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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  • US House passes measure to force release of Epstein files in 427-1 vote

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  • I hate it when people bring politics into prosecution of heads of state

    Can't we treat this issue like an old non-political video game like Deus Ex?

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  • MORE

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    IMPERIALIST
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  • Yes, funny what doesn't get talked about in the corporate media hey.

    RWN is good. Mark and Gary John (I always forget which is John's old penname) have their blind spots but I think they've covered ukraine pretty well over the years. After the initial Russian invasion they were embarrassed to predict wrong, but despite that they've continued to discuss the war in an insightful way and often have good guests on, like the eventsinukraine guy Peter Korotaev, Ben Aris, and Anatol Lieven. Mark's direct experience in Russia/Ukraine and fluency in Russian is a real asset.

    Their US civil war series is very good too. Meandering but lots of interesting stuff. "They should have been hanged"

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  • In where are they now news, here's one on Canadian ukrainian nationalist, Chrystia freeland, who was dumped from her position as Canadian federal minister by PM Carney after her attempt at leadership of the ruling liberal party. Her disagreements with Carney seem part ideological, part personal. She seems much more dyed in the wool ukrainian nationalist while he's a bloodless finance type. She's also a notoriously arrogant girl boss, which seemed to suit Trudeau's woke-bae-with-a-majority style but not Carney's iron fisted minority, which in parliamentary terms can't abide dissent in the caucus.

    https://johnhelmer.net/fired-from-canadian-cabinet-chrystia-freeland-is-now-a-foreign-mercenary-on-the-ukraine-battlefield/

    Since Chrystia Freeland was dismissed from her Canadian Cabinet ministry on September 16, she has become the “Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.”

    Freeland has no staff for her post, no office, no budget, no travel expenses, and a pay cut of $79,700. The Privy Council Office, reporting to the House of Commons, says it has “searched its financial records and did not find any costs, start-up or otherwise, related to the role of the Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.”

    Helmer posits that her travel is being funded by Soros rather than the Canadian government, who has been an ally of hers through her career. Her main goal it seems is to lobby for seizure of Russian assets in EU. Should she succeed in that, she would be well positioned to help "administer" that flow of money once she is no longer a member of Canadian parliament.

    Not a bad exit plan for her. I bet her and Estonia's kallas get along famously.

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  • International Stabilisation Force (ISF)

    it's literally only 1 letter off from the military that's been genociding gaza

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  • Radio war nerd interviewed the guy behind the eventsinukraine substack for an in depth look at the recent corruption scandal in Ukraine with Mindich. They get right into the weeds here, spending time on the byzantine machinations of oligarchs and corruption in post-soviet/post-Maidan Ukraine. A lot of israeli connections in this one between Mindich and Kolomoysky, among others.

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  • I've listened to/read a couple good things by Greg Grandin on Venezuela recently:

    Chapo episode 985, an interview with Greg Grandin: in which Greg describes the history of the Monroe Doctrine, use of the war on drugs as cover for foreign/domestic intervention, and most interesting to me, situating Maduro as successor to Chavez's policies. He talks about material reasons for intervention in Venezuela (Chevron wants the oil) as well as the ideological reasons for neocons (stepping stone towards Cuba/Brazil, similar to the way toppling Iran is the long term goal in West Asia).

    this article by Grandin recapping recent American interference in Latin America under the last 50 or so years of presidents.

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  • NATO terrorists are leaving rolls of money stuffed with explosives around Moscow. One child hospitalized

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  • What the fuck

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  • It's not a central bank, so no. They could receive printed money though, and loads of nato spending comes from debt

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  • This was a good article, lots about how this sausages are made in EU defence spending. It doesn't seem like much ROI as a boost to the economy though, few jobs created.

    At best, the European defense spending strategy seems to offer a way to maintain stagnation, rather than achieve growth. But outside of economic concerns, it’s functioned as an ingenious political solution. Rather than dealing with the EU’s economic problems head-on, the Union’s governments have been able to launder a massive economic stimulus plan as a solution to a violent external threat. A courageous facade has been erected to cover clinical – and probably irresponsible – fiscal policy. Appealing to morality, ideology, and fear has been widely successful, and European populations have mostly accepted the messaging.

    Because of this, it’s highly unlikely that the EU will tolerate an early conclusion to the war in Ukraine. They stand to lose the justification for their spending, lucrative contracts for their defense sectors, tens of billions on loans that Ukraine will be unable to pay, and the massive investments they’ve made into military-industrial infrastructure. Their dream of a generational extractive project in the form of a debt-ridden, prostrate Ukraine, a place outside the EU but with every trade and economic agreement written solely to benefit it, stands at risk of being destroyed by a steadily advancing Russian army.

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  • This isn't analysis or anything, it's just "a stock had a bad day".

  • Average day in Imperial Asia

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  • Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo

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  • please report posts that don't include a non-paywalled link like archive.ph

  • [cw sexual assault] Democrat House Oversight Committee releases new Jeffrey Epstein Emails with explicit mentions of Donald Trump

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  • i'm tempted to flag this as an effort post of the week

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  • I listened to a professional seminar about battery materials earlier. The speaker was legit but for dox reasons I won't name them. Here is a roundup of their points:

    • While there are lots of battery formula and also lots of niche applications, lithium iron/manganese phosphate is the main battery technology to beat for either stationary batteries or EVs. android robots like that Unitree one will probably be higher density formula with lots of nickel.
    • No one outside of China is doing commercially useful work on batteries. Companies/researchers in the west are either too silo'd and aren't integrated with the big picture, or their value proposition is predicated on LFMP batteries being more expensive than they have proven to be
    • They expressed general concern about the ability of the US power grid to keep up with projections of datacenter build out, discussed renewables+batteries as the only power generation technology that could potentially meet demand. To them, nuclear is a waste of time owing to long permitting times/very high costs.
    • Western EPCM firms get an 'F-' grade from him for project delivery, often having price tags 5-7x more than advertised. This applies to Western implementation of Chinese technology too, so just importing Chinese technology/talent is a fix for this issue.
    • Recent total installed cost (not just cells) of a grid scale stationary storage battery by a Chinese firm operating in Saudi Arabia was ~$75/kWh. Even a year ago I saw estimates more like 2-4x that.
    • There are no rare earths/critical minerals in batteries, but lithium supply can be a bottleneck and should be considered a strategic mineral. There are plenty of rare earths used in other car parts, just not the batteries.
    • China EVs are great quality, with 1000+km range batteries that charge in minutes in nice cars widely available. If exposed to Chinese EVs via free trade, vehicle manufacturers in the rest of the world would be 'decimated'

    Some definite malding from the crowd about China being so obviously good and ahead of the pack compared to anywhere in the West, so that was fun too.

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  • Some more brilliant strategic thinking by the EU here, see point twenty regarding establishing closer official relations with Taiwan.

    When various EU thinkers have talked about europe needing strategic autonomy instead of just following the American lead, I doubt they meant independently following the most fervent American neocon fantasy as policy.

    This kind of thing where the US eggs on its vassals while having more conciliatory policies itself is interesting though and might be valuable for American interests. I'm not sure what the consequences would be if the loudest voices for war and interference are coming from the lapdogs instead of the master.

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  • I like that newsmega posters are doing teasers for effort posts. That's accountability