Neocon National Interest

Re: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/capitol-hill-event-honors-fight-for-ukrainian-freedom

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Bernard-Henri Levy was impassioned. “Ukraine is not losing,” he declared. “It is winning!”

Rah! Rah! Zimcoobah!

This guy has a penchant for being a neocon geopolitical rabble rouser. The Kiev regime is clearly losing. All one has to do is a qualitative and quantitative comparison between the respective armed forces and economies of Russia, Ukraine and the Collective West before and after 2/24/22.

Unlike Russia, the Kiev regime engages in forced conscription raids.

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Together with the Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident Lina Kostenko, Levy was receiving the annual Andrey Sheptytsky medal on Thursday evening on Capitol Hill. The event was hosted by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

I’m pleased to know there’re numerous Jews and non-Jews with Russian, Ukrainian, US and other background bases who’re in general agreement with me.

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His remarks were preceded by a lengthy speech from Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who recalled his work on behalf of the Soviet refuseniks in the 1980s, drawing a parallel between his efforts then to resist Russian tyranny and today. Hoyer also lambasted the Trump administration for failing to bolster Ukraine and for providing encouragement to Russia.

Classic anti-Russian bigotry which goes unchecked. We (as in the more earnest among us) would cringe at the use of “Jewish tyranny” to describe heavy handed Israeli action. Recalling the anti-Russian bigotry promulgated by the so-called Captive Nations Committee as noted in an Antiwar.com article.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-coverage-update-what-western-mass-media-downplays/

That evil multiethnic Soviet Union is responsible for creating Ukraine’s expanded boundary. As for the pre-Soviet era, note who founded Odessa (a Prussian princess who became empress of Russia and embraced Russian identity) and some other areas in what became the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Just what should Trump do? The Kiev regime has been given significant arms with the Collective West being noticeably depleted of weapons. Such weaponry typically involves prolonged training for effective use. Ukraine lacks fully trained folks to readily use some of these weapons.

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Bessent deserves kudos for bringing the deal to fruition, providing the prideful Trump with an actual investment in Ukraine that may help prompt him to resist Russian president Vladimir Putin’s predatory designs.

Sheer nonsense. Putin readily accepted a neutral Ukraine that respected its pro-Russian community within a dubiously drawn Soviet boundary. In contrast, the neocons, neolibs and flat-out Russia haters sought a zero-sum game.

The article goes on to make the case for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic cleric Andrey Sheptytsky, saying he opposed Bandera and Nazis after seeing their evil. Nothing said about the current Kiev regime policy of honoring Bandera while cancel culturing some more deserving figures and institutions for adulation on account of their association (real and exaggerated) with Russia.

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As Russia now tries to crush Ukrainian sovereignty, the minerals deal may mark a turning point. It refers explicitly to “Russia’s full-scale invasion.” Crucially, it also states that “no state or person who financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.” The Trump administration appears to be adopting a harder line toward Russia—and the event on Capitol Hill offered a moving reminder of why it can’t come soon enough.

The initial phase of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) was far from being a “full-scale” action. Its basis isn’t less legit than NATO’s 1999 aggression against Yugoslavia.

Like the SMO, the NATO action was designed to bomb the Serbs to a negotiated settlement. This latter effort took 78 days. Russia succeeded within a few days. The difference is that Western neocons and neolibs swayed the Kiev regime to foolishly pursue armed conflict for “as long as it takes”. In comparison, Yugoslavia didn’t have a strong geopolitical sugar daddy to back them.

The Duran Duo and Mark Sleboda have a different take on the aforementioned minerals deal.

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Putin Miscalculated?

Re: Below Linked Aaron Mate-Katie Halper Video at the 34:17 Mark:

Worthwhile watching in full, as there’s excellent follow-up on what was said on the Sunday aired US morning news shows.

The above highlighted particular leads to respectful disagreement. Putin correctly calculated that the limited Russian Special Military Operation would bring the Kiev regime to the negotiating table.

He might’ve miscalculated on how the Collective West would respond or thought that Russia had no choice regardless. The Kiev regime and Collective West miscalculated on what the outcome of the proxy war against Russia would lead to. Everyone seems to have miscalculated on how well Russia has maintained itself following the SMO.

Another respectful disagreement with Mate concerns his view that Russia could’ve pursued another option to the SMO. Refer to his 10/17/24 discussion at Hofstra University.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/17102024-aaron-mate-discusses-foreign-policy-at-hofstra-university-oped/

Armed conflict should only be utilized as a last resort. The record clearly shows that Russia gave the peace option ample time, only to see that pursuit contradicted by the Kiev regime and its main backers.

In retrospect, Putin should’ve acted sooner. Had he done so, there’d be pushback that he jumped the gun too soon, without pursuing a non-military option. Then again, in some circles Russia can do no right when it comes to securing its legitimate interests.

There’re other factors to consider. Some note that Russia in 2015 wasn’t in as strong an economic and military position to engage an SMO. The flip side is that the Kiev regime forces in 2015 weren’t as strong as they became in 2022.

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Dominik Hasek SOB

Re: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/dominik-hasek-russian-threats-war-ukraine-nhl-1.7516264

Hasek is no innocent. Among other divisively bigoted things, he blasted the NHL for having an all-star segment with Alexander Ovechkin and his son on account of the NATO proxy war against Russia, which the former Czech netminder describes as something different from reality.

Yeah, Medvedev should be more responsible. It’s like he’s filling the void following Zhirinovsky’s passing, in conjunction to being part of a good cop (Putin)/bad cop (Medvedev) act.

On this particular, Hasek’s bigotry came first. Saying Hasek apparently took too many pucks to the head is a better alternative. Collective West sports politicos discriminate against Russian athletes from speaking freely unlike those having views like Hasek’s.

Regarding the bigoted hypocrisy against Russians:

https://www.eurasiareview.com/20082024-orwellian-reality-2024-dei-paris-summer-olympics-oped/

Mr. Hack hasn’t explicitly told us who his favorite oriental character is.

Don’t know if it counts because he is not recurring but off the top of my head, I want to say Hoichi the Earless because his story is very memorable.

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

Good news on trade & smuggling: (1)

De Minimis Loophole for Beijing Ends,
Temu Halts Direct Shipping from China

Think about it. We’ve already heard about the massive stoppages of April factory work in China, causing serious concern for Beijing and Chinese worker protests.

American importers front loaded inventory in February and March with a 50% increase in orders. Now, in addition to those factories going quiet, the de minimis rule kicks in.

(Via CNBC) – Chinese bargain retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration’s new rules on low-value shipments took effect Friday.

In recent days, Temu has abruptly shifted its website and app to only display listings for products shipped from U.S.-based warehouses. Items shipped directly from China, which previously blanketed the site, are now labeled as out of stock.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/02/de-minimis-loophole-for-beijing-ends-temu-halts-direct-shipping-from-china/

As usual, you don’t shy away from the really tough questions.

How can one, in all honesty, choose?

But I’ll try not to disappoint you, and will have to defer to the very same turkish looking guy that sat next to you on your plane trip, once a long time ago:

Bashibuzuk? 🙂

Whatever happened to your young, bald headed protege? I don’t really want to pry into your personal affairs, but I remember reading somewhere that he’s actually your son?

Russia was not in a position to strongly react sooner in Ukraine. They were not ready even in 2022. The West felt they had trapped the Kremlin so that a nuclear response to their aggressive moves would not be useful. Therefore the value of Moscow’s nuclear deterrent was limited and Russia had to fight a conventional war.

I think history will show that the internal politics of the Russian military-industrial complex prior to 2022 are a huge factor in this standoff. Russia favored the funding and upgrading of their nuclear deterrent over rebuilding of conventional forces. This is understandable, but it predictably left them vulnerable to this hybrid war of heavy economic sanctions combined with conventional combat in Ukraine. This situation might have been something they could readily handle except for the special place Ukraine holds in the Russian mind. They do not want to destroy it and once this Western project is stopped Russia has to rebuild and reintegrate substantial portions of the wrecked Ukraine back into the Russian world. This left them to fight a very slow war which makes sense for numerous reasons.

In retrospect it is clear that Russia’s options to stop the Western project in Ukraine were very limited after 2014.

The fabricated Western narrative around this Ukraine project is extensive and has many layers. It is unrealistic to expect most normal people to see through to the truth which is complex and has some real subtleties. Just look at this forum, we have AP and Mikel interminably debating the degree of immorality of strafing a building populated by some civilians during a combat mission; are they up to 100,000 words yet? I think it is an important topic for discussion, but finding a convergence between these two knowledgeable, intelligent and articulate people seems impossible even on this very specific topic.

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I really liked the old meme photo, or was it a video, of Putin trying to calm down Medvedev.

The US in Yemen and for that matter Israel in Gaza have killed more civilians than Russia over the past month.

So much for the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s selectively stated concern for human life. Meantime, he can put the screws on to limit armed conflict in Gaza and the NATO proxy war he inherited and arguably encouraged in his first term.

I recall Putin having a similar session with Zhirik.

Russia was in a better position than Ukraine in 2014 but a prevaricating Putin didn’t act when he had the chance. Now they’ve had three years of war and they still show no signs of winning it.

Dominik Hasek is a classical Czech jerk – people refer to them as “Cechacek“: a little Chech who is not really a Czech but whomever people want him to be. They are scared, extremely conformist, natural brown-nosers. They find someone external to worship and then overdo it: Habsburgs, Nazis (there was enthusiastic support of Germans in WW2), commies, then an immediate switch to the Anglo-West. It is shifting to pure Euro-worship thanks to Trump.

Don’t pay attention to them, they are a relatively small minority other than in Prague and in cultural circles. Hasek is a joke, a stock character that is very “Czech” by not being one. The Polish version has more dignity and runs on pride, myths, sacrifice. The Ukie version is pure misanthropy – deep unhappiness with their fate in life, and stupidity.

In all cases the triggers are misanthropy and fear. We find it among Russians too…

More on the establishment war against Populism.: (1)

In the USA we have the example of “Russiagate” where the FBI, CIA and DOJ-NSD intel community weaponized against candidate Donald Trump.

In Romania, we have the example of the EU intel community nullifying –through the court– the election win of Călin Georgescu; and disqualifying the winning candidate.

Now, in Germany, the intelligence community produces a report labeling the largest political party as an “extremist” group, taking new power to conduct political surveillance and control the election outcome.

…. What is the common denominator?

  

Hope is not a strategy. That said, I hope Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the former Chair of the SSCI, has awakened to the reality of the intelligence services controlling western govt.

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned a decision Friday from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” calling the move “tyranny in disguise” and advising the country to “reverse course.”

“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,” Rubio wrote in a post on X in the hours following the decision.

The push for IslamoGloboHomo multiculturalism created disasters across the continent. Judeo-Christian Populist movements are gaining strength throughout Europe. Remigration & deIslamification are the necessary solutions. The sooner they start, the cleaner it will proceed.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/02/german-intelligence-agencies-label-afd-the-largest-political-group-in-the-country-as-an-extremist-organization/

They weren’t in an economically better position, in addition they would’ve been accused of not giving peace a chance.

As for the SMO, it’s a war of attrition which Russia is clearly winning. The SMO isn’t yet four years.

Human nature being such for some, the world over.

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Hutchins was named as one of the movie’s executive producers, and “Rust,” somewhat queasily, has been dedicated to her. A release from the “Rust” representatives states that its original producers will not gain financially from the movie. The terms of Matthew Hutchins’s settlement were sealed, the release said, but it has been confirmed that he and the couple’s son, Andros, will receive profits from the film.

‘Rust’ Review: It’s a Hard Watch

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/movies/rust-review-alec-baldwin.html

no paywall: https://archive.ph/UXyZX#selection-4397.0-4397.32

Now, the whole world learn something more about the US democracy. In US election the better liar always win election…Trump won 2024 on a “non-war president” and MAGA big lie. Now, his actions – pretending to be a neutral (hahaha) moderator of a peace in war caused at the same time by American foreign policy instrument NATO expansion to the Russian border.

He is hoping by sending, more military hardware to Ukraine and more Russian sanctions, will destroyed Russia what else. Well Russia will react to this deceit by increasing onslaught on Ukraine and specifically on American looting mineral sites in Ukraine. That will not stop there, China will subtly enter the conflict by supporting their friend for the mutual benefits. That will not stop there, Russia have their own MRGA and reciprocating the NATO expansion by their expanding closer to US border and placing nuclear arsenal on Cuba and Venezuela. Puff – WWIII is born. The subsequent WWIV will be fought by stones.

Agree. If the full set of Western sanctions had been applied in 2014 Russia might have been backed into a corner. The strategy of quickly pulling Crimea back into the fold and then fighting the low grade war in the East until 2022 was an inspired reaction to their difficult situation. Since the response was focussed on Crimea it avoided the full sanctions. The moderate sanctions and limited fighting gave Russia a chance to get onto a partial war footing in preparation for the eventual major conflict.

I suspect many Neocons regret not going for maximal sanctions in 2014, but at the time there may still have been a few wise old timers in Washington who understood this action might immediately push Russia to the threshold of nuclear weapons use.

Does the director’s cut include footage of the actual shooting?

Asking for JJ.

Russia should’ve rejected Trump attempt of moderating the Ukraine peace agreement. How can a silent leader of NATO negotiate the conflict caused by the very NATO expansion. Blatant conflict of interest. It failed, because he was listening to Kiev greenman instead of Putin.

Everyone goes crazy in his own way…:)

On the bright side he hasn’t autographed any Israeli bombs and nobody now working for him is cheering “Finish them off”.

It’s not much but it’s not nothing!

« The demons have the power of manifestation… »
Bodhidharma.

One should always remember this. It is of crucial importance. It is hard to downplay its significance…

It does not but if you are very interested you can read all the published trash and infer when in the movie it would have occurred because I do remember it was reported that it was a critical pivot plot point repeated several times. The text is not nearly as interesting as the sequence of photos of poor Hannah Gutierrez hitting the wall day by day in real time.

[Trump] is hoping by sending, more military hardware to Ukraine

Please provide citations for this assertion.

• There was ZERO for Kiev aggression in the Continuing Resolution.
• Budget negotiations are opaque. However, if there was a large number for Ukraine, it would have leaked by now.

Without new money, Trump has very little to send. There will remnants from the last Team Biden package, but that will soon run out.

Arm twisting Führer Zelensky into signing the minerals deal was about PR not weapons. Under Ukraine’s system, does their legislative branch have to ratify the minerals deal? IIRC this is so, but I am not sure. If so, there is a trap set that will be triggered if they do not follow through.

I shared Russia’s reaction in the last thread.

Kremlin Reacts To Minerals Deal Signing:
‘Trump Has Broken The Zelensky Regime’

Putin is clearly not concerned. Why are you?

America’s trajectory is still towards disengagement from Europe’s Folly.

PEACE 😇

In the Religious Experience of Philip K Dick by R. Crumb he has Dick’s experience of the Pink Beam the spirit of Elijah descending from heaven and possessing him. As my favorite Buddhist (and one of my favorite drunks) Tik Not Ton famously said “you can’t get a lotus without mud.”

https://www.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Experience-of-Philip-K-Dick

No thanks. I’d rather listen to Hilaria Baldwin’s fake Spanish accent 🙂

Please provide citations for this assertion.

• There was ZERO for Kiev aggression in the Continuing Resolution.
• Budget negotiations are opaque. However, if there was a large number for Ukraine, it would have leaked by now.

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/trump-sends-f-16-fighting-falcons-to-ukraine/

The United States had approved its first sale of military equipment to Ukraine since Donald Trump took office, while Kyiv received F-16 fighter jets from Washington. However, there is a catch: these Fighting Falcons do not fly.

The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US State Department has approved a potential USD 310 million sale to Ukraine covering F-16 training, maintenance, and related equipment. The deal includes a wide range of support, such as aircraft modifications, flight training, sustainment services, spare parts, and classified systems and software.

While the new sale differs from the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) — under which more than USD 31 billion in weapons have been rapidly provided to Ukraine without congressional approval — it further reinforces US support for Kyiv’s defense capabilities.

Meanwhile, the United States is pulling out mothballed F-16s for delivery to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force, which already operates Europe-supplied F-16s, will use them as spares.

Late last month, a set of photos and videos appeared on social media showing an An-124 cargo plane transporting at least three F-16 airframes from Tucson airport in Arizona to Rzeszów airport in Poland. Rzeszów is a large city in southeastern Poland that lies close to the border with Ukraine and is a key western military aid hub for Ukraine.

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Ukraine’s native military capabilities have been improving significantly, so American help is not as critical as it was in 2023 (when Biden likely prevented Ukraine from winning by giving too little).

Ukraine just managed a new first: shooting down a plane by using a drone:

I listened to parts of a recent “Military Summary Channel” video. Now I may need to change my mind about medicinal Special K 🙁

The author showed a tweet or update from the government of Ukraine (maybe Zelensky) which was a direct threat to foreign dignitaries visiting Moscow for the parade.

His map showed recent Ukie drone attacks in Crimea and Rostov. He thinks these are a diversion for a more serious attack, possibly on Moscow.

Then he mentioned that Vucic and Fico have canceled their plans to attend the parade due to illness. Apparently they visited the USA last week. Around the same time Tulsi made some public admissions related to US involvement in biowarfare.

I had not heard any of this previously so maybe he is losing it. He generally seems to be a balanced commentator, albeit pro-Russia.

Here is the link if you care. It is possible to skim the video by looking at the content overlaid on the map which divides the topics.

Thank you for largely validating my prior position. I previously posted this: (1)

My guess is that sales will continue, at least informally, on a “cash upfront” basis. For example, if a nation flying F-16’s wants to send spare parts they can. Then they can buy new replacements from the U.S. That breaks the chain in a diplomatically useful way.

Your scenario is:

The Pentagon announced on Friday that the US State Department has approved a potential USD 310 million sale to Ukraine

This sort of “cash upfront” sale, not funded by the U.S. taxpayer, is unsurprising. — Withholding spares would cripple future sales of complex systems. A full airframe seems a bit unusual, But, I guess that shifts the manhours to strip it for spares to Kiev’s employees.

I thought such efforts would be informal, U.S. ➔ 3rd country ➔ Kiev, rather than direct, but apparently the administration does not believe that is necessary. This was a minor caveat to the larger point about spare parts availability.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-270/#comment-7044208

On the bright side he hasn’t autographed any Israeli bombs and nobody now working for him is cheering “Finish them off”.

It’s not much but it’s not nothing!

Such are the choices.

Russia should’ve rejected Trump attempt of moderating the Ukraine peace agreement. How can a silent leader of NATO negotiate the conflict caused by the very NATO expansion. Blatant conflict of interest. It failed, because he was listening to Kiev greenman instead of Putin.

No harm in meeting with give and takes besides being the better PR option.

Why the f Trump keep talking to Zelensky when his signature will not be recognized and legally revoke since his term has expired in 2024, doesn’t he knows that Zelensky is only PR for the Kiev ultra nationalists (Nazis) and his continued political/biological life is at their discretion. Trump failed to make this deal because he sides with Zelensky and the domestic RINOs. Contemplating 500% sanctions on Russia is a declaration of enemy status. For the validity of your post we must wait in the coming months.

Is this better option when controlling the number of NATO apparatchiks in Ukraine is lost and border for them is open.

I like the common Japanese conception of a ghost – the whispy lack of feet. (though not of footsteps.)

But my favorite is the old Roman idea of depicting them as blacks. Not only would it be politically incorrect but an interesting inversion of Abos perceiving Euros as ghosts.

UKRAINIAN SEA-DOO DRONE TAKES DOWN RUSSIAN JET FIGHTER

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OH THE ORCMANITY

Without new money, Trump has very little to send. There will remnants from the last Team Biden package, but that will soon run out.

The existing stockpile will run out but 155 shells and HIMARS rockets will be delivered for at least 1-2 years. Ukraine was basically given funds to keep buying them from us. It actually doesn’t have an end date.

Biden also sent a huge amount of mines at the end of his term.

What you and Putin needed Trump to do was overstep his presidential authority and “pause” the congressional aid until a court overruled him. Note that pausing the aid would put military contractors out of work.

Well he isn’t doing that and the US F-16s just arrived.

Trump tried to bully Zelensky into taking Putin’s existing offer and that failed.

He also tried to bully China and that failed as well.

Why the f Trump keep talking to Zelensky when his signature will not be recognized and legally revoke since his term has expired in 2024

Trump has already been embarrassed enough recently over his ignorance (see MS-13 tattoos and comments about declaration of independence). Trying to claim Zelensky is illegitimate would just create more embarrassing late night videos that show he is unable to think outside of Kremlin propaganda.

Zelensky put the country into martial law and delayed elections. That is allowed within their constitution and was a standard practice during WW2 for countries that were being invaded.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-say-no-elections-until-war-ends/

I know such low quality Kremlin propaganda works on censored pro-Putin websites but not in an open forum.

Where did Palmer Luckey get his suit? This is almost Mugabe or Jordan Peterson level.

The reason why the US is so indecisive about how to deal with Iran, is there exists an internal battle between the Arabists Islamists like Tucker Carlson et al (US nationalists) vs Zionists Ben Shapiro’s.

Which of these two factions will prevail?

Shapiro is a transparent mofo.

Trump has to pass appropriations through the House and confirmations through the Senate. MAGA is much stronger in his 2nd term, but it still has to deal with narrow margins and establishment GOP holdovers, such as Mitch McConnell. Trump’s concerns span many policies. It is not limited to the single issue of Kiev aggression.

The sincere effort at peace deal has exposed the fact that Europe/Ukraine is the unreasonable party. This greatly reduces the leverage of warhawks in Congress to obstruct MAGA progress. They will still want things, but the goal is moving them on to other wish lists items.

We will know much more when the Budget is passed. Hopefully, it will be by the end of the month. There are no leaks suggesting Kiev aggression is in line to receive a significant amount of money. The main problems are domestic issues. For example, the State And Local Tax [SALT] deduction on federal income tax.

PEACE 😇

Something must be done!

Somalis are in danger of making the word “autist” low-status.

It is becoming extremely clear that air defence is basically useless against modern missile technology. The Houthi missiles are likely 40 years behind Russian and Chinese gear and a single one can get through layered Israeli air defence. It’s a new world.

Canada’s next problem? (1)

As if on cue, a short article from the Chamber of Shipping notes that cargo from China is being rerouted to avoid tariffs.

The destination of the cargo is, wait for it,… CANADA!

USCoS – As U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods soar to as high as 145%, a growing number of companies are rerouting shipments to Canada and storing them in bonded warehouses in hopes of avoiding the duties and capitalising on a future rollback. This strategy has caused a sharp spike in Chinese shipments to Canada, with logistics firms and customs brokers reporting surging inquiries and storage demand from consumer goods, chemical, and auto parts sectors. However, experts caution that prolonged storage costs—estimated at $1,750 per container per week—and limited warehouse capacity could force sellers to offload discounted goods into the Canadian market, potentially disrupting domestic manufacturing. Others warn the strategy is risky and unsustainable, especially if the trade conflict drags into next year’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement negotiations.

This will not end well….
… For Canada

Canada is a small market. Dumping there buys very little time.
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This places Xi in a massive bind. Firms use revenue from products sold to buy raw materials to make the next batch. If that cycle stops, no raw materials = no jobs. No orders = no jobs. The CCP could extend highly risky credit to allow purchase of inputs. However, what can they do about the problem of no orders?

The centrally planned CCP economy based on trade export exploitation has hit a wall. Pivoting to increase exploitation of European markets is unlikely to work. Everyone is aware of that risk. What will Xi do?

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/03/china-reroutes-targeted-goods-to-friendly-north-american-partner-to-avoid-tariffs/

The sincere effort at peace deal has exposed the fact that Europe/Ukraine is the unreasonable party.

What exactly did Trump offer other than a reiteration of Putin’s demands from last year?

We will know much more when the Budget is passed.

Did you agree with Trump’s proposal to expand military spending? Would you say that is conducive towards his previously stated goal of balancing the budget?

The sincere effort at peace deal has exposed the fact that Europe/Ukraine is the unreasonable party

The side (Russia) that demands that Ukraine hand over territory with 1.5 million or so people living in it, that Russia has failed to conquer after over 3 years, is the unreasonable one. And that’s only one of the ridiculous demands.

Maybe Trump has figured that out.

There’s a growing middle class of Somalis living in Mpls. As George Jefferson so eloquently once stated:

“Were movin on up”

Sometimes, Trump exhibits the ability to evolve his thoughts. KremlinstoogeA123…meh!

No way is it honest. It’s graft.

He is a terrible example if you would like to demonstrate the existence of human free will.

Bronze Age Pervert has been observed in the wilds.

Sure, if you want to paint all Somali’s with an Ilhan Omar paintbrush, then they’re all tainted with the ability to use financial misappropriation and other forms of deceitfulness. But, I’ve always tried to shy away from this sort of judgemental behavior. My neighbors from across the street, immigrants from somewhere in Africa, appear to be very hard working individuals. Several vans can be seen coming and going throughout the work day (and night). Their kids are very well behaved and exhibit good manners. As I write this, one of the neighbors has just got through watering all of the plants in the front yard, and is now sweeping the sidewalk and the street in front of the sidewalk with a broom. The property prices are holding their own around here, What’s their not to like?…

…Russia demands that Ukraine hand over territory with 1.5 million or so people living in it, that Russia has failed to conquer after over 3 years, is the unreasonable one.

Maybe that’s a poison pill to avoid having to settle for Trump’s sweet talk. Kiev refused a reasonable compromise so now Russia will force a less reasonable one. Russia sees the war as existential so more Kiev-NATO prolong it with threats more Russia will have to control to be safe. That’s what existential means, pretending it isn’t only backfires.

You never understood this basic equation but the NATO warmongers do. They decided that since they can’t get what they want – NATO in Ukraine, Crimea, Ukraine without the Russian minority…- they will let Ukraine burn out. Trump is more humane and wants to save lives. We should give him credit but he can’t change the basic reality that this is existential for Russia – as Chinese taking over Canada or Mexico would be for US.

…What’s their not to like?…

The future. Maybe half of the migrants are good and add to the societies they move to. But it is a package deal: they come as one large group: interrelated, one tribe and clan. The good ones inevitably bring the rest from back home – they are legally allowed to do it. The back home is unlimited with hundreds of millions thirsting to come. They come with fewer skills, worse characters, and use the social systems to survive. Every elderly African or Indian joining his family in the West gets free medical care – you pay for it, young Americans often with no medical care pay for it.

You need to think it through instead of having a nice picture of the occasional bliss. You will not have a functioning advanced society if it continues. You may not be invested in the future and don’t care but others do. Your shallow charity destroys it.

I write this, one of the neighbors has just got through watering all of the plants in the front yard, and is now sweeping the sidewalk and the street in front of the sidewalk with a broom. The property prices are holding their own around here, What’s their not to like?…

What’s not to like? – That’s what the British said before their Muslims pushed for Sharia law and threatened shop owners that sold alcohol. They have also threatened British White women for showing too much skin. They have also tried creating dog free zones.

Islam is not compatible with Western culture. We believe in allowing women to swim and draw pictures of living things. As you can see in your motorboat picture they don’t even allow one piece swimsuits. Women can only swim in front of their husbands in a private pool and even in that scenario they can’t wear a bikini.

Islam is a naturally expansionist and hostile religion. It conflicts with basic Western principles. There is simply no rational reason as to why we need to bring in more of them. There is an endless supply of Catholics if the two parties want to bring in third world labor.

Islam is tolerant of non-Muslims up until the moment it decides to revert back to the Quran which allows killing non-believers and taking sex slaves in war.

I’ve always been for much stronger immigration laws, that can go a long way in sifting the good from the bad. Also, US laws should be chiseled back to conform with older laws, like when my parents immigrated here, that would preclude the luxurious safety net features of government program support if the work world for some reason just doesn’t work out.

Not all immigrants from Africa are muslims.

You must have noticed how influential Zionists are within the decision making circles of the US government. It is in Israel’s interest for the US to fight Iran.

Tucker Carlson isn’t against Israel, he is against a one-sided relationship with Israel. This effectively means being a Counter-Zionist influence in the US. Israel sucks up money and is a lightning rod for global Muslim antipathy.

There is after all no formal mutual defense treaty between US and Israel. The assistance is entirely one way. It’s the sort of one-sided relationship that Trump is elected to get rid of, once Zionist influence within the US is expelled, Israel will have to stand on its own.

Russia sees the war as existential

Naive midwit believes Russian propaganda that even pro-war Russian elites don’t believe.

The assistance is entirely one way. It’s the sort of one-sided relationship that Trump is elected to get rid of, once Zionist influence within the US is expelled, Israel will have to stand on its own.

It would be natural to have these “people who must dwell alone” to rely entirely on their own power and nothing else. They see all others as inferior and borderline subhuman. Let them prove they can rule the world without using the strength of their many Goyim golems.

Steve Bannon speaks to a young (formerly Jewish wed and now Chinese wed) British (former pop musician) aristocrat:

You have not read the global glossy brochures. They have a eugenics-mRNA-pharmaceutical plan to extinguish all non-compliant behaviors. Please try and stay up to speed here buddy.

Do you agree there appears to be some uncertainty over the nature of the American Somali-Jewish relationship? This needs to be rectified.

The Somali and Jewish communities of America are right now in a period of growing mutual respect and collaboration. It is happening on the local levels, as well as nationally and globally. Their communities are coming together, not dividing. At this moment, it is important for us to know with certainty that the positive trends we are seeing are real.

Somalis sitting in the Temple of Israel in Minneapolis, having been invited by Rabbi Zimmerman. The stone walls of the temple were inscribed with, “This will be a house of prayer for all people.” The Somali community were invited to join the congregation, to learn and also to bring Somali artists, poets and organizations that shared Somali culture with the Jewish community.

Think about Shir Tikvah Synagogue that invited members of the Somali community to dinner during Ramadan. They cooked a halal meal and broke fast together. Remember this specifically because It taught the congregation to say welcome in Somali, and this house is your house.

Mutual respect is far reaching. When an anti-Semite shot up a synagogue in Pittsburg, many Somalis went to pray in Jewish synagogues to show solidarity. After bombing hoaxes were sent to synagogues across the country, Somali clergy in Minnesota, along with other Muslim clergy, took an advertisement in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune condemning anti-Semitism.

Somalis and Jews have come to an understanding that they are minorities facing a common problem of extreme hate — anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism. The Jewish community and Somali community have built a relationship on American values of tolerance and respect. Know that diversity is strength, and they are working to expand it within communities. Know that they stand with each other, leaning on one another.

The relationship between Somalis and Jews in America is not only for mutual benefit. They are also a symbol of what can be in the world. They can set the example, showing how human beings can live in equal dignity, with liberties and rights uninfringed. These are the values of Jewish leaders, Somali leaders, and more broadly Jewish and Muslim leaders around the world.

The discourse of must focus on the future you want to build, to seek out points of strength and grow from it. Today, it seems many can barely agree or count on anything, but one thing you can count on is the continued building of respectful and strong relationships between the American Somali and Jewish communities.

You accused him of stereotyping Somalis.

Well they come from a Muslim country and will follow entirely predictable patterns due to their rigid religion that bans indoor dogs, pork, alcohol, and pictures of stick figures.

Not all plans work as planned…we all “plan” and than s..t happens…but I will be vigilant…:)

British aristocrat. What kind of drugs is he on? What kind of drugs would I need to get through this entire video?

Do not want. If he doesn’t test his coke supply he might get to be a fentanyl OD statistic.

That’s a shallow non-answer even for you…the key term you ignore is that Russia “sees it as existential”. You pretend that they are only pretending at your own cost.

Imagine Russia or China moving to Canada overthrowing the legally elected government and saying they will form a military alliance with Canada against US – but you are an autistic moron with no ability to think so you won’t see it. Or pretend not to see it…:)

…US laws should be chiseled back to conform with older laws, like when my parents immigrated here, that would preclude the luxurious safety net features of government program support if the work world

Your parents were not planning – or in a position – to bring in all their relatives, friends, etc…it was a completely different world.

No law can ban social services for people once they are inside the country. It can delay it, make it more difficult, but there is no legal way in a democracy to exclude some from it. The same goes for marriage – no law can ever control it. You are f…ed….

There can be no common future possible with the Chosenites. If and when the Jewish people turn massively from the Talmud towards the Tanakh, as the Qaraites have done in their own time (becoming model citizens wherever they lived), then we can all be friends. How can you be a friend with someone who sees everyone else as basically a subhuman to be exploited?

You must have noticed how influential Zionists are within the decision making circles of the US government. It is in Israel’s interest for the US to fight Iran.

The most influential Zionists are like A123 and imagine some super special Judo-Chrishian alliance when Israel would never allow him or Huckabee to be citizens. They will however allow a homosexual atheist porn producer if he passes the DNA test. He could enter the country with a shirt that says “I suck c-ck” and would still have a better chance than Huckabee or Hegseth. The shared Holy Land. Conservative Christians are free to visit and buy all the holy water they can take home. They also have plenty of Ben Shapiro T-shirts in sizes XXL and XXXL for American conservatives.

Ironically our Evangelicals in the House have decried Jewish Democrats like Schumer for not being pro-Jewish enough. They look down on secular Jews for doing things like asking why we should send 8 billion to Israel.

Evangelicals view themselves as Honorary Jews that have a VIP pass to the apocalypse. Well a VIP level 2 pass anyways. BUT THAT AINT BAD.

Koalas are not considered kosher according to traditional Jewish dietary laws (kashrut). They are herbivores and primarily eat eucalyptus leaves.

Kashrut laws prohibit the consumption of meat from mammals that do not have both a rumen and split hooves.

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There can be no common future possible with the Quaranites. They worship Satan/Allah/Lucifer and its unclean spawn the Anti-Christ Muhammad. They hate God/YHWH, Jesus, and all those who oppose their Evil.

No Judeo-Christan is safe in their presence. In small numbers Muhammadans subvert. In larger numbers they wield Jihad. How can anyone be friends with Quaranites who see everyone else as a subhumans to be exploited, raped, enslaved, or murdered for their the greater glory of Satan/Allah/Lucifer?

PEACE 😇

Does this non-kosher Koala have the 佛性 ?

Good discussion on how all former Russian Empire Ukrainian territory could become reunified with Russia c/o svidomite, neocon, neolib stupidity.

This was the closest he ever came.

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

It’s very good. If I am not mistaken it goes back to Great Master Xu Yun’s lineage of Dharma. In the coming decades I hope to see the great revival of the Buddhadharma in China. Altan was quite positive about it. Potentially there would be many opportunities for walking the Path. The true Path that is going through our hearts. As we age, this path will bring us to the ferry sailing to the other shore, we need to prepare for this journey. Have a wonderful week Blinky !

Sure, if you want to paint all Somali’s with an Ilhan Omar paintbrush

every country with a community of them seems to have had a substantially bad experience. Somewhat uniquely, they would probably all be welcomed in Somaliland in exchange for diplomatic recognition. Or so I assume (maybe they would baulk, when they saw their clan and tribe affiliations.)

What’s their not to like?

Long list.

Friends is mottey baileying your points. We don’t need to be friends with any of them. We do need to punish thieves, rapists, and murderers and we can even keep accurate statistics on how criminal certain ethnics happen to be.

We don’t need to gas millions of Jews! That is OverKill.

Convicted British Greek lawyer and pals talk about how everything is going great for Russia. Like every episode they make.

No mention of Russia’s yellow school bus assault. A first in modern warfare!

Russia is also the first to use e-scooters in combat. The kind you stand on.

Ukraine has started using their homemade cruise missiles. I guess they didn’t get the memo that they need to surrender.

It’s an exciting time for poor Russians to try and kill their Orthodox neighbors for cash.

The Russian military and military-industrial-complex and oligarchs closely aligned to those blocks presumably see the West’s anti-Russia project (including Ukraine) as existential. Possibly they see Ukraine as the next (or final) and most consequential domino in a line which includes the earlier skirmishes in Chechnya, Armenia and elsewhere. AP may be arguing that there are enough influential Russians outside of this militarized group who see things differently and therefore represent an important division within the Kremlin. I think that was probably true in 2014 but mostly gone by 2022 and really gone by 2024.

Was it Alexander the Great’s Y-haplotype (R1b) that made him such a renowned military commander?

And is that branch hairy ears or not?

Is 11% of the House of Commons gay? (And why?)

We should first look out for normal Americans, and all indications are that that isn’t being done adequately.

When you were in school they were supposed to teach you (I seem to recall it was ascribed to Rawls but it’s not important who, when, or where) we want to build the type of society where if you get reincarnated on the bottom it’s OK. How would you like to have to worry about being lynched?

I’m pretty sure almost all of the negroes who were lynched were no loss at all but that isn’t really germane to the question. : )

It’s not what you know it’s who you blow.

My latest puzzlement is over Team Trump The Cult; not the Magaites, I mean Trump’s highest lieutenants. The way these spokespeople very articulately and uniformly deliver “the message” is uncanny and also unprecedented as far as I can recall. Do they have a morning meeting to get everyone on the same page? Maybe hourly text updates to prevent people from ad libbing too much or going off message? Not all of these folks are real Trump fans. How do they do the on-boarding into the upper levels of the Cult? Is it a weekend indoctrination camp with rituals, drugs, shock therapy and what not?

If any of that, who is the ringleader? Is this why Jared the undertaker disappeared? He now has a full-time job running mind control over the Team?

Or is it simpler than all that, they have been Neuralinked and are simply sock puppets for the Trump AI?

Or better yet, maybe all the video has been run through an AI filter (call it “Trump Message 2.0”) before we get the feed. Occam’s razor might favor this explanation.

K. Leavitt is some sort of amazing PR robot, like a cross between C3PO and the T1000. If she ever gets confused (loses her uplink to the mainframe) she might grab Karine and accidentally rip her spine out.

The Russian military and military-industrial-complex and oligarchs closely aligned to those blocks presumably see the West’s anti-Russia project (including Ukraine) as existential.

That doesn’t make any sense.

They are making huge profits from the war. Much more than if Russia had left Ukraine alone. Their profits were massively boosted after the invasion.

Humiliated nations tend to attack smaller targets after a defeat in war. Meaning a Russian loss could spur even more military spending. A future Tsar could decree some smaller neighbor to be historical Russia.

The Russian military complex can’t lose.

It’s really a win/win for the military industrial complex on both sides. Plenty of profits for everyone.

Profits for wealthy oligarchs that keep their sons from the front while the poor die from drone attacks.

A truly glorious 2.5 week special operation. A classic dysgenic European war where the wealthy triumph regardless of the outcome. All hail the dwarf king!

So the first King of Macedonia was Y haplogroup E ?

Battle of the Nations
Norway Great Britain

Trump’s highest lieutenants. The way these spokespeople very articulately and uniformly deliver “the message” is uncanny and also unprecedented as far as I can recall

It is not unprecedented. It has been the “new normal” for awhile now.

One powerful Fake Stream Media technique is fabricating nonexistent strife within their chosen target. A key method method is out of context clipping to misportray A and B as having different positions.

The minimum necessary counter measure is packaging near identical “sound bites” to staff expected to address the same subject.

Do they have a morning meeting to get everyone on the same page?

On Sunday morning this is 100% true.

There are a number of longer form, morning interview shows that run back to back to back across multiple outlets. None of the hosts are friendly to MAGA. Swamp critters like Stephanopoulos are DNC operatives. Those going into enemy territory are heavily scripted as part of the pre-combat preparation.

PEACE 😇

Is 11% of the House of Commons gay? (And why?)

The numbers need a breakout. IslamoGloboHomo parties, such as Labour and LD, grant privilege based on claimed “victim” status. More check boxes = more deviant privileges.

The good news is that there is active opposition to IslamoGloboHomo.

PEACE 😇

There are always different opinions but what matters are the people who run the state. In Russia they clearly see the NATO-Ukraine project as existential and have made it clear that they will fight to the end to prevent it.

Is it existential? One can argue that any country with nukes can’t face an existential danger because they can always make it existential for everybody else. But that’s not the way it works in practice: NATO attacks gradually with a combination of cornering a country externally and sponsoring domestic dissent. They always do both to the targeted countries – Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Syria…

That same play would be tried with Russia at the right time – economic crisis, leadership turnover, ethnic unrest.. It would put Russia in a situation to use the nukes or surrender. But how do you use nukes if the domestic scene is in a turmoil with no stable focused leadership and the attack is coming from a neighboring country like Ukraine (and/or Georgia, Baltic…)? Would they nuke Kiev, Riga, Helsinki or Stockholm?

Any three-digit IQ defense analyst understands this dilemma – it is existential. NATO is attacking a nuclear power that is militarily dominant in its region using Ukies as tools. It can only end in a Russian victory or a clumsy escalation to nukes. AP is too stupid or dishonest to admit it. He lies because he can’t live with what has happened.

I don’t have a deep knowledge of the tomb, but the indications are that it was not Philip II, but an approximate contemporary or possible predecessor.

My assumption would be that the man wasn’t part of the dynasty, or put more technically, not part of the male line, which stretches back quite a ways.

belonged to a man aged 25–35 years with a stature of approximately 167 cm. Radiocarbon dating places this burial in the first half of the 4th century calBC, specifically between 400 and 367 calBC, and by applying a potential collagen offset correction this is slightly shifted to 388-356 calBC at the latest.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000834?via%3Dihub

I don’t know if this guy would fit the bill:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_of_Aloros

Or if they wouldn’t have given him a good burial. But I think a brother-in-law might be one possibility.

(I seem to recall it was ascribed to Rawls but it’s not important who, when, or where) we want to build the type of society where if you get reincarnated on the bottom it’s OK. How would you like to have to worry about being lynched?

The trouble with Rawls is that it isn’t random. We are our ancestors reborn.

And Emmet Till was his father reborn.

We need more datapoints, but centrality of London to power and money would be part of my guess.

@A123

The numbers need a breakout. IslamoGloboHomo parties, such as Labour and LD, grant privilege based on claimed “victim” status.

I am not really an expert on British politics, but all the mainstream parties seem pretty woke. Badenoch is a literal Yoruba woman. The humor of it is that they would have never given her leadership in Nigeria.

The numbers need a breakout. IslamoGloboHomo parties, such as Labour and LD, grant privilege based on claimed “victim” status.

I am not really an expert on British politics, but all the mainstream parties seem pretty woke. Badenoch is a literal Yoruba woman. The humor of it is that they would have never given her leadership in Nigeria.

The Tories are also collapsing. They scored a brutal -674 seats in the tear sheet that I shared above.

Reform may cause them to collapse entirely.

PEACE 😇

On Trump’s birthday, June 14th, and the 250th aniversary of the founding of the US army, they’re planning a Washington DC military parade to include thousands of soldiers, 150 vehicles, and dozens of helicopters.

Hopefully, they are going to make sure that every participant and military vehicle is disarmed…

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/military-parade-celebrate-armys-250th-anniversary-held-trumps-121415841

Convicted British Greek lawyer and pals talk about how everything is going great for Russia. Like every episode they make.

No mention of Russia’s yellow school bus assault. A first in modern warfare!

Russia is also the first to use e-scooters in combat. The kind you stand on.

Ukraine has started using their homemade cruise missiles. I guess they didn’t get the memo that they need to surrender.

It’s an exciting time for poor Russians to try and kill their Orthodox neighbors for cash.

Anonymous troll whores for the Kiev regime with BS. Keep dreaming as your side is getting weaker. Love to see you debate Mercouris.

Much more “exciting” to get force conscripted against your will to become cannon fodder. The free burgers deal hasn’t exactly worked out, as well as suggesting better sex when serving the Kiev regime in battle. Like Western armed services don’t have perks to sign up.

We could use a meta study on the number of political assassinations through history done by the security detail. Probably close to 50%. In JFK Mr X tells Jim Garrison:

number one is you strip out the security.

Which might not be number one. Prince Harry is whining about losing his security detail. My number one is avoid needing a security detail but Anatoly Karlin would tell you that I am a loser.

Polymarket has Pierbattista Pizzaballa at 9% chance for new pope. I would vote for him just because of the name. That’s almost as good a name as Casper Ruud or Keyzer Soze. They don’t have a bet on whether Trump gets assassinated.

Kharkiv is 30 minutes from the Russian border and is still in Ukranian hands.

World is super duper impressed with Russia’s military skills. How many years will it take to get Odessa at this rate? 10 or 15?

Oh but a British lawyer who was disbarred over fraud says everything is fine. Ok then. Well Igor Girkin thinks the dwarf king is clueless at war and used to work for him.

Let me know when the convicted lawyer talks about donkeys or the Russian school bus attack. Funny how he leaves all that out and just repeats the same UKRAINE IS DOOOMED message. Yawn.

Russia’s finest

Maybe Ukraine should just deliver vodka by drone. Get them drunk and maybe they’ll stumble off into the woods.

That’s a shallow non-answer even for you…the key term you ignore is that Russia “sees it as existential”

It’s a fact that Russian elites do not see this war as existential. Some of them see that annexing Ukraine is necessary for Russia to get back in the game of being a Great Power. It would consolidate their hold over Belarus, and enable to move onward to dominating the Baltics, Moldova, being able to provide direct support to their allies in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, given them more bargaining power when dealing with China…

But none believe that Russia’s existence is threatened by Ukraine not joining Russia, or joining NATO.

Imagine Russia or China moving to Canada overthrowing the legally elected government and saying they will form a military alliance with Canada against US

US tolerated Cuba just fine. And Canada as a British colony was also tolerated for decades, while the USA and Britain were still rivals. Canadians even burned the White House once.

You know North American history even less than you do that of Central Europe.

you are an autistic moron

The midwit uses his standard insults. Ironically, it is not unlikely that I meet fewer diagnostic criteria for autism than you do.

You naively believe whatever the Russians say, you were trained to do that by your socialist schools, you believed them too.

Seems to me any primary system probably results in fewer gays.

I would see the high rates for the UK as a signal of how powerful the central committes of the parties are at selecting candidates. Essentially, it is a signal of their institutionalized corruption and how fake the idea of democracy there is.

The Conservatives do have a tranny MP.

Scientologists like to paint L Ron Hubbard’s naval career as if he were a modern John Paul Jones, when in actual fact his career as the commanding officer of some submarine chasers was a lot closer to that of Captain Binghampton’s career in McHales navy and his associated PT-Boats, though Hubbard was not nearly as succesful as Binghampton was.

On the other hand, Hubbard was succesful at writing fiction, and in that sense is remindful of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_L._Ron_Hubbard

‘He briefly commanded two small anti-submarine vessels, USS YP-422 and USS PC-815, in coastal waters off Massachusetts, Oregon and California in 1942 and 1943 respectively. He was removed from command of both vessels and rated by his superiors as being unsuitable for independent duties and “lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and cooperation”.’

As with many other aspects of L. Ron Hubbard’s life, accounts of his military career are much disputed. His account of his military service later formed a major element of his public persona, as depicted by his Scientologist followers. The Church of Scientology presents Hubbard as a “much-decorated war hero who commanded a corvette and during hostilities was crippled and wounded”. According to Scientology publications, he served as a “Commodore of Corvette squadrons” in “all five theaters of World War II” and was awarded “twenty-one medals and palms” for his service. He was “severely wounded and was taken crippled and blinded” to a military hospital, where he “worked his way back to fitness, strength and full perception in less than two years, using only what he knew and could determine about Man and his relationship to the universe.”[5]

However, his official Navy service records indicate that “his military performance was, at times, substandard”, that he was only awarded a handful of campaign medals and that he was never injured or wounded in combat and was never awarded a Purple Heart. Most of his military service was spent ashore in the continental United States on administrative or training duties. He briefly commanded two small anti-submarine vessels, USS YP-422 and USS PC-815, in coastal waters off Massachusetts, Oregon and California in 1942 and 1943 respectively. He was removed from command of both vessels and rated by his superiors as being unsuitable for independent duties and “lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and cooperation”. Although Hubbard asserted that he had attacked and crippled or sunk two Japanese submarines off Oregon while in command of USS PC-815, his claim was rejected by the commander of the Northwest Sea Frontier after a subsequent investigation. He was hospitalized for the last seven months of his active service, not with injuries but with an acute duodenal ulcer.

12 September 1683. The hay day of Poland.

Also:

https://www.griffin-brady.com/battle-vienna/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%BCdiger_von_Starhemberg

Supposedly, unless it’s a bogus report, Trump is to meet with Putin in Abu Dhabi during this coming trip. We’ll see if it pans out soon enough.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/03/trump-gulf-leaders-summit-saudi-arabia

Scoop: Trump to hold summit with Gulf leaders during Saudi Arabia trip

President Trump is expected to hold a summit with Gulf state leaders during his visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-May, a U.S. official and two Arab officials told Axios.

Why it matters: Trump’s first official foreign trip reflects the growing importance his administration is placing on economic cooperation and investments between the U.S. and Gulf countries.

The summit will be a chance for Trump to present his vision for U.S. involvement in the Middle East and lay out his policy objectives in the region.
Driving the news: The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) is planning to invite to the summit the leaders of all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

Trump is expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia on May 13 and hold bilateral meetings. The summit is planned for the morning of May 14.

There currently aren’t plans to invite leaders of other Arab countries to the summit but that could change, an Arab official said.

After the summit, Trump will travel to Doha for a meeting with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim al-Thani. On May 15, he’ll visit Abu Dhabi and meet Emirati President Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ).
The White House said official details of the trip will be announced soon. The Saudi embassy in Washington declined to comment.

Wow, the Canadians burnt the White House…when was it? 1812? Are you now completely bonkers using staff like that to support your nonsense?

There is not much we can do about you arguing by assertion and irrelevant minutia. I have diagnosed you correctly, you have a form of autism, in your case the inability to understand context. So you produce endless “factoids” that add up to nothing.

If you really think that Canadians burning the White House in 1812 justifies the NATO expansion to Ukraine you are a sorry case of an ‘merican idiot…By the way, much smaller attempt by Russia to expand to Cuba – small country of little importance – almost led to a nuclear war in 1962. It actually proves my point about the existential threat that is expanding to the borders of a nuclear state. But you seem to dumb to get it.

Israel would never allow him or Huckabee to be citizens.

From the legal view, Israel’s immigration policy is the same as countries like Germany or Italy.

Italy allows anyone who has Italian ancestry even to the 19th century to apply for citizen as repatriation, while Germany on the Spätaussiedler law gives citizens to people with German ancestry, usually normal Russians or people in Kazakhstan with German name forgotten in their family tree.

Israel generally allowing people to apply with Jewish ancestry to the third generation, with some complications for the religious laws (so you can actually get to the fourth generation in half of cases), also allowing repatriation of partners of people with third generation rights, and children of third generation people, and everyone’s parents after they have retired.*

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In any countries like Israel, Italy or Germany, if you don’t have the right to repatriate under ancestry repatriation, then you need to apply for a visa, like employment visa, student visa, refugee visa, high skills employment visa etc.

Germany or Italy seem to have more “liberal” immigration, just because they are in the EU, which allows free labor mobility. If you are not an EU citizen, you understand these European countries are not easier to immigrate to than people without at least third generation Jewish roots to Israel.

allow a homosexual atheist

Israel doesn’t check for peoples’ sexuality in immigration. It’s more socially liberal than the USA and of course, even Republican states don’t check sexuality.

if he passes the DNA test.

Israel doesn’t check for DNA in immigration. That wouldn’t make sense also as it’s multiracial and the Judaism test for immigration relates to being part of the religious community, or the third generation descent from the “official religious” branch of the community.

would still have a better chance than Huckabee or Hegseth. The shared Holy Land.

Huckabee has diplomatic visa, which is the god mode of visas and allows you to work as an international drug smuggler without prosecution.

He also immigrate there if he wanted because he is a Pastor and could apply for a working visa in a church or Christian charity, which is not a rare profession in the Holyland. (Although Christian sites in Israel often seem to have more European clergy, like Germans or Swedish people.)

Also, a lot of people who are not eligible for citizenship in Israel are buying property there. I used to know someone whose family has bought a house in Israel, has no eligibility for citizenship. Their parents are just investors as I understand. It’s funny because you would have to do a visa run every few months to live there on a tourist visa.

It was a trend for wealthy investors in postsoviet countries to buy houses in Israel even without any eligibility for citizenship or working visa. It reminds of one his promotional or possibly mythical stories, Putin’s PR people were saying he bought an apartment in Israel as a gift for his teacher who had retired there.

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* Israel’s immigration policy is successful for attracting from relatively poor countries. It is popular for Ethiopians, Russians, Ukrainians. But few Americans immigrate to Israel, even though there should be many with Jewish roots there.

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-272/#comment-7106534

From your lived experience is this Hollywood presentation realistic?

That’s possible you can imagine in very old American guidebooks, they would say it was the Chicago of the Soviet Union.

Today, in the postsoviet epoch, you would usually associate more to Ekaterinburg, as Chicago, or more generally, the Third capital of Russia, after Saint-Petersburg and Moscow.

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If you want to match Russian and American cities, it’s not always much analogy.

There are some simple ones.

Detroit – Tolyatti.

Chicago – Ekaterinburg

New York – Saint-Petersburg

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But maybe more difficult

Charlotte – Saratov?

Houston – Krasnodar?

Miami – Sochi?

San Francisco – Vladivostok?

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Moscow is incomparable to anywhere in the USA, as it’s like a separate country from Russia, which parasitizes the country’s wealth and politics.

Moscow is like in relation to France, it’s relation to separate countries Monaco (wealth haven), Brussels (political control) and the Vatican (spiritual control).

The China-Nepal Railway is a planned railway project aiming to connect China and Nepal, specifically linking Kathmandu, Nepal, with Shigatse, Tibet, China.

A few days after Canada’s voters seem to intend to destroy their country by voting for the Liberal Party after 10 years of disaster, Australia has voted again for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, from the Labor Party of Australia.

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

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It is example of the popularity of the leftwing political parties, winning the elections widely in the largest anglosaxon countries (excluding USA).

Canada – Prime Minister Mark Carney
Great Britain – Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Australia – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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In New Zealand and Republic of Ireland they have “conservative” leaders

New Zealand – Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
Republic of Ireland – Prime Minister Micheal Martin

The Kiev regime has wasted away several good sized armies in weaponry and personnel, while Russia has gotten militarily and economically stronger.

Earlier addressed your BS about donkeys.

https://www.google.com/search?q=US+military+use+of+donkeys+afghanistan&sca_esv=8c342fd051715880&ei=O14YaKaYM9yv5NoPl_jX2AQ&ved=0ahUKEwjmoZKf3YuNAxXcF1kFHRf8FUsQ4dUDCBA&oq=US+military+use+of+donkeys+afghanistan&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJlVTIG1pbGl0YXJ5IHVzZSBvZiBkb25rZXlzIGFmZ2hhbmlzdGFuMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUjGV1CqBliHRXACeACQAQCYAYkBoAGJC6oBAzQuObgBDMgBAPgBAZgCDqAChgvCAg4QABiABBiwAxiGAxiKBcICCBAAGLADGO8FwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAgUQIRirApgDAIgGAZAGA5IHBDMuMTGgB-clsgcEMS4xMbgH9Ao&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Mercouris has made a productive life for himself. You haven’t come close to matching it.

popularity of the leftwing political parties, winning the elections widely in the largest anglosaxon countries

One Party British Democracy, with Confucian Characteristics.

voters seem to intend to destroy their country by voting for the Liberal Party after 10 years of disaster,

Why?

MAGA (American Nationalists) will end up cannibalising the rest of the Anglosphere, in more than one way. They are reshaping the entire political landscape.

The second order effects are unpredictable but will most intensely be felt in Canada and the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling_rivalry_(animals)#Intrauterine_cannibalism

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

Some car porn with Chinese characteristics.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g64581469/coolest-cars-shanghai-auto-show/

Wow, the Canadians burnt the White House…when was it? 1812? Are you now completely bonkers using staff like that to support your nonsense?

No, your midwit brain can’t understand the context. Now you have confessed that for you inability to understand context is a symptom of autism. So you have demonstrated it.

Despite the war of 1812, for decades afterwards Britain and the USA had hostile relations (including some British support for the Confederacy). Britain kept anti-American fortresses along the American border. Yet America never invaded.

You claimed America would never allow a hostile Canada with military bases. And yet the historical context is that it did exactly that, for many decades.

Russia to expand to Cuba – small country of little importance – almost led to a nuclear war in 1962. It actually proves my point

Are you really so ignorant that you think the Soviets left Cuba in 1962?

They kept a base with thousands of troops there and a critical radar station until the end of the Cold War. Much more than NATO had in Ukraine in 2021.

Is Trump trying to sink Hollywood, by encouraging retaliatory tariffs? If so, I agree with him 100%.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-100-tariff-all-foreign-produced-movies-we-want-movies-made-america-again

Have mixed feelings about his plan to revive Alcatraz. It was always very expensive. Much better to send people to a foreign isle, IMO. Though it may be hard to duplicate the prestige. Possibly it would be a good place to send corrupt judges.

https://www.ft.com/content/b4efc86a-1064-4549-857d-619fb1841943

‘When pressed again if he would uphold the US constitution as president, Trump answered: “I don’t know.”‘

Trump says he does not know if he needs to uphold the US constitution

President refuses to endorse due process as his efforts to deport undocumented immigrants are blocked by judges

Donald Trump said he did not know if people in the US deserved due legal process, which is guaranteed by the American constitution, as he blasted the judiciary for thwarting his plans to deport undocumented immigrants.

Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with NBC aired on Sunday, in which he renewed his push to make Canada the 51st US state and insisted that he would not fire Jay Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, before his term ends in 2026.

Trump’s remarks on the rule of law in America come as his push to deport millions of undocumented immigrants — a cornerstone of his 2024 election campaign — is facing roadblocks in the courts, as individuals challenge their detentions and expulsions on constitutional grounds.

When asked if he agreed that everyone in the US, including citizens and non-citizens, deserved due process, Trump said he was unsure.

I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer,” Trump told NBC. “We have thousands of people that are . . . some of the worst people on Earth . . . and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it.”

When pressed again if he would uphold the US constitution as president, Trump answered: “I don’t know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said”.

Have mixed feelings about his plan to revive Alcatraz. It was always very expensive. Much better to send people to a foreign isle, IMO. Though it may be hard to duplicate the prestige. Possibly it would be a good place to send corrupt judges.

They could always try to set something up on one of the Aleutian Islands. 😉

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

Concepts like left/right and conservative/liberal do not work well any more.

MAGA has made the GOP the party of workers. If representing labor is “left”, does that mean MAGA, is,”left”?

It is example of the popularity of the leftwing political parties, winning the elections widely in the largest anglosaxon countries (excluding USA).

Canada – Prime Minister Mark Carney
Great Britain – Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Australia – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

These results are mostly driven by dislike of the spineless and ineffectual alternatives. Voters are waking up to the fact that both conservative and liberal parties are actually nearly identical Globalist war mongers.

In Germany, theoretically conservative Merz won and he immediately sold out to the far left Green and SPD. If Merz had actually been conservative, he would have formed a coalition with AfD. Instead he went the Globalist uniparty route. Support for CDU is sliding and AfD is now the #1 party in Germany.

Reform is still in the process of building the necessary ground operation in the UK. They need a few more years though. They are obtaining wins in local elections which is a solid first step. Farage could be the next UK PM.

IMHO, things are looking promising in Romania. (1)

The original winner of the previous Romanian election in 2024, Călin Georgescu, was removed as the election winner and barred from ever running again because Georgescu did not support the EU security state and did not want war with Russia. The election was thrown out because the wrong person won the vote of the Romanian people.

 

 

A second election was organized, and the man who represents the voice of Călin Georgescu, George Simion, has won the first round. However, do not get too excited; remember, NATO is building their biggest military base in Romania, and they will not accept any impediments.

Like Moldova, the second round will likely see massive numbers of “Romanians voting from abroad” to help shape the final result. The people living in Romania will not technically be the ones deciding the Romanian election.

This source is quite concerned about fraud. Hopefully he is wrong and the election will not be stolen.

Populism is the solution to stop Globalism.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/04/calin-georgescus-replacement-in-romania-george-simion-wins-first-round-of-voting-in-critical-battle-against-eu-intelligence-apparatus/

A few days after Canada’s voters seem to intend to destroy their country by voting for the Liberal Party after 10 years of disaster

Possibly. But as I had earlier pointed out, Carney is very different from Trudeau. Trudeau is a dumb nepo baby. Carney is a brilliant guy from a humble background (parents were schoolteachers from deep in the Canadian provinces) who went to Harvard and Oxford, and became head of Bank of Canada and Bank of England. People in banking or finance, who otherwise would have voted for the Conservatives, voted for Carney.

It’s an experiment: can Canadian Liberalism work, if it is run by a very smart guy rather than by an idiot. If Canadians are lucky he may be their Clinton (another very smart leftist, the last one to run the USA).

You failed to address JJ’s strongest point:

Maybe Ukraine should just deliver vodka by drone. Get them drunk and maybe they’ll stumble off into the woods.

Mercouris may have made a “productive life for himself” (although that’s doubtful), but you certainly haven’t. Your typical reply here reveals your sub-par and stooge like attempts at an answer and reveals somebody that never was able to aspire to much more than some kind of imaginary “New York based Independent Analyst”. At 63, there doesn’t seem like there’s a whole lot of time left for you to turn things around.

Thank you for your service.

A few days later the Israelis came back with a surprising message: “Yes, you do. There are 15,000 rounds in the Marine Corps supply depot in Hawaii.” Pianka recalled, “We looked in Hawaii and, sure enough, there they were. The Israelis had found a U.S. supply of 90-millimeter ammunition we couldn’t find ourselves.”

It could be that the immigrant experiences in America is different in different parts in the country. What may be true in Northern New England may be different than what’s going on in Mps or in Phx too.

Like I’ve said, US immigration policies need to be tightened up much more in able to sort out and discard more of the bad apples that end up infesting our country. More than even building a wall, Trump’s team should concentrate on doing just this.

BTW, based on our recent conversation, I did watch “Think Fast Mr.Moto”, and thought that it was a decent and entertaining film. Just enough twists and turns towards the end to enliven the plot and viewing experience. You never did explain whether you enjoyed the book better than the film, or vice versa?

Thomas Jefferson, Writings (Washington Ed. of 1853), vol. 5, p. 542.

A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.

The former White House occupant, and his predecessor, have let in tens of millions of undesirable migrants. Many outright illegals. Others on dubious programs such as TPS. There is no possible way to hear tens of millions of individual claims.

Historically, the judiciary has shown a great deal of deference to the executive & legislative branches when handling complex issues. Where they granted relief it was to specific individuals or small groups. And, if they made an order it was within the bounds of reasonable expectations.

What we have now is exactly what Jefferson was concerned about “To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law”. Individual judges are issuing national restrictions preventing executive action. And, their proposed remedies are unreasonable and/or obviously impossible. For example:

• There was an improper deportation to El Salvador. A judge is ordering the administration to get him back. The obvious question is, “How?” This is an unreasonable attempt to intrude into foreign policy reserved to the executive branch.

• A judge tried to turn a deportation plane around mid flight. Obviously unreasonable.

• Trying force processing of tens of millions of individual cases is clearly an impossibility.

Individual judges imposing national restraining orders will end the country as we know it. Trump is pushing SCOTUS to clean up this problem before it becomes a constitutional crisis. Alas, John Roberts is not acting. He apparently thinks the normal appeal process will work. It will not. Hopefully, SCOTUS will grasp the risk in time to rein in overreach by lesser courts.
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Remember, we are on our 2nd Constitution. The current document replaced the Articles of Confederation.

America can outlive the end of Constitution 2.0. It can be replaced if that is necessary for survival. Are we there yet? Possibly. The balance of responsibilities versus rights is badly out of kilter.

PEACE 😇

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/04/poll-finds-majority-of-americans-see-trump-as-dangerous-dictator.html

‘…more than half of all Americans view President Donald Trump as a “dangerous dictator” whose power needs to be limited “before he destroys American democracy,”’..

Poll finds majority of Americans see Trump as ‘dangerous dictator’

As he crosses the 100-day mark, more than half of all Americans view President Donald Trump as a “dangerous dictator” whose power needs to be limited “before he destroys American democracy,” according to a poll released Tuesday.

Fifty-two percent of respondents to the poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute offered that sentiment. The results were published by the political news website Axios.

Forty-four percent of respondents called Trump “a strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness,” according to the survey.

A majority of respondents also agreed that Trump overstepped his authority by ordering the mass firing of federal employees throughout multiple government agencies (55% agree, 41% disagree).

I’m surprised that no photos or exhibits of the new Volkswagen beetle, nor the flamboyant kahrman-ghia were shown? In the world of car porn, I think that the kahrman-ghia could be considered for pin-up status. But even Playboy, I’ve been told, no longer includes photos of nude women…

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/03/heres-how-pollsters-are-lying-about-trumps-approval-ratings-n4939459

poll samples are rigged to undercount Republicans. “The fact is, and I talked to John McLaughlin and I talked to Matt Towery about this, they have some polls there that are like 27% Republican when Trump got 50% of the vote. So if you add the 23 points they didn’t test, suddenly he’s in great shape. This is deliberate. It is willful.”

PEACE 😇

Want To Know The Truth Behind Those Anti-Trump Polls?

Matt Margolis | 10:02 AM on May 03, 2025

You’ve no doubt heard the media narrative about President Trump’s poll numbers according to most pollsters—you know, the ones who got the 2024 election so wrong,

Make no mistake about it — the legacy media is at it again with their dishonest polling tactics against President Trump. But this time, their deceptive game has been called out by none other than former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Appearing on Hannity Thursday night, Gingrich exposed how the media’s recent polling showing Trump’s approval dropping is nothing but smoke and mirrors. The reality? These polls are deliberately skewed to paint a false narrative about Trump’s standing with the American people.

Let’s look at the facts. The same media outlets that got it wrong in 2024—ABC News, CBS News, and CNN—are now pushing polls that show Trump’s approval is declining from his February high of 53%.

But are they really?

“I got a little preview about poll numbers that are coming out tomorrow, and from both Robert Cahaly and Matt Towery, who I respect a lot,” Hannity said. “And as I suspected, all of the polls that the media has been pushing on the American people about Donald Trump are false, and that’s what the early indications are.”

He pointed out the absurdity of the numbers being hyped by the media, especially when far-left figures such as Chuck Schumer were polling in the teens. “All the pollsters that got the election in ‘24 wrong and got every election about Donald Trump wrong—all of those people—the ones saying, ‘Oh, he’s plummeting.’ But meanwhile, they’re ignoring Chuck is at 17% and the Democrats are in the 20s. I’m trying to understand that logic. Can you help me out?”

Gingrich didn’t mince words.

Video Link

CORRECTION

The former White House occupant, and his predecessor, have let in tens of millions of undesirable migrants.

This should read

The former White House occupant, and his predecessor Obama, have let in tens of millions of undesirable migrants.

This should be clear from context. Alas, there are commenters here who maliciously undermine civil discourse with pedantry and nitpicking.

PEACE 😇

Perhaps it was presented there, but didn’t raise as much interest as some vintage VW cars do:

https://globalwarmuseum.com/produkt/kubelwagen-type-82-1942-from-german-kriegsmarine-for-sale/

(True German engineering…)

Israel would never allow him or Huckabee to be citizens.

From the legal view, Israel’s immigration policy is the same as countries like Germany or Italy.

No that isn’t the case. Neither country has DNA based right to return.

I have German DNA but I don’t have a legal right to citizenship.

Israel doesn’t check for peoples’ sexuality in immigration. It’s more socially liberal than the USA and of course, even Republican states don’t check sexuality.

I never said they check for sexuality. I was making the point that a Jewish atheist pornography producer has a right to citizenship but not Huckabee even though he has a lifetime of service to Israel. This should not be a surprise and matches the common beliefs of Jews. It is more racial than religious. They value an atheist Jew over an Evangelical and make it difficult to convert outside of marriage. Their children are pressured to marry Jews even if they are secular.

I really don’t care that Israel’s citizenship is DNA based. They can set whatever rules they want.

I’m pointing out that “Judeo-Christianity” is mostly one sided. Our Evangelicals are much more pro-Israel than Israel is pro-Christian. As in a degree of 1000 to 1.

Israel’s immigration policy is successful for attracting from relatively poor countries. It is popular for Ethiopians, Russians, Ukrainians

Amusing you brought that up when they dragged their feet for years on Ethiopian citizenship. They really didn’t want to recognize Ethiopians as Jews.

Unlike many here I don’t resent that Israel exists or that their policies favor them. What I don’t like is that we have Evangelicals like Huckabee and Hegseth that also put Israel first. They imagine some special relationship but it isn’t reciprocal. Evangelicals have been friendzoned by Jews. The Jews don’t believe Christ is their Messiah and do not view fat Baptist Republicans as fellow near-Jews.

Do you think they will finish it before Musk tunnels out the Washington-London transatlantic hyperloop?

If you achieve all of your goals you did not set them high enough.

A retro-futuristic masterpiece. Check it out:

You never did explain whether you enjoyed the book better than the film, or vice versa?

I am often more of a book enjoyer. I won’t say the book is always superior to the film, but there are a lot of things in books that can’t really be translated into film. (Reverse is true as well.)

Like the character of Mr. Moto loses a lot of his mystery in film. In the books, he is a bit more in the background. He is often described as making a sibilant hiss. Imagine if they tried that on film! Lorre’s character seems more effusive – I almost feel as though the character seems gay rather than Japanese.

But more than that, I often appreciate how a novel is more a snapshot of time. There are things that go into it: old, forgotten references, and old ways and vocab that are lost in course of the streamlining

In the novel – I don’t know whether Marquand knew a lot about Hawaii or made it up, but there are certain elements that make it seem like an authentic snapshot. IIRC, he uses the term “blackbirding”, which I had never heard before.

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

I think he also talks about college kids returning home to Hawaii via ship. It genuinely seems like a different era.

Have you ever driven a Volkswagen beetle up a hill with noticeable grade?

Interestingly, the US doesn’t make any official claim to Antarctica, and even though I think about 15% is unclaimed.

Let us know when you come back to 2025…:) Your 19th century musings mark you as a complete dishonest moron. We are wasting time on you, get some help…

One more time: if the legally elected government in Canada was overthrown and Canada would announce it is joining a military alliance with Russia and China there is no f…ing way in the universe US would allow it. They would prevent it because it would be considered an existential danger. You pretend you are stupid and don’t get the basic math and geography, rather sad. It must be the costly war your side is losing, it is eating away at your sanity..but that’s the fate of stupid people.

Masterpiece? Let’s see: uncomfortable seats, windows are too small causing low visibility, too cramped on the inside, and high ongoing maintenance as with all German cars. Normal people refuse to read a manual to have a car. Germans are stuck in the mid-20th century car culture that’s gone, nobody cares. It’s like that with many things about Germany, they are “conservative” with all the wrong things.

I have, in an old one with what, a 65 h.p. engine. It can be done. 🙂 The new ones come with turbo engines.

Have you driven one?

Not the new one, but I drove a few VW’s and they always felt cramped and uncomfortable. Do you like the constant maintenance?

For a Hasbara troll, you are not doing very well. No bonus for you.

Unless you are running some 11-D scam, right up there with string theory. In that case, carry on.

Did you ever read any of the Terrance McKenna stuff about his Hawaii paradise wilderness life? He was one of those functional stoners. Stoned ~50% of his waking life. Also not widely recognized is he stopped hallucinogens at a young age after bad trips which he almost never talked about. When he was promoting mushrooms in 1990 he was a hard core hypocrite.

Nobody ever asked him if his drug trips might have been better if he took fewer of them that I heard. He did have some excellent stories about living in the jungle. Supposedly there aren’t any poisonous snakes in the Hawaii jungles.

https://maalaea.com/are-there-snakes-in-hawaii/

You can repair them with a small home tool kit. If you own one you learn this fast because they break down with clockwork regularity. Truly the people’s car.

Some day you might realize that there are indeed people on the internet that disagree with you and are not part of a Jewish conspiracy.

Your desire to believe I am Jewish is like a bone that a puppy cannot drop.

Well chew on this little doggy:

Trump proposes using government funds to save Hollywood:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-orders-100-tariff-on-foreign-made-movies-to-save-dying-hollywood/ar-AA1Ecpfl?ocid=BingNewsSerp

I called Trump a big waste of fucking time and here he is trying to save Hollywood.

Now tell yourself “but but Jew troll” because you can’t handle dissenting views like a real man. Trump could get a star of David tattoo and you would get upset with me for using CNN as the source.

Trump proposes using government funds to save Hollywood:

I called Trump a big waste of fucking time and here he is trying to save Hollywood

I suspect this is Trump trolling the media and DNC.

Digitally delivered entertainment products are services not goods. Developing a mechanism for “service tariffs” is probably beyond executive authority.

The Fake Stream Media complex will be distracted for a day or two before this is retracted.

PEACE 😇

You can repair them with a small home tool kit. If you own one you learn this fast because they break down with clockwork regularity. Truly the people’s car.

Wow it breaks down and also comes with 1960s safety standards.

They don’t have the modern safety cage. Small cars from that era just collapse.

I’ve been in a couple car accidents. You would be out of your mind to make a VW bug your daily driver in the current America. Some mom in an F150 would turn a VW bug into a crushed pop can while looking at her phone.

I was kidding, I thought you had a sense of humor. I was lightly mocking the people who think you are a Hasbara troll. The 11-D remark was a clue. I have previously speculated here that you were not Jewish/Israeli and that you come across as ex-US military.

You don’t need to convince me that Trump is making a lot of strange (bad) moves many of which are blatantly pro-Jewish power. The big question is are any of his important actions likely to help normal US citizens and if so, will the pros outweigh the cons? I am still in wait and see mode.

Sometimes you remind me slightly of RatWiki but I have never kept up with that project.

Trump proposes using government funds to save Hollywood

Hollywood is a part of America, so why not? The proposal is symbolic, there is no easy way to do it as is the case with most Trump’s plans. It is meant to shake up the status quo – but Hollywood will film in Canada out of spite…:)

There is no more ‘managed‘ and subsidized industry than making movies. It’s true everywhere: Euros pay for it directly, in US it’s done with distribution monopolies – in movie business the distribution is 90%. Hollywood has a large square around LA where only unions can work but their real problem is they are basically brain-dead. I am starting to think Trump won’t actually change anything but it will be entertaining. He is better than the movies…

I suspect this is Trump trolling the media and DNC.

That’s what the GOP/Fox said about Greenland and he corrected them.

Same for the third term.

Digitally delivered entertainment products are services not goods. Developing a mechanism for “service tariffs” is probably beyond executive authority.

Well that makes me feel better.

Tariffs in general are not supposed part of executive authority:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, … but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”

Maybe. Don’t forget Trump’s previous Secretary of the Treasury was a wealthy hedge fund manager and movie producer.

A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires; and if he is unchecked by custom, morals, or laws, he may ruin his life before he matures sufficiently to understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group.

Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), pp. 35–36

Trump proposes using government funds to save Hollywood

Hollywood is a part of America, so why not? The proposal is symbolic, there is no easy way to do it as is the case with most Trump’s plans. It is meant to shake up the status quo – but Hollywood will film in Canada out of spite…:)

I simply don’t like Hollywood and do not support using the government to protect them.

I am not a libertarian and do not support treating all industries equally.

A tariff can be passed on anything and it isn’t difficult. The government controlling the market sets the rules. You send the bill and if they don’t pay then they lose a license to operate. It’s not hard and there are numerous countries that tax Western media.

There is no more ‘managed‘ and subsidized industry than making movies. It’s true everywhere

I should have described it as using Federal government to protect a degenerate industry.

But the industry is somewhat subsidized in that tax evasion is tolerated. They use overseas tax avoidance schemes that both parties tolerate.

Hollywood has a large square around LA where only unions can work, but their real problem is that they are basically brain-dead.

It has nothing to do with brain-dead unions. The media companies simply don’t want to pay union rates.

Hollywood is dominated by liberals that support unions for other industries. They commonly make movies in Canada to avoid paying union rates on basic labor. Not the actors but all the people behind the scenes. There are multi-billion dollar companies that can easily afford to pay union rates but choose to film outside of California. I’m not taking either side. I am just pointing out that liberals are full of shit and their media companies should not be given market protection by the Federal government.

It’s been a tough week for Trump defenders.

He not only wants to protect Hollywood but is ordering that Alcatraz be re-opened which shows he hasn’t read 10 minutes about why it was closed. We have a president that is probably basing his knowledge on the movie The Rock. Alcatraz was expensive to operate and you’d have to tear the whole thing down. It’s actually one of the most profitable national parks.

Oh and he wants to expand military spending. Gosh and to think that so many called me a Jew or troll for stating that we are better off with a boring establishment Republican. Trump wants tax cuts for the wealthy and an increase in military spending. What a guy. I’m sure that along with his tariff wars will really fix the budget.

That US military spending comparison diagram is very misleading. The Pentagon acquire ordinary hammer for $8000 while the same hammer for Russian military costs $2.50.

That is why the Russian GDP using PPP has climb to the 4th place. No doubt, some “experts” here will refute it – you know “it’s bad for us”.

Look who is talking, an anonymous svidomite crank who backs other such trolls. Once again, tell me when you get academically referenced, in addition to appearing in major as well as not so major media.

Later, you chump of a punk loser, who regurgitates stupidity as something brilliant like this:

Maybe Ukraine should just deliver vodka by drone. Get them drunk and maybe they’ll stumble off into the woods.

You can’t handle the truth as evidenced by your feeble minded replies.

However, it is produced in Slovakia.

You guys might be casting too broad a net. If you focus on one or two things you might not lose your mind. I’m doing UFOs and JFK. The congress person in front of the congress department of both of these topics is Representative Luna and just yesterday I found out Luna is a fake Mexican.

The vapid cunt was born Anna Paulina Mayerhofer. Luna is a stage name.

You will not get any mileage from attacking the random sample. This downturn is caused not by Trump policies but by his unpolished arrogant style. He has nobody around to politely tell him “shut up already”. Bannon guidance is needed.

That US military spending comparison diagram is very misleading. The Pentagon acquire ordinary hammer for $8000 while the same hammer for Russian military costs $2.50.

Relative cost to produce does not make it misleading.

Yes of course it costs more to make tanks in the US than Russia. It would also be cheaper to build tanks in Mexico.

But tanks, jets and ships as a % of the overall budget is still massively high compared to other countries.

The amount spent on jet fighters is more than the GDP of some states.

That is why the Russian GDP using PPP has climb to the 4th place. No doubt, some “experts” here will refute it – you know “it’s bad for us”.

PPP doesn’t negate total production. It’s purchasing power parity.

Russia as a giant factory is closer to Texas or Italy in terms of raw production. PPP tries to show what can be purchased by relative income. It doesn’t change GDP. PPP is a market basket index just like inflation. It doesn’t change how many cars rolled off the assembly line.

Did you ever read any of the Terrance McKenna stuff about his Hawaii paradise wilderness life?

Have never really read his stuff, just heard his hyper-crazy stoned ape theory explained once on youtube.

This article claims drugs led to higher civilization in the Andes:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/secret-drug-room-full-of-psychedelic-snuff-tubes-discovered-at-pre-inca-site-in-peru

Pity that the genetic revolution happened so long after the industrial one. It may be that there were a few professions associated with certain alleles. But would be hard to figure it out now, when the jobs died long ago.

https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/legendary-women-of-the-sea-in-south-korea-freedive-well-into-their-80s-a-new-study-hints-at-how

It looks like they made a pretty close in appearance replica. 🙂

The original Karmann Ghia was used on the opening of Get Smart for a couple of years and at the time (1967) only had 53 HP.

…it is produced in Slovakia

Yes, and so is Porsche, another useless piece of metal…we can’t wait until they pack up and leave.

Russian motorcycle squads taking Soviet flag into battle:

Kind of weird.

Are they even more confused about this war than our resident Putin defenders?

LETS GO GET THOSE GLOBALIST SURF NAZI UKRAINIANS

ASKING TO EXPLAIN THE WAR IS JEWISH NAZI GLOBALIST BEHAVIOR COMRADE

JUST START YOUR MOTORCYCLE AND WAVE THE SOVIET FLAG

MAKES SENSE

Roseanne Barr and Alex Jones talk about God, jews, muslims, methylene blue, and Alex Jones. They talk mostly about Alex Jones. I swear I scrolled over 10 minute chunks and the landing point matched the take off point exactly. Perhaps Alex Jones did not spend 10 solid minutes talking about nothing but himself but there is no way I am going to investigate.

Also they were both smoking so their gila monster venom appears to not adversely react with their tobacco.

In case anybody could not have guessed they really hate muslims and are pretty meh on jews.

country has DNA based right to return

Israel doesn’t have “DNA based right to return”.

Immigration in the repatriation track can only be based on documents showing the ancestor was part of an officially recognized religious community, synagogue etc.

right to citizenship but not Huckabee even though he has a lifetime of service to Israel.

Huckabee is one of the most important people in the international Zionism. He’s probably eating dinner parties in the Israeli president’s house and his embassy in Jerusalem is managing the visas and immigration between Israel and the USA.

It is more racial than religious.

The repatriation track of the immigration system is based on the documents of the religious community, which is how they are different from Germany or Italy. It’s only based on ability of the immigrant to find religious origin documents.

Germany is based on the ethnicity (Spätaussiedler law), which is generally normal Russians with some forgotten German roots, which are probably verified by names or government documents.

Amusing you brought that up when they dragged their feet for years on Ethiopian citizenship. They really didn’t want to recognize Ethiopians as Jews.

Israel is full of Ethiopian people, and every kind of African, from North Africa, East Africa, West Africa and even South Africa.*

The feet are only dragged in relation to the community of the previously Christian Ethiopians, who have Jewish roots (Falash Mura).

Falash Mura are a controversial group relative to the Israel’s immigration project because they can’t control the numbers of Christian Ethiopians who say they have Jewish roots. Documentation level in Ethiopia isn’t advanced like in Russia/Ukraine/Belarus.

The numbers of the previously Christian Ethiopians who could say they are having Jewish roots is much more flexible than in Russia/Ukraine/Belarus etc.

Evangelicals have been friendzoned by Jews. The Jews don’t believe Christ is their Messiah

Most of the tourists in Israel are Evangelical Christians, I would guess. In total, although maybe not proportional to population (as Evangelicals are much larger group than American Jews) attain more benefit from Israel than American Jews, as they are visiting more often.

I understand the view of the Evangelicals to Israel a lot because if you read the Bible, its religious is based a lot in land. While for other branches of Christianity like Catholicism** which are less based on the source text, then the land is becoming a less important.

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* There are even famous ex-Christian South Africans in the West Bank. Although, it showed them as rightwing, in Israeli Hebrew television documentaries about them some of those community are quite liberal.

** Order of magnitude more Catholics go to pilgrimage to the Vatican, than to Israel.

Vatican is a beautiful place to visit, as it is a shrine for Italian Renaissance culture, which was culture more inspired by Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome than the Biblical world, although it uses biblical stories as often source material.

From the view that is unconsciously in the Vatican, the Holyland could be relocated to Italy and Jesus was living near Florence sometime in its Quattrocentro .

Huckabee is one of the most important people in the international Zionism. He’s probably eating dinner parties in the Israeli president’s house and his embassy in Jerusalem is managing the visas and immigration between Israel and the USA.

Are you familiar with the contradictory online documentation regarding is Huckabee or is he not attempting to organize the red heifer sacrifice?

One more time: if the legally elected government in Canada was overthrown and Canada would announce it is joining a military alliance with Russia and China there is no f…ing way in the universe US would allow it.

It’s funny that in order to justify Russia’s invasion you have to do a “whatabout-ism” about an event that never happened.

If you want to speculate about what the US would do – the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. For many decades in the 19th century the USA faced a hostile Canada full of forts and enemy troops, and did not invade.

For several decades in the 20th century, the USA faced a hostile Cuba with a Soviet base, thousands of Soviet troops, and a radar station, and did not invade (Bay of Pigs doesn’t count, nor did the Fenian shenanigans in the 19th century). Though an attempt to place nukes led to a crisis.

So, the likely situation is that as long as China or whoever didn’t put its nukes in Canada, the USA would not invade. It would just sanction and at worst facilitate some rebels to cross into the country.

Though the Canada analogy is flawed because Canada has a much longer border with the USA than Ukraine does with Russia. Mexico might be a better analogy.

But you don’t know basic geography, we get it.

A friend in high school owned a VW Beetle. When he went to fix it after a few months, he discovered it had been running with a ping pong ball performing some essential task in the engine.

They could be bought for under $1000 in the late 80s (I think he paid something like $500).

Palestine is short on natural resources. I have mentioned the radical fresh water shortfall in the Muslim colony of Gaza. While not as tight, Jewish Palestine and Muslim occupied Judea & Samaria are also limited. JJ asks the wrong question. Why Jewish Palestine limits inflows of other religions, including Christianity, is self evident.

For inexplicable reasons JJ misrepresents this as some sort of irreconcilable rift demonstrating hostility among Judeo-Christians. The reality is that Bethlehem remains under the horror of despotic Muslim oppression. There are few reasons for Christians to want to migrate to Palestine.

The surprise is that Jewish Palestine remains open to new Jewish inflows. As a practical matter the numbers remain manageable. Thus, there is no overwhelming need for change. In 2022, when large numbers of Ukrainian Jews bolted, the total was still only ~75K. The historical average is ~20K/yr.

PEACE 😇

The plan is to try the prison thing just for show. When that doesn’t work they plan to turn Alcatraz into an ultra-exclusive San Francisco Bay resort. Non-billionaire, non-Bohemian Grove masses need not apply. It will be linked directly to other prestigious Trump resorts such as Trump Gaza by Bezos’ flying penis.

You mean the stripper? LOL. They really are pissing on us and expecting people to call it rain.

Aliens I get, but why do you care about JFK? Just read Miles’ piece where he explains there was no assassination. Jack just retired and took up a new identity. I didn’t read it so I don’t know the details but this theory seems about as likely as anything else. While you are at it, investigate the Lem Billings relationship and try to convince us JFK was not gay.

I heard about this story but it doesn’t look like interesting or important even if you were very religious.

As I understand, it’s just an NGO, which had enough resources to buy red heifers in Texas and import them to Israel.

It’s not a supernatural indication of rebuilding the temple or evidence of an official government plan to allow rebuilding the temple. It’s more like a modern publicity campaign.
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The foundation of the modern state of Israel is one of the secular preconditions for rebuilding the temple, so it creates excitement in the religious peoples’ circles.

In the Gospels, when Jesus “prophesizes” (texts actually written after the destruction) destruction of the Temple.

In Luke 21:24, Jesus says the Jews will be “led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021&version=AMP

This is Jesus describing of the destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War

This part of Jesus’ prophecy, could be interpreted in terms of the contemporary Zionism, which is the “times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.*

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In Matthew, Jesus says at the time of the Second Coming,”you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NIV

Jesus is referring to Daniel 9:24-27 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%209%3A24-27&version=AMP

So, Jesus implies the reconstruction of Jerusalem and its plaza and rebuilding of the temple, before the Messiah comes, also a sacrifice in the Temple and a lot of violent events, by relating to Daniel 9:24-27

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To return to the real world, although, modern Zionism created some preconditions which seem to match the prophecy of Jesus, it’s not currently politically possible or following self-interest for the secular government Israel to rebuild the Temple.

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*This part of Jesus prophecy would be viewed as the re-conquest of Eastern Jerusalem in 1967 Six Day War, when the Temple mount site is at least indirectly in Jewish control for the first time since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans which Jesus describes.

I kind of like tropical islands because I think there would be less resistance in sending people there, and what is really wanted is the separation.

If you want a tropical paradise there’s always Devil’s Island off the coast of French Guiana and which was featured in the 1973 film Pappilon. With modern medicine the death rate should be nothing like the 75 percent it was some years in the 19th century.

It could be renamed ‘Paradise Cove’ so as to not frighten away potential new inmates. 🙂

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Island

Harald Malmgren reported from his death chair:

1. the motive for JFK assassination was his carelessness with UFO issue;
2. Phillip Corso’s Day After Roswell was largely factual.

I do not believe either of these however Donald the Fat made pre-inauguration promises to the country they would get results on these and I have to track something narrow and specific and I am going to track that.

So far I rate the Fat as a Fat Zero after 100 days.

Come on, the excitement factor has to count for something!

I give Trump good marks for apparently recognizing the economy is unsustainable and at least attempting to make policy to do something about it.

I also give him credit for doing something on the illegal immigrant issue.

Finally, the moves related to gender nonsense seem good.

Will these things pan out? Are they real or smoke and mirrors? Like a good chameleon in all cases he has contrary history, so we need to be patient.

However, it now seems clear that TDS was over diagnosed along with everything else. If there were really so many TDS cases out there then we should have mass Karen rioting in the streets by now. Unless team Trump proactively and discretely sent free coupons for Zoloft to all the Harris voters. That might explain it.

They probably got ergotism at Gobekli Tepe too from the plentiful wild cereals that grew in the area.

I can’t keep track of all that other stuff. I have a life.

the secular government Israel to rebuild the Temple

Israel itself, and its government are more and more under the influence of the religious zealots. Comes with the turf. The only justification of the Israel’s existence is the Abrahamic religious tradition with its attached mythology. I have a very hard time believing that you really think of Israel as a secular country.

If I am not mistaken Roseanne is Jewish.

She knows loads of inside dope she won’t be telling. She will never work in Hollywood again though no matter what. I only listened to a total of about five minutes of it but Alex talked about maligned innocent jews and Roseanne didn’t object but didn’t affirm either. I believe she has pretty much deleted the word jew from her working vocabulary.

Mostly I heard information regarding how awesome Alex was, is, and will be.

If you are really interested she did a great show with Michael Malice a few months ago with the best part they show some picture of Madonna and Malice asks her if it ever occurred to her in 1990 that some day she would look better than Madonna.

You are back to your lame 19th century nonsense, let it go, it’s very stupid. You sound like a retard.

And a new one for you: “whatabout-ism”, it means you got nothing. People start the idiotic “what-about doesn’t count” when they have lost an argument. Let me remind you that the Western rational discourse is based on comparisons, analogies, and using the same metric in all situations – what you loser idiots try to dismiss as “what-about”…Everything is what-about, from Cicero to Bertrand Russell, from courts to diplomacy, that’s how we talk when we structure our ideas.

But that’s way above your head, it would be more honorable to just say that I am right…:)

All you need to form a state (or quasi-state) is the ability to control and distribute women. That is what Shaka Zulu had. Add in the potato, and it is probably enough for cities.

Would speculate that the potato may have needed to reach some threshold yield before society in the Andes became more advanced.

I read Papillon many years ago, but never saw the movie.

When I was reading Halliburton’s Magic Carpet , I was surprised that when he mentioned the French Foreign Legion, he didn’t seem to mention any non-Europeans. I don’t think there was ever any ban on non-Euros enlisting, but back then, there were a lot of people who lived on farms in Europe and who wanted to see more of the world. I imagine, it was much less diverse back then.

your lame 19th century nonsense

I know you don’t know history.

“whatabout-ism”, it means you got nothing.

Actually, you got nothing. Even your what-about-ism wasn’t about a real event, it was about an imaginary one. You didn’t even have anything to be “what-about-ism” about.

Let me remind you that the Western rational discourse is based on comparisons, analogies

Unless, for you, they are from the 19th century.

We have two examples of a hostile power with troops near the USA. Canada in the 19th century, and Cuba (Soviets) in the 20th. In both cases, America did not invade.

So you had to make up an imaginary case because reality did not support your excuses for Russia’s behavior. Desperate move by someone who is wrong as usual.

How many black women play Civilization?

1. every civilization game I have ever been adjacent to was a black hole of drama. (I never played.)
2. on the other hand every person I knew who played much of it was pretty clever.

Excellent Question!

I assume that either Russia felt they were not strong enough to cope with major sanctions in 2014, or that having got Crimea with little reaction, they shouldn’t push their luck.

Perhaps both. Very difficult to tell from here.

That applies to pretty much any Sixties cars.

But the modern safety cage can only do so much. If you hit a solid stone wall in a high end German saloon with airbags and every safety feature you’ll still get fractured vertebra from the sudden deceleration despite the cage being 100% intact.

OTOH it sure beats hitting the same wall in a sixties car, where the engine might end up in your midriff.

Amusing you brought that up when they dragged their feet for years on Ethiopian citizenship. They really didn’t want to recognize Ethiopians as Jews.

Israel is full of Ethiopian people, and every kind of African, from North Africa, East Africa, West Africa and even South Africa.*

The feet are only dragged in relation to the community of the previously Christian Ethiopians, who have Jewish roots (Falash Mura).

These are Christians and not Jews?

Video: Why is Israel barring Ethiopian Jews from immigrating?

I’ll address the rest of your post later.

“Russia as a giant factory is closer to Texas or Italy in terms of raw production”

I think you have this base over apex. If Italy’s raw production – the number of “things” it makes – was anywhere near Russia’s, it would be sending stuff to Ukraine in vast quantities.

As I understand it, if a factory in Russia makes 20 tanks and they cost a million dollars each, and a factory in Texas makes 20 identical tanks at ten million dollars each, the Texan GDP is 10x the Russian even though the actual production is the same.

GDP gets heavily fiddled by governments. In Japan they fiddle it downwards, so that the world swallows the “lost decades” stories. In the UK they add I think 10% for the illegal drug trade.

I live in a house which would be unaffordable for me now, because I bought it 25 years ago. It would cost me about £2,000 a month to rent. So when they calculate UK GDP, 2k of “imputed rent” goes on the figures. It’s a fiddle.

https://primeeconomics.org/articles/uk-gdp-the-q2-close-down-and-the-distorting-effect-of-imputed-rental/

One of the effects of imputed rent is that as house prices and rents inexorably rise over the last 35 years, so does GDP, despite the bulk of the rental amounts being purely imaginary.

Imagine if the US Navy was completely scuttled and no one was responsible for this decision.

How would this possible?

Late Ming Dynasty history is really dark because when you read it you really get this sense that the State apparatus was covering stuff up. What you are reading is merely what they allowed to be presented to the public.

The actual reason behind Ming’s destruction of its oceanic navy is lost to history. We have no surviving historical records of what actually happened in terms of the decision making process.

The Ming didn’t just destroy the ships, they burned all the navigation maps and charts too. Supposedly all the maps were lost in an accidental fire. We don’t actually know what happened exactly because no one dared to write down what happened.

The actual reason behind Ming’s destruction of its oceanic navy is lost to history. We have no surviving historical records of what happened in terms of the decision making process. All we know is that the library where the maps and navigation charts were kept burned down in an accidental fire and all known copies were lost.

Without historical records all we have is speculation as to what really happened. Whatever it was, it was likely too politically dangerous to be written down. The fact that history records the maps were lost in an accidental fire likely imply that the fire wasn’t an accident, but had to be presented as an accident to the outside.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KbUGVAK_hK8?si=S6C3caPNuhX67QHm

Imagine if the US Navy was completely scuttled and no one was responsible for this decision.

How would this possible?

Late Ming Dynasty history is really dark because when you read it you really get this sense that the State apparatus was covering stuff up. What you are reading is merely what they allowed to be presented to the public.

The actual reason behind Ming’s destruction of its oceanic navy is lost to history. We have no surviving historical records of what actually happened in terms of the decision making process.

The Ming didn’t just destroy the ships, they burned all the navigation maps and charts too. Supposedly all the maps were lost in an accidental fire. We don’t actually know what happened exactly because no one dared to write down what happened.

The actual reason behind Ming’s destruction of its oceanic navy is lost to history. We have no surviving historical records of what actually happened in terms of the decision making process. All we know is that the library where the maps and navigation charts were kept burned down in an accidental fire and all known copies were lost.

Without historical records all we have is speculation as to what really happened. Whatever it was, it was likely too politically dangerous to be written down. The fact that history records the maps were lost in an accidental fire likely imply that the fire wasn’t an accident, but had to be presented as an accident to the outside.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KbUGVAK_hK8?si=S6C3caPNuhX67QHm

Rightwing leaders should think twice before they admit to admiring Trump.
Trump is a true nationalist and the thing about true nationalists is that they don’t have second favourite countries. Which means Trump will screw your country if he thinks it could be in America’s interest to do so.The general public have gathered this.

(Of course, Trump does have a second favourite country – maybe it’s even his favourite -a place called Israel. But then he couldn’t be a successful American politician if he didn’t lick Israel’s arse)

There are more Indians in Ireland than China, and I think that probably includes when they march their army through that disputed Himalayan area with spiked clubs.

Your formulation results in:

• Globalist states can band together to kick a small nation.
• That small nation must stand alone, refuse help from America, and accept defeat.

That sounds self destructive.
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There is a key difference between Populism and nationalism. Populist nations like America and Hungary can and should cooperate against the threat of Globalism.

As sovereignty is part of Populism, trust should not be blind. Populist partner nations will disagree from time to time. However, there is no way to defeat IslamoGloboHomo without working together.

PEACE 😇

It’s close, the Gaels probably have the edge now.

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

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5967747

I previously pointed out that Merz conceded too much to the far left SPD and Green parties. Consequences are arriving: (1)

“Historic Shock”: Germany’s Merz Falls Short In Chancellor Vote Sparking Fresh Political Turmoil

Merz needed 316 votes out of 630 to secure the chancellorship but received only 310, falling short of a majority despite his coalition holding 328 seats. Because the vote was conducted by secret ballot, the identity of those within his own party who defected remains unknown. The outcome prevented his swearing in on Tuesday and pitching Europe’s biggest economy into uncharted territory.

 

 

After the result was announced, a visibly shaken Merz left the chamber for emergency talks with his parliamentary group, the usual seamless choreography that accompanies a change of government leader in Germany in tatters.

If Merz or any other candidate fails to get that majority within the 14 days, the constitution allows for the president to appoint the candidate who wins the most votes as chancellor, or to dissolve the Bundestag and hold a new national election.

Trips abroad planned for Wednesday, to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and Warsaw to meet Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, will almost certainly be postponed.

All this takes place as Germany’s anti-immigrant party AfD, which was formally classified as right-wing extremist last week by the domestic security service, has overtaken Merz’s bloc in some polls and is now the main opposition force in the Bundestag.

AfD lawmakers celebrated Merz’s stumble, with co-leader Alice Weidel saying in a post on X that “this demonstrates what a weak foundation” his coalition was built on.

“As AfD, we have set out to turn this country upside down. We are ready to take on government responsibility. And we call for reason to prevail. Mr. Merz should step down immediately. The path should be cleared for new elections in our country,” Weidel said.

Are new elections likely?

Conventional wisdom points to “no”. Most likely, Merz will coerce or bribe his stray ministers back into line. Germany’s President is SPD and thus likes the concessions received from Merz. Even if Merz can not arm twist his party members, he would almost surely advance as a plurality leader if he wants the job.

The path to new elections requires Merz active refusal of the Chancellorship. His own mental arithmetic must be kicking in. If the vote to obtain the position is this bad, how much harder will it be to actually govern? A few weeks ago, the seat of power looked like a throne. Now, it is much less appealing.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germanys-merz-falls-short-chancellor-vote-political-turmoil-unfolds-new-vote-imminent

In 2014 Russia was not ready for the heavy economic sanctions or the large-scale combat. Their new nuclear weapons had not been fielded (for improved deterrence against radical Western escalation). The Kinzhal missile and some other high-leverage tactical weapons had not yet been fielded. Assuming the Russians spent 2014-2022 gradually preparing for a heavy campaign in Ukraine imagine how painful it would have been if they had been forced to start the SMO in 2014?

The Maidan coup was a trap to get an unprepared Russia to overextend itself and promote regime change in Moscow. The Kremlins avoided this by cleverly grabbing Crimea and making it an item they could defend with nuclear weapons. This put the West off balance.

I recently realized that General Donald Campbell was head of US Army Europe until he was replaced by General Hodges two weeks before Maidan. Campbell may have some stories to tell.

I don’t see what Chinese late Ming destruction of their own navy has to do with current US immigration laws? Were you trying to reply to some other comment?

“Papillon” was part of a short list of films from the 1970’s that I enjoyed seeing. Before the era of DVD’s and Netflix, you had to go downtown to one of the luxurious large screen movie theaters to watch films. Lucky for me, I had friends that worked in many of the theaters that would often let me in to watch first run movies. 🙂 Two other similar films that I liked from the era were “Midnight Express” and of course “The French Connection”.

The post-Soviet Russian economy is still very strange. I don’t think simple comparisons can make sense of it.

The sanctions on Russia starting in 2014 accelerated the gradual process of her growing a full-spectrum economy. Before then it seems there were so many holes in Russian supply chains and business funding that most technical production sectors had serious problems. Of course they never completely lost the military manufacturing but it was generally limited to slow growth. Because of funding issues this took a long time to carry over into production of high-tech civilian goods. For a long time nuclear reactors and a few space launches were the most visible Russian technical civilian exports, combined with sales of lots of military hardware. Post-Maidan the Russian agricultural sector rapidly firmed up so now they have an economy with a strong extractive sector (largest in the world?) and a solid agricultural sector, a lively and growing service sector and a growing military sector. With fossil fuels and nuclear power they have plenty of energy. High tech civilian production is gradually increasing on the back of the expanded military production, but progress is slow.

In both Anatolia and the Andes, religious organization of the early society predates state structures. Arguably, religion has had an immense influence on the development of the early civilizations. What we should perhaps ask ourselves is what is the major driver of the religious experience. Obviously, trance like states are very important for mystical experience. I would argue that the shaman/priest/seer was as much or even more important than the chieftain in setting up the common goals of a given clan. That’s actually what we find in Vedas. So even for proto – Indo-European religion, the spiritual factors might have had a determining effect on the way the proto-state got structured.

Mr Hack, I am sorry to point out but this video is a partially AI generated, poorly assembled click bait. Did you watch it?

I once saw a short NHK program that featured a spa, I believe it was on Hokkaido, that hired two Indian migrant workers, and I was pretty surprised that they were those East Asian Indians from the NW and in fact looked pretty hard to distinguish from Japanese.

I still think about it and what strange factors may have been behind it. Did the spa owners or some official search through millions of Indians? Were they the only ones who signed up for that climate and low pay? Was the NHK trying to promote Indian immigration, while putting a different face on it?

“Papillon” was part of a short list of films from the 1970’s that I enjoyed seeing.

Wasn’t that Yevardian’s favorite decade?

(But not mine.)

On the contrary, it’s your feeble mind that is unable to handle the truth:

I’m not sure about Yevardian’s favorite decade for film production? But like yourself, the 70’s was not my favorite decade either.

Actually, you got nothing. Even your what-about-ism wasn’t about a real event, it was about an imaginary one. You didn’t even have anything to be “what-about-ism” about.

A classic appraisal of Beckow’s strange use of “whataboutism”!:

Beckow trying to explain things away. 🙂

In both Anatolia and the Andes, religious organization of the early society predates state structures.

Joseph Henrich goes into interesting detail about the effect of religion on tribe in a competitive environment.

I am merely skeptical of the idea that hallucinogens and bird bone inhalers are what led to higher civilization. I don’t think drugs are necessary to create hierarchy. Maybe, that is because I am straight-laced.

OTOH, some of the stuff they did like cranial deformation and mummy worship was pretty weird.

Polymarket does not have Diddy suicide wager. The trial of the millennium is in New York City. Right now. Not on television and no cameras so we get those cool artist renderings. How many applications do you suppose they had for the court sketch artist gigs? The first day’s drawings are PISS POOR.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13890983/Diddy-lawyers-bizarre-explanation-bottles-baby-oil.html

The least polymarket could do is have a wager on whether or not we are going to get Obama freak off documentation. What are the odds?

The Karlinstan book has 10 000 to 1 against.

Last night I dreamt of a woman hotter than any of those bitches at the Met gala. She looked like Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s muse. How many of those bitches at the Met gala could say Dante Gabriel Rosetti two times in a row and pronounce the name the same both times?

I did watch it (you don’t think that I’d recommend it to you without viewing it first myself?).

Not very accurate is it?

Blacks as a rule have very lolworthy taste in clothing, and I guess it just gets worse if we’re talking fashionable (which is often lol on its own).

I happen to live in a spot where there are quite a few redheads; I saw one yesterday who was a bit like your second pic except brighter copper hair and younger. Great work by the Creator. The weakness of the redhead is that the ordinary-looking ones (of which there are many) appear kind of gloomy and odd.

Did the lady in your dream wear a scarlet dress?

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Keep proving me right with Ramirez’s idiotic toons.

Regarding a recent false equivalency at this thread, the US forcefully took land away from Mexico which had never been part of the US.

The former Ukrainian SSR includes several areas that were part of Russia for a lengthy period predating Communism. Among these areas are cities developed by Russia.

Post-Soviet Russia accepted an independent Ukrainian state within a dubiously drawn Communist boundary, as long as it remained neutral and respected the pro-Russian community on that land.

The neocons, neolibs and svidomites are the culpable party as evidenced by their manner.

… two examples of a hostile power with troops near the USA. Canada in the 19th century, and Cuba (Soviets) in the 20th. In both cases, America did not invade.

Canada in the early 19th century doesn’t count, but in the 1812 war US actually invaded Canada – and vice versa. Cuba is a tiny island of no importance and had only minimal radar installations and port facilities. It was never a threat and in spite of it there was almost a nuclear war in 1962 over Russia being there. Are you not aware of that?

It is simply not comparable to Ukraine vs. Russia – if you think it is, you are an idiot or lying. Same as with you comparing Moldova to the NATO attack on Serbia. Ukraine is losing the war about NATO expansion they didn’t have to fight…you can’t stand that reality so you have gone nuts. Good day.

Arguably, religion has had an immense influence on the development of the early civilizations. What we should perhaps ask ourselves is what is the major driver of the religious experience.

Possibly we can be more bold on this and say it has had an immense influence on all human societies until very recently (like the 1950s or something like that?). Husserl, the phenomenologist philosopher, said something about the experience that there is another more real world beyond the one we can see in front of us at the moment being basic and very common, and mortality salience may heighten it, thinning the gap between this world and the other. It could be that this idea that by contemporary standards primitive man used to live in a permanent state of religious intoxication is fairly true.

I found this definition of religion interesting:

Religion, in effect, to give the most general and least ‘modern-centric’ definition possible, posits the dependence of the human order on an extra-human foundation, whether this is conceived as ancestral, celestial or divine. In other terms, it means subordination to the law of an invisible Other- heteronomy in the strict sense of the term. It is a subordination which permits and facilitates the union of the visible living with the ordering source of the group that they form, to the extent to which they remain loyal to this exterior and superior law. In sum, the submission to what is other than man produces ‘the One’ (a unified sacred community) among men.

Hunter gatherer societies would manifest this subordination in the fullest sense, where it substitutes politics (it is as if they are directly ruled by the powers and ancestors in the other world), then as the distinction between ruler and ruled appears in larger societies, a certain figure or group arises that wields power by acting as mediators or conduits for the invisible other.

Let’s see. You’re the amateur kremlinstooge psychopath, and Ramirez is a pulitzer prize winning professional political cartoonist. C’mon, Mickey, even you should be smart enough to see that it’s really no contest as to who’s right or wrong. 🙂

Actually the CIA invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy nixed it in real time by withholding air support. A short time later the CIA killed Kennedy. A modern head of state is sort of like a symbolic scarlet woman riding on top a seven head beast.

Video is about “Falashmura”. They are Ethiopian Christians, who have Jewish roots and were involuntary converts to Christian missionaries or they converted to Christianity for social reasons to avoid the persecution of Jews in 19th century and 20th century Ethiopia.

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Deutsche Welt seems like it is confusing its audience by mixing Falasha (Ethiopian Jews) and Falashmura, Ethiopian Christians with Jewish roots which are living often still in Ethiopia.

Falasha already immigrated to Israel. The later discussion is about immigration of the Falash Mura, Ethiopians from the Christian tribes with Jewish roots.

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It’s similar someways to the postsoviet immigration to Israel or Germany. There is a distinction the Russian Jews, Ukrainian Jews and the Russians/Ukrainians with Jewish roots.

But Russian empire and Soviet Union are advanced countries in terms of documentation and administration, while Ethiopia is not.

So, the ethnic Russians and the ethnic Ukrainians say they have Jewish roots for immigration, it’s having real proof from the Russian state archive which the Israeli authorities can verify with the Russian government.

But when Ethiopians from Christian tribes said they have Jewish roots, it’s a lot based in trust. So, the video is showing the Falasha Mura community are being religious Jews or converting to Judaism while they are still in Ethiopia.

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* Original Zionist Jews in Ethiopia were already being imprisoned in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, and the original Ethiopian Jewish community had immigrated by middle 1990s.

Wikipedia has a lot of examples where you can see important Ethiopian Zionists were already in Israel sometimes in the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Hadane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meskie_Shibru-Sivan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Wabashat

“Russia as a giant factory is closer to Texas or Italy in terms of raw production”

I think you have this base over apex. If Italy’s raw production – the number of “things” it makes – was anywhere near Russia’s, it would be sending stuff to Ukraine in vast quantities.

GDP = gross domestic production. The total value of everything produced.

Italy’s GDP: 2.30 trillion

Russia’s GDP: 2.26 trillion

It’s nearly the same.

You’re imagining a US level of production that doesn’t exist.

“Russia is a gas station with nukes” – John McCain

Obviously a cheeky comment but he made a valid point. Russia relies heavily on gas and oil sales for their budget. They are not a manufacturing powerhouse. How many Russian products do you own? How many Russian cars have you seen on the road? Have you ever flown in a Russian plane? Most of Russia is undeveloped and they have huge sections in the East that are pastoral. Russia depends on two cities to manage the world’s largest country. It isn’t a collection of US type states with all kinds of major cities.

As I understand it, if a factory in Russia makes 20 tanks and they cost a million dollars each, and a factory in Texas makes 20 identical tanks at ten million dollars each, the Texan GDP is 10x the Russian even though the actual production is the same.

No that isn’t how it works. You can measure GDP by any currency and there is still relative value. A tank has relative value around the world. We can measure Texas and Russian GDP by bitcoin and they would still be similar. It’s total production. PPP tells us more about relative purchasing power by individuals. That is after the tanks have rolled off the assembly line. What are workers able to purchase with their paycheck? How well can they live? That is where PPP comes in. You can have a country with high total production but the workers aren’t able to afford anything. Indexes like PPP basically show that we can’t measure how people live solely by taking total production and dividing it by the number of people. And that is true. But it doesn’t change total production.

I would get a basic econ book and go over these terms. You actually get this better than most Econ 101 students. You’re trying to visualize it while most freshmen just repeat back the terms on the test.

Video is about “Falashmura”. They are Ethiopian Christians, who have Jewish roots and were involuntary converts to Christian missionaries or they converted to Christianity for social reasons to avoid the persecution of Jews in 19th century and 20th century Ethiopia.

It is inaccurate to refer to them as Christians.

Falash Mura contains both active Christians and Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falash_Mura

Israel was preventing practicing Ethiopian Jews from entering. That has already been acknowledged by the government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54501546

Which means Israel would take a homosexual atheist porn producer that passed the DNA test but not practicing Jewish Ethiopians. Correct?

we have AP and Mikel interminably debating the degree of immorality of strafing a building populated by some civilians during a combat mission; are they up to 100,000 words yet?

I wouldn’t discard that word count at all. You may not know that AP and I first started debating the Lugansk massacre some 6-7 years ago and it regularly resurfaces from time to time. But don’t bother searching those past exchanges, you’re not going to find anything you haven’t already read at least twice or thrice 🙂

And it gets worse than that. When a thread gets too long I just close the tab and never look back, especially when the discussions have gone pointless and circular. That’s what I did the other day but I did notice before closing that, as expected, AP had rejected my challenge to show his honesty and accept a commonly agreed arbitration by Grok to end the debate and instead of that he was continuing to use Grok to turn the debate into an infinite loop of LLM-generated texts.

I apologize. My intention was good and I genuinely believe that with good faith a good LLM like Grok can be used to arbiter never-ending arguments and reach an unbiased and reasonable compromise. But in retrospect, I should have predicted that I would teach AP to use a new tool to make never-ending arguments even more perpetual. LLMs can also be used for that and it’s becoming an essential tool for lawyers and writers. So let’s get prepared for the word count on the Lugansk atrocity to reach the millions soon (if it hasn’t already done it with AP arguing with himself in the previous thread).

As I was discussing with you in that thread, the human brain is very complex and I’m not at all sure that he enjoys this but it’s just an empirical fact that he can’t help engaging in endless arguments over the very same topics. Besides, as a Slav, he’s obstinate and inflexible. But nobody beats Basques at stubbornness. Why would we be speaking the only language isolate in Europe after millennia if that wasn’t the case?

Besides, as a Slav, he’s obstinate and inflexible. But nobody beats Basques at stubbornness.

🙂

As I was discussing with you in that thread, the human brain is very complex and I’m not at all sure that he enjoys this but it’s just an empirical fact that he can’t help engaging in endless arguments over the very same topics.

You might want to step back and reflect a bit.

• AP cannot be in an “endless” discussion without you to be “endless” with.
• I have had the same “endless” problem with you, because your anti-American #NeverMAGA zealotry is “endless”.

I finally wised up and walked away from your mindless repetition of cult dogma.

a good LLM like Grok can be used to arbiter never-ending arguments and reach an unbiased and reasonable compromise.

The assumption that LLM’s are unbiased is highly suspect. They consume large quantities of establishment material, such as NYT and WaPo.

• You are aligned to core establishment DNC beliefs. Therefore, when you ask imprecise questions, the AI provides the establishment biased answer you desire.
• When AP, in good faith, prompts the AI with detailed questions that limit bias, you balk.

You know I disagree with AP on Zelensky and this conflict. Even though I am predisposed to be against his positions, it is pretty clear that AP has this argument won. You are being “endless” because you cannot concede defeat.

You need to prove that specific events are a war crime. You have not met that burden of proof. Unless you have the ability to compel disclosure from Ukrainian central intelligence, I do not see any way you can gather enough evidence to win. To prove your case you must obtain & share real time Ukrainian intel for a specific time & place.

If you want to keep losing to AP, your “endless” time is yours. However, I do not grasp what you get out of it. Do you find “endless” losing pleasant?

PEACE 😇

Nerdgasm for three kingdoms guy.

I have a very hard time believing that you really think of Israel as a secular country.

Only one non-secular leader in Israel’s history was Naftali Bennett, who was Prime Minister for one year. He is also more like a secular liberal with some religious packaging, his wife is secular liberal. He could be viewed as a kind of “fake religious” politician.

The power centers in Israel are mostly secular, like the media, security services, military, legal etc.

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But the discussion about rebuilding the temple, which Jesus in the Gospels could imply is one of the preconditions for the Second Coming.*

Evangelical interpretation about modern Israel is making sense from their view, when you read the Olivet discourse a few times.

In Gospel of Luke, Jesus says directly historical condition for Second Coming is the end of the non-Jewish rule in Jerusalem, which you could connect to the result of secular Zionism and its conquest of East Jerusalem in June 1967 which ends the non-Jewish occupation of Jerusalem, since the Jesus prophecy about 70AD. So, June 1967 could be viewed as the “time of the gentiles treading Jerusalem” ending, although a stricter interpretation would view the current Arab occupation in East Jerusalem as still continuing today, as the Second Temple is currently a Mosque.
https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.21.24.KJV

But the next stage of preconditions for the Jesus prophecy, which he only indirectly implies, of rebuilding the temple, is not going to happen under the secular Zionism which rules Israel.

And if you look at some of the demographically growing religious cults in Israel like Haredim. They don’t want to rebuild the temple.

Haredim believe the Messiah (“Christ” in Greek language) will rebuild the Temple, as one of his tasks, like the tasks of Hercules. Haredim oppose that normal humans or the government will be rebuilding of the Temple.**

Rebuilding the Temple is excluded from secular Israel and from the Haredi Israel, also from the Muslim Israelis who are 20% of the country. So, it’s only supported in some parts of the dati leumi sector.

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*In the modern Evangelical Christianity, there are a lot of claims that Jesus claim about “desolation” in the Temple, refers to a person, who could be an “anti-Christ (anti-Messiah)”, even though the grammar in the text is possibly not implying a person.

Some Evangelicals will interpret the construction of the Mosque on top of the Second Temple, as the desolation which Jesus refers.

Jesus also says there will be a lot of wars and famines at the time of the Second Coming, but these are happening in most centuries of human history, so wars and famines are not a very consequential condition to predict the Second Coming.

**For many of the religious cults, secular Zionism is seeming quite antipathetic to their interpretation of Old Testament, which implies repatriation to Israel is a promise of God, so it is like a disrespect of God to follow these prophecies in a secular way by government and politicians.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2043%3A3-5&version=CSB

Christians.

Falash Mura contains both active Christians and Jews.

They are Ethiopian Christians, in terms of the religious law, as they formally converted to Christianity. Sometimes they have been Ethiopian Christians for centuries and generally don’t have documentation to support their family was part of Ethiopia’s Jewish community (possibly because of the country not having modern administration).

So, to enter on the repatriation immigration track to Israel, while in Ethiopia, they are often converting Judaism and to be accepted by the religious court which the Israeli immigration service uses to stamp the documents.

This situation of the Ethiopian Christians with Jewish roots, is not like ethnic Russians and Ukrainians with Jewish roots, because Russians and Ukrainians should have official documentation to support their claim (there is official archives for everything in Russia at least to the 19th century). Russians and Ukrainians don’t need to convert Judaism for Israel’s repatriation program, as they accept people who can prove their ancestor was Jewish.

Dima can you explain me what makes someone a Jew ?

Rebuilding the Temple is excluded from secular Israel and from the Haredi Israel, also from the Muslim Israelis who are 20% of the country. So, it’s only supported in some parts of the dati leumi sector.

Perhaps I am in error but I was presuming a demolition on the big mosque on the site is a precondition for construction of the temple. Isn’t there a sentiment to humor the temple builders just to piss off the Muslims? If Huckabee’s 5000 closest friends are going to pay for it why would there be a big lobby opposed?

Canada in the early 19th century doesn’t count, but in the 1812 war US actually invaded Canada – and vice versa

And after those mutual invasions the USA and Canada/Britain were hostile to one another for decades (Britain even helped the Confederacy during the Civil War). Yet, there were no invasions.

You fail at history.

Cuba is a tiny island of no importance and had only minimal radar installations and port facilities

The radar installation right next to the USA was very important. There were thousands of Soviet troops stationed there.

It was never a threat and in spite of it there was almost a nuclear war in 1962 over Russia being there. Are you not aware of that?

Of course you can’t read.

I wrote, in a post you responded to,

“an attempt to place nukes led to a crisis.

So, the likely situation is that as long as China or whoever didn’t put its nukes in Canada, the USA would not invade. It would just sanction and at worst facilitate some rebels to cross into the country.”

Ukraine is losing the war about NATO expansion they didn’t have to fight

I like when Aaron compared this to a child chanting something in the hope it comes true. Front hasn’t moved much and Russia is losing far more troops, but it is “winning.” You are the one who can’t stand reality, hence your useless invocations.

Judging from his toons, Ramirez is either a liar and/or historically challenged yutz, which explains why you like him.

You need to prove that specific events are a war crime. You have not met that burden of proof.

This type of statements are the reason why so many people’s jobs are doomed and AI is going to revolutionize the world as we know it.

A123, like so many people, is capable of reading text but, unlike LLMs, is incapable of understanding what he’s reading and deriving logical conclusions. In this particular case, he shows his inability to grasp what my position is, in spite of having been clearly stated and confirmed by Grok in its responses to both my questions and APs.

To be fair, most people are lucid enough to understand that Soros is not a Muslim and that not everybody who criticizes Trump voted for the Democrats but, unless they have a manual or niche job, LLMs are poised to threaten their jobs sooner or later. Those handicapped enough to hold such beliefs can readily be replaced by an average LLM right now.

If you need help using Grok to prepare a resume, let me know.

My intention was good and I genuinely believe that with good faith a good LLM like Grok can be used to arbiter never-ending arguments and reach an unbiased and reasonable compromise.

If this were true, you would have conceded that you were wrong about the Luhansk bombing being a massacre (and that it met the dictionary definition of that, you changed your argument and Grok disagreed with you there also), that you were wrong about the Luhansk and Sumy bombings being more similar than dissimilar (indeed, according to Grok, Sumy was a massacre, while Luhansk was not) but that, because according to Grok morality is not necessarily universal your claiming that Luhansk and Sumy were more similar than similar, while wrong, was not a universally immoral claim. So you “lost” three times and “won” once.

But you didn’t concede any of those things.

As for potential criminality, you lost that too, when you input the actual conditions under which I insist it was not a war crime.

But nobody beats Basques at stubbornness. Why would we be speaking the only language isolate in Europe after millennia if that wasn’t the case?

1. Most Slavs have their own countries. Basques do not.

2. You wrote that you did not pass your language on to your children though.

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BTW, remember when you wrote – and these are your direct words – that Poroshenko ” bragged about terrorizing children in basements”

Dima and I tried to explain it to you, to no avail.

What does Grok say?

Question:

Here is the transcript of a speech by Poroshenko. Did he brag about terrorizing children in basements?

“This war can’t be won with weapons. Every bullet produces two enemies. And every peaceful day Ukrainian state demonstrates on the liberated territories that citizens, who sang praises to false separatist regime a month ago, receive heat, electricity, at last they can send their children to school, they started to receive pensions, survivorship and disablement payments, they have jobs, they have salaries.“And from the other side – I have spoken by phone with a woman, the associate professor of Taras Shevchenko Luhansk University. I have asked her: “How do you spend your day?” and she has answered me: “I get up at 5 am in order to reserve a place in a queue and to get two pots of water. As we have no water. I return home at 10 am and hurry to a queue for bread. One and a half loaves of bread. Till 12 o’clock there would be no bread. I return from there and stay at home from that moment because armed men start to appear in streets from 2 pm and they could shoot everyone”.“My dear people of Odesa! This is what we avoided thanks to your wisdom, your solidarity. And thanks to – now we all are confident about this – your pro-Ukrainian position. I was full of joy, when after visiting Odesa the delegation of the OSCE made a conclusion that Odesa is a city of harmony, the city of peace. There can’t be a better compliment. I was very happy about it. Thank you for your wisdom, people of Odesa!“And we win together by means of peace! Because we have jobs, and they have not. We have pensions, and they have not. We have support of children and pensioners, they have not. Our children would go to kindergartens and schools, theirs would be sitting in cellars. Because they do not know anything how to do! That’s how we are going to win this war. Because wars are won in minds, and not on the combat fields! They do not know this, but I know. And I have your support, I need it very much in order we win this war without perished Ukrainians, without perished inhabitants of Odesa.”

Response:

In the provided transcript of Petro Poroshenko’s speech, he does not explicitly brag about terrorizing children in basements. However, the speech contains a controversial passage where he contrasts the conditions in Ukrainian-controlled territories with those in separatist-held areas. He states, “Our children would go to kindergartens and schools, theirs would be sitting in cellars,” as part of a broader argument about winning the war through demonstrating better living conditions and governance, rather than through military means.

This statement has been interpreted by some critics as callous or insensitive, as it implies that children in separatist areas are suffering in basements, which could be seen as a consequence of the conflict. However, Poroshenko frames this as a result of the separatists’ inability to govern effectively (“Because they do not know anything how to do!”), rather than as a direct act of terrorizing children by Ukrainian forces. He emphasizes winning the war “in minds” through peaceful means, highlighting the provision of services like pensions, jobs, and education in Ukrainian-controlled areas.

The interpretation of this passage as “bragging” about terrorizing children depends heavily on context and perspective. Critics, particularly those sympathetic to the separatist cause or opposed to Poroshenko, have pointed to this line as evidence of a dismissive or triumphalist attitude toward civilian suffering in separatist areas. Others may argue he was illustrating the dire conditions under separatist control to underscore the benefits of Ukrainian governance.

No evidence in the transcript suggests Poroshenko was boasting about actively causing harm to children. Instead, he describes the hardships faced by civilians, including children, in separatist areas as a consequence of their leadership’s failures, contrasting this with the stability in Ukrainian-controlled territories. Whether this constitutes “bragging” or is appropriately sensitive is subjective and depends on the listener’s perspective.

If you have additional context, such as specific claims or interpretations from other sources, I can analyze those further or search for related posts on X or web content to provide a more comprehensive view.”

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At worst, he was “insensitive.” Or perhaps, boasted that rebels provided a worse life for residents than Kiev’s government did.

But he didn’t brag about terrorizing kids.

Let me guess: you won’t concede that, either.

On the contrary, they don’t hand out Pulitzer prizes just to anybody. He has many fans that support his website too. His political cartoons appear in many different outlets throughout the country. If he were a “yutz”, he would have been yanked long ago, kind of like you who has lost your relevance a long time ago. I don’t see you take part in many “round table discussions” anymore, nor any one on one radio interviews? Time to throw in the towel on a “career” that’s quit evolving for several years now?

Look who is talking and yeah he’s a yutz – Pulitzers and all.

… as the distinction between ruler and ruled appears in larger societies, a certain figure or group arises that wields power by acting as mediators or conduits for the invisible other.

You can’t reliably mediate the invisible. And there lies the problem: all mediation is open to pretense, making-up stuff, fraud. It was more intimate and so easier to validate in the ancient societies.

Modern religions are too cumulative, they have layers of mediation and are often incoherent. The stories that made sense in a different ancient context seem obviously untrue today. The time mediation makes religions more appealing, they touch on the mysteries of the past, but also more irrelevant – there is no way to take them seriously other than with faith. Faith is the absence of reason, one can’t live on faith in the modern world. So religions become not much more than ceremonies, ritual and folklore.

…A modern head of state is sort of like a symbolic scarlet woman riding on top a seven head beast.

That’s one of the reasons I choose not to run a state…it’s an ungrateful pursuit.

Kennedy nixed the air cover because it had no chance to succeed. It’s amazing how often – almost always – the deep-state warmongers want to engage in a losing war. It must have something to do with the missing skin-in-the-game…

I accept your surrender.

Thank you for admitting I am correct.

PEACE 😇

the Luhansk bombing being a massacre (and that it met the dictionary definition of that
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So you “lost” three times and “won” once.
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BTW, remember when you wrote – and these are your direct words – that Poroshenko ” bragged about terrorizing children in basements”
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What does Grok say?

We were all warned from the beginning that AI posed a threat to humanity. At the beginning it sounded like a joke. Those were the times when the Gemini clowns were posting images of black Nazis and female Popes. What threat could something like that pose?

But now, seeing you use Grok to make your eternal arguments even more eternal with AI-generated blocks of never-ending texts, we should all understand that the grave threat to humanity has already become a reality. Who wants to live in a world where people with autistic tendencies dominate all online discussion with the use of LLMs?

As for the original debate, the most likely theory is that you perfectly understood that the idea of using Grok was to do the exact opposite and use AI to arbiter and close a long-running argument under the mutually agreed conditions that I proposed but you realized that under any reasonable agreement, Grok will always conclude that the Lugansk massacre had all the elements of a war crime that should have been investigated as such. That’s why you rejected my offer repeatedly. However, I must confess that I’m open to the alternative theory that you ignored my offer because you got so carried away with the possibility of using AI to fulfill your dream of having endless repetitions of the very same topics that my offer may not have registered at all.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/05/starmer-prepares-for-attack-by-russia/

‘Russia’s sabre-rattling against the UK has continued despite Donald Trump’s plan for a peace deal in Ukraine. Last month, ministers officially designated Russia a national security threat for the first time.’

Starmer prepares for attack by Russia

Officials asked to update 20-year-old contingency plans that would put UK on war footing after Kremlin threats

Britain is secretly preparing for a direct military attack by Russia amid fears that it is not ready for war.

Officials have been asked to update 20-year-old contingency plans that would put the country on a war footing after threats of attack by the Kremlin.

A classified dossier will set out how the Government would respond to a declaration of war, including bunkers to protect the Cabinet and the Royal family, public service broadcasts and the stockpiling of resources.

Ministers fear that Britain would not only be outgunned by Russia and its allies on the battlefield but would also be unprepared and poorly defended at home.

There is a certain view that Hong Xiuquan’s fevered dream was necessary to modernize China, by making some room and also spurring reforms.

Possibly fringe.

Grok will always conclude that the Lugansk massacre

Thanks for demonstrating that you didn’t approach this in good faith and that you would not abide by Grok’s conclusions if they don’t agree with you.

I offered you a simple test case and sadly, but predictably, you failed.

If you had approached this in good faith, you would have conceded that, per Grok, the bombing of Luhansk was not a massacre.

It was a very simple question, no ambiguity.

Question:

Was the Ukrainian attack in Luhansk in June 2014 a massacre?

Grok:

“the scale and intent do not align with a “massacre” as commonly understood. The death toll, while tragic, was limited compared to events typically labeled as massacres, and the primary target appeared to be combatants, not civilians. Posts on X and some Russian sources, like Maria Zakharova, have called it a “monstrous crime” or massacre, but these claims often exaggerate for propaganda purposes.

In conclusion, the Luhansk airstrike was a deadly incident with civilian casualties, likely unlawful due to its indiscriminate nature, but it does not meet the threshold of a massacre. It reflects the broader tragedy of the Donbas conflict, where both sides’ actions harmed civilians.”

Grok will always conclude that the Lugansk massacre had all the elements of a war crime

What an easily disproved false statement.

Always? All the elements?

Grok doesn’t always conclude that the attack on Luhansk has all the elements of a war crime.

For example:

Ukraine attacked the Luhansk administrative building in 2014 while rebel leader Bolotov and other leaders (per his statement) was inside. Does this attack have all of the elements of a war crime, or only some elements of a war crime?

Grok’s conclusion:

The June 2, 2014, attack on the Luhansk RSA building contains some elements of a war crime, particularly due to civilian casualties, the use of imprecise weapons in a populated area, and apparent failures in distinction and precaution. However, it does not clearly satisfy all elements, as evidence of intent to target civilians is lacking, and the building’s use as a separatist headquarters suggests a legitimate military objective. The proportionality and recklessness of the attack remain ambiguous without detailed Ukrainian military records.

Given the complexity, the attack is best described as having potential war crime elements, warranting further scrutiny under IHL

Germany is based on the ethnicity (Spätaussiedler law), which is generally normal Russians with some forgotten German roots, which are probably verified by names or government documents.

It used to be a lot more difficult to become a German citizen. Supposedly, before the year 2000, only 100,000 Turks had gone through the process of naturalization. That is when a new law incorporating elements of jus soli came into play. It was passed by Schroeder (SPD) in coalition with the Greens.

But now it is like everyone is granted German citizenship. Even this Pakistani activist who amusingly pretended to be a British citizen, and who calls Germans “trash.”
https://www.amren.com/news/2025/05/activist-who-called-germans-trash-given-german-citizenship/

THIS IS MY FINAL WARNING

I knew what response I would get but I asked Grok anyway:

When talking about the Lugansk June 2, 2014 air strike, is the word massacre idiomatic in American English if I want to stress the brutality of the military action against an area full of civilians that killed 8 of them and injured many more?

After a lengthy explanation of the importance of the context and the intended stress by the speaker, citing the famous Boston Massacre (1770, 5 deaths), this is Grok’s final conclusion:

Conclusion: Yes, “massacre” is idiomatic in American English to stress the brutality of the Lugansk air strike, given its civilian toll and violent nature, though some might debate its use due to the smaller scale.

Therefore, the matter is now settled and you lack any further excuse.

If you continue to dispute my usage of the word MASSACRE to reference the Lugansk savage attack by the Ukrainians, I decline responsibility for the consequences. I have tried my best to abide by the Geneva Conventions as applicable to online debates but any further provocation will result in a retaliation the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.

A lot of people obviously WANT a nuclear war. Part of their great reset I suppose.

Am I reading this right? Irish have the biggest brains in the UK biobank, based on MRI reads?

Congratulations, you are breaking Mikel’s tenuous grasp on sanity.

What’s next from him…. “Rue the Day”? Who talks like that???

PEACE 😇

Has Roko tried the gila monster venom?

Has he ever explained how he and Eliezer Yudkowsky got back together after 10 years of not speaking?

Has Roko tried the gila monster venom?

Not to my knowledge. He made some interesting fat post a few months back, (think was about his body fat percentage) but I can’t find that particular one.

It seems remarkable to me how many people seem to deeply care about their weight, but not be self-disciplined enough to change it.

Has he ever explained how he and Eliezer Yudkowsky got back together after 10 years of not speaking?

Time heals many rifts.

Few corrections:

Confederacy was half of US, so the British support was also support for US.
Nuclear war is slightly more than a ‘crisis’…
US put missiles in Poland-Romania, Ukraine would follow if Russia didn’t intervene.
Sponsoring a rebellion in Canada would be followed with an invasion…you know that.
POWs ratio is 6-to-1 and exchange of dead soldiers is 20-to-1…6 and 20 are the Ukies.

You fail at logic.

Is that your favorite Val Kilmer movie?

Oliver Stone claims that when he auditioned for the part Kilmer drove him around Los Angeles with a cassette playing of Kilmer singing the Doors songs but Kilmer didn’t reveal it was him until after several songs had played. When the legend differs from fact print the legend.

There can be only one best Val Kilmer movie.

Is that your favorite Val Kilmer movie?

It is hard to choose. Kilmer crossed genres so head to head comparisons are hard.

Top Gun at #1 is a conventional, but a near unanimous, pick.

To round out my top 3, I will go with:

#2 The Doors — not for everyone, but solid
#3 Real Genius — cheesy fun, Pentagon fraud exposed

Do you member that his was in Willow?

Sadly, I cannot rate his Batman Forever appearance highly. While he was an excellent Batman, his portrayal of Bruce Wayne simply did not work. Coppola is frequently too ambitious for his own good.

PEACE 😇

Confederacy was half of US, so the British support was also support for US

Wrong twice in 1 sentence.

POWs ratio is 6-to-1 and exchange of dead soldiers is 20-to-1

Russians shoot those who try to surrender, and Russia gained more territory so it can harvest more corpses. Where are Ukrainians going to get dead Russian soldiers from? Retake Avdiivka or Bakhmut just to harvest corpses for an exchange?

Meanwhile death notices show at least 2 dead Russians for every dead Ukrainian. And Russians have taken land very slowly.

My view about the Ethiopian Jews, is they are not a single ethnicity or nationality. There were different tribes in Africa who followed historically African branches of Judaism. Some of these tribes converted to Christianity, to avoid the common African antisemitism and persecution, which created the difficult to immigrate groups like the Falashmura, other tribes have continued African variations of Judaism until today which allows them to immigrate more easily.

Maybe, the original ethnogenesis of the Ethiopian Jews was some group like Yemeni Jews in Ethiopia intermarrying with people similar to Qemant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemant_people ) and Agaw nationalities ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaw_people ).

In Israeli wedding videos some Ethiopian Jews have similar appearance to Yemeni Jews (or Yemeni Arabs).

Both of the couple look a little like Yemeni people

Husband and wife also a little like Yemeni Jews/Muslims

Ethiopian husband looks like Yemeni Jew/Yemeni Arab

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But Ethiopian Jews in Israel, are not homogenous appearance nationality.

I watch the Israeli reality television series to not forget my Hebrew skills and some of the Ethiopian celebrities in Israel are some of the most black people in the world.

One of the Ethiopian reality show celebrity woman in Israel from shows like Big Brother, is one of the most black looking women in the world.

African Americans like Dr Dre are a white people compared to her.

She’s so dark it’s like computer generated.

So, there are the most pure African looking Ethiopian Jews.

And 2:15 the radio host Adi Shilon is looking too much like Canada’s Chrystia Freeland

To rebuild the Temple, they would have to destroy the Muslim Dome of the Rock and probably also Al-Aqsa Mosque.

That’s not acceptable for the Muslim world and there is almost zero probability Israel would allow this, for one reasons as Israel don’t want to cause an Islamic Jihad internally or externally.

So, the idea Israel would allow someone to rebuild the Temple, is extremely unlikely.

Although I can understand non-preterist Evangelical people becoming excited about the eschatology, because some of the conditions Jesus says are necessary in Olivet discourse for the Second Coming, seem probably happening more now than in the previous 2000 years.

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According to their materials on YouTube, LDS/Mormons have the most eccentric Hegelian style of interpretation of the Olivet discourse, which need to transplant the events outside of the local context Jesus is referring to about ownership of Jerusalem or the Temple mount complex, to say Jesus says there will be an actual “Time of the Jews”. Not just re-ownership of Jerusalem by Jews, which is what Jesus implied in Luke, but somekind Jewish future of teaching to the world the Book of Mormon.

It’s too perfect.

This is in regards to the big ado of late in the United States, ie the story of Shiloh Hendrix and her alleged use of a racial slur against a five year old ‘autistic’ Somali boy.

For she’s the perfect opposition figure for the modern so called ‘woke progressives’. They couldn’t have designed a better person for the role, and she is just the battleground they would desire their detractors to fight upon.

In fact, she seems too perfect in this role.

The question I have, is she even real?

The YouTuber below also has questions, ponders if Shiloh Hendrix and the Somali video recorder may have been in ‘cahoots’, and wonders aloud from 5:25 – 5:40 if this alleged Hendrix incident, combined with the recent murder of Austin Metcalf, is a deliberate ‘psy-op’ created to cause a ‘race war’ in the United States?

Indeed!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can’t fight this thing in the traditional way, you’ll have to think ‘outside of the box’ to even have a chance.

Happily, the self declared so called modern ‘progressives’ in a process known as ‘projection’ tell us themselves how best to deal with them. (See link and YouTube video below.]

It is something like the below going viral, and their losing the ability to feast off of the hate, violence, and bloodshed that they (the modern ‘progressives’) themselves are largely responsible for generating, and finslly becoming powerless, laughed at, and ignored, which is probably what os for them their ultimate nightmare scenario.

Refuse, stand down, do not go, do not fight this impending Russian style civil war in the United States, or the likely coming WWIII.

We laugh at you Mr Rockefeller! We laugh at you Mr Soros! We know exactly what it is that you are doing and we’re not going to fight your wars.

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

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

‘For the moment, only a fool fights in a burning house!’

Where is Thulean Friend?

I need updates of the current military flare up.

Perhaps I can coax him to return.

Pakistani military spox just held a presser where he said that the Pakistan Air Force shot down five Indian fighter jets — including three Rafales, one MiG-29, and one SU. The spokesperson for Pakistan’s armed forces also shared the locations where these jets were downed.

Additionally, he also clarified that the actual Pakistani response to India is yet to come

Smart move on their part.

At least they never received the First Wave.

Modern religions are too cumulative, they have layers of mediation and are often incoherent. The stories that made sense in a different ancient context seem obviously untrue today.

Strangely one of the characteristics of modern religions is more unified, focused mediation (as in Islam, the mediation is just the Quran, with many Christians, it is just the Bible), with a more abstract and distant invisible other. These are the sort of things that have created more space for an autonomous human sphere to develop that is not so dependent on and intertwined with the other world. Christianity has probably been the leading religion in this secularisation process.

Faith is the absence of reason, one can’t live on faith in the modern world. So religions become not much more than ceremonies, ritual and folklore.

Largely in the modern world you don’t see the rule of reason (or, Reason). Imo the rule of reason is something that retains more affinity and closeness to the religious worldview, where sense experience is subordinated to something else that is considered more fundamental and personal will is subordinated.

In the contemporary European world ideas about the high value of autonomy (often individual autonomy) and will are hegemonic, this seems to be an important reason behind why the religious form of social structuring currently lacks credibility. Challenges to this hegemony are marginal, though there are some signs indicating that it is harder to predict what will happen in the future.

So what is absolutely needed to declare someone a Jew?

Any Jew…

🙂

In the contemporary European world ideas about the high value of autonomy (often individual autonomy) and will are hegemonic, this seems to be an important reason behind why the religious form of social structuring currently lacks credibility. Challenges to this hegemony are marginal, though there are some signs indicating that it is harder to predict what will happen in the future.

Demography is destiny. Extreme individualism is not conducive to family formation and procreation. Extreme individualists will die out. When people will understand that extreme individualism is basically a one way street for their bloodline, they will probably start to avoid it. And they will need unifying narratives again. The most potent unifying narratives are those which are of the “stairway to heaven” type. These portend to allow the adherents to transcend the contingent domain and lead to the Absolute Realm. When enough people adhere to these narratives, we will once again live in an “enchanted world”.

Hunter gatherer societies would manifest this subordination in the fullest sense

It’s because their clans are usually small. Everyone knows everyone else and they often know their environment extremely well too. It’s therefore easier for them to include their clan with all its members and the whole of their environment in a narrative that allows for them to set their behaviour on something immanent but reaching out to something transcendent. That’s the proper way of placing oneself – in the middle of a web of spiritual mythology in which everything feels as if it had meaning. It literally makes life more meaningful.

A couple of Grok generated AI photos that verify the Irish big headed thesis:

Yowza:

Uh-oh! After several years and hundreds of thousands of words spent on this debate, finally the heavy artillery comes out:

If you continue to dispute my usage of the word MASSACRE to reference the Lugansk savage attack by the Ukrainians, I decline responsibility for the consequences. I have tried my best to abide by the Geneva Conventions as applicable to online debates but any further provocation will result in a retaliation the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.

🙂

And @Emil

Have never seen The Doors movie with Kilmer. I remember that there was a guy in high school who broke up with his girlfriend because she didn’t like the movie, but she wasn’t a looker or anything, and I didn’t like the guy either.

Do you member that his was in Willow?

Don’t believe I ever saw the full movie. Tried to watch it a few years back from the start, but I found it hard to be drawn into the film. Warwick Davis (Leprechaun) has always been a bit of the uncanny valley for me. Two of his three children died because of the mutation he has. But it was more than that. I really don’t think the film has a good start.

Coppola is frequently too ambitious for his own good.

I thought that was a Shumacher film.

The thing with Top Gun is that it does get a bit – I am not sure “gay” is the right word exactly (haven’t seen it in a great many years to judge it accurately), but there is at least some obvious fan service for females, and it is hard to separate that sort of thing.

That should read:

‘For the present, only a fool fights in a burning house!’

And…

‘It is something like the below going viral, and their losing the ability to feast off of the hate, violence, and bloodshed that they (the modern ‘progressives’) themselves are largely responsible for generating, and them finally becoming powerless, laughed at, and ignored, which is probably what is for them the ultimate nightmare scenario.’

I can’t recommend reading the very insightful script linked below enough, which only takes a few minutes.

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

Just as the ‘invading alien’ crafted a specific (and often false) narrative to specific ethnicities, to promote hatred and bloodlust between them, I think the US corporate mass media does the same, both nationally and globally.

As an example I’ve noticed in the United States the media more and more feature bloodied Russian corpses on battlefields with hardly any censorship, stuff they use to kind of shy away from. The worst of this sort of thing was the video of a poor Russia soul, a young man, who on a visit to a beach somewhere, was attacked and literally eaten alive by a shark in sight of his family, and his crying out to his father who couldn’t rescue him, once again with hardly any censorship.

Before the invasion, I honestly remember a lot of Irish beggars in Dublin. I was on a bus once, and this woman explained how she borrowed another woman’s boy to go begging. (The boy was with her.). To my mind you used to see things like people living in cardboard boxes more than you would see around Boston, back then. But I never saw children begging in America – probably they would arrest you.

My mother told a story once where her house was invaded by Gypsies and they sat on the floor of the kitchen and refused to leave until my grandmother gave them tea. I think those were probably Travelers, but am not 100% certain.

Anyway, I suspect Ireland has had beggars for a very long time, though obviously it is very bad, when Gypsies come to your country. And all these other groups, and I am certainly not endorsing that in any way.

The native beggars I think were better behaved. Have never personally met a Traveler IRL, but my impression is that, whatever their flaws, they aren’t antiracists and don’t promote that stuff.

Personally, I’ve been pretty disappointed in Grok’s performance about skull types and sizes. HBD should be the core training in any LLM, but there are too many lawyers.

Demography is destiny. Extreme individualism is not conducive to family formation and procreation. Extreme individualists will die out. When people will understand that extreme individualism is basically a one way street for their bloodline, they will probably start to avoid it.

This is my problem with ‘libertarianism’, ie a soulless artificial hyper-individualism, which is the ideal ideology from the Capitalists’ point of view, and which is ultimately simply the complimentary flipside of the soulless artificial hyper-collectivism of Communism.

BTW – I see that Niger, Russia’s most integrated ally in Africa, is by far the fastest growing economy in the continent. Burkina Faso is showing good growth but its development is supposed to be going far advanced than those gdp numbers indicate. Can’t say I know much more about the issue that that, but very good sign. Certainly compared to the rape done to them over the decades by the French lowlifes.

Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the central asian republics…even the sane but a bit despicable gruzians……..all showing very good gdp growth figures from having very strong economic integration with Russia.

A lesson there somewhere…….

Thanks.

I can easily imagine a concerned and irate young mom (let’s say working class, but who knows) using the N-word and not being contrite about it. On the other hand, stirring up race wars is definitely something the puppet masters like to do. Maybe this will backfire on them.

Trump has effectively put African Americans on notice to clean up their act with the Hatians eating pets meme as well as his push against Affirmative Action.

Coppola is frequently too ambitious for his own good.

I thought that was a Shumacher film.

My bad. You are correct. I have not seen it for many years and misremembered.

PEACE 😇

I once saw a middle aged Gypsy women steal a very large multipack of cola from a supermarket, I’m not joking. I was in shock, I had never seen such a thing before.

This was not in Asia.

They are Ethiopian Christians, in terms of the religious law, as they formally converted to Christianity.

What do you mean in terms of religious law? Which law would that be?

They are active Jews and the Israeli government continues to change their own policy.

You clearly didn’t read the link I provided.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54501546

The government of Israel is undecided on Falash Mura while you speak as if you are some authority on the matter.

Israel allows homosexual atheists that pass a DNA test but Ethiopians that are practicing Jews may not qualify. Did you want to deny that?

Bashibuzuk also seemed to express his disappointment with AI enhanced videos, saying that the video of the brand new Karmann ghia that I posted above was somehow suspect. Unlike you, he never did go on and explain where his disappointment was centered?

Just for the record, are you the proud owner of an Irish big head? For the record, my facial features do include the proverbial Ukrainian round face. 🙂

any further provocation will result in a retaliation the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.

🙂

Well, I may have plagiarized a little a well known personality in that sentence but what choice does a conscientious debater have when he is right and his opponent is wrong??

Over the years, I have given AP many chances to accept my clear victory in the massacre word debate and stop disputing it but he just doesn’t listen and keeps returning to that debate, now with the threat of using LLM technology to spend thousands upon thousands of words debating the usage of another word. Surely, you’ll understand that the time had come for me to bring out the heavy artillery. It’s for everybody’s good here, including yours.

Besides, what the hell. You guys are defending the launch of unguided rocketry against a civilian area full of women and children. What do you have to complain about the use of my own artillery? Although to be precise, you just defend that attack out of ethnic solidarity but I know that you wouldn’t have given the order to commit that brutality. I’m afraid AP would. And so would A123 and sudden death.

Israel doesn’t have “DNA based right to return”.

Yes they do.

Right to return is part of Israeli law and you can gain citizenship by taking a DNA test to show Jewish ancestry.

The DNA testing procedure is in fact explained in this study:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5034383/

An article describing a woman who was given citizenship after a DNA test:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/New-law-says-genetic-test-valid-for-determining-Jewish-status-in-some-cases-506584

Stop trying to deny reality. What I said was correct.

A homosexual atheist porn producer that passes the DNA test can gain citizenship while an Evangelical who dedicated his life to Israel would not.

Why would we consider Israel to be Judeo-Christian in that context? They are more likely to give citizenship to an apostate that passes the DNA test than a Christian that converted to Judaism, correct? That also means they would give citizenship to the porn producer over a pro-Israel Evangelical like Huckabee.

I haven’t pulled out my microscope yet, but it appears to me that in such a debate fraught with the definition of legal terms, population sizes, legitimate war targets etc, reasonable people could have differing opinions while reviewing the same collection of facts. It’s too bad that it happened, it’s too bad that Russia invaded Ukraine. 🙁

Demography is destiny. Extreme individualism is not conducive to family formation and procreation. Extreme individualists will die out. When people will understand that extreme individualism is basically a one way street for their bloodline, they will probably start to avoid it. And they will need unifying narratives again. The most potent unifying narratives are those which are of the “stairway to heaven” type.

This is definitely a possibility. You can see some signs of it in members of the zoomer generation who have been growing up in much more multicultural environments (and among young people from ethnic/religious groups that don’t put the same level of importance on autonomy either). This is also despite the lack of any support for it from the broader society around them, but it is probably an instinctive thing when it becomes a question of preserving the ‘social bond’ across the generations, the old and tested way of achieving this starts to reassert itself.

Why do you believe that extreme migration policy purity is more important than the shared Judeo-Christian belief in God/YHWH?

Look at what The Great Muslim Replacement is doing in Europe. No nation can survive with open borders. There must be rules. And, as with anything created by man, the results will be imperfect and thus less than 100% fair.

Your carefully chosen hypotheticals have minimal real world frequency. However, I will indulge you.

an Evangelical who dedicated his life to Israel would not.

Are you insisting Israel take 10,000,000 aggressively proselytizing Evangelicals? How about 1,000,000? Do you grasp that even 100,000 would be problematic in terms of maintaining the stability of Jewish Palestine?

It would be easy for a sincere friend like Huckabee to stay in Israel for an extended period or even be granted permanent residency. Having personal contacts with senior government officials opens the door for one-off treatment.

Residency is available for Christians in line with official religious service at Christian sites (priests, monks, etc.) and their immediate family. Thus, the door is open for a modest count of Christians to enter Israel. Is there any pressing need to vastly pump up the number of Christian migrants into Jewish Palestine? No.

If you are proposing a new “Life Long Friends of Palestinian Jews” track for migration. Explain in detail how it would work.

• Who could apply?
• What numbers would there be?
• How much would it cost?

If you put forth a practical program, perhaps Israel would adopt it. However, the count would be 10’s per year. Perhaps 100. IMHO — You are suggesting a huge amount of effort for what is effectively a non-problem that in reality does not exist.

A homosexual atheist porn producer … can gain citizenship

This is pretty clearly a mistake on the part of Palestinian Jews. They should not let in penis piano playing, sexually deviant, Azov neo-Nazi, pr0n producers… like Führer Zelensky.

Alternatives are more complex, costly, and could be unfair in other ways. For example — Actual practitioners of Judaism along with a per year cap could make sense. But this idea raises questions such as:

• How would Palestinian Jews vet overseas synagogues and applicants to ensure there is no fakery?
• Would Israel send Orthodox rabbi citizens abroad to run all “migration eligible” institutions?
• What about Jews from Muslim countries where the practice of Judaism prohibited?

If you want a different set of rules, please set them forth in full detail. We can then carefully choose low frequency hypotheticals to equally test imperfections in your scenario.
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In both cases, the imperfect rules continue to exist because they sufficiently serve the current needs of the nation and its people. No critical, pressing, real world issue is compelling change.

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

PEACE 😇

It’s because their clans are usually small. Everyone knows everyone else and they often know their environment extremely well too.

It’s interesting that the pattern of strong egalitarianism combined with extreme forms of conservatism is so persistent among these groups, and they are the kind of communities humans lived in for most of our evolutionary history.

Elsewhere:

https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1919923699974537418

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This is incredible. The US has now lost more fighter jets than Russia in the past month, and US isn’t even in a high intensity conflict.
It’s safe to say at this point Russia has eclipsed the US as a military power.
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