The West clings to its delusion of supremacy like a fading empire hoarding tarnished trophies.
It’s the same old playbook for them.
They spin a narrative, call it truth, and expect the world to bow.
They do this with everything. From marketing product sales, to politics.
To grasp the Middle East’s geopolitics, you have to understand this Western narrative framework.
“Terrorism” is always the villain, and the West, the gallant hero, swoops in to save the day.
There’s no reality where the resistance topples Israel and “wins” the Middle East.
That’s not how the script works.
The West demands its victory lap, claiming it tamed the savages and gifted the region peace.
The reality however, is that their grand experiment failed to become a hegemony so they need to wrap this up, and demote Israel to just another player integrated into the region’s control.
That’s the reality. That’s the outcome.
The Gulf states get this. They ditch the ego and pride and see the board for what it is. And they couldn’t care less what the region thinks of them.
Outcomes over optics.
Many on here don’t understand this. Frankly, they should not be involving themselves with geopolitics.
Just pay attention over your timeline. Anyone saying the Gulf states are an embarrassment or a humiliation over this Doha strike,
are the ones being played by the Western narrative. They care about the narrative of optics over the reality outcomes.
They care about shit like honor, integrity, glory when the stakes are far more substantial.
These people are like naive children.
They don’t just fall short when it comes to geopolitics. They often conduct themselves poorly in other domains within their life.
I see it in corporate very often.
Very easy to manipulate.
They become part of the means for people who shape outcomes.
Epstein email dump: 18,000 messages straight from his Yahoo inbox. Oversight released some, Bloomberg got more. The media wanted Trump dirt. What they found is way worse—for Epstein & Maxwell. Let’s unpack. 🧵 1/17
Trump is mentioned three times:
– 2000: photo at Mar-a-Lago. – 2003: at a dinner Maxwell hosted with “barely clad models.” – 2006: Maxwell sends a 51-name VIP list. Epstein replies: “Remove Trump.” 2/17
That’s it. Three mentions out of 18,000 emails. Zero ties to crimes. Meanwhile, Bloomberg headlines it like the scoop of the century: “Trump was on a list!” A list of what? They don’t know. 3/17
The real bombshells? Maxwell. The cache shows she lied about her role. She wasn’t just “property manager.” She:
– Ran Epstein companies – Opened foreign bank accounts – Traded stocks jointly – Coordinated fertility treatments with Epstein 4/17
Yes, fertility. Emails show Maxwell directing Epstein to provide sperm samples: “It has to be within 90 mins of my procedure… all the ejaculate must be collected.” Romance is dead. 5/17
Then there’s the gift ledger. A 2007 spreadsheet logs ~$1.8M in “gifts,” many with “GM” initials (Maxwell’s hand). Rolexes, Audemars Piguets, ATVs, lingerie, laptops, massages. 6/17
Politicians & elites appear in the entries:
– Doug Band (Clinton aide): $35K watch – Leslie Wexner: >$130K in ATVs – Tom Barrack: ~$11K Rolex – Alan Dershowitz: $71K Lexus – Sergey Brin/Anne Wojcicki: invited to Little St. James
Lithuanian authorities on Wednesday deported a Cameroonian man who had lived in the country for nearly four years and started a family, despite protests from rights groups urging officials to halt the expulsion.
The State Border Guard Service confirmed to BNS that the man was escorted by three officers on a flight to Cameroon via Istanbul. His removal was financed with European Union funds.
“This year, there have been about 50 such cases to countries including Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast, India, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. This is not the first such case of sending to Cameroon,” service spokesman Giedrius Mišutis said.
The NGO Sienos Grupė (Border Group) staged a protest outside the Migration Department in Vilnius, holding signs reading “Stop cowboy deportation”, “Human rights have no borders” and “Push dictators not refugees”. The group said the man lived in Lithuania with his Eritrean partner, who has refugee status, and their son, who was also granted refugee protection.
There is nothing stopping his family from going with him. Lithuania is a tiny country with a very small population. Loose immigration laws will destroy it beyond repair in two generations, if not less. ABN
UPDATE: Kirk is the kind of man who has been culled in USA and the West for many decades.
Usually, they are poisoned or maimed when they are young, before they gain a reputation like Kirk’s.
Men and boys like him are culled because they are strong, smart, can speak very well, are honest and do not fear telling the truth.
Across the West we hear women complaining where are the men who will protect us?
There are many factors but a very major one is millions of men with the natural ability to protect women and their societies have been destroyed even before they became adults.
It’s a military strategy and has been very effective in destroying the West.
As a nation or civilization, it is difficult to find the will to fight against this strategy because those who hold power have been major beneficiaries of the culling process.
And that makes it very hard for them to see what is happening or do anything about it if they do. Consider how many feckless weaklings are flourishing in politics, media, art, teaching and more. ABN
The astral plane, also called the astral realm or the astral world, is a plane of existence postulated by classical, medieval, oriental, esoteric, and new age philosophies and mystery religions.[1] It is the world of the celestial spheres, crossed by the soul in its astral body on the way to being born and after death, and is generally believed to be populated by angels, spirits or other immaterial beings.[2] In the late 19th and early 20th century the term was popularised by Theosophy and neo-Rosicrucianism.
Another view holds that the astral plane or world, rather than being some kind of boundary area crossed by the soul, is the entirety of spirit existence or spirit worlds to which those who die on Earth go, and where they live out their non-physical lives. It is understood that all consciousness resides in the astral plane.[3] Some writers conflate this realm with heaven or paradise or union with God itself, and others do not. Paramahansa Yogananda wrote in Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), “The astral universe … is hundreds of times larger than the material universe … [with] many astral planets, teeming with astral beings.”
My sense is the term astral plane has fallen a bit out of favor. In some cases it is replaced by ethereal plane. In Buddhism, it is traditionally referred to as ultimate reality or vaguely as nirvana, or what comes after nirvana. More recently among scientists and philosophers, we are seeing the concept of a conscious universe or a thinking universe, a universe in which consciousness is a primary force, feature or dimension. However we refer to it, we need a term that evokes dimensions or planes of awareness beyond earthly or mundane awareness or ‘relative reality’, as it is put in Buddhism.
The concept of an astral plane dates back to Plato if not before. The Buddha was referring to something like that without using any term when he spoke about nirvana. The Buddha was a Scythian who argued against the strong Scythian belief in an absolute distinction between right and wrong and a single, great God (Ahura Mazda) who created the world and could be known only through doing good.
It’s a good development that scientists and philosophers today are increasingly seeing what the Buddha and many others have seen throughout the ages. I believe deep meditative states and a moral life afford us frequent opportunities to commune with or glimpse dimensions or realms beyond our normal default cultural behavioral realms.
Buddhism is a profoundly ethical teaching but it also rejects absolutes. We humans are characterized by emptiness, impermanence, and the suffering wrought by clinging to any concept, belief or idea, and yet are capable of freeing ourselves from ‘relative reality’ through ethical practice and experiential samadhi states.
The Buddha remained silent on matters related to anything like the astral plane because he knew that focusing on ethereal aims (especially in his day?) tends to reify them, which then leads to ossification, doctrine, worship without reason. I wonder if in our day, the Buddha would reason differently as many reasonable thinkers now accept that consciousness may be inexplicable by rank materialism or particle physics or biology based on those; and thus may/must be a primary aspect of all that we know of.
On a per capita basis, the highly intelligent became ten times more numerous in England between 1000 and 1850
Human populations have evolved over time, not only during prehistory but also well into recorded history. This evolution has affected a wide range of mental and behavioral traits: cognitive ability, time preference, propensity for violence, monotony avoidance, rule following, guilt proneness, and empathy, among others.
Such traits vary among human populations because different cultures have imposed different demands on mind and body. In general, the cultural environment will favor those who can better exploit its possibilities, just as the natural environment will. There has thus been a process of coevolution: we make culture, and it remakes us—by selecting those among us who survive to pass on their genes. This coevolution has proceeded along different trajectories in different populations.
This is not a BOMSHELL, but Putin’s views are always interesting if only because he is head of the Russian Federation. Most of what he says is straightforward and true. I like Trump’s comment (see below) on China’s victory celebration, It is also straightforward and true. ABN
The big question to be answered is whether or not President Xi of China will mention the massive amount of support and “blood” that The United States of America gave to China in order to help it to secure its FREEDOM from a very unfriendly foreign invader. Many Americans died in China’s quest for Victory and Glory. I hope that they are rightfully Honored and Remembered for their Bravery and Sacrifice! May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
China has immensely more reason to be grateful to USA than not. This includes not just the results of WW2 but also their receiving enormous amounts of American technology, knowhow, money, and good will since the 1980s. USA was not involved in the Opium Wars of the 19th Century; that was the Jewish Sassoon dynasty backed by the British Empire. I like the tone of Trump’s post. Gratitude toward USA and the West would go a long way toward healing this world. ABN
An ancient mural of Jesus Christ healing the sick has been uncovered in the ruins of an Egyptian settlement from 1,600 years ago.
An Egyptian archaeological team discovered the remains of the city in the Ain Al-Kharab area of the Kharga Oasis, located in Egypt‘s New Valley Governorate, in late July.
The findings also included mud-brick residential buildings, two churches, a cemetery, and various artifacts like pottery, stone, and glass pieces.
One church was built in a basilica style with a large hall and columns, while a smaller church contained Coptic writings, the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language used in the early centuries of Christianity.
The mural of Jesus, along with the churches, showed that the Kharga Oasis was a significant center for early Christians transitioning from traditional Egyptian beliefs around the fourth to seventh centuries.
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