The two most useful sources on all the “news” sites today might be our own Reader Ray and a weekend video by The Asian Guy on YouTube. We’ll toss in our consigliere, too, because his phone call Monday is a dandy starting point.
Ring-a-Ding on NATO
My consigliere called in Sunday. “Greenland is about getting out of NATO. Because Trump KNOWS that would never fly in Congress. “
Between us, we figured that with the (alleged) Muslim re-conquest of Europe, [academics call this a Eurabia conspiracy theory] -which is dramatically changing the politics and behavior of the EU could be seen as threatening. To some, it might not be long before the U.S.A. and Russia could have a common interest in keeping the “retooled Europe” contained.
Sure, the U.S. is going for Greenland – but Trump may be using it to leverage our way out of NATO. Which tees up our two useful news sources.
Reader Ray’s find:
“Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”
Which he spied at Truth Details | Truth Social by DJT.
When a country acts, it is never for “no reason” – there’s an agenda in play. And that’s real estate.
Which then gets us to The Asian Guy (a probable AI) which is explaining that what’s going on in the world right now is an Asset War. Countries which are not self-sufficient in energy, food, raw materials, are facing a crisis. They need trade because if they are not aligned with a Trade Bloc, they could “go Venezuela” in a heartbeat.
Markets hate this kind of thing (change).
Smacking the 85-DMA
The weekend’s “change in the news flow” is playing poorly in the markets. Tariffs on Europe over Greenland could trigger (like it hasn’t) a Global Tariff War. Trump says he will ‘100%’ carry out Greenland tariffs threat, as EU vows to protect its interests.
Result? The Dow was set to smack into the 85 Day Moving Average, which in our work on the Peoplenomics side of the house has been a very good indicator of when to load the widows and orphans into lifeboats.
If you haven’t, the Ebbinghaus-Ure Model looks at mathematical “echoes” reflected in study of moving averages. As you can see above, we expect the NASDAQ (based on early futures) to drop under the 85-DMA. But we’ll also bear in mind that there is often a “bounce” off a major average line (the 50 and 200 DMAs have similar bounces). This means if you like playing “slow speed investing” it’s at least time to have coffee and size things up.
Is This Race, Religion, or Revenue in Play?
It’s tempting to argue today’s geopolitics like it’s a census fight: who is “native,” who is “other,” who is “replacing” whom. But Europe makes that framing slippery on purpose. Most countries don’t track “race” in any consistent, comparable way across borders, and the definitions that do exist change over time.
Modern liberalism has made everyone “special” making “counting” a fool’s errand. The EU especially ran from terms like Caucasian to “foreign born” because of two drivers:
- Legal Restrictions: In France, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) does not provide data on race or ethnicity, as a 1978 law restricts collecting this information without specific waivers.
- Post-WWII Context: Modern Germany is particularly sensitive to collecting data on ethnicity due to the Nazi regime’s use of population registers, leading to a general avoidance of such metrics.
Result? The only pan-European numbers you can compare cleanly are proxies: foreign-born, non-citizen, asylum, migration flows. Which means when you hear “Europe is changing,” you’re usually hearing politics riding on top of statistics that were never designed for a straight line comparison back to 1945 or 1914.
Immigrants Brought Their Beliefs
Religion is the next substitute category people reach for, and it has real explanatory power in some places, but it also misleads.
Religion gets dragged into this next, because it’s emotionally sticky and easy to argue about. But the data is uneven and the politics are louder than the spreadsheets. Even when you can estimate a trend, “religion” still doesn’t tell you citizenship, tax base, voting power, or who is doing the logistics work that keeps a country running. The reliable trail is still money, movement, and geography.
Which brings us to revenue and leverage: NATO’s “write-a-check” cost is not the monster number people imagine. On the narrow definition of NATO’s common-funded budgets, you’re talking roughly $0.8–$0.9 billion a year for the U.S. share (order of magnitude), not hundreds of billions. The hundreds of billions are U.S. defense spending that supports deterrence generally, but that’s a Washington budget choice, not a bill from Brussels. So if the political temperature is rising, it’s not because NATO’s internal overhead is breaking the bank. It’s because leverage works: tariffs, trade threats, basing rights, and shipping routes are all pressure points where a small push can produce a big reaction.
Revenue matters on the home front, too. The U.S. Defense Industry is massive and it’s a powerful generator of jobs. And to appreciate it, consider where much of the global combat fighter fleets were made. Some of that was done with FMS – foreign military sales – and we are the biggest arms merchant in the world. How big is that? Lemme whip out the green eyeshades…
As of early 2026, the most recent complete data for U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) is for fiscal year 2024 (October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024), totaling $117.9 billion. This marked a 45.7% increase from FY2023’s $80.9 billion and was the highest annual total on record at the time, including $96.9 billion funded by allies and partners, $11.8 billion through Foreign Military Financing (FMF), and $9.2 billion via other security cooperation programs. Think inflation and lobbying and move up from there.
Now Let’s Suppose… If someone was President – who really didn’t want more wars – one way to turn down the heat on the home front might be to dial back overseas sales. Spend the defense money at home. After all, why sell weapons to potential adversaries?
Next Look at the Chessboard
Greenland sits on Arctic posture, North Atlantic lanes, and the future resource map; Diego Garcia is the kind of location planners don’t talk about publicly because it’s the quiet hinge of power projection; and Europe is where a trade shock can ricochet into alliance cohesion fast.
The Greenland tariff talk being floated in the news isn’t really about “teaching Europe a lesson” on spreadsheets, it’s about forcing alignment through economic pain and political signaling. When you lay the pieces together, “race vs religion” is mostly the story people tell themselves. The operational story is revenue: who controls the routes, the bases, the choke points, and the cash flows when the world gets tighter.
Then there’s the Fusing Problem
This is the “one more angle” that is beyond our (present, local) modeling power:
If the U.S. were no longer in NATO, one argument is that the automatic “tripwire” linking a Baltic or Polish border incident to a U.S. commitment would be weaker, which could reduce the odds of Washington being pulled into a Europe-based Article 5 escalation from a miscalculation, hybrid attack that goes too far, or a fast-moving local clash. In that framing, Europe would have to carry more of its own deterrence burden and would likely become more cautious about forward posture, while the U.S. could try to limit its exposure to alliance-driven obligations. The counterpoint is that removing the U.S. could also weaken deterrence and make limited probing more tempting, so “reduced Article 5 risk” comes at the price of potentially higher regional instability.
Putin’s been fairly clear: Russia is going back to Tsarist borders (think Catherine the Great). And Eastern Europe has long been problematic. Vladimir Putin wants to recreate brutal 18th century Russian Empire in Ukraine (April 2022).
We will cover the 1929 Replay angles to all this in the Peoplenomics ChartPack tomorrow. Plus there’s a dandy (serious software and AI engineering (PhD) level) discussion of how centralized power structures are trying to steal “freedom to choose” from your future AI capabilities.
Around the Ranch: Geo-Storming
Not a lot of point to turning on the HF ham radio gear today. (I may get a few things done, instead).
The reason for the crap radio conditions?
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 8, 9-
Threshold Reached: 2026 Jan 20 1021 UTC Synoptic Period: 0900-1200 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G4 – Severe NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 45 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents – Possible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems may mistakenly trip out key assets from the power grid. Induced pipeline currents intensify. Spacecraft – Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low earth orbit satellites, and tracking and orientation problems may occur. Navigation – Satellite navigation (GPS) degraded or inoperable for hours. Radio – HF (high frequency) radio propagation sporadic or blacked out. Aurora – Aurora may be seen as low as Alabama and northern California.
I wanted to mention this for a simple reason. We spent a lot of antenna theory for End of World disaster planning. Yet, here comes the Sun and there goes the HF circuit.
Next Prepping Gem:
Event type: Earthquake
Region: Southern California
Geographic coordinates: 33.892N, 116.171W
Magnitude: 4.9
This would be a dandy time to check water and emergency prep.
Wild-Eyed Speculation Department
Remember (and yes, this will sound nuts, but go with me…) We still cling to our crackpot theory that the Einstein e=mc2 equation is bi-directional. Such that when you smash atoms, you can release oodles of energy.
But, going the other way. if you put a ball out in from of an Active Sun (Earth, say?) high output solar striking the Earth might create (a kind of energy condensation) more matter.
And – if correct – that may power things like the Cali quake and the derailment that initialized the train collision in Spain over the weekend.
Takeout? With all the inbound energy, the visionaries referencing a megaquake may be right. Just a matter of when. Our guess? Around equinox time because that’s when crustal loading will be shifting at the highest of the year…
Meantime, at the High Dive Competition: Aggregate Index peaked on January 9, BTC peaked October 4 and has done what could be seen as an Elliott 1 down, and an a-b-c- 2 up of a possible Wave 2…so a fine time will be had by the financial judges this week.
Beware the Treasury Buyback at 11 AM Eastern…
Write when you shake it off,
George@Ure.net
More 4D.
” The U.S. Defense Industry is massive and it’s a powerful generator of jobs. ”
Got to have jobs. Give them whatever they need – expand the MIC. Being alive means they have kept us safe doing their jobs. Pensions….
” the High Dive Competition:”
There used to be a lot of videos on YT done from scary heights that looked surreal on these large monitors… and then YT was ruined by video lengths. And the reason Threads is taking over. What can be shown in 10 seconds should be.
Earthquake in Cali? I have been watching the USofA Earthquake site for years. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-46.07323,-254.00391&extent=69.28726,-17.92969&baseLayer=satellite
It seems to me it is showing, lately, more activity in the Mainland of the US. As the Hopi Elders said in 2015? the earth changes have started and can not be reversed. Echos of what Edgar Cayce said.
So, nothing that we can do except hang on for the ride and let Mother Nature do her thing. Cheers
New Madrid quake felt in St Louis this a.m.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/tech/science/environment/earthquake-southern-illinois-early-tuesday/63-49195768-5292-403a-bd40-9009a16ec91e
Predicted to be larger in the future:
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/pastor-who-predicted-trumps-assassination-bid-now-warns-of-a-doomsday-event-7454204
G, Greenland is about Bully Trump pushing his unnecessary tariffs again, any money wrench will do when you are desperately trying to hide from biggest scandal of the decade (Epstein). Notice in his madness he simultaneously sinks U.S. stock market:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plummets-800-points-sp-500-nasdaq-sink-over-2-as-trumps-greenland-threats-clobber-stocks-210046255.html
Leverage our way out of NATO?? More likely to be kicked out of NATO for excessive bullying, invading and threatening behavior. We’ll be left to fend for ourselves. Russia won’t lend a hand,
“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood, nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn’t get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”
— Erich Maria Remarque, (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Beware the baalers’.. those that worship the ancient darkness that is Baal..aka Set/Setes,enlil. The most violently perverted hater of mankind.
Seen the arc of baal they installed in nyc-central park..brought it over frm Syria some where’s? About the same time they started projecting pictures of kali on Empire State bldg.
The signs are everywhere..
One wonders when Odin and Freya’s warriors will re-engage the sons darkness..as there the only ones fearless enough to do so. And lord knows the darkness is about unbearable anymore..
“To some, it might not be long before the U.S.A. and Russia could have a common interest in keeping the “retooled Europe” contained.”
Nostradamus and the Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, 2013, Page 527
A Chinese-Islamic Alliance will form and begin its march toward Europe to build a New Shadow Caliphate that will rule half of the world for nearly the next twenty-nine years.
Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars, Volume I, G. A. Stewart, 2017, Page 590
An Islamic Alliance will form that will unite with China to challenge the nations of the West. Historically, the Shadow Caliphates ruled Southwestern Asia and the Middle East during the 13th and 14th centuries. The descendants of Genghis Khan ruled from Khanates in Persia and Bagdad.
The Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, 2007/2010, Page 253
Starting as enemies at the outset of World War III, the United States and Russia will be forced to become allies when the Chinese-Islamic army sweeps into Europe.
Thanks for the Sunday article. Working on the radio aspect of life. Got caught in the Verizon outage the other day… food for thought.
Give us an update on the “quicker ticker” (is it slicker?) be well g
Thankfully, I am on the mend. Doing one hour walks, and getting ready to extend that. Looks like back to work on March 4th.
Thanks for checking…
No back to work if no world?
Starlink will probably stay up and running longer than the regular internet if chaos erupts, but can’t even guess how much longer. That is an additional communication option that people should consider.
Musk has radically reduced the pricing of Starlink Mini units, down to $230, I think I saw, and one can put them on a low use rate plan of only $5/mo after your first month on the $50/mo plan (he just raised the data allowance for the $50/mo plan from 50 gigs to 100 gigs which is plenty of data for internet surfing, phone calls via WiFi ing your cell phone, and even low video quality for YouTube videos ie: reducing the video quality to 144 or 256 lines)
I finally got one so as to use when going out camping after seeing even tent campers using them this past summer, and I am very pleased with their capability (unlike with regular Starlink their pizza box size antenna doesn’t have to really be aimed anywhere other than UP). I did spend the extra money to get a 12 volt power cord for mine which means I don’t need 120 volt AC to run it.
George:
You referred to the Asian Guy probably being an AI construct.
There are two different sources of “the Asian Guy” postings.
The one that I follow posts under the site name “Your John AG”. He appears to be a real live human. He is usually in different attire for each posting. He talks about other people taking his material and reposting it with alterations in the content. He explains the problem in this posting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2erRc2mimhE
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The other postings are from various site names. The ” orator” is usually wearing a white shirt with a black microphone pinned to the front of “his” shirt.
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just the greatest can kicking commie experiment ever .. commies and facists and socialists and feudalists and imperialists using gold and silver AND sheetcoin as forever QE to destroy bonds and $USD . good luck traitors . its now let them eat mickey Dees or chipotele instead of cake !!
Hey Len,
I got a deal for ya..
You pay me $5 a day, and I will send a new fresh picture of Phyz Silver and Hold holdings to Ure phone everyday.
Only Fans porn of Silver & Gold for Ure perverted viewing pleasures.
You do remember what it looks and feels like, no ?
USD & UST – fuel for deepstate. How many unauthorized Treasury check printers did DOGE find ?
Speaking of sheetcoin – gotta ask, do you have the SHIB IN U ?
Quick flips, don’t forget to count the zeros, but don’t count Ureself.
Nyuckyuckyuck
Better’n me froggie. I told elaine 25 years ago I was going to buy a few bars. She thought she would run the bars…(rimshot)
whats that noise . ? sounds awful . even smell is awful
Like the tulips
You’re not at all crazy thinking Einsteins equation works both ways. The creation of matter from light by light scattering is one of the Feynman diagrams in calculations of Quantum Electrodynamics, light being nothing but massless energy, after all. This has been experimentally verified, resulting in the creation of Quantum crystals.
I agree, the Expanding Earth Theory is real. As a SF Author, I used that theory in my Dystopian novel series ‘Coastal Event Memories’, where a global 300-foot sea level rise is caused by new continents rising in mid-Pacific and mid-Atlantic.
The shape of earth shows that the continents fit together if the earth’s diameter is much smaller.
and what about the great Euro !!! backed by gold and socialism !! did i say that ? send your USD to me that you hate . hell ill swap any currency i can find for USD , or ill even give yah gold and silver i have had for decades . here come da FED here come da FED
Ficker is (was) Quicker – 1970 America’s Cup Defense
by Magnus Wheatley
https://rule69.substack.com/p/ficker-was-quicker
I do realize that you didn’t specifically mean it as “trading advice”., but I did take it to heart – “News will drive the markets over the three-day weekend.”
I had a gut level feeling that Trump would mouth-off – over something – that would stir the markets. And so., I shorted the Dow., [ Options – Puts.] since I have been nit-picking it for a week, or so., on my charts. NASDAQ looked primed also. Kind of easy pickens.
I got out a few moments ago when the Dow went over negative 600. Good enough for me. – Just checked., it is now down 530 – so, pretty decent timing.., but I don’t think it’s done for the day. But I am happy.
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Just read that Apple is expected to ship millions of their new folding Iphones, starting in the next quarter., at around $2,200 a pop.
Might be a good time to look into a rugged, waterproof, simplified flip-phone – like the Kyocera DuraXV Extreme.., Verizon has a good sounding one also. I just want to be able to make calls., and occasional texts. No financials., no internet scrolling.
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This has to be the mildest Winter I have ever seen here. We have yet to have snow and the temps has fallen below 30 only twice. We should be fixed in the teens, for weeks. The three main snow-packs in the Cascades, that feed our watershed., are all at 68% of normal, or lower. Mt Baker Ski Resort reported a base of 68 inches – last year at this time it was 128 inches.
We could have a very serious fire season coming up.
…, damn !
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“The Mrs” is doing extremely good.., but is still having a few physical problems. One quick-fix was I bought her a pair of special orthopedic support shoes. They look like a pair of Sketchers Slip-ons.., not too bad and she likes them.., [ she has small feet anyhow., so not too clunky.] have made a difference in her turning balance. So., one small problem seems to be remedied., at least for now. Next ?
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“Stay Frosty !”
What a lot of people don’t realize – and you walk it well – is that aging is a team sport. In our case, Elaine may not remember something from one moment to the next, but she her eyes are 20-10 out out for miles. I can’t see fer shit (ergo no airplane and a lot of woodwprl has a lot more by-feel to it) but thing is – once you see you are a key team player and it’s a winning team – with two coaches – different subjects, yeah, the way ahead is different but not impassable. How’s her radio throwing arm? Has she gotten up to that 70 lb Hallicrafters VHF radio yet?
amen, g.
“This has to be the mildest Winter I have ever seen here. We have yet to have snow and the temps has fallen below 30 only twice. We should be fixed in the teens, for weeks. The three main snow-packs in the Cascades, that feed our watershed., are all at 68% of normal, or lower. Mt Baker Ski Resort reported a base of 68 inches – last year at this time it was 128 inches.”
I keep meaning to send a FB message to a neighbor in Okanogan County. I’ve been watching the weather and noticed the same there, but obviously colder. Most people would love that weather, but where my house is, this Winter sets the stage for a horrific wildfire season.
BTY, I was talking about going back in the Spring for a visit. Someone asked me what I meant by “Spring.” I guess seasons don’t mean much when it’s hot all year.
“Might be a good time to look into a rugged, waterproof, simplified flip-phone – like the Kyocera DuraXV Extreme..”
Which is the one I have — on the shelf (actually in a cage) and unlocked.
“One quick-fix was I bought her a pair of special orthopedic support shoes.”
I suggest you locate a real, honest to goodness cobbler. The bone structure of her feet will change and when it does, her shoes will need to change, to compensate. A cobbler will be able to make these changes much faster and likely better, than a podiatrist, and for a lot less money…
what is the VIX ? is it any good ? does it go up or forever down ?
Very simplified explanation on VIX
Vix is merely the SPREAD between the strike price of an underlying option and the actual options pricing, generally for both puts and calls (at least the one you see on the screen).
When the Options makers see more risk in the market for the market pricing to change in the short run they will charge MORE of a premium when selling you an option. More risk means that they need to collect MORE premium just in case the market, or stock, moves quickly which would otherwise eat into their profits … ie: the VIX goes UP.
A LOW VIX, say down in the 11’s or 12’s (which you never see anymore) indicates that people don’t think the market is going to be do much swinging up OR down. They expect just a slow trending market. These days about as low as you will see the VIX go is the high 13’s but anywhere in the 14ish range is currently considered low since overall the market is somewhat volatile.
When the market gets super volitile the VIX will quickly climb, with today’s sharp sell off it went up into the 20’s. Often a huge spike up in the VIX indicates some sort of market panic and often marks a market sell off low. Human emotions at work … and the options sellers want a LOT more money because of that.
Last year’s spring sell off saw the VIX spike up into the 70ish area, and the premiums being charged for options were through the roof when it got that high (terrible time to actually buy options if you are a retail trader/investor because the pricing for them is so high). THAT day actually marked the market low.
Often a VIX getting into the 20’s indicates a market bottom, at least temporary, for an otherwise orderly market but I would be suspicious about today’s VIX indicator reaching the 20’s as definitely indicating that a market bottom is in since Trump’s speech tomorrow at Davos may upset the apple cart even MORE dramatically and bring MORE price chaos to the markets.
Hope the above helps you a bit in understanding what VIX is and how it generally moves
Trump has stated that – “There’s no going back.” in reference to his Greenland bid. He can not invade, nor forcibly ‘take’ Greenland., for a multitude of reasons. [ His Office and political career, for one.] Mouthing-off and threatening sanctions and tariffs won’t get the job done – as he is no longer dealing with one small country [ Denmark ]. Hell., Canada just sent an armed contingent [ 400 ? ] to Greenland.
Greenland doesn’t want it. Europe doesn’t want it. China and Russia have both threaten him if he does. That is pretty much the entire world., is telling him to go home and “fugget-about-it ! ”
So.., how does he propose to accomplish this incredible feat ?
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What a Maroon. I didn’t vote for this.., did you ? I am seriously beginning to wonder about his mental stability. I sincerely doubt that the 82 Airborne would drop-in and start killing Canadian military. I could actually see a military up-rising if he ordered it. [ Now., wouldn’t that be interesting…, ]
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I just don’t see what he is trying to accomplish. What’s the end-game here? This has got to be the weirdest chess play he has ever made.
d’:Lynn
Greenland …. Trump is doing this on purpose.
Greenland is just the instrument being used to accomplish a bigger goal … George mentioned it today near the top of his column.
Trump (and Vance) want OUT of NATO. They know the Congress and US National Security establishment, and the US Military /Military Industrial Complex, will NEVER agree to that, so how does Trump get the US out of NATO?
Solution … piss off the Europeans so badly that THEY, the Europeans, KICK THE US OUT OF NATO!!
Voila … goal of getting the US out of NATO accomplished!! Success, and a success done in a way that will make it impossible for a later administration to easily undo, almost impossible in fact for a later administration to even consider doing that since Europe will be so pissed off that it will reject it as a knee jerk reaction.
Trump may actually have to land some troops on Greenland and actually have some firefights with other NATO troops to get the Europeans that pissed off … but what are a few dead Dutch if it accomplishes the bigger goal of getting the US out of NATO (where we will lose many THOUSANDS as the conflicts in Europe ramp up as they are GUARANTEED to do)?
Watch Trump tomorrow … if I am right in his speech he will do everything he can to PISS OFF THE EUROPEANS so they start to mentally detatch themselves from the concept that the US “HAS” to be in NATO.
Y’all DO know we sent 150 AH-64 Apaches, along with 4 squadrons of F-16s and two squadrons of F-22s to Greenland, day before yesterday, and put 1500 troops on standby, right?
BTW I concur with Stephen2 and with George’s Consigliere.
Greenland is strategic territory for the U.S., but we’re doing this now because Trump knows we HAVE to be out of NATO before the blithering idiots in London and Brussels place a match on the touch hole of Ukraine.
ALSO (and you won’t hear this on CNN) Trump already has the preliminary framework of a deal worked out with the Danes, for the U.S. to purchase Greenland for $700bln. File that away and simply watch the wordplay at Davos and in the Netherlands, as (I assume) he will do whatever he can to piss off the Euroweenies and WEFfers…
So, are we donating that hardware to Greenland, like we did to ‘Nam and the Afghans ? History and repetition.
@ n____
No.
You know better.
First of all, we have a number of bases on Greenland.
Second of all, neither Nixon, Ford, nor Biden are in the White House…
I agree., but don’t the Europeans see that this is what he is doing?
That’s the part I don’t get. To me., that’s why chess pieces are not moving right.
They have to see what he doing to them [ NATO ].., right? They, collectively aren’t all that stupid ? Are they? Really ?
Greenland would be rather handy., yes.., but I don’t see how getting kicked out of NATO will accomplish that. Unless there is already a deal in place., with Denmark – for an extra few trillion and a percentage of the rare earths recently discovered. But then why do we need to get booted, if the deal is in place?
“They have to see what he doing to them [ NATO ].., right? They, collectively aren’t all that stupid ? Are they? Really ?”
They do not.
They are not stupid, at all. They are bright, but very conceited. Trump comes off as being common as dirt. Their arrogance and conceit will not allow them to accept that a commoner can mentally outflank them. They will never admit it, instead, finding or creating excuses to explain “appearances.”
Donald Trump is a construction worker, from Queens, with money. He is very bright, very savvy, and very honest. He did general construction in Manhattan for 40 years and was investigated by over 120 highly-motivated FBI agents around the clock for eight years — investigations which were completely fruitless.
Ergo, despite what anyone might say about him, Trump is both honest and smart. He has given away hundreds of millions to both causes and individuals, but he’s done so anonymously. Therefore, it’s likely he’s neither greedy nor selfish and doesn’t crave attention for his altruism.
Why, then, is he a bombastic, attention whore? He’s not. It’s a persona he puts on because he’s really a stage magician and that’s his way of keeping everybody from noticing his left hand.
Those bright politicians, diplomats, heads of state, and business tycoons are all looking at Trump’s mouth and completely ignoring his left hand. They do it over and over, and over again. THAT is why they seem “that stupid…”
We DO need Greenland. It is absolutely vital to our security into and beyond the 21st Century — perhaps not as a possession, but as a guaranteed territory from which we can not be expelled. I’ll see if I can locate the vid which identifies all the Russian Arctic installations and explains the strategic importance of Greenland, regarding those installations.
Didja catch the thing about Diego Garcia? It is British territory. We have a 100-year (perpetually renewable) lease on the island for our military facilities. When the UK gifts that island (to a tiny communist country that’s aligned with China), our leases terminate and China owns the influence over the entire Indian Ocean.
Multi-level chess — many pieces. There IS a method to Trump’s madness.
Picture the movie The Matrix:
When Neo visits the Oracle…
Later in the movie, Neo is talking to Morpheus and says:
“But the Oracle told me…”
Morpheus cuts him off and says: “She told you what you needed to hear…”
This is the gist of Trump’s diplomacy. He doesn’t tell the truth, he also doesn’t lie. He speaks in riddles and obfuscations to “tell” people what they need to hear, in order to move where they need to, on his chessboard.
I figured this out many years ago, and I back him because I believe he is making those chess moves for the good of the United States, not the good of any one person, party, or especially political Party. I have also followed international politics (diplomacy) for over 30 years, and understand a little bit about it. Trump is doing things which either need to, or must be done, for the United States to survive as “The Great Experiment…”
Why on earth is Britain giving away Diego Garcia? That makes no sense to me at all. What’s the incentive?
It seems that Great Britain is doing all it can to shrink from being great or rational. Sad beyond belief!
Sturmer in the UK
Carney in Canada
Albanese in Australia
oh, and Biden/Harris (actually whomever was running the country whilst Joe played figurehead, and would’ve run it, had Harris won)
They are all the same — ‘nadless communist globalists who support importing millions of non-assimilating foreigners to dilute their respective Citizens from both an economic and a representative standpoint.
Flip back through population data and note the numbers, especially for Australia and Canada, from 20 years ago and now. Then check out the birth/death stats. Australia has gained over 2.5mln undocumented aliens in the last 10 years; Canada has gained nearly 13 million in the past 15. The folks in charge have no intention of slowing down the invasions. (Notice I don’t recommend any “news” or “information” source? They can all be (and almost certainly have been) compromised. However, raw numbers are much harder to fudge, and since a person has to run the numbers by hand, using them is a lot more work, and both policy researchers and modern reporters are notoriously lazy, so they’re generally not jacked with.)
Did you forget about the hundreds of thousands of lawyers the RNC put on retainer, and the hundreds of thousands of poll-watchers they trained? Trump only won in 2024 because his DIL didn’t allow the Dems to cheat. Kammy’s Administration would’ve run another 15-20mln illegal aliens into CONUS if she’d been elected.
There’s a reason child rapists in Sweden and the UK are typically not charged, but rape victims who complan, are. There, but for Trump, would go we…
The incentive is the Brits were Kings of the World for 400 years, and that is simply not fair to the peoples and places they conquered.
Man, having been blessed with no outstanding physical survival traits, has always had to fight with their wits, to survive. Civilizations which survived and thrived were always those which were more-efficient than their neighbors.
Survival is no longer a fight.
Therefore, efficiency is no longer necessary. DEI is institutional bias and bigotry. It is a retelling of political correctness, and is designed to advance those of our species who are less-efficient, (less-intelligent, less-adaptive, etc.) over those who are more-efficient and better suited to survive.
Sturmer is giving away Diego Garcia to punish Colonial England for being too efficient…
BTW, the reason I mentioned the UK, Germany, et. al. last week is because they done had theirselves a little clandestine meeting a while back, and have decided to send many thousands of troops into Ukraine, to engage in kinetic warfare against Russia. I could not secure a peek at the timetable or the other commits, but I know Sturmer committed a minimum of 2000 British regulars and Germany, France and Belgium have committed troops.
The EU is factionalizing.
Poland, Hungary, and Romania are looking for a way to peel themselves out of the EU and NATO and form their own sociopolitical, economic, and reciprocal trade organization.
Trump believes we need to be out of NATO before any of this hits the fan. He does not want us to be dragged into a (really stupid) Article-5 war with Russia to save a bunch of neocommunist petty dictator wannabees.
I tend to agree.
Again, I suggest to people that they find alternative news streams, and 86 AP, AFP, UPI, and any “news” organization which sources their content from these. There was a reason I referred George to Whatfinger. I didn’t do it because Whatfinger is good. I did it because it is much, MUCH better than any other American-based news agglomeration site. If you need answers which have a fair likelihood of being accurate, and need them quickly, it’s the best of a bunch of, mostly-poor choices. If you need to research, it’s a great site from which to start, but not necessarily to finish…
G.A. Stewart: Some people still seem to believe that Donald J. Trump is playing 4D-Chess. I believe that it is the social engineers who are calling the shots. Donald J. Trump’s ego and low intelligence level do not allow him to see how he is being played and setup.
Global Economic Collapse is in motion with the collapse of Japanese bonds and the rise in precious metals prices. To deflect blame, the cause must be a war and a Boogie Man. Donald J. Trump is that Boogie Man.
Some people are asking is Trump crazy for talking about going to war with Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Mexico, Iran, and Denmark. In my scenario, I believe that he is being made to look crazy, because it will be much easier to remove him later after things get really bad. That will include Trump initiating Martial Law, which the social engineers want. It will never go away, even after Tyrant Trump is removed.
The minute one Israeli or American bomb is dropped on Iran again, civilization begins to melt. The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will be forced to order his military to fire all the missiles that Iran has to save itself from an Israeli and United States attack.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/01/21/the-question-to-ask-yourself-do-i-want-to-go-down-a-sucker/
“Are we watching a real-time mental health crisis with Trump?” posted former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger shortly after Trump’s mad barrage ended. “Seriously. Are we?”
President Trump posted 33 times in 45 minutes., covering a myriad of subjects, including a clip from his 2007 inaugural address., voter fraud., voting machines algorithms., “done more for Nato then any one in history., on and on.
If you don’t know about the 25th Amendment and how it works to remove a sitting President from office.., you might wanna do some quick research. As there are suddenly one hell of a lot people calling for it.
VP Vance has not responded / commented.
Out of this world mineral wealth..
I got 2 different kinds (rough) from a retired, since then expired Gemologist., outta Tucson. Very rare, very unique properties to these bad boys.
Have always considered nato CIA leave behinds..
China = dark
Russia = light
USA = both
EU=Dark
Hmmmm to the way back machine….machines noises..whirling, buzzing, beeping, blinking ..dottadaa!
What the what pres of control j’s congress got lithium mining rights in Ukraine worth hundreds of millions from his ole buddy. One of trumpo’s self entitled “ friends”. Ya know the ones he doesn’t want to hurt?
Well lo and behold guess who been suggesting for years to the orange gollum of greatness about mineral wealth in Greenland – yerp that would be old friend, scion of American cosmetic family /fortune.. ronnie.
Seem to remember this cat along with bolton and his orangness at same “social” after hours club in nyc. What the wives were doing at same time is anybody’s guess..
Yerp young bushey was seen at same club/parties on several occasions during that time period.
quoting and siding with Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger
take a break and think about that
I was not siding with Kinzinger.., just putting out there what a whole lot of people were saying.., however – I will quote anyone – if it is relevant to the thought at hand. And his statement was just one of thousands asking / saying the same thing.
– All mute anyhow – looks like Trumps address has taken over the airwaves.., once again.
Maybe we ought to check your mind if you think Trump was president in 2007, just saying.
That’s what he said.., not me.
hey mate . footwear and mobility are very important in rehabilitation from your wifes episode . must be as light and spongey as possible for comfort . but nothing beats gym work and strengthening exercises on calves and thighs. thats of paramount importance , leg strength and picking up walking speed slowly again . i know ive been thru a few episodes .. hoka and brooks beast are picks in footwear
Nee- hao,
Have had great relief with Ofos and Sketchers.
Right side – reconstructed Ankle, Big Toe fusion.
Left side – 25-30% Cartilage left in Big toe as measured about year ago at Rothman Inst. Developed plantar faciitis in front half Foot. Everyday is decision on which was screaming loudest for attention.
Either a carbon fiber insert to keep big toe from moving too much or Ofo’s/ Sketcher super “foamies” to ease facia discomfort.
Since rehabbing in pool/Belize, and riding the Wolverine Healing peptide blend, faciitis is all but disappeared, and Big toe no longer constantly throbbing. Activity levels have stayed the same throughout the ordeal .
Don’t know how you do it Lennster, but Aging ain’t for the weak..
* started those Mandarin lessons yet , what cha waiting for, USD to drop to a 90 handle?
There is a reason the ChiComs parked a hot little Foreign Service officer in Kinzinger’s bed.
He is one of the absolute dirtiest Congressoids of the 21st Century — a true psychopath (as in, lacks both emotions and moral guidance), but very weak and not a very bright one. Kinzinger “hates” Trump because he fears him – fears what might be uncovered if the Administration were to investigate him. Adam has actually been more-successful than Pelosi, having multiplied his personal fortune several thousand times over, in considerably less time than Paul & Nancy. (He’s worried about more than just Trump “discovering” he’s guilty of espionage.)
There are few (or no) Trump voters who are displeased with Mr. Trump’s performance in office. There are many politicians who’re scared to death of him, because he’s disrupting their illegal income streams, and will likely disrupt or destroy their illicit power base. There are a significant number of stupid and low-information Citizens who’re scared of him, because they have their opinions spoon-fed them by a “news” media that’s currently biased 93% to 5% against Trump.
I have never liked Kinzinger.., he just comes off as sleazy – no matter what he is trying to say.
Don’t shoot the messenger – I was ‘reporting’ what a very large group of people were saying – not siding with anyone. Though we have heard it all before, in one way, or another.
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“Side! I am on no one’s ‘side’., as no one is on my ‘side’.” Treebeard
Careful dLynn. Your voice of reason and impartial reporting of actual facts counts for nothing here. I find it amusing to see the rabid true believers frothing at the mouth at the slightest provocation.
Kudos for staying true to yourself…………..I always look forward to your musings.
Sorry — didn’t mean to come off that way.
I suspect you are seeing/hearing stuff from people who’re not conservative and, whether they supported Trump or not in the Election, are sourcing their information from the lamestream. I was neither kidding nor exaggerating when I said Trump-reporting is 93% negative and 5% positive (and I suspect that “5%” is from pundits like Sean Hannity who carry journalist credentials, even though he’s not a journo.
Seriously, grab Schweizer’s book if you get a chance. It explains a lot of stuff that’s not seen, but only felt, in American (and world) politics…
King Charles liked to go to french Olympics and receive applause for parade for someone called the antichrist. That being said perhaps trump needs a buffer in greenland
Here’s a different take on the Greenland situation:
https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/denmark-in-panama-and-europe-this
Taco Tuesday auction… give me 95, 95 95 give me 100, give 100… sold to the prescient old guy in the back row.
Where she stops, nobody knows.
Good to float with the mobile moat.
The illusion will continue as long as you wish.
Stiks
“Trump explains why he posted Macron, Rutte private text messages on social media”
But ignores the release of JFK stuff or disclose space aliens or release Epstein papers.
Obama had it right, carnival barker. Maybe Iran gets invaded next week. Stay tuned.
“Obama had it right, carnival barker. Maybe Iran gets invaded next week. Stay tuned.”
The words, “Obama” and “right” should never be used in the same sentence.
re: Ukraine “Exit Plan”
feat: Davos reverberations
Non-meteorlogical warming trends in the land the Inuit call Kalaallit Nunaat (“Land of the Greenlanders”) appears to have the Ukraine President waffling on attending the WEF confab in Davos (romansch: the place behind”).
Today, amidst a capital that the President claims has 4,000 apartment blocks without utilities and a million citizens without power, Ukrainian PM Mrs. Svyrydenko posted a picture gallery of an urban “Resilience Point”. Beneath cover of a thinly insulated tarp tent, citizens received coffee urn-type-vessel dispensed product into disposable cups. Patrons placed their plain bread sustenance upon bare tabletops lacking plates or utensils. A box of poorly subscribed (empty?) sanitary wipes stood guard. Nearby four young girls bundled up for cold appeared happily reading books with aid from an adult woman guardian. One book posed open for cameras showed popular Sesame Street characters. Otherwise the adjacent choices translated to English as “Parents’ Guide to Mines” or a volume possibly featuring superheroes entitled “Explosives”.
In separate post, the Ukraine PM spoke of her online meeting with domestic food producers’ associations. “As of now, there is sufficient food available in the Ukraine…The situation is under control.”
re: “Las Sergas des Esplandián” (The Adventures of the [Radiant One?]), de Montalvo, 1510
feat: Black Amazon Queen Calafia
Former Canadian PM J. Trudeau addressed a WEF audience in Davos (romansch: “the place behind”). His girlfriend, a pastor’s daughter and Amazon astronaut Ms. Katy (née Hudson) Perry (“descendent of Pierre/rocky place”?) attended. She voiced ‘Smurfette’!¹ in a couple of “Smurf” films. Ms. Perry hails from San Luis Obispo [de Tolosa], Ca. which takes its current name from a Neapolitan prince turned humble bishop who died at the age of 33 years. He was canonized in 1317 as French Saint Louis of Tolouse (where Nostradamus studied/worked?). For a short time, San Luis Obispo did bear a name of Cañada de los Osos (“Valley of the [now extinct grizzly] Bears”) given by its first Spanish explorer to the area, Gaspar de Portola. De Portola was born in Os de Balaguer (“Bear of Fortified Stronghold”) in Spain’s Castille region.
The public record indicates that the 2018 California legal battle for ownership of LA’s desirable 8 acre, 30,000 sq. ft. Spanish Gothic-styled medieval castle Los Feliz convent for the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ran its course. However one of the litigating prospective buyers, Ms. Katy Perry, is understood to be still awaiting a Vatican review of the American legal decision. Prior to occupancy by the convent sisters, the home’s second owner was a Papal Countess married to a former religious brother. She had the good fortune to be adopted at 3 years of age, and receive an audience at 5 years old with Pope Pius X. Her step-father went on to become the largest Californian shareholder of Standard Oil.
Prior to these Los Feliz convent Sisters noted above, I believe our group saw Los Feliz this past Sunday within the following “Outer Limits” video link content contributed by commenter JC:
https://urbansurvival.com/shoptalk-sunday-ham-radio-antenna-picking/#comment-212788
“The Galaxy Being” episode of the “Outer Limits” series first broadcast on September 16, 1963. A radio station deejay inadvertantly beams down an alien from Andromeda. The being is benevolent, but radioactive. Concerned citizens render the alien deceased. This plot perhaps compares with ‘psychological’ Western “The Ox-Bow Incident” film starring Henry Fonda released on May 8, 1943. This was the same day of release as “Red Hot Riding Hood” featuring the Big Bad Wolf. The Wolf appeared in cartoon caricature on the pickup of Jerry Garcia’s Wolf guitar in the Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones” video posted separately by commenter BCP.
To avoid any Icarian Phaethon events, let’s get down to Earth and rendezvous with DJ George. Here’s a Katy Perry hit from her 2010 album “Teenage Dream”. The song opening features big-band leader Hal Kemp’s “Where In The World”. As chance would have it, around 1923 or 1924 Mr. Kemp did late night jams with drummer jazz fan and future King Edward VIII during a coincidental voyage aboard the vessel Berengaria. The ship’s name derives from germanic “maiden of the bear-spear”. One nameholder through the ages was 12th century Berengaria of Navarre, Queen Consort with Richard the Lionheart of the Third Crusade. Here’s Katy Perry at the following YouTube link (caution: adult content) with:
“E.T.”
https://youtu.be/t5Sd5c4o9UM
“We now return control of your television set to you, until next week at this same time, when the Control Voice will take you to… The Outer Limits.”
footnote:
1/ As chance would have it, the Belgian creator who birthed “The Smurfs” used the pseudonym “Peyo”, allegedly a mispronounciation of “Pierre” but not the father of PM Justin.
I strongly suggest that folks who’re above a 6th Grade reading comprehension level grab and read Peter Schweizer’s latest: The Invisible Coup
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063422506
Best Sellers Rank:
#1 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1 in United States National Government
#1 in Political Corruption & Misconduct
#1 in Political Parties (Books)
Schweizer may not be the best IJ on the planet, but he’s in the top 10…