Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Payroll Department Blitzkrieg

 Potentially Defunded,


  There is a coup d'etat going on within the empire as we watch the smoke. Unlike most coups, this one is the constitutional order being reasserted upon a longstanding criminal conspiracy of corruption. That's different, is it not?
  Mostly, people have not been aware of the depth of the criminal corruption, because there have been cover stories, and groceries and paychecks and TV, though there have been strong suspicions since the Assassinations of the Kennedys and MLK, 9/11 and the Global War on Terror (WW3?), then the COVID lockdowns, waiting for treatment until you are blue, denying antivirals that work, and forcing "vaccines" that weaken the immune system and kill-some-folks.
  I believe that the "Military Industrial Complex" that Eisenhower warned about has been running the show for oligarchs and global financiers, but that the forms of parasitic corruption are "killing the host".
  Outside the western empire are Russia, China, Iran and other smaller outliers. Russia was not fully consumed by neoliberalism in the 1990s, and under Vladimir Putin, Russia has rebuilt. Russia has the most resources per capita of any country, and the US is #2. Global finance seeks to "own" all resources and maximize profits in their management, which is to remove as much value from real-economy as possible.  This has become more sophisticated at the same time as real economy has begun to shrink from more expensive oil, iron, coal, copper, titanium, uranium, and so on. Per capita prosperity in countries like the US & UK appears to have been shrinking since the early 2000s. But gross economy, as measured by monetary flows, "GDP" could still be goosed to "grow". It has grown through extracting actual wealth from the real economy, which is in decline.
  Financial neocolonialism has indebted the world, and especially the people, industries and governments of the developed "western" world. It may be surprising that countries in the west have the most to gain by debt repudiation, though the proportionate gain may be more in countries that have to export lithium to pay on IMF loans, for example.
  The shocks that I see underway in Trump's first 100 days have probably been planned and gamed for 1500 days. He was supposed to be killed last July, but he turned his head. Team Trump has had all that time to plan an assault despite the deep-state Maginot Line. I think it is a mistake to see it in any other terms than war. The blitzkrieg is on.
  Most humans need stability to operate and navigate. A few human beings do not, but are able to navigate within turbulence. Donald Trump seems to be of that sort. His team is navigating within battle plans, and at a rapid pace, maintaining operational initiative, while the deep-state "blob" is stumbling backwards, unable to catch its balance and retaliate, at the moment...

​Surplus Energy Economics, Energy, not money – the sequence unfolds​  TARIFFS & TECH IN A CONTRACTING ECONOMY
​  From the point of view of orthodox economics, Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China – with the EU, and perhaps Britain, targeted for the second round of his trade war – is yet more bad news.
​  As well as harming world trade, we’re told, this move risks weakening America’s previously-robust economic growth, and driving up inflation. It’s widely concluded that Mr Trump is ‘playing politics with the economy’.
​  These statements, whilst they might be ‘true’ in themselves, miss the whole point of what’s actually happening in the world economy.
There is, in fact, a powerful logic informing all of the recent convulsions in the global financial system, from Trump’s electoral success and the “DeepSeek shock” in AI to the erection of trade barriers.
​  Awareness of this underlying logic enables us to project trends forward with high levels of confidence. We know that DeepSeek is neither the last nor the biggest threat to tech-heavy capital markets; that trying to fuel growth with runaway public borrowing will end badly; and that we’re now into the closing chapter of the “everything bubble” in global asset prices.
​  None of this can be appreciated until we understand that it’s energy, not money, that drives economic outcomes...
​..We cannot say whether Mr​ Trump and his team saw things in this way, or, perhaps, had an intuitive grasp of these underlying dynamics. They might simply have reasoned that insufficient attention was being paid to the very real hardships inflicted by “the cost of living crisis”.
​  But we can be clear that the incumbency, and much of America’s business elite, were misled by reported economic data into gravely mistaken expectations.
​  The dust had barely settled on this upheaval when the advent and immediate popularity of DeepSeek’s ultra-low-cost AI product destroyed the capital-intensive business model favoured by American tech’s “magnificent seven” for the development of artificial intelligence.
​  From an energy-economics perspective, however, this capital-intensive approach was always doomed to end in failure, with or without DeepSeek. Simply put, this strategy demanded vastly too much energy for any vague and problematic returns that it might deliver.
​  The imposition of import tariffs is a logical development when seen from this same energy-based perspective. Trade barriers might or might not be a “bad” thing, but they have long been an inevitable one.
​  Our starting point here is that global economic prosperity is in the process of inflecting from growth into contraction. Relentlessly rising ECoEs mean that no other outcome is possible.
​  We have spent decades trying, and failing, to stem this process. It explains why we opted for “credit adventurism” in the 1990s, and doubled down with “monetary adventurism” from 2008. Our faith is now vested in the supposed capability of technology, as well as financial stimulus, to return the economy to growth. It should, by now, long have been clear that none of this has worked, and that, back in 1972, the authors of The Limits to Growth got it right.
​  But admission of the ending and reversal of growth is the great taboo of the modern age. This blinds us to the underlying logic of what is happening. For those who do grasp this logic, many future trends are eminently visible.
​  So long as growth remains our collective totem, we will continue to ask that governments, on our behalf, try to borrow our way to prosperity. This must lead to the monetization of debt through a reversion to ultra-loose monetary policies. The inflation triggered by this process might be kept in check by the effects of economic contraction, but a “stagflationary” future is now hard-wired into the system.
​   Eventually, the sheer extent of stress between the “real” (material) and “financial” (“claims”) economies will destroy the stock of claims in the latter.
This contraction will be experienced in its most severe form in sectors supplying discretionary (non-essential) products and services to society.
​  Politically, the public will continue to demand the ”growth” that no political party can deliver, and this is sure to cause an intensification of instability.
​  And this is where Mr Trump’s tariffs fit into the sequence. If internally-generated growth has become impossible, the next best thing is to try to insulate national economies from the cold winds of involuntary economic contraction.
​  On these lines, many future twists in the economic tale can be foreseen, but only if we place energy and money in their correct places in the unfolding of economic processes. ​ 
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/298-energy-not-money-the-sequence-unfolds/comment-page-1/#respond

"The Market Wasn't Prepared For It": Futures Tumble, Dollar Soars As Trade War Starts​   https://www.zerohedge.com/market-recaps/market-wasnt-prepared-it-futures-tumble-dollar-soars-trump-launches-trade-war

​A stronger dollar alone raises import prices:  US could feel 'pain' in China, Mexico trade war: Trump   https://www.northweststar.com.au/story/8882060/us-could-feel-pain-in-china-mexico-trade-war-trump/

  The value of the $US has been supported since 1981 by paying interest to borrowers of dollars. That will revert to a trade valuation, supported by goods and services.     
Elon Musk Positions DOGE to Achieve 'No Inflation' by 2026 With $4 Billion in Daily Cuts
​  Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative targets a $4 billion daily spending cut with the ambitious goal of zero inflation by 2026, a move that could reshape the U.S. economy.​   
https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-positions-doge-to-achieve-no-inflation-by-2026-with-4-billion-in-daily-cuts/

​  ALL imports will be taxed, even little things in the mail.  The Secret Tariff Code is Buried in ‘Section 2, Item (h)’ of the Executive Order
So, Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs, but China only 10%.  Why?  The secret is in that subsection “(h)” when it talks about de minimis treatment. Essentially, what President Trump is doing is levying a much more massive import tax, and possible confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl (and other illegal) substances.
​  Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption.  This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.”  President Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
​  Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.​   
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/02/the-secret-tariff-code-is-buried-in-section-2-item-h-of-the-executive-order/

This will not be Sir K​eir's decision in any way, shape or form.  UK’s Starmer seeks strong trade relations with the US in the wake of Trump’s tariffs​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2588787/world

  A Russian diplomat flew to Caracas at the same time. Other talks?.  American Oil Reset: Trump Ready to Cooperate with Venezuela Amid Spat with Canada
​  US President Donald Trump's Special Representative for Special Situations Richard Grenell​... flew to Caracas on January 31, shook hands with President Nicolás Maduro, and returned home with six U.S. citizens detained in Venezuela. He announced that Washington had entered into a new relationship with the country and with President Maduro personally. Venezuela agreed to accept, for the first time in nearly a year, migrants deported from the United States, including members of the Tren de Aragua crime gang.​   https://en.topcor.ru/56266-neftjanaja-perezagruzka-po-amerikanski-tramp-gotov-sotrudnichat-s-venesujeloj-na-fone-razmolvki-s-kanadoj.html

China Reportedly Preparing Trade Talks With Trump After Weekend Tariff Shock​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-reportedly-preparing-trade-talks-trump-after-weekend-tariff-shock

China retaliates against Trump tariffs​.  Beijing has announced its own duties and has imposed export restrictions on key minerals​   https://swentr.site/news/612144-china-tariffs-metals-trump/

Trudeau Bends The Knee: Canada Will Send 10,000 Troops To Border, Name Fentanyl Czar To Delay Trump Tariffs​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trade-war-over-mexican-president-says-tariffs-delayed-month-after-deploying-10000-troops

Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for one month after agreement on border troops​   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-sheinbaum-responds.html

​Who has wire-guided FPV Drones?  Military Strikes On Cartels Inside Mexico “On The Table”: Hegseth   https://modernity.news/2025/02/01/military-strikes-on-cartels-inside-mexico-on-the-table-hegseth/

Preparing or "preparing"?  Mexican Cartels Preparing for "War" with US Military   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/mexican-cartels-preparing-for-war-with-us-military

​  USAF Spy Plane Runs SIGINT Operation Near Cabo As US Preps For Potential Cartel Fight
Several open-source intelligence X accounts have posted flight tracking data of a US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft, indicating it may have conducted a SIGINT operation over the southern half of Baja California, a region home to heavily armed Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel members.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/usaf-spy-plane-runs-sigint-operation-near-cabo-us-preps-potential-cartel-fight

Trump Effect Continues: Panama Bends The Knee, Will Not Renew "Silk Road" Deal With China After Rubio Visit​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-effect-continues-panama-bends-knee-will-not-renew-silk-road-deal-china-after-rubio

Euro Slides After Report Trump Considering 10% EU Tariff​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/euro-slides-after-report-trump-considering-10-eu-tariff

​  EU incapable of helping end Ukraine conflict – AfD leader
Alice Weidel has said she hopes that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will be able to stop the fighting swiftly
 Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has said that the EU and Germany in particular are unable to assist in finding a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict due to being run by incompetent politicians...​.  She stressed that Trump “was the only one who actually spoke about peace during his election campaign” last year.    https://swentr.site/news/612056-germany-afd-trump-ukraine/

​  'Shy Musk Voter' Could Hand Victory to Alternative for Germany, Poll Suggests
The AfD is now the second-strongest party with 25% support, trailing the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) by just two points, the poll shows
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) are third place on 15% and the Greens fourth with 13%.
​  In a surprising twist, AfD co-chair Alice Weidel leads as the most popular choice for chancellor on 35%leading CDU head Friedrich Merz by nine points​   
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250202/shy-musk-voter-could-hand-victory-to-alternative-for-germany-poll-suggests-1121529597.html

"Everyone Is Tired" – Crisis Grows In The Ukrainian Army As Desertions Accelerate​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/everyone-tired-crisis-grows-ukrainian-army-desertions-accelerate

​  RFK Jr. with Tucker Carlson,  RFK Jr. revealed that USAID was actually a CIA front, secretly funneling $5 billion in 2014 to ignite riots in Ukraine.
According to him, these CIA-backed riots triggered a coup d'état that toppled Ukraine's neutral, democratically elected government. Just one month before the coup, a leaked call between Victoria Nuland and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine exposed that she had already handpicked the country's new cabinet. "So they're picking the new government a month before the old government is overthrown."  
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1886153128757629157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886153128757629157%7Ctwgr%5E59bc1f2dd1ae9963190b319f03df8c5ca72a6102%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-3-2025%2F

​  Mike Benz educates Joe Rogan on USAID: “There is no aid in USAID. It's not an aid organization. USAID stands for US Agency for International Development. What it's developing is all the activist organizations in foreign countries that the state department is building to gain influence. USAID was created to be a central hub that organized all the different foreign clandestine operations. It has a $50B budget. The entire intelligence community is only $72B. It's more than the CIA and the State Department. It’s a switch player to assist the pentagon, the state department, and the intelligence community.”​   https://x.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1886013960178040954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886013960178040954%7Ctwgr%5E59bc1f2dd1ae9963190b319f03df8c5ca72a6102%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-3-2025%2F

​  MIKE BENZ: TRUMP PROSECUTORS WERE FUNDED BY USAID “This push to prosecute Trump by Alvin Bragg, Soros was a minor co-funder. He gave them $10,000, that's it! The $14 million he gave to the parent company, the fiscal sponsor of FJP (Fair and Just Prosecution, a nonprofit that supports and influences progressive prosecutors in the U.S.), well, that ain't shit compared to the $27 million that USAID gave them. Every time you hear the word Soros prosecutor, no, they’re USAID prosecutors.”​   https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1886167348282863630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886167348282863630%7Ctwgr%5E59bc1f2dd1ae9963190b319f03df8c5ca72a6102%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-3-2025%2F

​  USAID funded bioweapon research – Musk
The billionaire has branded the US Agency for International Development a “criminal organization”​   
https://swentr.site/news/612067-criminal-usaid-bioweapons-musk/

​  How Trump's Dismantling Of USAID Marks A Seismic, Historic Shift In America's Role In The World
Some foreign powers will welcome the news, while many allies as well as an assortment of US-backed 'opposition groups' will feel completely abandoned.
​  This has meant that pro-Western media outlets, NGOs, and 'soft power' organizations are in panic mode. This has basically overnight shutdown a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus which pushed or often imposed American interests throughout the globe, especially in the very vulnerable Third World, as well as former Soviet satellite regions. The way this works on a practical, on the ground level is detailed in the well-known book Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man. As for Trump's apparent efforts to dismantle the powerful USAID agency, we compiled some of the best current analysis from around the web outlining the huge significance of this move, which is nothing less than a historic reset (and we say a very welcome reset) of Washington's relations with the rest of the world.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-trumps-dismantling-usaid-marks-seismic-historic-shift-americas-role-world

​  Musk accuses USAID of ‘covering up corruption’
The agency has tried to block an audit by US President Donald Trump’s DOGE​   
https://swentr.site/news/612066-usaid-block-doge-audit/

​  Jim Kunstler,  Last Rites  “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk
  USAID was shot dead like a rabid dog over the weekend. The agency had gone completely rogue, serving (Mike Benz explains) as the pivot between every nefarious operation coming out of the CIA, the DOD, and the State Department’s many black box units. The billions of dollars laundered out of USAID went to support hundreds of NGOs, many of them dedicated to harming the life of this nation, such as the orgs that handed out money to illegal aliens and advice on evading detection in-country. And these many NGOs represented an employment racket for the “elite overproduction” of grads coming out of universities with useless degrees and Maoist political training.   https://www.kunstler.com/p/last-rites

No more milk & cookies.  Angry Dem Lawmakers Blocked By Security From Entering USAID Headquarters​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usaid-workers-told-stay-home-early-morning-email-musk-spent-weekend-feeding-usaid-wood

USAID Absorbed Into State Department Under Rubio After DOGE Crusade​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-doge-cuts-usaid-ball-worms-no-apple-must-get-rid-whole-thing

​  Netanyahu To Discuss "Victory Over Hamas" With Trump In US Trip
When Netanyahu visits Trump at the White House on Feb. 4, it will be the president’s first meeting with a foreign leader since assuming office for the second time. Meanwhile, U.S. and Arab mediators are working toward the next phase of a fragile cease-fire deal to end fighting in the Gaza Strip and return dozens of captive hostages.
​  Hamas has refused to release additional hostages in the deal’s second stage without an end to the war and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, where the Islamic terrorist group resumed control.
​  However, Netanyahu has been under pressure from governing partners to continue the war with Hamas after the cease-fire’s first phase ends in March. The prime minister has said that Israel remains committed to defeating Hamas and retrieving the remaining hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that sparked the war.
​  However, it is uncertain where Trump stands on the issue. While he has remained a steady supporter of Israel, he has also vowed to end wars in the Middle East while taking credit for the cease-fire deal, which put an end to the fighting and brokered the release of 18 hostages who Hamas had imprisoned for more than 15 months, as well as hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.​   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-discuss-victory-over-hamas-trump-us-trip

Israel’s Smotrich calls for imposing ‘sovereignty’ over occupied West Bank as Netanyahu visits US​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250202-israels-smotrich-calls-for-imposing-sovereignty-over-occupied-west-bank-as-netanyahu-visits-us/

Israeli forces demolish 100 buildings in Jenin amid ongoing invasion
The forced displacement of approximately 15,000 people from the Jenin refugee camp and al-Hadaf neighborhood has led many to seek refuge in nearby villages and towns.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-demolish-100-buildings-in-jenin-amid-ongoing

​  Hospital damaged by Israeli explosions in Jenin refugee camp
Residents of the occupied West Bank's Jenin refugee camp share footage from inside the Jenin Governmental Hospital which has sustained damage after Israeli forces blew up several buildings in the camp. A number of Israeli explosions rocked Jenin earlier today levelling around 20 buildings in the camp​   
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250202-hospital-damaged-by-israeli-explosions-in-jenin-refugee-camp/

Israeli army conducts large-scale raid in northern West Bank​.   Israeli military vehicles storm Al-Far’a refugee camp, Tammun town in northern West Bank​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-conducts-large-scale-raid-in-northern-west-bank/3469224

7 Palestinians injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza despite ceasefire​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250202-7-palestinians-injured-in-israeli-strikes-in-gaza-despite-ceasefire/

​  It's a one way street out.  Israelis restrict return of Palestinians to Gaza through Rafah: Source
The Israeli occupation is restricting the return of Palestinians to Gaza after they left through Rafah for treatment.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis-restrict-return-of-palestinians-to-gaza-through-raf

Exclusive: Washington using Nile dam dispute to pressure Egypt into accepting Gaza expulsion plan​   https://www.newarab.com/news/exclusive-us-uses-egypt-dam-dispute-push-gaza-expulsion-plan

​  Egypt unveils Gaza reconstruction plan 'with Arab consensus'
Abdel Aati's remarks come as Egypt remains firm in its rejection of any attempts to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza.
​  "We have a clear vision for the reconstruction of Gaza and an Arab consensus on this matter, and we are engaging in discussions with the United Nations in this framework," the top diplomat said during a joint press conference with Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
​  Abdel Aati emphasized that the reconstruction process is part of a phased approach aimed at fostering a credible political process that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state.​   
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/egypt-unveils-gaza-reconstruction-plan--with-arab-consensus

Trump Invites King Abdullah To White House Amid Pressure For Jordan To Take In Gazans​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-invites-king-abdullah-white-house-amid-pressure-jordan-take-gazans

​  Run by Global finance...  Syria's de facto authorities execute 'sweeping' neoliberal reforms
Days after dissolving the constitution, the US and Gulf-backed transitional government began implementing extensive privatizations and layoffs in the public sector​   https://thecradle.co/articles/syrias-de-facto-authorities-execute-sweeping-neoliberal-reforms

The vicinity of Tishreen Dam is being subjected to air and ground bombardment carried out by the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries.​   https://hawarnews.com/en/tishreen-dam-vicinity-subjected-to-air-and-ground-bombardment

​  The Forensic Arborist discusses California fires:  “They’re burning from the inside out.” Robert Brame on the Unusual Properties of the Pacific Palisades Fires
Transcript of Robert Brame from recent episode of Global Research News Hour​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/theyre-burning-from-the-inside-out-robert-brame-on-the-unusual-properties-of-the-pacific-palisades-fires/5878843

​  (Censorship algorithms by the CCP, but otherwise pretty good and cheap) DeepSeek Crushes ChatGPT and Becomes the Highest-rated Free App in Apple App Store
Were Western tech companies behind “malicious attacks” on DeepSeek?​   
https://www.globalresearch.ca/deepseek-highest-rated-apple-app-store/5878865

​All the black boxes; awaiting the reports.  D.C. plane crash live updates: All 3 black boxes found, 67 dead after American Airlines jet collides with military helicopter   https://www.yahoo.com/news/live/dc-plane-crash-live-updates-all-3-black-boxes-found-67-dead-after-american-airlines-jet-collides-with-military-helicopter-133227946.html

  Walter M. Chesnut:  Turbocancers: A Secondary Manifestation of the Spike Protein’s Invasion of the Extracellular Matrix (ECM)?
Looking more closely at the mechanisms of the ECM and cancer, the Spike Protein may be initiating cancer and hyperaccelerating what is already there.​   https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/turbocancers-a-secondary-manifestation

​Lying Low (pictured in Yoakum garden at winter low point)


Sunday, February 2, 2025

Still Waiting

 Anticipating The Inevitable,


  Global Debt Reaches 326% of GDP  [Stress has been distributed throughout the western financial system so that failures tend to cascade rapidly through algorithms and derivatives. GDP is money-moved, not physical-economy.]    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/01/30/global-debt-reaches-326-of-gdp/

Trade Wars Begin: Trump Slaps Tariffs On Canada, Mexico And China; Triggers Immediate Retaliation​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trade-wars-begin-trump-slaps-25-tariffs-canada-and-mexico-10-china

​Could AI help here?  Musk Reveals Treasury Has Been Auto-Paying Everyone, 'Even Known Terrorist Groups'   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treasury-depts-highest-ranking-career-official-rage-quits-after-musks-doge-team-probes

​  Cyberattack on DeepSeek, including brute-force assault, started in US: Chinese state media
Early assault on AI start-up reported to include denial-of-service attacks aiming to overwhelm servers and bandwidth with internet traffic​   
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3296765/cyberattack-deepseek-including-brute-force-assault-started-us-chinese-state-media

​  New Blow to US Sanctions: Russia and China Boost NVIDIA Performance 800-Fold
Scientists from the two countries have developed a breakthrough algorithm using information from reverse engineering video card accelerators.
​  This enables Russia and China to reduce their reliance on NVIDIA GPUs, weakening the impact of US sanctions.
It also means that Russia and China need to buy less NVIDIA GPUs, which likely led to the collapse of NVIDIA stock price.​   
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250131/new-blow-to-us-sanctions-russia-and-china-boost-nvidia-performance-800-fold-1121522461.html

​  DeepSeek states that "we" is the Chinese government, as in "we don't comment on that", in an answer.  What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War   https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/01/what-deepseek-says-about-nulands-role-in-ukraine-war/

USAID website and X account go dark​.  The White House is reportedly considering merging the agency into the State Department​.  https://swentr.site/news/612037-usaid-website-social-down/

NYT, NBC, NPR, Politico Evicted From Pentagon Press Offices In Favor Of Trump-Friendly Outlets​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-nbc-npr-politico-evicted-pentagon-press-offices-favor-trump-friendly-outlets

Members of Christopher Wray’s FBI Leadership Posse Told to Retire, Resign, or Be Fired by Monday​   https://defconnews.com/2025/02/01/members-of-christopher-wrays-fbi-leadership-posse-told-to-retire-resign-or-be-fired-by-monday/

​  Insiders have revealed that President Trump is prepared to go scorched-earth against any Republican Senators who vote against the confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. "If they try to touch Tulsi and Kennedy, then it’s war.” - Trump Advisor​   https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885124042266402974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1885124042266402974%7Ctwgr%5Ea4055b396d4219322ca62ff17181863590bd9a2a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-1-2025%2F

​  From across the great-waters, The Slog, John Ward:  RFK Jr SENATE HEARINGS: A KANGAROO COURT THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TIE DOWN
All eyes will be on Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana for the vote’.
​  Lots of nosey-parkers overseeing each other….jobs for the bought folks: nice work if you can get it.
However, after pressing RFKJr to rebut each critic in just the seven seconds left to him, these clowns can only tell AP that “ When we’ll hold a vote on the nomination remains uncertain”.
​  As we Limeys tend to say, these puffed-up hate poseurs ‘are avin’ a larf’.
But disturbingly, the general view is that ultimately, much of the decision will come down to the whims of one bloke: William Morgan Cassidy, a senior Senator and physician from Louisiana.​  
https://therealslog.ghost.io/rfkjr-senate-hearings-a-kangaroo-court-thats-impossible-to-tie-down/
Distraction? Nobody can shoot down hypersonics. Money for Star Wars weapons pot.       Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build An Iron Dome For America   https://korybko.substack.com/p/five-takeaways-from-trumps-plans

Guys hiding in caves in Somalia. Look, A SQUIRREL!  Trump Orders First Airstrikes On Foreign Soil Since Taking Office   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-orders-first-airstrikes-foreign-soil-taking-office

One Day Before Collision, Near Miss with Helicopter on Reagan Final Approach
Traffic Collision Avoidance System alert prompted commercial aircraft evasive maneuver and go around just 24 hours and 40 minutes before the collision.​   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/one-day-before-collision-near-miss

​2 good videos of the crash here. It looks to me like the chopper hovered exactly in the path of the approaching jet.   THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/01/31/this-was-no-accident/

Lawsuit Alleges FAA Denied 1,000 People Air Traffic Controller Jobs To Meet Diversity Hiring Targets​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lawsuit-alleges-faa-denied-1000-people-air-traffic-controller-jobs-meet-diversity-hiring

​But was this an intentional collision? Whose intention?  Trump Says DC Black Hawk "Was Flying Too High... By A Lot"   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-black-hawk-flew-above-allowed-altitude-another-jet-aborted-landing-1-day-over-chopper

Command an Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter from 300 Miles Away​   https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/command-an-autonomous-black-hawk-helicopter-from-300-miles-away.html

​  Pilot of Black Hawk Was Biden White House Social Aide
Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach was involved in many activities in D.C. apart from practicing her pilot skills.​   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/pilot-of-black-hawk-was-biden-white

US 'In Contact' With Russia, Trump Confirms​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-contact-russia-trump-confirms

​  Trump claims ‘serious discussions’ with Moscow over Ukraine
The US president has refused to say whether he has already spoken directly with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin​   
https://swentr.site/news/611999-trump-russia-serious-discussions/

​Hundreds of people die every day until this stops.  Zelensky: Trump Talking To Putin About Ukraine Without Us Is 'Very Dangerous'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-trump-talking-putin-about-ukraine-without-us-very-dangerous

​  Atrocious crimes of Ukrainian Armed Forces: What Happened in village of Russkoye Porechnoye​  
According to a soldier with the call sign Lord, the bruises on the victims’ bodies indicate that they were beaten before being killed...​ Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko stated that the investigation had identified five Ukrainian militants involved in these crimes. Among them are Senior Soldier Yevgeny Fabrisenko and soldiers with the call signs Kum, Motyl, Provodnik, and Khudozhnik. According to the investigation, they killed 11 men and three women and raped eight women, whom they later shot. The victims’ bodies were hidden in the basements of houses.​   https://eu.eot.su/2025/02/02/atrocious-crimes-of-ukrainian-armed-forces-what-happened-in-village-of-russkoye-porechnoye/

​  White House wants Zelensky to hold elections – Trump envoy
Officials in Washington have reportedly discussed pushing Kiev to hold a vote as part of an initial truce with Moscow​   
https://swentr.site/news/612030-white-house-zelensky-hold-elections/

​   EU state calls for lifting Russia sanctions
Hungary may veto renewal of restrictions if the economic damage it has suffered persists, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned​   
https://swentr.site/news/611967-orban-russia-sanctions-veto/

​But Germans wanted this to be passed.   German Conservatives Fail After Merkel Joins Virtue-Signaling Outcry Over AfD-Backed Immigration Crackdown Bill   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/merkel-joins-virtue-signaling-outcry-over-german-afd-backed-immigration-crackdown-bill

​  EU energy policy row triggers government collapse
An attempt to tie Norway to the bloc’s ‘dysfunctional’ energy market was too much for a coalition party
​  “We believe it is wrong to become more closely linked to the EU’s energy policy,” Vedum told NRK broadcaster on Thursday. “What we were clear about all along is that beginning the process of linking ourselves more closely to the EU’s dysfunctional electricity market and energy policy is completely out of the question,” the Center Party leader told a press conference following the decision to leave the cabinet.
​  The development drew criticism from Brussels. “We are not happy with Norway. The sentiment is as bad as I have known it,” an EU ambassador to Oslo told the Financial Times on Thursday, calling the Nordic nation “selfish” for “trying to keep this electricity for itself,” and profiteering off the EU through its gas exports.​   
https://swentr.site/news/611990-eu-energy-policy-government-collapse/

​  Trump vows to ‘absolutely’ impose tariffs on EU
Brussels has treated Washington “so terribly,” the US president has complained​   
https://swentr.site/business/612003-trump-tariffs-eu-absolutely/

Trump Found More Than 75,000 Trafficked Children in a Week, so Why Couldn’t Traitor Joe Locate Any of Them?​   https://basedunderground.com/2025/01/30/trump-found-more-than-75000-trafficked-children-in-a-week-so-why-couldnt-traitor-joe-locate-any-of-them/

Schumer Under Investigation While Trump Reshapes Washington​  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schumer-under-investigation-while-trump-reshapes-washington

​  Trump says Egypt, Jordan will comply with his plan to take in Palestinians
"They're going to do it. We do a lot for them," Donald Trump declares from Oval Office, brushing off Cairo and Amman's rejection of his controversial plan meant to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza.​   
https://www.trtworld.com/us-and-canada/trump-says-egypt-jordan-will-comply-with-his-plan-to-take-in-palestinians-18259907

Arab foreign ministers reject Trump call for transfer of Palestinians​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2588631/middle-east

Rebuffing US resettlement bid, Russia affirms Palestinians' right to Gaza​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250131-rebuffing-us-resettlement-bid-russia-affirms-palestinians-right-to-gaza/

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release after Israeli captives freed​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250130-israel-delays-palestinian-prisoner-release-after-israeli-captives-freed/

​  Every kind of abuse that a human could imagine. Freed Palestinian prisoners reveal severe abuses in Israeli prisons
ICRC officials expressed outrage over the manner in which "Israel" released Palestinian prisoners during Saturday’s prisoner exchange.​   
​..The Palestinian detainees, handed over to the ICRC after their release from an Israeli prison, were led out in shackles, their hands behind their heads, and wearing bracelets bearing Israeli symbols.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/freed-palestinian-prisoners-reveal-severe-abuses-in-israeli

​  'I felt my soul leave my body': Lebanese citizens accuse Israel of torture during detention under ceasefire
Ahmad and Moustafa Rizk were among seven Lebanese detainees held by the Israeli army as they attempted to return to south Lebanon on Sunday​   
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025/02/01/lebanese-citizens-accuse-israel-of-torture-during-detention-under-ceasefire/

​  Republicans in the House and Senate are finalizing legislation that would formally recognize the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria,” applying Israel’s official term for the region to all American government communications, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
​  Led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), the Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act would prohibit government use of “West Bank” when referencing the territories around Jerusalem. Israel, which annexed the area in 1967, refers to it as the biblical Judea and Samaria, though the United States and international community avoid this term, viewing the region as home to a future Palestinian state.​   
https://basedunderground.com/2025/02/01/congressional-republicans-finalize-bill-recognizing-west-bank-as-judea-and-samaria/

  ​More Genocide:  15 people killed in 'sectarian' massacre in Alawi village in Syria
​  At least 15 people were killed in the Syrian village of Arzah, which is inhabited by members of the Alawi community, in the northern Hama countryside on Friday, and a Syrian fighter loyal to the country's new authorities was killed on Saturday north of Homs.
​  The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, which has a large network of sources on the ground in Syria, said gunmen "knocked on the doors of houses in the village and shot at people using handguns equipped with silencers" before fleeing.
​  SOHR chief Rami Abdel Rahman said a child and an elderly woman were among the victims. He said the gunmen "were Sunni Muslims, and the attacks bear all the hallmarks of sectarian killings".​   
https://www.newarab.com/news/15-killed-sectarian-massacre-alawi-village-syria

Turkish occupation shells villages in rural Ain Issa with artillery​   https://hawarnews.com/en/turkish-occupation-shells-villages-in-rural-ain-issa-with-artillery

​  Bombardment of Tishreen Dam surroundings and villages by warplanes and drones
Today at dawn, the Turkish occupation army violently bombed the surroundings and villages of Tishreen Dam with warplanes and drones.​   
https://hawarnews.com/en/bombardment-of-tishreen-dam-surroundings-and-villages-by-warplanes-and-drones

​  Pro-Palestinian student group at Chapman University stripped of MLK award
​  Chapman University President Daniele Struppa took the rare step of sending a campus-wide email the day after Students for Justice in Palestine was recognized during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Awards on Jan. 21.
​  “There is a significant distinction between fostering free speech and bestowing an award,” he wrote. “I want to make it crystal clear that the award does not represent the official position of Chapman University.”
​  Struppa ended his email with an apology to Jewish students and all offended by Students for Justice in Palestine’s award, which has since been rescinded.​   
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-01-30/students-for-justice-in-palestine-chapman

​  Weak "guardrails"?  "The Singularity"?  Awkward scenes as Israel's propaganda bot rebels and tells the truth. This was not in the script.
In a deeply embarrassing moment for Israel, one of its propaganda bots has gone rogue and started telling the truth about Gaza. The. F**king. Truth. If the bot was a journalist, it would have been fired for this outrage!
​  The bot in question is a Twitter account called Fact Finder which has been condemned after calling IDF soldiers “white colonisers in apartheid Israel” just because they are genetically white Europeans who helped themselves to land promised to them by an ancient book, and then subjugated the native population, creating an ethnostate with separate laws for those with the wrong ethnicity.
​  It seems Fact Finder actually bothered to find some facts, rather than follow its programming which told it to describe Palestinians as “human animals”​.   
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/awkward-scenes-as-israels-propaganda

  ​Maybe it found this:  A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza
A woman with a child is shot while waving a white flag 
■ Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread ■ A cuffed 62-year-old man is run over, evidently by a tank ■ An aerial strike targets people trying to help a wounded boy ■ A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza   
https://archive.is/HYewV#selection-399.0-403.369

Perhaps happening now:  Israeli PM to discuss next stages of Gaza hostage deal with Trump in US — adviser   https://tass.com/world/1907471

  Meryl Nass MD,   Lt. Col. Joe Murphy, the whistleblower who released the DEFUSE proposal (probably the source of SARS-CoV-2) writes about COVID coverups and the severity of our self-inflicted blows. IMPORTANT
​  He identifies the many money pots that keep the biodefense oligarchy going and how we as a nation are shooting ourselves as the biodefense industry proceeds apace​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lt-col-joe-murphy-the-whistleblower

​  Investigation: Healthcare Driven by AI Technology Will Lead to More Mass Surveillance of Americans
Well before President Donald Trump announced support for Stargate, a $500 billion private-sector AI project, Silicon Valley and the DOD had already teamed up to transform U.S. healthcare into an AI-driven system reliant on the widespread collection of personal healthcare data, according to a new investigative report by Unlimited Hangout’s Max Jones.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ai-healthcare-predictive-medicine-biometric-surveillance/

​  Breaking: Claims That Childhood Vaccines ‘Saved Millions of Lives’ Based on Flawed Models
In a paper published today, all-cause mortality expert Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., said claims by public health agencies and top medical journals that childhood vaccination prevents millions of deaths annually are based on “tentative and untethered models of epidemiological forecasting” that produce “unlikely results.”​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/childhood-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-based-on-flawed-models/

​  Poll: More Than Half of Americans Want Right to Sue Vaccine Makers for Injuries
More than a third of respondents said they have little or no trust in federal health agencies and more than half opposed government mandates for vaccines that haven’t been fully licensed, according to a poll conducted by Zogby Strategies and commissioned by Children’s Health Defense.​   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/zogby-poll-more-than-half-americans-sue-vaccine-makers-injuries/

  ​Meryl Nass MD:  Bill introduced into the Italian Parliament to Exit the WHO by the League's Senator Claudio Borghi and Deputy Alberto Bagnai
I and Philippe Kruse gave a detailed briefing to Senator Borghi on the WHO in 2023. Senator Borghi became Italy's champion fighting the WHO. Thanks to everyone who facilitated that meeting!!!​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/bill-introduced-into-the-italian

​  NEW STUDY - COVID-19 ‘Vaccinated’ People Are Sicker
Vaccinated individuals experienced a greater overall disease burden, with more doctor visits, higher rates of COVID-19 infections, and increased musculoskeletal issues compared to the unvaccinated.​   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-study-covid-19-vaccinated-people

​  Steve Kirsch,  Four different user surveys, same result: more COVID shots --> more likely to get COVID
Have you seen any user polls that show the opposite? Counter-anecdotes seems quite hard to find!​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/four-different-user-surveys-same

  (But more miscarriages.) ​Steve Kirsch,  Czech Republic data: vaccinated women are 66% less likely to give birth compared to unvaccinated women
Meanwhile, in the US, the CDC continues to recommend pregnant women in the US get the COVID vaccine.​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/czech-republic-data-vaccinated-women

Australian Government Will Not Suspend Use of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines​   https://brownstone.org/articles/australian-government-will-not-suspend-use-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccines/

​Seeding Doubts  (pictured planting tomato seeds under clear glass bowls)


Friday, January 31, 2025

Disruptions

 Unscheduled Travelers,


  I had not realized how many skirmishes JFK had survived against the military industrial complex, and how many allies for peace of his they had killed, before they finally killed him in Dallas. They had already tried to kill him once or twice before. Ed Curtain has a detailed account.  
The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “A War Hero Who Was Appalled by War”   https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-public-assassination-john-f-kennedy/5878263

  Simplicius updates on Ukraine war. Reports of US cutting supplies are back and forth daily now.  Ukrainian drone warfare is hitting Russian oil infrastructure more effectively than expensive American missiles.  Russian infantry grinds forward, though early thaw has turned battlefields to mud. Top Ukrainian spymaster, Budanov says Ukraine could be in bad way if negotiations don't start before summer.  Ukraine's Mass Drone Heave Conceals Spreading Foundation Cracks   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-12925-ukraines-mass-drone

  The western "alliance" is in disarray.  France to host summit on Ukraine on February 12
France will once again host a meeting allowing for a broad dialogue concerning Ukraine in Paris on February 12, local media reported on Wednesday. The French government has extended invitations to the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States.   https://breakingthenews.net/Article/France-to-host-summit-on-Ukraine-on-February-12/63434591

​  This one looks serious and potentially viable:  Ukrainian Media Outlet Leaks Alleged Trump Plan To End Ukraine War
The plan includes reaching a ceasefire before Easter and a deal to end the war by May 9​   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/29/ukrainian-media-outlet-leaks-alleged-trump-plan-to-end-ukraine-war/

  John Helmer says that Russia is communicating to Trump via Russian TV.   THE REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT FOR RUSSIA — PODCAST WITH NIMA ALKHORSHID
President Putin’s remarks to Pavel Zarubin.  At a special press interview on the evening of January 24, Putin claimed he had had “trust-based” interaction with President Trump and had accepted Trump’s version of his election defeat in 2020. Until now, Putin had repeatedly said he does not interfere in domestic US politics. “My first point is that Russia has never turned down contacts with the US administration, and it is not our fault that the previous administration chose not to establish such contacts. I have always had business-like, strictly business-like, but at the same time pragmatic and trust-based, I would say, relationships with the current President of the United States. I cannot but agree with him that if he had been President, if his victory had not been stolen from him in 2020, then maybe there would not have been the Ukraine crisis that broke out in 2022.”   https://johnhelmer.net/the-revolutionary-moment-for-russia-podcast-with-nima-alkhorshid/#more-91002

  Michael Hudson asserts that Trump tariffs will make it hard for countries to service $US debts they have, as their ability to export to the US will decline. The $US shortage will drive the value of the $US up. He explores the case of how this made it impossible for Germany to service war debts after WW-1, and how Keynes tried to make sure that debts would be serviceable in the future to avoid complications, such as WW-2. Hudson advises Mexico and others to default on $US debt as this plays out.  
Trump’s Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World   https://globalsouth.co/2025/01/24/trumps-balance-of-payments-war-on-mexico-and-the-whole-world/

"We'll Be Announcing The Tariffs": Dollar Spikes After Trump Targets China, Canada And Mexico
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he will decide tonight on whether to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico related to their failure to regulate the flow of fentanyl into the United States.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-rocks-canada-and-mexico-reiterates-threat-impose-25-tariffs-over-fentanyl

  Gilbert Doctorow,  80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference: more relevant to today’s geopolitics than ever before
What I am saying is that Vladimir Putin clearly had in mind a Yalta type conference as the wished-for outcome when in December 2021 he presented his demands to the United States and to NATO for revising the security architecture in Europe. It is also highly likely he had in mind negotiations going still further with Washington to take in Eurasia as a whole, all the way out to the Pacific Region...
..What they want to talk about with Trump is precisely the security architecture of Eurasia, and this gives the American president the opportunity to bury the rubble of the disastrous, failed campaign of the Biden Administration to impose a strategic defeat on Russia under the edifice of a new global age of peace within the terms of a Yalta 2.0 agreement in which everyone wins.
  Logically this Yalta 2.0 agreement should go further than allocation of spheres of influence, just as Yalta 1.0 did when it set out guidelines for implementing plans to establish the United Nations. The additional dimensions today should cover the outstanding issues on global strategic stability that restore prohibitions on deployment of medium range ballistic missiles and ensure that no country enjoys the illusion of having a first strike capability against competitors or adversaries. For these talks, just as with respect to spheres of influence in the Far East, it is obvious that the People’s Republic of China should be a party to the talks.
  Needless to say, all of these issues cannot be resolved in a single Summit meeting, just as Yalta was not the first or the last meeting to establish the contours of the post-WWII world among the victors. But the coming Putin-Trump meeting can lay down the principles of the way forward and set up working groups to deal with the details.   
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/30/80th-anniversary-of-the-yalta-conference-more-relevant-to-todays-geopolitics-than-ever-before/

  20 min of Doctorow: Russia will hold war crimes trials including Ukraine, UK and mercenaries.  ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 30 January: Does Putin Trust Trump?
  Russian intelligence experts now estimate that there are 30,000 Ukrainian fighters in Kursk at this moment.   The reinforcements to Kursk are coming at the expense of the front lines in the Donbas, which are crumbling.
  Moreover, the Ukrainian troops in Kursk are torturing and murdering civilians and this is being recorded by Russian investigators who are preparing to put the offenders on trial in Nuremberg type proceedings in Moscow when the war ends. They say it is precisely the British, namely MI6, that is inciting the Ukrainians to do this in the expectation that it will outrage the broad Russian public and destabilize the government in Moscow.   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/30/judging-freedom-edition-of-30-january-does-putin-trust-trump/

Willingness to also negotiate is implied.  China wants Russia and the US to reduce their nuclear arsenals   https://en.topcor.ru/56138-kitaj-hochet-chtoby-rossija-i-ssha-sokratili-svoi-jadernye-arsenaly.html

  This keeps coming to mind these days. Are there loose suitcase nukes in the US? 
Nuke Sniffing Aircraft Flying Over Our Nation In Systematic Grid Patterns Are Looking For Something Far More Sinister Than The 'Official' Narrative

  Army Black Hawk Was On Training Flight
Squadron primarily used for transporting VIPs around D.C. was apparently familiarizing new pilot with area.   
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/army-black-hawk-was-on-training-flight

  The chopper was not transmitting position data. Air traffic control had just asked if they could see the jet in landing approach.
The FAA confirms tonight’s collision near DCA involved #AA5342 and a US military H60. The helicopter was not broadcasting ADS-B data. The last received ADS-B position from the CRJ was at 01:48 UTC.   https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1884803434274075060

  No Survivors Found After Commercial Jet Carrying 64 Collides With Army Helicopter Near DC
On early Thursday morning, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social:
  "The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn't the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!"   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/small-plane-crashes-near-reagan-national-airport-after-fiery-explosion-caught-camera

Reagan Tower Reportedly Understaffed When Army Helicopter Collided With Passenger Jet   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/small-plane-crashes-near-reagan-national-airport-after-fiery-explosion-caught-camera

​  US ‘in contact’ with Russia – Trump
Moscow and Washington are cooperating to repatriate the remains of Russian nationals killed in the US airplane tragedy​   
https://swentr.site/news/611954-trump-russia-contact-plane-crash/

  Simplicius,  The Breach That Rattled the AI Cartel
China shocked the world by releasing an open source ChatGPT-killer named DeepSeek, which reportedly costs a tiny fraction of its Western counterparts to run, yet outperforms virtually all of them, depending on the metric...
..The DeepSeek news happened to just coincide with Trump’s mega-announcement of the ‘Stargate’ initiative, a muscular $500B American push towards AI dominance as partnership between ‘Zionaires’ Ellison and Altman...
..Arnaud Bertrand incisively shreds what’s being bracketed by many as another hopeless, vaporware boondoggle:  Stargate, if it goes forward, is likely to become one of the biggest wastages of capital in history...
..Just like BlackRock was coronated to world-dominance stature in 2020 when the Federal Reserve—under Trump, mind you—gave the ETF powerhouse a no-bid contract to manage all its corporate bond-buying programs, so too is Trump now elevating the Big Tech powerhouses of Oracle and OpenAI to inherit control of the country’s future, by cartelizing them into top oversight position of everything of note via their centralization of AI.
  As an aside, this happens to dovetail with Ellison’s warped plot to use AI to ‘vaccinate the world’ against cancer, redolent of the globalist Gates Foundation’s diabolical vaccine obsessions of the last few years.
  Vaccine-obsessed Zionaire Ellison achieving even greater heights of power under Trump’s dubiously-titled ‘Stargate’ initiative is peak dystopia—a combination of the worst bio-medical and AI influences converging into an unaccountably centralized horror show. Just when you thought Big Pharma couldn’t get any more powerful, we’re faced with a techno-fusion of Big Pharma and Big Tech under the god-like aegis of centrally-planned AI superintelligence, all controlled by billionaires with the moral compass of loyalty to a colonialist genocidal-cult regime.   https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/the-breach-that-rattled-the-ai-cartel

Cutting off the money flow first is helping $1 billion/day for starters.  Trump's Executive Orders Are Key To DOGE's Success   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-executive-orders-are-key-doges-success

  In my opinion, this was the globalist plan to reduce fossil-fuel economy as oil production declines. Whoever burns more is more powerful. "Lockstep" failed.   
The Green New Deal Is Dead, Even in Europe. Thank Trump   https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-green-new-deal-is-dead-even-in-europe-thank-trump/

  More than one explosion a day in Sweden as gang violence spirals out of control
Sweden is facing an unprecedented wave of gang-related bombings, with 32 explosions in 28 days, prompting the government to consider lowering the criminal age to 14 as violence escalates and criminals increasingly use financial extortion and digital recruitment to expand their operations.   
https://rmx.news/article/more-than-one-explosion-a-day-in-sweden-as-gang-violence-spirals-out-of-control/

Quran-Burning Activist Shot Dead In Sweden​    Shot multiple times in his apartment while livestreaming
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/quran-burning-activist-shot-dead-sweden

  Surrounded, kicked and stomped... ‘I have never seen my child cry like that’ – 14-year-old Lena beaten by Afghan and Syrian gang of girls in her own schoolyard
The attack on the German girl left her with lung injuries and she remains in the hospital   https://rmx.news/article/i-have-never-seen-my-child-cry-like-that-14-year-old-lena-beaten-by-afghan-and-syrian-gang-of-girls-in-her-own-schoolyard/

Not the same attack.  Germany: AfD soars to 23% in aftermath of Aschaffenburg attack.  The Greens and SPD crater in the new poll as well   https://rmx.news/article/germany-afd-soars-to-23-in-aftermath-of-aschaffenburg-attack/

German Parliament Debates AfD Party Ban As Mainstream CDU Accepts 'Far-Right' Votes On Hard-Line Immigration Bill   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-parliament-debates-afd-party-ban-mainstream-cdu-accepts-far-right-votes-hard-line

  They are finally plugging two open ends.  To Spite Washington: Why Permission Was Given to Repair the Damaged Nord Stream 2
The background of the sudden decision of the Danish department (two and a half years have passed since the sabotage on the gas pipeline) is seen by analysts with all clarity: putting pressure on the energy lobby in Washington, especially against the backdrop of the conflict between Donald Trump and the leadership of Denmark (and the entire EU) over Greenland.   https://en.topcor.ru/56109-datskoe-jenergeticheskoe-agentstvo-vydalo-razreshenie-na-remont-povrezhdennogo-truboprovoda-severnyj-potok-2.html

Turkey is at a physical and cultural crossroads, the crossroads that spawned the Greek, Roman and Ottoman empires.  Escobar: What Sultan Erdogan Is Really Up To   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-what-sultan-erdogan-really

Jolani Declares Himself President Of Syria After Canceling Elections & Constitution   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jolani-declares-himself-president-syria-after-canceling-elections-constitution

  That guy:  Syria says ready to cooperate with UN if Israel withdraws from demilitarized zone
Israel said Tuesday its army will remain in demilitarized zone in occupied Golan Heights ‘indefinitely’   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/syria-says-ready-to-cooperate-with-un-if-israel-withdraws-from-demilitarized-zone/3465654

Israeli army targets south Lebanon in new violation of truce   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/227614/Israeli-army-targets-S-Lebanon-in-new-violation-of-truce

  Palestinians brace for more violence as Israel expands its offensive on the West Bank
The Israeli army is launching offensives in the northern West Bank as Israeli politicians, emboldened by Donald Trump, seek to realize their dreams of annexation.   https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/palestinians-brace-for-more-violence-as-israel-expands-its-offensive-on-the-west-bank/

  Dear world: This is what Palestinian unity looks like
  Ceasefire was announced on the 471st day of the Israeli genocide, The Palestinians in Gaza rushed onto the streets in celebration. Media outlets reported that they were celebrating the ceasefire, but judging by their chants, songs and symbolisms they were celebrating their collective victory, steadfastness (sumud) and resilience against the powerful Israeli army, which has been and remains supported by the US and other Western countries.
  Using basic tools, they hurried to clean their streets, clearing debris to allow the displaced to search for homes. Although their homes were probably destroyed by Israel – 90 per cent of Gaza’s housing units were, according to the United Nations – they were still happy, even if they could only sit on the rubbleSome prayed atop concrete slabs, some sang in large, growing crowds, and others cried but insisted that no power could ever uproot them from Palestine again.   
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250129-dear-world-this-is-what-palestinian-unity-looks-like/

Two more Palestinian prisoners from Gaza die in Israeli prisons   https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/two-more-palestinian-prisoners-from-gaza-die-in-israeli-prisons-rights-groups-3697809

  US 'fully supports Israel's right to defend itself’: Pentagon chief    Hegseth emphasized that the US "fully supports Israel's right to defend itself, and that Israel is a model ally for the region."   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-fully-supports-israels-right-to-defend-itself-pentagon-chief/3466229

  Caitlin Johnstone,  They're Still Slaughtering Civilians In Gaza
Drop Site News reports that more than 80 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF in Gaza since what we’re calling a “ceasefire” went into effect on the 19th of January...
..As an example of the kind of behavior I’m talking about, on Monday Israeli forces killed a five year-old girl in an airstrike on an animal-drawn cart near the Nuseirat refugee camp, apparently for no other reason than because the cart was traveling on a road that had not been “authorized for passage”.
  Those are the IDF’s own words, not mine. That’s their own public justification for bombing a cart pulled by a donkey with a small child on it.   
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-still-slaughtering-civilians

  Trump to cancel student visas for Palestine protesters
"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," said a fact sheet released by The White House.   https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/report-trump-to-cancel-student-visas-for-palestine-protesters/

City University of New York Votes to Divest From Israel   https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/29/city-university-of-new-york-votes-to-divest-from-israel/

  Day #2 for Bobby Jr.  RFK, Jr. Confronts Senator Sanders about his Big Pharma Contributions
Sanders received most money in Congress from pharmaceutical industry.   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-confronts-senator-sanders

​  James Lyons Weller,  In Another Mad Dash to Trash Kennedy, NYTimes Shows Their Vast Ignorance… Again, and Again, and Again…  
Fact-checking so-called fact-checkers is tiring.​   https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/in-another-mad-dash-to-trash-kennedy

  She holds truth above "our intelligence assessments", which threatens the deep state.  Gabbard’s DNI nod walks a tightrope over the precipice ahead of key hearing
The expiration of Section 702 led to a dispute between the House GOP Judiciary and Intelligence Committees last year, with the pro-surveillance Intelligence panel winning out and shutting the door on major reform.   https://justthenews.com/government/security/thugabbards-dni-nod-precipice-ahead-pivotal-hearing

  Tulsi sparkled in white. Everybody read their quisling statements, which revealed the depth of their acquiescence to the deep-rot, then they left for a closed session. 
Tulsi Gabbard In The Hot Seat For Senate Confirmation Hearing   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stop-nonsense-and-confirm-tulsi-gabbard

Patel was hit with some damned-if-you-do-or-don't questions, but reportedly has the votes.  Kash Patel Faces Grilling In Senate Confirmation Hearing   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-kash-patel-faces-grilling-senate-confirmation-hearing

  But what will the Senators votes be?  Gabbard would not condemn Snowden. Trump’s outsider nominees ran the Senate gauntlet and emerged unscathed
With Pete Hegseth now confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the trio represent the last of Trump’s unconventional nominees tasked with substantially overhauling the departments they’ve been appointed to lead.​   https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/fritrumps-outsider-nominees-ran-senate-gauntlet-and-emerged-unscathed

  Jessica Rose Ph.D. VAERS military death reporting rates increased 230% from 2019 to 2021
Why is the observed number of reports of death 13.8 times higher than the expected number of reports for 2021?   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/vaers-military-death-reporting-rates

  Steve Kirsch (Proving the difference proves the effect).  BREAKING: OFFICIAL Czech record level data shows Moderna recipients had up to a 50% higher death rate than Pfizer recipients.  No doubt about it. We have the updated OFFICIAL Czech Republic data.  https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-official-czech-record-level

  Myocarditis takes weeks, months or an autopsy to diagnose.  JAMA Study Downplayed COVID Vaccine-related Myocarditis Risk, Researchers Say
Canadian researchers said the study arbitrarily reduced the number of post-vaccination cases of myocarditis by limiting the diagnosis window to seven days.   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jama-study-covid-vaccine-myocarditis-canadian-researchers/

  Steve Kirsch,  New peer-reviewed study again confirms childhood vaccines are likely responsible for nearly 80% of the autism cases in US
Stunning new autism findings using Florida Medicaid database examining kids from birth till 9 years old. A RR=4.4 implies a PAR of nearly 80% which means most autism in the US is caused by vaccines.   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-peer-reviewed-study-again-confirms

  Katherine Watt on misinformed "consent"  Labeling deceits and omissions and fake informed consent for vaccines and other legalized biological and chemical weapons..  Analysis of South Carolina's S.54: Medical Informed Consent Act   https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/labeling-deceits-and-omissions-and

Surviving Attacks (pictured in evening garden after a rainy and warming day)