Originally published at: NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM JUNE 19 2025
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:15 — 23.7MB)There’s no special article behind today’s News and Views, because Joseph is trying to address things that really bother him about this whole Iran vs. Israel narrative:
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Thank you for raising this important point of manufacturing consent. Something is off about the lack of success in stopping Iranian missiles given the Israeli access to US weapons. Iran knows that it is first in line for regime change and is doing what any state with half a brain would do and that is to arm itself with a nuclear weapon as a deterrent.
It is irrelevant what I feel about Iran, they would be idiots not to protect themselves from US aggression.
As to the why now? something has changed, possibly incoming comet or asteroid apophis. Take your pick of scenarios but whatever the case it is becoming a front and centre issue.
Russia is aware, China is aware, the stakes have changed and we are going to see some big moves soon in my opinion.
If the Middle East is the cradle of western civilization and its come to the current events, I’d say the babies were evidently raised in a dysfunctional environment by dysfunctional parents and family therapists were and still are unable to break the cycle.
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I think it’s costing Uncle Sam upwards of nearly 30m dollars a day to keep the’iron’ done running, possibly even more.
All of these arrests in the last 72hrs of Indians/Azeri’s/Afghans in IR just doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.
Good point!
If, there is an existential threat; China, Russia and others would know.
Thus; behaviors would “act” in ways that don’t make “normal” sense.
As a near civilizational end-event; would change the geopolitical landscape.
But, things look pretty much like they’re looking long range.
Why gobble up the Middle East; if the world is going upside-down - soon?
Unless, your op got everyone else thinking - upside-down.
Giving you a free: act as if…
IT JUST DON’T MATTER!
Somehow, there looks to be a “Hitchcock MacGuffin” that Governments know.
These governments then act against their peoples’ interests.
I though it was a Globalist Agenda that they all signed onto.
That’s not quite it though.
Obviously, whatever it is - IS OUT THERE!
Or, a Geophysical Polar Shift - something, that can’t be timed?
Or, AI is missing with their policy decisions?
Whatever it is.
Some governments seem to be on the same page.
The press ain’t talking - even if they knew.
The inner circle is tight-lipped.
Or, something in Antarctica is calling shots. [The THING]
And, the governments don’t know what shots are being called.
But, if they get called from the “THING”, they comply?
Or, something is scrambling some brains.
Or, missing with dimensions; that effect thought processes of the mind.
[Mind - being the brain, and the higher dimensions, involved in thinking]
Or, it’s just a bunch of mis/dis information.
And no one knows.
Not even: The Thing; or AI: or Whatever’s OUT THERE!
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Why now? Probably multiple reasons. IS is a creation and captive nation of the hidden hand (City of London banks et al). They created it and control it from behind the scenes. USA is the martial puppet of the same people. Our military does their bidding. British Petroleum (City of London controlled) once controlled the hydrocarbon resources of Iran under the Shah. Makes sense IS would not have protested much against the Shah’s govt which was put in place by the same western powers as IS. Iran has 20 percent-ish of the world’s hydrocarbons and is a major supplier of China and is one of the energy anchors for BRICS. BRICS is rising in influence. Given the failures of the west in the Ukraine, they needed a ‘new’ regional conflict to keep things stirred up / west exert force against the east.
IR even under the Shah doubtless knew about the IS nuke program and began their program to become a ‘threshold Nuclear state’ to counter the IS capability. It’s been in a state of readiness for a long time. So long it’s kinda silly to think they already have what they need to build one and have had it for some time. But they haven’t done it (seemingly).
Not perfectly on target for this discussion but excellent on the ‘foil BRICS’ topic here is a link to a recent vid.
silly to think they DONT already have
At last a narrative that makes sense. The “BRICS nations want to develop and profit from their own assets their way, instead of combining them with the City of London and following their age old plan. Obviously the City of London insists it’s their way or the highway.
Their plan to allow Israel to set up house in Palestine goes way back, and was well thought out, including redrawing country boundaries in the Middle East.
As for Venezuelan oil, though they have substantial oil deposits most of the world’s refineries are not built to refine their literally crude oil. When I worked for Shell Oil in Houston there was one refinery that bragged about being able to refine all grades of oil, including Venezuelan crude oil. One of the few refineries in the world.
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Another take from a Substack author I’ve not read before, in line with some of you posting here - it’s all about the West retaining control of the region -
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excellent short summary and a quick read. More people need to be exposed to the backstory of what’s going on through articles like this.
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All that talk of the unipolar world has ended, more smoke and mirrors…Iranian civilization is over 2500 years old, to think they have no clue of what their belligerent “children” have been up to all these years and not prepare is folly.
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The only difference this time?
Israel didn’t do a false flag.
New world order:
Just go for their throats.
“You Don’ Need No-Stinking, False-Flags!”
F-22s now deployed to Jordan with tanker support. Perhaps pre-positioning assets just in case, but the more US assets there are in-theatre the easier for a stray rocket to come from nowhere in the desert (could be from either side) and strike them…giving the neocons material to demand involvement.
One other thought…Hamas, etc are quietly waiting in the periphery and if they see the opportunity or IR seriously threatened they could go across the border. IS is spread very thin / reserve forces likely exhausted. So there could be ground action against IS that does not come from IR.
The IR strategy seems to be ‘make IS un-liveable’. People are leaving as quickly as they can. The wealthy / educated are the ones leaving as they have the means. If IS looses half their population they will be non-viable as a nation.
Conveniently, Ukraine has been cleared out and ready for new colonists.
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Somebody I read yesterday said exactly that, that Israel has dispensed w international law as a mere inconvenience - as has the US at times. The coup was reading that Israel had put some of its military & intelligence assets next to or beneath a hospital, which Iran targeted, so of course the US media are saying “what monsters - the Iranians bomb hospitals!” Like Israel never has, and Israel isn’t using civilians as human shields?
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I am not cruel, so I won’t point out that many recent transplants to Israel are actually from the Ukraine & the Russian Federation… We never get good reporting in US unless alt or independent on the composition of who the “settlers” are - everyone talks about “Israel” as if it’s a monolith - there is no party called the Democrats (grew out of Labour), there is no one upset with Netanyahu among his own countrymen, etc.
Hope the Internet connections stay up in the “theatre of war” now that we know the plot. Unfortunately in a play the actors don’t get killed and the scenery destroyed. Seems the reviewers told us the plot but since the play is on going, they have no spoiler alerts to withhold.
A friend sent me the latest from WaPo on how Hegseth & Gabbard are being sidelined. She didn’t know me 23 yrs ago, so doesn’t know I am a Whiskey Bar former habitue, where I first read MoA.
All of that Bill’s (Billmon) blog followers knew what the WaPo was back then, & it was more honorable than it is now.
I saw something on the Tulsi Hegseth sideline thing too. Said DJT won’t sit through a briefing, won’t read a briefing, aides considering doing a Fox news video style brief for him daily. Cognitive overload? Maybe the smartest in the room, but never smarter than the whole room.
When you’ve got this guy on your team, those two are in the peanut gallery. He was head of intelligence for the whole Islam project.
Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine
No US losses in bombing run against hardened Iranian targets, all aircraft on way back, all targets obliterated.
Who else thinks they used rods of god?
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