Monthly Archives: December 2025

The “guilds” are key nodes of the medical cartel. From Robert Malone at malone.news:

Monopolies, Oligarchy, Elitism, Authoritarianism and Groupthink are hurting patients, driving up costs, blocking innovation, and trampling civil rights

Restored Medieval Guild Halls at Grand Place, Brussels

In a broad, metaphorical sense (as often used by economists like Milton Friedman or in historical analyses), the term “guild” refers to professional organizations and regulatory bodies that function like traditional medieval guilds by controlling entry into the profession, setting standards, influencing licensing, and protecting members’ economic interests. Common examples of Medical guilds include:

• State Medical Boards. They are empowered by individual states to regulate licensing and discipline physicians (the closest to actual “guild-like” control over who can practice). During COVID, state medical boards became notorious for de-licensing physicians for not complying with arbitrary and capricious “standard of care” guidelines promoted by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC (Rochelle Walinski and Dimitri Dasalakis), and the FDA (Janet Woodcock, Peter Marks).
• American Medical Association (AMA). The largest and most influential physician organization, sometimes described as a “guild” due to its historical role in limiting physician supply and shaping reimbursement policies
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). During COVID, was a leading advocate for masking children down to six months of age, and promoted gene therapy-based vaccination despite clear evidence of significant life-threatening myocarditis risk and extremely low pediatric COVID risk. Actively advocates that AAP members “fire” patients who are not fully compliant with AAP-endorsed vaccine schedules. Actively advocates for “cocooning”, requiring grandparents and relatives to be revaccinated for common childhood illnesses before being allowed to visit newborn children. Actively advocates for “gender affirming care” and “gender reassignment surgery” for children.

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Preemptive lies to discredit forthcoming truths. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:

and making some predictions for 2026

as generally seems to be the case with multinational organizations purporting to serve some good or noble cause, the european commission, the UN, the WHO, USAID, NATO, and pretty much any other you’d care to name, has devolved into some weird hybrid of an impositional aristocracy making pretense to democracy and moral rectitude and an actual organized crime syndicate.

and the game is really starting to heat up because it’s becoming clear that a lot of the things those organizations have been up to are about to come to light in relentless technicolor detail with receipts galore. this is my call for a main theme for 2026.

you can tell it’s coming because all the cockroaches who see the hand reaching for the light switch are scrambling like mad and starting to make wild accusations and ejaculations of phony outrage to muddy the water and make their own being held to account look unjust and politically motivated.

so allow a gato to play a bit of pen and teller and walk you through the trick to come, because believe me you, it is coming and it will be utterly concerted and all in. this is life and death for a whole global aristocracy and it’s not going to go quietly.

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h/t el gato malo

Does Zelensky spend any time in Ukraine? Or does he just go from foreign capital to foreign capital begging money for his ring of corruption, with a pittance spared for his military? From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is returning to the White House on January 28 to discuss the Russia-Ukraine War.  The visit ostensibly concerns a proposed twenty-point “peace plan” that European Union “elites” have constructed to counter President Trump’s ongoing peace negotiations with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.  Given that the European proposal essentially denies Russia any of its stated military objectives, Zelensky’s efforts appear to be little more than another theatrical scene designed to demonstrate to the world his (insincere) willingness to sue for peace.

President Trump has already hinted that he expects little of value to come from Zelensky’s return to the White House.  He told Politico after Christmas that Ukraine’s holdover president (who has remained in office nearly two years beyond his elected term by declaring a state of martial law) “doesn’t have anything until I approve it…So we’ll see what he’s got.”  Still, President Trump continues to give Zelensky and Europe’s mouthy warmongers (or as Europe’s militarily weak but loud and threatening “leaders” prefer to describe themselves, “the coalition of the willing”) every opportunity to bark like small dogs, run in circles, nip at America’s heels, and pee on the Oval Office carpet.

Zelensky’s visit comes after Ukraine’s president/dictator made a number of controversial statements in the lead-up to Christmas.  While speaking at a European Union-arranged press conference in Brussels, Zelensky all but admitted that he and Europe’s aristocratic ruling class had secret plans for Ukraine’s future that first required President Trump’s death or departure.  “The United States currently does not see us in NATO.  Everything in our life is ‘for now.’  The position may change in the future,” Zelensky said confidently before adding, “Politicians change, some live, some die.”  While President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Secretary of War Hegseth have stated clearly that Ukraine will not be admitted as a member of NATO, Europe’s éminences grise have apparently assured Z-Man that things will change quickly once Trump is “gone.”

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The EU is pretending that it can take on Russia without the U.S. Nobody’s fooled. From T.L. Davis at tldavissubstack.com:

Something in the X algorithm shifted over Christmas. I don’t know what happened, but now my feed is flooded with pro-EU posters, instead of the traditional stream of other authors and writers. Since I largely use X for promoting my novels and only occasionally the films, I trade a lot of followings with other writers, even when I don’t agree with their politics.

I’ve never seen most of these posters on X before, they came out of the woodwork, as if I’ve been suddenly targeted, but I have no way of knowing how that would happen unless internally, leftists within the X organization, flipped some switches. What I discovered, though, was confirming my every bias when it comes to the EU.

Somewhere in the mists of self-delusion these EU posters believe they can shuck the US and win a ground war against Russia. They thirst for it. They seem to think they run NATO and therefore have control of the US military while denigrating the US. A lot of EU nations and NATO nations are the same ones, but they have a very limited understanding of military competence and weapons systems. All they have to do, in their minds, is distance themselves from the US and with the military expertise of Ukraine, attack and annihilate Russia, assuming it remains a conventional war.

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Trump’s threat to take Greenland may not have been pure bombast after all. From Lukas Leiroz at strategic-culture.su:

Greenland may be the end of the European liberal dream.

The recent controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s statements about Greenland and the actions of his special envoy to the Arctic territory reveals far more than a simple diplomatic spat between Washington and Copenhagen. It is, in fact, a direct clash between the harsh reality of international politics and the illusions cultivated for decades by European liberal elites, who insisted on believing in a supposedly neutral, stable “rules-based” world order and guaranteed by multilateral institutions.

Attempts by the White House to soften the rhetoric – such as Jeff Landry’s statement that the United States does not intend to “conquer” or “take” Greenland – do not withstand even a minimally realistic analysis. Trump himself has already made it clear that the island is a strategic necessity for the United States and that its incorporation would happen “one way or another.” Conciliatory rhetoric serves only for diplomatic and media consumption, while the facts point to an openly coercive posture.

From Denmark’s perspective, the appeal to international law, legal norms, and the supposed inviolability of state sovereignty sounds understandable but deeply naïve. The history of international relations unequivocally demonstrates that sovereignty is not guaranteed by treaties or formal declarations, but by the concrete capacity to defend it. States that lack the material means – political, military, and strategic ones – to protect their interests end up subordinated to the will of the great powers.

Wars, annexations, and conquests never ceased to exist. What happened, especially after the end of the Cold War, was the construction of a convenient narrative according to which such practices had been overcome by a new liberal order. This so-called “rules-based order” has always, in reality, been an instrument of Western domination, with rules imposed by the United States itself, then seen as the “leader” of the Collective West. While this order served Washington’s interests, it was praised as a universal model. Now, as the U.S. shows a willingness to openly ignore it, the myth collapses.

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Now Netanyahu is worried that Iran may one day be able to protect itself with nonnuclear missiles. From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.su:

Neither Hamas, nor Gaza Phase Two, that lies predominantly behind Netanyahu’s summit intent – but rather Iran

In these last days, the Trump Administration has boarded or seized three tankers either loaded with Venezuelan oil or destined for Venezuela (such as the Bella1). The most egregious seizure – in terms of illegality – being a Chinese-owned, Panama-flagged vessel reportedly destined for China – and on no one’s sanctions list.

In a different zone of conflict, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last Friday claimed that it had struck a Russian so-called ‘shadow fleet’ tanker, the Qendil, with aerial drones in waters of the Mediterranean Sea off Morocco. The SBU did not give further details of the attack, including how the SBU deployed a drone in the Mediterranean (2,000 Km from Ukraine), or the site from which it was launched. The SBU source said the cargo ship was empty at the time of the attack.

President Putin, in midst of his annual question and answer marathon, vowed that Russia would retaliate.

‘Blockades’, seizures and attacks, very plainly, are acts of war (despite the U.S. claim that America owns all oil produced by Venezuela – until all historical U.S. legal claims against Venezuela are satisfied). This tanker-episode is yet another ratchet to the drift to lawlessness in U.S. foreign policy.

These acts pre-eminently are aimed at China (which has large equities in the Venezuelan oil industry) and Russia, which has longstanding ties to both Venezuela and Cuba (now under Trump ‘blockade’ too). Add to that the $11bn in weapons being sent to Taiwan — with a significant amount of medium to long-range missile systems being part of the planned transfer, including 82 HIMARS launchers with Army ATACMS missiles, allowing Taipei forces to hit targets across the Taiwan Strait.

This latter transfer has infuriated China.

What this suggests is that the National Strategy Statement (NSS) in respect to China (it states that Washington views China as no longer constituting a ‘prime threat’, but only as an economic competitor) is meaningless rhetoric. China is being treated as an adversarial threat and will respond as such.

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Nobody is going to protect you and yours, so you must protect yourselves. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:

We no longer care who’s behind the curtain because we’re in charge of our own lives now.

The Good News is people are realizing We’re On Our Own and starting to take action accordingly.

This article describes how people in one low-income county are localizing self-reliance rather than remain dependent on government subsidies.

The War on Poverty Failed Them–and They’re No Longer Waiting For Help (wsj.com, paywalled) Federal money and projects have come and gone so many times that McDowell County locals have little faith in the government to restore their fortunes; ‘We’re on our own.’

Here in the heart of America’s War on Poverty, some two-thirds of households with children still get food stamps, among the nation’s highest rates, and the estimated median household income hovers around $35,000. Nonfarm employment has plummeted 78% since 1975, according to data compiled by West Virginia University economist John Deskins, as the coal that once powered this rugged place is now mostly mined with machines, if at all, and no other industry has replaced it. The county has lost 67% of its residents over those years, the largest drop in West Virginia, its population dwindling from just over 51,000 to roughly 17,000.

With little faith left in government to break the cycle of poverty, those who remain say it’ss up to them to forge a brighter economic path.

“We’re on our own,” said Jason Tartt. “Nobody’s coming down here to save us.”

Tartt, the grandson of coal miners, is teaching locals, including retired miners and those recovering from opioid addiction, how to farm the forested hillsides. Down the winding, two-lane roads that connect communities, a pastor organizes bottled-water drives for neighbors whose tap water is undrinkable, while the local utility patches together funding for long-term solutions. A tiny, former coal town is trying to transform a shuttered Walmart into a new factory it hopes will jolt the local economy.

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Is Trump staking some sort of claim in Africa, as he’s trying to do in South America? From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:

This might not be a one-off attack for domestic political purposes but the beginning of a campaign aimed at wresting Nigeria away from BRICS and restoring its role as the West’s regional enforcer.

Trump surprised the world by announcing on Christmas that the US bombed “ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria”, whose government cooperated with the operation. This follows him drawing global attention to the slaughter of Christians in Northern Nigeria last fall, which was analyzed here at the time. It was concluded that the US “might want the right to occasionally strike Islamists there, at least one military base, Nigeria distancing itself from BRICS, and Nigeria playing the role of the West’s enforcer”.

As it presently stands, the first of these objectives has been achieved. Waiting until Christmas to bomb ISIS in Nigeria was probably a political calculation by Trump for maximally appealing to his base. The timing also makes it difficult for his opponents to criticize it too. This might therefore be more than a one-off attack for domestic political purposes. While US boots on the ground are ruled out, more attacks are possible, and these could be carried out in coordination with Nigerian ground operations in the area.

The new National Security Strategy declares that “we must remain wary of resurgent Islamist terrorist activity in parts of Africa while avoiding any long-term American presence or commitments” so it makes sense to work in coordination with local forces instead of unilaterally trying to thwart these threats. An unofficial US military presence, possibly comprised of special forces and/or intelligence agents, could help coordinate a campaign in Northern Nigeria and thus achieve the second identified objective.

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White males built civilization; now we’re to be exterminated. We’re not going to sit still for it. From Brandon Smith at alt-market.us:

When I think of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk I see the event as symbolic of the death of civil discourse in the west. The timeline split at that moment leaving two distinct groups: The conservatives and centrists who cling to the fantasy that progress through traditional politics is still possible, and the patriots who now realize that a peaceful resolution is unattainable.

I also see it as symbolic of a deeper element of the culture war – Specifically, the war on young white western men. Kirk was 31 at the time of his death. Not “young”, but almost 15 years younger than I am, and it has left me thinking about the future for the next generation of western males at a time when the system is obviously hellbent on destroying them.

They have been the subject of economic warfare through DEI: Corporations and colleges give first shot to any identity group other than white males regardless of merit.

They have been targeted by social warfare: Demonized as irredeemable monsters by woke cancel culture and labeled the cause of all the world’s ills.  Their ancestors built a civilization of unprecedented prosperity and so much material bounty even the poorest people are fat.  They created the middle class, a concept which had never existed before in history.  In 1890 the average global life expectancy was 42 years; by 1990 the average life expectancy was 73 years, all because of western civilization and the technology it created.  And now, white guys are being punished for it.

They have been selected for extermination: They’re the key demographic that leftist governments want to use as cannon fodder for a mindless geopolitical mess in Ukraine.

Charlie Kirk’s biggest mistake was believing that the system could be defeated through peaceful discourse. He was wrong. It’s not just the insanity of the political left that makes peace and reason impossible, there’s also the machinations of globalist controlled governments working tirelessly to conjure a perpetual meat grinder through domestic and foreign conflicts.

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