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Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack.

As the ousted ‘Emperor’, Biden made his ‘final walk’ from the dias at the UN; he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and ‘I’m running the world’.

For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White House continues to urge restraint on all parties to dial back the violence. But no one is listening.

With his era stumbling to an inglorious close, Biden may have loved the idea of pulling the levers of coercive soft-power influence, only subsequently to discover that the wires connecting those levers to the real-world railway ‘points’ were gone. Influence had flown; imperial coercion increasingly was met with disdain. Diplomacy had failed across the board.

So what does today’s surge in turmoil, war in the Middle East, and Ukraine collapsing, signal for the future – as seen from the long arc of history (and following the lead of Mike Vlahos and John Batchelor’s Ancient world analogy)?

A stumbling ‘Emperor’ has been overthrown. There is no real crown prince; only an ‘adopted daughter’. It is deliberate. The Power-oligarchy (the ‘Senate’, if we follow the Ancient analogy), seems indifferent to the lacuna. It is intent to rule, as the Washington Post reports – outing the Oligarchic thinking: rule via a consensus of ‘democracy-supporting’ institutions as a kind of ‘permanent secretariat’ (a notion that has been kicking around since the 2016 election ‘loss’.)

Yet nonetheless, there is an imperial succession issue. Every Empire needs an Emperor, beyond an Aristocracy/Senate, because the factious powerful in society need to have some pillar to which they can resort for settling their internecine feuds.

Every ‘Empire’ needs too, a common substantive culture to make strong decisions of general interest. In the European past there were two: Catholicism and the Enlightenment. They clashed. And both now have been marginalized for the benefit of libertarian arbitrariness, intended to free the individual from all constraints of communal norms.

Post-modern culture makes peoplemad because individual freedom no longer accepts objective truth”. The virtual world kills the sense of the real – to replace it with imagined reality. The art of governing becomes that of administering an imposed pretence; one which people can clearly observe about them is not real, yet they are obliged to pretend that ‘narrative’ is the objective real.

This tension leads to existential insecurity and exploding reports of people in poor mental health.

Yet by contrast, in most places, David Brooks writes, “people are formed within morally cohesive communities. They derive a sense of belonging and solidarity from shared moral values. Their lives have meaning and purpose because they see themselves living in a universal moral order with permanent standards of right and wrong, within family structures that have stood the test of time, with shared understandings of, say, male and female”.

Fiona Hill, formerly of a member of the U.S. National Security Council, propounds the counter-view: that since U.S. interests, described mostly as ‘threats’ which are long term, “the structures to address those threats must also be long-term, too”. (She illustrates the point by quoting ‘the long-term threat from Russia’).

Hill is saying ‘the Aristocracy’ will rule long-term, via institutionalised, ‘inter-agency’ world order prescription.

This then, is the Aristocracy’s solution to the Imperial succession lacuna: Leviathan. “Leviathan – whose promise and project is straight forward – cancel all powers except one, which will be universal and absolute”.

The implicit aim is to ‘Trump-proof’ policy prescriptions. This implicit objective however, underlines its flaw. There will be no participation. People will not participate; nor do they feel that they participate – because they don’t. The mood amongst the World Order back-room strategists is that selecting political candidates by voting has become ‘a bug’ and is no longer a feature. Voters do not know, let alone grasp, the import of the deep-seated policy structures on which U.S. hegemony is built. Participation is a glitch.

It is at such a point in history that a ‘Big Man’ often emerges into the arena; one who challenges the emperor. The ‘Big Man’ is perceived to speak for the people, whose participation in political life has been dulled out, and who are angry. The Big Man always tells this betrayal story well.

The ‘Big Man’ is happening today, mainly because the traditional practice of swapping out of one ruling entity (party) for the other, to produce a look-alike (Uniparty) leader, has ruptured. It was engineered as if a card trick, with the spectator (the voter) always ‘happening’ to choose the ‘right card’ – the very card that the magician always intended would be chosen. Magic! And all the cards selected inevitably turn-out to be from the same suite!

This card trick became obvious in recent months. Everyone could see its mechanics.

Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack.

What is unusual about today’s emergence of the ‘Big Man’, however, is that unlike in the Classical World, Trump seems to have no aristocracy behind him, following in his train. Will this work? How will it turn out?

In the next months, the Empire faces many crises beyond that of an empire fading and unable to adapt.

Simplicius writes that:

“the latest WaPo piece describes a state of disarray in the West political class when it comes to deciding on a way forward against a clearly defiant and unbending Russia. You see, all the provocations, games, and peace ‘tricks’ were meant to bow Russia to the West’s leverage, but the Empire is finding that, after decades of dealing with shallow vassals, confronting one of the last remaining truly sovereign nations in the world is a glaringly different thing”.

It is not just Russia. The Pro-Consul of a crumbling imperial far-off territory has come to ‘Rome’ to seek the raising of a new Roman army, and the provision of Roman ‘gold’ to support it. But times are hard across the Empire, and the Pro-Consul likely will fail, as this would constitute his third army, after the others had been destroyed.

The coming implosion will inflict a severe blow to the Empire’s prestige and authority. Its warrior class may turn in anger on the Capitol, vexed by their leaders’ reluctance to clench an iron fist. (This has occurred in earlier times).

Another rebellious imperial Pro-Consul presages a graver and distinct predicament. This Consul wants his own Hebraic hegemony and is unbending and utterly ruthless in its pursuit. The Empire can do nothing, even though it half believes the Consul will bring about his own downfall.

ORDER IT NOW

But should this venture fail – as it might – it could wreak havoc into those American deep structures of impune power on which the wider structure has rested all these decades. Should the war fail, the American institutional leadership attached to this particular Consul would forfeit its raison d’être. A whole leadership cadre would be hollowed out – bereft of purpose. The Institutional leadership class as a whole would be weakened.

What is the way out then, as the homeland slowly implodes? Well, the Washington Post article concludes by advocating a new supra-national global governance Order; likely a Davos- style digital-authoritarian governance designed to preserve a consistent policy and alignment, before the Russo-Chinese-Iranian-BRICS link-up beats them to it.

If the western states do not take the risk of freedom, then they take the risk of the Leviathan. That is possible. Yet, it is a profoundly unstable regime, extremely oligarchic, concentrated, dictatorial, Professor Henri Hude affirms.

The more the post-modern West loses control of the world with its mode of nihilistic reasoning, and the more diverse Asia remains, the less chance of the Leviathan succeeding. “What the Ruling Strata have not understood is that postmodern libertarian deregulation cannot be defined by economics and sex alone”.

“The extraordinary technical power, on which the Leviathan relies is inseparable from economic reality. It is therefore a techno-market reality, a power of technique and money that exercises a form of tyranny. In this context, what is likely to prevent the triumph of the Leviathan is the collapse of technical civilization” – as such that it is.


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  1. Trump the ‘Big Man’ is happening today?

    More like Zion Don the ‘Big Kikesucker’ is happening.

    • Agree: N. Joseph Potts
    • Troll: Gvaltar
  2. Bro43rd says:

    Does not matter who is (s)elected even if it’s Jill Stein. Big government wins. So this article is political noise. If you aren’t anti-government you’re part of the problem.

  3. First of all, Fiona Hill, Russiagater and Soros puppet, was a British spy embedded in the Trump White House. She was likely the source of numerous damaging leaks that hobbled Trump’s presidency, and I suspect she and Alexander Vindman had a close “working relationship.”

    Second, as Kit Klarenberg has so wisely observed, the “end of empire” stands to harm the Brits much more than Americans. It’s Britain that has pushed all of its chips to the middle of the table on Ukraine. If Ukraine capitulates, Britain is finished as a power broker. This is why they’re so rabid to push the US into a hot war with Russia.

    • Agree: One Nobody, Emslander
  4. Notsofast says:

    the leviathan is actually a 5 eyed anglo/jewish sea serpent, that crawled out out the north atlantic, to terrorize and subdue the european continent. a slimey, slithering beast, that destroyed european sovereignty, in order to enslave and dominate her people, forcing them into the zioneocon empire, at the service of their zionist masters.

    after pillaging and looting europe, it attempted to destroy russia, that had somehow freed itself, from the hideous tentacles, that had latched on to it in the 1990’s. the russian people prayed to st. george for a champion to appear to confront and destroy the horrible monster and protect the motherland. such a champion then stepped forward and as he strode towards the beast, they asked him his name. he replied in the west, they call me vlad the impaler, but you can call vvp. he mounted his white charger and with lance in hand, he rode off to confront the beast.

    the people of russia cheered, their champion, who vowed to return with enough shish kabob to feed the entire country. and they all lived happily ever after.

  5. Mr iron clad diapers, aka Joe bidet came in as a stinking zionist and will go out as an even worse stinking zionist. That will be her legacy.

  6. JSlade217 says:
    @Bro43rd

    Please give me one example at any time in history of a strong country with a weak government. Just one.I get it- our government is evil. I learn from libertarians too. But there is no way to govern 350 million ppl in our advanced technological society without strong laws and regulations . Would u privitize nuclear facilities, bio labs, airports, our defense industry…. We need to grow up and come up w more mature solutions than “ let’s get rid of it”. America lacks the maturity to truly rule so of course the Zionists stepped in that vacuum

    • Replies: @Bro43rd
    , @Rich
    , @barracuda
  7. John Dael says:

    “Basically, 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.”

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/

    • LOL: Gvaltar
  8. The U.S.A. is just a ” corrupt banana republic “. The wizards behind the curtains pulling all of the strings, run this country and they do not give a rats ass about the ordinary population of this country or all of humanity.

    If they think that it in their interest they will do anything; nothing is ever off of the table.

    If they want World War III that is what we will get.

    If they want gasoline to be $50.00 a gallon that is what it will be. The wizards are not gods; but they call all of the shots and it never matters what anybody thinks or does because it is their show and they run everything!

    • Agree: Gerbils, Anonymous534
  9. I’m on record as saying (on countless occasions), that Donald J Chump will win in a landslide in November, because ZOG needs him to escalate the war in the Middle east to save the Apartheid Israeli state from completely imploding.
    But all bets are off with this latest development that is likely to swing the tide in favour of Kamal-toe Harris.

    Watch the 2 mins of the video below from 6:10-8:15, as Gavin Newsom endorses Kamal-toe in this brilliant campaign advert that is certain to change the minds of undecided voters and turn them into life-long Democrats:


    Video Link

    • Thanks: turtle
  10. TPM says: • Website

    “The extraordinary technical power, on which the Leviathan relies is inseparable from economic reality. It is therefore a techno-market reality, a power of technique and money that exercises a form of tyranny…”

    Every nominal-national government on Earth has a de facto supra-constitution that supersedes all other rules of law and equity – even a nation’s nominal constitution.

    It is called, appropriately enough, the de facto doctrine or doctrine of necessity.

    The highest principle and prime directive of the de facto doctrine is to maintain the status quo. It is in effect The Global Oligarch Manifesto. As explained by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1985:

    The de facto doctrine is defined by Judge Albert Constantineau in The De Facto Doctrine (1910), at pp. 3‑4 as follows:
     
     The de facto doctrine is a rule or principle of law which, in the first place, justifies the recognition of the authority of governments established and maintained by persons who have usurped the sovereign authority of the State, and assert themselves by force and arms against the lawful government; secondly, which recognizes the existence of, and protects from collateral attack, public or private bodies corporate, which, though irregularly or illegally organized, yet, under color of law, openly exercise the powers and functions of regularly created bodies; and, thirdly, which imparts validity to the official acts of persons who, under color of right or authority, hold office under the aforementioned governments or bodies, or exercise lawfully existing offices of whatever nature, in which the public or third persons are interested, where the performance of such official acts is for the benefit of the public or third persons, and not for their own personal advantage.
     
    That the foundation of the principle is the more fundamental principle of the rule of law is clearly stated by Constantineau in the following passage (at pp. 5‑6):
     
    Again, the doctrine is necessary to maintain the supremacy of the law and to preserve peace and order in the community at large, since any other rule would lead to such uncertainty and confusion, as to break up the order and quiet of all civil administration. Indeed, if any individual or body of individuals were permitted, at his or their pleasure, to challenge the authority of and refuse obedience to the government of the state and the numerous functionaries through whom it exercises its various powers, or refuse to recognize municipal bodies and their officers, on the ground of irregular existence or defective titles, insubordination and disorder of the worst kind would be encouraged, which might at any time culminate in anarchy.

    No society could exist in fact without such a general rule or provision that allows government to adapt to emergency situations.

    But what has happened in fact is that the judges of the Courts have accommodated the assertion that the de facto doctrine also covers the concealment and denial of the fact of it as part of the doctrine itself.

    The administration of law in Canada, for example, is so flagrantly criminal – and admitted as such by the judges of the Courts and the nominal government itself – that the only viable explanation is that they are relying upon the de facto doctrine – and that the doctrine itself allows them to hide it and to falsely deny it to the People.

    I strongly suspect that most western governments are operating in fact under a deemed secret de facto doctrine – like the Continuity of Government program in the U.S.

    • Replies: @Haxo Angmark
  11. Miro23 says:

    So what does today’s surge in turmoil, war in the Middle East, and Ukraine collapsing, signal for the future – as seen from the long arc of history

    If the US doesn’t have the money or the troops to get into a full war against Russia or Iran then I suppose that it’ll avoid failure and not get involved.

    Zelensky and the Jewish mafia can send British missiles against Russian nuclear power plants aiming to draw Russian into an open war against NATO, and Netanyahu can destroy Gaza and Lebanon in the name of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, colonialism and Imperialism but how can the US change anything?

    Hitler Mk2 (Netanyahu) will likely finally bomb Iran’s Kharg Island key oil terminal in a vain attempt to trigger a US/Iran war but all he’ll get is a full Israel /Iran war.

    That brings to mind the end of Hitler 30th April 1945 as the Russians approach his bunker through a devastated Berlin.

    • Replies: @Emslander
  12. skrik says:
    @Notsofast

    I think it would be good if

    vlad the impaler

    rode over and freed Odesa Oblast, then linked up ‘Novorossiya’ with Transnistria. Then perhaps, we all may live

    happily ever after

    thnx

    • Agree: GMC
  13. @Bragadocious

    Next to the entry on ‘hatchet mouth’ is a picture of Fiona Hill.Vindman surely could not be that desperate. Or could he?

  14. @Bro43rd

    Big Business wins. Big Government is a Potemkin asylum.

    • LOL: Gvaltar
  15. GMC says:
    @Notsofast

    Vlad the Impaler, noticing that it was now the 21st Century, also noted that the People of the World xcept for a few different Tribes , are all Multi-Polar people because of all their different ancestry that include 2,3,4 5+ different cultures from the past, and our world today – has been wide open for traveling, adventuring in, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention all the Wars that have brought us – Out into the open.

    So, He thought to himself, since we are already mostly Multi-Polar people or wish to be, shouldn’t we have Multi- Polar countries, governments and alliances that think openly, instead of this Centuries old Uni-Polar War shit. And so, part of the World caught on to what he was seeing and planning.

    We are already a muli-polar populace – my grandparents came from 3 different countries and I heard 3 different languages spoken when very young. The Zionist Jews and their global partners in crime, are not interested in joining a multi-Polar world, even though they , themselves , come from a M P ancestry. They belong in a country far away from those who wish to be, otherwise they will All try to make the M P People – enslaved.

    • Replies: @One Nobody
    , @HbutnotG
  16. @Notsofast

    Should Trump be elected and take office before he is assassinated, will he be allowed
    to govern? Recalling the many contrived attacks on him and his cabinet nominees
    before he took office last time, the knives will be out the day after this election.

    Trump’s prospective National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn was hounded
    out of town before he selected his office furniture, and his Secretary of State,
    Rex Tillerson, resigned after a year because the entrenched Democratic bureaucracy
    stonewalled his every effort to manage the vile, moribund Foggy Bottom entity.

    What was their common fault? They were committed to conciliation with Russia and
    this was the worst sin possible in the view of the Zionist, Russophobic operatives who
    actually ran the joint. Their goal was the destruction of the Russian Federation, and
    only 13 months after the suave, bloodthirsty Jew, Blinken, took office his plan to
    provoke Russia was successful.

    Only 18 months later he assured Netanyahu that the U.S. would fully support the
    annihilation and “transfer” of the Palestinians while reminding him that public
    relations required that he constantly nag and whine about moderation when
    babies were incinerated and exploding apart in midair.

  17. JM says:
    @Bragadocious

    First of all, Fiona Hill, Russiagater and Soros puppet, was a British spy embedded in the Trump White House. She was likely the source of numerous damaging leaks that hobbled Trump’s presidency, and I suspect she and Alexander Vindman had a close “working relationship.”

    It could be asked rhetorically as to what gives upstart English hirelings like her and her wretched ilk the authority to pontificate on modern Russia, given their candlepower and the minor nature of contemporary “U Koi” military/economic might? Perhaps they need a touch of their own medicine?

    Video Link

    This is a little explored subject, which, however , was put to this Greek who has lived among them for decade/s. I think he does a reasonably good job in starting a much needed analysis of the subject…


    Video Link

    • Agree: One Nobody
  18. Cuckzpah or the chutzpah of cucking

  19. Anon[224] • Disclaimer says:

    For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White House continues to urge restraint on all parties to dial back the violence. But no one is listening.

    The US has been throwing its weight around for how long ? However it rails against getting a taste of its own medicine. For example, its okay when foreign leaders Uncle Sam despises are bumped out and even bumped off. Yet, when there was a whisper of Russian “election interference” the beltway went crazy and spend $25M to investigate only to find it was all bullshit. Its all so entertaining !

    One other aspect governing the mentality of the big bully is that it believes everyone else is stupid and will forever be grateful slaves to the DC homies. I believe the decisive moment came in the Nam where the US, military bravado and hype aside, was outfought and sent fleeing. Contrary to the belief that the “trash” of the world are idiots, other countries took note and kneecapped the US. Dudes in sandals with only old motorbikes, tired mules and worn out pickups busted up the US wrecking crew. Eighteen year old American males, many anxious to become females, became deathly frightened of men, who for all intents and purposes, wore skirts. LOL

    I dropped out of Math in JK because I could not get past 2 x 2 =4. Yet it seems to me there is a disparity in the ratio of Jews to Moslems. 17 million Jews to 2 billion Islamists short circuits my scientific calculator but tells me something is definitely significant in the ratio. How Knot A Yahoo the Joo plans to bring this multitude (the majority with nothing to lose) to heel is a mystery to me. But then again I am not as “intelligent” as the average big nosed hip shaker in the “hood” synagogue.

    Far from being retarded imbeciles anxiously awaiting the wisdom, leadership and direction from the elites of the elite schools, the average “shit hole” dweller is sharp in all the things that matter the most. Our ancestors used to be that way. No longer ! The US ruling class is dumb in all that matters and everything else that does not. The public elects one dunce after the other as if they wished to show their skill at choosing the worse and then wonders what happened. Like the hole chaser with a penchant for cheap whores, they are shocked to wake up and discover a pus filled boil on their dicks.

    We are back in the same rat rod with a crazy Yahoo at the wheel, tailgating, playing chicken and weaving in and out of heavy traffic. Ahead of us and behind us we see other heavy weights also suffering from road rage, anxious to show that they also don’t give a shit.

    We anxiously await the crunch of metal on metal signifying yet another disaster ! Its a dark comedy when a belligerent initiates violence, is overwhelmed by an even more violent response and then calls for restraint.

    • Thanks: 24th Alabama
  20. Anonymous[369] • Disclaimer says:

    The US will surely wind up in the toilet, without a major editions insurrection.

    Don’t say you weren’t told.

  21. Bro43rd says:
    @JSlade217

    Balkanization through secession, weak government is preferable. I don’t speak sheep so I can’t put in your native tongue.

    • Replies: @Hoezhay Hementez
  22. @JM

    I listened to a significant part of the Fiona Hill interview. She came off as snobbish and ultimately unknowledgeable about Russia. I checked the comment section, it was full of braindead morons sucking her off, most likely due to her English accent. Ukraine doesn’t have a significant history separate from because Russia was born out of Kievan Rus’. The contrast between Ms. Hill and Alexander Mercouris is unreal. I don’t think there are better scholars of Russia and the current conflict with Ukraine in the West than Alex² on the Duran.

    • Agree: One Nobody
    • Replies: @24th Alabama
    , @JM
  23. Thank you, Alastair Crooke.
    In essence this is a piece on the currently happening and foreseeably ongoing collapse of USA. One of many such pieces and of many comments.
    Yes, it’s on the very tired and weary question of which candidate will the Jews install to best perform their policy of global destruction and murder.
    Since the outcome will be virtually identical for both the sad inadequate contenders or if it’s Rule by Oligarchs — who cares ?

    Several people, including my own insignificant self, have pointed out to Americans able to consider matters beyond Dallas Cowboy scores that the real issue is their own survival including their families communities and country.
    There is sympathetic coverage of the NC hurricane on an Iranian tg channel I follow, with USG nonresponse to the victims.
    Imagine that.

    The real issue is will mass bonehead Americans sign on for yet another Jew War vs Iran in which they will come out second best.
    Iow, are Americans capable of renouncing the national stupidity and brutish ignorant conduct for which they are internationally notorious?

  24. @Bragadocious

    Although I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Crooke’s analysis on Ukraine. He never mentions the ever present Brutish clandestine involment in Ukraine. We could say the same goes for the ME.

    The Brutish Clown and the City of Dragons would do well to just quit their 500 year long span of fuckery and misery they have unleashed on Humanity.

    Just quit already before your little island is no more.

    • Replies: @Bragadocious
  25. @JM

    “Fiona” has a very masculine face…and hands that can crush coconuts.

    I’ll wager she sports an 8-inch iron clit, too.

    Perfect s/he/it to bring to one of Diddy’s child-diddling freak-offs.

    • Replies: @EggCorn
    , @JM
  26. @Notsofast

    Nice Notsofast. You beat me to it.

    His name is St. George. He was a Syrian and his native name is pronounced St. Girgis. St. Girgis fought oppression of the poor and defensless.

    He is the Architype of the warrior priest. His White steed symbolizes the purity of his intentions. The four legs of his steed representing his consciousness and control over his four functions (a little bit of Jung.) He holds in his hand the thin lance (or the needle of the intellect, Vlad comes to mind) piercing the winged dragon (the lower drives of weak men.)

    Incdently, it is reported, Vlad the Impaler, told satan yahoo, do not dare nuke Iran.

    It is part of escatology that rods of fire will rain on Shitrahell. It happened and I saw the video, bang, bang, bang, and many more bangs with shitrahellis weeping and running in the streets in horror of dying. While over in flattened Gaaza, the Gazan’s are dancing in the strerts and chanting God is Great, someone has finally come to diminish our oppressor. Meanwhile……… Iran killed no one with a salvo of 180 ballistic missiles. The Shitrahellis defined it as a failure that no Shitrahelli civilians were killed.

    The contrast is blinding between Good and evil. It is most important to clearly choose one side, for the sword called Criterion is about to descend.

  27. @Arthur MacBride

    the NC hurricane

    There is tg coverage of how USG is actually blocking citizen rescue, if this is accurate, plus news that following the $$billions given away internationally USG has nominated $750 for those affected by the hurricane. This is one comment —

    Just a quick question, do the Tennessee National Guard members who have to wait weeks, months even, to get sent back home to bury the corpses of their now severely waterlogged and rotted families get anymore money or is $750 the absolute upper limit the coin clippers in DC are willing to pinch out of their overstuffed wallets? Asking for a friend.

    It seems that those NG were deployed away from the devastation in their locality to the ME to help plucky little Israel. Have to get priorities right.
    Perhaps there will be some Americans who perceive this as the outrage it is.
    Then again, perhaps not.

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  28. Rich says:
    @JSlade217

    The Holy Roman Empire, from my reading of it, was a very weak central government. British Empire was powerful at home, but it’s many colonists enjoyed great freedom. The Russian Empire was usually, not always, a mess that gave those outside Moscow plenty of elbow room. The aristocracy could do whatever they wanted. And of course, the American experiment, until very recently, was one of a weak federal government and great individual freedom. The Ottoman Empire, Spanish Empire, there are a host of examples. So it isn’t as uncommon as you’ve been told. And, individual freedom is the single most important right of mankind, so if you have to sacrifice nuclear power or biolabs, it’s worth it.

    • Agree: Truth Vigilante
  29. @GMC

    GMC… before Europeans came out of the forest and began to scribe their culturally mono-centric history, there was something called the Silk Road. It started in far Eastern China, and stretched into the ME. Around that time, the Arab merchant sailors, connected south East Asia to include the Phillipines, Malaysia, etc with Genoa, Italy. You see, the ancient world was multicultural and traded in peace, interrupted by a few psychopaths here and there.

    It would help the World, if Catholicism would get over the fact that Jesus was an Arab and stop trying to make Jerusalem part of Europe and the Catholic corporate structure. That is also true for those who protest too much.

    • Thanks: GMC
    • Replies: @Rich
  30. HT says:

    Trump did many good things his first term. Unfortunately for us, they were all things the puppet man Biden was able to completely undo within weeks or months with a few exceptions. I suspect a second Trump term would be similar although if Trump does decide to fight back more and prosecute his attackers and take some extreme necessary actions, it could become very unstable as they try to remove him. I have said it would take a Hitler type to do what needs to be done to bring down the ruling class both in and outside the government and Trump is not that. Half the country would support an insurrection by any means possible to kill or remove him. Bottom line is this country cannot be saved by politics and with the massive demographic changes will continue its decline. There really isn’t much to save at this point anyway as we become a non-white majority.

  31. The selection of a nitwit to succeed Biden is the ultimate insult to the memory of the Founding Fathers and those who built this once great nation.

    • Replies: @HT
  32. Great article.

    Good read.

  33. Haxo Angmark [AKA "chuck lowe"] says:
    @TPM

    Brilliant.

  34. @One Nobody

    He never mentions the ever present Brutish clandestine involment in Ukraine. We could say the same goes for the ME.

    That’s part of their psy-op. Never talk about Britain and its escalations, always talk about the US. Ron Unz does this too, as do Seymour Hersh and Jeffrey Sachs. Fortunately we have Mercouris, Alex Krainer and Kit Klarenberg to set the record straight.

  35. Farenheit says:

    What the Ruling Strata have not understood is that postmodern libertarian deregulation cannot be defined by economics and sex alone

    An unusually erudite criticism of the “globohomo”.

  36. HT says:
    @Proteus Procrustes

    The selection of a nitwit to succeed Biden is the ultimate insult to the memory of the Founding Fathers and those who built this once great nation.

    The ultimate insult to the Founders was making the slaves citizens and then allowing non-White immigration. They wanted only White citizens.

    • Replies: @Proteus Procrustes
  37. @Bro43rd

    China is 4 or 5 times bigger than USA.

    But USA, has a wonderful foundation in place, if its “States” get their common sense back and remember they can convene a totally new independence.

    • Agree: Miro23
  38. @Arthur MacBride

    JFYI
    Al-jazeera investigative unit has completed/published its findings on Israeli war-crimes in Gaza. Much material is from idf “soldiers” proud of their work.

    Video Link
    Maybe a copy can be sent to the USG/NYT/CNN etc.

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  39. EggCorn says:
    @Lemmy Tellyuh

    She appears to be part Jewish.

    • Replies: @Ancient Briton
  40. EggCorn says:

    As the ousted ‘Emperor’, Biden made his ‘final walk’ from the dias at the UN;

    I was hoping someone would correct this to read: dais.

    • Thanks: Gvaltar
  41. Anon[306] • Disclaimer says:

    We are all Nassrollah, We are all Hezbollah
    Death to Biden, Death to genocidal Netanyahu, down with the criminal West.
    The world must makes a note of this fact that Axios is a Mossad platform not a news outfit, like ‘Iran international’ does not have any relation with Iran, in fact it is ‘Mossad International’.
    Don’t be fooled.
    How do you ask for a ceasefire from governments that are partners in the Israeli wars of aggression/genocide? US/UK/Israel are now bombing Yemen. Who but AOC, a WHORE, believes that Biden is “tirelessly” working for a ceasefire? She like Harris promote her ‘career’ pleasing sugar daddy, old fools. And for how long has he been working tirelessly? He may be working hard on something else that benefits himself.
    Biden does not care even for Harris, a whore, to win since he was KICKED out by the Jewish donors as well the nig..rs, his supporters. As Biden helps Israel start an all out war that Netanyahu correctly calculates, it will help Trump.
    The genocidal Biden and Netanyahu should be executed as war criminals, if not possible then assassinated, scum of humanity. Both are responsible for more than 200,000 massacred Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon.and Yemen.
    The more the West says Israel has a “right to defend itself” when it is clear it’s just on a deranged killing spree, the more it will take advantage of this Western-provided impunity to slaughter.
    Genocidal Biden/Netanyahu just bombed a West Bank cafe – where there is no Hamas – killing scores.

    • Replies: @Proteus Procrustes
  42. Agent76 says:

    Dec 14, 2023 We’re Fighting a World War By Bring Our Troops Home
    

    Video Link

  43. Every ‘Empire’ needs too, a common substantive culture to make strong decisions of general interest.

    This is not really true. The most successful empires have been the ones that have allowed a wide range of cultures and given these cultures relative autonomy in handling their own internal affairs. Attempts at forcing a common culture on the various vassals of the empire is typically a sign of imperial decline. A good example is the Ottoman empire, which had its millet system that was somewhat able to balance the interests of the different religions and ethnicities in the empire. Later, as their power was waning, they tried to force a fake and gay culture of “ottomanism” on their subjects, which only alienated the different cultures and caused them to further rebel against the empire. The American empire has made similar moves recently in its decline phase, trying to force all of its imperial subjects to accept the American religion of homosexuality, degrowth, and infinity African immigrants.

  44. Emslander says:
    @Miro23

    If the Russians decided to end their problems with NATO by incinerating the Island of Britain, would anyone care enough to engage in the next step, incinerating the population centers of the northern hemisphere?

    It would be quite a gamble.

    • Replies: @Miro23
  45. @Arthur MacBride

    Perhaps being stupids is the real reason for decline of USA, poor immigrant stock and/or indifferent “education” system, Nature or Nurture ?
    Whatever, many of them will be unable to avoid the stifling cage of Leviathan because they don’t know what that means and are too stupid to want to find out. Dallas Cowboys/Pornhub far more important; safer too.
    After all some of them think that Alastair Crooke must be an MI6 agent that has come to take away their freedumbs to Perfidious Albion.
    And they admire/vote for arsebandits like this; year after year.

    The deadliest hurricane since Katrina (2005) has hit the United States.

    Hundreds of people are missing. 780,000 people in the trail of destruction are still without power. (http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k70rnrp4xo.amp)

    And instead of advocating for his constituents South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is worried about a conflict thousands of miles and a world away American shores.

    Americans of all backgrounds, dispositions, and income are struggle to recover from a hurricane which carried away homes and has left people stranded on mountain sides.

    Yet the American political class displays nothing but the utmost contempt for its own populace.

  46. Anonymous[182] • Disclaimer says:

    When the old fool, Biden, and the genocidal Netanyahu are savagely killing civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, these IDF scum are frighten to go into Lebanon since they know will be shut DEAD. They have wetted themselves, wearing DIPPERS.

  47. With his era stumbling to an inglorious close, Biden may have loved the idea of pulling the levers of coercive soft-power influence, only subsequently to discover that the wires connecting those levers to the real-world railway ‘points’ were gone. Influence had flown; imperial coercion increasingly was met with disdain. Diplomacy had failed across the board.

    I say:

    BIDEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A POWER HUNGRY CUNTBOY POLITICIAN WHORE

    Peggy Noonan discussing Joe Biden being demonically enthralled by the “RIVER OF POWER” in the American Empire:

    “Lemme tell you something,” Biden said to his friends after asking where their young kids would be going to college, according Richard Ben Cramer’s famous election book “What It Takes.”

    “There’s a river of power that flows through this country. . . . Some people—most people—don’t even know the river is there. But it’s there. Some people know about the river, but they can’t get in . . . they only stand at the edge. And some people, a few, get to swim in the river. All the time. They get to swim their whole lives . . . in the river of power. And that river flows from the Ivy League,” Biden said at the time.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/peggy-noonan-says-biden-clinging-power-calls-re-election-bid-historical-mistake-scathing-column

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-cant-resist-the-river-of-power-politics-election-voters-2024-president-nominee-5ee64e04

    The treasonous Biden administration is infested with agents of JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) and JOG had two main goals for 2024: 1) JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) wanted to continue to use mass immigration as a demographic weapon to attack and destroy the European Christian nations — USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, Sweden, Spain…etc. and 2) JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) wanted to continue to use the American Empire’s armaments and the American Empire’s military to fight wars on behalf of the millstone client state of Israel.

    JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) in the Biden regime have been able to keep the nation-killing mass legal immigration, mass illegal immigration, REFUGEE OVERLOAD and ASYLUM SEEKER INUNDATION going full speed ahead, but the European Christian nations are soon going to explicitly name JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) as the malignant and evil gang that is pushing open borders mass immigration in European Christian nations.

    Biden has managed to keep the US military behind the scenes and sitting as tripwires in the Middle East, but the Israelis seem determined to drag the US military into a war with Iran.

    Joe Biden’s 1988 brain operations have possibly screwed up his ability to think properly.

    Joe Biden has had his brain sliced and poked and prodded and pinched in many different ways in two separate brain operations that were bloody enough to make Brian De Palma proud. The sawbones really butchered Biden’s brain on two separate occasions.

    A story — perhaps true — making the rounds in political circles is that Biden’s brain surgeon accidentally left a golf tee inside Biden’s pumpkin head while using his precision surgical reciprocal saw to cut out Biden’s brain malfunction.

    Another story — perhaps apocryphal — is that the brain surgeon in Biden’s second brain surgery accidentally left an extra clip inside Biden’s concrete potato salad brain. One clip was used to pinch the aneurysm that was making Biden batty, but the extra clip was left by accident. That clip is now pinching the portion of the brain responsible for making people somewhat logical. This explains why Biden is an irresponsible, illogical WARMONGERING politician whore of the worst sort.

  48. peterAUS says:

    Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?

    Leviathan as
    https://archive.org/details/LeviathanAndItsEnemiesSamuelT.Francis2016

    No it will not.
    The Cage setup is being completed as we speak. Some tech glitches and final negotiation between top people. Within a year or two, probably even sooner, it will start shutting down. Good news: most people won’t even notice. A lot of them will even like it. The rest, ah, well…..

  49. Biden at least has a sense of humour, even though he’s a treasonous 81 year old GEEZER RAT:

    Kamala Harris, despite her demonic incessant cackling, is a nasty humourless bitch puppet that is Hell bent on attacking and destroying the European Christian ancestral core of the USA.

    Kamala Harris is an ASIAN INDIAN MULATTO who is nothing but a TROJAN HORSE to infest the Biden administration with an active agent of JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) named DOUG EMHOFF. The Biden administration is over-infested with shady, demonic agents of JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG).

    The Kamala Harris Agitation shall bring forth a White Core American response that will be both Sam Huntington smart and Andrew Jackson fiery and that will help to extinguish and replace the rancid Republican Party. The White Core America political party will emerge as the counter political party to the Democrat Party Kamala Harris puppet show.

    Kamala Harris Is Accelerationism.

    Kamala Harris will help to destroy the evil and rancid and donor-controlled Republican Party.

    Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents moved from Brooklyn to a mostly White town in New Jersey because Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents didn’t want Doug Emhoff to get attacked and brutalized by Black thugs.

    Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents wanted to live around European Christian Americans in New Jersey. New Jersey is the most segregated state by town or municipality, and the Whites and the Jews like it that way.

    Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents moved to California from New Jersey, and once again, Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents made sure that Doug Emhoff wouldn’t be attacked or brutalized by Blacks. Doug Emhoff’s Jew parents made sure that they moved to a town in California that would isolate Doug Emhoff from Blacks.

    Kamala Harris, according to some guy on the internet, is married to a Jew — Doug Emhoff — whose parents moved away from — or avoided moving to — an area in California that was under the threat of racial Black busing in order to avoid having their son — Kamala Harris’s hubby — go to school with large concentrations of Blacks. This arrogant Baby Boomer boob Kamala Harris had the nerve to attack Joe Biden for his stance on Black racial busing when Kamala Harris’s own Jew husband’s parents moved — or avoided moving to — an area in California in order to get away from the chance that their son — Doug Emhoff — would be caught up in the undertow of Black racial busing in California.

    Tweet from 2019:

  50. Rich says:
    @One Nobody

    Your historical knowledge is very shallow. Jesus Christ, Son of the Most High God, was a Galilean. These were an ancient Gallic people that settled in the Middle East before the Greeks and Romans, intermarried with the Hebrews and adopted their religion. The Arabs didn’t show up in Palestine until the middle of the 7th century AD.

    You might want to read a little about Romans, Greeks, Gauls and Germans before you start making assumptions about when Europeans came out of the woods.

    • Replies: @One Nobody
  51. Walter says:

    In Lenin’s “State and Revolution” he quotes Engels’ definition of a “free state”… that’s a state that is totally independent of the people it rules. A state running according to the whim of a junta. The junta or “elite” would rather rule over the ashes than care for the people. Expect therefore to see ashes.

  52. @EggCorn

    Per wiki Early Life, Fiona Hill has an ordinary British working class background – her father was a coal miner.

  53. White people when they meet a Jew.

  54. ariadna says:

    “the White House continues to urge restraint on all parties to dial back the violence. But no one is listening.”

    “All parties”…
    I don’t understand why Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon don’t listen to Biden, other than it is because they are, as we know, reckless and ruthless terrorists.
    I do understand, however, why Israel is not listening. It is a simple lexical misunderstanding. The White House accompanies every “urging” for restraint with a gift of more weapons, more billions of dollars in “aid,” and a reassurance of unconditional support.
    Netanyahu does speak American English fluently but although not all Israelis do, they are smart enough to have figure out that “restraint” translates into Hebrew as “don’t stop.”

  55. This is one of the latest crime committed by the vermin in the white house:

    “Let Them Eat Mud”—Biden and Harris Don’t Even Feign Concern For Parts Of Southeast Where Entire Towns Have Vanished Off The Map Since “Helene.”
    https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-mudbiden-and-harris

    And, it is now clear,

    US Military Father Of Climate Manipulation: “We’d Just Pick A Thunderstorm And Do Whatever We Wanted To With It.”
    celiafarber. substack. com /p/us-military-father-of-climate-manipulation

    Catherine Austin Fitts On Helene: “It’s Not A Natural Event.” Says It Is A Giant Taking, Land Grab, WH Leveraging Disaster Recovery Against Election: “Assertion Of Top Down Control Of Counties”
    celiafarber.substack.com/p/catherine-austin-fitts-on-helene

    The manufactured storm has hit mainly areas where people vote Republicans and of course focused on De Santis Florida…

    Biden is at the beach and harris is having cocktails in the West, not a word or a visit for the victims.
    Billions for the zionists to further the genocide, hundreds of billions in another Jew’s pocket in Ukraine.
    Total silence from the zionist controlled media, Americans can die, the criminals in power don;t give a damn.

  56. @Bro43rd

    LOL. Wrong.

    Selfish arrogant money grabbing men are the problem, and only government violence AND slaughter will solve it.

    • Disagree: Bro43rd
    • Replies: @Gvaltar
  57. Miro23 says:
    @Emslander

    If the Russians decided to end their problems with NATO by incinerating the Island of Britain, would anyone care enough to engage in the next step, incinerating the population centers of the northern hemisphere?

    It would be quite a gamble.

    Except that Putin isn’t a gambler. He does cool calculated responses.

    The Iranians are trying the same cool calculated responses with Israel but it’s not working.

    Problem that Hitler Mk2 (Netanyahu) is a rabid dog and he’s going to attack Kharg Island. Then the Iranians have to go all in – a conflict that puts the Iraq war into the shade and IMO that Israel (and the US) can’t handle at all.

  58. What a ridiculous article — what do Trump and Biden have to do with anything? Biden and Trump are completely irrelevant and the author is trying to deceive us by not talking about the Jews: the Jews are what’s relevant. The Jews are the Empire. It’s the Universal Empire of the Jews and nothing else matters.

    There is no “Trump” card. Trump is not the joker. It matters not if he’s pulled from the deck or if he remains: the results will be the same. Biden was never the Emperor, with or without scare quotes, and he was never brimming with bravura: the only one who says “I’m running the world” is the Jew. Bastards.

    The White House is not urging restraint on anybody, you nincompoop: the Jew House is sending bombs to Jews in Ukraine and Jews in Israel so that Jews can continue killing goys. Diplomacy didn’t fail across the board because Jews don’t do diplomacy: Jews only do lies and double-cross. The US and Israel are both vassals of the Universal Empire of the Jew and will only do what the Top Jews order them to do. Which is terrorize the whole world.

    The signal for the future is this: more Jew mayhem. The Jews work with prophecy not policy. And the prophecy is this: Third Rome (Moscow) must fall and its leader (Putin) must be killed. It’s in the Jew holy books so the Jews will make it happen. And Armageddon, war of Gog and Magog, the nations gathering against Jerusalem, red heifer rituals, Third Temple, Mashiach sitting on his throne, and the arrival of the Messianic Age. That’s what the Jews have in store for us.

    The “Power-oligarchy” is the Jew oligarchy. There are no more “institutions”: the Jews are the enemy of the people and they will use these “institutions” as a torture apparatus to fuck with the whole populace. It’s not “post-modern culture” that makes people mad: it’s the Jews who make people mad, even if they don’t know it yet. It’s the Jew who “kills the sense of the real – to replace it with imagined reality”: the Jews are the Masters of the MindFuck. The Jew art of governing is war and genocide, whether out-in-the-open genocide like in Gaza, or the ongoing surreptitious genocide of the whites in all white countries.

    The existential insecurity people feel is the heel of the Jew on their face, even if they can’t see it. Brooks is a conniving Jew bastard who knows full well that it is the Jew who is destroying morally cohesive communities. It is the Jew who is destroying shared moral values. It is the Jew who is destroying the universal moral order. It is the Jew who destroyed everybody’s understandings of what is male and female. The Jews are destroyers since time immemorial and that is what the Jews will continue to do throughout the ages: destroy.

    I’m disgusted by Crooke’s crooked take in this article — it’s basically worthless.

    • Agree: Daniel Rich
    • Troll: Gvaltar
  59. @brostoevsky

    Fiona did learn not to wear short skirts around addled old drunks
    and the defensive art of bending over, but clever as she was, she
    failed to notice when the British Establishment and the
    Harvard Russophobes hijacked and raped her mind.

    When everything is given over to ambition and
    belonging, only a residue is left.

  60. Jeramy says:

    I just wish Frodo would hurry up and throw that ring in the fire.

    • Agree: Arthur MacBride
  61. Miro23 says:

    The more the post-modern West loses control of the world with its mode of nihilistic reasoning, and the more diverse Asia remains, the less chance of the Leviathan succeeding. “What the Ruling Strata have not understood is that postmodern libertarian deregulation cannot be defined by economics and sex alone”.

    The focal point is Iran. If Iran is “Iraqified” by the West™ then that’s the end of the BRICS and the “Belt and Road Initiative”. IOW Iran is the “Schwerpunkt”.

    https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/should-russia-give-iran-nuclear-weapons

    Russian could tip the balance, but given their engagement in Ukraine (against the same enemy). it’s time for the Chinese to step up. Difficult for them, but it’s now or never.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  62. eah says:

    Trump: Biden ‘crazy’ to disapprove of Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites

    President Joe Biden was wrong to say the United States would not back an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program, his predecessor and potential successor Donald Trump told Fox News on Thursday. …

    Asked following Iran’s biggest ever attack on Israel on Tuesday, which involved nearly 200 ballistic missiles but was largely repelled with US help, whether Israel should hit back and Iranian nuclear sites, Biden said “no.”

    That was “not the right answer,” Trump told Fox News.

    “I mean, that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. That’s the biggest risk we have. The biggest risk we have is nuclear … Soon they’re going to have nuclear weapons. And then you’re going to have problems.”

    Trump often comes across as not just imprudent, but reckless and unhinged.

  63. Jews want Harris

  64. RRRic says:
    @Bro43rd

    This is gospel with the US terrorist state! If you have even the slightest discernment you have to be actively and rabidly cheering for USTS enemies to bloody the “the demoncracy” as much as they can at every turn.

    Personally I will cajole and cheer until such time as the whole toxic mess crashes and hope for something better rising out of the ashes.

  65. @Rich

    “The Arabs didn’t show up in Palestine until the middle of the 7th century AD.”

    You make my point my dear history groupi. Go ahead and read some real history by a real scholar and historian and check out Ibn Khaldun and read his opus alMuqaddimah or Prolegomena.
    Many Western notables such as such as Machiavelli, Vico, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Comte, David Ricardo and Adam Smith, borrowed heavily from him.

    We Westerners, should truth be said, are indebted to the Arabs for the foundation of our civilization and without it the Renaissance would not have happened.

    As for Palestine not being part of Arabia that is stupid. You need to look at a map that predates a Sykes–Picot map.
    The Arabs for centuries before Christ had the Winter and the Summer caravans. They traded between “their” Yemen and “their” Greater alSham, which included Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.
    Your knowledge of the ME is very shallow and I bet you never even dwelt there for any length of time. I lived and worked there for 20 years. I know a little more about Arabia than you think you know.

    • Replies: @Rich
  66. HbutnotG says:
    @GMC

    Well, to be more current, you don’t take a Catholic church, do some “Vatican II” shit just to make that church more in line with “Love That Bob” and a very Protestant “Donna Reed.Show” But they did!

    -Suddenly, after 1900+ years, you could eat meat on Friday, and not go to hell! ???
    -You get some nun strumming Tennessee country songs on the altar in the middle of a mass that was just yesterday Latin and incomprehensible, even to Italians. ???
    -Let people touch that host maybe to pull it off of the roof of their mouth, once a move that invalidated it totally & completely???
    -“Candychism” for HS kids suddenly cancelled??? Just months after they’d come to your house if your kid didn’t show up, just once???

    and then, wonder where in the hell did those devout Catholic Poles and Italians (99.5% of my parish) go? (I noticed 80% of the pews had been removed when I went to my neighbor’s funeral) Never really religious but that was more depressing than the funeral

    Pffft! Too much…too fucking fast, babe. We’re all at WalMart on Sunday morn these days.

    You know what? Everything in this human world is transient – not just the bums laying around in your business district.

    • Replies: @GMC
  67. It is in fact Fake and Gay. Dumbed down scripted entertainment politics for idiots. And it’s a total script that your average American somehow doesn’t have the mental capacity (or desire) to even question whatsoever at all.

    One example would be how they present Dick Cheney as of late, as if he’s always off in the woods somewhere pitching a tent and brewing up cowboy coffee. Large swath of the population thinks a stunt like that is on the up and up (or they wouldn’t even bother with such staged nonsense)

    Do not fret however, Trump will be elected in November. And it won’t be by a landslide, it’ll conveniently be by some sort of invented controversy to keep the moron public at each others throats. And it’ll be the same idiot script all over again, he can’t get anything done because of obstruction (except for move entire embassies and fawn all over the Zionist cause)

    The Trump base is as loathsome as the progressives. There’s too much invested in Trump to exit stage right in November. He’s received as much if not more coverage than the sitting president the past 4 years for a reason. American politics revolves around Donald Trump and his fake America First script. His is a starring role in the pathetic, drag on forever, drama. Then you have his bulletproof ear, fake threat of imprisonment over the scripted court drama. An easy gauge if you yourself are an active dupe in the charade, ask yourself; did you at any point in time actually believe Trump was going to be imprisoned?

    If your answer is yes to that (along with believing in his magic ear) you need to make it a serious habit of questioning things just for your own basic survival the way things are going. Odds are if you were out on the street to rely on your own instincts (you wouldn’t last a week) before some street hustler conned you out of your tent and last cigarette.

    • Agree: Anonymous534
    • Replies: @VinnyVette
    , @Anonymous534
  68. Gallatin says:

    Trump needs to have an Attorney General ready on day 1 and about 40 good prosecutors with assistants also. Take over the DOJ, and hire about 50 new FBI agents to be given all important investigations. Clinton fired many US attorneys upon taking office, Trump should do the same. The new AG should say no to any special prosecutor when it comes to Trump, day one.

  69. @Captain Jones

    Thanks for the laugh “captain dumbass.”

    • Replies: @Captain Jones
  70. Gvaltar says:
    @Kal Zakath

    money

    Would that be money issued/backed by the government?

    • Troll: Fin of a cobra
  71. @Arthur MacBride

    The battle has not yet been joined and American redemption is just
    over the horizon if younger Americans continue to see through
    the Zionist scam and recognize the genocide in Palestine.

    The equally brutal and pointless sacrifice an entire generation
    of Ukrainian men and a lesser number of Russians will entitle
    Zelensky to entertain the victims’ families with a lamppost
    rope dance, wearing high heels and tutu, sans rehearsals.

    His Buddy, Lindsey Graham will not be able to attend as he is
    paralyzed, permanently frozen in a butts-up configuration.

    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  72. Rich says:
    @One Nobody

    The Levant is Roman. The Arabs are occupiers. The Arabs had a few years, but then became shield carriers for Persians, Kurds, Mongols and Turks. The English gave the Saudis some lands to keep the Turks down. Your people are as alien to the land as your new Eastern European overlords (who some claim are actually Turkic in origin, your ancestral masters).

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  73. Everything is/are up to the individual/-s to cope with the horrifying…uhh I’m treembbeling, I’m soo scared, I’m soo mumma daddya..pleeease save me from the monsters in the closett so I can continue to sit in my sofa, scratch my underbelly n’ look at my porn….Ie so I don’t have to have insight..knowledge..or anything what means
    responsibility. I do not have to know or want to know anythinng…bcasuse Our…government…our belowed pedogovernment tells us that…well, we shall know nothing absolutely nothing (its a threat to us, the govpedos…how dare you to have any thought whatsoever..shame on you..you thoughtcriminal)

    Hmm…interesting…so the cabal does not want Human beings to know that the leviatan..or what ever signum to the trash, scum of the earth, eq to the sc Globalists (scum of the earth, pedoiles, pedogsatesaccomplisrs, killarybills, obama1000signcroock, n all thi utters inthe dirtyhouse..haha.white house…f..that, it’s the most dirty house in the world). Poor/sorry for the unsightful americans. Either they will/can do someting about it, or they abdicate. We, up in north, struggle with exactly the same issues, problems. Sorry for my bad english, n now you know were ouur battle emanates out of

  74. @Miro23

    “Except that Putin isn’t a gambler. He does cool calculated responses.

    The Iranians are trying the same cool calculated responses with Israel but it’s not working.”

    I have observed this as well noting that the more aggressive and impulsive alliance of the US and Israel always push forward anyway. All the while, they goad the target country into a response or label the leadership as cowardly or their military as weak. It is unfortunate that some bombs get dropped just to counter the other side’s propaganda. War is an ugly business.

  75. ariadna says:
    @Notsofast

    Why in the world would Putin call himself Vlad the Impaler rather than pick the name of any victorious, valiant and just Russian tzar of yore?
    Vlad the Impaler was the nickname of Vlad Tepes, a fearsome Romanian (or rather Wallachian) ruler who pushed back against the Ottomans, united two of the Romanian principalities, and tried to make his co-nationals honest by chopping off the hands of the thieves– an endeavor that unlike the previous two was only partially successful while he reigned.
    His name was Vlad, Putin’s name is Vladimir– short form Vova, not Vlad.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  76. Sarita says:

    This Bitch is in charge of FEMA!
    Americans are suffering and FEMA does shit, they send the money to Ukraine and Israel.
    They give it to illegals.
    The Jews have succeeded.

    Americans are owned!

  77. @VinnyVette

    “I don’t like what he’s says ’bout heroes ear on the Unz review (’cause it’s still real to me dammit!) I can’t dispute any of what he says with any sort of legible counter argument though, so I’ll just roll with calling him a ‘dumbass’

    “Acktually (I’ll be trickier than that in my reply) and infer that his argument is so stoopid that I’m laughing at it. That way you see, I’ll be ale to disguise my retard-tier outrage over this guy calling out what an obvious fraud Trump is. Check mate Captain Dumbass!” I wins!

    • Replies: @VinnyVette
  78. @Rich

    Yet another viciously racist and moronic comment from a sub-troll. The Levant has been criss-crossed by innumerable peoples ever since H. sapiens left Africa via the region, 70,000 years ago. The Palestinians are an amalgam of them all. Where do you get this ‘Roman’ claim? From out of your arse?

    • Replies: @Rich
  79. @Miro23

    Even if Iran was raped like Iraq, like Iraq they will turn to China, because China represents human decency, economic equality and trade and global harmony. The West only represents submission, racist arrogance and contempt, exploitation and domination

  80. @Fin of a cobra

    Do the Judaic hate-texts say anything about China? Apart from the general hatred of ALL goyim.

  81. @Captain Jones

    An easy gauge if you yourself are an active dupe in the charade, ask yourself; did you at any point in time actually believe Trump was going to be imprisoned?

    I could see something like that (Trump being fake arrested) happening as a PR stunt. It would reinforce his image as an ‘outsider’ who makes the ZOG regime ‘afraid of him.’ Looks like they went with the ‘shot to the ear’ thing instead.

    • Agree: Captain Jones
  82. JM says:
    @brostoevsky

    Can’t argue with any of that.

    Her father was a miner, likely heavily involved in the strikes of the early 80’s after which they closed the mines, the original aim.

    I would have hoped…but that first generation out of the working class are often very hungry for fame and fortune.

    Any way she’s now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Durham, Ed Dutton’s alma mater.

  83. JM says:
    @Lemmy Tellyuh

    Hmmm…a lot of this seems highly speculative, though possibly true in parts.

  84. JM says:
    @JM

    A part missing from the wide ranging points made by Alex Mercouris about the “British Russophobes”, is why there is this apparent parallel political evolution among the dominant group of political commentators in ‘Britain’ and the USA.

    I suppose he doesn’t want to be banned from YT.

    • Replies: @JM
  85. GMC says:
    @HbutnotG

    Totally agree H G. I remember going to a Catholic service back in the early 60s with a friend of mine and his family. It was still versed in Latin and the service was strictly religiously performed by the priests. I was from a protestant church , so I was impressed, I then thought that the Catholic church was a serious religion – but that was 60 years ago . 60 yrs. shouldn’t have changed a 1500+ yr. old Church.

    The Russian Orthodox Church here, still keeps with the old ways and is trying to convert some the old Sovok atheists back into believing, along with their grandchildren.And it is working. I think the Western Wars, the trashed morals, and the other Fake Churches and Synagogues etc. – have been exposed, and that will help awaken more people. The States are in very bad shape, as I have heard and read.

  86. @24th Alabama

    Hoping that yours is not merely wishful thinking, Alabama.
    Latest statement from Mad Dog/ZionDon.

    🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷While Biden is pushing for peace and dodging questions, Trump has suggested that Israel should strike Iranian nuclear facilities in response to Iran’s launch of ballistic missiles at Israel this week.

    Israel has not given assurances to the Biden administration that striking Iran’s nuclear facilities is off the table

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  87. MD says:

    MEANWHILE: USA DISASTER RELIEF – >UTTER< INCOMPETENCE !!

    Jimmy Dore
    @jimmy_dore
    Oct 3

    Once again there is serious fuckery happening to Americans experiencing a disaster. I’m at loss for words:

    Ryan Tyre 🇺🇸
    @ryantyre
    Oct 2

    If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN – you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.

    I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.

    I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked – i'll explain below. Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.

    In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.

    The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.

    We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people. They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.

    It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.

    We decided that we would go in anyways. We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.

    It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key. When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.

    We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house. During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!

    Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes.

    They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies. I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart….

    He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.

    The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them. The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.

    The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset.

    He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them. He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.

    And that is exactly what we did. After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys. We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key.

    This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us. I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon.

    I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.

    THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm. It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.

    These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.

    So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks. This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.

    I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.

    From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrels and free reign to get anything they needed. We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed.

    When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filing cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.

    There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.

    I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.

    Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need. We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready. @Sassafrass_84 @hodgetwins @elonmusk @Alphafox78

  88. JM says:
    @JM

    This is surely one factor: the “US” private equity takeover of British industry (Australian too) and the penetration of US corporations into the economy is associated with a political takeover (like of Germany for the whole of the Post War period), as outlined here:

  89. @HT

    “They wanted only White citizens.”

    Most likely, only the northern Europeans of the Protestant faith.

    • Agree: HT
  90. @Anon

    “We are all Nassrollah, We are all Hezbollah
    Death to Biden, Death to genocidal Netanyahu, down with the criminal West.”

    We are all Charlie Hebdo…

  91. Rich says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    You still haven’t answered my question, are you s female or an effeminate man? The Arabs are occupiers of Roman and Greek lands in the Middle East. That’s who lived there when they invaded. Fact.

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  92. @Rich

    You said this to Mulga:

    You still haven’t answered my question, are you s female or an effeminate man?

    Well, Mulga was sucked in by the easily disprovable Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax, sooooo …. that’s quite a girlie* thing to do.

    (*You know, lack of restraint in her emotions. Mulga actually cried when Greta Thunberg said ‘her future had been stolen’ by emitters of the Gas of Life – CO2).

    • LOL: Rich
  93. @Captain Jones

    Nice word salad sandwich reinforcing the fact that you are indeed a “dumbass.”

    Maybe drunk, probably both. 🤡

    • Replies: @Captain Jones
  94. @Arthur MacBride

    The first rule of American politics is, “say anything to get elected.”
    The second rule is, “forget everything said in #1, after elected.”

    As nuclear disaster draws near, voters are asked:
    Do you want to pay for sex-change surgery for rapists in prison?
    Will tranny women still rape women or become pedophiles?
    Visualize the mechanics of this as you are being vaporized.

    Thanks, Arthur.

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  95. barracuda says:
    @JSlade217

    …there is no way to govern 350 million ppl in our advanced technological society without strong laws and regulations . Would u privitize nuclear facilities, bio labs, airports, our defense industry…

    It’s so sad – those have already been privatized! The sole owner is the government, just like in the former Soviet Union. You have zero control over the system, and the tragic outcome of this power grab is that you’ve been turned into a guinea pig to endure endless population control gimmicks.

  96. Notsofast says:
    @ariadna

    ah, ariadna, you are missing the subtlety of my writing, he said “in the west, i am called…”, which is true, as part of the smear campaign against him, do you think the historical “vlad the impaler”, called himself that? no, he called himself count dracula… no, just joking 😂, i couldn’t resist that but you see the smear campaign, has been running for centuries.

    • Replies: @ariadna
  97. @24th Alabama

    As you say, Alabama; and the people still go along with it …
    There are certainly plenty of stupids in countries like Germany, England, Ireland etc (just look at their govts for evidence) but USA is a special case because of its potential for damage, its long history of that on behalf of Jews and the almost incredible refusal of Americans to assess their country in the light of reality. They continue to view USA as an independent country in which they as American citizens decide what will happen …
    It’s really very very sad.
    https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/will-israel-pull-off-an-october-surprise-during-the-next-month/#comment-6797837

    Wish you/sensible Americans the best.
    But I can’t be optimistic abt USA to be honest.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  98. @VinnyVette

    Is it really that difficult to take a position, refrain from grade school put down antics and just formulate an argument of your own to challenge a position? Do better. You owe it to this forum. Ron could go around issuing bans on those engaging in that (he doesn’t) Respect that at least. Nobody is keeping ‘put down’ scores here. Lets debate like adults, alright?

  99. @Arthur MacBride

    An overwhelming majority of the world population can see that the U.S.
    and Israel are possessed by a blind madness that defies description.
    So, the question becomes, why can’t Americans see this horrible reality?

    Certainly, the nearly complete Jewish stranglehold on the media is an
    ugly and blatant cause of ignorance, but Americans are not only stupid
    but are largely arrogantly and cocky-stupid, creating a barrier to
    receiving new information or changing opinions.

    “Things are so bad they could hardly get worse,” is usually a preface for
    things actually getting worse, but I persist in the belief that the “worm
    will turn” and the tide will go out. Being an optimist, a certain amount
    of ridicule will come your way, but a defeatist has already lost.

    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
    • Replies: @JM
  100. ariadna says:
    @Notsofast

    I didn’t know they called him that. In that case they should fear he would chop off their hands for stealing some 3oo bil of Russia’s sovereign funds.
    The Wallachian king was known as The Impaler (“Tepes) and pleased to inspire horror among the Turkish would-be invaders… but never Count Dracula since the book had not been written yet nor was Hollywood involved. “Dracul” was then just a marginal folklore character. similar to the “revenants” in the French tales.

  101. JM says:
    @24th Alabama

    An overwhelming majority of the world population can see that the U.S.
    and Israel are possessed by a blind madness that defies description.
    So, the question becomes, why can’t Americans see this horrible reality?

    Certainly, the nearly complete Jewish stranglehold on the media is an
    ugly and blatant cause of ignorance, but Americans are not only stupid
    but are largely arrogantly and cocky-stupid, creating a barrier to
    receiving new information or changing opinions.

    Great comment.

    A self- aware American is a real gem.

    Whetever the case, I have always liked ‘common’ Americans, the working people. They have a quality of purity and innocence that is very endearing. I don’t have the depth of scholarship to explain it but I think it comes from the purity of the protestant founders that has diffused among them down through the generations. Powerful stuff. Younger family members share the same view, only from a different historical perspective. My fraternising with them in Sydney during the Vietnam war reinforced my earlier view. Such a generous hearted, pure, innocent people, heir to such a rich history. Nothing at all to be ashamed of, except not discering that they were/are wrongly led.

    • Replies: @24th Alabama
  102. @JM

    Thanks, JM.
    Being held hostage by hopelessly corrupt leaders is a self-induced
    abomination that cannot be cured within the existing legal
    framework, tightly controlled by an entrenched oligarchy.

  103. @Fin of a cobra

    Thanks.
    Facts speak for your words
    “The signal for the future is this: more Jew mayhem. The Jews work with prophecy not policy. And the prophecy is this: Third Rome (Moscow) must fall and its leader (Putin) must be killed. ”

    Difficult to disagree when you see what’s happening now. They want/and try to destroy Russia/BRICS

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