Progress:
 
Netherlands says it has exhausted its capacity to provide military aid to Ukraine

Posted by: The Far Side | Jul 7 2026 18:23 utc | 104

@ The Far Side | Jul 7 2026 18:23 utc | 104
 
that does sound positive, but i wonder if that hag von lying will find a way to squeeze them? 

Posted by: james | Jul 7 2026 18:28 utc | 106

james@107:
 
“endless creation of debt for war…”
 
On behalf of which our Bilderberger bankster PM is hard at work looting Canadians’ pockets for the 404 proxy war.
 
‘I Am Grateful To Canada & To You Personally Mark Carney…’
 
https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2074516573016998317
 
“I am deeply grateful to Canada for its new support package – a very substantial one worth $900 million…We are also preparing a Drone Deal between our countries…Canada has invited Ukraine to become a founding member of the Defence, Security & Resilience Bank. It will work to attract investment and develop resource industrial capacity and battle tested technologies. Thank you!”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 7 2026 19:23 utc | 108

james@109:
 
“canada is in on the game too…”
 
Yes, since 2014 approximately $50 b in. 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 7 2026 19:28 utc | 110

Apologies if this link by long time consumer rights advocate of Louis Rossmann has been previously posted.  I’m posting it as it brought feelings of 90’s nostalgia because it is about all the shonkys that went on during the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).  Mr Rossmann would have been a youngfella back then probably busy learning to fix systems and building his business, he may not have even been aware of this travesty inflicted on the entire world by a corrupt corporate suck-arse, who had already seen this legislation thrown out of Congress back in the committee stage, so they heaved the EU into putting the Act intro their ‘free trade’ treaty with amerika, so then ClintonCorp could then go to congress and say “you gotta pass the bill now, it’s in our Treaty.  It worked and now the entire world has become a place where nothing is owned everything is rented according to the act.  
 
If you buy a piece of software be it a game or a movie or anything and check the fine print on your eula you will discover that you don’t own anything you bought as many MS/SONY/Paramount/Adobe you will see that after 5 years your use can be terminated by the corporation.
Last week or so it was movies downloaded to a PS4 who knows what it will be next time.
 
Mr Rossmann who comes across as a bloke unlikely to have an opinion on Gaza or anything non-Right to Repair related has been a staunch advocate for consumer rights for the millennial generation since the early 20 teens as I’m sure many are aware, so deserves to have his latest vid about how land left to a city expressly for a park (all 87+ acres) into a data center ! here at moa.
 
I remember all too well the scrap ‘net users had over the DMCA, which passed and ever since how WEF boss’s claim that “In future we will own nothing and be happy” has caused a bunch of sly greedheads to suss ways to bring that awful prediction to life.

Posted by: a_user | Jul 8 2026 0:22 utc | 112

nato meeting of significance today… no one is talking about it.. oh well..
Posted by: james | Jul 7 2026 17:16 utc | 99
 
I have been checking the bullshit media to see what comes of it. The earlier promos in the MSM was about all Nato including the US intending to affirm article 5. Propaganda about a false flag attack on Poland by Russia put in the Media at the same time. So Trump again says he wants Greenland…..
 
Poland is also a place of interest to me now. They are now actually gearing up for war. Big arms deals with SK back prior to 2022 with the stated aim of becoming the most powerful country in Europe. South Korea is still a major heavy manufacturing country and unlike the EU financial scams being announced in Ankara, those weapons systems are being delivered. Aircraft, Tanks, howitzers, mortars ect. I can’t find how much is delivered to date on a quick search but Poland is now running its military exercises with mostly South Korean military equipment.
 
Every way I look at it, Poland seems to be gearing up for war within Europe as Nato/EU break down. The casualty ratio in the Ukraine conflict must be quite incredible now. Mediazona chart showing Russian casualties (deaths) at next to zero, Ukraine TG say their casualties have increased by 350% in 2026. I am 95% certain Poland’s first move will be to retake nazi western 404 and that will be the fat lady singing for that shithole. The Poles hate Russia but are also pragmatic and realise Russia cannot be defeated.
 
Hungary went down to an EU oriented so called liberal, but he to is in a spat with Banderastan. The Czechs, Romanians refusing to fund the EU commission war on Russia, Maloni Italy and a few others also standing back.
 
The other day, Putin ordering the military to put together a list of the countries directly involved in the war on Russia …. If it comes to it, an example will be made of just one country. My pick is Germany but I think UK would be quite high on the Russian military bucket list.
Though a lot of what actually occurs may revolve around this Nato meeting in Ankara.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 8 2026 4:53 utc | 114

The US and the Media Vultures Are Preying on Venezuela
 
Trump has pledged US $300 million for Venezuela. That amount, in addition to the US $500 million provided since January, represents only 10% of what has been stolen since the beginning of the year—an amount ranging from US $4 billion to US $22 billion in Venezuelan assets withheld or seized abroad, depending on the accounting method used, including funds blocked by sanctions.
It has also been reported that Trump sent 900 military personnel, but only 300 of them are rescue workers. Likewise, two warships arrived in Venezuela: the USS Fort Lauderdale and the USS Billings, equipped with significant firepower but lacking any capacity to address natural disasters of the kind that have affected Venezuela. No one has seen the US rescue workers; their only public appearance was to hinder the efforts of those who are actually working, which forced Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello to intervene directly. In reality, the United States’ interventionist action is linked to its effort to seize and control Simón Bolívar Airport and the port of La Guaira.
At the same time, they have established the presence of the 82nd Airborne Division, which, together with the 101st Division, constitutes the United States’ main interventionist force worldwide.
 
https://orinocotribune.com/the-us-and-the-media-vultures-are-preying-on-venezuela/

Posted by: arby | Jul 8 2026 13:08 utc | 116

Shock As EU, Canada, Australia Pull Support For Cuba in UN Vote
 
https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/2074692676805357890
 
“Major European nations plus Canada and Australia, last night chose not to support Cuba’s latest plea for a debate on the US decades-long campaign to strangle the island, shocking UN watchers.
 
But the UK, France & Spain resisted US pressure to do the same. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been working behind the scenes to pressure a change of stance on the regular UN vote on Cuba sanctions – and appears to have succeeded.
 
While Cuba still won the vote for an additional debate overall, the change in voting patterns alarmed countries worldwide concerned about the horrendous tragedy that is accelerating on the island, suffering under an illegal US sea blockade on fuel, which has been recently added to decades of economic embargoes.
 
After decades of unwavering support for Cuba, many US allies/vassals flipped to voting to oppose or abstained from supporting the island nation’s plea for an additional debate on ending the sanctions and embargoes that have caused enormous suffering for the island of 10.9 m people…”
 
 
Reply by the Cuban FM during the UN Item 38 Debate
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NekDsZrH7AE
 
“Bruno Rodriguez Parilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, during the Debate under point 38: ‘Need To End The Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed By The United States of America Against Cuba.”
 
Cuba should be supported, armed and fortified with the necessary arms to resist the aggression and starvation siege now being mounted against it by the US-led coalition.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 8 2026 20:28 utc | 118

John Gilberts | Jul 8 2026 20:28 utc | 118
 
We are part of ECHELON. The Anglo American Empire.
I ran onto this before. An exceptionally accurate description of the western education system.

Frank Zappa was decades ahead of his time.
He said this in 1981: “Schools train people to be ignorant. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus.”
“They prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower.”
“As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job, and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re going to be alright.”
“Schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming up.”
https://x.com/TheBlackSheep84/status/2074586248480485787

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 8 2026 21:48 utc | 120

Syriana Analysis: Kit Klarenberg: ‘Venezuela is Next’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46nyBAF2UOs
 
“MI6’s next move. Is Venezuela the new Syria?”
 
‘White Helmets’ have joined the IDF in ‘humanitarian operations‘ in Venezuela. And maybe more…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 9 2026 0:24 utc | 122

‘Major European nations plus Canada and Australia, last night chose not to support Cuba’s latest plea for a debate on the US decades-long campaign to strangle the island, shocking UN watchers.

But the UK, France & Spain resisted US pressure to do the same. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been working behind the scenes to pressure a change of stance on the regular UN vote on Cuba sanctions – and appears to have succeeded.

While Cuba still won the vote for an additional debate overall, the change in voting patterns alarmed countries worldwide concerned about the horrendous tragedy that is accelerating on the island, suffering under an illegal US sea blockade on fuel, which has been recently added to decades of economic embargoes.’

It’s just an UN Assembly vote.

It is purely peformative despite claims of it being used for ‘diplomatic pressure’.

Any diplomat worth his or her salt knows the inherent structure of the current system.

The only enforcment power is via binding UNSC resolutions which can’t be achieved because of the way it’s structured with each of the permanent five having absolute veto power.

Posted by: Agonizing Reapprisal | Jul 9 2026 0:52 utc | 124

Agonizing Reappraisal@124:
 
Yes, and I am aware of all that but still consider the vote a significant shift and indicator of what is to to come. 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 9 2026 1:09 utc | 126

Fox news but it has video of the bending columns. None taken out by aircraft, no fire to weaken columns nor beams. Just ‘Made in USA’ stamp of destruction is enough for a building to buckle under its own weight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smqjn69MKTo

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 9 2026 8:40 utc | 128

Michelson-Morley proved roughly a generation before Einstein published his special theory of relativity, that theories based on an Aether are essentially false and have been repeatedly falsified using their approach with even more sensitive instrumentation. . 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
 
 

Posted by: kvp | Jul 9 2026 11:28 utc | 130

 
Abby Martin: The US Blockade of Cuba is Mass Murder (&vid)
 
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2074980082527944947
 
Indeed it is. Perpetrated by United Snakes in broad daylight in full view of the rest of the world…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jul 9 2026 11:48 utc | 132

Israel v Jordan water concerns – more serious
 
𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗘𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗝𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗡’𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗨𝗬 𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗟-𝗔𝗤𝗦𝗔 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗
𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿.
Under 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟰 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘆, 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 must supply 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 of water a year. In 2021 it agreed to double that to 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. Since 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂’s government has refused to renew that extra half, and an official told Israeli media there is no obligation to provide it, because “when you help your neighbours, you expect 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.”
Experts told 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 this is the 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of water, the price of Jordan’s criticism of 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 and its opposition to annexation in 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁.
Jordan is one of the most water-starved nations on earth, far below the UN’s absolute-scarcity line, where citizens already receive piped water 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸. The rich buy from tanker trucks; the poor and the 𝟭.𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗲𝘀 Jordan shelters go dry first. Cutting the supply drives farm yields down and food prices up, so the thirst lands as hunger too. This is not a diplomatic inconvenience, it is a threat aimed at the throat of a nation.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴.
Jordan is the recognised guardian of Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian holy sites, the 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 that Israel itself pledged to respect in 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝟵 of the same 1994 treaty, administering 𝗮𝗹-𝗔𝗾𝘀𝗮 through 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗮𝗾𝗳.
𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝘆𝗲 reports that the US and Israel, through 𝗝𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗿 and ambassador 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗲 and floated with the UAE, are working to strip that custodianship, replace the Waqf with an Israeli-backed body, recast al-Aqsa as a “shared” space with organised Jewish prayer, and hand Israel a veto over its imams and sermons. For Palestinians and for Jordan, chipping at that status quo has always been the first step toward those who want 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 on the site.
𝗣𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.
You do not threaten a parched country’s water in a vacuum. You do it while reaching for the one thing it will fight hardest to keep, and the custodianship of al-Aqsa is the crown of the Hashemite monarchy, the lifeline of its legitimacy and of Palestinian hopes at the mosque. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿, and 𝗮𝗹-𝗔𝗾𝘀𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲. Squeeze the throat, and wait to see if the hand loosens on the mosque. This is BTL’s reading of two facts laid side by side, and once you see them together you cannot unsee the shape of it.
𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀.
Jordan helped shoot down the missiles crossing its sky toward Israel during the war with Iran, and this is the thanks: its water rationed to its own thirsty poor, its guardianship of 𝗮𝗹-𝗔𝗾𝘀𝗮 pried at in back rooms with 𝗝𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗿’s name on the plan. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹-𝗔𝗾𝘀𝗮 is being told, in the language of dry taps, that the mosque and the water are now the same negotiation.
Amman should say the word Gaza louder, not softer, because a lifeline you surrender your conscience to keep was never a lifeline. It was a leash.
middleasteye

Posted by: Jo | Jul 9 2026 12:12 utc | 134