I love all of the finger pointing and blame assignment going on between corporate republicans, the US and UK foreign policy "establishment", democrats, spoiled Euro elites, and ukrainian biker gang Nazis. It's just delicious. ALL of them are to blame. I haven't been right about a lot during my lifetime but I was 100 percent correct about "ukraine".... even before 2014. Back in 2014, I would have gladly accepted a couple of million in exchange for wise counsel regarding ukraine. However, I've never had access to those circles (probably with good reason).
Small, small diversion here, but still about Trump, Putin, Ukraine, … with bit about Canada mixed right into it all.
From CBC, … but couple of snips, first:
1) "Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Jan. 6.
"The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!"
That post contained themes that would later become staples of Trump and his supporters' claims about Canada.”
2) In a long op-ed he wrote in July 2021, Putin laid out his claim that the Ukrainian people, in their hearts, aspired to be part of Mother Russia, but their voices were censored.
"There are millions of such people," he wrote. "But they are not allowed to raise their heads. They have had their legal opportunity to defend their point of view taken away from them."
… the whole article on this “Better off together” link:
Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine
Canada has assets Trump sees as supporting the $US, and also borders the Arctic, which will be critical soon.
"Ukraine", created by Germany after Russia surrendered to Germany in WW-1, is a patchwork of territories claimed by other nations, and Putin makes his claim, which is now quite well established.
It looks as though Zelensky now has EU bodyguards, not CIA bodyguards, since December, so he has to keep doing what the Euroglobalists want, as far as I can tell.
Aaaand….in the next episode of Scooby Doo, the Mystery Machine is headed to Fort Knox with their GoPros to livestream the empty vaults for all the world to see. You can't make this shit up unless you're Hidden Hand Elites determined to brazenly humiliate those pathetically naive new cheerleaders of of Scooby Doo and gang.
What do THEY think conservative bandwagoneers are? Even more stoopid than the liberal bandwagoneers of the last administration?
Buying the horseshit social engineering today always makes you dumber today than those who bought it yesterday when you thought you were too smart for that.
Rinse and Repeat. Every rinsing makes you more washed-out and washed -up.
I read that planeloads of gold were coming to the US from the UK. Also have read that other countries' gold deposits might not be all sitting in shiny stacks of gold bars on demand. I am sure no one saw this much auditing coming. Remains to be seen, of course, what comes of it. Bloated budget will likely be passed anyway.
AI is just a bunch of code. Not any more intelligent than a COBOL program, just has more stuff available to compare against - biggest working storage in the world, sort of.
Yeah, but even I could write a whippy or a tool to spin through a database for that. Just pick a cutoff date, or pick several, and then investigate the results.
No doubt there is a lot of old crap in there. I think Trump better get cracking on inflation damn soon, before his ratings slip. Fix it, or somehow conjure up nice checks for everybody. Maybe buy containers full of chickens from somewhere overseas that is not busy plandemically murdering chickens.
Cool. Awesomely cool. Hope the programming is up to it! I have been thinking, though, that everything new is just bigger and faster, not "new", if that makes any sense. Great for Sheldon Cooper types of computing. That's just from my old codger viewpoint.
I have read that some of those ancient Social Security folks may just be on a server that did not go through Y2K testing. So if only the last two digits of the year are in the record, that would skew things, since some software might just assume a 20 instead of a 19 in the date.. I did a LOT of Y2K stuff, back in the day.
I started on RPG, when it was a brand new language! and then went to COBOL. Always hated Assembler, Assembler programmers take pride in being tricksy, so horrible to maintain. Worked on IBM Model 20, IBM 360, then went to my real loves, HP3000 and Tandem. Was on call in Tokyo in case our Y2K stuff missed something. (Nope.)
Electric City! I always regretted not buying some very odd alarm clocks there. A little bit there, mostly I went to Harajuku and the area around Tokyo Station. The Ginza, though that was very pricey. I loved the market in front of the temple which I cannot remember the name of, and the street where there were lots of shops selling fake food and little bowls and such. Wonderful city. I was doing 18 hour days and rarely left the city. Awesome experience, would go back in a heartbeat. Although the flying part is starting to seem iffy.
I am older than everyone, I think! But still have all my marbles, according to my grandson.
Thanks for the tip, jean. Keep us updated on that possibility if you would please. If that bears fruit it doesn't cast a very good light on DOGE or its AI.
FWIW my gut feeling is that Trump and Musk, above all, will be sidelined once their fully-sanctioned wrecking ball activities have busted-out a tipping point for the neoliberal Edifice. Both are just making complete asses of themselves in some ways, which absolutely cannot fly as the leadership MO, for the Hidden Hand Elites, once Collapse starts to get really hairy.
'There was the realization that Europe is on its own in its defense on the Continent, that the U.S. now is a questionable friend and an unreliable ally.'
It has been clear to thinking Europeans that the US is neither a friend, nor an ally, to Europe. The destruction of Nordstream II was a calculated act of terrorism and economic carpet bombing. It has wrecked the German economy and, as a result, the basis of funding the EU. I am no friend of EU officialdom, any more than I am a Friend of the US Deep State, but blowing up Canada-US gas pipelines up has never been a European goal. It should certainly now be a European goal to destroy all US economic activity in Europe.
As for Ukraine, it was all fomented by the US Deep State, including Obama and Biden. Nuland and the terrorist ex-Ambassador Pyatt should face trial for capital crimes, as should two ex-Presidents and 250+ Deep State international criminals. Assassination of ex-Presidents should occur if claims of immunity from all criminal prosecution is used as an excuse.
All US citizens in Europe should be treated like Russian-speaking residents of the Donbass wrere treated. Criminalise the use of US English (a foreign language to educated Brits), eliminate all mention of all US culture, sport, economic ties throughout European media, both online and MSM. 10,000 US citizens should be murdered and all of them should be told to leave, like Gazans.
I do not expect any outrage from US citizens, claiming they are civilised. You are a nation that aids and abets genocides in multiple theatres, through multiple decades.
It's time that you were treated like the victims of those genocides.....
Americans get the "mushroom treatment" and are mostly pleasant and clueless.
What deals can Team-Trump do with Team-Russia to make things better and "reestablish trust", as they are saying? It is not just giving the embassies back their property, staffing and bank accounts, is it?
There is a rumor that Team Trump is going to withdraw US forces in Europe to 1991 positions, out of the former Warsaw-Pact countries.
All this yap about a Greater Israel and it's the same size as it was when Palestine was given to them.
Even Haaretz is mocking the 'mighty IDF' on its uselessness. No wonder they've had to hire Blackwater types, maybe they'll be as successful as they were in Baghdad!
On the health front it'll be good news if those MRNA fake vaccines are suspended, banned and retested properly. Isn't it?
They have expanded into Syria, the Golan, with it's water supply, and into Lebanon, both in 1967, and have recently expanded further into Syria, and are seeking to completely evict Palestinians from their ancestral lands forever. "Eretz Israel" is not to be taken lightly, as many dead neighbors can't tell you.
Aaaand Erdogan just reiterated that he believes Russia should give back all territory, including Crimea, and then says hey, Turkiye would be a swell place to have peace talks.
I have read that he may very well think he can recapture some of the Ottoman Empire. Erdogan plays so many ends against his middle that if everything snapped, it would be quite interesting to see. I do wonder why anyone trusts him. Also wonder how much of all of this is orchestrated in order to make Trump look good. Or at least, not the bad guy. I do think Trump expects to screw Putin out of something in order to look strong. Of course, Putin knows that, so should be interesting.
I love all of the finger pointing and blame assignment going on between corporate republicans, the US and UK foreign policy "establishment", democrats, spoiled Euro elites, and ukrainian biker gang Nazis. It's just delicious. ALL of them are to blame. I haven't been right about a lot during my lifetime but I was 100 percent correct about "ukraine".... even before 2014. Back in 2014, I would have gladly accepted a couple of million in exchange for wise counsel regarding ukraine. However, I've never had access to those circles (probably with good reason).
Small, small diversion here, but still about Trump, Putin, Ukraine, … with bit about Canada mixed right into it all.
From CBC, … but couple of snips, first:
1) "Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Jan. 6.
"The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!"
That post contained themes that would later become staples of Trump and his supporters' claims about Canada.”
2) In a long op-ed he wrote in July 2021, Putin laid out his claim that the Ukrainian people, in their hearts, aspired to be part of Mother Russia, but their voices were censored.
"There are millions of such people," he wrote. "But they are not allowed to raise their heads. They have had their legal opportunity to defend their point of view taken away from them."
… the whole article on this “Better off together” link:
Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-putin-ukraine-comments-1.7462337
… fwiw,
F.S.
Canada has assets Trump sees as supporting the $US, and also borders the Arctic, which will be critical soon.
"Ukraine", created by Germany after Russia surrendered to Germany in WW-1, is a patchwork of territories claimed by other nations, and Putin makes his claim, which is now quite well established.
It looks as though Zelensky now has EU bodyguards, not CIA bodyguards, since December, so he has to keep doing what the Euroglobalists want, as far as I can tell.
I am pretty sure that it sucks to be him.
I don't know how long he will live.
“I don't know how long he will live.”
___________________________
Zelensky will be just fine. Any moment / any time now, he will take one-way flight out, … say, to UAE?
His chariot:
https://www.planespotters.net/photo/1665356/ur-aba-ukrainian-government-airbus-a319-115-acj
He remains quite vulnerable, a soft target, if one can get close, or get a manpad near the runway...
If Z is slated to be the fall guy for the Big Nuclear Scare then he is not vulnerable until after the BNS.
He may already have various enemies, no?
It cannot feel good to be him.
Aaaand….in the next episode of Scooby Doo, the Mystery Machine is headed to Fort Knox with their GoPros to livestream the empty vaults for all the world to see. You can't make this shit up unless you're Hidden Hand Elites determined to brazenly humiliate those pathetically naive new cheerleaders of of Scooby Doo and gang.
What do THEY think conservative bandwagoneers are? Even more stoopid than the liberal bandwagoneers of the last administration?
Buying the horseshit social engineering today always makes you dumber today than those who bought it yesterday when you thought you were too smart for that.
Rinse and Repeat. Every rinsing makes you more washed-out and washed -up.
Lots going on. Staying tuned for the Ft. Knox audit, which will take at least half a year, I suspect.
I read that planeloads of gold were coming to the US from the UK. Also have read that other countries' gold deposits might not be all sitting in shiny stacks of gold bars on demand. I am sure no one saw this much auditing coming. Remains to be seen, of course, what comes of it. Bloated budget will likely be passed anyway.
They need AI to figure out what got re-re-rehypothecated to whom, don't they?
AI is just a bunch of code. Not any more intelligent than a COBOL program, just has more stuff available to compare against - biggest working storage in the world, sort of.
Yeah, but even I could write a whippy or a tool to spin through a database for that. Just pick a cutoff date, or pick several, and then investigate the results.
No doubt there is a lot of old crap in there. I think Trump better get cracking on inflation damn soon, before his ratings slip. Fix it, or somehow conjure up nice checks for everybody. Maybe buy containers full of chickens from somewhere overseas that is not busy plandemically murdering chickens.
See this new development:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/
and the paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08445-2
It might be a product in 5 years.
Cool. Awesomely cool. Hope the programming is up to it! I have been thinking, though, that everything new is just bigger and faster, not "new", if that makes any sense. Great for Sheldon Cooper types of computing. That's just from my old codger viewpoint.
I have read that some of those ancient Social Security folks may just be on a server that did not go through Y2K testing. So if only the last two digits of the year are in the record, that would skew things, since some software might just assume a 20 instead of a 19 in the date.. I did a LOT of Y2K stuff, back in the day.
You know Cobol?
I started on RPG, when it was a brand new language! and then went to COBOL. Always hated Assembler, Assembler programmers take pride in being tricksy, so horrible to maintain. Worked on IBM Model 20, IBM 360, then went to my real loves, HP3000 and Tandem. Was on call in Tokyo in case our Y2K stuff missed something. (Nope.)
I think you are older than I am, based on that.
Did you spend much time in Akihabara when you were in Tokyo?
I used to like to visit the hi-fi-geek shops there.
Electric City! I always regretted not buying some very odd alarm clocks there. A little bit there, mostly I went to Harajuku and the area around Tokyo Station. The Ginza, though that was very pricey. I loved the market in front of the temple which I cannot remember the name of, and the street where there were lots of shops selling fake food and little bowls and such. Wonderful city. I was doing 18 hour days and rarely left the city. Awesome experience, would go back in a heartbeat. Although the flying part is starting to seem iffy.
I am older than everyone, I think! But still have all my marbles, according to my grandson.
Good-on-Ya. I went to high school in Yokohama from 1973-1976.
Thanks for the tip, jean. Keep us updated on that possibility if you would please. If that bears fruit it doesn't cast a very good light on DOGE or its AI.
FWIW my gut feeling is that Trump and Musk, above all, will be sidelined once their fully-sanctioned wrecking ball activities have busted-out a tipping point for the neoliberal Edifice. Both are just making complete asses of themselves in some ways, which absolutely cannot fly as the leadership MO, for the Hidden Hand Elites, once Collapse starts to get really hairy.
'There was the realization that Europe is on its own in its defense on the Continent, that the U.S. now is a questionable friend and an unreliable ally.'
It has been clear to thinking Europeans that the US is neither a friend, nor an ally, to Europe. The destruction of Nordstream II was a calculated act of terrorism and economic carpet bombing. It has wrecked the German economy and, as a result, the basis of funding the EU. I am no friend of EU officialdom, any more than I am a Friend of the US Deep State, but blowing up Canada-US gas pipelines up has never been a European goal. It should certainly now be a European goal to destroy all US economic activity in Europe.
As for Ukraine, it was all fomented by the US Deep State, including Obama and Biden. Nuland and the terrorist ex-Ambassador Pyatt should face trial for capital crimes, as should two ex-Presidents and 250+ Deep State international criminals. Assassination of ex-Presidents should occur if claims of immunity from all criminal prosecution is used as an excuse.
All US citizens in Europe should be treated like Russian-speaking residents of the Donbass wrere treated. Criminalise the use of US English (a foreign language to educated Brits), eliminate all mention of all US culture, sport, economic ties throughout European media, both online and MSM. 10,000 US citizens should be murdered and all of them should be told to leave, like Gazans.
I do not expect any outrage from US citizens, claiming they are civilised. You are a nation that aids and abets genocides in multiple theatres, through multiple decades.
It's time that you were treated like the victims of those genocides.....
This just in:
Liz Truss Calls For 'Elon & His Nerd Army' To Investigate 'British Deep State'
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/liz-truss-calls-elon-his-nerd-army-investigate-british-deep-state
Americans get the "mushroom treatment" and are mostly pleasant and clueless.
What deals can Team-Trump do with Team-Russia to make things better and "reestablish trust", as they are saying? It is not just giving the embassies back their property, staffing and bank accounts, is it?
There is a rumor that Team Trump is going to withdraw US forces in Europe to 1991 positions, out of the former Warsaw-Pact countries.
That would help, wouldn't it?
What about Nordstream? How can that be patched up to where Russia and Germany get it back and can use it? There is the one good pipeline of Nordstream-2. It looks like Stephen Lynch is still on track to buy it at a discount. https://www.intelligenceonline.com/international-dealmaking/2025/01/17/nord-stream-2-buyout-stephen-lynch-the-man-who-loved-pipelines,110363476-art#:~:text=After%20Sberbank%20Switzerland%2C%20discreet%20US,over%20the%20past%20two%20decades.
There is this: Russia's Lavrov says potential bankruptcy or sale of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline operator would be theft https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-lavrov-says-potential-bankruptcy-or-sale-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-2025-01-14/
Would the theft be from other interests if the pipeline were bought at auction for cheap, bought by "somebody" and "given back" to Russia somehow?
Would that be OK? Would that rebuild trust?
The Russians in Riyadh seemed to genuinely see the Americans as positive and constructive.
If globo-cap can be thwarted, and Russia, Germany, the US and China can cooperate, then ("black nobility") globo-cap will implode, right?
Would that help with restoring trust?
All this yap about a Greater Israel and it's the same size as it was when Palestine was given to them.
Even Haaretz is mocking the 'mighty IDF' on its uselessness. No wonder they've had to hire Blackwater types, maybe they'll be as successful as they were in Baghdad!
On the health front it'll be good news if those MRNA fake vaccines are suspended, banned and retested properly. Isn't it?
They have expanded into Syria, the Golan, with it's water supply, and into Lebanon, both in 1967, and have recently expanded further into Syria, and are seeking to completely evict Palestinians from their ancestral lands forever. "Eretz Israel" is not to be taken lightly, as many dead neighbors can't tell you.
Aaaand Erdogan just reiterated that he believes Russia should give back all territory, including Crimea, and then says hey, Turkiye would be a swell place to have peace talks.
That boy used to be a drug kingpin. He's powerful, but not reliable.
I have read that he may very well think he can recapture some of the Ottoman Empire. Erdogan plays so many ends against his middle that if everything snapped, it would be quite interesting to see. I do wonder why anyone trusts him. Also wonder how much of all of this is orchestrated in order to make Trump look good. Or at least, not the bad guy. I do think Trump expects to screw Putin out of something in order to look strong. Of course, Putin knows that, so should be interesting.
His HTS minions have captured Syria, though they can't hold territory against the growing "greater Israel".