Reviewing,
I thought it peaked in early 2019: Surplus Energy Economics, Has growth ended? DID THE ECONOMY INFLECT IN 2023?
Though much further analysis remains to be conducted, it’s starting to look as though the global economy may have peaked in 2023.https://
Jim Kunstler, Trump's Parlous Gambit
One reality we struggle with is the doleful fact that there is no work-around for the nation’s monumental debt. Since it can’t possibly be paid off, there are two stark paths for it: default and ruinous deflation (that is, money vanishes and the nation goes broke); or a futile attempt to inflate it away with more fake money creation (you’ll have money, but it’s increasingly worthless, so you’re effectively broke). Either way, you’re broke. In the meantime, the remorseless interest that has to be paid on $36.2-trillion squeezes out everything else we’re supposed to care for as relates to the common good.
Every broke-ass family or individual person knows how debilitating money-worries can be. And since unpayable debt is the common denominator across all of Western Civ, this perhaps explains the gross, suicidal mental disorder displayed lately by leadership all across Europe, North America and Anglo-Oceania. Europe, especially, exhibits behavior that is completely cuckoo — inciting war with Russia, inviting in murderous hostiles from foreign lands, and sadistically policing their own citizens.The exception is Mr. Trump, a businessman-outsider to government trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary. It’s probably impossible, but he is trying nonetheless. It has three main features:
1) to readjust trade relations that, in theory, would restore industrial production across the land — a bootstrapping operation to kick off “growth.”
2) to engineer a severe re-set of the money system that would effectively amount to defaulting on debt but somehow without the feature of disappearing money. At best, this would induce some kind of fall in living standards, but mostly among the small sector of financial buccaneers who thrive on swindles and the Boomers living on investment accounts (figment wealth), who are now dying off anyway — which is to say, Great Depression Lite. And
3) the least understood feature of Trumpism: to decouple the USA from the resource scarcity in the rest of the world, and the consequent strife it’s inducing, and withdraw into a sort of Fortress North America that can somehow carry-on self-sufficiently while everybody else collapses. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-parlous-gambit
A 60-day truce for the release of hostages has been proposed by US special envoy Steve Witkoff
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to upend negotiations between the US and Iran by potentially attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
The report said that the threat from Israel led to a recent tense phone call between Netanyahu and President Trump and a series of meetings between senior US and Israeli officials in recent days.
Trump was asked by reporters on Wednesday if he warned Netanyahu against attacking Iran during a phone call last week, and said, “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.”
“It’s not a warning. I said I don’t think it’s appropriate. We were having very good discussions with Iran, and I don’t think it’s appropriate right now,” the president said. “If we can settle it with a very strong document, inspections and no trust – I don’t trust anybody – so no trust,” Trump said. He added that he believed the US and Iran are “very close to a solution” but warned that it could “change at any moment.” ...
The report said that the threat from Israel led to a recent tense phone call between Netanyahu and President Trump and a series of meetings between senior US and Israeli officials in recent days.
Trump was asked by reporters on Wednesday if he warned Netanyahu against attacking Iran during a phone call last week, and said, “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.”
“It’s not a warning. I said I don’t think it’s appropriate. We were having very good discussions with Iran, and I don’t think it’s appropriate right now,” the president said. “If we can settle it with a very strong document, inspections and no trust – I don’t trust anybody – so no trust,” Trump said. He added that he believed the US and Iran are “very close to a solution” but warned that it could “change at any moment.” ...
..US officials are concerned that Israel could strike Iran with little notice, and a unilateral attack could still get the US involved. The Times report said that Israeli officials “close to Mr. Netanyahu believe the US would have no choice but to assist Israel militarily if Iran counterattacked.”
There are signs that the US and Israel could be considering a covert attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently visited Israel to discuss covert options, according to the report. Israel has a history of conducting attacks on Iranian soil, including assassinations and sabotage of nuclear facilities. https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/30/netanyahu-threatening-to-upend-us-iran-talks-by-attacking-iran/
Ukraine needed Western help to target Putin’s helicopter – Scott Ritter
Kiev and its foreign backers are “playing with fire,” the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer has told RT https://swentr.site/news/
There are signs that the US and Israel could be considering a covert attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently visited Israel to discuss covert options, according to the report. Israel has a history of conducting attacks on Iranian soil, including assassinations and sabotage of nuclear facilities. https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/30/netanyahu-threatening-to-upend-us-iran-talks-by-attacking-iran/
Caitlin Johnstone, Gaza's Hospitals ARE the Target: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/gazas-hospitals-are-the-target
A "Nakba" is a "holocaust", isn't it? Israeli foreign minister says arms embargoes will lead to 'second Holocaust' and end of Israel
Gideon Saar tells conference that international calls to stop weapons sales would lead to 'the destruction of Israel' https://www.middleeasteye.net/Kiev and its foreign backers are “playing with fire,” the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer has told RT https://swentr.site/news/
John Helmer, WHAT DID PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOW WHEN PRESIDENT PUTIN’S HELICOPTER CAME UNDER UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN KURSK?
The first report came from RIA-Novosti, the Russian state news agency, on May 25 at 13:24. “President Vladimir Putin’s helicopter (lead image, top) was in the epicentre of repelling a large-scale attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones during a visit to the Kursk region", said Yury Dashkin [Major General in command of the 32nd Air Defence Division.....The drone attack on Kursk had taken place five days earlier, on May 20. Putin’s visit to the region, his meetings with local officials, the region governor, engineers and scientists at the Kurchatov nuclear power plant, and local medical, rescue and social welfare volunteers was not reported by the Kremlin website until the following morning. The report of the attack on the helicopter was kept secret at the time...
..When Trump tweeted on May 27 that Putin is “playing with fire!” had Trump fired first – and missed? (Single-shot-pistol duel analogy)
Since the Kursk incident, the public White House log records that Trump had received his weekly intelligence briefing at 11 am on May 22, and then again at the same time on May 29. On the afternoon of May 25, Trump told reporters: “I don’t like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He’s killing people. And something happened to this guy and I don’t like it.” A reporter then asked him to comment on the report that “a Russian commander reportedly said that, um, Putin was almost caught in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine. So do you have any –“. Trump answered: “I haven’t heard that. But, ah, maybe that would be a reason, I don’t know. But I’ve not heard that.” ...
Since the Kursk incident, the public White House log records that Trump had received his weekly intelligence briefing at 11 am on May 22, and then again at the same time on May 29. On the afternoon of May 25, Trump told reporters: “I don’t like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He’s killing people. And something happened to this guy and I don’t like it.” A reporter then asked him to comment on the report that “a Russian commander reportedly said that, um, Putin was almost caught in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine. So do you have any –“. Trump answered: “I haven’t heard that. But, ah, maybe that would be a reason, I don’t know. But I’ve not heard that.” ...
Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom,’ 29 May edition: How Precarious Is Ukraine?
Today’s chat examines the very provocative plans of German Chancellor Merz to supply the Taurus missile to Ukraine. I believe he may not properly appreciate the way the Russians distinguish between American, French, British missiles and those the Germans are providing. As I say here, President Putin will have no choice but to respond with missiles destroying German military assets because a large and vocal part of the Russian population will not allow him to sit on his hands.Do heads of state determine the will of the people or are they implementers of the will of the people? The question was posed by Leo Tolstoy as the central issue of War and Peace. Here and now my call is that Putin must implement the will of the people and not his own predispositions. Hence. If the Germans do go through with deliveries of Taurus to Kiev, Putin will attack Germany with Oreshnik hypersonic missiles, likely after making his case before the UN Security Council. There is no reason for him to conceal his intentions. There is no need to be surreptitious: the Oreshniks are unstoppable.
That transcript: Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 29 May edition
I don’t think that Mr. Merz takes seriously the Russian threats. After all, he could say, with entire logic, that the Russians never responded to the American shipment of long-range missiles, the HIMARS, the ATACMS, they never responded to the Storm Shadow. However, that is ignoring the Russian view of Germany as opposed to its former allies. Russia is neuralgic, is hypersensitive to what the Germans do. And the recent celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Europe on May 9th, we were all reminded about the 26 million Russians who died in that conflict, largely due to German military efforts. And that is unforgivable, unforgettable.
So anything that Germany does, is a special case for Russia. And as I said, whatever the personal preferences of Mr. Putin, he cannot go against the popular will. He wouldn’t want to. The popular will in Russia is to differentiate between German missiles and the others, in a way that means the Russians will have to respond in a dramatic way.
Now, taking out military production facilities, I’m not sure that that would be the first thing that happens, because that particular facility making the Taurus has been idle for more than a year. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
So anything that Germany does, is a special case for Russia. And as I said, whatever the personal preferences of Mr. Putin, he cannot go against the popular will. He wouldn’t want to. The popular will in Russia is to differentiate between German missiles and the others, in a way that means the Russians will have to respond in a dramatic way.
Now, taking out military production facilities, I’m not sure that that would be the first thing that happens, because that particular facility making the Taurus has been idle for more than a year. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
"A Russian company awarded a dozen servicemen a total of 15 million rubles ($190,000) for destroying U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine," the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times reports. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/company-gives-russian-servicemen-190k-bounty-destroying-f-16-jets-ukraine
Russia reveals team for next round of Ukraine peace talks
The delegation, led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, will be the same as during the opening session https://swentr.site/russia/
The delegation, led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, will be the same as during the opening session https://swentr.site/russia/
The longer you wait, the more you will lose. US Warns UN: 'Deal On Offer Now Is Russia's Best Possible Outcome'
Zelensky wants to be begged to attend peace talks Monday: Zelensky Is 'Clout-Chasing' By Pushing Meeting With Trump, Putin At Same Table: Kremlin https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-clout-chasing-pushing-meeting-trump-putin-same-table
Moscow this week demanded of the West a written commitment to stop further enlargement, especially when it comes to the potential for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia one day entering the NATO alliance. "It’s a fair concern and we’ve said that repeatedly… that to us Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table," Kellogg said. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kellogg-calls-russias-nato-concerns-fair-warns-ukraine-it-better-show-istanbul
Chaotic Day In US Stocks As Trump & China Trade Headlines Spark Dump'n'Pump https://www.zerohedge.com/
The man who took 5 bullets last year will not be silenced: Fico warns EU’s ‘mandatory political opinion’ spells end of common European project
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said sovereignty must be defended against Brussels diktats and warned of a dangerous future for Europe if dissent against the EU's preferred opinion is punished https://rmx.news/article/fico-"I fought the Blob, and the Blob won": Elon Musk leaves White House but says Doge will continue https://www.bbc.com/news/
US Is 'Major' Cause Of Ukraine War: Beijing Goes On Attack As Hegseth Tells Asia Allies China Threat Is 'Imminent' https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-major-cause-ukraine-war-beijing-goes-attack-hegseth-tells-asia-allies-china-threat
Court Allows Trump’s Tariffs to Stay in Place https://pjmedia.com/
Trump Says He Will Double US Steel Tariffs To 50% https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-says-he-will-double-us-steel-tariffs-50
Analysis: Biden Unaware of Executive Orders ‘Signed’ by Autopen https://washingtonstand.com/news/analysis-biden-unaware-of-executive-orders-signed-by-autopen
China's productive economy is largely coal-powered: China Drowning In Soaring Coal Inventories Amid Sinking Power Demand, Crashing Coal Price https://www.zerohedge.com/
Hype, but it could get traction: Vance Says Bitcoin Reserve A US Strategic Advantage Over China https://www.zerohedge.com/
Sociopathically-owned AI threatens life on earth, because human agency will be handed to it. Centralized AI threatens a democratic digital future
The decentralized AI industry has a chance to carve out market share, but it will need to prove its security and usefulness. Centralized AI’s dominance risks privacy, transparency and ethical standards. https://cointelegraph.com/news/centralized-ai-threatens-a-democratic-future
Inquiring minds... Peter Thiel’s Visions Of Apocalypse: Is AI The Antichrist?
Every advance AI makes in serving our desires degrades fundamental human capacities and gives it more mastery over human beings... Peak AI, ministering to the inner emptiness and boredom of atomised, directionless selves, will mean peak human debility and enslavement. Aren’t these the goals of the Antichrist — which, whatever form it may take, always seeks to remake human beings in its own image? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/05/30/peter-thiels-visions-of-apocalypse-is-ai-the-antichrist/
Bullshit with sugar on top? Bongino Claims New Video Evidence Will Prove Epstein Suicide, And 'Bags' Of Improperly Stored Comey-Era Evidence Found https://www.zerohedge.com/
Superintendent of Schools Maria Su plans to unveil a new Grading for Equity plan on Tuesday that will go into effect this fall at 14 high schools and cover over 10,000 students. The school district is already negotiating with an outside consultant to train teachers in August in a system that awards a passing C grade to as low as a score of 41 on a 100-point exam. https://www.zerohedge.com/
HHS Urges Medical Providers, States To Immediately Revise Gender Dysphoria Care Practices
Overlooked Chemicals In Food May Threaten Your Health A comprehensive review article recently published in Nature Medicine highlights some of the most prevalent types and sources of synthetic chemical contaminants in food: chemicals known as food contact chemicals (FCCs), which may contribute to chronic health conditions, including endocrine disruption, reproductive issues, and increased cancer risks...
..All FCCs that migrate into food or drinks are important because people will likely ingest them, the authors wrote.
The study identified how specific harmful substances migrate through these pathways. Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether—a known endocrine disruptor and potential carcinogen—transfers from coatings of metal food storage containers during transportation and storage.
Phthalates migrate from polyvinyl chloride tubing into milk during processing and transport. Even cleaning agents used to disinfect storage and transport containers can leave residues that end up in food.
Fast food products face particularly high contamination levels because they encounter multiple packaging types throughout the production and service chain, including disposable containers, wrappers, and serving material, https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/overlooked-chemicals-food-may-threaten-your-health
Poisoned Profits: Bayer Considers Bankruptcy for Monsanto as Roundup Cancer Lawsuits Mount
The study identified how specific harmful substances migrate through these pathways. Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether—a known endocrine disruptor and potential carcinogen—transfers from coatings of metal food storage containers during transportation and storage.
Phthalates migrate from polyvinyl chloride tubing into milk during processing and transport. Even cleaning agents used to disinfect storage and transport containers can leave residues that end up in food.
Fast food products face particularly high contamination levels because they encounter multiple packaging types throughout the production and service chain, including disposable containers, wrappers, and serving material, https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/overlooked-chemicals-food-may-threaten-your-health
Peter McCullough MD. Desperate Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex Falsely Claims "COVID-19 Vaccines Saved Millions of Lives"
No More Pushback on Safety, Complex Moves to Justification Narrative for Collateral Damage https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/desperate-bio-pharmaceutical-complex CDC issued the anticipated update to the children's schedule for covid shots
CDC deprives parents of decision-making authority for "routine" shots, and only allows "shared" decision-making if you can prove the child is not "immunocompromised". https://sashalatypova.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just sat down with human biologist and biohacker Gary Brecka to outline his bold new plan to shift the medical system from one that serves Big Pharma to one that actually serves the people.
CDC deprives parents of decision-making authority for "routine" shots, and only allows "shared" decision-making if you can prove the child is not "immunocompromised". https://sashalatypova.
Twenty years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to see news segments questioning the safety or effectiveness of vaccines. But then it all went quiet. According to Kennedy, that silence was bought with pharmaceutical ad dollars.
Big Pharma doesn’t just advertise on TV news, he said. They want to “control the content.” Kennedy revealed that Fox News founder Roger Ailes once told him 75% of his evening news ad revenue came from pharmaceutical companies. https://www.zerohedge.com/
Geert Vanden Bosshche Nobody seems to see the drama unfolding right before our eyes
Some of you have become aware of new COVID-19 (C-19) outbreaks in several Asian countries (Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Japan). But even in Australia, NB. 1.8.1 is now spreading, and it has already made landfall in the US as well.... After psychotic infection-prevention measures and insane C-19 mass vaccination drove viral escape from anti-SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) immunity, making the virus more infectious, ongoing vaccine breakthrough infections now appear to be evolving in a way that facilitates immune deficiency against SC-2 altogether, thereby facilitating increased viral virulence of newly emerging, highly transmissible SC-2 lineages. https://A Midwestern Doctor explains "It's complicated, but support your health first": What They Don’t Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders and Arthritis
Metformin extends lifespan among the well; now this: Metformin – A Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS Buster? https://www.healthrising.org/
Interesting after the first 11 minutes of basics: The Engine of Our Dreams Exists. It's a Clean, Powerful, Supercharged and Rotary Valved Two Stroke
Advocating Basic Health (pictured with tomatoes)
