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'Peace through Strength' - The War for American Hegemony

2025-05-31

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a posted article in arsenal-otechestva.ru
[ColonelCassad] Ensuring US hegemony is a constant in political strategy and practice. It is invariant in relation to White House administrations. Trump's Manifest destiny is a reconstruction of American greatness on new principles - no longer globalism, but exceptionalism.

Among the key donors of Trump's 2023/2024 election campaign are the largest manufacturers of the military-industrial complex, such as Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon General Dynamics, Boeing and other aircraft manufacturers, transport and oil and gas corporations.

The 47th US President is supported by the military-industrial, as well as the IT-venture-technological lobby. Among them are those who are interested in maintaining the US dominance in the world by force, technology and economy, those for whom war is a business, an opportunity for development and a guarantee of enrichment.

The reboot of the real sector of the economy planned by the Trumpists, the rearmament and re-equipment of the Pentagon and intelligence services based on the latest technologies, total control of the information field and the humanitarian sphere to ensure info-cognitive and mental dominance based on AI, strengthening the resource potential of the United States through the accumulation of economic and military-economic power and technological superiority over 3-5 years, which surpasses all and everything, cemented by a right-wing conservative ideology - this is the technological and semantic platform of global leadership and the New World Order (NWO) from Trump-Vance - "Peace through strength".

Trumpists propose to return America's leadership and competitive military advantage through start-ups for the development and production of weapons, financed primarily through venture schemes.

The manifesto article “Arsenal Reset,” posted back in June 2022 on the resources of one of the most influential Trumpists, Vice President J.D. Vance’s political curator Peter Thiel, says: “Modernizing our military will require not just a handful, but dozens of new innovative companies. Tens of thousands of engineers will have to ask themselves if there is more to their careers than just money. And our government officials, without whom these efforts will be in vain, will have to listen and lead…” The ambitions and

MAGA strategy are in the Americans taking over global technological leadership. To do this, the United States will need additional energy capacity and natural resources, which Canada and Greenland should provide. Then the US will be able, according to Trumpists, to become global leaders not only in weapons and the cryptocurrency mining race, but also, what is strategically more important, in the total power of the computer industry, ensuring primacy in the development of AI as a critical factor in the modern economy, military-industrial complex, intelligence and defense.

The entire team that came with Trump is highly ideologically charged. Trumpists have written and promoted strategic concepts for a financial-technological and managerial revolution in the White House and the Pentagon.

The concept of a new American dynamism has been developed, launched, and is being introduced into the consciousness of the elites and society. American dynamism in the field of defense technologies implies the foresight and active application of technological innovations. This approach emphasizes that the pursuit of technological dynamism is the pursuit of a strong, secure, and innovative America.

At the Shift's Defense Ventures Summit in Washington in November 2023, Catherine Boyle, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital fund associated with Peter Thiel, expressed the opinion: "We are convinced that a strong America leads to a strong and secure world, a more civilized world (we should use this word more often). Technology plays a key role in maintaining this order and civilization, and this will continue. We call this direction American dynamism.

In the fall of 2024, a programmatic military-economic text was published - "Reforming the US military-industrial complex" (The Defense Reformatiom). Its author is the executive director of Palantir, Shyam Sankar.

Let us present the theses of Sankar's "manifesto" in detail, because they are important not only for understanding the enemy's strategy, but in part they are a "mirror" of our problems.

At the very beginning of the article, the author categorically and scathingly states: "The Western strategy of containment no longer works... As a nation, we are already in a state of undeclared war... In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea... China stuffed the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea with weapons, and Iran continued to develop an atomic bomb... This is a new Cold War in its hot stage...".

Let us immediately note a truth that is not at all cinematic: "in America, everything is simple, except for money" (a quote from the cult film "Brother 2"). The logic of Sankara's "escalation of the situation" is clear and, despite the obvious emotional charge, quite pragmatic. The formation of an information-political "war space" is an information-cognitive technology for ensuring the "interception of budgets" and levers of development of the military-industrial complex and the Pentagon, it is an effective mechanism for managing society through fear, it is a political "catch 22" that allows lobbyists and involved elite groups to avoid possible claims from competitors in the long term: they say, "war will write off everything."

Having outlined the "reality of war," Shyama Sankara then directly states that the United States is not ready for a serious war, stating that the country's economy, its real sector and its "core," the military-industrial complex, are in a systemic crisis: "US national security requires a powerful industrial base, otherwise it will lose the next war, and the world will plunge into the darkness of "authoritarian regimes ...".

In a carefully measured and well-placed way, “adding salt to the wounds,” the CEO of Palantir argues that the inertia of the American military-industrial complex that has developed over decades is high, while its mobilization potential is low.

Raising the tension, Shyama Sankara emphasizes that in the event of a hot phase of a possible war between the United States and rival powers — China or Russia — ammunition and weapons will last only a few days. Even more alarming, in his opinion, is the lack of capacity and capabilities for the rapid repair and restoration of our weapons systems, not to mention the production of weapons on new principles. Sankar believes that this ideological and managerial approach, deeply rooted in the American military-industrial complex, is based on the concepts of scientific management, which were once fashionable in the Soviet Union and in the vanguard of the US automobile industry in the 1950s.

Centralized, predictable, programmatic budgeting, management and control were then considered superior to the trial-and-error market system, as well as the "mess and waste" of the decentralized trial-and-error experimentation system, which did not imply 100% "sprouting of startups" in the search for new solutions and technologies. The time for such approaches and solutions, according to Sankara, has passed. Noting the crisis, Shyama Sankara then not only analyzes its causes, but also identifies ways for the US military-industrial complex to emerge from the crisis, based on, along with a technological reboot, the interception of budget flows and levers of control over the military-industrial complex and the Pentagon from the arms "traditionalists".

Let us cite Sankara's main statements, arguments and proposals, not verbatim, but in essence.

Monopoly is our main problem. In 1993, after the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon worked with more than 50 companies. Today there are five (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Boeing)! The most important consequence was not the reduction of competition in the defense industry, but the separation of commercial innovation from the military-industrial complex and the growth of a state monopoly on procurement.

It is necessary to avoid a monopoly buyer at all costs, using market mechanisms and dynamics as the key operating principle of the Ministry of Defense. What sometimes looks like duplication is an insurance against complacency and unpredictability.

If the monopoly remains, production will not work as it should. The final product will remain expensive, and this will make us weaker.

The root of our pathology is the lack of competition within the Ministry of Defense.

It will take a decade or two to begin delivering new major weapons systems in sufficient quantities.

In the hot phase of war, we have only a few days' worth of ammunition and weapons. Even more alarming is the lack of capacity and capability to quickly repair and refurbish our equipment and weapons systems.

Under current conditions, American industry can no longer be content to produce a minimum range of ships, submarines, ammunition, aircraft, etc.

Cost-plus contracts make us slower and poorer. This may be the right way to buy an aircraft carrier, but it is wrong for 95% of other things.

Innovation will always be painful, unclear, and subject to "pejorative and retrograde" bureaucratic criticism from those outside the process: they value costs and effort, not value and results.

There is also no reward for speeding up the process and developing innovative approaches, and there is no incentive to compete on price, since it is time and money spent that count, not saved.

We must understand: productivity is more valuable than weapons stockpiles. We obsess over stockpiles, but stockpiles don’t matter. Our ammunition shipments to Ukraine consisted of Cold War-era kits that sat on shelves collecting dust while decades of innovation took place. The depletion of 10 years’ worth of production in 10 weeks of fighting in Ukraine has shown that the real weapon is the speed of retooling and intensification of production.

We must produce what is needed quickly and in sufficient quantities. We must develop requirements and incentives for production and never stop producing.

There will be no more prizes for participation (guns sitting on shelves). Participation only counts if you can consistently produce them.

The ability to modernize production is critical.

Government attempts to avoid problems in advance by locking in to a single supplier will fail. For any non-trivial innovation, it is impossible to “deductively” design a master architecture of a winning structure in advance. Instead, we must slog along and let that architecture emerge. You maximize your chances if you break away from the “precedent principle” of established practices early on.

The most important projects are not created by accepting terms and conditions. In a fight, no one cares about the official paper. The only requirement is to win.

And winning involves engaging in a messy, duplicative, seemingly wasteful but actually effective process of improvement.

No monopoly. Creative, faster, and ultimately cheaper results.

We must rely on talent, on people who propose bold solutions and ensure their implementation, in which knowledge and know-how are combined.

The talent to solve a problem quickly is rare. It is very difficult, but such talent is decisive.

The Pentagon Personnel Management Act (the rules for the career and promotion of officers and civilian specialists) must be reformed. We need to worry more about achieving victory, and not about how to fill the staffing table and correctly draw up service documentation.

We need more competition between the services. No joint program directorates. No monopoly. Creative, fast and ultimately cheaper results.

The main idea is how the members of the company communicate, collaborate and compete.

Synergy of dual-use technologies is the key to victory. RAND thought that Lockheed would dominate the field of integrated circuits, because it had fifty Ph.D.s, and Intel only two. But Intel executives knew that military and intelligence clients were just a stopover to business success. And they succeeded.

Audit paralysis is a paralysis of growth. Money must work and be mobile. The fiscal OODA (observe, orient, decide, act) cycle for moving money is unsustainable. Money must be able to be reprogrammed and redirected in two months, not two years.

Simple contractual mechanisms exist to guarantee the government continuity of operations and the desired flexibility, debureaucratization, objectivity, and complete freedom of action through the introduction of automated security checks for budgeting. We are not even close to that now.

Venture capital is the future—the United States needs risk capital, not taxpayer capital, to achieve technological breakthroughs. Independent research and development (IRAD) with reimbursement for costs is a kind of indulgence. It is not real R&D. Cost Plus contracts allow contractors to manipulate house money (reimbursed by taxpayers). Private R&D in the commercial market is vastly superior to public R&D.

Companies must invest their own capital in developments and solutions. They must be ready for any challenges if we want innovation. Contractors should not take money from the taxpayer if their lab experiments fail. There must be effective feedback between consumers, customers and developers-manufacturers.

Secrecy should not be a “monopolist’s defense.” Today, defense companies cannot understand the fighter, and the fighter often cannot understand what he himself needs. His needs, it is said, must be transmitted through a “priestly class” of contractors, middlemen, buyers, customers. The result is countless Kafkaesque dilemmas of cause and effect. You cannot get a security clearance unless you have a secret contract, and you cannot get a security clearance unless you belong to a special class of people who have security clearance.

The same goes for SCIF (Secret Shared Information Facility) sponsorship and access to classified networks. Only the “priestly” middlemen determine the timing and schedule of a company’s access to a top-secret network from its offices.

Monopolies and secrecy are too much, but we are long past the point where they worked in the interests of security.

The main conclusion of Sankar’s “manifesto” is this: “The United States is in a state of undeclared war. For more than three decades, we have put up with stagnation in the military-industrial complex, born of a complacent monopoly without competition from the great powers. We have prayed to the “old altar” for too long. Now change is possible, because we all understand that there is something worse than change: lagging and obsolescence. We cannot waste time resurrecting the American industrial base on which we relied during the height of the Cold War…”.

Let us note not only the systematic nature of Shyam Sankar’s proposals, but also the fact that many of his conclusions should not only be taken into account, but it is advisable to apply them here in Russia, primarily in the military-industrial complex and defense, due to their relevance not only for the United States.

The “Peace through Strength” concept implies a focus on preparing for war, forming an information-cognitive agenda for war. This does not mean that the Americans themselves will fight - this is unlikely, but preparing the world for war - that is for sure. For a war for hegemony through reorganizing the world in the American way.

This way will be played according to the notes written by artificial intelligence. To prepare for war, the corresponding financial and scientific-technological reserve has been created. The military-industrial complex, primarily of the USA and partly of NATO countries, will be rebooted, re-equipped and restarted based on the latest modern technologies - and above all, robotics and AI. The potential for the massive use of autonomous weapons systems is especially dangerous. Tens of thousands of drones, invulnerable to modern electronic warfare and air defense systems, combined with hypersonic missiles create an unprecedented threat to the strategic facilities of any enemy.

The battlefield of the coming war, as seen by the MAGA-imperialists of Trump-Vance, will be filled with mental confrontation, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems and cyber warriors who will fight with all available and most modern hybrid methods, collecting and exchanging intelligence, making decisions with breathtaking speed and efficiency, totally covering the entire world with their control, like a battlefield.

It must be understood that Trump's "Peace through Strength" is, in fact, a forceful reorganization of the world, it is a form of violence against the world "packed" in a political strategy, it is a hybrid war for US hegemony declared for a decade.

In this, and not in the "peacekeeping chatter" is the real American policy. The confrontation with China and Russia was, is and will be the focus of US military policy. To win in an existential clash with the West, Russia needs to concentrate and mobilize all resources - military, economic, spiritual. It is important to realize and take action on the fact that the victorious solution for Russia will come from within, not from without.
Let's become sovereign and strong!

(c) A. Ilnitsky

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-Land of the Free

Anduril Co-Founder Warns: U.S. Munitions Stockpile Would Last One Week In Hot Conflict

2025-04-25

The tariff war means we’re dealing with this now instead of waiting until we’re actually in the middle of a war to restart domestic manufacturing of the stuff.

[ZeroHedge] The United States would deplete its munitions stockpile if it entered into genetic warfare against a global superpower, Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens warns.

Stephens, who co-founded of the cutting-edge defense startup alongside Palmer Luckey, dropped the chilling warning on Auren Hoffman’s World of DaaS podcast.

“The reality is, if we got into a hot conflict with a great power, we would run out of munitions in a week,” Stephens told Hoffman. “We’ve built these capabilities that are incredibly exquisite, incredibly custom, with really complicated supply chains.”

Stephens, who is also a partner at Peter Thiel’s venture capital fund Founders Fund, pointed out that the U.S. is struggling to supply Saudi Arabia with enough Patriot missiles to counter daily Houthi attacks, leaving the the Middle East Kingdom to seek out additional inventories from other nations due to limited availability.

“What that means is, our partner nations, like Saudi Arabia, for example, which is fighting this ongoing conflict with the Houthis—they’ve got stuff being shot into their sovereign territory, creating havoc on a daily basis,” Stephens explained. “We cannot sell them enough Patriot missiles. They literally have to go to other partner nations and try to buy their inventory of Patriot missiles”

Stephens also highlighted that in cases like Ukraine, the U.S. is rapidly depleting both its own and available inventories of military capabilities to support the war effort, with limited resupply options, as manufacturers resort to calling retirees back to rebuild assembly lines.

“Then you see situations like Ukraine, where we deplete not only the available inventory but also our own inventory of the capabilities we’re sending to support the war effort, with no ability to actually resupply,” the technology executive said. “The Primes are literally calling people out of retirement to rebuild assembly lines to make some of these capabilities.”

The AP reported back in November 2024:

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are eating away at critical U.S. weapons stockpiles and could hamper the military’s ability to respond to China should a conflict arise in the Indo-Pacific, the top U.S. commander for that region said Tuesday. Head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Samuel Paparo cautioned Tuesday that the U.S. providing or selling billions of dollars worth of air defenses to both Ukraine and Israel is now impeding his ability to respond in the Indo-Pacific, such as if China invades Taiwan.

“It’s now eating into stocks, and to say otherwise would be dishonest,” Paparo told the Brookings Institution last year.

Stephens’ stark warning echoes a recent interview with Luckey, who stressed that rebuilding the U.S. manufacturing base is not only feasible but critical to counter rising global volatility.

“If we can't make the things that we need to maintain our quality of life, then we are actually just subservient to our adversaries,” Luckey, who leads Anduril as CEO, told legendary music producer Rick Rubin on his Tetragrammaton podcast.

“Is there a possibility that over time America could get back its manufacturing base? Absolutely,” Luckey told Rubin. “The problem that we did, I mean there's a million problems, but what we did is hollowed out our country by allowing China into the World Trade Organization and allowing American companies to outsource manufacturing to China without penalty, without import tariffs, without any reason to not do it.”

“Why wouldn't you, if you're allowed to just send it to another country where everything's cheap, where it's dirt cheap and there's no environmental regulations and no labor laws, why wouldn't you do that? And we've been able to get a bunch of cheap shit over the last 50 years as a result,” the startup billionaire added. “That has helped the United States. Everyone's able to buy cheap TVs and cheap cars and cheap stuff because of China's rise. The flip side of that is that there's no more manufacturing in the United States.”

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Government Corruption

Elon Musk unleashes nerd army of college-aged engineers to dismantle government waste with DOGE

2025-02-05

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Six baby-faced men with little-to-no government experience have been handpicked by Elon Musk to help him dismantle America's foreign aid agency.

The billionaire Tesla founder was appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency after months of campaigning with President Donald Trump during the election.

Now, Musk has taken over and enlisted a troupe of men aged 19-25 - three of whom are believed to still be in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs.

At just 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on corporate America and longstanding government institutions.

According to WIRED, he's been dubbed an 'expert' in his field, and specifics about his role aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have reportedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the agency's top floor with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has been rapidly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently securing clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems. These systems store sensitive data including social security numbers, addresses and contact information.

The oldest of the bunch is 25-year-old Berkeley graduate Gavin Kliger, who while not identified as having top level clearance has already proven he wields significant power.

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been named for his role with DOGE, which is reportedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.

After widespread criticism about the men's youth, Musk released a statement about the appointments.

'Time to confess: Media reports saying that DOGE has some of world's best software engineers are in fact true,' Musk wrote on X.

GAVIN KLIGER, 25
Kliger was named by the New York Times as the account holder behind a controversial company-wide email sent to employees at USAid. The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all employees at the agency not to return to Washington headquarters on Monday.

Meanwhile, up to 600 staff began reporting they were being locked out of their work computer systems. The reports were similar to those experienced by Twitter employees during Musk's takeover and the transition to X.

Kliger has since published a Substack article - which subscribers can read for $12 per month - titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.'

Matt Hopson, who Trump appointed as the new chief of staff at USAid, reportedly resigned after the incident. Trump has ordered a sweeping freeze on foreign assistance.

Trump said the department had been 'run by a bunch of radical lunatics', insisting he is simply 'getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.'

The agency spends about $70billion a year in foreign aid. Projects include HIV/Aids treatments and encouraging women's health in conflict zones.

LUKE FARRITOR, 23
Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig.

Farritor dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to begin working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub. Friedman described Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his appointment with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 prize in 2024 after using AI technology to help decipher a 2,000 year old document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had been trying, and failing, to solve for centuries. The charred scroll was believed burnt beyond recognition.

EDWARD CORISTINE, 19
The youngest of Musk's elite squad is just 19 and a student at Northeastern University in Boston. Coristine reportedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for three months last summer, after graduating high school.

Little is known about Coristine's role at DOGE, however he is listed as an 'expert.'

WIRED cited sources alleging Coristine has been conducting calls with staff in the department and making them 'go over code they had written and justify their jobs.' Employees were allegedly confused by his inclusion in the meetings, and later expressed concerns that they were not properly briefed on his identity or role, even during the call.

Coristine's father, Charles, is the CEO of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as a team member for the brand.

Up until recently, Coristine reportedly used a social media handle named '@EdwardBigBaller.'

AKASH BOBBA, 21
Bobba is another 'expert' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley. According to a former LinkedIn account, which has since been deleted, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund. He had also previously interned for Meta and Palantir - who was founded by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.

Just six years ago, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, local model United Nations. His father is an academic in computer science.

ETHAN SHAOTRAN, 22
Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for professionals. The startup earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.

The 22-year-old said in September he was a senior at Harvard University, and was reportedly working in the school's computing lab on autonomous vehicles. Musk is famously trying to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla headquarters.

Shaortran is part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year.

He also has a unique link to Musk, having participated in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his team were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to create plausible responses from X followers to a hypothetical question.

GAUTIER COLE KILLIAN, 24
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency financial trades and algorithms. Now, he is reportedly working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capacity remains unclear.

The 24-year-old graduated McGill University.

MUSK'S DOGE BOASTS SWEEPING POWER
Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian review of the federal government with Trump's agreement.

'It became apparent that it's not an apple with a worm it in,' Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.

'What we have is just a ball of worms. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair.'

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Home Front: Politix

Steve Bannon: ‘I Will Do Anything' to Keep Elon Musk out of the White House

2025-01-12

[Breitbart] Former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing to have the tech billionaire kicked out of the White House by the time Donald Trump is inaugurated.

“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera this week. “He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person.”

“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
Nobody cares, Steven. You bring nothing to the table
At the heart of the recent clash between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon is the immigration question, and specifically the H-1B visas for skilled immigrants working in “specialty occupations,” which Musk has said he supports. But for Bannon, the issue is emblematic of a bigger problem in Musk’s thinking.

“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious,” Bannon said, noting that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”

“No blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs,” Bannon said.

“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon observed. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”

“We have been fighting this fight for ten years,” he declared. “We are going to expose the entire corruption of the American system, of how money controls everything and hopefully we’ll inspire you in Italy to wake up,” he told Corriere della Sera journalist Viviana Mazza.

Elon “just had a huge defeat here in America,” Bannon argued, on the question of H-1B visas and their importance to the economy of the United States.

“He went out of his way to mock our movement as racist and retards, and he lost,” Bannon said. “We blew him out of the water. He won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a little boy.”

Musk has had “tremendous loss of credibility here in the United States, and quite frankly, the people around Trump are tired of it,” he said.

Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being self-serving, insisting that his “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.”

“He will do anything to make sure that any one of his companies is protected or has a better deal or he makes more money. His aggregation of wealth, and then — through wealth — power: that’s what he’s focused on,” Bannon said.

Bannon said that Musk’s economic support of President Trump has been a positive thing, adding that he should do the same for any of the different populist movements in Europe.

“What’s not positive,” he added, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”

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Europe

For the first time since Hitler, Austria may have a 'people's chancellor'

2025-01-10

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Khavich

[REGNUM] The key Central European country of Austria is entering the new year of 2025 with a clear prospect of Herbert Kickl, the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which opponents call both “fascist” and “pro-Russian,” coming to power.

On the afternoon of January 8, the new chairman of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), Christian Stocker, announced that he had accepted the offer to form a government coalition with the FPÖ. Two days earlier, Kickl had received the mandate to do so from Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen.

Of course, Stocker’s agreement was accompanied by reservations such as “a strong, albeit more perfect, European Union is needed to overcome the current crises” (a reference to the Eurosceptic position of the FPÖ) or “partners must clearly and honestly state whether they want to orient themselves towards the free world or towards dictatorships” (a traditional complaint by the Austrian and European establishment about the “pro-Russian” nature of the FPÖ).

However, the speech of the new ÖVP leader was radically different from his behavior in parliament in October 2024, when Austrian politicians formed a united front against the FPÖ, which had won first place in the parliamentary elections. “Nobody needs you!” Stocker shouted at Kickl from the parliamentary rostrum. But three months later, the situation had changed noticeably.

The elections to the National Council (the lower house of the Austrian parliament) took place on September 29, 2024. The FPÖ won the election, receiving 28.85% of the vote. The ruling ÖVP came in second with 26.3%, the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) secured the support of 21.1% of voters, the liberals from the New Austria and the Liberal Forum gained just over 9%, and the Greens 8.2%.

None of the parties that entered parliament expressed a willingness to enter into a coalition with the FPÖ, calling the party at best right-wing populists. Therefore, in violation of the tradition that had been established over the decades, Van der Bellen instructed the current chancellor and ÖVP chairman Karl Nehammer to form a government, rather than the leader of the winning party. In November, he began negotiations with the Social Democrats and the Liberals, but on January 4, he admitted that it was not possible to form a coalition due to the position of the "S-Democrats".

"It is impossible to reach an agreement with the SPÖ on key issues. The People's Party is sticking to its promises: we will not agree to measures against social benefits and business, or to the introduction of new taxes. Therefore, we are ending negotiations with the SPÖ and will not continue them," Nehammer said and announced his resignation as Chancellor of Austria and leader of the ÖVP, which is headed by Christian Stocker.

Two days later, the Austrian president finally entrusted the formation of a new coalition to Herbert Kickl.

"Mr. Kickl is confident that he can find viable solutions in government negotiations and wants to take on this responsibility," Van der Bellen, the former longtime leader of the Austrian Greens, said on January 6. According to the president, the decision was "not easy" for him. At the same time, he will continue to ensure that "the principles and rules of our constitution are respected and implemented."

And on January 8, the president entrusted the temporary leadership of the current cabinet to the ÖVP politician Alexander Schallenberg. He has headed the Austrian Foreign Ministry since 2019 and has already announced that he will not be part of the new government. Schallenberg has already been the interim chancellor of Austria for several weeks - after the resignation of Sebastian Kurz as head of government in 2021.

According to Austrian political analysts, the main reason for what is happening is the growing rating of the "Svoboda" party: at the moment, according to the results of opinion polls, about 35% of Austrians are ready to vote for the APÖ. Herbert Kickl also understands this: he said that he is "extending his hand to the new leader of the ÖVP", but the extended hand must be answered with "trust and honest negotiations", and if this is not guaranteed, then "new elections can be imagined".

In turn, Christian Stocker stated on January 8 that he is not afraid of such a scenario, but is not a supporter of announcing new parliamentary elections, “since they will not move the country forward.”

There were also opinions that Kickl received a mandate to form a government thanks to Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election. However, as political scientist Kost Bondarenko, who now lives and works in Vienna, said in an exclusive commentary to IA Regnum, this hardly influenced the decision of the President of the Republic of Austria.

"It can be assumed that the general "rightward" sentiment in Europe could only partially influence the mood of the Austrian politicians, who until recently considered the first place of the "fascists" a political tragedy. Now they are more relaxed about Kikl and his party - the psyche of ordinary people has become accustomed to new trends in the world, and therefore the victory of the "Svoboda" members does not look so incredible," the expert notes.

He also rejects another conspiracy theory: that former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who has been working for the last three years for Peter Thiel, a close associate of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, will gain significant influence on the new Austrian government.

"The return to politics of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is now perceived as a fantasy: he did not make any hints about returning to Austria. According to the official version, he got tired of politics and said that he would not return to it. Moreover, in February 2024, he was sentenced to 8 months probation for giving false testimony, which significantly undermined his ratings.

I am sure that Kurz's figure in Austrian politics is seriously overestimated: he was influential as long as his "grey cardinals" were influential, one of whom left this world in March 2022. I mean the former chairman of the AVP, former Vice-Chancellor Erhard Buzek," says Bondarenko.

And Herbert Kickl himself has to regularly disavow Russian influence on the APS.

The fact is that in 2016, this party signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation with the United Russia party (UR). And in 2018, the Austrian Foreign Minister from the APS, Karin Kneissl, drew sharp criticism by inviting Vladimir Putin to her wedding. Since June 2021, Kneissl has been a member of the board of directors of the Russian oil company Rosneft and now lives in Russia.

Kikl, who headed the APS in 2021, refused to extend the agreement with United Russia, stating that “we simply don’t need it.” However, this still didn’t save the APS from accusations of being “pro-Russian,” since the party publicly advocated ending armed support for Ukraine at the EU level, lifting sanctions against Russia, and immediate peace talks with Moscow.

The party called the rupture of economic relations with Russia one of the main reasons for the economic troubles of the Austrians, and now Ukraine has given the APS another trump card by blocking the transit of Russian gas, which Austria has recently been buying through Slovak intermediaries.

One cannot help but recall another accusation against Herbert Kickl personally – that he is a fascist. For example, the above-mentioned speech by Christian Stocker was effectively disrupted by a protest in front of the headquarters of the Austrian People's Party. Left-wing activists wrote on the wall of the building "It stinks of brown shit here", and the party logos were smeared with excrement.

The leader of the APÖ is constantly reminded that the party made “remigration” (a controversial term meaning the expulsion of migrants) one of the cornerstones of its campaign; Kickl himself promised to turn the country into “Fortress Austria,” and in 2018 proposed creating “migrant concentration centers.”

But the main complaint is that the politician built his campaign on the promise to become the "people's chancellor" - as Adolf Hitler called himself before the term "Führer of the German nation" became generally accepted. At the same time, the APÖ has repeatedly distanced itself from National Socialism, and a month before the parliamentary elections, it even filed a lawsuit against a public organization that widely disseminated information about the history of the term "people's chancellor".

"Without a doubt, with Herbert Kickl's arrival as Austrian chancellor there will also be some change of power in the European Union," political analyst Peter Hajek told Euronews. Kickl's opponents fear that, as chancellor, he will orient his policies towards the Russian-leaning Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and even try to rebuild Austria along Hungarian lines.

Orbán and Kikl have a really good relationship, and in the summer in Vienna, together with former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, they founded the Patriots for Europe faction, the third largest in the European Parliament. At the same time, Babiš's party ANO is the highest rated in the Czech Republic ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2025.

In this regard, Europe is once again talking about the “revival of Austria-Hungary” in the format of some kind of interstate association of Austria, Hungary, Slovakia (the Prime Minister of this country Robert Fico also has excellent relations with Viktor Orban), and in the future – the Czech Republic. However, according to Kostya Bondarenko, the idea of “New Austria-Hungary” so far exists only in the imagination of certain political experts.

"It will be possible to talk about an alliance of "pro-Trump" forces no sooner than in six months. During this time, both an "anti-Trump coalition" and a "coalition in support of Trump" may indeed form in Europe. But in the case of Austria, if Kickl and Stocker manage to form a coalition, the Trump factor may become a factor in its destruction and a government-parliamentary crisis rather than in the consolidation of parts of the former Austria-Hungary as a single political field," he is sure.

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World's most secretive society appoints new leader as second Trump presidency sparks seismic shift

2024-12-27

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Bilderberg Group - a secret organization of the global elite - is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House.

The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its 'steering committee.'

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.

Heads of the CIA and MI6 have been among its members, while Henry Kissinger was a regular alongside the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and then-Prince Charles.

Now a major power shift is afoot as Stoltenberg, who attended his first Bilderberg summit in 2002, has been tapped for his expertise in transatlantic strategy.

It comes as Trump, whose frequent attacks on NATO have sparked outrage in Europe, ascends once more to the Oval Office. The president-elect has been adamant that he will no longer spend billions in US taxpayer money to fund other countries' wars.

Stoltenberg's tenure at NATO was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and he proudly claimed to have overseen 'the largest reinforcement of our collective defense in a generation.'

Many of his Bilderberg colleagues have benefited from this increased defense spending. Among them is Trump insider Peter Thiel, boss of AI giant Palantir, whose technology has been used by Ukraine in the fight against Putin.

Stoltenberg last month warned that Trump's 'campaign rhetoric had raised legitimate concerns about his commitment to European security.'

But the new Bilderberg boss can rest assured that if things get sticky, he now has a direct line to Trump in the form of Thiel, who has been one of the president-elect's biggest backers.

Another notable member of the Bilderberg steering committee is Nadia Schadlow, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a DC think-tank.

In October, Schadlow wrote a piece titled 'Europe Should Not See a Potential Trump Return as a Threat.'

In the piece, she addressed how Trump often attacks European NATO member countries for not appropriating enough of their money to national defense but said that Europe should try to work with him.

'Instead of framing him as destroyer of an old order, Europe should consider how Mr Trump's disruptive nature might help to position Europe for a better future,' she wrote.

Stoltenberg may seek to harness the media to help shift the Bilderberg Group's strategy. The secretive society tends to avoid any interaction with the press and keeps the details of its meetings secret.

But Stoltenberg is no stranger to dealing with the media and among the new members are Silicon Valley billionaires like Thiel who are more at ease with public speaking.

Stoltenberg will co-chair the steering committee alongside Canadian-American economist, philanthropist, Marie-Josée Kravis who sits on the board of Publicis, one of the world's largest PR and communications companies.

Kravis is married to the billionaire Henry Kravis, founder of legendary investment firm KKR.

A true sense of the Bilderberg's new tack could become apparent at its next annual meeting which will be in Sweden, appropriately the homeland of its new head Stoltenberg.

As for Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies has built a reputation as both a visionary entrepreneur and a polarizing figure in politics.

A staunch supporter of Donald Trump, Thiel's influence has steadily grown within Bilderberg, a group that convenes heads of state, corporate executives, and policymakers for off-the-record discussions on global challenges.

His proximity to Trump allies, including Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a former employee of Thiel's Mithril Capital, places him in a unique position as Bilderberg recalibrates for Trump's 'America First' agenda.

Thiel's involvement with Palantir Technologies, a leading AI and data analytics firm, underscores his significance in global geopolitics.

Palantir's role in military targeting and surveillance has been pivotal in conflicts including the current Russia-Ukraine war.

CEO Alex Karp, who also sits on the Bilderberg steering committee, recently highlighted Palantir's impact, stating the company was 'responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine.'

This direct link to modern warfare exemplifies how Thiel's tech empire aligns with Bilderberg's interests in security and military investment.

This cabal of the global, largely liberal, elite — with strong ties to the EU — meets every year amid a cloak of secrecy, but Stoltenberg's appointment as co-chair also reflects the group's strategic realignment amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Having overseen NATO's largest defense reinforcement in a generation, Stoltenberg is no stranger to Bilderberg, participating in meetings since 2002.

His tenure as NATO chief was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and increasing NATO expansion, making him a natural choice to steer Bilderberg's discussions on transatlantic defense.

Meanwhile, Thiel's growing influence at Bilderberg also signals a convergence of tech innovation and military strategy.

His robotics company, Anduril, and Palantir have both capitalized on the global arms race, reflecting the group's longstanding ties to defense and intelligence.

Thiel's ideological alignment with Trump and his tech-driven contributions to defense provide a modern reflection of Bilderberg's founding ethos - melding elite influence with geopolitical strategy.

Stoltenberg's leadership, coupled with Thiel's outsized influence, points to a Bilderberg Group increasingly intertwined with military innovation and political strategy.

As the group prepares for its next meeting in Stockholm, hosted by billionaire industrialist Marcus Wallenberg, the focus will likely center on defense spending and transatlantic cooperation in an era of renewed great-power competition.

So clandestine are the Bilderberg gatherings that no minutes are taken, no press conferences given and no reports published.

The conference operates under 'Chatham House Rules', which means participants can use and report information exchanged there, but not disclose the source.

The Bilderberg Group — so called because it first met in 1954 at the Hotel Bilderberg in the Netherlands — is made up of at least 120 self-proclaimed 'leading citizens' of Europe and the U.S., who meet annually to discuss 'issues of common interest'.

Every summer, figureheads from politics, business, academia, finance and defense lock themselves away in a closely guarded hotel for three days to discuss topics of vital global significance about which the rest of us can only speculate.

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Cyber

A controversial police tool has been quietly used in more than 1,000 U.S. investigations, leading to arrests without suspects knowing how they were identified.

2024-10-08

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A controversial facial recognition company that's built a massive photographic dossier of the world's people for use by law enforcement, has been used in more than 1,000 police investigations without authorities announcing use of the software.

Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview AI has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies.

But now an investigation by The Washington Post has revealed how hundreds of U.S. citizens have been arrested after being connected to the crime, not through good old fashioned policing, but through use of the facial recognition software. The Post was able to sift through four years of records from police departments in 15 states that documented how the software was used.

Suspects placed under arrest were never informed how they were identified with police officers actively obscuring the use of the software through convoluted phrasing such as 'through investigative means', in an effort to disguise its use.

Clearview has provided access to its facial recognition software to more than 2,220 different government and law enforcement agencies around the country, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency and more.

It pulls photos and personal data from a wide range of online sources, including social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn, which it uses to create individual profiles of people. Clearview's app then uses these profiles to identify individuals in photos that their clients, such as police departments, upload.

In the past the company was the subject of controversy after it was found to be scraping pictures from social media without people's consent. The pictures were used to train its facial recognition algorithm. The collection of images - approximately 14 photos for each of the 7 billion people on the entire planet, scraped from social media and other sources makes the company's extensive surveillance system, already the most elaborate of its kind.

But now it is law enforcement who are under scrutiny after failing to be transparent as to how the tech is being used. Sometimes police stated how suspects were identified through a witness or that 'a police officer made the identification.'

The real concern comes after about two dozen U.S. state or local governments passed laws restricting facial recognition after studies found the technology was less effective in identifying black people and had on a number of occasions wrongly identified suspects.

When police departments were asked by The Post to explain how the specialized software was used, most refused to give details while others claimed facial recognition was never used solely to provide a concrete match - just to suggest possible suspects.

AI is used to identify similarities between the 'probe image' and the faces in the database. However, there is no universal standard for determining a match, so different software providers may show varying results and degrees of resemblance.

Clearview AI, a tool becoming ever more widely used by law enforcement, scans a vast database of publicly available images from the internet, meaning anyone's photo online could potentially be linked to an investigation based on facial similarity. But in some of the more bizarre matches, the system suggested a suspect was basketball legend Michael Jordan and in another search a cartoon of a black man was found to be a match.

There now appears to be a steadily growing opposition to use of the facial recognition tool that can instigate false arrests. It was revealed during the study how seven Americans who were innocent, six of whom were black, were incorrectly arrested only to have their charges later dropped. While some were told they had been identified by AI, others were simply informed casually how 'the computer found them' of that they had simply been a 'positive match'.

Civil rights groups and defense lawyers say people should be told if the software is used to identify them. In some recent court cases, the reliability of the tool has been successfully questioned with defense lawyers suggesting police and prosecutors are working to intentionally to shield the technology from the scrutiny of the courts.

In their contracts with individual police departments, Clearview attempts to distance themselves from the reliability of their results. The contracts state how the program is not designed 'as a single-source system for establishing the identity of an individual' and that 'search results produced by the Clearview app are not intended nor permitted to be used as admissible evidence in a court of law or any court filing.'

Currently there are no federal laws regulate facial recognition leaving it to individual states and cities to push for greater transparency over the use of the tool.

The company, founded in 2016 by Australian CEO Hoan Ton-That, 37, is currently valued at more than $225 million.

Clearview is funded in part by Peter Thiel, the conservative venture capitalist who helped found the data analytics company Palantir, which has worked with the FBI, CIA, Marine Corps, and Department of Homeland Security. Clearview's technology is also being used by private companies, including Macy's, Walmart, BestBuy and the NBA.

European nations - including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Greece and Austria - have all expressed disapproval of Clearview's method of extracting information from public websites, saying it comes in violation of European privacy policies. Canadian provinces from Quebec to British Columbia have requested the company take down the images obtained without subjects' permission.

Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies.

In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview's artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate. One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.

A facial recognition system used by officials in China connects to millions of CCTV cameras and uses artificial intelligence to pick out targets.

Experts believe that facial recognition technology will soon overtake fingerprint technology as the most effective way to identify people.
Gay-face IS real: You can tell a person is homosexual just by looking at their features, say experts

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US elections could trigger the collapse of the global liberal system

2024-01-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Dmitry Taratorin

[REGNUM] Donald Trump has threatened Joe Biden with criminal charges when he becomes president if former heads of state do not have real immunity from prosecution.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

“If I don't have immunity, then Corrupt Joe won't have it either, and with the cross-border invasion surrendered by Afghanistan, not to mention the millions of dollars of foreign money in his pockets, Joe will be ripe for criminal charges. By using the DOJ as a weapon against a political opponent, me, Joe is opening a huge Pandora’s box,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth.

Indeed. Just as Alinsky prescribed.

The former - and very likely future - president says allegations surrounding his supporters' storming of the Capitol and what Democrats say was an attempt to block legislative certification of Biden's election victory are completely baseless.

However, Trump’s problems don’t end there. He faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases. Together they carry a sentence of 700 years in prison.

Discussing Trump's presidential prospects with an informed Western conservative, I heard: "They'd rather kill him."

Where does “they” have this horror before Trump’s return to the White House? Yes, he promised in his first term to “drain the swamp,” that is, to undermine the power of the American political elite, but he already failed to do this once. Apparently, the “swamp” is aware that he has drawn conclusions. And now he is preparing for a serious blow.

But the threat hangs not only over the “swamp”, but also over the “Cathedral”. And if it only shakes, this could be the beginning of the collapse of the entire left-liberal hegemony on a global scale. No, of course, we are not talking about some anti-church plans of Trump and his supporters. The term “Cathedral” denotes the “priests” of the left-liberal “religion”, guardians and fierce defenders of its dogmas, mercilessly persecuting all dissenters, labeling them marginal, and indiscriminately classifying their ideas as anti-human.

This concept was invented about a decade and a half ago by IT specialist and popular blogger Curtis Yarvin, who wrote under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. The “Cathedral” is a network of journalists, professors, experts and politicians permeating the entire Western society who defend their “faith” as the only acceptable worldview.

What made the same Yarvin declare war on him? The blatant ineffectiveness of the system that was created on the basis of the dogmas of the “Cathedral”, the obvious degradation of the ruling elite under the influence of its ideas, and simply its creeping totalitarianism. These ideas were supported by the nonconformist philosopher Nick Land, who became the second cult figure of the new movement, which was soon dubbed neoreaction (or NRx for short).

But if the matter were limited to a few network intellectuals, this phenomenon could be neglected. However, the impulse itself came from more serious circles.

Nick Land himself, speaking about the milestones in the formation of the movement, notes: “One of the stages was a discussion in April 2009, organized at Cato Unbound among libertarian thinkers (including Patrick Friedman and Peter Thiel), in which disillusionment with the direction and possibilities of democratic politics was expressed with unusual directness. Thiel summed up this trend succinctly: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

It is quite typical that Thiel is not only one of the most successful investors in the United States, but also a person close to Trump.

Meanwhile, Land gives the new mentality another definition: “The subterranean current which promotes such an anti-politics is a recognizably Hobbesian serial 'dark enlightenment', initially devoid of any Rousseauian enthusiasm for popular expression.”

What are we talking about here? And nothing less than the fact that neoreactionaries (as well as their predecessors of the 18th century) see the root of evil in enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Diderot, the preacher of the natural innocence of man Jean-Jacques Rousseau and, of course, their joint brainchild - the French Revolution with its slogan “liberty, equality and fraternity”. That is, no less than their activities are aimed at undermining everything that for the “Council” is an unquestionable axiom.

But why are they neo-reactionaries, and not reactionaries without any modernizing prefixes? Because Curtis Yarvin describes his logic like this: “An absolute hereditary monarch has no interest in using an ineffective bureaucracy. Because he wants his nation to prosper, he is likely to adopt the economic and social system that appears to promote the prosperity of nations: libertarian capitalism. So we come full circle, a sort of layer cake—libertarianism, then absolute monarchy, then more libertarianism.”

This seems completely crazy - American monarchists! This is in a country that was born precisely from the absolute rejection of the British monarchy. But here the contradiction is only at first glance. It is not for nothing that Yarvin begins with libertarianism and ends with it. No wonder Peter Thiel says that democracy can no longer provide freedom. They simply discovered that under the guise of “democracy” the “Council” established its absolute dictatorship.

Over the course of a decade and a half, the NRx movement has evolved rapidly. And today it breaks down into a number of directions that see their goals very differently. Nick Land himself describes the situation as follows: “Since everyone agrees that the right can never agree with each other on anything,

...just like the left, in fact?

then there is an opportunity to enjoy the sophistication of this diversity. From crypto-fascists, theonomists and romantic royalists to jaded classical liberals and full-blown constitutionalists, reaction contains an entire ideological universe within itself. Aversion to forced egalitarianism and a feeling that Western civilization is going to hell is probably enough to get you into the club. Agreement on anything other than this? Forget."

But it is precisely this heterogeneity of NRx (from radical Catholic theonomists to total nihilists like Land himself) that is not a weakness, but a strength of the movement. It exists as a network community that is fighting for the minds of intellectuals with the network system of the “Cathedral”. And quite unsuccessfully. After all, until recently, being an intellectual in the West almost automatically meant being leftist.

What awaits America? Neoreactionaries crown Trump emperor? In fact, they cannot be said to be his supporters at all. If only because of the mentioned diversity of their platforms. The point is different. And the threat to the “Cathedral” lies elsewhere.

Trump, “draining the Washington swamp,” will inevitably undermine the power of this network structure. Otherwise, he simply won’t be able to resist. After all, it is the members of the “Cathedral” who tirelessly attack him.

This means that his victory promises the United States an exciting and completely unpredictable future. Up to the potential transformation into the “United Kingdoms of America”. This is exactly what strange blogger Mencius Moldbug likes.

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Continuation of Epstein's list

2023-08-30

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a news article which appeared in secreta.com. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

The American press published a continuation of the list of people associated with the owner of the "island of pedophiles" billionaire Epstein, who was strangled in an American prison and called it "suicide" to ensure the silence of this character.

Continuation of Epstein's list

Some of the most important people in the world are panicking after the news that Epstein's real list of elite pedophiles has been leaked to the Internet, reports Peoples voice.

The document penetrated the network, bypassing the obstacles of the US Department of Justice. It is alleged that employees of the ministry themselves were involved in its publication.

New York magazine presented readers with a list of VIP pedophiles who are known to have dated Epstein but who do not appear in his infamous little black book.

According to the magazine, these are:

- Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black;

- President of the College of Bards Leon Botshtein;

- Google co-founder Sergey Brin;

- CIA Director William Burns;

- Professor Noam Chomsky, whose meetings with Epstein included a dinner with filmmaker Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn;

- Former First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands Cecile de Jong, who is accused of helping Epstein obtain visas for his alleged victims;

- Bill Gates, whose ties to Epstein have been well known for years;

- FedEx board member Joshua Cooper Ramo;

- former diplomat Terje Red-Larsen;

- Chairman of the Edmond de Rothschild group Ariane de Rothschild;

- Goldman Sachs General Counsel Katherine Rümmler;

- JPMorgan CEO Jess Staley;

- Former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers;

- PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.;

The list also includes Prince Andrew and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

However, the names of Andrew and Barack also appear in Epstein's black book.

In April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Epstein's very busy meeting schedule.

For just one day, 9/8/2014, he had meetings scheduled with Gates, Black, Rümmler and Botstein, as well as with Hyatt Hotels chairman Thomas Pritzker, media owner Mortimer Zuckerman and adviser Barnaby Marsh.

Previously unpublished documents reviewed by the journal include thousands of pages of emails and timetables dated from 2013 to 2017.

The Times said it obtained Epstein's lists "through a request for public records to the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General, who sued Mr. Epstein's estate."

The persons appearing in the "mournful" list, one way or another, deny their connection with the pedophile Epstein.

For example, Barack Obama admitted that he often met with Epstein, but never "with girls or minors, or even adult women in an inappropriate context."

But Professor Noam Chomsky said that his connection with Epstein "is none of your business or anyone else's."

The remote Caribbean island, dubbed "Pedophile Island" by Epstein's efforts, hosted many high-ranking officials, bankers, politicians and other persons of power and influence with vicious inclinations.

No wonder Epstein was a regular visitor to the Clinton-era White House.

Link and the list itself includes representatives of the neoliberal globalist elite associated with the Biden administration, this leak is very likely associated with the upcoming US presidential elections, which is already leading to an aggravation of the internal struggle in the American establishment.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Beware The Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum

2023-04-22

[Canada Free Press] Every emerging power has its little army, enforcers...Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, Stalin's Secret Police. For The World Economic Forum (WEF), it has its Young Global Leaders (YGL), attractive men and women, mostly in business attire, seemingly harmless. But these YGL members are near invisible, but dangerous.

The Young Global Leaders (YGL) was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF, architect of The Great Reset or The New World Order. The YGL, a non-profit organization managed from Geneva, Switzerland, is under the supervision of the Swiss government. The program was founded as part of the World Economic Forum in 1993 under the name "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" and was renamed Young Global Leaders in 2004.

SCHWAB WAS BORN A MEMBER OF THE NAZI CHILD ARISTOCRACY IN 1938
The YGL provides heavy indoctrination and training in socialist principles. Its aim is to provide 'suitable future leaders for the emerging global society, a one world global government. It includes politicians, business leaders, royalty, journalists, entertainers, and other cultural influencers.

Schwab was born a member of the Nazi child aristocracy in 1938, and was reared into Nazi eugenics...getting rid of undesirables. Schwab claims to be an economist, a champion of economic freedom. But, looking at him closely puts him far away. Schwab inherited Escher-Wyss from his Nazi father, a once high technology metals company entrusted by Hitler to develop nuclear weapons. The company was hailed by Hitler as a "Model National Socialist Company." After the war, the company moved to Switzerland, and with all the economic prowess he could muster, his company managed to go bankrupt.

Today there are over 1,400 graduates (some publications say 3,800) from more than 120 countries. Some well known graduates are Justin Trudeau (Canada), Emmanuel Macron (France), Gavin Newsom (Gov. Calif.), Bill Gates, Chelsea Clinton, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Larry Fink (BlackRock), Peter Thiel (eBay), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Nikki Haley (US pres. candidate), Nathaniel Rothschild, Tony Blair (former PM UK), Angela Merkel (Germany), Jonathan Soros, (son of George), Huma Abedin (Hillary Clinton aide, Pete Buttigieg (former candidate for President), Sanna Marin (Finland PM), Alexander Stubb (former Finland PM), and Vlad Zelensky (President Ukraine).

As you can see, they are everywhere. These new, young leaders are to go back to their respective country and spread the gospel of a global socialist government. They are entrenched in places like Washington, Ottawa, London, and Paris. They don't care what their people want or need, their borders, their culture or tradition. They only answer to their bosses at the World Economic Forum, the likes of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, or George Soros.

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Government Corruption

Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility

2023-04-16

[THEEPOCHTIMES] A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency "might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony" of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations.

Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn's Founder

[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.

Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.

Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in "last-minute" correspondence between lawyers for both sides.

According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position as the de facto leader of the Republican Party:

Hoffman is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded the professional social network LinkedIn. In recent years, Vox also identified him as a major Democratic donor who has made it his mission to loosen Trump’s control over the Republican Party.

According to Insider, Hoffman’s distaste for Trump’s authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies has even strained his personal relationship with another Silicon Valley staple, Peter Thiel, who has conversely fashioned himself as a bankroller of right-wing causes.

Trump’s team of lawyers, led by Amina Habba and Joe Tacopina, are now pushing to delay the trial, which is slated to begin in a matter of weeks, in light of the news that Hoffman is behind the suit.

Habba and Tacopina claimed in a letter to the federal judge overseeing the case that Carroll perjured herself, citing an October deposition in which she claimed no one else was funding her lawyers.

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Silicon Valley Bank had more red flags than a CCP meeting but regulators cared about climate not bank risks

2023-03-14

[Fox via Yahoo - Liz Peek] Despite skeins of bank regulations

supposed to prevent another financial meltdown, Silicon Valley Bank, the country’s 17th-biggest bank, went down in flames last week. It was the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history and has prompted a lot of finger-pointing.

Management messed up by not addressing a serious cash shortage until it was too late. Some blame Peter Thiel, saying the venture capital investor’s call for small tech firms to withdraw deposits from SVB accelerated its demise. Others are critical of Goldman Sachs, SVB’s adviser who signed off on their ill-advised decision to try to sell equity, thus alerting investors to their capital shortfall.

There’s plenty of blame to go around, but when a financial institution goes under, you have to wonder: where were the regulators? After all, there were more red flags than you see at a CCP convention.

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