Debt Rattle December 21 2024
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René Magritte L’éternité 1935 • Shutdown Odds Tumble As House Passes Latest GOP Spending Package (ZH) • US Democrats Want Government Shutdown T
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 21 2024]Good Morning :-))
T-U-R-B-O ! ! !
“Michael was planning his wedding when he received a devastating diagnosis
The 27-year-old is one of a growing number of young Australians battling late-stage bowel cancer.”TVASSF
It’s here – the Solstice,
things will be getting brighter for a while until they aren’t.
All the best for the holiday season.There are many people for whom ‘thinking’ necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
Marshall McLuhanGervais
tell the joke from this perspective – God ends the joke
with a wry smile God said “I Was”
the survivor queried God, “am I responsible for the sins of my father?”
looking the survivor directly in the eyes God says ” How’s your memory? Do you remember this?
“For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love meI aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. – Upton Sinclair
Elon’s Grok AI is going to be unleashed on giant Legalize Sleaze® documents like the current 1500 page spending bill.
Grok can cut through the bullshit language of Obfuscation
Common folk with AI in their bag of tricks can wield the super power of a gifted legal mind to unravel sleazy slimy intentionally over complicated language meant to confuse for nefarious reasons.
I think Elon ran the 1500 page spend bill through Grok, hence the 160 page result.
In fact I predict AI’s in general can attrit any legal document down to plain understandable language, a miracle in itself.
Word Games
They’re gonna change with AI on the Beat.
i.e.
Magritte: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1120
But I am wondering if that’s bread, cheese, or butter. Review says it’s bread (!?) and a wooden Key (???).
“1 Dead in ‘Brutal’ Russian Missile Attack on Kyiv, US Ambassador Says” ABC News
Yeah, one person dead in a massive missile strike in a 3 year war. The very definition of “Brutal”. However will they survive? At that rate, Ukraine would be dead in 2 million years. ABC: “We Make S—t Up!”
“The Forgotten Story of America’s First Black Superstars: In the 1920s US, glamorous, funny black female singers were the blues’ first – and revolutionary hitmakers.” — BBC Culture
They were never allowed to prosper or be superstars. …Except when they were always allowed to be superstars. BothNeitherAi. P.S. Top Recording artist of the 1930s was Black and Gay. But never fear: we invented all this yesterday.
“US Reveals It Has More Than Twice As Many Troops In Syria Than Previously Disclosed
No. What?? The government lied???
Speaking of: “Syrian Leader With $10M Bounty On His Head Meets With Delegation From Country That Put The $10M Bounty On His Head
Did they collect the bounty? Why or why not? Would they turn Jolani in …to himself?
“The 1500 page spending bill that Congress tried to jam in yesterday just got hacked down to 116 pages.”
This is great. Why? Sound bite meme, “Oh so you CAN cut all these Cramnibus bills down to a normal, average level!” That’s what the American people learn. AND you can do it in 6 hours. “Oh! So you’re just CORRUPT then???” Yes. And no one can argue otherwise after.
See, — I — don’t need to know this. I already know. THEY don’t need to know this: they’re the ones doing the crimes. The American PEOPLE need to know this. That’s the point.
“we’re going to give very long severances. Like two years,”
I’m pretty salty about this. When they boot you out and say “Learn to Code” they didn’t give us s—t. Then the same people stole our houses. We’re being far too soft on them, are you sure there’s not more we can practically do? Can we arrest 100,000 of them for minor fraud and bribery or something? I’m sure it’s been committed. I much rather pay for all of them to be in prison for 2 years.
“They see how influential X is and are trying to sabotage it.”
Yeah, this is Bulls—t and WE are falling for it: WHO reversed the budget deal? As I said, they’ve never listened to us in their sorry lives. But Elon puts it on Twitter, then claims it’s grassroots. NOT that there isn’t a grassroots sentiment, but that’s a Con. Any pressure they got was not from us, because we always give the same pressure. So what actually changed? The Con.
“The strategy, however, collapsed during Biden’s June 27 debate with Donald Trump, which saw the former being unable to complete his thoughts.”
This is the same Con. This never happened. First, EVERYBODY knew Biden was this bad. Second, then WHY did they have him debate. Nobody “Found out during the debate”. That was the public release of “The Memo” to their idiotic, low-information base. Only them. All Republicans knew. All government knew. All business knew, all world knew. The Strategy didn’t “Collapse” it was methodically and consciously altered. Months back. Like long, long before Trump told you all on the golf cart, which was 2 months before the debate.
“In an explosive exposé, the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the mental decline of President Joe Biden was pronounced from the start of his term.”
The Wall Street Journal? Really? WSJ is REPORTING ON THEMSELVES. THEY are the ones who covered this up. THEY always knew, because THEY were right there. So the “People” they are criticizing is THEM. They’re acting like it’s the OTHER reporters, the Democrats, the White House Staff. No. YOU! You’re fired, never trust WSJ again.
…Which the rest of us already have, but WSJ can’t figure out why their readership is declining.
“Chris Cillizza apologizes for his coverage of Biden while at CNN: “As a reporter, I have a confession to make: I should have pushed harder earlier”
You’re kidding, right? That tells me YOU’RE NOT A REPORTER. Why? Because you’re soft as a willow: ANY pressure on you from ANYONE, White House, CNN, theoretical people out there who will dislike the truth as “Ageism”, — never even got the chance to say it — and you break in two. How do we know that? By your own admission, the second you were independent, you suddenly got (a teeny bit more) intestinal fortitude and reported (very slightly) more accurately. That means you bend in a rainfall. Reporters TELL THE TRUTH. They don’t bend and re-write reality when someone looks at them funny, you’re fired.
Because that’s a deep, core, foundational, psychological personality profile, it’s unlikely you can be cured of it in a single lifetime: therefore no one should ever trust you again. …And it wasn’t like being a REAL reporter anyway – no one threatened to fire you, kill you, etc. Jesus, what a p—y. I know 12-year-old girls stronger than this guy. Most of them, actually, it’s rough out here.
“..nominal growth is higher than the nominal deficit and the debt-to-GDP ratio is declining. That’s the key to sustainability.”
Yes. I’m sure this is “The Plan” but your plans are laughable. History of 4th Turnings shows that’s not what happens. I think Cullom is also wrong on this, as Mannarino, etc, they are too talking their past beliefs, too Black Pilled, but at the same time, review Cullom math of markets. (Go ahead and cross-check with everyone) The Dow is 90% overvalued. Maybe to FAIR value – they overshoot. Suppose you can get 1% gains on this Debt/Deficit problem: congratulations! we now have to dig with no profits (we are paying past debts) for 100 years. Suppose we to a herculean effort and DOUBLE our productivity, REAL productivity, with REAL goods, real sales, when 2/3 of the US economy is economic check-kiting right now. Congratulations, you now get nothing for only 50 years.
Sooo. The people are just going to put up with that? Okay, suppose you DO this, then the people IN the market go, “The Dow is going nowhere for 50-100 years, guaranteed. BUY! BUY! BUY!” Nope. They will front run the higher risk for ZERO return and SELL. Not that they’re mad at the market but if you get Zero in Exxon Stock, you can get 5% in an Exxon Bond. E.g. WHEN THEY START SELLING IT SELF-REINFORCES. Now people who might not care HAVE to sell.
All because the BELIEF that it can’t double every year – Nvidia, Tesla – is curtailed. What happens when we drop from the fantasy of 8% compounded (this has always been false) to 5% compounded was ALSO aspiring, and that 2% would be a miracle in the new norm? Yeah, right back to bonds again. Sell Sell Sell. 90%. Why? Because there’s nothing between that and “Fair Value”. Below Fair value is the only point at which it’s logical to buy.
Okay, now drape Trump’s “Plans” over that statue. What does it look like?
The problem is, Europe and WEF have put a Trillion dollar fake handicap on us with the EPA, etc, we probably have zero point energy and antigravity, (look at the drones) and also have a Gawar in ANWR or something, and I don’t know that anyone can calculate what that means. That’s changing the very nature of reality here.
Speaking of, all I hear is that the Drones are “Confusing” and the People are “Scared.” WTF are you talking about?? They’re the least confusing, least mysterious thing going on right now. And ‘ain’t nobody in NJ “Scared” of them, trust me. If they were even a teeny, slightly, bit scared, even any ONE of them, then off and on they’d blast them out of sky. And not for “Scared” but more for the lols and sheer sport. They are being unbelievably restrained, which means they’re bored AF with it. I’m very disappointed. Why WOULDN’T you blast them for the Lols? Why?
Oh so ONE CORNER OF THE INTERNET is scared? Is that the “Bigfoot Lives on a Flat Earth corner,” or a different corner? People SAY all kinds of dumb s—t, what are they DOING? They’re doing nothing? Okay, there you go then: nobody “scared”, nobody “confused.” They’re pissed off and shaking their heads.
Anyway, back to “The Plan”, why would this work? For example, the US sucks so bad right now the US$ is at 108(!!) and $1.44 to the Loonie, a northern country claimed not to be in any trouble, economic or political. What does that mean? All my math and objections aren’t wrong, but we only need to suck less than YOU. Running the CONCEPT of DOGE – even if it takes 3 years to find out they didn’t lift a finger – is enough to pull that off. That’s also Luongo’s thesis.
“the reason Trump sailed to victory was “the massive influence of right-wing media.”
As per their norm, they are BOTH the large, “Mainstream” news and views, with their base being 90% of the people who are all on the “right side of history”, while ALSO being a minority since most news according to them is “Right wing”. They are totally outgunned by the 90% Right-news out there.
Pick one. BothNeitherAii.
“On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most of us would want to keep out of government.”
Huh? He has a perfect, center resume. His did these things for years, he’s not a bartender or from Dept of Agriculture or something. WTF are you talking about?
“A MAGA true believer,” Ah. IS he though? Then that goes with subclause 2: “Most of US”. Who is “US”, Mr. Kiriakou? As opposed to “Them”. You see, “US” got voted in, so we are the Majority. “Most of US” is not “Most of the United States” it means a few Bright Blue reporters from only 12 Bright Blue (collapsing and cratered) cities. Translation: “Your friends”. “Me and my friends would want to keep him out of government.” Ah. That’s better, thanks.
Docktor’s Lie-Translation machine today. It was said. It’s a lie.
“We need somebody with the guts and the political authority to burn the F.B.I. down, at least figuratively.”
Here’s where you and the American People agree.
“Cheney had congressional immunity for her work because she was serving in an official capacity”
This is true, but it’s also not infinite. I’d also have to look into if that persists after her tenure, I think on the face of it, it only applies to sitting Congressmen. Even so, he can merely release the facts publicly, and it would be an eternal service to the People of the Republic. I tend to believe Congress cannot destroy evidence of ongoing Defense trials and call it “Oficial capacity” just as President Trump cannot snipe pedestrians in 5th Avenue and call it “Official Capacity”. You might have noticed. P.S., Merchan instantly BothNeitherAii for the Left’s case that the Supreme court gave the President infinity immunity for all acts. As one judge on a s–t case, he already said Trump has no immunity. So is immunity infinite? Or is it zero? Pick one. BothNeitherAii.
“The press also has opined that Patel will target police officers who arrested protestors at the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol for investigation. Again, the police have qualified immunity, and nothing will come of the idea”
Uhhh. “The Press”. So YOU said this and YOU said nothing will come of what YOU said. Right? Um, did Kash Patel say anything about this? No? Did he also NOT say he was going to dress like Santa and slide down your chimney and you report on him NOT saying that as well? I can report on things people DIDN’T say all day! That’s called “Fiction.”
“three F.B.I. agents have reached out to me to apologize for their role in the case, saying that it was political in nature and that they were ordered to target me. That’s the F.B.I. That’s what it does.”
So they said it was wrong, that is, ILLEGAL, and did it anyway, instead of retiring. Right. And no one has been counter-charged for what the agents openly admit are crimes. Right.
“• West Has Pumped Over $300 Billion Into Ukraine – Orban
How does that work? That’s $1,000/ for EU or $500/per for both of us. But CLEARLY the cost has been many multiples of that. Like $1,500-$2,000/year for all three years? Both in taxes, but mostly in fuel costs, etc.
They talk about paying for war on a gold standard, this implies it would be about 6-10x cheaper and better.
““Ukraine must win this war” with “Russia must not prevail”Boy they’re sure winning the f— out of that signaling! Those two statements are still the same. That’s all they’ve got after 3 years of losing.
“• Could European Peacekeepers Really be Deployed to Ukraine? (Sp.)No, they will blow them up within 5 miles of the border. I would do far worse, so be thankful it’s someone so generous and benevolent as Putin is in charge.
“with the basis for both being “a ceasefire along the current front lines and no Ukrainian NATO membership in the foreseeable future.”Both are ludicrous. What planet are they on.
“[Israel] is bringing in there additional troops. I think there are already thousands of troops.Israel does not HAVE thousands of troops (to spare). I detect a problem. The open defection rate is off the charts, unseen perhaps ever, as is the suicide rate.
“Aleppo was protected by about thirty thousand people. 350 militants entered the city. Government forces, and with them the so-called pro-Iranian units, retreated without a fight, blew up their positions, and left.”
You mean 350 THOUSAND, right? No? 350 unique individuals? But they were gay-trans jihadis, so they scared you? And you LEFT FOR WHERE? No really: WHERE. If everyone “Left” there should be a bugger-big official Syrian army somewhere, in some corner, all clustered together like flies in winter. No? Explain.
That would be cool about the Universe, but turns out, Einsteinian Physics is complete bunk and a dead end for 100 years. Hossenfelder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOjD_Lt8qY
“I don’t trust Science, and I don’t trust scientists” says a life-long, job-only, extremely well-known scientist. And every day posts another video why. Why? Well, they removed ANOTHER 10,000 fake papers at a pop. And aren’t embarrassed at all. Don’t clean house a whit.
What’s under her video? A YouTube disclaimer from “Scientists” saying everything she’s saying is wrong.
https://mediatricks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/facebook-admits-fact-checks-are-not-facts.jpgUh-huh.
“Trump now talking about pesticides. It’s happening people!!!”
If you mean TALKING is happening, then yes. Talk is always happening because talk is cheap and gets you nowhere. Has anyone lifted a finger yet? Done “Work”? No, because anyone doing any G-d d—-d work would be front page news these days.
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My latest substack is not a song but a critique of the current energy system. Aboriginals, wanky restaurants, memes, Biden and Elon Musk. It’s got something for everyone. Washed dishes again tonight to remind myself I’m just not that smart.
https://thumbnailgreen.substack.com/p/all-lives-within-an-energy-systemOddly enough
There is never enough time to do it right
yet
There is always enough time to do it againthe public school graphic above
the object has always been to create pliable consumers and establish a market
consumers of inequality, poverty, envy, self-satisfaction and amoral righteousness
enslaved to debt
and now public education, if the education industry is indeed returned to the states, will be left to the “invisible hand” of the market
to create pliable consumersless is going to be done, more efficiently
two days before the end of Saturnalia it is the Ghost of Reaganomics
“I knew I’d moved in a haunted house” – Jumpin Gene SimmonsRené Magritte L’éternité 1935
I finally got the joke. A painting of three cheese heads.
Magritte had a wicked sense of humor. 😀It’s the shortest day. Change is in the air.
————DOGE is chasing all the little piggies.
Democrat are referring to Elon Musk as “President Musk,”
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The American Relief Act of 2025, (disaster relief funds),
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/ARA%2012.20.pdf—————-
Plan A: The bill failed by a vote of 174-235.
Plan B: Even with a Debt Celling, the bill failed
Plan C: The bill passed With Disaster Emergency funding by a vote of 366 in favor to 34Problem # 1 still exist: too much borrowing and too much lending of money that does not exist
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The Dems and their media played a dangerous games.“Suddenly, everyone is shocked to learn that Biden was mentally diminished..”
• “He has Good Days and Bad Days” (Turley)After interviewing roughly 50 insiders, the Journal found evidence of a knowing effort to hide Biden’s mental state.
For many, Biden’s refusal to leave his home for much of the 2020 campaign was evidence of the insecurity of staff about his ability to engage with reporters.
It only got worse during the term as staff virtually tackled anyone trying to ask him a question.
Biden was routinely shuffled off stage after reading briefly from a teleprompter.
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straight-up propaganda intended for consumption by a niche audience, half of which don’t know they’re being lied to and the other half not caring.
————It’s likely that Musk and Ramaswamy will easily identify wasteful spending. The hard part is getting it to stop.
That’s the key to sustainability.
Trump Option: The Three Arrows plan? tariffs on imports
———–Change is in the air. Zero Hedge
————Houthi Hypersonic Missile Renders Iron Dome Useless, Slams Into Tel Aviv Area
Trump Reportedly Plans To Continue Aid To Ukraine But Will Raise NATO Spending To 5%
“Almost All Sectors Are Considering Job-Cuts” – German Bankruptcies Growing By Double-Digits
Trump Could Tariff NATO Allies That Do Not Pay Up
Eggflation: Dozen-Pack At Supermarket Hit Record Highs As Bird Flu Ravages Farms
Interpreting Putin’s Remarks On Syria, Israel, And TurkiyeThe most fascinatingly interesting thing about what Brian Cox said is that according to Einstein’s Relativity Theory you could travel from one end of the Universe to the other in a minute if (mind you well, IF) you did that traveling at the speed of light. The catch is that everybody and thing who and which you had departed from at the beginning of the journey, would be 4 million years older and progressed than they were when you headed out.
That’s no problem AT ALL to persons (and I admit that they are few and far between) who know that SPIRITUAL beings are not limited by the physics of Relativity because those physics only apply to MATTER and ENERGY, and thus do not apply to THEM because they are neither composed of nor limited to matter and energy. They can go from one end of the Universe to the other and back again from the comfort of their armchair without PHYSICALLY or ENEGETICALLY going anywhere at all or missing a single beat of the progress of time there in their Home Town, because they never physically left in the first place.
Luigi saga.
Dumpster dive. I would love to see presentation boards or slides that were planned for that investors conference that was abruptly canceled. Graphs mast have shown clear correlation between treatment denial and enhanced revenue. How else you would make a sales pitch?
There was a room full of people who would have loved to have a slice of that pie.One MIGHT say that such persons as I mentioned were “entangled” with everything that was at the other end of the Universe and every where else in-between, but that would be implying “materiality” again, wouldn’t it, which would then drag physics back into the picture again.
So the nexus of the problem is right there in the plexus where materiality and spirituality get together and play games with each other.
Yes it is, and that grey and chaotic mixing zone and playground is there it’s all happening. Wow! What a dance!
I will give you a hint that is more than just a mere hint. It is an admonition. The Spirituality which you desire and need to bridge that gap resides in the person of GOD. If you need some more spirituality to do what you must do then ask Him for it. He ALWAYS provides, though not always in the way that you selfishly and childishly think that He should. Don’t worry. Trust the fact that He’s smarter than you and NEVER makes a mistake. Ask for help. Do what he tells you to (YOU know what I mean! What I mean is, do the thing that you KNOW is the RIGHT thing. In other words, The capacity for KNOWING what is the right thing to do is the HELP that God is giving to you. Just take that medicine and you’ll be fine. No charge.
Pesticides
A few months back spouse and I decided to take a further step against glyphosate. We stopped purchasing non-organic breads and pasta and tortillas, among other things. Last night we walked into a Winco grocery store. The first aisle passed is stacked high with the week’s current sale items. As I gazed at the products, I realized that I would purchase none of them, regardless of the price, with my current standards. I was halfway down the aisle before I came to pure cocoa powder. Ok — that is something I purchase, although I didn’t need any. At the end of the aisle was the refrigerator, and a pound of butter was less than $4 — I grabbed 4 lbs., it is holiday baking season. It is so easy not to purchase so many grocery store items when I think: grown with glyphosate, sprayed before harvest with glyphosate, “natural flavor” — no clue what that is, sucralose — ick!, artificial color/flavor, plastic leeching from bottle, etc. Most of the grocery store products are in my mental trash bin. However, it is a bit of a pain when the closest grocery store does not carry organic versions of tortillas and pasta, nor bakery-style organic sourdough bread that one son craves, and there are no “burrito size” organic tortillas to be found in any local grocery stores. (All burritos at home are now very small.) I find myself making a monthly trek to Whole Foods to purchase a few niche items (organic corn tortillas without dough conditioners, organic whole wheat flour, olive oil in glass under $0.40/oz., organic corn meal, etc.). The funny thing about the niche items that I purchase…they are all very normal, basic staples. There was a time when all olive oil was in glass, all grains were grown without glyphosate, corn tortillas were just corn, lime, water, and salt. Currently, I must go out of my way to find these.Heh 🙂 Elon Musk as Prez / VP / Top Bozo, what else to call him..?
The Billionaires takin’ ovah’ America! Fascism anyone?
Gossip column:
Musky is half Iranian and half Canadian. His father was an Irianian diplomat in S. Africa. Errol Musk was Maye’s da Super Model’s Second Hubby, and she changed Elon’s name.
Elon has a twin bro called Kian Bagherzadeh.
In itself this isn’t of interest – but that it is covered up IS.
The Iranian heritage is hidden, to the point that Wiki on Elon lies.
I don’t want to jerk the rug out from under everyone’s feet, but there is ANOTHER crisis brewing that pretty much nobody has talked out very much in terms of how it’s going to effect your EVERYDAY LIFE.
This is the crisis in YOUR interactions with artificial intelligence. Up until recently the way you interact with AI is either totally passive (you simply accept the search results that Google hands you or you simply pay to the IRS the taxes that the software tells you to.
All of that (or at least VERY VERY MUCH of all that) is about to change almost overnight because instead of you working hard and using software and hardware tools to get what you want, you will be more or less able to simply ORDER and artificially intelligent “agent” to make that thing for you (or accomplish whatever objective that you tell it to) and that ” AI Agent”, will go do it for you.
There will be limits to that agency, of course. Iit probably wouldn’t work to tell your AI Agent, through a written or spoken interface, to go get all the gold in Fort Knox and bring it back to you pronto. HOWEVER, people WILL have access to AI Agency which can itself be used as an agent to assist you in acquiring more agency. Heaven and Hell are the limit. The precise details and final balance of p0ower is yet to be determined, but it’s a dead cinch that all sides are going to be using AI agency in order to attain their objectives as best they can.
Software and muscles are so passé’ .
Check this out regarding the future of software and work: https://youtu.be/uGOLYz2pgr8?si=kl5btNHs0m9Bttdj
Oh, yeah. One last thing (and that might well be in the literal sense as well as the rhetorical). Artificial Intelligence is not capable ( and by “not capable” I mean CAN NOT EVER be capable) of dependably telling the difference between right and wrong, good or bad, or even the true sense or experience of “self”.
Another Banana Peel Year https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/another-banana-peel-year
A feeling has been germinating in my consciousness, fed by lots of things, like post-peak oil since early 2019, “Agenda 2030”, the “Great Reset”, global financial bubbles and derivatives, but it is also independent of those specific clues. The feeling is that 2025 will be a year of sudden and unanticipated crises, which will lead our world to reconfigure again.
Some direction of the change is apparent in that we can expect less stuff in general, but it is the specifics I expect to be deadly. I never expected to be put into a position where I would be fired while the COVID pandemic persisted, but when I saw a class of humans without human rights being created, I had the epiphany that I had to stand amongst them on principle. The Houston, Methodist Hospital Nurses had already done so. That move, to dehumanize some people in the minds of the majority, and to manipulate the majority into treating them harshly, without compassion, never reached critical mass, though you will recall talk of segregating the unvaccinated into “camps”, which were prepared for that stated purpose in Australia.
There was a time-pressure to all of this emergency-dehumanizing, and when the milder viral strains of the “Omicron” group began to dominate by early 2022, and deaths dropped as “cases” rose, COVID gradually normalized as successful viruses do if they want to stay around.
What did happen in March 2020, when lockdowns were instituted in western countries, was the “going direct bailout” by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury, coordinated by BlackRock, which injected a couple of trillion dollars into the biggest financial institutions in the world. Some money was injected into the accounts of regular people, too, which they would remember, and which made the price of used cars go up.
When lockdowns were over, and people started to get out and spend, there was sudden inflation, largely from the “going direct” bailout, but that remained invisible to most people, and forgotten by others. Real-economy had been depressed, also, so there was a shortage of stuff, as well. You will have noticed that prices never went back down.
Our sociopathic owners, who would be royalty and nobles in prior epochs, maintain our human political-economic systems by culling us regulars when there get to be more of us than the crops and fuel will comfortably support. They are specialized to this task by natural-selection, I surmise. This problem of “overgrazing” keeps coming up in natural systems where animals graze. The apex-predators of the system kill and eat the grazing animals, maintaining balance at all levels.
We were all apex predators when we were hunter-gatherers, but when we took up farming, we became like grazing herds, and ended up getting kings, armies, raiding-parties and human-sacrifices to the sun-god.
We have been told that wars happened because a bunch of people hated another bunch of people, but that only ENABLES people to kill each other in wars. The cause of wars is the machinations of our sociopathic owners/rulers, is it not?
We are in post peak-oil world, and oil-is-economy with 90% correlation these days, so the growth-based financial system is heading for part-2, the final part, of the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis. Recovery from this will require a different monetary regime, not based upon exponential growth of monetary “capital”, which will be hard because the current system has self-organized through about 250 years of exponential growth, largely fueled by coal and oil. The use of coal for heating in England provided an excess of trees, which were crafted into fleets of ships, too.
Our noble-sociopaths are well-informed of the situation at the upper echelons, and use wars to get emergency-powers, widespread-compliance, and maintain their own power. This is as natural as waking up in the morning for them, but wars have to be profitable, and the elites don’t want the global economic system to be destroyed, which is likely in a world war like the last two. They are also liable to die, and are particularly liable to lose most of their wealth, which is against the natural order, as they see it.
The world is complex now, but the rational goals of our apex-predatory elites are to cull the human-herds with options on future culls, as required, while maintaining the health of modern industrial economy, which makes them wealthy and powerful. To do this they will need reliable obedience from the normals, and with high levels of lateral information-sharing through the internet, they are unable to build and maintain control-narratives at the level they will need to carry out the mass killings of a major fraction of the people in the world, especially those who don’t contribute to their power and wealth, or even drain it, retirees, such as myself, for instance…Michael Snyder, A Year Of Chaos: Does A Shocking Magazine Cover Reveal What The Global Elite Have Planned For 2025
The Economist has been one of the most important mouthpieces for the western elite for decades. It has offices all over the globe, but it is based in the city of London
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/year-chaos-does-shocking-magazine-cover-reveal-what-global-elite-have-planned-2025Meryl Nass MD, Farmers rally before Westminster a third time in London/ Andrew Bridgen interviewed on globalist takeover of farmland and Agenda 2030 (<4 min.)
Andrew Bridgen, who was the most outspoken member of the UK parliament on vaccines, lockdowns, and globalism, was chucked out in what was almost certainly a rigged election several months ago. He’s been in parliament about 12 years with about 60% of the vote in prior elections. But this time he got 3%. Not 30%. 3%. No sitting politician ever gets that. He explained the various ways it was rigged to me, which I won’t detail now. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/farmers-rally-before-westminster“Control the food; control the people.” Martin Armstrong, New Regulations on US Dairy
Two-thirds of American dairy farms have been eliminated within one generation. Cows produce dangerous emissions and have no place in modern society, according to the World Economic Forum and climate change proponents. We are seeing a drastic decline in dairy farms across the world thanks to this mentality. The latest crackdown on dairy farms comes from new regulations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that demand dairy cattle be tested for the bird flu or H5N1.
There has not been a single case of a person falling ill with the bird flu from drinking milk. Yet, the USDA insists farmers comply with their guidance that is no longer mandatory. The World Health Organization managed to work its way into the situation too as they have criticized the lack of testing. Again, no one has fallen ill from drinking milk. There may have been cases of infection in farmhands who had direct contact with cows, but there is not a single case proving anyone contracted H5N1 in this manner…
..US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that widespread mandatory testing “will give farmers and farmworkers better confidence in the safety of their animals and ability to protect themselves, and it will put us on a path to quickly controlling and stopping the virus’s spread nationwide.” The virus is not spreading through the milk supply so why are they so eager to begin this program? https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/new-regulations-on-us-dairy/(I’m thinking “multipolar world”) Michael Klare, Can Trump Trump China (or Vice Versa)?
Trump will enter office in January with a toolkit of punitive measures for fighting China ready to roll along with strong support among his appointees for making them the law of the land. But of course, we’re talking about Donald Trump, so nothing is a given. Some analysts believe that his penchant for deal-making and his professed admiration for Chinese strongman President Xi Jinping may lead him to pursue a far more transactional approach, increasing economic and military pressure on Beijing to produce concessions on, for example, curbing the export of fentanyl precursors to Mexico, but when he gets what he wants letting them lapse. Howard Lutnick, the billionaire investor from Cantor Fitzgerald whom he chose as Commerce secretary, claims that Trump actually “wants to make a deal with China,” and will use the imposition of tariffs selectively as a bargaining tool to do so. https://tomdispatch.com/trump-confronts-a-rising-china/China likely buys 5X more gold than it announces. Gold is as good as gold. Are China’s Big Gold Purchases For Protection Against The Dollar… Or To Attack It?
https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/are-chinas-big-gold-purchases-protection-against-dollar-or-attack-itThe $US is not a reliable store-of-value. Shutdown Odds Tumble As House Passes Latest GOP Spending Package
Lawmakers voted 366 to 34 to approve the proposal, well above the two-thirds threshold needed under special fast-track procedures…
After the House of Representatives passed a new package to keep the federal government funded through March 14, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other congressional lawmakers discussed the process that brought the bill over the finish line.
“In bipartisan fashion, with an overwhelming majority of votes, we passed the American Relief Act of 2025,” Johnson said, adding that funding the government through March 2025 was “a big priority for us.”
The House Speaker described the package as “America First” legislation that allows his GOP coalition to deliver the nation a “sea change in Washington” after Inauguration Day next month. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shutdown-looms-johnson-roll-out-very-similar-spending-package-friday-voteJim Rickards, Trump’s Economic Plans. Trump will begin his first 100 days with an emphasis on his economic plans. https://dailyreckoning.com/trumps-economic-plans/
“Opium Wars” are national wars. Chinese gangs own Canada. Trump-Era Official Blasts Canada Over Fentanyl Super Labs & Transnational Crime Gangs
David Asher, who previously led a Trump-era task force on fentanyl, commented on the border proposal. He appeared on CBC News Network earlier this week to share his insights.
Asher told the CBC News host that the new border proposal “looks rather unimpressive” and is a “drop in the bucket compared to what we actually need.”
Asher then segued the conversation, stating that his “concerns go well beyond the border,” highlighting the expansion of fentanyl superlab production across Canada—much of which is destined for the US.
“US law enforcement has a lot of sources telling us – that not only the Mexican cartels are setting up operations in Canada – but also Chinese organized crime – and even Iranian organized crime…” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-era-official-blasts-canada-over-fentanyl-super-labs-transnational-crime-gangsRubbing it in: Russia Owes Growing Economic Strength to West’s ‘Sanctions on Steroids’ Foolishness
“To a large extent,” Russia’s economic stability “is the result of the strengthening of sovereignty, including projected onto the economy,” Putin said at Thursday’s annual Q&A session.
“Sovereignty comes in different forms, including defense, technological, scientific, educational, cultural. This is especially important for our country, because when we lose our sovereignty, we lose statehood. That’s the most important thing,” Putin added.
Russia’s path toward economic sovereignty goes back over a decade, owing its success largely to the unprecedented sanctions war the West launched against Moscow in 2014, at the start of the Ukrainian crisis, veteran financial analyst Paul Goncharoff says…
..”To sum it up: Import substitution, trade in local sovereign currencies, infrastructure changes toward the Global South and East, redirecting oil and gas to the Global South and East, and participating in the enhancement and expansion of BRICS as the new economic frontier all come together to have formed a successful series of strategic decisions which are ongoing and gathering strength,” Goncharoff concluded. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241219/russia-owes-growing-economic-strength-to-wests-sanctions-on-steroids-foolishness-analyst-1121214127.htmlPrivatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off A Nation’s Wealth After Assad
Alexander McKay echoes Wargan’s analysis. Now “free,” Syria will be forcedly made “dependent upon imports from the West” evermore. This not only fattens the Empire’s bottom line but “also severely restricts the freedom of any Syrian government to act with any degree of independence.” He notes similar efforts have been undertaken throughout the post-1989 era of U.S. unipolarity. It was well underway in Russia during the 1990s “until the slow turn around in policy started in the early 2000s under Putin”:
The aim is to reduce Syria to the same status as Lebanon, with an economy controlled by imperial forces, an army used primarily for internal repression, and an economy no longer able to produce anything but merely serve as a market for commodities produced elsewhere, and site of resource extraction. The U.S. and its allies do not want independent development of any nation’s economy. https://scheerpost.com/2024/12/18/privatizing-syria-us-plans-to-sell-off-a-nations-wealth-after-assad/Russia expresses concern over Gaza ‘recolonization’
Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has raised the alarm over Israeli officials floating the idea of replacing Palestinians with Jewish settlers in Gaza. The diplomat also accused the US of shielding Israel through its vetoes in the UN Security Council. https://swentr.site/news/609588-russian-envoy-un-israel-gaza-recolonization/Israel’s Genocide Day 440: New reports of mass killings in Gaza surface
A new report documents the mass killing of Palestinians in northern Gaza. Meanwhile, Hamas and Israel have discussed the details of a prisoner exchange that could serve as the centerpiece of a 60-day ceasefire. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israels-genocide-day-440-new-reports-of-mass-killings-in-gaza-surface/Human Rights Watch: Israel Is Committing Crime of Extermination and Acts of Genocide
The State Department, which is implicated in Israel’s crimes, said it disagreed with the report https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/19/hrw-israel-is-committing-crime-of-extermination-and-acts-of-genocide/Israeli attacks on two schools sheltering Palestinians killed at least 15 https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/19/israeli-strikes-in-gaza-kill-32-palestinians-over-24-hours/
Doctors Without Borders says Israel committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/20/739389/Doctors-Without-Borders-says-Israel-committing–genocide–in-Gaza
‘Kill zone’: Israeli soldiers expose shoot-to-kill policy in Gaza’s Netzarim corridor
An investigative report on Wednesday, based on testimonies of a number of unnamed Israeli soldiers and commanders, exposed the terrifying accounts of the extreme violence unleashed against Palestinians in the Netzarim corridor, which is a zone of occupation that the Tel Aviv regime has set up in the Palestinian territory during its ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, Israel’s leading daily Haaretz reported.
“Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members,” said an Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza, adding that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist even if they were just a child. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/19/739354/Palestine-Israel-Gaza-Netzarim-kill-zone-Haaretz-Report: Israeli troops shot dead hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza ‘kill zone’ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/19/739383/Palestine-Gaza-Israel–Division-252-Haaretz–
Report: 500 major Israeli officers leave military over Gaza war
More than 14 months into Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip, the Israel military is now facing a critical personnel crisis as approximately 500 officers holding the rank of major have departed military service since mid-2024. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/19/739373/Palestine-Gaza-Israel-US- Simplicius, Medley Report: Europe’s Descent, Oreshnik, and More
A new speech by Georgian (outgoing president) pretender Salome Zourabichvili to the EU Parliament is a must-see. It is the very apotheosis of the Rules Based Order’s terminal decline, on which we’ve enlarged at length here. As things get down to the wire and the European ruling elite squander their mandate from the people, they have no avenue left but to ratchet up totalitarian policies to stay in power—and to keep the system, that interconnected grid of elite deep state power in control. As that occurs, their anti-democratic calls become increasingly naked, as they’re forced to say the quiet parts aloud…
..It is in the context of what recently happened in Romania and elsewhere that her speech is seen in its most egregious light. She essentially calls on European powers to intervene in her own country, to act against her own people and government, which she calls illegitimate; for the record she’s now called both the parliamentary and presidential elections illegitimate and has vowed to illegally stay past her deadline...
..Right from the getgo she blames Russian “imperialistic tendencies” for wanting to influence Georgia, yet almost in the same breath declares that Georgia is a “strategic interest” for Europe, and that Europe should therefore move in to take control of it. Is that not imperialism by the same name?
She goes on along the tack of saying the unspoken by naming every strategic advantage that NATO and the EU would see with Georgia under their control, such as control of the Black Sea, Armenia, the Caucuses, amongst other things...
..She hails the illegal nullification of the Romanian election, which is met with resounding applause by the corrupt unelected bureaucrats… a dying empire seeks only absolute power and expansion at all costs, nothing else matters. Laws, rules, democratic principles are mere frivolities…
..This speech has particular significance because Zourabichvili’s term expires on December 29, when the newly elected ex-Dream Party president Mikheil Kavelashvili is set to take office. The treasonously mad madame has openly vowed she will not step down. (Extreme padded shoulders attempt to provide gravitas to her frail build.) …
..At a time when Macron’s government is collapsing, Scholz lost a parliamentary confidence vote leading to early snap elections in February, Biden was virtually couped and replaced, Trudeau set to resign according to rumors, with the entire Western order in terminal crisis, wise leaders like Azerbaijan’s Aliyev understand everything. Here he observes Macron is turning France into a ‘failed state’… This comes just as alarm signals sound off on Germany’s coming economic failure…
..“Everyone’s life, little by little, gets a little bit worse for the rest of their existence,” said Webb…
..As the institutions which have governed the globe since the Cold War slowly become undone, the world begins entering an active ‘strongman’ phase. One governed by the likes of Netanyahu and Erdogan, who no longer fear for the brakes and baffles previously in place owing to the respected international institutional norms which the West has now ineptly eroded. Years upon years of total disregard for true Rule of Law by corrupt, coopted Western rulers has resulted in the complete discrediting of everything from the UN, ICC, OSCE, IAEA, and tens of other adjacent bulwarks against chaos.
Now, we likely enter a phase of madmen running rampant, taking advantage of the time of global lawlessness to expand their would-be empires. Erdogan again hinted so much in a new speech, declaring that Turkey will no longer be bound to its original geographic magnitude (Maybe not “mad”, but bold and ruthless players.)…This stands to initiate a cascade effect of other smaller nations all over, in Africa and elsewhere, seeing their chance to settle old geopolitical scores, or exact revenge...Israel will likewise seek to carve up the remainder of Palestine and Syria due to the feckless collapse of the West’s moral authority and institutional power. For instance, infamous Likudnik Bezalel Smotrich again spoke of depopulating Gaza and the formation of an Israeli ‘empire’...
..I’m not convinced that Oreshnik is economically viable as a regular use type of weapon, given that ICBM style weapons typically cost tens of millions of dollars each. Or do they? One source claims in the early 2000s, Russian Topol-M single-missile cost was supposed to be 18 million rubles, which at that time’s exchange rate should be something like $700k if my math is correct. Now after Putin’s announcement of Oreshnik going into mass production claims vary as to how many Oreshniks Russia can manufacture… The above claims GUR’s numbers of 25 a month, but I have not been able to verify that anywhere, which suggests it’s phony. In fact, Ukraine refuted it and in this case I agree with them. 25 per month is a huge number even for Kalibr or Kh-101 style missiles, for Oreshnik this is absolutely impossible. More realistic is maybe a couple a month to a few dozen per year at most, at least for now…
..It should be noted that immediately after Oreshnik’s debut, perhaps struggling to catch up and save face, the US launched into a test of its own Dark Eagle or LRHW (Long Range Hypersonic Weapon)… It was the first ever live fire of the full system from erector TEL (transporter erector launcher vehicle). With claimed speeds of “Mach 5”—compared to Oreshnik’s Mach 10+—and a range of 2700km—compared to Oreshnik’s 5000-7000km—it’s not exactly groundbreaking... https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/medley-report-europes-descent-oreshnik Smug grandstanding… Putin challenges West to ‘technological duel’ with Oreshnik
The Russian president has proposed to test Western defense systems against Moscow’s new hypersonic missile https://swentr.site/russia/609598-putin-challenges-west-oreshnik/One-size-fits-nobody repression… EU suffers by suppressing national identities – Putin
People in the European Union are being negatively affected by the marginalization of their national identities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, arguing that a lack of national sovereignty affects all aspects of life in a state...
”Sovereignty is a very important thing. It has to be on the inside, in the heart. I believe that the German people had this feeling of belonging to a homeland and sovereignty eradicated in them during the post-war period,” he mused. ”Who are the Europeans? They are all proud to be European. But they are first of all French, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Europeans secondly,” he added. https://swentr.site/russia/609603-putin-eu-national-identity/ Gilbert Doctorow, “Results of the year with Vladimir Putin,” an informational event which merits close attention
Questions relating to international affairs were moved to the first hour, not left for the very end as was the case in the past.
On this basis, I am able to present below some points that Vladimir Putin evidently was keen to bring to our attention, though I admit that I sat through only the first two hours of ‘Results of the Year.’…
..How can Russia navigate the very turbulent waters of international affairs?
His answer was that the world has not gone mad but that when the bullets are flying, as is now the case, people say it is terrible; whereas when there is a time of calm, people say it is a period of stagnation!
The answer to the question, in his view, is to look at the Russian economy, which is stable, resilient and growing very well... By way of example, Russia now has become fully self-sufficient in meat production, and meat consumption is now 80kg per capita whereas a few years ago it was half that amount. Milk demand, especially for production of butter, has soared while output has not been able to keep pace. All of this is in conditions of 9% rise in real wages over the past year, which adds to demand across the board...
..Putin challenged the States to engage in a ‘duel of the 21st century’. Russia will name its target somewhere in Ukraine and dare the US to bring down the Oreshnik using the best interceptors in their arsenal…
..Another set of questions addressed to Putin that can be of general interest in the West was with regard to reconstruction in the 4 annexed regions of the Donbas and Novaya Rossiya: does Russia have the financial and management capability to retore and grow these new territories? His answer was an emphatic yes and he pointed first to the city of Mariupol which had 450,000 inhabitants before the war and was largely destroyed in the artillery battles that preceded its conquest by Russian forces. Putin said that much attention was devoted to infrastructure, starting with rebuilding and fully modernizing roads and to reconstruction of housing. The population has been returning and now is approximately 300,000 strong. Similar investments are being made all across the new territories. And Putin assured the public that these new regions are growing their economies very quickly…
..(NBC reporter) Brennan-Simmons opened with two questions, the first of which was more an accusation and mark of derision than a question proper: ‘Mr President when you meet with Donald Trump, you will be doing so from a position of weakness. You have lost soldiers. You just lost a senior general…”
Putin said first that he has heard nothing from the Trump camp about a possible meeting with him. And he challenged directly the notion that Russia’s position would be the weaker party when the meeting eventually takes place. No, said Putin, we are much stronger than we were thanks to the assertion of our sovereignty and our finding our way in self-reliance since the launch of the Special Military Operation. We are standing on our own feet economically. Our military production far exceeds the capabilities of all of NATO together. Our soldiers on the battlefield are using our own military supplies and we do all of this in a most rational and effective way. Compare that to NATO where the price of 155mm artillery shells is now four times what it was back in 2022. With this type of cost inflation, NATO member states will have to dedicated not 2% but 3% of their GDP just to stand in place. Our army today has no peer in the world. Russia has become stronger and we, as a sovereign country, are following our national interests...
..Putin used the question as a springboard to what we all wanted to hear: what the Kremlin says about the ‘loss’ of Syria and about its bases there. As I remarked several days ago, he insisted that Russia entered the civil war in 2015 for one purpose only: to ensure that an extreme Islamist enclave could not be established there. He said Russia succeeded in that mission and did so with no boots on the ground other than those defending its naval and air base. The fighters were from the Syrian Army and from friendly Arab forces [meaning Iranian proxies]. What happened recently was the melting away of the Syrian forces in advance of the conquering troops without a fight. Iran once again turned to us for assistance with moving its troops – but unlike 2015 it was not to move Iranian forces into Syria, it was now to evacuate Iranian troops from Syria. We did so and evacuated 4,000 Iranians to our air base.
As regards Syria, Russia, he said has maintained relations with all interested parties inside and in the region. Everyone says we should keep our bases there. But whether we do or not will depend on our negotiations with the government in Damascus. We have suggested to others that we are ready to open both the naval and the air base for use by all parties wishing to bring humanitarian assistance in to Syria...
..Finally, Putin invited Brennan-Simmons to ask anything else he might want clarified now that he had the microphone. The journalist asked if Russia is ready to make compromises itself in line with its demand that Kiev make compromises to arrive at a peace.
The answer Putin gave is noteworthy: that Russia and Ukraine had demonstrated this in March-April 2022 when they initialed a peace treaty involving compromises on all sides. Regrettably the British prime minister with a peculiar hairdo then came down to Kiev and issued instructions not to complete the deal. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/12/19/results-of-the-year-with-vladimir-putin-an-informational-event-which-merits-close-attention/ Pepe Escobar, Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
The Forever Wars in West Asia and Ukraine, two vectors of the standard imperial drive, now united in an Omni-War, Putin stated that, “we have come to Syria in order to prevent a terrorists’ enclave (…) In general, our goal has been achieved.”
Whether Syria remains “terrorist free” remains to be seen: the new, “inclusive”, rebranded as woke Emir of Damascus, al-Jolani, a Saudi national, is a certified Salafi-jihadi still with a $10 million American bounty on his head. The “enclave” now encompasses most of former Syrian sovereign territory, otherwise illegally occupied by jihadi gangs and Zionist lebensraum practitioners. It’s important to remember that Russia first intervened in Syria in 2015 not so much to keep access to the warm waters of the Eastern Mediterranean: but mostly to protect holy Christian Orthodox sites in Damascus. Christianity was born in Damascus (remember St. Paul) – not in Jerusalem. When Putin went to Damascus, he was on an Orthodox Christian pilgrimage: coming from the Third Rome (Moscow) to pay his respects to the precursor of the first Rome, the cradle of Christianity.
On the larger Levantine geopolitical picture, Putin is correct. The CIA invented Operation Timber Sycamore way back in 2012 to train and weaponize “moderate rebels” to overthrow Assad – spending over $1 billion a year: the most extensive CIA covert op since the jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan were Sycamore partners. Over the final years, the Pentagon jumped in to “prepare” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the “soft” ISIS splinter group. Ultimately it was nearly 14 years of toxic US sanctions and relentless siege warfare that led to the final act, complete with Ukrainian drone instructors, mountains of Qatari cash and the Turk-assembled crypto-al Qaeda infantry (no more than 350 fighters, according to Putin himself). Now it’s a matter of adapting.
Putin said that, “we have established relations with all those that control the situation on the ground (…) Most countries expect the Russian bases to remain (…) Our interests should coincide, a question that requires painstaking examination.” He also reminded everyone that politics is the art of compromise – and Russia’s strategic priority is to keep the bases in Tartus and Hmeimim. Putin brushed aside the notion that Russia has been weakened by Assad’s downfall in Syria, quoting Mark Twain: “Rumors about my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Instead, he practically proposed that the Russian bases could provide humanitarian aid: one can imagine the population of a deeply polarized, fragmented Syria arguing with the Salafi-jihadis to get their share. Were that to happen, Russia would be in direct aid competition with the collective West. The EU, via its new, deranged Estonian ultra-Russophobic foreign policy chief, has already ordered that there will be no sanctions relief if the Russian bases stay...
..A “Greater Turkiye” would historically have included Thessaloniki, Cyprus, Aleppo and even Mosul.
Putin for his part was supremely diplomatic, focusing on Turkiye “trying to safeguard its safety on its southern frontiers, and to create conditions for the return of refugees back home from its territory to Syrian land. And those territories are now under more or less control of actually Turkiye.”…
..Immediately after Assad’s fall, the Israelis started bombing every warehouse holding heavy military equipment across Syria, including classified weapons. It’s unclear who provided the exact locations. The Americans, predictably, were furious. No wonder: the lame duck White House and the Deep State were betting on transferring all that weaponry to Kiev... Putin increased the tone on Tel Aviv – an extremely touchy dossier in Russia. He named Israel as “the main beneficiary” in Syria; directly condemned Israeli invasion and annexation of sovereign Syrian territory; and confessed he does not know what “ultimate goals” Israel is pursuing in Gaza, but “this is only worthy of condemnation”...
..Putin is adamant that Russia is always ready to negotiate with Kiev. The key takeaways: no preconditions; talks grounded in the 2022 Istanbul deal (aborted by the Americans) and the “current conditions on the battlefield”; Russia will talk to Zelensky only if he holds elections and gains legitimacy; and Russia will only sign peace deals with the legitimate leader of Ukraine... Zelensky will not hold elections – so he will remain illegitimate. So who to talk to? Moreover, signing peace deals with a “legitimate” Ukrainian leader means nothing because the Ultimate Decider is always the “non-agreement capable” (copyright Lavrov) Hegemon...
..The whole Forever Wars riddle directly links with BRICS, because this is a Hegemon war against BRICS (especially top three “existential threats” Russia, China and Iran), inscribed in the Big Picture of the Eurasia v. NATOstan war.
Putin was adamant that “BRICS is not a tool for countering the West. Out work is not aimed against anyone (…) We adopt all decisions by consensus (…) this is a group based on common interests. And there is one common interest: development.” https://sputnikglobe.com/20241220/pepe-escobar-putins-qa-and-the-forever-wars-riddle–1121223428.html
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