GEOPOLITICS: THE RETURN OF THE GREAT POWER GAME (LONGREAD)

The world is on the brink of a paradigm shift. The first signs of this new constellation have become visible in the bankruptcy of old alliances and the beginnings of new alignments. There are a number of catalysts: the dawn of authoritarian Communist China as the world's production center based on slavery, and Turkey's aggressive expansionism in the East Med. Yet the Abraham Accords in parts of the Middle East have opened up opportunities that were hitherto unthinkable.

Sep. 22, 2021 Caspian Report: India's masterplan to counter China.

President Trump's vision of peace and prosperty in exchange for political Islam (watch his momentous speech in Riyadh) culminated in the Abraham Accords between the US,  Israel, the UAE, Bahrain. Morocco and Sudan subsequently joined the pact. This enabled the US to withdraw from the Middle East and pivot towards the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership only last week, auspiciously named AUKUS. 

BABIES' BRAINS DUMB DOWN DUE TO DUMB COVID FEARS

Researchers of Brown University analyzed the cognitive performances of 672 children born in Rhode Island; 188 born during the pandemic (after July 2020), 308 born before it (prior to January 2019) and 176 of them born during its beginning stage (between January 2019 and March 2020) (abstract). They found that children born during the pandemic have up to 20 percent lower IQs than those born before it. This is really no surprise at all!

Aug. 14, 2021 War Room Pandemic - Liz Yore: IQs Dramatically Dropping During Covid.

COVID-19 has been debilitatingly boring for newborns, disturbing new research has found.  (...) “It’s not subtle by any stretch,” lead study author and Brown University associate professor of pediatric research Sean Deoni told the Guardian of the trend. “You don’t typically see things like that, outside of major cognitive disorders.” (More on New York Post)

YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT! (UPDATED)

Equality is good, right? It is one of the most basic values of modern liberal democratic societies. Basically equality is good, unless it becomes a goal in itself outside the context of a wider moral edifice. In that case the consequences for a culture are dear indeed. Not everyone appreciates the problem; but British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did. She tried to explain it to the Commons in 1990. 

Nov. 2, 1990 UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher explains the fallacy of equality in the Commons.

Equality is the fundamental standard in Egalitarianism, a standard of good and evil. Equality as an ethical value is rooted in Judeo-Christian and Marxist deontologies. But Egalitarianism demands much more than just that: it wants equality of outcome, in the here and now! This has consequences not everyone immediately gets. Under this ethics program man doesn't deserve equality for whom he is or what he has achieved, but exactly because he IS nothing. Obama lecturing a group of entrepreneurs a few years ago, illustrates this mindset when he told them, "You didn't build that!"

WILL THE CHINA-TALIBAN TRADE PLANS SUCCEED? (LONGREAD)

The Taliban just announced that China will be their gateway to international markets along the Belt and Road Initiative. China has plans for a oil pipeline from Iran through Afghanistan. But as the following longread is pointing out, the going may not be as smooth as the parties are currently hoping for. What are the odds and what are the facts in the real world? 

Sep. 2, 2021 Epoch TV: Bill Gertz, US Withdrawal from Afghanistan a 'Strategic Success' for China.

The fiasco of the withdrawal of the USA from Afghanistan will be dissected for decades to come in the military academies and in many of Washington DC's thinktanks. But most people will ponder who ordered this debacle.

THE TALIBAN: FIGHTING PAKISTAN'S GHOST ARMY (LONGREAD)

There is a disconnect between the top brass in the military and their strategy in the war against Radical Islamic Terrorism. At the root is postmodern moral relativism, widely propagated in every branch of academia: truth is subjective and every idea is equally valid. It led to the narrative devised in the State Dept. that if we deny that Islam is rooted in terrorism, we can stop radicalization [1]. In the following post Rajesh Chaudhary illustrates the chasm between the liberal mind and reality.

War on Terror: cutting twigs, instead of the roots.

The war machine and the people who guide it, the whole industrial military complex in America is based on industry. They have their own think-tanks, they have these smart sleek Harvard and Yale University graduates who join these think-tanks or are employed in companies that specialize in regional issues. Their titles and papers create an aura of knowledge. They are the geniuses. But all these wars being fought after Vietnam are not about the ideology of Communism. They are against the doctrine of Islam.

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI)

The BRI project is a Chinese trade concept, based on the British Commonwealth. The only thing China does is copying. The CCP has a huge talent base which sees and researches everything possible to push China as an economic superpower. So it was a matter of time that they dissected the workings of the British Commonwealth and tuned it to their liking.

Feb. 27, 2021 Gravitas Plus: The Belt & Road initiative.

What is the British Commonwealth? The concept was envisioned in the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference. Britain and its dominions agreed they were "equal in status, in no way subordinate to one another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs; though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations".

ANALYSIS: CHINA, AFGHANISTAN AND THE BELT & ROAD PLAN

Since taking power eight years ago, President Xi has massively increased China's military, economic, and political influence. With the Americans vacating Afghanistan and the Middle East, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now ready to take on its leading role as global dominant power. Xi stressed in his Davos speech on January 2021 that he has the "Mandate of Heaven" to rule the world. And all the while China continues to cover up the origin of the COVID-19 virus.



Aug. 20, 2021 Crossroads/Joshua Philipp: Live Q&A: China Holds Assault Drills Threatening Taiwan.

China is the Godfather of the Taliban.  Last week a meeting was held between Chinese foreign ministry officials and the American Under Secretary of State. It was a very heated meeting, both parties lecturing each other on various issues. It was all very reminiscent of the Alaska summit in March, the last time China humiliated the Biden administration on the world stage.

MIKE LINDELL CYBER SYMPOSIUM ON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: DAY 3

On Tuesday August 10 at 9amCT MyPillow man, Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium is kicking off in Sioux Falls in South Dakota. Among the participants are officials from 25 US states, 70 credentialed cyber experts, some 300 politicians from all over the US and international representatives from countries as far afield as Brazil, Italy and Australia. The entire symposium on August 10, 11 and 12 will be live streamed on Lindell-TV platform and RSBN, and is expected to be watched by a billion people world wide. 

RSBN Live Stream.

UPDATE: Last night Lindell was physically attacked at his hotel, while Brannon is vaguely reporting "a security incident". As yet neither Lindell or Brannon has provided any details. The assistant of Tina Peters, Mesa County (Colorado) Clerk and Recorder had his home raided; details will follow later today. The symposium was infiltrated by Antifa orcs posing as reporters; the objective was to hack and monitor legislators' mobile phones. Last but not least, that symposium's platform was attacked by some kind of malware.

ARISTOTLE VS PLATO: EASTERN VERSUS WESTERN THOUGHT

Western culture did not grow out of nothing. It grew out of post Schismatic Roman Catholicism, its rejection by the Protestants, followed by the Enlightenment. Which in turn was founded on the synthesis of Old Testament Judaism, Greek philosophy and Roman law. 

Jan. 27, 2021 Orthodox iconographer Jonathan Pageau talks to Fr. John Strickland about the history of the West in view of the East.

UPDATE: Our own quest is rooted in the question what went wrong in Western culture that it could bring about the insanity and destruction of Postmodernism (pomo)? Pageau and Strickland both feel there is something momentous in Charlemagne, who basically highjacked the early Roman Catholic Church to enable him to establish the Holy Roman Empire with himself at the head as Emperor. In fact there was nothing holy or even Roman about this Germanic Frankish Empire.

FREEDOM FOR CUBA: THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE

For over 60 decades the Cuban people have been suffering under Castro Communism. The regime is using the collapse of the tourist industry due to the corona outbreak as cover for the protests. The truth is, the people have had enough of their island prison. According to one doctrine, Cuba is the head of the snake. If Cuba falls, all Latin America's commie regimes fall. 

July 12, 2021 Thousands of Cubans take to the streets demanding freedom.

The Biden administration has to decide very fast: are they supporting the people, or the regime. The media have taken over the talking point of El Presidente, rioting is blamed on corona. The protesters have taking Castro's slogan, "Patria o Muerte" and turned it on its head; they want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Venezuela is actually running the show in Cuba. Key is the Cuban military. What side will they take?