Debt Rattle September 23 2026
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 23 2026]Pointing. They’ve been lying to you about my pointing at things. It’s over: What they don’t want you to know. Urgent: Me pointing at things now Changes Everything.
Socialist Candidate Says Stealing thousands of dollars in EBT funds while working in the state food-stamp office From Taxpayers Makes Her “More Qualified” For Office
She’s actually right. That’s how politicians get paid. “Stealing from the Taxpayer” is the job description.
“Lindsay Clancy’s Attorney Requests Investigation Into Holdout JurorAttacking pillars of all society: Trial by Jury. Cancel culture. By bullets. WHO is doing this? AWFLs.
“UK’s Burnham Approves Military Support To Saudis, Limited To Aerial Refueling
So UK is paying Iran, then shadow-banking Iran’s money to Yemen, then paying to have planes flown that blow Yemen back up. …Sounds about right. It’s almost like they’re Americans.
“At least 150 killed within two days in Yemen…” And Max said 300 strikes last week when “we weren’t striking” for Saudi Arabia. I guess that was reported before the blackout. Sounds like ‘we’re’ hitting plenty and nothing was called back, just the usual. Or just the media.
“Pentagon Unveils New Testing Process For US Generals
Remember what saved us in WWII – and also means they knew and ‘planned’ it – was a huge purge of armchair generals right before in favor of the fighting ones.
“California Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Strong El Niño
Vance saves $2,2B in new ACA fraud. CA is broke from so much embezzling for the election rigging, and calls an emergency to get Federal money to pour in, so TN and GA can pay for their own counter-politics subversives next month. Note nothing has happened yet. How can you call an emergency for “Something, someday”?
Soros-Linked Political Groups Pour Millions Into Democratic Efforts Ahead Of Midterms”
Make them blow their own money. They had been using taxpayers’ money against them up ‘til now, which is the whole purpose of government. Why should I pay embezzlement for my own destruction?
The Riots Never Came: Has The Protest Machine Stalled, Or Is It Regrouping
When CA gets the money, we’ll see some riots.
Yesterday: “The Supreme Court will decide whether confiscating a $95,000 airplane over illegally transported beer violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.
What I was saying with “What is this s—t doing in the lower courts at all”? It’s a miracle anything makes USSC, and takes decades (also bad). In addition to tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. What’s the common man’s sense of this case? A: YESSSSSSSSSS, that’s Excessive!!!! Case closed. They’re also stealing his tools of work, by which he can no longer be a productive member of society and a taxpayer.
“DHS Investigating 1,620 Non-Citizen Voter Fraud Cases
That thing that never happens keeps happening again. Interesting, because there were 6,000 in NJ alone and this is only 1.6. Suppose you’re an immigrant. DHS shows up with records you voted. BUT YOU DIDN’T. Your ballot and name were illegally entered by operatives. Now you’re in jail and deported. Thanks Democrats. Nothing says “Fighting Hitler” like causing immigrants to be jailed by thousands.
Today:
“he’s seriously considering turning Venezuela into the 51st state of the United States.
Like most things he says and does, he can’t actually do this. Look it up. There’s a long process. No Kings. So why are you making one out of our President, whose job is to execute the will of Congress, ie the People?
“The thousands and thousands and thousands of their own people they’ve killed. Imagine if they had a nuclear weapon and the ability to use that.”
Rubio demonstrating his/their breathtaking lack of self awareness. Iran ONLY killed a few thousand of their own people? They’ve got a long way to go to catch up with us!
“”It sounds like they’re ROOTING FOR IRAN! Anything Iran says they treat as TRUE and they DOWNPLAY American officials.”
I don’t want them to treat EITHER as true. But the real issue is after 200 days of Iran’s statements being consistently wrong, they continue to present as credible, because: Hate. They must have the Feelz. “If it’s proven wrong I’ll believe it! Not until then!”
“$200B lost in Equalization” “The war is far more important to Europe than to us”. — DJT.
That goes with Krainer’s latest official https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPeFVoICBoc
The last half is an ad, (suggesting money is tight in Europe) but the 30% point he discusses why BRITAIN had a Chernobyl meltdown over us leaving Fstan. That is: it, like most “American” things, are EUROPEAN plans and profits. Not ours. It’s vaguely unrelated to his essay here, and he’s openly rejected the concept. Now is that for business, or not to be arrested in Europe? Because otherwise, why bring this up, as this makes Luongo’s case perfectly, which Krainer claims to be rejecting? And also is identical to the problems in Europe…or even Iran right now?If you credit UK did this. And was long doing this, both which must be true…then they are STILL doing this, as no event or internal change has stopped them. So they are doing this in Iran, UAE, Dubai, and arguably Israel, which is THEIR colony. That’s who/what “Lord Balfour” was. Then all you need to do is gather evidence to see if this supposition is true. We’ve been gathering it. Appears to be true.
“We’ve lost control”– “Professor Jeffrey Sachs: The Iran War Will Break America.”
As a globalist, yes, YOU have. Sachs is the most Globally-Global of all Globalists. He’s their public face. PR man and apologist. However, WE have not lost control. America is finally regaining control from you Globalists. Thus his panic as Empire withdraws exactly as every American wants. Again, shouldn’t he be elated and say thank you? Why is he sad?
“Russia Strategic Diesel Supplies Full, Excess Production – The Rule of 96 (CTH)
Remember kids: “Oil is Fungible”. There are details, but if it goes East, to Mongolia, then Mongolia doesn’t need to buy from Japan. Then Asia has a surplus, so China needs less from Newsom and his closed-for-no-reason refinery. I’ve said this on soybeans: if China doesn’t buy from us, they buy from Argentina, but 100% of all beans are grown, then 100% of all beans are eaten. The details in-between don’t make shortages.
“Find your internal peace; then relax and let him work.”
Not really. He’s a politician. We watch him like a hawk, trust then verify on a short leash. But the difference here is, he/we now have a really deep team. Dozens or scores of high-caliber people now written in with experience. Okay, THAT’S NORMAL. Oh no it isn’t: look at the Democratic Party or the whole EU. The point was to make government NOT-Work. Then it could be replaced with Socialism 3.0, “the Oligarch’s Revenge.”
If government works and represents and protects the will of the People, why would we “Burn it all down”?
“y early afternoon OpenAI had rolled out GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna”
That’s nice, can it do anything besides make cat videos with six fingers? “A Free Lie with every response!”
What is it used for?Speaking of 9/22 release, where’s my Event? Where’s my flock of October surprises? C’mon Soros, don’t let me down. Surely you’re going to kill a few hundred people somewhere.
“removing the news orgs from their embedded digs at the White House, the one thing that irked me and still bothers me is how uncharacteristic this is for Trump in his second term.”
Yes, you may want to ask “Why now”? C’mon, he’s up to something. Yes we want this done in general, but it’s done this week for a specific reason. Like the are the ones scanning and passing leaks to the black CIA or something.
“In the end, the leftist media needs Trump more than he needs it.”
Yes, but that’s because they have no platform, no base and no talent pool. That’s not Trump’s fault. If only the Left didn’t hate all workers like a cancer they wouldn’t have this problem.
“NYC Mayor Mamdani said he told President Trump all members of the press were welcome to his news conference”
Bet you $100 they’re not. It would be very crowded, wouldn’t it? “CBS” can get in there. Just get some rando Nick to show up with an iPhone. Then forward that footage to CBS. There are no problems here only priviledge.
““TRUMP TV IS STREAMING NOW. 24/7
You wonder what he’s up to. How about now they release the Epstein Files the US Media has been hiding since the 90s? Remember that one with – who was it – she found Prince Andrew and that girl and CBS shut it down on her. …Then she folded like a lawn chair and didn’t pursue it? Or Massie yesterday, read the list (that we all had again) and Omitted his son’s friend from it? Hmmmm?
So you see why, with 1,000 of these, Trump can’t go down to the Press Office and say anything real. Like he’s being wiretapped. Because they won’t report it at all or report it as crazy when, like Greenland, it’s unbelievably normal, like since 1953 normal. Same reason for the Proposed Emergency Broadcast System he set up in Term I.
Will We See Western Capitals Fall? (J.B. Shurk)
What’s so striking about these news stories is their “well, duh!” factorYes. ONLY PRIVILEGED REPORTERS FROM COLUMBIA don’t have to take the consequences of their idiotic actions. And beliefs. Like the DSA members in NYC’s Mamdani, they’re all children of millionaires and call daddy. They aren’t actually shot on the streets like their victims. Every normal person knows all these things, but they don’t WANT them to be true – politically, for Communism – so they’re not! Then everyone dies when there are no tractors in Ukraine. Ooopsie! I know because I talk to these people all day. They have an Invisible Everything-Proof Force Field protecting their minds, and are unable to absorb anything. Even a personal collapse – heck inviting/forcing your daughter’s immigrant murderer into the house – cannot reform them. They are fully willing to die rather than diminish their Ego for two seconds. …Which is fine. However, they are murdering the rest of us as well.
In other news: 2 Million dead in Ukraine.
“Had an ordinary Brit with few credentials been in charge of MI6, that person would have been screaming profanities and ringing alarm bells long before the U.K. closed its last coal mines and steel factories. Shouldn’t that embarrass Britain’s “ruling elites”?
No, because the POINT was to get boxed in and kill all Brits. This is the “Deniability” part. They totally knew because everyone in Britain and worldwide told them every day. Just like NAFTA here. Then they say “WE” shouldn’t have done it. “WE” never did, buddy, speak for yourself! YOU did it TO us, killing millions of us in the process and should be hung from lampposts.
Don’t let them get away with this. They knew and we have the emails to prove it.
“ Some historians believe that parts of the MIC had a hand in President Kennedy’s assassination, and if that is true, then Eisenhower’s failure to promptly act had extraordinarily far-reaching consequences that included the death of his successor.”
Stop. Think. THEY WOULD HAVE SHOT IKE. Duh, holy duh. Ike set up processes to contain them and then informed JFK on his way in. The problem was, they misjudged and overreached. I guarantee you this happened and I guarantee I can prove it. So there’s no “Failure” on Ike’s part. It was rational strategy. JFK’s murder only proved Ike’s seemingly undue caution was completely correct, and JFK’s “Prompt” action got us all killed in the hole we’re in today, where if he’d have been patient, a President or two later they might have been locked out and not in control like 1963-2010 or whenever.
Guess you don’t play chess much.
However, the Arc and impulse of the article is good and should be discussed more.
As I often say: stop Black Pilling, get off the couch: HOW? Tell me HOW you would uncover and expel this treasonous force within. Hey, isn’t that EXACTLY what we’ve seen since the 90s with the “America First” generals and the White Hats? And it’s very, very, very hard to do and very touchy business for which dozens of reporters are killed, hundreds of others, thousands worldwide, including our own Presidents purging people and wiretapping AP to advance the Banking Derp State?
Oh yeah, it is actually. And in this Secret War, 251 people around Hillary alone were shot, including JFK Jr, exactly as one would expect in this war? Oh yeah, actually! Jesus. These Obits are IN THE NEWS. Everyone knows the kill list. But when called on, he can’t connect the dots to it. Those people died IN THE WAR he’s saying never existed. Maybe if Breitbart were here to email him….
…Or if only some modern President were assassinated weekly and we could be sure he’s on the White Hat Team. Nope! It’s #OppositeDay again!
“The group’s white executive editor appeared with hair in cornrows in a video circulated on social media”
Woke = People MUST obey their stereotypes. Black people MUST not be allowed to read and/or go into diners. It’s not what black pepo do. That’s who these Wokesters are. And I’m not being hyperbolic: they JUST SAID black people and women are too lazy and dum to get a driver’s license. OBEY YOUR STEREOTYPES. We (White women) are the Social Police. Don’t think it’s Black pepo care who has corn rows. They got s–t to do like pay rent. Have all your corn rows idgaf, yer dum, they’ll laugh SMH. Let’s send a few thousand questionnaires by zip code and find out.
“Dear dumbshit White American”
Yes, but it’s not. You don’t know that bc you live in a city. It is ONLY the “AWFULs”. And some paid grifters. That’s it. However, the AWFLS will divorce/banish/murder anyone who crosses them, so do you really want to do that to Mom? Is it better if your sister takes her kids off and sterilizes them without you around at all to mitigate this? There’s only one group here so far as I can tell. The others are like each 5% and not a problem.
All and exclusively white women on social media. …Social media is run by the very billionaires they claim to hate. Who are all trying to gin up the “Violence” they claim to be opposing.
““the last time a Democrat won the presidential election with a majority of the white vote was 62 years ago: Lyndon Johnson
He’s living in the past: what does “White” mean? Inner city gang bangers are white, and Serbian Muslims are white.
Many people seeming maybe even saying they’re “White” have 3 Spanish parents. Just back half a generation. They may even speak fluent Spanish. Take Jimmy Dore’s wife for instance.“The socialists at National “Public” Radio were thrilled. Paris-based reporter Eleanor Beardsley characterized this as an anti-bullying binge:
The only people terrorizing and bullying people are the AWFULs on NPR. I feel safe around everyone else. They’ll tell you you’re an -sshole to your face and punch you fairly. We all can cope with that honesty. That’s just people disagreeing. “Bullying” is what THEY do.
“Garrison Keillor, Brett Kavanaugh, Al Franken, the senator, everybody, if they did anything in their past, stole a kiss, patted someone too long, hugged somebody, half the country was worried over the last 30 years had they said an off-color joke. There was a climate of paranoia.”
Yes. All AWFUL housewives having another Satanic Panic. Men don’t worry about patting someone. They investigate and convict in court with evidence, or not. This is “Guilt, Shame, Innuendo”. No evidence. No accusers. No rebuttal, no possibility of proved innocence.
“Programmable Money – Catherine Austin Fitts (USAW)
Not sure what she’s up to. The digital grid is certainly a possibility and a plan. However, I feel like she’s behind on this. Yes, they PLANNED to do this, but other people PLANNED and are taking action to stop them. Recalculating… It’s fair for her to continue this warning not to be complacent, however, it’s plain inaccurate and I can’t “lie to people for their own good.”
The calm before the showdown
The only art that the Prince must totally master it’s the art of warMachiavelli
The Supreme Warrior Wins Without Fighting
Sun Tzu
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Where the Epstein Syndicate would schmooze the Global South gathered in New York for the – comatose – UN General Assembly and seduce them with assorted “gifts”, wooing them away from the impending Great Debacle and deflecting attention from the breathtaking speed of the collapse of Pax Americana.
Cut to Wednesday, when we have Day One of the UN General Assembly Debate, with Neo-Crassus/Neo-Caligula/Goldfinger/Psycho Toddler supposed to deliver a speech.
On the same day, he meets with the Gulf petro-sheiks for what could become some sort of suicidal pact.
And then on Friday, Xi Dada in person comes to the U.S. on an official state visit. (Invisible) sparks are guaranteed to fly.
All that would guarantee that the nearly inevitable New Demented Offensive on Iran and the Axis of Resistance might be postponed for a few days.
But then hysteria re-reigned all over again, as panicked imperial stakeholders were faced with some startling facts on the ground, from zero Saudi oil exports and to “burn, baby burn” at Riyadh airport.
Cue to the thundering sound of scurrying bling bling cockroaches. They seem to realize that hitting Iran again, now, is beyond dangerous, as the escalation ladder will go totally out of control – complete with Tehran finishing off the scared-to-death petro-sheikhs.
So the cockroaches did find out, the hard way, that whatever happens Iran is bound to become the oil hegemon of the Persian Gulf.
Cue to Pakistan and Turkiye – the other two members of the dodgy as hell Mecca Defense Alliance – freaking out in tandem, promising to defend Saudi Arabia even physically.
For context, cut to Ansarallah spokesman Mohammad Al-Bukhaiti:
“By God, if Turkey or Pakistan get involved, we will strike them with an iron fist. And just as we are disciplining Saudi Arabia today, we will discipline them as well.”
That was the polite advice from the elder al-Bukhaiti. The younger, Hussain, a journalist, was way more heavy metal: if Pakistan attacks Yemen, Yemen will not allow any Pakistani commercial ship to pass through the Red Sea; will launch a direct attack on Pakistan; and will consider Pakistan a Zionist partner.
How the House of Saud is going down
It’s now Escalation Ladder A-Go-Go. The Energy Shock’n Awe is at hand. All buffers are gone; the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR); the Saudi East-West pipeline (for at least a month, maybe more); and China’s methodical, hefty cut on oil imports.
What’s left is the UAE’s Fujairah – moving only 2 million barrels a day. But if the U.S. attacks the Axis of Resistance, that will also be gone in a flash.
Saudi Arabia cannot export oil and/or gas. So there’s only one way out to Clumsy Lone Decider MbS; to surrender. Accept Yemen’s terms. And expect the bill to include the 3 southern provinces stolen by the Brits and given to the Saudis in 1934.
No surrender means the very slim possibility of the House of Saud surviving at all.
Alastair Crooke, in fine form, nailed it to perfection. The Ansarallah/Yemeni Armed Forces lightning-fast campaign had been planned for as long as 7 years. Sana’a takes a very long view. This represents total Yemen ownership of the process; but with an outcome completely aligned with Tehran.
There’s a stunning parallel with Afghanistan 5 years ago – a story I followed in detail. The then Ghani puppet government collapsed in only 10 days because of patient Pashtun tribal interconnection conducted under the aegis of Gen. Soleimani.
Now it’s the same process, involving tribal Arabian leaders. It’s an easy sell. The mongrel “Saudi” state was built around an ultra-sectarian Wahhabi nucleus, a bunch of illiterate camel-herding Bedouins, with a single family monopolizing the money, political power and all decisions.
Many of roughly 100 tribes will have no trouble to become part of a process of folding the Kingdom into what could be called the Iran-Ansarallah compound. They will take back their oil; Arabia then will no longer be reduced to an American replacement of Persian power; and that will be the end of the free lunch for U.S. oil companies. China cannot but approve this vision.
The petro-sheiks have chosen their table
Sana’a did send a clear message to the U.S. via Oman. Yemen would only attack Saudi shipping – and not American or international shipping. That stands as long as Washington does not attack Yemen. Yet if that happens, Yemen obliterates the American base in Djibouti, essential for surveillance of the whole Horn of Africa.
The key question now is whether the U.S. – and the Mecca pact – really dumped Saudi Arabia. Or if this is just a realignment fog before a concerted attack – GCC included – on Ansarallah.
If that happens, Tehran has made it crystal clear it will strike U.S. military and commercial assets all across the Gulf, especially in the UAE and Saudi, and all the way to Iraq.
Major General Mohsen Rezaee, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council in Iran, and Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s personal representative, provided the context with a single sentence:
“We invited them [GCC nations] to the Salalah meeting [in Oman]…and they reciprocated with a secret meeting in Germany with the U.S. Central Command and Israel.”
It’s all here. Iran invited the GCC petro-sheiks to a common regional table. The GCC instead chose the Washington/Tel Aviv table.
Rezaee has also outlined how Iran upgraded supersonic missiles from Mach 6 to Mach 10; expanded electronic warfare and air defenses; and is now able to hit U.S. vessels anywhere in the – distant – Indian Ocean.
Then there’s that ship-targeting missile that splits into 80 projectiles tested – successfully – on a U.S. aircraft carrier. The Pentagon is mum on the subject.
Rezaee, in more ways than one, has gently advised the U.S. Navy to get out of Dodge – as in the Indian Ocean – before sparks fly again.
Cue once again to the young al-Bukhaiti: “A major escalation by Saudi Arabia is expected in the coming day or days… It will be met with a surprise retaliatory response that will make Saudi Arabia and its allies forget that they lost Mocha and Bab al-Mandab.”
So the Epstein Syndicate may have planned for a solo op on Yemen, just to find out that Iran and Yemen come as a package.
Respect Iran’s terms. Or else.
Tehran conveyed its new terms to the U.S. through Qatar, even as Rezaee continues to define “the respected Pakistani government” as a steady consultation partner.
The terms include the release of frozen assets and the end of the Trump naval blockade. Rezaee said there are 7 conditions, but he disclosed only 6. The list did not include “removal of economic sanctions”. The public first item is “an end to the war on all fronts.”
That is exactly what was written at the start of the dead cat MoU.
The June memorandum of understanding already contained crude-export waivers and a no-new-sanctions clause.
Then there’s the Strait of Hormuz reciprocation. That is part of Tehran’s bargaining structure. Rezaee said Iran is “a short step” from announcing a Hormuz management deal with Oman that may need regional endorsement.
A Tasnim-sourced description calls the arrangement “a step towards Iran exercising sovereignty over the Strait”. In parallel, Foreign Minister Araghchi told his counterpart and friend Wang Yi in Beijing that Iran “has reached a plan with Oman to open the Strait.” Then Ghalibaf repeated on Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz stays closed until Iran’s conditions are met.
Washington’s answer, on Sunday, was demented rhetoric – as usual. Neo-Crassus/Psycho Toddler told Fox News he is in “deciding mode”. And then he came up with an intergallactic howler: he’s deciding “if and when do I blow the entire nation up”.
No comments necessary.
He has essentially three options. 1. Renewed strikes. 2. Let Iran “rot” economically (that’s the plan for now). 3. A deal. In an access of common sense, he also said he would “probably be open” to meeting President Pezeshkian at the UN General Assembly.
Iran’s Armed Forces, for their part, claimed they have intel that Washington has decided “with the green light from certain regional countries” to resume action and threatened “continuous, effective and painful strikes.”
When it comes to the Big Picture, Pakistan insisted there is no military response under discussion regarding Yemen. Türkiye “does not want to enter the fray”. Still, Pakistan’s military spokesman has pledged to go “to any extent”, and the Foreign Office confirmed “some deployments” under the Mecca Defense Alliance. Insiders in Islamabad swear this is only for show: Pakistan cannot afford to be dragged into a war against Ansarallah.
The heart of the matter is that the Epstein Syndicate simply cannot afford not (italics mine) to make a move. Consider the dire circumstances: they already connot control currency collapse, food supply chain elimination and widespread lack of oil/diesel. They need massive diversionist tactics.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s revolutionary surge accelerates the timetable to the showdown. While Iran concentrates on ensuring a definitive neo-Crassus/Goldfinger/Psycho toddler mid-term debacle, in tandem with honing its new offensive doctrine: as in being ready to preemptively strike at any sign of U.S. rumblings.
It’s nearly impossible to draw reason out of an illogical geopolitical universe where nothing matters and The Hegemon is totally out of control. Yet we persist.
We are all riders on the (coming) storm.
A world turned upside down
Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again?Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026
The global future is often framed as being that of a muli-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit assumption that states would get along better – and would resolve their differences more easily through discussion than through war.
This was a meme that was in wide circulation in the Pre-WW1 years. Books were written to suggest that war could not happen: The definitive text on this concept, originally published in 1910 as The Great Illusion, became an international bestseller.
Its author, Norman Angell, argued that because nations relied heavily on a highly intertwined global trading system, the economic cost of war would drastically outweigh any potential gains. He asserted that a victorious nation would suffer just as much economic ruin as the vanquished – making the traditional concept of military conquest obsolete. His argument was popularly interpreted as making war “impossible”.
His argument proved fallacious; the Great War duly erupted.
Today, the idea of some multi-polarity interplay persists, but the threat of war remains and is heightened by the West’s refusal to hear – or understand – what civilisational sovereign states are saying. This inability to listen with empathetic engagement lies at the root of the catastrophic western Intelligence misreadings of Iran and Russia. And the casting of China as so ‘other’ to make it a closed-book to western ears.
In his influential 1981 book, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre argued that the Enlightenment project cut Western man off from his roots in tradition, but had failed to produce a binding morality based on Reason alone. Consequently, many of those who live in the West live a world of “moral chaos and fragmentation, in which ‘chaotic’, disintegrative forces have very nearly obliterated true moral inquiry from European culture”.
What is important to understand is that MacIntyre’s “moral chaos and fragmentation” is deliberately fostered to weaken national, community and religious attachment – precisely in order to target and weaken national cohesion and civilisational sovereignty.
MacIntyre’s argument is that it is cultural tradition alone, and its moral tales, that provide context to terms such as good, justice and telos:
“In the absence of traditions, moral debate is out of joint and becomes a theatre of illusions in which simple indignation and mere protest occupy centre stage”.
“Lines are drawn early, and participants rush to take sides. But in taking sides they appear to render themselves incapable of hearing the other … Everyone feels the heat, but no one sees the light”, MacIntyre underlines.
What we possess today, MacIntyre suggests, are nothing more than mere fragments of an older tradition (Heroic Society). These fragments simply are too sparse, since our moral discourse, which uses terms like good and justice and duty, has been robbed of the context that would make it intelligible. In other words, it places the virtue of the heroic, Homeric world beyond western reach.
Lines are drawn. There is a rush to take sides. The ‘chaotic’, disintegrative forces of today have very nearly obliterated moral inquiry from European culture. The more striking feature of moral debates is their tendency never to reach resolution.
When all moral judgments – stripped of context – become little more than expressions of preference, of attitude or feeling – emotivism, in other words – debate is out of joint; it is transformed into a theatre of narratives in which indignation and polarity take centre stage.
But, in taking such emotive partisan sides, actors render themselves incapable of hearing The Other. ‘Others’, then, whether Russia, Iran or China, simply become invisible by the norms of this approach – as their ways of orienting human attention to the world are quite distinct.
Thus, we can (and are) being led to war by narrative messaging specifically intended to compel humans to spatialise the world in a certain way, without our being aware of it. We are being led to an Enlightenment-driven ‘one world’ in which all ‘Otherness’ – whether Russian, Iranian or Chinese – becomes invisible by the norms, the mode of presence, by which we approach ‘things’.
In this ‘war’, the world is turned ‘upside down’. Most people are not actively spatialising the world around them, but seemingly have become content to have it spatialised for them. Narratives are kneaded and rolled out before our eyes. This is how the machine works. Most people in the West believe themselves to have a firm handle on reality – facts, evidence, and conclusions. But effectively, we face a structure that purposefully turns that imagined grasp on reality inside out.
In the machine, the ‘spatialisation’ is backwards: First, they receive the messaging, then they knead and roll out a narrative of ‘reality’ like dough, until it fits the design. And if required, they put the Media machine into reverse and knead that same reality in the opposite direction.
So how can sovereign civilisations escape the ‘MacIntyre trap’? Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again?
To climb out of the Fustian space of mechanistic thinking and manipulated narrative is not easy or simple. Quite the contrary. But notice what it requires – a change in our mode of presence; how we dispose our attention toward the world.
How you dispose of consciousness towards the world, neurologist Iain McGilchrist tells us, is crucial: For, the way that you do it, alters and determines what you will find and understand. And as we spatialise the world around us differently, perception widens and the (until then hidden) spaciousness of what lies beyond comes into view.
A recovery of older ways of thinking – the ‘all-at-once, all together’ way of thinking (thinking through image) and other sources of cognition – can open a path to mediation between the seemingly oppositional polarities of the subjective and the objective which mechanical rationality so often leaves hardened into unresolvable impedimenta. The apophatic approach too can blunt the sharp edges of conceptual thought by introducing ‘betweenness’ finding its space between sharp angular argument. These modes of thought possess logic of their own that stands apart from the Enlightenment rigidities.
This is the lesson that Iran and its re-discovery of ancient thought is providing to the world today.
Albert Einstein once noted that “the rational mind is a servant; but the intuitive mind is a precious gift. Our world, however, honours the servant – but forgets [ignores] the gift”.
Pepe is wrong about everything again. As he has been for 200 days in a row.
Should I bookmark this to send back to you monthly?
Why bother? We have 200 days — or 10 years — of such examples, and it’s made no impression at all.
Great concentration of wealth in the hands of the Epstein class and return to poverty for western citizens… thinking of worse than Oliver Twist.. people had more survival skills back then
Alex K interview
Trump removed U.S. from the Middle East, turns to Ukraine and Burnham
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suHas Trump’s Iran blunder cost the U.S. their entire presence in the Middle East, traditionally partnered with GCC countries? Presently, all eyes are on Saudi Arabia and the desperate situation a young crown prince has placed himself in – and the recent news that Trump would not support him in his conflict with the Houthis. Trump’s firm ‘no’ to Mohamed bin Salman not only shocked the Saudi prince himself but sent shockwaves throughout the entire region, signalling the end of America’s role and indeed presence there. Ex-General David Petraeus might have been misquoted as saying that the U.S. was “out” of the Middle East, when in fact he said that U.S. bases were “no longer viable”. But the sentiment is the same. How does the Trump administration rebuild these bases which experts have said could take years to bring back to their former glory? Or, more to the point, would they even be welcome to do that, given that their presence is an oxymoron for their host countries. They are not there to defend those countries but rather act as a magnet for Iran’s attacks which often extend to the country’s infrastructure.
For Saudi Arabia to recently have its main east-west oil pipeline blown up by the Houthis is a seismic blow to its economy, as it has lost half of its revenue and will struggle to function as a state very shortly. MbS turned to both tribal leaders and even the religious pillar of Saudi society, but both rejected his pleas for assistance to fight the Houthis. The former group’s rejection is particularly poignant and stands as a grim indication of how weak and vulnerable MbS is in his own country, despite the often-repeated fanfare by Western journalists about how much support he has from the youth. Young people, however, are unable to help MbS out of a hole which could see the Houthis even overthrow his regime. MbS is so desperate that he had to finally turn to the British to provide one refuelling aircraft based in Cyprus to help his air force – his last line of defence against the Houthis, who have recently struck ballistic missile sites and part of the capital, creating a panic of Yemenis, some of whom recently crossed the Red Sea and became refugees in Djibouti.
If the Houthis gain the upper hand, this is of course a strategic victory for Iran, as other GCC countries will note how a mere proxy of Iran was able to destroy the Saudi economy and even possibly be a catalyst for its leader to step down, or be a victim of a coup d’état from his own army. Remarkably, despite the entire catastrophic scenario being entirely the responsibility of Donald Trump starting a war with Iran on February 28th, Trump will not fight the Houthis to save Saudi Arabia – an extraordinary betrayal of a relationship held in such awe by Trump himself, who once welcomed the young prince to the White House, complete with the huge cardboard diagrams about Saudi wealth. The scenario underlines how weak and ineffective Trump is when he is alone, with Israel, and is faced with real war scenarios, rather than just signing off military aid deals like the recent $2.8bn USD gift of super bombs to Israel. When you ‘fuck around and find out’ in the Middle East, this comes with harder decisions to be made later on – and for the moment Trump has decided he doesn’t want to fight the Houthis.
And is Trump really even interested any more in the region? Now that there is so much gloom there making him look stupid both in front of his own press and the global media machine, it is so much easier to focus on Ukraine, where he feels he might have some leverage still. At an important UN assembly in New York he will meet the new UK prime minister for the first time, who, it would seem, he wants to turn to for help. Given that Andy Burnham’s new government has actually stood firm on Israel and could be a vital partner for Trump to do the same, plus also Burnham is a staunch supporter of Ukraine, perhaps this first meeting can provide some valuable bandwidth for Trump, who badly needs to convince Zelensky to stop bombing critical energy sites in Russia. Given how much MI6 plays such a key role in everything that the Ukrainian military does, Trump may well think that a better relationship with the UK might be useful for him to pull more strings behind the scenes, as it becomes clearer and clearer to Trump just how much significance gas pump prices – and in particular diesel – have leading up to and during the midterm elections. If ever Trump needed to pull a rabbit out of the hat, it is right now, and much will depend on the chemistry of both Trump and Burnham, although both sides have shown signs that they want a working relationship. But Burnham should note the MbS story and learn the lessons. Any cooperation with Trump is limited to so many other factors that he is barely in control of – plus, of course, Trump is hardly an honest player and is bound at some point to break any deals. But in the present environment of disingenuous fear-mongering in many European countries who are pushing a fake narrative about an imminent war with Russia, his proximity to Putin could still yet prove useful.
Who will get paid back?
There are tens of trillions of off-book dollar debt, too, and let’s not forget the more than $353 trillion in global debt that will never be paid back.
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https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/iran-usrael-doomed-to-be-expelledIran: USrael doomed to be expelled from the Middle East!
Plus news and updates from Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Ismaele
Sep 22, 2026
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PUTIN’S ANSWER: RUSSIA’S DAYLIGHT MASSIVE ATTACK ON KYIV☀️Military Summary 2026.09.23
————You can’t really be serious. You’re an NPC. That’s ONE LINE after me pointing out on Topcat, I finally had to be annoying as he wouldn’t let it go. Just say and I’d stop. He left instead or something.
That’s also after ALL MONTH I’ve pointed out hundreds, with hundreds of ships in the straits, with Carney being Trump’s best choice as 40% of businesses relocate to the US. After no $200 oil. After no nukes (so far).
This is after I did this to you every day LAST month, saying Trump did not land-invade Ukraine, Venezuela, or Iran, with a million men each, after everyone promised…and just keeps promising even today. A whole month of me saying that to you and pointing out every Fox News guest ALSO being wrong, in detail, every day for 30 days, after 200 days of basically the same thing.
This is after 20-some years, every day, same thing. Just search my name and read them all one by one. Tech Bubble. Subprime is contained. There will be no crash. RussiaRussia. Covid is going to kill us all. Lockdowns won’t cause inflation, but will stop the spread. Thousands and thousands and thousands of them. Every day, before the fact.
How DO I do it you ask? A: It’s having the common sense of a goldfish. If housing prices (or tech stocks) double in a year and every pole dancer owns one, it’s a bubble. If there was any real evidence, they would release it. Larger countries usually beat smaller ones. So Russia being 10x the size means they win, no contest. If you have no land forces and no ships to land them, there will be no invasion. The side with the floating Navy beat the side with the sunken Navy. They guy yelling loudest is the guy whose personal profits are getting gored.
Like, REALLY simple things. Really, really, really simple. Not going out on any limbs here. So when I’m right about any of them, no real special victory usually. But when you’re WRONG about them? Go against all common sense? Against any previous history and reality? That’s just Special Ed.
Being wrong I understand. To KEEP doing it? Day after day, month after month, as every link you post is invariably discredited as moronic? That I can’t understand. I mean, show some self-respect, man. It’s okay to be wrong. You just fix it and adjust course. I do. I take a pie to the face a couple times a year. …But not 11 times a day.
Well, there you go: 18 years of back catalog to read. I’ll be waiting when you’re done to continue this discussion.
D:
You seem to be living in Trump cult world and drinking the juice deeply.
Trump is delivering the collapse and the only way I could not notice is if I was in the cult with you
Twitter nonsense after more twitter nonsense.
The Standard Statehood Process
Express Desire:
Residents of a U.S. territory or area express a clear desire for statehood, usually through a public vote called a referendum.
Petition Congress:
The territory petitions the U.S. Congress to request admission into the Union.
Enabling Act:
Congress may pass an enabling act, which authorizes the territory to draft a official state constitution.
Constitution Approval:
Voters in the territory approve their proposed state constitution, and Congress reviews it.
Congressional Vote:
Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate pass a joint resolution or bill granting statehood by a simple majority.
Presidential Signature:
The President of the United States signs the resolution, and the new state is officially admitted.Get back to us when the ducks are all lined up Donny.
Hey little Marco, what country created a GMO virus and released it on their own people then forced them to take a GMO jab, killing thousands of their own people. USA USA USA!
D:
hexadec writes:
what country created a GMO virus and released it on their own people then forced them to take a GMO jab, killing thousands of their own people. USA USA USA!I agree with this statement.
D, is your Trump and government the problem?
Both need a good smack in the face and to beg to join the multipolar/multinodal world with a reformed regressed attitude of collaboration.
Two Systems Are Before the World
Megan DobrodtSep 22, 2026
Two Systems Are Before the World
The United States is going for the wrong system in its imperial deal for Greenland. Credit: CC/Silvan Leinss
The most natural state of humanity is the state of genius: the fundamental creative state associated with both discovery of true universal principles and with love of beauty. The state of war, otherwise known as the geopolitical system, absent that human quality of creative genius, is now, quite naturally, being rejected on the world stage by the majority of humanity. The contrast between these two conditions of our species is on full display this week as the UN General Assembly high-level debate begins in New York.Brazilian President Lula da Silva put the issue squarely on the table in his speech on Tuesday morning: “The UN is failing in one of its most important missions: to rid humanity of the scourge of war.” Addressing the pressing question of what kind of system humanity will choose to govern itself, Lula said, “Leading is to reconcile the interests of the nation with those of humanity…. This General Assembly…needs to focus on issues crucial for the future of humanity. We are called to choose between multilateralism or unilateralism, democracy or extremism, sovereignty or subordination.”
In what was a not-surprising but nonetheless shocking counterpole to Lula’s speech, President Trump then gave a 40-minute imperial diatribe about how great the American hegemon is, and how committed to peace he is, including a fantastical list of all of the wars he has supposedly ended (conveniently omitting those he started). For example, the illegal operation against Venezuela, of which Trump baldly said, “It was a war, but it’s perhaps the biggest deal ever made. To the victor belong the spoils.” Threatening Iran with the same kind of “deal,” Trump demanded that all nations support the U.S. in its illegal war against Iran, threatening, “I have a decision to make. Do I drive them into Hell, or do we make a deal?”
Marco Rubio, accompanying Trump to New York this week, did his part to defend the imperial looting operation. Asked in an interview with NBC about the skyrocketing diesel prices as the Iran war rages on, Rubio first feigned surprise, and then offered the puzzling logic that if the US hadn’t attacked Iran, the prices would, in fact, be double, since Iran would have a nuclear weapon. The same little Marco Rubio puffed out his chest later in the day to brag about the new Greenland “deal” that will give the U.S. de facto control over Greenland, both militarily and economically, in preparation for NATO’s intended wars against Russia and China.
However, against the background of the great majority of nations now rejecting the neocolonial system, the imperial bluster is seen for what it is, and the increasingly decrepit condition of the Western elites is plain for all to see. Case in point is the recent state election in Germany, in which Chancellor Merz’s CDU lost so badly in one state that it failed to meet even the 5% threshold required to gain a seat in the state parliament. Pointing to such election trends, a press release by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on the latest EU scheme to give Russia’s frozen sovereign assets, now sitting in Brussels, to Ukraine, points out that not only do the European warmongers feel the urgency to steal the funds before they are voted out, but that the measure itself is self-defeating: “The move would undermine the EU’s own ability to maintain the stability of its financial system,” the statement reads. “So the thief will be punished no matter what.”
This sense of natural law, seen in the quite lawful collapse of the imperial structures, is also palpable in the new paradigm taking shape among nations of the Global Majority. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has put out an open letter to the heads of state and delegations at this week’s UNGA meeting, calling on them to use this moment to consolidate a new kind of system:
“This UN General Assembly is the place to put the concept of a ‘New Security and Development Architecture’ on the agenda, which must take into account the interests of every single country on the planet,” Zepp-LaRouche wrote. Hundreds of copies of the letter were distributed at the UN and surrounding areas on Tuesday as the session opened, with much more activity and intervention planned for the coming days.
The question in all of this is, which way will the US go? Its founding principles and mission as a nation are the seed crystal of exactly the kind of post-colonial new paradigm that is taking hold around the world; Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose four global initiatives lay the framework to build such a new paradigm, will come to Washington to meet with President Trump this Thursday. The question before the world is: Can the U.S. shake off the chains of the imperial system, and say, along with the Global Majority, that security, development, and peace are one?
https://eir.news/2026/09/news/two-systems-are-before-the-world/Beyond my abilities to produce.
Claude: Global debt system: alternative perspectives on fragmentation.
# Global sovereign-debt stress: a corrected scenario map
*This is scenario analysis, not a forecast. Data is as of Sept 23, 2026. The probabilities are my rough judgment, not sourced estimates.*
## 1. The core vulnerability
Governments depend on markets willing to keep buying their debt at acceptable yields. Stress in rich countries usually shows up first as higher long-term yields and sharp currency moves, not as formal defaults. Emerging markets are where defaults and restructurings happen.## 2. Japan: a chronic pressure point that is active now
– **Bonds:** The 10-year JGB yield hit 3.02%, the highest since 1996, and the 30-year reached a record near 4.19%. Debt is roughly 248% of GDP by one analyst’s count, with ratings four to five notches below AAA.
– **Yen:** The BoJ raised its rate to 1.25% on Sept 18, the highest since 1995, on a 7-2 vote, but the yen is still weak, at about 158 per dollar and down roughly 6% over 12 months.
– **Intervention:** The US joined Japan in intervention on July 31, the first coordinated move since 1998. Japan’s foreign securities holdings fell $87.8 billion in August, though the ministry hasn’t confirmed Treasuries were sold.**Two channels, one trap.** Japan can sell dollar assets to defend the yen, which is what’s happening now. Or it can face a JGB selloff, where the BoJ’s tool is buying bonds, which weakens the yen further. Rate hikes and dollar sales help the currency but hurt the bond market, so a severe JGB shock pushes Japan back toward selling dollars.
**The carry trade is the amplifier, not the trigger.** It unwinds when the yen jumps suddenly, as on Sept 3, when the yen rose more than 2% in a day.
**Tripwire:** a strategist warns life insurers could become forced sellers if the 30-year yield breaches 4.5%.
## 3. Backstops and their limits
– **FIMA repo:** it lets foreign central banks obtain short-term dollars by temporarily exchanging Treasuries. Japan’s finance minister said future dollar-selling intervention would use it to avoid selling Treasuries.
– **Buybacks:** Bessent doubled the pace of long-dated buybacks through Nov 4.
– **US motive:** he reportedly feared a JGB selloff could spill over to US debt, so Washington is helping Japan, not fighting it.
– **Swap lines** between major central banks are standing arrangements. This is general background knowledge, not from my searches.
– **The IMF** matters mainly for emerging markets.
– **SWIFT** is a messaging network, not a backstop.**Where they could fail:**
1. **Private selling.** FIMA covers official holdings. Japanese insurers, banks and pension funds hold far more, and nothing backstops their selling. This is my own analysis.
2. **Leverage.** Forced hedge-fund deleveraging can turn a yield spike into a disorderly selloff. This is well documented historically; I haven’t checked current scale.
3. **Fed buy-in.** Expanding FIMA requires the Fed’s agreement, and that is untested.
4. **Little slack.** The US 10-year has already risen from 4.1% to about 4.6% this year.## 4. Countries and the IMF
The IMF is a preferred creditor, so borrowers prioritize it and arrears are rare. The usual outcome is a program or restructuring. Default also doesn’t automatically mean losing SWIFT, since cutting access is a sanctions decision. Sri Lanka, Zambia and Ghana restructured without it.
## 5. The United States
The US borrows in its own currency, so the risk is bond markets demanding higher yields, not inability to pay. The often-cited $40T is gross debt; publicly held debt was about $30.1 trillion at the end of 2025. Inflation drift is the likelier adjustment path. Forced domestic bond holding would be a new policy, not a current mechanism.
## 6. SWIFT and fragmentation
SWIFT is already partly fragmented through sanctions. Alternatives like CIPS and SPFS are small and still partly reliant on it. “CRIST” is not a real bloc: India has border tensions with China and has said it isn’t pursuing de-dollarization. A gradual regionalization of trade and payments is plausible. A clean split into two systems is one speculative outcome.
## 7. Scenarios over roughly the next two years
| Scenario | Rough probability |
| **Grind:** higher long yields, periodic yen volatility, coordinated intervention continues | ~60% || **Contained shock:** a sharp one-to-two-week episode in JGBs, the yen and Treasuries, ended by central-bank action (like the 2022 gilt crisis or August 2024) | ~30% |
| **Severe:** simultaneous JGB, yen and US long-end stress with a slow policy response | ~5-10% |
Slow fragmentation is a separate, ongoing trend that runs underneath all three.
## 8. What to watch
– **Japan’s MoF reserve and intervention data:** the fastest read on whether Treasuries are being sold.
– **TIC data:** it lags about two months and is custody-based, so hubs like the UK distort it. In June, foreign holdings fell $72.1 billion to about $9.3 trillion, led by Japan and China.
– **Market tripwires:** the 30-year JGB near 4.5%, USD/JPY near 160 (the yen was around 160.39 before the July intervention), JGB auction demand, and the US 10-year near 4.7%.
– **FIMA usage** and any Fed decision to expand it.
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