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    • #83802
      Periol
      Keymaster

       

      Link to Previous Thread… https://sovereignista.com/globalsouthforum/topic/the-hearty-salon-20-april-2026/

    • #83805
      Mr P
      Participant

      Larry “Gunner” Johnson chats… (I agree whith the Gunner so far as the Russians will reclaim Kiev….)

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      Hiz royalness makes decree, says Comrade Galloway…brief…

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      Retired officer criticises alcoholic nazi creep.

       

       

    • #83824
      chernq
      Participant

      BIG one- Kevin never does long videos. When he does, you know how seriously comprehensive it is.

      US AI is DONE. That is all there is to it. Again- the material reality supersedes narratives- and the positive narratives that exist are grotesque and easily debunked.

      • #83825
        cronetoo
        Participant

        Praying Kevin is right …

    • #83826
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      K.J. Noh

       

       

    • #83827
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      the geopolitical economy of cuban resistance

    • #83832
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #83834
      emersonreturn
      Participant
    • #83835
      chernq
      Participant

      William Murphy’s substack has been a nice, concise analysis of all things current geopolitical and economic, from a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist lens- easy to read, bullet points, and a list of recommended reading from which the essays pull from. This one in particular laid out something many commenters have been pointing at as well- crises as permanent structural condition that never culminates into full flagration or resolution.

      https://futuredude.substack.com/p/the-managed-catastrophe-imperialism

    • #83856
      Mr P
      Participant

      dogs red Solidarity! Racially cool dogs…May Day 2026

    • #83857
      Mr P
      Participant

      Larry “Gunner” Johnson tells the story about how the nazi navy hasn’t ‘nuf ships to blockade the  Iranian tankers. https://sonar21.com/the-bogus-blockade-claim-of-the-us-department-of-war/

      The nasty “logic” of imperialist creeps typically responds with increased violence. In the case, that seems to suggest they’ll get help from nazi affiliated gangs and in the case of empty tankers, freighters, etc…disable the ship and let it drift as a derelict. Just a little explosive in the steering gear and main engine…and poof!… No Problem! But sinking is always an option…and it’s traditional!  If the crew is “gone” and never again heard of…and the ship sinks..again no problem! Pirates gotta pirate…

    • #83858
      Mr P
      Participant

      In principle I find deeply offensive the entertainment of kings by the Congress. So should the Congress!

      TG RT.

      FROM RUSSIA TODAY:
      PUTIN AND TRUMP’S CONVERSATION: TWO KEY COMPONENTS OF THE RUSSIAN LEADER’S POSITION.

      Dmitry Evstafiev, Professor at the HSE Media Institute and PhD in Political Science @dimonundmir

      Unlike the strange-looking and even stranger-ending visit of King Charles III to the United States, no conspiracy theories are needed to understand the meaning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call to Donald Trump on the evening of April 29. The two key components of the Russian president’s position are:

      First, the desire to avoid a new wave of escalation in the Persian Gulf conflict, which could put an end to the Persian Gulf as one of the centers of economic growth in the modern world. This could indeed lead to a major geoeconomic “spasm,” the consequences of which would be unpredictable.

      Secondly, to avoid drawing the United States into a new wave of escalation of the conflict around Ukraine, which is being prepared by “global London” and Brussels, as King Charles III of Great Britain openly stated in his speech to the US Congress. Clearly, this new wave of escalation could be far more extensive, both qualitatively and geographically. And the United States risks being directly drawn into the conflict.

      Even more interesting is Donald Trump’s almost immediate reaction to Moscow’s proposals. Putting aside the American president’s characteristic emotionality, Trump’s comments once again underscored the duality of his position. On the one hand, Trump understands the complexity of the situation that has arisen for both the United States and himself personally, likely exacerbated by the visit of King Charles III of Great Britain, who delivered a de facto Euro-Atlantic speech to Congress. The speech read like an ultimatum to Trump: “Either be with us against Russia in Ukraine, or against us.” But, on the other hand, Trump’s comments to journalists demonstrated the American president’s inability to move beyond his traditional self-promotional clichés. And it’s not just about Trump’s reposted image of the Strait of Hormuz, renamed the “Trump Strait.” This, of course, significantly diminishes Trump’s value as a dialogue partner, especially since resolving the conflicts Trump has led the United States into requires silence. But for now, it can be said that Trump has heard Moscow’s proposals.

      Of course, Trump’s remark about Ukraine having already lost the war sparked considerable controversy. Many commentators considered it a slip of the tongue—that Trump was actually referring to Iran. Perhaps that was the case, especially since Trump does indeed refer to Iran in that specific passage. But the human psyche, especially the psyche of a politician under obvious time pressure (and Donald Trump is clearly under political time pressure and under increasing pressure), informs speeches based on what the person really thinks. Despite all the costs, Trump understands that Ukraine has lost the war, and the question is whether he can make any money from this “asset,” which is becoming frankly worthless from a business perspective. Clearly, he also understands that he won’t.

      Another issue is that there are no easy solutions for Iran either. The issue of the complete dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program is now at the forefront—and this was made very clear in Trump’s comments. Iran has responded to all of Trump’s proposals with increasingly firm rejection. But resolving this issue, in a context where the United States, including under Trump, has consistently undermined the system of international nuclear arms treaties, is impossible without the mediation of Russia, as one of the key guarantors of the NPT. Is Donald Trump, who not long ago sincerely believed he could handle all the problems with Iran on his own, ready for this?

      Is Donald Trump even ready to begin making concessions to other countries? Previously, both he and a significant part of his team assumed that only US partners could make concessions in exchange for the “right to deal” with Donald Trump. Trump’s speech yesterday left this question unanswered.

      The author’s views may not reflect the editorial position.

      ENDE

    • #83860
      Mr P
      Participant

      As previously noted, dear Jeffery has been photographed this year alive with an attractive lady – driving a nice convertible automobile in “Israel” … Now it is claimed than a “suicide” note has been “found”… However the text is entirely consistent with what really happened… Jeff was sprung, just as a guard posted at the time… Meantime we recall the curious case of the Norwood Builder and the new evidence…

      If it was not there, and now it is, the cat’s not dead…

      Epstein’s possible suicide note found by cellmate – NYT — RT World News

      https://www.rt.com/news/639336-epstein-suicide-note-tartaglione/

       

    • #83861
      Mr P
      Participant

      Speaking of premeditated mass muder under color of authority…

       

    • #83862
      Mr P
      Participant

      Everybody knows how rewarding it can be to go fishing…https://www.rt.com/india/639330-pakistan-rolls-out-first-chinese-hangor-submarine/

      Nice new fishing boats!

    • #83865
      Mr P
      Participant

      Since his royalness and the feeble UK keeps attacking Russia, a traditionally minded fella might expect the Country of Bears to become provoked, and possibly send certain “gift” to his royalness…

      “King Charles III comes to the US to deliver Fulton Speech 2.0 calling for an all-out war on Russia – and then it’s the UK that is claiming an attack on it to be ‘highly likely.'”

      Lemetinkonit…

      see Comrade Aussie Cossack https://t.me/AussieCossack/48471

    • #83866
      Mr P
      Participant

      Speaking of provocations and stuff…Comrade Berletic gives a brief about the wunderwaffen…

    • #83875
      Mr P
      Participant

      Ambassador Freeman opines that Iran probably has now undertaken to go ahead with new killer weapon build…and may have got some built…

      Nima and the learned ambassador chat…

      • #83892
        Periol
        Keymaster

        Only reason I doubt this speculation about Iran building a nuke…

        If they build it, they better be telling everyone they have it.  What’s the point of having a nuke (for deterrence) if you don’t tell people about it?  Unless they’re planning to use it offensively, which is obviously not consistent with their beliefs.  So, I think when/if the time comes, Iran will tell us when they build a nuke.

        • #83893
          cronetoo
          Participant

          I don’t think Iran is speaking of a nuke … but a conventional weapon they have yet to use …

          • #83906
            emersonreturn
            Participant

            oddly i agree with both views: while i’ve believed iran has the technology & resources required, & has had since the revolution—(whether from north korea/pakistan/ disgruntled russian physicists, or its own mathematical wizards (for me) is irrelevant, iran chooses for spiritual/ethical reasons not to deploy them.   (all but impossible for a western mind with our instant gratification exceptionalism to fathom.)  insha’allah   that isn’t to say that in the event of global nuclear annihilation iran won’t use them, simply that it will do all & everything it can before.  iran is a civilized state, its every announcement, remark, disclosure, memorandom makes it clear that such rigorous morality is what civilized state means; as profoundly beautiful as its mosques & carpets; as remarkably transcendent as Rumi’s poems.

            so as we wait, here in the space between the breath in the breath out, in the carousal of thoughts & what it all means…i wonder why russia doesn’t simply declare russia is @ war with empire has been for centuries…while everyone in the global south knows this & has for years…why let empire continue to live within the bernays’ fog of lies??  this transitory second i believe it’s somewhat related to the imponderable why iran does not disclose what she obviously owns…for the sake of us all.  & for the sake of us all i have to hold faith it is as God decrees it.

             

        • #83904
          Mr P
          Participant

          Freeman’s status as expert makes his opinion, whether correct or not, itself liable to influence the decisions of some persons. Given the grave possibilities perhaps he’s attempting to influence some people, seeding doubt. I don’t imaging he’s lying, after all, it’s opinion… but he may be exercising craft. I too doubt the existence of Iranian nukes…mainly because there has been no explosion. I do not doubt that they exist in the metasense…as a near time potential… As Postol says, it would not take very long to assemble a few.

          ………..

          Meantime… Pepe and Danny chat…and in the background a raging thunder storm occasionally punctuates their dialogue…Jupiter beating his wife… very amusing. By the way Pepe says the “poot” (60% U235) has been dispersed to a multitude of loci. The idea of a grab is thus foiled. Postol’s birthday was yesterday….

          (To-day was a nice May Day for me n’ Mrs P…. slow drive on back country 1 lane and a tasty stop at the mexican bakery…sheep an’ goats, a Llama…cows…a guy cutting alfalfa… Lovely. Then home to gardening…. Alas, not one Red Flag…except our Soviet one, inside… )  😉

    • #83905
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      O canaduh, O carnage…2 maple leaves for you.

       

    • #83907
      cronetoo
      Participant

    • #83938
      Mr P
      Participant

      La guerre continue, elle n’a jamais pris fin.

      Ahem finding this discussion most interesting….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqGaRboQxg

      Neutrality Studies… Stephen and Pascal chat – topic…it never ended.

      imho the war, the imperialist war for the world, has varied in many ways, more than 100 years so far…but has not ended…so naturally I caught the theme with relish…

      • #83951
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        thank you for sharing this interview, Mr P.  all four grandparents of my stepdaughter in law were holocaust survivors.  all 4 had met their spouse in america, nyny.   none spoke of what or how they’d survived.    leaving their children &  grandchildren to muddle through its scrambled jigsaw effects, placing pieces merely on suppositions in a hollywood world & time drip dripping its way to the next.  rinse repeat.

        • #83960
          Mr P
          Participant

          You may enjoy reading Primo Levy…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Levi  I too have close history with survivors, Jews and Gentiles, tutors and teachers… My family was ruined by the war, it estranged the European branch, permanently, killed most of them…and destroyed a fortune in family property…bombed and burned to rubble…I have the key to the garden gate from the villa in Frankfurt…and I have seen the vacant lot, and the pictures of the bombed out property downtown. In Europe I would be entitled to the status of minor royalty…which makes me laugh, as I despise the “upper class”…  a favorite person and his famous saying… “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”…  Another, a union slogan “Honor Labor”.

          ……………….

          Meantime…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4l1CiUm7t8 Uncle John Helmer and Comrade Lascaris chat… John tells a lurid tale of corruption, intrigue, bribery, and factional interests… Not very complimentary to our Russian brothers either. Damning to the nazi clans in murka. Geewhiz I miss the Communists…and the Soviet Union…

    • #83961
      Mr P
      Participant

      Agent Hal promotes hysterical story…and sometimes he’s onto some stuff…

      Big money? Neh… https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/strange-big-money-move-in-vix?catid=20&Itemid=101

      Sez the big money bet on a proximate stock crash…

      Uncle Helmer said the kreeps making the war game it for personal profit…ahemzoshocked!

    • #83965
      Mr P
      Participant

      Reading history as the sun set on the digs at Anoxia, the forgotten lady, Lisa Howard emerged from the dog eared page….and with her the Comandante … Fidel

      And since that little fink Narco Ruby Oh wants to re-conquer the Free Territory … it seems about time to remember things…

      Lisa Howard according to the see eye eh pet project… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Howard_(news_personality)

      The forgotten interview…Fidel Castro’s famous interview with Lisa Howard – смотреть онлайн в поиске Яндекса по Видео

      https://yandex.ru/video/preview/12362765220873219489

      or

       

    • #83990
      Mr P
      Participant

      Die Wehrmacht bereitet die Verstärkung der Ostfront vor!

      Zone Bremerhaven

      The total investment in the project is €1.35 billion, underscoring the priority of this project amid NATO’s military buildup on its eastern flank.

      According to available information, the key goal of the reconstruction is to create conditions for the rapid redeployment of heavy armored vehicles and weapons. Specifically, the port is being adapted to handle Leopard 2A4-8 main battle tanks, which weigh over 60 tons, as well as other weapons systems requiring enhanced logistics capabilities. This will significantly reduce the deployment time of forces in potential conflict zones, a critical factor in today’s hybrid threats and rapidly changing operational environments.

      and so on…

      see: https://vk.ru/militarychronicles
      https://t.me/Warhronika
      https://max.ru/Warhronika

       

    • #83993
      Mr P
      Participant

      Propaganda is working! (well it was never in doubt, was it?) Neutrality Studies’ Comrade Pascal interviews Mattias Desmet…… Topic: EU in grip of deadly mass formation psychosis..

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      Hyperbolic and sensational Comrade Borzzikman report of the funny business with weather…zone Iran………. n’ other stuff… Always inspirational, if not especially useful ………. nice pictures of course…

    • #84004
      Mr P
      Participant

      Ahemtink there’s more to these sensational dope busts…more than the superficial … Ahemtink to ask why and why now… The History in general of dope busts has to do with money, monopoly and suppressing competition…and sometimes political agenda…basic fascist / imperialist features of capitalism…………….. Ahem gunna ask Stumpy what his cousin Izzy the Fixer can find out…

      • #84007
        amarynth
        Keymaster

        From a LAC friend .. Ollie Vargas

        The US is a narco-state that works WITH drug cartels to keep Latin America in a cycle of poverty and violence. It’s been confirmed once again in another investigation ignored by US media. US & Israel facilitated the narco takeover of Honduras to help undermine Mexico & others.

        • #84008
          Mr P
          Participant

          😉   Yewbetcha!  The process runs also inside the CONUS zone… Nixon and Rockefeller added the scheme to interfere with blacks and brown and white folks calling for civil rights and ending the wars… by means of dis-enfranchisement  by felony convictions and also of course due to being loaded… Their discussion is somewhere in the transcripts — But of course the heroin and the coke go way back… Politics of Heroin and Big White Lie…and etc. “according to Izzy the Fixer” 😉

      • #84114
        Sysiphus
        Participant

        Where did that extra winglet above the police car originate from?

        It looks AI generated – C17 don’t usually possess more than one outboard winglet on their wings.

    • #84005
      Mr P
      Participant

      Iranian security source told Press TV that ongoing US “maritime piracy and bullying,” carried out under the guise of a blockade, would soon be met with an “unprecedented and tangible military response.”

      https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/iran-replaces-uae-ports-with-pakistan-corridor-to-break-us-b

    • #84009
      Mr P
      Participant

      Interesting essay with some expert opinion…weather and some funny business…which business is a serious crime… Since the nazi gang game the markets, what is implied as to crop future contracts and options as a source of rent extraction?

      https://www.unz.com/ishamir/blessings-from-heaven/

      fragment>

      I asked a renowned physicist, prof RZ, who kindly agreed to share with us his take:

      In other words, the question is whether radars are linked to the weather. I’m no meteorologist, but I think – yes, perhaps. The process of cloud formation is actually poorly understood. When moisture condenses from the gaseous phase into cloud microdroplets, nucleation occurs right at the start – that is, the initiation of this process. Radar energy may destroy the tiny nucleation nuclei right at the start of the process, and as a result, either no cloud forms, or it turns out diffuse, and no rain falls from it. The moisture-saturated air is carried by the wind to another location, where a rain cloud then forms. However, proving a causal link will not be straightforward; it requires many years of observation.
      So, barring some whistle-blower disclosure, we can’t know for certain whether the drought was being caused by an American/Israeli radar that was destroyed by Iranian missiles, or perhaps it was some other mysterious HAARP system that was wrecked, but the result is wonderful. A ten-year long drought ended, and the rains have…

      ende

    • #84011
      Mr P
      Participant

      Lip reader reveals Trump’s private warning to Charles moments after his arrival… and the King waving him off: ‘We’ll discuss this later’ | Daily Mail Online

      After bigly telephone with Putin…Clown fella ‘sposed t’ said to his royalness:

      Trump then changed the subject, telling the King he had been in contact with the Russian leader.

      ‘So right now, I am talking to Putin,’ Trump said. ‘He wants war.’

      King Charles said they would discuss that topic later.

      ‘We will discuss that later,’ the King replied.

      But Trump continued.

      ‘I’ve got a feeling… if he did what he said, he will wipe out the population,’ Trump warned.

      The monarch tried to switch topics again.

      ‘Another time,’ King Charles said.

      ………

      Very often the understanding of a thoughtful and complex series of statements is, in the mind of an ignorant and unsophisticated listener, condensed to simplistic impressions, which are baldly false and  incorrect.  Actual meanings become inverted. Also very often grifters lie to other grifters…Clown fella may be lyin’ t’ his royalness…   Examples abound…what you actually say gets reported as something else entirely… Nevertheless, if the clown feller actually thinks Putin wants war…

    • #84022
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      radhika & michael

       

    • #84039
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      danny & KJ Noh

       

    • #84051
      Mr P
      Participant

      Tragic Clown makes bigly funnyhttps://x.com/i/status/2051037937966719332

      clown strait escort

      Is now in zone Oman after 4 AM Monday…

    • #84057
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #84058
      amarynth
      Keymaster

      OK; this is plainly bad taste .. but funny in parts.

    • #84065
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • #84066
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      the cradle, Ehsan Safarnejad

       

    • #84067
      chernq
      Participant

      Discussed on ResistanceisFertile’s podcast- Ryan Perkins’ substack, Global Economic Indicator, (and his namesake substack https://ryanperkins.substack.com/ is also great), does an excellent breakdown of the potential financial trap being laid for China, a realm where the US is far more capable than they are militarily, and the ambush will probably be sprung at harvest season when the full fertilizer/food shortage and oil crisis fully matures.

      The Petroyuan trap-

      https://ceinewsletter.substack.com/p/the-petroyuan-trap-the-us-plan-to?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

      And an update covering the USD swaps being agreed to by UAE and test run via Argentina.

      https://ceinewsletter.substack.com/p/petroyuan-trap-update-fortifying

      He plans to cover China’s countermoves and prepping in the coming days. Warwick Powell has covered some of the material realities of China’s preparation for that here-

      https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/chinas-preparedness

      • #84097
        Periol
        Keymaster

        Thank you for these links, very interesting.

        It’s all a little too “Naked Capitalism” for me to believe it will work, but I don’t doubt the US Capitalists think it will work.  Definitely appreciate the analysis though – everyone knows there’s something going on under the surface of the current events in West Asia.  The whole thing felt too coordinated, the slip into “petroyuan” too easy.  Iran changing things up and charging tolls in Rials would seem to be a counter to this plan.

        I think at the end of the day the economic skullduggery will take a backseat to kinetic warfare.  Who what where when why and how just isn’t clear yet.  Everyone still thinks the emperor is wearing clothes, so we shall see.

        EDIT:  forgot to mention…  There’s one glaring issue with this guy’s analysis I noticed right away.  He mentions the petroyuan as part of a supposed BRICS currency push to replace the dollar with something, or replace the dollar with the yuan as a reserve currency.  I don’t think that is being pushed at all, that’s a western narrative – although it’s possible coked up western financiers believe it to be true.  I think BRICS nations see quite clearly how damaging being a reserve currency is to the homeland, and do not want it.  China does not want it.  The trap being outlined assumes China wants the petroyuan, is looking for reserve currency status, and the USA can cut them off at the knees trying to achieve it.  If this is truly the trap, it is destined to fail.

        • #84128
          chernq
          Participant

          Right on, China def doesn’t want it. He mentioned in the comments he’s planning to cover the options of what China plans and have done for prevention, He lives in China as well and in a post about what Chinese public intellectuals are saying about the war, a commenter thought all the intellectuals were naive because they didn’t mention it was aimed at China- he replied because it is so obvious that it goes without saying for them, going back to ’03. Much the same is said for best laid “plans” of the west going awry- in the ROF podcast he seems to think along the lines of Powell- China and reality have a say how it all plays out.

          • #84150
            emersonreturn
            Participant

            i concur with both periol & chernq.  this thesis straddles a circus of very faulty chairs.

            1.  china is not oil starved, china has discovered vast reserves, as well she trades under empire’s radar with both iran & russia.  city fails to account for this & projects its insecurity upon its adversary.
            2. while acknowledging china is not japan, it fails to integrate the differences: china is neither a vassal, nor dependant, she is firmly aligned with similar sovereign nations, all united & working diligently to secure similar aims: peace, prosperity & sovereignty immune to city.
            3. while acknowledging the faux netflix estrangement between belgium & america it fails to connect city’s pivotal point in the triangle…both belgium & america remain indisputably bonded with the zionist colony.
            4. city imagined it would defeat iran with an early knock out punch.  city did not factor in iran’s preparedness nor its prescience to erase the key network & pillars of america’s eyes/ears imperial dominance.  certainly, the zionist colony attacked some of empire’s bon bon’s but those city had neglected to fully calculate the impact or final outcome.
            5. the fallacy of destroying its creation of paper supremacy would render china weak can be chalked up to snorting too much of the product you imagine you are selling.
    • #84076
      Mr P
      Participant

      The fascist business of violence under the color of a nazi construct…pregnant with possibilities for future expansions – Luckup Corp might create a “legal” private army or  navy or other engine and rent it out… So here find the thin (or not so thin) edge of the wedge… ‘scuse please the fascist tone…Private air defense takes off in Ukraine – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_REzBX7IC0

    • #84110
      Mr P
      Participant

      Speaking of fascists…cat sez ……..”Naftali Bennett claims America will be nuked if Washington stops backing the Zionist regime………..includes inspiring video!

      https://x.com/furkangozukara/status/2051233044367811013?s=46

      and other fascist, an especially dim witted one ……..”Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer “disinformation” out of existence…Kerry the Clueless…

      https://x.com/i/status/2050922474184024392

    • #84112
      Mr P
      Participant

      Speaking of the first amendment and things getting out….ahemwonder what effect upon the moral in the US military, especially the officers’ moral, the dope fiend stories might have…the enlisted is serious enough, but the officers themselves…well! This sort of thing, having reached this far, is liable to rapidly inspire disobedience and things which everyone can see in history…things best left unspoken.

      A short-circuit of leadership is poised.

      When will Larry “Gunner” Johnson, for example, speak of this? When with the story become universally known?

      Speaking of the Gunner…

    • #84113
      Mr P
      Participant

      Where be Bibi?   

      Ahemtink the cat’s dead… him no show…

      https://x.com/ajenglish/status/2051196879845617775?s=46

      ………………..

      Bigly hootenanny rodeo in zone Hormuz is, according to Gunner, on for 7th… huuummm 7 Dayz in May?

       

    • #84129
      Mr P
      Participant

      https://t.me/Slavyangrad/163409

      Zone Hormuz and the Gulf… violence..

       

       

       

    • #84130
      Mr P
      Participant

      Slavyangrad: (says)

      Iran is powerfully attacking the UAE: missiles are hitting refineries, ports, and ships, and the price of oil is soaring

      Alarm in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for the fourth time in an hour. A powerful fire broke out at a refinery in the industrial zone of Fujairah in the UAE, authorities report.
      This happened after an attack by Iranian missiles and drones.
      Tankers were attacked along the coasts of the United Arab Emirates.
      Brent oil exceeded $115 after news of the attack on the UAE.
      Flights at Dubai and Sharjah airports have been suspended due to the attacks.
      The US and Israel will attack Iran in the next 24 hours in response to strikes on the UAE, – CNN

      A high-ranking source in the Emirates told the American TV channel about this.
      Israel has raised its level of combat readiness, and the Cabinet of Ministers is convening an emergency meeting.
      The UAE reserves the full and legitimate right to respond to Iran’s attacks. Tehran’s attack demonstrates a serious escalation and poses a direct threat to the country’s security, – the Emirates’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs states.

    • #84132
      emersonreturn
      Participant

      tether is based outta the virgin islands

       

      • #84137
        chernq
        Participant

        ah, yea was just about to post this- it has been some time since Kevin did a dive onto crypto and related decentralized monetary systems, this one was a biggie. All the attempts of the US to evaporate their debt via Stablecoins (as I believe Russian financial commentators and officials have mentioned in public statements), not gonna fly. Tether deeply f’d itself by exposing its complete compliance with the Epstein Pirates. BTC volatility still shows its inability to be storage of value. Gold, even with its own volatility, still holds as the backup. BRICS attempts of fits and starts for their own currency and/or clearing mechanism or exchange system, with all the potential internal sabotage now from India/UAE and others hedging, is far behind with any alternative options.

        Kevin has done a couple videos in the past about commodities tradings within BRICS nations and bilateral trading being done completely outside of western controlled blocs like CME or others, so they are functionally invisible. And amarynth’s multiple about the BRICS crypto/de-dollarization efforts (or non-efforts) have been enlightening.

        My own very layman’s take, on the belief that CBDC’s are going to rule day (leaving aside the “evil” description by many in the west)- the nature of trusting CBDC’s still require more than just exchange value- it needs to be backed by something productive. I think this is why China’s rollout actually works so far- it has use value- it can be exchanged for commodities, useful goods, a productive economy that backs it up that cannot be easily disrupted. The west/US belief and vain hope that everyone will rush to US CBDC because of a Thatcherite “TINA” belief is more a last ditch effort to keep from paying off their credit card bill- just open another credit card. But there is nothing there- and the same material results, since the petrodollar was backed by military “might”- but that clearly isn’t worth the fiat paper it was written on, as the Arab bases, Korean THAADS, etc demonstrated. And contrary to the IMF/World Bank austerity confiscation schemes- say a CBDC or even the Chinese international Yuan (CHY) is being f’d with via plots and machinations of the west- rather than stripping it of sovereign assets within China to get that lucre paid off, China just would do what it has been doing- building concessional infrastructure, material components and systems in exchange.

        There would also be a very funny potential ironic FAFO result here- Warwick Powell has covered this a bit- either devaluing OR appreciating the RMB actually helps China either way- the classic (if faulty in its incompleteness) belief in cheaper currency builds and sustains export economy like China’s, or appreciating it causes parties to WANT it for value storage and exchange usage (which has all sorts of up and downstream effects on supply chains) and further entrenches Chinese supply chain and system resiliency. https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/hold-your-horses

        I’m interested to know if there are updates on Hong Kong’s role as the hub for a lot of China’s international financial policies, especially of BTC (ICB did cover this a bit a year ago)- if the regulations there are being finalized for a crypto market are done or not. With the massive influx of capital coming back to China via UAE and Arab flight, this also presents a whole new set of complexities to sort through. ICB also highlighted an interesting point a while back too about China’s US treasury holding- they don’t care how little payback they get, they are still progressively eliminating holdings for whatever value they have left, and gold buying is still non-stop. (Contrast this with Japan’s liquidation reversing the Yen carry trade to save their own money, and by extent the US).

        Questions the video leaves me with- in the past Kevin made a point about Tether specifically used for trading UST’s and USD outside of US control, but with Tether caving that’s now obviously gone- but the idea still stands- can other parties who hold so much of the USD reserves still trade the UST for some sort of exchange value outside of US control, via mBridge, CIPS, or some other platform? Or is it still liquidate no matter what (albeit in controlled manner), be it for gold, future basket of commodities and/or currencies, concessional infrastructure/partnerships all the way and let the dollar reserve status die off, until a Keynes Bancor or a new, non-IMF/World Bank controlled Special Drawing Rights is agreed upon?

        • #84159
          chernq
          Participant

          ah, actually I just remembered- China DID issue a US treasury bond to Saudi a little while back. Which, while nominal, was perhaps a potential test case for USD as nominal scrip. I recalled Indi doing a pictorial faq about this – https://indi.ca/how-china-starts-printing-usd/

          In the meantime, countries and banks around the world are now issuing Chinese panda bonds, and all the countries need China to export deflation and alternative systems even more now while empire’s own industries either pack up and go to China to survive or sanction themselves to death against it.

          There’s certainly more to work out here in regards to any nation’s forex USD/ treasury holdings, certainly more than my amateur self can figure- no gold backing, no oil coming, tether/stablecoins a bust, and a CBDC that isn’t trusted or productively supported, so what happens when the holders come calling? Is this going to be gated/capped like they are doing with private credit (Blackrock being the alarming example)? I don’t see how the empire would ever dare to SAP themselves with asset stripping- what does it have to offer that isn’t just more rent seeking and cycles the same system? The material realities slams down the financial fiction.

          • #84200
            emersonreturn
            Participant

            thank you, chernq, for sharing indi’s take & charts.  indeed…”What a beautiful world!”

          • #84201
            amarynth
            Keymaster

            There is another issue here besides the flow of money.  At this moment, China needs nothing from the US .. zippo, zero.  They do not need to buy a thing.

            The US needs a lot from China.

            I don’t know how much we will see, but the Summit Trump Xi next week will be stuff where we all wish to be a fly on the wall.

             

            • #84203
              chernq
              Participant

              truly – carbon copy of Britain in 1793 with Trump as Macartney. China certainly remembers how that turned out and has prepared accordingly. If Trump has no off ramp with Iran, what does he expect to find with this meeting???

            • #84211
              chernq
              Participant

              Another note I read that correlates with the tether seizure of Iran’s money- these funds were just sitting there. For years. Untouched. The US seizing them with Tether’s compliance is basically another own goal on both- and perhaps was the bait and induced plan all along by the resistance. It kills Tether and US stablecoins in one blow. Cue Hannibal “love it when a plan comes together!”

    • #84190
      Mr P
      Participant

      Minister makes a funny…new killer buttonz wouldja? Let’s play!

      ………….

      Oh, it’s not a game…

      Brother Marandi and Diesen chat about the Persian theater of WW3…

       

    • #84191
      Mr P
      Participant

      Brother Nima and Uncle John… China’s Unthinkable Move, Iran’s Response to US, New Middle East Reality In such a fluid condition I wonder if “reality” can be known…but Uncle John always brings interesting dishes to table…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLQeC8gOp-k

    • #84192
      Mr P
      Participant

      Nazis make flimsy and transparent excuse to blockade zone Baltic … it is said…neh, yeah, but it might get nasty real fast….Propaganda color? Grey ahemtink…

      https://ukraina-ru.translate.goog/20260504/ekologiya-ne-pri-chem-gromak-o-tom-zachem-zapad-podnimaet-khimicheskoe-oruzhie-80-letney-davnosti-1078579846.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

      baltic poisons gag

       

    • #84199
      emersonreturn
      Participant

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