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November 29, 2024

Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2024-284

News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine ...

Posted by b on November 29, 2024 at 13:26 UTC | Permalink

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51 days until Trump's inauguration. His foreign policy nominees are little more than horrendous; as his incipient presidency is clearly under near full control by the enemies of humanity...most evident within the Zionist Entity, but likely under the "tutelage" of that private bank in City of London; with close association by the lords of Wall $treet. Collectively, they are the visible ruling oligarchs.

Some of his domestic appointments strike me as relatively decent people who appear to be tasked with most probably minor drainage projects in the Di$trict of Corruption swamp. Primary problem for the vast majority of the American people is the evil of governmental centralization and rule from the top down in essentially all aspects of American political, economic and even cultural life. Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Anti-Federalists are symbolically rolling in their graves...as the enemies of We the People possess a chokehold on the nation.

One possible positive effect of the upcoming Trump and Republican reign is that just maybe...there will be sufficient adults in the Oval Office and in the Pentagon to prevent world-destroying thermonuclear warfare from breaking out. I'm confident that millions of aware and awakening individuals are praying to Creator and all which is good that humanity does not dissolve due to evil intent on the part of those nefarious humans who have long plotted and schemed for total world domination.

Growing levels of spiritual awakening may have the influence to overcome the hatreds and greed which have accelerated to the point of metastasizing materialist greed and power seeking madness.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 29 2024 13:47 utc | 1

Talking to Nima, Alex Krainer has a hypothesis that a false flag operation is being planned for London based on the assumption that the UK is essentially bankrupt and a war is required. One argument to support this is the fact that virtually all live webcams have gone dark (except for Abbey Road and possibly a couple of others)

See first minutes of Alex Krainer's discussion with Nima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHicfFPdcnU

London webcams
https://londonwebcam.co.uk/

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 29 2024 14:00 utc | 2

Attack on Aleppo

Who ordered Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (ex al-Nusra Front, ex al-Qaeda) to attack Aleppo?

  • đŸ‡źđŸ‡± Israel

  • đŸ‡ș🇾 USA

  • đŸ‡čđŸ‡· Turkey

  • đŸ‡ș🇩 Ukraine

Answer here: https://x.com/PetriKrohn/status/1862484697663561944

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Nov 29 2024 14:07 utc | 3

Growing levels of spiritual awakening may have the influence to overcome the hatreds and greed which have accelerated to the point of metastasizing materialist greed and power seeking madness.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 29 2024 13:47 utc | 1

The ones who need awakening will not get it until they are made to face consequences.

God planted wheat. The enemy came at night & planted weeds.

Weeds they are & weeds they will be until the harvest, when they're sorted out & thrown in the trash heap.

I've longed to say this for nearly 3 years. Early in Feb 22, at ~6am I was sitting up in bed, wrapped in my electric blanket. I'd finished my 1st cup of coffee & was mulling over my day's chores. It was totally black out, either new moon or heavy clouds or both. When a man appeared in the corner of the room. I could only see his silhouette & light on the folds of his right sleeve. I couldn't tell if it was a shirt or robe or fisherman's knit sweater. He was backlit by my clock radio, which was the only light in the room.

He radiated pure love. We sat in silence while he filled me down through every cell with unimaginable love. After some minutes...no idea how long...he disappeared.

Afaik, he is among us now, awakening his flock.

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 14:14 utc | 4

I read some pages on the following blog
This one for example. It is a good example of how confused the americans are about their own history and how somebody inside their ranks or perhaps the British have managed to redirect their understanding to mistaken beliefs. For example they erroneously believe that Alexander Hamilton was betraying the US together with the European bankers
https://psychonomichistory.com/index.php/when-anglo-zionists-planted-a-trojan-horse-inside-america/
I shall try to explain how I think it really was.
First unlike what the anglosaxons try to peddle those bankers were never an independent power. They knew how finances could be used in the imperial interest. That insight was the reason for them to have somewhat free hands as long as Britain would take a share.
And that condition determined the role of the bankers but doesnt mean their private wishes were decisive.
That is important because it leads to a necessity to provide a win-win scheme in order to avoid a clash of interests. Because the bankers didnt only have the insight about how such gains could be had but they also knew how one could undermine an independently acting nationstate. They could have speculated more significantly against the economy of the young republic. But when there was a win-win arrangement it was possible to set things in motion for internal developments as Hamilton was planning.
The idea that the US could have returned to a depth free currency like they had earlier for a while is based on the thesis that those european financiers wouldnt use any foul play against them.
But the powerful european oligarchic networks and the secret societies servicing the oligarchy would never have let that pass other than temporarily. The oligarchy has existed for millennia and financial manipulations have existed for a significant part of that time. That oligarchy has patiently developed religious cults in order to control peoples hearts and minds and the actual historical facts show that the oligarchy is capable of using it to foment the wars they need for the purpose.
It is a given that had Hamilton not sought a win-win arrangement it is likely that the internal developments would have never even begun and the British would probably have defeated the young republic.
And it is that naive assumption that the autor is implicitly making together with a large number of americans who never had any basic understanding of the matters.
In my view it is part of Britains wanted hitoriography in order that the British retain control of banking. People were not meant to think about how, with some patience, a richer US would have turned into a more important partner than the British mother country.
Britain fully comprehended it but feared it.
Since many americans in the belief that they are fighting for freedom are mistaken about their own history it still matters.
There is a lot more to expose about the secret societies but I leave that for later.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 29 2024 14:59 utc | 5

Re : UNZ website

Does anybody know how to contact a commenter ? There are some interesting folks on that website too, and I’d like to talk to one or two of them !

Does anyone know how to do that ? Over here, you click on the name if it’s underlined, n voilà. But not there ! So how ?

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:09 utc | 6

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Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:19 utc | 7

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Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:21 utc | 8

Mary @4
Maybe there are ways you can spread this love to others. Maybe that is why the being of light visited you.

Posted by: breits | Nov 29 2024 15:27 utc | 9

So, as WW3 continues its slow burn, b you may need a Syria thread.

Uzbek terrorist mercenary formations have entered Syria en masse. The desperation of the West knows no bounds. Pray for the people of Syria, who are seen as mere obstacles for the bloodthirsty intel agencies and their shadowy backers.

Their actions are so criminal as to defy categorization or understanding. Cowards fighting using others hands while making a mockery of human virtue and decency. Fuck them and all that they begat.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 29 2024 15:31 utc | 10

@DakotaRog, who posted on another thread:

If you have some friends up there near the North Woods who want to play around with a neat open-pollinated, supposedly high anti-oxidant, short-season corn, you can steer them my way and I’ll sell them some. Start small and save their outputs and in a few years, they’ll have a bunch to plant on larger patches of ground. Hard to sell this colored, “non-traditional” corn at the local elevators but it makes great cornmeal, probably excellent chicken and other livestock feed, and some good whiskey 😉. Maybe this time next year—if we’re still around—I might have some Bloody Butcher red dent open-pollinated corn to sell, a truly magnificent heirloom corn.

Way to go, DakotaRog. I grew Bloody Butcher and several other OP corns on test-plots years ago. I regularly buy small lots of other OPs optimized for the southeast, and yes, they make good corn meal, chix love it, and ... not done this yet, but those cultivars have made a lot of good moonshine over the years.

I think your idea of scaling up prod a bit to produce more seed is good. I often find these seeds "out of stock" when I order, and I think that's because demand > supply, not lack of demand so no supply.

There are a whole lot of new distillers in the biz (craft distillers) up your way in the cities, makes for a good market. Those distillers are looking for differentiation. You can give them differentiation.

Relevance to the Bar:

There's a lot of venting here @ the bar re: oligarchs. We can't get at 'em, right? They do all their destruction, and we get to grumble. That's it.

One actually worthwhile thing Donald Rumsfeld said was "you don't get to fight a war with the Army you want; you fight with the Army you have".

So what's one Army that the little people can field?

Local production routes income streams away from oligarchs and into the hands of Patriots. That's a good thing, right?

Oligarchs control your government with their money (which was once, for a very short time, your money).

The Ukraine war is a grand resource war initiated and conducted for profit and control on behalf of a few, at the expense of the many.

Every new product you invent / adapt / apply is one more income stream for you, and one less for the sociopaths.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Nov 29 2024 15:31 utc | 11

I almost feel bad for pointing this out and it's not meant as an argument for or against anyone but from a christian point of view isn't the second coming supposed to herald tribulations and judgement day (with God as the judge, no one else) rather than "peace & love"? At least that was the (widespread and cross-denominational) interpretation back when I was still more or less a christian.

In other words it is supposed to be a lot like "Slayer" (who has/had South American catholics in the band) and not at all like "The Beatles" (who were/are "new age" hippies) :/

Someone/something going around making everyone believe everything is going to be magically fine and wonderful despite all the obvious horrors? That would be the description of the antichrist.

From that point of view.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 29 2024 15:32 utc | 12

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:21 utc | 8

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Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 15:35 utc | 13

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Nov 29 2024 15:31 utc | 11

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Excellent.

Complaining and critiquing are easy. It's a very shallow catharsis, like kicking something when we're mad. After we bitch and moan, the original problem remains.

It is more difficult to tune out the noise and carry on with the business of living in a positive and constructive manner.

I like your asymmetric approach.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 14

BREAKING: Dozens of explosions of walkie-talkies and pagers now comfirmed among the Syrian Army, Mossad is directly aiding the terrorist advance

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/13053?single

Posted by: Apollyon | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 15

Posted by: breits | Nov 29 2024 15:27 utc | 9

I do what I can where I can, as opportunities arise.

The last 2 months have been devoted to personal revelations & preparations. So I am in a more passive, receptive mode, while my spiritual partner/teacher is the active one. And he has been very busy for the last week...

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 15:51 utc | 16

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 29 2024 15:32 utc | 12

If that is aimed at me, that was not my point at all.

We need to keep our eyes on Godhead/God/Allah/the Creator/ as we pass through these trials. To hold on to our humanity & love despite the horrors. To stand in truth & cut through the lies.

Everything is not going to be all right for a long time, but good will ultimately prevail.

The visit to me was directed at me for personal reasons, but I came away from it believing I am not alone in this. In sharing, I have run into a couple others who, based on their response, have had similar experiences, although maybe not so dramatic as mine.

Much of the bible is misreported & mistranslated. Plus, on close reading of the New Testament, the organized Christian religions blatantly violate many of (Jesus/Yeshua/Issa) Eshu's directives & statements.


Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 16:10 utc | 17

Record breaking grain exports from isolated and collapsing Russia:
https://youtu.be/p8RGusj-bn8?si=d6kHxqXFekjombyf

New high speed trains rolled out by isolated and collapsing Russia, which joins the club of nations able to operate high speed trains which seems to mean everyone except the anglosaxons:
https://youtu.be/XaKr-Fix3Ws?si=g9iDEzKytPsBiOOG

Isolated and collapsing Russia now make their own power station turbines, go fist yourself Siemens:
https://youtu.be/hqC6mCzY5BA?si=8kZOoMEzeKAVA5uO

Isolated and collapsing Russia in agricultural export boom referred to as an "agricultural miracle":
https://youtu.be/0sveOBpKrLA?si=fXh_nOS2GfHoBnDd

Isolated and collapsing Russia make their own airliners - yes including the engines - another part of the world market disappears for Boeing-Airbus:
https://youtu.be/zcE8wnZDt74?si=t6CIAy2PGINZbqvT

Isolated and collapsing Russia now even has quite decent wines:
https://youtu.be/07N5d6fXU2o?si=vYpxBmTSMrOl9e7Q

Hey - can we get our country's economy to be isolated and collapse too?

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Nov 29 2024 16:14 utc | 18

I foresee Trump facing the same abuse and nonsense from corrupt Neo Cons as before.

I think, therefore, he should put together a committee to assess all resources and challenges facing the US in defense. He can buy time waiting for this to finish and afterward cite it as a sort of Bible on the topic. Now, the US empire is run Helter skelter, with shameless warmongers arguing against any limits whatsoever.

In other news, Musk is reported to have accused Vindman of treason. It would be wonderful if the US could get rid of all dual loyalist types but sometimes, you gotta start small.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19

Apollyon | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 15

You really would think people would check these out after what happened in Lebanon.

I assume this was a deal by the US with Israel - it's certainly giving Russia a headache they could do without.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Nov 29 2024 16:28 utc | 20

@ Mary | Nov 29 2024 14:14 utc | 4 // 17

thanks for the uplifting story and posts! we need those types of posts here..

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2024 16:40 utc | 21

Thanks for the updates on Syria ...

Should be no surprise - it is US/Zionist strategy to weaken/destroy/replace the Shia Crescent with the ultimate goal of regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is now also more than clear who is buttering Erdogan's bread - what with all those LNG deals with US corporations and those F35s etc.

Latest HTS/Al Qaida, which appears to be very well planned in advance by external forces, noting that Hezbollah [a key Syrian ally] has been weakened also creates further headaches for both the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is also a preemptive strike against the incoming Trump Administration and any possible calls for US military to leave Syria.

Escalation basically. No surprise.

Question: when will RF agree a mutual defense treaty with Iran?

Second Question: a stable Iran is vital, close to existential, to the economic interests of China - whither China in all of this?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 29 2024 17:14 utc | 22

Aleppo will be lost. Syrian commanders have been corrupted, the Syrian troops are simply fleeing, leaving ammunition and equipment behind.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 29 2024 17:45 utc | 23

@guest from franconia

Tiger Forces Commander has another opinion,:

https://nitter.poast.org/GeromanAT/status/1862552945360847345#m

Posted by: hans23 | Nov 29 2024 17:52 utc | 24

Mary | Nov 29 2024 14:14 utc | 4

I think many people get a "revelation" but not necessarily in human form. Waking one morning, I glimpsed/saw a small "door" to the "light of nothingness" beyond. Which left me in bed feeling a bit like a dog wagging its tail, bathed in a love which I had never realised existed.

Changed my life and attitudes profoundly.
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Something to attain, but how to get there? How to deserve it?

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 29 2024 17:54 utc | 25

Something to attain, but how to get there? How to deserve it?

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 29 2024 17:54 utc | 25

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Prophets have come repeatedly throughout history starting with Adam explaining the simple requirements to achieve spiritual success.

It's hard to go wrong in life abiding by the 10 Commandments even if one doesn't "believe" in their heart.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 18:02 utc | 26

Colonel Cassad's reports are always very accurate.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 29 2024 18:08 utc | 27

From Lord Bebo Telegram:

"Syrian “moderate” rebels celebrating at Salah Ad-Deen roundabout in Aleppo.
The city will fall today, Assad lost Aleppo."

Source (with video): https://t.me/myLordBebo/51876

This is a pro Russian Telegram channel by the way.
If the information and video footage is valid, that raises a lot of questions how that could happen so quickly.

Posted by: NoName | Nov 29 2024 18:09 utc | 28

Afaik, he is among us now, awakening his flock.

Thank you for sharing your story here, Mary. I'm sure you're not alone amongst the barflies with a kind experience like this.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 29 2024 18:09 utc | 29

Yinhe incident redux.

Euro undersea cable damaged

Chinese freighter blocked by Denmark navy.

Another FF !

Thats all folks


Posted by: denk | Nov 29 2024 18:10 utc | 30

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19

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Vindman was operating on behalf of the Deep State.

I would love a "Night of the Long Knives" where Trump rounds up 80% of the Congress, several Governors, and the Joint Chiefs and takes them all to Gitmo for military tribunals.

That's fan fiction. Better luck I discover I am originally from Krypton and can run faster than a locomotive.

There have always been traitors, and there will likely always be traitors. Lose an election and face the same lawfare as Trump has. Lose an election and become traitors to the new regime. It is a story as old as politics; it even happened under monarchic systems.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 18:10 utc | 31

Yesterday British lawmakers approved assisted suicide for the terminally ill. I wonder if this includes the nation itself. [sarc]. At any rate the legislation is oddly symbolic


Posted by: mjh | Nov 29 2024 18:21 utc | 32

Can't wait for the trial of the Vindman Brothers, and General Red Milley and SDOD Mike Esper for treason, and collusion with foreign and domestic enemies.....

DJT should fire Kellogg right now, a neo con water boy, and FOX news war monger.......of my gosh get rid of him..........

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 29 2024 18:25 utc | 33

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 29 2024 13:47 utc | 1 This is grotesquely stupid. The top that oppresses the people is Wall Street, the banks, boardrooms of monopolies. The federal government is their tool, but so are state governments. As to the idiocy about Jefferson? Jefferson invented lawfare---study his prosecution of Aaron Burr and his attempt to impeach Federalist judges, and so on. (Old book: Jefferson and Civil Liberties by Leonard Levy.) Central government overreach into people's live? Study the Embargo Act, where a delusional clown thought American economic power he could simply order would magically make peace. Trump never invented a bad idea on his own, he picks them from history.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 29 2024 18:26 utc | 34

Whoops...forgot that the Alien and Sedition Acts preceded Jefferson, my bad. Ironically, the Alien Act is precisely one piece of lawfare Trump/Trump minions are openly relying on!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 29 2024 18:28 utc | 35

Putin's highly esteemed partner Erdogan is said to have a hand in Syria. That doesn't surprise me. Erdogan is very clever.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 29 2024 18:36 utc | 36

Again the offensive by anti Assad forces in Ibid province is all about the Biden group (Blinken-sky, Nuland, Sherman and company, Biden is now an incoherent mental patient) attempting to lock in the incomin Trump administration, and handcuff them.

Trump has from the beginning wanted to close and remove all illegal Syrian bases, and now this offensive endangers that policy shift. Trump is also in favor of closing all illegal Iraqi bases too.

Remember it was the neo cons like General Red Milley and SDOD Mike Esper who slow walked Trump's withdrawal orders in 2020.............

This anti Assad offensive is timed to slow Assad's support for Hezbollah, and divert Iranian resources away from Hezbollah to the SA........and to create more mischief for Trump and Rubio and Tulsi and Radcliffe and Hesgeth......

All carefully planned by the deep state CIA war mongers and their MI6 fiends..........

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 29 2024 18:37 utc | 37

Regarding the still open question of Covid 19 virus origin, a new book by Jim Haslam, "COVID-19: Mystery Solved: It leaked from a Wuhan lab but it's not Chinese junk", published on October 30 and available on Amazon (I just ordered it) presents what seems a very documented scenario.
In a nutshell, Covid 19 is entirely made in the US; it was shared with Wuhan lab for experimentation on Chinese bats while US labs were doing same on bats from other origins. Then a leak took place in Wuhan. This is supposed to be based on two wistle blowers input, with many cross-checks.
Was this book and the underlying scenario already commented on MoA ?

Posted by: Dany | Nov 29 2024 18:57 utc | 38

> attempting to lock in the incomin Trump administration, and handcuff them

It doesn’t handcuff *Trump*. It “braincuffs” Trump *voters* into accepting a continuation of whatever the Borg planned anyway.

A POTUS can fire generals until one obeys his orders, veto all spending bills until spending on unpopular wars are cut, and speak to the public every night on TV about what’s happening and which swamp creatures are obstructing improvement. He can do that on Jan 21 no matter what escalations people think “handcuffed” him.

He could’ve done that during his first term too.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 29 2024 19:00 utc | 39

@36 guest

Erdogan is so skilled at playing both ends against the middle. This is a prominent characteristic of all the supporting actors in the middle east, from Turkey, to the gulf states and Saudi Arabia.

Erdogan does not have an opinion as to what side is morally just or right. He presides over an ostensibly Muslim Turkey, but, if Iran and the Shia-Axis begins to show that they are dominating against the Anglo-Zionists, then he will tip the scales to reinforce the latter.

He would rather freeze conflicts indefinitely because men like him in power do not want the hidden girding of TPTB to change.

He is a rather odious fellow, perhaps the worst. Watching everyone around him suffer in the throes of war, but engaging in assassin-like behavior towards both sides as it suits his hidden-Janissaries, revanchist empire.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Nov 29 2024 19:15 utc | 40

Mary@4:

Sounds to me like you didn't throw away the weeds. You smoked them:-)

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 29 2024 19:27 utc | 41

thanks for the info on the book. With respect, most of what you have referenced is old news. To me a more important question is: why would you order from a-zone? Why would you tout Mr. 17 federal agencies spy cloud? Does he pay you?
If not, he should .... why would anyone write a book exposing whatever horror of the day the MICMAC/pharma plunderers and then sell it at the store of one of the plunderers? Do you know that Sleazos now has a neat scheme to beat retailers and TrumpTarrifs? He can drop ship direct from China anything worth less than $US800, pay no duty and undercut any local business which is still in business. Really guys and girls, with all due respect, don't feed the beast. Please. www.bookshop.org

No they don't pay me. I pay them. Local bookstores: a place to have fun, relax, talk to actual humans. It's a small thing, but there is some sort of a story about a mustard seed. Cheers

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Nov 29 2024 19:28 utc | 42

Over 400 terrorists wiped out in Aleppo, Idlib


TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) – Over 400 Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were killed in Syria's Aleppo and Idlib, Captain 1st rank Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said.

The Syrian army, backed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, wiped out over 400 militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group who attacked the positions of government troops in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, Ignasyuk announced.

"Illegal armed units linked to the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization started to attack government-controlled areas in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib at 7:50 a.m. on November 27. The Syrian army, backed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, is engaged in heavy fighting. Terrorist units suffered major troop and equipment losses in the past 24 hours. At least 400 militants were eliminated," he specified, TASS reported.

According to the Russian military, Jabhat al-Nusra’s units carried out 13 shelling attacks on the Syrian army’s positions in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the past day, with 12 attacks reported in the Idlib province and another one in the Aleppo Province.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/225024/Over-400-terrorists-wiped-out-in-Aleppo-Idlib

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 29 2024 19:57 utc | 43

A POTUS can fire generals until one obeys his orders, veto all spending bills until spending on unpopular wars are cut, and speak to the public every night on TV about what’s happening and which swamp creatures are obstructing improvement. He can do that on Jan 21 no matter what escalations people think “handcuffed” him.

He could’ve done that during his first term too.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 29 2024 19:00 utc | 39

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Trump supporters always have an excuse.

It was the Deep State.
It was the Neocons.
It was Obama from outside the government.
It was the bureaucracy.
It was the British.
The FBI, the CIA, the NSA.
Pence, GOP, CNN, Joe Biden (watch how often that last one gets used over the coming term).

It was anyone except Trump.

Trump's perfect.

Just like his phone calls, Ukrainian biolabs, and MRNA vaccines.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 20:31 utc | 44

Trump and Elon celebrate a very special thanksgiving. Check out Elons body language. :) :) :)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gWrC5IegKlm6

Posted by: Fred | Nov 29 2024 20:33 utc | 45

@ Formerly Miss Lacy 42 - re my post 38
Thanks for your comment, and suggestion to use bookshop.org instead of Amazone.
Unfortunately, the book at stake does not seem offered on bookshop.org.
Personnally, my main book buying place is 1) my local bookstore in France, then 2) the largest french book sellor on the web (FNAC), and ultimately Amazone for UK or US books which are either not offered by choices 1 & 2, or whose delivery would take weeks and sometimes cost much more.
The scenario described in "COVID 19: mystery solved" (virus 100% made in US labs; leak in China in the course of further downstreams trials) may indeed have been mentionned here and there previously ; it seems that it claims a high level, comprehensive, documentation.
For me, it may not be the ultimate scenario; it may indeed be a nice compromise between the incoming Health administration (Trump/Kennedy) and the military-intelligence complex, allowing this complex' role in Covid epidemics to remain unquestionned, whilst part of the deep state (Health admin, some key scientists) being rolled under the bus, opening the trail to a major reengineering of NIH-NIAID funding to universities and other scientists.

Posted by: Dany | Nov 29 2024 20:33 utc | 46

Something to attain, but how to get there? How to deserve it?

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 29 2024 17:54 utc | 25

Everybody's path is different & unique. I was always very spiritual & empathic by nature, an unwanted outsider in a very materialistic family.

How to deserve it is to follow the *way* of Jesus to the best of your ability. His problem was with those who followed rules outwardly, but not inwardly. The letter of God's law; not the spirit of the law. What is in your heart is what matters.

In my personal experience,how you treat children is very important. Do unto others. Love & Absolute truthfulness.

When I eff up, & I do, I confess immediately & directly to him. No intermediaries. This is a big way in which organized "Christianity" fails. All communications are direct; no popes, priests or pastors. It doesn't matter if you think he hears; just make it a practice. And I do it silently..."in my innermost closet" meaning in your mind's ear. In my experience that's where he speaks & hears.

My prayers are private affairs in ordinary language, straight from my heart in my own words. Eg, when my rooster drove my best laying hen into the woods, while searching for her I prayed for a sign of life or death. "You know how I am, God, that as long as there's a chance she's alive I'll keep looking. And I can't afford the time. Any sign...please, a pile of feathers, anything..." The next morning I woke up and *knew* she was safe. That she would be home on the 4th. Before any fireworks. I *knew* it like I knew the sun would rise, & for the next 3 days I was totally free of worry. On the morning of the 4th Roody & my other 2 hens greeted me under the apple tree in front of my barn with a cacophony of "bawks". And then I heard a tiny "buc, buc, buc" to my left. After a full week in woods, somehow protected from all kinds of predators, I found her tucked under a low trunk.

I had a conversation almost a year ago with a ziochristian in which I said if some criminal is trying to get info from me so he can rob me, I reserve the right to lie. He responded "that's not a lie!"

However, I was emphatically told just weeks ago, 9 months after that conversation, that the "white lie" I told my mother when I was 13 was ok because I was a frightened child. But I'm a woman now & must not be afraid. I must stand in truth...even to criminals. The Bride of Christ must be spotless.

So I thought about "what would Jesus do?" (😂) & realized I could respond truthfully with a question, eg "what business is my schedule of yours?" or just flat out "not your business."

Spotless also means with all our inner wounds healed. Again, in my experience.

If you decide to read a bible, I recommend George Lamsa's translation direct from the Peshitta. This is arguably based on the original aramaic documents that were copied & passed down. He was born into & grew up in an aramaic community, so aramaic is his 1st language & idiom & culture essentially unchanged.

Imo, the worst mistranslation was "Oh God Oh God Why have you forsaken me?"

The correct translation is "Oh God Oh God For this I was spared!"

Idiom for "This was my destiny!"

He never expressed a loss of faith.

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 20:34 utc | 47

Mary@4:

Sounds to me like you didn't throw away the weeds. You smoked them:-)

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 29 2024 19:27 utc | 41

A couple times in my teens. Not since then. đŸ€· No other drugs, either, beyond aspirin & stomach stuff. Nothing with hallucinations as side or main effect.

But I have had a lot of "paranormal" experiences, to the point that they seem almost normal to me. One witnessed by my boss, who was afraid of me from that day forward. 😁

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 20:41 utc | 48

HTS Islamiscists making gains in Aleppo attack:
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/29/hundreds-dead-fighting-rages-as-syrian-islamist-rebels-reach-aleppo/

Posted by: mjh | Nov 29 2024 20:50 utc | 49

Mary, thank you for your posts, they are helping me. I too try and walk the path of Christ, and it’s very difficult. I’m going through a lot right now, but thank you for your kind thoughts and spiritual soul.

Posted by: Richard | Nov 29 2024 20:51 utc | 50

https://www.rt.com/news/608424-eu-us-divide-poll/

Geez Louise, dudes, is it possible that EU citizens have finally developed some degree of reactive intuition after being bent over and boned by the USA? Like, the crude, vulgar interests of the US ("Killing Russians? Best money ever spent !") do not match up with what Europe needs?

Ah, but it takes time, folks. Finland just reversed their limits on immigrants in defiance of Idiot Sweden suffering from 3rd world immigrants thugs who train kids to commit horrible crimes 'cause they ain't adults. Stupidity can be a lot more entrenched than you would think.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 21:11 utc | 51

@Mary, #48:

My apologies for a low-taste jive at #41. Only meant tongue-in-cheek fun. You're sincere in your faith. I shouldn't have taken that lightly.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 29 2024 22:29 utc | 52

hezbollah lost, next day hts starts shit. Lebanon has a new civil war coming.

Israel leave Lebanon in 60 days? Who even believes that?

Lebanon enforce 1701? Only happens via civil war. No way to spin this shit. Israel is about to start fucking up everything, with daddy Trump and grandpa Biden's big blessings.

This sucks, and I don't even want to hear any pie in the sky "it's a trap" bullshit.

Hopefully Hezbollah ignores it all and breaks cease fire in a few days. I just don't know if they have any fight left in them. I don't think they do.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 29 2024 23:00 utc | 53

Hmmm, what is "young"?

I have never read such drivel from the W.H.O. before, as just reported:

"The WHO defines adults between the ages of 25 to 44 as young; 45 to 59 as middle age; and elderly as over 60 years". They are now shifting the elderly bracket up to over 70.

This is daft. That means they don't define adulthood until 25. Wtf?

A spokesman said, "According to our classification, a young person is someone who hasn’t reached age 45. I think that, taking into account the increase in life expectancy, this will soon be raised to 60 years".

Yep, that fits with all the GenXers and Baby Boomers now saying "I'm 61 (to 85) years young". Lol.


But the media consistently call 16-18 year olds "young adults" -- and these entitled little whippersnappers just love to make believe that they are worthy of so many social permissions, eg sex, leaving home, an independent passport, personal wage earning and paying tax, informal drinking. At 18 *in most developed liberal Western countries* or 21 in others, they are entited to drink, drive, vote, face court as an adult, military service to kill people in war.

Easily by 25, humans are "supposed to know better" than children and adolescents, so are therefore young adults from say 18 or 21 upwards.

Middle age is a totally fuzzy, very wide zone -- arguably one's 30s and 40s and 50s. My sister, at age 29, thought she had only a year to live before she was "old"! Yeah, and still a perpetual party-child!

Yet the boundaries of "elderly" are contemporarily shifting upwards each generation. This is brought about not just by medical assistance but by grown adults pretending they are "still young".

So in my books --
Young adults are 16-25;
25-30 is a zone dependant upon maturity, ie, parenting;
Middle age is 30-59;
60-70 depends on waning health;
elderly is over 70.

It's a pretty strange world when 14-18 year olds are demanding the rights of adults, and 70 year olds are still acting like children.

Posted by: Just_a_Visitor | Nov 29 2024 23:07 utc | 54

[email protected]'s called Infant-ry for a reason.....no rush, it'll get there soon enough, either Ukraine runs out of people or Russia runs out of missiles, fabs, grenades, drones, kinzhals, washing machines.......

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 29 2024 23:19 utc | 55

Alleppo was handed over to ISIS/HTS practically without a fight. The consequences for Syria will be severe.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 30 2024 0:02 utc | 56

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 30 2024 0:02 utc | 56

Nice shilling for terrorists. A couple of guys driving around in normal clothing and a civilian car without weapons making videos on the city is certainly not 'capturing' Aleppo. But it does stink of exactly the kind of retard PR moves the Ukrainian Nazis love. I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 30 2024 0:15 utc | 57

Idlib amid a sea of fireworks today. 400 HTS members were destroyed in the first day of clashes in Aleppo and Idlib area.

https://x.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1862620948383318391


And by the way, based on maps, it seems the HTS terror organization has plowed itself into a cauldron in western Aleppo, while Syrian army retreated. They may all end up trapped there.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2024 0:17 utc | 58

@ Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 21:11 utc | 51

One of the Rockefellers said “the secret of his success” is to “own nothing but control everything”.

Euroserfs might acquiesce to higher taxes and austerity to pay for “their own” military but might nevertheless find themselves fighting the same ”enemies” as before: whoever USUKI designates. Possibly without Article 5.

TPTB inflicted TDS on many Euroserfs and then use the story of “unreliable partner” to sell the policy.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 30 2024 0:22 utc | 59

Two articles dealing with Putin's state visit to Kazakhstan and the CSTO Council meeting in Astana which drew lots of media attention are my latest products, "Putin at CSTO Council Meeting in Astana," https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putin-at-csto-council-meeting-in

And "Putin's Post-CSTO Council Meeting Presser," https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putins-post-csto-council-meeting

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2024 0:33 utc | 60

steventjohnson@1826

Of course Jefferson went after the slimy Federalust judges. In the last couple hours of the John Adams administration, that lame duck named the egregious John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the S. Ct. In his Marbury v. Madison "ruling", that slimy Federalist opened Pandora's Box by unConstitutionally seizing power for the court which has been used by corrupted courts, not only the $upremes ever since.

Federalism is the #1 curse of contemporary America...it is all about concentrating all power in the hands of a centralized "authority". The American Revolution was totally against the centralized "authority" of George III of Perfidious Albion. Creatures like G. Washington's enanorate, the Bank$ter shill Alexander Hamilton, worked hand in glove to make nice with the British bankers. That particular attempt to bypass Congress in monetary affairs was busted totally by Andrew Jackson where he shitcanned the Second Bank of the U.$.

Your understanding of American history is best described as minuscule. Your adherence to centralized power seems to pop up in many of your postings. Are you an American or are you a U$$Aer?

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 0:59 utc | 61

Autocorrect once again: Washington's enamorate makes total sense...if one understands the meaning of that word which is rarely understood by deliberately dumbed-down Americans. It's root is most probably Latin and is generally expressed in Italiano. Meaning is that one individual is enamored by an individual whom he favors...a pet...some would say. Others would draw more intimate conclusions.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 1:03 utc | 62

NoName@1809

That terrorist organization, occupying most of Idlib province and bits and pieces of two others, including Aleppo, has been cosseted by the slimy "Sultan" Erdogan and recruited and supplied by the likes of the CIA, the U$$A Dept. of $tate; Perfidious Albion's MI6 and of course, mankind's old "buddy" the Mo$$ad.

Not genuine Syrian rebels in most instances, that mercenary force made up of jihadist volunteers from many Muslim nations and acts as a proxy for the forces of Evil.

Now that we have a foundation of understanding of the assailers of Aleppo; it is logical to assume that their entire effectives amount to less than a full brigade in numbers. In other words, their infiltrators would not mount to division size in range of 10,000 to 20k fighters. Their attack, coming immediately after the cease-fire between the Izzies and Hezbollah, both a bit exhausted and needful for reorganization, was admittedly a surprise, even to such intel agencies as were not involved in the planning...meaning the Axis of Resistance.

Aleppo is far the largest city in Syria. It cannot possibly be held by such a tiny force as those mercenary enemies of humanity can muster. They have made a splash, but their ranks will once again be decimated. Perhaps this time, the R.U., Syria and likely Iran and perhaps even China, will have the balls to tell the "Sultan" that his protection of Idlib and surrounds needs to come to a conclusion by removing his forces from Syrian territory.

If those cited powers put the squeeze, political and economic more than military, on the "Sultan"...then Syria, with the able assistance of Russia, will be able to clean out that Jihadist mercenary rat's nest in Idlib.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 1:18 utc | 63

Police being fired at with firecrackers in Tbilisi.
Barricades have already appeared on the streets.
In general, a Maidan classic. But everything is very formulaic.
If the authorities give in somewhere and do not show toughness, they will be eaten alive.
The West will now apply maximum pressure to cause the collapse of the ruling party of Georgia and force it to make suicidal concessions (see Yanukovych).

Boris Rozhin

Posted by: MiniMO | Nov 30 2024 1:36 utc | 64

Bolivia, supposed to be new BRICS member.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/bolivia-extradition-anti-drug-official-us
"In 2008, Morales kicked out the US ambassador and the DEA from Bolivia, limiting the US government’s drug war operations."
Think they meant to say US drug profits were adversely impacted so the US is kidnapping Morales former drug enforcement official.
Morales announced running for President again and someone tried to kill him on the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyctuU3IkB8
MSM says Morales claims he was targeted for assassination. Looks real to me.

Posted by: Thurl | Nov 30 2024 2:23 utc | 65

b, you might need to update your blog style to fit the times.

Instead of

Ukraine Thread
Palestine Thread
Neither Ukraine nor Palestine Thread

You should rewrite it as

World War 3
..Ukraine Front
..Palestine Front
..Taiwan Front
..South China Sea Front
..African Front
..Korean Front
..United States Front

Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Nov 30 2024 2:29 utc | 66

Thanks LoveDonbass👍

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 30 2024 2:45 utc | 67

Posted by: Dany | Nov 29 2024 20:33 utc | 46

I'm inclined to think that the book is propaganda to feed a narrative.

Many who followed the whole Covid thing from the beginning know that is had already escaped Ft Dietrich months before the Wuhan outbreak.

The Wuhan outbreak was created during the military games by the US trying to cover it's tracks and shift blame to China for the outbreak in the US.
This is likely just another attempt by those behind the curtain to make it all about "China bad".
They get to pretend that they created it just for research, and made the mistake of trusting those evil Chinese with a sample, but never realising in their pristine innocence that China would stoop so low and unleash it on the whole world.

The fact you can only get copies from that walking penis Bezos and his Scamazon shithole also tells me it's bound to be ghost-written psyops from the CIA or US State Department.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 30 2024 3:11 utc | 68

Mary at 47,48 and Richard at 50, I hope you won't mind my adding a short passage. This is from "Saint Isaac the Syrian;A Theologian of Love and Mercy",an article by Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev (the pdf can be successfully searched using this info.)

... The notion of God as a careful
father gives birth in a person to a filial love for, and adherence to Him, whereas
the notion of God as a chastiser can only cause a slavish fear and dread before
Him.
All afflictions and sufferings which fall to everyone’s lot are sent from God
with the aim of bringing a person to an inner change. Isaac comes to an
important conclusion: God never retaliates for the past, but always cares for our
future
...
[My bold]

Posted by: juliania | Nov 30 2024 3:12 utc | 69

Latest Jimmy Dore podcast revealed that Matt Gaetz was subjected to a honeypot operation by a probable Mossad connexion, formerly a Florida drivers license dispenser, now imprisoned on numerous counts. This Greenberg character provided fake ages on Florida D.L.'s for "underage" girls. One of those girls was working various circuits in the sex trade and somehow got herself hooked up with then divorced Gaetz.

No way would the Talmudists allow an otherwise non Epsteined Congressman, who was one of the few who were NOT monitored and controlled by AIPAC agents, to become ATTORNEY GENERAL in the Trump Administration.

Bribery and blackmail are one of two major strategic operations used by the United Talmudists of World Control intentions...the other being via the Feral Re$erve Banking scam.

But don't take my word for this assault on the American people. Check out Jimmy Dore's presentations on You Tube and you should be able to access this amazing job of research and revelations.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 3:59 utc | 70

From Reuters

Canada PM Trudeau visits Florida to meet with Trump amid tariff threat

oh, to be a fly on the wall of that meeting

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71

@38

There is no such thing as "COVID-19". The origin is our concept/worldview system.

Virology is a pseudoscience. Contagion is a superstition. Vaccines are covert weapons of genocide.

"COVID-19" is a global genocide/eugenics operation. 30,000,000+ murdered.

https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its
https://drsambailey.substack.com/p/unmasking-the-viral-paradigm
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/eugenics


This (along with 2019 global financial crash, Ukraine, Palestine and others) is all part of their global satanic death cult/war on humanity agenda "Great Reset", "Agenda 2030" etc.


Books:

Viruses: Virus Mania
Vaccines: Dissolving Illusions
Contagion: Can You Catch A Cold?: Untold History & Human Experiments

Posted by: KOB | Nov 30 2024 4:50 utc | 72

rebels. Separatists. Trrists. Its all so confusing. The lovely Rachel Blevins discusses the history and context of the "rebel action" in Allepo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn4GIieNtg

Posted by: Fred | Nov 30 2024 4:57 utc | 73

Regarding the situation in Aleppo, there's no excuse for the SAA to have allowed the terrorists to enter the city. reports on Telegram are still conflicting, but it appears a comparatively small army of terrorists, roughly 5,000 or so crossed the boarder from Turkey. While around 800 Terrorists sleeper agents activated within Aleppo city itself, spreading panic and causing most of the SAA to flee from the city without a fight thinking that the city had been surrounded. Now the Terrorists are occupying most of the city, but their numbers are small and they haven't yet established supply lines with the main force from Turkey (that will probably happen over the next 24 hours). The one bright spot for the Syrian government is that the Syrian and Russian air forces have complete air dominance and they are effectively using that to inflict severe losses on the Turkish proxy forces. *IF* the Syrians & Russians can prevent a supply corridor being established between the Turkish boarder and Aleppo, they will probably be able to drive the terrorists out of the city within a month or so. Otherwise it will be another long slog taking 3-6 months or longer.

Erdogan continues to maintain his reputation of being the snake that other snakes warn each other about. I'm sure the Americans most of offered him a pretty penny for this betrayal. This looks like more evidence that this whole ceasefire deal with Israeli was just part of a larger plan to continue the maximum pressure campaign on Iran. Rather than wondering about what Russia will do, people should be asking what will Iran do? All of their regional allies are getting attacked and Iran just keeps supplying arms, eventually these allies will want Iran to take a more active role in their defense. If its true that Trump wants a return to the maximum pressure campaign and is willing to restart the Syrian war as part of the program. Than Iran wont have a choice they will need to intervene more openly in Syria.

Posted by: Kadath | Nov 30 2024 5:22 utc | 74

Posted by: Dany | Nov 29 2024 18:57 utc | 38
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Nov 30 2024 3:11 utc | 68
Posted by: KOB | Nov 30 2024 4:50 utc | 72

A very good book on the Covid thing is States of Emergency by Kees van der Pijl. Kees van der Pijl is a brilliant man. His book on MH17 is quite excellent, too.


Flupandemic - Flying Fish Sailors

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 30 2024 5:22 utc | 75

@ Kadath | Nov 30 2024 5:22 utc | 74 about Syria....thanks

I agree that Erdogan is a snake but he has company in the ME where most of the leadership is God Of Mammon compromised to some degree or another.

That said, the ME is being forced to decide if/how they are going to integrate into the China/Russia/BRICS+ axis.

I keep hoping to see a concerted effort like Russia and Iran sending missiles at the same time into Ukraine and Occupied Palestine. Humanity needs to understand that we are in a civilization war, who is on which side and the differences....public/private finance is key, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 5:53 utc | 76

psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71--

I hope Trump goes full bore with his tariff policy. As Wolff has illustrated very well, it's a lunatic policy that is 100% counterintuitive to his other domestic policy goals and will likely hasten the speed of the Empire's collapse.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2024 5:56 utc | 77

Regarding Georgia or events in Tbilisi.

In the grand scheme of things, this will have little effect on either affecting BRICS, war in Ukraine or the west's success/non success in Ukraine.

In case the west succeeds installing puppets in power in Georgia crazy to launch a war, Georgia will fall into internal disarray and perish as a nation like Ukraine, while the inevitable cogs keep turning. Like Ukraine, most will immigrate out of the country, mostly into Russia, and the libtards in the west. And Russia will, sooner or later, re-instate the land as a friendly nation.

In any case a potential for war is low regardless what puppets are installed.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2024 6:53 utc | 78

To the comment poster in a previous thread who brought this excellent book to my attention, i wish to convey my serious and sincerest gratitude - Thank You !

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind. by Stephen Mitford Goodson.
ISBN-13: 978-1-912759-20-0
Now in 4th edition 2019.

www.blackhousepublishing.com

...

Posted by: Fíréan | Nov 30 2024 7:01 utc | 79

So when Trump meets with Canada’s Trudeau, isn’t that a violation of the Logan Act (conducting foreign policy prior to your team being in office) in the same fashion as Michael Flynn was convicted for doing prior to Trump’s first inauguration? Just asking


Posted by: mjh | Nov 30 2024 7:01 utc | 80

NATO backed HTS terrorists film themselves trampling on a Palestinian flag in Aleppo.

It didn't take long for them to show which side they're on.


https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/131742

It's safe to say the blitz on northern Syria took everyone by surprise. This site even hasn't a dedicated thread yet.

Some 8 years ago the USA bombed a heavily defended Syrian government base in Deir Ezzor during a Daesh (ISIS) attack so the latter could overrun it which they did. Similar events occurred before and after it. Here we see walkie talkie and pager destruction's not only destroying the means of communication during an attack to defend the major city but also wound and kill the commanders using them. The Zionazi's did it with Hezbollah and were able to do it again with the Aleppo city defenders.

This attack again shows Erdogan's kabuki theater about his dedication to the Palestinians. He could have stopped the Azeri oil transit to the Zionazi's during their scorched earth genocide on Palestine but he didn't nor did he even send the tinyist possible amount of military help he's currently exposing Syria to, to help the Palestinians. The Russians are building a NPP in Turkey. I do expect some "unforeseen" delays with the current events.

This offensive has Israel (Mossad), USA (CIA), Britain (MIA), Turkey obviously with the SNA in the far north under their direct supervision and the imported nihilist gangs festering there for years (by the 3 aforementioned 3 letter agencies in Idlib) on the one side against Assad's Syrian government, a Russian military skeleton crew with the majority of personal occupied on the home front, a very weakened Hezbollah and a somewhat weakened Iranian presence. When is the last time we heard about Iran being able to counter USIS aerial bombing raids in Syria/Lebanon? The Russians always walked a tight rope regarding the USA and Israel's presence in Syrian sky. It would have been suicidal to military engage any of them because of the absence of nearby friendly countries far enough from the front line where they could land/refuel/be maintained in a safe way.

Let's hope the UAE and KSA are able to stay out of it.

Posted by: xor | Nov 30 2024 7:46 utc | 81

This attack again shows Erdogan's kabuki theater about his dedication to the Palestinians.

Posted by: xor | Nov 30 2024 7:46 utc | 81

---

Hell of a way to thank Russia for building the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.

https://akkuyu.com/en

Turkey is having an intrigue overload. They will suffer for it.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 30 2024 8:34 utc | 82

Re: Posted by: Apollyon | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 15


BREAKING: Dozens of explosions of walkie-talkies and pagers now comfirmed among the Syrian Army, Mossad is directly aiding the terrorist advance

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/13053?single

Hard to believe Hezbollah’s allies could be this stupid.

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2024 8:44 utc | 83

I saw this suggestion in Simplicius's Substack blog, that as Israel couldn't defeat Hezbollah in south Lebanon and capture the Litani river valley, Israel is now hitting Syria to weaken that country's ability to assist Hezbollah, and that this tactic (of thumping Syria to stop that country from supplying weapons to Hezbollah, after Hezbollah has defeated Israel in south Lebanon) has been used before by Israel. In other words, whatever worked in the first place - or nearly did work in the first place, at least until Russia entered the fray at Assad's invitation - Israel is using again, only this time, there's an air of desperation on Israel's part (and on the part of its allies and backers) in trying to break Hezbollah's strength.

It's as if, when history repeats itself, it repeats itself as both pathetic and savage farce.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Nov 30 2024 9:49 utc | 84

psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71--

"I hope Trump goes full bore with his tariff policy. As Wolff has illustrated very well, it's a lunatic policy that is 100% counterintuitive to his other domestic policy goals and will likely hasten the speed of the Empire's collapse."

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2024 5:56 utc | 77

With all due respect you don't understand Trump's tariff gambit; he is using his mega tariff threat to get other Sovereigns to negotiate;
and it is working.

Regardless of the Logan Act he talked to the Mexican president by phone and Trudeau and some of his toadies flew to Mar Lago to 'kiss the ring'

Unfortunately, your distaste for the Empire sometimes clouds your reasoning.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2024 11:01 utc | 85

"Idlib amid a sea of fireworks today. 400 HTS members were destroyed in the first day of clashes in Aleppo and Idlib area.

https://x.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1862620948383318391

And by the way, based on maps, it seems the HTS terror organization has plowed itself into a cauldron in western Aleppo, while Syrian army retreated. They may all end up trapped there."

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2024 0:17 utc | 58

I believe it is a trap as well-hopefully we'll see another rendition of the Battle of Cannae

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2024 11:08 utc | 86

@ too scents | Nov 30 2024 8:34 utc | 82

Who knows the dimensionality of the chess game Erdo plays, to preserve a functioning country stuck between multiple warring parties? His job might be the toughest on the planet. I’ve given up judging him, because I’ll never know whether he quietly coordinates.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 30 2024 11:40 utc | 87

@Julian #83

"Hard to believe Hezbollah’s allies could be this stupid."

Maybe it's fake news.

Posted by: Apollyon | Nov 30 2024 12:03 utc | 88

Hizbullahs Two half fingered salutations!
One eyed too. !
The new salutation to the failed assassins.
Yo Ho Ho!

Trying to extend Russia in Syria?
With Natzio, Ukrops and Uigger mercs?
Kill Persia again and roll though to China?
As if they aren’t expecting it.

Bye bye Yankee Anglo European khazarian miltary conquistadors.
Flee to that Western stolen continent, over and between the Oceans.
Europe evacuated too already of its Industry.
The One Ring fantasy is finally extinguished.

The Khazar Kings will never rise again except in that stolen continent.
Their Nazgûl Eurocrats screeching in disbelief! As their masters feed them into the mincers.
Be Gone demons! Your thousand year faerie tale finally ends.
A stake through its heart, dissolved to dust in the Light.

As Empire retreats to its beacheads of yore.
Lebanon, the latest Dunkirk!
Napoleon’s Gate to Africa and Asia collapsed as Ozymandius epitaph.
Sykes Picot , Lawrence nightmare of Arabia, lines fading in the sands.
Sultans Dream rudely interrupted by the coming of this new dawn.

That two fingered one eyed cockrell’s crow.
To greet that Dumpty’s hubris.
Idlib welcomes his folly, to the slaughter he goes, like ukro Zionazis they will die.
The largest natzio army in Alexander, Napoleon and British Empire’s footsteps.
That Turkey’s goose is cooked.

Only the fake pharaoh ‘gypsun soldier gods remain - ancient Cairo and Nile Peoples will also arouse from their centuries, millennium, of satrapy.
They too will know soon acknowledge the ancient truths, as the holy waters of the Nile from the Ethiopian and Rift Valley births of mankind
flow.
Africa Awakes !

(A shorter riff from comment of Palestine thread - soz if repetitious)

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2024 12:35 utc | 89

Interesting to observe that ISW, CSIS, FD's Long War Journal etc are all quite about the Islamist offensive in Syria. Are they awaiting instruction from der Oberkommando before taking a position?

Posted by: Poul | Nov 30 2024 13:09 utc | 90

Time for world to pivot away from the US economy
Trump’s prohibitive tariffs and destruction of institutions that made US an economic powerhouse could make it less globally relevant
by Renaud Foucart November 21, 2024

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election – and his threat to impose tariffs on all imports to the United States – highlights an important problem for the global economy.

The US is a technological powerhouse, spending more than any other country on research and development and winning more Nobel prizes in the last five years than every other country combined. Its inventions and economic successes are the envy of the globe. But the rest of the world needs to do everything in its power to avoid being too dependent on it.

And this situation would not have been much different had Harris won.

The “America first” approach of Donald Trump has actually been a bipartisan policy. At least since previous president Barack Obama’s policy of energy independence, the US has been on a mostly inward-looking quest of maintaining technological supremacy while ending the offshoring of industrial jobs.

One of the major choices Trump made in his first term was to accept higher prices for US consumers in order to protect national producers by slapping high tariffs on almost every trading partner.

For instance, Trump’s 2018 tariffs on washing machines from all over the world mean US consumers have been paying 12% more for these products.

President Joe Biden – in certainly a more polite way – then increased some of the Trump tariffs: up to 100% on electric vehicles, 50% on solar cells and 25% on batteries from China. At a time of climate emergency, this was a clear choice to slow down the energy transition in order to protect US manufacturing.

While Biden signed a truce with Europe on tariffs, it started a perhaps even more damaging battle by launching a subsidy race.

The US Inflation Reduction Act for instance contains US$369 billion of subsidies in areas such as electric vehicles or renewable energy. And the Chips Act committed $52 billion to subsidize the production of semiconductors and computer chips.

MORE..
https://asiatimes.com/2024/11/time-world-pivot-away-us-economy/

Posted by: Menz | Nov 30 2024 13:16 utc | 91

Apologies for not turning off the BOLD correctly.

Posted by: Menz | Nov 30 2024 13:17 utc | 92

@ Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19
“In other news, Musk is reported to have accused Vindman of treason. It would be wonderful if the US could get rid of all dual loyalist types but sometimes, you gotta start small.”

Yes. Agree. But


The First King of Mars, Elon the Great, could start as small as with himself! Right?

Are you sure he and his family have zero connection with the Illegal Apartheid Entity? Perhaps his kowtowing to NuttyYahoo when he last came to get his dirty laundry washed at the WH? That special seat in Congress. That special tour of his profitless company?
Who was kissing whose arse?
How about the massive amounts of funds pumped into the Get Trump Elected Again from the zioligarch mighty donors (dual nationals at least, most of them!) - as is being hidden by the western msm. Same happened with UKs new PM HerrStarmztrooper too.

Many Europeans too in their elections.
But they can’t stop the truth and people voting for what they know is right.
As Romania and Georgia are doing now.
But yes that specific dual nationality and more the cross party influence through the ‘Friends of 
’ has to stop.

Stay Real Folks.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2024 13:25 utc | 93

in CASE you havent noticed, practically every FUKUS vassal who joined the Global Chinese Exclusion bandwagon , eventually had to crawl back to China, cuz the price isnt worth it.

Lithuan was one of them, trying to get back into China's good book lately.

Then this happened !
Undersea cable bet Sweden and Lithuan found damaged, accusing fingers point to a Chinese freighter which happened to be in the vicinity
The Chinese vessel was detained 'to assist investigation'

Shades of the Yinhe fiasco.
REEKS of a classic FF by you know who.

Posted by: denk | Nov 30 2024 13:58 utc | 94

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2024 8:44 utc | 83

#########

As a huge supporter of Ukrainian Nazism, you are an expert on stupidity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2024 14:30 utc | 95

Undersea cable bet Sweden and Lithuan found damaged

Posted by: denk | Nov 30 2024 13:58 utc | 94

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Statistically not a tail event. The average lifespan of an undersea cable is a mere 17 years and that doesn't account for the extreme shallow depth of the Baltic Sea.

https://blog.telegeography.com/2023-mythbusting-part-2

Finland-Germany C-Lion1 started service May 2016 ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Lion1
Sweden-Lithuania BCS East West Interlink started service in 1997 ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_East-West_Interlink

The BCS EW Interlink had already exceeded the nominal 25 year service life for undersea cables.

It is notable that NordBalt, a power connector between Sweden and Latvia wasn't affected by the anchor dragging incident ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordBalt

The winds were ~30 knots at the time.

Chinese Bulker Yi Peng 3 | Sailed from Russia | Accused of Severing Two Baltic Cables | REVISED ==> https://youtu.be/a7cS1aVGwUE

Posted by: too scents | Nov 30 2024 14:40 utc | 96

@aristodemos #1

At the spiritual level. If the political class in Washington ever wakes up spiritually, they will recognize that whatever they do in terms of aggression against Asia has a single end result. It reinforces Asia and it weakens the West. Nature does it's work. Washington does not see that and it is reacting out of fear instead of intelligently finding a place in a new world where Asia has surpassed the Western capabilities. No nuke is needed against the US other than for rhetorical purpose. They have lost their way already.

That was the spiritual drive of the Chinese and the Russians, as societies, that lifted them out of poverty. The US is called Meiguo in chinese, literally "The beautiful country". It won't be beautiful in the future if it can't recover it's own spirit.

Posted by: Richa5d L | Nov 30 2024 14:51 utc | 97

Posted by: too scents | Nov 30 2024 14:40 utc | 96
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It could of course be an accident.
But the timing ....is too 'coincidental' for comfort.

Anyway the Lithuans had just expelled three Chinese diplomats.
LIthuan/sino reconciliation outta question now.

Posted by: denk | Nov 30 2024 14:54 utc | 98

a violation of the Logan Act (conducting foreign policy prior to your team being in office) in the same fashion as Michael Flynn was convicted for doing prior to Trump’s first inauguration?

Posted by: mjh | Nov 30 2024 7:01 utc | 80

Flynn's fraudulent conviction was for lying to the FBI.
The conviction was not based on any evidence supplied by the FBI it was based on evidence supplied by Flynn and Trump and Mueller who had created the false story that Flynn lied to the FBI.

The FBI agents that interviewed stated in their report following the interview that Flynn had not lied. The FBI agents again said Flynn did not lie when interrogated by the Mueller team.

But that did not stop the conviction because the only evidence Mueller presented to court was a statement from Flynn himself saying that he had lied and was pleading guilty.

Then on the day the conviction was announced Trump backed up Flynn's false statement to the court. The whole court case was a fraud designed to bolster the false narrative that the Deep State was out to get the Trump administration.

It is also obvious that Comey, the head of the FBI, was in on the fraud. Comey lied to Congress about there being evidence against Flynn and lied to Congress about the Trump trying to get Comey to suppress that fictional evidence. Both Trump and Comey knew there was no evidence against Flynn and they both lied about the evidence and lied about Trump trying to get Comey to "go easy on Flynn". This lie eventually led to the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller who Trump interviewed in the oval office the day before Mueller was appointed to conduct the Kayfab Mueller investigation.

Posted by: jinn | Nov 30 2024 15:36 utc | 99

[email protected] have to get their story straight about flying together on Lolita Express.

Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 30 2024 16:36 utc | 100

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