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Governments drowning in debt are controlling short-duration bonds and t-bills because these are all they can control. However this manipulation places pressure of long-term bills and forces up those yields. Governments then will imitate organic demand of long-term debt by buying this long-term debt to suppress the coupon value of them. This is what governments with out-of-control debt look like. Japan is the poster child.
Meanwhile, the shortage of 1000 oz silver bars continues. This analyst believes the moment is near when covid-like demand kicks in from major industrial users. He means supply shortages in everything during covid prompted people to stock up on things in the fear they wouldn’t be able to get them when they needed them. He envisions a similar situation playing out with silver. Once this happens FOMO (fear of missing out) will kick in, awakening the retail market.
Somalia Has Become a Proxy of Turkey
Turkey, a NATO state, is projecting power far beyond its borders to Somalia in East Africa, and everyone looks away.
Turkey’s missile-testing project in Somalia is part of a mosaic Ankara has built for over a decade:
Russian-fueled nuclear infrastructure in Akkuyu in Turkey; Pakistani nuclear and missile expertise embedded through military channels; discreet uranium routes explored via Niger; and now a long African coastline to test delivery systems without oversight.
Under development banners, Turkey has a base training thousands of Somali soldiers, an airport and port under long concessions, a national hospital bearing Erdogan’s name, and a Turkish state bank – the first foreign bank in Somalia in half a century.
This is leverage, not philanthropy. Somalia receives protection and infrastructure; Turkey receives coastline, concessions, deniability and a launch corridor.
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/turkeys-quiet-power-play-in-the-red-sea-turns-somalia-into-a-proxy/
Middle East Forum:
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Your New ‘Red-Green’ City
The Following Document Was Discovered by Middle East Forum Operatives During Routine Surveillance of the Mamdani Transition Team’s Headquarters
Foreword from the Executive Director
The situation in New York City has become so absurd that we had to take a moment from our investigations to laugh.
But when the incoming mayor of America’s largest city stacks his transition team with leaders of designated terrorist organizations, Farrakhan disciples, police abolitionists, and professional agitators—and expects everyone to treat it as normal progressive governance – sometimes laughter is the only sane response.
The following document was discovered by Middle East Forum operatives during routine surveillance of the Mamdani transition team’s headquarters. It appears to be an internal orientation guide prepared for incoming staff—a kind of “welcome packet” for the revolution.
We are publishing it here in full, unedited, as a public service.
https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/the-complete-idiots-guide-to-your-new-red-green-city
Middle East Forum:
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Your New ‘Red-Green’ City
The Following Document Was Discovered by Middle East Forum Operatives During Routine Surveillance of the Mamdani Transition Team’s Headquarters
Foreword from the Executive Director
The situation in New York City has become so absurd that we had to take a moment from our investigations to laugh.
But when the incoming mayor of America’s largest city stacks his transition team with leaders of designated terrorist organizations, Farrakhan disciples, police abolitionists, and professional agitators—and expects everyone to treat it as normal progressive governance – sometimes laughter is the only sane response.
The following document was discovered by Middle East Forum operatives during routine surveillance of the Mamdani transition team’s headquarters. It appears to be an internal orientation guide prepared for incoming staff—a kind of “welcome packet” for the revolution.
We are publishing it here in full, unedited, as a public service.
https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/the-complete-idiots-guide-to-your-new-red-green-city
German authorities stop dumping deported people in Dutch border towns
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/06/german-authorities-stop-dumping-deported-people-dutch-border-towns
The German border police will stop dumping migrants arbitrarily across the Dutch border, following complaints from border communities and new agreements with the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, de Volkskrant reports.
In recent months, more than 150 people were reportedly dropped at locations in the Netherlands without supervision, leading to concerns in towns such as ’s-Heerenberg in Gelderland. Residents described the situation as unsettling. One local told NOS, “If you are dropped here out of the car, where are you supposed to go?” He added that the experience gave him “a bit of an unsafe feeling.”
Under the new arrangement, migrants returned to the Netherlands will only be dropped at locations with public transportation available. A spokesperson for the marechaussee said, “This prevents them from wandering around or causing nuisance.”
The German and Dutch authorities agreed to spread returns across multiple border towns, avoiding concentration in specific communities. The move addresses complaints raised by Montferland Mayor Anne-Marie Fellinger, who earlier described the practice of leaving migrants unattended at the border as “worrying.” She emphasized, “Everyone, regardless of origin or status, deserves a humane, safe, and dignified treatment. Acceptable is only a transfer accompanied by adequate guidance, clear information, and certainty about shelter or safe next steps.”
The new measures follow broader border control policies. Germany implemented border checks in September last year to curb illegal immigration. In response, the Netherlands also introduced additional border checks in December, targeting migrants without valid documentation. Last month, caretaker Foreign Minister Van Weel announced a six-month extension of these controls, citing a “continued threat to public order” without specifying the details of that threat.
Marjon de Hoon-Veelenturf, mayor of Baarle-Nassau and chair of the cooperative border municipalities, said German controls cause traffic congestion and dangerous detours on unsuitable roads. She warned that internal border controls create psychological barriers, discouraging new cross-border initiatives, which she said reduces the regional economic potential by 8 percent.
Brothers’ lawyers ask for acquittal for 18-year-old Ryan’s honor killing
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/03/brothers-lawyers-ask-acquittal-18-year-old-ryans-honor-killing
The lawyers representing Mohamed and Muhanad Al N., brothers of 18-year-old Ryan Al Najjar, who was killed in May last year, asked the judges overseeing their trial in Lelystad to acquit them. The defense said on Monday, there is no conclusive evidence that the two men, ages 23 and 25, were involved in the young woman’s killing. Only their father, Khaled Al N., is guilty of the crime, as he himself has stated.
On May 28 of last year, Ryan was discovered dead in the waters of the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve near Lelystad. Tape had been used to bind her wrists and legs, and her head had also been wrapped. Investigators believe she drowned. The Public Prosecution Service recommended a 25-year jail sentence for Khaled last week, along with 20-year terms for his two sons.
During a short plea, Khaled’s attorney repeated the confession his client had previously delivered from abroad, stressing that Khaled insists he alone caused Ryan’s death and that no other family members were involved. After the killing, Khaled fled, moving from Germany to Turkey and ultimately resettling in Syria. Muhanad’s lawyer called the situation “unfair and unjust.”
Khaled is the subject of an international search warrant. Prosecutors describe his confession as “convenient,” arguing that his absence shields him from additional questioning, and they dismiss it as “not credible.” The prosecuting attorney maintains that all available evidence shows his two sons had “an essential role” in Ryan’s murder.
Ryan had been away from her family home in Joure, Friesland, for several days. She had been experiencing serious tensions with her father, largely due to her refusal to follow the family’s strict religious expectations and her tendency to adopt Western ways of living.
On the evening of May 27, 2024, Ryan’s brothers located her at a home in Rotterdam and collected her. They then transported her to a secluded area, where she was killed a few hours afterward. Prosecutors argue that she would not have been in that location without their involvement.
Mohamed and Muhanad Al N. maintain that they were not actively involved in the killing. Prosecutors, citing detailed forensic evidence, including data from mobile phones, argue that the brothers were present at the scene. Their lawyers, however, reject these findings, a position the prosecution deems incorrect.
The ruling is scheduled for January 5, and the judge has stated that both brothers should attend the hearing.
The Raising Cain Show: The Enemy Within: Trevor Loudon
on Communism & America’s Political Landscape
Program begins @ 5:46 | November 1, 2025
Druze Teen Details Rape by Syrian Jihadists
Israel’s Druze spiritual leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, presented new testimony describing rape, torture, executions and kidnappings carried out against Druze residents in Syria’s Sweida province last July.
He spoke at a UN event in Geneva on Tuesday that enables survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to share their accounts safely.
The testimonies included the recorded account of a 14-year-old Druze girl who said she was raped by three jihadists – two wearing Syrian army uniforms and one identified as an Islamic State fighter.
Tarif called on the world to recognize the Sweida killings as a war crime carried out by the regime of Ahmad al-Sharaa, calling it “a deliberate attempt to erase the Druze community.”
He urged the creation of a humanitarian corridor into Druze areas in southern Syria, an end to the siege on its villages, and the release of hundreds of Druze hostages.
Footage shown at the event included scenes of executions carried out by al-Sharaa’s forces inside a Sweida hospital.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1stdyvmwg#autoplay
U.S. Envoy Pushes for Turkey’s Inclusion in Gaza Security Mission
Israel has publicly opposed Turkish participation in the proposed multinational force for post-war Gaza, citing Ankara’s close ties with Hamas. But at the Jerusalem Post conference in Washington on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Trump’s envoy to Syria Tom Barrack suggested the U.S. still sees a role for Turkey’s military on the ground.
Turkey’s large, experienced ground force, along with its dialogue with multiple actors, “could help cool the temperature.” He insisted Ankara harbors no aggressive intent toward Israel.
Barrack also described Syria as fundamentally disinterested in aggression toward Israel, consumed instead by threats from ISIS, the remnants of foreign fighters, and Iranian proxies. He revealed that with help from Turkish intelligence, the U.S. and Syria have jointly taken out nine Hizbullah cells and several ISIS cells in recent weeks. “Every day, Syria is taking out ISIS and IRGC assets,” he said.
He believes that a return to a variation of the 1974 disengagement structure between Syria and Israel, updated with modern mechanisms, is entirely feasible. Israel, he noted, is seeking a withdrawal model similar to agreements with Egypt: zones of limited weaponry, airspace arrangements, and verifiable layers of demilitarization.
“After October 7, Israel doesn’t trust anyone,” Barrack said. “That’s why *we’ve* offered to serve as a peacekeeping force. Verification replaces trust.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/syria-us-ally-israel-83482cb2?mod=middle-east_news_article_pos1
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Mr. Barrack, who’s the *WE” in we’ve?
Does that include your benefactor, the would-be Sultan? The genocidaire, the Filthy Turk, who has vowed to “de-Judaize” Jerusalem?
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“When taking questions from the press in the Oval Office last Wednesday, [President Trump] was asked about the next stage of his plan. He replied that it would be happening pretty soon, as things were going very well.
“We have peace in the Middle East,” he declared. “People don’t realize it.”
“Encouraging words. But wait! Immediately before saying that things were going well, he said, “They had a problem today with a bomb that went off – hurt some people pretty badly, probably killed some people.”
Naughty, naughty bomb!Tough luck for some people But that's irrelevant, anyway.
“This was with reference to an ambush by terrorists in Rafah who came out of a tunnel and launched an RPG at an armored vehicle. Several IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously. Israeli forces later carried out airstrikes in Khan Younis and Gaza City. Nor was this an isolated incident. In point of fact there is no genuine ceasefire.”
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…things were going very well
PTrump, would you bet Barron’s life on that?
He’s 19, the perfect age for conscription. His older half-brothers might volunteer for reserve duty.
False Messiahs in Judaism
Many have claimed to be the Jewish Messiah, and the results have often been disastrous.
Classical Jewish eschatology has long held that there will eventually be a redeemer, in Hebrew moshiach (“anointed one”), who will bring salvation to the Jewish nation. In the context of the Bible, this is a title that can be conferred to more than one person. Jewish priests and kings are anointed to lead their people and even the Persian King Cyrus (not a Jew!), who freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity, is referred to as moshiach.
But a more eschatological concept of the Messiah also emerges from the biblical texts – the idea that one person, a king descended from the great King David, will usher in an entirely new era of redemption for the Jewish people.
This idea has been entrenched within the Jewish belief system for at least 2,600 years…
The idea of identifying the Messiah is still alive and well in the Jewish community today. Though for some Jews the Messiah represents a futuristic ideal, for others the concept is far more concrete. For example, many followers of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of a Hasidic sect called Chabad, believe that he never died and is in fact moshiach.
For every example of a false Messiah written about here, there are dozens of examples not mentioned. In times of hardship and fervor, Jews have repeatedly believed the Messiah was identifiable and at hand – only to be disappointed…
While the setting and scope of each of these stories widely differ, they are united by failure and false hope – the vast majority causing death and destruction, loss of property, or conversion.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/false-messiahs-in-judaism/
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PTrump has become a demigod to too many isrealis I respect. It’s shocking to see some of the finest and most patriotic geopolitical analysts go gaga, defend whatever he proposes no matter how unrealistic and transparently dangerous to their own national security. Simply because they need such a figure right now.
Fortunately there’s an outside community of friends who are not as caught up in wishful [delusional] thinking. And we’re trying to effect rational balance.
Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah
Pushing Israel into Phase 2 of President Trump’s “peace deal” this month, with things as they are, would be a disaster. It would hand Israel’s security straight to its enemies on a plate.
I’ve held my tongue for months out of respect to the office of the President and his administration (whom I supported since day 1), but I’d be lying to myself and to everyone who trusts me if I stayed quiet any longer.
Calling this “Phase 2” is a joke. It’s a strategic defeat for Israel that wipes out all its hard-won military gains. Look at the facts:
– Hamas is neither disarmed nor willing to disarm.
– Hezbollah is actively rebuilding its arsenal with no intention of disarming.
– Iran continues to reconstitute its military capabilities while refusing crucial disarmament protocols.
– Iraqi Shia militias are threatening full-scale war if Israel targets Hezbollah in Lebanon.
If President Biden did this, I’d call it out as a betrayal that forces Israel to lose. I can’t turn a blind eye and give Trump a pass. That’s hypocrisy, and I wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror.
The truth is, this looks like a business deal, not a path to victory. It seems driven by the interests of regional players who, let’s be honest, didn’t even condemn October 7th, to say the least.
It’s the same pattern of putting deals before allies, just like choosing Russia over Europe.
President Trump is basically using the security of Israel and Europe as bargaining chips for his deals. It’s that simple.
I won’t choose to stay quiet at the expense of the future of millions of people across the free world.
Enough is enough.
https://x.com/Khaledhzakariah/status/1999205842566983862