Expecting Surprises,
A feeling has been germinating in my consciousness, fed by lots of things, like post-peak oil since early 2019, "Agenda 2030", the "Great Reset", global financial bubbles and derivatives, but it is also independent of those specific clues. The feeling is that 2025 will be a year of sudden and unanticipated crises, which will lead our world to reconfigure again.
Some direction of the change is apparent in that we can expect less stuff in general, but it is the specifics I expect to be deadly. I never expected to be put into a position where I would be fired while the COVID pandemic persisted, but when I saw a class of humans without human rights being created, I had the epiphany that I had to stand amongst them on principle. The Houston, Methodist Hospital Nurses had already done so. That move, to dehumanize some people in the minds of the majority, and to manipulate the majority into treating them harshly, without compassion, never reached critical mass, though you will recall talk of segregating the unvaccinated into "camps", which were prepared for that stated purpose in Australia.
There was a time-pressure to all of this emergency-dehumanizing, and when the milder viral strains of the "Omicron" group began to dominate by early 2022, and deaths dropped as "cases" rose, COVID gradually normalized as successful viruses do if they want to stay around.
What did happen in March 2020, when lockdowns were instituted in western countries, was the "going direct bailout" by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury, coordinated by BlackRock, which injected a couple of trillion dollars into the biggest financial institutions in the world. Some money was injected into the accounts of regular people, too, which they would remember, and which made the price of used cars go up.
When lockdowns were over, and people started to get out and spend, there was sudden inflation, largely from the "going direct" bailout, but that remained invisible to most people, and forgotten by others. Real-economy had been depressed, also, so there was a shortage of stuff, as well. You will have noticed that prices never went back down.
Our sociopathic owners, who would be royalty and nobles in prior epochs, maintain our human political-economic systems by culling us regulars when there get to be more of us than the crops and fuel will comfortably support. They are specialized to this task by natural-selection, I surmise. This problem of "overgrazing" keeps coming up in natural systems where animals graze. The apex-predators of the system kill and eat the grazing animals, maintaining balance at all levels.
We were all apex predators when we were hunter-gatherers, but when we took up farming, we became like grazing herds, and ended up getting kings, armies, raiding-parties and human-sacrifices to the sun-god.
We have been told that wars happened because a bunch of people hated another bunch of people, but that only ENABLES people to kill each other in wars. The cause of wars is the machinations of our sociopathic owners/rulers, is it not?
We are in post peak-oil world, and oil-is-economy with 90% correlation these days, so the growth-based financial system is heading for part-2, the final part, of the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis. Recovery from this will require a different monetary regime, not based upon exponential growth of monetary "capital", which will be hard because the current system has self-organized through about 250 years of exponential growth, largely fueled by coal and oil. The use of coal for heating in England provided an excess of trees, which were crafted into fleets of ships, too.
Our noble-sociopaths are well-informed of the situation at the upper echelons, and use wars to get emergency-powers, widespread-compliance, and maintain their own power. This is as natural as waking up in the morning for them, but wars have to be profitable, and the elites don't want the global economic system to be destroyed, which is likely in a world war like the last two. They are also liable to die, and are particularly liable to lose most of their wealth, which is against the natural order, as they see it.
The world is complex now, but the rational goals of our apex-predatory elites are to cull the human-herds with options on future culls, as required, while maintaining the health of modern industrial economy, which makes them wealthy and powerful. To do this they will need reliable obedience from the normals, and with high levels of lateral information-sharing through the internet, they are unable to build and maintain control-narratives at the level they will need to carry out the mass killings of a major fraction of the people in the world, especially those who don't contribute to their power and wealth, or even drain it, retirees, such as myself, for instance...
The Economist has been one of the most important mouthpieces for the western elite for decades. It has offices all over the globe, but it is based in the city of London
Meryl Nass MD, Farmers rally before Westminster a third time in London/ Andrew Bridgen interviewed on globalist takeover of farmland and Agenda 2030 (<4 min.)
"Control the food; control the people." Martin Armstrong, New Regulations on US Dairy
There has not been a single case of a person falling ill with the bird flu from drinking milk. Yet, the USDA insists farmers comply with their guidance that is no longer mandatory. The World Health Organization managed to work its way into the situation too as they have criticized the lack of testing. Again, no one has fallen ill from drinking milk. There may have been cases of infection in farmhands who had direct contact with cows, but there is not a single case proving anyone contracted H5N1 in this manner...
..US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that widespread mandatory testing “will give farmers and farmworkers better confidence in the safety of their animals and ability to protect themselves, and it will put us on a path to quickly controlling and stopping the virus’s spread nationwide.” The virus is not spreading through the milk supply so why are they so eager to begin this program? https://www.
Trump will enter office in January with a toolkit of punitive measures for fighting China ready to roll along with strong support among his appointees for making them the law of the land. But of course, we’re talking about Donald Trump, so nothing is a given. Some analysts believe that his penchant for deal-making and his professed admiration for Chinese strongman President Xi Jinping may lead him to pursue a far more transactional approach, increasing economic and military pressure on Beijing to produce concessions on, for example, curbing the export of fentanyl precursors to Mexico, but when he gets what he wants letting them lapse. Howard Lutnick, the billionaire investor from Cantor Fitzgerald whom he chose as Commerce secretary, claims that Trump actually “wants to make a deal with China,” and will use the imposition of tariffs selectively as a bargaining tool to do so. https://tomdispatch.com/
China likely buys 5X more gold than it announces. Gold is as good as gold. Are China's Big Gold Purchases For Protection Against The Dollar... Or To Attack It?
Lawmakers voted 366 to 34 to approve the proposal, well above the two-thirds threshold needed under special fast-track procedures...
After the House of Representatives passed a new package to keep the federal government funded through March 14, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other congressional lawmakers discussed the process that brought the bill over the finish line.“In bipartisan fashion, with an overwhelming majority of votes, we passed the American Relief Act of 2025,” Johnson said, adding that funding the government through March 2025 was “a big priority for us.”
The House Speaker described the package as “America First” legislation that allows his GOP coalition to deliver the nation a “sea change in Washington” after Inauguration Day next month. https://www.zerohedge.com/
Jim Rickards, Trump’s Economic Plans. Trump will begin his first 100 days with an emphasis on his economic plans. https://dailyreckoning.com/trumps-economic-plans/
"Opium Wars" are national wars. Chinese gangs own Canada. Trump-Era Official Blasts Canada Over Fentanyl Super Labs & Transnational Crime Gangs
Asher told the CBC News host that the new border proposal "looks rather unimpressive" and is a "drop in the bucket compared to what we actually need."
Asher then segued the conversation, stating that his "concerns go well beyond the border," highlighting the expansion of fentanyl superlab production across Canada—much of which is destined for the US.
"US law enforcement has a lot of sources telling us - that not only the Mexican cartels are setting up operations in Canada - but also Chinese organized crime - and even Iranian organized crime..." https://www.zerohedge.com/
"To a large extent," Russia's economic stability "is the result of the strengthening of sovereignty, including projected onto the economy," Putin said at Thursday's annual Q&A session.
"Sovereignty comes in different forms, including defense, technological, scientific, educational, cultural. This is especially important for our country, because when we lose our sovereignty, we lose statehood. That's the most important thing," Putin added.
Russia's path toward economic sovereignty goes back over a decade, owing its success largely to the unprecedented sanctions war the West launched against Moscow in 2014, at the start of the Ukrainian crisis, veteran financial analyst Paul Goncharoff says...
.."To sum it up: Import substitution, trade in local sovereign currencies, infrastructure changes toward the Global South and East, redirecting oil and gas to the Global South and East, and participating in the enhancement and expansion of BRICS as the new economic frontier all come together to have formed a successful series of strategic decisions which are ongoing and gathering strength," Goncharoff concluded. https://sputnikglobe.com/
"Sovereignty comes in different forms, including defense, technological, scientific, educational, cultural. This is especially important for our country, because when we lose our sovereignty, we lose statehood. That's the most important thing," Putin added.
Russia's path toward economic sovereignty goes back over a decade, owing its success largely to the unprecedented sanctions war the West launched against Moscow in 2014, at the start of the Ukrainian crisis, veteran financial analyst Paul Goncharoff says...
.."To sum it up: Import substitution, trade in local sovereign currencies, infrastructure changes toward the Global South and East, redirecting oil and gas to the Global South and East, and participating in the enhancement and expansion of BRICS as the new economic frontier all come together to have formed a successful series of strategic decisions which are ongoing and gathering strength," Goncharoff concluded. https://sputnikglobe.com/
Alexander McKay echoes Wargan’s analysis. Now “free,” Syria will be forcedly made “dependent upon imports from the West” evermore. This not only fattens the Empire’s bottom line but “also severely restricts the freedom of any Syrian government to act with any degree of independence.” He notes similar efforts have been undertaken throughout the post-1989 era of U.S. unipolarity. It was well underway in Russia during the 1990s “until the slow turn around in policy started in the early 2000s under Putin”:
The aim is to reduce Syria to the same status as Lebanon, with an economy controlled by imperial forces, an army used primarily for internal repression, and an economy no longer able to produce anything but merely serve as a market for commodities produced elsewhere, and site of resource extraction. The U.S. and its allies do not want independent development of any nation’s economy. https://scheerpost.com/2024/
The aim is to reduce Syria to the same status as Lebanon, with an economy controlled by imperial forces, an army used primarily for internal repression, and an economy no longer able to produce anything but merely serve as a market for commodities produced elsewhere, and site of resource extraction. The U.S. and its allies do not want independent development of any nation’s economy. https://scheerpost.com/2024/
Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has raised the alarm over Israeli officials floating the idea of replacing Palestinians with Jewish settlers in Gaza. The diplomat also accused the US of shielding Israel through its vetoes in the UN Security Council. https://swentr.site/news/
A new report documents the mass killing of Palestinians in northern Gaza. Meanwhile, Hamas and Israel have discussed the details of a prisoner exchange that could serve as the centerpiece of a 60-day ceasefire. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/
Human Rights Watch: Israel Is Committing Crime of Extermination and Acts of Genocide
The State Department, which is implicated in Israel's crimes, said it disagreed with the report https://news.antiwar.com/Israeli attacks on two schools sheltering Palestinians killed at least 15 https://news.antiwar.com/
An investigative report on Wednesday, based on testimonies of a number of unnamed Israeli soldiers and commanders, exposed the terrifying accounts of the extreme violence unleashed against Palestinians in the Netzarim corridor, which is a zone of occupation that the Tel Aviv regime has set up in the Palestinian territory during its ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, Israel’s leading daily Haaretz reported.
“Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members,” said an Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza, adding that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist even if they were just a child. https://www.presstv.ir/
“Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members,” said an Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza, adding that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist even if they were just a child. https://www.presstv.ir/
More than 14 months into Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip, the Israel military is now facing a critical personnel crisis as approximately 500 officers holding the rank of major have departed military service since mid-2024. https://www.presstv.ir/
Simplicius, Medley Report: Europe's Descent, Oreshnik, and More
..Right from the getgo she blames Russian “imperialistic tendencies” for wanting to influence Georgia, yet almost in the same breath declares that Georgia is a “strategic interest” for Europe, and that Europe should therefore move in to take control of it. Is that not imperialism by the same name?
She goes on along the tack of saying the unspoken by naming every strategic advantage that NATO and the EU would see with Georgia under their control, such as control of the Black Sea, Armenia, the Caucuses, amongst other things...
..She hails the illegal nullification of the Romanian election, which is met with resounding applause by the corrupt unelected bureaucrats... a dying empire seeks only absolute power and expansion at all costs, nothing else matters. Laws, rules, democratic principles are mere frivolities... She goes on along the tack of saying the unspoken by naming every strategic advantage that NATO and the EU would see with Georgia under their control, such as control of the Black Sea, Armenia, the Caucuses, amongst other things...
..This speech has particular significance because Zourabichvili’s term expires on December 29, when the newly elected ex-Dream Party president Mikheil Kavelashvili is set to take office. The treasonously mad madame has openly vowed she will not step down. (Extreme padded shoulders attempt to provide gravitas to her frail build.) ...
..At a time when Macron’s government is collapsing, Scholz lost a parliamentary confidence vote leading to early snap elections in February, Biden was virtually couped and replaced, Trudeau set to resign according to rumors, with the entire Western order in terminal crisis, wise leaders like Azerbaijan’s Aliyev understand everything. Here he observes Macron is turning France into a ‘failed state’... This comes just as alarm signals sound off on Germany’s coming economic failure.....“Everyone’s life, little by little, gets a little bit worse for the rest of their existence,” said Webb...
..As the institutions which have governed the globe since the Cold War slowly become undone, the world begins entering an active ‘strongman’ phase. One governed by the likes of Netanyahu and Erdogan, who no longer fear for the brakes and baffles previously in place owing to the respected international institutional norms which the West has now ineptly eroded. Years upon years of total disregard for true Rule of Law by corrupt, coopted Western rulers has resulted in the complete discrediting of everything from the UN, ICC, OSCE, IAEA, and tens of other adjacent bulwarks against chaos. Now, we likely enter a phase of madmen running rampant, taking advantage of the time of global lawlessness to expand their would-be empires. Erdogan again hinted so much in a new speech, declaring that Turkey will no longer be bound to its original geographic magnitude (Maybe not "mad", but bold and ruthless players.)...This stands to initiate a cascade effect of other smaller nations all over, in Africa and elsewhere, seeing their chance to settle old geopolitical scores, or exact revenge...Israel will likewise seek to carve up the remainder of Palestine and Syria due to the feckless collapse of the West’s moral authority and institutional power. For instance, infamous Likudnik Bezalel Smotrich again spoke of depopulating Gaza and the formation of an Israeli ‘empire’...
..I’m not convinced that Oreshnik is economically viable as a regular use type of weapon, given that ICBM style weapons typically cost tens of millions of dollars each. Or do they? One source claims in the early 2000s, Russian Topol-M single-missile cost was supposed to be 18 million rubles, which at that time’s exchange rate should be something like $700k if my math is correct. Now after Putin’s announcement of Oreshnik going into mass production claims vary as to how many Oreshniks Russia can manufacture... The above claims GUR’s numbers of 25 a month, but I have not been able to verify that anywhere, which suggests it’s phony. In fact, Ukraine refuted it and in this case I agree with them. 25 per month is a huge number even for Kalibr or Kh-101 style missiles, for Oreshnik this is absolutely impossible. More realistic is maybe a couple a month to a few dozen per year at most, at least for now...
..It should be noted that immediately after Oreshnik’s debut, perhaps struggling to catch up and save face, the US launched into a test of its own Dark Eagle or LRHW (Long Range Hypersonic Weapon)... It was the first ever live fire of the full system from erector TEL (transporter erector launcher vehicle). With claimed speeds of “Mach 5”—compared to Oreshnik’s Mach 10+—and a range of 2700km—compared to Oreshnik’s 5000-7000km—it’s not exactly groundbreaking... https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/medley-report-europes-descent-oreshnik Smug grandstanding... Putin challenges West to ‘technological duel’ with Oreshnik
The Russian president has proposed to test Western defense systems against Moscow’s new hypersonic missile https://swentr.site/russia/609598-putin-challenges-west-oreshnik/
One-size-fits-nobody repression... EU suffers by suppressing national identities – Putin
Questions relating to international affairs were moved to the first hour, not left for the very end as was the case in the past.
On this basis, I am able to present below some points that Vladimir Putin evidently was keen to bring to our attention, though I admit that I sat through only the first two hours of ‘Results of the Year.’...
..How can Russia navigate the very turbulent waters of international affairs?The Russian president has proposed to test Western defense systems against Moscow’s new hypersonic missile https://swentr.site/russia/609598-putin-challenges-west-oreshnik/
People in the European Union are being negatively affected by the marginalization of their national identities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, arguing that a lack of national sovereignty affects all aspects of life in a state...
”Sovereignty is a very important thing. It has to be on the inside, in the heart. I believe that the German people had this feeling of belonging to a homeland and sovereignty eradicated in them during the post-war period,” he mused. ”Who are the Europeans? They are all proud to be European. But they are first of all French, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Europeans secondly,” he added. https://swentr.site/russia/609603-putin-eu-national-identity/
Gilbert Doctorow, “Results of the year with Vladimir Putin,” an informational event which merits close attention
On this basis, I am able to present below some points that Vladimir Putin evidently was keen to bring to our attention, though I admit that I sat through only the first two hours of ‘Results of the Year.’...
His answer was that the world has not gone mad but that when the bullets are flying, as is now the case, people say it is terrible; whereas when there is a time of calm, people say it is a period of stagnation!
The answer to the question, in his view, is to look at the Russian economy, which is stable, resilient and growing very well... By way of example, Russia now has become fully self-sufficient in meat production, and meat consumption is now 80kg per capita whereas a few years ago it was half that amount. Milk demand, especially for production of butter, has soared while output has not been able to keep pace. All of this is in conditions of 9% rise in real wages over the past year, which adds to demand across the board...
..Putin challenged the States to engage in a ‘duel of the 21st century’. Russia will name its target somewhere in Ukraine and dare the US to bring down the Oreshnik using the best interceptors in their arsenal...
..Another set of questions addressed to Putin that can be of general interest in the West was with regard to reconstruction in the 4 annexed regions of the Donbas and Novaya Rossiya: does Russia have the financial and management capability to retore and grow these new territories? His answer was an emphatic yes and he pointed first to the city of Mariupol which had 450,000 inhabitants before the war and was largely destroyed in the artillery battles that preceded its conquest by Russian forces. Putin said that much attention was devoted to infrastructure, starting with rebuilding and fully modernizing roads and to reconstruction of housing. The population has been returning and now is approximately 300,000 strong. Similar investments are being made all across the new territories. And Putin assured the public that these new regions are growing their economies very quickly.....(NBC reporter) Brennan-Simmons opened with two questions, the first of which was more an accusation and mark of derision than a question proper: ‘Mr President when you meet with Donald Trump, you will be doing so from a position of weakness. You have lost soldiers. You just lost a senior general…”
Putin said first that he has heard nothing from the Trump camp about a possible meeting with him. And he challenged directly the notion that Russia’s position would be the weaker party when the meeting eventually takes place. No, said Putin, we are much stronger than we were thanks to the assertion of our sovereignty and our finding our way in self-reliance since the launch of the Special Military Operation. We are standing on our own feet economically. Our military production far exceeds the capabilities of all of NATO together. Our soldiers on the battlefield are using our own military supplies and we do all of this in a most rational and effective way. Compare that to NATO where the price of 155mm artillery shells is now four times what it was back in 2022. With this type of cost inflation, NATO member states will have to dedicated not 2% but 3% of their GDP just to stand in place. Our army today has no peer in the world. Russia has become stronger and we, as a sovereign country, are following our national interests...
..Putin used the question as a springboard to what we all wanted to hear: what the Kremlin says about the ‘loss’ of Syria and about its bases there. As I remarked several days ago, he insisted that Russia entered the civil war in 2015 for one purpose only: to ensure that an extreme Islamist enclave could not be established there. He said Russia succeeded in that mission and did so with no boots on the ground other than those defending its naval and air base. The fighters were from the Syrian Army and from friendly Arab forces [meaning Iranian proxies]. What happened recently was the melting away of the Syrian forces in advance of the conquering troops without a fight. Iran once again turned to us for assistance with moving its troops – but unlike 2015 it was not to move Iranian forces into Syria, it was now to evacuate Iranian troops from Syria. We did so and evacuated 4,000 Iranians to our air base. As regards Syria, Russia, he said has maintained relations with all interested parties inside and in the region. Everyone says we should keep our bases there. But whether we do or not will depend on our negotiations with the government in Damascus. We have suggested to others that we are ready to open both the naval and the air base for use by all parties wishing to bring humanitarian assistance in to Syria...
..Finally, Putin invited Brennan-Simmons to ask anything else he might want clarified now that he had the microphone. The journalist asked if Russia is ready to make compromises itself in line with its demand that Kiev make compromises to arrive at a peace.
The answer Putin gave is noteworthy: that Russia and Ukraine had demonstrated this in March-April 2022 when they initialed a peace treaty involving compromises on all sides. Regrettably the British prime minister with a peculiar hairdo then came down to Kiev and issued instructions not to complete the deal. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/12/19/results-of-the-year-with-vladimir-putin-an-informational-event-which-merits-close-attention/
The answer Putin gave is noteworthy: that Russia and Ukraine had demonstrated this in March-April 2022 when they initialed a peace treaty involving compromises on all sides. Regrettably the British prime minister with a peculiar hairdo then came down to Kiev and issued instructions not to complete the deal. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/12/19/results-of-the-year-with-vladimir-putin-an-informational-event-which-merits-close-attention/
Pepe Escobar, Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
The Forever Wars in West Asia and Ukraine, two vectors of the standard imperial drive, now united in an Omni-War, Putin stated that, “we have come to Syria in order to prevent a terrorists’ enclave (…) In general, our goal has been achieved.”
Whether Syria remains “terrorist free” remains to be seen: the new, “inclusive”, rebranded as woke Emir of Damascus, al-Jolani, a Saudi national, is a certified Salafi-jihadi still with a $10 million American bounty on his head. The “enclave” now encompasses most of former Syrian sovereign territory, otherwise illegally occupied by jihadi gangs and Zionist lebensraum practitioners. It’s important to remember that Russia first intervened in Syria in 2015 not so much to keep access to the warm waters of the Eastern Mediterranean: but mostly to protect holy Christian Orthodox sites in Damascus. Christianity was born in Damascus (remember St. Paul) – not in Jerusalem. When Putin went to Damascus, he was on an Orthodox Christian pilgrimage: coming from the Third Rome (Moscow) to pay his respects to the precursor of the first Rome, the cradle of Christianity. On the larger Levantine geopolitical picture, Putin is correct. The CIA invented Operation Timber Sycamore way back in 2012 to train and weaponize “moderate rebels” to overthrow Assad – spending over $1 billion a year: the most extensive CIA covert op since the jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The UK, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan were Sycamore partners. Over the final years, the Pentagon jumped in to “prepare” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the “soft” ISIS splinter group. Ultimately it was nearly 14 years of toxic US sanctions and relentless siege warfare that led to the final act, complete with Ukrainian drone instructors, mountains of Qatari cash and the Turk-assembled crypto-al Qaeda infantry (no more than 350 fighters, according to Putin himself). Now it’s a matter of adapting.
Putin said that, “we have established relations with all those that control the situation on the ground (…) Most countries expect the Russian bases to remain (…) Our interests should coincide, a question that requires painstaking examination.” He also reminded everyone that politics is the art of compromise – and Russia’s strategic priority is to keep the bases in Tartus and Hmeimim. Putin brushed aside the notion that Russia has been weakened by Assad’s downfall in Syria, quoting Mark Twain: “Rumors about my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Instead, he practically proposed that the Russian bases could provide humanitarian aid: one can imagine the population of a deeply polarized, fragmented Syria arguing with the Salafi-jihadis to get their share. Were that to happen, Russia would be in direct aid competition with the collective West. The EU, via its new, deranged Estonian ultra-Russophobic foreign policy chief, has already ordered that there will be no sanctions relief if the Russian bases stay...
..A “Greater Turkiye” would historically have included Thessaloniki, Cyprus, Aleppo and even Mosul.
Putin for his part was supremely diplomatic, focusing on Turkiye “trying to safeguard its safety on its southern frontiers, and to create conditions for the return of refugees back home from its territory to Syrian land. And those territories are now under more or less control of actually Turkiye.”...
Putin for his part was supremely diplomatic, focusing on Turkiye “trying to safeguard its safety on its southern frontiers, and to create conditions for the return of refugees back home from its territory to Syrian land. And those territories are now under more or less control of actually Turkiye.”...
..Immediately after Assad’s fall, the Israelis started bombing every warehouse holding heavy military equipment across Syria, including classified weapons. It’s unclear who provided the exact locations. The Americans, predictably, were furious. No wonder: the lame duck White House and the Deep State were betting on transferring all that weaponry to Kiev... Putin increased the tone on Tel Aviv – an extremely touchy dossier in Russia. He named Israel as “the main beneficiary” in Syria; directly condemned Israeli invasion and annexation of sovereign Syrian territory; and confessed he does not know what “ultimate goals” Israel is pursuing in Gaza, but "this is only worthy of condemnation"...
..Putin is adamant that Russia is always ready to negotiate with Kiev. The key takeaways: no preconditions; talks grounded in the 2022 Istanbul deal (aborted by the Americans) and the “current conditions on the battlefield”; Russia will talk to Zelensky only if he holds elections and gains legitimacy; and Russia will only sign peace deals with the legitimate leader of Ukraine... Zelensky will not hold elections - so he will remain illegitimate. So who to talk to? Moreover, signing peace deals with a "legitimate" Ukrainian leader means nothing because the Ultimate Decider is always the “non-agreement capable” (copyright Lavrov) Hegemon...
..The whole Forever Wars riddle directly links with BRICS, because this is a Hegemon war against BRICS (especially top three “existential threats” Russia, China and Iran), inscribed in the Big Picture of the Eurasia v. NATOstan war. Putin was adamant that “BRICS is not a tool for countering the West. Out work is not aimed against anyone (…) We adopt all decisions by consensus (…) this is a group based on common interests. And there is one common interest: development.” https://sputnikglobe.com/20241220/pepe-escobar-putins-qa-and-the-forever-wars-riddle--1121223428.html
John Helmer has additional points on Putin's address: The Russian Line On Syria
“Vladimir Putin: We are in constant contact with President Erdogan. I don’t remember when we spoke to him for the last time, but of course, we discussed the situation in the region, in the Middle East. The viewpoint of Turkey’s President Erdogan is well aware of the events in the Middle East. And our position is well known in Lebanon and Palestine. Our position is not subject to the current situation. We have always believed so and now believe that it is possible to solve the Palestinian problem only by solving the causes of its occurrence. There was the decision made by the UN Security Council at the time that two states should be formed – Israel and Palestine. Israel is established; Palestine, in fact, has not yet been created. That’s the problem."
“Moreover, from its side Israel continues the so-called illegal settlement activity. I don’t know what Israel’s ultimate goals are in the Gaza Strip, but it deserves only condemnation. We have done this repeatedly at almost all levels, from the public level and our position in the Security Council United Nations. There’s nothing to add here. The same goes for Lebanon"...
“Vladimir Putin: We are in constant contact with President Erdogan. I don’t remember when we spoke to him for the last time, but of course, we discussed the situation in the region, in the Middle East. The viewpoint of Turkey’s President Erdogan is well aware of the events in the Middle East. And our position is well known in Lebanon and Palestine. Our position is not subject to the current situation. We have always believed so and now believe that it is possible to solve the Palestinian problem only by solving the causes of its occurrence. There was the decision made by the UN Security Council at the time that two states should be formed – Israel and Palestine. Israel is established; Palestine, in fact, has not yet been created. That’s the problem."
“Moreover, from its side Israel continues the so-called illegal settlement activity. I don’t know what Israel’s ultimate goals are in the Gaza Strip, but it deserves only condemnation. We have done this repeatedly at almost all levels, from the public level and our position in the Security Council United Nations. There’s nothing to add here. The same goes for Lebanon"...
..“Of course, we know Turkey, Such a problem [there is] with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has been going on for decades. I hope that there will be no escalation, but some politicians of Europe recently told me that at meetings after the First World War the Kurds were promised their own state, then they were deceived, and so on."
“Here are the Kurds in this region – in Turkey more than a dozen million, in Iran, in Iraq – they live in concentrations, how many Kurds are there? You probably know better than me but at least 30-35 million, right? There is a serious Kurdish problem, and the Kurds are serious guys, serious fighters; in Manbij, in my opinion, they fought to the last. That’s what they do.
“We need to decide the Kurdish problem. In the framework of Syria under President Assad they had to solve it, and now it is necessary to resolve it with those authorities who control the territory of Syria. And Turkey needs to somehow ensure its security. We understand that all. This is not for today’s meeting, so as not to waste time. I just want to say about it, that there will be many problems, but we are on the side of international law and for sovereignty of all states. https://johnhelmer.net/the-russian-line-on-syria/#more-90849
Chinese forces have been exploiting a dangerous vulnerability on American soil. At least 17 military bases across the United States have experienced a surge in mysterious drone sightings, all of which are located in close proximity to Chinese-owned farmland. This situation, which has long been a concern for intelligence analysts, is now unfolding into a full-blown national security crisis.
The alarming pattern of events began when reports started pouring in from military bases in Hawaii, Utah, California, Maine, and Florida, among others. These reports detail a steady stream of unidentified drones attempting to breach the airspace around these critical installations. More than just isolated incidents, these sightings are raising serious questions about the intentions of the Chinese Communist Party and the potential for espionage and sabotage.
Worse still, evidence suggests these drones are not just random hobbyist flights gone awry. The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, has openly voiced his belief that these drones are likely "spy drones from China." His assertion is backed by a growing body of evidence, including the unprecedented number of drone sightings near known Chinese-owned properties adjacent to these military bases. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-19-mysterious-drones-spotted-over-17-us-military-bases.html
"Forever chemicals": Wash-clothes-before-wearing... Texas attorney general sues 3M, Dupont for ‘falsely advertising’ PFAS as safe
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources
The corrupt medical establishment and the vaccine industry doesn’t want you to see these studies, which link VACCINES to AUTISM
Cardiac findings in a phase II double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial of combination therapy (Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc) to treat COVID-19 patients https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-study-hydroxychloroquine
“Here are the Kurds in this region – in Turkey more than a dozen million, in Iran, in Iraq – they live in concentrations, how many Kurds are there? You probably know better than me but at least 30-35 million, right? There is a serious Kurdish problem, and the Kurds are serious guys, serious fighters; in Manbij, in my opinion, they fought to the last. That’s what they do.
“We need to decide the Kurdish problem. In the framework of Syria under President Assad they had to solve it, and now it is necessary to resolve it with those authorities who control the territory of Syria. And Turkey needs to somehow ensure its security. We understand that all. This is not for today’s meeting, so as not to waste time. I just want to say about it, that there will be many problems, but we are on the side of international law and for sovereignty of all states. https://johnhelmer.net/the-russian-line-on-syria/#more-90849
Maybe part of the picture... Mysterious drones spotted over 17 U.S. military bases, raising alarms of Chinese espionage
The alarming pattern of events began when reports started pouring in from military bases in Hawaii, Utah, California, Maine, and Florida, among others. These reports detail a steady stream of unidentified drones attempting to breach the airspace around these critical installations. More than just isolated incidents, these sightings are raising serious questions about the intentions of the Chinese Communist Party and the potential for espionage and sabotage.
Worse still, evidence suggests these drones are not just random hobbyist flights gone awry. The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, has openly voiced his belief that these drones are likely "spy drones from China." His assertion is backed by a growing body of evidence, including the unprecedented number of drone sightings near known Chinese-owned properties adjacent to these military bases. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-19-mysterious-drones-spotted-over-17-us-military-bases.html
A German research-historian who investigates details of "the holocaust", which is against German law, has been arrested in New York, for extradition, for this "crime", which is a "constitutional right" in the US. Thanks Cat.
Holocaust expert@GermarRudolf has been booked as an "Out Of State" fugitive in New York. Rudolf, author of the "Holocaust Encyclopedia," has been previously imprisoned in Germany for the "crime" of investigating the truth claims of the holocaust. https://x.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1867354295794118748
The chemicals have been used for decades as nonstick, waterproof and stain-resistant coatings in products like 3M’s Scotchgard and DuPont’s Teflon. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says those companies knew for decades the dangers PFAS could pose to the environment and human health but still illegally advertised the products as safe. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/12/texas-attorney-general-sues-3m-dupont-for-falsely-advertising-pfas-as-safe/#google_vignette
Juana Valle’s well is one of 20 sites tested in California’s San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast regions in the first round of preliminary sampling by University of California-Berkeley researchers and the Community Water Center. The results showed 96 parts per trillion of total PFAS in her water, including 32 ppt of PFOS — both considered potentially hazardous amounts...
•The primary approach to treating heart disease is to prescribe costly cholesterol-lowering statins (to the point over a trillion dollars have now been spent on them). Unfortunately, these highly toxic drugs have minuscule benefits (e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days).
•Statins are also one of the most frequent causes of pharmaceutical injuries (e.g., they are notorious for causing muscle, nerve, or liver damage and significant cognitive impairment). This is because statins work by blocking the body’s production of various essential nutrients.
•Many of these failures can be explained by the fact there is very little evidence cholesterol actually causes heart disease. Rather, heart disease results from (cholesterol containing) atherosclerotic blood clots accumulating at the sites of past injuries to the blood vessels.
•In this article, we will review the dangers of statins, the actual causes of heart disease, and how this knowledge can be integrated to develop a healthy approach to cardiovascular health.
Medicine depends upon recurring sales to large markets. In turn, as comedian Jimmy Dore shows, the War against Cholesterol and the relentless promotion of statins is one of the most harmful things the medical industry has done to America. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-statin-scam
..“It seems like it’s an even more widespread problem than we realized,” said Clare Pace, a researcher at the University of California-Berkeley who is examining possible exposure from PFAS-contaminated pesticides.
Concerns are mounting nationwide about PFAS contamination transferred through the common practice of spreading solid waste from sewage treatment across farm fields. Officials in Maine outlawed spreading “biosolids,” as some sewage byproducts are called, on farms and other land in 2022. A study published in August found higher levels of PFAS in the blood of people in Maine who drank water from wells next to farms where biosolids were spread. Contamination in sewage mostly comes from industrial discharges. But household sludge also contains PFAS because the chemicals are prevalent in personal care products and other commonly used items, said Sarah Alexander, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
“We found that farms that were spread with sludge in the ’80s are still contaminated today,” Alexander said.
The first PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were invented in the 1940s to prevent stains and sticking in household products. Today, PFAS chemicals are used in anything from cookware to cosmetics to some types of firefighting foam — ending up in landfills and wastewater treatment plants. Known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment, PFAS are so toxic that in water they are measured in parts per trillion, equivalent to one drop in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. The chemicals accumulate in the human body. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/12/toxic-forever-chemicals-taint-rural-california-drinking-water-far-from-known-sources/
Concerns are mounting nationwide about PFAS contamination transferred through the common practice of spreading solid waste from sewage treatment across farm fields. Officials in Maine outlawed spreading “biosolids,” as some sewage byproducts are called, on farms and other land in 2022. A study published in August found higher levels of PFAS in the blood of people in Maine who drank water from wells next to farms where biosolids were spread. Contamination in sewage mostly comes from industrial discharges. But household sludge also contains PFAS because the chemicals are prevalent in personal care products and other commonly used items, said Sarah Alexander, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
“We found that farms that were spread with sludge in the ’80s are still contaminated today,” Alexander said.
The first PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were invented in the 1940s to prevent stains and sticking in household products. Today, PFAS chemicals are used in anything from cookware to cosmetics to some types of firefighting foam — ending up in landfills and wastewater treatment plants. Known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment, PFAS are so toxic that in water they are measured in parts per trillion, equivalent to one drop in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. The chemicals accumulate in the human body. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/12/toxic-forever-chemicals-taint-rural-california-drinking-water-far-from-known-sources/
A Midwestern Doctor, The Great Statin Scam Why are statins so harmful, and are they even necessary?
Story at a Glance: •The primary approach to treating heart disease is to prescribe costly cholesterol-lowering statins (to the point over a trillion dollars have now been spent on them). Unfortunately, these highly toxic drugs have minuscule benefits (e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days).
•Statins are also one of the most frequent causes of pharmaceutical injuries (e.g., they are notorious for causing muscle, nerve, or liver damage and significant cognitive impairment). This is because statins work by blocking the body’s production of various essential nutrients.
•Many of these failures can be explained by the fact there is very little evidence cholesterol actually causes heart disease. Rather, heart disease results from (cholesterol containing) atherosclerotic blood clots accumulating at the sites of past injuries to the blood vessels.
•In this article, we will review the dangers of statins, the actual causes of heart disease, and how this knowledge can be integrated to develop a healthy approach to cardiovascular health.
Medicine depends upon recurring sales to large markets. In turn, as comedian Jimmy Dore shows, the War against Cholesterol and the relentless promotion of statins is one of the most harmful things the medical industry has done to America. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-statin-scam
Steve Kirsch looks at proximal cause & effect vaccine-injury relationships. Researchers have never looked at autism onset rates post vaccine in the short term
There is only one study that looked at temporal association and it was done 25 years ago. They used broad timeframes (years). Compare that to what a quick survey on X showed.
There is only one study that looked at temporal association and it was done 25 years ago. They used broad timeframes (years). Compare that to what a quick survey on X showed.
There was only one study (Taylor (1999)) looking at temporal proximity of vaccination to autism onset.
It NEVER looked at symptom onset rates within 1 week after the shot. Instead, they used 1 to 2 year timeframes.
Their study showed it took an average of 19 months before first symptoms until a clinical diagnosis was entered into the medical records.
THE STUDY NEVER TALKED TO ANY OF THE PARENTS, they relied exclusively on what is in the medical records.
So what do parents say if you ask them directly? That 90% of the cases happened within 1 week of a vaccine shot. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/researchers-have-never-looked-at
It NEVER looked at symptom onset rates within 1 week after the shot. Instead, they used 1 to 2 year timeframes.
Their study showed it took an average of 19 months before first symptoms until a clinical diagnosis was entered into the medical records.
THE STUDY NEVER TALKED TO ANY OF THE PARENTS, they relied exclusively on what is in the medical records.
So what do parents say if you ask them directly? That 90% of the cases happened within 1 week of a vaccine shot. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/researchers-have-never-looked-at
For years, medical professionals have repeatedly claimed that vaccines do not cause autism. This blind faith is not backed up by the scientific literature, however. Vaccines are known to contain neurotoxic substances such as mercury and aluminum, and studies continue to show how this leads to brain damage in children. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-19-studies-link-vaccines-to-autism.html
Alex Berenson, URGENT: Yale researchers have found Covid spike protein in the blood of people never infected with Covid - years after they got mRNA jabs
The spike proteins shouldn't be there. It's possible that vaccine genetic material has integrated with human DNA, causing long-term spike production. The Yale team will publish its findings soon. [Alternatively the modified-mRNA injections might be effectively immortal, never breaking-down in some human cells, which keep cranking out spike-protein.] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yale-researchers-have-found I was forbidden to prescribe hydroxychloroquine at my public health clinic in late July 2020, even with a normal EKG. I was desperately trying to treat people for COVID and keep them out of hospitals and morgues. In early August, the first good ivermectin study came out of Bangladesh. The first couple I treated got better overnight. I almost cried.
BREAKING STUDY: Hydroxychloroquine Proven Safe with No Evidence of Cardiac ComplicationsCardiac findings in a phase II double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial of combination therapy (Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc) to treat COVID-19 patients https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-study-hydroxychloroquine
It should be "Risk Less. Do Less", shouldn't it? The U.S. HHS "Risk Less. Do More." Vaccine Propaganda Campaign
A manipulative attempt leveraging fear, love, and maternal instincts to promote COVID-19, flu, and RSV injection uptake among pregnant women, infants, and older adults. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-us-hhs-risk-less-do-more-propagandaDoing No Harm (pictured with Jenny and little green bananas overhead on winter solstice)
