This Dominican woman is doing fantastic work explaining Globohomo and how it works. This article is about repurposing the Opium War operation to destroy the US.
It's not short. It's a long article. It is worth the read, and you'll want to follow up on what she presents by hitting up sources.
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EM Burlingame did a one-two of interviews on Friday this past week. Watch them.
First, a couple of notes:
The thing preventing widespread violence across the civilized world is the hope that Trump gives globally that the legitimate leader of the free world is able to handle the task. If this did not happen, we would be seeing widespread chaos and guerilla gang-level/cartel-level violence right now; that's what was on deck across the West, and is still happening in most of it due to Thralls of Empire serving Globohomo doing the thing.
The Point of Decision comes.
This is something most folks missed when the UAE quit OPEC.
On a related note, most folks don't know how gas prices are determined.
Combined, what we're seeing with these foreign excursions is Trump taking control of the global economy out of the City's hands; the City (as part of Globohomo) then facilitates the opertions against Trump within the US by laundering all of the looted money through London banks (including counterparty banks on the Continent in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Brussels as well as the Caribbean territories, Hong Kong, UAE/Oman, and Panama) and funnelled back into the US to finance political fronts.
Cut off USAID. Cut off fraud and looting. That exposes enemy operations networks as they're stressed and Thralls don't work for free, so they need to scramble to keep operations going; this opens gaps to be exploited, which Trump has done.
The SPLC indictments panicked a lot of those ajacent to them. The disinfo, doomposting, and other optics-focused operations intenstifed as avenues of operations keep getting cut off; we saw this again with the recent SCOTUS ruling on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act gutting Dem fixing of Congressional districts, prompting immediate map redrawings to wipe those fake and gay districts out and put in Republicans.
Those flagging demoralization ops are failing because they don't have the money to throw people--in either quality or quantity--at the problem.
Couple that with the fallout of the recent assassination attempt, and the massive house-cleaning at the FBI and DOJ along with the failure of the US government shutdown (so now all parts are funded again and operational) and especially the restoration of massive law enforcement agencies to work with ICE and one can see success is happening despite vicious and persistent opposition.
This is how Trump is using the areas where he has a free hand to help himself where he is far more constrained (for now).
Learn from this- and do some remedial civics and economics training, as too many of you need it.
EM Burlingame wrote this article on Twitter. I will be quoting it.
First, he defines the present form of the Globohomo faction of Empire.
This conflict is driven by what I term the Financialist Regime. This refers not to the British people, but to the specific institutional nexus of commodities pricing, debt-finance, maritime insurance and related market interests embedded in London's core—the spiritual and operational successor to the Bank of England chartered in 1694. This regime prioritizes the monetization of naval risk and chaos over the stability of maritime commerce. Global flashpoints—from Iran's reimposed control of the Strait of Hormuz to naval blockades and energy strikes in the Black Sea—aren’t isolated geopolitical spats. They’re symptoms of an unresolved schism.
This is the Bankster Syndicate.
They run, like all organized crime syndicates, on racketeering and vice. Globohomo does this at scale.
The Financialist regime's control of the Isles manifests as engineered instability at the world's critical sea lanes. The Strait of Hormuz today is only the latest chapter in a four-century pattern: threaten closure, spike the price of energy and insurance, collect the premium, and—crucially—manipulate the markets that depend on the free flow of goods.
The pattern was institutionalized in 1694 when the Bank of England was chartered specifically to finance William III's naval wars against France. This turned the Royal Navy into a permanent debt-financed instrument of extraction. By the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the regime's post-imperial pivot was complete. Unable to hold the canal by force against Nasser, London shifted its strategy from controlling the chokepoint to profiting from the volatility of its closure.
One family in the syndicate controls one party in a chaos operation. Another controls the counterparty. Lloyd's of London runs the Numbers Game they call Insurance and, like all casinos, The House Always Wins.
"What do you mean?"
Since most of you are sufficiently cultured anime weebs, you know of The Sky Crawlers and its use of cloned teenaged pilots in private mercenary companies to conduct war by proxy for entertainment. Chaos Ops are not that different. One group (Intel agent front) controls PMC A, one controls PMC B, but both are part of the syndicate and feed their intel to the Bosses who fix the Numbers Game to guarantee profits uncountable deposited in accounts untouchable.
I'm using this movie to show you in terms many of you comprehend how this op works because it includes fixed news media, tight information and narrative control, and (via the clone trope) how the syndicate views military personnel as disposble widgets to be liquidated as soon as their utility is spent.
Replace betting on the outcome of a battle with assessing risk and raising/lowerig insurance premiums and you have how the racket works- especially if that insurnace is mandated in order to function in maritime commerce at all.
Now apply this same racket to the cartels in the Americas, to their Asian counterparts, and you see the context of Americam military and law enforcement/Intelligence actions since the turn of the year- and you can see how this same chaos op template can be used for anything else subject to insurance premium manipulations, or similar manipulations, and compare this against what the Thralls serving Globohomo say and do.
This is not the full context of EM's article; he's explaining this in light of a wider objective that needs to happen for victory to be made complete. Read ths article, and see why Empire is over.
EM Burlingame brought us two concepts: The Land Power and the Sea Power. These are defined, by him, accordingly:
He cites the following in constructing these definitions:
These are good concepts and efinitions. They have strong explanatory power, and should be applied accordingly to current and past events.
However, I think we have reason to add a third term and with it a definition.
the Aerospace Empire posting will continue indefinitely https://t.co/ehRkLb3Wm5 pic.twitter.com/ZEkrmSh422
— πΊπΈ Based Americana πΊπΈ (@basedamericana) December 29, 2025
The Air Power is not the Sea Power or the Land Power.
It has elements of the Sea Power--a concern for communication, commerce, and relations--and of the Land Power--control of a large land mass--but mitigates or lacks the downsides of both because its real power is in a different medium entirely.
Land Powers, go figure, are famous for Armies. Sea Powers are famous for Navies. Air Powers care about domination of the Air and Space above everything else. Air Powers, therefore, have the dynamism of Sea Powers without the need for imperialism and extrative and exploitative relations due to being materially self-sufficient; they have the luxury of being able to reflect inward, be hard to defeat, with a reduced/eliminated risk of solipsism due to being engaged in exploration and expansion into the Final Frontier.
The United States is, at this time, the sole Aerospace Power. It is unlikely that anyone else will ever become one.
We now have an answer to Things To Come and its Wings Over The World hellscape dystopian future- an answer that is both rebuttal and rebuke. Air Powers do not need, as Sea Powers do, to become imperialist and extractive against neighbors and distant shores; they have the ability to be Good Neighbors and instead help them to better themselves, building them up to become full upright powers in their own right, while retaining the power to obliterate those who seek to disrupt the Good Order of Civilization and its development. Despite media bullshit to the contrary, the Air Power is putting the Sea Power (Globohomo) into the trash heap of history- sinking it under the waves.
It is no surprise, therefore, that only in America could the Air Power manifest because only America has the paradigm needed to make it so- and it is making it so again now after generations of Sea Power subversion because one German (Friedrich List) took the American System back to Europe and the Sea-based Empire that is now Globohomo never forgave or forgot it.
This is what Trump is bringing back, and nothing can stop it or him because this is the idea whose time has come. Empire is over.
Early Saturday morning during the overnight hours.
As Brian Cates and X22 Report have been saying for a while, Venezuela is an Occupied Country. The occupation was a NarcoTerrorist regime, using Communism as cover for criminality, and cooperating with other Imperial elements--Globohomo, Neo-Tsar, and Red Dynasty alike--as all three are aligned against any and all Nationalist movements seeking sovereignty for their people.
The drugs moved through Venezuela; that's what the boat sinkings are about. ChiComs and Russia went to Caracas for oil; that's what the Shadow Tanker fleet was about. Cartels used Venezuela to move men, material, and money from Imperial allies into and out of their networks- networks pointed against the American Nationalist movement and its allies around the world.
It is this cartel front that got taken out.
One must recall that the recent election in Nicaragua of another Trump-aligned candidate to high office, whose win was welcome by both El Salvador's Bukele and Argentina's Milei (as well as Chile's new head of state), means that more and more American governments are aligning with the American Nationalist faction against Globohomo and the other Imperial regimes. This is a trend.
The cartels, as we see in Ecuador and Peru, are doing as they do in Mexico when things don't go their way: massive crime and terrorism aimed at the state. Colombia was part of this, and still suffers from it to a degree, and Brazil is infamous for its own crime issues- along with Honduras, Guatamala, Belize, Costa Rica, etc.
What we just saw is that Trump is willing and able to do real actions to tear this network apart.
"But that's just crime syndicate stuff."
Oh, you're not connecting this to bigger pictures.
As I write this, the Islamic Republic of Iran is dealing with a nationwide open revolt that threatens to escalate into open civil war and revolution against the regime. The monarchy in exile is already openly supporting this happening, with the Crown Prince ready and willing to take the throne as soon as he is able and bring his government back with him.
He'll have quite the problem upon arrival. Water is almost gone in Iran, syphoned off for agriculture that doesn't make itself worthwhile as well as for military vanity projects that don't benefit the people at-large. International aid will have to be airdropped in to stave off disaster, and that's on top of what's already being sent to other disaster spots around the globe.
Iran's Islamic regime, being Shia, is oppossed to the Sunni regimes in the Persian Gulf countries as well as to other states in its region; its oil production therefore is often sold to rivals to Globohomo--Russia and China are both shitting bricks right now--and it (along with those Imperial regimes) use the proceeds to support anti-Globohomo and anti-Nationalist movements that mess with its interests. (They don't back the Uighers in Xinjang, for example, despite being Muslims.)
Oil fron Iran and Venezuela moves via the Shadow Tanker Fleet to sanctioned countries like Russia and (to an extent) China. In return those countries get arms, funding, and UN Security Council cover via Permanent Member Vetos and other measures. Globohomo then steps in to link up the cartels it controls to this shipping network to move drugs, people, guns, and more around using the same means and networks.
Iran being toppled, as much due to being boxed in by the US and Israel as by their own incompetence, means another Globohomo-friendly network node is taken out of action.
Israel chose to recognize Somaliland (the functional part of Somalia) as an independent country. Somaliland's territory faces the Red Sea, directly across from Yemen (which, due to Iran going down, is about to run out of missiles to lob at Israeli-aligned shipping), and the new country is going to reward Israel with various concessions in due course; this is rumored to including being a dumping ground for Gazans, but that is (at this time) just a rumor with no substance to it.
The real damage is to Somalia, which has been exposed for weaponizing its diaspora in the United States (and thus making its European diaspora suspected for) committing fraud on a massive scope and scale; the looting of Minnesota's coffers alone in in the billions of US Dollars, and then similar scams in other Democrat-controlled cities, counties, and states in the United States are being uncovered as I write this. All of this directly funds Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The Somali ambassador to the UN, now taking up the Presidency of the Security Council, is personnally implicated with 20 Ohio scam fronts alone.
Where does that money go? To Somalia. Whe does it fund? Al-Shabab, a Foreign Terrorist Organization; through it, other FTOs are also funded, and through the synidicate network they traffic money, guns, women, children, Weapons of Mass Destruction, drugs, and more--both in and out--and it went in and out through Somaliland despite that being an area opposed to the clans in the diaspora doing the scamming and looting.
Like it or not, Israel's move--timed with exposure in the US--is going to result in that network node being taken out too. Someone in Tel Aviv is friendly to the Nationalist cause, and that must be acknowledged.
You wanted Empire to fall. Now it's happening- and we're taking ALL of the Imperial regimes out, not just Globohomo. This will be an ongoing effort, with punches and counter-punches, all through this year. There is no division between action at home and abroad anymore. Damaging them in one place is what it takes to weaken all other places, and thus bring the network down- to make empire fall.
Tucker Carlson had Mike Benz on this past week to talk about how the Globohomo faction of Empire works.
Mike Benz on how NGOs run the world on behalf of a small number of very dangerous people.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 27, 2025
(0:00) Introduction
(1:20) What Are NGOs?
(5:11) The 3 Levels of The Blob
(9:00) Why the CIA Was Really Created
(21:41) Why So Many American Companies Are Wrapped up in the NGO Madness… pic.twitter.com/BwEBFBkQ9G
I have nothing more to add. Mike's the guy to go to if you want to know how the Globohomo wing of Empire works at the high level.
You'll need to look elsewhere for the more street-level ops, or for the esoterica, or for the Neo-Tsarist/Red Dynastic wings of Empire also, and I'll post those go-tos also in other posts presently.
SIDE NOTE: I'm the guy that coined "Narrative Warfare"; there is no citation before my November 2015 post. All you academics and journalists better recognize.
You can all shut up about the US Dollar. Between this and Modern Monetary Theory, the U.S. Dollar is immortal.
"The Eurodollar system became so dominant because of innovations from people trying to avoid US government control of their dollars, and that’s precisely why the system is so resilient — to alternate currencies, to geopolitical shocks, and to the US government itself.
Nothing lasts forever, but for now, global dollar dominance is on pretty solid ground."
You can read the rest at Keith Woods' Substack feed here.
Woods' explanation of the Eurodollar regime fills in the gaps that folks like 1Dime leave out when they talk MMT.
The system needs both.
MMT deals in the structural elements that makes Eurodollar possible. First, it originates out of nothing--not even in the manner Woods describes, but deeper--the original Dollars needed for the commercial banks to use Fractional Reserve lending to generate all of the currency that Eurodollar exploits to make the system run. Second, it compels the use of the U.S. Dollar to satisfy costs imposed at the point of a gun: U.S. Federal Income taxes, U.S. state Income taxes, Sales taxes, Capital Gains taxes, Gift taxes, Death taxes, all sorts of fees and fines, and--yes, since it's all the news now--Tariffs and Duties.
You also need Dollars to buy U.S. Treasuries and similar fiancial instruments, purchase any asset class in U.S. jurisdictions, purchase any service or good in the same places, and so on. The entire world runs off what only the U.S. Dollar permits access to, for reasons fair or foul.
Yes, there's places where the British Pound or the Euro are almost as good (or locally preferable). Yes, there's places that prefer the Japanese Yen (that are not Japan) for one reason or another. But anyone serious about international travel or trade always has accounts in U.S. Dollars, and everyone knows it- especially those that hate it.
The Dollar cannot die; it is immortal. Not because MMT alone says so. Not because the Eurodollar system alone says so. But because they are two ends of the same system, and that can and does say so- and if the U.S. Dollar is immortal, so is the United States because you cannot have an immortal currency without an immortal state to back it.
Empire knows this. That's why Globohomo in particular treats this as its final redoubt and its true seat of power. Unlike all other castles, this cannot be destroyed; it can only be taken, purged, and repurposed- and thus it will remain forever vulnerable to returned subversion and corruption. Therefore it must be treated like nuclear power: a great tool, but also dangerous in the wrong hands, and thus only pius men should be permitted to work its levers.
Empire is falling.
By Wednesday this past week the God-Emperor achieved his goal of wrecking China.
And we got the Panama Canal back
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) April 9, 2025
Not that China was in good shape as it was- anyone following any of the many China Watcher channels could have told you that. All this did was take something that the Central Committee of the CCP could finagle to secure their own power while everything else went to shit, making their survival (and thus their regime) continue despite it all, into one that they could not. The Thralls serving the Red Dynasty are well and truly screwed, and any chance that China had of ending their Century of Humiliation is now over; time for a Second Century.
Yes, the rest of the week was Globohomo Thralls trying hard to spin things to make it look bad for the God-Emperor but no one cares so it won't stick with anyone that isn't already a Globohomo Thrall. It also exposed all the folks, like Academic Agent, for the retards that they are because this was a 4D chess gambit and it worked. They ought to read Art of the Deal; this is straight out of his book, and yet everyone fell for it.
"But Taiwan-"
Is fine. Will be fine. The People's Liberation Army is a Temu military, Tofu Dreg from the flag officers down to the newest conscripts, with shit gear and shit doctrine (or India would not be able to kick them around, and Vietnam wouldn't have done so either), and if it weren't for the most massive honeypot regime in history Beijing would a wholly toothless tiger.
The new round of tariffs brutalize Chinese exports, including the capacity to use third parties as cutouts, while bringing vital segments back on shore to reverse the betrayal of the American working class by the previous Globohomo cohorts- some of whom are still alive (and thus able to be prosecuted), and all of whom can be punished financially (by taking all of their wealth because they got it by stealing from their countrymen).
As Razorfist explained: "It's remarkable how many thimble-depth thinkers have mortal difficulty with the concept of a carrot and a stick. Trump whacked everyone with the stick. Clearly, they didn't like it. Now you give them a taste of the carrot and say "now isn't that better? Wow. So complicated."
Globohomo ain't sending their best if they caved after so basic a gambit. Empire is falling.
This past week, Trump brought back the foundation of American trade policy: strong protective tariffs.
No, there is no need to go on much more than that because there's already a book all about this. READ IT!
This is the American System. We are back!
What I had intended to write for this week got pre-empted by what just went down in Syria this past week.
This development caught everyone in OSINT off-guard, and they weren't the only ones.
And if you need it spelled out in Black & White:
Because that's what being subjugated into a vassal state means, and as Syria will become a Turk vassal, Turkey is a (very troublesome and resentful) vassal of Globohomo.
Who loses here? Russia and Iran. Who wins here (besides Turkey)? Israel, first and foremost, followed by the United States, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman), and then the rest of NATO (and thus the EU and associated European states).
By extension, China also loses because of the second-order consequences of Russia and Iran getting their shit pushed in.
"But how? That video isn't enough." No worries, I got you.
With media reports pronouncing the end of the Assad regime, many are wondering how the hell this happened. After all, Assad survived the chaotic events of the 2010s – what makes this time different?
— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) December 8, 2024
A knowledgeable friend offers the following explanation: pic.twitter.com/S666ivYQly
This doesn't paint a prestigious or powerful picture of Bashar Assad or his government. That is unfortunate, as being one of them is required to stay in power in peacetime and both is required for wartime- and Syria's been at war for many, many years.
For many supporting him, this is not a happy time. Globohomo's proxies will certain turn their guns on each other once the Assad regime is totally eliminiated, meaning that this civil war will not end anytime soon unless and until the Imperial parties successfully yank the leashes on those proxies and bring them to heel; that is far from a certain thing in this area of the world.
Either after the second round of fighting concludes, or it is pre-empted by the Patrons reining in their Clients, what will follow will not be a rebuilding and revitalization of Syria for Syrians. It will be the imposition of a defacto Imperial occupation regime organized specifically to loot the country of its resources and the Syrian nation (what remains of it) of its wealth while building up a buffer state to use against rival Imperial powers (i.e. vs Russia, China, and India).
There is one other thing to take away from this development: this move came about because the Syrian regime got hollowed out as a direct result of sustained economic sanctions for years on end. In gaming terms, this means keeping the mob tied down with Crowd Control while loading it up with Damage Over Time effects and sustaining those DOTs over that long duration of time until it was too weak to fight back anymore.
What does this mean? This is what awaits Russia and China. Russia is much further along the Tank-and-DOT strategy, but China is already seriously weakened due to the DOTs already inflicted upon it and recent events show that this stress is forcing the Red Dynasty into a power struggle.
This is the Mithridates Strategy in action. Syria has proven that it works. It's working on Russia. It's working on China. It's working everywhere that is not already proofed against it- and nowhere is, which is why it's working. (Yes, this means that Vox Day is wrong, as are all the others saying that Russia/China/BRICS will beat Globohomo. Deal with it; the facts are what they are.)
Globohomo will not fall from without. It can only be taken from within- only by the Men of the West, who are proofing themselves against it.
So yes, this is a win for Globohomo, but every win exposes more of how Globohomo works to those with eyes to see- and more can now than before. Empire Must Fall.
Following up from last week, the based Boer known as The Aristocratic Utensil sums up the present state of the dispute between Academic Agent and Auron MacIntyre.
My take is simple: we are one week, nearly two, out from Trump winning and the Globohomo Thralls have not come to a consensus yet.
In the meantime, there are pockets of Thralls concentrated on immediate threats to their positions and privledges and not to the wider consensus-building effort. Once those immediate concerns are sorted, then we'll find out which way this goes.
I am skeptical of AA's Power-As-Primary position because being Le Donor Class means nothing without teeth, like a judiciary unable to enforces its rulings. This is why I find the useful labeling to be Merchants and Golems; the Merchants are the Power, while the Golems are the Ideology.
The problem with Golems is that they tend to run amok if not strictly controlled, something Merchants (not being Warriors, and thus lacking the character required to do so) turn out to be bad at doing as they consider it bitchwork. (They love themselves some automation for that reason.) The problem with the Merchants is that when they do yank on those very chains, they over-react and thus lay the groundwork for the next Golem revolt.
"So what are they going to do?"
What they did when the previous push flamed out: go back underground. Keep it quiet. Keep it out of the public eye. Bide their time.
"Be kind" is the code phrase for "keep it on the down-low".
This is not putting the Woke away; this is fallback to a prepared secondary position, rally there, and then come back stronger to retake lost ground and push further anew.
That’s not how this works.
— Henrik Palmgren πΈπͺ α (@Henrik_Palmgren) November 17, 2024
They won’t disappear just because they are not in office.
There will still be drag queen story hour.
There will still be trannies trying to indoctrinate your kids to go on hormone blockers.
There is still plenty of anti-White hate.
The fight is far… https://t.co/W0UkVmSzJp
It's not over. Auron will, ultimately, win this bet because he's read the Death Cult right. There is no return to Fresh Prince. There is only the Death Cult using it as a skinsuit to try again.
Retards, Normies, and Dissidents alike say things like "The US is an empire. Empires don't last forever. The debt alone will sink the US."
You underestimate Globohomo if you think anything like this. Yes, Vox Day, I am looking your way- and you too, Doug Casey, and many other that ought to know better.
The Cycle of Empire is broken. Two things did it.
This is how the system works. It's been implicitly so for centuries (see The Money Masters), and every last head of every last Central Bank in the world freely admits that this is how the system works on camera, on the record.
What does this mean in simple terms: The United States CANNOT GO BANKRUPT! You want to know why there's always money for things? This is why.
There will always be funding for the flexing of Imperial power because this is how the system works. Doesn't matter what the number is; the cost is paid, guaranteed. (If you want to know why you pay taxes, it's this simple: to compel the use of the currency issued. That's it; this is why the tax authorities are one of the strongest enforcement agencies in every government.)
That, right there, breaks the cycle. Yes, this is how it works in Russia and China (and India, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, etc.- but NOT in European Union states because they are slaved to the Euro).
In theory, you could wage enough economic warfare to make the capacity of the economy unable to absorbe the generated currency, but that's where the backstop comes into play.
This is also the reason that the United States (as the muscle and engine for Globohomo) will never be openly invaded by hostile powers. (The traitors within are another issue, which is what we have in the US right now.)
Who the fuck is going to Margin Call the people who have (a) All The Nukes, sufficient to incinterate all life on Earth several times over, and (b) a ruling class sufficiently petty and venal to slam the button with the fist of an angry god if they believe that they stand a chance of losing power?
That's the other thing breaking the cycle: the ruling Imperial power has Everything That Matters under a Sword of Damocles. Everyone running a government knows this, which is why all of the hostile action against the United States (and by extension, Globohomo) is against the American nation and done by the American state using hostile actors as catspaws.
That's right, all those "Fuck you Yankee" sorts? You're all suckers being used by Globohomo. Good job, retards.
Until you break MMT, even removing the nukes is not enough; remember that the nukes are a backstop, not the backstop. MMT in effect means that one backstop can easily be replaced by another, and that "another" is already in development. (Yes, ol' Elon can, and likely is, involved in this somehow- if only as just a hired service to launch killsats.)
Empire Must Fall, but it will not just fall due to the old cyclical forces playing out. Globohomo's Thralls successfully patched that out, so it has to be done actively.
Take out the MMT, then the nukes, and then Empire will fall.
Yesterday (going on overnight local time) Iran decided to throw a lot of ordinance at Israel.
Iran dispatched waves of armed suicide drones first in swarms. Then they launched medium and long raise cruise missles, followed by ballistic missles. The allegation at the time was that they were to arrive on target at about the same time. The intent was to overwhelm Israel's considerable air defense system (anchored by the Iron Dome).
Israel took the threat seriously, as did Jordon, the United Kingdom, and the United States. All three countries contributed to the air defense response, culling significant numbers of drones and missiles before reaching their targets.
That said, some did get through and some wreckage hit unintended areas. As of this post, the only significant target hit was Ramon Air Base in Israel's Negev region, so after the fact the New York Times and the Telegraph would release these:
Updates from NYT:
— Ian Ellis (@ianellisjones) April 14, 2024
- 331 Iranian drones & missiles launched
- Primarily from Iran, Iraq & Yemen
- U.S. forces helped shoot down
- Israel intercepted most with “some assistance” from allies
“Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.” pic.twitter.com/JPGLcwSx03
As of this post, Iran has not gainsayed these numbers or results.
Israel has already claimed that Tel Aviv will retailate against Tehran for this action. This ignores Tehran's justification for doing this, which was Tel Aviv's bombing of Iran's embassy in Syria and the death of a prominent flag officer therein, in an action Tehran claimed was without justification.
Not that Tel Aviv cares, or ever did.
While there's talk about Israeli nukes being used, often in a mocking matter, that's irrelevant. The real damage Iran seeks to do is not to Israel as such, but to what it depends upon for its power and position: the global economy.
Iran's actions, both directly and via its proxies in Yemen (i.e. the Houthis), have had a serious effect on global economies via disruption of seaborne trade in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea- trade that includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates via messing with their energy and petrochemical trade with customers across the world, trade that is not helped in the least by Ukraine striking Russia's oil and gas infrastructure and forcing that end of OPEC's output to collapse.
Like it or not, nationals and friends of Israel are prominent in the core sectors of the global economy- including, especially, insurance and banking.
Every disruption, rerouting, impediment, etc. of the flow of goods and capital across the world due to Iran's actions and proxies constitutues unrestricted (but deniable) warfare by Tehran against Tel Aviv.
THis is a cost that everyone, no matter where they are, bears but becomes Israel (and Tel Aviv) got directly attacked there must be a response or Face will be lost.
If this escalated much further, those nuclear weapons won't remain objects of mockery much longer.
The liminal spaces between the Imperial Powers is about to shrink to a much smaller space, which is terrible for anyone seeking to avoid the consequences of such a war going hot- and I say that because World War Three is already here, but it remains cold with threatening flare-ups. It could go hot, and if this goes on it will, and far too many are not ready for it.
And the Imperial Powers see war as the answer to their problems, at home and abroad, so they have incentives to go hot sooner than later.
Get ready.
There's some Telegram channels to monitor on this and other theaters needing watchful eyes.
In this moment, we live in the hellworld of 1984.
There are three Imperial Powers: Globohomo, Russia, China. Each one has a sphere of influence. Each says it seeks peaceful coexistence with at least one of the other two, but its behavior belies the reality that it sees both rivals as enemies to be destroyed- one way or another.
The irony is that all three rival Thralls of Empire are very similar to one another, differing only in the details behind how the ruling Thralls execute their control.
But that moment is coming to a close. The Ukraine War was Globohomo successfully baiting Russia into a trap certain to destroy it. Now we see signs that this same strategy is bearing fruit against China.
Let is a defectee from China. She has first-hand experience of the Chinese Communist Party--the Red Dynasty--so she knows how it thinks and works. She's one of the best in the sphere of China Watchers out there, so I take her commentary seriously and watch for others to independently confirm what she presents. (Such others include, but are not limited to: The China Show, Peter Zeihan, and Digging To China)
Remember how I described Globohomo suckering Russia into attacking Ukraine?
You might want to get yourselves, anyone you value, and anything of value out of Taiwan right now. Even if (and at this point, that a big "If") the Red Dynasty somehow wins, they lose. China's demographics and political economy is as dire as Russia's, is as vulnerable to economic warfare as Russia's is, but they are even more fragile than Russia; as Zeihan has pointed out, all it would take to shatter China is to blockcade all oil and gas imports (almost all of which are over the water) and Beijing breaks within six months.
That said, the Chinese military can still inflict massive--ruinous--damage even if it fails in its war aims, something Taiwan takes seriously.
But the damage is done, and not even a successful war can save the Red Dynasty now.
Globohomo is on track to win, even with all of the incompetence and competition within its ranks and all of the domestic discontent in their own sphere, against its rivals.
Which is what should be expected for an Imperial power in competition with rivals, but that means an opportunity is coming that dissidents should prepare for.
That's the problem with rope-a-dope strategies. It involves knowing with certainty that all possible threats are successfully contained until they can be defeated in detail, first worn down and then finished off and dismemebered (to guarantee no future threat potential), as you using superior endurance and control to buy time to gas them out.
If you don't know who all the threats are, you will miss some and now it's you that get preyed upon by a fresh opponent because they wait and watch- not only are they fresh, they have accurate intelligence about you to exploit for best effect.
That, Dissident, is what you need to be doing: waiting, watching, and preparing to strike. Empire ain't going to fall by itself.
This past week on Monday, U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH 4) posted the following to Twitter.
Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
“Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”? pic.twitter.com/ZsAN9BZAcX
Someone else used one of the thread recap bots to collect this into a readable page. It is here.
If you want a summary, here: "So the ones screaming about book bans are the ones banning books."
But you ought to know how this is done.
Some of you may notice that this is a scaled-up version of the "cancellation" process that SJWs and Death Cultists use against targetted individuals. That's because it is.
This is why any serious dissident operation has to create a parallel economy across the board. To that end, it is the publishers (and Gab) that have actually put in real work and not the political organizations. Even so, there remains two major points of weakness where Globohomo has the upper hand: payment processing and banking.
(Yes, I am aware of GabPay; let's see how that plays out.)
The banking element, for now, must instead rely on the tension between the Western banking establishment and the major banking jurisdictions outside Globohomo's reach.
No one in the dissident sphere even figures that this is possible, but it is- and far richer enemies of Globohomo successfully wield it daily to fuck Globohomo over. Dissidents need to copy that homework.
(Yes, I will talk about this privately.)
Once a "private" institution is captured by Empire, it is repurposed into a pro-Empire propaganda outlet. Film Threat had a video yesterday about how this is being done at Amazon Studios.
And they will, if they can, choke off access to media that does not conform as Crunchyroll is doing for its all-digital library (and other captured companies are doing as they do to theirs).
And if they can, they will gaslight targets into conforming prior to seizing control themselves.
To say that it's bad is an understatement, but it is not insurmountable. What a remedy will require is time, patience, and massive amounts of teamwork.
There will be more and more need to erect parallel structures as Globohomo gets worse in the West. I think now is a good opportunity to pivot and start talking solutions using this as a focus.
We start today with a one-two video punch.
The Houthis of Yemen are playing pirate in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, allegedly targetting Israeli shipping but doing a bad job of it.
The US Navy has been slow to react because, for reasons Peter Zeihan has explained time and again, the US playing World Police as a pragmatic Cold War policy and the Cold War ended in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union.
Since then, Globohomo's faction of Empire rose ascendant and so long as there was sufficient lucre for the Thralls of Empire in the United States this would go on in a fashion suitable for everyone's benefit. (And benefit they did.)
So what's with the pause on reactions?
Simple enough, this time: the Pentagon is waiting to see what the Gulf States and Iran do, and in the meantime--and this, I admit upfront, is speculation on my part--I think that certain mercenary companies are getting inquiries about taking on a contract to deal with this piracy issue. Keeping two carrier groups on station ain't cheap, and protecting any merchant vessel not bearing a US flag--and that's the majority of them--is not a US Navy priority now.
In short, worried states and corporations are going to return to tradition and start cutting checks to Soldiers of Fortune- like this guy here.
Until exactly what is to be done is settled, that media silence will remain in place and only those who follow international shipping in particular and events related to Gaza generally are going to hear much at all- which is not to say nothing and no one, but rather that Normies aren't going to know or care until they see that pirates are fucking with their ability to buy stuff.
This, by the by, is why the Houthis are fucked unless they step up their due dilligence and ensure that only Israelis are hit by the pirate attacks. Not foreign crews. Not foreign vessels. Their intelligence to date has been dogshit, having them to attack uninvolved third parties several times and now forcing shipping disruptions that threaten to affect China, India, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Phillipines, Vietnam, all of Europe, all of the Americas, and--believe it or not--even Russia.
Good job, morons. Turn the world against you. This is how the Barbary Pirates ended up getting murked into extinction.
Once a decision is made, and actions against the Houthis are taken--and don't expect the US military to be the ones to do it; the Houthis pissed off the Japanese- that's not a good thing--it will go down with the support of the whole world because they fucked with uninvolved parties.
And meanwhile, the very objective behind it all--the support for Gaza--is not only driven out of the minds of those same people, they associate Houthi piracy with street-level banditry in their own countries (no, blocking the roads and impeding commerce as a protest doesn't endear you to anyone; without tacit State support, this doesn't not work), which will end up with tactic support for Israel as a result.
And you better believe that Israeli Narrative Warfare agents are on this beat right now. No one cares about events half a world away when their finances, already thinned, get fucked with even harder due to some concrete action by some jackass making their bad lives worse.
This is a major Frame Game fail, and I only wish Frame Game was over there to beat some sense into their leadership. Instead, we can look forward to them getting turned into chunky salsa with public approval.
Idiots.
No wonder Israel wins so many wars against its neighbors.
The conflict between Patron and Client in two Tweets.
π¨#BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters are now climbing up the on the White house fence as they throw objects at the Secret Service⁰⁰π#Washington | #DC ⁰⁰Currently, thousands of Pro-Palestine supporters have gathered at the White House after today's large march against US… pic.twitter.com/dnvjr6bjXz
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) November 5, 2023
π¨π΅ I'm hearing France is about to pass a bill which would criminalize insulting Israel. This law would punish anti-Israel speech with multiple years of jail time and tens of thousands of euros in fines.
— Frantruth (@frantruth) November 4, 2023
If true, would this be a step too far? pic.twitter.com/zudsuKu6GI
The Patrons, as I said last week, are very good at networking and organizing. They are the incumbent party here, with control over the institutions in all of the subject states of Globohomo. They can, and they are, using State power to shut down their rebellious Clients.
The Clients are good at mass actions and attracting media attention, as we see above and observers will see on social and news media alike throughout the Israel affair. That gets a lot of sentiment, but that does not translate to seizing power.
What we are about to see is that Influence is not Power. Since so many on both sides of this internecene conflict love Martin's Shit: The Fantasy story I find it useful to use one of its most clipped scenes to hammer the point home.
The Patrons will follow a policy of Containment. The Patrons have other enemies that they seek to deal with, so they will exploit this rebellion as best they can to advance that agenda (e.g. the attack on General Pershing's statue) while slowly wrangling the Clients back on to the plantation and whipping them back into line.
The Patrons have power. Public opinion does not matter; only elite opinion does, and as the Patrons are the elites only their opinions matter. The Clients think they are elites, but they are not and their grinding down and humiliation by the Patrons will be a public demonstration of this fact as things progress.
For now the Clients get to bully the children of the Patrons, but with each display of such predatory behavior the Patrons map out exactly who turned on them and how they can put this uprising down. Soon more States will follow France's lead. Soon more will also ban divestment from Israeli businesses (the anti-BDS laws), and more parties will make support of Israel explicit for access to either elected or appointed office.
State power is real and substantial. So is banking power, and that will be next to make itself felt as the funding for these operations starts drying up and racketeering charges start showing up in their place- maybe even terrorism charges. Controlled opposition parties (e.g. the Republicans in the United States) may be allowed to push through legal changes to remove aliens and foreigners that go against Israel if this goes on, and in some places in the West that pressure is already mounting.
I caution everyone that both sides of this fight are Globohomo Thralls; this is a knife fight in the backroom over the spoils of their criminal activity, so no matter who wins we are still in deep trouble and State power can only be strengthened as a result.
The best outcome is that both sides exhaust each other, allowing the dissidents the opportunity to act and remove both from the West and send them back to where they belong. This is not likely; you have better odds of winning the lottery or getting a decent movie out of the Devil Mouse.
Instead, do the following: do not go near any protests (you will not be protected; you will be targetted), do not take a side in this matter (not your problem; them being here instead of there is the problem), and be wary of both sides using this as a pretext to further attack and surpress the nations and cultures of the West in favor of Globohomo.
A serious nationalist dissident movement will be forced to contend with Globohomo agents using transit restrictions as weapons.
A serious network of such movements will prioritize erecting and maintaining parallel infrastructure specifically to counteract these tactics. One of them must be, by necessity, a transit network.
This network must be able to move men and material around quickly and quietly, both in small numbers and in large ones. Fortunately, there already exists successful models upon which a serious network of movements can employ to achieve this critical objective.
Using the system of internationally-distributed legal frameworks to conceal ownership and move money around--the same one Globohomo uses--the nationalist network creates an array of private transit operations. These are front companies, preferably corporations established in jurisidictions with the strictest privacy regulations, who contract with other companies that own the vehicles used by the front companies.
The front business is to run chartered transits. This can be over the road (buses and trains), in the air (planes), or over the water (boats and ships, almost all yachts of some sort). These are all businesses that easily explain why such assets are privately owned and employed to move people and things around.
In addition to having an easily-explained parallel network of transit, this is also a source of meaningful employment for dissidents and their supporters; the wages/salaries for those in this field of work are far better than your typical office worker, retail wagie, etc. and far higher status to boot.
You will come into contact with monied and influential people on a far more frequent basis. Some will be friendly- recruit them; some will be enemies- surveil them; some will be neutral- befriend them.
In between the regular charter service will be concealed movements of dissidents, either as crew or as guests, moving where they are needed.
Capacities can start small and operate in a local area or region, such as an owner-operator of a coach bus that does scenic tours and chartered people-moves, and scale up from there as success and support allows. It sure beats trying to operate a retail-level coffee brand or a publishing operation for achieving operational objectives and financing same.
Different arms of the network should be arranged as separate legal entities that are ultimately under a common (offshore) holding company which it (again) based in a jurisdiction with the strictest privacy regulations. Corporate reorganization will happen more than once as the network grows into one of truly global reach.
Which leads to the first logical expansion.
Dissidents need places to stay once they arrive. Real estate is hardly an uncommmon form of Foreign Direct Investment, and businesses hiring from abroad do include housing as part of the compensation package. This means it too is easily and readily explained.
The same legal framework and methodology applies; start small and local, scaling up over time and linking up with allies elsewhere, until it connects with the holding company that conceals the rest from Globohomo.
Houses, apartment blocks, cabins, palatial estates- whatever can be gotten can be used. This is going to piggyback off of what AirBNB started, and it means you're a landlord and need to deal with landlord things, but because (covertly) you know who's going to be staying in what (and for how long) a lot of typical tennant tantrums go away.
And we can import the talent needed to build and maintain that if necessary- and in some places, it is.
All these operations require skilled professionals and tradesmen to make it work. This is not a movement that will succeed with unskilled retards in the ranks.
Both the hard and the soft expertise is necessary; we'll need both pilots to fly the planes and stewards to make the passengers happy with experience, and I don't just mean planes (or trains, or automobiles, or yachts).
The personnel in the front offices, the IT experts securing the networks (including the communications suites in the command centers), the chefs cooking up culinary excellence for clients and allies alike, the mechanics doing repairs and maintenance, and the mates running the tenders as well as making up the cabins- all of this is necessary for the entire thing to work.
The front operations are not shells; these are proper businesses and need to be handled as such.
If the dissidents had all of this up and running, and secured banking access out of Globohomo (and Russian, and Chinese) reach, Globohomo can't win.
And we can deliver people and parcels great and small, do so with speed and discretion, and ensure that Things Just Work (and don't without us)- something they can't do without us.
Then, with this massive exercise in personnel and logistics sorted and mastered, we can evacuate our vulnerable people out of danger on short notice. From there, Empire must fall.
I am looking at solving the as-yet-unadmitted problem of the Western Dissident Movement scene.
This is an insurgency. Insurgencies cannot succeed without external support. No worthwhile rival power to Globohomo would even think to try, so said movements will have to find a way to do it themselves.
This is not impossible. It has been done before. It is being done now. Globohomo usually call such successful self-support schemes "supporting terrorism" due to whom that support goes to and what they do with it.
Yet the game has changed. Due to the exposure of Elites using global regulatory arbitrage to protect their wealth and ensure its generational transmission, the tools by which these same movements can erect and maintain their own external support is now open to we plebs to employ.
The dissidents are aware of each other. They communicate. They occassionally collaborate now. This is good, even if it is in symbolic gestures of no substantive impact.
Rather than wait for Globohomo to counterpunch where it would hurt, I would like to see these movements demonstrate that they are serious about winning and begin moving to make use of these tools for their own ends.
As things are, Globohomo can cripple the dissidents by shutting off their banking access. This is already on the table, thanks to Canada vs. the Truckers. Rather than wait for the hammer to drop, now is the time to get someone to a place where (a) an achievable investment can secure offshore banking access that (b) also permits dissidents legal Residency to that location. That place is Dubai, UAE; the means is to erect a Freezone company, put someone there to run it, and use it to establish banking access.
Red Ice Creations could, within about 30 days, relocate their entire operations to Dubai and live there fulltime. Associated people (and their spouses/minor children) could be hired on, up to the limit the UAE allows, and everyone gets Residency there- and protection from extradition.
This is not cheap; Dubai is an expensive place, but it is out of Globohomo's reach, and keeps both the Russians and the Chinese at arm's length.
There are places that (a) welcome Westerners with skills, (b) are not shitholes, and (c) have good education systems that remain out of Globohomo's reach while maintaining some degree of neutrality in geopolitical terms. Mauritius just east of Madagascar is one such place; Uruguay in South America is another. The purpose of these locations is to have refuges for your vulnerable supporters and/or their children, which takes Globohomo threats against them to get to dissidents off the table; those working in these locations should be expected to remit some of their income back home to fund operations.
This can be cheap, or at least no less costly, than living at home; the specifics will vary- and vulnerable elderly have a lot of options for dissidents to hide them due to how many countries have Retirement visa regimes.
Dissidents must admit that citizenship is nothing more than legal status with regard to a state, separate and distinct from nationality. (N.B.: The United States already does this.) Therefore, those dissidents that can acquire multiple citizenships should using any means at their disposal- including buying it via Citizenship By Investment.
Having multiple passports means that the home state can't lock you down, or lock you out of financial access abroad. Furthermore, by comparising passports, the savvy dissident can cover gaps in his home state's passport access by choosing citizenships that do so.
Furthermore, some citizenships confer advantages in other countries. (e.g. a Commmonwealth citizen gets accelerated routes to Citizenship in Colombia and Mauritius, and several Caribbean states that do CBI are Commonwealth states) All European dissidents are well aware of the benefits of European Union membership; similar benefits exist for Mercosur, the Caribbean Community, and Communidad Andina states. Western citizens in general enjoy a certain favoritism vs. other foreigners in several Asian states (e.g. the Phillipines).
Using this legal status for tactical and strategic ends to faciliate operations against Globohomo is entirely licit and should be embraced; it's no different than stacking legal Residencies to secure access to foreign countries.
Once mature, the Western nationalist dissident network will be a hardened target against the Globohomo elites at home. Unable to be debanked due to having accounts in places the enemy can't (or don't dare) touch, unable to intimidate via targetting vulnerable dependents or supporters (because they are abroad indefinitely), and unable to control transit due to nationalists having parallel infrastructure in place (erecting charter businesses and media companies are obvious Expat Colony business options, pays big money, legitimizes owning planes and (big) boats (etc.), and permits networking with sympathetic elites) means that competing and winning becomes probable- if the dissident leadership is serious.
Show me that they are serious. Then we can stop talking about making Empire fall and start doing it.
