Substack SitRep 26 Sept 2023 - The Overton Window

Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh is an earthquake for Eurasia. Plus Justin Trudeau's madness, Germany's refugee crisis, and much more...

Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh is an earthquake for Eurasia. Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian refugees also get special attention this week.

Remember the Chinese spy balloon, and how it dominated Western news? The American government eventually admitted that it was blown off course. Now, much later, it admits that it wasn’t a spy balloon.

Russia bombing itself in a market in Donetsk was recently hailed as a sign of evil Putin bombing citizens of Ukraine. The illogic of that sentence should have been enough to dismiss that narrative, yet it made endless headlines. Suddenly, the New York Times (and others) admit it was a Ukrainian missile (but without holding them to account).

They know that the whispering truth will never get the same effect as the pulverizing propaganda before it.

At least the Truth community recognises lies quicker than award-winning publications do. I’m sure that will mean we’ll get rewarded too… maybe land up in a sex scandal, demonetized or imprisoned.

In times like these, starting a boutique brothel specializing in educated women servicing men who respect them risks not being seen as liberal. Oh, well.

DOUBLE WAKE UP!

HOT QUOTE

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance’s official query regarding  Ukraine’s war spokesperson, the American Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (born Michael Cirillo) who threatened to hunt down propagandists:

“Is this individual employed by the Ukrainian military, and do we have reason to believe they are compensated using American resources?

Is this individual an American citizen? Did they ever serve, in any capacity, American intelligence services?

Do we have reason to believe Ukrainian forces or intelligence services are planning to commit acts of violence against those who engage in ‘Russian propaganda’?”

HOT PIC

PRIORITY POSTS

• ! Silent coup: How corporations overthrow democracy !

• Killing politicians in South Africa, 19 assassinations in one state in 1 year

• American uproar over white winner of Miss Universe Zimbabwe beauty pageant

• African American Fatigue Syndrome (a brave article against virtue signalling that will be mislabelled as racist)

• Woman can't compete with AI girlfriends

• The West's psychological manipulation of its own people

• Cockup or Conspiracy: Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event’

• CJ Hopkins vs Michael Shellenberger: How not to launch a global anti-censorship movement

• Taking Tucker Carlson seriously: The production of conspiracy discourse in modern propaganda mills

• Rupert Murdoch to finally retire at 1,006 years of age, a devastating blow to journalism

• Could the USA’s oil storage caverns collapse?

• The most interesting event in the Russell Brand scandal

• Climate change won’t change a thing - Bill Gates

• Okinawa in Japan disproves the US narrative about overseas military bases

• The EU and African immigrants are destabilising Italy's government

• Clintons re-launch global initiative foundation & presidential run

YOU MAY HAVE MISSED…

• Why Russia saved the United States: The forgotten history of a brotherhood

• The "Natural Diet": Is your ass fat?

ME THIS WEEK

• Fear and Loathing in South Africa

• Revisiting Ruby Ridge

• Russia's Global Policy Position

• The Motive for the Russell Brand Investigation?

AZERBAIJAN  VS ARMENIA
(READ CHRONOLOGICALLY)

• War in Karabakh begins

• Azerbaijan demands ethnic-Armenians in Karabakh raise white flag amid military operation

• Nagorno-Karabakh catastrophe fires anger against Armenia’s leader

• Calls grow for EU sanctions on gas-rich Azerbaijan over ethnic cleansing fears

• Erdogan states Turkey's full support for Azerbaijan

• Russia’s role in Nagorno-Karabakh questioned after renewed tensions

• Artsakh, the end... the rise and fall of the Armenian enclave

• The fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

• Escalation is everywhere

• Hundreds seriously injured after fuel depot blast in Nagorno-Karabakh

THE COLD WAR

• The Regionalization & the Globalization penalty

• Chinese balloon was not spying, US gov't admits months after manufactured crisis

• Self-controlled opposition: The ailments of a US free speech NGO movement

• The West's terminal technology problem

• 'I'm married to Julian Assange - I just want a normal life for us and our boys'

• Over Assange, Britain’s press prefers to serve power not media freedom

• Russia's Amur Region

• The India-Middle East Corridor: A new Silk Route or diplomacy by PowerPoint?

• Shoigu: Moscow and Tehran are reaching a new level of interaction

• Russia's banking system has SWIFT alternative ready

• Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the UN General Assembly

• Biden met 5 Central Asian leaders on UN sidelines

• The Biden administration is taking advantage of Russia and China being distracted

• US flouts international law with Pacific military claims

• Anti-Americanism in Russia as seen by Feng Yujun  

NARCISSISM & POLITICS

• What is wrong with the Western political class?

• Whitney Webb & Ryan Cristian – The False Self

POLAND VS UKRAINE & REFUGEE UPDATE

• Estimated number of refugees from Ukraine in Europe and Asia

• Poland says it’s no longer arming Ukraine amid grain spat

• Most EU states didn't resettle a single refugee in 2023

• Huge number of Ukrainian refugees leaving Poland for Germany

• Poland will stop helping Ukrainian refugees in 2024

• Ukraine War’s impact on migrant flow in Poland

UKRAINE WAR

• On Sean Penn’s idiotic notion that it's brave to support nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine

• New York Times: Evidence suggests Ukrainian missile caused market tragedy

• Simplicius: Analysis of Ukraine's escalating Crimean strike campaign

• Daily Mail distastefully spins Russia’s revenge attack on Odessa as attack on Jews

• Sharing the microphone with Scott Ritter on Press TV (Iran)

• Foreign Policy: The morality of Ukraine’s war Is very murky

• The coming Ukraine collapse and the “Rebuilding” headfake

• RAND report warns of nuclear escalation in Ukraine

• Biden uses NY Times to send Zelensky an unpleasant message

• Zelensky's snub--no surprise

• Zelensky's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad D.C. snubfest

• Ukrainian morale in the battlefield, a snapshot

• Edward Slavsquat's weekly Russia news roundup

• About the crimes of Bandera from the 1940s to the present day

• A Skeptic war news aggregator

• Russian oil price discount shrinking, sanction dodging widespread

• Dispensing war news with an eye-dropper

• Russia temporarily bans fuel exports to most countries in response to shortages

• And still another Ukrainian interlude... Wherein I establish that nothing is getting better for Ukraine in terms of dead soldiers...

OTHER WARS

• Scott Ritter: My Addiction

• Mini world roundup

• UK intelligence spun 2013 Syria chemical attack, leaked docs show

• Report for European Parliament challenges OPCW’s Syria cover-up

SOUTH AFRICA

• City of Cape Town dumping 28 million litres of raw sewerage into sea daily

• Tonypandy and death, a lesson in Cape Town’s slave trade

• Fatherlessness

• R470,000 a day for 9 years – Bob van Dijk’s insane pay as Naspers CEO

• Media24 found guilty of defaming EFF’s Ndlozi with rape accusation

• 5 people shot dead outside Shoprite in Richard’s Bay

• Suspects allegedly linked to Richard’s Bay mass shooting killed in shootout with police at Zimbali Estate in Ballito

• PGerm Warfare: Professor Otty Nxumalo on the greatness of Mangosuthu Buthelezi

MORE AFRICA

• Liberation of citizens thru death

• NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its barbaric intervention

• Kenya warned British army about dangerous ammunition decades ago

• Weakening franc worries Rwanda economy chiefs

• Why are 97% of businesses in Senegal illegal?

• For what exactly do we [in Africa] pray?

• News summary for Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Kenya and South Africa

ASIA

• Assad and Xi summit heralds a new dawn in East and West Asia relations

• Lord of Platforms, Convenor of Covenants

• Beijing blocks gallium exports, UN to open office in Japan

• What China’s economic slowdown means for the world

• Xi Jinping on inspection tour of Zhejiang Province

• Another round of 'Physical Isolation'? Beware, military cadres

SOUTH AMERICA

• Cartels are Mexico's fifth biggest employer

• Venezuelan authorities find grenade launchers, bitcoin miners, pools, a disco, and even a zoo in a national jail

• Brazil’s Lula warns Guatemala risks a ‘coup’

• China and Venezuela deepening cooperation

• Argentina, a story of economic destitution

• Mexico election notes

• Latin America Risk Report’s news aggregator

CANADA (DESERVES SPECIAL MENTION THIS WEEK)

• Walk away, Justin Trudeau. Canada’s love affair with you is over

• Trudeau goes nuts!

• Justin Trudeau's Nazi hot take flexibility

• Why Canada is having a diplomatic crisis with India

• Trudeau’s ‘Five Eyes’ allegation against India

USA

• Spies who lied about Hunter’s laptop added to new Homeland Security group

• Gold bars, sniper rifles and a Mercedes-Benz: US senator indicted on Egypt corruption charges

• The huddled masses at the border

• America has changed since "NYPD Blue" aired

• Why the President can’t just fire bureaucrats

• Biden’s hostage diplomacy, explained

• How to make housing affordable again

• The economist who predicted the 2008 crash, now says “day of reckoning at hand”

EUROPE

• Next on the agenda, to destroy European agriculture

• Poland shaken by reports consular officials took bribes to help migrants

• Has the UK fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?

• Liz Truss is right – Britain has become more left-wing

• 100 Metropolitan police officers refused firearms duties after a colleague was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man

• For France’s Left, Robespierre’s democratic radicalism is as necessary as ever

• Phantom Parrot – The secret state’s tool for mass intelligence gathering

• Preconscious Politics: Part 1 and Part 2

MIDDLE EAST

• Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets

• Qatar expects a record 43 million passengers in 2023

• Qatar holds Israel ‘solely responsible’ for escalations following settler storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque

• Netanyahu erases Palestine in maps new and old

• Lebanese Presidential election dynamics and contradictory leaks

SOMETHING ELSE

• Divorce

• How to live and love in interesting times

• Russia's "digital transformation"

• What is good debt vs. bad dad for a country?

• A spiritual warrior against the empire of greed

• Energy and Food are the foundations of material progress

• The problem of morality-justified motivated reasoning

HEALTH & CLIMATE

• My lifelong war with the "Healthcare" system

• 10 food additives you should cut from your diet immediately

• How music provides a deeper understanding of drugs

• Teacher to slap college in court over "Transphobia" sacking

• Why are Americans so frustrated?

• The CIA Lied, People Died

• America’s driving obsession is a problem

• The Governmental-University-Medical-Pharmaceutical Complex (GUMP) explained

PODCASTS/VLOGGERS

• NPR challenges U.S. denial of civilian harm in raid on ISIS leader

• Sam Harris: Postmortem on my response to Covid

• Results of Iceland’s 4-day working week

• Andrew Sullivan interviews Vivek Ramaswamy

MEANINGFUL MUSIC

“When I was a child,
I caught a fleeting glimpse
out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
the dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb…”

WAR ANALYSTS

VIDEO INTERVIEWS & DEBATES

DOCUMENTARIES