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Germany's Debt-Fueled Illusions: Merz Humiliated, Economy In Freefall

Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz
The year 2025 ends for the slap-prone German Chancellor with a resounding smack in Brussels. After the failed raid on Russian assets at Euroclear, Berlin now turns its gaze to the hoped-for comeback of the German economy. Yet here too awaits the next bitter realization for naïve statisticians: wealth cannot be printed with debt.

Whether the Chancellor finds any sense of fulfillment — or even joy — in his current job is difficult to discern. Not that Friedrich Merz, with his numerous political sleights of hand, has preserved any claim to professional happiness. And yet curiosity remains: what must the psyche of a man be like, who for nearly eight months has been led by social-democratic buccaneers such as Lars Klingbeil and Bärbel Bas by the nose through the political circus — exposed, humiliated, and repeatedly made ridiculous?

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German government signals 'challenging years' of austerity ahead while spending tens of billions on Ukraine and immigration


Arrow Up

Israeli Cabinet approves 19 new apartheid colonies in occupied West Bank

Bezalel Smotrich map
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich • Map of an area in illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine
"The ONLY reason Israel gets away with this naked thievery is US military and political support," said one observer.

Israel's Cabinet on Sunday finalized approval of 19 new Jewish-only settler colonies in the illegally occupied West Bank, a move the apartheid state's far-right finance minister said was aimed at thwarting Palestinian statehood.

Cabinet ministers approved the legalization of the previously unauthorized settler outposts throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, bringing the total number of new settlements in recent years to 69.

The move will bring the overall total number of exclusively or overwhelmingly Jewish settlements — which are illegal under international law — to more than 200, up from around 140 just three years ago.

Included in the new approval are two former settlements — Kadim and Ganim — that were evacuated in compliance with the now effectively repealed 2005 Disengagement Law, under which Israel dismantled all of its colonies in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich — who is a settler — said on Sunday:
"This is righting a historic injustice of expulsion from 20 years ago. We are putting the brakes on the rise of a Palestinian terror state. We will continue to develop, build, and settle the inherited land of our ancestors, with faith in the righteousness of our path."

Comment: Palestinian terror state? Inherited land of...whose ancestors?


Comment: Who is Smotrich kidding...there is no 'turn-around' by Israel, no mercy, no humanity, no humility, no heart.


Cardboard Box

German government signals 'challenging years' of austerity ahead while spending tens of billions on Ukraine and immigration

Lars Klingbeil
© ScreenshotFinance Minister Lars Klingbeil predicts years of austerity ahead for Germans
"Everyone will feel that we are saving"

The German government is signaling times of austerity are ahead for Germans, with German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) even saying there could be years of belt-tightening.

Klingbeil, a member of the far left SPD, is preparing the German public for a period of financial hardship, even as the country spends at least €50 billion a year on migrants, including for their housing, education, security, and integration. In addition, tens of billions have already headed to Ukraine, with another €19 billion directly from Germany planned.

Speaking on the ZDF program "Das Jahr 2025," the SPD chairman warned of "very challenging years" ahead, stating that citizens would "also have to be asked to do something."

Star of David

Israel's growing role in Taiwan's air defense alarms Beijing

Rocket and 4 tube thing
© UnknownIsraeli T-DOME System
Israel's expanding ties with Taiwan, particularly in missile defense, are quietly reshaping regional geopolitics and alarming Beijing. In this context, even small defense transfers could undermine years of careful diplomatic calibration.

Israeli-Taiwanese cooperation, long discreet and underreported, is now moving into far more sensitive terrain. Recent reports indicate that Israeli know-how has been quietly feeding into Taiwan's emerging missile-defense architecture, the so-called "T-DOME," a system explicitly inspired by Israel's Iron Dome. As a matter of fact, this development has already triggered a blunt diplomatic rebuke from Beijing, raising uncomfortable questions about Israel's long-standing balancing act between rival global powers.

A detailed account of this growing cooperation comes from Nadia Helmy, Visiting Senior Researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), who notes that Chinese intelligence agencies have detected expanding Israeli assistance to Taiwan's missile shield, particularly in radar integration, command-and-control architecture, and layered interception concepts. According to Helmy, Beijing views this cooperation not as an isolated commercial exchange but as a strategic signal, thereby crossing a political red line.

Eye 1

Seeing is believing (not)

Brennan
© UnknownJohn Brennan, former US Communist Party member, former CIA Director and convert to Islam
". . . power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants."
— Roger Stone
Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he "killed himself" could be fake? All authorities from the FBI to The New York Times pretend that the date-and-time stamped video is authentic, and that it proves nobody went into his cell to kill him. Nobody has questioned this. How difficult would it be to take a few hours of alternate closed-circuit TV footage of the same drab hallway from the same position, making sure nobody got on-camera, and then stick a fabricated date-and-time stamp on it? Do you suppose that the intel agencies don't have the capacity to fabricate that sort of evidence?

At this point, seeing what the capabilities are for AI to compose any kind of picture — or even what years' old Photoshop programs can do — why would you suppose that anything in the Epstein files now being released might not be subject to fiddling by persons and parties with an interest? Even one second of video showing a notable person in somebody's arms, or performing an illicit act with a child, a mere glimpse of such a thing, would be A) easy to manufacture, and B) guaranteed to create a mighty shit-storm of a political crisis that would steal everybody's attention from now until the Rockies tumble.

Pocket Knife

Trump admin recalling around 30 ambassadors as part of State Dept realignment, official confirms

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump
© Yuri Gripas/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSecretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.
The Trump administration is recalling about 30 ambassadors from around the world to align U.S. representation with President Donald Trump's America First agenda, Fox News learned on Monday.

The recalled diplomats are not being fired, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News, but rather will be reassigned elsewhere at the State Department.

"This is a standard process in any administration," a senior State Department official told Fox News in a statement. "An ambassador is a personal representative of the President, and it is the President's right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda."

"We encourage returning ambassadors to continue serving their country by finding new opportunities within the Department to advance President Trump's America First agenda," the statement continued.

Star of David

Satellite images show Israeli preparations for new illegal settlements in occupied Gaza

gaza israel new settlements
© Forensic Architecture.Israel is currently maintaining 48 military outposts east of the yellow line.
Since the ceasefire, Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza, consolidated existing military infrastructure, built roads, and destroyed more Palestinian property.

Israel is currently maintaining 48 military outposts east of the yellow line. Image by Forensic Architecture.

Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10, Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and — according to new research by Forensic Architecture — physically altering the geography of the land. Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings, Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.

Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza since the ceasefire — primarily located along the yellow line, in eastern Khan Younis, and near the border with Israel, according to analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture.

Comment: When they tell you who they are, believe them.




Gavel

Court finds Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing ICE arrest

Judge Hannah Dugan
© Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / YOUTUBEJudge Hannah Dugan arrives in court for her hearing over obstructing ICE agents in a deportation operation
'Judges are not above the law. Their core function is to respect the rule of law, not to undermine it,' attorney Daniel Suhr said.

The Milwaukee County judge on trial for helping a violent illegal immigrant elude federal law enforcement authorities has been convicted on one of the two charges against her.

A jury late Thursday found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction but determined there wasn't enough evidence to convict her on a misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual from arrest.

Her attorney told reporters that Dugan will appeal the conviction, a verdict that should serve as a wake-up call to judges who disregard laws they don't like in the furtherance of judicial activism.

Comment: Another view of the "judge" abetting a criminal:




Syringe

COVID vaccine myocarditis deaths 'a very small price to pay', says fired FDA advisor Paul Offit

COVID-19 vaccine
© AP Photo/Steve HelberSyringes and vials of COVID-19 vaccine.
Bioterror Propaganda Roundup: The latest updates on the "new normal" — chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.

Former FDA vaccine advisor and top vaccine pimp Paul Offit, speaking with Big Pharma twink mascot "Doctor Mike," recently discussed why myocarditis in boys receiving the COVID shots and blood clots in the brain from the failed J&J shot were "very small prices to pay."

(As an aside, as a public service announcement, trust in celebrity doctors who use the branding formula "Dr. [First name]" in order to try to establish some weird parasocial relationship in order to sell their audiences pharmaceutical products is always, without exception, misplaced.)
"You're always, always waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it did drop.

I mean, with the mRNA vaccines, there was myocarditis, which was inflammation of heart muscle, primarily in boys 16-29 years of age, primarily after second dose, primarily within 4 days, but generally it was transient and self-resolving, so it really wasn't that bad.

That was a very small price to pay, I think, for that vaccine.

But you had J&J's vaccine, which we reviewed in February of 2021, the adenovirus vector vaccine. And that was, again, about a 30,000-person study. So you saw 15,000 people got that vaccine, then millions of people got it. And it was found to be a cause of clotting, including severe clotting, including clotting in brain, that ultimately drove that vaccine off the market by March of 2023.

And everybody looks at that story and they say, 'How did you not know that? How did you recommend something like that which now has caused deaths in some people? How could you not know that'? And people then lose trust, which is in part sort of why I wrote this book, because I just think people just have to have realistic expectations of the fact that you're going to learn as you go."

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The fact that sociopaths and psychopaths hold positions of power in public health (and in almost all areas) is outrageous, whereby real risks are treated as mere inconveniences while pushing reckless vaccine policies.

Dr. Offit serves as a perfect example of what a corrupt system can become, with leaders who prioritize their own preservation, preservation of power and control over the well-being of the people they lead, putting the latter's lives at risk.

However, this is all accomplished intentionally. This happens as a result of psychopaths infiltrating and turning any position of power into a deadly weapon against humankind.


Attention

The Middle East, hegemony, and fear of the U.S.

Neti Trump
© public domainMiddle East ablaze • Netanyahu and Trump • Where there is smoke, there is fire
The idea that the Middle East no longer represents a central strategic region, reducible to a limited conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, seems overly optimistic.

New perspectives

The peoples of the Middle East are watching closely to see whether Washington really intends to reduce its involvement in the region or whether, as with the four previous administrations, the government of U.S. President Donald Trump will also end up trapped in the quicksand of the Middle East. Beyond the high-sounding slogans that have accompanied various American presidencies, the problems in the area have progressively worsened, becoming increasingly complex, in parallel with the increase in U.S. interference.

Today, the American administration invokes the principle of "America First," proclaiming its rejection of interventionism, state reconstruction, and endless wars. However, it has not given up on its ambition to shape the global order, as demonstrated by the publication of the National Security Strategy, which proposes a strategic redefinition of the Middle East with the aim of preventing the rise of any dominant power in the region. It remains to be seen whether this new attempt will be successful, whether influential states will accept the American formula, and whether local populations will tolerate regional crisis management that serves only Washington's interests. Many questions remain unanswered, and only time will tell the outcome of Trump's gamble, which appears to be yet another American experiment in the Middle East.

Comment: Finally: US leadership structures US global involvements to effect a conservative, restricted approach to it's role on the planet. Will it work? Will it last?