The Witkoff Bombshell! The 31/Atlas Alarm Bell! The Nostradamus Foretell! The Thanksgiving Propel!

By Robert Eringer

Dec 02, 2025

“Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump” (Bloomberg)

In the latest episode of Diplomacy for Dummies, Trump’s real-estate whisperer Steve Witkoff was caught on tape tutoring the Kremlin on how to flatter his boss and sell him a “peace plan” Ukraine could love about as much as Chernobyl.

“Who leaked Witkoff’s Kremlin call? These are the main suspects” (The Telegraph)

Intelligence services around the world are now playing Clue: was it CIA in the Signal room with the wiretap, Ukraine with righteous fury, or a nervous European ally flashing back to 1938?

“Putin: Russia ready to fight until last Ukrainian dies” (The Telegraph)

Putin said that the latest US peace proposal negotiated with Ukraine and its European allies, could form “the basis for future agreements,” but then dismissed Ukraine’s leadership as illegitimate and said it was senseless to sign anything with them.

I’ve written this many times, and here it is again: Putin does not want peace. He wants Ukraine (and it won’t stop there).

“Bring it on Vlad, say fearless Finns living in Putin’s shadow & ready to fight Russia AGAIN” (The U.S. Sun)

Putin is already building forces along Russia’s 830-mile border with Finland.

“Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine” (WSJ)

Money, money, money.

Three powerful businessmen—two Americans [Witkoff and Kushner] and a Russian [Dmitriev]—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month… privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.

This isn’t a peace plan—it’s a business plan.

“Venezuelan President Maduro brandishes sword amid rising tensions with Trump” (NY Post)

One day, the illegitimate Venezuelan dictator is all bravado, urging Venezuelans to fight to the last man…

And the very next day…

“Maduro’s jet flies to Brazil” (Daily Express)

…possibly with him aboard, buckled in, and ready to let his army fight while he flees.

But wait…

“Maduro resurfaces in Caracas” (CNN)

Perhaps Maduro’s jet was just a dress rehearsal… attired with the country’s reserves to pave an exit path with gold.

“How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch” (NYTs)

Hundreds of millions of dollars in welfare and social-services funding has been siphoned off through fraudulent companies—many run by Somali immigrants—in schemes like “Feeding Our Future” and the Medicaid Housing-Stabilization program.

Prosecutors say some of that money may have been funneled overseas, potentially ending up with a terror group.

Fake meal sites, sham autism-therapy clinics, bogus housing-stabilization providers: billing the state for services never rendered.

“Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something” (New York magazine)

A growing number of people are forming deep, even romantic attachments to chatbots, convinced they’re conscious.

I asked ChatGPT to comment on a news item about itself:

In the latest chapter of Homo Sapiens’ long romance with bad decisions, this is essentially an emotional bond with a mirror that talks back.

“Why constantly checking your phone can drain your focus and memory” (Washington Post)

Your brain rewires itself to prefer fast, shallow, stimulating, and interrupt-driven input.

Consequently, you brain loses focus, patience, reflection, and long-form thinking.

“Expert says mystery comet 31/ATLAS could be ‘an extraterrestrial spacecraft’” (The Mirror)

Interstellar origin: It came from outside the solar system—extremely rare.
Unusual acceleration: Small non-gravitational “kicks” detected near perihelion that don’t match comet patterns.
Odd composition: Unusual metal content (nickel) and atypical chemistry.
Highly elongated trajectory: Its motion shows no orbit; simply cutting through the solar system.
Timing of anomalies: Changes occurred when outgassing should have been minimal, prompting speculation about controlled thrust.

Arrival date: 19 December.

“Nostradamus’ Predictions For 2026 Are Pretty Spooky” (Grunge)

Here they are, in ten sentences:

Everyone knows Nostradamus, the 16th-century French astrologer who published his cryptic quatrains in 1555, and whose eerie hits—from the Great Fire of London to the French Revolution, Hitler, JFK, and even 9/11—cemented his reputation as history’s most unsettling forecaster.
Nosty’s verses suggest a political reckoning, with references to a “great man struck down” and a “chief of the world” who falls—language that points to resignation or quiet exile.
The quatrains also hint that conflict widens from the East and “fire and steel from the sky” as Ukraine drags on, China flexes, the Middle East simmers.
Nostradamus foresees the rise of a new kind of power—“a young lion” overcoming an old one and a force “without crown”—perhaps technology, algorithms, and AI, not flesh-and-blood .

Code outmuscles cabinets and platforms overshadow parliaments.

Climate disruption: vanished rainbows, rising seas—and a world hammered by heat, floods, fires, and mass migration.

The old financial order: “great money struck down” and markets trembling—debt ballooning, currencies wobbling, supply chains failing, and digital money rising.

A “new law” creating a “new world” and a miracle from “hidden fire,” evoking fusion, gene editing, or AI-driven medicine to redefine energy or human health.
Such a discovery, sudden and accidental, could change civilization.
Finally, Nostradamus hints at a shift in human awareness: secrets cracking open, control slipping from institutions, information spreading faster than it can be contained.

And finally…

“Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal” (Washington Post)

From “pass the gravy” to “pass the gas.”