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December 25, 2025
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Reviewing the wider press this Christmas morning while the senior editors are on vacation and the 2nd stringers have the helm gives one a very transparent view of the direction the media has taken.  The underlings must have been given very crude instructions from their masters.  The polish has quite noticeably fallen from their typical propaganda work product.
 
I guess we’ll have to wait for the holidays to be over to be as gently misinformed as I’ve come to expect.
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 25 2025 11:53 utc | 1

Recommended:
The Most Dangerous Lie we tell About Capitalism, by Dick Dowdell
This essay  examines how Americans have been taught to think about capitalism in ways that protect wealth concentration, normalize extraction, and disguise the choices that hollowed out the middle class.
 
Exc:
 
Ask a group of Americans what capitalism means and you’ll hear a confident answer delivered with surprising vagueness. It’s freedom. It’s markets. It’s success. It’s the thing that made America rich. Press a little further and the definition often collapses into a slogan — capitalism is whatever happens when government gets out of the way.
 
That is the lie.
 
Under that narrowed definition, outcomes are no longer the result of choices. They are framed as natural forces. Wages stagnate because “the market decided.” Housing becomes unreachable because “that’s supply and demand.” Entire communities are hollowed out because “efficiency requires it.”
 
https://medium.com/the-polis/the-most-dangerous-lie-we-tell-about-capitalism-4388691d0dff

Posted by: JB | Dec 25 2025 12:19 utc | 2

She admits what we already knew – never trust Perfidious Albion or their Zio-Monster buddies.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇮🇱🇬🇧⚡- Ex-MI5 Agent Annie Machon reveals that Mossad bombed its own Israeli embassy in London in a false flag operation, blaming it on Palestinians.” | nitter.poast.org
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 25 2025 12:58 utc | 3

Ask a group of Americans what capitalism means and you’ll hear a confident answer delivered with surprising vagueness.
 
Posted by: JB | Dec 25 2025 12:19 utc | 2
 

 
The definition is so simple every child should know it.  Capitalism is the exploitation of surplus labour.
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 25 2025 13:22 utc | 5

4: Lets Hope the Nutter & 🍊💩 attack Iran again! It will end this Sorry Chapter for good….

Posted by: Nobody | Dec 25 2025 13:24 utc | 6

Halliburton = arch criminals.   It’s difficult to stand out in the Evil Empire’s pantheon of Horrors, but Cheney manages.    Makes potty mouthed Trumpstein look like an amateur.    I just watched part of a Nima interview with Alex Krainer, who, by the by, in my eyes still looks like a Trumpstein asset.   Alex remarked that during the Perez dictatorship in Venezuela prior to Chavez, 80% (!!!!!) of the people lived in poverty.     I happened to visit Venezuela during that horrible time and saw first hand literally millions of people living in complete destitution.   I didn’t know it was 80% but I knew it was huge.   Meanwhile the oligarchs and the Murikans were raking in the $billions.   BTW, Alex mentioned that Perez was CIA, which I didn’t know, but it’s par for the course.
 
Republicofscotland along with saluting you for dedication to truth telling, I salute you with a cyber single malt.
 

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Dec 25 2025 14:03 utc | 8

Perfidious Albion and the US Terrorist (pirate) State really are bad news for the world.
 
How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS – by Kit Klarenberg

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 25 2025 14:35 utc | 10

Alex remarked that during the Perez dictatorship in Venezuela prior to Chavez, 80% (!!!!!) of the people lived in poverty.     I happened to visit Venezuela during that horrible time and saw first hand literally millions of people living in complete destitution.   I didn’t know it was 80% but I knew it was huge.   Meanwhile the oligarchs and the Murikans were raking in the $billions.   BTW, Alex mentioned that Perez was CIA, which I didn’t know, but it’s par for the course. Republicofscotland along with saluting you for dedication to truth telling, I salute you with a cyber single malt. 
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Dec 25 2025 14:03 utc | 8
 
 I watched a video with Angelo Giuliani. He lived In Venezuela for a year or so at that time and said the same thing. He is now back there again and says there is still poverty but quite a bit reduced from his previous time there.

Posted by: arby | Dec 25 2025 14:52 utc | 11

Posted by: arby | Dec 25 2025 14:52 utc | 11
 
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That is what colonialism does. The people are suppressed as the wealth is stripped away by the foreign master.
 
Any natives who manage to stand out (human capital) get taken away as well.
 
That keeps the Empire flush with jewels, cocoa, and talent, which the Empire stops developing domestically.
 
Africa, the Americas, Asia, it’s all the same.
 
Same simple playbook and basic tactics each time.
 
Venezuela resisting and making something of itself is dangerous to the Empire. The spirit of El Libertador is still very much alive in the Latin American countries.
 
It takes one ship to break a blockade, one country to resist colonization, one man to resist an Empire.
 
Examples can be powerful symbols of what is possible.
 
Keeping the people poor (survival mode) is essential to them not dreaming of more.
 
The same thing is done inside of the Empire to Imperial citizens.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 25 2025 15:15 utc | 12

Unaccountability springs to mind – which in the US Terrorist (pirate) State it is fast becoming the norm.
 
“Two days after the U.S. Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to authorize just over $900 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year, the chief recipient of that taxpayer money — the Department of Defense — announced it failed an audit of its books for the eighth consecutive year.
The now-predictable audit result was announced Friday by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) after an examination of the agency’s roughly $4.6 trillion in assets. The OIG said it identified 26 “material weaknesses” — major flaws in internal controls over financial reports — in the Pentagon’s accounting.
Auditors also uncovered “five instances of noncompliance with laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements,” OIG said.
The Military Times reported that “among the shortcomings were omissions in the Joint Strike Fighter Program, the Pentagon’s multifaceted effort to develop an affordable strike aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and allied nations.”
“Auditors determined the Pentagon failed to report assets in the program’s Global Spares Pool, and did not accurately record the property,” the outlet noted.
Jules W. Hurst III, the Pentagon’s chief financial officer, said in response to the findings that the department is “committed to resolving its critical issues and achieving an unmodified audit opinion by 2028.”
The Pentagon remains the only U.S. federal agency that has yet to pass an independent, department-wide audit, as required by law. But its repeated failures to return a clean audit haven’t deterred Congress from adding to its coffers each year.”
 
 
Pentagon Fails 8th Consecutive Audit – Consortium News

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 25 2025 15:20 utc | 13

How strange it is that TDS now compells the American far left to embrance Cheney the Butcher…………responsible for the deaths of 5,000 US GI’s, 50,000 WIA’s, and one million Iraqi citizens.
And one trillion US dollars in wasted expenditures over the phony Bush/Cheney war on Saddam (an ex CIA paid operative by the way).
Bush and Cheney more than likely the worst combo in US history, with daughter Liz a complete coup plotter.
Good riddance and Merry Christmas to all !

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 25 2025 15:39 utc | 14

By the way Dick and Liz Cheney were true believers in the fight on behalf of the Ukronazis in Kieve, well at least they are consistent fascists anyway………!!

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 25 2025 15:41 utc | 15

Christmas in America: Staggering Wealth Concentration & Deepening Social Crisis
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/24/lcoe-d24.html
 
” There is growing anger in the working class which possesses enormous social power.
 
The strategic task is to connect widespread opposition into an organizational and political counteroffensive in 2026…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 25 2025 15:45 utc | 16

Burkina Faso Warns of ‘Black Winter’ of Imperialists Sowing Chaos in Africa (&vid)
 
https://rumble.com/v73fgi-the-black-winter-is-coming-burkina-fasos-presidents-warning-rt-panel-discus.html
 
“Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traore has issued a stark warning that imperialist forces are seeking to destabilize the continent – calling it a looming ‘black winter’.
 
In response, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have taken unprecedented steps to reclaim sovereignty. 
 
Pan-African activists, political leaders, and investigative journalists weigh in on whether this bold anti-colonial project can succeed – and what it means for Africa’s future.”
 
Rise up all. Prepare. It is time.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 25 2025 16:20 utc | 17

The USA is an oil company masquerading as an empire.
The Bella 1 seems to have evaded the attempt at State Banditry due to poor management of the biggest armada in the history of the Caribbean.
And seemingly bizarre legal justifications (sophistry?) for the debacle:
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/how-u-s-oil-tanker-seizures-targeting-venezuela-are-linked-to-rising-geopolitical-tensions-with-china/
 
One wonders what (if any) goal Turnips handlers have????
 
 

Posted by: Polli | Dec 25 2025 16:24 utc | 19

LoveDonbass@12……….one ship? Of what? Fools? Davey Jones be’s waiting for their souls……
 
Cheers M
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 25 2025 16:41 utc | 20

According to Bloomberg, the Russian Ruble has posted its highest uptick since 1994.  So much for the sanctions.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 17:14 utc | 21

The real left never supported any Cheney or any war.

Posted by: ChatET | Dec 25 2025 17:50 utc | 22

Posted by: ChatET | Dec 25 2025 17:50 utc | 21
 
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That doesn’t absolve them of anything. What did the REAL left actually accomplish? 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 25 2025 18:12 utc | 23

Bach: Christmas Oratorio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Y5BqK5f34
Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 24 2025 
 
Thank you for that link yesterday John! It is a wonderful performance of great music.

Posted by: Samu | Dec 25 2025 19:03 utc | 24

 JB | Dec 25 2025 12:19 utc | 2
 
Yesterday during a break from my project, I came across a very impactful article that immediately grabbed my attention to translate and publish, American Reality from Chinese Perspective – by Karl Sanchez. It put forth the idea that US capitalism and government policies create a “killing line”, which is very difficult to disagree with when reading the full essay. Indeed, that notion was immediately picked up by another writer at Guancha who wrote a follow-up I won’t have time to translate but its title tells much, “As the anecdote goes: ‘The Killing Line’ is part of the United States, and its other name is ‘Capitalism.'” In the conclusion of the article I did translate is this powerful truism:
 

When a person shows signs of financial situation being broken down, the purpose of the system is not to “save people”, but to “reduce losses”. Under this logic, rescue is not the default option, cleanup is. [My Emphasis]

 
A brutal assessment noted by Dickens and Marx prior to “welfare state” mitigation. Trump brings forth the image of the workhouse master in Oliver Twist while JD Vance fills the role of Fagin, both of whom are mere servants of an immoral System. And some can see why the choice was made to pursue generative AI as it will make the “cleanup” more efficient.   
 
 

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 25 2025 19:08 utc | 25

Samu@23:
Glad you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 25 2025 19:18 utc | 26

One of the battles in the financial theatre of our civilization war is the public/private control over commodity and precious metal markets.  Both have been manipulated extensively by the private finance folk over the years and now that there are challenges to the world of global private finance we have situations like the following from ZH
 
Intensifying Shortage: This Is What A Run On The London Silver Market Looks Like
 

This is what a run on the London ‘physical’ silver market looks like where holders of unallocated promissory notes for silver ownership and delivery, at the margins, start to demand physical metal delivery.
The enormous leverage of London paper (vapor) claims vs physical silver available for delivery gives the potential for a very quick unwind of London.

 
Notice the quotes around the word physical above.  These markets have been private finance casinos for decades and the house always wins, eh?…….maybe not anymore going forward.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 25 2025 19:33 utc | 27

@JB #2
Meh.
Don’t get me wrong; unfettered capitalism is absolutely not the best economic way to go because it inevitably leads to monopolies/oligopolies/monopsonies and other forms of “non free market” behavior.
The problem is that socialism/communism is no better because unfettered socialism/communism leads to Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
Ultimately, the point of any economic system is whether it is able to deliver capital and focus to the areas which most benefit from it – but also benefit the overall economy/society.
The West has long since devolved away from capitalism into fascism – fascism defined as the merging of corporate and government interests, not the National Socialist popular view, with the Europeans doing a socialism/fascism variant (ironically only different than National Socialism in that it focuses on Pan European vs German nationalism).
In all cases: government can be steered to address the core structural challenges.
China did it by selectively importing capitalism while retaining an iron grip on the financial system and political power.
FDR did it by introducing regulatory oversight and social safety nets into a previously almost completely laissez faire capitalist economy.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:48 utc | 28

@Polli #18
Meh.
Doomberg describes the political situation for the oil companies perfectly: oil companies build out during Republican administrations but make huge profits during Democrat ones. 
This is because they need leases and permitting and loans to do buildouts – which Republican administrations deliver on, but need high oil prices to make huge profits – which Democrat posturing and wars deliver on.
But even taking this in to account: if oil companies really ran the US – there would be both permitting and high prices all the time.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:54 utc | 29

c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:48 utc | 27
 
And the political goal of the ultrarich ever since FDR is to destroy what was put into place during his tenure–AND–that of a Congress that was peace and people oriented, not beholden to capital. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 25 2025 19:56 utc | 30

karlof1, just have found you over at nakedcapitalism.com links – you may have posted this with us, but its a subject dear to my heart just now, so here it is:
 
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/american-reality-from-chinese-perspective
 
I know there are many who  help,  and with all my heart I thank those who have assisted my son over the years. He was with us longer because of  the good hearted people of our community, many of whom I don’t even know.   It’s just that our society has  become  a very harsh one  for  the poor,  and I thank you, karlof1 for this substack.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 25 2025 20:08 utc | 31

Apologies,  others have also posted while I was laboring over mine above.  But  the duplication is a worthy one  I hope.  Again, my thanks, karlof1.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 25 2025 20:13 utc | 32

The definition is so simple every child should know it.  Capitalism is the exploitation of surplus labour. 
Posted by: too scents | Dec 25 2025 13:22 utc | 5

 
———-
 
That is the Marxist version of Capitalism. To no one’s surprise (except them) the world has moved on.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Dec 25 2025 20:47 utc | 33

But even taking this in to account: if oil companies really ran the US – there would be both permitting and high prices all the time.
 
Posted by: c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:54 utc | 28

 
That’s logically impossible … the high prices are a direct result of supply scarcity.
 
But there’s nothing strange about business adaptation to the current political reality.

Posted by: Tel | Dec 25 2025 20:50 utc | 34

The definition is so simple every child should know it.  Capitalism is the exploitation of surplus labour. Posted by: too scents | Dec 25 2025 13:22 utc | 5
 
Nope. Capitalism is the taking of other peoples capital.
 
This is done through creating unpayable debt, by design, where the interest, consisting of the results of labour (taxes et al), are reversed to the nominal holders of the “debt”. To fill the unsatisfiable greed of those that already have a too big a share of the limited resources of the planet.

Posted by: Stonebird | Dec 25 2025 21:12 utc | 35

@ c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:48 utc | 27
 
good comment.. what do you think the way forward is?? 

Posted by: james | Dec 25 2025 21:27 utc | 36

[jukebox] Toto – Falling in Between (live in Paris)
 
Great show and recording. Will you forgive me if I underestimated them?

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 25 2025 21:30 utc | 37

Does anybody have access to South Dakota’s legislature? I bet the State could get tens of billions in US spending by promising to stick Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.
 
I just want 1 1% commission (up front) for the idea

Posted by: Easy Money | Dec 25 2025 21:32 utc | 38

Actually, they could get maybe $100 billion if they promise to make his face the biggest one on rushmore
 
And my 1% commission would make me wealthy enough that I can finally afford to vote Republican.

Posted by: Easy Monet | Dec 25 2025 21:35 utc | 39

It never ceases to amaze me that Marxists, almost to a man, tend to have zero business experience.
 
Trying to discuss Marxism with them is like juggling jello. They can repeat the slogans but that’s it. 
 
I am not averse to Marxism btw, if it were accurate and had predictive value, I would be all over it.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 25 2025 21:36 utc | 40

aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 17:14 utc | 20
 
Bloomberg
Ruble’s World-Beating Rally Poses New Risk for Russian Economy
Yesterday
 
🙂
 
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 25 2025 21:37 utc | 41

@LoveD – I’m not a Marxist, and even somewhat adverse to it, but recognize its predictive value. 
 
The missing Marxist businessfolk may have had other ideas to spend their time. However, there are examples, such as Marxist MoA commenter Roger Boyd who did have a business career.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 25 2025 21:44 utc | 42

The missing Marxist businessfolk may have had other ideas to spend their time.
 
Posted by: persiflo | Dec 25 2025 21:44 utc | 41
 
#####
 
Yes, some are probably chilling on their yachts or diving into pools of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.
 
You know, fighting the class war surrounded by the loot of surplus labor…

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 25 2025 22:00 utc | 43

FDR did it by introducing regulatory oversight and social safety nets into a previously almost completely laissez faire capitalist economy.
 
Posted by: c1ue | Dec 25 2025 19:48 utc | 27

 
Many of the “Alphabet Agencies” adopted by FDR were originally invented by President Hoover.
 
The Federal Farm Board (FFB) was created in 1929 with the explicit purpose of keeping prices high. Although FDR campaigned in 1932 on the promise of reducing bureaucracy and cutting wasteful spending (quoted below), like most politicians he did something different to what was promised. FDR put through the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which was blatantly unconstitutional price controls. The FFB got renamed as the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) which continues “price stabilization” to this day.
 
Hoover created the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment (PECE) in 1930 as a jobs project, but never really got federal funding behind it. FDR later replaced this with the much larger Civil Works Administration (CWA) which was the same idea but more money. Hoover had also kicked off the Hoover Dam as another civil works program which FDR adopted (and conveniently renamed, but the name got changed back again later).
 
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was a Hoover invention from 1932 which largely amounted to pouring government money into banks (hey sounds familiar) and FDR happily continued the practice.
 
Hoover created the Veterans Administration (VA) in 1930 which has continued … now named the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Of course the optics were terrible when the US government went back on bonus payments then turned the army against veterans demanding their money. This has grown into one of the largest and most controversial bureaucratic arms of the US government.
 
FDR campaign speech 1932https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-address-agriculture-and-tariffs-sioux-city-iowa
 

It is in the field of the Federal Government that the office of President can, of course, make itself most directly and definitely felt. Over 30 percent of your tax dollar goes to Washington, and in this field also, immediate reforms can be accomplished. There are, of course, items such as the interest on the public debt which must be paid each year, and which can be reduced only through a reduction in the debt itself, by the creation of a surplus in the place of the present deficit in the national treasury, and it is perhaps worth while that I should tell you that I spent nearly eight years in Washington during the Administration of Woodrow Wilson, and that during those eight years I had a fair understanding of the problem of the national expenses, and that I knew at first hand many of the details of actual administration of the different departments. Later in this campaign I propose to analyze the enormous increase in the growth of what you and I call bureaucracy. We are not getting an adequate return for the money we are spending in Washington, or to put it another way, we are spending altogether too much money for Government services that are neither practical nor necessary. And then, in addition to that, we are attempting too many functions. We need to simplify what the Federal Government is giving to the people.
 
I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all our history. It is an Administration that has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs and the reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats, commissions and commissioners have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer.
 
Now, I read in the past few days in the newspapers that the President is at work on a plan to consolidate and simplify the Federal bureaucracy. My friends, four long years ago, in the campaign of 1928, he, as a candidate, proposed to do this same thing. And today, once more a candidate, he is still proposing, and I leave you to draw your own inferences.

Posted by: Tel | Dec 25 2025 22:15 utc | 44

Simon Hunt interview. 
A lot of mayhem coming up in 2026, including:
-potential EU false flag in attempt to drag US into the war
-potential CIA black ops assassination on Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGkUVH27ik

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 25 2025 22:22 utc | 45

LoveDonbass@2136:  Marx was excellent at calling the question.  He was hopeless with remediation of the insanity which ultimately has become highest financier capitalism.  
 
The Orca whales have massively succeeded in gobbling up even the Great White Sharks.  “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”.  Give me a fukkin break.  “Vanguard of the Proletariat”…an Open Sesame for egotistical predatorial parasites with warped idealism as their energy generators.
 
 Consider the Neocons, original Talmusist “chosen” Trotskyites…and now Massacre masked “Conservatives”.  Edmund Burke has to be rolling in his proverbial grave over that one.We confront a Clown World on steroids.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 22:24 utc | 46

unimperator@2222 (magical numerological sequence in that posting time).  Yes, that rough Beast slouching towards Bethlehem is draped in a faux-flag with the intent of the terminally deluded ignorant iteration of nationalism as their cannon fodder in one form or another.  Thankfully, the awakeners of the younger generations are not gonna fall for that pit-trap, with the sharpened stakes at the bottom of the unholy hole.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 22:28 utc | 47

Tel@2215:  Some understated insights into FDR, the darling of bureaucratic governance and the utter, but well masked initially, support for Perfidious Albion.  That was not quite ALL about the $$$, while that was a major influencer.  He deliberately sacrificed thousands of American servicemen on 12-7-41 via his goading of the Japanese to ultimately attack Pearl Harbor. His goal was to get the U.$. into the war by any means possible.  He knew well about the pact between the Japanese and the 3rd Reich regime in Germany.  He understood that Hitler would follow through on that pact by declaring War on America.
 
FDR was very proud of his volunteered submission to the blackmailed Thomas Woodrow Wilson and his adherence to the financiers who were deeply into loans to the British and French Allies.  In fact, America had no business whatsoever in getting involved in a European war which only benefited the likes of the Morgan, Rottenfeller, Rottenchild and Dupont Barony…but ill no wise need by or desired by the American people.
 
The American people have long suffered a long string of treasonous presidents who were under the thumbs of highest finance and didn’t give a fiddler’s damn for the American people.  The Oligarchy will be dissolved as we exit Kali Yuga.  There is no place for them in an honorable and cooperative rather than competitive world.  JFK and perhaps Harding and Coolidge were exceptions to that devolution of the presidency.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 22:43 utc | 48

“Posted by: Menz | Dec 25 2025 22:59 utc | 48
 
Boy would it be nice if one of the other two branches of government did their F@$#ing jobs
 
Or if the media did theirs. 

Posted by: Easy Money | Dec 25 2025 23:02 utc | 50

Tel | Dec 25 2025 22:15 utc | 43
 
Yes, you bring up important aspects of Depression Era history. Hoover tried but his economic tools weren’t enough, nor were FDR’s. The Dust Bowl drought was the real killer and created the generic term Okies for those displaced. Unless a deep dive into the Era’s history is done, most people only have a very superficial idea of what actually happened and why. And if the concentration when studying that Era is mostly domestic, all the factors that led to WW2 get omitted. Realistically, two entire semesters must be devoted to history from 1880-1939 alone, that is if we want people to understand what happened, why, and why all that remains important and impactful today–and I’m not talking about college; I mean secondary school.     

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 25 2025 23:47 utc | 51

BREAKING: President Trump Announces ‘Powerful and Deadly’ Strikes on ISIS in Nigeria
 
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2004331179219341491
 
“…The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 26 2025 0:07 utc | 52

southfront asks if all hell is about to break out in Syria….SDF plus Druze plus USA in action?

Posted by: Jo | Dec 26 2025 0:09 utc | 53

Nigeria: ‘Actions & Consequences’
 
https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/2004342289465069762
 
“If you could bomb Benin to ‘protect democracy’, then America can bomb you to ‘fight ISIS’. And next thing you know it drops 7,000 bombing raids in 8 months like in Libya. 
 
Which is exactly what some of us warned would happen. Actions and consequences. But nobody ever listens.”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 26 2025 0:19 utc | 54

Western intelligence sources allege Turkiye is attempting to install a radar system in Syria——According to The Jerusalem Post, Turkiye has recently been working to install radar systems on Syrian territory, a move confirmed by two Western intelligence sources. The report says this push comes as tensions rise between Israel and Turkiye over Ankara’s growing presence inside Syria.
The Jerusalem Post notes that positioning Turkish radars in Syria would drastically limit the Israeli Air Force’s so-called operational freedom. These systems could track Israeli activity during missions, including recent airstrikes, reducing Israel’s ability to move freely through Syrian airspace and potentially compromising future operations. (Via The Cradle)

Posted by: Jo | Dec 26 2025 0:24 utc | 55

❗️Israel ‘defense’ minister vows relentless Israeli military campaign across regionIsrael’s minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, has openly pledged to press ahead with Israeli military assaults across the region, including Gaza, where sustained bombardment and a crippling aid blockade have driven one of the worst humanitarian crises in decades. Speaking on Wednesday during a training course for Israeli Air Force pilots, Katz said Israel “will continue its operations in Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Yemen,” according to the Hebrew-language daily Maariv, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir present.Katz said Israel would keep applying “maximum force” against Hezbollah in Lebanon, refuse to withdraw from Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh) and the so-called security zone in Syria, and continue its campaign in Gaza aimed at dismantling Hamas. He also confirmed that Israeli strikes on Yemen would persist in an effort to block the Ansarallah-led government from enhancing its capabilities.Referring to the 12-day aggression against Iran in June, Katz claimed Israel, working with the US, inflicted “significant damage” on Iran’s nuclear and strategic capabilities. He added that Israel’s security apparatus is closely monitoring developments, declining to provide further details.

Posted by: Jo | Dec 26 2025 0:24 utc | 56

🇸🇾🇮🇱🇹🇷 — The official Al-Thawra newspaper of al-Jolani’s government has begun publishing the new map of Syria after relinquishing the Golan to Israel and the Alexandretta (Iskenderun) Sanjak to Turkey.⚜️ @TheSimurgh313

Posted by: Jo | Dec 26 2025 0:29 utc | 57

The Plane ‘Crash’ in Turkey
 
https://x.com/thomascmountain/status/2003942730821710291
 
“The plane ‘crash’ in Turkey that wiped out the leadership of the Western Libya military, who are antagonistic to the UAE and its proxy Hafter regime in eastern Libya, leaves room for speculation that the main beneficiaries of this ‘plane crash’…is the UAE? What caused the crash has not been addressed so far by Turkish authorities?”
 
 
The Dysinfluencer Factory
 
https://x.com/marcowenjones/status/status/2003048607763824655
 
“It’s finally here! Remember that weird group of Emirati influencers you keep seeing online. Well I’ve done a very deep dive, and the story is even weirder than you can imagine…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 26 2025 0:33 utc | 58

57 corrected: 
https://marcowenjones.substack.com/p/amjad-taha-muslim-brotherhood-maxxing
 
“Inside an AI-powered influence network linking Emirati influencers, pseudo-news sites, and the far right.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 26 2025 0:43 utc | 59

Posted by: Menz | Dec 25 2025 22:59 utc | 48
 
 I just listened to that Borzzikman video and he claims that Venezuelan oil loaded tankers are leaving Venezuela escorted by Venezuelan navy ships. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmKwCrLT1Y

Posted by: arby | Dec 26 2025 1:10 utc | 60

Posted by: arby | Dec 26 2025 1:10 utc | 59
 
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I have heard that as well, although, I believe, Venezuela’s Navy is very small, and probably not suitable for sustained escort missions.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 26 2025 1:26 utc | 61

The West has no more use of the judiciary in Europe or from the press 4th power in the US. It is a time of monsters.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-richest-billionaires-are-all-media-barons/290572/

Posted by: Tom | Dec 26 2025 1:30 utc | 62

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 22:43 utc | 47
FDR’s maternal grandfather 

Warren Delano Jr. (July 13, 1809 – January 17, 1898) was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China.

 

Posted by: lex talionis | Dec 26 2025 1:39 utc | 63

Venezuela versus the United States.
 
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/2004335960604205129/photo/1

Posted by: arby | Dec 26 2025 1:49 utc | 64

The Oligarchy will be dissolved as we exit Kali Yuga.
Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 25 2025 22:43 utc | 47
 
Perhaps better not to hold your breath: Kali Yuga is the fourth and current age in Hindu cosmology, characterized as the “age of darkness” filled with conflict and sin. It began on February 17/18, 3102 BCE, and is believed to last for a total of 432,000 years, with approximately 426,874 years remaining as of 2025. When complete the Yugas begin again, we are about halfway through the multiple cycles for this planet.

Posted by: Organic | Dec 26 2025 2:44 utc | 65

I don’t wish to denigrate someone else”s definition of ‘capitalism’, but will appreciate some feedback on mine,, which I use to make sense of the world.    Capitalism. – allowing resource allocation economic development and surplus distribution to be decided by those actors who control/own the resources. Whether this be financial, social or other forms of capital. To take it out of the political dialogue, an oak tree uses the excess  resources it has gathered through use of sunlight, minerals and photosynthsis to produce an acorn to further the survival or expansion of it’s species.  The actor is the genetic and epigenetic inheritance of the tree. Seen this way capitalism. Is not inherently negative.  What may make it so is the motives of the actors. ( And the effects of  outcomes on others).  By arguing about whether or not capitalism is “evil’ misses the ‘point’ as to who are the actors.   Similarly using the word markets is misleading.  What we have around us (in the ‘western world’) is parasitical oligarchic capitalism, where most strive for a slice of the action, and the ‘golden rule applies ,(those who have the gold, make the rules).   Once we identify the actors and their motives, it becomes easier to imagine and plan alternatives.  Slogans don”t seem to create change.

Posted by: Kiwi Bloke | Dec 26 2025 3:09 utc | 66

Posted by: arby | Dec 26 2025 1:10 utc | 59
 
Thanks Arby, I’ll try to follow that up

Posted by: Menz | Dec 26 2025 4:00 utc | 67

Santa is delivering bombs to Nigeria.

Posted by: Menz | Dec 26 2025 4:01 utc | 68

CNN
Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
 
What’s their `condemnations’ worth?
 
 

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 26 2025 4:08 utc | 69

Organic@244:  Duration of the Kali Yuga depends upon which Hindustani record keepers one accepts.  Most spiritual delvers consider that the cyclicity of Kali Yuga within the precession of the Equinoxes retains agency for approximately 6,000 years.
 
The Mayan calendar, unarguably the most astronomically and astrologically accurate of all known calendars; projected that the questionable and debatable cycle began to diminish congruent with the Mayan calendar, translated into the Vernal Equinox of 2012…a dating which numerous fear-mongers premised as “the end of the world”.  Silly shit.  The cyclical denouement is calculated for a thirty year pattern in 2032…by the contemporary Roman Imperial calendar, of the Gregorian “reformation”.
 
Cyclical time patterns are NOT lineal, as the materialistic reductionists still preach.  Innumerable individuals have queried why time is moving faster and faster over the past few years.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 26 2025 5:58 utc | 70

Lex Talionis@139:  The DeLano side of FDR’s family tree was not alone in the rackets.  Names in the registry of slave-ship owners note that the Sephardim element, evicted, Spanish victims of the Reconquista royals, who moved to Portugal and latterly to Amsterdam, listed both Delano’s and Roosevelts.
 
 Bloodlines, my man.
 
The great Baruch Spinoza was cut out of much finer cloth.  He was a truth seeker, not a moneymonger opium smuggler akin to the Mizrahi Baghdad born barons of the British East India Company Sassoons and at lesser level the DeLanos….or slavers like the Roosevelts.
 
Judaism desperately needs a reformation, perhaps from the likes of Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate’ and the large numbers of relatively privileged Ivy League young Jews who were amongst the leading lights of  the campus demonstrations against genocide.  The compassionate and thinking classes of today’s youth are rejecting en masse corrupted institutions owned and controlled by the financier elite who center on City of London, Basel Switzerland and Wall $treet.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 26 2025 6:18 utc | 71

Do you know about your body’s Interstitium?
 
Interstitium: A Network of Living Spaces Supports Anatomical Interconnectedness
 
I first learned about this organ/system in our bodies when I learned about astrocytes and their bio-electric communication capabilities that I expect use the Interstitium as the network its messages travel on/through.  Every neuron in our bodies has 7 astrocytes associated with it and they set up and clean out the synaptic cleft, meaning the real control of our synapses is bio-electric rather than bio-chemical which is the basis for big pharma and current mental health abuse.  While those astrocytes are managing the synaptic cleft they are talking to each other and ??? in bio-electric ways that we are just starting to recognize but not yet decipher.
 
Why am I bringing up Interstitium?  In the latest Telepathy Tapes session they talk about the potential of our Interstitium providing for telepathy that can even occur at distance/quantum like…….we are so ignorant and think ourselves so smart….just ask LD
There is a science documented Reiki/energy healer that can do so at whatever distance………

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 26 2025 6:25 utc | 72

Love Donbass@126:  It would amuse me if the Chinese were to announce to the world that their tankers worldwide, but particularly in the Caribbean, would be escorted by PLA naval submarines, while the tankers themselves would begin to augment their crews with sailors capable of utilizing surface to air missiles.
 
If my relatively minuscule interpretation of Chinese policies is close to the mark, should an escorting sub be sunk by “unknown” aggressors in the Caribbean, that an “unknown” South China Sea and strait of Taiwan intrusive destroyer might be sunk via “unknown causes”.
 
Would Lao Tze approve of such a scenario?
 
Defensive “shots across the bow” by means of official statements would not be a violation of international law.

Posted by: aristodemos | Dec 26 2025 6:30 utc | 73

Buy now Pay Later ? FDR and debt dlavery
 
*slavery

Posted by: Exile | Dec 26 2025 6:31 utc | 74

 
 
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/04/chris-hedges-trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic-party/
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party
 
The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build alternative centers of power — including political parties, media, labor unions and universities — to give a voice and agency to those who have been disempowered by our two ruling parties, especially the working class and working poor. We must carry out strikes to cripple and thwart the abuses carried out by the emerging police state. We must champion a radical socialism, which includes slashing the $1 trillion spent on the war industry and ending our suicidal addiction to fossil fuels, and lift up the lives of Americans cast aside in the wreckage of industrialization, declining wages, a decaying infrastructure and crippling austerity programs……..
 
….The liberal class in a capitalist democracy is designed to function as a safety valve. It makes possible incremental reform. But, at the same time, it does not challenge or question the foundations of power. The quid-pro-quo sees the liberal class serve as an attack dog to discredit radical social movements. The liberal class, for this reason, is a useful tool. It gives the system legitimacy. It keeps alive the belief that reform is possible. 
 
The oligarchs and corporations, terrified by the mobilization of the left in the 1960s and 1970s — what political scientist Samuel P. Huntington called America’s “excess of democracy” — set out to build counter-institutions to delegitimize and marginalize critics of capitalism and imperialism. They bought the allegiances of the two ruling political parties. They imposed obedience to neoliberalism within academia, government agencies and the press. They neutered the liberal class and crushed popular movements. They unleashed the FBI on anti-war protestors, the civil rights movement, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, the Young Lords and other groups that empowered the disempowered. They broke labor unions, leaving 90 percent of the American workforce without union protections. Critics of capitalism and imperialism, such as Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader, were blacklisted. The campaign, laid out by Lewis F. Powell Jr. in his 1971 memorandum titled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” set into motion the creeping corporate coup d’etat, which five decades later, is complete……. 
 
The democratic tools for change — running for office, campaigning, voting, lobbying and petitions — no longer work. Corporate forces and oligarchs have seized control of our political, educational, media and economic systems. They cannot be removed from within. 
 
The Democratic Party is a hollow appendage. 
 
Our captured institutions, subservient to the rich and the powerful, are capitulating to Trump’s authoritarianism. All we have left is sustained non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience. Mass movements. Radical politics. Rebellion. A socialist vision that counters the poison of unfettered capitalism. This alone can thwart Trump’s police state and rid us of the feckless liberal class that sustains it.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 26 2025 7:23 utc | 75

Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 26 2025 7:23 utc | 75
 
Big thanks for posting that michaelj72!
I encourage reading the full text at the link provided and checking out as many of the sources Hedges linked to as
you can find time for. This essay is a very good summary.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Dec 26 2025 7:46 utc | 76

A Siberian tigress with 5 cubs. A signal that conservation efforts in NE China are yielding fruit. There were just a little over 10 tigers in the whole region at the end of the 90s. Now there are many dozens and a female is able to raise 5 cubs.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/1351537.shtml

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 26 2025 8:33 utc | 77

The catfights emerging out of TPUSA’s AMFEST fiasco, last week, might seem to casual passers-by like something resembling Hollywood or hip-hop rivalries. Beneath that painfully shallow superfice lurks the deepest fissure I’ve ever seen, here in USA’s political fundament.
 
How far I need to back up in order to help you understand, if you’re interested, depends on whether all those players treading the garish Phoenix stage, interviewing each other or hurling insults at each other, mean anything to you: Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, Megyn Kelly, Mark Levin — three proud Catholics bookended by pushy Jews, there. Friends, could get seriously OMFG serious. Conservative American Catholics like Kelly are totally throwing away the previous rules about never hitting back against the you-know-whos.
 
For your staunch, incurably hopeful anti-Zionist, there might be cause for Christmas cheer, this year.
 
https://internewscast.com/news/megyn-kelly-criticizes-ex-colleague-sparking-controversy-and-division-among-maga-supporters/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 26 2025 10:02 utc | 78

I usually don’t do this, but there was something more I wanted to say about Posobiec holding up that rosary on the TPUSA stage: a photogenic and historic symbolic provocation, responding to all the shabot-shalomers, Erika definitely included: “Christ is King!”
 
That phrase itself has attained a crystalline symbolic status in USAmerican discourse, since Candace proved that you can get yourself fired from a good job by tweeting such a phrase. Now Jack Posobiec is practically closing out AMFEST by holding up a rosary, daring the smart-asses to make fun of Catholics.
 
Mark Levin, who evidently is not very bright, took the bait big-time. Who in the world wants to watch or listen to reptiles like Shapiro or Levin anymore? Empty juice-boxes getting swept off the Phoenix stage, as workers clear the arena for the next garish spectacle.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Dec 26 2025 10:13 utc | 79

Front month silver has exceeded $75!
 
Shorty is getting squoze hard.  https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=SI&p=i15
 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 26 2025 10:19 utc | 80

continuing too scents | Dec 26 2025 10:19 utc | 80
 

 
Spot silver is also above $75.
 

Gold has gained around 70% this year and silver more than 150%, with both metals on track for their best annual performances since 1979. The scorching rally has been supported by elevated central-bank purchases, inflows to exchange-traded funds and three successive interest-rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve.
 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-25/silver-rises-to-record-gold-near-all-time-high-as-risks-persist

 

 

Posted by: too scents | Dec 26 2025 10:26 utc | 81

COVID gave Brussels the chance to test a total information monopoly — Putin’s special envoy Dmitriev
‘Together with media and tech they erased dissenting views, and it worked. Now they want to use that blueprint going forward’

https://t.me/rtnews/127202
 
He confirms what I have stated repeatedly for over 5 years now: ‘covid’ was an exercise  in obedience training. No more no less.
 
Time for blowback.

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 26 2025 11:48 utc | 82

https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/04/chris-hedges-trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic-party/Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party 
Posted by: michaelj72 | Dec 26 2025 7:23 utc | 75
 
 Here is a quote from this article:
mounting vapid, corporate indentured candidates such as Kamala Harris or the Democratic Party candidate and formal naval officer running for Governor in New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill. They cling to the vain hope that being against Trump fills the void left by their lack of a vision and abject subservience to the billionaire class.
This is where Hedges gets it wrong . Its not a “vain hope” Its a very real and effective strategy. 
 
Making every election a referendum on Trump vs. Not-Trump is how the ruling elites get a senile old man elected in a landslide in 2020.  The electorate has become deranged. The voters inability to see beyond “Trump vs. Not-Trump”  makes Trump the most valuable political tool the ruling elites have ever had. 

Posted by: jinn | Dec 26 2025 13:52 utc | 83

aristodemos 48 – could not agree more, the US had no dog in the European War of the First Counsins.
However, American bankers had billions in loans outstanding to the UK and France, and a German victory would have made those loans worthless (much like the same situation today, where UK and French banks are owed billions in loans to the Ukronazis in Kieve).
Brit intell had basically bribed much of the American media into printing false stories about German atrocities in Belgium, with many millions of dollars in payments.
The false flag trigger of course was the Lusitania sinking in 1917.  It was perfect (sailing at low speed with no zig zag pattern – how convenient, and loaded with hundreds of tons of gold in payment for American arms shipments, and hundreds of tons of ammo from American factories for the war effort – in clear violation of the Neutrality Act by the way).  The German consulate in NYC had taken out full page ads warning American travelers NOT to travel on this vessel, as it was a belligerent and subject to an unannounced attack!
JP Morgan and his cohort of bankers dictated the US involvement in the war, a war which radically changed the American nation.  
My grandfather refused to serve in the US Army during WWI, he told me he knew the entire US involvement was engineered by the Democrats and the bankers and served no American purpose.  Always admired him for that.

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 26 2025 14:02 utc | 84

@karlof1 #30
FDR was not some mastermind – he literally kept throwing things at the wall until something stuck.
So while I absolutely agree, in general, with your statement that the elites have been trying to undermine many of the reforms put in place under FDR’s administration, it is hagiography to say that FDR and the Congress under him was brilliant or peace loving.
I personally am very aware of the extraordinary lengths which FDR went to fuck over Japanese Americans = and also give credence to the McCollum memo being actual US policy to get a war with Japan, and from there to join the war in Europe.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 26 2025 14:19 utc | 85

@Tel #34
Your statement implies a belief in the bullshit efficient market theory.
Among other things, it is not difficult at all to distort prices via taxation, via regulation, via monopoly. The latter is the most obvious: you can have all the supply in the world but force high prices via control over sales prices aka deBeers diamond cartel tactics.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 26 2025 14:22 utc | 86

jinn 83 – they continue to bash DJT at every turn because they, the Demosocialists have no platform or issues.
– DJT sealed the southern and northern borders
– DJT stopped a potential nuclear war between India and Paki
– DJT temporarily halted the IDF genocide in Gaza (more needs to be done to stop the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and their starvation in horrendous winter conditions).
– DJT deported over 2 million illegal aliens
– Stock market is at record levels
– 401 and 457 k’s are at record levels
– GNP growth is far exceeding predictions
– Unemployment remains very low – with job shortages in many fields driving up wages
– Tariffs are raising hundreds of billions in revenue for the federal government
– Over 156,000 federal jobs have been eliminated, which will save billions for the taxpayers
– Industry is locating back in the US
– DJT has saved the auto and steel industries from extinction
– Let the crazed pro Ukronazi Mamdani Democrats run against that record, go ahead make my day punks!
– The problem is that the MSM is totally and completely a mouthpiece for the Ukronazis and their neo con and Soros/Hussein Obama/Joey Boy Biden, and for the TDS crowd, especially CNN, PBS, BBC, RTE, Reuters, AP, Guardian and NBC, ABC.  They will be the stalking horses for a coup against DJT, and yet another fake impeachment.  Mark my words carefully, especially if and when Ukronaziland falls (and it will fall and soon too). The crescendo will be ‘Trump lost the Democratic Ukraine’ ! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 26 2025 14:22 utc | 87

@james #36
Depends on what you mean. 
For the US – the path is clear: reindustrialize via tariff protections and domestic subsidies, deregulation and other forms of encouragement of manufacturing focus. To do this will require a major shift in how the US government works.
Philosophically: my view is that every system has structural flaws, and even beyond that – smart ambitious people will always find a way to distory any system to their own benefit. And so the most likely “ideal” system is one which radically shifts at unpredictable intervals. This, in my view, is what “democratic” government really is supposed to be able to do – none of the other forms allow this potential flexibility. The problem with “democratic” government, of course, being that it is inevitably corrupted by vote buying schema – which is where we are at now. Or regulatory capture – which is what is going on in Europe.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 26 2025 14:27 utc | 88

By the way Mikie Sherill the incoming pro Ukronazi, pro illegal alien, Governor of NJ was a disgraced non grad of the Naval Academy via her involvement in the  cadets cheating scandal………….but ran on an ‘affordability’ crisis, forgetting completely that she voted in lockstep with policies of the senile, demented and perverted Joey Boy Biden and his radical green policies that drove up the cost of natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, and electricity……she is a huge fraud……a huge phony……

Posted by: tobias cole | Dec 26 2025 14:28 utc | 89

@Tel #44
You are quite correct – Hoover was not incompetent, nor did he fail or refuse to recognize the problem.
But he was nowhere remotely the politician that FDR was, nor was he the type to push against historical and Constitutional precedents.
FDR did all sorts of, frankly, dictatorial things which are now whitewashed because WW2 ended the Great Depression.
That’s the irony: my view is that Trump is the same type of President as FDR.

Posted by: c1ue | Dec 26 2025 14:34 utc | 90

@ c1ue | Dec 26 2025 14:27 utc | 88
 
thanks c1ue.. the vote buying schemes could end if the elected politicians wanted to end it.. laws could be made to change this..  

Posted by: james | Dec 26 2025 15:07 utc | 91

@ 87.
Ahhh  A deep dive  down the rabbit hole to the magical kingdom of Donderland. Hurry hurry don’t be late.

Posted by: golddigger | Dec 26 2025 15:23 utc | 92

Okaaay..
 
There is some weird shit going down – a kind of ‘looky here’ at the Carribean- whilst the actual apparent bombing is in Africa! 
 
Of course we can’t possibly be expected to believe it was the I*****I Secret Intelligence Service – Collective Waster Zionatzios headchoppers that were the targets.
 

@dana916
55m

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Eight F-22 Raptor fighter jets, five KC-135 Stratotanker refueling planes, and one E-3B Sentry early warning & control plane were airborne last evening flying towards the Carribean, all transponders disabled. F-22s took off quieter than normal, indicating secrecy. More attempted intimidation.
Dec 26, 2025 · 2:31 PM UTC’

 
 
One can only say naming such super duper aircraft with dumb names – ‘raptor’ – Ffs that’s as cartoon villain as any such name, might as well call it skeletor! 
 
Btw it’s obvious how such amazing systems can be easily defeated – these Stratotankers refuellers are NOT stealthy, or fast, or able to dodge hypersonics especially whilst feeding the raptor babies. 
 
Also worth noting that more RF satellites have been launched and go online – giving all weather radar from the sky. Nothing will move without being seen – not raptors, not stratos, not even the most stealthiest of stealthy 6th and 7th gens – when you can see the wakes in the sky! 
 
 
The Venezuelans will have plenty of knowledge of what is coming and when – and if the RF and Chinese honour the strategic partnership pacts – I expect the flight of the Stratos and pterodactyls will be short lived and soon retired to the museums of the deserts. What’s left of them after a single salvo. 
 
¡No Pasaran!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 26 2025 15:44 utc | 93

We must remember that the US Terrorist State isn’t attacking ISIS in Nigeria – for the US Terrorist State was instrumental in creating ISIS – as proxy force to do their dirty work in Africa and beyond – of course the US Terrorist State has NO RIGHT whatsoever to launch missiles at a sovereign nation such as Nigeria.
 
Nigeria is rich in oil, but its people are dirt poor and we know why – and its not just the US Terrorist State that’s at work here, Perfidious Albion has been as well.
 
UK funded radio show to sway Nigerian voters, leaked docs show – The Grayzone
 
Saudi Arabia and Qatar were/still are, fighting a war against Iran via proxies in Nigeria – that was a couple of years back – it may still be ongoing – and the US Terrorist State is probably using the false info of the mass murder of Christians in Nigeria as an excuse to bomb Iranian proxies, with the consent from the Nigerian government who are very quick to clam down on any dissent.
 
Saudi Arabia Takes Proxy War With Iran To Nigeria As Shias Are Brutalized

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 26 2025 16:22 utc | 94

Good for Traore, who also opened the largest hospital in Western Africa recently.
 
 
“Niger has announced a complete and indefinite ban on the entry of U.S. citizens, saying the move is a response to Washington placing Niger under a full U.S. travel ban”
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 26 2025 16:27 utc | 95

Gorilla Radio Goes To War at Sea – Beating Trump at the Bluffing Game (& podcast)
 
https://johnhelmer.net/gorilla-radio-goes-to-war-at-sea-beating-trump-at-the-bluffing-game/
 
“For the time being the Trump Administration and its allies conduct their war against Russia on the high seas, outside defended international waters, against ship targets which are unarmed, threaten no resistance. This is piracy, effective if the sight of the skull and bones flag triggers fear, shock, immediate surrender.
 
Then the US Coast Guard announced that it lacks the means and firepower to board and seize the Bella-1 oil tanker, owned by China and heading to Venezuela to load crude oil for delivery to Chinese refineries.
 
In the Mediterranean, the cover story for drone attacks on tankers operating for the Russian oil trade is that it’s the Ukrainians at work, reportedly firing from 1,500 kilometres to the north.
 
More certainly, the small drone detonation on the deck of the Qendil southwest of Crete on Dec 19 was fired from Tympaki, a Greek Coast Guard base on Crete armed with Israeli and NATO drones and using US and NATO satellite and live airborne electronic surveillance.
 
Although claimed by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), this was an act of war by the Greek government against Russia. And it failed.
 
This is a war between the 3,300-tanker alternative fleet (alt-fleet) versus a mainstream fleet of about 5,000 vessels in which the world oil market has been cut in half by the international war between Russia, China, India, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea on one side, and the US, the NATO allies, Israel and Japan on the other.
 
At sea, for the time being, this is a war of provocation, profiteering and face-saving short of shooting. The more time goes by, however, the stronger the Venezuelan government grows in resistance and the closer to capitulation the US and NATO-based regime in Kiev…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 26 2025 16:28 utc | 96

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Dec 26 2025 16:27 utc | 95
 

Good for Traore, who also opened the largest hospital in Western Africa recently.

 
Would you please stop posting fakes about what’s happening in other countries ?
 
There are lives at stake while you play “positive narrative” about so called “Russia allies” in West Africa.
 
Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Sebgo | Dec 26 2025 16:54 utc | 100