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Neil Oliver: What Next!!!

Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
'...dismantling the country!'


Attention

The Chihuahua Energy Policy: it's a gas, gas, gas

Gas Drilling
© Public Domain
Let's start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind.

Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and OPEC+ to lower the price of oil, because, in his mind, that may solve the war in Ukraine - as in forcing Moscow to the table because of dwindling energy revenues. That in itself summarizes the level of garbage being fed to POTUS by his cornucopia of acronyms passing for intel.

Trump at Davos: "I'm going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil (...) If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately. Right now, the price is high enough that that war will continue (...) With oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately. And, likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us."

Quite predictably, OPEC+ - basically run by Saudi Arabia and Russia - said Nyet. Apart from the fact they don't care much about interest rates, on the energy front they'll keep doing what they have planned to do, including soon decreasing production, but at acceptable levels.

Standard Chartered, a major player, noted that OPEC has limited power to end the war immediately by reducing the oil price, with OPEC ministers considering this attempt at "strategy" as very inefficient and costly.

So much for imperial diktats.

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Six ways from Sunday

Trump and the swamp
© michellesmirror.com/ABC News/KJNDraining the Swamp Special Trump Edition • Potomac Basin
"A man's assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."
— White House Guidance
Was it the miasma of cognitive dissonance blackening the air-space over the DC swamp that caused the deadly collision of AA Flight 5342 and a Blackhawk Helicopter this week — an impenetrable fog arising from the fetid exhalations of so many hyperventilating swamp creatures brooding between the urges of fight-or-flight as Mr. Trump deploys his chosen pest-controllers across the Potomac Basin?

Altogether, these many parasitical swamp creatures make up the greater DC blob, and the blob convulsing and fibrillating is what you witness in these committee hearings with Bobby, Tulsi, and Kash. For instance, fake "progressive" Bernie Sanders (D-VT) faced with the reveal that he leads his colleagues in pharma "contributions" (just under $2-million) . . . or fake Cherokee Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a fugue state over the perceived threat of Mr. Kennedy to pharma profits . . . or presidential pardon recipient Adam Schiff (D-CA) lecturing Mr. Patel on ethical behavior. . . or Ms. Gabbard enduring the meltdown of Senate Intel Committee tool Michael Bennet (D-CO).

Behind these histrionics by the big gators and peccaries of the collapsing Democratic Party is pure scintillating fear. They are afraid that all of their hoaxes and lies of recent years will be exposed in the months ahead. And they fear that such exposure might lead eventually to legal complications for them. All of that implies loss-of-power, the single element that demonically drives their careers.

Radar

Flashback DARPA, Sikorsky Conduct First Autonomous Black Hawk Flights With No Safety Pilots Onboard

Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk
© DARPASikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk
DARPA and Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Sikorsky announced Tuesday they have completed the first ever completely unmanned, autonomous flight with a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

The UH-60A flew with no safety pilots onboard during a pair of recent demonstrations as part of DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, which the Army has expressed interest in potentially leveraging the technology for its enduring fleet.

"Sikorsky's advancements in flight automation and autonomy will be game-changers for Army aviators and ground commanders, particularly as the Army looks to modernize its enduring helicopter fleet with Future Vertical Lift," Jay Macklin, Sikorsky's business development lead for Army, Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and innovations programs, said in a statement. "This transformational technology will provide commanders and aircrews with a strategic advantage in countering complex new threat environments."

Robot

Flashback Lockheed Martin Executive Remotely Controls UH-60 Black Hawk from 300 Miles Away During Demo at AUSA Symposium

Black Hawk helicopter
© defence-blog.comBlack Hawk helicopter
The flight simulated 'contested logistics operations' where a ground crew hooked up a sling load to the helicopter remotely controlled through the MATRIX system. Tactical flights ferrying supplies from logistics nodes to landing zones in forward areas are routine operations which, if rendered autonomous, can significantly reduce man-hours and fatigue.

A week after DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contracted Sikorsky to equip the U.S. Army's experimental fly-by-wire UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with its MATRIX autonomous flight system, the company demonstrated the technology at the AUSA (Association of the United States Army) symposium in Washington D.C. on Oct. 17, 2024.

Using a tablet connected via a data link to the helicopter 300 miles (483 km) away in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems President Stephanie Hill controlled the UH-60 (registration N600PV). While safety pilots were present inside the cockpit as per FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) regulations, the helicopter autonomously performed take off and hover, before flying a circuit and landing again without pilot input.

Comment: One has to wonder if the helicopter that crashed into American Airlines Flight 5342 was equipped with this technology, and whether the autonomous mode can be remotely activated.


Star of David

'Conspiracy Theory' is now fact: Greater Israel has arrived

Israeli flag
© MintPress NewsIsraelis in Syria
Ever since Tel Aviv's 1948 creation, much has been said and written about 'Greater Israel' - the notion Zionism's ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God. The media typically dismisses this concept as an antisemitic conspiracy theory or, at most, the fringe fantasy of a minuscule handful of Israelis.

In reality, as The Guardian admitted in 2009, the idea of a Greater Israel has long appealed to "religious and secular right-wing nationalists" alike in Tel Aviv. They have the shared objective of "[seeking] to fulfill divine commandments about the 'beginning of redemption,' as well as create 'facts on the ground' to enhance Israel's security." The outlet acknowledged this motivation was a key contemporary driving force in mainstream Israeli politics, which "effectively turned the Palestinians into aliens on their own soil."

The Nation has described the push to establish Greater Israel as "the central ideological goal" of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, which has dominated Israeli politics in recent decades. In July 2018, Israel passed the "Nation State of the Jewish People" law. It enshrines "the development of Jewish settlement as a national value." Meanwhile, the state is legally obligated "to encourage and promote" the "establishment and consolidation" of settlements in illegally occupied territory.

Comment: Israel requires US cooperation, support and clout to achieve its ambitions. It pays legislators in order to influence US politics and tags donors to support certain candidates. DT's win translates to security and momentum for 'The Steal of the Century'.


Attention

Misinterpretations of US trends (Part 1 of 2)

Trump signs
© UnknownWe were all astonished by President Trump’s chain-signing of executive orders immediately after his inauguration. The European press saw him as an autocrat asserting his power. Not so! In fact, many of these documents limit the power of the federal state for the benefit of the federated states. Errors of interpretation of this kind are now legion between the United States and Europe.
We see that Donald Trump's arrival in the White House is upsetting the rules of the international game. However, we often misinterpret his actions: we ignore the habits and customs of his country, and we project our own political debates onto him. We are all the more at a loss because, over the past few years, we have more or less adhered to the ideology fashionable in Washington. We've considered it to be the American doxa, even though it was only a moment in its history, and we've forgotten its many schools of thought.

The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House is reshuffling all the ideological, geopolitical, economic and even military cards. Indeed, for the first time in almost two centuries, a Jacksonian is once again in power in the United States. We had forgotten this way of thinking (except in Westerns) and are no longer able to anticipate it. Yet Trump has already held power for four years, but back then he was largely prevented from implementing his policies by his own Republican allies, while the Democratic press assured us he was mentally ill or a fascist.

Strangely, the social network influencers who defend his point of view only inform us about his ideological fight against wokism, never about his conception of international relations and even less about his political ambitions. This is all the more strange given that, since the November 5 election, Donald Trump's team has canvassed numerous influencers in the European Union and the UK, and started paying them handsomely.

There are several ways of looking at this contradiction. Either Donald Trump intends to mislead Europeans about his true intentions, or he considers that they can only understand one thing at a time. For our part, we shall continue our work by describing the different facets of the character without forgetting any.

Comment: Author offers an enlightening assessment of 'definition, indoctrination and historic relevance' as applied to politics, mindsets and expectations.


Star of David

Israel sends missiles to Ukraine

Missile system
© Ziv Koren/Pool/Getty ImagesUS Army and IDF troops operate Patriot missile systems • Tel Aviv, Israel
Russia had warned against the transfer of Patriot interceptors.

About 90 interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems have been sent from Israel to Poland, from where they will be forwarded to Ukraine, Axios has reported.

After Israel Defense Forces (IDF) retired their US-supplied Patriots in April 2024, Kiev asked for the missiles. Moscow warned West Jerusalem of potential consequences at the time, and the idea seemed to have gone nowhere.
"In recent days several US Air Force C-17 transport planes ferried the missiles from an airbase in southern Israel to the Polish city of Rzeszow, NATO's logistics hub for supplying Ukraine."
West Jerusalem informed Moscow of the move and said it was "only returning the Patriot system to the US" rather than supplying weapons to Ukraine. The official claimed this was the same thing as the US transfer of artillery shells from "emergency storage" in Israel to Ukraine two years ago.

Both the Pentagon and the US European Command declined to give Axios a comment for the story. Russia has not officially addressed the matter as of yet.

Comment: Israel, contributing to the Ukraine war picture, has self-interest. Ukraine is a tool.
The Israeli Air Force began fazing out the use of the Patriot system last year in favor of more advanced Israeli-made air defenses.

As the Patriot, which was known in Israel as "Yahalom" (diamond), was retired for good, its staff was retrained to work with the Iron Dome instead and the remaining batteries and interceptors have since been put in storage.

The US-made system officially entered Israeli service in 1991 but only made its first interception in 2014, downing a Hamas drone launched from the Gaza Strip.

Over the following decade, the system, designed to shoot down aircraft, intercepted only some 10 targets, according to the military, including Syrian fighter jets that breached Israeli airspace in 2014 and 2018.



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The Record Shows Tulsi Gabbard Was Not an Apologist for Russia-Backed Syria

tulsi trump rfk musk
© Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Wikimedia Commons
Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to serve as President Trump's director of national intelligence hinges on questions about the judgment and patriotism of the former congresswoman and Army veteran, doubts that are expected to take center stage at her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Echoing a charge first lodged by Hillary Clinton, Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Elizabeth Warren have spread innuendo that Gabbard is a "compromised" "Russian asset" who has been "in Putin's pocket." Former CIA Director John Brennan has speculated that Gabbard may deliberately "withhold" or even "skew" vital intelligence in briefing President Trump. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called Trump's selection of Gabbard to oversee the nation's 18 spy agencies "a bit baffling" and predicted a defeat of her nomination in the Senate.

While eyebrows have been raised over Gabbard's support of a pardon for Edward Snowden - the contractor who stole and released classified information revealing that the U.S. government was conducting domestic mass surveillance and who eventually received asylum in Russia - the main criticism involves Gabbard's views on Syria, whose recently deposed, Russian-backed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, engaged in a long and brutal war against U.S.-backed insurgents.

In January 2017, just as the U.S. was winding down a covert war to topple the regime, Gabbard met with Assad in Damascus. With designated terror groups occupying swaths of the war-torn country, Gabbard warned that Assad's removal would create a destabilizing power vacuum filled by Al-Qaeda. And when these same insurgent groups accused Assad's government of chemical weapons attacks, Gabbard voiced skepticism of the allegations, particularly in two incidents that prompted U.S. military airstrikes.

Oil Well

Trump says 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada may not include oil: 'Oil is going to have nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned'

Donald Trump
© Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump speaks to members of the press in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 30, 2025.
Donald Trump has confirmed he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada from February, following through on threats issued weeks earlier.

The blanket tariffs on the countries' products will come into effect on Saturday, Feb. 1.

However, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday evening, Trump told reporters his administration was yet to determine whether oil imports would be included in the policy, noting that the decision was pinned on whether the two nations "treat us properly" and "if the oil is properly priced."

"Oil is going to have nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned," he said. "We're going to make that determination probably tonight on oil. Because they send us oil, we'll see - it depends on what their price is."

Comment: The Tariff Wars have begun...