2025: The year when Empire hit back across the board and what is next: 2026

The ‘Hit Back’ on Society

Censorship and sanctions bloomed, and people like Francesca Albanese, professional staff of the ICC (International Criminal Court), studious professionals and anyone in the reach of the US, UK, France, Germany and the EU were sanctioned and deplatformed. If you spoke about Russia winning the war against Ukraine, you were censored, deplatformed, or shadowbanned.  If you said a word about the zionists perpetrating a full-on and ongoing genocide, you were attacked, and sometimes your life was threatened.  If you were lucky, you were only censored. Post Charlie Kirk in the US is now the time of ‘Rabbi Rule’ in terms of a vague description.  What is anti-semitism?  Is it not the same as the previous WoT (War on Terror). The threat of anti-semitism is simply a threat to you and me, and it means we now have to bow before Empire and Zion.  In reality, nobody cares about anti-semitism except the zionists. There is no reality here. The zionists make themselves the hated ones.

There are a few new words included in various dictionaries this year, and one in Mirriam-Webster is “touch grass”, i.e., let’s be real, and not virtual, even if our expression is on virtual media.

If you have to appoint a Rabbi to fight anti-semitism globally, and he starts off threatening everyone, there is no grass there. It is made up somewhere in the ether.  Perhaps we will talk about decisions in the future in terms of “Does it Grass?”  

“Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun was confirmed by the US Senate on Thursday as the next special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level role at the State Department aimed at coordinating US efforts to confront antisemitism globally.”

The social media landscape changed materially. X is now censored, but it has this nifty AI called Grok to put balm on the wound. There is very little that is not censored. China is holding up its IT firewall to protect its own citizens. Yes, sure, you can use a VPN within the law, but what good is it if you know that major Israeli IT companies run the most prominent VPNs?

2005 was the year when normal people had to put up or shut up, and plenty were detained, even George Galloway. Anyone with a public presence had to consider seriously what to say and what not to say, based on a personal risk profile. It became an individual decision, and those who did not pay attention paid the price: 

We, over 300 academics, diplomats, journalists and concerned Swiss citizens are calling on our country’s top diplomat, @ignaziocassis and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs @EDA_DFAE to intervene diplomatically toward the European Union for the sake of our… pic.twitter.com/AOwsZplBHa

— Pascal Lottaz (@PLottaz) December 21, 2025

One could speak as much twaddle as you like, but don’t say anything real.

The next redefined dictionary word is SLOP, meaning AI slop and other slop congests the airwaves.

2025 was the worst year for censorship.  We are basically in isolation now, in a state of aphasia, a clinical disruption of speech.  Platforms have replaced websites, just as landowners replaced the free farmers. People are searching information on ChatGPT, Google, and Youtube now, and all three of those are heavily moderated.

WAR and PEACE did not stay behind in the year of 2025.

Ranking of the 20 countries with the least peace in the world according to the Global Peace Index 2025.  Sure, we can debate many of these, but DeepSeek told me it couldn’t provide this information because its last update was July 2025 and referred me to a number of very large databases, each with its own schema, definitions, and biases.  Of course, Russia is not on top.  You would know that if you were Bashar al-Assad, or Edward Snowden, or Tara Reade.  Kindly look at this and know that it is a western listing, although the countries fall within my search for ‘the least peaceful’.    

The takeaway here is not the numerical listing, but that it is not hard to see that the US and the EU are part of each and every one of those.

Trade and Economy: The empire strikes back hard and will fall equally as hard.

Tariffs were the first missile. Now, it is as if they are not working any longer as countries soon worked their way to new partners and new supply chains. It is all still jittery at this stage but a new structure is fast coming into reality.  China was the strongest, and Mexico, strangely, was not far behind. In a speech just a day ago, Rubio stated that Mexico is working well with the US these days (fellow cannot recognize resistance!). But Mexico is working hard on its plan, which focuses on local supply and consumption. Under the free trade agreement with the US, Mexico is not allowed to enter into trade agreements with anyone else. Yet the little-known fact is that, without fanfare or much press, Mexico is present at every BRICS and CELAC meeting. Somehow, they manage to avoid the media and do this extremely low-key.

Brazil had a lucky strike, timing-wise.  As Tariffs started biting and increasing food prices in the US, the administration had to cut tariffs on Brazil. Brazil smiled – well timed!  South Korea says it cannot remain outside the current economic threat.  And so it goes, as BRICS trade grows, SCO flourishes, and Africa South of the Sahara has adopted China’s CIPS.  Dollar by dollar, the reserve currency loses its bite.  This makes the empire crazy, and now it steals tanker by tanker of oil from Venezuela.  What spectacular failure are we observing that the so-called shining city on the hill is reduced to stealing hydrocarbons from a LAC country tanker by tanker?  They cannot even buy it any longer.  They were going to build a gazillion ships.  Now, they are stealing them!  First, it was drugs, then it was regime change, and now it is piracy.  The mighty is falling.    

The empire is fully complicit in increasing wars in the ME, and the next missile was peace agreements, which were not peace agreements but Trade Agreements for Toddlers, designed by the King of the Toddlers.  “If you two stop fighting, our administration will reduce tariffs, but you must first open your economy to the US.”   Hey Presto! Eight Wars were solved, they say.  There was a twist to this tale: some countries did this, but the word went out. Buy Local!  Don’t buy American goods if there were any to buy.  Give this one some time.  

To say the least, it was a challenging year.  For our site, we decided it would be cutting our own throats to become famous. We have our Telegram Channel, but no YouTube, no active X, no active Substack, no active anything except our site and our Telegram Channel. For the foreseeable future, this will remain.

We can list the core reasons for empire actions and let the SLOP flow, or we can look ahead to 2026. 

But first, here is where we are from a concert in Rio that was stunning!

On All-or-Nothing, aka 2026

At the end of 2026, we will either be in a better position or not.  Analysis is futile because we have a demented empire on the run.  I prefer to forecast that with BRICS, SCO, CELAC and other new organizations, we will be in a better position.  It may be marginal, but today it is “winner-take-all”.  It depends on how long the ‘winner’ can sustain.  

It may be that we need fewer countries and that we will see countries become, if not completely unified in their governance, at least in solid partnerships.  People are learning.  Schools will decrease in number because there is no reason to pay a fortune for schools with names when we can actually watch the best in the world online.  Professor Jiang Xueq became an overnight sensation because he started teaching what people wanted to know.  He is not a professor, yet the internet has bestowed that title on him. 

Workflow and work itself are in the process of changing their nature materially.   There will always be a need for blue-collar workers, yet they must reskill, even in farming, where the technical farming methods are breathtaking.  We will have SLOP because the majority will choose SLOP over doing the research.  More Professor Jian’s will rise. 

We no longer need the old civilization model.  We have a new one as we have a new Global Governance.  Current lying politicians will fall like overripe fruit and splat beneath some tree.  The realistic touchers of grass will balance.  We will touch the grass and use technology to buy time for it.  No, we will not stop thinking, but we will find innovative ways to use AI to speed us up.  Mundane household tasks will be automated.  Those who can prepare a wonderful feast with their own hands will regain almost a spiritual fame.  The old skills will thrive.  The new abilities will thrive as well.  Balance will enter.  We see that already, with festivals replete with historical costumes, and people insisting on learning their historical place and value in life.  iPhone Humans will still run around everywhere without looking up.  Those, we need to gently take by the shoulders and move out of our way.    

We will keep caring.  We will keep talking about genocide, even though we fear for our lives.  Families will have to draw together, and the harm done during COVID will dissipate.

I can’t thank enough the people who supported our sovereignista with hearts, minds, and physically with donations.  The last year has been war games and a planet-wide silencing of resistance.  Depending on how soon the empire tumbles into a space where it has to regain a place on our planet, we may even reach the real focus of this site: to understand fully, soul and spirit, what we can be.   The current silencing of resistance will not sustain itself.  Bad Rabbis are in for a Bad Road.  There is Newton’s third law of motion: For every move there is an equal and opposite reaction.  The madness now will beget madness for a bit longer, but slowly we will regain balance.    

We will continue to write about China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, little spots in our world that are perhaps contained but committed to live a life that is not in vain, history, the east-west dichotomy, how to stay out of the human farm, social evils and concomitant joys, dark philosophies, but also living in and with meaning.  

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!  We will rejoice in all the holidays of all the people.  Next up, China’s Dragon Boat Races.  For this one, I am going to get serious, choose a team, and put money on it!  And that is only big talk but little money, and opening a small window to the future.  There is one!  😊