Humanlike? aeon
Linguist Gives a Talk to CEO Audience Using Corporate Jargon to Describe Those in Attendance Laughing Squid
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Bryan Johnson, the billionaire with his own entire lab and personal doctors, whose sole mission in life and business is to attain immortality, had his lung capacity reduced by 15% from a "mild" case COVID.
Because there is no such thing as a "mild" infection. pic.twitter.com/jkVl610Bsx
— Covid Caution – LP.8.1, NB.1.8.1, XFC, XEC (@CovidCaution) July 20, 2025
Everyone who has EVER had Covid should be carefully monitoring their vitals & listening to their bodies.
Do not exercise or attempt strenuous activity for at least 6-8 weeks after Covid. Don’t “push through” or ignore symptoms. This virus is VASCULAR.
It could save your life. https://t.co/lZiEJGXO52
— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) July 21, 2025
Today on CBS Mornings Health Watch, per CDC data, the rate of young children going to the Emergency Room due to COVID is at the highest level since March.
It’s July. pic.twitter.com/2Zw6LrswcY
— Jammer (@acrossthemersey) July 21, 2025
Climate/Environment
Why the Southern jet stream is shifting – and what it means Earth.com
For the record, temps OK where I am, fine with windows all open and a good fan (admittedly I have acclimated):
BRUTAL HEAT ALLOVER ASIA
Temperatures again >51C in Middle East, 46C in Central Asia.
In IRAN 40C at 2000m asl ! Again close the world record for that altitude.In CHINA MINIMUM 34.7C at Turpan after the maxes above 50C of yesterday.
Thousands of records next days allover Asia pic.twitter.com/i2CbiwZHfN
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 21, 2025
With an increased global demand for matcha and record temperatures hitting Japan, supplies see an abrupt halt, causing prices to hit an all-time high SupplyChainDigital
Istanbul experienced its driest June in the last 65 years, receiving almost no rainfall last month Daily Sabah
States of emergency, agricultural disaster declared in parts of drought-stricken Manitoba CBC
Climate crisis causing food price spikes around the world, scientists say Aljazeera
Top central banker defends climate work after US pushback Financial Times
Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows Guardian
Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering New Scientist
The World Is Entering a Dark New Era of Hydroterrorism Foreign Policy. We were warning about potable water being the resource first to come under acute pressure, and hence a driver of conflict, from the inception of this site.
China?
China Threatens Response to EU Sanctions on Banks, Firms Bloomberg
China land sales in smaller cities hit lowest level in a decade Financial Times
China begins building world’s largest dam, fuelling fears in India BBC
China’s bug-inspired tech to detect missiles 20,000x faster than US Interesting Engineering (Chuck L)
On July 19, 2025, China killed the silicon wafer. And with it, ASML’s monopoly, TSMC’s moat, and every American chip sanction. You just didn’t hear the explosion. Time to break it down. (1/21)https://t.co/v2fFYwXEWW
— William Huo (@wmhuo168) July 20, 2025
How a Chinese defector forced Xi to support Putin Lei’s Real Talk, YouTube. Note this “support” is not the extensive economic support China is providing to Russia by defying US sanctions, but the backstory for Wang Yi’s very-much-out-of-Chinese-diplomatic-character dressing down of Kaja Kallas in which he said China would not let Russia lose in Ukraine because China was next on the menu. We ran another presentation by her which made some bold claims but she has very extensive substantiation from public appearances and statements. Here she is relying on social media accounts in China.
Koreas
The strange disappearance of the US-North Korea conflict Asia Times (Kevin W)
Myanmar
The U.S. shouldn’t ignore the starving Rohingya of Myanmar Washington Post
Nearly half of Myanmar’s Chin state population displaced due to conflict, says refugee report Burma News International
Blitz, Beijing, and Ethnic Fractures: How Myanmar’s Junta Rebounded in Shan State Irrawaddy
Africa
How gold has become the lifeblood of Sudan’s war economy Arab News
European Disunion
Watching Tucker take this fake German journalist apart over Nordstream and Germany being a humiliated vassal is one of the cringiest things I’ve ever watched. But it tells you where Germany is as a country right now. Very sad. 🇩🇪📉 pic.twitter.com/hvD1B6yqyf
— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) July 21, 2025
Tariffs an unwelcome shock to a German economy already battling an exports slowdown Irish Times
Dutch charities unable to meet soaring demand for summer help as child poverty grows NL Times
Asylum Suspended: Greece Begins Migrant Detentions Greek Reporter
Old Blighty
Millions will die from infections as UK aid budget is cut The Times
‘Broken’ water industry in England and Wales faces tighter controls under new watchdog Guardian (Kevin W)
As two million starve in Gaza, British police beat up pensioners protesting against Israel Council Estate Media
Israel v. The Resistance
UK, France and 23 other nations demand Israel’s war on Gaza ‘must end now’ Aljazeera (resilc). Sigh. This is the geopolitical version of “I want a pony.”
Please click through to read in full:
This morning, I awoke as one might awaken in a grave, not rested, but returned from the underworld, gasping for something that no longer exists.
Water.
Twelve days without a drop in our pipes. Twelve days of swollen tongues, of children crying not from pain but from a thirst so…
— Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzingaza) July 20, 2025
Palestinian man walks calmly in Hebron with his arms raised. The Israeli soldiers shoots him in the back.
This happens all the time for a simple reason: The impunity the US & Europe provide Israel not only enables this, it encourages the steady increase of Israeli war crimes. pic.twitter.com/NmSuhcjvuk
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) July 21, 2025
Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future:
The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly…
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) July 21, 2025
* * * A rare bit of good news:
Canada’s RCMP probe and Belgium’s arrests mark a shift that Zionist networks long feared: the machinery of international law beginning to turn against Israeli war criminals instead of protecting them.
In Canada, the RCMP’s “structural investigation” under the Crimes Against…
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) July 21, 2025
* * * Israel blindsides Trump in self-serving effort to break up Syria Responsible Statecraft
* * * The Houthis shatter European pretensions to naval power Economist
* * * War on Iran: The rule, not exception, of U.S. foreign policy Brian Berletic, Beijing Review (Chuck L)
Trump says US will strike Iran’s nuclear sites again ‘if necessary’ Anadolu Agency
IDF chief says army must prepare for multi-arena wars: ‘Campaign against Iran isn’t over’ Times of Israel
* * * After Iran, Will Egypt Be Next? American Conservative (resilc)
Caucasus
Zangezur Corridor to make it possible to transport 15 mln tonnes of cargo per year at first stage – Azerbaijani president Interfax
New Not-So-Cold War
Grave Nation: Ukrainian Cemetery Mega-Project Reveals Dimming Military Hopes Simplicius. The underlying Le Monde story via machine translation. As of our go-live time, there was no corresponding version on the English language site.
Doomsday☄️Air Defense Suppressed💥Battle for Kondrativka⚔️ DRG Already in Pokrovsk Military Summary, YouTube. If you have been following battlefield action, the fall of Pokrovsk will be a huge deal, since it will enable the Russians to flank the last defense line in the Donbass, Slaviansk and Kramatorsk (which are also not-trivial cities in their own right).
Russians enter Pokrovsk – Ukrainska Pravda sources Ukrainska Provda. While an admission against interest, notice the spin.
More Unnecessary Bellicosity From a Senior US General Raises Tensions with Russia Larry Johnson. Further discussion of a development we have covered.
Imperial Collapse Watch
Not Knowing The ‘Enemy’ Moon of Alabama
US Navy and Coast Guard Shipbuilding in Disarray and No US Commercial Shipbuilding What’s Going on With Shipping, YouTube (resilc)
US Navy’s next-gen destroyer looking like a money pit Asia Times (Kevin W)
The Enshittification of American Power Wired (resilc). From last week, still germane.
US nukes deployed to England for first time in over a decade UK Defence Journal
The myth of Western liberal democracy Thomas Fazi, Unherd
Trump 2.0
‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts Guardian
US judge questions legality of Trump’s Harvard funding cut: Report Anadolu Agency
Trump’s funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions Reuters
Federal cuts leave Los Angeles County health system in crisis Los Angeles Times
Tariffs
Trump tariffs live updates: Prospects for India, EU deals falter as Trump pushes for higher tariffs Yahoo
As Trump’s tariff deadline looms, economists see calm before the storm Aljazeera. Assumes no TACO.
Stellantis Says Profit Plunged as Tariffs Began to Bite New York Times (resilc). Stellantis was already in desperate shape.
Immigration
ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC Politico
L’affaire Jeffrey Epstein
Mr. Market is Moody
Political and economic volatility wipes $320bn off global profits Financial Times
AI
The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble Ed Zitron. Today’s must read, for the caliber of the writing as well as the content.
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained Futurism
Is Spotify Streaming Unauthorized AI Knockoffs of Dead Musicians? Ted Gioia
The Bezzle
JPMorgan explores lending against clients’ cryptocurrency Financial Times
“Crypto” is Silicon Valley Speak for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Counterpunch (resilc)
Tesla Driver Testifies Autopilot Failed to Prevent Fatal Crash New York Times (Kevin W)
Class Warfare
Trucking’s uneasy relationship with new tech BBC (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
What is actually happening here? pic.twitter.com/CLaJqjSNoL
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 20, 2025
A second bonus:
Incredible moment hero dog saves another dog stranded on a surfboard..🐕🐾🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/wXNnCwQwY6
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 21, 2025
And a third:
Our asshole cat is genuinely obsessed & in love with our blind daughter 🤍
My daughter is 1.5 years old & is starting to walk, especially with using walls & furniture as guidance. Our most feisty cat is her biggest supporter 🥹🫶 pic.twitter.com/Zxdj6Aen9F
— cats with threatening auras (@catshealdeprsn) July 21, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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“Epstein furor upends House for second week in row”
Could this be a bluff by the Democrats? They say that they want to release the Epstein files but they surely know that that would mean burning a lot of their donors – as well as former Democrat President Slick Willy. If it ever came down to a vote on the floor, I think that you will find is that a familiar situation will emerge where just enough Democrats cross the floor to ally with their Republican colleagues to make sure that that bill would die on the floor. How often that happens in Congress could be the making of a great PhD study one day.
Who wants to suppress Watergate [times 538]?
Burying pedophiles’ excesses is not a good look.
Poor underage American girls were raped by wealthy famous men in a decades long intelligence opus run by foreign agents to get material to influence US policy in favor of a foreign country. The FBI did not uncover it or knew and allowed it to continue. Every element of Epstein is a travesty. No doubt that foreign agents are right now doing the same thing using American children as sexual bait.
Lol, met with a level of bipartisan enthusiasm not seen since, hmm, starving Palestinians, hmm, bombing Iran or trimming away at our constitutional rights.
Coming soon, a grotto staffed by our Senators’ spouses? I enjoyed Caligula, at least on the big screen.
Maybe by September everyone will have forgotten about Epstein? Let’s not forget the Biden Administration sat on Epstein’s terabytes for years and did… nothing.
Johnson Cuts Short House Session to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files NYT archive
I’ll be alone each and every night
While you’re away, don’t forget to X, alright?
See you in September
See you when the summer’s through
If you are saying goodbye at the Capitol
Epstein files is taking you away
Have a good time but remember
There is danger of revelations above
Will I see you in September
Or lose him to a summer shove?
Have a good time but remember
There is danger of revelations above
Will I see you in September
Or lose him to a summer shove?
See You in September, performed by The Happenings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYcYGHLh5Y&list=RDSOYcYGHLh5Y
I the Dems really wanted to release the Epstein files, they would have done so while in power. They didn’t, ergo the do not want to. I’d wager on you being right, Rev. Dems will pull the rotating villain strategy out and then “aw shucks!” to the people.
Well of course that’s what’s going to happen, the dems could of released everything on Epstein from any point from 2008 to 2016 and 2020 to 2024. This is just kabuki for the masses.
Re: Grave Nation: Ukrainian Cemetery Mega-Project Reveals Dimming Military Hopes Simplicius
It is well worth clicking on the Le Monde link to see the photograph of a military cemetery. One thing is quite clear from the prevalence of red and black flags, the flag of the terrorist, genocidal Ukrainian Insurgent Army: the far right is alive and well (or dead and buried in the case of the people whose graves it adorns). If goose-steps like a duck, quacks fascist slogans like a duck and carries burning torches like a duck, it’s a duck according to Western legacy media.
‘the prevalence of red and black flags’
Sooo, the Russian plan to de-Nazify the Ukraine is going according to plan then? :)
Removing the Ruthenian and Gallician regions might help.
There’s no need to guess. Le Monde has proven that Ukrainian neo-Nazis are alive and well.
I’ve been randomly served “Lei’s Real Talk” on Youtube before. An entertaining diversion but not to be taken seriously. It was a video claiming that China’s 1.4 billion population is a Communist Party deception, and that the true population is now under 400 million, with up to 500 million dying from COVID in the period between 2020 and today. Nutty Falun Gong stuff.
What makes this unbelievable to me is the suggestion that so many died from COVID. It seems like someone would talk about something like that.
If it isn’t FLG-associated (which I think it is), it’s a psyops for sure.
If anything, Wang Yi’s uncharacteristic frankness about China’s unwillingness to see RF militarily defeated (hardly shocking in itself) probably indicates a burgeoning sober assessment of the incomptence of Western diplomats.
The podcast interview of Sándor Zoltán Kusai on Pascal Lottaz’s Neutrality Studies a few days ago was very revealing in that regard. A retired career diplomat who served in Hungarian administrations from the Socialist period to the Orbán present, Kusai repeated over and over again, too many times to count, how the current crop of Western leaders — including Kaja Kallas specifically — are totally incompetent and know nothing about diplomacy. This is coming from a former diplomat whose professionalism enabled him to enjoy a continuity of career working for 3 very different political administrations in his own country (Socialist, Neoliberal, and Rightwing Populist).
Forced to deal with people as incompetent and deluded as Kallas, the Chinese foreign service has probably realized that they need to keep their verb tenses simple and spell things out in very clear terms lest these clowns with their proverbial fingers on the button make some major miscalculation.
It’s rather disappointing to see links like this crowding out space for others on NC.
ty. and you’re keeeping the streak alive…. anime-inspired handles are definitely more right than wrong lol, and definitely have better takes than the average yogi bear
The Ed Zitron piece, is as always, awesome. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons the AI believers have no choice but to live in a state of denial.
New investment idea, tokenized virtual house of cards. Extra charge for the MBS CDO options. /s
That’s a looong article and afraid I didn’t make it all the way through. But if I have the gist it seems to be that AI is merely another stock market pipe dream undermined by practical realities–the South Seas Bubble returns.
You can fool some of the people all of the time? My own forecast says that when the crash comes popcorn futures will be up.
Love Zitron and his analysis but he does tend to be a bit long winded and repeats the same points a lot. Basic message overall was: it’s too expensive to be profitable and too inaccurate to be a reliable business or service.
Best part IMHO was this:
“ I haven’t quite cracked why, but generative AI also brings out the worst in some people. By giving the illusion of labor, it excites those who are desperate to replace or commoditize it. By giving the illusion of education, it excites those who are too idle to actually learn things by convincing them that in a few minutes they can learn quantum physics. By giving the illusion of activity, it allows the gluttony of Business Idiots that control everything to pretend that they do something. By giving the illusion of futurity, it gives reporters that have long-since disconnected from actual software and hardware the ability to pretend that they know what’s happening in the tech industry.”
The level of bull caca in tech during this era makes the dot com era look so innocent. I remember any idiot who said .com back then made bank on their stock. Now it’s AI. Some things never change.
He has a good analysis at the beginning of the piece which mirrors the lesson I learned back in the .com boom and bust. He notes that NVIDIA relies for a massive share of its revenue on purchases of chips from a handful of other big tech companies, and so a large percentage of overall market cap is dependent on continuing and expanding sales of these GPUs, which can’t go on forever.
I dabbled in stock trading during the .com era once discount online brokerages made it easy to do so. The .com companies looked sketchy and overvalued to me – just glorified catalogs – so I bought companies that made the internet infrastructure, thinking that was a more reliable way to go. My favorite was Sun Microsystems, which made JAVA and also a lot of servers. I did pretty well on Sun, and I bought more on the dip after the market crashed, thinking the internet itself wasn’t going anywhere. I should have done more research like Zitron did, and figured out what percentage of Sun server sales went to .com companies. While I did do well on Sun overall, the last shares I bought after the crash never recovered as so many .coms went belly up, and Sun was eventually swallowed up by Oracle.
These AI companies don’t need to be absorbed and should be killed with fire outright.
It he’s right about how heavily the US stock market depends on those companies, then killing them with fire will also kill the US financial economy with fire.
Maybe that’s entertaining, but global warming is bad enough as it is.
Yesterday’s post, AI and Worker’s Well-Being, revealed that much of the excitement around the various programs is the use as an extension of scientific management. Pacing and surveilling workers – a managerial tool.
But back to Ed…this line quoted from another journalist about an Amazon service reminded me of something:
“Like most computer networks, Amazon’s uses as little as 10% of its capacity at any one time just to leave room for occasional spikes.”
Hmmm….that reminds me of that old myth about people only using 10% of their brain. Is this some metric pulled out of the ass because somebody thinks computer networks are like the human brain? Was somebody selling Amazon services using the scripts of “Lucy” and “Limitless” mixed in the sales pitch or press release?
Just spitballin’…
In the context of this from Warwick Powell, linked yesterday IIRC, the symbol economy has completely detached from reality and will remain immune to reality so long as those subject to its illusions remain in power.
There is a real underlying economy that is beginning to move on, Bertrand Arnaud appears to think the US is in some way conceding this.
I find W Powells narrative more convincing as it is much easier to believe Trump and his minions are “cost saving” and purging “leftists” (anyone who doesn’t share their plutocratic/libertarian accelerationist ideology) than to believe a “sphere of influence” is being conceded. Particularly in light of the recent call for Japan and Australia to detail how they’ll Ukrainize themselves for Taiwan. AI is for now maintaining the fiction there is some future real value in the complete financialization of US industry: no need for people, no need for production, a symbolic self licking ice cream cone.
Lies, dripping off your mouth like dirt
Lies, lies in every step you walk
Lies, whispered loudly in our ears
Lies, how do I get out of here?
Why, why you have to be so cruel?
Lies, lies, lies I ain’t such a fool!
Lies, lies in our daddy’s looks
Lies, lies in so many cooked books
Lies, lies like it’s a teaching class
Lies, lies, lies I catch on way too fast
Fire, fire upon your wicked tongue
Lies, lies, lies you’re trying to spoil my fun
Lies, lies you dirty sultan of sell
Why, why, why, why don’t you go to hell?
One more time
Why, why you think me such a fool?
Lies, lies, lies, money, that’s your rules
Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies
Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
Lies, by the Rolling Stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jgliFrM20&list=RD-3jgliFrM20
“IDF chief says army must prepare for multi-arena wars: ‘Campaign against Iran isn’t over’ ”
This IDF general may want war, war, war and more war but for that he needs soldiers and the IDF is starting to come up short-
‘“For the first time, the Israeli army admits that its forces are significantly depleted. It estimates a shortage of around 7,500 soldiers,” the Hebrew-language daily Maariv stated, according to Anadolu.’
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-army-admits-troop-shortages-amid-ongoing-assault-on-gaza-report/
And it’s not like the Ultra-orthodox are stampeding their way to the enlistment booths to sign up to help out. They are too busy preparing to set up new settlements on land that the IDF seizes which will need billions of shekels of government support to survive. They’re doing their part.
I volunteer my rep William Keating, dick Cheney democrat
Not know your enemy Moon of Alabama
„ But in reality only some are profiting from fighting and losing these battles while the country as a whole is getting diminished by it.“
That‘s how a (financialized) oligarchy works, isn‘t it?
Who do you think Sun Tzu meant by “enemy”?
Only and specificly the poor saps waving a different flag from yours?
The link (found in the tweet) for the Jonathan Cook piece:
Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future
Thanks for this. Cook is always very good. There’s a lot of concrete detail in there.
The list of Western corporate genocide participants is depressing if unsurprising.
There are a long list of other household names in Albanese’s report: Caterpillar, Volvo and Hyundai are accused of supplying heavy machinery to destroy homes, mosques and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank.
Leading banks such as BNP Paribas and Barclays have underwritten treasury bonds to boost market confidence in Israel through the genocide and maintain its favourable interest rates.
IBM trains Israeli military and intelligence personnel, and is central to the collection and storage of biometric data on Palestinians. Hewlett Packard Enterprises supplies technology to Israel’s occupation regime, prison service and police.
Microsoft has developed its largest centre outside the US in Israel, from which it has fashioned systems for use by the Israeli military, while Google and Amazon have a $1.2 billion contract to provide it with tech infrastructure.
The prestigious research university MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has collaborated with Israel and companies like Elbit to develop automated weapons systems for drones and refine their swarm formations.
Palantir, which supplies the Israeli military with Artificial Intelligence platforms, announced a deeper strategic partnership in January 2024, early in Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, over what the Bloomberg news agency termed “Battle Tech”…
…When she wrote to 48 companies to warn them that they were colluding in this criminality, they either responded that this was Israel’s responsibility, not theirs, or that it was for states, not international law, to regulate their business activities.
Thank you, Ben.
May I add two of my employer’s clients, JCB and Pret A Manger. The former supplies equipment for the destruction of Palestinian property, excavation and cultivation. Both have been approached for the Gaza Riviera. Both have been approved as clients despite reservations from some colleagues and me.
“IBM trains Israeli military and intelligence personnel, and is central to the collection and storage of biometric data on Palestinians.”
Which is exactly what IBM, through it’s German subsidiary Hollerith, did for the Third Reich during the 1930s and 1940s.
This time History is not rhyming, it is repeating exactly. Greed overcomes all moral and ethical qualms.
Especially interesting with regards to IBM which used to be talked about as “yesterday’s tech company.”
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250721300/ibms-stock-has-crushed-the-sp-500-this-year-that-raises-the-bar-for-earnings/
IBM’s stock has crushed the S&P 500 this year
Thanks for link. The appalling amorality of Blair and his acolytes, Netanyahu and, yes, Trump explains exactly why the Epstein story is so very important. Listen when they tell you who they are. That Israel, the supposed “never again” state, is doing it again underlines this unsavory reality.
Arendt called it the banality of evil and it’s banal because so very common, baked the cake, red in tooth and claw. Only taking exception can make us different and protected from the worse imaginable outcomes.
Easily as chilling as the Jonathan Cook piece is the Dr. Ezzideen tweet. The Gazans are starving to death. People on the streets, in their tents, Doctors trying to save lives faint from the same lack of food as their patients. Every image of an emaciated Gazan slices through me.
Alex de Waal has made a number of appearances in the last several days, DN, Novara Live, Greenwald last night. His 2018 book Mass Starvation – The History and Future of Famine, along with his 40 years of study in the area have brought his expertise once again up for call.
Greenwald asked him about the rating system for food insecurity (we heard so much of in January 2024, 1 as normal, 5 as famine), and where Gaza stands today. He says there is a conspicuous absence of data, so experts have reluctant to give a number, but it is probably 5.
I’ve started back reading his book, I had given up before in dismay, I may give up again but I will give it another shot.
I’m now four chapters in and this is a work of a keen mind. His personal appearances now-a-bouts may give us further insights. They are worth review.
When we look at Gaza we are looking at our future. Slowly slowly Gaza comes this way….
1. Occupation . Surplus US military gear and military personnel sold off/donated to local police. Soldiers join police forces. With their military bling, police treat citizens as the enemy eg welfare checks used to be conversations and cups of tea, now can involve door breakdowns, tasers, and death if you’re the wrong colour. By police with dark helmets, kevlar vests and serious guns.
2. Surveillance. Cameras everywhere. ID checks all over. Cash being phased out. So much surveillance gear and software the MIC wants to sell, and so many power-mad wealthy looters wanting to surveil every second of the local enemy who might want a fairer distribution of assets, or to interfere in their vanity wars.
2. Concentration camps. We are setting up concentration camps all over the world.With various levels of brutality. Escalating list of targets. First illegal immigrants. Then people with the wrong politics or name. Then anybody they fear is a threat or have something they want.
Levels – Australia, prisoners are fed, not beaten, have some legal recourse.
US, people are beaten, mistreated and rendered to another country without much legal recourse or help.
Palestine, people herded from one place to another, like the forced marches of the Germans on the surviving prisoners of camps like Auschwitz https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/death-marches Prisoners can be killed for any reason at all.
3. Starvation and Dehydration
A whole people can be starved and dehydrated to death and it’s ok by western politicians and msm.
If climate driven food and water shortages hit a western country, how long before the population is divided into those who will get food and water, and those who won’t.
4. Slaughter and ejection.
The Palestinians are being driven from their homes. Gazans are being slaughtered. We think being a citizen protects us from expulsion. In the US that rule is fraying as unwanted citizens are rendered to other countries. The first few will create a stir, then it will just become ho hum.
What makes a person a target for expulsion? I can think of a few reasons. Wrong ethnicity. Wrong politics. Wrong race. Wrong age (eg old geezers no longer economic to feed). etc.
I’ve had Covid at least 3 times and have a pretty good idea of what my body is capable of doing in terms of ambulating about on this good orb, and maybe i’ve lost lung capacity as a result for i’m more apt to getting tired sooner than usual, combined with onset golden years aging out coming into sharper focus.
> Because there is no such thing as a “mild” infection.
I think this statement is fear mongering. I have no doubt Bryan Johnson might have lost 15% of his lung capacity, but it is quite possible the things he is doing, in combination with getting sick, actually made him worse off.
At best this is anecdotal, at worst it is fear mongering and side tracks from the metabolic human differences that put some people at risk and leave other fine. I have been sick twice since 2019 (and badly sick) and I recently (2024) have been sequestered to subject myself to being trapped again inside a plastic tube for a lung function test. I have these tests every five years now because I have hemangioblastomas in my lungs (and my spine but that is irrelevant). Late 50’s and they said my lung function is excellent with no change since 2014.
So how is is that richie rich is losing lung function poor peter over here with hemangioblastomas all over his body has had no change? Hmmmm….I think that is more interesting and helpful to look at then just getting infmaed about one person who lost lung function and it means everyone has.
This is not fear mongering. You are straw manning the tweet.The point is that who are heath fanatics and have access to the best medical care suffer permanent damage from Covid.
There are studies that show damage to lungs on a scans that are not detectable to most patients. Do you exert yourself enough to notice a lung capacity loss? See additionally:
Is it really controversial to assume that both genetics and nutrition can alter the effect that SARS2 infection has on health outcomes?
Maybe this gentleman in perfectly fine health with all these doctors did not know he had a genetic or nutritional susceptibility to lung problems after having Covid?
I am in no way doubting that he had decreased lung capacity and that infection harms people. I just think it’s different across the population and that difference is important.
When HUV was rampant, there were a small amount of people who contracted HIV, but had no sign of the disease. And that was genetic. And it also helped them start to define treatments for HIV.
If he was talking about what he says he was talking about, a lung volume test, that’s exactly the test I get every five years. So what is different between him and I? I have no idea. I know I’m in the same or better that I was in 10 years ago. That only means that a virus doesn’t affect me as much. It is affect other people for some reason.
Public Health, such as it was, really failed on this.
SARS-CoV-2 has an affinity for ACE2 bindings on cells. Which cells in the body have this? Basically, all of them, every organ. All over.
And we know from numerous studies over the past half decade that COVID can and does cause vascular damage, neurological damage, and immune damage. And we see this very clearly at this point in the population health data, whether it is for surges of diseases we’ve not heard much about prior to 2020, to persistent absences at schools and places of work, to ongoing deaths, to population level disability as reported by the St. Louis Fed data, and so on. This barely scratches the surface.
This doesn’t guarantee that any infection absolutely damages one or more organs substantially, but I wouldn’t take the odds on offer. As I recall, IM Doc has mentioned before years ago here that for subclinical damage, the body in younger people can adapt for a time to compensate, but isn’t free and exerts a toll over time. And they include a 1/20 to 1/10 chance of getting long COVID; and this risk is cumulative, so even if each individual subsequent infection confers less risk, as some claim, the cumulative risk is higher.
With those odds for an auto accident, no one would drive cars ever again.
And we aren’t even bothering to do population level sampling to see just what’s happening; recently a test became available looking at the vasculature under people’s toe (hand?) nails, which shows demonstrable damage in those both with long COVID and those with “mild” infections. This test must be applied to all Americans so we know just what we’re dealing with.
Good luck to all of us.
‘William Huo
@wmhuo168
On July 19, 2025, China killed the silicon wafer. And with it, ASML’s monopoly, TSMC’s moat, and every American chip sanction. You just didn’t hear the explosion. Time to break it down. (1/21)’
I guess it all comes down to if this can commercially scale up or whether this will only have a niche application. But if it is the former, then that is when things become interesting. What it would mean would be a split between Chinese and American technology and not in operating systems or some sort of software ecology but the actual guts of those computers. But these tweets don’t really go into whether they have any advantages over silicon based technology or not so I guess that we will have to wait and see.
> The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble Ed Zitron.
>> The Fragile Five — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Tesla — Are Holding Up The US Stock Market By Funding NVIDIA’s Future Growth Story
I’ll tumble it to, finance capitalism has so undercut actual production that in order to protect the stock market, America and its satrapies will not be allowed access to competitive products. A doom cycle, but maintains power relations within the group. See Huawei.
For China the main advantage is that InSe tech is not (yet) monopolized by anyone and it can’t be sanctioned.
The other advantage (bearing in mind that the article referred is from 2019) is that while silicon based gates can’t go beyond 12 nm (the “5 nm” chips have actually 18 nm gate length, they just do some tricks allowing marketing departments to talk about 5 nm), while last year Peking University achieved 0.4 nm gates using InSe. 2.8 nm seems to be the most effective at the moment and comparable to the speeds achieved with silicon.
So, it seems to be the most promising material to follow silicon based chips. And it can be used for non-volatile memory, too.
I’m starting to think that William Huo is an AI hallucination, based on this and other recent threads highlighted in Links. A twenty-tweet thread highlighted by a 6 year old paper which isn’t really about the subject of the thread is too reminiscent of LLM’s making up scientific references and court citations. InSe is not a new material, and a cursory glance at the literature shows researchers from China, Korea and the US using CVD to prepare it for quite some time. I’m sure any deeper look would find work coming from Japan and EU, as well, if not from elsewhere.
Yes, his breathless “this changes everything” rhetoric is tiresome.
And this very recent paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3803
…suggests that InSe wasn’t ready for mass production in 2019, as William Huo claimed, nor is it quite ready today.
All those railguns aboard warships or carriers.
To say nothing of the garbage that is the article:
– “bug-inspired”: ok, maybe that was real
– “detect missiles”: no, not even a little. a lab demonstration using benchtop IR image source of flames.
– “20,000x faster”: faster than what? detecting what? doesn’t say. Incidentally, the source paper doesn’t mention “20,000” anywhere….
Original source at pubmed: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12141662/
Garbage indeed. To be fair, though, the “20,000x faster” claim refereed to another article by the same team: Critical band-to-band-tunnelling based optoelectronic memory (nature.com), where they constructer a band-to-band-tunnelling memory/sensor that can capture images really fast.
Of course, the “old sensors” use only 10 milliseconds for the same thing, so I’m left wondering what the possible advantage for the missile defense here really is…?
Wasn’t BiBi just in DC for a week?
And it’s been less than 2 weeks later Israel bombs Syria and this happens as a surprise to Trump?
Im convinced that the US and Israel are working together, no daylight between them and whether Biden or Trump any words of unhappiness are just for an attempt at deniability.
Maybe I missed it but did Trump go on to say that he was ‘not happy’ about this bombing and he was not happy with Netanyahu like he does with other leaders that do not do what he wants?
Viewed through the lens of Israel protecting the Druze minorities from massacres by Al-Jalani’s rabid rent-a-jihadi dogs, Bibi is actually morally superior to Trump here.
Not that it is a very high bar to clear. But Bibi would do the world a favor by assassinating Al-Jalani.
Betcha Hezbollah could get the job done with some of their missiles. And as Jalani has been thinking about making a move on Lebanon, Hezbollah would be asking themselves that if they took him out, would the world really mourn his passing?
Surely the point of the Epstein business is less that certain people engaged in questionable sexual activities than that they are vulnerable to blackmail and voting or acting against their countries interests.
One penetration at a time Pardner. The fact of indulging in paedophilia is the “Lolita in the flight log” here. If one were prone to victimizing underage people for personal carnal pleasure, then that is a strong indicator of a very weak moral compass. If one can rape a child, then what else is one not capable of? People with such weak moral values are prone to blackmail adjacent activities from the beginning.
For our country’s self-respect, the Epstein List should be released and then all those on it should be shot as a salutary lesson to the rest. This is more along the lines of killing the monkey to scare the chickens.
I propose a new #hashtag: MAMA. Make America Moral Again.
Well said. Thank you
Welcome. The abuse of children is a strong red line for me.
Stay safe.
There is a darker side to this social dynamic ambrit, one that I have seen, without seeing the actual acts.
Whilst some of the participants in Epstein’s activities may have been ignorant/unaware of getting blackmailed/leveraged there is a significant amount of players that knew from day one. In fact eager to join in as one would going through an initiation rite to join some club – with the club comes benefits[tm]. Its akin to watching the social dynamics of an old Amway convention at some nice hotel over a few days, doing a line of coke at a high end L.A. party so everyone felt comfortable.
Anyway sexual exploitation of kids is bonkers with or without Epstein.
I know a bit about the phenomenon you mention. I remember the “exclusive” fraternities and sororities that were active in my High School. (Not strictly legal, but tolerated by the elites.) The palpable feeling of, no other word will do but entitlement, was a constant psychic barrier between the “normal” people and the “special” people. Carry that on to so called adulthood and I can well believe in this group fully believing in their immunity from judgement and punishment.
Adults are supposed to protect and nurture children, not exploit them. Anything less is the sign of savagery.
I wish I knew a sure cure for this scourge on society. Shooting them sounds somehow too lenient.
Stay safe.
The sexual abuse of children has been happening for a long, long time. Just dig around and you will find out about the child slave brothels in Antebellum New Orleans (the whiter, the better and often sold by their owners/white relatives) as well as in New York and London during the Victorian Era.
Of course, none of this was a secret. It just wasn’t talked about in polite society. What this says about Western civilization is disturbing.
Too true. Up until historically recent times, children were legally treated as ‘small’ adults, and punished accordingly. Child pickpockets in Londen were hanged.
The underlying factor, as you mention, is what it says about us as a culture.
Stay safe.
At about midpoint in my decade-long career in law enforcement, I learned that some lives were expendible– this included kids being pimped-out… young teens and pre-teens… forgotten children… but looking the other way is not what I had signed up for, and that came back to bite me.
Kind of an aside, in the 1980s McCormic Place on Chicago’s lakefront was quietly noted by the medical community as a locale where business travelers would go in the evening to pick up local ghetto boys to diddle. You see, these men were catching HIV/AIDS from the boys and bringing it home with them to their wives…
Here’s the footage:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hVadAINO70Fd
Warning: strong language with accurate translation :)
‘cats with threatening auras
@catshealdeprsn
Jul 21
Our asshole cat is genuinely obsessed & in love with our blind daughter 🤍
My daughter is 1.5 years old & is starting to walk, especially with using walls & furniture as guidance. Our most feisty cat is her biggest supporter 🥹🫶’
Damn, man. Those onion ninjas seem to be out and about.
>The strange disappearance of the US-North Korea conflict
This proves that Comrade Kim, not Trump, is the true grandmaster of 5D chess.
On Tucker and the German and the theme that this is not our first rodeo.
First, the US certainly knew what would happen if the US forced the EU to renounce inexpensive and reliable Russian energy because the US endured a similar event.
During the 1970s there were two oil shocks. IIRC, the price of oil quadrupled in a short time. It was the oil price rise that damaged US companies and soon induced many of them to relocate outside the US.
While the msm likes to put all the blame on pampered US workers, it was the dramatic rise in the cost of energy that largely fueled deindustrialization—just like it’s doing to Europe today.
A contributing factor was that by 1980 the US lost its competitive edge with countries like Japan and Germany which made everything from cameras to autos better than US companies. The US forgot about investing in r&d. Nonetheless, blame the workers instead of the incompetent elites during the Ford, Carter, and Reagan years.
Second, according to Walter LaFeber’s America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002, he writes, “In 1962 President Kennedy had forced the West Germans and Italians to give up plans to build a Soviet oil pipeline.”
Furthermore, in the 1980s, “West Germany…had worked out a multi-billion dollar deal to help the Soviets build a 3,600 mile pipeline that would carry natural gas from Siberia to six West European countries.” Reagan and his administration officials condemned the project. The Europeans, however, did not back down this time, and shoved Reagan’s own philosophy back in his face that government should not interfere in the market and had to “get off the backs of the people.” Where are those Europeans today?
Meanwhile, not much is changed. The US policy in 1962, 1982, and today is to contain Russia. That is, to blow up Nordstream, deprive Russia of hard currency from the West, impose sanctions, and war in Ukraine, to weaken Russia.
Those Europeans may have gone ahead with the project in the early 80s, but rumor has it that the CIA went ahead and blew it up anyway –
https://www.antimoneylaunderinglaw.com/2023/10/cold-war-the-cia-says-it-blew-up-a-russian-gas-pipeline-in-1982-with-canadas-help-fact-or-fiction.html
https://unredacted.com/2013/04/26/agent-farewell-and-the-siberian-pipeline-explosion/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/
There was an explosion, however, I didn’t find convincing evidence the CIA was involved and you’re correct, it’s a rumor. It seems the explosion was caused by a malfunction within the pipeline itself.
And maintain Europe as a colonial vassal of the US. Don’t forget that part.
The EU cannot decouple from the US fast enough.
And don’t forget the US tells the Europeans and Americans that dependence on Russia is dangerous. And the ME with its forever wars, regime change, roaming terrorist groups, indiscriminate bombing attacks, as well as the current genocide and apartheid, is a go to source of energy; together with the US.
Russia is a 1000x more stable and reliable than any place else.
stranded = intentionally put there
No bipeds offered to get wet.
They got wet while setting up the scene. :)
Nevertheless, give that black lab his due. He’s ready should a rescue be needed.
“Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering”. Maybe because we simply will not address reducing consumption?
Lol, the lede,
The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly likely that we will have to do so this century
This century?? How about “this decade”, or the even more honest “this year”?
Opinion, we will all be begging for geoengineering by this time next year.
On my bingo card, volcano bombing (someone else’s, of course).
This timeline is brutal.
Musk has a plan involving smoke and space mirrors
s/ At least he has a plan. The rest of them are clueless. /s
You have syntax error in your sarcasm. :) It goes only at the end.
Geoengineering won’t solve anything. It’s AI magical thinking on steroids.
Even if we actually knew how to dial down the sunlight over the long haul, more greenhouse gas emissions will still acidify and kill the oceans. Even if we could do it tomorrow, geoengineering would do pretty much zero to slow down the extreme change in climate patterns and ice melt already underway in enough time to save global civilization.
The decades and trillions of dollars that a serious geoengineering technofantasy solution would take, even in the unlikely event that it actually helped, would be far more rapidly and more effectively spent on infrastructure that doesn’t involve digging up and burning more carbon.
I agree and here we are. What’s left but blowing up some volcanos? Maybe nuclear winter, lol.
Ironically, one side effect of Trump amping up pollution again is random impact geoengineering, on the cheap.
Maybe we could just blow up one volcano. You know. A big one – to lower the amount of sunlight getting through. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Can we calibrate the effect well?
https://youtu.be/HgnDRbXslwQ
Geoengineering is alchemy of our time. Now that I think of it, some other things are that, too.
My disrespect for New Scientist is soaring higher than the clouds of bulldust they are generating.
This is simply someone out to make money out of global catastrophe and selling it to some corrupt fake-science journalist.
“Courts allowing ICE lawyers to remain anonymous”
Must have been a very friendly judge. So is this foot in the door to normalize secret witnesses, secret evidence, secret court transcripts, secret precedents and even secret court trials? All of these have been done but they have not yet normalized them but I bet that a lot of people would want this to happen a lot more.
Apparently those immigration judges are not real judges, can make up their own rules.
Sort of like the judge for the Steven Donziger trial too I guess.
Still better than Hague.
Could it come to this?
I doubt that $250 million 38,000 square feet shaque in LA featured on here a few days ago had a well on the property for all it’s water needs…
Like every other Angeleno, dependent upon other peoples’ water.
re: Germany vs. freedom of speech
A short guest commentary on BERLINER ZEITUNG.
What the text misses to mention is the fact – and many critics commit this mistake – that it is the government and its bodies introducing this new censorship that commit the most atrocious violations of those very principles.
The entire new political agenda and sea change is in fact nothing but incitement of hatred, spreading lies, suppressing freedom of speech, not uncovering their intelligence sources and deny the right to scrutinize and demand accountability – destroying the entire “civil society” – and all this is transformed into policies, laws, actions – matter.
To say crime has taken over is insulting crime. Crooks at least admit their line of work. And there every action has a concrete reaction. Not so with our “democracy”.
The new regime against antisemitism e.g. has been crafted in a way to make it extremely difficult to estimate what is being punished and what is not. As those are not laws as such but principles that were agreed on by parliament.
Allusions – and this again is being addressed in the below text´s second half – are more dangerous and efficient than actual prohibitions and bans.
And this latter point is the original sin in European “enlightened” societies.
Not ot mention the terrifying fact that in the shadow behind it all there is gigantic force and potential for violence at the government´s disposal.
Michael Hudson recently spoke about the hope for revolution in Europe. Well if it ever came to this, I fear it would be a very bloody one.
Ban on speech in the name of democracy? This NGO opposes
One meme, one comment – and suddenly the police are at your door. What is freedom of speech worth anymore? We founded Free Speech Aid to defend it. A guest article.
Jakob Schirrmacher
July 22, 2025
https://archive.is/JL619
“More Unnecessary Bellicosity From a Senior US General Raises Tensions with Russia”
‘To make matters worse, NATO is conducting, or will soon conduct, a military exercise that simulates invading Kaliningrad.’
So maybe Russia should organize some military exercises on the Russian – Estonian border at the same time. Call it the ‘Léopold III’ exercise – which just happens to be the name of Boulevard that the NATO HQ is located on in Brussels. Does it have to be pointed out to those brainiacs in NATO that the only time that they can attack Kaliningrad is if WW3 was going on? Why does it even have to be said?
A joint China–Russia navel exercise in the Bering Sea, maybe extending into the Chukchi Sea, sounds a lot more fun. Well, I can dream.
SinoRussian Arctic bellydancers? I’d pay to watch that!
A joint China–Russia navel exercise in the Belly Sea.
re: German arms manufacturers
GERMAN-FOREIGN-POLICY-BLOG speaking with Andrew Feinstein
“This is Military Keynesianism”
Interview with Andrew Feinstein on Germany’s role in the international arms trade, the reasons for a new wave of militarization in Europe, and German arms exports to Israel.
July 21, 2025
LONDON german-foreign-policy.com spoke with Andrew Feinstein about the role of German arms companies in the international arms trade, the new wave of militarization in Europe, and German arms exports to Israel. Feinstein, who once served in the South African parliament for the African National Congress (ANC), is now Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations, a non-profit organization that conducts research on large-scale corruption, unlawful corporate conduct, and militarism, with a particular focus on the global arms trade. Feinstein is the author of several books on the subject, including “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” (London 2011, German translation: “Waffenhandel. Das globale Geschäfts mit dem Tod”, Hamburg 2012), “Indefensible: The Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms Trade” (London 2012) and “Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It” (together with Rhona Michie and Paul Rogers, London 2024).
https://archive.is/qB0U5
re: Russia Germany
responses by Maria Zakharova on deterioration of RU-German relations
8 min.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/07/never-forgotten.html
Yes, the tone of Russian leaders is getting fatalistic. They seem to be accepting that they may well have to destroy large parts of Germany and Poland in a few years. Very worrying.
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2pgcagyRk
Dispatch from the War On Cash®
Burning Man takes cash or credit card for 1 thing only-bags of cubes or blocks of ice. Otherwise it’s pretty much the original playa in the War On Cash® since 1986~
You can’t buy a Burning Man official souvenir t-shirt, items with the man on them, etc. It’s a no go zone.
And talking in regards to no go, i’m opting out this year, give it a rest.
Good article on Burning Man here…
https://archive.ph/KjDda
Regarding hydroterrorism, this is a bit out there, but I read a, slightly strange, manga maybe a decade ago called Billy Bat, initially set around the end of WWII.
It was pretty topical, Billy was a stand-in for Mickey Mouse and Disney’s founder was one of the villains, as wall the owner/founder of Coca Cola who, it was revealed, had bought several water sources in South America.
That ended up being a turning point for history (the protagonists were trying to change events) which led to major armed conflicts over water sources in the early 21st Century.
Funnily enough, some rogue Coca Cola employees had secured spare bottles that they were rationing out to help newly made orphans, in the early stages of humanity dying out.
Anyway, the manga really harped on how corporate ‘ownership’ of water would be the end of man, even though no one believed it at the time, in the golden years. Everytime now I hear about Nestle etc. buying water sources I always remember the armoured trucks mowing down kids trying to get water to drink, in the ‘future’.
Today’s links once again make it clear that degrowth is already here.
Covid alone has begun to thin out the Human population bigly and nothing is being done to mitigate the damage done by recurring infection.
Reportedly 10% of American Children have “Long Covid”, the percentage with permanent serious organ damage is undoubtedly higher and growing.
Add rising temperatures and their effect and it seems likely that we will see a sudden and large die off at some point, likely before Trump’s term ends.
I am thinking that the damage done to the immune system in many Covid victims will make them more susceptible to any new plagues like bird flu. Or any other infectious diseases. We could always get another 1918 Influenza Pandemic.
But would our elites take it seriously like they did back in 1918-1920? Or would they try to fob it off like they have done for Covid so as not to disrupt the economy?
Our Beloved Elites would definitely try to ignore it, but the 1918 pandemic killed something like three percent of the population in two years. That’s about ten million Americans today. It’s kinda hard to cover that up.
In today’s Clown World, the greatest army in the known universe and beyond. 🤡
https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1947435746484490530
https://xcancel.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1947435746484490530
The U.S. army just deleted the post where they were bragging about being able to drop a single grenade from a $15,000 drone as if it was a groundbreaking innovation.
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Is Spotify Streaming Unauthorized AI Knockoffs of Dead Musicians? – Ted Gioia
What else are they going to do after they kill off the ability of most musicians from even making an inkling of the living that they were barely making before?
And dead musicians don’t complain.
Don’t think this Helmer has been linked yet. Perhaps some medically knowledgable can comment.
A fresh diagnosis of Trump’s symptoms has been published by a professor of internal medicine at a leading US university. After the usual disclaimers about diagnosing patients without seeing them in person, the doctor writes: “Trump certainly does not have Alzheimer’s Disease. He absolutely has personality traits – and just listening to him and watching his behavior – I lean toward Narcissistic Personality Disorder and likely Antisocial Personality Disorder. At his age, and with some of the behavior I see, there is a far more common issue that may be going on. It is known as microvascular white matter disease – what used to be known in our culture as ‘hardening of the arteries’. This is profoundly common in the West. The white matter contains the billions of conduits going from one neuron to the other in the brain as opposed to the gray matter where the actual neurons reside. As we get older – and some of us are far more prone to this than others – the white matter begins to have large numbers of microscopic strokes. These may take out the conduit for 10-15 neurons, maybe more, but not the neurons themselves. Our brain can rewire around them but eventually things begin to look like Swiss cheese and there is no way to repair things. At that point, symptoms begin to set in. These are usually manifested as ‘filter’ deficiencies — sudden emotional outbursts, inability to decide, long diatribes, stories about things from decades ago, inability to recognize one’s own mistakes and deficiencies, some mild memory issues, increased impulsive and risk-taking behavior, anger and wrath, inappropriate laughing and crying among many others. This disease process also greatly magnifies the underlying personality disorders.”
https://johnhelmer.net/the-trump-diagnosis-and-the-pearl-harbour-problem-who-anticipates-the-worst-best-wins/
Sure something is wrong with the prez?
So Helmer’s quoting IMDoc’s comment from an earlier article here? Because that seems to be it, word for word.
Guess I missed that comment. Apologies for being inattentive.
NC tentacles increasingly widespread.
Helmer incorrectly self-links, but the comment number is correct.
Something wrong? I think that was obvious 10+ yrs ago, no need for a medical diagnosis.
(too bad it just was same as everything else on offer…. )
Some have said Trump has gotten worse recently.
There’s another syndrome in the U.S. of A. that I have noticed:
just listening to him and watching his behavior – I lean toward Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Ah, yes, USanians endlessly diagnosing “narcissism.” It gets rich after a while, doesn’t it?
It seems to have taken the place of “possessed” except among a small circle of Christians and fans ofThe Exorcist.
I wouldn’t survive; Here it’s supposed to be ~ 77 inside at night according to the thermo in room, gets up to about ~ 80F just down the mountain. Still up all night with the fan on tossing and turning. Classic flippable spring mattress that doesn’t have serious heat retention issues unlike the sofa downstairs.
I don’t expect to survive Climate. Being too tired to function daily isn’t a great way to do capitalism, either.
The blob doubles down. From CNN, Gabbard’s Russian interference claims directly contradict what other Trump officials have said, published at 12:00 am this morning. The tone of the piece is priceless. Cue up some clutching of pearls.
To be clear, Gabbard is basically suggesting there was no Russian interference.
Gabbard, who was a Democratic member of Congress until 2021, now suggestively casts all three of these pillars as false: that Russia interfered, that Putin ordered it, and that it was meant to help Trump.
Put down your coffee.
The BBC is reporting that Ozzy Osbourne has died:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn0qq5nyxn0t
RIP Prince of Darkness.
That was a pretty ripping last concert they all put on just recently. I’m glad he got to belt out War Pigs one last time.
Here’s a more vigorous version from the salad days.
In my febrile imagination, his shade swoops down on leather wings to snatch all the neocons and throw them into the 9th Circle of Hell to be gnawed in Beelzebub’s fetid maw for all eternity. As a bonus, he bites Nuland’s head off. A guy can dream.
RIP
He went out on his terms, good for him. That last show had to be keeping him going. I doubt anyone had ’76’ on their bingo card for Ozzy’s final age, back in 1981.
Maybe he went out on Sharon’s terms, too, as she squeezed out one more bit of $$$ from him with that concert? Although she probably kept him alive for many years longer than expected as well.
“War Pigs” is the best anti-war song. I’d give a close second to “Masters of War”, but when I need a good mental cleansing from the latest imperial assault on innocent people, I listen to “War Pigs”.
When we saw Sabbath at Ozzfest 2004 the video for War Pigs was all Condi, Cheney and Dubya cut with the war itself. Back then it wasn’t weird to be anti-war.
I say goodbye to romance,
Goodbye to friends, I tell you
Goodbye to all the past
I guess that we’ll meet
We’ll meet in the end
Ozzy Osbourne Goodbye to Romance
Have the Republicans really shut down the US Congress to block an Epstein vote?
House bails early for its August recess amid Epstein files uproar https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/house-bails-early-amid-epstein-file-uproar
Hmm, looks like they have.
Funny, the more of this type of stuff they do, the more I’d really like to see what’s being kept from the public. And it’s not like I was terrible interested before; I just assumed really rich people can do some pretty ugly stuff and get away with it. It’s not like that’s something Americans haven’t figured out by now.
Let’s not look to the economist for strategic military advice. This piece makes the point that EU nations have been shown as naval weaklings by the Houthi and berates them for not building larger forces of aircraft carriers, in particular. It then goes on to note that the much larger American naval force was also sent packing by the Houthi this year.
In the unspoken point here is that navies are no longer decisive, or even particularly useful, in deciding the interplay of nations, having been rendered obsolete by the development of cheap, accurate hypersonic missiles. Of course this will be a great shock to everyone, since naval forces have been around for a millennium or more and are a central aspect of many military careers and many military budgets.
I imagine this is all similar to the start of World War II which forced everyone to realize that horses would no longer have a role in future wars, and that hay was no longer a strategic material. Great Scott!
A ship’s a fool to fight a fort.
meh…
war pigs, yes…
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-861908
“The metal legend died aged 76 on Tuesday. His wife, Sharon, was the daughter of Ashkenai Jew Don Arden, and put Judaism “at the center of their household.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/irish-band-feud-sharon-osbourne-deny-anti-israel-speech-aggressive
Sharon Osbourne called on others to join her in ‘advocating for the revocation of Kneecap’s work visa’
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/kneecap-sharon-osbourne-palestine-israel-35130532
Kneecap claps back at Sharon Osbourne after US visa threat for ‘Free Palestine’ message
Kneecap pointed out that 70 percent of burn victims in Gaza are children in response to Sharon Osbourne who criticized them because of their pro-Palestine performance at Coachella
The Central Bankers are moving slower than the melting mountain glaciers:
“NGFS modelling does not yet account for risks linked to water scarcity, pollination collapse and mass migration, or those stemming from so-called tipping points — critical climate thresholds that can lead to irreversible changes to planetary systems.”
Local news NC can use? The Oshkosh electric USPS delivery plant in my county is flopping.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/biden-push-for-10b-electric-mail-delivery-fleet-flops-with-just-250-trucks-built-in-two-years/
During a meeting of DeJoy, postal officials and Morgan Olson executives, the postmaster general lamented the status of “a production plant in South Carolina,” apparently referring to the Oshkosh truck manufacturing facility, a source who attended the meeting revealed to The Post.
But DeJoy later added that he was “in the parcel delivery business, not the vehicle manufacturing business,” the source continued.
At the time, Oshkosh’s Spartanburg factory could produce just one mail truck per day, with company records showing that it had expected to be producing upward of 80 vehicles on a daily basis.
The cost per truck to the defense contractor was pegged at $77.692 for 28,195 electric vehicles, according to the Washington Post.
That other Post doesn’t link the Wapo investigation which is here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/biden-usps-ev-oshkosh-climate/
In April 2022, Biden signed a measure into law that relieved the Postal Service of $107 billion of past-due and future liabilities. Finally in a healthier financial position, the Postal Service shifted its vehicle procurement into high gear. The truck Oshkosh produced — with its extended hood, massive bumpers and forehead-like windshield — was dubbed “the platypus” by postal and company officials.
Meanwhile the older very familiar Grumman trucks continue to appear. They get 8 mpg which may be why the local post office has asked carriers to walk most of their route rather than drive door to door.
Now that’s a darn shame, I would think, given all the hullabaloo that followed this plant locating here in SC, the manufacturing prowess would be all set by BD1 or Week #1…or shortly thereafter. But seriously…One a day is a flipping vitamin brand.
Maybe those Sprinter vans being manufactured further down I 26 are an easier product to consistently churn out one after another.
Well, we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Making all that noise
‘Cause they found new ploys
Well, we can’t salute ya
Can’t find a flag
If that don’t suit ya
That’s a drag
House’s out for summer
House’s out til September
Epstein fever has been blown to pieces
No more procedure
No more cooking the books
No more of Speaker’s smarmy looks, yeah
Well, they got no class
And they got no principles
And they got no innocence
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes
House’s out for summer
House’s out til September
Epstein fever has been blown to pieces
No more procedures
No more cooking the books
No more Speaker’s Clark Kent looks
Out for summer
Out ’til fall
They might not come back at all
House’s out til September
House’s out for summer
House’s out with Epstein fever
House’s out completely
School’s Out, by Alice Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgTD_0jxeE&list=RDRWgTD_0jxeE
AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database (Tom’s Hardware)
Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it ‘made a catastrophic error in judgment’ and ‘destroyed all production data‘
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even ‘lied’ about its failures.
BP: Agentic AI is gonna get pushed very hard in the immediate future. Like all SV crap, they will ship it and iterate rather than test it properly. I predict this is the first of many such unintended incidents.
But it didn’t admit anything, because it isn’t alive.
The tech press is seriously mostly useless.
But this is what happens when you let your LLM run random things it picked up off the Internet outside of a sandboxed container. Oops.
As it happens, OpenAI’s Codex already has a chat-only version. Why wouldn’t you just use Codex? Ha.
Trump announces ‘massive’ trade agreement with Japan (CNN)
Maybe
So we’re locking in 15% tariffs with Japan, perhaps on top of whatever else we have?
But details?
Oh.
So they’ve gone up:
Also Trump announces trade agreement with the Philippines and terms of deal with Indonesia
Summary here:
https://x.com/mrjeffu/status/1947845700651466860
re: 3xRussiagate
1) via Taibbi
Debating Russiagate With Michael Isikoff
A NewsNation interview moderated by Chris Cuomo gets hot
https://www.racket.news/p/debating-russiagate-with-michael
the show:
Russia did influence 2016 election in Trump’s favor: Michael Isikoff
NewsNation with Cuomo
15 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ida0LfGYnQo
This is insane and indeed embarrassing and extremely childish.
(Which is why I normally cannot watch these shows. Of course the worst thing that this country has 6000 nukes)
Issikoff is a clown and as dishonest as a journalist can be. You see it all over his face. He is first lying constantly and then essentially admits it without being called out by Cuomo.
Cuomo is apparently an idiot.
(What pills are these bullish people taking – Cuomo, RFK and Co.? To look like brainless bodybuilders?)
2) SleuthNews offers a few links to older posts.
Important overview:
Links Post
https://www.sleuth.news/p/links-post
contains links to posts&documents:
“(…)
At the forefront:
Dutch Intelligence and the Russian Collusion Story
Clinton Plans Long In The Making
Classified Clinton Annex Released
On the backburner:
Attorney General Shut Down Durham Investigation
Clinton-Connected Operatives Attributed DNC Hack To Russia
Behind the burner:
Georgia Supreme Court Says Yes We Can
FOIA Documents (In desperate need of an update because I’m a bad person).
(Key releases in my opinion)
Georgia AG
Georgia DOAS
Dagon Sept 28 2020 Letter
DNC Hack Attribution Report – August 2016
Georgia Tech (Only through January 2023)
(…)”
3) From 2017: Aaron Maté´s great interview with Luke Harding on Harding´s fraudulent book about Russiagate
Where’s the ‘Collusion’?
28 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g
Trump calling out Obama now. Trolling with an AI-generated video of Saint O. being arrested while DJT grins.
Gabbard promising more evidence tomorrow.
I assume this is just another sideshow that will go nowhere.
Jarmal Thomas: Caleb Maupin On Trump’s Release Of MLK Files: Did The FEDs Kill King?
Caleb T. Maupin
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well 21st Century Socialism. Maupin appears on a wide range of media, including CNN, RT, MintPress News, and New Eastern Outlook. You can read more of his work at his blog: https://calebmaupin.com.
I was surprised a decade or so ago when a distant family member who was a company commander in the US Army in Afghanistan mentioned in family email how much members of his organisation supported the OWS movement. US Army veterans under his command probably have not forgotten what happened.
Wowzers
NY Times op Ed back to form. Israel hasn’t killed systematically enough says Bret Stephens so it’s not genocide
Peak casual evil?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/no-israel-is-not-committing-genocide-in-gaza.html
You’ve a stronger stomach than I. I saw the headline earlier and couldn’t click it.
To answer his disingenuous question: because they are trying to get it done without their allies being forced to cut them off. It’s a genocide you can support without making it too awkward at dinner parties.
I’d wager the true death count is at least an order of magnitude higher than the oft-cited 60k.
“War Pigs”, by Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler
RIP Ozzy.
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh, Lord, yeah
[Instrumental Break]
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah
Now, in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of Judgment, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercies for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
Oh, Lord, yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5Nk1DXyEY&list=RDbc5Nk1DXyEY