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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Mid-East Horror Show - Trump's Yuge YMCA Tour of Arabia

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Mon, 19 May 2025 08:08 UTC

Trump's recent grand tour of the richest petro-states of the Middle East saw him feted as an emperor, make "trillion$ for America" in "yuge deals," and meet the "young, attractive," head-choppy leaders of the Arabian peninsula and "the new, free Syria."

Speaking about the "dawn of a bright new day" for the region, the farce of Trump staging what amounted to a MAGA rally in the ostensibly ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom - complete with the YMCA soundtrack - was completed by Israelis literally blowing up his attempt to ease the suffering of starving Gazans when they launched "Operation Gideon's Chariots," another round of intense bombing of blockaded Gaza that UN officials say has turned the tiny enclave into a veritable "slaughterhouse."

Whatever happened to MAGA being different from the House of Horrors that was the NeoCons' obliteration of most of the rest of the region? Were we naive for thinking things would turn out differently?

Also in this NewsReal, the bizarre "neo-Nazi terrorist group" you've never heard of, despite being number one on the FBI's terror watch-list, plotting to "take down America's power grid" and "usher in a far-right theocracy." Finally, strange happenings in London, England, where a young Ukrainian appears to have committed arson against personal properties of the British prime minister - and NOT for political reasons...

Running Time: 01:58:56

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - April 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Tue, 13 May 2025 18:25 UTC

Solar Cycle 25's post-peak phase of sustained but declining activity started this month, yet X-class flares and geomagnetic storms indicate activity is still high, with medium levels of sunspots, so a rebound cannot be completely discarded. This activity is reflected in the extreme weather down here in April, from unseasonable snowstorms and catastrophic floods to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Arctic air plunged into mid-latitudes, triggering cold snaps and heavy snowfall in regions expecting the warmth of spring. In Seoul, South Korea, cherry blossoms mingled with the first mid-April snow since 1907, while the Alps were buried under eight feet of snow in just three days. Minnesota reeled from a 15-inch (38 cm) blizzard, and Turkey's capital, Ankara, faced icy roads after unexpected snow. These anomalies, also hitting Ukraine, Poland, and New Zealand, with surprisingly cold temperatures for Spring, highlight erratic weather patterns and the winter lingering on further and further.

SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Three-Body Problem: Soft Disclosure? John Carter talks ETs and UFOs

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00 UTC

Today MindMatters welcomes back John Carter to talk Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, science fiction in general, and to compare NHI theories. Do UAP represent extraterrestrials putting on a show to appear more advanced than actually are? Or super-advanced ultraterrestrials who may have their own weaknesses? What is the possible connection between tech and psi? And would humanity actually unite in the case of an ET threat, as Ronald Reagan so endearingly believed?

Running Time: 01:56:57

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: US-Israel Split Over M.E.? India-Pakistan Provocation Explained, And Putin's Victory Parade

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Sun, 11 May 2025 20:33 UTC

Rumors are swirling this week that Trump and Netanyahu 'aren't friends anymore', and that the breakdown in their relationship portends divergence in US-Israeli policy in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Trump has suddenly declared an end to the US military bombing of Yemen, just as yet another US fighter jet 'falls off' the USS Truman. And US and Iranian officials are again meeting in Oman to 'further discuss a (new) nuclear deal'.

The 'wee war' between India and Pakistan appears have ended, for now, but what happened to kick it all off, who was likely really behind it, and why would they provoke a dangerous border conflict in that region? Joe Quinn explains the geoeconomics of pan-Asian integration - and why the US/UK/Israel/'West' will do whatever they can to prevent that happening.

Finally, the spectacular 80th anniversary Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square went off without a hitch, despite the inane efforts of Ukrainians and Eurolanders to threaten it with drone attacks, and then upstage it with 'alternative peace talks' in Kiev, resulting in a farcical 'ultimatum' to Putin's victorious Russia.

Running Time: 01:55:27

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Pope Trump, Spain Blackout, Houthi Hits, And Plundering Ukraine

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Sun, 04 May 2025 18:26 UTC

Trump's joke about being made the next pope hasn't gone down too well with Catholics, but it's his big policy ideas that are really falling flat - especially his 'Liberation Day' tariffs and his 'peace pressure' against Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

His Ukraine 'minerals deal' essentially rehashes the NeoCons' 'Iraq reconstruction deal' that did NOT rebuild that country and instead enriched American contractors, while his failure to 'annihilate' the Houthis' military capability doesn't augur well for preventing an Israel-Iran war.

Meanwhile, all other Western countries' elections continue being rigged, and, despite vocal public statements in defense of democratic freedom from Trump officials, it appears that there's little they can do to prevent the continued disintegration of Western civilization under the feckless stewardship of its parallel 'shadow' government.

Running Time: 01:59:37

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Cutchinology: A Decade of the Paranormal with Joshua Cutchin

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00 UTC

Joshua Cutchin is one of the most interesting thinkers on the paranormal alive. He is the author of 8 classic books on the subject, including highly focused investigations into the role of food in paranormal encounters, paranormal odors, and child abduction in folklore and contemporary culture. He has also produced wide-ranging analyses on Bigfoot, widening the conceptual aperture to include paranormal features ignored by many until now, and the relation of death to all things paranormal. His latest book deals with the overlap between fiction and the paranormal, and the flimsy boundary between fiction and reality. Joshua is also an accomplished musician and a cool dad.

Running Time: 01:23:06

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Yemen is Trump's War Now, And The Houthis Are Fighting Back

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Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:38 UTC

The 'random' terror attack in disputed Kashmir last week has apparently brought the two nuclear-armed powers of India and Pakistan to the brink of war. It probably won't come to anything serious, but this isn't the first time a major international incident has been sparked by a 'previously-unknown terror group in Pakistan'.

Meanwhile, in neighboring Iran, a gargantuan explosion at its largest port has gone largely unreported in the media - an explosion that looks remarkably similar to the one that decimated Lebanon's largest port 5 years ago. Hmmm, connection?

Meanwhile, in neighboring Yemen, hundreds of US missile strikes in recent weeks against Houthi targets have intensified to the point that Trump has arguably lost his claim to being the first US president since Carter to not have started a war.

The Houthis are giving as good as they've got, however, and what they've got packs a punch. Just how many US Navy ships have they hit so far? And have they sunk any? How many US sailors have been KIA? Just as in the Ukraine, the Pentagon isn't saying anything, but for how much longer can it sustain the myth of American invincibility?

Running Time: 02:12:02

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SOTT Focus: What Would Jesus Do?

George D. O'Neill
The American Conservative
Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:03 UTC

And is there anything particularly Christian about Christian Zionism?

When did Jesus say it was acceptable to starve the poor, slaughter women and children while turning a blind eye to the suffering of the weak? The answer, of course, is never. Yet for years, a vocal strain of American Christian Zionist leaders have supported policies that do precisely that — enabling the starvation and slaughter of Palestinians while underwriting broader wars that have decimated ancient Christian communities across the Middle East. How did we arrive at a place where those who claim to follow the Prince of Peace justify such unchristian horrors?

The Biblical call for compassion is clear: Leviticus 23:22 commands, "When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you." This is a divine directive to care for the vulnerable, not an optional gesture. James, the brother of Jesus, is yet more emphatic: "Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you" (James 1:27). What kind of religious leaders cheer the bombing of Gaza's widows and orphans, left destitute by policies supported by American and Israeli leaders? Decades of war propaganda have numbed many Americans to the atrocities committed in their name. Yet a growing awareness is stirring both here and abroad.

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:36 UTC

A shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay, killing more than 5,350 people, injuring nearly 8,000, and destroying thousands of buildings, including Mandalay's royal palace and the Ava Bridge, with the damage exacerbated by the country's ongoing civil war and compromised infrastructure. International aid from neighbouring countries such as China, India and Thailand poured into Myanmar to help with the relief effort.

In Thailand, the earthquake was felt in 77 provinces, prompting evacuations and causing temporary disruption to transport and services. The low-frequency seismic waves caused a 33-storey high-rise building under construction in Bangkok to collapse, killing 51 people and leaving dozens missing.

The tremor was felt in eastern India, particularly in Kolkata and West Bengal, causing minor structural damage but no reported fatalities. In Bangladesh, tremors were reported in Dhaka and Chittagong, leading to evacuations and temporary power cuts, with at least two people injured in stampedes caused by panic.

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: What's Really Behind Trump's Tariffs-Trade War?

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Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:10 UTC

Turns out, out-competing China is the reason for Trump's "return to 19th-century tariffs." But as we've been seeing, Trump "flinched" when the US bond market spiked, something he apparently didn't expect to happen. And so now, just a couple of weeks after the introduction of tariffs, the US government is "pausing" the tariffs - and even exempting from tariffs the bulk of key imports the US depends on from China.

Still, American rhetoric about "beating China" is picking up steam, and sounding increasingly aggressive. Separately, Trump has issued Iran with a 2-month ultimatum to "make a deal over nuclear power, or else!" Of course, Iran DID have such a deal, until Trump tore it up in 2017, but that glaring inconsistency aside, are the US "make a deal" ultimatums to these two countries, Iran and China, connected in some way?

Worryingly, it appears that they are, and it's all to do with waning US influence on global energy markets...

Running Time: 01:53:08

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SOTT Focus:

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Mid-East Horror Show - Trump's Yuge YMCA Tour of Arabia

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - April 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Three-Body Problem: Soft Disclosure? John Carter talks ETs and UFOs

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: US-Israel Split Over M.E.? India-Pakistan Provocation Explained, And Putin's Victory Parade

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Pope Trump, Spain Blackout, Houthi Hits, And Plundering Ukraine

SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Cutchinology: A Decade of the Paranormal with Joshua Cutchin

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Yemen is Trump's War Now, And The Houthis Are Fighting Back

SOTT Focus: What Would Jesus Do?

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: What's Really Behind Trump's Tariffs-Trade War?

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