February 12th 2025
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Donald Trump’s economic masterplan He is plotting an anti-Nixon shock |
February 11th 2025
Trump declines to endorse Vance for 2028 but says VP is ‘ …USA Todayhttps://www.usatoday.com › news › politics › 2025/02/10
21 hours ago — President Trump thinks ‘a lot of capable people’ could be the Republican standard bearer in 2028 as early speculation begins on a successor.
Trump says ‘no’ when asked if ready to name Vance as …The Seattle Timeshttps://www.seattletimes.com › nation-politics › trump-s…
16 hours ago — President Donald Trump said “no” when asked if he viewed Vice President JD Vance as his successor, saying it was too early to make such a …
Donald Trump snubs JD Vance as 2028 Presidential successorThe Economic Timeshttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com › … › Panache
9 hours ago — Donald Trump, serving his second term as the 47th President, has raised eyebrows by not endorsing Vice President JD Vance as his 2028 .
Reality of The Situation by R J Cook
Comment Trump has made a big mistake dismissing J D Vance. Vance was a big factor in swinging the election in Trump’s favour and has done nothing to be trivialisesd in this way. Old men in power, wherever and even in the family, have a nasty tendency to patronise and dismiss the young.
Trump needs to understand that he can’t play the big shot, hiring and firing in his presidential role. He failed the last time,making many enemies. But in his current post, he does not own the company. Ideally he is accointable to the electorate. In reality he is in the hands of the Deep State and totally disposable by fair means or foul..
He has been quite brutal, hiring and firing. Trump, like Vance, is a money man. Hence his obscene proposal, so admitting what the Anglo U.S led NATO proxy war on Russia was always all about; that is raping Ukraine for its valuable resources.
Perhaps Trump has already lined up fellow money man Elon Musk to take over his mantle. That will be a very bad move. The U.S, like its ailing paren and equally corrupt U.K, is a class divided society and Trump is basically a snob. He won the election as the lesser of evils. So far Trump has done nothing to suggest he has anything useful or constructive to say about Ukraine or recognise the reality of the situation.

R J Cook
Views From The ‘Liberal Left’ World Socialist Web.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against racism and the AfD
At the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people once again demonstrated against racism, the AfD and the shift to the right by the entire political establishment.
Threatened closure of VW plant in Zwickau, Germany jeopardises whole region
It is not a question of distributing the 35,000 job losses “fairly” between east and west Germany, but of preventing them.
Trump administration rapidly expands Guantánamo migrant concentration camp
The Trump administration has ordered the detention of as many as 30,000 undocumented migrants in what is described as a “legal black hole” at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba US naval base.
Trump vows Palestinians will be barred from returning to Gaza after ethnic cleansing
US President Donald Trump said in an interview over the weekend that the Palestinian people he is seeking to ethnically cleanse from Gaza would not be allowed to return to their homes. “I’m talking about building a permanent place for them,” Trump said.
Trump slashes medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health
The planned $4 billion cut for funding for scientific inquiry to the nation’s universities and academic medical institutions will have devastating consequences on research into treatments for such conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Trudeau says Trump’s push to annex Canada is “real thing”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told last Friday’s emergency “national economic summit” that US President Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to annex Canada is a “real thing.”
Australia: Workers speak on social crisis, Gaza genocide at Werribee by-election
One worker said: “I don’t think there are any real differences between the political parties at all … [I’m] scared of our government following what Trump does.”
February 10th 2025
The Tasks of an Anti-Trump CoalitionThe Atlantichttps://www.theatlantic.com › trump-election-second-term
2 Feb 2025 — In this second Trump presidency, many of us are baffled by how to respond. The former Trump strategist Steve Bannon memorably described Trump’s …
US Democrats call for more aggressive tactics against …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › us-news › feb › democr…
1 day ago — As Trump aims to dismantle large swaths of US government, growing outcry from Democrats appears to be having an effect.
The Tasks of an Anti-Trump CoalitionThe Atlantichttps://www.theatlantic.com › trump-election-second-term
2 Feb 2025 — In this second Trump presidency, many of us are baffled by how to respond. The former Trump strategist Steve Bannon memorably described Trump’s …
I know what I would do if were Vladimir Putin – by R J Cook
Comment This makes a farce of the Democrats and nauseating self styled billionaires and western state media, most notably Anglo U.S BBC / CBS ongoing hysterics over the 2020 Capitol Hill protests that turned into a riot thanks to FBI infiltration and provocation. Today the BBC news called Trump and Musk’s DOGE unofficial and awaiting court judgement.
U.K and EU have been listening carefully to Zelensky, who has made a fortune from the NATO proxy war on Russia. They have rejected Trump’s plan to accept Russia’s gains in their native Donbas. Here Zelensky and his predecessor Poroshenko had carried out genocide of ethnic Russians ever since the CIA toppled Ukraine’s pro Russia Government in the name of EU Democratic Dictatorship. The EU and NATO are collaberating on a plan of their own to force Russia into accepting total defeat.
This is, like World Wars One and Two, a war to further enrich the super rich planet eating minority. These people believe that they have the right to kill as many lower order privileged white males as they like. All this to preserve their real privileges, power and pleasure. I know what I would do if I were Vladimir Putin after I had finished vomiting over the west’s pampered self righteous ruling elite’s hypocrisy.
R J Cook
Authorties & Mainstream Media Should Admit That Democracy In Germany Means ‘Liberal’ Conceited Consenus New Left Elite Rule, Elections Only A Formality – R J Cook
German lawmakers can’t agree whether to seek ban on far …politico.euhttps://www.politico.eu › article › alternative-for-germa…
30 Jan 2025 — Many mainstream leaders worry a pre-election debate on banning Alternative for Germany will only boost the party ahead of a national …
Scholz urges firewall against far right after election winBBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › articles
2 Sept 2024 — The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has urged mainstream parties not to lend support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won a big …
As Germany braces for election, backing the far-right AfD …Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com › News › The Far Right
7 days ago — The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.
Comment NATO is being readied as the front line massing point for war on Russia and slaughter of its ‘privileged young white men’.. The EU are the real Nazis but only they are allowed to legally award that epithet.
My problem is not the EU tyranny assembled to take over Russia with U.S help, regardless of the cost. It is the hypocrisy that sickens me, with all the lies about fighting for freedom, democracy and lower class white men’s obligation to fight for a system that treats us like rubbish, jailing innocent man and fawning to fascist feminsim.
The established parties across Europe and the U.K are the parties of the rich. They all want more African and Islamic migrants for lower wages, higher prices, especially housing, world war, more profits, higher taxes for the masses and lower taxes for the rich. The afd, National Rally and U.K Reform frighten these patronising political parasites.
They have no anwers to the systemic and endemic problems other than more laws and banning what they don’t like.
R J Cook
February 9th 2025
Zelensky says North Korean troops back on front line

Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
- Published7 February 2025
Ukraine’s president says North Korean forces have returned to the front line in Russia’s western Kursk region, after reports they were withdrawn last month due to heavy casualties.
In a video address on Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian army had “brought back in North Korean soldiers” who were carrying out “new assaults” in the region partially occupied by Ukraine.
He added “hundreds of Russian and North Korean military” personnel had been “destroyed”.
In January, Western officials told the BBC they believed at least 1,000 of the 11,000 troops sent from North Korea had been killed in the past three months. North Korea and Russia have not commented.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The fighting has led to heavy losses on both sides.
A spokesman said it was probable they had been pulled out after suffering heavy combat losses.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cednp7q41l2o
Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies

Oliver Smith & Faisal Islam
BBC News
- Published27 January 2025
Poland’s president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, “should be dismantled”.
This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
“I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline,” he said.
The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European countries should resist pressure from companies to re-establish business links.
The Nord Stream gas pipelines were built by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom and run between Russia and northern Germany.
Nord Stream 1 was shut down in 2022 and Nord Stream 2 was never used, following the invasion of Ukraine. Both were damaged by explosions in 2022.
Gas prices in Europe surged after the shutdown and, in recent months, politicians from Germany’s far right AfD party have suggested the Nord Stream gas pipes should resume operations.
Germany will hold federal elections at the end of February.
“I believe the Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled,” Duda said. “This pipeline causes a very big threat to Ukraine, to Poland, to Slovakia but also to other Central European countries.”
He added: “It is a threat from the point of view of energy, from the point of view of the military but also it is a huge economic threat because it means a domination of Russia over Europe in the economic sense.”
On the prospect of a deal between Ukraine and Russia now that US President Donald Trump has taken office, Duda insisted that no peace talks could take place without the participation of Ukraine.
“I’m saying that in my capacity as president of the Republic of Poland, as a neighbour to Ukraine and also as president of a country who has had very hard historic experiences itself,” he said.
“I’m speaking here and referring to World War Two and to Yalta where we were not included in those talks, where certain agreements were made beyond our heads and then we found ourselves behind the Iron Curtain, where, for almost 50 years, we were part of the Soviet sphere of influence,” he said.
- Trump tells Putin to end ‘ridiculous war’ in Ukraine or face new sanctions
- Published23 January
- ‘War will last as long as Russia does’: Ukrainian talk of victory fades as Trump returns
- Published17 January
February 8th 2025
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE access to critical Treasury payment system
By Ray Sanchez, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 10:26 AM EST, Sat February 8, 2025
A demonstrator holds up a sign at protest of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency outside the US Treasury Department on Tuesday.Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images CNN —
A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.
The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments and federal employees’ salaries.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered the destruction of any downloaded information from the payment system by anyone given access to it since January 20, citing “the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking.”

Comment The U.S. U.K and EU Deep State alliance will never admit to their dirty dark anti democratic reality. Smear and fear the likes of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is their way of protecting their Democratic Dictatorship. Now the U.K’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Smarmer, the former head of the Corrupt Crown Prosecution Sertvice (CPS) is preparing legislation to give his hideously Corrupt U.K Police State access to everyone’s I Phone records. Obviously that measure excludes members of the U.K ruling and corporate elite. This is a lot more than the thin end of the wedge. R J Cook
Read More https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html
February 7th 2025
USAID freeze hits independent Ukrainian and Russian mediaThe Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com › World › Europe
KYIV — The suspension of USAID has had a dramatic effect on both Ukrainian and Russian independent news outlets that relied on the grants to …
Comment USAID has been and still is a major part of the war in Russia and covert CIA regime change funding. Why does Putin’s Government tolerate so called independent media ? As soon as the NATO proxy war on Ukraine was on the startng blocks, the hypocritical U.K Tory Government, along with the rest of the west, banned RT. The French switched off the satellite transmissions and the smug European elite, where the U.K still holds dangerous exaggerated influence.
President Trump made it very clear that the war is about land, natural resources and the Black Sea. There is too much money involved and Zelensky has made a fortune from the carnage, destroying young lives on both sides of the battlefield. The longer the war continues, the more brutal and animalistic it will become.
NATO is an aggressive imperialistic alliance and so are the EU elite. The state of the U.S and EU underclass is appalling. Elite politicians response to the disaffected white masses is to dish out patronising labels and admonishments that dissidents are all far right racists promoting civil war. They make bogus ignirant comparisons to the very different 1920s and 30s where the only similarity was the arrogant profiteering elite who drove the hopeless masses into supporting Hitler, Mussolini and Sir Oswald Mosley.
One is not supposed to notice that this global western ruling class are the real culprits of today’s living hell. We are supposed to forget why so many black Africans and Muslims make a bee line for Europe and the U.K. We are not supposed to know why they think getting to Europe is worth risking their lives. We are not supposed to know what the United States, U.K, France, and Beligium capitalists, in cahoots with the black African aristocracy ruling elite, have been doing in covert imperialist expolitation ever since the official end of colonialism in the 1960s.
This black elite is more than happy to see the back of its young men. The western elite are more than pleased to see them under cover of asylum seekers welcomed by white middle class virtue signalling social workers, teachers and politicians, but not the white underclass.
In Ukraine, the war is working wonders slaughtering young white men. The elite are creating a world, where once upon a time white European progress to labour laws and decent wages was the legacy of so much fighting and sacrifice, it is now a race to the bottom.
I have worked in this cheap labour economy. I learned more there than I ever did at my two universities.The consensus politicians and academics have no concern for that reality and living with ‘the cost of war crisis.’
Former U.K Chief Prosecutor, in charge of the corrupt CPS, now turned Prime Minister Starmer, showed the lower orders what would happen to future dissidents by having Stockport rioters quickly jailed, blaming those riots on social media and far right agitators.
The dreadful dumbed down education system ensures the underclass will not be able to understand or defend themselves. Justice costs money. In the U.K, all the lower orders will get is the likes of appalling Legal Aid lawyer; Criminal Defence Milton Keynes. They appear to work on the principle of guilty until proven guilty. Accept that and they will do a plea bargain. The U.K is gutter politics, police state justice and the promise of World War III. We have to accept the propaganda that Russia is even more evil than the EU/UK Police State. So you have to be grateful you live here, fight the Russians for its ruling elite and the benefits of life under democratic dictatorship.
R J Cook
NATO chief has ‘secret’ ideas for Ukraine peace talksThe Kyiv Independenthttps://kyivindependent.com › putin-will-never-try-agai…
NATO Chief Mark Rutte has said he has ideas about potential peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow that are a “little secret” but will …
February 5th 2025
From Reporters Without Boundaries

Trump with AI leaders, January 2025. His latesr shock is announcing that the U.S should take over Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East.
Over the past two weeks, United States President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including more than $268 million allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information.” Since the new American president announced the freeze of U.S. foreign aid, USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has been in turmoil: its website is inaccessible, its X account has been suspended, the agency’s headquarters was closed, and employees were told to stay home. Elon Musk, whom Trump chose to lead the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency, called USAID a “criminal organization” and said, “We’re shutting down.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was named acting director of the agency, suggesting its operations were being moved to the State Department. USAID programs support independent media in more than 30 countries, but it is difficult to assess the full extent of the harm done to the global media. Many organizations are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks. In Ukraine, 9 out of 10 media outlets rely on USAID funding. In Cameroon, the funding freeze forced DataCameroon — a public interest media outlet based in the capital Douala — to put several projects on hold. An exiled Iranian media outlet – who preferred to speak anonymously – was forced to suspend collaboration with its staff for three months and slash salaries to a bare minimum in an effort to ensure its survival. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges President Trump to reverse this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing vital work into chaotic uncertainty. RSF calls on international public and private support to commit to the sustainability of independent media. In these difficult times for press freedom and democracy, we need your help more than ever. Every donation helps us protect the freedom to inform and be informed all around the world. |
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REPORTERS SANS FRONTIÈRES (RSF) Clayton Weimers, Director, North America Office, Reporters Without Borders |
February 4th 2025
On globalism and immigration
Secondly, as a kind of declaration of personal interest, I should add that I have several friends, both in the UK and France, who are partly or wholly of non-European immigrant descent.Thirdly, I would add that as an Englishman living in France I do not feel that my presence here constitutes any kind of attack on my host nation, but is rather a reflection of my deep love and respect for the French people, its country and its culture.Having said all that, it is certainly true to say that moving large numbers of people from one part of the world to another does form part of the global mafia’s modus operandi. One of the worst examples of this, alongside the horrors of the African slave trade, was the shipping of hordes of Europeans to America and Australasia, where they were used as human battering rams for the empire of Global Capital. With the indigenous peoples cleared off the land, there was nothing in the way of it becoming a giant greenfield site ripe for profitable development opportunities and, in the case of North America, the construction of a brave new world where commerce was king and old customs and values could be swept away by the glorious advance of Progress.Well, theoretically anyway, since it has become clear to me in recent years that many contemporary Americans are very attached to old-fashioned values, not least that of freedom from tyranny.Perhaps that is why China is now considered a better bet as the foundation for a totalitarian New World Order? Anything traditional or grassroots that speaks of social cohesion and cultural autonomy is despised by our overlords, who prefer rootless, disorientated and divided populations with no sense of history – the perfect prey for their propaganda and control.So we could certainly see the successive waves of immigration into Europe after the Second World War, along with the “Americanisation” or “modernisation” of our society, as part of that cultural bulldozing. But there is a big difference between these new arrivals and the “settlers” that took over Turtle Island and Down Under – and indeed those that have occupied Palestine.They do not generally arrive convinced of the inferiority of the indigenous people and of their God-given right to massacre them and steal everything they have! While there have obviously been problems over the decades, these immigrants have generally submitted quietly to their status in European society, often as cheap labour, undercutting what had become an expensive unionised workforce thanks to decades of hard social struggle.Recent tensions regarding Muslims have largely been stoked by Zionist-funded pseudo-nationalists whose role is to facilitate divide-and-rule for the system and also to diminish solidarity with indigenous Muslims in the Middle East being wiped out by Jewish immigrant settlers .I don’t suppose many folk of indigenous extraction in the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand want to send all white people back to Europe.Likewise, we Europeans, while protecting and preserving our own distinctive cultures and traditions, have little choice but to recognise both the reality of the immigration that has already taken place and, importantly, the humanity of those who have come to live in our lands. |
I do hope, though, that all this displacement comes to an end and we can settle once more into stable and culturally-cohesive societies.
This will be one of the big benefits from the collapse of the globalist system, which I continue to insist is not too far away now, if we keep up our resistance!
As centralised world power disintegrates, and returns increasingly to the local level, so will the wounds caused by all the dislocation begin to heal.
Communities, with their own specific land, climate and food sources, will begin to differentiate once again, developing their own habits and stories, which will in time become customs and myths.
Within two or three generations they will start to speak slightly differently, dress differently, see the world in slightly different ways.
Eventually they will be identifiable tribes or nations, distinct cultural entities, and the grim grey years of global cultural levelling will be nothing but a half-forgotten nightmare.
3 Feb, 10:10Updated at: 10:51
UK continues to push for war, ignoring battlefield realities — Kremlin
“However, the reality on the ground makes it clear that the situation is not in the Kiev regime’s favor,” Dmitry Peskov noted
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov
© Gavriil Grigorov/Russian Presidential Press Office
MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. London continues to promote the idea of prolonging the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but developments on the ground are unfavorable for Kiev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Commenting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plans to call on EU leaders to tighten sanctions on Russia, Peskov said that “the British leadership continues to follow a rather consistent policy.”
“The British persist in advocating the idea that Ukraine should keep fighting until the last Ukrainian remains. However, the reality on the ground clearly shows that the situation is not in the Kiev regime’s favor. Even many Western officials and experts acknowledge this, including in Western Europe,” the Russian presidential spokesman noted. “We are well aware that Great Britain is among the countries that push to impose this confrontational policy on their European partners,” he added.
Starmer said in a statement ahead of the February 3 informal summit of the EU heads of state and government that the British government would continue to work with European Union countries in order to expand energy sanctions on Russia. The British premier’s office pointed out that while in Brussels, Starmer also planned to discuss boosting security and defense ties between the United Kingdom and the European Union. In particular, London is interested in strengthening cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration.
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Trump says he wants Ukraine to supply US with rare earthsMining Weeklyhttps://www.miningweekly.com › article › trump-says-h…
5 hours ago — US President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for …
Comment This is what the NATO UKRAINE Proxy war on Russia has always been about. The U.K leads the world in Democratic Dictatorship and the charge for all out war on Russia. Any western nation, espcially in western and eastern Europe electing non Democratic Dictatorship candidates and governments, will have the outcome overruled because it will all be down to Russian infiltration. The elite consensus must be upheld. That is why Trump, Musk and Kennedy are such a worry.
R J Cook
Trump demands Ukraine give rare earth minerals to US as …The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › Indy TV › News
5 minutes ago — Donald Trump has issued a demand to Ukraine in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of rare earth minerals to the US as payment for war aid.
Ukraine war briefing: Trump demands rare earths from Kyiv …The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › world › feb › ukraine-…
US reportedly briefly paused weapon shipments into Ukraine; Russian forces continue to gain ground as Ukraine struggles with manpower.
February 3rd 2025
Why Do Ukrainians Oppose Lowering The Conscription Age?Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertyhttps://www.rferl.org › ukraine-russia-war-conscription
The 18-25 age group is the weakest of Ukraine’s working age demographics. A dramatic fall in the birth rate in the 1990s, following the collapse …
Zelensky obliged to enter 17-year-old Ukrainians in the …Известияhttps://en.iz.ru › zelensky-obliged-enter-17-year-old-uk…
“Zelensky signed the law, according to which annually from January 1 to July 31, young men who turn 17 years old are taken to the register of …
Comment This is the reality of white make privilege in western style Democratic Dictatorships like the U.S, U.K and EU.
R J Cook
February 2nd 2025
Air traffic control staffing ‘not normal’ during DC crash – officials

Mallory Moench
BBC News
- Published2 February 2025, 16:48 GMT
Updated 3 hours ago
Air traffic control staffing was “not normal” at the time of a mid-air collision between a military helicopter and passenger plane in Washington, DC that killed 67 people, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has acknowledged.
US media reported that Reagan National Airport tower was understaffed during Wednesday’s crash, according to a government report.
One air traffic control worker was managing helicopters and some planes from the airport, a job normally done by two people, two sources told CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner.
“I’ll take the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at their word that it wasn’t normal,” Duffy said when asked about reports during the FOX News Sunday programme.
Duffy said “that was part of the review process that we have to do”.
He explained there was a “consolidation of air traffic controllers an hour before it was supposed to happen during the time of this crash. And so was, what was the appropriateness of that?”
Duffy raised questions about whether controllers did “appropriately direct traffic, consistent with procedures at the FAA”, as well as the elevation of the helicopter.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Board Member Todd Inman said preliminary data revealed the helicopter was flying at about 200ft (60m), CBS reported. The flight ceiling for helicopters in the area near Reagan National Airport is 200ft.
Duffy also questioned the timing of its flight.
“Why would they fly a mission at nine o’clock at night through really busy air space… as opposed to flying that mission at one o’clock in the morning, when there’s very little traffic”? he asked.
“I want our military to be trained up and ready to go, but I also want air travellers to be safe as well, and there’s a time and a place to do it, not at nine o’clock at night when there’s heavy traffic.”
Investigators are considering a number of factors, including height, in determining the cause of the crash, but have not yet made any public conclusions, NTSB officials said on Thursday.
There were 64 passengers aboard the American Airlines flight when it collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
Read More https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5gyx09pj8o
January 31st 2025
From New Left Liberal Left & Literary Hub
The first days of the Trump administration have seen an unprecedented attack on the democratic rights of the entire population.
Trump is picking up where he left off on January 6th, 2021: attempting to establish a dictatorship. He’s trying to sideline Congress in violation of the Constitution, declaring that he has the power to unilaterally override laws that have been in effect for decades.
He’s declared a fraudulent “invasion,” peddling the Big Lie that immigrants—including people who are attending American schools, married to American citizens and working side by side with American coworkers—are engaged in an act of war against the US.
The World Socialist Web Site is fighting to mobilize the working class against these attacks, which are ultimately aimed against the entire population.
How Trump’s unconstitutional federal funding freeze put libraries (and everything else) at risk. • And despite the short-term reprieve, Trump’s strategy could have long-term effects on the separation of powers. | Lit Hub Politics
Comment I was talking to a plumber, working for me this morning, about the war on white comservatives. He told me that his daughter had done the politically correct sex education aged 8. Now the teachers had moved on to the Empire Windrush generation. There was no mention of Holocaust memorial day. Remember Whoopie Goldberg’s supressed comment that Jews had never experienced racism like herself and black ancestors because they are white people.
R J Cook
January 30th 2025
Man who burned Quran ‘shot dead in Sweden’

Maia Davies
BBC News
Danny Aeberhard
BBC News
- Published30 January 2025, 09:19 GMT
Updated 8 hours ago
A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden.
Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the BBC.
Unrest broke out after Mr Momika set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book outside Stockholm Central Mosque in 2023.
Stockholm police said in a statement that five people had been arrested after a man in his 40s was shot dead overnight.
Officers were called to a suspected shooting at an apartment in Hovsjö around 23:11 local time (22:11 GMT) on Wednesday.
The man, who has not been named by police, was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital. The force announced he had died on Thursday morning.
Local media reported that Mr Momika had been livestreaming on social media around the time he was shot.
Mr Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, was charged in August alongside one other with “agitation against an ethnic group” on four occasions in the summer of 2023.
The verdict, due to be delivered on Thursday, was postponed after it was “confirmed that one of the defendants had died”, Stockholm District Court said.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sweden’s security services were involved in the investigation because there was “obviously a risk that there were links to foreign powers,” SVT reported, external.
Mr Momika carried out a series of anti-Islam protests, sparking outrage in many Muslim-majority countries.
Unrest took place at the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice, while the Swedish ambassador was expelled from the city amid a diplomatic row.
Swedish police had given Mr Momika permission for the protest in which he burnt the holy book, in accordance with the country’s free-speech laws.
The government later pledged to explore legal means of abolishing protests that involve burning texts in certain circumstances.
“Religion Brings People Together” Sir Keir Smarmer

Comment There is a lot of good in the Koran, which derives from the Old Testament. In both cases, there is a great deal of violence. All is a matter of interpretation. The hustory of the Abrahamivitch religions is full of violence, with Jesus appearing as the peace keeper. He is recognised as the ninth prophet of Islam. All three of these religions became highly politicised with a history of schisms and bloodshed. Ireland was the U.K’s religio/ political battlefield. Now the mass immogration of Muslims into Western Europe has added a new dimension. Islaminc iolence in Europe, and U.K terrifies many people. Since the Muslim religion has been granted the status of being a race rather than a belief, U.K leads the western world in classifying being anti Islam as racist, and even a mental illness called Islamophobia.
That is the reason U.K’s Prime Minister’s heavy handed aggravating reponse to the Stockport massacre of childrem, playing down the young killer’s racism and sexism. They did that, along with his parents claiming asylum as members of Rwanda’s persecuted Muslim minority, where genocide is a major issue.
Multi culturalism as preached by comfortable professional and student types, mainly white is no solution. Hate does not come from nowhere and isn’t just a white or male phenomena. Preaching agaisnt the Afd, National Rally and Tommy Robinson makes the elite and their middle class acolytes makes these people feel better. It does not solve the problem. Their moral superiority makes matters worse.
The big questions are :why is religious bigotry and escapism is so popular in what we used to call the Third World and why is it being imported into the west? The interesting thing about this latest tragedy is, like Salman Rushdie, that the victim of Islamic hate crime is from an historic Muslim background. Because western white virtue signalling has appeased Muslims with the excuse that all they do for good or ill, is racially based, so they are beyond reproach. For them, there is nothing worse than harming the Koran. So if they choose to burn Rushdie’s work and use the knife on him, that is O.K.
So here is another man from a Muslim background in multi cultural Europe. Sweden to my memory was a very nice place. I gained a place at the Stockholm University International Graduate School many years ago. It is very different now. I will never go back there. England is no better. My forebears London is also a hell hole unless you are very rich. I know it well and had a great deal of business there from 2008-2020 when Thames Valley Police joined forces with West Mercia Police to get professional support for their vested interest that I am clinically insane.
To date, my ‘fellow white people’ have caused me more harm than Muslims. The latter have so far caused me none. I am not stupid enough to think that Muslims are the worst people in my world. Police, like religious groups et al, function on prejudice and bigotry in uniform and hierarchy.
In my world, there are men, women and individuals, like me. We are a menance to the elite consensus and their diversity mass deluded minions. As Sir Keir Smarmer said, “I don’t believe in God, but I believe in religion because it brings people together.” The crusades did that too. It is what happened next that thinking people should be worried about.
R J Cook

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As columns of destitute Palestinians return to northern Gaza, US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to “clean out” the war-ravaged strip and relocate its inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has ignited a firestorm of criticism across the Middle East.
More noteworthy is that America’s firmest Arab allies have joined in the condemnation.
While Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — the region’s two economic heavyweights, and seen as being closest to Trump — have officially remained silent, they have telegraphed their displeasure.
Media outlets in both countries known to be close to the state have been replete with articles and op-eds condemning the president’s comments.
Abu Dhabi normalized ties with Israel during Trump’s first term, and Riyadh has expressed readiness to do so under certain conditions. Yet for both, his proposal is tantamount to a direct national-security threat.
Besides destabilizing Egypt and Jordan, US talk of driving out Palestinians from their homeland after the 15-month Israel-Hamas war is seen as vindication by those that have long lambasted the UAE and Saudi Arabia for selling out the Palestinian cause.
That includes Iran and militant groups Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, all of which were quick to lash out at Trump for his proposal.
Israel’s government floated a similar plan after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault. It’s likely to resurface when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington next week.
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Less than four weeks before Germany’s snap election, conservative challenger Friedrich Merz is raising the stakes in a campaign dominated by immigration and domestic security. Merz’s center-right bloc is trying to win support in parliament for a hard-line push on tackling irregular migration, even if that means the far-right Alternative for Germany will back its proposals — a strategy Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats say compromises a firewall designed to keep the Elon Musk-backed, anti-immigrant party out of power.Trump’s announcement Monday night that he would halt trillions of dollars in federal spending sowed panic in Washington and across the US. Before the directive was temporarily put on hold by a judge, lawmakers fielded calls from concerned constituents, Democrats decried what they saw as an unconstitutional power grab and even some of Trump’s GOP allies expressed unease with the scale and suddenness of the moves.For critics of Trump’s threatened trade tariffs, the domestic concern raised most often is that they will boost inflation and lead to higher interest rates. The biggest lesson from his trade war during his first term, though, may be that it’s the hit to growth that matters more.The European Union is proposing a phased ban on imports of Russian aluminum as part of a broad sanctions package as the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine completes its third year next month, sources say. The package also proposes measures that would cut more banks off from the SWIFT messaging system, and actions targeting more than 70 dark-fleet vessels involved in shipping Russian oil.The US called for an immediate truce in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a top United Nations official said the city of Goma is straining under the assault of a Rwanda-linked rebel attack. The assault by the M23 group on the key trading hub in a mineral-rich region raises concerns about a wider conflict between the central African nations. Rwanda denies backing M23. |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said confrontation with hostile nations is “inevitable” and called for a ramping up of the country’s “nuclear shield,” just days after Trump indicated a willingness to reach out for renewed talks.
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Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies

Oliver Smith & Faisal Islam
BBC News
- Published27 January 2025
Poland’s president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, “should be dismantled”.
This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
“I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline,” he said.
The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European countries should resist pressure from companies to re-establish business links.
The Nord Stream gas pipelines were built by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom and run between Russia and northern Germany.
Nord Stream 1 was shut down in 2022 and Nord Stream 2 was never used, following the invasion of Ukraine. Both were damaged by explosions in 2022.
Gas prices in Europe surged after the shutdown and, in recent months, politicians from Germany’s far right AfD party have suggested the Nord Stream gas pipes should resume operations.
Germany will hold federal elections at the end of February.
“I believe the Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled,” Duda said. “This pipeline causes a very big threat to Ukraine, to Poland, to Slovakia but also to other Central European countries.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m5p21pmy2o
‘War will last as long as Russia does’: Ukrainian talk of victory fades as Trump returns

Orla Guerin
Senior International Correspondent
Reporting from
Kyiv and Dnipro
- Published17 January 2025
Anastasiia Fedchenko, 36, wails in anguish – her agony echoing around the gilded walls of St Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv.
She sits with her hands resting on both sides of her stomach. She is heavily pregnant with her first child, a baby girl. Her husband Andriy Kusmenko is just inches away, in uniform – in an open coffin.
The marine commander was killed in action in eastern Ukraine on 4 January this year. He is now and forever 33. While Andriy fought in the war, Anastasiia wrote about it, as a journalist.
His brothers in arms file past, dropping red roses into his coffin. As funeral prayers come to an end, Anastasiia leans forward and gives “the love of her life” one last kiss.

Outside the cathedral she pays tribute to her “most handsome husband” who died for his country.
“I am sorry my daughter will never see her father,” she tells the BBC, “but she will know that he was a soldier, an officer, and that he did everything he could for Ukraine to exist for her and for other generations.”
“This war will last as long as Russia does. I truly fear our children will inherit it from us and will have to go and fight.”
Not according to Donald Trump, who famously claimed he could end the war in a day, and who returns to the White House next week. He is already pushing for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
That would dishonour the dead, according to Sgt Dmytro, call sign “Smile”, who fought alongside Andriy and came to the cathedral to mourn him.
“Let the people in power decide, but I don’t think the ones who fell would want them [Ukraine’s leadership] to sit around the table,” he says.
“After the funeral, we are heading back to work. We will fight for every Ukrainian who fell.”
Plenty here believe – like Anastasiia and Dmytro – that far too many Ukrainians have been killed to try to do a deal with Russia. But public opinion is shifting, and others believe there is too much death and destruction not to do a deal.

As Ukraine battles through its third winter of war, one word is now little spoken here – “victory”.
In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, we heard it everywhere. It was a rallying cry for a nation suddenly confronted by columns of enemy tanks. But the past is truly a foreign country – and one with more territory.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj48vp1r51eo
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Comment Is Trump’s version of dicatorship, assuming he has one, any worse than his predecesors. or the EU and U.K ? I don’t think so. It certainly could not be any worse in the prevailing culture of democratic dictatorship, EU and U.K Police State Governments where everything so badly wrong and sick is all Russia’s fault..
R J Cook
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Donald Trump did not waste any time. As soon as he took office as the 47th President of the U.S., the Republican issued a flurry of executive orders remaking America’s policy. He announced the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, which could be a blow to the global efforts to fight climate change. In 2016, when Mr. Trump won the election and had moved to withdraw the U.S. from the pact, the exit did not formally take place, thanks to the way the Paris Agreement rules were framed. However, this time, the U.S. can exit within a year of formally conveying this to the UN. The President has also swung America’s energy policy largely in favour of fossil fuels. He asked the Energy Department to resume allowing reviews of gas export facilities and instructed federal agencies to stop issuing leases and permits for all new wind projects pending a new environmental review. Mr. Trump has ordered that the U.S. government would, from now on, recognise only two “immutable” genders — male and female. He also issued executive orders ending government diversity programmes, breaking with what he and his supporters call “woke culture”, and ended birthright citizenship (which has been temporarily stayed by a court). He took the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, and pardoned some 1,500 people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2020, claiming that the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won, was stolen from Mr. Trump. The U.S. government is now referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. And the administration has begun a mass deportation programme aimed at deporting undocumented foreigners who are now called “aliens” in government releases. Mr. Trump has also threatened to impose tariffs on several countries, including Mexico and Canada (which is likely to take effect on February 15). He plans to put tariffs on China as well, but signalled in an interview last week that he would hold the decision on China for now. Mr. Trump is yet to make any major move in foreign policy. During the campaign, he had promised to bring the Ukraine war to an end. His ‘envoy for the Middle East’, Steve Witkoff, had played a constructive role in the finalisation of the three-phase Gaza ceasefire. But Mr. Trump’s statement as President that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinian refugees from Gaza “to just clean out” the strip has triggered angry responses from the region. Throughout the 15 months of war in Gaza, in which over 46,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 wounded by Israeli attacks, Egypt had refused to take Palestinian refugees. Palestinians in Gaza themselves have said many times that they were not leaving the enclave, citing the past experience of Palestinians who fled to other countries as refugees during conflicts and were never allowed to return. With regard to Ukraine, Mr. Trump has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war through negotiations or face more sanctions and tariffs. The Kremlin has said that Mr. Putin was ready to meet Mr. Trump but was yet to get any signal from Washington on peace talks. But one development that exposed Mr. Trump’s handling of foreign policy was his fall-out with Colombia. When Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to give permission to two American military planes carrying Colombian immigrants to land in his country, a furious Mr. Trump immediately threatened to impose 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods. He also threatened the South American country with sanctions on its banking and financial sector and vowed to impose visa restrictions on Colombian government officials and associates. Mr. Petro initially responded in kind threatening to impose counter-tariffs on American goods but eventually folded. This gave an opportunity for Mr. Trump to claim that “America is respected again”. But Mr. Trump’s coercive ‘America First’ foreign policy, with little regard for America’s alliance systems and global competitions, has already irked and alarmed U.S. allies, from the Pacific to Europe and South America. Such concerns are expected to mount in the coming months with Mr. Trump pressing with his plan to take over Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, one of the founding members of NATO. The Top Five 1. Is France’s influence in West Africa over? Why did Chad, Ivory Coast, and Senegal ask for the withdrawal of French troops? What does the withdrawal signify for Europe’s waning influence in Africa? How has Russia benefited from this? write Padmashree Anandhan and Anu Maria Joseph. 2. An enduring commitment to the Indo-Pacific Under the new Trump administration, the Indo-Pacific is likely to regain prominence but with a sharper focus on hard power dynamics, write Harsh V. 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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd643wx888qo
Lily Jamali
North America Technology Correspondent, San Francisco
The speed at which the new Chinese AI app DeepSeek has shaken the technology industry, the markets and the bullish sense of American superiority in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been nothing short of stunning.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen may have said it best. “DeepSeek-R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted to X on Sunday, referring to the satellite which kicked off the space race.
DeepSeek was the most downloaded free app on Apple’s US App Store over the weekend. By Monday, the new AI chatbot had triggered a massive sell-off of major tech stocks which were in freefall as fears mounted over America’s leadership in the sector.
Shares of AI chip designer and recent Wall Street darling Nvidia, for example, had plunged by 17% by the time US markets closed on Monday. Or to put it in even starker terms, it lost nearly $600bn in market value which, according to Bloomberg, is the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market.

President Donald Trump with A1 Industry leaders a few days ago. (EPA)
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January 26th 2025
Who was behind the vaccine bonds?
As historians Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty explain, it in fact amounted to “one of the world’s greatest con jobs” with Hoover being “a confidence trickster and a crook”. [398][399]
“The American-born mining engineer lived in London for years and was a business colleague of the Rothschilds,” they add.
“Financial muscle was never far from his center of power. The Morgan/Rothschild axis was wrapped around the entire project”. [400]
Today USAID continues that fine tradition of working with “financial muscle”, as it spells out on its website.
“USAID partners with the private sector where there is a strong alignment between business interests and our development objectives. Today, we find these two aims increasingly intersecting”. [401]
Or maybe it is just becoming increasingly obvious that they amount to the same thing?
In any case, Shah has played a key role in this corporatist “intersection”. His Rockefeller Foundation profile says that while at USAID he “reshaped the $20 billion agency’s operations in more than 70 countries around the world by elevating the role of innovation, creating high-impact public-private partnerships”. [402]
USAID says it is involved in “engaging with the private sector as strategic partners” in the areas of “food security”, “global health”, “climate change” and “energy”. [403]
It could have added “war” to that list.
As journalist Saheli Khastagir writes: “In the 2000s, while the US military was bombing Iraq and Afghanistan, USAID was tasked with ‘rebuilding’ the two countries.
“More than a month before Iraq was actually invaded by American troops, USAID began soliciting bids for rebuilding the country from a few ‘pre-qualified’ corporations”. [404]
An August 2024 article on the Bloomberg website notes that USAID is often accused of being a front for the CIA and “has faced its fair share of scandals over the years”.
It reveals that in Iraq, child labour was used by the recipient of a $9 million 2021 USAID grant to provide critical water, sanitation and hygiene services to 200,000 internally displaced persons.
And there were “multiple cases involving the sexual exploitation and abuse of children” at African charities that were awarded tens of millions of dollars in USAID contracts. [405]
Continuing the financial neo-colonialism theme, Shah is the founder of Latitude Capital, “a private equity firm focused on power and infrastructure projects in Africa and Asia”. [406]
In 2020 he was part of The Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, “a historic new partnership between some of the world’s largest investment and business leaders and the Vatican”, headed by Lynn Forester de Rothschild. [407]
Shah sits on numerous boards including the International Rescue Committee, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Trilateral Commission and the Atlantic Council – he is also a member of the much-aforementioned Council on Foreign Relations. [408]
And in January 2024 he was appointed a Class C director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for a three-year term ending on December 31, 2026. [409]
In order to fully understand the context of all these roles – and indeed of his presidency of the Rockefeller Foundation – we need to look back to the early years of his career.
As a young man, in 2001, Shah went to work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for developing the International Finance Facility for Immunization, which has raised more than $5 billion for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). [410]
This basically uses government pledges to support the issuing of “Vaccine Bonds” sold to institutional and individual investors so as to ensure and accelerate funding for Big Pharma jabs. [411]
The origins of this device are fascinating. In the text of a 2018 speech, Arunma Oteh, then vice-president and treasurer of the World Bank, describes herself as “a pioneer board member of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), which was founded in 2006”. [412]
She sheds some interesting general light on the financial-imperialist development agenda that has been so visible throughout this essay.
Oteh says: “Global growth is going to come from emerging markets, which of course relies in part on development finance. From an investor’s perspective, emerging markets often offer high returns on a risk‑adjusted basis as well as opportunities for diversification.
“To foster growth, we need to connect investors to products that build human and physical capital. We need to fill infrastructure gaps and improve health and education outcomes. Like the previous speaker said, we need to increase female labour‑force participation.
“The UN estimates that of the $3.9 trillion needed annually for developing countries to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, only $2.5 trillion is being invested per year.
“This means we need to bridge this $1.4 trillion annual gap, and I believe we can do so by leveraging the capital markets to complement what public‑sector resources already do.
“Specifically, I believe we can mobilize more private‑sector resources. We can focus more on sustainability, as earlier speakers have alluded to. I think we need to continue to think about innovative financing solutions”. [413]
Oteh’s speech was addressed to the 50th general meeting and conference in Madrid of the International Capital Market Association, known as the ICMA, which played a key role in creating the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, IFFIm.
Explains a 2017 “Innovative Finance” update from IFFIm, GAVI the Vaccine Alliance and the World Bank: “The International Capital Market Association in 2017 issued guidelines for socially responsible investments.
“The result: ICMA’s Social Bond Principles (SBPs), which were recognized by GlobalCapital’s Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards this year as the Most Valuable Innovation for the Green/SRI Bond Market”.
It quotes René Karsenti, who is both IFFIm’s board chair and ICMA’s president, as describing ICMA’s latest work in this area as “a big and valuable step ahead for the field that IFFIm has been part of since 2006”. [414]
ICMA is set up as a “not-for-profit association” (Verein) under the Swiss Civil Code and headquartered in Zurich, with offices in London, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.
It explains on its website: “For over 50 years ICMA and its members have worked together to promote the development of the international capital and securities markets, pioneering the rules, principles and recommendations which have laid the foundations for their successful operation.
“ICMA currently has over 620 members active in all segments of international debt capital markets in 70 jurisdictions globally.
“Among our members are private and public sector issuers, banks and securities dealers, asset and fund managers, insurance companies, law firms, capital market infrastructure providers and central banks”. [415]
And who could possibly be behind such a massive and powerful global financial institution?
Oteh reveals in her speech: “ICMA started as an organisation of 19 bond dealers in NM Rothschild & Sons London office in 1968”. [416]
That was hard work to put together (and possibly to read!) but I think it had to be done.
It is plain that the Rockefeller entity, as reflected by the profiles of its president and the trustees of its Foundation, is not in the least distinct from the Rothschilds’ empire.
It is part of it.
They are the same thing.
What is revealed by following the threads of the activities and affiliations of these 14 individuals is a single interlocked web of exploitation and control, implicated in the Zionist genocide in Palestine and intent on profiting from a vast wave of industrial neo-imperialism in Asia, Latin America and, in particular, Africa.
There is only one global mafia and here we have seen its ugly face all too clearly.
The only question that remains in my mind is what on earth the rest of us – the overwhelmingly vast majority of humankind, after all! – are going to do about this horrible reality.
The above article is an extract from Paul Cudenec’s new 100-page booklet, The Single Global Mafia: The Rockefeller Foundation’s multiple links to Zionism and military-industrial-financial neo-imperialism, which can be downloaded free here for reading, safekeeping and the widest possible sharing.
[395] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[396] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
[397] Ibid.
[398] Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty, Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2018), p. 233.
[399] Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony, p. 204.
[400] Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony, p. 204, p. 231.
[401] https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/corporations
[402] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[403] https://www.usaid.gov/partner-with-us/corporations
[404] https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/03/aid-for-profit-the-dark-history-of-usaid
[405] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-23/usaid-records-detail-child-labor-abuse-and-social-media-threats
[406] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[407]
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-council-for-inclusive-capitalism-with-the-vatican-a-new-alliance-of-global-business-leaders-launches-today-301187931.html
[408] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Shah
[409] https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/aboutthefed/2024/20240105a
[410] https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/rajiv-shah/
[411] https://iffim.org/sites/default/files/library/publications/iffim-updates/iffim-update-12/IFFIm%20Update%2012.pdf
[412] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2018/06/01/leveraging-capital-markets-for-sustainable-development
[413] Ibid.
[414] https://iffim.org/sites/default/files/library/publications/iffim-updates/iffim-update-12/IFFIm%20Update%2012.pdf
[415] https://www.icmagroup.org/About-ICMA/
[416] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/speech/2018/06/01/leveraging-capital-markets-for-sustainable-development
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A. used MilAir for unofficial travel without obtaining approval on one occasion in connection with his travel to Dijon, France;
B. claimed and collected per diem expenses to which he was not entitled in connection with seven instances of overlapping TDY travel;
C. authorized his wife on two occasions to claim and collect per diem associated with official travel for TDY to which she was not entitled;
D. failed to use his GTCC for travel-related expenses incurred during TDY travel;
E. accepted gifts on three occasions from foreign governments and on two occasions from NFEs without timely reporting or disposing of them;
F. permitted family members to accompany him on MilAir without properly documenting their unofficial travel or reimbursing the Government for such travel at the full coach fare;
G. permitted a employee and family member to accompany him on MilAir in connection with travel to Dijon, France, without requiring the employee to reimburse the Government for the family member’s unofficial travel at the full coach fare;
H. used a Government-provided cellular telephone for unofficial purposes, permitted staff members to use Government-provided cellular telephones for unofficial purposes, and permitted his wife to use a Government-provided cellular telephone for unofficial purposes; and
I. failed to obtain proper authorization to transport his spouse in Government-provided vehicles for official and unofficial travel in Belgium. [377]
But the scandal of Stavridis’s abuse of his position, and the initial cover-up of the report’s findings, pale into insignificance next to the fact that he is a managing director-partner of The Carlyle Group. [378][379]
I have been aware of this insidious organisation for many years now.
In 2002 I protested outside its London offices as one of a dozen anarchists from Worthing, up in the big city for the day to take part in the broader Mayday protests against what we called “the way ordinary people’s lives are ruined by the ruthless greed and power hunger of global big businesses and the puppet governments that serve their agenda”. [380]
We put up a banner reading “The Carlyle Group – Axis of Evil” and handed out hundreds of leaflets to the public.
We summed up The Carlyle Group as “an extremely dodgy US finance firm that links the US government, the American defence industry, the UK Conservative Party and the Bin Laden family”.
Our spokesman (that was me, I can now safely reveal!) said: “The Carlyle Group is at the heart of a global scam to enable a powerful elite to get rich from the horrors of war, while pretending to serve some kind of public interest”. [381]
The full text of the leaflet can still be found on the internet, but 22 years later I again tried to sum up the enormity of what The Carlyle Group represents in my May 2024 article looking at Chatham House and at one of its presidents, former UK Prime Minister John Major.
I wrote: “Not mentioned in Major’s Chatham House profile is that in May 2001 he was appointed European chairman of The Carlyle Group, the US-based multinational private equity, asset management and financial services corporation, founded by William E. Conway Jr., Stephen L. Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel A. D’Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum.
“In one of history’s great coincidences, Carlyle’s investor conference later that year took place in Washington on September 11, with Major in attendance.
“In the weeks following the meeting, it was reported that Shafiq bin Laden had been the ‘guest of honor’, and that the Bin Laden family were investors in Carlyle-managed funds”. [382]
As I noted, an article in The Economist (of all places!) commented that you did need not be a ‘conspiracy theorist’ to be concerned about what lay behind Carlyle’s success.
It added: “Can a firm that is so deeply embedded in the iron triangle where industry, government and the military converge be good for democracy?
“Carlyle arguably takes to a new level the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower feared might ‘endanger our liberties or democratic process’”. [383]
Stavridis is also, like so many of the Rockefeller crowd, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and, needless to add, a regular at the WEF. [384][385]
In 2021, Stavridis joined the national security advisory board of venture capital firm Shield Capital, as a senior advisor. [386]
In 2022 this business formed a strategic partnership with L3Harris Technologies which “will enable Shield Capital portfolio companies to more quickly develop and deploy new technologies in its core cyber security, artificial intelligence, space sensing and autonomy markets”.
It will also “foster emerging defense and commercial technologies that address customers’ growing requirements for innovative, agile solutions that can be rapidly fielded”. [387]
The use of the word “agile” here made me immediately think of Klaus Schwab of the WEF and his calls for Fourth Industrial Revolution “agile governance” which “seeks to match the nimbleness, fluidity, flexibility and adaptiveness of the technologies themselves and the private-sector actors adopting them”. [388][389]
Stavridis is also on the board of Ankura, a consulting group dealing with the likes of cybersecurity, digital forensics, compliance, mergers and acquisition services and which describes itself as “nimble, agile, and fluid”. [390][391][392]
It’s that word again! Uncanny!
Stavridis is a regular TV pundit in the USA, but one of his less publicised appearances was in April 2021 at the wedding of CNN news anchor Natalie Allen and Emory professor Jeff Rosensweig, an associate professor of international business and finance at Emory-Goizueta Business School, Atlanta, and director of the Global Perspectives Program. [393]
The wedding was held at the Jekyll Island Club Resort and the Atlanta Jewish Times explains: “The venue was chosen because the Federal Reserve System was formed there by J.P. Morgan, among others. Rosensweig began his career at the Federal Reserve.
“Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and currently chairman of The Rockefeller Foundation, shared wonderful reflections on ‘service and commitment’ during the ceremony”. [394]
The above article is an extract from Paul Cudenec’s new 100-page booklet, The Single Global Mafia: The Rockefeller Foundation’s multiple links to Zionism and military-industrial-financial neo-imperialism, which can be downloaded free here for reading, safekeeping and the widest possible sharing.
[375] https://admiralstav.com/about/
[376] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/us-admiral-cleared-of-misconduct-in-pentagon-probe/
[377] https://media.defense.gov/2018/Jul/25/2001946777/-1/-1/1/ADMSTAVRIDISROI(FINAL)_REDACTED.PDF
[378] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Stavridis
[379] https://www.carlyle.com/about-carlyle/team/james-stavridis
[380] https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/05/29864.html
[381] Ibid.
[382] https://winteroak.org.uk/2024/05/15/power-and-corruption-the-public-private-imperial-mafia/
[383]
https://web.archive.org/web/20051212013149/http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875084
[384] https://www.cfr.org/bio/james-stavridis
[385] https://www.weforum.org/people/admiral-james-g-stavridis/
[386] https://shieldcap.com/advisors/senior
[387] https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/press-release/2022/03/l3harris-and-shield-capital-form-strategic-partnership-accelerate
[388] https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
[389] Klaus Schwab with Nicholas Davis, Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better World (Geneva: WEF, 2018), e-book. 82%
[390] https://ankura.com/news/admiral-james-stavridis-joins-ankura-board-of-directors
[391] https://craft.co/ankura
[392] https://ankura.com/about
[393] https://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/jeffrey-rosensweig
[394] https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/the-professor-and-tv-anchors-earth-day-wedding/
January 21st 2025
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Ukraine Was Always Just Anti-Russian ‘Battering Ram’ to US – Ex-Pentagon Analyst
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The Trump administration has little interest in wasting money on Ukraine, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik while commenting on Trump’s decision to suspend US foreign aid programs.
Withholding monies to Ukraine is a “starting point in explaining to Zelensky that the gravy train is over,” the expert thinks.
It has become increasingly obvious that the United States “doesn’t care for Ukraine,” regarding the latter merely as a “battering ram,” a “tool” to be used against Russia, Kwiatkowski remarks.
“So if Ukraine is a tool, it’s now a tool that is no longer very useful. It’s a tool that is hard to maintain. It’s not worth it. So we’re going to throw that tool away,” she says.
US Senator Lindsey Graham’s declaration about fighting Russia “to the last Ukrainian,” however heartless it may sound, “reflects how the Senate and how the politicians and the oligarchy in the United States really feel about Ukraine,” she added.
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The Kiev regime’s pursuit of the so-called ‘Ukrainization’ policy that “limits the use of non-Ukrainian languages” in the country has a negative impact on minority groups.
“When you enter a store, for instance, you have to speak Ukrainian. If you start speaking in some other language, then you are liable to be fined. In all sorts of ways, this Ukrainian migration policy violates minority rights,” Szamuely emphasizes.
The rights of national minorities living in Ukraine have long been a bone of contention, and since the onset of the Russian special military operation, this matter has gained renewed attention.
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The charity reported that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in 2024, a rate that is three times faster than in 2023.
Day One of Donald Trump’s second term as US president made clear to many of America’s friends that they face a rocky road ahead.
He threatened tariffs of up to 25% by Feb. 1 on neighboring Mexico and Canada, both fellow signatories of the USMCA trade pact negotiated during his first term. He accused them of doing too little to stop drugs and migrants flowing into the US, calling Canada “a very bad abuser.”
Mexico was hit on multiple fronts through Trump’s various moves to crack down on undocumented migrants. He even ordered the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America.
The president set in motion US withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement, while the European Union was instructed that it should “quickly” buy more US oil and gas if it wants to avoid tariffs.
China, on the other hand, escaped sanction, for now.
The immediate challenge for US allies, particularly in Europe, is how to navigate relations with the leader of the free world if expectations of shared values and outlook are replaced by “America First” policies and abrasive rhetoric.
Squeezed between US economic nationalism and the military threat posed by an aggressive Russia, Europe desperately needs leadership to assert its interests. But Germany’s economic struggles going into snap elections and the political turmoil in France have muted the voices of its two biggest powers.
Trump has often expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s eager for talks on a deal to end his war in Ukraine. Europe’s leaders risk having the continent’s future security decided over their heads.
Like Canada and Mexico, they must now reckon with a US president who has no qualms wielding power against longstanding allies, and whose interests may no longer align with theirs.— Tony Halpin
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The president lacks the power to issue executive orders that contravene constitutional provisions like the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, but that did not stop Trump.
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That Biden felt it necessary to pre-emptively pardon his family members and political allies belies Democrat claims that “democracy” has been affirmed by the peaceful transfer of power to Trump.
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In the lead-up to the handover of power in Washington, our correspondents dissected these changes in the regions where they were.
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Comment This is so Vietnam except rampant capitalist media are cheer leading plans to draft 17 year old young men into their filthy resource grabbing planet eating enslaving Anglo U.S led NATO Ukraine proxy war on Russia. Western media forcefully ignores mentioning the reality that this process is men only. It has become the norm to refer to service persons not service men because that is sexist. Women have always had roles as back home support staff and spies. They also make good snipers, as those of us who have suffered the anti male divorce process know very well. But the average woman is not built physically or mentally for the msieries, carnage, disabling and daily death of front line combat. The other thing women have excelled at during war is prostitution and stealing men’s money.
That is also the essence of western politcal elites who have seduced Eastern Europe, with its rising female leaders, into a fake world of glamour that reminds me of the pre Captain Kirk pilot episode of Star Trek. Here the ‘Enterprise’ landed on a planet where a previous ship had crashed. The ‘Enterprise’ crew were mesmerised by the beauty of the Caucasian crash victims, with romance blooming until the plot twist when their superior alien hosts revealed to the ‘Enterprise’ crew, that the crash victims had been hideusly disfigured.
What they were all seeing was an outcome of the superior alien intelligence that nursed them back to life. Then they created a cloak or what we would now call a virtual world. Here everyone and everything looked beautiful, but it would all fall apart if they ever left.
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My winter holiday rambling in the U,K was as fascinating and mind growing a are all of my ramblings in this small island. Here is a winter vignette from Ripon in North Yorkshire where real men used to live:
Sunday morning, 9.15 a.m. There’s been snow – about 4 inches. Outside Wetherspoons sit a couple (on small heat pads they’ve brought with them), dressed in Arctic weather gear and drinking espresso martinis. Inside Wetherspoons, the duty manager – a stately lady of mature years – comes into view. She stares out of the window, observes the martini couple, and says to the assembled company ‘I’m going to swear. FUCKING HELL! I mean, JESUS CHRIST! Really?!’
Happy new year. F.S January 17th 2025
How to survive “The Great Taking”
“The Great Taking” is a plan by central bankers to confiscate all securities, bank deposits and debt-financed property, as revealed by former hedge fund manager David Webb.
The plan involves exploiting the global debt accumulation super cycle, rehypothecation of assets, and the centralisation of control over financial institutions.
To survive “The Great Taking”, Nick Giambruno suggests people should aim to be debt-free and own unencumbered assets within their direct control, avoiding fiat currency in bank accounts and unsecured liabilities.
How To Survive “The Great Taking” in 2025
It’s a “scheme of central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits, and property financed with debt.”
David Webb, a former hedge fund manager, and Wall Street insider, has blown the lid off a diabolical plan more than 50 years in the making in a shocking new book. He calls it ‘The Great Taking‘. I consider it an urgent must-read (available for free HERE).
Biden and the American oligarchy
In his “farewell address” Wednesday, Biden warned of the growth of an oligarchy in America which his own administration has helped to foster and strengthen.
It is about the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle.
This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass.
Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.
Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt.
If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.
Private, closely held control of ALL central banks, and hence of all money creation, has allowed a very few people to control all political parties and governments; the intelligence agencies and their myriad front organisations; the armed forces and the police; the major corporations and, of course, the media. These very few people are the prime movers. Their plans are executed over decades. Their control is opaque.
To be clear, it is these very few people, who are hidden from you, who are behind this scheme to confiscate all assets, who are waging a hybrid war against humanity.
Webb shows how the dark forces behind central banking have spent the last 50 years meticulously putting the legal structures in place worldwide to sever property rights for securities.
Gone are the days of physical paper share certificates and bearer securities, where you had control and ownership of the asset.
Today, your control and ownership have become increasingly distant as stocks, bonds and other investments have been centralised away from account holders and rehypothecated – a slimy practice where financial institutions reuse an account holder’s asset for their own purposes, creating multiple claims on the same asset.
Contrary to what most brokerage account holders believe, they only have the appearance of ownership. If their broker goes bust, the stocks and bonds they think they own will be used to satisfy the other more senior creditors of their broker.
Webb shows how, during the 2008 financial crisis, a small broker in Florida went bankrupt. Instead of sending the clients’ securities to another broker, as had traditionally been the case, they were swept up by the bankruptcy receiver.
But it’s not just some isolated small broker.
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers set the case law precedent for secured creditors to take client assets in the case of insolvency.
The most senior secured creditors are the most powerful financial institutions closest to the central banks – JP Morgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, etc.
The net effect of The Great Taking will be the biggest centralisation of money and power in history as they take everyone’s securities during a future crisis. Though it’s not just securities, they will also take ANY asset financed by debt – like real estate, cars and small businesses – as people become unable to service their debts.
Webb provides all the details and proof in his book. Here’s the bottom line.
The most powerful people in the world have succeeded in subverting the property rights of securities and ensnaring most of the world with debt.
The trap has been set, and the legal plumbing is in place.
All that is needed is a big crisis that will cause a tidal wave of bankruptcies and the hidden forces behind the world’s central banks will be able to take everyone’s stocks, bonds and any property financed by debt.
All the assets people think they own in brokerage accounts, bank accounts, pensions and other financial accounts could vanish overnight.
Webb says, “There will be a game of musical chairs. When the music stops, you will not have a seat. It is designed to work that way.”
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The Coming Collapse Is by Design
Webb makes a compelling case that the next financial crisis won’t be an accident; the global elite are making it happen to proceed with The Great Taking. In short, it’s not plausible that such an intelligent, deliberate plan executed with persistence for more than 50 years could happen by accident.
Further, the forces behind central banking and (fake) money creation undoubtedly understand the dynamics of the boom-bust cycle they create by expanding and contracting the money supply. They know the Everything Bubble they created will lead to a massive bust. That’s when they will execute The Great Taking.
Further, consumer debt is at record highs. After many years of being encouraged to go deeply into debt, many Americans have reached their maximum debt saturation. They will be ripe for the picking. As Webb explains:
“Debt is not a real thing. It is an invention, a construct designed to take real things.
The bottom line is that debt has for centuries had the function of dispossessing, of taking away property, capital and investments from someone.”
What You Can Do About It?
Nobody knows the future or how The Great Taking will play out. The best you can do is to make yourself a hard target and not be among the low-hanging fruit.
You can do that by being debt-free and owning unencumbered assets within your direct control.
You don’t want to own something that is simultaneously someone else’s liability. That’s because the legal structures are already in place to take it from you during the next crisis. Crucially, this includes fiat currency in bank accounts.
Remember, fiat currency is the unbacked liability of a bankrupt government. Further, once you deposit currency into a bank, it is no longer yours. Technically and legally, it is the bank’s property, and what you own instead is an unsecured liability of the bank.
As The Great Taking unfolds, you won’t want to be on the other end of unsecured liabilities or IOUs of any kind.
I believe The Great Taking could happen sooner than most realise – and it won’t be pretty for many. Most people have no idea how bad things could get – or how to prepare. That’s why I’ve published a detailed guide called ‘The Most Dangerous Economic Crisis in 100 Years: The Top 3 Strategies You Need Right Now’. Click here to download the free PDF.
About the Author
Nick Giambruno is a renowned speculator and international investor known for his expertise in identifying geopolitical and economic trends. He specialises in finding lucrative investment opportunities in overlooked markets and advises on reducing political risks through international diversification.
He is the founder of The Financial Underground, a platform dedicated to uncovering truths about money and markets. He frequently speaks at investment conferences worldwide and has been featured in various publications including The Economist, Forbes, Zero Hedge and MoneyWeek.
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The weight of the Middle East is bearing down on the most fragile of ceasefires. For Iran, it’s a brittle and bitter denouement to a highly destructive war that’s dramatically upended its political fortunes.
The Islamic Republic’s flagship ally, Hezbollah, hangs by a thread and Syria’s Assad dynasty – the other pivotal partner in Tehran’s web of friends in the eastern Mediterranean – has gone.
With Donald Trump days from affirming his second US presidency, Iran has a lot to be worried about.
The country needs to protect its remaining allies — the Iraqi government and the Houthis in Yemen — and shore up the strategic ties that will probably make or break Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s ability to withstand another four years of Trump.
To that end, Iran’s reformist president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today to sign a strategic deal.
It’s likely to be Iran’s best hedge against the uncertainty that Trump’s incoming administration will bring and the hostile, “maximum pressure” approach he’s likely to revive.
At the same time, Pezeshkian has a mandate from the clerics to pursue sanctions relief and engagement with the US, knowing that it’s the only viable, long-term solution to Iran’s myriad economic problems.
All of this comes as the country’s theocratic regime faces widespread unpopularity and a major energy crisis that officials are struggling to control, deepening Iran’s economic distress.
It’s an unenviable situation that presents few easy moves for a country that’s credited with being an early pioneer of chess.
With Iran sure to be in Trump’s sights, the rooks on the Persian chessboard have their work cut out. — Golnar Motevalli
Germany’s economic and political difficulties are well documented going into snap elections on Feb. 23 that offer a chance for a fresh approach to tackling the challenges in Europe’s dominant power. This piece shows where the main parties stack up on core issues including the economy, energy, debt, defense and migration that will determine whether Germany can climb out of its torpor.
China’s economic growth was exactly in line with the government’s goal last year after an 11th-hour stimulus blitz and export boom turbocharged activity, although looming US tariffs threaten to take away a key driver of expansion. Gross domestic product expanded by 5% in the world’s second-largest economy, official data showed today, after President Xi Jinping said on New Year’s Eve that China was expected to meet the target.
TikTok is poised to win a reprieve from a law that would ban the popular social-media app in the US from Sunday, thanks to a holiday weekend and a pledge from Trump’s incoming administration to give its Chinese owner more time to divest. Two Biden administration officials said Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday essentially leaves enforcement to the new president.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer and those of two of her lieutenants were infiltrated and unclassified files were accessed as part of a broader breach of the agency by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, sources say. In the latest hack attributed to the government in Beijing, the attackers appeared to focus on Treasury’s role in sanctions, intelligence and international affairs, but didn’t penetrate the department’s email or classified systems, according to a report we previously reviewed.
Between the thicket of the Darien Gap on Panama’s border with Colombia and the treacherous ganglands of Mexico, there’s a stretch of Central America where the trek northward for migrants is normally done by bus, encouraged by governments that don’t want them to linger. This represents a challenge for Trump, who needs the cooperation of other countries to achieve his goal of stopping the flow of undocumented immigration.
South Korean investigators sought a new warrant to extend for as long as 20 days the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration.
Former central banker Mark Carney kicked off his bid to replace Justin Trudeau as both the head of Canada’s Liberal Party and the country’s prime minister, saying he has the experience to deal with Trump’s return to the White House.
Nigel Farage said Reform UK isn’t anti-immigration and advocated a mixture of tax and spending cuts as he sought to put a more moderate face on his insurgent party.
Kenya plans to reinforce policing of social media amid a vicious online onslaught chiefly targeting President William Ruto, as criticism mounts of government efforts to stifle dissent.
Trade tensions between the US and China, the two biggest economies, are already heating up; the question now is how quickly things escalate once Trump takes office.
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According to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Brazil has been identified as a strategic partner in Latin America, which includes military cooperation. Both President Bolsonaro and aspiring president Lula da Silva sought close relations with Russia on all levels of government. There are c 1.8 million ethnic Russians living in Brazil.
Comment NATO are militarising the Baltic, with a swathe of Biden initiatives and weapons to make sure Trump can do nothing to stop this war. So much money and big egos have been invested in provoking and promoting this Ukraine proxy war on Russia, the Western banking system would crash if they lost. So that cannot happen even if it leads to battlefield nuclear weapons with all the associated burns and cancer, before the big stuff starts flying. This a clash of empires that has nothing to do with human rights, freedom or democracy.
R J Cook
Los Angeles braces for dangerous winds
Strong winds are expected to return to Los Angeles, threatening to reverse some of the hard-fought gains that firefighters have made in battling the devastating blazes there. Here’s the latest.
Officials issued a rare fire-danger alert for today through tomorrow afternoon, when the heaviest gusts are expected. The same kind of alert was issued a week ago, before the start of the Eaton fire, which has burned parts of Altadena and Pasadena, and the Palisades fire on the west side of Los Angeles.
In anticipation of the new threat, fire crews and resources are being deployed to at-risk areas, officials said. Winds in the coming days might not be as strong as those last week, but their duration could increase the danger.
Death toll: The Eaton fire has killed at least 16 people, making it one of the deadliest in California’s history, and at least eight people have died in the Palisades blaze. Another 23 people have been reported missing, and officials have warned that the number of fatalities is likely to rise. Here’s what we know about the dead and the search for the missing.
Evacuations: About 92,000 people are under evacuation orders, down from more than 100,000 on Sunday. The largest fires have damaged more than 12,000 houses, cars and outbuildings, among other structures.
Comment California is famous for its Gold Rush. That mindset has not changed. Los Angeles is hideously overdeveloped. It is the epitome of J K Galbraith’s ‘private wealth and public squalor.’ There is a Grand Canyon divide between rich and poor in a fake democracy where mainstream media works with defence and other big businesses to keep the masses divided, deluded and in their place. Careers come first, before accountability, in the United States, just as they do in their parent nation; the United Kingdom. U.S doesn’t need terrorism while it is run by greedy morons. Its dangerous infrastructure, like the electricty’s companies, were the most immediate likely cause of so called ‘wild fires.’
R J Cook
Intense fighting in Russia’s Kursk region
Five months after Ukrainian forces swept into the Kursk region of Russia, the two armies are engaged in some of the most furious clashes of the war there, fighting over land and leverage in the conflict.
The territory could play an important role in any cease-fire negotiations. Facing the prospect of an unpredictable new U.S. president who has vowed to end the war swiftly, Ukraine hopes to use Russian territory as a bargaining chip, while Russia hopes to knock it out of Ukraine’s grasp.
In recent days, on a road in Ukraine approaching the Russian border, a steady stream of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles rolled past broken-down and blown-up equipment. Russian bombs and rockets exploded with thunderous force in border villages, and Ukrainian missiles could be seen streaking across the sky in the opposite direction.
North Korean troops: An estimated 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed to help Russia in the conflict. They are taking heavy casualties in unfamiliar territory, and their government has not told its people about their deployment.
U.S.-Russian relations: Suspicious cargo fires in Germany, Britain and Poland over the summer led White House officials to question whether Moscow had a much bigger plan in mind: bringing the war in Ukraine to American shores.
Liberal Media Have Warned Him – By R J Cook
Comment I am sick of hearing our pampered global media and fat cat priggish parasite, pleasure bent politicians telling us that this war is all Russia’s fault and is being fought for democracy. As a former maths teacher, I know that the numbers don’t add up. The western fat cats of Anglo U.S led Nato started this war in 2014 and Putin was way to slow to react. Putin was supposed to continue Yeltsin’s process of neutering and dismembering the Russian Federation. In return he would be treated like all the other Russian and Ukrainian oligarch whores like former corrupt Ukraine President Poroshenko, ‘The Chocolate King.’
I have worked with and discussed the situation with a lot of East Europeans, as well as studying and teaching East European politics. Post communist corruption under EU auspices has been off the scale. The EU is a corrupt gravy train causing misery across and outside its boundaries. Real opposition parties like AFD are effectively banned. Their youth party has been declared a terrorist orrganisation. The wrong man won the Roumanian Presidency so the EU declared it null and void because they ‘just knew’ the Russians rigged it.
Yesterday lefty Saint Joe Biden was having a laugh when he said he had stopped World War III. He was and still is a rich sly dangerous idiot. World War III has only just begun. We are in the foothills of destruction and despair. It remains to be seen whether Donald Trump will put his money where his mouth is. If he tries, he will face a lot of opposition, as the Democrats and Liberal media have warned him.
R J Cook
January 13th 2025
No Hidden Meanings In That One – By R J Cook

Posh Boy Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State, reading his speech introducing his much loved President Biden. Blinken showed his grasp of U.S Cultural reality and diversity when he joined in with a Ukrainain Rock Band. He strummed and shouted along to one verse of Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World and the chorus, smirking at the video camera for an internet sensation. He seemed oblivious of what should have come next, about a young woman, cowering in a dirty alleyway, dumping her kid to get another hit. Bob Dylan was asked by a hardened sneering patronising Time Magazine journalist, did he know what reality was. This was during the making of the legendary documentary ‘Don’t Look Back’ by D A Pennebaker who was covering Dylan in England during his 1965 tour-his last as an acoustic artist. Dylan replied :’Sure I know what reality is. It’s a tramp vomitting into a sewer.’
Back in December 2010, before the Police had me banned from the BBC because of a criminal record created by a corrupt senior police officer and one time family member, I was being interviewed live on Radio Solent, where I had previosly established my broadcasting entertainment value. There were two other musicians in the studio, though Captain Sensible had been asleep for 14 hours and didn’t make it. I was there to talk about my CD ‘Seventh Child’, produced with my musician and song writing partner, vocalist Christine Halpin. I talked about my long time hero ‘Bob Dylan’ as an inspiration. The others mocked me, my obvious enthusiam for Dylan. So a former member of ‘The Glitter Band’ said that nobody knew what Dylan’s songs were about, not even Bob Dylan.
I had to correct this man. I told him that back in 1974, Dylan faced the same accusation from a young female ‘Rolling Stone Magazine ‘ journalist, that he did not know what his songs were about. He replied ‘Sure I know what my songs are about. Some are about 3 minutes, some are about 5 minutes and believe it or not, some are about 15.’
However, it was perfectly obvious from the smirking Anthony Blinken, posing with his well polished Gibson Les Paul guitar, that he had no idea what Neil Young’s ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ was about. It was about the forgotten white American underclass that Blinken and Biden are not interested in knowing about unless they need them for cannon fodder, as in Vietnam.

So on came Biden, to be hugged by Blinken in a nauseating to long a moment of mutual self congratulation. The interesting thing about Biden on this occasion was that he spoke for nearly an hour without looking down at his notes while steadily scanning a room full of his adoring staff and lefty media folk. Had he done that before Harris was brought in to giggle and smirk her way to victory, cavorting on stage, to scavenge for the assumed stupid female and black vote, Biden could have had it in the back. The fact that there are 5 times more homeless people since he took over, is no matter. The massive goverment debt and borrowing costs don’t matter either or World War III. This is because nice comfortable men and women care only for national security, all the wars that go with it, fighting racism and keeping women safe.
Biden had the cheek to present Afghistan as a victory rather than a rapid withdrawal because his goverment were preparing for the Anglo U.S Ukraine Proxy World War III on Russia. Biden boasted how much warfare the U.S had contributed to the world, without putting American boots on the ground. American mother, sisters and wives should listen to Dylan’s’ John Brown went off to war.’ There are no hidden meanings in that one.

Blinken Awful
R.J Cook January 13th 2025
What’s the latest on Los Angeles wildfires and how did they start?
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Firefighters are battling to control huge wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed at least 24 people, devoured thousands of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
It’s a rapidly changing situation – these maps and pictures show the scale of the challenge, where the fires are and the damage they have caused.
The largest blaze, in the Pacific Palisades area is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history. More than 23,000 acres have now burnt.
Placing the area affected on to maps of New York and London gives a sense of how big that is, stretching from Clapham to Greenwich in the UK’s capital, or across large areas of lower Manhattan and Queens.
James FitzGerald and Tom McArthur
BBC News
At least 24people have died in the Los Angeles fires as two major blazes continue to burn across the sprawling Californian city.
Firefighters made progress over the weekend in containing the Palisades and Eaton fires but warn that the return of high winds – forecast until Wednesday – could see them spread again.
They are already among the most destructive in LA’s history in terms of buildings destroyed.
What’s the latest?
The largest fire is in the Palisades and it has burnt through more than 23,000 acres. But over the weekend thousands of firefighters made progress in containing about 14% of it.
The blaze is moving east, threatening the exclusive neighbourhood of Brentwood, home to the Getty Center, a world-famous art museum that has now evacuated its staff.
A red flag warning – indicating a high level of fire danger – will be in place until 18:00 (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, with the strongest Santa Ana winds expected on Tuesday.
The other fire, Eaton, is more deadly than Palisades so far – responsible for 16 of the 24 dead, with many more still missing.