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Don’t make us hurt you again. US warns that an Iran-installed government in Iraq ‘will not be successful’
Such a government won’t achieve Iraqi and Syrian aspirations ‘for a brighter future,’ says envoy Tom Barrack https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-warns-that-an-iran-installed-government-in-iraq-will-not-be-successful-/3811613 Russia Withdrawing Troops from Airport in Northeast Syria
Russia is withdrawing forces from an airport in northeastern Syria, moving to end its military presence in a corner of the country where the Damascus government is trying to seize control from Kurdish forces, five Syrian sources said, according to Reuters.
Russia has stationed forces at Qamishli airport in the northeast since 2019, a relatively small deployment compared to its air base and a naval facility on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, both of which it is expected to maintain.
Government forces under President Ahmed al-Sharaa have taken swathes of northern and eastern Syria from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces this month, as Damascus aims to assert its authority over the entire country. https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5233904-russia-withdrawing-troops-airport-northeast-syria Trustworthy? Syria’s president reaches out to Kobane’s Kurds after SDF leader rattles US envoy
Ahmed al-Sharaa told Kurdish leaders in Kobane that their rights would be protected under new government, sources say
The sources said that those who attended the meeting were from among the Kurdish political spectrum, and included figures close to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as well as others who oppose the group.
The sources said that during the meeting, Sharaa stressed the need to fully implement his recently announced declaration recognising Kurdish civil and cultural rights.
He expressed his willingness to engage with all Kurds and repeatedly told them their rights would be protected by the new Syrian state. However, according to the sources, Sharaa criticised SDF leaders during the meeting. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-ahmed-al-sharaa-reaches-out-kobane-kurds-after-sdf-leader-rattles-us-envoyThree Journalists Killed in Israeli Airstrike, Including CBS Cameraman – CBS Refuses to Denounce Israel for the Killing https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/26/three-journalists-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-including-cbs-cameraman/
‘Deliberate Assassination’: 3 Journalists Among 11 Killed by Israeli Forces in Gaza https://israelpalestinenews.org/deliberate-assassination-3-journalists-among-11-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-gaza/
‘Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants
Israel’s restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease. https://www.972mag.com/gaza-wet-tent-syndrome/Israel pays for UK advertisements attacking Doctors Without Borders https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-pays-for-uk-advertisements-attacking-doctors-without-borders/
Israel Illegally Moves the Yellow Line and Expands Territorial Control in Gaza
Currently, few buildings remain standing between the new block line and the old armistice demarcation, creating a new Israeli military corridor. https://www.telesurenglish.net/israel-illegally-moves-the-yellow-line-and-expands-territorial-control-in-gaza/Israel accused of extracting billions from Gazan people to pay for their own genocide https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-accused-of-extracting-billions-from-gazan-people-to-pay-for-their-own-genocide/
No Palestinians need apply: Exclusive: Leaked “Board of Peace” Resolution Outlines U.S.-Led Plan to Rule Over Gaza
The draft framework, obtained by Drop Site, would bestow sweeping authority on Trump to determine all aspects of Gaza’s governance and future. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-board-of-peace-resolution-gaza-trump-us Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.” https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations?At least 10 were left to drown: Death toll from US strikes on alleged drug boats reaches 126 people https://ground.news/article/death-toll-from-us-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-reaches-126-people_6e659b
Now that she won’t be killed in 15 minutes… Venezuela acting president says she’s had ‘enough’ of orders from Washington https://thehill.com/homenews/5706483-delcy-rodriguez-venezuela-trump-orders/?tbref=hp
It is an act of war: Cuba Charges US With Imposing ‘Marine Siege’ For ‘Piracy’ Of Its Oil Imports https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cuba-charges-us-imposing-marine-siege-piracy-its-oil-imports
Cuba’s Power Grid Descends Further Into Blackout Nightmare
Cuba is facing a severe and worsening energy crisis driven by a tightening U.S. blockade, part of President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy across the Caribbean region, as reported Sunday,.. “Cuba’s electrical system has completely collapsed in Havana after more than 20 hours of blackouts,” Venezuelan-born political commentator Eduardo Menoni wrote on X. Menoni said this widespread blackout for most of the day could last for weeks, as there is no known timeframe for when the grid will be fixed. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/communism-shtty-deal-cubas-power-grid-descends-further-blackout-nightmareTrump Threatens To Raise Tariffs On South Korean Goods To 25%; Won Slides
President Trump threatened to hike tariffs on goods from South Korea to 25% from 15%, citing in a Truth Social post what he said was the failure of the country’s legislature to codify the trade deal the two nations reached last year, a failure which was obvious from miles away as the terms of the trade deal require Korea to invest hundreds of billions – which it doesn’t have – in the US. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trump-threatens-raise-tariffs-south-korean-goods-25-won-slides”Redheaded stepchild” of deals? EU, India Sign ‘Mother Of All Deals’ Free Trade Agreement In Rebuff To Trump: What’s In It https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-india-sign-mother-all-deals-free-trade-agreement-rebuff-trump-whats-it
Carney Cracks: Canada Has ‘No Intention’ Of Pursuing Free Trade Deal With China After Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/canada-has-no-intention-pursuing-free-trade-deal-china-after-trump-threatens-100
Charles Hugh Smith, Why the Next Recession Will Be the Catalyst for Depression
This time around, the economy is saturated with debt, income has stagnated and cannot support more borrowing, and the credit-asset bubbles in housing and financial assets has reached unprecedented heights of risk, i.e. fragility.
This is why a recession that clears the system of excessive debt, leverage and speculation leaves a devastated economy incapable of expansion: the system is now totally dependent on excesses of debt, leverage and speculation for its survival, never mind expansion, and once that collapses (as all bubbles do), the signaling, confidence and wealth that enabled the bubble will no longer exist.
As for saving the system by converting fiat money to precious metals or cryptocurrencies: the debt–and the income needed to service the debt–will also be converted, and that doesn’t change the inevitable collapse of credit-asset bubbles and all the economic activity that depended on the permanent expansion of that credit-asset bubble.
This is why a recession will catalyze a collapse of the credit-asset bubble-dependent economy down to its foundations. A re-inflation of a new credit-asset bubble will be viewed as the “solution,” but that unstable system will no longer be viable. The real solution will be re-arranging the economy to thrive not on credit-asset bubbles but on productivity gains that are widely distributed to all the productive elements, not just the wealthiest asset owners.
This process will be time-consuming and difficult, as all the “winners” in the current bubble economy will expect both a return to outsized gains and a continuation of their outsized share of the gains. Neither will be possible, as the changes will demand time, sacrifice and massive long-term investment in productive assets.
The systemic risks inherent to a credit-asset bubble-dependent economy cannot be extinguished, they can only be cloaked or transferred to others. These artifices enable the expansion of the bubble at a cost paid by everyone when the system’s self-liquidating dynamics pop the bubble. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/why-the-next-recession-will-be-the We can make spears without Chinese inputs: Gold & Geopolitics, Weaponizing the periodic table – China won this war without firing a shot
The trade war is heating up again I think. Inevitably I have to add. And when it does – when the next round of restrictions hits and everyone acts surprised – I want this here. Because what’s coming isn’t another tariff dispute that gets negotiated away. It’s strategic strangulation through materials nobody can pronounce or understand.
This one’s going to be heavy on the numbers. I’m talking percentages, production figures, price movements, stockpile comparisons, the whole data-laden works. Because when you’re discussing whether the United States can manufacture ammunition, fighter jets, or data centers without Beijing’s permission, vague hand-waving doesn’t cut it. The specifics matter. The percentages matter. The timelines matter...
..In July 2023, China announced export licensing requirements for gallium and germanium. The announcement received approximately the coverage you’d expect for a mid-tier commodity story – which is to say, almost none. Commodity traders noticed. Defense analysts should have noticed. The general public remained blissfully unaware that Beijing had just proven it could shut down semiconductor manufacturing worldwide whenever it chose to do so.
China controls 94% of global gallium production and 83% of germanium. But more importantly, China had demonstrated the template. Not an outright ban. Not a dramatic announcement with threats and posturing. Just licensing requirements. Applications welcome. Processing times… variable.
The licenses, in practice, never came.
By August 1, 2023, when the gallium controls took effect, Chinese exports had already collapsed. Not declined. Collapsed. European buyers scrambled for inventory that increasingly did not exist at any price. The message was unmistakable, delivered in bureaucratic language that Western governments somehow failed to translate into strategic alarm: we control what you can build, and we can turn it off whenever we want...
..The strategic implication is that when export restrictions hit, China can maintain domestic industrial production using reserves while Western manufacturers scramble for spot market supplies that don’t exist.
Turns out global markets stop being global when the supplier decides to nationalize flows. And just-in-time supply chains fail catastrophically when the critical inputs don’t arrive at all.
The antimony case proved the template works. Each following restriction will prove the template is repeatable. The question is not whether Beijing will weaponize mineral dominance again. The question is which material delivers maximum strategic impact with minimum public comprehension.
Magnesium restriction would cause immediate, cascading industrial failure. No stockpile exists. None can exist. No substitutes work. And production concentration is situated in a single Chinese county which provides maximum leverage. Public perception? Just above absolute zero.
Heavy rare earth processing cutoff would cripple precision weapons production. Public awareness exists but the fifteen-year timeline to alternatives is incomprehensible to most voters.
Bismuth represents the “nobody saw it coming” option. Essential for AI data center construction and pharmaceuticals. No stockpile exists. The tech industry is more vulnerable than defense to this particular chokepoint.
The November 2025 temporary suspension provided some breathing room until November 2026. It covered commercial end-uses which creates the illusion of de-escalation while military restrictions remained permanent and new restrictions on Japan and silver proceeded on schedule.
The pattern is clear: restrict, suspend, escalate elsewhere. Military end-use restrictions remain permanent. China’s processing dominance cannot be replicated within a decade. US strategic stockpiles remain at historic lows. Physical delivery stress on Western exchanges intensifies...
..Perhaps 15-20% of a $14+ billion estimate should be invested NOW. When China can escalate within days, and ramping up production is measured in years or decades. China already knows the next metal. They’re just waiting for the right moment. https://no01.substack.com/p/china-usaI don’t want your promises any more: The Gold Move Is A Vote Of No Confidence In The Entire Global Financial Architecture
Gold is through $5,000 and silver up 5.5% at over $109 – it was even higher intraday. You might not trade either, and I remain sceptical that we are moving back to a gold or silver standard, even for limited international trade. Yet besides the notable industrial implications from silver (and copper), this is hoarding, and a vote of no confidence in the entire global financial architecture. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-move-vote-no-confidence-entire-global-financial-architectureBlackRock Credit Fund Hit With 19% Markdown As Loans Go Bad https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blackrock-credit-fund-hit-19-markdown-loans-go-bad
Professor Ugo Bardi, History Rhymes: Why Societies Under Stress Become Violent – For everything that happens, there are reasons for it to happen. That doesn’t necessarily make it painless
These phases of madness are typical of societies under heavy stress, where a necessary change has been repressed for a long time and where, at a certain moment, the only way to keep it repressed is to use violence. There are several examples in history: Nazism in Germany, the French Revolution, the Roman Empire lashing out at Christians, and others. There are other cases. As usual, history rhymes: ordinary people are the typical victims of the wave of violence...
..We are getting to that moment for shale oil. It was always expensive, and it produced only modest profits, if any. Now, people are starting to realize that the bubble is going to explode, not only because of depletion, but also because of the switch of the world market from liquid fuels. The euphoria of just a few years ago is gone, and it is becoming clear that we have reached the second US oil peak. This was commonly said and discussed among people involved with the oil industry. What wasn’t understood, so far, was that the second oil peak could lead to the second US civil war.
What we are seeing now is a gang war among various power groups in the US (if you like to call them “mafias,” it is a good definition). They are trying to turn the impending collapse of oil production into an advantage for their specific turf. https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/history-rhymes-why-societies-underCharles Hugh Smith on assuming systemic continuity (guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver): The Fatal Limits of the Technocrat Class I’ve been reading Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse with care, because the book is serious, well-researched, and written from within institutions that spend their days thinking about systemic fragility. Kemp is not unserious, nor is he shallow. His diagnosis of elite failure, complexity, inequality, and institutional overreach aligns with much of what many of us have been warning about for years.
Where I think the book ultimately fails, however, is not in what it sees–but in what it cannot see from the altitude at which it operates.
Kemp’s collapse framework is managerial. Collapse is treated as a system-level pathology to be prevented through coordination, governance, and institutional reform. This makes sense given his professional formation and affiliations, but it creates a blind spot that becomes more consequential the longer one reads: continuity is assumed, not explained.
The book speaks fluently about sustainability, inequality, elite capture, and long-term risk. Yet it does not seriously engage with inheritance–not inheritance as wealth alone, but inheritance as transmission: skills, trades, family structure, norms, fertility, competence, and responsibility carried forward across generations. Sustainability is framed as system stability rather than generational renewal.
This omission matters, because collapse is not the absence of order. It is the failure of particular scales of organization. When large institutions fail, life does not disappear–it reorganizes. The question is not whether systems can be stabilized indefinitely, but whether anything capable of inheritance remains when stabilization fails.
Luke Kemp is excellent at identifying fragility in centralized systems. He is far less interested in, or perhaps less equipped to examine, the base-rate reality that most societies muddle through breakdowns via informal order, households, and local competence... ..When collapse looms, the remedies offered are more coordination, better governance, stronger institutions, improved global frameworks, and smarter management of risk. Complexity is to be handled by expertise; inequality by policy; instability by coordination. The scale that failed is asked to save itself. This is the core problem. The solutions operate at the same level as the failure. Centralization is offered as the cure for overextension. Governance is offered as the cure for institutional fragility. Coordination is offered as the cure for complexity. The very mechanisms meant to prevent collapse amplify its consequences when they fail. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-fatal-limits-of-the-technocrat Medical Emergency Powers Justify Everything, not just forced-vaccination: Sasha Latypova explains this court ruling. Lawsuit Urges US Supreme Court to Review Ninth Circuit Ruling That Allows Virtually Limitless State Power Under the Guise of Public Health https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/lawsuit-urges-us-supreme-court-to
Meryl Nass MD excerpts a Politico article about political leverages to be applied to the popular and divisive aspects of Secretary Kennedy’s MAHA efforts: Will the Trump Team Allow Bobby to Help Them Win the Midterms? If they are serious about winning, they will have to unleash him to do all the good he has spent his life preparing for https://merylnass.substack.com/p/will-the-trump-team-allow-bobby-to
A clearly detailed, yet concise history of the effects of fluoride injestion and the sales job for it: The Great Fluoride Reckoning https://www.themahareport.com/p/the-fluoride-heckoning
The New Dietary Guidelines: a Victory for ‘Real Food’ and the Future of Healthy Fats https://www.themahareport.com/p/the-new-dietary-guidelines-are-a
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years The “miracle” plant Silphium consumed by Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, which was thought to have become extinct two thousand years ago, has recently been rediscovered in Turkey by a professor, who thinks he’s found a botanical survivor.
The plant, which the Ancient Greeks called silphion (silphium), was a golden-flowered plant. It was once the most sought-after product in the Mediterranean even before the rise of Athens and the Roman Empire. https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/21/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/Remarkably good 12 min ute AI-narrated video: The Romans Valued This More Than Silver. Why Did It Disappear for 2000 Years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLRN0VvIzJ0
Okay, Osmondgold – don’t usually do that, nor that I don’t know where he’s positioned in “normies” but since he’s not the left of Mao, Wiki says he’s Himmler. I think he’s very placid center right. Noting like 80% of America want “illegals” deported. Thus the word: “Illegal”. As in “There are Laws”. Normal people understand law ’cause they get kicked in the face all day for them, so don’t feel there should be special people exempted from them. Not Epstein and not Karen, and not Somalis either. This is a doubling almost overnight. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJN-z0Tj5k
No one in government will do this, and Trump is like what 20% of Obama’s deportations? So if Trump is Hitler, Obama was MechaTurboHitler. No one cares because those are facts and logic. Hate feelz so good.
But more important here, also give up watching Andy bc same wrong things each day (Silver to da Mooon!!!…since 1994)
Andy Schectman, saying all the same things. Until about 15:00. They are Stable-coining the bond market on the front side. Sure, yeah, we know. The US Treasuries are creating a crypto presence, as well they should.Luongo says they are allowing this…which are just Treasuries…as small-bank collateral for small-business loans, a mega-help to Main Street. Also fine.
…And then they jump in the way just now and STOP Tether from giving back the made UST dividends back to the coin-holders. And that money is like spiraling upward by the billions, a problem. Hey! You’re getting the dang US Bond payments, hand them to the people, don’t hoarde them! Now required by law, the bastards.
Ah, no. Part III: THEY ARE FORCING TETHER AND CRYPTO TO BUY ALL GOLD.
Yes. They can’t buy Bonds, they already have. You can’t buy Bitcoin, that’s the opposite of a StableCoin. You can’t just keep in the US$. And the numbers are spiraling upward wildly.
TETHER IS ALREADY THE WORLD LARGEST HOLDER OF GOLD. (After nations, central banks, but in that category, no contest. None.)
Soooo…What are you saying, Andy? They passed the Crypto law so Tether does NOT buy bonds?
Yes. Exactly what he’s saying. Transitive property:
1. “Tether” = “US Bonds”.
2. “US Bonds” = “Dept of the Treasury” NOT the Fed.
3. “Tether” = “Gold backed vault”4. So we just created a Gold-Backed US Treasury Bond. Bye.
All done. Already happened. We are the Gold-backed US$. No one noticed.
Now all you do it roll up the Fed, etc, all back into the US Treasury officially, which Bessant has said he will do, and we’re back to 1901 government and money system. Boom. One year done. McKinley. Who was shot for this.
That’s how you know they’re all Globalists, because they’re constantly detonating and removing all the pillars that create Globalism. And banking. And hidden powers. And erasure of national sovereignty. And Globalists try to stop and shoot them daily. That’s how same team.
I don’t know how to fill this in for you if you’re not paying attention and care all about only ONE death in a 200 nation world war. Go look.
Gold is up $100 an HOUR now. Round tripping $200 a day is nothing. We are resetting the currency, just as everyone, every Sinclair, every Ron Paul, said since 1979. End the Fed, Gold-back the currency, reverse Nixon.
It has ALREADY effectively been reset. The $ is low right now, but we’re already done. The plumbing is in, the price is already half moved. Done, bye. By July 4 we’ll be Independent.
Get your A.I. to do the research.
What “sustainability of life” really means
In modern usage it generally refers to a state in which the environment, economy, and society will continue to exist over a long period of time.
“To sustain” can mean to maintain, support, uphold, or endure.”
Sustainability a utopian ideal: “We need to keep sustainability as an ideal; an ideal which we might never reach, which might be utopian, but still a necessary one.
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$US-Regime to Precious Metals Regime Transition markers: https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-01-28
@Zerosum: ‘We need to keep “sustainability”, the ability for planetary life to exist, as a goal which can never be reached.’
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Trump Wants To Win – But Iran Is No Easy TargetIran however is also ready. It has increased its missile forces. It has promised to use it against U.S. positions in the Middle East and against Israel in retaliation to any attack. It has also promised to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Major Arab U.S. allies in the Middle East have rejected to take part in any adventure against Iran. Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Qatar have explicitly stated that they will not allow U.S. operations against Iran from or through their territory.
Gold. But Not Silver:
“I am from the government. I am here to help you!”
Gold might be going up about $100 a day in US dollars, but please note it is not going up $100 a day in any other currencies!
Gold is mainly being repriced in USDs!
This is a bit unusual, but there is a reason for this happening.Remember a long, long, time ago, like maybe last week, the Japanese government bonds were trying to blow themselves up?
Yeah, well TPTB didn’t allow the Japanese government bonds to commit hari-kari like they needed to.
There would have been too much bloodshed spilled, if the public had gotten to see the Yen Carry Trade unwound on Netflex.So how does the Yen Carry Trade force Gold to be repriced in USDs?
Well, there is a direct connection between the Yen Carry Trade and US Treasury bonds.
The Yen Carry Trade basically borrows in Yen and then buys US Treasury bonds to capture the spread between the lower Yen interest rates and the higher US Treasury bond interest rates.US Treasury bonds are at the center of US government’s and US banking’s power!
(And you thought it was the US dollar!)
It is the ability of the US government to be able to issue US Treasury bonds at low interest rates that gives them their power!
So keeping the US Treasury bond market stable is a life and death matter for the US government (and to a lessor extent US banking).So, to save the US Treasury bond market, they had to save the Yen bond market!
But in order to save the Yen and US gov bond markets, they have to let the value of the USD go down.
The value of the USD is sacrificed to stabilize the more important US Treasury bond market.
The USD is the relief valve.Yes, yes, I hear you!
The purchasing power of the USD is much more important to you!But since you are not in control, the government choose it’s own survival, over your survival!
Are you surprised by this?It doesn’t matter if the screw has left or right hand threads, either way, you are royally screwed!
P.S. The reason silver isn’t going up so much (as gold is), is because in a monetary event, the silver market is too small and too illiquid, to express the amount of monetary change needed. Gold is for Kings! Silver is for screwing the poor peasants!
Boiling The Fed Frog:
Just in case you haven’t notice, the Fed frog is slowly but surely, being swallowed whole by the US Treasury department’s snake.
Boiling of the Fed frog quietly began under Biden back in 2021 or so. I forget the exact fateful date, but it really doesn’t matter. This Fed frog is done for!
In desperation to keep it’s independence and survive, the Fed’s owners, the banks, began to build themselves a new expensive headquarters building!
The current Fed chairman lied to congress, about the building costs, which isn’t a crime in Washington, D.C.!
But any excuse will do for the Treasury snake to eat the Fed frog!
This is classic D.C. swamp behavior!So why is the US government taking over the Fed from it’s banker owners?
Obviously the US government has decided it’s survival is more important than the bank owner’s survival!So the Fed can now cut US Treasury bond interest rates in half, so the US government/congress can borrow more by issuing more US Treasury bonds at 1% or 2%!
You see, a debtor can only survive, if you keep lowering their borrowing costs!
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