Financial Times published on Sunday, Kosiniak-Kamysz said: “Of course there is fatigue in Polish society, and it is understandable especially when people here see young Ukrainian men driving the latest cars or staying in five-star hotels.”

The fatigue is an understatement. Central Europe has a growing conflict with the millions of Ukies on benefits – the housing allowance is by far the most important, Ukies packed into big cities with already costly housing. It’s not sustainable: the governments are phasing out benefits, Ukies cheat, complain, almost all now talk about ‘US-Canada’ visas.

One of the meanest things Russia can do is stretch it out and have the Euro-Ukie boosters pay the political price. Many Ukies have organized crime gangs, in Plzen recently police arrested 300 dealing drugs and robbing people. It’s not easy to make good money working since local businesses openly exploit them, especially the women.

The idea young Ukie men would go back to fight is ridiculous, they don’t want to and nobody can force them. There is a minority that brought with them huge amounts of cash – one wonders where all that Western aid money went – and lives ostentatiously. But this can’t go on.

@Mikel

I’ll write the response here to this post in the last thread https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-265/#comment-6939162.

I remember I still have a backlog of posts to respond to.

violent deaths than any other 1st World country and a high infant mortality rate too. But these two phenomena affect mostly certain communities. IOW, the life expectancy

It’s an interesting topic. American latinos born in 2019 have a period life expectancy of 82,2, which is similar to Western European countries like the United Kingdom and Germany.

On the other hand, for the black community and white community, American life expectancy for children born in 2019 is more like postcommunist countries, Romania (American blacks, 75,4) and Poland (American whites, 78,9).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9256789/

I recently learned that once a person reaches a certain age in the US (don’t remember if it was 65 or 70), their life expectancy is about the highest in the world. The US healthcare system has some big problems but it is also the most capital-intensive and technologically advanced so it does a very good job at keeping sick and elderly people alive,

This doesn’t necessarily follow because it’s not using comparable samples. At least to some extent, we should expect comparably higher life expectancy at higher cutoffs in the country with lower life expectancy just because of the model.

If there are two populations, one population with a higher life expectancy (let’s say country 1), another population with lower life expectancy (country 2).

At higher ages like let’s say 82, will you have a higher life expectancy in country 1 (country with lower life expectancy) or in country 2 (country with higher life expectancy)?

The life expectancy at the older age should be higher in country 1 because the life expectancy is lower. While the life expectancy at an older age should be lower in country 2 because the life expectancy in the country is higher.

But that’s created in a sophistical way, because we aren’t using a comparable sample as in country 1 it’s been processed through higher levels in the age specific mortality rates than in country 2.

In the country with the lower life expectancy the sample at each age has been reduced more than in the country with higher life expectancy, at a higher enough age the difference in the quantity of the reduction between the samples could create this result (higher life expectancy in the more reduced sample).

@AP’s comment about Trump in the last thread.
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-265/#comment-6941303

If Trump ends up using the military to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal

He is either distracting from his plan to mass import Indian tech workers, or using threats as a negotiating tactic.

According to the comments of Trump’s new team which includes employers and investors, one of the problems in the visa system in the USA is a country limit for the skilled worker visas.

I think Trump’s new team is not necessarily talking about the total number of visas available, but just the way they are unfairly distributed with limits on country origin.

The country limit isn’t a problem for workers from most smaller countries, but it’s negative for gastarbaiters from larger countries and employers who need these, especially Indians. American employers’ demand for the skilled gastarbaiters from larger countries like India is a lot higher than available visas each year.

Trump’s administration could remove the country limit on the distribution of the visa and this will improve the situation for the employers’ and also be more meritocratic for gastarbaiters from larger countries.

Some of the new team in the Trump administration were talking about the theme already on social media. These were Sacks, Musk, Krishnan.*

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In terms of the closed vs open border, this part of Trump’s team are supporting more limited immigration or closed border policy which their friend Vice-President Vance is saying.

David Friedberg is probably more liberal about border policy, but Sachs, Thiel and Musk are supporting more closed borders than currently.

On their podcast, David Friedberg was discussing about the deflationary effect of open borders, because native Americans can have “too high wage expectations”.

Sacks replies to Friedberg, “I think it would be a lot better to let their wages rise”.

The discussion between Friedberg and Sacks at 43:00

Video Link

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Looks as if Russia are still slowly but surely grinding down the UAF, pretty tragic really. And Ukraine are exhibiting captured Tuvans as “Koreans”.

Only a week until Trump Time, who knows what The Don will do?

Only a week until Trump Time, who knows what The Don will do?

The Veggie-In-Chief spent his last days making the situation worse by dumping more cash & material out the door to Führer Zelensky. Fixing the problem on Day 1 was an aspirational goal that alas will not come to fruition.

Mike Waltz, Trump’s NSA choice, is openly talking about a 100 day time frame. How long will it take Kiev aggression to burn through the final Biden/Harris allocations? A few months sounds about right.

Much depends on what Germany, France, and the UK provide their puppet Zelensky. Given their budgetary woes, it would be a big lift. However, Europe could give Kiev enough to keep them in the field some time.

PEACE 😇

Only a week until Trump Time, who knows what The Don will do?

The Don will move immediately forward in trying to promulgate any sort of a peace plan going forward. By doing so, he’ll be able to cripple Russia for a long time to come, for Russia’s economy is now solidly entrenched as being a war time one. Once Putler’s war ends the need for a wartime economy severely diminishes. But there’s no way to a diversified type of economy that has always been needed within Russia, to keep its wheels fastened securely to the rails. The one trick pony energy segment has also been severely hampered by sanctions. This short video frames the possible outcomes that Trump’s peace plan could spell for Russia’s economic future. This is the one worth watching:

Video Link

Only a week until Trump Time, who knows what The Don will do?

Mostly Donald the Fat will sit on his fat butt while his three hundred closest friends talk with him about how awesome he is.

Video Link

I have only gotten part way through Ron Unz’s new China post. So far it is pretty good. It would be excellent if it addresses the topic of elite chinks drinking expensive French red wine mixed with sprite as their favorite cocktail.

TIL that Chinese people wanting to display their wealth drink expensive red wines..mixed with Coca-Cola and Sprite to make it taste more palatable.
byu/expensive-shit intodayilearned

Chinese will make flag flutter on the Moon.
https://www.space.com/the-universe/moon/china-plans-to-plant-a-waving-flag-on-the-moon-in-2026-heres-how

How can this lady have been the second-most lenient judge?!

https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/judge-reassigned-after-texting-my-first-ankle-monitor-gag-to-another-judge.html?s=09

So you are saying that Don will cripple Russia with ‘peace’…wow, and the saints are marching in…

You need to get in touch with reality. Why would Russia agree to anything? They are winning…any peace Russia will agree to will be a huge loss to Ukraine and NATO. Or you can send NATO soldiers to prolong the war.

Do you really think there are men in any NATO country who want to die in the Ukie trenches? Do you think any politician sending them would stay in office for long?

Wait until Elon Musk offers Romania and Poland some choice chunks of western the Ukraine on twitter.

Who is going to tell Robert Kagan and Anne Applebaum about the Bronze Age Pervert?

I’m sure the latest round of sanctions will be the one to do the trick!

Anyway, Russia is running out of weapons, any day now.

I would love to know the back story behind the keeping of the Ukraine/Russia gas transit deal right up until the time the contract expired. Pretty sure Ukraine could have voided it at any time – or would they have had to declare war on Russia to do that?

Do you really think there are men in any NATO country who want to die in the Ukie trenches?

You could easily get at least 10,000 Marines to volunteer overnight. Probably 20k.

Marines won’t say it in public but they view themselves as the best warriors in the world and view war as the only way of proving it. They want their war medals. I used to know marines that served in Iraq and they partied when the war was announced.

They really are kind of nuts. The US training is pretty effective. They take some small town asshole and turn him into a killer. For the record I support cutting the US military budget. I would reduce the size of the Marines and put them back under the Navy to save costs.

Do you think any politician sending them would stay in office for long?

That is indeed the more difficult part but they now at least have the excuse of matching Russia’s Korean troops.

Video Link

any peace Russia will agree to will be a huge loss to Ukraine and NATO.

Beckow is now lamenting Ukraine’s possible losses! Indeed “the Saints are marching in”! 🙂

I suppose that the answer to your question is good old fashioned greed, even Ukrainians are subject to its alluring process. What was negotiated originally was not in the daily news, but to renegotiate a new contract? This wouldn’t make any sense in the current situation. Did you get a chance to watch the clip that I posted. Pretty interesting stuff, do you find it to be convincing? It seems that any way Putler decides to go, this only spells doom for the Russian economy. Russia is screwed no matter what, and kremlin stooge cheerleaders like Beckow think that everything is just fine for Russia going forward. 🙂

Neocat.

I posted this months ago but given the New Jersey drones people might be interested in reading it now if they skipped it then.

https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril

Quotes from the master of the universe:

wake up with your [I, me] fist clenched and your teeth grit every morning, stewing on the people who wronged you a decade ago

I’ve always done a lot of thinking around free will and whether it exists,” he said as his eyes reopened. “And I’m quite concerned that I’m doing what I was programmed to do when I was 8 years old. If you like Yu-Gi-Oh! and the Power Rangers, can you really do anything except build virtual reality and tools of violence to enact your aims while feeling superior?

Even people who have not necessarily wronged me yet, I’m looking at them and saying, ’I know how the world works now. You are going to fuck me. And I am not going to give you the chance.’

I am going to claim until I see better info the aircraft are Anduril toys.

Now I understand the Greenland idea. Go Trump!

He is planning to relocate all the illegal immigrants in the USA to Greenland. They are not wanted back home and there is no one in Greenland to complain. It is an inspired plan! Sort of like Botany Bay, only better. That’s a Green(land) New Deal I can support.

Donde esta Taco Bell?

I listened to Ron’s self posted podcast above and enjoyed it. Yes, I listened to the whole clip in one sitting (it’s only 13:39 long). Ron’s cynicism is well informed and quite frankly quite catchy. It’s also nice to see Ron help keep us in touch with Karlin’s recent meanderings by including “Posts from @powerfultakes on a sidebar. Karlin dresses like he’s just another middle class guy from the Midwest. I miss his posts and wish him all of the best in the New Year!

I have and wear the very same flannel shirt in my wardrobe. 🙂

“Did you get a chance to watch the clip that I posted?”

Sadly it’s my night for tidying my sock drawer.

“Russia is screwed no matter what”

Perchance that was the message of the video?

I would love to know the back story behind the keeping of the Ukraine/Russia gas transit deal right up until the time the contract expired. Pretty sure Ukraine could have voided it at any time – or would they have had to declare war on Russia to do that?

Getting paid the transit fee in full?

More than half of Greenlanders want to join US – poll
https://www.rt.com/news/610812-greenland-trump-us-denmark/

The number of those who reject outright Donald Trump’s idea of acquiring the island from Denmark is around 37%, according to a study

Maybe they plan to cannibalize the displaced illegal immigrants.

It’s too bad that you can’t find a similar poll today that shows that More than half of Ukrainians want to join Russia – poll ?

You must have a lot of socks, if you can’t spare even 15 minutes to watch/listen to the video clip.

“Russia is screwed no matter what”

Perchance that was the message of the video?

Take a wild guess. 🙂

The Germans would prefer cheap oil and gas. Enough of your retardation!

In Crimea and probably Donbass yes.

Given how the Kiev regime is carrying on as a NATO lackey, that sentiment can very well increase.

Good overview on the much overrated North Korean matter brought up:

Video Link

My take on the Nork expedition is that they are keen to get a taste of the fighting. The men arriving in Russia to fight in the Kursk Oblast are probably select light infantry looking for promotion in their own hierarchy.

Deport all the blacks to Penguin mines to harvest Tusk Ivory.

The population of Greenland is 57,000 people plus a bunch of polar bears.

The point of threatening to deport all these illegal immigrants is not to move them to Greenland. It is to give then the choice of Greenland or going back home in the South, Middle East or Africa.

Musk should fly a Starship over to Greenland and see if the crew can survive for a couple of years as a pre-qualifier for Mars.

The Germans would prefer cheap oil and gas.

ROTFL

Your Germans voted for the Traffic Light coalition. They chose to shut off nuclear and gas.

How are things looking for the next election? Your Germans are going to choose Angela Merkel’s “Welcome Rape-ugees” CDU/CSU.

Germans are obviously AGAINST cheap oil and gas. If they wanted those, they would vote an AfD+BSW majority.

PEACE 😇

As Ritter notes, the Norks want to get some up front experience. Limited amount in universally recognized Russia. If in Ukraine’s Commie boundary, likely as observers. Zelensky’s claim of 3,800 Nork dead is BS.

Shifting gears:

Jake Sullivan Brags While the World Burns

My take on the Nork expedition is that they are keen to get a taste of the fighting.

LOL your take? I guess you didn’t watch the video.

They were tricked into fighting. They were told it would just be training.

Good overview on the much overrated North Korean matter brought up

Is that what we are going with after you called me names for weeks over assuming the report was true?

Or do we just forget about that? You calling me an imbecile for simply stating why I thought it was true?

“this is obviously a CIA conspiracy”

– ex CIA Russian expert Larry C Johnson on North Korean troops fighting in Kursk even though the report was from the South Korean intelligence agency

As I said both you and Larry don’t understand the dwarf you admire. Same goes for Ritter and the homosexual man grabber judge that softballs him.

Larry C Johnson – 1

Walmart shopper + 1

Oh and as a reminder Ritter previously went on a rant about how the report doesn’t make sense.

Shop smart, shop S-mart, you got that?

Mikhail told me that NK reports had been debunked.

He linked to this video of Duran’s buddy who walks around and talks to himself:

So the buddy of a known Putin defender mumbling to himself was definitely the evidence that countered multiple videos of Koreans being attacked by drones along with found Korean supplies and letters. Walking guy says it is all a conspiracy. Right.

Oh and as a reminder Duran is a British immigrant who was disbarred for fraud.

You have to be a real scumbag to lose your law license.

One Aldis that I was in once could have used this coyote:

Rats have the same critical DNA pieces > 99% to homo sapiens.

If you hate rats you hate humans.

OK here is what you do if you need to rescue a coyote out of a frozen food display.

1. Have an empty shopping cart. A coyote will easily fit inside a shopping cart cargo bin.

2. Have 6 sacks BBQ brick-ettes or 12 sacks cat litter at hand.

3. Grab coyote by tail and dump his being into the shopping cart cargo bin.

4. Dump 6 sacks BBQ brick-ettes or 12 sacks cat litter on top of his head. Do not dump on butt. Dump on head.

Do I need to add that you need to leave the brick-ettes or the cat litter inside of the sacks?

5. Wheel the coyote out. Be on your alert for his or her prodigious escape skills. You might also want a big stick or a hammer or something like that.

Have heard that if you quickly pick a skunk up by the tail, it won’t spray you.

Maybe coyotes would be similar with biting?

I listened to Ron’s self posted podcast above and enjoyed it. Yes, I listened to the whole clip in one sitting

Ron has a good voice. Kind of homey but refined. Much better than Lex’s.

Karlin dresses like he’s just another middle class guy from the Midwest

I have and wear the very same flannel shirt in my wardrobe. 🙂

The Celts knew how to dress.

You didn’t provide any beyond reasonable doubt proof as some of the claims were proven farces.

Saying they’re 10,000 or more NK grunts in active fighting remains (put mildly) quite suspect. Ditto 3800 of the having been killed.

I have and wear the very same flannel shirt in my wardrobe.

Do you wear it for photo ops where a hundred people are going to see the photo?

I’m thinking no.

Probably not. But I have worn a flannel shirt to work once or twice at the end of the week. We need to face it though, Karlin is more of a hipster than we are. 🙂

Averko believes what he wants to believe. He lives within a small little world of his own creation. He’s definitely not worth getting all hung up about. 🙂

Ron has a good voice. Kind of homey but refined. Much better than Lex’s.

It’s not just the sound of his voice. I enjoy his style where he simply states in plain language one thing after another, building things to a sensible conclusion. He always seems to be easy to understand!

You’re projecting again oh anonymous svidomite troll.

Ben Aris LOL

https://thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/looking-down-the-barrel-of-disaster-the-war-in-ukraine-will-last-as-long-as-the-western-public-listens-to-idiots/comment-page-1/#comment-104157

I enjoy reading Schroedinger Journalists like Leonid Ragozin & Ben Aris of Business News Europe for their cope and struggle (mein kampf), particularly the latter who has declared on tw@tter that ‘Biden still talking about winning. After three years of war. And after the allies have completely failed to supply the arms that Ukraine needs to win. That should have been given three years ago,’*** thus conveniently misremembering the past that since 2014 it was stuffed full of weapons from the west and was the second largest army in u-Rope, not to mention Napoleon failing and the Nazis. He’s certainly one of a number of people who will get a role in ‘Deny Hard’ the movie about how the west f/ked up the u-Kraine and itself.

Full Conversation – Alice Weidel & Elon Musk on X!

…You could easily get at least 10,000 Marines to volunteer overnight. Probably 20k.

I doubt it, it is the usual big mouth talk. The moment they would be under serious fire they would leave. It’s not in their character to die in large numbers for an obscure geo-policy – they can’t even tell Ukies and Russians apart. No amount of training can change personality – Westies don’t have the ability to self-sacrifice, they just won’t do it. Marines are not any different, they will only fight when having 10-to-1 advantage (air power, weapons)…That will never be the case with Russia. No sane US President would send the Marines, the chance of a catastrophe would be too high.

Also why didn’t 20k Marines volunteer to go on their own? Colombians and Georgians sent more volunteers, but where are the brave Marines?

In NATO only armies that could fight are Turks, Poles (not sure) and possibly French Foreign legion (it’s too small). UK and the rest don’t have enough soldiers willing to risk their lives. That leaves using Ukies and they are running out of them. Or technology advantage and that is currently on the Russian side.

This war is lost from the beginning – even Obama said so in 2016: “Russia has regional escalation dominance“…It was very stupid, you have some real morons close to power in Washington (Kagan?). Any other scenario would have played out much better for US. But it’s too late.

Where was I lamenting? I described to you what’s happening and how it will end – if that makes you lament feel free.

For every million dollars Ukraine got from fees, didn’t Russia earn a lot more? I suppose the EU countries who relied on the gas would have objected, but what does that matter compared with the “important task” of damaging Russia?

Can’t help wondering what quid pro quo was going on. Russia was still AFAIK selling uranium and titanium to the US.

We took the kids to Worcester (UK) to watch a cricket match, and near the ground (it’s on a river) saw the biggest rat I’ve ever seen in a bin outside MacDonalds.

By contrast the Maccies at Circus Circus in Las Vegas had a rather cute mouse which would pop out and retrieve dropped fries. I got the impression it didn’t bother the Hispanic staff.

Polar bears are unlikely to bother you in the wilds of Greenland but it can be terminal if they do. A rifle (and shooting practice with it) is pretty much compulsory.

No one wants to kill a bear, but you don’t want to be eaten either.

Wow, I never knew that this is why Angela Lansbury moved to Ireland. I just thought she had a summer cottage there or something.

Greek refugee/emigre with a British passport.

There’s a movie

I have and wear the very same flannel shirt in my wardrobe. 🙂

The Celts knew how to dress.

Have you just made me an honorary Celt? There was an old Celtic settlement in my father’s neck of the woods in Bukovyna, so who knows?…

Good article:

https://www.academia.edu/21918619/INTO_THE_EAST_The_Celticization_of_Western_Ukraine

Do you also have an interest in underage sex like your child molesting kremlin stooge superstar/idol felon Scott Ritter? “Birds of a feather flock together ”

Be careful Mickey:

This is the way I have always imagined you: 😉

Rats have the same critical DNA pieces > 99% to homo sapiens.

If you hate rats you hate humans.

Critical DNA is somewhat ambiguous and especially given that human DNA isn’t fully understood.

They share about 90% DNA.

Joy Behar however shares over 99% your DNA so I guess you can’t hate her.

Trump Admin: Ukraine Should Lower Draft Age From 26 to 18 If They Want Our Full Support

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/12/trump_admin_ukraine_should_lower_draft_age_from_26_to_18_if_they_want_our_full_support.html

This sounds a lot like it could have come from the disgraced and evicted team.

Charlie paid very close attention when they were doing the mind control experiments on him.

…You could easily get at least 10,000 Marines to volunteer overnight. Probably 20k.

I doubt it, it is the usual big mouth talk. The moment they would be under serious fire they would leave. It’s not in their character to die in large numbers for an obscure geo-policy

They are trained to kill and die for any reason. It’s not their place to ask why.

They are trained soldiers and that is their job.

No amount of training can change personality – Westies don’t have the ability to self-sacrifice, they just won’t do it.

Has nothing to do with personality. US military personal died in Iraq and that was not critical to US security or a defensive war. Go watch Generation Kill which is based on the accounts of a journalist who was with the Marines in the first part of the war. He was unnerved by how many of them enjoyed it and really didn’t care about the risk of death.

Marines are not any different, they will only fight when having 10-to-1 advantage (air power, weapons)

LOL you think they get to make that choice? Nah I don’t like this situation, not enough air backing. They go in under orders. There were literally thousands of battles in Vietnam where they couldn’t just call in air support. Around half a million Marines served in Vietnam.

Also why didn’t 20k Marines volunteer to go on their own? Colombians and Georgians sent more volunteers, but where are the brave Marines?

Active Marines would get in major trouble. They are the property of the US government and are not allowed to fight in foreign wars. Even retired Marines could potentially lose benefits. The US government doesn’t want to pay for their injuries in a foreign war. They can actually get in trouble over injuring themselves in something like a drunk accident. The US military will send them the bill. It’s really like another large corporation that doesn’t want to pay bills unless it is required.

Military men also want their medals. That hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. They want their country’s war medals.

In NATO only armies that could fight are Turks, Poles (not sure) and possibly French Foreign legion (it’s too small). UK and the rest don’t have enough soldiers willing to risk their lives.

The Germans in both wars had similar beliefs. The British won’t actually use their men to defend another country.

The Japanese are on record stating that the American soldiers are playboys that won’t actually fight in a war. They in fact remarked that they don’t have the spirt of self-sacrifice like the Japanese. Well they didn’t understand how the US military works. Once you sign up you don’t get to pick your battles. The Japanese actually expected the US to not fight after Pearl Harbor and that the navy would go back to sunbathing and surfing.

The reluctance over Ukraine troops is really on the part of politicians. US generals would be thrilled to see US troops in combat against Russians. That’s kind of the problem with the military industrial complex on both sides. War is their business and not peace. They’re trained for war and everyone wants to prove their training. The generals get to play chess and stay behind the lines. War isn’t a personal risk to them.

This war is lost from the beginning – even Obama said so in 2016: “Russia has regional escalation dominance

At the beginning we had Putin’s blogging defenders (Ritter, MacGregor, Duran, Larry C) unanimously tell us that Ukraine was doomed and should completely surrender. Now they tell us that Ukraine needs to make a deal. So they went from Ukraine will definitely not exist to Ukraine will exist but needs to give Russia land. Putin supporters seem to have shifting goals and completely different expectations of outcome. Well Putin however gave a speech on his goals and the main one was stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. I don’t see how he can achieve that goal unless he strikes some type of deal where Finland leaves. Which means a land/NATO compromise would be more of an armistice.

Trump Admin: Ukraine Should Lower Draft Age From 26 to 18 If They Want Our Full Support

Does Mike Waltz believe that Führer Zelensky cannot survive such a change?

If so, it is a pretty good “one-two” combination. If Zelensky does not comply it is further justification for a huge reduction or cut off of funds. If he tries to follow through and is forced from office, the next Kiev administration is much more negotiation capable.

PEACE 😇

Additional note on how active military have rules on injuries.

I actually knew quite a few ROTC guys in college and not only did they have all kinds of restrictions on getting injured but could actually face a huge bill by breaking the rules.

This is because the military will actually charge for previous classes if they decide to drop you.

So some spring break party injury or misdemeanor crime charge could actually end up in a massive bill. You’re in officer training and expected to not do something stupid like get arrested in Mexico.

They will send the bill for your degree and do not give a damn as to how you can afford it. They will kick you out and send a bill for 30k dollars. As with all Federal debt you cannot discharge it through bankruptcy.

I support our military but it is unfortunately filled with assholes and dirty tricks. I would tell anyone to stay the hell away from a recruiting office. They will lie their asses off and in fact that is what they are trained to do. The US military is somewhat of a scam. They get people to sign on a cool job and then WHOOPS I guess you can’t do that because (excuse). Oh but we need someone at this base to take out the trash.

This simple policy is just like Greenland, not complicated at all. Trump wants the hottest Ukrainian 18-26 year old women to work at Trump hotels.

+++

The Big Picture:

The new boss same as the old boss.

or

The King is dead, long live the King!

Like you and “John Johnson”. Who did Ritter molest? Lying like the Kiev regime.

There are different layers to the story.

One of them is that the murders never would have happened, if Manson had merely been sent to Sodomite Island.

Like you and “John Johnson”. Who did Ritter molest? Lying like the Kiev regime.

He tried to meet up with an underage girl at a Burger King. He also jacked it for what he thought was an underage girl on the internet and it was actually a cop. That was when he was married. Bet the wife liked that phone call.

AT BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY*

YOU RULE

*Please do not try to pick up underage girls at our restaurants like Scott Ritter, thank you.

You didn’t provide any beyond reasonable doubt proof as some of the claims were proven farces.

You called me an imbecile for stating that the report on North Korean troops in combat was most likely true. You were clearly upset when I said that Larry C Johnson was wrong. He said the report was a CIA conspiracy and didn’t get the source right.

I in fact suggested you wait for more evidence if you doubted the report. But you insisted on calling me names even when I pointed out that both Larry and Ritter had stopped talking about it. You should probably take cues from your senior level bootlickers.

Well now they have two North Koreans and are offering to swap them.

Which means the original South Korean report was correct and Larry C Johnson was wrong.

I guess a boomer in a Hawaiian shirt reporting from his living room isn’t always the best source for a war.

Averko will go down to the pits of disbelief trying to defend the undefendable. He has one more ploy left, to state that you’re “cherry-picking” the facts. 🙂

He just can’t seem to figure things out?…somehow it just doesn’t fit his perceptions of reality?

My, such a complimentary view! 🙂

He really doesn’t bother me.

In fact I probably prefer his crass pan-Russian nationalism to the “fightin them Jews” defense of Putin which is far more common at Unz.

Basically the Andrew Anglin position that holds:

1. Putin is fighting international Jews while making deals with them and cozying up to Israel
2. Putin is sticking it to Western Jews by having Russian and Ukrainian Slavs kill each other in trenches.
3. Putin is hunting Neo Nazis and that’s why White nationalists should support him

All the above anti-logic is justified by Zelensky being Jewish. Not buying the argument? Oh well that’s because you must be Jewish. Cause it is completely solid logic and you can’t possibly a White man to question it. White men are supposed to be anti-rational and rally to any cause if someone like Anglin yells JEWS. No asking questions about the best interest of Russians or Ukrainians because I guess that is now Jewish.

I really think of this scene when they try to explain how it is Jewish to support Ukraine:

Having a Jew as head of state in Europe is a very very bad thing.

What are we worried about Zelensky doing? Killing a bunch of Slavs, taking down their birth rate or making the country more Muslim? Like Putin? All three have happened since his glorious invasion.

Are you hoping that around 500k Slavs are killed to remove Zelensky? To save….whom from Zelensky? Slavs?

Do you think that is about as logical as weighing a woman to see if she is made of wood?

Western leader brings in Muslims laborers: He is serving the Jews.
Putin brings in Muslim laborers: He is fighting the Jews.

Makes perfect sense. Let’s get a scale.

Not at all, for reasons previously given and that I’m not going to repeat.

MSNBC Johnson is/are profoundly non-serious. At some point you have to ignore they/them bleating for their precious Harris.

Greenland association is an all or nothing and proposition. Either there will be a COFA free trade deal, or there will not. As a broad plan, the entire portfolio of Greenland resources is a huge win when viewed over a time frame longer than a decade.

MSNBC Johnson is a #NeverMAGA zealot. Instead of looking at reality, they/them keep trying to pick a fight. Long-term everyone, except the highly emotional MSNBC Johnson, sees that a trade & security COFA deal is a win-win for both Greenland and America.

PEACE 😇

Here is a decent article on the Ukraine endgame and Team Trump. Russian casualties are discussed in one of the embedded links.

MSNBC Johnson is/are profoundly non-serious. At some point you have to ignore they/them bleating for their precious Harris.

I didn’t vote for Harris and described her as an Affirmative Action dingbat about a dozen times.

You live in a strange world where anyone who questions the orange felon must be a Harris supporter.

I didn’t think either deserved to president. But I voted for Trump over Hillary in the election where Vance was officially on NeverTrump and endorsed a globalist libertarian. But I guess he is now forgiven, right? Even though he referred to Trump as America’s next Hitler?

except the highly emotional MSNBC Johnson, sees that a trade & security COFA deal is a win-win for both Greenland and America.

Everyone can see that you were unable to back your minerals claim.

Is this A123?

What kind of clueless White guy goes over to Israel and asks about Jesus?

And now for something completely different…

Why do rice cookers work??? Magnets!!!

PEACE 😇

That guy has not gotten the memo. The AI drone wonder weapons to be deployed will stupefy those stupid russians. There is a light shining at the yonder end of the tunnel.

Battle of the Nations
Brazil Russia

Yep.

What kind of clueless White guy goes over to Israel and asks about Jesus?

Millions of tourists visit Israel/Jerusalem every year to visit the Holy Land to walk on the same streets that Jesus did. Tour guides must get swamped with all sorts of questions.

The Blinken disgrace
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/610853-blinken-leaving-doubtful-legacy/

As he leaves office, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will not be remembered as a diplomat. He will be remembered as a moral disgrace. When faced with the chance to stop wars and genocide, he refused. He talked of a rules-based order, but acted as an international criminal.

CrossTalking with Michael Rossi and Alexander Aton.

Drop the bravado. You are fed by one-sided information and Hollywood prettifying the ‘marines’. The reality is Marines fought in the last few decades only where they had an absolute 10-1 weapons advantage. They still managed to lose in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq…ok, they won in Grenada, congrats.

The last time Marines were in roughly equal fight was in Korea and WW2 – too far back to apply to today. Any fighting in Ukraine would be like Korea-WW2, bloody and with Russia having logistics and even weapons advantage. There is no way any US politician will sign up for it – and if some would the Marines would not fight well and be withdrawn after first casualties. The other Euro armies are much worse.

Now they tell us that Ukraine needs to make a deal. So they went from Ukraine will definitely not exist to Ukraine will exist but needs to give Russia land. …means a land/NATO compromise would be more of an armistice.

That is not true. Russia’s objectives in 2022 were: no NATO and Donbas goes to Russia since it’s ethnically Russian. Since then Russia dramatically escalated what they want: more lands, even complete control of Ukraine. You are walking back the crazy optimism in the West in 2022-23 of “we will defeat Russia”, the “offensive”, “Ukraine will take back Crimea and more”….It was everywhere, are you so dishonest you will deny it?

WW1 ended with an “armistice”, most wars do. What matters are only two things:
– will the rump-Ukraine be in NATO?
– will the contested regions be in Russia or in Ukraine?

Russia wins decisively if NATO is out of Ukraine and the regions become part of Russia. There is no other way one can look at it. So stop hallucinating, this outcome is by the way a massive escalation of what Russia wanted in 2014 or in 2022. So the NATO-Ukie stupidity totally backfired.

With France being pushed by progressives (so called) into physical conflict with Russia, and Britain likely following close behind, the events leading up to a hypothetical WWIII are continuing to be carefully modeled by the Anglosphere upon the events which led up to WWII.

The renewed Ukrainian offensive in Kursk, along with the launching of British and American made missiles by Ukraine deep into Russia, may be an attempt to present WWIII as a fait accompli to the center of all world evil, aka Donald J Trump, who has yet to take office, but who will almost certainly be blamed for this war, when, and if, it occurs.

Trump, despite the deceptive appearances regarding him painted by a corrupt corporate media and his largely empty blovating jingoism, and once he is president the exercising of much of his authority being hobbled, (if not outright blocked) as in his first term, will in reality probably be quite powerless in most meaningful ways as president. However, just as in WWII, he might be allowed to delay US entry into the war for a time.

All it would take for that to quickly change is
Trump’s assassination, allegedly by Iran, for the US to enter the war against Russia through the ‘back door’ of that country.

[I see Trump and Putin as controlled opposition, so I wouldn’t suggest placing any hopes in either of them.]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-france-discussing-allied-troop-100639608.html

Ukraine, France discussing allied troop deployment to country, Zelenskyy says

Talks are ongoing between Paris and Kyiv for the possible deployment of French troops inside Ukraine despite the ongoing war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media.

Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron “had a detailed discussion about the situation on the battlefield and the progress of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk operation,” the Ukrainian leader said in a Monday night post to X.

“We also agreed to work closely with key allies on achieving peace and developing effective security guarantees,” Zelenskyy added.

“As one such guarantee, we discussed the French initiative to deploy military contingents in Ukraine,” he continued. “We addressed practical steps for its implementation, potential expansion and the involvement of other nations in this effort.”

Macron and top French officials have repeatedly hinted at the possibility of deploying a French military contingent to Ukraine in a variety of non-combat roles.

French troops, Macron has said, could train Ukrainian soldiers inside the country or serve as peacekeepers to help maintain any forthcoming ceasefire agreement.

Ukrainian military analysts have also suggested that French troops could replace Ukrainian forces guarding the country’s borders with Belarus and Transnistria — the Russian-aligned separatist state in eastern Moldova — thus freeing up Ukrainian troops for combat duties.

Jews in public life are all up to something evil. God forbid one is allowed to become head of state.

This asshole with a long and extensive career in British politics just got caught trying to pick up a tweeny with a trench coat and a bag of candy.

He’s best known for helping to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and supporting the invasion of Iraq back in the day. He’s lived most of his adult life in the public eye so the cascade of YouTube videos will be astonishing.

Macron really needs to be removed. He represents literally no real organic French opinion.

France officially placing troops in Ukraine should be a big deal, but that is not the case. Why? Most likely the number of NATO troops in Ukraine is already much higher than disclosed. Therefore the addition of these new troops is relatively incremental. The next step will be to almost declare war against Russia using ambiguous terminology designed to not trigger Article 5.

Yep…

Russia’s slow pace of destroying the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk is the most interesting thing at the moment, as interesting as the early Kiev feint. The Russian military watched the build up of Ukrainian forces and allowed the attack to happen, though obviously they had to keep fighting on other fronts. The incursion may have been intended as a trap or feint or perhaps is simply a showy move to politically discredit the military. Whatever the rationale for the incursion, Russia stood by and have been dealing with it very slowly at their convenience. This all seems a bit strange. What other factors are involved?

I wonder if the presence of enemy troops on home soil gives the Russian military crucial political clout which they otherwise do not have? In other words, having enemy soldiers inside Russia, in Kursk no less, gives the military more authority than they have otherwise. This is a “Special Military Operation” and may have certain constraints on the military which are different from a declared war. The Kremlin may be constraining the military as a cautious political tactic which allows Putin to keep his options open, including an early cessation of combat which the military would not agree with. Perhaps allowing the Ukies and NATO advisors to remain in Russia allows the military to continue through Dnipro and to Odessa before they are reigned in by pro-compromise factions within Russian leadership.

The UK’s Telegraph has a huge article today imagining for it’s readership every possible ‘scenario’ that might have British troops soon on the ground in Ukraine.

[Be sure and check out ‘Scenario Two’ (under ‘more’) and the ‘more drastic measures’ which may be required should there be a Russian ‘breakthrough’, ie the ‘nuclear option’ of forming a ‘coalition of the willing’ to form a ‘defensive cordon’ around Ukraine’s capital city Kiev, thus relieving Ukrainian troops for the front.]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/15/ukraine-british-army-troops-peacekeeping-force-training/

What British boots on the ground would look like in Ukraine

Former defence secretaries call for UK to join a post-war peacekeeping force, but troops could run a training mission or even defend Kyiv

It is April 29, 2025, 100 days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and he is making headway with his promise to end the war between Ukraine and Russia…

The president is sitting in a conference room at a five-star hotel in Switzerland overlooking Lake Lucerne.

He is flanked by Vladimir Putin on one side and Volodymyr Zelensky on the other, marking the first time the warring leaders have been in the same room since an ill-fated meeting almost six years ago.

They both watch on nervously as Mr Trump plots an American-guaranteed ceasefire line on a map of Ukraine.

But the catch is it won’t be American troops patrolling and policing the resulting 800-mile buffer zone from the tentative peace deal, despite Mr Trump’s presence.

The next phone calls are to London, Paris and Warsaw, looking for a commitment to lead a European force capable of undertaking such a task.

A decision is made that the onus should fall on Sir Keir Starmer and the UK’s Armed Forces to spearhead the post-war peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

Of course, this scenario is entirely fictional.

But with Mr Trump reportedly not willing to finance or send American troops to uphold peace in Ukraine, it is not entirely unrealistic.

Former defence secretaries this week wrote a joint letter this week calling for the UK to join a post-war peacekeeping force.

And the topic is reportedly on the table in discussions between Sir Keir and Mr Zelensky when they meet in the coming weeks.

Once unthinkable, here is how British boots could end up being deployed in Ukraine.

If the Ukrainians wanted your cartoon to be true they should not have changed the language law or fought against the Russians in Donbass. NATO had been seriously pressuring the Kremlin on many important geopolitical and diplomatic fronts before then, but killing and disenfranchising the native-Russians within Ukraine made the situation emotionally important for Russia. Kiev forced the Russians into serious action. These idiot-level moves were readily agreed upon by shallow Neocons and moron Ukies. Keep in mind that the Neocons do not care if all Ukrainian Slavs are killed, you are just pawns to be used up. What a bunch of bloodthirsty chumps.

Russia’s inability to deal effectively with the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk (more than 2 months now) is nothing more that a sign of Russian weakness. It’s plain for the whole world to see, I’m surprised that this sorry state of Russia’s ineptitude is causing you so much anxiety. Just you wait and see what he’ll do to NATO countries once he gets around to it. Just watch his lapdog Medvedev for any future signals of Putler’s ire and angst.

What kind of clueless White guy goes over to Israel and asks about Jesus?

Millions of tourists visit Israel/Jerusalem every year to visit the Holy Land to walk on the same streets that Jesus did. Tour guides must get swamped with all sorts of questions.

He isn’t a tourist. He is proselytizing.

It’s completely ridiculous to go stick a microphone in front of an Israeli Jew and ask if they have heard of Jesus.

I’ve known this type of Christian. They are basically Evangelicals that have a hard time with the Jews rejecting Christ while teaching that they are God’s chosen people. That is the core issue. Evangelical Christianity leads to confused weirdos walking around Israel and asking Jews about Jesus. It’s ridiculous and patronizing. Maybe they should walk around Africa and ask if they have heard about McDonalds.

You don’t see Catholics or Orthodox doing this stuff. It is always some creepy protestant who wants to put his hands on everyone. I actually know someone who did this in a Muslim country. No exaggeration.

but killing and disenfranchising the native-Russians within Ukraine made the situation emotionally important for Russia. Kiev forced the Russians into serious action.

So the destruction of several thousand imported kremlin backed rabble rousers into Ukrainian territories elicits so much angst on you part, but the wholesale and wanton destruction of hundreds of thousands Russian speakers not even the smallest of a whimper? I don’t understand your myopic and one sided view of this war? All of you kremlin stooges are a strange assortment of peculiarities…

Führer Zelensky’s core backers include the UK, France, and Germany. Why would Russia accept such European troops as guarantors of the DMZ?

At a minimum, such forces would have to come from a genuinely neutral power. India, perhaps? It is unlikely that anyone would take on such a role. And, neither side really wants Asian troops on the ground.

Also, “neutral peacekeepers” have a bad track record of actually keeping the peace. UNIFIL is a perfect example of this. They were so impotent that that they could not keep Iranian Hezbollah away from their outposts.

Will there be a DMZ? Probably. However, it will be enforced bilaterally. Both sides will fly unarmed drones with cameras over the region looking for infractions.

PEACE 😇

It doesn’t stir me up, beyond recognizing that what Kiev did was murderous and stupid. This entire blood-soaked mess was predictable. Ukraine should have stayed closest friends and allies with Russia. Any difficulties, as bad as they may have been, should have been kept in the family. Is this ideal from a Ukrainian perspective? Maybe not. Sadly, any other course is worse as you people apparently had to prove to yourselves.

I hold world leaders by their actions.

Around 500k Slavs would be alive if not for the actions of a non-Jewish runt.

I’ve definitely seen a change in the force at Unz after Putin abandoned Assad.

Not as many posters have the Dwarf Hitler fantasy. Mostly a few deluded hold-outs that were never connected to reality.

I wonder when Anglin will turn on Putin. It will probably be like his magic negro period where he just hopes his fans forget about the whole Kanye thing.

It doesn’t stir me up, beyond recognizing that what Kiev did was murderous and stupid. This entire blood-soaked mess was predictable. Ukraine should have stayed closest friends and allies with Russia.

So you are saying they should have been like Belarus?

If Putin invades Belarus then you will denounce the action as unjust?

What is your justification for Putin’s invasion given that the Ukrainian people defeated the pro-NATO candidate in the 2019 presidential election? That wasn’t enough separation from NATO to avoid invasion? What additional step did they need to take to avoid thousands of deaths caused by their neighbor?

Blinken is a spook who is doing the family business. This is a contra-indicator for the qualities of cleverness and creativity. If you are doing the same thing your dad did it is possible you are a clever or creative fellow. The probability of this is very low.

There is one datum which is easy to remember. Blinken’s step father is the last person who is known to have spoken with living Robert Maxwell. Of course that isn’t really even about Anthony Blinken.

Both sides will fly unarmed drones with cameras over the region looking for infractions.

When Palmer Luckey’s drones finally make it to Ukraine all the fighting will be over with but he will get press clippings like they won the war.

Assad?

Stop being a Jew.

What is your justification for Putin’s invasion given that the Ukrainian people defeated the pro-NATO candidate in the 2019 presidential election?

By 2022Putin was certain he could not trust Ukraine any more,. That being the case there was no alternative to war.

I thought Maxwell was still alive, following a strict Adrenochrome-based health regimen. He’s only 101. Sort of a real-life Baron Harkonnen.

Macron really needs to be removed. He represents literally no real organic French opinion.

I agree. Macron certainly doesn’t have the interest of the French people at heart. Newsweek (linked below) has another recent article promoting French troops for Ukraine.

https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-macron-mull-practical-steps-deploy-peacekeepers-ukraine-2014503

So, it seems there is a last minute push being made (before Trump gets into office) for the deployment of French and British troops to Ukraine, ostensibly for ‘peacekeeping’, though they are already talking about how that role could potentially expand.

I think within the Anglosphere there are at least two mindsets at work, two levels of elites. One, that thinks a hypothetical WWIII will work out pretty much as WWII did, albeit with some additional losses and damage, but with the US/UK still pretty much intact and still on top.

And then some others, who in an act of ‘creative destruction’, are prepared to see most peoples and nations broken up and largely wiped out via WWIII, including the US/UK, Russia, and the peoples of Europe, and are prepared for a far greater loss of life, ie ideally from their vantage down to the infamous five hundred million figure globally.

One should remember that these elites and hangers on generally don’t believe in the idea of organic peoples and peoplehood anyway, nor geographic countries, and often have homes in various locations across the globe.

If one of their homes gets destroyed due to WWIII, it’s no bigee to them, as they’ve got others. And, as the British Empire in the case of India demonstrated, a dedicated cadre of a few tens of thousands can indeed rule over hundreds of millions indefinitely, via some force and a large measure of divide and rule.

This latter of the two outcomes (a type of peace, but anti-freedom and a peace of the grave, God forbid they ultimately succeed!) might not be dissimilar in certain ways theoretically to what was depicted in the clips below from the 1936 movie Things to Come.

I’m for peace too, but accomplished via setting an example for others to follow and with the right for these others to say ‘no’, a peace that is both life and freedom affirming, and which acknowledges in a positive way the right of organic peoples to simply exist, with a geographic homeland, and yes, even to prosper, much unlike the peace of the grave that the modern liberal progressives (appropriately symbolically represented by the thoroughly corrupt current US president Joe Biden and his administration) are attempting to force through violence and deceit upon the world.

I don’t have any justification for the USA dropping out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other nuclear arms control treaties. I also do not have any justification for NATO’s provocative expansion up to the Russian border. I don’t have any justification for the USA placing advanced missile bases in Eastern Europe to threaten Russia. I recognize that post-Cold War leaders in the West thought they could get away with these very dangerous moves and pressure Russia into becoming a much weaker vassal state answering to the Western hegemon. These highly premeditated moves by the USA against Russia were disastrous mistakes.

I understand why Russia moved into Ukraine in 2022 to avoid having the country becoming a hostile NATO member directly on the Russian border, very likely to be used as a springboard to pressure Russia as much as possible. The West had already established a very dangerous pattern of geopolitical behavior against Russia and no honest and informed observer was surprised that Russia responded with force. The only surprise is that Russia waited so long. I am not in a position to justify Russia’s actions; I am just pointing out they are a predictable reaction to the mistakes made by the USA and Ukraine.

I think Ukraine should have a kept a closer relationship with Russia than does Belarus. They were economically very well linked in 1991 and might have built on this strength. The people in both countries and most of the world could have been better off. Circumstances made this impossible and they fell prey to criminal behavior at all levels combined with outside meddling and ideological campaigns.

I think the West has created an angry bear. Putin is a moderate; who knows how the future Kremlin leadership will behave?

Seems to me that Trump is going to threaten the Russians to get some kinda bullshit freeze.

Putin then has two options.

Take the deal and hope this leads to Trump’s opponents internally into a civil war.

Reject the deal and take whatever punishment is cooking. The Russian army is rolling up the Ukies.

Ron Unz could wear one of those John Adams wigs the next time he goes on Kevin Barrett’s show.

The producers and directors here seem to go the extra mile in making royal French women hideously ugly. It’s like Kubrick Barry Lyndon X 40.

Did you ever read that dubious report that naked Maxwell was running away from the Mossad assassin on the beach in the middle of the night and died exhausted from physical exertion, then it took three Mossad guys to drag the dead whale Maxwell back into the water?

If they do a biopic that is definitely the way to film the scene. Maybe they can get John Goodman to fatten himself up again to play Gizlane’s papa.

An increasing number of Ukrainians are seeing the light. As I’ve noted –

It’s Russia which has reasonable cause to not trust the Kiev regime and its sugar daddy given (among other things), the experience of the Minsk Accords. As I’ve said, post-Soviet Russia exhibited a clear willingness to recognize a neutral Ukraine within its dubiously drawn Soviet boundary, which respected its pro-Russian community.

Many Germans and Japanese fought bravely during WW II for a flawed side, as many of their fellow citizens were killed by their adversaries. Yet, within a relatively short period of time, the Germans and Japanese en masse accepted the war’s outcome. With Georgia in mind, time has a way of healing, especially upon realization that your side wasn’t so virtuous.

The outgoing Biden administration and the rest of the neocon/neolib cabal provide no reasonable settlement to the NATO proxy war against Russia.

I think the Russians have expected they must take Ukraine entirely by force to reach a resolution, probably since Istanbul. They don’t want to do this and will look for off-ramps but are emotionally prepared for it.

The West has created a dilemma which pushes Russia and China together from two directions. The Ukraine project pushes Russia closer to China. The Taiwan project pushes China closer to Russia.

Can AI do 8 of these 10 by the end of 2027?

1. Watch a previously unseen mainstream movie (without reading reviews etc) and be able to follow plot twists and know when to laugh, and be able to summarize it without giving away any spoilers or making up anything that didn’t actually happen, and be able to answer questions like who are the characters? What are their conflicts and motivations? How did these things change? What was the plot twist?

2. Similar to the above, be able to read new mainstream novels (without reading reviews etc) and reliably answer questions about plot, character, conflicts, motivations, etc, going beyond the literal text in ways that would be clear to ordinary people.

3. Write engaging brief biographies and obituaries without obvious hallucinations that aren’t grounded in reliable sources.

4. Learn and master the basics of almost any new video game within a few minutes or hours, and solve original puzzles in the alternate world of that video game.

5. Write cogent, persuasive legal briefs without hallucinating any cases.

6. Reliably construct bug-free code of more than 10,000 lines from natural language specification or by interactions with a non-expert user. [Gluing together code from existing libraries doesn’t count.]

7. With little or no human involvement, write Pulitzer-caliber books, fiction and non-fiction.

8. With little or no human involvement, write Oscar-caliber screenplays.

9. With little or no human involvement, come up with paradigm-shifting, Nobel-caliber scientific discoveries.

10.Take arbitrary proofs from the mathematical literature written in natural language and convert them into a symbolic form suitable for symbolic verification.

He doesn’t mention that Sam Altman wants 7 trillion dollars for computers and electricity and that Sam claims the chinks will give it to him if we don’t.

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-97-4

Also no information on google and the facebook READING YOUR MIND. There is a good comment thrown in there that if the AI can write a book that you cannot bear to put down then you got a Snowcrash game theory scenario. Anyway if Zvi and Altman’s houses burn down can they please be inside them?

At a bit past the the 17 minute mark concerning the latest Kiev regime North Korean BS:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154903496

Didn’t expect them to stick the landing, but I am pretty surprised the New Glenn booster blew up during the reentry burn.

https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/mc2-how-electricity-can-heal-wounds-three-times-as-fast/

Sound familiar?

Watched the documentary film The Endurance (2000), narrated by Liam Neeson.

I understand why Russia moved into Ukraine in 2022 to avoid having the country becoming a hostile NATO member directly on the Russian border, very likely to be used as a springboard to pressure Russia as much as possible.

This official Russian viewpoint might be useful except that it doesn’t really stand up. Instead of just predictions of Ukraine’s posible entrance into NATO (years off by any sober reflection if at all ),we recenlty witnessed a streamlined entrance of both Finland and Sweden into NATO.with the former having a longer border with Russia than Ukraine does, without much of any protests from the kremlin. Very odd, especially if the kremlin’s motivation for all of this was to curtail Nato membership. No, there;s something much more ominous is going on from Russia’s perspective. So Ukraine has to be used as springboard to “pressure Russia a much as possible” whereas Finland’s accession is acceptable and is not viewed much as a hostile gesture? Preposterous (how can one believe this sort of trite, anyways?)

I think Ukraine should have a kept a closer relationship with Russia than does Belarus.

Once again proving that you’re a complete neophyte regarding Russian/Ukrainian history. We’ve already established previously that you’ve neve once read a single abook about the topic (of which there are many to choose from) and have absorbed all of your knowledge about the topic from the expert KGB BS artist Putler himself, upon his propagandistic modules of Ukrainian history offered on TV when being interviewed by the likes of Tucker Carlson. Your summation of Putler’s supposed “moderatism” is no substitute for your ignorance of the historic forces at play here.

Ukraine are fighting on a broader front with longer lines of communication as a result of Kursk.

Watched the documentary film The Endurance (2000), narrated by Liam Neeson.

Am pretty familiar with the story, but never watched any film about it. I still enjoyed it.

I’ve not seen the documentary, and am not familiar with the guy killing the twenty seals, but I did read the book Shackleton about the leader of the expedition. What I recall is that they lived almost exclusively on seal meat for extended periods, the rations they brought with them having run out, with no noticeable ill effects.

I also recall the scene where they were still receiving a very strictly kept and meager daily reconstituted powdered milk ration, maybe an 8oz cup, if that, and it may have been all they were getting nutrition wise at the time. So it was a big deal, almost life or death, that you got your ration that day.

Anyway, one of the crew immediately after receiving his cup of milk, somehow got jostled and the entire contents of the cup he’d just been given spilt on to the ground. Under the circumstances, in this particular instance it wasn’t your typical case of ‘spilt milk. 😉 After a long string of curses he sat down and started bawling.

So all the other expedition members volunteered to give him a few drops of their own daily ration, making up for his great loss.

I thought it was a pretty cool example of solidarity, even an ethnic solidarity, as they really did treat each other as ‘family’ on the expedition.

My understanding is that NATO was gradually bringing Ukraine into the fold before Maidan. Their position on accession for Ukraine was clear. The only two things which could stop it were Kiev committing to pro-Russia neutrality or Russia forcing Ukraine to not join NATO. Kiev decided not to go for the first option so Russia is implementing the second.

I have learned a lot about the Ukraine-Russia history from the dialogue between pro and anti-Russia commenters here at Unz. I try to read articles and watch a few videos on all sides of the crisis. Several years ago I started reading a book on modern Ukraine but I found it so biased with Western talking points that I couldn’t commit to the task. Most of my comments are based on some general knowledge of the Cold War, decent knowledge of Russian technical capabilities and my own insights into people and organizations. My goal is to prompt people to think more critically. I am not trying to convince you of anything.

I think the historic factors you focus on are an important substrate for the more dangerous superpower forces at work between the USA and Russia. Finland and Sweden joining NATO is not remotely similar to Ukraine joining. I think Finland will eventually leave NATO. No one cares about Sweden.

My role here is still that of a Cold War survivor who believes peace and nuclear disarmament are great ideas. My purpose is to explain ways in which this insane Western project in Ukraine is much more dangerous and also more likely to fail than you hope. I am not defending the strange Russian system any more than I am defending the strange Ukrainian system. Hell, I’m not even defending the strange American system.

I heard a really long (~ 4 hours) deathbed radio interview with Michael Aquino several years ago. He wasn’t gasping or struggling at all. He still had a couple months to go but he knew the end was imminent and it was maximally confessional. Very memorable. Three high lights.

1. The world trade center towers were obviously demolished by explosive charge.

2. In spite of heroic effort by the world’s leading psychiatrists and drug chemists the CIA’s mind control experiments failed completely all across the board.

3. The celebration of the elemental fire at Burning Man by Californians is the stupidest thing he ever heard of in his life.

#3 is the reason a bunch of his interview recently came to the top of my memory stack.
#2 is presumably only what his sector of the intelligence agencies had any need to know.

It’s really one of the most incredible stories of all time, given that Shackleton managed to not lose a single member of his crew. It’s an incredible testament to the importance of competent leadership in my mind more than anything else. Shackleton was very tuned into to what he had to do to keep cohesion between his men which is such an incredible feat given the circumstances.

One example I remember is that Shackleton kept one fellow who tended to be a troublemaker very close, sharing a tent etc. so that he wouldn’t set the other guys off.

Someone was speaking to me of the recently departed, and they said something to the effect “His one flaw was that he was prejudiced.”

And I thought “That was his one redeeming feature.”*

Of course, I didn’t say this, but I did explain his repeated experiences with one ethnic group and also how the government was basically now importing the other straight, direct into rural parts.

*Slight hyperbole.

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/16/ukraine-remains-locked-in-an-economic-form-of-stockholm-syndrome/

Ukraine remains locked in an economic form of Stockholm syndrome

To defeat Russia, Ukraine would need economic resources that it does not have and will not be able to obtain.

‘War is won by economies, not armies’ said Alex Vershinin, in a 2024 RUSI paper. Put another way, the country that can outspend its rival in military endeavour will ultimately prevail.

It isn’t just that Ukraine’s economy is now more than ten times smaller than Russia’s. The problem runs much deeper. Since the Ukraine crisis started in 2014, Ukraine has ducked opportunities to enact the structural reforms it needs to tackle deep-seated corruption and diversify/strengthen its economy.

Take corruption for example. In a Time Article in October 2023, an Adviser to Zelensky remarked in confidence that Ukrainian officials are ‘stealing like there’s no tomorrow’. In 2024, there were reports that capital intended for investment to strengthen Ukraine’s energy grid against missile attack had been largely embezzled. Western media reports on corruption of this magnitude are as welcome as they are rare. Corruption is seldom mentioned in a daily propaganda barrage that does not permit any criticism of Ukrainian governance. In reality, it has always been one of the biggest and most stubborn barriers to Ukraine’s aspiration to join the EU.

More broadly, at a macro level, Ukraine needed either to set a course towards an economic model that exports and has spare capital to invest, including overseas, or towards an economic model that is comfortable to import and can attract foreign investment to offset the difference.

Data from the National Bank of Ukraine shows that the Ukraine has for many years imported more than it exports. Not since 2022. Since 2006, the year after the Orange revolution. While on average, Ukraine’s yearly trading shortfall was $11bn in the ten years before war broke out, that figure has averaged over $30bn per year in the three years since war started.

Exports of goods have fallen since war broke out, by 17% and 30% in 2022 and 2023 respectively compared to the average. While exports of agricultural goods have stabilised somewhat. the export of metals, notably steel is on a terminal decline. Having made up 23% of total Ukrainian exports or around $15bn per year, steel production fell by 70% in 2022. Although steel production has experienced a small increase since then, it remains far short of pre-war levels. Russia’s recent capture of the Pishchane coking coal mine near Pokrovsk, which accounted for around half of Metinvest’s coal supply, will further damage Ukrainian steel output, and therefore exports, in 2025.

That leaves Ukraine with an even bigger gap to plug between its imports and exports, not helped by imports of services which have doubled since 2021. Ukraine’s trading surplus in services amounted to $3bn p.a. between 2012 and 2021; since 2022 it has slumped to a deficit of $9.8bn.

Service imports have in large part been driven by the large scale relocation of Ukrainians to other countries. Ukrainian people spending Ukrainian money in other countries counts as an import, just as spending by foreign tourists in London counts as a service export for Britain. For Ukraine, that imbalance won’t be resolved until war ends and its citizens return en masse.

All told, Ukrainian experts expect a current account deficit of 10.3% of GDP ni 2024 and 12.9% of GDP in 2025.

Why does this matter? When a country imports more than it exports, it burns up supplies of foreign currency. If it runs out of foreign currency, then it can’t pay for imports and external debt. Just look at what happened in Sri Lanka in 2022, which ran out of reserves and defaulted for the first time in its history. Functional economies avoid this trap by attracting foreign investment, look at the U.S. and the UK for example, which consistently run deficits but maintain healthy foreign exchange reserves.

Ukraine, however, isn’t a functional economy. Few foreign companies are making productive investments in Ukraine, and this challenge dates back to 2014, and the onset of the Ukraine crisis. Foreign investment into Ukraine’s private sector since then has averaged a paltry $2.2bn p.a. compared to $15.6bn p.a. from 2010 to 2013. That’s mostly because investors generally avoid zones of conflict and war. But it is also partly driven by the power vertical in Ukraine in which a handful of Oligarchs maintain an iron grip on business interests across the country.

The war hasn’t changed and won’t change that fundamentally negative economic picture. Ukraine can’t attract significant foreign capital while at war. And efforts to boost its exports have run into headwinds, particularly in Europe, with EU farmers rebelling against the flood of cheap imports from Ukraine.

So Ukraine needs to depend on a friendly lender of last resort. In the Soviet Union, that would have been Russia. Today, it is western donor nations. Look at Ukraine’s balance of payments and you’d see that it received on average $5bn p.a. in secondary income between 2010 and 2021; largely hand-outs from other governments. In 2022 and 2023 respectively it received massive inflows of $28bn and $24bn, to help stabilise its current account and prevent a collapse in foreign exchange reserves.

More concerning, with Kiev now spending an astonishing half of its ballooning budget on defence it has been forced to go to the lenders as well, borrowing a staggering $40bn per year on average in the three years since war began. in the two years since 2022, which in total amounts of almost three quarters of GDP. That’s a 2000% increase in central government borrowing compared to the average in the ten years prior to war. And two thirds of the 50bn Euro support package agreed by the EU in October 2024 amounts to further loans, not free handouts, equating to another 19.9% of Ukraine’s current GDP.

Today, Ukraine’s gross external debt is already around 100% of GDP. In a downside scenario, the EU has predicted that Ukrainian debt could hit 140% of GDP as early as 2026. If that doesn’t worry you, it should. With war widening Ukraine’s current account deficit, western nations will need to provide ever greater amounts of macro-financial assistance just to prop up the country’s reserves. Because if Ukraine ran out of reserves and had to devalue the Hryvnia, then it would simply not be able to service its debt and would go into economic meltdown, requiring even greater western assistance.

Across the line of contact, much boiler plate analysis is churned out daily about Russia’s putative economic woes, but what does the data from Russia’s Central Bank tell us? Despite the structural challenges it faces, and notwithstanding the legally questionable freezing of $300bn (or around half) of its foreign exchange reserves, Russia is anything but short of liquidity.

With western journalists blowing a collective raspberry at the rouble’s collapse after war broke out, Russia nevertheless brought in a staggeringly large current account surplus of £238bn in 2022. That’s more than Ukraine’s pre-war yearly economic output, and over two times the value of western financial and military assistance to Ukraine in 2022. It is almost four times larger than Russia’s average current account surplus in the ten preceding years. Russia’s current account surplus stabilised to $50bn in 2023, which is consistent with the long-term trend, and should come in at around the same level for 2024, when figures are released.

The Russian economy is trimmed to export and reinvest earnings. The country hasn’t run a yearly current account deficit since 1998, the year it defaulted. Largely because of this, Russia has very low external debt, at around 14% of GDP, despite a huge increase in military spending. It doesn’t need to borrow significantly and has enough liquidity left in the tank to fund huge social programmes, which mean consumer spending in the economy remains strong.

This brings risks. Inflation in Russia is very high because of the massive injection of wartime spending which has caused interest rates to soar. There are also longer-term risks in terms of the country’s inability to diversify into new, more value-adding sectors of industry. Both are not of sufficient weight in the short term to affect foreign policy and military choices towards Ukraine. For now, Russia holds a significantly better economic hand in prosecuting an attritional war.

Western military analysts have not, since the end of 2023 when Ukraine’s so-called counter-offensive failed, predicted that Ukraine can beat Russia on the battlefield. Without direct NATO involvement, which seems as distant a prospect as ever, Ukraine does not have either the demographic, economic or industrial strength to beat its much larger neighbour. When you add in Russia’s comparative economic stability against Ukraine’s fundamental economic weaknesses, the picture becomes gloomier still.

Victory hinges on the balance sheet, more than on the battlefield. The question still remains: how long are western powers prepared to keep plying Ukraine with more unpayable debt as it prosecutes an unwinnable war?

The truth is that domestic politics will make it increasing difficult for EU states and the U.S. to keep funding Ukraine’s fight after 2025, when current funding will run out. Yet, even today, the likes of Keir Starmer, and Kaja Kallas still insist Ukraine should keep fighting.

For now Ukraine, remains locked an economic form of Stockholm syndrome; enthralled by the fake generosity and false promises of its western captors, who urge it to fight, even though deep down it wonders if its best chance of escape would be to make peace.

I’ve not seen the documentary

It is really great to see the snippets of original film from the expedition.

Was not expecting accounts of flesh still on the bones, when I did a lookup.

Creepy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund

Now that’s real loyalty for you. It looks like Strategic Culture cut Averko’s contract after 8/10/21, and yet he’ s still playing the pom pom girl for the rest of its assorted cabal of kremlin stooges. Good thing that Averko is independently wealthy, otherwise….?

Is it worth ten billion?

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/15/deextinction-colossal-biosciences-200-million

https://venturebeat.com/games/colossal-raises-200m-to-de-extinct-the-woolly-mammoth-thylacine-and-dodo/

https://colossal.com/mammoth/

The Russians are directly paying soldiers properly for once. Directly sticking the cash in the pocket of the volunteers. Even if the men are buying better gear for themselves it’s not getting embezzled by their quartermasters.

In Ukraine? The pay money that does get through is getting embezzled or getting into the pockets of foreigners.

Whatever inflation the Russians are experiencing is healthy in that the useless folks are having to work a little harder and useful people ie fighters can command prices for practical goods.

Is that occurring in Ukraine at all? Or France or Germany or the UK for that matter?

…streamlined entrance of both Finland and Sweden into NATO

You are insincere with NATO. Sweden and Finland are in the West and EU, considered Western by everyone. They were de facto in NATO at least since 1990’s when they started to participate in NATO wars and hold joint exercises with NATO. It is a different situation, like Ireland or Switzerland joining NATO. They are much smaller and known for sobriety and self-control.

Ukraine self-declared as a mortal enemy of Russia – not in 2022 but in 2014 with Maidan: ban Russian language in schools and offices, bomb Russians in Donbas killing 2.5k civilians, burn to death 49 Russians in Odessa…Post-Maidan Kiev declared its goal of eliminating the Russian culture from Ukraine, from language to literature etc…in a country that was 50% Russian speaking and had 15-20% ethnic Russian minority. Nothing like that exists in Sweden-Finland.

Since Ukraine is losing and will not be in NATO, “Finland” is your sad, meaningless consolation price. It does nothing for Ukrainians who made the fatal error of provoking the war with Russia.

Has AP ever considered this alt scenario?

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2023/12/how-liechtenstein-could-have-bought-alaska/

Rush Limbaugh had a great story (which probably was totally made up) about an otter who was resuscitated from near death after the Exxon Valdez oil spill with months of tender care by tree hugger volunteers and they had cameras from networks when they released it back into the wild with great fanfare and it swam off the beach into the ocean water and was promptly gobbled up by an orca.

People who devote their lives to rescuing wounded animals are an amazing luxury of this country. Do they have animal rescue agencies in China?

One other topic you are not going to see covered in Unz’s current chinks booster promo article.

I agree. Material prosperity and spiritual poverty is a poor combination.

I wholeheartedly agree. Shackleton was without question a great man and leader, and his recovery of the Antarctic expedition of 1914-17 was epic.

They had a professional photographer on board, Frank Hurley, who documented the entire thing, some of it (believe it or not) in color. [Not tinted, but actual color photographs, such as the photo of ‘Endurance’ trapped in the ice below.]

Below ‘more’ is the 1919 film documentary of the expedition, ‘South’, put together by the same photographer. It’s well done and rather fascinating, to put it mildly.

There is no way Sam Husseini getting arrested for being rude to Tony Blinken only got 400K views.

Thanks for the interesting details.

The poor dogs, and pets too, they sadly (but understandably) had to slaughter. I posted the 1919 documentary you’re talking about under ‘more’ in my response to Barbarossa.

It’s true, there were some odd and difficult personalities on the expedition as you describe, but Shackleton to his great credit as the expedition leader, and under almost impossible circumstances, kept everyone in line until their final rescue. 🙂

Ukraine is today defacto in NATO, more so than Finland ever was. Finland is so close to Russia that Putler even owns some real estate close to the border. Looks like he’ll soon need to to destroy this home too, just like he did to the impressive one that he recently destroyed on theBlack Sea, just to prove to the world that all is safe and secure within Russia. 🙂

The poor dogs, and pets too, they sadly (but understandably) had to slaughter

that was a very poignant part of the documentary I mentioned. First they freed the dogs on the ice, and I think it obvious that the men were enjoying their companionship

An old guy told me a funny dog story the other day. Back before leash laws, his friend’s dog used to come to school and sit exactly beside him, instead of the owner. And the nun would get angry at him, and tell him to get rid of his dog, not understanding it was someone else’s dog.

Shackleton’s voice:

Do they have animal rescue agencies in China?

I think it is definitely changing.

Europeans used to often be cruel to animals in the past, and there was comparatively a great dearth of animals in East Asia, things like oxen to plow with. Dog meat is becoming much less common.

There is a growing number of sentimental movies about dogs and cats, etc.

This was a Chinese/Jap co-production released in 2011:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Dog

In the ’70s, the Japs had this anime:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_of_Flanders_(TV_series)

The US government cut it, you lying troll.

https://original.antiwar.com/Michael_Averko/2021/12/17/ongoing-smear-campaign-against-the-strategic-culture-foundation/

Compare that pathetic press conference to how Putin and Lavrov handle insulting questions from the likes of the BBC and NBC.

Only in the geopolitical wet dreams of overly delusional neocons, neolibs and svidomites.

All of your discussion about Shackleton’s adventure left me scratching my head and wondering about that old book that describes this historical event languishing somewhere within my own private library. Well after two days, I finally located it and to my surprise it wasn’t only about Shackleton’s day in the sun (or was it in the grey clouds?). but an adventure book par excellence about many different adventurers, about 40 in all.

Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century (Outside Books)

by David Roberts, Editor,

“A great treasure-trove of daunting human courage, frailty, and persistence in the face of the unknown.”―Library Journal

From Robert Falcon Scott’s final journal entry to Jon Krakauer’s reckless solo climb of the Devil’s Thumb, David Roberts and the editors of Outside have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume. A frigid winter ascent of Mount McKinley; the vastness of Arabia’s Empty Quarter; the impossibly thin air at Everest’s summit; the deadly black pressure of an underwater cave; a desperate escape through a Norwegian winter―these and thirty-six other stories recount the minutes, hours, and days of lives pushed to the brink. But there is more to adventure than hair’s-breadth escapes. By turns charming and tragic, whimsical and nerve-racking, this extraordinary collection gets to the heart of why adventure stories enthrall us. Includes works by Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, Edward Abbey, Tim Cahill, Edward Hoagland, Ernest Shackleton, Freya Stark, and Wilfred Thesiger.

Looks like a fine gem of a book. There’s even one chapter dedicated to Shackleton too. Thanks for reminding me that I own this book and that I need to get around to reading it!

It’ kind of strange that a guy your age so often writes about “wet dreams”? You’re not one of those middle aged wankers now are you like your idol, Scott Ritter?

The ‘monumental consequences’ of Ukraine joining the EU
Financial Times May 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/744078f2-0895-44d9-96f9-701c13403df0

no paywall: https://archive.ph/IYoeU#selection-1577.0-1577.55

TL/DR: forget about it

I thought that all of this nasty stuff was all water over the dam?…

Is Scott Alexander correct when he says that Down Syndrome retards are smarter than they appear, and we perceive them as dumber than they are because they have hearing problems and trouble articulating?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to

I did once see one guy who I had only heard articulate his name banging away at a computer keyboard once. But I didn’t move close enough to see what he was doing.

But I tend to not believe Scott Alexander, but rather my own eyeballs.

Scott Alexander is about the freakiest freak who ever freaked. He went to medical school in Ireland and his dad is a prominent Jew doctor. The kind who only takes freaking rich patients. His job is medical concierge. I guess all the patients aren’t rich by our standards but 99% of the the people who have ever lived would class them so.

Perhaps he got an admission to top American medical schools and his choice was a lark. I don’t believe it.

Ancient burials reveal ‘remarkable’ women-dominated society in UK

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article298658353.html

Were they negroes?

…Ukraine is today defacto in NATO

No, it is not. Ukraine is not in NATO and not in EU. Do you know what reality is or do you live in illusions? Ukraine is not in NATO in any way, not as a member, not as a protected country. “Wanting to be in NATO” doesn’t count. I want a lot of things too.

The bizarre huts on Finnish border are another one of your irrelevancies. Why would anything like that matter? You are escaping into minutia so you don’t have to face reality. It doesn’t work.

Ukraine is not “de jure” a part of NATO, but I would argue that it already “defacto” is a part. How many more advisors and technical experts from NATO and from other separate NATO member countries would be needed for you to consider that it needs in order to be considered thus? ‘

Now that the anti-woke idea seems to be gently spreading, maybe the disgraced European politicians are trying to get ahead of the wave and redeem themselves. Yes, they want to send NATO troops to the front lines in Ukraine, but perhaps they want to send the unwanted migrants! These African and middle eastern men will be told they are going to be “peacekeepers” in Ukraine and shown pictures of lovely Slavic girls. Once the poor saps are all in, they get sent just to the Eastern side of the Dnieper, waiting for Ivan to arrive. Mr. TOS says, hey what’s another million?!

The bizarre huts on Finnish border are another one of your irrelevancies. Why would anything like that matter? You are escaping into minutia so you don’t have to face reality. It doesn’t work.

It’s not just “bizarre huts” on the Finnish border that has caught the eye of Finnish policymakers. They’re already preparing for war with Russia alongside American military soldiers:

…I would argue that it already “defacto” is a part. How many more advisors and technical experts from NATO

Advisors come and go. Were Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan, Israel, etc…also “de facto in NATO? There is a war and NATO is fully siding with Kiev, but that is very different from a membership in NATO.

You haven’t been paying attention to what Trump’s people say: they agree Ukraine shouldn’t be in NATO, some say in 10-20 years but mostly they concede that Russia won this one. Trump himself said so much, and also Rubio. The idiotic plan to move NATO to Ukraine is dead in the water. It’s not going to happen.

…They’re already preparing for war with Russia alongside American military soldiers:

So when are they invading Russia?

You are clueless, all militaries “prepare” and train all the time. That’s what they do. But Finland is not invading Russia because they don’t want to lose Helsinki in 15 minutes. Do some thinking before you post nonsense.

Being in the military is not that bad a job if there isn’t a war going on. Lots of cool toys to mess around with and it’s only the first few months you are the lowest booger on the totem pole.

But that is about the biggest if ever.

Battle of the Nations
Russia Poland

You seem to be projecting again.

A modern day Billion Dollar Brain Scenario:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_Dollar_Brain

Just another Korean in Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Bivol

Nah, I don’t think that Finland was running military ops with Americans aimed at Russia before they signed up for NATO. This is all brand new, although I think that a lot of Finns have revanchist dreams regarding Karelian territory stolen in the 1940’s. I don’t think that they’ll act on these impulses right now. There cold be more opportune times to do so in the future.

That’s a great trailer. Never saw the movie. The wikipedia critical reception section is pretty negative.

The old mythologist who made that welcome to Hel video I posted the other day said Helsinki was Hel when the Roman Catholics conquered back in the ?? century and renamed it. He said before the pole shifted the north pole went through there and it was the fabled Thule northern origin land.

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I know the Bee is about satire… But it is hard to argue with their accuracy.

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LOL. Finland has been flying F-18 fighter jets since 1995.

Thanks. I just checked the BB site after a long hiatus. The pieces seem harder than I remember, though still funny.

Tiktok is not censoring anti Israel Jew Genocidal maniacs posts.

That is why it is being banned. Feel free to continue ignoring reality though.

Finland has been participating with NATO in everything since mid-90’s. But the pace has increased.

Finns have revanchist dreams regarding Karelian territory stolen in the 1940’s…could be more opportune times to do so in the future.

Helsinki still glows in 15 minutes, even in the future. Maybe in 10 minutes. But they are Finns, they enjoy sitting inside very hot ovens like Thanksgiving turkeys while drinking piss, so why not? The Finnish revanche could turn into the ultimate sauna….:)

Never realized Hal Roach lived to be 100.

Perhaps he got an admission to top American medical schools and his choice was a lark. I don’t believe it.

Cork is an odd place to go to study medicine.

I hope nobody thinks my hating on him is petty. The point which I am alluding to which maybe ought to be explicit is his reputation as some sort of a genius is just ridiculous. If he was a standard deviation of brilliance above his peers his dad wouldn’t have had to spend a fortune on his medical education. If he was even as close to as clever as his awesome reputation that would never have been resorted to.

He does have (a very few) fabulous out there bright ideas. This isn’t because he is brilliant. This is because he is a freak. I had a mentor who told me if you are going to get judgmental be fair and judge them for what they have done well.

His posts on gila monster venom are really great. The semaglutidnomics post rates with anybody’s.

I liked it. I can see why McCainiac neocons, neolibs and svidos might not like it.

I’ve watched and enjoyed all of fthe Michael Caine spy flicks (mostly Harry Palmer stuff, but others too), and this one is probably my least favorite of the bunch. It was kind of like Michael Caine’s homage to James Bond extravaganza flicks, with him engaged with a large international cabal that has its headquarters within a large bunker, rocket launcher within and all. A lot of 60’s – 70’s spy flicks were like this. But any film with Michael Caine, Karl Mauldin and Oscar Homolka involved had to have some redeeming value?…

Two million people came to Germany in 2023.

https://www.amren.com/news/2025/01/nearly-2-million-people-migrated-to-germany-in-2023-second-highest-number-since-2016/

Neocat 2

Scorpion on a stick? Weird!

they enjoy sitting inside very hot ovens like Thanksgiving turkeys while drinking piss, so why not?

Can’t comment about aquavit, but lingonberry liqueur is quite tasty. I’ve never acquired a taste for vodka (it’s all piss for me).

Have you ever eaten one? If not, please do and post experience here. Heard they taste like crab.

Am afraid that I have never been to a region where they would be on offer, there being only pseudoscorpians in this area, which are much too small to be worth eating.

I also recall that you have the opportunity to eat gila monsters. Since they have been in the news lately, we have all been wondering what they taste like.

Nah, & neither have I seen either being sold in a grocery stores for consumption. My feral cats occasionally snag a gecko. They don’t look very appetizing, not too much meat on the bone. 🙂

Weirdest food item that I’ve ever tried was a frog leg. Once was enough for me! As far as “normal” food items, I’ve tried beef kidneys, very, very awful tasting!

Billion Dollar Brain is clear hyperbole from reality, but certainly not less cerebral than James Bond. The other Harry Palmer film with Caine wasn’t as good IMO.

The lingonberry jam is better for you, in moderation..:)

Actually, there were two others “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin”…

Battle of the Nations

United States France
Poland Great Britain

The tastiest alcoholic drink that I’ve ever consumed was just lingonberry liqueur (about 4 oz) over some crushed ice in about an 8 oz glass, with a good splash of sparkling water too. I had an acquaintance that was part of a special ops unit that was handy with electronics. Occasionally he would be shipped over to Norway to fix something or another and he would always come back home with a case or two full of high quality Scandinavian liquors. He was the one who turned me on to lingonberry liqueur. The bottle that it came in was sort of triangularly shaped. Lovely stuff! 🙂

RFKjr recently gave this sub-5 minute introduction to the “other side” of the Ukraine situation. It seems to be intended for people who cannot even imagine there is another side.

When does he do Israel?

Ha ha just kidding.

More winning by Trump and he is not sworn in yet: (1)

Rolando Vasquez told NewsNation that there has been a surge in immigrants voluntarily leaving with Trump’s promised mass deportations on the horizon and with Mexico agreeing to take non-Mexican deportees.

Another driving factor is that Cuba and Venezuela generally do not accept deportation flights from the United States but may accept them from Mexico.

“This is causing many migrants to leave on their own, knowing that they’re either going to be deported to their home country or be deported to Mexico,” Vasquez said, adding “The overwhelming majority of them do not want to be in Mexico.”

NewsNation reporter Jorge Ventura also warned sources have told him that newly deported migrants are targets for extortion or even abduction by Mexican cartels and human smugglers.

 

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/illegal-immigrants-have-begun-deporting-themselves-report

I am intrigued by what ‘special ops’ do in Norway…is it a prep for the coming invasion of Russia? Maybe they can catch them unaware and take over Polotsk (or is it Pokrovsk?) Seriously, hard liquor of any kind is not good for you, try some dry white wine a put a lingonberry in it…:)

I don’t want to rain on your parade and things will be better. But Vivek-Musk H1B outburst suggests it may actually get worse. Some noise and mirrors with selective deportations followed by massive “legal migration” policy, possibly even a version of the 1986 Reagan amnesty. This time maybe 30 million people? Plus all the ‘relatives’.

There are signs it can go either way – Congress may push it toward a liberal-dream-nirvana. Do you trust Trump? He talks from both sides of his mouth. Seriously, do you trust him?

You are asking the wrong questions and histrionically panicking far too early. Yes. The U.S. system has some pretty large flaws. However, we are much better off than most EU countries.

As I have pointed out many, many, many, times — It is unreasonable to demand 100% of absolutely everything! Instantly! What are REASONABLE expectations:

• Is Trump going to do everything I would like to see on H1B visas? Probably not. He has to act within the law. Alas, Congress is not primed to act quickly.
• Is he going to make a major push to deport millions of illegals? Yes. Existing laws and regulations already allow this.
• Is Trump going to do more prevention to reduce the number of illegal entries? Yes. Plans are being made to reinstate Title 42, a.k.a. Stay in Mexico, restrictions.
• Is he going to attempt to end “birthright citizenship”? It certainly sounds like he will start down the path to the courts. Those legal matters may not reach SCOTUS while he is still in office.

Within his first 100 days significant improvements can be made. Could there be some compromises to get major immigration reform through the Senate? It is certainly possible. Fortunately, the Vivek-Musk controversy immediately collapsed. Musk stated making H1B much more expensive was a great idea. There are absolutely no signs there will be anything crazy like an excessive 1986 style amnesty.

PEACE 😇

No comprehensive list, however the number sounds good: (1)

AMERICA BRACES FOR AN AVALANCHE OF
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON DAY ONE

Trump will then make an appearance at the Capitol One Arena, for the fans, before going on to the White House so that he can, as he promised, jokingly yet seriously last year, be a dictator for one day. He will do this by signing as many as 100 executive orders. It would be very Donald to have added a few more directives just so he can reach the nice round century. Expect the growing legion of Trump loyalists to begin a chorus in the media: he’s done more in one day than most presidents do in their first 100. We’re so back, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Trump has promised from day one to live up to his day one promises and he’s made quite a few since 2020. Reporters usually talk about a “flurry” of presidential executive orders. This will be more like an “avalanche” or a “barrage” of commander-in-chiefing. The Republican senator John Barrasso called it a “blizzard” and a “shock and awe” approach.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://instapundit.com/696973/

There are no ‘wrong’ questions…have you skipped that part of training? I don’t know which way it will go and sincerely hope you are right. We will see in the next few months. Musk may have put his foot in his mouth. But this can go either way. I wouldn’t discount ‘amnesty’ eventually. Trump is literally the only way they could push it through.

Regarding Europe, yes it’s is in many ways in a worse situation – no leadership, total liberal control of all institutions, paralysis, corruption and laziness. But it has a larger untouched hinterland than US and that is a benefit. If you look at the migrant tsunami it mostly covers all large cities and parts of Western Europe – but there are large areas mostly in Central and Eastern Europe that are untouched by it. That no longer seems to be the case in US-Canada.

Europe also has smaller influx of Indians than US-Canada, other than UK. The South Asian takeover – there are almost 2 billion of them and they ALL want to move to the West – is the biggest danger. Trump doesn’t seem to understand that.

You don’t have the faintest idea what is going to happen. He hasn’t gotten the For Real briefing from the Federal Reserve and the CIA yet. This much is pretty certain: what matters to you and I isn’t going to matter much at all.

Do you think we will get to see the Diddy freak off Ivanka video?

There are no ‘wrong’ questions…have you skipped that part of training?

LOL. You cannot possibly be serious. How about this:

Have you, Beckow, stopped beating your wife?

As I did not skip the training, I see that the question itself is inherently broken. It contains a built in, unproven fact that you are beating your wife. After all you cannot stop what you never did.

Any questions that include incorrect assumptions or otherwise deliberately attempt to distort the situation are problematic. Asking ‘wrong’ questions to maliciously damage civil discourse cost major networks and newspapers their credibility. Do you really want to emulate the New York Times?

Musk may have put his foot in his mouth. But this can go either way. I wouldn’t discount ‘amnesty’ eventually. Trump is literally the only way they could push it through.

There is absolutely no evidence that any major 1986 style amnesty is under consideration. Why do you keep making this incorrect statement? Everyone sees that you gave no evidence to back up your desperate flailing.

Could there be a much smaller compromise related to DACA/Dreamers? I suppose it is possible, but that pool is only around one million. And, DACA continues to lose in the courts. (1)

Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was always unconstitutional. I knew it. You knew it. Democrats knew it. Obama knew it. Yet somehow it always seemed to survive legal challenges. Well, finally, a federal appeals court has ruled that this Obama-era program is, in fact, unconstitutional—a timely gift for Trump mere days before he takes office.

A federal appeals court on Friday declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful, casting a cloud of uncertainty over more than half a million unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

even Obama knew the program was illegal.

“Comprehensive [immigration] reform, that’s how we’re going to solve this problem,” Obama said in 2010. “Anybody who tells you it’s going to be easy or that I can wave a magic wand and make it happen hasn’t been paying attention to how this town works.”

No matter how much you make up obviously fictional scenarios, Trump’s 2nd term is gearing up to deliver actual gains.

Here is some constructive advice for you. Instead of going out of your way to be negative and throw stones, why not wait? What are you personally getting out of overly negative, desperate, and premature capitulation?

When everyone gets to see the list of Day 1 executive orders, the situation will be much more clear. Here is a better, but still less than comprehensive list (2).

Other EOs that Trump is expected to sign include actions on energy and trade.

“We will begin charging those that make money off us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He also announced that on Jan. 20, he would develop an “External Revenue Service.” This new agency will “collect tariffs, duties, and all revenue” from overseas.

On foreign policy, China should prepare itself.

In addition to slapping China with tariffs, Trump has vowed to rescind its designated status of “permanent normal trade relations,” also known as “most favored nation.” The status was granted more than two decades ago as China prepared to enter the World Trade Organization.

Such a move is popular among congressional Republicans, who think granting China “normal” status and allowing the nation into the WTO was detrimental to the American economy. But the move would likely require congressional action.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/18/federal-appeals-court-hands-trump-huge-gift-on-eve-of-inauguration-n4936114

(2) https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/01/18/shock-and-awe-trumps-100-executive-orders-promises-chaos-and-huge-changes-n4936109

Nah, & neither have I seen either being sold in a grocery stores for consumption.

Didn’t think you were one to give up so easily, when it comes to experiencing gustatory delights! Would encourage you to ask around. Call up specialty shops and restaurants. Or catch them yourself.

Weirdest food item that I’ve ever tried was a frog leg. Once was enough for me!

But they have such excellent feed conversion ratios. You are ruining my dreams of become a frog farmer!

As far as “normal” food items, I’ve tried beef kidneys, very, very awful tasting!

i have never eaten organ meat that I can recall, unless one counts natural casings. But I wonder if you might have liked it better in steak and kidney pie.

I recently had plum putting for the first time. I did not think it was bad, but someone else was disgusted by it, which I thought very strange.

The state of Colorado is importing endangered gray wolves and letting them loose in the mountains!

Wonder what the endpoint of all this wolf geneflow into coyotes will be.
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Is it true that Japanese are like Australian Abos and walk around naked and don’t feel the cold, and can sleep outside during winter, and the babies never have socks on, even when it is freezing and they are in a stroller?

https://youtube.com/shorts/-Irwsa-zH7w?si=ae0koP78PvEfP8ga

Some highlights. Number 8 is questionable.

Didn’t think you were one to give up so easily, when it comes to experiencing gustatory delights! Would encourage you to ask around. Call up specialty shops and restaurants. Or catch them yourself.

You must be trying to “pull my leg”? BTW, are you somewhat bored with life lately? Your curiosity with things, that I’m well aware of and actually have come to appreciate over time, seems to have veered off into some strange directions lately. Maybe not, perhaps I’m just turning into a boring old man?…..

You must be trying to “pull my leg”?

Since you are a chef known to make substitutions, I like to imagine you going to the logical extremes of this process and passing scorpion off as crab, lizard as chicken, etc. It might be possible, with the right spices or cooking method. And it might result in much cost savings. Imagine Temple of Doom, but on the sly. I was raised on bland fair and enjoy it, so I must live vicariously through your experiments.

Maybe not, perhaps I’m just turning into a boring old man?…..

I find old people often have interesting stories to tell, only they don’t intuitively understand what is interesting and not knowing the stories beforehand, it can be hard to draw them out.

There is a disconnect between the generations, which results in many things being lost. Traditions and good stories.

“‘substitutions”? Pork and beets in my borsch; ham, mushrooms and bell peppers in my Denver omelettes; steak and potatoes; I probably eat more spuds than an Irishman. An occasional burger and fries. Once or twice a month out to a Thai restaurant (I guess that’s where I pull off my clever “substitutions”). 🙂

BTW, I had you in mind when I posted the above cartoon about the old man in the tree. It reminded me of your unbounded curiosity about the animal kingdom. I’m also guessing that you’re closer in age to me, than to the average blogger here. With all of the posting that you manage to do here, and you never mention any work responsibilities’, I’m thinking that you must be retired. You’ve mentioned that you have a spouse here before…any kids or grandkids yet, if it’s not too personal?

One of the things that strikes me is that Green women have done a 180 from the days when Russia was Communist, when they’d be “Peace Camping” outside US airbases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenham_Common_Women’s_Peace_Camp

Now they storm out of Cabinet meetings because the German chancellor refuses to make unfunded payments to Ukraine – as Analena Bareback did just the other day.

https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-germany-war-in-ukraine-aid-package-borrowing/

Right-leaning parties like the Christian Democratic Union and the fiscally-conservative Free Democratic Party favor aid for Ukraine, but are broadly against loosening Germany’s constitutional “debt brake” — which limits the structural budget deficit to 0.35 percent of gross domestic product, except in times of emergency — setting up a conflict over how to finance the assistance.

Scholz now wants parliament to declare an emergency so that Ukraine aid can be financed with additional borrowing. Out on the campaign trail, the chancellor has repeatedly argued that using normal budgetary spending would mean helping Ukraine at the expense of Germany’s social welfare system and pensions.

How long before Green Party women start handing out white feathers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather#World_War_I

“‘substitutions”? Pork and beets in my borsch; ham, mushrooms and bell peppers in my Denver omelettes; steak and potatoes

Am confused only on one point: whether you told your dinner guests that you were testing your knowledge of food science on them by giving them allulose? And that they should report any ill effects back to you, like diarrhea?

I’m also guessing that you’re closer in age to me, than to the average blogger here.

For the purposes of organizations such as the BfV, as we discussed previously, I listened to Orson Welles on the radio and know who Jack Benny is, which would seem to make me at least an octogenarian and potentially even older than that.

With all of the posting that you manage to do

I try to do my part to keep things going, as I like the commenting system and freedom of speech, and for old time’s sake. But I do often wish that we would get some new blood. Or that some old timers would return and I could go on hiatus myself.

if it’s not too personal?

sometimes I wonder if it is not A123 who is a spook.

Was this when Taleb turned against IQ?

Leaving everything else aside, how can this guy be an engineer?

Am confused only on one point: whether you told your dinner guests that you were testing your knowledge of food science on them by giving them allulose? And that they should report any ill effects back to you, like diarrhea?

I included a yummy tropical fruit glaze to go with the beef kidneys and used allulose to sweeten the whole affair. Knowing that being fully hydrated would alleviate any possible problems with diarrhea, carafes of water were easily accessible on the dinner table.

For the purposes of organizations such as the BfV, as we discussed previously, I listened to Orson Welles on the radio and know who Jack Benny is, which would seem to make me at least an octogenarian and potentially even older than that.

I’m not familiar ith the Bfv? Anybody can purchase canned recorded presentations of Orson Welles famous radio hoax, same with Jack Benny broadcasts. Who knows, maybe you’re just a clever 20 year old posing as an octogenarian?

But I do often wish that we would get some new blood. Or that some old timers would return and I could go on hiatus myself.

Yeah, I know how you feel. We had a good one on the line with the Egyptian one, young, erudite and good at writing movie reviews too. But then he decided to pursue some sort of modern day alchemy and exercise program to help enhance his longevity. S1 is showing some promise…

sometimes I wonder if it is not A123 who is a spook.

More spooky than a spook. He does seem to have some entanglements with the kremlin though…And what’s up with his dangerous habit of huffing airplane glue, anyways? 🙂

sometimes I wonder if it is not A123 who is a spook.

ROTFL — A spook for which side???

I am a Christian. And, I speak out about the problems created by Islam.

Denouncing George IslamoSoros for his crimes against humanity does not align to any intelligence service.

PEACE 😇

Kemi Badenoch don drag Nigeria several times since she become di Conservative Party leader for United Kingdom .

Many Nigerians dey table Badenoch mata about di kontri wia her papa and mama come from for social gathering, office, radio and television.

She torchlight her early years for Nigeria wia she describe growing up in fear and insecurity for kontri wey she say corruption boku.

Nigerian Vice-President Kashim Shettima don even suggest make Badenoch “remove Kemi from her name” if she no dey proud of her “nation of origin”.

Badenoch leave Nigeria 28 years ago to return to United Kingdom wia dem born her.

Dis na four times wey Kemi Badenoch don drag Nigeria since she become leader of di opposition party for yonda.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/ckg139p47d7o

People who discuss IQ like it is a significant datum betray their lack of class consciousness. You only have to put your mind to this for a half minute before you can recall the enormous fraction of humanity who could not give one flying fsck whether they get a good score or a bad score on the test as long as it is over with.

If you are in the upper class you don’t think about the humanity of the deplorables at all. Taleb is a mucky muck. I was in my middle twenties before I found out it wasn’t muckitymuck.

My spell check says deplorables ain’t a word.

IQ tests are useful if you have a need to quickly sort out the 99-91 percentile in a crowd. You know who needs to do that? The HR department at the CIA.

So it is possible that the German Greens went from betraying their country by taking orders from the USSR to betraying their country by taking orders from the USA. Maybe they haven’t really changed that much.

They might even do it for beer money.

So it is possible that the German Greens went from betraying their country by taking orders from the USSR to betraying their country by taking orders from the USA.

Germany becoming a de-industrialized Muslim caliphate does not benefit Russia or the U.S. Why do people keep trying to blame shift in ways that do not hold up to scrutiny?

The German Greens are not taking foreign orders. They are SJW cultists in service Globalist hegemony. They willingly signed up to Angela “Welcome Rape-ugees” Merkel’s open border plans. No one from the outside Germany forced that on the Greens.

PEACE 😇

After he tells all the jokes he talks serious for a couple minutes about Jimmy Carter in Palestine with no American or Israel Jew bodyguards and security detail all Arabs.

Battle of the Nations

Serbia Czechia
Portugal Netherlands

Mentioned before how I have sometimes heard old people call Mexicans “Spanish people”, mostly from a lack of sophistication.

Today, I heard someone call a Haitian a “French person.” That was a Gen Xer.

One of the items in Chapelle’s monologue is he lives in the next town over from Springfield OH.

The Diddy part is hilarious.

The German Greens are not taking foreign orders. They are SJW cultists in service Globalist hegemony. They willingly signed up to Angela “Welcome Rape-ugees” Merkel’s open border plans.

Care to tell us which party Merkel was under when she let in a record number of them?

https://www.rt.com/news/611268-blinken-opposed-ukraine-truce/

Blinken overruled America’s top general on Ukraine peace talks – NYT

General Mark Milley reportedly advised Kiev to leverage its 2022 battlefield gains in negotiations with Moscow

Outgoing US State Secretary Antony Blinken urged Ukraine to continue its military efforts against Russia rather than pursue peace negotiations in 2022, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

In late 2022, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley advised Kiev to capitalize on its battlefield successes by seeking peace talks with Moscow. However, Blinken insisted that Ukraine should press on with its military campaign, the newspaper wrote.

“Less a peacemaker than a war strategist,” the US diplomat frequently argued against more “risk-averse Pentagon officials,” lobbying for advanced American weaponry to be sent to Ukraine, NYT wrote.

Washington has spent “approximately $100 billion” on Ukraine since the conflict escalated in February 2022, while allies and partners have contributed an additional $150 billion, Blinken said during a January appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The outgoing Biden administration has expedited arms deliveries to Kiev ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated that he might reduce military aid to Ukraine in favor of addressing domestic priorities.

The Biden administration had been covertly arming Ukraine months before the conflict intensified, Blinken admitted in a January interview with the NYT. “Starting in September and then again in December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed to defend themselves – things like Stingers, Javelins that they could use,” he said.
US deploys upgraded nuclear weapons in Europe

Russia and Ukraine initially engaged in peace negotiations in early 2022 in Istanbul. Both sides provisionally agreed to a truce under which Kiev would renounce its NATO membership ambitions, adopt neutrality, and limit its military size in exchange for international security guarantees. However, Ukraine later withdrew from the talks at the urging of then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to David Arakhamia, a Zelensky-allied MP and chief negotiator for Kiev.

Last month, Swiss diplomat Jean-Daniel Ruch similarly accused the US and UK of derailing peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. Speaking to the French-language media outlet Anti-Thèse, Ruch claimed that Johnson acted “on duty for the Americans.”

Moscow has reiterated its willingness to resume peace negotiations, provided they are based on the Istanbul draft agreements and reflect the “new territorial realities,” including the accession of four former Ukrainian regions to Russia and recent battlefield developments.

https://www.rt.com/news/611196-weirdo-zelensky-begged-inauguration-trump/

‘Weirdo’ Zelensky begged for inauguration invite – Trump Jr.

The Ukrainian leader unofficially asked for permission to attend three times but was refused, the president-elect’s son has claimed

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky asked incoming US President Donald Trump to invite him to the inauguration several times, but was consistently snubbed, his son Donald Trump Jr. has claimed.

Writing on Instagram, Trump Jr. mocked the Ukrainian leader’s interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman earlier this month, during which Zelensky stated that he could not attend the inauguration on January 20.

“I can’t come especially during the war, unless President Trump invites me personally. I’m not sure it’s proper to come because I know that in general, leaders are for some reason not usually invited to the inauguration of presidents of the United States of America,” he told Fridman.

Trump Jr. opined in response that “the funniest part is that he asked for an invite like three times unofficially, and each time got turned down.”

“Now he’s acting like he decided not to go himself,” he added, branding Zelensky “a weirdo.”

While incoming US presidents typically do not invite foreign leaders to their inauguration, Trump deviated from tradition and extended offers to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Argentinian President Javier Milei, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa and Paraguayan President Santiago Pena.

While Xi and Orban have excused themselves, the rest have pledged to come.

Trump has been skeptical of the US campaign to help Ukraine and has vowed to quickly end the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, with Ukrainian officials fearing a ceasefire deal proposed by the president-elect will put their country at a disadvantage. Zelensky and Trump met in late September in New York, with the latter saying afterward that the Ukrainian leader “wants [the conflict] to stop,” and that both of them want “a fair deal.”

Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, and he has refused to call new elections, citing martial law. Russia considers him “illegitimate,” and says that the only legal authority now rests with the Ukrainian parliament and its speaker.

Maybe he should have offered to be part of the entertainment. The Village People might have let him shake ass with them. His Fidel Castro costume fits right in.

Suppose this was one of those type-in games and made on the primitive vic-20, but this Elon game doesn’t seem to be worth $500.

https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/

Care to admit the truth about the German Green party’s open borders agenda? (1)

The Greens advocate a “diverse immigration society” (“vielfältige Einwanderungsgesellschaft”). They want to facilitate naturalization and create new pathways for labor and educational migration.

The Greens reject camps or transit centers like on the Greek island of Lesbos, instead favoring accommodating recognized refugees in a decentralized manner. Similar to the Union and the SPD, The Greens consider migration policy a European task. They want to reduce the time asylum seekers must stay in reception facilities in Germany from currently 18 months to three months.

The Greens also champion “binding targets” to increase the share of people with a ‘migration background’ “at all levels” to ensure an equal representation. They also want to further the so-called Diversity Budgeting.

The Greens want to make family reunification for those with subsidiary protection status possible again as well as the subsequent immigration of siblings. A “Talentkarte” (“talent card”) based on a point system and the yearly labor demand is to empower those with no formal or recognized educational qualification to immigrate.

German Greens feel that Merkel’s “Welcome Rape-ugees” was too small. They are for accelerating the Great Muslim Replacement of Judeo-Christians.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/35078/german-election-how-do-political-parties-view-migrants-issues

I included a yummy tropical fruit glaze to go with the beef kidneys and used allulose to sweeten the whole affair

interesting combo. In the deeper history, I suppose this wouldn’t necessarily be the case, or today, but I think of offal as being the food of poor people or non-Americans and tropical fruit being a luxury item. Never combined before? (Am exaggerating). But it sounds like you didn’t make a stew or pie, but were slicing it up and dishing it out?

I’m not familiar ith the Bfv?

One of the organizations that scares away many of our potential German commenters.

Anybody can purchase canned recorded presentations of Orson Welles famous radio hoax,

it wasn’t a hoax, but part of a regular theatrical show. I have heard it, but my favorite radio Welles is his depiction of the Shadow.

But then he decided to pursue some sort of modern day alchemy and exercise program to help enhance his longevity

I thought that was strength training? But I like your mystical theory better. The idea that the commenters who disappear are on some kind of quest for lost artifacts or magical potions. Perhaps, training to obtain new abilities.

S1 is showing some promise…

He did briefly conjure Barbarossa.

You didn’t answer the question so I will do it for you.

Merkel under the Christian Democratic Union let in a record number of Muslims.

It was not the Greens or the Socialists. Merkel holds the record.

Self-described Christian politicians let in a million Muslims.

Very similar to our self-described Christian conservatives that put another nation and religion above Christianity and America.

That other nation allows degenerate atheists to apply for citizenship if they can pass a bloodline DNA test but dutiful Anglo Christian conservatives can only visit the gift shop.

You didn’t answer the question so I will do it for you.

The German Greens are even more open borders than the CDU.

Self-described Christian politicians let in a million Muslims.

I am not defending the CDU. They obviously hate Judeo-Christians, despite having the term “Christian” in their party name.
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Use this as a logical framework — Both German Greens *and* the CDU are for open borders.

If YOU want to shift blame away from German Greens, YOU need to produce evidence for YOUR position. Throwing proverbial stones at CDU, while accurate, does not clear German Greens. The Greens openly support the Great Muslim Replacement of Judeo-Christians.

Present YOUR evidence exculpating the German Greens. The “Burden of Proof” always was and remains YOURS.

PEACE 😇

It’s a trap!

The controlled opposition figure, Donald J Trump, mislead his stolen election January 6th protestor followers that he would meet them at the Capitol building, whereupon their arrival there (sans Trump, who had promptly abandoned them) in many instances they were all but seemingly welcomed in to the building by the Capitol police, allowed and encouraged in their quite righteous anger to run amok for a time inside, and allowed the momentary illusion that they actually accomplished something, that they had actually conquered.

Then a meticulously pre-planned boom came down on them.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

The events of January 6th are likely a figurative microcosm of what is to come in Trump’s would be second term.

As controlled opposition, president-elect Trump will once again have mislead his followers, who are once again seemingly being welcomed this time into the Capitol city of Washington DC (sans Trump, who will once again promptly abandon them, this time via his assassination?), and whose followers will once again will be allowed and encouraged to run amok for a time, and allowed in their quite righteous anger to believe the momentary illusion that that they have actually accomplished something, that they have actually conquered.

Then the meticulously pre-planned boom of WWIII, a Communist revolution, and an Anglosphere wide Russian style civil war, will come on them.

Easier said then done, to be sure, but it’s not too late.

People still have their right of refusal to take part in this deadly charade, this deadly farce, where it is intended from the start that most who partake are not in reality to ‘win’ anything, but rather instead it is intended that they lose everything.

“I no be PR for Nigeria”

Kemi Badenoch defend her past comments about Nigeria, afta she describe growing up in fear and insecurity for kontri wia she say corruption plenti.

Few days afta she make dat comment, Nigerian Vice-President Kashim Shettima react and say she fit “remove the Kemi from her name” if she no dey proud of her “nation of origin”.

Tori pipo ask her about Shettima comments, Badenoch tok-tok pesin answer dem say she “stand by wetin she tok” and add say “I no be PR for Nigeria”.

I liked this section where Badenoch tok dat she no be PR for Nigeria.

An interesting article just came up in my news feed:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/woke-uni-accused-of-race-segregated-nhs-classes/ar-AA1xsBKA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=50312c9e52574ef4bbb9bbda00931bab&ei=14

Students reportedly left the session believing white people across the world ‘do not have any culture’ and that ‘all white people are culturally indifferentiable’.

This seems to be a bold thing to teach in Europe.

One of the reasons I enjoy these BBC pidgin articles is that they remind me of Michael Crichton’s novel State of Fear(spoiler)

Germany being sundered from Russian energy benefits United States policy, not the United States.

In fact de-industrialising Germany is very bad for the United States long term, as well as being bad for Europe and Germany short term.

But it benefits US energy companies, and it benefits those in the State Department who hold long historical ethnic grudges against Russia.

“The German Greens are not taking foreign orders. They are SJW cultists in service (to) Globalist hegemony.”

Mostly agree, although I think people like Bareback and Kallas (?) really really like playing the Strong Independent Woman, especially if actually a US puppet.

UK Greens:

“We welcome the contributions that migrants and refugees make to British society. We want to be welcoming, promote social cohesion and support migrants to put down roots.”

“Votes for 16-year-olds and residence-based voting rights.” aka – get on a boat and have a vote!

“Continue to support Ukraine as it resists Russian invasion.”

https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/

“I think a huge part of the economic incentives for importing people goes directly from the university system and lobbying by them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/18/labour-trade-links-china-uk

“despite rising fees, the 150,000 Chinese students at British universities still make a massive contribution to the sector”

The universities would be bust without overseas students, so they will always want more of them. So they campaign for postgrad working visas etc.

This led to a Pakistani guy coming here, getting a degree in project management from some low-grade uni, then finding the only job he could get was security guard. We only know about him because he stopped a man knifing Australian tourists in Leicester Square.

Joel Berry now calling for Palestinians to be totally ethnically cleansed, even from the West Bank.

Merkel holds the record.

Self-described Christian politicians let in a million Muslims.

I suspect that Merkel would shrink away from a cross like a vampire, just like she does from the German flag.

I am still waiting for a review of her memoir.

Germany being sundered from Russian energy benefits United States policy, not the United States.
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But it benefits US energy companies, and it benefits those in the State Department who hold long historical ethnic grudges against Russia.

I have difficulty finding benefits to DNC policy.

Germany is a key backer of Kiev aggression. Impoverishing Germany so they cannot spend on foreign wars would work against the State Dept. agenda.

To appeal to U.S. enviro-whackos, the DNC is against hydrocarbon energy. Thus, helping energy companies would be a loss. Did you see the recent expose about Biden not knowing what he signed (1)?

The speaker recalled, “I said, Mr. President, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? You understand you’re fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine because they’ve got to get their gas from him.”

“I didn’t do that,” Biden insisted.

But, in fact, the executive order had been signed just weeks earlier.

Johnson recounts the surreal moment when he offered to have Biden’s staff print out the executive order so they could read it together. It was only then that Biden vaguely acknowledged it.

But when Johnson pressed further, it became evident that the President had no grasp of the executive action, and Johnson was left “with fear and loathing.”

“I thought we’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?” Johnson questioned. “Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”

This exchange underscores a chilling reality — a president who not only is struggling to remember critical decisions, but is also unable to engage fully in high-stakes discussions with national security implications. The fact that Biden, despite his decades of experience, was so out of the loop on an issue as fundamental as energy exports points to a worrying trend that many have long suspected: Biden is not fully in charge.

It is hard to believe conspiracies about “America manipulating Germany” when the U.S. is in complete disarray at the White House. German Greens were not taking orders from the Veggie-In-Chief’s administration.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/18/speaker-johnson-reveals-when-he-knew-biden-wasnt-in-charge-anymore-n4936119

But it sounds like you didn’t make a stew or pie, but were slicing it up and dishing it out?

You’re right, I never did make or serve any type of kidney preparation for any dinner guests. It was you who first conjured up this magical image somehow, and I just decided to go along with it and expand by providing a ridiculous recipe that included a “tropical fruit glaze”. I didn’t think that you took me seriously? 🙂

it wasn’t a hoax, but part of a regular theatrical show

And a hoax can’t be a part of a theatrical show, as it most assuredly was in this case?

He did briefly conjure Barbarossa.

How so?

Merkel would shrink away from a cross like a vampire

I browsed through her looong memoirs and she is the most uninteresting person, the kind who lacks ability for thinking stuff through. Her dad was a pastor, she was a young commie, then she was a secretary for Kohl and PM for the neo-liberal redo of Germany. None of it was done consciously, she floats through life. Her real passion is good food in a well-heated room and dismissing any non-approved ideas. Germans can be like that.

She was told in 2015 that the migrants are coming and that’s that. There were already plenty of them in Germany pre-2015. Her emotions followed. But it was the ‘Christian’ Dems who were responsible, the Greens didn’t have the power.

Wars are one of the few opportunities to achieve one’s strategic goals. It has always been like that – during regular times changes are very hard. The Ukraine war is used by everyone to achieve what they couldn’t do otherwise or it would take too long. Inside each country there are conflicting interests activated by the war opportunity. They are often at cross-purposes in US, EU, China, but also in Russia and Ukraine.

It benefits some US interests to weaken and deindustrialize Germany, deprive it of cheap, reliable energy. US energy producers, manufacturing and finance are benefiting. Ukie war has fatally undermined the euro currency as a viable alternative to the dollar. People who ‘make dollars‘ (yes, it’s a job) are very happy about that.

Does that match what the neo-libs obsessed with fighting Russia want? Only partially, but that’s the way it works and they cooperate because in the short-run it works. But the short-run is ending. I suspect Trump will cleanse the neo-libs more drastically than anyone suspects – he can’t stand them.

Then the meticulously pre-planned boom of WWIII, a Communist revolution, and an Anglosphere wide Russian style civil war, will come on them.

Is Trump to emerge as the first secretary and dictator of this new country? Right from the start of his new second term? Sounds quite fantastical, even outdoing anything our former champion of conspiracy theories, Ivashka, ever came up with?…

None of it was done consciously, she floats through life.

She got a doctorate in Chemistry which if she floated through life was a pretty slick trick. I suspect she was on a pretty straight track until she moved into management.

Now that is a fairly common type if you want to go with probabilities.

It benefits some US interests to weaken and deindustrialize Germany, deprive it of cheap, reliable energy. US energy producers, manufacturing and finance are benefiting.

That is not bad, but still somewhat amiss. How about this?

European Elites, including German Greens, weakened and deindustrialized Germany, by depriving it of cheap, reliable energy. American interests had no (or very little) control over the choices Europeans made for themselves. Despite this lack of agency, some U.S. interests benefited from European choices.

Ukie war has fatally undermined the euro currency as a viable alternative to the dollar. People who ‘make dollars‘ (yes, it’s a job) are very happy about that.

The €uro has never been a viable alternative to USD. It is an unstable patchwork with a, by design, weak central bank. Are some Americans happy at the choices Europeans made for themselves? Again yes… However, that does not prove any U.S. control.

I suspect Trump will cleanse the neo-libs more drastically than anyone suspects – he can’t stand them.

I concur.

Some will hang on in the Senate. This will cause confirmation horse trading to leak a few into the executive branch. They will be well identified and thus have limited power to interfere with a new detente with Russia.

PEACE 😇

Sam Altman thinks the only remaining marketable technical skill will be the ability to ask Chat GPT a valuable question. Is this going to be good for the Jews?

How many Teslas burned in Pacific Palisades?

If we ask nice will the NSA release their files on which celebrity rich guys take modafinil or adderall or ritalin? They could put it by their twitter user id like one of those blue check marks.

Jordan Peterson’s next makeover will have him wearing a race car driver suit with all his endorsement patches. Oops I didn’t pose that as a question like a Jeopardy answer.

It was you who first conjured up this magical image somehow

Feel like you gypped us by not explaining how the kidney you ate was prepared. Gypped and obfuscated the truth! People so seldom eat kidney today, so it deserves a true telling, and not some Loki-trickster tale!!!

And a hoax can’t be a part of a theatrical show, as it most assuredly was in this case?

I am not sure why you consider it a hoax?

It was broadcast October 30, as a Halloween theme. HG Wells was mentioned at the beginning. It started with a narration by Orson Welles. Would guess it was probably pre-advertised in the radio guides.

Back then, they didn’t have big commercial breaks so flipping was likely not so much of a thing.

To me, a hoax would require at least a cold open.

I browsed through her looong memoirs and she is the most uninteresting person

There must be very few political memoirs worth reading. Only one I can think of off the top of my head is LKY, and that contains a lot of local politics, which at times seems very boring to an outsider.

I read Gorbi’s book and I considered it mostly not worth reading. Maybe, Kissinger? Though I only read one book. Have read John Adams, and I much preferred reading his great grandson Henry. I wonder whether anyone here has read Nixon’s…

Merkel was probably chosen because she was uninteresting. I imagine a God’s eye view of her time in power, edited for length would be quite interesting, but she herself is not likely to reveal any secrets.

The interesting things about a political life are the incidents where you stab a close ally in the back and nobody is going to include those in their memoirs. The golden rule of politics is do unto others before they do it unto you.

Well this is a new military low.

Russian soldier on crutches takes part in assault
https://funker530.com/video/soldier-on-crutches-attacks-ukrainian-positions

…Despite this lack of agency, some U.S. interests benefited from European choices.

NS2 wouldn’t be blown up without a go-ahead from Washington and Kiev wouldn’t be invited to NATO. The Euro-libs added an additional set of burdens, from Green’s idiocy on energy to migrant caravans and absurd genderism, but some of the most harmful policies were basically ordered from Washington. They need to own the consequences.

The €uro has never been a viable alternative to USD. It is an unstable patchwork with a, by design, weak central bank.

Euro was actively biting at dollar’s heels – at its peak in 2008-10 it was worth 50% more and monetary reserves in euros were growing 3-4 times faster than in dollars. The euro reached 20% of the global reserves and stopped – dollar is now around 60%. It gave the US Central bankers the biggest scare since de Gaulle demanded actual Fort Knox gold for his “dollars” (in 1969 he sent ships to collect it, Frenchies are weird…). Making sure it never happens again is the primary goal of the US finance.

Euro Central Bank is not weak, it has more powers than Fed but is less independent. The ‘patchwork’ is a cliche, all financial systems are imperfect political patchworks. Euro’s biggest weakness is the lack of natural resources or a military that could obtain them.

Finally, today is better than yesterday. Let’s see if Trump can make it work, the signs are good – exec orders. Biden’s pathetic “amnesty” collapse will haunt Dems for years…

Is Vivek still posting old pics of himself with Musk?

Feel like you gypped us by not explaining how the kidney you ate was prepared.

How could I gyp you, never having prepared any kidney in my whole life? You’re the one that seems infatuated with kidney dreams, maybe it’s you that needs to tell un how to prepare it?

You’ve gotta think outside of the box, if you want to have even the smallest chance.

It’s long been seen by many that the modern self declared ‘progressives’ (so called) of the Anglosphere are projecting when they accuse others of hate, ‘racisim’ (the subject of race being something they have long been violently obsessed with), genocide, and a totalitarian desire to take all world power for themselves, so as to create what is in reality to be a global dictatorship.

To put it simply, what the modern progressives accuse others of is in reality most true of themselves.

And, of course, due to the Anglosphere’s historic great power, it has had a massive influence globally on what exactly modern ‘progressivism’ is.

I believe the modern progressive’s overall corruption, in particular the inversion of reality they engage in, ie the projection, came about by their dangerous misstep of long ago having adopted ‘the ends justify the means’ to achieve what it is they want.

When you’re having issues with an individual or group, and they are projecting, it can be useful, even wise, to closely observe them.

From it’s content, even if but unwittingly, there is an old episode of the 1960’s US series Star Trek called ‘Day of the Dove’ originally broadcast on Nov 1,1968, a time when the Cold War between the Capitalist United States and the Communist Soviet Union was heightened due to the Vietnam War, which not only projects, but offered a viable answer to ending the Cold War, an answer which also applies very well to ending the present conflict between the United States and Russia being fought out in Ukraine.

To provide some context, for those who might not be aware about the original 1960’s US series Star Trek and it’s many spinoffs since, it’s difficult to find anything more representative of Anglosphere progressive Multi-Culturalism. The series is an idealizaton of a progressive space faring future, what they hope the United States may someday evolve into.

The inter-stellar patrolling star ships of the series are very plainly representative of today’s globally patrolling US aircraft carriers, some of the star ships and carriers having the very same names, such as the central to the series ‘Enterprise’ itself.

The Soviet Union actually made a complaint IIRC to the United Nations during the 1970’s feeling that the warlike and unsavory ‘Klingons’ of the popular series were supposed to represent them, an accusation which was probably true as far as it goes.

The official US Space Force symbol is very close to that of series ‘Federation’ symbol, which is not in the slightest ‘coincidental’.

Below is a link to the original 1968 script of the aforementioned episode which is an easy read of only a few minutes, and which I heartily recommend reading for it’s great insight.

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/66.htm

To sum up the plot, an invasive alien, which feeds upon hatred, has manipulated into being a war between two opposing forces that neither is intended to ever actually ‘win’, by bringing them together and implanting into their minds false histories and narratives for them to believe and follow. To ensure the fighting is as violent, bloody, and long lasting as possible, equalizing conditions are created where neither side can easily prevail, and only archaic weapons are allowed for each to fight with…a bit how the Anglosphere has reduced both Ukraine and Russia to fighting a primitive WWI era style war of high body count trench warfare.

And, from the script, where it’s all ultimately headed unless both sides don’t stand down and refuse.

‘Captain’s log, stardate Armageddon. We must find a way to defeat the alien force of hate that has taken over the Enterprise. Stop the war now, or spend eternity in futile bloody violence.’

WWIII, as well as the present Ukro-Russian war, can’t be fought if it’s would be participants and those presently fighting, put down their arms and refuse to participate any further, something the promoters of these two wars probably fear most, especially if it were to catch on.

As a person of the Anglosphere, I’ll start first. Won’t you join me?

‘We laugh at you Mr Rockefeller! We laugh at you Mr Soros! We know exactly what you are doing.’

‘We won’t fight your damn wars!’

Below are a few excerpts and clips from this insightful 1968 episode:

‘Two forces aboard this ship, each of them equally armed. Has a war been staged for us, complete with weapons and ideology and patriotic drum beating? Even, Spock, even race hatred?’

NS2 wouldn’t be blown up without a go-ahead from Washington

All of the “evidence” pointing at DC has been 100% debunked. The blamed vessel was a length not in the U.S. Navy. The Polish thanks message came from someone who could not possibly have had secret information.

It was most likely operator error. Do we need to go through the hydrate slug analysis again?

If you insist on sabotage, then Kiev did it with 0% involvement from America. Why would they tell the Veggie-In-Chief’s administration. That group leaks like a sieve, and would have blown the operation. It is absolutely certain that Kiev would NOT tell DC.

harmful policies were basically ordered from Washington. They need to own the consequences

The Biden administration was under foreign ownership. European and Asian countries pulled the strings. OK. The puppet gets some blame. However, if you want to fix the problem, you have to call out the puppet masters like Merkel/Scholz and Macron. Europe did this to themselves, and they need to own the consequences.

PEACE 😇

Those characters are displaying normal testosterone levels.

New high technology will attenuate this variable. Spock only came into heat once every five years but this was not from any lack of testosterone but due to his highly logical brain powers. Well, this is fiction. I still have not been able to get past the 80% mark in Zvi’s latest post. Sadly this is truth not fiction. He is using AI in his compositions now and they are much longer than my attention span. This might be the last one where I even try.

Here is a good bit about how progressives actually hate diversity.

The official US Space Force symbol is very close to that of series ‘Federation’ symbol, which is not in the slightest ‘coincidental’.

Star Trek filched NASA symbology for the TV show. US Space Force, also derived from NASA, is understandably similar to Star Trek.

PEACE 😇

…Europe did this to themselves, and they need to own the consequences.

I agree, the Euro elite and leaders are the worst since at least the late 17th century – the consequences will be very serious. But Washington assisted and drove some of the worst policies: Ukraine, energy…You can deny it all you want, but Macron’s is only a puppet – lively, glib, arrogant, but still a puppet. Merkel was a place-holder who faithfully obeyed Washington, the times she did something on her own it was to overdo what she thought US approved off. None of that applies to the Trump side, it was the permanent liberal institutional establishment the Euros deferred to.

NS2 blow-up was not an ‘accident’ or ‘mistake’ (get real). It was done on the ground by Ukies and maybe Poles, but they would not dare to do anything without a tacit approval from some people in Washington. What is most bizarre about NS2 blow-up is Germany’s non-reaction – they are sending huge sums to Ukraine and know fully well that Kiev cost them directly $10 billion in damages and over the next few years as much as $100 billion. Who the f…k does that? It goes beyond being a vassal, it is mental.

Did you like Jeff Bezos’ main squeeze’s dress?

Her dad was a pastor, she was a young commie, then she was a secretary for Kohl and PM for the neo-liberal redo of Germany.

Anyone college bound in East Germany had to join the Marxist youth equivalent. Very similar to how you needed to be in the Communist party to navigate politics or other careers. You had to at least feign loyalty to the cause.

Merkel is proudly Christian and admitted that they let in too many Muslims. So she would not run from a cross as songbird suggested. She is a proud Lutheran and takes part in services.

The Greens are not for open borders as @A123 assumes. They have actually clashed with other parties over immigration. Green parties around the world are not as pro third world immigration as they were in the past.

The German coalition that let in the most Muslims to Europe was headed by a Christian woman. That is the reality. She felt it was the Christian thing to do at the time.

Christianity is not a natural antidote to leftist ideas. It depends on how it is directed.

The West is filled with Christian women that would be unable to say no to millions of immigrants.

This is a problem with having too much Christianity in government. It is easy for Christian leaders to lose a sense of priority and forget that they serve the country and not the poor of the world.

Here is a Day One win: (1)

Trump officials shut down CBP One app

Trump administration officials minutes after the new president took office on Monday shut down a mobile app for migrants to make appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border.

By shutting down the CBP One app, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials essentially canceled all outstanding appointments made by migrants without visas who sought to enter the United States through legal ports of entry.

President Trump is due to sign 10 executive orders on Monday related to the border, several of which seek to undo those pathways.

The actions are designed to essentially shut down the border and return to policies used during the first Trump administration, like the so-called remain in Mexico policy.

Under that policy, at the time known officially as the Migrant Protection Protocols, around 70,000 third-country nationals were returned to Mexico over the span of two years to await the results of their U.S. asylum cases.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5095875-trump-administration-shuts-down-cbp-one-app/

Did you see Trump on stage with the village people?

Has no one told him that the song is about picking up men at a Christian athletic organization?

Really, Mr. Hack! You said you have eaten beef kidneys, and hated it, and I wanted to know in what kind of meal – whether it was stew or pie or something else.

You sure keep your secrets very close to the vest, for someone often asking about family!

Are the Sikhs that close to identifying you, and charging you with cow slaughter?!

Until otherwise stated, I am forced to assume that you cut open a cow in India and somehow feasted on its organs while it was still alive, and keep comitting the same ghastly act every night, with the entire countryside of Uttar Pradesh slowly mobilizing against you, with flashlights, night guards, and dogs!

Sounds like they got you revved up to eat the fucking bugs now.

….though probably not Crichton’s best, had a memorable scene where Pidgin-speakers eat a Hollywood actor, despite his best efforts to bridge the gap.

It’s interesting to come across that in a relatively recent novel, I think I mentioned the last one I read where several characters were eaten was Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh.

NS2 blow-up was not an ‘accident’ or ‘mistake’ (get real).

You need to be more realistic. An industrial accident is still the most likely explanation.

It was done on the ground by Ukies and maybe Poles, but they would not dare to do anything without a tacit approval from some people in Washington

In the unlikely event it was sabotage. There is 0% chance of any knowledge or approval from Washington. If “Team Biden” knew anything it would have leaked, thus blowing the mission. Any rational explanation requires keeping DC out of the loop.

PEACE 😇

Huh? Your post makes no sense.

PEACE 😇

…Anyone college bound in East Germany had to join the Marxist youth equivalent.

She was a highly rewarded activist young commie, look it up. Regarding ‘having to join‘ you exaggerate, it varied by what you wanted to study, time and place, etc…It was mostly a mess, your projections are based on silly Hollywood stereotypes.

You had to at least feign loyalty to the cause.

All you had to do was to be neutral and not actively oppose the system in public. Merkel went beyond that.

Green parties around the world are not as pro third world immigration as they were in the past.

The statement as your wrote doesn’t mean anything. Everybody today is less ‘pro-migrants’ than in the past. In Germany the Greens are still the most pro-migration party.

was headed by a Christian woman.

Yes, it was Christian Democrats who opened the border and brought in one million refugees – with the follow-up it is now almost 3 million. I am not going to get into the theology, there are many ways to understand religions. Blaming it on Christianity is escapist – no, it was the ‘Christian party’ and its business and personal interests that allowed the mass migration. They could have equally used Christianity to do the opposite.

It is easy for Christian leaders to lose a sense of priority and forget that they serve the country and not the poor of the world.

I agree. The whole ‘love-thy-neighbor’ doesn’t work in a globalized inter-connected world. But they know it, when they choose to act that way it is because of other reasons. You can hide almost anything behind Christianity, there were Christian socialists (even communists), there were also Christian Nazis and fascists. It is a very fungible religion as most of them are. (And I am a Christian…:)

The government keeps all kinds of secrets much more important than details of NS sabotage.

Russia has stated they can resume gas transfer through the intact pipe and can readily repair the damaged pipe. The pipeline owner/operators will want reparations, but that cost may be small compared to the refunding of the stolen Russian assets.

Presumably Trump wants to use these stolen assets as somewhat of a carrot to make a deal with the Kremlin. We will see how that works out. Boris says sure, give us our money back and you can have everything West of Chernivtsi…as long as NATO stays out.

More winning: (1)

Trump Makes An Epic Move Against the Department of Justice

In an epic move, President Donald Trump has turned the tables on the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its abuses after Trump left office in 2021. In an executive order signed Monday evening, Trump has directed his own government to investigate the agency for its misconduct in the aftermath of the January 6th events.

Through this new executive order, Trump aims to address the weaponization of the federal government under the Biden-Harris administration to target political opponents and suppress constitutionally protected activities.

“The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions,” the executive order reads.

Over 1,500 pardons are expect for the victims of Biden regime excesses. No doubt this will be followed by civil actions against the FBI, the feds being ordered to admit guilt in open courts, and massive compensatory and punitive payouts.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/20/trump-makes-an-epic-move-against-the-department-of-justice-n4936186

Are you going to buy the botulinum neurotoxin meme coin or the gila monster venom meme coin?

Huh? Your post makes no sense.

PEACE 😇

President Trump is signing just a few Executive Orders.

Oh…. Wait…. That is more than a stack, there seem to be several piles.

PEACE 😇

She was a highly rewarded activist young commie, look it up. Regarding ‘having to join‘ you exaggerate, it varied by what you wanted to study, time and place, etc…It was mostly a mess, your projections are based on silly Hollywood stereotypes.

Hollywood stereotypes? Gosh I must have missed that Hollywood movie about Merkel’s political background. I’m sure it was a huge hit. Americans love political documentaries about German politicians. It probably made more money than X-men 7.

Let’s go ahead and read from her biographer:

He said the fact that Merkel was a member of the FDJ and held office doesn’t really mean much. Schroeder said in the GDR people had to get involved in such organizations.
https://www.dw.com/en/merkel-hiding-things-in-her-past-biographer-says/a-16813375

Schroeder said he believes that the key to understanding Merkel’s ideology and political activism lies in the fact that she never became a member of the East German Communist Party (SED), unlike 2 million of her fellow citizens. He said it was impossible for someone to evade all forms of activism in the GDR. “People were pushed into taking active roles in mass organizations, but the threshold into politics was crossed when you joined the SED or a factional party,” Schroeder said.

Is Schroeder working from Hollywood stereotypes on GDR citizens? He seems to have the same opinion.

The statement as your wrote doesn’t mean anything. Everybody today is less ‘pro-migrants’ than in the past. In Germany the Greens are still the most pro-migration party.

No that is incorrect. There are still left-wing and libertarian parties that are for open borders. The libertarian position has not changed since the inception of the party. They view borders as a violation against the freedom of the individual as Rand taught them.

am not going to get into the theology, there are many ways to understand religions. Blaming it on Christianity is escapist

I never blamed it on Christianity. Let’s look at my comment that you skimmed and then re-wrote in your head:
Christianity is not a natural antidote to leftist ideas. It depends on how it is directed.

It depends on how it is directed. I have written about how Catholic Poland has been for stronger borders than secular liberal European states. But I can also point out Christian leaders (mostly protestant) like Merkel that brought in third worlders out of pity.

It depends on how it is directed. Christianity can be balanced with the consideration of the state or it can be globalist to suicidal levels.

Thanks babe. Paldies for everything.

Fade to black.

Life, it seems, will fade away
Drifting further, every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly loss, this can’t be real
I cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness, taking dawn
I was me, but now he’s gone
No one but me
Can save myself
But it’s too late
Now I can’t think
Think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though
It never existed
Death greets me warm
Now I will just say goodbye
Bye…

Back when he had something to say…

Cascadia for Whites only!

My mother would occasionally fry some up on a frying pan, Very basic cooking, nothing very elaborate, as far as I can remember. It was a very long time ago. I don’t think that I can help you out here any more. I wish you luck in your pursuit of some “tasty” dishes that profile kidney. Since you’ve already strongly hinted that Indian cuisine isn’t your kind of cooking (too many spices for your delicate constitution), I’d probably urge you to stay away from that part of the world in your pursuit.

STAY AWAY!!

How did you make out with the Hawk Tua coin?

Begs the question though. She substantially bends her politics to the reigning dogma of her era. Soft compliance with the GDR regime then soft compliance with Globohomogayplex today. It’s a seamless character.

Thanks. The future is not yet written.

Sounds like the blueprint for success for the vast majority of politicians in the world today.

LatW, don’t sing your last lullaby!

Songs in the same vein:

A tout le monde (Megadeath)

Don’t close you eyes (Kixx)

To cheer myself up I listened to Doc Holiday by Volbeat.

Progress. Already, nothing to say by my earlier heroes on steroids:

First of all, on different uses of Christianity you and I agree, so I am not sure why are so hot under the collar.

Regarding Hollywood stereotypes fed to you about the place where Merkel grew up – E. Germany – you are again playing stupid: I said they are exaggerated and black-and-white, life never is. Lamely quoting West German politicians claiming that “all is well w Merkel, it was only compulsory activism and no party membership” is like quoting Biden about Ukraine – conscious uninformed evasive lies.

80-90% of East Germans were not members of the ruling socialist party and the ‘activism‘ can be many different things. It also exists in the West – the required DEI training and bending knee in front of the currently sacred group, etc… people obediently follow. Some don’t, same as in E Germany – there were plenty of people who didn’t feel the need to join in what Merkel was doing – flag-waving for the commie government, and collecting awards – most people stood aside, many spoke up. There was no particular punishment other than it somehow limited one’s career but for a woman with a PhD in chemistry that was irrelevant.

She was a conformist, when the wall fell she went to sauna. But admire Merkel if you must, what else do you have? I am amused how obediently you always produce the conformist clap-trap about societies you know nothing about. Hollywood actually made movies about E Germany that were only in black-and-white – they really wanted to push the idea, abandoned warehouses, empty streets, brick walls all around. Do you think that was not managed? They just on their own decided to always portray it like that? Maybe you do, you don’t seem the smartest cookie in the jar…so “go Merkel!!!, she had no choice”…

I think I mentioned the last one I read where several characters were eaten was Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh.

in Scoop there was a joke about how the converts of the missionaries don’t eat people during Lent. I wonder if it would be worth reading about Waugh’s time in Ethiopia.

Six years ago the German delegation’s response at UNGA when Trump said “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course” was to chuckle at him.

It was all set to be a success for the German business class: using cheap Russian energy to export manufactured (including capital)goods, with the prices kept down by the EU single currency (manipulation). German taxpayers bailled out the PIGS as a export promotion programe)m ages stopped from rising by mass immigration. Cocooned within friendly largely nato countries so without a hostile state on its borders for the first time in history. Defence freeloading warded off by saying Germany was making an international security contribution by accepting immigrant as refugees. The Russian energy deals enabled Germany to shut down all its nuclear facilities, which many Germans were suspicious of because of the WW3 associations (they did had a potential for making nuclear weapons), at small inconvenience to manufacturing. Everything Germany does is for the particular interests of those Germans who are able to get their interests particularly attended to; namely, the business class.

It had always drove many US strategists crazy that Germany was being protected at US taxpayers’ expense from Russia while getting ever more reliant on that supposed threating country’s . Not just that but Germany was given highly favourable trade relations with America because the security cooperation took precedence (Ditto Japan, S. Korea). Germany is now uncompetitive on the narrow type of engineering it was counting on and actually backward in digital technology. Merkel doubled down but did so on an already establshed consensus; it was Gerhard Schroder that sowed the dragon’s teeth for Germany.

Is Russia running out of Chinese 4×4 buggies?

My mother would occasionally fry some up on a frying pan,

I assumed that it was your mother. People born in Europe long decades ago seem to have more experience eating offal. Though maybe, Americans pre-WW2 would have had more experience? You go so far back and eating chicken wasn’t really the thing it is today – not the same scale or apparatus, or ability to be quickly fattened.

It is interesting how diets have changed. I wonder how different things might be socially and politically, if the food distribution apparatus was still the same as it was 100 years ago.

Battle of the Nations
Serbia Spain

Regarding Hollywood stereotypes fed to you about the place where Merkel grew up – E. Germany – you are again playing stupid

Uh-huh. You think I have opinions of Merkel based on Hollywood movies?

Which movies would those be? Please name them. I don’t recall Hollywood movies about the political culture of the GDR. Which year did those come out?

The last movie I watched on East Germany was The Lives of Others:

Which is a German film.

Everything I know about Merkel is from reading. I would rarely watch movies if I wasn’t married.

So you are hilariously wrong…..again. As with other Europeans you create a caricature of Americans in your head and have a hard time deviating from it.

80-90% of East Germans were not members of the ruling socialist party and the ‘activism‘ can be many different things.

Yes and that would be the same model for any Soviet country. Most workers are laborers and do not take part in politics.

She was a conformist, when the wall fell she went to sauna. But admire Merkel if you must, what else do you have?

Why do you think I admire her? I don’t support bringing Muslims into the West. I have read about her which seems to confound you.

I was pointing out to A123 that the largest group of Muslims was not brought in under the Socialists or the Greens. It was under the Christian Democratic Union. Then you jumped in with your talk of movies.

3:15 is a good duration for that stuff.

David Lynch should have done rock videos. Thirty minutes of that would be way too much. I could only take about 3:15 of the Aeon Byte show where Christopher Knowles was eulogizing the genius of Lynch. My life would be boring as hell to 99% of humans but at least I have got one.

Hurrah! I celebrate your life!

David Lynch’s passing, if nothing else, gives us all an opportunity to celebrate his output. I’m sorry to say that I’ve only viewed four of his films: “Eraserhead”, “Elephant Man”, “Mulholland Drive” and “Dune”. All quite a bit different one from the other, therefore it’s difficult for me to say what the director’s uniting artistic traits might be? Are there any others that you would recommend?

I’ve also noticed that Beckow likes to form composite images of his adversaries that often do not reflect the inherent qualities or points of view of the person that he’s interacting with. I didn’t know that this was perhaps a trait of Europeans in general. It’s kind of lazy on his part and can be irksome.

In response to JJ’s comment #295.

…caricature of Americans in your head…Yes and that would be the same model for any Soviet country. Most workers are laborers and do not take part in politics.

Well, if the shoe fits…

Your seeming obsession with only he soviet activism fits beautifully into the caricature that you present here. I use Hollywood as a stand-in for the Western managed brainwashing, if you don’t get that maybe some reading comprehension is lacking…And you clearly went through the brainwashing. If you are instead a “reader“, good for you, but you don’t seem to read much outside the prescribed boundaries.

The point about Merkel and “activism” that I made was very simple: she went substantially beyond what others in her situation did, she was also rewarded for it.

The point about “activism” that I made is that it is ever-present in all societies and it is always partially compulsory and also relatively easy to avoid. Merkel chose not to avoid it. In US one has to show “activism” in everything from feminism-race-LGBTQ and also preferably an uncritical view of “market capitalism”. It is also enforced on groups that are captive – kids, students, government and corporate employees, etc…

Hopefully with Trump coming in it will ease or even disappear (other than the enthusiasm for ‘capital’). But your inability to see that it has been there and that it is a similar dynamic as in E Germany adjusted for different times shows your brainwashed thinking. But at least we know it is from books and not movies…:)

Have only seen Dune and the Twin Peaks show and movie.

Dune had a few brief moments I really liked, like this one:

In 3 years he could not make Russia quit, yet in the dying days of Biden’s term the Russians ran out of stuff. The brilliant way Russia cut off manufacturing of equipment just as Trump came in promising to end the war in 24 hours will go down in history as ultimate combination Just-in-Time production with a command economy.

Musk now calling Scholz “Oaf Schitz.”

I totally forgot Lynch had his self in there in a cool bit part.

I read the books before I saw the movie which is back ass wards. Even if the movie is bad movie first makes for more crystalized images when reading the book which can be a big plus. There are no plusses I can think of offhand for book first then movie.

It turns out Donald the Fat is not in the loop on the drones but he has made another claim that he is going to come clean. P(another lie)~.8.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2025/01/21/donald-trump-nj-drones-new-jersey-trump-talks/77849532007/

21 Jan Asbury Park Press

I think this is the best scene in Dune:

I know I am in the minority on this, but I prefer the SciFi channel miniseries.

Jump to ~6:00 for the Gom Jabbar scene.

PEACE 😇