(No) Debt Rattle October 14 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 1:24 pm #205802
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ParticipantGlad in see the Chinese have a word for TAE little White Monkey Ape Spaz
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 pm #205813Topcat
ParticipantNovember 16, 2025 at 2:44 pm #205932D Benton Smith
ParticipantHere ya go, folks. This video packs it all into one package and wraps the box nicely with a bow on top. Enjoy.
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 pm #205967Topcat
ParticipantNovember 16, 2025 at 3:50 pm #206027kultsommer
Participantgold and silver prices are the tea leaves of human depravity.
And the “it will make me prosper (in the utter mayhem around)….and “it will make me safe”….and the “boat accident meme (he,he,he…)”….and checking, the first thing in the morning, how “richer” you are….and you are angry on the psychos who “do it” on much larger scale….
the much larger scale…November 16, 2025 at 4:09 pm #206075Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 16, 2025 at 4:34 pm #206106kultsommer
ParticipantItaly court as initiator of the case.
Per other reports, aside from the Italians, the “hunters” were from US, Canada, England…..
War crimes have no expiration time.November 16, 2025 at 4:50 pm #206116Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 16, 2025 at 5:02 pm #206132Topcat
ParticipantHis ‘economic plan’
Aces
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 pm #206162zerosum
Participanthttps://t.me/militarywave/20745
Destruction of Canadian-Made Military Vehicles Near Kupyansk
The FPV drone unit of the Western military grouping has successfully destroyed a Canadian-made “Senator” armored vehicle and several other pieces of Ukrainian military equipment near Kupyansk. Soldiers from the unmanned systems divisions of the 68th motorized rifle division are actively targeting any enemy vehicles attempting to break through to encircled Ukrainian units. Footage captured by objective control shows direct hits from FPV drones, resulting in the destruction of the “Senator” armored vehicle and multiple pickups carrying Ukrainian fighters. Utilizing kamikaze drones, Russian servicemen effectively disrupt enemy rotations and supply lines.
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is testing fabrics for a revolutionary new piece of equipment: an anti-thermal imaging cape (poncho). This innovative garment is designed to absorb infrared radiation, making soldiers virtually invisible to enemy night vision and thermal imaging devices.November 16, 2025 at 5:53 pm #206195D Benton Smith
ParticipantProfessor Jiang has a bad case of galloping hubris, enabling him to proclaim that with 1% of the information (consisting of the literary aspect of the creation of Judaism, Israel, Christianity and the Bible) that he knows all there is to know about the ACTUAL history of the creation of Judaism, Israel, Christianity and the Bible… which constitutes the 99% of the real story that Jiang is blissfully unaware and uncaring of).
His utter dismissal, without supportive evidence or argument of any kind whatsoever… or even MENTION, actually ….. that MAYBE God had something to do with it in some small way.
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 pm #206359zerosum
Participant“If you break international law to rob Moscow, you break us, and we will drag you into the dock with us.”
Euroclear
https://nitter.poast.org/IslanderWORLD/status/1989810532946182423#m
The greatest irony in modern finance? The EU is so desperate to steal Russia’s sovereign assets that its own custodian — Euroclear, is now warning it may sue Brussels if they try it. When your vault threatens to drag you into court for breaking the law, you no longer have a financial order, you have a cartel panicking under its own lies.
Euroclear, the Belgian securities giant holding roughly €185–200 billion in Russian sovereign reserves, has quietly delivered the EU a message sharper than any Kremlin statement: If you force us to hand over frozen Russian central bank assets for your €140 billion Ukraine scheme, you’re exposing us to massive legal liability and we will take you to court.
This isn’t a sideshow. Euroclear is the core of the EU’s financial plumbing. It’s where states, banks, institutions, pension funds, and sovereign wealth vehicles settle their transactions. It’s the reason Brussels pretends to be a safe custodian of global capital.
And now? The custodian is telling the political class, “If you break international law to rob Moscow, you break us, and we will drag you into the dock with us.”
Euroclear’s fear is justified. Under the 1989 Belgium–Russia Bilateral Investment Treaty, unlawful expropriation of Russian sovereign property exposes Belgium (and by extension the EU) to massive damages. Add to that customary international law, the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, and the legal principle of sovereign asset inviolability, and the EU has nearly zero legal ground to seize anything.
That’s why Euroclear’s lawyers reportedly told Belgian officials they could face a legal hurricane:
•Russia sues Belgium for expropriation
•Euroclear sues the EU for forcing unlawful actions
•Third‑country depositors pull funds, fearing Brussels can no longer be trustedThis is why Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever is blocking the plan, he’s not protecting Russia, he’s protecting Belgium from the EU. He knows that if Brussels goes through with this heist, the first court case won’t be in Moscow. It will be in Brussels — Euroclear v. EC.
And that’s before Russia responds economically. Because once you cross this line, every non‑Western country from China, India, Gulf states, ASEAN, Africa, Latin America, will begin loudly unloading Euroclear exposure. Nobody will keep reserves in a jurisdiction willing to weaponize other people’s money.
That is how the post‑WWII financial order dies, not with tanks, but with a lawsuit and a stampede of capital fleeing the eurozone.
Which is why the EU is in total panic mode.
Ukraine’s “Ukraine Facility” is essentially empty, only €18 billion remains. Kiev needs €60 billion more just to survive 2026–27, those gold toilets don’t pay for themselves. The U.S. is retrenching under Trump, IMF support depends on the EU loan, and national budgets are already imploding.So Brussels is left with one play… Steal Russia’s sovereign reserves and pray the courts look the other way.
But Euroclear just declared:
“If you make us commit the theft, we won’t protect you when the lawyers come.”This is the moment the entire Global Majority has been waiting for, that is the West proving, in broad daylight, that it cannot be trusted with sovereign deposits.
A multipolar financial system doesn’t need a manifesto. It only needs to point at Brussels and say: “This is why we no longer keep our money there.”The EU thought it could rewrite international law by royal decree. Instead, it has cornered itself into a showdown with its own financial backbone. If the EU crosses this line, it won’t just lose a court case, it will lose the trust of the world, the credibility of the euro, and it’s fiat Ponzi.
So now Euroclear must sue not to defend Russia, but to save Europe from a precedent that would torch five centuries of financial credibility. And when the lawsuits come, and the dust settles, the West won’t just be broke, it’ll be radioactive to capital.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 pm #206433zerosum
ParticipantVenezuela isn’t about narco-terrorism. Spare us the fairy tales. Look at the infographic: 303 billion barrels of proven oil, the largest reserves on Earth.
https://nitter.poast.org/IslanderWORLD/status/1989753604018770248#m
DC’s sudden obsession with Venezuela isn’t about narco-terrorism. Spare us the fairy tales. Look at the infographic: 303 billion barrels of proven oil, the largest reserves on Earth. And when Maduro reportedly offered the U.S. access to its natural resources wealth, to ease pressure, Trump bragged about turning it down… and sailed the world’s largest aircraft carrier toward Caracas instead. Gangsterism, but with better branding.
Of course it’s about the oil. Of course it’s about the rare earths. Of course it’s about the last untamed energy bank on the planet — 303B barrels in Venezuela, 267B in Saudi Arabia, 209B in Iran, and 80B in Russia, that awkward constellation of countries that Washington can’t control, intimidate, or buy outright.
The infographic doesn’t lie. It exposes the entire geopolitical script.
The U.S. sits on 74B barrels. Venezuela has four times that, Iran has nearly triple, and every major reserve holder outside Arabia now lives in a strategic ecosystem that increasingly trades with, or leans toward, Russia, China, and BRICS+. That’s the real panic in Washington. Not ideology. Not “democracy.” Not narcoterrorism. Market share.
Apparently, Maduro floated the unthinkable, opening “all Venezuelan oil and gold projects” to the U.S., even reducing dependence on China, Trump admitted he walked away. That was a message:
“We don’t want your permission. We want your submission.”
Washington acts like a debt-ridden fading empire in a hurry. It sends the Gerald R. Ford, a floating city of steel, to “fight drugs,” but somehow parks it near the country with the largest oil reserves on Earth. Because when sanctions can’t break a nation, aircraft carriers are sent to “remind” them who writes the rules.
And yet… The U.S. won’t tolerate a Monroe Doctrine for Russia or China in their own regions, but expects the whole world to respect a Monroe Doctrine for itself. If Moscow or Beijing sailed their biggest carriers to Cuba, Mexico, or Puerto Rico under the excuse of “counter-narcotics,” Washington would treat it as an act of war.
If the U.S. won’t acknowledge spheres of security for others, the global majority will return the favour. Open season, indeed.
And here’s the question that no one in legacy media wants to ask:
Is it worth another humiliating defeat?
What exactly are the last four U.S. imperial ventures known for?
•Iraq: Trillions spent, no victory.
•Afghanistan: 18-year occupation ending in a runway evacuation.
•Syria: A failed regime-change war, rescued only by supporting their favourite franchise, Al-Qaeda.
•Ukraine: The biggest geopolitical boomerang and humiliation in modern history, strengthening Russia economically, militarily, diplomatically, while draining NATO dry.No need to address the humiliation of Vietnam. The empire is running on IOUs and hubris.
Venezuela, with its militias, jungle terrain, hardened military, and alliances with Russia, Iran, and China, would not be “a quick operation.” It could become another graveyard for imperial fantasies.
If the motivation were truly humanitarian, it would have snapped up Maduro’s offer to hand over massive oil concessions. Instead, it preferred pressure over prosperity, force over negotiation, coercion over coexistence.
Oil, lithium, rare earths, the entire extractive basket, that’s the real story.
And every time the U.S. tries to tighten control over the hemisphere, the multipolar world tightens its coordination.
The question isn’t whether Washington can take Venezuela. The question is whether it can survive the consequences of trying.
So go ahead, turn the Caribbean into another graveyard of hubris. Send your trillion-dollar toys to menace a country sitting on a mountain of oil you’ll never truly control.
But remember: the last empires didn’t fall from invasion, they collapsed from arrogance, rot, and the lies they told themselves. And when this one breaks, no one will weep. They’ll only ask why it took so damn long.
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 pm #206486zerosum
ParticipantMilitary Situation In Ukraine On November 16, 2025 (Maps Update)
https://www.southfront.press/military-situation-in-ukraine-on-november-16-2025-maps-update/
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 am #206730Michael Reid
ParticipantProfessor Jiang has a bad case of
logic applied to the ruling class narrative that
articulates the western religions from nothing
yet allows the elite class to control the massesNovember 17, 2025 at 1:15 am #206797Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 2:08 am #206871chooch
Participant…and now for something completely different.
“I won’t shake hands with anyone from San Francisco” [Richard Nixon]
Emerging Butch Ultra Right Wing energy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 am #206879chooch
ParticipantMagician
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 am #206886chooch
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 7:25 am #207321Kimo
ParticipantThe Anti-Christ will be Gay! LOL, she/he is whatever works best, and I would guess there will be no restrictions other than there will be no restrictions.
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 am #207520Dr. D
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“Germany Caps Power Prices To Save Its Industrial Base
That’s not actually how money or industry work? “Industry” IS the power generators. Soooo…they’re going to industry for other industry for free? And then decay as they are starved by subsidizing VW/Bosch? Uh, no. They are going to TAKE that money FROM the people. Or somewhere, and hand it to ALL industry, including and especially the generators. Or they will die.
But if you piss off the German people any further, you will all be hung anyway.
Man, if only we had a real-time system of resource allocation and unit of account by which we could very precisely measure and deliver these things. That would be great. Well, until such voodoo can be invented, Socialism it is.
Nitter.Poast is just slop at this point. Yes, we all thought that in, say 2001, 25 years ago, but then we saw 25 years of facts that disproves that world view. The “oil” in Venezuela is coal tar, get real. That’s not the same as something you can get in a pipe. I think Canada’s tar sands may be better, and they need a continent’s worth of NatGas just to become liquid, if you can remove the sand. They act like it’s money on the ground. We also weren’t fighting any of those wars for those reasons, so didn’t “lose” them in the way he thinks.
“If China and Iran sent aircraft carriers to America and the Caribbean…” They DID, you fools. They’re RIGHT THERE. They have better carriers than us, as they’re unsinkable, and they are sending (20?) millions of soldiers into our country, and have killed up to one Million Americans with opioids alone. …You might notice??? Should we wait ‘til it’s 2 million? Or 10?
Would it help if I told you at least one of those dead Americans was black or a woman? Would you care then?
And if you stop them at the border, you only have a standoff. They’ll continue to build Iran City and fill it with Iskander missiles pointing at Galveston and Miami. I mean, if you’re okay with letting them, just say so, but I guarantee they will blackmail us with them the first minute they can. Stop being a child.
1) the oil is practically useless. Rated for reality, maybe it’s 1/20th the worth and you need huge time and economic stability to remove it. We did have those lines and refineries, but they’ve all been swapped out and we don’t now. We couldn’t use the oil if we got it.
2) The world is practically being run only by mercenary warlords called Drug Cartels. This is in half the nations but well-shown in Mexico, an enormous, powerful state, which has been revealed to be run by hidden interests, against the Mexican people for generations. Right now that’s exploding. This is true anywhere you look: all the hidden powers, Al-Q, ISIS, Boko, Tren, heck, CIA/MI6/China, all trafficking, running arms and drugs to self-fund “secret” wars everyone on earth know is going on. Including here in every town and city, right through Canada, with the world’s largest drug lab, (from China) not a peep. All the MONEY is being run from Dominion, HSBC, right out of Ottawa and Vancouver, which is hardly a surprise since the same money laundering was being done by JPM for Madoff and Epstein, just a different laundrying club.. But the point is, they’re not governments. They’re larger than governments and are well over the edge of toppling any governments at will. …Especially when they’ve done a reverse-merge with CIA/MI6 since the 60s and Air America, fully rolled out industrially under Papa Bush and the War 4 Drugs in 1985. More or less completed as full mercenary CIA armies of millions by 1999. The only group ON the outside is the legitimate elected governments. That is to say: YOU.
You don’t get to vote what Tren does and who runs it. You might think Lindsay Graham and the U.S. are bad, but Mexico takes whole busloads of kids and hangs them off bridges. That could be your weekday if you don’t want to stop it.
You could put it this way: suppose we gray pill and governments are just a cartel. Fine. I essentially agree. Well, WHICH cartel do you want running your area? U.S. congress? Or ISIS and Tren de Agua? Those are ACTUALLY your very REAL choices. You seem to be just sinking the U.S. Congress bc they’re not moral enough, then walking off in a huff, leaving the field to Tren and MS13. Welp! My work here is done! As a Boomer, the whole nation has collapsed and not fit to live in and I’m handing it to YOU, Alpha, Zoomers! Good Luck! No. We will NOT be doing that.
JohnDay.blog won’t let me post anything at all right now. Need a SS account.
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 pm #207600Topcat
ParticipantForget about ‘cartels’, that just a disingenuous way of saying Mafias.
Mafias have been around since Sumer, duh.
They just have hopscotched national ‘governments’ (themselves mafias) and morphed into international Globohomo conglomerations made possible by computer networks and now by AI computer networks.
The only way to kill ‘cartels’ is to go after their ‘money’, whatever that means anymore.
The obsession with AI now is weaponizing ‘money’ using Data Centers powered by unlimited electric consumption, which is killing the electric grid in your neighborhood/country.
Their will be no electricity left for ordinary Life, it will all be sacrificed on the Alter of AI, itself a suicide feedback loop.
Here’s a headline summing it up for you slow learners:
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 pm #207604Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 1:06 pm #207614Topcat
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 1:06 pm #207615Topcat
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 1:36 pm #207644kultsommer
ParticipantWhen I see the children treated like this ……well, let me calm down. Mind ventures into the dark alleys.
Who does this!!!!
Jesus Lord Christ!!!!!!!November 17, 2025 at 2:17 pm #207659Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 2:21 pm #207660Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 17, 2025 at 2:32 pm #207665D Benton Smith
ParticipantPost #207600 is really good. Posts #’s 207614 and 207615 are a bit slim. I would sure like to see that headline you spoke of. Maybe it was already posted but is obscured from my vantage point by the overcrowding here in the back of the classroom with the rest of the slow learners. It’s like sitting in the row behind the Boston Celtics.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 pm #207682my parents said know
ParticipantIs everyone else getting extraordinary gaps in the post numbers?
Page 28 starts with 205813 and ends with 207665 (DBS, just before mine will show up).
There are not well over a thousand posts on page 28.November 17, 2025 at 3:23 pm #207689Michael Reid
ParticipantThe west is wrong
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 pm #207692my parents said know
ParticipantWhile occasional drops show up in earlier days, the first substantial jump happens in 10 october’s post, when 197310 is followed by 197316.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 pm #207696John Day
Participant@Michael Reid 😉 Call Any Vegetable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDropFVIIZ0
“Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga…”November 17, 2025 at 3:59 pm #207711John Day
Participant@Dr.D: Substack won’t let you comment unless you start a free Substack account.
They are trying to monetize, but it is still a freebie for the basic minimum, which is what I use.
There is also http://www.johndayblog.com , the old Google blog, taken down once and censored a few times, but otherwise usually the same content, which you also see here.
Celticbiker is using it.November 17, 2025 at 4:00 pm #207712Dr D Rich
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file under it’s good to be that Jim Farley Guy CEO Ford Company that never received a government handout becoz Capitalism
“President and Chief Executive Officer at FORD MOTOR CO, James D. Farley Jr. made $24,861,866”
Let’s round up to $25,000,000 because the difference ‘tween is ~ $138,134 is inconsequential unless you’re a mechanic Jim can’t hire at $120,000 per each 5000 because Jim’s last 6 significant figures amount to $18,134 more than poor Jim’s gift to his mechanics. Ya see, it’s all Jim’s money, all of it.
$25,000,000 divided by $120,000 equals 208+1/3
208.333333 times a mechanic
Maybe that math is all wrong.
Thank God for Jim and Elon’s Elongated MuskNovember 17, 2025 at 4:59 pm #207752Dr D Rich
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Friends Are Overrated
Hua Bin about India’s Indians. Christ, I thought he was describing Ds supremo capitalismO Americano.
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It has no real friends. Every one of its neighbors hate it.
Much of India’s dilemma stems from its mentality and national psyche, which is a mix of self-perceived superiority and down-trodden reality.
The deficiency of the Indian mindset is on full display when it lost the brief air war with Pakistan in May but insisted to celebrate the defeat as unqualified success in front of the world.
A term has been coined – “Bharat Triumphalogy” – to describe this strange mentality centered around the celebration of self-deception.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 pm #207782John Day
ParticipantGilbert Doctorow just subscribed to my Substack, as I am a subscriber to his.
I’m getting a big head… I bet I think this song is about me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 pm #207786Dr D Rich
ParticipantI wonder what denomination of Judaism Eli belongs to…
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Eliyahu Weinstein, a convicted Ponzi schemer whose 24-year sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2021, has now been sentenced to 37 years in prison for a NEW $41 million fraud scheme targeting more than 150 investors.
Ditto the following for The Pennsylvania Governator Josh Shapiro
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why didn’t Bondi enforce her goal of “Zero-tolerance” for human trafficking when it came to Epstein? Why didn’t she create a confidential tip line for victims of Epstein–the same way she had done for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests?
I mean, we know the answer(s) right?
Capitalism?
Jew supremacist asskissing
Pedophilia writ large like citing W. Scott Ritter here routinely, eh miker? D?November 17, 2025 at 6:13 pm #207790Michael Reid
ParticipantThere is no point except to rod and impoverish the western population.
Russia and China have already become dominant. Best learn to get along and participate in this thing called life.
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 pm #207794John Day
ParticipantSkulking Technocrats https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/skulking-technocrats
Trump ends support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid growing Epstein feud
President turns on ‘Wacky Marjorie’ after representative criticizes effort to block release of key Epstein documents https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-supportFriday Night Meltdown: Trump Yanks MTG Endorsement, Mocks Massie’s Remarriage After Wife’s Death https://www.zerohedge.com/political/friday-night-meltdown-trump-yanks-mtg-endorsement-mocks-massies-remarriage-after-wifes
Maga lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump is putting her life in danger
The US congresswoman says she’s facing a wave of threats after the president called his former ally a ‘traitor’ over the Epstein files https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332954/maga-lawmaker-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-trump-putting-her-life-danger Trump calls for release of Epstein files in shock U-turn: Live updates
House members expected to hold floor vote on whether or not to order Justice Department to release its documents on the late pedophile as soon as Tuesday https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-emails-live-updates-b2866195.html -
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