🙂

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jun 1 2026 6:43 utc | 49

48 James. Thanks for responding, but I have to say I don’t find Patroklos at all odd. Sometimes it seems one is swimming in a sea of unconscious neolibs who cling to the belief that they are cutting edge left.

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 6:52 utc | 50

Austria tells European countries to have individual negotiations with Russia to reconnect. Saying it doesnt work to let EU handle the contacts due to internal differences. Apparently Russias warnings has some effect? But what about Germany and Sweden. The differences inside Germany does raise some hope although the leader may be seriously Epsteined?. But in Sweden it looks bad. Meanwhile Azov has stretched a hand to Finland.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jun 1 2026 6:54 utc | 51

Re: Just another conspiricy theory
Stéphane Dujarric has been the Press Spokesman , since 2014, for the UN Sectretary General. His Mother is a Rothschild.

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

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 6:55 utc | 52

It now ocurred to me that Austrias Karin Kneissl is stationed at the G.O.R.K.I. centre at St Petersburg University in Russia so her opinions are not Austrias official standpoints

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jun 1 2026 7:07 utc | 53

So it seems my very early morning comment has been evicted along with the daily sacrificial sock who has turned this into some ghost in the machine game!

Fortunately I kept a copy and so repost slightly edited. Let’s see.

I Have referred to that and our ‘western music and cultural hegemon connections’ – certain ‘greats’ who seemed to rule the roost and others who fell foul of it and had mysterious ‘early’ deaths. Or were destroyed by the ‘industry’ hegemony. This includes Zappa and Dylan who were mentored by an Afro American Harvard graduate and student president at the BEGINNING of the 60’s. whose carreer I brought to the bars attention a few years ago now. HerePosted by: DunGroanin | Aug 21 2023 12:21 utc | 80 The early deaths include Lennon and what I recently learned and consider to be the heinous destruction of Michael Jackson after he visited the Illegal apartheid Zionist entity and Gaza – from which he returned determined to support their cause. Denied by his label Sony with the first scurrilous allegations against starting within weeks of that. I posted about that herePosted by: DunGroanin | Apr 28 2026 12:11 utc | 223 That crime against the genius child musician who developed a political consciousness is one of the greatest calumnies I hope to see put right, with the continuing exposure of the zionist entity and its gangsters in the collective wests mental control. Especially by child abuse. The various godfathers of the ziofascist messaging including Leonard Cohen, Warhol… amongst that Crosby Stills Nash and Young … their constant new group forming ‘factory’. I include Bowie and others from the British pop scene. Including the odious Bono the bonehead and many connected to the Epsteinesquery cover up. The punk era. The Brit pop era. The odious boy and girl band era. And whatever passes as the pornographic music video and ‘song’ era. The new blaxploitation and Lolita era of Disney groomed children. The megastar careers of ‘divas’ :- Madonna (her Kabbalism)… ‘lady gaga’… Taylor Swift; as well as passing ho’s like Katie Parry (who is associated with the attempted control and destruction of RussellBrand’s political consciousness) and currently doing her next Mission Impossible task on re-manning-up of Justin Turdeau (sic).

Having been an Astronaughty in Bezos bellend rocket that didn’t blow up! Yes I’ll link the redacted and unreleased Epstein files with the majority of these connections with celebs.

It’s not just the politicians and the moguls who are protected, It is the channels of brainwashing of the many who followed the alternative music scene and actors – their ‘heroes’.

Losing them loses their message! Through our ‘youth’ to now senior years, our minds poisoned. There are no mass protests. There are no celebs allowed to challenge the propaganda.

We are forced to deliver political ziofascist support; which is writ large in our failure to recognise and oppose the insidious control the Cultural Industrial Complex has on our collective wasted minds. Any independent actual popular grassroots musicians and bands jumped on hard – even the venerable pink Floyd legend Roger Waters! The most recent example being the ostracism of Kneecap and Bob Vylan! The former acquitted in a court trial. The later hung in the kangaroo court of the media! Which neatly brings us back to the capo di tutti capii of the pop world. Robert Zimmerman. His career arc is not hard to track, his continuous ziochristian (almost eschatological) messaging.

His influence on many musicians which he lists in his late career perplexing song he wrote alluding to his deep connections to them.

And his award of the Nobel Prize! As some badge of recognition by the MIC. For his work in Narrative Management and Creation.

Where he told his many followers that ‘you have to serve someone or somebody’ – be good guys and serve the Ziolords eh? There is much that is ‘rotten in that state of denmark’ that is the ziofascist owned and run by ‘cultural behemoths.’

From Print to Hollywood to TeeVee to our inter-web era. From the River to the Sea
(Set MJ’s music free)

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 1 2026 7:15 utc | 54

The best scene from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure……… 30 seconds. Very strongly recommended that all watch this short clip, and grok it. Watch it a few times.

https://youtu.be/mKLizztikRk

Posted by: the loner | Jun 1 2026 7:37 utc | 55

This weekend was the European football champions league final in Budapest between North London team Arsenal and Paris’s PSG. If you didn’t know. PSG won last year and they retained it with penalties after extra time.

That was very disappointing for the Arsenal team and fans who last won b that title 20 years ago under their genius French manager Arsene Wenger and equally genius player including Thierry Henri – both were f whom were watching live in the stadium.

None the less Arsenal had secured the league title last weekend and the team flew back from Hungary to partake in an afternoon of carnival like parade in open top buses in North London yesterday.

It was a massive turn out of fans in red shirts! Many who don’t get to watch the games live anymore due to cost.

The bbc tried to downplay the numbers but the helicopter shots gave away the immense turnout on the streets of Islington.
The police admit to 800k.

Why am I stating this here? There are several reasons but the end point is the same.

There was no violence, or riots or fires, no police or fans or people were injured.

Meanwhile Paris erupted! On the night of the game and yesterday too, because their team had won again?

No. There is more to it. They had riots last year too.

PSG are supported by the poorer communities of Paris. The stadium is in the rich part. The police and fans have history.
Thousands of police turned up. The paramiltary type ready to crack heads and likewise the ‘fans’ obliged. Utter mayhem! Any hospitalised on both sides. Broken glass everywhere, cars overturned and put on fire. Horrendous.

The people don’t feel like it’s their city that’s why they came to figh burn and probably loot.

Islington where arsenal is based is a mixed wealth area largely ooor and multiethnic – it has mosques and synagogues side by side.

It’s long term parliamentary representative is the Great Jeremy Corbyn. Who has been representing his constituents for 40 plus years mostly as Labour until he was ousted from the party led by QyirStarmzio after he stood down as Labour leader!

The ziofascist blairite Labour party that had attempted to unseat him for decades. And through never ending internal coups while he was leader and two general elections that Labour lost because of postal votes and massive media campaign to stop Corbyn becoming PM! Especially by the Blairites in the party and media like the Guardian.

At the general election he stood as an independent and gained more votes than he was always assured!
Confounding the lies of the media and the Blairites!

He has been a life long Arsenal supporter and should have been on the tvs and newspapers about Arsenals great season!
But has been again ignored by the ziomedia.

So whilst Paris burns after victory again. Multi ethnic Islington celebrated as one!

This was JC’s message ahead of the parade.

@jeremycorbyn
May 30
Let’s make tomorrow’s historic parade fun, memorable and inclusive for everybody.

Enjoy the moment, look after one another, and please take your litter home!

Thank you to all the workers who are making the parade possible. See you there! #COYG

May 30, 2026 · 3:16 PM UTC

That’s exactly what the nearly million people did.
That’s the real PM of Britain. Twice couped in ge’s.
The People aren’t fooled.

Meanwhile the warmongering Zionist fascist supporting blairites in power are seriously worried about the summer of rising protests against the ongoing genocidal entity and its war against the Semitic children and peoples of the Levant.

That will incite many to protest more ‘vigourously’ as the summer heats up! The end of the entity is nigh. It will fail as did apartheid Rhodesia and South Africa did. Slowly slowly and then all of a sudden!

They dont want to see protests ouside the palace or on the Mall and certainly not Kensington! Which is the posh rich part of London. The summer festival season starts and that’s where last year the band I referred to earlier – Bob Vylan protested against the IOF and were ‘cancelled’ by the music industry and media and press – but never prosecuted for anything in court.

Sorry this is long but it shows how the masses United and on the move are a threat to the hegemon and it’s fascist tyranny. We must all do our bit.

¡No Pasaran!

From the River to the Sea.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 1 2026 7:59 utc | 56

RT

Japanese AI scans train stations for suicidal behavior — then alerts guards Asilla Inc.’s system trained on 7 million security clips to predict who might jump It has saved two lives so far
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2061352475853254892

Posted by: Menz | Jun 1 2026 8:19 utc | 57

Belatedly I have listened to Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman with Palestinian Muhammad Shehada on the May 11 discussion “How Iran’s Strength Bolsters Gaza’s Resistance.”

I am reading this discussion by 3 of the most dedicated and informed people around on the Gaza situation as an antidote to the claim that is currently being made by various people including some who claim to support the Palestinian Resistance that the Palestinians are somehow responsible for their fate (an ongoing genocide) because they are too factionalized. This is used as an excuse to blame the failure of the Cairo “talks” in mid-March a month ago on Palestinian resistance, it being always the de facto conclusion whenever there is any intercourse between the Palestinians vs. the USIZEU imperial world order and also in the end, it will be understood, any intercourse with Russia and China in which the same schema prevails that the Palestinians are responsible.

On two levels the Palestinians are held responsible, militarily and politically. First the military. The appointee of the Board of Peace is Nikolay Mladenov, a former UN operative:

“From the UN to the Israel lobby:
Mladenov’s bias is hardly hidden. After leaving his post as UN special coordinator for the “peace process” in 2021, he immediately joined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an offshoot of the Israel lobby group AIPAC.” (EI)

Within the context of Trump’s Board, Mladenov adopted a different demeanor from what he had shown toward the Palestinians as a UN operative. Israel had agreed on paper in October to a ceasefire framework. It’s well known already how Israhell has failed to uphold all points agreed to including even to the return of all the Palestinian children and women held in Israeli prisons, while the Resistance returned all Israhelli prisoners and as always Israhell has continued to kill almost 1000 Palestinians since the October signing. Don’t forget that the Plan had been

” endorsed by the UN Security Council in November – in the face of united opposition from Palestinians who viewed the resolution as capitulating to Tel Aviv and Washington and violating fundamental principles of international law,” (EI)

that plan which China and Russia failed to veto, in spite of Palestinian opinion — how can you apologists (Sebgo for one) claim that the 2 were upholding Palestinian ‘sovereignty?
This Cairo meeting formalized the figurative shredding of the Trump plan. Mladenov went on to demand that the Palestinian Resistance immediately give up all it’s arms even personal handguns. The Palestinian delegation now had the formal proof that Phase 1 of the Trump plan had been abrogated. What was demanded was the complete surrender of the Palestinian Resistance. All the armed factions in unison were unwilling to subjugate themselves to Israel the genociding state, recounts Shehada. Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Marxist-Leninist), the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees, all said ‘complete Phase 1 of the Plan and then we’ll go to phase 2, nonwithstanding the right of the Palestinians to armed resistance against occupation.

Those who criticize the Palestinian Resistance for being factionalized should keep in mind the damage the Palestinian Resistance as it is configurated has inflicted on the Zionist genociders.

Critics of the Palestinian struggle for its factionalism like Mouin Rabbini most recently on Electronic Intifada like to point to political failures, which can be left for people to listen to this more recent podcast. IMO the armed struggle of the Resistance against the terror of Zionism, in the words of Abunimah, against Israel’s desire for “all of the land and none of the people,” — once the UN was permitted to install the Trump plan, then it’s subsequent trashing by Israhell/ Mladenov, pretty well shelves political assumptions that there’s something to be achieved by what? re-constituting the Resistance with the Palestine Authority? The fact that this non-option wasn’t thrown out long ago shows the hypocrisy of the Resistance ‘supporters’ who want the Palestinians to do something differently while they are being genocided on a daily basis. The PA murders Palestinians and any ‘reform’ is only to “show worthiness to Israel” (Muhammad Shehada).

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 9:27 utc | 58

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 6:24 utc | 46

…although feeling like a square peg myself,…

As someone who’s done a fair amount of post and beam construction, I can assure you that a square peg in a round hole is definitely the way to go. It creates a much tighter, longer-lasting grip than a standard round dowel would.

Which gives the metaphor real existential roots.

Posted by: john | Jun 1 2026 9:29 utc | 59

Re: Pee-Wee Herman Clip

with what we now know regarding the Epstein Class,, that clip from Pee-Wee Herman is just plain depraved.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 9:34 utc | 60

The level of disinformation that is now extant in the media is staggering . AI’s create more everyday and it’s a designed function . Its one of the reasons that its free . We can pontificate on what is truth and what is lies but everyone has cognitive biases that create their worldview . I must admit that mine has been frequently and sometimes violently altered . Being a sceptic is now a survival tool . When I read the comments here I am reminded of the computer “deep thought” in D.Adams book and the calculation of the meaning of life . The answer to “how do we find peace again”? is just as difficult . One of the reasons why I find this blog so valuable is that multiple views are allowed and its mostly censorship free . Thanks for all the fish (and links)…..

Posted by: The fossil | Jun 1 2026 10:07 utc | 61

I have an inkling what Russia is planning to do in Ukraine. Here’s my reasoning in puzzle form, fill in the blanks yourself. The key is why … ? And then they … . And why now?

I think they are trying to get … to … . They will … and then … and … . The only … . They already … . A key … . Meanwhile they will destroy … except … . Maybe they hope to try … or … .

This is a … .

I’ll fill in the blanks at a later date.

Posted by: BM | Jun 1 2026 10:27 utc | 62

Sticking with the legitimate PM of the U.K. – he was kept out otherwise as the ex head of MI6 complained ‘he would have upset’ all their plans!

That covered the period of the BrexShit terms.
The increasing Russophobia and mysterious No- choke attack upon the Skripals and their disappearance ever since.
The gaging and inhumane imprisonment of Julian Assange.
The multifold increase in energy prices by being forced to by expensive and environmentally destructive US supplied instead of cheap piped gas from Russia.
The further attacks on Syria.
The Covid lockstep and lockdowns.
The long planned and backed proxy war in Ukraine to ‘provoke’ the RF into invading
the full scale natzio deployment of weapons, training, command and control!
The attempt to disrupt tbe BRICS+ and go to war against China
The now escalating attempts at the control of Africa and Sourh American freedom seekers.
The WEF plans for a golden billion controlled in a walled garden where they would never own anything, be electronically tagged and kept in neo-parishes by digital currency control.

And many such dystopian ‘all our plans’ that Dicky Dearlove ‘M’ of MI6 under Blair and fake WMD era spoke of.

Of which the attempted genocide and continuing destruction of Gaza and Palestinians now extended into the attempted overthrow and destruction of Iran.

To expand the illegal apartheid entity across west Asia and into the Horn of Africa using U.K. weapons and ISR and no doubt covert forces .

This morning he speaks to that directly as he addresses the banning of Americans to travel to the U.K. and speak for t he msleves about the Palestinian cause and ending the entity that was created like a frankeinstein monster not even a century agai and stomps upon children and women and old men and kills with iPhones.

@jeremycorbyn
1h

Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government. Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.

@ScotNational
2h
The UK Government has banned two prominent left-wing US speakers from entering the country ⬇️ thenational.scot/news/261536…

Jun 1, 2026 · 8:24 AM UTC

Free free Palestine

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 1 2026 10:49 utc | 63

Posted by: The fossil | Jun 1 2026 10:07 utc | 61

AI should ave an On/Off toggle button.

Posted by: Menz | Jun 1 2026 11:07 utc | 64

Ne y wĩndga, Naaba Sebgo! Mam na n maas n gʋls goam-noodo.

Bãmb na n kell n yɩɩ loorɩ, wa sebgo. Mam tẽedame tɩ y yʋʋrã yaa wa sebgo? N-ye? Woto, yãkrã zemsame.

A Arnold yii Afrik d Soti. A Arnold roor dãmba zãee Lituanie tãb-biisã zãma la zabrã nan ka sɩng ye. B zãeeme tɩ b da n baood n nams-B.

A Arnold zãmsa Zulu gome a dɩgɩ-kẽedga nengẽ. A Arnold da yaa tɩɩm lofõ. A mɩ kɩbaya wʋsg Afrik zugu. A ka tõe n sõng-m n gʋls Mooré gome ye.

A Arnold biisã vɩɩ Israel. B fãa tũuda tũudum wʋsg n pẽgd wʋsg. A Arnold nan ka tũ tũudum ye.

Sũ-sãanga dũniyã pʋgẽ n kɩt tɩ yel-beed kãensã sãam a zak rãmba. Yãmb na n mɩ yel-kãngã dẽgda tɩ m nan ka dɩk tũudmã yʋʋr ye.

Angilẽ gome, “factotum” rat n yemi yaa tʋm-tʋmda sẽn tʋmd tʋʋm-bĩis fãa la tʋʋm nẽere. Woto yaa mam reem goam pʋgẽ, mam mɩ tɩ Mooré gome, “factotum” yaa yel-kãsenga.

Wa gilli tõo, bɩ tʋm-tʋmd-kãsenga sẽn yaa sɩda. M sã n pʋd m mhe “Lieutenant Factotum” Mooré gome, yẽ yaa yam bãnde?

Kẽnd nẽere, n dɩk sũ-noogo n kẽng ne y zak rãmba. Y tʋm-tʋmd sɩda, Lieutenant Factotum (“Ligidi-Naaba” Factotum). 🙂

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 11:12 utc | 65

@james
the fact that I find b’s bromance with EO annoying isn’t something that needs censorship or reprimanding. If b wants to ban me he will, along with all the great mavericks he’s banned before (vk rip). The fact is b surrounds himself with yes men, while banning anti-vaxxers, Marxists, and those who consider screwing children a problem. Sure it’s his site, but it’s become a bore. I don’t bother posting thoughtful content anymore because I always cop shit for it. And I come here for original thought not the reheated cabbage of some Oxbridge dilettante. So do your worst.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 11:59 utc | 66

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 9:27 utc | 58

that plan which China and Russia failed to veto, in spite of Palestinian opinion — how can you apologists (Sebgo for one) claim that the 2 were upholding Palestinian ‘sovereignty?

My dear friend, your typical blame game doesn’t move me in the slightest.

You are clearly acting in bad faith if you try to hold me responsible for anything of this magnitude.
At this rate, I suppose I’ll soon be responsible for Israel’s atrocities in Lebanon and for climate change.

I am not a decision-maker, I am not Palestinian, and I have no influence on world affairs.

I am speculating in May 2026 about why the Palestinian issue is so rarely included in the peace negotiations that Iran is conducting with the US, while Lebanon and even Yemen are explicitly mentioned.

I referred for that to events that occurred in October and November 2025, events on which my speculations could therefore have no effect.
If my speculations are unfounded, demonstrate this with arguments, not incantations.

But you prefer to use a false premise, claiming that the Palestinians opposed Trump’s plan.
Hamas’s written response to Trump’s proposed peace plan is dated October 4, 2025; anyone can read it. Islamic Jihad’s reaction, supporting this position, followed the same day.

It was indeed a conditional acceptance, with reservations on certain points, but an acceptance it was.
And it was this position that was followed all the way to the UN and implemented through the prisoner exchange.

Hamas disarmament was included in the second phase of this plan, and was one of the points they made reservations.

Was it a good decision? I don’t know, but the arguments presented in the text from Hamas are quite convincing.

Should they have anticipated that the US and Israel have always been complicit and that the agreement would never be fully respected? Perhaps, but what else could they have done?

What I’m saying, and I repeat and stand by it, is that from a sovereignty standpoint, Russia, China, or Iran had no business, and have no business, opposing a plan that the Palestinians accepted.

Whether they are united or divided is secondary, whether this is at the UN or elsewhere is secondary. You can’t be more Catholic than the Pope.

It’s so clear and obvious that I don’t know why you’re insisting.

We’re not going to build anything with such biased positions and this game of shifting blame onto others.

Note: As for the rest, I see that the angle of attack on me has changed.

I’m no longer “the imposter” but “the enemy of the cause,” today the Palestinian cause, I suppose tomorrow another one.

That won’t work either, because it’s also a baseless fabrication.

Have a good day.

Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 1 2026 12:09 utc | 67

Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 1 2026 12:09 utc | 67

The full text of Hamas reply to Trump’s “Peace Plan”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/response-by-hamas-trumps-plan-ending-gazas-war-2025-10-04/

Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 1 2026 12:17 utc | 68

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 11:12 utc | 65

Good morning, General Factotum.

It’s very kind of you to think of writing me a note in my native language.
Thank you for the greetings.

I confirm that you are a general and not a lieutenant given the plurality of your skills.

But I must confess that I have a lot of trouble understanding everything.

While I pride myself on mastering the spoken language, the written language, especially with unusual turns of phrase, is not the same.
And as you can imagine, I rarely use phonetic spelling, let alone the specific alphabet.

For example, I didn’t understand who Arnold was. And “liguidi-naaba” means “Chief of Treasury” and is often used to qualify a banker, a financial manager or an accountant. So this part is, let’s say obscure.

But that’s alright, it’s the thought that counts. Thank you again.

Have a good day where you are.

Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 1 2026 12:33 utc | 69

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 1 2026 7:15 utc

(Set MJ’s music free)

Although I would have to elaborate:

(Set Quincy Jones’ music free)

But that’s just the producer in me🤣.

But recalling the days of setting the music free, I’m reminded of this day:

Kiss 100 First Day ~ 01/09/1990 ~ Ex Pirate Radio:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cp7cLam-JIY&pp=ygUWa2lzcyAxMDAgbGF1bmNoIHBhcnR5IA%3D%3D

But on reflection, was it freedom or a sellout to corporate interests? I mean, those days at Highbury Fields with Steve Jackson, Paul Trouble Anderson, Colin Dale set that music free.

But sometimes, I wonder. Did they sacrifice their roots?

Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks & Home T – Pirates Anthem[12″Mix]:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x7STdOBYHrw&pp=ygUaY29jb2EgdGVhIGFuZCBzaGFiYmEgcmFua3M%3D

(apologies for the colloquial references)

Posted by: lachaussette | Jun 1 2026 12:58 utc | 70

DunGroanin | Jun 1 2026 7:59 utc | 56

At least there was one reasonably good news item this last weekend — that Arsenhole lost.

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 1 2026 13:00 utc | 71

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 11:59 utc | 66
Antivaxxers are banned?

Who on this site know the capitalist world will never allow disease to interrupt its operations? Never.

1 in 6 now living with long covid incl me and almost all you blamed the vaccines.

You dont know jack shit. You all willingly promote the destruction of even the possibility of public health and you brag about it!

You are whining like an ADL member at NYC mayor Momdani. Fuck off.

Posted by: Duck n cover | Jun 1 2026 13:38 utc | 72

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 11:59 utc | 66
No one is being vaxxed. Not even for measles.

Mission accomplished. More Oreshniks please.

Posted by: Duck n cover | Jun 1 2026 13:39 utc | 73

Venezuela
The Grayzone reveals Trump/Rubio half ass plan to set up the oil biz down there. Key players are worming into position, the new wannabe godfather is Cuban American Mauricio Claver Carone, looks like a Supranos cutout. He was scooped up by Bolton during Trump’s first term.
“In fact, according to an insider who enjoys close contacts within both the Venezuelan and US governments, Rubio’s influence over Rodriguez is said to be traced to one “gatekeeper”: former Trump Latin America envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone. “Mauricio [Claver-Carone] is picking who can operate and Delcy [Rodriguez] is taking instructions,” the source told The Grayzone”
Democrats are pearl clutching as usual and flirting with– wait for it– Maria Corina Machado as their female feminist Joan of Arc.
“The Trump administration’s embrace of Delcy Rodriguez, and the Venezuelan president’s faithful compliance with Washington’s financial schemes, have prompted some top Democrats to adopt Machado as a partisan cudgel. This January, Chris Murphy, a ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised the opposition leader as “impressive” following a meeting on Capitol Hill, while taking a nasty swipe at Rodriguez. Machado “reminded us that Trump replaced Maduro with Maduro’s head of torture,” Murphy proclaimed.”
bottom line, hard times in Venezuela but the peons have experienced two and a half decades of Chavismo. That won’t disappear overnight. Don’t count them out.

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/05/25/delcys-gatekeeper-trump-caracas/

Posted by: migueljose | Jun 1 2026 13:49 utc | 74

Concerning the US NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act), which roughly 1000 page act currently being pushed through the US congress contains wording that is designed to virtually unify the US military with the Israeli military in significant respects (control, access to military secrets, weapons export authorisation, manufacture etc, as far as I understand – but without any reliable understanding of the specifics on my part I hasten to add):

What I am wondering is how this wording if passed influences the level of legal complicity of the US military and the US government – and indeed the congress itself – in acts of genocide committed by Israel against Gaza, the South Bank, Lebanon, Iran and others, and what second order implications it has for example liability under US domestic law and the jurisdiction of US courts.

As I say I don’t know the specifics – nor am I a lawyer, but potentially it seems mind boggling. For example, liability of a congressman for acts of genocide facilitated by a US weapons manufacturer in his constituency that lobbied that congressman; a muslim soldier who divulges secrets to a court to satisfy legal obligations of accountability for genocide; changes in potential jurisdiction of local courts; breaches of US laws; … ? *

The specific intention of the changes are allegedly to facilitate Israeli access to weapons and weapons technology and obfuscate weapons transfers, etc, and to hide it from sight and debate it has been hidden inside this 1000 page NDAA act, but by the same token all the more obscure implications evade consideration. What chance it ends up biting the hand that wrote it?

I’d be interested in what Craig Murray would say about such questions. Someone active on his site might like to consider asking him about it.

* Don’t take my examples literally as I don’t know the specifics, my point is just that a creative mind can generate millions of potential issues – some real, some not – none of which will receive the investigation that such ominous legal changes require.

Posted by: BM | Jun 1 2026 14:41 utc | 75

Professional interaction between China and Russia are close to continuous, which is very important for global stability. Today the 11th International Conference “Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era” begins. In his note to the participants today, Lavrov emphasized the importance of the treaties between the two nations and added this in conclusion:

Together with like-minded countries, Russia and China are helping to build a more just multipolar world order. Much is being done to create a space of equal and indivisible security and cooperation in Eurasia.

The extensive bilateral agenda requires constant fine-tuning of all dialogue mechanisms. In this regard, it is difficult to overestimate the role of the expert-scientific and academic community. Your Conference will undoubtedly contribute to the common efforts. [My Emphasis]

The forum is organized by the Russian International Affairs Council and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 1 2026 15:22 utc | 76

BM | Jun 1 2026 14:41 utc | 75—

You’re quite right to note the potential legal ramifications of this proposed act. I’m 100% against it as it’s akin to adding the Zionist criminals to NATO.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 1 2026 15:27 utc | 77

karlof1 | Jun 1 2026 15:27 utc | 77
*** You’re quite right to note the potential legal ramifications of this proposed act. I’m 100% against it as it’s akin to adding the Zionist criminals to NATO. ***

NATO has plenty already.
Including the UK’s RAF, operating as target spotters for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

But as for what’s presently being pushed through the US Congress …. why is it not being denounced as the highest level of treason?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 1 2026 15:38 utc | 78

Re: legal liability for Genocide ?

1) war crimes have no statute of limitations. There are still people being tried and comvicted for war crimes commited 80+ years ago. For exanple a 18 year old civilian member of a typing pool in a fascist work camp was arrested at age ~ 90 and convicted a gew years later. Its possible then to charge a young US shipping clerk who is currently making out bills of lading for wespons shipments to the IDF…..80 years from now.
2) the Yamashita standard of Command Responsiblity is a key standard in War Crimes accountability. This will be the charge for all Pentagon and NATO military who didn’t actively prevent the genocide.

3) US and European politicians can be charged under the Hirota precendence.

4) finally the legal concept of Joint Criminal Enterprise will come into play US civilians who were members of Israeli aligned organizations.
note accountability also means seizing assets held by those aiding and abeting the genocide. These assets can be seized long after the war criminal is dead.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 1 2026 16:53 utc | 79

But as for what’s presently being pushed through the US Congress …. why is it not being denounced as the highest level of treason?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 1 2026 15:38 utc | 78

Treason is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Unfortunately, Official America does not regard the Zionazi Entity as an enemy.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 1 2026 16:56 utc | 80

Posted by: The fossil | Jun 1 2026 10:07 utc | 61

I like to second your comment. You seem a hoopy frood.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jun 1 2026 17:18 utc | 81

bottom line, hard times in Venezuela but the peons have experienced two and a half decades of Chavismo. That won’t disappear overnight. Don’t count them out.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/05/25/delcys-gatekeeper-trump-caracas/

Posted by: migueljose | Jun 1 2026 13:49 utc | 74

Thank you, migueljose; good to see you! They in the uniparty must think we have no memories of past attempts at regime change. That, or else they are running out of options.

Posted by: juliania | Jun 1 2026 17:32 utc | 82

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 11:59 utc | 66

Patroklos, james is travelling today, so might miss your post till later. I for one would love to see more of your thoughtful commentary but just at present we seem caught between Scylla and Charybdis (sp?) So understandably the caravan has moved on, at least for now, and barking dogs like you and I are left in the dusty wake. Hang in there. Hopefully we’ll be in calmer waters (or sands) eventually.

Posted by: juliania | Jun 1 2026 17:52 utc | 83

Thanks to Lavieja, 58, and john | Jun 1 2026 9:29 utc | 59

Posted by: juliania | Jun 1 2026 18:06 utc | 84

Posted by: Duck n cover | Jun 1 2026 13:38 utc | 72

oooh, don’t disagree with anyone! You’ll be told to fuck off. Goddam echo chamber.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 18:53 utc | 85

I disagree with Patroklos. MoA is diverse as ever, there are constant in-depth discussions as well as timely news snippets on various topics covering all aspects of the blog’s main focus and then some. The reading experience has improved lately owing to what looks like a major purge of the commenters by Stahlhelm Horstmann, who has tirelessly been doing the brilliant work of several people for decades now. The reach and influence has steadily grown despite many obstacles such as natural flux among the participants, giant shifts in global political tectonics, an epidemy crisis affecting everyone which also drove a fascistic agenda including military dark censorship, and a major health crisis afflicting b.

After all this, the bar is still a non-profit operation focused on quality, not defined here as entertainment value. One can read here with a general interest focus and find more stuff than in several newspapers combined, which due to the interactive nature of the community doubles as a pool of experts at which you can throw almost any question; extending from super controversial mainstream issues like LQBTG* and climate change to obscure and esoteric fringes which shall remain unnamed for reasons of style. Still the whole thing is so much fun that probably thousands of people all over the world come lurking here, ignoring the frenzied squabbles and petty bitchfights while embracing the considerable amusement of reading a real world soap opera with gossip and drama galore. After people here have returned from the dead, conversed with aliens and solved a number of mystical riddles, the only thing missing (for now) is a photo love story between two barflies. The list of major historical revisions alone could easily fill several pages.

So now comes Pat from Australia and says nuffin’ because b makes good use of the sheer quality that’s provided on his site? C’mon, bro. Let’s get a grip, and on with it.

Posted by: persiflo | Jun 1 2026 20:47 utc | 86

Sebgo, you said,

Iran is very careful not to treat the resistance movements as dependents and speak on their behalf without a clear agreement. This agreement exists with Hezbollah, which is part of the Lebanese government through its political wing, as well as with the Houthis. (May 29 Iran thread, post 224.)

Many people view the agreement between the Lebanon government and the Israelis as a trade-off, southern Lebanon (Shia) territory for cessation of Gazafication of the rest of Lebanon, Beirut included. The Aoun govt may have demanded also time for the inhabitants of the South to leave, which Israel already begrudges, like a pack of wolves, chasing and snapping at the heals, and devouring stragglers. Hezbollah has been forced to stop sending missiles into Israel so as not to further imperil the North. Is this an example of the benefits to be gained by the ‘sovereign’ state of Lebanon (under the aegis of Iran) when it bargains with Israel as compared to the Palestinians lack of credentialled unity (furthermore this not by their choice)? Again, Israel wants the land not the people and it has the US-supplied might to take Lebanon just as it did Gaza and is doing in West Bank. Who’s to say in time we may see the bombing of Beirut. Somebody has to step up for Gaza as well as Lebanon and West Asia. Circumstances as they are and have been for some time –(remember that the Palestinians chose in unity for Hamas to govern them in 2009, but their agency was denied them, their sovereignty ripped away)–
pressuring that Palestine conduct their politics differently is not helpful.

Posted by: Lavieja | Jun 1 2026 22:45 utc | 87

But that’s alright, it’s the thought that counts. Thank you again. Have a good day where you are.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 1 2026 12:33 utc | 69

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Thank you for your kind words. Yes – the “thought” was my motivation. I suspected that my message would be very muddled since there is no one-to-one correspondence for many words in different languages, so a mechanistic translation, along with ignorance of idiom, context, and custom is bound to fail.

I tried a similar process with a Japanese friend many years ago, and she was completely mystified – but fortunately not insulted or offended. I was lucky to have a Japanese colleague at my university to help me. I used the same process to get to a first draft to show him, which left him collapsed in his chair laughing helplessly. It took some time for him to be able to explain what I had written. It was along the lines “I must cease this terrible existence and escape from the prison run by haddock and sardines…” which is what my intended message in English of “I look forward to a break from work so I can visit…”

For the record, Arnold is a very old and dear friend from South Africa. His parents were refugees from Lithuania. He knows many stories from Africa, but as you can see he is no help with my attempts at Moore! Also, in the “And “liguidi-naaba” means “Chief of Treasury” and is often used to qualify a banker, a financial manager or an accountant. So this part is, let’s say obscure.” The ‘liguidi-naaba’ was an attempt by me at an oblique reference to ‘trust’. Interesting that ‘trust’ (as in confidence) is so easily confused with money, almost universally!

Thanks for your time and interest – I enjoyed the fun!

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 23:11 utc | 88

Posted by: Patroklos | Jun 1 2026 11:59 utc | 66No one is being vaxxed. Not even for measles. Mission accomplished. More Oreshniks please.
Posted by: Duck n cover | Jun 1 2026 13:39 utc | 73

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And look at what is happening in northern Australia with Diphtheria.

Ignorance is even a more terrible disease, and it doesn’t appear that there is any cure – especially for self-selected, willful ignorance (although Oreshniks may confine the spread….).

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 23:17 utc | 89

So now comes Pat from Australia and says nuffin’ because b makes good use of the sheer quality that’s provided on his site? C’mon, bro. Let’s get a grip, and on with it.
Posted by: persiflo | Jun 1 2026 20:47 utc | 86

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I don’t know why, but when I saw a post that said that the poster was not saying anything it reminded me of government publications which cheerfully state “This page is intentionally left blank” – which, by their deliberate choice and action negates the truth of the statement that the page is blank.

Maybe government structure, process, etc are so tangled that their utterances warp the reality of their perspective. Now I’m not even sure of what I am saying, but I am sure I should be saying something, otherwise nobody will know the reason for my silence, which cannot logically be a reason in and of itself.

Can someone please help me??

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 23:26 utc | 90

Can someone please help me??

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 23:26 utc | 90

”I have nothing to say / and I am saying it”

— John Cage

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 2 2026 0:04 utc | 91

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 1 2026 23:17 utc | 89

Is it ignorance or a genuinely well founded mistrust of globalist oligarchs bearing snake oil cure-alls?

I wonder…

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jun 2 2026 0:10 utc | 92

Life for Syrian People is Far Worse Today than Under Assad, Says Award-Winning Journalist Who Covered Syrian War

On May 14, Beeley told the Uncontrolled Opposition radio show that “life for the Syrian people today is far worse than under Assad.”
Dominated by Wahhabi mercenaries from all over the world, the country, she said, “is being plunged into the familiar debt enslavement by IMF loans. Mastercard and Visa are back [under Jolani] along with McDonalds, KFC and Burger King but there is less electricity than under Assad—and it was already pretty bad in the last years of the war against Syria—and little employment. Many are being laid off if they are not Wahhabi, particularly the [Shia] Alawites [who supported the Assad government] and Druze. The Druze are now not allowed to go through the Syrian education system, that’s a ruling put out in just the last two days.”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/31/life-for-syrian-people-is-far-worse-today-than-under-assad-says-award-winning-journalist-who-covered-syrian-war/

Posted by: arby | Jun 2 2026 0:44 utc | 93

Canadian Foreign Policy Hour, with Yves Engler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j2QUhSaet0

“I discussed China contradictions, CANSEC militarism, Ebola Congo, Carney speech on anti-Semitism and David Suzuki withdrawing from JNF sponsored forum…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 2 2026 1:14 utc | 94

@ Sebgo

The statement was a partial agreement, in essence to continue various points of the pre-existing ceasefire that “Israel” had not kept to. As with that ceasefire, the subsequent is not adhered to either by “Israel” and US. Just a para from the moment:

“After the release of the statement, senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said outright that Hamas rejected the “Board of Peace”.

“We will never accept anyone who is not Palestinian to control the Palestinians,” he said.”

Basically, you have been taken in by the swamp of imposed inventions issued since by various parties, including via UN.

I don’t think it is kind or thoughtful of you at all to ‘tell Palestinians what they have decided’ in that manner, but will just put it down to allowing yourself to be fooled , and not of believing what you would like to.

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 2 2026 1:36 utc | 95

We are living in the middle of WW3.

We just don’t know it yet.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 2 2026 2:35 utc | 96

I’m recommending nakedcapitalism. com ‘s posts for today, beginning with a long article explaining the march for Israel in New York city, and on to the following in Links:

https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-paypal-mafia-the-architecture

I also very much recommend comments at both places, with emphasis on the linked article above . There are three comments there, with the third one requiring a link as well but very much worthwhile. Bravo to Yves, her people are varied but respect-worthy. (‘respectable’ doesn’t quite do the job). And for anyone who might be interested, the link to the New Zealand article let me know my native land is still following in US footsteps, alas. Back in the day, it wasn’t.

Posted by: juliania | Jun 2 2026 2:46 utc | 97

Is it ignorance or a genuinely well founded mistrust of globalist oligarchs bearing snake oil cure-alls? I wonder…
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jun 2 2026 0:10 utc | 93

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Maybe I am naive, credulous, or just plain gullible; but I thought that the purpose of immunization was to reduce, in the worst case, or eliminate in the best case, the requirement for purchases of snake oil cure-alls from globalist oligarchs. Or maybe the science of immunization is not universal, but varies as a function of region and belief…

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 2 2026 3:43 utc | 98

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 2 2026 1:36 utc | 96

Once again, what I believe isn’t important. Because I’m nobody, just an obscure, anonymous commenter on the internet.

But if someone think what I believe is important, that I lack information, and that I’ve been misled, then why not inform me and correct my misconceptions?

I’m sure it could be helpful to others besides myself. That’s actually one of the strengths of this platform.

But simply resorting to accusations and unpleasant remarks doesn’t seem to me to be the best way to present an opinion or facts.

If aggressive remarks succeed in intimidating your interlocutor, he might silence him, but he certainly won’t change his opinion or the opinions of the many others who hold similar views.

Despite everything I’ve read since childhood, and my conversations with Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, and people from the Maghreb, I feel I don’t know enough about the Palestinian issue.

I even avoided reading and commenting on MoA’s thread about Gaza for the entire time it lasted, admittedly also out of frustration.

But if we’re going to discuss what’s public and documented, I’ll need more than a simple “shut up” to be satisfied; I demand facts and respect.

I’m not ten years old anymore, I don’t have a parent or guardian online, and I’m not easily intimidated.

Have a good day where you are.

Posted by: Sebgo | Jun 2 2026 4:44 utc | 99

@ juliania | Jun 2 2026 2:46 utc | 98 who keeps looking for good things about New Zealand….a link for you

New Zealand to establish 5 new marine reserves

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 2 2026 4:44 utc | 100

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