In the west, empty headed puppets are preferred as the leadership class. They're so much easier to control and manipulate. Any thinking candidates who will try to serve the people will be maligned, derided, and ignored. What brings this to mind is both Tulsi's resignation from the democratic party, and a clip below of Jeremy Corbyn. Both of whom if given a chance would be competent leaders, IMO. As a result they've both been smeared and sidelined. I find Putin and Xi competent leaders working for the good of their own people rather than corporate profit. Contrast them with the likes of Joementia, Liz Truss, Scholz, or Macron the banker.

Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Saturday October 8 at a rally that called on the U.S. to revoke its extradition request for Julian Assange.

I heard a couple of clips recently from Jeremy Corbyn. No wonder TPTB won't allow him to become PM smearing him as anti-semite because he is pro-Palestinian.

More interviews from Jeremy here

We've had some conversation about Tulsi this week.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/more-tulsi-ditching-democrats-0
Tulsi has started a new podcast and she resigns from the Democratic party in her first episode.

I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.

At least she has the courage to level legitimate criticisms at the democrats, laying out the rationale for her resignation. I agreed with much of what she said. Is she perfect? No. Are you?
She had an interesting interview with Joe Rogan this week. Here's a few clips.
Joe Rogan & Tulsi Gabbard:
THE WORLD MUST Negotiate a PEACEFUL END To The Ukraine War! (4 min)
The SECRET To Nancy Pelosi's STOCK TRADES!! $$ Profit FIRST Pelosi (6 min)
Ron DeSantis For President?! & How Do We ESCAPE The " 2 Party System" !? (6 min)
The Creation Of WOKE CULTURE In Universities Over The Past Decade! (5 min)
My point of Tulsi's inclusion today is to emphasize that anyone who challenges the system is marginalized, canceled, and disappeared.

I wonder what TPTB have planned for Clare Daly. (26 min)

She is one of the few in the EU trying to stand up for peace, and gave a great speech in the EU parliament.
Would that the US had such a voice in the halls of power.

No, the western puppets seemingly become more incompetent by the day...
All it takes is 2 minutes to make my point-

I feel sorry for Joementia, but sadly he is the front puppet for the US, so by extension I feel sorry for this country.

Russell gives a plug to Trump for his call for peace in an entertaining 12 min rant. I was cooking yesterday listening to iEarlGrey, and at the end of the clip it went to a Trump rally in Arizona. It seemed to me most of his speech (at least the few minutes I listened) was devoted to name calling of democrats and bragging of his successes. I wasn't impressed, but his huge crowd was.

European leaders are not really any better. Can you believe their silence after the US blew up their primary gas supply? Not a word. And now Sweden says what they found is so secret they are not revealing the findings of their investigation.

New Zealand's Ardan promotes media control. '...digital enslavement is coming...' (19 min)

Neil Oliver asks ‘…how did we get from ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ in 1939 to a perpetual state of pant wetting anxiety in 2022?’

The Duran had several pieces this week about European leadership.
Protests and strikes, French anger towards Macron grows (16 min)
Regime change plot in UK. Dark times ahead (22 min)
Kwarteng gone. Elensky curse coming for Truss. Sunak next in line (18 min)
Cancelling Germany's AfD Party (16 min)
The collective west is becoming as corrupt as Ukraine canceling political parties, media outlets, and people that don't walk the line.
This piece makes my point of the US becoming Ukraine.
‘Now, All of You Are Azov’: ‘openly neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian delegation meets Congress, tours US

Meanwhile in the Netherlands they've begun seizing farms under a blanket of media silence.

The Dutch farmers are losing their battle against the globalist WEF and these draconian environmental policies. Over 17,000 farmers in the Netherlands are being effected. The story doesn't end there because it's crushing farmers from Germany to New Zealand. Academic Researcher Ralph Schoellhammer dissects the latest developments.

Here in the US we arrest farmers for not following the USDA rules. Do you remember the case of Amish farmer Amos Moses (4 min)? Well there is some good news on that front. (6 min)

Joel and Sina provide an update in this ongoing legal battle between organic farmers and the USDA

We are living in an interesting time. There's a major global shift away from the west and toward a BRICS+ future. The power of the dollar is beginning to fail as countries use their own currencies rather than the USD.
De-dollarization Explodes Globally! 40 Countries Refuse to Use the Dollar! (10 min)

U.S dollar is pegged to oil to become the world's only currency with devaluation risk hedging function, but if all the countries in the Middle East are no longer using the dollar for oil settlement, the dollar's dominance will suffer an unprecedented impact, and may even end the era of dollar hegemony.
Third, many countries to step up the transport back to gold.
The Bretton Woods system made the U.S. dollar the only currency pegged to gold, and the U.S. became the world's economic hegemon, depositing all the world's gold in its own banks. But as the system collapsed, more and more countries wanted to ship back the gold for their own security. But the United States will not easily agree, for them, a large number of lost gold, also will affect the economic development of their own country.
Fourth, the construction of a new international settlement system.
At present, the BRICS countries, led by China and Russia, have already started to intend to establish an international settlement system centered on other currencies, and other countries have also started to make preparations for this.
Take the BRICS countries as an example, both China and Russia are among the five permanent members of the United Nations, with relatively high international status and strong economic and military power. Therefore, if the BRICS countries led by China and Russia take the lead in establishing a new international settlement system, it will definitely have a great impact on the dominance of the U.S. dollar and even affect the world economic market. All these show the determination of the world countries to try to get rid of the influence of the dollar, and perhaps in the near future, the status of the dollar will no longer exist.

Ironically we have done this to ourselves by sanctioning anyone we want, stealing nations US funds and assets, and waging wars all around the world.

I found this conversation interesting with Joe addressing the economic impacts and Scott looking at global fuel trades. (35 min)

Scott Ritter and Joe Lombaardo talk about the effects of US Sanctions in Europe

It feels like the US has become a rudderless ship adrift in a sea of misery. TPTB cannot accept the inevitable evolution of a new multipolar world... and is having a temper tantrum, sacrificing our own people, allies, and our resources. I'll close out with a short comment by Caity...

We’re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won’t stop invading and conquering until he’s stopped by force.

The news media aren’t telling people about the western aggressions which led to this war. They’re not telling people the US is keeping this war going with the stated goal of weakening Russia and is rejecting peace talks and refusing to push for peace. All people are being told is that Putin is another Hitler who won’t listen to reason and only understands violence. The world’s two nuclear superpowers are being pushed closer and closer to direct military confrontation based on a complete fiction which omits mountains of facts.

To participate in this madness is indefensible. It is indefensibly immoral to foist a fictional version of events upon a trusting populace in order to manufacture consent for more and more aggressive acts of brinkmanship with a nuclear superpower. These people are depraved.

Competent Leaders Need Not Apply.

Have a good Sunday, and I look forward to your thoughts, comments, and insights below.