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Col. Douglas Macgregor - decorated combat veteran, author, and former advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense - returns to Neutrality Studies with an argument that cuts against almost everything said in Washington and Brussels. His thesis is not that America will lose a war. It is that America will run out of money first. Macgregor compares the present moment to the final months before the Soviet collapse — a period he says he lived through as a young academic, when informed observers agreed the system was unsustainable but nobody could name the date. In his reading, the same conditions now exist in the United States: unfunded liabilities that cannot be met, an interest-rate trap with no exit, a defense budget that is the easiest line to cut and the hardest to defend politically, and a foreign policy establishment structurally incapable of reforming itself. He also argues that the era of forward presence is ending for military reasons, not just financial ones. Precision missiles paired with space-based surveillance have made large concentrations of forward-deployed forces survivable only at distance - which is why, in his account, carrier groups now sit far offshore rather than in the Gulf.<



The conversation ranges across the war in Ukraine, the German political realignment, the logic of the American base network, Vietnam and the gold standard, Korea, Cuba and Puerto Rico, and why he believes any American withdrawal will look lessUnited States: unfunded liabilities that cannot be met, an interest-rate trap with no exit, a defense budget that is the easiest line to cut and the hardest to defend politically, and a foreign policy establishment structurally incapable of reforming itself. He also argues that the era of forward presence is ending for military reasons, not just financial ones. Precision missiles paired with space-based surveillance have made large concentrations of forward-deployed forces survivable only at distance - which is why, in his account, carrier groups now sit far offshore rather than in the Gulf. The conversation ranges across the war in Ukraine, the German political realignment, the logic of the American base network, Vietnam and the gold standard, Korea, Cuba and Puerto Rico, and why he believes any American withdrawal will look less like Gorbachev's orderly exit from East Germany and more like Kabul. <




https://youtu.be/fFqLDDpo9E8?si=0IZBNXcTLlpW3Zx3

End Reaganism. !

"We are still fighting to reverse Reaganism and go on to King's Dream" <



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Burkina Faso Under Captain Ibrahim Traoré - Four Years Later, What Changed?<



governance was the procedural ritual of the ballot box. Every 5 years, tens of 15:19 millions of dollars, frequently exceeding $100 million in foreign loans and precious state revenues were 15:26 squandered on imported ballot papers. international electoral consultants 15:31 residing in luxury hotels and fleeting political posters that soon peeled from 15:36 the crumbling walls of unfunded village schools. Political factions proliferated 15:42 like market stalls peddling ethnic patronage while the foundational infrastructure of the country decayed. 15:49 When the votes were tallied and western capitals applauded another orderly election, the ordinary citizen was left 15:56 with nothing but an empty granary<


with nothing but an empty granary and an unpaved road. In the memorable words 16:02 often recalled by elder Burkinab patriots, an imported democracy that 16:07 delivers chilled champagne to a privileged political class in the capital while denying a cup of clean 16:14 drinking water to the villages is not freedom. It is an insult to human 16:19 dignity. Rather than perpetuating this hollow theatrical routine, the 16:25 transitional administration initiated a profound structural reorganization 16:30 grounded in ancestral heritage and indigenous community values. For the 16:35 first time since the colonial era, thegrounded in ancestral heritage and indigenous community values. For the 16:35 first time since the colonial era, the exclusive monopoly of the European legal 16:40 apparatus was dismantled under extensive legal reforms. 16:46 Traditional rulers, village elders, and customary councils of sages have been formally granted statutory authority to 16:53 adjudicate civil grievances, land disputes, and communal frictions. An 16:59 impoverished farmer no longer has to sell his remaining livestock to finance an urban attorney or travel 200 miles on 17:06 a crowded bush taxi to an intimidating provincial courtroom. His case is heard 17:12 beneath the shade of the village baobabcrowded bush taxi to an intimidating provincial courtroom. His case is heard 17:12 beneath the shade of the village baobab tree by respected elders who intimately understand the soil, the ancestral 17:19 lineages and the local traditions with their deliberated rulings officially registered and upheld by the Ministry of 17:26 Justice. This is not a retreat from the rule of law. It is the establishment of 17:32 authentic accessible justice that restores dignity to the ordinary peasant 17:37 and strips away decades of bureaucratic extortion. Before we reveal the next 17:42 chapter, which is perhaps the most powerful <



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American white race riot continues <


JD Vance Says Republicans Got Tired of Being 'Called Racist' for Noticing America 'Becoming Dirtier' Paloma Chavez 21 hours ago The vice president also said America became "poorer, and less safe and less prosperous" <



http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/09/httpsl_01475482816.html

Scientists Create New Antibody For Virus That Infects 95% of People David Nield 1 <



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New Theory Of Consciousness Suggests The Brain Uses Analog Computing To Create Awareness And Experience Benjamin Taub 1 day ago Interactions between brainwaves may enable the constant creation of novel brain states. Image credit: Ecliptic Graphic/Unsplash.com <



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