Xi's Delicate Warning - Vox Popoli

 It’s always interesting to see how far ahead of US politicians the Chinese leaders are, particularly President Xi, who is fully cognizant on the discussions of Western intellectuals, while I doubt any US politicians, with the possible exception of JD Vance, have ever heard of Wang Hunin, much less Qiao Liang or Wang Xiangsui

Inside the Great Hall, Xi opened the talks with an ominous reference to the so-called Thucydides Trap, the ancient Greek historian’s account of Athens and Sparta, and the danger when an established power feels threatened by a rising civilization.....

https://voxday.net/2026/05/14/xis-delicate-warning/ 

....So, it’s interesting that Xi is laying out the problem directly for Trump, as he’s making it very clear that China is the rising power and the USA is the fading one, which directly contradicts all of Trump’s bombastic rhetoric.

The problem, of course, is that there is an X factor involved, which is Clown World. The Thucydides Trap was avoided when the center of power was transferred from London to Washington DC because the same satanic powers remained in control. But Xi prevented the plans for a similar transfer from Washington to Beijing because the Chinese do not wish to be ruled by itinerant devil-worshippers; they had their fill of that following the Mongol invasion, to say nothing of the Century of Humiliation they recently endured at the hands of that very ruling elite.

So, there are two obvious paths, although there may be more. One, the USA accepts China’s rise embraces American nationalism, and throws off Clown World rule. That would be the desirable path, and most likely the one that Xi would support. Two, the USA continues being ridden by Clown World until it expires, defeated and bankrupt, and breaks apart, as I first publicly predicted in 2004.

I think we’ll have a pretty good idea which path has been chosen after Trump returns from China and we see if the USA continues fighting Israel’s war against Iran et al or if it withdraws from the Middle East and allows China to force a peace settlement in Iran’s favor.

Iran Neither Retaliates Nor Negotiates - Meyssan

 We don’t understand Iran’s position vis-à-vis the United States and its allies at all: the Iranian people are not surprised by the war. They expected it, given their anti-imperialist stance. They are not so much interested in negotiating an end to hostilities as in establishing a new international order. They are willing to suffer to advance their own agenda. Washington may win militarily, but it is Tehran that is making political progress...

.....Before our very eyes, the old Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini did not seek to recover his property, which had been plundered by the Shah, but upon his arrival in Tehran, called on the army to side with the people and all the Iranian people to side with the oppressed.

That is what Iran is doing today.

From the outset, Iran was aware that it could not shoot down the Israeli-American air force. Its armed forces did manage to destroy some bombers in flight, but Iran chose instead to demonstrate to its Gulf Arab allies that the colonial powers were exploiting them. It attacked US military bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, and Qatar. It explained to each of these states that they were complicit in US aggression because they had ceded parts of their territory to the Pentagon, which was using it for its own purposes.

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/thierry-meyssan/iran-neither-retaliates-nor-negotiates/ 

This time Iran is addressing us: we are complicit in a policy aimed at starving it, and we were unaware of it. Just as Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bulgaria, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, and the United Kingdom are complicit in the military aggression without ever having chosen to join it.

We will have to choose: either continue to starve the Iranians, pretending not to be aware of it, or free ourselves from the United States.

The Secret Jewish Lobby Behind Trump’s First Step Act, by Jose Alberto Nino - The Unz Review

 Tucker Carlson stood before his primetime audience in July 2019 and delivered a blistering indictment of the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law that President Trump had signed just months earlier. Carlson claimed the law “has allowed hundreds of violent criminals and sexual predators back on the street” and cited statistics suggesting that nearly 500 of the roughly 2,200 released inmates had been imprisoned on weapons or explosives charges while another 239 had committed sex offenses. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), one of only 12 senators who voted against the bill, appeared alongside Carlson and declared “I didn’t believe it… because I read the bill. Good intentions sometimes have nothing to do with actual consequences.”

What Carlson did not mention, and what few Americans understood, was that the First Step Act was not primarily a product of mainstream prison reform advocacy groups. Its conceptual origins, ground-level lobbying, and political momentum were driven by a tight network of Chabad Lubavitch-affiliated activists and Orthodox Jewish organizations operating under a theological framework rooted in the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe....

https://www.unz.com/jnino/the-secret-jewish-lobby-behind-trumps-first-step-act/ 

....The First Step Act was never about the abstract notion of “justice”; it was about the successful assertion of a particular ethnic agenda within the heart of the federal government. When the Bureau of Prisons begins legitimizing Torah study as a formal tool for early release, it confirms that the American state is being operated as a subsidiary of Jewish interests.

This reality reveals that Donald Trump’s administration was merely a different vehicle for the same trajectory of gentile dispossession, one that effectively laundered special-interest legislation through the machinery of the GOP. At the end of the day, Trump’s presidency, from his foreign policy to domestic policy, must be viewed as a vessel to advance the interests of organized Jewry and no one else.

Once we acknowledge all U.S. presidents since the end of World War II are golems, then we can have a serious political conversation. Blindness to who truly wields power in Washington guarantees the perpetuation of Jewish supremacy. For those of European extraction, this willful ignorance ensures a future as mere cattle, eventually erased from the map by the very Jewish power configuration they refuse to name.

Yes, It Will Blow - Denninger

 The market, that is.

$NVDA has a "market cap" (market value) in excess of $5 trillion and at the moment the market has added $200 billion, or one fourth of last year's entire US defense budget, to that number in approximately two hours.

To put this in perspective that "value" is greater than any of the gross domestic product (all goods and services) for 2026 save two: China and the US.

It is also greater than the sum of any two below the 7th nation globally (which is France.)

If you believe one company has an actual value that large you've got rocks in your head equivalent to those who believed that Tulips were worth a near-infinite amount of money (despite simply being a flower) or that all the firms in the Internet space in the 1990s would amount to five times or more the GDP of the world.

It was not true either of those times and will not be true this time.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255414 

Often a Lie - by Rev. Matthew Littlefield

 Often the official story is a lie concocted by corrupt officials to cover up some kind of crime or evil on their part,

“11 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. 12 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers 13 and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14 And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day” (Matt. 28:11-15).

This is a major lesson in the Bible. The Bible is full of active conspiracies and the authors of the Bible go into a lot of detail describing the means and methods of conspirators. It is, in fact, a central theme in Scriptures and how it talks about evil. It is also central to the narratives of both King David, and the Davidic King Jesus.

This is a major lesson in history. Any student of history knows this.

Yet this truth about our world is very much denied by many Christians. Even though our own Lord was killed in an evil conspiracy, and they attempted to deny his resurrection with an extension of that conspiracy. Still many people refuse to accept that this is a major part of our world.

This does not mean that any given conspiracy is true. But it does mean we live in a world of lies, and that often those in charge of anything from a business, an organization, a church, or even society up to the top levels of government, will lie to cover up their real intentions. We should not automatically trust.

Coincidentally, sociopaths are much more highly represented in leadership positions than general society. Just an interesting fact...

There is a chapter on this in my book Like a Roaring Lion, at Lockepress.com

https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/often-a-lie?publication_id=1182452&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Treating Depression as a Whole-Body Disease (Part3)

 The Five Axes of Depression

Depression can be understood across five key biological domains:

1. Inflammation

2. Metabolism

3. Neurotransmission & neuroplasticity

4. Circadian rhythm

5. Gut–brain axis & micronutrients

Each contributes to the illness.

Each must be addressed.

https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/treating-depression-as-a-whole-body?publication_id=5737269&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

War On Iran: – U.S. Experiencing Price Increases – Moon of Alabama

 After several wars and decades of sanctions Iran is well versed in how to sustain under economic pressure. Its people and government know of the larger picture. Price fluctuations are inconveniences but do not change the will of the people.

The U.S. on the other side is rather fragile. Even only mildly unconformable circumstances will lead to political pressure. One percent more or less of inflation will change the election chances for this or that party.

The consequences of the blockade of Hormuz are starting to come in:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/war-on-iran-u-s-experiencing-price-increases.html 

Even if the Strait would reopen tomorrow it would take twelve to eighteen months for oil wells to be pumped again, storages to be refilled and production chains to go back to normal. As the conflict is likely to re-ignite we can expect years of supply problems.

Today’s increase of CPI and PPI numbers is just the beginning of larger increases in the cost of living.