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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/14/2025 - 6:10am

Pirates, Thieves, and Murderers

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Onward with the degradation of the West. Taking tankers full of oil...how do they connect that with a so called drug war? Then in the EU the bureaucrats dictated new laws with no vote to allow Ursula fond of Lying to steal Russia's money deposited in the EU. Murder in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen continue unabated using US weapons that we tax payers purchased. Meanwhile Russia continues to advance in Ukraine. End of empire is in the air...

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/07/2025 - 5:43am

Welcome to Winter

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December marks the start of meteorological winter, and so far that's been accurate. We had several days this week that didn't get out of the 30's. Here in NE Alabama we don't have severe winters typically. Last year we did have a week of teens and single digits. At least that helps control the insect population, but given the rate of insect extinction that may not be such a good thing. Today marks the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. My mother was there as a child. Only in the last decade or so have I come to understand that the Japanese attack was provoked. Plus a few news stories and more below the fold.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/30/2025 - 5:55am

Enemies of Peace

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Many forces are arrayed to block any chance of peace around the world. Forces like the MIC, big oil, the banksters, war whore neocons and neolibs, the EU vassals, Zionists, the deep state graft machine, the five eyes, media propagandists, and more. No wonder there's forever war all over the globe.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/23/2025 - 6:35am

Pretending Peace

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So a 28 point Ukraine peace plan has been leaked...most of which seems unrealistic to me. Perhaps it will serve as a starting point for conversation and reconciliation. Just returning to normal relations...like we had during the entire "cold war", would be an improvement. Things like having functioning embassies, direct flights, trade...would be a step in the right direction. Meanwhile in SW Asia, we have the Gaza (and West Bank) genocide continuing under the cover of a supposed ceasefire. Many continue to think a new conflict with Iran is in the offing. The aggression against Venezuela seems to be in a holding pattern. Perhaps someone has explained to Trump what an utter shitshow an invasion would be...at least I hope so. Here at home the government reopened with a whimper. The unclassified Epstein files were voted to be released, to which Pam Bondi declared "new information" has caused her to reopen the case and classify most of the documents. Nothing to see here...move along! The big news here locally is MTG has resigned. Many speculate she's planning a presidential run?

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/16/2025 - 6:07am

New Week, Same Old News

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To my mind, the primary story continues to be the fall of the US empire and the rise of the BRICS+ alliance. The repercussions of the empire's death throes appear to be war and more war amid economic collapse. Seems to me, the possible (likely?) illegal Venezuelan war is a distraction from the rapidly approaching loss in Ukraine, the on going Gaza genocide and Zionist aggression in Syria and Lebanon, the economic misery of so many US citizens, and the revelations in Epstein files. I find it amazing how the people are fooled time after time...WMDs in Iraq seems the same lie as drugs in Venezuela...we are lied into war time after time.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/09/2025 - 6:37am

Random Thoughts and Observations

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We spent last week as agritourists at Will Harris' White Oak Pastures in the small town of Bluffton, GA. I'll write an essay about the visit next month, but since I featured our local farm, Windy Hill, last week, we'll give farming a break and briefly look at at the current state of geopolitics below the fold.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/02/2025 - 5:51am

Regenerative Grazing

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Our local monthly paper has been featuring a series of articles on regenerative agriculture. I was asked to write one of the articles. It appears below the fold. It features one of the farms we frequent. As a bonus I've added an interview with Thomas Massey about his cattle operation and pending legislation. We're on the road today, so I'll see you later in the week.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/26/2025 - 6:24am

Trump in the China Shop

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Trump isn't making peace, he's breaking it across the globe, and instilling ill will for the US around the world. He's on the brink of an illegal invasion of Venezuela, possibly Iran, and escalating the Ukraine proxy war with Russia. As a finale for the political circus ring master, there are tariffs and sanctions here, tariffs and sanctions there, tariffs and sanctions everywhere...all bound to boomerang right back to the US. Looks like the Don's goal is to hasten the end of the US/NATO empire...that certainly appears to be the inevitable outcome to me.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/19/2025 - 6:10am

A Perverted Peace in Palestine

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Palestinians continue to be targeted and shot. The Zionists have hired Islamic terrorist gangs to do their killing in Gaza. Hamas is shooting back and protecting the Gaza residents. Israel claims it is Hamas who is breaking the cease fire. They call for Hamas to disarm. When has Israel ever abided by a cease fire? There's still talk of attacking Iran soon. The situation in Ukraine is equally farcical. Russia continues advancing and destroying Ukrainian troops and equipment. I look for the possible meeting of Trump and Putin in Hungary to be as fruitful as their Alaska summit, which is to say, "empty". In the Caribbean, the US navy continue blowing up boats claiming they are shipping drugs without a particle of evidence nor legality. Then there's an announcement of a CIA operation to kill Maduro in Venezuela...I guess it is covert turns overt? So not much peace in the western sphere.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/12/2025 - 6:30am

End of Empire
Slowly, Slowly, Then All at Once

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The decay of US empire is all around us...crumbling infrastructure, increasing poverty and homelessness, and an economic system in decline. We used the power of the dollar to sanction and bully other countries to the point they united and developed a new means of exchange (BRICS pay) bypassing the USD and SWIFT system. The FED has for decades cranked up the presses to over produce dollars, increasing the debt to the point the interest on the debt is about equal to our GDP. Much of the currency creation has been to finance the endless war - profiting the MIC, the bankers, the oil industry, and the elite. In fact, over spending on the Vietnam war caused Nixon to take the USD off a gold standard because we didn't have the gold to back all the dollars created. Since then it has gotten worse, and the wars more numerous in an effort to prop up the failing system.

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