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Ithamar's avatar

Randy Fine? Are you sure that's not "Fat Bastard", the nemeses of super spy, Austin Powers? Either way, he is the epitome of a dirty bomb.

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Ivar Ruslan's avatar

Again, ( I believe I posted this to you yesterday? ) they ALSO struck the RF's Northern Fleet's main Nuclear Submarine base as well ; TWO legs of the Nuclear Triad-same day.

Trump is not in charge of *anything*, except his own fancy signature on those big "executive orders", (which are instantly blocked by some low-level judge who has no business, whatsoever, in such affairs!), and his trolling on his Twix or "Truth" (lol) Social.

Intel agencies RUN the major governments in EVERY significant country, throughout the world-they all have a "Praetorian guard' that does whatever it wants to one greater end, they care not who makes the "laws", nor do they obey any "rules" ; it's straight *POWER*, with no chaser.

Debt collectors, and Vengeance Deliverers-no quarter given.

Understand that, you understand it all.

TY Mark, as always.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Re the attack in the vicinity of the RF Northern Fleet, I couldn't find that subs were targeted.

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Ivar Ruslan's avatar

I had all of that yesterday, it was from telegram, but it does house their main Nuke sub fleet...I'd have to scroll back a bit to get it. it might have been from one other source, but kinda got a lot going on, on the home front ATM.

Mother-In-law fell the other night at her home, broke her femur, and have our grand-dottir too, back and forth to the hospital, etc...chaotic at best(!).

But there was vids, a lot of chatter about it, but I may be proven wrong...that would be a VERY good thing IMO!

Istanbul talks took only 75 min today, but Russia, at least, "unilaterally' agreed to an immediate return of 6,000 perished Ukie soldiers, as requested (to be mutual, 6 for 6, by Ukraine).

I do expect Putin to go heavy, just to cover his ass, because he's got a lot of guys sick of his compromising with his "esteemed western partners", who keep "leading him by the nose"...(he IS a tool of the very intel overlords I spoke of, he always has been : head of KGB East German Directorate, etc, hand-picked by Clinton's boy, Yeltsin ; once one, always one...you know that, as I do, Mark).

TY again, Mark, I always look forward to your updates.

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Mark Hazard's avatar

As observers we remain an unknown distance from clarity.

Quality assessment of RUS/UKR drones by

The Duran

Drone attacks and Russia red lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoB8fUihexQ

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susan mullen's avatar

Mr. Bertrand is misinformed. Ukraine isn't an "independent sovereign country." It's been a Soros and/or US colony for 35 years & has been plundered accordingly. MPs keep cash at home because banks aren't safe. Biden was de facto pres. of Ukraine during Obama's 2nd term. 1/17/2017, “If actually a sovereign state, Ukraine would have refused to receive Biden. But it seems that for the Kiev regime friendly backslappings by the U.S. boss are more important than their country’s national interests.“...Eurasia Daily, Kiev, Ukraine...."The anti-terrorist operation in Donbass was preceded by the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and CIA Director John Brennan to Kiev. During that visit in Apr 2014, Biden was sitting at the head of the negotiating table-the place meant for the president of Ukraine – and was distributing directives to the representatives of the “sovereign” Maidan regime.

Since then [April 2014] he has been the United States’ key inspector for Ukraine. Since 2014, old Joe has paid five visits to Kiev. In Dec 2015, he confessed that he had more conversations with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko than with his own wife."...(The Jan. 2017 article was written by Denis Gayevsky from Kiev and is still posted. As of 2025 Denis apparently lives in Israel. The author of the article is now listed as Igor Federovsky in Kiev.)...https://eadaily.com/en/news/2017/01/17/farewell-tour-of-old-joe-bidens-last-visit-to-ukraine

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ML's avatar

Very informative, as ever!

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Tristam's avatar

Is there an address where we can send donuts to Randy Fine?

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Mike richards's avatar

Tell politicians, uber bankers or black nobility it’s an ‘unbridgeable contradiction’ and they will reply, ‘yes but what’s your point’. Unbridgeable contradictions in ejecting truth define psychopathy. Tell them they are psychopaths and… same answer. Accountability is therefore through force, not persuasion. Who tells politicians to induce hatred to induce war? - wars don’t arise amidst neighborly affection. Democracy obviously doesn’t work - cynical manipulation does, and same-old, same-old shows we’re just sheep.

We need the right Shepherd.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Good commentary, Nap and LJ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzF62vxbC7M

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Mark Wauck's avatar

LJ: "In my opinion, none of these attacks could have been planned and executed without assistance, if not the direct involvement, of Western intelligence and NATO officers. The drones likely were activated by a remote signal made possible by Western satellites and/or systems like Starlink. Those systems also played a critical role in enabling the drones to navigate to the targeted airfields."

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aDoozy's avatar

So pin-up girl Kristi Noem is now being sent to carry messages from Trump to leaders of Mideast countries, and to join an election campaign in another country.

Her job title as a member of the US President's Cabinet is Director of HOMEland Security.

Why is she an emissary to other nations--instead of overseeing investigation of the attack on a pro-Israel group in Boulder, CO, or perhaps interrogating a handcuffed doctoral student at a US University with a valid visa who wrote an op-ed for a campus newspaper that denounced the murder of Palestinians?

I noticed Noem was wearing her big gold Rolex when she was at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, just as she wore it to the prison in El Salvador.

Her hair for the Wall was perfectly styled,. You know, with her heavy makeup and long hair, she reminds me of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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D F Barr's avatar

She’s telegenic. It’s optics. Smoke and mirrors. The Narrative.

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susan mullen's avatar

Kristy Noem may or may not still be romantically linked with sometime Trump campaign operative Corey Lewandowski but per Polish press, he has "Polish roots:" "Corey Lewandowski--advisor with Polish roots leads Donald Trump to the top," 3/1/2016, Polska Press, Warsaw....https://i.pl/corey-lewandowski-doradca-o-polskich-korzeniach-prowadzi-donalda-trumpa-na-szczyty/ar/9453463

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aDoozy's avatar

I did not know about Noem and Lewandowski!

The climbing elite in government obviously do not care about discretion, and especially not about moral character.

Oh, what a tangled web there is in the halls of government...as well as in public places.

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Nutmeg's avatar

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14664625/Kristi-Noem-Corey-Lewandowski-DC-living-arrangement-affair.html

That link is from a British tabloid, but sure looks like something is going on between those two...despite both being married.

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2023/10/13/noem-lewandowski-relationship-doesnt-have-to-be-an-affair-to-be-inappropriate/

Lewandowski has a checkered past, as noted in the story above.

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aDoozy's avatar

They certainly aren't being very discreet. The affair has been going on since 2021, I read.

He has traveled with her on some or all of her out-of-country work trips.

He has a wandering eye--has been seen with, and accused by, other women over several years.

He has a wife and four kids.

She has a husband, 3 kids and I think 2 grandchildren.

What a selfish mess.

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susan mullen's avatar

You may recall that Corey Lewandowski was romantically linked with Hope Hicks from Trump's first term. It wasn't secret, was out in the open.

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aDoozy's avatar

Cocky, isn't he? Teflon Corey.

Hope Hicks was a glamourous brunette like Noem, yes?

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susan mullen's avatar

Yes, Hope Hicks also had cover girl caliber beauty, the kind you'd see in fashion magazines. Why would any girl, much less a glamourous one, waste time with this married creep? He was still married as of a few years ago, I haven't checked recently.

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TomA's avatar

Trump is frantically maneuvering on the world stage in the hope of keeping world war at bay. A lot of countries are now in serious financial distress (including the US) and if one domino falls, the contagion could spread quickly around the globe. Europe in particular is desperate to start a war with Russia as a way of masking its impending sovereign debt default. This is Putin's biggest worry, that the Globalists will mousetrap Trump into an escalating world war. The neocons have convinced themselves that Russia will back down rather than risk going nuclear. The geopolitics of this situation is simple. Russia is now boxed into a military resolution in Ukraine. Trump must accept the deal that Iran has offered. Israel and the Zionist lobby must be curtailed from attacking Iran. And most importantly, Trump must walk away from all of these conflicts and focus solely on our domestic financial problems. And he needs to fire more neocons in his administration. This is the same mistake he made in 2016.

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Greg C's avatar

Trump's relationship to the ruling class is well known. He's an existential threat to a lot of them, which is why the headwinds are so fierce. Others, say Little Tech and the US banking system, if you buy what Luongo thinks, are trying to ride him and MAGA into a future without EU, One World Order autocracy clipping their wings.

And I know Crooke is a wealth of information, but I have my doubts about how furious the Russians really are at Trump. They have known for years that the US is not agreement-capable because of the various factions that have a tendency to work against and overrule each other, and we really have no way of knowing what's gone on between Putin and the administration. Finally, they have to see the game board clearly enough to know that they are being opposed by the same globalist forces that are throwing everything they can in the way of both MAGA and MRGA.

It's not like the folks that have done everything they can, for decades, to cannibalize Russia and the US have taken their toys and gone home.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Mark, you gave a very wise response yesterday when I asked what you thought Putin should do: "I don't know, because I don't have Putin's information."

It seems like you are jumping the gun in the responses regarding the attacks on Russia's nuclear bases yesterday. I am interested in what Lavrov, Medyedev, and Putin have to say about it and not Western commentators.

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Ivar Ruslan's avatar

The Russians have been ominously "quiet' so far. They did, however, convene, immediately after these attacks, an emergency meeting of the Security Council...They are a very "slowly, and deliberately" functioning mechanism.

I expect we'll see something pretty soon...

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The Security Council is a vehicle for consensus building before a united response is undertaken.

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Ivar Ruslan's avatar

True, it is. I'd take that as serious. Putin is no "dictator', by any means.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Jeff,

I think that's a good position to take. The news we get here is tainted by disinformation and propaganda. I prefer the quotes from those same people you cite and some of our favorite foreign policy commenters like Crooke, The Duran boys, etc.

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D F Barr's avatar

He was “allowed” to win. Just like the other guy was “elected” previously. A deal was made. It’s all rigged and an illusion. We are mere spectators to our own destruction.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Yes, I am in the same camp as you.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I’m not sure if Trump was allowed to win or not.

I don’t understand how the cheating was not allowed, as in 2020, to put Kamala in office. I don’t see that much had changed, besides Lara Trump replacing Romneys niece at the rnc.

Or perhaps Trumps lead was overwhelming?

I’m curious on why 2024 had different results than 2020. COVID is one excuse.

Downmarket results seem to have strange stuff going on, especially in my state, California.

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Greg C's avatar

The way it looked to me, Ray, is that there were many "counter-revolutionary" forces lined up to thwart the WEF/EU takeover of the US. Project 2025 was real, extremely well thought out, and is the playbook for most of what we're seeing domestically. Once he reemerged as the strong horse, they all decided to ride Trump home, and the effort to thwart the steal was huge, right down to things like getting the Amish out in PA, even though quite a few seats were still stolen.

Finally, yes, his lead was huge. If I'm not mistaken, he got many more votes than any other presidential candidate in history in 2020, which is why Biden, quite laughably, had to get almost 20 million more votes than Hillary and Obama did.

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ML's avatar

Yes, agree. IIRC, it was too big to rig. And Kamala was too tied to Zhou’s dismal tenure. Imagine a cabbage getting replaced by a fruit cake.

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