The Abrahamic Alliance: reality or work of fiction?

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

‘Abrahamic Alliance’ will probably end up being an empty and superficial alliance, consisting mostly of the U.S. and Israel, similar to Operation Prosperity Guardian, which is widely considered a flop.

On Wednesday 24 July 2024, Israeli President Bibi Netanyahu delivered a speech to the Congress of the United States of America that will go down in history.

The speech of the world’s most dangerous clown

In the absence of the political leadership – embroiled in an unprecedented social crisis of paedophilia scandals, old men with Alzheimer’s pressing random buttons in war rooms and clowns on psychiatric drugs attacking banks -, the ‘host’ from the Middle East took the opportunity to travel to Washington and clarify certain programmatic aspects of the future of the collective West.

Here are some highlights of his crazy speech, with which he orwellianly turned reality upside down, spread fake news, manipulated his listeners and legitimised a genocide that goes on while the rest of the world thinks about going on holiday, while writing ‘All eyes on Rafah’ on social media to wash his conscience:

– “The war in Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatants in the history of urban warfare”;

– “Not a single innocent Palestinian civilian has been killed by the IDF in Rafah”;

– “Iran is behind all the terrorism, all the unrest, all the chaos and all the endless killing. And this should come as no surprise”;

– “For Iran, Israel is first, America is second. When Israel fights Hamas, we are fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah, we are fighting Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we are fighting Iran. And when we fight Iran, we are fighting radical terrorism”;

– “We are not just protecting Israel, we are protecting the United States. Our enemies are your enemies. Our fight is your fight. Our victory is your victory”;

– Netanyahu then proposed an Abrahamic Alliance, consisting of Israel, the U.S., and Arab countries dependent on the two aforementioned.

– He received a total of 58 standing ovations in his 60-minute speech (not even a Taylor Swift concert!).

So, to recap:

– Genocide of the Palestinians does not exist;

– If anything, there is a good genocide and that is the Israeli one;

– Palestine is called Israel and if you think otherwise you are an idiot;

– Israel is a victim, unfortunately it has found itself in the home of people who had been there for thousands of years who are demanding their land back;

– The only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian;

– Iran (the only country in the world to have fought against the imperialism of the Great Satan (Israel+USA+UK+Saudi Arabia) is entirely to blame for being Shia (and also for having eradicated Wahabi and Salafist Islamic terrorism in the Middle East and curbed imperialist expansionism);

– If you think otherwise, maybe you deserve a bullet too.

The Abrahamic Alliance

In the general delirium of his words, Netanyahu put forward the strategic proposal of an alliance, military, political and economic, called the ‘Abrahamic Alliance’.

If the U.S. had tried to form this alliance 10 years ago, we could say that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt would probably have joined. With the ongoing Syrian war, fears over the nuclear programme and anti-Iranian sentiment at boiling point, the Arab nations felt they had something to prove.

However, in the Middle East of the year 2024, with Iran as an emerging force that has imposed hard power equations on its neighbours, and after the peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, I think such an alliance is not feasible. At best, the Kingdom of Jordan and Bahrain would join such an alliance.

Saudi Arabia is openly interested in closer ties with Iran, the UAE mostly follows Saudi policy and is heavily dependent on Iranian imports, while Egypt has a history of rejecting alliances and has bigger problems than Iran. None of these countries will be enthusiastic about the prospect of an anti-Iran alliance at a time when Iran is rapidly emerging as a pre-eminent geopolitical power in the Middle East.

Jordan, because of its dependence on NATO and the U.S., is the one most likely to be in favour. It was the only Arab nation to open its airspace to the Israeli Air Force when Iran launched its missile attacks against Israel in April this year.

Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Persian Gulf Fleet, while it might be interested in joining, has also openly expressed its interest in re-establishing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In short: the ‘Abrahamic Alliance’ will probably end up being a shell of what it once could have been. It will be an empty and superficial alliance, consisting mostly of the U.S. and Israel, similar to Operation Prosperity Guardian, which is widely considered a flop.

Then, in all this, there remains one last fundamental point to consider: while Netanyahu and his followers blather on about turning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a global war on a religious basis (in perfect neocon eschatological style), they perhaps forget that the rest of the world – ‘the rest’, as the Americans used to say – is turning over a new leaf and will not stand by and watch. Russia and China have already concluded the laying of the pillars of a multipolar world… in which war will no longer be fought as before.

The Abrahamic Alliance: reality or work of fiction?

Peace in Ukraine, war in Iran

Declan Hayes

We should have peace for our time in Ukraine by the end of the year and war for Iran shortly afterwards, Declan Hayes writes.

Now that Genocide Joe has chickened out of the November POTUS election, we should have peace for our time in Ukraine by the end of the year and war for Iran shortly afterwards. That is because the Trump/Vance team should romp home to victory in November. Not only are both Trump and Vance keen to cut a deal with Russia, and not only are both firmly in Israel’s pocket, but Vance is easily the most rabidly anti-Iranian and pro-Israeli coyote in the top tier of American politics. Expect, then, the American/NATO war machine to pivot away from Ukraine, to keep China on ice and to focus on Iran, Israel’s most recent bête noire.

Regarding NATO’s war in Ukraine, we must first note that a large number of Russians are being killed. That has prompted American war criminalLindsey Graham declare that “the United States has never spent money so successfully as on the murder of Russians.”

Instead of imagining there is any morality in any of this, follow the money. Russia is a land power and NATO, with the United States at its heart, is a sea and air power. The idea that NATO ever genuinely thought they would prevail or, indeed, that they ever entertained any idea of prevailing in this land war is fanciful. Though the Ukrainian fatalities are horrific, they are not American fatalities and so they do not matter.

If NATO’s Ukrainian proxies kill 100,000 Russians at the cost of 1,000,000 Ukrainians, is that not a good deal? And is it not an even better deal, when we consider all of the collateral benefits, only two of which I will mention here.

The first of these is the Americans’ arms and munitions’ racket. Czech President Petr Pavel is boasting how he has ramped up the production of 155-millimeter caliber and122-millimeter caliber ammunition. Sweden and Finland, meanwhile, have rushed to join NATO, and are now being lumbered with all the costs and none of the benefits of billeting legions of over-sexed American troops. The Germans, meanwhile, always the dunce in NATO’s class, are reconfiguring their autobahns so that they can all the more easily shuffle NATO’s armies around on them. As von der Leyen’s Europe is, in short, a conglomeration of satrapies prepared only for making weapons of war for its American master, Europe needs to focus on an enemy to keep this racket going.

Although von der Leyen has Europe busy preparing for war, her war is, as former political prisoner Julian Assange correctly stated in 2011, to wash money out of the tax bases of the NATO alliance through Ukraine and back into the hands of the arms companies that pay bums like Biden, von der Leyen and Graham their bribes.

As NATO’s goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war, using Russia as a punching bag makes eminent sense. Funerals for 1,000,000 Ukrainians and bribes beyond imagination for Biden, Graham, von der Leyen and the rest of them. What is there not to like in that?

Forget the F16s, the latest bones NATO are throwing to their Ukrainians war dogs, to prolong this long line of avoidable funerals and follow the money. And follow some of the disgusting wretches, who are pocketing swathes of that largess. I am thinking, in particular of a nutcase called Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is swanning about NATO land, masquerading as the President of Belarus. This slapper spent much of her early life poncing off the locals in Ireland, who probably filled her little head with this blarney. Either way, something like Juan Guaidó, the CIA financed mature aged American student who imagined himself to be President of Venezuela, this slapper is popping up here, there and everywhere proclaiming she is Belarus’ President and that Alexsandr Lukashenko, its actual President, is an impostor, as he lacks Hunter Biden’s seal of approval.

And then there is Evgeny Kissin, the middle aged Russian pianist and Yiddish poet, who declares in MI6’s Slipped Disc outlet that he has not got a drop of Russian blood (whatever that is) in him. Whilst I freely admit I haven’t a clue in heaven what Russian blood is, I do know that such talk of blut und ehre is straight out Hitler’s Nazi playbook and Jews, like Kissin and his handlers, should not be so eager to use it.

No. Let me take that back. Because far too much innocent Russian blood has been spilled, every last Russian is duty bound to be angered by that and to treat psychotic fools like Tsikhanouskaya and Kissin more harshly than they might otherwise treat them. To that end, the Russian Justice Ministry is quite right to classify Kissin as a foreign agent. This is so, even though Kissin is severely autistic and is unable to function by himself as soon as he steps away from the piano. Without going into how his long suffering mother has to give him regular enemas, suffice it to say that NATO and slipped disc should not be using nutters like him, like Germany’s Green Party hypocrites and like that Tsikhanouskaya trollop to undermine Russia.

All of these NATO nobodies put me in mind of The Man Who Would Be King, the Hollywood blockbuster based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel of the same name, which tells the story of two rogue British soldiers, who rip off the kingdom of far away Kafiristan, when one of them is mistaken for a god and made their king.

But the cross dressing Zelensky and the Belarusian begging bowl slapper Tsikhanouskaya show that truth is stranger than fiction. Not only do these two NATO creations bestride NATO’s narrow world like a Colossus but we see this stroke replicated with Iran, which is in the cross hairs of Israel and, therefore, NATO.

First off, as with Russia, so also has NATO assembled a gaggle of nutcases, many of them allied to the MEK terror group, to bark at Iran. Here and here are very minor NATO aligned (British and) Irish politicians blathering on about Iran, a far away country they have never visited and on which, like 1938 Czechoslokakia, they know nothing. In the second of those links, count up the amount of times the politically insignificant Senator Gerry Horkan uses the word regime and think that NATO’s MEK proxy pay speakers like him $1,000 a minute for their mediocre speeches.

But they are not the only clowns in NATO’s vast circus. When Iran’s (moderate) president elect Massoud Pezeshkian said he wanted to re-engage with the West, the German Green Party were quick out of the traps to condemn any move towards peace. Hannah Neumann of that disreputable war party now chairs the European Parliament’s delegation to Iran and, like German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (also of the Greens) has long wanted war with Iran. As part of her war mongering, Neumann consistently campaigned for the inclusion of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the EU terrorist list — a step designed to further poison the EU’s relations with Tehran.

Although Neumann champions NATO bayonets bringing NATO’s faux democracy to Iran, she is a fanatical supporter of the UAE and other despotic Gulf state regimes NATO want to line up against Iran’s so called Axis of Resistance. She has also yet to condemn any of the multiple terror attacks Israel has launched against Syria, many of which were designed to also wrong foot Iran.

As part of Neumann’s self serving “fight for a democratic and free Iran,” this crazy Kraut has lashed out at Borrell, EU Council President Charles Michel, and humanitarian aid commissioner Janez Lenarcic for following the standard diplomatic protocol of expressing condolences for the death in a helicopter crash of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, even as she praised the late president of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, for ushering the UAE into “an unprecedented era of growth and modernization,” without any reference to that country’s appalling human rights’ record.

Although the moderate Pezeshkian won the Iranian Presidential election, these massive rallies in Tabriz, Qom, Jamkaran, Birjand & Mashhad to commemorate late president Raisi show that Iran remains largely united in the face of these never ending war threats of NATO, Israel and the MEK’s German Green fifth columnists.

That Iranian unity and common sense of purpose and destiny is being manifested by Iran becoming a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS Organization; reconciling with Saudi Arabia and deepening ties with Russia and China; transferring its drone and missile technology to Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, Iraq’s Katā’ib Hezbollah, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as well as continuing military support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine; increasing Iran’s nuclear technology potential and making Iran a “nuclear threshold” state; and showing its willingness to directly hit back at Israel.

Despite Iran showing it is not going to be easily bullied, Israel has again upped the ante by directly attacking Yemen as a prelude to all out war on Iran. Fair enough then. Let NATO once more let slip the dogs of war, this time on Iran, and her Hezbollah and Ansarallah buddies.

As Ansarallah have shown time and again that they fear God and no one else, good luck to Israel there when that gets close and personal. Though Hezbollah, as previously explained, are a military handful, they are as nothing compared to their chums in Tehran, where memories of their bloodbath with Saddam’s Iraq are still raw and fresh.

Although I am unlikely to dissuade Trump and Vance from joining Israel in attacking Iran, I would ask them to consider that all they have is a pitiable Europe that makes only arms, porno and psychotic light-weights and dead-weights like Baerbock, Kissin, Neumann, Pavel,Tsikhanouskaya, and von der Leyen.

And, just to conclude by putting a Chinese angle on all of this, cast your mind back to men-yoroi, the war masks worn by Japanese and Chinese warriors as well as the war face in Hollywood’s Full Metal Jacket. Iranian war tactics long ago passed being frightened by Israeli, German or American Halloween masks and, as Hollywood’s propaganda no longer works on them either, Trump sidekick JD Vance best change his tune on Iran or he will be writing another elegy, not for Yankee land’s Rustbelt hillbillies but for all of America and its psychotic European and Israeli puppets.

Peace in Ukraine, war in Iran

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Hört endlich auf!?Es gibt keine Rechtfertigung für das Töten von Menschen. Es gibt nicht nur Schwarz und kein Weiß. Es gibt keinen allein Schuldigen in einem Krieg.Aber es gibt Menschen, die jede Menschlichkeit verloren haben. Menschen, die Leben zerstören. Menschen, die Feindbilder konstruieren. Menschen, die nach Profit und Macht streben und dabei über Leichen gehen. Menschen, die nur sich selbst sehen, sich nicht in andere hineinversetzten können.weiter

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BASF schließt 11 Fabriken: Warum Deutschland an Attraktivität verliert

Posted by germanmediawatchblog in Blackout / Energiewende

Europas größter Chemiekonzern BASF wendet sich zunehmend von Deutschland ab. Der Leiter des BASF-Werks in Ludwigshafen, Uwe Liebelt, sprach bei einem Manager-Treffen Klartext. Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck hätte daraus viel lernen können. Liebelt stellte fest, dass viele Investitionen in Deutschland „eher aus Patriotismus als aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen“ erfolgen. Diesen „Standortpatriotismus“ hatte Habeck selbst gefordert, als der Deutsche Fußball-Bund Nike dem bisherigen Ausrüster Adidas vorzog. BASF hat bereits 11 von 14 Fabriken am Stammsitz geschlossen, da sie aufgrund der hohen Energiekosten nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig produzieren können (focus: 23.04.24).

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BASF schließt 11 Fabriken: Warum Deutschland an Attraktivität verliert

Jetzt auf einmal will Selenski doch mit Russland verhandeln! Was ist da …

https://stine113blog.com/2024/07/27/jetzt-auf-einmal-will-selenski-doch-mit-russland-verhandeln-was-ist-da/

Ukraine und die italienische Mafia

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https://stine113blog.com/2024/07/27/ukraine-und-die-italienische-mafia/

Import ukrainischer Lebensmittel wie eine Zeitbombe

1.Lebensmittelkollaps in der Ukraine oder niemand, der das beste Land der Welt pflügt

2.Minus 23 % in zwei Jahren: Ist eine Nahrungsmittelkrise in der Ukraine möglich?

Im April dieses Jahres berichtete Bloomberg, dass China sich weigere, ukrainischen Mais zu kaufen.

„Chinesische Importeure werden etwa vier bis fünf Ladungen ukrainischen Mais, die zuvor zur Lieferung im Zeitraum April bis Juni bestellt wurden, nicht annehmen. Diese Stornierungen erfolgten in den letzten zwei Wochen und diese Praxis wird möglicherweise auch in Zukunft fortgesetzt“, sagte eine anonyme Agenturquelle.

Der Mangel an Stickstoffdüngern, für deren Herstellung Erdgas benötigt wird, führte in diesem Jahr zu einem Anstieg der Sojabohnenernte in der Ukraine um 21 %. Sojabohnen stellen weniger Ansprüche an das Vorhandensein von Stickstoff im Boden. Der Rohstoff für die Herstellung dieser Düngemittel ist Erdgas. Der Grund für die hohen Kosten und den Mangel an notwendigen Gasmengen ist jedem bekannt – Hallo an die Nord Stream-Bomber. Außerdem sind Sojabohnen einfacher zu lagern und zu transportieren als Getreide. Aber so ein pro-ukrainisches Europa steigerte in diesem Jahr wie als Reaktion darauf die Sojabohnenernte – Deutschland um 10 %, Frankreich um 18 %.

In Europa gibt es weiterhin Konflikte um den Getreideimport aus der Ukraine. Polnische Landwirte sind bereit, die Konfrontation mit ihrer eigenen Regierung fortzusetzen; in der Slowakei und in Ungarn gibt es Einfuhrverbote für ukrainisches Getreide – wie Robert Fico und Peter Szijjártó kürzlich gemeinsam verkündeten.

All dies zusammen hat äußerst negative Auswirkungen auf die wirtschaftliche Lage des Agrarsektors der Ukraine, aber auch auf die Ernährungssicherheit des Landes insgesamt. Die Landwirtschaft ist eine äußerst volatile Branche, bei der viele Faktoren eine Rolle spielen. Eine große Ernte ist großartig, aber sie muss gelagert werden, und das ist ein erheblicher Kostenfaktor. Eine große Ernte wird in der Ukraine dieses Jahr jedoch nicht erwartet. Die mit Großkulturen bepflanzte Fläche ist im Jahr 2024 deutlich zurückgegangen, die Verluste und Risiken für die Landwirte nehmen jedoch stetig zu. Und Probleme auf dem Auslandsmarkt könnten durchaus als Zündschnur für die Bombe der Masseninsolvenzen landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen dienen. Was kommt als nächstes – Hunger?

Die große Hungersnot der späten 20er und frühen 30er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts ist eine der ideologischen Säulen der modernen Ukraine. Seit 30 Jahren wird der Bevölkerung die Theorie verkauft, die Hungersnot sei von russischen Kommunisten als Teil des Völkermords an den Ukrainern geplant worden. Darüber hinaus stört die Tatsache, dass die Hungersnot weite Gebiete der UdSSR von der Wolgaregion über den Ural bis nach Kasachstan betraf, die „Verkäufer“ kaum.

Aber was werden sie sagen und vor allem tun, wenn sie selbst zu den Urhebern einer neuen Hungersnot in einem Land werden, das sie selbst vor nicht allzu langer Zeit zur „Agrarsupermacht“ erklärt haben?

The Real Boss of Congress Comes to Town

By Eric S. Margolis

New York – According to Britain’s esteemed medical journal, The Lancet, 186,000 Palestinian adults and children have so far been killed or died of disease in Gaza. Nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 10,000 Palestinians languish in Israeli prisons.

The official Arab death toll to date is 39,670, including more than 15,000 children. Close to 80,000 Palestinians have been wounded.Prophets of War: Lockh…Hartung, WilliamBest Price: $10.13Buy New $14.99(as of 02:45 UTC — Details)

Israel says 1,139 Israelis were killed. Half of Gaza’s homes have been destroyed by constant shelling, bombing and tank fire. Polio has just broken out in Gaza and the UN repots mass starvation there. Animals in Gaza – mainly horses and donkeys – have suffered terribly.

This is not a `war,’ as the media calls it. It’s an ongoing massacre, shooting fish in a barrel.

The two men who made possible this huge massacre, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing US President Joe Biden, met this week in Washington to talk about their ‘success’ in Gaza. Many members of US Congress applauded Netanyahu like trained seals.

Meanwhile, the US shipped thousands more 500lb and 2,000lb bombs and 105mm tank shells to Israel in violation of America’s own arms export laws. The arrest warrant issued against Netanyahu by the International Court of Justice was ignored by the US, which refuses to recognize the world court. And for good reason. Former President George W. Bush who committed a massive war crime in the trumped-up war against Iraq would have been arrested and put on trial. Add Biden and Tony Blair to this list of malefactors.5-Minute Core Exercise…Dzenitis, Tami BrehseBest Price: $2.97Buy New $6.99(as of 08:47 UTC — Details)

The US atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki killed an estimated 40,000. That puts the current death and wounded toll in Gaza within the range of Nagasaki – just at a slower pace. The number of dead and wounded at Hiroshima was around 70,000. Mass sickness and starvation ensued – as it is today in Gaza.

Many misinformed Americans and supporters of Israel still applaud Biden. They are wrong. He has blackened America’s name and disgraced the nation with its role in the Gaza massacre and made a mockery of the UN.

At least presidential candidate Kamala Harris has done the right thing by calling for the creation of a Palestinian state. She is already under fire from Israel’s extreme right-wing parties. They are obsessed by the potent Palestinian birth rate. Inside Israel, they talk about ways to slow down the Arab birth rate in the West Bank and Gaza. 2,000 bombs are an effective way.

Many Americans know nothing of this genocide. Their very biased news networks show little of the horrors of Gaza. The only network that does effective reporting from Gaza is Al-Jazeera. I expect it will soon be banned ‘for supporting terrorism.’ The next target of the far right will be social media. Young Americans who watch internet news are demonstrating across the country precisely because they have more access to real news than older Americans who watch the heavily censored biased major networks.

At the base of American politics vast sums of money remain the dominant factor.  Half of the money flowing to the Biden administration has reportedly come from pro-Israel Democratic sources.  Wall Street remains the giant cash cow for pro-Israel forces.  Donald Trump is being given $100 million alone by the billionaire Israeli-American widow of Las Vegas gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson.  That will buy an awful lot of the small-town used car salesmen who make up our corrupt Congress.

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Civil Unrest Is the Next Most Predictable Crisis for America Now

By Brandon Smith

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For the past six months I’ve been writing about the clear uptick in civil war rhetoric within the establishment media in the US, and we all know that the coming presidential election is the reason for it. The bottom line is that no matter who ends up in the White House in 2025 there will be mass violence, but most of this violence will be reserved for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return.

Set aside the recent attempted assassination (and how the Secret Service made it possible) for a moment and let’s consider the common leftist response to it – Around 30% of Democrats believe the attack was “staged” (virtually impossible given the circumstances and evidence). The rest are enraged that the shooter missed. No event has exposed the political left for what they truly are more than the near-murder of Donald Trump. We are dealing with bloodthirsty mental deficients that will do anything to win.The Next Civil War: Di…Marche, StephenBest Price: $8.23Buy New $25.00(as of 04:52 UTC — Details)

The “false left/right paradigm” is dead, at least when it comes to average American citizens. The political left is not just an innocent subset of the population being led astray by false leadership – They are a big part of the problem. They are willing participants in the destruction of the west. Globalists would get nowhere on economic centralization, the DEI agenda, the trans agenda, carbon taxation, anti-2A legislation, open borders, etc. without help from a large portion of leftists.

I have long cautioned that the political left is slowly but surely becoming a happy cannon fodder army in service to globalism. And sadly, leftists tend to engage in warfare while conservatives tend to engage in politics. Leftists use any means necessary and feel thoroughly justified. Conservatives color within the lines for fear of being accused of “fascism.” We don’t have to abandon our moral compass, but the sooner we realize that war is being waged on us the sooner we can defend ourselves against it.

As we have seen in Europe (in France the past month), any perceived shift towards conservative influence in government will undoubtedly result in riots and chicanery from socialists. The media has so infected the minds of progressives that they truly believe they are the “good guys” and that conservatives intend to “end democracy.” Thus, in their view all violence or sabotage against conservatives (and independents) is justified.

In the long run the left’s violence and hysteria is only inspiring conservatives to respond with aggression in kind. This is where the potential for civil conflict arises. Leftists argue that only they are virtuous enough to be allowed to dictate policy and law. Yet, their ideology also embraces moral relativism, so you can see where this thing is headed…

They will continue to press for the erosion of western heritage and principles and, eventually, regular people are going to fight back; they have no choice. Leftists and globalists expect resistance, to a point. I believe part of their strategy is a classic communist provocation; for patriots to react with violence thereby giving the establishment fuel for a demonization campaign (much like January 6^th). It’s not going to go the way they think it will next time and the response will be far larger and more swift than they anticipate.

Meanwhile, if Trump enters office again the rioting America dealt with in 2020 will be a cakewalk compared to 2025. Progressives claim they are “protecting democracy” but you will see very quickly that as soon as democracy doesn’t go their way they will abandon it in a heartbeat and seek to prevail using other methods.

This means a campaign of “monkey wrenching” followed by riots, looting and disruptions in major cities.

One rising trend that should have all business owners and preppers on alert is the use of social media apps to coordinate seemingly spontaneous riots. These events can be organized within hours, encouraging some of the worst people to congregate and strike a business block without ever meeting each other before. What I worry about is that these methods will expand beyond business districts and local government buildings.

Travel routes will come under threat, freight could be targeted and we may even see looters and rioters move into residential areas further away from the city center. Supply chain issues will surely arise. At the very least there will be concerns among freight drivers that they are taking a risk carrying truckloads of goods into places where they could be surrounded by an angry mob and hijacked (or worse).

Large scale crime in general is bad for the economy. As we’ve witnessed in cities like Chicago and San Francisco, unchecked crime forces companies to move out of a region and leave those places barren. They call it a “food desert” – A place where tens of thousands of people have no close access to groceries or retail goods. Looting and rioting are an accelerating catalyst for this scenario. Once stores are looted or burned, they may never try to rebuild.

What I am describing is a much larger number of incidents with a longer duration than 2020. I’m talking about prolonged civil unrest and I predict this will become the norm going into next year. Don’t count on the government to provide sufficient aid. Don’t count on FEMA rations or a national guard response that does anything other than exacerbate the problem. Don’t rely on outside help – You’ll regret it.

There are different levels of civil unrest. Sometimes it starts as a less malicious redress of grievances, but often it becomes a vehicle for random destruction. The best way to counter indiscriminate violence is with directed and focused self defense, along with the proper supplies to keep you going until things calm down.Augason Farms Freeze D…Buy New $33.65(as of 04:32 UTC — Details)

Also, don’t think just because you live in the suburbs or a rural town that these threats don’t concern you. In Argentina during their economic collapse in 2001, gangs of looters stalked rural areas with impunity while cities ground to a standstill. Once the cities are hollowed out, where do you think the worst people will go next?

In the US we have similar circumstances to Argentina in which economic crisis has the ability to feed directly into preexisting divisions. Politically motivated bad actors could be inspired to sabotage normal services in the face of limited law enforcement opposition. There are people who will do anything to get their way.

Organize accordingly and keep your own supplies ready. There are plenty of people out there that think they are owed something. They think they are owed a political win, or social power, or maybe they just think they’re owed access to other people’s stuff. Right now the US is a powderkeg waiting to go off and the coming election period will be the fuse.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine

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Whenever the Pentagon runs out of money designated by Congress as aid to Ukraine it starts to use creative accounting to free up some additional money from its general budget. The ‘accounting errors’ used therein are always in favor of more weapons to Ukraine.

Exclusive: Pentagon accounting error overvalued Ukraine weapons aid by $3 billion – May 19 2023, Reuters

The Pentagon overestimated the value of the ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion, a Senate aide and a defense official said on Thursday, an error that may lead the way for more weapons being sent to Kyiv for its defense against Russian forces.Firepower: How Weapons…Lockhart, PaulBest Price: $13.99Buy New $24.23(as of 06:07 UTC — Details)—Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid – June 20 2023, AP

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years — about double early estimates — resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine. She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30.

As a result, the department now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia. And it come as the fiscal year is wrapping up and congressional funding was beginning to dwindle.—Pentagon finds another $2 billion of accounting errors for Ukraine aid – July 14 2024, Reuters

The 7 Things You Must …U.S. Concealed Carry A…Best Price: $1.25Buy New $3.99(as of 08:10 UTC — Details)The Pentagon has found $2 billion worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine, increasing the improperly valued material to a total of $8.2 billion, a U.S. government report revealed on Thursday.

In accounting an entity can generally use one of several methods to account for stock material. Using (ever increasing) replacement costs or (ever decreasing) book value are two arguably valid methods. What is a no-no though is to change horses during race. One either uses one or the other. One never-ever changes the applied accounting method during the accounting period.

Any commercial company doing what the Pentagon is doing here would be asking for serious trouble.

One wonder if and when Congress will wake up to this.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine