OF BOMBS AND BEACHFRONTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

   So, as of this writing, the news is breaking that our brave xhes in uniform are valiantly protecting global Corporate interests and proving that Biden isn't a weenie after all by bombing four cities in Yemen. They were joined in this effort by forces supplied by Tienanmen Trudeau and the British, Dutch, and Bahraini Royal Families. The Pentagon claims that only Yemeni military sites were hit; although this is suspect since they've been telegraphing their intentions for at least the last week giving the Yemenis ample time to move their military assets. 

   We'll probably have more to say on this latest example of barbarism committed on behalf of the international commercial cartels in an upcoming article as more details are known. However, the Tech Lords are already busy ensuring that no disinformation gets out because trying to access Yemeni television currently gets this:

   What isn't a secret however, is that the Biden/Harris Junta and their Coalition toadies chose---quite coincidentally we're sure---the same day that the United Nations International Court of Justice began hearings into Zionist Genocide in Gaza. One would assume, with the combined civilian casualties now numbering around 100,000 in the last 90 days, that the UN might have noticed. Actually, since last October, the UN has proven itself to be completely useless---sort of like the international version of the Republican Party in the US. Even on the off-chance that the UNICJ actually finds the Zionists guilty of anything, the UN has no ability to enforce their decision. 

   The Biden/Harris Junta---which claims that it has seen no evidence of genocide in Gaza despite the Zionists' open admission that that is exactly what they are doing---is getting considerable support from so-called 'Conservative' leaders though the American Right still clings desperately to their narrative that Biden is somehow overly appeasing to the Palestinians. I hate to have to keep bringing this up to Christian Conservatives, but we are talking here about the murder of children; the number of whom is now somewhere around 10,000. 

   Not to worry, though, in addition to investment opportunities in the Gaza Oil Fields, shrewd sharpers who know how to game the system now have the ground-floor opportunity to invest in beachfront Gaza Real Estate. 

   

    No doubt this has become a discussion topic in most American Megachurches, and for all we know might even become part some retirement plans. The children of Gaza may not have much of a future, but that's no reason why Christians shouldn't capitalize on a golden opportunity, right?

    In case any Churchian Conservative might sustain a sudden, involuntarily spasm of conscience, there is no shortage of Zionist shills to assure them that the murder of children for such a worthy cause is wholly justified. Peter Berkowitz, Senior Fellow at the shady Hoover Institution, recently has been spreading the long-discredited canard again that Palestinian children are raised from the cradle to support Islamic Extremism. Berkowitz, himself a graduate of Yeshiva University in Jerusalem, cites as a source for these stories an organization called IMPACT-se, an NGO connected to the Israeli Government. In case these Churchians are thinking of bringing along their children to repopulate Gaza, they should be aware that under the Zionist educational system, Christians are not exactly treated with a great deal of respect; in fact, much like the Liberal American schools that Berkowitz censures, Israeli schools foment considerable anti-Christian bigotry. They also might want to be aware that the Zionists are huge supporters of Radical Feminism---to the point where girls are not only required to register for the Draft, they are mandated to serve in the IDF, including being forced to serve in combat positions. 

    These Churchians too should be aware that under the Zionist Regime, Property Rights are almost nonexistent. Not only can the State kick down one's door at any time for any reason, all property in Israel is subject to strict State regulation, which in practice amounts to more of a lease (or a license) from the Regime instead of ownership as we understand it in the US.

   Ignoring facts like these is one of the most incomprehensible conundrums about attitudes on the so-called Christian Right about the Zionist Regime. Not only do they collectively wink at murdering children and persecuting Christians, they wholeheartedly parrot the Mainstream Media talking-point that Israel is a Right-Wing country. The Zionists are hardcore Left or nobody ever was. The Government of Israel is further to the Left on most fundamental issues than any American State and even most countries in Europe.

   In fact, despite what both the Liberal and Conservative American media outlets say, it's the Conservative Orthodox Jews who've been the most critical of Zionism. Many Orthodox Jews were persecuted, along with Christians, during Netanyahu's oppressive Scamdemic crackdowns. Besides being praised by the World Economic Forum for literal tree-hugging during the Scamdemic, Israel's tyrannical policies not only drew praise from the WEF, but Netanyahu himself contributed to the WEF's policies on contact tracing and other surveillance schemes. The WEF has never condemned the Zionist atrocities in Gaza and in fact recently again praised the Regime for its commitment to so-called Green Technologies and consider it an integral component of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. 

   It's hard to say at this point how much of the Right's slavish support of the Deep State's Middle East Policy comes from genuine deception and how much of it is hypocritical, cynical opportunism. At a certain point, the facts become so glaringly evident that no amount of sophistry or fake theology can hide it. If the so-called Religious Right in the West has degenerated to such a point where killing children and persecuting Christians in the name of the Great Reset is something they can condone, then there really is no hope for them.

    

THE STORY OF DR. SUN WEIDONG

     A sad story (with a potentially happy ending) gained attention in the Chinese Media recently and has since gained national news coverage in that country. It concerns Dr. Sun Weidong, who was found living on the streets on New York City and interviewed by some Chinese visitors who posted his story online. Here is the story:

     "The 54-year-old man Sun Weidong, with grey hair and sparse teeth, tells a blogger that he is from Jiangyin City of Jiangsu Province, China, and that he has lived in the United States for more than 30 years. He graduated from Fudan with a bachelor's degree in physics, and then acquired masters and doctoral degrees in the US. He said that he had worked as a post-doctoral researcher for two years and then a software engineer at a Wall Street company for another two years with an annual pay of US$130,000 to US$140,000. He is now an American citizen. He said he became homeless in 2007 and moved to Brooklyn. He said he first slept in Internet cafes in the evening and later on the streets...

   "After the blogger posted the video online, some former classmates identified him as Sun. The Fudan Alumni Association of USA in New York released a statement on Saturday, confirming Sun is a Fudan graduate. It said a volunteer team has been established to help him. According to the association, he had been visited on Thursday, and moved into a temporary residence on Friday with help from other Fudan alumni and people from Jiangyin.

   "Jiupai reported that the classmates said Sun was an outstanding student. He had studied at Nanjing Senior High School, the most famous high school in Jiangyin, for only one year and was admitted into Fudan via a program for gifted teenagers in 1985. He went to study in the US with a scholarship via the China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application program...It's said that Sun had published several papers in top science journals. {Note: he published 32 of them, according to sources}. Sun expressed his wishes to come back to China, according to Jiupai."

    The Global Times, a Chinese mainstream outlet, asked the question that our verminous Media would never ask: "Where is US’ help to marginalized groups when a physicist is homeless?" Good question. The editorial points out a few other details:

    "What attracted the most attention is how a genius ended up as a hobo, something practically unheard of in China. According to reports, it has much to do with problems in his personal life - divorce, gambling, and mental disorder. Granted, personal factors are crucial in one's life trajectory. The US' insufficient assistance to marginal people also plays a part when Sun lost his entire life due to a few unexpected life changes...Some observers noted that to some extent, Sun's experience can be viewed as a typical American story. He went to the US, became an American, faced some difficulties and gave up on himself. This is so American. And the US society abandoned him, until Fudan Alumni Association found him and offered help." 

    There is a lot of truth to this: while quite a number of America's vagrants are addicts and criminals, Sun is certainly not the only such case: as the article also observes: "Sun's story also shows that people have misunderstandings about the US. It is often said that the US values talents. Well, not those studying basic sciences, except for very rare extremely outstanding individuals. Many American dreams have ended in failure. In a city like New York, it is very likely to encounter taxi drivers with doctorate degrees in politics, history or even science."

    Now, of course, Americans are conditioned to sneer at anything coming from the Chinese Media, but I would defy anyone to dispute that their argument isn't true. Lest anyone also who is inclined to dismiss the story as a propaganda stunt, it isn't the first time that such stories have happened. About five years ago, a Chinese student at a US university disappeared after being kidnapped by one of the numerous perverts our exceptional society allows to run loose. The Chinese Embassy involved itself in the case and even flew the girl's parents to the US at government expense to talk to the police. Sadly, she was found murdered. Even sadder, Obama turned down China's request to extradite the killer and let him face their justice system. 

    The story highlights a fundamental difference in our two cultures. There was a time in the United States when a genius ending up as a hobo was unheard of here too. It happened during the Great Depression, and that led to reforms. Today, however, American citizens are considered commodities, or human capital, and their value is only centered upon how much they money they can make for somebody else. 

    The story also is illustrative of the fact that our social failures are rooted in a lack of spiritual values; or to put it more concretely, our lack of character. Once again, we've been shown up by a Communist country and exposed as their ethical inferiors. This ought to cause Americans to blush with shame, because there are many of our own people who either are in Sun's situation or barely avoiding it---and have been for a long time. 

    But, like empathy and valuing merit, shame is something that we no longer feel. When we lost those qualities, our sense of community died with it, and we can today speak of winners and losers in a rigged game where merit or even simple humanity plays no part. This has essentially become a predatory society where winning at all costs and securing power and profit are the prime directives; success comes with gaming the system and the wider community is simply expendable. 

    

     

      

     

WEDNESDAY'S CAVALCADE OF DISTRACTIONS

    This week so far the American people awoke to two shocking revelations. The first was the latest scientific discovery that Winter storms happen in mid-January. This wholly unprecedented meteorological event has also created an even bigger storm on Social Media: at least among those who still have electricity. Those of us who are actually still capable of remembering events that happened longer than a week ago have probably noticed that---while storms aren't any more common than before---the power outages and other failures of our infrastructure seem to be more frequent and more lengthy. 

   None of these online discussions are really going into in-depth discussions about our outdated and inefficient energy systems though. It isn't so much a matter of 'Climate Change' as it is our deteriorating ability to deal with extreme weather conditions. The Establishment uses Climate Change as a camouflage to funnel money to their Corporate cronies while conditioning us little people to accept energy shortages as a New Normal and just part of the transition to Green Energy. This 'transition' will never occur, of course: but meanwhile the Media hypes climate hysteria while the Energy Cartels laugh all the way to the bank.

   The second major revelation this week---fanned by the Controlled Opposition Media---is that, for the first time in history illegal immigration is happening and it's all the Democrats' fault. The Controlled Opposition likes to talk about the Border as though we only had one border, but they're not asking why our Military is busy defending Corporate interests in foreign countries but can't be bothered to guard our borders or coastlines.

   Of course, there isn't really an Immigrant Invasion going on; and even if there was the GOP hasn't the slightest idea what to do about it. 

  

   Like the Climate Change Scam, Biden's Border Crisis is nothing but a scam to transfer more power to the Security State and transfer more wealth into the hands of private contractors. Mass Immigration is, for the Controlled Opposition, the equivalent of Mass-Shootings for the Left. Both are blown out of proportion by their respective interests to advance the same agendas. If they were really worried about what they claim to be fighting for, the Republicans would demand bringing the troops home and deporting immigrants who actually are causing the most trouble: foreign NGOs and lobbyists. 

   Going into the 'elections' of 2024, the Republican Party is still without leadership, a program, or even a moral compass but they still fantasize about a Red Wave. Blaming Biden, China, and immigrants---along with unquestioning support for the Zionists---are really the only issues they have. Today, Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale has pounced upon the recent controversy about Generalissimo Lloyd Austin's recent hospitalization to begin yet another impeachment proceeding. Montana seems to have become a breeding ground for easily-triggered loons in the postmodern Conservative Movement. Rosendale doesn't disappoint:

    "Austin is unfit for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which is why I urge my colleagues to join me in impeaching him to protect the American people!" Rosendale thundered. "The defense secretary knowingly put the American people in danger and compromised our national security when he allowed a spy balloon from a foreign adversary to fly over Malmstrom Air Force Base – home to ICBMs - and allowed the Chinese Communist Party to gather intel on American citizens! Austin lied about the balloon repeatedly, putting the American people in danger! This dishonesty seems to be a repeated pattern for the Secretary as he once again lied to our military and the American people about his health last week!"

   Never mind that only two GOP Senators voted against Austin's confirmation in the first place, and most looked the other way at his imposition of the Loyalty Vaxx on our brave xhes in uniform; like every other one of these Publicity Stunts Rosendale's impeachment hearings have zero chance of succeeding and wouldn't accomplish anything if they did. It's exactly like their fake outrage over alleged anti-Semitism on a few college campuses that got the University Presidents removed: those administrators simply escaped with Golden Parachutes and some other Left-Wing Whacko took their place. That's what would happen if any of these impeachments actually occurred: as usual, it's all about political grandstanding and taking action for the sake of taking action and overlooking the consequences.

   For the Conservative Movement to gain any credibility, it needs to start taking a stand on some of these issues and stop trying to own the Libtards and control the narrative. Offer a plan to rebuild our energy independence. Use the Defense Department to defend America for a change. End bullying tactics like sanctions which are causing mass immigration. Stop this lawfare and cancel culture and come up with some actual leadership. Propose some constructive reform of our decayed Military. Declamation and scapegoating doesn't hide the hypocrisy and duplicity of the Conservative-Industrial Complex from anybody: it only generates more support for the Left by making us all look like complete fools. 

    

THE ARROGANT DEEP STATE AND NATIONAL SECURITY

   There was an interesting story reported on Sputnik News---wholly ignored by our own Corporate Media---about a stupid plan by some Tech Company to sell cemetery plots on the Moon. The story is really more telling because of NASA's response to objections about the project. NASA spokesxhe Joel Kearns said: "We recognize that some non-NASA commercial payloads can be a cause of concern to some communities. Those communities may not understand that these missions are commercial and they're not US Government missions like the ones we're talking about."

  In other words, as the article summed up, "the US agency was powerless to intervene against the private companies." We've been seeing a lot of this lately. The US Secretary of Defense goes to the Intensive Care Unit for a week, and nobody thought that important enough to tell anyone about. Bill Gates launches a mass-marketing of 'alternative' dairy products---and doesn't even bother getting FDA approval. This same Gates NGO is engaging in a massive deforestation project---not a word of objection from the Department of the Interior. There are many examples of these: the Corporate Oligarchs are free to impose their wills on the environment, the economy, engage in social engineering and conduct both foreign and domestic policies and the so-called Elected Officials are unable or unwilling to do anything about it and hide behind the excuse that they have no authority over the free market and private enterprise. That, of course, is a complete lie: as we saw during the Scamdemic the State certainly isn't reticent to interfere with free trade when it involves us little people; but then too Wall Street got a free pass.

   

     All of these things naturally have an impact on actual National Security---not 'National Security' as commonly meant by politicians and propagandists. The verminous Media and revolving-door Academics use the term whenever their Corporate Masters need to restrict Civil Liberties or start a war to protect their vested interests. Actual National Security is exactly the opposite: that is about protecting civil liberties and promoting free trade and world peace. 

    Another story that went under the MSM and Controlled Opposition news headlines this weekend was an announcement by China that it was imposing further sanctions on US defense contractors who are manufacturing critical materials in China. This follows April's sanctions against Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin. Let's see if we can guess what happened next:

   "According to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Pentagon relies on a handful of contractors for critical parts and materials, leaving the military vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. In recent years, supply chain disruptions caused by natural disasters, geopolitical tensions, and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the Pentagon's vulnerability to such events. The GAO report also highlighted the Pentagon's inadequate monitoring of its suppliers, which has resulted in poor-quality parts and counterfeit products making their way into the military's inventory."

   What a surprise! There were a few of us warning back when the GOP-Controlled Congress couldn't assist the Clinton and Bush Administrations' outsourcing of our manufacturing base and military services out the highest bidder that this could happen. Of course, those warnings were met with sneers about putting on our tin-foil hats and learning how to code; but now it seems as though countries like China can throttle our Military Machine simply by freezing assets and sanctioning exports of critical materials which happen to be on their own soil. This wasn't a concern back then: that bottom line and fat stock returns were all that mattered. That includes Republican politicians like Senator Steve Daines who became a multi-millionaire outsourcing American jobs to China, but is now a prominent anti-China 'hawk' now that his assets and those of his Corporate owners are threatened.

    Let's take a look at the five companies that China has taken out of the picture:

    BAE Platform Systems and Services: "a large provider of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles, naval guns, naval ship repair and modernization, artillery and missile launching systems, advanced precision strike munitions and ordnance, and other technologies for the US," according to Wikipedia. 

    Alliant Tech Systems: part of Northrup-Grumman's Corporate Empire. Designs and manufactures aerospace technology including "tactical missiles, defense electronics, and medium- and large-caliber ammunition. The division also produces fuzing and warheads for both tactical missiles and munitions; precision metal and composite structures for medium and large-caliber ammunition, military aircraft, ground vehicles, and missile systems; load, assembly, and pack (LAP) of medium caliber munitions; and propellants and powders for the canister and commercial markets."

    AeroVironment: "The company is the US military's top supplier of small drones."

    Viasat: "a provider of high-speed satellite broadband services and secure networking systems covering military and commercial markets."

   Data Link Solutions: manufactures data-link software used by the US Navy and Air Force to coordinate communications between military bases.

   "The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday that China has decided to impose sanctions on five US defense companies, including freezing movable and immovable assets and other types of property held within China, as well as prohibiting organizations and individuals within China from engaging in transactions, cooperation, and other activities with these companies," the Global Times reported. Maybe arming Taiwan and illegally patrolling the South China Sea when we rely on China to supply so much of our military equipment wasn't such a good strategy after all. 

   The problem---like it always is with these unaccountable self-appointed Elites---is that they live in an isolated echo chamber out of touch with Reality. They have a tendency---because of their Superiority Complexes and Machiavellian cynicism---to believe that everyone thinks like they do and that Human Nature is predictable. They're probably not even worried about these sanctions because they imagine that China will cave in because they assume that their political leadership thinks exactly like ours and will sell out the National Interest for money when the price is right. This arrogance and hubris has led them into one blunder after another: Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Palestine are three recent examples, and Taiwan won't be any different. 

   The Oligarchy's wretched attempts to shift blame and divert public attention was exemplified this weekend when Bloomberg News published a ridiculous fake-news story about alleged corruption in the Chinese Military. As for the so-called 'Conservatives' their only solution is to hold your nose and vote for a Neocon who'll ban Tik-Tok, shoot down Chinese weather balloons, and ban China from buying US farmlands. 

   The problem with all of these 'Conservative' critiques is that they're based in fantasy and not reality. It's easy to talk about decoupling from China; it's not so easy to talk about how we're magically going to produce a skilled workforce, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and train managers and engineers who'll bring our manufacturing sector back to what it was pre-1990. The same is true of these war-hawks: where exactly are we going to get the tough, Iwo Jima-type fighting men or the competent, well-trained officer corps to win all of these glorious wars and impose the Pax Americana? When one reads stupid statements coming out of supposedly Conservative intellectuals like "How in less than five years did our elite universities destroy meritocracy, abolish SAT requirements, require DEI oaths and pledges, and mirror the worst commissariat institutions of the old Warsaw Pact nations and Soviet Union?" it is clear that these people are being dishonest or are at least hopelessly out-of-touch. Anyone who seriously believes that the rot in Academia only started five years ago is hardly qualified to give an opinion on anything. 

   We've said here all along that our problems as a Society are fixable, but they are at root a spiritual, not a political problem. From a political standpoint, the only way that Conservatives can regain trust is by repudiating Neoconservatism, admitting that the Neocons have failed, and pledging to uphold the spirit of our laws instead of dreaming up new legislation and trying to own the Libtards. From a popular standpoint, the American people need to put down the hookah pipes, stop looking for scapegoats, start worrying more about the nation than about stock-margins; in short, start taking some responsibility for self-government instead of shifting it onto to institutions who only offer virtue-signalling. It is unlikely that this will happen; and most likely learning to code will be a less valuable skill than learning to speak Chinese. 

    

   

    

    

CORPORATE MEDIA GETS CAUGHT SELLING OUT TO ISRAEL

    Despite all of the official levels of denial, anybody who is even remotely cognizant of the facts is aware that the American Media---including a major part of the so-called 'Conservative' news outlets is totally unreliable for a source of facts on nearly any issue beyond superficial details. For example, when they tell us that there is a war in Ukraine, that much is true; but nearly anything they say afterwards on the subject is open to suspicion. Both Democrats and Republicans over the course of the last three or so decades have stripped away any legal protections against Corporate and Corporate-Government or outright Government control while maintaining the illusion of a 'free and independent press.' All of these major Media conglomerates have interlocking Boards of Directors, with financial octopuses like Vanguard (Business Roundtable); BlackRock (WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner); State Street (WEF Member) among many other related banks and hedge funds holding major or controlling interest in media stocks.

    This confederation of financial and political crooks have been lobbying the US Government to ban foreign media sources outside of their control on the pretext that such outlets spread disinformation; the suppression of which was a top Agenda Item at last year's WEF Summit in Davos. However, The Intercept, famously remembered for disseminating the Snowden Revelations and is one of the few remaining independent media outlets still permitted (for now) to exist, exposed CNN and the Washington Post working as direct propagandists for the Israeli Government.

   "The Intercept reports that all of CNN’s reporting on Israel and Palestine is funneled through a bureau in Jerusalem which slants reporting to benefit Israeli information interests and is subject to regulation by Israeli military censors. The Intercept also reports that last year CNN “hired a former soldier from the IDF’s Military Spokesperson Unit to serve as a reporter” at the onset of the war on Gaza. Unnamed CNN staff told The Intercept that CNN’s iron-fisted protocols for regulating information related to the Israel-Palestine issue have had a “demonstrable impact on coverage of the Gaza war.” The anonymous CNN staff member said:‘War-crime’ and ‘genocide’ are taboo words. Israeli bombings in Gaza will be reported as ‘blasts’ attributed to nobody, until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed."

   I wonder if we'll hear any calls from the Republican-controlled Congress about foreign media influence over this? It's rather doubtful that we will, since that would go against the official counter-narrative that 'Liberal' Media outlets like CNN are "pro-Hamas" and "anti-Semitic."  

     The Washington Post, is owned by Jeff Bezos, whose Corporate enterprise Amazon is a WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner. Since Amazon is heavily invested in Israel, it shouldn't be surprising that Bezos' supposedly pro-Palestinian Liberal news outlet is also aggressively backing the Zionist Regime. In fact, Bezos has gone one step further: his media thugs are openly demanding that independent outlets be more accommodating to the Zionist Cause:

    "Meanwhile the WaPo has been caught assigning a reporter with a history of anti-Palestinian bias to write a smear piece on independent media outlets Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone for their critical reporting on Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza. Both Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone received emails from a WaPo reporter named Elizabeth Dwoskin, who said she’s writing a piece on 'efforts to minimize or misdirect information about the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel' and interrogating them about their articles casting doubt on the official narrative about what exactly happened that day.As Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah highlighted on Twitter, when Dwoskin was at Columbia University twenty years ago she was authoring Nakba denialist claims that Palestine never existed and that prior to Israel’s formation the land was inhabited only by 'desert Bedouins without a sense of national identity as we know it today.'”

   At least the so-called 'Conservative' Media are more transparent about being Zionist stooges. They admit to doing things like faking 'Palestinian atrocities' with AI-generated images; elevating known Israeli assets to pose as political pundits; and taking payoffs from Zionist fanatics. But they really aren't fooling anybody trying to pretend that they are any different from the Liberal Democrats.

   In a not-unrelated story from the much-maligned foreign press (at least the unacceptable kind of foreign media), the NGO Reporters Without Borders was slammed for pretending that the Zionists don't assassinate or target journalists. Reporters Without Borders is heavily funded by WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, the Open Society Foundation; CIA-cutouts the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy; as well as by shady NGOs the Omidyar Network, Luminate, and the MacArthur Foundation. 

   What a bunch of swine the American Media has degenerated into. Pointing the finger at each other for not being sufficiently subservient to Corporate/Deep State interests is disgusting enough: but their willingness to look the other way when these same interests are employing thugs to shoot down their brother journalists is appalling beyond words. That is about the lowest level of servility imaginable; and casts doubt upon any pretense of credibility they may have. 

WILL THE PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR EXPAND?

      The New Year has gotten off to a rough start for the Global Oligarchs. Hamas has turned out to be a tougher opponent than the Zionists and their Pentagon overlords reckoned. The Ukraine conflict not only failed to bring about the downfall of the Oligarchs' arch-enemy Russia; it's made the Russians stronger. The BRICS nations are about to expand, with all five new members in the strategic Middle East (four of which are OPEC members). To top it all off, Beltway bullying in East Asia has not only not intimidated China: the Chinese economy grew at twice even the fudged admitted numbers of the US economy and Chinese port traffic and exports in several sectors surpassed the US for the first time.

    I'm certain that what most of the Western political class is really dreading is that the Corporate Board of Directors who actually run our governments are meeting in Davos this month. Their top agenda item is "Rebuilding Trust" which they define as "a back-to-basics spirit of open and constructive dialogue between leaders of government, business and civil society,"  which seems to imply that the bosses aren't totally happy with the way that their managers are running things. 

   To deflect as much attention away from these setbacks as possible; the Democrats and their flying monkeys on the Neocon Right have been stirring up controversies over things like ballot access and dredging up the Epstein sex-scandals. The Supreme Court is supposed to hear Trump's appeal: sure, like they did in 2020 when 17 States presented evidence of Electoral Fraud, I'm sure they'll side with Trump this time. As we pointed out here, both States which disqualified Trump did so at Republican instigation. This weekend, Illinois and Massachusetts filed for disqualification: they don't seem too worried about the Supreme Court. We don't have all of the details yet, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if Republican were behind these moves as well---a little detail that nobody in the Controlled Opposition seems to bring up. 

    If this farce runs true to form, the Court will rule against Trump. The Republican Governors, using the Blue States as shields, immediately will cave in too saying that the Court has ruled and their hands are tied. Just look at the homo 'equality' decision for a precedent of GOP behavior.

   The Epstein Scandal is an even bigger sham: these supposed secrets have been known for nearly 10 years. Epstein supposedly hung himself in Federal Prison--- despite being on 'suicide watch'--- after his guards decided to take a nap together at coincidentally the same moment the security cameras malfunctioned. The guards were later exonerated at an inquest of any negligence and anyone who thought that any of that appeared suspicious was pooh-poohed as a Conspiracy Theorist. None of that will be brought out during this media circus, but no doubt there'll be plenty of flame-wars online with Whacko Leftists screeching about toxic masculinity and Neocon pundits clutching their bowties over the moral decay that just started under Biden. 

     Nothing unifies a country though, like a good external threat, as both 9/11 and the Scamdemic have proven. Americans love a good panic attack and the chance to LARP through an 'emergency' makes them feel like they're part of something greater and justifies all of the pointless sacrifices of our freedoms that they make. There is more than a little suspicion right that the Junta and its overseas colonies are preparing for some 'wider conflict' in the Middle East. 

    The Conservative-Industrial-Complex is beating the war-drums too; though it isn't likely that such a decisive step will be taken unless they get permission from their Masters in Davos next week. Nevertheless, the Junta sent Deep State spook Amos Hochstein over to meet with the Zionists about the "future of Lebanon." As it happens, of course, Israel has been praised by Klaus Schwab as a model State and Netanyahu and his henchman Yuval Hariri are both influential WEF members, so I think that we can guess what the Directorate will decide. 

   Amos Hochstein has an interesting backstory of his own. He first came to the Beltway as a lobbyist, later working exclusively for Marathon Oil. He then worked for Obama as an Energy Affairs Coordinator, and during the Trump years served on the Board of Tellurian Natural Gas, a corporation which coincidentally has major holdings in House Speaker Mike Johnson's home state. He also served on the Board of Ukrainian petroleum conglomerate Naftogaz. Naftogaz has been implicated quite deeply in corrupt lobbying practices involving both Hunter Biden as well as top Republicans. What a coincidence that a man of Hochstein's background was chosen for such a mission where control of the East Mediterranean Oil Fields are in play.  

    If one actually engages in the art---now lost in America---of being able to read maps, one can see how all of the countries potentially involved in this expansion of the conflict might impact world geopolitics quite severely. 

     We can see from the countries involved in this region two things: one: both the  conflicts in Palestine and Ukraine are all about control of oil reserves, and two, expanding the conflict is very likely lead to a major confrontation between the Western Corporate Oligarchy and Russia. Russia currently has an oil trade corridor with Iran that soon will include the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. They have a military defense pact with Syria and are already engaged in a US proxy-war in Ukraine, as well as mediating a US-instigated clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan: the latter country hosting the Russian pipeline. 

    The US Deep State and their Corporate Overlords have been engaging in a deliberate policy of trying to undermine---and eventually seize control of---Russia's vast oil reserves which dates to the phony Kosovo Crisis engineered by Bill Clinton in 1999. The dangerous thing here is that the Oligarchs are both too stupid and too arrogant to realize that Russia is just as capable of defending their interests as the bully-boys are determined to take them.

   Iran isn't going to be a pushover on its own---with or without Russian help---and when one reads some of the utterly moronic articles coming from 'conservative' pundits these days, it's clear that our side has absolutely no understanding of Iran, or even of the objectives of the Biden/Harris Junta. These creatures routinely talk out of both sides of their mouths: condemning the 'woke' military and clutching their bowties over the (genuine) weakness of our younger generation one minute; while carrying on as though we could swat Iran down easily the next a la World War 2. They're living in some kind of fantasy world and one gets the overall impression that we need World War 3 to instill the discipline and national commitment that they failed as parents to impart to the young. In reality, World War 3 would most likely end in a devasted US suing for peace under terms of Unconditional Surrender; but these idiots don't care as long as they can own the Libtards and blame it all on the Democrats.

   As for the Democrats, they are only concerned with taking marching orders from Wall Street and probably hope to limit military responses to stealing as much as they can get away with. Taking on Yemen and Lebanon while Israel ethnically cleanses Palestine are about as far as they can reasonably go without igniting a global conflict. Since they have complicit Republicans, the Mass Media, and the Academic Establishment on their side, they can spin some relatively risk-free interventions as some sort of great victory without really accomplishing anything. Their policy of Containment is premised on creating a strategic stalemate which allows the Oligarchs to profit---or at least not lose any investments---while keeping the threat from foreign enemies alive for when they need to play that card again. 

   Ultimately, I think that's the decision that the WEF will relay to their satraps: secure Corporate interests in the Middle East and Ukraine first and foremost and proceed with implementing the Great Reset at home for the time being. Use some military showboating here and there for political purposes, but don't bring on a war that they can't win. Thus the status quo is probably going to continue for awhile, and only the rhetoric will heat up. 

   

    

   

THE MEDIA CULTURE OF FEAR

   As 2024 begins, Clown World---the one part of the planet where the US is still the undisputed leader---seems to be revving up into high gear. Earlier this week, a suicide bomber attacked a concert in Rochester, New York; yesterday another Whacko in Iowa lost his marbles and shot up a school. 

  The local media on the East Coast was reporting this morning that one of our esteemed airlines suffered another 'emergency' after a Florida Jet Blue flight had to be diverted to Orlando on its way to Boston. Violence in public transportation is another New Normal here in the US, in some cities. violent attacks happen on public transit on a near daily basis. The self-appointed 'Elites' of course have chauffeured limousines and private jets, so it's not their problem. In the Jet Blue incident this morning, the Corporate Elites summed up their attitude by telling the passengers of the diverted flight that "This disruption is considered an uncontrollable disruption; meaning it's due to events outside of JetBlue's control (things like Air Traffic Control or weather disruptions) and, unfortunately, does not qualify for customer compensation or reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses." It's the passengers' own responsibility: they chose to fly on Jet Blue, and they should have prepared themselves in case someone on board thought himself the Devil and began attacking other passengers. 

   There was very much the same response to the Iowa shooting. One faction of the political class says that we need to ban guns, because that was the suspect's weapon of choice; the other faction says that we need to ban Tik-Tok because apparently the suspect posted some of his insane ravings there. 

   To understand why these random acts are occurring, we have to understand first and foremost that they are happening under a deliberate program, the Strategy of Tension, defined as "a political policy wherein violent struggle is encouraged rather than suppressed. The purpose is to create a general feeling of insecurity in the population and make people seek security in a strong government." The Strategy of Tension was experimented with in Europe during the 1980s and began being deployed in the US during the 1990s and since. The rise of the Security State, the wholesale nullification of Civil Liberties, the militarization of police agencies have all expanded since that time and are the result of this policy.

   The other side of the Strategy of Tension paradoxically includes defunding police departments, ignoring things like flash-mobs and gang violence, and encouraging addiction and drug-related crimes. Cancel Culture is part of the same process. By ignoring---and even encouraging---crime on local levels in public view while simultaneously hyping so-called mass-casualty events like school shootings and terrorism, the result is to instill fear and paranoia and give the impression that crime is everywhere and that no one is safe unless a strong leader comes along to restore order. Justin Trudeau, Vladimir Zelensky, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Javier Milei are specimens of what kind of strong leaders the Corporate Oligarchs think that we deserve for that kind of purpose.

   Protecting the children is one of the Strategy of Tension's major Media selling-points. In reality, of course, most American parents, educators, or social workers don't give two hoots about the welfare of our children: the condition of our youth, the state of our families, schools, and welfare system speaks for itself on that point. However, those responsible for children and minors at least have to pretend that they care, so taking action of any kind for the sake of taking action appeals to them because collective action absolves them of responsibility and allows them to virtue-signal at the same time. 

   Hypothetically, there are solutions to dealing with our crime problem in the US. We could suppress gangs and organize crime. We could invest in drug treatment and we could pursue economic policies that make honest work profitable again. We could rein in the sensationalist media, and our schools could teach critical thinking skills again to immunize people against that kind of propaganda. Parents could take responsibility again instead of living moral instruction of their offspring to blind chance. 

   However, since none of those things are likely to happen in the near future, the rest of us need to take a more pragmatic approach. Simply be aware that such events happen and that no one will have your back if they do; and so it is wise to take precautions. This doesn't mean one should live in a state of constant panic like most Americans do. It simply means taking sensible steps at self-defense and avoiding situations where things like these might occur. Reject what propagandists and demagogues say, above all---that's the best security policy one can follow these days.