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The West doesn’t have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did.
The election has occurred; Trump will take office in January; many of the existing Party Nomenklatura will be replaced; different policies will be announced – but actually taking power (rather than just sitting in the White House) will be more complex. The U.S. has devolved into many disparate fiefdoms – almost princedoms – from the CIA to the Justice Department. And regulatory ‘agencies’ too, have been implanted to preserve Nomenklatura hold on the System’s lifeblood.
Pulling these ideological adversaries into new thinking will not proceed entirely smoothly.
However, the U.S. election also, has been a referendum on the prevalent western intellectual mainstream. And that likely will be more decisive than the U.S. domestic vote – important though that is. The U.S. has shifted strategically away from the managerial techno-oligarchy that took its grip in the 1970s. Today’s shift is reflected across the U.S.
Back in 1970, Zbig Brzezinski (who was to become National Security Adviser to President Carter) wrote a book foreseeing the new era: What he then called ‘The Technetronic Era’,
“involved the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society … dominated by an élite, unrestrained by traditional values … [and practicing] continuous surveillance over every citizen … [together with] manipulation of the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all people … [would become the new norm].”
Elsewhere, Brzezinski argued that “the nation-state … has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state”.
Brzezinski was plain wrong about the benefits of tech cosmopolitan governance. And he was decisively, and disastrously, wrong in the policy prescriptions that he adduced from the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991 – that no country or group of countries would ever dare to stand up to U.S. power. Brzezinski argued in The Grand Chessboard that Russia would have no choice but to submit to the expansion of NATO, and to the geopolitical dictates of the U.S.
But Russia did not succumb. And as a result of the élites’ 1991 ‘End of History’ euphoria, the West launched war in Ukraine to prove its point – that no single country could hope to stand against the combined weight of all NATO. They said that because they believed it. They believed in the western Manifest Destiny. They did not understand the other options Russia had.
Today, the Ukraine war is lost. Hundreds of thousands have died unnecessarily – for a conceit. The ‘other war’ in the Middle East fares no differently. The Israeli-U.S. war on Iran will be lost, and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese will have died pointlessly.
And the ‘forever wars’ too, that were expected by the Supreme Commander of NATO in the wake of 9/11 to topple an array of states (first Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran), not only did they not result in consolidating U.S. hegemony, but they have led instead to Kazan and to BRICS, with its long tail of aspirant members, ready to face down foreign colonialism.
The Kazan summit was cautious. It didn’t project a flush of solutions; some BRICS states were hesitant (the U.S. election was scheduled for the following week). Putin’s comments to these latter states were carefully calibrated: Look at what the U.S. can do to you, should you fall foul of it, at any point. Protect yourselves.
All that the BRICS President (Putin) could say, at this juncture, was: Here are the problems that [we have to solve]. It is premature to set up a full alternative Bretton Woods structure at this time. But we can set up the core to a prudent alternative for working in the dollar sphere: a settlement and clearing system, BRICS Clear; a reference unit of account; a re-insurance structure and the BRICS Card – a retail payment card system similar to AliPay.
Perhaps a Reserve Currency and the full Bretton Woods paraphernalia will prove unnecessary. Financial technology is evolving fast – and providing that the BRICS clearance system is functional, a multitude of fin-tech separate trade channels may ultimately be what results.
But a ‘week is a long time in politics’. And one week later, the western intellectual paradigm was upended. The Shibboleths of the last fifty years were rejected across the board in the U.S. by voters. The ideology of ‘undoing’ the cultural past; the casting aside the lessons of history (for, it is claimed, ‘wrongful’ perspectives) and the rejection of systems of ethics reflected in the myths and stories of a community, have themselves been rejected!
It is ok again to be a ‘civilisational state”. The radical doubting and cynicism of the Anglo-sphere is reduced to one perspective amongst many. And no longer can be the universal narrative.
Well, post the U.S. election, BRICS sentiment must be turbo-charged. Notions that were not thinkable last week, just became possible and thinkable a week later. Historians may look back, and observe that the future architecture of modern global finance, modern global economy may have struggled to be born at Kazan, but is now a healthy infant.
Will it all happen smoothly? Of course not. Differences between BRICS member and ‘partner’ states will remain, but this week a window has opened, fresh air has entered, and many will breathe more easily. If there is one thing that should be clear, a second Trump Administration is unlikely to feel the need to launch a ‘war on the world’ to maintain its global hegemony (as the 2022 National Defence Strategy insist it should).
For the U.S. today faces its own internal structural contradictions to which Trump regularly alluded when he talked about the evaporated American real economy owing to the off-shored manufacturing base. A recent report by the RAND Organisation states starkly however, that the U.S. defence industrial base is unable to meet the equipment, technology, and munitions needs of the U.S. and its allies and partners. A protracted conflict, especially in multiple theatres, would require much greater capacity [– and a radically increased defence budget].
Trump’s industrial recuperation plan, however, of painfully high tariffs ringing American manufacturing; an end to Federal profligacy and lower taxes suggests however, a reversal into fiscal rectitude – after decades of fiscal laxity and uncontrolled borrowing. Not big military spending! (Defence spending, by the way, during the Cold War relied on top marginal income tax rates above 70 percent and corporate tax rates averaging 50 percent – which does not seem to accord with what Trump has in mind).
Professor Richard Wolff comments in a recent interview that the West as a whole is in deep trouble financially, precisely as a result of such unrestrained government expenditures:
“For the first time, a couple of years ago, bondholders were unwilling to continue to fund the deficits of Great Britain, and [the UK government was thrown out]. Mr. Macron is now heading right down that same path. Bondholders have told the French that they are not going to continue to fund their national debt.
Here’s how it works. Bondholders are telling the French, you have to rein in spending … The bondholders are saying, you have to stop running deficits. And, as every undergraduate knows, the way you would rein in deficits could be to cut spending. But there is an alternative: It’s called taxing. And it’s called taxing corporations and the rich because the others don’t have any more for you to tax – you’ve done all you can [do with taxes on ordinary French citizens].
[However] taxing corporations and the rich … somehow, is not only ‘not doable’, but not debatable. It can’t be put on the table: Nothing. (or, something so minuscule that will never deal with the deficit). We now have too much debt. And it turns out that the government, like the American government, is facing the next few years where it will have to spend as much on servicing its debt as it is on defence. And that doesn’t leave very much for everybody else. And everybody else is saying: no, no, no, no, no, no.
And now the bondholder gets worried, because one way to resolve this would be to stop paying the bond holders and that, of course, must never be. So you’ve got two absurdities. You can’t stop paying the bondholders (when, of course, you can, but with dire consequences). And you can’t tax corporations and the rich. And, of course you can. I think we are reaching a point in which these contradictions have accumulated. You don’t have to be a Hegelian or a Marxist to understand that these accumulating contradictions are very profound, very large, and very fundamental”.
They tell us that on the one hand that the world does not accept the western vision as being of universal application – and on the other hand, the West doesn’t have the financial clout to pursue global primacy – if it ever did: Zugzwang.
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The Western World has been hijacked by terrorists. What used to be policies for freedom and prosperity have been turned into a predatory shopping mall empire that runs down wages and destroys local businesses. Now that empire is dying as there is no money to pay for goods and services. It was a race to the bottom where the cabal of bankster gangsters stole livelihoods and crushed competition. The grand chessboard was a binary hegemony that forced small countries to live under foreign occupation. The post World War II hegemony is now dissipating. The Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity. But the United States is collapsing now as capitalism has become a dirty word. Enriching a tiny cabal of predatory parasites at the expense of the population is not sane or sustainable. The monopoly money has purchased industries to sell off and liquidate. The insane cabal seems to have forgotten that monopoly money isn’t real. This worthless scrip has inflated prices while killing profits. These idiots know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Wall street is rising as companies are going broke. They live in a bubble of unreality. Yes, you can go broke printing money. Hyperinflation and top heavy fortunes have killed many empires before. Those that don’t learn from history often repeat mistakes that had terrible consequences before.
hopefully this will prove to be true but with miriam adelson, putting down a hundred million dollar deposit on the west bank and trumps penchant for giving away other nations lands to his israeli masters, this would seem to be the most likely source of a major conflict.
just because trump “didn’t start any wars”, doesn’t mean that he didn’t commit acts of war. ordering the assassination of general soleimani, was an egregious act of war and iran would have been well within their rights to declare war on the united states. just because the axis of resistance has been measured in their response doesn’t mean they will remain so. this thug nation is attacking lebanon and syria and speaking openly of adding them to their ersatz israel project.
somethings got to give here. trump is not a statesman, he’s a used car salesman and he treats the near east as a used car lot. perhaps he has no intention of following through on his insane promise to adelson and will stiff the old bitch, like a nyc contractor, pocketing her substantial down payment. perhaps his messianic narcissism leads him to believe that he can do just this, this may be the same delusion that leads him to believe he can snap his fingers and end the war in ukraine in 24 hrs.
once again israel is the rogue elephant in the room, that is being ignored, while being greatest obstacle to a peaceful solution of geopolitical solutions. fortunately the longer this all drags on, the more damage is done to to the zioneocon empire and it’s toady vassals, eventually they will collapse from within, hopefully before they can unleash a worldwide conflagration.
It was no doubt Miriam Adelson’s money, but she’s effectively a cut out for the Israeli government.
here we go, trump’s pick for u.n. envoy, described as an america firster, but she looks more like an israeli fister to me.
https://www.rt.com/news/607492-trump-names-un-envoy/
” The U.S. has devolved into many disparate fiefdoms – almost princedoms – from the CIA to the Justice Department.”
Now shit like this is how you know that old spook Crooke signed on as Avril’s British butler. CIA has a new fallback propaganda line. They adopted it after publicly failing to ratfuck Trump, purge Trump, and murder Trump.
The new CIA bullshit story is recycled Edwardian pluralism. Because CIA is one power center and DoJ is another. Crooke knows perfectly well that Trump’s AG Barr is CIA’s go-to billboard lawyer. Barr’s been mopping up CIA blowback since Iran/Contra. Barr ran Bill Clinton back when he was illegal domestic agent in charge of CIA’s Mena drug trade. Crooke also knows Strzok was two-hatted – not even a traditional focal point who runs to CIA for orders ultra vires. Crooke also knows about the Ohrs’ pillow talk. Crooke remembers the crucial service Spike Bowman rendered CIA by destroying their anthrax germ warfare evidence. Crooke most certainly knows how handpicked elite shithead Tom Thurman covered up CIA’s Lockerbie frame-up.
DoJ is shot through, infiltrated and infested with CIA moles. Ask O’Neill what happens if you don’t stick to your job at FBI, which is covering up for CIA crimes oh right never mind you can’t. CIA’s procedure for bringing DoJ to heel has been public knowledge since the Rogers-Huston memo. CIA is in charge because they can kill you and torture you and get away with it.
So let’s cut the shit.
Swump = Swamp Trump
I’ll believe it when I see it. Tariffs on the order of magnitude Trump is talking about will be a tough nut. Right now no one has any money. Average Americans are buying the cheapest item on the shelf. How will raising prices 40% go over with Americans already maxed out on credit?
Manufacturing ‘coming back’ to America? Under current business regulations?
Let’s say you want an iphone. Forget China– instead production will increase in Vietnam, Malyasia, Indonesia, India, and other low wage, low benefit places. Are iphones suddenly going to be made in California? Might as well quad the price, then.
Your ‘Made in the USA’ F150? It’s only ‘assembled’ in the US. Add a 40% tariff to the overseas parts, and that 75 thousand dollar pickup truck is going to climb to well over 100 thousand dollars (many already are, even under current conditions).
Plus, debts from our forever wars are coming due. Who is going to pay? Are tariffs going to pay for our eternal Jew wars? Are Trump’s Jewish doners going to pay it off? LOL
Brzezinski was a knowledgable and erudite person who sounded good. There’s an unconscious impulse amongst most people to look for a seer who can forecast the future and he seemed to fit the part in a secular manner. However, there’s no such thing. The US has shot itself in the foot by weaponizing the dollar and engaging in economic warfare, alarming other countries that they could also be subject to such attack should they displease the US. There’s no longer any need for a world reserve currency and the attempt to hold back the development of Russia and China has failed. An alternative has appeared and the US appears unable to sabotage it. There’s a gradual shift taking place worldwide as different countries develop and come into their own. There’ll be conflict along the zones of contention between the groupings as in Ukraine and the ME at present. They’re able to fight back and thwart US military and economic warfare in their areas of control.
Outstanding analysis, the kind I’ve come to expect from both The Unz and Mr Crooke.
What a steaming pile of dung this Trump is.
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This arrogance by the ruling class still exists, as shown recently by this famous American who states we need cheap immigrants to replace Americans who expect fair wages.
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This is déjà vu. Trump is just a figure who will be making announcements from the White House. In the last few days, Trump has been busy pleasing the Jews by announcing the most racist, anti-Muslim, and pro-Israel elements to serve in his “regime.” Anyone with the slightest of thinking will say that Trump is mainly a figurehead acting on behalf of dark forces (the Jews who control the U.S.) that propelled him to his position.
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He sure packed a lot of information into this article. I am not very hopeful of any real change with Trump coming back to DC. The Zionist cabal around him will prod him every step of the way into attacking Iran which will will be a disaster of biblical proportions. The American people cannot win with these republicans or democrats. For Gods sake, we have to find a way to take back this country.
Trump’s cabinet picks are leading His Voters to ask for an recount
on behalf of Kamala, and some are even demanding a successful
reenactment of the Butler, Penn event. We are screwed both ways
for being the forever Zionist bitch, again.
Let’s impeach the SOB before the inauguration!
It looks as though the lawfare prosecutions of Trump really were
staged to attract a sympathy vote for the “victim.”
What a foul country.
US is now like Old Cuba. It’s run by CIA and Jewish Mafia.
TRUMP’S War Policy: Good News & Bad News w/Larry Johnson
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In all the talk about the election result, I’m puzzled by so little comment concerning (once again) the so-called accuracy of polls. Multiple polls confirmed this would be the closest presidential election in history. Like – Evah!
Exit polls, entry polls, mid-voting polls and polls upon polls all assured the public of a result too close to call (which in itself sort of makes polls pointless) but yet again ALL THE POLLS WERE WRONG! It wasn’t close. It didn’t take weeks, possibly months of count-backs to determine a narrow winner. It was crystal clear within HOURS. So what do all these highly paid, ultra-sophisticated number-crunchers say about that? “Duh… guess we wus wrong…” So can we have our money back? Or can we have a full disclosure on how pollsters were getting paid to fake figures, misdirect some campaigns (particularly minor parties) and generally shop their reputations to the highest bidder?
Afterwards everyone just shrugs their shoulders and walks away, but if there are elections being stolen or fixed in subtle ways, I think we know where to look by now.
Wolff! I used to hear that commie 30 years ago on WBAI (“the People’s Radio”) in NYC. He’s been outlining the “collapse of capitalism/the West/USA” for just as long. He’s predicted 8 of the last 2 recessions. His poor students!
Would you take economic wisdom from someone who can’t even spell his own name correctly?
Oy vey, the existing Party Nomenklatura is getting replaced with the exact same Party Nomenklatura. Deep State Ziocons getting replaced with Deep State Ziocons. Who could have seen this coming? Certainly not Alastair Crooke.
It’s time to disallow Alastair Crooke from writing on domestic American politics. Why is this tripe on TUR front page? Fuck you, Ron Unz.
THE fundamental contradiction is that Western elites, deriving directly from Judaism, view non-Westerners as a lower form of life, that might be exterminated at will. The logic of Judaism and Westernism is exterminism, which is coming. The savagery being inflicted on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon is merely prelude.
Stefanik rose from the sewer to prominence because the Ivy League Presidents were coward servants of the Jews that control those colleges. Her filthy lies were easily refuted (eg our college does not support the genocide of ANYONE, and your assertion that we do is deranged and slanderous etc) but the scum were scared rigid that they might say something, anything, that any Jew, anywhere, would take exception to. The West is dying because the Jewintern has paged all politicians but those of her filthy ilk.
“America is now infected with all the symptoms of an Empire near collapse – a tumble precipitated by America’s obsession with the needs of the racist Jewish state to reconfigure the Middle East to benefit the Apartheid country.
“In the process, the US got blindsided while China and Russia became powerhouses themselves, ready to knock the US Empire off its perch. Such happenstance is truly God’s doing to impede the Evil American Empire, as wagged by the Evil State of Israel, to become much worse than it already has.”
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/
The American disaster is set to continue.
Following the appointment of Marco Judio —
A collection of murderous savages.
Hey NSF, greetings – It’s ashame that voting in America is such a manipulated corrupt system , when it could be one of the best tools of society. If America or a new ” South” { autonomous region }ever does get another chance at becoming independent, they may want to have a vote on who their Agency heads are , along with the President, PM etc. When voting for a President – say Trump or Harris, they should have to declare to the populace , Whom their Cabinet , Secretaries of…, Agency heads and other members , will be – way before the elections. It looks like Trump is going to fill his Presidency with a majority of warmongers, Israeli firsters and other swamp creatures while offering up 2 or 3 decent leaders who won’t be able to out way the Jew majority. Again.
Better than Harris and the Dems I hope. If President Putin offered Trump a place to build himself a Hotel/ Casino here in Crimea – I’ll bet the money headed to Kiev would start heading this way instead. lol Udachee
A key question addressed to Mr. Cooke and any other “Economists”:
Monies spent on servicing the debt.
Paid to whom? (Bond Holders,others- further define)
And where do the monies cycle after payment to the debt holders?
What,in fact, would be the consequences of debt payment default?
There will be no “new thinking” in the Trump admin. Just the same old Jews.
But looking at who is being chosen to fill the Trump admin, there is a conspicuous absence of Jews in visible roles. The people being chosen are all Christian Zionists and dutiful puppets of Israel. This tells me that Jews believe that the plans for the Trump admin (likely war with Iran) will be an absolute disaster, and they don’t want to be in any position where they will take the blame and be left holding the bag. They want to be able to blame white Christians after it is all over (as they did with the war on terror).
But that does not mean they won’t go through with the disastrous plans. In fact, it makes it more likely, since it will be a double win for Jews. They get the wars and the policies they want, and any blowback and negative consequence from those wars can be deflected to whites and used to further their anti-white agenda.
Jews- 2
Stupid goyim- 0
Imho – my old brain comes to ” greased lightning ” as the correct term to use as Donald Trump goes to war for Mr. Satanyahoo as fast as possible.
It will be a ” hair trigger event ” – something so minor it will not make any sense that will start world war III.
Here today – gone tomorrow!
“involved the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society … dominated by an élite, unrestrained by traditional values … [and practicing] continuous surveillance over every citizen … [together with] manipulation of the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all people … [would become the new norm].”
A Jew unwittingly descibes Zionist behavior minus the Gaza genocide which was a few decades away. But at that time, Zionist abuses and dispossession of Palestinians were already taking place.
It is true you must pay the bond holders. It is also true, to eliminate the Federal Income Tax (FIT) on corporations would attract every corporation to America to do business under financial freedom. This would retool our workforce and help the family unit heal.
Now, what is left to do is to end the FIT for individuals. Before the brainwashed say this is impossible, just understand, taxes were imposed when the currency was gold and silver and the king needed a physical portion for his expenditures. Today, Governments print money. Printing causes inflation and inflation is a tax. It doesn’t make sense or is it necessary to tax the existing paper when they can print more. Printing will show us the true diminishing returns from our overspending government.
So how do we keep the government from printing? Prune back all the waste in all departments. Abolish any unconstitutional legislation by agencies, this is the job of Congress. Any present legislation not voted on by representatives of the people should become nul and void such as the CAFE rules implemented by WEF agents to prevent Americans from owning affordable vehicles.
Kill the parasitic influence of the Brutish Clown. The English must be given every encouragement and assistance to wipe out the City of Dragons and its anti human fuckery since the “Glorious” revolution and for the English to dust off the Magna Carta once more.
The Establishment of State Banks to use its citizens’ savings to undertake public projects (voted on) to reduce borrowing costs and return interest on savings. This model is contra Usury, it is a joint venture model between savings and the temporary toll payers until the project captures its costs. Then it becomes a free for use by all, an increase in public prosperity. A couple of my favorite national projects are a high speed rail system to link the Pacific and Atlantic maritime traffic. Want to protect our southern border? How about a canal to link both oceans. It is time for Americans to go back to answering the question that made America great, Why Not?
All of these ideas and others are feasible only if the Organized Crime Cabal is defeated. It is important to understand that drug trafficking, for example, is only made possible by Big Banks run from the City of Dragons as part of it’s three legged stool of Usury, Drugs and Wars all imposed on its colonies, past and present including the US.
Many possibilities are within grasp after the 2024 Elections, a referendum on the Deep State and a demand for swift justice. We want Justice and an accounting.
Now let us take the guilty to face justice not lawfair. Take to trial for treason and a firing squad, Dick Cheney, Hillary and Slick, Nuland, Kagan, Obama, Pompeo and all those that constituted the Deep State whom abused our citizens. Give generous severance packages to DC Government employees and fire half of them. Break up the swamp by scattering the departments to the 48 States. The solution to pollution is delusion.
Let not this opportunity slip through our fingers. We gave Trump the outsider a mandate let’s keep reminding him of it on social Media. Let’s help him stay the course by letting him know we have his back and he can spread the pressure he faces to his voters. He doesn’t need Zionist money.
Let’s create the first feedback loop between the People and their President. What do you call this? Democracy? Why Not?
I don’t know. A ‘shopping mall empire’ from my reading, though, no longer exists.
Many destroyed by Coronamania, many by nigra bullying behavior and theft.
Raising revenue for defense spending would be a daunting challenge in the current inflationary environment. Interest on the debt is the 3rd largest budget item, and is pulling away from D spending to top a trillion a year very soon. Trying to foist some higher tax obligations on corps will only continue the burden of inflation-corporations just pass it on to us. At some point, the consumer says “no more”. That is not to say a”crisis” is not in the works to change the paradigm, that’s what it will take. How many will fall for it? Killing off the SS and Medicare crowd was the solution in 2021, but they could only cull out so many before it became an obvious genocide play; something we have strangely developed the stomach for in Gaza.
Liberals can’t see that their candidates are puppets, MAGA can’t see it either. Will (reputedly) 100 IQ America ever get wiser about the 92 IQ hebes that control us?
I’ve been trying to remember what BRICS stands for. My best guess is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Shitlandia, the latter meaning a bunch of third world dumps.
At what point will USA stand for the United Shitlands of America?
Oh well, “all our pomp of yesterday/Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!”
Nice old-school Marxist (or Hegelian) style title, but the contents of the article have nothing to do with the title.
He was a Polish royalist and his commonly-quoted “elites not restrained by traditional morals” shows his hand – he would prefer real power returns to the kings and queens.
Civilization has simply passed that stage, whether it would work or not. He may as well be asking us to throw virgins into volcanoes.
All this talk is nonsense as far as Israel is concerned.
The West will take a decade or two to lose control. In the meantime the East remains in large part disunited and also still heavily invested in and trading with the West.
The West’s unity is achieved thanks to Jewish hegemony which unites them all with a common purpose, especially Anglos are fully owned by us, and Israel is key in all this.
Due to Arab and Islamic cowardice Israel will settle Gaza, annex West Bank and deport Arabs, reduce Shia Lebanon to rubble. And now with Trump in power Iran will be decisively defeated or forced to surrender before Ocotober 2025.
What happens to Russia, Ukraine or China or other goyim does not threaten Jews or Israel.
We shall establish greater Israel within a decade or two, before the West crumbles. We will have enough land to take in most of the world Jewish population with much more land annexed to Israel.
And there is nothing goyim cattle will do to stop us because cattle is owned thanks to God’s decree by Jews. God is behind us. Everything conspires with us all Kabbalistic invoked superpowers of invis8ble realm of Yahweh are helping Jews and Israel win, as this is God’s plan for the promised land Eretz Yishrael and God’s cosen people.
When a NATO hug becomes a painful squeeze members bail and look for alternatives. It’s the nature of alliance itself that ultimately engenders repulsion as things work through their evolution.
Trump’s policy statement about never retreating is idiocy. Even Magnus Carlsen moves a knight back into the back row at times to escape capture if he has some long-range plan in which it will play a part. To retrench.
You seem to be more informed on these matters than I am so maybe you (or someone else) can clear up my confusion here. Why is Crooke, who worked for MI6 for 30 years, writing for the Strategic Culture Foundation, which is based in Moscow and according to the US “is directed by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and closely affiliated with Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs” (from Wikipedia – which is CIA controlled). Has he written publicly about denouncing Britain and the West and “defected” (to use an old cold war term)? His current mission seems to be selling Islam to the West (much like Kevin Barrett). He was supposedly kicked out of Israel and is now based in Beirut. Is this another Scott Ritter type deal? If he is such a vocal critic of the US and Israel why don’t they drop a few bunker busters on him and claim there was a terrorist leader nearby?
I once read a book by an Air Force intelligence colonel who claimed that during the cold war they considered the CIA and the KGB to be basically the same organization since they had infiltrated each other so much. Who is Jewing whom here?
hey gmc, there’s never a real choice offered to us. the truth is that both democrats and republicans are private clubs, that chose whom ever they want for a candidate. when hillary’s camp was caught cheating in her primary with bernie sanders, being given the debate questions in advance by donna brazile, then of cnn, they responded, so what it’s a private club we can do anything we want. the disgraced brazile, was fired by cnn and then immediately hired by fox news.
these two clubs have colluded to insure that no third party candidates can participate in their punch and judy “debates”, insuring the continuation of their duopoly in our sham elections. to paraphrase george carlin, they’re big clubs and we ain’t in them. the real problem is the the american public has been so dumbed down, they accept all this, believing the charade to be real.
Adelson?? I thought that name was dead and buried after season 1 of Mr Trump Goes To Washington.
Gawd it’s like a flashback.
Have little idea of this Huckabee, but it is a minor change in that he’s not a dual-citizen Israeli Jew. For a long time, U.S. ambassadors to Israel all have been that.
MAGAite’s surely can make noise about this nonsense, and should.
I suppose the hard-core were enjoying the rallies too much, so even though they have the means to organise to place pressure on Trump, by letters, telephone calls, e-mail, and self-organisation, they won’t.
Really, I couldn’t imagine enjoying a Trump rally unless drunk or at least tipsy.
What was the alternative? A brain-dead cackler who was as removed from the public eye during the campaign as senile Joe?
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This is article from RT, but it is blocked by “Western countries” ? 🥺
The Lobby is no easy lift and dump for any president, even Trump. He is also locked in his base the zionist, prosperity Christian cult.
Satan Yahoo is no friend of Trump. Who was the first to congratulated Bidden on his election? Satan Yahoo after all Trump did for Shitrahell. I could wager Satan might be coup-ed before January 6 or around that time.
Trump can be persuaded by business logic and Russia and China are showing great opportunities for America. One thing about Trump, he’s a builder, not a destroyer.
This time he knows who shot at him and that the Deep State and Israhell belong to the City of Dragons.
Too early to tell from the line up. As for warmongering embassador Stefanik to the UN, a mouth piece at best, what did that do for Iky Hailey’s career path?
Huckabee is a caricature of a “typical” Trump supporter. In one hand he holds one of the innumerable versions of the Christians’ Holy Book, which features a vicious Jew tribal deity that, later in the book, morphs into a Western idealized god. In his other hand is one of the fetishes of the Jews’ murderous religion, perhaps for example a menorah, and he says that the Jew religion is the foundation of his own Christian beliefs. He applauds the extermination of any people who naysay the inherently contradictory statements in the Holy Book that he carries. As a good Christian he states that his god loves everybody, but also candidly admits that wholesale slaughter is the best means of “conversion”.
How many of the global elite would like to settle down in China? No more than 1980s Japan. No matter how much wealth BRICS members accumulate, there will always be aversion to living in those societies and that explains the real power and attraction of the West in general and the US in particular. If the collective West dies, there goes the world–it only would be a question of time.
Prescient!
Well, there it is a comment which unbeknownst to the author of is exactly what the Bible warns us of. 10 kings who will make a pact with a small horned king speaking great and blasphemous things against the God of Creation!
Looger nothing is ever what it seems to be! Monarchies? God only knows what is really going on behind closed doors!
As for Brzezinski being wrong about a techno society that’s a mistake, a dreadful mistake to make. Fintech I dare say, is laying the foundation for
‘no man will be able to buy or sell without a mark in one’s hand or forehead.’
I often wonder if what St. John saw in his vision of that mark isn’t the QR Code?
St. John was that seer and paying attention to these words will go a long way to being prepared for the fallout that is approaching…
‘Here is the mind that has wisdom.’
Dr. Willard Cantelon spoke the same things as Brzezinski of that techno society. Unlike Brezenski though Dr. Cantelon made the connection to the words of the Bible. He followed the history of money to its final conclusion a
super welfare state where a system of rationing will be doled out to one and all similar in fact to the ration coupons of WW 2. With fintech it will not be paper with your number but a QR Code or some other version of it?
This is the bankers ultimate wet dream. We are nothing more than serfs to them!
And horrifying it connects to your conscience meaning a king will want your observance obseiance otherwise no bread for you! They will simply shut off your credit. This is how they will supposedly bring peace and happiness to the world by playing god controlling your bread and conscience! No wonder God condemns all to eternal punishment for taking a part in this treachery!
Thanks
Brilliant comment on a brilliant article.
“The Western Intellectual Mainstream” are intellectually as inbred as the Hapsburgs.
“The monopoly money has purchased industries to sell off and liquidate.”
Gordon Gekko – (WAS A JEW)
1)”Greed is good”.
2) “I create nothing. I own.”
3) “We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat when everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it.”
4) “Now you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it.”
5) “The richest 1% of this country owns half our country’s wealth, 5 trillion dollars.”
6) “America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions.”
At 75, I am old enough to remember the hubris and arrogance of the 90’s (Which I gleefully supported.) and would have probably loved Brezezenski’s book, had I got off of my Harley, stopped snorting coke and chasing tail long enough to read it.
The worm turns. Here at Unz, there are numerous articles telling us that the Jews are responsible for 9-11. I don’t know. I can see them manipulating the sand niggers behind the scenes, but those Muslims, were, in my opinion, more than willing participants.
That said, the pure as hell rhetorical Anabolic Steroids injected into the American bloodstream at light speed post 9-11 created Brobdingnagian blob DEEP STATE muscles by way of not just fear, but, that same hubris. Absolute power, as we know, creates absolute corruption, that resulted in the actual enemies of the American people, to be internal devils that blossomed under the real and imagined assault of “Oceania” enemies produced at the behest of the Jews who really run this country and believe, that “Greed Is So Good” that no matter who dies, loses their money, family, hopes and dreams, it is all just part of Yaweh’s plan.
War, pandemics, pestilence, economic slavery/hardship, genocide, nothing matters except the ascendance of Israeli/Jew power and suzerainty over American sheep.
Americans should be and probably are, cognitively dissonant over the Trump election. On the one hand, the “hand basket to hell” insanity of the anencephalic Biden – Harris administration is over and there should be some economic relief on the horizon (“Drill baby drill”). Trump just appointed Marco Neocon Ruby to Secretary of State (Ben Shapiro tossed his yarmulke out of the fuck’n stadium when he heard that.).
The Jews are so smart, so prepared, it is impossible to know what they really want/plan.
They very well could want a war, (Iran) that destroys most of the American economy, so, they can, like Gordon Gekko, go in and pick up the pieces and sell us all into eternal servitude and oppression.
There is no way to know.
Tariffs don’t have to be done stupidly. They can be targeted to industries that can be easily replicated in the US. Smartphone manufacturers can be encouraged through tax incentives, to build products in the US, the same with any other industry. Read about how the Japs destroyed the American television industry. Ford can be pushed to buy parts from domestic sources. Cutting taxes and regulations and strategically placed tariffs can rebuild America’s industrial base. Free trade is great, within the US, or with countries that pay high salaries and benefits, but it doesn’t work in a world where other countries practice Mercantilism and are willing and able to pay workers peanuts.
Trump is fucking garbage, of course Harris voters will be saying things like “This is what you get for not voting for Kamala!” It’s the same shit the Conservative cuckfucks would be saying if Harris had of gotten elected and was promoting trash in her cabinet. But they are perfectly fine with Trump doing all of this because “He’s the lesser of evil,” And my favorite sorry ass excuse from his dipshit voters is this one, “He’s better than the alternative.”
Keep telling your arrogant ass that lie. It won’t do you any good.
It’s all MIGA, not MAGA.
Trump admin will be crawling with Miggers.
Thanks, Charles.
Hoping that Americans can find some means to stop the Permanent War on the World for Jews. I had thought that the decent-minded would by now have taken their country back, but it appears not. It seems that most Americans live in a Hollywood fantasy, apparently fooled yet again by a paid-for tool of the sanhedrin.
There are those that object to Alastair Crooke, a non-American like me, commenting on USA. A.C. has more diplomatic credentials in my humble opinion than the entire US “government”, who are derided round the world as a collection of yahoos, a laughing stock speaking for a country referred to as Mad Dog and Great Satan.
And for good reasons; tens of millions of good reasons. Those who now would be alive if not for the sixgun cowboys of the USA.
Wishing your/others here voices of reason every success.
Meantime another Trump appointee.
Respectfully, that’s the WRONG question.
Right question: How many of the world’s elite would like to continue making money in their own countries, with no coups, threats, wars or strong arming by the West?
Answer: Almost all of them. Sure, there will be a small number of ultra brainwashed elites who deep in their souls wish they were Rich Whites. (None of them would want to be mere White Upper Middle Class – that would be a huge step down for them; remember, we’re talking the world’s elites here, everyone from South East Asian industrialists in Thailand, agribusiness tycoons in South America, oil-rich from the Middle East, mining barons in Africa, etc).
But for the most part, these elites want to stay, live and thrive right where they are, and they work with the West out of self-interest. Nothing beats being among your own kind, and wealthy and powerful. Why live among aliens? (Which we are to them). They don’t love or hate the West, but they play the game that they must.
Ask yourself, and be honest: When did you really see any non-White seen as just another person, an equal, in Western society? There’s always that sense about them that “They should be grateful we let them live here”. Well, they resent that – you would also, if you were in their place. That’s IMHO.
All of them will jump ship if another grouping offers a better deal. That’s the BRICS going forward.
Can we in the West outdo the BRICS, retain our position? Absolutely. We first have to stop being absolute assholes to everyone else (see above – coups, orange revolutions, subversion, war).
Chance of that happening ever?
ZERO.
Good question, Amalek Lives Mattter, I dunno. The SCF website is a pain to visit, maybe due to domestic Russian restrictions on Tor and other precautions, so our ilk seldom bother. If SCF doesn’t pay him, he’s OK. Crooke always colors inside the lines Parenti described, which makes him okey-dokey with CIA. Like, everything’s a mistake. He never says what you can’t say: it’s not a mistake, it’s a crime, crime pays if you have impunity, ka-ching!
Crooke also adheres to CIA’s cheap trick of describing the results of their secret ratfucks as some exogenous phenomenon or uncontrollable historical trend. So he’s piling up brownie points from Langley with his strict tut-tutting orthodoxy per DCID 2389-2936354/F(d.ii). That might be residual brainwashing rather than apple-polishing. His education and experience are exclusively statist.
Yeah, but at least Trump will keep running massive annual budget deficits by further increasing our absurd war spending — and perhaps exploding the deficit by getting into a hot war against Iran and Yemen.
And at least Trump will extend the fed income tax cut for the top bracket, i.e. households earning millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
And at least Trump won’t extend the FICA tax to annual household incomes over $1 million. That leaves some extremely high-income people with a lower overall fed tax rate than some in the upper-middle-class.
And at least Trump favors continuing the intentional massive replacement of the founding/core European-American population with “legal” immivasion — letting in millions more people who are typically lower-skill, less educated, and lack substantial English language skills, when we do not have even minimum-wage jobs for both them and the people already here. Perfect for employers and devastating for workers, who lose what little bargaining power and leverage they could have had.
Trump was a BIG BIG BIG deficit spender, i.e. borrower, during his first term. He certainly didn’t veto any budget and force Congress to seriously cut military / aggressive-war / genocide-support spending, which is what any sensible, non-vicious president would do.
Trump was a BIG BIG BIG printer of money during his first term. As with the other presidents, much of the increase in the money supply was unbacked by any increase in extraction or ownership of economically / industrially / medically / military vital precious metals. Nor was much of the money-printing backed by an increase in the production of useful goods and services.
There is zero reason to think that Trump will be much different during this term.
It’s embarrassing to see “fiscal conservatives” and “limited government” people portraying Trump as better than the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, or biden/harris on spending and borrowing and endless bankrupting evil civilian-mass-murder wars — i.e. the future of our country’s finances, foreign relations, and soul.
On the contrary, Trump and heartless Republicans are much more likely to cut already-inadequate social security benefits for our elderly American citizens, than ever touch a hair on the MIC’s head.
Trump and his heartless friends are more likely to cut Medicare coverage, and/or raise premiums on our elderly American citizens, than ever cutoff the hundreds of billions of dollars unnceessarily going to war, invasions, long occupations, and hefty aid to child-murdering primitive “israelis” in Palestine.
And forget about Trump ever agreeing to close most of our 700-plus military bases abroad — almost all thousands of miles from our borders, serving as “tripwires” and pretexts for more unnecessary war. We could save over $200 billion every year by closing 90% of those bases. (Perhaps keep bases near shipping chokepoints such as the Panama Canal and the Straits of Hormuz.)
And compared to four or eight years ago, we have less time before the default on some of the debt, or accelerating hyperinflation due to dollars coming home and countries abroad using far fewer dollars in their transactions. Thanks to Trump, Biden, and Congress spending like maniacs while the “conservative” half pretends they’re different. Thanks to both parties making zero effort to cut military spending, return to a policy of peaceful reasonable trade and interaction with the world.
Nor any effort whatsoever by Trump to reduce or eliminate spending on non-constitutional and/or totalitarian federal agencies such as the fbi and atf — perhaps because he doesn’t to be assassinated or have one of his kids die in a “Car crash” or “mugging gone wrong.”
Trump has never acknowledged the stupidity, medical inefficacy, and totalitarian evil in coercing Americans into getting experimental injections that don’t even qualify as “vaccines” under the medical definition used until three years ago. That alone is reason not to trust his character or his judgment.
Within days of being allowed to win the election, Trump has already indicated that he is going to actively support, and appoint personnel who support, continued starvation and mass murder of children, women, old people, handicapped people, and doctors patients and nurses in hospitals — estimated at more than TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND unarmed civilians intentionally murdered by “israeli” cultists in the past 13 months, with many more maimed, paralyzed, or insane with grief and loneliness and despair from having their entire extended family murdered.
“Israel” intentionally murders more every hour, and prevents even food water and medicine from reaching the semi-starving terrified people, and christian hero Trump says “finish the job.”
Yeah, what were were thinking not being willing to vote for him as we did in 2016.
Glad that we wised up and voted third-party in 2020 and 2024. Fuck child-murdering Trump and the anyone who pretends that he is anything but a mass murderer and con artist like the other presidents and their big donors and AIPAC handlers.
But hey, to repeal the income tax on overtime and tips, what are national insolvency, hyperinflation, mass poverty and malnutrition, and a few hundred thousand murdered women and children among “good christian Americans”?
Fuck Trump and the murderous scumbags still supporting him, bankrupting deficit spending, and “israel.”
That’s why there needs to be several areas succeeding from the Union or at least starting the referendums etc. at the same time. This would show Unity and give Washington and the Jews a massive headache. It would also wake some more pods up, to the fact that it’s time to write off Washington, and start all over as a New Nation State Co op – as we had during the old days in Alaska before the Feds rigged the State Hood election. Better Late than Never, since I don’t read anyone coming up with any Serious plans to address the major problems that Washington and their bought off ” Partners have created.
You mean the neo-con Jews have bankrupted America with their endless wars for Israel since 9/11 as white gentiles DIE and PAY for it while Jews get ultra rich and continue importing browns to divide and conquer? Do you really think the DEI Marxist Jews are giving up after spending the last 100 years brainwashing everyone? NO!
This is a time for Jews to totally humiliate and backstab everyone while demonstrating that their bullshit claims of “racism” and “nazism” were only a problem when they harmed JEWS! When Jews want to kill everyone and fuck everyone over for Jewish interests (Nazism/racism) it’s all good.
Trump himself went from a symbol and voice of white gentile dispossession hated by Jews to a model of shabbos goyim fucking over his own supporters. Once the his term is over, letting the Jews exterminate the Muslims, the Jews will get back to exterminating whites. Because it’s all about equality, goyim!
NATO countries and their unaccountable governments are now in process of destroying their own native citizenry through unchecked third world immigration. First thing to go has been free speech. These are the tyrants who claim they saved us from Hitler but we now see who the real threat was all along.
An obviously overfed Bill Kristol — of the famous lie “Iraq has dangerous amounts of WMDs” — claims that Americans are too decadent and should be ousted by vast hordes of hungry immigrants. Those to be ousted should begin with him, perhaps?
(By the way, thanks for the video.)
Americas problem can be summed up in one word , zionism, the zionists have had control since 1913, when they saddled America with the zionist communist central bank the FED and the zionist communist graduated income tax the IRS which are 2 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto and both are completely unconstitutional, and with these , America was put under zionist communist control, and then came the zionist created wars and deaths and unpayable debt owed to the zionist banking kabal, and eventually it will be lights out for America.
Nov 12, 2024 Trump Keeps His Promise And APPOINTS Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy To MAJOR White House Advisory Roles
President-elect Donald Trump announced today that Elon Musk will head the new Department of Government Efficiency, a commission aimed at reducing government waste and cutting federal bureaucracy. Musk will work alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to achieve substantial structural reforms within federal agencies.
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You would be well advised to reflect that Nemesis invariably follows Hubris. Also, if you decide to follow on your present course, you might want to take swimming lessons. It’s a long swim to Cyprus.
Does it matter?
No ambassador is a free agent.
They are all mouthpieces.
All she can accomplish is make the USA-Zion even more reviled within the UN and in the RoW than it already is.
Maybe it’s a good move to remove her from the House?
I think Crooke lives in Rome
Past professional affiliations don’t seem to mean all that much these days—except as a pool of contacts and source of inside info.
Many of our current clutch of analysts who are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and critical of US hegemonic madness are escapees from the the intel/military gulag themselves. Ritter, MacGregor, McGovern, Johnson, Paul Craig Roberts, and others. So why not Crooke?
The genius of the Trump psyop is that he has been sold for over 8 years as a quasi third party candidate, an anti-regime outsider, and the masses (and even many intellectuals) are still buying it.
The Muslims are beside the point, no different than sawing one leg off of a scaffold and blaming gravity when a catwalk collapses. The party who sets up the failure is the one to blame, otherwise we will chase false flags every time someone flies one. Entrapment.
The proxy may be complicit, but they aren’t the only ones involved. Were there any justice in this world we would imprison both the offender and a random Jew every time some immigrant rapes or kills a native. They get away with everything they do because they never put any skin in the game.
Not really. This is a frustrating stereotype. Jews aren’t that smart, they just define arbitrary rules for us to follow and everyone around us is borderline retarded enough to listen. I have a hard time denigrating the lack of intelligence of blacks when white people cant tell the difference between political conspiracy and Jewish gaslighting. Blacks are unintelligent enough to be fearless, which has its advantages. White people are unintelligent, fearful, and useless outside of cannon fodder.
Jews make it pretty clear what the plan is by inverting the truth every time they speak. A people whose doctrine tells them to not cooperate with gentile police and to leave gentiles for dead at the bottom of wells are not taking an interest in multiculturalism to help gentile nations. Jews do not “help” gentiles unless it helps them maintain cover for other sabotage against us. Only an absolute retard (or saboteur) would respond to declining birth rates by trying to import the entire third world population to compensate. These are the same people selling us the idea that we should spay and neuter children after the pervert NGOs they finance brainwash our children with sophistry and pornography. I’ve said it before, but even my peasant-class, illiterate, immigrant father realized what leverage over his neighbors he had whenever he threatened to sell his house to blacks. It happening was ruinous to property values. This was the 80s.
Where it gets confusing is when there are competing subgroups of Jews chasing different goals. At the end of the day they’re drawn to money and positions of power for the sake of advancing prophecy so start with a risk assessment of assets and means you have to lose and build a defensive perimeter outward. One will never get ahead of them trying to figure out their specific plans since they harness think tanks, special interest groups and the entirety of academia spending full-time hours dreaming up such schemes to attack you indirectly. You can’t compete with the scale of that apparatus, so go wait by the vault door or ballot box for someone to show up, track how they got there, confirm who sent them and watch that vector closer next time.
Same thing we do with any other pest. Then lay traps and poison. The joke about gluing a penny to the bottom of a swimming pool isn’t inaccurate as metaphor.
This is why I gave up on Europe a long time ago.
These appointments are the latest 3D/4D chess game for Trump (aka Zion Don). His plan for appointing Stefanik, Rubio and others elected is to get them out of Congressand under his control. The others like Huckabee, Hegseth etc. will be sidelined then fired, clearing the way for his real plan that keeps changing, but will be along the lines of time share seafront condos in Gaza and on the Black Sea near Odessa all built by Americans using US manufactured materials. Just wait, and you’ll see he’s got it all under control.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, and those who do are doomed to repeat it anyway.
Seriously, we’re talking about the human race here. Or, to put it another way, if you were E.T., would you land on the White House lawn?
Okay then, how do elite Jews define “an absolute disaster?” Can we imagine “Israel” abandoned? The US in shambles? Is this something to look forward to? Indeed, the pressure of mis- dis- and mal-information is building like a festering boil, and pus begins to leak…
Apparently, Candace Owens has been banned from Australia. Add ‘not ble to mention Jewish power’ to the list of contradictions.
BREAKING NEWS:
GOP Senate ziowhores chose RINOcrat cuck John Thune as their new majority leader.
And leading their just barely majority in the House they’ve got spineless little worm Mike Johnson, who caved in a heartbeat on Ukraine after he attended an “intelligence” briefing (i.e. after he got shown the Zapruder film again).
It’s McConnell and Ryan 2017-2018 all over again.
Our hubris is well justified as we have the entire West behind us while the Arabs have only Iran and its proxies to deal with before we are unopposed by ANYONE.
Sunnis hate Iran, Persians, and Shhites more than they hate us. All they do is blow hot air while covertly helping us against Iran.
Turkic Muslim countries like Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan supply 80 percent of our oil through Turkey, despite Erdoğan hot air.
Jordan is our first line of defense. Egypt provides us with ports and free passage through Suez Canal. For out military needs! Saudi and UAE provide us with supplies.
What more could we ask? God has obviously blessed us.
well now marco rubio is slated to be secretary of state, all signs the neocon horseshit will continue, same shit different day.
Be sure to let Trump know what his “3D/4D chess game ” is.
“Israel” is going to be nuked, dumbass.
“Mike Johnson, who caved in a heartbeat on Ukraine after he attended an “intelligence” briefing (i.e. after he got shown the Zapruder film again).”
Funny.
I read earlier that there is a concern that the US might be considering shutdown of the transAtlantic cables. Checking on remittances to Mexico there exists a disjunct between the fact that a high percentage of villagers are low income and yet the village has an average of over a much higher amount. This leads to the suspicion drug peddlers are sending money to Mexico under the cover of remittances.
Would the US agencies be planning a shut down of the TransAtlantic cables used to send remittances as a way of justifying a anti-drug action and at the same time removing a substantial income to the BRICS system.
The Ukraine/Russia conflict has unfolded into the expected economic war long anticipated and now arrived with the 3 year exhaustion of the peoples in uniform on both sides. IF this scenario is correct, our global war has arrived.
The war planners could have had a much more substantial effect if they had remodeled the Criminal Justice Centers employing law enforcement to Vocational Centers teaching such forgotten skills as pneumatic heating which once heated the entirety of NYC. Mechanical, electrical, engineering, magnetic concepts and basic carpentry and plumbing. Why should our children be dismissed as neurodivergent when what is needed hands-on vocational training?
Adelson and Blackrock, Trump and Netanyahu.
The grand finale, following the script of the Protocols, may be near.
Can we depend on Christian Russia and atheist China for deliverance,
or should we act to save ourselves? Heaven help us. Bless the Lord
and pray for the victims of Zion in Gaza.
Your blessing is on its way, to the middle
of your Talmudic forehead.
Anyone have any idea about the nominations of Congressman Matt Gaetz to be Trump’s top lawmaker (AG) and Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence? I think it is a good choice.
said Boris Johnson.
At the same time, the Chief of Staff of the British Air Force, Richard Knighton, said that London should allow Ukraine to use British missiles to attack Russian territory.
The Times reminds that Starmer and Macron have already called on Biden to allow Ukraine to use Western weapons for strikes deep inside Russian territory while he is still the US president. Ukraine is to hit targets on Russian territory with long-range British-made missiles.
O: So, we are looking at a replay of the preemptive attack on Russia.
You forgot one important detail; “God” does not exist.
The ad hominem replies I am getting from you and others merely confirm the arguments I presented in support of Israel.
Arab or Arab supporters like you can only pund sand, no more. Arabs are being slaughtered, evicted, or seeking refuge in other countries. For example, some of the displaced in Lebanon are joining their Syrian brethren in Turkey. North Gaza is being emptied to make way for new settlements. There is already talk of annexing the so called West Bank at the highest levels in Israel. Be sure that Trump will approve of the annexation of Judea and Samaria
Lovers like you can pound sand and throw fits of rage or blow hot air, nothing more.
We own all Arab governments directly or indirectly, only proxies of Iran oppose us. Syria is our punching bag thanks to Russia. Iraqi government is hostage to US because their oil money is kept in US banks and can be blocked should they misbehave. Lebanese government and people oppose Hezbollah. Yemen is too far to pose a serious threat. Iran has been deterred by the latest Israeli attack, and Trump will finish Iran off. Then the whole axis will collapse.
Sunni Arabs and Turkics are in bed with us, their governments that is.
In another year Israel will be unopposed.
In the meantime, keep pounding sand. It is good entertainment for us Jews.
From the Forward:
Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
Marco Rubio, secretary of state: Rubio, 53, has echoed Trump’s “peace through strength” doctrine and call to allow Israel to do what’s needed to defeat Hamas. In a viral video earlier this year, Rubio said he expected Israel “to destroy every element of Hamas.” Rubio likened the Israeli ground operation in Rafah, which was opposed by the Biden administration, to the Allies’ pursuit of Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust.
Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense: Hegseth, 44, a Fox News host, provided favorable coverage of Israel on the network and said that his time in the U.S. Army turned him into a supporter of the Jewish state. He interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March and said, “Israel needs our support.” “There’s no doubt this is a fight that Israel needs to finish,” Hegseth said, echoing Trump’s call for Israel to finish the job .
Mike Waltz, national security adviser: Waltz, 53, consistently criticized the Biden administration’s foreign policy, describing it as one of “concession and chaos.” He strongly supports Israel’s war in Gaza and praised Israel’s targeting of Hezbollah operatives and elimination of the terror group’s commanding leadership. Even before the war in Gaza, Waltz said the U.S. should allow Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear program. Last month, Waltz recommendedthat Israel strike Kharg Island, a crucial hub for Iran’s oil exports, and its nuclear facilities at Natanz.
Elise Stefanik, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.: Stefanik, 40, brings her national security experience and a combative, unapologetic style to the United Nations at a critical juncture for Israel and the Middle East. Stefanik recently called to cut off aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), the main supplier of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza.
Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel: Huckabee, 69, enjoys the trust of both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, has been traveling to Israel since 1973 and says he’s taken more than 100 trips there since. Last year, he led a mission of evangelical leaders to Israel following the Oct. 7 attacks. “I came here to say loud and clear that evangelicals stand with Israel,” Huckabee said. In 2008, Huckabee said, “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.” During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Huckabee said he saw the occupied West Bank as an “integral part” of Israel. In 2017, he said, “There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement.”
Steven Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East: Witkoff, 67, has no diplomatic experience. However, he has a longstanding trusted relationship with Trump, and with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was instrumental during the first Trump administration in crafting the Trump peace plan and brokering the Abraham Accords. Like Kushner, Witkoff brings a real estate negotiating approach that Trump values. Witkoff has served as the Trump campaign’s backchannel to the Jewish business community, particularly after President Joe Biden halted the shipment of 2,000-pound weapons to Israel.
John Ratcliffe, CIA director: Ratcliffe, 59, previously a member of Congress from Texas and former director of national intelligence, accused the Biden administration of diverting critical U.S. intelligence assets from monitoring terrorist groups like Hamas. During the presidential campaign, he criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for promoting “a false narrative.” In an interview with Fox News this year, Ratcliffe praised Israeli strikes on Iran, describing them as an example of the ‘Trump doctrine’ of maximum pressure. He suggested that the U.S. should assist Israel in such military actions.
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser: Jewish with strong nationalist views [good shtick now, much in vogue among Jews now]: Miller, 39, declared last month at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, “America is for Americans and Americans only.” He was influential in crafting tough immigration policies during Trump’s first term. Miller led the implementation of the so-called Muslim travel ban in 2017.
Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator: A Jewish MAGA loyalist: Zeldin, 44, has earned Trump’s trust since voting as a congressman against certifying the 2020 election results. During the campaign, Zeldin was a vocal Trump surrogate and critic of anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party. He excused Trump’s remarks saying Jews would be to blame if the former president lost the election, and he accused Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro of “trying to un-Jewish himself” to become Kamala Harris’ vice presidential pick.
Kristi Noem, homeland security: The department of homeland security provides resources and guidance to houses of worship to protect themselves under the Nonprofit Security Grant Program. Close collaboration between the agency and Jewish community leaders will be vital to address growing threats and security concerns. Earlier this year, Noem, 52, serving as governor of South Dakota, signed into law a bill that mandates the use of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism when investigating allegations of discrimination.
Boris Epshteyn, a Jewish senior adviser to Trump since 2016. He also served as counsel during the hush money trial in New York, and will likely stay in Trump’s inner circle, perhaps as a general adviser with a broad portfolio.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former Middle East adviser, who said earlier this year he would not return to the White House, is involved behind the scenes and could be a key player in a potential normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
David Friedman, Trump’s first ambassador to Israel, is interested in returning to a national security position to influence Middle East policy and advance a pro-settlement agenda.
Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO, will be a powerful voiceon antitrust rules, trade policy and the tax code. He is offering recommendations for administration roles.
Wayne Berman, head of global government affairs for Blackstone and a Republican Jewish Coalition board member. Some suggested Berman as deputy secretary of treasury.
Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire who has been highly critical of the pro-Palestinian protest movement at Harvard and the university’s response to antisemitism.
Paul Packer, who chaired the commission of the preservation of America’s heritage abroad in Trump’s first term, was co-chairof the Trump campaign’s Jewish Leadership Coalition, a fundraising group.
Sid Rosenberg, a conservative New York-based radio host who was one of Trump’s most aggressive Jewish surrogates.
Who is going to nuke Israel?
Iran is shiting in its pants and begging Trump for mercy, pledging to never acquire nukes.
Russia or China will nuke Israel? Seriously?
If Israel nukes Iran then maybe something will happen. But why do that? Trump will do it for us if needed.
The skilled trades are definitely underrated, and can be learned without
building a mountain of debt. There will always be a demand for people
who can actually do things and complete a job.
They sometimes have the now rare quality of being better connected to
reality than intellectuals because they are, of necessity, results- driven.
If it doesn’t work, stop doing it!
On the other hand visionary pseudo- intellectuals will cling to fantasies
long after their expiration. This is becoming too personal so I will stop.
The best way to make sure the newly invented Dept of Government Efficiency will have no efficiency is to put two people in charge of it, both with big egos, who are supposed to agree on each measure to be implemented and how.
Ok…, well said.
“Where it gets confusing is when there are competing subgroups of Jews chasing different goals.”
Again, good point.
Still, the fuckers are smart as hell, like it or not.
And there is no way, to know what they really have in mind.
Probably, there are contingency plans within contingency plans that are triggered depending on the variables.
There is no sin Jews will not commit, no body they have a problem stepping over, no law they will not break, no norms, no North Star, no rules.
Israeli supremacy is the goal and the means are to be determined.
The knives are out for Matt Gaetz:
“Earlier this year, Gaetz faced backlash for voting against a bipartisan bill aimed at addressing rising antisemitism in colleges and universities by invoking an antisemitic trope that Jews killed Jesus. Gaetz called the Anti-Defamation League “racist” in 2021 after it urged Fox News to fire host Tucker Carlson for promoting the antisemitic Great Replacement Theory. In 2019, Gaetz suggested that George Soros, the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire and frequent target of antisemitic tropes, was behind an alleged migrant caravan.
Association with white nationalists: In his first term in the House, Gaetz defended giving a ticket for the State of the Union to Chuck Johnson, a right-wing troll who once denied the Holocaust. He also hired a Trump White House speechwriter who was fired after it was reported he appeared at a conference featuring a white nationalist.”
Excellent comment and scary as hell, Odie. We can only hope that Biden
and Blinken can understand that deep attacks on Russia may lead to
deeper missile attacks on Paris, Brussels and London, or at the least.
destruction of Western military bases in Europe with hypersonics.
Biden is demented but Macron and Starmer are just plain nuts.
If Putin retaliates the U.S. should pretend to be a casual spectator.
Lessons are best learned alone.
‘Trump’s industrial recuperation plan, however, of painfully high tariffs ringing American manufacturing; an end to Federal profligacy and lower taxes suggests however, a reversal into fiscal rectitude.’ — Alistair Crooke
‘An end to federal profligacy’? A ‘reversal into fiscal rectitude’?
One is shocked that a seasoned observer such as Mr Crooke can be so naive. Trump, like Reagan, will spend and spend and spend. Borrowing will fill the fiscal gap.
US federal debt, currently $36 trillion, easily will soar to $60 trillion under Trump. Relative to GDP, the current 130% of GDP debt will reach 150% of GDP by the time Orange Man Bad shuffles off the stage.
Like Alice in Wonderland believing six impossible things before breakfast, Alastair Crooke both quotes Professor Wolff’s [correct] assertion that the West is in deep trouble financially, while fantasizing about ‘fiscal rectitude’ which hasn’t existed since the days of Calvin Coolidge (1920s).
Tonto, Alastair. You’ve gone incoherent, only coming through in waves.
Sweet Lord, every time I read Adelson’s full name, I swear I can hear some 4 ft tall jewess saying in a New York kike accent: ‘Meeriemmmm Adalsunnnnnnnn’
Don’t get me started on his hatchet-faced daughter……………..
Kevin Walmsley channel provides concise informative videos on China’s starting advances
Video Link
6:22 X2 whammy from China not recycling the USA dollars that we “pay” them …..
dollar that is not recycled as bond purchases or FDI foreign direct investment …supports a new economic system for CN
also at 9:40
A Harris presidency wouldn’t have been any better. It would only accelerate what’s coming. It reminds me of an episode of the Office when Dwight is in charge of the fire drills. Haha! Either way America is screwed, but it won’t be funny.
Thanks. He sounds like someone who doesn’t buy into the myth of “antisemitism”.
LOL Yaba you talk out of your ass. And you sound like a very overconfident asshole. Do you boast this much about what your people are doing to Palestinians? Yet you dickheads got fucked up in Amsterdam talking shit because you can’t even FIGHT. “Trump will do it for us” That’s your problem, you’re weak and need someone else to fight your battles for you. That’s nothing to be fucking proud of. Wait until the U.S. can no longer defend you people anymore and fight your wars for you anymore.
Trumpstein does it again.
What a snake oil salesman. Trump. Obama…different faces to the same currency of imperialism.
Three cheers to RoatanBill for exposing the “vote” thing for the fool’s errand that it is.
But then, there will always be the believers, like Mike King of The Real History Channel and other Q partisans, who will claim that Trumpstein is making all these moves as part of a hidden plan to destroy the power of Zionism. I wish them well, but reality is likely to hit them like a sledgehammer.
You have certainly achieved the peak of Jewish power with your ownership
of the 2nd Trump Administration, so your arrogance is somewhat justified.
It would, however, be a grave but welcome mistake if you forgot that the
Israelis and the Jews in general are the most contemptible and despised
creatures on Earth. You have hitched your wagon to the falling star
of American Imperialism and have thereby sealed your fate.
I don’t care what happens to the Jews as long as it’s the worst possible
fate imaginable, excluding the unchosen but honorable 5%. The inability
of most Jews to be fully human is a subject best left to zoologists,
anthropologists and genetic microbiologists, assuming they have
enough curiosity to find out after your joyfully anticipated and
hopefully painful extinction.
There it is again. Can [not] indicates inability.
Alice refused to believe something because it was impossible. That was the Red Queen who believed.
“You needn’t say ‘exactually,’” the Queen remarked: “I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.”
“I can’t believe that!” said Alice.
“Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12/pg12-images.html
And the book was
, Lewis Carroll
A very good citation, though. The actual text fits the situation in the US perfectly. We all get to believe many impossible things before breakfast, and through the day, too.
For a fuller description of the West’s successful past and present/future decline, see:
Dutton; The Past is a Future Country, search Amazon for more details.
Dutton does a very nice job on wrinkling out all the fundamental causes of our current state.
The essential part is that population genetic fitness, and intelligence with it, deteriorates in successful civilizations because mutations continue, but culling does not. Ask any animal breeder what happens under these conditions.
Dutton considers and dismisses eugenics. Dutton can see no methodology that could execute a eugenics program for long enough to matter, and no eugenics program that could successfully cultivate functional intelligence. (There is a very interesting science fiction novelette that explores the idea of a society with a component that does try to maintain intelligence using eugenics – https://epdf.pub/queue/kingsburydonald-courtshiprite.html )
Dutton concludes that the best the West can hope for at this point is a Silver Age, one resembling the Byzantine Empire, which was the Roman Empire after losing pretty much every bit of territory outside Anatolia, (today’s Turkey). A “Silver Age” is the last holdout of a civilization before it takes the final plunge into history.
I can see that happening — reduction of Western technological civilization to a Texas/Florida alliance fed, by Midwest, sustained by Musk’s space launch service and space based services such as weather forecasting and photography from orbit. Or, possibly, from a European / Russian Federation amalgam. It is pretty obvious that Europe is in process of rejecting the US dominance that is a residual of WW II, and it’s also obvious that Europe has not the resources it needs, save that Europe allies with or merges with the Russian Federation. It’s that or starve/freeze in the dark.
Those attacks will never happen.
England is finished as a world power militarily. But the ruling Establishment refuses to accept this reality. I saw a recording of a few minutes of Starmer the other day ref Gibraltar and the Malvinas which was a re-run of Margaret Thatcher and W S Churchill “fighting on the beaches”. This is the “Socialist” UK party.
It’s bullshit intended for public consumption.
Push comes to shove, UK finished/wrecked in one afternoon.
They know it, too. Just refuse to admit it.
The influence London has is through some officials and institutions in former colonies like India and South Africa, a sort of “sneak power”, though this too is fading.
Having said this, the main strength of UK lies in the ((City of London)) Square Mile financial quarter and offshore deregulated banking islands.
France, also a major Jewish country, is similarly reduced and though generally the French have a more developed sense of realism than the English, she too knows that a military confrontation with Rus = obliteration.
The pair of them deserve everything they get. Except Rus recognises that the ruling Establishment is not the people/culture and exercises more patience than they deserve. Even if the English, more so than French, keep on voting the same shitheads in.
LOL imagine being this brainwashed. You’re worse than MAGAtards.
You should go die in a trench in Gaza, the land isn’t going to conquer itself. Time to man up and join the IDF, not shitpost on the Internet.
Meanwhile in Italia to predictable shrieking —
All this will serve to keep in line.
“You want to do what? Shall we talk again about your “nationalist” inclinations?”
Shocking! To think that some of those Israelis were descendants of Holocaust™ victims!
24th,
As with everything else here in the USA, the “skilled trades” thing is just another scam, generally speaking. I will give you a real-world case in point.
Where I worked my entire life as an industrial electrician (United Auto Workers Journeyman Electrician here) for 40+ years, in Rockford, Illinois, I was between jobs and applied for a job at a manufacturer of high-quality hand tools in Rockford. I was one of the TWENTY qualified persons that applied for the job and I was one of the SIX that they interviewed. These numbers were what the employer TOLD ME. I did not get the job, because my robotics skills were weak, which was true. By the time I’d applied for that job, I’d had a lot of experience working with automation and processes controlled by PLCs (programmable logic controllers – small, rugged industrial computers).
The point that I’m trying to get across to you is that my experience has played out THOUSANDS of times here in the USA. So many factories have closed up and many of the remaining ones have down-sized. I would imagine that the employment situation in Rockford, Illinois is very similar to that in thousands of cities across the USA. The jobs SIMPLY ARE NOT THERE.
Thank you.
“But Russia did not succumb. And as a result of the élites’ 1991 ‘End of History’ euphoria, the West launched war in Ukraine to prove its point – that no single country could hope to stand against the combined weight of all NATO. ”
Just a reminder
1. the revolution in Ukrain was Ukrainian inspired and Ukrainian led.
2. It is very clear from the record of US involvement that those seeking to hguide the matter were a tad in over their heads. While I agree, the meddling was over the top, it was more hype than reality. Ukraine has had an upheaval almosy every decade since the retraction of the Soviet Union.
3. Russia launched the war over her supposed loyalties to Etnic Russians in the Donbass, who launched a revolt in support of their own independence and subsequently lost. In response, Russia invaded and that invasion bares all the hallmarks of 1939 and excuse for expansion.
Sphere of influence — an excuse for the reality that the US leadership is weak in the knees and are now prepared to have foreign countries dictate policy. And its starts with Mexico dictating US border policy. nImmigration restrictrion — against the illegal tax evading practices of businesses large and small — laugh — we’ll see.
No, the dragon is loose. Now we’ve got to ride it.
Well, Brad it does sound like you’ve had some painful, if belated lessons
in Reaganomics. That was the theory that we should rip the heart out of
the industrial heartland and ship all of our manufacturing to East Asia.
A corollary of this was that we could make a fantastic living by serving
each other hamburgers, with fries, and giving our neighbors haircuts
and manicures when we dropped off our soiled linen at their house.
A few years later a Clinton economist brain stormed the idea of teaching
60 year old coal miners to be software architects. Meanwhile, our auto
industry had been hijacked by third- rate accountants who couldn’t pick
out their rear ends from a pile of brake drums.
In 1976 my girlfriend bought a new ’77 Chevy Nova and it stalled twice
on the way home. I took off the carburetor cover and the air filter was
soaked with motor oil. After a month of changing air filters, hassling with
GM and hardly driving the car, they (supposedly) flew an expert out from
Detroit who told us there was nothing wrong with the motor, and once it
was “broken in” the oil flow to the carburetor would stop.
My knowledge of auto mechanics was minimal but I knew that carburetors
were designed to mix air and gasoline, and adding oil to the mix was a really
bad idea because of combustibility, viscosity and airflow problems.
I parked the car on the dealer’s lot and told the dealer and the credit union,
“No more payments. It’s your problem now.” That might be a case of
sanitized memory. Incestuous relationships were mentioned 50 years ago,
but the spread of Black “culture” has expanded usage.
I invited them to sue. We lost the down payment but haven’t heard from
them since. My girlfriend said they probably realized that I was crazy and
chose life.
Foreign competition has improved quality.
P.S. If you never heard of a carburetor, you’re under 25.
They were replaced by fuel injectors. Right, Brad?
24th,
I am afraid that you are preaching to the choir here. As a junior in high school in 1968, growing up in a small town 75 miles west of Chicago, I got a job pumping gas at a major-brand gas station. Regular was 28.9 cents per gallon and ETHYL was 32.9 cents per gallon. Throughout the entire summer, the prices did not change. The pumps were mechanical, of course and changing the prices involved some work. The mechanic for whom I worked was so sharp that the local car dealers brought their vehicles to him that they couldn’t fix. That is the truth! He was the best boss that I ever had.
My first serious job, after dropping out of college, was with a (basically) family-owned company that manufactured governors for propellor aircraft engines, LARGE controls for hydroelectric projects and fuel controls for jet engines and other turbines. When I started there, I didn’t even know that there was a proper way of making up an extension cord or hooking up a 110-volt outlet. I hired in there as an industrial electrician trainee and learned everything on-the-job.
The place was a “conservative” company – translation: vote straight Republican. I worked there continuously for 19 years. The first 15 years I enjoyed going to work every day. Of the 900+ employees, I knew most of them and they knew me. I regularly did electrical work at the houses of the CEO, the president, etc. The last 4 years there, everything changed. My fantastic boss retired, the CEO, who was the son-in-law of the founder’s son, retired, they FORCED out the president, w3ith whom my dad worked when he worked there in the early 1950s, before we moved to California, and they brought in a “bean counter” to rule the place with an iron fist and to make everyone “run scared.”
This was in Rockford, Illinois, 90 miles west of Chicago. The company had been spending money on frivolous things during my last 4 years there, like keeping his local contractor friends’ employees doing the work of the Maintenance people, etc. I could see that I was going to be laid off and shortly after reaching my 19th year service anniversary, myself, most of Maintenance and a bunch of factory workers were laid off – people who had been working there and who were receiving the highest pay.
The year of my layoff was 1993 and I KNEW then that the country was in BIG trouble. I’d go into stores and I kept seeing on the merchandise that was for sale, “Made in China.” Back then, one usually had a choice between buying Chinese crap or buying the more expensive American-made items. I ALWAYS bought American-made products.
I knew before I was laid off that if that came to pass, I would have a very difficult time of finding another job as an industrial electrician, even with my 19 years of experience. My job search proved me right. Rockford, right before my own eyes, had become an industrial ghost town, with many factories closing up permanently and others down-sizing to a small shadow of their former selves. Rockford used to be called “the screw capital of the world” – they had factories that manufactured fasteners of almost every kind, as well as other hardware.
After my layoff, I took a job at a distribution center for a prominent department store. I was hired under the FALSE pretense of being hired as an electrician, but it turned out to be a general maintenance job. It was a real shit-job (pardon my language) and I was there for only six months. Fortunately, a Rockford factory, A.O. Smith Automotive Products, hired me as an electrician. They had 3 assembly lines that manufactured truck frames for General Motors; two of the lines were completely automated, using Allen-Bradley PLCs (programmable logic controllers – small industrial computers used to control equipment and processes), and the third was partially automated.
I had never worked with PLCs before, but after a kind of “baptism by fire,” I caught on to working with PLCs and became very proficient at working with them and trouble-shooting the PLC-controlled equipment. I learned everything on the job and worked there for 6-1/2 years until that factory closed up permanently. G.M. had given their new contract for the next generation of truck frames to a different company. A.O. Smith and G.M. had spent millions of dollars equipping that place to manufacture truck frames – the highest quality A-B PLCs and other American-made electrical controls, Oil Gear hydraulic units and Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) robotic welding equipment and Miller welders. The fixtures belonged to G.M. and the hydraulic units & building were leased. The company basically “walked away” from the operation. Incidentally, A.O. Smith had decided to get completely out of the business of being a “tier-one” automotive supplier – the “Big Three” were putting such a financial squeeze on their suppliers that A.O. Smith decided that there was no longer any opportunity to make money in that business. And this was a company that had been manufacturing frames since Henry Ford’s Model T. If ANY company knew how to manufacture frames profitably, it was A.O. Smith and they decided that there was no longer any opportunity in that business.
I then got a job working at a factory that made cast aluminum wheels for cars and light trucks. It was run by Alcoa, who had recently purchased the business from Reynolds. I had heard “horror stories” about that place even before they hired me, but since there were NO other jobs available in the Rockford area, I took the job. The management treated the employees with complete disdain and had a propensity for firing people. And they couldn’t figure out why turn-over was so high and morale was so low! I worked there for 8-1/2 years until they, too, closed up that facility permanently. I hated every minute there, but there were no other jobs available in the area. So I just tried to make the best of it and kept working there. I was so upset with working conditions there that if it hadn’t been a very nice mechanic with whom I got to be close friends, I would have probably had a nervous break-down. That was how much I hated the place.
My last job was with a Rockford company that had been in business for well over 100 years. My boss himself had been there for 37+ years and they treated me with respect and appreciated my long work history as an electrician. Compared with Alcoa, it was like I had gone to heaven. I worked there, until I retired in 2017.
Now I try to keep busy with my hobby of ham radio and also spend time looking back on my 40+ years as an industrial electrician (United Auto Workers Journeyman Electrician, by the way). In the past 15 years, I have taken it upon myself to learn the REAL history of the USA and all its WARS, as well as how the financial “system” operates. I have learned that the country I thought I grew up in never existed, except in my mind. I have learned that BOTH political parties are as corrupt as the day is long.
Carburetors? Yes, I remember the Carter, Holley, Rochester and Stromberg carburetors. As well as Delco-Remy, FoMoCo and Mopar QUALITY auto parts that used to be available. AND, 94 & 100 octane gasoline!
Take care…
You have a remarkable resume and you survived every hardship
in a turbulent economic period. Your resolve is inspiring and I
wish you every happiness.
Best Wishes.
Did you ever think of taking the IBEW test? Plenty of inside wireman jobs in Chicago building high rise offices at that time. And management never f-cks with inside wiremen.
When first starting out as an industrial electrician, many in the factory where I worked would want me to di jobs (“side jobs”) for them. Living in Rockford, Illinois, I went down to City Hall and inquired about getting a city “license” for doing electrical work in the city (and getting the work passed by an electrical inspector).
I was told that unless I had so many hours (I don’t remember how many) of “construction experience,” I wouldn’t even be allowed to take the test. Meaning, that even if I knew everything that there was to know about electrical work, unless I had the required number of hours of “construction experience,” I wouldn’t even be allowed to take the test. So I gave up on that anyway.
For a time, I did the side jobs and made a lot of money in the process and saved the homeowners a lot of money. One day, I was sitting down with my uncle (my mother’s sister’s husband), who owned an electrical business and told him about my profitable “side business.” He cautioned me in that I was taking a HUGE risk in doing electrical work for anyone, if I didn’t have liability insurance. He said that something could go wrong and the first person that would be suspected and blamed would be ME. So I stopped doing the side jobs and stuck to factory work, working as much overtime as I could.
“The English must be given every encouragement and assistance to wipe out the City of Dragons and its anti human fuckery since the “Glorious” revolution and for the English to dust off the Magna Carta once more.”
Trouble is the City is almost all Britain’s got left, as its shrinking industrial base is increasingly owned by China or India.
The US just isn’t so far down our road …
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-shipbuilding-problems-could-be-navys-achilles-heel-china-war-2024-11
The US abandoned civilian shipbuilding decades ago.
My intro to the patriot / truth movement was in the late 1990s and I took it then for being “too christian” as in not focused on the correct enemy.
As time rolls on wow was I wrong. This really is about following the path of God, truth, against the forces of darkness. It’s like the global elite use the bible as a playbook!
Is it prophecy or is it self-fulfilling? Or is this a repetition of past events?
What a litany of lies. The ‘revolution’ in Kiev was PURE CIA, a Colour Revolution, culminating in the usual sniper killings by agents of the USA. The Russians in the Donbass WON, you lying buffoon, culminating in the Banderite defeat at Debaltseve. There was NO ‘Russian invasion’, Banderite.
Then Russia tried negotiation at Minsk I and II, but the West, treacherous as ever, reneged. Then, in early 2022, the Banderites were prepared for an Operation Storm type ethnic cleansing of the Donbass, so Vlad fucked ’em over. The Ukrainians are being used as meat offerings by the West and their vermin ‘leadership’, all in the cause, frequently expressed, of defeating Russia, then ‘decolonising’ it, ie breaking it into bits for another orgy of pillage. Do you get paid by the lie-if so you must be a rich Banderite.
Western Sabbat Goy scum grovel to the Chosenites because it is lucrative so to do, refusal is fatal to a career or life, and because they admire how the Judeonazis commit every atrocity under the sun, and curse any who dare to ‘oppose’ them, a capital offense under Judaism. They are like moths to several sulphurous candles on a menorah crafted from Gazan children’s bones.
Your arrogant delusion will be the end of you. In the Sunni states the rulers suck up, but 99% of the population hate your guts. And in the West, as well, groveling is for the corrupt elites, while the population, even Diaspora Jews, increasingly hate your child murdering guts. And in the rest of the world you are LOATHED.
The largest contradiction in the westosphere is very telling once examined.
Regulation legislation, carbon limits, green energy initiatives are based on the principle that we are in a “Climate Emergency.”
If this is a crisis point, then why is the entire west importing millions of people to adopt our “destructive” lifestyle? Shouldn’t our low birthrates be helping the planet?
This contradiction is so gnarly, so outrageous, so counter-intuitive that it destroys the entire narrative of our lives single-handedly.
Just think about this one aspect for 5 minutes, ponder it. It cannot exist, it’s not just a telling contradiction – it’s a subtle admission that the entire structure is 100% full of shit from the media to the schools to our insane, weaponized neighbors.
They will not take us all down with their death throes, thankfully – it’s simply too obvious at this point. We need to separate ourselves from them, the sooner the better. Politically, financially, geographically. Otherwise they will pull us down into their already-dug mental graves.
We will ride the dragon together, you in front, until we come upon a secluded,
inviting spot (assuming you are of the female persuasion and your husband
doesn’t feed me to the serpent). My wife is still in docile -training and
not making progress.