pcr with his thoughts on the putin and the syrian collapse;

Putin and Xi and Iran The Unready

Paul Craig Roberts

The third front that Washington opened against Russia had immediate success. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/12/06/us-opens-a-third-front-against-russia/

Putin’s inability to ever finish a task has cost him Syria. Putin stupidly repeated the mistake  he made with the Minsk Agreement with the Astana Agreement which permitted Washington to maintain illegal military bases in Syria, steal Syria’s oil, and route it to Israel via Turkey to fuel Israel’s destruction of Palestine. 

The result was a massive strategic defeat for Russia, with its nine-year defense of Syria washed away in a few days.

Now only Iran and Saudi Arabia stand between Israel and Israel’s goal of Greater Israel. The Saudis having witnessed Russia and Iran’s inattention and inability to act are motivated to reestablish the petrodollar in exchange for American protection. Iran and Hezbollah having pissed away the strategic initiative will be the next to fall. The neoconservative plan to overthrow seven Muslim countries in five years has taken longer than intended but is on its way to success. Trump’s military and foreign policy appointees are all anti-Iran and will easily fall in with Israel’s agenda as it also serves Washington’s intent to control oil flows and waterways.

Erdogan, the president of Turkey, betrayed Muslims and Putin by allying with Washington and Israel in overthrowing Syria, a country that likely will disappear with portions going to Israel, Turkey, and the oil to the US. Netanyahu has already seized the Golan Heights buffer zone in Syria declaring necessity to protect Israel from threats..........more..........

 a monday kunstler destined for the classics covering ignorance in a very creative fashion;

"There is nothing more fake than when the libs pretend to have an emotional outpouring over some dead loser they didn’t give a f**k about while they were living." — Aimee Terese

Were you thinking of Daniel Penny this weekend? A year and a half ago, the US marine veteran, age 26, subdued one Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless schizophrenic with a record of 42 arrests who was menacing riders on a New York City subway car. Neely was, at the time, a fugitive on an arrest warrant for felony assault on a sixty-seven-year-old woman. Penny applied a choke hold after Neely declared he was of a mind to kill somebody on the train. Neely was still alive when the cops came, but they declined to give him CPR because he was filthy and an apparent drug-user, and they feared getting AIDS or hepatitis from giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. . . so Neely died there in the subway.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg indicted Penny for manslaughter in the second degree and secondarily for criminally negligent homicide. His trial has been going on all month. On Friday, the jury reported its inability to reach a verdict on the manslaughter charge. Instead of declaring a mistrial, Judge Maxwell T. Wiley dismissed the primary charge and directed the jury to continue deliberations this week on the secondary negligent homicide charge, a procedurally dubious action.

Everybody knows that the trial is an absurd injustice, but that has been the temper of our society for many years now in the age of the Woke Jacobins. Unlike the original Jacobins of 1794 in Paris, who were ultra-extreme idealists, our Woke Jacobins are extreme cynics, imagining only the worst about the project of civilization. Hence, their alt-project to de-civilize the rest of us........more..........

 twenty four minutes with george galloway and prof mirandi discussing the effects of the syrian collapse;

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 six minutes with redacted titled: elon destroys new york times;

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i'd call this big. with more getting on the cut the spending bandwagon we might stand a chance of getting one useless program reduced. can't do more cause where would the 'lawmakers' get their graft; 

Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to cut 75% of federal government agencies is a major step towards streamlining operations and eliminating inefficiencies. Supported by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the plan aims to reduce the current 428 agencies to just 99. This reduction is part of a broader effort to cut bureaucratic waste and focus government resources on essential services that directly benefit the American people.

The federal government spent $6.1 trillion in 2024, with over 70% going toward mandatory programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Meanwhile, non-defense discretionary spending, which makes up just 16% of the budget, has grown bloated with redundant and ineffective agencies. Johnson’s plan targets these excesses, including the Consumer FinSpeaker Mike Johnson’s proposal to cut 75% of federal government agencies is a major step towards streamlining operations and eliminating inefficiencies. Supported by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the plan aims to reduce the current 428 agencies to just 99. This reduction is part of a broader effort to cut bureaucratic waste and focus government resources on essential services that directly benefit the American people.

The federal government spent $6.1 trillion in 2024, with over 70% going toward mandatory programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Meanwhile, non-defense discretionary spending, which makes up just 16% of the budget, has grown bloated with redundant and ineffective agencies. Johnson’s plan targets these excesses, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and PBS, which are often seen as duplicative.

While defense spending still accounts for a significant portion of the budget, Johnson’s plan doesn’t shy away from making cuts there as well. The 2024 defense budget is set at $842 billion, or 13.3% of total spending, but even military departments such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force could see operational reductions. These cuts are designed to eliminate inefficiencies in defense operations without compromising national security.ancial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and PBS, which are often seen as duplicative.

While defense spending still accounts for a significant portion of the budget, Johnson’s plan doesn’t shy away from making cuts there as well. The 2024 defense budget is set at $842 billion, or 13.3% of total spending, but even military departments such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force could see operational reductions. These cuts are designed to eliminate inefficiencies in defense operations without compromising national security.........more.........

 a minute with a granny who knows the score;

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martin armstrong has some predictions and judging by his track record, i'm paying attention;

 Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is back with some important new predictions. 

But first, long before the 2024 Election, Armstrong’s Socrates computer correctly predicted a Trump landslide.  Armstrong also predicted the GOP would win the House and the Senate while the Lying Legacy Media (LLM) were telling us all how popular Kamala Harris was and how she would take it all in 2024.  Armstrong said Kamala’s real approval rating was around 10% (not 50%), and the Dems and the LLM knew it but lied anyway.  Armstrong’s Socrates computer program also predicted Joe Biden would pardon his son Hunter, even though Biden, the Dems and the LLM repeatedly told us there would be no pardon of Hunter...........more..........