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Unrelenting Bombardment in Gaza - (2025-05-15)
"At least 115 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip"
Misery Continues in Gaza - (2025-05-07)
"Israel's attacks on Gaza have killed at least 61 people since dawn, targeting civilians in crowded places, as its more than two-month blockade of the besieged and bombarded enclave has caused acute food shortages, accelerating the starvation of the Palestinian population."
India-Pakistan Escalation - (2025-05-07)
"Twenty-six people were killed and dozens more were injured overnight in Pakistan by Indian aerial attacks, Pakistani officials said."
China Test Driving Thorium Reactor - (2025-05-07)
"The 2-megawatt experimental reactor is located in the Gobi Desert, and the latest milestone puts China at the forefront in the race to build a practical thorium reactor–long considered a more abundant and safer alternative to uranium. More significantly, China has relied heavily on long-abandoned American research in the field. In the 1960s, American scientists built and tested molten salt reactors, but Washington eventually shelved the program in favor of uranium-based technology."
The Plan Finally Reveals Itself - (2025-05-05)
"Israeli Cabinet ministers approved a plan early Monday to take over the Gaza Strip for an unspecified period of time, a move that dampens hopes of a ceasefire with Hamas in the near term."
Apple Moves Manufacturing to India, Vietnam - (2025-05-04)
"While most of Apple's products are still assembled in China, roughly half of the iPhones sold in the US now come from India, according to CEO Tim Cook. Vietnam supplies many of Apple's other hardware lines, and suppliers Foxconn and Tata are reportedly in talks to expand their manufacturing roles"
Multinational CEOs care about one thing: profit. They do not take into consideration any other factors unless external entities literally force them to.
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Economic Deal - (2025-05-01)
"The United States will contribute to the Fund either through direct financial input or through new military assistance. The Agreement focuses on further, not past U.S. military assistance. Ukraine will contribute 50% of future revenues from new royalties (i.e., newly issued licenses for critical minerals, oil, and gas exploration). Existing projects or budgeted revenues are excluded. The Fund’s resources will be invested exclusively in Ukraine — either in extraction projects or infrastructure reconstruction. For the first 10 years, profits will be fully reinvested in Ukraine’s economy. After that period, profits may be distributed between the partners."
This is an instance where it pays to go beyond the headlines and wade into the details. In the short term Ukraine will continue to receive military assistance. For an uncertain payback in the distant future. Given the inability of Uncle Sam to broker a peace deal (as things stand now) this agreement creates the impression of reciprocity that will make it easier for the White House to justify sending billions in additional weapons and gear. Enabling our leaders to allege that they're making progress when what actually matters is happening out on the front lines. In a nutshell, the Minerals Deal is mostly optics on behalf of maintaining the status quo. And so the war rages on.
Global Turmoil: Cui Bono? - (2025-04-30)
"Military spending in Europe (including Russia) rose by 17 per cent to $693 billion and was the main contributor to the global increase in 2024. With the war in Ukraine in its third year, military expenditure kept rising across the continent, pushing European military spending beyond the level recorded at the end of the cold war"
U.S. is Desperate and Pushing for Ukraine Deal - (2025-04-24)
Likely because Ukraine is on its way to imploding. This is a sign of defeat, cleverly hidden behind a smokescreen of cheerleading about A.I. and drones. It's either get a deal while there are still cards to play or watch Russia make off with the juicy bits, leaving Uncle Sam with a rump state. The media's fixation on Elon Musk, Havard, and Signal Chats is an indicator. Editors in Manhattan corner offices don't want to explicitly offer a SITREP on the war that they so ardently championed a couple of years ago. They're grasping at straws in an effort to change the subject.
Terrorists Attack in Kashmir - (2025-04-23)
"Armed men have opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least 26 people, according to Indian police, in one of the deadliest attacks there in recent times."
Rule of Law Weak in Syria - (2025-04-21)
"The city, Baniyas, was the site of some of the worst violence in Syria last month, when thousands of armed men stormed the country’s Mediterranean coast and killed more than 1,600 civilians, mostly from the Alawite religious minority."
COVID-19 Origins Were Censored - (2025-04-19)
"A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability."
Years ago, anyone who said a peep about anything that wasn't in line with the official narrative was cancelled. That is, CENSORED. Which leads naturally to the next development. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released President Joe Biden’s domestic counterterrorism strategy. Let's just say that whenever you hear the term "guardrails" you should think "censorship." Just remember that the Inner Party does so only because they have your best interests at heart.
While Everyone Talks About Tariffs... - (2025-04-14)
"Two missiles struck the heart of the city at about 10:15am (07:15 GMT) as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, the first day of the Christian Holy Week, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100, according to officials."
The cause célèbre of the previous American regime is stalling. Editors in Manhattan have predictably turned their spotlight elsewhere as they have no positive way to spin what's happening. Listen closely and in the background you can hear the sound of somewhere around $66 billion being flushed down the toilet.
Gold Passes $3200 Per Ounce - (2025-04-12)
Don't view this as gold increasing in value. View this as a sign of the dollar's growing weakness. Might be a good idea to keep an eye on China's bond holdings, because after Japan, China is the second largest investor in U.S. Treasury Securities. If they start cashing in their bonds for gold they are probably bracing for impact. Because when push comes to shove, real wealth is a physical asset, not some piece of paper that's backed largely by faith in a declining empire.
Engineers Revolt at Microsoft - (2025-04-05)
"If I knew my work on transcription scenarios would help spy on and transcribe phone calls to better target Palestinians (source), I would not have joined this organization and contributed to genocide. I did not sign up to write code that violates human rights."
Big Tech is the historical offspring of the defense industry. As they have grown over time they have begun to rival their Deep State parents.
Another Sign of Globalization's Demise - (2025-04-05)
"In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis' vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies."
Extrapolate this trend a couple of decades forward. The United State has demonstrated that it is unable to secure the global trade routes. The smart money will localize networks.
The Beginning of The End of Globalization - (2025-04-03)
In the years following WWII, the internationalists who ran the American empire wanted to cement their hold over europe and regions in asia. The International [read American led] trade system was developed to create incentives that would entice foreign countries into the American sphere and thereby bolster the role of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. In this sense American policymakers viewed foreign leaders as their true consituents rather than voters back home. That is, they put the interests of foreign companies before the interests of Americans. This state of affairs continued for decades, gradually hollowing out what was once world's sole industrial power in the late 1940s.
You may not like Donald Trump, but he is the first politician to seriously discuss the elephant standing in the corner of the room:
"Despite a commitment to the principle of reciprocity, the trading relationship between the United States and its trading partners has become highly unbalanced, particularly in recent years. The post-war international economic system was based upon three incorrect assumptions: first, that if the United States led the world in liberalizing tariff and non-tariff barriers the rest of the world would follow; second, that such liberalization would ultimately result in more economic convergence and increased domestic consumption among U.S. trading partners converging towards the share in the United States; and third, that as a result, the United States would not accrue large and persistent goods trade deficits."
In a nutshell, politicans sold us out so that they could purchase influence abroad. Expect the establishment media, which is largely controlled by Globalist factions, to go ballistic and focus on all the short-term costs (price increases, shortages, etc.) while consistently ignoring the long-term benefits of re-industrializing. The middle class and working class of this country are tired of being sacrificed on behalf of elite agendas in faraway nations. The same concerns, by the way, that pushed Donald Trump back into the White House. The hard truth is that innovation and military strength require a manufacturing base and the United States is in decline. It remains to be seen how this will all shake out but at least the curret President is taking substantive action rather than just shining us on.
U.S. Meddling is Rampant - (2025-03-23)
"The documents also revealed efforts to interfere in elections in Finland, Peru and Somalia that had been rumored but undocumented, or entirely unknown. There was also new information, he said, about C.I.A. involvement in failed and successful coups in various countries, including Brazil, Haiti and what is now Guyana."
Some day there will be documents released about the CIA's efforts in Ukraine back in 2014. Victoria Nuland is the tip of the iceberg.
End of Ceasefire in Gaza - (2025-03-18)
"At least 404 Palestinians have been killed and 562 wounded as Israel launched a massive assault on Gaza, shattering the fragile two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas."
Scores of Airstrikes on Yemen - (2025-03-17)
"The United States has, for a second night, launched dozens of air raids targeting at least seven provinces. The strikes, which began on Saturday, have killed at least 53 people. US President Donald Trump ordered the large-scale attacks on Yemen's Houthi rebels after the group threatened to resume attacks on Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip."
Blackrock To Control Panama Ports - (2025-03-05)
"The Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate the ports to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., after President Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operations of the critical shipping lane."
Intel Sharing with Ukraine Gets a Time Out - (2025-03-05)
"Statements from national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday morning indicated that a pause in intelligence sharing is in place but the extent of the limitations was not clear."
U.S. Halts Aid to Ukraine - (2025-03-04)
"Fedir Venislavsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament's defence committee, estimates his country's weapons stockpile will last just six months after Donald Trump's decision to pause shipments of military equipment."
While stocks for EU arms dealers boom.
Cost of Rebuilding Ukraine - (2025-02-25)
"Three years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA4) released today by the Government of Ukraine, the World Bank Group, the European Commission, and the United Nations currently estimates that as of 31 December 2024, the total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is $524 billion (€506 billion) over the next decade, which is approximately 2.8 times the estimated nominal GDP of Ukraine for 2024."
When the smoke finally clears, what's left of Ukraine will be owned by western financial interests. Which was the original goal back in 2014 when the United States engaged its regime change tools in Ukraine.
Paramilitary Forces Commit Massacre in Sudan - (2025-02-19)
"More than 200 unarmed civilians have been killed in a cluster of villages in Sudan over three days by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that is involved in a brutal conflict with the military, a local rights group has said."
Ukraine Rejects Mineral Deal with U.S. - (2025-02-15)
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country's rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better deal... Zelenskyy wants American and European security guarantees to be tied directly to any deal on the mineral reserves... the deal proposed by Trump and delivered by Bessent only referenced the US getting Ukrainian resources in exchange for past military assistance"
Globalist Ukraine Narrative Rebutted - (2025-02-13)
"He [Putin] simply doesn't have the capability to do that. You can see how much trouble he has had just conquering the Eastern one-fifth of Ukraine."
"The idea that this is the Wehrmacht and it's highly poised to overrun Europe is not a serious argument. He wants a big chunk of territory in Eastern Europe, and he is in all likelihood going to get that, in large part because he's winning on the battlefield."
"One of the reasons that Trump is now cutting our losses is that Trump and his lieutenants understand that we have lost on the battlefield. Or, to put it in slightly different terms, the Ukrainians have lost. We have no leverage anymore. Trump is facing up to reality. So I don't think there's any danger of Vladimir Putin finishing off Eastern Ukraine and then moving into Western Ukraine and then moving into Eastern Europe."
MI6 Has NSA Envy, Wants Its Own Backdoor - (2025-02-07)
"Apple is likely to stop offering encrypted storage in the U.K., the people said. Yet that concession would not fulfill the U.K. demand for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States."
Normally something like this would have taken place behind closed doors. The fact that it has gone public is a sign of negotiations breaking down with one side displaying the extent of its acrimony.
Federal Employees Cave to Mass Firing Threat - (2025-02-06)
"So far, about 40,000 federal workers have accepted the deal, or some 2% of the federal workforce"
Remember what Omar Little said: "You come at the king, you best not miss." The machine went after Trump but couldn't finish the job. And now their billionaire target is once again the President and he still hasn't washed the bad taste out of his mouht from his first go-round with the Deep State.
Trump Openly Ponders Ethnic Cleansing - (2025-02-06)
"I don't think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza's been very unlucky for them. They've lived like hell. They lived like you're living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living. And the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative. What's the alternative? Go where? There's no other alternative. If they had an alternative, they'd much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that's safe."
And get this, Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager. That, and a promise not to leak whatever the Mossad has got on him.
Car Bomb in Syria Kills at Least 20 - (2025-02-04)
"There was no immediate claim from any armed groups for the bombing, which was the deadliest since rebel forces overthrow president Bashar al-Assad in December."
The American press has been quick with performative victory-lap coverage, creating the impression of stability and legitimacy, but there are a lot of moving parts and this story could be far from over.
Nord Stream Sabotage: Cui Bono? - (2025-02-04)
"Europe is at the mercy of global markets, bidding against the likes of China and South Korea for liquefied natural gas. Prices have recently soared to the highest level in a year, hurting businesses and adding to a cost-of-living crisis in Europe. The largest source of liquefied natural gas has been the United States, mostly terminals from the Gulf Coast, which provide nearly half of Europe's supply"