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Cyn's avatar

Thanks for bringing our attention to important matters rarely discussed. Distraction by our own government and its puppets is our greatest enemy to truth and threat to our freedoms.

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Curious and Concerned's avatar

Fascinating. What we could learn about the world if we looked up from our smart phones...

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Cyn's avatar

Amazingly, my smartphone keeps me informed! It’s all about content!

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Jean's avatar

Actually Dr Malone's contribution here is what I need to learn about it. Having problems with a new hot spot disconnecting, so my computer doesn't reliably do internet. At least my cell is pitching in

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Thanks for the great commentary on the role that Turkiye plays on the global world stage. For centuries, they have been the border state between the east and west, and the peace keeping state. Unfortunately, the American media pays little attention to educating Americans about what is transpiring around the world with cause-and-effect.. I remember being there and learning how proud the people are of there achievements!

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Big E's avatar

On a related topic with a different perspective on both Türkiye and China, this episode of American Thought Leaders with NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is so worth your time to watch/listen.

🎧👀 Podcast/Video: (54 min) Enes Kanter Freedom: Why I Sacrificed My Future in the NBA to Stand Up to the Chinese Regime | Dec 28, 2022 | American Thought Leaders Jan Jekielek

Links:

* Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-thought-leaders/id1471411980?i=1000591544184/

* Podbay: https://podbay.fm/p/american-thought-leaders/e/1672280640

* EpochTV (video): https://www.theepochtimes.com/enes-kanter-freedom-why-i-sacrificed-my-future-in-the-nba-to-stand-up-to-the-chinese-regime_4941221.html

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Host Jan Jekielek's Description:

How can the biggest dictatorship in the world control a 100 percent American-made organization and put pressure on them to fire an American citizen?”

I sit down with NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom. After playing 11 seasons, his career abruptly ended when he made headlines, speaking out about human rights abuses in China.

“NBA is not the only one,” says Freedom. “You see Hollywood, you see Big Tech, you see academia, you see Wall Street, you see Congress … They’re pretty much trying to invade America from the inside because they know they’re not strong enough to invade America from the outside.”

Freedom tells me about what made him the man he is today, and what gave him the courage to stand up to major multinational corporations and the Chinese Communist Party.

He grew up in Turkey under a repressive regime, and was ultimately forced to choose between family and principle.

“They sent police to my house in Turkey and they raided the whole house. And they took every electronic away: phones, computers, laptops, iPads, because they wanted to see if I am still in contact with my family or not … They put my name on the Interpol list. So, until this day, I am pretty much an international criminal,” says Freedom.

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PJN's avatar

I so appreciate your daily Substack as I no longer read MSM - so exhausting to sift through the propaganda to find some truth - and miss the diversity of content not exclusively US centric. Also please post a video of Thor🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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MDskeptic's avatar

Don't want to trigger the Erdogans or the UN but I identify as Constantinoplian. Pronouns Non/Ottoman.

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Shelley's avatar

Yes, once the thriving hub of Christianity!

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Tory's avatar

Yes, it’s always Constantinople to me. No insult, just history.

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The Miner's avatar

Thank you Dr Malone!

Really enjoy your constant educational additions to all aspects of life rather than the craziness of our idiot President and his useless and for supposed education they try to think the admin projects.

Seeing and getting to hear the diverse opinions and activities around the world is so refreshing.

Our MSM so enthralled with themselves but unable to see anything outside of their daily dose of ignorance from a tired group of politicians both R’s and D’s who are unable to think of anything more than their next approach at cheating either for elections or taxes or other some other munificent idea they have to destroy our lives and country.

Really nice to be able to hear another view - just the word pictures you paint gives delightful imagery for a breath of fresh air in a stale enclosed political death knell our once great country enjoyed.

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

Upon this new canal completions for Tanker/cargo shipping, it also opens the width and depth for USN aircraft carriers to wander deeper and nearer to Russia and what the Pentagon deems possible political foes. Sigh.......when does it ever end?

My son was aboard the CVN 75 USS H.S. Truman when it did fact made a voyage down the narrow Suez canal (and I do mean narrow) as they are the heaviest of US Navy vessels. The Suez runs north/south parallel to the Nile river. Often as close as 80 miles east of the Nile. All the sand you could see for miles and miles. The USS D.D. Eisenhower was the first. Note they don't fit Panama's.

The CVN75 used this route on it's way to the Persian Gulf destination to perform months of 2500 "sorties" for operation "INHERENT RESOLVE" Nov 2015-July 2016. Carriers can accommodate 6000.

I had the rare chance to walk the entire ship as it resided dockside in Norfolk Va. Unforgettable!

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Bettina Palisek's avatar

Thank you so much for the insights. Türkiye‘s role in the world is growing. Back in October 2022 “Erdogan Agrees to Putin's Plan for Turkey to Be Russian Gas Hub” (https://www.voanews.com/amp/erdogan-agrees-to-putin-s-plan-for-turkey-to-be-russian-gas-hub/6798604.html and https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/turkey-can-become-an-energy-hub-but-not-by-going-all-in-on-russian-gas/). Consequently, Türkiye would gain enormous control over Europe...

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Boris Petrov's avatar

An outstanding description and update -- so rare these days - thank you very much.

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Paul Aijian MD's avatar

Turkey (or Turkiye ) is a land soaked with the blood of Armenians, Greeks, and other religious minorities. Hearing that they have teamed up with the CCP to dig a canal as an alternative to the Bosporus does not create cries of joy in all circles. It is interesting that Nicaragua has given the CCP the green light to build a Panama Canal alternative. These people are not our allies.

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Dr. Robert W. Malone's avatar

I chose to write this article without a lot of judgement, one war or another. Sticking to basic analysis and forecasting - These issues are very complex and (other than maybe saving Istanbul from an environment crisis - if a tanker leaked in the Bosporus) - there is a lot here that can go very, very wrong.

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Leo's avatar

"Complex" issues, indeed! Exactly why your articles are so welcomed and necessary. You provide deeply needed context that has gone missing in our Flatland MSM reporting.

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

That is no doubt true at this point in time Paul. But when we park a Nimitz class aircraft carrier on the north rim of the new canal into the Black Sea that will change. The US will print up a billion or two for dockings fees to a Turkish goverment to piss off the CCP. Never ends does it?

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

My take on Turkey has been that the muslim culture flourished until the religious fervor of the newly converted Turks led them to conquer and regress that culture back to the dark ages of its origin where it has pretty well remained and the efforts of Attaturk (sp?) to modernize their thinking has taken a180.

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Carol Jones's avatar

And the US isnt?

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Afraid I miss your point. The US isn't what?

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

I was hoping you would do a story on this trip. The place is so history rich of humanity.

My sincere thanks. This is great! Love it!

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Great article covering an important area in world history. Erdogan is an Islamacist Ottoman and as such has an inbred detestation of Christians, Jews, and others. They were great allies during the cold war and fought with us against the communists in Korea, distinguishing themselves for their bravery. They were stalwarts covering our southern NATO flank during that time. They will join BRICS and at some point this group will replace the dollar as the world reserve currency, impoverishing us all, because of the policies of the current administration.

Thanks for sharing this and informing many of your readers of this country and its unique situation in current affairs.

Danny Huckabee

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Susan's avatar

This is truly fascinating. An eye-opener! Thanks for writing about it!

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James Goodrich's avatar

Amazingly the good doctors talk about the countries involved never mentioned the US. I guess the powers that be, (fbi, cia, the administration in general, etc.) are to busy going after parents at teachers meetings, coercing American kids to change their gender, pushing poison vaccines, censoring truths, prosecuting former presidents, etc.. Meanwhile the rest of the world moves forward and looks backwards at America as yesterdays news. God how I wish we had a president that was engaged on the world stage in a positive way and not just with his ice cream cone. Years ago we would be building that canal, now the president probably is unaware of its existence, as he goes on vacation again. J.Goodrich

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Yakima Peach's avatar

Thank you for this great lesson. The world is so complex. As I barley understand it, the BRICS development has significance on the US dollar as a standard in the currency market. This shift could be very detrimental to the US financial system. Of course I don't want anything bad for our country but we keep playing stupid games, we will win stupid prizes. That's was history shows us. When we lose our first principals as self governing (primarily christians) to a bloated, power hungry, corrupt incestuous, secular government. There are enough good, smart people here who can change that trajectory, but will they? I think I'd like to visit Istanbul!

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Shelley's avatar

Taken from a link in Dr. Malone's piece "Half of the world's population lives in these five countries, and their combined gross domestic product is equivalent to that of the US ($13.6 trillion). Their total foreign exchange reserves are $4 trillion."

I read a post by Breitbart News a couple of years a go about BRICS. Could this be the CCP's way of trumping the West's NWO?

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TiredCitizen's avatar

You are missing being distracted by China. They aren’t the ones running the global how. They are a player in the plan.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

You know about the Great Reset and the UN’s Agenda 2030, right?

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Shelley's avatar

I spent one night a week for four months in a group going over every piece of Agenda 21 a decade ago. Bush41 signed it right before Clinton took office. APC shined a bright light on it and then Trump stalled the timing, ergo Agenda 2030. CCP has a 100 year plan, they own our politicians, many other countries; and although they may allow an old guy, with a bad heart (K.S.) running the WEF and Davos, appear to run the NWO, it has different plans that will triumph in the end. The EU and KS have no military and ours is a joke now... What say you?

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TiredCitizen's avatar

No matter what. God triumphs in the end. The pieces are just being put in play. I still will say people need to stop being so solely focused on China and miss the proverbial forest for the trees. This is a global plot that involves China. Focusing on one tree too long and you turn around and discover you missed many things. That is what the war between Russia and Ukraine is all about. One big distraction with innocent people caught in the middle of a new world order plot. Those are the ones we should feel empathy for and pray daily for.

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Shelley's avatar

I totally agree and totally agree and totally agree and add that 'we' are also caught in the NWO trap by our own government complying with every demand of the WEF. I'm not focus on China but it is the one with the longest plan and the big investors.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Gotcha.

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