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🇺🇸🎪 Palantir, Musk, Thiel, and the Deep State Puppet Show

What do Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Donald Trump have in common? They are all tightly wound into the machinery of the military-industrial complex…a tech-driven Deep State that now runs on classified contracts, surveillance algorithms, and Pentagon-friendly billionaires. The curtain lifts, but the show remains the same: an empire in decline, switching out actors while the script of hegemony, alebit tattered, grinds on.

Elon Musk is not just the “visionary” of Tesla and SpaceX, he’s also one of the Pentagon’s most valuable assets. From Starlink’s role in DC’s Ukraineian proxy war to classified space contracts with the DoD, Musk goes beyond mere flirting with the Deep State; he’s deep in bed with it. But wait, who’s Musk’s “mentor” and boss? Enter Peter Thiel, the architect of Palantir, the surveillance juggernaut built to feed on your metadata and serve it to US-Israeli agencies on a silver platter. Thiel didn’t just build Palantir; he built a network, a system designed to merge Silicon Valley’s surveillance tech with Washington’s insatiable appetite for control.

And then there’s Trump. Tied to Thiel since the 2016 campaign, Trump rode into the White House backed by Silicon Valley’s darker corridors. Thiel’s influence on Trump’s cabinet was unmistakable, ushering in tech titans with defense ambitions while turning the populist narrative into a smokescreen for more military spending, and continued the deep state capture. So as Trump eyes 2025, the question is: does it even matter? Is this just more factional infighting within the same system, a controlled opposition act to give Americans the illusion of choice?

Here’s the raw truth: Washington doesn’t "work for" Silicon Valley, it partners with it. This isn’t a simple hierarchy but a symbiosis of mutual exploitation. Silicon Valley provides the surveillance tools, defense tech, and AI capabilities that grease the wheels of empire and aid in war crimes from Donbass to Gaza, while Washington ensures the profits flow through defense budgets, intelligence contracts, and global market dominance. US Elections? They’re theater, designed to distract the masses while the same machine of war, control, and extraction grinds on, untouched. The illusion of choice ensures one thing only: the empire's priorities remain intact, regardless of who holds the reins.

Perhaps it will take cosmic humiliation on the battlefield, served by Russia in Ukraine to force systemic changes in Washington and its vassal states. Post-Ukraine, as the illusion of empire shatters, will Americans awaken to their captured political system and demand true change? Only then might the revolutionary spirit return, not in the service of hollow elections, but in reclaiming sovereignty from the forces of war and control.

- Gerry Nolan

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Ceasefire Between Israel and Hezbollah Takes Effect

A US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has officially taken effect, bringing an end to a 13-month border conflict that escalated into war in September. Key details:

Duration: A 60-day cessation of hostilities.

Withdrawals: Hezbollah fighters to retreat 40 km (25 miles) from the border; Israeli ground forces to leave Lebanese territory.

"Enforcement": Supervised by UN peacekeepers, the Lebanese military, and a multinational committee.

"Lebanon’s Role": Increased monitoring of Hezbollah movements south of the Litani River to prevent regrouping.

Israel: Threats of immediate military action if the truce is breached.

Will this truce hold, or is it a fragile stopgap? History suggests deep skepticism

The ink is barely dry on this agreement, but the glaring fault lines are already visible. The deal may temporarily silence the guns along the Blue Line, but it’s a patchwork attempt to put a lid on a pressure cooker that’s ready to explode. Here's why:

A Strategic Retreat or Tactical Pause?
Hezbollah’s withdrawal south of the Litani River is framed as compliance with the deal. In reality, it's likely a tactical redeployment. Resistance movements don't fold under pressure, they adapt. Hezbollah’s well-documented ability to leverage asymmetric warfare ensures that any withdrawal is part of a larger chess game, not a concession.

Israel’s threat to “resume military action” is both a warning and a reflection of its precarious position. Despite advanced weaponry and Western backing, its ground operations in Lebanon have been met with fierce resistance, draining its resources. The ceasefire offers Israel a much-needed breather, but one wonders if it’s a quiet admission that a protracted war is no longer strategically viable and therefore a de facto dedeat.

Lebanon’s promise to increase surveillance of Hezbollah south of the Litani is ambitious at best, disingenuous at worst. The Lebanese state, struggling under economic collapse and political paralysis, has neither the capacity nor the appetite to clamp down on the most formidable force within its borders. The reality is that Hezbollah’s influence in southern Lebanon isn’t just military, it’s deeply entrenched in the social fabric of the region.

UNIFIL troops will ostensibly monitor compliance, but past experience shows that their role often leans more toward symbolic presence than substantive enforcement. In a region where geopolitics dictate action, peacekeeping forces are rarely more than placeholders.

This ceasefire does not occur in isolation. Hezbollah’s power is of course backed by Iran, which sees the group as a vital lever in its regional strategy. The truce will hold only as long as it serves Tehran’s interests.

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💬 "If genuine free speech existed and people openly expressed their true thoughts, it likely wouldn’t take more than two months of widespread public discourse for the parasitic fiat money system, upheld by the elites, to collapse."

This isn’t hyperbole, it’s a stark truth.

The fiat system thrives not on strength, but on secrecy. Its lifeblood is compliance born of ignorance, its endurance propped up by narratives crafted to pacify. Central banks print unchecked, governments wage forever wars, and inflation quietly erodes the wealth of ordinary people, all under the guise of "economic stability."

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💸 Another $24 Billion for Kiev: When Will the Looting Stop?

As American cities crumble and millions of citizens face skyrocketing inflation, unaffordable healthcare, and a housing crisis, Biden has the audacity to ask Congress for $24 billion more in military aid (money laundering) for Ukraine. Not for America’s collapsing infrastructure, not for securing the southern border, and certainly not for the struggling middle class, but to bankroll a neo-Nazi regime in Kiev that serves as nothing more than the current tip-of-the-spear for Washington’s suicidal geopolitical dellusions.

Let’s call it what it is - theft, plain and simple. Theft from the American taxpayer to prop up a war that’s already been lost on the battlefield. Ukraine’s forces are in tatters, their Kursk safari - a catastrophic failure, and now their backers are scrambling to cover up the stench of defeat with more weapons, more blood, and more money laundering for the MIC. Worse still, this $24 billion also aims to replenish America’s depleted stockpiles after sending an endless stream of weapons into the black hole of Ukraine. A Pentagon spending spree masked as “democracy defense.”

The hypocrisy is staggering. The lame-duck Biden administration can’t spare a dime to fix crumbling bridges in Ohio or to keep fentanyl out of American streets, but it has an unlimited budget to fund a war that serves only the MIC. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are asking a simple, piercing question: When did we sign up for this? When did we agree to sacrifice our future, our prosperity, and our very security for a corrupt fascist-puppet regime in Kiev that couldn’t care less about the American people?

Russia has already exposed NATO’s protection racket for the hollow sham it is. The Oreshnik missile strike demonstrated Moscow’s ability to escalate on its own terms, decisively and strategically. And yet, Biden’s handlers double down, throwing good money after bad, pretending that more ATACMS and SCALPs will somehow turn the tide. They won’t. They’ll only prolong the agony of a war that Russia has already won militarily and is poised to win economically through the rise of BRICS and the death of the dollar’s hegemony.

At some point, even the most propagandized American citizens will wake up to the grift. The $24 billion isn’t about Ukraine, it’s about a desperate empire clinging to its fading relevance, draining its people dry to fund a war they never wanted. But as NATO’s protection racket collapses, so too will the myths holding up Washington’s imperial fantasies. And when it does, the American people will demand answers, and reparations for decades of betrayal.

- Gerry Nolan

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