In a revelation that could shake the foundations of what we know about urban development and international sports, a source close to the matter has uncovered a sinister plot linking the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles to the upcoming 2028 Olympics and an obscure initiative known as SmartLA2028.
THE PLOT THICKENS WITH SMARTLA2028
The SmartLA2028 initiative, ostensibly aimed at transforming Los Angeles into a "smart and sustainable metropolis" by the time of the Olympics, is at the heart of this conspiracy. "It's all planned," claims our source, suggesting that the areas ravaged by fires are not coincidentally those designated for redevelopment under this initiative. "The burn sites match exactly with their maps for Smart Cities," they add, pointing to a meticulously planned operation to clear land for high-density, multi-family housing zones (R2 and R3).
FOLLOWING THE MONEY TRAIL
Digging deeper, the financial connections become disturbingly clear. Our insider has traced significant funding to this initiative, highlighting a web of interests that benefits from the transformation of the city's landscape. "When you follow the money, it leads to what I found," says the source, accusing a coordinated effort to manipulate urban zoning and development for the 2028 Olympics.
INSURANCE AND FIRE PROTECTION: A CONVENIENT COINCIDENCE?
Adding to the conspiracy, Governor Gavin Newsom's administration reportedly did not renew a crucial fire protection contract with Coleson Aviation for 2025, just before the fires escalated. Moreover, insurance companies like State Farm had canceled numerous homeowners' policies in the affected areas, leaving residents without coverage to rebuild. They are all in it together suggesting a calculated move to ensure that the rebuilding aligns with the SmartLA2028 vision.
A GLOBALIST OPERATION?
This suggest an international global agenda to reshape cities under the guise of environmental sustainability and smart city initiatives. The narrative suggests that these fires are not just natural disasters but are strategically set to pave the way for a new, controlled urban environment, perfectly timed with the global spotlight of the Olympics.
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I'm fairly sure the LA '28 Olympics will be a object lesson in how not to do things. Not that they will learn anything.
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For the oly's, hah...more likely for an adversaries residents to occupy resi space en masse, quickly giving political control to swaths of land in like-minded "watchful communities".
[Eugyppis] Last Friday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky held the most amazing press conference of all time. For 30 minutes, Trump insisted on the importance of a peace deal in Ukraine and Zelensky refused to concede any concrete points that would make a peace deal possible. Tempers flared, and Trump ended the meeting by telling Zelensky that "the problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy," and that "I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States." He told Zelensky that "You don’t have the cards" and that "you’re either going to make a deal or we’re out," in which case the Ukrainians would have to "fight it out" without U.S. support, which "I don’t think is going to be pretty." Thereafter administration officials sent the Ukrainian delegation packing, their minerals deal unsigned, their lunch uneaten.
The exchange cast the entire European establishment into a psychiatric crisis. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it "took [his] breath away," adding, absurdly, that he "would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States." German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, meanwhile, deplored this "new era of lawlessness," emphasising that "For us, it is clear that we stand firmly by the side of sovereign and free Ukraine." The "enemy," she said, "sits alone in the Kremlin, not in Kyiv or Brussels. We can never accept a reversal of the roles of perpetrator and victim." You will note that German political leaders have ceased regarding the United States — the foremost guarantor of their security — as their most central ally. Their primary loyalties have shifted to the Ukraine. More on that below.
On Sunday, Germany’s most tiresome state media talkshow host, Caren Miosga, convened an emergency meeting of very stupid people to have a sad about the breakdown in Ukraine-U.S. relations.
Our Mickey Mouse Club foreign minister Baerbock was there, and she spoke in grave tones about the immorality of it all, insisting that "we Europeans" must show "resolve" in this dark time. Claudia Major, a lunatic political scientist suffering from a surfeit of estrogen and a deficit of neural matter, deplored Trump’s "preference for Russia" and his "preference for autocracy." She said it was outrageous that great powers like the United States and Russia could just sit at a table and "clarify the important questions" while all others have no role to play at all and are reduced to the status of mere "bargaining chips." Perhaps if Germany had more than 150 operational main battle tanks and munitions stores to last us beyond a few days of fighting, we would not be mere bargaining chips. Instead, we have one of the world’s most expensive social welfare systems and a tumorous bureaucracy the likes of which human civilisation has never seen before. Priorities!
Major also said many other crazy things. For example, she said we have to be very clear on the importance of fighting for the Ukraine and against Russia. That means, I guess, that we will fight Russia all by ourselves if we have to. With what, is unclear. Then a vacant Baerbock said we need to find partners across the world, including the Gulf states, to ensure that Russia, China and the United States don’t just divide up the world among themselves. Apparently Baerbock has no idea that these nations, being great powers, have long since done precisely that. She furthermore explained that the United States aren’t our partner anymore, and then she also said that we have to do everything to ensure the United States continues to be our partner, among other things by explaining to the Americans that there will be "consequences" if they cease being our partner.
Such is the state of political discourse in the insane asylum known as the Federal Republic of Germany, in case you were wondering.
Also on Sunday, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened his farcical Ukraine Summit in London. The event had been scheduled well before Zelensky’s Oval Office beatdown, but it was an opportunity to stand strong with the black jumper man, who was apparently so traumatised by his international humiliation on Friday that he had yet to change his clothes.
At the end of it all the Eurotards and Zelensky, together with a politically disgraced Justin Trudeau and the Turkish Foreign Minister, stood impotently on a staircase for a group photo, flanked by profoundly lame "SECURING OUR FUTURE" signs. It is all about making a statement, saying the right words, and sending the right media message, here in newly independent Europe.
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Then a vacant Baerbock said we need to find partners across the world, including the Gulf states
Was going to make a quip about Ukrainian troops going to Germany to clear out the African invaders, but no, have to make that joke about the EU turning into the Mediterranean Union no believable.
So with that in mind: I think Starmertrooper wants to round up all the native UK whites males with ticky tack hate crime charges as conscripts and send them to die in Ukraine.
And that makes me curious: when an African gets picked up and applies are there qualification levels? Like that one the other day who, after watching his wife drown, graped to death a girl in front of her mom, is that like, "Wow, pretty wild, you qualify for UK!"
Am I on the no visit list yet? Do I get like a certificate of achievement or something?
[RodMartin] Though Russia cannot be fully dislodged from Ukraine, it has lost the war. It did not conquer Ukraine. It also showed its military to be a Potemkin village. Putin will now face the music at home.
NOTE: Americans tend to think in terms of absolute victory and unconditional surrender. That rarely happens in the real world, even in American history, and it won’t happen in Ukraine, where Russia will surely hold onto some territory it did not before 2014. But its war aims have been completely defeated.
Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine whole (and within a week!). Three years later, that will clearly never happen. It also sought to prove it was still a great power, but its performance has proved the exact opposite: without nuclear weapons, no one would now take its military seriously at all.
All of this will have stark post-war consequences inside Russia. George Friedman explains. — RDM
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In a couple of years, we'll all be posting "I stand with Russia" after Xi invades.
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I think Russia's primary goal was to keep NATO out of Ukraine and NATO is still not in Ukraine. But, of course Russia lost. Both sides have suffered untold casualties and that is a loss that people on both sides will feel for the rest of their lives. Both sides have lost. And yet, the war is not over. A lot more suffering could still be coming if Zelensky doesn't get his head out of his butt.
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if Zelensky doesn't get his head out of his butt
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NATO could be considered the winner in this war if they achieved their goal of expansion into Ukraine. But, as it stands now, the only winners are the arms dealers and the undertakers.
As for the draft or the press gangs or whatever, I think it would be extremely foolish to think that Putin has used all the resources that he could have brought to bear. NATO might FAFO about that if the likes of Starmer, Macron and Merz follow through on their stated intentions. Who knows? I don't. They might succeed. They might be correct in their estimates of Russia's will and ability to fight. But they wouldn't be the first to find out just how wrong they are.
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Russia does have conscription.
Conscripts are never sent to fight. They serve in other military capacities.
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NATO could be considered the winner in this war if they achieved their goal of expansion
So much for Putin's bright idea for preventing NATO from expanding... cough, cough, Finland...cough cough Sweden. Bosnia and Georgia say they want in too.
Gee if you act like a Hun, people just don't trust you anymore.
seems to me that Russia has lost more troops and equipment and prestige but Ukraine has lost some fairly valuable territory and given it has lower population than Russia, its loss of troops will be felt for decades as will Russia's
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Mercutio FTW!
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Based on their goals, I'd say both sides are winning. By "sides", I mean NATO/EU vs Russia. Ukraine is just consumables for the West.
NATO has achieved their goal of maneuvering Russia into a war that will wear them down militarily and economically. The side quest of deposing Putin by making the average Russian dissatisfied has been less successful.
Russia's goals at the start of the Special Military Operation were:
Reconnect Crimea - check
End the civil war in the Donbass - check
Demilitarize Ukraine - on going
Secure a defensible position vs NATO - a work in progress
The notion that Russia intended to conquer all Ukraine within a week seems to come from General Mark "Thoroughly Modern" Milley. Threatening Kiev made for a good feint, but given the paltry resources devoted to the attack, it is obvious that for the Russians the center of gravity was in the south.
[IsraelTimes] In a fateful week for the Ukraine and Gaza wars, with summits in London and Cairo, the PM aims to ramp up pressure on Hamas, buoyed by the US president’s ‘do whatever you want’ approach
The course of the two conflicts that have dominated the global agenda in recent years could be set this week, as Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... tries to figure out its response to growing White House hostility toward Ukraine, and the ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... moves beyond its surprisingly resilient first phase.
In both wars, the positions — and often mind-boggling statements — of US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... loom large. But as Europe scrambles to come up with a response to the angry new American approach to Kyiv, Israel finds itself with no overt criticism from the Trump administration and wide freedom of action as it seeks to achieve its key war goals of destroying Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and bringing home all remaining hostages.
Western leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in London on Sunday after a disastrous visit by the wartime leader to the Oval Office. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance had berated Zelensky on live TV, confirming the worst fears in Kyiv and European capitals about Trump’s vision for ending the war in Ukraine.
In response, 18 mostly European leaders hurried to London to embrace Zelensky, a stark contrast from the dressing down he received in Washington.
"We are at a crossroads in history today," said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
They certainly are. It’s just unclear how the leaders in London will get history to move down their desired path.
DETERRENCE WITHOUT THE US
The Europeans are first of all trying to figure out a way to get Trump and Zelensky talking again, with the hopes that the two will finally sign a mineral deal that could lay the groundwork for a postwar economic and security arrangement with enough US involvement to keep the Russians from violating any armistice.
But with Trump emphatically choosing to pursue an end to the war over the defeat of Russia, a larger challenge remains. "The free world needs a new leader," said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas last week.
Rhetoric aside, Europe will struggle to fill that role in any practical sense, and certainly when it comes to Ukraine.
Zelensky believes that deterring Russia in postbellum Ukraine would take a minimum of 200,000 peacekeepers in his country. But Europe is unable to provide anything close to that number, and top US officials rule out sending American soldiers to Ukraine.
Britannia and La Belle France, two of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ’s most powerful non-US militaries, are calling for a European "reassurance" force of under 30,000 troops, which officials say would be focused mainly on air and maritime defense.
But even that would be largely impotent without significant US backing.
For example, when fighting against Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...> ’s dilapidated Libyan army in 2011 European NATO countries began running short of munitions before a month had passed.
Libya "has not been a very big war. If [the Europeans] would run out of these munitions this early in such a small operation, you have to wonder what kind of war they were planning on fighting," John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, told The Washington Post at the time. "Maybe they were just planning on using their air force for air shows."
Even as the Europeans were ostensibly taking the lead in Libya, the US still flew 80% of intelligence flights and did almost the same percentage of midair refueling. "In effect," wrote Chris Brown of the London School of Economics, "Europe flew the planes and attack helicopters, but most of the time they were firing US munitions at targets identified by the US in operations coordinated by US technology."
European defense spending has surged over the last decade, but so has Russia’s. EU member states spent an estimated €326 billion on defense in 2024, but would have to raise that number by €250 billion a year if they want to create a meaningful deterrent against Russia, according to European economic think tank Bruegel.
"If defense spending is to be permanently higher," wrote Financial Times chief economic commentator Martin Wolf on Tuesday, "taxes must rise, unless the government can find sufficient spending cuts, which is doubtful."
Russia isn’t likely to take European will especially seriously either.
If they aren’t willing to accept Ukraine into NATO over fears that they could be drawn into a conventional war with nuclear-armed Russia, why would European states be willing to fight if their peacekeepers are attacked in Ukraine? And if their limited tanks didn’t come rumbling across the continent during the three years of war in Ukraine to date, why would they be more serious about committing them to the fight if Russia violates a ceasefire?
There are no easy answers for Europe. But while its leaders may be mostly infuriated by Trump’s positions and his treatment of Zelensky, they are being extremely careful about how they talk about the situation. A phrase taken the wrong way by the thin-skinned American president could send careful efforts to produce effective US-European dialogue on Ukraine skidding off the tracks.
NO PHASE TWO
While politicians sweat in Europe, Israel’s government — which endured from these same European leaders months of condemnation, quiet arms embargoes, and pressure to end the Gaza war with Hamas still in power — is acting with fresh confidence because of the US president.
In these first weeks of his second term, Trump has been everything Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have wanted, and more. The president restored the maximum pressure policy against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its nuclear program. He and his team have promised repeatedly to work with Israel "to ensure Hamas is eliminated" — not just pushed out of ruling Gaza. He wants to broker the Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. And he is going after the International Criminal Court for targeting Israel’s leaders, with obsessive Israel critics like South Africa and Ireland in the crosshairs.
[RodMartinReport] Starship makes possible a world where the U.S. can deploy an entire armored division anywhere on Earth in under an hour, and supply it entirely from home. "Hegemony" doesn't begin to cover it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
