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Balls to the Whitehouse Ballroom


The edifice complex of the Trump administration is proving to be an aggressive one. As with previous presidents, the current occupant is keen to leave his architectural mark.

And it promises to be an exceedingly vulgar one. In keeping with his abominable sense of taste, President Donald Trump has his sights on a large Whitehouse ballroom, valued at US$400 million and intended to cover 90,000 square feet over the area formerly occupied by the now demolished East Wing. With a degree of inventiveness that only comes with the deranged, the decision to build this beastly addition has been justified as a necessary security, even military measure.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation took against the project, convincing the district court to grant them a preliminary injunction halting construction on work on the ballroom taking place above ground. The order did not extend to halting construction to underground facilities, including the "national security features". The White House appealed.

Balls to the Whitehouse Ballroom

Scott Bessent: Stop Complaining About the Billionaire Economy. “Neoliberal Financialization”, “The Fates of the Working People”


Scott Bessent is sick and tired of hearing about your financial hardship.

Trump's Treasury Secretary told CNBC he is "sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy. I can say here definitively, the K-shaped economy is over, and we're seeing more of a C economy where the lower end of wage earners are finally calling it back, just like they did in President Trump's first term." As evidence of this supposed turn around, the treasury secretary cited a 2% wage gain for the bottom 25% of workers.

Bessent, who accumulated $700 million as a hedge fund "macro investor" and worked for the Soros Management Fund, is on the upper arm of the K-shaped economy, while millions of lower-income Americans, working paycheck-to-paycheck, are stranded on the lower arm.

Bessent, Trump, and the millionaires and billionaires (and one trillionaire) are beneficiaries of a financialized economy.

"The U.S. is increasingly described as a

Scott Bessent: Stop Complaining About the Billionaire Economy. “Neoliberal Financialization”,  “The Fates of the Working People”

The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts


Throughout all the news cycles over the years, you can count on a continuity in U.S. government/media propaganda and strategy.

Make a time capsule, fill it with today's news, hide it away, and pull it out in five, ten, or 15 years, and while many details (tactics) will have changed, the underlying themes will remain. Or do it in reverse.

Assuming the world miraculously escapes a nuclear war of annihilation, when the criminal Donald Trump is long gone from office, replaced by a Democrat or Republican, the United States will still be waging war against Russia and China and any country that stands in its and Israel's way in the Middle East.

The people who own and run the U.S. will still be waging information war against the American people. Their tactics may have changed but not their long-term strategy. MKUltra, the CIA's "former" mind-control and torture program, is now fully digitized and nearly co-terminus with the Internet.

The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts

The Turkey Saudi Arabia Pakistan Trilateral Defence Pact: The Beginning of a New Balance of Power in the Middle East?


The defence pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, signed on 7 August 2026 in the city of Mecca, can be viewed as a sign of an emerging new balance of power in the Middle East. This development comes at a time when the regional power structure is undergoing transformation and the traditional security order, largely dependent on US support, is facing new limitations and questions. Although the formation of this pact should primarily be understood as a product of the regional powers' own security calculations and concerns, in the short term it may also align with certain strategic calculations in Washington, including burden-sharing and balancing Iran.


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One important factor behind the emergence of such arrangements is the growth of Iran's regional power and influence, together with

The Turkey Saudi Arabia Pakistan Trilateral Defence Pact: The Beginning of a New Balance of Power in the Middle East?

Is the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement the Beginning of the End of American Military Presence in the Arab Gulf?


On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defense agreement in Mecca.

The Arab Gulf had previously depended on the U.S. military to defend and protect the various oil-rich nations, but that defense was proven a mirage in the desert; a security illusion.

The U.S. and Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Iran, which has resulted in damages, deaths and injuries to the Gulf countries, and according to the BBC investigation using satellite imagry, has resulted in the wholesale destruction of American military facilities. Many analysts say the aftermath of the war, should it ever end, will see the U.S. military presence gone from the area, and the Arabs and their neighbors will rely on their own homegrown military and security alliances.


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Is the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement the Beginning of the End of American Military Presence in the Arab Gulf?

The American Empire Was Built on Sand and is Facing a Tsunami


A few details of the Iran-Oman Agreement have been released indicating Trump is again lying to save face by claiming he is intimately involved in the solution.

The opening of the Strait will only extend to specific countries who have proven to be Iran alliances. Payments for transit will be made in the Chinese Yuan or in Crypto.

Meanwhile, Japan is selling off treasuries and China has been steadily buying gold.

US oil reserves will only last 43 days as Trump attempted to curb the price of gas at the pump which doubled with his "War on Iran."

Trump's reaction to the economic news? Memes. Presenting himself as comparable to Lincoln, Washington, Patton, and Eisenhower. The psychological impact of which has wholly backfired.

Specific coordinates for shipping routes thru the Strait as part of the Iran Agreement would indicate mines will be left to deter rogue passage. Trump

The American Empire Was Built on Sand and is Facing a Tsunami

The Weather, War and the World


There is only one state of absolute consciousness and it connects everything. There is no division in this state of oneness, but on the physical plain it has many different forms of expression, many different manifestations – an infinite number.

The great biodiversity of nature offers a clue to understanding this 'wholeness of many parts'. So when the state of the weather, war and the world all coincide – all synchronise – one can recognise a commonality, some absolute causal connection between them.

Such connectivity points back to an interlocking of cause and effect between all manifestations. Any one interruption will ripple through all. 

For example, in ecological terms, if the soil is poisoned so will the crops that grow on it be, and so will the animals and humans that eat these crops. One cannot pretend that this is not the case.

But the world under the predominant influence of a non aware and

The Weather, War and the World

Concentration of Wealth, the Shrinking of Democracy, and Deepening Economic Inequality


The world recently witnessed a milestone that had been anticipated for years, yet instead of being celebrated as a symbol of global progress, it became a stark reminder of the widening economic chasm. On 12 June 2026, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. Following SpaceX's stock market listing, Musk's wealth surged past one trillion dollars in a single day.

According to Forbes estimates, his total net worth that day reached around 1.1 trillion dollars, while within days the Bloomberg Billionaires Index put the figure at 1.23 trillion dollars. By the end of June, the number had briefly touched as high as 1.4 trillion dollars. No individual in human history had ever held such wealth alone.

To grasp just how extraordinary this leap was, it helps to trace the arc of Musk's fortune. In January 2020, his total net worth stood at a mere twenty-eight billion dollars, placing him 35th on the list of the world's wealthiest people. Within five years he became

Concentration of Wealth, the Shrinking of Democracy, and Deepening Economic Inequality

Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate, “Sleeping with the Enemy”. RussiaGate “Election Meddling”, ChinaGate “Trump MAGA Style”


Rod Rosenstein

The article below was first published in September 2018. under the Title:

Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate and The Russia Probe. The Rosenstein Comey Mueller Intrigue

An earlier version was published in early 2017.

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Update and Introduction.  Mid-Term Elections 2026

In recent developments, declassified FBI documents have emerged, intimating that Donald Trump at the beginning of his first Mandate in January 2017,  "may have been acting as a  "Russian Asset", "when he fired then FBI Director James Comey.

This was part of an unspoken "conspiracy" within the Democratic Party National Committee (DNC) during the Obama Administration, with a view to discrediting  Donald Trump in the November 2016 Elections

In the months prior to the 2016 November elections, this strategy evolved towards a broad propaganda campaign entitled RussiaGate, accusing the Kremlin of intervening in the US elections, to the detriment of Hillary Clinton.

While there was no evidence of Russian intrusion, there was a "campaign" accusing Donald Trump of collaborating with the Kremlin. 

In the words of Hillary Clinton: "there's no doubt in my mind" that Russian President Vladimir Putin "wanted me to lose and wanted Trump to win."

Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate, “Sleeping with the Enemy”.  RussiaGate “Election Meddling”, ChinaGate “Trump MAGA Style”

BREAKING: Bill Gates Foundation Funds First-Ever Creation of 16 Synthetic Viruses Using AI


For the first time ever, scientists have used artificial intelligence to design complete viral genomes that were physically synthesized and turned into 16 new functional viruses capable of replicating.

The work was published in Science, one of the world's most prominent scientific journals. Disturbingly, the study's senior author, Brian L. Hie, who conceived, designed, and supervised the research disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.

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This was not a computer simulation. Researchers generated hundreds of AI-designed viral genomes, physically manufactured the DNA, assembled the genomes, introduced them into susceptible E. coli, and recovered 16 functional bacteriophages that successfully propagated. The viruses infected bacteria, suppressed bacterial growth, produced progeny, and were grown into working viral stocks. The study represents the first generative design of complete genomes that were synthesized and experimentally shown to function as viable viruses.

The

BREAKING: Bill Gates Foundation Funds First-Ever Creation of 16 Synthetic Viruses Using AI

Ukraine Risks Territorial Losses to Poland and Hungary Amid Deepening Crisis


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing his most challenging moment. The combined pressures of territorial restrictions, port blockades in the Odessa region, ongoing protests, and successive military setbacks against Russia have put Ukraine in a near-impossible position to recover from. With the Ukrainian military continually weakening, Ukraine risks losing territory to neighboring countries other than Russia.


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Ukraine's weakening could open opportunities for countries like Hungary, Romania, and Poland, which have historical claims to territories currently under Ukrainian control. If Ukraine remains a failed state and a political project reliant on Western financial and military backing, it risks further territorial losses.

Historical territorial claims by Poland, Hungary, and Romania on parts of present-day Ukraine mainly originate from the border changes in Central and Eastern

Ukraine Risks Territorial Losses to Poland and Hungary Amid Deepening Crisis

Pentagon Draws Up New Nuclear Weapons Strategy for War With Russia and China


The Pentagon is drafting a new nuclear weapons strategy to prepare for a potential conflict with China or Russia, marking a significant shift in US military tactics.


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The strategy, overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's policy chief, would place greater emphasis on shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons in the event of a regional war, rather than relying on long-range strategic missiles.

Mr Colby is expected to discuss the plans on Wednesday during a private military event in Nebraska while visiting the US Strategic Command, which oversees nuclear forces, NBC reported.

According to sources familiar with the plans, the strategy is designed to address scenarios in which US allies come

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