Thursday, January 16, 2025

Anticipation

 Expectant,


   Alex Krainer reports on a Tuesday Zoom call with Steve Bannon, about Trumps first days in office next week.   Next week start the days of thunder
The key battle that's shaping up in the U.S. is the battle between two systems of governance: it could shape up as a civil war 2.0
  Much of what Bannon presented wasn't surprising, but what seemed significant was that he confirmed that Trump and his team will go on the offensive from day one in office. "The days of thunder begin on Monday," he said, and the world will not be the same again. Bannon wasn't talking about Trump going on the offensive against the Chinese, Iranians or the Russians. Trump and his team are preparing to take on the "they.”    ["Globo-Cap"​; the "Ancien Regime"?]                                                                                      "They," in Bannon's words, are the people who control the world's most powerful empire and, elections or no elections, democracy or no democracy, they will not voluntarily relinquish their privileges and the control over their empire: there will be a fight. In a few recent podcasts, I discussed what this likely implies, simply on the basis of what the nature of this power struggle entails.
​  Namely, taking on the imperial cabal is a fight to the death. "They," are vicious, unscrupulous and extremely vindictive.
   https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/next-week-start-the-days-of-thunder

Biden Adviser Sullivan Hints at 'Unforeseen Events' Before Trump Inauguration​   https://en.topcor.ru/55644-sovetnik-bajdena-sallivan-namekaet-na-nepredvidennye-sobytija-do-inauguracii-trampa.html

FBI Declares No 'Credible Threats' Ahead Of Trump Inauguration​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-declares-no-credible-threats-ahead-trump-inauguration

What a target...  World’s 3 Richest Men — Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg — Will Attend Trump Inauguration​   https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-3-richest-men-musk-bezos-zuckerberg-will-attend-trump-inauguration/

​What about Alien UFO drones with bean weapons? Asking for a friend.  Fortress DC: Trump's Inauguration Braces For The Worst With Troops, Drones, And Fences   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fortress-dc-trumps-inauguration-braces-worst-troops-drones-and-fences

This old tape turned up. There are other substantiated scenarios, too.  The Tape Accusing LBJ of Having JFK Assassinated   https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-tape-accusing-lbj-of-having-jfk-assassinated/

More fleshed out:  BREAKING: Alex Jones Releases Audio of LBJ Colleague Admitting He Helped LBJ Kill JFK 

Alex Jones at released an audio of a friend of LBJ’s, and former Executive Director of the DNC, admitting that LBJ hired Mac Wallace to assassinate JFK.  ​  https://joehoft.com/breaking-alex-jones-releases-audio-of-lbj-colleague-admitting-he-helped-lbj-kill-jfk/

Simplicius has details.  Ceasefire Deal Reportedly Reached in Gaza, as Both Biden and Trump Take Credit   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ceasefire-deal-reportedly-reached

Celia Farber,  Reports Of Escalated Israeli Airstrikes Over Gaza On Eve Of Ceasefire   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/reports-of-escalated-israeli-airstrikes

20 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes following cease-fire agreement​,  Women and children among the dead as cease-fire set to begin Sunday​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/20-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-following-cease-fire-agreement/3452035

If Trump lives will he publicly humiliate Bibi?   Israel Delays Approving Hostage Deal, Accusing Hamas Of Reneging & Stoking 'Crisis'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-delays-approving-hostage-deal-accusing-hamas-reneging-stoking-crisis

​There is a new Syrian internet news site, SOHR, Syrian Organization for Human Rights, sponsored by SDF, Syrian Democratic Forces, Kurdish forces backed by the US. 
These following stories about Turkish and Israeli aggression are from that site.

SOHR condemns these acts | Horrifying scenes of torturing electrifying detainees in Hama​   https://www.syriahr.com/en/353728/

​  “Peace Spring” area | Two women shot dead by the Military Police
Al-Raqqa province: Two women, one of which is pregnant, were shot dead by members of the Military Police in Sulouk area in Al-Raqqa countryside within “Peace Spring” area.
​  According to reliable SOHR sources, members of the Military Police opened fire on a speeding civil car for “refusing to stop at a checkpoint to be searched”, where a pregnant woman was inside the vehicle on her way to the hospital, in Sulouk area in Al-Raqqa countryside within “Peace Spring” area.​   
https://www.syriahr.com/en/353733/?doing_wp_cron=1736995814.2541561126708984375000

​  Initial death toll | People killed and injured in Turkish airstrike on civilian convoys near Tishreen dam in Aleppo countryside
Aleppo province: An ambulance driver and four civilians were killed, and a large number of civilians, including members of the medical staff, were injured in an initial toll, following a direct airstrike by Turkish fighter jets on a civilian convoy that headed this morning to Tishreen dam in eastern Aleppo to show moral support for SDF and express their opposition to the Turkish attacks.​   https://www.syriahr.com/en/353712/

​  Amid concerns about committing crimes | Gunmen and Military Operations Administration storm villages in Homs countryside, arresting tens of people
Homs province: Local gunmen and other individuals, who produced themselves as members of the Military Operations Administration, stormed the villages of Jabourin and Qaniyyah Al-Assi in Homs countryside, where they intimidated residents and arrested tens of civilians and former combatants who have already struck reconciliation deals.
​  The arrested people were taken to a position near Al-Assi river, while others were taken to Talbiseh, before they were taken to a security centre in Homs. The fate of the arrested people remains unknown, amid growing concerns about killing them.​   
https://www.syriahr.com/en/353814/

Military escalation | Turkish forces shell villages in Al-Hasakah countryside​   https://www.syriahr.com/en/353729/?doing_wp_cron=1736995831.0532929897308349609375

​  Not SOHR:  Turkey Confirms Key Gas Pipeline Was Attacked After Kremlin Accused United States
Moscow has this week made a big and provocative accusation, saying that the United States is seeking to sabotage the last pipeline transporting Russian gas exports into Europe, the TurkStream.
​  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged in a Tuesday press briefing that Washington is encouraging "terrorist" attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure. He specifically cited plans to target TurkStream, following a recent large-scale drone attack.
​  "The US does not tolerate competition in any sphere, including energy. They are recklessly endorsing terrorist activities aimed at undermining the energy stability of the European Union," Lavrov said.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/turkey-confirms-key-gas-pipeline-was-attacked-after-kremlin-accused-united-states

  ​Moon of Alabama:  Preventing Peace With Russia Russia - By Sanctions And Kinetic Means
The U.S. and its NATO proxies are losing on the battle fields of Ukraine. The Biden administration, attempting to  'Trump proof', i.e. prolong, the conflict, is thus (again) trying to defeat Russia by targeting its economic means.
​  This predominantly by cutting the sales of Russian resources. That third parties, the buyers in need of those products, will also be hurt by this is not of concern but can be seen as an additional feature.
​  The new wave of measures started on January 1 with the blocking of the last pipeline through Ukraine from Russia to Europe...

​..The next step followed last week with the announcement of additional sanctions:
​  The sanctions will cover two major Russian petroleum producers and exporters — Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas — both of which are involved in the export of liquified natural gas and efforts to expand the Russian energy sector into the Arctic. They are expected to cut off Moscow’s revenue stream to the tune of billions of dollars per month, putting new strain on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war effort against Ukraine.
​  Separately, the State Department will also block “two active liquefied natural gas projects, a large Russian oil project, and third-country entities supporting Russia’s energy exports” from access to the American financial system and add “numerous Russia-based oilfield service providers and senior officials of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom” to its list of “designated entities” who are banned from the United States.
​  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement that the U.S. is “taking sweeping action against Russia’s key source of revenue for funding its brutal and illegal war against Ukraine.”
​  A second administration official who also briefed reporters on condition of anonymity said the new sanctions will target 183 maritime vessels that are understood to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet,” as well as “dozens” of oil traders and oil field services providers based in Russia.
​  These sanctions will increase the price of oil and gas for everyone.
​  A senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on the move said the White House was choosing to impose the new sanctions just days before President Joe Biden leaves office because both oil markets and the American economy are “in a fundamentally better place” than they were at any other point during the war.
​  The coming price rise caused by these sanctions will thus be explained as a failure of Trump.
A day later Ukrainian forces attacked the compressor station on Russian ground that is feeding the TurkStream pipeline system​.   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/preventing-peace-with-russia-russia-by-sanctions-and-kinetic-means.html#more

​  Marco Rubio Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State:  US State Department Candidate Rubio Considers Kyiv's Plans to Return Lost Territories Unrealistic
"This war must end. Ukraine's problem is not that it is running out of money, it is that it is running out of Ukrainians" – said the future Secretary of State.
​  Marco Rubio believes that Russia has little chance of conquering all of Ukraine, but Moscow will easily retain control over new territories. The politician called Kyiv's intentions to reach the 1991 borders unrealisticThe diplomat also recalled that the future president wants to stop the loss of life in the Ukrainian conflict.
​  "And who wouldn't? The destruction in Ukraine is extraordinary, and it will take generations to rebuild. Millions of Ukrainians no longer live in their homeland and may never return.
 Even as I speak, Ukraine's energy infrastructure is crumbling, and rebuilding will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and decades.​" - said Rubio.​   
https://en.topcor.ru/55658-kandidat-na-post-glavy-gosdepa-ssha-rubio-schitaet-nerealistichnymi-plany-kieva-po-vozvrascheniju-utrachennyh-territorij.html

​  There is plenty of speculation about little "sweeteners".                                                  Trump readies unexpected plan for Ukraine crisis that Putin won't refuse
  Mark Whittington, an author of The Hill, suggested that US President-elect Donald Trump should approach Russian leader Vladimir Putin with an initiative to resume Russian-American cooperation in the space sector in exchange for concluding peace between Moscow and Kyiv.​..
 ​ Germany's Die Welt suggested that Trump was determined to end the military conflict in Ukraine in 2025. According to the publication, in accordance with the plan of future US Vice President James Vance, a demilitarized zone will be created on the current front line. The rest of Ukraine will be able to exist as an independent state, but will not be accepted into NATO.​ ​   https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/161471-trump-putin-plan/

  A team-effort, I assume:  Robert Kennedy Jr. Admits US Guilt in Ukraine Conflict
It was the US that wanted an armed conflict in Ukraine, former presidential candidate turned Trumpist Robert Kennedy Jr. said on Daystar. For Moscow, the conflict in Ukraine is a security issue, not a territorial one, he said.
​  "The conflict in Ukraine should never have happened. My son fought there and took part in the Kharkiv offensive because he believed [Russian President Vladimir] Putin was an aggressor who had invaded the country. This conflict was really about security. For the Russians, it is not a question of territory. They have been saying for 30 years – you cannot put NATO in Ukraine​."   
https://en.topcor.ru/55645-robert-kennedi-mladshij-priznal-vinu-ssha-v-ukrainskom-konflikte.html

​  Gilbert Doctorow also thinks the Ukraine war ends in 2025   Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 15 January
Sullivan​"If we had sanctioned Russia’s oil 18 months ago, at a time when oil prices were high, gas prices were high, it would have meant a spike at the pump in a way that would have put pain on working people in the United States.
​  Today, oil prices are much lower. The oil market globally is very well supplied. And so we have an opportunity to hit Putin in his pocketbook without hitting the American people in theirs. What we’re giving the incoming team, the incoming administration is real leverage in a negotiation​"...
..Doctorow:  Well, the remarks from Sullivan, they show his utter incapacity to think strategically. What he was describing was tactics to cover up a strategic move, and one is not sufficient to the other. He is ignoring completely the state of the war. The whole thing is about a war, And the war is reaching its climax and its culmination.
​  When these penalties, sanctions, had they been introduced 18 months ago, as he said, they could have caused Russia a lot of harm. They were not, for strictly domestic political reasons in the States, which overruled military considerations that would have had a bearing on the status of the war in Ukraine. So he’s imposing them at a point where they make no sense. They’re imposing them in the belief that the war will go on to 2027. It will not.
​  Going back to the question you asked me, the war will end in 2025. Therefore, the notion that these sanctions could impact Russia’s ability to conduct the war is utter folly. He has no strategic thinking.​   
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/15/transcript-of-judging-freedom-edition-of-15-january/

Convince 56,000 voters...  Trump discusses Greenland interest in call with Denmark’s leader
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen repeated that the island is not for sale and said ‘it is up to Greenland itself to decide on independence’​   
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3294939/trump-discusses-greenland-interest-call-denmarks-leader

​  Danish premier tells Trump decision on independence belongs to Greenland
Mette Frederiksen, Donald Trump discuss economic relations, Ukraine war, Middle East situation, China in phone call​   
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/danish-premier-tells-trump-decision-on-independence-belongs-to-greenland/3451971

​Another "Big Arrow" after 2 years?  The Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive in the direction of the Dnepropetrovsk region   https://en.topcor.ru/55605-vs-rf-razvivajut-nastuplenie-v-napravlenii-dnepropetrovskoj-oblasti.html

  Russia plans to strike Ukraine's underground gas storage facilities   
The Russian Armed Forces plan to strike underground gas storage facilities in Ukraine. This may result in Kyiv having fewer and fewer resources to bargain with the West.   https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/161472-russia-ukraine-underground-gas-storage/

"They hit very successfully": Oil refineries and gas storage facilities hit in massive missile strike on Ukraine​   https://en.topcor.ru/55625-bili-vesma-udachno-v-hode-massirovannogo-raketnogo-udara-po-ukraine-porazheny-npz-i-gazovoe-hranilische.html

​  "Our Democracy"  Police officers affiliated with AfD face dismissal under government decree, leaked memo reveals
A leaked memo reveals that German Federal Police officers who join or actively support the Alternative for Germany (AfD) face disciplinary actions including dismissal, under a decree issued by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser​   
https://rmx.news/article/police-officers-affiliated-with-afd-face-dismissal-under-government-decree-leaked-memo-reveals/

​  German military retreats from X​,  Berlin’s Defense Ministry is fleeing Elon Musk’s platform claiming “factual exchange” is becoming difficult
Musk has lambasted the current German government for promoting the “woke mind virus” and leading the country to ruin, going so far as to endorse the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and interview its leader Alice Weidel live on his platform earlier this week.
​  “We will leave our X-channel dormant until further notice and will not post anything actively for the time being,” the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. “We have decided to take this step because a factual exchange is becoming increasingly difficult here.”​   
https://swentr.site/news/610930-german-military-leaving-twitter/

​  Telegraph: Macron urges Starmer to agree to send troops to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron is holding secret talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the possible deployment of troops from both countries to Ukraine,
 the British newspaper The Telegraph reported . The publication's sources claim that Mr. Starmer has not yet made a final decision, while Mr. Macron, as the initiator of the idea, is trying to convince London to agree to it.​   
https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7432863?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

​  Must have the right-look.  London Council Admits It Will Discriminate Against White People In Job Advert​ ,  “We will utilise positive action provisions”
The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.”​ The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”​   https://modernity.news/2025/01/15/london-council-admits-it-will-discriminate-against-white-people-in-job-advert/

​  Mish Shedlock:  Elon Musk and X Will Help Crush EU and UK Censorship
The EU and UK fear they are under attack by Musk and Trump. But the Nannycrats need to look in the mirror to see the real problem.
​  This has come to a head with objections to Musk lending support to AfD, an alleged “far right” German political party, and also with Musk putting a well-deserved spotlight on gang rapes in the UK.
​  Instead of tackling the real issues, EU and UK politicians seek to silence Musk, control AI, and suppress freedom of speech. But every time they do, opposition grows.​   
https://mishtalk.com/economics/elon-musk-and-x-will-help-crush-eu-and-uk-censorship/

​  What Trump Should Do. Dr. Paul C​raig Roberts
American security agencies have long used the cloak of national security to avoid accountability for their crimes, such as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and the numerous assassinations of foreign leaders and screw-ups.
​  Beginning with the Clinton regime, presidents and non-security appointees also began escaping accountability.
​  The situation worsened in the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime, and it exploded in the Biden regime with the Attorney General, FBI, and Democrat state attorneys general and prosecutors using law as a weapon against Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters. Many people were ruined financially. Many were falsely imprisoned, and Trump himself had his reelection in 2020 stolen by the most brazen and obvious vote theft in American history. The evidence is clear that Biden himself is guilty of selling vice presidential and presidential influence with his son, Hunter, being the marketer and sharing the revenues. Yet the US Department of Justice prevented any investigation and indictments. The whore American media covered up the story.
​  The practice of elevating high office holders to the privileged status of a king or an aristocracy above both the law and the US Constitution must not continue in the Trump regime.  If it does, high officials will have gained squatters’ rights in being above the law, and the US Constitution will be reduced to a dead document.
​  At this point, the only way a collapse of the rule of law in the US can be avoided is for the Trump regime to relentless prosecute the Department of Justice, FBI, and White House officials who selectively applied law in the form of lawfare against political opponents.​   
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-trump-should-do-dr-paul-c-roberts/5877286

​  "I Speak The Truth" - Pam Bondi Pummels Dems In AG Confirmation Hearing
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi fielded questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 15 as part of her confirmation process to serve as the next attorney general of the United States.
​  During the hearing, both sides of the aisle focused on concerns about the weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), which Bondi pledged not to engage in.
​  Democrats tended to focus on Bondi’s ties with President-elect Donald Trump and her willingness to maintain the DOJ’s independence from the White House. She also encountered questions about illegal immigration, national security, and FISA warrants...
​..Bondi has received attention for comments she made on Fox News in 2023 when she said: “When Republicans take back the White House ... the Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted—the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated.”
​  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) asked Bondi whether that would include Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland, or former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who led the House Jan. 6 Committee.
​  “No one has been prejudged, nor will anyone be prejudged if I am confirmed,” Bondi responded.
She later told Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) that “no one will be prosecuted [or] investigated because they are a political opponent.”
​  “That’s what we’ve seen for the last four years in this administration,” she said.
Bondi also touched on concerns about the DOJ investigating Catholics and parents who attended or spoke at school board meetings.
​  “Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop,” she said.
She told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) she would look into an FBI memo about traditionalist Catholics.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-speak-truth-pam-bondi-pummels-dems-ag-confirmation-hearing

​  First Things First: Trump To Address Davos Days After Inauguration​   
President Trump is going to waste no team wielding his influence after being inagurated and is scheduled to speak virtually in Davos just days after he takes office.
​  His early participation in the annual elite gathering in Davos, scheduled for Jan. 20-24, is set to be a highlight, with over 60 world leaders attending.
His remarks will ensure representation from the U.S., China, and the EU, with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang also present, according to Bloomberg.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/first-things-first-trump-address-davos-days-after-inauguration

Trump Announces Formation of External Revenue Service to Collect Tariffs and Potentially Abolish Income Taxes Collected by IRS​   https://defconnews.com/2025/01/15/trump-announces-formation-of-external-revenue-service-to-collect-tariffs-and-potentially-abolish-income-taxes-collected-by-irs/

"Great News... Good For Everyone" - California Abandons Regulations Phasing Out Diesel Trucks​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-news-good-everyone-california-abandons-regulations-phasing-out-diesel-trucks

​  Armed LA Residents Patrol Neighborhoods In Violation Of Evacuation Orders
Property isn't only being destroyed -- it's also being stolen by brazen looters. The neighbor of one LA county resident gave a disturbing description of what was going on on their street: "There were like a hundred people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on this street."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/armed-la-residents-patrol-neighborhoods-violation-evacuation-orders

​  Nuclear Waste: The Dark Side of the Microreactor Boom
The nuclear energy sector is experiencing a revival, driven by factors such as increased energy demand and support from governments and tech companies.
Microreactors, a new form of nuclear technology, are being touted for their lower costs and smaller size, but they produce a significantly higher volume of nuclear waste.​ Despite concerns about nuclear waste, the development and deployment of microreactors continue to gain momentum, driven in part by the growing energy needs of AI.​   
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Nuclear-Waste-The-Dark-Side-of-the-Microreactor-Boom.html

​  Sweden Starts Building 100,000-Year Nuclear Waste Repository​  
Nuclear waste is notorious for the fact that it can remain dangerously radioactive for many thousands of years.
​  "It is hard to exaggerate the significance for Sweden and for the climate transition of the fact that the building of the final repository is under way," 
Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari told Reuters. "They said it wouldn't work, but it does."
​  Sweden’s nuclear waste facility is only the second in the world after Finland last year built the world’s first deep-earth repository where it will bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years starting 2026. Dubbed ‘‘Onkalo’’, Finland’s repository is entombed in a bedrock more than 400 meters below the forests of southwest Finland.​   
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Sweden-Starts-Building-100000-Year-Nuclear-Waste-Repository.html

​(Gross appearance of genitalia at birth can ​occasionally be different from chromosomal sex.)   House Passes Bill Banning Men From Women's Sports
The House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Jan. 14, with a vote of 218-206. The legislation excludes males from participating in women’s sports sponsored by organizations that receive federal funding.
​  The text stipulates that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
“This is a great day for women in America,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said at a press conference following the bill’s passage.
​  The legislation, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), is also likely to pass in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.
Proponents of the legislation pointed out male advantages in sports, such as increased muscle and lung capacity. They raised the risk of injury in high-impact sports as well as concerns about young women being forced to share locker room space with biological males.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-passes-bill-banning-men-womens-sports

Zuckerberg’s Rogan interview exposes Big Pharma’s grip on COVID censorship​   https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-01-15-zuckerbergs-rogan-interview-exposes-big-pharma-covid-censorship.html

​  Doctors Ask Supreme Court To Block California Board From Penalizing Certain COVID-19 Views
The California Medical Board considers the expression of the doctors’ dissenting views on the disease as potentially dangerous misinformation that should be suppressed. The board argues it has legal authority to discipline the doctors for speech it deems to be medical misconduct. The physicians counter that the fact that they have medical licenses doesn’t mean they forfeit their free speech rights under the First Amendment.
​  The emergency application in Kory v. Bonta was docketed by the high court on Jan. 8.​ 
[That's Pierre Kory MD, who testified to the US Senate for ivermectin in 2020.]​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doctors-ask-supreme-court-block-california-board-penalizing-certain-covid-19-views

  ​I gave away over 40,000 doses of 5000 Unit vitamin D3 in 2020.  Robert Malone MD,  Preventable Deaths And Vitamin D3
We had an inexpensive life-saving solution both before and during the pandemic
​  The inconvenient truth is that even at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a very simple, inexpensive and effective treatment was available that could have saved the majority of lives lost (1-3). All that the WHO and public health bureaucracy had to do was to recommend and support people taking sufficient Vitamin D3...
​..Fast forward to COVID-19. How many people could have been saved from just having their levels of vitamin D3 brought up to 50 ng/ml (or higher!)? We knew about vitamin D3.  It really didn’t take a randomized clinical trial to understand the link between D3 and RNA respiratory virus morbidity and mortality. The U.S.A alone could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.  Let alone all of the possible lives that could have been saved in the rest of the world. That these lives were unnecessarily lost is not acceptable in any way, shape or form. A crime against humanity.
​  Many people (and physicians) rely on the CDC and NIH to guide them in healthcare and wellness decisions.  It is way past time that these organizations step up to the plate and do their job, and stop relying on the unscientific biases of highly influential bureaucrats. That job being to protect the health of the public.  Not advancing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and its shareholders.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/preventable-deaths-and-vitamin-d3

​Meryl Nass MD,  Critical (and easily understood) 2024 article on COVID's likely *US* lab origin   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/critical-and-easily-understood-2024

The Smoking Gun in America: COVID-19 Virus Transmits in American Lab Animals But Not Chinese Lab Animals   https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/16/the-smoking-gun-in-america-covid-19-virus-transmits-in-american-lab-animals-but-not-chinese-lab-animals/

  Meryl Nass MD (yesterday)  Today West Virginians gained the right to claim a religious exemption to vaccination
On Day One, West Virginia's new Governor issued an executive order for his state.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/today-west-virginians-gained-the

​  Meryl Nass MD,  Like Rip Van Winkle, the FDA and EPA seem to be waking from a long slumber as MAHA approaches
Or are they just issuing rules to make it appear so? Don't know yet. Here are 3 examples.
​  FDA: Red Dye #3​--  Eliminated,
 FDA: Food labeling—to actually provide consumers useful information that will help them distinguish how healthy or harmful products are? This looks to me like an end-run around truly meaningful food label changes​,  
​  EPA admits forever chemicals in sewer sludge might not be such a great idea after all. Is this a repeat of the fluoride experiment: you get rid of a nasty chemical that is very hard and expensive to manage by adding it to food and water? What will EPA do about it? Why did they encourage farmers to spread this poison on their crops? Will we get some accountability for the decision?​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/like-rip-van-winkle-the-fda-and-epa

​  Steve Kirsch notes that it took a lot of people a long time to not see vaccine-injuries.  Official New Zealand vaccine safety analysis: Nothing to be concerned about
The only confirmed associated side effects are anaphylaxis, myo/pericarditis, and Bell's Palsy. And maybe 2 deaths total​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/official-new-zealand-vaccine-safety

​Seeing Nothing (pictured in vegetable garden, unaware of chemtrails overhead)


Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Governor Gavin's Happy Dance

 Seeking Insights,


  Enigmatic statements:  LA fires worse than nuclear strike – Trump
In an interview with Newsmax, Trump predicted that rescuers would find “many more dead” and expressed bewilderment at the scale of destruction.
​  “I believe it’s greater damage than if they got hit by a nuclear weapon. I’ve never seen anything like it. Vast miles and miles of houses just burned to a crisp. There’s nothing standing,” Trump told the outlet.
He added that he had seen “very guarded pictures” of the destruction, claiming that the catastrophe is “far worse than you even see on television, if that’s believable.”...
..Trump is considering paying a personal visit to southern California to survey the damage caused by the fires, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with his plans. In his interview with Newsmax, the president-elect also expressed interest in taking part in the rebuilding of the area, stating that “we’re gonna do things with Los Angeles. You know, I’m already putting my developer cap on.”​   https://swentr.site/news/610868-trump-la-fires-nuke/

​  Governor Gavin Newsome says these words as a spontaneous movement of joyful delight flows through his body. What exactly was he thinking? Look at 1:18 minute mark.
  "I was just talking to Josh Green, the Governor down in Hawaii, who had some ideas around some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties. So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward and we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks."
​  Newsom Displays Body Language of DELIGHT Talking About a TRAGEDY!​   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEgF4oS5Z0

​  From July 29, 2021  How Los Angeles Plans to Become a “Smarter City” by the 2028 Olympics
LA recently released a smart city roadmap that envisions a highly digital and connected future.​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/los-angeles-smarter-city-2028-olympics/5876967

​  Pepe Escobar,  I’m Gonna MAGA You, Baby
It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will rock you – in every sense. We will crush you. We will take whatever we want because we can.​  And if you wanna walk away from the U.S. dollar, we will destroy you. BRICS, we’re coming to get ya.
​  Trump 2.0 – a mix of professional wrestling and MMA played in a giant planetary cage – is in da house starting next Monday.
​  Trump 2.0 aims to be on the driving seat on the global financial system; on control of the world’s oil trade and LNG supply; and on strategic media platforms. Trump 2.0 is gearing up to be an extended exercise in the capacity to hurt The Other. Any Other. Hostile takeovers – and blood on the tracks. That’s how we “negotiate”...
​..The Empire of Chaos faces a humongous debt, owed to usual suspect loan sharks, that may only be – partially – repaid by selected export surpluses. That would imply re-industrialization – a long, costly affair – and securing smooth military supply chains.
​  Where the resource base will be for this Sisyphean task? Washington simply cannot rely on Chinese exports and rare earths. The chessboard needs to be rejigged – with trade and tech unified under U.S. unilateral, monopoly control.
​  Plan A, so far, was to simultaneously confront Russia and China: the two top BRICS, and key vectors of Eurasia integration. China’s strategy, since the start of the millennium, has been to trade resources for infrastructure, developing Global South markets as China itself keeps developing.
​  Russia’s strategy has been to help nations recover their sovereignty; actually helping nations to help themselves on the sustainable development front.
​  Plan A against the concerted geoeconomic and geostrategic strategies of the Russia-China strategic partnership miserably failed. What has been attempted by the ghastly, exiting U.S. administration generated serial, massive blowbacks.
​  So it’s time for Plan B: Looting the allies. They are already dominated chihuahuas anyway. The – exploitation – show must go on. And there are plenty of chihuahuas available to be exploited...
​..When it comes to the Arctic as a crucial, evolving battlefield, there may be a vague allusion to the Northwest Passage. But never a mention of what really matters; the Northern Sea Route – the Russian denomination; the Chinese call it the Arctic Silk Road. That’s one of the key connectivity corridors of the future.
​  The Northern Sea Route encompasses at least 15% of the world’s unexplored oil and 30% of the world’s unexplored natural gas. Greenland is smack in the middle of this New Great Game – capable of supplying years of uranium, as much oil as Alaska (bought from Russia in 1867), plus rare earths – not to mention providing useful real state for missile defense and offense.
​  Washington has been trying to grab Greenland from Denmark since 1946. There’s a deal with Copenhagen in place guaranteeing military control – mostly naval. Now Greenland is being revamped as the ideal U.S. entry point into the Arctic Great Game against Russia.
​  At the St. Petersburg forum last June, I had the privilege to follow an exceptional round table on the Northern Sea Route: that’s an integral part of Russia’s 21st century development project, focused on commercial navigation – “We need more icebreakers!” – and bound to surpass Suez and Gibraltar in the near future.
​  Slightly over 50,000 Greenland residents – which already enjoy autonomy, especially vis a vis the EU – would more than accept a full Danish exit; Copenhagen actually abandoned them since 1951. Greenlanders will love to profit from vast U.S. investments...
..What Trump 2.0 actually wants from Greenland is crystal clear: total militarization; privileged access to rare earths; and commercially excluding Russia and Chinese companies.
​  Chinese military expert Yu Chun noted that “soon, the long-desired ‘golden waterway’ of the Arctic Ocean is expected to open, allowing ships to traverse the Pacific Ocean and sail along the northern coasts of North America and Eurasia into the Atlantic Ocean.”
​  As the Northern Sea Route is “a key element of Sino-Russian cooperation”, it’s inevitable that the U.S.’s “strategic vision is to prevent the establishment of a ‘golden waterway’ between China, Russia, and Europe by controlling Greenland.”
​  On the wider chihuahua front, activity is frantic. Assorted Davos/ Deep State-linked elites across NATOstan – from Europe to Canada – are in the process of being replaced by new, Trump 2.0-affiliated elites.
​  That’s indissociably linked to the Looting the Allies strategy: the further destruction of the vassal EU economy to strengthen the heart of the Empire.
​  In Germany, the Afd’s Alice Weidel – pragmatic, intellectually capable – offers a quite intriguing perspective. She is stressing on the record that Germany needs to restart importing raw materials and cheap natural gas – let’s reopen Nord Stream – from Russia.​ That opens the tantalizing possibility that Trump and his factotum Elon Musk fully realize that Germany is worthless to the U.S. as a de-industrialized backwater – even under the overall framework of a hardcore neoliberal asset stripping offensive. Of course Trump 2.0 will extract a hefty price for Germans to get a revitalized nation back.
​  Trump 2.0 at least holds the – dubious – merit of a relatively realistic reading of the chessboard; Russia, India, China – the Primakov triangle – as well as Iran have become too powerful to be looted. So the next best option is Plunder the Chihuahuas. The blowing up of Nord Stream as ordered by the Biden crime family – as detailed by Sy Hersh – was a gleaming starter...​..In the event of a double NATOstan annexation of Canada and Greenland, the U.S. may be even able to match Russia’s resource base. Arguably that’s the key rationale for unleashing this New Great Game. Forget “multipolarity”. BRICS, take note.
​  The most intriguing side plot is, of course, Elon Musk. Trump badly needs Musk’s massive social media/propaganda digital megaphone. Simultaneously, on the chihuahua front, the platinum sidekick wants to profit from a Europe capable of assessing enough energy, raw materials and loads of consumers with solid purchasing power.
​  The facts on the ground already spell out the “rules-based international order” being replaced in a flash by a no-rules international disorder. After all, international law has already been abolished by the Empire of Chaos itself (that’s bipartisan) – when it comes to illegal, unilateral sanctions, theft of financial assets or legitimization of genocide and head-chopping “moderate rebels”.​   
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/im-gonna-maga-you-baby/

​  What if the US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia align?​   The war behind the war: What World War III is really being fought over
World War III, like all 21st century wars, is not being fought over ideologies. It’s being fought over energy and natural resources. Because he who controls the world’s resources will be free to impose whatever ideology he wants...
​..The modern technocratic state is going to be based on energy and carbon credits. Fiat currencies will become a thing of the past if these global predators succeed in their plans for a one-world surveillance state, where freedom of movement becomes a distant memory. Our healthcare and even our diets will also be tightly controlled by the elitist globalist predator class, whose interests are exemplified by the World Economic Forum and other elitist organizations.
​  With an understanding of the ongoing war over who controls the global food and energy supplies, it becomes easy to see how the NATO-Russia war (with Ukraine as NATO’s proxy) will blow up into World War III.​   
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/the-war-behind-the-war-what-world

The warm Gulf Stream is much weakened, also.​  Britain freezes amid severe gas shortage​   https://en.topcor.ru/55545-britanija-zamerzaet-na-fone-ostrogo-deficita-gaza.html

​  James O'Keefe snags a blabbermouth potential traitor on video:
​  “I’ve been in conversation with a couple of retired generals to explore what we can do,” Jamie Mannina, advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, former FBI Special Agent, and self-proclaimed “spy hunter,” disclosed to an undercover OMG Journalist his plans to utilize irregular strategies to undermine​ Donald​ Trump’s presidency​                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Mannina also described his “ghost writing” with a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization, National Security Leaders for America, saying, "What we were doing was we were trying to explain to the American people the national security consequences of another Trump presidency." He elaborated on his recent activities, saying, “Since the spring, I was working with these retired generals, retired ambassadors,” adding, “They're like one, two, or three-star generals and admirals. You probably know maybe four stars." He acknowledged the organization's ultimate goal, emphasizing, "This organization tried to defeat Donald Trump."
​  Mannina further revealed that he was participating in a “huge meeting with military leaders; in a very secure room called ‘The Tank.’” The Tank is a nickname for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Conference room which is a (SCIF), a Compartmentalized Information Facility.​   
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1879322336601530816

​  “I Made It My Personal Thing to Take This Guy Down”: Bannon Vows to Keep Musk Out of White House
“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon said, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
​  “He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person.”
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon continued. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”​   
https://discernreport.com/i-made-it-my-personal-thing-to-take-this-guy-down-bannon-vows-to-keep-musk-out-of-white-house/

​Pick Serbia, Don.  Switzerland, Serbia Offer To Host Trump–Putin Ukraine Peace Talks   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/switzerland-serbia-offer-host-trump-putin-ukraine-peace-talks

  Glenn Diessen presents useful facts and perspective. War is unpredictable:  Why NATO’s Plan to Conscript Ukraine’s Youth Will Fail
While there is seemingly bipartisan support in the US for sacrificing Ukraine’s youth, the plan is deeply flawed. The Ukrainians are overwhelmingly in favour of immediate negotiations, the Ukrainian government resists the pressure from NATO, and there is very little chance that the new recruits will significantly improve the situation.
​  NATO’s argument is seemingly reasonable: More Ukrainian soldiers are necessary to pressure Russia to the negotiation table and to negotiate from a position of strength.​  However, the need to pressure Russia to the negotiation table is based on lies as Russia has been open to negotiations over the past three years. NATO has rejected negotiations​...  
 In March 2022, Zelensky confirmed in an interview with the Economist: “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives”​...
​..The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians want negotiations to start immediately, not to sacrifice their youth in a lost war. Newsweek reports that “Over 6 million Ukrainians of conscription age haven't complied with legislation introduced last year to boost dwindling troop numbers fighting Russia”. The public wants an end to the war, not send their teenagers to die.
​  Conscription of Ukraine’s youth will cause great social upheaval in a society that is already fed up with watching their men being snatched from the streets and thrown into vans by “recruiters”.​..
​..NATO should offer Russia what it wants the most – a pan-European security agreement based on indivisible security that replaces the zero-sum bloc politics. This is the best option for the West, Russia and Ukraine.   https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/why-natos-plan-to-conscript-ukraines

​Multiple factors:  The window of opportunity for a possible rehabilitation of Nord Stream is closing   https://www-nachdenkseiten-de.translate.goog/?p=127213&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

  Andrew Korybko says, "more carrot; less stick",  How Trump can break China’s tightening grip on Central Asia
Trump 2.0 must make compromises on Russia, Iran and India if it wants to contain China’s rising influence in strategic region​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/how-trump-can-break-chinas-tightening-grip-on-central-asia/

​  Why China’s Ice Silk Road has Trump up in Arctic arms
Ice Silk Road, aka Northern Sea Route, mitigating China’s risk of US blockade of Malacca Strait chokepoint in a war scenario
​  Shanxi-based columnist says the US finally recognized that China and Russia have joined forces to launch the Northern Sea Route, or Ice Silk Road, which among other things, will mitigate China’s Malacca Strait dilemma, but it’s too late now.
​  “The Northern Sea Route has been ignored by many people but it is now attracting China’s attention with its unique geographical advantages,” the writer says.
“This route meanders along the Russian Arctic coastline from East Asia to Europe, which can shorten the traditional route through the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal by one-third,” he adds. “This is undoubtedly a great benefit for China as a shorter voyage means lower costs.”
​  ”If one day the US attempts to block the Strait of Malacca through military means, China’s oil supply will instantly face a severe challenge. Therefore, developing the Northern Sea Route is not only to save time and costs, but more importantly, to open up another lifeline for China’s energy security.”​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/why-chinas-ice-silk-road-has-trump-up-in-arctic-arms/

China plans to blow Starlink out of the sky in a Taiwan war​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/china-plans-to-blow-starlink-out-of-the-sky-in-a-taiwan-war/

​  S Korea impeached president arrested after investigators scale walls​  
Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea's first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody.​ Yoon, 64, is being investigated on charges of insurrection for a failed martial law order on 3 December that plunged the country into turmoil.
He has also been impeached by parliament and suspended - but will only be removed from office if the Constitutional Court upholds the impeachment.

  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg45zqz225vo

​  John Helmer on the final dance between Assad, Putin, Erdogan and Iran:  WRITING ON THE KREMLIN WALL – IS IT STRATEGY OR ALIBI?
In a single line expressed through a reporter, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has explained the defeat of Syria as a tactical withdrawal in preparation for the “military conflict with NATO, and in the next 10 years. So, Russia right now needs solutions that will ensure at least a long-term balance in the global confrontation.”  
​  This line appeared in the Kremlin-funded security analysis platform Vzglyad on January 3; there was no mention of Syria.  In case the significance was missed, Vzglyad added the editorial line in italics: “In a long confrontation with the West, it is important to skillfully combine the economy and military. Judging by the first results of the activities of the economist Belousov as Minister of Defense, this is exactly what we see.”
​  A political source in Moscow concurs. “Russia has to fight all of NATO head-on within the next ten years. So if a deal can be made now to earn some time to rearm, then that’s a strategic choice that is going to have to be made.”​...

​..There is an eyewitness — this is Kamel Saqr who has given his detailed account of what happened, in what sequence and with what meaning. Saqr is exceptional because he was present as a senior member of Assad’s staff at the meeting Assad held in secret with Putin in Moscow on November 29; he listened to Putin’s telephone call with General Valery Gerasimov during the meeting; and he continued negotiating with Putin’s subordinates through the Friday evening and Saturday morning, November 29-30, before Assad and his staff flew from Moscow at 4 pm that day.
​  Nothing comparable to this account has appeared in public from any other source to speak credibly. Saqr’s interpretation of what he calls “the state of disavowal” is disputable; the facts, less so.  Saqr says that Assad told him directly that when he was at his Moscow residence in the Four Seasons Hotel, Putin had sent him the message that he wanted the visit kept secret, canceling Saqr’s negotiations with the Kremlin press office on a joint communiqué for public release.
​  Also, Putin’s message to Assad, according to Saqr, was that “the [Russian] military was not in a position to wage war, neither psychologically nor logistically.” In retrospect, Saqr interprets Putin as having decided before the fall of Aleppo to the Turkish-led forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 2 not to prevent their southward advance to Damascus, and also to have decided not to accept Iranian reinforcements through the Khmeimim airbase. From Saqr’s record of the last meetings in Damascus between Assad and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi on December 5-6, he admits he doesn’t know how coordinated the Russian and Iranian decision-making had been, and for how long.​..
​..On the evening of Tuesday, December 3, after Saqr claims Assad’s call had been rejected, Putin spoke by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganErdogan had initiated the call. In their discussion, according to the Kremlin release, Putin asked the Turkish president to “stop radical groups’ terrorist aggression against the Syrian state and provide comprehensive assistance to the legitimate authorities’ efforts to restore stability and constitutional order across the country, including using Ankara’s capabilities in the region.” Erdogan reportedly agreed on “strengthening cooperation both bilaterally and within the framework of the Astana process. The key importance of further close coordination between Russia, Turkiye and Iran to normalise the situation in Syria”.  
​  Erdogan was misleading. According to Saqr’s record of what Assad had been told by the Iraqi prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani, Erdogan had declared the time for mediation was over.​   
https://johnhelmer.net/writing-on-the-kremlin-wall-is-it-strategy-or-alibi/#more-90872

​  Craig Murray: US Pet Now President of Lebanon
That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.​   https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/14/craig-murray-us-pet-now-president-of-lebanon/

​  One ​human story:  Torture testimonies that Netanyahu and US leaders do not want people to know
He is living in a tent with his children, but his relationship with them is completely different than 15 months ago, when he was energetic and funny. “His children deal with him as if he was a stranger,” his wife, Salma, says.​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250114-torture-testimonies-that-netanyahu-and-us-leaders-do-not-want-people-to-know/

​  Jewish Rape Gangs: Palestinian women detail sexual assaults in Kamal Adwan raid
Dozens of women report being sexually assaulted during the Kamal Adwan hospital raid last month
​  Before anything else happened, Maryam al-Muqayad says male Israeli troops told her to take off her clothes.
Then, the soldiers took the 13-year-old Palestinian girl, dragged her by her hair and made her kneel down.
 When they had stopped abusing her, they forced her to leave northern Gaza, her home, and make her way south.​   
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/01/14/jewish-rape-gangs-palestinian-women-detail-sexual-assaults-in-kamal-adwan-raid/

​  A few... Israel soldiers increasingly refusing to continue fighting in Gaza over war crimes, report reveals​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250114-israel-soldiers-increasingly-refusing-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-over-war-crimes-report-reveals/

​  Data on the rise in ‘reverse Jewish immigration’ shocks Israelis
​  The report by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics at the beginning of the new year, 2025, regarding the reverse immigration of Jews was like fuel poured on the fire of political conflicts in Israel, because the bleak number appearing in the headlines of the Israeli media represented the balance of reverse immigration of Jews outside the Occupation state. 82,000 were removed from the population figure, which was bad news for its political and security circles.
​  This shocking statistic immediately turned into a new political debate among Israelis, added to their series of endless debates, especially since the available data indicated that this immigration was concentrated on professionals, doctors and technicians due to their despair over the conditions of the state.​   
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250114-data-on-the-rise-in-reverse-jewish-immigration-shocks-israelis/

​  Trump 'Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected' - Israeli Media
Last Friday evening, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, called from Qatar to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides that he would be coming to Israel the following afternoon. The aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night.
​  Witkoff's blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.
​  A week before Trump's inauguration, Jerusalem already sees a change in the rules of the game that has broken the deadlock in the hostage negotiations. Unusually, the outgoing Biden administration has let Witkoff lead the process, on the grounds that any obligations the United States undertakes will be incumbent on Trump, not on Biden.
​  Witkoff is a Jewish real estate investor and developer who is close to Trump. He doesn't have the background of the kind of people who usually fill diplomatic roles. "Witkoff isn't a diplomat. He doesn't talk like a diplomat, he has no interest in diplomatic manners and diplomatic protocols," says a senior Israeli diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He's a businessman who wants to reach a deal quickly and charges ahead unusually aggressively."
​  In fact, Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year. Hamas has not budged from its position that the hostages' freedom must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners (the easy part) and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (the hard one). Netanyahu rejected this condition and thus was born the partial deal proposed by Egypt.
​  I assumed last week that Trump had shared that video of Jeffrey Sachs calling Netanyahu a "deep, dark son of a bitch" inadvertently but it's looking like that was actually a shot across the bow.​   
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64807

Israel’s Ben Gvir Threatens To Quit Government Over Ceasefire Deal​,  Ben Gvir called on Smotrich to join him​   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/14/israels-ben-gvir-threatens-to-quit-government-over-ceasefire-deal/

​  Moon of Alabama,   Trump's Action Demonstrates Biden's Failure In Stopping The Genocide
The deal, about a hostage exchange and ceasefire, is similar to one that has been on offer since many, many month ago. That deal had been agreed to by Hamas but was sabotaged again and again by Netanyahoo and his coalition allies:
​  National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sparked outcry Monday when he claimed he had repeatedly foiled a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas over the past year, while calling on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join him in thwarting an emerging agreement....
​  In a post on X, together with a video in which he called on far-right ally Smotrich to join him in telling Netanyahu that they would bolt the coalition if the current hostage deal proposal went through, Ben Gvir said that they have managed to stop previous efforts to reach an agreement.
​  “In the last year, using our political power, we managed to prevent this deal from going ahead, time after time,” he wrote.
​  However, Ben Gvir said he now lacks the power to stop what he termed the “surrender deal” because Netanyahu expanded the coalition by bringing in Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party in September last year.
​  Aside from Ben Gvir's and Smotrich's resistance to a deal, it was Netanyahoo personally who was blocking a deal with the hope of assuring his own political survival.
​  Over fifteen months the Biden administration falsely claimed that it was Hamas which was blocking a deal over Gaza. It falsely claimed that it could not use any pressure against Netanyahoo to finally accept an agreement.
​  That was of course nonsense as it is the U.S. which was and is financing Netanyahoo's war.​  It only took a few hours and some brashness from Donald Trump to push Netanyahoo towards concessions.​   
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/trumps-action-demonstrates-bidens-failure-in-stopping-the-genocide.html

​  "We Have A Deal For The Hostages" - Trump Lauds Israel-Hamas Ceasefire 'Breakthrough'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed relatives of hostages kidnapped by Hamas that the end of the war in Gaza is near, amid reports that a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal has been reached. A formal deal could be announced within hours, he has said.​..
​.."There is a breakthrough in the hostage deal negotiations in Doha. Hamas' military leader in Gaza Mohammed Sinwar gave his OK," one Israeli official was cited as saying. And importantly, a statement from Trump's team:​  'We have a deal': Trump hails Gaza peace accord​...  
​..The impending deal reportedly lays out an initial six week ceasefire phase which includes gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Central Gaza as well as the return of displaced Palestinians to North Gaza.
​  Of the some 100 hostages still held by Hamas, at least one-third are believed already deceased. Dozens were released upon an initial deal struck early in the conflict.
Like with the first hostage exchange, dozens of Palestinian prisoners are expected to be released under this new agreement in return for each Israeli hostage.

​  Status quo:  Trump’s HUD Secretary and Our Reverse Robin Hood Housing System​   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/trumps-hud-secretary-and-our-reverse-robin-hood-housing-system.html

​  Judge threatens to break the UK's wall of secrecy around Assange's persecution
For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. 
​  After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
​  Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.​..
..The CPS files relate to lengthy correspondence between the UK and Sweden over a preliminary investigation into rape allegations in Sweden that predate the US extradition case.
​  A few CPS emails from that time were not destroyed and have been released under Freedom of Information rules. They show that it was the UK authorities pushing reluctant Swedish prosecutors to pursue the case against Assange. Eventually, Swedish prosecutors dropped the case after running it into the ground.
​  In other words, the few documents that have come to light show that it was the CPS – led at that time by Keir Starmer, later knighted and now Britain’s prime minister – that waged what appears to have been a campaign of political persecution against Assange, rather than one based on proper legal considerations.​   
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/judge-threatens-to-break-the-uks

​  FDA Finally Bans Cancer-Linked Red No. 3 Food Dye
A Long-Overdue Step, Yet Dangerous COVID-19 Genetic Injections and Other Synthetic Dyes Remain on the Market​   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/fda-finally-bans-cancer-linked-red

​  BREAKING STUDY: Intramuscular mRNA Injections Distribute to Vital Organs, Resulting in Systemic Spike Protein Production
Spike protein expression observed in critical organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, heart, head, and kidneys.​   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-study-intramuscular-mrna

​Avoiding Artificial Ingredients (pictured with winter vegetable garden)