The Election in Israel, October 2026

 The President of Israel has asked Eisenkot to try to form the next government of Israel, and most news commentators think the president is hoping Eisenkot will be able to form a new government, when the opposite is true.

There are two people trying to be the next Prime Minister, Eisenkot and Netanyahu, and the President, knowing neither has enough votes to form a government, and neither can get enough votes to form a government, gives the first try to the one he does not want, knowing he will fail, and so, when he gives the other a chance, there is pressure on the people who wanted the one who failed to give their votes to the one who must be their second choice.

The newly elected Parliament have 53 Zionists who want Netanyahu, 48 Zionists who want Eisenkot, and 19 Arabs who might be willing to join the Netanyahu or Eisenkot group, but neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot will allow any Arabs to be part of the government. A government must have at least 61 members of the Parliament to form, so Netanyahu needs 8 of Eisenkot's Zionists to join his party, while Eisenkot needs 13 members of Netanyahu's Zionists.

So, after Eisenkot fails to form a government, and fail he certainly must, the President will give Netanyahu a chance to form a government, and Eisenkot's supporters, knowing they cannot form a government, will be strongly pressured to switch and support Netanyahu. Of course, this can take about 120 days, or Eisenkot could quit tomorrow and tell all his followers that it is much better to support Netanyhu than to let any Arabs be in the government.

A New and Greatly Improved Yalta

 In 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta. This much is one of those historical facts on which everyone agrees.

The New York Times version is that  Yalta was a city in the Ukraine, which was a state that had fought valiantly with the Americans against the Germans and was independent of Russia, and so was a good place for the US, UK, and Russia to meet to discuss what would happen after the war, which the US of A had won pretty much single-handedly, and was also about to demonstrate that it was the first and only nuclear power.

Roosevelt, for reasons that, to this day escape us all, gave Stalin half of Europe, when he should only have let Stalin keep Russia, and probably not all of Russia, since large parts should have been allowed to become independent states, given how little Russia had contributed to victory in WWII.

And now Trump wants to replicate FDR's mistake in spades, giving Russia huge parts of the Ukraine, all of which must be in NATO, and the host to the largest NATO military base and a massive battery of anti-missiles that can stop any Russian attempt to nuke NATO, forcing Russia to accept all NATO terms of surrender.

St Biden was making great progress, but the return of the incompetent Trump makes it look like Russia, in the midst of total defeat, will be handed another undeserved victory.

Of course, not everyone agrees with this New York Times version of history and current events, but the New York Times is the #1 American Newspaper, and so their version is the one that most of the world is expected to accept, and I'm pretty sure most Western European leaders accept it, even if almost all of the ignorant Western European rabble are inclined to think that their leaders have IQs in the single digits.

Where are we now in Persia?????

 In 1900, the UK found oil in Persia and Finders-Keepers, so the UK took all the oil, kept some for use in the UK, and sold the rest, with the proceeds going to the UK treasury. Then, in 1951, Mosaddegh said all that oil belonged to Iran.

So, in 1953, MI6 and the CIA went to Iran and acted as portrayed in Fleming's James Bond novels: MI6 did the best spying, but the UK was broke, and they lacked funds for purchasing the essentials of spywork, so the CIA provided all the cash MI6 agents needed (cf Casino Royale, where Bond is the World's Greatest Spy, but runs out of money since the UK was broke after WWII, and the CIA provided Bond with all the money he needed to accomplish his mission). In any case, the CIA and MI6 bought some Iranians who gaoled Mosaddegh, made the Shah head of state, and made all Iranian oil the property of BP, 50% owned by the US and 50% owned by the UK.

But that was 1953.

In 2025, the CIA went into Iran with Mossad, and they said, 'No need to buy any Iranians, we'll kill all the leaders and take over the country, it'll be a lot like Venezuela,' and the CIA agents listened, helped kill all the Iranian leadership (and a lot of schoolkids), and figured it would be like Venezuela, where the US snatched the President, put in a pro-American government, and took all the oil.

Sadly, every top member of the Iranian government and military has a named successor, and those named successors took over the Iranian government and military after the previous leaders were killed, and then they closed the Strait of Hormuz and destroyed all US military bases in countries around the Gulf with Two Names (the Arabs living around the Gulf call it the Arab Gulf, and the Persians living around the Gulf call it the Persian Gulf). The US have officially accepted the name, 'Arab Gulf'. The Persians and their allies insist that the Gulf be called the Persian Gulf (even though the Iranians no longer refer to themselves as Persians).

The US figured they could kill the top leadership and capture lower-level leaders and force them to order Iran to accept their news status as a US colony. Sadly, the Iranians did not accept that very generous US proposal, and are still fighting, for reasons no one can explain.

But the net result is that very little Arab Gulf oil is making it out of the Arab Gulf, and the world is now very short of oil, fertilizer, diesel, helium, etc., etc. and this is having a major impact on consumers.

The US Military is the Strongest in the World

 The US military hires propagandists to spread the obvious fact that the US military is the strongest in the world, and can defeat any opponent. The US easily defeated the PRC and North Korea in the '50s, Vietnam in the '60s, Afghanistan in the '90s and 2000s, and has now almost totally destroyed Iran, opening the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb so all are free to transit and the world is now flush with oil, and prices have fallen from the highs, when people thought that Iran and Ansarullah would be able to block the two Straits, to record lows of a few ¢ per liter now that both Straits are wide open, thanks to the US military.

 If oil, gas, diesel, and fertilizer are still selling at record highs in your country, it must be because your government is charging outrageous taxes to provide US$$$ to corrupt government officials, since US officials and presidents cannot lie, have never lied, and never will lie.

At least that's the official US declaration.

Sadly, most of the world is seeing record high prices for oil, gas, diesel, fertiliser, & etc., but Americans will not be seeing those prices much longer: Trump has gotten Russia to sell the US 9 days of diesel consumption (that's the most optimistic estimate, it might be only 4 days, or half a day according to the pessimists), so the rapid drop in diesel from $10 to 10¢ a gallon might not be coming quite as quickly as Trump kind-of, sort-of promised. 

Getting Trump back to the US from the NATO meeting in Ankara

It was on 8 July 2026 that, after completing the NATO meeting in Ankara, Trump returned to the US. And they've been talking about his return trip ever since.

We saw Trump get on the Presidential Plane Air Force One in Ankara, and get off again after the plane landed.

Then we found out that Trump had been taken in one of the food trolleys from the new Air Force One to another plane, then back to the new Air Force One after it landed so he could be seen leaving Air Force One.

Then we learned that Mossad said that an Iranian with an antiaircraft weapon was hiding, ready to shoot down Air Force One, so Trump organised the food trolley swap for himself and two others, leaving about 200 people on the new Air Force One to be shot down.

Of course, the mainstream media are mostly anti-Trump, and want to show him as a craven coward who planned to sacrifice 200 US government workers and journalists and others to keep himself safe.

Then they wrote that the CIA checked, found that no attack was planned, and told Trump he had nothing to worry about, but Trump still had himself secretly food-cart trolleyed to another plane, while there was absolutely no Iranian terrorist waiting to shoot down Air Force One.

Some things one can rely on: after Trump was shot at a presidential campaign rally, the mainstream media ran photos of Trump with blood on his face, so Trump was indeed shot and got a fairly minor wound.

And everyone agrees that Mossad said there would definitely be an Iranian terrorist shooting at Air Force One, so someone had Trump and two others food-cart trolleyed to another plane. Did they have Trump's private number, called Trump, and Trump organised the food-cart manoeuvre, or did they call someone else, someone in security, who set up the food-cart trolley, and Trump just did as he was told? No idea. 

Some say the CIA agreed it would be better if Trump switched planes, but I've read the mainstream media that say the CIA said there was no threat, and Trump should have stayed on Air Force One.

Best guess: 1) Mossad told someone that they knew there was an Iranian terrorist waiting to shoot down Air Force One.

2) There was an Iranian terrorist with an anti-aircraft missile launcher and saying the usual Islamic chant, 'בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה אֲדֹנָי' while waiting for Air Force One to take off, but then he got a call that Trump was not on Air Force One, so don't bother.

The news reports vary, with some saying the CIA agreed that Trump should take a different plane, and others saying the CIA assured Trump that the report of an Iranian terrorist was false and he should remain on Air Force One. Both are equally believable, assuming, of course, that the CIA were fairly certain that the Iranian terrorist was waiting, and there are some in the CIA who feel like they have to do their job of protecting the president, and others who figure they have to do their job and get rid of a terrible president like Trump.

We also figure Mossad figured, if Trump were moved from one plane to another in a food trolley, it would be risible, and if Trump refused, that Iranian would have shot down Air Force One, justifying the total destruction of Iran and handing whatever was left of Iran over to the legal owners of that land, Israeli Zionists. So for Mossad, it was a win-win proposition.

And, after a month and a half, we still don't have the full story, and can be reasonably certain that we never will. 

What now???

Around 1890, the European Great Powers agreed: NO MORE WAR!

War wasted money and left the rich and powerful with a lot less for the essentials of life: servants, exotic meats, palatial homes, etc., etc., and left the poor without enough to eat, making them prose to annoying uprisings.

But then, in 1914, Germany wanted to move up a notch or two, and the UK and France did not want to move down at all, and then someone shot an Archduke, and we got WWI. 

The UK and France figured they'd win, easily, and the US banks figured the UK and France were right, so they loaned the UK and France lots and lots of money. Only the war wasn't going so well in 1917 after Russia, an ally of the UK and France, surrendered, handed all of Western Russia to Germany, and the rest of Russia became the USSR, an evil, Communist country that had to be destroyed. 

So the US of A stepped in in 1917 (since US banks had loaned the UK and France way too much money, which they had squandered and were about to lose to Germany so the US banks would have lost all their loans) and defeated Germany, so the UK and France agreed to take all the gold and silver that had been in Germany and use most of it to repay the US and keep all the rest.

So all went OK, until Adolph came up with a proposition that the British and French liked: the evil Slavs must be stopped before they overran and conquered all of Europe. So the British and French declared the WWI rule that Germany must be forever demilitarised must be relaxed: Germany could rearm to fight the evil USSR Communists.

As a boy, I read the Churchill auto-hagiographies. Churchill lied that he thundered against allowing Germany to rearm in 1933, but, checking the morgue, there are no such speeches. All the UK leadership, including Churchill, knew Germany must rearm to slow the inevitable attack by the Soviet Communists to overrun all of Europe and give the UK time to organise the Defense of Democracy against the evil Soviets.

So the Germans were allowed to elect Adolph in 1933, and the UK didn't become alarmed until 1938 when Chamberlain saw that Germany had become too strong and the UK needed time to rearm, so he signed the 'Peace in Our Time' treaty with Adolph, while he was secretly planning with France to attack Germany in 1939 (for which Churchill's Histories condemn Chamberlain, saying Germany could have very easily been defeated in 1938, and waiting until 1939 was the cause of the Defeat at Dunkirk).

The Official US Histories say the US single-handedly won WWII, invading at Normandy and defeating the Germans, developing the necessary nukes that defeated Japan, and then seeing the Soviet Union trying to take credit for helping the US to win the war when their contribution was minimal, the Soviet Army could not have advanced a single mile without US Spam! (Not clear which Spam allowed the Soviets to march as far as Berlin, the one in tins or the one in the US news media).

In any case, in the '80s and '90s the USSR collapsed, to be replaced by a weak, Slavic Russia that must be destroyed, and the Ukrainians are doing a great job of it, with the good, Aryan Ukrainians throwing the Slavic Ukrainians against Russian artillery while the good Europeans send massive waves of advanced drones into Russia, using Starlink to guide those drones around the Russian air defences and then killing Russian Slavs at beaches, dorms, and shopping malls, and destroying Russian oil sites and Wildberries, and, since they are protected by Article 5, Russia can do nothing to stop them, Russia can only kill Ukrainians, who are totally expendable.

Net: It's looking like All is for the Best in this, the Best of all possible Worlds! 

Money?

For many years, gold was the only real currency. The British had a gold guinea and paper guineas, but one could always exchange a paper guinea for a gold guinea. The Germans had a gold mark. The US dollar, well, actually a US $20 bill could be exchanged for gold.

Then came WWI, and Germany lost, and had to hand over all German gold as war reparations, so the mark became worthless, and we heard many stories like the German who sold a home, put the marks from the sale of the home in the bank, and got a cheque for his deposit in the mail since the value was too small for an account, and the cheque was for less than the cost of the stamp on the envelope.

With all the German gold, the UK and French currencies could still be redeemed for gold, but then came WWII: France lost in 1940, and the French franc became almost worthless.

The UK won, but had spent so much on the war they could no longer redeem UK currency for gold, so the £ left the ranks of the Great Currencies.

But the US could still redeem US$35 for gold, so Bretton-Woods made the US$ the world Key Currency: Anyone not a US citizen or permanent resident could redeem US dollars for gold (US citizens were legally not allowed to own gold). The world used the US$ for international trade. Even the USSR  accumulated lots of US$ to use for international trade.

Until 1971, when President Nixon said the US would no longer redeem US dollars with gold, and the value of the US dollar fell, but not all that much, since the US$ remained (and remains) the World Key Currency, a fact the evil enemies of the US would like to fix. But those enemies of the US not only don't know what to do about the US$, they somehow remain restrained by Bretton-Woods even though the basis of Bretton-Woods was that the US$ was the only currency that could be redeemed for gold, which is no longer true, but the US$ still remains the world's only Key Currency (of course, as the US government spend $trillions more each year than they take in as income, Faith in the Dollar is not what it once was).

The many enemies of the US can scream all they want, but the US$ remains the Key Currency, even though it can no longer be redeemed for gold, but the US still control SWIFT, and the easiest way to do international trade is to use SWIFT and the US$, and since that is such a popular and useful system, the US weaponised it, and made it difficult for nations to do international trade without SWIFT and the US$.

So the evil Chinese and Russians are desperately looking for some way to create alternatives to SWIFT that are not controlled by the US.

If one reads US analysts, it will be impossible to create an alternative to SWIFT, because SWIFT is too entrenched in global trade.

If one reads Russian/Chinese/Iranian sources, an alternative to SWIFT is coming 'very soon now'.