Incredulous,
The question is again forced, what is going on in world events, which seem chaotic and nonsensical? What it seems like is that there is no narrative which adequately serves the interests of the "Owners" and their political and business "elites", and that there are two divergent camps, with divergent interests and control-narratives, the globalists, and the nationalists. Globalists are tied to supra-national lending at interest to national governments, to fund wars. Lending at interest leads to economic crises, as debts outgrow productive economies at all scales. Economic crises lead to wars, which must be funded...
Populist nationalists seek to increase real-economy, to the benefit of their nations, workers, families, communities and long-term infrastructure viability.
Globalists seek to extract the abstracted "capital" from nations in the form of money, which is a conceptual agreement, not a farm, factory or oil well. Money is highly fungible, and can travel from New York to Bangladesh in an instant. This is convenient for those who have agreed ownership rights to productive properties and to the debt payments of individuals, companies and nations. They can lend at low rates, engineer crises, then demand higher rates or full repayment, obtaining either higher rates of return, or asset liquidations, as in the Asian Financial Crisis, where factories and businesses were bought very cheaply by global financiers.
Populist nationalists may shelter their countries from such extraction-cycles of free-flowing "financial capital" by introducing "capital controls", such as China has, which tie the money to the place, the nation.
Nationalists may also fund their nations through tariffs, which make their national products less expensive at home, and increase the costs of foreign products. Retaliation is usual, so imports become more expensive in all countries. Countries which depend heavily on imports may be hit harder, especially if they can't replace them, as might be the case if their is not enough farmland to replace food imports. Nations that are more self-sufficient will fare better, especially if others depend upon their exports, such as oil and grains.
Autarky is the state of self sufficiency. No modern nation is truly autarkic, but Russia has been pushed hard in that direction by sanctions since 2014, and has the most natural resources per capita of any country. A system of tariffs, which makes imports expensive, nudges a country towards autarky, and it takes the money from trade to run governments. This is bad for globalists who favor a free-trade system where they collect the skim from trade between nations. The more trade the better. The more a nation depends upon trade to survive, the more the globalists who control the channels and finances of trade are able to extract wealth from that nation through their manipulations of price and availability.
Global trade has been facilitated by diesel fuel, and massive ships to carry standardized containers, which can transfer directly to trucks and rail cars.
Global trade has certain advantages, because some places can make some things more efficiently than other places can, and if they ship cheaply, then there are practical benefits, but also the risk of dependency. This vulnerability to an embargo was impressed upon the US in 1973, two years after the US had peak domestic oil production, by the Arab Oil Embargo, which was retaliation for the US supporting Israel in the 1973 war.
My best assessment is that we are in a jagged plateau of global industrial output, which is poised for terminal decline, because it is 90% correlated with net oil + natural gas condensates production, and that peaked at the end of 2018. The "Repo Crisis" of big banks not trusting each other on overnight loans, backed by T-bills, happened the next August, and the "Going Direct Bailout" happened during COVID lockdowns in Spring of 2020.
If my assessment is correct, the debts-at-interest that are the foundation of our current money are mostly bad-debts. The cookie jar has mostly IOUs, not cookies. Who will get the remaining cookies? How will this be managed? Those are political questions which societies must agree upon, or they will break apart and not produce the necessities of life for their members.
The first question is how to manage the defaults. Global ownership elites prefer that claims upon the remaining wealth be nullified. If a claimant dies, then that is one less claim upon real wealth to compete with theirs. Destruction of competing claims through war has often been employed in the service of old-wealth. Sometimes broad societal negotiations, to reach a new Social-Contract are engaged over a period of years, and a society is able to reorganize functionally and move forward in a better-adapted arrangement to provide for its human needs at scale.
We are now approaching such a moment of societal realization, I think.
Thanks Eleni. Is Donald Trump managing the possible collapse of the “American empire”? by Thierry Meyssan
For a month, the accumulation of critical events around the United States, Ukraine and the European Union has been difficult to interpret because each power has been advancing in disguise. European leaders assume a stupid air by assuring that they continue to support the Ukrainian integral nationalists while Washington and Moscow have already agreed on a peace agreement. However, it is possible that the diplomatic summits are hiding another issue: the prevention of a major economic crisis in the West. In this case, Washington must terrorize its allies to force them to pay off its debts.
It was in the kitsch decor of his Mar-a-Lago residence that Donald Trump convinced allied central bankers and finance ministers that he was going to make them pay the United States’ debts...
..A videoconference by analyst Jim Bianco, taken up by the Bloomberg agency, rekindled concerns. According to this analyst, the Trump administration is following a plan, the "Mar-a-Lago Agreement". It intends to radically restructure the US debt burden by reorganizing world trade through tariffs, devaluing the dollar and, ultimately, reducing the cost of borrowing, all with the aim of putting US industry on an equal footing with its competitors in the rest of the world... The main idea would be for the US Treasury to issue government bonds that do not pay interest (what are called "zero coupons") and that would not mature for a century (that is, could not be exchanged for cash for 100 years). Washington would therefore have to force its allies to convert their debts into "zero coupons".
If we accept this analysis, we must reinterpret various actions of President Trump, in terms of customs duties or the creation of a sovereign wealth fund. They no longer seem as erratic as the international press describes them, but on the contrary very logical.
We must therefore consider that Donald Trump is trying to manage the possible economic collapse of Joe Biden’s "American empire" as Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to manage that of Leonid Brezhnev’s "Soviet empire".
I am all the more attentive to this hypothesis because, in my opinion, the coup of September 11, 2001 had no other goal than to postpone the foreseeable collapse of the “American empire”...
..This is probably what we are witnessing today: Donald Trump, President of the United States, is dissolving the “American empire” as he had tried to undo it in 2017... We must therefore consider that Donald Trump is trying to manage the possible economic collapse of Joe Biden’s "American empire" as Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to manage that of Leonid Brezhnev’s "Soviet empire".
I am all the more attentive to this hypothesis because, in my opinion, the coup of September 11, 2001 had no other goal than to postpone the foreseeable collapse of the “American empire”...
..If my hypothesis is correct, we must not believe a word of the threats of annexation of new territories, such as Canada, and not imagine that the United States is withdrawing militarily from Europe to confront China, but admit that it is militarily abandoning its European allies. We see that it is abandoning Germany and relying on Poland to organize Central Europe, even if it means letting Warsaw annex Eastern Galicia (currently Ukrainian). Similarly, we must prepare to see the United States abandon its Middle Eastern allies, with the exception of Israel...
..Note that if the European allies, the Chinese and the Saudis should consider it a scam to exchange their debts for “zero coupons”, Russia should on the contrary support the United States in this maneuver. Indeed, during the dismantling of the Soviet Union, Russia went through a decade of recession and unrest, but today it needs the United States to avoid finding itself face to face with China. https://www.voltairenet.org/article221903.htmlUS deficit sets record with $1.1 trillion in first five months of fiscal year 2025 https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/us-deficit-sets-record-11-trillion-first-five-months-fiscal-year-2025
Putin Rejects US Temporary Ceasefire Plan, Appears In Military Fatigues https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-rejects-us-temporary-cease-fire-plan-appears-military-fatigues
‘A ceasefire only benefits those who are retreating’: Russia’s top foreign relations experts and actors react to US-Ukraine talks https://www.rt.com/russia/614082-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-experts/
Russian Negotiator Reiterates Russian “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow
READ IN FULL: Putin’s statement on Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire proposal
Russia is ready, the president has said, stressing that such an agreement “must lead to long-term peace” https://swentr.site/russia/614170-putin-ukraine-conflict-us/
Trump ‘would like to meet with’ Putin: The Russian president has also expressed openness to discuss a US-proposed Ukraine ceasefire with his American counterpart
There was an added treat before Mr. Lavrov arrived… we spent thirty minutes chatting with Maria Zakharova in a casual environment. She is equally charming and tough as a rhinoceros hide. https://sonar21.com/a-conversation-with-foreign-minister-lavrov/
My finger on the pulse is my membership in a prestigious ‘royal’ French-speaking club, where I have the opportunity to sit at table with other members for the periodic, even weekly gatherings. My own preferred sub-club is the Cinema group which gathers at least once monthly for projection of some vintage film which may be American, or French, or whatever. After the screening we take seats on a random basis for a shared dinner. Table talk wanders in all directions. Not often do folks talk politics, because it is by nature so divisive. But when they do, it is perfectly clear that the overwhelming majority of members are now pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian. Given that this club has long been a haven of tolerance for divergent opinions, and when I joined five years ago they still celebrated the visit of Peter the Great to Spa during his European travels, this solidity behind the NATO position on Russia is striking...
Free Trade was Ricardo’s Concocted Theory Used to dispossess the British Aristocracy, Paul Craig Roberts
Countries once understood that being dependent on imports of necessities, such as food, was a threat to national existence. A country could be subdued by the cutoff of food. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/12/free-trade-was-ricardos-concocted-theory-used-to-dispossess-the-british-aristocracy/
Alastair Crooke, Europe faces a MAGA ‘vibe-shift’ as Trump moves to his primordial objective – The Global Reset
Meanwhile, there’s growing recognition Trump is serious about radically reshaping the US. The Wall Street Journal asks if he is taking a “liquidationist approach”. The Financial Times underlines he sees the need for shock therapy to remake the US to make things great again and argues a recession won’t stop him. Indeed, the more one hears ‘Main Street not Wall Street’, ‘national security’, ‘long term, not next quarter’, and ‘don’t focus on stocks’, the more it echoes ‘Common Prosperity’. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-theres-growing-recognition-trump-serious-about-radically-reshaping-us
Schumer Shutdown: Senate Refuses To Pass Continuing Resolution After Democrats Melt Down https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blocks-path-schumer-and-schiff-schitt-shower-over-shutdown-friday-deadline-looms
RFK Jr's Ex-CIA Daughter-In-Law Tasked With Reining In Intel's 'Black Budgets'
Look Out Below: Psychology and fundamentals both have to bottom for there to be "value", despite what idiots on TV say. That day is not today. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.
Massie Donations Pour In - Jewish Group Vows To Help Trump Oust Him https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-donations-pour-jewish-group-vows-help-trump-oust-him
Trump says no Palestinians will be expelled from Gaza as he presses takeover plan
'Nobody is expelling any Palestinians,' US president says after Israeli minister vows to erect office to oversee forced displacements https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-no-palestinians-will-be-expelled-from-gaza-as-he-presses-takeover-plan/3507836
Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
Helyeh Doutaghi attended events sponsored by Samidoun, a pro-Palestine group subject to U.S. sanctions.
Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy
Former head of Israeli military intelligence welcomes 'chaos' in Syria
Tamir Hayman said infighting between Syrian factions was beneficial, but added Israel must remain silent on the matter
For years, as a Member of the House of Representatives, I stood on the floor of Congress and sounded the alarm about reckless regime-change policies. I opposed the neoconservative “Clean Break” strategy.
I spoke out against the Iraq War in 2002, knowing it would unleash sectarian violence and provide a breeding ground for jihadist groups. I rejected the illegal U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, warning that removing Gaddafi would turn Libya into a failed state and open the door to Islamic extremists.
Each time, I was ignored, dismissed, or even vilified by those Washington insiders eager to remake the world in their own image, (and to cash in while doing so) without regard to the human cost.
I demanded transparency.
I demanded accountability.
I called for a congressional investigation into the CIA’s role in arming extremist groups.
I was met with official silence and media-induced public ridicule.
In 2013, I opposed Obama’s plan to bomb Syria, warning that U.S. military intervention would do nothing but strengthen jihadists. When I traveled to Syria in 2017 with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, I spoke directly with Christian leaders, civilians, and government officials who told us what the American media refused to report: The U.S. was not helping the Syrian people—it was destroying them.
I came back determined to expose the truth, to tell the American people that our tax dollars were funding a war that targeted innocent people, people whose families had lived in the region for centuries.
Most in mainstream media, every loyal to war narratives, dismissed the findings. The bipartisan political establishment stayed the course, ensuring that weapons and resources continued to flow into the hands of extremists.
Now, in the aftermath of Assad’s fall, the worst-case scenario has come to pass. Cities that once housed some of the world’s oldest Christian communities lie in ruins, their people slaughtered or driven into exile. Christians and Alawites are labeled heretics by the very groups America helped empower. And I ask again: Why? https://www.globalresearch.ca/genesis-sectarian-death-squads-syria/5881948
Erdoğan welcomes Syrian deal with Kurdish forces
Turkish President Erdoğan has welcomed the agreement between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian government, saying it "will contribute to the country’s security and stability." https://www.duvarenglish.com/erdogan-welcomes-syrian-deal-with-kurdish-forces-news-65783
Health Secretary Tells CEOs To Remove Artificial Dyes From Food
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently told executives from top food companies that he wants artificial dyes out of the nation’s food supply before he leaves office, according to a food company trade association email. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/health-secretary-tells-ceos-remove-artificial-dyes-food
The whole concern about MMR and autism is believed to have originated in a 1998 paper in The Lancet by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and 12 others. The journal retracted the paper 12 years later, and the British General Medical Council revoked Dr. Wakefield’s medical license.
Dr. Wakefield was not the first person to suggest an association, and hundreds of thousands of parents have reported that their normally developing child suddenly regressed (losing eye contact, speech, motor skills, etc.), often after a well-baby visit that involved “baby shots.”
Nearly 90% of autism cases may be regressive, according to a 2018 study by Ozonoff, et al., a fact not compatible with a genetic cause. Rather, it implicates a sudden toxic exposure. https://aapsonline.org/public-health-watch-is-there-a-vaccine-autism-connection/
Hypocrites: Rainforest Decimated To Build Mega Road For UN Climate Change Summit, Steve Watson Literally paving over paradise https://modernity.news/2025/03/12/hypocrites-rainforest-decimated-to-build-mega-road-for-un-climate-change-summit/
Biotic Pump, Ecorestoration and River Runoff: Why plant transpiration is an investment -- Anastassia Makarieve and Didi Pershouse https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/biotic-pump-ecorestoration-and-river
Witkoff was in Moscow Thursday, as was Belarusian President Lukashenko. Trump envoy to present ceasefire deal to Russia this week – White House
Washington and Kiev agreed on a 30-day truce in the Ukraine conflict on Tuesday https://swentr.site/news/614107-trump-envoy-russia-ceasefire/ Russian Negotiator Reiterates Russian “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow
Putin, very, very uncharacteristically, donned a military field uniform, rolled down to the regional HQ in Kursk (Gerasimov was already there), and made a 5-minute on-camera statement, one of the two salient points of which is that he “strongly suggested” the military considers establishing a buffer zone around Russian borders after finishing clearing out the Kursk region. If that isn’t a signal to the Americans about any ceasefires, I do not know what is…
His second salient point, by the way, was to stress that any Ukrainians captured in the Kursk region were not actually POWs, but rather “terrorists”, i.e. persons who have violated Russia’s criminal anti-terrorism statutes.
Let’s return to Ushakov’s remarks. As indicated yesterday, I was highly confident the Russians would not entertain the US-Ukraine scheme, but I had assumed they would go through the diplomatic motions, of at least having a what I called a tea and cookies chat, and yet again restating Russia’s conditions before talks could begin. As readers pointed out in comments, Russia could also have gone for slow-walking to get expectations down: “We agreed in Riyadh that we needed to get the diplomatic machinery on both sides back in operation before we can entertain any proposal.”
So why a speedy and very public rebuff? One possibility is that it was important to reassure the Russian public that Putin was not going all wobbly in response to a US overtures, particularly after the important milestone of the Ukraine rout in Kursk. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/russian-negotiator-reiterates-russian-nyet-on-ceasefire-even-before-us-emissary-steve-witkoff-arrives-in-moscow.html
His second salient point, by the way, was to stress that any Ukrainians captured in the Kursk region were not actually POWs, but rather “terrorists”, i.e. persons who have violated Russia’s criminal anti-terrorism statutes.
Let’s return to Ushakov’s remarks. As indicated yesterday, I was highly confident the Russians would not entertain the US-Ukraine scheme, but I had assumed they would go through the diplomatic motions, of at least having a what I called a tea and cookies chat, and yet again restating Russia’s conditions before talks could begin. As readers pointed out in comments, Russia could also have gone for slow-walking to get expectations down: “We agreed in Riyadh that we needed to get the diplomatic machinery on both sides back in operation before we can entertain any proposal.”
So why a speedy and very public rebuff? One possibility is that it was important to reassure the Russian public that Putin was not going all wobbly in response to a US overtures, particularly after the important milestone of the Ukraine rout in Kursk. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/russian-negotiator-reiterates-russian-nyet-on-ceasefire-even-before-us-emissary-steve-witkoff-arrives-in-moscow.html
Putin lists guarantees Moscow wants for 30-day ceasefire
The Russian president wants assurances that Kiev will halt military mobilization, soldier training, and arms deliveries https://swentr.site/russia/614167-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-guarantees/
The Russian president wants assurances that Kiev will halt military mobilization, soldier training, and arms deliveries https://swentr.site/russia/614167-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-guarantees/
Russia is ready, the president has said, stressing that such an agreement “must lead to long-term peace” https://swentr.site/russia/614170-putin-ukraine-conflict-us/
Putin Declined The Ceasefire; Trump Imposes Additional Restrictions Military Summary For 2025.03.14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRBGf6QPaw
Trump said the US has already discussed many details of a potential “final agreement” with Kiev and is now waiting to see “whether or not Russia is there.”
“We’ve been discussing land with Ukraine… pieces of land that would be kept and lost and all of the other elements of a final agreement. You know, we’ve been discussing concepts of land because you don’t want to waste time with a ceasefire if it’s not going to mean anything,” Trump said. “They discussed NATO and being in NATO, and everybody knows what the answer to that is. They’ve known that answer for 40 years, in all fairness.”
Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, visited the Russian capital on Thursday to discuss the results of US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week and to relay Moscow’s position back to Washington. Witkoff was also expected to meet with the Russian president behind closed doors in the evening, but officials have yet to confirm whether the meeting took place or to provide details of his other interactions during the brief visit. https://swentr.site/news/614191-trump-like-meet-putin/
Larry Johnson and Judge Napolitano had a long sit down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A Conversation with Foreign Minister Lavrov
What an honor. I was invited, along with Judge Napolitano and Mario Nawfal, to interview Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Monday. Mr. Lavrov is smart, charming, funny and quite approachable. He ain’t a bullshitter. There was no pretense about him. After spending more than 90 minutes conversing with him, I came away with a new appreciation of his skill as the consummate diplomat. Although we each had prepared a couple of questions in advance, those went out the window once the conversation started. There were no constraints on what we could ask.“We’ve been discussing land with Ukraine… pieces of land that would be kept and lost and all of the other elements of a final agreement. You know, we’ve been discussing concepts of land because you don’t want to waste time with a ceasefire if it’s not going to mean anything,” Trump said. “They discussed NATO and being in NATO, and everybody knows what the answer to that is. They’ve known that answer for 40 years, in all fairness.”
Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, visited the Russian capital on Thursday to discuss the results of US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week and to relay Moscow’s position back to Washington. Witkoff was also expected to meet with the Russian president behind closed doors in the evening, but officials have yet to confirm whether the meeting took place or to provide details of his other interactions during the brief visit. https://swentr.site/news/614191-trump-like-meet-putin/
There was an added treat before Mr. Lavrov arrived… we spent thirty minutes chatting with Maria Zakharova in a casual environment. She is equally charming and tough as a rhinoceros hide. https://sonar21.com/a-conversation-with-foreign-minister-lavrov/
Gilbert Doctorow, Belgians want war!
..Our daughter in her work as a school teacher in a Belgian secondary school is well immersed in the hoi polloi. They are her fellow teachers, they are the parents of her students with whom she meets periodically. And as the mother of two teen-age boys, she gets together socially with the parents of their friends.
What I am hearing from her is very clear: this hoi polloi has been properly indoctrinated, properly brain washed and now strongly favors defending Ukraine, strongly favors the establishment of a military draft in this country and say they are ready to send their sons to war against Russia. In fact, in some Belgian public schools today preparations are being made to introduce courses in paramilitary training for the final year of secondary education. This patriotic movement cuts across the country’s language divide.
Of course, no one has asked the sons of these Belgian patriots how they feel about being drafted into the army and being sent to the front against Russian forces where they will be blown to bits in a matter of days, just as the Ukrainian recruits are today experiencing.
I will not comment here on the advice I would give my grandsons should the draft be introduced in Belgium. Read my lips. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/13/belgians-want-war/
What I am hearing from her is very clear: this hoi polloi has been properly indoctrinated, properly brain washed and now strongly favors defending Ukraine, strongly favors the establishment of a military draft in this country and say they are ready to send their sons to war against Russia. In fact, in some Belgian public schools today preparations are being made to introduce courses in paramilitary training for the final year of secondary education. This patriotic movement cuts across the country’s language divide.
Of course, no one has asked the sons of these Belgian patriots how they feel about being drafted into the army and being sent to the front against Russian forces where they will be blown to bits in a matter of days, just as the Ukrainian recruits are today experiencing.
I will not comment here on the advice I would give my grandsons should the draft be introduced in Belgium. Read my lips. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/13/belgians-want-war/
Celia Farber, Germany Launches Hotline, Encouraging People To Report Family And Friends Who Hold "Conspiracy Theories" That Question "Democratic Institutions" https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/germany-launches-hotline-encouraging
As for Trump’s tariffs, at the present time it seems that often they are threats leveled at specific countries to get them to do what they should be doing or to get them to give their help to Trump’s agenda. For example, the initial tariffs Trump announced against Mexico and Canada were withdrawn once the two countries agreed to police their borders with the US to help halt the flow of immigrant-invaders into America. It remains to be seen whether a full blown tariff system is put in place...
..It is possible that tariffs could recover their historic role in the financing of the US government. The US government was financed over most of its history by tariffs. It was not until 1918 that the income tax passed in 1913 affected the population, so the US government has been dependent on income taxation only for about a century. As I have explained, the introduction of an income tax resurrected a form of slavery as it gave government ownership rights in our labor. The definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. Today people subject to an income tax are in the same position as medieval serfs who owed part of their labor to feudal lords...
..The income tax taxes labor and capital, factors of production. Thus income tax reduces GDP and living standards. Classical economists, unlike the present day “junk economists” as Michael Hudson correctly calls them, said, correctly, that consumption, not factors of production, should be taxed. That is what a tariff does. If you don’t consume goods produced in other countries, you pay no taxation...It is possible that tariffs could recover their historic role in the financing of the US government. The US government was financed over most of its history by tariffs. It was not until 1918 that the income tax passed in 1913 affected the population, so the US government has been dependent on income taxation only for about a century. As I have explained, the introduction of an income tax resurrected a form of slavery as it gave government ownership rights in our labor. The definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. Today people subject to an income tax are in the same position as medieval serfs who owed part of their labor to feudal lords...
Countries once understood that being dependent on imports of necessities, such as food, was a threat to national existence. A country could be subdued by the cutoff of food. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/12/free-trade-was-ricardos-concocted-theory-used-to-dispossess-the-british-aristocracy/
Weaker dollar outlook: Gold Soars To Record High As Tariff Tensions Rise https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/gold-soars-record-high-tariff-tensions-rise
The point here – which Europe feigns to not understand – is that the end to the Ukraine conflict simply is Trump’s ‘gateway’ to the entire rationale and platform on which he stood: The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape. Ukraine, simply said, is the obstacle to Trump’s pursuit of his primordial objective: The Global Reset.
Starmer, Macron and the eastern wing of the Euro-élites are blind to the sheer scale of the global vibe-shift towards traditionalist U.S. politics and ethics. They miss too, the barely concealed fury in the Trump world that exists behind this nascent revolution. “The Maga Right has none of the inhibitions of its predecessors. It is planning to leverage the power of a recaptured state to annihilate its enemies”, Allister Heath writes...
Starmer, Macron and the eastern wing of the Euro-élites are blind to the sheer scale of the global vibe-shift towards traditionalist U.S. politics and ethics. They miss too, the barely concealed fury in the Trump world that exists behind this nascent revolution. “The Maga Right has none of the inhibitions of its predecessors. It is planning to leverage the power of a recaptured state to annihilate its enemies”, Allister Heath writes...
..Team Trump – committed to the task of taking down the American Deep State as the ‘inexorable enemy’ – perceives (rightly) the British security state to be co-joined at the hip with their American counterparts, as a part of its global meta-structure. And its oldest and deepest component has always been the destruction of Russia, and its dismemberment...
..Friedrich Merz, Macron and Starmer are talking about how they are going to turn around their countries – via a massive infusion of debt – into defence superstates. Yet, at some level of consciousness, they must realise that it is not doable, so they settle instead for presenting themselves as ‘world leaders on the international stage’.
The European élites are deeply unstable ‘leaders’ who are risking the prosperity and stability of the continent. It is clear these countries do not have the military capacity to intervene in any concerted manner. More than anything, it is the European economy circling the drain that is the reality at the gates.
The European élites are deeply unstable ‘leaders’ who are risking the prosperity and stability of the continent. It is clear these countries do not have the military capacity to intervene in any concerted manner. More than anything, it is the European economy circling the drain that is the reality at the gates.
Zelensky is accomplice to the European insistence that defeating Russia takes priority over achieving peace in Ukraine, in spite of lacking any strategic rationale as to how it may be achieved after three years of a worsening military situation. Both plans – crushing the Russian economy with sanctions and attrition of the Russian military to the point of collapse – have failed. Why then does Zelensky resist Trump’s peace proposals? On the surface, it makes no sense.
The explanation likely goes back to the post-Maidan era when the western ‘Meta Security State’ (principally, the British and the Americans) entrenched hardline Banderites (then a tiny minority) into the Ukrainian Police, Intelligence and Security State. They are still today the controlling force. Even were this faction to acknowledge that their war cannot be won, they understand what happens if they lose.
Russia will not deal with them. They view them as extremists (if not war criminals) who are in no way ‘agreement capable’ and must be replaced by a leadership who is actually capable of compromise. Russia would likely pursue and bring these men to trial. Zelensky has to be frightened at what the Banderites might do to him (despite his British team of bodyguards)...
The explanation likely goes back to the post-Maidan era when the western ‘Meta Security State’ (principally, the British and the Americans) entrenched hardline Banderites (then a tiny minority) into the Ukrainian Police, Intelligence and Security State. They are still today the controlling force. Even were this faction to acknowledge that their war cannot be won, they understand what happens if they lose.
Russia will not deal with them. They view them as extremists (if not war criminals) who are in no way ‘agreement capable’ and must be replaced by a leadership who is actually capable of compromise. Russia would likely pursue and bring these men to trial. Zelensky has to be frightened at what the Banderites might do to him (despite his British team of bodyguards)...
President Trump has ordered intelligence sharing with Ukraine stopped. What he technically did was to stop allowing Ukraine to use exclusive U.S. targeting systems controlled by U.S. Intelligence, the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. What has been suspended is the exchange of so-called ‘lethal’ data, including information for HIMARS targeting. However, the defensive information needed for protection is still being provided to Ukraine...
..In Ukrainian command posts, the battle tracking and satellite online feeds on tablets and TV screens have indeed been disconnected. What Trump’s slap-down has done is to puncture the fiction that Ukraine is able to defend itself with a little substitute of European support. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/11/europe-faces-maga-vibe-shift-as-trump-moves-to-his-primordial-objective-the-global-reset/ Michael Every, Rabobank: "There's Growing Recognition Trump Is Serious About Radically Reshaping The US"
What did somebody say to Chuck? "Bastards!": Schumer Throws Contrived Tantrum After Caving To GOP https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schumer-shutdown-two-ways-can-go
Rather than working inside just one three-letter agency to reform it, the director of the Office of Management and Budget asked, why not bring the entire espionage apparatus to the president’s heel? Fox Kennedy accepted. Passed over for a job at CIA, she now oversees the entire CIA budget as well as the budgets for the 17 other agencies that collectively make up the intelligence community.
This makes her the tip of the fiduciary spear, so to speak, in the ongoing White House war against what they see as a “woke and weaponized” government security establishment. The budgets, like the ones collecting dust next to her desk, and other bureaucratic authorities known only to the nerdiest of wonks, Fox Kennedy insists, are the very best tools “to put the Leviathan on the chain.”
All of this delights Vought, who calls her addition to OMB “a huge deal,” a step toward policing the shadowy corners of the federal government he described as “nearly untouchable.” No clandestine budget or compartmentalized program will be beyond her purview. Instead, AFK will be free to follow the money. https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/12/amaryllis_fox_kennedy_former_cia_agent_tasked_with_reining_in_intels_black_budgets_152493.html
This makes her the tip of the fiduciary spear, so to speak, in the ongoing White House war against what they see as a “woke and weaponized” government security establishment. The budgets, like the ones collecting dust next to her desk, and other bureaucratic authorities known only to the nerdiest of wonks, Fox Kennedy insists, are the very best tools “to put the Leviathan on the chain.”
All of this delights Vought, who calls her addition to OMB “a huge deal,” a step toward policing the shadowy corners of the federal government he described as “nearly untouchable.” No clandestine budget or compartmentalized program will be beyond her purview. Instead, AFK will be free to follow the money. https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/12/amaryllis_fox_kennedy_former_cia_agent_tasked_with_reining_in_intels_black_budgets_152493.html
I’ve already explained why I think markets could be set up for a much bigger move lower. I detailed this in both my March market review and my piece explaining why I think the next crash could very well be different from those of days past and could “break the brain” of market participants: This Next Market Crash Will Break Our Fragile Brains.
I wasn’t going to write a piece midday today until I turned on the television and, despite the best efforts of David Faber to inject some semblance of reality onto CNBC guests, watched portfolio managers justify paying 26x to 40x earnings for tech stocks they said are “on sale”...
..Faber actually did a pretty good job trying to paint a picture of the psychology of the market as it stands today. What he said mostly aligns with what I have been saying over the last couple of weeks: that there is a psychological shift taking place deep in the foundations of the market, not only where people are beginning to entertain the idea that we’re entering a bear market, but also simultaneously entertaining the idea of a rotation out of risk-on speculative US technology stocks and into both US industrials and emerging markets. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/look-fck-out-below I wasn’t going to write a piece midday today until I turned on the television and, despite the best efforts of David Faber to inject some semblance of reality onto CNBC guests, watched portfolio managers justify paying 26x to 40x earnings for tech stocks they said are “on sale”...
Celia Farber, Intel: Contracts Out For Killings Of Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Chase Geiser's Family Swatted Middle Of Night, Based On On False Report
Alex Jones Says Intel Told Him It's The Ukrainians—And One InfoWars Reporter, Jamie White, Got Shot To Death Days Ago In Austin, Returning Home. White Was On Zelensky's Kill List https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/intel-contracts-out-for-killings Celia Farber, Trump Administration Blocks Kennedy CDC Pick Dr. Dave Weldon, RFK Jr. "Very Upset." Weldon's Official Statement Here
"I Have Learned The Hard Way Don't Mess With Pharma." https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/trump-administration-blocks-kennedy Jon Rappaport, Dave Weldon dumped as CDC nominee; is anybody talking about the real secret here? I am; the scandal they want you to forget https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/dave-weldon-dumped-as-cdc-nominee
'Nobody is expelling any Palestinians,' US president says after Israeli minister vows to erect office to oversee forced displacements https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-no-palestinians-will-be-expelled-from-gaza-as-he-presses-takeover-plan/3507836
Helyeh Doutaghi attended events sponsored by Samidoun, a pro-Palestine group subject to U.S. sanctions.
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. https://gizmodo.com/yale-suspends-palestine-activist-after-ai-article-linked-her-to-terrorism-2000575148
Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests. https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/
Tamir Hayman said infighting between Syrian factions was beneficial, but added Israel must remain silent on the matter
"Everyone is fighting each other. An agreement with the Kurds on the first day, a massacre against the Alawites on the second day, and a threat to the Druze on the third day... All this chaos in addition to an Israeli attack on the south... All this chaos is somewhat good for Israel," he explained. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-head-israeli-military-intelligence-welcomes-chaos-syria
During the "ceasefire": Israel kills three Palestinians every 24 hours in Gaza, using snipers, drones, and starvation as genocidal tools https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6642/Israel-kills-three-Palestinians-every-24-hours-in-Gaza,-using-snipers,-drones,-and-starvation-as-genocidal-tools
Honest (former) Politician, Dennis Kucinich, The Genesis of Sectarian Death Squads in Syria: The Fall of Assad to US-Supported Extremists and the Massacre of Christians and Alawites
As I reflect on America’s disastrous policies in Syria, I am left with a haunting question: Why would the United States pursue strategies that have led to the slaughter of Christians and Alawites, the destruction of ancient communities, and the triumph of extremism? For years, as a Member of the House of Representatives, I stood on the floor of Congress and sounded the alarm about reckless regime-change policies. I opposed the neoconservative “Clean Break” strategy.
I spoke out against the Iraq War in 2002, knowing it would unleash sectarian violence and provide a breeding ground for jihadist groups. I rejected the illegal U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, warning that removing Gaddafi would turn Libya into a failed state and open the door to Islamic extremists.
Each time, I was ignored, dismissed, or even vilified by those Washington insiders eager to remake the world in their own image, (and to cash in while doing so) without regard to the human cost.
I demanded transparency.
I demanded accountability.
I called for a congressional investigation into the CIA’s role in arming extremist groups.
I was met with official silence and media-induced public ridicule.
In 2013, I opposed Obama’s plan to bomb Syria, warning that U.S. military intervention would do nothing but strengthen jihadists. When I traveled to Syria in 2017 with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, I spoke directly with Christian leaders, civilians, and government officials who told us what the American media refused to report: The U.S. was not helping the Syrian people—it was destroying them.
I came back determined to expose the truth, to tell the American people that our tax dollars were funding a war that targeted innocent people, people whose families had lived in the region for centuries.
Most in mainstream media, every loyal to war narratives, dismissed the findings. The bipartisan political establishment stayed the course, ensuring that weapons and resources continued to flow into the hands of extremists.
Now, in the aftermath of Assad’s fall, the worst-case scenario has come to pass. Cities that once housed some of the world’s oldest Christian communities lie in ruins, their people slaughtered or driven into exile. Christians and Alawites are labeled heretics by the very groups America helped empower. And I ask again: Why? https://www.globalresearch.ca/genesis-sectarian-death-squads-syria/5881948
US steered Syrian Kurds toward Damascus deal, sources say https://www.voanews.com/a/us-steered-syrian-kurds-toward-damascus-deal-sources-say/8008684.html
Turkish President Erdoğan has welcomed the agreement between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian government, saying it "will contribute to the country’s security and stability." https://www.duvarenglish.com/erdogan-welcomes-syrian-deal-with-kurdish-forces-news-65783
Syria's Jolani Invited To EU Donor Summit At Very Moment His Troops Massacre Alawites, Christians https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syrias-jolani-invited-eu-donor-summit-very-moment-his-troops-executing-alawites
NEW STUDY - COVID-19 Vaccine “Millions of Lives Saved” Claim Debunked by Real-World Data
Statistical analysis dismantles Dr. Peter Hotez’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions, exposing a contradiction with real-world mortality data. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-covid-19-vaccine-millions
Statistical analysis dismantles Dr. Peter Hotez’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions, exposing a contradiction with real-world mortality data. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-covid-19-vaccine-millions
Meryl Nass MD, How you do it: Suggest industry fix the problem. If they don't, THEN you fix the problem with regulation
"The dyes do little other than to make unhealthy food appear more appealing." https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-you-do-it-suggest-industry-fix Health Secretary Tells CEOs To Remove Artificial Dyes From Food
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently told executives from top food companies that he wants artificial dyes out of the nation’s food supply before he leaves office, according to a food company trade association email. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/health-secretary-tells-ceos-remove-artificial-dyes-food
From Jane Orient MD, Public Health Watch: Is There a Vaccine-Autism Connection?
Dr. Wakefield was not the first person to suggest an association, and hundreds of thousands of parents have reported that their normally developing child suddenly regressed (losing eye contact, speech, motor skills, etc.), often after a well-baby visit that involved “baby shots.”
Nearly 90% of autism cases may be regressive, according to a 2018 study by Ozonoff, et al., a fact not compatible with a genetic cause. Rather, it implicates a sudden toxic exposure. https://aapsonline.org/public-health-watch-is-there-a-vaccine-autism-connection/
Meryl Nass MD, Bird Flu: Kennedy calls for testing drugs in poultry for prevention and treatment: What a novel idea. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/bird-flu-kennedy-calls-for-testing
Dr Nass, Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis: Time for a crash course in how the food industry was lost? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons
Hypocrites: Rainforest Decimated To Build Mega Road For UN Climate Change Summit, Steve Watson Literally paving over paradise https://modernity.news/2025/03/12/hypocrites-rainforest-decimated-to-build-mega-road-for-un-climate-change-summit/
Drip Watering Gardener (pictured before dawn in spring-forward garden with fresh cedar mulch outside of beds)
