Debt Rattle November 29 2025
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Homo globilous satanicus will push us over the brink primarily with advanced weaponized AI in the hands of globohomo gangsters.Murmurs of killer micro drones filled with poison and explosives hunting down the ‘useless eaters’.
Look at the battlefield drone videos of individual soldier being methodically hunted down and blown to bits in front of the camera.
Imagine that process being automated with AI data centers operating from orbit.
Pretty hard for the peasants to storm the castle with pitch forks and hammers to smash The Machine.
Gangsterism and Homo sapien sapian are joined at the hip like Siamese Twin.
And now it’s Globohomo gangsterisum covering the planet with it’s Funk.
Good luck on smashing the Machine
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Thank you Topcat. This seems to articulate the vision of the West.
The Russian vision and Chinese vision reject the vision of the West.As citizens of the West we can see what the rulers of the West want.
control, submission and death
What say you Dr. D?
No rule of law West.
I say the West should have no place at the table.
The West scheming to crush its own people and anyone else they can.
The West needs to be definitively defeatedwhat comes next
what China’s response will be – Chinese flag more prominently on the tankers, no more flags of convenience.
The first three people Delsi Rodriguez met after being sworn in as interim president of Venezuela were the ambassadors of China, Russia, and Iran.
Inflation will follow except where demand destruction occurs.
Oil is going to take a hit from increasing unaffordability.Canada – vassal state completely subservient to US interest in the region.
Greenland –. Already has US bases on the island
Cuba – the most likely target.
Mexico – a potential target, scapegoat in those drug cartels.
Colombia & Brazil – can subjugated, not really adversaries to US.
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GONE – Venezuelan crude oil in storage
Posted by: Jo | Jan 6 2026 14:20 utc | 688
The 16 vessels, mostly loaded with Venezuelan crude oil and fuel, departed the country’s waters over the past two days using deceptive tactics, including disguising their true locations or turning off their transmission signals.
The tactics appear to be part of a seemingly coordinated attempt to bypass American naval forces in the region and could trigger US military action at sea.
———–Aside from the gag inducing story…..
at 3:40 time stamp, any cartoonist can be told: “Do not bother, there is no way that you can outdo this!”“
This is really the end of 300 years of effort by Western civilization to develop rules to regulate international behaviour.Now it is entirely might makes right.
There is no pretense of providing legal justification for what was done.
The precedent has been set.
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Here’s an interesting preview during intermission. Instead of running out to the Lobby for popcorn watch this, and ask yourself, “Well, if Jeff isn’t dead then where is he, who is he hanging around with , and what are they all up to now?”
Now because of Trumptard, Xi of China can say that Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te “lacks legitimacy”
Off with his Head!
Putin already has maintained Zelensky “lacks legitimacy”
Off with his Head!
Hell the Demonrats say Trump himself “lacks legitimacy”
Off with his Head!
Trump is Pimp Daddy, King of the Mean Streets now.
He’s not a head of state anymore, he’s just another nameless mafia Don lost in corrupt history.
Trump has officially let the Dogs Loose
I pity the traitors and sellout whores in Venezuela who betrayed their country.
There still are some genuine patriots in most Latin and South American countries who love and cherish their respective countries, they’re not all Judas Goats for the USSA’s Pimp Daddy.
Wait until Trump phucks Denmark blind by just taking Greenland in-your-face-broad-daylight.
Hahaha
Hey, Canada-da’s leader Mark Carney “lacks legitimacy”!!!!
As the Red Queen said, “Off with his head!”
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Trump and the China hawks are fighting shadows of their own creation, and in the process they are doing real harm to U.S. interests in this hemisphere.But they are not “harmful”, they are great because any pretense of morality, “democracy” and “human rights” has been finally dropped. All this nauseating moralizing of Washington is finally exposed for what it is–parasitic imperial aspirations, a geopolitical “realism” at its pinnacle. And this is healthy, because all this post WW II BS finally dissipates. For this we all should be thankful to DJT–he cleared the playing field of any smoke and mirrors, and we know what he wants. Pop-corn time, as well as schadenfreude, a feeling after Tucker Calrson explained to this cretin Pierce Morgan that, as one Russian observer put it, the old Euro “elites” can suck American cock because UK is irrelevant, and the US is now empire. Decrepit, impotent and pretentious but still stronger than London, who, together with Paris, Berlin and Rome, is nothing more than a touristy attraction
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http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/02/but-that-is-what-so-good.html
“The US tried with a bunch of ignoramuses from CIA and Pentagon to do the same trick with Russia, remember SMO? Didn’t work out, eh? But now some interesting school of thought emerges in Russia–that actually these were Chavistas who arranged this whole Maduro thing. I don’t know, don’t ask me, but this whole thing with Maduro’s kidnapping and especially reactions in the US to this act of pure banditry, as Vasily Nebenzya called it, is down right grotesque. ”
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-reminder-for-those.htmlImperial Realpolitik https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/imperial-realpolitik
Donald Trump pulled a CIA inside job to kill Nicolas Maduros bodyguards and snatch Maduro, with help from bribed traitors in the Venezuelan military and government, who probably killed his security detail when the choppers landed.
The benefit of this to the Petrodollar Empire is that Venezuelan oil reserves are the largest in the world, and the infrastructure to extract them has languished for over a decade. They can produce a lot more in phases, the first phase being about 18 months. The “American” oil-majors will do the work, pre-arranged, and US taxpayers will pay them to do it. The US will control enough oil to swing global prices as a weapon. Venezuelan heavy oil compliments the very light fracked oil from Texas in multiple ways, including using naptha to extract Venezuelan oil, and gulf coast refineries being specialized to deal with heavy crude from Venezuela in the good-old-days.
This pressures Canada to comply with imperial edicts or lose oil revenues.
In finance, Venezuela’s oil is an asset, against which money can be loaned. It is a really good asset in a world where financial trust is about to evaporate, better than UK “gilt” government bonds, for instance.
My assessment is that big moves like this immediately precede World War 3, which will be a reset of the global financial system, and will be a shape-shifting war between the US Petrodollar Empire and the rising Chinese Industrial Empire. Trump is opportunistically seizing critical assets, and says “the US needs Greenland”, which is a minimally defended large territorial asset, which the Empire can snatch outright from “ally” Denmark.
European manufacturing is in decline, and Europe is import dependent for oil, natural gas and minerals like iron ore and copper. Europe lags China industrially now, but the US wants to grab that industry and move it to the US for the war, because Europe can be strangulated further logistically, when shipping is threatened, just as China can.
War is about logistics, supply lines. Russia has the most-effective military in the world to protect Russian assets and territory, while trying to avoid or minimize involvement in the war between the Chinese and Petrodollar Empires. Nobody wants to get nuked by Russia, so they are trying to understand how much they can and can’t “poke the bear”. China will obtain Russian mineral and forest assets through trade. The Trump admin. would like to cooperate with Russia in the Arctic for developing oilfields, and there was that big Antarctic find in 2024, too, but nobody is allowed to exploit that by international treaties.
Whatever Israel is being hurridly supplied for will likely be directed against Iran, which is destabilized by protests, which are violent on both sides, including Trump’s “humanitarian” red line of “shooting protesters”, which justifies US intervention. It is hard to see what can be done militarily without raining missiles down on Israeli military sites, but maybe there has been preparation for an internal coup by the CIA, Mossad and elements that were never fully purged in Iran…Celia Farber’s blogposts form a timeline of events, which are complex and still developing. Maduro & Wife Captured By US, Regime Toppled, Venezuelans Jubilate, American Left Anguishes, Trump Openly Says US Might Govern Venezuela, Dismisses Machado, While Nat Rothschild Tweets: “Well Done.” And It’s Only January Third https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/maduro-and-wife-kidnapped-by-us-regime
January 4, Maduro & Wife Seen Emerging At DEA Offices, Seemingly Calm, As Maduro Repeatedly Says “Happy New Year” in English; Social Media Floods With Clips Of Venezuelans Waking Up To The News, Weeping With Joy
Before It Can Be Known What US Motives Were (Beyond Oil) It Is Undeniable That The Venezuelan People Are Ecstatic And Grateful—And This Is A Separate Matter. There’s No Excuse For Being Unmoved https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/maduro-and-wife-seen-emerging-at January 4, Dominos Falling: Trump Tells Press On AF1 That The US Is “In Charge” Of Venezuela, Threatens Imminent Military Action Against Colombia, And Says “Cuba Is Ready To Fall;” Also: “We Need Greenland.”
Danish PM, and Greenland Premier Issue Defiant Statements, Reminding Trump Denmark Is Part Of NATO, And Greenland Will Not Be Annexed https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/dominos-falling-trump-tells-press January 6, Have You Seen Of The Most Frightening Building In Caracas? It’s Called El Helecoide. Numerous Reports Of Torture And Murder Have Been Documented Inside It, Yet Maduro’s Fans In America Deny Them All
They Deny His Atrocities Because To Admit Them Is To Risk Being Called A “Coup Simp,” Or Worse. A New Hashtag Is Going Around: #AskAVenezuelan. But American Progressives Prefer To Insult Them https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/have-you-seen-of-the-most-frighteningActually grabbing Canada-da would be easy for Pimp Daddy Trump.
The Canda-da-ians don’t even have elctions anymore to choose ‘leaders.’
They love Bank of England Buttboys telling them to sit down and STFU.
Sad to see an emasculated shell of a ‘country’ to the north of the USSA.
Canada-da’s back ain’t got no bone!
The Frozen North’s New National Anthem:
CIA & Palace Insiders: How The Surprise Raid On Maduro Went Down
First, it has been divulged that President Trump a mere week earlier gave Maduro once last chance to relinquish power willingly in a phone call. “You got to surrender,” Trump told the press Saturday in reference to Maduro. Trump referenced that he actually “came close” to stepping down – whereafter he possibly would have headed to safer climes in Dubai, Qatar, or even Moscow (where he could join Assad).
But at the very moment the Venezuelan leader was on the phone with Trump, a CIA team was already in country monitoring his every move. According to a variety of fresh reporting in NBC and others, the CIA closely watched where he stayed, what he ate, and how he moved.
Likely the CIA would have been developing local assets over a period of years. An ‘asset’ can be anyone from local citizens or military officers – or even high ranking Colonels in Generals in the national army. One thing is clear at this point – the Pentagon had ‘insider help’ within the socialist regime.
Details of what was dubbed “Operation Absolute Resolve” have at this point been revealed by more than a dozen officials across the White House, administration, and Congress. There have also been very clear public remarks, and the obvious fact of the months-long Pentagon build-up in the southern Caribbean. For example, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan “Raizin” Caine said Saturday that US intelligence even knew the names of Maduro’s pets. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-maduro-was-caught-completely-surprise-us-raid-after-cia-team-weeks-monitored-hisRubio indicates U.S. won’t run Venezuela but will use oil blockade as leverage for changes https://ground.news/article/rubio-indicates-us-wont-run-venezuela-but-will-use-oil-blockade-as-leverage-for-changes_6c9bcc
Jan. 3, Gold & Geopolitics, America bombs Venezuela
Chinese officials – Xi Jinping’s special envoy Qiu Xiaoqi, to be specific – sat down with Maduro on Friday. January 2nd. Discussed their “unbreakable brotherhood”. Reviewed over 600 existing agreements between Beijing and Caracas. The usual diplomatic theater about resisting Western imperialism and building a multipolar world order.
Then, just hours later, American bombs started falling….
..Here’s what else happened on January 1st – two days before those strikes. China’s new silver export restrictions went into effect. Not recommendations. Not guidelines. Hard restrictions requiring government licenses for any company wanting to ship silver out of the country. And we’re not talking about some minor player here. China controls somewhere between 60-70% of the global silver supply. They’re not just a big fish. They’re the entire goddamn ocean.
The word on the street – and yes, this is rumor territory, so take it with appropriate skepticism – is that Shanghai Port Authority refused to ship a 50 million ounce silver cargo to COMEX-approved delivery warehouses. That’s not a typo. Fifty. Million. Ounces. The kind of shipment COMEX desperately needs right now because their registered inventories are down 70%.
Let me paint you a picture of how bad things are for COMEX. Physical silver in Shanghai is trading at ~$80 per ounce. In some Asian markets, it’s hitting $130. Meanwhile, COMEX futures are quoting around $71. This market is broken beyond repair. The paper price and the physical price have completely divorced, and the physical market is keeping the house. https://no01.substack.com/p/america-bombs-venezuela Jan. 4, Gold & Geopolitics, Venezuela: afterthoughts
Maduro’s in a Brooklyn detention center now. Trump’s declaring the US will “run” Venezuela. And I need to update where I stand after watching this unfold.
Because the more I look at this, the more convinced I am we just witnessed theater. Expensive, well-choreographed theater with real consequences, but theater nonetheless.
Let’s start with the obvious. Not a single AA-missile fired. Zero American casualties. The Venezuelan military – supposedly on high alert after weeks and months of threats – just stood down. Maduro and his wife waiting at home when Delta Force arrived. No firefight. No resistance. Just a clean extraction...
..This went perfectly. TOO perfectly. Hollywood-level perfectly.
Helicopters flying over Caracas. A country that allegedly has thousands of Russian MANPADS. Prepared for this exact scenario for years. And not one gets fired?
Either Venezuela’s military capability was pure fiction, this was negotiated beforehand or he got sold. I’m going with Occam’s Razor.
Maduro likely got an offer he couldn’t refuse. Like: come quietly and your family’s protected and tended for.
His vice president Delcy Rodríguez is now acting president. Trump claims she’s cooperating. However, she’s publicly demanding Maduro’s release and condemning American aggression. https://no01.substack.com/p/venezuela-afterthoughts Trump DOJ Admits Venezuela’s ‘Cartel De Los Soles’ Isn’t An Actual Organization
A major plank in the Trump administration’s case for military intervention in Venezuela is looking thinner today, as the Department of Justice has retreated from the notion that captured President Nicolas Maduro was the head of an organized drug cartel called Cartel de los Soles. The DOJ now says the term “Cartel de los Soles” is merely descriptive of a “culture of corruption” fueled by the illegal drug trade.
This isn’t semantics: Both the Treasury and State Departments had officially designated the non-existent group as a terrorist organization...
The retreat from the idea that Cartel de los Soles is an actual organization was apparent in the DOJ’s filing of a superseding (updated) indictment. The previous indictment referred to the supposed cartel 32 times, naming Maduro as its chief. The new one only mentions the term twice, and says it’s only descriptive of a “patronage system” and a “culture of corruption” propelled by drug money. That’s consistent with the fact that the DEA’s annual National Drug Threat Assessment has never mentioned any “Cartel de los Soles” in its cataloguing of major traffickers. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-doj-admits-venezuelas-cartel-de-los-soles-isnt-actual-organization Simplicius, Jan. 5, Big Surprise: Legal Story Changes as Maduro Brought to Court
What do you know? Today in court the Justice Department officially dropped the fake claim that Maduro was ringleader of the fictitious ‘Cartel of the Suns’, which never existed. The theater is not required anymore, you see, now that he’s captured! Convenient how that works, no? …
..But it little matters anymore, as the Trump administration has dropped all pretenses of adhering to any laws, strictures, or moral codes: they have simply declared the US’s right to take whatever it wants by virtue of its superpower status alone...
..Rubio even whined he “doesn’t care what the UN thinks”, while the US ambassador to the UN flatly explained the reason the Venezuelan regime change was carried out was because the US “can’t have adversaries controlling the largest oil reserves in the world” …
..This fact did not escape the Russian ambassador to the UN, who rightly protested:
“We are particularly appalled by the unparalleled cynicism with which Washington did not even attempt to conceal the true aims of its criminal operation.”
Trump even admitted to having informed “the oil companies” of the secret operation in advance, which appears to imply they took part in the planning of the whole affair from the get go—or perhaps, were even the chief drivers of it all, we might assume:
“Did you speak with (the oil companies) before the operation took place?“
Trump: “Yes. Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.”
And speaking of skullduggery, reports continue suggesting that Maduro’s downfall was the work of behind-the-scenes betrayal as we have been suspecting:
WSJ writes that a ‘recently classified’ report describes how the CIA was responsible for convincing Trump that Delcy Rodriguez was the one, over would-be puppet Machado...
..It’s also worth mentioning Donroe Donnie’s brilliant plan for the great “wealth” extraction operation in Venezuela. You see, it’s the tax payer that’s actually meant to foot the bill, as usual, while the oil companies chug their way along to the bank…
..You see, word on the street has it that oil companies aren’t exactly hopping and skipping to get back in that market because current global oil prices do not make Venezuela’s difficult brand of oil profitable to extract and refine, to say the least. But don’t worry, Donnie will foot the bill—or rather, you will: what did you think he meant by the “tremendous amount of money” which will have to be “reimbursed by us”? Did you forget the credo of American State Capitalism? Socialize the losses, privatize the profits. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/big-surprise-legal-story-changes There is well organized and granular detail here: US Removal of Maduro Reshapes Global Energy Security
Scenario 1: Successful Integration and Production Ramp-Up
Optimal development scenarios envision Venezuelan production reaching 5-8 million barrels per day by 2035, establishing the United States as the dominant Western Hemisphere oil power. This outcome requires sustained infrastructure investment, technological deployment, and operational expertise that addresses historical production constraints.
Market impact projections suggest significant downward pressure on global oil prices, potentially reducing benchmark crude costs by $10-20 per barrel over extended timeframes. Such price reductions would affect global economic dynamics, energy transition economics, and geopolitical relationships between producing and consuming nations.
Strategic implications include strengthened American energy security, reduced import dependence, and enhanced capacity to influence global energy markets through supply management. This scenario assumes successful resolution of operational challenges and sustained political stability within Venezuelan territory. The US military’s strategic positioning suggests long-term commitment to this approach. https://discoveryalert.com.au/strategic-implications-global-energy-control-2026/After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next https://scheerpost.com/2026/01/04/after-venezuela-assault-trump-and-rubio-warn-cuba-mexico-and-colombia-could-be-next/
Sheinbaum rebuffs Trump’s Venezuela operation, threats to Mexico
Sheinbaum warned that infighting would harm the region’s economy, saying Mexico fights organized crime while blaming the United States for weapons flow and drug consumption fueling violence.
Regional reactions split along ideological lines as right-wing leaders cheered Nicolás Maduro’s removal, which critics linked to exploiting oil, while Maduro and his wife face indictments in New York’s Southern District.
Historical patterns, Sheinbaum said, show interventions fail to produce democracy and stability, arguing such actions ‘don’t lead to peace or development’ and stressing Latin America’s right to sovereignty and self-determination. https://ground.news/article/sheinbaum-rebuffs-trumps-venezuela-operation-threats-to-mexico_09eaa6 BREAKING: COUP D’ÉTAT IN VENEZUELA? Heavy Gunfire in Caracas, Anti-Aircraft Artillery Firing Non-Stop – Armed Groups Moving Through the City, Clashing With Government Troops
Monday night erupted in heavy firefights in Caracas, more specifically in areas of Miraflores, where the presidential palace is located.
This comes a mere hours after the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, was formally sworn in. Rumors have been circulating that Maduro’s right-hand man, Diosdado Cabello, was planning a coup d’état against Rodríguez. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/breaking-coup-detat-venezuela-heavy-gunfire-caracas-anti/Just as a solidly dependable datum to help in your prognosticating, we can now state with firm certainty (based on hard numbers and First Principles logic) that high technology civilization has a “Use By” date that you can count on.
7 years maximum. News Years Day 2033, if our luck holds.
That’s when the silver (which our electronics dependent world runs on… and does NOT RUN WITHOUT… runs out.
Things can (and most likely will) break down before then, but 7 years is the maximum that it can keep running if nothing else breaks first.
I can bore you with the numbers if you want, but tons of other people will be telling you the same thing in the very near future since it ain’t rocket surgery and absolutely impossible to keep a secret.
7 years, guys. That’s how much time we have to get our shit together before the lights, literally, go out.
Get ready to get primitive, but FIRST make sure that you and your loved ones are alive to have that opportunity.
Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown
Chaos is not the breakdown of the system. Chaos is the system operating as designed. What you are watching—across governments, economies, wars, elections, and institutions—is not failure, incompetence, or decay. It is coordination masquerading as disorder. At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained. Once you learn to read its patterns instead of its headlines, the illusion collapses, and a single truth becomes unavoidable: none of this is accidental...
..INGA: Integrated Networked Governance Architecture isn’t a building, a charter, or a treaty. It’s the way power learned to survive democracy by moving sideways instead of down. When authority could no longer rely on kings, coups, or overt occupation, it learned to embed itself across systems that appear unrelated but act in concert...
..“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them. “She” doesn’t start wars—she manages instability. She doesn’t steal money—she allocates resources. When tax dollars disappear, “She” smiles and calls it complexity. When sovereignty erodes, she shrugs and calls it cooperation. When nothing improves and no one is accountable, “She” reminds you that the system is just too big to understand.
INGA thrives on deniability. “She” operates best when everyone agrees something is wrong but can’t quite agree on who did it. “She” disperses responsibility so finely that outrage has nowhere to land. Every disaster has a committee. Every decision has a process. Every process has a justification. And every justification points somewhere else.
“She” loves optics. Elections that change faces but not outcomes. Peace deals that make headlines while pipelines, debts, and dependencies remain untouched. Wars framed as humanitarian necessity, reconstruction framed as generosity, and influence framed as partnership. She ensures there is always motion—summits, conferences, agreements—so no one notices the direction never changes.
INGA doesn’t rule by force. “She” rules by exhaustion. By paperwork. By endless intermediaries. By convincing nations they chose this path themselves. By making citizens feel vaguely uneasy but powerless, sensing manipulation without being able to name the manipulator. “She” is patient. “She” doesn’t need you to believe in “her”. “She” only needs you to keep arguing with your neighbor while she rearranges the board.
This is why the chaos feels synchronized. Why crises stack instead of resolve. Why accountability dissolves the moment you reach for it. https://x.com/idontexistTore/status/2007565477942554948Interesting attack. The list has names I did and did not expect to see: BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
Every one of these Senators is guilty of providing aid and comfort to THE ENEMY during a time of war and has the blood of their fellow American citizens. https://x.com/GalacticJack/status/2007669058163093845Thomas Kolbe says Europe had better line up behind the US quickly: Energy Levers Shift As US Strikes A Geopolitical Blow With Maduro Arrest
The new year has begun with a bang, and critical weeks and months lie ahead, in which the players on this power field are forced to make moves. While the U.S., with a single step, has removed or neutralized multiple pieces from the board, Europe faces a different situation.
Here, the alliance of Brussels, London, Berlin, and Paris continues to try to solve its resource problems through escalation of the Ukraine conflict. Hovering over all of this is the hope, expressed by EU foreign affairs representative Kaja Kallas on behalf of the alliance, to weaken the Russian state through military success—and, by inference, gain influence over the massive resource complex.
A reminder: Europe has no significant domestic raw materials, is around 60 percent net energy importer, and now finds itself largely exposed as major players—the U.S. and China—gradually make their moves and wield powerful levers over the resource complex.
It is time to decide. Either Europe continues down the path of climate-socialist destruction toward the inevitable collapse of the European Union, or it accepts the strategic leadership of the U.S., follows Washington’s rules—which essentially imply dismantling the censorship apparatus and the climate-socialist control complex—and returns to a Europe of regions: a promising concept based on competitive free-market principles and preservation of regional cultural traditions. https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-levers-shift-us-strikes-geopolitical-blow-maduro-arrest EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live and Trade Partners Are Not Amused
The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism launched on January 1 aims to level the playing field for European steel, cement, and power producers by taxing the carbon content of imports from countries with weaker emissions rules.
China has threatened retaliation, calling CBAM unfair and discriminatory. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/EUs-Carbon-Border-Tax-Goes-Live-and-Trade-Partners-Are-Not-Amused.htmlChinese Social Media Explodes: US Invasion Of Venezuela A ‘Template’ For Move On Taiwan http://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-social-media-explodes-us-invasion-venezuela-template-move-taiwan
Russia’s Medvedev calls Trump’s actions in Venezuela ‘illegal,’ but say they have ‘a certain consistency’
US president, his team are ‘very staunchly defending their country’s national interests,’ deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council tells state media https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/russias-medvedev-calls-trump-s-actions-in-venezuela-illegal-but-say-they-have-a-certain-consistency-/3789669 Trump is not saying MI-6 didn’t do it from Estonia, is he? The US was handed the navigation-controller module from a drone to review its flight programming.
Trump Flips, Has More Info: Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin Residence With Drones https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-flips-has-more-info-ukraine-didnt-target-putin-residence-drones Celia Farber, Jan. 4, What Israeli TV Is Saying About Venezuela: The Nation Was An “..Economic And Logistical Lifeline” To Iran and Hezbollah—Detailed Report On What A US Controlled Venezuela Would Mean For Israel While Outraged Over Rodriguez’ “Zionist Tinge” Comment https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/what-israeli-tv-is-saying-about-venezuela
Gold & Geopolitics, Same playbook, different target – Round #3, #4? I’ve lost count!
Iran started burning on December 28th, right as most of the West was preparing their fireworks for New Year’s Eve. Protests erupted across Tehran when the rial hit 1.42 million against the dollar – a currency collapse that made food prices jump 72% in a single year. Shopkeepers in the Grand Bazaar closed their stores. Students poured into streets. What began as economic desperation in the capital spread to 17 provinces within 48 hours.
Netanyahu saw his opening.
On December 29th, he flew to Mar-a-Lago for five hours of meetings with Trump. The official story says he came to “brief” the president about Iran’s ballistic missile program and present options for potential strikes. But Netanyahu doesn’t fly across the Atlantic to brief anyone. He comes to convince. Some would even take it further and say “instruct”. Israeli officials believe Iran can produce 3,000 missiles annually if left unchecked – enough to overwhelm Iron Dome through sheer volume. He likely brought targeting packages. Not some hypothetical scenarios, but actual strike plans for missile production facilities in Kermanshah, assembly plants near Shiraz, storage depots scattered across western Iran.
Iranian protesters were already chanting “Death to the dictator” in reference to Supreme Leader Khamenei. The economic collapse is real – 42% inflation, electricity cuts, broken promises from President Pezeshkian about lifting internet censorship and improving governance. Whether the protests were organic grievances or color revolution doesn’t particularly matter at this stage. The desperation is genuine. But there’s always infrastructure ready to amplify and redirect organic chaos. The MEK opposition held rallies across European capitals within days, showing someone had pre-positioned resources to capitalize on unrest. Genuine economic rage creates opportunity. External actors ensure that opportunity doesn’t go to waste...
..January 3rd. American special operations forces landed in Caracas, extracted Maduro and his wife, flew them to New York. Zero American casualties. No Venezuelan anti-aircraft response despite weeks of escalating threats and warnings. The operation was surgical. Too surgical. Something doesn’t track about dozens of highly trained presidential guards, holding defensive positions in facilities they know intimately, getting wiped out without inflicting a single casualty on the attackers. Venezuelan reports say those guards were executed in cold blood. The logical conclusion? Someone from inside disarmed and executed his security detail. Whether that someone was paid, threatened, or ideologically motivated is irrelevant to the outcome.
Trump is emboldened. He’d just demonstrated that regime change operations can be conducted with minimal warning and face zero meaningful consequences. No UN resolution required. No NATO consultation. No congressional authorization. Just presidential orders, military execution, accomplished facts. European leaders issued their predictable statements about international law and sovereignty. Within 72 hours, British oil companies were positioning to return to Venezuelan operations. The international order doesn’t prevent American action.
That’s when the machinery immediately started moving toward Iran in ways that can’t be hidden from people paying attention.
First signal: After Venezuela, the US Air Force shut off tracking systems across virtually its entire fleet… You can’t report on movements you can’t detect...
..Second signal: some heavy airlifting started. Between January 3rd and 4th, at least ten C-17 Globemaster transports landed at RAF Fairford in Britain. The departure points: Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia. Both host elements of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The Night Stalkers. One analyst described what those bases represent: home to the 75th Ranger Regiment and Special Operations Airborne units that conduct the kind of missions most people only see in movies.
The cargo manifests were visible to spotters on the ground. MH-60 Black Hawks and MH-47 Chinooks getting unloaded at Fairford under darkness. Some aircraft continued to Ramstein Air Base in Germany for forward positioning. Others remained in Britain. This might be routine rotation or training deployment, but 12 heavy duty planes?? RAF Fairford served as the primary staging base before June’s strikes on Iran too. Same units. Same equipment profiles. Same deployment pattern.
Third signal: Greece went dark. Sunday morning, January 4th, around 9am local time, Greece’s entire airspace experienced complete communications failure. Not partial disruption. Total blackout across every frequency simultaneously... Airborne jamming… If the US military aircraft would be flying towards Israel, they would be transiting Greek airspace during that window. Civilian traffic grounded means military traffic moves freely without collision risk or civilian observation. The interference lasted several hours while something moved through corridors that normally handle hundreds of commercial flights.
That same day, Israel’s security cabinet approved “Operation Iron Strike”. Five hours of meetings reviewing Netanyahu’s discussions with Trump, outlining priorities for action against Iran, finalizing approvals. No disclosed targets. No announced timeline. Just authorization...
..Aircraft could stage from Souda Bay or Cyprus. Strike deep into Iran through Syrian airspace. Return the same way. Remember, during last year’s 12-day war, Israel used Syria as the corridor precisely because ISIS now controls Damascus and Israel systematically destroyed Syrian air defenses. Iraq won’t grant overflight permission. Turkey’s unreliable. The Mediterranean-Cyprus-Syria route provides the lowest-risk approach to Iranian targets. Refueling tankers stay out of range of Iranian AD. Special operations helicopters insert along Iran’s western borders with Greek and Cypriot coordination...
..Meanwhile, back in Iran, the protests escalated exactly as needed to justify intervention. By January 3rd, security forces were firing live ammunition. At least 31 people dead. Dozens arrested. Tear gas deployed across Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad. Khamenei appeared on television Saturday with the language autocrats use when they’ve decided violence is the answer:
“We talk to protesters, the officials must talk to them. But there is no benefit to talking to rioters. Rioters must be put in their place”.
Not protesters. Rioters. The distinction provides legal and ideological cover for lethal force without restraint.
Iranian officials told The New York Times their government was operating in “survival mode”. Israeli intelligence leaked claims that Khamenei has an escape plan to Moscow prepared in case security forces defect to protesters...
..Trump responded with the exact framing you’d expect after Venezuela validated the humanitarian intervention template:
“If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go”.
Internal chaos plus brutal suppression equals American military intervention marketed as humanitarian rescue. The script writes itself at this point. We’ve seen it in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. Add Venezuela to the list... But is this real or theater? …
..Trump’s public statement after meeting Netanyahu was a carefully calibrated threat:
“There will be consequences. Consequences will be very powerful, maybe more powerful than last time”.
Last time was theater. This time might not be. https://no01.substack.com/p/same-playbook-different-target
More than 12 US Air Force C-17’s arrive in UK within 24 hours; Iran Build-up? https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/more-than-12-us-air-force-c-17s-arrive-in-uk-within-24-hours-iran-build-up?catid=17&Itemid=101US Air Force C-17 Globemaster headed south-eastward from Germany, currently in Middle East airspace, with second plane appearing to follow similar initial path. https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/2007911135165714815
From Iran, Iran government triples subsidies to meet people’s needs https://en.mehrnews.com/news/240466/Iran-government-triples-subsidies-to-meet-people-s-needs
Over 12,000 Palestinian children ‘remain forcibly displaced’ in West Bank: UN agency
UNRWA says Israel’s ongoing military operation in northern West Bank has uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/over-12-000-palestinian-children-remain-forcibly-displaced-in-west-bank-un-agency/3789634This Is How Israeli Settlers, Backed by the Military, Erased a Palestinian Village From Existence Last Week https://scheerpost.com/2026/01/04/this-is-how-israeli-settlers-backed-by-the-military-erased-a-palestinian-village-from-existence-last-week/
Settlers fence swaths of Palestinian land in Bethlehem https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/04/355116/
Three Palestinians, including a child, were killed on Saturday by Israeli occupation forces across several areas of the Gaza Strip, according to medical and local media sources.
Medical officials reported that a 45-year-old woman was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, in the northwest of the enclave. Her body was transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses identified the woman as Sinioura al-Shish, saying she was killed in the Tel al-Dahab area of Beit Lahia, within zones from which Israeli forces had previously withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier in the day, medical sources confirmed that an 11-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli fire outside the army’s deployment areas in Beit Lahia. Her body was also taken to Al-Shifa Hospital. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/three-palestinians-including-child-killed-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza/Israel is waging a reproductive genocide against Palestinian mothers in Gaza https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-is-waging-a-reproductive-genocide-against-palestinian-mothers-in-gaza/
With Their Breadwinners Killed, Gaza’s Children Turn to Begging to Survive https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-children-begging-to-survive/
Escape Key, The Architecture of Emergency
In December 2025, the Wall Street Journal revealed ‘Project Sunrise‘1 — a $112 billion plan to transform Gaza into a ‘high-tech metropolis‘ over twenty years. The blueprint – developed by Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff – envisions luxury coastal resorts, AI-optimised power grids, and high-speed rail. Seventy percent of Gaza’s coastline would be monetised beginning in year ten, projected to generate over $55 billion in investment returns.
The plan makes no mention of where Gaza’s two million displaced residents would live during reconstruction. That absence is not an oversight — it reflects the architecture working exactly as designed...
..The sequencing is explicit: public money flows during uncertainty; private capture begins when assets generate returns. Taxpayers socialise the downside; investors privatise the upside...
But before private capital can enter, someone must control who delivers services on the ground…
..Israel is not funding reconstruction — Western taxpayers are. Israel will not profit directly from the trucking fees or coastal development — private enterprise will. But Israel determines who is permitted to participate at all. Every contractor, every aid worker, every organisation that wishes to operate must pass through Israeli vetting. This grants the party that flattened Gaza the power to set the terms on which it is rebuilt, using other people’s money, for other people’s profit...
..What begins as emergency response becomes permanent operating procedure through procedural drift. Each review finds ‘progress but more work needed‘. Each tranche release comes with additional conditions. The transition never actually transitions, because transition was never the function.
There is a Stafford Beer credited term in systems theory: POSIWID. The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. Ignore the stated intentions. Watch the outcomes.
The outcome in Gaza: a territory whose governance remains permanently contingent on external certification, enforced through financial dependency, and monitored through technical systems that become nearly impossible to exit once installed.
Reconstruction becomes restructuring, crisis becomes leverage, and emergency becomes architecture. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-emergency Meryl Nass MD, That ratcheting control system is not new, just “improved”: Important: A Cliff Notes version of Carroll Quigley’s TRAGEDY AND HOPE, to reveal who runs the world and how, and an interview with Norman Dodd on the same subject. – G Edward Griffin interviewed Dodd and wrote the Forward to Plummer’s summary book on Tragedy and Hope https://merylnass.substack.com/p/important-a-cliff-notes-version-of
Kyle Young has a lot more details which have surfaced regarding specific people and the inside-job aspects of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I read his essay:
Amfest, Erika Kirk, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Ft Huachuaca, TikTok, with Roman Shapoval https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/amfest-erika-kirk-candace-owens-tuckerTrump Admin Cracks Down on Tim Walz’s Minnesota with Massive Immigration Operation – Thousands of Agents Flooding to State https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-admin-cracks-tim-walzs-minnesota-massive-immigration-operation-thousands-agents-flooding-state/
Senator Kelley followed the law. They can smack him down anyway: Senator and retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly facing demotion, pay cut after November video warning against ‘illegal orders’ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/senator-mark-kelly-faces-demotion-military-pay-cut-punishment-video-warning-against-illegal-1768517
Meryl Nass MD on friends-of-big-pharma: IMHO, the opioid epidemic is due to several US government policies
Let’s look at opioid deaths by drug and year. And my deep dive into this issue from 2015-2017 https://merylnass.substack.com/p/imho-the-opioid-epidemic-is-due-toCannabis Industry Lawyer, 2026 Cannabis Laws Are About to Shift—Here’s Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AniwxHoi1I
Association between ultra-processed foods and risk of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Conclusion: The present meta-analysis suggests that high UPFs consumption is associated with a significantly increased risk of certain site-specific cancers, especially the digestive tract and some hormone-related cancers. However, further rigorously designed prospective and experimental studies are needed to better understand causal pathways. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37360305/ Meryl Nass MD, With the stroke of a pen, the childhood vaccine schedule is reduced from 17 to 11 diseases
Parents will still be able to get more vaccines if they want them–but presumably they won’t have a liability shield. I disagree with the HPV vaccine staying on the schedule. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/with-the-stroke-of-a-pen-the-childhood Celia Farber, CDC SLASHES CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE FROM 84-88 DOSES DOWN TO 30, ALIGNING WITH GERMAN, DANISH AND JAPANESE STANDARDS, FOLLOWING TRUMP’S REQUEST TO RFK JR. AND JIM O’NEILL TO INVESTIGATE – mRNA Vaccines Hopefully Next. https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/cdc-slashes-childhood-vaccine-schedule
Previous U.S. routine schedule (2024)84–88 routine vaccine doses
Targeting 17 diseases
(18 if RSV monoclonal antibody is included)
New CDC routine schedule (2026)
~30 routine doses
Targeting 10–11 diseases
Based on international consensus
Net change: approximately 54–58 routine doses removed, commonly summarized as ~55 routine doses.
Importantly, this reduction applies only to vaccines previously labeled “routine for all children.” No vaccines were banned or removed from availability. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-shrinks-routine-childhood The MAHA Report, Why the CDC’s Pared-Down Childhood Vaccine Schedule Is Long Overdue
On Monday, Acting CDC Director and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, James O’Neill, formally approved a Decision Memorandum recommending a revised and reduced childhood vaccine schedule.
His decision was neither whimsical or radical, as most mainstream media played it. Rather, it draws on gold standard research, including a research paper entitled,“Assessment of the U.S. Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule Compared to Other Countries,” submitted by Tracy Beth Høeg, Acting Director for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; and Martin Kulldorff, Chief Science and Data Officer for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The paper was prepared in consultation with experts at CDC, FDA, NIH, and CMS.
According to the memorandum, the HHS is now recommending 11 vaccines, down from 17. https://www.themahareport.com/p/why-the-cdcs-pared-down-childhoodBINGO! Doctors Will No Longer Receive Financial Rewards for Vaccinating Kids
In a Dec. 30, 2025, memo to state health officials, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it “does not tie payment to performance on immunization quality measures in Medicaid and CHIP at the federal level.” U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the new policy protects medical freedom and informed consent. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doctors-will-no-longer-receive-financial-rewards-vaccinating-kids-cms/Meryl Nass MD, NY Times did a very good story Jan 2 on the glyphosate liability issue, by the same author who has done the excellent PFAS reporting https://merylnass.substack.com/p/ny-times-did-a-very-good-story-jan
Meryl Nass MD on a very good surprise, The pesticide liability shield rider has been removed from the Interior/EPA Appropriations bill released to the House this morning. The Farm Bill, the Supreme Court and the State bills remain pending https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-pesticide-liability-shield-rider
I wonder what this will look like in practice. John Klar, All 50 U.S. States to Receive Funding to Improve Rural Health Care
Three days before the new year, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced awards to all 50 states under President Trump’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), which will provide $50 billion over five years to help states improve rural health delivery…
..Key Takeaways:
– Awards for all 50 states under President Trump’s $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program were announced on December 29.
– Proposal approvals indicate that RHTP funds will support substantial long-term investments in rural healthcare systems and workforces, and focus on prevention and reversal of chronic diseases. https://www.themahareport.com/p/all-50-us-states-to-receive-award Human colostrum is likely better. Nicolas Hulscher, Study Finds Bovine Colostrum 3× More Effective Than Flu Vaccination in Preventing Flu Illness
Participants experienced ~60% fewer illness days and ~75% fewer flu-like episodes with bovine colostrum compared to flu vaccination. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-finds-bovine-colostrum-3-more Alex Berenson, 2.7 million Spanish children and teenagers. ZERO Covid deaths.
A new study proves, yet again, that the mRNA Covid jabs should NEVER have been approved for young people. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/27-million-spanish-children-and-teenagers BREAKING: U.K. Approves Experimental Self-Amplifying mRNA (Replicon) Injection — Kostaive by Arcturus Therapeutics
A catastrophic mistake approving a technology shown to induce severe blood abnormalities in 93% of recipients. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-uk-approves-experimental Steve Kirsch, UK government still ‘withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths’
UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to ‘distress’ of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered. But the Czech Republic showed UKHSA is wrong. They should release the data now.
Executive summary
The UK government keeps the COVID vaccine data secret from the public because releasing the data risks damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/uk-government-still-withholding-data BREAKING: Study Identifies Over 300 Peer-Reviewed COVID-19 “Vaccine” Cancer Cases Across 27 Countries — Journal Hit With Cyberattacks
Major cancer journal confirms global turbo cancer safety signal as criminal cyberattacks possibly linked to PubPeer disrupt access to the study. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-identifies-over-300I plumb forgot to make my New Years Resolutions! Come to think of it, so did all the usual folks who traditionally tout that nonsense when the yearly odometer rolls over to a fresh row of zeroes. Apparently the “New Year Resolution” meme has lost its luster. Reality has a way of doing that.
Anyhow, I’m going to give the custom one more shot.
My New Year’s Resolution for 2026 is to pay MUCH closer attention to the crazy, since crazy shit is the only geopolitical “constant” remaining. Expect nutty as a fruit cake from here on out, and especially the stuff available on publicly accessible information channels.Good luck. See ya on the flip side.
@JohnDay
I suggest someone drop Putin a note with the laboratories of Arcturus Therapeutics clearly marked and geo-located. It would be a could place to plant one of his Oreshniks before humankind gets rubbed out by the predictable lab leak.
Dr John
INGA:
“At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained.”
Bollocks
Yes, chaos does emerge spontaneously as systems become more complex Entropy is the measure of chaos in a complex system.
A dynamic system at equilibrium. I would like to see one of those.You’ve heard it before … “10% for the big guy”
Trump says US to get 30 million to 50 million barrels of ‘sanctioned’ oil from Venezuela at market price
The U.S. has been seeking to acquire Venezuelan oil as part of its sanctions against the country.
Recently, President Trump announced that the U.S. would receive 30 million to 50 million barrels of ‘sanctioned’ oil from Venezuela at market price.
This move is part of the broader strategy to pressure Venezuela to comply with the sanctions and address human rights abuses and drug trafficking.
The U.S. has imposed various sanctions on Venezuela, including freezing the assets of its state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and barring Americans from doing business with the country.
These sanctions have significantly impacted Venezuela’s oil industry, leading to a decline in production and exports.Are you not entertained, engrossed in your jew theatre? Maduro, in cuffs, paraded before you in 25 different outfits, like a fashion show. Somali, Somali, Somali, ad nauseum. What the hasidic jews rip off in 1 day from Uncle Shmuel makes the Somalis look like pre schoolers. Engrossed and mezmerized by jew bullshit, the walls of a digital prison are built all around you. Birth to death surveillance, panopticon, cattle in the pen, awaiting execution. Don’t fall for pretty pictures or the comforting lies they say. That genocide way over there …is coming for you here, while your nose is down in the muck they feed you.
Maduro – Diplomatic immunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunityDiplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country.[1][2] It allows diplomats safe passage and freedom of travel in a host country, and affords almost total protection from local lawsuits and criminal prosecution.
Silver:
After the late December 2025 paper smash, silver prices are slowly inching their way back up to match Shanghai’s physical silver prices.
Of course, the CME are taking their sweet time about it.Interestingly, China cancelled a 50 million silver relief shipment at the very last moment!
Obviously, the CME did something to displeased the Chinese, so China stopped co- operating.Is Yankee, really Dutch for pirates?
Mike Benz calls up a 1993 “60 Minutes” segment about the CIA having a todo with the DEA over cocaine smuggling out of Venezuela.
Here is the original segment from 1993.
I hope Venezuela is about taking out the CIA.
I worry it may be about an outsider trying to undercover his way into that legion of demons.“Col. Jacques Baud: The World Is Entering a Lawless Era” Dialogue Works•6.4K views•Streamed 7 minutes ago
You are FKM, right? We were lawless in the SPANISH AMERICAN WAR. “Remember the Maine!!” “Give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war” – Pullitzer. Maybe you’ve heard of this thing called “Iraq”? TWICE? Fstan, Syria, Libya? Oh NOW we’re a lawless period? JHC man.
Yup, he’s gone rogue. Where no President has ever been before.
Okay, that was fun, But I thought Trump was TACO. You hated him because he TACOs. Now you hate him because he DOESN’T Taco? That’s in Armstrong’s article yesterday, “Trump is a Putin Puppet because he won’t invade Venezuela! Whaaaaaahhhh!!!!” Now he’s a Putin Puppet and Hitler squared because he DOES “Invade” (Hearty har – har) Venezuela. Will you make up your mind?
Trump saved kittens and cured cancer! Trump is bad! Trump comes out for Oxygen, everyone holds their breath until they pass out! And we’re picking on the Right, sure, and they haven’t deserved it this richly since 2015. But the LEFT suddenly remembered the Constitution! Wow. And all it took was for Trump to be in office, and international and federal law suddenly exists again.
Man, I tell you: Miracles every day.
Thinking more about this detail: that the U.S. has long legal, Federal Precedent to extradite people, AND Congress long since expressly gave this power to the President, essentially without limit or oversight. So to the Law, it’s LEGAL. Yet all of us how here say it’s clearly Illegal. …And I agree.
But isn’t that odd?
Do we usually say something like – sorry can’t come up with an example under our Socialist government EVERYTHING is illegal, but we don’t say, “Walking down the street is illegal.” When on the books it IS legal. Yet here we are arguing with the government, en masse, that what they say is legal is illegal. Why? Where do we get that impression from? We think bombing Russia and Syria is legal. No one had an issue with that. We think forcing experimental drugs is legal. But only this.
Short answer: THE GOVERNMENT IS US.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,”
We saw this in Supreme Court decisions. If we’re supporting R v Wade, then we must OBEY the USSC. While if they reverse it, we must IGNORE the USSC and all Federal Courts and laws. The Right does the same thing, but perhaps with gun rights. Here we have a majority (but not everyone) aligned: none of us think we should be kidnapping leaders. It makes problems. We should have 4 year wars of $150 Billion dollars and nuke nuclear powers instead. That’s much more legal and smarter.
But no. Again, the FEDERAL COURTS say this sort of thing is legal. Good excuse to impeach and remove every Federal Judge I say, but the point is there. The LAW says this is legal. Trump did a LEGAL thing. You and I, everyone here I assume, argues otherwise. Weird.
Sachs, on Duran: “Trump is easily influenced, controlled,” Ah. We all noticed that. Everyone’s first impression of him. “Trump is on top of the Deep State” Ah yes, we noticed he just worked for the deep state that’s why they love him so much. Etc, etc, I’ve covered it 100 times now. Pick One.
His problem is, he’s supposed to obey the SYSTEM. He’s supposed to PRETEND. It’s the not pretending that really gets him. So he’s supposed to attack Ven, Iran, etc like everyone else does, but he’s supposed to address Congress and the UN first. Pretend to get their permission like Bush did, then when they don’t get it, ignore them anyway and waste a lot of time.
Jeff? Think about what you’re saying there.
“The West scheming to crush its own people and anyone else they can.
The West needs to be definitively defeated”And replaced by China. What are you, five? So let’s scour the earth and erase everything Europe and Europeans have ever done, go back to living in round huts, the way Progressives want. No? If not, then we have bad rulers and need to be removed, NOT DESTROY THE ENTIRE WEST, the Magna Carta, writing, technology, the Bill of (Human) Rights, Democracy, trial by Jury, and so on.
Destroy “The West” so we can have a real African, Middle Eastern, Central Asian justice and honor system. With their family control and liberal rights. Go ahead. That’s what you want. We’ll have an ideal system, suited best to our nature if we have the Chinese Imperial system, where we obey the Emperor Xi. Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve been fighting for lo all these years.
Restore nothing; destroy everything. Shoot all allies. That is the way of goodness and light. Hate is my lodestar. Hate all Whitey and everything they’ve done and stand for. Only if we erase all memory of everything back to Greece will we finally be free, in a world of true love and light.
“Inflation will follow except where demand destruction occurs.
Oil is going to take a hit from increasing unaffordability.” Why?“Demand destruction” means no customers. Oil flow should substantially go UP. That’s why he was getting involved, right? They say he’s there to steal the oil. Okay, sold. So he’s there to steal the oil not to pump it and sell it? Go on, why? PICK ONE.
“Canada – vassal state completely subservient to US interest in the region.”
Wow, I had not noticed this. Canadian readers, is Canada totally loving and being obedient to America? I thought they were “Elbows up” only a month ago. Carney was givin’ us the works.
Okay, how about this: The “West” (Globalists) lost the U.S. (Control room of paid traitors) so they are embargoing our oil the way they (we) did to Japan in 1939. Yes, that’s an act of war. Of course that’s very difficult when you’re a top major oil producer like we are. So they cut off the heavies, because we produce lights. London takes Ottawa and cuts off the tarsands, by stopping all pipelines back when, but now by taking the P.M. and playing hardball with the U.S. Cut off tarsands, heavy crude: all our refineries can’t operate, the end. This was a one-two punch as Globalists are in Ven cutting that off a decade ago. How? JHC, Ven has the largest oil, worth billions, and cartels HATE MONEY now? They refuse to pump the oil? Huh? Because where would that oil go, if it got on market anywhere? To the U.S., then we wouldn’t be in a Japanese oil blockade like 1939. We won’t collapse in Russian Rev 2.0.
Trump then goes around this bulls—t not by STEALING the oil (I say, but cannot prove) but by PUMPING IT. And making Ven PROSPEROUS like Argentina, which moves 8 million military-age Venezuelans back home. Housing prices drop for kidz, they all get jobs. The Western Hemisphere, begin rich and active, is stable and peaceful again. This has to happen fast because oil embargos act fast.
This is similar in Precious metals. LONDON sets price and control market. So long as they rig price, Bonds, Banks look abnormally sound. HOW do they rig market? It’s not cost-free, they have to lose a percentage of metal each year. People have thought they’d run out in 1995. And then we’ve clearly put a real and final squeeze on them recently, but they continue to find metal to rig the market in the LBMA. How?
A: Because they are Globalists who pirate whole nations, whole regimes worldwide, like Libya, steal their oil and gold. So they are camped in Caracas, feeding all the metals production – at deadly low poverty rates – to London to keep their banks solvent. Against all pressure. So they, you, are HELPING London rig all markets and crush all workers driving a payloader on the side of a hill in South America. And London then USES the bank/market rigging to traffic opioids that kill (another) million Americans like rats.
Apparently everybody likes this and we should just put up with it forever because stopping it would be mean. I guess whole American cities, whole American states just get wiped out then, more thoroughly than Hiroshima, as the meme shows. Yup. Well: You First. I sign you up to die first in that case and Billy-Bob from Lexington, Gary Indiana, where there are no jobs for 30 years, YOU can get his Fentanyl dose, and he can take your paycheck, house, pension, right? I mean if it’s all good n’ fair n’ stuff.
Wouldn’t want to do anything “Mean”. Billy Bob might LIVE instead of dying, and who wants that? He’s a White American in “The West” right? He must be murdered on sight. Same as those happy drones you’re talking about. Hunting BillyBob wherever he flees, whatever run down Convenience store he dares to attempt a job at. The West Must Die. Start enthusiastically today!
We’ll start with everyone in Colorado, Syracuse, everyone who lives on the St. Lawrence, back cabins in Ontario, Texans. Be honest! That’s what you want, I’ll mail you a rifle, we can all go at it. No, sir, this is not my way of doing business, and it is not the American way of doing business, or settling things. I’ll pass. But you go ahead and I’ll resist you.
“The 16 vessels, mostly loaded with Venezuelan crude oil and fuel, departed the country’s waters over the past two days using deceptive tactics”
Whut? You do know radar and satellites are invented and the U.S. Navy is all over theatre there. If they can “evade” the U.S. Navy in their own pants pocket, I’m a hog. The U.S. is LETTING them go.
Same with the “blockade”. There wasn’t one. We were stopping SPECIFIC SHIPS. Why? No one says and that’s more suspicious than anything.
Also we didn’t “Rendition” Maduro. His people sold him out and he got on a U.S. flight. He looks totally sanguine, relaxed right now, confident. There was no “Regime Change”: his people are in power. He took his wife with him? Much advertised? Is that normal? Trump said they were having awesome, productive negotiations leading up to.
So how about this – from Krainer – they are on negotiations. Maduro doesn’t want the U.S. to take over, being a patriot, but ALSO is already being run by Dr. No, the Derp State, in his own backyard, as I say. He CAN’T deal. They’ll kill him or far worse. So even though he’d love to cut a billion deal with Trumpers if he does they — The Lettermen — will nuke his nation like Libya. It’s not just SAID, it’s A FACT that the U.S. can’t stop that. So we have no leverage, we can’t give the Witness protection.
Solution: Write up the deal, and Maduro “Accidentally” has a 360 backflip where he “happens” to get picked up by JetBlue, where there is no resistance, anywhere, from anyone. And Trump blows the f—k out of some of the Dr. No crew in certain sites Maduro feeds him as a plausible distraction. Terms: Fine, but 1) The Chavistas remain in power; no regime change 2) No killing Venezuelans 3) I take my wife 4) we retire to Ken Lay island and I get out of the hostage situation I have here in the President’s mansion. 5) Oh and you give Ven a fair price for the oil.
Trumpers says “Done. Idgaf, not my money. I just need the oil to flow and a Chinese base not in our backyard with 5-minute hypersonics on Miami.”
LOOK AT MADURO. Use your eyes. What do you see? Oh so you believe all Neocons, all Maga, all Orange Men now when they pinky-promise how all this went down and they flew into the President’s mansion on unicorns now?
Okay we looked at Maduro, now look at who’s freaking out. Is Xi freaking out? No, he seems pleased. Russia? Meh, the usual diplomatic boilerplate. Sachs, Duran, all the EUROPEAN, “Western” people? Yup. Let’s heat-graph who is opposed to it here.
As Armstrong, a year ago Trump was TACO, a Putin-puppet for NOT attacking Venezuela. A year later he’s a Putin Puppet and Hitler FOR attacking Venezuela. With a million men in an unending ground war, where we’ve regime changed the Chavanistas and strafing greenmarkets daily. So exactly the same people are mad now. Huh. Ain’t that weird.
Sounds to me like my theory is onto something. The oil will flow. To China. Fine. And we’ll “control” it. Because somebody will, and that somebody ain’t gonna be China. The metals theft keeping LBMA up stops. Silver price already rocketed on the news. Maduro looks like an overworked guy finally on vacation. His wife is safe, with this alibi, his nation is too. His administration, the Chavanists, remain in charge. The war appears to be over.
And Maduro can sing his heart out on vacation ALLLLLLL about how ALLLLLLL the dirty little stuff works there, and where alllllllllll the Dr. No volcanoes are located.
Or you can just believe Trump is stupid and wins every hand against 12 GOP candidates and the entire world Derp State for 15 years ‘cause he just lucky-ducky that way. You go with that.
“There is no pretense of providing legal justification for what was done.”
Where the literal HECK have you been since 2001?? Or Gen. Smedley Butler. Oh NOW it’s a legal precedent? Only now. After Bush’s 5 wars in alphabetical order by Gen Clark, Then Obama ADDING 5 more wars including bombing Africa til we ran out of bombs? NOW we have a precedent? K man. I guess some people really were born yesterday, and history started about 9 am Monday.
“Trump is Pimp Daddy, King of the Mean Streets now.”
Wow, you are easily impressed! The entire U.S. army was able to get ONE MAN, and now allllllll the whole world changed. Man! If only I had known you just take one man! History is super simple we missed the boat here! 60 Million dead in WWII, and all we had to do was run Special Ops on one guy and Romania flips? Man! So mad now!
C’mon people. Trump is King of whut-da-whut?
— I – didn’t say he was Pimp King of anything. YOU did. I was not impressed. YOU are. I didn’t say the world changed: YOU have. WHAT are you believing here?
“Trump has officially let the Dogs Loose”
Right. So Trump is total medieval, using the Army wildly to accomplish his ends.
“I pity the traitors and sellout whores in Venezuela who betrayed their country.”
So Trump did NOTHING. He opened his wallet, US Army stayed home, no Dogs were loosed, no pimp daddys were found. Trump did everything…but also did nothing. The Army is shooting wildly….but also staying home. PICK ONE. Picking both over and over is insanity. Stop being a crazy-person.
“Before It Can Be Known What US Motives Were (Beyond Oil) It Is Undeniable That The Venezuelan People Are Ecstatic And Grateful”
Are they tho? SOME are, sure. How many? How can you know Venezuela is awful? A: The U.S. and Western Media won’t cover it. Same as Cuba. They are the Media’s best friends now that the USSR has collapsed under the Socialism they adore. Ah “But we’ll always have North Korea” the NY Times says. Not kidding. North Korea: the pinnacle of Urban White Liberal Hopes. Their one true goal for all of us. As too, Venezuela.
Greenland: Stop. Look. What do you see? 1) IF there are no nukes in Germany, we need the nukes between us and Russia somewhere. Standard defense policy. Okay you pick: WHERE then? Go ahead, I’ll wait. Mythical isle of Brazililand, off Western Ireland. 2) EUROPE works on COLONIES by mashing ethnic groups around (Gandhi in S.A.) and leaving collapsed regimes as a fort everywhere. Colonialism 101. That’s what Hong Kong is. Taiwan. Pakistan. Israel for that matter. So what you really, really, really, want as the United States, is for Europe to locate the world’s largest fortress, a mile from Canada and the United States. Don’t worry, after Europe collapses into Mogadishu because of us, and becomes a 20-ethnic, nuclear-armed warlord state, they won’t be mad at us or nothin’. They won’t try to park in Greenland and extort the continent. I mean, when have Europeans ever had a war or caused a genocide??? That’s something only “Jungle” people do.
Cmon. No, you cannot park a nuclear-armed fort in our front yard. No you may not do that, even if your name is “Denmark”.
Maduro had good negotiations, then “China’s new silver export restrictions went into effect.” Huh. And boy that silver from Caracas sure would have saved London’s bacon, wow!
“Maduro and his wife waiting at home when Delta Force arrived. No firefight. No resistance. Just a clean extraction... ..This went perfectly. TOO perfectly. Hollywood-level perfectly.” Yeah.
“..But it little matters anymore, as the Trump administration has dropped all pretenses of adhering to any laws, strictures, or moral codes:”
Wait, so it was BOTH a set-up job arranged by Maduro AND Maduro was extracted by brute Imperial force? How does that work? If Maduro requested a private jet for D.C. discussions, then how is that “Lawless”? Pick one. They pick “I make up whatever makes Orange Man mostestestest Bad.” Orange Man may be Bad. Who knows? But just making everything up in your head is way, way worse. He may be bad, but you’re insane. A danger to yourself and others. Like me. This is Simplicius, who’s supposed to be a smart guy. Pick one, smart guy.
“US Removal of Maduro Reshapes Global Energy Security” Really? How? The Regime didn’t change. The VP is in charge. Every MANPAD is still there, unfired. 200K of Chavez AKs are still in Ven hands. I fail to grasp what you mean. Are you dead-blind or am I?
“Historical patterns, Sheinbaum said, show interventions fail to produce democracy and stability, arguing such actions ‘don’t lead to peace or development’
That’s because they were never meant to. Why do you THINK we could lose a Trillion dollars in a place like Fstan where a MILLION could buy the whole country? Jesus, use your heads. We could have bought every drop of Saddam’s oil for half what we spent on the war. They chose the war. BECAUSE IT COST MORE. Not as an accident. We didn’t really believe “They will greet us with flowers”. We ordered the State Department out. We went out of our way to MAKE SURE everyone hated us when that was entirely counterproductive. Not on accident. So? “Don’t Do That” as the Doctor joke goes. Have a Regime change where everyone is happier and more prosperous after instead. Like Argentina. Or the Russian-secure areas of Donbas. Just because Aerosmith burns the hotel room after they stay there doesn’t mean you HAVE to. Just leave in the van and don’t burn it instead. Easy.
Silver levels: Nope. India has billions of ounces in their dresser drawers. We will re-mine all the landfills. Half the people using it will use other (substandard) alternatives. And that’s even IF, unlike I say, there is ZERO silver in thousands of shuttered, able mines worldwide. Soooo. Silver is at $2,000. That’s a long drop from infinity!! And Extraction cost for this sub-grade ore is $500. So? That’s nothing. That’s 100x today’s profit. They’ll put so many mines online so fast it’ll make Nvidia look like a buggy wheel. The crisis will be in steel and Caterpillar instead.
They’ll haul 80 year old mining foremen out of retirement, give them new $6 Million dollar bionic eyes, and kidnap their grandkids as motivation. So clearly it will stop the shortage LONG before then. And there are ENORMOUS mines in the U.S. all over. Many we know about, many we don’t, although if you look you’ll find the deposits, not yet fully drilled out. That’s why they’re not in the official “reserves” category, true of all resources. They are on paper AFTER we know, obviously, so we don’t make things up. But they only way to KNOW is to hand them hundred-millions to FIND it. They haven’t handed miners cash since William Jennings Bryant was in office.
“She: Her Name Was INGA:”
That is, the Whore of Babylon. No? Yes, that is the best way to look at it, even better than calling them “oligarch” “elite” “Billionaires”. It’s an APPROACH. A Value system, and it’s female-coded.
“Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro”
What? And The Senate is mad we shut this off??? Awwwwwww….
Hey: you suppose any JUDGES are in there? Nah. That’s cray-cray. Krainer agrees yesterday: no judge, federal or otherwise, has ever been on the take for cartels before. Never in history, not in any nation. Nope. Can’t happen here.
“Thomas Kolbe says Europe had better line up behind the US quickly: Energy Levers Shift As US Strikes A Geopolitical Blow With Maduro Arrest”
Yes, they 1) Lost embargoing our oil. 2) Can’t get the silver they need. 3) Lost the voting machines. 4) Lost buying off Congress. 5) Can’t position and coordinate their private alien army to attack the U.S. from our “long, soft, underbelly.” Awwwww. Man, Americans sure iz stoopid. You see: We SHOULD have worked our way up in investigations and arrests from Juan on 7th Avenue. Then the county court judge, then Senator HappyHands. Only THEN taken out Maduro and London in the new Opium Wars. Then they’d have 10, 20, 50 years to operate in while we dun that. If you just walk in and knock out the Godfather first day, because everyone in god-d—ned New York City all know where he lives, why I say sir, that just isn’t Cricket! You can’t attack the British Encampment on a Sunday that’s New Year’s Eve! It IS NOT DONE, sir.
This is what Sachs, Duran, are clutching pearls about. It’s hilarious. More fun to watch than monster trucks to have these guys melt down. Uh, no, if I HAVE A RIFLE. The POINT of that rifle is to shoot you with, not talk. We have the rifle, you were just talk, talk, talk, talk, …so we shot you.
And HE Starts Monologuing! In the Dr. No volcano! Yup. Those are “Diplomatic rules!” You must stand in columns, wear bright red with an X over the heart, and march in a straight line. You may NOT invent Kentucky rifles, hide behind rocks n’ trees, and shoot officers! No no no. If that happens, we’ll lose Yorktown, and I will not have it!
““..Economic And Logistical Lifeline” To Iran and Hezbollah”
Sure! Then who is “Iran” and “Hezbollah”? Set up by Mossad the same as Hamas was? That’s consensus reality, you know. So they are the gun and murder-running arm of MI6, yes? And the IRGC is Sub’d out from MI6 to France, and THEN to be the Iranian Derp State? But same Derp State as in all nations? So then Ven is CIA, which is siamese twins with MI6, funding, banking, trafficking, to their OTHER world-wide arms of the Octopus. Hail Hydra.
“Trump is emboldened.” Is he? Are you camped in his mind? Since neither he nor the US Army Extracted anyone, what does that mean? He was sold out, by himself or the Venezuelan Army. How would him hopping a Jet Blue flight to DC “Embolden” Trump? Pick one. Cluephone: it’s not unicorns. Unicorns flying in to the compound isn’t the answer.
“More than 12 US Air Force C-17’s arrive in UK within 24 hours; Iran Build-up?”
Sure, but I saw the same in Germany. Do any of you have any idea how far away Scotland and Iran are? Hint: It’s not in 9mm range. Having an Army Base in San Diego is not the same as having one in Baghdad. Apparently I need to say that. Same with Russia. What is Russia doing running Army drills within 500 miles inside the Russian border? You have to be NEAR THE THING. Five whole planes???? Oh noes, I bet Tehran’s quaking in their boots to have all Persia collapse over the pressure of FIVE planes. Why did no one think of this before?
I’m not saying it’s not relevant, I’m saying get a grip. Show me.
“Senator Kelley followed the law. They can smack him down anyway: Senator and retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly facing demotion, pay cut”
Agree. I think he’s seditious, felonious traitor, but he’s also inside the lines on these actions. However, the Military does this all the time to all kinds of Privates. Why should he get special treatment? Wouldn’t do it. Not sad.
“Trump says US to get 30 million to 50 million barrels of ‘sanctioned’ oil from Venezuela at market price
America is paying market price for oil??? How DARE they! We should pay at least twice market price! That’s the 10% for the Big Guy, when we don’t get even 10% off. Yup. Orange Man Bad means I make stuff up. Paying Market is now a discount and a motive.
“Hoh: Trump and Military Adventurism” Or total lack of it. Either way. Orange Man Bad. If he does NOT bomb Iran, and Iran thanks him after, it’s bad. If he does NOT invade Venezuela, it’s bad. If he removes weapons from Ukraine, it’s bad. Bad bad bad. Lie down.
Neanderthals: as we know nearly nothing about them, and also the genetic basis for this claim keeps flipping around, perhaps because neanderthals killed everything they ran into at a low level, so they could never cooperate enough for large scale wars? I mean, probably. That’s what all other animals are like. Their genome goes with one – and apparently this is a real thing – where you have a murderous rage if you hear someone chewing too loud. Awwww, sweet wittle passive Neanderthals big bwad humans were mean to.Then Apparently Sapiens appeared in the Roman Empire. Gosh, that seems a bit late, scientifically. The official view is that we were homo sapiens for millennia with no “Babylon” type structures, in a state of Tribalism. — Who ALSO killed the f—k out of each other. For example, one of the most civilized tribes in N.A., the Iroquois, would walk 1,000 miles just to attack and kill a couple Cherokee each year. Kind of keeping that Hatfield thing nice and warm. So again, can’t have large-scale war if you blow off all the steam by killing a few hundred a year. That’s not what you call “Peace” tho. That’s called “Killing your neighbors on sight” so “Stay over there.”
As a percentage of the Tribe killed each year, ours is wildly lower outside of the actual 4-year period of major war.
Hate all humans plan. Humans are evil, kill them on sight. That’s the Greater good. This is because Humans, being mammals on planet earth somehow are the only mammal that’s not part of “Nature” but inexplicably different, not part of the ecosystem, and not a living being. Yup, we alone, and that’s not illustrating someone’s raw blind narcissism at all.
No, it is not “Humans”. You’ve got like 100,000 year gap between us and Rome to explain.
@DBS: Putin might not be the best hit man for Arcturus Therapeutics self-amplifying gene-product “vaccines”. He is so cautious and conservative.
@tboc: Yes, “Chaos” is broadly misunderstood as the word is used. It is different to mathematicians, physicists and engineers, but the witer (AI assisted?) does explain the contextual meaning, which is the human perception of things not working as they “should”.
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