STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

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Israel’s efforts to turn the reverse the tide of antipathy against it are failing. From Ohio Barbarian at ohiobarbarian.substack.com:

Or, Israel has almost completely lost the American Right

Benjamin Netanyahu himself describes the “narrative war” as part of his multifront war to establish Greater Israel, which seems to mean taking as much land for Israeli Jews as possible.

He and his billionaire Zionist buddies know they are in trouble on that front. For reasons they cannot allow themselves to understand, huge majorities of Americans under 50 in general are suddenly—to the Zionists, anyway— questioning why the United States should support Israel at all.

Mossad knows why—Israeli soldiers themselves flooded TikTok with videos of the Uninhibited Joys of Genocide—but they can’t admit that, which is why Zionist billionaires have seized TikTok, CBS, and their bribing and blackmailing minions lobby tirelessly to censor speech they don’t like in every country they can—my sympathies to my Australian, British and German comrades especially.

Everything was going so well for the Zionists until October 7. Decades of success inevitably create complacency, but they realized their mistake, so they mobilized all the money to control the narrative at their command and sent their most fanatically loyal Jewish American warrior, Ben Shapiro, to do battle at the TPUSA conference.

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Trump’s going off script and Israel doesn’t like it. From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.su:

Perhaps, Israel is now realising that ‘realities in the region’ have changed

Leading Israeli commentator, Anna Barsky, in Ma’ariv (in Hebrew) writes: “Let [Trump’s] plan in Gaza – fail”.

“An Israeli ‘waiting ploy’ is being formulated: not to hurl out a frontal rejection … [but rather] to bet that reality in the region will take its course”.

“[Yet], the fault line [over] Trump’s Gaza Plan is real … Israel demands a clear order: First, the disarmament of Hamas, i.e., first its actual removal from power, and only after that – reconstruction, international power and Israeli withdrawal”.

And here’s the ‘rub’: “The Prime Minister’s Office understands that Trump, apparently, does not intend to accept the Israeli ‘precondition’ formula”. “And here is the heart of the problem … which is that Hamas does not intend to disarm or leave the territory”.

Thus …“The Gulf states, Egypt, and also significant parts of the American establishment, propose a different order: First, reconstruction and an international mechanism are created, then a stabilisation force and a technocratic government are introduced, and then ‘in the process’, the issue of Hamas – is [only] gradually addressed”.

Thus, the Israeli leadership is both disillusioned and frustrated.

But this is just the tip of the spear. It goes deeper – as Alon Mizrahi points out:

“Israeli leaders are noting that Arab states have not agreed to normalise with Israel. The Jewish nationalists may have their man in the White House, but all he seems to care about is making Arab money. No [West Bank] annexation; no Iran [regime change] and now an ‘insulting’ demand for a ‘Phase 2’ in Gaza, where Israel is supposed to not only tolerate a foreign military presence, but also allow reconstruction to take place”.

The problem is the increasingly strategic divergence of interests between Netanyahu and Trump: They diverge not only on Trump’s Gaza plan, but on Syria (where U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack is seen to side with Turkey’s stance) and on Lebanon where Washington is seen to side with Beirut.

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Fusion has been a Holy Grail for over 70 years. A Trump corporate entity is teaming up with a so-called “pioneering fusion company” to commercialize this technology that has yet to be achieved. Skepticism is warranted. From Patti Johnson at theburningplatform.com:

On December 18, 2025, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, announced a major all-stock merger with TAE Technologies. This pioneering nuclear fusion company is valued at over $6 billion. TMTG CEO Devin Nunes called it a step to “cement America’s global energy dominance for generations.” The new company plans to start building the world’s first utility-scale fusion power plants as early as 2026.[1]   Fusion powers the sun. It promises clean energy with no long-term radioactive waste.

What is TAE Technologies?

TAE was founded in 1998. Big investors back it, including Google, Chevron, Goldman Sachs and Charles Schwab. The company has privately raised over $1.3 billion . TAE has built five research reactors. TAE was working on a sixth called “Copernicus.” It first was expected to attain net energy gain around 2025.[2] But they recently decided to skip Copernicus and go straight to a prototype named DaVinci for a commercially scalable reactor. It was scheduled to be developed in the second half of the 2020s and to achieve 3 billion° C  and produce fusion energy.

The merger gives TAE access to public markets and up to $300 million in cash from TMTG. TMTG shareholders will own about 50% of the combined company. Executives highlight how fusion can fuel America’s AI leadership. Nunes said it will “lower energy prices” for the nation. The plans focus on TAE’s unique approach using hydrogen-boron fuel. They are separate from other US projects, like Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ SPARC tokamak (targeting first plasma in 2027) or Helion Energy’s prototype (aiming for power by 2028).

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We all know the answer. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart.”—Howard Thurman, theologian and civil rights activist

Every Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of a child born into oppression—an occupied land, a climate of political fear, and a government quick to crush anything that threatened its authority.

Two thousand years later, the parallels are unmistakable.

If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a head-of-state rather than the rule of law, would he survive long enough to preach about love, forgiveness and salvation? Would his message of peace, mercy, and resistance to empire be branded as extremism?

As familiar as the Christmas story of the baby born in a manger might be, it is also a cautionary tale for our age.

The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that they could be counted. There being no room for the couple at any of the inns, they stayed in a stable (a barn), where Mary gave birth to a baby boy, Jesus. Warned that the government planned to kill the baby, Jesus’ family fled with him to Egypt until it was safe to return to their native land.

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“A country without need of its men has no future.” From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.com:

Russia’s President Putin has again expressed his concern that the Russian birth rate has fallen to 1.4. He sees this as a demographic crisis. The birth rate is insufficient to maintain the current size of the Russian population, much less to increase it.

We see that the perpetuation of white ethnicities is in question in every white country. White ethnicities are exterminating themselves without the help of dark-skinned immigrant-invaders, and anti-white ideologues advocating miscegenation.

Over the course of my life, I have seen the impact of social and family instability on the birth rate in the United States. Corporations after World War II began moving employees to different locations. Formerly the tendency was for people to live where they grew up. A young couple would be among many family members–parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, cousins, and have the same friends for a lifetime. This stable environment provided babysitters and counselors to help the marriage stay together. A network of people to provide help, and to need help, sustained a sense of duty and responsibility to others. The endless round of birthdays, anniversaries, new births, holidays and celebrations provided a security network more important than Social Security.The crude form of self-love now advocated by the latest version of the liberated feminist and by extreme libertarians had no scope in which self- interest could prevail and leave a person isolated. Today America has many isolated people.

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Progress and innovation are not automatic. Societies can regress. From Victor Davis Hanson at zerohedge.com:

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.

But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets—what we know now as the foundation of a unique Western civilization.

The Roman Republic inherited and enhanced the Greek model.

For a millennium, the Republic and subsequent Empire spread Western culture, eventually to be inseparable from Christianity.

From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Rhine and Danube to the Sahara, there were a million square miles of safety, prosperity, progress, and science—until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

What followed was a second European Dark Age, roughly from 500 to 1000 AD.

Populations declined. Cities eroded. Roman roads, aqueducts, and laws crumbled.

In place of the old Roman provinces arose tribal chieftains and fiefdoms.

Whereas once Roman law had protected even rural people in remote areas, during the Dark Ages, walls and stone were the only means of keeping safe.

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For the potential defendants in the many efforts to unseat Trump, maintaining the public’s cognitive dissonance is probably the best weapon they’ve got. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:

“. . . power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants.” —Roger Stone

John Brennan, former US Communist Party member, former CIA Director, and Convert to Islam

Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he “killed himself” could be fake? All authorities from the FBI to The New York Times pretend that the date-and-time stamped video is authentic, and that it proves nobody went into his cell to kill him. Nobody has questioned this. How difficult would it be to take a few hours of alternate closed-circuit TV footage of the same drab hallway from the same position, making sure nobody got on-camera, and then stick a fabricated date-and-time stamp on it? Do you suppose that the intel agencies don’t have the capacity to fabricate that sort of evidence?

At this point, seeing what the capabilities are for AI to compose any kind of picture — or even what years’ old Photoshop programs can do — why would you suppose that anything in the Epstein files now being released might not be subject to fiddling by persons and parties with an interest? Even one second of video showing a notable person in somebody’s arms, or performing an illicit act with a child, a mere glimpse of such a thing, would be A) easy to manufacture, and B) guaranteed to create a mighty shit-storm of a political crisis that would steal everybody’s attention from now until the Rockies tumble.

The Epstein files looks like the end of the seeing-is-believing phase of human history. Whatever dazzling fakes you’re watching on “X” these days, consider that the deep fake abilities of government agencies are a mile ahead of commercially-available AI tech that any jamoke on TikTok can use. I wouldn’t believe a single goshdarn thing coming out of these files that preoccupy the nation right now — while many momentous events unfold at home and around the world unnoticed, or get crowded out by the hoo-hah over Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy doings. The further forward in time this goes, the worse you can expect it to get.

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Why would Putin want the western half of Ukraine? It is almost exclusively anti-Russian. Even if he got it, Putin would be looking at interminable guerrilla war. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:

There are logical military and strategic reasons why he’s not interested in this whatsoever at all.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard responded to a report from Reuters alleging that “Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire”. Tulsi condemned that as a “lie” to undermine Trump’s peace efforts and thus risk a possible hot Russian-US war. She also claimed that “Russia’s battlefield performance indicates it does not currently have the capability to conquer and occupy all of Ukraine, let alone Europe.”

Her assessment is absolutely correct for the reasons that’ll now be explained. For starters, Putin authorized the special operation after diplomacy failed to neutralize Ukrainian-emanating threats from NATO, ergo why Russia was compelled to resort to force. Unlike what many “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” nowadays claim on social media, “The ‘War Of Attrition’ Was Improvised & Not Russia’s Plan All Along”, occurring only because the UK and Poland unexpectedly sabotaged spring 2022’s peace deal.

Unprecedented support from NATO led to the aforesaid “war of attrition” and resultant stalemate along large parts of the front for protracted periods of time. As was assessed as early as that summer in July 2022, “All Sides Of The Ukrainian Conflict Underestimated Each Other”, which is why this support caught Russian planners off guard but also why it failed to inflict a strategic defeat upon Russia too. These 20 constructive critiques of Russia’s special operation from November 2022 are also relevant to this day too.

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Once fat-loss drugs came on the market, the body-positivity, fat-is-beautiful movement was done. That’s not to say these fat-loss drugs are anything but idiotic. From The Good Citizen at thegoodcitizen.live:

“How I finally learned to stop worrying and love my body…if only I could see it.”

“It’s okay to be big and beautiful!”
The people selling this for decades, as tolerance for sloth, excess, and lack of self-control, are turning to injectable “drugs” to no longer be big and beautiful, and would prefer instead to be skinny and blind. In the history of human sincerity, no group has so profoundly and ironically called bullshit on their own claim.

Beautiful Lies

The proverbial fat lady has sung on the qualitative assessment tolerance propaganda, asserting that big is beautiful.

As with all politically correct social engineering exploits emerging from the hive of the progressive mind, body positivity was never about beauty or self-acceptance—it was about masquerading inclusivity as both, by lowering standards of body mass index to match the increasing rates of society-wide failure to maintain healthy levels.

The jig is up. The game has been exposed. Obesity was not a result of ignorance or depression, or some made-up academic psychological disorder, or a result of hereditary genes, but of environments engineered to overwhelm restraint with the emergence of highly processed, low-nutrient, calorie-dense food that could be funneled directly to the second brain, the stomach, to placate the main brain’s neurotransmitters, which were awaiting their rewards.

The pharmaceutical industry, along with nearly every public and private institution charged with “health care,” not only tolerated this arrangement but partnered with the corporate food system that created it, ensuring that the same pipeline could profit first from metabolic damage and then again from its chemical “cures.”

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