Timing Is Everything- The Navalny Case Resolved!

In Feb, 2024 Yulia Navalny was at the Munich Security Council, perfectly positioned to play the grieving widow when the announcement of the death of her husband, Alexi, was made.

She hadn't actually visited him in 2 years, and she didn't go to his funeral in Russia, cause.......Scary Putin™ . But still, grieving widow devastated by the news, blah, blah, blah....they played it up big time. She gave a speech lambasting Russia, because of course she did. That was why she was invited.

Now it is time for the Munich Security Council's meeting again, and what is the luck?

Yulia is there again! And the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands jointly announced that they had just discovered, 2 years later, that Bad Putin™ had poisoned her beloved husband with a tree frog poison.

Why didn't they just use novichok?

Why did it take 2 years and 5 countries to analyze a sample?

Oh, speaking of that, how did those 5 countries obtain a sample of body something-or-other (they don't specify what) when the man died in Russia, was autopsied in Russia, and was buried in Russia?

Funny thing about that, first they said that his beloved wife had smuggled them from his body after his death. Apparently someone realized that even the stupidest of westerners might remember that she was giving a speech at Munich at that time.

So now they tell us that ''it was smuggled''. The passive voice, the favorite of western media. "It became smuggled".

Anyway, Yulia gets to play grieving widow again, and give another speech demonizing Russia, which plays really well there in Munich.

But just how stupid do they think we are? After Rubio gives a speech talking about our great European tradition and values, and how the West will rise again, western media is busily telling people transparent and obvious lies, seemingly secure in the knowledge that Europeans and their descendants in America are not actually that bright.

Not bright at all.

Can We Talk About Pizzagate Now? (H/T: No)

Back in 2016 John Podesta left his phone in a taxi and someone gave the contents to wikileaks. John Podesta was high up in the DNC, and was serving as Hilary Clinton's campaign manager at the time, after serving as Bill Clinton's chief of staff earlier.

Wikileaks helpfully published it attached to a FBI guide to pedophile symbols, and people who looked at the emails were horrified at what they saw.

Democrats were outraged! Not at the revelations, of course. They were told to ignore the revelations, that they were "fake news", spread by Russians. They were outraged that people were talking about the revelations.

They cheered as Julian Assange was thrown into a London dungeon.

They sneered as Alex Jones was prosecuted in a kangaroo court designed to bankrupt him. John Podesta was elevated to chief money launderer in Biden's White House. At least, that is my interpretation of this....

"He oversaw the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, which authorized $370–783 billion in climate and clean energy investments. As Senior Advisor to President Biden for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, he managed this historic funding before succeeding John Kerry as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in 2024."

Go ahead. Google his name and see how many "debunkings" you get of the "wild conspiracy theories" that the emails engendered.

But now these same Dembots are suddenly allowed to be shocked, shocked! at the FBI releases from the 2018 anonymous tipline.

Who knew? Certainly not them. They weren't allowed to know, and they studiously kept themselves from finding out. But now it's OK.

Well, not OK to talk about John Podesta. Not OK to demand the prosectution of Bill Gates.

Just OK to talk about Epstein.

Dragging Some Stuff Out Of The Memory Hole

People are in an uproar because Trump threatened to go door to door, not specifying why.

"OMIGOD, fascism is coming soon!" they scream.

As if SWAT teams going door to door in New Orleans in 2005 was not?

What about Boston in 2013? Totally hunky dory?

Or what about Minneapolis 2020, brought to you by Tim Walz, same guy now waxing rebellious against governmental overreach?

So using ICE agents to rid this country of illegal aliens is wrong, but using the National Guard to force people into their homes is fine?

Got it. pic.twitter.com/GOSExqAQes

— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 10, 2026

Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.

Atrocity Producing Situations

The term “atrocity producing situation” came into usage during the Vietnam war, when the US government herded hundreds of thousands of teen-aged boys into boot camp, shaved their heads, taught them how to shoot, and then dropped them off in a foreign country where they didn’t speak the language, telling them “Your job is to kill commies. Any one of them could be commies, so kill them before they kill you.”

Atrocities ensued.

For 40 years, Americans have been subjected to open borders. Under the Biden regime, the program went on steroids, with an estimated 11,000,000 foreign people were brought into the US illegally, and tucked away by various governmental and NGO agencies.

Irate, Americans voted for Trump, who promised to send them back. But instead of asking the government agencies and NGOs where they were stashed,

Trump hired ten thousand new ICE agents, put them through training, handed them guns and badges, and sent them out on the streets to randomly search for illegal aliens, like some sort of Pokemon GO game, but with guns. The government which tells us that the US Navy has superpower equipment able to tell if random boats on the sea have drugs hidden in them, also tells us that they have no way of knowing where 11 million people here illegally were stashed.

Meanwhile, liberals in America have been taught for 15 years that they have a magical shield called “white privilege”, which protects them from the cops, who they are told are hunting down black and brown people daily.

A man who appeared to be a bully was given a badge and a gun by ICE, while a woman who appeared to think she was magically protected by her White Privilege cloak to be able to run over ICE agents, met in Minneapolis on Jan. 7th.

An atrocity ensued.

When US troops were pulled out of Vietnam, the atrocities ceased. It seems obvious that sending armed men to patrol US streets looking for people to snatch is another atrocity producing situation. Pull them off.

If the government agencies and the NGOs refuse to say what hotel, farm, or apartment building they have stowed people in, or what factory, slaughterhouse, or Amazon warehouse they were put to work in, put the DOGE boys on the case. There has to be a paperwork trail. That is where ICE should go, not random US streets.

The Destruction Of National Sovreignty In Favor Of Corporations

Remember the Battle For Seattle?

Flush with the success of NAFTA and CAFTA, which turned the riches of North and Central America over to rapacious corporations bent on digging out every last bit of wealth without worrying about sovereign nations stopping them with pesky laws and regulations, the US went for broke. The entire world was to be subject to the WTO.

In Seattle, the Teamsters and the Turtles combined to fight the meeting of the world's elite bent on destroying labor and the environment in their quest for more loot. And they won! Temporarily.

Undaunted, the rich and powerful met again in Cancun, where a South Korean farmer immolated himself in protest, and thwarted their evil plans once again.

But when Obama came in the 1% of the world had a worthy and determined campaigner. What Obama did was put speech controls on the negotiators, forbidding them from speaking and threatening them with severe consequences for telling the public just what was in the TPP they were negotiating.

And Obama, the Drone King, could make his threats scarily real.

We organized anyway, and we held it off long enough for Trump to be elected. On his first day in office, he tore up the TPP.

Yay!

But apparently the world's elite decided to switch their plans for power to the WHO instead of the WTO. At least, as near as I can tell.

But now the US has left the WHO also! Yay!.

That's a long way to talk about what is happening now.

The worst part of the WTO and TPP were the Investor-State Dispute Settlement agreements, where sovereign governments who responded to the concerns of their populations by putting limits on corporate ravages, could be sued by the corporations. And no national or international courts could be involved, just an arbitration panel appointed to make a judgement.

Laws? We don't need no stinking laws!

There are many outrageous cases where corporations sued for loss of potential profits due to laws protecting citizens or the environment, and won in the secret arbitration courts, forcing countries to pay millions to said corporations.

But now Russia is going to use the system to sue Euroclear for stealing their sovereign funds.

I am delighted. Hoist those greedy assholes on their own petard, I say.

As Yves Smith puts it:

"In any event, pass the popcorn. Things are about to get ugly. The long-standing erosion of national rights in favor of stateless investors is being turned against its neoliberal creators."

Explain It Like I Still Believe In NATO

Four years ago this month, Russia presented proposed treaties with the US and NATO that would provide mutual security to all countries in Europe. Russia pointed out that the NATO encroachments into eastern European countries was causing a security concern for them, and they proposed win/win agreements that would guarantee security for everyone.

The US and NATO responded by laughing at the proposals, promising nuclear weapons to Ukraine at the Feb. Munich meeting, and upping the attacks by the embedded Kiev regime troops on the people of the Donbass.

Russia responded with the SMO.

The Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda responded by calling the SMO "unprovoked", and the US and NATO countries openly supported the Kiev regime's war against the people of the Donbass and Russia. They promised endless supplies of weapons, ammo, ISR, and money as long as Zelensky promised endless supplies of Ukrainian men.

"Security" was rebranded to mean "security for the Ukraine" and NATO countries went wild signing "mutual security" treaties with Zelensky.

Alex Chistophorou pointed out today that Finland is the latest of NATO countries to renege on their "security guarantees" with the Ukraine.

Oops! Who knew this would happen once Kiev got down close to the Last Ukrainian?

Not Zelensky. He kept his part of the bargain, funneling endless men kidnapped off the streets of Ukraine, especially men from the ethnically Russian areas.

Plus, after about a year, he had to add endless mantras of "gratitude" to western countries for the money, although not one western countries has ever bothered to say "Thank you for the cannon fodder".

But, alas, it turns out that NATO is made up of lying, soulless, murderous, looting criminals, who will break treaties with their "allies" as easily as they break treaties with their adversaries.

And then call them ''corrupt'', to boot, because they took some of the booty that, face it, was mostly looted by the west.

Who knew? Well, I did. And let me give a heads-up to Russia.

See how the west treats their proxies? See the broken promises and the broken treaties and the looting and the back-stabbing?

Yeah, they ain't gonna treat you any better.

The Coming AI Bust

Capitalism has booms and busts. Always has, always will.

The FDR government responded to the 1929 crash with the New Deal, launching programs to employ citizens, building infrastructure, creating parks, building bridges, bringing electricity to rural areas, even cultural issues like hiring playwrights to write plays and actors to perform, sending orchestras to perform in rural areas, hiring photographers to document the Dust Bowl, and hiring historians to interview former slaves (which are on YT).

But it was WW2 that got the economy humming, so after the war the US switched to the permanent war economy, paying the war profiteers to make weapons. That worked for a while, but then it wore off, so they turned to destroying the New Deal laws that stopped banks from speculation, or as Marx called them, "credit swindles."

Uh, oh, that won't end well.

The 80s ended with the S&L bubble crash, now labeled a "scandal", since ruling class crimes are called scandals, not crimes. So they set up the Plunge Protection Team, which was designed to keep the economy humming by bailing out the rich, instead of employing the poor.

The 90s were helped by the looting of Russia, which put a lot of money into the US economy, and the rise in personal computer usage and the accompanying boom.

But the 2001 dot com bubble crash impoverished a lot of workers.

Never mind, it's on to the housing bubble! Pass out those NINJA loans, jack up those housing prices, illegally sell those mortgages all over the world. (I mentioned this in my show yesterday.)

The 2008 crash was a slap in the face to the working class. No, it was a punch in the jaw. The banks were bailed out and a million Americans were thrown from their homes.

Now the AI bubble is blowing up. The AI bros are already talking about their entitlement to a bail-out.

AI, which is used to spy on us, monitor our behavior, throw us out of work, and they have plans for even more destructive uses.

Not to mention the electricity and water usage.

What will Americans do when the government bails out the AI bros and puts their gambling debt onto the national debt?

Just sit back and take it? Or will that be the Last Straw?

I guess we'll see.