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Islamic scholar Abu Bilal Yakub discusses The One-Eyed Impostor, book one of his Messiah and False Messiah trilogy.

He hypothesizes that the Dajjal (Antichrist) is “in a realm (or dimension) suspended somewhere between the material realm (our physical universe) and the seven stratas (the seven heavens), which not only explains why he has not yet physically emerged (at the present moment of writing this book) but how he is able to enact his actions and their manifestations in our world, particularly how he is able to communicate with his servants, in the same way that sorcerers are able to communicate with the Jinn across dimensions.” His views about the relationship of Zionism to Antichrist/Dajjal parallel those of Sheikh Imran Hossein.

Sidi Abu Bilal Yakub is a senior teacher at the Online Institute of Islamic Eschatology. The author of several works of fiction as well as non-fiction, his approach to Islamic scholarship in general and eschatology in particular is distinguished by its philosophical bent.

From the interview:

They're trying to program (AI) in such a way as to make it seem as though it's able to empathize or sympathize, but it's only using information that arrives through the audible and visual that comes to it. It cannot actually sense on a deeper level.

You could sit next to, you could talk to somebody and you could sense that they're upset by what you're saying. Or that it's uplifting them somehow. A human being can do that. But the machine cannot do that.

Their aim is to take it to that level. And they have the Turing test, in which you would subject a human being and if they can be deceived by (the AI), then artificial intelligence has passed the test. And that's the idea. If you can be deceived by the entity, then it has succeeded.

And that's primarily the argument I make in the beginning of my book there, that his premise as the Antichrist (is that) he succeeds if you fail in your purpose. And he fails if you succeed in your purpose. So it's not on him, it's actually on you. It's actually on us as the human beings. If we adhere to our purpose of creation, then he essentially fails. And we're not actually adhering to our purpose of creation, at least not in the majority. And how can we fix that?

There are a number of really interesting kinds of predictions about the end times in Islamic scripture that probably a lot of my audience hasn't heard of. Some of these are very resonant with things today.

Often people point to “(in the end times) the desert Bedouins will compete with each other building tall buildings” and then they look at Dubai and Qatar and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But one that always jumps out at me, and did again after this presidential debate with Biden and Trump, is that “in the end times, the worst of a community will be its leaders—the very worst people will be the leaders.” And that seems to be coming true, nowhere more obviously than in the American presidential race. But I suppose that an artificial intelligence based on the world system we have today would maybe be the worst leader of all.

Well, there's no depth of perception, right? If you want to look at someone like John F. Kennedy, if you look at his speeches, or you look at Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, and you look at the way they speak and the kind of articulation and this charisma that they develop when they're speaking, how they move masses of people, it's genuine. It's honest. It's sincere. It's not just cooked up because you've got a whole database of information, terabytes upon petabytes and whatever. It's not hollow. And anyone who's intelligent can see that. It's empty. We know you're lying, but there's nothing we can do about it.

And it's not just the case with the American leadership. It's the case with any part of the world. Individuals like Putin are a dying breed, if you will.

Yeah, he can speak without a teleprompter.

Whoever's coming in next after them, we don't know what kind of individual they might be. But these kind of leaders are now a dying breed. We've now got the kind of Trumps and Bidens and these type of individuals. I mean, Biden himself, to be honest…I don't want to discuss politics, but there are things that as a leader, if he had the capability, I'm pretty sure he could have done certain things for the country. But then again, insofar as world events are concerned, insofar as foreign policies are concerned, you've got characters like Obama and Biden served under him. There are a lot of damages that these individuals have done to the rest of the world.

So gone are the times when we had leaders like JFK in the United States, We're now in times where you have the worst of people coming in to lead, and these are superpowers.

And one of the aspects of this “worst people are the leaders” prediction that seems to have come true in an uncanny and very disturbing way is that so many of the leadership classes in the United States are compromised, whether by having been approached by representatives of the State of Israel through the lobby group AIPAC. When they first elected to Congress, the first thing that happens, according to Cynthia McKinney, who I just interviewed last night, is that some Israeli representative shows up, and demands that you sign a loyalty oath to the state of Israel. And then you are assigned an AIPAC minder who basically follows you around, and they have a whole team that basically gets to know you better than you know yourself, better than your spouse knows you. And they totally run you.

And then it gets worse than that. The best way to make sure that you rise up in the hierarchy is to do something so horrific on camera that they own you. And a whole lot of the leadership class obviously has had that happen. Jeffrey Epstein is the famous case, but there are undoubtedly a lot of people doing the same job as Jeffrey Epstein. And so many of these people, a great majority, it seems, are in fact working with the state of Israel and a kind of global organized crime syndicate related to it. So it does seem that regarding the (prophecy of the) worst people coming to power, there's actually sort of a machine for creating or minting worse and worse and worse people and putting them in the highest positions of power.

Yeah. They definitely have. And they're not shy of it. The Zionists have openly admitted it. Netanyahu has spoken about it so many times in his speeches when he's asked about, “what about American policy?” And I think he's actually said it, once or twice, that “the Americans will do precisely what we tell them to do.”

Right now, he's on the verge of annexing the Gaza Strip, which has been his objective from the very beginning. This whole thing was an opportunity for him and for the Zionists,= whether they created it themselves or it just happened to fall in their laps that people died on that day. It seems very shaky that they were caught by surprise or whatever. That story doesn't make sense. For several hours on clear blue skies, how is it that your intelligence, your cameras, your radars could not pick up these individuals coming in? I'm pretty sure you created the opportunity for yourselves,

But they seized the opportunity and he laid out exactly what he wants to do with it. They need that strip. They need the whole thing. They cannot have an enemy on their back, while they're facing Jerusalem and trying to conquer that to make it ready for their Messiah to come and sit on his throne. It's not a viable strategy to have an enemy on your back.

So this was part of the plan. When Biden tried to reason with him, “do not make plans of annexing the Gaza Strip,” he ignored him altogether. And yet Biden, though ignored, though shunned in this manner, still sends warships, still sends weapons and aid and all these things to the Israelite side. What does that tell you about the leadership itself?

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En route to Congress, Jamaal Bowman was forced to issue a ritual denunciation of one of his heroes, six-term Georgia Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. We know Bowman admired McKinney because he put her, alongside Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and others, on his Cornerstone Academy “wall of honor.”

But Bowman’s ritual denunciations of McKinney didn’t save him. AIPAC, the Jewish billionaire lobby that runs America as its private fiefdom, couldn’t allow anyone to remain in Congress who doesn’t enthusiastically support the genocide of Gaza.

Cynthia McKinney, during her six terms in Congress, got a close-up-and-personal view of the Jewish billionaires’ stranglehold over American government. If she had let them buy her the way they’ve bought almost everyone else (except Thomas Massie?) she might well have become a vice president, or even president.

One of the Jewish billionaire dictatorship’s genocidal mind-control commissars informs us:

Bowman has likewise left no doubt that he disagrees with McKinney’s most vile, antisemitic statements. When McKinney tweeted a meme about Zionists perpetrating 9/11 in June 2021, Bowman replied that her message was “antisemitic,” “hateful,” “misguided and ignorant,” and asked Twitter to remove her post…McKinney, an outspoken Israel critic, lost the Democratic primary to a challenger backed by pro-Israel donors in 2002. When asked who he blamed for McKinney’s difficult race, McKinney’s father, then-state Rep. Billy McKinney, told a TV interviewer: “Jews have bought everybody. Jews, J-E-W-S.”

Cynthia McKinney, like her father, has the guts to spell it out. If Americans ever take back their country, she’ll feature prominently and heroically in the history books.

Excerpt from the interview:

I’m Kevin Barrett doing audio with an old friend and regular guest going way, way back: Cynthia McKinney, the best person I ever voted for for president. Cynthia, you're far ahead of your time now with people like Thomas Massie (confirming McKinney’s description of AIPAC handlers controlling Congressional reps) and the whole Jamal Bowman affair. People are saying “Cynthia figured out that these Jewish Zionists own Congress long before most people had ever heard of it.”

That's exactly right. And the situation with Jamal Bowman is bittersweet for me. Because right after he got elected, clearly he was carrying out some diktat from AIPAC because he put out a tweet criticizing, condemning me. And he never knew me. He knew about me. I've since read that he had me on his black history board for his high school or middle school, where he was the principal. So I went from being someone laudable enough to make a New York state board for Black History Month, to becoming the goat to be ridiculed on his Twitter after he was elected to the Congress.

And I just knew it had the APAC fingerprints all over it. Putting myself in Bowman's position: “Let me go ahead and get this out of the way. Let me show them how loyal I am to them. Let me do this public criticism of Cynthia McKinney.”

So he did that. He had to denounce Cynthia McKinney. And then (three years later) he exits Congress after having been McKinneyed.

What good does it do to kowtow to these Zionists? It doesn't help. They just keep coming.

That's the whole point. It’s what I said—it must be 25 or 30 years ago now. I said 100% is not enough. You can give AIPAC (everything). And all of the tentacles that extend from AIPAC.

They talk about the AIPAC donations. But if you're speaking about the pro-Israel lobby, it's way bigger than just AIPAC. Those tentacles extend all over the Washington, D.C., political landscape. For example, you might be an environmentalist and you're looking to get some money from environmental organizations. Well, who creates the hurdles that you have to jump over? It's the pro-Israel climate people or green people or environmental people.

It might be that you're looking for health or budget priorities. And then, who establishes those hurdles that you have to jump over in order to get the PAC money? It's the same people, it's the cousins of the same people, that you have to jump over for the climate.

And so once you get up there, what you realize is that it's all very connected. It's like…What is that called that the mushrooms make?

The mycelium.

Exactly. So Washington, D.C. is run by the pro-Israel mycelium that extends all over Washington, D.C.

That sounds about right, although it's kind of an insult to mycelium and the noble mushroom to call it that. I mean, I like mushrooms. I'm not even getting into the kinds of mushrooms I used to grow when I was young and stupid. But seriously, yeah, they're everywhere, aren't they?

They are everywhere. And so I have had many conversations about this, and one of the most illuminating conversations was with Walter Fontroy. And Walter Fontroy from the Committee on Political Assassinations from the U.S. Congress was the delegate from Washington, D.C. Fontroy coined their presence in this way. He said they utilize the choke point. They act by way of the choke point theory, which means that wherever the choke point is in an organization, that's where you'll find them. So you don't need a massive numerical presence. You just have to have the right presence in the right place, in the right position, and then you can know everything that's going on in that organization.

So for example, Thomas Massey just recently exposed—well, re-exposed because I said it—that every congressional office has an AIPAC person checking off the checklist. Does this member do this? Does this member do that? What are the weaknesses of this member? You write that down. What are the strengths of this member? You write that down. What can we use this member for?

And in every committee meeting, every subcommittee meeting, there's an APAC person checking off the checklist. What did this member say? What did that member say? And they have the most complete dossier that I can ever imagine on every member of Congress.

I have a story I can tell you. So there's one—I won't mention her because she is still in the Congress— but she was friends with me. She was friendly with me and she liked me. She used to call me Cindy. She said, Cindy, you're too smart. You, we need you here because you're too smart.

You know, I was maybe too honest in my smartness because I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help if I couldn't just look the other way. Anyway, this particular member of Congress came to me one day when I explained everything to her, how they operate. And she was stunned. She was shocked. And she said “they know everything about me now.”

The process that they used in order to know everything about her was they volunteered to do her campaign accounting for free. So they sent someone to her to do the free accounting for the campaign. And now you know that that is extremely intricate, detail-oriented work. You've got to be on point with that, right? And so you have very few campaign staffers that can actually perform that function.

So they volunteered for her. And then they said, well, you know, we can do your taxes every year. We'll do it for free.

But it was only after I told her what my experiences were, blah, blah, blah. And she was so concerned. She came to me and she wanted me to remain quiet so I could stay in Congress. And so then she was shocked and horrified that they had utilized this methodology of offering freebies to get to know everything about her. And I told her, “yeah, they know everything about you.”

So then when redistricting came, because she was firmly wrapped up in their cocoon and controlled by them, she was favorably redistricted. And one from her state, who is very well known to everybody, was unfavorably redistricted and removed from Congress by way of redistricting.

He probably just had like a Jewish hairdresser or something, but not a Jewish accountant. And as Kanye learned, you have to watch out for Jewish personal trainers….

So the hierarchy is that you actually marry a Jew, then that's, you know, that's it.

Right. It's almost like getting circumcised by a rabbi.

Well, yeah, it's the circumcision of your brain, right? So I have another story I can tell of a member of Congress who…I don't think he intended to be problematic to the pro-Israel lobby, but he was, I think, unintentionally problematic. And in this particular regard, they were interested in extracting as much as they could from the African continent, and they didn't want any African American members of Congress interfering with that, trying to be pan-Africanist or whatever.

Trying to give the local people a cut of the deal.

That's an issue. How can you make more billionaires, more oligarchs, if you have to share the proceeds? So this particular congressional office was always sort of a problem on Africa and serving on the House International Relations Committee, the Africa subcommittee. And eventually what they decided to do was to infiltrate the office by way of that congressional staffer that did the bulk of the work for the Africa subcommittee. And they made sure that one of their persons presented a big fat diamond ring, worth tens of thousands of dollars, to her. And then married her. And all of a sudden, the advocacy for Africa and Africans ceased.

Oh, man. So it's not just accountants and personal trainers. It's spouses.

It's spouses, that's right. So you can imagine what Mr. Doug is whispering in Kamala's ear, right?

Totally, totally.

Of course, the thing about Kamala, the way she came up, is that a whole lot of whispering has been done in her ears.

I think Willie Brown whispered a few sweet nothings.

That's right. All we have to do is ask Willie Brown. He knows probably every one of them.

Yeah, I think he knows more than he says. He did mention that his plane flight got canceled right before 9/11. He's one of those people like Salman Rushdie that they got advance warning that something was going to happen that day, so they didn't fly.

That's right. Yep. He's connected.

So these people, they're 2% of the population, and the active members of the tribe are probably 2% of that, so they're a tiny number of people, but somehow they rule the other 98+%.

That's because we allow it to happen. And now, how does that happen? Well, one is through fear, intimidation, blackmail, that sort of thing. If you're in the position to receive that kind of treatment, then you're going to receive that kind of treatment. I was offered all kinds of things if I went along with their game. I just didn't go along with it.

As I think about it in retrospect, you don't make the cover of the New York Times Sunday magazine unless they have something in store for you. So this was the way they prepared me to say yes to their scheme. And then I said no, right? So they were doing everything. They even had Nat Hentoff call me and say, “Cynthia, when are you going to get arrested at the Sudan embassy?” Because this is before the balkanization of Sudan. And of course they're not finished with Sudan.

Well, I said, never, because they want me to lie. And he told me that he could ensure that I would get on the cover of Time magazine and Newsweek if I would do that and I could have my seat for the rest of my life. He said “you could die in the seat.”

So, you know, those are the kinds of conversations that I had all the time. And they're quite frank and open about their bribery, because they were trying to bribe me into becoming an adjunct to the tribe, I guess you could say.

Right.

They sent some count to me, some European count. And he's trying, they're trying, to get me under control on Africa. So he wants to introduce me to an African president. And it never happened, of course. It never happened. And I guess he was sent on that mission. And since he failed in his mission, he jumped off a building and killed himself.

Wow. I don't think I've ever heard that story before.

Oh, no, I haven't told it because I'm just not thinking about these things. You're so busy living life, you don't really take the time to record what you've lived. And so that's just one of the things that happened to me.

So it's all about controlling people and controlling resources. And people are resources, too. And so it's all about controlling every aspect of every possible resource that can exist on the planet. And they do a good job of it. And then we don't stop them.

So, you know, I ask myself, is it really worth fighting them? Because now they have completely conquered African-Americans. They've completely conquered Africa. They've turned their sights toward Asia. They don't completely control Asia. There's a lot of control within China. And I'm watching China very closely to see where China falls in the end.

And you've got, I mean, they're making tremendous inroads in Asia as well. We'll see. But the pivot to Asia is the pivot for the Jewish power control over Asia. They've basically broken the backs of the Anglo-Saxons and the Europeans. They control Europe—although Europe is not really a separate continent, but they like to think of themselves as being separate, particularly the Western Europeans.

They think they’re a garden, and everyplace else is the jungle.

Yes, that's right. The problem is that too many of us in the jungle also think they are the garden and that they've got some secret for flower growing that we don't have…

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man. The Israeli Prime Minister is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. He is considered a leading suspect in the 9/11 false flag attacks. And he is also very much wanted, meaning desired, as a guest speaker at the US Congress in Washington, DC.

Normally, Congress isn’t in the habit of inviting serial killers to deliver solemn declamations. Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Jeff Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Charles Manson were never issued bipartisan invitations to address America’s legislators, any more than Jack the Ripper was rolled out the red carpet to proffer perorations to Parliament.

But Netanyahu is a special case. His scheduled July 24 speech marks the fourth occasion that America’s top congressional leaders have honored the world’s leading child murderer and genocide perpetrator with a speaking opportunity. If he evades Interpol and arrives safely in DC, Netanyahu will overtake former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the foreign leader who has delivered the most speeches to Congress. (Churchill was “only” invited three times.)

Bizarrely, Netanyahu’s speeches to Congress are always stinging rebukes of sitting US presidents. In July 1996, newly-elected anti-peace-process candidate Netanyahu threw ice water on then-president Clinton’s efforts to fulfill the promise of the Camp David accords, which required Israel to withdraw from East Jerusalem. Netanyahu basically gave Clinton the finger:

“There have been efforts to re-divide this city (Jerusalem) by those who claim that peace can come through division—that it can be secured through multiple sovereignties, multiple laws, and multiple police forces.This is a groundless and dangerous assumption which impels me to declare today: There will never be such a re-division of Jerusalem!”

After returning home, Netanyahu repeatedly attacked the Al-Aqsa mosque, slaughtered dozens of Palestinians, and ultimately used Israeli asset Monica Lewinsky to hamstring Clinton and torpedo his peace plan. (The Likud leader likely oversaw a much bigger dirty trick on September 11, 2001, but the details of that complex and contested event are beyond the scope of this essay.)

Twice during Obama’s presidency, in 2011 and 2015, Netanyahu again used speeches to Congress to slap down a US president’s peace plans. On May 24, 2011, the Israeli PM reiterated that Israel would never, ever return to its pre-1967 borders—as the entire world including the US insists it must—and warned Obama against negotiating with Iran. Then on March 3, 2015, Bibi returned to the US Congress to viciously attack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. On that occasion, Congress’s sycophancy appalled the entire world. The BBC reported that Netanyahu “got 28 standing ovations in 47 minutes—there was hardly time for the audience to sit down between them.”

Why is a corrupt, genocide-perpetrating foreign leader suspected of orchestrating 9/11 so popular at the US Congress? The answer, of course, is that Congress is owned by Israel.

How did a foreign nation take over the US Congress? The short answer: They have used every trick in the book, including:

*Bribery: Israel’s partisans give between one third and one half of congressional “campaign donations”—and that’s just the on-the-books money.

*Blackmail: For decades, Israeli asset Meyer Lansky blackmailed J. Edgar Hoover and the rest of America’s leadership, and Jeffrey Epstein and dozens or hundreds of others have continued those activities.

*Assassination: Israel leads the world in political assassinations, and is suspected of involvement in the deaths of such Americans as President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, among others.

*Media Dominance: See Philip Weiss’s essay “Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?”

As technology evolves, the Israelis keep learning new tricks. The world found out about one of them recently when Politico reported that “at least 128 members of Congress were targeted by an Israeli-linked operation to spread pro-Israel military content amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.” The operation, backed by the Israeli government, included the creation of 600 fake social media profiles spamming targeted lawmakers with “more than 2000 coordinated comments per week backing Israel’s military actions, slamming Palestinian rights groups, and dismissing claims of human rights abuses.”

When Russia was accused of doing similar things in 2016, without much evidence, the media blew it up into the Russiagate scandal that hobbled Trump’s presidency. But there are no indications that Russia ever gained significant influence over the US government.

Israel, by contrast, has now been caught dead-to-rights targeting Congress through social media fraud. And the evidence that Israel exerts significant control over the US government is undeniable. Just look at how Congress keeps kissing the feet of indicted war criminal Netanyahu.

Why isn’t this a vastly bigger scandal than Russiagate? Why do Americans worry about fake or feeble foreign influence operations, when a real, overwhelmingly powerful one is staring them in the face?

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Fadi Lama returns to this show with a slideshow based on his article “Israel: The Jewish Settler Colony in the Levant: A Prognosis.” Since our last interview, Israel has edged closer to the full-scale attack on Lebanonthat could be the Zionist Entity’s undoing. As Fadi told me:

“If Israel attacks (Lebanon) it’s real war. I mean real war. Now there are, if you want to call them, serious skirmishes, but it’s not a real war like they’re doing on Gaza. If they do (start) a real war, then it may be considered that from a religious standpoint that Hezbollah can enter into a full war.”

Fadi Lama is the author of Why the West Can’t Win: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World.

Excerpt:

Let's look at the quick achievements (of the Axis of Resistance). Liberation of Lebanon from Israeli occupation, defeating US occupation forces in Iraq, defeating the colonial war on Iraq and Syria versus these head choppers and the Kurdish proxies, defeating the colonial war on Yemen via Saudi and UAE proxies, developing a formidable resistance, Hezbollah, and developing a formidable Palestinian resistance.

Can you imagine? A strong army, with all these F-16s, all this bombing, and they cannot subdue a popular resistance in Gaza’s 141 square miles.

The current status: We have persistence of the genocide, the racist supremacist ideology. And this, of course, is essentially rallying people in the Muslim Ummah against this genocide. The Ummah is being revived. Okay, a very weak revival, but it's being revived.

A more powerful revival is in the Levant, because they are acting as one. The resistance in Lebanon, the resistance in Iraq, Syria as a logistics base, and the resistance in Palestine, and expanding to Southwest Asia with Iran and Yemen’s Ansarullah.

And this flips the demography. (There are 7 million Jews vs. 7 million Palestinians in historic Palestine, which is just one province of the Levant, itself a province of the Muslim Ummah. The Levant includes not only 7 million Palestinians but also 22.13 Syrians, 5.5 Lebanese, 11.3 million Jordanians, and most of the 85 million Turks and 111 million Egyptians, as well as some residents of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The even larger Ummah includes about two billion people. So 7 million “Israeli” Jews are fighting the 200 million Muslims and Christians of the Levant, and behind it the two billion strong Muslim Ummah -KB)

And keep in mind, you need to have a criminal ideology to commit genocide and colonialism. But this supremacist ideology also can blind you. And now it's like a double-edged sword. It's leading to fatal strategic decisions. The military differential has flipped. Israel is following the American model. They are still fighting World War II. And as you can see, they failed in Gaza. They failed in opening sea lanes (in Yemen).

A lot of people focus on Israel’s nuclear capability. But Alistair Crook is the best Western reference on the situation in the region, and for several years, he has been saying repeatedly, forget the nuclear bomb. The Axis of Resistance has made a ring of missiles which can destroy by convention means the state of Israel. And he specifically says that while all eyes were focused on the big one, the nuclear bomb, this ring of missiles was slowly, slowly being developed, which he calls the red pill option.

So military supremacy in Southwest Asia is with the Resistance Axis.

There seems to be escalation on the front between the occupied Palestine and Lebanon right now, and we have a new extremist war cabinet in power in Israel that wants to fight Lebanon again to try to avenge 2006. You're saying that the Axis of Resistance has military superiority. Do you believe that this war will expand, and where will it go?

You can approach it from any angle, and the truth is always the same. What has changed in the military material and the operational doctrine of the Israeli army between the 2006 war and the war on Gaza? Nothing! F-16s, bombing to smithereens, killing civilians, okay? Nothing has changed. They go back to the same (failed) war doctrine.

If you look at Hezbollah between 2006 and today, nothing has remained the same. Everything has changed. Material has changed, operational doctrine has changed, war experience has changed. The war that they waged against the NATO head-choppers in Iraq and Syria covered hundreds of thousands square kilometers of land.

These were big wars, these were major wars. And also in the eastern mountains of Lebanon. This was a very big war. They had the training there.

Hezbollah today is incomparable with Israel today.

So, Israel was defeated in 2006. What about now? Everybody with a little brain can see it. Why can’t they (the Zionists)? They can't see it—or some of them can't see it. A lot of people in their own military are telling them this is a suicide mission. But the crazies, specifically Smorich and Ben-Gvir…This is where I said this (genocidal) ideology is a double-edged sword. It blinds you from reality, so you take strategically catastrophic decisions.

Returning to the point which you raised: It's no longer about the settlers within this map (of the arbitrarily designated segment of the Levant) that was called Palestine by the British. No, it is the whole Levant that is rising, along with the Ummah, as you mentioned, with this war on Gaza.

So now all the pillars have been reversed. The ideology now is running counter to the interests of survival of the colony.

The military differential is totally lopsided towards the Resistance Axis.

And the demographic differential—this is important for people to know—is not about the number of Jews versus Christians and Muslims in the land called Palestine. No, it's the number of the settler Jews, those who came from Europe and other places, versus the Levant and potentially the Ummah.

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Author AJ Smuskiewicz discusses his new book Searching for Truth in the Empire of Lies. It recount's AJ's career journey from graphics designer to biologist to writer-editor to damnable heretical dissident, and includes essays published at Intellectual Conservative, The Unz Review, and VT Foreign Policy, as well as at his personal website.

It seems AJ used to be within hailing distance of consensus reality. He once made a living editing work that fell squarely within the Overton Window of acceptable discourse. But somewhere along the way, something happened. What was it? Was he kidnapped by space aliens in Peotone, Illinois, as he asserts in the book, and given a "dissident implant"? Or was it the COVID-era mass formation psychosis that alienated him? Or maybe he just imbibed one official lie too many, and suddenly felt the need to vomit them all out? Tune in to the interview and find out what happened to AJ.

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Will nuclear World War III happen this summer? The answer, we all hope, pray, and expect, is “no.” But the odds of what would be an unprecedented global disaster are at an all-time high. The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, stuck at a record-breaking 90 seconds to midnight since last year, should have moved a few ticks closer to Armageddon in late May, after Ukraine and its US backers began striking Russian early-warning radar sites tasked with detecting a US nuclear attack.

Russia announced that it would respond symmetrically by arming US adversaries with long-range weapons. Since then a Russian nuclear-capable fleet has visited Cuba, raising the prospect of another Cuban missile crisis, and Putin has embraced North Korea in such a way as to confirm rumors that Russia has indeed given North Korea Topol M missiles, as claimed by Theodore Postol. More such gifts to various US adversaries are undoubtedly in the pipeline.

The proximate trigger for World War III’s death-spiral of uncontrollable escalation could conceivably happen in Korea, on the Russia-Ukraine front, or in the South China Sea. But it seems likelier that Armageddon will erupt from somewhere in the general vicinity of its namesake, Megiddo Hill, in northern Occupied Palestine.

That prognosis is based on rational calculation, not scriptural prophecy. There is an obvious reason why the Holy Land is the leading candidate for triggering global nuclear war: It is occupied by a doomed, fanatical messianic-millenarian death cult armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Since global nuclear war will make the world so much worse for everyone (except vultures, jackals, rats, and other eaters of carrion) it will inevitably be the product of extreme rashness and recklessness. In Occupied Palestine, the level of maniacal heedlessness in high places is off the charts. Even the crazed neocons running the US seem like rational actors compared to Israel’s leaders.

As my recent podcast guest Oliver Boyd-Barrett wrote this morning:

Netanyahu, following the resignation of Bennie Gantz from the war cabinet a few days ago, has dissolved the cabinet, returning direct control of the war to the full security cabinet. This development, in an already febrile combustible climate, enhances the likelihood that its more fanatical wing will push for an Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon, plans for which have already been confirmed.

There is a reason why the US put the kibosh on Netanyahu’s plans for a major war on Lebanon shortly after the October 7 Al-Aqsa Storm concentration camp breakout. And that reason is all-too-obvious: Israel has no hope of winning such a war without dragging in the US, which would in turn drag in Iran and Russia, ultimately backed by China. Nobody could afford to let their side lose such a war, so it would likely escalate uncontrollably.

But if the American leadership is sometimes minimally rational, the same can’t be said of its Israeli counterpart. Following the resignations of Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot on June 13, the Zionist entity has been in the hands of certifiable lunatics like Smotrich and Ben Gvir. They have made no secret of their determination to avenge Hezbollah’s 2006 humiliation of Israel, at whatever cost. Netanyahu is on board, since the alternative is stepping down and going to prison. Now that the Israeli military has approved operational plans for an invasion of Lebanon, the likely trigger for World War III has been locked and loaded.

But if Israel invades Lebanon against US orders, might the American leadership finally decide to act in its own interests, rather than allowing itself to once again be hijacked by Israeli extremists?

Press TV Interviews Kevin Barrett on Israel-Lebanon Escalation

Political analyst Kevin Barrett joins us now from Saidia, Morocco, to offer us more insight on that story. Mr. Barrett, welcome to the program. First of all, I want to get your perspective on the escalation of violence and escalation of tensions between the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and the occupying Israeli regime on the southern Lebanese border.

Well, ever since Israel launched its genocidal attack on the people of Gaza last October, Hezbollah has been supporting the Palestinian cause and pushing back against this genocide by keeping a level of activity going on the southern Lebanese border of the occupied Palestinian territories, forcing the Zionists to keep their military forces on high alert, keeping a number of those forces tied down in the north. They actually ended up having to evacuate some of those occupied territories. Some of the settlers, a large number, I believe half a million people actually, have left those occupied territories.

And currently, the Zionist regime seems to be in a crisis. They've had a cabinet member, Benny Gantz, resign. There is a question about whether they'll be able to cobble together this new government totally dominated by the ultra-extremists. And those ultra-extremists, more than anyone else in the Zionist entity, are absolutely dedicated to going after Lebanon and to fighting it out with Hezbollah. They are still licking their wounds from having been defeated in 2006. And somehow they imagine that they're going to get a better outcome this time, even though the balance of forces has shifted significantly in favor of Hezbollah.

So these provocations are designed to try to draw Hezbollah into a war in such a way that Hezbollah wouldn't have the full political support of everybody in Lebanon. And Hezbollah is not going for that. Hezbollah knows that they don't want all-out war with the Zionist entity under any conditions except conditions in which the whole world, including everybody in Lebanon, can see that the Zionists are clearly and absolutely 100% the aggressors.

So that's kind of the strategic dance that's being played out across that border. And currently, the Zionists are escalating. And how far they're going to escalate, I don't know.

Mr. Barrett, talking about the continuation of these retaliatory attacks against the Israelis, the Israeli regime is the one responsible here as the United Resistance Front in the region continues with the attacks. It has been stated many times that these attacks against the Israelis and against even U.S. interests in the region will continue as long as the Israelis carry out this genocidal onslaught and massacre against Palestinians. I want you to elaborate on that for us as well. And in the broader picture, this has all been a major failure for Israel, hasn't it? Specifically when we're looking regionally, where the Israelis have not made it safe for them at all in the region.

Yes, the Israelis are actually digging their own graves with their extremist genocidal response to the Al-Aqsa storm raid on October 7th. And currently, the Axis of Resistance is riding high with the whole region supporting it. Here in Morocco, everybody is supporting the Axis of Resistance, much more so than was the case a couple of years ago. And the same is true all across the region.

And the Axis of Resistance has been able to coordinate its activities in such a way as to caused interruptions in so-called global shipping, meaning supplying the genocidal Zionist entity with materials, including weapons, that it uses to carry out this genocide, with the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen successfully chasing the American forces out of that region and basically winning that battle. And likewise, Hezbollah in Lebanon has continued to put pressure on the Zionists.

And so the Zionists are now really surrounded, not only by an ever-increasing, ever-stronger Axis of Resistance, but by a region that's coalescing behind that Axis of Resistance. The balance of forces in the world is shifting in favor of the Axis of Resistance as the entire Global South is appalled by this genocide and appalled by the American empire's collusion in that genocide.

And we're also seeing that due to the stupidity of the managers of the U.S. empire, which of course is dominated by Zionists, that the war in Ukraine is actually playing out in favor of Palestine. As they attack Russia with long-range weapons, Russia is going to be offering similar long-range weapons to other forces, including presumably the Axis of Resistance. And there have been some reports along those lines.

So Hezbollah now has orders of magnitude more firepower than it did in 2006. And who knows whether that's being augmented even as we speak with some of the latest generation hypersonic weapons as well.

So the Zionists have bit off more than they can chew. They no longer have escalation dominance, and they no longer have the only kind of “nuclear” quote-unquote, deterrent. That is, the other side can destroy them just as much as they can destroy anybody on the other side. And they're so arrogant, they can't admit that it's time to negotiate some kind of solution. They have to try to dominate. They have to try to completely crush their opposition, but they can't. And every year, the situation gets worse for them.

So at some point, it looks like the long-range strategy of the Axis of Resistance is going to bear fruit, and the settler colonial regime is going to have to cease its genocide and pull back and ultimately leave the region, and we're going to have a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

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Welcome everyone to Press TV's news review program where we get in-depth in one of the day's top stories. And now today in review, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, says over 50,000 children across the Gaza Strip are suffering from acute malnutrition. UNRWA described the humanitarian situation as catastrophic, adding Gazans are now facing desperate levels of hunger due to the Israeli blockade.

The UN Children's Agency UNICEF also said the children of Gaza are living in constant terror due to Israeli bombardment. UNICEF said the Israeli forced displacement of Gazans in Rafah has caused the agency to lose track of over 3,000 children. It added the humanitarian conditions and the suffering of citizens in Gaza are worsening by the day due to the continuous blockade by Israeli forces.

And joining us for our program now, pardon, is Dr. Kevin Barrett, Editor at Veterans Today, joining us from Saidia, Morocco and Gilbert Doctorow, Independent International Affairs Analyst, joining us out of Brussels. Gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you both to the program.

Dr. Barrett, we'll start with you. Hope you're doing well out there in Morocco. Your thoughts about the regime continuing to block all humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza and that's impacting the development of vulnerable small children.

Kevin Barrett: Well, the genocidal Zionist regime is deliberately starving children of Palestine, and they're admitting this. They're not even trying to hide it. Numerous Israeli leaders have made clearly genocidal statements, such as statements about how the children who survived when we mowed the lawn are the same people who then grow up to support Hamas and so on, so we really should have just killed all the children back then. And by implication, we should kill them now. The top rabbi in Israel has basically said this, as have a number of the other Israeli leaders.

So they're not even hiding the fact that they're deliberately slaughtering, torturing, and maiming children as national policy. And the fact that this is allowed to happen in today's world is astonishing.

Right now we're celebrating Eid al-Adha in the Islamic world, which is a celebration of the end of human sacrifice, and specifically the end of sacrificing children. That was a common practice in the ancient Mediterranean, among the Phoenician and Carthaginian culture, particularly, but others as well. And when God told people to stop sacrificing their children, that was a momentous step forward for civilization.

But apparently we're going back to the era of the sacrifice of children as this bizarre, psychotic, millenarian-messianic, genocidal cult of satanic so-called Jews—really Zionists—in occupied Palestine, is sacrificing children by the tens of thousands. And the low estimate of the number of children murdered so far is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 children. The reality is much higher, of course, as so many children have been lost track of and are buried beneath the rubble where they died very slowly and painfully in horrible anguish due to the Zionists deliberately dropping their buildings on top of them.

So it's completely disgusting and unacceptable that the world is allowing this to continue.

Thank you, Dr. Barrett. Gilbert Doctorow, welcome to the conversation, sir, and welcome to the program. The Israeli regime has the bigger guns, the tanks, the bigger bombs, the helicopters and fighter jets, far superior firepower. Why do you need to pick as your main victim the women and hungry children of Gaza?

Gilbert Doctorow: Well, I add my voice of outrage to what Israel is doing in Gaza. This genocide is unacceptable, but who is acting against it? And I'd like to use this opportunity, since you have given me the microphone, to suggest a way out of this. The way out is to follow a page from the American playbook. It's called form a coalition of the willing.

It is clear for understandable reasons that Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other neighbors of Israel are reluctant to enter into military confrontation with Israel because they know very well that this will be very damaging to their own populations and many people will die in a valiant effort that may or may not succeed. It is a different situation if it's not one country or two countries that go up against this blockade of Israel, but a coalition of nations. And I would propose, insofar as I am well aware that Russian officials follow Press TV, I make a proposal to them: that they lead this coalition.

The capability of the Russians who have a naval base in Syria, and who are present in the region, is large. The Israelis will not go to war with Russia, if Russia heads a coalition to break the blockade. I didn't say to break the Israeli army, no. To break the blockade for humanitarian grounds. That will be morally acceptable if it is not one nation…

Thank you, Mr. Doctorow. We're kind of having a loose connection toward the end of your words there, but hopefully that'll get resolved.

Dr. Barrett, a lot of people say that's exactly what the Israeli regime wants. It wants to see a coalition on the other side with opposition to the atrocities it's committing in Gaza. It wants to see regional powers get involved so the U.S. gets involved, with Berlin and London. So basically a world war erupts to try to protect the starving children of Gaza. Is that really what it's going to take?

Kevin Barrett: Well, that seems to be what Netanyahu and his camp are working for. Netanyahu has been trying to unleash a big war in the region, and a potential world war, in order to create the fog of war under which he could finish the genocide of the Palestinians. And he's been trying to do this since—well, really, for his whole political career, which began by creating the so-called” war on terror” at the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism in 1979, where he summoned a number of top U.S. leaders and set out the agenda, which was that post-Cold War, they would transition to a so-called War on Terror, which would really be a war by the West against Israel's enemies.

And so Netanyahu was then involved in the public relations launch for this on September 11, which was an Israeli job. And since then, Netanyahu and his faction have been pushing for a world war, trying to drag the Americans into a big war. Again, that's the way that he thinks he could finish the genocide of Palestine.

That is a pretty horrific prospect. As for to what extent does that limit the military options against the Zionist entity…if we were talking about trying to bring a coalition of the willing into outright war with the Zionist entity, that could easily spin off into World War Three. But a blockade-breaking effort, if it were the right coalition of nations that would have to include not just Russia and its allies but also countries like Turkey and maybe even Saudi Arabia. That is, a kind of a bridge-building exercise across the contours of the current system of alliances (consisting of) the U.S.-empire-occupied Zionist world on one side and this emerging independent BRICS world on the other. If you had a coalition that included members of both, if you got Norway and Spain and Ireland, some pro-Palestinian NATO countries on the side of sending military forces to break the blockade, along with Russia and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, with countries like Iran in a secondary role, that actually might have a chance of succeeding.

But of course, the question is, who's going to bell the cat? Who has the courage to actually stand up against these monstrous forces? But at some point, we need that courage if we're going to stop this mass slaughter of children. So I think this is an idea that should be explored.

Thank you. And final thoughts with you, Mr. Gilbert Doctorow. Why are Western leaders so—I mean, obviously they've all said time and again, nothing justifies the collective punishment taking place, the endless war crimes and atrocities being committed, especially against the children of Gaza. Why are they not doing more to put a stop to it, to feed the children throughout this onslaught campaign?

Gilbert Doctorow: The answer is “never again.” The really unfortunate aspect of everything that has proceeded since October of last year is that European nations and Germany in particular, as a leader in this, have a collective guilt for the awful things they did to the Jewish people before and during World War II. And for that reason, “never again” is the slogan that justifies, they think, the ongoing genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza, that has to be broken.

Unfortunately for the Jewish people, for the Israeli population, they have destroyed their moral authority and they have desecrated the memory of the six million people who died in the Holocaust. That is a tragedy that will take them several generations to live down. But we have to begin with remedying the situation today.

And I totally concur with my fellow panelist that a broader coalition that takes in some NATO members who have recognized Palestine would be ideal. I was not suggesting at any point that they all march in and try to defeat the Israeli army. That would be a very good formula for the start of World War III. But a more modest, limited, and urgent effort to break the blockade, I think that will work.

I was going to sign off, but I really want to get Dr. Barrett's take on that. And that's a powerful argument that Mr. Doctorow was making, that somehow the West giving Israel this carte blanche to do what it wants in Gaza, it's pathetic to think, but I'm sure some Western leaders feel it's some kind of reparation for the Holocaust.

Kevin Barrett: The Holocaust has become the new religion. It's replaced Christianity: The gas chambers are the crucifixion, Israel is the resurrection, and so on. It's the new de facto religion in the West. And I personally think that that's the product of the Zionist propaganda machine that dominates Western media, rather than the historical reality. The conflict between Jews and non-Jews throughout all of history has not been one of spotless victims on one side and evil perpetrators on the other. It's been a mixed bag. And if anything, I think the Jewish people have been more sinning than sinned against. And I know that's an absolutely heretical thought to end the show on, but I'm sorry. I believe it's the truth.

All right, gentlemen. Stay safe to both of you, and thank you both for your input on our program here.

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On Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice—the Muslim world’s biggest holiday, with more than 1.5 million pilgrims congregating in Mecca—the Saudi authorities decided to make it an even bigger holiday…and sacrificed the petrodollar. Worldwide feasting and celebration erupted. Ding-dong, the witch is dead! The US empire is no more! Uncle Schlemiel has finally bit the dust!

The implosion of Israel’s American sponsor ended the genocide in Occupied Palestine. Eid al-Adha, which commemorates the end of human sacrifice in general and the ritual slaughter of children in particular, was an auspicious moment to terminate the Zionists’ sacrifice of 15,000+ children in Gaza. Saudi leader Mohammed Bin Salman, previously best known for carving up political enemies with bone saws, has rehabilitated his image and will henceforth be remembered alongside Salahuddin Ayyubi as a liberator, not a tyrant.

The Saudis’ sacrifice of the petrodollar also ended the war in Ukraine. The collapsing dollar, no longer supported by oil, lost its power to pay for US occupation of Europe and the empire’s war on Russia. Putin’s peace agreement, freezing the conflict at its current boundaries, was quickly implemented. US plans to turn Taiwan into Ukraine 2.0, leading to World War III against China, were abruptly cancelled.

It’s a nice story. Billions wish it were true. But initial reports of the petrodollar’s demise, like those of Mark Twain’s in 1897, appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

I got the (fake) news from Australian conspiracy researcher Peter Myers, who forwarded several stories including “Saudi Arabia has dumped the PetroDollar; the deal expired on June 9, 2024.” The claim seems to have originated in India Today, the most widely circulated magazine in India, and the Deccan Herald, another venerable Indian publication.

When two of the biggest publications in the world’s most populous nation report that a historic event has occurred, we might be excused for taking them seriously. But the Indian reports of the alleged expiration of the US-Saudi petrodollar agreement raised more questions than answers.

The Deccan Herald reported the expiration of an alleged 50-year-old agreement:

The US-Saudi Petrodollar deal established on June 8, 1974 was an agreement through which Saudi Arabia agreed to trade crude oil in US dollars in exchange for military equipment and assistance from the US.

India Today, for its part, said the agreement that had just expired was 80 years old:

The US-Saudi Arabia petrodollar deal, a pivotal arrangement in global finance, has ended after 80 years. This landmark deal, initiated on June 8, 1974, facilitated the exchange of US dollars for crude oil exports, bolstering the dollar's dominance.

The Deccan Herald writer was apparently better at math, since June 1974 was 50 years ago, not 80 years ago. So where did India Today get its 80-year time frame? Presumably because the US-Saudi “special relationship” began roughly 80 years ago—79 and a few months, actually—when US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud aboard the USS Quincy and “forged the basis of a long relationship: America’s security guarantees for the kingdom in return for access to affordable energy supplies.”*

To further confuse matters, another reasonably prestigious publication, Islamicity.org, echoed claims that Saudi Arabia had formally repudiated the alleged petrodollar pact which, “in place for 75 years, marked the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, granting economic stability and access to rising asset prices.”

So was there ever a formal US-Saudi agreement mandating that the Saudis sell oil in US dollars? And if so, is it 80 years old, 75 years old, or 50 years old? If such an agreement existed, did the Saudis just refuse to renew it? And if there is no such agreement, and the above-cited reports are fake news, who made up the fake news, and why?

Wyatt “W-Mike” Peterson and I discussed the mystery on this week’s False Flag Weekly News. We cited debunkings of the aforementioned Indian media reports, noted the conspicuous lack of evidence for any public and explicit “petrodollar pact” between Washington and Riyahd, and entertained various possibilities including:

*There really is a secret petrodollar pact that just expired and the Indian media got wind of it.

*There is no such explicit pact, and the fake news reports were (a) clickbait, (b) a psyop, (c) a scam, or (d) an innocent mistake.

If they were a geopolitical psyop, who benefits? Will fake news reports like these contribute to eroding the world’s confidence in the dollar? Or, on the contrary, will their pre-planned debunking “inoculate” global public opinion and thereby help maintain dollar hegemony?

Or were they a scam, presumably orchestrated to cause a brief blip in gold and bitcoin? Was there any such blip? Is there any record of investors quickly buying and selling around any such blip? If so, is this another 9/11 put options case, meaning that “national security” will be invoked to prevent us from ever learning the identities of the perpetrators?

Whatever the truth may be, one thing is clear: There is a long-term trend away from the US dollar as global reserve currency. So even if the Saudis did not succeed in slaughtering the petrodollar in one fell swoop on Eid 1445 AH, the death of the hegemonic dollar, like that of Mark Twain, is inexorable, despite its having been prematurely reported.

*Coincidentally, I happen to be be in the process of brushing up on my Arabic by reading Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt, an indigenous Arabian account the Americans’ arrival in the region.

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John Milor, one of the biggest names in Christian UFOlogy,  discusses The Paranormal Christian and other works on related topics. “Public disclosure of ET life is in the works; the government is moving in this direction, with the Navy taking the lead.”

John notes that Christianity and Islam offer almost identical end-times scenarios: Jesus, the one true Messiah, despised and rejected by the Jews, will return and set things right. Yet somehow John sees Islam as the bad guy, while ignoring the satanic-millenarian-messianic Jews who are currently massacring the descendants of the family of their #1 hate object, Jesus, in hopes of spilling enough blood to incite the coming of their bloodthirsty Messiah who will rule the world, and enslave all non-Jews, from a rebuilt blood sacrifice temple in genocided Jerusalem. THAT is the Antichrist, obviously. And Muslims are the only people seriously resisting it—in service to Jesus, peace upon him, and in defense of his family—as they pray for his return.

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Ramin Mazaheri wonders whether the EU-cide is suicide or homicide, asks why its demise is so underreported, ponders Emmanuel Todd’s book The Defeat of the West, investigates the collapse of liberalism, and celebrates the good things happening in Mexico.

Ramin Mazaheri is longtime Paris chief correspondent for PressTV and the author of three books on socialism. His latest book is France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values.

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I think we can just start by saying that there is so much going on in the world. We are sort of at a historical turning point, something that we haven't been at since maybe the implosion from above of the USSR. There are just so many things going on and it's just such an exciting time to be alive, because so many positive things are happening in so many ways.

And there are things that we are hopeful that will be happening but aren't really happening. Like, for example, this petrodollar fall. The petrodollar, as you said, is the underpinning of United States dominance. It is the underpinning of the Western financial system. I have seen that stuff online, too. And I said, oh, my God, this is the greatest news…And then I looked more into it, and it doesn't seem like it is (real). It seems like fake news. But the fact that it's possible, that it's close to happening, and that it probably will happen, i.e. the Saudis will start selling their oil in something other than dollars and start doing it in yuan and maybe even euros—we all see this (eventually) happening.

Nobody thought Bitcoin was going to be something in 2017. Nobody thought that Syria would be able to survive. And then it turns out that starting in 2017 Russian military technology is actually superior to Western and NATO technology. And they started proving that in in Syria.

Nobody would have thought—well I think people thought in 2017 that the EU was a failed project but you know we just fast forward to seven years later and it's just unbelievable how much the world has changed in so many ways. There are just so many things that we could be talking about.

We could be talking about Mexico and their leftist sweep. Leftists have not just won the presidency. They have a super majority in both houses of Congress. They have a super majority of state legislatures. They have a super majority of state governorships. So we're talking about not a leftist victory. This is this is a leftist sweep. And we can expand it further. We can remind ourselves that five of the six largest Latin American economies are run by leftists. And the sixth is run by the libertarian left, Milei, down in Argentina.

So there is tremendous change in Latin America, and tremendous change in the middle East, starting with the successful defense of Syria. Then you have the US leaving Afghanistan. And then you have a little conflict going on in a small part of the world that's somewhat important called Palestine, and the spectacular victory of the counteroffensive on October 7th. Who would have thought that that could happen?

And then to kind of wrap this up, this sort of preamble, it really is such an amazing, exciting time where there's so many wonderful things going on. And it is basically predicated on the collapse of the European Union. Emmanuel Todd wrote—and I wrote that I didn't agree with it–that Europe's crisis is the world's crisis. I said that's not really true. Europe's crisis is the obstacle, the annoyance of the world…

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