The violence of facelifts Unherd
🚨3I/ATLAS Just Got Bluer Than the Sun and Nobody Knows Why
3I/ATLAS is changing fast. As it hit perihelion on October 29 the interstellar object rapidly brightened and shifted to a color bluer than the Sun itself.
That’s what Avi Loeb just confirmed from new STEREO, SOHO, and… pic.twitter.com/UP48mn01Xs— Skywatch Signal (@UAPWatchers) October 30, 2025
From poison to power: How lead exposure helped shape human intelligence ScienceDaily (Anthony L)
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights AirSpot
⚠️ BREAKING:
Virologist warns of pandemic risk as bird flu spreads in Germany 🇩🇪
German virologist Klaus Stöhr warns growing H5N1 spread in Germany could spark a pandemic, saying the virus “has all the characteristics” needed.
He urged urgent vigilance and preparedness. pic.twitter.com/dEmwjlBmIg
— SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@COVID19_disease) October 31, 2025
Climate/Environment
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink BioScience Oxford
After a modest decline over the first half of the year (and after record 2024 warmth), global temperatures are ticking back up. The past two days have been the warmest on record for this time of year in ERA5 and the highest temperature anomalies since January. pic.twitter.com/P9ObtsPBiZ
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) October 28, 2025
China?
>Chinese pundits claim victory after Trump’s trade concessions Asia Times (Kevin W)
China’s rare earth export delay offers US a chance to weaken Beijing’s grip on the market Associated Press (Kevin W). Note top of the article at odds with headline. Is AP engaging in soft self censorship?
China NBS Manufacturing PMI falls to 49 in October, contraction deepens Action Forex
China housing slump deepens as oversupply drags prices PropertyGuru
Koreas
How North Korea will fight back against the South’s nuclear submarine plans NKPro
Antipodes
Australia’s housing market is turning sub-prime MacroBusiness
Africa
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts Guardian
Sudan’s military expels top UN food aid officials as conflict escalates BBC
Tanzania shaken by unprecedented protests at ‘sham election’ Financial Times
South of the Border
Maduro turns to Moscow, Beijing, Tehran as US presence builds in Caribbean Anadolu Agency
Venezuela under Attack Vanessa Beeley and UK Column
European Disunion
ECB keeps interest rates on hold despite eurozone inflation fears Guardian
Euro-homeless, time to hit the trash heaps? TopWar (Micael T)
The municipal toolbox Makroskop via machine translation (Micael T). On addressing housing shortages.
Poland’s Superpower Dreams resurface after centuries Forum Geopolitica (Micael T)
What grim fate awaits EU member states? Just look in the Dutch crystal ball RT (Micael T)
The Left Wins the Irish Presidential Election in a Landslide Counterpunch (resilc)
Old Blighty
Rachel Reeves wants Brits investing — just as the City fears an AI bubble Politico
Isreal v. The Resistance
Testing boundaries James Dorsey
Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the West Bank during the war in Gaza, group says Independent
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid Guardian
Iran rebuilding its ballistic missile program Long War Journal
Dubai: the dark truth — what lies beneath the wealth and glamour? The Standard (resilc)
New Not-So-Cold War
NATO’s Three-Pronged Response To The Latest Russian Scare Raises The Risk Of A Larger War Andrew Korybko
Moscow Won’t Accept Peace Without Rewriting the Post-1991 Order Global Affairs (Micael T)
Sending them to their deaths in war? Söder demands that Ukraine change the relaxed exit regulations for young men Nachdenkseiten via machine translaton (Micael T)
The Christchurch massacre and Ukraine Events in Ukraine
Imperial Collapse Watch
US begins troop drawdown in Romania Politico
Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ The Grayzone
Trump 2.0
Red states to be hit hard by Trump disability eligibility rules Propublica. When I would fly the NYC-Birmingham, AL direct flight, the proportion of wheelchair passengers was much higher than on any other route I have traveled.
Chuck L notes, “When you’ve lost Bill Kristol…”
Purges of senior military officers.
If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.
It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is…
https://t.co/ESDlODaPj6— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 30, 2025
‘Startup City’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ Wired (Paul R)
Banks and retailers run short on pennies as the US Mint stops making them Associated Press (Kevin W). More incompetence. Australia got rid of the penny before 2002, and required retailers to round up or down to the nearest five cents.
Under Vinay Prasad, employees at a key FDA center fear speaking out, look for the exits STAT
Shutdown
Trump administration blocked from suspending Snap benefits for millions of Americans Guardian (Kevin W). See our related post. This frees up only a few weeks of emergency funding, although the plaintiffs contend more coins could be found in the couch cushions.
Tariffs
America’s Suez Warwick Powell
14 Republican lawmakers say Argentinian beef imports ‘undermine American cattle producers’ in new letter The Hill (resilc)
Immigration
Unmarked, Plate-Less Vehicles Seen in ICE Arrests Across U.S., Report Finds: ‘The Agency Clearly Wants to Appear Like a Ghost’Los Angeles Times (Paul R)
Sobbing daughter captures ICE ‘detain her mom for not having social security number memorized’ Mirror (resilc)
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans Guardian
Charlie Kirk
State employees fired over Charlie Kirk posts inundate courts The Hill
Mamdani
Billionaires are spending big to stop Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral bid CNBC (Li)
Kathy Hochul admits socialist Zohran Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ plan would hurt NY’s middle class: ‘I cannot do that’ New York Post
Police State Watch
Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’ Guardian
Our No Longer Free Press
Stephen Miller Wife CRASHES OUT On Cenk: Threatens Deportation Breaking Points. Entertaining if your taste runs to train wrecks and may also be an indicator of increased desperation among Israel allies in the US over having lost control of “the narrative”.
As I was saying: https://t.co/KfJ4Jqsc61
— Lara Friedman (@LaraFriedmanDC) November 1, 2025
For background:
Tucker Carlson tells Nick Fuentes he despises Christian Zionists more than anyone on earth, calling Christian Zionism a dangerous heresy within Christianity.
He names Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, John Bolton, Karl Rove, and George W. Bush as examples.
Carlson says Christian Zionism… pic.twitter.com/741M5Tuvbj
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 28, 2025
EU parliament could block Russian media – Politico RT (Micael T)
Mr. Market is Moody
How Bad Could the Private-Credit Crisis Get? Just Look at 1929 Barrons
BlackRock loses $500m on shadow banking blow-up Telegraph. BlackRock is a latecomer to this business.
Proliferation of private credit raises fears of looming financial crisis NPR
Oracle Bond Risk Jumps on Concerns Over AI Spending Spree Bloomberg
Economy
Largest capacity purge in history coming Freight News
Federal Reserve plans to shrink board of top banking supervisor Financial Times
The Bezzle
Crazy stat of the day:
Nvidia’s market cap is now greater than the GDP of every country in the world except US and China
Totally normal pic.twitter.com/s6N0YTBC3S
— Ankur Nagpal (@ankurnagpal) October 29, 2025
NVIDIA × Samsung — The Barter Relationship:
I give you 50,000 GPUs, you supply me with memory chips. I recognize revenue, you recognize revenue. No cash needed — cash is useless. pic.twitter.com/TDephlFs87— Kakashii (@kakashiii111) October 31, 2025
A closer look at the record-smashing ‘Hyperion’ corporate bond sale Financial Times
Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI Futurism
How A Pharma Giant Is Looting The Pentagon The Lever
Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death New Statesman (Micael T)
Guillotine Watch
Royal Flush: Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-Karat Gold Toilet in New York ART News)
Class Warfare
Mapped: Where U.S. Families are Most Strained by Debt Visual Capitalist (resilc)
⚠️The US job market is in a RECESSION:
The long-term unemployment rate (jobless for 27+ weeks) hit 25.7% of all unemployed people, the highest in 4 YEARS.
When this metric first breached 25% during the FINANCIAL CRISIS, the US was already more than a year into recession. pic.twitter.com/yq0P1JlngN
— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) October 29, 2025
Americans are drowning in auto loan debt CNBC
Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can’t afford their food anymore Yahoo
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
This lion pride getting pranked by an Elephant 😂 pic.twitter.com/IlklIlXwMz
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 30, 2025
A second bonus:
The dog had no clue what was going on and just stared at the police officer like, “Sir, I’m gonna need some context.”pic.twitter.com/5WNJxAjkUg
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) October 31, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Goooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam!
It was painfully obvious what the extraterrestrials on board 3I/Atlas were thinking, they’d heard from across the universe about Bitcoin and were eager to invest, the blue light emanating from the spacecraft an attempt to fill a buy order, alas out of range yet.
Could be. I heard they were arriving just in time for the Chiefs/Bills game. The plan was to land on the 50 yard line just before game time and auction off Gort to the highest bidder. Maybe to raise funds to buy that Crypto?
…what sort of forty time does Gort got?
When your reach extends from one sideline to another, and no one can block or tackle you, speed doesn’t matter much. And he can play both sides of the ball and never break a stretch. Try him at RB, TE, LT or DT. The Wunderwaffe of all time. Gamechanger!
Wukchumni and Henry Moon Pie: klaatu barada nikto
The interesting thing about the interpretations of 3I / Atlas is that the asteroid is beyond the Sun. So it is cutting through the solar system at a time when no one on Earth can see it — blocked by the Sun and too far away. And, yes, it has many weird qualities.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Milton Friedman, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Nevertheless, it has also arrived at an astrologically volatile time. All of the majors — Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter have gone into (and sometimes out of) retrograde in the second half of 2025. Mercury is due to go into retrograde again on 10 November in Sagittarius, the sign that 3I / Atlas emerged from.
This fashion mag gives a highly detailed horoscope:
https://www.russh.com/every-retrograde-in-2025/
When the biggies — Jupiter, his brother Neptune, their dads Saturn and Uranus, gods of time — all move together, even the skeptics among us (and I’m fairly skeptical) should take notice. Some “deep astrologers” think that we are receiving a signal of moving collectively into a new epoch.
So there is life after Trump Derangement Syndrome. Maybe Jupiter can detach the claws of Bill and Hillary from the Democratic Party. Is Zohran Mamdani a sign of a new age of Saturn, peace, prosperity, and low-cost groceries? The golden toilet in the White House remains unexplained.
[I will consult my patron, Mercury, who is more or less in charge of grocery stores.]
After 3I/Atlas touched down on the White House lawn and Atalasians emerged, an excited President Trump almost immediately slapped tariffs on them, claiming ‘they’ve been cheating earthlings for far too long…’
Well, there are serious matters afoot. My page shows the Galactic Council (a bunch of commies, for sure) as arriving and sorting this earthly human cesspool out. They will instruct us as to having empathy for all life.
Obviously they haven’t heard of the “Dark forest” theory…
“‘Sobbing daughter captures ICE ‘detain her mom for not having social security number memorized”
I got an idea. All those emigrants could easily have their Social Security number tattooed on their lower arms and as it is only 9 digits, would not have to be big. That way if ICE pulls them up, they can proudly pull up their sleeves and show those agents their Social Security number as that seems to be the only number they are interested in. Any resemblance to this idea and a practise that was undertaken in Eastern Europe in WW2 is just a coincidence.
Don’t give anyone in DC ideas.
What! no bar code tattoo to expedite ICE processing?
That will go on your neck and be your Permanent Record Identifier.
According to the Department of Public Information, there is no truth to the rumour that the first three numbers of everyone’s PRI number will be 666.
Stay safe, and grey.
You people need to get along with the zeigeist. Nowdays, everyone gets a chip under the skin.
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MYizva-7o
Really interesting article on lead exposure in early humans. Loved the points made regarding Neanderthal extinction and the potential linkages to Speech Sound Disorder and Autism.
Radiation hormesis now comes to lead, just in time for the Trump Administration to loosen pollution restrictions. Convenient!
I was very much surprised to read how many of those caves were contaminated by lead. How did that work out? It seems to have been widespread but I would have assumed that having places with lead deposits as well as developed caves would have only been a very small percentage and not over 70% like is suggested here.
Did the Ancients use Lead Oxide as a pigment to produce white in their cave paintings? Did the Ancients use Lead Oxide as the pigment for face and body decoration goop?
To give some background – Catherine Connolly is an ex Labour activist who left due (apparently) to internal fights within her local party. She was little known outside her constituency, although she seems to have been very well liked by other politicians including centrists – her two political jobs – Galway Mayor and Deputy Speaker for the parliament are both decided on open votes, which means a lot of the centre and right will have supported her.
She was considered an outsider for the post, but as none of the left parties could agree on their own candidate, she became the de facto left candidate. She was also aided by the two centre right parties making an appalling mess of their campaign. She is a barrister and very good with both the public and on TV and won very easily.
She has a long, consistent history of being on the general left of politics and in particular anti-war and anti-imperialism and pro-palestine (before it was fashionable, as they say). More recently, she seems to have become more nationalist on Irish unity (she keeps quiet on this as it’s the primary ideological issue dividing the left).
The Presidential post is largely ceremonial and she will have little real power.
It does have two significant political outcomes:
1. It will make it almost impossible for the current government to weaken Irish neutrality. She cannot block any attempt to join Nato or take part in military action, but she has the capacity to create a constitutional crisis over it, so no government would consider it worth the effort to try. It was never likely, but its pretty much an impossibility now for the next 7 years.
2. It greatly strengthens Sinn Fein (centre left/nationalist/republican). They initially couldn’t find a candidate that had any chance, so reluctantly backed her. But as they have by far the best electoral ground game, they became the de facto main partner in a loose alliance of left parties and the Greens. While that alliance lasts, it shows its possibilities in another election. But more crucially it has seriously weakened the current Prime Minister who despises Sinn Fein – it seems very likely he will not make it to the election. His likely successor belongs to the republican radical wing of his party, one much more likely to join forces with Sinn Fein. So this could give SF two potential coalition partners after the next election – a left wing/green alliance, or a centrist and left Republican one. They probably prefer the second option.
She sounds very much like an Irish traditionalist in having Ireland be neutral and also pro-Palestinian out of principle. If she is there for the next seven years, then it may stabilize Irish politics and stop the idea I have heard of Ireland going into NATO so it can give all its military equipment to the Ukrainians and give Zelensky a coupla billion Euros.
Forgive me as I have not been following Irish politics as closely as I used to, but is there really a movement among the Irish center-right to abandon neutrality and join NATO? The very idea seems so shockingly bad to me I could scarcely believe my eyes when I read your comment!
No politician in Ireland who wants to get elected openly calls for it, but there is a lobby within the establishment who does want it (as this widely mocked article indicates). Michael Martin, the current PM, would try to move Ireland towards Nato if he could, but his party would never allow it. It would be a massive vote loser.
The complication for Ireland is that even though it is not part of Nato, because of the lack of investment in defence over the years, the country has had little choice but to rely on UK/US and other European military help with various issues, from intercepting aircraft in Irelands aerospace to maritime rescue and heavy lift capacity for pulling citizens out of trouble around the world or in shoring up Irelands UN contingent (there has been an Irish Battalion in the Lebanon for nearly 3 decades now). For pragmatic reasons, Irelands small military accepts Nato standards for its equipment. So while neutrality is extremely popular with the electorate and the foreign establishment is split over this, no government aren’t actually willing to put in place a meaningful defence force. Interestingly, Sinn Fein has started calling for much more military spending.
It is quite possible to envisage a situation where Ireland accepts membership of Nato as part of a deal for unification.
I would prefer Sinn Féin to find a UK political party that would agree to leave NATO to enable unification, I.e. a common Ireland-Britain defence area as well as a common travel area.
Although NATO may leave us first! :-)
“US begins troop drawdown in Romania”
Not just Romania but apparently Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia as well in December. I would imagine some panic in NATO over this as there might be the suspicion that Trump will eventually reduce US troop numbers until there is only a tripwire force left in Europe-
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/63332
Not much profit to be had from only a tripwire force.
They only need a skeleton force required for ISR the rest will be done with proxies.
that is the European and West Asian plan.
That is the impression that I got. That Trump & Co want Europe to field a strong military so that it can be its proxy force for that continent. The US would provide military equipment – at marked up prices – Europe would receive satellite data from the US but more to the point would have the US calling the shots for that European military like it does in places like South Korea. Maybe too like in South Korea, that there would be a US general put in charge of these European forces. maybe too the US would order deployment of that European force to places like Asia, maybe even Taiwan.
A US general is, and has always been, the military head of NATO. This is no different, in practice, from US SK command structure.
Would that include in combat as well? I know that is so for South Korea.
Of course. SACEUR (who also has the US “hat” of COMEUCOM) has operational command from SHAPE in Mons, BE.
Dubai: the dark truth — what lies beneath the wealth and glamour? – The Standard
Read to me like an indictment of many parts of the world including Dubai.
It takes global partners of privilege to create that kind of system. Some multipolar exploitation going on there.
Read to me like a model for this:
‘Startup City’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ Wired (Paul R)
The author of the Dubai piece seems to agree. Her concluding paragraph:
“My fear is that we, in our rotting democracies, will become like Dubai, because to value this is to value tyranny, whatever name you give it, and there’s a word for that. Decadence: always the final age of empire.”
I think our would-be techno-feudal overlords have a vision. It’s Dubai, but ruled by billionaire genius philosopher-kings rather than Sultans. Guys like Trey Goff will build it for them, and useful political lackeys like those in Congress and the Trump administration will make it possible.
It takes a globe full of accomplices to create such a system. The world doesn’t have a “Trump” problem. Way beyond that.
That’s the overarching point.
Multipolar exploitation.
I can only imagine the “Freedom City’s Mengele Institute For Anti-Aging”
Re: “Read to me like a model for this:
‘Startup City’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ Wired (Paul R)”
Yeah, me too. But ‘Startup Cities’ then led me to this gem:
Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas
https://archive.ph/PvvVD
But nothing new about building on the backs of indentured servants or slaves. That’s what “freedom cities” ultimately mean by “regulations”.
Don’t even get me started on what they think is “science”.
I just remembered…what happened to all those private islands? Why couldn’t they start this shit on those?
Oh…that’s right…a parasite needs a host
An ode to the soon to be “rare” 2025 penny, see lower. Good riddance to the meddlesome $0.01, which I grant still find useful in smaller exchanges of hard cash and currency…Maybe the retailers should be permitted to either round up or either round down, or just round it off period (!)
Compliments of an 1980s song from Madonna…
“Only boys who save their pennies, make my rainy day”
The Chain Cent was the first effort by the US Mint in 1793, and they were about the size of a half Dollar. Fitting that we’re seeing off Mr. Lincoln~
A nice example is worth the big bickies, $126k
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1793-1c-chain-america-bn/1341
As a young teenager I would often gather coins in “vast numbers” twice per week on a small town paper route. For a measly $0.25 one could read all the news fit to print, and at the end of the afternoon I could saunter into the Wachovia branch to exchange those coins for “dollar dollar bills y’all….” So if I sold say 100 on a good day I was doing well even if it’s small time consumer paper media so to speak… Might have found a few wheat pennies on my route too!
All this in a pre-internet world. What a seemingly more simple time. Those rainy fall and winter afternoons were awful though on a two wheel delivery machine.
When I was a kid “Indian Head” pennies were a thing for collecting. Same for war cents and nickles.
In some local auction decades ago, I bought this big lot of soup to nuts coins that had a couple of rolls of 1943 steel Cents which had been copper-plated to look like the real thing worth around $250k each instead of a Dime, and I spent them all over LA, one at a time over about a decade.
I feel certain more than a few people got really excited about their ‘find’.
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1944-1c-steel/82722
“Good riddance to the meddlesome $0.01…”
As you probably know, Canada ditched the penny already. It’s predictable! “Oh, it costs more to make it than it’s actually worth…” Two comments:
1. I remember as a kid in the US that I really liked the Eisenhower Dollar. Kind of like what my elders said, you knew you were holding something when you had one of those in your hand. All in for universal sufferage and thought the Susan B. Anthony was a good coin, but it just wasn’t a “real” dollar to me. Paper? Pfui.
2. Experience here in Canada seems to be mostly people don’t miss the penny. The bulk of people pay with a debit or credit card, and the rounding doesn’t apply to those. Cash transactions can be amusing to sort out. Always a gamble: am I going to pay more than the actual bill, or less? Fortunately Canadians don’t seem to be disposed to yank a handgun out and start blazing away because they got “cheated” by the system. We’re told it balances out in the long run. I wonder how much longer we have to run.
I also remember when I first came to Canada there was some debate over the idea of minting a $5 coin to go with our $1 (“Loonie”) and $2 (“Toonie”) coins. The biggest debate was over what to call it. “Foonie” just rang like a lead bell. Ultimately the mint deployed the cost argument, though now I guess they’d just say everybody uses a card so it’s not a thing.
I talked to a presenter at the British Museum after she gave a talk in their coin gallery. Their pound coins were relatively new at the time. Having seen some pretty wretched examples in commerce during our visit, as well as the simple design, I asked her what percentage of circulating pound coins she estimated to be “homemade”. She lowered her voice and said in a “don’t tell” voice it was around 60% (!!!)
I never understood why they didn’t just get rid of the nickel also. Then instead of $1.23, for the price tag would be $1.2.
Just like in Hong Kong.
I have a vague memory of reading someplace that having prices like (say) $2.99 instead of $3.00 makes it more difficult to pilfer (this would apply to cash transactions, not credit or debit). Can’t remember the logic behind it though.
China? I cannot find official Chinese confirmation that China will pause its rare earths export permits, per an X post by Arnaud B:
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1983910248416211116
– I checked and was unable to find a notice on the official Chinese govt website regarding rare earths – but did find notices on tariff rates and soy beans. Although we have Trump The Fantabulists’ words (echoed by the media), however, he has form.
If so, the economic implications to high tech (and the MICC) remain.
I also recall that in the prior restriction, I read a report where after several months, China was only able to process a handful of permits. I also saw nothing about Nexperia.
Side note, for a 90-minute meeting, 20-30 minutes are for opening statements, 10 minutes for closing statements, so 50-70 minutes of translation-slowed discussions means equivalent to ~20 minutes of normal discussion for issues with complex details. So did they run out of time before discussing rare earths, or was it just a case of:
Trump: “About those rare earths?”
Xi, “不是 (Bushi) – No.”
Trump: “So No Lunch or press briefing.”
Xi “Yes.”
Trump: “Fine, I was going to order a round of fast food burgers.”
Xi “Fine: We will buy some soybeans, if you drop tarriffs.”
Trump: “Ok. Ummm. Hmmmm. How’s the weather in Beijing these days?”
I wouldn’t put it past Trump to lie. He has made shit up before. “24 hours to end the Ukraine war.”
Part of the issue is that nothing is in writing. Both parties are free to exaggerate, charitably. Trump has changed his mind so many times and flip-flopped that these may be Schrödinger’s tariffs.
“24 hours to end the war in Ukraine” is not a lie. That was, and still is, quite possible. Can you end the war in a way that keeps the Russophobes and neocon crazies happy in 24 hours? No, you cannot. But you can’t do that in the next 24 years either. So I’d argue ending it in 24 hours where everyone is unhappy is actually a great idea.
Fellow Chris:
I think the lie was that he would actually do it, not that it was possible.
A total cutoff of aid, along with making Zelensky persona non grata the minute he started whining about ceding territory, would have likely done the trick.
Too bad he lied to his base.
It really is a pity he lied. I wish he had followed through with the promise. It looked like he was going to. Witkoff put Bibi in his place for a minute before Trump was even sworn in. And now… we have even more war and chaos.
Once I tried to talk a snake out of shedding its skin. Never again.
Or the US has more nuclear weapons, I guess he doesn’t think his base understands how to use Google; or maybe that the sycophantic media will not question if the emperor’s new clothes leave him naked.
‘Heather Johnston
@HeatherJ_Israel
My name is Heather Johnston, and I am the Founder and President of @USIEducation
I am deeply concerned about the hate that Tucker Carlson is spreading in our country.
As a supporter of the Heritage Foundation, I am asking Dr. Kevin Roberts to clarify his statement regarding Carlson.
Israel is central to God’s divine purpose, and we need to know where the Heritage Foundation stands. @KevinRobertsTX’
Oh god. It’s Zionist Karen. And she’s demanding to talk to the manager of the Heritage Foundation.
The tucker Carlson interview was my first real exposure to Nick Fuentes. I’m almost done, but I’ve watched most of it.
I actually thought that he came off as reasonable. He’s a very good and talented speaker, maintains a good flow and poise. He’s overcome a lot which is impressive, was kicked off YouTube, was on the no fly list, was being threatened, had hundreds of people come to his home, etc
After he did a debate in college, a daily wire employee asked him if he’d like to visit Israel, he said no.
But the main reason that he has a bright future is that the establishment is not providing an alternative. Nobody under 40 is ever going to be passionate about Lindsey Graham or Ted Cruz or Ben Shapiro.
Hey, Afro, don’t blame old people for Graham, Cruz or Shapiro! Age has nothing to do with it. Take it from an ‘over 80!’
Tucker’s Christian theology is spot on, though I wish he’d named the heresy he was talking about. Darbyism is a 19th century invention by a British Calvinist. Spread through the Scofield Bible, it’s contrary to 1.900 years of amillennial eschatology shared by Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Reformed churches.
Those Catholic church leaders that at best turned a blind eye to the kiddie fiddling surely can’t have believed in the dogma of heaven or hell as a soul’s permanent location in the afterlife. Because they would had had a firm idea about which location they’d end up in.
My, what pretty evangs you’ve got…
I love it when they go to the good book in order to defend Israel at all costs, where history majors in a narrow vein of events in an isolated area of the orb a few thousand years ago still resonate today.
Reading the Gospels, quoting Jesus, Carlson is correct!
There is no ‘love thy neighbor” in the militarism of the US and its zionist spawn!
That said Augustine’s “just war doctrine” is excuse for heresy!
Not one bullet fired by or for US/Israel in the last 80 years is “just” murder.
So says me a repenting US airman!
JD Vance and Augustine:
https://martycenter.org/sightings/the-problem-with-jd-vances-augustine
Thank you for the linked article!
I was indoctrinated in the Just War by a USAF chaplain in the run up to Desert Storm! I took him as wrong at the time. I did not find out the rite of the chaplain. At that time I did serve in the states. Augustine excused Christians to get involved in Constantine’s state sanction murder.
My best feel for Augustine is the quote: “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet.” That aided my re-conversion and return to the Roman Church. Repentance is key
That said in my seeking who is “thy neighbor” I go to the Good Samaritan and no further. Your neighbor is Jesus you see in every one you encounter. See especially the two mainstream men who passed by the sufferer. Samaritans were outcast to observant Jews in the setting of the parable.
Augustine, doctor of the church, was not a pope and thus evidently fallible.
He also gave us the curious concept of Original Sin.
According to Hudson Augustine changed Debt to Sin or Economics to Sexual Mores I think.
Popes are fallible too. At least, that’s what Dante said, and he encountered one.
Papal infallibility is a 19th century construction (and only applies to church doctrine) so all of the popes have been more fallible than not.
What’s going on with Bill Krystal? Somebody may need to check on him bc earlier in the week, I think he endorsed Mamdani for mayor!
Rat departing a sinking ship.
If you live in NYC, there is increasing desperation from the Cuomo campaign and wealth funded surrogates. Not to mention even more anger directed at Curtis Sliwa. God forbid the actual Republican candidate stay in the race, rather than prop up the sore loser who couldn’t accept that voters didn’t agree with his delusional belief that he got to be mayor just because he wanted to restart his political career so he ran again as an independent.
Look this is NY, and we now have unaccountable electronic voting machines. Cuomo could still win. But all indications are that he is losing by a significant margin. Not enough of one in my opinion, but still significant.
Banks and retailers run short on pennies as the US Mint stops making them Associated Press (Kevin W). More incompetence. Australia got rid of the penny before 2002, and required retailers to round up or down to the nearest five cents.
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As you say, every other country got rid of small change pretty effortlessly…
I’d guess the last time you could buy something with a lowly Lincoln would’ve been around 1980 from a gumball machine near you.
The last time we ditched a denomination was in 1889 when we 86’d the Three Cent Piece, been a spell.
it’s called ‘Swedish Rounding’ by the way.
Time to buy boxes of nickels at face value from your local bank – the copper and nickel contained therein is worth double or more face value – to sell to refiners when it’s discontinued? I read several years ago that Kevin Bass I think, did so to the annoyance of the local Federal Reserve bank.
It’s a bit tricky separating copper from nickel, is what I’ve been told.
Wanna buy my 75% copper & 25% nickel Nickel ingot?
As a fetish object, perhaps, more than an investment… :-)
“EU parliament could block Russian media – Politico RT”
Here in the UK, RT is already blocked. I can only access it through a VPN. Imagine how afraid they are that people may read the other side of the story.
I will never really grasp how this insane level of censorship went through in Germany without a peep by MSM or parliament.
If you know the status quo before this whole shitshow started it by large parts remains inexplicable.
http://Www.swentr.site is your friend.
I love the Russian trolling. It’s a true mirror URL…
re: Germany – Israel – critical interview
This is as much of a critical perspective on Israel that you will get by an established German reporter, Michael Lüders (German category of Chris Hedges, although he was no real war correspondent and much more benign in his views.)
Which on the other hand by way of looking at those attacking him tells you the level of incompetence on the region by many German establishment morons.
Lüders was Middle East correspondent for Germany´s biggest weekly DIE ZEIT. ((the) time)
In case you can stand YT´s automatic dubbing in English, you can listen to it (it´s less obtrusive than German dubbings). Otherwise translate the transcript that comes with it.
Interview with Michael Lüders: How the West supports Israel’s attacks on seven countries
“Michael Lüders studied political science and Islamic studies in Berlin and Damascus, was a Middle East correspondent for Die Zeit for many years , and is currently a member of the extended board of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). In this interview, he discusses his new book, “Dirty Work: Israel, America, and Imperial Megalomania,” and Israel’s wars of aggression against Iran, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Qatar. Lüders explains how Israel and the USA secure their power in the region through wars, sanctions, and regime change, why Germany supports this policy, and what the consequences of a new war against Iran would be—for the entire region and far beyond.”
The interview was conducted by Michael Holmes
60 min.
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=141335
German Wiki on Lüders
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L%C3%BCders
re: Poland – Michael Jabara Carley
– This piece was published originally on the Strategic Culture site which is banned from NC.
However Michael Jabara Carley is one of the major authorities and he has not published there since 2020 (for whatever reason.)
So I hope this is no violation of any sorts! If so, my apology. –
This is pre-WWII but it fits the subject, I by coincidence just reread the piece a few days ago
Michael Jabara Carley, downloadable pdf
“What Poland Has to Hide About the Origins of World War II”
Michael Jabara Carley
Université de Montréal
January 2020
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338543470_What_Poland_Has_to_Hide_About_the_Origins_of_World_War_II
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for an unfortunate nine that day:
The score stood three to three, with but one stanza more to play,
And then when all hope died at first, and the other team did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, “If only Shohei could but get a whack at that—
We’d put up even money now, with Shohei at the bat.”
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One of the best World Series i’ve seen in a world of Sundays, final game tonight, can’t wait.
It’s had everything, almost. Great defensive plays, great pitching, weird plays, firsts of all kinds, including Freddie’s second walk-off homer in the 18 inning game (“Let’s play two!”) a record for any player in any combination of World Series games in history, and Shohei’s mind-blowing performance in one of the early games.
But in my opinion, it’s not really baseball anymore, with all the rule changes they’ve made in the past 10-15 years to make the games go faster. No thinking between pitches, just throw another in a hurry, all DH now, bigger bases, etc. The last big rule change before this latest flurry was to lower the mound because of Bob Gibson’s unhittable pitching and it actually seemed to make the game better, but these latest ones are making it worse.
Say what you will about his otherwise lackluster hitting in this Series, Freddie is “The glue in our clubhouse” according to the last two great manager’s he’s played for. Steady Freddie, indeed — Hall of Famer first ballot no doubt. Interesting that Atlanta fell apart after their World Series win when they let him go to the Dodgers, and the Dodger’s have now won one and may win two with him on the everyday roster. I never thought I’d be a Dodger’s fan, but Freddie’s the last link to Chipper, who was the last link to Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine who were the last links to Otis Nixon’s wall-climbing “The Catch” and Sid Bream’s slide into home. When Freddie’s career is done, my days of watching baseball will likewise be over.
But this has been a historic Series, no matter, and I’m on the same page with you, waiting anxiously.
pre-game starts in 10 minutes, game 7 of this incredible Series starts at 7 central time.
Spoiler alert but don’t check the internet or on your phone. Waking up but my brain thought it was 7:45 AM Eastern but it really is 6:45AM….roll back the clock but repeat that October victory sensation for your Los Angeles Dodgers.
So… happy for Freddie Freeman but that’s about all I can muster. I do think Roberts is a good manager, particularly when I consider the near misses from Bobby Cox whilst managing the Braves some 30 years ago in their heyday.
“Report: Iran rebuilding its ballistic missile program”
Israel would be very keen on attacking Iran once more – with America’s help of course. Trouble is that Iran is rebuilding their stock of missiles again as they have the industrial capacity to do it. And it seems that the Russians are helping them with their aerial defenses as Iran has finally realized that it needs help here. In addition, most of the groups that Israel set up in Iran are now gone and Iran will be carefully watching countries like Azerbaijan which aided the Israelis in their attacks. They will be a much tougher nut to crack next time. For their part, resupply of Israeli aerial defense missiles are probably proceeding slowly as those missiles take some time to build each. And now they know that Iran can hit any damn place that they want to and it does not matter if they have help from countries like the US, the UK, Jordan, etc. they do not know what to do next. So unless something tips the balance radically in favour of Israel, we may have a status quo developing where Iran won’t attack Israel and Israel can’t attack Iran. Sounds good to me.
IDF does not have the wherewithal to do a Curtis E LeMay (bomber Harris with B-29’s and two A bombs) on Iran, too much geography, too much hardening, some level of air defenses. US help is limited by local infrastructure and depth of magazine which is already devoted to IDF.
Do we really believe air shafts in Iran are straight and B-2’s can follow them ……
Or that USAF flew 14 B-2’s in the same year.
Your arguments are very logical and rational, and thus, sadly, irrelevant to the Israeli religious fanatics led by an indicted criminal who goes to prison if the war ends (and incidentally hell bent on genocide – making the IDF the true marvel comic book evil that used to be reserved for WW2 Germans with black uniforms).
Israel is not being resupplied by building new missiles – that is too slow, and that was before the rare earth embargo of the US MICC. – They are being resupplied from the existing stocks underlying US-China war dreams. Let them be sent, and the US is rapidly losing its fevered war dreams (in a Thucydides trap).
I trust European intel sources were totally honest with CNN, and not propagandizing regarding Iran Rebuilding its missile capabilities. Actually, an honest assessment would state that Iran is building out its capacity, particularly of the newest missiles, which were not used – they used such a minimal fraction of their stocks. Definitely not the same people who have been saying Russia is running out of missiles since day one are saying the same about Iran, despite its prepping for a US-Israeli war for decades.
Taiwan welcomes AIPAC delegation
https://x.com/ChingteLai/status/1983054946460414033
First annual American Hindu Jewish Congress at Mar-A-Lago with Lara Trump
https://x.com/EllieCohanim/status/1983700785314852883
Are the Taiwanese and Indians trying to appeal to Trump by going straight to his donors? Honestly seems very bizarre
Interesting about Dubai. I am a fan of movie composer Hans Zimmer’s concerts including one in Dubai where he talks about how much he likes it there.
The talk is in English so doubtless his appreciative audience includes those wealthy British expats. But the article suggests his just folks vox populai patter may be cloaking an ugly reality.
Still he is a very good musician
Various right wing media ‘personalities’ or ‘influencers’ in England have very loudly moved to Dubai, because ‘there is too much immigration in England’ and ‘England is no longer safe because of immigrants [read Muslims]. But, of course, they will be ‘expats’ there rather than immigrants and only mix with their own kind in any case.
My fascination with YouTube crochet and 90s rock channels has led to some interesting commercials. There were a whole series of commercials touting Dubai as a tourist destination for families, girls trip, honeymoon… It was yet another instance of cognitive dissonance for me. I could only wonder if tourists were limited to certain areas, almost like a Disneyland version of it.
IA long time ago I read this article about Dubai; your comment caused me to dig it up again because it left an impression with me. It described a cruel, empty place that is all façade and inhabited by vapid rich people without empathy. A fake Disneyland for the wealthy and a hot hell for everybody else, run by a dictator.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
>Banks and retailers run short on pennies as the US Mint stops making them
Instead of abruptly discontinuing the production of one-cent coins, the U.S. government should have continued producing them using less expensive metals. After all, the government once profited greatly from producing steel pennies.
A more honest idea would be to do what all countries eventually do when debasing their currency via inflation, just chop a zero or two off so the dime or the dollar would be the new penny. Would ditch those pricey nickels too.
Even better, be proactive and make it three.
What really is the point of units which are so worthless that one will not purchase anything?
It’s because without it, you couldn’t skim off the top with a sales tax. Or more pertinently these days, a ‘merchant fee’. At least with a sales tax, we get fire trucks and clean water.
– ‘Kathy Hochul admits socialist Zohran Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ plan would hurt NY’s middle class: ‘I cannot do that’ – New York Post
This Post article is our political system in a nutshell. Our Establishment Democrat Governor, forced to support the nominally Democratic candidate for NY Mayor (in as unenthusiastic a manner as possible), regretfully explains why she just can’t tax the rich because it would hurt the “middle class.” The right-wing Post pretends to champion the “middle class” while accusing Hochul of pandering to the “radical left.” All those people chanting at Mamdani rallies or potentially voting for him in an election apparently don’t exist; at least they don’t count in the Post’s political world. I guess it is good, though, that at least everyone is so concerned about the welfare of the “middle class.”
I’d better read that Daily Mail article next so I can really know what’s going on.
They put the White House on a piece of land
Where Foggy Bottom used to stand
Before they put up a bowling alley
In the basement where Tricky Dick would dally
That’s where the big names used to come and play
My sources tell me Kissinger hurled there on a Saturday
Don’t come dancing
The East Wing ballroom has come undone
Why not come dancing?
It’s only natural
Another Saturday, another faraway date
He would be ready but he always makes them wait
In the Trump Ballroom hallway, in anticipation
He didn’t know the night would end up in frustration
He’d end up taking away all their wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck from Melania on the cheek
Come dancing
That’s what you do after the gilt trip
And when they said “come dancing”
The usual suspects always did
Come Dancing, by the Kinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYi6Ytw_DsI&list=RDiYi6Ytw_DsI
“What grim fate awaits EU member states? Just look in the Dutch crystal ball”
Got myself completely sidetracked with this article – it’s been one of those days. Near the top is an image of Geert Wilders and for a long time I thought that he looked kinda familiar though you wouldn’t think so. Then the other day I realized where from. Has anybody seen that old 1955 scifi film “This Island Earth”?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/characters/nm0607504/
China’s rare earth export delay offers US a chance to weaken Beijing’s grip on the market – Associated Press
The USA also has to watch out for creating
deficiencies in other critical areas.
I was reading the story in links the other day about huge areas of farm land going to data centers.
But this thinking assumes people making decisions or lobbying those that do are actually concerned.
Only been to Chipotle twice and both times got a mild case of food poisoning. Plus it’s kind of expensive for what it is – a slightly fancier Taco Bell but still fast food. I don’t think more “digital experiences” and dollar sauce options are going to fix what’s wrong there. The kids don’t have money for garbage food.
The third time I went to Chipotle I got food poisoning so severe I was hospitalized for 7 days followed by 7 days of recovery at home where I was incredibly weak. I will not step a foot into a Chipotle again.
A good many stand alone ‘Meskin eateries here, especially so in the towns that are almost all Hispanic (read Mexican) in population, and I’m looking at you Farmersville, Ivanhoe and Woodlake.
All the field workers are Mexican, so the food is authentic and tasty.
The true test of a restaurant is their chile relleno…
Why go to Chipotle?
Absolutely the test is how good are their chile rellenos. I always order that. When it’s good it’s wonderful.
My restaurant test for first time eating is red chili. If they ace that, we will return. Also, Yuma AZ has some great authentic Mexican restaurants.
Why go?
For the ugly, dystopian decor that looks like the set from a sequel to “Aliens”?
For the seating so hard and uncomfortable that you are left with sciatic nerve pain for the rest of the day if you sit for more than five minutes?
For the beef and chicken rendered so inedibly tough that it should have a warning label and come with a side of dental floss?
Yes, I always try the relleno but for me the true test is fresh home made tortillas. They are really hard to find but nothing better.
since only really fancy places like Mi Tierra in san antone make Mole, anymores, Tam’s Test Dish was always carne guisada.
my test in all eateries is to first observe the back door and the dumpster area(if theres cats, thats good), then upon entering thru the front, take a deep whif of the air(sour smelling oil=bad), then immediately wander to the loo, and endeavor to get a peek into the kitchen(clean-ish(i understand the demands) but more importantly, happy people in there who are having a good time)
save for chinese food, i prefer mom and pops.
for chinese, i prefer corporate….esp panda express.
due to a lack of cats and stray dogs in the neighborhood of this place we went to in san angelo.
(amfortas winks)
(there are exceptions to this moratorium on mom and pop chinese joints, of course…Mencius, there on medical drive, there in san antonio is excellent…they even let me into the kitchen, under the “this chef wants to see how the pros do a certain thing”.
any place that shows such professional courtesy is a good place, generally, in my experience.)
Before I quit the Twitter, I’d see occasionally retweets of people complaining about the prices at Chipotle, so their struggles isn’t really news. I was taken once as part of a corporate informal lunch 10 years ago. Not sure what the fuss is about. I never went back, and it was overpriced in 2014.
Here are the owners of Chipolte:
https://brandsownedby.com/who-owns-chipotle/
Never was a big fan. I would only do take out the times that I used to go. I needed to take it home and add some seasoning and to make it hot. Adding that extra heat could have been what saved me from these scary food poisoning incidents.
…Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…
Well, you can’t fool me twice…
W.
BlackRock loses $500m on shadow banking blow-up
So, apparently Black Rock could only be bothered to do due diligence on a $500M loan after the cash went down a rabbit hole. We’re doomed.
Ha. I’m free if they have another 500m ready to burn. I’m sure I can manage it better than they can, and I’ll only charge them 2 and 19 instead of 2 and 20.
So what are we looking at, super volatile interstellar comet, a fragment of engineered material reacting to solar flux? Or something designed to reveal itself only under extreme energy exposure?
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a solid icy nougat nucleus wrapped in a coma of cloud of gas and lemony icy dust escaping from the nucleus. Bluer than the Sun. Zestier than any Earth lemon.
Watch the skies! Keep looking!
Kathy Hochul admits socialist Zohran Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ plan would hurt NY’s middle class: ‘I cannot do that’ – New York Post
“I’m concerned about outmigration of people who are the ones who are supporting our budget,” Hochul said on the “Raging Moderates” podcast Tuesday about the top 1.5% of earners fleeing if she raised their taxes like Mamdani wants.”
She claims NY has a middle class, but says the top 1.5% of New Yorker’s are supporting the budget.
The Vampire State is incredibly agressive about income tax.
Anybody without dependent kids, or unable to access one of the enormously long list of exemptions for special interests and cronies, has to pay on even the most limited income.
They must also have a huge staff at the tax department since they recently audited my middle class income returns going back at least TEN years, and came up with demands for taxes, interest and penalties.
I would have to see some real figures on that, both raw data amount and the percentage of income paid in taxes compared to those who aren’t in the top 1.5% . Not that our political leaders would misrepresent data for the benefit of their bigger donors. No, never.
Obama is calling
Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board (NY Times)
Good luck with that.
re: Venezuela vs. CIA
fwiw Tom Griffin´s Substack
The CIA and the Cartel de los Soles
How a flawed counter-narcotics operation christened the enemy du jour
Tom Griffin
Nov 01, 2025
https://intelligencehistory.substack.com/p/the-cia-and-the-cartel-de-los-soles
Interesting that we see this:
Trump Says US Not Considering Venezuela Strikes
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w_gN7BeAgj4
And this is one of the many stories that get reported:
Military strikes on Venezuela appear increasingly likely
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5584228-us-strikes-venezuela-maduro/
And if this is what the Western MSM thinks of him, imagine being a country trying to negotiate with Trump.
re: Federal Reserve
“The regulatory changes the Fed is considering could enable banks to lower their capital ratios enough to offer borrowers an additional $2.6tn in lending capacity, according to consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.”
That’s a good way to get a lot of small community banks and regional banks into trouble again, as happened during the subprime crisis. Many many of those banks were consolidated with buyouts into larger banking entities at the direction of the FDIC.
If one wanted to further consolidate the banking sector and reduce the number of community and small regional banks, this is one way to do that, imo. It’s never the smaller banks that get bailed out. The smaller banks get eaten.
And an aside about the private credit crisis that’s looming: The big banks beginning after the GFC essentially stopped loaning to small businesses, that created the environment for the expansion of existing and creation of new private credit outfits. Small businesses still needed operating capital loans, and when their longtime big bank stopped lending even though the small business owner had never missed a payment or been a problem, they naturally turned to local private credit outfits.
If there’s a problem now in the private credit market, it’s a crisis the big banks created, imo.
Ellen Brown writing at Sheerpost:
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/30/ellen-brown-how-a-fed-overhaul-could-eliminate-the-federal-debt-crisis-part-ii-curbing-fed-independence/
I’m surprised Trump didn’t offer to solve Xi’s problem with a housing slump and overbuilding by shipping our homeless population to China. A score or more container ships per month loaded up with homeless Americans in exchange for some rare earths would be a win-win deal, no? /s
re: Ukraine War
MOON OF ALABAMA
Ukraine – Hail Mary Operation To Unblock Pokrovsk Has Failed
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/ukraine-hail-mary-operation-to-unblock-pokrovsk-has-failed.html
“Nvidia’s market cap is now greater than the GDP of every country in the world except US and China”
While I really dislike Nvidia and think it’s way overvalued, comparisons between market caps and GDPs always seem a bit misleading. Market caps are more of an estimated lifetime value while GDPs are yearly stats … at least to this non-finance guy.
Sure, it’s apples and oranges; but it’s a convenient way to put these absurd numbers into context. What else are you going to use? Count the sand on the beach?
I would like to see a simple, easily understood metric used.
Let us consider a mature P/E ratio as Nvidia ages to a mature company, free of hype.
Assuming Nvidia achieves a P/E ratio of 10:1 as it (or the sum of pieces it may split into) ages, then Nvidia (or sum of pieces) would need to earn $512 billion per year.
Someone buying Nvida would then see earnings of about 10% of original share purchase price.
Alphabet (Google) reported earnings of $100.12 billion in the year ending Dec 31, 2024.
Nvidia at 5x Google’s yearly earnings seems like a very tall order as this level of annual earnings would be bound to attract competition from other semiconductor firms.
And Google’s earnings report might be more solid from an accounting standpoint.
>Euro-homeless, time to hit the trash heaps?
It’s surprising that Russians are skeptical rather than welcoming the decline of the EU.
It’s not the end just a lot more money going to middle men.
And of course trickling up to more ‘important people’.
I suggest the company hire Luigi Mangione as the company spokesperson, in the manner of Colonel Sanders or Ricardo Montalbán. The guy has tremendous star power in his own right, and could help position Chipotle as a defender of the poor and downtrodden instead of a ruthless up-charging corporate monster.
There will be no charge for this idea.
re: bird flu
The zoo in Swiss Bern developed a vaccine against bird flu and presented it early this year.
However the vaccine although working well was rejected in the EU for alleged safety concerns.
I suspect lobbying – both by Pharma and food industry – have achieved here a twisted, genuinely Pyrrhic victory.
European poultry industry is huge ($56B), followed by pork ($43B), then beef ($26B) annually. Imagine someone introduces a simple and easy to do solution for this bird flu problem that people could apply without a huge pharma company behind it. DIY-basis. That´d be a nightmare for some business reps.
Report from Hadley MA. Protesters with signs along the main road leading to Home Depot. “ICE out of Home Depot/ Boycott Home Depot.” Lots of honking in support.
File under AI.
From Caitlin Johnstone.
They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-want-you-relying-on-artificial
Shorter: Don’t become a Pakled ( for StarTrek fans. / ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjshV-_oUik
Breaking news!
Toy replica of killer drone used by Russia is marketed to children
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toy-replica-killer-drone-russia-marketed-children/
CBS News is now Trump adjacent. When I was growing up in the USA we had plastic models of all the WWII military aircraft, ships and ground weapons available to build and use to play war – including the Enola Gay.
The antidote, or the cat in a grey flannel suit…
Quite resembles my darling Einstein (brains of the outfit) who was born in my lap a dozen years ago~
“Wait, I’ve got an idea–I’ll stare at you so hard, you’ll forget your Social Security number!” –Zippy the Pinhead, “Pinheads Are Everywhere” (https://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/themsong.htm)
The War president
Trump says he’s ordered Pentagon to ‘prepare for possible action’ in Nigeria (CNN)
I guess he learned from Trump 1.0 that you’re greatly applauded for using the US military aggressively, without foresight or forethought.
“Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights”
News that you can use. It means that instead of wondering the need for masks when boarding a flight, the answer is now a definite YES. Every flight is almost guaranteed to be infected.
I never stopped wearing a mask in airports, on flights, public transit or medical settings of any kind. It’s never going away, and “our betters” will never countenance any investment in indoor air quality.