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Petty, juvenile and spiteful; hardly inspires respect…
Visa Already Issued by Malta For Russian FM Spokeswoman Canceled on Eve of OSCE MeetingElvis met Nixon, not Trump, though Nixon apparently took Trump under his wing after Jean Dixon predicted Trump would be POTUS some day…
Meryl Nass MD, Can schools just vaccinate children against the parents’ and child’s wishes? Vermont’s Supreme Court said yes. Will the US Supreme Court weigh in on this issue? The Supreme Court only takes 1% or less of cases it is asked to decide. This is a critically important case the court needs to take. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/can-schools-just-vaccinate-children
Steve Kirsch prefers collected-data to computer-models. House COVID report claims the COVID vaccines saved millions of lives by citing statistical models as the proof
Why they ignored direct measures of case rates and case fatality rates is a mystery to me. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/house-covid-report-claims-the-covidThis energy-driven economy is our life support system. Big cuts will kill some folks. Climate Change Committee in the UK – Change Your Diet, Drive EVs, Travel Less https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/climate-change-committee-in-the-uk-change-your-diet-drive-evs-travel-less/
RFK: “I Will End Gain-of-Function Research” https://www.independentsentinel.com/rfk-i-will-end-gain-of-function-research/
It’s not sugary junk food that’s racist… RFK Jr.’s plan to remove fluoride from drinking water is “racist,” MSNBC
MSNBC offered up a history lesson about when fluoride first started getting added to water in the United States – it was in 1945. The purpose, we are told, was to “stop tooth decay, especially in young children.”
The establishment continues to tell Americans that artificial water fluoridation is one of the greatest “public health achievements,” but Kennedy has repeatedly spoken out against it.
Instead of explaining the many dangers associated with drinking fluoridated water, MSNBC instead tries to argue that removing fluoride from water will come with “real consequences.”
In 2007, the city of Juneau in Alaska removed all fluoride from its drinking water. Dental procedures related to cavities reportedly increased after that, “particularly among children in socioeconomically disadvantaged families.”
“I would go as far as to say that community water fluoridation is probably our best health equity-oriented public health intervention that we have,” gushed Jennifer Meyer, a nurse and professor of health sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
MSNBC uses the same types of arguments to attack other things that millions of Americans want in addition to fluoride-free water: Examples include ivermectin and raw milk. According to MSNBC, ivermectin and raw milk are dangerous and should not be allowed. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-02-rfk-jr-remove-fluoride-water-racist-msnbc.html Mark Crispin Miller, Four years after “vaccination” started, “experts” are still “baffled” by the rising global surge in strokes, “rare” cancers, “long COVID” and “unnatural deaths” They blame blood type, unwashed produce, radon, “climate change,” cigarettes, alcohol and/or weed, etc.—i.e., anything and everything EXCEPT for the “vaccines”. https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/four-years-after-vaccination-started-experts-still-baffled
New Study Urges Immediate Halt to COVID-19 mRNA Injections Over Alarming Levels of DNA Contamination
Researchers find DNA contamination in COVID-19 mRNA injections exceeding regulatory limits by over 300%, confirming findings from earlier studies. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-new-study-urges-immediateUS Military Says It Intercepted Houthi Attack on US Commercial Vessels A US bombing campaign has failed to deter Houthi attacks
“US Navy destroyers USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and the USS O’Kane (DDG 77) successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden,” CENTCOM said in a press release.
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, took credit for the attack, saying they targeted three US “supply ships” and one US destroyer. According to Al Mayadeen, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said Yemeni forces carried out “precise hits,” but CENTCOM said there was no damage or injuries.
CENTCOM said the destroyers “successfully engaged and defeated three anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), three one-way attack uncrewed aerial systems (OWA UAS), and one anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM).” https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/02/us-military-says-it-intercepted-houthi-attack-on-us-commercial-vessels/Hunter was the bag-man for the whole family. Why Did Joe Biden Pardon His Son?
Which of Joe Biden’s crimes did Hunter Biden threaten to reveal to thereby extort his father into pardoning him? https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/why-does-biden-pardon-his-son.htmlThe pardon stands, but so do the convictions. Special Counsel Rejects Hunter Biden’s Pardon, Files Scathing Rebuke In Court Case https://www.zerohedge.com/political/special-counsel-rejects-hunter-bidens-pardon-files-scathing-rebuke-court-case
Marjorie Taylor Greene Breaks Down the Hunter Pardon and Warns About What’s Next
Joe did not pardon Hunter because he is a father who loved his son like the mockingbird media and Democrat liars are saying.
Joe pardoned Hunter all the way back to 2014 when Hunter started bio labs in Ukraine, started with Burisma, and began money laundering through dozens of LLC shell companies through business deals in many foreign countries including China.
Hunter is not just Joe’s son, he is his business partner, and Hunter sold his Dad’s power and influence for millions while Joe was VP and beyond. That’s why the wide sweeping pardon from 2014 to now. It covers VP to 4 yrs running for president to 4 yrs being president – 11 years of all kinds of crimes.
But the bigger crimes are all the people in the FBI, DOJ, State Department, CIA, and other agencies that all knew about the Biden family corrupt business and crimes yet stayed quiet, provided cover, lied about it all, but instead went after their political enemies.
The 51 intel officials who signed their name to a lie that Hunter’s laptop, with all the evidence, wasn’t real. https://discernreport.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-breaks-down-the-hunter-pardon-and-warns-about-whats-next/ The Tina Peters Story Is the MOST IMPORTANT STORY in America
Former Mesa County Colorado Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is rotting away in prison with a 9 year sentence. She is incarcerated for being THE Premiere Whistleblower on a State and Federal level who unequivocally exposed how the Deep State Rigs and Steals Elections in the US and Worldwide. Rigged and Stolen Elections are the front door into all layers of Government infiltration and corruption...
..So why is the “Tina Peters Story” the most important issue in America? It all gets down to her doing her sworn Election Clerk duties by backing up her Election Management Server (EMS) election records prior to a scheduled software ‘upgrade’. Turns out that this ‘upgrade’ was anything but an upgrade. It was specifically designed to illegally erase all election records which were required to be held for approximately 2 years, and these were only a few months old. The ‘upgrade’ (known as “The Trusted Build”) was also done all around the country to purposely destroy all evidence that could show how the 2020 Presidential Election was a stolen sham.
By her taking a before and after image of the EMS hard drive, the following blatant violations of law were discovered: 1) A secret and illegal Secondary Election database is illegally created within the EMS, essentially creating a ‘second set of books’ that reports out false vote totals for the Media’s Election coverage. 2) Illegal programs are installed such as Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio that gives backdoor access to the vote total database, allowing for illegal vote flipping. 3) Numerous wireless devices were installed along with controlling software hooks, despite claims that the machines cannot be connected to an external network. This allowed off-site malicious actors to manually intervene in real-time, flipping votes anytime as required...
..To end this era of tyranny, the ending of the Machines must be Synonymous with Tina being vindicated and released. Tina deserves to be heartedly exonerated and heralded as the Election Clerk who bravely exposed the fraudulent election system, which was designed to steal America, and next the World. THIS entire infrastructure must be gone within a year to save the 2026 Midterms from massive fraud once again. https://joehoft.com/the-tina-peters-story-is-the-most-important-story-in-america/ ICC says facing threats over arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has faced coercion and intimidation after judges issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ousted war minister over war crimes in Gaza.
Addressing the ICC members in The Hague, ICC President Tomoko Akane said the court faced “coercive measures, threats, pressure, and acts of sabotage.” “We are at a turning point in history… International law and international justice are under threat. So is the future of humanity.”
“The International Criminal Court will continue to carry out its lawful mandate, independently and impartially, without giving in to any outside interference.”
The ICC issued the arrest warrants on November 21.
The court determined there were “reasonable grounds” that Israel’s siege and assault on Gaza “created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population.”
Following the issuance of the warrants, the United States, Israel’s great benefactor and an accomplice in the Gaza genocide, swiftly rejected the ICC decision.
Some US Republicans called on the Senate to sanction the ICC. President Joe Biden said the warrants were “outrageous.” “Several elected officials are being severely threatened and are subjected to arrest warrants from a permanent member of the UN Security Council,” the ICC president stated. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/02/738350/ICC-arrest-warrants RAY McGOVERN: Neocons Try Again in Syria
“Real men go to Tehran!” was the muscular brag. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was persuaded to acquiesce in a less ambitious plan — to “do Iraq” and remove the “evil dictator” in Baghdad first.
As the invaders/occupiers got bogged down in Iraq, it seemed more sensible to “do Syria” next. With the help of “friendly services,” the neocons mounted a false-flag chemical attack outside Damascus in late August 2013, blaming it on President Bashar al-Assad, whom U.S. President Barack Obama had earlier said, “had to go.”
Obama had called such a chemical attack a red line but, mirabile dictu, chose to honor the U.S. Constitution by asking Congress first. Worse still for the neocons, during the first days of September, Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire by persuading Syria to destroy its chemical weapons under U.N. supervision.
Obama later admitted that virtually all of his advisers had wanted him to order Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/02/ray-mcgovern-neocons-try-again-in-syria/ Resistance factions arrive to Hama to back Syrian Army
A source from the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran stated to Al Mayadeen that the recent terrorist attack on Syria has prompted the return of Iranian military advisors to the country. These advisors had previously left when the political process in Syria began to progress years ago. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-factions-arrive-to-hama-to-back-syrian-army–excl Re-opening key supply roads. Syrian Army advances in Aleppo countryside, as terror lines collapse
A counteroffensive led by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) on the road linking the towns of Khanaser, in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, to the town of Ithriyah in the northern outskirts of Hama’s countryside, is achieving great success.
The towns, nearly 50 km apart, link the two governorates and the extermination of terrorists in the area will allow for a deeper advance of SAA and allied forces into the southern countryside of Aleppo. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/syrian-army-advances-in-aleppo-countryside–as-terror-linesChina vows support for Syria: Beijing is willing to aid Damascus to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has said https://swentr.site/news/608575-china-support-syria-terrorists/
Meryl Nass MD has been catching a lot of flak. Israel is Committing “Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes in Gaza” according to Israel’s own former Defense Minister/ NYT
To all the IDF troll farmers, you can stop piling on with your cries of antisemitism now. The Jewish State became Nazi Germany, so horrific that few can get their heads out of the sand and believe it. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/israel-is-committing-ethnic-cleansing UN chief warns of alarming amputation rates among Gaza children
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Gaza now has “the highest number of children amputees per capita anywhere in the world.” https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/02/738365/Palestine-Gaza-UNRWA–Antonio-Guterres-Homes, businesses, orchards; sewer systems… Israel demolishes over 1,500 Palestinian structures in occupied West Bank in 2024 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241202-israel-demolishes-over-1500-palestinian-structures-in-occupied-west-bank-in-2024/
Israeli hostages, not Hamas hostages, get tortured and starved. Israel detained 11,900 Palestinians in West Bank since October 2023 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241202-israel-detained-11900-palestinians-in-west-bank-since-october-2023/
Cause for hope? Far-right Israeli minister slams ‘coup’ after arrests
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir condemned Monday the arrests of a senior prison official and two police officers linked to him as an attempt to oust him.
The three, who media say are close to Ben Gvir, were arrested on suspicion of bribery, abuse of office and breach of trust, according to reports.
Police have not commented on the arrests.
“This is a coup d’etat… a political decision,” Ben Gvir said in televised comments. He called the arrests “an attempt to bring me down, me, the government and the prime minister,” Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The decision to investigate police officers and a senior prison service official who are clearly and fully implementing my policy… is a political decision,” Ben Gvir added. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2581569/middle-east Ukraine desperate to hold Kursk pocket until Trump takes office – BBC
Several brigades pushed into the border region in early August, aiming to reach a nuclear power plant, with the objective of diverting Russian forces from the Donbass front, the Ukrainian military admitted to Western media.
Messages received by the BBC from Ukrainian soldiers via Telegram “paint a dismal picture of a battle they don’t properly understand and fear they might be losing,” the BBC said. “The situation is getting worse every day,” a soldier told the UK state broadcaster in a text message, according to an article published on Monday.
The messages were “almost uniformly bleak,” according to the BBC. One soldier said defeat was “only a matter of time.”
“They speak of dire weather conditions and a chronic lack of sleep caused by Russia’s constant bombardment, which includes the use of terrifying, 3,000kg glide bombs,” the outlet noted. “They’re also in retreat.”
Some soldiers have argued that the original mission to divert Moscow’s resources had failed. Russian forces have made major advances in southern Donbass since early August. Either way, the current mission is to hold on until US President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in at the end of January. https://www.rt.com/russia/608597-ukraine-kursk-orders-trump/Philip Giraldi on Israel’s ceasefire-of-convenience: When Is a Ceasefire Not a Ceasefire? When it is set up by Washington and Israel is involved
Bibi has repeatedly declared that he will not accept any halt to the fighting, presumably until all the Palestinians are dead, but would accept some kind of suspension of the conflicts as long as he has the option to return to unleashing the mass murder whenever it suits him. He deceptively labels that “making sure that the bad guy ‘terrorists’ abide by the agreement.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/when-ceasefire-not-ceasefire/5874154Israel conducts military operations in southern Lebanon despite cease-fire Israeli forces have committed at least 10 cease-fire violations since early Sunday https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-conducts-military-operations-in-southern-lebanon-despite-cease-fire/3410493
Israel attacks southern Lebanese town despite ceasefire
The Israeli military continues to strike Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreement with the Hezbollah resistance movement, striking residential buildings in the south.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Monday that Israeli forces used machine guns to fire at houses in the town of Naqoura, situated on the border with the occupied territories.
This is not the first time that the Tel Aviv regime breached the truce that went into effect last week.
Israel was forced to accept the ceasefire with Hezbollah after suffering heavy losses following almost 14 months of fighting and failing to achieve its goals in its aggression on Lebanon.
The truce deal came into effect before dawn on Wednesday. It will last for 60 days in the hope of reaching a permanent cessation of hostilities. Under the agreement, an international monitoring committee, headed by the US, is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire.
On Sunday, France, a member of the monitoring group, said Israel had violated the ceasefire 52 times, including a Saturday attack that killed three Lebanese civilians. Citing French officials, Israel’s Ynet news site reported that Israel had waged its attacks without consulting the truce committee and that the regime’s actions risk undermining the fragile cessation of hostilities...
..Israeli raids killed almost 4,000 people in Lebanon, displaced over a million people, and caused more than $8.5 billion in damage to the country, according to the World Bank.
Hezbollah opened a support front for Palestinians in Gaza only a day after Israel unleashed its war against the besieged territory in October 2023, launching numerous retaliatory attacks against Israeli targets in the occupied lands. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/02/738330/Israel-attacks-Lebanon-Naqoura-violation-truce After Days of Israeli Strikes on Lebanon That Violated Truce, Hezbollah Fires Back
UNIFIL sources say Israel violated the ceasefire deal 100 times before Hezbollah fired, and now Israel is threatening a major escalation
On Monday, Hezbollah fired back for the first time, launching two rockets toward Israeli-occupied territory as a “warning” shot, causing no casualties…
..“Hezbollah’s firing at Mount Dov constitutes a serious violation of the ceasefire, and Israel will respond forcefully,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “We are determined to continue enforcing the ceasefire, and to respond to any violation by Hezbollah — a minor one will be treated like a major one.”
Shortly after Netanyahu’s threat, Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on areas of south Lebanon, killing at least five people. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/02/after-days-of-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon-that-violated-truce-hezbollah-fires-back/ Russia and China May Have Severed NATO Cables to Block an Attack and Delay World War III
In a move that could have seismic implications for NATO’s strategic capabilities, two critical undersea communication cables in the Baltic Sea—lifelines of military coordination among NATO allies—were severed in what increasingly appears to be a calculated act of hybrid warfare…
..The severing of these cables appears to be more than a mere act of sabotage. It may well represent a brilliant and calculated geopolitical move designed to delay NATO’s escalation until President Donald J. Trump, known for his aversion to endless wars and commitment to diplomacy, is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.
A Timeline That Demands Attention:
– November 16, 2024: The [Obiden Regime] authorizes Ukraine to employ long-range ATACMS missiles to strike Russian targets, marking a significant escalation in the U.S.’s involvement in the war.
– November 17, 2024: The first of two undersea cables, the BCS East-West Interlink connecting Lithuania and Sweden, is severed.
– November 18, 2024: The C-Lion1 cable, which links Finland and Germany, is also cut...
..The severing of the C-Lion1 and BCS East-West Interlink cables has left NATO temporarily reliant on slower and less secure backup systems, such as satellite communications. These cables are not mere civilian communication lines; they are the backbone of NATO’s real-time military coordination between its Nordic and Baltic allies. By severing these lines, Russia and China have potentially achieved several strategic objectives:– This act underscores NATO’s reliance on undersea infrastructure and its vulnerability to hybrid warfare. The inability to restore real-time communication quickly between key member states like Finland, Germany, Lithuania, and Sweden places NATO in a precarious position during this critical window, and
– With President Donald Trump poised to take office in less than two months, Russia and China may see this as an opportunity to stall NATO’s war machine. Trump’s track record of avoiding entanglements and seeking diplomatic solutions could mean a potential cooling of tensions in the new year—a stark contrast to the escalation strategy pursued under the Biden administration.
The Criticality of These Cables:
– C-Lion1 (Finland-Germany): A high-capacity line enabling secure communications and data transfer between Nordic countries and NATO’s central command in Germany. This cable is integral for military logistics and real-time decision-making.
– BCS East-West Interlink (Lithuania-Sweden): Provides vital connectivity between the Baltic states and NATO-aligned Sweden, crucial for regional security in a region bordering Russia.
The loss of these cables has effectively hampered NATO’s ability to synchronize responses, share intelligence, and execute operations in the Baltic Sea, a theater of immense strategic importance. For Russia, this creates a temporary but critical advantage...
..The methods used—deliberately dragging a multi-ton anchor across undersea cables—are both rudimentary and effective. Given the size of the anchor and the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, the likelihood of completely severing these cables was extraordinarily high. This was not an act of chance; it was a calculated move designed to ensure maximum disruption. https://defconnews.com/2024/12/01/commentary-for-a-sunday-russia-and-china-may-have-severed-nato-cables-to-block-an-attack-and-delay-world-war-iii/ EU has turned into ‘war union’ – Russian senator
The bloc is now the main divisive force in Europe, a member of Russia’s Federation Council believes
The senator criticized the EU in a Telegram post on Tuesday, pointing to the bloc’s support for the ongoing turmoil in Georgia, which has been hit by mass anti-government, pro-EU protests.
The unrest has been going on since Thursday, when Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that he would freeze accession talks with the bloc until 2028. He accused Brussels of persistent “blackmail and manipulation” of Georgia’s internal affairs in justifying the decision.
“The first Molotov cocktails were thrown by protesters at Georgian police immediately after the new EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, publicly called the crowd’s protests legitimate and the response of the authorities – illegal,” Kosachev wrote. https://swentr.site/russia/608577-eu-aggressive-war-union/ Kremlin compares Georgia protests to Maidan coup
Commenting on the events in Georgia, Peskov stated that “there is an obvious attempt to destabilize the situation” and that similar events have taken place in “a number of countries” in recent years.
“The most direct parallel that can be drawn is the events of the Maidan in Ukraine,” Peskov said, referring to the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 which ousted the country’s democratically-elected president and precipitated the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Peskov added that the anti-government protests in Georgia have “all the signs of an attempt to carry out an ‘orange revolution’.”
However, the spokesman stressed that “everything that happens in Georgia is Georgia’s internal affair.” He said that as the country’s authorities take measures to stabilize the situation, Moscow would not interfere.
Prime Minister Kobakhidze has slammed the rallies as an “attack on the constitutional order in the country” and blamed the civil unrest on “EU politicians and their agents.” He further accused the West of trying to orchestrate a coup similar to the US-backed Maidan revolution in Ukraine.
Kobakhidze has insisted that “unlike Ukraine in 2013, Georgia is an independent state with strong institutions and, most importantly, experienced and wise people. The Maidan scenario cannot be realized in Georgia. Georgia is a sovereign state and will not allow this.”
Meanwhile, the US has responded to Georgia’s decision to freeze EU accession talks by suspending its strategic partnership with the country and condemning the move, claiming it is a “betrayal of the Georgian constitution.”
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has also stated that sanctions are being considered against Tbilisi for its crackdown on protesters. https://www.rt.com/russia/608576-kremlin-georgia-protests-maidan/ Fyodor Lukyanov: Can the West still engineer a ‘color revolution’? We’re about to find out
The significance of events in Georgia now extends beyond its borders, especially in light of the escalating tensions over Ukraine and political shifts in the US. The West’s desire to undermine what it perceives as pro-Russian forces has made Georgia a symbolic battleground, amplifying the consequences of any perceived defiance. The fact that Georgian Dream is in no way pro-Russian, but simply seeks to maintain a detached position, does not change the situation.
Tbilisi’s decision to freeze EU accession talks was a bold move, signaling its willingness to challenge Western demands. The EU sees its ability to influence its applicants as a point of pride, and any setback, like Georgia’s hesitation, will be seen as a failure of its policies. Those who are seen as clients of the West must now swear an oath. And unwillingness to follow the common path is equated with treason.
This situation raises questions about the degree of public support for the government’s stance. The Georgian population has long been divided on the issue of European integration. The government’s position resonates with some, particularly those who see the West’s influence as counterproductive, while others demand a clearer path toward EU membership.
For the opposition, this is an opportunity to exploit popular discontent and mobilize protests. The key challenge for both sides will be managing the potential for violence. Color revolutions have always relied on the ability to escalate tensions and frame the government as authoritarian. The authorities, for their part, must maintain a delicate balance, avoiding provocations while standing firm against external pressure.
The ‘European future’ is a popular image among Georgians, and the majority of Georgian Dream supporters share this aspiration too. The party itself is firmly committed to the goals of European integration, but with its own conditions. The opposition’s argument is that the government is blocking the European path, which automatically means that Tbilisi will return to Moscow’s sphere of influence. The only question is how persistently and passionately this argument will be repeated...
..The term ‘color revolution’ has evolved from a symbol of popular democratic uprisings to a tool of political engineering used by the West for influence. The question now is whether these revolutions still have the power to destabilize countries like Georgia – or if the state can resist the pressure and secure its sovereignty in a new world order. https://www.rt.com/news/608595-fyodor-lukyanov-can-west-still/ New head of European diplomacy Kallas allowed sending EU troops to Ukraine
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas has allowed for the deployment of European military personnel to Ukraine. The day before, immediately after her official confirmation in office, she went to Kyiv together with the new head of the diplomatic service of the European Council, Antonio Costa.
“Until today, the discussion was about which countries are ready to send their troops to Ukraine. I think we should not exclude anything and allow ambiguity in strategic issues.” https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7344217?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wappBaseline Is Different Now https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/baseline-is-different-now
Thought-provoking today is the last 10 minutes of Gilbert Doctorow’s “Dialogue Works” interview where he discusses the progress of the European Economic community from the early 1990s until today, based largely upon the premise that nation-state rivalries are the proximal cause of war, and the assumption that merging nation-states into a larger union would prevent the wars which have torn Europe for thousands of years now.
It didn’t work out, essentially because nation-states are not a primary driving actor, but that individual urges-to-power use the construct of nation-states, as they use constructs of religious difference and ethnic difference to manipulate groups of people into war. I will point out that the biggest change in the scale of warfare came when supranational entities became financiers to either side or both sides of a war, notably during the “Crusades”, which cost more than any king could afford to invest, and sacked Constantinople and other areas for profit. Another key development was when forms of representative government were able to pledge future taxes of the citizens of their nation to even more vast wartime indebtedness, the arrangement which funded World War-1.
Doctorow looks at the current crop of European heads-of-state as being essentially like mayors of large cities, without any autonomy in larger matters, which have been assumed by Ursula Von Der Leyen at the EU level. Their incompetence is readily apparent, but less important than their obedience.Gilbert Doctorow, “Dialogue Works,” 3 December 2024: Russia’s Solid Response Coming!
The opening segments deal with the latest international crises – the ‘rebel’ takeover of Aleppo and threat to the Assad regime in Syria and the political struggle for power being fought out in the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia...
..From there we moved on to a variety of currently hot issues including the likely Russian reaction to the Trump-Kellogg plan for peace in Ukraine and the risks of Russia’s using its new hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik against NATO countries leading to further escalation towards a nuclear exchange.
My overarching observation is that the Kremlin has written off any possible contribution by Donald Trump to ending the war in Ukraine and are relying solely on their own efforts to subdue Kiev in the coming weeks and ending the war on their own terms.
I am hopeful that viewers will find the discussion of the foregoing to be worth their time. However, I am particularly pleased with the final 10 minutes in the interview in which I was given the opportunity to explain my position calling for the deconstruction of the European Union and the return to an economic alliance such as the European Economic Community before the creation of the Union in 1992. I see this as feasible, while retaining many of the benefits of the EU, such as the common currency, if the Euro is changed from a Fiat valuta to a gold-backed currency. In any case, the pitiful collective EU leadership consisting of nonentities is the direct result of the abandonment of sovereignty in the 1992 constitution which leaves the 27 “leaders” with no powers and no responsibilities to deal with the crises at Europe’s doorstep and beyond that we see today. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/dialogue-works-3-december-2024-russias Simplicius, Europe’s Bigs Scramble Across Globe for Last Minute Jockeying … Meanwhile, the Russian steamroller rolls on.
For the first time since early 2022, German Chancellor Scholz arrived to Kiev by train to a series of bad-optics photo ops. Ostensibly his visit was announced as one centered on the same old “solidarity” drive for Ukraine. But reading between the lines, we quickly find the real hidden purpose of the jaunt...
..Summary for those who don’t want to read the full article:
Scholz will try to find out at a meeting with Zelensky what the Ukrainian side is ready to do for the sake of peace, — Bild
Analysts believe that ahead of the early Bundestag elections, the Chancellor is seeking to present herself as a leader ready to negotiate a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.
This position is an order for him: if US President Donald Trump starts negotiations to end the war, as announced, Scholz intends to defend Ukraine’s position, the publication writes.
The globalists who write Scholz’ marching orders have likely sent him to gauge Zelensky’s mood for capitulation, knowing that Trump may come pitching hard balls from the first inning. Scholz is likely sent as emergency reassurance to ensure Zelensky doesn’t give in to Trump’s opening volley of threats or offers. The MIC globalists want to at least make sure Russia gets as unfavorable a deal as possible, if it comes down to true negotiations.
Annalena Baerbock seemed to confirm this angle by simultaneously traveling to China to likewise apply negotiations pressures... “To protect our own German and European security, it is now important to support Ukraine and to clearly engage in the peace process together with the international community, and that is why I am here in China today,” Annalena Baerbock said in Beijing...
..Peace in Ukraine without territorial losses is now unrealistic, – former NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg. The former NATO Secretary General suggested that Kyiv could agree to temporary territorial concessions in order to end the war... Earlier, Zelensky also made it clear that he considers it possible to end the war without returning all the territories. But in return, he wants an invitation to NATO.
I wrote about this last year, that if Russia began winning too decisively the West would do anything, including giving up currently held territory, to stop the war to prevent Russia from seizing truly geostrategically vital targets like Odessa or even Kiev itself. Landlocking Ukraine would obviously be the biggest blow to NATO of all, as would creating a land corridor to Transnistria, which would allow the solving of that entire issue.
These figureheads are now getting desperate because it’s clear it has come to that: Ukraine has nothing to withstand Russia and a freeze is vital to ensure Russia is not allowed to go further...
..Now Trump’s Ukraine envoy Kellogg’s plan reportedly sketched in April has been making the rounds which depicts a much clearer negotiating angle:
1. End Russia’s political isolation…
2. Apply pressure to Kiev and Moscow to negotiate (more or fewer armament supplies)…
3. Russian incentives: Keep territories already taken, Delay Ukrainian NATO membership 10 years, Partially lift sanctions against Russia (and Europe, regarding gas and oil)…
4 & 5: Status-quo carrots and sticks for Ukraine and Russia, not including demilitarization or denazification of Ukraine, which will be unacceptable to Moscow, but serve to open discussions…
..Now Putin-linked Russian billionaire tycoon Konstantin Malofeyev has shaken things up by announcing that Putin stands to abruptly reject these proposed opening offers…
Given that it’s said Malofeyev has Putin’s ear, his words carry weight. And not surprisingly, he refers back to Putin’s long-held requirement that any closure to the Ukrainian conflict must include a grander reconfiguration of the entire broader regional security architecture…
Donald Trump’s pledge to end Russia’s war in Ukraine is doomed to failure if the US president-elect does not involve broader talks on Moscow’s security concerns, an influential hardliner close to the Kremlin has warned… [Entire world order returning to Westphalian principles of international law]… This is a good sign: it means Putin could be holding to his word, and not slipping toward watering down Russia’s terms...
..Again he reiterates that Russia is looking to use Ukraine as the basis for an unprecedented new global reorganization of the Westphalian variety:
He said Moscow would only see it as a lasting condition for peace if Trump was willing to discuss other global flashpoints including the wars in the Middle East and Russia’s burgeoning alliance with China — and a US acknowledgment that Ukraine is part of the Kremlin’s core interests.
What does this consist of, exactly? It is a return to first principles, the cessation of political ‘games’ and the acknowledgment of geopolitical realities: such as that Great Powers have critical zones of influence and national security interests which must be respected; i.e. you don’t get to use Russia’s regional backyard as your personal sandbox, which would theoretically affect China and the China Sea issue as well. In other words, it’s an actual codification of a new and real “Rules Based Order” rather than the fictive one presently used by Western neocons to justify a lawless form of modern imperialism...
..Lastly, SVR director Naryshkin has not budged from the stance on negotiations in a new statement, reiterating that any settlement must be broader than just Ukraine:
Russia is against “freezing” the conflict according to the Korean scenario, the SVR director said
Naryshkin also said that a peaceful settlement is possible in the event of an agreement that includes “peace for the entire European continent.”
“Russia categorically rejects any freezing of the conflict according to the Korean or any other option. We need a strong and long-term peace for many, many years to come. Moreover, this peace must be ensured first of all for us, Russia, the citizens of the Russian Federation. But this peace must also be ensured for the entire European continent.”
He also said that Russia is ready for peace talks in Ukraine on the terms that Putin announced in June. These terms include Ukraine handing over to Russia the entire territory of four regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia...
..Also, one interesting food for thought: The long awaited Zaporozhye offensive has been said to potentially target Zaporozhye city itself, so that Putin can capture all four new Russian regions, including their capital cities. This is particularly the case with potential negotiations coming up in the future: Russia my seek to hold off talks until the required regions are all back under Russian control. Recall that Kherson city would have to likewise be captured, and so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Russia could seek to recapture it. It’s impossible to tell without further information about the state of the Dnieper river. Some have suggested winter would be a perfect time to cross the dried out river bed since its loamy soft-soil bottom would be hardened under freezing temps, potentially allowing easy passage across in some sections.
But thus far, there is no indication Russia has made any large buildups near the river to give this theory any real credibility. Buildups on the Zaporozhye line, on the other hand, have been reported on by Ukrainian sources for a long time now. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-12224-europes-bigs-scrambleGermany will soon have more elections. Germany prepping nuclear bunkers as WWIII with Russia looms https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-02-germany-prepping-nuclear-bunkers-wwiii-russia-looms.html
Alastair Crooke, The Long War to reaffirm Western and Israeli primacy undergoes a shape-shift
America has piled the pressure on Russia through the incremental delivery of additional weapons systems to Ukraine; through stationing intermediate range nuclear-capable missiles ever-closer to Russia’s borders; and most recently, by shooting ATACMS into ‘old Russia’.
The aim has been to pressure Russia into a situation where it would feel obliged to make concessions to Ukraine, such as a to accept a freezing of the conflict, and to be obliged to negotiate against Ukrainian bargaining ‘cards’ devised to yield a solution acceptable to the U.S. Or, alternatively, for Russia to be cornered into the ‘nuclear corner’.
American strategy ultimately rests on the conviction that the U.S. could engage in a nuclear war with Russia – and prevail; that Russia understands that were it to go nuclear, it would ‘lose the world’. Or, pressured by NATO, the anger amongst Russians likely would sweep Putin from office were he to make significant concessions to Ukraine. It was a ‘win-win’ outcome – from the U.S. perspective.
Unexpectedly however, a new weapon appeared on the scene which precisely unshackles President Putin from the ‘all-or-nothing’ choice of having to concede a bargaining ‘hand’ to Ukraine, or resort to nuclear deterrence. Instead, the war can be settled by facts on the ground. Effectively, the George Kennan ‘trap’ imploded.
The Oreshnik missile (that was used to attack the Yuzhmash complex at Dnietropetrovsk) provides Russia with a weapon, such as never before witnessed: An intermediate range missile system that effectively checkmates the western nuclear threat.
Russia can now manage western escalation with a credible threat of retaliation that is both hugely destructive – yet conventional. It inverts the paradigm. It is now the West’s escalation that either has to go nuclear, or be limited to providing Ukraine with weapons such as ATACMS or Storm Shadow that will not alter the course of the war. Were NATO to escalate further, it risks an Oreshnik strike in retaliation, either in Ukraine or on some target in Europe, leaving the West with the dilemma of what to do next.
Putin has warned: ‘If you strike again in Russia, we will respond with an Oreshnik hit on a military facility in another nation. We will provide warning, so that civilians can evacuate. There is nothing that you can do to prevent this; you do not have an anti-missile system that can stop an attack coming in at Mach 10’.
The tables are turned...
..The British, and others in Europe, want the war to continue, because they are on the financial hook from their holdings of some $20 billion Ukrainian bonds which are in a ‘default-like status’, or from their guarantees to the IMF for loans to Ukraine. Europe simply cannot afford the costs of a full default. Neither can Europe afford to pick up the burden, were the Trump Administration to walk away from supporting Ukraine financially. So they collude with the U.S. interagency structure to make the continuation of the war proofed against a Trump policy reversal: Europe for financial motives, and the Deep State because it wants to disrupt Trump, and his domestic agenda.
The other wing to the ‘global war’ reflects a mirror paradox: That is, ‘Israel is strong and Iran is weak’. The central point is not only its cultural underpinning, but that the entire Israeli and U.S. apparatus is party to the narrative that Iran is a weak and technically backward country...
..Iran seems to have solved the problems associated with an adversary enjoying air dominance. Iran has created a deterrence fashioned from the evolution of cheap swarms drones matched up with Ballistic missiles carrying precision hypersonic warheads. It puts $1,000 drones and cheap, precision missiles up and against hugely expensive piloted airframes – An inversion of warfare that has been twenty years in the making.
The Israeli war however, is metamorphosing in other ways. The war in Gaza and Lebanon has strained Israeli manpower; the IDF have sustained heavy losses; its troops are exhausted; and the reservists are losing commitment to Israel’s wars, and are failing to show up for duty.
Israel has reached the limits of its capacity to put boots on the ground (short of conscripting the Orthodox Haredi Yeshiva students – an act that could bring down the Coalition).
In short, the Israeli army’s troop levels have fallen below present command ordered military commitments. The economy is imploding and internal divisions are raw and bruising. This is especially so due to the inequity of secular Israelis dying, whilst others stay exempt from military service – a destiny reserved for some but not others.
This tension played a major part in Netanyahu’s decision to agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon. The growing animus about Orthodox Haredi exemption risked bringing down the Coalition... Many Israelis now see war with Iran as the catharsis that will bind a fractured people together again, and – if victorious – end all of Israel’s wars.
Outside, the war widens and shape-shifts: Lebanon, for now, is put on a low flame burner, but Turkey has triggered a major military operation (reportedly some 15,000 strong) in an attack on Aleppo, using U.S. and Turkish trained jihadists and militia from Idlib. Turkish Intelligence no doubt has its own distinct objectives, but the U.S. and Israel have a particular interest to disrupt weapons supply routes to Hizbullah in Lebanon.
The Israeli wanton onslaught on non-combatants, women and children – and its explicit ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population – has left the region (and the Global South) seething and radicalised. Israel, through its actions, is disrupting the old ethos. The region is ‘conservative’ no more. Rather, a very different ‘Awakening’ is gestating. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/12/02/long-war-reaffirm-western-and-israeli-primacy-undergoes-shape-shift/Senators Who Will Vote on RFK Jr. Nomination for HHS Secretary Took in $6.7 Million From Pharma
U.S. Senate Finance Committee members who will vote first on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for HHS secretary individually have accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry,” The Federalist reported.
“Republicans overall brought in nearly $5 million from the pharmaceutical industry across 13 members while Democrats raised more than $1.7 million across 9,” according to The Federalist. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/senators-who-will-vote-rfk-jr-nomination-hhs-secretary-6-7-million-pharma/ CDC Escalates Childhood Hyper-Vaccination Agenda for 2025
Children are now recommended to receive 32 injections by age 2 and more than 70 injections by age 18 — no long-term, placebo-controlled trials required. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cdc-escalates-childhood-hyper-vaccination
Peter McCullough MD, Combination Routine Childhood Vaccination Associated with Development of Asthma and Eczema , Hazard Ratios Too High to be Ignored https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/combination-routine-vaccination-associated
A Midwestern Doctor, The FDA’s War Against America’s Health
How the FDA habitually buries life-changing natural medicines and relentlessly props up unsafe and ineffective pharmaceuticals
Story at a Glance:
•In 1906, the first FDA (Food and Drug Administration) was created in response to massive public protests against adulterated food and drugs (e.g., rotting food partially preserved with food additives or counterfeit consumer products). To stop it, food industry lobbyists attempted every tactic imaginable, eventually taking over the Department of Agriculture and in time forcing the dedicated public servant leading it (Harvey Wiley) to quit. Because of this, many toxic food additives Wiley fought against gained “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) status and remain in use today.
•The handicapping of the FDA came to a head in 1962, when thalidomide was just barely prevented from devastating America’s children, prompting Congress to give the FDA much broader powers to police the safety and efficacy of drugs.
•Unfortunately, this law backfired, as the FDA created an impossible to reach standard of efficacy that it selectively enforced to protect the pharmaceutical industry and simultaneously began utilizing increasingly brazen (and illegal) police tactics against anyone promoting effective natural therapies.
•Because of this, many life-changing medical therapies (discussed throughout this article) were blacklisted by the FDA and faded into obscurity. This, along with the FDA’s tendency to push unsafe and ineffective therapies (e.g., vaccines or antidepressants) onto the market regardless of how much data argued against doing so, led to the FDA becoming the most protested agency in the federal government.
•Nonetheless, every attempt to fix the FDA failed. In this article, I will review the structural issues that have perpetually caused the FDA to succumb to incompetence and corruption. I propose potential solutions that can utilize the unprecedented window created by the Make America Healthy Again movement to end the FDA’s war against America’s health. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-fdas-war-against-americas-health;-) An Example from Switzerland: Neuchâtel Becomes Second Canton to Enshrine Right to “Offline Life” in Constitution https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/food-for-thought-swiss-canton-enshrines-right-to-offline-life-in-its-constitution.html
Trump Calls Biden’s Decision to Pardon His Son Hunter ‘Miscarriage of Justice’
“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump said on Truth Social. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241202/trump-calls-bidens-decision-to-pardon-his-son-hunter-miscarriage-of-justice-1121065552.html Job insecurity: Schedule F – Trump’s Plan A for Emptying the Swamp ,,,It is arguably the most audacious of the president-elect’s bold promises. https://www.libertynation.com/schedule-f-trumps-plan-a-for-emptying-the-swamp/
“‘It’s not a bug, it’s a feature’: Dr. Naomi Wolf reveals how Pfizer and the FDA lied to us all”
“450,000 internal documents released under court order that the FDA had asked the court to keep hidden for 75 years,” Wolf says. “It turns out the FDA was waving through the biggest crime against humanity in recorded history, and you know, more investigations on our team’s part found that the White House knew.”
“There was a massive collusion by the very people I’d voted for, in ushering in an injection about which they lied to us, that was sterilizing and disabling and killing people in massive numbers,” she adds.
“Did you just find it strange that we rushed this in? Was the need and the panic by the public for an answer part of this that forced us to jump through so many hoops so fast?” Bubba asks.
“I was hoping when I went into this project that that’s what I would find. Just the usual story of greedy corporations cutting corners, rushing to meet a deadline, because of a putative, epidemic, emergency. That’s not what the Pfizer papers reveal,” Wolf answers.
“Unfortunately, they reveal months and months and months and months before the vaccine was rolled out, in which Pfizer was identifying many, many ways to injure, damage, and destroy the functions of the human body with, again, a special focus on reproduction,” she continues, adding, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” https://dailyclout.io/dr-naomi-wolf-reveals-how-pfizer-and-the-fda-lied-to-us-all/ Trump Taps Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Co-author of ‘Great Barrington Declaration,’ to Lead NIH
The NIH — the “nation’s medical research agency” — oversees 27 separate institutes and controls a budget of nearly $48 billion. It is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trump-taps-dr-jay-bhattacharya-co-author-great-barrington-declaration-lead-nih/ Trump’s Picks for Surgeon General and Top Posts at FDA, CDC Earn Mixed Reviews
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to lead three key federal public health agencies “would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are linchpins in public health” — but they’re also “controversial,” according to NPR. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trump-picks-surgeon-general-fda-cdc-makary-nesheiwat-weldon/The Houthis from Yemen’s rebel Ansar Allah movement have delivered missile and drone strikes on a US destroyer and three support ships in the Arabian Sea, the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said. https://tass.com/world/1880441
Trump threatens BRICS
The BRICS nations will be hit with 100% tariffs on their goods if they try to introduce a reserve currency to rival the dollar, US President-elect Donald Trump has warned. Trump has repeatedly threatened to use tariffs to achieve his geopolitical goals...
..BRICS leaders stopped short of announcing plans for such a currency at their summit in the Russian city of Kazan last month. Instead, the group pledged to set up a cross-border payment system to function alongside the Western SWIFT network, and to increase their use of local currencies in international trade.
”Cooperation within BRICS is not directed against anyone or anything – neither against the dollar nor against other currencies,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated in October. “It pursues the main goal of ensuring the interests of those countries that participate in this format.” https://swentr.site/news/608466-trump-threatens-brics-tariffs/Smart Money Buying Up Real Assets, Not Bitcoin – Catherine Austin Fitts https://usawatchdog.com/smart-money-buying-up-real-assets-not-bitcoin-catherine-austin-fitts/
President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden despite pledges not to
In a statement on the pardon, President Joe Biden said Sunday that Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted for being his son. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/01/president-joe-biden-hunter-biden-pardon/76693183007/ “Corrupt To The Core”: Dems In Disarray Over Hunter Pardon As ‘Rule Of Law’ Narrative Implodes
It was also revealed that months of denying this would happen were pure lies, as the pardon had been in the works for months.
In short, it couldn’t be any more obvious that Hunter was simply the Biden family bag-man. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flashback-false-democrat-narrative-respect-rule-law-exposedLondon: Over 125,000 march in defiant stand for Palestine https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241130-london-over-125000-march-in-defiant-stand-for-palestine/
Gulf Countries Express Support for Efforts to Establish Palestinian State https://sputnikglobe.com/20241201/gulf-countries-express-support-for-efforts-to-establish-palestinian-state-1121063886.html
The Houthis from Yemen’s rebel Ansar Allah movement have delivered a strike on Tel Aviv’s Jaffa neighborhood with a hypersonic ballistic missile, the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said.
“The missile forces <…> conducted a military operation and attacked a major target in the occupied Jaffa neighborhood with the use of a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” he told the Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel, adding that the missile successfully hit its target.
https://tass.com/world/1880389Houthis Have Trapped American Superpower in Dangerous ‘Stalemate’, US Media Say https://sputnikglobe.com/20241130/houthis-have-trapped-american-superpower-in-dangerous-stalemate-us-media-say-1121053181.html
Israeli Army Pushes Deeper Into South Lebanon as Ceasefire Violations Intensify https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/30/israeli-army-pushes-deeper-into-south-lebanon-as-ceasefire-violations-intensify/
War on Gaza: Israeli bombing kills World Central Kitchen workers and aid-seekers
Meanwhile, a former Israeli defence minister says the army is ethnically cleansing northern Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israeli-bombing-kills-world-central-kitchen-workers-and-aid-seekers Hamas Accuses Israel of Using Banned Weapons in Gaza Strip, Demands Int’l Inquiry
“The horrific testimonies from citizens and doctors in the northern Gaza Strip… as well as the confirmation of cases of shelling that vaporized bodies, indicate the use of internationally banned weapons by the [Israeli] occupation army,” https://sputnikglobe.com/20241130/hamas-accuses-israel-of-using-banned-weapons-in-gaza-strip-demands-intl-inquiry-1121052908.html Dozens killed by Israeli airstrike on building sheltering over 100 Palestinians in north Gaza
At least 100 displaced Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Saturday, including several aid workers and journalists https://thecradle.co/articles/dozens-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-on-building-sheltering-over-100-palestinians-in-north-gazaPalestine slams US silence on Israeli plans to displace northern Gaza residents https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241130-palestine-slams-us-silence-on-israeli-plans-to-displace-northern-gaza-residents/
MK Bhadrakumar, Atlanticists mobilise to salvage NATO as Russia toughens its stance
Medvedev added in chilling words, “The Western states must realise that they fight on Ukraine’s side… Meanwhile, they fight not only by shipping weapons and providing money. They fight directly, because they provide targets on Russian territory and control American and European missiles. They fight with the Russian Federation. And if this is the case, nothing could be ruled out… even the most difficult and sad scenario is possible.”
“We would not want such scenario, we have all said that repeatedly. We want peace, but this peace must take Russia’s interest into consideration in full.”
Indeed, the only logical explanation for Biden’s brinkmanship in collusion with the Atlanticists in Europe in the lame duck phase of his presidency is that Oreshnik has upstaged his best-laid plans. Saner voices in Europe are speaking up. In a hugely symbolic act of defiance, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico disclosed on Wednesday that he has accepted an official invitation from Putin to the events in Moscow in May commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II. Slovakia is a member country of both EU and NATO.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in a telephone conversation with Trump, reaffirmed Austria’s readiness to serve as a platform for international peace talks on Ukraine. https://www.indianpunchline.com/atlanticists-mobilise-to-salvage-nato-as-russia-toughens-its-stance/ Reportedly not escalating further, though: Nearly 50 rooms in Georgian parliamentary building damaged by protesters — speaker
Georgia saw large-scale protests in the past two days https://tass.com/world/1880399 Police uses water cannons against protesters in Tbilisi
The police resorted to water cannons after the demonstrators began to toss stones and firecrackers at them https://tass.com/world/1880423 Pro-Western Georgian president must go – PM
According to the constitution, Salome Zourabichvili has only a few weeks before her term ends, Irakli Kobakhidze has insisted https://www.rt.com/russia/608512-georgia-president-must-go-kobakhidze/ ‘Netanyahu Needs War’, Can’t Be Trusted to Stick to Lebanon Ceasefire – Mohammad Marandi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this week that he’s ordered the military to prepare for the resumption of an “intensive war” in Lebanon if Hezbollah violated the freshly-reached ceasefire deal. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241130/netanyahu-needs-war-cant-be-trusted-to-stick-to-lebanon-ceasefire—mohammad-marandi-1121052727.html Syrian & Russian Forces Step Up Air Raids, Slowing Jihadist Advance
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday spoke by phone with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in talks that focused on the crisis in Syria, at a moment that Turkey-backed jihadists have threatened the central Syrian city of Hama after their shock capture of Aleppo.
“Attention was focused on the escalating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. The major aggression of terrorist groups and gangs is views as aimed at undermining the sovereignty, political, social and economic stability of the Syrian state,” a Kremlin statement said.
Both Russia and Iran pledged “unconditional support” for Damascus according to Russian state media, but there was also mention of the need to engage Turkey within the framework of the Astana agreement. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syrian-russian-forces-step-air-raids-slowing-jihadist-advance Trump’s Ukraine envoy pick proposed forcing peace talks by withdrawing US weapons
Donald Trump’s plan to tap the retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg as US envoy to Ukraine and Russia has triggered renewed interest in a policy document he co-authored that proposes ending the war by withdrawing weapons from Ukraine if it doesn’t enter peace talks – and giving even more weapons to Ukraine if Russia doesn’t do the same. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/28/trump-keith-kellogg-russia-ukraine Mass desertions crippling Ukrainian army – AP
Entire units are walking away as forcibly conscripted soldiers refuse to take orders, the news agency has reported https://swentr.site/russia/608398-ukraine-troops-desertion-ap/Netherlands Replenishes Ukraine’s Patriot Missile Batteries After Heavy Losses: Europe’s Arsenals Almost Totally Expended https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/netherlands-replenishes-ukraine-patriot-losses
White House Insists No Nukes for Ukraine But More Conventional Arms
“That is not under consideration. No. What we are doing is surging various conventional capacities to Ukraine, so that they can effectively defend themselves, not nuclear capability,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC’s This Week program. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241201/white-house-insists-no-nukes-for-ukraine-but-more-conventional-arms-1121063213.htmlHydra At War https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/hydra-at-war
Stretching Russian forces in every direction: U.S., Allies Reignite War On Syria 11/30/24
As of now the situation continues to escalate. I had underestimated the role of Turkey in this. President Erdogan seems to have taken control of HTS and is using it to pursue his aims. These include to widen Turkish control over Syrian land, to further damage the anti-Turkish resistance movement within the Kurdish population of Syria and to impress on president-elect Donald Trump that he can be a reliable ally in a fight against Iranian influence.
Jihadists under Turkish control have attacked Syrian government position on the western side of Aleppo city and diversion commandos seem to have infiltrated the city itself. A large part of this operation is the (fake) news onslaught accompanying it. Current information from the area is way too confused to state with some certainty what exactly is under who’s control.
There are several forces fighting in Syria. The Turkish ‘rebel’ side, supported by Israel, Turkey and the U.S., includes two distinct groups. The former al-Qaeda Jihadists in Hayat Tarhir al-Sham [HTS] under Abu Muhammed al-Jolani were, and likely still are, financed and armed by the CIA through proxy actors in Qatar. HTS includes a significant number of Turkmen and Uighur jihadists from Central Asia. The second group is the so called Syrian National Army which is a group of Sunni Syria mercenaries paid for and controlled by Turkey.
These ‘rebels’ immediately distinguished themselves through their depraved behavior. (Sawing prisoners’ heads off) https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/us-allies-reignite-war-on-syria-.htmlThe first 8 minutes of last night’s Military Summary looks at attacks on Russian interests (not yet Transnistria).
The West Has Initiated Open Confrontation With Russia Military Summary For 2024.12.01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2AWTbP1aUEThe first 3 and last 3 minutes of this morning’s Military Summary look at the various attacks on Russia:
NATO Umbrella Tough Fighting For Velyka Novosilka Russia Under Pressure Military Summary 2024.12.02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyVjn4oInI Turkish intelligence directing extremist offensive in northwest Syria: Report
An Israeli official stated the Al-Qaeda offensive on Syria’s second largest city provides ‘opportunities for change’ https://thecradle.co/articles/turkish-intelligence-directing-extremist-offensive-in-northwest-syria-reportCanadian Town Fined And Mayor Sent For Compulsory Education After Failing To Hoist Pride Flag
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-town-fined-and-mayor-sent-compulsory-education-after-failing-hoist-pride-flag
Emo does not have a central flagpole, other than the Canadian flag over the front door of the Emo Municipal Office.One issue that factored greatly in the tribunal hearings occurred during the debate over the flag proposal, which the council rejected by a vote of three to two. In the meeting. Mayor Harold McQuaker stated, “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin … there’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”
Doug Judson, a lawyer and a member of Borderland Pride’s board of directors, said that “the important thing we were seeking here was validation … as 2SLGBTQA plus people.”
The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township and $5,000 from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
At first, the fine against “McQuaker” in the town of “Emo” for failing to hoist an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag” on a non-existent flagpole seemed too contrived.
However, the mayor of Emo is a McQuaker, and the Canadian press is standing by the story.
Top Molecular Scientist Confirms DNA Contamination in COVID ‘Vaccines’ Integrates into Human Cells
A leading American molecular scientist has issued an explosive warning after making an alarming discovery about the DNA contamination in Covid mRNA “vaccines.”
The red alert was issued by Dr. Phillip J. Buckhaults, a professor in the Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina.
Professor Buckhaults warns that the DNA contamination found in Covid shots can integrate into the genome of normal human cells...
..Experts and lawmakers in Australia have just issued a chilling warning to the rest of the world as a Western Australian town has started recording an unprecedented surge in deaths among the highly Covid-vaccinated population.
The town of Port Hedland called an emergency Special Council Meeting with leading experts and local lawmakers to address the crisis. The meeting was called by three Port Hedland Town Councillors Adrian McRae, Lorraine Butson, and Camilo Blanco.
During the meeting, Councillor McRae made the shocking revelation that funerals in the town have become overwhelmed with deaths since the Covid “vaccines” were rolled out for public use.
McRae revealed that the crisis has provoked panic in the town after officials determined that the deaths are being caused by the long-term impact of DNA contamination in the Covid mRNA injections.
Due to the staggering “sevenfold increase” in deaths, McRae revealed that the town has been forced to build a “cold body storage facility” to cope with the surge in corpses. “What happens when someone receives billions of these SV40 fragments in a single shot?” McRae said in a statement during the meeting.
“What happens when these contaminated shots are administered multiple times as they have been to millions of Australians including Australian children?” https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-molecular-scientist-confirms-dna-contamination-covid-vaccines-integrates-human-cells/5873876 A Midwestern Doctor, The Great Dangers of Blood Pressure Medications
Story at a Glance:
High blood pressure (hypertension) is increasingly common, with more people diagnosed each decade.
This is because the threshold for “high” blood pressure keeps getting lowered—despite no evidence existing that those levels reduce deaths.
Excessively low blood pressure carries significant risk. Likewise, many of the blood pressure medications have common and significant side effects doctors often don’t recognize.
In this article we will review the key aspects of each common blood pressure lowering medication and healthier ways to address elevated blood pressures. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-dangers-of-blood-pressure Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years
Earlier this week the Labour backbencher and Chairman of the U.K. Parliament’s Energy Committee Bill Esterson noted that people will have to adjust their habits to meet Net Zero emission goals for 2030. Such honesty, emerging as it does from the Parliament of Net Zero nodding donkeys, is to be applauded. As far as it goes. Try a 30% reduction in energy demand. After 2030, consider that all beef, lamb and dairy will be banned and “replaced by new diets”. Then there is a massive 45% cut in most common building materials such as cement, along with a similar reduction in road freight traffic. The attack on farming will be remorseless with fertiliser restriction halving “direct emission” from the soil. To sum up: widespread rationing and blackouts along with food, holiday and travel restrictions, all within about 60 months. https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/28/time-for-starmer-to-be-honest-about-what-net-zero-means-rationing-blackouts-and-travel-restrictions-in-the-next-five-years/ The recently updated Pfizer clinical trial, “To Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of BNT162b2 Against COVID-19 in Healthy Pregnant Women” (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT04754594), has sparked renewed scrutiny after revealing a significant increase in congenital abnormalities among newborns of vaccinated participants.
The study assessed outcomes in 348 healthy pregnant women randomized to receive either the COVID-19 vaccine or a placebo during their third trimester. Findings indicate that children born to vaccinated mothers experienced a 4.2x higher rate of adverse events of special interest (AESIs), including major congenital abnormalities and developmental delays, within the first six months of life. https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pfizer-pregnancy-trial-covid-vaccine-linked-to-420-surge-in-newborn-abnormalities/ CDC Caught Covering Up Heart Failure Surge’s Link to Covid ‘Vaccines’
Official U.S. government documents have revealed that top CDC officials were aware that Covid mRNA shots triggered potentially fatal heart damage in recipients from as early as February 28, 2021.
When President Joe Biden was sworn into office on January 20, 2021, he signed an executive order demanding that 100 million Covid “vaccine” doses be administered within his first hundred days in office. This goal was met on March 19, 2021. https://slaynews.com/news/leaked-docs-show-cdc-covered-up-heart-failure-surges-link-covid-vaccines/ Meryl Nass MD STOP the mRNA SHOTS–NOW! A new network has formed to push this plan forward: northgroup.info https://merylnass.substack.com/p/stop-the-mrna-shots-now
Josh Mitteldorf explains how SV40 in “vaccine products” induces turbo-cancer: SV40 and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Since the mRNA vaccines were released, government data about cancer rates has been missing in action. https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/sv40-and-the-sorcerers-apprenticeHezbollah Believes It Lost Up To 4000 Fighters Killed, Far Surpassing 2006 War
According to more, based on a source cited by Reuters, “the Iran-backed group may have lost up to 4,000 people — well over 10 times the number killed in its monthlong 2006 war with Israel.”
Tens of thousands of Lebanese have been moving back into their southern villages and towns, some of which are in rubble and ruins. Bodies are still being searched for under the rubble.
The Lebanese army is also moving into southern districts in coordination with UN peacekeeping authorities, as part of the truce deal to monitor for potential ceasefire violations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollah-believes-it-lost-4000-fighters-killed-far-surpassing-2006-war Israeli Snipers ‘Shoot Palestinians for Sport’
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are further testament to this not being a conventional war; it is a systematic targeting of civilians that points directly to genocidal intent. https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/26/israeli-snipers-shoot-palestinians-for-sport/Israel has detained 435 Palestinian women in occupied West Bank since 7 October https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241126-israel-has-detained-435-palestinian-women-in-occupied-west-bank-since-7-october/
Trump’s choice for Attorney General, Pam Bondi says American students who protest Israel should be “TAKEN OUT” of the country or subject to FBI INTERVIEWS.
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1861133783493128455Illinois Students Who Protested Gaza Genocide Are Facing Felony Mob Charges https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/26/illinois-students-who-protested-gaza-genocide-are-facing-felony-mob-charges/
(Like Lahaina?) Gaza Ministry of Health: Israeli Weapons “Evaporate Bodies” in Northern Gaza Strip https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/11/29/282602/
Israel army killed 100 Palestinians in northern Gaza in past 24 hours: Civil Defence
He described the situation in northern Gaza as a “catastrophe and genocide, with no one there to provide relief to the civilians.”
The spokesman said the Israeli army targets any movement by any person in northern Gaza, and even a person filling water or looking for food or wood is attacked.
Since 5 October, Israel has launched a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza to allegedly prevent the Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, from regrouping. Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.
Since then, almost no humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and fuel, has been allowed into the area, leaving most of the population there – currently estimated at 80,000 – on the verge of famine. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241129-israel-army-killed-100-palestinians-in-northern-gaza-in-past-24-hours-civil-defence/ SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ the North Gaza Ghetto The IDF’s ‘Aktion’ in north Gaza resembles nothing short of the ‘liquidation’ of the ghettos of East Europe
The northern part of the Gaza Ghetto is being “liquidated” (as remarked on October 31). Israel’s methodology there is that of the Nazi death squads, who were said to have “liquidated” the ghettos of Eastern Europe before transporting their involuntarily confined Jewish occupants to the extermination camps, in cattle cars.
Going up against ghettoized civilians were the soldiers of the Nazi Party, the SS, the toughest in the Wehrmacht. Like the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the SS presided over a Kafkaesque apparatus of propaganda, intelligence, police and military bureaucracies.
Plainly put, the purpose of liquidation was deportation to the death camps for extermination. Israel, of course, has further streamlined and industrialized mass eviction and murder by collapsing liquidation and extermination into one. https://www.unz.com/imercer/ss-idf-is-liquidating-the-north-gaza-ghetto/At least 33 Palestinians, including three World Central Kitchen employees, were killed and several others injured on Saturday as Israeli forces intensified their strikes across various areas of the Gaza Strip https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241129-the-war-on-gaza-after-the-ceasefire-in-lebanon/
Ceasefire Falters as Israel Launches Airstrikes, Artillery Shelling on Southern Lebanon Israel says ‘suspects’ in vehicles violate ceasefire by trying to return home
Though the claims of violations are coming from both sides, so far it is only Israeli forces whose violations actually involve firing. Lebanese people continue to try to return to their homes in the south, despite Israel’s military forbidding them to do so. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/28/ceasefire-falters-as-israel-launches-airstrikes-artillery-shelling-on-southern-lebanon/ 11/29/24 Hundreds Dead, Fighting Rages as Syrian Islamist Rebels Reach Aleppo
Beginning late Wednesday, the Syrian Islamist rebel faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a major offensive out of the Idlib Province into the Aleppo Province. The result is heavy fighting and airstrikes, and it is now being reported HTS has reached the city of Aleppo itself.
HTS captured over 50 towns and villages on the way from Idlib Province to Aleppo, which is the second largest city in Syria. The most recent figure available is that as many as 400 people, mostly combatants, have been killed in the fighting. A number of others have also been killed in airstrikes by Syria and Russia’s air forces, at least 19 on Thursday alone.
The Russia-backed counter-offensive was aimed at keeping HTS out of the important city, which before the Syrian Civil War was the nation’s industrial hub. It seems HTS has reached at least five neighborhoods of Aleppo, in western districts of the town.
Syria’s Army was a lot more upbeat on their prospects, saying they had “repelled” a major offensive into Aleppo, despite evidence that HTS forces are still in the city and some claims their fighter had reached the city’s center. The army also reported that they had reclaimed some towns and villages lost yesterday in the offensive, though that can’t yet be confirmed.
It is fair to say the counter-offensive isn’t going as well as planned, and there are some reports indicating that Russia’s heavy air commitment to the ongoing Ukraine War meant a smaller force left behind in Syria, and that force was slow to react to the surprise offensive.
Syria’s military has reportedly added special forces into the area of western Aleppo. This is likely a response to how poorly the fight has been going on the ground, and the fact that this fight is including more than just HTS fighters.
Indeed, the Turkish-backed Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has joined the HTS offensive, and is fighting against Syrian forces in the same area.
HTS has dubbed their offensive operation “Deter the Aggression,” and says the effort is meant to prevent Syria, Russia and Iran from pushing into Idlib Province, which they hold. The fighting has also shut down the M5 highway, which connects Damascus and Aleppo. They have also reportedly neared the M4 highway, which leads eastward out of Aleppo. That’s likely to make deployments of further reinforcements by Syria’s government more difficult in the days to come. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/29/hundreds-dead-fighting-rages-as-syrian-islamist-rebels-reach-aleppo/ 11/28/24 Andrew Korybko, The Terrorist Offensive In Aleppo Is Meant To Deliver A Coup De Grace To Syria
The terrorist-designated Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), which is the rebranded form of the Al Qaeda-backed Al-Nusra, launched a surprise offensive in Aleppo this week. It’s already made a lot of progress due to the terrorists’ use of drones and other modern warfare tactics. These were reportedly taught to them by Ukraine according to reports in the run-up to the latest hostilities. Other reports included Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warning about a false-flag chemical weapons attack. Syrian, Iranian, and Russian forces (including its aerospace ones) are currently trying to push back HTS’ advance. This intense fighting comes immediately after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal, which that Iranian-backed Resistance group agreed to in spite of the late Nasrallah’s pledge not to do so without a ceasefire in Gaza first. It can therefore be interpreted as an Israeli victory despite Iran hailing this agreement and its ideologically aligned influencers spinning it as a Resistance victory. With the Resistance objectively on the backfoot in the region, it makes sense why their HTS foes decided to go on the offensive at this specific moment, something that they’d clearly planned to do for a while. If the hostilities continue, then another large-scale humanitarian crisis might follow. https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-offensive-in-aleppoIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the ‘total annihilation’ of the Palestinian population of Gaza within the next couple of years. https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/israeli-finance-minister-calls-for-total-annihilation-of-palestinian-population/
Israel’s Genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/ Israel’s Genocide Day 419: UNRWA warns conditions for survival are ‘diminishing’ for Palestinians in north Gaza
Israeli bombings erased 1410 Palestinian families from the civil registry, reports the Palestinian health ministry. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-419-unrwa-warns-conditions-for-survival-are-diminishing-for-palestinians-in-north-gaza/ Non-starter… West plotting to ‘occupy’ Ukraine – Russian intel
Plans are being made to freeze the conflict by sending 100,000 foreign troops to the country, according to the SVR https://www.rt.com/russia/608376-svr-west-kiev-troops/ Russia has sent over 30 notes to OPCW on Kiev’s use of prohibited chemical substances
Ukrainian armed units have been using toxic substances against Russian soldiers practically since the first days of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. For example, there is video evidence of a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) dropping a grenade, presumably with a toxic substance, on Russian soldiers. https://eu.eot.su/2024/11/25/russia-has-sent-over-30-notes-to-opcw-on-kievs-use-of-prohibited-chemical-substances/ North Korea Getting New Air Defenses In Return For Supporting Russia In Ukraine: Official
Advanced surface-to-air missiles may be the first major Russian arms headed to North Korea in return for its support in the war in Ukraine.
While the specific type of air defense systems wasn’t disclosed, Lee Illwoo, an expert with the Korea Defense Network in South Korea, said that the S-400 surface-to-air missile system was most likely. This system, which combines long-range surface-to-air missiles, launchers, ground-based radar systems, and other components, is among the most advanced available anywhere. As well as being widely used by Russia, including in the war with Ukraine, they have been exported to Algeria, Belarus, China, India, and Turkey. https://www.twz.com/land/north-korea-getting-new-air-defenses-in-return-for-supporting-russia-in-ukraine-official Simplicius, The Empire Strikes Back – Launching Multi-Pronged Hybrid War Against Resistance Axis
It’s been an eventful few days as the Empire threw a head-fake with the Israeli conflict freeze, then launched into a major new hybrid escalation against the resistance, which included an attack on the Ruble initiated by sanctions against Gazprombank and many other Russian banks, a renewed Maidan color revolution attempt in Georgia, and now a massive Turkish-backed offensive in Syria. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back-launching 11/30/24 Militants control ‘most of’ Aleppo city, Syria war monitor says
BEIRUT: A monitor of Syria’s war said Saturday militants now controlled a majority of Aleppo city, reporting Russian air strikes on parts of Syria’s second city for the first time since 2016.
“Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions… took control of most of the city and government centers and prisons,” said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that overnight, Russian “warplanes launched raids on areas of Aleppo city for the first time since 2016.”
Syrian authorities closed Aleppo airport as well as all roads leading into the city on Saturday, three military sources said, as militants opposed to President Bashar Assad said they had reached the heart of Aleppo.
The opposition fighters, led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, carried out a surprise sweep through government-held towns this week and reached Aleppo nearly a decade after having been forced out by Assad and his allies. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2581247/middle-eastPepe Escobar, Trump may be Oreshniked on Ukraine even before he gets to China
With Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they will also have to face Russia.
The best he might be able to do is to divert attention from Project Ukraine by accommodating the Old Testament psychopathological genocidals in Tel Aviv, plus the Zio-con armada in D.C., in their obsession of forcing Washington to fight their war on Iran. Talk about a slight change of focus of the Forever Wars.
Tehran not only exports most of its energy to China but is an absolutely essential node of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) as well as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); that is, north-south and east-west crisscrossing Eurasia.
That would be the real war of choice – simultaneously against three BRICS (Russia, China, Iran). After all the American ruling class is already invested on a do-or-die Hybrid War against BRICS.
Still, the Trump 2.0/China face-off will be the fulcrum of the Hegemon’s foreign policy starting January 20. Virtually all of Trump’s appointments – as misguided as they may be – believe it is possible to break apart the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership and prevent China from buying energy from Iran.
There will be attempts to disrupt shipping lanes and supply lines – from the Maritime Silk Roads in the Indian Ocean rimland to the Northern Sea Route by the Arctic, including possible false flags along the INSTC.
But with Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they will also have to face Russia. So the temptation to end Project Ukraine and NATO’s encroachment on Russia’s western borders will always be there in the back of Trump’s mind, part of a “seduce Russia to undermine China” syndrome. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/27/trump-may-be-oreshniked-on-ukraine-even-before-he-gets-china/They know Russia best and are completely sure… Nuclear attack unlikely despite Putin’s warnings, U.S. intelligence says
A series of intelligence assessments over the past seven months have concluded nuclear escalation was unlikely to result from a decision to loosen restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weapons. That view has not changed following U.S. President Joe Biden’s changed U.S. stance this month on weapons, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive intelligence.
“The assessments were consistent: The ATACMs weren’t going to change Russia’s nuclear calculus,” said one congressional aide briefed on the intelligence, referring to American missiles with a range of up to 306 kilometers.
Russia’s launch of a new ballistic missile last week, which analysts say was meant as a warning to Washington and its European allies, has not changed that conclusion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/28/world/politics/nuclear-attack-putin-us-intelligence/ It’s not just a lot of helicopter crashes in other places? Dead Western soldiers in Ukraine a sign of ‘dangerous escalation’ – Orban
The involvement of foreign troops in hostilities indicates that the conflict is expanding, the Hungarian prime minister has warned https://swentr.site/news/608401-orban-ukraine-mercenaries/“Decapitation” threat… Putin threatens to hit Kyiv’s decision hubs with Oreshnik missiles https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/28/putin-threatens-to-hit-kyivs-decision-hubs-with-oreshnik-missiles/#google_vignette
Simplicius, Zelensky Finally Breaks: Willing to Accept NATO Membership for Territory Swap
Russia is in the driver’s seat and will not indulge such petty attempts to cozen and wheedle out a minor victory for Ukraine. As such, the only danger we can now expect is for the West to escalate in some brazen way should they finally realize Russia is not taking the bait. But we know neutered Europe has no political authority or consensus to act unilaterally, and at this point can only function like a pack of hyenas, if other major European states back each other’s ‘daring’ initiative.
Trump will have to walk a tight rope, as leading the push to rashly crash the gates with US troops will leave him looking like a warmonger, while doing nothing at all sullies his legacy with a mark of weakness akin to Biden’s Afghan withdrawal debacle. The best thing Trump can do, of course, is to dump Ukraine and blame the mess on Europe to salvage his ‘legacy’. There are rumors he can initiate a Ukrainian audit which will find grave corruption, giving him the justification to clear his name of it.
I would be very surprised if Trump was so foolish as to indulge the country which was central to the core movement to destroy him. Recall, virtually everything about the post-RussiaGate “Ukraine Scandal” conspiracy to destroy Trump originated from Ukraine. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-finally-breaks-willing-toFrench Govt Collapse Imminent As Le Pen Piles On Pressure Over Budget Vote
While French bond spreads have compressed modestly overnight (as French Finance Minister Antoine Armand announced that he is ready to amend the 2025 budget proposal to avoid a government collapse), they remain extremely elevated (at their highest since the European financial crisis in 2012) as rising tensions threaten the country’s economic stability.
Armand made headlines in September for asserting that the National Rally party was not a party he would deal with, as it was not part of what he called “the republican arc,” instigating French Prime Minister Michel Barnier to even phone Le Pen to apologize for the comment.
Le Pen, meanwhile, has insisted her budget demands have been long cast aside. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-govt-collapse-imminent-le-pen-piles-pressure-over-budget-voteThe Surprise of Hazel
What would be a worthy target for such a devastating monster? Who should be first to be obliterated once WW3 starts? It seems like too much power to waste on Ukrainians. Who really deserves the whole brunt of Oreshnik? Which country threatens the survival of Russia the most? The international consensus comes down to a choice between the US and the UK…
..After WWI, it was Britain that pushed Germany to create an independent Poland very much along the lines the country of Ukraine was created fifty years later. “The Germans decided to resurrect an independent Poland as a German client state more than a century after it had disappeared from the map, a geographical change that would greatly weaken Russia”, writes Ron Unz. Immediately afterwards, British agents began to encourage Polish intransigence against Germany. British efforts deliberately undermined all attempts to form a compromise between Germany and Poland over Danzig. Not that America was any more innocent: “Roosevelt ordered his diplomats to exert enormous pressure upon both the British and Polish governments to avoid any negotiated settlement with Germany, thereby leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939,” writes Unz.
As soon as WW2 ended (after England was saved thanks to the immense sacrifice of Russian soldiers) London immediately called for the destruction of Russia by the means of Operation Unthinkable. It was only the loss of the election by the Tories that saved Russia in 1945 from a sneak attack by the combined forces of the German Wehrmacht and “as many as 47 British and American divisions in the area of Dresden, in the middle of Soviet lines.”…
..And so Britain has done it yet again: the old Empire refuses to relent even in the face of certain defeat. They fantasize about squeezing Russia, pushing it ever Eastward. First, they tear off Poland, then they tear off Ukraine, until Russia is shattered into small pieces that may be individually digested by the Anglo-American Empire and then mercilessly looted. This is the usual modus operandi for them. Let’s not forget that Britain is guilty of instigating the US Civil War between the states. London was preparing to send the British Navy to aid the Confederate Army until the Russians stepped in and saved the Union’s bacon. The Russian fleet spent the winter of 1868 in New York and San Francisco, and told the Brits to bugger off. https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-surprise-of-hazel/I think they did, but they can’t talk about it. Pentagon Made No Full Analysis of Consequences of ATACMS Missiles Use on Russia – Hersh https://sputnikglobe.com/20241127/pentagon-made-no-full-analysis-of-consequences-of-atacms-missiles-use-on-russia—hersh-1121013305.html
The Creator of Oreshnik gives some technical details.
We have created hypersonic weapons in a short period of time. And these are materials that used to work at 1,500 degrees, then at 1,800, and these at 2,000, and we did it, while others did not,” Kovalchuk told Izvestia… According to him, the next step should be materials that can withstand 2,500-3,000 degrees. “Other materials that can withstand high temperatures will make it possible to create even more advanced weapons. The next step should be materials that can withstand 2500-3000 degrees,” Kovalchuk said. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-creator-of-oreshnik.htmlGilbert Doctorow wrote this article Mach 2, 2018. The US has ignored it since then. Missile-gate: U.S. Intel Misses Russia’s Big Advances in Nuclear Parity https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/02/missile-gate-u-s-intel-misses-russias-big-advances-in-nuclear-parity/
“Behind every great fortune is an equally great crime”, Honoré de Balzac Leaked Morgan Stanley documents reveal 1 in 4 ultrawealthy clients raise a red flag https://finance.yahoo.com/news/leaked-morgan-stanley-documents-reveal-184315962.html
Trump leans on Canada, Mexico and China to stop fentanyl and illegal migration, while moving factories to the US. “This Week, The Second Trump Trade War Started” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/week-second-trump-trade-war-started
Alex Krainer would interdict such a plan by publicizing it. Let’s help find a better banking crisis solution! Are they planning a false flag event in London?
Very nearly all of London’s Webcams went dark in early September. Why? https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-eventIf these are not civilian spy-drones, whose are they? Drone Incursions Over USAF Bases In UK Enter Second Week
A week into the drone incursion flap in the United Kingdom and there remain many more questions than answers. https://www.twz.com/air/drone-incursions-over-usaf-bases-in-uk-enter-second-weekTrump Transition Team Signs Modified White House Agreement, Without Govt Technology to Conduct Surveillance
The President Trump transition team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start the process of transferring control of the federal government. The landing teams from each of the cabinets will now begin to engage with their exiting counterparts.
There were many articles written about the delays in signing the agreements. However, President Trump waited until he has his cabinet fully assembled before signing the first part that permits the landing teams to engage. The second part with government provided offices and technology is NOT being accepted.
President Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, announced the Trump transition team has refused to sign an MOU with the Government Services Administration (GSA), and will not be using cell phones, computers, offices or “any technology” provided by the GSA. This is a smart move to avoid the Deep State surveillance situation that was faced in the first term. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/26/trump-transition-team-signs-modified-white-house-agreement-without-govt-technology-to-conduct-surveillance/History Goes Cliff Diving https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/history-goes-cliff-diving
In “Days of Thunder, the First Inflexion Presidency” Dr. Tim Morgan presents the implications of the widespread realization of inevitable global economic contraction in post-peak industrial economy. He predicts that this paradigm-shift will become clear during the second Trump presidency, and will induce a massive pullback in discretionary economic spending of all kinds, as focus upon the essentials becomes the clear path to survival.
There are, as I’m sure you know, two starkly opposed views of our economic future. One is that, once we get over the sheer bad luck of experiencing a global pandemic and a European war in quick succession, we’ll be back on the road to infinite economic growth.
The other, favoured here, is that the fading away of the fossil fuel impetus is causing the economy to inflect from growth into contraction. Renewables can’t replicate the economic value hitherto provided by oil, natural gas and coal. Whilst some eventual successor to carbon fuels cannot wholly be ruled out, it can’t possibly arrive in time to prevent severe economic contraction.
Huge practical issues hang on the outcome of this contest. If the latter view is correct, most “growth” is now being faked, intentionally or not, primarily by the use of runaway credit expansion and the under-reporting of systemic inflation. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/293-days-of-thunder/comment-page-1/#respondRachel Marsden spills the beans that the US strangled German industry to make it move to the US.
Merkel blows a hole in Washington’s Nord Stream narrative
The former German chancellor has suggested a suspect and motive for the destruction of the pipeline, saying the not-so-quiet part out loud https://swentr.site/news/608402-merkel-us-nord-stream-narrative/Charles Hugh Smith points out that this “great big exclusive club” that we are not members of is accustomed to seamlessly working together economically, and creating a new economic integration will be a task of complete remaking. Slashing $2 Trillion from “The Swamp”–Three Things
There is no way to cut federal spending without reconfiguring the economy from the ground up, starting with healthcare. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/slashing-2-trillion-from-the-swampBetter pork-barrel projects of some sort will need to replace this. Elon Musk, charged with cutting federal spending, calls Fort Worth’s F-35 a waste of money https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/11/elon-musk-charged-with-cutting-federal-spending-calls-fort-worths-f-35-a-waste-of-money/#google_vignette
Alex Krainer, Are they planning a false flag attack on London?
https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-attackYesterday, as I was finalizing my new report about the financial collapse of Great Britain, which is the follow-up to my August 26 article “The Coming Collapse of Britain,” YouTube randomly suggested to me a short video by one Craig Houston titled, “Why are ALL LONDON webcams offline…?” What? Did I read that right??? I was nearly floored: Mr. Houston searched hundreds of Webcams across London and could not find a single one that was live. See for yourself here and here! That’s extremely odd; clearly someone had to have made the decision to switch them off – they couldn’t all have failed for random reasons. One of the webcams over Westminster bridge displayed the last image it recorded: it was on 2 September at 16:51, which at least gives us a clue about when the Heart of Darkness went dark to the world. However, the reason why someone would decide to cut all the webcams is a mystery.
Mr. Houston didn’t offer any explanations, which is understandable given that he lives in Britain where singing, “kung fu fighting,” or silently praying on the sidewalk can get you arrested. But where he declined to tread, I’ll venture a guess, and I think it’s the only explanation that makes any sense: they’re planning a false-flag terror attack on London which they’ll blame on Russia, so that they can trigger an all-out, whole-of-society mobilization by all of the Western powers against Russia. Now, if this seems far-fetched, there are now several important elements that fit coherently with this scenario, starting with the general geopolitical state of things.
Western empire and in particular the UK, bet heavily on Ukraine and lost. By now the situation has become as undeniable as it is hopeless. But Western powers aren’t showing any inclination to cut and run, like they did from Vietnam in March of 1972 or Afghanistan in August 2021.
”Simple”, but politically-difficult: 6 Simple Steps to Reform Big Pharma Clayton J. Baker, M.D.
Six changes in federal law — four repeals of existing law, and two new pieces of legislation — would go a long way toward reining in and even reforming the pharmaceutical industry...
..The six simple steps are:
Repeal the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act.
Repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
Repeal the 2004 Project Bioshield Act.
Repeal the 2005 PREP Act.
Outlaw direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
Encode medical freedom into federal law. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/6-simple-steps-to-reform-big-pharma/ Synthetic Food Dyes: A Half-Century of Harm, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Outdated FDA standards expose Americans to toxic food dyes linked to cancer, neurobehavioral issues, and other health risks, demanding urgent regulatory action. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/synthetic-food-dyes-a-half-century The War On Froot Loops [Fight this one fast and keep advancing.]
The maker of Froot Loops has faced criticism for using artificial food dyes that some say cause health problems in children. Now-incoming HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal critic of processed foods, argues that companies opt for artificial dyes because they’re cheaper than natural alternatives, despite potential health risks, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Kellogg maintains that the colors used in its cereals are considered safe by scientific bodies worldwide. And therein lies, as WSJ puts it, “how Froot Loops landed at the center of U.S. food politics”.
Because now President-elect Trump has given Kennedy a platform to tackle chronic disease by targeting harmful chemicals in food. Kennedy often criticizes companies for using artificial dyes, which he says are cheaper but problematic for health.
These dyes, found in products like Froot Loops and M&M’s, enhance appearance but are restricted in some countries. While some U.S. brands offer dye-free versions abroad, efforts to replace dyes domestically have met resistance from consumers favoring the original look and taste.
The Wall Street Journal reported that critics argue Kennedy’s stance lacks scientific backing, while consumer advocates support his push to ban synthetic dyes, especially in foods marketed to children. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/war-froot-loops Steve Kirsch reports what was already leaked by early 2021, and I reported then. Pfizer pregnancy trial showed the COVID shots increased AESIs (like major congenital abnormalities) in newborns by over 4X
There was no benefit in terms of reduced COVID infections. But vaccinated moms had major adverse events happen to their babies at a rate 4.2X higher than unvaxxed moms. Does anyone care? https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizer-pregnancy-trial-showed-the Meryl Nass MD elucidates the testimony of Robert Redfield MD: Role of Ralph Baric as source of SARS-CoV-2 resurfaces in remarks by Robert Redfield
Why are Baric and his lab so wealthy? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/role-of-ralph-baric-as-source-ofJessica Rose Ph.D. (IgG-4 is the “tolerance antibody”, not a defender-antibody.) Increased susceptibility to SARS-2 infection/COVID-19 – signal emanating from VAERS
VAERS domestic data corroborates IgG4 class switch leading to tolerance https://jessicar.substack.com/p/increased-susceptibility-to-sarsCut it from the budget… F-35 is Modern Rube Goldberg Machine, Musk is Right to Criticize It – Former Pentagon Analyst https://sputnikglobe.com/20241126/f-35-is-modern-rube-goldberg-machine-musk-is-right-to-criticize-it–former-pentagon-analyst-1121011473.html
David Stockman does not talk about debt default/restructuring, David Stockman on How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone From the Federal Budget
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. In fact, the soaring public debt is now so out-of-control that the Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to the DOGE of Musk & Ramaswamy. In spades!
For want of doubt, just recall this sequence. When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 on a call to bring the nation’s inflationary budget under control, the public debt was $1 trillion.
By the time Donald Trump was elected the first time it had erupted to $20 trillion, which has now become $36 trillion. And under current built-in spending and tax policies it will hit $60 trillion by the end of the current 10-year budget window. https://internationalman.com/articles/david-stockman-on-how-to-cut-2-trillion-of-fat-muscle-and-bone-from-the-federal-budget/They can get rid of fluoride quickly and relatively easily, an immediate accomplishment. Florida’s Surgeon General Comes Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/floridas-surgeon-general-comes-out-against-fluoride-water-supply
Trump Taps COVID-Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA
Declaring that the FDA has “lost the trust of Americans,” Trump said Makary will “course-correct and refocus the agency,” to include “properly evaluat[ing] harmful chemicals poisoning our nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the childhood chronic disease epidemic.”
Makary grew to national notoriety as one of several highly-credentialed physicians who pushed back on many elements of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Testifying before Congress, Makary said:
“The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government. Misinformation that Covid was spread through surface transmission, that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity…that myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine…that young people benefit from a booster…” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-covid-contrarian-and-public-health-critic-makary-fda Bombshell Fauci Documentary Nails The Whole COVID Charade
Now, four years later, the entire charade has been exposed piece by piece.
A new must-watch documentary by two-time Peabody Award-winning and four-time Emmy nominated director Jenner Furst, a self-described progressive who has broken with the Democratic party, ties it all together. Thank You, Dr. Fauci https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hey-elon-hey-rand-mega-censored-fauci-documentary-nails-whole-charade Yes, but this may collapse the ICC, too. Netanyahu ‘wanted’: A landmark legal moment in the Palestinian struggle
The ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant has beamed a blinding spotlight on Israel’s war crimes, marking a major legal step in holding Tel Aviv accountable for its atrocities in Gaza, while shaking up the halls of international diplomacy. https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-wanted-a-landmark-legal-moment-in-the-palestinian-struggle Charles Hugh Smith has constructive analysis, Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset
The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a problem we can’t bury. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/anti-progress-breakdown-reset”Us” against “Them”: NYT & Bloomberg Bury Rutgers Study Showing DEI Makes People Hostile https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-bloomberg-bury-rutgers-study-showing-dei-makes-people-hostile
US suffered ‘worst telecom hack’ in history – senator (Well, now your words are in 2 sets of wrong-hands. Don’t even think pre-criminal thoughts…)
Hackers allegedly exploited systems set up by the US authorities to wiretap Americans https://swentr.site/news/608114-us-hacked-spying-backdoor/Can I get that for a sports-car? China Creates Coating Making Warplanes Invisible to Anti-Stealth Radars https://sputnikglobe.com/20241125/china-creates-coating-making-warplanes-invisible-to-anti-stealth-radars-1120996546.html
Paul Craig Roberts, The Utter and Total Insanity of Western “Leadership”
With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear.
Admiral Rob Bauer, the insane fool who is head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed its attitude and is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first strike force. Here are his words: “It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
If not insanity, it is the triumph of evil that the West tells Putin, whose patience is the only guarantor of avoidance of nuclear war, that NATO is considering preemptive strikes on Russia.
My warning yesterday and my denunciation of the stupidly insane Western “leaders” who have us slated for total destruction was not strong enough. We now have NATO, a puppet organization of Washington, telling Putin to expect a first strike attack to prevent him from making good on his warning about starting a war with Russia. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/11/25/the-utter-and-total-insanity-of-western-leadership/ Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 27 November 2024: Russia’s Deadly New Missile
Our chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano opened with a look into the technical achievements that the recently used Oreshnik medium range hypersonic ballistic missile represents and whether there is any justification for its existence having been overlooked by U.S. intelligence. We then moved on to how the Kremlin perceives the seeming defiance of the United States to this new reality of superior Russian arms as witnessed by their further ATACMS strikes in the Kursk region this past Sunday and Monday. This led us to the question of whether the Russians will show forbearance at such provocations while waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January or will carry out a very tough retaliation now as many fear. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/27/judging-freedom-edition-of-27-november-2024-russias-deadly-new-missile/Thanks Eleni. It Happened Again, Romania Stuns Europe – Nationalist Wins First Place in Presidential Election, First Round
Make Romania Great Again candidate Călin Georgescu came out of nowhere and has won the first round in the presidential election.
Georgescu campaigned on an anti-EU, anti-NATO and anti-war with Russia platform; simultaneously supporting domestic farmers, domestic energy production and advocating for a Romania that is free from foreign influence.
Oh, and instead of traditional media, his campaign message was strongly directed to the Romanian people, via TikTok. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/24/it-happened-again-romania-stuns-europe-nationalist-wins-first-place-in-presidential-election-first-round/ Israeli Cabinet Has Approved A Ceasefire In Lebanon
In announcing the ceasefire, Netanyahu called out both Iran and Syria’s Assad. He stressed that Israel is “Determined to prevent Iran from having nuclear arms” and that Assad is “playing with fire” in his coordination with the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah. The prime minister also stressed that Hezbollah will be attacked if its fighters break the deal. Netanyahu added that the ceasefire deal means Israel will now focus on the Iranian threat. He pledged that all Israeli citizens in the north will be able to return to their homes.
“We were able to achieve many of our goals during this war,” he said. The ceasefire is expected to take effect Wednesday. Jerusalem Post writes, “Presidents Biden and Macron will announce the deal during the night, with the alleged agreement set to take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”…
..Israel on Tuesday unleashed what eyewitnesses say marked the biggest airstrikes on Beirut yet, hitting 20 sites across the city’s southern suburbs within two minutes. The Israeli military (IDF) said the air force conducted “a widespread attack” on Hezbollah targets there. “After issuing an unusually broad evacuation warning for 20 buildings in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold, the IDF said that within two minutes, it had struck all 20 sites,” Times of Israel writes. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-soon-announce-hezbollah-truce-israel-hits-20-sites-beirut-within-2-minutes Celebrations Across Lebanon As Ceasefire Holds, Thousands Return To Homes In South
Celebrations have broken out across Lebanon as the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has held since early this morning. Heavy traffic returned to Beirut, after months of constant aerial bombings mainly of the southern suburbs.
A main north-south highway, the Sidon-Tyre highway, has been jammed with cars as Lebanese civilians from the southern region can finally return to their homes. “Enough wars, tragedies and catastrophes,” Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, hailing the ceasefire deal...
..Israel is saying that Hezbollah’s capabilities have been set “back many years” and is hoping to return some 80,000 of its citizens to the north, as they’ve been evacuated for over a year of fighting.
“In the next 60 days, we will see if the goal of the war in the north, as defined, is being realized,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. Hezbollah rocket and drone fire was daily up to this point.
President Joe Biden in his initial remarks Wednesday from the Rose Garden asserted “Let’s be clear: Israel did not launch this war. The Lebanese people did not seek that war either, nor did the United States.”…
..Iran also praised the ceasefire deal, and that it is holding. “We welcome the ceasefire in Lebanon. After the oppression and criminal bombings by the Zionist regime, tonight the people are experiencing peace,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.
Ghalibaf praised that Hezbollah “never allowed even an inch of their land to fall into enemy hands.” He added: “We hope this peace will also be established in Gaza. However, the claim by the criminal Netanyahu that his focus is on Iran is nonsense.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/celebrations-across-lebanon-ceasefire-holds-thousands-return-homes-southGilbert Doctorow, Vladimir Putin’s decree on the new RF nuclear arms doctrine, 19 November 2024
The first and most important thing that one can say about Russia’s new doctrine on nuclear deterrence and the circumstances under which Russia foresees use of its nuclear arsenal against adversaries is the following: it has been tailor-made to fit the situation in which Russia finds itself today with respect to the United States and its NATO allies.
The doctrine is couched in abstract language without naming names, but behind every clause you can identify a specific threat to Russia that the United States and its allies have been implementing these past few years…
..Note the mention of Russia’s allies as also being covered with its nuclear umbrella. Until recently this sounded like an empty piece of rhetoric. ‘What allies?’ one might ask. But the conclusion of a mutual defense treaty with North Korea leaves no doubt that Russia’s nuclear umbrella is part of their deal. Separate statements coming from both Minsk and Moscow tell us that the nuclear umbrella now covers Belarus. De facto we may suppose that the same goes for Iran, though properly speaking no mutual defense treaty has yet been signed with Teheran...
..It is worth remarking that many of the items in the list reflect directly what the United States and its NATO allies have done already or are talking about. Among them are a blockade of Kaliningrad, the positioning of NATO infrastructures close to the Russian border, holding war games close to Russia’s borders. The remarks in point h above surely refers to attacks on nuclear power stations, which Ukraine has done using drones and Soviet era missiles. Other items, particularly those that one might call a restoration of Reagan’s Star Wars plans are among the stated intentions of Donald Trump…
..Comments by panelist Andrei Klintsevich, RF state counsellor: This decree is a timely adaptation of the doctrine to present-day realities, especially as regards dealing with blocs as a whole not as separate states for purposes of retaliation. The intention is for the non-nuclear states among NATO to go to Macron and tell him to just shut up since his words and actions can be used by the Russians against them. Klintsevich also points to the new principle of a Russian nuclear umbrella for its allies. Finally, there is the new concept of extraterritoriality, meaning that Russia will respond with nuclear arms to attacks on its bases outside the RF. He explains ‘nuclear deterrence’ as meaning not a nuclear strike but heightened readiness for such a strike, including decentralization of command to avoid decapitation, putting the nuclear triad on alert such as sending to sea submarines with nuclear strike capability. This document is intended to be kept on the desk of diplomats everywhere… https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/24/vladimir-putins-decree-on-the-new-rf-nuclear-arms-doctrine-19-november-2024/ Russia Reveals 2 Dead, Radar Site Damaged, After US-Supplied Missiles Struck Kursk
Crucially this is the first time Russian authorities have acknowledged that the US-supplied long range system has killed Russians. It is a rare and unexpected admission, and is likely geared toward showing the Russian population and Moscow’s allies that it faces an existential threat from NATO. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-reveals-2-dead-radar-site-damaged-after-us-supplied-missiles-struck-kurskFrance Backs Ukraine Firing Its Long-Range Missiles At Russia https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-backs-ukraine-firing-its-long-range-missiles-russia#google_vignette
Britain and France discussing deployment of troops to Ukraine – Le Monde
The UK and France have “reactivated” talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among European NATO members...
..British and French officials have both suggested that some sort of deployment could be in the works. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told British state broadcaster the BBC this weekend that Paris is “not ruling out any option” when asked directly about the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine.
A British military source told Le Monde that “discussions are underway between the United Kingdom and France regarding defense cooperation, particularly with the aim of creating a core group of allies in Europe, focused on Ukraine and broader European security.”
Russia has long claimed that Western special forces personnel are active in Ukraine, and Russian President Valdimir Putin has noted that Ukraine cannot fire long-range missiles into Russian territory without the assistance of Western experts. https://swentr.site/news/608188-france-uk-troops-ukraine/More US ATACMS missiles have hit Russia since Simplicius wrote this. Warning not heeded. Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swell-of-wwiii-red-herrings-aims
Patrick Lawrence, Biden’s “Samson Option”
We know now the risks those devoted to prolonging the imperium’s final phase will take in defense of the no-longer-defensible: All risks are acceptable as they cling to power. They will risk another world war; they will risk nuclear annihilation.
We hear a lot these days about the Israeli doctrine known as the Samson Option, whereby the Israelis, if they thought themselves under an existential threat, would use their nuclear arsenal to bring the world down with them. Those freak-show terrorists running the Zionist state, you might say: Who or what could be more diabolic?
It is a reasonable question. But there is no longer any pretending as to the unique perversity of terrorist Israel and its Samson Option. America in its post–Sept. 11 phase — fearful, viewing itself as threatened by history itself — has just proved equally perverse, equally diabolic, equally given to contempt for the human cause.
There is a greater and lesser way to understand the U.S. decision to authorize the use of Western-supplied missiles against Russian targets. It is partly a matter of passing politics, this is to say, and partly a question of the dynamics of late-imperial ideology. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/25/patrick-lawrence-bidens-samson-option/ “After us, silence”: Russia’s “apocalyptic” troops officially engaged in the special military operation
For the first time, the Russian Federation has used its Strategic Missile Forces – and this is just the beginning of the escalation. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/23/after-us-silence-russias-apocalyptic-troops-officially-engaged-in-the-special-military-operation/Mike Mihajlovik has a lot of important context and technical information: “Oreshnik” Enters The Chat [i] Hypersonic missile attack on Dnipro — warning shot https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/oreshnik-enters-the-chat-i
John Helmer explains Russia’s new nuclear doctrine. THE UKRAINE WAR AFTER THE PENNY HAS DROPPED – MAKE THAT THE ORESHNIK
No NATO staff group, no Anglo-American target intelligence unit in bunkers in Kiev or Lvov are safe any longer. Nor are Vladimir Zelensky and his advisors. To escape Israeli-precedent decapitation, they must all decamp to the Ukrainian war operations mock-up already prepared on the Polish side of the border.
Ukrainian military intelligence head, Kirill Budanov, has claimed that the Oreshnik strike on the Yuzhmash (Pivdenmash) plant in Dniepropetrovsk is “just a cipher…We know for sure that as of October they were supposed to make two research samples, maybe they made a little bit more, but believe me, this is a research sample, but not yet serial production, thank God.”
“Wishful thinking,” a NATO military source comments. “He’ll get the chance to find out first- hand.”…
..Russian military sources add that, following disclosure of the Kremlin’s back-channel talks with Donald Trump and his advisors on terms for an end-of-war settlement, the Oreshnik is the signal that the “General Staff are talking directly to Trump & Co.” Putin was explicit in his first announcement of the Oreshnik firing: “We believe that the United States [President Trump] made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the INF Treaty in 2019 under a far-fetched pretext.”…
..With an estimated 1,500 kgs of combat payload, lifting to a maximum height of 12 km and moving at a speed of Mach 10, the Oreshnik launched from Kaliningrad would strike Warsaw in 1 minute 21 seconds; Berlin, 2 min 35 sec; Paris, 6 min 52 sec; London, 6 min 56 sec. https://johnhelmer.net/the-ukraine-war-after-the-penny-has-dropped-make-that-the-oreshnik/#more-90680 Pepe Escobar: Oreshnik – The 3 Km Per Second Plot Twist
Martyanov: “NATO has zero capability to stop Russia’s long-range fires.” The “demo” also happens to be paired with a new shot at making war a relatively civil affair: Moscow will warn civilians of any impending Oreshnik strike. Those that won’t leave will do so at their own peril.
As Martyanov remarked, “this is not anymore just SMO”. Indeed: for quite a while we have been way past a special military operation: this is a do-or-die NATO v. Russia hot war”. Aggravated by the fact that the Hegemon’s ruling elites are congenitally incapable of stop escalating…
..For all the inbuilt dementia of the current – exiting – administration, Americans who only understand the world via movies may have forgotten that it was Trump 1.0 who withdrew the US from the INF treaty, in 2019. If the US had remained, Russia would not have been able to develop and use Oreshnik. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241122/pepe-escobar-oreshnik—the-3-km-per-second-plot-twist-1120965738.htmlThankful No World War Yet https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thankful-no-world-war-yet
I feel like I always write the same essay about the world being at the inflection-point where oil-driven industrial economy has stalled and is awaiting the inevitable decline, while the financial system, predicated upon exponential growth, is cracking everywhere, yet sustained by the widespread faithful belief that rich people everywhere are getting richer as their stock valuations rise year after year.
The actually powerful people who are financially served by BlackRock, for example, know the actual score of this musical chairs game, and have every intention of holding chairs when the music stops, forcing all others to exit the ownership-game empty handed, “accepting all of the losses”. This includes a lot of upper and mid-level managers, whose service maintains the workings of the real economy, and it includes all of the military and police “enforcers” of the system of ownership-of-real-wealth, so how will “ownership” be maintained by these elites who hold some form of “titles”? Others also have valid claims upon real wealth, and this has to be sorted out politically or the goose that lays the golden-eggs, modern-industrial-economy, will promptly die.
The “Owners” need a scary enough emergency to maintain their hierarchical power, and to maintain the obedience of the management and enforcement classes. The International-Bankers and BlackRock asset-holders need something like World War-3, but that will also destroy much of their real-wealth, as it permanently destroys much of modern industrial economy. It’s paradoxical, but they cannot let go. They just cannot let go of “power”. It is beyond them.
This actual desperation makes their insane threats of starting Armageddon more realistic to those who are able to be more rational, due to holding better options, and being ascendent rather than declining in industrial and military power.
Though politicians usually have the job of delivering the people “willingly” to the plans of the owners, they sometimes have other work to do, re-negotiating the social contract so that society does not collapse and fail to feed everybody. China went through that under Mao, rising out of it under Deng Xiao Peng. Russia reached bottom under globo-cap hostage, Boris Yeltsin, who chose a unique successor, who appeared to be an ordinary bureaucrat, but had organizational super-powers and a historic vision to restore the land his parents both almost died for.We are at a point of agonal uncertainty as ordinary humans, feeling the tension, but misunderstanding it in terms of mundane politics, not comprehending the underlying crisis of real-economy. Even elites, even very old trillionaire-families tend strongly to denial when reality threatens them existentially. Who, in their employ, will serve the owners the bad news harshly enough to induce them to relinquish assets, in order to maintain systemic function, when they presume that others in their position will not relinquish assets, and so will surpass them in the game, whether it crashes or not?
This class of decision-makers has been shielded from the fatal results of their actions by deep bunkers and invisibility of movement in the world, but both are now called into question, and they may be targeted effectively by precision accuracy Oreshnik missiles which can take out any bunker in London or even New York in under 20 minutes, and without prior warning as to the actual target.
Perhaps an example might be made in the “Square Mile” of London, for instance, to help make this point more clearly pertinent to them in a personal way.We really need to take on this big, huge, messy challenge of declining energy and mineral resources constructively in our world, rather than blowing up things we can’t rebuild going forward, things we still, currently need to survive.
The Honest Sorcerer, A Diesel Powered Civilization Part 2: Coping with a difficult reality https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/a-diesel-powered-civilization-51d
US and UK ‘directly involved’ in Nord Stream sabotage – Russia’s spy chief
American and British saboteurs were behind the blasts that crippled the key pipelines, Sergey Naryshkin has said https://swentr.site/news/608206-us-and-uk-intelligence-involved-nord-stream/ Andrew Korybko examines the potential bankruptcy-sale of Nordstream for pennies on the dollar to a US investor, which could become a joint venture with Russia and Germany, even with aspects of making amends, presumably without confessing guilt. Only bankers/investors would take losses.
Why Might The US Let An American Investor Purchase The Bankrupt Nord Stream Project? https://korybko.substack.com/p/why-might-the-us-let-an-americanIt is not “insane” for a puppet to obey orders from the owners, is it? Joe Rogan launches tirade against Zelensky (VIDEO)
The US president’s decision to authorize long-range missile strikes on Russia is “f**king insane,” the podcast host has said https://swentr.site/news/608193-joe-rogan-biden-zelensky/
