The Hearty Salon, 4 Feb 2025 … Open Thread

[AHH]

Brit rag The Times BEFORE
Brit rag The Times AFTER

Last Thread: #51364

[Mr P]

An essay> Otto von Bismarck: ‘The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.’ — The Socratic Method

https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/otto-von-bismarck-the-secret-of-politics-make-a-good-treaty-with-russia

(Geewhiz yatink that BSW and AFD don’t know this ? )

excerpt> “When we ponder the philosophical concept of existential diplomacy, we invite an unconventional perspective into the discussion. Existentialism, a school of thought that emerged in the 20th century, explores the individual’s subjective existence and responsibility in an uncertain world. Applying this concept to diplomacy challenges the notion that politics is solely driven by tangible gains. Instead, it posits that political decisions should be rooted in an understanding of the human experience and an acknowledgment of the inherent uncertainties of existence.In light of existential diplomacy, Bismarck’s quote takes on a more profound meaning. ”

And following let’s listen to Prof. Glenn Diesen : How NATO Provoked Russia. 

And 

Germany Election: AfD Candidate Alice Weidel on Election, EU, Trump, Energy

Weidel sprach auf Englisch

 

 

[Mr P]

MASSENPSYCHOSE – Wie eine ganze Bevölkerung geisteskrank wird – Carl Jung und George Orwell (1984) (How an entire population becomes mentally ill…)

excerpt> have you ever considered that the greatest danger to humanity may not come from outside but from within ourselves it is not wars natural disasters or
diseases that most threaten civilization it is something more subtle
insidious and infinitely more devastating our own mind and
as Karl Jung would say if we give in to the illusions we create we will
become prisoners of something darker than any dictatorship of a psychic
epidemic what if I told you that we are currently living through one of these epidemics and that like in the ….

And so on. I suppose that adding stress, propaganda by experts, and dope, might be considered to be an accelerant.  

 

[AHH]

A generator of the mass psychosis illusions, and much of the “stress, propaganda by experts, and dope” — are self-inflicted via ubiquitous smartphones… Most are now so hooked, I have the image of the lab rat hitting the stimulant button until it expires from starvation and sheer exhaustion..

And we knew of these harms several GENERATIONS ago. The effects of neglect and letting TVs raise the “latchkey children” started the process, now drowning under effects of fast internet and constant clicks. 30+ years ago, they taught in med school to teach parents to observe a MAXIMUM of one hour per day of “total screen time” – to avoid damage to young growing impressionable minds.

[Sudhi]

“We” is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin that was written in 1920–1921.
The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state that is rebelled against by the protagonist, D-503 (Russian: Д-503). It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell said that Aldous Huxley’s 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We,[2] although Huxley denied this. Orwell’s own Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Animal Farm was also inspired by We.[3] Fahrenheit 451 was also inspired by “We”.

It’s an excellent novel and a must-read.

Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin)

[cronetoo]

I find the last 10 mins of this interview with Col Macgregor interesting … having to do with Bank of  England subject to going under, and rumors putting US Treasuries up for auction on the exchange …

The Col is obviously not in the know about the Bank of England but none the less worried and sounding the alarm.

I would appreciate a few of you smart cookies listening to his words and commenting …

[Mr P]

From book cover, “Conjuring Hitler”

(my bolds)

“Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated. In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he demonstrates that Hitler’s extraordinary rise to power was in fact facilitated — and eventually financed — by the British and American political classes during the decade following World War I. Through a close analysis of events in the Third Reich, Preparata unveils a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. He explains that Britain, still clinging to its empire, was terrified of an alliance forming between Germany and Russia. He shows how the UK, through the Bank of England, came to exercise control over Weimar Germany and how Anglo-American financial support for Hitler enabled the Nazis to seize power. This controversial study shows that Nazism was not regarded as an aberration: for the British and American establishment of the time, it was regarded as a convenient way of destabilising Europe and driving Germany into conflict with Stalinist Russia, thus preventing the formation of any rival continental power block.”–Book cover

Quiz question, what similarities do we see today?

For myself, well, I notice that when Countries are destabilized their gold disappears, this would include the gold from the vaults under the WTC…. 😉

I assume that said gold re-appears deep under the bloody soils of City of London. 

[Mr P]

State funds blocking democracy in Kraut zone…and more!

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Ruskie not happy!

[Mr P]

Uncle Doctorow ….

 

[cronetoo]

Karlof1 has outstanding piece on his substack … worthy of featuring at this site, imho

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-arrogance-of-power

[cronetoo]

AHH,

Just now saw your comment to Karl … excellent

[Mr P]

It’s perhaps key to the man Fullbright to begin with some biography, and bear in mind the Jim Crow society of his origins. We can say that both Lavrov and Fullbright are/were intellectuals….but their worldviews and, if you will accept the term, breeding, have essentially nothing in common.

It seems to me that Fullbright was “opposition” only in the sense of cunningly subtle method, not grand policy…and not in terms of morality.

These are preliminary remarks. The questions are fascinating. One may speculate bearing in mind the near constant usage from Russia of racial terms for what is sometimes called “the west’. Nowadays the Russians speak of “the anglo-saxons”… Perhaps they have a point… 😉

 

 

[amarynth]

Strange projects falling down from USAID

Cannot pay staff

[emersonreturn]

canada to replace us with china for oil exports: will trump impose tariffs on canada again – youtube

 

[emersonreturn]

eurasian land

 

coffee & a mike with david collum & alex krainer: Goal to preserve hegemony over Eurasian land – youtube:

 

 

(a fine history for those of us suffering memory white out.)

 

 

 

 

[emersonreturn]

re: david collum:  dumpster is a pedophile, his grandfather & father were pimps & made their fortunes selling sex.  that an organic chemist believes dumpster has a soft heart speaks to the sorry state of american academia.

[Mr P]

Collum is interesting. I am sure he’s a smart chemist. He has provocative ideas too. I find his year end journals very entertaining. However I don’t take him seriously. His preoccupation with personal financial matters, investments and so forth, suggest to me that Collum’s actually pretty naive. He lacks perception of realpolitik. Of pimps and all that, and soft hearts… I’d ask what difference does it make that a monster is kind to his dog?

[emersonreturn]

lol, thank you, Mr.P.  deeply appreciated.

[Mr P]

Gabriele Krone-Schmalz: Horror-Ankündigung für 2026 – UNBEDINGT ANSEHEN!

“Horror announcement for 2026”

Having to do with the american nazi plans to base in Germany fast weapons aimed at Russia

GKS is herself a fascinating person, see her wiki and site. She’s well informed and her view of the Ruskies is probably pretty accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Krone-Schmalz

http://www.krone-schmalz.de/

[Mr P]

Coups, Killings, Mind Control and Torture: CIA’s Global Criminal Empire Exposed

Leonard Cohen — Everybody Knows • Live In London – смотреть онлайн в поиске Яндекса по Видео

https://yandex.ru/video/preview/7493398091681172044

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250205/coups-killings-mind-control-and-torture-cias-global-criminal-empire-exposed-1121539354.html

 

[emersonreturn]

how a Chinese nerd destroyed the US AI biosphere – youtube

 

[emersonreturn]

the next Kissinger: part 1

evan:DD Geopolitics

 

https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-next-kissenger-part-1?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1769298&post_id=155898419&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ewjrh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

[Mr P]

Nima and Uncle Doctorow…

Trump’s not a mad man, so what’s the big plan?

[cronetoo]

… the plan … Mr P ?

Max Blumenthal revealed it in talk with the Judge yesterday.

[Mr P]

Thanks, I read the transcript. Doctorow’s view is grander, overarching…and incidentally dismisses the Gaza “ownership” stuff. The two views are not in alignment.  Gilbert’s analysis may be somewhat comforting. I found it so.

[Nico Cost]

Interesting article from Martin Armstrong on his website:

Distributive Bargaining

It’s about Indiana University Professor David Honig’s interpretation of Distributive bargaining (win-lose) versus Integrative bargaining (win-win). How Trump and the US think and act versus how the Global South thinks and acts.

From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.

[cronetoo]

Trump is not going to Russia …

Kellog is going to Kiev …

https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/38339

[Mr P]

The criminal proposal of Orange fellas to steal Gaza and build casino resorts reminds me of a smaller but similar crime spree… Most y’all never heard of Chavez Ravine… If I recall correctly, essentially the city made a deal with a sports team to steal private property, evict the people, and build a stadium and then give it to the team…a private corporation and claim that this was legal according to eminent domain.

Of course the claim of eminent domain cannot apply to the Gaza Casino Plan… Recalling that nazi is what nazi does…

see>

[amarynth]

OK, so now you’ve broken my heart with this story. Just a little bit.

We are a clinically insane humanity, and that insanity breeds insane leaders of all kinds.

[Mr P]

I used to ride dirt bikes in those hills. Those were really nice families, many long established.

Taking and claiming it’s not stealing…y’all know the story of the Cherokee Strip land grab?

But speaking of such duplicities… stole another airplane.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-seizes-venezuelan-government-plane-dominican-republic-2025-02-06/

[Mr P]

Before Snowdon… Before Edward Snowden | Enemy of the State – Thomas Drake Documentary

[Mr P]

Los tres amigos discuss surrender…

[emersonreturn]

dialogue works

nima & alex krainer

 

alex krainer: will the us get stuck in the middle east forever?

 

[Grieved]

Krainer – I’m only 15 minutes in so far, but in those first 15 mins he gives his take on Trump’s land grab announcement with Netanyahu. I agree with his take on body language and who was the alpha male by the way, I call Trump way above Bibi on that one, although Trump seemed more deliberate than usual – the grins from Bibi were juvenile at best, and I surmise along with Krainer that Bibi and the AIPAC lobby were being fed candy by Trump.

By the way, I never saw that picture of holding Bibi’s chair as a lord and master thing…I see it as a business host who is in charge but aware that his guest is in pain and recovering from serious surgery and could well miss that chair!

Anyway, always good to get Krainer’s sane and logical reasoning. And it’s useful that, unlike many commentators who specialize in global geopolitics, Krainer does very much understand also how surgically Trump’s team is restoring the rule of law inside the US, the very thing that Trump was elected for, by an electorate largely uncaring about world affairs, but tightly focused on the domestic situation. So Krainer can weigh and balance those two realms, of the global and the domestic – I appreciate that sleight of hand from Trump that he speaks of, I postulate that also.

[Grieved]

I’m interrupting the Krainer interview again to share an important concept that he reminds me of. Around minute 27:00, Nima starts talking about the new era of Chinese tech dominance and Krainer speaks of the sheer cost of the globalist control the US has spent trillions on, and also how the entrenched oligarchy and bureaucracy – and corruption fueled by entities such as USAID – has stifled innovation in the US.

This last point is an important concept that was addressed this morning in one of his best essays ever by Jeff Childers at the Coffee & Covid substack. He devoted his whole column to his thesis, reinforced with plenty of collateral, including from prior commentators who have also been putting this thesis together – namely, that the US has been stuck in a cultural and development rut for all of this century. The culture feeds on its old creations, and nothing new is being produced, and this is the result of the rot and corruption that has taken hold to such a degree now that, from sheer fear of unrest and challenge, it forbids innovation.

Childers is an excellent writer and his coherent essay is very readable. I recommend it highly:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-big-thaw-thursday-february-6

[cronetoo]

Grieved,

I’ve seen this quote from Peter Thiel several times in past weeks … explains how China is superior in technology …

“Competition is for losers”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-losers-1410535536

[emersonreturn]

kevin

Inside China Business

 

Forget Deepseek, Open AI & Claude for business users, Alibaba’s Qwen beats them all – youtube

(expect Qwen & Deepseek to be banned)

 

[amarynth]

I’ve tried DeepSeek but Qwen really blows them all away. I’ve used it for some images here .. so quick – and easy as pie. The first image that I did was amazing .. I did not train the thing too well because I needed to learn a little, but the basic was I asked for an image of “bad people sitting around a table”. This is what it churned out – less than 1 minute:

Anyways ..

The Skripal story again – the Grayzone has some more information
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/13/british-inquiry-skripal-poisoning/

[Mr P]

The Ray and Larry show…

[Mr P]

In view of the scandals surrounding the affairs of USAID we may recall that there were warnings.

https://www.agmiw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/GekaufteJournalisten-UdoUlfkotte.pdf

[emersonreturn]

dialogue works

nima & pepe

 

[emersonreturn]

pepe (visibly suffering sleepus inter-ruptus) believes dumpster dislikes nutty.      it seems to me both actors keep to the script, improvisation strictly confined to the playwright’s character description.  the goal being to secure west asia, its riches & location, therein, blocking both chinese & russian expansion while financing the inevitable coming assault.

before rubio i failed to grasp brazilian, argentinian (turkish) elites & their allegiance to hegemony, rubio has made that indelibly clear.

 

 

 

 

[Grieved]

For what it’s worth, I too think Trump doesn’t like Netanyahu. Since we’re all reading body language in this matter, my immediate impression was that Trump didn’t want Bibi present, viewing him as a distraction from the very real changes that Trump is focused on domestically in the US, but also representing a major political force domestically that had to be appeased.

I saw Trump’s face as that of a man who was not among friends and having fun, but who was conducting business that had to be conducted. The New York real estate developer had dealt with unsavory people before, many times, and here it was again.

Had he been Japanese, his eyes would have been slitted during that public episode, and his mind would not have been on display.

my 2 cents.

[emersonreturn]

dear, grieved,  alex krainer & pepe read the body language & ambiance as you do.   undoubtedly, your observations are keenly prescient.

pepe has dined with those tracking where the money funding both dumpster & nutty originates & while alex may not enjoy such electric evenings, he charts the money flow & has for many years.  my hesitancy is essentially simple; in games as treacherously crucial as the zionist entity (whether deserved or foolish aside) is to empire,  i doubt atmospherics are left to personal whim or chance.  atmospherics are its oreshnik, subliminal messaging has for decades laid waste to intellectual discretion & by way of atmospherics empire has telepathically programmed entire populations what they believe or disbelieve.

nutty & dumpster have each been chosen.  both have taken more punches than chuvalo, both are trapped, having sold their souls to the company store.

 

[emersonreturn]

sean foo

US loses cheap canadian oil to China as Beijing Sues the US over tariffs – youtube

 

[emersonreturn]

danny haiphong

ben norton

 

Trump’s trade war backfires: putin, china & brics set to CRUSH tariffs/with ben norton – youtube

[Mr P]

The greatest (geo-political) showman’s “inside out” political solution — Strategic Culture

The greatest (geo-political) showman’s “inside out” political solution

excerpt> “Alon Mizrahi has advanced and suggested, set about re-colonising that which was already colonised: Canada; Greenland; Panama – and Europe too, of course.”

I cannot say, it’s intuitive, but it seems to me that there’s a natural relevance to this question>  Why Did Kaiser Wilhelm II Get Rid Of Bismarck (and how did this affect the Peace?)

There exist several commentaries under such rubric at youtube.

Remarking that without trade, especially in gas and oil, with Russia, Europe must be impoverished and both politically and socially unstable. This seem to suggest the Orange Plan cannot function in Europe…

Returning to Otto> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YouAuNGJs

 

[AHH]

This was during the period Britannia was openly melding with USA (Rhodes) and preparing to obliterate Germania back into squabbling little kingdoms (WW1). Several historians proved the plans for the annihilation of Germany were advanced at least a quarter century before 1914, being deemed intolerable to maintenance of Empire, both in trade and on the high seas (navy).

The naive insecure and over-his-head little Kaiser, who fawned over his Anglo-Saxon cousins, must have provided a ready ear to whispering royal Iagos, delighted to advance implosion through misrule by sidelining the Iron Chancellor. And Germany never again since 1890 became a viable threat to the Anglo-Saxons, sinking into deeper and deeper levels of remote subjugation and depravity

Who does intrigue better than any, in alliance with principalities and the international jew!

[Mr P]

I’m not satisfied with this wiki, but it will tend to illuminate the matter for the people unfamiliar with the British thalassocratic colonial concerns, intrigues, and the Turkish Strait’s importance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance_Treaty

 

an essay >  The Fragility of Thalassocracy >  https://friesian.com/thalasso.htm

[Mr P]

Charmingly blunt…nazi property will be taken by the state…

SIMFEROPOL, February 8-RIA Novosti. Crimea will form a new list of objects for nationalization belonging to Ukrainian oligarchs and persons hostile to Russia, the head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov told RIA Novosti.
“Work is underway. The fight against the Nazis in Crimea continues. Not a single object of enemies of the Crimea and Russia will remain with us. We’ll deal with everyone. This work is not only our moral duty, it brings real help to the economy of the republic, ” Konstantinov said, answering the question whether a new package for the nationalization of property has been formed.

[cronetoo]

[emersonreturn]

Inside China Business

 

Gold @ record highs as historic relationships wrecked by Russia sanctions, China mystery buyer – youtube

 

[Mr P]

https://clip.cafe/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-stop-worrying-love-the-bomb-1964/two-can-play-at-game-soldier/

and along such principles… 😉 

and

[emersonreturn]

news from pakistan.

 

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

 

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-china-pakistan-economic-corridor

[Mr P]

Brother Pat visits Uncle Fester and his pals? 

(ahbetcha the special ingredient is aluminum in powder form)

[Mr P]

They Tried to Scrub it: The 9/11 DRILL – The Strange Story You Probably Haven’t Heard

https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/they-tried-to-scrub-it-the-911-drill

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They keep telling us that Chinese economy is near collapse…then how is it that they’re making these>

China’s 8-Cylinder, 2-Liter Motorcycle: A Beastly Boxer on Two Wheels

https://www.theautopian.com/a-car-company-just-revealed-a-big-8-cylinder-boxer-motorcycle-and-its-all-kinds-of-silly/

Somewhere between 200 and 400 horsepower, Comrade!

 

[Mr P]

саботаж ? (sabotage)

MOSCOW, February 9-RIA Novosti. Booms were installed around the Koala tanker, where the incident [ explosion] occurred in the engine room, and preparations are underway for the survey of the underwater part of the vessel, Rosmorrechflot reported.

https://ria.ru/20250209/tanker-1998265421.html

[Mr P]

Blackmailing Canada and Mexico and anybody else…

“The West’s worst nightmare is coming true”

“We have reached another historical milestone. Diplomatic protocols, figurative language, subtlety of wording, and disguised meanings are thrown into the trash can. Modern American diplomacy is a language of extortion, threats and blackmail, without any hints of politeness and attempts to hide the gangster essence behind a screen of beautiful phrases about democracy, freedom and equal partnership.”

https://ria.ru/20250209/ssha-1998155577.html

 

 

[Mr P]

Baltic cable stories, recalling that the only evidence is claims by the operators…talk’s cheap, where’s the meat?>

“The submarine-cable war is very strange, both sides report that users are not affected by cable breakage.”

A strange cable war has unfolded in the Baltic. No one suffers from it
 
Cable breaks in the Baltic Sea are an invention of the Finnish authorities as part of the information war. And Russia finally responded by “breaking” its cable.

https://military.pravda.ru/2174694-russian-cable-finland/

 

[Mr P]

 

Trump to ‘clean out’ and own Gaza – Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen – YouTube

…………

Syrian Girl on X: “Israel killed its civilians on Oct 7th. Then used it to do a genocide in Gaza. Mention this whenever the word “Oct 7th” is mentioned again.

https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1888428656021885439?t=WDFOGXGJcKzkGBpVfX0VGw&s=01

Gallant Admits Ordering Israeli Army to Use Hannibal Directive during Gaza War – Al-Manar TV Lebanon

https://english.almanar.com.lb/2333014

Suppressed News. on X: “⚡️🇮🇱BREAKING: Israel’s Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant admits that Hannibal directive was used on October 7th 2023. Q: Was an order given to implement the Hannibal Procedure? A procedure that says to shoot to kill when there is a vehicle with an Israeli hostage.

 

[emersonreturn]

 

could empire have installed dumpster as the huckster to steal the audience’s attention away from the end game?  type casting on a budget.  a mainstay deployed by every 2bit road show.

dumpster must kneel without the audience noticing.

time is of the essence.  in 404 empire is being forced to kneel or continue to pour treasure & blood…treasure it sorely needs if it has any hope of retaining global dominance; blood o/c was of no concern, although, regrettably production & innovation of artillery, drones & robots has not kept pace with losses across the board.  detail work & its devils have been known to kill a guy.

dumpster must kneel without the audience noticing.

empire managed that in vietnam & afghanistan, but 404 will be harder.  russia winning is not easily erased.  even if they don’t flaunt it, wealth, prestige, power & rank cannot be wholly camouflaged as make believe.

africa appears to be empire’s last card.    africa—so big it defies occupation, yet, its magnetic incomprehensible wealth ignites in a colonial such pleonexia to match the continent’s staggering inexhaustible wealth.   africa’s divine abundance is a draw for every colonial overlord facing  bankruptcy, mitigating 3rd world destitution with dreams larger than the old new world’s puny in comparison gold rush.

the horror & war in the DRC, plagues of headchoppers in the sahel, propaganda & slander to undermine south africa, sudan, somalia torn apart, all are evidence, WW3 has taken hold.

 

 

[cronetoo]

GEORGE SAYS THAT KELLOG HAS CALLED FOR PUTIN TO STEP DOWN BEFORE US WILL AGREE TO A CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE!

[emersonreturn]

think BRICS

africa & india strategic resilience & strategic future

Global Economics shifts that will impact your future! – youtube

 

[emersonreturn]

 

china’s deadliest hypersonic air to air missile is coming – youtube

 

[emersonreturn]

China develops SILICON killer chip that will change everything – youtube

 

[Mr P]

Strongly recommend this essay, one of a series…the author  demonstrates mastery of rhetoric, and the virtue of logical analysis:  Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 11: Legitimizing gambling – a study of the ‘Liberal Warfare Toolbox’ — RT World News

https://www.rt.com/news/612407-gambling-liberal-warfare-toolbox/

It’s a keeper too!

Personal webpage Schlevogt> http://www.schlevogt.com/

 

[cronetoo]

[emersonreturn]

inside china business

 

[Mr P]

Recommending long and wide-ranging essay @ UNZ

American Pravda: Charles A. Lindbergh and the America First Movement, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-charles-a-lindbergh-and-the-america-first-movement/#comment-6988798

 

[emersonreturn]

judge napolitano & alastair crooke

 

[emersonreturn]

indian punchline

mk bradrakumar

 

trump talks the talk with iran but needs to walk the walk

Trump talks the talk with Iran, but needs to walk the walk

[cronetoo]

Will China be able to refuse to export goods to the USA? Easy!

https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/38554

China didn’t call … Russia hasn’t called … Iran will not even respond to USA letter …

hmmm … what’s a ‘deal maker’ to do … ?

[Mr P]

Remarking that Orange’s “deals” are never called transactions. This is because a deal encompasses actions known as swindles and also extortion. In New York, and in much of “liberal society” such “deals” are between parties of unequal power. This method creates the arena of latent conflict. Hard feelings. It’s also a school of art which results in the artist becoming self-deceived, making false assumptions as to his own character and ability. When the artist inevitably enters the realm of those with equal or superior power, his options lie between surrender, flight, and violence.  Since he cannot compass surrender or run away, the failure of his methods leads to violence.  Obviously this process leads to the end of the artist. So it is written by the Fates.

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In happy news> Those subtle Asiatic fellows decided to stop selling to some customers nitrated cellulose. Very funny!

Noting that nitric acid, and ammonia are made with air and natural gas in a process called Haber-Bosch . Before that it was made from guano, Haber-Bosch cycle and the refinements of it are essential. Cotton, cellulose, quality is important in producing the explosive propellant called “gunpowder” both kinds, both “black powder” and nitrocellulose. These are the “food” for the gods of war, artillery, and pretty much everything that goes bang.  There’s a wiki on ammonia, thorough.  And another on nitrocellulose> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose

wiki again on the production of nitric acid> “Once the Haber process for the efficient production of ammonia was introduced in 1913, nitric acid production from ammonia using the Ostwald process overtook production from the Birkeland–Eyde process. This method of production is still in use today.”

00:00 Introduction 01:10 China has disrupted the supply of raw materials to Europe for the production of gunpowder 03:01 Nitrocellulose is a vital ingredient of armaments 05:03 Chinese cotton comes from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the country 08:01 Russia has doubled its purchases nitrocellulose

 

[Mr P]

There’s a charming story, a rumor…claiming that any “deal” between Russia and the US must include surrendering (aka “extraditing”) Fauci. It’s probably just rumor, but the general idea that the US will be forced to give up the nazi criminals seems to be in the zeitgeist. Noting that giving up persons to an enemy state for legal process is in the shape of a surrender following defeat. Recalling that Russian  legal teams have made no secret of their detailed investigations… 😉

[Mr P]

Speaking of criminals> Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials

https://www.ft.com/content/f880bfc3-6069-427b-9873-51255d4e0b8c

Geewhiz, I thought that the executive enforced the law…silly me!

………..

Odessa on the list… yewbetcha.

[Mr P]

Like much of zone west “liberal” insanity, Harley has become a T shirt company masquerading as a motorcycle manufacturer. I assure you the post Evolution (that’s an engine series) bikes are over-priced krap… anyway Orange speaks: “phuckyew Harley”.

BTW it is cheaper to buy all the parts from aftermarket manufacturers (like S&S) and assemble a new bike with very high quality and reliability. Still spendy, but far superior.

[cronetoo]

A quote from T. Carlson on Ukrainians and theft:

https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/38589

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