Balthus Girl at a window 1957
The good news first.
• Musk Expresses ‘Regret’ For Attacks On Trump (RT)
Elon Musk has said he went “too far” with some of his recent social media posts targeting US President Donald Trump. The two traded threats and insults online last week, in a row that was widely viewed as an end of their “bromance.” “I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk said on his X account early on Wednesday morning. Musk sponsored Trump’s run for a second term to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, which he claimed was crucial for the Republican candidate’s victory last November. After taking office, Trump appointed Musk to serve as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with slashing government waste.
In recent weeks, however, the tech entrepreneur has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” that requires Congressional approval to fund the president’s second term policy priorities. Musk branded the proposal full of “pork” and claimed it reneged on the campaign promise to decrease the federal debt. Trump claimed last week that Musk opposed the bill out of self-interest, which triggered a barrage of increasingly hostile posts between the pair. The president branded Musk “crazy,” while the tech billionaire alleged that Trump was complicit in the sex offenses of late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Musk later deleted the post.
Musk did not specify which of his previous posts he now found regrettable. Media reports have suggested that his associates and the White House were engaged in backchannel communications in a bid to deflate the tensions. Trump publicly said he was not interested in direct contacts with Musk, but later appeared to tone down his rhetoric toward the entrepreneur.
They need it to spread.
• LA Mayor Declares Local Emergency, Issues A Curfew For Downtown Los Angeles
In a bizarre twist, after spending much of the past week pleading just how peaceful the LA riots hugfest has been, and slamming Trump for deploying the national guard to the city after the local police was ordered to stand down, moments ago LA mayor Karen Bass announced that a curfew will be put into effect for one square mile of downtown Los Angeles following four nights of violent, chaotic protests and looting, during which the LAPD arrested more than 150 people.
“LA MAYOR: “I have declared a local emergency & issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles.” “Last night, there were 23 businesses that were looted.” “Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew.” pic.twitter.com/N9V3DsB5GQ — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 11, 2025″. The curfew will extend from 8 pm to 6 am and will extend for several days. But before anyone gets ideas that this was a sincere gesture meant to protect the lives of innocent civilians, keep in mind that the mayor explicitly wanted to highlight just how contained the curfew zone will be. It will apply to the area of downtown from the 5 Freeway to the 110 Freeway and from the 10 Freeway to where the 110 Freeway and the 5 Freeway merge, Bass said. In other words, see – the rest of LA is perfectly safe. Well, we’ll see.
The mayor made the announcement Tuesday evening after suggesting earlier in the day that she would consider a curfew if violence broke out again. It did. The curfew comes as arrests have increased every night since protests began in response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Southern California. No one was arrested by Los Angeles police on Friday night, but 27 were arrested Saturday, 40 were arrested Sunday, and 114 were arrested Monday, according to Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell. Some would call it a wave of escalating peace. Bass and other elected officials in Los Angeles have repeatedly asked protesters to remain nonviolent and refrain from spray-painting graffiti or otherwise vandalizing or burglarizing businesses. But each morning, new, often explicit, graffiti has adorned buildings across downtown. Oh, and of course, the looting did not help to demonstrate just how peaceful the illegal LA immigrant communist are.
So to summarize leftist governance:
• Let rioters rage
• Call it “peace”
• mpose curfews to protect your narrative, not your citizens
• And when reality contradicts ideology, they don’t change policies—they change the vocabulary. “Mostly peaceful” is the mask they put on urban ruin.
Soros lives.
• More Riots Break Out in Chicago, Other Cities Across US (PJM)
It’s the fifth night of the “peaceful” anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, and the lawlessness is spreading throughout the country like, well, like wildfire. NBC reported that demonstrations were planned in cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta on Tuesday, and it looks like some of them are beginning to resemble what’s going on in Southern California. The New York Post reports that at least 45 people have been arrested in New York City so far in various places throughout Lower Manhattan, including Foley Square. The Post also claims that large groups of people are wearing keffiyehs associated with the pro-Palestine movement. The NYPD ordered “a level three mobilization to handle the mass of people.” Here’s a look at New York City tonight, where the thousands gathered are storming police barricades, blocking traffic, throwing objects at officers, and shouting things like “Shame, shame, shame” and “F*** the police.” (Language warning for all of the videos below.)
🚨 #BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters are now storming NYPD barricades, and quickly being thrown on the ground by police
These faceoffs are getting increasingly intense across the country.
And practically NO Democrats are condemning it.
WTF?!
pic.twitter.com/YdqzaLk6RR— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 11, 2025
Foreign terrorists protesting deportation in NYC.pic.twitter.com/7gN7VVJjP0
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 11, 2025
Things seem to be even worse in Chicago, where thousands of people took to the streets earlier today.
HAPPENING NOW: Massive protest underway in Chicago where demonstrators are protesting the nationwide ICE raids.
The group is being closely monitored by Chicago police, who are setting up blockades with their bikes to navigate the large crowd.
Other cities, including… pic.twitter.com/u5gyFRzzDn
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 10, 2025
At some point, a car drove through the crowd, hitting at least one pedestrian. It’s not clear whether anyone was injured. According to the Chicago Sun Times, “The driver was stuck between police vehicles on State Street. Officers wanted to guide her away from the crowd and asked her to turn right on Monroe Street, but she ignored their orders and turned left, speeding into the crowd. One officer tried to get the driver to stop and pulled on the driver’s-side door handle, but the driver sped off.”
“Mexican and Palestinian flags have been a ubiquitous presence in the demonstrations..”
• Trump Vows To ‘Liberate Los Angeles’ – Slams ‘Third World Lawlessness’ (NYP)
President Trump on Tuesday vowed to “liberate Los Angeles” from “Third World lawlessness” on night five of the anti-ICE riots raging through downtown LA in a fiery speech to US troops. Trump, defending his decision to deploy the National Guard and US Marines to the City of Angels amid violent riots, argued that without the reinforcements, LA would be “burning” like it did when wildfires swept through Southern California in January. “Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third-world lawlessness, like is happening in California,” Trump told soldiers during a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. “As commander in chief, I will not let that happen.”
The president declared that the 4,000 Guardsmen and 700 Marines he dispatched to Los Angeles will “protect federal law enforcement” carrying out his mass deportation order “from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob.” “If we didn’t do it, there wouldn’t be a Los Angeles. It would be burning today just like the houses were burning a number of months ago,” Trump argued, referring to the wildfires. “Within the span of a few decades, Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest, and most beautiful cities on Earth to being a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks,” the president said. “It’s horrible.” “As the entire world can now see, uncontrolled migration leads to chaos, dysfunction, and disorder.”
“Very simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again,” Trump pledged. “It’s happening very quickly.” Protesters have been clashing with local police and federal authorities in Los Angeles since Friday. The unrest was sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting criminal illegal immigrants in the sanctuary city, where officials, including Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, refuse to go along with Trump’s immigration crackdown. “What you’re witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and on national sovereignty, carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags,” Trump said. Mexican and Palestinian flags have been a ubiquitous presence in the demonstrations and violent rioting that have plagued the city for the last five days.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the presence of foreign flags arguably makes the LA riots “worse” than the unrest that broke out in Minneapolis in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in police custody. The senator called on Trump to consider invoking the seldom-used Insurrection Act of 1807, which would allow US troops to conduct law enforcement activities, to quell the rioting. After Trump’s speech, Bass announced that a curfew would go into effect in parts of downtown Los Angeles in response to the violence and looting. “We reached a tipping point,” Bass said at a news conference, declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were vandalized Monday night.
The only option on the table.
• Federal Judge Denies Newsom’s Request to Restrict National Guard in LA (DS)
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon denied California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to immediately limit President Donald Trump’s use of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles. Newson asked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to limit the enforcement activities of the federal troops to the “immediate vicinity” of federal property while Newsom’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to LA proceeds. The governor asked for a quick ruling on the matter since National Guard troops have already begun arriving in LA to protect federal buildings and personnel from violent rioters protesting immigration enforcement operations. On Thursday afternoon, the court will hold a hearing on the matter.
🚨JUST IN: Judge Breyer has DENIED Newsom's emergency motion to block Trump's deployment of the National Guard, opting to set a hearing for Thursday. pic.twitter.com/S4CXuZFDod
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) June 10, 2025
The judge’s decision to deny Newsom’s request for an immediate restraining order follows five consecutive days of rioting in LA that began Friday in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Videos from the riots show protesters setting fires to vehicles and assaulting law enforcement. A number of police officers have been injured in the riots, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Trump initially ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to LA and on Monday announced he would be sending an additional 2,000 to the California city. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also announced Monday that he was sending 700 Marines from Camp Pendleton to LA. The primary role of the National Guard troops Trump pledged to deploy is the protection of federal government property and federal employees.
The National Guard troops “may perform those military protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably necessary to ensure the protection and safety of Federal personnel and property,” the White House explained as it announced the deployment of the troops. New polling released Tuesday reveals that more than half of U.S. voters support Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to LA. RMG Research polling conducted among 1,000 registered voters on Monday found that 52% of respondents either “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to LA in the face of the fiery street protests. While 42% of American voters don’t approve of the president’s action, 7% are “not sure” what they think about the deployment of the troops in the California city.
“..when it comes to the issue of safety and security, all you have to do is look at what’s happening and has been happening in Los Angeles..”
• Senate Majority Leader Supports Sending Troops to LA (DS)
Senate Republicans weighed Tuesday in on the riots that have been occurring in Los Angeles, stressing support for law enforcement. The protests in LA quickly morphed into outbreaks of violence against law enforcement, prompting President Donald Trump to send in the California National Guard and U.S. Marines.A majority of registered voters support Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell the disturbance, according to a new poll conducted by RMG Research. “I think when it comes to the issue of safety and security, all you have to do is look at what’s happening and has been happening in Los Angeles to realize that our law enforcement needs all the support that we could possibly give to them,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said at a Tuesday press conference.
“I was heartened to hear the mayor of Los Angeles say yesterday that her interaction with the American military, particularly the National Guard, has been one of collaboration, and to me, that’s how it ought to be,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in response to a reporter’s question about sending troops to LA. “It seems to most Americans that this is a very dangerous situation, and I really think the governor may be making a mistake there, politically, when the situation is fraught with the possibility of extreme violence,” Wicker continued. In response to a reporter’s question regarding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s contention that Trump’s federal deployment of troops was not needed in LA, Wicker, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, contended that the governor of his state, Mississippi, would have been happy to have additional law enforcement personnel in his state.
“In similar situations, I would say the governor of Mississippi would be happy to have all the help he could get,” Wicker noted. Thune said he thinks that the issue of the violence in Los Angeles comes down to the basic role of government. “And I think that, as Sen. Wicker pointed out, it’s kind of a political imperative, honestly, because one of the most fundamental questions most people and most lawyers ask is: Is my family safe? Is my neighborhood safe? Is my community safe? Is my country safe?” the Senate majority leader explained. “And [when] you can’t answer that in the affirmative, then you got a problem. And I think that’s what they ran into in LA, which is why they needed some outside help,” Thune added. “But at the end of the day, it was about preventing chaos and preserving law and order,” the South Dakota senator added.
Who’s the boss?
• Appeals Court Keeps Trump’s Tariffs In Place For Now (ZH)
In the latest court victory for President Trump, late on Tuesday a federal appellate court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration’s request to keep the president’s tariffs in effect for now but agreed to fast track its consideration of the case this summer. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extended its earlier temporary pause of a trade court decision that found Trump exceeded his powers in imposing the tariffs. Late last month, the U.S. Court of International Trade, which has national jurisdiction over trade disputes, halted the tariffs, siding with five small businesses and a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged Trump’s actions.
The appeals court said it intends to hear arguments on July 31, which means the tariffs will remain in effect for at least the next two months. All of the court’s active judges will participate in the case; the losing party is expected to seek review at the Supreme Court. Since starting his second term, President Trump has announced a barrage of tariffs that has sparked a global trade war and threatened to upend the world economy. He asserted his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in imposing most of the levies, including duties on Canada, Mexico and China over fentanyl smuggling, and his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs in April.
“This administration takes a very different view of that conflict,,”
• US To Cut Ukraine Aid – Defense Secretary (RT)
The White House will be slashing military funding for Ukraine as the administration of US President Donald Trump seeks a peaceful resolution to the conflict, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. The Pentagon chief made the statement before the House Appropriations Committee in Congress on Tuesday. “It is a reduction in this budget,” Hegseth said when asked about upcoming military aid funding for Ukraine. “This administration takes a very different view of that conflict,” he added. Trump has worked towards negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict and has diplomatically re-engaged with Russia. Since he took office in January, Moscow and Kiev have restarted direct talks for the first time since 2022, when Ukraine unilaterally left the first Istanbul negotiations.
“A negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation’s interests especially with all the competing interests around the globe,” Hegseth said. The Trump administration has also touted an “America First” pivot and significantly cut foreign assistance, including aid to Ukraine, promising to channel funds towards domestic issues.Last week, US Vice President J.D. Vance echoed Trump’s criticism of his predecessor Joe Biden, accusing his administration of spending “crazy” amounts of money on supporting Kiev. “They sent $300 billion to Ukraine,” without “trying to force a diplomatic settlement,” he said.
In April, Trump signed a major deal with Kiev allowing the US priority access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth, in what he described would be a way for Washington to “get back” the hundreds of billions it spent on Ukraine under Biden. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has often complained of a constant shortage of US-supplied air defenses, and waning assistance from Washington in recent months. Additionally, the Trump administration rerouted some 20,000 anti-drone missiles – initially earmarked for Kiev under Biden – to the Middle East, the Ukrainian leader claimed on Sunday.
Relevance, your honor…
• EU Wants To Prolong Ukraine Conflict – Putin Envoy (RT)
The European Commission’s latest sanctions package, which targets the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), among other entities, is driven by the bloc’s desire to prolong the Ukraine conflict, according to Kirill Dmitriev, the RDIF’s CEO and a presidential investment envoy.The 18th sanctions package, unveiled by EC President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, targets Russia’s energy exports, infrastructure, and financial sector. It includes measures against the RDIF, its subsidiaries, and investment projects in an effort to stop it from funding initiatives to “modernize the Russian economy.” By going after RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the EC acknowledges it is “an important channel” for strengthening Russia’s industrial base, Dmitriev said in a statement.
Von der Leyen’s remarks were “driven by the EU’s desire to prolong the Ukraine conflict and its deep dissatisfaction with RDIF’s efforts to restore Russia-US relations,” as well as the fund’s role in Moscow’s peace initiatives, he added. Dmitriev has played a prominent role in efforts to improve relations between Moscow and Washington, which reached its lowest point in decades under the administration of Joe Biden The official took part in high-level meetings in Saudi Arabia and visited Washington in April for talks on potential joint investment projects in rare earths and energy. The EU’s proposal also signals opposition to cooperation between Russian and European businesses, which the RDIF “actively supports in Russia,” according to Dmitriev. In a post on X on Tuesday, Dmitriev noted that Russia has “a number of joint investments with the leading EU companies” and said that the fund has “helped significantly” many European firms that continue to operate in the country.
The new sanctions package also proposes a ban on the use of Nord Stream gas infrastructure, a reduction in the oil price cap, and a halt to imports of all refined products derived from Russian crude. The draft will now be debated by EU member states and must be approved unanimously to take effect. Previous rounds have faced pushback from countries such as Hungary and Slovakia, which argue the sanctions hurt the EU more than Russia. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that Bratislava won’t back the package unless the EU offers “a real solution to the crisis” that his country would face from a halt in Russian energy supplies.Russia has rejected the Western sanctions as illegitimate and counterproductive. President Vladimir Putin has said the removal of sanctions is among the conditions for a settlement of the Ukraine conflict.
And they eat babies too.
• German Intelligence Chief Claims Russia Could Attack NATO (RT)
Russia could attack NATO countries after the Ukraine conflict is over, Bruno Kahl, the head of the German foreign intelligence agency (BND), has claimed while defending the drive to boost defense spending. “We are confident, and have the intelligence data that Ukraine is merely one step on [Russia’s] path toward the West,” Kahl stated when asked why Germans should agree to take on “additional debt” to fund the rearmament program and potentially reintroduce conscription abolished in 2011. “There are people in Moscow who no longer believe that NATO’s Article 5 would be upheld — and they would like to put it to the test,” the spy chief said. He argued that Russia is skeptical about the US resolve to defend its allies and send American troops “across the Atlantic to die for Tallinn, Riga, or Vilnius.”
Russia could “send little green men to Estonia” under the guise of protecting the Baltic state’s Russian-speaking minority, Kahl claimed. Western media used the term “little green men” to describe commandos sent to protect the residents of Crimea ahead of the 2014 referendum, in which the largely ethnic Russian region rejected the US-backed coup in Kiev and voted to secede from Ukraine and become a part of Russia. Kahl suggested that Russia’s ultimate goal is to “catapult NATO back to where it was in the late 1990s,” and push the US out of Europe. Moscow views the US-led alliance’s expansion eastward as a threat, and has cited it as one of the root causes of the Ukraine conflict.
President Vladimir Putin, however, has on numerous occasions stated that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO states unless it is attacked first. Moscow has also warned that Western military aid to Kiev de facto makes NATO “a direct participant” in the conflict. Germany has ramped up its hostile rhetoric against Russia under new Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said last month that Ukraine could receive long-range Taurus cruise missiles. He also pledged to assist Ukraine in the production of its own long-range weapons. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has responded by accusing Germany of undermining the peace process.
Zelensky must proof he’s legit.
• Zelensky Refuses Talks On Territory With Anyone Except Putin (RT)
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has said he will only discuss territorial issues with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Hungarian outlet Valasz Online released on Tuesday, Zelensky said the Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Istanbul is not authorized to negotiate territorial issues with the Russian side.”Our memorandum is a basis for negotiations. Based on it, our delegation has a mandate to discuss humanitarian issues… or the ceasefire,” the Ukrainian leader stated.“What they do not have a mandate for is to discuss the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”
This is “our own constitutional matter,” he said. “It is my job to have a dialogue about territories – and Putin, who stole them. I will not discuss my position on this with anyone else.”Zelensky’s remarks follow the second round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul earlier this month. During the latest talks, both sides exchanged proposals for ending the conflict. Russia’s road map for peace requires Ukraine to recognize the loss of five regions that joined Russia in referendums, withdraw its forces from these regions, commit to neutrality, and limit its military capabilities.
The Ukrainian leader has dismissed the proposal, calling it “an ultimatum.” Kiev has rejected any territorial concessions, as well as neutrality, and demands a full, unconditional 30-day ceasefire. In mid-May, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a meeting between Putin and Zelensky cannot be ruled out, and could happen if the talks yield “concrete progress and firm agreements.”Russia, however, has raised concerns over who would sign a potential agreement, as it considers Zelensky “illegitimate.” The Ukrainian leader’s presidential term ended last year, and he has refused to hold a new election, citing martial law.
“But what really matters is why Daddy Musk is in Russia.”
• How to Fact-Check Techno-Feudalism? (Pepe Escobar)
The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South. Pride of place was taken by a new ambitious association, the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN). The last session of the forum was focused essentially on how to fight all the toxic declinations imposed by the post-truth anti-cultural ambiance – as in fact-checking an avalanche of fake news coming in most cases from states and official institutions. Guest of honor was superstar Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, relaxed, in great spirits, who went full Deng Xiaoping by urging everyone to “fight for the truth and seek out the facts”.
By a twist of fate, the timeline left me with only two minutes to somehow wrap up our quite enlightening discussion. So I went hardcore and quoted Nietzsche: “There are no facts, only interpretations”. Later on, I was surprised at how that had struck a nerve especially among African delegates. The key point is that in the artificially fabricated post-truth environment, not only facts are only facts if we say so; most of all, only one interpretation is allowed – be it from the Empire of Chaos, whoever may be in power, or from a Kafkaesque mechanism such as the European Union (EU)/European Commission (EC). If you deviate from the official interpretation, they will come after you. That has led, for instance, in Europe, to journalists/EU citizens being prevented even from traveling to their own nation-states, and having their accounts frozen, or EU citizens being prevented from covering a supposedly democratic election (in Romania), and immediately deported (outside of the EU).
A startling essay on Nietzsche amplifies the diagnostic of Europe’s current cultural suicide. Nietzsche was an “untimely” outsider, a steppenwolf, pledging allegiance to no one and nothing, silently grappling with “the flat exhaustion of bourgeois modernity”, and searching, in vain, for “silhouettes among shadows”. Nietzsche, in the late 19th century, was already a symbol of Resistance. Resistance as we see it today – from the Axis of Resistance in West Asia to Orthodox Christian military batallions fighting for the freedom of Novorossiya. No ceremony ever greeted Nitzsche: he was always alone. He shattered illusion after illusion as his solitude “became liturgy” and “his body turned into protest.” He impersonated “the ghost of nobility”. A species in extinction – indeed.
That crystal clear Nietzsche intuition – arguably the best definition of truth in the history of philosophy – may be our guide in the labyrinth of post-truth where, to quote post-modernist masterpiece Twin Peaks, “the owls are not what they seem”. Errol Musk, Elon’s father, showed up early this week in Moscow for the Future 2050 forum. Daddy Musk effusively showered praise on Russia as Ancient Rome 2.0 and Moscow itself as the “capital of the world”. Quite on point – in both cases. But what really matters is why Daddy Musk is in Russia. That may align with a strategy of luring powerful sectors of Silicon Valley into doing business with Russia. Main actors/participants would be tech visionaries which used to be part of the notorious PayPal Mafia: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. That may pose a series of serious problems.
Martin Armstrong has been instrumental in portraying this band of tech visionaries as a ubiquitous new oligarchy: active in social media, biotech, space, the surveillance industry, engineering policies and influencing monetary systems with their hardcore brand of venture capitalism, and not to mention shaping worldwide-interfering narratives. The new tech elite shines brightly via the Trump-Musk love affair turned staged catfight. But its tentacles reach much further. J.D. Vance is Peter Thiel’s perfectly positioned candidate to become the next POTUS. Palantir, controlled by Thiel and totalitarian Alex Karp, have been awarded a massive contract to design a U.S. federally centralized database using very sophisticated AI models. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is heavy on AI – including a 10-year moratorium during which any U.S. state and local government cannot regulate AI. This will allow free reign for deepfakes and Big Tech doing whatever they feel like to manipulate unsuspecting consumers.
“These persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States”
• The Silence of the Bears (Alastair Crooke)
Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating a Russian general via explosive body bomb. As Clausewitz noted two centuries ago, the point of military force is to compel an outcome: i.e. that an adversary finally does what is wanted of him. Thus, in respect to military adventures there is need for clarity of thought from the outset. It must have a realisable political objective that has a prospect to be implemented.
What then, was the objective behind these Ukrainian ‘irregular’ attacks? One certainly was demonstrative – PR exercises to say that Ukraine and allied services are still capable of mounting special forces style, innovative operations. And are therefore worthy of continued support. As Colonel Doug Macgregor cautions:“For the most part it was a PR stunt to try and convey the impression that Ukraine is capable of carrying on the war. Anything you hear from the Western outlets … are probably untrue or at least grossly exaggerated … We damaged ourselves and our relationship – what there is left of it – with Moscow … that’s the real fallout from this”.Okay. But PR stunts are no strategy, nor do the attacks hold any prospect for a shift in the overall strategic military paradigm.
It doesn’t say that the West or Ukraine has suddenly discovered a political strategy towards Russia per se. That doesn’t exist. For the most part, the innumerable western declarations come as a hodge-podge of fantasies. The second objective however, may indeed have had a clear strategic end-state – and has demonstrated feasibility and the possibility to compel a desired outcome: The various attacks have imposed on Trump the uncomfortable reality that he, as President, does not control U.S. foreign policy. The collective Deep State has just made that plain. As General Mike Flynn has warned:“The Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation … These persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States”.
Rogan
Joe Rogan’s face said what we’re all thinking: how was this allowed to happen?
Hospitals deliberately euthanized COVID patients—a practice Dr. Mary Talley Bowden said was disturbingly common.
Rogan was horrified.
But there were more shockers. Rogan revealed something new about… pic.twitter.com/i9UeQaD56C
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) June 10, 2025
This is scary!
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden just told Joe Rogan how many new mRNA vaccines are in the pipeline — and it’s way more than you think.
“They have 500 mRNA shots in the pipeline.”
“33 of those are self amplifying, which is really terrifying.”
“That means they're designed… pic.twitter.com/ZyyZMjGLtF
— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) June 10, 2025
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