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As the Washington plutocracy polishes its nepotism into a governing philosophy and marches proudly toward its digital gulag, it was only natural that the next chapter of “freedom” would be written in blockchain code.

At Token 49 in the “Lion City” of Singapore, young Zach Witkoff — dutiful son of U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff — joined forces with Donald Copperfield Junior to unveil their grand vision: the tokenization of the 47 family’s real estate empire.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/trump-jr-zach-wilkoff-steve-dismisses-world-liberty-financial-conflict-of-interest-concerns-usd1.html

Tokenization — the latest buzzword polished by the Malthusian Bankers at BlackRock — is being sold as the next frontier of finance: a world where every asset, from real estate to your grandmother’s teapot, lives on a blockchain under the watchful eye of “improved governance.”

In reality, it’s less about innovation and more about digital domination — the first brick in a global financial panopticon where dissenters risk seeing their wallets frozen for thinking the wrong thoughts.

Welcome to the brave new world of tokenized obedience: you will own nothing, and your assets will be “safely” managed by your digital overlords.

https://trustwallet.com/blog/cryptocurrency/blackrock-move-into-asset-tokenization

The self-styled “Peacemaker-in-Chief” — who in reality looks more like the “Warmonger-in-Chief” — just moved the world one step closer to the brink of World War III. After greenlighting long-range missiles to the high-heeled “president” of Ukraine, he’s now authorized U.S. intelligence to hand Kyiv the targeting coordinates for strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. In other words: Washington picks the targets, Ukraine pulls the trigger — but somehow, this isn’t “direct war.” The neocon fantasy is simple: cripple Russia’s energy lifeline, watch it collapse, and carve it up like a pie. The nightmare scenario is equally simple: Moscow retaliates, U.S. debt-fuelled markets implode, and America’s own Wall Street becomes fair game.


https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/02/us-to-share-intelligence-with-kyiv-for-strikes-on-russian-energy-sites-wsj-a90693

By enabling strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, Donald Copperfield isn’t just playing proxy war — he’s crossing into direct conflict, and the Malthusian warmongers of Washington seem oblivious to the boomerang effect.

What they unleash on Russia can just as easily be turned on the U.S. and Europe. Moscow has been restrained, but no country will sign a “peace” that amounts to its own economic strangulation. Yet neocon strategists, high on short-term triumphalism and allergic to strategic thinking, still believe they can starve Russia of energy and carve it up without consequence. Even editorial cheerleaders call for Tomahawks as if retaliation were a fairy tale. Unless Washington’s decision-makers purge the echo chamber around them, the West isn’t just courting escalation — it’s sleepwalking toward the end of its own order.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/opinion/trump-helps-ukraine-hit-putin-where-it-hurts-to-end-his-bloody-war/

There’s no universe in which China allows Russia to collapse — the Neocons have already ensured that Moscow and Beijing are now bound by survival, not convenience. Add Iran and North Korea to that alliance, and you’ve got the makings of a geopolitical Hydra, born from Washington’s own arrogance. These so-called strategists — the same Neocons who mistake provocation for policy — have cornered the West into a four-front dilemma: Europe, the Middle East, Taiwan, and Korea/Japan. It’s an impossible equation, written by people who think in PowerPoint slides instead of consequences.

In true Cold War theatre, the Western Warmongers have managed to turn Venezuela into the new geopolitical piñata while pretending history doesn’t rhyme. Cuba cheers from the sidelines, Russia ships troops and sanctions workarounds, China patches Maduro’s power grid, Iran smiles and offers “help,” and everyone else quietly wonders when the first long-range missile will land in D.C. — because what goes around, comes around. As Donald Copperfield blunders into a South American minefield, apparently oblivious to the region’s debt-laden tinderbox and its record of anti-American backlash. Venezuela, sitting on the planet’s largest oil reserves, isn’t Saddam’s Iraq; it’s a powder keg with global backers, and yet the Neocons still play checkers on a chessboard, blissfully unaware that Russia, China, and company are waiting to turn their “regime change” fantasy into a nightmare.

Keith Starmer, a proud Davos Malthusian puppet, is rolling out Britain’s latest step into the digital gulag: the mandatory BritCard. Marketed as “enhanced security,” it’s really a smartphone-stored ID tracking your name, birthdate, nationality, and even your address—because who needs privacy when the state can have total control?
Say goodbye to physical documents and hello to living in the app.

https://www.techuk.org/resource/techuk-reaction-uk-government-announces-mandatory-digital-id-scheme.html

The Marxist UK government promises convenience and security while quietly building the ultimate digital leash. The BritCard, mandatory for anyone wanting the Right to Work, will track citizens in real-time via the Gov.UK wallet—like Apple Pay, but with Big Brother watching your every transaction. Officials claim it’s for “growth” and “control over your own data,” yet it’s really a tool to monitor, manage, and curb anyone deemed undesirable.

https://institute.global/digital-id-what-is-it-and-how-it-works

Governments always grab more power—but never with this level of omnipresent oversight. Free speech is under siege, fiscal mismanagement crushes living standards, and citizens are cornered between compliance and resistance.
When the people reach their breaking point, no digital wallet or propaganda slogan can save a system built on surveillance, control, and deception.

The same Malthusian British government building its digital gulag now moonlights as social engineer-in-chief. To appease ‘newly arrived residents’—and dilute the influence of the traditional English gentry—the National Health Institute claims there are “benefits” to first-cousin marriage, breezily downplaying the birth defect risks. Civilization, Orwell-style, marches on.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-first-cousin-marriage-risk-birth-defects-b1250227.html

In 2025 Britain, the NHS has apparently decided that genetics, logic, and morality are optional. Official guidance now touts cousin marriage for its “stronger family support systems and economic benefits,” downplaying the well-known risks: deafness, heart defects, cystic fibrosis, and a 400% higher chance of low IQ.
The state insists taxpayers fund “genetic counseling” to navigate these unions without “stigmatizing communities,” effectively prioritizing cultural appeasement over science or Western ethics.
With up to 70% of British Pakistanis marrying blood relatives—and many unions coerced—Britain’s top health authority has transformed into an enabler of irreversible genetic damage, proving that reason and credibility are now on life support.

https://jmg.bmj.com/content/25/3/186

The NHS has backpedaled under public outrage, yet this is the same body that once proclaimed “chestfeeding liquid” from trans individuals safe for infants.
With cousin marriage now touted as a cultural boon, one can only wonder: what moral taboos will fall next? The United Kingdom, once a global standard-bearer, seems intent on a full societal and cultural self-immolation.

https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/having-a-baby-if-you-are-lgbt-plus/chestfeeding-if-youre-trans-or-non-binary/

France’s Prime Minister Sébastien “Le-Corniaud” — a lame duck from day minus one — has resigned less than a month after taking office, once his right-wing “friends” hinted they’d rather not be seen with him. The Élysée confirmed his exit just hours after he’d unveiled his grand “rupture” cabinet — which, in true French fashion, looked exactly like the old one.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-socialist-leader-will-vote-against-pm-lecornu-things-stand-2025-10-06/

‘Le-Corniaud’ at least leaves with a trophy — France’s new record for the shortest-serving Prime Minister in history. He’s the fifth head of government in under two years, beating Michel Barnier’s three-month stint by a landslide… or rather, a slip.
Now Macro Leon faces three unappetizing options: appoint yet another doomed PM, call early elections (which blew up in his face last time), or pull the ultimate stunt — resign. The last seems far-fetched, but in Le Petit Napoleon’s crumbling Fifth Republic, nothing is too absurd to imagine. How he plans to limp to 2027 is anyone’s guess — perhaps by appointing a new PM every quarter, just to keep things lively.

While France’s “Le-Corniaud” prime minister limps toward his political guillotine, Japan has crowned its own lame duck. Takaichi — a proud disciple of Abenomics’ holy trinity of cheap money, fiscal bloat, and reform kabuki — takes charge just as Japan faces economic headaches and diplomatic migraines.

Her rise follows Ishiba’s exit after the LDP managed the rare feat of losing both houses, leaving her to lead a minority government. When the Diet meets on October 15, opposition parties could block her confirmation — but let’s be honest, Japanese politics rarely enjoys that much excitement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/japans-ruling-party-pick-new-leader-hoping-revive-fortunes-2025-10-03/

While Wall Street’s banksters keep chanting about a “strong yen” and a “soft dollar,” anyone with a grasp of arithmetic knows better — Japan’s next lame-duck prime minister is a dyed-in-the-wool Keynesian ready to spend money the government doesn’t have and borrow what it can’t repay.

In this context, it’s no surprise that one-week risk reversals in USD/JPY surged to 44 bps, favoring calls over puts, after previously trading 22 bps in favor of the yen — marking the third most bearish reading in three years.