Well, let me take a bit of a different stance. I follow Mexican news and cartel members and leaders do get taken out from time to time. The US is taking the media route on this – that is for sure. But if it has a type of connection with everything else, may be reaching. I say this because it happens from time to time. The violence is also being over-reported and things are already quiet – a few cartel towns are still in uproar but my prediction is it will be over in a day or so, unless it gets jumped on by some regime changers. What I hear from there, is that this is a normal process .. Take out Cartel leader, violence breaks out, empty busses and cars get burned, killings stay very low, an American chain gets set to fire, Mexicans call boycott on US chains down there and I’ve seen one of those some years ago, cartels start fighting each other to take business away from the wounded cartel, end of story, cartels remain more or less equal sized so that one does not become too strong.

My contact may be wrong, but I don’t think so. He runs a small chain of gyms and of course, cartel members use his gyms.

This is what it looks like so far but complicated by the US wanting their ‘hemisphere’ back so there are people shouting that Trump should fall into Mexico -this is his opportunity, he can kill the cartels in 24 hours … Big Talk.

Then, the Russian oil on the way. I hope it is on the way and of course there is reporting. But I have not seen anything that makes me think .. Yes, here she comes! We can see her just there over the horizon lol. I’ve not seen anyone following the vessel via transponder. It may be that the vessel carries emergency aid, and not oil. (Welcome Cuban Missile Crisis redux.)

It is early to tell, but that is what I get now.

I saw a small report somewhere in the Israeli press that they will NOT pay a billion dollars for BoP membership.

We wish eh …

There is a lot that is accurate in the video. I will send out a question to Brazilian friends to hear about the Compact. There is nothing in the news and I have seen nothing reported among the Brazilian commentators that I follow. But if this happened, it happened under the table kinda. Carney and LULA I can believe, but the inclusion of Japan makes me itchy.

There is a small report that says Trump has told his State department to investigate unfair trade practices between BRICS members Brazil and China. And LULA is in India making sweet leader’s love to MODI at a AI conference. (Two old Charmers – Call them the Lover Boys).

Let me see what I can get if I go beating in the bushes.

We may also be in a perhaps Canadian made??? set of propaganda videos. Check this out with a keen ear and eye. The structure is exactly the same as the one that you posted. A major announcement and bunch of shorter sentences providing facts .. then, the language is very similar – talking about ‘the receipts’ and so on. I don’t know – I did a few searches and came across this one and the similarity in structure was immediately obvious.

(And yes, we also have early heat – profusion of all flowers and trees – oh man, I swear I can hear them grow!)

We have to check out Seun Foo’s commenting on the tariffs ruling.  Very early comment from me.  If the Epstein files did not do it, this tariff ruling will.  Nobody but Nobody on earth is going to get messing with this kind of US Lawfare stuff.  I think it may be the end of major trade with the US .. It may be a hit on the global economy and it may be that other countries decide that Trade that is too difficult to do, will not be done.

Hell is on the way. This is supreme court. Can he still go to another court?

It was way worse than what I thought.  First I laughed, then I saw evil, and then my belly roiled with utter disgust.

“I’ve come to give you the good news.  Washington is peaceful!”  Going for a walk now as I just feel bad.  It is seldom that political and geopolitical news makes me physically ill.  I’m telling you, I feel physically ill!

MrP, others, what do you think of the State Dept announcement? It seems to me as if there is a whitewash of modern America in an attempt to create a history that was clearly thrown out in the New World. Oh I know there were legal and other inheritances, literature, churches …. The selection, Athens and Rome feels like a focus that may not be so accurate. It seems to be a selected slice of old Europe, i.e., we choose a new history for us. We’ll make it up?. My in-laws were Swedish and I know they had their groups. There were many Germans that came to the New World. The Scots, the Irish .. where are the English – the Pennsylvania Dutch? These peoples were not necessarily Hellenic or from a Roman historical era. More south was French – where are the native Americans? Wiki (forgive me) talks about Spanish, Portuguese, Basques, Jewish, North African Berbers, and Africans.

I keep thinking they’re are choosing a ‘white’ history. Where is New Mexico, Tehas (Texas), California? I keep thinking they wanna steal themselves a chosen history?

Here is the announcement: “The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America. Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline.”   

What, was the US not the ‘new world’?

Check it out .. stunning.