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[a @aalisub]

still my faves

[solange knowles @solangeknowles]

Via @aalisub

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

The “Israel War Room” posts this clip of a worldwide children’s advocate and a mayor fighting for free childcare right after bombing a girls’ school and killing at least 85 students

[mtp @tsengputterman]

What stage of capitalism is it when the White House is rigging betting markets on how long its press briefings denying war crimes will last

[Em Cohen gazafunds.com @EmCohen_]

the ruling class hopes these innovations will convince you that revolution is impossible so you don’t even really consider trying. they want to convince you that groveling to them is the only way to get what you need.

But the masses make history. Revolution is always possible.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

the harm they do on this earth is beyond comprehension.

[Mark @Mark4XX]

⚠️ BUCKLE UP: 2026 GEOPOLITICAL PREDICTIONS FROM A PROFESSOR WHO GOT TRUMP, IRAN, & UKRAINE RIGHT.

Professor Jang uses game theory & history to forecast global shifts. His track record is uncanny. Here’s his alarming analysis for 2026.

THE GRAND GAME: US vs. CHINA
➡️ The core of 2026 is the U.S.-China relationship. Everything else is secondary.
✅ Trump’s planned state visit to China in April is the pivotal event. The goal? A "grand bargain" to secure the US dollar's dominance.
❌ The U.S. strategy is contradictory: it seeks to coerce China while needing its cooperation. This cannot hold.

THE REAL WAR IS FINANCIAL
🔗 The 1971 move off the gold standard created a system where China’s addiction to dollars stabilized the U.S. economy.
⚠️ Now, China is destabilizing that system by internationalizing the Yuan and creating gold-backed corridors.
⚔️ U.S. actions in Venezuela & the Middle East are not just about oil—they are about forcing China to buy resources using dollars, strangling its economy into submission.

MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
➡️ Professor Jang uses a powerful metaphor: two nations on a ladder over an abyss.
✅ If they climb together, they are stable.
❌ If one tries to climb too far ahead, both fall. The U.S. insistence on hegemony is that destabilizing force.
💥 China’s weapons are financial: it can restrict silver exports or dump U.S. treasuries, causing market havoc.

THE AMERICAN PONZI SCHEME
✅ The U.S. economy is built on bubbles: AI speculation, over-leveraged paper silver (300:1), and cryptocurrency.
⚠️ These bubbles are sustained only by oligarchic control and endless money printing. A self-correction could mean collapse—and potential civil war.
“The American financial industry is one great Ponzi scheme.”

EUROPE: SLEEPWALKING INTO DISASTER
➡️ The Ukraine war is settled in all but name. The front is stabilized.
❌ Yet, Europe’s elite, living in a bubble, will continue a suicidal policy. They cannot admit they were wrong.
🎯 The endgame is Odessa. NATO will commit to defending it, Russia will besiege it, and European conscription will spark internal revolt.
“Europe is a lumbering bureaucracy that cannot imagine its own demise.”

THE DECLINE OF EMPIRE: MICRO-MILITARISM
✅ The kidnapping of Maduro was a televised spectacle, not strategy.
⚠️ It humiliated a nation and turned the Global South against the U.S. It’s a sign of an empire in decline—sacrificing long-term strategy for short-term optics.
“Trump thinks like a mafia boss, not a president. He lives in Trump World, where TV ratings equal victory.”

APRIL 2026: THE SHOWDOWN
All roads lead to Trump’s visit to China. The goal is to negotiate from a position of strength, controlling the Western Hemisphere to dictate terms.
The wildcard is China’s response. Will it cut a deal or choose a different path?
The professor’s bet: A grand bargain is reached, but it merely delays the inevitable collapse of the current order.

THE BOTTOM LINE
The world is being pushed toward conflict by a declining power that confuses television ratings for statecraft, while its rivals hold the financial weapons to ensure mutual destruction.

I highly recommend watching the entire interview ! https://t.co/JqMtZ7OJB6 - @Glenn_Diesen

#Geopolitics #2026Predictions #USChina #USDollar #EconomicCollapse #WarInEurope #GlobalRisk #GameTheory

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

I'll let you in on a little secret, the CIA has been using wifi to detect movement within buildings for over a decade.

Also they can capture the weak RF signal emitted from HDMI cables to see what's on your screen.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

President Trump:
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

In 2000, there were 9 countries without a Rothschild-owned central bank.

Four have already been overthrown through regime changes based on lies like WMD.

We’re currently in an Israeli proxy war with Iran & Syria and about to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: More than 200 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/rfIz1BAckI

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇱🇺🇸 Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer says "it's time to limit the First Amendment."

"We need to control all the social platforms…And take control of what they are saying."

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling.

To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy.

Alternatively:

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Blowing up Hugo Chavez’s body because fuck it why not while we’re down here

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Probably Venezuela's new leader Corina Machado:

"As soon as we conquer freedom, I will move our Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem."

[tyson brody @tysonbrody]

Some war related insider trading? A brand new account in polymarket, only invested in US going to war with Venezuela and Maduro out by January 31. Up 13k so far, was spending thousands on Maduro out at bargain prices as recently as 4 hours ago. Now it’s at .50.

[a @aalisub]

2026 NYC Inauguration with Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

life moves pretty fast

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

a whistle-blower revealed that Israel paid for a multi-million dollar study to assess the best way to rehabilitate their tarnished image in the west. the study's main conclusion was that their reputation could not overcome genocide, but there was a viable path forward by promoting Islamophobia as a distraction. the study was clear that promulgating suspicion and hatred of Muslims was the only way to alleviate the damage to Israel's reputation.

that is the context of this post and every post like it.

[martha @mxmsworld]

We’re being too passive. The fact there is zero legislation on this is crazy, but humanity is genuinely being too passive at the advancement of generative AI.