Debt Rattle November 29 2025
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January 12, 2026 at 9:56 pm #227782
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ParticipantChifuts stepping a permanent foot in Patagonia now, as some conjured Andinia project is unfolding.
Shits are after the entire west side of the continent as the map of South America at the end shows.January 12, 2026 at 10:44 pm #227783Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 12, 2026 at 11:37 pm #227784zerosum
ParticipantQ: Does it include China?
BREAKING: U.S President TrumpEffective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America.
This Order is final and conclusive.January 12, 2026 at 11:53 pm #227785Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 12:37 am #227786zerosum
ParticipantCopilot found this and other links
https://www.defenseadvancement.com/suppliers/electronic-warfare-jammers/Electronic Warfare Jammers
Manufacturers of electronic warfare jammers and suppliers of jamming systems and equipment for military and defense applicationsJanuary 13, 2026 at 12:48 am #227787Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 12:58 am #227788my parents said know
ParticipantMaxwell Quest- thanks for the laugh!
January 13, 2026 at 1:38 am #227789John Day
ParticipantTotalitarianism Knocking https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/totalitarianism-knocking
I feel a tension like a bent dry stick about to snap in this beginning of 2026. A lot of other people seem to feel the same thing, and express it in various ways. Political elites seem to be building up their police forces, surveillance and financial controls over the people of their countries and regions at an urgent pace. A lot of indicators portend a financial break, and we know how leveraged and over hypothecated assets are in the vast derivative bubble, so that whenever it snaps, it will snap at the speed of algorithms, not human decision makers. “Smart money” has largely gotten into hard assets like farmland, housing, mines and commodities, including gold and silver, physical gold and silver this time. The current surfeit of oil in the world is from weak real-economies, not excessive production.
Existential war is the traditional response to large financial and economic systemic fractures. Terrified people follow orders, or get hungry, furious and rebel.The Honest Sorcerer, 2026: The Year Of The Coyote
Although this year will be called the year of the fire horse, at least according to the Chinese calendar, calling 2026 the year of Wile E. Coyote would be a much more appropriate choice. The world economy and oil markets have found themselves in a precarious situation: while output is still increasing, all economic and geophysical support underneath has silently vanished. Suspended in mid-air everyone waits for the fall to begin, but few dare to look down into the abyss. Instead, we see a rapid intensification of the geopolitical chess-game, which could, in the future, bring us dangerously close to a major clash… https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/2026-the-year-of-the-coyoteSurplus Energy Economics, The triumph of the material, part one – FACT, SCARCITY & THE DE-THRONING OF MONEY
A distinctly acquisitive gleam is evident these days in the eye of American power. Other people’s presidents seem to be fair game for appropriation, as are other people’s ships, other people’s resources and – even – other people’s countries.
We can call this thievery, or we can call it realpolitik.
The label hardly matters.
What lies behind this apparent outbreak of kleptomania, however, is a shocked awakening to a reality probably long understood in Moscow and Beijing.
This reality is that, in the very different economic future now unfolding, the material will be all-important, and the monetary, by contrast, will matter very little. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/317-the-triumph-of-the-material-part-one/#like-45624Gold & Geopolitics, So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye – When shorts run out of continents
Something broke in the global monetary system over the past twelve months…The dollar’s share of global reserves collapsed to roughly 40%. Gold jumped to ~30%. That means gold is now bigger in central bank reserves than the euro, yen, and pound combined. This isn’t diversification. This is a flight into a neutral – non devaluing – asset. Accelerating since around ‘23.
The US is adding $1 trillion in debt every 100 days. Interest payments exceed $1 trillion annually. That was more than the defense budget a few days ago. Now that budget is 50% more. Guess how it’ll be paid for?
Foreign Treasury holdings dropped from $3.14 trillion to $2.78 trillion. That’s a trillion-dollar exit while the Fed restarted QE at $40 billion per month. https://no01.substack.com/p/the-long-goodbyeChris Hedges, The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming.
Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace.
Terror works.
The iron doors have not yet shut. There are still protests. The media is still able to document state atrocities, including the Jan. 7 murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. But the doors are closing fast. ICE has deported over 300,000 people and detained nearly 69,000 others — as well as been involved in 16 shootings, including four killings — since Trump began his campaign against immigrants…
..ICE has more than doubled the size of its force since early 2025 — to 22,000 agents — hiring 12,000 new officers in four months from a pool of 220,000 applicants. It plans to spend $100 million over a one-year period to hire even more recruits, part of the $170 billion for border and interior enforcement, including $75 billion for ICE, to be spent over four years. Salaries for these new recruits, poorly trained and often haphazardly vetted, will range from $49,739 to $89,528 a year, along with a $50,000 signing bonus — split over three years — and up to $60,000 in student loan repayments.
ICE is building new detention centers nationwide in 23 towns and cities. It promises that once it is fully operational, it will go door-to-door as part of the largest deportation effort in American history.ICE agents, intoxicated by the license to kick down doors while wearing body armor and firing automatic weapons at terrified women and children, are not warriors as they imagine, but thugs. They have few skills, other than weapons training, cruelty and brutality. They intend to remain employed by the state. The state intends to keep them employed.
None of this should surprise us. The repressive techniques used by ICE and our militarized police were perfected overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Occupied Palestine, and earlier in Vietnam. The ICE agent who murdered Good was a machinegunner in Iraq. A night raid in Chicago, with agents rappelling from a helicopter to storm an apartment complex filled with terrified families, does not look any different from a night raid in Fallujah.
Aimé Césaire, the Martinician playwright and politician, in “Discourse on Colonialism” writes that the savage tools of imperialism and colonialism eventually migrate back to the home country. It is known as imperial boomerang…
..Resistance must be collective. We must assert not only our individual rights, but economic, social and political rights — without them we are powerless. Resistance means organizing to disrupt the machinery of commerce and government. It means preventing arrests by patrolling neighborhoods to warn of impending ICE raids. It means protesting outside detention facilities. It means strikes. It means blocking streets and highways and occupying buildings. It means providing photographic evidence. It means sustained pressure on local politicians and police to refuse to cooperate with ICE. It means providing legal representation, food and financial assistance to families with members detained. It means a willingness to be arrested. It means a nationwide campaign to defy the state’s inhumanity.
If we fail, the dimming flames of our open society will be snuffed out. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terrorJanuary 13, 2026 at 1:40 am #227790John Day
Participant Thanks Christine. My final message before I’m on an FBI watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times, Juan Sebastián Pinto
ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It’s time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.
I wanted to illustrate the link between Palantir tools used by ICE and those used by the IDF in Gaza: ISTAR technology (short for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) AI tools that harvest and weaponize people’s data in war...
..My disappointment soon turned to alarm in the weeks that followed, as I witnessed how Americans became increasingly subjected to the watchful eye of AI surveillance and drones in cities across the country — including Denver, LA, and Chicago — with minimal understanding of how these systems work, often in secret and without democratic consent…
..These connections have to do with the big business of mass-surveillance and hybrid warfare, as well as the way our media and data ecosystems dictate which narratives last, and which are forgotten; who gets celebrated and who gets cancelled; and eventually, who gets to live, and who gets to die…
..I was once a storyteller in the AI industry. This role, uncommon when I started, is now considered one of the hottest in the AI jobs market, and involves using writing, design, and multimedia to explain and sell emerging technology. In this capacity at Palantir, my job introduced me to something I will never forget: the crude “art” of diagramming ISTAR systems, known as AI “kill chains.” These technical drawings, made with OV-1 diagrams in the Pentagon, convey how ISTAR tools — such as drones, satellites, ground stations, and command centers — come together to make decisions, including determining who to kill, and how to kill, using artificial intelligence. What I figured out while making these diagrams, however, was that drones and physical weapons only tell part of the story. When armies rely so much on data and automation, establishing maximum surveillance dragnets soon becomes the utmost priority. The effort to map the world through satellites, drones, and information — in order to find targets and predict outcomes — eventually leads to the surveillance and mapping of what the military calls the “cognitive domain.” This entails charting public opinion, social media, influence, and reputation as a battlefield in itself. As digital warfare experts P. W. Singer and Emerson Brooking put it in their book, LikeWar:
“Power” on this battlefield is thus measured not by physical strength or high-tech hardware, but by the command of attention. The result is a contest of psychological and algorithmic manipulation… Your online attention and actions are thus both targets and ammunition in an unending series of skirmishes.
As a result, the internet has become a place where real wars with deadly consequences are carried out. Today, a tweet can determine a drone strike target, and kill civilians, halfway around the world. It can also empty an entire city, as Trump did in June when he cast Tehran into evacuation chaos after threatening airstrikes that never came. Now that the internet is a war zone, success largely depends on one’s ability to wield the power of information to mislead, misinform, or scare one’s enemies...
..As a big-data platform with connections to the CIA and foreign intelligence operations, Palantir has likely been central to the waging of this kind of warfare: where nation-states try to win not only using conventional weapons, but by weaponizing data and influence for covert “hybrid” operations. Palantir’s executives understand this more than anyone. “The primary way to create peace in this world is to scare our adversaries when they wake up, when they go to bed, while they’re seeing their mistress,” Alex Karp has said. “The most effective way for social change is: humiliate your enemy and make them poor.”
What Karp refers to here are ways of “dealing” with someone without necessarily putting a bullet in their head; types of hybrid operations which are opened up by the possibility of exploiting personal data for combined intelligence and war operations...
..Another example of hybrid operations featuring Palantir’s tools includes Operation Grim Reaper in 2024, where pagers were used to remotely bomb alleged Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon. The operation involved exploding phones that killed 32 people and injured over 3,000 others across Lebanon and Syria — including in their family homes. Two children would die and over 500 people would be left with severe eye injuries. “Such attacks could constitute war crimes of murder, attacking civilians, and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating the right to life,” UN experts said at the time. “It is also a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians… A climate of fear now pervades everyday life in Lebanon.”
The weaponization of data through ISTAR — whether it is used to conduct direct “kinetic” drone strikes or compound “hybrid” attacks — is often indistinguishable from terrorism...
..The recent and mysterious death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji could have been enough to spook someone in a situation like mine: where they were questioning one of the largest AI companies in the world. But unlike OpenAI, Palantir’s CEO publicly talks about killing people, and has fantasized about poisoning critics using covert methods such as fentanyl-laced drone strikes. Palantir’s executives are also vocal about wanting to flex the definition of terrorism to include their enemies, as Palantir’s Defense chief Mike Gallagher did on Fox News when he called for the feminist group Code Pink to be classified as domestic terrorists...
..American companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Palantir have contributed to this oppression by hosting and exploiting surveillance data for the IDF, leading to the development of gruesome applications like Where’s Daddy — a tool which allegedly follows Hamas targets to their family homes in order to deal maximum damage through drone strikes...
..The surveillance regime that Silicon Valley has cast upon Gaza now extends far beyond the Middle East, as ISTAR tools become commonplace in our country. Yet the origin of this world we live in is not to be found either in Palo Alto or Tel Aviv — but the island of Little St. James.
As Reason, The San Francisco Standard and DropSite News report, Jeffrey Epstein was a key power-player standing between Silicon Valley and Israel a decade ago, and connected Peter Thiel to former Israeli prime minister-turned-businessman Ehud Barak... These investments would help spur a surveillance industry that, years later, has pushed AI targeting technology beyond warfare uses and towards civilian and corporate contexts. “I’ve been surprised how many corporations are looking for a new military-like perspective on management,” Epstein wrote to Barak. “A corporation is not dissimilar from defense forces.”
“No tech company surfaces more often — or draws more interest from Israeli figures — than Palantir,” the SF Standard reports...
..Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the FBI to create a list of domestic terrorists that includes people standing up against fascism and immigration enforcement. That means that opposing the main force that is bringing unconstitutional surveillance technology in our country, ICE, can now land your name in an FBI watchlist — effectively criminalizing the fight against surveillance in America. The memo also aims to establish a “cash reward system” for information, meaning the FBI could soon pay off my own neighbors to put me and other organizers on a watchlist, allowing the government to start using their surveillance tools — potentially including Flock and Palantir — against us... The same ISTAR surveillance weapons that led to the arrest of student protestors, the deportation of immigrants to foreign concentration camps, and to a ruthless regime of slaughter and surveillance in Gaza, now threaten untold millions of Americans...
..The invasion of Venezuela is a perfect example of this kind of warfare, which has also been termed Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) by military experts. According to Professor Armin Krishnan in his book Fifth Generation Warfare: Dominating the Human Domain, 5GW is the latest, most secretive, and difficult to understand form of war. Daniel Abbot’s Handbook of 5GW defines it as “an emerging theory of warfare premised upon manipulation of multiple economic, political, social and military forces in multiple domains.” This manipulation involves the oversight of all fighting domains — land, air, maritime, space, cyber, and cognitive...
..We can see in the invasion of Venezuela some hallmarks of 5GW, as offered by Krishnan:
Fifth generation warfare bypasses the battlefield and targets society as a whole, rather than its military forces.
Violence in 5GW is very dispersed or hidden, which makes it difficult to perceive as war.
Fifth generation warfare relies on covert or ambiguous means that hide nefarious activities or disguise them as benign or harmless.
The objective of 5GW is to overthrow an existing political order or change the culture in a society in accordance with the goals of the aggressor.
According to Krishnan, 5GW “shifts the emphasis from the control of physical terrain to the control of the human terrain and the human mind as a target of attack.” https://zigguratmag.substack.com/p/my-final-message-before-im-on-an Free Political speech by citizen “monsters”: DHS Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters Sharing List Of Hotels Allegedly Hosting Agents
“Revealing their locations puts them at enormous risk of retaliation from these monsters,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement to The Epoch Times.
Sunrise Twin Cities, a youth-led group against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, is publishing a weekly list of hotels where they suspect that immigration agents are staying. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dhs-blasts-anti-ice-protesters-sharing-list-hotels-allegedly-hosting-agentsAll radar and electronics blacked-out, sonic-energy beams causing internal bleeding, and extremely rapid and accurate gunfire are reported by a Venezuelan defender. White House Amplifies Shocking Claims Of US Super Soldiers Deployed In Maduro Raid https://www.zerohedge.com/military/white-house-amplified-shocking-claims-us-super-soldiers-deployed-maduro-raid
Fed Subpoenaed As DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell, Who Vows To “Stand Firm”
As the NYT first reported, the US attorney’s office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Powell over the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether the Fed Chair lied to Congress about the scope of the project…
..Trump said that the DOJ’s Fed subpoenas “nothing to do with interest rates” and denied any involvement in the legal matter…
..The investigation escalates Trump’s long-running feud with Powell, whom the president has continually attacked for resisting his demands to slash interest rates significantly… The president has threatened to fire the Fed chair – whom he nominated for the position in 2017 – and raised the prospect of a lawsuit against him related to the $2.5 billion renovation, citing “incompetence.”
In a striking public response to the NYT report, Powell – who has historically ignored public commentary on Trump’s public assaults – issued a forceful written and video statement released Sunday evening using the Federal Reserve’s official account on X, in which he said the action was related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters. But he said “this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure.” The Fed Chair then continued:
“This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress’s oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts.”
“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions — or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-subpoenaed-doj-launches-criminal-probe-jerome-powell-who-vows-stand-firm Moon of Alabama 1/9/26, Winter Strikes Kiev – Last night Ukraine was finally confronted with the consequences of attacking Russian infrastructure.
But the real hurt came with a medium-sized drone and missile strike on Kiev. At least three combined-thermal-electric facilities were taken out. These used to provide water, heating and electricity to the blocks of Soviet era high rises that cover much of Kiev. These strikes, as the Russian Ministry of Defense empathizes in its reports, are in retaliation for strikes on Russian infrastructure facilities. Russia at a time, offered a ceasefire on infrastructure strikes. Ukraine did not keep to it.
Now nearly half of Kiev’s high-rise apartments have lost water, heating and electricity supplies. This while the temperature has gone down to minus 20° Celsius at night. Municipal workers have started to drain all water from intra-house systems. Otherwise the risers and pipes would freeze and break open. But it also means that water and heat supplies will not come back to those high-rises until the temperatures are back in a positive Celsius range.
The buildings have thus become unlivable. Hundreds of thousands if not millions will have to live elsewhere. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/01/winter-strikes-kiev.htmlJanuary 13, 2026 at 1:42 am #227791John Day
ParticipantGaza Hospitals Report Infant Deaths as Winter Storm Devastates Displacement Camps https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-hospitals-report-infant-deaths-as-winter-storm-devastates-displacement-camps/
Surge in premature births, congenital defects, cancer deaths in Gaza – Not a ceasefire Day 92 https://israelpalestinenews.org/surge-in-premature-births-congenital-defects-cancer-deaths-in-gaza-not-a-ceasefire-day-92/
Israel Kills Five Children in Surge of Attacks on Gaza “Safe Zone” – Since the October “ceasefire,” an average of five Palestinians have been killed every day. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-attacks-surge-ceasefire-children-killed
Illegal settlers steal 200 sheep, a vehicle amid attack in occupied West Bank – Local sources say attackers assaulted farm guard during raid near Ramallah https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/illegal-settlers-steal-200-sheep-a-vehicle-amid-attack-in-occupied-west-bank/3795756
Gaza: Thousands of tents ruined in storm, crisis deepened by Israeli blockade https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/10/355530/
January 13, 2026 at 1:43 am #227792John Day
ParticipantPalestinian children suffer greatly in Israeli jails, need urgent int’l action https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/10/355522/
Gaza: Three Palestinians killed, others injured in fresh Israeli attacks https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/10/355526/
Israel Plans to Resume Gaza Onslaught in March
Israel has killed 400 Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect, but is planning to return to larger-scale military operations later this year https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/11/israel-plans-to-resume-gaza-onslaught-in-march/ ‘The real war is Washington’s’: Senior Ansarallah official exposes US control over Saudi–UAE feud
In an interview with The Cradle, Ansarallah official Ali al-Imad reveals how Tel Aviv and Washington are directing the Riyadh–Abu Dhabi conflict from the shadows, and warns that any escalation will face decisive, region-wide resistance. https://thecradle.co/articles/the-real-war-is-washingtons-senior-ansarallah-official-exposes-us-control-over-saudi-uae-feud#google_vignetteJanuary 6: Deep Data: Will Pezeshkian’s ‘economic surgery’ save struggling Iranians? https://amwaj.media/en/article/the-1405-budget-and-social-welfare
January 13, 2026 at 1:44 am #227793John Day
ParticipantAs Iranian regime shuts down internet, even Starlink seemingly being jammed
Receivers for satellite service face connectivity challenges, with an expert reporting that the Islamic Republic seems to be ‘doing something beyond GPS jamming’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-appears-to-jam-starlink-after-shutting-down-comms-networks/ ‘Organized network’ carried out Daesh‑like attacks in Iranian cities: Security chief
Larijani told Tasnim news agency on Sunday that the violent riots of recent days must be clearly separated from legitimate protests over economic hardship.
He acknowledged that public frustration over inflation and currency instability was “completely understandable.” The government, he said, was obligated to address those concerns, including stabilizing the foreign‑exchange market, a demand he described as “rightful” for both merchants and ordinary citizens.
However, the security chief warned that a separate group had taken advantage of the demonstrations to commit “extremely violent and criminal acts,” including killings and burnings that he compared to tactics used by terrorist organizations such as Daesh. “Someone protesting economic problems would never commit such acts,” he said.
The security chief expressed regret over the casualties among police forces, saying a significant number had been injured and some killed. Several civilians were also killed or wounded. He said authorities must determine which groups supported those responsible for the violence. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/01/11/762204/Organized-network-infiltrated-riots-Daesh-like-attacks-Security-chief Basij forces have been deployed to the streets of Iranian cities.
Reports are emerging that Iranian security forces and IRGC special forces have begun to disperse the protests, which have become increasingly widespread. The main driving force behind the protests are ethnic minorities, who initially claimed to be protesting rising prices but then began tearing down and burning flags, toppling monuments, and calling on foreign countries to “intervene and help with democracy.” The son of the deposed Shah of Iran, Pahlavi, is advocating for the overthrow of the government and the radicalization of the protests.
For quite a long time, Iranian law enforcement took no special measures against the protesters, but they carried out increasingly harsh and violent actions, including attacks on retail outlets and police cars. Many protesters began carrying firearms. weapon. https://en.topwar.ru/276200-na-ulicy-gorodov-irana-vyvedeny-sily-basidzh.html Iran Protests: 2,000 Dead in 48 Hours
Iran’s security forces are using lethal force against protesters nationwide, informed sources told Iran International, with preliminary estimates pointing to mass casualties as a sweeping crackdown unfolds amid a near-total internet shutdown.
Footage sent to Iran International from Kahrizak, south of Tehran, shows several dead bodies in body bags. According to eyewitness accounts accompanying the videos, dozens of bodies are visible at the site, with additional bodies reportedly located in another nearby industrial shed. https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/iran-protests-2-000-dead-in-48-hours?catid=17&Itemid=101 Trump says US ‘ready to help’ as Iran unrest grows
US president says Iranians ‘looking at freedom’ while Tehran accuses Washington, Tel Aviv of fomenting protests https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-us-ready-to-help-as-iran-unrest-grows/3796015January 13, 2026 at 1:45 am #227794John Day
ParticipantTrump briefed on options for military strikes in Iran https://therightscoop.com/breaking-report-trump-briefed-on-options-for-military-strikes-in-iran/
Naked Capitalism, Is an Attack by Iran Imminent?
We’ve featured fresh reports of the US moving planes to the Middle East, such as: Probably F15s, F16s, F22s And F35s : Dozens Of US Jets Now Converging On The Middle East…
..It has been less widely noticed that Iran has changed its military doctrine from authorizing purely defensive action to now permit pre-emptive strikes…
..Reader Historiality claimed on January 8 that Russia was evacuating embassy staff from Israel. A colleague who has contacts among diplomats across the Global South just wrote us: China has also pulled its diplomats out of Israel. Russia has urged its citizens to flee via Egypt. Neither country has pulled out of Iran to the best of my knowledge...
..This posture may be a signal of readiness as opposed to positioning for action to follow immediately. But given the clear signs that the US is moving military assets to the Iran theater, it is hard to believe that it makes sense for Iran to stand pat.
One has to think that if the intent is to launch a pre-emptive strike, as opposed to engage in threat display, that Iran will not sit around in a state of high preparedness but will hit as soon as they are ready. So if the reading above is accurate and Iran plans to move first, the strike would seem likely to come tonight or at the latest, the night after. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/is-an-attack-by-iran-imminent.html Iran warns Israel, US that if Washington attacks, military and shipping centers would be ‘legitimate targets’
US officials say additional preparation time would be needed before any potential attack on Iran, according to media reports https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-warns-israel-us-that-if-washington-attacks-military-and-shipping-centers-would-be-legitimate-targets-/3796222 Military Tells Trump It Needs More Time to Prepare for War With Iran
Military commanders in the Middle East want more time to prepare for Iranian counterattacks https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/11/report-military-tells-trump-it-needs-more-time-to-prepare-for-war-with-iran/ Larry Johnson, The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed
Yes, protests continue in some parts of the country, but Iranian security forces have taken off the gloves and are fighting back. Casualty estimates are all over the board… Ranging from hundreds to thousands dead. Iranian officials have announced that the alleged ring leaders of the violent protests will be publicly executed starting Wednesday. While Trump is now promising to try to come to the aid of the protestors, his promise appears to be more rhetorical than substantive. https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-ciamossad-operation-to-sparkJanuary 13, 2026 at 1:45 am #227795John Day
ParticipantIt’s a bad investment unless the government is paying for it. “Uninvestable”: Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Gamble Meets Oil Industry Reality https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uninvestable-trumps-100-billion-venezuela-gamble-meets-oil-industry-reality
Trump May Freeze Exxon Out Of Venezuela After CEO Darren Woods Called It “Uninvestable” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-may-freeze-exxon-out-venezuela-after-ceo-darren-woods-called-it-uninvestable
Venezuela’s Methane Problem Looms Over Trump’s Oil Revival Plan
Satellite monitoring shows huge plumes of methane rising from abandoned rigs, corroded pipelines and aging facilities across the country. Those emissions signal both lost revenue and deep operational problems — conditions that tend to deter major oil companies…
..Each year Venezuela wastes about 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas through flaring, venting and leaks, roughly $1.4 billion in potential revenue. About a quarter of its total gas output escapes into the atmosphere — the highest rate globally and nearly ten times the world average. The scale of those leaks reflects decades of neglect, theft and underinvestment, leaving what remains of the system fragile and costly to repair. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/venezuelas-methane-problem-looms-over-trumps-oil-revival-plan Trump Says US Will Begin Strikes On Cartels In Mexico
“We knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land with regard with the cartels,” Trump told Sean Hannity from Fox News. “The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country. They’re killing 250,000, 300,000 in our country every single year.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-us-will-begin-strikes-cartels-mexicoU.S. Marines Launch From USS Gerald R. Ford to Seize 5th Tanker Olina in Caribbean Sanctions Crackdown https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2026/u-s-marines-launch-from-uss-gerald-r-ford-to-seize-5th-tanker-olina-in-caribbean-sanctions-crackdown#google_vignette
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 am #227796John Day
ParticipantLocking that barn door now… Senate advances resolution to block Trump from using military in Venezuela https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5679123-venezuela-trump-war-powers-act-senate/
Alex Krainer explains that global financial organizations represent the enemy of all nations: Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 international organizations
Trump and Putin may have the same enemy in their crosshairs: it could be the very “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” that JFK warned us about back in 1961. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/yuuge-trump-withdraws-us-from-66 I really want to know what was on that “empty” tanker from Iran to Venezuela. Andrew Korybko, Three Takeaways From The US’ Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic https://korybko.substack.com/p/three-takeaways-from-the-us-seizure
20 Ukrainians, 4 Georgians & 2 Russians on crew: Russia Thanks Trump For Releasing Two Russian Crew From Seized Tanker https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-thanks-trump-releasing-two-russian-crew-seized-tanker
Use those dollars before they become worthless! Trump says US will act on Greenland, ‘whether they like it or not’
The United States will “do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” President Donald Trump said on Friday, doubling down on threats to seize the semi-autonomous region of Denmark.
“Because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour,” he added.
Trump made the comments during a meeting accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and oil executives at the White House, claiming that he’s a “big fan” of Denmark and would like to make a deal the “easy way”.
“I would like to make a deal, you know the easy way but if we don’t do it the easy way we’re going to do it the hard way”. https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/10/trump-says-us-will-act-on-greenland-whether-they-like-it-or-notJanuary 13, 2026 at 1:47 am #227797John Day
ParticipantKyle Young, on what may be cover-up murders: Are we witnessing a rising death toll in a coverup of Charlie Kirk’s murder? https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/are-we-witnessing-a-rising-death
Thanks Christine: In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America
ICE just launched a “wartime recruitment” campaign and seeks agents who want to “defend” their “culture.” There will be more Renee Goods. https://newrepublic.com/post/205122/ice-recruitment-wartime-america-renee-good Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.
Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/ A succinct and even-handed analysis: How a 40-second encounter led an ICE agent to shoot and kill a Twin Cities resident
What eyewitness evidence, video recordings and message logs tell us about the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
It was a brief encounter, just 40 seconds on the slippery streets of south Minneapolis in the first week of the new year. Cell phones recorded it from nearly every angle.
As Good sat in the driver’s seat of her car, her wife was standing nearby. Their dog was in the backseat. Toys for their 6-year-old child were strewn about the car – stuffed animals hanging above the glove box, a dinosaur book and drawing pad on the passenger seat floor.
Ross, who lives in Minnesota and is assigned to the St. Paul field office, was back in action just six months after he was dragged 300 feet by a car as he tried to arrest a Mexican citizen in Bloomington. Images of the encounter show blood covering Ross’ body and clothes. There are dozens of stitches curling down his arm.
As Ross circled Good’s car on Portland Ave., he held his own phone to record what was happening. Good smiled at him. “That’s fine dude,” Good said to Ross, looking up into his face, which was partially obscured by a balaclava. “I’m not mad at you.” https://archive.md/bmfRE#selection-291.0-315.248“You Don’t Want This Smoke”: Philly Sheriff, DA Threaten To Arrest ‘Fake Law Enforcement’ ICE Officers https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-dont-want-smoke-philly-sheriff-da-threaten-arrest-fake-law-enforcement-ice-officers
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 am #227798John Day
Participant Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two
Portland police says the two people shot by Customs and Border Protection called the police themselves after being shot by federal agents — and the police provided medical assistance. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/portland-mayor-decries-mounting-bloodshed-tells-ice-to-get-out-after-federal-agents-shoot-two.html MN Lawmakers Say Fraud Whistleblowers Were Threatened With Retaliation
Officials within the administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz actively enabled at least some of the state’s estimated $9 billion in social services fraud by suppressing fraud reports, retaliating against whistleblowers and changing protocols to mask criminal behavior according to Republican lawmakers who testified before Congress this week. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mn-lawmakers-say-fraud-whistleblowers-were-threatened-retaliationThe Quality Learning Center: Minnesota’s Most Notorious Somali Daycare At Center Of Fraud Scandal Abruptly Shuts Down https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minnesotas-most-notorious-somali-daycare-center-fraud-scandal-abruptly-shuts-down
Five States Sue Trump Admin Over $10 Billion Freeze In Child-Care, Family-Assistance Funds https://www.zerohedge.com/political/five-states-sue-trump-admin-over-10-billion-freeze-child-care-family-assistance-funds
Female prisoner ‘hurled in locked cell’ at Massachusetts prison after complaining that she had been raped by one of at least three transgender sex predators housed there https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15445631/female-prisoner-raped-transgender-criminal-mci-framingham-massachusetts.html
January 13, 2026 at 1:49 am #227799John Day
Participant Gold & Geopolitics, on all those cameras and sensors, They know what you did last summer And spring, and winter, and …
It’s brilliant. And terrifying.
The insurance telematics market hit $5 billion in 2024, projected to reach $19 billion by 2032. Progressive’s Snapshot program. State Farm’s Drive Safe. Allstate’s Drivewise. They’re all data collection schemes wrapped in discount offers.
You install the little OBD-II dongle or download the app, they monitor your every move, and maybe – maybe – you save 5% on premiums. Meanwhile they’re building comprehensive behavioral profiles worth far more than whatever discount they’re dangling.
The 2021 Infrastructure Bill even made it mandatory. Section 24220 requires all new vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology” that “passively monitors” driver performance. The official line is it’s about drunk driving. The actual text mandates constant surveillance with a backdoor for “authorized” third parties.
Your car is required by federal law to spy on you. And the data gets monetized by corporations who are legally obligated to maximize shareholder value, not protect your privacy. https://no01.substack.com/p/they-know-what-you-did-last-summerDon’t look at the indecent AI image of Sir Kier, please: UK Government Threatens Total Ban On X Over Grok Bikini Flap https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-government-threatens-total-ban-x-over-grok-bikini-flap
Fair warning? UK Government Video Game Teaches Teens Questioning Mass Immigration Could Make Them Terror Suspects https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/uk-government-video-game-teaches-teens-questioning-mass/
Meryl Nass MD, The Supreme Court has not yet announced whether they will take Monsanto’s case. It’s a huge deal.
While removing the Monsanto rider from the Appropriations bill on Monday was certainly good, it will be of no value if any one of the following happens:
a similar rider in the Farm Bill gets passed, or the Supreme Court takes up and rules in favor of Monsanto-Bayer’s preemption case, or the states rule in favor of federal preemption (as GA and ND already have)
“Preemption” in this case means that states will lose the right to challenge EPA assessments and label requirements. Right now, states have the right (unless they vote it away, as GA and ND did) to require stricter safety standards than the federal standards for products, and citizens can sue in state courts using the “failure to warn” legal doctrine. This gives citizens the opportunity to present scientific data, and to obtain discovery—which in the past has shown that Monsanto knew of glyphosate’s dangers and chose not to notify EPA or request a change in the warning label. If preemption wins, their cases will become unwinnable. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-has-not-yet-announced I signed this petition and made a phone call to Senator Cruz: Children’s Health Defense Urges FCC to Drop Plan That Would Strip Communities of Local Control Over Cell Towers
A proposed rule change by the FCC that would allow for the uncontrolled proliferation of new cell towers and other wireless infrastructures exceeds the agency’s legal authority, according to comments filed Dec. 31, 2025, with the FCC by Children’s Health Defense (CHD). CHD said the FCC should abandon the effort and instead comply with a 2021 court mandate to revisit its safety limits, which haven’t been updated since 1996. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-urges-fcc-drop-plan-strip-communities-local-control-cell-towers/January 13, 2026 at 1:51 am #227800John Day
Participant LED Lights Harm Vision, Cognitive Function — Kids Are Especially at Risk
A child’s eye lens is clearer than an adult’s. This allows more potentially harmful blue-wavelength light to reach the retina, said Mark Baker, founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation. The nonprofit last month petitioned the FDA to study the health effects of LED lights, which emit blue light, and report its findings to Congress. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/led-blue-light-emr-vision-cognitive-function-kids-risk-petition-fda/ Meryl Nass MD, The fake horrible flu season.
First, the worst flu season in 20 years was in 2017-18, (though the 2009-10 swine flu season lasted all year, so I am leaving that one out) when there were 3 times as many deaths recorded as caused primarily by flu on death certificates (about 6,500) as in a usual year (when there are usually a bit over 2,000 deaths directly attributed to flu as the main cause of death). This is considered highly reliable data. After that year, 2024-25 was said to be the worst year.
When they tell you this year looks like the worst flu season in 20 years (or more) that is simply an outright lie. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/erronious-perfidious-influenza-information Pediatricians balance their office budgets with “rewards” for high “perfect-vaccination” rates: Federal Judge Clears Path for AAP to Sue RFK Jr. Over Vaccine Policy Changes
A federal judge today ruled that a coalition of major medical organizations, including the AAP, can proceed with a lawsuit against U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Children’s Health Defense General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg said the ruling fails to account for the medical groups’ conflicts of interest. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-judge-clears-path-aap-lawsuit-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-changes/We knew it was bad when the report was leaked. Pfizer’s “Secret” 2021 Declassified Report. CALL FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF COVID “VACCINE” https://www.globalresearch.ca/bombshell-document-dump-pfizer-vaccine-data/5763397
Maryanne Demassi Ph.D. Australian senate forces answers on why Covid vaccine deaths were not investigated
After US regulators linked child deaths to Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, an Australian senator has demanded to know why reported child deaths in Australia were not escalated for expert causality assessment. https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/australian-senate-forces-answersJanuary 13, 2026 at 1:52 am #227801John Day
Participant New Peer-Reviewed Report Exposes Flaws in Danish Study Claiming Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe
The report, by a dozen leading scientists and thought leaders in aluminum toxicology and vaccine injuries, concluded that the Danish study failed to establish the safety of aluminum in vaccines. The authors of the new report called for “independent, rigorous and honest” science on the health impacts of aluminum in vaccines. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-report-flaws-danish-study-claiming-aluminum-vaccine-safety/ Peter McCullough MD shows that green tea is good for you. Try the green tea bags from Costco. Beyond Tea: The Cellular Science of Matcha’s Healing Chemistry https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/beyond-tea-the-cellular-science-of
Plastic pellets known as ‘nurdles’ are polluting beaches and waterways https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/06/repub/plastic-pellets-known-as-nurdles-are-polluting-beaches-and-waterways/
You have to really want to know the truth to discern it these days: A Midwestern Doctor, Seeing Truth in the Age of Information Overload – How the health of your perceptual filters shapes the health of your reality
Story at a Glance:
•Information Overload Crisis: Today’s endless data flood overwhelms the mind, triggering instability and reliance on simplistic narratives—ancient meditation practices build the inner stability needed to navigate this chaos clearly.
•Filters Create Reality: The mind adopts filters to simplify reality into something the conscious mind can process, inevitably removing many critical details while creating a biased and inaccurate perception of reality.
•Rigid Divisions: In politics, this filtering causes people on both sides to be rigidly convinced their truth is correct. Likewise, it makes doctors worship vaccines and be unable to recognize the harms of pharmaceuticals, even when their own patients are repeatedly injured.
•Patient-Focused Healing: In medicine, many diagnoses can only be made if a physician works to move beyond the filters they were trained in and instead directly see the complexity that each patient brings to the encounter.
•Path to Clear Perception: Cultivate intuition for key data points, recognize source biases, drill to core truths, and expand awareness through nervous system health—all of which are essential for discerning reality in our hyper-connected, impactful era.
A recurring theme in human society is how often groups hold diametrically opposed viewpoints, yet both are absolutely certain they are entirely correct, and the other is completely wrong. In each instance, this means that at least half of the people involved are wrong and incapable of seeing evidence repeatedly presented to them. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/seeing-truth-in-the-age-of-information-38bJanuary 13, 2026 at 3:46 am #227802my parents said know
ParticipantMost everything is junk food in the world of news today.
No matter how you stuff yourself, you’ll keep on craving more.
It’s there to make you waste your time- don’t let them have their way-
Consume a meal with nutrients- and we’ll avert a war.January 13, 2026 at 3:53 am #227803Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 12:33 pm #227804Dr. D
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There you go: problem solved.“UBS Explains Why Trump’s 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Is “Unlikely” To Happen
” … but failed to be included in the 2025 Genius Act, suggesting that the industry lobby made an impact.”Putting these together (“Genius” is Crypto-law). Why? What sets rates now? Fed and Credit card? Yeah, neither is “real” in the slightest. And 30% is not just a moral issue, it’s wrong for the economy, non-functional, disordered.
This goes with: they are CRYPTO-wrapping T-Bonds, and then those bonds are collateral for LOCAL banking loans. Like Main St business loans. So there we have “credit card” rates, vs, say Fed. The Fed issuing and controlling all cash instead.
The other end: TRUMP’S DoJ is investigating the Fed and Powell. Huh? Now we have nothing but theater going on, but as theater, that’s a weird story, undermining Trump AND the legitimacy. Powell is leaving anyway, it’s not like he needs to kick him out. So Trump investigates…himself. And we know Trump is a fake derp state puppet bc this is drilling holes below the waterline of their key flagship, without which Babylon loses. Riiiiiiiight.
How about: The White Hats are “End the Fed” but you can’t because atm, that’s YOUR battleship, and you need it to non-stop fire on the ECB during this war until the ECB sinks. May need it after too. BUT. You can reverse it to its 1913 purpose, turning back the clock to McKinley, just as he has for eg tariffs. We are one by one UN-doing all the laws that colonized and extracted us.
To End the Fed, you need a reason. But not such a bad reason (there are many) they collapse entirely. Then you need both to fund yourself, AND deal with Main St loans without crushing the economy in the transition. Done, done, and done. Bye.
Going Full Spartacus: Democrats Hold Chest-Thumping Press Conferences to Fuel Anti-ICE Rage
Performative rage here. All LARPing. Stunning quotes saying Philadelphia will arrest all Federal Agents, jail them at 100% rate, and shoot any federal forces who attempt to prevent them. Errr… Okay, I guess? Is that a “notice of Secession from the nation”? ‘Cause it sure sounds like it. And no comment on removing her from her job. One ruined bankrupt city declaring war on the U.S. Army seems rather like the “Smoke you don’t want”.
Etc. But as I brought up so many times, go deeper. They say ICE are the new gestapo for Hitler. Okay, sold. He is, or at least you believe it. ….And you just drive up in your car, unarmed, get out, harass officers, call them and Hitler names, then get back in and even drive away or over them?
That is to say: You didn’t really think they’re Hitler at all, did you? You are hinging with every act on the NOT-Hitler forbearance of the NOT-Gestapo, which she does NOT believe will do anything to her – EVER! They did NOT go there to die that day, which is quite a different planned outing. Because none of it is real.
As we put it together, we see that. Last words: “WHY DID YOU HAVE REAL BULLETS????” Woman? Because Hitler and the gestapo don’t use airsoft? Fool? You might have noticed? She thought they did, they would. They summarily jail people and shoot them, which is why there’s no resistance in a real Reich: All those people are already dead. Penultimate last words? Apparently she shouted “Drive baby drive!” to her wife Mrs. Good WHICH THE OFFICER HEARD, exactly as the wheels spun out on ice and the motor revved.
Why did you have real bullets? Excuse me, in WHAT reality are there live guns, and we think that they are loaded with the 1: 100,000 case of “not-real”, blanks or something, which only 1 in a million guns are ever in the same room with, much less loaded with.
And as Kunster or others are pointing out, this is all on purpose. The planners, backers, trainers, all do this TO get every idiot LARPer killed. Maybe this is what they missed or expected in J6, that the Right is the same. But the Right are concealed carry, ex military and police, farmers, and people who train with those types. It’s not a LARP to them. There should have been, I dunno, 3,000 handguns at J6, as maybe that many on average conceal carry every day back home? And there were zero? Because they know the law and real bullets and real danger?
Good was TRAINED to be killed. They gave her the training, confidence, etc to act this way that will get someone killed, and it’s a miracle (as police say) hundreds more aren’t killed acting like this. Too far? HER WIFE SAID SO ON CAMERA, she got Good killed. That will go over well in court. Now she meant she dragged her in that day to ‘protest’ but really she TOLD HER TO ATTEMPT MURDER, by “Drive baby drive” which everyone heard and is recorded on camera for the Jury. Backing up from that IF a felony is committed, (seems very likely) AND you caused it, that’s like 20 years. That’s taking someone to a bank robbery for them to be your getaway driver, which is essentially the case. Like maybe you thought you’d steal some beer and run out, but the cashier has a gun, so then YOU draw your gun, and after that you get in your wife’s car, none of this was supposed to happen? Doesn’t matter: it’s armed robbery, attempted murder, and you’re an accessory to attempted murder, and we have you on camera DOING it, AND we have your recorded statement after, admitting that’s what you did, that’s how your wife was killed.
Anyway, the point isn’t the law, it’s that it’s all fake. They’re psychotic as I regularly say. They are living in delusion, completely absent from reality. Devoid in every way. You can walk up, fish-slap them in the face with reality and they’ll say “Why is Reality real?” Why do policemen have real bullets and not TV bullets? Why does Hitler arrest people? That’s not what Hitler does on my TV cartoons.
And something I heard yesterday, this is what Evil is: Separation. Separation, rejection of Reality, which is #Logos, which is God. See this in Sauroman, he is locked in the tower, his entire city, kingdom broken to tatters and still covered in 3 feet of water below, exposed, ruined, with no forces now, nor any remains of taking the place of Sauron’s kingdom. What does he do? Pretend he’s a prisoner? See the light? No, he gets out of his car and hurls insults at the completely victorious, unharmed army below. HE monologues how HE is to great and mighty, super smart, “with it”, not like the kids today, and they are stupid weak little idiots below. I guess they defeated him in 12 hours merely on accident??? Because
OrangeWhite man is so stupid n’ stuff.This is what Evil is. Presented with Reality, he clings to his EGO instead. Just making himself the winner, who is still smart and strong and victorious. And hating and despising the victors – or the normal average people, the “not insane” – as beneath him.
And what is the case here? They indulge Sauroman instead of summarily killing him and never thinking of him again. And then Sauroman drives off because of their indulgence, and gets a lot of people killed that didn’t have to. BECAUSE they had mercy. BECAUSE they had forbearance. BECAUSE they were being nice and figured at this point they’d see the light.
NOPE. The only outcome was more people were killed and more lives ruined. That’s why we have JUSTICE, and not Mercy, most of the time. When you have the guy in your hand, and has committed crime, just grab him. The End. We put him on trial and they are convicted and serve time to impress REALITY into them again. Maybe. To save THEIR life, as well as others. Maybe. Recitivism rates are very high.
“Trump ‘Favors’ Attacking Iran, Vance Pushing Back, As President Pezeshkian In Streets For Large Counter-Protests
Puppet show. Everyone gets to “signal”. Vance plays antiwar like last time.
“Trump May Freeze Exxon Out Of Venezuela After CEO Darren Woods Called It “Uninvestable”
Puppet show. Signaling. Now when Exxon is let in against his better judgment, it’s all okay now.
Powell puppet show, Congress puppet show, Rutte’s NATO puppet show, “Denmark is going to invade us” puppet show. All UnReality. May Reality never cross our lips.
“Regime Change Riots In Iran Fail Faster Than Expected”
Also and DEFINITELY a puppet show. But to who for what? I don’t understand Iran, I don’t think any of us do. They are burning their last espionage assets as they are badly losing worldwide and need a war, a new home base, ship to pirate. Iran may have let them (they can’t stop them) and are attacking the IRGC traitors within using this as cover. Apparently those are the buildings that are getting hurt. First pic, total Tavistok PR op worse than the Skripals? Lady lighting a ciggie with a picture of the Ayatollah, (I’m sure nothing bad will come of it) named “Morticia Adams” Uh, yeah: NO. FakeFakeFakeFakeFakeFakeFake. So that’s not even trying, everybody knows it. Great job, I myself am inspired by the power of women in it, however, that only means she expects to be airlifted out by MI6 while you suckers get shot like Mrs. Good. “Drive baby, drive!” That means “Adams” is “Never real” to begin with. She was fronted and injected by MI6, and not Iranian. A traitor. Since that’s the FIRST pic, then it was ALL staged and none of it is real. Can you be patient, wait a sec and not make it so OBVIOUS it’s fake and false attempt to get all you real and good people killed?
Iran will very likely be STRONGER, because like the 12-day all their Mossad ops popped up their heads and were exposed. If they don’t fall, the Derp State and London are far more screwed. And this is all expected. WTF are you thinking? There was no real chance of topping them, if you couldn’t in the 12-day.
Marandi: Massive war Coming!!! All gonna dieee!!!! With what weapons, sir? The Trump plan has all the weapons above ground earth one by one blown up and gone without starting your larger WWI. A Massive war of sticks and stones? Almost the only one left is in Turkey and that won’t last long.
2,000 dead in Iran, police, security forces? Yes, what makes you think this is not a purge? Iran center plausibly shooting their own internal traitors? He literally says “it’s being covered up in the protests”. If you could have a dirty cop have “an accident” in all the confusion, shouldn’t you? That is to say, I don’t see the Iran as having been run by CIA/MI6 at all. I see Iran as the one using it.
Alistair Crooke, from City of London. Yes, I noticed how Trump just ignores all court rulings, has arrested Congress, all the governors have been removed and so on. He has a million men in Venezuela, Ukraine, Iran, and now Greenland too! 1 Million each! That’s what “Power without Principle” and “Dictator” looks like, right?
We have to get those 4 million men back from all these places experts tell me are invading overseas! Maybe it’s 400 million, who knows??? I can make up one number as fast as another. Once none of it is real, what’s the dif?
All this happens because everyone instantly obeys Trump. It is well-known. Governors, foreign leaders like Xi and Modi. He has no resistance. That’s why he has undisputed power! Walking around using it at random.
Could you just START with a premise that isn’t prima fascia untrue? Just for once. As a favor to me.
How close is Putin to escalation?” Ritter
Yeah, if we don’t look out there might be a war! Even a million men might be killed! If Putin were to “Escalate” and “Invade” n stuff. Putin is WINNING. He’s won. WHY would he “Escalate” or change anything? He can continue what he’s doing as it drops into mop-up action. But they won’t want mobile ICBMs 2 miles from the Polish border, they will want a “Buffer zone” especially as if there are any living beings remaining in Lviv, they won’t like Russian occupation. This is a pretty okay setup until Europe collapses, which they already have. P.S. you mean “Escalate” like re-up the ICBM and reveal you have the Oreshnik a year ago, then use one yesterday? That kind of “escalation”?
Kultsummer you’re making my point for me. Because customers assume the government is checking and regulating and doing all things is the reason they don’t check and buy by reputation themselves. It is government that allows and protects and creates it. What is that? A merger of corporation and state, where the State controls the means of production. They control it, they control and regulate wine as all foods, then they say “We love you adding these things, well done my faithful servant.” “Could you please invent MORE additives that kill MORE people for next year?” If the SEC wasn’t saying there was no fraud in the market, if the FDA didn’t legally swear vaccines were safe, we’d have to do our own research.
Sorcerer: Yes, but according to him we ran out of oil in 2001. We’re all dead already, don’t you know? There is no oil in Iran, Russia, or the arctic. It’s not being held back in Iran, the ANWR. Nope. It’s geophysical.
Same with silver. Every U.S. mine is shut, almost all the world ones are too, and we have a shortage of silver for some unrelated reason. Maybe we can open ONE mine, even the worst one you can find. See what happens if instead of LOCKING oil and refusing to pump it, we move it instead. Instead of the EPA outlawing all hard work, we actually produce things. You know, it’s so crazy we might try it! We’ve heard hard work leads to “Production” but I’ve never seen that myself.
“The dollar’s share of global reserves collapsed to roughly 40%. Gold jumped to ~30%. That means gold is now bigger in central bank reserves than the euro”
We’re on a gold standard. Done, bye. Past tense. And the U.S. has gold backing the US$. We just haven’t bothered to value it, I believe it’s $40 dollars. FORTY. Not $4,000. Four THOUSAND. Gee would that help your 100: debt to GDP ratio? But we just HAVTA collapse! My fee-fees demand it!
Look: this is EXACTLY the Ron Paul, Libertarian, White Hat Plan to restore the Republic. Everything they said they wanted and needed is happening, yet for some reason when it’s actually rolled out no one can recognize it. This is WINNING. Empire is done. Fed is knocked back. We return to a gold standard, trade fairly, make things. Wall st is whacked, Main St comes up.
Noooooo! I refuse to win if Orange Man is the coach, give the Superbowl rings back! We forfeit the game! I don’t want to be free and prosperous now!
Take the “W”. Shut up. Black people are getting killed out there, let them get the new jobs being created.
“Chris Hedges, The Machinery of Terror”I would make fun of the incredibly low numbers AND that they are legally required to be removed, that’s not a crime that should be listed, AND that they are SWAT-teaming Tren first, so 4 shootings is statistically zero. Good job!
…But I’m not. And Hedges isn’t entirely over the top either. Point well taken. Yes, like all things, if you double a new police force, directed like by President only, we have to watch them closely and constrain their power. Because we are the government. But that’s nothing everybody wasn’t doing. Seriously, sir. So you know half the country already doesn’t trust them, and half of the remaining would erase government to begin with. So there’s near ZERO what you’d call fascist authoritarians around, and all those are Lindsay Graham and RINOs everyone already hates for years. “We’re” in their party and even we don’t know why they haven’t all been arrested. By us.
Okay, point taken, thanks. We’re on the same page, Chris. Can we triple the numbers now? Including Tren shootings, as when they’re the right suspects, I’m not all that concerned about it? If it were Grandma, or someone posting “White people are nice, actually / I don’t like being raped” like 20x daily in the UK that I get concerned. I don’t see a lick of that yet. But yes, that’s why WE have 1,000:1 more guns than ICE has. As we say weekly.
P.S.: What terror? Reminds me of the meme here “ICE will be at voting booths and that’s bad.” Really? Why? Americans have been harassed every f’n day since Clinton in ‘92. Probably earlier.
But NOW we’re worried about police roughing the wrong suspects? Jesus, it’s been a generation but welcome to the party, pal, I guess. The Left finally cares about drone-striking American children in Starbucks. That might be bad now. Maybe. They’re still all Socialists and want infinity government. When Trump is president SMH.“ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home”
Does it? And apparently gov’t workers say Palantir sucks. It’s just corporate handouts because their product is worthless. Just LIKE AI in Gaza: AI said bomb everything. All things taller than 1 meter is a target. Genius! Thanks! And how were you not put on an FBI list in 1990? Poser. Slacker. I’m sure I was. If you’ve got a list I’m on it.
“Violence in 5GW is very dispersed or hidden, which makes it difficult to perceive as war.
Fifth generation warfare relies on covert or ambiguous means that hide nefarious activities or disguise them as benign or harmless.”Yes, it’s a method of poisoning wells. Which we outlawed always (like Rome), but probably 14th c for exactly these reasons. Everyone thinks they’re the good guys when they do evil. How is your 5GW going to work when all living beings think you’re a villain, should not obey but fight you on sight merely because you exist? How’s your economy doing in a zero-trust society where everyone is paranoid and hoarding? Congratulations you won the booby prize for STOOPID.
I can’t stop them, though: they ARE stupid. Stupid is as stupid does. Stupid will get everyone killed, which is what they want.
“Revealing their locations puts them at enormous risk of retaliation from these monsters,”
That seems unhelpful rhetoric and inflammatory. Or is it? All our people are locked on military bases to do their jobs. Every “Right” (that is, Bernie Bro) podcaster is paying for President-level security and having armed “incidents” constantly. Tim Pool goes on about this, he was shot up again, but you can list dozens, they broke up Vance’s house only this week.
Point? Left says they’re fighting Mecha-Streisand-Hitler. The Right is non-stop violent. White men. Yet for some reason, zero Left podcasters, etc have not had to think about, change, or increase their security. For some weird reason, the Left is not afraid or concerned at all. Their actions say they feel absolutely, perfectly safe with Mecha-Hitler in charge. It’s almost like they’re lying, it’s all a LARP to them. So track the numbers: WHO are the last 40 shootings, violence? Well, let’s see: I can name 10 who are Trans, that’s a clue.
So if everyone’s locked on an Army base, Tim Pool had to flee to “undisclosed location” because of the number of shootings with million dollar daily ex-army security levels, then yes? Maybe “monster” is not too far off? STOP SHOOTING EVERYONE, Leftists. Just STOP. That’s what we said after Kirk. Is it too much to ask you’d stop murdering everyone for a minute, including each other? Apparently.
Again, ZERO guns at J6. Naming these hotels actually can be dangerous, and making agents jumpy could get a suspicious and innocent guest killed. That is the plan. They want that, a lot. They wrote it down, signed their name to it, published and distributed it to everyone. It’s in “Rules for Radicals” with the dedication to Satan himself. Among many, many others. Go sit in their planning meetings: it’s not hard. Take a few evenings and go ask. They’re happy to tell you to your face. “Burn it all down” “I want to kill everyone.” “Killing is good, side of the angels.” Yup. Since them publishing it openly for 50 years isn’t proof enough. I have Sunday school teachers tell me with a straight face. And of course not take any weapons training bc they believe it and are all srs n’ stuff.
So: is that the definition of a “Monster”, or not? Calling for the death of 150M people, then taking specific action to insure that happens?
“USS Gerald R. Ford to Seize 5th Tanker Olina”
What is happening after? Do we sink them? Scrap them? Legally own them? Enough time and number to get an idea by now.
“Senate advances resolution to block Trump from using military in Venezuela”
London requires us to use the UN, which is EUROPE. And to kill at least a million men to “legally” achieve the same end, Queensbury rules. Trump moved ahead of them. They are very, very very very sad and mad that 500k Venezuelans are still alive. How dare you. If only we’d done this the right way, all those people would be killed and mangled in ditches by now.
Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 international organizations”
This is the real government. Unelected. Elected government just does whatever these NGO tell them. Look at Building codes for a very neutral example, but WHO is another. It was by this method Europe believed they would rule the world. Secretly, as “just us.” UN, WEF, all “Good” peoples. Feminine approach. The EU itself is unelected, unaccountable, as the example.
“In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America”
No kidding! We have 10 million military-aged foreign men here! Hundreds of thousands are killed a year. About time you noticed the invasion. Thanks, now maybe we can do something about it like enforce the law! It’s great to have your complete support at last.
“Female prisoner ‘hurled in locked cell’ at Massachusetts prison”
Yes but the Left likes rapes now. They are stunning and brave rapes. Women’s rights. Destroy the Patriarchy.
Men are generally opposed to this, that’s what makes them bad.“When they tell you this year looks like the worst flu season in 20 years (or more) that is simply an outright lie.”
It was said by an American adult, an Expert, and the Media, so… Of course it was. Let truth never cross their lips.
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 pm #227805zerosum
Participanta puppet show. living in delusion, rejection of reality
DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, AFORDABILITY
IMPACT – protests, conflict, opposition,
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poor people are so economically illiterate that they will believe anything they are told————
Trump’s 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Is “Unlikely” To Happen
Why? What sets rates now? 30% is not just a moral issue, it’s wrong for the economy, non-functional, disordered.
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Antony Loewenstein… is an independent journalist, Guardian columnist and author of… Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe.
How the US continues to manipulate Haiti
The industrial park in Caracol, northern Haiti, never receives tourists. It’s a collection of factories producing clothes for some of America’s leading retailers including Walmart and Target. The opening of the facility in 2012 saw then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, and fashion designer Donna Karan attend and celebrate the… establishment… of a center that was advertised as producing 65,000 jobs. “We had learned that supporting long-term prosperity in Haiti,” Hillary Clinton said, “meant more than providing aid.”
Today, it’s clear the promises were empty.
————Another Mass Strike
The Retail Network on the Verge of Collapse
Military Summary 2026.01.13
———–January 13, 2026 at 3:00 pm #227806Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 3:14 pm #227807WES
ParticipantGold/Silver Ratio:
In a world, where nothing ever happens, the gold/silver ratio has nearly fallen in half, from about 103 last May 2025 to 52 today.
You can go back to sleep now.
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 pm #227808Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 5:56 pm #227809Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 6:45 pm #227810tboc
ParticipantThank you for providing content Dr. John.
Dr. John – “Smart Money”
zerosum – Disaster Capitalismthe poses the duran dudes are striking for the cover of their video – i needed a good laugh this morning
pompous pricks purveying poppycockFaith, Certainty And The Presidency Of George W. Bush The New York Times
“….and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do”.
Thank goodness for YT videos providing content for “the reality based community” to studyJanuary 13, 2026 at 7:09 pm #227811Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 7:19 pm #227812kultsommer
ParticipantIt is government that allows and protects and creates it. What is that? A merger of corporation and state, where the State controls the means of production.
No D!
It is other way around – the American way, where the corporations control the State.
Ever heard of “revolving door” offered as a cushy well paid “job” as a reward for the “service” of letting the Corps doing whatever they want?
I’ve written before – every major US corporation runs unethical and shady business practice as the result of thesystem’s prime requirement
, by definition, of minimizing cost/investment while maximizing profits where the ethical border is, in unison given that every major company does it, pushed south
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 pm #227813kultsommer
ParticipantEver heard of “campaign contributions” ??
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 pm #227814Michael Reid
Participant“We are at war with Washington “
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 pm #227815my parents said know
ParticipantSilver futures (on finviz) end today at 86.86.
Signal?
; )January 13, 2026 at 10:59 pm #227816Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 13, 2026 at 11:48 pm #227818Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 14, 2026 at 12:08 am #227819zerosum
ParticipantThe exact toll remains unknown, but it is very clear from all sources, including Israeli intelligence, that both protestors and security personnel are being killed.
Iranian authorities more than once reported attacks by gunmen who attacked both sides, and said that some of those arrested were linked to the Mossad.
January 14, 2026 at 12:25 am #227820Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 14, 2026 at 12:40 am #227823Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 14, 2026 at 12:40 am #227824zerosum
ParticipantWe just don’t know at this point what Iran is doing to “punch itself” out of the situation.
However, we do know that the U.S is drawing back for a massive haymaker (based on movements at the Gulf bases), which may come in the next 24 – 48 hours unless Iran produces something to force the Americans to reconsider their life choices.
I believe it is inevitable the U.S will attack. I’d love to be wrong, but there it is. It’s coming and it will come just in time for the weekend.
There is only one (non-nuclear) way out for Iran now, given that it stands alone (apparently) without the significant assistance of any meaningful allies:
Iran must strike at all key U.S military infrastructure in the middle east:
(Iran absolutely maintains a detailed understanding of where it believes its adversaries are located—military bases, naval deployments, airfields, and regional force posture.
But like every country, its intelligence picture is partial, probabilistic, and constantly updated, not omniscient.)1. All Naval vessels must be hit concurrently with carrier killers (Fateh-III?).
2. All actively operational bases must be hit (older, medium range missiles)
3. All major embassies must be hit (these are all running electronic sigint systems in their basements) – Fateh-III
4. Of course the targeting of critical israeli infrastructure in Occupied Palestine must continue …
5. An offer of peace and ceasefire can then be extended via the diplomatic channels.The rationale behind this approach is as follows:
1. If an American strike is inevitable, Iran will have no means to repel it, based on the observed performance of their AD. The collapse of the state and nation will be inevitable.
2. If Iran continues at the current pace of retaliation, israel (mossad + MEK + Mi6 + US Special Forces) will be provided with enough time to locate missile launchers and siloes and even well concealed missile cities. Iran will therefore “lose it” before having a chance to “use it”.
3. If Iran strikes hard enough, but still eventually loses to a massive retaliation by the West, it will still be facing a much weakened enemy than if it had simply decided to do nothing. In the “post defeat” phase, it is better to be faced with a highly degraded enemy incapable of occupation and now faced with multiple asymmetric threats all over the middle east, than an enemy at full strength.This last point, .3 is probably the key reason why Iran must strike first.
Unless Iran can pull a rabbit out of the hat beyond any expectations, this brutal, but straightforward path seems the only way out …
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