Last week Michael and Richard described the US as a pentagon economy in their 45 minute conversation with Nima entitled "Why are China and Russia the US No. 1 Enemy?". However, what inspired this week's topic was Nima's conversation with Dmitry Orlov with whom I'm not familiar. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, Internet commerce, network security and advertising. I found his comments and observations on target: The US continues wars until they are not profitable, for example we left Afghanistan because Fentanyl replaced heroin, The MIC isn't about winning wars, it is about maximizing profits, and many more.

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US sees Ukraine as a ‘business project’ – Lavrov

Washington is using the conflict between Moscow and Kiev to generate profit for its companies
Recent statements from the US suggest it regards Ukraine as nothing but a “lucrative business project," one that it is profiting from, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN Security Council on Monday.
The minister was referring to earlier statements made by US State Secretary Antony Blinken. Last month, the top US diplomat claimed that 90% of the money allocated for Ukrainian aid ends up getting funneled back to the US “to the benefit of American business, local communities, and strengthening the US defense industrial base.”
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The US is essentially “developing its military industrial” complex while “dumping the old junk in Ukraine,” Lavrov said. Russia’s top diplomat also claimed that most major Ukrainian companies, including lithium producers, are being sold to Americans and US companies have been able to get their hands on Ukraine’s fertile land “on the cheap.”
Lavrov denounced the statements made by US officials as “cynical” and said that Washington has been treating the ongoing conflict “not as a war that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives … but as a profitable business project.”

I wish the US had diplomats like Lavrov.

Doug Macgregor explains the borders of Ukraine and much of Europe have been in flux for centuries. He also covers the dangers of "tactical nukes" and the US ignorance of history. He touches on the money flow and profit motive. (10 min)

Washington has begun creating “a colonial administration” in Ukraine consisting of local politicians who have sworn allegiance to the US, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said.
The US government has demanded that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky “remove” dozens of high-ranking officials, whom Washington no longer trusts, from their posts under various pretexts, Sergey Naryshkin claimed on Monday.
Washington wants those jobs to be filled by “Ukrainians trained in the West, who have sworn allegiance to American interests,” he said in comments cited by the SVR press service.

I've heard it suggested that TPTB understand Ukraine has lost the war, so they plan to move to the next stage...pull US selected Ukrainian leaders back to perhaps Lviv and start a war of sabotage and terror requiring less munitions and men against Russia. We'll see.

The Gaza Genocide...

The Government™ has made an ad about Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative. (2 min)

Speaking of international law, the ICJ made its ruling this week. Some of the best insight into the decision come from Judge Napolitano's show.
Craig Murray (Former British Ambassador) : Analysis of ICJ Ruling (24 min)

Johnson & McGovern: Ukraine’s Last Gasp; ICJ Analysis (30 min)

Prof. Jeffery Sachs: A Deep Dive into the ICJ ruling and Diplomacy (24 min)

The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter.

Gaza was pounded with bombs, missiles and artillery shells as the ruling was read in The Hague — at least 183 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours. Since Oct. 7, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed. Almost 65,000 have been wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Thousands more are missing. The carnage continues. This is the cold reality.
Translated into the vernacular, the court is saying Israel must feed and provide medical care for the victims, cease public statements advocating genocide, preserve evidence of genocide and stop killing Palestinian civilians. Come back and report in a month.
It is hard to see how these provisional measures can be achieved if the carnage in Gaza continues.

Besides, Israel has said they will ignore the ruling, as have the US, UK, France, and Germany.

“The Israelis see a real economic interest in dominating Gaza. And that's why, of course, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has made it very clear: no, they have no intention of leaving Gaza. It's going to be part of Israel unless they are faced down by people who think it important to defend the Palestinians, and will act to end that genocide that's going on right now, and that our government, the United States, is not only enabling, but providing arms for and other political support,” McGovern said.

Where are the US voices?

Irish politician Mick Wallace asserted that the United States and the European Union have taken no action to prevent what he referred to as the "Israeli Genocide" in Gaza.
He highlighted that the Houthis, on the other hand, have intervened with ships facilitating it.
Wallace questioned the priorities of Western states, suggesting that they seem to prioritize commercial profits from shipping over the lives of Palestinians, given the discrepancy in their responses to the situations in Gaza and Yemen.
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Clare Daly's 2 minute speech was equally correct...Houthi Attacks Are To Create Pressure On Israel. Irish politician Clare Daly remarked that Israel has been violating international law for three months, conducting the first-ever live streamed genocide with unconditional support from the EU. Interestingly, the EU, which backed this action, is now expressing shock at the significant threat to international law caused by the diversion of shipping, she added.

Don't you love the way the MSM always introduces Hezbollah and the Houthis as Iranian backed? TPTB would like to spread the war to Iran. They've been planning it for years. Here's the table of contents of a 2009 Brookings Institute paper...
table of contents
introduction
The trouble with Tehran: U.s. Policy options toward Iran
Part i Dissuading Tehran: The Diplomatic options
chapter 1: an offer Iran shouldn’t refuse: Persuasion
chapter 2: tempting Tehran: The engagement option
Part ii
Disarming Tehran: The Military options
chapter 3: Going all the Way: invasion
chapter 4: The osiraq option: airstrikes
chapter 5: Leave it to Bibi: allowing or encouraging an Israeli Military strike
Part iii
toppling Tehran: regime change
chapter 6: The Velvet revolution: supporting a Popular Uprising
chapter 7: inspiring an insurgency: supporting Iranian Minority and opposition Groups
chapter 8: The coup: supporting a Military Move against the regime
Part IV
Deterring Tehran: containment
chapter 9: accepting the Unacceptable: containment
conclusion
crafting an integrated Iran Policy: connecting the options

No doubt Iran has been in the crosshairs for decades and the war may indeed spread there. I've heard it proposed that the dims recognize they are going to lose in November, so start an Iranian war and leave the the Donald holding the bag of a no win situation.

NATO is a walking war machine that brings chaos wherever it appears, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said at a briefing on Thursday.

Meanwhile...
NATO Counters China With €1 Billion Defense Start-up Venture Fund...as they deny Asian aspirations. During the World Economic Forum in Davos, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg emphasized that the US-led military bloc remains "regional" in nature and will continue to be so.
Yeah, right.

War against us...
We tend to think of war as being against other countries, but indeed there are conflicts within countries. Foreign wars come home to roost, and now citizens are the target of their own government's over reach. The war against us targets our health, the economy, social stability, politics, the justice system, and more.

Many people became aware in the last few years of the attack on our health because of all the obvious COVID lies. They are still lying...hiding excess deaths and the likely culprit, mRNA vaccines.
John Campbell has been calling it out for months and this week there was a debate in the UK parliament (7 min). Transcript of the hearing.

Jimmy host Pierre Kory who states out right the vaccines are responsible for the excess deaths.
Young People Are Dying At STAGGERING Rates! - Dr. Pierre Kory (22 min)

Dr. Kory blamed the COVID-19 shots as the primary cause for the world’s surge in excess deaths on the show. Major points, doctor's commentary, and shorter clips here.

Public sentiment has faded.

What to do with the lingering effects of COVID and the spike proteins the mRNA vaccines taught our bodies to make?

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Dr. Paul Marik joined Jan Jeffcoat on The National Desk (TND) on January 15, 2024 to discuss how intermittent fasting can be used to treat long COVID, long vax, and other chronic diseases including diabetes.
“With long COVID and ‘long vax’, the problem is that spike protein can remain in the cells for years afterwards, and the only way to get rid of intracellular spike protein is through intermittent fasting,” Dr. Marik noted. He continued, “Intermittent fasting activates a cellular process called autophagy, which helps the cell get rid of damaged and foreign protein.”
Dr. Marik also shared his journey using intermittent fasting - and diet and lifestyle changes - to treat his own Type 2 diabetes after living 25 years with the disease.
“You can adapt intermittent fasting to your lifestyle, to your daily routine… most people can do this.”

More information here.
Why isn't this simple solution advertised? Back to our theme today...there's no money in it.

As bad as the excess deaths and ongoing adverse vaccine reactions are, they probably pale in comparison to the deadly effects of metabolic disease from which an estimated 90% of the US population suffer.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revealed alarming statistics, stating that 9 out of 10 people in the United States are considered metabolically unhealthy if they exhibit three or more of the following factors: overweight, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, elevated cholesterol levels, and increased triglycerides.

Dr Lustig suggest the calorie model of nutrition is to blame and even goes so far as to call it the biggest lie in the history of medicine.

He does a great job of demonstrating it isn't calories, but how we physiologically utilize foods. He uses examples of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats....proving it is what we eat, not how much we eat. (14 min)

The corporate complicity of the big (processed) food industries making us sick and big pharma developing drugs to cure the illness born from addictive food like substances is another giant cycle of profit. Of course in the case of COVID we have a lab created virus spreading mandates, lockdowns, and deceit world wide, too.

What about the economic war? Some are calling what's coming The Great Taking

What is 'The Great Taking'? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard analyze this intriguing book, which offers a sobering account of the potential consequences of the next financial crisis. The authors point to the overleveraged derivatives market underpinned by securities dependent on a strong working class. If the working class falters, it could create a cascading crisis leading to bank failures and a consolidation of assets by surviving big banks. This threatens the "you'll own nothing and be happy" dystopian scenario. The book also explores the stagnant velocity of money in the U.S. economy, suggesting major underlying issues have been worsening for decades. Overall, it presents a stark warning about the fragility of the system and how ordinary people stand to lose assets with little legal recourse in the next crash. (35 min)
Ever since the creation of the federal reserve system we've allowed the banks to control the US economy.

Social Disintegration
The means of control are often sold to us with the claim it will make your life more convenient.

(10 min) How will they sell digital money, IDs and so on? Convenience.

The WEF met last week. Who are these people anyway? Rich, really rich people that's who.
Davos 2024: Musk, Bezos, billionaires double their fortune | How did they get so rich? (7 min)
Political and business leaders have gathered at Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. Here, they will discuss the global economy's myriad challenges, such as poverty and climate change, but a recent report by Oxfam exposes the hypocrisy of the global elite. It exposes how while workers worldwide face wage cuts, the rich profited from their pain.

Is the immigration crisis designed to destabilize society? It is beginning to look that way to me.
This week Texas has been in the news for putting up razor wire on the border. Biden wants it removed. Perhaps we should ask why.

Chris Martenson recently went with Bret Weinstein to the Darian Gap a major migration route.

One of the ‘tricks’ deployed by the Build Back Better/WEF/Progressives crowd is to tear down our statues to eliminate our mooring in history, and to blur and sometimes even entirely change the meaning of words. In this case, because there’s a deliberate effort to make them interchangeable, we have to carefully reclaim the distinction between immigration and migration.
And once we do that, we next have to be sure we share the same definition of “invasion.” Just this week, on the 24th of January, Governor Abbott of Texas invoked the word invasion as it is spelled out in the US Constitution to reclaim border integrity and the rule of law.
Make no mistake about it; the migration efforts of the UN, dozens of NGOs, and with the full political backing of the US administration and most EU nation leaders are meant to weaken the West.

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The background of the Texas-Biden conflict...

Texas has been doing the work the Biden administration refused to do: securing the US-Mexico border against invasion. They erected fencing only for Biden's border minions to tear it down. They put buoy barriers in the river to stop people from crossing, but these, too, Biden's border guards took down at his order. They even took the case to the Supreme Court to ask them to tell Texas to back off and let the illegal immigrants flood in.
In a completely absurd ruling, the Supreme Court sided with Biden and said that federal officials may cut the wire barrier put up by Texas to protect their state and, in turn, the entire nation from invasion. It was a 5-4 ruling overturning a lower court ruling that Biden could, indeed, cut the razor wire. Conservative justices, including Amy Coney Barrett, ruled against the state in allowing the appeals court ruling to stand. Texas is appealing, arguments will be heard February 7, there will be more lawfare between Texas and Biden, and for sure, the case is not closed.

The article goes on to suggest this may determine the fate of the nation.

I never thought I would feature a Glenn Beck clip, but never say never.
"Money Making Machine" - Did Colony Ridge Developers Pay Off Texas Governor Greg Abbott? (10 min)
Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana are joined by Glenn Beck as they discuss how Texas Governor Greg Abbott received $1.5 million in campaign contributions from the developers of Colony Ridge.
He offers possible reasons for the flood of illegal immigrants across the border. Is this current Federal vs State control conflict in Texas merely theater?
The Texas migrant drama is a distraction: US elites will keep the border wide open

Sadly, the importation of millions of illegal aliens will continue to be forced on Americans, regardless of political stunts and regardless of whether the red team or the blue team is in charge. The trend has certainly gotten far worse under Biden, but Republicans have campaigned on the immigration issue for decades without taking the obvious steps needed to secure the border.
Case in point: Republicans controlled both houses of Congress when Trump took office in 2017, but the border wall that he promised was never built. There were no mass deportations of illegal aliens. Nor were there mass arrests of the traitorous employers who enable the influx by hiring people who can’t legally work in the US. Taxpayers were forced to continue footing the bill, as always.

I used to think the immigration problem was a result of destabilizing Latin American countries causing people to flee to the US for sanctuary. However, it looks like once again I'm naive. These immigrants are not just Hispanic, they are Asian, African, middle easterners, and more. They are receiving NGO funding and aid to arrive and government money once they are here. Something fishy is afoot.

I've got this cued to the start of the interview, but I don't know how to clip it off at the end, but you can just stop when you want. If anyone knows the end embed trick, please enlighten me.
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from countries all over the world are pouring across the US southern border everyday... thousands of Chinese nationals were captured on camera last night at the Darien Gap by Investigative Journalist Michael Yon who says tens of thousands of Chinese are passing through the Gap on their way into the United States. The clip is about 20 min.
The team from Muckraker tracked the entire route that the illegals take from Ecuador all the way to the U.S. and the catalogued it all in a new documentary which you can see right here.

The war on the political system...and the subjugation of the UN
Trump's rape case was decided this week. NY changed its law to allow the old case to come to court.
The alleged rape supposedly took place in 1996. With a script straight out of Law and Order. 16 years later, she’s a big fan of her “rapist”.
Note: the 83 million is not for the “rape”, but for defamation. Which she says cost her her job at ELLE magazine. ELLE has denied this.
Victor Davis Hanson provides the details in his X post.

Gerald Celente and the Judge discuss the government and constitution in this interesting conversation.
USA: it's a government trap (30 min)
The Judge suggests it was Wilson who subverted the constitution making the speech of "experts" more important than ordinary people. This is what allowed for unelected regulatory departments and things like the mandates we experienced during COVID.

This begins with a great clip from a Lavrov interview ... just a minute or so.

The second topic was the NH primary. Then Alex gets to the Kari Lake bribe. After that story Alex proposes the idea of a new Ukrainian government and movement to Lviv. The whole 42 min clip is good if you have the time.

For more on UN corruption, this is a good interview with Former director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Craig Mokhiber, who resigned from his position last fall in protest of what he called the UN's "failure" to protect Palestinians, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on the weaknesses of the UN in the face of US and Israeli impunity. (37 min)

War On UN - West Retaliates Against ICJ Order By Defunding Humanitarian Mission For Palestine
At the link is a X thread describing the situation...some of which read:

UN special rapporteur @FranceskAlbs:
The day after ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Israel's smears of UNRWA followed ICJ's Jan 26 ruling which stated "The Court also refers to the statement by the UNRWA Commissioner-General that the crisis in Gaza is “compounded by dehumanizing language”. It calls attention, in particular, to the following examples: statements made by Mr Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister of Israel, on 9 and 10 October 2023, by Mr Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, on 12 October 2023, and by Mr Israel Katz, then Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of Israel, on 13 October 2023." Israel wanted to get even with UNRWA and harm Palestinians, who depend on UNRWA for assistance.
Shamefully, the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Italy joined in smearing UNRWA and cutting off support to the agency and thus to Palestinians.

Caitlin writes:

Accusations of genocide deemed credible by the International Court of Justice: Preposterous lies. Not worth opposing a single massacre.
Unsubstantiated claims about UNRWA members extracted via torture: Gospel truth. Worthy of ending humanitarian support to Gazans.

So as I understand it, Israel (without a shred of evidence) accuses some UN staffers of being involved in the Oct. 7 attack. Immediately, the western cartel pulls their funding for UN humanitarian relief.
You can't make it up.

Glenn points out how all these issues/wars are interrelated.

Immigration, Ukraine funding, and politics all come together in this story. (10 min)
How Trump and US Conservatives Deal a Blow to Ukraine Aid Package

All these wars, foreign and domestic, can occur because of the media megaphone TPTB control. They very much want to retain control. Just listen to this WSJ editor lament that they are losing the narrative war. (1 min)
It is also the reason they imprisoned and are torturing Julian. Caity has a recent update on Julian

I’m no prophet, but I strongly suspect that our future as a species will be determined by the outcome of this struggle. If the impulse toward truth and seeing wins out, we are probably headed toward a world of health and harmony. If the impulse to keep everything confused and hidden and unconscious wins, we are probably headed for dystopia and extinction.

In any case, all we can do is fight to make things more visible so that health and harmony become possible. Fight to make things conscious within ourselves. Fight to keep journalism legal in the shadow of the empire. Fight to spotlight Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Fight to make the unseen seen. Fight to bring humanity into the light of consciousness.

Sorry this is so long, but it was a very busy news cycle this week. Plus it rained yesterday and I was able to spend most of the day working on the column. I hope you'll find some things of interest. As always, I look forward to your comments and insights. Have a great Sunday!