Douglas Solomon

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The Trump admin sent FBI agents to subpoena NY Times freelancer Matthew Cole for his sources

Cole exposed a sickening US war crime in which Navy SEALs massacred North Korean fishermen after they were caught planting a surveillance device

The SEALs punctured the fishermen's lungs to make sure they would sink and not be found

Trump authorized the failed raid in 2019 ahead of talks with Kim Jong-Un, and with the goal of spying on the North Korean leader

Cole happens to be publishing a book about Jared Kushner's web of financial corruption

Do you see what's happening here?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Classical music has never paid for itself. Ticket sales cover roughly a third of an American orchestra's budget, and that's the healthy ones. Since 2010, orchestras in Philadelphia, Louisville, Honolulu, and Syracuse have all filed for bankruptcy. Then gamers started buying tickets.

The model was always subsidy. Beethoven lived on an annuity from three Viennese aristocrats. Wagner had a Bavarian king paying his debts. The modern version swapped princes for donors and endowments, but the arithmetic never changed. The music on stage loses money and someone rich covers the gap.

Video game concerts broke that arithmetic. The Legend of Zelda's Symphony of the Goddesses sold out most of a world tour. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sold out the Royal Albert Hall. Sonic filled London's Barbican for three straight nights. Same players, same halls. Different composer names on the program, and suddenly the box office covers the cost.

The audience explains why. The average classical subscriber is near retirement age and the field loses old attendees faster than it gains young ones. The Zelda crowd shows up in their teens and twenties, some in costume. A Royal Philharmonic poll found more young people now discover orchestral music through games than through live concerts.

So the annoyance is aimed at the wrong people. Koji Kondo and Nobuo Uematsu built the biggest onboarding funnel orchestral music has ever had. The 19-year-old hearing a 90-piece orchestra play Zelda tonight is the only plausible Mahler subscriber of 2046.

Haydn needed a prince to fund a symphony. Zelda fills the hall at face value. In 300 years of orchestral music, this is the first time the audience paid the whole bill.

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 BoJ Banker Apologized for Measures That Would “Affect People Globally”… Hours Later the U.S. Seized Control

Scott Bessent just found the secret switch to DELAY the catastrophic RCT unwind… by seizing control of the Bank of Japan’s policy operations.

Japan is now forced to weaponize the International Repo Facility (FIMA) to artificially prop up the Yen WITHOUT dumping their mountain of U.S. Treasuries.

Short-term “stability.” Long-term? Absolute disaster.

Overnight loans force endless rollovers that can get yanked anytime. Costs are higher than market rates. $60 Billion cap is tiny for real defense. It’s just a temporary Band-Aid, yen weakness keeps getting worse. Brace for bigger pain.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The unwind was already so nuclear that Bessent is now personally overseeing and directing BoJ operations from Washington.

This only happened AFTER the BoJ and Japan’s finance minister threatened bold actions to save the Yen and @yutokanzakireal warned the measures prepared would hit people globally and even apologized for it, in advance.

The second that warning dropped, the U.S. stepped in, took the wheel, and put the BoJ on a leash.

They just kicked the biggest can in financial history straight off a cliff. The delayed unwind will be far more catastrophic when it finally hits.

The Yen “boost” is pure theater. The real price comes later.

Japan is hoping for an escape plan with digital assets. The country which was not so crypto friendly has suddenly passed their version of Clarity Act before the U.S.

> Crypto has now been declared as financial assets.

> Bitcoin and XRP are now being allowed as corporate treasury assets.

> Ondo and Solana chosen for Japan’s first phase of tokenization.

> Japan is even getting institutional privacy in their digital asset infrastructure through @DNAOnChain’s zero-knowledge proofs in cryptography.

Japan is preparing the ultimate off-ramp from this dollar-dominated trap.

[Douglas Solomon @pither1952]

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[Douglas Solomon @pither1952]

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[Douglas Solomon @pither1952]

@Nermeenalswaisi dot.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

The legacy of Barack Obama:

The Butcher of Libya turned the richest African nation into a fragmented failed state, overseeing the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi.

Dropped 26,171 bombs in his last year in office.

Hoped and Changed nothing apart from 2 wars into 7.

Launched the dirty war on Syria, arming and assisting Al Qaeda & ISIS, which eventually resulted in the overthrow of the Assad government in 2024 with a former Al Qaeda & ISIS commander taking power.

Launched 10x more drone strikes than George W. Bush

Launched a war on whistleblowers, most famously including Julian Assange.

Built on the draconian mass surveillance started by George W. Bush after campaigning on transparency.

[Snarky @Snarky4012]

Israeli Settler Brags: '1 Jewish Life Worth 10 Million Palestinians' https://t.co/uTOgV6TPV2 via @YouTube

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

They are all Terrorists

[✝️🇺🇸Chet Ozmun🇨🇳☭ @OzmunC]

A recurring theme in Xi-Era dramas: Scientists and Intellectuals get humbled learning that their work is only made possible because of workers and soldiers. In this scene, the scientists learn who is helping them escort China's nuclear bomb to its final test site.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's actually shocking to hear one of the nation's most bloodthirsty neocons -- Robert Kagan, the husband of Victoria Nuland and partner of Bill Kristol in pushing the Iraq War long before 9/11 -- admit not only that the US is often attacked as "blowback" from its own aggression, but that both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are examples of it.

This has long been one of the most taboo truths when it comes to US war propaganda, and still is:👇

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

"I wanna send you to another f***ing planet."

A Zionist is triggered by the sight of a Palestinian flag.
MAKE HIM FAMOUS‼️

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

2 weeks before migrants from Morocco invaded Ceuta, the GOP passed a bill with $40 million for Morocco and a committee report advising:

Spanish-administered cities of Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's longstanding claim.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 3 de agosto de 1936, en los Juegos Olímpicos de la Alemania nazi, el atleta negro Jesse Owens vencía a la "raza aria" delante de las narices del propio Hitler, ganando el oro en salto de longitud, quedando por encima del nazi alemán.

A su llegada a EEUU, Roosevelt se negó a recibirle en la Casa Blanca y ni siquiera le felicitó por telegrama, una humillación a la que el propio Owens llegó a decir que hasta Hitler tuvo mejor trato con él que el que le dio EEUU.

Owens lejos de ser glorificado por EEUU, después de ganar el oro, tuvo que seguir trabajando en una gasolinera y una lavandería para subsistir, siguió sufriendo el racismo y la segregación racial de EEUU hasta arruinarse, ni ganando medallas de oro olímpicas se le respetó en el "sueño americano".

[Douglas Solomon @pither1952]

https://t.co/ZPpYL0LoA3

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Prof Marandi just casually dismantles every know-nothing British regime journalist that dares interview him

He is on permanent beast mode

[China Times @ChinaTimesX]

High anger within European countries after the Mossad's admission of its operations in Spain.

Israelis admits that the migration of 50,000 people from Morocco to Spain was planned by the Mossad and Israel

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

It has now been established that what happened in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla was a successful example of hybrid warfare orchestrated by the Moroccan government against Spain. Nearly 50,000 Moroccan nationals were transported from towns and villages across Morocco using trucks and other heavy vehicles organized by the government before being funneled into the two Spanish enclaves. The objective was to exert political pressure on the Spanish government in an effort to force concessions over Morocco's long-standing claim to Ceuta and Melilla.

[Birger Høst @CommonSenseASAP]

🇷🇺Russia: The Soviet Union no longer exists, can you let us into NATO like everyone else?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Okay, but can you please not threaten us by expanding NATO to the East?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Alright, we saw you're developing new missile systems, will you let us work on them with you?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Fine, hypersonic missiles it is, but can you at least not put military bases right in front of our borders?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Well, you just carried out a military coup to overthrow a democratic election in Ukraine, can we still have a friendly relationship with them?

🇺🇸USA: No

Russia: Gotcha, but the people of Crimea are really pissed off about that coup, can you please let them have independence?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Roger, but surely you can at the very least stop bombing the civilians living in Donbass, right?

🇺🇸USA: No

🇷🇺Russia: Huh, we've been trying to find a diplomatic solution for a 8 years but you refuse to even talk to us... I guess that if you want to use military force to solve issues so much we have no choice but to do the same.

🇺🇸USA: OH MY GOD PUTIN IS A MADMAN, AN IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL DICTATOR, LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF HITLER, WE MUST STOP HIM AT ANY COST BEFORE HE TRIES TO CONQUER ALL OF EUROPE

#SigerDetBare

[John Galt @dadiani_george]

This is still one of their best releases. It’s like they’ve understood our politics much longer than we have.