I’m afraid you might be right. I don’t see an off ramp either. I hope I am wrong about that. I read a very good piece on here that this whole thing was about keeping the dollar upright in an attempt to stop de dollarization. If we stop now it will most certainly continue with Iran in charge of the PG.
Exactly. The USSA isn't going to get to decide when it's over. Israel and Iran are going to battle to the last man standing now. Whether the USSA bows out or not is anyone's guess. My guess is they won't, and Trump's happy talk is directed at the markets.
As an aside, I see nowhere in the MSM any info about our AWACS plane and several KC135's being blown away in Saudi Arabia. Not a peep. And not noted here by Simplicius. This should be big news even in the USSA... Chip
Israel only made sense as a prosperous, liberal democracy that was an alternative to basketcase autocratic Arab states. One could be uneasy with Zionism, but still acknowledge that even the Arabs were better off in Israel than in a Baathist dictatorship.
But if Israel is going to be a warmonger that destabilizes the region, what’s the point?
The shepherd boy who stood up to Goliath eventually became the king who had a man killed so that he could take his wife.
Support for Israel in the United States correlates with age more than partisanship. Nostalgic Boomers support Israel, while younger people of both parties are more skeptical. Israel will have fewer and fewer friends in the world, and that’s a risk they can’t afford to take.
The US's objectives in the Middle East that are separate of Israel are to control the supply of oil out of the region (including being able to cut China off) and to maintain the petrodollar. The US could work with an even quite radical Islamist government in Iran to achieve those goals.
But Israel's existence is incompatible with Iran's, since Iran is the main backer of armed resistance to Israel. One or the other would have to go for there to be peace.
The US COULD leave Israel to perish, but it won't do so because of Israel's influence on US policy.
The US, in theory, could make deals with Iran, but practically--after beating that hornets' nest for the last 75 years--it would be difficult to establish even the minimal trust needed to exploit opportunities to make lots of money together.
Jews calling out as “inhuman” those it genocides. “We will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.” - Arnon Soffer, advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, December, 2004.
The only thing that concerns me is how to ensure that the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings"
Not seeing a path to Midterm Victory now - no matter what he decides.
He is seen as a Betrayer by enough of the Decider Votes, both so-called Maga and non Maga Independents.
The Democrats could not wash the stench from themselves in the last election, and Trump bathing blissfully in an open Israeli sewer doesn't...uhh...wash with most of the US public.
I don't think that is a problem. If Israel and the US stop bombing Iran probably will too. The real problem is Iran will be in firm control of the strait of Hormuz. That is the problem. The US can't spin that as a victory. Anybody with at least one functioning braincell will know the US lost
This clearly shows that President Trump switched sides. First he offered Iran full control of the Strait of Trump and a few days later he is sending them expensive moving targets for their military exercises. Brilliant tactics.
this may sound awful but i'm rooting for Iran. i'd love to see the USA leave with it's tail between it's legs and a good shiner. i'm tired of living in an Empire; i just want to try living in a country for a change!
It ‘s tough . How do you root against your own interests.
I don’t approve of what Trump did . Mostly because he lied to me .
What I want is for him to withdraw and say “ I made a mistake . It’s on me . I’m cutting my losses and will know better in the future “ . Of course that won’t happen …but it should
I fail to see how this war is in my interest or in the interest of any American. Digging ourselves further into debt so we can steal someone else’s oil when we could pay for it cheaper? Yes, sadly I don’t see Trump admitting the error
Agree, Carolyn. One of the goals is to open Hormuz. As an analyst said: But it WAS open before! Again, note how people have made money on the basis of Trump's proclamations - obviously insider trading but..... Will anyone be investigated? Even if Trump was impeached? I wouldn't bet on it.
As to making money - it's not you and me who have made anything. Nor anyone else. Note how the third largest buyers of Bentleys in Europe is..... Ukrainians! All on our money.
Yes, it would be cheaper in terms of lives and money to engage in trade.
But it would also deprive the MIC of their ill gotten profits and undercut the power of the parasitic financial cabals that have been ruling FUSA since 1913.
91 years ago, General Smedley Butler warned us that any war, aside from those of defending U.S. territories and the USC, were rackets.
They won't "wake up", the fact is that at least 30% of non-Jewish Americans essentially believe the exact same things as their Zionist Jewish-American countrymen, and Israelis. They are full throated supporters of genocide and imperialism. 30% is huge, that's enough to keep the political ship of Empire floating for a long, long time.
thanks for the mention of Gen Butler. I knew of the foiled regime change plot by Prescott Bush v Roosevelt but didnt know the name of the General who foiled their plans.
US foreign policy is based on full spectrum dominance. It is about empire. Controling resource flows, maintaining the petrodollar and the Carter doctrine. Losing is going to cause a massive shift in the global economy.
goldhoarder is also right - US will quickly go bankrupt if the petrodollar gets replaced or even weakened substantially.
Only thing stopping bankruptcy is maintaining petrodollar and as u said looting other countries for collateral to keep their financial system going.
Saudis just signed 10 yr contract with Ukraine 4 weapons after the Trump insult so thats not a good start. If Iran starts getting paid in yuan for its oil thats the start of a slippery slope.
The US has never done that, they never colonized like Europe or the UK, history please. Because one can go purchase and engage in trade is not looting.
No circumspection certainly. The raw facts should have been enough to prevent Trump from committing to this second war. It seems they are convincing him somewhat, now.
Iran having nukes and contining to threaten all their neighbors, promising to wipe Israel off the map, plus threatening the US for the last 47 years was of zero concern. Yep, it's all to be ignored until they have a nuke then what do you do then? I never see an answer to this question but maybe you will offer one. When they hold the area hostage how many millions of lives are you willing to sacrifice.
iran has not threatened the US for 47 years. US propaganda talking point that you mindlessly repeat because your mind isn't free at all. it's all filled with junk "info." it's Isr**l that is constantly threatening it's neighbors, not Iran. maybe go to Lebanon for a bit and see what they are doing their with their Biblical land grab and what they intend for egypt, saudi arabia and all the other countries they intend to steal parts of. ah yes, already making noise about Turkey being the "new" Iran. my guess is that they might be more responsible stewards of nuclear weapons than the USA has been
If the US ended its array of global bases, and reduced military spending, security on US mainland would be unaffected because it is protected by two oceans. The endless wars benefit billionaires but not the 99%. Sometimes your interests and the interests of your government do not align.
Isn't US security best enhanced by being recognized as a den of thieves that no one wants to deal with?
Without the aggressive extortion of US military presence demanding tribute from the world, what will the US be other than a depleted husk of self-righteous Christians, living in a cult, preyed upon by Zionist Billionaires? How long before those deluded fools understand how the criminals stole their hopes and dreams?
Unlike Britain the US has resources. A lot of them. Yes, you would live poorer, when you will be forced to live on your own money, but still, there are all the possibilities to build a good life without raping the rest of the world. For the US I mean, Britain is screwed
Dude, take away the United States and britain goes from America's Special Little Buddy to a flavor-challenged backwater where they never shut up about long-past glories and Male Buggery.
I might have been more careful in expressing my thought. It was obvious to me at the time.
"Perhaps we might look to Britain as an example of what happens to a nation's political-economy when citizens fail to gain control over their 'Epstein Class'."
I was in Britain several years ago. It was so confusing!
Britain's "Zionist Billionaires" occupy the "City of London" the home of the Rothschild's bank. Several pundits I've listened to excoriate "the City of London". Enough that were Iran to have a missile that could reach that far, I'd suggest about 10 of them might free us from the Capitalist Oligarchy/Deep State. Kind of a "scythes and pitchforks" moment.
Hope that explains my point.
England is already a "flavor-challenged backwater..."
The rest of Europe appears to be following closely behind.
Have you watch Kaja Kallas make a speech? She's stupid. She attained her position because she's stupid. Same reason Kamala rose to become the VP.
The "Epstein Class" determines who achieves high positions in government now. Trump's cabinet for example. Did you see Finkelstein's evaluation. "The Horror, the horror!"
2 out of 3 Billionaires are of the Dual-Citizen persuasion.
Notice how you have Personally Guaranteed the US National Debt but that Dual Citizen passport lets the rest escape.
It will be like when George Dubya Bush closed all American Airports after 911, so that his senior partners in Saudi Arabia escaped in their private jets.
There's a reason the American People are treated like cattle. Because that is what the Epstein Caste believe you are. Are they right?
A Polish ant (a "mrowka") pointed out that the United States would be infinitely better off and *safer* if it stopped wasting money propping up an empire.
And this was a Pole, a mrowka raised in communist Poland, aka, the most reflexively pro-American people on the planet.
Should I understand it to mean that it’s enough for you if Trump simply says he made a mistake, and that all the killing and destruction are therefore somehow okay? Or what exactly do you mean? That if U.S. citizens aren’t being killed, then nothing is really happening?
That was always the way the empires worked. Things that for others were equipped with lethal consequences, the empire can do w/o and say I am sorry. Just see how the shooting at the civilian airplanes or extrajudicial killing or any other nonsense that the US. That they punished the whistleblower revealing among other things the names of some agents is probably understandable but that they did not punish anybody for the crimes these whistleblowers revealed tells us all we need to know about the evil character of the empire.
He made no mistakes… His owners and puppeteers desperately need a war to prompt the dying financial system that relies currently on the disunited giant on the feet of clay.
When an empire falls, the inhabitants of its core, contrary to what might be intuitive, are also relieved of the pressure from the parasite that sucks the blood of the entire world. Therefore, imperial collapse will also benefit the inhabitants of the core, who will move to a normal country in a potentially healthier society.
Of course not, but it's a consideration of a different level. I'm not saying we should forget the millions of deaths caused by Western imperialism; it's impossible to forget such barbarity. I'm saying that the ordinary residents of the central provinces of this empire live crushed under the same boot, and that the collapse of the empire is not to their detriment, but to their advantage.
I agree with Carolyn. As a non-American its hard 2 understand why ordinary US citizens largely back its warmongering. Especially now more info and perspectives are available thru social media.
U cheer on ur soldiers murdering foreign civilians and blowing up hospitals like ur barracking 4 a football team.
Ur soldiers aren't serving their country- theyre serving british/ european bankers, oligarchs , multi-nationals, the mic and that terrorist state all western leaders are afraid of.
Taxpayers pay for the military, obese and torpid from gorging on payments that would be better used to fund ur dwindling community services.
And yeah as an aussie we've joined u in the swamp via the hundreds of billions we'll be spending on AUKUS. Poor fellow my country.
How tiresome! I’m the enemy cuz I’m 66. Not because I didn’t have a pot to piss in for 35 years, and no window to throw it out of anyway. No, my crime is to have been born in 1960. Assholes like you suck ass.
Right. You could have phrased it more directly so. I wasn't sure what you meant; one could read into your post something like: "we have to see it through. Trump started the war on Iran, and that was bad, and he shouldn't have. But now we cannot do other, and we now must finish this war victoriously, even if it is painful. We must sacrifice American soldiers and sailors, waste their lives to re-open the Strait. We must keep doing the bidding of the Jew and remain the World No 1 military power." -- I know that's not what you meant, but your first post wasn't as clear or direct on this.
I'm 72; does that make me a "self-centered boomer?" sorry, I worked very hard my entire life, opened a business, bought some ruined houses and restored them, eventually bought the commercial loft that housed my business and sold it when I closed the business to pay off all my debts.
yes, now I'm collecting social security which is money that was confiscated from me against my will while I was working. I rent out a house and 2 apartments to support myself and we keep them in very good order without gouging the tenants.
obviously I am on medicare (you have very little choice actually) but I've only used it when I was hit by a texting driver on my way to a private strength training class. I go to acupuncturists and naturopaths- doctors who don't participate in the fraudulent insurance system. I pay out of pocket for the kind of medical care I believe in. I exercise and work in my garden. I grow great organic vegetables and give most of them away to neighbors to foster community. I source all our meats and raw milk from local regenerative farmers and do all our cooking, yogurt making, etc.
I am landscaping the yard myself and have tiled the fireplaces with antique tiles that I shopped on eBay.
I had a job that I was born to do and would still be doing it except that I was fired after 40 years for not taking a covid shot. I have never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. I don't have routine medical exams or flu shots. I'm about the cheapest 72 year old you can imagine in terms of burdening the taxpayers (of which I am one!).
my boyfriend is hale and hearty at 78. he's up on 30 ft ladders repairing our roof leaks. he was on one drug for his high blood pressure but our naturopath suggested he take a 30 minute walk every evening. he's been able to wean off the drug.
I was on one drug for my lung damage (and old formaldehyde exposure) but I took it only once every other day instead of twice a day. I use a GoodRx card to purchase it.
during covid (we stockpiled IVM and helped some really sick friends avoid the hospital by giving them some of our stash) I started nebulizing glutathione and have been able to cut my use of the drug almost to nothing. a one month cartridge lasts me over a year.
I took care of my father here at home until he died in his bed 6 weeks shy of his 96th birthday. as a young man, he had run up Utah beach on D Day.
I don't know what more I can do to avoid being categorized as a "self-centered boomer."
Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points often criticizes people my age for not selling their houses as if I'm obligated to sell my house so a young person can buy it. Fuck it- I intend to die in this house and give it to some friends who love it as much as we do!
it's hardly my fault that the US is constantly at war and drowning in debt
The number 72 doesn't make you a self-centred Boomer. Rather, what makes you a self-centred Boomer is this: "sorry, I worked very hard my entire life, opened a business, … blah blah blah, I did …, I …, then I …, …me…, …me …, then I …". Wall-o-text. Quite the textbook example here!
Also the fact that you take every criticism of "the Wicked Generation" as a personal insult to yourself. Most likely deservedly so, so you're probably not wrong there.
Finally, it evidences that Boomer women are even worse than the B00mer men. As if anybody of us Gen X (and younger, I presume) needed reminding of that!
I never felt I had anything against GenX people, but after having read that I have the overwhelming impression that they're "even worse than" Boomers, male or female, could possibly be--whatever your beef is against them. And all because of one asshole. That goes to prove that it's just plain stupid to make any sort of overall judgement about a whole generation...
What else are we all on the planet for, if not suffering!
I'm 66 as well and I have virtually nothing in common with most of my peers.
I am unable to talk about money matters, like investments, petty gambling, as Normies do, nor give two shits about real estate if its not about buying a home to live in.
Boomers, Demographic Bulge, Yuppies, Dinks... do I hear some animosity?
I have been waiting for him to do that with OWS and hold those people accountable for the Covid vaxxines. I’m not against my country, I am extremely disappointed Trump got pulled into Israel’s war. At this point I’m anti Israel. And anti American for bombing 280 medical facilities and 600 schools.
I am furious at Trump. I don’t think he will admit defeat.
I am really really livid with Israel.
I blame israel. They are bringing the whole world down with them.
Yes but ultimately he made the decision. Let’s face it, this has been BiBi’s wet dream for 4 decades but other presidents somehow resisted. Every war game exercise has showed that this would be a disaster but Trump is only listening to his bubble.
I wouldn’t be too unhappy if isr**l is blown off the map
Isreal blew itself off the map, because its population will simply leave over the next couple of years. Living conditions in most parts of Isreal must be hell, so why stay there? Only the most hardened Zionists will stay, whoever can afford to leave will ultimately do that. Why stay in a country, where the next war is always around the corner and risk to lose everything (again)? Better start new somewhere else. That's what their population is going to do, I bet on that.
Agreed. And despite Trump and the Zionist monkeys in Congress, the only way for US support for Israel to go from here is downwards. More and more Americans are noticing how their country has been hijacked by Zionist whackjobs.
That's a problem for me. I do NOT want them to flee and come to Europe, to Germany, to England. They either need to stay in Israel (and to be joined there by their ((Washington)) tribesmen), or go elsewhere; but not back to Europe, no way!
Jews make up 2% of the US population but 40% of American billionaires.
There are about 1000 American billionaires making up 0.0003% of the US population.
Billionaires are criminals, con-men, and self-indulgent frauds.
They hide behind Israel as they steal America's wealth.
Israel is not the tail that wags the dog. It is a deception used by the "Epstein Class" to continue to preach "Capitalism" to the gullible. People who refuse to accept responsibility for their own ignorance, that allowed them to indulge in their own selfishness, lean heavily on the, "It's all Israel's fault", crutch. They just didn't want to know.
"Billionaires are criminals, con-men, and self-indulgent frauds."
Some of them are, but not all of them and not anywhere near the majority of them.
I know a few billionaires, some in Russia and some in the US. What's interesting is that the billionaires I know in both countries all made their money by finding an unserved need and filling it.
None of them broke the law to do that, none of them made their money by fooling people, and every one of them worked very hard to achieve what they did, usually working very hard for a relatively long time, years.
All of the billionaires I happen to know are "self-made" billionaires. I also know a few very rich people who inherited their wealth, but none of those are billionaires.
But a quick look at billionaires who inherited their wealth shows that what you said isn't true. A good example are the heirs to Sam Walton's fortune. Sam Walton was the man who created Walmart. He wasn't a criminal, he wasn't a con man and he wasn't a self-indulgent fraud.
He was a very hard working man who thought smaller and rural communities throughout the US were under-served by retail chains, so he created Walmart. It was a classic "find a need and fill it" success story. To the end of his life he lived a simple life in a modest house and drove himself in a pickup truck along with his dogs. When somebody asked him why he wasn't driving a Rolls Royce he responded along the lines of, "What, I'm going to drive my dogs around in a damned Rolls Royce?" He knew exactly who he was and stayed true to his roots without any fakery.
His kids and grandson, Rob, Jim, Alice, Christy (wife of a deceased son) and Lukas (grandson) have inherited vast fortunes, typically $100 billion, and by all accounts not a one of them is a criminal, con-man, or self-indulgent fraud. Instead, they all are well known as very decent people who do a lot of philanthropy. Alice, for example, founded an art museum and Lukas invests in sustainable agriculture and sustainable energy.
The problem with Marxists is that they tell lies about people who have improved their lot in life by being productive, denying how more or less capitalist systems have been very successful at raising billions of people out of poverty and starvation into a better lives, all while systems that are more or less Marxist / Communist / Socialist have been very successful at consigning billions of people into death, starvation, and second class lives.
"the billionaires I know in both countries all made their money by finding an unserved need and filling it.
None of them broke the law to do that, none of them made their money by fooling people, and every one of them worked very hard to achieve what they did, usually working very hard for a relatively long time, years."
I can confirm John. While I don't travel in billionaire circles, I know, through close relationships, a few people who are millionaires. A couple at least worth tens of millions of dollars. They have an ability to work much, much harder than the average- a work ethic that would blow your mind. Typically (the ones I know) they come from hard scrabble backgrounds- to lower middle class. (sons of farmers, factory workers and mail men). They all have what is quaintly called focus. The ability to roll out of bed and do the same thing they did in last week's 80 hours. Year after relentless year. Is there a modicum of luck? Sure: commonly said as "right place, right time". They are community minded, generous and typically modest to a fault.
They also employ many in high- paying jobs.
These people, are natural leaders. Remove them and you end up with the likes of Biden, Kamala or the Orange idiot savant/stable genius running our shit off a cliff. These talentless carnival barkers are in gov't for the main chance...the big grift and long con. Cf the likes of Hunter Biden, the Ukrainian gas company executive. The book The Millionaire Next Door <<link>>is a good source for a closer look who are the quiet heroes who do the heavy lifting, quietly in the background. They're too honest to dirty themselves in national politics. YMMV.
Perhaps I should have said "All -American- Billionaires" since that was the sample I was using.
However, you would be hard-pressed to convince me that any Russian who became a Billionaire after the fall of the USSR was anything other than an "opportunist" who took advantage of people. You might be able to rebut that point by saying, "If he didn't do it 'justly', then the next guy would have done it more 'deceitfully'." Yeah, I'm always going to root for the "lesser crook".
This is not a fully formed argument since it is much more complicated than can possibly be expressed in a couple of sentences.
Let's take Warren Buffet for example. He has an excellent reputation as "everybody's grandfather." Yet, at one time he owned the railroad that poisoned East Palestine, OH. Why did he sell it? Because he knew "something would happen" and he got out before he was left holding the bag. I find that deceitful. Others can argue the point to defend him. Again, a debate that can't be resolved in only a couple of sentences.
"Not breaking the law" is hardly my definition of a "fine upright human being." Now we have a third area that covers vast expanses of philosophy and religion.
I have no problem with people working hard being rewarded. That is how it should be. Even the Mondragon Co-ops recognize this. The questions become: what did they to achieve that reward; who determined what the reward should be; how did he reward those who assisted him in his success?
Funny you should mention Wal-Mart. Let me knock that one down immediately. This is deceitful and dishonest and a lie. Apparently to you this is "just how capitalism works". And I'll exclaim, "Eureka, he gets it!"
"Reports indicate that Walmart workers cost taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance annually, highlighting the gap between their earnings and the cost of living."
Sam Wal-Mart instituted a way to undermine local businesses and destroy the local economy.
There are many other condemnations of War-Mart, but this one should be more than enough.
Have you ever watched the TV-show, "Ozark"? Marty and his wife were widely known as: "very decent people who do a lot of philanthropy."
And since Charlie Kirk's assassination still hasn't been resolved, maybe we should look at Robert Shillman's philanthropy. (I had to put this article in. I want to remind folks that Blumenthal is a Jew and a hero to me.)
Your characterization of Marxism, which I didn't bring up, is misleading. You slur them all as liars and cheats without evidence.
There is a difference between "Industrial Capitalism", which accomplished some amazing feats of development** and "End-State Capitalism", which is the state of the USA right now. Right now the US economic system is "consigning [b]millions of people into death, starvation, and second class lives."
China defines its economy as "Socialism with Chinese characteristics". Those who insist it is "Capitalist" have no understanding of what they mean. Yes Chinese businesses turn a profit. I mean "duh!"
China's last recession was in 1979. The US capitalists engineer a recession every 4-7 years. And I do mean "engineer". See Dylan Ratigan's Covid Money Talks on Jimmy Dore. "The greatest upward transfer of wealth in the history of the world."
China's GDP has grown at 5% since 1979. The US is lucky to grow 2%
A new ranking system shows that China has 6 of the top 10 universities in the world. Capitalists have a vested interest in ignoring that ranking system.
China has build over 11,000KM of high-speed rail. The US -- none.
China has a literacy rate of 100% among its young people. US literacy is full of qualifications and exceptions.
The consummate greed of Capitalism is well under control of a Chinese political system that over all protects society as a whole.
The Chinese execute their billionaires who commit extreme fraud. Michael Milken got to keep most of his billions. The Sacker family caused the deaths of maybe 1M Americans. Are they in jail? No, their wealth is suppose to be over $10B. Justice?
The evidence is in, the judgement determined. American capitalists are frauds and if not unlawful criminals -- moral criminals. They care only about themselves.
**The TV show, "Hell on Wheels" dramatizes how Industrial Capitalism built the transcontinental railroad. At the end, when Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, founder of the Union Pacific, was before Congress under investigation; Bohannan testified in his defense which I'll paraphrase, "Yes Durant is a liar, a thief and a crook, but the railroad would not have been built without him." China doesn’t need the crooks, why does the USA?
I've seen the same thing. I have known a few. They were smart, driven and simply lived their business. Most made a new customer for life out of practically everyone they met.
When I was young in Slovenia we had a bakery delivering bread to stores in the region. There were 140 mostly family stores we delivered. It is now just 3 chains or so. What I wanted to say is, this business was centralized and a big annual part of money flow with it. Besides that now 3 people decide what you are offered based often just price/profit margins. It is not only a business but also consumer "education", food standards, selling locally produced has less customers or place to sell, the power to get lower prices from producers/farmers, controlling what is imported ( we get only Adria region (b) oranges here... ). A big part of your life and decision making power in few people. Whole branches, manufacturing exported and tariffs are not a complete solution. No one making even shoes, clothes or whatever anymore. Still consumer demand is wanting unique, quality wares... but are going for Gucci etc. Marxism, Capitalism or whatever... Centralization of this power is the problem...and the society decades behind in evolving with time - not valuing those things. I understand fully it enables going to Mars and...well they payed 50% income for what they have. They are above the countries; the mechanisms of people are not working. With it also control and decision making is not even an internal mechanism with local basic interests for the country or individuals.
The future probably is even more in this direction; less people will have more power, capital working on top of laws and order they decide themselves. Actually I know exactly how it will look like given time and technology. Soon those individuals will have their own mechanical armies like in star wars... Islands are not the hottest things anymore since the Boring company/ies likely provide much more comfort in privacy.
Just a thought you can continue. It is so broken systemically in a way that...it would require a channel for it and not a post. It is like with politics. If you think it is about left and right are already...the above mentioned educated consumer.
Rooting for Iran in this war isn't rooting against your country if your country is the US. This is an illegal war under US law, and rooting for the defeat of the criminals who started it is just as patriotic as rooting for police officers if Trump and his gang got together to rob banks in Belgium or Switzerland by storming out of cars wearing masks and toting machine guns.
That criminals in Congress go along with these crimes doesn't make them any less criminal. The Constitution clearly says in black and white that only Congress can start wars and Congress didn't start this one.
Criminals in Washington hide behind the War Powers Act, but that's just a regular law: acting under that law is unconstitutional. It is well established law that the Constitution cannot be amended by a simple majority vote of Congress and the Senate, that is by a regular law. You have to jump through significant hoops to amend the Constitution. You can't just pass a regular law that says "oh, this part of the Constitution no longer applies."
So all this talk that the President can start wars so long as they last only 60 days is simply criminal. That's not what the Constitution says.
For that matter, there are also plenty of regular laws that are being broken, perhaps the most important being those laws that make it illegal for the US to assist or fund any country which has developed nuclear weapons in contravention of the Non Proliferation Act. That's Israel, and that the US provides massive support to Israel is simply criminal.
So no, it's not treason or unpatriotic to insist the US follow its own laws. It's not immoral or unpatriotic to want to see criminals who break US law to commit war crimes to be defeated either.
A glib comment, but one that tends to surface in corrupt former empires where too many people are grifters and trying to present oneself as patriotic is just another grift.
You can say the same about so many other positive human qualities. Try it by inserting words into:
"[insert here] is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Try words like "Humanity," "Honesty," "Freedom," "Fairness," "Compassion," and so on and you can always find a situation where such cynicism is spot on.
But that doesn't mean that patriotism or other positive human qualities doesn't matter. Patriotism in Iran is one of the main glues that is holding the country together despite the overwhelming onslaught by the US and Israel. Patriotism helped the Vietnamese defeat the US, patriotism helped the American colonies free themselves from England and patriotism is helping Russia to win the vicious war the US and its stooges started in Ukraine.
Strange that the US needed Trump to become a different and hopefully a better country for a long time to come.. As a believer, I think it is an act of God.. The US and the world are not going to be the same after the horror of Trump's administration in my view. (from Johannesburg)
Yes... The lack of a better choice is God's will as I see it.. There's a story about Gengis Khan the Mongol invading Baghdad and reducing it to rubble.. When asked what the reason was by the inhabitants, he rplied, "Allah's retribution for transgression"... Trump is a man who is reducing the US to rubble spiritually and otherwise so that she can become new.. (from Johannesburg)
Interesting story, but it's completely fake. Genghis Khan was not a Muslim. Genghis Khan practiced traditional Mongolian shamanism (Tengrism), focusing on the worship of the sky god Tenger.
If you are religious I understand your voting for Trump, you are already programmed to believe claims without evidence, never really expecting the proposed results and quite willing to rationalize why they never happened..
It might get worse. As there is NO government solution to the mess and the downward direction on which this country is headed. Our government is completely dysfunctional in every respect and the corruption is in our faces and over the top. A brief reminder of Convid and fast forward through Bribem and Trump and you understand the picture... Chip
Isreal blew itself off the map, because its population will simply leave over the next couple of years. Living conditions in most parts of Isreal must be hell, so why stay there? Only the most hardened Zionists will stay, whoever can afford to leave will ultimately do that. Why stay in a country, where the next war is always around the corner and risk to lose everything (again)? Better start new somewhere else. That's what their population is going to do, I bet on that.
I’ve read 3 million have left. Understand there were 9 million but not certain. One commentator said Israelis have been spending nights in bomb-shelters.
I agree that they might all go!
It would be devastating to endure such conditions.
From my pov they just got way too greedy and violent with wanting more land and starting 8 wars … well they are in a bad situation. Not all of them are bad, but all will suffer. Iran will not stop their missiles.
Remember the polls that reveal the the vast majority of Israeli's think the genocide in Gaza is appropriate or not enough, a few are against it, many will stay because they are propagandized from birth to KNOW they are 'god's chosen people', everyone else must be subservient to them and the Palestinian Muslims, Christians and all the rest are just vermin to be removed. Same idea as the wonderful 20th century German supremacists.
As Gerald Callente says, "When all else fails, they take you to war."
FDR engineered the US entry into WWII.
The Vietnam war was to import narcotics into the USA. Afghanistan, same thing. It isn't just "coincidence" that when the US invades a country, that nation becomes a top producer of heroin.
I don't believe Celente is correct to predicate his claim with "when all else fails". I believe that war is the successful culmination of their strategies - a result which they aim for and regularly impose on us as a core part of their plan.
There was at the time speculation that Johnson got into the war to support Hughes Aircraft that had large facilities in Texas, the CIS just found out that the 'Golden Triangle' was called that for a reason and it gave them a source of near unlimited and untraceable funds, same for Afghanistan. I suspect the CMIC is largely responsible but does work hand in hand with the CIA, et al.
There are a lot of "CIS". I'm guessing though you meant CIA.
There are also many CMICs
However, if you want more on Drugs, the Note below will take you to Aaron Good's excellent talk on the "tri-partite" state and how the 3 biggest profit centers are: Oil, War, and Drugs. He also talks a bit about how Howard Hughes got control of many Las Vegas casinos taking them over from the mob (although I speculate this might have been to cover for the mob) LBJ was extremely "mobbed up". Good also explains that Las Vegas was founded to launder drug money from Mexico.
Also, remember Gary Webb and his Dark Alliance series. (easy to find)
and Oliver North supporting the contras in Nicaragua.
The Tripartite state consists of: the Public State that you see; the Security State that does things that are illegal to ensure the continued hegemony of the state; and the "Dark State" which includes organized crime.
Johnson wanted the USS Liberty sunk as a false-flag operation so that Israel could attack Egypt.
I believe - obviously I am speculating - that they intend to portray a multipolar world as a prelude to one world government through globalist institutions (the tower of Babel). For this to work they must move away from the unipolar hegemon model which they employed before they had tightened their grip on the rest of the world. The apparent military defeat of America is therefore necessary.
You don’t want to be in any city when the petrodollar gives way. You especially do not want to be in the company of people who have coddled criminals when the system revolts. Conservatism generally embraces natural law. I know Trump has recently made a mockery of it. Modern liberalism in US is certainly NOT a reasonable alternative however. Fuck they were literally cheering on men dressed as strippers to read to young children in schools. If that’s not insane idk what the hell is.
Not trying to debate common sense with you nor argue politics. Am merely suggesting strategy for people who understand where this may all be heading.
FWIW, conservatism DOES NOT embrace natural law, it pushes a THEOCRATIC definition of them having the 'freedom' to tell everyone else how to live, I have a couple of sisters that went over to the dark side so I know of what I speak.
Now claim that there were people cheering men dressed as strippers to read to young children in schools, I couldn't find anything like that, not even from Alex Jones and the only thing sexual was a comment about one of the readers peeling a banana at the end of the reading in what they thought was a suggestive manner, maybe it says more about the person commenting?
I'm not gay, trans or anything like that but I know several people that do fit those descriptions and none of them have tried to force me to be like them so I figure, you do you, as long as you don't try to force me into your mold, go ahead and do your thing. I think THAT is called freedom and actually DOES embrace natural 'law'.
There were multiple incidents of Trans appearing at libraries and public schools during the Biden years. Are you kidding me, they came out of the skies like flying monkeys lol. Personally I don’t care about it either.
I would like to make the point that conservatives are not the insane theocrats the left tarred them with. However I am having issues making that case after listening to Hegseth and Trump’s spiritual advisor Paul White. She has probably dances with snakes a time or two. I am NOT FOND of that whatsoever.
I am very much against any kind of hard core religion in Govt. Especially Zionists and Christian Zionists at this point. I think we have all had our fill of them.
Here’s a little insider baseball. Iran is winning the hearts and mind game. I believe that was the plan all along. Unless Trump does something stupid (can’t rule it out) looks like Iran will hold SoH. I do NOT believe they will misuse it. In fact, just the opposite.
Their goal will NOT be to choke off the world of oil. I believe they will mostly used the Strait to change the currency away from the USD. And then it’s checkmate.
As that happens America especially is going down. How hard and fast I do not know but i suspect the USSR in the 90’s will be a comparable model. You don’t want to be in a city when that happens.
"Unless the Trump-Netanyahu war criminals use their nukes, Iran is likely to win this war. The silver lining in an Iranian victory is the liberation of both America and the Israeli population from servitude to the crazed Zionist agenda of a Greater Israel from the Nile to Pakistan."
80% of the population of Israel not only supports this war but support everything they did to the Palestinians. the targeting of children of schools of hospitals all of it.
any honest poll and unpaid shill will show you that.
Though, it is gratifying to see many GWOT veterans coming out in protest of any more wars of aggression after realizing they had been played for suckers by TPTB.
The fatwa was in place until a month ago when the US murdered Khamenei and his family.
After the June attack of last year, Iran enriched its uranium to 60%. Postol explained at that time that after Trump's phony attack on Fordrow, that uranium of that concentration could be enriched to weapons grade in a matter of weeks in an area the size of a small apartment.
The war broke out again on 28 Feb. Postol is speculating that the new Supreme Leader removed the Fatwa since Iran is now facing a threat to its existence. It has been a month. Iran could have nukes.
Ritter has explained that a "gun weapon" is simple to construct and requires no testing. It is only logical to assume Iran now has several nukes.
Other's have suggested Postol is "full of crap" because he says the Patiot system has only a 5% intercept rate. Still others say his suggestion that a Starlink mini-terminal can be used for navigation in an Iranian drone. It can. Still others insist that the destruction of the AN/FPS-132 in Qatar didn’t happen because Postol used the “artists concept” of what a destroyed antenna face might look like in one of his presentations. He didn’t say the photo was real. He didn’t analyze it. He did analyze the satellite photo. I’m sure he took into account many details that you and I can’t see before he concluded the amount of damage. In any case, there are many other reports confirming its destruction.
It’s tough to be an American now . It’s like Vietnam, I didn’t think we should have gone . JFK realized his mistake and planned to withdraw the 12,000 “ advisors “ . But once we are in a war , it’s hard to root against your own country . I’m not rooting for Iran but I want Trump to admit defeat and withdraw . He could regain some respect by saying “ I was given bad advice but the buck stops with me . I thought we could achieve our goals but I made a mistake and am cutting my losses “ ..we all make mistakes . Most people will forgive you if you admit it . Of course , Trump can’t do that ..but he should
I’ve never been a very patriotic person. My feeling is that a certain sperm hit a certain egg in a certain geographical location and here I am. I have no great love for the place although there are things that I love but I don’t see much of them right now. The good ideas of the founders have been cast overboard. I think we in the US make the same mistake that isr**l makes. Believing that you are the “greatest” country on earth or the “chosen” people, makes you arrogant and blind to the virtues of other places and unable to learn anything from them.
Also we’ve watched too many John Wayne movies. We like our wars short, sweet and without nuance. We like the good guys to be easily identifiable (white hats and cleft chins) and our bad guys to be undeemably bad
No people are born with a purpose. The universe is more than random atoms colliding which is the standard dystopian and anti human modern western view and is one of the main factors in its increasingly rapid decline. People have no purpose.
I was speaking only in terms of the thing we call patriotism. I have never had any belief that my country was superior to any other country.
And sadly, my purpose of 40 years was stripped from me in 2022 because I wouldn’t take a covid shot. I’ve reinvented myself but it’s very hard when you are no longer allowed to do the thing that gave your life meaning.
Iran values life which is what kept them from acquiring nuclear weapons which is unfortunate. The USA would leave them alone if they had them.
haha! no, I was the Costume Director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC. in NYC, I had opened a Broadway costume shop so that I would be free to leave it to do the Festival every year. when I left NYC and closed the shop, I moved into a house I had bought here in 2012. I assumed I would keep working for the Festival and drop dead one day behind the cutting table (I'm a very in shape 72).
over the years, I bought some wrecked houses here and had completely dedicated my life to the Festival. these days I wonder why I still live here. not a single person called to see how I was doing after having my life's work ripped from me.
I LOATH the medical establishment! I avoid all optional engagement with conventional medicine. I have never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. I can count the times I've been to an OB/GYN on the fingers of one hand. I had my last tetanus shot in 1980- ironically, it was a requirement of the Festival. no flu shots.
obviously, I'm on medicare but I do my best to save the tax payer $$$. except for when I was hit by a texting driver while biking to a private strength training session, I only go to doctors who don't take insurance and pay out of pocket for the kind of medicine I believe in- peptides, naturopaths, acupuncture. right now I'm looking for a local HBOT place. I have a small personal gym in my house, a far infrared sauna and 2 red light panels that we can stand between.
we buy all our meat from local regenerative farmers who we have visited and know personally. we drink raw milk. I grow vegetables in the backyard and compost all our food scraps.
Always to some degree. We were spun off the British empire and was the junior partner until after WW1. The revolutionary and war of 1812 were just negotiating terms. The US couldn't protect its trade routes and also wanted British technology and to be part of the industrial revolution. So this has always been kind of who we are. The history books soft soap that a lot. The real narrative is messier. See Cuba and the Phillipines after the Spanish American war
Jules Ferry's famous speech before the Chamber of Deputies on July 28, 1885: "Gentlemen, we must speak louder and more truthfully! We must openly declare that, indeed, superior races have a right over inferior races… [for] they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races." This idea was widespread among Western serfs, a socialist racial ideology.
These same Westerners refused to let others dictate their way of life.
take out the adjectives from this quote and it becomes clear what nonsense it is. besides, 'to civilize' means to invade foreign civilisations and extract resources as cheaply as possible. settler colonialism all the way down.
Why quote quaint Victorian drivel ? Have a look at the lowbrow dimwits running the place into the ground now. All you need to know is written on their faces. Is inane drivel purpose? Hardly.
Socialist??!! Jesus wept, no end to shameless ignorance.
Anyways, stop worrying about socialism so much. Before this century is up Westerners will, quite of their own accord be begging for some kind of socialism. Same as they did for the whole of the 19th century.
Why does it sound awful? We are ALL rooting for Iran. The USA/Israel carry out an unprovoked attack and assassinations that kill children and innocents; they bomb a school killing 165 schoolgirls; they bomb and bomb and bomb - and Trump talks about 'stealing' their oil. Iran is the victim here - of course they deserve the support of every fair and sane human being alive.
America's Founders would be rooting for Iran. They would also be aghast at the globalist and neocon factions of FUSA's rapacious and murderous foreign policy and wondering why the hell we didn't depose them.
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" ~Thomas Jefferson
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence, has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign Independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force." ~ John Quincy Adams
They were champions of a multilpolar world and would have petitioned to join BRICS.
I pray for Iranian victory every day. America has been warped into the Epstein empire by Israel. Iran's victory would be a triumph for the oppressed people of the world, a victory for decency and morality, while and American victory would mean the triumph of modern day nazism. Should German citizens in 1942 have blindly supported hitler, or prayed for his downfall and celebrated every allied victory?
Forget our own interests - would you put that before your soul? Who do you think God favors in this? Support what is right. Iran is in the right, and has God, justice, and history on its side.
This is a general reply to everyone rooting for Iran. It is perfectly acceptable and logical to root for no one in a conflict, especially one where both sides can be seen to be bad in certain ways. And Iran is bad. It's a theological dictatorship. Of course Israel is worse as a theological dictatorship, and the US is the worst.
But you can still criticise the US/Israeli unprovoked attack, and demand they end this war, epsecially if it's funded by your money, and hope that they lose, and they lose badly, and they completely collapse, without "rooting for Iran". Just wish for one side to lose bad, without caring what the other side does.
Don't preface. It's the only way the raping and pillaging will stop. What happens next: the dollar collapses and the empire can no longer fund the deep state.
Draft dodging Don "The Don"Trumpstein, guided by Israel into an unnecessary conflict with Iran, which should never have happened.
Iran was already suffering from the internal collapse of its Rial currency. Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets. " Over the past year, the Iranian Rial has experienced extreme depreciation, with the USD/IRR exchange rate changing by 3,026.60% as of the latest data . The Rial hit a record low of 1.42 million IRR to 1 USD in December 2025, following economic turmoil, regional tensions, and inflation exceeding 42% . This collapse contributed to the resignation of the Central Bank Governor and sparked widespread protests. The currency’s decline has been driven by sanctions, capital flight, and government monetary policies, including excessive money printing ."
So, the US and Israel decided to accelerate Iran's downfall and push for Regime change and control. That was the big mistake. By attacking Iran, the US and Israel created the conditions to unite the Iranian and other populations against a common enemy. All the US has accomplished is to create martyrs who will not be forgotten and to embolden its population to resist.
Never interrupt an enemy while it's creating its own demise.
The US sailed, "An Ocean Too Far," and no matter how hard it tries, it can't defeat a unified Iran, which it created by attacking in the first place. The best move was to do nothing at all.
Now the pain will be spread among citizens all over the world.
Trumpstein and Netanyahu have exposed themselves as the idiots they truly are, pushing for a war that their own populations were over 90% against.
Trumpster will lose the midterms, and he's done politically. His base has turned against him, and there's talk of impeachment. It's also time for the US to get Israel out of its government.
Israel, through the Mossad, played a big part in 9/11, blaming it on Osama.
The part that gets me is Bush and friends got away with the crime of the century in spite of all the evidence. That's how fucked up the US has become. A joke of a nation.
"Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets."
Who were these mercenaries and where did they come from? If the regime was running out of cash how did they employ foreign mercenaries? That's literally not how mercenaries work.
If t theocratic regime was running out of money and facing a popular rebellion wouldn't they create and recruit religious fanatics rather than foreign mercenaries?
FWIW: if you can access this link, Dmitri Orlov has a brief introduction into the Shite religion in the context of the Iran war. I really like Orlov's sarcasm and wit. Worth the subscription.
The Iranian regime made stupid mistakes but were not about to fall. This is a gross exaggeration. Israel and the US took advantage of the protests and tried to coopt them. The merc statement is false. Iran literally has a 600,000 man army plus reserves. Iran is too proud and doesn't want to lose independence of action by getting too close to China and Russia. I think this war will end that as I do believe they are receiving a lot of help. Some of that help looks to be coming in from Azerbaijan. Which wasn't supposed to happen from Israel and US bribing the governmemt. Putin has been quietly engaging with Aliyev. The people of Azerbaijan are not pro Israel and the US so Iran and Russia can play that. There are a lot of cross border ties the population depends on.. and they aren't getting the bribe money.
"Iran was already suffering from the internal collapse of its Rial currency. Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets."
The Iranian regime controlled street demonstrations through a combination of brutal force, mass arrests, internet blackouts, and the deployment of foreign militias.
Security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij, were ordered to use live ammunition against protesters, resulting in thousands of deaths—particularly during the violent crackdowns on 8–9 January 2026
1. Hospitals in Tehran and Shiraz were overwhelmed with gunshot victims, and doctors reported security forces deliberately targeting heads and vital organs to instill terror
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3. The regime also cut off internet and phone services nationwide to prevent coordination and suppress information, even jamming Starlink satellite signals
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3. At least 24,669 protesters were arrested by 18 January, with many facing charges of “moharebeh” (waging war against God), punishable by death
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To avoid domestic backlash, Iran recruited foreign Shia militias from Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to suppress protests, as Iranian security forces were reportedly reluctant to fire on their own people
1. The regime also used propaganda, including forced confessions broadcast on state media, and pressured families of victims to accept official narratives or face penalties
1. Additionally, authorities raided hospitals to arrest injured protesters and confiscated CCTV footage to erase evidence of violence
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These tactics, while temporarily suppressing protests, also fueled further resentment and international condemnation
Death toll count is around 3000, cca 2300 protesters and 700 quislings, who also were killing the protesters, burning mosques and so forth.
The plot is always the same - kidnap genuine grievances and then try to incite people as much as possible by random killings. Always the same, like snipers in Ukraine for example, and in other countries earlier.
Here is Henningsen, when he came back from Iran after the demonstrations and before the Epic Fury started. He is also talking about a death toll.
Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militias to suppress widespread public dissent across the country. As of 25 January 2026, the total death toll estimates ranged from 7,007 people to upwards of ~36,500 people,[3][4][7] including 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel,[8] making these among the largest massacres in the modern history of Iran.[9]
Iranian authorities have supposedly imposed a near-total internet shutdown as part of their crackdown on the protests, restricting communication inside the country and limiting the flow of information about the killings to the outside world.[10] On 12 January 2026, Esmaeil Baghayi, the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed that security forces had directly shot at protesters.[11]
On 25 January, Time reported that a specific list included 30,304 protest-related deaths registered in civilian hospitals for 8 and 9 January alone.[3] The same day, Iran International estimated the total number of deaths at ~36,500.[4] On 28 January, The Guardian reported that the death toll could be more than 30,000, and that less than 10% of deaths may have been officially registered.[5] AP News reported that the government's overwhelming use of violence had caused despair among the Iranian public and had given rise to hopes among some citizens for an American attack.[12] Several scholars have argued that the Iranian government now faces a fragile state that could lead to its demise.[13]
Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been described as the mastermind of the massacres, according to former Iranian government officials, while the crackdown was initiated in pursuit of orders from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters;[14][9] Khamenei himself had ordered "to crush the protests by any means necessary".[7] As of 19 January 2026, the Iranian government had reasserted control over the protests.[15] Worldwide support protests took place on 14 February,[16] and protest waves restarted in western Iran on 16 February[17] and in universities on 21 February.[17][18][19]
Khamenei acknowledged that "thousands of people" had been killed during the protests, blaming American president Donald Trump for the massacre and calling all protesters "rioters and terrorists" affiliated with the United States and Israel.[20] The Iranian government put the death toll at 3,117, stating that 2,447 were civilians and security forces, and the rest were "terrorists".[21][22] The government published an official list of 2,986 victims. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA) described the official list as mostly unverifiable due to the lack of sufficient identifying details.[23] Iran International stated on 3 February that it had its own confirmed list of 6,634 deaths, of which less than 100 were on the official list.[24] HRANA published a full report on 23 February 2026, including a detailed named list of 7,007 deaths.[1]
Lol... sure bud. And only 70,000 died in Gaza with it being completely turned to rubble in over a year of continuous bombing... but in a matter of a week nearly 40,000 Iranians died of small arms fire. You are a complete idiot if you believe that. It is obvious propaganda
three days among the bodies; The shocking story of saving a protester from Kahrizak According to a story that reached the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, a family spent three whole days searching for a boy who left the house to protest and did not return. In anxiety and ignorance, the family first searched the hospitals, then went to Behesht Zahra, and finally their search path ended in Kahrizak. In Kahrizak, the family had to look for their child among a pile of corpses; Where hope and terror were intertwined. Finally, against all fears, they found their son alive. He was seriously injured by a bullet, and according to this narration, he remained motionless in a plastic cover for the dead for three whole days without food or water, for fear of being shot by the officers. According to this report, the family managed to finally take him to the hospital for treatment.According to this narration, during the three days that he was kept among the bodies transferred to Kahrizak, he heard the ringing of the bodies' mobile phones and smelled the strong stench. This witness said that whenever a moan was heard from the wounded, a little later the sound of gunshots was heard and the moans stopped; An issue that is a strong sign of the security forces shooting the wounded alive. This teenager under the age of 18 finally left Kahrizak in a very poor physical condition. The Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center has contacted the family of this teenager several times through an intermediary and received additional information. These details exacerbate serious concerns about the treatment of the injured, violations of the right to life and extrajudicial killings of individuals, including juveniles, during the crackdown on protests.This narrative, while bitter, shows a rare moment of survival in the midst of death and at the same time presents a shocking picture of the conditions governing the suppression of protests, how to deal with the injured, and the pressure on families to access treatment. slow Families who have wandered between hospitals, morgues and security centers in search of their loved ones. IHRDC
"The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received $3 million in funding from the US State Department since its founding in 2004, along with support from the Canadian government and private donors."
This is exactly like the "World Uyghur Congress" that falsely accused China of genocide in Xinjiang when the CIA funded ETIM was assassinating people and committing sabotage.
The Chinese very efficiently removed them. Yes it required some extreme measures. But now Xinjiang is at peace and the ETIM was "rat-lined" to Syria to participate in the overthrow of the Assad Government.
2026 Iran massacres December 2025–present Iran 3,117–36,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij, Police Command, government forces, and State-sponsored militias 23,312 to over 36,500[34][35][36][37]
2026 Iran massacres December 2025–present Iran 3,117–36,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij, Police Command, government forces, and State-sponsored militias 23,312 to over 36,500[34][35][36][37]
The devaluation of the Iranian rial has severely eroded purchasing power, making basic goods like meat unaffordable for millions and forcing households to stockpile essentials or shift savings into dollars and gold to preserve value
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3. Businesses, especially those reliant on social media platforms like Instagram, have collapsed due to internet blackouts and currency instability, while bank branches face cash shortages and informal withdrawal limits
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2. With inflation soaring past 42% and the rial losing roughly 20,000 times its value since 1979, daily life has become “crushing,” sparking widespread protests
I'm just posting what I have read. Of course, the US has done everything it can to choke the Iranian economy as well as other economies. It's the nature of the beast.
It seems the US is pushing Iran toward a destructive path where it will be forced to start working on the 56 desalination plants that provide 90% of desalinated water for the Gulf States. Needless to say, local Arab population groups will have a very short survival time once this takes place. BUT who will take over the oil fields and the ports once the Arabs run away? It will have to be the proud victors of the war, Israel and the US.
Iran should've instantly annihilated Israel after what they did to them. Assassinating their hierarchy, destroying their capital, the 120 schoolgirls and their mothers!, etc. etc. They should've wiped Israel off the map with 100 heavy hypersonics, and 100 mega-cluster bombs. Destroyed their energy centers and their desalinization systems. All of it in one fell swoop. No more Israel = no more turmoil in the ME that will have anything to do with us here in the USA. We pay for any oil of theirs that we want, just as everyone else does.
Iran has been trying to annihilate Israel for decades. Failure upon failure. This is payback. (Btw, is Iran attacking desalination plants a war crime?)
Exactly when and where? While israhell took the Golan Heights? When israhell is using the same playbook in Lebanon? When Mossad killed civilians during the protests? When Iran was attacked last July? The innumerable decapitation strikes on Iranians in and out of Iran? You must have clear unequivocal examples after so many "decades". Share them with us. We'll wait.
Let us not forget when FUSA got Iraq to be it's proxy in a bloody war with Iran that lasted nearly a decade and saw the use of American supplied chemical weapons being used against Iranians.
If attacking desalination plants is a war crime then it should be a war crime for all parties involved not just for Iran.
BTW, desalination plants are closely integrated with the power plants that are needed to run them. Attacking one would likely hit the other and if the power goes out the point is moot anyway.
The precedent for hitting an enemy's power plants was set a long time ago.
Iran has stated clearly the conditions under which they will attack desalination plants and other infrastructure. So far, they have only responded to US/Israel attacks.
Iran has NEVER tried to destroy Israel.
Yes, it would be a war crime to attack a desalination plant. Trump plans on attacking Iran's systems. When the "rule of law" no longer exists, how do you define a war crime?
So arming Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, consistent with chanting "Death to Israel" mean nothing. Iran is happy to live in peace with Israel? I wish it were so.
Absolutely it means “nothing”. It is MSM/Zionist propaganda to scare ignorant Americans into supporting the MIC and the pursuit of American Hegemony. It is promoted to cover up the crimes committed by Israel and the USA.
How can you be so ignorant of American/Israeli terrorist activities in Iran?
Do you not know about how the US overthrew the democratically elected leadership in 1953 so they could "steal their oil"?
Do you not know how the US supported the Shah and his Savak secret police?
Do you really not understand the sanctions the US has placed on Iran to try to destroy their economy?
And finally, Do you honestly justify to yourself the Genocide that Israel has been carrying on since 1948?
Your defense of a genocidal regime that killed (and continues to kill) tens of thousands of its OWN citizens, in addition to killing thousands in other countries, is laughable.
Iran now has the motive to make nukes, with plenty of delivery systems. I don't see Israel and the US enjoying the spoils of war. More likely a global economic collapse.
‘Iran's hardline factions, emboldened by recent U.S. and Israeli strikes, are advocating for withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and openly pursuing nuclear weapons. Key figures, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders and conservative commentators, argue that a nuclear deterrent is now necessary for Iran's survival.’
How convenient the WEF Agenda 2030 fits in perfectly, timed to all wars, leading to "you will have nothing". Food shortages, oil shortages, transportation disruptions, resource shortages, and the list goes on and on. But, yea, our governments cared so much about us that they basically threatened to take everything away from you if you didn't take the genocide shot. lol Hospitals became killing fields.
No Denis, I'm not looking for any "good guys" in the US government. I have no illusions (although, I admit to having a fantasy that Kent and Gabbard are in some kind of bizarre plot to remove Trump from office. Similar to hoping aliens will descend on the planet and save us from ourselves.)
I have no illusions about the Tripartite State.
My objections are your continuing desire to see Iran destroyed. Your refusal to see the NED/CIA/Mossad plot behind the demonstrations. Your fear of the Shia.
Iran's response to the January protests was necessary or the chaos would have spread. The CIA/MI6 followed the same script that they used in the Maidan coup. The same script when they sponsored the ETIM terrorism in Xinjiang province which was reported as a "Uyghur Genocide".
China and Iran used extreme force and survived. Ukraine did not and is now being destroyed.
You repeat the Tripartite State propaganda about the actions Iran takes without question.
You don't know who the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center is funded by. No, it is NOT OK for the US and Canadian government to fund a terrorist support organization. The events you report happening in Kahrizak sound like the propaganda the Kuwaiti princes testified before congress about babies being ripped from incubators to justify aggression against Iraq.
Then you hide by saying "I'm just posting what I read". Geez, you claim to be able to think.
Lastly, IIRC you are among those who insist Israel is the tail wagging the dog. Com'on, DHDH isn't totally wrong, he's just a dick.
Exactly, there is an extremely vicious bunch of terrorists that have executed every single act from 911 to Nordstream, the bogus ISIS, barrel bombs, maidan and colour revolution executions to stir things up, the Paris bombings, Afghanistan bombings, assasinations in Russia, Turkey, Iraq...and they are most definitely Western. Definitely connected to Mossad/CIA.
Most of their work shapes fear in populations in order to polarize them. It's easier to steer a population that way. That's where the NED comes in, they first lay the groundwork to achieve the specific direction before the terrorists cause chaos. Quite simple.
The only way to work with these terrorists in your country is live ammunition, shoot to kill policy. Rather sooner than later.
It worked wonders in Syria, the Russians annihilated enormous amounts of Sen John McCain's 'moderate terrorists' and Obama tried to cover for them and Israel looked after wounded "ISIS" "moderate" jihadis in their hospitals. If Assad had the wherewithal to kill them right at the beginning, he would probably still be there in Syria.
Some people see the evil, others just prefer that the world isn't like that. Usually because religion clouds their brain, they think there is inherent good in people.
I don’t see it ending in victory for the US and Israel even the would be victors need potable and salt free water to survive and rebuild. By US and Israel controlling oil fields and ports doesn’t mean the GCC give up their sovereignty. Destruction does not open the Strait of Hormuz - if nothing else I think Iran will retain control of this waterway. Greater Israel - will be either bombed into smithereens or nuked into oblivion - remember this is an existential battle for Iran - to the death - all or nothing- we have nothing to lose - the war of words from Trump is just that words. The Iranians are focused on action and sheer survival but do not fear death. We as a culture can’t imagine the mindset of the Iranians.
This is a war to the death between the child-killers and Iran. Both countries consider it so. It has been decades in the making and now the time has come - both recognise it.
I should have been more specific mentioning 'child-killers' - I meant israel. And yes, I do believe that israel believes this is an existential war in its fevered, narcissistic mind. And though this is not a war to the death for the US, it is a bellwether of the decline of the Empire.
In a way it is. Trump was the last hope to dismantle the Uniparty Epstein network and stop the election stealing. What little chance there was for that is gone. We are left with a de facto oligarchy that will be permanently in place.
‘The Iranians are focused on action and sheer survival but do not fear death. We as a culture can’t imagine the mindset of the Iranians.’
It is difficult for us as we walked away from the traditional Nation-State structure and Iran did not. Their country – regardless of ideological and political divisions – is resting on a culture thousands of years old and Donald Duck is quacking from the position of a jew slave or servant.
Agree on all counts. But consider that the Israeli's always hold the Samson Option in their back pocket. In fact, I think they WANT to pull that card. It suits their suicidal and sadistic nature... Chip
Assuming the "Samson Option" is even real, and they have nukes in every major Western city...
They'd be doing the West a favor by pushing the button. All of the major cities have been lost to foreign invaders decades ago, and are controlled by powers foreign to their native populations.
Legitimately? I hope it's real, and they do it. Would you really be that sad if NYC, LA, and DC disappeared overnight? Honest question.
Samson Option - mmmm - somehow I see this as Israeli manipulation to get their enemies to hold back- the Iranians have shown they could inflict greater destruction on Israel but don’t up until now even without nuclear weapons; the Israeli’s on the other hand have no such compunction to hold back and with US help don’t. No one actually factors in the radiation blowback that might affect Israel if they use a nuclear weapon or the blowback in relation to other countries in the region. Kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Unfortunately predicting what two megalomaniacs might decide to do is another matter - the need to win, to have the last word, to finally achieve Israel’s goal of a Greater Israel clouds all judgement in this situation but I believe the Iranians will prevail. All the pundits feeding the nuclear frenzy don’t help but seem to feed this fire - people are deluded about the overall effects of a nuclear blast which would be horrific. Sadly there don’t seem to be any adults in the US/Israel alliance where the ‘other’ is concerned. Disdain for their own populations as well.
People in Africa died in large numbers from COVID-19. While early stories gave the impression Africa was "spared", latet research showed that infections and deaths occurred at rates similar to—and in some cases higher than—countries elsewhere.
The true number of COVID-19 deaths in the WHO African region is estimated to be 2.5 to 3.0 times higher than the reported numbers.The false narrative that Africa was untouched by the virus had led to delays in vaccine delivery, thus increasing the risk of severe disease and death.So yeah, I will continue to protect myself and those around me.
‘Covid 19 death rate in Africa was higher than initially reported’ okay - evaluate the research purporting to prove this - much research re Covid has been greatly manipulated- Where in Africa did this occur? Famine and purposely vectored diseases like the flu being introduced could cause increased deaths- reduce the immune response amongst an already compromised population and more deaths occur and use a bogus test like the PCR to measure Covid giving false positives is also a possibility used to obfuscate the results. References please and one scientific article is not sufficient proof and who conducted the research and what was their motivation? Was the goal to convince Africans to vaccinate? African leaders opposed to Covid 19 vax died as a result of their push back aka murdered. Your choice to vaccinate or to protect yourself and those around you is just that your choice - what you report here does not change my view of the whole Covid debacle.
Herd immunity not possible with ‘Covid-19 vax’ cause ‘Covid’ mutates too rapidly - no matter how many boosters you take you’ll always be behind the curve. So focus on boosting immune system naturally.
Assumes that Iran wont also destroy all jewraels desalination plants , which is an odd assumption when you think about it. Possibly due to the defeatist western leftist view that jews control everything and can’t be beaten. This is arrant nonsense and always has been as Iran is demonstrating.
If not for Golda Meir's nuclear blackmail which forced Nixon to airlift supplies to Israel, Egypt and Syria would have decisively defeated Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
Even formidable irregular forces like Hezbollah and the Houthis have proven themselves to be more than a match for the genocidal Zionist enemies of humanity.
Jewrael only exists because of the US. The US is in rapid decline internally , diplomatically, militarily and economically. It will sink with it. Sooner the better.
But, Europe, Asia, the Gulf countries, and Africa will all be very significantly worse off even if the war ends tomorrow.
The US, and the Western Hemisphere in general, will emerge as a relative economic superpower - yes, all will drop and suffer, but the West will suffer less, and US energy production will reign supreme
This war has taken OPEC off the board. And the Chinese are dear in headlights just sitting there watching it happen.
Mark my words, this war is yet again an example of teflon Don; where somehow he dives into a river of shit and comes out with a win
Considering any expendable rust bucket old freighter could host a missile launcher disguised as a shipping container, I don't see the oceans protecting the US from revenge strikes any more.
Worst case scenario is that if Iran decides to attack US assets anywhere in the world, with sufficient vigor, and traditional weapons of destruction are not sufficient to terminate Iranian aggression, only non-traditional (read "nuclear") weapons remain to neutralize Iran.
ALL industrial nations that heavily depend on oil imports are already on the wrong side of the road. The higher oil prices are pushing China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, etc. to the wall. Once the oil price hits $200/barrel they will be working for the oil producers, kind of.
AI:
China is the world leader in hydropower, holding nearly 30% of global capacity and operating four of the world's six largest dams, including the 22.5 GW Three Gorges Dam. With over 390 GW of installed capacity, these plants are critical for China's renewable energy, EV, and AI sectors, often reducing reliance on coal.
China has over half the world's installed wind and solar generation and is building 35 new nuclear power plants. How does this compare with South Korea and Japan?
The cleanest coal tech is zero coal tech. Coal is causing them lots of pain and suffering in the healthcare department. In addition they are trying to depart from oil as much as possible to gain true industrial independence. It is no accident that they diversified their oil imports long time ago, counting on events just like the attack on Iran.
People forget China is also the 4th largest producer of oil, they have a lot. They also have a huge manufacturing economy so their energy needs are high, so there is some vulnerability. Direct connection to Russian oil and a diversified energy portfolio with an economy more and more bolstered by non fossil fuel energy, China is doing fine and will come out the biggest winner of this fiasco. The other Asian nations not so much.
Being here in Asia, I'd say that it's a very different story here about China's so called "losses".
Everyone is being squeezed for oil, and China may very well end up being the gatekeeper of energy supplies into Asia, having both the Russians on top AND the Iranians demanding Yuan for oil passage.
If this goes on, even so called US allies in Japan and the Philippines WILL trade oil for yuan. It is THAT catastrophic. China is winning geopolitically on a scale that I think even they are surprised about.
To that extent the big news is the chairwoman of the KMT is heading to China for a meeting. Taiwan is extraordinarily dependent on the gulf for two things : oil, and LNG - without LNG, there is no helium, no helium, no chips, no chips, no TSMC.
The DPP party in power has NO solutions to this, and everyone is extremely worried the US WILL declare an energy embargo to stabilize US domestic prices.
If gas and oil becomes split between petroyuan and petrodollars, Taiwan may very well reuinify with China within a year without a single shot fired.
China may be squeezed, but they are the ones controlling the tap for the rest of us, and you can be sure they'll leverage that to "win bigly" as Trump likes to say.
New Zealand, having no oil refinery and hosting large Chinese investments in agriculture and forestry would bend the knee to Beijing in a heartbeat. No diesel = no economy.
The biggest concern is not the PRICE of oil so much as the PHYSICAL LACK of it.
Singapore HAS a decent stockpile (from being the third largest oil refinery in the world), but our government is being VERY hush-hush about it. The best guess is probably around 6 months. We are lending some to Australia because they need it for extraction and mineral industries, otherwise it becomes an even bigger economic problem for the region.
South Korea is almost certainly going to break the US sanctions and start buying Russian/Iranian oil in Yuan. Right now their current government is having very good relations with China, so that will likely go through.
The rest of southeast asia, except the Philippines, is likely to try to organize a bloc deal through ASEAN and negotiate with Iran directly. Iran MAY still demand yuan for oil, being that yuan is basically the only currency they can use to buy stuff, whether it's clothes or hypersonic missile fuel. But everyone is basically going to tell the USA to get stuffed with their sanctions.
The Philippines is in an extremely bad spot, where the political elite is extremely anti-China and pro-US, but they're caught in a dilemma where IF they maintain subsidies for petrol, there will be major shortages, and IF they do not, there will be price spikes and riots.
But overall, the sentiment is that we're not going to starve for Trump and Israel.
Japan is the most interesting place politically, because they have a PM who desperately wants to support Trump in her goal for remilitarization and constitutional overhaul, but her party basically overruled her in favor of direct negotiations with Iran and ensuring oil supplies.
This indicates that there is very low confidence in US production being sufficient to maintain Asian "allies" industry. Japan likes to imagine it is the Israel of Asia when it comes to a "special relationship" with the US, but I think it's sobering up that only Israel the golden child and nobody else comes anywhere close.
The reigning stupidest comment on all of Substack. WTF is that supposed to mean anyway, “look beyond the noise”? Did you use a random word generator to come up with that? There is no rational basis for any of these magical claims, just the fever dreams of the last diehard MAGA cultists, still “ trusting the plan”.
You may want to read this. Lots of talk and propaganda out there about DT being some master strategist. Unfortunately he is not. He’s just a dumbass doing what he’s told.
Utterly delusional nonsense. China and Russia are happy with the US pissing away its military and other resources against Iran. The US is a declining power, with Trump just a figure head of the US oligarchy.
So basically the POTUS is a senile sore loser with the ethics of Darth Vader and the maturity of a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. Yet in the august halls of the Imperium, no one is resorting to the 25th amendment. The sickness is far worse than the unravelling of one man, the entire system is corrupt and insane.
Google the source of this quote. You will not be disappointed. :-D
"Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid. These delusions include ideas of great wealth, immortality, thousands of lovers, unfathomable power, apocalypsis, nihilism. . ."
We probably have a different definition of "smart" or I would say we have a different definition of "stupid." I subscribe to the "stupid is as stupid does." What Trump does is surreally stupid.
That is correct. The entire system is corrupt. And that corruption has spread throughout the US empire. It's not just one corrupt man or nation, but a consortium of them. I don't recognize my own country any more.
Yes. I left my US business, career, and friends in the early 2000s, never to return. I couldn't get over what happened on a fine September morning in NYC, followed by the Patriot Act and forever wars. There should have been a rebellion, but too few understood what had happened, who did it, and why. Even fewer wanted to act. That was the last nail in the coffin of the old constitutional republic. What used to feel like home became a nightmare dystopia. It broke my heart.
That was the moment when zionist influence finally took over America. First step, 1913 and the creation of the Fed to control the money supply. Second step, the assassination of the Kennedys to establish zionist influence over the political class of America. Step three, 9/11 to abolish the influence of the American Constitution and establish control over the American military in order to fight never-ending wars against zionist enemies - during the time since to infiltrate not only at the national level through bribes, deceptions and new laws outlawing resistance to israel, but to continue the infiltration into state and local levels.
Step 2.5. The limited-hangout of BCCI corruption combined with convincing Ross Perot to run for President resulting in Mossad controlled Clinton coming to the Presidency. He was rewarded with an intern, who turned on him.
9/11 was the crime of the century committed by Bush and his friends (Israeli Mossad). Silverstein and a host of other traitors made billions off the death of thousands of US citizens, blaming it all on Osama. Welcome to America, home of the not-so-brave and quite stupid.
I left USA shortly after my graduation. Despite mouthwatering job offers, I just see it would head in a direction that I wont like. Not going to get stucked in a certain mindset just because of money.
I admire your resolve. I'm sure you didn't take those steps lightly. Time has proven that the trajectory you foresaw came to pass, unfortunately for everyone. On the bright side (I keep telling myself) is that a new world appears to be rising from the ashes of the old. May we all find peace in it.
Pretty much the same in all the vassal states. I'm sure the Globalists are all busy patting themselves on the back over the fall of Urban, but in Europe at least, their moment of triumph looks to be short as things escalate in Ireland.
so as far as you're concerened, any time you don't like the president and his politics, you simply declare him "unfit for office" and remove him to be replaced by the current vice president... bla bla bla.
No, this is entirely different and actions and discombobulated speech leading to those conclusions. It’s readily apparent, just you choose to look the other way.
This Cabinet can't invoke the 25th. Because there is no provision in the US Constitution prescribing how to twenty-five the persident AND entire cabinet and everyone else belonging to this coterie of gangsters. That's how bad it is right now with the US government-for-the-white-ultra-wealthy- zion(ats)ists-only.
You're Empirically Correct about this 'air campaign' being a dud:
Per the Rusi Numbers, The US-Israel duo have used just over 2 kilotons of TNT on Iran... this is roughly what you get when you take the 16-day data set & realistically project it outward to account for loss of sortie generation, decay rates for various munitions, etc.
Context: North Vietnam, which was 1/10 the surface area & ~1/5 the population of Iran, took over 7,000 kilotons of TNT from the US et al... & even then they didn't surrender!
Iran is being hit by 3-4 orders of magnitude *less* explosives (in mostly limited stand-off munitions) than Vietnam, Korea, etc were... this isn't a serious Strategic Bombing campaign (a la Dresden & whatnot) & so anyone who claims that America can achieve *anything at all* with such a weak, farcical & capeshit operation... needs to get his head examined! 😊 🤭
To "Bash" : Please do explain how the Western Hemisphere, ex-USA, will emerge as a "relative economic superpower." Your statements amount to gibberish.
Bring it home Iran, humanity implores that as a long civilised nation, that together the other defender of humanity, Russia.. that together two of the powerhouses of civilised culture, nations we know that are representatives of God and creator centric faiths, that you finally defeat this mental and morally indifferent supine Zionist enemy, an enemy at odds with the very tenets of humanity and belief structures that we know are central to what it is that defines you both as nation states as well as many around the world who share such belief.
Thus as the custodians of Gods righteous laws, it falls upon you the stronger amongst the nations of this world as we look to you both to take the opportunity presented to press home the defeat of this enemy of humanity….
The alternative, defeat by these worshippers of Baalam, Balac, Baal and Moloch of the liar Satan himself, the harbinger of death, destruction, chaos and suffering does not bear thinking about…time we end this bullshit and covetous behaviour wantonly perpetrated by the Epstein elites and that the world can finally be set upon its long awaited rebirth and proper course of cleansing, healing, that the nations of this world can work toward the long and much awaited peace, prosperity and living without incessant conflict.. time to put the warmongers, the grifters, chameleons and liars out of their misery, coup de grace time me thinks.. end this 500 year now flailing, colonial empire reign… just saying
Yep, bit of a whoopsie, more an emotive post borne of frustration the incessant double speak from Trump and his coterie of sycophant… I appreciate your comment, not far from actuality the above.. it does pay to take pause and a breath before belting out a reply to what is read at times may I say.. thank you anyway for at least taking the t8me to reply as you have… :)
Well I must say I feel a bit better after reading that. Today has been pretty rough on me. Feels like we are headed for hell at lightspeed. I know something better give here pretty quick. The market is hanging on by a thread and we are at $5 diesel. Wait until that price gets to $8 and prices of everything essential about double. I do have to commend Trump on his ability to stroke the markets. Talk about walking a tight rope.
Am still skeptical he can pull out tho. Israel will be toast and that’s exactly how we got into this mess in the first place. Not to mention the GCC States will be dipping on the petrodollar deal. So no good off ramps from what I can see.
I believe we may have already crossed the Rubicon anyway. Might’ve entered the biggest political crisis of a millennia. I say this not in hyperbolic fashion. Trump is only a microcosm of the problem. So many people can see now who is really calling the shots in our Nation’s capital. I believe things are going to get much worse before they get any better.
Turkiye and Pakistan would be next. This genocidal insanity won't cease until Israel is obliterated.
I’m afraid you might be right. I don’t see an off ramp either. I hope I am wrong about that. I read a very good piece on here that this whole thing was about keeping the dollar upright in an attempt to stop de dollarization. If we stop now it will most certainly continue with Iran in charge of the PG.
Death to Israel
Exactly. The USSA isn't going to get to decide when it's over. Israel and Iran are going to battle to the last man standing now. Whether the USSA bows out or not is anyone's guess. My guess is they won't, and Trump's happy talk is directed at the markets.
As an aside, I see nowhere in the MSM any info about our AWACS plane and several KC135's being blown away in Saudi Arabia. Not a peep. And not noted here by Simplicius. This should be big news even in the USSA... Chip
Mercouris covers the destruction of the E3 and several KC135 planes in detail with photos. Others have also. I post this in case others don't know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNKosvz-e4
Regarding the destroyed AWACS and other USAF planes, Simplicius already covered everything in his previous report just a few days ago.
Yes. But my point was, Simplicius did not mention that the JUSA media is completely silent about it... Chip
Israel is cooked long term.
Israel only made sense as a prosperous, liberal democracy that was an alternative to basketcase autocratic Arab states. One could be uneasy with Zionism, but still acknowledge that even the Arabs were better off in Israel than in a Baathist dictatorship.
But if Israel is going to be a warmonger that destabilizes the region, what’s the point?
The shepherd boy who stood up to Goliath eventually became the king who had a man killed so that he could take his wife.
Support for Israel in the United States correlates with age more than partisanship. Nostalgic Boomers support Israel, while younger people of both parties are more skeptical. Israel will have fewer and fewer friends in the world, and that’s a risk they can’t afford to take.
Is this consistent with your comment?:
The US's objectives in the Middle East that are separate of Israel are to control the supply of oil out of the region (including being able to cut China off) and to maintain the petrodollar. The US could work with an even quite radical Islamist government in Iran to achieve those goals.
But Israel's existence is incompatible with Iran's, since Iran is the main backer of armed resistance to Israel. One or the other would have to go for there to be peace.
The US COULD leave Israel to perish, but it won't do so because of Israel's influence on US policy.
The US, in theory, could make deals with Iran, but practically--after beating that hornets' nest for the last 75 years--it would be difficult to establish even the minimal trust needed to exploit opportunities to make lots of money together.
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Respect. 👍
It’s called the Amelek strategy in honor of its first description in the Old Testament.
Amalek wasn't human but part of a corrupted bloodline that rules western nations to this day.
Jews calling out as “inhuman” those it genocides. “We will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.” - Arnon Soffer, advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, December, 2004.
"If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist.
The only thing that concerns me is how to ensure that the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings"
‘Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz’
Translated for 4th graders: Orange is capitulating to Iran. (Persian translation: The backstabber is doing it again…)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-ee950ad4
And yet the consequences of the war of aggression are fabulous for money changers. The Vampire Squid always wins in wars.
There should be special taxation of bankers and other war profiteers during wars
Trump could do a complete 180.
It depends on who last whispered in his ear.
Not seeing a path to Midterm Victory now - no matter what he decides.
He is seen as a Betrayer by enough of the Decider Votes, both so-called Maga and non Maga Independents.
The Democrats could not wash the stench from themselves in the last election, and Trump bathing blissfully in an open Israeli sewer doesn't...uhh...wash with most of the US public.
Oh. What about the gangrenous Elephant in the closet?
Trump pulls out and Iran still smashes Israel into rabbit pellets?
I don't think that is a problem. If Israel and the US stop bombing Iran probably will too. The real problem is Iran will be in firm control of the strait of Hormuz. That is the problem. The US can't spin that as a victory. Anybody with at least one functioning braincell will know the US lost
As we have seen during corona the people will swallow a lot before they choke.
Some months ago, Trump turned tail and left Israel at the mercy of Ansar Allah.
Then he (and the whore media) simply ignored the fact they never stopped bombing Israel.
Could happen again with Iran
I doubt Iran will ever stop hitting the US bases, unless totally abandoned.
Not going to happen. Third carrier is on its way.
This clearly shows that President Trump switched sides. First he offered Iran full control of the Strait of Trump and a few days later he is sending them expensive moving targets for their military exercises. Brilliant tactics.
If things were only that simple. Its cute that you think this is all Trump's plan and that hes running things.
this may sound awful but i'm rooting for Iran. i'd love to see the USA leave with it's tail between it's legs and a good shiner. i'm tired of living in an Empire; i just want to try living in a country for a change!
It doesn’t sound awful at all. It sounds like you are a thinker and not a follower. I salute you and also eagerly await the end of the empire 😉
It ‘s tough . How do you root against your own interests.
I don’t approve of what Trump did . Mostly because he lied to me .
What I want is for him to withdraw and say “ I made a mistake . It’s on me . I’m cutting my losses and will know better in the future “ . Of course that won’t happen …but it should
I fail to see how this war is in my interest or in the interest of any American. Digging ourselves further into debt so we can steal someone else’s oil when we could pay for it cheaper? Yes, sadly I don’t see Trump admitting the error
Agree, Carolyn. One of the goals is to open Hormuz. As an analyst said: But it WAS open before! Again, note how people have made money on the basis of Trump's proclamations - obviously insider trading but..... Will anyone be investigated? Even if Trump was impeached? I wouldn't bet on it.
As to making money - it's not you and me who have made anything. Nor anyone else. Note how the third largest buyers of Bentleys in Europe is..... Ukrainians! All on our money.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/bentley-kiev-third-place-retail-seller
Only third?
Yes, it would be cheaper in terms of lives and money to engage in trade.
But it would also deprive the MIC of their ill gotten profits and undercut the power of the parasitic financial cabals that have been ruling FUSA since 1913.
91 years ago, General Smedley Butler warned us that any war, aside from those of defending U.S. territories and the USC, were rackets.
Until the internal parasite is removed, the American economy and nation will continue to be on life-support until pronounced.
What an embarrassment. A tiny, murderous foreign country, with its infiltrated agents, leads Americans around like a whipped puppy.
FFS. When will the US wake up?
They won't "wake up", the fact is that at least 30% of non-Jewish Americans essentially believe the exact same things as their Zionist Jewish-American countrymen, and Israelis. They are full throated supporters of genocide and imperialism. 30% is huge, that's enough to keep the political ship of Empire floating for a long, long time.
Things might have just gotten more daunting for any FUSA ground forces.
Rumors are circulating that Chechnya may deploy it's Akhmat Sptesnaz forces to Iran if it's invaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl-2Be_SZcE
Hopefully, Simplicius can confirm that either way in future columns.
And aussies too -our PM has been berated publicly for not towing the line and introducing (more) extremist laws to restrict free speech and debate.
Oddly enough shortly after that *boom* - in a country with virtually no gun crime a gun massacre takes place.
100%. Not sure that genie is ever going back in the bottle.
Too many people make too much money off of war.
Think of it - a $1 trillion war budget. For a supposedly civilized country.
It's so upside down, yet so accepted.
Bigger Bolder Better #yuge #numbers
Obviously inflation leads to exponentional increase
of said numbers. More is better! Until it is not.
its 3% of GDP, its relatively small. It was 2x that in the 1980's and 3x that in the 1960's.
thanks for the mention of Gen Butler. I knew of the foiled regime change plot by Prescott Bush v Roosevelt but didnt know the name of the General who foiled their plans.
US foreign policy is based on full spectrum dominance. It is about empire. Controling resource flows, maintaining the petrodollar and the Carter doctrine. Losing is going to cause a massive shift in the global economy.
US foreign policy is about looting other peoples' natural resources.
goldhoarder is also right - US will quickly go bankrupt if the petrodollar gets replaced or even weakened substantially.
Only thing stopping bankruptcy is maintaining petrodollar and as u said looting other countries for collateral to keep their financial system going.
Saudis just signed 10 yr contract with Ukraine 4 weapons after the Trump insult so thats not a good start. If Iran starts getting paid in yuan for its oil thats the start of a slippery slope.
The US has never done that, they never colonized like Europe or the UK, history please. Because one can go purchase and engage in trade is not looting.
That's why they won't lose here.
No matter what happens the machine will grind on, chewing up other countries around the globe.
I've seen no evidence of circumspection in our leaders.
No circumspection certainly. The raw facts should have been enough to prevent Trump from committing to this second war. It seems they are convincing him somewhat, now.
Unless you own an oil company or a gas transit company, no, it's not in your interest.
However Trump cares nothing for the dumb chumps he rules over and everything for himself.
Stock market exists. I love everyone saying the stock market at ATH's does not affect them. when they are too lazy to learn how to invest.
none of them do
You obviously do not live in the USA or are one of the many that suffer from TDS.
Calling something "TDS" is a primr example of a thought terminating cliche.
Iran having nukes and contining to threaten all their neighbors, promising to wipe Israel off the map, plus threatening the US for the last 47 years was of zero concern. Yep, it's all to be ignored until they have a nuke then what do you do then? I never see an answer to this question but maybe you will offer one. When they hold the area hostage how many millions of lives are you willing to sacrifice.
iran has not threatened the US for 47 years. US propaganda talking point that you mindlessly repeat because your mind isn't free at all. it's all filled with junk "info." it's Isr**l that is constantly threatening it's neighbors, not Iran. maybe go to Lebanon for a bit and see what they are doing their with their Biblical land grab and what they intend for egypt, saudi arabia and all the other countries they intend to steal parts of. ah yes, already making noise about Turkey being the "new" Iran. my guess is that they might be more responsible stewards of nuclear weapons than the USA has been
If the US ended its array of global bases, and reduced military spending, security on US mainland would be unaffected because it is protected by two oceans. The endless wars benefit billionaires but not the 99%. Sometimes your interests and the interests of your government do not align.
Isn't US security best enhanced by being recognized as a den of thieves that no one wants to deal with?
Without the aggressive extortion of US military presence demanding tribute from the world, what will the US be other than a depleted husk of self-righteous Christians, living in a cult, preyed upon by Zionist Billionaires? How long before those deluded fools understand how the criminals stole their hopes and dreams?
Perhaps we might look to Britain.
Unlike Britain the US has resources. A lot of them. Yes, you would live poorer, when you will be forced to live on your own money, but still, there are all the possibilities to build a good life without raping the rest of the world. For the US I mean, Britain is screwed
Britain?
Dude, take away the United States and britain goes from America's Special Little Buddy to a flavor-challenged backwater where they never shut up about long-past glories and Male Buggery.
I might have been more careful in expressing my thought. It was obvious to me at the time.
"Perhaps we might look to Britain as an example of what happens to a nation's political-economy when citizens fail to gain control over their 'Epstein Class'."
I was in Britain several years ago. It was so confusing!
Britain's "Zionist Billionaires" occupy the "City of London" the home of the Rothschild's bank. Several pundits I've listened to excoriate "the City of London". Enough that were Iran to have a missile that could reach that far, I'd suggest about 10 of them might free us from the Capitalist Oligarchy/Deep State. Kind of a "scythes and pitchforks" moment.
Hope that explains my point.
England is already a "flavor-challenged backwater..."
The rest of Europe appears to be following closely behind.
Have you watch Kaja Kallas make a speech? She's stupid. She attained her position because she's stupid. Same reason Kamala rose to become the VP.
The "Epstein Class" determines who achieves high positions in government now. Trump's cabinet for example. Did you see Finkelstein's evaluation. "The Horror, the horror!"
2 out of 3 Billionaires are of the Dual-Citizen persuasion.
Notice how you have Personally Guaranteed the US National Debt but that Dual Citizen passport lets the rest escape.
It will be like when George Dubya Bush closed all American Airports after 911, so that his senior partners in Saudi Arabia escaped in their private jets.
There's a reason the American People are treated like cattle. Because that is what the Epstein Caste believe you are. Are they right?
A Polish ant (a "mrowka") pointed out that the United States would be infinitely better off and *safer* if it stopped wasting money propping up an empire.
And this was a Pole, a mrowka raised in communist Poland, aka, the most reflexively pro-American people on the planet.
Why the need for belittling insults ? Do you feel inadequate in some manner ?
"Mròwka" is not an insult to a mrówka.
what insults? I come from PL and do not feel offended in any way by the post above. Why should I?
Should I understand it to mean that it’s enough for you if Trump simply says he made a mistake, and that all the killing and destruction are therefore somehow okay? Or what exactly do you mean? That if U.S. citizens aren’t being killed, then nothing is really happening?
Just a reflexive, subjective sentiment.
My uneducated guess.
That was always the way the empires worked. Things that for others were equipped with lethal consequences, the empire can do w/o and say I am sorry. Just see how the shooting at the civilian airplanes or extrajudicial killing or any other nonsense that the US. That they punished the whistleblower revealing among other things the names of some agents is probably understandable but that they did not punish anybody for the crimes these whistleblowers revealed tells us all we need to know about the evil character of the empire.
He made no mistakes… His owners and puppeteers desperately need a war to prompt the dying financial system that relies currently on the disunited giant on the feet of clay.
When an empire falls, the inhabitants of its core, contrary to what might be intuitive, are also relieved of the pressure from the parasite that sucks the blood of the entire world. Therefore, imperial collapse will also benefit the inhabitants of the core, who will move to a normal country in a potentially healthier society.
...and just forget about the 38 million people their country has killed since 1970? https://www.eurasiareview.com/16102025-the-silent-holocaust-38-million-dead-and-the-western-sanctions-regime-oped/
Of course not, but it's a consideration of a different level. I'm not saying we should forget the millions of deaths caused by Western imperialism; it's impossible to forget such barbarity. I'm saying that the ordinary residents of the central provinces of this empire live crushed under the same boot, and that the collapse of the empire is not to their detriment, but to their advantage.
*cough* Epstein. *cough*
Ah, musta been a hairball.
Do you recall that poem "The Woman and The Snake", that he read
several times, while on the campaign trail?
The voters were the woman, Trump was the snake.
"ABC easy as 123" - Jackson Five, 1970
" I don’t approve of what Trump did . Mostly because he lied to me . "
They all have been lying to you for decades. Trump is just the latest manifestation.
I agree with Carolyn. As a non-American its hard 2 understand why ordinary US citizens largely back its warmongering. Especially now more info and perspectives are available thru social media.
U cheer on ur soldiers murdering foreign civilians and blowing up hospitals like ur barracking 4 a football team.
Ur soldiers aren't serving their country- theyre serving british/ european bankers, oligarchs , multi-nationals, the mic and that terrorist state all western leaders are afraid of.
Taxpayers pay for the military, obese and torpid from gorging on payments that would be better used to fund ur dwindling community services.
And yeah as an aussie we've joined u in the swamp via the hundreds of billions we'll be spending on AUKUS. Poor fellow my country.
We must suffer through this, regardless of cost:
Cutting out a cancer is painful.
But we can't leave our descendants at the mercy of these demons.
We must be better than the self-centered boomers - who have done everything possible to curse the lives of their grandchildren
How tiresome! I’m the enemy cuz I’m 66. Not because I didn’t have a pot to piss in for 35 years, and no window to throw it out of anyway. No, my crime is to have been born in 1960. Assholes like you suck ass.
I'm 68
😂 touché!
I like the detail of not having had a pot to piss in for 35 years.
"... and no window to throw it out anyway."
But instead of then reflecting on his current station, we get the
year he was born in?
Sounds bootstrappy. But what to make of these statements.
"Boomers" refers to a generation. You're either part of it or you're not.
Cutting out the Jew/Zionism from the fake "Christian" America, you mean?
exactly!
Right. You could have phrased it more directly so. I wasn't sure what you meant; one could read into your post something like: "we have to see it through. Trump started the war on Iran, and that was bad, and he shouldn't have. But now we cannot do other, and we now must finish this war victoriously, even if it is painful. We must sacrifice American soldiers and sailors, waste their lives to re-open the Strait. We must keep doing the bidding of the Jew and remain the World No 1 military power." -- I know that's not what you meant, but your first post wasn't as clear or direct on this.
The good doctor is here to correct us all. Golly! Thanks!
very good.
thanks
I'm 72; does that make me a "self-centered boomer?" sorry, I worked very hard my entire life, opened a business, bought some ruined houses and restored them, eventually bought the commercial loft that housed my business and sold it when I closed the business to pay off all my debts.
yes, now I'm collecting social security which is money that was confiscated from me against my will while I was working. I rent out a house and 2 apartments to support myself and we keep them in very good order without gouging the tenants.
obviously I am on medicare (you have very little choice actually) but I've only used it when I was hit by a texting driver on my way to a private strength training class. I go to acupuncturists and naturopaths- doctors who don't participate in the fraudulent insurance system. I pay out of pocket for the kind of medical care I believe in. I exercise and work in my garden. I grow great organic vegetables and give most of them away to neighbors to foster community. I source all our meats and raw milk from local regenerative farmers and do all our cooking, yogurt making, etc.
I am landscaping the yard myself and have tiled the fireplaces with antique tiles that I shopped on eBay.
I had a job that I was born to do and would still be doing it except that I was fired after 40 years for not taking a covid shot. I have never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. I don't have routine medical exams or flu shots. I'm about the cheapest 72 year old you can imagine in terms of burdening the taxpayers (of which I am one!).
my boyfriend is hale and hearty at 78. he's up on 30 ft ladders repairing our roof leaks. he was on one drug for his high blood pressure but our naturopath suggested he take a 30 minute walk every evening. he's been able to wean off the drug.
I was on one drug for my lung damage (and old formaldehyde exposure) but I took it only once every other day instead of twice a day. I use a GoodRx card to purchase it.
during covid (we stockpiled IVM and helped some really sick friends avoid the hospital by giving them some of our stash) I started nebulizing glutathione and have been able to cut my use of the drug almost to nothing. a one month cartridge lasts me over a year.
I took care of my father here at home until he died in his bed 6 weeks shy of his 96th birthday. as a young man, he had run up Utah beach on D Day.
I don't know what more I can do to avoid being categorized as a "self-centered boomer."
Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points often criticizes people my age for not selling their houses as if I'm obligated to sell my house so a young person can buy it. Fuck it- I intend to die in this house and give it to some friends who love it as much as we do!
it's hardly my fault that the US is constantly at war and drowning in debt
The number 72 doesn't make you a self-centred Boomer. Rather, what makes you a self-centred Boomer is this: "sorry, I worked very hard my entire life, opened a business, … blah blah blah, I did …, I …, then I …, …me…, …me …, then I …". Wall-o-text. Quite the textbook example here!
Also the fact that you take every criticism of "the Wicked Generation" as a personal insult to yourself. Most likely deservedly so, so you're probably not wrong there.
Finally, it evidences that Boomer women are even worse than the B00mer men. As if anybody of us Gen X (and younger, I presume) needed reminding of that!
"Boomer women are even worse than the B00mer men"
I never felt I had anything against GenX people, but after having read that I have the overwhelming impression that they're "even worse than" Boomers, male or female, could possibly be--whatever your beef is against them. And all because of one asshole. That goes to prove that it's just plain stupid to make any sort of overall judgement about a whole generation...
What else are we all on the planet for, if not suffering!
I'm 66 as well and I have virtually nothing in common with most of my peers.
I am unable to talk about money matters, like investments, petty gambling, as Normies do, nor give two shits about real estate if its not about buying a home to live in.
Boomers, Demographic Bulge, Yuppies, Dinks... do I hear some animosity?
I most certainly have some for my demo group.
I feel exactly the same way. I voted for no new wars. We can’t just go claim their oil. I also am rooting against Israel
BC they have been brutal to the Palestinians, and Gaza is heartbreaking:
I too voted for no new wars . Sean Ryan had Joe Kent on yesterday and was noticeably pissed off at Trump . I am angry as well .
I can ‘t root against my own country . I want him to leave admit defeat and end this . And say “ I ____ up “ ..
I have been waiting for him to do that with OWS and hold those people accountable for the Covid vaxxines. I’m not against my country, I am extremely disappointed Trump got pulled into Israel’s war. At this point I’m anti Israel. And anti American for bombing 280 medical facilities and 600 schools.
I am furious at Trump. I don’t think he will admit defeat.
I am really really livid with Israel.
I blame israel. They are bringing the whole world down with them.
Yes but ultimately he made the decision. Let’s face it, this has been BiBi’s wet dream for 4 decades but other presidents somehow resisted. Every war game exercise has showed that this would be a disaster but Trump is only listening to his bubble.
I wouldn’t be too unhappy if isr**l is blown off the map
I agree .. good start! To peace.
Isreal blew itself off the map, because its population will simply leave over the next couple of years. Living conditions in most parts of Isreal must be hell, so why stay there? Only the most hardened Zionists will stay, whoever can afford to leave will ultimately do that. Why stay in a country, where the next war is always around the corner and risk to lose everything (again)? Better start new somewhere else. That's what their population is going to do, I bet on that.
Agreed. And despite Trump and the Zionist monkeys in Congress, the only way for US support for Israel to go from here is downwards. More and more Americans are noticing how their country has been hijacked by Zionist whackjobs.
How many will stay because the Israeli reputation as "Homicidal Maniacs" (Norman Finkelstein) has made it impossible for them to go anywhere else?
That's a problem for me. I do NOT want them to flee and come to Europe, to Germany, to England. They either need to stay in Israel (and to be joined there by their ((Washington)) tribesmen), or go elsewhere; but not back to Europe, no way!
Jews make up 2% of the US population but 40% of American billionaires.
There are about 1000 American billionaires making up 0.0003% of the US population.
Billionaires are criminals, con-men, and self-indulgent frauds.
They hide behind Israel as they steal America's wealth.
Israel is not the tail that wags the dog. It is a deception used by the "Epstein Class" to continue to preach "Capitalism" to the gullible. People who refuse to accept responsibility for their own ignorance, that allowed them to indulge in their own selfishness, lean heavily on the, "It's all Israel's fault", crutch. They just didn't want to know.
welcome to capitalism! (Stalin and Marx are smirking in their graves)
"Billionaires are criminals, con-men, and self-indulgent frauds."
Some of them are, but not all of them and not anywhere near the majority of them.
I know a few billionaires, some in Russia and some in the US. What's interesting is that the billionaires I know in both countries all made their money by finding an unserved need and filling it.
None of them broke the law to do that, none of them made their money by fooling people, and every one of them worked very hard to achieve what they did, usually working very hard for a relatively long time, years.
All of the billionaires I happen to know are "self-made" billionaires. I also know a few very rich people who inherited their wealth, but none of those are billionaires.
But a quick look at billionaires who inherited their wealth shows that what you said isn't true. A good example are the heirs to Sam Walton's fortune. Sam Walton was the man who created Walmart. He wasn't a criminal, he wasn't a con man and he wasn't a self-indulgent fraud.
He was a very hard working man who thought smaller and rural communities throughout the US were under-served by retail chains, so he created Walmart. It was a classic "find a need and fill it" success story. To the end of his life he lived a simple life in a modest house and drove himself in a pickup truck along with his dogs. When somebody asked him why he wasn't driving a Rolls Royce he responded along the lines of, "What, I'm going to drive my dogs around in a damned Rolls Royce?" He knew exactly who he was and stayed true to his roots without any fakery.
His kids and grandson, Rob, Jim, Alice, Christy (wife of a deceased son) and Lukas (grandson) have inherited vast fortunes, typically $100 billion, and by all accounts not a one of them is a criminal, con-man, or self-indulgent fraud. Instead, they all are well known as very decent people who do a lot of philanthropy. Alice, for example, founded an art museum and Lukas invests in sustainable agriculture and sustainable energy.
The problem with Marxists is that they tell lies about people who have improved their lot in life by being productive, denying how more or less capitalist systems have been very successful at raising billions of people out of poverty and starvation into a better lives, all while systems that are more or less Marxist / Communist / Socialist have been very successful at consigning billions of people into death, starvation, and second class lives.
"the billionaires I know in both countries all made their money by finding an unserved need and filling it.
None of them broke the law to do that, none of them made their money by fooling people, and every one of them worked very hard to achieve what they did, usually working very hard for a relatively long time, years."
I can confirm John. While I don't travel in billionaire circles, I know, through close relationships, a few people who are millionaires. A couple at least worth tens of millions of dollars. They have an ability to work much, much harder than the average- a work ethic that would blow your mind. Typically (the ones I know) they come from hard scrabble backgrounds- to lower middle class. (sons of farmers, factory workers and mail men). They all have what is quaintly called focus. The ability to roll out of bed and do the same thing they did in last week's 80 hours. Year after relentless year. Is there a modicum of luck? Sure: commonly said as "right place, right time". They are community minded, generous and typically modest to a fault.
They also employ many in high- paying jobs.
These people, are natural leaders. Remove them and you end up with the likes of Biden, Kamala or the Orange idiot savant/stable genius running our shit off a cliff. These talentless carnival barkers are in gov't for the main chance...the big grift and long con. Cf the likes of Hunter Biden, the Ukrainian gas company executive. The book The Millionaire Next Door <<link>>is a good source for a closer look who are the quiet heroes who do the heavy lifting, quietly in the background. They're too honest to dirty themselves in national politics. YMMV.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-millionaire-next-door-the-surprising-secrets-of-americas-wealthy-by-thomas-j-stanley-wd-danko/246982/item/4519234/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=high_vol_midlist_standard_shopping_customer_acquisition_20381777654&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=666157863328&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20381777654&gbraid=0AAAAADwY45g-PBfpthUq3JMP8SOw1V0iJ&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4a3OBhCHARIsAChaqJMb055zpJuzoo0iX9pZKx3xNDeSXt0fK9rrDC8l02p2lnNvelOmeVEaAiaJEALw_wcB#idiq=4519234&edition=2245669
Perhaps I should have said "All -American- Billionaires" since that was the sample I was using.
However, you would be hard-pressed to convince me that any Russian who became a Billionaire after the fall of the USSR was anything other than an "opportunist" who took advantage of people. You might be able to rebut that point by saying, "If he didn't do it 'justly', then the next guy would have done it more 'deceitfully'." Yeah, I'm always going to root for the "lesser crook".
This is not a fully formed argument since it is much more complicated than can possibly be expressed in a couple of sentences.
Let's take Warren Buffet for example. He has an excellent reputation as "everybody's grandfather." Yet, at one time he owned the railroad that poisoned East Palestine, OH. Why did he sell it? Because he knew "something would happen" and he got out before he was left holding the bag. I find that deceitful. Others can argue the point to defend him. Again, a debate that can't be resolved in only a couple of sentences.
"Not breaking the law" is hardly my definition of a "fine upright human being." Now we have a third area that covers vast expanses of philosophy and religion.
I have no problem with people working hard being rewarded. That is how it should be. Even the Mondragon Co-ops recognize this. The questions become: what did they to achieve that reward; who determined what the reward should be; how did he reward those who assisted him in his success?
Funny you should mention Wal-Mart. Let me knock that one down immediately. This is deceitful and dishonest and a lie. Apparently to you this is "just how capitalism works". And I'll exclaim, "Eureka, he gets it!"
"Reports indicate that Walmart workers cost taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance annually, highlighting the gap between their earnings and the cost of living."
Sam Wal-Mart instituted a way to undermine local businesses and destroy the local economy.
There are many other condemnations of War-Mart, but this one should be more than enough.
Have you ever watched the TV-show, "Ozark"? Marty and his wife were widely known as: "very decent people who do a lot of philanthropy."
And since Charlie Kirk's assassination still hasn't been resolved, maybe we should look at Robert Shillman's philanthropy. (I had to put this article in. I want to remind folks that Blumenthal is a Jew and a hero to me.)
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/22/israel-tpusa-donor-terminated-kirk/
Your characterization of Marxism, which I didn't bring up, is misleading. You slur them all as liars and cheats without evidence.
There is a difference between "Industrial Capitalism", which accomplished some amazing feats of development** and "End-State Capitalism", which is the state of the USA right now. Right now the US economic system is "consigning [b]millions of people into death, starvation, and second class lives."
China defines its economy as "Socialism with Chinese characteristics". Those who insist it is "Capitalist" have no understanding of what they mean. Yes Chinese businesses turn a profit. I mean "duh!"
China's last recession was in 1979. The US capitalists engineer a recession every 4-7 years. And I do mean "engineer". See Dylan Ratigan's Covid Money Talks on Jimmy Dore. "The greatest upward transfer of wealth in the history of the world."
China's GDP has grown at 5% since 1979. The US is lucky to grow 2%
A new ranking system shows that China has 6 of the top 10 universities in the world. Capitalists have a vested interest in ignoring that ranking system.
China has build over 11,000KM of high-speed rail. The US -- none.
China has a literacy rate of 100% among its young people. US literacy is full of qualifications and exceptions.
The consummate greed of Capitalism is well under control of a Chinese political system that over all protects society as a whole.
The Chinese execute their billionaires who commit extreme fraud. Michael Milken got to keep most of his billions. The Sacker family caused the deaths of maybe 1M Americans. Are they in jail? No, their wealth is suppose to be over $10B. Justice?
The evidence is in, the judgement determined. American capitalists are frauds and if not unlawful criminals -- moral criminals. They care only about themselves.
**The TV show, "Hell on Wheels" dramatizes how Industrial Capitalism built the transcontinental railroad. At the end, when Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, founder of the Union Pacific, was before Congress under investigation; Bohannan testified in his defense which I'll paraphrase, "Yes Durant is a liar, a thief and a crook, but the railroad would not have been built without him." China doesn’t need the crooks, why does the USA?
I've seen the same thing. I have known a few. They were smart, driven and simply lived their business. Most made a new customer for life out of practically everyone they met.
Senator Joe McCarthy called. He wants his anti-socialist boilerplate back.
When I was young in Slovenia we had a bakery delivering bread to stores in the region. There were 140 mostly family stores we delivered. It is now just 3 chains or so. What I wanted to say is, this business was centralized and a big annual part of money flow with it. Besides that now 3 people decide what you are offered based often just price/profit margins. It is not only a business but also consumer "education", food standards, selling locally produced has less customers or place to sell, the power to get lower prices from producers/farmers, controlling what is imported ( we get only Adria region (b) oranges here... ). A big part of your life and decision making power in few people. Whole branches, manufacturing exported and tariffs are not a complete solution. No one making even shoes, clothes or whatever anymore. Still consumer demand is wanting unique, quality wares... but are going for Gucci etc. Marxism, Capitalism or whatever... Centralization of this power is the problem...and the society decades behind in evolving with time - not valuing those things. I understand fully it enables going to Mars and...well they payed 50% income for what they have. They are above the countries; the mechanisms of people are not working. With it also control and decision making is not even an internal mechanism with local basic interests for the country or individuals.
The future probably is even more in this direction; less people will have more power, capital working on top of laws and order they decide themselves. Actually I know exactly how it will look like given time and technology. Soon those individuals will have their own mechanical armies like in star wars... Islands are not the hottest things anymore since the Boring company/ies likely provide much more comfort in privacy.
Just a thought you can continue. It is so broken systemically in a way that...it would require a channel for it and not a post. It is like with politics. If you think it is about left and right are already...the above mentioned educated consumer.
Rooting for Iran in this war isn't rooting against your country if your country is the US. This is an illegal war under US law, and rooting for the defeat of the criminals who started it is just as patriotic as rooting for police officers if Trump and his gang got together to rob banks in Belgium or Switzerland by storming out of cars wearing masks and toting machine guns.
That criminals in Congress go along with these crimes doesn't make them any less criminal. The Constitution clearly says in black and white that only Congress can start wars and Congress didn't start this one.
Criminals in Washington hide behind the War Powers Act, but that's just a regular law: acting under that law is unconstitutional. It is well established law that the Constitution cannot be amended by a simple majority vote of Congress and the Senate, that is by a regular law. You have to jump through significant hoops to amend the Constitution. You can't just pass a regular law that says "oh, this part of the Constitution no longer applies."
So all this talk that the President can start wars so long as they last only 60 days is simply criminal. That's not what the Constitution says.
For that matter, there are also plenty of regular laws that are being broken, perhaps the most important being those laws that make it illegal for the US to assist or fund any country which has developed nuclear weapons in contravention of the Non Proliferation Act. That's Israel, and that the US provides massive support to Israel is simply criminal.
So no, it's not treason or unpatriotic to insist the US follow its own laws. It's not immoral or unpatriotic to want to see criminals who break US law to commit war crimes to be defeated either.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
A glib comment, but one that tends to surface in corrupt former empires where too many people are grifters and trying to present oneself as patriotic is just another grift.
You can say the same about so many other positive human qualities. Try it by inserting words into:
"[insert here] is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
Try words like "Humanity," "Honesty," "Freedom," "Fairness," "Compassion," and so on and you can always find a situation where such cynicism is spot on.
But that doesn't mean that patriotism or other positive human qualities doesn't matter. Patriotism in Iran is one of the main glues that is holding the country together despite the overwhelming onslaught by the US and Israel. Patriotism helped the Vietnamese defeat the US, patriotism helped the American colonies free themselves from England and patriotism is helping Russia to win the vicious war the US and its stooges started in Ukraine.
Patriotism in this case is used as a ploy on emotions, a tearjerker. "My country, right or wrong".
Sean Ryan was a Trumper hold-out until this latest fuckery.
The odds of that are zero.
He still has the gall to present himself as the father of the C0vid V-cine.
Humble pie is not his thing - never was.
Strange that the US needed Trump to become a different and hopefully a better country for a long time to come.. As a believer, I think it is an act of God.. The US and the world are not going to be the same after the horror of Trump's administration in my view. (from Johannesburg)
I sure hope you you are right
Gods Will … not much choice of candidates. I voted for Trump hoping he’d go after deep state.
Fed reserve. Actually no wars.
Yes... The lack of a better choice is God's will as I see it.. There's a story about Gengis Khan the Mongol invading Baghdad and reducing it to rubble.. When asked what the reason was by the inhabitants, he rplied, "Allah's retribution for transgression"... Trump is a man who is reducing the US to rubble spiritually and otherwise so that she can become new.. (from Johannesburg)
Interesting story, but it's completely fake. Genghis Khan was not a Muslim. Genghis Khan practiced traditional Mongolian shamanism (Tengrism), focusing on the worship of the sky god Tenger.
If you are religious I understand your voting for Trump, you are already programmed to believe claims without evidence, never really expecting the proposed results and quite willing to rationalize why they never happened..
1st term no wars. Am religious. Do think Trump is a great liar. Also voting the other candidate was pathetic.
UN programming still. Thinking all the politicians are the same uniparty. The owners pull their strings.
We can agree that there was no good or even less bad candidate in the last election.
The fallout is going to be monumental. The GOP will be destroyed in the mid-terms and the Dems may well win in 2028. Then let the fun begin.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Maybe there will be a rock and roll revival.
Pete Townsend was a communist.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-the-who-song/
Daltry at 81
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J5yycgBm-PE
It might get worse. As there is NO government solution to the mess and the downward direction on which this country is headed. Our government is completely dysfunctional in every respect and the corruption is in our faces and over the top. A brief reminder of Convid and fast forward through Bribem and Trump and you understand the picture... Chip
Don’t forget Lebanon and soon, up on the roster, Turkey!
Unfortunately Israel has a voracious appetite for land
And perhaps they lose it all.
Isreal blew itself off the map, because its population will simply leave over the next couple of years. Living conditions in most parts of Isreal must be hell, so why stay there? Only the most hardened Zionists will stay, whoever can afford to leave will ultimately do that. Why stay in a country, where the next war is always around the corner and risk to lose everything (again)? Better start new somewhere else. That's what their population is going to do, I bet on that.
You can't run a country without population ... 🤔
I’ve read 3 million have left. Understand there were 9 million but not certain. One commentator said Israelis have been spending nights in bomb-shelters.
I agree that they might all go!
It would be devastating to endure such conditions.
From my pov they just got way too greedy and violent with wanting more land and starting 8 wars … well they are in a bad situation. Not all of them are bad, but all will suffer. Iran will not stop their missiles.
3 million Jews left? Not all of those 9 million are Jews, so if 3 million Jews left, that would be almost half of the Jewish population.
Wolfgang, I believe that significant numbers are moving to Cyprus, buying up both housing and commercial properties.
Also Greece now
Argentina as well.
Not sure what to make of the ongoing depopulation of the Ukraine
in this regard,
Remember the polls that reveal the the vast majority of Israeli's think the genocide in Gaza is appropriate or not enough, a few are against it, many will stay because they are propagandized from birth to KNOW they are 'god's chosen people', everyone else must be subservient to them and the Palestinian Muslims, Christians and all the rest are just vermin to be removed. Same idea as the wonderful 20th century German supremacists.
The genocidal supremacist Zionist state is the mad dog of West Asia, you know what the solution is for a mad dog..............
You are definitely not alone, he will crash the economy, world wide, but I'm willing to accept that just to straighten out world politics and order.
Unfortunately I believe economic crash is part of their plan - and likely the very purpose of this war :-(
However - just because it is part of their plan doesn't mean that things will turn out as they hope :-)
I agree plan A crash economy world wide.
I think they drastically underestimated Iran tho who has decided not to play nice.
"They -knew-" this would happen.
As Gerald Callente says, "When all else fails, they take you to war."
FDR engineered the US entry into WWII.
The Vietnam war was to import narcotics into the USA. Afghanistan, same thing. It isn't just "coincidence" that when the US invades a country, that nation becomes a top producer of heroin.
I don't believe Celente is correct to predicate his claim with "when all else fails". I believe that war is the successful culmination of their strategies - a result which they aim for and regularly impose on us as a core part of their plan.
Israel was not the one that came up with "Mowing The Lawn"
as being a viable strategy.
But rather the research of the Carnegie Foundation, that
pointed to war as an overriding agent of change.
There was at the time speculation that Johnson got into the war to support Hughes Aircraft that had large facilities in Texas, the CIS just found out that the 'Golden Triangle' was called that for a reason and it gave them a source of near unlimited and untraceable funds, same for Afghanistan. I suspect the CMIC is largely responsible but does work hand in hand with the CIA, et al.
There are a lot of "CIS". I'm guessing though you meant CIA.
There are also many CMICs
However, if you want more on Drugs, the Note below will take you to Aaron Good's excellent talk on the "tri-partite" state and how the 3 biggest profit centers are: Oil, War, and Drugs. He also talks a bit about how Howard Hughes got control of many Las Vegas casinos taking them over from the mob (although I speculate this might have been to cover for the mob) LBJ was extremely "mobbed up". Good also explains that Las Vegas was founded to launder drug money from Mexico.
Also, remember Gary Webb and his Dark Alliance series. (easy to find)
and Oliver North supporting the contras in Nicaragua.
The Tripartite state consists of: the Public State that you see; the Security State that does things that are illegal to ensure the continued hegemony of the state; and the "Dark State" which includes organized crime.
Johnson wanted the USS Liberty sunk as a false-flag operation so that Israel could attack Egypt.
https://substack.com/@fijirefugee/note/c-235488354
I doubt they underestimated Iran, although it is possible. I think that they planned for and seek America's humiliation at this time.
Looks like USA Israel and iran are all getting humiliated… along with the gulf states.
Israel is tasting what Palestinians have been dealing with since forever.
chaos seems to be the objective.
Is it the oil? The nuclear material? The straight? Or the regime change?
The whole world will suffer bc of these reckless decisions. Covid 2.0 genocide
Ongoing.
I believe - obviously I am speculating - that they intend to portray a multipolar world as a prelude to one world government through globalist institutions (the tower of Babel). For this to work they must move away from the unipolar hegemon model which they employed before they had tightened their grip on the rest of the world. The apparent military defeat of America is therefore necessary.
It won’t stay together without the reserve currency intact. Best to live in a fairly conservative state when it comes crashing down. Just a thought.
Yeah, most of the conservative states can't sink any lower, there's no where to sink to when you're at the bottom.
You don’t want to be in any city when the petrodollar gives way. You especially do not want to be in the company of people who have coddled criminals when the system revolts. Conservatism generally embraces natural law. I know Trump has recently made a mockery of it. Modern liberalism in US is certainly NOT a reasonable alternative however. Fuck they were literally cheering on men dressed as strippers to read to young children in schools. If that’s not insane idk what the hell is.
Not trying to debate common sense with you nor argue politics. Am merely suggesting strategy for people who understand where this may all be heading.
FWIW, conservatism DOES NOT embrace natural law, it pushes a THEOCRATIC definition of them having the 'freedom' to tell everyone else how to live, I have a couple of sisters that went over to the dark side so I know of what I speak.
Now claim that there were people cheering men dressed as strippers to read to young children in schools, I couldn't find anything like that, not even from Alex Jones and the only thing sexual was a comment about one of the readers peeling a banana at the end of the reading in what they thought was a suggestive manner, maybe it says more about the person commenting?
I'm not gay, trans or anything like that but I know several people that do fit those descriptions and none of them have tried to force me to be like them so I figure, you do you, as long as you don't try to force me into your mold, go ahead and do your thing. I think THAT is called freedom and actually DOES embrace natural 'law'.
There were multiple incidents of Trans appearing at libraries and public schools during the Biden years. Are you kidding me, they came out of the skies like flying monkeys lol. Personally I don’t care about it either.
I would like to make the point that conservatives are not the insane theocrats the left tarred them with. However I am having issues making that case after listening to Hegseth and Trump’s spiritual advisor Paul White. She has probably dances with snakes a time or two. I am NOT FOND of that whatsoever.
I am very much against any kind of hard core religion in Govt. Especially Zionists and Christian Zionists at this point. I think we have all had our fill of them.
Here’s a little insider baseball. Iran is winning the hearts and mind game. I believe that was the plan all along. Unless Trump does something stupid (can’t rule it out) looks like Iran will hold SoH. I do NOT believe they will misuse it. In fact, just the opposite.
Their goal will NOT be to choke off the world of oil. I believe they will mostly used the Strait to change the currency away from the USD. And then it’s checkmate.
As that happens America especially is going down. How hard and fast I do not know but i suspect the USSR in the 90’s will be a comparable model. You don’t want to be in a city when that happens.
That is all.
" i just want to try living in a country for a change!"
The late Joe Sobran echoed your sentiments.
http://www.sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/011213.shtml
Also, Alexander Dugin's recent analysis.
https://www.multipolarpress.com/p/geopolitics-of-the-third-world-war
Better to root for peace maybe?
"Unless the Trump-Netanyahu war criminals use their nukes, Iran is likely to win this war. The silver lining in an Iranian victory is the liberation of both America and the Israeli population from servitude to the crazed Zionist agenda of a Greater Israel from the Nile to Pakistan."
https://www.unz.com/proberts/irans-victory-would-have-a-silver-lining/
80% of the population of Israel not only supports this war but support everything they did to the Palestinians. the targeting of children of schools of hospitals all of it.
any honest poll and unpaid shill will show you that.
You're 100% correct.
Like Ilana Mercer wrote some months ago; Israel is a sexually deviant serial killer state.
https://www.unz.com/imercer/rectal-raping-of-palestinian-men-is-habitual-in-the-sexually-deviant-serial-killer-state/
For those interested in an explanation on the spiritual level......
https://insighttoincite.substack.com/p/counterfeit-israel-how-satanism-is
Those shills you speak of are becoming one of the most hated groups here in FUSA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwvL11YRTZ0
Though, it is gratifying to see many GWOT veterans coming out in protest of any more wars of aggression after realizing they had been played for suckers by TPTB.
Well, allegedly Szandor LaVey was jewish, so there is that.
Besides everything else.
Humans identify with and want to be seen with the aggressor.
Germans were all in for Hitler, until the very end. Then suddenly, beginning around 1945, nobody was a Nazi, they were forced into it, see...
Even if they use nukes, I doubt they will defeat Iran. It's a big place and their underground missile systems are nuke-proof.
Postol says Iran has nukes now.
At the most it would be only weeks before they can build one.
Aha! So Netanyahu and Trump were right
all of these years. And so many of us thought they were lying and we trusted the "fatwa".
Actually, I think Postol is full of crap.
Do you not understand the word "now"?
The fatwa was in place until a month ago when the US murdered Khamenei and his family.
After the June attack of last year, Iran enriched its uranium to 60%. Postol explained at that time that after Trump's phony attack on Fordrow, that uranium of that concentration could be enriched to weapons grade in a matter of weeks in an area the size of a small apartment.
The war broke out again on 28 Feb. Postol is speculating that the new Supreme Leader removed the Fatwa since Iran is now facing a threat to its existence. It has been a month. Iran could have nukes.
Ritter has explained that a "gun weapon" is simple to construct and requires no testing. It is only logical to assume Iran now has several nukes.
Other's have suggested Postol is "full of crap" because he says the Patiot system has only a 5% intercept rate. Still others say his suggestion that a Starlink mini-terminal can be used for navigation in an Iranian drone. It can. Still others insist that the destruction of the AN/FPS-132 in Qatar didn’t happen because Postol used the “artists concept” of what a destroyed antenna face might look like in one of his presentations. He didn’t say the photo was real. He didn’t analyze it. He did analyze the satellite photo. I’m sure he took into account many details that you and I can’t see before he concluded the amount of damage. In any case, there are many other reports confirming its destruction.
Never make peace with devil.
Only the devil refuses to make peace... :-)
"Blessed are the peacemakers"
(off topic)
Have you perhaps heard of him that titles himself
"The Most Humble Streamer"?
Otherwise know as Asmon. Asmon the Golden, on YT.
It’s tough to be an American now . It’s like Vietnam, I didn’t think we should have gone . JFK realized his mistake and planned to withdraw the 12,000 “ advisors “ . But once we are in a war , it’s hard to root against your own country . I’m not rooting for Iran but I want Trump to admit defeat and withdraw . He could regain some respect by saying “ I was given bad advice but the buck stops with me . I thought we could achieve our goals but I made a mistake and am cutting my losses “ ..we all make mistakes . Most people will forgive you if you admit it . Of course , Trump can’t do that ..but he should
To be fair Ray, when your 'mistake' has directly caused thousands of deaths, "Sorry" doesn't cut it.
"respect"?
Have you been to a "No Kings" rally? Of course, that's Soros purpose.
Horton tells us that George Soros supplied truckloads of red roses for the Georgia rose revolution. The conspiracy runs deep.
Why would any half normal human being NOT support Iran. The mere fact you phrase the fact in such terms is what is wrong with West in total.
I’ve never been a very patriotic person. My feeling is that a certain sperm hit a certain egg in a certain geographical location and here I am. I have no great love for the place although there are things that I love but I don’t see much of them right now. The good ideas of the founders have been cast overboard. I think we in the US make the same mistake that isr**l makes. Believing that you are the “greatest” country on earth or the “chosen” people, makes you arrogant and blind to the virtues of other places and unable to learn anything from them.
Also we’ve watched too many John Wayne movies. We like our wars short, sweet and without nuance. We like the good guys to be easily identifiable (white hats and cleft chins) and our bad guys to be undeemably bad
No people are born with a purpose. The universe is more than random atoms colliding which is the standard dystopian and anti human modern western view and is one of the main factors in its increasingly rapid decline. People have no purpose.
The Iranian world view has a purpose.
I was speaking only in terms of the thing we call patriotism. I have never had any belief that my country was superior to any other country.
And sadly, my purpose of 40 years was stripped from me in 2022 because I wouldn’t take a covid shot. I’ve reinvented myself but it’s very hard when you are no longer allowed to do the thing that gave your life meaning.
Iran values life which is what kept them from acquiring nuclear weapons which is unfortunate. The USA would leave them alone if they had them.
Were you working in the deathcare industry?
haha! no, I was the Costume Director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC. in NYC, I had opened a Broadway costume shop so that I would be free to leave it to do the Festival every year. when I left NYC and closed the shop, I moved into a house I had bought here in 2012. I assumed I would keep working for the Festival and drop dead one day behind the cutting table (I'm a very in shape 72).
over the years, I bought some wrecked houses here and had completely dedicated my life to the Festival. these days I wonder why I still live here. not a single person called to see how I was doing after having my life's work ripped from me.
I LOATH the medical establishment! I avoid all optional engagement with conventional medicine. I have never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. I can count the times I've been to an OB/GYN on the fingers of one hand. I had my last tetanus shot in 1980- ironically, it was a requirement of the Festival. no flu shots.
obviously, I'm on medicare but I do my best to save the tax payer $$$. except for when I was hit by a texting driver while biking to a private strength training session, I only go to doctors who don't take insurance and pay out of pocket for the kind of medicine I believe in- peptides, naturopaths, acupuncture. right now I'm looking for a local HBOT place. I have a small personal gym in my house, a far infrared sauna and 2 red light panels that we can stand between.
we buy all our meat from local regenerative farmers who we have visited and know personally. we drink raw milk. I grow vegetables in the backyard and compost all our food scraps.
The US has been the bad guy for decades.
Always to some degree. We were spun off the British empire and was the junior partner until after WW1. The revolutionary and war of 1812 were just negotiating terms. The US couldn't protect its trade routes and also wanted British technology and to be part of the industrial revolution. So this has always been kind of who we are. The history books soft soap that a lot. The real narrative is messier. See Cuba and the Phillipines after the Spanish American war
Nihilism and moral relativism are bad juju.
These have become inevitable stages / static and inert planes
in the modes of cognition within the west part of this realm.
(flowery language - I am a fluffybunny)
A certain sperm. A certain egg.
Don't be ridiculous.
"Only spirituality can save this world." -Paul Romano
Jules Ferry's famous speech before the Chamber of Deputies on July 28, 1885: "Gentlemen, we must speak louder and more truthfully! We must openly declare that, indeed, superior races have a right over inferior races… [for] they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races." This idea was widespread among Western serfs, a socialist racial ideology.
These same Westerners refused to let others dictate their way of life.
EH.Socialism explicitly rejects the notion of inherent racial differences and stresses the primacy of Class.
take out the adjectives from this quote and it becomes clear what nonsense it is. besides, 'to civilize' means to invade foreign civilisations and extract resources as cheaply as possible. settler colonialism all the way down.
Why quote quaint Victorian drivel ? Have a look at the lowbrow dimwits running the place into the ground now. All you need to know is written on their faces. Is inane drivel purpose? Hardly.
Socialist??!! Jesus wept, no end to shameless ignorance.
Anyways, stop worrying about socialism so much. Before this century is up Westerners will, quite of their own accord be begging for some kind of socialism. Same as they did for the whole of the 19th century.
Let's suppose the UK opts to have public transport at cost price for
the citizens of the UK, funded by british taxpayer monies and labour.
OMG national socialisms?
I fail to see the problem in this hypothetical scenario.
Not awful. It is normal. Iran is the victim, the Zionist sub-human animals are the criminal aggressors... as usual.
Why does it sound awful? We are ALL rooting for Iran. The USA/Israel carry out an unprovoked attack and assassinations that kill children and innocents; they bomb a school killing 165 schoolgirls; they bomb and bomb and bomb - and Trump talks about 'stealing' their oil. Iran is the victim here - of course they deserve the support of every fair and sane human being alive.
America's Founders would be rooting for Iran. They would also be aghast at the globalist and neocon factions of FUSA's rapacious and murderous foreign policy and wondering why the hell we didn't depose them.
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" ~Thomas Jefferson
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence, has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign Independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force." ~ John Quincy Adams
They were champions of a multilpolar world and would have petitioned to join BRICS.
Well said , seems there are some real Americans left , despite my cynicism.
the American System of economics - https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-difference-between-william-mckinleys
Yes she is good comparing US system to China
You need a heavy dose of Aaron Good and a touch of Wolff/Hudson to get over your propaganda-induced illusion.
I pray for Iranian victory every day. America has been warped into the Epstein empire by Israel. Iran's victory would be a triumph for the oppressed people of the world, a victory for decency and morality, while and American victory would mean the triumph of modern day nazism. Should German citizens in 1942 have blindly supported hitler, or prayed for his downfall and celebrated every allied victory?
Forget our own interests - would you put that before your soul? Who do you think God favors in this? Support what is right. Iran is in the right, and has God, justice, and history on its side.
This is a general reply to everyone rooting for Iran. It is perfectly acceptable and logical to root for no one in a conflict, especially one where both sides can be seen to be bad in certain ways. And Iran is bad. It's a theological dictatorship. Of course Israel is worse as a theological dictatorship, and the US is the worst.
But you can still criticise the US/Israeli unprovoked attack, and demand they end this war, epsecially if it's funded by your money, and hope that they lose, and they lose badly, and they completely collapse, without "rooting for Iran". Just wish for one side to lose bad, without caring what the other side does.
Not awful at all. Just reasonable.
The US and Israel need to lose. It is the only way this ever ends
Don't preface. It's the only way the raping and pillaging will stop. What happens next: the dollar collapses and the empire can no longer fund the deep state.
Ditto.
An Ocean Too Far
Draft dodging Don "The Don"Trumpstein, guided by Israel into an unnecessary conflict with Iran, which should never have happened.
Iran was already suffering from the internal collapse of its Rial currency. Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets. " Over the past year, the Iranian Rial has experienced extreme depreciation, with the USD/IRR exchange rate changing by 3,026.60% as of the latest data . The Rial hit a record low of 1.42 million IRR to 1 USD in December 2025, following economic turmoil, regional tensions, and inflation exceeding 42% . This collapse contributed to the resignation of the Central Bank Governor and sparked widespread protests. The currency’s decline has been driven by sanctions, capital flight, and government monetary policies, including excessive money printing ."
So, the US and Israel decided to accelerate Iran's downfall and push for Regime change and control. That was the big mistake. By attacking Iran, the US and Israel created the conditions to unite the Iranian and other populations against a common enemy. All the US has accomplished is to create martyrs who will not be forgotten and to embolden its population to resist.
Never interrupt an enemy while it's creating its own demise.
The US sailed, "An Ocean Too Far," and no matter how hard it tries, it can't defeat a unified Iran, which it created by attacking in the first place. The best move was to do nothing at all.
Now the pain will be spread among citizens all over the world.
Trumpstein and Netanyahu have exposed themselves as the idiots they truly are, pushing for a war that their own populations were over 90% against.
Trumpster will lose the midterms, and he's done politically. His base has turned against him, and there's talk of impeachment. It's also time for the US to get Israel out of its government.
An Ocean Too Far
When the right move
To do nothing at all.
The USG is Israel.
Check all the Molech flags outside every Congressperson's office next time you are on walkabout.
I agree, Tim.
Israel controls the US government.
Israel, through the Mossad, played a big part in 9/11, blaming it on Osama.
The part that gets me is Bush and friends got away with the crime of the century in spite of all the evidence. That's how fucked up the US has become. A joke of a nation.
All done via media ownership.
Please explain this;
"Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets."
Who were these mercenaries and where did they come from? If the regime was running out of cash how did they employ foreign mercenaries? That's literally not how mercenaries work.
If t theocratic regime was running out of money and facing a popular rebellion wouldn't they create and recruit religious fanatics rather than foreign mercenaries?
FWIW: if you can access this link, Dmitri Orlov has a brief introduction into the Shite religion in the context of the Iran war. I really like Orlov's sarcasm and wit. Worth the subscription.
https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/c3f7fe45-0214-42c7-9bf5-addf7ee568ed
The Iranian regime made stupid mistakes but were not about to fall. This is a gross exaggeration. Israel and the US took advantage of the protests and tried to coopt them. The merc statement is false. Iran literally has a 600,000 man army plus reserves. Iran is too proud and doesn't want to lose independence of action by getting too close to China and Russia. I think this war will end that as I do believe they are receiving a lot of help. Some of that help looks to be coming in from Azerbaijan. Which wasn't supposed to happen from Israel and US bribing the governmemt. Putin has been quietly engaging with Aliyev. The people of Azerbaijan are not pro Israel and the US so Iran and Russia can play that. There are a lot of cross border ties the population depends on.. and they aren't getting the bribe money.
“ when your enemy is destroying itself , don’t interfere “ . Napoleon
"Iran was already suffering from the internal collapse of its Rial currency. Protests were already stressing the government to the point that it had to hire thousands of foreign mercenaries to do the dirty work to subdue and kill the open rebellion forming in the streets."
You back on the Kool Aid Denis?
Common knowledge, grr.
I don't know why you deny reality.
Oh well, not my problem.
To state that Iran hired mercs to kill their own people protesting is not common knowledge.
All documented evidence shows they were MOSSAD/CIA agent provocateurs, organised using texts and Starlink.
Every in formed person knows this.
The Iranian regime controlled street demonstrations through a combination of brutal force, mass arrests, internet blackouts, and the deployment of foreign militias.
Security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij, were ordered to use live ammunition against protesters, resulting in thousands of deaths—particularly during the violent crackdowns on 8–9 January 2026
1. Hospitals in Tehran and Shiraz were overwhelmed with gunshot victims, and doctors reported security forces deliberately targeting heads and vital organs to instill terror
1
3. The regime also cut off internet and phone services nationwide to prevent coordination and suppress information, even jamming Starlink satellite signals
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3. At least 24,669 protesters were arrested by 18 January, with many facing charges of “moharebeh” (waging war against God), punishable by death
4.
To avoid domestic backlash, Iran recruited foreign Shia militias from Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to suppress protests, as Iranian security forces were reportedly reluctant to fire on their own people
1. The regime also used propaganda, including forced confessions broadcast on state media, and pressured families of victims to accept official narratives or face penalties
1. Additionally, authorities raided hospitals to arrest injured protesters and confiscated CCTV footage to erase evidence of violence
1.
These tactics, while temporarily suppressing protests, also fueled further resentment and international condemnation
1
3.
Death toll count is around 3000, cca 2300 protesters and 700 quislings, who also were killing the protesters, burning mosques and so forth.
The plot is always the same - kidnap genuine grievances and then try to incite people as much as possible by random killings. Always the same, like snipers in Ukraine for example, and in other countries earlier.
Here is Henningsen, when he came back from Iran after the demonstrations and before the Epic Fury started. He is also talking about a death toll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3emHhJZjpe0
The very definition of how a "Color Revolution" is planned!
George Soros provided the truckloads of roses for Georgia's "rose revolution".
This interview on Scott Horton with "Libertarian Overwatch" who is researching the color revolutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGSsjC6o7g
Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militias to suppress widespread public dissent across the country. As of 25 January 2026, the total death toll estimates ranged from 7,007 people to upwards of ~36,500 people,[3][4][7] including 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel,[8] making these among the largest massacres in the modern history of Iran.[9]
Iranian authorities have supposedly imposed a near-total internet shutdown as part of their crackdown on the protests, restricting communication inside the country and limiting the flow of information about the killings to the outside world.[10] On 12 January 2026, Esmaeil Baghayi, the spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed that security forces had directly shot at protesters.[11]
On 25 January, Time reported that a specific list included 30,304 protest-related deaths registered in civilian hospitals for 8 and 9 January alone.[3] The same day, Iran International estimated the total number of deaths at ~36,500.[4] On 28 January, The Guardian reported that the death toll could be more than 30,000, and that less than 10% of deaths may have been officially registered.[5] AP News reported that the government's overwhelming use of violence had caused despair among the Iranian public and had given rise to hopes among some citizens for an American attack.[12] Several scholars have argued that the Iranian government now faces a fragile state that could lead to its demise.[13]
Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has been described as the mastermind of the massacres, according to former Iranian government officials, while the crackdown was initiated in pursuit of orders from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters;[14][9] Khamenei himself had ordered "to crush the protests by any means necessary".[7] As of 19 January 2026, the Iranian government had reasserted control over the protests.[15] Worldwide support protests took place on 14 February,[16] and protest waves restarted in western Iran on 16 February[17] and in universities on 21 February.[17][18][19]
Khamenei acknowledged that "thousands of people" had been killed during the protests, blaming American president Donald Trump for the massacre and calling all protesters "rioters and terrorists" affiliated with the United States and Israel.[20] The Iranian government put the death toll at 3,117, stating that 2,447 were civilians and security forces, and the rest were "terrorists".[21][22] The government published an official list of 2,986 victims. Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA) described the official list as mostly unverifiable due to the lack of sufficient identifying details.[23] Iran International stated on 3 February that it had its own confirmed list of 6,634 deaths, of which less than 100 were on the official list.[24] HRANA published a full report on 23 February 2026, including a detailed named list of 7,007 deaths.[1]
"What is HRANA, the US-based group behind Iran’s death toll figures?"
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/15/what-is-hrana-the-us-based-group-behind-irans-death-toll-figures
"HRANA is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - an arm of the CIA."
https://www.threads.com/@acikulatbuku/post/DTltYiTk5Rq/media
lmao
too easy
Yep, too easy for sure. All unsubstantiated drivel (propaganda) from the usual suspects.
I'm fucked if I know how a person that follows Simp (for one) can then believe the Zio filth's lies. It is schizophrenic.
Absolute bullshit Denis. You quote Time and the Guardian LOL
You have shit the bed...again. I almost pity you.
Life is great.
Thanks, grr.
Lol... sure bud. And only 70,000 died in Gaza with it being completely turned to rubble in over a year of continuous bombing... but in a matter of a week nearly 40,000 Iranians died of small arms fire. You are a complete idiot if you believe that. It is obvious propaganda
three days among the bodies; The shocking story of saving a protester from Kahrizak According to a story that reached the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, a family spent three whole days searching for a boy who left the house to protest and did not return. In anxiety and ignorance, the family first searched the hospitals, then went to Behesht Zahra, and finally their search path ended in Kahrizak. In Kahrizak, the family had to look for their child among a pile of corpses; Where hope and terror were intertwined. Finally, against all fears, they found their son alive. He was seriously injured by a bullet, and according to this narration, he remained motionless in a plastic cover for the dead for three whole days without food or water, for fear of being shot by the officers. According to this report, the family managed to finally take him to the hospital for treatment.According to this narration, during the three days that he was kept among the bodies transferred to Kahrizak, he heard the ringing of the bodies' mobile phones and smelled the strong stench. This witness said that whenever a moan was heard from the wounded, a little later the sound of gunshots was heard and the moans stopped; An issue that is a strong sign of the security forces shooting the wounded alive. This teenager under the age of 18 finally left Kahrizak in a very poor physical condition. The Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center has contacted the family of this teenager several times through an intermediary and received additional information. These details exacerbate serious concerns about the treatment of the injured, violations of the right to life and extrajudicial killings of individuals, including juveniles, during the crackdown on protests.This narrative, while bitter, shows a rare moment of survival in the midst of death and at the same time presents a shocking picture of the conditions governing the suppression of protests, how to deal with the injured, and the pressure on families to access treatment. slow Families who have wandered between hospitals, morgues and security centers in search of their loved ones. IHRDC
My god. If I wanted the BBC I’d know where to go. Can you please stop degrading my poor old telephone screen’s pixels?
"The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received $3 million in funding from the US State Department since its founding in 2004, along with support from the Canadian government and private donors."
This is exactly like the "World Uyghur Congress" that falsely accused China of genocide in Xinjiang when the CIA funded ETIM was assassinating people and committing sabotage.
The Chinese very efficiently removed them. Yes it required some extreme measures. But now Xinjiang is at peace and the ETIM was "rat-lined" to Syria to participate in the overthrow of the Assad Government.
Just go away.
2026 Iran massacres December 2025–present Iran 3,117–36,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij, Police Command, government forces, and State-sponsored militias 23,312 to over 36,500[34][35][36][37]
2026 Iran massacres December 2025–present Iran 3,117–36,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij, Police Command, government forces, and State-sponsored militias 23,312 to over 36,500[34][35][36][37]
The devaluation of the Iranian rial has severely eroded purchasing power, making basic goods like meat unaffordable for millions and forcing households to stockpile essentials or shift savings into dollars and gold to preserve value
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3. Businesses, especially those reliant on social media platforms like Instagram, have collapsed due to internet blackouts and currency instability, while bank branches face cash shortages and informal withdrawal limits
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2. With inflation soaring past 42% and the rial losing roughly 20,000 times its value since 1979, daily life has become “crushing,” sparking widespread protests
Another full retard day, Dennis? Toronto Maple Leafs fan? It is that time of the year, PTSD time of the year?
lmao
The name is Denis.
Just call me sir, simpleton. Make sure to salute, too.
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Ahhh... damn. This troll is getting engagement money. Probably best to ignore it.
Thanks.
So your argument is that sanctions work? It's not as if the US has not done everything in its power to choke of the Iranian economy.
I'm just posting what I have read. Of course, the US has done everything it can to choke the Iranian economy as well as other economies. It's the nature of the beast.
Overblown. US and Israel propaganda in there.
It seems the US is pushing Iran toward a destructive path where it will be forced to start working on the 56 desalination plants that provide 90% of desalinated water for the Gulf States. Needless to say, local Arab population groups will have a very short survival time once this takes place. BUT who will take over the oil fields and the ports once the Arabs run away? It will have to be the proud victors of the war, Israel and the US.
Iran should've instantly annihilated Israel after what they did to them. Assassinating their hierarchy, destroying their capital, the 120 schoolgirls and their mothers!, etc. etc. They should've wiped Israel off the map with 100 heavy hypersonics, and 100 mega-cluster bombs. Destroyed their energy centers and their desalinization systems. All of it in one fell swoop. No more Israel = no more turmoil in the ME that will have anything to do with us here in the USA. We pay for any oil of theirs that we want, just as everyone else does.
Iran has been trying to annihilate Israel for decades. Failure upon failure. This is payback. (Btw, is Iran attacking desalination plants a war crime?)
I am sure it can be. We just have to find a few judges in the US and send them to Iran to secure convictions.
remind them to bring their own bottled water.
How has Iran been trying to annihilate Israel? lmao
Exactly when and where? While israhell took the Golan Heights? When israhell is using the same playbook in Lebanon? When Mossad killed civilians during the protests? When Iran was attacked last July? The innumerable decapitation strikes on Iranians in and out of Iran? You must have clear unequivocal examples after so many "decades". Share them with us. We'll wait.
It's just a hasbara earning it's $7000.
Let us not forget when FUSA got Iraq to be it's proxy in a bloody war with Iran that lasted nearly a decade and saw the use of American supplied chemical weapons being used against Iranians.
If attacking desalination plants is a war crime then it should be a war crime for all parties involved not just for Iran.
BTW, desalination plants are closely integrated with the power plants that are needed to run them. Attacking one would likely hit the other and if the power goes out the point is moot anyway.
The precedent for hitting an enemy's power plants was set a long time ago.
Iran has stated clearly the conditions under which they will attack desalination plants and other infrastructure. So far, they have only responded to US/Israel attacks.
Iran has NEVER tried to destroy Israel.
Yes, it would be a war crime to attack a desalination plant. Trump plans on attacking Iran's systems. When the "rule of law" no longer exists, how do you define a war crime?
So arming Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, consistent with chanting "Death to Israel" mean nothing. Iran is happy to live in peace with Israel? I wish it were so.
"So arming Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis,"
Absolutely it means “nothing”. It is MSM/Zionist propaganda to scare ignorant Americans into supporting the MIC and the pursuit of American Hegemony. It is promoted to cover up the crimes committed by Israel and the USA.
How can you be so ignorant of American/Israeli terrorist activities in Iran?
Do you not know about how the US overthrew the democratically elected leadership in 1953 so they could "steal their oil"?
Do you not know how the US supported the Shah and his Savak secret police?
Do you really not understand the sanctions the US has placed on Iran to try to destroy their economy?
And finally, Do you honestly justify to yourself the Genocide that Israel has been carrying on since 1948?
Your defense of a genocidal regime that killed (and continues to kill) tens of thousands of its OWN citizens, in addition to killing thousands in other countries, is laughable.
So if my neighbor shouts "Death to Finster!" I am justified in shooting him?
And provides guns to the other neighbors to attack your neighbor, yes you are justified.
Genocide in gaza is a war crime
The schoolgirls were killed by the US of A and their lack of intelligence.
All brought on by Israel. Netanyahu and his ilk are responsible for this complete attack upon Iran.
Iran now has the motive to make nukes, with plenty of delivery systems. I don't see Israel and the US enjoying the spoils of war. More likely a global economic collapse.
‘Iran now has the motive to make nukes’
That is precisely the major issue here.
‘Iran's hardline factions, emboldened by recent U.S. and Israeli strikes, are advocating for withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and openly pursuing nuclear weapons. Key figures, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders and conservative commentators, argue that a nuclear deterrent is now necessary for Iran's survival.’
https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-03-29-iran-hardliners-push-for-nuclear-weapons-development.html
Speaking of Global Economic Collapse, Cheryl.
How convenient the WEF Agenda 2030 fits in perfectly, timed to all wars, leading to "you will have nothing". Food shortages, oil shortages, transportation disruptions, resource shortages, and the list goes on and on. But, yea, our governments cared so much about us that they basically threatened to take everything away from you if you didn't take the genocide shot. lol Hospitals became killing fields.
I know that you know what we both know about. lol
Goodness Denis, how can you know this yet be so ignorant in other areas. They spring from the same source?
I'd like to upvote you but can't.
I seek truth no more, no less.
There are no good guys in Governments if that's what you think.
Same club, same agenda.
Soon you'll find out.
No Denis, I'm not looking for any "good guys" in the US government. I have no illusions (although, I admit to having a fantasy that Kent and Gabbard are in some kind of bizarre plot to remove Trump from office. Similar to hoping aliens will descend on the planet and save us from ourselves.)
I have no illusions about the Tripartite State.
My objections are your continuing desire to see Iran destroyed. Your refusal to see the NED/CIA/Mossad plot behind the demonstrations. Your fear of the Shia.
Iran's response to the January protests was necessary or the chaos would have spread. The CIA/MI6 followed the same script that they used in the Maidan coup. The same script when they sponsored the ETIM terrorism in Xinjiang province which was reported as a "Uyghur Genocide".
China and Iran used extreme force and survived. Ukraine did not and is now being destroyed.
You repeat the Tripartite State propaganda about the actions Iran takes without question.
You don't know who the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center is funded by. No, it is NOT OK for the US and Canadian government to fund a terrorist support organization. The events you report happening in Kahrizak sound like the propaganda the Kuwaiti princes testified before congress about babies being ripped from incubators to justify aggression against Iraq.
Then you hide by saying "I'm just posting what I read". Geez, you claim to be able to think.
Lastly, IIRC you are among those who insist Israel is the tail wagging the dog. Com'on, DHDH isn't totally wrong, he's just a dick.
You assume far too much about what I think. You're way off.
I'll just leave it at that.
Best wishes.
Exactly, there is an extremely vicious bunch of terrorists that have executed every single act from 911 to Nordstream, the bogus ISIS, barrel bombs, maidan and colour revolution executions to stir things up, the Paris bombings, Afghanistan bombings, assasinations in Russia, Turkey, Iraq...and they are most definitely Western. Definitely connected to Mossad/CIA.
Most of their work shapes fear in populations in order to polarize them. It's easier to steer a population that way. That's where the NED comes in, they first lay the groundwork to achieve the specific direction before the terrorists cause chaos. Quite simple.
The only way to work with these terrorists in your country is live ammunition, shoot to kill policy. Rather sooner than later.
It worked wonders in Syria, the Russians annihilated enormous amounts of Sen John McCain's 'moderate terrorists' and Obama tried to cover for them and Israel looked after wounded "ISIS" "moderate" jihadis in their hospitals. If Assad had the wherewithal to kill them right at the beginning, he would probably still be there in Syria.
Some people see the evil, others just prefer that the world isn't like that. Usually because religion clouds their brain, they think there is inherent good in people.
Without the majority having the COVID vaccine, and the growth of herd immunity, millions more would have died.
Don't forget to keep taking your shots, Jenny.
The more the better for your safety.
Here in Africa no one took the shot and no one died. People also didn't give a fuck about social distancing and low and behold it didn't spread.
Economically it was a disaster though since no one could work and people don't have savings, so a lot of people died from that.
I would however recommend you have another booster shot, flu vaccination and anything else you deem necessary, just in case.
I don’t see it ending in victory for the US and Israel even the would be victors need potable and salt free water to survive and rebuild. By US and Israel controlling oil fields and ports doesn’t mean the GCC give up their sovereignty. Destruction does not open the Strait of Hormuz - if nothing else I think Iran will retain control of this waterway. Greater Israel - will be either bombed into smithereens or nuked into oblivion - remember this is an existential battle for Iran - to the death - all or nothing- we have nothing to lose - the war of words from Trump is just that words. The Iranians are focused on action and sheer survival but do not fear death. We as a culture can’t imagine the mindset of the Iranians.
This is a war to the death between the child-killers and Iran. Both countries consider it so. It has been decades in the making and now the time has come - both recognise it.
This is not over.
I think the Iranians may see it as existential, and the Israelis - well who knows? I have given up trying to understand them.
But this isn't War to the death for the USA, not remotely. And Israel can't really act without America.
I should have been more specific mentioning 'child-killers' - I meant israel. And yes, I do believe that israel believes this is an existential war in its fevered, narcissistic mind. And though this is not a war to the death for the US, it is a bellwether of the decline of the Empire.
Agreed Victor.
In a way it is. Trump was the last hope to dismantle the Uniparty Epstein network and stop the election stealing. What little chance there was for that is gone. We are left with a de facto oligarchy that will be permanently in place.
I am a bit confused mate. Trump was closer to Epstein than anyone.
According to the story, he was going to reveal all and prosecute all the bad guys. Was a good story while it lasted.
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Wow. I just don't see how you can come to this conclusion. I mean it is just weird. Trump is a proud, card-carrying member of the "Epstein Class"
Have you seen the pictures of Trump with little girls?
Guess not.
OK, I have to introduce Norman Finkelstein's analysis in this exchange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWnC90buHk
I especially like his characterization of Rubio in the last 10 minutes. But he declares that Israel is populated by "Homicidal Maniacs".
‘The Iranians are focused on action and sheer survival but do not fear death. We as a culture can’t imagine the mindset of the Iranians.’
It is difficult for us as we walked away from the traditional Nation-State structure and Iran did not. Their country – regardless of ideological and political divisions – is resting on a culture thousands of years old and Donald Duck is quacking from the position of a jew slave or servant.
Amen
Agree on all counts. But consider that the Israeli's always hold the Samson Option in their back pocket. In fact, I think they WANT to pull that card. It suits their suicidal and sadistic nature... Chip
Assuming the "Samson Option" is even real, and they have nukes in every major Western city...
They'd be doing the West a favor by pushing the button. All of the major cities have been lost to foreign invaders decades ago, and are controlled by powers foreign to their native populations.
Legitimately? I hope it's real, and they do it. Would you really be that sad if NYC, LA, and DC disappeared overnight? Honest question.
Samson Option - mmmm - somehow I see this as Israeli manipulation to get their enemies to hold back- the Iranians have shown they could inflict greater destruction on Israel but don’t up until now even without nuclear weapons; the Israeli’s on the other hand have no such compunction to hold back and with US help don’t. No one actually factors in the radiation blowback that might affect Israel if they use a nuclear weapon or the blowback in relation to other countries in the region. Kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Unfortunately predicting what two megalomaniacs might decide to do is another matter - the need to win, to have the last word, to finally achieve Israel’s goal of a Greater Israel clouds all judgement in this situation but I believe the Iranians will prevail. All the pundits feeding the nuclear frenzy don’t help but seem to feed this fire - people are deluded about the overall effects of a nuclear blast which would be horrific. Sadly there don’t seem to be any adults in the US/Israel alliance where the ‘other’ is concerned. Disdain for their own populations as well.
People in Africa died in large numbers from COVID-19. While early stories gave the impression Africa was "spared", latet research showed that infections and deaths occurred at rates similar to—and in some cases higher than—countries elsewhere.
The true number of COVID-19 deaths in the WHO African region is estimated to be 2.5 to 3.0 times higher than the reported numbers.The false narrative that Africa was untouched by the virus had led to delays in vaccine delivery, thus increasing the risk of severe disease and death.So yeah, I will continue to protect myself and those around me.
‘Covid 19 death rate in Africa was higher than initially reported’ okay - evaluate the research purporting to prove this - much research re Covid has been greatly manipulated- Where in Africa did this occur? Famine and purposely vectored diseases like the flu being introduced could cause increased deaths- reduce the immune response amongst an already compromised population and more deaths occur and use a bogus test like the PCR to measure Covid giving false positives is also a possibility used to obfuscate the results. References please and one scientific article is not sufficient proof and who conducted the research and what was their motivation? Was the goal to convince Africans to vaccinate? African leaders opposed to Covid 19 vax died as a result of their push back aka murdered. Your choice to vaccinate or to protect yourself and those around you is just that your choice - what you report here does not change my view of the whole Covid debacle.
Herd immunity not possible with ‘Covid-19 vax’ cause ‘Covid’ mutates too rapidly - no matter how many boosters you take you’ll always be behind the curve. So focus on boosting immune system naturally.
Assumes that Iran wont also destroy all jewraels desalination plants , which is an odd assumption when you think about it. Possibly due to the defeatist western leftist view that jews control everything and can’t be beaten. This is arrant nonsense and always has been as Iran is demonstrating.
If not for Golda Meir's nuclear blackmail which forced Nixon to airlift supplies to Israel, Egypt and Syria would have decisively defeated Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
Even formidable irregular forces like Hezbollah and the Houthis have proven themselves to be more than a match for the genocidal Zionist enemies of humanity.
Jewrael only exists because of the US. The US is in rapid decline internally , diplomatically, militarily and economically. It will sink with it. Sooner the better.
Arabs don't run the fields and ports. Imported Indians and Pakistanis do all of the grunt work... Chip
"proud victors"
More like sneak attack rats and Ukrainian pdf files
You need to look beyond the noise Simplicious
Yes, this war is a farce on its face
But, Europe, Asia, the Gulf countries, and Africa will all be very significantly worse off even if the war ends tomorrow.
The US, and the Western Hemisphere in general, will emerge as a relative economic superpower - yes, all will drop and suffer, but the West will suffer less, and US energy production will reign supreme
This war has taken OPEC off the board. And the Chinese are dear in headlights just sitting there watching it happen.
Mark my words, this war is yet again an example of teflon Don; where somehow he dives into a river of shit and comes out with a win
Considering any expendable rust bucket old freighter could host a missile launcher disguised as a shipping container, I don't see the oceans protecting the US from revenge strikes any more.
Worst case scenario is that if Iran decides to attack US assets anywhere in the world, with sufficient vigor, and traditional weapons of destruction are not sufficient to terminate Iranian aggression, only non-traditional (read "nuclear") weapons remain to neutralize Iran.
Iran has been attacking US assets non stop for the last month. lmao
It was last reported that 13 of FUSA's CENTCOM bases have been wrecked.
We still don't know what happened to the Ford but the cover story of the laundry room fire causing 200 casualties doesn't pass the smell test.
I heard a report this morning, I forget where, that Johnson claims to have seen photos of twisted steel on the aft deck of the Ford.
Just rumors, but a 30 hour laundry fire? Must have been a really large laundry.
Holy S...
Look at Johnson's photo in the first 3 minutes. There's a huge gash of burned steel in the stern of the USS Ford.
Then stay tuned for Johnson explaining McCain's 19 hour fire on the USS Forestal
https://www.youtube.com/live/RMamThk86Cw
ALL industrial nations that heavily depend on oil imports are already on the wrong side of the road. The higher oil prices are pushing China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, etc. to the wall. Once the oil price hits $200/barrel they will be working for the oil producers, kind of.
AI:
China is the world leader in hydropower, holding nearly 30% of global capacity and operating four of the world's six largest dams, including the 22.5 GW Three Gorges Dam. With over 390 GW of installed capacity, these plants are critical for China's renewable energy, EV, and AI sectors, often reducing reliance on coal.
China is building a new largest dam on Yarlung Tsangpo, aka Brahmaputra aka Jamuna in the lower flows.
What does "reducing reliance on coal" mean? They have cleaner coal tech now.
China has over half the world's installed wind and solar generation and is building 35 new nuclear power plants. How does this compare with South Korea and Japan?
‘They have cleaner coal tech now.’
The cleanest coal tech is zero coal tech. Coal is causing them lots of pain and suffering in the healthcare department. In addition they are trying to depart from oil as much as possible to gain true industrial independence. It is no accident that they diversified their oil imports long time ago, counting on events just like the attack on Iran.
People forget China is also the 4th largest producer of oil, they have a lot. They also have a huge manufacturing economy so their energy needs are high, so there is some vulnerability. Direct connection to Russian oil and a diversified energy portfolio with an economy more and more bolstered by non fossil fuel energy, China is doing fine and will come out the biggest winner of this fiasco. The other Asian nations not so much.
Being here in Asia, I'd say that it's a very different story here about China's so called "losses".
Everyone is being squeezed for oil, and China may very well end up being the gatekeeper of energy supplies into Asia, having both the Russians on top AND the Iranians demanding Yuan for oil passage.
If this goes on, even so called US allies in Japan and the Philippines WILL trade oil for yuan. It is THAT catastrophic. China is winning geopolitically on a scale that I think even they are surprised about.
To that extent the big news is the chairwoman of the KMT is heading to China for a meeting. Taiwan is extraordinarily dependent on the gulf for two things : oil, and LNG - without LNG, there is no helium, no helium, no chips, no chips, no TSMC.
The DPP party in power has NO solutions to this, and everyone is extremely worried the US WILL declare an energy embargo to stabilize US domestic prices.
If gas and oil becomes split between petroyuan and petrodollars, Taiwan may very well reuinify with China within a year without a single shot fired.
China may be squeezed, but they are the ones controlling the tap for the rest of us, and you can be sure they'll leverage that to "win bigly" as Trump likes to say.
New Zealand, having no oil refinery and hosting large Chinese investments in agriculture and forestry would bend the knee to Beijing in a heartbeat. No diesel = no economy.
You are assuming rational people would be making the decision. Not a warranted assumption in today's world.
What is the update with the other Asian economic powerhouses like Singapore, South Korea, etc?
Hi, i'm Singaporean, so I can update about that.
The biggest concern is not the PRICE of oil so much as the PHYSICAL LACK of it.
Singapore HAS a decent stockpile (from being the third largest oil refinery in the world), but our government is being VERY hush-hush about it. The best guess is probably around 6 months. We are lending some to Australia because they need it for extraction and mineral industries, otherwise it becomes an even bigger economic problem for the region.
South Korea is almost certainly going to break the US sanctions and start buying Russian/Iranian oil in Yuan. Right now their current government is having very good relations with China, so that will likely go through.
The rest of southeast asia, except the Philippines, is likely to try to organize a bloc deal through ASEAN and negotiate with Iran directly. Iran MAY still demand yuan for oil, being that yuan is basically the only currency they can use to buy stuff, whether it's clothes or hypersonic missile fuel. But everyone is basically going to tell the USA to get stuffed with their sanctions.
The Philippines is in an extremely bad spot, where the political elite is extremely anti-China and pro-US, but they're caught in a dilemma where IF they maintain subsidies for petrol, there will be major shortages, and IF they do not, there will be price spikes and riots.
But overall, the sentiment is that we're not going to starve for Trump and Israel.
Japan is the most interesting place politically, because they have a PM who desperately wants to support Trump in her goal for remilitarization and constitutional overhaul, but her party basically overruled her in favor of direct negotiations with Iran and ensuring oil supplies.
This indicates that there is very low confidence in US production being sufficient to maintain Asian "allies" industry. Japan likes to imagine it is the Israel of Asia when it comes to a "special relationship" with the US, but I think it's sobering up that only Israel the golden child and nobody else comes anywhere close.
Any predictions on how Thailand will fare in this crisis?
The reigning stupidest comment on all of Substack. WTF is that supposed to mean anyway, “look beyond the noise”? Did you use a random word generator to come up with that? There is no rational basis for any of these magical claims, just the fever dreams of the last diehard MAGA cultists, still “ trusting the plan”.
I am anything but a MAGA cultist, I dont live in fhe US
Looks like you’re intoxicated after ingesting the same shit upon which Trump’s delusions thrive!
You may want to read this. Lots of talk and propaganda out there about DT being some master strategist. Unfortunately he is not. He’s just a dumbass doing what he’s told.
https://no01.substack.com/p/connecting-dots-that-dont-connect?r=nvvvu&utm_medium=ios
Do you work in the advertising industry perhaps, you seem to have that level of analysis. Teflon Don for fucks sake.
Utterly delusional nonsense. China and Russia are happy with the US pissing away its military and other resources against Iran. The US is a declining power, with Trump just a figure head of the US oligarchy.
When has he ever got a win?
Trump is fat and from a family of pdf file cowards.
I think collapsing even horizon of the Trump war outcome is a good sign for the world. This stupid $h!t is simply proving to be completely unworkable.
So basically the POTUS is a senile sore loser with the ethics of Darth Vader and the maturity of a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. Yet in the august halls of the Imperium, no one is resorting to the 25th amendment. The sickness is far worse than the unravelling of one man, the entire system is corrupt and insane.
Who resorted to the 25th amendment on Biden? There is a whole bunch of bottom feeders around insane Biden or insane Trump.
Just like there was a collective Biden, now there is a collective Trump.
And when everything goes downhill quickly it is always nice to have a senile grandpa to blame.
Yes, but I'd put my money on Trump writing his shitty posts personally.
I thought he had an assistant, there was some lady during his campaign that seemed to be writing his posts.
Maybe these are his indeed. ;)
Nobody in half-right mind will be writing such total crap in his very specific lingo. No, it's him - can't help himself
Google the source of this quote. You will not be disappointed. :-D
"Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid. These delusions include ideas of great wealth, immortality, thousands of lovers, unfathomable power, apocalypsis, nihilism. . ."
He's smart. Trouble is, he is profoundly stupid and completely controlled.
We probably have a different definition of "smart" or I would say we have a different definition of "stupid." I subscribe to the "stupid is as stupid does." What Trump does is surreally stupid.
Totally agree. But don't confuse intelligence with stupidity. Many of the smartest people in the world are downright stupid.
when Biden lost his mind, they propped him up & pretended, thiss admin is allowing Trump's rotting brain to make all the decisions, huge difference!
I agree - Biden was curated by his "team," Trump 'curates' himself and everybody but his die-hard MAGAfans can see that he's totally bonkers.
That is correct. The entire system is corrupt. And that corruption has spread throughout the US empire. It's not just one corrupt man or nation, but a consortium of them. I don't recognize my own country any more.
Yes. I left my US business, career, and friends in the early 2000s, never to return. I couldn't get over what happened on a fine September morning in NYC, followed by the Patriot Act and forever wars. There should have been a rebellion, but too few understood what had happened, who did it, and why. Even fewer wanted to act. That was the last nail in the coffin of the old constitutional republic. What used to feel like home became a nightmare dystopia. It broke my heart.
That was the moment when zionist influence finally took over America. First step, 1913 and the creation of the Fed to control the money supply. Second step, the assassination of the Kennedys to establish zionist influence over the political class of America. Step three, 9/11 to abolish the influence of the American Constitution and establish control over the American military in order to fight never-ending wars against zionist enemies - during the time since to infiltrate not only at the national level through bribes, deceptions and new laws outlawing resistance to israel, but to continue the infiltration into state and local levels.
America is gone - many just don't see it.
Step 2.5. The limited-hangout of BCCI corruption combined with convincing Ross Perot to run for President resulting in Mossad controlled Clinton coming to the Presidency. He was rewarded with an intern, who turned on him.
See Aaron Good.
Exactly!
9/11 was the crime of the century committed by Bush and his friends (Israeli Mossad). Silverstein and a host of other traitors made billions off the death of thousands of US citizens, blaming it all on Osama. Welcome to America, home of the not-so-brave and quite stupid.
I think the lesser publicised Nordstream 2 terrorist bombing certainly takes the title of crime of the century.
Disrupting energy to 500 million people vs 3000 dead + 2 buildings, no comparison.
At least they made a great show of 911, Nordstream just fizzled out...
it's why I left Europe to work and raise a family in SEAsia in the 1990s, when Yugoslavia was bombed to smithereens (HT Madeline Albright).
Difficult decision, but wise choice.
I left USA shortly after my graduation. Despite mouthwatering job offers, I just see it would head in a direction that I wont like. Not going to get stucked in a certain mindset just because of money.
You certainly left at the right moment, you had great foresight.
It's known as Cassandra's Curse, a mixed blessing at best.
I admire your resolve. I'm sure you didn't take those steps lightly. Time has proven that the trajectory you foresaw came to pass, unfortunately for everyone. On the bright side (I keep telling myself) is that a new world appears to be rising from the ashes of the old. May we all find peace in it.
What a beautiful comment about that day. It changed everything.
Pretty much the same in all the vassal states. I'm sure the Globalists are all busy patting themselves on the back over the fall of Urban, but in Europe at least, their moment of triumph looks to be short as things escalate in Ireland.
so as far as you're concerened, any time you don't like the president and his politics, you simply declare him "unfit for office" and remove him to be replaced by the current vice president... bla bla bla.
thanks for playing, amateur
No, this is entirely different and actions and discombobulated speech leading to those conclusions. It’s readily apparent, just you choose to look the other way.
Has been my whole life long.
Show some respect for Darth Vader please!
It appears Darth Vader was an innocent lamb compared to what actions that the “no more wars” person has taken.
"So basically the POTUS is a senile sore loser with the ethics of Darth Vader"
More like Dark Helmet in Spaceballs.
This Cabinet can't invoke the 25th. Because there is no provision in the US Constitution prescribing how to twenty-five the persident AND entire cabinet and everyone else belonging to this coterie of gangsters. That's how bad it is right now with the US government-for-the-white-ultra-wealthy- zion(ats)ists-only.
MAGA wanted a Caesar and got a Nero.
THAT is glorious!
But our Nero can't even play the fiddle...
I believe Vance is plotting a palace intrigue.
"No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain."
JDV is a puppet. If anyone is plotting, it would be his transhumanist tech oligarch master, Peter Thiel.
Vance has no spine or guts to play a palace intrigue
Thank you as always Simplicius.
You've spread truth and enlighten more and more people as the years go on. Bless you for your work.
You're Empirically Correct about this 'air campaign' being a dud:
Per the Rusi Numbers, The US-Israel duo have used just over 2 kilotons of TNT on Iran... this is roughly what you get when you take the 16-day data set & realistically project it outward to account for loss of sortie generation, decay rates for various munitions, etc.
Context: North Vietnam, which was 1/10 the surface area & ~1/5 the population of Iran, took over 7,000 kilotons of TNT from the US et al... & even then they didn't surrender!
Iran is being hit by 3-4 orders of magnitude *less* explosives (in mostly limited stand-off munitions) than Vietnam, Korea, etc were... this isn't a serious Strategic Bombing campaign (a la Dresden & whatnot) & so anyone who claims that America can achieve *anything at all* with such a weak, farcical & capeshit operation... needs to get his head examined! 😊 🤭
Kilotons of TNT isn't a very good metric to judge these things by.
I think I remember reading that North Vietnam in the 60s was hit by more explosives than Nazi Germany in the 40s.
Hit by more tonnage than all the Axis powers combined, I believe.
But do we need to factor in the much greater accuracy of weapons nowadays?
Meanwhile, reports have emerged that Hezbollah almost killed an Israeli minister at the beginning of its war against Israel: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/i/192641301/lebanese-frontline
Brasil está aqui!
Novos tempos melhores surgirão.
To "Bash" : Please do explain how the Western Hemisphere, ex-USA, will emerge as a "relative economic superpower." Your statements amount to gibberish.
He usual does P in a PEEL high school essay paragraph form. Makes a point and stops there ;)
Bring it home Iran, humanity implores that as a long civilised nation, that together the other defender of humanity, Russia.. that together two of the powerhouses of civilised culture, nations we know that are representatives of God and creator centric faiths, that you finally defeat this mental and morally indifferent supine Zionist enemy, an enemy at odds with the very tenets of humanity and belief structures that we know are central to what it is that defines you both as nation states as well as many around the world who share such belief.
Thus as the custodians of Gods righteous laws, it falls upon you the stronger amongst the nations of this world as we look to you both to take the opportunity presented to press home the defeat of this enemy of humanity….
The alternative, defeat by these worshippers of Baalam, Balac, Baal and Moloch of the liar Satan himself, the harbinger of death, destruction, chaos and suffering does not bear thinking about…time we end this bullshit and covetous behaviour wantonly perpetrated by the Epstein elites and that the world can finally be set upon its long awaited rebirth and proper course of cleansing, healing, that the nations of this world can work toward the long and much awaited peace, prosperity and living without incessant conflict.. time to put the warmongers, the grifters, chameleons and liars out of their misery, coup de grace time me thinks.. end this 500 year now flailing, colonial empire reign… just saying
Kia Kaha (Stay strong) from New Zealand
Pete can write, but thinking is not his forté.
Yep, bit of a whoopsie, more an emotive post borne of frustration the incessant double speak from Trump and his coterie of sycophant… I appreciate your comment, not far from actuality the above.. it does pay to take pause and a breath before belting out a reply to what is read at times may I say.. thank you anyway for at least taking the t8me to reply as you have… :)
I think he expressed his thinking quite clearly, and I agree with him wholeheartedly.
Thank you Raymond,
Appreciate your comment and support.. best to you wherever you are…
Don’t you love autocorrect… not…. apologies Desmondo… sentiment stands .
lol
Well I must say I feel a bit better after reading that. Today has been pretty rough on me. Feels like we are headed for hell at lightspeed. I know something better give here pretty quick. The market is hanging on by a thread and we are at $5 diesel. Wait until that price gets to $8 and prices of everything essential about double. I do have to commend Trump on his ability to stroke the markets. Talk about walking a tight rope.
Am still skeptical he can pull out tho. Israel will be toast and that’s exactly how we got into this mess in the first place. Not to mention the GCC States will be dipping on the petrodollar deal. So no good off ramps from what I can see.
I believe we may have already crossed the Rubicon anyway. Might’ve entered the biggest political crisis of a millennia. I say this not in hyperbolic fashion. Trump is only a microcosm of the problem. So many people can see now who is really calling the shots in our Nation’s capital. I believe things are going to get much worse before they get any better.
I agree, it's not hyperbole but a distinct possibility.