Places to go and things to do, again. Just to switch it up, here’s a few old photos from the album. They’re related to what I’ll post Saturday.
TTG
RSS- Russia can lose this war by Timothy Snyder
- Inaugural crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner
- Orangutans and traditional medicine
- Tatarigami’s assessment of the situation at Chasiv Yar and Ocheretyne
- Open Thread – 1 May 2024
- Barbara Ann on The Great Taking
- William Eaton and The Battle of Derna
- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
Very interesting and comprehensive set of claims published on channel Это ещё не конец (It’s still not the end) this morning. Look it over. I figured as much by myself except for the part about $3.5 trillion for resettlement. “Jewish organizations” are going to pay that, not the American taxpayer? Of course not one line of this text below will appear in US or UK media. Translation below dashed line. Might I add, as a one-liner op-ed that not so coincidentally, if this is the game plan, which in large part sans financial detail it likely is, then it is happening precisely as Russia (the only set of military forces capable of resisting US & Israeli power) is absolutely up against the wall and suffering bloody attack within its own borders. So although Blinken, Sullivan & Biden may indeed be napkin-size cloths cutout from dirty unusable dishrags, they are not entirely stupid. Cruel, mostly thoughtless bastards, yes but not entirely stupid.
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https://t.me/nonetutto/1538
US Secretary of State E. Blinken’s new tour to the Middle East is not an attempt to reconcile its key countries and Israel, but a reconnaissance in force before the complete annexation of Palestinian territories by the Israelis.
The US government and the Israeli government have jointly decided to achieve full control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, established by the IDF, by March 1, 2024.
US support for Ukraine will be stopped, and in return the Pentagon will increase arms supplies to Israel to complete the operation in Palestine.
The terrorist attack on a cemetery in Iran was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of Western intelligence services on the territory of Tehran in order to forestall possible acts of aggression by the IRGC and proxies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
The Pentagon will conduct a limited military campaign against the Houthis and frame it as an act of intimidation. Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will receive from the Secretary of State a list of measures that will be applied to them if they try to impede the development of this plan. Jewish associations and foundations of all denominations of Judaism have allocated $3.5 trillion for the resettlement of Palestinians in Africa and the Middle East. They will build new housing, medical centers, clinics, kindergartens, schools, airports and allocate grants for the construction of industrial infrastructure. Israel is also ready to accept limited refugees from Palestine in the post-war period from 2026. Quotas will be allocated annually. The issue is almost resolved and requires work with key players in the Middle East.
Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with Jordan and Egypt joining them, are categorically against it, but Blinken is not afraid of this, and he is ready to negotiate and push through this decision.
The CIA and Mossad will purposefully rock Iran by carrying out terrorist attacks and launching remote strikes, demonstrating its vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
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Lolita – On the Titanic (Live 7 months ago)
https://youtu.be/J1XYb9nDQeo
lolita milyavskaya on the titanic lyrics (translation button below).
https://g.co/kgs/cZkpYWn
Grateful Dead – Iko Iko
https://youtu.be/IsHVqO2X-nQ
From MSN:
-The expulsion of a population from its territory is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, which form the core of international humanitarian law, and the statutes of the International Criminal Court (ICC) designate the “deportation or forcible transfer of population” as a crime against humanity. “The United States rejects the recent statements by Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating the relocation of Palestinians out of Gaza”, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Tuesday, describing the comments as “irresponsible”.-
For at least 20 years, the USA has condemned plans to settle in the (former) West Bank and (future) Samaria-Judea.
Then, the USA realised that the Izzie governments had done their own thing.
So they take the world as a witness and say: “they did it anyway”. And everything is put back in order. The two neurons of public opinion will have forgotten everything in 6 months.
Besides, do crimes against humanity pile up? When the goalposts are crossed, there are no more limits.
Gaza… what about it?
By the way, thanks for Grateful Dead. I’m a fan, but not their entire output.
d74,
I saw the Grateful Dead in concert twice in the early ’80s. Not a huge fan, but it was fun and a real carnival.
Violent, belligerent, inflexible radicals like Hamas and all the Palestinian “civilians” who support the ideology and politics (which is most of them) don’t have to be physically expelled from Gaza. They can be permanently buried in the Gaza soil. Geneva Convention issue solved (if anyone cared in the first place).
F & L
Gaza getting “new housing, medical centers, clinics, kindergartens, schools, airports, and grants for other construction… “wow!
Looking at a report on the financial dealings/wealth of Hamas and Hezbollah and this article is a good one.
https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/01/watch-funding-terrorism-2/
Video on the report – also good
https://fullmeasure.news/newest-videos/funding-terrorism-12-29-2023
from the article:
“But Hezbollah also functions like a multinational corporation with a global network of operations. We went to see one such network for ourselves five years ago in South America.
Situated next to Brazil and Argentina, South America’s two biggest economies, the tri-border area has become a shopper’s dream. But cloaked in that commerce may be terrorism.”
Add to this what newly elected Milei has done by taking control of the smuggling border with Argentina and Bolivia .
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1740455318432235797
The original X-post has some video of the conditions on that border
https://twitter.com/Lady_Astor/status/1740451972355141796
kj
KjHeart,
The tri-border region has been a hotspot for Hezbollah and others for decades. It’s been a focus of both CIA and DIA at least as long as I worked there.
As our dynamic duo F&EN can explain better than I, these two folks represent a sample of reputedly cowardly (and powerless or because powerless?) Muslim faith people who object to wide scale muder and displacement of other Muslims (Mearsheimer has a piece republished today at Unz review on the South African appeal to international organizations regarding genocide in Gaza). So I wouldn’t bother anyone over something so silly and inconsequential to us happy, secure and wealthy Americans except to point to time=6.26 where it is mentioned that an Imam Hassen Sharif was shot multiple times today in New Jersey. It seems to me it bears mentioning that
1) Guns are very widely and easily available in the US, and
2) Two or more contestants can play that sort of game, and that therefore maybe
3) Joe, Kamala, Blinky and Sullivan may be biting off more than they can easily chew. But maybe not. Yes, maybe this won’t be 66 AD all over again with the Roman empire rocked to its core and 4 emperors appearing within the space of one year. But who knows, right?
Is Israel opening conflict on new fronts after being pushed back in Gaza?
https://youtu.be/a0BmPWNINz8
Don’t be a tool of lies and evil, F&L.
Guns are very widely and easily available in Gaza.
Open air concentration camp?
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=gaza+beaches&qpvt=gaza+beaches&form=IGRE&first=1
Did Auschwitz have a tourist industry circa 1942 -1945? Did the Jews in Nazi camps have guns, rockets and jet skis? Did they get to occasionally break out and slaughter and rape Germans and rain rockets down on them?
Wars started by Mohamed (the prophet) – 80+
Wars started by Jesus – 0
Acts of pedophilia perpetrated by Mohamed – 6 known
Acts of pedophilia perpetrated by Jesus – 0
One on one/personal homicides committed by Mohamed – 8 confirmed*
One on one/personal homicides committed by Jesus – 0
Demands to kill rule breakers (unbelievers, adulterers, etc) by Mohamed – too numerous to count
Demands to kill rule breakers (unbelievers, adulterers, etc) by Jesus – 0 (actually less than 0. He said forgive them)
* In one instance Mohamed murdered the family of a Jewish girl and then he raped the minor Jewish girl. Yes, it’s in the book
Mohamed is the architect of your heroes’ foundation.
I am going to an Elvis’ Bday Bash tomorrow(at the Hangar on the Hudson at 730 in Troy, if there’s any locals), and in honor of His Majesty, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you That’s Alright Mama, from 1954
https://youtu.be/4I2mp2S0pyM?si=WcgLCg5ELOvu19TC
Still the best.
They like to joke around that B.B.King, Freddie King and Albert King were the three kings of blues guitar and they sure were. Then they’d goof around asking “so then where’s the fourth king?”
How could anyone not know the answer to that question?
Elvis & BB King
https://youtube.com/shorts/A1pDqPOdA98
https://youtube.com/shorts/ELb8afWzrps
Is this evidence of the festering Civil War 2.0 which the late Colonel Lang thought he saw evidenced on horizons? It’s of a piece with interstate restrictions which arose during the pandemic. Rome, as everyone knows who learned of numerous invading so-called barbarian hordes, struggled mightily with these problems, discussed under different terminologies but how is it any different? Have you met your friendly neighborhood Visigoth lately? Our sages wisely make machine guns easily available. But who precisely are those wise sages? Has anyone read “The Prague Cemetery” by Umberto Eco?
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https://t.me/malekdudakov/6461
States are organizing themselves . New York is creating a coalition of states – including New Jersey and Connecticut – to try to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Texas authorities deported 130 thousand migrants to New York – which has already led to a real humanitarian crisis .
First, New York tried to prohibit bus companies from unloading illegal immigrants on its territory. Now the state is suing them – demanding compensation for $700 million in migrant expenses . Although the final bill will be in the tens of billions. New York is already having to cut to the quick – cutting budgets for social services and the police .
But this will not stop the flow of illegal immigrants. It’s just that now in Texas they will be put on planes and trains. New York Mayor Eric Adams has long tried to get Biden to resolve the crisis. But against the backdrop of Washington’s paralysis, New York has to cobble together its own coalition of states .
Republican states like Texas and Florida will probably follow their example – creating their own situational alliance in the deportation of illegal immigrants to New York or Chicago . So the split within the United States will only intensify – while the White House is stuck in a deep coma.
In December, a record 300 thousand illegal immigrants stormed the US border . There may be even more of them in January – right now caravans of migrants are heading to the border. This is increasingly destabilizing the situation within the United States. And it prevents Biden from reaching an agreement with Congress and agreeing on tranches for Ukraine and Israel . While the Pentagon is waiting for the war to escalate in the Middle East, the West is already panicking about the breakthrough of the Ukrainian front with Russia’s attack on Kharkov .
The illegal alien crisis is not a crisis. We flowed way past that checkpoint. It is a national disaster. Whoever is in charge (it’s not Biden) either pulls their cranium out of a cavity on the backside of their lower extremities or we go way past the disaster checkpoint as well.
I noticed the recent jobs report makes no mention of illegal aliens. The report has always been a slight of hand with either mild applause or a room full of eye rolls but there is no looking away from this magic trick gone horribly wrong. Instead of Gallager smashing a watermelon or tube of toothpaste into the front row he hit a pallet of cluster bombs.
Directly across the Hudson from the most densely populated area in the United States. Expected to burn for days. Attack inside pre-February 2022 borders of the Russian Federation (Belgorod, Voronezh, ..) and … (?)
Of course I have zero direct evidence of a connection, but the timing is pretty interesting. 99,000 Russians have crossed the southern borders recently, and 199,000 Ukrainians. Oh, and huge numbers of Chinese folks, according to easily available news reports.
You’re right about Biden not being in charge. Alfred E Neumann (Mad Magazine Mascot) is more probably the POTUS for the past 30 years than anyone else.
Massive Fire Still Burning at NJ Industrial Park.
https://youtu.be/hAjhGhH0tbo
TTG – Your Great-Grandpa was a lucky man.
I more than like the name Appolonia. Appolo was (is) the god of the sun, something we’re not allowed to remember these days.
Working at cross purposes:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/13/big-bonuses-relaxed-policies-new-slogan-none-of-it-saved-military-recruiting-crisis-2023.html/
“Uncle Sam wants you!”
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/28/pentagon-effort-extremism-snarled-confusion-guard-divisions-gaps-security-clearance-screening.html/
“But not YOU!”
(You may need to copy those HTMLs into your browser.)
I was going to do a top ten list for the new year. #1 was procrastination takes hold of Americans.
On other interesting news, first Gay’s gone; now LaPierre.
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=56862
Things are definitely changing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ
Lee Harvey Oswald’s best friend, Wayne LaPierre, cashiered for corruption. “Best friend” is not meant literally, Fred, but spiritually. For years I was a cowardly sniveling liberal who reflexively voted for Democrats, and I opposed organizations such as the NRA, and still do, mostly. But because your battles warm link didn’t load this morning, I Wikipedia’d Wayne LaPierre to refresh my memory and said to myself after reading it – “no wonder I was against it!” (Yes, even though Charlton Heston, God bless him, was Jewish – a fine actor and very handsome man who was just a tiny huge bit stupid and reactionary, but nevermind ..). But then … because the bluebird of happy kindergarten and elementary school gun massacre victims flew in a nearby window I realized something might be wrong, so I reconsidered Wayne LaPierre’s famous declaration to the effect that, to paraphrase, “the only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” And I thought of someone who by law it is illegal in the extreme to even mention or whisper about in this context, and then another, and then another and another .. .
Four Green Dolphins Can’t Spell SALAD Correctly So They Accompany Jackie and Jack.
http://tinyurl.com/bp5x82b3
“We spelled it backwards and used too many Ls,” said the green dolphin.
“Really? If so let’s look at JFK and Jackie then,” said the other.
“Why not?” Said the other two green dolphins in unison.
Very sensible, having the fire in the middle of the room and letting the smoke find its own way out through the thatch. Common practice in early times in England. Not only kept the thatch free of insects, it preserved the roof timbers. The rafters would be green timber, probably long branches or coppice wood. That’s not heartwood and rots for a pastime so the roof timbers would be preserved as well.
Plus the great advantage that the fuel could be in long lengths which could be pushed in as they burned. Save a lot of axe work. Just find a fallen bough and throw it on. No more effort required than that.
Earth floors were standard. Inconvenient in later times in continental Europe if an army happened to be marching through, which they did with some regularity in that unhappy region. The soldiers would dig the floors up to get saltpetre for gunpowder. I used to know people in nearby villages who’d grown up in cottages with earth floors. Again very sensible. Warmer than stone and wouldn’t harbour pests. Common practice in the Australian outback as well, though in the cases I knew of there the floor would be half decked out with planks to give a cleaner sleeping area.
Such dwellings would be scattered around the English countryside and leave little sign now they’d ever been there. The farm workers were more numerous than now and they’d need to live close to the work. Enclosures and the agricultural revolution swept much of that teeming population away – Cobbett remarked on that – and the onset of mechanised farming, later here than in the States I think, completed the process. Old farmers used to point out to me spots, in now deserted woodlands and coppices, where they reckoned those cabins and huts of centuries ago had left traces of their presence.
EO,
Why was there saltpetre in the floors?
Fred – In those ancient and more what the hell days, possibly before umbrellas and galoshes were invented, people didn’t want to go outside in the rain and mud and the scary dark so urinated on the ashes of the fire or in the straw that was often spread about the room. Very much a don’t try this at home sort of thing in more modern times.
Hey EO, Thanks for the explanation (Interesting), but somehow you have confused me with Fred again. Keep it up and I will most definitely begin referring to you as “Lobster Back”.
I have and I’m sorry. Especially since I said I wouldn’t make the same mistake again. I am of course aware that you and Fred hold different views on some matters so I suppose that makes the mistake even worse.
“Lobsterback” I’m getting used to since TTG introduced me to the term a couple of days back. It’s what you called us during that lamentable rebellion.
We only lost that one because of the French, you know. And things have calmed down a bit since. Back then the French lost us a continent. Now they content themselves with stealing our fish.
Happy New Year to all at Turcopolier.com.
A stark comparison of artillery shell usage in Ukraine was published in the WSJ today:
Summer 2023:-
Ukr 7,000 per day, Russia 5,000 per day
Now:-
Ukr 2,000 per day, Russia 10,000 per day
The rest of the article is paywalled.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/heres-how-the-russian-and-ukrainian-war-efforts-compare-in-10-charts-1cf9a74f
Yep, Russia is not running out of ammo, not needing to borrow it from NoKo. They have ramped up production and surpassed us.
You’d think those predicting, for the last two years, Russia surrendering and retreating all up and down the line, due to lack of ammo (any day now! One more month left at the most!), would change their tune, if for no other reason than to preserve their dignity and respect in the pundit community. Sticking with the party line is more important I guess.
When TTG and Leith toot that horn, at this point, I just take it as kind of inside joke and chuckle (so no disrespect or harm done)
A more scientific approach to obtaining saltpetre given here. Often wondered how the deadly artillery fire of the Civil War was maintained.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/lecontesalt/leconte.html
The Swiss method looks to be the one to go for. Half a ton per farm per year. Carbon neutral.
Saltpetre?
You weren’t a bread baker for the French army, were you?
Those Ukrainian EOD troopers have cojones de hierro.
https://twitter.com/JanR210/status/1743365586325774602?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
Colonel Macgregor, looking at where one very much hopes we’re not going:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNWKJENDLY
At around 15 minutes he looks at the mess we in the West are making of our countries and remarks of our enemies, there’s nothing they can do to us worse than we’re doing to ourselves. I think many of us in England and some even in continental Europe, for all that many in the electorate over there are dead from the neck up politically, felt that before 2022 and it’s much the same now. If 2022 and Gaza hadn’t happened we’d still be in much the same mess. Those two events have certainly made our decline more precipitous but it’d be foolish to pretend they caused it.
At 18, he points to the prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. I don’t know about the States, but here in the UK for many of us they’re not people, just figures on a video screen to be splatted ad lib. Do we think, in these days of instant communication, that the Arabs and Muslims aren’t aware of that attitude in the US and Europe?
Then he moves on to what his various contacts around the world tell him and to what he’s picking up about the mood on Gaza. At 24 makes the to me apocryphal sounding prediction, Sykes Picot is dead. That reminds me of the old discussions on the Colonel’s site about Israel. Most, if my memory serves, thought it would be finished if ever US protection could no longer be extended. Or perhaps I am projecting back on that old discussion what I thought at the time and still think.
The MENA conflict is too open ended for anyone, even those like Macgregor with their finger on the pulse, to know how it will end up. The Ukrainian conflict not so. We know pretty accurately how that will end but it’s here I find Colonel Macgregor, as all the commentators and analysts, not looking far enough ahead.
Yes, one way or another Ukraine will be neutralised so it’s no longer a pressure point on the Russian border. We shan’t see it being used to “overextend and unbalance Russia” in the future. But what of Europe? The Russians will not neutralise the threat from Europe by military action, as Macgregor points out. But they have it in their power to damage Europe economically to a greater extent even than Europe has so far damaged itself.
Will they use that power if Scholz and UvdL, Sunak assisting from the side-lines, attempt to remilitarise Europe and with their manoeuvres and missiles and presumably covert action become as much of a proxy annoyance to the RF as the old Ukraine was? Our politicians in Europe are not merely viciously Russophobic, They also need the Russians as an enemy for a variety of reasons. We Europeans should not assume we’re of similar use to them.
“Yes, one way or another Ukraine will be neutralised so it’s no longer a pressure point on the Russian border. We shan’t see it being used to “overextend and unbalance Russia” in the future. ”
Right. That’s what I’ve said since 6 months after the invasion began. The west is full of dummies, dreamers and liars saying that Ukraine will prevail, but, when Russia achieves its objective, then what. It has merely extended its border by a few hundred miles/Kilos at most and the main problem of NATO hostility and NATO on Russia’s border remains. Sure, Russia gets to claim victory in a dick measuring contest with the west and, I suppose, can also feel righteous about liberating ethnic Russians from the foul hands of Zelensky and his corrupt oligarch bosses (Ukrainian and more western), but the Donbas will remain the front line in a cold war – maybe a warm war if various snake eater and CIA types have their way, what with them forming “resistance” groups perpetrating terrorism there and in Crimea.
So the Russians are ultimately idiots for going on the war path indefinitely. The western countries of NATO are idiots for pushing Rushing to that choice in the first place and then doubling down on stupid. I see no winners here, Just a big mess into perpetuity. More’s the shame. The west and Russia could have been fantastic partners in building a better world.
The west’s attitude toward Russia is similar to the Palestinian’s attitude toward Israel. a 1,000X magnifying glass on the negatives of the other side and a complete lack of awareness of their own role in the disaster.
Eric – I don’t see what the Russians can do other than neutralise remnant Ukraine. Else it’ll remain Sleboda’s “Zone of destabilisation and insecurity” into the indefinite future. The more so now because we’re training up Ukrainian SF for operations inside Russia and providing Kiev with longer range weapons. That just amounts to us putting up a big sign saying “neutralise remnant Ukraine.”
But Europe will also continue to be a threat or at least a nuisance to them and we wait to see whether they seek to counter or reduce that by economic means after the SMO is done with.
There are still plenty in the UK and continental Europe talking as if Russia’s going to lose, or at least fail to achieve its objectives, so the gap between reality and the story the politicians and press sell us on the military position in Ukraine is about as wide as ever. The politicians are eager to move on to Cold War II and will almost certainly take us with them.
” The west and Russia could have been fantastic partners in building a better world.” Yes. But only if the West changed course. Nothing fancy. Reversing deindustrialisation, pursuing a more rational defence policy, that sort of thing. Maybe a chance of that your side of the Atlantic?
The Great Taking – this is the reality that lies behind the WEF’s plans for the Great Reset. Below is the best exposé I’ve seen to date of the detailed plans laid to replace capitalism with an extreme form of feudalism where a few individuals globally will own absolutely everything. The plan is clearly totally insane, but it seems the planners are sure as heck going to try and execute it and very soon. The first 20 minutes sets out the author’s bona fides. The whole thing is essential viewing. Given the message I can’t imagine it will stay on YouTube for long so I’ve included a Rumble link too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI
https://rumble.com/v3yptkd-the-great-taking-documentary.html
ZH article on David Webb’s book: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/great-taking-exposes-financial-end-game
Barbara Ann,
Which elites, the NYC commercial bankers or the European (City of London & a few other banksters) Central bankers? Swab and Fink are not ‘old money’ and certainly not that smart. The end of Libor put a dent in that reset, and the Russian/Chinese led BRICS sure don’t want to be lead by old European elitists. (Inbred too according to Tom Luongo.)
Fred
The national distribution of the top tier planning and directing the Great Reset/Taking is an interesting question. There can be only one World Emperor and I think it is a safe bet his surname would be Rothschild. Klaus Schwab is merely a front man with a sense of self importance, a useful idiot. Many other key players, including Fink, probably don’t understand that the end game has them being unnecessary too. I suspect that even big players like Gates will think they are doing ‘good’ (in their own twisted Malthusian sense of the word) as they work towards achieving a ‘sustainable’ global population in the aftermath. For the truly cynical few this is and always has been about the aggregation of power – money is just the mechanism by which it is wielded.
I have been pondering the level of involvement Russia has in the GR for some years now. Well informed commentators like Riley Waggerman (based in Moscow) and the blogger calling himself “Rolo Slavskiy” are pessimistic and suspect the Russian elite are fully signed up. If Putin is too he will surely go down in history as the greatest con artist in history, perhaps he thinks a sovereign Russian Reset is possible. China seems to be ‘out’ but then they are the worlds biggest real economy by far and have their own model for tight population control. Smaller nations (even India) are NPC’s and will be absorbed into the World State in due course, I expect.
I posted this comment now because AFAICT indicators are that the trigger will be pulled soon. It is pretty clear that the main event to start the controlled demolition of the world economy will be a massive cyber attack – of course to be blamed on the usual suspects. The WEF’s Cyber Polygon was the wargame and we seem to be at the predictive programming stage right now, with Obama even helping to produce a nice Netflix movie telling us what to expect. Buckle up.
Barbara Ann,
There are certainly people with converging interests, but I don’t think that the idea is as coordinated as some believe. I don’t believe America’s ‘old money’ is on board with giving control to Europeans or a bunch of globalist aristocrats. Anyone that believes China would allow them to maintain multi-millionaire status, let alone more than that, should look at what that country does to their own billionaires.
If you look at what SOFR has done to both LIBOR, along with the City of London control that went with it, and the Eurodollar market, you can see another battle against the ‘reset’. Another unexpected maneuver was by whoever ‘encouraged’ the Houthi’s to engage in irregular naval warfare against Europe’s sea lanes (as well as Egypt’s economy, the canal accounting upwards of 5%GDP according to some sources). It is certainly not all about the Israelis and Hamas. I suspect another one of these wonderful GCHQ type actions to get direct US involvement in yet another war in distant lands that serve no useful purpose for actual US interests.
Fred
You are absolutely right that the GR is not one standalone, monolithic conspiracy – these things never are. No doubt various powerful interests are vying to direct it (or a version of it) to their own advantage, or even stymie the plan altogether. Unsurprisingly the strongest evidence of coordinated action is across the Five Eyes/Anglosphere, but as you say there is evidence of disagreement between old and new (world) money.
I focus on Putin as I find his position on the GR one of the most enigmatic and thus interesting. The latest iteration of the Brits’ centuries-old project to destroy Russia is muddying the waters and it wouldn’t surprise me if Putin is playing along with his domestic liberals/globalists in order to keep his enemies (them) close. Love him or loathe him, there is no doubt that Putin is the greatest statesman in power today. It is almost impossible to believe he rescued Russia from the globalist banker cabal just to hand it back to them two and a half decades later.
Will the “real men” go to Tehran? I surely hope not. US involvement in a major war with Iran and allies (which would be quite unlike the dust up in the Iraqi sand pit) would be a disaster of epic proportions. Hopefully the unhealthy attachment to that bulwark of liberal democracy™ in the region can be broken without things going that far.
Regarding the Lloyd Austin debacle,
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/08/inside-pentagons-failure-notify-white-house-congress-of-defense-secretarys-hospitalization.html
Were there any SOPs for how hospitalizations of the SecDef should be handled?
There is a good observation in the above article:
I can’t find this X message. Can anyone else?
(I am not signed up at X.)
Keith Harbaugh,
The SOPs were obviously insufficient and common sense did not prevail at the highest levels of Pentagon leadership. My initial reaction was to blame Austin, but I don’t know the condition he was in when he was taken to the emergency room on New Year’s Day. Was he even conscious? This is the military. Succession in the chain of command should be automatic. Notification up the chain should be just as automatic. Looks like another case of the higher ups saying do as I say not as I do.
Leon Panetta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta ,
who has vast experience in both American politics and government
(both a former White House Chief of Staff and SecDef)
offers his comments on what went we wrong with
the failure to notify the WH of Austin’s medical situation:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/lets-face-it-they-dodged-a-bullet-leon-panetta-explained-what-exactly-went-wrong-for-lloyd-austin-00135132