General Factorum who said he was away for some nasty medical journey?
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 17 2026 18:20 utc | 3
 
—
 
Maybe he is still on the journey.  Everyone’s recovery is there own.  I think I was away 3 weeks last year.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 17 2026 18:29 utc | 4

I have tried to post it on yesterday’s threads, but my comments were not posted. I do non know if this is because I am on the ‘insecure’ site – 
 
Several  ppl commented already on that problem which started yesterday – that this site is ‘unsafe’ and it requires to go to the ‘Advanced’ window where is the link to Moa which does open, but if I click on comments I have to go again through that window “Your connection is not private’ etc.
 
What is going on? Is this now a massive DOS under different guise?

Posted by: fanto | Sep 17 2026 18:34 utc | 6

I’m getting the safety “warnings” when I attempt to connect to MoA, says it’s an insecure site. Are you under some form of censure attack?

Posted by: Fisher | Sep 17 2026 18:37 utc | 8

The SSL certificate issue.
 
I see SSL certification as the colonoscopy of the tech world.  It is not necessary for many sites [like here] but is sold as a necessity for all to maintain.
 
My web site is http, not https and I refuse to have a SSL certificate because there is no user interaction at my site but only to convey information to interested readers.   
MoA is not much more needy for SSL because only comments.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 17 2026 18:48 utc | 10

Those who would sacrifice interwebs liberty, for a false sense of interwebs safety, deserve nether

Posted by: Hot Carl | Sep 17 2026 19:09 utc | 12

Norwegian | Sep 17 2026 19:06 utc | 11
Thanks for the advice; I tried to open it, but I get advice from Microsoft that opening this app may put my PC at risk. What should one do?

Posted by: fanto | Sep 17 2026 20:50 utc | 14

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 17 2026 18:02 utc | 2
 
I did post it on the last (Iran) thread (by mistake). 
 
On other issues, and returning to Epstein – the big fat nothingburger. Those of you hypertriggered small hat wearing wall kissing types can feel free to ignore. 
 
A reminder from February.  https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/epsteins-paedophile-ring-did-not
 

The Epstein files are full of this word “goyim” and there is a good chance most people have no idea what this word even means. Goyim can be used simply to refer to “nations” or “peoples”, but in this context, it was a slur against non-Jews, an expression of Jewish supremacy.
 
In 2010, Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said: “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel.”
 
Epstein casually referred to non-Jews as “goyim” in his email exchanges and contrasted his Jewish associates with “goyim” in intellectual terms. In one conversation, he said “goyim prosecutors” wouldn’t understand his financial schemes.
 
One of Epstein’s victims — Maria Farmer — said Epstein and Maxwell would frequently use the term “goyim” and saw outsiders as inferior. This claim is supported by Epstein’s emails.
 
In a 2010 email exchange with Peggy Siegel, Epstein discussed the guest list for a party at his New York mansion, which included Prince Andrew, Woody Allen, and Katie Couric. Siegal asked: “Is it going to be 100% JEW NIGHT?”
 
Epstein replied: “No, goyim in abundance – jpmorgan execs brilliant WASPs.” WASPs means White Anglo-Saxon Protestants – Epstein was essentially saying these are the acceptable non-Jews, the ones who are worthy of mingling with us.
 
In a 2009 email discussing finances with Roger Schanks, Epstein wrote: “This is the way the Jew make money … let the goyim deal in the real world.” He was talking of “selling short the shipping futures” (betting on future freight rates and laying off risks). The implication here is that the struggles of capitalism are for lesser humans and people like Epstein get to enjoy easy money. He basically lived up to every antisemitic trope: every negative stereotype associated with Jews was embodied by this man.
 
It is fair to say that Epstein did the fight against antisemitism no favours, but one person who came out of the Epstein files with his reputation enhanced was another Jew — Norman Finkelstein.
 
Finkelstein has been a nemesis of Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz for years, but the Epstein files gave us a glimpse into how these people operate. Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to bring Finkelstein into the circle, to recruit him like they recruited Noam Chomsky. Basically, these people either bring you in or destroy you. It takes courage to stand up to Zionists and this is exactly what Finkelstein did.
 
Finkelstein replied to Trivers’ invite:
 

“My guess is, if Epstein put your daughter at age 15, in such a position, you wouldn’t publicly describe him as a “friend” and person of “integrity”. In fact, I would hope you’d promptly throttle both Epstein and Dershowitz.”
 

Contrast this level of conviction with a weasel like Keir Starmer who described himself as a “Zionist without qualification” to the Israeli lobby and proceeded to do their bidding, expelling Jeremy Corbyn, supporting Israel’s genocide, and proscribing groups that stood up to Israel. Men like Starmer are useful goyim.
 
I first encountered the word “goyim” during the Corbyn years when I made the mistake of engaging Zionists on the antisemitism smears. Suddenly, I was being called “goyim” and “goy-boy”. Suddenly, I was being told to “stop goy-splaining”. I had no idea what they meant and when I Googled the words, I was taken aback. I had been perfectly nice and yet these people were using a racist slur against me! This was my first encounter with Jewish supremacy.

[Continues…]

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 17 2026 21:33 utc | 16

FWIW, I only get the certificate expired page every time I come to MoA or try to post a comment when I’m using my phone browser (behind a VPN, but that’s irrelevant). It’s probably a setting. On my desktop, I only got the certificate expiration page and warning once, then bypassed it and now I can access the page immediately each time with the usual “Not secure https://…” in red, in the address bar. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 17 2026 22:04 utc | 18

Posted by: tucenz | Sep 17 2026 22:07 utc | 19
 
Imagine a huge email leak or FOIA release (no child or underage female sex ring needed) in which a bunch of WASPY financier/banker, politicians and academic luminary types are caught out writing things like “A Whites only right, right – no JEWS?” or, in reference to a Black person, or worse a Jew “Don’t worry, HE’s one of the semi-bright good ones!” 
 
There would be a federal inquisition and media firestorm the likes of which we have rarely seen.  “_____ and his cohorts used WHITE SUMPREMACIST language!” “_______ is an AVOWED RACIST!!!” etc. 
 
The double standard is so glaring and in-your-face that it’s simply ignored by the powerful and the legacy media. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 17 2026 22:18 utc | 20

@ Norwegian | Sep 17 2026 19:06 utc | 11 with the Caddy suggestion…thx
 
I don’t host my own web site and so don’t think this will work for me and I really don’t want to go the the bother. 
I am now getting all the traffic I want…actually surprised at the growth over the years….and maybe folks are using the healing breath exercise I discovered/didn’t invent and will experience results like I have.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 17 2026 22:38 utc | 22

Why would executives in the several leading companies developing AI technology in the US have an incentive to raise alarm about the dangers of AI?
—
Leading artificial intelligence executives have strong strategic and financial incentives to sound the alarm about AI dangers, primarily to shape regulations in their favor and hype the power of their technology.
Cementing Market Dominance
Regulatory capture: Pushing for strict government oversight allows major firms like OpenAI and Anthropic to help write the rules. High compliance costs and complex safety bureaucracies create a moat that smaller open-source competitors and startups cannot afford to cross.
Pulling up the ladder: By calling for mandatory licensing or pauses on advanced training, dominant labs can freeze the competitive landscape and lock in their current market share.
Marketing and Capital Attraction
Hype through fear: Framing AI as an existential threat capable of “killing all humans” or acquiring superintelligence paradoxically advertises its immense, god-like power.
Securing investments: Portraying the technology as world-altering attracts massive venture capital, government defense contracts, and enterprise trust, signaling that these companies are the serious stewards of a transformative force.
Managing Liability and Public Perception
Pre-emptive deflection: Publicly agonizing over speculative future doom shifts focus away from current, tangible harms—such as copyright infringement, worker displacement, bias, and deepfakes.
Socializing risk: Critics note that emphasizing catastrophic, uncontrollable outcomes sets up a narrative where companies are pioneers battling impossible risks, potentially paving the way for government bailouts or legal immunities if things go wrong.
– Gemini
 

Posted by: jared | Sep 17 2026 23:05 utc | 24

AhenobarbusTQC / @bar
which is why I am exasperated with the latest ballyhoo… the Ed Shehan  concert cancellations.
 
 The angst and outrage should be directed at the owner of the stadiums that issued the cancel.
It’s too easy to target some simple schmuck like a musician.
Take the fight to where it belongs… the guys who use their power and ownership of (taxpayer supported) infrastructure to cancel anyone who says 
“genocide is always wrong” 
 

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 17 2026 23:29 utc | 26

The Pentagon is considering a major reduction of the U.S. military presence in Europe, potentially withdrawing around one-third of the roughly 80,000 American troops stationed there, with some proposals involving cuts of up to 40,000 personnel, NBC News reports.
The review could also result in the removal of aircraft, warships, and weapons, with forces in countries including Germany, Spain, and Italy potentially affected. No final decision has been made, and recommendations are expected in November.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 17 2026 23:59 utc | 28

You can see the rates uptick across the board, and it has already affected mortgage rates too.
 
    https://fred.stlouisfed.org./graph/?g=1qjTd
 
When you look in context, compared to where we were with inverted yields back in 2024, I would regard this as “yellow light” warning territory but too early to start freaking out. When we first went into the strongly negative yield curve people were already pointing to that as the first signs of a coming recession so where we are at right now is pretty much the logical consequence.

Posted by: Tel | Sep 18 2026 0:11 utc | 30

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 17 2026 23:29 utc | 26
 
Ed Sheeran is Fabulously wealthy. He can afford excellent lawyers. If anything he’s more to blame than the Zionist billionaires who blocked Macklemore. See here:
 
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/why-do-we-let-zionists-decide-what

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 18 2026 1:13 utc | 32

“To invert Teddy Roosevelt, America today is talking loudly and carrying a small stick.”
 
 
 
https://indi.ca/the-two-engines-of-america-part-2-imperialism/
The Two Engines Of America (Part 2: Imperialism) 
 
…..The main thing that held American empire together was a story. The story that they won World War II and were the ‘good guys’ and that’s why they were still here. America (and its main bitch the UK) deployed relentless post-war propaganda to switch people from knowing that the USSR won the war to believing that America did. Hence you get all these movies about saving privates and cracking codes and assorted bullshit that had little material impact, certainly compared to the USSR. And this advertising campaign largely worked, especially after the USSR’s fall. They refilmed history and hid America’s naked imperialism in a celluloid cloak.  
 
This is liberalism. They took liberties with the truth to justify continued imperialism, and call it helping out. This was America’s soft power—all the marketing about Democracy™ and Human Rights© and Freedom®—and it saved them much hard graft. With their well-marketed values (and manufactured goods) they could get countries to effectively colonize themselves, with a well-timed coup if anyone started thinking too much. They could hold the stick of their military largely in reserve while holding out the carrot of their ‘Rules-Based Order’ which well-meaning people all over the world would defend because the marketing was good. As Big Pussy told Tony Soprano, “I’m mindfucking these donkeys like you wouldn’t believe.”  
 
This is what institutions like USAID and the liberal media were doing….. 
 
….Remember that America hasn’t been able to really win anything since World War II, has been unable to conscript an army since Vietnam, and hasn’t been able to field its debt slave army since leaving Afghanistan. American imperialism is now completely dependent on proxies mindfucked enough to follow them. And Trump is gutting and humiliating those proxies too. To invert Teddy Roosevelt, America today is talking loudly and carrying a small stick……  
 
….The reanimated corpse of Joe Biden tried to resurrect the image of ‘good guy’ America, but then he livestreamed a genocide for 15 months, which is definitely bad. This revealed that America was always bullshit, whether branded red or blue. It was always White Empire, doing what such empires do……..
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 18 2026 3:44 utc | 34

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 18 2026 2:56 utc | 33
 
I don’t follow. He’s buddies with Macklemore and not sure what “his act” means in context. Sheeran was told by the stadium owners (beneficiaries of favorable tax schemes in cities who basically fund large parts of NFL stadium construction projects and then give massive subsidies) that the latter man was forbidden from the stadiums that should be seen as public-private venues. 
 
Sheeran had a choice. An easy one if he wasn’t a greedy little pussy. He has the financial and public capital wherewithal to have easily shut Robert Kraft down. Kraft is an Ashkenazi Jewish supremacist who has been charged with sex related crimes and with a very bad public reputation. This was the perfect opportunity for a performer like Shee Ran to have a huge PR win for Palestinians. 
 
Not following the idea he’s been compromised for a long time given no previous evidence that I’m aware of, anyway.
 
Maybe the kike-supremo Duck m Cover can explain.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 18 2026 4:18 utc | 36

 
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/2100623996127707274
 
 
Afshin Rattansi   @afshinrattansi
 
“A reminder of why Julian Assange was persecuted and targeted by the US for over a decade:
 
Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US Apache helicopter opens fire.
 
Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen were gunned down, several others were killed while the US pilots laughed. “

Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Sep 18 2026 5:11 utc | 38

For those boomers and Gen Z agers like me (and D’nC) I caved to the whims of spellcheck/autocorrect. Don’t want to mislead y’all with the incorrect meme. It’s Skibidi Toilet. 
 
I’m sure Our Friend hasbarat-lite totally uncommitting by design bot cultural reference bad music touch-point artist Cuck ‘n Shove’er can elaborate. 
 
And seriously, has anyone ever seen that troll pigeonholed into a single coherent worldview other than “Yeah, but Anglo-American Empire bad, and thus all citizens in the imperial core who are white must really suck!”
 
Stupid small hat. We see through you and your (stated) unhealthy obsession with China and the other (unstated) one with “Israel”. 
 
Dumbass, lol. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 18 2026 5:25 utc | 40

Maintenance is an expense that cannot be avoided.
 

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Exxon Mobil has shut down one of the largest diesel refineries in the US,
 
The refinery produces ~11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel per day,
 
The company announces that the reason is an outage issues.
 
https://t.me/Captain_America_News/1078

Posted by: too scents | Sep 18 2026 8:35 utc | 42

Re: Exxon Mobil
 
A Buddy of mine supplies capital Equipment to the oil majors. His observation Exxon Mobil is the most rigorous in quality specs and BP is the least. 

Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 18 2026 9:43 utc | 44

What happened to that masterplan to isolate and bankrupt the RF by endless ratcheting up of sanctions to deprive them of dollars and income from their energy and other resources?
 

@SprinterPress
36m
Urals oil exceeds $110 per barrel – fuel shortages begin in Europe
 
Russian Urals oil in Western ports has risen above $110 per barrel – the highest level since April. The increase is supported by high demand and expensive Brent crude.
 
In France, fuel shortages have begun at gas stations. Macron has demanded that the government implement “full mobilization” to ensure supplies and control prices, amid calls for protests. In Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk is warning of possible record-high fuel prices. He says that prices could soon reach levels that previously seemed impossible.
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Sep 17, 2026 · 10:32 AM UTC

 
Now the old naztzios are going to be deposed from their seat at the Top Table and a new generation of eurofascimos and ma’s, with the nextgen sultry sexy grrrlphwower leading the charge! 

They believe we are all so easily seduced by move over substance! 
 
No wonder the old hags and the cocaine train snorting bum chums, are crying for their lost dynastic ambitions to be sitted at their Ziolords Table! 
 
They know and fear their failure will result in their being thrown as the sacrificial goats to the masses …
 
Dont be distracted barflies, go for the throats of the secret Ziolords and their dynasties.
 
They are the root of the evils that keeps sprouting the neonazis and woke fascists of the collective waste. 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 18 2026 10:01 utc | 46

Both NZ and Australia are apparently joining Canada in becoming “associate” members of the EU. (You may have heard that the Canadian national broadcaster, the CBC recently joined the EBU and will be participating in the coming Eurovision Song Contest, a boon to the organisers who are still facing a boycott by 5 now 6 this year, nations boycotting over Israel who are also giving out sweetheart deals to other countries to come back to the contest)
This is being laundered to the middle and upper middle classes and fake left as a triumphant rejection of Trump’s America and a celebration of “our values”. In reality, of course, Trump won’t be president forever, afterwards Canada will return to being totally under the cultural and political influence of the US again (If they have ever left). Having lost the Trojan state of the UK, the Atlanticist neocons stooges can now infest the EU with Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Even the EBU, will the CBC oppose Israel’s participation? Unlikely, will they continued, thousands of miles away from the consequences, to push a hostile stance against Russia and “misinformation”? Make no mistake, it seems likely they will push to have Canada in the EU to spite the US you see! People are so stupid these days it hurts. Hopefully it hastens the collapse of the whole thing, if something replaces it hopefully we can have a Western and Eastern European Union. In reality another motivation is Germany carmakers needing more open markets to make up for US tariffs and screwing over farmers all over Europe to do it. Just like what happened with the trade deals with Brazil and Argentina. There is also the issue of certain rare Earth minerals that German manufacturers no longer have as easy access to from Russia wanting to make it up from Canada. It’s remarkable how readily Germany treats the EU as though it’s only purpose was to enrich it at the expense of the rest of the union.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/18/exclusive-australian-government-breaks-silence-on-eu-associate-member-pipe-dream
The current Canadian PM, Carney, is a tri-national (He has forsaken his British and Irish citizenships to take the job.) former head of the Bank of England (He obtained British citizenship just to take the job) whose bright idea is to create a sovereign wealth funds for Canada, probably to get lots of money into the hands of his old trader friends. Okay, well Canada has lots of oil, but not so fast, all the profits go to the government of Alberta not to the federal Canadian government. So where is the money coming from? Carney has a genius idea, sell valuable state assets to fill the sov wealth fund! That’s an idea so backward only a former head of the Bank of England could have thought of; not even a Ukrainian Central Banker would dare propose such an obvious theft.

Posted by: Altai | Sep 18 2026 10:49 utc | 48

@ too scents | Sep 18 2026 11:03 utc | 49
 
Hasn’t stopped Big Ag from selling carcinogenic peanuts before…

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 18 2026 11:24 utc | 50

@ Posted by: Altai | Sep 18 2026 10:49 utc | 48
 
‘They‘, the unipolar hegemon collapsed Empire, can keep North America and Western EurAsia around their Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation – and try to collect transit fees from the NSR sailing through from the Pole.
 
They can pretend to keep NZ and Oz in the EU, but that will not give them any ‘rights’ to the Pacific, Southern or Indian Oceans. 
 
Never mind the South Atlantic! 
 
Frankly shipping back to Europe all who want to retain their European self identity is probably easier.
 
Leave the antepodes for the kangaroos and original native humans and flora to return. the Multipolar will help manage it. 
 
I know many friends who have gone back ‘home’ or are planning to having decided being European ain’t that cushy anymore with all the austerity nd BrexShit etc, I don’t blame them an do sometimes wish I had such a choice.
 
The Five Eyes plus One and their satraps are begging to be ‘left alone’ after centuries of invasions, genocides and exploitation.
 
 
The Multipolar EurAsia and Global South – especially the African continent as it moves towards becoming the most populace in humanity in the next hundred years of development –  are NOT going to let them have a hemisphere!
Half the planet!!
The chutzpah!!!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 18 2026 12:08 utc | 52

Everything you’ve been told about 9/11 is a lie.”

a Buddy of mine mentioned Bin Laden yesterday.  I laughed and said he was in a distinct minority of Americans who believe the regime tall tale.  He really started  losing it – making fun of my belief in wild conspiracy theories.  I then asked him:
 
how did 2 planes knock down 3 skyscrapers ?
 
then he went full bonkers. Like head exploding bonkers. I guess he isn‘t quite ready to be red pilled. LOL
 

Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 18 2026 14:04 utc | 54

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 18 2026 11:59 utc | 51

Fast from late afternoon and on through out the night ( when your body rests, recoupes, rejuvenates and you sleep) then start the new day with a great big BREAKFAST. Breaking your fast.

Posted by: Fíréan | Sep 18 2026 15:08 utc | 56

Posted by: tucenz | Sep 17 2026 22:07 utc | 19
Bwahahahahaha. You are the not Chosen. 
“And God made cloudflare to test the faithful.”
 
Bibi rules America. I heard it on the tellie! 
 
Nothing funnier than your response when told: you are not Chosen. All that student loan debt and a lifetime of slavery, a solid teacher’s pet, A student spelling bee champ, and not Chosen!?
 
Don’t worry. You will be among the Chosen when the bomb drops.
 
If only there were water under this red red rock…
 
Whine whine whine. Another sect of Chosen is saving your asses right now. They despise people like you and Tom Q.
 
Ganga waters over Himavant..
What has happened to the Ganges since Dec 1921? The Yellow River? The Mississippi? The Volga?
 
Thanks to capitalism , we’ve all been Chosen! 
 
I never heard a Texas skoal bandit talk about darkies that way.
 
Your judaeophobic bullshit is purposeful ruling class distraction. Jews need water for a mikvah. You need water to drink.
 
The horror, the horror!

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 15:24 utc | 58

If you can’t tell kids just to go steal food, esp in the US, you got bigger problems than the Jew fairies hammering away at your plastic brain.
 
Been caught stealing – Jane’s Addiction
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs&pp=ygUlamFuZSdzIGFkZGljdGlvbiBiZWVuIGNhdWdodCBzdGVhbGluZw%3D%3D

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 15:42 utc | 60

It appears accessing MoA has returned to normal–don’t need to jump through security hoops. The first item I have for Barflies this morning is Putin’s meeting on economic issues where we find these bits of info:
 

I would like to note that the economic dynamics in Russia as a whole meets our expectations. According to estimates, at the end of this year, the growth of gross domestic product will be within one percent. Approximately this forecast was laid down in the preparation of budget projections for the current year.
 
Domestic companies and enterprises work steadily. This can be seen in the situation in the labor market, where unemployment is about historical lows – 2.3 percent. Wages are growing – for the first the first half of the year plus 6.5 percent in real terms.
 
The stable situation in the labor market and the growth of household incomes are also reflected in consumer demand. Retail Sales for seven months of this year increased by 5.4 percent.
 
Inflation is generally under control. Since the second quarter of last year, it has been gradually declining. As of September 14, inflation was 6.2 percent. This is noticeably lower last year’s level, and at the end of the first quarter of 2025, let me remind you, Inflation was double-digit at 10.3 percent. That is, the efforts that are being undertaken by both the Central Bank and the Government of the Russian Federation in this area and are clearly yielding results.
 
As for public finances, in August the federal budget was executed with a surplus, it amounted to 606 billion rubles.
 
A significant contribution to this result was made by non-oil and gas companies revenues, that is, revenues that are not related to the global situation hydrocarbons, but rely on the dynamics of our own domestic market. For eight months of this year, such non-oil and gas revenues of the federal of the budget increased by more than 18 percent. [My Emphasis]

 
Clearly, the attempts to destabilize Russia’s economy and social life has failed utterly. In another report, the program of gasification was remarked upon by Putin as new centers of operations were opened:
 

Over the past 20 years, we have significantly strengthened the gas infrastructure. If in 2005 such infrastructure worked in forty regions of the Federation, now it is already in seventy-three. In the previous five years, almost every day on the map of the country A new gasified settlement appeared.
 
Today we have planned inclusions from the Far East and Central Russia, of the Volga region and the North Caucasus. Everywhere, in each of these regions, access to network gas gives a powerful comprehensive effect for the creation of new enterprises and jobs, for the modernization of existing production facilities, for the transfer of heat and power plants, housing and communal services to environmentally friendly gas fuel, which reduces the burden on the environment, especially in large cities. [My Emphasis]

 
The expansion of gasification will continue. Another important sector of construction and expansion is airports and the increasing introduction of 100% Russian constructed aircraft having 100% Russian components. Here’s a selection of Putin’s remarks at this ceremony:
 

And, of course, modern airports are an additional incentive for the regional economy and growth trade, business activity and, of course, tourism. It is a higher quality service and the speed of passenger service.
 
With this in mind, we are systematically updating the airport infrastructure. So, in the country as a whole, 20 runways and 26 airport terminals have been put into operation since 2021. In addition to those that we have in touch today, new air terminals have been opened in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Stavropol, Cheboksary and a number of other cities….
 
I can inform you that for these purposes almost 50 billion rubles were allocated from the federal budget This will make it possible to transport about 10 million passengers. In order to meet the demand of citizens for air transportation, it is necessary to continue to develop the industry systematically, consistently. We will definitely do this systematically.
 
Let me remind you that at least 75 airports should be modernised by 2030, which is more than a third of all airports of the Russian airport network.
 
And, of course, it is necessary to increase and renew the aircraft fleet, which is essential, to ensure the growing needs of our airlines in modern air technology, and it is necessary to do this at the expense of their own, domestic developments, especially since we have promising models, including the medium-haul MS-21. Now in production there are 18 such machines, deliveries to Aeroflot should begin next year.
 
Today in this direction another very significant and important step is taken: Aeroflot Group orders 90 new MS-21 aircraft. In fact, we are talking about a large-scale, long-term contract, which will be loaded with our aircraft manufacturers, their subcontractors and contractors. I hope that its implementation will be carried out in strict accordance with the schedule, without delays or disruptions. [My Emphasis]

  
Despite the SMO’s expense, Russia continues to develop and grow its economy. Putin said Russia’s budget assumes oil priced at $50/bbl while it’s now selling for triple that, which will swell the National Welfare Fund. Russia’s elections commenced today and will end Sunday and featured Putin voting online. Imagine Trump allowing that.
 
  

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 18 2026 15:54 utc | 62

Another reminder of why Julian Assange was persecuted. 
 
 
Have long wondered if an Obama speech contained words lifted directly from a satanic chant (hope no one reading this has first-hand knowledge).
 
 
 
The ‘real world’, according to an Obama’s speech, is:

a cruel world’ with ‘punishing poverty’,a world where ‘oppression will always be with us’,’deprivation is intractable’,’clear-eyed we can understand that there will be war’,

And ‘Hope’, Mr. ‘Hope&Change’ said, was a naive ‘child’s dream’.
 
 
 
He used these words to conclude his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
 
 
He marginally veiled his words — picture a hooded red robe.
 
 
 
One week after his Nobel Peace Prize speech Mr Hope and Change shredded dozens of women and children in Yemen and criminally covered up his deed.
 
 
 
Obama in Oslo, December 10, 2009:
 

Somewhere today, a mother facing punishing poverty still takes the time to teach her child, scrapes together what few coins she has to send that child to school — because she believes that a cruel world still has a place for that child’s dreams.
LET US LIVE BY THEIR EXAMPLE. [a cruel world vs a child’s dream]We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice. We can admit the intractability of deprivation, and still strive for dignity. Clear-eyed,we can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace.We can do that — for that is the story of human progress; that’s the
hope
of all the world; and at this moment of challenge,that must be our work here on Earth.
Thank you very much.(Applause.)

 
One week later Obama shredded dozens of women and children in Yemen and covered it up.
 
 
 
[was their bloody slaughter the true conclusion of his satanic speech?]
 
 
 
==========================================
 
 
 
Relevant source links:
 
 
 
Here is ABC’s Brian Ross using his most masculine voice to boast about Obama’s attack:
 
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHcg3TNSRPs
 
 
 
.Wikileaks cable corroborates evidence of US airstrikes in Yemen (Amnesty Intl)
 
 
 
https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2010/12/wikileaks-cable-corroborates-evidence-us-airstrikes-yemen/
 
 
 
.Actual Pentagon cable at Wikileaks:
 
 
 
https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10SANAA4_a.html
 
 
 
 
The so-called “Peace Prize” is forever tainted and blood-smeared after it was awarded to Obama.
 
 
 
A week after giving his acceptance speech in Oslo Obama took the “War On Terror” to another country, Yemen.
 
 
 
The US hadn’t declared war on Yemen;
 
the target was not on the FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) list;
 
the US denied doing it;
 
Obama criminally bypassed Congress and bribed the Yemen government with unapproved military supplies for the sake of a criminal cover-up.
 
 
 
Obama had missed his target in Yemen but shredded dozens of women and children in the attempt. He used cluster bombs on civilians to target one man. This was done one week after giving his Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo.
 
Note that Obama’s head speech writer at the time was this clever Zio pos:
 
 
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionists-are-freaking-out-about-losing

Posted by: Otto Penn | Sep 18 2026 16:25 utc | 64

Last night, during overnight attacks from Yemen on the King Fahd Air Base in Taif, Saudi Arabia, an Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet was damaged.
 
According to Italian authorities it has been deployed a Task Force Air unit there “to support security and air patrol operations in the region.”
 
It was likely involved in combat operations though, in any case Italians need answers about the country’s participation in the war with Yemen and Iran.
 
@eurasianchoice

Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 18 2026 16:55 utc | 66

another fun topic for the blind:
homeric epic diet
vs
kosher diet.
 
heroes kill cows. no cows got a covid 19 lockdown. cuz americans are heroes.

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 17:25 utc | 68

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 17:22 utc | 67
 
my great grandfather’s east texas home was burned to the ground by the klan.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 18 2026 17:43 utc | 70

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 18 2026 17:43 utc | 70
my family was driven out of both Brownsboro and Trinidad, in Henderson Cty, south of DFW metro, by the Klan. papa was a gigantic asshole, i’m proof of that, but he didn’t truck with the klan. 
 
Copenhagen (snuff) was 25 cents, no ID required. those were the days. if only we hadn’t tormented each other like in some Faulker novel, we might have been happy.

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 17:53 utc | 72

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 18 2026 17:43 utc | 70
from gemini:
In July 1950, Dr. Charles Rahm—an osteopath who served as the Brownsboro school board secretary and former mayor—was charged with murder in the death of a man named Jackson amid massive community unrest [re deseg then attempted resegregation of the public school system]
 
…While explosive and politically volatile, historical reports tie the murder charge to local political and school administration turmoil rather than the Ku Klux Klan. (end quote)
—–
who needs the Klan? fucking school board would do it for you. but now the mayor is, or can be, black. hurray for progress.

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 18:08 utc | 74

Posted by: Otto Penn | Sep 18 2026 16:25 utc | 64 Obama’s words are effectively a description of the mural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_mural
Posted by: Δ | Sep 18 2026 16:52 utc | 65

Thanks for that insight. 
 
I posted a lengthy response to you but it has now been deleted [fuming].
 
Took a long time to compose, not going to try again.  [fuming]
The bottom line to that post might have been that Obama’s Zio speech writer turned the meaning of the mural upside-down.
[fuming]

Posted by: Otto Penn | Sep 18 2026 18:22 utc | 76

not stuffing meat in your face is a national security threat for Homer’s heroes today, like it was 3500 years ago. farming is for suckers.

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 18:29 utc | 78

From ZH showing the complete lack of level playing field 
 
Auto Stocks Slide As VW Cuts Outlook, Industry Urges Trump To Keep BYD Cars Out
 
 

Volkswagen shares fell as much as 7.5% after the struggling European automaker lowered its operating-margin forecast, reflecting a write-down on its Porsche stake and weak Chinese demand.
Separately, US auto industry groups urged the Trump administration to maintain restrictions on Chinese vehicles, according to a Bloomberg report.
“Allowing them to open a domestic facility would provide a foothold in the US market at the expense of manufacturers operating here,” the coalition wrote.
Signatories include the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, whose members include Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen, alongside Autos Drive America, the American Automotive Policy Council and the National Automobile Dealers Association.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 18 2026 18:53 utc | 80

It’s something out of the Benny Hill show: the video of 4000 migrants racing for 1800 beds. 

Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 18 2026 19:49 utc | 82

El. 25 mins
 
(14) AI CEOs Are Broke, Desperate and Lying About Doomsday – YouTube

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 18 2026 20:51 utc | 84

karlof1, your name/you has been mentioned here:
 
 
 
https://indi.ca/everybody-doesnt-want-to-rule-the-world/
Everybody Doesn’t Want To Rule The World
 
 
As Zhou Bo (Tsinghua University) said in a recent interview (shout out Karl Sanchez for his great and diverse sourcing), 
 
Zhou Bo: if you simply define the “world order” as a so-called “liberal international order”, it is actually a kind of historical myopia. Because if you really look at it that way, it’s a bit like living in a Francis Fukuyama-esque world – the world where “history ends.” 
 
Geraldine: So you mean, it’s actually a Western-imposed worldview, right? 
 
Zhou Bo: Yes, the so-called “liberal international order” only looked like that at best, during the period when the Soviet Union collapsed and China had not yet fully emerged. But if you really believe in that order, it’s easy to fall into narcissism; as soon as you find that you are no longer strong, you will start looking for “enemies”. This is actually very dangerous. But if you believe that this world order is a collection of civilizations, then you ask yourself: How do I coexist with others? Yes, the so-called “liberal international order” only looked like that at best, during the period when the Soviet Union collapsed and China had not yet fully emerged…….
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 18 2026 21:16 utc | 86

China and Russia are “old Trek,” where the world is scientific and rational, and prosperity flows from technological mastery and fair procedures. And they produce coherent-seeming narratives to reinforce this bullshit. They are modeling themselves on Fordism and the Cold War EU welfare state. better health care and piles and piles and piles of consumer shit no one asked for and no one needs. all stuffed with AI, so Big Bro can spy on people to train for what really matters to the entire global ruling class: automated war.
 
in the West, we get “new Trek.” the story makes no sense at all, no relationship with its ancestry except triggering names, the point is the explosions and FX. and the gender/race swapping and people screwing alien robots. Rationality in narrative has been abandoned for overwhelming spectacle consisting of blowing up stuff. and family melodrama between Kirk and Spock in the middle of combat on the bridge. even Vulcans are emo. But we get the ongoing tons of consumer crap that we have now grown used to, which, like in China, are just experiments on the populace to test AI for automated warfare.
 
are Russia and China and the US and the EU enemies? or partners? like Mafia are partners, like the Triumvirate of powers in “1984” fighting on the periphery (Iran) all the time for resources (oil.) the answer depends on how much weight one puts on the political theater going on that we are allowed to see. on the TV.
 
none of these capitalist have done any testing at all on their EVs, e-bikes, batteries, etc. and they flood the planet with this shit, 80% from humanity’s new saviors, in China.
 
try to not to be on a subway when an e-bike goes into thermal runaway. you’ll get to find how long a piece of untested shit from China takes to kill a train car of people.
 
all the ruling class globally seeking is a condition wherein the working class has no chance to intervene. and that is what they each and all are striving for.
 
if china or russia wanted educated students, how much free time should a student have? they want human calculators. God bless our new Romulan overlords.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hAbjcD8yVA
E-Bike fire on a train: how long do you have? StacheD Training.
 
what % of global emergency workers have had ONE HOUR of training on how to respond to the latest from Prometheus’ bastards? what % of employees working in e-bike shops or car dealerships or vape shops?
 
china doesn’t know or give any more of a fuck what it’s doing than elon musk.

Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 18 2026 22:07 utc | 88

Some useful stats – a bit Euro-centric
 
The Countries Running on Brainpower Alone
 
@karlof1
 
MI6 has most of dirty laundry for the past 200 years – the Ottoman files a bit more. The numerous other tribes on the peninsula will have more! Saudi Arabia is a British construction which Crooke points out with ref. to St. John Philby

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 18 2026 22:35 utc | 90

United Snakes: news:
 

• Trump claims deal with Denmark gives US ‘permanent control’ over Greenland.
• Trump bans CNN, MS News, Politico from White House for ‘fake news’
• Pentagon renews mandatory testosterone testing for US troops over 30.

 
‘Shine Perishing Republic’…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 18 2026 22:59 utc | 92

@ John Gilberts | Sep 18 2026 22:59 utc | 92
 
Of course, the really outrageous thing about the Greenland deal is that it was made without consulting the people of Greenland or its elected representatives. But then, the Danes never treated them like people anyway.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 18 2026 23:07 utc | 94

finally ….
 
The Irish CANCEL Ed Sheeran After BACKLASH, “He’s English”   8mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 18 2026 23:53 utc | 96

arby | Sep 18 2026 23:19 utc | 95—
 
Thanks arby. I read the first half of the essay you linked. I recently watched a video about Oman, which is why I made the comparison. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2026 0:42 utc | 98

In last week’s open thread, I began an analysis of Brazil’s current political and electoral situation, taking as the foundational event the conviction of Jair Bolsonaro and five high-ranking officers of the Brazilian armed forces:
 
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This week, I will address two parallel corruption networks established during the administration of “Bozo the Elder”—networks that the press, algorithm-manipulated social media, and the fascists (represented by “Baby Bozo”) are trying to pin on Lula.
First, I will cover the so-called “Master Case,” followed by the diversion of Social Security (INSS) funds.
Let us begin by introducing the central figure of the “Master” scandal: Daniel Vorcaro, the alleged owner of “Banco Master”:
 
The trajectory of Daniel Vorcaro, the creator of Banco Master.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://piaui.uol.com.br/web/quem-e-daniel-vorcaro-banco-master/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiGlozPiveWAxW3r5UCHZqjKu0QFnoECCEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0LZDy66nwuYJaVUBVkXW8_
Wikipedia:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Vorcaro&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiGlozPiveWAxW3r5UCHZqjKu0QFnoECEUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw03aWZLQE3WWKItkDeeSexrug
 
See what Daniel Vorcaro did before owning “Banco Master”:
https://youtu.be/e_8Y7LHnADU?si=oqGwDFHEw_kFFhNb

Posted by: Soviético | Sep 19 2026 1:06 utc | 100