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The Epstein Files are an interesting resource. They're especially good value for those still trapped in the whole kabuki of liberal democracy, rule of law, just society, meritocracy, party politics, constitutional checks and balances, accountability for crimes, government legitimacy, finance capitalism, etc etc. "Everything you were brought up to believe and trust in turns out to have been a clever lie." Beyond question, the Epstein Files have revealed an extensive multinational cast of incestuous often psychopathic predators — many already known to be prominent players in (mostly criminal or above the law) networks of deeply entrenched insider privilege. Epstein is the tip of the iceberg. Public opinion and prurient social media notwithstanding, however, there's only so far these current archives of redacted (plus over half unreleased) files can go in a legal, criminal accountability sense. Real investigations, questioning, physical arrests, criminal charges, court trials, and eventual convictions need the police and justice officials to take up the task, backed by both executive and legislature, and in full possession of all unedited, uncovered, unredacted materials. At present, the U.S. DOJ and various intelligence agencies are obstructing justice in full public view; and many corrupt politicians and disingenuous journalists are helping them evade responsibility. Will public pressure force the so-called public servants to honestly do their jobs? #EpsteinFiles #HappyValentinesDay

This woman is a neoliberal moron. The archetypical useful idiot.

@Safarnejad_IR Such a colossal waste. Imperialism. Pffft

Iran shot down hostile micro-aerial vehicles in south of the country last night

@ProfHall1955 I think Victoria Nuland said it best...

An even simpler summary. The EU tanks its economies by: 1. Supporting a US/NATO proxy war and cutting off Russian gas. 2. Supporting Zio-American aggression and choking off 20% of oil. 3. Refusing efficient Chinese solar as a security threat. The EU is a paranoid psychotic basket case run by post-imperial morons unable to accept and work with an irreversible shift in the world order.

@STANISKRAPIVNIK It's a good thing for world peace that the Brits are as clueless about money as the Russians

‼️🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ Britain will not have money for new weapons until 2030, — former commander of the country's troops ▪️Britain is left without money and weapons — there's barely enough for tanks, helicopters, and artillery, Richard Barrons said in an interview with the Times. ▪️According to him, the lack of investments is "depleting" the industrial base and forcing defense companies to relocate production abroad. ➖"There's no money now, and there might not be for another four years, so many leading technology companies have followed the money to Germany, Poland, or the USA. This increases the risk of the actual depletion of the industrial base," said Barrons.

@Safarnejad_IR U.S. will avoid engaging Iran in stand-up fights. War games always end in U.S. defeats. Why risk direct confrontation, anyway? U.S. strategic aims are best served by prolonging regional chaos, while using piracy, extortion, sanctions, and bombs to target global economic pain.

Martyred IRGC Chief, Gen. Salamee, teaching a course on how to fight US This is what we mean when we say Iran has been preparing for this war for 20 years.

While everyone watched Iran, Washington quietly finalized Nord Stream’s replacement: Poseidon. 4 gas deals in 4 months 🇸🇾🇮🇱🇬🇷🇨🇾 $3 trillion dollars I spent weeks on these maps and this investigation to expose the US agenda in Iran and globally. richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-p…

@russelldobular By "us" you mean you, Pete Hegseth, Jake Paul, Cornel West, Jim Justice, Luigi Mangione, John McWhorter, Jennifer Kavanagh, Martin Skreli, Braden Peters Jamie Dimon, John Kiriakou, Wilmer Leon, Whitney Webb, Wil Wheaton, Bari Weiss, Michael Hudson... Hm. This may take a while...

China really is ahead of us in everything.

@kennardmatt Is he fuck

The attacks are ramping up because the establishment is losing Polanski has got the strategy locked down Fight back always. Don't apologise to bad faith actors who desire your destruction It's refreshing He is becoming a transformational figure in British politics

@andrewfeinstein 📡🛰️

@andrewfeinstein Why are you standing aside for the Green candidate? Most recent election result (GE 2024) for Holborn & St Panc was you on 7312, Green candidate on 4030. It's bizarre a candidate with a vote tally almost double that of the third place Greens to be the one standing down. 🫡

‘Labour could lose control of Starmers Camden council in biggest London politics shock for 60 yrs’ Vote Greens to make clear we don’t want Starmer’s council. If in Kings X or Somerstown ward vote Camden Peoples Alliance as Greens have stood down for us standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

@Safarnejad_IR This is not a good thing. Maverick and Ice were morons

Top Gun is a movie in US but for Iranian pilots... It's a Lifestyle!

We have just departed Italy and our fleet has expanded! The participants’ boats were filled with aid and ready to break the siege on Gaza. It’s time to end the colonization of our seas. A safe, humanitarian corridor must be opened. Follow our boats online with our tracker at gsumud.link/tracker.

@OneQuantumLeap UK Greens are now the WORST mainstream party. Because the whole purpose of the Greens' campaign, more than any other party, is to bleed away priceless energy from honest voters who buy into Polanski's promises he aims to force change on the entrenched oligarchy. Cuz he won't.

Green Party suspends Mark Adderley, husband TV personality of Nadia Sawalha, for telling the truth about Israel, Israelis & Zionism. This, the Greens, supposedly the political party to bring change. They are no less tethered to the arrangement than the other mainstream parties.

@OneQuantumLeap Yeah. They're frauds.

Polanski/ the Greens talk about change and yet at every turn fall in line with the neoliberal imperialist order; from militarism to playing to the antisemitism scam to voting against the nationalisation of energy companies to not allowing a vote Zionism to Russophobia. Come on!

👁️Hammersmith and Fulham Council is going full Orwell It's wiring up AI surveillance capabilities into 500+ CCTV cameras Buried in documents we've uncovered are proposals to monitor a wide range of behaviour Here's what you should know⤵️

@STANISKRAPIVNIK "Able Was I Ere I saw Elba!" Now try it backwards.

ELBE 1945 VS 2026: THE GREAT BETRAYAL🤝🇷🇺🇺🇸 In 1945, we crushed Nazism together. Today, Russia is still on the front lines against the same plague, while Washington sends billions to fund it. The heroes of Torgau would be disgusted by this total reversal of history. 🤡⚔️

@SMO_VZ Heh heh

In the last 12 months, the accounts I have run & managed for the Russian topic (worlds top geopolitical news story last 4 years) achieved over : 390 million views Now, 288,000 combined followers Yet views last 3 months down 80%+ Monetisation down 90% ( earning more 12 months ago at 70% fewer followers - I'd prefer $0 Monetisation If the views weren't restricted.. I'm here for the audience ) The Topic is throttled intentionally. It's obvious! Blue tick premium is proven worthless ( I've 11 of them ) basic subscription has the same reach I'd prefer NO MORE MONETISATION and just leave the audience free range & I'd still pay for the PREMIUM BLUES But as of now.. I'm terminating any more renewals on my subscriptions ... going back to the old days of < 280 character threads and small videos ... There is no value in this crusade when my topic, in particular, is suppressed to 10% Let me know what you think...

There is a pile of money that has been compounding across a handful of cities for roughly five hundred years. Venice. Amsterdam. London. New York. Some names changed, but the overall structure did not. The gold of the Americas flowed through Spain into Amsterdam. Amsterdam helped finance the rise of London. London underwrote Wall Street's expansion. After 1918, Britain owed so much to American banks that the senior seat moved to New York. They say the British Empire fell. The flags came down, sure. But the City of London kept the world's offshore accounts and still does. That is where the global ruling class hides its money to this day. Transition, not collapse. A transfer of the same accumulating position. The logic of that capital is simple: control the underlying ledger of the global economy. Oil. Gas. Ports. Shipping lanes. Mines. Banks. Debt. Payment systems. Legal title. Collateral. If resources cannot be owned, pledged, priced, sanctioned, insured, or collateralized through Western institutions, then they are not fully on the ledger. A country that controls real resources and refuses to put them on the ledger is, by the operating definition of the system, a problem. In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder gave that operating definition its clearest statement. He said the pivot of world politics was the Eurasian land mass - too big for any Atlantic navy to reach, too rich to leave alone. Whoever controlled it would control the world. Forty years later, Yale geographer Nicholas Spykman renamed that contested belt the Rimland and made it the central object of American postwar strategy: Hold the Rimland. Squeeze the interior. Look at the Rimland since they mapped it: India partitioned in 1947. Korea divided in 1945. Palestine partitioned in 1947. The Baltics absorbed into NATO's eastern flank in 2004. Ukraine turned into the forward trench of the Atlantic system. Every line sits along the same strategic belt. Kennan called the strategy "containment" in 1946. Brzezinski updated it in 1997: "Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an antihegemonic coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances." China. Russia. Iran. Not because they share a flag or share an ideology. But because together they threaten to close the Eurasian interior and move the world's resources, trade routes, and payment systems outside Atlantic control. China is the biggest gap in the "Rimland". Too big to attack. Too integrated into the system that would do the attacking. The factories sit in China. The supply chains run through China. The Treasury bonds sit in Beijing. So China gets tariffs, chip bans, naval pressure in the South China Sea, and a slow squeeze. Iran is the gap they think they can still afford to hit. Third largest proven oil reserves on earth. Second largest natural gas. Borders Russia on the Caspian. Anchors China's Belt and Road land corridor. Controls the Strait of Hormuz, where roughly a fifth of the world's oil passes every day. For over a century, the Atlantic system has tried to keep Iran on the ledger. In 1914 Britain bought a 51 percent stake in Anglo-Persian Oil. The Royal Navy ran on Iranian fuel through the First World War and depended on it through the Second. In 1951 Mossadegh nationalized the company. In 1953 the CIA overthrew him and installed the Shah. But when the Shah fell, the accounts came off the ledger. And everything since then has been an attempt to put them back; hidden behind "democracy", "human rights" and other such memes for the cattle. The bombs are falling exactly where the map says they would

@academic_la Rational. Reasonable. Detailed. Credible. Hopeful-ish. Complete slop too!

Trump realizes he has no strong military options in Iran and is instead going for a game of economic chicken. He is also unwilling to make the concessions needed to open the Straits of Hormuz, so we are stuck: 1) The naval blockade is the centerpiece. The US isn't just blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It is also hunting Iran's "shadow fleet" across the Indian Ocean, intercepting ships smuggling oil to China and dual-use materials back to Iran. It is working and Iran's regime is feeling serious damage. 2) Iran's oil industry faces potentially irreversible damage. Storage tanks at Kharg Island and oil fields are full, Israel destroyed most petrochemical refining capacity, and Iran is being forced to reduce pumping. If wells go inactive for months, they lose internal pressure and require extremely costly, lengthy rehabilitation. 3) The US froze $344 million in cryptocurrency accounts used by the IRGC. Iran's crypto holdings are estimated at $7-8 billion, roughly half controlled by the Revolutionary Guards. Israeli hackers reportedly stole $90 million from IRGC crypto accounts a year earlier. The US is also sanctioning small Chinese refineries using smuggled Iranian oil. 4) Iran's bet is that global energy pain and Trump's sinking poll numbers ahead of midterms will force him to back down. Trump's bet is that he can secure a "victory deal" that reverses the political damage. 5) Israel is skeptical that economic warfare alone can break a regime as extreme as Tehran's, arguing that only devastating strikes on national infrastructure will force Iran to give up its nuclear and missile capabilities. This may or may not work in terms of getting concession from Iran. But Trump is playing with the entire global economy, which may go into recession between this and the growing influence of AI on the job market.

@Aaron_Good_ By the way, this all isn't worthy of so much tapping out text. It's TwitterX ffs. But you're a good egg doing fabulous work in a challenging risky area so I'm honorbound to keep replying until the original misunderstanding is fixed or you give up and cry uncle!

@Aaron_Good_ "Trailer trash" ref was trying to satirize your graceless elitism using common, extremely lazy stereotype, i.e. trailer trash hacks are the opposite pole to civilized academics. Shirley you get this?! Disagree with my read (or joke) on your bias against WW. But in context, svp

Webb is out of her depth here. Sachs explains here who was behind the Shock Therapy looting of Russia. Sachs sought to persuade the US to commit to stabilize rather than destabilize Russia's economy. The neocons preferred economic warfare. Sachs resigned. scheerpost.com/2024/09/17/jef…