tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93597472024-03-14T07:27:17.038-04:00PunditaTurning the ship before it hits the icebergUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-89267199666674049522023-03-21T15:51:00.005-04:002023-03-21T16:01:57.788-04:00"When you remove someone from power you should know who to put in his place." FDD's Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, reviewing the disaster of the U.S.,-led Iraq War and occupation. John Batchelor Show - March 20The John Batchelor Show / #Iraq: Twenty years after the US attack, lessons learned. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute (audioboom.com)Did the U.S. pay attention to any of the lessons of Iraq? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-35141316172034701582023-03-21T15:30:00.002-04:002023-03-21T15:33:59.048-04:00Gergory Coply: No question the Eurasian bloc getting into position as alternative to West"What we have seen over this past year or two is a number of inexperienced 'world leaders' who have pushed so hard on various topics they've painted themselves into corners." -- Gregory Copley.The John Batchelor Show / #PRC: #Russia: Xi's Peace plan for Eurasia, US not invited. ? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs (audioboom.com) - March 20U.S. in particular ... is "rabidly, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-54532858115515662742023-03-20T22:11:00.001-04:002023-03-20T22:11:31.246-04:00 Former Mossad chief urges Israel rapprochement with IranIsrael: Efraim Halevv, former Mossad chief, urges rapprochement with Iran | Middle East EyeBy Elis Gjevori16 March 2023 "The latest development between Iran and Saudi Arabia...underscores that unlikely shifts in power and relations are possible." “The benefits to Israel from some kind of rapprochement with Iran would be huge,” he added. - Yonatan Touval, Middle East Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-57720760047350423092023-03-20T21:52:00.001-04:002023-03-20T21:52:45.764-04:00The unstoppable multipolar world order takes shapeThe USA will do just about anything to stop the rise of the multipolar order but it's too late. Now situations signaling the rise are snowballing; the more the USA tries to stop it, the faster it's happening. Xi Jinping, multipolar order is unstoppable. Pavel, Ukraine one last chance. Legion of Doom. U/1 - YouTube - The Duran's Alex Christoforu todayMoA - Geopolitical Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-10595570443429433262023-03-20T14:26:00.001-04:002023-03-20T14:26:32.912-04:001155 BCEThe Oldest Settlements in South India: The Keeladi Excavations - YouTubeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-31481176233560416662023-03-20T13:46:00.002-04:002023-03-20T13:52:07.711-04:00More on Putin-Xi meeting signaling nearing end of US dollar hegemonySee also Pundita: Xi meets Putin in Moscow over next three days -published at noon.Putin-Xi Meeting Could Herald End of 'Dollar Hegemony' and US Dominance (sputniknews.com) -- By James Tweedie, published 3 hours ago. Full text of report:Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow for in-depth talks with Vladimir Putin has provoked angry responses from Washington and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-16970862281778471632023-03-20T12:01:00.008-04:002023-03-20T12:05:03.202-04:00Xi meets Putin in Moscow over next three daysXi accompanied by "enormous" delegation from China. Major decisions with Putin, but will probably stop short of announcing outright alliance between Russia and China. Yet no question this is Xi preparing to ask Russia for help in looming war with the US/NATO.The Duran discusses what they know of the situation, including major reorganizations of China's government since Xi took over forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-43430984877646923772023-03-20T11:49:00.001-04:002023-03-20T11:49:46.697-04:00"Amazing and crazy" breaking news: Advika defense has suddenly fallen AVDIIVKA DEFENSE LINES COLLAPSED - Russia entered SW Avdiivka; entered Stepove; reaching Berdychi - YouTube - 4 minutes, posted an hour agoThe commentator is so excited by the sudden turn of events he can be a little hard to understand in parts but the map illustrations he uses are easy to follow.Going now to Intel Slava Z to see what they have to say. Their latest report, which is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-88185259129254778232023-03-19T12:45:00.002-04:002023-03-19T12:52:09.160-04:00What happens when no one buys US bonds?"It's not farfetched to imagine the US experiencing a debt crisis because no one shows up to buy its bonds."The quote is from an article titled Why the US dollar has become an at-risk currency (nypost.com) - March 11 - By Jay Newman. The article is mentioned in the Duran report posted two hours ago during their review of the galloping crisis in the United States banking system, which has spread Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-21262785533995204342023-03-15T11:06:00.006-04:002023-03-15T11:08:07.924-04:00This is why India keeps rising and rising "Chai Chaiya Chaiya" by A. R. Rahman from the 1988 megahit Bollywood movie "Dil Se." Your eyes do not deceive you and there is no trick photography. The entire troupe is singing, dancing, hopping, twirling on the roofs of a steam-locomotive train going at least 40 mph over mountain trestles.India is forever young. ********Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-36310234990611134002023-03-13T14:43:00.001-04:002023-03-13T14:43:09.735-04:00Can China help enforce the KSA-Iran peace deal? Aye, that is the question because China simply might not have the capacity to be much help in smoothing over inevitable differences that will arise as the deal is put into practice. And of course Washington will do everything in its power to push the deal to fail. Moon of Alabama's Bernhard looks at the pitfalls after he reviews details of the agreement:MoA - China's Prestigious Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-91616188017102109212023-03-13T08:21:00.006-04:002023-03-13T08:29:22.667-04:00Famous last words on global banking disasterOn Friday John Batchelor interviewed someone who actually knows what he's talking about regarding a banking crisis:The John Batchelor Show / #SVB: Trampled on the way to the door. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barron's. (audioboom.com)This morning the Associated Press published their latest report on the disaster, which features this great quote from somebody I never heard of before:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-36658743654786833462023-03-13T07:47:00.004-04:002023-03-13T08:50:42.499-04:00NATO is out of ammunition? Oh dear, where is my Kleenex box?The John Batchelor Show / #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that NATO is out of ammo. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. (audioboom.com)Bonus: The John Batchelor Show / #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate the unknowable world order 2023. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. (audioboom.com)It certainly is unknowable if NATO is on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-30106430290578333902023-03-13T07:28:00.009-04:002023-03-13T08:54:02.567-04:00Iran-Saudi Arabia Rapprochement Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-83633332431115855862023-03-13T06:33:00.005-04:002023-03-13T06:36:41.491-04:00Race is on to join BRICS, Mexico's plan to be latest candidateFrom the report on Mexico, below:The BRICS group was formed in 2009 as a way to challenge the dominance of the Western-led institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. The BRICS have created their own development bank and contingency reserve fund to support their economic growth and stability. The BRICS also cooperate on various issues such as climate change, terrorism, health and education. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-10269487638708082322023-01-15T08:42:00.003-05:002023-01-15T08:42:32.918-05:00That's what it was about yesterday "On January 14, 2023, a missile attack was carried out on the military command and control system of Ukraine and related energy facilities, all designated facilities were hit, the target of the strike was achieved - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation"t.me/intelslava/43415Jan 15 at 07:03The strikes:From Intel Slava Z - January14:Summary of Russian Army strikes against Ukrainian Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-41631474359413200452023-01-14T18:37:00.002-05:002023-01-14T18:37:52.228-05:00"Insufficient analysis, which today leads Biden to proceed mindlessly." Has the third world war begun? A famously prescient anthropologist thinks so. The post below is from Bernhard at Moon of Alabama, published today:MoA - Emmanuel Todd on the Third World War (moonofalabama.org)Emmanuel Todd On The Third World WarThe French Le Figaro has an interview with the well-known anthropologist Emmanuel Todd.Emmanuel Todd: «La Troisième Guerre Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-26770071300238704372023-01-14T18:09:00.005-05:002023-01-14T18:21:03.836-05:00NATO miscalculated in UkraineRussian Armed Forces Gaining Momentum In Donbass Following Liberation Of Soledar - South Front - January 13"This whole house of cards in Ukraine will collapse, sooner than Washington realizes."Quote from Douglas Macgregor This is MUCH worse than they're telling you | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris - YouTube - January 14See also:Russia Missile Strike, Advances Bakhmut; Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-8524117601044710032023-01-14T13:22:00.001-05:002023-01-14T13:22:42.870-05:00"The West has broken its word too many times by now." "Nobody evens knows what the rules of the rules-based international order are."Russia's next move, keeps collective west guessing - YouTube - The Duran yesterdayLast part of the discussion is the keeper. Starts at the 21:49 minute mark with analysis of seizing Russian assets. ******Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-79296068286272826102023-01-13T08:28:00.003-05:002023-01-13T08:34:33.763-05:00Things will move faster now in Russia's Ukraine operationHowever, the Russian military continues to move with the almost maddening precision that has characterized its operation from the start. From Intel Slava Z today:Establishing full control over Soledar makes it possible to cut off the supply routes of Ukrainian militants in Artemovsk [Bakhmut], and then block and take into the "cauldron" the enemy units remaining in it, the Russian Defense Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-21447876672340504512023-01-13T08:14:00.003-05:002023-01-13T08:15:17.088-05:00Such lunacy happening around the world Indian town rapidly sinking, space agency warns — RT World News - January 13"Subsidence has affected Joshimath for some time, with the impact magnified by the depletion of groundwater for irrigation and the rapid development of infrastructure, including the construction of hydropower plants ..."The Indian town of Joshimath, known as a gateway to the Himalayas, sank by 5.4cm, sometime betweenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-65824558047314850722023-01-05T16:59:00.001-05:002023-01-05T16:59:25.927-05:00Indian rupee fast emerging as currency to settle global trade debtsI seem to recall asking last month whether the Indian rupee -- trade in the rupee -- is a black swan event. From Firstpost today:India’s Neighbours Ready to Embrace the Rupee | Indian Rupee Goes Global - YouTube - 3:42 minutesIntroduction to the report: De-dollarization became the buzzword after Russia became the first overseas country to settle trade with India in rupees. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-92067368754970329162023-01-02T14:23:00.000-05:002023-01-02T14:23:17.068-05:00Wall Street Journal wants to know whether Covid vaccines are fueling Covid's evolutionAre Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants? - WSJ - January 1, 2023 Public-health experts are sounding the alarm about a new Omicron variant dubbed XBB that is rapidly spreading across the Northeast U.S. Some studies suggest it is as different from the original Covid strain from Wuhan as the 2003 SARS virus. Should Americans be worried?It isn’t clear that XBB is any more lethal than other Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-11209433694637353592022-12-31T23:39:00.003-05:002022-12-31T23:42:37.786-05:00"When you cannot commit one calculation error."Maiden voyage of World's Biggest Containership | YouTubeThe introduction at YouTube [emphasis mine]: Mega Transports: Biggest Containership | Engineering DocumentaryIt is the largest heavy load transport on earth! The maiden voyage of the biggest containership of all times. When the first ship of the brand-new OOCL-fleet gets underway, more cargo is moved at one time than anywhere Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359747.post-76943482280122869472022-12-27T20:37:00.004-05:002022-12-27T20:49:24.043-05:00"Authorities never expected the impacts to be as bad as they were." A symbolic snow disaster.The quote is from Buffalo’s no stranger to snow. Why was the storm so deadly? - The Washington Post - December 27, 2022. (Access to the report at WaPo is free; it's also published here: Buffalo’s no stranger to snow. Why was the storm so deadly? (msn.com)We've seen the pattern before in other types of natural disasters that were worsened by poorly conceived attempts at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0