Jan 222025
 


Salvador Dali Remorse – Sphinx Embedded in the Sand 1931

 

Biden Family Pardons ‘Unfortunate’ – Trump (RT)
Was Biden China’s Manchurian Candidate The Entire Time? (ZH)
Joe Biden Delivers the Final Blow to Mainstream Media (Turley)
Trump Roars Back Into Office: Why US Vassals Are Panicking (Marsden)
Trump Orders to Rename Gulf of Mexico into Gulf of America (Sp.)
Ukraine Conflict ‘Needs To End’ – Rubio (RT)
The Ukraine Conflict Is Reshaping The Global Order (Sushentov)
Zelensky Demands At Least 200,000 ‘Peacekeepers’ On Ukrainian Soil (RT)
Dmitri Rogozin On Fighting and Finishing The War Differently (Helmer)
Trump Renames US Landmarks (RT)
Trump Starts US Withdrawal From WHO – Again (RT)
Trump Delivered His J6 Pardons, Now Congress Must Decide (JTN)
Joe Biden’s Absolute Destruction of Freedom of Speech (Jay)
How the Justice Department Made the Case for the J6 Pardons (Turley)
2025: The Year the Global Order Unravels (Nick Giambruno)

 

 

 

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The perfect term in the circumstances.

Biden Family Pardons ‘Unfortunate’ – Trump (RT)

US President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor Joe Biden on Monday for pre-emptively pardoning his family members as one of his last acts in office. Biden granted clemency on Monday to his relatives, including his brother James Biden, who has been accused by Republicans of influence-peddling and making false statements to Congress. In early December, the former president issued a controversial blanket pardon to his son Hunter, expunging his criminal record of a gun crime conviction. Following his inauguration, Trump commented on Biden’s final order of leniency at an executive order-signing ceremony, saying “it was unfortunate that he did that.”

The president made similar remarks at Capital One Arena in Washington shortly after taking office, where he also reiterated his intention to pardon hundreds of people convicted for their roles in the 2021 Capitol riot. Trump claimed he had followed the advice of his aides not to mention Biden’s use of clemency powers during his inauguration address. ”I finished my speech, and they said, ‘Sir he pardoned his whole family’. I said: ‘Oh, can I go back out there and talk about it?’,” Trump told cheering supporters, adding: “We have plenty of time to talk about it.” Biden has also shielded from prosecution former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and members of the congressional committee, which investigated the Capitol riot.

In a text cited by NBC anchor Kristen Welker, Trump reportedly called the order “disgraceful”, adding that “many are guilty of MAJOR CRIMES.” Biden has emphasized that his “issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing.” Democrats have reasoned that Trump could abuse his presidential power in order to pursue a personal vendetta. Critics, including Milley, denounced Trump as a “fascist” during his second presidential campaign. The Republican accused his opponents of conducting a political “witch hunt” against him. Trump’s campaign victory has set a precedent, as he became the first US president to be elected after being convicted of a felony, stemming from a case in New York involving hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

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Billions for the Biden family.

Was Biden China’s Manchurian Candidate The Entire Time? (ZH)

“Was Biden China’s Manchurian candidate the entire time?” David Asher, an expert on illicit financing who previously worked at the US Defense and State Departments, asked on X, following the last-minute pardons that former President Biden issued on Monday morning for family members, including his brother, James Biden; his sister-in-law, Sara Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; his brother-in-law, John T. Owens; and his youngest brother, Francis Biden. Asher said, “Biden just pardoned his family, not just Hunter. It’s a clear indication that they have a secret to cover up. Bohai (aka BHR) is worth billions. Via beneficial interest, Biden family may own up to 27%.” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” purchased Hunter’s 10% stake in the China-backed investment firm BHR Partners during President Biden’s first year in office. The move allowed the Biden family to declare they had divested from foreign business interests. Asher noted, “Hunter says he sold his shares in 2021 to his lawyer/landlord Smith but if that truly happened he would received several billion dollars,” adding, “No evidence of that. All signs are he owns at least 18.8%.”

“Bohai appears to own China defense company, Zhongkui Group as well. So potential direct ties to the People’s Liberation Army and domestic/foreign Chinese intelligence. WTF??” Asher emphasized. [..] Asher questioned: “Are their associates (Bulger, Morris, et al.) “beneficial shareholders” and have been the whole time? What did they do to be given “golden” founders shares, to begin with, if not for the Biden’s?” He continued, “Their shares apparently were worth hundreds of millions and possibly billions, at least on paper? So they received this from a Chinese Communist Party company – it is apparently the oldest private equity fund in all of China. While Biden was Vice President and then President? Why are Hunter’s buddies still on the board and or “supervisors.” What’s the deal between Whitey Bulger’s family and the Bidens? Was Biden a Manchurian candidate for the ChiComms?” Asher reposted a clip of Peter Schweizer, who said the Biden family pardons are merely “an extension of Joe Biden himself and his role in the family’s dealings.”

Earlier, the former president said blanket pardons to family members do not acknowledge wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be viewed as an admission of guilt. They cover all nonviolent offenses beginning on Jan. 1, 2014. This comes as various Biden family members have been under investigation for influence peddling. [..] Speaking with The Hill on Monday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY.) said the pardons “validated” the investigations into Biden family members. “We finished our investigation, we published a very detailed report, and I think the pardons validate everything in that report,” Comer said, adding, “Now it’s Pam Bondi’s.” Asher continued, “Trump is making history on day one. We are going to end the BS in the USG and make things in government and for the people more than great again. Trump’s better than he’s ever been before. Even old line conservatives need to get on board.”

“If I get back in, the deep State will be upended and we will make the Department of State great again under Secretary Rubio— who is a total genius and tremendous leader under the president. China will pay for COVID and fentanyl. Iran will not be forgiven for attempting to kill the president and many others while it moves to build nukes to destabilize the Middle East and threaten the US and Europe. We can do a great deal without resorting to kinetic force. Peace through strength!” he concluded. The key takeaway is that the last-minute pardons for various members of the Biden family prompted Asher to conduct a public forensic analysis, which raises more questions than answers—particularly about whether Hunter still has ties (potentially beneficial interest) to BHR despite allegedly divesting several years ago.

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“It was done in the final minutes because it was raw and obvious. There is no pretense or apology. Just good old-fashioned corruption Biden-style.”

Joe Biden Delivers the Final Blow to Mainstream Media (Turley)

At 11:45 am, the media felt the final sting of the Biden scandal. It was delivered by President Joe Biden, who shattered any pretense of principle in pardoning family members allegedly implicated in the influence-peddling corruption scandal. According to an old fable, a scorpion convinced a leery frog to carry him across a river, noting that he could not sting him since they would both drown. Halfway across, the scorpion struck and the frog asked why he would doom them both. The scorpion replied “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s in my nature.” For those of us who have written about the corruption of the Biden family for decades, the pardons were crushingly predictable. The President simply couldn’t resist the urge.

In a city where corruption is a cottage industry, the Bidens have long been in a league of their own, from nepotism to influence peddling to illicit lobbying. In the influence-peddling scandal, millions were generated from foreign sources in virtual plain view. There were the luxury hotel rooms, a diamond, a sports car, and massive payments called “loans. In the summer of 2019, one Chinese businessman wired Hunter Biden $250,000 using Joe Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address.” The sense of absolute impunity came out in shake-down communications. For example, there was the WhatsApp message to a Chinese businessman openly threatening the displeasure of Joe Biden if money was not forked over without delay. In the message, Hunter warned:

“I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.” That sense of impunity was due to mainstream media forming a protective shell around the family. The media refused to pursue the scandal despite the Hunter Biden laptop and clear evidence of influence peddling.

In 2020, CBS News’s Lesley Stahl literally laughed mockingly at then-President Donald Trump when he raised the Hunter Biden laptop and what it revealed about the Bidens. (Yet Stahl still recently expressed confusion and alarm that people were abandoning legacy media for new media.) Reporters assured citizens that the laptop was presumptive “Russian disinformation.” Even after the media belatedly acknowledged that it was authentic, MSNBC and Washington Post analysts were still making the claim last year. After Republicans in the House detailed millions in payments, the media shifted to claiming that there was no real scandal unless it was shown that Joe Biden actually received money directly. It was a ridiculous claim since courts have long treated money going to family members as the same as going directly to a principal as criminal conduct.

The media continued to protect Biden, as evidence showed that Biden had repeatedly lied about not meeting with Hunter’s clients or not having knowledge of his foreign dealings. As the media narrative continued to collapse, it latched on the promise of Biden that he would never pardon his son – proof that the President was willing to let the criminal justice system run its course.

Biden then was shown to be lying about the pardon promise. After he was forced out of the election, Biden signed a pardon for any crimes over a decade committed by his son. The media gave muttered “harrumphs” and moved on. Many said that it was understandable for a father of a son who struggled with drugs. Now, in the final minutes of his presidency, Biden pardoned his other allegedly implicated family members, including James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden. James Biden was previously referred for criminal charges for lying under oath to Congress as part of its investigation into the corruption scandal. The pardons were clearly timed to avoid media scrutiny and questions. While he described the act as one of “conscience,” it was an almost mocking act of corruption.

In a strange way, it passed in Bidenworld as an honest moment. There were no claims of supporting an addicted son or dealing with a pending case. It was done in the final minutes because it was raw and obvious. There is no pretense or apology. Just good old-fashioned corruption Biden-style. It was as honest a moment as when Biden told a friend that “no one f**ks with a Biden.” There was nothing revealing in this about Biden. He could shrug and say, “It’s in my nature.” The sting instead fell on the media, which trusted Biden not to demean it further with such an unethical and disgraceful final act. The funny thing is that Biden made it across the river. He boarded his final flight with his family (and himself) protected by the misuse of his presidential authority. However, if he looked out the window, he could see his media allies slipping stunned beneath the waters.

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“You didn’t have to dedicate bandwidth to navigating lunacy like which pronouns you should be using when you meet someone. Or whether to chop off your kid’s junk before the school demands it for his mental health..”

Trump Roars Back Into Office: Why US Vassals Are Panicking (Marsden)

It’s shock and awe time for Uncle Sam’s allies in the clown car who have mindlessly gone along for the ride. Not only is freshly re-minted US President Donald Trump reversing course at breakneck speed but, if his newly declared priorities are any indication, he seems to be headed, pedal to the metal, all the way back to the 80s. One has to look back about 40 years to find a “simpler” time in Western society. Life was straightforward. You worked, earned a commensurate livable wage, and focused on your life and that of your family. Period. You didn’t have to dedicate bandwidth to navigating lunacy like which pronouns you should be using when you meet someone. Or whether to chop off your kid’s junk before the school demands it for his mental health and suggests you be re-educated if you object. Or whether your neighborhood soon risked looking like it was transplanted, in toto, from a foreign country.

Or whether there was stuff hidden inside your food that would only make its presence known once it had latched onto your inexplicably ever-widening backside. You knew about the foreign wars, and that they were a boon to the military industrial complex, but you didn’t get the impression that the country that was being invaded was like a foster child, commanding so many resources and attention that they were considered a big reason why your own life sucked. You figured that the folks in charge at least had enough sense to put the oxygen mask on their own people first. Now, it’s like Westerners in general are just supposed to embrace the martyrdom, gasping away and accepting to make the best of it. Americans ultimately rejected it all when they elected Trump. And if his recent executive orders within hours of taking office are any indication, he isn’t wasting any time on setting the Time Machine to a return to the pre-woke era.

With a stroke of the presidential pen, he’s now brought back the two-gender reality, deprived men of the opportunity to excel in women’s sports, and terminated government-sponsored diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. As a woman who has championed first- and second-wave feminism, the kind that ended by the 80s before being hijacked by lunacy that perverted the interests of women and minorities – it’s about damn time. The Democrats have had a long run at corrupting the once honorable struggle for equality. “This war against women started a long time ago with old Democrats who took over the Republican Party, which was, before that, the very first to support the Equal Rights Amendment,” second-wave American feminist icon and “Ms.” Magazine founder, Gloria Steinem, explained to The Humanist in 2012.

“Even when the National Women’s Political Caucus started, there was a whole Republican feminist entity. But beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, right-wing Democrats like Jesse Helms began to leave the Democratic Party and gradually take over the GOP,” she said. Democrats ultimately ensured that everyone would become paralyzed by self-censorship in standing up against divisive and woke left policies, for the fear or being cancelled at best and officially sanctioned at worst. Trump has now taken that threat and others off the table, ordering that “no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.” He’s also made it illegal to use any government resources to infringe on free speech.

Trump also made a long anticipated presidential pardon and commutation order that effectively places the January 2021 Capitol Hill rioters on par with the much less stigmatized and prosecuted antifa counterparts on the other side of the ideological coin. And he’s tasked the armed forces with actually defending the US by placing them at the border, and slapping the terrorist label on cartels endangering the US rather than on a group on the other side of the world in a country targeted for the “liberation” of its natural resources. Trump has now pulled the US out of the Paris Climate straitjacket, er, agreement. You know, the one that was such a brilliant idea that it’s proven to be a total failure. Maybe next time don’t try to legislate the temperature of the entire planet, and make it seem like citizens could do their part by yelling at their neighbor to recycle his Coke cans.

Trump also ordered a withdrawal from the World Health Organization, citing costs and its “mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic.” He’s basically doing everything that he figures will make the US wealthier, from lifting the ban on Alaskan oil drilling to declaring a national energy emergency. And he doesn’t seem too interested in continuing or starting wars unless he can see a clear net return on investment for the hassle. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” Trump said in his inaugural address.

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Much more yet to come.

Trump Orders to Rename Gulf of Mexico into Gulf of America (Sp.)

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, according to an executive order published by the White House. “Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior shall… take all appropriate actions to rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico,” the order read. The secretary will also have to remove all references to the Gulf of Mexico in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database to reflect the change.

Pardoning Capitol Rioters
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to pardon approximately 1,500 people who took part in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The order was the first one Trump signed upon arrival at the White House as the 47th President of the United States. More than 1,570 defendants have been federally charged with crimes related to the January 6 attack, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Vice President Joe Biden’s victory.

Plans to Rebuild US Military
US President Donald Trump has said he is planning to rebuild the US military, as he did during his first presidential term. “We totally rebuilt the United States military in 2017-2019 … now, we are going to do it again,” Trump said during the inaugural ball. He also added that the US military will be so strong “that we don’t have to use it.”

Withdrawing from the World Health Organization
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The president criticized the organization’s funding policies, namely the fact that the US is being demanded to pay more than China, whose population is bigger. In May 2020, Trump, during his first presidential term, announced that the country would withdraw from the WHO following his criticism of the organization’s coronavirus response. His successor, Joe Biden, retracted Trump’s decision on his first day in office.

Foreign Aid Suspension
Trump has signed an executive order to suspend foreign development aid for 90 days to assess these programs’ compliance with the US foreign policy. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered … (a) 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy,” the order said, as quoted by the White House.

Declaration of Emergency
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to declare a national emergency at the country’s southern border. “This is a proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States,” an announcer said during a ceremony. On Monday, Fox News reported that Trump would sign 11 executive orders to deploy the military to the southern border, immediately resume construction of the border wall and direct federal agencies to reinstate the Remain-in-Mexico policy, among other things.

Boosting US Energy Market Standing
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order boosting energy production in the US. The order provides for easing “permitting processes and other regulatory systems” to ensure effective drilling in the country.

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Wonder if Rubio and Trump realize how little wiggle room Russia has left after incorporating Crimea and the 4 regions. They can’t just make them subject to negotiations.

Ukraine Conflict ‘Needs To End’ – Rubio (RT)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that US President Donald Trump will begin working on a ceasefire agreement for Ukraine “almost immediately.” Rubio was the first high-level cabinet member of the new Trump administration to be confirmed by the Senate on Monday following Trump’s inauguration. Speaking to journalists shortly afterwards, Rubio said Ukraine will be a “top priority” for Trump and that efforts to reach a ceasefire will begin straight away, but did not give a specific timeframe for ending the conflict with Russia. Some of the groundwork has “already been laid,” Rubio said, adding that it will be a complicated process. “I mean, it’s a complex conflict and a bloody one, and it needs to end,” CNN quoted him as saying.

Rubio insisted that both Ukraine and Russia will have to concede “something” as part of any deal, but he did not elaborate on what such concessions might be. Asked for specifics, Rubio said negotiations with such high stakes “are best conducted through diplomacy” rather than public forums. “Obviously the countries involved, both the Russians and the Ukrainians, will have to make ultimate decisions about what they agreed to,” Rubio said. During his campaign for president, Trump had repeatedly promised to resolve the Ukraine conflict within “24 hours” if returned to the White House. Asked on Monday following his inauguration whether he would keep that promise, Trump joked that he had “half a day left.” Trump also reiterated his willingness to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with a view to finding a diplomatic settlement of the crisis, saying that he wants to get it done “as quickly as possible” and that the conflict “should never have started.”

CNN reported on Monday that Trump has instructed aides to set up a phone call with Putin within the first few days of his term. The call is expected to lay the groundwork for meetings aimed at ending the conflict over the coming months, CNN said. Responding to that report on Tuesday, Putin’s foreign-policy aide Yuri Ushakov said that Moscow had not been contacted by the White House yet. Putin extended good wishes to Trump ahead of his inauguration on Monday, saying he “welcomes” the new president’s comments about wanting to restore relations with Moscow and “the need to do everything to prevent World War Three.” Moscow remains committed to its principles and believes that dialogue must be built on an “equal and mutually respectful basis,” Putin said.

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“Ukraine has become both a key instrument and a weak link in the American strategy.”

The Ukraine Conflict Is Reshaping The Global Order (Sushentov)

The era of monolithic “Atlantic solidarity” is over, and Russia has been a major catalyst for this erosion. The United States has emerged as the primary beneficiary of the Ukraine crisis. Relations between Russia and Western Europe have been disrupted, energy infrastructure has been undermined, and the EU has been compelled to overpay Washington for military and energy supplies. However, the Americans will derive limited benefit from a deep normalization of relations: ties with Moscow will remain distant, and the tools for pressuring its European NATO allies will weaken. The interaction between the US and its European “friends” has long been viewed as a unified “transatlantic project,” based on a shared vision of security and common values. But the rise of incoming US President Donald Trump exposed fractures within this construct.

His November election win was warmly welcomed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who anticipated economic gains for his country. In contrast, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concerns and urged EU partners to consolidate against the unpredictability of Trump’s foreign policy, calling for a more united and sovereign Western Europe. Trump’s provocative actions, such as the proposal to annex Greenland, part of NATO ally Denmark, or his threats to withdraw the US from the bloc if European countries do not increase their financial contributions, were not mere eccentricities. These statements represented a departure from the traditional American strategy of acting in cooperation with allies and offering a framework of engagement where loyalty to Washington came with shared benefits for all parties.

It has become clear that the US now prioritizes its national interests above the collective goals of the Euro-Atlantic community. For decades, the West pursued the idea of an expanding “golden billion,” where the transatlantic project sought to absorb more states through economic integration and the spread of liberal democratic values, or military alliances. The goal was to showcase a high standard of living, ideological greatness, and technological superiority to the rest of the world, gradually integrating them into the Western order. Russia’s “red lines” and its push for a multipolar world order – rooted in cooperation with countries of the “world majority” – significantly limited this expansion. A clash became inevitable: the West’s support for nationalist forces in Kiev was aimed at swiftly integrating Ukraine into Euro-Atlantic structures. Moscow, however, saw this as a direct threat to its security.

Today, Trump’s rhetoric has reinforced a “every nation for itself” mentality among European leaders, pushing them toward national self-interest. Political forces in Germany, Italy, and Hungary are increasingly questioning the unconditional support for Washington’s policies. Western Europeans are becoming less enthusiastic about sanctions and military aid to Kiev, while major EU players are calculating how to ensure their own security and economic stability. Although these sentiments are not yet mainstream among Western elites, voices are growing louder that blame the West for deepening the Ukrainian crisis and advocate for rapprochement with Russia. The era of monolithic “Atlantic solidarity” is undeniably over, and Moscow has played a key role in this transformation.

Meanwhile, Kiev itself has refused to negotiate with Russia and rejected the settlement formula discussed during the Istanbul talks. Vladimir Zelensky’s political survival depends on continuing the war, regardless of the toll it takes on Ukraine. This impasse, coupled with America’s strategic gains from the conflict, makes a meaningful resolution unlikely in the near term. The root of the Ukrainian crisis lies in the collision of two grand geopolitical projects: the rigidly homogeneous transatlantic solidarity of the West and Russia’s vision of a multipolar world that embraces the natural diversity of national identities.

Ukraine, especially after the 2014 Maidan coup, has become the central battleground for this competition, a test of which system is more durable and adaptable and which vision better understands global realities and offers the most effective solutions in a world growing increasingly complex and diverse. These questions remain unresolved. Ukraine has become both a key instrument and a weak link in the American strategy. Washington’s attempt to use Kiev as leverage against Moscow has faced staunch resistance from Russia and growing divisions within the transatlantic alliance. The outcome of this struggle may lead to a broader transformation of international relations, with a shift toward a multicentric world order and a rethinking of the US role in Europe.

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Trump has suspended all foreign aid for now. Zelensky can’t be happy with that.

“..Putin would field a military force of some 2 million against the West..”

“..Putin will certainly return with an army ten times larger than the force he had in early 2022..”

Zelensky Demands At Least 200,000 ‘Peacekeepers’ On Ukrainian Soil (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly urged European nations to deploy at least 200,000 troops in his country to enforce a potential ceasefire agreement with Russia. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, he said a lower number of foreign “peacekeepers” would amount to “nothing,” according to Reuters. The remark came after Zelensky’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Previously, several media outlets claimed the UK and France were considering sending troops to Ukraine, in the event that the hostilities are suspended. Zelensky’s attendance at the gathering of international business and political elites coincided with the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the US. Trump’s administration has already paused all foreign aid programs pending review, and has pledged to ensure a swift resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

In public remarks on Tuesday, the Ukrainian leader urged Western leaders to double down on supplying Kiev with weapons and financial support, warning that if they fail to do so they could face a Russian attack on NATO in the foreseeable future. Russian President Vladimir Putin would field a military force of some 2 million against the West, Zelensky said, offering no evidence for his assertion. ”Unless we have strong security guarantees, be it NATO [membership], or a military contingent and long-range weapons deployed on the Ukrainian territory, Putin will certainly return with an army ten times larger than the force he had in early 2022,” he claimed. Zelensky estimated the number of Russian troops involved in the Ukraine conflict at 200,000 in February 2022, compared to 608,000 at present.

Ukraine has consistently portrayed its army as a bulwark protecting Europe from Russia. Zelensky and other senior figures in Kiev have argued that Western powers are obliged to provide foreign aid, as Ukrainian soldiers are dying in place of Western troops. Moscow has characterized the hostilities as a Western proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as ‘cannon fodder’. Russian officials contend that Washington pushed the tensions to boiling point while ignoring Russian security concerns stemming from NATO’s expansion in Europe, and increasing cooperation with Ukraine. Addressing these issues, Moscow insists, is an essential step towards a lasting resolution to the crisis.

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“Rozogin’s principles of war policy are acceleration on the offensive; decapitation of Vladimir Zelensky; and comprehensive militarization of the Russian domestic economy..”

Dmitri Rogozin On Fighting and Finishing The War Differently (Helmer)

In anticipation of the start of end-of-war negotiations between President Donald Trump’s retired general Keith Kellogg and the Kremlin, Dmitri Rogozin has proposed three fresh principles for the Russian outcome – acceleration, decapitation, mobilization. Since 1996 Rogozin is the longest running contestant for the Russian presidency — longer running than Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev, Sergei Glazyev, or Alexei Kudrin; only the serial loser, Gennady Zyuganov of the Communist Party, has been running for longer. At 61, Rogozin is eleven years younger than President Putin, two years older than ex-president Medvedev, and more than ten centimetres taller than both of them. If sources for Kremlin election strategy are to be believed, the most likely vote-getter to succeed if Putin retires in 2030 will be recruited from the Time of Heroes legion who are being placed into political circulation each December since the Special Military Operation (SVO) began.

With a family of Russian military leaders extending from the 13th and 17th centuries to his father, two doctorates, and state service as Putin’s ambassador to NATO, deputy prime minister for the military industrial complex, and head of the Russian space conglomerate Roskosmos, Rogozin is a unique figure in current politics. As the sitting senator for Zaporozhye region engaged in running an active military unit on the front, Rogozin is combining the military and civilian qualifications for the succession. He has also remained relatively free of oligarch ties; his line on domestic economic planning and investment priorities is anti-oligarch and war mobilizational alongside Glazyev and Mikhail Delyagin. Not even the hit jobs organized by political rivals like Alexei Navalny and the Kiev regime, have been able to silence or kill him.

Rozogin’s principles of war policy are acceleration on the offensive; decapitation of Vladimir Zelensky; and comprehensive militarization of the Russian domestic economy. Last week in a nationally circulated press interview, he called for “victory so that the armed conflict ends faster, so that we can begin a peaceful life faster…The war changes every three months. It becomes impossible to fight in the old way. New means of destruction are emerging. We must keep in mind that here we are fighting against the entire military-industrial complex of the Western countries — they are testing their weapons on us. Therefore, not only do we have no right to lag behind, we must be ahead of the curve.”

“We need solidarity of the rear and the front. Moscow, St. Petersburg, other major Russian cities should stop living their carefree life, pretending that nothing is happening. We will never return to the state that was until 2022. Never. Everyone needs to understand that. Society must understand the depth of the problem and help the army with everything it can. Only victory will bring an end to the conflict. The war cannot be frozen. Or else the war will be inherited by our children and grandchildren.”

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“McKinley himself never visited Alaska.”

Trump Renames US Landmarks (RT)

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming Mount Denali, the tallest mountain in the US, and the Gulf of Mexico. The text of the order was released by the White House on Monday. According to the document, titled “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness,” the purpose of the renaming is to promote American heritage. Trump had announced the changes in his inaugural speech on Monday. ”The naming of our national treasures, including breathtaking natural wonders and historic works of art, should honor the contributions of visionary and patriotic Americans in our Nation’s rich past,” executive order reads. The mountain in Alaska will once again be called Mount McKinley, its name from 1917 to 2015, when then-US President Barack Obama returned the peak to its original native name.

’McKinley’ bears the name of the 25th US President William McKinley, who led the US to victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898. As a result of the peace treaty, Spain relinquished its claim to Cuba, and ceded sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States. The US also annexed the independent state of Hawaii during the conflict, thus expanding its territory. McKinley himself never visited Alaska. The executive order changes the official US term for the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.” The body of water, located in the southeastern region of North America and bordered by the US, Mexico and Cuba, “has long been an integral asset” of the nation and is “an indelible part of America,” the executive order states.

It adds that the gulf’s natural resources and wildlife “remain central” to the national economy. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, first introduced in his 2016 presidential campaign, has been a cornerstone of his latest political initiatives, with the new executive order emphasizing “American greatness” in its title and linking the restoration of historic names to Trump’s broader vision of national pride. The renaming moves are part of a flurry of executive orders that Trump signed on Monday. Among them are a ban on government officials violating freedom of speech under the guise of fighting misinformation, a reversal of protections for transgender rights, and a suspension of foreign aid.

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With Covid, Tedros, Bill Gates, what choice is left?

Trump Starts US Withdrawal From WHO – Again (RT)

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will exit the World Health Organization (WHO). On Monday, his first day in office, he signed an executive order to initiate the process of withdrawing, declaring that the US would leave the UN global public health agency within 12 months. The move marks the second time Trump has ordered his country’s withdrawal from the WHO. He took steps to exit the organization in 2020, accusing it of assisting China in efforts to “mislead the world” about the origins of Covid-19. His successor Joe Biden would then reverse the decision, in his own inauguration-day move. Trump’s order on Monday stated that the US was withdrawing “due to the organization’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

It also cited the WHO’s alleged “failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.” The president also argued that the organization imposed “unfairly onerous payments” on the US, which were disproportionate compared to contributions from other, more populous countries, such as China. ”World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing of the executive order, according to media. The WHO, as a coordinating authority on international health issues, relies on funding from dues-paying member states and on voluntary contributions. The US has for decades been one of the organization’s largest donors.

During the Biden administration, the US remained the largest contributor to the WHO, which has a budget of $6.8 billion for the current fiscal year. In 2023, nearly one-fifth of its funding was provided by the US. The US has been a member of the WHO since its inception in 1948, and the withdrawal would make the country the only major power absent from the 194-member organization. In a statement released on Tuesday, the WHO expressed “regret” over Washington’s decision to withdraw, emphasizing its critical role in global health and security. The agency underscored its recent reforms aimed at enhancing accountability and efficiency, urging the US to reconsider its decision for the benefit of global health.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Beijing would continue supporting the WHO. “The role of the WHO should only be strengthened, not weakened,” Guo said. In November, Trump nominated long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy to become US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). RFK Jr. was among the vocal critics of the WHO-recommended Covid-19 response measures imposed by governments around the world, namely strict lockdowns and the introduction of rapidly developed vaccines. Kennedy’s nomination has yet to be approved by the Senate.

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“What did an official panel of Congress do that was so bad it needed to be absolved by an act of presidential clemency?”

Trump Delivered His J6 Pardons, Now Congress Must Decide (JTN)

President Donald Trump wasted no time Monday night delivering the pardons he promised Jan. 6 defendants – 1,500 in all. And in so doing, he upped the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to repudiate the findings of a Democrat-run panel whose findings have been factually challenged and whose conduct required an act of clemency. The conduct of the Democrat-run Select House Committee on the Jan. 6 attack garnered new scrutiny Monday when departing President Joe Biden issued sweeping pardons for all lawmakers and staffers on that committee as well as a handful of police officers who testified to the panel. It was a stunning act – some lawmakers who served on the committee also called it unwelcomed – that begged a provocative question: What did an official panel of Congress do that was so bad it needed to be absolved by an act of presidential clemency?

“You don’t forgive somebody of something unless they have potentially done something,” said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Georgia Republican who took over the Jan. 6 probe from Democrats two years ago and exposed major factual flaws with the original investigation’s findings. “I mean, to me, this is basically, if not an actual admission, it’s truly the perception of admitting that there was wrongdoing done,” Loudermilk told Just the News. Loudermilk has pushed for months for Congress to vote on whether the findings of the Jan. 6 committee that Democrats ran should be repudiated for history’s sake. His request is rooted in his own investigative finding showing the committee misled the American public, held exculpatory evidence and possibly colluded with federal prosecutors.

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“Blinken thanked those present for asking difficult questions, when in fact, none had really been asked in 4 years.”

Joe Biden’s Absolute Destruction of Freedom of Speech (Jay)

Sometimes the internet seems to be overbrimming with video clips showing hilarious examples of what a failed state actually looks like. One of the most common is MPs, or ‘deputies’ actually fighting in their own parliaments against one another. The irony of these clips is that they are usually uploaded by westerners who use to them as a tool to boost or gentrify the reality of western countries’ democratic models. But no more. Thanks to Joe Biden’s genocidal maniacs club, the last days of his rule gave us a gem in the form of a press conference where the limit of just how America is anything but a functioning democracy was stretched to breaking point in what appeared to both be deeply sad yet comical at the same time.

As the odious Anthony Blinken gave his patronizing speech to the so-called journalists amassed before him which felt a little like an aristocrat who had gathered the servants in the library to congratulate them on finding an item of lost jewelry of her ladyship’s, we witnessed in real time what America and what these State Department’s press briefings really are: a fraud. Blinken thanked those present for asking difficult questions, when in fact, none had really been asked in 4 years. Why? Because that is not part of the unwritten rules of how these press briefings work. But the moment he had mentioned the “difficult questions” he was, perhaps appropriately, delivered a series of difficult questions by the Jewish American journalist Max Blumenthal.

What was not so surprising was how none of those questions were answered as Blinken, being a smart operator, knew if he kept composed and didn’t rise to the bait it would probably anger Blumenthal even more allowing the tirade to look on camera at least like a rant which had got out of control. Seconds passed and Blumenthal was ushered away by officials which he didn’t offer any resistance to. Moments passed before the veteran arab journalist Sam Husseini also asked more difficult questions to an increasingly startled Blinken before we see the extent of how far America has abandoned its own free speech doctrine which it used to espouse to the rest of the world: Husseini was actually physically removed by overweight, armed police officers who you can see quite clearly feel uncomfortable about what they are doing, which most people would associate with a tin pot West African country’s ruling junta and not the American government at a press conference.

But the really shocking part of this story was yet to come: the absolute refusal by colleagues in the press room to even verbally object will have stunned journalists all over the world. It provokes many questions about journalism and what these individuals in the room think they are actually doing. We were given though a clue to quite how far journalism has died in the West and been replaced by a cheaper, easy wipe brand called ‘pseudo journalism’ – where actors take one function of journalists but who effectively work for the ruling elite rather than previously for the masses who used to fund the model by buying the actual publications. CNN reporting of the fiasco was very telling. They lost no time putting the boot into Blumenthal, who, naturally they must despise as he functions as a real journalist and they have long forgotten what this entails years ago, opting for the new model of fake news operator. They referred to Blumenthal as an “activist” – a typical slur from big media to individual journalists who carry out stellar work.

The truth about this incident is that such press conferences at the state department or indeed in the European Commission in Brussels are entirely staged. They are a theatre concocted by the elite and the press themselves as part of a dirty deal whereby the journalists ask the softball questions which allow the top figures to deliver the prepared spiel. The so-called journalists sign up to this and in return get access to individuals and scoops – although it’s important to note that the scoops are nearly always new items which serve the state’s purpose. It’s a game which has been going on for a long time and the humble masses don’t understand how they are being taken for a ride by the magicians’ allusion of something which might look credible. In these press gatherings some journalists are even asked to present certain questions which are even suggested by those holding the conference, something I witnessed myself a lot in Brussels.

It was not that the questions put to Blinken were so harsh, or even unconventional. The point is that both Blumenthal and Husseini broke the house rules when they went rogue and did what most people would view to be the role of real journalists: ask unscripted questions. Look what happens when journalist do this. We are treated to a debacle which we would expect to see in the global south, or certainly in Nazi Germany in the 30s. And this is America? The cat is out of the bag. The whole world can see now how America has lost all its links with the democratic model and become an autocracy, run, financed and ruled by Israel’s cash. Netanyahu and his cronies must have had a really good laugh watching those journalists being removed like that.

Presumably their press accreditations will be removed and certainly the worry that both of them will have is that they now mysteriously find themselves being investigated for tax irregularities, theft, fraud or even having child porn on their computers. Journalists like Blumenthal are the biggest threat to the deep state as they will never be part of the establishment and therefore will always be the most dangerous guy to tackle. The one who has nothing to lose is your biggest threat. I don’t imagine Trump and his cabal will be any kinder to him despite The Grayzone taking a more grown-up approach to Russia and how the Ukraine war is reported, as opposed to CNN’s stenographic reproduction of the State Department’s narrative, seasoned by fake news on occasion.

The real enemy for western elites is the feral truth. All pretense of a functioning democracy were eradicated in a matter of minutes with this press conference calamity which has now replaced those MPs in that central European country throwing chairs at one another in their own parliament. Great job, Joe.

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“For the Justice Department, it must feel like the Visigoths arriving at the gates of Rome . . . only to be let in by the citizens.”

How the Justice Department Made the Case for the J6 Pardons (Turley)

On January 20, 2025, the “shock and awe” campaign of the Justice Department came to an end as President Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th defendants. Four years ago, the Justice Department set out to send a chilling message to the nation. In an interview with CBS News a year later, Justice Department official Michael Sherwin indicated that they wanted to send a message with the harsh treatment of defendants. Sherwin explained that “our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe … it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because they’re, like, ‘If we go there, we’re gonna get charged.’ … We wanted to take out those individuals that essentially were thumbing their noses at the public for what they did.” The awe is gone but the shock remains at the Justice Department.

If Sherwin and his colleagues hoped to “Trump proof” the nation, they failed in spectacular fashion. While there was ample basis for criminal charges, the excessive treatment of some of the January 6th defendants undermined the credibility of their prosecutions for many. That is no easy feat. Most of us denounced the January 6th riot as a desecration of our constitutional process. Those who engaged in the rioting, and most importantly the violence, needed to be punished. However, what followed left many increasingly uneasy. The Justice Department rounded up hundreds and, even though most were charged with relatively minor crimes of unlawful entry or trespass, the Justice Department opposed the release of many from jail and sought absurdly long sentences in some cases. It also sought restrictions on defendants that raised troubling first amendment concerns.

In my recent book, “Indispensable Right,” I discuss these cases and their troubling elements. A good example is the handling of the most well-known case of the so-called QAnon Shaman. Bare-chested, wearing an animal headdress, horns, and red-white-and-blue face paint, Jake Angeli Chansley became the iconic image of the riot. Seeking to make examples of these defendants, the Justice Department took special measures in hammering Chansley. He was held in solitary confinement and denied bail. Chansley was treated more harshly because of his visibility. It was his costume, not his conduct, that seemed to drive the sentencing. In the hearing, Judge Royce Lamberth noted, “He made himself the image of the riot, didn’t he? For good or bad, he made himself the very image of this whole event.” Lamberth hit Chansley with a heavy 41-month sentence for “obstructing a federal proceeding.”

However, long withheld footage, showed recently that Chansley (like hundreds of people that day) simply walked into the Capitol past police officers and was then escorted by officers through the Capitol. At one point, two officers not only appear to guide him to the floor but actually try to open locked doors for him. Chansley is shown walking unimpeded through a large number of armed officers with his four-foot flag-draped spear and horned Viking helmet on his way to the Senate floor. Does that make Chansley’s actions acceptable, let alone commendable? Of course not. He deserved to be arrested and punished. However, what many saw was a troubled individual being made an example for others. In my book, I discuss how, in history, “rage rhetoric” was allowed to become “state rage.” This is one such case.

Trump ran on the promise to pardon these defendants and secured not just the White House but the popular vote. It was not just the public that rejected the narrative of January 6th as an “insurrection.” In the recent Supreme Court decision in Fischer v. U.S. to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings, the Court left most cases as simply a mass trespass and unlawful entry. The shock may be gone for these defendants, but it may only be beginning for the Justice Department and the FBI. When the campaign of Hillary Clinton secretly funded the infamous Steele Dossier to launch the Russian conspiracy investigation, it was the Justice Department that was not just the willing but eager partner. The “insurance policy” described by former FBI official Peter Strzok was redeemed in investigations that derailed much of Trump’s first term.

Later, it was the Justice Department again that pursued a no-holds-barred effort to convict Trump before the election. The Justice Department is the hardest of silos in Washington to reform. Unlike most departments, it is largely homogenous, with thousands of lawyers who share professional and cultural ties. It is a department composed of people who are by their very definition, litigious. Trump insisted on selecting an Attorney General, nominee Pam Bondi, who has no past ties or identification with the department. For the Justice Department, it must feel like the Visigoths arriving at the gates of Rome . . . only to be let in by the citizens. According to polling, the public ultimately found the “barbarians” less threatening than those who have insisted that Rome would fall. That must certainly be shocking for many in Washington, but the record of the Justice Department showed how the awe can become awful when officials feel the license of state rage.

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“..he threw over 500,000 Iraqi soldiers at the Iranian meat grinder, had the backing of the US AND the Soviet Union, and used chemical weapons on a scale not seen since WW1… and he barely made a dent in Iran.”

2025: The Year the Global Order Unravels (Nick Giambruno)

With Iran’s allies across the Middle East suffering devastating blows in 2024, the US, Israel, and their allies have the most favorable conditions to attack Iran that have existed in decades. I suspect they will not let this window of opportunity close without taking advantage of it. It could happen in 2025. If an attack on Iran does happen, I believe it will be the defining battle of WW3. But it will not be a cakewalk… Unlike most other nation states in the Middle East, Iran (known as Persia before 1935) is not an artificial construct. By race, religion, and social history, it is a nation. European bureaucrats didn’t dream up Iran by drawing zigzags on a map. The map reflects the geographic reality of a country with natural, fortress-like mountain borders. In the east, the Roman Empire generally ended where the Persian Empire began.

The US and its allies have tried to overthrow Iran’s government for over 46 years. They’ve tried pretty much everything short of a full-scale invasion. In short, NATO & Friends have few other cards to play against Iran. If the US really wants to decapitate the BRICS+ agenda in the Middle East, it would need to overthrow the Iranian government. That would require waging a full-scale regional war against all of Iran’s allies and launching a ground invasion of Iran. Remember, during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)—back when Saddam was a “good guy”—he threw over 500,000 Iraqi soldiers at the Iranian meat grinder, had the backing of the US AND the Soviet Union, and used chemical weapons on a scale not seen since WW1… and he barely made a dent in Iran.

The reality is that if the US is serious about invading Iran, it would likely require total mobilization and bringing back the draft. That is not likely to happen, but even if it did, it would not guarantee US victory. If Iran thought the US was going to invade, it could also develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent within a matter of weeks or less. It might also already have a couple of secretly obtained nukes. Given those unfavorable prospects, NATO & Friends could decide to use nuclear weapons on Iran preemptively. Iran is well aware that the US or Israel could use nuclear weapons against it. It has contingency plans for that outcome to ensure the survival of its government. Iran’s plans also likely include making a dash for developing its own nuclear arsenal to be able to respond in kind.

Further, it’s doubtful that Russia and China would just sit back and do nothing if NATO & Friends looked like they might nuke Iran. For example, Russia could decide to station nuclear weapons and Russian soldiers on Iranian soil as a deterrent. In short, NATO & Friends using nukes on Iran could lead to an unpredictable series of events that could quickly spiral out of control, so I don’t view it as a likely outcome. The Bottom Line: NATO & Friends don’t have any attractive options when it comes to dealing with Iran. However, with the sun about to set on the US-led unipolar world order and the most favorable conditions to attack Iran that have existed in decades, they may think it’s their last best chance and go for it in 2025.

What will happen, and who will prevail? Of course, no one can know that with certainty. That being said, I think we can count on escalating tensions that could culminate in war with Iran in 2025. The implications of that are difficult to overstate. War with Iran would undoubtedly destroy all models for the energy market and cause a global economic collapse. Most people don’t appreciate how close we are to the precipice of a historical disaster.

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    Salvador Dali Remorse – Sphinx Embedded in the Sand 1931   • Biden Family Pardons ‘Unfortunate’ – Trump (RT) • Was Biden China’s Manchurian Candi
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 22 2025]

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    Dr D Rich
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    Blinken Antony “generally” lowered the bar enough for an intellectual and physical flyweight to pass The Sticky Wicket unscathed….wicket as in Da club you’re not in, The rarefied air of the SoS Club.

    “It needs to stop!” …..D will counter give Stop a chance. :Agreed

    99 to zero

    “Statesman”-like….wasn’t Dean Rusk and William Rogers also?

    Why not Devin Nunes?
    Hell, who in hell else but Devin Nunes?
    You know, that guy, Devin Nunes, who stood his ground, stood the watch, acted on principal, loyalty and standard while M.Rubio “generally” mewled ineffectively and ineffectually as is his wont.
    (((for mike there’s no apostrophe there)))

    As long you’re picking talking heads off Fox News channel as Presidential Cabinet material, then how in the hell didn’t Jesse Watters make the cut long before fellow drinkers Pete Hegseth as Secdef and Sean Duffy at DOT.
    Jesse’s got more gravitas and better hair than Rubio, Hegs and Duffy combined

    #180056
    Oroboros
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    One has to wonder in astonishment what hallucinatory world Trump lives in to even think for a nanosecond that the Russian will entertain anything less than full demilitarizing and denazifying Ukronaziland and accepting that the 4 provinces plus Crimea are permanently part of Mother Russia.

    And NO ‘ceasefire’ and NO ‘peacekeepers’.

    Period.

    WTFU

    John Mearsheimer’s video blurb up top laid it all flat out.

    Rubio is Trump’s sock puppet so it doesn’t matter what he thinks about anything, he will do what he’s told.

    So is Trump goofing around pretending not to know or is he so sucked into his own conformation bias about Russia suffering ‘tremendous causalities’ (Big Lie) and the Russian economy in ‘tatters’ (Big Lie) that he proposes hogwash like a ‘cease fire’ with a straight face?

    We are going to see very shortly where the rubber meets the road on Ukronaziland.

    The Russians are kicking construction of Oreshnik missiles and a companion game changing as yet to be named hypersonic missile into Mass Production as we speak.

    The Russians are not bluffing and Trump had better smell the java that this is not ‘real estate deal making’

    Homey don’t play that Game


    The only known photo of Schrödinger’s Cat

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    #180057
    Dr D Rich
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    How did the Great Minds miss this one and not price it in before earnings?
    Maybe they did
    There, covered all of it.

    “NFLX +15% post-earnings”

    Blowout…..and I discontinued my subscription 4 months ago.

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    And today the calculus has changed.

    Russias calculus on Ukraine can now be shifted towards a higher speed. Ukraines combat contact and reserves are going to be thinner very soon. Russias rate is set by the feed of its grinder. When the rate of feed goes down, the forward speed of the grinder has to go up. With less chance of escalation, the feed rate itself can go up. Even more forward speed.

    Everyones calculus on globalization has changed. No need to even discuss.
    Clever sabotage calculated to stop Trump initiative? Biden redefined pardon. Trump has already made that an advantage. Cant fire them? Zero their budget. Cant fire them? Make them work at the office every day, way out in the field. Revoking security clearances speaks for itself. Cant cancle FISA702? That doesnt mean you cant prosecute abuse. The pardons themselves? Fully covered here and elsewhere. But note, liberals say theirs are innocent and conservatives are guilty. That will fall out. If you are innocent the pardon will work. If you are guity the pardon will fail. How does a pardon fail? You get WWIV doxed.

    On and on and on. Lets talk about skin suits and shadows on the cave wall etc. The people (each with a name and address) controlling the shadows could not possibly be loosing. It follows that they have decided that this change in calculus is intended. They meant to break off the levers of control at their root so that the servo loops of money laundering fail suddenly. Why else would they let their junk get stomped all over like that.

    At least they are safe and secure in the 50 states knowing the vigilante man is cowed and doxing does not happen if you go along to get along.

    We are not out of the woods yet. But that was some show, those executive order shadows.

    Maybe a word of calculus to address Oroboros observation, which I agree with totally. If Trump were SunTsu, and intended to give Russia exactly and only what they demand. Which is the only leverage Trump has. The only. Would you be walking around saying exactly that? Anything Trump says on this point is useless, worthless except to get breathing room for the surprise.

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    Oroboros
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    2025 Inauguration

    It produced:

    Envy

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    More Envy

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    Less Envy

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    Oroboros
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    #180061
    Oroboros
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    DEI worship

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    Oroboros
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    #180064
    Oroboros
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    Make Duh’merica Health

    The Managerial Class and their PHD Puffery

    “All hat and no cattle, partner”

    The Age of Pretension bleeds out……….

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    #180065
    Oroboros
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    Priorities

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    The real test of Trump will be to see the Military Maggot Milley put on trial for Treason and hung to death on the Mall for all the world to see.

    Anything less is a cope out cop out.

    Time to put up or shut up

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    Round them up, hang them high……..

    Just the tip of the iceberg

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    #180066
    Oroboros
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    Proditores Factos ad Mortem

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    Dr. D
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    Obama: “We ain’t got a magic wand! Those jobs, they’re not coming back!”

    Hadn’t thought of this, but Democrats are deciding if Greenlanders are allowed to be American. AWFUL. “Jack, you ain’t Black!” Did anyone ASK Greenland? I mean they are now and it’s complicated. So apparently, no, they jumped in and spoke for the poor illiterate snow bunnies themselves. Mommy knows best!

    “Fact Focus: A Look at False and Misleading Claims Trump Made During His Inaugural Address
    President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day speeches were punctuated by several false or misleading claims…” The Associated Press

    Haven’t learned yet. Keep going! This is great! Never stop!

    Same in Liberal circles: some note the obvious, plain as day, right in the charts, stats, polls, states. NOPE! Shouted down, we’re doing the same thing AND YOU’LL LIKE IT!

    Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they will cease attacks on Israel and on merchant shipping in the Red Sea as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect Sunday…”

    Oh, right. I don’t know if I’m sad or what. Well, Israel will break it, so not to fear.

    UK Speaker:

    Yes, I’m following this Left rhetoric still going on worldwide. Say, is calling someone “Hitler” also, perhaps, dehumanizing? My hate is the GOOD hate. Your hate is the BAD hate.

    This absence of logic and debate is foundational to them. As the next links point out that every democrat gives the “Nazi salute” the “Supremacist” Ok sign, the pardons, etc. has no effect whatsoever. It’s exactly as if it isn’t happening, so why bother? Apply yourself more productively. Reading hundreds of left comments and boards, their position is exactly where you think it is. Some are exhausted, checked out. Some are warning, with logic and reason, and the general wash hasn’t noticed a thing and keeps it up as a self-soothing mantra. Rocking in a corner: “Crusty is coming, Crusty is coming.”

    “Biden pardoned J6 Committee members because they were “innocent” — — but Trump pardoned J6’ers because they were “guilty.”

    Exactly. But when does pointing this out get boring? About 12 years ago? Conservatives, you’re going to have to give this up, along with “The rules say you can’t do that.” They did, they are. Rules aren’t even a suggestion to them, they publish whole books discussing that. So respond. And yes that means you have the challenge of not becoming the monster you fight, but everyone’s done it before.

    I’ll add one of the Liberal comments trying to help was throwing his hat in the dirt and yelling, “HOW did someone like Trump get into office, you fools? Because I talked to them (1) and even Trump supporters don’t like Trump, they just HATE YOU MORE! (2). …Naturally this was over fake news, the “making fun of disabled” Snopes, but. What were the response? Just what you think. Because all and ONLY thing he can suggest, the only POSSIBLE repair is for them to become self-aware, self-reflective and put down the Hate. That ain’t happening.

    ““You didn’t have to dedicate bandwidth to navigating lunacy like which pronouns you should be using” –Marsden

    Like this. We’ve got everyone saying it on all sides but they still won’t give it up. Hate. Feels. So. GOOD!!!

    ““Was Biden China’s Manchurian candidate the entire time?” David Asher, an expert on illicit financing who previously worked at the US Defense and State Departments, asked”

    Depends what you mean. Was he for the International Secret Lettermen that also uses or includes China? Yes, but Obama was before him. And Bush, and Clinton, way back. Truman probably. Wilson. Just to what level. It’s pretty clear it’s not China specifically. Least of all China. Chilling when you look at that $1B chart and think “That’s the smallest one.”

    “Joe Biden Delivers the Final Blow to Mainstream Media (Turley)

    By “Final Blow” you mean “No one noticed.” Got it. Media immediately jumped into why it was all right and good. The people followed instantly.

    “• Trump Orders to Rename Gulf of Mexico into Gulf of America (Sp.)

    OMG he’s serious. What a moron. So now he’s a Leftist, re-naming things means you win. He’s going to Signal the crap out of that. Signaling. He’s signaling we should punch him.

    “• Ukraine Conflict ‘Needs To End’ – Rubio (RT)

    Genius. And saying THAT will put him over the line, beyond the pale. They seem to be proposing the same: we take all Ukraine except the 5, call a DMZ, and keep them open to NATO in a few years. Uh, NO. That was the offer in 2022.

    “The era of monolithic “Atlantic solidarity” is over, and Russia has been a major catalyst for this erosion.”

    Err. The “Atlanticists” are just basic Globalists. Trump openly declared war – hot shooting war – on the Globalists, and seems to have won within our jurisdiction. Russia sorta didn’t do that. Their work didn’t hurt.

    “It has become clear that the US now prioritizes its national interests above the collective goals of the Euro-Atlantic community.”

    So weird. Why would anyone do that? A: it is and can only be, the other way around. EUROPE runs the United States. Europe, the UN, were running and subjugating the U.S. for their leisure. The Global world government was to be HQ in where? UN building in NY? Not really. EU in Brussels, or Jerusalem in Israel according to prophesy. Where was all the Power, the money running in and out of? Frankfort? No, LONDON. Even after EU, even after Brexit. Compare to Wall Street which is enormously powerful? Nope, still London, really.

    Trump’s rhetoric has reinforced a “every nation for itself” mentality among European leaders, pushing them toward national self-interest.”

    Yes, that’s called “Government”. That’s why it exists. That’s why people vote. …And so therefore the #Opposite is? Well, Globalism, yes. But “Globalism” isn’t government – no one runs it that way, not from the UN or something. Globalism is all CORPORATISM. Run by Moon or Boutros? No, anyone who hears “Globalism” thinks “Soros”, “Blankfein” “Exxon” etc. So you can vote your COUNTRY, or let Coca-Cola run things with Halliburton and Pfizer. Even your Van der Lyin’ isn’t elected.

    Now what system of organization is one were Corporations rule? Uh, “Corporatism”? And what famous leader said that was what system? A: Open Fascism. That’s where the name comes from, from the Italian/Latin word, from Benito himself.

    So if we vote our NATIONAL self-interest we seem to be voting AGAINST open fascism, yes? Wait, is that the #Opposite of what is said?

    “• Zelensky Demands At Least 200,000 ‘Peacekeepers’ On Ukrainian Soil (RT)

    And a fluffy pony. Newsflash sir: ALL EUROPE doesn’t have 200,000 men.

    “• Trump Starts US Withdrawal From WHO – Again (RT)

    It might be said that the indiviual States already had. Because “The WHO and whose army?” How did they plan on enforcing anything? Cool story bro. Get me a sammich. MAKE ME.

    Seconds passed and Blumenthal was ushered away by officials which he didn’t offer any resistance to.
    arab journalist Sam Husseini also asked more difficult questions … Husseini was actually physically removed.”

    Actually this started Day one, in the Bush administration, 25 years ago. They did nothing then either, but that’s when it started, the day after the Nazi coming out party. 912. I remember it well because nobody cared. Told them: no reaction.

    ““..he threw over 500,000 Iraqi soldiers at the Iranian meat grinder, had the backing of the US AND the Soviet Union, and used chemical weapons on a scale not seen since WW1… and he barely made a dent in Iran.”

    Same guys: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Crystal, etc. Killin’ some folks! A million, two million, open chemical weapons, what’s not to like, amirite? Saddam did what we ordered him to do, that’s why he had to be removed. He had the Sarin gas we forced him to take, that’s why he was dangerous.

    “The US and its allies have tried to overthrow Iran’s government for over 46 years. They’ve tried pretty much everything short of a full-scale invasion.”

    Nope, tried that too, that’s Saddam here. Didn’t move the lines a single mile, didn’t weaken Iran a tiny bit. The Iranians are very serious people. I say send the DoD tranny army at them. Their moral superiority will vanquish them in no time. Couple of loose adjectives, poof: total rout and surrender. Round up the p—y hats and send them to fight for women’s rights. Pew Pew.

    #180068
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    “Who else do you think he should have pardoned?”

    I.e. – who else are your co-conspirators?

    #180069
    Noirette
    Participant

    Watched parts of Trump’s inaugural address, and the pomp before, with the sound OFF.

    John Day’s description was enough, https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-starting-gun

    one full vid: https://tinyurl.com/2e568sj7 CNBC

    Light Relief, Into Symbolism.

    (Prescribed uniforms, dress, etc. of ‘officials’ (e.g. judge’s robes), the flags, etc., the laid-down parts, not dealt with.)

    Scattered observations:

    Trumpy is wearing a bi-partisan tie, he is above all that. The tie is darkish blue with small red dots / roundish shapes, which gives an overall impression of purplish from afar.

    HATS! These are very important since the British Empire! No Man dared to wear a hat, but two women did, ostensibly as a ‘fashion’ statement.

    Melania wore a black hat with a large brim, with a white band. The brim was so large that a ceremonial kiss did not work out, Trumpy couldn’t reach her cheek! (oops.)

    Black hats with white bands are in the W *universally* seen as Mafia Hats, Gangster Fedoras, Gangsta Hats, as opposed to a ‘white hat’ = an allegory, not a reference to a real hat = someone who does ‘good’ in some community.

    Her dress and hat were ‘officially’ of the deepest darkest blue but on vid it all looked black, black on black, black shoes with the cruellest spikiest heels…Melania has no clue, has dress advisors, what went on there, who knows. At the first Trumpy Inauguration she wore a pale blue frumpy baggy dress, with big buttons, in honor of Jaqueline Kennedy!

    First Daughter Ivanka was the only other woman to wear headgear, this was a sort of skewed beret covering half her head in a greenish color. (? what ?)

    Jill Stein wore a color that was close to Purple (color of Royalty and Dominators since forever.) Kamala was inappropriately dressed, dark top and pants with ZIPPERS (zips are the ultimate vulgarity) – been for a run? A very obvious sign of disrespect. Michelle Obama didn’t show.
    Elon Musk was placed next to Baron Trump.

    #180070
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Although the J6 panel certainly skirted the rules of justice (Liz Cheney and witness tampering,) I don’t think that the sweeping Biden pardon was because all involved were corrupt or guilty. I suspect the reason was two-fold: (1) a tit-for-tat pre-emption of the expected pardons for J6ers and (2) a part of the “pardon smokescreen” that the Biden administration was trying to create.

    The “pardon smokescreen” didn’t work very well.

    #180072
    zerosum
    Participant

    Today’s menu from RIM.
    Is that a thing: DELUSIONAL. Its been working since 2014.

    https: //x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1881556929547235682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1881556929547235682%7Ctwgr%5E2d6dbef2ba625e85132c394231015e36d4ae1fd3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-22-2025%2F

    ————-

    Is that a thing: preemptive pardons

    https: //x.com/mazemoore/status/1881441726101160141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1881441726101160141%7Ctwgr%5E2d6dbef2ba625e85132c394231015e36d4ae1fd3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-22-2025%2F
    —————
    Today Adam Schiff got a preemptive pardon.
    https: //x.com/mazemoore/status/1881412017917198375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1881412017917198375%7Ctwgr%5E2d6dbef2ba625e85132c394231015e36d4ae1fd3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-22-2025%2F
    —————
    Biden pardoned J6 Committee members because they were “innocent” —

    — but Trump pardoned J6’ers because they were “guilty.”

    https: //x.com/WesternLensman/status/1881542560759660709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1881542560759660709%7Ctwgr%5Eadeb4ca8a1ff089374bb9a4d0013f1a9ffd748c1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-22-2025%2F
    ———–
    How to hide the truth
    This is a complex cross shareholding scheme that I will try to sort out.
    Bottom line is that appears to be worth BILLIONS, not millions.
    How Biden got away with it is beyond reason.
    Via Hunter and his buddies, he’s tied to Bohai and CEFC.
    https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-how-joe-biden-received-laundered-china-money/

    https://x.com/dasher8090/status/1881387347037839651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1881388552090513557%7Ctwgr%5Eadeb4ca8a1ff089374bb9a4d0013f1a9ffd748c1%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-22-2025%2F
    —————
    Is that a thing: DELUSIONAL

    The Sting: Joe Biden Delivers the Final Blow to Mainstream Media


    • Joe Biden Delivers the Final Blow to Mainstream Media (Turley)

    At 11:45 am, the media felt the final sting of the Biden scandal. It was delivered by President Joe Biden, who shattered any pretense of principle in pardoning family members allegedly implicated in the influence-peddling corruption scandal. According to an old fable, a scorpion convinced a leery frog to carry him across a river, noting that he could not sting him since they would both drown. Halfway across, the scorpion struck and the frog asked why he would doom them both. The scorpion replied “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s in my nature.” For those of us who have written about the corruption of the Biden family for decades, the pardons were crushingly predictable. The President simply couldn’t resist the urge.
    The pardons were clearly timed to avoid media scrutiny and questions.
    While he described the act as one of “conscience,” it was an almost mocking act of corruption.

    In a strange way, it passed in Bidenworld as an honest moment.
    ————
    Will it be Exaggerations and lies.
    Peace

    “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
    My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” Trump said in his inaugural address.

    ————-

    Failed State America. Joe Biden’s absolute destruction of freedom of speech


    • Joe Biden’s Absolute Destruction of Freedom of Speech (Jay)

    It was not that the questions put to Blinken were so harsh, or even unconventional.
    The point is that both Blumenthal and Husseini broke the house rules when they went rogue and did what most people would view to be the role of real journalists: ask unscripted questions.
    Look what happens when journalist do this.
    We are treated to a debacle which we would expect to see in the global south, or certainly in Nazi Germany in the 30s. And this is America?
    The cat is out of the bag.
    The whole world can see now how America has lost all its links with the democratic model and become an autocracy, run, financed and ruled by Israel’s cash.
    Netanyahu and his cronies must have had a really good laugh watching those journalists being removed like that.
    ——-

    #180073
    kultsommer
    Participant

    It will not happen but still……

    #180074

    The flag at the swearing-in was partly hidden so I could not tell if the gold fringe was there.

    “a nutcase speaking to some has-beens”. Karen Kwiatkowski. brilliant comment about zelenskyyyy and the WTEF.

    #180075

    Ulbrecht pardoned.
    Does he get his bitcoin back?

    #180082
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #180083
    those darned kids
    Participant

    franchement..

    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mrna-vaccine-cure-cancer-ai-2018701

    he is so dumb that he thinks he understands.

    #180084
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ending public waste
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/

    Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing
    EXECUTIVE ORDER
    January 20, 2025

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

    Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Biden Administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs, going by the name “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), into virtually all aspects of the Federal Government, in areas ranging from airline safety to the military. This was a concerted effort stemming from President Biden’s first day in office, when he issued Executive Order 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”

    Pursuant to Executive Order 13985 and follow-on orders, nearly every Federal agency and entity submitted “Equity Action Plans” to detail the ways that they have furthered DEIs infiltration of the Federal Government. The public release of these plans demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination. That ends today. Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.

    Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear. To carry out this directive, the Director of OPM, with the assistance of the Attorney General as requested, shall review and revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment practices, union contracts, and training policies or programs to comply with this order. Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.

    (b) Each agency, department, or commission head, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Director of OMB, and the Director of OPM, as appropriate, shall take the following actions within sixty days of this order:

    (i) terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans,” “equity” actions, initiatives, or programs, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees.

    (ii) provide the Director of the OMB with a list of all:

    (A) agency or department DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures in existence on November 4, 2024, and an assessment of whether these positions, committees, programs, services, activities, budgets, and expenditures have been misleadingly relabeled in an attempt to preserve their pre-November 4, 2024 function;

    (B) Federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training materials to agency or department employees; and

    (C) Federal grantees who received Federal funding to provide or advance DEI, DEIA, or “environmental justice” programs, services, or activities since January 20, 2021.

    (iii) direct the deputy agency or department head to:

    (A) assess the operational impact (e.g., the number of new DEI hires) and cost of the prior administration’s DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” programs and policies; and

    (B) recommend actions, such as Congressional notifications under 28 U.S.C. 530D, to align agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions with the policy of equal dignity and respect identified in section 1 of this order. The agency or department head and the Director of OMB shall jointly ensure that the deputy agency or department head has the authority and resources needed to carry out this directive.

    (c) To inform and advise the President, so that he may formulate appropriate and effective civil-rights policies for the Executive Branch, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall convene a monthly meeting attended by the Director of OMB, the Director of OPM, and each deputy agency or department head to:

    (i) hear reports on the prevalence and the economic and social costs of DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” in agency or department programs, activities, policies, regulations, guidance, employment practices, enforcement activities, contracts (including set-asides), grants, consent orders, and litigating positions;

    (ii) discuss any barriers to measures to comply with this order; and

    (iii) monitor and track agency and department progress and identify potential areas for additional Presidential or legislative action to advance the policy of equal dignity and respect.

    Sec. 3. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

    Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

    (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

    (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

    THE WHITE HOUSE,

    January 20, 2025.

    #180085

    Dangle the tech-toys in front of the child-
    Watch his eyes pop from their sockets.
    Gimme some more! And the spending goes wild
    On AI, and toxins, and rockets.

    #180086
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Example: In between rhetorical touchdown dances, a few sentences shivved me right in my liberal ribs. It was these sentences:

    “After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.”

    “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. We will force a society that is colorblind and merit-based.”

    Those sentences hurt not because I disagree, but because I can’t believe that the left has fucked things up so badly that free speech, color blindness, and meritocracy are now issues that the right feels they own. In fact, those issues are so right-coded that they made the list of Things To Throw In Democrats’ Faces At The Inauguration Speech. A little more than a decade ago, those were bedrock liberal ideals. How did we screw this up?

    The answer, of course, is that radical leftists pushed a bunch of shit-for-brains ideas, and liberals were too dickless to say “what you’re saying is dumb and wrong”.

    Leftists’ singular principle is “America sucks”. I view their activism as a sort of performative LARPing driven by guilt over their privilege, and I understand that they define themselves by their rejection of mainstream society. This is why they can never admit it when something good happens — America must always be the The Worst.”

    Look at what they think the flag is a symbol of. A nation founded on equality that was willing to murder 10% of the population in order to end slavery? Not on your life. A nation that then voluntarily forced equality and Civil Rights? Surely you jest. A nation that led the way or nearly caused the highest standard of living in the history of all mankind? Nope. Nation used naughty words once. Like Mark Twain. Who used it in a book to argue FOR the innate humanity of all men. He who shall not be named, for the word which shall not be spoken.

    Yes, but we’re not doing that today, we’ve reversed to degeneracy. NOPE. Name any issue and we’re the furthest most tolerant, progressive on it in the last 10,000 years. That’s why we suck! Logic! Beat that!

    #180087
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I think we’ve hit that stage in the denouement of so-called civilization where just the friggin’ short list of crazy bullshit is too long and complicated for people to read. The task is beyond ordinary human capacity.

    There is a composite of interrelated reasons why this is so.
    a) Most people haven’t got the prerequisite information necessary to understand the items anyway.
    b) The info that they know is probably wrong, and they know it.
    c) The info that they think they know is for sure wrong, and they don’t know it.
    c) They haven’t got the interest, or the time, or the stomach to even try to go there, so they don’t go.
    d) The try to take it all in, but get so confused that they stop.
    e) The have more pressing and immediate needs that MUST be attended to first (like eating, not getting killed, and helping loved ones do the same)

    Nevertheless I just gotta say a few things about the whole damned mess while it’s still steaming. I am absolutely delighted by almost everything Trump said with those Executive orders (except the two worst ones, that I’ll get to in a moment). I reckon that a lot of miscreants, bad guys and lunatics are in shock about it. I would love to see all of the orders (except the two worst ones) come to pass, but talk is cheap. I wanna see the follow up.

    Now about those two worst ones.

    1) Regardless of Donald’s bluster and bravado there ain’t no way he’s going to preserve Zionist Israel or prevent its genocidal, suicidal, fratricidal descent into the dustbin of history. They had their chance and they blew it like no one has ever blown it before. Israel must go, and it shall go and ain’t nobody gonna save them. The trip will very very bloody if they try. If Trump tries to keep that from happening then he’s going to go when they do, and drag down anyone evil and stupid enough to back that play. Anyone who wants to join in is welcome to go to Hell with ’em. Bon voyage mother fuckers.
    Killing innocent people in pursuit of an evil purpose is nearly the dumbest and most ill advised thing that a human can do. Don’t do it.

    2) Trump can, indeed end the Ukraine war, BUT Trump cannot make Russia end the Ukraine war. If that were possible then the war would already be over. In fact, it would never have started in the first place. Trump had 4 YEARS (2016 thru 2020) to prevent the war, and instead of honestly negotiating he used those four years to arm Ukrainian, build up Ukrainian forces under NATO (United States) Command and Control and aimed them directly at Russia’s border.

    Long story short. The Ukraine war will end when Russia achieves its strategic objectives, BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMONSTRATING, AS WE SPEAK, THAT NO ONE CAN STOP THEM.

    Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and intends that all will be well, but it sure doesn’t look that way from the cheap seats.

    #180088
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #180089
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @D Benton Smith

    This Bud for you in the cheap seats:

    .

    #180090
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Another Truism for the Rock of Ages

    .

    #180094
    John Day
    Participant

    Judging Trump’s Actions Going Forward https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/judging-trumps-actions-going-forward

    First let me thank Eleni in Greece for explaining (Slovenian) Melania Trump’s inaugural hat as a protection from the “Evil Eye”, which Eleni asserts to be obvious to anybody within Mediterranean culture.

    What I propose to do going forward is to see how closely the policies and actions of President Donald Trump appear to fit with my own assessment of the conditions on our planet right now, and where I think they are going, based upon the best information I can get. So far, not bad, though words are not actions, and Trump blows a lot of smoke.

    Modern industrial economy within the natural global ecosystem is our life-support, both immediate and extended in scope. Peak net oil + condensates production was at the end of 2018, not exceeded since then, and sharply reduced during 2020-2021 COVID lockdowns. It is 90% factual that oil consumption is directly proportional to real physical-economy.
    It has long appeared to me that going-green to save the planet from C)2 induced global warming was a cover-story for reducing oil-consumption in the economy a little pro-actively, making a virtue of this ultimate necessity.
    The World Economic Forum (WEF/”Davos”) “lockstep” plan was to enforce austerity upon the working people of the world under false pretenses, and to simultaneously reduce human populations in a controlled-fashion, to reduce oil consumption without destroying industrial economy and the wealth of elites. “Useless eaters”, such as I now am, would be at the front of the line for culling, but covertly, to avoid spooking the human herds, as might happen with hospital deaths and nursing home deaths during a pandemic, and with increased “excess mortality” from medical treatments for that pandemic, such as cardiac deaths, strokes, cancers and autoimmune disease, which have increased.
    The benefit to financial elites, compared to WW-3, is that the means of production, which they own, is not destroyed, while they still maintain power and ownership.
    This has not worked as planned, largely because a fair number of us determined that they were lying to us early on, that ivermectin, zinc and vitamin-D really saved lives if just used sensibly, and later that the vaccine-products were notably less effective and also killed-some-folks. We stood our ground, and our numbers grew steadily, because we propounded truth that sets you free, rather than lies that murder the credulous.
    Trump is a real estate developer who relies on frank and factual assessments of what can be paid for a property as a purchase price and for each step of development, to arrive at ultimate revenues, which must produce actual profits, even when risks are factored in. It is notable that he openly disputed the official 9/11 story on TV on 9/11/01, based on expert architectural engineering analysis and his own experience.
    I see that Trump understands that “energy is economy” and is pushing to increase the oil and gas “production” of the US, to feed US industry first and also exports. He invites manufacturers to move to the US where oil and gas are accessible. He sees that Russian industry is thriving in these conditions, and intends to remove bureaucratic hurdles to business, which hurdles are clear to him and his advisors. Business is in favor of this. This is doable. This should goose US real economy, even though oil and gas will not pick up quickly or even very much. Global production s set to decline in his term. Russia is not declining.
    Russia and the US together can corner the oil market, and there is already OPEC+, performing this function, but self-sufficiency is different from external purchase of essentials. Russia and the US together can establish an Arctic duopoly, which must be enticing for both. Russia and China have aligned, but are rightfully suspicious of each other, their history being what it has been. China recently lowballed Russia on pipeline oil and gas, demanding too low of a subsidized price. Russia still says “no” at that price.
    The two countries with the most natural resources per capita are Russia and the US, in that order. As the world goes into an epoch of scarce oil, gas and raw materials, it is in the national interests of the US and Russia to defend their positions, particularly from transnational power centers which seek to gain control of those assets and strip the wealth away from the nation-states.
    There are assessments here that globalists are now in a position to need to negotiate after globalist-neoliberal interests in the US deep-state failed to actualize their plans under the “Biden” administration, and the “Unipolar world” model has clearly failed. Multipolarity, evidenced by nation-states and coalitions of nations with shared interests, is in ascendance.
    It looks to me like Trump is a rationalist and will prefer to be a first-among-equals, rather than a deposed tyrant. He seems to see himself and the US as a nation as one, the perspective of a traditional monarch, for better and for worse…
    I will keep watching with this as my perspective. I think Trump and Putin already have lines of communication and understanding, including Victor Orban. Trump’s bluster will not be misconstrued by Putin, but seen as intended for domestic US and European public relations.

    Surplus Energy Economics advises against extrapolating current trends as oil production won’t keep up, and that from now on the global wealth per capita will keep falling to 2050 (model limits), necessitating a focus upon essentials, rather than discretionary spending such as status symbols and vacations. It will not be difficult to keep providing necessities, but this is a political choice, which will require a fairer sharing of gradually decreasing total prosperity. THE DILEMMA OF THE REALIST
    prosperity

    #297: Dachshund economics

    #180095
    John Day
    Participant

    Charles Hugh Smith points out that extreme measures to sustain the status quo appear to work until the whole system breaks completely.
    Extremes Become More Extreme, Then Revert to the Mean
    ​ A funny thing happens as policies intended to fill financial potholes transition from “temporary emergency measures” to “we need to keep doing this to stabilize the status quo”: extremes get more extreme as what were once viewed as extraordinary policy measures required to keep the rickety system from collapsing become the “New Normal.”
    ​ Of course the Federal Reserve continues suppressing interest and mortgage rates even after the financial crisis has passed, because if they stopped, the system would revert to crisis and collapse.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/extremes-become-more-extreme-then

    ​ More from Charles, Catch-20: The 20 Dynamics That Will Shape the Next Decade
    The consensus holds that things are looking up as the mighty forces of technology, political change and the market are all in confluence, reinforcing each other in a New Roaring 20s that will remake America and the world for the better…
    ..Catch-20 is the system has to first transform itself as the means to accomplish all the wonderful things, but it’s incapable of transforming itself due to the vested interests who will move heaven and earth to keep it locked in its current configuration. The euphoric expectations are based on the belief that the system as it is today is perfectly capable of transforming the economy, society and daily life.
    ​ But if we examine the system as a system, stripped of ideology and other belief structures, we find a system of contradictory dynamics that are largely impervious to political change, technology or the market. In other words, the forces that are aligned to transform life have little purchase on the system dynamics that are operating beneath the surface euphoria.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/catch-20-the-20-dynamics-that-will

    ​Under 12 minutes, clear and succinct: Michael Hudson: Why Is the American Empire Crumbling? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUohixneyAM

    Meryl Nass MD presents Alexander Dugin’s assessment of the decline of the unipolar, neoliberal order, which is easier to read than on Dugin’s blog.
    Alexander Dugin, NOT an adviser to Putin but a philosopher, has analyzed modern US history and Trumpism for us
    T​rump’s Revolution:
    ​..Biden failed to deliver on these objectives for a variety of reasons.
    Russia under Putin did not capitulate and withstood unprecedented pressure, including sanctions, conflict with the Ukrainian regime supported by all Western countries, economic challenges, and sharp reductions in natural resource exports. Despite these, Putin prevailed, and Biden could not achieve victory over Russia.
    ​ China remained resolute, continuing its trade war with the U.S. without suffering critical losses.
    Modi’s government in India could not be toppled during the electoral campaign.
    ​ BRICS held a spectacular summit in Kazan, on Russian territory in the midst of its confrontation with the West, marking the rise of multipolarity.
    Israel’s actions in Gaza and Lebanon escalated into genocide, undermining any globalist rhetoric. Biden had no choice but to support this, further discrediting his administration.
    ​ And most importantly, Trump did not give up. He consolidated the Republican Party on an unprecedented scale, continuing and even radicalizing his populist agenda.
    Over time, Trump’s movement developed into a distinct ideology. Its central premise was that globalism had failed, and its crisis was not a fabrication by adversaries or propaganda but the actual state of affairs. Consequently, the U.S. must follow Samuel Huntington’s approach rather than Francis Fukuyama’s, return to realism, and revive its core American (and more broadly Western) identity. This involves abandoning woke culture and the liberal experiments of recent decades, effectively resetting American ideology to its early classical liberal roots with a significant emphasis on nationalism and protectionism. This ideological project became encapsulated in Trump’s slogan: “Make America Great Again” (MAGA).​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/alexander-dugin-said-to-be-an-adviser

    ​ Longish and detailed: 2025: The Year the Global Order Unravels
    NATO & Friends don’t have any attractive options when it comes to dealing with Iran.
    ​ However, with the sun about to set on the US-led unipolar world order and the most favorable conditions to attack Iran that have existed in decades, they may think it’s their last best chance and go for it in 2025.
    ​ What will happen, and who will prevail?
    Of course, no one can know that with certainty.
    ​ That being said, I think we can count on escalating tensions that could culminate in war with Iran in 2025.
    The implications of that are difficult to overstate.
    ​ War with Iran would undoubtedly destroy all models for the energy market and cause a global economic collapse.​ https://internationalman.com/articles/2025-the-year-the-global-order-unravels/

    #180096
    John Day
    Participant

    Simplicius may take Trump’s bluster too seriously, Trump Storms Out the Gate, But Already Falters on Ukraine
    ..Suspending foreign aid to all countries for 90 days, which includes Ukraine.
    A Ukrainian journalist who allegedly met with Washington Post staff reported that a full reboot was in order on Ukraine:
    ​ “Alarming: The Pentagon has fired and suspended everyone who was responsible for Ukraine and aid to it. The US Department of Defense is in a complete reboot”​… In the Pentagon, everyone who was responsible for Ukraine has been fired and suspended. They will all face an investigation into the use of US budget money.
    The US this morning in Washington, withdrew all applications to contractors for logistics through Rzeszow, Constanta and Varna. At NATO bases in Europe, all shipments to Ukraine have been suspended and closed.​..
    ..Trump forewent the now expected blustering bravado about marching up to Putin and forcing him to end the war in a single day. Instead, in an uncharacteristically quiet and uncertain tone, Trump remarked that negotiations would depend entirely on whether Putin is interested or not​.
    ​ Unfortunately, Trump exposes his complete ignorance and lack of credibility when it comes to the Ukrainian conflict by subsequently complaining that Russia has suffered an outrageous one million dead soldiers in the war. How can anyone possibly count on the man so ill-informed to be the savior that miraculously ends the war?​…
    ..He goes on to say that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal, and the way he says it almost feels as if Trump is now convinced that Putin has already made up his mind not to “make a deal”. He further claims that Russia’s economy is in ruins, and most notably, says that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia… This is the first time we’ve gotten confirmation straight from Trump himself, rather than Kellogg and the like, that he is in fact considering the ‘nuclear option’ of playing ‘hardball’ with Russia, should Putin refuse to bend the knee….​ He’s asked plainly whether he’ll sanction Russia if Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table, and his response is: “That sounds likely.”​…
    ..Now, sensing the pitfall Trump may sleepwalk into, top Trumper Steve Bannon has warned that Trump is in danger of creating his own “Vietnam”… He correctly notes:
    ​ “If we aren’t careful, it will turn into Trump’s Vietnam. That’s what happened to Richard Nixon. He ended up owning the war and it went down as his war not Lyndon Johnson’s,” Bannon said.
    ​ And it’s true: Trump knows China is eating the US’ lunch on the economic front and as others like Rubio have pointed out, the US has a very limited time window to somehow change the calculus in a way that keeps it in the race with China. If Trump’s vanity keeps him from detaching himself from Ukraine he risks doing the dance with Russia to the point of US exhaustion while an unhindered China laps them all.
    ​ Russia may not be China but on Russia’s home turf—which Ukraine essentially is—the ‘superpower’ US does not have the advantage and will find itself sucked into a war of attrition it cannot win. That’s not to mention that rumors swirl around Zelensky preparing a false flag of some kind to drag Trump into the war​…
    ..One supposes that one possibility is that Trump may make a kind of ‘half effort’ in applying ‘punitive sanctions’ against Russia only to appease the deep state neocons and warmongering media, but with the full knowledge that it won’t do much and that Russia will overrun Ukraine either way.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-storms-out-the-gate-but-already

    ​From last week: Trump says he will meet #Putin “very quickly” after his inauguration
    Asked about his plans to end the conflict between #Russia and #Ukraine, Trump said: “There is only one strategy and it is up to Putin.” US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will try to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after his inauguration, he said in an interview. https://x.com/ferozwala/status/1879130052908237054

    Russia plays up the “small” window of opportunity for constructive negotiations:
    “Settle Now, And STOP This Ridiculous War!”: Trump Threatens Tariffs As Russia Sees ‘Small’ Window For Deal On Ukraine
    ​ “Compared to the hopelessness in every aspect of the previous White House chief (President Joe Biden), there is a window of opportunity today, albeit a small one,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told an audience at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Moscow.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/settle-now-and-stop-ridiculous-war-russia-sees-small-window-deal-ukraine-trump

    ​Industrial suppliers must have a “plan-B” in case importing from China becomes problematic: Major US Firms Demand Suppliers Embrace “China + 1” Factory Strategy https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/major-us-firms-demand-suppliers-embrace-china-1-factory-strategy

    ​ Trump threatens Russia with new sanctions
    Washington will also be looking into the possibility of sending additional weapons to Kiev, the US president has said​ https://www.rt.com/news/611437-trump-ukraine-sanctions-putin/

    #180097
    John Day
    Participant

    All of them: Trump pardons January 6 rioters, The 47th US president has issued “full pardons” to around 1,500 people associated with the storming of the Capitol in 2021 https://swentr.site/news/611363-trump-pardons-capitol-rioters/

    Federal Government Authorizes Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants At Schools, Churches​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-government-authorizes-arrests-illegal-immigrants-schools-churches

    Pentagon Reportedly Deploying 1,500 Active Duty Troops To US-Mexico Border​ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-reportedly-deploying-1500-active-duty-troops-us-mexico-border

    ​ Musk’s “X” also censors. Trump targets Biden-era social media ‘censorship’
    The US president has accused his predecessor of abusing the law under the pretext of fighting “disinformation”​ https://swentr.site/news/611357-trump-order-fighting-censorship/

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Trump orders ‘blackout’ at CDC, FDA, NIH as health agencies prepare for MAGA bloodbath/ Daily Mail
    This is how you take control of agencies that have been spewing misinformation without heed and ordering awful policies like the bird flu culls.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/trump-orders-blackout-at-cdc-fda

    #180098
    John Day
    Participant

    Meritocracy is purportedly back: Trump rolls back transgender rights and DEI
    Executive orders aim to eliminate ‘radical gender ideology guidance’ and review diversity initiatives in federal policies and programs​ https://swentr.site/news/611369-trump-rolls-back-transgender-rights-dei/

    All Federal DEI Offices To Be Closed By Wednesday EOD, Workers Placed On Paid Leave​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/all-federal-dei-offices-be-closed-wednesday-eod-workers-put-paid-leave-white-house

    ​ Dr. Nass has the best compilation with assessments/comments so far: Here is the list of the President’s Executive Orders of Jan. 20, 2025 and my brief thoughts on some of them https://merylnass.substack.com/p/here-is-the-list-of-the-presidents

    This is longer, with more details in some instances: An Overview Of Trump’s Day One Executive Actions https://www.zerohedge.com/political/overview-trumps-day-one-executive-actions

    You can hold the pardon until after taking the 5th in court is already played, and you still need it: Joe Biden Pardons Give Allies Potential 5th Amendment Headache https://www.newsweek.com/biden-pardons-liz-cheney-fauci-fifth-amendment-problem-2017786

    #180099
    John Day
    Participant

    It’s ok for Israeli Jewish settlers to slaughter Palestinians. They are not part of the deal: Trump cancels sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-cancels-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers-in-west-bank

    Exodus From Netanyahu’s Cabinet: Could It Trigger Elections, Topple PM’s Cabinet?​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20250120/exodus-from-netanyahus-cabinet-could-it-trigger-elections-topple-pms-cabinet-1121476501.html

    Head Of IDF Resigns Over Oct. 7 Failures As Opposition Leaders Call On Netanyahu To Step Down​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-idf-resigns-over-oct-7-failures-opposition-leaders-call-netanyahu-step-down

    Ocean Rates Could Fall As Houthis Say They Will End Red Sea Attacks​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ocean-rates-could-fall-houthis-say-they-will-end-red-sea-attacks

    ​ There are secret supplemental texts, which can be added. Were they?
    Russia-Iran Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation: a signal to Washington, yes; but by whom and about what?​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/20/russia-iran-treaty-on-comprehensive-strategic-cooperation-a-signal-to-washington-yes-but-by-whom-and-about-what/

    #180100
    John Day
    Participant

    US and European intelligence agencies have found no evidence of Russia’s involvement in damaging underwater cables on the bottom of the Baltic Sea​ https://en.topcor.ru/55779-specsluzhby-ssha-i-evropy-ne-nashli-dokazatelstv-prichastnosti-rossii-k-povrezhdenijam-podvodnyh-kabelej-na-dne-baltiki.html

    ​Kyle Young frames the question with technical information: This time WAS different: Was the L.A. fire Santa Ana wind geoengineered? https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/was-the-la-fire-santa-ana-wind-geoengineered

    American Bread: DEADLY chemical herbicide GLYPHOSATE gets DOUSED onto U.S. wheat, barley, rye and beans as a DRYING AGENT before harvest https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-01-19-glyphosate-doused-crops-drying-agent-before-harvest.html

    Jessica Rose Ph.D. LNP spike mRNA induction of changes in proteins related to vasculature formation and maintenance (collagen) in the heart
    A new Nature paper provides evidence of specific harms induced by modRNA-LNP-based products​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/lnp-spike-mrna-induction-of-changes

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, The UK government knew that COVID vaccine I injuries could cost them $75-300 Billion pounds ($92-369 Billion US dollars)/ The Telegraph reports on the UK COVID Inquiry
    ​ Both the US and UK reported 80% vaccination rates; the US population is 5x greater. The US offers a higher maximum payout; the UK pays nothing for injuries under 60% disabling.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-uk-government-knew-that-covid

    #180101
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Celia Farber, WHO Rape Scandal: At Least 83 Staff Sexually Assaulted, Raped, Victims As Young As 13—NONE FIRED; Tedros, Before His Ascent, Was Genocidal Killer And The People Of Ethiopia Tried To Warn Us
    ​ Attached Is “The Tedros File.” A Must Read; The Full Horror Of Tedros Must Come Clear. WHO Must Never Be Normalized​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/who-rape-scandal-at-least-83-staff

    ​ Meryl Nass says that Trump’s last announcement of intent to withdraw remains good, despite Biden rejoining, so the US can exit immediately.
    MSM is full of errors about the WHO withdrawal, so I will correct them.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/msm-is-full-of-errors-about-the-who

    ​What the sun will look like 3 days before to 3 days after a solar micronova (Don’t watch it.): Solar Micronova – The Week of the Event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3N8VOGoE0U

    #180102
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Homer my Homie

    From his lips to God’s Ear…….

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    #180103
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who are the influencers on USA foreign policy?
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/zelenski-having-failed-blaims-his-sponsors-.html#more

    The U.S. proxy war on Russia, which has sacrificed Ukraine, was based on research on how to ‘extend Russia’ published in 2019 by the Pentagon think-tank RAND Corp.

    https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

    This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia.
    As the 2018 National Defense Strategy recognized, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia.
    This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage.
    Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from Western and Russian sources, this report examines Russia’s economic, political, and military vulnerabilities and anxieties.
    It then analyzes potential policy options to exploit them — ideologically, economically, geopolitically, and militarily (including air and space, maritime, land, and multidomain options).
    After describing each measure, this report assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood that measure could be successfully implemented and actually extend Russia.
    Most of the steps covered in this report are in some sense escalatory, and most would likely prompt some Russian counter-escalation.
    RAND found that the most favorable way to ‘extend Russia’ was to use Ukraine in a war against it by providing it with lethal weapons:

    At the time the RAND advice was published it had already been followed.
    Shortly after the 2014 Maidan coup the CIA had launched an intensive cooperation with the military intelligence service of Ukraine.
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    https://www.rand.org/topics/ukraine.html
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