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    • #56139
      AHH
      Keymaster

       

      Last Thread: #56121

    • #56142
      Mr P
      Participant

      I’d like to see confirmation of this claim:

      Easter Truce zone 404

      https://x.com/electionwiz/status/1913598246661869593?s=46&t=MRsSpiGJq0d9cgNcH7cVqA

      BBC also makes claim.

      • #56149
        AHH
        Keymaster

        ❗️Putin declares an Easter truce |media| – keep scrolling down

        This occurred every year since SMO began iirc. Nothing unusual. It is NOT a ceasefire, beyond the 30 brief hours.. for religious observance. And an excellent gauge of western intention today, no??

        A faint echo of the WW1 “Christmas Truce” on the western front. That was then, and on the exceptional front.. today, some are less equal than others – the nazis do not permit it for the Russians… it was broken every time almost at once..

    • #56151
      Mr P
      Participant

      Us Walk Away (from 404) … 

      In the tiny model of personal wisdom when a fella “walks away” he’s going to get his gun, or some gasoline and a flare… considering the egoism and misperceptions of Imperial Junta … well… I’d look for the little fella to sneak back. Being disinclined to violence, I’d leave the bar. Unless it was my bar 😉

    • #56156
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      How Adolf Hitler Came to Power in Germany/richard wolff

       

      • #56218
        Mr P
        Participant

        Wolff omits the big money influence and the zionist banks and the bank of england as the unseen factors in generating the nazi engine to defeat the Soviet Union.

    • #56163
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      nima, michael hudson & richard wolff

       

    • #56168
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Here is some US Navy Houthi Hollywood for you.

      But even after all that, no ship passed.

    • #56209
      Mr P
      Participant

      Some innaarestin’ essays> https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/

      Essay “Everything is Possible – Unfortunately” impressed me especially.

       

    • #56211
      Mr P
      Participant

      In Bundestag a vigorous speech worth, I think, watching. The oldest member is traditionally the presiding member, however this tradition was broken in 1933…and agin to-day! The implication aimed at Herr Merz and his sort is very amusing! With subtitles in English.

    • #56212
      Mr P
      Participant

      Recalling that FDR’s “New Deal” prevented, according to the man himself, a socialist revolution in the US…now here’s Wolff and Hedges…… Gee whiz, ahrekonz diz dat mean da revolution pathway is reopening?

    • #56215
      Mr P
      Participant

      Seems Kiev musta surrendered… fox put kiev in rus

    • #56219
      Mr P
      Participant

      ukraine has invited senior representatives of the European Union (EU) to visit Kyiv on May 9—a symbolic act to counter Vladimir Putin’s annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. This is intended to remind Russia that victory over Nazism cannot be claimed by the Soviet Union, as millions of Ukrainian men and women also fought in the ranks of the Red Army against Nazi Germany and its allies.

      (remarking that this seems to invite Russia to finish the job)

      Ukraine: Zwischen SS-Mythos und Gedenkkultur – wie der Westen zur Nazi-Apologie schweigt
      Kiew ehrt den Sieg über Hitler – doch Gedenken mischt sich mit Heldenverehrung. Was steckt dahinter? Eine Kolumne.

      Marta Havryshko

      Ukraine: Between SS Myth and Memorial Culture – How the West Remains Silent on the Nazi Apology
      Kiev honors the victory over Hitler – but commemoration is mixed with hero worship. What’s behind it? A column.

      Significant because published in Berliner Zeitung

      https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/ukraine-zwischen-ss-mythos-und-gedenkkultur-wie-der-westen-zur-nazi-apologie-schweigt-li.2316944

    • #56220
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      https://substack.com/@herecomeschina/note/c-108524756?utm_source=feed-email-digest

       

      godfree: pretty much sums up how we got into the mess we’re in & how to get out!

    • #56224
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Another Hazelnut Oreshnik ..

      Breakthrough test of NON-nuclear hydrogen bomb in China

      Fireball created 15x more effective than TNT equivalent, and no nuclear material needed.

      Mr P .. it is up your alley I would say … https://t.me/rtnews/92085

      cronetoo, don’t you go and be naughty here!  I don’t want to get into trouble.  Of course they did not do it – the Chinese never did that – they could not possibly have done it!  LOL. Oh man .. I need another coffee … Let me just be clear, I have no problem with the issues .. it is just very funny as all, I promise you all information on the G6 (supposed aircraft) as well as a mess of other information was sent through.  And not by me …

      Update .. I just realized how bad this sounds.  Of course, do just what you want and how you want to do it!  Not to worry about me having the giggles today.  I see these things and I start giggling.  The last one of this kind .. I had to fight off people who wanted me to fight the fight for them.  Yikes .. And I love the man!

      • #56229
        Mr P
        Participant

        Thanks! The explanation in SCMP https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3307059/china-tests-non-nuclear-hydrogen-bomb-science-paper-shows

        Makes sense to me. From memory, an’ ahem no chemist… Mg hydride thermal-shock rapid decomposition via, I guess RDX or similar for trigger. The H would be released as atomic hydrogen and some would reform to H2 thence with ambient O2 to H2O as steam while other H would combine with almost anything…all in a cascade releasing a great deal of heat. Simultaneously the Mg would combine mostly with ambient O2, releasing a large amount of heat. Actually ahbetcha the Mg would decompose some of the steam to get the O2 it “wants”, re-releasing H to re-join the cascade. Hydride rapid decomposition is considered a hazard in the storage of H, iirc. Mg burn hot&nice! H make nice bang. So long as the ‘speriment was pretty far away I’d love to see it done. Actually, I think, Mg hydride is pretty easy to make, but it might take a lot of pressure and really clean materials, hydrides “poison” pretty easily iirc. I believe hydrides can form in most metals. The new explosive, if that’s to be an application, makes a chemical riot. I suppose you tube fellas (there are some real chemists on YT) will be making their demonstrations pretty soon. I look forward to that.

        A really special demo would be one where the Mg hydride was pressed softly into a sphere and an implosion lens formed of RDX and Baratol around it in the classical atom-bomb scheme…the shock wave might give us a real treat. Nothing nuclear about it but I wonder what the extreme pressures might do.

        I also wonder if thermal decomposition threshold would be crossed by an exploding bridgewire alone. Or even a primer from a rifle cartridge.

        This stuff has no more to do with nuclear bombs than does making beer. The story has an alarmist aspect. Cool stuff though…

        I think the engineers were worried about accidental explosions and wanted to see how dangerous the hydrogen storage scheme was. Hydride storage (not in Mg but in other metals and I think mixtures of metals), has been used experimentally in automobiles that burn H2 as motorfuel. iirc it’s necessary to keep it under some pressure to keep things stable.  That’s all I have, and that from recollections.

      • #56357
        wlhaught2
        Participant

        moved

      • #56358
        wlhaught2
        Participant

        https://x.com/RT_com/status/1913980630670417962

        Tried to get the xcancel link.  When I finally found it all I got were retweets, then “too many requests” so screw it.

    • #56228
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      i’m doubling posting this: african thread & open thread.  if true it is amazing & wonderful news & will impact the world, certainly burkina faso, & may explain the joy in putin’s face when meeting traore last year.

       

    • #56230
      Mr P
      Participant

      Heute in Schweden
      Ah! Wie in den guten alten Zeiten! Nicht wahr? Er ist zurück oder ist er nicht gestorben?

      “Tre banderoller med hakkors hängde över Essingeleden på söndagsmorgonen. Polisen har larmats om det. – Jag blev väldigt chockad när jag såg det, säger ett vittne.

       

      https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rPjgQ3/flaggor-med-svastikor-over-essingeleden

      swastika sweden

       

      • #56236
        AHH
        Keymaster

        used to live in Stockholm in mid 80s for a few years. Musta been on this many a time, their main highway, the Essingeleden

        “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”

        • #56237
          Mr P
          Participant

          Luckner too had a Swedish wife, daughter of an industrialist…and intensely disliked by the seamen aboard Vaterland. (a large sailing yacht) In charge of the money, the fellas were never paid and on short and poor rations. Luckner was listed by the State Department in the 1930’s as a nazi spy. They were, according to my research, correct. Later the nazis accused him of rape and incest…so ah reckons there was a falling out at some point. Rape I doubt, but I don’t doubt he had intercourse with his adult daughter from his first wife…a daughter he did not raise,  and I am unsure that there was ever a divorce… 😉  Similarly Herr Goering distinguished himself in unnatural sexual relations. I assume dear Karin’s family had plenty of money. Luckner’s activities through the war and after it in the 1945-1960 period are murky – but it seems he remained in the spy racket. Now of course he’s a great hero… right.

    • #56231
      Mr P
      Participant

      Brother Mark and Nima…

    • #56238
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56244
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #56268
      Mr P
      Participant

      Our amusing seafarer Comrade Sal speaks of fire aboard.

      And Our Yemeni and Persian Comrades remind me of fires on warships…

      Remarking that on boats and ships all the elements necessary for catastrophic fire are necessarily brought to close proximity. If explosives and volatile combustible liquids are also present, the potential is such that only constant attention can prevent disaster.

      On 29 July 1967, a fire “broke out”  [read was caused by McCain doing wet-start spewing flames onto adjacent ordnance, the zuni missile, (my quotation marks)] on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. At the time, Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War. The ship survived, but with damage exceeding US$72 million, not including the damage to aircraft.[2][3] Future United States Senator John McCain and future four-star admiral and U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Ronald J. Zlatoper were among the survivors. Another on-board officer, Lieutenant Tom Treanore, later returned to the ship as her commander and retired an admiral.[4] (wiki)

      McCain was transfered to another ship only hours later, as his shipmates were liable to kill him.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire

      Happy go lucky Sal What? Me worry?>

    • #56271
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      Mr P and everyone.

      Check out this behemoth.  “China’s massive cargo ship, the world’s largest, sets sail! It carries 220,000 tons of cargo, stacking 24,000 containers up to the height of a 25-story building.”

      https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/145362

      Just now we’re going to load up whole little countries lol.

      • #56283
        Mr P
        Participant

        Many eggs in one basket.  Imagine the wreck if things go wrong! My  old fella engineering esthetic recoils from such giant machines. I am recalling Great Eastern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern

        • #56298
          amarynth
          Keymaster

          I won’t even step up to check out that thing and would be scared to be on the dock next to it!

    • #56286
      Mr P
      Participant

      Ray. And prior to Ray, Brother Crooke

      additionally one I have not yet seen>

      https://youtu.be/LU-2NM2KpNc

       

      • #56294
        Mr P
        Participant

        Ray  at minute 23 is mistaken. Not 1990, 1945…

    • #56295
      Mr P
      Participant

      It’s better than Horst Wessel Lied, well, he was a nazi pimp, SA thug, and died from a bullet in the brain…

      Besser als das Horst-Wessel-Lied ist heute das AfD-Lied

      Aus dem Herzen für Deutschland | Der Song für alle, die mit Stolz und Verstand lieben 💙

    • #56303
      cronetoo
      Participant

      • #56307
        AHH
        Keymaster

        Good God. The news keeps comin fast & furious. Every single day there’s more bad news. The deranged must be tempted:

    • #56313
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56315
      Mr P
      Participant

      Not as disturbing as “My Pet Goat 2”

      More disturbing than mahdruther

      Time Warp Video

      Evidently is some insane way this is what the deranged nazis meant when they claimed control of time and space…they’re spaced out!

    • #56316
      Mr P
      Participant
    • #56321
      Mr P
      Participant
    • #56326
      Mr P
      Participant

      Onix missile and more. 1.75 speed audio rate is understandable.

    • #56356
      AHH
      Keymaster

      Agent 47 is a fictional character and the player character of the Hitman video game franchise, created and developed by IO Interactive.

      The player controls 47, a monotone contract killer without empathy, as he travels around the world to execute hits on various criminals that are assigned to him by Diana Burnwood, his handler within the fictional International Contract Agency (ICA).

      Sorry couldn’t resist! Brian Berletic’s cue-ball has been triggering me for months, and I finally hit the memory. This does appear another homage to the Last American Prez, complete with red tie, the #47, and moral ambiguity, lol. We even see mElon’s red horse doing a number in the trailer!
      NB. don’t waste time watching. Absolute garbage. The message’s in the title, outfit, psychotic profile, and the hitjob on many countries around the world. What days…

    • #56361
      Mr P
      Participant

      Automatics look cool. But they leave casings…and they jam. Gimme a .38 anytime.

    • #56364
      Mr P
      Participant

      Massive ‘Mystery Explosions’ Rock Ammo Depot Outside Moscow, Resulting In Mushroom Cloud | ZeroHedge

      (Maybe)

    • #56371
      Mr P
      Participant

      In Krautland the AfD may yet displace Herr Merz.

      Greens out? New election?

      and

      “Panik es ist der Anfang vom Ende!” subtitles in English if you like.

       

       

    • #56372
      Mr P
      Participant

      Mr Bear with dead rat

       

    • #56378
      Anil
      Participant

      This interview that Nima had with Pepe in Hong Kong started out ostensibly as addressing Trump’s latest trade shenanigans. But it turned out to be a master class on Chinese history going back to Deng Xiaoping to the present. Really worth a listen:

    • #56379
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      godfree

       

      Mao stays behind

      Part 3: Founding the Communist Party of China

       

      https://herecomeschina.substack.com/p/mao-stays-behind

    • #56387
      Mr P
      Participant

      Especially interesting

    • #56403
      Mr P
      Participant

      Some light reading for bed-time…Operation Gladio : The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican , The CIA And The Mafia, Paul L. Williams (2015)

      (His August Popeness a dope dealer? Oh my goodness!, maybe Stumpy can fill in the gaps!)

      “Already helping Gen. Chiang Kai-shek’s smuggle OPIUM to China to raise funds against Mao Zedong forces, U.S. Gen. Helliwell reasoned funding their Gladio guerillas by providing Heroin to Harlem would have little impact on the white middle-class. It became the CIA model for trafficking drugs.”

      Selling smack to the black jazz subculture was an answered prayer to Donovan, E. Howard Hunt, Angleton, & Allen Dulles. The $$ would provide U.S. Intelligence w/a steady supply of $$ to fund Gladio guerillas (NAZIs), foreign assassins, & Communist killers by night.”

      https://archive.org/details/OperationGladioTheUnholyAllianceBetweenTheVaticanTheCIAAndTheMafia

      (Book is free &  down-loadable, or…$16.20 @ amazon for the paperback)

      When the shades of night are falling
      Comes a fellow ev’ryone knows
      It’s the old dope peddler
      Spreading joy wherever he goes
      Ev’ry evening you will find him
      Around our neighborhood
      It’s the old dope peddler
      Doing well by doing good

      He gives the kids free samples
      Because he knows full well
      That today’s young innocent faces
      Will be tomorrow’s clientele
      Here’s a cure for all your troubles
      Here’s an end to all distress
      It’s the old dope peddler
      With his powdered ha-happiness

      (Tom Lehrer)

    • #56404
      Mr P
      Participant

      Max Blumenthal : Netanyahu Plotting.
      Judge Napolitano

      celebrated Pope’s death? Oh say it ain’t so!

    • #56410
      Mr P
      Participant

      “The American System”… spoken of politely as Mercantilism. Properly: Organized crime sanctioned and unified with State Power.

      Which is now evolved toward and into a global crises and probably worse, and which definition below from the Lawyer, Poet, Novelist, Edgar Lee Masters,  may ring the bell of familiarity…

      “Henry clay was the champion of that political system which doles favors to the strong in order to win and to keep their adherence to the government. His system offered shelter to devious schemes and corrupt enterprises . . . He was the beloved son of Alexander Hamilton with his corrupt funding schemes, his superstitions concerning the advantage of a public debt, and a people taxed to make profits for enterprises that cannot stand alone. His example and his doctrines led to the creation of a party that had no platform to announce, because its principles were plunder and nothing else.

      (from “Lincoln, the Man”, Masters, my bold)

       

    • #56411
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      awakening richard

       

    • #56437
      Mr P
      Participant

      aw shucks…fella says the dope addict has outlived his usefullness…well, nothing lasts forever in wartime, does it? (run at 1.75 speed)

      Ukraine Found Complicit in 2014 Massacre By European Court of Human Rights — Strategic Culture

      claim about the ubernazi dope dealer > “CIA cash from Afghan heroin trafficking was funneled into Ukraine and paid for weapons, training and Banderist paramilitaries.
      The staging for the Odessa and other massacres was done at the CIA rendition site in Poland, a massive 11,000-hectare facility where Ukrainian radicals were trained in torture, psychological operations and guerrilla warfare.
      Indoctrination of Banderist units took place in Gladiator Schools, financed through GOP campaign funds laundered via a major casino-owning family deeply involved in human trafficking through Macau.” Calling Freeway Rick and Gary Webb…say, yagotanymoreofthisstuff?  I’ll check with Stumpy.

      Ukraine Found Complicit in 2014 Massacre By European Court of Human Rights

      Planning Fun with Guns at Kremlin confab…

       

    • #56439
      cronetoo
      Participant

      I know… I know … mainstream…BUT … truth flows from Lawrence’s mouth … made me stand up and cheer … you will too, I think

       

    • #56442
      Mr P
      Participant

      How’s this a plan? Quiz anytime…Zee Man tinks about a looooong nap, ein Nickerchen 

      ZELENSKY WITH OPIUM

    • #56445
      Mr P
      Participant

      https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1914679392632033447

      “Chimney Rock NC officials have confirmed that a mind-blowing 2,000 members of the Pennsylvania Amish Community have been quietly rebuilding the town’s homes, businesses, and bridges… …for 6 months straight”

    • #56456
      Mr P
      Participant

      Moon Base Zone Rus/Chi

      Noting that the moon base will come to dominate the Earth. If the nazis had a base there it would not be pacific, would it? They say He3 is a good fusion fuel, and on the moon it’s probably gettable.

      (Werner must be in tears…jawohl?…somebody get him Ein Bier, bitte! Seine Eroberungsträume liegen in Trümmern.)

      https://sputnikglobe.com/20250424/shooting-for-the-moon-russia–china-join-forces-in-space-1121924884.html

      MOON BASE

      https://archive.org/details/russia-anthem

      https://archive.org/details/national-anthem-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china

       

    • #56457
      cronetoo
      Participant

    • #56458
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      nima michael & richard

       

    • #56460
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      nima & alex krainer

       

      (alex speculates on finance, city, agent orange, 404, europe , america & then  west asia)

       

      • #56461
        cronetoo
        Participant

        Dear Emerson…

        Poppin’ in to say I hope your procedure went well and that you are feeling great …

        wishing all here good health and low BP during these rollercoaster times …

        • #56462
          emersonreturn
          Participant

          thank you, dear cronetoo.  yes, everything proceeds as hoped.  i trust you are well & loving the azaleas still in full bloom.  blessings & love.

           

          here’s kevin telling us exactly how fubarred boeing is…& along with boeing the O dear what can the matter be pentagram:

           

    • #56464
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56465
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      China’s Thorium Revolution–60,000yrs of cheap energy

       

    • #56466
      Mr P
      Participant

      Avast thar me hearties! Happy go lucky Sal the intrepid sailorman sayth ports maybe no got ships…tariffs make doubts! I like the Jimmy Buffet shirt…maybe pretty soon empty shelves at box stores, and Amazon have woe! 

      Flemish that line, swab!

    • #56467
      Mr P
      Participant

      “Herr Merz and his gang are in a vise that tightens every day…” AfD and Die BSW , the latter becoming the kingmaker… Gee whiz! Plan Merz kaputski

    • #56477
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56478
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #56479
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      china’s shenzhou-20 manned spaceship docks with space station combination

       

      https://english.news.cn/20250425/79a5459791414e348e7c57a85d6cdb48/c.html

    • #56480
      Nico Cost
      Participant
    • #56495
      Mr P
      Participant

      Alex 1 and Alex 2

      (I’m thinking that empty shelves at bigbox are going to have an effect on the public mind in nazi heimat.)

       

      • #56507
        Mr P
        Participant

        I was surprised that Mercouris is so naive about Lincoln. The, well, his… mercantilist policy gives license to the elite to infiltrate State institutions and Policy in pursuit of plunder, it is thus incompatible with a political policy of seeking peace with all. It is piracy. Perforce, then, we see the sophisticated Lincoln dissembles by a public claim of seeking peace and an occult policy of imperialist plunder under, sometimes, the color of favoritist laws written by the elite. For Agent Orange to-day this contradiction binds him to factionalist paralysis and conflict…and puts him in the dark Dallas frame as well. A hustler without a clue, pity he’s so ignorant and naive.  The Russian Policy of “compromise” (as in 404) with the therefor ambiguous reality of Regime Trump seems to further paralysis of the US and seek temporal extension while cancers eat at the stability of institutions.  Panarin’s maps come to mind. Preferable to atomic oblivion, eh?

        Drum roll, let’s hear from old Richard 

        https://archive.org/details/lp_gotterdammerung_richard-wagner-georg-solti-wiener-philharm

    • #56517
      Mr P
      Participant

      Comrades Garland and Brar

      IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR – KALLAS/BAERBOCK – POVERTY & FASCISM TWIN RISE IN EUROPE

      https://www.rokfin.com/garlandnixon

       

       

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