“Most people are not the enemy. They are scared, proud, lonely, overworked, and trying to protect something they love with the only map they were handed.” —LHGrey on Substack
I think the City of London is punishing the British people for Brexit, and they plan to decamp to Brussels once merry olde England is dead.
You're being too kind to Biden. Obama's cabal, led by Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blinken and the other Bolsheviks in his administration orchestrated the 2014 overthrow of the elected and Russian friendly Ukrainian government. Biden was then appointed to lead the effort to extract wealth from Ukraine. Biden is a useful idiot but craven enough to make sure his family got some of the spoils.
General agreement, save for this: "And you have the grotesquely weak leaders of France, Germany, and the rest submitting to this." Yes, they are grotesque and weak but it has never been their intent to oppose, even weakly, the globalist cabal that now runs things in that benighted continent. They want to become part of that cabal. Any mild protests to the contrary (done purely for the theatrics) notwithstanding, this has been their intent since the Soviet Union was disbanded. Once they could no longer use the "common enemy" charade to maintain power, they simply shifted their allegiance from national to global and voila! They stay on top and the commoners grovel at their feet. Importing millions of illiterate and violent masses from foreign countries was simply another way to make certain that the groveling masses remained groveling. Much of Europe has been paralyzed into inaction, but there remain a few pockets of resistance that are now seeking to push back and recover sovereignty from the globalist elite. I wish them well, for their future may very well be our future unless we act in accordance with our own American interests. Trump, as lacking in many desirable qualities as he is, happens to have been the only politician on these shores who recognized what was happening and fortunately for the rest of us, did something about it. He may not have been Obi Wan Kenobi, but as the Princess said about him, "you are our only hope."
Is one of those reasons related to Ukrainian forces training Mexican cartels how to use drones to attack American civilian and military targets, such that some airports (e.g., El Paso) have had to close on one or more occasions due to drone activity?
That and more. Cartel members have been photographed with Javelin anti-tank weapons sold by Ukraine. One may assume that large amounts of "desperately needed" ordnance have been sold on the world's black market for weapons. Every US official involved in the 2014 Maidan Revolution should be standing alongside Major Hassan on December 3rd.
"Europe has become something of adversary, if not exactly our enemy, yet."
I would seriously object to that sentence.
In every way possible, Europe (EU) is our enemy. They hate everything we stand for and bitterly resent that we have had to save their sorry asses - twice - in the past century.
They are glad to let us carry the entire burden of continuing to protect them from all of their enemies, up to and including the Iranians spreading terror all over the globe.
They will also gladly continue to send us the trash of their society in hope of continuing our destruction.
The common people of Europe are not so very different from us. There used to be a celebrated common culture.
The elites elected by fraud and defended by a corrupt media and lawfare are very much like the Democrat Party leaders and their rino counterparts in the Republican Party.
The differences are built into the politics and “constitution s”
For example, the 1st and 2nd amendments here in the USA provide us avenue for repairing govt run amok.
The European govts are wild horses with no reins. Much more difficult to repair.
Today’s post is spot-on, with regard to NATO and Ukraine. It is only thanks to Mr. Putin’s preternatural restraint that NATO’s Ukrainian proxy has not fomented WWIII, though the Brits, Pole, Neocons, and other idiots still hope that it may. My guess is that Putin is betting that the US Empire will collapse and become incapable of any more mischief sooner than later.
As for West Asia, the US has not only lost this war, but is likely to be driven entirely out of West Asia. Our Army will never commit suicide by attempting a land invasion, our Navy dares not get within range of Iran’s missiles, our twenty military bases built to surround Iran have been rendered unusable by their accurate attacks for which we no longer have any defense, the Gulf States may or may not continue to exist at Iran’s discretion, and Saudi Arabia is in the process of dissolution.
“Twenty casualties.” And you still believe that?
The reasons we have lost this war were obvious and predictable before it began. We have demonstrated once again that you can't actually win a war by just bombing the shit out of them.
Our missile stockpiles were inadequate and our war profiteers aren't geared up to replace them in a timely fashion.
Our army is laughably inadequate to undertake a land invasion of Iran, and would have been slaughtered.
Iran's decades of preparation for Israel's inevitable aggression has them too well dug in for us to take out their offensive capabilities, much of which are also out of our systems' range.
History shows us that failing empires lose wars on the periphery of their former hegemony.
Iran is a huge, ancient civilization of 93 million people - not an ephemeral western invention like "Saudi Arabia." The Persians are unwilling to be carved up by us as another failed state.
The rest of the world understands that the time is ripe to end the US Empire. Accordingly, China, Russia, Pakistan, and Turkeye are all committed to Iran's survival.
Iran's own technology is far more advanced than we were willing to recognize, and they haven't even used their best stuff yet.
When these obdurate facts were pointed out, over seven months ago, they were ridiculed in this space. You may enjoy doing so today. Have at it. Our own propaganda continues to conceal Reality from view, but not for much longer.
Skillington — You continue to foist your bumptious boobery on this blog. Alas, expressing idiotic opinions is not enough to get you kicked out of here, but the sheer embarrassment of entertaining your presence is pushing me closer.
I happen to believe that reality trumps delusion and propaganda, Paul. Were those who truthfully and accurately reported on our failure in Vietnam or Afghanistan Communists or Taliban?
I used to travel to Europe frequently and played a fun game, which is when you are in conversation with locals, stpeak glowingly about the second amendment. When I first started this, I thought the Europeans were like Americans: elites would argue against it but the regular people would support it.
Epic misjudgment! EVERYONE in Western Europe was anti-gun and vocal about it. Like, vehemently. For example the cab driver who drove me to the hotel, stopped the meter and argued a passionately anti-gun argument for the next half-hour. Feckless pacifism is basically the European religion. The only exception were immigrants from former Communist countries.
The Reckoning is coming for Europe and I think of all the indigenous Europeans who will have no choice but to fight, when the monster is at their door and it comes down to protecting your life and the life of your family. People are going to be killing each other with rocks, like chimps, while government goons shoot at them.
Perhaps the average European is vehemently anti-gun because they are aware that firearm homicides in the United States occur at 20 times the rates they occur in EU countries. And they read articles about the regular, random slaughter of citizens and schoolkids with firearms in occurrences such as yesterday’s tragedy in Bend, Oregon.
“Between 2009 and 2018 alone, the U.S. recorded 288 school shootings—about 57 times more than all other G7 nations combined.”
wait until you see the casualty rates when people are attacked by their own governments. Anyway, most of those gun death statistics are suicides and drug gangs fighting over turf.
Sad but true; I'm afraid everyone over there is either brainwashed, brain dead, or both. They have drunk the Kool Aid for so long that the ideas behind our First and Second Ammendments (pretty much the whole bill of rights, for that matter!) are anathema to them at this point. And that's precisely why they hate us---they actually see our liberties as a threat to them. Witness the attempts to suppress American tech companies that resist censorship programs. No doubt, many American lefties are totally on board with these attitudes; most want to abolish the First Ammendment with "hate speech" laws, and get rid of the Second Amendment any way they can, but they're also not too keen on the rest of the Bill of Rights, either. Gets in the way of socialism!
That's a funny game, one I never played but I do recall encountering anti-gun sentiments in France. Not so much in the Czech Republic. I spent an evening at a local pub in a Prague neighborhood outside the tourist zone that was decorated with American West everything. It was a really strange contrast to the local folk music they all sang together from their tables.
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Hopefully, the crisis in Europe will show many ignorant Americans the dangers of these misguided leftist ideologies....but I doubt it.
Jim just knocked it so far out of the park, I think it hit Biden on the side of the head down in Delaware.
Unfortunately, our congressional leadership is comprised mostly of half-demented octogenarians who still think that Khrushchev is running Russia, Nadia Kominich is still in her youth, and that the Russkies are planning on taking over the world.
The reality is quite the opposite, and we are hindered by the brainwashed operating on antiquated geopolitics.
Right on, James. I served in Europe('88-'90) during the height of the Cold War, and then not. Creepy stuff these days. I am currently reading a book by Richard Poe called "The British Invented Communism(and blamed it on the Jews)". Let's just say among other entities such as prometheanaction.com... Well...
Excellent except for your take on Iran, which is completely wrong. Iran never had nukes nor intended to have any. It is against their religion. Of course now they will probably get one out of necessity to keep the US and other western marauders from invading their country. reference Tulsi Gabbard, who during a Senate hearing declared that none of the Intel agencies under her auspices thought Iran had or intended to get nukes. I think we should believe her. she knows the risks of lying to the Senate.
Religion? It's against their religion? Say it ain't so. You mean the fanatics? Those people have a religion other than their fanaticism? If they had nothing, they would allow open inspections by international inspectors....please, spare me.
I find it odd that most people complaining about gas prices also supported destroying the petroleum industry under Obama.
The same ones who whine about American interests being served to keep oil flowing at tremendous costs to our country via war footing.
You can't make this level of absurdity up.
In a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Barack Obama stated that under his proposed cap-and-trade climate plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" because capping greenhouse gas emissions would impose costs on fossil fuel plants that operators would pass on to consumers
Here’s one line that President Barack Obama might want to rewind: “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
That quip from a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board is making the rounds in conservative circles — even Mitt Romney referred to it last month – and it likely won’t go away anytime soon.
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
Of course, cap and trade is long dead. But coal-fired power plants are powering down nationwide, and they are blaming the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. The president’s critics say proposed greenhouse gas regulations for future power plants are designed to cripple the coal industry.
And just like with another 2008 quote — Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s famed call to “figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — Republicans say the Chronicle clip shows what’s really in the president’s heart, that high electricity prices and the death of coal have always been Obama’s goal.
“There’s one promise he’s kept. One promise he’s kept,” Mitt Romney said on the campaign trail in Illinois last month. “When he campaigned, he said he wanted to raise the price of gasoline. He said that under him, energy costs would skyrocket. And then he brought in a trio of people to help him implement those policies,” Romney said, according to several news outlets .
Tucker acting under "Foreign Influence"? You sound like a DEM Jim. It is pathetic and weak to insinuate this type of thing. I listen to Tucker - agree sometimes, disagree other times. But the primary takeaway from him is that Donald Trump won in 2024, in large part because he opposed the exact type of misadventure that he has undertaken in Iran. I personally believe Republicans will pay the price as a result, despite the fact that so many DEMs are complete nut jobs.
Given that this is week 33 of 6 in Iran, and that you have been pretty much wrong since DAY 1, but that you are still shilling for more, would it be fair to say you are acting under "an influence"?
Well....apparently Jim has been getting info on Russia/Ukraine from other than MSM and has recognized that the MSM gets their news from Ukraine...what he says regarding what is going on is what I have been reading from neutral sources since 2022....I await when someone finally comes out and openly states what is known: Zelensky is a cokehead. Why would anyone listen to a cokehead? Typical behavior is dreams of grandeur.
Iran: Who the hell knows what is going on in Iran and what the status of anything is? What we do know is that they fund terrorist groups. That alone should be reason to be in this for the long run future. What needs to be defanged is the IRGC.
Grow up? Tucker is a naive useful idiot. He was controlled at Fox but, let loose on his own, his true colors show. Anyone who actually listens to Tucker and buys in is another useful idiot wanting to think that Tucker is spouting words of insightful wisdom.
On the surface these countries appear to be losing control, but one need only wait for their Hegelian dialectic to kick in by clamping down to restore law and order. Of course, nothing is more effective than a big fat long protracted war to expand power and demand complete conformity, suppress dissent etc. As someone once usefully observed, "War is the health of the State."
They may be but, to be honest, I knew all of what Jim has said about Ukraine/ Russia years before I discovered Promethean Action (which talks endlessly about the City of London's role in all of the geopolitical goings-on) or Jeff Childers. And don't know what Sundance is or "and others" but, at this stage of the game, anyone who hasn't been following Ukraine/Russia from neutral sources from the gitgo is doing nothing but trying to catch up and determine which sources are closer to the truth about what is going on and why.
It'd be interesting to see him discuss it with Col MacGregor, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, or really anyone who actually understands what's happening over there
Or Max Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sachs, etc. It's hard to square JHK's take on Russia and Ukraine with his take on Iran. It's ok to admit you were wrong and change your mind based on new evidence.
As someone who read Putin's February 2022 speech at the time, I agreed with him -- he was justified. EU does not run on logic (well, does any government?) so nothing so logical as "you ain't parking nuclears on my doorstep" would be respected. Let China try setting up that scenario on our borders and see what happens! (Carney playing nice with the CCP could get them the invasion he keeps bleating about.) UK is gone. France is gone. Germany is on her back with legs thrashing. Is anyone talking about relocating the cultural treasures? I mean, I want MOMA and the NYC Library out of NYC before "they" burn them down! They're already burning stuff in France, so what about the Louvre? The tidbits we hear of Trump "dissing" Z is just the tip. I'm surprised we're giving that man a Q-tip, nevermind munitions. It's hard to respect a man who's claim to fame (nevermind his tv role) is playing a piano with his dick before hundreds of people. (We've all seen the video, so don't act shocked.) Putin has tried to play nice with the EU for decades (Minsk Agmt?), but they can't see beyond the end of their (brown) noses. "Biz'ness is biz'ness, so if you can't handle it, get outa the way."
You forgot to mention that Z is a cokehead....Would anyone in their right mind let a drug addict on the streets of LA/ SF/ NYC determine anything? Personally, I don't want to send another dime to corrupt Ukraine or to provide any assistance whatsoever....Yes, you have a point to MOMA, etc. and the paid and gullible brownshirts will start it here...For now, I have my concerns that Z will start aiming for those gorgeous museum quality subways in Moscow and St. Petersburg....
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Awesome.
I think the City of London is punishing the British people for Brexit, and they plan to decamp to Brussels once merry olde England is dead.
You're being too kind to Biden. Obama's cabal, led by Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Anthony Blinken and the other Bolsheviks in his administration orchestrated the 2014 overthrow of the elected and Russian friendly Ukrainian government. Biden was then appointed to lead the effort to extract wealth from Ukraine. Biden is a useful idiot but craven enough to make sure his family got some of the spoils.
Zelensky termed out 5/24. Elections then got cancelled making him a dictator.
Very Democratic.
The Life Long Grifter showed his true Colors, nothing but a Self Serving Thieving Bastard!
Our country was Not well served with our Mysterious Unknown Fraud President Obama and his Appointed Grifter VP. Grifter Joe!
These Two Me First Frauds never put the Country before themselves!
History isn’t going to remember these scoundrels fondly!
I so look forward to Mondays & Fridays for the usual glimmers of hope you provide!
I second that emotion! ✋🏻
General agreement, save for this: "And you have the grotesquely weak leaders of France, Germany, and the rest submitting to this." Yes, they are grotesque and weak but it has never been their intent to oppose, even weakly, the globalist cabal that now runs things in that benighted continent. They want to become part of that cabal. Any mild protests to the contrary (done purely for the theatrics) notwithstanding, this has been their intent since the Soviet Union was disbanded. Once they could no longer use the "common enemy" charade to maintain power, they simply shifted their allegiance from national to global and voila! They stay on top and the commoners grovel at their feet. Importing millions of illiterate and violent masses from foreign countries was simply another way to make certain that the groveling masses remained groveling. Much of Europe has been paralyzed into inaction, but there remain a few pockets of resistance that are now seeking to push back and recover sovereignty from the globalist elite. I wish them well, for their future may very well be our future unless we act in accordance with our own American interests. Trump, as lacking in many desirable qualities as he is, happens to have been the only politician on these shores who recognized what was happening and fortunately for the rest of us, did something about it. He may not have been Obi Wan Kenobi, but as the Princess said about him, "you are our only hope."
Trump is not the only one who recognized the situation. He is apparently the only one who thought it was wrong, said so publicly and tried to stop it.
Gratuitous jab at Trump.
Not necessary.
He may be a bastard, but he’s OUR bastard (or something like that.)
Great article. I believe you are correct that Trump is done with Ukraine for all the reasons listed and many more.
Is one of those reasons related to Ukrainian forces training Mexican cartels how to use drones to attack American civilian and military targets, such that some airports (e.g., El Paso) have had to close on one or more occasions due to drone activity?
That and more. Cartel members have been photographed with Javelin anti-tank weapons sold by Ukraine. One may assume that large amounts of "desperately needed" ordnance have been sold on the world's black market for weapons. Every US official involved in the 2014 Maidan Revolution should be standing alongside Major Hassan on December 3rd.
I agree high speed lead poisoning for all involved.
"Europe has become something of adversary, if not exactly our enemy, yet."
I would seriously object to that sentence.
In every way possible, Europe (EU) is our enemy. They hate everything we stand for and bitterly resent that we have had to save their sorry asses - twice - in the past century.
They are glad to let us carry the entire burden of continuing to protect them from all of their enemies, up to and including the Iranians spreading terror all over the globe.
They will also gladly continue to send us the trash of their society in hope of continuing our destruction.
Other than that, great article.
S/F
The common people of Europe are not so very different from us. There used to be a celebrated common culture.
The elites elected by fraud and defended by a corrupt media and lawfare are very much like the Democrat Party leaders and their rino counterparts in the Republican Party.
The differences are built into the politics and “constitution s”
For example, the 1st and 2nd amendments here in the USA provide us avenue for repairing govt run amok.
The European govts are wild horses with no reins. Much more difficult to repair.
Indeed, I'd even extend that to 3 times, including the Cold War. They'd all be speaking Russian now if it wasn't for us.
Today’s post is spot-on, with regard to NATO and Ukraine. It is only thanks to Mr. Putin’s preternatural restraint that NATO’s Ukrainian proxy has not fomented WWIII, though the Brits, Pole, Neocons, and other idiots still hope that it may. My guess is that Putin is betting that the US Empire will collapse and become incapable of any more mischief sooner than later.
As for West Asia, the US has not only lost this war, but is likely to be driven entirely out of West Asia. Our Army will never commit suicide by attempting a land invasion, our Navy dares not get within range of Iran’s missiles, our twenty military bases built to surround Iran have been rendered unusable by their accurate attacks for which we no longer have any defense, the Gulf States may or may not continue to exist at Iran’s discretion, and Saudi Arabia is in the process of dissolution.
“Twenty casualties.” And you still believe that?
The reasons we have lost this war were obvious and predictable before it began. We have demonstrated once again that you can't actually win a war by just bombing the shit out of them.
Our missile stockpiles were inadequate and our war profiteers aren't geared up to replace them in a timely fashion.
Our army is laughably inadequate to undertake a land invasion of Iran, and would have been slaughtered.
Iran's decades of preparation for Israel's inevitable aggression has them too well dug in for us to take out their offensive capabilities, much of which are also out of our systems' range.
History shows us that failing empires lose wars on the periphery of their former hegemony.
Iran is a huge, ancient civilization of 93 million people - not an ephemeral western invention like "Saudi Arabia." The Persians are unwilling to be carved up by us as another failed state.
The rest of the world understands that the time is ripe to end the US Empire. Accordingly, China, Russia, Pakistan, and Turkeye are all committed to Iran's survival.
Iran's own technology is far more advanced than we were willing to recognize, and they haven't even used their best stuff yet.
When these obdurate facts were pointed out, over seven months ago, they were ridiculed in this space. You may enjoy doing so today. Have at it. Our own propaganda continues to conceal Reality from view, but not for much longer.
Skillington — You continue to foist your bumptious boobery on this blog. Alas, expressing idiotic opinions is not enough to get you kicked out of here, but the sheer embarrassment of entertaining your presence is pushing me closer.
When the dust has settled we can all see who got it right. I'm fine with that.
Spoken like a true IRGC spokesperson.
I happen to believe that reality trumps delusion and propaganda, Paul. Were those who truthfully and accurately reported on our failure in Vietnam or Afghanistan Communists or Taliban?
That’s an argument worthy of Hanoi Jane, Howard.
That is truly scary!
I used to travel to Europe frequently and played a fun game, which is when you are in conversation with locals, stpeak glowingly about the second amendment. When I first started this, I thought the Europeans were like Americans: elites would argue against it but the regular people would support it.
Epic misjudgment! EVERYONE in Western Europe was anti-gun and vocal about it. Like, vehemently. For example the cab driver who drove me to the hotel, stopped the meter and argued a passionately anti-gun argument for the next half-hour. Feckless pacifism is basically the European religion. The only exception were immigrants from former Communist countries.
The Reckoning is coming for Europe and I think of all the indigenous Europeans who will have no choice but to fight, when the monster is at their door and it comes down to protecting your life and the life of your family. People are going to be killing each other with rocks, like chimps, while government goons shoot at them.
And they are all very far left, to the point that common sense has fled the entire continent.
Perhaps the average European is vehemently anti-gun because they are aware that firearm homicides in the United States occur at 20 times the rates they occur in EU countries. And they read articles about the regular, random slaughter of citizens and schoolkids with firearms in occurrences such as yesterday’s tragedy in Bend, Oregon.
“Between 2009 and 2018 alone, the U.S. recorded 288 school shootings—about 57 times more than all other G7 nations combined.”
Just my wild guess.
Mexico outlawed guns, only one legal gun store in the entire country, and 100,000s of thousands were shot to death.
Next stupid leftist talking point.
Gwennie’s story was about Europe.
Please try to pay attention.
Poor lil Donny.
Right, because your anti-gun narrative is not to be opposed, nor are any of the idiotic left-wing talking points.
Serve up the reality that strict gun laws do not work, and this is the slop we get.
It might help if you actually paid attention.
wait until you see the casualty rates when people are attacked by their own governments. Anyway, most of those gun death statistics are suicides and drug gangs fighting over turf.
Most of the gun homicide statistics are suicides?
Or government robots
Sad but true; I'm afraid everyone over there is either brainwashed, brain dead, or both. They have drunk the Kool Aid for so long that the ideas behind our First and Second Ammendments (pretty much the whole bill of rights, for that matter!) are anathema to them at this point. And that's precisely why they hate us---they actually see our liberties as a threat to them. Witness the attempts to suppress American tech companies that resist censorship programs. No doubt, many American lefties are totally on board with these attitudes; most want to abolish the First Ammendment with "hate speech" laws, and get rid of the Second Amendment any way they can, but they're also not too keen on the rest of the Bill of Rights, either. Gets in the way of socialism!
That's a funny game, one I never played but I do recall encountering anti-gun sentiments in France. Not so much in the Czech Republic. I spent an evening at a local pub in a Prague neighborhood outside the tourist zone that was decorated with American West everything. It was a really strange contrast to the local folk music they all sang together from their tables.
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Hopefully, the crisis in Europe will show many ignorant Americans the dangers of these misguided leftist ideologies....but I doubt it.
Jim just knocked it so far out of the park, I think it hit Biden on the side of the head down in Delaware.
Unfortunately, our congressional leadership is comprised mostly of half-demented octogenarians who still think that Khrushchev is running Russia, Nadia Kominich is still in her youth, and that the Russkies are planning on taking over the world.
The reality is quite the opposite, and we are hindered by the brainwashed operating on antiquated geopolitics.
tbf, it would be nice if Nadia Kominich was still in her youth
Right on, James. I served in Europe('88-'90) during the height of the Cold War, and then not. Creepy stuff these days. I am currently reading a book by Richard Poe called "The British Invented Communism(and blamed it on the Jews)". Let's just say among other entities such as prometheanaction.com... Well...
Everything is heaped upon the Jews.
Imagine that one tiny country, but they run the world.
You can't make up this level of unreality.
If they really ran the world, the entire Middle East would be populated by Jews, and Islam would not exist.
They are useful scapegoats, to be sure.
And they are still controlled by the Brits.
Excellent except for your take on Iran, which is completely wrong. Iran never had nukes nor intended to have any. It is against their religion. Of course now they will probably get one out of necessity to keep the US and other western marauders from invading their country. reference Tulsi Gabbard, who during a Senate hearing declared that none of the Intel agencies under her auspices thought Iran had or intended to get nukes. I think we should believe her. she knows the risks of lying to the Senate.
No, they just bragged about having enriched uranium to 60% just for fun.
No one with two brain cells could possibly be this gullible.
So many people have fallen for the ridiculous trope that Iran is not out to be a regional and global power at any cost.
Is it willful ignorance, or are they on the take?
And before some simpleton starts squawking about how Iran has never attacked anyone, do some research already.
Stupefying, isn't it? Small wonder we're in this mess.
Indeed.
and they're sitting on a sea of cheap oil, but sure they need uranium for their nuclear power plants.
60% enriched has no peaceful purpose! None, and the step to go from 60% to weapons-grade is much easier than from 5% to 60%.
Need stuxnet round two.
agreed
They must pay well.
Seriously idiotic statement, Illusion of Human progress.
You can't possibly be serious!
Holy hell. This may be the dumbest post I've ever read here.
You should change your moniker to The Illusion of Human Intelligence.
What a terminally ridiculous statement.
Religion? It's against their religion? Say it ain't so. You mean the fanatics? Those people have a religion other than their fanaticism? If they had nothing, they would allow open inspections by international inspectors....please, spare me.
https://lilsmichelle.substack.com/p/about-iran-from-an-iranian-woman
A heartrending view of actual consequences, slightly beyond the cost of a gallon of gas.....
I find it odd that most people complaining about gas prices also supported destroying the petroleum industry under Obama.
The same ones who whine about American interests being served to keep oil flowing at tremendous costs to our country via war footing.
You can't make this level of absurdity up.
In a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Barack Obama stated that under his proposed cap-and-trade climate plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" because capping greenhouse gas emissions would impose costs on fossil fuel plants that operators would pass on to consumers
Here’s one line that President Barack Obama might want to rewind: “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
That quip from a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board is making the rounds in conservative circles — even Mitt Romney referred to it last month – and it likely won’t go away anytime soon.
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
Of course, cap and trade is long dead. But coal-fired power plants are powering down nationwide, and they are blaming the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. The president’s critics say proposed greenhouse gas regulations for future power plants are designed to cripple the coal industry.
And just like with another 2008 quote — Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s famed call to “figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — Republicans say the Chronicle clip shows what’s really in the president’s heart, that high electricity prices and the death of coal have always been Obama’s goal.
“There’s one promise he’s kept. One promise he’s kept,” Mitt Romney said on the campaign trail in Illinois last month. “When he campaigned, he said he wanted to raise the price of gasoline. He said that under him, energy costs would skyrocket. And then he brought in a trio of people to help him implement those policies,” Romney said, according to several news outlets .
Disagree with you.
1st off, you never announce to your enemies what you REALLY think, or are planning.
Most of what prominent politicos say is distraction.
Trump says lovely things about people he is fighting.
See The dead Lyndsey Graham and the North Korean dictator for examples….
Tucker acting under "Foreign Influence"? You sound like a DEM Jim. It is pathetic and weak to insinuate this type of thing. I listen to Tucker - agree sometimes, disagree other times. But the primary takeaway from him is that Donald Trump won in 2024, in large part because he opposed the exact type of misadventure that he has undertaken in Iran. I personally believe Republicans will pay the price as a result, despite the fact that so many DEMs are complete nut jobs.
Given that this is week 33 of 6 in Iran, and that you have been pretty much wrong since DAY 1, but that you are still shilling for more, would it be fair to say you are acting under "an influence"?
Agreed. The cognitive dissonance between the take on Russia and Ukraine versus the take on Iran is incredible.
Captured MSM runs the interference...many brain dead think its gospel.
Well....apparently Jim has been getting info on Russia/Ukraine from other than MSM and has recognized that the MSM gets their news from Ukraine...what he says regarding what is going on is what I have been reading from neutral sources since 2022....I await when someone finally comes out and openly states what is known: Zelensky is a cokehead. Why would anyone listen to a cokehead? Typical behavior is dreams of grandeur.
Iran: Who the hell knows what is going on in Iran and what the status of anything is? What we do know is that they fund terrorist groups. That alone should be reason to be in this for the long run future. What needs to be defanged is the IRGC.
But look, we have learned scholars here echoing the same insanity about Iran.
Have you visited Tucker at his palace in Qatar?
Grow up
Grow up? Tucker is a naive useful idiot. He was controlled at Fox but, let loose on his own, his true colors show. Anyone who actually listens to Tucker and buys in is another useful idiot wanting to think that Tucker is spouting words of insightful wisdom.
Oh, OK. Thanks for letting me know.
On the surface these countries appear to be losing control, but one need only wait for their Hegelian dialectic to kick in by clamping down to restore law and order. Of course, nothing is more effective than a big fat long protracted war to expand power and demand complete conformity, suppress dissent etc. As someone once usefully observed, "War is the health of the State."
Spot On!
Several different sources are all saying pretty much the same thing.
Sundance, Promethean Action, Jeff Childers, and others.
I suspect they are all going to the same wellspring of knowledge.
They may be but, to be honest, I knew all of what Jim has said about Ukraine/ Russia years before I discovered Promethean Action (which talks endlessly about the City of London's role in all of the geopolitical goings-on) or Jeff Childers. And don't know what Sundance is or "and others" but, at this stage of the game, anyone who hasn't been following Ukraine/Russia from neutral sources from the gitgo is doing nothing but trying to catch up and determine which sources are closer to the truth about what is going on and why.
Nice way of putting that, Ben.
I'd be interested to see you and your friend Chris Martenson discuss the Iran situation.
If Im not mistaken he seems to think the opposite of what you are suggesting....(?)
It'd be interesting to see him discuss it with Col MacGregor, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, or really anyone who actually understands what's happening over there
Or Max Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sachs, etc. It's hard to square JHK's take on Russia and Ukraine with his take on Iran. It's ok to admit you were wrong and change your mind based on new evidence.
As someone who read Putin's February 2022 speech at the time, I agreed with him -- he was justified. EU does not run on logic (well, does any government?) so nothing so logical as "you ain't parking nuclears on my doorstep" would be respected. Let China try setting up that scenario on our borders and see what happens! (Carney playing nice with the CCP could get them the invasion he keeps bleating about.) UK is gone. France is gone. Germany is on her back with legs thrashing. Is anyone talking about relocating the cultural treasures? I mean, I want MOMA and the NYC Library out of NYC before "they" burn them down! They're already burning stuff in France, so what about the Louvre? The tidbits we hear of Trump "dissing" Z is just the tip. I'm surprised we're giving that man a Q-tip, nevermind munitions. It's hard to respect a man who's claim to fame (nevermind his tv role) is playing a piano with his dick before hundreds of people. (We've all seen the video, so don't act shocked.) Putin has tried to play nice with the EU for decades (Minsk Agmt?), but they can't see beyond the end of their (brown) noses. "Biz'ness is biz'ness, so if you can't handle it, get outa the way."
You forgot to mention that Z is a cokehead....Would anyone in their right mind let a drug addict on the streets of LA/ SF/ NYC determine anything? Personally, I don't want to send another dime to corrupt Ukraine or to provide any assistance whatsoever....Yes, you have a point to MOMA, etc. and the paid and gullible brownshirts will start it here...For now, I have my concerns that Z will start aiming for those gorgeous museum quality subways in Moscow and St. Petersburg....
AI created clickbait, but they are starting the push for a nice nuclear war.
Won't that be nice?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/environmental-science/chinese-discovery-suggests-it-s-possible-to-survive-a-nuclear-war/ss-AA1zLaCG
Chinese discovery suggests it's possible to survive a nuclear war
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In 2025, scientists in China announced a remarkable discovery that could help save lives from deadly nuclear fallout: researchers from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health have developed a treatment that has demonstrated proven effectiveness against lethal ionizing radiation.
Indeed, studies have shown that in the event of a nuclear conflict, more people would likely die from radioactive fallout than from the initial blasts. This scientific breakthrough could, therefore, improve survival rates if ever such a doomsday scenario was to occur.
But what exactly does this treatment involve, and how can its full potential be harnessed? Read through this gallery to find out.
They have been trying to figure out how to interfere with the natural progression from one ice age to the next.
Throw some nukes and simulate a meteor strike to send dust into the air and block out the sun for an extended period.
The added benefit is killing a bunch of us useless eaters.
Prussian blue?
They did this by blocking out a protein known as STING—or stimulator of interferon genes—in mice.
STING promotes cell death in response to DNA damage caused by acute radiation.
With enough cell death, it's still death of the entity?
Prussian Blue, turn off Sting, and heaping doses of Iodine.