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Self-discipline isn’t supposed to be punishing. Rather, it’s friendly and encouraging. The encouraging Master is strict only in holding fast to moderation.

Today, “stoicism” means weathering adversity without complaint. There is much more to the philosophy of stoicism than that.

In its entirety, stoicism is a philosophy of wisdom much like Buddhism in its emphasis on virtue, self-control, renunciation of excess, self-improvement, detachment, cause and effect (The Four Noble Truths) and the cessation of suffering though understanding.

It also shares many similarities with Taoism in its view of living within Nature, accepting the limits of our control, rejecting wealth, status and power, and like Buddhism, finding liberation through practice, insight and understanding.

Here are some succinct excerpts on Stoicism from orionphilosophy.com:

The Stoics elaborated a detailed taxonomy of virtue, dividing virtue into four main types: wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation.

The Stoics believed that the path to happiness (which they called eudaimonia) was discovered through:

1. Accepting the world for what it is (rather that expecting it to be something it is not).

2. Being resistant to the draws of desire, addiction, pleasure, fear, or pain.

3. Understanding our own nature and acting in accordance with it.

4. Living with virtue.

Stoic philosophers believed that some of our negative emotions are simply caused by errors in our judgement, such as:

1. Having unrealistic expectations of the world, other people, or ourselves.

2. Trying to control things outside the reach of our influence.

3. Not accepting responsibility for the things within our control (our beliefs, actions, values, perspectives etc).

4. Not understanding the nature of the world or ourselves.

The Stoics did not look to eliminate emotions, they looked to lessen their hold on our peace of mind. This was achieved through reason, judgement, and self control.

The use of logic, discipline, meditation, and objectivity helped the Stoics keep their composure in times of difficulty, and remain clear headed to judge the best way to move forward.

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus said this:

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions.”

In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote:

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.”

End of excerpts.

I would add four comments regarding Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.

1. So far as we know, the Meditations were his private notebook of self-improvement. The book was not composed for publication, though he may well have anticipated that as a possibility.

2. Much of his writings can be viewed as a relentless reduction of expectations. If we expect little, we’re better prepared to accept adversity because it is what we anticipated.

If something a bit better transpires, we’re delighted. If our expectations are too high, we suffer disappointment, depression, resentment, indignation, envy, etc.

3. The first chapter of the Meditations was an outpouring of gratitude to everyone who taught him valuable lessons and provided an example how to live a virtuous, kind and ethical life.

4. He was a strict taskmaster of himself, constantly seeking to better himself via actions and insights.

Let’s extend this discussion of stoic virtue into self-discipline, a key element of stoicism’s principles of self-control and moderation.

Our world is dominated by the drive to maximize profits. I contend (and am in good company doing so) that this economic dynamic now dominates society, culture and governance (politics).

As a result, everything is viewed through the prism of maximizing financial gain, as if all of human life boils down to this single drive.

In this context, both ends of the spectrum of indulgence and discipline are highly profitable, and so they are marketed to us with great zeal.

Moderation isn’t profitable and so it’s ignored, much like no one spends a fortune marketing carrots and broccoli, as these low-margin items cannot be as profitable as junk food.

(Deep-frying carrot-colored potato-starch sticks in low-quality fat, coating them in low-quality sugar and marketing them as a “healthy snack” replaces low-profit carrots with high-profit ultra-processed food–the essence of Ultra-Processed Life–my new book; you can read the first part for free.)

On the indulgence end, we’re constantly told “we deserve” a treat, a luxury, etc., so go ahead and indulge yourself. We’re shown scenes in which the joy of the participants indicates that indulging in pizza and alcohol while watching a football game on TV is the height of human happiness.

The not-so-subtle message in all this encapsulates the entirety of Modernism: the elevation of the Self as the One True Measure of Everything. This is the essence of narcissism and self-absorption.

A solipsistic focus on gratifying my desires, expressing my uniqueness with curated social media posts and possessions, and making my opinions known is the Modernist Project.

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; White women are the crown jewel of human civilization. God’s most spectacular creation. How many men have lived and died in the hope of attaining their affection? This is a critique, but also a genuine love letter. You turn our heads. You make us do heroic, dangerous, and foolish things.

Little White boys all like to show off in front of little White girls. I don’t know, I suppose with the “diversification” of this country, maybe little White boys now show off to little girls of color, too. Maybe they even show off to the “transitioned” they/thems as well. But speaking traditionally, it was the pretty White female who caused White males to spring to their defense. To proudly wear a “shiner” in their honor. True, few have thrown their coats over a puddle since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh, but that instinct still exists. Even if it’s been weakened considerably with the targeting of testosterone via poisons in the food, water, and vaccines. Neither males nor females are what they once were, in this cold, dystopian world of America 2.0. Every poll shows that White women consider marriage and children far down on their list of priorities, while White males still consider it a top priority.

That has become the gist of the problem here. Generally speaking, White women are far more liberal politically than White males are. We’ve all heard the factoid about every state in the Union being red if just males voted, and every state blue if just females voted. That’s a real clash of philosophy. If you and your spouse literally vote for different people, what does that say about your relationship? Men and women see the world through different lenses now. I don’t think that’s by accident, and I don’t believe it’s a natural occurrence based on gender. A majority of White women are at least sympathetic to the “transgender” agenda, while few White males outside of those married to activist females do. If you follow any news story on battles between mothers and fathers over the “transitioning” of their poor child, it is always the White mother pushing it. Sometimes, both parents are deluded enough to support it, but you will never find a case of the father alone trying to “transition” their child.

I wrote much about how programmed females have been for a very long time, by a corrupt media that knows they are far easier targets, in my book Bullyocracy. During the 1950s, White women were conditioned to be attracted to the “bad boy,” which was exemplified by the James Dean-type of “rebel” figure. Countless films, television shows, and best selling books drummed home the theme that girls were “naturally” attracted to this type, and not the nice, clean-cut “boy next door.” Bad boys were “exciting,” and the Boomer girls learned that the last thing they wanted was to be “bored.” Nice guys are boring. And they finish last, as we all know. In more recent times, White girls have been brainwashed to think nonwhite males, especially Blacks, are “hot” and super manly. You can see this message drummed home in countless commercials and other products from Hollywood. They’re the ultimate “bad boy.” Although it’s “racist” to call them boys. Now it’s “bad, grown ass men.”

The fact that females vote the way they do, whether or not those votes are honestly counted, proves how effective all those years of propaganda have been. I’ve talked about how so many young White girls were impacted by Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, and the film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. Peck’s Atticus Finch character was based on Lee’s father, who in real life was apparently a typically “racist” southerner of his era. And some believe the book was actually written by Truman Capote, a close friend of the Lees. It is decidedly odd that Lee never wrote any novels in the wake of this smashing success, until many decades later. Writers don’t do that. However you look at it, the book/film was disinformation. It wasn’t based on a true story. And it’s no accident that it’s a little girl, charmingly named Scout, who finds her political conscience in fiercely defending the falsely accused Black man. I can’t count the number of girls I’ve met who loved To Kill a Mockingbird. It was marketed to them.

While “bad boy” Marlon Brando burst upon the scene in The Wild One, disastrous conflicting messages were emanating from Hollywood. Both How to Marry a Millionaire and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes encouraged girls to use their looks to attain the wealth of men, and revel in gaudy materialism. How big of a rock did he get you, girlfriend? The engagement ring is one of the most frivolous expenses imaginable. The tradition of paying what is probably a young man’s entire savings, or a big chunk of his credit card limit, so that his bride to be can impress all her girlfriends, only exists because of females. Men understand how wasteful this is, when the funds could much more intelligently be spent on practical things like closing costs for a home, or a new car. Something substantial. Women have been conditioned into valuing empty materialism like expensive jewelry, or endless vacations. A White woman who doesn’t love traveling is as rare as a Jewish janitor. Destination wedding, baby!

This whole money loving female persona was honed to such perfection in early Hollywood that they produced a series of “Gold Diggers” films for them. Few if any females seemed offended at being referred to in this way. They undoubtedly would be deeply offended at the term now, but it hasn’t stopped them from often acting exactly like…gold diggers. I don’t know how many gold diggers there were on the old frontier, but I’m pretty sure that few nineteenth century average men felt pressured to spend most of their money on a bauble for their sweetheart’s finger. And if your wife lost her ring, you couldn’t really get mad at them. I think Lucy dropped hers down the sink, if I remember my sitcoms correctly. Just buy them another one. What are you, a cheapskate? The culture nurtured a stronger materialistic bent in females than males. Generally. Of course, there are always plenty of exceptions. But no high profile woman is ever going to publicly condemn jewelry and such as pointless materialism.

Females have an innate empathy that is stronger than that found in most males. But that empathy has been gradually rechanneled, towards animals like cats and dogs. For White females specifically, these emotions are directed towards nonwhite males. They have learned first to feel sorry for nonwhite males, and then eventually to be sexually attracted to them. White condescension. If this just happened naturally, who could object? Love who you want. But there’s nothing natural about this same theme being drummed home incessantly by all the platforms in our decadent culture. This is clearly something that someone wants to happen. Who would be so interested in interracial relationships increasing? To push it so relentlessly in all media for so long? Sure, it’s nice if we all get along. Because the percentage of Whites in the U.S. population has fallen dramatically, there’s going to be more interracial socialization. By conquest or consent, as a conspirator once declared about One World government.

Feminism was created for White women. It was never about stopping females from being exploited, because by any measure the Western world has always treated women better than any other societies. It wasn’t that long ago that little Chinese girls had their feet broken, and stuffed into shoes too small for them, to keep them from journeying far from home. You’ll never heard a feminist talk about the submissive nature of Asian women. They won’t touch the barbaric female circumcision in Africa. Muslim women may have to cover their faces, but what about that redneck in the wife-beater? That’s why feminism only bad mouthed White men. Not for breaking little girl’s feet, or butchering them with circumcision, but because they enjoyed having their wives cook for them. In America, men held every door open for women, literally. They exalted them, placed them on pedestals. They were “my better half.” Men joked with each other about “the boss.” Everyone knew “the boss” was usually the wife.

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Former Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn decried the “assault on Christianity” in the United States, citing the “staggering” number of Catholic churches that have been attacked in recent years.

Flynn, in a recent interview with Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, shared how he learned that over 500 Catholic churches in the United States had suffered damage from attacks, including arson.

“The targeting, the fear, the intimidation, it’s all designed to silence people of faith,” Flynn wrote on X, commenting on the rash of violence. “Fear is a weapon that only works if we let it.”

What we’re seeing across America is a direct assault on Christianity.

Over 500 Catholic churches have been damaged or burned since 2021, and yet few are talking about it. The targeting, the fear, the intimidation, it’s all designed to silence people of faith.

Fear is a weapon… pic.twitter.com/xTcmE4k1lP

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) October 7, 2025

“‘Cause you think Jewish synagogues are going to be the ones that are targeted, and they are, but … the bigger issue is the assault on Christianity,” said Flynn, a Catholic.

Indeed, attacks on Christian churches, and especially Catholic churches, have exploded since the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

A Family Research Council (FRC) report from August identified 1,384 acts of hostility against Christian churches committed between January 2018 and December 2024. The evangelical group found that 50 crimes were committed in 2018, 83 in 2019, 55 in 2020 and 98 in 2021. However, in 2022, when Dobbs was leaked, the numbers of attacks more than doubled, hitting 198.

These hostile aggressions more than doubled again in 2023, reaching 485, before leveling off in 2024 with 415. Of the 2024 number, the majority of incidents were vandalism (284). There were 55 cases of arson, 28 gun-related crimes, and 14 bomb threats.

Focusing specifically on Catholic churches, American advocacy group CatholicVote (CV) has maintained an interactive map that tracks violent attacks on churches throughout the U.S. since 2020 when mob violence related to the tragic death of George Floyd ensued across the nation.

Having updated this resource on October 8, the organization documented that “at least 533 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States” have occurred since May 28, 2020.

These crimes included “acts of arson which damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; statues destroyed (often with heads cut off); and illegal disruptions of Mass.”

CatholicVote also document the sharp rise in such crimes after the leaked Dobbs decision.

Suggesting widespread motivations of anti-Christian hostility behind such terrorist acts, the group reports that “while a handful of the attacks have included thefts, the vast majority have only involved property destruction, indicating that the primary motive is not material gain.”

Flynn suggested to O’Keefe that Christians should not respond to these attacks with fear but should instead take action. He stressed that local action “equals” national impact.

“Every citizen has a duty to stand, speak, and serve,” said Flynn, going on to share that he often asks people when they thank him for his military service, “How are you serving your community, family?”

“And then if you’re doing that, you’re serving our country,” he said.

This article was originally published on Lifesite News.

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I have labeled Putin’s conduct of war in Ukraine a strategic blunder that has ever-widened the war and is on the verge of spiraling out of control if Trump delivers nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.  The way Putin has conducted the war, now approaching four years in duration, has maximized Russian casualties.  Putin stupidly never permitted the Russian military to cut the train lines between Poland, Lvov, and Kiev, thus permitting unrestricted inflow into Ukraine of US and NATO weapons and men to the war front as well as the Ukrainian attack and occupation of Russia’s Kursk region.  

In other words, Putin did nothing to degrade Ukraine’s ability to fight a war.  He even left the neo-Nazi government in Kiev unmolested.

In his latest John Helmer seems to say that Putin’s unserious approach to war is becoming an issue in Russia, resulting in Putin’s removal of some restrictions on the General Staff’s conduct of the war. 

Gilbert Doctorow recently reported that there is now talk in Russia about moving Putin aside in favor of a more aggressive leader who will get the war over with.  On a recent program Doctorow discussed who some of these leaders might be. See also this.

I welcome the realism that Helmer and Doctorow are adding to my longtime efforts.  We have progressed on a path to nuclear war because Putin never demonstrated Russian resolution by quickly terminating Ukraine’s ability to continue the war.  The US took advantage of Putin’s irresolution to increase the number and severity of provocations.  Putin’s response has been to deny that they are provocations. He declared the attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet “an act of terrorism,” not an act of war.  As for Washington sending Tomahawk missiles, Putin and his foreign minister say the Tomahawks change nothing on the battlefield, an extraordinary claim as the range of the Tomahawks widens and deepens the battlefield by 1,000 miles.

These weak responses from Putin and Lavrov are not responses likely to deter more provocations.  Trump now speaks of Putin as a paper tiger and of Russia as a country that Zelensky can defeat.

In the West the understanding of the dangerous situation is limited and colored by those who are willing to give Putin the benefit of the doubt on the grounds that the war was forced on him by Washington and those who believe their own demonization of Russia, aiming for Russia’s destruction.  Non-partisan objective analysis of the situation has been rare.  Since neither Washington nor Moscow have an understanding of the mistakes they are making, the chances are rising that war will resolve the issue.

The War Continues Because Putin Refuses to Use the Force to End It

Gilbert Doctorow declares that he has abandoned his support for the way Putin is conducting his ever-widening, never-ending war in Ukraine as it is likely leading to the outbreak of major war.

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Sometime in 2026 a NASA project called Artemis II will send four astronauts to the moon and back.  Unlike the Apollo missions of the past century the Artemis crew will be diverse in gender and race.  In Greek mythology Apollo had a twin sister, Artemis, who was “the goddess of forests, hills, wild animals, childbirth, virginity, and the moon.”  In case you thought governments lacked ingenuity, naming the Apollo sequel “Artemis” explodes that myth.

The original Apollo missions were suspect in some quarters because of alleged insurmountable obstacles of a manned moon mission, but the rebuttals are consistent with science.  One of the problems was getting the astronauts through the Van Allen belt without killing them from intense radiation, an argument disposed of neatly with a single word, firewalking.

The Apollo program had its roots with the October 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik, “the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit.”  Fear of a Soviet ICBM nuclear attack frightened American authorities, who also felt a profound humiliation from being trounced by communists.  A year later President Eisenhower signed NASA into existence, and the space race was on.

From 1961 to 1964, NASA’s budget was increased almost 500 percent, and the lunar landing program eventually involved some 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors.

The Soviets made four failed attempts to put astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and with the success of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969 and subsequent lunar landings, the US could claim “victory” in the space race.

One of the reasons given for the race was to show the superiority of capitalism over communism.  But capitalism was a no-show for Apollo.  The federal government taxed free market participants to pay for the “flags and footprints” of the moon missions.  NASA and other Apollo defenders argue that the program’s impact “on our daily lives is almost incalculable. . . . In 1975, just three years after the last Apollo mission, the program’s return on investment was estimated at 15 to 1. By now [2019] it’s off the charts.”

In searching for benefits, we need to remember Apollo was not a market venture, but a government program.  It did not have an ROI because there were no investors, only taxpayers.  Advancements in computing, communications, and other tech products were already underway, and even if Apollo accelerated development the benefits weren’t distributed proportionately.  And like all government programs, tax funding leaves a residue of unknown lost opportunities for individual taxpayers.

People have complained that instead of spending the money on rocket ships the government should have spent it on social programs.  How about leaving the money with those who earned it and let them decide what to do with it?

According to NASA, the Artemis “campaign” is more inclusive than Apollo, relying on “men and women across America and around the world [for] building the systems to support missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.”  And unlike Apollo, its twin sister will seek to establish a permanent residency on the moon.

Whereas explorers after Columbus came to the Americas looking for gold, Artemis astronauts will be looking for ice.  “Lunar water ice is believed to reside within permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs, contained within super-chilly cold traps, where gasses can freeze to their solid form. . . [but there is] the scarcity of data supporting the prospect of utilizing water ice on the moon.”  NASA will deploy a Micro Nova Hopper — a propulsive drone — that jumps across the lunar surface looking for “hydrogen, a key indicator for the presence of water.”

What’s so important about lunar ice?  According to EarthSky,

Future lunar astronauts might be able to use the lunar ice for drinking water, oxygen (from the oxygen component of water), and even rocket fuel (hydrogen) without needing to transport large quantities from Earth.

Maybe Artemis will put a temporary halt to government’s wars, and in that sense it would be a good thing.  But Artemis is in competition with China, a country possibly more blackened than Russia in Western media.  Recently, “experts” told a Senate Commerce Committee that “Unless something changes, it is highly unlikely the United States will beat China’s projected timeline [of] making its first crewed lunar landing before 2030.”  Blame is currently placed on the “pace of development of SpaceX’s Starship, which will serve as the Artemis 3 lunar lander, and the need for multiple refueling missions to get Starship to the moon.”

Lost in most commentaries is the recognition that the US economy is running on fumes because of a growing and massive government debt fueled by fiat money and deficit spending, thereby darkening prospects for a space bonanza.

Some context for human ambitions

One can admire people for wanting to extend mankind’s reach to the stars.  It’s not just a dream, but necessary for our long-term survival.  But a free market approach is the only way we’ll get there and stay.  In this respect, the long-forgotten lesson of James J. Hill and his Northern Pacific Railway is instructive.  As Burt Folsom writes in The Myth of the Robber Barons, while the rush for railroad subsidies was going on, Hill

was building a transcontinental from St. Paul to Seattle with no federal aid whatsoever. Also, Hill’s road was the best built, the least corrupt, the most popular, and the only transcontinental never to go bankrupt. It took longer to build than the others, but Hill used this time to get the shortest route on the best grade with the least curvature. In doing so, he attracted settlement and trade by cutting costs for passengers and freight. Could it be that, in the long run, the subsidies may have corrupted railroad development and hindered economic growth?

A long run view is political suicide for today’s politicians.

The principles of economics that created a productive American society have been under attack since at least 1913 when government decided it needed to protect big bankers and have access to people’s income.  The disasters of economic crises and war, coupled with nonstop draining of private wealth through monetary inflation, have marked our history since then. More government spending even under the heading of ancient Greek heroes will not salvage our economy.

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Author’s Note: I wrote this essay in grief and fury, but above all in urgency. Gaza is not a metaphor — it is a place where children starve, hospitals collapse, and families vanish beneath rubble while the world debates terminology. The blockade is not a policy dispute; it is a strategy of annihilation. Two years in, we must resist the normalization of atrocity and demand that language, law, and conscience be reclaimed from the machinery of Israel’s impunity.

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Gaza’s Siege Is Not a Means to an End, It Is the End

Two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, the enclave is unrecognizable. Israel has exterminated (no other word is as apt) over 67,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians. At least 20,000 children are among the dead. It has wounded more than 170,000, many with injuries more typical of combat soldiers than civilians. It has erased entire families in single airstrikes. Thousands of Palestinians remain missing under the rubble.

What kind of regime would then follow these atrocities by enforcing siege and blockade?

One might recall the Warsaw Ghetto, where Nazi forces not only confined Jewish civilians but also subjected them to starvation, disease, and relentless bombardment — culminating in mass extermination. Yet even that horror, as historically singular as it was, did not unfold under the pretense of humanitarian concern or democratic self-defense.

The difference here lies in the rhetorical inversion: a state claiming liberal values enacts a total blockade on food, water, and medicine, while simultaneously insisting it is targeting only combatants. The siege is not a prelude to atrocity — it is its continuation. It does not merely set the stage for violence; it is violence enacted through deprivation, isolation, and slow erasure. Every denied shipment of medicine, every bombed bakery, every fisherman chased from Gaza’s waters is not preparation for war — it is war. The blockade is not a temporary measure awaiting resolution; it is the resolution itself, designed to collapse a society from within. It transforms daily life into a battlefield, where survival becomes resistance and starvation becomes strategy. In Gaza, atrocity is not a moment — it is a system. And the siege is its most enduring form.

And unlike historical parallels where regimes sought to erase evidence, here the destruction is livestreamed, archived, and debated in real time, yet met with impunity.

The War on Life Itself

And then, as if the devastation of homes and lives were not enough, Israel turns its cruelty toward the very systems meant to preserve life. It has systematically destroyed infrastructure, damaging or obliterating over 90% of homes, deliberately rendering hospitals barely functional.

Only 14 out of 38 remain open, most operating at over 200% capacity. Medical supplies are at zero stock for over half of essential drugs. Cancer patients, dialysis patients, and pregnant women are dying not from illness, but from blockade-induced neglect.

The targeting of hospitals and the engineered collapse of medical infrastructure is not collateral — it is policy. It transforms treatable conditions into death sentences, making survival itself a form of resistance.

Starvation as Strategy

If there was a fleeting moment of relief for Gaza’s fishermen, it came during the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in early October. As Israeli naval forces turned their attention to detaining over 450 activists from 42 countries, Gaza’s fishermen seized the distraction.

“We hauled in fish for the first time in months,” one man said, “but only because they were busy arresting foreigners.”

Videos showed men dragging heavy nets ashore as crowds cheered — a rare moment of sustenance under siege. But that window has slammed shut. During the second wave — the Addameer-led Freedom Flotilla — Israel intensified its blockade.

“This time, they [Israeli navy] didn’t leave the coast,” said Ahmed Bakr. “They chased us back before we even touched the water. It’s like they want us to starve and disappear.”

Israel is not just starving Gaza — it is engineering starvation. It blocks aid trucks, rejects basic supplies, bombs distribution sites, and manipulates the narrative. In July 2025, Israel allowed only 28 aid trucks per day — down from 600 during the January ceasefire. UNRWA confirmed it had enough food in Egypt to feed Gaza for three months. Israel refused to let it cross. On July 19, Israeli forces shelled a food distribution site in Gaza City, killing 49 and wounding 270. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in August 2024 that it might be “moral and just to starve Gaza” to retrieve hostages. A year later, that policy is reality.

The UN declared famine in northern Gaza in August 2025. Over 460 people, including 154 children, have died from hunger. Water access has collapsed: one million people receive less than six liters of drinking water per day. Cropland is 91% destroyed. Fishing is banned. Bakeries are bombed. Aid convoys are blocked or fired upon.

One might recall the Allied bombing of German cities during World War II, particularly Dresden, where civilian infrastructure — including hospitals — was obliterated in firestorms. Yet even in that case, the destruction was framed as part of a broader military campaign against an industrial war machine, not as a sustained siege designed to starve and medically isolate a captive population.

What distinguishes Gaza is the precision of its isolation: the blockade ensures no medicine enters, no fuel powers generators, no ambulances reach the wounded. It is not war as clash of armies, it is war as slow suffocation, where the absence of care becomes a weapon. Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza since May and killed over 100 Palestinian journalists. Western media reports “clashes” and “complexity” while Gaza burns.

Humanitarian Aid as Provocation

And when the siege tightens to the point of famine, even the possibility of external relief is treated as a threat. The interception of humanitarian flotillas — most notably the 2010 Mavi Marmara, and again now in 2025 with ships carrying food, water, and medical aid — reveals the extent to which Israel enforces not just territorial control but the denial of sustenance itself.

These flotillas, often organized by civil society groups and international coalitions, are met not with coordination but with military force. Their interception and the detention of their passengers are not a defensive maneuver — they are a declaration that starvation is strategic.

Historically, one might compare this to the British naval blockade of Germany during World War I, which led to widespread civilian hunger and malnutrition. Yet even that blockade, brutal as it was, operated within the framework of declared war between states.

Gaza’s blockade is imposed on a stateless, occupied population, with no army, no navy, and no escape. The difference is not only legal — it is moral. Where past blockades sought to pressure governments, this one seeks to collapse a society. And when boats carrying flour and antibiotics are treated as provocations, it becomes clear: the siege is not a means to an end. It is the end. Not a tactic to pressure leadership, not a temporary measure to secure borders, but a sustained architecture of annihilation.

The Architecture of Annihilation

And as Gaza burns — its children buried beneath rubble, its hospitals turned to morgues —

Trump fiddles, cloaked in the language of peace. His so-called “Deal of the Century” did not offer a roadmap to justice or dignity; it offered a blueprint for permanent dispossession.

By legitimizing Israeli annexation, fragmenting Palestinian territory into disconnected enclaves, and denying the right of return, the plan reframed apartheid as negotiation. It did not extinguish the fire — it poured accelerant on it, codifying siege as diplomacy.

While Gaza starves, Trump stages press conferences. On September 28, 2025, he unveiled a 20-point “peace initiative” alongside Netanyahu. The plan promises reconstruction, ceasefires, and hostage exchanges — but only if Hamas disarms and relinquishes control. Trump warned of “complete obliteration” if Hamas refuses. Netanyahu called it “a great deal for Israel.”But for Palestinians, the initiative is not a path to peace — it is a demand for surrender. It offers conditional relief in exchange for political erasure, framing basic human needs as bargaining chips. The promise of reconstruction is dangled as reward for relinquishing sovereignty, while the threat of annihilation looms as punishment for resistance. It rebrands siege as diplomacy, and coercion as negotiation. For Palestinians, it is not a deal — it is a decree: accept permanent subjugation or face continued extermination.

And while the cameras rolled in Washington, Israeli forces bombed Gaza City, blocking aid convoys, shelling hospitals and killing children by hunger. The plan was not coordinated with Palestinian leadership. It was diplomacy as spectacle — negotiation without negotiation, peacekeeping without peace.

Trump’s team called the plan “historic.” But it ignored the siege, the starvation, the mass graves. It offered no accountability for war crimes, no restitution for stolen gas, no justice for the dead. It was a press release dressed as policy.

The Addameer ship, named for conscience in Arabic, carried more than crutches and baby formula — it carried a moral indictment. On board were activists, medics, and artists from dozens of countries, each bearing witness to the blockade not with weapons, but with supplies and solidarity. The ship’s cargo was modest: powdered milk, antibiotics, mobility aids. But its symbolism was immense. It sailed not to provoke, but to affirm that Gaza’s suffering is not invisible, and that conscience can cross borders even when aid cannot. Israel intercepted it in international waters, detaining its passengers and confiscating its contents. Yet the Addameer did not fail — it exposed. It revealed the extent to which humanitarianism itself is criminalized when directed toward Palestinians. It showed that in a world numbed by spectacle, a ship of conscience can still rupture the silence. It sails, it resists, it refuses to be silenced — not because it expects permission, but because it demands accountability.

Trump’s conscience is not alive — it is outsourced to spectacle, where threats of obliteration masquerade as diplomacy and starvation becomes a bargaining chip.

The Legal Order’s Spectatorship

Meanwhile, the UN and the international legal order perform their own symphony of fiddling. Resolutions are passed, statements are issued, and commissions are formed, yet none interrupt the Israeli machinery ofblockade. The very institutions tasked with upholding humanitarian law have become spectators to its erosion.

Gaza is not just besieged by tanks and drones — it is besieged by Israeli impunity and by the Palestinian exception to justice. The siege persists not because the world lacks evidence, but because it has carved out an exemption from accountability for Israel’s actions, and a parallel exemption from protection for Palestinians.

International law, which promises universality, fractures at the point of Palestine. The right to resist occupation, the prohibition against collective punishment, the protection of civilians — all are suspended, rewritten, or ignored when applied to Gaza.

This suspension extends beyond land and into the sea, where Israel’s actions violate not only moral codes but binding international law. Since 2007, Israel has enforced on the Gaza strip an illegal shifting maritime boundary — sometimes 6 nautical miles, sometimes 3 — well below the 20 miles agreed under Oslo.

The interception of humanitarian flotillas in international waters — far outside Israel’s territorial jurisdiction — constitutes piracy under maritime law, yet it is rarely named as such. Likewise, the repression of Gaza’s fishermen within waters legally designated as Palestinian under the Oslo Accords breaches both the Law of the Sea and the principle of sovereign access to natural resources. Israel shells Palestinian boats, seizes them and sinks them, not for crossing into Israeli territory, but for existing in Gaza’s own maritime space.

Meanwhile, just beyond the reach of Gaza’s nets, Israel drills for gas in the Gaza Marine field — estimated to hold over 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Palestinians are denied access to their own maritime resources, while Israel signs billion-dollar export deals with Egypt and Europe. The blockade is not just territorial. It is economic theft, ecological sabotage, and generational punishment. The bombardment is genocide.

These acts are not defensive, they are imperial. And the silence of legal bodies in the face of such blatant illegality signals not a failure of enforcement, but a refusal to apply the law where Palestinians are concerned.

A System Bent Beyond Recognition

This exception is not accidental; it is engineered through decades of diplomatic shielding, legal obfuscation, and rhetorical inversion. When Palestinians invoke international law, they are accused of politicizing it. When Israel violates it, it is framed as self-defense.

The result is a legal order that functions not as a shield for the vulnerable, but as a scaffold for the powerful. Gaza’s siege is not merely a military strategy — it is a test of whether the international system can be bent so far that it no longer recognizes the humanity of those it was designed to protect.

And so far, the answer is yes.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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Writes, Martin Averick:

It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines, the emergence and development of the Internet and information technologies lifted the veil on espionage and empowered intelligence with new, although sometimes controversial, capabilities.

Thus, on September 19, 2025, the United Kingdom’s spy agency launched a web portal on the dark web to recruit informants and receive secret data from agents worldwide. The portal created by MI6 builds on a similar approach taken by the US Central Intelligence Agency that published videos on social media to target potential spies in 2023. Despite the decision to use the web space in such a specific sphere seems to be rather doubtful, it is likely to be reasoned by the fact that in online space the young generation can be influenced most effectively. Moreover, taking into account close interaction between the spy agencies of the USA and the UK, the launch of the web portal by the latter can serve as a confirmation that the US recruiting campaign in 2023 proved to be successful.

In recent days the usage of web resources has been noted not only among the states, whose spy agencies’ names are in the public eye of the world community. Thus, on September 10, 2025, the video targeted at recruiting new spies was released by South Korea’s most secretive military intelligence unit, the Korea Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC), whose servicemen carry out missions foremost abroad. Using the tactic similar to the one of the US and the UK, KDIC is probably trying to compensate for the staff shortage caused by its unsuccessful activity abroad, which resulted in Russia and the USA.

Taking into account modern trends, recruiting new spies via internet can become either a genius decision or a lost cause. Data collection with the help of web portals will definitely speed up obtaining intelligence information from the sources, however, free access to these portals will ramp up the number of messages drastically. That is why to distinguish valuable data from fakes will be a rather difficult and time-consuming task.

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Neither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics.

Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant.

It aspires to emerge too, as ‘dominant’, deliberately coercive, and radical. Throwing components of the exiting order into the air to see if they can be landed in a beneficial way (i.e. greater rent revenues) for the U.S.

The so-called Rules-Based Order blueprint (if it ever truly existed beyond narrative) has been ripped up. Today it is war without limits – without rules; without law; and in complete disdain for the UN Charter. Ethical boundaries, more particularly, are dismissed in parts of the West as ‘weak’ ‘moral relativism’. The point is to leave opponents stunned and frozen stick figures.

In parallel, something profound has re-shaped Israeli and U.S. foreign policy: Ignoring rules purposively to shock. Moving fast and breaking things. Over recent months, Israel has struck with military force in the West Bank, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Qatar and Tunisia – besides Gaza. In June, these two nuclear states bombed the nuclear facilities of a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under IAEA protection – Iran.

This ‘moving fast; breaking things’ phenomenon was clearly evident when Israel, with U.S. support, launched its sneak attack on Iran on 12 June. It was also evident secondly, in the bureaucratic speed which took many by surprise, as the ‘European 3’ members of the JCPOA – effected the ‘Snapback’ of all JCPOA-mandated sanctions on Iran. Iranian attempts at diplomacy were swept aside remorselessly.

The invocation of sanctions Snapback was clearly rushed through to pre-empt the imminent ‘sunset’ of the entire JCPOA framework on 18 October – after which the JCPOA will be ‘no more’.

Whilst Russia and China view the U.S.-orchestrated snapback ploy as illegal, procedurally flawed and, in their perspective, an ‘act’ that legally never took place – the reality is chilling. It funnels Iran inexorably toward an U.S.-Israeli ultimatum that it either capitulates fully to the U.S., or faces an overwhelming military onslaught.

This new power doctrine has emerged from a West in financial crisis – but being born of desperation, it may well fail. The wider western crisis of opposition to the establishment, however, is not as many Progressives or bureaucratic Technocrats think – simply resulting from an upsurge of regrettable ‘white’ pushback.

As Giuliano da Empoli has written in the FT:

“Until recently economic elites, financiers, entrepreneurs and managers of large companies relied on a political class of technocrats — or aspiring technocrats — from the right and left, moderate, reasonable, more or less indistinguishable from each other … who governed their countries on the basis of liberal democratic principles, in accordance with market rules, sometimes tempered by social considerations. That was the Davos consensus”.

The collapse of global liberalism and its illusions, together with its technocratic structure of governance, has – in the eyes of the new élites – simply confirmed that the technocratic ‘expert’ sphere was neither competent, nor grounded in reality.

So the ‘umbrella strategy’ of the Rules-Based International Order is over. The new era is one of coerced dominance – whether by Israel or the U.S. This doctrine is centred on Israeli ‘dominance’ – to which others logically must ‘submit’. This is to be achieved either by financial or military pressure. And is symbolised in the shift of nomenclature in the U.S. from Department of Defence to the ‘Department of War’.

“The new American technological élites, the Musks, the Zuckerbergs and Sam Altmans of this world, have nothing in common with the technocrats of Davos. Their philosophy of life is not based on the competent management of the existing order but, on the contrary, on an irrepressible desire to throw everything up in the air. Order, prudence and respect for the rules – are anathema to those who have made a name for themselves by moving fast and breaking things”, da Empoli elaborates.

By their very nature and background, the Tech overlords are more akin to nationalist-populist leaders (the Trumps, the Netanyahus, the Ben Gavirs and Smotrichs), and in a different way to the Evangelical faction (from which Charlie Kirk emerged), rather than to the moderate political classes of Davos whom they (collectively) despise.

Kirk believed that his calling from God was to be a fighter, a combatant in the culture wars. “Some people are called to heal the sick,” he once said. “Some people are called to mend broken marriages.” Kirk declared that his call was “to fight evil and proclaim truth. That’s it”. One commentator called it the politicisation of Evangelism to secure the domination of Jesus.

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has said that “the day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears have been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand”.

What is the common vision to these seemingly disparate western factions now embracing this rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or consensual political doctrine?

What is the aim of tossing all the Middle East pieces up into the air with such brutalised effect, as is evident to the world from Gaza? Israeli regional hegemony and U.S. control over the region’s energy resources. Is that the aim? Certainly – yet it is more than that —

The new doctrine of Team Trump, the Israeli Right, and the Jewish billionaires supporting him, nevertheless have an overriding ‘war aim’. This is not just about Israeli ‘dominance’ and others having to ‘submit’, as U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack insists. It means “getting Iran under control” too – hence the Snapback is preparation for the ‘big war’ to subjugate Iran.

One U.S. Jewish billionaire, speaking earlier at a Zionists of America conference, was picturing a wider war extending to inside America: Rober Shillman’s said his ample funding of ZoA was intended for “confronting enemies of Israel and the Jewish people [wherever] – defending against Islamists who wish to destroy Israel – and radical Leftist Jew-haters who wish to destroy the Jewish people”.

Does this maelstrom across the Middle East nevertheless tie in with Trump’s apparently separate and distinct bellicosity towards Venezuela (and the coincidental sweetheart deal with Argentina)? Yes—the point is to bring the shale fields of Argentina and the huge oil reserves of Venezuela under U.S. control – to give U.S. global energy dominance with which to mitigate the threat from growing U.S. deficits overwhelming the U.S. government.

The Venezuela standoff connects to the Middle East project through being another aspect of a wider hegemonic project – consolidating the western hemisphere into America’s domain of interest, alongside the Middle East.

How did the West reach this bellicose, dominance-seeking point? The key underlying metaphysics of the shift towards anarchic radicalism (seemingly) owes to a period of American thinking about greed, fairness, liberty, and dominance. As Evan Osnos argues in The Haves and Have Yachts, over the past five decades, the Oligarchs and Tech overlords have increasingly rejected constraints on their ability to accrue wealth, disavowing the notion that their great resources entail any special responsibility towards their fellow citizens.

They have embraced a libertarian ethos which casts them simply as private individuals, responsible for their own fate, and entitled to enjoy their riches as they see fit. More significantly, they have not, however, forgone the prerogative of using their money to shape government and society to their techno-autarkic vision. The resulting pattern, traced in Osnos’ book, has been a “simple arithmetic — of money making money”.

The lesson the Tech overlords have assimilated is: when a state or any other entity becomes incompetent, the only historical cure for such political sclerosis is not dialogue, nor compromise; It is what the Romans called proscriptio – a formalized purge. Sulla knew this. Caesar perfected it. Augustus institutionalized it. Take the élite interests, deny them resources, strip them of property, and compel obedience … or else!

The Trumpian and Tech élites of today are enamoured by the ancient notion of ‘greatness’ – individual greatness – and the contribution that greatness can ‘offer’ to civilization. Typically, in this concept there is always a strong element of the ‘outsider’ being some kind of anarchic transgressor, who brings a new measure of energy into play which ‘expert’ insiders just cannot provide.

We all think ‘Trump’ as we read those words. There is clearly a not-so-secret affinity between today’s populist conservatism and anarchic radicalism. Which begs the question: Wild policy swings, constant uncertainty, erratic posts on Truth Social – is this in fact desperation as U.S. greatness visibly ebbs? Or are we being prepped for something yet more contrarian, more radical still – some attempt at a global financial makeover?

“From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly-restored Department of War is this: War fighting; preparing for war and preparing to win – unrelenting – and uncompromising – in that pursuit”, the U.S. Secretary of War told his gathering of Generals in Washington on Tuesday.

The world is on fire, and fear is being ramped up in Europe to high volume. It is ‘Russia, Russia’ everywhere, ‘under every bed’. Are we being truly ‘prepped’, or is this simply European scare brinkmanship intent on enlisting the U.S. in a project to weaken and dissolve Russia into distinct parts?

The collapse of the Soviet Union gave ‘old’ Europe – the great European nations – the huge markets of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and of the former USSR – and also gave Europe resources and cheap energy too. The EU project per se, effectively was bought with the smell of money – the enticement of easy affluence.

As that affluence pops (and Trump just markedly accelerated the bust), and without Russia’s market dismemberment, what price France, Germany or Italy retaining their former political clout or global influence? More to the point, European leaders are asking, ‘however can I get re-elected now’.

The Russia ‘threat’ brinkmanship is being pushed into the ‘red zone’ by Europe. But neither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics.

This article was originally published on Strategic Culture.

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As I often note, making Plans B and C is free.

The stock market is always looking past “bad news” to front-run “good news.” Once it became clear that the Titanic was indeed going to sink, the stock market would rally on the prospect of sharp growth in lifeboat shares. In other words, never mind the bad news, let’s look beyond that and find some reason to rally.

This is a pattern that’s easily visible in the past two decades. When it became clear that Covid was becoming a global pandemic, the US stock market rallied for weeks, something that struck sober analysts as completely disconnected from reality. Eventually reality intruded and the market crashed.

The same dynamic was also apparent in the run-up to the 2000 dot-com implosion–stocks rallied right up to March 6, 2000, before starting a two-year long controlled demolition–and the 2008-09 stock market crash, when shares of visible doomed General Motors and Fannie Mae both maintained lofty valuations that were completely disconnected from a painfully visible reality. (Fannie Mae shares went to near-zero in the subsequent crash.)

And so here we are again. The stock market is rallying despite overwhelming evidence that the US economy and global economy are heading for a deep recession. The justifications are either 1) the AI boom is changing everything or 2) the Federal Reserve will continue lowering interest rates and flood the market with liquidity, i.e. “The Fed Put” will save the stock market, just as its done for the past 25 years.

This assumption is completely detached from the painfully visible reality that the Fed and other central banks have finally awakened to the perverse consequences of “The Fed Put” (i.e. the policy of unleashing trillions in financial stimulus whenever the stock market swoons) and they are now responding to rallies based on front-running the (now viewed as guaranteed) Fed “save” of the stock market by reiterating their new policy which is to keep interest rates (bond yields) higher for longer. In other words, they are explicitly stating that they won’t “save” the stock market because of 1) inflation and 2) the need to destroy the moral hazard created by “The Fed Put.”

In the heady front-running rally prior to the crash, all seems well. Employment is strong, consumers are spending, etc.

The problem with this euphoric confidence is there are lag times between sharp increases in the cost of capital and goods and services and employment and spending. Notice how credit card balances have exploded higher. In previous recessions, reliance on credit cards to juice spending soared right up until the stock market began its free-fall. Then spending fell sharply.

The lag time is also visible in yield-curve inversions–long counted as a surefire precursor to recession. (When the 2-year Treasury bonds pays a higher yield than the long-term 30-year bond, this inverts the normal market in which longer-term bonds pay higher yields than short-term bonds.)

Many other indicators repeat the same message: we’re at the cusp of a recession and market decline.

Many commentators note how tightening financial conditions take months to work through the economy, eventually affecting consumer spending, commercial borrowing, housing valuations, tax receipts, etc.

Globally, the forces pushing costs higher (i.e. inflation) cannot be reversed. Consider this chart of labor costs in China. As labor costs skyrocket, higher costs must be passed on to consumers.

There are also less easily measured trends at work. One factor that is not tracked and therefore poorly understood is how close to the edge many small businesses are. Those that survived the Covid lockdown have had to raise prices just to cover the sharp increases in their own costs. Small business isn’t making big margins; rather, they’re absorbing costs to keep the doors open. As some costs decline, they won’t drop prices, as they need to finally make a profit.

Many owners are hovering on the edge of burnout, having compensated for higher costs by working longer hours themselves.

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The purpose of this article is not to freak you out, although that may be unavoidable. I’m going to touch on potential disasters and then zero in on how to survive an EMP attack, the mother of all disasters.

Dr. Peter Pry (Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security) warns that the consequences – of not being prepared for this event – are much more severe than one may think:

“within a year of an EMP event at least 2 thirds or the us population will perish from starvation, disease and social collapse”

Former CIA double agent (Reza Kahlili) who spent time in the Iranian Army confirmed that the Iranian have conducted missile tests of ships in the Caspian See that are consistent with an EMP attack:

“They are going to get to the Gulf of Mexico with ballistic missiles and they can launch one at a moment’s notice and they wouldn’t care about the repercussions”

Mostly because they can sink the vessel leaving no traces and because the US won’t be able to retaliate!

What if you woke up one morning and nothing worked? What if there was no electricity? What if all transportation came to a halt?

An EMP event would instantly destroy any means of telecommunication, bank account would disappear, planes would fall from the skies, nuclear plants would not be able to cool down the reactors, we would have no running water (water pumps) and every piece of electronics we use from pacemakers to phones to gasoline pumps would stop!

Your refrigerator will stop working and all your food will spoil in a matter of days! If you and your family are not together, you won’t be able to contact or see them.

This is a catastrophic threat and North Korea, China, Russia and even ISIS… they all understand it and they are all working on it. And if they’ll ever wage war on us, they would be stupid not to strike America’s Achilles heel!

If one of the nuclear powers blasts a nuclear weapon 275 miles above the US it will produce an EMP that will basically send us, the Canadian and the Mexicans back to the Dark Ages.Will we be able to fight back in case of a nuclear war?

I don’t think so! Probably most of our ICBM’s will turn into a pile of junk (although some are EMP hardened). The communication lines and mobiles will become useless. And on top of that, I don’t think that our ballistic missile defense (BMD) system will work at all after a powerful HEMP.

I have something you need to watch. It’s much better than I am at explaining the threat. Watch it and learn what you should fear most, what an EMP effects and how you can protect your electronics, car, mobile phones, etc.

Years ago the US Army indeed straightened some military equipment against an EMP attack. The congressional study EMP Report (back in 2004) indicated potential casualty rates of 90%. The result: the commission was disband! What the US does to prevent an EMP attack right now? NOTHING!

So here are some useful things to protect yourself from an EMP:

1. Build a Faraday Cage

A Faraday cage is a sealed enclosure that has an electrically conductive outer layer and a non-conductive inner layer. The purpose of this box is to protect any electronics inside it in case of an EMP. There are basically two simple ways of building a Faraday cage:

• by wrapping a non-conductive box (such as cardboard or wood) in a conductive material (such as aluminum foil)
• by using a conductive box (like an ammo can) and isolate the inner walls of the box with foam (polystyrene) or a cheap Yoga mat or maybe window insulating foam

2. Store in your Faraday Cage the most important survival electronics like:

• A radio (for communication and gathering information);
• An old laptop computer with downloads of ebooks and stored personal information or at least a manual on how to make a generator using materials you can find in your home;
• A set of walkie-talkies that run on rechargeable batteries;
• A small generator;
• A manually rechargeable flashlight (most flashlights have electronics in them so they will also fry);
• Electronic parts for cars;
• Any electronic equipment you don’t use on a regular basis buy may need when SHTF like: night vision and other electronic optics, solar battery chargers, drills;

3. Store fuel

This does not mean you have to store tons of fuel. You won’t want to be seen driving around. Just a few gallons in a small tank that will allow you to conduct a few basic unpredictable operations like: bringing your family home safe or an emergency getaway car in case things get really bad in your town. (That only if you manage to protect your car against the EMP)

4. Save your car!

Basically you have 3 good options:

• Place in the Faraday cage the vital electronics your car needs (doubles) and replace them after the EMP (PCM – Powertrain Control Module, Electronic Fuel Injection, Electronic Ignition and possibly even other parts depending on the vehicle)
• Buy a cheap old back-up car that does not have vital electronic parts (like a 1984 Toyota Hilux 4×4 – around $1200).
• Harden your car against EMP’s and park it in a sheet metal shed or steel building. You can also buy EMP shielding devices that zip or wrap around your car’s wiring.

5. Plan on living self-sustained

This means fulfilling all our 3 basic needs: water, food and shelter**!**

Have in mind a place where to procure water when there will be no running water. Have in mind a place where you can plant and harvest crops. Buying at least one acre in the countryside would give you at least something to plan with.

One of the best ways to do that is by building a system totally independent from the environment. I have something you need to watch. It’s much better than I am at explaining the threat.

6. Stockpile essentials like:

• Food – for at least 5 months (winter plus two more months) – if you have a plan to go “self-sustained” and a 12 months if you don’t plan to do that. Remember that there will be no refrigeration.
• Water – This is actually the most important event for which you need to store water! Even in case of droughts people don’t die because of the lack of water. But this is not the case. In case of an EMP there will be no running water, and if you are not close to a river or a fountain you may die. You need to know your location and set in your mind a walking route to a local fountain or a nearby river. If it is 3 days away (walking) it is not good. Store water for at least 10 days and head to the water source to get more water reserves starting day one.
• Tools like an axe, a knife first aid kit and antibiotics **(**you won’t be able to call 911)

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As-of 6 October 2025, 14 of the world’s richest 15 people are Americans, and, all together, they own $2.844T, which is 94% of the $3.025T that all 15 of the world’s richest own.

This is according to the published figures from Bloomberg, which hide the wealth of the world’s richest individuals. But it does make clear that America is leading the world in the production and/or importation of billionaires. However, neither Bloomberg nor Forbes list the wealth of heads-of-state. At least one of these is the King of Saudi Arabia, who is worth more than $1.6 trillion, which is around four times as rich as the current ‘wealthiest’ person in the world, Elon Musk, owns. According to Saudi Aramco’s latest, 9 June 2024, official public statement, “Other shareholdings, including the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (the “Government”), comprise [own] approximately 97.62% of issued shares.” Those “Other shareholdings” are owned by Saudi-Government-controlled entities; so that the Saudi Government (which is owned by the King) controls the entire 97.62% of Aramco. As-of 6 October 2025, the market capitalization of Aramco was $1.602T, so that he owns $1.564T in Aramco stock. In addition, he owns much of the rest of Saudi Arabia: he is an “absolute monarch,” which means that he has control over everything in his country. On 16 October 2015, I had reported that,

The richest person in the world isn’t anyone in the Forbes list, which excludes calculations for any heads-of-state, but is instead King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose net worth is in the trillions of dollars. He virtually owns the Saudi Government, which owns the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, among other assets. Aramco alone is worth “anywhere between US$1.25 trillion[7] and US$7 trillion,[8] making it the world’s most valuable company.”

Afterward, there was a public offering of Aramco’s stock on 2 June 2024, and the corporation’s value became publicly known; and, as-of, at least, June 2024, the King controls 97.62% of it. The CIA-edited and written Wikipedia (which blacklists — blocks from linking to — sites that aren’t CIA-approved) article “Salman of Saudi Arabia” says “He has a reported personal wealth of at least $18 billion” but provides no documentation of that cunning lie, since Aramco’s value is now publicly known, and that man owns 97.62% of it.

Furthermore, the Saudi Government is loaded with U.S. Treasury bonds (from their sales of oil to the U.S. after President Nixon replaced gold by oil as the dollar’s backing), and on 15 April 2016, the New York Times headlined “Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill”, and opened:

Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

Several outside economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, saying that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling the kingdom’s economy.

The bill, proposed legislation allowing “the kingdom” [King Saud and his aides especially Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud] to be held liable in US courts for funding the September 11 terrorist attacks, did become law (overriding President Obama’s veto), allowing civil but not criminal suits by 9/11 victim families. Still, it allowed no criminal liability. And, as for even the civil liability, every President so far has prevented that. So, plea deals were proposed as a way to get maybe something. On September 11th of 2025, NPR headlined “Bound by loss, split on justice: 9/11 families reflect 24 years late”, and interviewed members of the suing victim-families. One said:

“When folks ask me, ‘How do you feel about plea agreements? [with prisoners who are being held at Guantanamo],’ well, I can’t give you an honest answer, because nobody in our government is willing to share what the details of them are, and it’s just another example of how our government has treated us year after year.” he said. “The reason these plea deals exist is because Liz’s father and my father were brutally murdered on live TV. You would think that we would be involved in the process. We should have answers to our questions, and no one’s been able to provide those answers.”

As-of today, Saudi Arabia holds only $131.7 billion of U.S. Treasuries. They are now the 18th-biggest holder. As-of December 2015, Saudi Arabia had $119.1B of U.S.Treasuries, and were then the 12th-largest holder. The 6 biggest Treasury holders today are Japan ($1,151.4B), UK ($899.3B), China ($730.7B), Caymans ($438.7B), Belgium ($428.2B), and Luxembourg ($405.0B). Whether the Sauds ever had “up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets” to sell is doubtful. But whether the U.S. Government really cares about the 9/11 victims’ families is not. The answer to that is obvious.

Anyone who doesn’t yet know that the U.S. Government represents only billionaires and trillionaires, not the American people (as is documented at that link) has been deceived. In other words: America’s Government is totally corrupt. (It has been so ever since 25 July 1945, when U.S. President Truman started the Cold War and military-industrial complex, the permanent-war America, aiming for global empire, which has been extremely profitable for billionaires, especially after the Soviet Union ended in 1991; and, so, on 24 February 1990, President GHW Bush made the decision that there must be no “peace dividend” and the warfare-state will continue — which did secretly happen on the American side, though it had ceased on the Russian side.) The U.S. Government is a scamming organization to benefit billionaires at everyone else’s expense, and not only at the expense of the countries that the U.S. Government targets for takeover (adding it to its empire). As-of the latest report, on 30 September 2024, the U.S. Government’s Assets are +$5.662 trillion, and Liabilities are -$45.546 trillion, so that its net worth is -$39.889T, which for each of the 340,000,000 Americans is -$117,320, so that for the average U.S. household of 2.5 people, it is $293,300 owed to this Government’s creditors, who are mainly foreign billionaires, who have sold goods and services to mainly U.S. billionaires (their corporations) (and been paid in dollars, which then buy U.S. Treasury bonds), thus producing this debt, which consequently became the U.S. Government’s foreign liabilities that are owed by the U.S. Treasury Department. As-of November 2023, “the middle, median U.S. household wealth is $162,350”. So: the typical American household (or family) has a net worth of $162,350, but owes to the U.S. Government’s creditors $293,300. That’s a net net worth of -$130,950. And that’s the reality, in this nation that has 14 of the 15 allegedly richest people in the world.

Anyway, America’s net worth is declining (as the Government’s net worth becomes increasingly negative while the typical American increasingly owes more than he/she owns), at the same time that its stock markets are reaching record highs; and this increasing wealth-inequality means that while America’s billionaires are so rich so that they now constitute 14 of the 15 publicly known world’s richest, America’s poorer 90% are consequently becoming poorer instead of richer. And it’s that poorer 90% of Americans who will be left holding the bag of debt to pay when the U.S. economy’s Ponzi scheme ultimately collapses entirely. It truly is “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”: fascism. On 4 October 2025, I documented that “U.S. discretionary income has been declining since 2011.” This means that, even more than before, “only America’s richest (the people who have loads of discretionary income to gamble in the stock markets), have been substantially rising, and of America’s super-richest (who predominantly have been buying stocks in America’s ‘defense’ contractors, the profiteers from wars) have been soaring.” Not only is this phenomenon continuing; it is increasing. And the profiteers from wars are the investors in the by-far-fastest-rising sector of the U.S. stock markets — the contractors to the U.S. Government, U.S. armaments-makers, the mega-corporations whose market is the U.S. Government and the Governments that it controls. These companies sell to U.S. taxpayers, who, each year, pay hundreds of billions of dollars for their weapons. Each and every year they pay to these extremely profitable corporations more than the Russian Government spends on its entire military budget — which INCLUDES all of Russia’s armaments. America’s Government is far more corrupt than those of the main nations it aims to take over, such as Russia and China.

President Trump and the members of Congress care far more about those 14 U.S. mega-billionaires than about the 340 million other Americans. This nation is an aristocracy, not a democracy. You can’t say this in any mainstream U.S.-empire (U.S. and its colonies) ‘news’-medium. The U.S. Government’s international ‘legitimacy’ is based upon the proven lie that this country is a democracy instead of a dictatorship (by its super-rich). That’s now just a liberal figleaf covering for U.S.-style fascism. As Warren Buffett (nominally the world’s 10th-richest person) said in 2006, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” And that is even more the case now than it was when he said it 19 years ago.

Few of the commentators who have called attention to these problems have recommended solutions to any of them, but they all are really ONE problem; and the proposed partial solutions have therefore been doomed to fail. On September 23d, I proposed the only comprehensive and systematic solution, one that would stand a reasonable chance of establishing an enduring democracy; but, thus far, no one has been interested in it.

This article was originally published on Eric’s Substack.

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Throughout history, there have been tyrannies that have been imposed on the citizenry through non-democratic means. Monarchies have been one example. Another example have been communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cuba. Still other examples have been U.S.-supported national-security-state coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile.

What many Americans fail to realize, however, is that it is entirely possible to have tyranny with a democratically elected system. The common mindset is that if people are free to democratically elect their officials, then that means automatically that people are living in a free society. The common refrain becomes, “If you don’t like what’s happening, be sure to vote in the next election.”

But the fact is that a democratically elected regime can be just as tyrannical as a regime that has taken power in contravention of democratic processes. It all depends on the powers that the regime is wielding and exercising and the control that the regime is imposing on the citizenry.

Central to a democratic tyranny is securing the approval of a vast majority of the citizenry. After all, the regime knows that if it alienates the citizenry, voters might decide to cut short the regime at the next election — assuming that the democratically elected tyrannical regime continues to permit elections.

Thus, what democratically elected regimes do is adopt measures that are designed to secure the approval of the citizenry to being subjected to tyranny at the hands of their own government. That’s how tyranny often comes with democratic systems — with the citizenry cheering and supporting the demise of their own freedom.

One way to do that is through fear. Keep the citizenry afraid all the time. The best way to do that is to come up with all sorts of scary official enemies. During the Cold War, for example, Americans were inculcated with the fear of communists and communism. The Russians are coming! Americans were more than willing to trade away their freedom in exchange for “safety” and “security” from the Reds, who were supposedly everywhere and coming to get Americans.

Today, U.S. officials have done a masterful job in creating a new array of scary official enemies to replace the Reds in the hearts and minds of the American people. There are the illegal immigrant “invaders” who are coming to get us. There are the Muslims who are hell-bent on fulfilling their centuries-old dream of an American caliphate with sharia law. There are also the foreign murderers, rapists, robbers, and burglars who are coming to do us harm. There are the terrorists and the drug dealers, who are now being conflated into “narco-terrorists.”

Moreover, many of the “narco-terrorists” are also part of the illegal-immigrant “invaders.” Imagine — all three official scary enemies — drug dealers, terrorists, and invaders — combined into one official very scary official enemy!

Oh, and don’t forget those scary members of that gang in Venezuela called the Tren de Aragua. Why, never mind that Americans had never even heard about that gang a couple of years ago. If our federal officials have decided that those scary gang members about 1000 miles away from the United  States are coming to get us too, that’s good enough for many Americans.

This is where the state’s system of public schooling meets the drug war, the war on terrorism, and the war on immigrants. Public (i.e., government) schooling molds children’s minds to be deeply fearful of whatever scary creatures that state designates to be scary official enemies. Moreover, such mindsets have been molded to automatically defer to the judgment of U.S. officials, especially when it comes to protecting “national security.”

It is not difficult for libertarians, who have broken free of state indoctrination, to see where all these rackets — the Cold War racket, the drug-war racket, the war-on-terrorism racket, the war-on-immigrants racket, the foreign-gang racket, and the national-security-state racket  —are taking our country (along with the welfare-state/income tax, IRS/paper-money, Federal Reserve, and regulated-economy rackets). They are all taking us down the road to a full-fledged tyrannical system — one that is based on total federal control over the lives, privacy, and fortunes of the American people, all enforced by the IRS, ICE, the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, the DEA, and all the other federal bureaucracies — for our own good, of course.

The most important part of all this tyranny is that American schoolchildren continue to be inculcated with the belief that all this is “freedom.” American adults who received their education in the state’s educational system are characterized by the effusive thanks and praise they heap on federal officials, especially the troops, for their “service” in protecting our “freedom.” Modern-day state-educated Americans exemplify perfectly the words of Johann von Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” That’s what enables the tyranny to get worse and worse. That’s how freedom is brought to an end in a democratic society — to the cheers and with the enthusiastic support of the citizenry.

Reprinted with permission from The Future of Freedom Foundation.

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The “race of logistics” between Russia and NATO, which is presently unfolding in the context of their proxy war in Ukraine, will continue even after the conflict ends.

Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s containment of Russia, but the Netherlands and Belgium are quickly becoming important too. Rotterdam Port’s chief executive told the Financial Times in mid-summer that space will be reserved for ships carrying military supplies at NATO’s request and that one or more ships “would be docked at the quay for several weeks, four or five times a year.” This will also be coordinated with Antwerp Port.

Rotterdam and Antwerp are Europe’s two largest ports so this isn’t an insignificant move. Moreover, the Netherlands is a founding member of the “military Schengen” that was agreed to with Germany and Poland in early 2024 for facilitating the movement of troops and equipment. Therefore, these moves are very clearly meant to facilitate the movement of US troops and equipment to Russia’s borders in the event of a crisis, thus leading to the Netherlands and Belgium playing crucial roles in containing it.

It was assessed in early July that “Peace In Ukraine Won’t End The West’s Hybrid War On Russia”, with one of the three cited reasons being that the earlier mentioned four European countries are carving out spheres of influence along its borders as part of the US’ “Lead From Behind” containment efforts. Their armed forces, as well as the experience and overall quality thereof, are dwarfed by the US’ though so that’s why they’d still need US aid in the event of a crisis with Russia, let alone a hot conflict with it.

Seeing as how the US won’t hang Europe out to dry and cede the continent to Russia, it accordingly makes sense that plans are now underway for incorporating Rotterdam and Antwerp Ports into the “military Schengen” for facilitating the movement of US troops and equipment in such scenarios. The aforesaid can only realistically be sent to Europe at scale through naval means, thus explaining why those two ports are so important. The US couldn’t reliably contain and “deter” Russia without them.

In terms of the bigger picture, the associated countries – the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and likely also France – are naturally expected to more closely coordinate their military policies, thus leading to a US-led and fiercely anti-Russian “coalition of the willing” within NATO. Poland, the Baltic States, and Finland are correspondingly predicted to host more of the bloc’s troops and supplies while the rest will play supplementary logistical and financial roles in this containment policy.

The only exception is Turkiye, whose newfound rapid expansion of influence eastward could lead to NATO containing Russia along its entire southern periphery if successful as explained here, but infamously independent Erdogan won’t subordinate his country to the US like the others will. It’s for this reason that the abovementioned collection of countries can be described as US proxies for containing Russia while Turkiye should instead be seen as a semi-equal US partner, not a proxy, in this scheme.

The takeaway from this news about Rotterdam and Antwerp Ports is that the “race of logistics” between Russia and NATO, which is presently unfolding in the context of their proxy war in Ukraine, will continue even after the conflict ends and lead to a more robust US-led containment of Russia. This doesn’t automatically mean that they’ll gain an edge over Russia, just that tensions will persist even after their proxy hostilities cease, and this will in turn keep the European front of the New Cold War active.

This article was originally published on Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter.

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The Ukrainian news-outlet Ukrainska Pravda has a new report about the state of the Ukrainian forces at the frontline. The Russian forces are winning the war bit by bit while the Ukrainian army is in constant retreat. The report is discussing several issues which prevent the Ukrainians from holding the line.

While most of UP’s pieces are published in Russian/Ukrainian and English this one has yet to receive a translation. Below   summaries and excerpts of it (edited machine translation):

The holes between the infantry positions are getting bigger and bigger.
What prevents the Ukrainian army from deterring the Russians – Ukrainska Pravda, Oct 6 2025

The most urgent need directly on the front line remains infantry. At the current stage of the war, when the work of heavy equipment is maximally complicated, the role of soldiers in the trenches increases significantly. When they are not enough, it is not easy to organize a defense.

Due to the lack of people, many units cannot hold their positions, fully repel Russian attacks, adequately rest and conduct the necessary rotation. As a result, field commanders are forced to choose priority areas, leaving other sectors less protected.

In consequence there is no longer a real frontline. The lack of infantry leads to gaps through which Russian forces can slip into the rear of the Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian mortar troops and drone pilots who are nominally stationed five kilometer behind the frontline suddenly find themselves in direct contact with enemy troops:

A consequence of the problem described above is that infantry positions are increasingly literally deserted. Therefore, the distance between neighboring positions can be 200-300 –, 500-700 –meters, and sometimes even a kilometer.
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The formation of a huge number of holes between Ukrainian infantry positions and the penetration of these holes by the Russians deep into our defenses has formed another trend of the current stage of the war – the lack of a stable line of engagement.
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Due to the lack of fighters on the first line, drone and mortar operators, who stand 3-5 kilometers from the front edge, are forced to become infantry.
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In the worst cases, which UP is also aware of, the Russians even reach artillery positions. These are 10-15 kilometers from the contact line.

Over the last six month the Ukrainian army has changed its structure. Previously various brigades were attached to temporary operational commands (TUS,Tgrs) with each responsible for large parts of the frontline. The new model is based on a corp structure with several brigades assigned to a corp to serve under one permanent command. While the restructuring is officially finished most troops have yet to find their new home:

The key advantage of the transition of the Defense Forces to the corps system was called by supporters of the reform the emergence of stable management bodies. But this is exactly what has not happened so far, because there are still temporary TUS, Tgrs, etc. on the ground in one form or another.

Moreover, there are also questions about the transition to the implementation of tasks by corps exclusively in the designated areas of responsibility. In many sectors of the front, a full-fledged transition did not take place, while the General Staff already has plans to create even new structures, such as assault troops and troops of unmanned air defense systems as part of the air force.

In the context of a general shortage of personnel with the incomplete transition to the corps system, finding resources for new military formations will be quite problematic.

Despite having the just introduced a corp structure the newly created assault battalions were put under direct command of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief,  General Syrski.  Events in Ukraine recently took a look at those:

Undeterred by the total collapse of the Kursk operation in the spring of 2025,  Syrsky remains fixated on the need for new offensives.

Now, the head of the army has created his own personal guard, totally willing to implement all his orders – the assault forces. The western-funded nationalist press has attacked Syrsky’s new project as ‘catastrophic’, claiming that the units involved have taken massive losses in the urge to demonstrate their loyalty to the commander-in-chief.

For whatever reason, these highly critical articles on the assault forces from the likes of BBC Ukraine and texty.org haven’t been translated to English.

Today we’ll take a look at what exactly these new assault forces are. It turns out that they are largely composed of units commanded by the fascist ‘Right Sector’. Syrsky chose these units because they unflinchingly took part in his Kursk adventure – in contrast to other commanders, who criticized Syrsky’s folly and were sacked as a result. …

The best general the Russians have, as Syrski is called by his critics, is also accused of micromanaging the fight at the frontline (edited machine translation):

In June 2025, Ukrayinska Pravda was the first to write about how Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky resorted to manual control of the front. Independently selects, and already removes, the corps commanders, decides which brigade and how much replenishment is being made, sets tasks for battalions, when they should be assigned by the brigade commander, and so on.

During these three months, the situation with the dependence of the front on the instructions of one person, according to the observations of Ukrayinska Pravda and the UP’s interlocutors in the Defense Forces, has only become more complicated.

At first, Syrsky began to regularly visit and “taxi” the actions of units on the Dobropolsky ledge, which is now being “cut off” by the defense forces. According to public references of the commander-in-chief himself, over the past 3.5 months, he went to meetings and meetings with local commanders as many as eight times.

The introduction of long range First-Person-View drones by Russia has cleared the typical rear of the frontline. Command and logistics had to move back further which makes their work more costly and ineffective:

Due to the activity of Russian aircraft and drones from about the end of spring – and early summer of this year, the support units of the Ukrainian army began to move away from the line-of-contact.
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According to the decision of the Supreme Chief, all support units had to move 40-50 kilometers away from the contact line.

For logistics commanders, this decision means that with already limited resources – especially fuel-the logistics arm becomes longer and more complex.

“I used to spend 40 liters and a couple of hours to get a few tons of fuel. Now – 300 liters and almost a day,” – shares with UP one of the commanders of support.

The UP authors are pessimistic about possible changes:

[T]he military command at various levels turns a blind eye to fairly obvious problems within the Ukrainian army, and the presidential office, without which no solution in this country is complete, does not risk its ratings [..]

Meanwhile, the gaps between the infantry positions are getting bigger.

This article was originally published on Moon of Alabama.

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Charlie Kirk’s wife says she is going to continue Charlie’s work.  I hope she can.  The trouble is that within a few days of Charlie’s death, Israel had taken over Charlie’s organization.  At the 12:22 mark Nima shows a video of Charlie’s successors: 

Israel is the most likely candidate to be responsible for Kirk’s assassination. Kirk was leading the younger American generation away from the typical American response that everything Israel does is justified.

Kirk was being funded by the Jews, but when they lost control of him, they cancelled their funding:  “Charlie Kirk leaked text confirms he was livid about bullying Jewish donors: I am leaving pro-Israel cause.” Tucker Carlson reports that Kirk’s turn away from being an apologist for Israel resulted from Kirk’s realization that the United States was being used to fight wars on behalf of Israel.  With Kirk’s assassination, Israel has now again taken control of Turning Point.  

The man in brown shown in this video.  The original video attributed Kirk’s death to a low caliber palm pistol.  A subsequent interpretation concluded that the man in brown was detonating an Israeli microphone on Charlie’s shirt, and that Charlie was killed with the technology that Israel used to wipe out the leadership of Hezbollah, an Arab militia in the way of Israel’s expansion into south Lebanon.

What is clear is that as the man in brown jumped over the railing and involved himself with Kirk’s corpse, there were no police securing the crime scene.  A subsequent video shows the man in brown overseeing Kirk’s corpse being placed in a civilian vehicle and carried off.  Who is the man in brown?  Why is the FBI uninterested?

How is it possible that no police security was imposed on a crime scene?  No police control over the corpse of the murdered victim?  Charlie’s corpse carried off in a private vehicle?  Who has this power over police protocol other than Israel, the CIA, and the FBI?

The whore American media is completely silent.  The video of the man in brown is said by “fact checkers,” who are whores who lie for money–Yahoo, Google, and the rest of the misinformers–is said to never have existed.  If the URL was not in an article on my website, I would not have been able to find it. That should tell you a lot.

My question is:  When, if ever, will real Americans, not the liberal-left filth, wake up to their danger and realize that they also, along with Russia, Iran, and China are destined for the trash bin of history?  Russia, Iran, China are our allies, not our enemies. Our enemies are in Washington and Israel.

 Americans, indeed all Western peoples and those who wish to remain independent, have very little time left to fight for the survival of their existence as  sovereign ethnicities.  Thanks to Blumrosen at the EEOC, white heterosexual American males have been without equal protection of the law for sixty years.

In my interaction with Americans, you can discuss their college’s football chances, their golf scores, the expense of their wives’ remodeling of their kitchens and bathrooms, their knee and hip operations, but you cannot get one word out of them about our disastrous foreign policy other that “all those enemies out there that Trump is dealing with.”

Americans are not a people that can easily survive. They haven’t the education, the intelligence, the interest to know.  They let CNN and “Christian Zionist” preachers tell them.  Having lived a protected life as a hegemon unaccountable to law or fact, they are unaware of their vulnerability. 

Putin also, and Iran, and China, and India, and Venezuela are unaware of their vulnerability  They seem to lack the ability to understand American foreign policy, the principle mission of which is stated by the Wolfowitz Doctrine that the principal goal of American foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that can constraint American hegemony.

This American claim remains un-repudiated by the Trump regime and is a formula for war that is close to unfolding.

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This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group

The US economy has been experiencing what I would call a form of “stasis” for the last year; it’s floating in the deep ocean, waiting for a catalyst. Either it finds dry land soon, or another anchor is added and it sinks into the abyss.

In my article “Trump’s Return: Get Ready For Chaos To Be Unleashed And Blamed On You”, published in July of 2024, I predicted that Biden would step out of the presidential race and that Trump would win the election. I noted that:

“It was perhaps one of the biggest blunders the globalists have ever faced. The WEF’s Klaus Schwab, Dr. Evil himself, has faded into the background and retired as executive chairman. The big play for medical tyranny bombed. Now what to do?

Is it a mistake that the establishment has continued to stick with Biden despite his delirium? Or, did they send Biden into that first debate knowing exactly how bad it was going to go? Is this a ploy designed to complete the Herbert Hoover scenario?

This year, Trump hinted in an interview with Fox Business that he “does not want to become the next Herbert Hoover” inheriting a time bomb economy from Biden. Biden argued in response that Trump was ALREADY like Herbert Hoover because of the jobs lost during covid.

This is, of course, a false claim. But the narrative is everywhere: “Trump will oversee a crash in America similar to 1929…”

There were two ways to interpret the election outcome:

1) The globalists put all their eggs in the Biden basket (and the covid basket) and made a detrimental error. Leaving the White House open to be taken by conservatives even with possible election manipulation.

2) The globalists accept that they failed to turn the pandemic into the permanent medical tyranny they wanted, but they’ve moved on to Plan B. They are now setting up conservatives and populists to take the fall for an economic crisis they have been brewing in the background for years.

When it comes to the second scenario, it’s important to understand that it is impossible to reform the current economic system without triggering a rapidly escalating crisis. Libertarians have been chanting the motto “End The Fed” for decades, but I don’t think many of them grasp what this would actually entail. Any change in the status of the Federal Reserve means financial chaos.

The globalist system is set up to self destruct if it is tampered with. This is an unavoidable fact.

We are already seeing the consequences of this with Trump’s closing of USAID and his implementation of tariffs. The effects are not as visible in America, but around the globe the throttling of US funding to foreign markets is causing a panic. It’s astonishing to see just how dependent the rest of the world has been on US taxpayer dollars and the steady fiat created by the Federal Reserve.

Europe, for example, is scrambling to fill their security void with proclamations of increased military spending. Europeans often criticize Americans for not supporting socialist welfare programs like universal healthcare. What they don’t mention (or are too ignorant to realize) is that THEIR socialist programs have been entirely dependent on US defense spending.

We make NATO possible with hundreds of billions of dollars in military support so that Europeans can have their free healthcare while they sneer at us. Canadian officials across the border have admitted that if they increase their NATO spending to just 2% of GDP as they are supposed to do, their social welfare programs might take a hit.

This is only one example of the kind of instability that occurs when the US stops paying for the rest of the planet. We have seen numerous third world governments show up (like South Africa), demanding continued handouts from the US. They don’t ask, they EXPECT. They have been enjoying our money for so long they now feel entitled to it. That is the globalist system we are currently living in.

So, you can imagine what might happen if all that America cash is cut off at the source due to a government shutdown. Generally, a government shutdown affects foreign aid by halting new obligations and disbursements of funds .

While some aid can continue, the impact depends on several factors, including the type of program, existing contracts, and the administration’s policies. We have no idea at this stage how long the shutdown will last, but foreign governments and outside contracts must be sweating bullets. Trump has even argued that he can use the shutdown to cut programs and make changes he would not be able to accomplish otherwise (Senate Republicans have already used a new rule to confirm over 100 Trump nominees while the Dems are throwing their shutdown tantrum).

This isn’t a terrible idea. In fact, I applaud him for it. Most of Trump’s policies are exactly what we need to reverse our disastrous course, but is it too late?

I have to acknowledge the fact that the system won’t tolerate reform without negative feedback. Loss of dollar circulation is going to put pressure on foreign banks to look for alternatives. I’m not talking about a BRICS currency because the BRICS aren’t capable of replacing the dollar. What I’m talking about is globalist institutions like the IMF and BIS which have both been quietly working on a digital (CBDC) dollar alternative for a number of years.

Meanwhile, the dollars that don’t spread out overseas will come back to the US, and we are already experiencing persistent stagflationary conditions. Price increases have slowed since Biden was in office, but we certainly haven’t seen costs in necessities go down much.

I would point out that the housing market (a canary in the coal mine) has been dealing with a rapid decrease in sales since the pandemic. Yet, the insane prices refuse to decline to meet the falling market demand. We are also seeing this in groceries, gas prices, electricity, auto prices, etc. Demand is plunging, but prices will not adjust. Retail sales remain high, but only because Americans are spending a lot more money for a lot less stuff.

Gold and silver are also trying to tell us something. Despite growing stagnation, metals are skyrocketing in price. Silver prices have exploded by 50% since last year. Gold is over $4000 an ounce.

This is good news for those of us holding onto PMs, but it is also a signal that inflation is not going anywhere. One could argue that metals are merely catching up to where they should be in the face of suppression by banks, but I don’t think this explains it.

More likely, dollars are coming home to roost in the US and this is going to keep prices high even in the face of a deflationary event (recession). That’s not good in the short term. Like I said, globalism is designed to punish anyone that tampers with it.

And then there’s the central bank. Concerns are rising in the mainstream that Trump may use recent events as a means to “reimagine” the Federal Reserve, thus ending its much touted “independence”. The Fed is, of course, not independent – It answers to international banks, as noted by globalist insider Carroll Quigley in his book “Tragedy And Hope”. This is the structure that was put in place over a century ago to help finance the globalist edifice through fiat.

By interfering with the Fed, economic blowback is assured.

This is not to say that nothing should be done; the entire globalist empire must be erased eventually. But it’s naive to think that we can do it without a historic crisis. Even basic government spending cuts will trigger instability – Upending the Fed would be a disaster. And guess who gets the blame for that disaster? You, me, and anyone who backed the populist movement.

So be ready for the international ire and be ready to fight, because they’re going to try to crucify us when the anti-conservative and anti-nationalist narrative drops. I have always said that Democrats would never allow a shutdown on their watch. They would only ever support a shutdown while conservatives are in power.

But maybe the shutdown will end quickly. The debate largely depends on the Democrat Party’s insistence that illegal immigrants in the US under pretenses of asylum are “documented”. This means they get access to ACA coverage (free healthcare). This is an indefensible position and they won’t be able to exploit it for long.

That said, the political left has proven over and over again that they want the country to burn, and if they can do it while Republicans take the blame, all the better. I worry that a budget agreement is not meant to happen and that a crisis is meant to fester. Is this the “inflection point” many of us in the alternative economic media have been expecting?

If so, then it is happening sooner that I thought it would. I figured we would have at least two years of Trump’s second term before the other shoe dropped. But the speed at which leftist groups and the globalists are accelerating their political violence suggests an economic reckoning is around the corner. Every major crash event in history tends to coincide with civil unrest and war, and the pattern appears to be repeating.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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