Here’s an up-to-date analysis by Alastair Crooke on the situation in the Middle East. For those interested in the conflict with Iran it is well worth the little over an hours investment of time.

Roth Note: Trump has stirred up a true hornets nest in the Middle East. His actions have led to practically every country in the region being at war with or on the edge of war with others there. Shia, Sunni, Kurd, Jew, Christian – Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Gulf States, Pakistan, different ones allied with others mixed up like from a blender. Ukraine is even trying to get into the game. Congratulations Trump; king of the Clusterf$%#.

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Di-Quan Schafar Hunt has a lengthy rap sheet. Hunt has 14 prior arrests, including one from June 2019 where he pleaded guilty to discharging a weapon into occupied property and a felony probation violation. He was sentenced to 20-36 months but was released less than a year later, in June 2020.

In March of this year, Hunt was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. He only received short prison sentences credited as time served. Now Hunt has been arrested again for randomly assaulting white women and filming the attacks. One of his victims was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Hunt is being evaluated at a medical facility. They’re going to deem him mentally incompetent, just like they’re doing with Decarlos Brown, Jr. who killed Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail. If these criminals are mentally ill, that’s even more reason to keep them in prison, because they’re unpredictable and dangerous in society.

How much longer can we tolerate judges and prosecutors giving violent criminals slaps on the wrist?

Roth Note: I remind, again, judges have names and home addresses. Just sayin’.

Read the entire Tactical Hermit post …

From Brandon Smith at Zerohedge

At bottom, I argue that there are two kinds of people in the world: There are people who produce, create and maintain a functioning civilization. Then, there are parasites and pirates; people whose only survival trait is to pillage the wealth and resources of producer societies.

In recent articles I have explained the differences that separate the west from the third world, including the absence of the concept of “maintenance” in third world societies. In Africa, for example, there is no terminology for the idea of “maintenance”. They simply don’t have a word for it. They have words for “repair” or “replace”, but not a word for “maintain.” Learning this fact was a revelation for me.

It explains everything about the conflict between the third world and the west. It explains why third worlders are “forever chasing the white man.” It explains why these cultures never seem to progress without direct western investment, intervention or colonization. It explains why these people flood into western countries by the millions the second the gates are left open.

If you cannot maintain, then you can’t keep a system alive for future generations. From basics like water, sewer, sanitation, electricity, food, security, etc. – There can be no generational infrastructure and no generational wealth. Your tribe will be perpetually resource-poor and scratching in the dirt for bugs, UNLESS, that is, you turn to pillaging. You can steal the wealth created by producer tribes, but you can’t copy their success.

My position is, these people were ALWAYS going to turn to socialism because they are born pillagers. They are incapable of functioning in any merit based system, even one that is highly prosperous, because they are predisposed to feel as if they’re entitled to more. They are always going to be jealous of people who have more.

Roth Note: He ain’t wrong …

Turkey is playing NATO, Russia, Ukraine and Israel with this new accord. Will Israel win with this strategy to take out Iran and Turkey? Do not overlook Israeli and Turkish goals to carve up Syria.

Meanwhile, Trump is overseeing the collapse of the nation as our national debt will hit $40 trillion in less than two weeks, our US Treasuries are becoming worth less and Bessent has to bail out the Japanese yen in order to cushion the fall of the USD.

The entire post is available at Sonar21

Roth Note: For the crayon users – I do not certify that the quote above is actually from Socrates. I was not around to hear him say it. This is a meme. Simple visual explanation of the point is as follows:

If you weaken the standard to accommodate incompetence, you weaken the culture.