21st Century Wire
SPECIAL FEATURE
It’s New Year’s Eve again, and so indulge us, and check out our time-honoured tradition of peering back at the most conspiratorial events of the past year.
No doubt that 2024 has been a mad one on the international stage, once again, leaving us with a more unstable world than we inherited just 12 months ago.
Tomorrow we’ll also reveal what’s ahead, when we release our other annual opus, Trends and Predictions for 2025.
Before we get to this year’s top ten list, here are some of the honourable mentions from the past year…
Here are some of this past year’s standout stories which didn’t quite make the top tier (but nonetheless significant). We should first mention the Epstein documents which were unsealed, but here we are a year on and many are still anticipating the full release of his full passenger/client list – a veritable who’s who of high-profile individuals compromised by Israeli and Five Eyes intel through sexual blackmail. This year also saw the full weaponisation of the US justice system by the shameless partisan AG Merrick Garland, and his sidekick federal prosecutor, crazy Jack Smith (who may have to flee the country now that Trump won), who waged an embarrassing banana republic-style lawfare operation against Donald Trump. Fortunately for Trump, the Democratic Party and deep state campaign failed to knock him out of the 2024 race. We also had Hurricane Helene, which exposed the ineptitude and failure of a bloated and corrupt US Federal government and the gravy train known as FEMA, shades of Katrina – which despite billions in annual funding, somehow lacks the resources (so we’re told) to provide basic disaster assistance in the United States. Over in Eastern Europe, it seems the CIA, George Soros and EU partners failed to overthrow the democratically elected government in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. They tried their upmost to spark another “Euro Maidan” color revolution, but it seems the locals are now wise to western “smart power” destabilisation games. However, NATO did mount a successful coup d’etat in EU member state Romania, removing the presumptive winner in their Presidential elections, populist Călin Georgescu, accusing him of having “pro-Russian sympathies” – all because he ran on a peace platform pledging to end NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Go figure. All in all though, 2024 was the year that BRICS stepped-up on the world stage in Kazan, Russia, as more and more nations look to break free from an increasingly risky dollar-dominated, sanctions ridden US-led global financial target zone. To round it all off, we must also include Ukraine – namely, the repeated provocations by the Zelensky regime in Kiev (egged on by a lame duck Biden regime) launching missile attacks on targets deep inside Russia – thus preventing any possible ceasefire negotiations when Trump assumes office. That said, while it didn’t formally make it into this year’s the top ten, the whole Ukraine debacle is worthy of its own list of aberrations – as western war hawks seem ever determined to push us all towards a nuclear confrontation with Russia – anything but “letting Putin think he’s won.” God forbid. Yes, our western leaders have literally fallen into the Dr Strangelove zone.
These were but a few of the most impactful events which didn’t make our final cut.
So without further ado, here are the Top Ten Conspiracies of 2024. Some real, and some maybe not what you think…
10. LUIGI MANGIONE – Earlier this month, Luigi Mangione, a 26 year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Ivy League college, allegedly gunned down Brian Thompson, 50, CEO of the largest health insurance corporation in America, UnitedHealthcare. This was supposedly a targeted assassination, with a near identical ideological underpinning as the notorious “Unibomber” Ted Kaczynski, who terrorised America for 20 years, planting letter bombs, of which three Americans were killed and injured, before eventually being captured in 1996. Admittedly, the healthcare system in America is severely broken, and this drama indirectly highlights that reality. While many have condemned Mangione (whose trial is still pending), many others including members of the class-conscious Left, are regarding Mangione as a type of elite social justice icon, a warrior fighting for the economically underprivileged in America. Some fear that this positive view of Mangione could spur on a new era of class warfare and anti-Establishment violence in America. Predictably, it’s also accelerated many calls for increased police state activity, even calls for the state to provide protection to corporate executives. As yet, this story is still unresolved; the murder motive is not completely clear, and Mangione has issued a plea of not guilty. Nonetheless, it’s heavy in Fight Club symbolism, and overt Marxist political themes, and most of all – it’s tailor-made for a Hollywood screenplay treatment. Cue Michael Moore…
9. THE JERSEY DRONES – As we head into 2025, the story of the mysterious fleet of drones flying over New Jersey is still percolating in the media and conspiracy theory corners. The claims keep coming, and sighting keep getting more extravagant – everything from drones with colored lights, to strange aircraft “coming out of the ocean”, to endless UFO sightings, and of course, the usual FOX News-style speculation of a ‘Chinese spy drones’ or an ‘IRGC invasion!’ The longer this one drags on, the more insane the fish stories. But here’s where it gets weird…
Ok so this guy’s @JerseyFutures account was deleted but there are some screenshots of his posts floating around about #dronesoverNJ
This might explain the alien sounds on FM radios that have also been reported.
🧵1/4 pic.twitter.com/xGpnm1jEfZ— Redhat (@Scarlet_NOZA) December 14, 2024
From the very beginning, the sane among us surmised that these drones were either part of a Pentagon-DOD drill, or covert operation, or were being used as a psychological operation on the public – or something to do with public safety, whereby to be fully transparent would be to court widespread public panic. The tweet above suggested these were radioactive material detection drones being used by the DOD. Is it possible that a country might use nuclear blackmail to keep Washington firmly behind a certain war effort, perhaps in the interests of Israel and Ukraine? Just asking. If so, is it possible that someone could have planted a dummy bomb, or even stray nuke or a nuclear device (of some description) in the area. There is also the very distinct possibility that this could have been part a public stunt designed prioritise drone regulation laws and federal restrictions for drone usage and safety. Problem, reaction, solution. At this point, take your pick.
8. TECH(NOCRACY) BROS – Well, that didn’t take long. It seems that Trump 2024’s motley coalition is already fraying at the seams. The newly christened “Tech Bros” in Trump’s orbit – an elite clique of billionaire tech scions led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Vivek Ramaswamy, have apparently butted heads with the MAGA base over the issue of H-1B visas—the kind of visas provided to “highly skilled and highly educated immigrants”—for Silicon Valley and Co. This caused a backlash from ‘net zero immigration’ MAGA faithful, accusing the Tech Bros of hitching a ride on the Trump train in order to feather their own nests. But when you look closer at this issue, you can quickly see that it’s not about a lack talent in America – far from it. Rather, it’s all about the money. Because these foreign workers/‘managers’ are paid substantially less and will unquestionably work longer hours – and that’s all the owners and shareholders really care about- more profit for their bottom line. However, underneath all of this lies the real story: these aren’t just “Tech Bros’, they are in fact Technocracy Bros, they are technocrats in the true sense of the word. Don’t be fooled by the cosmetic conservative veneer – these tech elites are firmly committed to ushering Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution as quickly as possible. In addition to Thiel, you have the eccentric Alex Karp, CEO of the controversial and successful data mining company Palantir, and Trump’s vice president, JD Vance, himself as a product of the tech/hedge fund imperium. Add to that the fact that Musk’s own grandfather was a founding member of the notorious Technocracy movement. Last week we learned that these tech oligarchs from Palantir, Anduril and others, are already in talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI et al, to form a new group in the Valley to bid for Washington’s lucrative AI and drone dominated, multi-billion dollar defense contracts – fat slicee of Trump’s expanding $850 billion military pie. Make no mistake: these are the new Rockefellers of the coming AI technocracy age – and all of them have carefully repositioned themselves as ‘conservatives’ in order to secure a seat at the table, and ever larger chunks of the upcoming Federal budgets, as Elon Musk already has already done (and hopes to increase his share of federal contracts and funding this year). It’s also worth noting that Trump’s supposed Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE”, meant to be headed by Musk and Ramaswamy, is not an actually department, but a nongovernmental committee which can only issue mere recommendations after a two year inquiry period. It has no power or agency at all. Here’s what they’re not telling you…
TECH BROS vs MAGA – REALITY
Anyone suggesting that there aren’t enough capable or talented tech workers in America to fill vacancies in domestic firms is not telling the truth. This country has incredible talent, and can fill almost every one of those positions.
It’s not about… pic.twitter.com/2ttH5Y0YFH
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) December 31, 2024
As it stands, “DOGE” is nothing more than a meme currently being used by Musk and Co. for generating free publicity and clout. They claim to be cutting $500 billion a year in federal spending, but there isn’t even a fraction of that available in discretionary spending to cut. So is this just a big ruse? Who knows, perhaps “DOGE” may not even be a thing in 12 months. In reality, it is one of many new entry points for the unelected billionaire technocrat class to insert themselves into the White House, and position themselves to lobby for massive derregulation of their industries, and access to seemingly unlimited business opportunities going forward. Their goal is to automate every aspect of your life, but they need to be inside government to do it. Think of it as a new corporate branch of government. It was Benito Mussolini himself famously said, “Fascism should more appropriately be called ‘corporativism’ because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” That’s the point: technocracy = fascism.
7. DIDDY – It wasn’t that long ago that rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was throwing lavish birthday parties at his $61m mansion in Beverly Hills – with a guest list that included the creme de la creme of Hollywood and the music ‘industry’; like Jay-Z, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Travis Scott, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Mary J Blige, Kanye West, Kehlani, Tinashe, Chris Brown, Machine Gun Kelly, and the list goes on, and on. Fast-forward to 2024, and this empire came crashing down in dramatic fashion. After filings from a court case in New York were made public, we learned that P. Diddy was being accused of a litany of felonies including kidnapping, drugging, coercing women (and men) into sexual activities, rape, and other crimes. Officers seized supplies used for his massive orgies known as “freak offs”, including mounds of drugs, and 1,000 bottles of baby oil. Totally depraved, even by Hollywood standards. And with that, it wasn’t long before people began connecting the dots between Diddy… and Jeffrey Epstein. There’s no telling how far the blast radius from this scandal extends. Diddy is currently in federal custody and awaiting trial. Note: someone needs to make sure the security cameras in the cell are working.
6. AMERICA’S ZOMBIE PRESIDENT – This was the year the animatronic figure in the White House, the 46th President known as Joseph R. Biden, finally reached its expiry date. After sleepwalking through the 2024 election primary phase and crashing and burning in his first debate with candidate Trump, Biden’s own party dumped him before the DNC convention, swapping him out for an even more unpopular shrill candidate in Kamala Harris. After years of silence on his cognitive decline, all of the sudden Democrats began openly talking about the old codger’s mental fitness, and if he was too old to be occupying such an important office. Joe claimed he stepped down for fear of a party ‘civil war’ over his flailing candidacy could be a “real distraction” for Democrats, but the truth is he should’ve been decommissioned two years ago, but Dems were too afraid to get rid of him in mid-journey. Besides trying to start WWIII on his way out the door, “The Big Guy” also announced he had pardoned his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing in two criminal cases. Joe claims he just couldn’t face the prospect of leaving Hunter to the tender mercies of the incoming Trump administration, but in Lord only knows what else was coming down the pipeline via the Biden family corruption enterprises in Ukraine, and China. A total disaster for the Democratic Party. They may never recover. Note: Joe Biden is due to be retired to the Hall of Presidents in Walt Disney World on January 21, 2025.
5. BITCOIN TOPS $100K – 2024 was the year that Bitcoin finally arrived in big style. John McAfee predicted this years ago: that magic moment when Bitcoin shatters the $100,000 barrier for the first time. Overnight, thousands of cryptocurrency holders became millionaires (as well as a few billionaires too), a phenomenon which many financial experts are attributing to Donald Trump’s decisive victory on November 5th, know as the “Trump Trade.” While BTC is volatile itself and prone to short term swings, long term it is now regarded as a legitimate hedge against dollar volatility. Some governments are now looking at it as a potential strategic reserve. During his campaign, Trump promised to make America ‘the crypto capital of the planet’, with plans to build a strategic reserve of Bitcoins. Many traders and investors took this as a signal to pile-in and buy Bitcoin. Along with this, you also have all the big institutions getting into Bitcoin ETFs (exchange traded funds), and other big adoptions across the financial spectrum. And Bitcoin’s wild ride is not over…
4. IRAN’S ‘TRUE PROMISE’ – This could be one of the biggest geopolitical game changers of the post-WWII era. On October 1, 2024, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched roughly 200 ballistic missiles, some of them hypersonic, at targets inside Israel, in at least two waves, the largest attack during the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict. Iran’s codename for the attack was “Operation True Promise 2”. No one will ever forget the incredible scenes of incoming Iranian missiles lighting up the evening sky over Jerusalem. A beleaguered Palestinian population, victims of an ongoing genocide at the hands of the Israeli occupiers, looking to the skies and cheering that someone had finally come to their aid. Israel’s fabled Iron Dome was deemed useless against the Iranians. The first True Promise came on April 14, 2024, in response to an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, when Iran flooded the sky over occupied Palestine with hundreds of drones, before following with the real missiles, some of which managed to hit Israel’s most sensitive military sites. On both occasions, Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran were underwhelming and weak. These events established some major political and military precedents – by establishing escalation dominance over Israel, Iran had established itself as the region’s dominant military and geopolitical state actor. Only with the direct assistance of the United States is Israel able to pose a credible conventional threat to Tehran. True Promise is also a warning shot to western-controlled Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain – all of whom rely on U.S. back-up for regional clout, and especially when these same Gulf monarchies are attacking independent Arab state Yemen. Hence, Iran’s advances in missile tech have completely shuffled the deck in terms of Middle East security. The danger for Iran now could be that now it has shown its hand in relation to Israel, might this prompt the incoming ultra-Zionist Trump administration to feel compelled to plan a preemptive attack against Iran in order prop-up Israel’s tenuous hegemony in the region? The answer to that question will be revealed soon enough…
3. TRUMP 2.0 – It was the defining moment of the 2024 Presidential Election: Donald Trump’s defiant display following a botched assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Shots rang out just as the former President flinched onstage, grabbed at his face, before being mothballed by Secret Service agents – raising his fist toward the sky and shouted, “Fight!” That lasting image had supercharged his 2024 bid, clearing the way for victory in November. All the assassination attempts, all the criminal lawfare prosecutions, and the defmatory media stories – none of it could stop Republican Donald Trump winning the White House, as he swept to a decisive victory by winning all of the key battleground states to become the 47th President. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he said to a heaving crowd. The now is whether Trump 2.0 will be able to act on that mandate in a way which reflects his bold campaign promises. Or will he succumb to the the deep state, and fall into line with institutional norms of the Leviathan that is Washington DC? Also, this victory was truly devastating for a Democratic Party which bet the farm on Kamala Harris – leaving the party in absolute ruins. For Trump, expectations have been set extremely high. Will he be able to make good his promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, mend geopolitical fences with China, and bring peace to the Middle East, and solve the Israel-Palestine issue? The first 100 days will be very revealing.
2. ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA – A full 15 months later and the horror continues. In the last year, Israel has systematically targeted (with US, UK and German weapons) and destroyed nearly every hospital, medical clinic, university, refugee camp in Northern Gaza and much of the south too, with the sinister intention to make life unlivable for the surviving population. Afterwards, you could hear Israeli officials openly talk of their plans for a ‘final solution’ to what they often refer to as ‘the Palestinian problem’. Sound familiar? Their plan is to ethnically cleanse the remaining Palestinians for their lands. Can Israel be stopped? One unlikely hero emerged in 2024 to step up and defend the Palestinian people, which was Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement currently in power in Saana. Yemen imposed a blockade of any naval traffic which could be providing aid or support for Israel – that included U.S. and NATO military naval assets. The damage inflicted by Yemen on Israel and the U.S. has been a great source of embarrassment, which has prompted US, UK and Israel to bomb Yemen in order to try and stop it from acting on behalf of Palestine. Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza could mean that the true death toll will reach more than 186,000 people, according to a peer reviewed study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, some 47,000 Palestinians have been recorded (with many thousands more yet to be uncovered under the rubble) as killed since Israel began its deadly carpet bombing operation over civilian areas of Gaza following the Hamas attack, “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, 2023. An ongoing case was brought before the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023, South Africa v. Israel, detailing Israel’s military operation and deliberate siege against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip – which has resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, and an industrial-scale slaughter broadcast in real time, and vividly. In July, a landmark ruling declared that Israel’s occupation of the Gaza strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is unlawful, along with the illegal settlements, annexation, and theft of natural resources. Later in November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Then in December, Amnesty International concluded in their report that the occupying Israeli entity has committed, and is continuing to commit genocide against native Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. The world has spoken. The case is clear. But Israel’s backers are actively obstructing justice. Will the US-led, dubiously named, “rules based international order” ever recover from this whitewash of the most documented pogrom in human history? One thing is for sure, Israel’s nation brand is now damaged for good.
1. THE FALL OF SYRIA – On December 8, 2024, the unthinkable happened: a horde of Turkish/NATO and Israeli-backed al-Qaeda/Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants who had marched from Idlib, through Aleppo, Hama and Homs, managed to capture the Syrian capital of Damascus – effectively toppling the government of Bashar al-Assad. In the early hours of Sunday morning, radical Wahabist terrorists, led by al-Qaeda and ISIS leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (pictured above), seized control of the state television studios to declare that “Syria is now free”. What transpired after that has been a sectarian nightmare for the country’s residents, particularly ethnic and religious minorities targeted for street assassination, torture and imprisonment by the new western-backed Junta. Strangely, the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had fled the capital on a plane en route to Moscow, without so much as a word regarding the collapse of the Syrian state and complete surrender of Syria’s army and its allies. Clearly, the U.S. and Israeli plan is to use instability and sectarian strife to ignite a new civil war and balkanize the country into smaller pieces – not unlike the Libya model. In the meantime, western PR handlers have been trying to portray the wanted terrorist leader as a “democratic reformer” even though he just announced there’ll be no elections in Syria for the foreseeable future. Instead, this new Syria will be an authoritarian Islamic State (with the full backing of US, Turkey, NATO, Israel, and the EU). So much for the ‘moderate rebels’ and their revolution. It’s now abundantly clear that the Terrorist factions were coordinating their regime change operations with Israel. Immediately after taking Damascus, al-Jolani appeared to give the signal to Tel Aviv launch no less than 250 airstrikes – destroying dozens of military sites across Syria, including its naval base in Latakia, as al-Jolani and HTS declared that they “were not interested in conflict with Israel.” Benjamin Netanyahu then wasted no time in moving his forces in to occupy the entire Golan Heights area, and Mount Hermon, before quickly announcing his plans to expand settlement building there – meaning that this area of Syria will be formally annexed by Israel. By allowing Israel a free hand over all of Syria, al-Jolani has aided in the advancement of the Great Israel Project, and cut a clear path for Israel to attack Iran directly. Not to mention the suspicious release of ISIS prisoners by US and its SDF Kurdish proxies. By unleashing ISIS again, the US and Israel will be able to justify a new U.S. military build-up in the region, more bombing runs – with Donald Trump ‘leading the charge against ISIS, on behalf of Israel. as well as Watch this space.
What an unbelievable year. Expect many more impactful moments to arrive in 2025.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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