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    Felix Vallotton Verdun 1917   • Bessent Says US Is Negotiating With 17 Out of 18 Major Trade Partners (JTN) • Bessent and USTR Greer Will Meet Ch
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 7 2025]

    #187514
    Topcat
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    “Former Bush aide claims $21 Trillion has been spent on infrastructure & construction of around 170 major underground establishments, some verging on the size of a small City, across America & even under the sea.”

    This is simply so the Satanic Overlords can start a nuclear war and have a bolt hole.

    It’s the ultimate elimination of “Useless Eaters” once and for all.

    Humanoid robots coupled with the real AI, not the shit ai that has been displayed to the Plebs, will provide ‘continuity’ after the all out nuclear ‘cleansing’ event.

    #187515
    Topcat
    Participant

    Built by millions of illegal military aged immigrants and trafficked children

    #187516
    Topcat
    Participant

    Ever wonder if the multitude of little earthquakes happening all over North America have something to do with it….

    #187517
    Topcat
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    #187518
    Topcat
    Participant

    Oh, and by the way….

    #187519
    tboc
    Participant

    Wes and Red, did you see the write up on Armstrong on Martyanov’s blog the other day. The gist of the perspective is that Armstrong is an expert at using the net for self promotion. The commentor proposed Armstrong uses multiple personalities @ zerohedge.

    Exports – Trade deficits – take out the spaces
    https:// http://www.worldstopexports.com/ united-states-top-10-exports/

    The answer for developing nations is a movement in the population not to Buy American.
    On tariffs:
    Someone should tell Mr. Trump erotic asphixiation can be fatal.

    #187520
    John Day
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    #187521
    Topcat
    Participant

    Even the Geico Chameleon figured it out

    What’s your excuse?

    #187522
    zerosum
    Participant

    Find the bubble for your survival.
    Reality is one of many bubbles

    Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.

    Any rational observer would recognize a coordinated effort to undermine the Trump presidency.
    Is this called corruption or a revolt?
    Furthermore, will anyone be held responsible for the misuse of our judicial system against the President of the United States?

    Due process depends on judicial integrity.
    Without which process becomes extrajudicial.

    Gov. imposes taxes, tariffs, restrictions, rules and regulations, laws to obtain revenues to operate a society.
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    Massive drone attacks are being used as the path to the May cease fire.
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    #187523
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #187524
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ritter: I guess we’ll need to be conflicted since Trump is the worst ever, but Ritter is ALSO the worst ever. And they disagree. Whose side do we take so we can hate more?

    Trump is failing? Using his DonaldTelepathy. Like everyone else. And keeps slipping on a banana peel and doing a 180 flip. We’re up to the 947th backflip in a row, the clumsy dope.

    “Donald Trump’s war”. Yup, all over now. If it isn’t solved first day, that’s it! 100%! There are no factors, no strategies, etc. Meanwhile, when Obama or Biden are in, it’s “Bush’s/Trump’s fault” for three years + 363 days. That’s logic!

    Always, always stab allies. There’s no ally so pure you can’t stab him at least a little, while he sleeps.

    “New York Times Reports 18 Billion People Will Die From Republican Tax Plan “ Bbee

    Levine: That seems difficult, as that precedent means he can re-segregate the military. Not that I care, but legal precedent. Ah well, not all things can be written down and quantified. In fact, most things aren’t.

    “Islamism poses a direct threat to women in Europe, and it’s time we took this threat seriously.”

    Why do they hate women so much? Want them all raped, killed, subjugated?

    “underground establishments, some verging on the size of a small City, across America”

    Answering the question “Where’s my money, Brian? Where is it?” Wasted. I have no use for these structures.

    Clean, but what a s—-ty life.

    2nd clip: have to be more process-oriented here. Systems. Are they inventing new MRI technologies down there? Are they then sourcing, building, constructing, disposing their own MRI machines? Then conceptually, they remain entirely dependent on the surface. You can then measure eg, Elevators, as Fitts did, and demonstrate that they are integrated, symbiants to the surface life. How much food, etc? How much oil? Do they grow cotton underground? Have secret giant Chinese underwear factories? Okay, so you see what I’m pointing at then.

    Now, people have just asked me WHY do they think that they can just have the US Nuke Russia for them, ‘cuz we wanna and nothing will happen? They’ll all escape? Yeah, THIS is why. Right out of “Kingsmen” which is the point. And the phones that make everyone foam at the mouth and attack each other in unhinged rage.

    Okay, geniuses – F-ing geniuses, and I mean that in the best possible way – IF you are locked in a bunker with all the other scum of the universe, wouldn’t that make you prey for the biggest, worst warlord, instead of sitting in the lap of luxury and lording it over the peasants, –sshole? Yeah, you’ve just locked yourself into maximum security Arkham, not into the “Love Boat.” Evil is as Evil does, stupid.

    And PS, making up AI CGI still pics of something isn’t evidence of something real. It probably looks like a s—thole and a linoleum dentist office, not the Arc Reactor of Marvel: Universe.

    “President Trump announces India has “already agreed” to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. goods.”

    Hard to tell, Trump says a lot of things. India may feel our goods are just too expensive and uncompetitive anyway, and atm he’d be right.

    ““China’s social safety net is practically nonexistent. When Chinese workers lose their jobs, they’re completely on their own: no unemployment benefits, no food stamps, nothing.”

    Socialism at work, in the world’s largest CCP.

    …Like I said, we’re practically cheek to cheek identical in the centerpoint. Both totalitarian, both oligarchic work camps with no relation to the populations, both run by violence forcing consent, papered over with endless – and worthless – propaganda.

    This was actually the plan: test “Capitalism” vs “Communism” 1920-1970 but “Capitalism” won. Sadly for them, and unexpectedly, for Technocrats. So like 1984 vs Brave New World, they went on to install the worst lessons of both systems to crush the people. Well yay.

    Anyway, when I make fun of “Socialism” yes, I’m aware the CCP is about as Far from Communism as it’s possible to be. And my point that we are just as far from Capitalism in like fashion.

    Back to China’s Plan: take over the U.S. from within, use us as an African colony where we have Net Zero and work for glass beads like the (non) Manhattan Indians. This of course is the same as the European Plan. The Atlanticists set this up, 1971 Nixon, 1989 Bush, to open and start it, the new ship to pirate and sink. So we are saying “No, actually, we still have power.”

    I was listening to someone…Garland Nixon who seems unusually careless, uninsightful, flippant recently in his newly formed TDS, the one Ritter contracted, said “Trump is always going to bluff as if he has power.” Yes, that’s true. But you’re missing something: THE U.S. ACTUALLY DOES HAVE THAT POWER. We may not have the power we pretend, we may not have the power we ought to, not the power we once had, but WE ARE STILL INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.

    As Luongo says, the idea that the U.S. is helpless, hopeless, bankrupt, and can and should only collapse is nothing but a fake, gay psy-op. From London, the gayest kind of fake, stupid psy-op. From wrist-floppy pedos.

    Okay, smart guys, WHO do you think CAN take us on? — And this is part of the US$ problem as well. Like Luongo, like all us idiot Libertarians, we spent decades pointing out how sucky the U.S. and our situation is. Our army barely existing, our manufacturing gutted, no trains, no engines, no elevators, etc.

    Yeah? And did you notice EVERYONE IS 10x WORSE THAN WE ARE? We can field barely 500k men. Brittan can’t field 5,000 and has 11 guns. The Girl Scouts of Ohio could invade and occupy them. And should. We’re compared to who? India? India is a train wreck of horror, cruelty, and corruption. You think Chile, Brazil can invade us, will project power to Sudan, Taiwan, and Germany at the same time? Uh, NO!

    So Canada is going to occupy us, bring us to heel, like Ukraine v Russia? F—k no. I’m not trying to be mean, but you drop 10 HIMARS on Toronto and kill 100,000 in 20 seconds, then send tanks into the QEW highway to Ottawa and they won’t know what to do. “You’re Supposed to be Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Female guilt, shame, criticism. They may remain annoyed, but militarily it becomes the police action of a county sheriff. Reminds me of Bismarck being asked “Herr Leader! What should we do if the British invade?” He looked at the man stupidly and said, “We’d send out the county constables to rout them.” No that was not a joke, and yes, it is said to be a true quote. There just aren’t enough. 10,000 men vs Germany, IN Germany? Surely you jest, right? Hit them with dirt bikes and bop them on the head with bananas. Maybe you don’t understand military events.

    All this IS A PSY-OP. The U.S. is IMMENSELY POWERFUL. And we can be moreso in seconds. IF they stop dicking the Army, we can have a million soldiers in 5 years. We have probably more oil than Saudi Arabia in ANWR alone. That is off the books, killing the balance sheet but can be put back on. Cars cost $50,000 because of retarded fake, gay, and pointless regulations that passed the horizon of moronic like 20 years ago. India has fine cars that are $10k all day long. $5k is not a stretch. Everyone has jobs in a year because we’ll be making them. We have more copper than Chile and more silver than Argentina. We have rare earth mines mothballed for no reason, but shut our mouths on having China by the balls over Ethane market. I thought China was supposed to be silent, clever, crafty, and far-planning. Turns out we are.

    YES we are not a “Hyperpower” but the next closest thing to one. Yes, we want a multi-polar world, but go ahead, line up all countries and tell me who has “Power” liberated, freely-operational power with choices and who doesn’t.

    So anyway, “Trump is bluffing” about how much power he has. Yeah, maybe, and he should. That’s also his style. However, if you were negotiating with China, Russia, Canada — powerful nations to be sure! We’re still more powerful than they are, hands down. Because of our mobility and less decay, we’re more powerful than the whole EU despite them having 500M people and a GDP 20% larger than ours. They still have to sap-sucker us like hyenas, can’t face even ADMITTING they are poisoning us, how quickly we’d deal with them.

    Look, I don’t like it. I’m not talking about right and wrong. But just line ‘em up and tell me. Who has Power now, who has the best, least-bad deal for free speech and property rights. Where would your money go? India? China? London? Africa?

    No one criticizes America more than I do, but keep in mind the relative comparisons here. Europe has ceased to exist as a function. All law and Enlightenment is dead. They’d be next-best and they’re not in the running.

    So here we are, a lifetime of media, just as I’ve had and people are like “Trump can’t negotiate!!! He has no cards! He can’t get the world to do anything!!” Well he can and just did in 6 weeks. The End, bye.

    Why also? BECAUSE WE ARE RELATIVELY MORAL, even as “immoral” as we are, not having shut down and clobbered eg Israel yet. We didn’t give a pitch that Vietnam needs to give us 99% or we’d nuke them like most nations over all time and space always have, or like France was doing to Africa like only 6 days ago. We gave them a deal they could easily say Yes to. We didn’t have to. Like – I – wouldn’t have approved of it, but we COULD give them the George Bush D.U./invasion plan for 11,000 years. We have TWO happy nations, who VOLUNTARILY signed a deal we can all live with long-term, and no one collapses.

    People who think Americans or Europeans are uniquely immoral have never read a word of history. They/we VOLUNTARILY ended slavery, voluntarily erased minority oppression, voluntarily rebuilt Germany and Japan, raised the PLANET out of subsistence farming. It only looks bad when you see what more might have been done, but no nation in 10,000 years of history even did that.

    So keep that in mind when they say “Trump/America can’t do that.” It’ll be over before you write your stupid placards and book a protest date. Then everyone will go to work and be even more the most luxurious and safe society in world history…worldwide.

    It burns me but there it is.

    “We must increase competitiveness by weakening labor and empowering finance.”

    Example: Their idiot policies of trillions over years while every engineer said not to causing the 20% of the continent to go dark for no reason, means we need to spend MORE ten-trillions Upgrading the Spanish grid to undo the upgrading we JUST paid for.

    1) All failures = more money. 2) Fail as much as possible. Step Three: Profit!

    “This article allows the proposal to bypass parliamentary negotiations and go straight to the Council for negotiation and adoption.”

    Hey, is that anything like “The High Table” in John Wick? Where there is zero democracy, only Black Nobility?

    “The European Union, that grand and failing dream of technocrats, is dying”

    Yes, because Technocracy = AntiDemocracy. There is no representation at all. Do What You’re Told.

    In this unfolding drama, America and Russia emerge as twin pillars of Western civilization – different in temperament but united in their commitment to preserving sovereign nations against globalists”

    “Bannon said, arguing that the United Kingdom, Canada’s historic security partner, “can’t defend itself.”

    That’s UK but Canada is helpless to everybody. Has no military, no spending, no personal weapons, no maginot lines, no plans. Their ONLY plan…is us. While saying it’s not because it is SO us, they never have to even think about it. Ever. Never have, ever. I look back to the roots, how hard COULD Canada be in a pinch, not picking on them. Certainly harder than Vietnam in ‘75. Bigger, more motivated, clever. But when you’re at the “We’ll defend the world with Pennsylvania hunters and 30-30s” army, I just don’t think that’s enough to matter. IF we invaded, let’s say, occupied, yes, in TEN YEARS they would have a viable guerrilla force, injecting endless minor losses, unable to win overall. Sure, but so can anyone.

    Suppose Russia just dropped a base on Baffin Island, backed it with Chinese manpower, shot anyone who came near. What do you think Canada would do? Yeah, that’s the problem: literally nothing, because they HAVE nothing to do it with. At all. That goes back to 30 years of 1% NATO funding. (And US weapons intentionally running all Canadian corps out of business. Avro Arrow, Bombardier…and probably Nortel)

    “Carney is out of his depth, and Canada is in for a shock. Should a deal eventually emerge, it will not be on Carney’s terms.”

    We see this where Carney looks competent and dangerous. Look under the hood into his history, when he’s backed by the High Table and everything is PLANNED then he looks good. But any monkey in a suit, Weekend At Bernie’s would look just as good. Ask him something fresh, unexpected, have anything happen in “The Plan” he just freezes and his mouth gapes like a flounder. This was not fully appreciated until we all started looking at his record. He’s a moron. A collective. Hollowman. Like Starmer. So anyone who does…ANYTHING!….like Trump, throws any wrench, no matter how small, beats him because he can’t play loose and intuitive on the ball court. All they need to do is just SAY dumb s—t to set him off…which Trump does 127 times a day, and is in this article. Tomorrow he’ll say 127 different, random things, and he locks up like the Robot in Star Trek.

    Here’s a question though: Canada is ONLY the opposition to the United States. That’s it. They ONLY exist as “Not-Americans.” Same as the Left ONLY exists as “Hate Trump” (another AOC/Hogg-saga going on right now) That’s not enough. WHAT IS CANADA? Who are you? Carney talks about “Canadian Values” as Europe talks about Historic (that is, “Dead”, former values) of the Enlightenment. What do you stand for NOW? Who are you as a people, NOW?

    …You know what? Like the Trucker Rally is one of the only ones since 1975 I’ve seen. And that’s good, that’s fine, we like that! Proud of it, the whole world is proud. Okay, what more, what else you got? How do we put that in a new, affirmed Constitution for you? A: No one knows. They don’t know who they are without us, don’t know what they stand for, and that’s sad. One thing Trump is doing for you! MAKE you stand up for who you are, MAKE you be patriotic…about something-something, mumble mumble undefined. But that’s a START! Now define it.

    “seen the country plummet toward third-world status while at the same time elevating the most unprepossessing choice possible to the prime minister’s office. Is the nation brain-dead? Does it have a death wish?”

    That sounds like hyperbole: it’s not. Canada now has million-dollar houses and the income of Mississippi. They are importing 2M? A year? Same % as 20M illiterate immigrants a year for us? None of which have the slightest Canadian values and decimate all jobs, houses, and budgets, causing desperation, crime, and sexual assault? Yes, like UK, only a FEW years of this and Canada ceases to be “Canada” and becomes….not-Canada. By design, which no one wanted.

    Why? A lot of this is Socialism and Money-printing. Why? Because when someone hands you a check, your compounding housing-values (like Oz) then they don’t need to go out, to WORK, to ACT, and to Express themselves. Who would? That s—t’s hard and filled with failure. How many failures getting Beaver plane-hopping up to all mining stakes Nunavit-wide? Or sunken Edmund Fitzgeralds? Tonnes. But ACTING is how you discover who you really are. Being a Trust-fund kid is how you discover who you’re NOT. And they’ve been on Brain-rot since Mulroney, and probably Trudeau.

    They don’t have the American sense of “Go f—k yourself”, tell me I can’t make NATO jets, try to stop me! Etc. That’s not their ethos, and in a sense that’s okay, but has this problem. I mean, comparison, NORTEL, Blackberry, that’s Canadian culture, how they act, and clearly that is extremely good. The raw dynamism of Americans with the precision and off-base approach of I dunno, Finland? Quietly working away?

    Willing to invent float planes, use them all over, in territory so hostile that even participating in it insures exciting crises? Yet shrug it off and do it anyway? Like your navy/fishing as well? These are all Canadian. Loafing off your housing prices while ignoring your nation and screwing your kids into servitude however does NOT seem like a Canadian value: the only major industry for the last 20 years.

    “Israel has demonstrated that it can penetrate, at will, the supposedly formidable air defenses of Iran.”

    Uh, no the opposite actually. I read this twice to see if he meant: ” YEMEN can can penetrate, at will, the supposedly formidable air defenses of ISRAEL.” Apparently not.

    “The pressure is all on Iran. Militarily. Diplomatically. Economically. Socially. Culturally. “

    There are pressures but I doubt this very much. They offered “Hey would you like sanctions lifted?” and Iran was like, “Nah, whatever bro. Do what you like.” That is, they don’t believe us at all, and why should they? So there is no negotiation at all and why should there be?

    But they will have nuclear weapons, perhaps in a year.”

    Same as the last 39 years in a row, VDH? I’ve heard this until I’m an old man. And again, WTF cares? Do you have any idea how far away Iran is from Israel? And I could care less if either of them die. STFU and leave me out of it. NO money. NO weapons. NO treaties. Good luck. Hope you don’t die but I won’t notice either.

    Well VDH is a man of his time, raised on 1979 back when we trusted the media, forgetting to update that all that was lies then too. Iran isn’t our enemy: we are theirs. WE installed the Shah (MI6) WE stole the oil. WE tortured civilians. WE embargoed them. WE armed Iraq for a million-man war and gave them Chemical, Biological weapons.

    “Or will they be delighted that this 50-year hated regime is now gone”

    You’re high, man. Get off the supply. They’re hated, but look at France: any less hated than Starmer? He’s probably twice as popular as Keir Stalin, Pelosi, Musk. Congress has a 12% approval? Iran could have 30%. Iran is more popular then the Beatles compared to us.

    “Decades after the civil rights movement, academia is obsessed with fixating not on intelligence, qualifications, or content of character, but rather on skin color..”

    Yes and these weirdo racists are the only ones. Us working guys DGAF. Leave me alone. If you get in my way I call you a racial slur BECAUSE IT PISSES YOU OFF, which is the point, not because they believe f—k all about racism.

    BTW, if I were like – anyone – I’d donate to both sides of the GoFundMe racists. Why? Same thing: cause trouble, piss people off, keep them from attacking the rich, the political, the communists. WHYYYYYYY would anyone think anything over $10k was actual organic donations, without some sort of proof? Didn’t we JUST see one pension grandma donate $700/wk for 5 years in Act Blue? IT’S ALL FAKE. EVERY donation is fake. EVERY report is fake. EVERY story is fake. Every PERSON is fake. It’s all performative.

    That’s what happens when the MONEY IS FAKE. When it’s corrupted. Every. Time.

    “President Donald Trump was hit with at least three nationwide injunctions by federal district court judges. That’s just the way it goes if you are a president who wants to take back America from the entrenched left-wing bureaucracy and restore common sense”

    Gee, why didn’t Trump do all this in 2017 like we told him to? Maybe because we see how much trouble he’s having even now with 10x the power and 50% more people awake to it?

    it is clear that the holders of the same political hatred now form a compact impassioned mass, every individual of which feels himself in touch with the infinite number of others, whereas a century ago such people were comparatively out of touch with each other and hated in a ‘scattered’ way” …

    Quite the opposite. They would have been Norwegian Catholics of Knights of Columbus and the Minnesota Grange Hall, while we can’t find even one friend to go bowling and there’s no definition of “Christian” anymore, much less Catholic. All things and their opposites are true, but this is a confusing time. No one in all history has been less part of group membership than we are.

    “blocked Trump’s executive order that would have denied federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities”

    That is, cities are free to prevent the enforcement of Federal law, with no consequences. One example.

    “The left-wing elites of the day laughed it off as another right-wing conspiracy theory, but as time has passed it’s become clear that there was indeed a long-range effort to corrupt our institutions with Communism 101”

    What??? There WERE Communists in Hollywood in 1955? …Because YOU told me there were, they were all innocent victims? Schrodinger’s Reality, they are both there, but not there. They are both “real” communists, working for the cause…but also never did anything, nor worked for any cause.

    I saw this recently where they were denying “The long march through the institutions” which was openly published, used as working material, then relentlessly followed in public view for 40 years. It was published, adored, and followed, but also didn’t exist and they’re not Leftist, Ackshully. Even though if you ask them they are 99% Left, and admit it not even thinking it is biased.

    This goes with NPR head saying “First Amendment means we should keep government funding out of Public Radio“. Uhhhhh. Yes? You win, I withdraw your funding, ma’am? “Keep government hands off my Social Security!”

    “there is a scenario where DC Judge James Boasberg could appoint the U.S. attorney. Mary McCord is smiling.”

    That would be hilarious. We should do it just so the American people can see and learn.

    “• America First Legal sues Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (JTN)

    And AOC impeaches Thomas. Why do they hate Black people so much? It’s because they think they’re innately immoral and inferior, isn’t it?

    “• The Treaty That Kept India And Pakistan In Check Is Gone. Now What? (Chopra)

    Right on schedule. One phone call from MI6 and nuclear war that “Explains” why UK went bankrupt. “We would have got away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those nosy Pakis Kids!”

    #187525
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #187526
    Dr. D
    Participant

    There is Due Process, that’s what they’re missing, because they DGAF about “reality” or the Truth. Due Process is “Are you an illegal immigrant? Oh you are? Step this way.” That’s the whole process. But it IS a process.

    Because they are not citizens.

    If they say, “No actually, if you let me go home, I’ll show you my American passport” the conversation follows other process routes.

    The full legal, trial process is not for non-citizens, because we don’t have jurisdiction over the whole planet and all people. …I mean, unless you WANT to give that to us. We’d probably take it but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.

    #187527
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Always, always stab allies. There’s no ally so pure you can’t stab him at least a little, while he sleeps.”

    you are defending murderers. stop.

    #187528
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #187529
    those darned kids
    Participant

    ““Islamism poses a direct threat to women in Europe, and it’s time we took this threat seriously.”

    Why do they hate women so much? Want them all raped, killed, subjugated?

    what the foof is wrong with you!? yep, it’s all them muslims droppin’ bombs on those women in gaza and yemen.

    #187530
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “BECAUSE WE ARE RELATIVELY MORAL”

    just

    fuck

    off.

    #187531
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • The Treaty That Kept India And Pakistan In Check Is Gone. Now What?

    Craig Murray explains why “Modi himself is therefore very much the cause of heightened ethnic, political and religious tension in Kashmir.”

    In 2019, Modi revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution which gave special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, incorporating them into India proper. He did this despite the Constitution stating it could only be done with the support of the “Constituent Assembly of the State”. That body no longer existed, having been replaced by a “Legislative Assembly”. Modi used another Constitutional provision to replace “Constituent Assembly” with “Legislative Assembly”, which seems fair enough. But having suspended the Legislative Assembly, he then claimed that its powers were now vested in the Governor, a Modi appointee.

    Modi then agreed with himself to remove the autonomy of Indian Kashmir – a move that had no significant support among its 97% Muslim inhabitants and was accompanied by a ferocious crackdown – indeed, lockdown – and the destruction of its once thriving tourism industry. He simultaneously repealed another provision preventing non-Kashmiris from buying property in the region. Modi himself is therefore very much the cause of heightened ethnic, political and religious tension in Kashmir.

    And some history of how “the Muslim territories of Kashmir and Jammu had a Hindu ruler” —

    the British attacked the Sikh Empire to “restore stability”. Following the Battle of Sobraon, the British annexed the land between the Beas and Ravi rivers, while by the Treaty of Amritsar of 1846 the British sold Jammu and Kashmir to the former Sikh wazir, Gulab Singh, for 50 lakhs of rupees.

    Gulab Singh was a particularly murderous character who had played an extraordinarily Machiavellian role in the Sikh court of Ranjit Singh and his immediate successors, and had of course looted from the Sikh treasury the money he paid to the British. So he paid the British with stolen money for land the British had just stolen.

    This is how the extraordinary situation arose that the Muslim territories of Kashmir and Jammu had a Hindu ruler (Gulab Singh was a Hindu Dogra). That anomaly was the direct cause of the disastrous division of the territory by the British in the Partition 100 years later.

    It is extremely frequent that today’s conflicts are caused by the actions of the British Empire reverberating down and continuing their evil over generations. It is equally frequent that it is very hard to find analyses that explain the truth behind the conflicts.

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/04/kashmir-and-the-indus/

    #187532
    those darned kids
    Participant

    sorry, bad mood..

    nonetheless, please wake up.

    the united states government is the number one force for wickedness on this planet.

    no one else is even close. (well israel, but it seems they are the same entity anyways)

    #187533

    Another navy plane fell off the boat. Yandex “another ship loses a jet” and pick your own news outlet.

    #187534
    Noirette
    Participant

    Idk the origins / history / links with Trumpy re. Project 2025.

    However the Project 2025 tracker:

    https://www.project2025.observer/

    is extremely interesting.

    #187535
    Doc Robinson
    Participant


    “Modification carried out to F/A-18 Super Hornets aboard the carrier USS Harry S. Truman”

    #187536
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    “Another navy plane fell off the boat.”

    Been joking about unfortunate boating accidents with my stash of shiny metals for years, but it seems that the Navy is now genuinely using this as an (equally implausible) excuse for the loss of so much hardware.

    I’m loving the spin about how the Houthis surrendered and agreed not to sink any more ships – seems like the truth is that the US Navy followed the time-honored approach, when engaging in foreign adventures, of (a) realising that they could not beat the opposition and then (b) declaring victory and running away. It seems clear that the Houthis will indeed stop trying to sink Navy vessels, but only because they’ll have sailed far, far away.

    In a lot of the MSM press this is being sold as ‘Proof’ that Iran better watch out or they’re next to be beaten into surrender. It’s actually breathtaking to see the truth bent a full 180 degrees.

    #187541
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The USS Truman not only lost 3 fighter jets on a single deployment, it lost an additional fighter jet 3 years ago in the Mediterranean, blamed on “heavy weather”.

    To lose three fighter jets on a single deployment is incredibly unusual, but Truman’s deployment, which began in September of last year, also featured a collision with another ship…

    In 2022, the USS Harry S. Truman also lost an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in the waters of the Mediterranean when the jet was blown overboard “due to unexpected heavy weather” as the ship was conducting an at-sea resupply.

    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/07/uss-truman-loses-third-fighter-jet-amid-red-sea-deployment.html

    #187542

    If only they made them out of balsa wood.

    #187543
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Fun fact: The US has lost more fighter aircraft in the last month than Russia, and the latter is fighting an actual real war, not just making very expensive holes in the sand dunes of the Middle East.

    #187544
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #187545
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #187548
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #187549
    zerosum
    Participant

    I’m a minority.
    I cheer for peace.

    #187550
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #187551
    those darned kids
    Participant

    let ’em sink

    #187552
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Okay, smart guys, WHO do you think CAN take us on?

    What “they” like to do, whoever they are, is create anti-things.

    Case in point, Ukraine is definitely in Russia’s sphere of influence. Part of Russia’s power, therefore. Making Ukraine fight Russia is pure profit, Russia fighting itself with its own strength.

    How many Anti-Americas are there? What types, currently active in what ways? (there’s no question of IF there are any. All major American cities? California? The Pharma and Food industries? Hardly even started counting yet…)

    And are there any dormant, sleeper Anti-Americas that could be activated, ones more suited to the proposed “go up against us” scenario?

    #187553
    jb-hb
    Participant

    you are defending murderers. stop.

    I think that’s my line.

    Once something kills 150 million, saying “Yeah, but….” looks kinda—-

    “BECAUSE WE ARE RELATIVELY MORAL”

    just

    fuck

    off.

    Right, right.

    Your proposition being that morality is absolute, then we can do a simple value-calculation.

    Trump, personally, by the things under his control, that he CAN change… let’ say he is personally responsible for a million deaths.

    150 Million / 1 Million = 150 Million

    Since there is no relative morality, we know with mathematical certitude, we can expect that you spend 150x the energy, number of text characters, number of posts here on the 150 Million Thing as you spend on the 1 Million Thing.

    Do begin.

    #187554
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Each murder perpetrated has an absolute value, after all, does it not? A human life!

    #187555
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Uh huh….

    Title 10 U.S. Code is The Military…the law written, legislated, enacted by Congress.

    Public Health officers are not active duty military.
    The Execrable One or Doofus Rachel Levine is not an Admiral in the Navy or Coast Guard.

    Health and Human Services it is, but Congress legislates.

      “…serves at the pleasure of…”

    Jesus……..

      You serve at my pleasure
      proof of neo-feudalism???

    It’s time to find a new country or a new job if it’s come to that.

    #187556
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #187557

    This seems like a pretty good website dealing with student debt.

    #187560
    Michael Reid
    Participant

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