In the comments to the same article, Harry D. advocated for the new US imperial strategy.

“We should not count on friends or neutrals to save our civilization.” Hear that Taiwan, Japan and South Korea? You must build your own nuclear deterrent immediately.

USA must restart or civil defense program to teach the population how to survive nuclear attack. Many lives can be saved with some basic knowledge, reinforced in the schools, like we did in the 1950s. See: The Good News About Nuclear Destruction (goodnewsnuke.com)

This madman unmasks what is a diabolical gambit, the new US paradigm of war:

Arm all its satrapies around the world with nuclear weapons and encourage “local” nuclear wars.

Clean hands USA avoids the action. Its enemies and its competitors (even friendly) are eliminated.

Continue reading Imperial Strategy: Nuclear Proliferation and Regional Conflict at uncoy.

Vladimir Zelensky has called for first strike nuclear war in Russia. I have listened to what he said in Ukrainian and it’s extremely clear. He called for “preventive nuclear strikes” which would launch the nuclear phase of World War III with the destruction of most of the Northern Hemisphere.

In the comments, BelleDelphine argues again in favour of US domination:

Sure but will you fare any better under Kremlin boot ?

The BelleDephine persona is a broken record and constant liar. To answer her question – would Europe be better off in a Russian economic coalition, akin to the EEC?

Yes, we’d have as much gas as we needed.

Yes, we’d have our well-heeled and free spending tourists back.

Yes, we’d have a great export market for our industrial machines and fine machines and cars and premium food products.

Continue reading US pushes Europe to precipice of a nuclear abyss at uncoy.

Hail Spode writes about the consequences of fake money, i.e. backstopping of big business by national banks, sometimes described as quantitive easing (but it’s not):

Bingo. Fake money leads to fake everything. Fake business, fake media, fake politicians, fake science, fake religion.

The big boys know that all that really matters is pleasing those who control the thin-air money spigot. It is why business will insult their customers, media will lie to their viewers, politicians will betray their constituents, preachers will ignore their calling, researchers will skew/ignore data, and educators will defy the parents of the students.

Having all power in one place is the opposite of freedom, and you can’t have decentralized government and central banking. You have to choose one or the other. I know it is human nature to rally around personalities rather than ideas, but it is imperative we grow up and do so.

Continue reading The Unattractive Consequences of Free Money at uncoy.

The United States have rejected allowing its 9000 translators and collaborators in Afghanistan from immigrating to the USA:

Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported that the White House is seeking to re-home around 9,000 Afghans who had worked with American forces as translators, drivers and in other supporting roles. However, despite fears they will be targets for reprisals, Washington is not said to be considering offering them the chance to go to the US. Instead, officials have asked nearby Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to take in the vengeance-wary Afghans.

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It shocks me that an external imperialist invader could co-opt thousands of citizens to collaborate against their fellow citizens and then just leave them. Even Nazi Germany allowed its Banderist collaborators in the Ukraine to retreat to Germany with the Wehrmacht. The US arrogance of expecting neighbouring countries to accept US collaborators is truly shocking.

Continue reading US rejects immigration for its 9000 translators and collaborators in Afghanistan at uncoy.

Which politicians: the forty year careerists

One and Only asks a very good question:

Why do people want to work for the government so bad? I get it, job stability, decent paycheck, healthcare…

He gives a few examples:

• Nancy Pelosi 40 years.
• Barbara Boxer 38 years.
• Joe Biden 48 fuckin years.
• Donald Trump – 4 years but this weird. You’re old. You’re a billionaire. Hot wife. Family…what are you doing bro?

These people are old and rich. Everyone talks shit about you. Look at Rand Paul lost his lung. Scalise got shot. You’re getting spied on, if not by your enemies, by your friends who are trying to steal your spot. The longer you’re in the more culpable you are for screwing everything up.

Continue reading Why rich people choose to diminish the quality of their lives to become politicians at uncoy.

Talked to someone in North America this week: “Heard your friend Putin just poisoned another opposition politician.” Porton Down and the Skripals were part of a long game: events like this are is how you condition a population to respond like Pavlov’s dogs.

Paint the Russians as poisoners and you only have to sacrifice a pawn for a new round of sanctions. The timing here makes it more than obvious that a Navalny poisoning would be to help US policy. This month has been taken up with the attempt at overturning the Belarussian state (it’s early in that game yet, there’s some more moves to be made but they depend on putting the Russians on their back heel) and sabotaging Nord Stream II.

Poisoning your own man at risk of death and/or lifetime disability is a substantial sacrifice to make, but to a cynical imperialist mind well worth it to either win Belorussia, shut down Nord Stream II or even both.

Continue reading How Alexey Navalny was poisoned and by whom at uncoy.

Banality of travel, every subway car
we’ve all seen in photos: Hong Kong, New York,
Moscow, Tokyo, London or Toronto;
just a visual fragment is the detritus
of modern consciousness, your subway cars
mean nothing more to me, less, than my own

How can I see inside Japanese existence or
the mysteries of the Russian soul, or feel Filipino sense of complacent helplessness
and anger (their entire stock of able, active men, and those men’s women and children,
wiped out by E. Otis and J. Smith in just a few years).

I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States,

Resonance

Images will no longer do.

Continue reading Transit Images at uncoy.

Amusingly enough I just received a newsletter with an analysis of the Vancouver real estate market. The real estate agent concludes that the problem is that Canadians are Chinese dupes:

The whole US instigated Canada vs China fight going on over the arrest of Meng Wanzhou of Huawei Technologies might have more impact on housing in Vancouver than local rules and regulations. Kelly McParland has an interesting analysis of China’s policy toward the West, how they’ve played us, and how we should accept the reality about China after what is happening to Canada right now.

The article to which she links is trashy jingoistic anti-Chinese propaganda from a guy who is basically a propaganda outlet (he’s anti-Iran, anti-China, anti-Liberal, anti-ecology, anti-Saudi Arabia now that the CIA have turned on MBS – the guy is Pavlov’s dog responding on cue).

Continue reading Misguided Canadians believe provoking China further is a good idea at uncoy.

There’s been another white phosphorus attack by the United States or allies in Syria, yesterday, on the town of Hajin. This was closely preceded by John Bolton’s announcement that the USA and its armed forces are immune to international law. An interesting co-incidence. Alas, it’s not the first or only US deployment of the illegal white phosphorus munition in Syria.

Given the lack of American respect for the rule of law, Thom Paine asks why Russia has not aided and abbeted Syria and/or Iran in the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Putin should have seen this coming, maybe has.

And armed Syria and Iran with nukes and high range S400 defense.

Nukes change the game for Saudis and Israel – Syria and Iran too close for comfort.

It worked for NK, it will work for Syria.

Continue reading Should Russia abet Syria and Iran in the acquisition of nuclear weapons? at uncoy.

If you are short of time, just skip to the Six Battle-tested Rules to Help Publishers Nurture an Intelligent Comments Section.

I’ve been participating very actively in political conversations on various alternative sites for the last six months and recently over at MoonOfAlabama.org. I’ve also been involved in a very involved internal comments-or-not debate for a high profile and widely read international political site recently. Professionally at Foliovision, we develop what is the most powerful freestanding (software, not a service) comment moderation software, Thoughtful Comments1. Commenting has been on my mind would be an understatement.

MoonOfAlabama is not the only anti-Empire alternative media site who suffers from comment issues. Here’s a short list of some sites with whose comment sections I’m very familiar.

RT.com

RT.com wants instant comments but suffers from spot.im’s poor resource management to achieve that goal.

Continue reading The Trouble with Comments (on alternative media) at uncoy.