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The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road leading to a new multipolar reality.

Reality struck deep at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, with its astonishing breadth and scope, reflected in the official declaration and key facts such as Russia writing off no less than $23 billion in African debt, and President Putin calling for Africa to enter the G20 and the UNSC (“It’s time to correct this historical injustice.”)

Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.

President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki: “They are printing money. They are not manufacturing anything at all, it’s printing money. This has been one of their weapons globally – the monetary system… sanctions here, sanctions there… We need a new financial architecture globally.”

President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, the face of a resurgent Global South and the world’s youngest leader: “A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity. The African Union (AU) must stop condemning Africans who decide to fight against their own puppet regimes of the West.”

President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni: “One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was Africa being confined to producing only raw materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals (…) This issue is the biggest factor why the African economies are stunted; they do not grow, because all the value is taken by other people (…) So, what I want to propose to Russia and China is to discourage as a policy the importing of raw materials from Africa, to instead work with the Africans to add value at source.”

In a nutshell: pan-Africa should go all-out creating their own brands and value-added products, without waiting for “approval” from the West.

The South African drama

South Africa is an immensely complex case. Under extreme pressure from the usual suspects, Pretoria had already succumbed to the collective West hysteria related to Putin’s attendance of the upcoming BRICS summit, settling for the physical presence of Foreign Minister Lavrov and Putin via videoconference.

Then, during a personal meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg, President Cyril Ramaphosa decided to speak in the name of all African leaders, thanking Russia for the offer of free grain, but stressing they had not come to “receive gifts; Africa proposes the return of the grain deal.”

Translation: this is not about free grain offered for several African nations; this is about Pretoria wanting to cash in on the deal, which privileges globalist oligarchs and their Kiev vassal.

Now compare it with the Russian position. Putin once again made it very clear: fulfill our demands and we return to the grain deal. Meanwhile, Russia remains a leader in wheat production – as it was before; and while prices keep rising on global markets, Moscow will share the income with the poorest African nations.

Tensions inside BRICS, as illustrated in this case, are painfully real, and come from the weakest nodes. For all the devious rhetoric, the fact is India and Brazil prefer BRICS+ to proceed slowly, as sherpas confirm off the record.

Among the over 40 nations – and counting – which are dying to become part of the club, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are very well positioned to be accepted in the first tier of BRICS+ members, unlike Argentina (which basically paid an IMF loan so it can continue to be paying IMF loans).

Reality is dictating the slow approach. Brasilia – under extreme pressure from the “Biden combo” – has a minimalistic margin of maneuver. And New Delhi is proposing first an “observer” status for prospective members, before full admission. Very much like in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), whose recent summit was decided by New Delhi to be held online. For a very simple reason: India did not want to sit on the same table with China.

What’s worrying is that the practical, gargantuan work schedule for both BRICS and the SCO is being slowed down by a toxic mix of internal squabbles and foreign interference. Yet the Russia-China strategic partnership must have anticipated it – and there are contingencies in place.

Essentially, broader discussions are accelerated while minor partners get their act together (or not…) What’s clear is that, for instance, Indonesia, Iran and Saudi Arabia possibly being admitted to BRICS+ will immediately change the internal balance of power, and the weak links will necessarily have to catch up.

EAEU to the rescue

St. Petersburg also demonstrated something crucial in the evolving multilateral organization front: the renewed importance of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). The EAEU is fast expanding beyond Central Asia towards Southeast Asia (a free trade agreement with Indonesia is imminent), Africa and crucially, the DPRK: that was discussed in detail during Defense Minister Shoigu’s rock star welcome in Pyongyang.

All that spells out a road map like this: the EAEU in the vanguard, in parallel to China’s BRI (crucial forum coming up in Beijing in October) until BRICS+ and SCO gridlock is solved.

Only one BRICS member without which is impossible to build Eurasia integration has serious problems with China: India (and that includes rivalry for influence in Africa, West Asia and Central Asia).

Simultaneously, there’s only one BRICS member capable of influencing India: Russia.

Now that’s a challenge for the ages. Yet Moscow does have the potential – and the competence – for regulating the whole new, emerging system of international relations. The timing for implementing what will be in fact a new world system is now, and immediately ahead: from 2025 to 2030.

ORDER IT NOW

So Russia-India relations will arguably become the key to fully unlock BRICS+. Issues will include an iron-clad Russian oil road to India via Rosneft; solving the Afghanistan riddle (with Moscow keeping Beijing and New Delhi in sync); a more muscular presence within the SCO; closer security deliberations among the three Ministries of Defense; including Chinese and Indian observers in the Russia-Africa process; and all of the above micro-managed by Putin himself.

If China-India competition is already a big deal, we should expect it to become even more complex after 2030. So here’s Russia facing yet another primordial historical/cultural mission. This goes way beyond the Himalayas. It spans the full arc of China-India competition.

And don’t forget to call the Steel Kitten

It’s always immensely enlightening to follow BRICS-related analyses by Sergey Glazyev, the Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics at the EAEU’s Economic Commission.

Glazyev, in two major interviews, has confirmed that a “sanction-proof” BRICS digital unit of account is under discussion, based not only on BRICS national currencies but also a basket of commodities.

He also confirmed that “we” are working to establish an internal BRICS group to design and establish the new system (by the way, these discussions within the EAEU are way more advanced).

According to Glazyev, a payments system outside of SWIFT can be set up through a network of state-run digital currencies – not to be confused with cryptocurrencies backed only by private speculators.

Glazyev also forcefully defends the adoption of the digital ruble. He argues that’s the way to track blockchain transactions and prevent non-intended use of funds – as in diversion into speculative markets.

Apart from all the huge challenges, the optimal path ahead spells out EAEU and BRICS+ observing international law and slowly but surely building the payments system capable of circumventing massive imperial choke points. A new BRICS currency can wait. What matters is the evolution of so many interconnections as the new system’s infrastructure is being built.

And that brings us once again to North Korea.

The Shoigu visit de facto cleared the path for the DPRK to totally align with the Russia-China strategic partnership in the massive Eurasian integration/development/mutual security process.

Oh, the ironies of “post-everything” History. The Hegemon may have actually been trapped into destroying NATO as a credible military force just as Russia-China reinvigorated a major ally in Northeast Asia and the Far East – complete with nuclear power, ballistic missiles, and a hyper-productive industrial military complex.

So the Straussian neocon psychos want to expand their unwinnable Forever War to rabid hyena Poland and the Baltic chihuahuas? As in first we go to Moscow, then we take Beijing? Be our guest. But first be sure to place a call to Global South powerhouse DPRK. Steel Kitten Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, will be delighted.

(Republished from Strategic Culture Foundation by permission of author or representative)
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  1. The cowardice of the RSA govt shows it to still be a lapdog despite rhetoric.

    Blowhard politically-correct marxist waffle w corruption/obedience to Sq Mile.

    Has to be questions over BRICS w those clowns.
    They are for sale to the highest bidder.

    “A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity.” (Traoure)
    Right.
    Not just Africa either.

    •�Agree: Ernesto Che
  2. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    My home computer’s ISP unconstitutionally blocks certain websites and I can not afford the lawyers it would take to sue in federal court!! I came across this article today and I am passing in on to Mr. UNZ’s readers. The first paragraph reads:

    There have been little to no at least somewhat objective assessments of Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, primarily due to the fact that our newsfeeds are being flooded with an ocean of ludicrous propaganda that only aims to portray Moscow’s forces as supposedly “weak and ineffective”. Everyone from tabloids and YouTube “experts” to reputable (or rather once reputable) media keep parroting the same narrative – “Russia is losing“. However, is that the case? Here are seven reasons why that’s not only patently false, but quite the opposite, it couldn’t possibly be further from true.

    Seven reasons why Russia dominates in Ukraine By Drago Bosnic

    https://alethonews.com/2023/07/31/seven-reasons-why-russia-dominates-in-ukraine/

    •�LOL: meamjojo
    •�Replies: @RoatanBill
    , @YetAnotherAnon
  3. SteveK9 says:

    President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni: “One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was Africa being confined to producing only raw materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals (…) This issue is the biggest factor why the African economies are stunted; they do not grow, because all the value is taken by other people (…) So, what I want to propose to Russia and China is to discourage as a policy the importing of raw materials from Africa, to instead work with the Africans to add value at source.”

    Without colonialism they would have continued to produce … nothing.

    to instead work with the Africans to add value at source.”

    As usual, develop our country for us, as we have no hope of doing it ourselves.

    •�Agree: Charles
  4. Chris Moore says: •�Website

    The problem with Pepe’s dreamy schemes is that they don’t address the elephant — or, rather, Serpent — in the living room.

    Taking the high road, Pepe states: “The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road leading to a new multipolar reality.”

    This is the same mistake Jesus Christ made prior to crucifixion: underestimating how psychotic, ruthless, unhinged and mentally unstable the Talmudists (“Straussian neocon psychos’ in Pepe’s framework) really were.

    By the time he realized his mistake, he was dying on the cross, wailing “Why hast though forsaken me!?!” to Yahweh. He didn’t see, even then, that he had to become “Yahweh” in order to supplant and displace Yahweh’s evil wing.

    Similarly, Moses didn’t execute ALL the Hebrew golden calf parasites, but just a handful, mistakenly leaving the others alive to ultimately instigate the execution Jesus in an act of seething malice, envy and revenge.

    So the “Straussian neocon psychos” must ALL be brought to justice for 9/11 treason and “War on Terror and Islamofascism” crimes against humanity, and now Covid crimes against the humanity, and Ukraine war crimes against humanity…

    Do you see how allowing these serial killers to continually get away with murder only encourages them?

    Pepe doesn’t even want to do that. Apparently Putin doesn’t want to do that, either.

    You’ve got to follow the logic of Christian Logos all the way throught, not just take some half-assed measures with a lot of fantasies about how leaving the Serpent alive to slither in and poison the goyim and the rubes and the weak, desperate, insecure or easily co-0pted evil bad seed confederates is going to work out in the end. Let’s stop pretending We can all get along.

    To quote Sylvester Stalone in Rambo: “Nothing is over! Nothing!”

    Video Link

    There will be no “Great Reset” until there’s 9/11 justice and other forms accountability doled out to the “Straussian neocon psychos.” You can’t just keep sweeping their epic crimes under the rug forever.

    •�Agree: Haxo Angmark
    •�Replies: @Theosis
  5. Notsofast says:

    Oh, the ironies of “post-everything” History. The Hegemon may have actually been trapped into destroying NATO as a credible military force just as Russia-China reinvigorated a major ally in Northeast Asia and the Far East – complete with nuclear power, ballistic missiles, and a hyper-productive industrial military complex.

    and delicious irony at that, the steel jaws of a bear trap, of his own construction, clamped down on the now doomed hegemon. this the moment the world has been waiting for, like munchkins celebrating the death of the wicked witch, the little nations of the world rejoice, ding, dong, the witch is dead, come out, come out, where every you are….glinda, our dear mother russia, calls out to you.

    don’t fuck with mother nature, don’t fuck with mother russia, all motherfuckers will be brought down one way or another.

  6. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    I hope and pray humanity follows the win-win road of China and Russia and avoids World War III!!

    •�Agree: FTB
    •�Replies: @meamjojo
  7. meamjojo says:
    @cousin lucky

    I hope and pray someone drops a nuke on your head.

    •�Troll: YetAnotherAnon
    •�Replies: @JR Foley
  8. @Arthur MacBride

    All black movements around the globe are dependent upon Anglo-Zionist backing, both economic and, more importantly, intellectual and spiritual. When WASps realized that playing top the humble, downtrodden Negro made a ready excuse to wage relentless culture war against all other whites, they hit their biggest jackpot. Those WASPm elites began learning that lesson in the early 19th century. s the Nation of Islam, making others, knows and discusses, Jews too another 2 or 3 decades to catch up to the WASP Elites in that regard.

    So the Russians and Chinese should always expect any blacks, whenever they are in the world, to sell out to Anglo-Zionism. That is now hard-wired, even in many non-Bantu Negroes.

  9. as soon as Haxo noticed that the “S” in BRICS

    was nigger-comunist ruled SA,

    he knew the whole thing was a mare’s nest.

    the only reality element is the (nominal)

    Russia-China military alliance. Which has yet 2B

    violently tested.

  10. The Anglo-American empire has attempted to destroy Russia since 1917, and accelerated this effort in 2015 after Russia stalled the Greater Israel project.


    Video Link

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Chris Moore
  11. JR Foley says:
    @meamjojo

    Restoring America’s Global Standing

    President Biden will take steps to restore America’s standing in the world, strengthening the U.S. national security workforce, rebuilding democratic alliances across the globe, championing America’s values and human rights, and equipping the American middle class to succeed in a global economy.
    ————————

    Nothing succeeds like success !!!

    Funeral services for 1 US General and 4 Australian Military trainers in Ukraine— ADIOS–and say Hi to Satan !!

  12. Wokechoke says:
    @Carlton Meyer

    The details on the Chechen separatists is key to a lot of US policy on Russia. Maybe John Johnson ought to own up. The US was bombing Moscow apartments back in the 1990s via a Muslim proxy.

  13. Wokechoke says:
    @SteveK9

    If blacks could make marvelous gadgets and harmonious societies no one would have much of an issue with blacks.

    •�Replies: @Ernesto Che
  14. Wokechoke says:

    Video Link

    First we take Ulster then we take North America…then Crimea and blame Westminster. This is a strange but interesting episode in the colonization of Ulster by the slick James Hamilton.

  15. Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.

    That’s a laugh. Putin started several neo-colonial wars. Chechnya, Georgia, and now Ukraine. Putin is simply trying to buy some good will so he can try to keep his war against Ukraine going.

    •�Disagree: FTB
  16. Charles says:
    @SteveK9

    I enjoy Escobar’s writing, and I understand he has a pro-BRICs and pro-Russia point of view. Nevertheless, it is disingenuous to claim that Russia is involving itself in Africa for any other reason than Putin believes that Russia will gain – materially, economically, or whatever the reason may be.

    Right here at TUR, in the “controversial” HTMLs, is a book by the late Richard Fuerle entitled Erectus Walks Amongst Us. Fuerle quotes other sources who point out that, before the arrival of Europeans, sub-Saharan Africans did not cultivate food plants, domesticate animals, or build with brick or stone. Those Africans also had no alphabetic writing, no calendar, no means of keeping time, and did not possess the wheel – the WHEEL, for goodness sakes.

  17. Chris Moore says: •�Website
    @Carlton Meyer

    The Anglo-American empire has attempted to destroy Russia since 1917, and accelerated this effort in 2015 after Russia stalled the Greater Israel project.

    Yes, if you include the “Jewish Bolshevik”/ Zionist fifth column as part of those attempts.

    What is your position on the “Jewish” nation’s fifth columns around the globe? Are they the Chosen-Elect, “historically ordained” supremacists they claim to be, or are they actually Satanic/sociopath “ordained” serial killers who need to be brought to justice along with their partners in crime for their epic treason and crimes against humanity?

    Let’s just say we start with 9/11 justice. Trials and mass incarceration? Or hemming, hawing and hand-wringing, shifting most of the blame to other nations?

    Why do you call it an “Anglo-Amercan” war instead of an Anglo-Zionist war? Are “Anglos” hot and heavy to overthrow the Constitution in favor of the Israeli model of a no Constitution, Zionist supremacist state, or is it Anglo-Zionist sociopaths/satanists and organized criminals, and their evil confederates?

    •�Thanks: annacat
  18. anonymous[244] •�Disclaimer says:

    Damn clever title by Pepe Escobar for this article

    First We Go for Moscow, Then We Take Beijing

    with its homage to the great song of Leonard Cohen, ‘First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin’, a resiliently powerful tune in versions by multiple artists

    The song’s lyrics – a dialogue between a vengeful terrorist and his girlfriend – are a profound window into the mind of someone plotting civilian terror attacks. Especially poignant when the woman’s voice reminds the plotter that ‘I was one of those’ like the civilians who will be maimed and killed.

    Here’s the remarkable version Leonard Cohen did on German television in 1988


    Video Link

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  19. Darabi says:

    [[and President Putin calling for Africa to enter the G20 and the UNSC (“It’s time to correct this historical injustice.”]]

    Why this zionist stooge, Putin, does not want the Islamic world have a seat at the UNSC?

    Why this zionist servant does not go after Jewish mafia illegal nuclear weapons, but continue to be in bed with baby killer Netanyahu, supporting the Western criminal project, erection of the apartheid entity in the middle east to rob the people? Russia is as criminal as Britain and the US. Putin is trying to occupy the position of the criminal states such as US NOT to help humanity.

    •�Troll: Ann Nonny Mouse
  20. @cousin lucky

    An ISP can block a site by denying all traffic to and / or from it by firewall rules or by not allowing DNS name resolution to find the site.

    Using a VPN service can redirect traffic around the firewall restriction and many to most are free at least for a trial period. The VPN computers eventually get known and ISP’s will restrict access to the VPN’s also but the VPN companies are aware of this and they take countermeasures. For any given VPN service, they usually offer numerous computers to select from for a connection, so trying the various offerings may find one that works for you. Although connecting to a US computer will provide the fastest connection, they are also the ones anyone that wants to block them will concentrate on. Try a server in some foreign country as its less likely to be blocked.

    The DNS denial can be tested by using a different DNS provider. If you’re using the ISP’s suggested DNS servers, try some different ones. Google’s servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 appear to be open to all requests and searching for open DNS providers will find others.

    If you were on Linux, I could give you detailed instructions for testing to see what’s going on, but not for Windows or Apple.

    •�Replies: @cousin lucky
  21. I see Italy have dropped out of Belt and Road.

    Quite funny that the ‘fascist’ leader Georgia Meloni is the first to crumble. But I guess she has to look after Italy first and foremost. I wonder what the US threats were?

  22. @cousin lucky

    “My home computer’s ISP unconstitutionally blocks certain websites”

    In the UK, mine legally blocks certain websites, like Russia Today and Sputnik, plus sports streaming sites.

    The Brave browser, started by American hero Brendan Eich, is not only low on adverts but has a “private window with Tor” option which allows me to see otherwise unavailable websites. Recommended.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

  23. Russia is going to conquer Ukraine in total for the following reasons:

    1) to have direct borders with Nato territory so that Nato can not start another proxy war

    2) to take full control of the agricultural potential of Ukraine. This is important in the relation with China and India too. Russia has then the possibility to become the biggest surplus producer of basic food in the world. To stop food supply when it was most needed was always the sharpest sword of the Five Eyes countries towards China and India as well as other countries such as Iran for example.

    3) the goal of China and Russia as well as India and many other Eurasian countries is the construction of a stable infrastructure for the movement of goods. In other words, to build an Autobahn as well as modern railways from Germany to Peking with connections to India, Pakistan etc.. A hostile Ukraine would always hinder the development of these and other similar projects. Thus the old strategy of England to control the mayor waterways of the world would become meaningless over time.

    4) By establishing a giant Nato-free zone between China and Western Europe but also between Russia and the Persian Gulf (with the potential to include Turkey, Syria, Egypt and even Saudi Arabia on the long run) plus India a giant new economic zone is arising. This new economic zone is going to attract even regions and countries which are till now under tight control of Nato, not to mention semi independent countries.

    So this is really the Great Game now for Eurasia and unfortunately Ukraine is the battlefield. Thats why Nato is repeating over and over right from the beginning of the Russian intervention that they will do their upmost to hold Ukraine and to stop Russia from winning.
    This all was possible because Ukraine leaders since 2014 have shown that they are willing to sacrifice their people for their economic gain and the gain of power of the elite in the US/UK. One can only prey that it is soon over, that the poor soldiers on both sides can go home to their families, if there is still a family left for them in Ukraine.
    Everything is very, very sad but it looks like the geopolitical situation has made this war unavoidable. Hopefully future generations of Europeans, Asians, Arabs and Africans can build a better world and that the catastrophe in Ukraine is really the last big war of mankind. I’m optimistic but this is not helping now the pure boys and men lying in the trenches in the blood soaked Ukrainian soil. It just has to stop now!!!!

    •�Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
  24. Theosis says:
    @Chris Moore

    What you don’t understand about Christ and his work here is a lot.

  25. This guy has an interesting theory about Poland. Basically, he says that America will use Poland as a base of terror operations in the European theater – same playbook as has been used in various ME countries. Doesn’t sound implausible to me.

    9 minutes:


    Video Link

    •�Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Wokechoke
  26. @Bernhard-Otto

    “It just has to stop now!!!!”

    While I’d love a peace deal, can’t see it happening unless/until Ukrainian troops start surrendering en masse.

    You have to remember that from an American perspective (and theyare funding and sustaining the war) the war is going pretty well. Russia has been sundered from the EU, Germany’s Russian energy supplies have sustained major damage, and the US is selling as much high-priced LPG to Europe as it can compress. OK, so a load of Ukrainians are dying, but think of the serious economic damage to Russia, as well as all the Russian young men killed!

    This seems to be changing – now, the NYT thinks the Russian economy might be overheating.

    https://archive.is/VTAzt

    The concern is that the government is pumping money into the economy too quickly. As Russia’s invasion has descended into a war of attrition, Mr. Putin has poured the country’s sizable financial reserves into expanding military production, while also showering poorer Russians with higher pensions, salaries and benefits like subsidized mortgages.

    “Everyone keeps buying at these subsidized rates,” said Ms. Gromova, 44, who recently finished paying off one of her five existing mortgages. “And who is paying for it? The state.”

    The result has been a spike in demand for everything from beach holidays to tank chassis — all of which is fueling inflation. In an effort to prevent the economy from overheating, the central bank in July raised rates more than expected.

    The bank expects the Russian economy to grow up to 2.5 percent this year, a faster than normal pace that would allow it to recover practically all economic activity that has wiped out since the start of the war. Unemployment is near a record low and real wages have been growing steadily this year, as state factories and private companies compete for scarce labor.

    Russian industrial executives have been boasting to Mr. Putin in public that their plants are raising output to levels last seen in the Soviet era and working around the clock in three shifts to meet the military demand. In St. Petersburg, local textile workshops say they are struggling to find qualified workers and materials to meet a deluge of orders for military uniforms, while in the industrial region of Sverdlovsk, a local tank factory recently has had to contract hundreds of inmates from local prisons to try to meet its targets.

    Hate to say it, but I can see this going on a while yet. NATO have their new sea drone toys, and every week or so they make another attempt on the Black Sea Fleet. While there’s the chance of a propaganda coup NATO are likely to keep going, even unto the last Ukrainian.

    •�Replies: @JR Foley
  27. @SteveK9

    Wrong, that is not what that quote means. Read it again.
    Furthermore, the Africans know full well Russia will not go down that path, so there is a fundamental aspect you have not understood.

  28. @Wokechoke

    Oh yes they would, people like you always do 😉

    •�Replies: @Wokechoke
  29. Notsofast says:
    @Thomas Faber

    operation gladio never ended.

  30. cousin lucky says: •�Website
    @RoatanBill

    Thank You!! I have an old computer that I use Linux Mint on. My ISP is a monopoly run by O.C. they steal peoples money from their bank accounts and nobody ever goes to jail. My landlord is also O.C. as is most of the government here!! All Russian websites are blocked and a lot of American ones too. Even some American newspaper websites are blocked.

    If I hit a lottery number I will be able to afford a new Linux computer and the stuff needed to protect it. I am almost 80 and I will not be around much longer!!

    •�Replies: @RoatanBill
  31. Wokechoke says:
    @anonymous

    I’ve always thought of this song as the Ur Jewish mentality.

    First we establish ourselves among the bumbling Yankees then we come back to Europe to control the Germans we don’t kill.

  32. Wokechoke says:
    @Thomas Faber

    Jews pretending to be Ukies pretending to be Polish passport holders.

    See Annie Appelbaum.

  33. @cousin lucky

    What’s an O.C. ?

    Linux will run on just about any old hardware so I doubt you need a new machine just for typical web browsing, word processing, spreadsheet and the other mundane things people usually use. Only if you run high resolution games, or anything that wants a powerful video processor would you need a more powerful box.

    Although I prefer the command line for debugging and snooping, I’ll attempt to use GUI apps I believe will be resident on your box because most of the high powered command line tools require purposeful install.

    Making any changes can be dangerous. What I’ll suggest can usually be backed out if you take the appropriate notes of what’s there now. If you were to supply your email address, I’d be happy to do this outside the UNZ ecosystem.

    Assuming you run the Gnome desktop of a recent vintage Mint distro, you can run the settings app to bring up all the main characteristics of the operating system. The About section will give you an overview of your hardware, operating system version, memory, etc. It would be good to know what’s available.

    For the easiest quick DNS fix, assuming its DNS manipulations preventing you from browsing, you can try the following:
    Bring up a Terminal either by clicking on the appropriate icon or the three finger simultaneous ctrl, alt, T.

    Key in :
    ping 8.8.8.8
    and hit enter.
    If you see something like (forget about the statistics):
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=38.6 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=36.6 ms
    64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=38.7 ms



    That’s good. Proceed with the next paragraph.
    If you get : Destination Host Unreachable messages, then Googles DNS servers are blocked and we would have to find other servers that aren’t blocked. Skip the next paragraph and read up on VPN’s.
    BTW – ping will run forever till killed. Just close down the Terminal app. The ping utility won’t mind.

    If you’re wireless, the Wi-Fi section will provide connection information. If wired, it’s the Network section. If you drill down into the appropriate section, you can see more detail. You may see a gear icon that allows for interrogation and change. Look for the usually two DNS entries. Write down what’s there now, and replace them with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which are Google’s wide open DNS servers. Any changes made are kept as you back out of however deep you drilled down. Shutdown the box and restart it for the test to see if you can now see new sites. If not, put back the old settings, back out, shut down and restart. You should be back as usual.

    VPN section.
    If the ISP is firewalling traffic or the gov’t is firewalling all traffic to all the ISP’s, then your only option is a VPN. Here the age of the operating system becomes a more critical element. Current software doesn’t particularly like working on an antique operating system. The hardware is usually OK, but the apps want a software environment they were written for. The VPN vendors many times have versions of their products that were current for older operating systems and if you want to try the VPN route, you should pick a version of a vendors product that says it is compatible with your version of Mint. Many vendors will automatically interrogate your system and determine if they can successfully install their app and quietly pick their correct version. Others will rely on you to pick a version from a list. It’s vendor specific.

    You may want to ask your neighbors about which VPN’s work successfully in your area to get a head start on what to try. Most are free, point and click simple to install, plus a shutdown and restart to see the results. The one from Proton Mail is quite popular.

    Mint is more of an experimenters operating system, as are most Linux distros. Ubuntu offers their LTS versions that are very conservative and designed to be supported for years.

    If all else fails, due to old operating system, whatever, I would be willing to walk you through a complete install from scratch of the LTS version of Ubuntu that provides bulletproof support for up to 5 years with fixes and newer versions of applications software available several times a month, but that would need to be done via email and / or voice communications. You would also need an alternate communications device like a smartphone for email or voice while your box is undergoing install.

    •�Replies: @cousin lucky
  34. Maybe the reason USAins are so willing to hustle themselves and those around them is because we fully internalize the logic of scams as being intrinsic to our national identity:
    -the student loans USAins took out only to have the double in size while making consistent monthly payments…was a scam
    -the degree they got with those loans for a job that doesn’t exist…was a scam
    – the private health insurance they pay massively for that doesn’t cover our medical bills if we do get in an accident.., was a scam
    – the ‘moral imperative’ to never stop voting in their rigged elections that have been almost entirely predetermined through non-democratic means… was a scam
    -huge taxes they pay for roads and bridges (we thought) but the majority of that money goes to maintaining America’s military-war mongering (54%) as a global police force… was a scam. and on and on and on”….

  35. cousin lucky says: •�Website
    @RoatanBill

    I really do appreciate your concern but I am no match for the people that I am up against! They destroyed my video card as well as blocking me from accessing my other partition. They froze up and destroyed my other computer! OC is organized crime!! I can not look at my email in my home computer; I had to remove abiword because they messed it up. my files have been locked up and destroyed. Trying to print anything takes many attempts. I am sure they have installed malware to destroy this computer if they lose control over it. I am just going to leave it alone!! Sorry!!

  36. anon[474] •�Disclaimer says:

    Africa is a sinkhole, a sure money loser. All these people know how to do is consume not produce. Both China and Russia would be wise to steer clear. Let the West keep plowing their billions in aid to that forever dark continent because of their stupid white guilt.

  37. Wokechoke says:
    @Ernesto Che

    Racism is learned from people experiencing blacks: “Holy shit these people are actually fucking dangerous/useless/liabilities afterall.”

    •�Replies: @Ernesto Che
  38. @Arthur MacBride

    The ANC sold out South Africa to the neo-liberals under ‘Saint’ Mandela. It’s gotten worse since.

  39. On to China?

    Why?

    Xi, the Oriental despot dictator, has eliminated any and all opposition. No one dares to give him any bad news about anything nor give him any sound advice.

    China will implode all by itself. No need to go there at all. Just watch the place go in the toilet,

    •�Replies: @Rob88
    , @mulga mumblebrain
  40. Rob88 says:

    If India insists on joining the QUAD, which includes the US, Japan and Australia, to contain China how could it justify being a member of the SCO and BRICS?

    •�Agree: Showmethereal
  41. Rob88 says:
    @John Galt III

    But how could President Xi be characterized as a despot dictator when he garners a 93% approval rating from the people of China and when China lifted more than 800 million people out of abject poverty? Compared to Xi, Biden only managed to get 40% approval rating from the American people.

  42. @Rob88

    He can thus be characterised because the West is a sewer of race hatred and malignant envy of China, and the Western MSM vermin, who give child-killers comparative good repute, will peddle ANY lie that defames China, and do so, day after day, with NO positive stories allowed.

  43. @John Galt III

    ANOTHER pig ignorant, malicious, racist moron. Homo westernensis, at the end of its tether. Cretinous monicker, too.

  44. @Rob88

    Well, Rob, Stalin had a 99% approval rating and in USSR elections he got 99% of the vote. He also got rid of his opposition. He was still a despot, amigo.

    Xi didn’t lift anyone out of abject poverty – Deng Xiaoping did by opening up China’s economy and proclaiming: “It is glorious to be rich.” Xi is doing the opposite with his command economy.

    You must be a GenX/public school type who thinks history started with you. History is not social studies. Read books instead of burning them.

    •�Troll: mulga mumblebrain
    •�Replies: @John Johnson
    , @JR Foley
  45. @John Galt III

    These people that defend totalitarian states are pathetic.

    Even if Russians or Chinese were allowed honest elections they would still be hopelessly indoctrinated by state media. US news media is garbage but we at least have two sides that debate. We can get on the internet and criticize the government which is not allowed in Russia or China. Just ask Igor Girkin who is currently sitting in a prison cell for criticizing his former pal.

    That was half the point of 1984. The state brainwashed everyone into believing whatever they told them. Now we have people in free countries defending 1984 style states. I doubt Orwell ever imagined we could have a left and right in the free world that cheers censorship and thought control in foreign nations.

    Xi didn’t lift anyone out of abject poverty – Deng Xiaoping did by opening up China’s economy and proclaiming: “It is glorious to be rich.” Xi is doing the opposite with his command economy.

    Taiwan somehow developed a higher standard of living and without needing to starve millions as part of Mao’s idiotic plans. That was after Communism failed in Europe.

    That is why they hate Taiwan. It’s a reminder that the Chinese revolution was never needed. They all bought into the crackpot plans of a single German-Jew and to this day don’t want to admit it was a failure. A German-Jew who spent more time shagging his maid than studying economics. Merely talking about Mao’s starvation disaster could get you a trip to re-education camp.

    •�Replies: @JR Foley
    , @Showmethereal
  46. JR Foley says:
    @YetAnotherAnon

    “August 4, Ukraine has lost more than 43,000 soldiers and over 4,900 units of various weaponry, including 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, including 25 German-made Leopard tanks, seven French-made AMX wheeled tanks and 21 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), since the beginning of Kiev’s counteroffensive–June 2023..

    Additionally, it has lost 747 field artillery guns and mortars, including 76 American M777 artillery systems, as well as 84 self-propelled artillery mounts from Poland, the US, France and Germany.
    This data is “pretty serious because it really shows a high attrition rate, that the Ukrainians are just chewing through their equipment and given the tactics that they’re employing, you can well understand why a lot of that equipment has become sitting ducks,”
    ==============================

    As Tonto would say “That plenty bad, Ke-Mo Sah-Bee !!!! Big training from 2014–now nuttin’ !!”
    ( Is it true the Lone Ranger was Black–???)

  47. JR Foley says:
    @John Galt III

    Xiaoping died 1996 –much transpired in China since his passing –China 1996 was still far underdeveloped.

    •�Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  48. JR Foley says:
    @John Johnson

    And YOU are not indoctrinated? How many languages do you speak and where have you traveled outside USA and for how long?

    USA is like Pro Wrestling –both PARTIES are tied at the hip and the JEW backroom runs the show.

    Take September 10, 2001—it was Undertaker and Diesel tangling against The Towers of Doom and they indeed fell that night and again the next day in the Big Apple –Firechief pulled Building 7 but the others were not imploded??

    It was there 16 hours before the REAL event BUT was not referenced by MSM –Fact.

    If you believe in a non rigged USA government –best to understand Pro Wrestling–it is ALL staged and the stupid American dimwit mainstreet suckers fall for this stooge production time after time

    Proof: US and NATO trained Ukrainian troops from 2014 –longtime to prepare–BIG Counteroffensive but since April Fool’s Day 2023 time after time after time after time after time —they advance into the foray against the Bear not having learned that doing so is folly.

    Losing 43,000 in 34 months is shameful BUT again –Zylenskyy and Biden are buddies —!!!

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
  49. @JR Foley

    And YOU are not indoctrinated? How many languages do you speak and where have you traveled outside USA and for how long?

    LOL you really haven’t traveled the world if you think that still means anything. As if it is the 1920s and you’re some explorer with a Pith helmet.

    Half the world’s major cities are setup for American tourists. Everyone in Europe speaks English. You can go to a French restaurant and order in English. It’s rude but Americans do it all the time. The waiters speak English and help Americans read the menu. Total cringe but they love American money. Germans and Australians are known to be cheap. Everyone loves and hates Americans at the same time. Americans can be naive but will order extra drinks and leave large tips.

    I speak more than one language but I don’t see the point of your remark. I’ve met plenty of people that spoke multiple languages and were completely indoctrinated. Most Russians speak at least two languages and the older generations especially are hopelessly indoctrinated. They can’t even explain why this stupid war exists:

    Video Link
    Proof: US and NATO trained Ukrainian troops from 2014 –longtime to prepare–BIG Counteroffensive but since April Fool’s Day 2023 time after time after time after time after time —they advance into the foray against the Bear not having learned that doing so is folly.

    What is the folly exactly? You do realize that the bear was pushed out of Kiev and only controls 60% of Donbas? Are you a believer in Putin’s 5d chess where he only makes it look like they are being pushed back?

  50. @Wokechoke

    Of course they are dangerous: they expose you for what you are, and it ain’t “purdy”.
    I’ll grant you one thing: they do it unintentionally, but people like you always flip out over it and go berserk.

  51. @John Johnson

    Completely nonsensical comment. The KMT who retreated to Taiwan was itself a revolutionary party. They took over China in 1911 by deposing the emperor clown. And Taiwan was rich because they took all the Chinese national reserves and many of its treasures to that relatively small island. And they lived on that island for almost 50 years under martial law. And the PRC loves Taiwan. That is why it is not destroyed. Everything you said was bogus nonsense.

    •�Replies: @Che Guava
  52. @JR Foley

    You do realise that Xiaoping were Deng’s given names. Why the undue familiarity?

  53. Che Guava says:
    @Showmethereal

    ‘Retreated to’ is not correct, ‘were transported as passengers with much cargo on U.S.N. ships and boats’ is. The KMT had no navy left at the time, a few boats, but the U.S.N. handled most.

    As I’ve said in an earlier comment, P.R.C. whines about ‘art theft’ by RoC, reality is, many works would have been destroyed in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and earlier campaigns, so RoC protected them.

    On reunifaction, P.R.C. owes a debt of gratitude to RoC.for the protection,

    It seems RoC also sold some solid works to jewish buyers, but not many.

    Nothing like the rape of Iraq, for example, where post-U.S. invasion a very organised trade to shift priceless relics into the hands of wealthy jews was set up.

  54. 4HONESTY.com says: •�Website
    @SteveK9

    4HONESTY.com

    rule
    Practice and demand FULL DISCLOSURE of all relevant information

    a) race realism: 70 IQ African Nations cannot develop nor maintain European or North East Asian productivity and prosperity, nor governance and legal structure, PLUS are intrinsically corrupt and cannot develop

    b) are you saying Western countries never forgave African debt? It is unenforceable

    c) are you saying China never gets countries into debt traps? Poor Africa ……….

    •�Troll: mulga mumblebrain
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