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  • #205802
    Topcat
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    Glad in see the Chinese have a word for TAE little White Monkey Ape Spaz

    #205813
    Topcat
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    #205932
    D Benton Smith
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    Here ya go, folks. This video packs it all into one package and wraps the box nicely with a bow on top. Enjoy.

    #205967
    Topcat
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    #206027
    kultsommer
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    gold 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…

    #206075
    Michael Reid
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    #206106
    kultsommer
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    Italy 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.

    #206116
    Michael Reid
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    #206132
    Topcat
    Participant

    His ‘economic plan’

    Aces

    #206162
    zerosum
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    https://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.

    ————
    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.

    #206195
    D Benton Smith
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    Professor 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.

    #206359
    zerosum
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    “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 trusted

    This 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.

    https://nitter.poast.org/IslanderWORLD

    #206433
    zerosum
    Participant

    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.

    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.

    #206486
    zerosum
    Participant

    Military Situation In Ukraine On November 16, 2025 (Maps Update)

    https://www.southfront.press/military-situation-in-ukraine-on-november-16-2025-maps-update/

    #206730
    Michael Reid
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    Professor 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 masses

    #206797
    Michael Reid
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    #206871
    chooch
    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.

    #206879
    chooch
    Participant

    Magician

    #206886
    chooch
    Participant

    #207321
    Kimo
    Participant

    The 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.

    #207520
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ss

    “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.

    Try this: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/could-small-venezuelan-island-be-real-reason-behind-us-militarys-caribbean-buildup

    “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.

    #207600
    Topcat
    Participant

    Forget 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:

    #207604
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #207614
    Topcat
    Participant

    #207615
    Topcat
    Participant

    #207644
    kultsommer
    Participant

    When I see the children treated like this ……well, let me calm down. Mind ventures into the dark alleys.
    Who does this!!!!
    Jesus Lord Christ!!!!!!!

    #207659
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #207660
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #207665
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Topcat

    Post #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.

    #207682

    Is 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.

    #207689
    Michael Reid
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    The west is wrong

    #207692

    While occasional drops show up in earlier days, the first substantial jump happens in 10 october’s post, when 197310 is followed by 197316.

    #207696
    John Day
    Participant

    @Michael Reid 😉 Call Any Vegetable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDropFVIIZ0
    “Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga…”

    #207711
    John 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.

    #207712
    Dr 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 Musk

    #207752
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      Friends Are Overrated

    Hua Bin about India’s Indians. Christ, I thought he was describing Ds supremo capitalismO Americano.

      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.

    #207782
    John Day
    Participant

    Gilbert 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

    #207786
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    I wonder what denomination of Judaism Eli belongs to…

      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

      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?

    #207790
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    There 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.

    #207794
    John Day
    Participant

    Skulking 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-support

    Friday 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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