The Villa Farnese at Caprarola (The original "Pentagon," 1559) was built as a five-sided fortress to show that the family's power.

Dominic Barton bridges the gap between the war-dollar banks and the physical mining sector. After starting as a currency analyst at N. M. Rothschild & Sons, he co-chaired the Henry Jackson Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism with Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

He then spent 30 years at McKinsey, which sanitizes elite agendas into corporate strategy. Under and after his leadership, McKinsey faced scrutiny for its work with Russian state-owned entities and arms manufacturers like Rostec. He later served as Canada’s Ambassador to China (2019–2021).

Barton became Chairman of Rio Tinto in 2022, shortly before the company took sole control of the Queensland Alumina Refinery, freezing out the sanctioned Russian giant Rusal. By framing U.S. mineral reliance on China and Russia as a strategic risk, he effectively sanitized moves by Rio Tinto and Glencore to build a mineral fortress controlling global copper, silver, and zinc supplies. The firms seized moral market share during the Ukraine war as prices surged.

In the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers leveraged their oil fortune to corner one-third of the global silver supply, driving prices from $6 to nearly $50 by systematically "standing for physical delivery" on thousands of contracts to drain the exchange vaults. To prevent a total inventory default, the COMEX board—composed of many traders holding losing short positions—abruptly changed the rules to "Liquidation Only," making it illegal to buy new contracts and effectively crashing the market by mid-game decree. On March 27, 1980, the resulting "Silver Thursday" plunge forced a $1.1 billion private bank bailout to save the financial system, ending in the Hunts' bankruptcy and a permanent ban from commodity trading.

In the desert landscape of northeastern Saudi Arabia, you will find Qasr al-Farid, also known as the "Lonely Castle." It was built in the first century AD.

Zhirinovsky (Eidelshtein) in 2018: American planners at well-funded institutes have decided that Iran will be divided into six parts. During the most dangerous war in the Middle East, millions of refugees will flood into the North.

General Wesley Clark (Goldman) was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which involved the use of depleted uranium in Europe. Regarding the Middle East, he said, "We're going to take out seven countries in five years."

23 May, 2019: After conversion, R-36M ("Satan") rockets will be used to launch payloads into space. Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced this during a speech at Moscow State University.

He explained that the missiles would be reformatted as part of a "major process of rearmament of strategic nuclear forces," which would see several more heavy missiles "freed up".

https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5ce6c8589a79472afcbfd896

German Labor Front Community Music Lessons, Strength Through Joy Programme

Strength Through Joy (KdF) Volkswagen Calendar picture, Germany, 1939.

India's Procurement Strategy (1982).

The basic principles of PSYOPS can be delineated as follows:

• Credibility. Using truthful and verified information as well as clear facts enhances the trust and credibility of the target audience. Conversely, the use of lies undermines trust and discredits the source through which information is delivered, which negatively affects the long-term effectiveness and success of the PSYOPS (even if it is subsequently conducted on the basis of truth).

• Orderliness, consistency and coordination. All PSYOPS products and materials are subject to an overall information strategy and a single strategic story. They are performed in a consistent and coordinated manner, both in command vertical and horizontal forces and units, regardless of the possible cultural and ethnic differences and characteristics of the target audience. Coordination of PSYOPS is carried out through information operations at the operational and tactical levels, while ensuring: their integration into the overall plan of information operations at the beginning of the planning phase; consistency with current military operations, the overall information strategy and the operational objectives of the commander. There is also ongoing coordination to prevent the disruption of PSO by the actions of other units, and vice versa. In addition, PSYOPS influence the development of an information strategy.

• Understanding. Target Audience Analysis is a key tool to reach target audience understanding. The effectiveness of PSYOPS depends on a comprehensive understanding of the TA, which includes historical, social and cultural aspects. Without this understanding, the success of PSYOPS is virtually impossible, and their conduct can lead to second- and third-order destructive consequences.

• Timeliness and Efficiency. PSYOPS materials are manufactured and disseminated in accordance with the timeframe set out in order to achieve the desired result according to the Commander’s Plan (if necessary). The rapid development of success by PSYOPS based on situational capabilities is often vital, so advance planning, pre-testing and material approval procedures are required. In doing so, the Approval Institution/Person is appointed to the lowest possible extent to ensure the effectiveness of such capabilities.

• Evaluation. PSYOPS continuously evaluate the impact of PSYOPS on the target audience. Thus, prior to exercising any influence on TA, PSYOPS units receive standardized information on current models of TA perception, attitudes, and behavior. Such an assessment provides the necessary information on changes to the PSYOPS measures and is integrated into the overall operational evaluation process.
• Attribution. As to maintain credibility with NATO and PSYOPS units, responsibility for PSYOPS is usually assumed by NATO or other relevant partner country or partner organization.

Ivan Volodymyrovych Nevmerzhytskyi (2020). Procedure and Principles of Information and Psychological Operations in the North-Atlantic Alliance (Based on NATO Documents). Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348242180_Procedure_and_Principles_of_Information_and_Psychological_Operations_in_the_North-Atlantic_Alliance_Based_on_NATO_Documents

🐷 “The pig is our main meat-producing machine in the coming years!”

A Soviet poster in the Yiddish language, 1931.

90% of Iran’s oil was going to China. 70% of Venezuela’s oil was going to China.  China’s now facing a 2 million barrel hole. And the world is on notice the Petrodollar does not forgive.

The Cantillon Effect.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/98aS9ecHltc

Righteousness among the Samurai

"To the samurai first of all is righteousness, next life, then silver and gold. These last are of value, but some put them in the place of righteousness! But to the samurai even life is as dirt compared to righteousness. Until the middle part of the middle ages customs were comparatively pure though not really righteous. Corruption has come only during this period of government by the samurai... They knew nothing of trade, were economical and content... Even in the days of my youth young folks never mentioned the price of any thing; and their faces reddened if the talk was of women. Their joy was in talk of battles and of plans for war. And they studied how parents and lords should be obeyed and the duty of samurai. But nowadays the young men talk of loss and gain, of dancing girls and harlots and gross pleasures."

Kyusō (1729). The Shundai Zatsuwa.
Artist: Takeuchi Keishu

If there is to be foreign wars,

Send the boomers, dual citizenships, and illegals to go fight.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 IRAQI KURDS REJECT TRUMP’S CALL

The wife of the Iraqi President and a leader in Jalal Talabani's party, Shanaaz Ibrahim, said:

After what happened to us in Syria, we refuse to be used as pawns by global powers again.

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There is an anecdote about the culture of the ants, as ant culture once constituted one of the great epochs in natural history. "Ant" translated means the rise of human selfishness.

When the culture of the ants was at the pinnacle of development—when the ants boasted of their discoveries in the sciences, their understanding of the secrets of nature, their well-organized societies, their senate, congress, or national assembly—one day, to their misfortune, the anteater appeared. He stood above their national assembly, stuck out his snout, and all their representatives, vice-presidents, and ministers got stuck to it. He swallowed them and left.

The great ant philosophers reflected upon this phenomenon: how it was possible for an entire national assembly to vanish: "We saw something black stretch into the national assembly, and all the ants, our ministers and deputies, stuck to it like iron filings to a magnet and vanished into space."

The situation still remains unresolved.

Peter Dunov. (1920). "I am alive."

Roman Cuisine
We can thank "Marcus Gavius Apicius", a Roman gourmet who lived during Tiberius’ reign for details on Roman cooking. Often found in their recipes is a savory ingredient known as "Liquamen" or "Garum": a salty preserved fish sauce. Possibly replicable with Asian fish sauce [or salted anchovies]. Pine nuts, and Caroenum a Sweet Grape Syrup. Here is a recipe for a type of Meat Patty or 'Burger'.

ISICIA OMENTATA (Apic. modern adaptation]

Ingredients:
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500g minced meat
1 french roll, soaked in white wine
1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
50ml Liquamen (can be replaced by 1/2 tsp salt + a little white wine)
some Pine Nuts and Green Peppercorns
A little Caroenum
Baking foil

Instructions:
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Mix minced meat with the soaked french roll. Ground spices and mix into the meat. Form small burgers and put pine kernels and peppercorns into them. Put them into baking foil and grill them together with Caroenum.