2 – “Lie back and think of al-Julani”

Posted by: Waldorf | Dec 12 2024 14:37 utc | 4

@all
During the last days an imposter, using the handle of ‘Peter AU1’, accused everyone and their dogs of being trolls.
Please do not react in any way to obvious nonsense like that. It only helps the imposter.
It also makes it more difficult for me to keep the comment section as clean as possible.
Posted by: b | Dec 12 2024 13:46 utc | 1
You know, I think they did the same to Gruff yesterday.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 12 2024 15:03 utc | 6

Macron has no legit government, yet the cunt is visiting Poland… they won’t buy French weapons anyway Manu , you don’t offer enough “security warranties” with your weapons.

Posted by: Savonarole | Dec 12 2024 15:22 utc | 8

I don’t have a good word for the group of people who run the West. “Criminal Global Elite” is clumsy and I don’t like “elite”. “The Global Mafia” is better… I am wondering if “The Pleonexia” (with a capital P) might catch on? (hat tip to karlof1).

Posted by: Tim | Dec 12 2024 16:18 utc | 10

“Yves here. We are running a new piece by Andrew Korybko”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/russia-dodged-a-bullet-by-wisely-choosing-not-to-ally-with-the-now-defeated-resistance-axis.html

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 12 2024 16:44 utc | 12

President Macarro Asks President Biden to Free Leonard Peltier
https://www.ncai.org/news/president-macarro-asks-president-biden-to-free-leonard-peltier
“Mr President, we are flying to Phoenix where you will apologize on behalf of the government for its role in Indian boarding schools.
You need to know that there is an 80-year-old named Leonard Peltier, one of the oldest surviving Indian boarding school survivors, who is in prison.
He attended the Wahpeton Indian School in North Dakota. Peltier has served 5 decades in federal prison for a crime the government admitted it could not prove…”
FREE PELTIER!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 12 2024 16:56 utc | 14

FREE PELTIER!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 12 2024 16:56 utc | 14
Very good idea, though, malenkov!

Posted by: juliania | Dec 12 2024 17:13 utc | 16

This is excellent and worth everyones time, watch and discuss:
Top Chinese Economist Exposes U.S. Secret Plan
I disagree with the key part, Russia’s relation with Iran is not only economic but geographic, the geographic part is absolutely not expendable, it’s what these economists are missing. Iran’s fall would allow the west to attack the Black Sea in a pincer, and then some as Turkiye is NATO, as well as encroach on the Caspian. Georgia is key here, and what you are seeing with the subversion there, as is Azerbaijan which will be promised the huge Azeri part of Iran as a reward. Russia’s influence in Central Asia will atrophy, if Russia even survives, China’s BRI will be finished as will the BRICS which together with the BRI is in part about China recycling its surplus outside the USD hegemony as well as establishing land trading routes against a Pacific naval blockade. Iran’s fall will very likely set the trajectory for victory for the USA. Someone said don’t look at the boats moving, look at the water.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Dec 12 2024 17:34 utc | 18

Economy in shambles, population at its most paranoid, supid and brainwashed it’s been in decades, administration at its most corrupt as well. World’s opinion of Russians at its lowest since the cold war and Russia is in a demographic crisis it probably won’t be able to come back from.
All Russia is is a market for China to off-load sub-par trinkets onto at 10x the markup and to buy oil and gas from at half the international price.
Now admittedly the West is still intent on appeasing Russia and its information warfare has been successful at getting far right politicians elected across the world so most of the sanctions will be lessened as soon as the war ends but Russia will never go back to the quality of life its people had a few years ago, even less so actually improve it. Russia has been a decaying empire for quite some time and now this decay has been accelerated drastically.
Two steps forward, three steps back.

Posted by: Shaikan | Dec 12 2024 17:48 utc | 20

– Turkey invading Syria ????

Posted by: WMG | Dec 12 2024 18:06 utc | 22

What a mad, mad world we live in – as the Orange One (Trump) is named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year (2024).

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2024 18:27 utc | 24

One of the Wests favourite evil regimes – is awarded the right to host a FIFA World Cup. It shouldn’t come as a surprise – FIFA has included Israel in competitions even though its committing genocide – F*ck FIFA.
Here’s the president of FIFA.
https://inside.fifa.com/about-fifa/president
“FIFA has put many ‘lives at risk’ after their “reckless decision’ to award the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, human rights campaign group Amnesty International has warned.
The decision to grant hosting rights to the Middle East nation was officially confirmed during an online FIFA Congress on Wednesday afternoon.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2024 18:35 utc | 26

Middle East Eye – removes Jonathon Cook’s excellent article from their web news site – because it tells the truth about what has happened to and in Syria.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-12-11/syria-assad-pentagon-plan/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2024 18:40 utc | 28

Apologies comment (23).
link.
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/a-nato-coup-just-took-place-in-romania

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2024 18:48 utc | 30

@Bemildred #11
The globalists/banksters/Deep State don’t always break the law. They just as often change the laws.
Then there is the language manipulation.
But it all boils down to the same thing: how they help themselves at the expense of everyone else.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 12 2024 19:00 utc | 32

@Republicofscotland #26
If you’re going to whine about FIFA awarding the World Cup to Saudi Arabia can you at least do some whining about the World Cup 2026 being held in the USA. Provide some balance at least. Maybe you can help organize a boycott of the WC 2026.

Posted by: ScreamingMonk | Dec 12 2024 19:07 utc | 34

This article is hilarious. Unintentionally I am sure.
Even the article title is a joke, “S-400, S-500 no match for U.S. Dark Eagle’s hypersonic speed”. Entirely assumption without any real data.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/12/12/s-400-s-500-no-match-for-u-s-dark-eagles-hypersonic-speed/
Occasionally there is some good information on the site, hidden amongst the garbage, but most seems to be simply cheerleading optimism (with subtle hedge) about the West’s weapons while downplaying, minimising or ignoring the Russian achievements.
Same BS here, https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/12/12/order-issued-for-deployment-of-oreshnik-missiles-in-belarus/
Re: Oreshnik-Yuzhmash
“Footage from the aftermath of the strike shows the unmistakable trails of these MIRVs descending upon Dnipro, causing significant damage to various civilian structures, including a rehabilitation center. Two injuries were reported.”
The biggest problem the West has regarding conflict is that it seems to believe its own propaganda. Rational choices are rarely made by the delusional.

Posted by: saner | Dec 12 2024 19:49 utc | 36

The powers of eschatological (miss-)interpretations of various scriptures is difficult to estimate.
Posted by b at 18:08 UTC | Comments (512)
Salaam b.
Interpretation implies a ‘reading’ and it is clear (per the comments that your post provoked) that most of our fellow hairy bipeds have never given a ‘fair & serious’ attempt at reading much less “interpreting” the Word of God, and of those who have many have not sought to benefit from the “various” scripture left for us from our ancestors. Also, while “estimating” the power of projection of numinous content of the collective unconscious (which must be understood as distinct from personal subconscious) unto external reality may be difficult, the power of using forms and organizational structures that are conducive to projection has long been noted and appreciated by a certain subset of human society.
Numinous content first germinates in the ‘mind’ (which must be understood as distinct from the ‘intellect’) as thoughts and feelings. As the inner reality that we truly inhabit is a Unity, the conscious ego (unaware) projects the source of these numinous content unto things (idols) in the field of apparent externality, in the attempt to establish unity, mirroring the true unity of being within. This satisfies the ego, since the ephemeral manifestation that is the apparent externality is its pervue and its ‘kingdom’.
The principle purpose of ALLAH Holy & Exalted gracing the uppity biped with ‘communications’ from the ‘True Kingdom’ via dreams, inspirations, angelic conveyance, and directly, to various ‘human’ beings — and among the subjects of such ‘informing the intellect’ by the Gracious God are His elect, prophets, messengers, and friends (saints) found in each and every nation and from the very beginning to this day — is to break the spell of the ‘mind conditioning and control’ of the ‘magical’ cognitive mechanism outlined. This is ‘maya’ in its most comprehensive semantic scope’. The deceiver and the wares of its trade, the lie.
And Abraham (saws) was a Friend of ALLAH and the ‘breaker of the false idols of the apparent externality (that is دنيا don’yaa)’. And Salaam be upon my Lord Abraham and His progeny, true and upright. For Abraham stood upright before (remember! Within!) ALLAH and brought before the LORD a true and sincere ‘Heart’. And that is how the Children of Abraham (saws) should be, if they only knew.
And as mankind progressed in its development it entertained ‘thought forms’ (ideations and conceptualizations) in his mind and yet again unawares the ego proceeded to project unto external form & structure the very same powerfully charged ‘aspects of his own True being’, And these thought form are realized in the apparent externality as societal and group structures. Which are the true subject under discussion here. Finally it should be clear then the phenomena under consideration is affective regardless of a collective acceptance or rejection of any metaphysical foundations and is findamentally the mechanism for formation of group mind and thought.
All that said, we now should have a clear idea of the “power” that can be wielded (whether knowingly or not!) when a collective has arrived at a consensus in projecting unto an ‘idol’, spiritual or ideological..
I’ll address the “various scripture” later in a subsequent response to comments regarding the “sky god” and “5k years of history”. So what remains is this notion of “(mis-)interpretation”.
We can safely at this point, from a both contemporary and historic perspective, assert that almost no one has actually ‘read’ these texts in the required manner that would inform. Almost all get their “interpretation” from ‘various self-asserted authorities’. And further it should not require any undue expenditure of 0s & 1s to clog the networks to argue the self evident point regarding the consequences of the meeting of delusions with Reality.
What is at work then is not necessarily misreading, for the remains the (the far more probable) possibility of mis-Appropriation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mahdi_claimants
After all, what is the “Zionist Project” – this is an appelation that they gave it themselves btw – but a misappropriation of the Messianic station and Promise? The other day, b, musing over your post I entertained the amusing thought of what must have gone through the heads of certain Europeans when they first heard of the false messiah of Jews of the Ottoman empire. “What? Jews can be lead by the nose just by this simple device?” Most are not aware that Zionism as a metaphysical ideation first occured to the (cognitive & wordly) elite of the British empire. The Zionism of Herzl is subsequent to Anglo-Zionism. TUR recently had an informative look at this history. And with the Jews, we find that it was first the atheist among them that projected unto the false idol of Zionism, and the religious (being already pscho-spiritually bound to an existing ideation of redemption by the person of the Messiah and as an act of God and not of men) had to be effectively forced to affect a shift in projection to this idol.
This misappropriation then continued, and presents yet another spectacle that gives a good idea of the “power” of hijacking control over the collective idol – religious or ideological – in the sad spectacle of “Christians” genuflecting before “Israel”.
There are possibly other misappropriations at this age, and this sort of hijacking the ‘numinous attractors’ as a form of ‘mind control’ has been going on since the beginning. The Muslim reader is referred to the account of the Golden Calf and what Samiri said about ‘dust of the footsteps’of Lord Moses, Aleihum Salaam! The ‘numinous dust’ that he used to create the Golden Calf..
(It is not my purpose to lecture here – sharing understanding for mutual benefit. Let me know if anything requires further clarification.)
& Salaam!

Posted by: sunof27 | Dec 12 2024 19:59 utc | 38

@Bemildred #11
The globalists/banksters/Deep State don’t always break the law. They just as often change the laws. Then there is the language manipulation. But it all boils down to the same thing: how they help themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Posted by: c1ue | Dec 12 2024 19:00 utc | 32
OK. The main thing is the ready cash. Many ways to do that, a great fountain of creativity dedicated to it.
Having the law on your side takes most of the worry out of it; thus the desire of organized crime to move into government, as they have here and elsewhere. And they tend to make inferior, not to say crappy, governments.
Of course there will always be some vigilantes, who will always be “criminals” by definition.
I think we are at a point where the general and deliberate misuse of language resulting from this is becoming a problem.

Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 12 2024 20:34 utc | 40

Posted by: Tim | Dec 12 2024 16:18 utc | 10
The terms you are looking for may be “Pleonexic-Corporatocracy” or “Pleonexic-kakistocracy”.

Posted by: saner | Dec 12 2024 20:45 utc | 42

Tim / dec 12 2024 / 16:18 / # 10
i find city pretty much sums it up. if for whatever reason vagueness is apt, empire.

Posted by: emersonreturn | Dec 12 2024 21:15 utc | 44

@10 @11 @13 re “What do we call our rulers?”
I’m with Jarvis Cocker on this one:
Jarvis Cocker – Running the World

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Dec 12 2024 22:01 utc | 46

This is not a war between nations and states nor their peoples, but it is an anglozionist corporations´war ans their representatives in the anglozionsit governments against the world…
Pharma corporations started the world war in 2020 by impossing their poissons on the Western world to achieve all formerly sovereign Western nations submittting to their imperialist rule and ceeding any riches their nations could hold to these anglozionist corporations even at the expenses of the ruin and termination of their people.
Those nations who still continue resisting the anglozionist corporations´ rule just are being invaded by hordes of terrorist of extremist ideology who unleash plain terror so that to ruin and destroy the countries and through that try to overthrow the resisting governments.
Russia and China have also corporations who sometimes try to bargain with these anglozionist corporations so that to get a share in the world´s new requisition and delivering of riches and may be being left alone… although when still not submitting like the indefense Western nations…

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Dec 12 2024 22:35 utc | 48

Central banker solidarity on the road to Hitler’s Czechoslovakian gold.
Here:
https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-first-cause-of-stability-of-our-currency-is-the-concentration-camp-central-banker-solidarity-on-the-road-to-hitlers-czechoslovakian-gold/
An excellent reminder of the Role of the bank of international settlements. The central bankers bank.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Dec 12 2024 22:59 utc | 50

Since I started, I might as well carry on. Just a quick follow-up to two previous posts of mine concerning updates to the daily itinerary for Canada’s Trudeau. Because they’re revisions, I’m assuming he’s receiving these phone calls, not making them?? Dec. 10, an update – he talked with Saudi Arabia’s MbS. Dec. 11, an update – he talked with the current president of the G7, Italy’s Meloni (Canada takes over the presidency in 2025).
And now – Dec. 12, an update – he talked with the Emir of Qatar.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Dec 12 2024 23:14 utc | 52

Fron a long time gone mukawem to the remaining mukawima in the Middle East…today, after the sell out and fall of Syria, more relevant than ever…
https://youtu.be/RTyLXc9llwI?feature=shared

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Dec 12 2024 23:25 utc | 54

Bemildred | Dec 12 2024 16:39 utc | 11–
I use the generic term Globalists in my “Commentary on Ukraine & Syria & Big Picture” essay I just finished. But they didn’t begin as such. Criminal gangs are close, but you’ll see I refer to Class, specifically Creditors. Global Mafia is good. Ian Fleming’s SMERSH comes to mind. IMO, Elite is absolutely incorrect as they are certainly not at all worthy of emulation as a genuine Elite would. I use the term Neoliberal Parasites, but that omits the pure Imperialists. Most certainly they’re Misfits. Globalists doesn’t work either because it doesn’t say what as with Global Mafia or Global Parasite. I’m pleased that Tim @10 tried The Pleonexia. I’ll let the subconscious mull it over and see what it spits out tomorrow.

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 13 2024 0:45 utc | 56

Are the Russians smart enough to do this, or will they remain cautious until they’re speaking English and German?

Posted by: Chombywombo | Dec 13 2024 1:18 utc | 58

Salaam to all.
Saw this last night & wanted to share.
there is no you in united health
there is no me in a company
there is no us in a private trust
there is hardly any humans in humanity
https://x.com/EliseJoshi/status/1866938048443036027
& Salaam!
Posted by: sunof27 | Dec 12 2024 14:45 utc | 5
Peace and prosperity to you, Sun.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Dec 13 2024 1:37 utc | 60

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Dec 12 2024 22:20 utc | 49
Salaam.
I do not think it helpful to opine on matters without requisite reliable information or knowledge: I am not Syrian and am not a student of Syrian history and did not live under the Baathist/Assad family rule. The broad outline of the history of the region and the role of the European interventions after the dismantling of Ottoman empire however does indicate the matter transcends mere competition for resources.
Regarding Zionistan’s treatment of captives, it is necessary to point out that they do not treat their own people in the manner that other West Asian regimes treat their dissidents. This much is clear. Of course there is no excuse whatsoever for their treatment of the captive Palestinian nation.
& Salaam

Posted by: sunof27 | Dec 13 2024 1:57 utc | 62

Ghost of Mozgovoy | Dec 12 2024 22:59 utc | 51
Waldorf | Dec 12 2024 23:20 utc | 55
Yeah, someone mentioned that on the After Syria thread; apparently it’s the Tiger division (or most of it). They’re pretty hard ass; I think Fisk interviewed their commandant a couple times, and he was quite impressive. In fact, Mercouris has apparently stated the commandant was also granted asylum in Russia (RuMOD is keen to keep him alive; the guy is Soleimani level strategist).
Makes me wonder if perhaps Russia might have a long game plan for when the jackals have finished each other off.

Posted by: robjira | Dec 13 2024 2:40 utc | 64

From previous thread…
Recycled ambassadors terrorist, from Northern Ireland and beyond
————————
Yet more Recycled ambassadors terrorist…
‘Nelson’s handler was a man named Gordon Kerr, of the Forces Research Unit, established under Thatcher essentially to professionalise collusion. His subsequent career demolishes the ‘bad apple’ theory even further: “He actually left the north under the cloud of being a mass murderer and involved in all these killings – but then went on to become British military attaché in China! Stevens put in a request to interview Kerr, and was told he had moved from China and was now on operational duties. He was actually based in Basra, in Iraq. Do you understand the significance? See all the covert killings that were going on in Iraq? There was an incident in Basra where two British operatives were dressed up in Arab dress at a checkpoint, and the local police tried to stop them but they killed them. Then they were arrested and brought into the police station but a British tank came in and smashed down the walls to take them away. That was Kerr’s unit. So this is not only Belfast or the six counties that we’re talking about, this is transporting terror around the world and this is where they perfected their techniques.” ‘
https://tinyurl.com/pypceny2

Posted by: denk | Dec 13 2024 2:58 utc | 66

Russia Establishes Contacts With Syria’s HTS Political Committee https://sputnikglobe.com/20241212/russia-establishes-contacts-with-syrias-hts-political-committee–1121155693.html

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has established contacts with the political committee of Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, and issues of ensuring the security of Russian citizens are being discussed, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Thursday.

Posted by: Laurence | December 13, 2024 at 03:29 [oops –wrong(?) thread]

Russia expects its military bases in Syria to remain in place, they play an important role in the fight against terrorism, Bogdanov stressed.

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 13 2024 3:36 utc | 68

robjira | Dec 13 2024 2:40 utc | 66
Correction: it is Suheil Hassan (the current commandant) who was given asylum in Russia; Fisk interviewed Suheil’s CO/mentor at the time, Jamil Hassan (no relation). Both formidable and loyal to Assad, and it was Suheil’s nickname that gave the division its name. Here’s one of the interviews Fisk did: Tougher Tactics Would Have Ended Syria’s War

Posted by: robjira | Dec 13 2024 3:58 utc | 70

i want to come back to william gruffs commentary about trump ending the war in ukraine… this is philosphical, and not directly related to the war… the way i see it the only way for trump to do anything here is for trump to get the usa out of nato.. he has talked about it before… trump isn’t going to be able to convince russia to stop here… however, if trump was to actually pull out of nato, it would force all the hangers on – europe, canada and etc – to come to a rude awakening and see how they have been led to believe the usa had their interests at heart, when they don’t! they have their military, banking and energy complex interests at heart!!
now, it is extremely unlikely for trump to do this… but this is something he can do.. he can’t get russia to stop here.. that is ridiculous… but he could pull usa out of nato and get europe to look after it’s security needs…
well, i know it is a big if, and very unlikely to happen which is why i think people, especially those american people who voted for trump – are going to be very unhappy with his results… this however he could do – get usa out of nato, because that is something he has some control over as i understand it… so lets see what happens…
@ robjira | Dec 13 2024 3:58 utc | 72
thanks for your posts… i appreciate your thoughtfulness…
@ Laurence | Dec 13 2024 3:36 utc | 70
you responded to me on the previous post pointing out how could i say that if i wasn’t posting.. well – it was a one off post at the moment, so yeah – you were ‘technically’ right, but missed my wider suggestion.. it happens.. i finished the traveling today, so for the most part things are back to normal and i have read this thread..

Posted by: james | Dec 13 2024 4:44 utc | 72

What a mad, mad world we live in – as the Orange One (Trump) is named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year (2024).
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 12 2024 18:27 utc | 24

We’ve been told ad nauseum, that Trump is literally H*tl*r.
This is Time Magazine’s hat-tip to when Time named H*tl*r as Person of the Year in 1938.
’38 – ’24 = 14.
(14 is significant in N*zi numerology: look up 1488).
2024 – 1938 = 86.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)

The term (86) has been more generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something. In the 1970s, its meaning expanded to refer to murder.

Not saying this is a coded “call for assassination”, but, this is a coded “call for assassination.” Complete with a photo on a million magazine covers, just in case someone forgot what he looks like.

Posted by: aluminiumfoilhat | Dec 13 2024 6:40 utc | 74

December 9, 2024. Israeli troops move swiftly into Syrian territory
February 22, 2022. Russia invades Ukraine on many fronts in brutal act of war

Posted by: Passerby | Dec 13 2024 9:49 utc | 76

All the prez men…
tHE rabid sinophobe who launched Trump’s economic blitzkrieg against China is back with vengeance.
The Most Dangerous Man in Trump World?
Politico
https://www.politico.com › magazine › story › 2017/02
pete nawarro trump most dangerous man from http://www.politico.com
12 Feb 2017 — WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD. The Most Dangerous Man in Trump World? How Peter Navarro could lead us into a global depression—or worse. By JACOB …
Donald Trump and Peter Navarro – the ‘most Dangerous …
American Enterprise Institute
https://www.aei.org › carpe-diem › donald-trump-and-…
9 Mar 2017 — Donald Trump and Peter Navarro – the ‘most Dangerous Men in Global Economics’ – Suffer from ‘trade Deficit Disorder’ · 1. Dan Griswold. “Peter …
There’s a new ‘most dangerous’ man in global economics
Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com › Finance › Markets
11 Mar 2017 — There’s a new ‘most dangerous’ man in global economics … On Monday, the head of the White House’s National Trade Council, Peter Navarro, laid …
Is This the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
Foundation for Economic Education
https://fee.org › articles › is-this-the-most-dangerous-m…
5 Mar 2017 — Donald Trump’s trade guru may be more dangerous than Trump himself. … Ever since his election victory, people have been arguing that Donald …
Peter Navarro is about to become one of the world’s most …
The Economist
https://www.economist.com › briefing › 2017/01/21
21 Jan 2017 — … Trump. In the past decade or so Mr Navarro has penned three books warning darkly of the dangers posed by China’s economic and military rise.
Trump taps Peter Navarro, convicted of contempt …
CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com › Politics
4 Dec 2024 — Peter Navarro served as a trade adviser in the first Trump administration, and was recently released from a four-month prison sentence for …
Missing: dangerous ‎| Show results with: dangerous
Peter Navarro: Ex-Trump adviser convicted of contempt …
BBC
https://www.bbc.com › world-us-canada-66744592
7 Sept 2023 — … dangerous route by escalating these things,” said Mr Lanza. “That’s not good for our system of government,” he added. Former Trump campaign …
Navarro: Americans will choose ‘tough guy’ for president …
The Hill
https://thehill.com › homenews › sunday-talk-shows › 5…
23 Aug 2020 — Navarro: Americans will choose ‘tough guy’ for president because the world is dangerous place. [sic]

Posted by: denk | Dec 13 2024 13:37 utc | 78

80 – Ah, but you see, they’re defending themselves. Even when they’re killing babies.
But seriously yeah, the double standards could scarcely be more blatant.

Posted by: Waldorf | Dec 13 2024 14:03 utc | 80

Macron is back from Poland where he pledges for a “NATO peacekeeper force of 40K soldiers”.
Then came back to France to name his prime minister : François Bayrou. Yet another “centrist”. Fun fact tho, this one was running in the 2007 presidential campaign on a debt reduction program. The guy is there since the 90’s, it’s yet another prime that could have been Macron’s father. Ich bin ton père Manu ! Noooooonnn !!

Posted by: Savonarole | Dec 13 2024 14:29 utc | 82

The USA and Turkey agree on how they’ll carve Syria up.
“US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Washington and Ankara have reached a general consensus on how to normalize the situation in Syria. The US diplomat, who is currently touring the Middle East, added that President Joe Biden’s administration would like regional powers to develop a unified approach on the issue.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 13 2024 16:01 utc | 84

Cuba and Bolivia to officially join BRIC’s on Jan 1st next year.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 13 2024 16:04 utc | 86

Re my (85) comment the Zionists are hewing off parts of Syria as well.
“Minister of military affairs Israel Katz has ordered Israeli troops to “prepare to remain” throughout the winter in Syria including the strategic Jabal al-Shaykh mountain which they occupied after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.”
“Israeli forces seized the so-called buffer zone, which separates the occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria, in violation of a 1974 disengagement agreement. The occupation forces have entered several towns in Quneitra, forcibly evacuating residents.
They occupied the summit of Jabal al-Shaykh which provides an observation point for areas in Syria and Lebanon. It rises to 9,232 feet (2,814 meters) and is the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 13 2024 16:15 utc | 88

Bemildred | Dec 13 2024 3:27 utc | 67–
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I read more about fighting organized crime from Russia and the orgs it’s in than from the Outlaws. Relative to my @37 above is this odd media note by the MFA regarding Medvedvev’s China trip, from which he’s returned:

On December 11, Russian-Chinese consultations on missile defense and missile aspects of strategic stability were held in Beijing.
The parties held an in-depth discussion of this issue in the context of maintaining global and regional security, exchanging views, in particular, on the topic of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.
The focus of the parties on strengthening dialogue and coordination on these factors of strategic stability was confirmed.

Odd because I’d expect something like that to be issued by the Defense Ministry. No media report I read mentioned anything of the sort, although it backs what I wrote regarding the reasons for the unscheduled visit.
On the issue of fighting crime, there were several mentions at the AI Confernece about that tech’s ability to help fight crime and some stats were presented as an affirmation. Also, the Human Rights Council meeting discussed cyber crime from Ukraine directed at Russian citizens as a form of warfare and how that is being fought. Both of those reports are at my substack.
Given the recent public threat to attack Venezuela if Maduro doesn’t do what he’s told, we can expect further escalation in the war there. The wounded declining Empire is thrashing about doing its utmost to increase global chaos–the medium in which it thrives.

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 13 2024 16:30 utc | 90

Aleph_Null | Dec 13 2024 16:04 utc | 86–
Lots of work happening in Russia on that issue, the why being obvious. Putin is very aware of the issue. Recently the topic surfaced in his talk with young scientists where one revealed her research plan. That report is at my substack.

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 13 2024 16:36 utc | 92

Bribem has commuted 1499 sentences and issued 39 pardons. This is for his retirement fund when 10% to the big guy from MICMAC expires. He is auctioning off unused border wall material. Wonder what his take on that might be. Of course, the Clintons took the silverware when they vacated, so they say. Seems to go with the territory in Dimland.

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Dec 13 2024 17:03 utc | 94

Turkey is another country which ‘share values‘ with FUKUS, ….
Iraq NFZ , ‘to protect the Kurds from Saddam HUssain !’
‘While British government ministers have repeatedly described the no-fly-zones as “humanitarian cover” for the Kurds, the pilots’ unease has become an open secret in the United States. Last October, the Washington Post reported: “On more than one occasion [US pilots who fly in tandem with the British] have received a radio message that ‘there is a TSM inbound’ – that is, a ‘Turkish Special Mission’ heading into Iraq.
Following standard orders, the Americans turned their planes around and flew back to Turkey. ‘You’d see Turkish F-14s and F-16s inbound, loaded to the gills with munitions,'[pilot Mike Horn]said. ‘Then they’d come out half an hour later with their munitions expended.’ When the Americans flew back into Iraqi air space, he recalled, they would see ‘burning villages, lots of smoke and fire’.”
https://johnpilger.com/2010/10/31/british-and-american-pilots-are-blowing-the-cover/

Posted by: denk | Dec 13 2024 18:14 utc | 96

‘Medvedev ain’t there to make.’ Grr
Medvedev ain’t there to deliver Xmas cards! Though he supposedly brought a letter from VVP.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 13 2024 18:26 utc | 98

Daniel Davis’deep dive: “Syria will cease to exist”.
“There’ll be a Bloodbath in Syria / Civil War at Hand w/Patrick Henningsen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyRivw81oE
Even Trump has chimed in:
Quote (in italics) from the video above:
“….. if the hostages are not released prior to january 20, 2025 ( ……. ) there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East ….. “. (at about 5:46 into the video).
This is precisely / a very what David Hearst (Middle East Eye) had predicted in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoBalmuWf0A
– The video also suggests that Turkey and Israel are going to be “at loggerheads” with each other over syria ?
– and possible israeli support for the Druze and Kurds in Syria & Turkey to destabilize Turkey ?
This WILL sharply increase the hatred against the US and Israel. And see another pattern. I think Israel and Turkey are rushing in to establish facts before the Trump administration is sworn in.
I also think that the “Abraham accords” are not going to be signed anytime soon. We can kiss peace in the Middle East goodbye for a long long time .
Pass me the popcorn ……………….

Posted by: WMG | Dec 13 2024 18:50 utc | 100