Everything that the most devious minds could dream of is happening here in the former United States of America.
We no longer actually have a real government … at least not one “of the people, by the people, and for the people” as President Abraham Lincoln called it in Gettysburg
We have, instead, a group of uber-wealthy people, led by a raving maniac, who want to send the 99% of us into despair and poverty, even death, while they increase their own wealth, and they’re willing to break every law and burn the Constitution to do so. Let’s see what an old friend thinks about all of this …
Musk Rats
They’ve broken into the federal government!
Feeding in government payment systems.!
According to the best source I’ve found on this (Nathan Tankus’s Crises Notes), The Musk Rats have gnawed into unrestricted access to your Social Security number, your confidential bank information, your confidential medical information, and much more.
Boasting about “rapidly shutting down” Treasury remittances.
Tunneling into the health payment systems at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Burrowing into the Labor Department (I have no idea whether they’ve dug into the Bureau of Labor Statistics as yet), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Yesterday, federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly temporarily barred the Treasury Department from abandoning data from its payments system to gnawing Musk Rats, but it’s far from clear this will stop them.
Technically, Musk Rats still retain “read and write” code access because Judge Kollar-Kotelly barred “read only” access. That means they can still stop or alter federal payments.
Note that even after another federal judge — George A. O’Toole, Jr. — blocked Musk Rat’s buyout offer for federal employees until a full hearing Monday afternoon, they continue to urge federal workers to voluntarily leave their jobs or brace for layoffs.
Yesterday, one of them, a 25-year-old coder named Marko Elez, abruptly resigned after apparently racist comments from a dormant social media account were unearthed.
Another, a 19-year-old high school graduate now combing through government information, also runs a business that controls dozens of web domains, including at least two that are possibly registered in Russia. Shock Horror – a Musk Rat!
The world gasps at the US Americans swallowing lie after lie from the superb dissimulator Donald Trump, but it might not notice Britain’s “worthy, virtuous, man of the working people”, Keir Starmer, also proclaiming a set of lies.
Yes, Sir Keir is “taking on the blockers” to bring the UK back to a leadership position on building nuclear power. The “blockers” are safety and environmental regulators. A new Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce will be established to speed up and streamline the approval of new reactors. This will report directly to the PM.
For the first time, mini-nuclear power stations will be included in planning rules. Nuclear sites could now be built anywhere across England and Wales, as a list restricting the sites for new reactors will be scrapped. The expiry date on planning rules will be scrapped. A specialist taskforce will lead on making sure nuclear regulation incentivises investment, to deliver new projects more quickly. It will all apply to both the civil and the military nuclear industry.
Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters carry a giant mask of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer during a National March for Palestine in central London . Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 which left about 1,140 dead in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, and saw 250 hostages dragged back into Gaza sparked the war which is still raging in the besieged Gaza Strip. After almost 100 days of war, at least 23,357 people have been killed in the fighting, the majority of them women and children, according to the Hamas health ministry — or almost one percent of the population. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
This has been greeted with joy by X-Energy, EDF, Microsoft, Great British NUclear, the Nuclear Industry Association, Prospect, the Institute of Directors, Laing O’Rourke, Nuclear EMEA at AtkinsRéali, GCHQ, tech UK, newcleo – indeed, all the people who hope to make a financial killing from the UK tax-payer.
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Turkey was gripped by uncertainty Wednesday ahead of an imminent statement by jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Funeral of Kurdish civilians killed in cold blood by Turkey while acting as Human Shields against SNA/ISIS/AlQaeda Turkish sponsored mercenaries. Feb 2025.
Serving life without parole on a prison island near İstanbul since 1999, Öcalan is imminently expected to address Ankara’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms.
Ocalan previously negotiated two long ceasefires with Turkey, both finally broken by the State. The second ceasefire resulted in a ‘Kurdish Spring’ in Turkey whose 20 million Kurds blossomed in cultural, linguistic and political rights after many decades of repression.
City of Nusaybin in Turkey after Erdogan’s ‘Peace Police’ operation. Zehra Dogan was jailed for painting a picture based on this photo
In 2015 when Kurdish parties threatened to unseat his ultra-nationalists via the balance of power Erdogan drowned the ceasefire in blood – bombing majority Kurdish cities like Nusaybin and parts of Cizre to rubble amid deafening silence in the West.
Turkish authorities’ crackdown on Kurds, including political figures and journalists, is continuing amid ongoing peace talks between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), aimed at ending the 40-year conflict between the state and the outlawed group
DEM Party politician Birsen Orhan
Police conducted early-morning raids on several homes in southeastern Mardin province, detaining Ziynet Algan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party’s (DBP) former Nusaybin district chair, along with Mithat Yılmaz, Lokman Aslan and others, according to a report by the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency on Friday.
The Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) also reported on Friday that Birsen Orhan, the former co-mayor of the eastern city of Tunceli from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), who was removed from office in November on terrorism charges, was given a suspended sentence of five months.
Orhan was detained on the same day she was removed from office after participating in protests over the mayors’ dismissal and was under house arrest. A Tunceli court had ruled to lift Orhan’s house arrest and travel ban on January 15.
Thousands protest daily in Rojava(AANES) for SDF and Tishreen, blocking the Turkish sponsored jihadi mercenary offensive from crossing the Euphrates.
The court on Friday sentenced the former co-mayor for “publicly provoking the commission of an offense,” considering the prosecutor’s argument that her use of the words “occupation” and “struggle” during her speeches at the protests posed “a threat.”
Meanwhile, Kurdish journalists Ali Barış Kurt and Öznur Değer were also detained on Friday, according to Mezopotamya.
Kurt’s detention followed the upholding of his prison sentence of more than two years by the Supreme Court of Appeals for social media posts and journalistic activities, while JINNEWS reporter Değer, who was beaten, handcuffed behind her back and forcibly removed from her home by the police, was referred to court with a request for arrest.
The authorities’ continued arrests and efforts to silence those advocating for Kurdish rights raise questions about the sincerity of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in addressing the longstanding Kurdish conflict and deepen concerns about the future of the negotiations.
Critics of the peace talks say the public is given little information about the discussions’ content.
They question what concessions Turkey will offer to persuade the PKK to lay down its arms and what steps the government will take to improve the cultural, political and linguistic rights of the Kurds, who have been fighting for these rights for many years.
In 2015 a peace attempt initiated by Ankara broke down, unleashing a wave of State war crimes in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.
Öcalan, 75, has said he was “determined” to be involved in a process that would turn the page on a conflict since 1984.
Should Öcalan make the call, it remains far from clear what he stands to gain from the unprecedented olive branch that was extended with the blessing of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“What did Erdoğan propose? We don’t know anything, is he ready for concessions?” wondered Hamit Bozarslan, a Paris-based specialist on Kurdish issues.
“Öcalan calling on his followers to lay down their arms does not mean a capitulation nor a renunciation of the right to defend the legitimacy of the Kurdish cause,” he argued.
Speaking on Wednesday, Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) said Öcalan was “preparing the formula for an honorable solution to the Kurdish question.”
“We don’t know its exact content, but we know it will include a message regarding a democratic response to the Kurdish question,” he said in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish-majority city in the southeast.
What of PKK in Syria, Iraq?
Another unknown is how any such call would resonate among PKK militants in the mountains of northern Iraq or in northeastern Syria, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are resisting attacks and ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands by the Ankara-backed mercenary jihadi militias with Turkish troops, airforce, drone and heavy artillery support.
Ankara views the US-backed AANES multi-ethnic social administration’s SDF defense coalition with hostility, alleging one of its elements, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), is an extension of the PKK.
The hugely popular AANES endorses Ocalan’s philosophy with radical horizontal democracy and Women’s Liberation, unheard of in the Middle East, and a key reason for Turkish, HTS, and Irani hostility.
One of 100’s of wounded by the Turkish attacks on the ongoing Human Shields mass picket blocking the crossing of the illegal and criminal Jihadi /Turkish offensive into the Kobani area via the Tishreen Euphrates Dam
Daily support demonstrations continue around Rojava with large convoys of citizens traveling to the Euphrates frontline to act as Human Shields, attacked by Turkish drones, jets and artillery with 28 civilian deaths and 100s of injured so far (8th Feb 25).
The SDF defends a huge semi-autonomous Kurdish-led administration in largely desert northeastern Syria that flanks the Turkish border, in another vital element which will play into the mix.
Turkey is relying on Syria’s new rulers to address its always touted “security concerns”. Although attacks on Turkey across the border are nonexistant (and attacks from Turkey a daily crime) Erdogan remains obsessed about contagion of the AANES social system to the repressed Kurdish omajority on the Turkish side of the closed Border Wall..
Speaking on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the stance of Syria’s new interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) “on the fate of the PKK/YPG is perfectly clear,” expressing confidence he would “address Turkey’s security needs.”
His remarks came a day after al-Sharaa’s first official visit to Turkey.
US stance key
Although al-Sharaa has rejected any form of Kurdish self-rule and urged the SDF to hand over its weapons, regional actors know much will depend on US President Donald Trump and his new administration.
Banner shows 11 of the civilian ‘human shield’ protestors murdered in cold blood by Turkey at Tishreen Dam
Such a move could weaken the SDF to the point of collapse and we hope the reports are mere rumors.
However,the AANES/SDF revolutionaries, although sponsored by the International Coalition against ISIS, are totally against US policies. The US has only supported them in resisting ISIS, indeed in 2019 Trump betrayed them to allow a Turkish invasion which seized and ethnically cleansed a border zone leaving thousands still in internal refugee camps.
The 100,000+ strong SDF coalition of multi-ethnic and women’s militias does NOT get paid by the USA (chatGPT sources) but by their AANES coordination and vows to resist the promised major offensive by Turkey, the 2nd biggest army in NATO, alongside the new Damascus Regime, formerly HTS, formerly Al Qaeda jihadi ‘headchoppers’.
The revolutionary AANES constitution reflects the democratic principles, communal work, human rights, ethnic and religious tolerance, Woman-Life-Freedom, gender equality, and the decentralization of power already being implemented with great enthusiasm in their liberated area..
The revolution, unique in the middle east if not the world, follows the teachings of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned forever on a Turkish island.
It began in Turkey in where there are over 20 million repressed Kurds, when Ocalan organised the PKK defenders to make a 2nd successful truce with Turkey, until the Erdogan regime forced the collapse of the agreement in 2015 and drowned the civil revolution in blood, even bombing Kurdish cities in Turkey like Nusaybin to rubble to stamp out Kurdish horizontal democratic practices . see photo.
The revolution survived however in NE Syria. e Assad regime had to abandon the area due to almost losing the civil war.
The Turkish armed jihadi ISIS Caliphate had been sweeping north Syria, but the Kurdish defenders defeated them in the epic Siege of Kobanî (Sept 2014 to Feb 2915) despite the destruction of the city, with the International Coalition (mainly the USA) finally intervening with some air support.
After the Kobani victory the Kurdish defenders (YPG men and YPJ women) went on to organize the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces, now over 100k strong) as a host of other militia groupings joined them, Arabs of all sorts, Yazides, Womens militias, Christians, Syriacs, Turkmen, Armenians, etc
The rest is history, the SDF defeated ISIS in Manbij and set up a vibrant unique multi cultural multi religious city following the communal liberation agenda and continued east.
For nearly five decades, China has undertaken a monumental ecological effort to combat desertification in one of the world’s most hostile environments—the Taklamakan Desert.
On Thursday, the People’s Daily reported that the ambitious project to encircle the desert with a green belt of trees has been completed, marking the end of a journey fraught with setbacks but full of determination.
A ‘Green’ Great Wall for the Taklamakan
Last week, workers planted the final 100 trees on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, completing what is often referred to as China’s “Green Great Wall.”
This initiative aims to mitigate the adverse effects of the Taklamakan, a vast sea of shifting sands located in northwestern China. Known as the second-largest shifting sand desert in the world, its name ominously translates to “Go in and don’t come out,”reflecting its inhospitable nature.
The desert is also the farthest point from any ocean, making its surrounding areas some of the most isolated and impoverished regions in China.
The Taklamakan Desert has long posed challenges for northern and western Chinese provinces, as strong winds carry dust and sand into these regions.
These storms degrade air quality, threaten agricultural productivity, and contribute to desertification.
In response, China initiated the “Three-North Shelterbelt”project in 1978 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, aiming to combat these environmental challenges by planting trees on a massive scale.
Transforming the Landscape
Since its inception, the project has led to the planting of over 30 million hectares (116,000 square miles) of trees.
The Free 