RANT: SLIDING DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE

  

A SHORT NOTE ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING seems to be going faster and faster these days, one example being the rapid deterioration of the United States, with its hollowed-out industrial base (all those jobs and businesses going over seas to low wage countries) and the incredible debt burden now standing at over twenty trillion dollars and nearly a trillion per year in interest payments! As well, the decline of the dollar as the global currency of trade, once a given in the decades following WWII is on the ropes. Now, more and more countries are using local currencies to evade the financial strictures^* imposed on them by the United States and its 'weaponized' dollar. 

👉The system of global trade and finance, brought into being during the 1944 Bretton Woods¹ summit where the post war years were envisioned and shaped, that system is over, as many commetators suggest. It's another data point exposing the failing American empire as it loses it financial mojo, along with its vaunted military might, as seen with its current military fiasco venture in the Persian Gulf. Again, the emperor or the empire has no clothes and everyone can see behind the curtain whose really in charge.

MOST TRAGICALLY, and most costly in blood and treasure (on all sides) was the “War on Terror” begun in in the  shadow of 9/11 during the Bush presidency. America spent trillions of dollars over nearly two decades in failed wars of choice halfway around the world. The cost of these wars has all but bankrupted the country.

  

AS WE GO FORWARD, marching bravely towards our imagined future, we fail to realize that the carpet of the past behind us is rolling up ever faster, what with nuclear Armageddon or the climate crisis increasingly at pace with our forward march. And when we finally see, too late of course, that the past is catching up to us, we then sprint forward in a desperate attempt to outrun the consequences of our actions. Eventually we’ll either run out of carpet or be rolled up entirely and thrown into the dustbin of history unless we heed the lessons of those who have gone before us whereby civilizations of one sort or another, large or small, do indeed come to an end, strangled to death by hubris or willful blindness, or both. 

And endings are rougher than beginnings because there is a lot to lose empire-wise. People and politicians cling to things that are precious to them and hold fast against the winds of change as they scour away everything, or most everthing, that remains entrenched and unwilling to change.  The question is: Will we remain victims of the coming changes or will we adapt and change ourselves? Only time will tell.

 

SOME SAY, tongue in cheek mostly, that the next species to emerge into sentience and roam the world will be racoons (Procyon lotor), a mammalian example of creatures that can survive in most environments, especially where there are garbage bins to tip over. Personally, I’d like to see whales, another mammalian, especially friendly Grays (Eschrichtius robustus) or giant Blues (Megaptera novaeangliae), take the lead on things as they leap forward into conscious self-awareness—though maybe they’re already there, aware of themselves, aware of us as they patiently wait in deep ocean waters for the handoff, so to speak, from Homo sapiens when we crash and burn and go down the tube, nuclear Armageddon or the climate crisis being the top two contenders that may bring about our demise. (There are more waiting in the wings, of course). 

👉Thus, we race desperately forward to our imagined future, not heeding the looming consequences stemming from our actions, both past and present, that doggedly follow us. We will need to endure those consequences, to reap what we have sown, and pay our debts in the decades ahead, debts to the world we share with so many living beings (plant and animal alike). We must pay our debts to fellow humans we have abused, past and present. We must pay our debts to the environment, to our world and to Gaia, and those debts must be paid in full. 

  

Cheers, Jake. _______________________________________ 

 

* “The Bretton Woods Agreement was a 1944 pact that set up a new global system of fixed exchange rates tied to the U.S. dollar and gold.” (Investopia) Bretton Woods is in the state of New Hampshire.

 

1. One example being the United States using “sanctions” which are illegal under international law because they have been imposed unilaterally by the US and not approved by the United Nations or other international regulatory bodies. 

👉Currently, some thirty countries (Canada, too!) are under sanctions of one sort or another imposed on them by the US administration, which, in the end primarily benefit rich oligarchs at the expense of the rest of us. {Nice. Ed.] 

Nearly one-third of the world's population, nearly 2.8-billion people are under US sanctions, which is an extraordinary number and a symptom of American hubris and the blind faith most of its citizens and elites share, namely that their country acts as a benign entity in its role as “global hegemon”, a role that was activated in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed and the “Cold War” ended, leaving the door open for America to emerge as the world’s sole “superpower”. Today, that role is being challenged by an increasing number of countries that also are turning their backs on the US dollar and the heavy hand of the United States that imposes its order as ‘top dog’ in the world. 

 

                                               AT THE CLINIC WITH A JOB TO DO

(Gratuitous sexual humour. Enjoy.😏) 

 

 

ANOTHER BRAIN PAN EXCURSION

 

“To hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." (Ham. 3.2.21-24 )

 

 

    "Think, Voloda! Think!"

👉MI6/CIA/SBU/MOSSAD INTERCRANIAL INTERCEPT USING MK-ULTRA BRAINSPY^© SOFTWARE—

SUBJECT: Volodymyr Zelensky (“Voloda”, “Vovo”) >>> 20 September 2025

TITLE/JOB DESCRIPTION: None. Term in office ended May, 2024. Rules by dictat.

LOCATION: A bunker 200 feet below a local 7-11 store. Kiev, Ukraine.

STATUS: So-so.

VENUE: Recording his daily presidential press release. >>>

 

 

 

 

 

 VZ: Why? Why I listen to dease basturdz? Why I go Londun on weekendz? Talk to Kiers, Manny and Mertzie? [British PM Sir Kier Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancelor Fredrich Mertz] My three amigos. Bah! What dey knows? No-nuthing dummies!...

DIRECTOR: “Ahem. AHEM! Mister President. Quiet on the set! All right, Mister DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." [Director jokes with President Zelensky]

VZ: Fuck you, Billy Wilder! Nixba! I pick you up. Take you with me. You make ad for kiddie cerealz before I come. “What's my motivation, Mister Director? Where is my emotional centrez? You never tellz me! Never directing me. Why do I say what I sayz? How I give speech when you don’tz tell me what is I need think in scene?  Directz me, Anton! Please!”

DIRECTOR: “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

VZ: “Thank a lot! I standing at podium. Big deal.”

DIRECTOR: “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world she walks into mine.”

VZ: “Yeah-yeah.” Big dealz. Bogartz. Casablanca. Nineteens and forty twos. Warners Brodher. Director Michaels Curtis; Hall Wallis production. You still lousy director. “Okay, okay. What are my lines? Why nothing on teleprompterz? What I say?”

DIRECTOR: “Water is more precious than gold. Could someone please get the President a drink of water.”

VZ: “Yah-yah. Tanks, Anton. [A grip brings President Zelensky a glass of water and two Alka Seltzer tablets.] "My head explode like Russian bomb.”

DIRECTOR: “Annalena, again?”¹

VZ: “Barebacks, yah. And Mertzie, too. He likes watch. Man, I sore all over. I feel like punching bagz. Anna say she hate new job as United Nations Gen’rals Assemble president. She say no one know who she is in New Yorkz”. I say, ‘You lucky move to Big Apples! You got lots of evertings’. But she just spank me harder. And let me tellz you, after….”

DIRECTOR: “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.”

VZ: Huh? "Yeah. Whateverz. Hey, when we get this party started, baby!” Boy, I need stiff drink–like yesterdayz!

DIRECTOR: “Well, turn that frown upside down, Mister President….Sosha! [Speaks to makeup girl behind camera] “Sosha, do something with the President’s nose. It’s all red and shiny, again. [Sosha walks across the set and applies talc powder to the president’s nose.]

VZ: “Achoooz! Achoooz! Ahh! Godz mee bless. Thank you, Sosha. Yaah. Das better.” [Sotto voce] Say, Sosha. Sosha, how olds you? How long you works for production companyz? Why I no see you befores?

SOSHA: “Eighteen. I’m eighteen, Mister President. Almost. I’ve only just started as an intern. I want some experience before I apply to university.”

VZ:  Wham, bam! Thank you mam! How dat for experience? “My-my. Eighteen! I have daughter, my sweet Oleksandra, jus’ three-year old than you. She at universityz, too. In Paris. You just girlz. My-my. Tell me, do you go schoolz still?” Sosha is one hoochie-coochie gal! Wow! She a slow boil, but when heatz up—look out, babez!

SOSHA: I’m going to university next year after I finish high school. I want to study film making. I want to be a director like my dad, Mister President.”

VZ: “You could be in movie, Sosha. Your dad, he is director? What name, Sosha? Maybe I knowz him. And call me Voloda. Not so formal here in bunker. Ha-ha” Mmm. Soon I rub cocoa-nuttz butter all overs her. “Ha-ha.” How I get her to come to President Palace after shootz?  Olena is in Paris, shopping. While harpy away, the mice they playz.  

SOSHA: “Ha-ha” [Sosha, nervously]. “You should know him, Mister Pres…Voloda. I came in with him for this morning’s shoot to help out.…”

VZ: “Sosha! You mean Anton Sebrinsky is father! Our Director is Sosha’s papa! Ho-ha-ha! Hoh… Hmmm.” [To Director] “Antonz, why you no tell me you have such pretty daughterz? And so smart!”

DIRECTOR: "With all due respect, Sir, you're beginning to bore the hell out of me."

VZ: “Wait! I knows dis one. Yah-yah, is Clin Eastwoodz. He playz Gunny from Heartbreaks Ridge movie. Nineteens and…eight-Sixes. Warner Brodher! Hah!” Oye! Anton is her papa! I need be carefulz. He has temper and he big guy.  I have getz Sosha away from set. How? Think, Voloda! Think! [President Zelensky writes a brief note and hands it to Sosha as she finishes powdering his nose. She quickly puts it in her pocket.]

VZ: [To Director] “There, Anton. How my nose? Sosha do good jobz? Ha-ha! Letz get shoot finish!”

DIRECTOR: [Indicates the filming shoot is behind schedule] “If he has the time, Doctor. If he has the time.”

VZ: “Okay, Spock. Let’s go! I got things to do like fight Putin. Pah! [The President spits] Ha-ha! Thank you, Sosha. [She returns behind camera] Goodz girl. Don’t show daddy note. Just you-me, baby! I wish I get with Opa Trump same. Maybe canoodle him againz. He like Voloda. He say so in private. Not so much in public dease days. He ride Voloda bareback all night longz. Hah-hah! Ouch! Maybe he givez me more monies. Same for Manny and Stammer. They all like Voloda. Rough trade boys they think they are. Dey blow razzberries at Putin. Das all. They just sissy pants. “Anton, my lines still no up on teleprompt. What I say to Ukrainee people so they don’t hate me? Ha-ha!” Or so Azov guys don’t shoot me. Godsdamn!

DIRECTOR: “I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions.”

VZ: Huh? “Hey sensi, still nothink on screen.”

DIRECTOR: “Patience, young  grasshopper.”

[The teleprompter boots with the President’s scrolling address to the Ukrainian people. The President clears his throat and begins reading his daily briefing.]

VZ: Same-o, same-o. Blahblahblah. More money, more fight. Ukraine will win. Hah! Right motherfucker! I need getz out from Dodge before sheriff come. But, for now—speak to camera like I understand what I say. Be firm. Stand straight, Voloda. Serious face now. And tonightz, Sosha come for sleep over! Oh yeah, babyz!

 

👉MI6/CIA/SBU INTRACRANIAL INTERCEPT USING MK-ULTRA BRAINSPY^© SOFTWARE—

SUBJECT: Volodymyr Zelensky (“Voloda”, "Vovo") >>> 20 December 2025

TITLE/JOB DESCRIPTION: None. Term in office ended in May 2024. Rules by dictat.

LOCATION: Cafeteria in private wing of Presidential Palace.

VENUE: Having coffee after assignation with ingénue.

 

SOSHA: “You know I love you, Vovo. I know you love me. Can’t you see our age difference doesn’t matter?”

VZ: “My sweet girlz…

SOSHA: You made me a woman, Vovo! How can anything that feels so good be so wrong?”

VZ: “Not wrong, darlingz. But if people know about us, dey not understandz. Tonight, I meet with my three amigo* and I hope they bring me Christmas surprise: Cash. Or soldiers to fight. Hah! If they come empty-handed, I stick firecracker up asses and light ‘em up! Oh yeah! So, you needz go home until they gone…no, waitz. Olena and Oleksandra come home for holidays soon. Let me calls you on burner phonez. We go hotel. Is private. Clean sheet. No bugs—unless Mossad or CIA plant one. Ha-ha! No-no. I know owner, he mums-the-word for right price. You still have wig, for disguise. Sunglasses? White cane? Good.” How I get out of dis mess? If I break off with Sosha, she will tell father and Anton will come down on me like tons of bricks.

SOSHA: “Darling, my love is like a flower and you its only seed. Why can’t we be free to love and live with whoever we want?!”

VZ: “Whoa now, sweetheart. I president of Ukrainee. We at war with Ruskies an…”

SOSHA: “Well, whose fault is that?”

VZ: “Huh? Sweetness and Light, what means you ‘whose’ fault? Putin invades Ukraine in 2022. His fault. Maybe you too young to remember.”

SOSHA: “I remember plenty! Oh, Vovo. Is this our first fight? Just like a regular couple! I love you!" [Kisses the president’s face several times] "Dearest, you took the bait from Boris Johnson and the United States. They gave you money and weapons and you thought you could win a war with Russia. How sad."

VZ: "Hey, we still can."

SOSHA: Oh, Vovo, what am I going to do with you?"

VZ: “Ha-ha!” What mean she by dis? Why all womens I go bed with say same thing? ‘Cept my Annalena. But she spank me so hard I no sit for week. She think Ukraine win war. And as president of United Nation Gen’rals Assemble she should know. Maybe I make mistake with Sosha….

SOSHA: “Penny for your thoughts.”

VZ: Eh? “Whoa Nellies! My thought worth weight in gold, Sweetie! Ha-ha!”

SOSHA: “And why do you have to meet with those horrid EU politicians again. They don’t care about you or Ukraine. They just want to keep their jobs, keep the war going. If elections were held today in their countries they would be wiped out like layno on a doormat. They couldn't get elected town dog-catchers!”

VZ: “Well, hey, they likes me, Soso. We have good time. Shoot breeze, make plans, play some pool, drink whisky…”

SOSHA: Vovo, they despise you. Can’t you see? Do you think the EU likes Ukraine? All Brussels wants is to keep the money for weapons flowing. Mertz says he wants to expand his country’s weapons production. Fewer Mercedes, more Tiger tanks. Same goes for France and Britain. Grow their economies by making bombs and missiles. Sell weapons, drones—whatever—to Ukraine and everywhere else. More soldiers die. Pretend Russia will invade Europe. Make a country that has the world’s largest nuclear weapons stockpile a permanent enemy. That doesn't sound like a good idea, does it? But the military industry stocks go up, and it’s a yippee-ki-yay-o merry-go-round of death. Can’t you see, my Love? They’re using you.”

VZ: Holy shit! How I get mixed up with this broad? She crazy!

SOSHA: [Excitedly] “Vovo, come away with me. We could go to some small selo, change our names, start a new life there. Why not? What will all the money you take from the Americans and Europeans do for you except paint a bullseye on your back. You don’t need this. They don’t need or want you. They'll chew you up then spit you out. Let’s go today. Right now!”

VZ: “I can’t, Sweetness. Ukrainee calls me to this duty.” And if EU gets hold of Russian frozen assets: tree hundreds billionz euros, I made in shade, baby! Hey? How she know all this? She not finish high school yet. She scary smart or bat shit crazy.

SOSHA: [Near tears] “Vovo, I knew you would say this. You just can’t let go of the golden ring, can you? Darling, I told my father about us. I begged him to help you leave the clutches of those Azov Nazis and the bureaucrats in Brussels and that senile American president who can't make up his mind to call it a day…”

VZ: Huh?! "You did  what, Soso?! You tell papa about us. Why?! What he say what he do?”

SOSHA: “You’ll have to ask him; he’s here now.” [Director enters cafeteria]

VZ: Oh. Hi, Anton. We just have coffeez. Want some?”

Director: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

VZ: “Oh, come on, Anton. We all grown-ups here. Mostly.”

DIRECTOR: “You hear me talking, hillbilly boy, I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your ass!”

VZ: Come on, Anton. You can’t do that. I president of Ukrainee (more or less, but why quibbles.) I your president, buddyz.

DIRECTOR: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”

VZ: "Sosha! Sosha! What 'aves you done!"

SOSHA: "I'm sorry, my Love. But we'll always have Paris." 

 

>>>> end of transmission end of transmission end of transmission end of transmission end of transmission

 

CHEERS, JAKE. _______________________________________ 

 

*  Shakespeare, William, et al. The Riverside Shakespeare. Houghton Mifflin, 1974.

 

1. Annalena Baerbock, crazy Green Party member served as Germany's Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from December 2021 until May 2025. Currently serving as President of the UN General Assembly (aka  "360 Baerbock").  

  

 

 

   

 

RANT: FOR THE NOBELIST OF MEN?

  

IT WOULD BE NICE if there was a Nobel Prize for participation—for just showing up, an “Also Ran” or “Everybody’s A Winner!” trophy that Donald Trump could receive. I don’t think he'd be satisfied with a medallion like the Nobel Peace Prize (NPP). Make it more like an “Emmy” or an “Oscar”, or a “Noble” business trophy that President Trump can put on his desk in the Oval Office. Have it stand out, be a bit of an eye catcher. Maybe something like a Briars Cup. Something classy, anyway. Because the American president is hell-bent on getting an award. Does he deserve an NPP, though? Nuh-uh. If he’d jettisoned the Ukraine clusterfuk on Day One of his presidency by stopping the flow of weapons and taxpayer dollars into Zelensky’s money pit, then there might be a case made for his getting 2025’s Nobel Peace Prize.* ['Cept, see "Gaza" 634 words👇. Ed.] And while Trump seems to genuinely want to get out of the Ukraine mess, he has strong headwinds to push through. First of all, his advisors, staff, his cabinet and most politicians on the Hill, are hawkish on Russia due to residual hatred of the USSR from Cold War days, or else they’re die-hard “Russia-gaters” who’ve been psy-opted into believing Russia’s President Putin is the horned and goat-footed Satan of our nightmares.

The summit in Alaska the last week, while it was short on “deals” as Trump so often wants to make, nevertheless had several important upsides:

👉First, Russia and the United States, as represented by each country’s president, met face-to-face; at least they’re talking.

👉Trump seems to have come around to Putin’s view that a temporary ceasefire—what Zelensky and most European heads of state want—is a non-starter. Why should Russia, that is winning decisively, stop their advance and give Ukraine time to re-group and re-arm?  Such a deal only delays the inevitable Russian victory with more death and destruction, going forward. A “peace treaty”, on the other hand, is a comprehensive settlement to the conflict that hammers out a deal whereby Russia and Ukraine, as well as Europe, can have their security guaranteed. Something along the Austrian or Swiss model of non-aligned neutrality. It would require a good deal of diplomatic wrangling, but it is far better than establishing a “frozen conflict”, like the one in place between North and South Korea since 1953, which is an armistice, a truce, not a real peace. Unresolved issues there have caused conflict, fear, and mistrust between the two nations ever since. Without a peace treaty, Ukraine would remain an existential threat to Russia, especially if what remains of Ukraine rearms and bids for NATO membership where it could become a base for conventional and even nuclear-tipped missiles pointed at Moscow and points eastward. Which would be unacceptable for Russia.(Think of China placing a ballistic missile site in Windsor, Ontario and how the Americans would react. They'd level the place ASAP, right? Is Russia not allowed to feel the same way about Ukraine becoming a NATO member and thus a more dangerous neighbour? 

BTW, NATO has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Uggh! Gag me with a spoon! 😝 The alliance is a paper tiger well past its sell by date. It does more harm than good and promotes conflict where diplomacy is urgently needed. Please, NATO, go sit in the corner and dissolve!

 

 👉Trump may have come away with a better appreciation of why Russia sees Ukraine as a threat to its peace and security. Which would be helpful if he is going to wind down American support for the Zelensky regime. SINCE the summit, the American president has cut off direct sales and donations of weapons to Ukraine, saying he will sell armaments to the Europeans and if they want to donate or sell them to Ukraine, that’s up to them. He’s opening up a bit of daylight between the United States and Ukraine, and at the same time placating hardliners in his administration by allowing US armaments to still flow there, if by a more circuitous route.¹

 

👉Trump said his three-hour meeting with Putin in Anchorage involved a wide-ranging discussion and he made it clear that America and Russia have concerns between them other than Ukraine. More talks and negotiations are in order. Putin invited Trump to visit Moscow in the near future. I would like to see negotiations around limiting nuclear proliferation and revising nuclear treaties, such as New Start, and the INF treaty. We will have to see how this all shakes out over the coming weeks and months.

 

So, should President Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize if his efforts in making a “deal" between Russia and Ukraine bear fruit? No he should not. His unwavering support of Israel and its depredations in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian lands is unconscionable, clearly marking him as complicit in the Jewish state's genocidal crimes there. But, I’d be happy to see him receive the Nobel Peace Prize as long as he’s in prison in the Hague for war crimes. He can keep his gold-plated Nobel medallion in his cell or use it to buy extra snacks in the prison commissary. 😁

  

ALFRED NOBEL'S WILL stipulates that the Peace Prize award should go "to the person (or group) who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Trump has a long row to hoe, I’m sure you'll agree.³  

 

 CHEERS JAKE. _______________________________

 

* One suggestion would be for Trump and Obama to time-share the NPP Obama won in 2009 for ending the “combat” mission in Iraq (mostly), though there are American troops there to this day. And the American military got out of Afghanistan only during Joe Biden’s presidency in that FUBAR of a withdrawal in 2021. So, while there was troop downsizing during Obama’s presidency, he didn’t end the “forever wars”, and he got America involved in Syria, to boot, in 2013. And let's not forget Libya! Finally, recall how Obama was given the moniker of “Drone Warrior-in-Chief” for his extensive use of the then-new remote-killing tech used to blow up Taliban chieftains and wedding parties. I personally feel Obama should give his medal back. He didn’t deserve one then and Donald Trump doesn’t deserve one now.

 

1. Trump has said the U.S. will allow the sale of longer-range missiles to Ukraine but they will need U.S.-monitored systems to fire and guide their flights to targets inside Russia, including Crimea. This is worrying and hopefully it means that Trump is doing what he always does, i.e., ‘playing both sides of the street’. The missiles may never arrive in Ukraine—apparently, they're still in production—or perhaps the launch codes will be withheld by the Americans. I hope this is just Trump dicking around like he always does, looking for some leverage with the Russians. It's a tentative WWIII scenario, but we'll have to wait and see. 

 

2. At the time of the Committee's creation, Norway and Sweden were in a loose confederation, which is why the award ceremonies are divided between Oslo and Stockholm. Nobel was a Swede.

 

3. And Trump winning by hook or by crook, would suggest to me a politicization of the Nobel Peace Prize process, and another example of how our institutions of governance, of law, finance, international relations, and humanitarian outreach, have been corrupted, co-opted by vested interests, and, in many cases, are no longer fit for purpose.

 

FUN FACTS: Each year the Nobel Committee selects six winners in the following categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature,   Economic Sciences (since 1901), and Peace.

💣Nobel died in 1896 leaving his vast fortune (he invented "dynamite") to fund in perpetuity the Nobel Prize Committee and the nearly one-million dollar award each of the six laureate takes home. 

Five of the awards are presented through Swedish institutions. The sixth, the Nobel Peace Prize, is awarded in Oslo Norway.²  For the first five awards, the  Committee gathers information and consults experts, beginning in September of the previous year, to decide who will be the laureates the following year.

 

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE process is different from the other Nobels: Between October and January the Committee opens up its nominations and announcement cycle so authorized institutions and individuals can put forward their candidate for consideration. Instead of the Committee compiling a list of nominees itself, the NPP is thrown open to members of legislative bodies, international courts, university professors, etc., for nomination of possible candidates. In February the  Committee compiles a short list of roughly twenty or so candidates and over the course of several months one candidate is chosen for the prestigious award. Note: Institutions and organizations can also be nominated, for example the International Criminal Court and the government of South Africa are two 2025 nominees. Trump is nominated a couple of times for peace deals he more or less arranged, one notably between Israel and Hamas at the start of his second term. (It was a temporary ceasefire.) He was nominated for the award by the arch war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, and in a cringe-worthy exchange at the White House in early July, the Israeli PM gave Trump a copy of the letter he sent to the Nobel Committee nominating the American president. [After watching that, I needed to wash out my eyes. Ed.] 

OTHER nominees include everyone's favourite genocidal grandmother, Daniella Weiss, a rabid and racist Israeli settler who's just salivating on getting to remake Gaza into a Zionist paradise. My choice for this year's Nobel Peace Prize would be Francesca Albanese,  "for her work as the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and her tremendous and courageous work to highlight the destruction of Gaza by Israel." You go girl!👍

 

INTERESTING INFO: The "short list" of about thirty candidates, supposedly representing those names compiled by the Nobel Committee from 224 individuals and 94 organizations nominated for the 2025 NPP, is speculation. The Committee does not give out information on the nominees or the short list, nor does it divulge its selection process. Those names found in Wikipedia and elsewhere have been publicized by the nominators for one reason or another, and in some cases demanded by nominees. Currently, the Committee is debating on the short list and there is no telling who is on or off the list, and who remains in contention. BTW, the winner of the NPP is often controversial, one reason why no details of the Committee's vetting process may be revealed for fifty years when all the Committee members are dead and buried in their graves! 

The Committee will make an announcement in October and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will take place in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. It's interesting that during his lifetime, Nobel was known as "the merchant of death" for his work developing explosive munitions used widely in militaries throughout the world to this day. 

But, who knows? Maybe a leopard can change its spots?

 

 

    "EVERYONE'S A WINNER!"