Debt Rattle November 29 2025

Empire Out Of The Closet https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/empire-out-of-the-closet

What is somewhat shocking to most of us is that what was always obfuscated and blurred before, in regards to killing people and stealing things to support the western-empire, is now presented openly as such. Open imperialism abroad, and now at “home” is the iron-fist, no longer sheathed in a velvet glove.

Thanks Christine. Shadow Contractors Are Training ICE’s Attack Teams
ICE is spending big on firearms, munitions, and politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces.​ https://www.levernews.com/shadow-contractors-are-training-ices-attack-teams/

​ 3 Children Hospitalized in Minneapolis After Family Van Hit With ICE Flash-Bangs
“Officers threw flash-bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car,” said the children’s father. “My 6-month-old can’t even breathe.”​ https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-children-flashbang

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid​ https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

“They’ve Totally Lost Control”; Trump Threatens ‘Agitators’ As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-warns-theyve-totally-lost-control-civil-unrest-soars-minnesota

Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies
A family of three was killed while they slept by a collapsing wall. A one-year-old baby died from the cold. Over 30 Palestinians in Gaza have died from a lack of shelter this winter.​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/winter-cold-collapsing-buildings-palestinians-killed-israeli-blockade

​ The Ever-Shifting Yellow Line, the Partition of Gaza, and Israel’s Legal Death Zone
Israel is demolishing Palestinian neighbourhoods as it herds the People of Gaza into an ever-shrinking space that is likely to be permanent​ https://truthandbalance22.substack.com/p/israel-is-expanding-its-death-zone

Israeli forces demolish commercial structure near Bethlehem, uproot olive groves in Jerusalem​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/15/355882/

​ Israeli attacks kill 8 Palestinians in Gaza in new ceasefire violations
Airstrikes, gunfire hit multiple areas across Gaza despite ceasefire in place since Oct. 10​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-attacks-kill-8-palestinians-in-gaza-in-new-ceasefire-violations/3800609

Al-Aqra: Palestinian prisoners face deliberate slow-kill campaign in Israeli prisons​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/16/355972/

​ US: We’ll withhold Gaza, West Bank funds if Palestine obtains UN seat
The US stipulated it would also withhold funding if the Palestinians initiate an ICC judicially authorized investigation that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes.​ https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-883513

​Moon of Alabama, Iran – The ‘Ragtag Network Of Activists’ Run By The US State Department
As the recent ‘regime change’ operation in Iran has now evidently failed the media are allowed to rev​eal some details of the powers behind it.
​ Inside the Fight to Keep Iran Online (archived) – NY Times, Jan 16 2026
Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/01/iran-the-ragtag-network-of-activists-run-by-the-state-department.html

​ Iran’s Khamenei Says US, Israel Linked To Deadly Protest Violence: ‘Thousands Killed’
​As for the possibility of foreign plotting, the Financial Times appears to be the first mainstream outlet to describe black-clad and well-organized groups who unleashed chaos and anti-police violence amid the protests…
​ “There were groups of men in black clothes, agile and quick. They would set one dustbin on fire and then quickly move to the next target” They “look[ed] like commandos” …“They were definitely organized, but I don’t know who was behind them”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irans-khamenei-says-us-israel-linked-deadly-protest-violence-thousands-killed

​ Russia may help Iran to sink an US aircraft carrier A potential Middle East war was just defused in a dramatic 48-hour power play. The US moved to the brink. On Jan 12, it urgently advised all citizens to leave Iran, a historical prelude to missile launches. The USS Gerald Ford carrier group sat ready in the Persian Gulf. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft deployed.
​ The White House arrogantly stated “all options” were open, while Trump swung his “economic club,” imposing 25% tariffs on nations dealing with Iran to fully isolate Tehran. Iran did not falter. 500,000 citizens flooded streets with national flags in support.
​ The regime warned that any U.S. action would make American bases “legal targets.” The Pivot came from major power intervention.
​ Immediately after the US order, Putin’s Security Council pledged deeper cooperation with Tehran. According to internal sources,
​ Putin sent a stark ultimatum to Washington: start a full-scale war, and Russia would provide Iran with high-tech anti-ship missiles capable of sinking a US carrier.
​ China simultaneously drew a red line, opposing military force. The strategic signal was amplified: Chinese, Russian, and Iranian warships, including hypersonic missile-capable frigates, began joint “Will For Peace 2026” drills off South Africa.
​ Faced with this united front, internal US dissent exploded. Generals opposed immediate action. VP Vance warned war would wreck the economy and the 2026 election.​ https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/2012155607344681301

North Korea Threatens To Join Iran Conflict, Forcing Israel To Consider Extreme Scenarios​ https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/North-Korea-Threatens-To-Join-Iran-Conflict-Forcing-Israel-To-Consider-Extreme-Scenarios/

The Davos Forum is Changing All Plans
The Strike Tactics are Changing Significantly

MS 2026.01.19

Germany Moves to Deploy P-8A Poseidons, Frigates, and Eurofighter Jets in Greenland as NATO Steps Up Arctic Defense​ https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Germany-Moves-to-Deploy-P-8A-Poseidons-Frigates-and-Eurofighter-Jets-in-Greenland-as-NATO-Steps-Up-Arctic-Defense/

The Empire needs $US-dominated resource-vassals and stable markets: Thomas Kolbe, Venezuela, Silver And Greenland: How The U.S.-China Power Split Is Reshaping the World
​ Much speculation has surrounded the background and consequences of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela on January 3. On the surface, political commentators and mainstream media focus largely on Venezuelan heavy oil’s role and future. And they are right: if the U.S. manages to revive the mostly idle capacities via its domestic production industry—especially through firms like Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon—a significant geopolitical lever emerges.
​ This lever primarily reshapes the negotiation matrix and dynamics between Washington and Beijing. China requires this oil for its maritime expansion; the U.S., in turn, for refining capacity in the southern states, particularly Texas. Controlling exports to China could strengthen America’s negotiating position on rare earths—a pressure point China has repeatedly wielded…
..Regarding the so-called Greenland crisis: the EU plays no real role in the global resource scramble. European states import roughly 60% of their energy. The failed attempt to secure resources from Russia via regime change and a defeat in Ukraine highlights the EU’s geopolitical impotence.
​ Deploying a small European force to Greenland to limit U.S. influence underscores Europe-U.S. tensions. Trump responded by raising tariffs by 10%, threatening 25% if Europe’s stance did not change—revealing the stark asymmetry of power. Brussels appears as a paper giant.
​ Given this imbalance, Europe’s failure to forge a political alliance to adopt a cooperative U.S. approach is puzzling. Brussels and London opt for confrontation, a path likely leading to further economic losses. Europe’s strength lies in aligning with U.S. market regimes, abandoning hidden climate protectionism, and activating its robust domestic market. Geopolitically, the fight is lost, only recoverable via sensible economic policy.
​ Attempts via Mercosur to secure trade leeway in South America have been underwhelming. The agreement largely enforces Brussels’ climate regulations, already straining European business, leaving true free trade as distant as ever.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/venezuela-silver-and-greenland-how-us-china-power-split-reshaping-world

Trump floats new tariffs in push to acquire Greenland​ “We need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” Trump said at the White House.​ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/trump-greenland-tariffs.html

​ Market Risk Returns As Tariff Shock Jolts Stocks; Goldman Maps Three Retaliation Paths Against Trump Over Greenland
European countries released a joint statement opposing US control of Greenland, blasting Trump’s move, saying the president’s threats “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”
​ The statement from the European countries said that troops deployed to Greenland for the operation “Arctic Endurance” pose “no threat to anyone.”…
​..It’s important to note that Europeans cannot compete militarily, but Brussels can wield reciprocal tariffs and other economic weapons.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/market-risk-returns-tariff-shock-jolts-stocks-goldman-maps-three-retaliation-paths-against

​I found myself disgusted, not shocked, but do read this information: Alex Krainer, Appeasement: the SHOCKING truth about the 1938 Munich Agreement (part 2 of 3)
​ Neville Chamberlain’s perfidious game in 1938 deliberately created a monster in the heart of Europe, setting stage for the continent’s greatest tragedy in history.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/appeasement-the-shocking-truth-about-441

​ France has real opportunity to leave NATO — newspaper
According to the newspaper, the discussion about France’s withdrawal from NATO acquired new relevance thanks to the conscious decision of the US to officially return to an overt imperial policy​ https://tass.com/world/2072683

World must brace for turbulent two years, Davos report warns​ – Outlook charts rise in AI anxiety and decline in concerns about environment​ https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/2026/01/14/world-must-brace-itself-for-turbulent-two-years-ahead-davos-report-warns/

Pornographic ‘Groomer’ Books On Prominent Display In Kids’ Reading Room At London Museum​ https://modernity.news/2026/01/18/pornographic-groomer-books-on-prominent-display-in-kids-reading-room-at-london-museum/

Italy’s privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe​ https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/italys-privacy-watchdog-scourge-us-164947880.html

​Get out now. Gold & Geopolitics, If nothing changes, BTC is finished in a decade​, It’s only ~~natural~~ math https://no01.substack.com/p/if-nothing-changes-btc-is-finished

​ Sasha Latypova, Cover up, aka “investigation” of the long-term effects of chemical agents testing on US service members (claimed to be volunteers). https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cover-up-aka-investigation-of-the

A big win: Jessica Rose Ph.D. The Federal Court of Appeal held that the Trudeau government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act in 2022 in response to the Freedom Convoy – Trudeau government’s position eviscerated by court https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-federal-court-of-appeal-held

Every study showed measurable or potential harms: FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless – HHS Launches Study https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fda-removes-web-content-saying-cellphones-are-harmless-hhs-launches-study

Sorry, no findings can be revealed yet… Police: Investigation Still ‘Active’ 8 Months After Idaho Twins Died Following Vaccinations
Payette, Idaho, police said they are still investigating the deaths of 18-month-old twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw, who died in their Idaho home a week after receiving the flu vaccine and other routine shots. Authorities continue to withhold records and have not disclosed a cause or manner of death, citing an active investigation.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/police-investigation-still-active-8-months-after-idaho-twins-died-vaccinations/

​ ‘Act of Censorship’: Preprint Server Retracts Infant Mortality Study by Children’s Health Defense Scientists
Preprints.org on Wednesday retracted a paper by Children’s Health Defense scientists who analyzed data from the Louisiana Department of Health. The analysis showed that infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/preprint-server-retracts-infant-mortality-study-childrens-health-defense-chd-scientists-censorship/

Tel Aviv Langley and London

They have broken faith with their own populations

European elites don’t care about their own people

Another $100 gold, $5 silver. Financial system safely reset away from colonists (so far). The U.S. spearheads this end of Financial Empire. Hey, wait! That can’t be right! We’re the most evilly-evil pro-Empire administration in world history, putting Nebuchadnezzar and the Pharaoh to shame.

You can tell by the way top priority is to manufacture stuff so we can trade fairly. I mean, what honest man wants that and not financial extraction by bombing (eg Saddam and Kaddafi) anyone who leaves the US$?

Amelia rules! And Kier is the perfect Big Brother.

Like Ayn Rand, they can predict this in 1949. Why? Because if you keep walking in one direction, eventually you get there. It’s not genius.

Well, Tarriffs crashed the market again, thanks. Dow is 10k, and inflation is 900%.
“Stock Market Crash: The Tariff King Returns! The Matt Kohrs Show•1.6K views•3 hours ago”

Yup, just as Carville and Krugman promised! Nobel Prize winner! Every Liberal I met promised me! It’s all over now, and here we are $15 eggs and $20 gas, just like they said.

Could be those 4 million soldiers we have overseas causing, though, you never know.

Another day Duran says, “If Trump doesn’t look out, this Greenland thing could end NATO!! Wouldn’t want that!” Being in a direct war with Russia sounds so much, much, much better! Doesn’t he know this could end the Empire? Wot a dope! If only we had International Law why! We’d have a world war for sure by jingo!

“What an idiot! He never even invaded Venezuela, and the government is still in place!” Wot a failure! He just can’t do this Empire thing right. Let us Brits do it — we’ll show you how.

(Cue Lindsay Graham sobbing in a corner over not bombing Iran) Poor Lindsay…wouldn’t want to make him sad. “Have you no humanity sir? Are you just going to disappoint Graham like that?” — CNN, CBS, BBC, NYT… All Fox News carefully concurs, “We don’t want a war, of course, it’s just that we have to have one or Trump is doing it wrong.”

Day after day after day after day. …And you wonder why I checked out.

“Canada Weighs Token Troop Deployment To Greenland, But Fears Trump Wrath

All Europe and the West is Sooper-Serial about Greenland. England is defending a nation the size of Mexico with ONE man.

The KITCHEN STAFF at our EXISTING base is larger than that and can take them all combined.

“The US had a record-breaking year for measles. It may be the start of a deadly comeback Tuesday marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been more new cases in the United States each week since. CNN

CNN, never ones to have any brain cells to engage, outdo themselves. So apparently these are all VACCINATED people? No? So they are also illegal immigrants who had no medical entry checks, which is why this exists in West Texas and not New Hampshire? All the facts to draw the conclusion here.

Nor am I kidding: most of the non-immigrant outbreaks (or rather spreads, measles doesn’t fall from space like a comet) are because VACCINES DON’T WORK. That was the big one at Harvard, hyper-vaccinated. But, fine print, it only lasts like 4 years. Huh? WTF vaccines you sellin’? It wasn’t like this in 1959. Yup. Guaranteed failure. Proven by their medical records. Answer: blame the unvaxxed instead.

Why? Because facts existed, so we lied about them, silly. That’s the purpose of words, to lie with.

“Shadow Contractors Are Training ICE’s Attack Teams
ICE is spending big on firearms, munitions, and politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces”

They’re not “Shadow”: you just had no trouble finding them. Military contractors are “Politically connected”. Well f—ks sake I hope so, the only other contracts they could get would be Zeta and Tren d’agua. Use your head. They are “militarizing”? Yes, that’s what guns are. For the same reason, called “Monopoly on violence”. If they were actually “Militarizing” they would be training with what we actually call “Weapons”, you know NPGs, anti-tank, mortars, and shell West Minneapolis while strafing them with Warthogs and Hellfire.

…So by “Militarized” you mean “Totally, completely, unmistakably NOT militarized”, right?

You can be against ICE!!! Please do! But you don’t have to LIE about it. If what they are doing is bad, there would be no need to lie, yes? Agree? STOP.

““Officers threw flash-bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car,” said the children’s father. “My 6-month-old can’t even breathe.”

WHY are you hauling your children along for a crime? Are you crazy? “Hey honey, I have an idea: let’s go commit a serial crime in a foreign country where we have very reduced rights!” “You’re so right dear, I’m sure that will go wonderfully!”

You think I can do this in Italy, Turkey, and Arabia? GTFO. It would be a MIRACLE to be flash-banged.

“So we’ll send American “peacekeepers” and build factories in Israel to make what they want.”

Okay, what do they mean by this? The U.S. Army is both building and and defending? And paying? If it were, they would say so. No, an Israeli-American private venture is. And America can stop factories in Israel how exactly? We invade and occupy Tel Aviv? Weapons factories need to have armed guards? Who knew? What magic is this? So Israeli-American mercenaries are also the security for an Israeli-American company? Wut R the odds?

I disapprove and would not allow Israeli-American ventures, but that’s a very, very long legal case from here, if possible at all. If such factories exist (they will) then they need very serious armed defense (they do.) Wtf Article: “Bombs exist. They are being made somewhere and that’s bad m-kay.”

“Russia may help Iran to sink an US aircraft carrier A potential Middle East war”

Yes but only since 1959, 1989, whenever.

“Moon of Alabama, Trump Will Take Greenland … And Then Go For More”

Norway? Eastern France? HE DIDN’T EVEN TOUCH VENEZUELA. That obviously means he’s a madman bent on world conquest, that’s what not bothering to touch Venezuela and Mexico means.

But after Trump just arrested all Congress, the Judiciary, the governors, shut the internet, and rounded up 100M democrats in the streets, I mean, what can you expect?

Please tell me what else the voices in your head are saying. Fascinating.

“The Empire needs $US-dominated resource-vassals and stable markets:”

Stable Markets paying Retail prices? Does no one else see the raw evil here??? “International Rules and Norms” clearly declare we must only have unstable nations and market-rigged prices. Otherwise my pearls must be clutched, sir. He must destabilize a market today and prove he’s still in the game! If he doesn’t stop this oil will be Pumped, I say! Pumped and paid for!

“Deploying a small European force to Greenland to limit U.S. influence underscores Europe-U.S. tensions.”

He’s pointing up what apparently they didn’t get when he slapped them all senseless, one by one, in the Oval Office, then dismissed them to the loo while he took a call from Putin. They didn’t get it and wanted war, so message not delivered yet.

We are now pointing out – AGAIN!!!!!! — that YOU HAVE NO SOLDIERS SIR. You can’t defend Darrowbury from Irish Soccer Hoodlums. They mustered their COMPLETE defense of all Europe in solidarity with Denmark – And rightfully so! Approve! — and came up with fewer men than are drunk in one pub on one night in Western Scotland.

Nope. Still having no effect. …On THEM. But it is having an educational effect on the rest of us, including all Europe. So you can’t muster 12 angry men, but you’re going to take RUSSIA? NATO is a TEAM, sir, Super-best-friends? The U.S. is HALF of NATO, not 99-44/100ths of it?

That’s not what Greenland says.

They are also radically in DEFENSE OF COLONIALISM. That’s what Europe stands for, ESPECIALLY Scandinavia is all pro-colonialism. Greenland already isn’t independent. We’re only changing WHO they refer to. And if we’re all on the same TEAM, what difference does the administrative location make? Ohhhh, we’re NOT on the same team, are we Europe? Got it.

So many educations, learing all at once.

“Tucker Carlson: Russia is preparing a nuclear strike on Britain and Germany”

Yes but only since 1959. This is a message, of course. And if the U.S. leaves, they have a Green (yellow) light to do it.

“the Trudeau government illegally invoked the Emergencies Act”

And then exactly nothing happened. Even as they have no parliament, no elections, MPs flip parties, reverse policy, have no budgets, demand their citizens get killed, and nothing happens.

“Critics Say Trump ‘Joke Healthcare Plan’ Nothing But a ‘Con’ of the American People”

Compared to what? That’s what it’s been since 1994, and turbocharged for ACA.

Where are the huge teeming crowds of protesters outside the Whitehouse railing against Trump’s declaration to seize Greenland?

Crickets

Because the Woketurds and the AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal) Karens only care about misgendering illegal immigrant Drag Queens.

Trump wasted an entire year trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia or make Russia sign a Minsk III agreement with sneaky drone attacks, multiple broken promises and sanctions that a fool should have known would never work against Mother Russia.

He failed spectacularly.

Huge loss, huge

Only after wasting the whole year did it Dawn on the Donald that Ukraine was an irredeemable Clusterfuck by NATO.

AND let’s not forget that the USSA is NATO

It was never a ‘European Project’

And the EU can’t maintain it, which is good.

The one thing I think Trump did that is pure gold is drive the final nails into Europe’s Knotty Pine Old World Coffin©

Euroturdland is so screwed now that this is going to be The Dark Ages 2.0

I was just brushing up on rereading some in-depth stuff on the Dark Ages 1.0

Northern Europeans couldn’t figure out how to hitch two oxen or two horses together to plow the cold hard soil of northern Europe for 500 years!

They literally spent centuries cutting field sod by hand and turning it over by hand!

And the Anglos of Albion forgot how to make glazed pottery to eat and cook with for the same 500 years!

Haha

Imagine how degraded your culture and basic thinking must have been after watching the Romans make pottery under their noses for a couple centuries and then forgetting how to do it for half a millennia after they abandoned the Albion Project like an old fashioned Ukraine.

So the Orange Guy needed a media distraction from the Ukraine defeat so we got Venezuela and now Greenland.

Most Ah..mericans couldn’t find Greenland on a map if you promised them the Power Ball lottery winnings (Even if you colored it green with paint on the map!).

Hence no one protesting the Greenland Thing

The guy and gal in the street don’t no where it is.

A testament to USSA public ‘education’ (cough. gag, cough)

So I have to give credit to Trump’s ad-lib strategic ambiguous Shuck n’ Jive ‘pivot’ on covering up USSA=NATO defeat in Ukraine with a well placed kidnapping and theft of an entire sub-continent.

Well play Sir, WELL PLAYED!

And he scored a Fake n’ Gay Noble Peace Prize© he can melt down it for more over-the-top garish gold dinner utensils for the Trump Ballroom!

Another Big Win!

Hahaha

The United States is not a democracy, The United States is a constitutional republic.
an astro turfed majority opinion carries little more weight than approval for another round of free drinks

The United States is not a democracy, The United States is a constitutional republic

The United States is a Wild West lawless no-man’s land, complete with every stereotypical character you have ever seen in any Saturday Matinee Western B movie. Throw in a few monumentally unscrupulous foreigners and a circus clown show just to make the flick appealing to general audiences.

This is profound.

Sick criminals without honour

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Make no mistake, the current state of governance within The United States shows an abject failure of the citizens to exercise their rights and duties.
Passive acceptance of violent police action on the streets is even more dangerous than the police action itself.

Why take your children? To give your children and their nation a lesson in civic duty. There is not only a right to throw off the indolence of previous generations there is a duty.
“……we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
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