Dragging Some Stuff Out Of The Memory Hole

People are in an uproar because Trump threatened to go door to door, not specifying why.

"OMIGOD, fascism is coming soon!" they scream.

As if SWAT teams going door to door in New Orleans in 2005 was not?

What about Boston in 2013? Totally hunky dory?

Or what about Minneapolis 2020, brought to you by Tim Walz, same guy now waxing rebellious against governmental overreach?

So using ICE agents to rid this country of illegal aliens is wrong, but using the National Guard to force people into their homes is fine?

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— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 10, 2026

Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.

Atrocity Producing Situations

The term “atrocity producing situation” came into usage during the Vietnam war, when the US government herded hundreds of thousands of teen-aged boys into boot camp, shaved their heads, taught them how to shoot, and then dropped them off in a foreign country where they didn’t speak the language, telling them “Your job is to kill commies. Any one of them could be commies, so kill them before they kill you.”

Atrocities ensued.

For 40 years, Americans have been subjected to open borders. Under the Biden regime, the program went on steroids, with an estimated 11,000,000 foreign people were brought into the US illegally, and tucked away by various governmental and NGO agencies.

Irate, Americans voted for Trump, who promised to send them back. But instead of asking the government agencies and NGOs where they were stashed,

Trump hired ten thousand new ICE agents, put them through training, handed them guns and badges, and sent them out on the streets to randomly search for illegal aliens, like some sort of Pokemon GO game, but with guns. The government which tells us that the US Navy has superpower equipment able to tell if random boats on the sea have drugs hidden in them, also tells us that they have no way of knowing where 11 million people here illegally were stashed.

Meanwhile, liberals in America have been taught for 15 years that they have a magical shield called “white privilege”, which protects them from the cops, who they are told are hunting down black and brown people daily.

A man who appeared to be a bully was given a badge and a gun by ICE, while a woman who appeared to think she was magically protected by her White Privilege cloak to be able to run over ICE agents, met in Minneapolis on Jan. 7th.

An atrocity ensued.

When US troops were pulled out of Vietnam, the atrocities ceased. It seems obvious that sending armed men to patrol US streets looking for people to snatch is another atrocity producing situation. Pull them off.

If the government agencies and the NGOs refuse to say what hotel, farm, or apartment building they have stowed people in, or what factory, slaughterhouse, or Amazon warehouse they were put to work in, put the DOGE boys on the case. There has to be a paperwork trail. That is where ICE should go, not random US streets.

The Destruction Of National Sovreignty In Favor Of Corporations

Remember the Battle For Seattle?

Flush with the success of NAFTA and CAFTA, which turned the riches of North and Central America over to rapacious corporations bent on digging out every last bit of wealth without worrying about sovereign nations stopping them with pesky laws and regulations, the US went for broke. The entire world was to be subject to the WTO.

In Seattle, the Teamsters and the Turtles combined to fight the meeting of the world's elite bent on destroying labor and the environment in their quest for more loot. And they won! Temporarily.

Undaunted, the rich and powerful met again in Cancun, where a South Korean farmer immolated himself in protest, and thwarted their evil plans once again.

But when Obama came in the 1% of the world had a worthy and determined campaigner. What Obama did was put speech controls on the negotiators, forbidding them from speaking and threatening them with severe consequences for telling the public just what was in the TPP they were negotiating.

And Obama, the Drone King, could make his threats scarily real.

We organized anyway, and we held it off long enough for Trump to be elected. On his first day in office, he tore up the TPP.

Yay!

But apparently the world's elite decided to switch their plans for power to the WHO instead of the WTO. At least, as near as I can tell.

But now the US has left the WHO also! Yay!.

That's a long way to talk about what is happening now.

The worst part of the WTO and TPP were the Investor-State Dispute Settlement agreements, where sovereign governments who responded to the concerns of their populations by putting limits on corporate ravages, could be sued by the corporations. And no national or international courts could be involved, just an arbitration panel appointed to make a judgement.

Laws? We don't need no stinking laws!

There are many outrageous cases where corporations sued for loss of potential profits due to laws protecting citizens or the environment, and won in the secret arbitration courts, forcing countries to pay millions to said corporations.

But now Russia is going to use the system to sue Euroclear for stealing their sovereign funds.

I am delighted. Hoist those greedy assholes on their own petard, I say.

As Yves Smith puts it:

"In any event, pass the popcorn. Things are about to get ugly. The long-standing erosion of national rights in favor of stateless investors is being turned against its neoliberal creators."

Explain It Like I Still Believe In NATO

Four years ago this month, Russia presented proposed treaties with the US and NATO that would provide mutual security to all countries in Europe. Russia pointed out that the NATO encroachments into eastern European countries was causing a security concern for them, and they proposed win/win agreements that would guarantee security for everyone.

The US and NATO responded by laughing at the proposals, promising nuclear weapons to Ukraine at the Feb. Munich meeting, and upping the attacks by the embedded Kiev regime troops on the people of the Donbass.

Russia responded with the SMO.

The Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda responded by calling the SMO "unprovoked", and the US and NATO countries openly supported the Kiev regime's war against the people of the Donbass and Russia. They promised endless supplies of weapons, ammo, ISR, and money as long as Zelensky promised endless supplies of Ukrainian men.

"Security" was rebranded to mean "security for the Ukraine" and NATO countries went wild signing "mutual security" treaties with Zelensky.

Alex Chistophorou pointed out today that Finland is the latest of NATO countries to renege on their "security guarantees" with the Ukraine.

Oops! Who knew this would happen once Kiev got down close to the Last Ukrainian?

Not Zelensky. He kept his part of the bargain, funneling endless men kidnapped off the streets of Ukraine, especially men from the ethnically Russian areas.

Plus, after about a year, he had to add endless mantras of "gratitude" to western countries for the money, although not one western countries has ever bothered to say "Thank you for the cannon fodder".

But, alas, it turns out that NATO is made up of lying, soulless, murderous, looting criminals, who will break treaties with their "allies" as easily as they break treaties with their adversaries.

And then call them ''corrupt'', to boot, because they took some of the booty that, face it, was mostly looted by the west.

Who knew? Well, I did. And let me give a heads-up to Russia.

See how the west treats their proxies? See the broken promises and the broken treaties and the looting and the back-stabbing?

Yeah, they ain't gonna treat you any better.

The Coming AI Bust

Capitalism has booms and busts. Always has, always will.

The FDR government responded to the 1929 crash with the New Deal, launching programs to employ citizens, building infrastructure, creating parks, building bridges, bringing electricity to rural areas, even cultural issues like hiring playwrights to write plays and actors to perform, sending orchestras to perform in rural areas, hiring photographers to document the Dust Bowl, and hiring historians to interview former slaves (which are on YT).

But it was WW2 that got the economy humming, so after the war the US switched to the permanent war economy, paying the war profiteers to make weapons. That worked for a while, but then it wore off, so they turned to destroying the New Deal laws that stopped banks from speculation, or as Marx called them, "credit swindles."

Uh, oh, that won't end well.

The 80s ended with the S&L bubble crash, now labeled a "scandal", since ruling class crimes are called scandals, not crimes. So they set up the Plunge Protection Team, which was designed to keep the economy humming by bailing out the rich, instead of employing the poor.

The 90s were helped by the looting of Russia, which put a lot of money into the US economy, and the rise in personal computer usage and the accompanying boom.

But the 2001 dot com bubble crash impoverished a lot of workers.

Never mind, it's on to the housing bubble! Pass out those NINJA loans, jack up those housing prices, illegally sell those mortgages all over the world. (I mentioned this in my show yesterday.)

The 2008 crash was a slap in the face to the working class. No, it was a punch in the jaw. The banks were bailed out and a million Americans were thrown from their homes.

Now the AI bubble is blowing up. The AI bros are already talking about their entitlement to a bail-out.

AI, which is used to spy on us, monitor our behavior, throw us out of work, and they have plans for even more destructive uses.

Not to mention the electricity and water usage.

What will Americans do when the government bails out the AI bros and puts their gambling debt onto the national debt?

Just sit back and take it? Or will that be the Last Straw?

I guess we'll see.

The Little Company That Could

Poor Moderna. It was a start-up company with billions in capital, but it couldn't make money, because it's star technology had a problem....

"Founded in 2012, Moderna reached unicorn status — a $1 billion valuation — in just two years, faster than Uber, Dropbox, and Lyft, according to CB Insights. The company’s premise: Using custom-built strands of messenger RNA, known as mRNA, it aims to turn the body’s cells into ad hoc drug factories, compelling them to produce the proteins needed to treat a wide variety of diseases. But mRNA is a tricky technology. Several major pharmaceutical companies have tried and abandoned the idea, struggling to get mRNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects."

They kept trying, like the little engine that could, focusing on one disease, but...

" It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project. Unable to press forward with that technology, Moderna has had to focus instead on developing a handful of vaccines, turning to a less lucrative field that might not justify the company’s nearly $5 billion valuation."

The reason they turned to vaccines is that vaccines are only given once, so the toxic effects don't add up the way that meds for chronic illnesses do. But vaccines aren't as profitable.

"The indefinite delay on the Crigler-Najjar project signals persistent and troubling safety concerns for any mRNA treatment that needs to be delivered in multiple doses, covering almost everything that isn’t a vaccine, former employees and collaborators said."

Oh dear, what was going to happen to poor Moderna!

"“[The technology] would have to be a miraculous, Hail Mary sort of save for them to get to where they need to be on their timelines,” one former employee said. “Either [Bancel] is extremely confident that it’s going to work, or he’s getting kind of jittery that with a lack of progress he needs to put something out there.....

In order to protect mRNA molecules from the body’s natural defenses, drug developers must wrap them in a protective casing. For Moderna, that meant putting its Crigler-Najjar therapy in nanoparticles made of lipids. And for its chemists, those nanoparticles created a daunting challenge: Dose too little, and you don’t get enough enzyme to affect the disease; dose too much, and the drug is too toxic for patients."

The Hail Mary wasn't coming through research and development. They needed something else, something hyped and mandated. Whatever could that be?

The CEO, Stéphane Bancel, thought it would come by 2017, but he had to wait another 4 years for the company-saving miracle to manifest.

“I’m sure that five years from now we’ll look at 2017 as the inflection point that Moderna went for a liftoff,"Bancel said. “We have a chance to transform medicine, and we won’t quit until we are done and we have impacted patients.”

And they did. They have impacted patients in ways the patients never expected, and no doubt would not have wanted, but the important thing is that those pesky safety signals are no longer a problem for profits.

Oh. They weren't. But now a new sheriff is in town. Uh, oh!

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

Put Up Or Shut Down

Wow. Trump has finally admitted that Operation Warp Speed, sold to him using his famous dislike for regulations, may not have been the great triumph Pfizer has been telling him it is.

Now he is demanding that Pfizer release the study results to the world!

This is big. Pfizer no longer has CDC and the FDA running cover for them, going to court to say that they can't release any research data for 75 years.

No wonder the media and their slurpers are going so nuts.

Actually "following the science", which involves doing studies, compiling data, and then releasing it publicly, is NOT what the drug companies like to do.

It interferes with profits. So they get their politicians and regulatory agencies and media to demand secrecy.

They demand non-accountability, which they got in 1986 and 2005, from Congress, and cover-ups, which they continuously receive from their bought-off employees in Congress and the media.

But now a new sheriff is in town, and the Mighty Wurlitzer is playing at a deafening pitch. If you listen with acumen, you can discern the panic.

They are counting on the slurpers to nod along without understanding, singing the tune by rote, and attacking those of us who are intelligent enough to learn from history not to believe the words of known liars.

There is a fight going on, a fight between the established Church Of Perpetual Ignorance, and the new Galileos, who prefer to live by reason and evidence. Just like before, the Church is all-powerful, and the reasonable are vulnerable to their vindictiveness.

Check out the barrage of vitriol directed at RFK, Jr., if you want a taste of the nasty attacks the new Church is capable of launching.

As we know, the propaganda machine of the Empire works far better than the military-industrial part or medical-industrial part.

The thing is though, both bloated behemoths have gotten complacent after years of taxpayers dishing out money without any accountability. Life is sweet when you're making 6 figures without producing a product that works, let along one that is safe to use.

And then some uppity lawyer comes along and threatens the gravy train?

The horror!