🚨🇺🇸📉 The #US Job Engine Is STALLING Beneath a surface-level gain of +41k jobs lies a stark reality: the US just suffered its worst 4-month payroll drop (-164k) outside healthcare since the pandemic, a hidden contraction that has historically signaled one thing: #Recession. #Healthcare & social assistance are single-handedly propping up the entire market. In 2025, these two sectors accounted for a staggering 713,000 of the 733,000 private-sector job gains. This means the rest of the productive, cyclical #economy added a mere 20,000 #jobs for the entire year. The #labor market's apparent resilience is a statistical artifact of one demographic-driven sector. Historically, such concentration is unsustainable and precedes broader deterioration. The productive economy is not generating #employment, a definitive leading indicator. The underlying data suggests that there is no expansion.
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🚨🇺🇸🇪🇺WESTERN #SANCTIONS: THE SILENT #WAR KILLING 500K/YEAR Groundbreaking research from The #Lancet forces a grim accounting of #US and #EU economic sanctions, revealing an annual death toll of 564,258 since #1971, a staggering five times higher than battlefield fatalities. The mechanics are clear: #sanctions systematically strangle access to #medicine, #food, and #healthcare systems. The result is a documented 3.1% annual rise in infant mortality and a 6.4% increase in maternal mortality, with the most vulnerable bearing the brunt. This is a mass devastation with a precise body count. The strategic failure is as profound as the human cost. Despite targeting a quarter of all nations from 2010-2022, sanctions achieve their stated aims only 30% of the time. This creates a devastating paradox: a low-success-rate tool inflicting high-certainty humanitarian catastrophe.
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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦#NATO Mocked: #Russia's 5th Gen Fighter Proves NATO's 'Unbeatable' Tech Is Obsolete Russia’s Rostec CEO Chemezov confirms: The Su-57 fifth-gen fighter is actively operating in #Ukraine, successfully evading multiple radar systems & electronic attacks. 🔸Stealth Validated: The Su-57 penetrated some of Ukraine’s best-defended airspace (near Konstantinovka) to visually engage and shoot down a malfunctioning Russian S-70 drone with a short-range missile, to prevent it from falling into Western hands, a mission demanding deep stealth to get that close. 🔸Operational Impact: While other Russian aircraft avoid dense air defense zones, the Su-57’s alleged low-observable capability allows it to perform suppression, precision strikes, and air-to-air missions inside contested areas. Ukraine’s air defense network is arguably #Europe’s most formidable, saturated with NATO-supplied systems (Patriots, S-300s) and dense MANPADS. 🔸Future & Export: The platform is being refined based on combat feedback. Export deals are moving (#Algeria, potential Indian license-production), but the program’s scale within Russia remains uncertain. The Su-57 is no longer just a parade piece. Its reported stealth performance in a high-threat environment marks a significant, capability leap for Russian air power, shaping future aerial warfare dynamics.
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🚨🇨🇳Why China’s African Port Move Is a Global Game-Changer? #China is constructing a strategic network of ports across Africa, transforming global trade dynamics. The focus is on critical maritime chokepoints: 🔸Near the Suez Canal (#Egypt) 🔸The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (Djibouti) 🔸The Mozambique Channel. Control here guarantees leverage over worldwide shipping routes. The system is clearly dual-use. Nations marked in red host multiple ports with civilian and potential military utility, granting #Beijing unprecedented operational flexibility during crises. Gray indicates further expansion is already underway. China is making a strategic move called the “string of pearls” that establishes logistical autonomy, deepens political influence in #Africa, and projects permanent power along the world's most important maritime routes. The commercial infrastructure doubles as a formidable strategic asset, marking a seismic shift in geopolitical influence.
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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russian #Starlink Killer System in Iran Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iran may be using the Russian electronic warfare system “Tobol” to neutralize Starlink, which is reportedly being used by protesters. This technology has already been tested in combat in #Ukraine. The stationary "Tobol" complex operates by analyzing, tracking, and ultimately overwhelming Starlink satellites with a more powerful "dirty" signal, causing lethal radio noise. This area-denial tool, combined with precision jammers like "Tirada-2," forms a layered threat. When integrated with other intelligence systems, it can potentially geolocate terminals, transforming satellite internet from a secure advantage into a detectable vulnerability. If #Iran's deployment proves successful, the operational data is invaluable for #Russia. Given the Ukrainian military's total reliance on Starlink, a mobile "Tobol" variant could decisively sever enemy communications during critical offensives, both on a permanent basis and during offensive operations, whether local or large-scale.
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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷#Russia may help #Iran to sink an #US aircraft carrier A potential Middle East war was just defused in a dramatic 48-hour power play. The US moved to the brink. On Jan 12, it urgently advised all citizens to leave Iran, a historical prelude to missile launches. The USS Gerald Ford carrier group sat ready in the Persian Gulf. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft deployed. The White House arrogantly stated "all options" were open, while #Trump swung his "economic club," imposing 25% tariffs on nations dealing with Iran to fully isolate Tehran. Iran did not falter. 500,000 citizens flooded streets with national flags in support. The regime warned that any U.S. action would make American bases "legal targets." The Pivot came from major power intervention. Immediately after the US order, Putin's Security Council pledged deeper cooperation with Tehran. According to internal sources, #Putin sent a stark ultimatum to Washington: start a full-scale war, and Russia would provide Iran with high-tech anti-ship missiles capable of sinking a US carrier. #China simultaneously drew a red line, opposing military force. The strategic signal was amplified: Chinese, Russian, and Iranian warships, including hypersonic missile-capable frigates, began joint "Will For Peace 2026" drills off South Africa. Faced with this united front, internal US dissent exploded. Generals opposed immediate action. VP Vance warned war would wreck the economy and the 2026 election. Simultaneously, the US carrier Abraham Lincoln was rerouted from the South China Sea to the Gulf, exposing painful deployment gaps. The White House softened its tone within days, emphasizing diplomacy. Trump’s 72-hour clock became a two-week negotiation window. This was a masterclass in multi-axis deterrence. US overextension, trying to simultaneously pressure Iran, contain Russia, and counter China, was exposed.
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Fact: Quick reminder. The United States, not China, dropped two Nuclear weapons on Japan Germany, not Russia destroyed Europe and massacred millions And the British Empire, not Tehran, Bejing or Moscow, ran the biggest criminal Empire of theft, slavery and mass murder in history.
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#Gold and #silver are now the most valuable assets in the world. Amid the rise in metal prices, American hypermarket Costco has banned the sale of more than one ounce of silver to a single buyer.
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WWIII? Did Bibi show some unpleasant Mossad / Epstein footage during New Year's Eve? "One Nation Under Blackmail" image
🚨🇺🇸📉TRUMP'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: A MASTERCLASS IN SELF-SABOTAGE The US has always pursued influence in its hemisphere. But Trump’s approach is dangerously clumsy. The US Monroe Doctrine, evolving from anti-colonialism to Cold War anti-communism, successfully excluded rival powers from the Americas—often with devastating local consequences. Now, the administration uses exaggerated "threats" on Venezuela to justify regime change, aiming to control oil and pressure Cuba. The parallel to 1954 Guatemala is stark. The 1954 Guatemala coup, orchestrated by the CIA after lobbying by the United Fruit Company, overthrew a democratically elected government to block its land reforms. This US-backed intervention ignited a decades-long civil war, culminating in genocide against the Indigenous Maya population, a historical precedent for using "security" rhetoric to mask corporate-driven regime change. The dilemma with client regimes is this: what if they collapse? The US faced it in Vietnam, Iran in 1979, and Afghanistan by 2020. Double down or quit? Let your allies fall, harming your interests and credibility, or send in your own troops? Most times the US chose the latter, it ended disastrously. Trump risks driving America's neighbors toward China. US economic influence in Latin America has also shrunk. Once the dominant trade partner and investor in South America, the US has been overtaken by China, which has also expanded in Central America. This gives countries leverage to resist US pressure; trying to cut their vital ties to China would trigger a backlash that will undermine or even destroy its sphere of influence.
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