Discussions between Ankara, Riyadh, and Islamabad have reached an “advanced stage,” with a strong likelihood of a formal agreement. If finalized, the pact would bring together three states with distinct yet complementary strategic assets.

Saudi Arabia would anchor the alliance economically and politically as the only Arab member of the G20 and a central actor in the Islamic world. Pakistan would contribute its status as the only Muslim-majority nuclear-armed state, along with its growing defense-industrial base. Turkey, meanwhile, would add operational experience as the second-largest military in NATO and a country deeply involved in multiple regional theaters.

In September 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA), committing both sides to treat an attack on one as an attack on the other—an arrangement conceptually similar to NATO’s Article 5, though without NATO’s institutional depth. Turkey’s potential accession would significantly elevate the agreement’s strategic profile.

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“Make Money Laundering Great Again” (MMLGA)

According to Mother Jones, “President Donald Trump’s return to power has cast doubt on the future of the most monumental anti-kleptocracy reform push in decades… Increasingly, the United States has become the epicenter of the multitrillion-dollar offshore economy”.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury with a mission to “safeguard the financial system from illicit activity, counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism”.

On March 6, 2015, four months before Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination, a controversial FinCEN report regarding money laundering violations at Trump’s Taj Mahal’s Casino was released:

“The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors”
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In a carefully documented February 26, 2017 Newsweek Report (during Trump’s first mandate):

“President Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder money through a Trump-affiliated hotel in Panama, according to a new investigation by the organization Global Witness.

The report said the drug cartels purchased hotel units to hide the origins of money earned through drug trafficking and other criminal activity, and Trump is estimated to have earned tens of millions of dollars from the deals.

Some observers [2017] are saying it is time for Congress to begin investigating the president’s finances and potential conflicts of interest.

In a carefully documented February 26, 2017 Newsweek Report (during Trump’s first mandate):

“President Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder money through a Trump-affiliated hotel in Panama, according to a new investigation by the organization Global Witness.

The report said the drug cartels purchased hotel units to hide the origins of money earned through drug trafficking and other criminal activity, and Trump is estimated to have earned tens of millions of dollars from the deals.

Some observers [2017] are saying it is time for Congress to begin investigating the president’s finances and potential conflicts of interest.

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On January 3rd, 2026, American helicopters landed in Caracas.
Thirty minutes later, a president was in custody.
And $17.3 trillion in oil reserves quietly changed hands.

This video explains why that event wasn’t an anomaly — but a symptom.

For over 2,000 years, every major empire has risen and fallen through the same mathematical, repeatable cycle. Different flags. Different technologies. Same stages. Same ending.

Rome.
The Dutch Republic.
The British Empire.

All followed the same path.
And the United States is now deep into the final phases.

In this documentary-style analysis, we break down the seven-stage empire collapse model and show — using history, data, and incentives — exactly where we are today and what comes next.

In this video, you’ll learn:

• The seven-stage cyclethat has ended every debt-based empire in history
• Why sound money always precedes imperial dominance
• How social expansion quietly turns into fiscal overreach
• Why currency debasement always follows military overextension
• How resource acquisition through force signals late-stage decline
• Why Venezuela’s oil seizure fits a centuries-old pattern
• What capital flight looks like before collapse becomes obvious
• How fiscal dominance traps central banks with no good options
• Why hyperinflation or default are the only historical endgames
• How wealth transfers occur during monetary resets — every single time

This is not a prediction.
This is pattern recognition.

Empires do not collapse suddenly.
They collapse predictably— and then all at once.

The Venezuela operation was not the beginning.
It was confirmation.

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America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion — and this time, the danger isn’t the headline number.

The real threat is what’s happening quietly behind the scenes.

For the first time in more than 75 years, global institutions, foreign central banks, and large asset managers are systematically reducing exposure to dollar-denominated assets. Not publicly. Not dramatically. But deliberately.

In this video, we break down a five-hundred-year historical pattern that has repeated every time a global reserve currency collapsed — from Spain, to the Dutch Republic, to the British Empire — and explain why the United States is now deep into Stage Three: the Silent Exodus.

By the end of this video, you’ll understand:

The four-stage cycle that precedes every reserve-currency collapse

Why debt-driven empires fail the same way every time

How capital flight actually begins — and why it’s invisible to the public

Why foreign holders are quietly selling U.S. Treasuries

What rising interest costs mean for a $38T debt load

Why printing money delays collapse but worsens the outcome

What Stage Four historically looks like — and why it destroys the middle class

How previous societies that ignored these signals lost decades of wealth

This is not about politics.
This is not about ideology.
This is historical pattern recognition, backed by data, balance sheets, and precedent.

Empires don’t fall suddenly — they fall predictably.

And the most dangerous moment is when everything still looks normal.

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The act itself recognizes billionaires’ ability to evade taxation: “A large percentage of billionaire wealth is never taxed by the State due to billionaires’ unique ability to control the timing, location, and amount of income tax that they pay.” This tax avoidance is exactly what has happened since the ballot measure was submitted.

Importantly, the tax conflates voting shares with equity, as Garry Tan, president and CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, recently explained on X. This means that under the law, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin—who each possess 30 percent of the voting rights in Google, but only own 3 percent of its equity—would have to pay a 5 percent tax on the value of their voting control. Tan estimates that this figure would come to about $60 billion each, and in order to pay this, both Page and Brin would have to liquidate 50 percent of their Google shares. The two co-founders recently fled the state to avoid this potential penalty.

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The project was initially set to cost $1.5 billion. In August last year, the Jerusalem Post reported that none of the announcements related to the project included foreign funding.

This would increase Washington’s annual aid budget of $3.8 billion to Israel. Aside from the annual aid, the US has provided Israel with $21.7 billion in direct military assistance since the start of the Gaza genocide.

The Haaretz report comes days after Israeli Prime Minister and wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in an interview with The Economist that Israel hopes to “taper off” its dependence on US military aid in the next decade.

It also comes as Haaretz is being accused of “supporting the enemy in time of war” over its reporting about the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, the Israeli government filed an affidavit in the High Court responding to a petition filed against an order for ministries to halt all contact with the Israeli newspaper. The initial government order to sever ties with Haaretz was issued in November 2024.

The affidavit charges that the newspaper “has expressed support for the enemy in time of war.”

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The Iranian revolution of 1979, in which Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and replaced by an Islamist government led by Ruhollah Khomeini, has been the subject of conspiracy theories alleging Western involvement, in particular, that the United States and the United Kingdom secretly opposed the Shah because his White Revolution and Iran’s growing independence was unfavorable to their interests in Iranian petroleum.[1] In his own memoirs, Answer to History, the Shah alleges that Western forces most prominently the United Kingdom, the United States, and Big Oil conspired against him all for their own reasons while most notably, he claims due to his manipulation of oil prices.[2]

Khomeini rejected the charges,[3] claiming it was the Shah who was a Western “agent” who had prevented the establishment of Islamic government in Iran until the revolution.[4]
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Claimed British-American involvement

According to a book by F. William Engdahl, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, a conspiracy to overthrow the Shah was hatched by the British and Americans in 1978 coinciding with the Iranian revolution in the aftermath of the collapse of negotiations to renew a twenty-five year-old agreement between the Shah’s government and BP known as the Consortium Agreement of 1954.[8]

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At the same time, the Digital Omnibus is part of the European Commission’s deregulation agenda, which threatens key social and environmental standards in Europe. Ironically this deregulation agenda is being promoted by the Commission as a way to make the EU ‘competitive’ – despite in reality actively empowering US Big Tech companies that dominate the field.

The Digital Omnibus was immediately heavily criticised by numerous civil society organisations. Politico even called it the end of the ‘Brussels effect’ – that is, that European tech regulations are adopted in other countries – and wrote that “Washington is [now] setting the pace on deregulation in Europe.”

To show the extent of Big Tech’s influence on the Digital Omnibus, we compared the Commission’s proposals with the lobbying positions from Big Tech and its associations.

The proposals in the Digital Omnibus concern both data protection and rules for AI. While the EU mistakenly speaks of benefits for European corporations, it is clear that weak digital rules strengthen the power of Google, Microsoft, Meta etc, thereby jeopardising the goal of becoming more independent from Big Tech and the US.

In the past, Big Tech has repeatedly spread the one-sided lobbying message that data protection hinders economic growth and innovation, especially with regard to AI. This includes exceptions for SMEs and a fundamental focus on making more use of data instead of protecting it.

Tech companies are spreading these messages with a record-breaking lobbying budget, a huge lobbying network, and support from the Trump administration. The digital industry’s annual lobby spending has grown from €113 million in 2023 to €151 million today – an increase of 33.6 percent in just two years.
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Lobbying of the far-right seems to have become a particular priority for Meta, and to a lesser extent Google. While during the previous parliamentary mandate, Meta only met once with a far-right MEP, during this parliamentary mandate it has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group. The digital omnibus is a key priority in those meetings. In the week of 8 December 2025, Meta met with four far right MEPs with most of those meetings mentioning the digital omnibus.

Google has also not shied away from meeting far-right MEPs. A few days after the launch of the digital omnibus, the Head of Public Affairs of Google France joined a dinner party in Strasbourg hosted by six French MEPs from the far right Rassemblement National.

Big Tech’s lobbying strategy in the US, where it has aligned itself with the Trump administration, now appears to have been extended to the European Parliament.

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“They borrowed a lot more money than they should have for a company that isn’t growing — it’s a slow-melting ice cube,” said Tim Hynes, the global head of credit research at Debtwire. “If you have declining sales, you have to have a lot of cushion, and if you don’t … that’s how you wind up getting in trouble.”

The Saks-Neiman Marcus merger was meant to buoy both retailers as department stores continue to lose relevance and consumers are increasingly reticent to spend on nonessentials. During the holiday shopping season, transactions at high-end department stores from Black Friday to Cyber Monday fell 10 percent compared with the same four-day stretch a year earlier, according to Consumer Edge, which tracks transaction data on U.S. credit and debit cards. They also lagged those of their off-price peers.

But Saks, in particular, struggles to draw in customers, said Shawn Grain Carter, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Saks Global posted second-quarter revenue of $1.6 billion in October, a more than 13 percent decline year-over-year.

It has also fallen behind on paying its vendors, leaving its stores with a limited assortment of products, according to Debtwire and other news reports. Several vendors have sued the company over the past two years, alleging it did not pay its bills for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of women’s apparel, winter accessories and jewelry.

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Moms who said their incomes were never enough also tended to have lower levels of income and education, more stressful life events, and higher overall stress. But even after the scientists accounted for these other factors, income insufficiency still showed a unique association to how well babies’ brains developed.

The scientists focused most closely on brain features that typically develop quickly in the first year of life, and show up on EEGs in alpha and beta ranges, linked in other research to later cognitive development in areas such as executive function, language, and attention. Babies whose moms said their incomes were rarely or never sufficient generally showed slower increases in alpha power, slower increases in alpha peak frequency—a classic marker of maturation in infancy—and consistently lower beta power. These differences were noticeable when the babies reached around 9 months of age.

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