As we emerge from four years of carnival circus, designed to deflect & distract…
What form will Trump's China policy take - military, economic or social?
How do the powers rank, or are they socio-economic mirrors of each other?
Some harsh realities eluded debate in the U.S. election
West's oligarch neo-feudalism vs China's communist-corporatist model
Is Trump able to confront, or does he play within, the 'power so pervasive'
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Nov 8, 2024
The Democratic campaign failed, some say, because it did not address living standards. You cannot survive on a diet of Kamala "joy."
Joe Biden's record didn't help: measures of wellbeing like the cost of food and fuel, and jobs growth deteriorated. The big policy was the Inflation Reduction Act which did the opposite — in reality it was more stimulus, much of it for Green projects.
The most egregious example: spending $7.5 billion on EV charging stations program, which built seven stations — yet that only inconvenienced the lives of the better-off.
If the Green policy was at the heart of the administration's efforts, it was lavishly disguised under Joseph's Coat of Many Colours. Instead of a grown-up discussion, the Biden administration dove ever deeper into identity politics:
appointing an assistant secretary for health who is proudly transgender;
a male official in charge of nuclear waste who modelled women's clothing that he stole from airport luggage carousels;
while the transportation secretary attacked "racist" highway designs.
All of which may indicate "progress" but does not tell us where it leads, nor what is the goal.
This is not to single out gender — Biden waded into sexual identity, discrimination and trans participation in sports, revising Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; funded the extension of diversity and inclusion to "drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination"; while the inter webs argued about critical race theory…
Though it took place in France, the visual climax was this year's Olympic Games which proved once again to be a showcase for oligarchic obsessions and diversions.
Recall Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution."
Just as Barack Obama never explained his slogan "hope and change" — he left it deliciously, playfully, nay deceitfully undefined — a siren's come hither.
In other words, the Biden administration's kaleidoscope of colour, the carnival of flags, ejaculations of pride, the travelling circus choreographed by a bumptious Vaudeville ringmaster... was a pretext for a form of change that was never discussed.
The question is, can and will Trump avoid the trap in to which Obama, Biden and in Europe the likes of former Dutch prime minister and now NATO chief Mark Rutte, Britain's prime minister Keir Starmer and German chancellor Olaf Scholz pedal?
Pied piperWe must address what Trump is willing and able to achieve against a globalist clique that does not hide its intention — at least in venues where it talks among its peers.
I mulled if the U.S. election campaign traded in distractions because topics like the economics of war and the genuine objectives of Green policy are simply too complex for the television sound bites digested by the masses. Or, more cynically, because candidates on all sides are complicit in the real trajectory.
In that case we would have a double layer of deceit, in which the "issue (which) is never the issue" provides distraction, while the candidates are Pied Pipers of Hamelin, leading the people in a merry dance.
Cloaked identityIn this way the pepetrators cloak their identity while they demand the end of privacy and the bio-identification of the rest of society — along with censorship aka hate speech laws.
Trump's team, and the patrons of his vice president JD Vance, certainly give pause for thought (see below).
Or maybe the forces with which they presume to do battle are simply too powerful.
This recalls the famous description by president Woodrow Wilson in 1913 of the power "so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
Back in 1954, a banker named Norman Dodd (1899-1987) revealed, even before luminaries such as professors Carroll Quigley and Antony Sutton, how nations and peoples are manipulated by powerful forces.
Dodd is known to us today thanks to the efforts of G. Edward Griffin who videotaped an interview with him in 1982. He had been director of research, from 1952 to 1954, of the House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, known for short as the Reece Committee.
One of the highlights of Dodd's testimony is his conversation with H. Rowan Gaither, then president of the Ford Foundation. Gaither had summoned Dodd to ask why Congress was interested in the foundations' activities.
"We shall use our grant-making power so to alter our life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
See Spies, Dupes and Charities - Norman Dodd and the tax-exempt foundations (Aug 7, 2021)
In this article we shall investigate Trump's tussle with China and see how, genuine though he may bem, hiss personal quest may fit within, and be absorbed by, the trajectory directed by greater forces.
Motives and meanderingsOne of the big policies of Trump's first term was competition with China. If Trump returns to the theme, what form will this take? The simplest distinction is military, economic and social.
If we were watching sports ball we would want to know how teams rank. How to measure China's economy against the USA; its military; its society and culture?
Trump's foreign policy evolves since his first term
The British still stuck and wrong about the 'mercurial' Donald
Germany's Green de-growth sucks but they sack the wrong person
'Centrist' extremists will limp on for three months
Israel in varying degrees of disintegration as PM fires war boss
No sign of change as wars limp on
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Nov 7, 2024
Crisis 1, Trump's Agenda, Foreign & DomesticThis U.S. Election was relatively fraud-free, and the question is why. Taking this contrarian view (even to doubt the 2020 election is to invite derision) actually answers a question:
Kamala Harris delayed only a few hours in calling on her supporters to accept the election result.
Commentary among the U.S. foreign policy elite suggests they may be ready for a Trump foreign policy that departs from the neocon norm. Could it be multi-aligned rather than clinging to the hammer-looking-for-nuts of hegemony?
Are the British so stuck up on their wrong think, that they imagine they are dealing with the same mercurial Trump of his first term? (Yes).
Eight years after he first took office Trump is now a Washington insider — a figure on the diplomatic stage — who has for decades been able to get any world leader to answer his call, unlike Joe Biden.
To assume that his foreign policy has not evolved since 2016 makes an ass out of u and me.
Multi-angular worldThe week before the election Foreign Affairs journal asked in the U.S. could lead in a world with less competition, more co-operation — not so much multipolar as multi-partner. [1]
This would abandon the rigid alliances of the Cold War, as well as the Pax Americana that followed when the U.S. reigned supreme. It was quoting a speech by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009.
Partnerships that serve the interests of trade do not, in this multi-aligned vision, have to map directly over alliances for military security.
A much quoted example is China brokering a thaw in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Riyadh is building economic ties with Beijing, while still looking to Washington on matters military.
For the U.S. to capitalise on this should, the argument goes, mean looking beyond security partnerships and instead focusing on infrastructure, sharing technology and creating benefits for regions that create mutual ties.
Belt and broadsThe U.S. could offer an alternative to Chinese infrastructure and investment, and broker partnerships between third parties where these align with U.S. interests.
Keen interest shown by African and Asian countries in China's Belt and Road Initiative is driven by a desire to develop, and not simply the narrow self-interest of China. Fighting it, is a fool's errand.
The Middle East, better understood as West Asia, is growing trade not just with China but India, retaining a relationship with Europe, while rediscovering trade with Turkiye. This is not yet U.S. policy.
Could it be?
Since October 7th 2023 the U.S. has deployed more troops to the region, and selling more weapons, retaining a military-first posture, linked to the Abraham Accords, while warning allies away from reliance on Chinese technology.
Jennifer Kavanagh writing for the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy in January 2024 said the U.S. should map out an economic strategy to match its military ties, using venture capital and private equity to co-development and public-private partnerships. [2]
She argues that Europe can play a role: the Baltic states sharing maritime management and technology with Gulf states: Germany developing renewable energy with the same; and then Japan and South Korea could offer digital and telecommunications alternatives to China, while the U.S. could develop military technology in tripartite deals with South Korea and the Gulf countries.
In Southeast Asia countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, aware of the might of Chinese competition, have expanded defence ties with the U.S. while maintaining neutrality.
In contrast to a zero-sum game, all parties may find opportunities.
Orange man not-so-badTrump's first term was marked by withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, the signing of the Abraham Accords, preparation for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and continuing the previous administration's pivot to Asia.
Topics for which the press gave him grief, proved him right. His demand that junior partners in NATO pay their way is now common currency, with European leaders competing to outdo Trump: "You didn't pay? You're delinquent."
German politicians sniggered and guffawed at Trump's warning that they were over-reliant on Russian gas. The country is now in its second year of economic decline after the detonation of the Nord Stream pipeline. The Berlin coalition of energy starvation, Green degrowth and endless war is now collapsing.
Although Trump accused China of taking advantage of the U.S. in trade, bilateral trade actually increased in his first term.
Four mouths after Russia invaded Ukraine we asked, "Could the U.S. abandon Europe to fight Russia alone?" [3]
CIA silver spoonPivot, exterminate, pivot, exterminate...
Elbridge Colby, the grandson of CIA director William Colby, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under president Donald Trump, has argued that the "U.S. must leave Ukraine to Europe and prepare for conflict with China."
Colby's promotion within the Trump circles from deputy assistant secretary of defense to a more senior role, like National Security Adviser, would signal a significant shift in US attention.
Mike Pompeo, Trump's CIA director and then as Secretary of State, is committed to Ukraine, writing in the Wall Street Journal in July of a $500 billion "lend-lease" programme, seeing both Russia and China as a threat.
Moderating between these two views Trump may be swayed by Ukraine's main businesses: mineral sales and human trafficking. Trump signed an executive order "Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States."
JD Vance said in April, before being chosen as Trump's running mate:
Home bend"We have built a foreign policy of hectoring, moralizing, and lecturing countries that don't want anything to do with it. The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people.
And I think we should pursue a foreign policy of diplomacy, of respect and a foreign policy that is not rooted in moralizing; its rooted in the national interest of this country."
Turning to the domestic, Trump's policy may follow the lines of his first term: with a focus on limited government, states' rights and lower taxes.
Automotive may take the headlines as he delivers on his pledge to auto workers to limit Chinese imports and the outsourcing of assembly. With union members supporting him in droves, Trump may ease off on driverless vehicles
The international audience will see if he takes an axe to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments, as he has promised.
He is likely to further reduce the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget, especially since Justices banned bureaucrats from making up new rules and regulations: the oddly-named "Chevron deference" which said courts must defer to new rules imposed by agencies.
See 3 Crises: Happy 'No Deference' Day - Down those 4th July hotdogs as the war horses charge (Jul 04, 2024)
Oil production would be revived, cutting the time for permits, increase drilling on Federal land.
Robert F Kennedy Jr could take a role in health, with a commission into the cause of rising chronic disease. He may investigate the function of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This are just some of the topics Trump has mentioned, yet even these would be a stentorian task in just four years, and would likely face pushback. [4]
Safety firstRet. Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn says the priority is physical security. With the campaign over, Trump needs to go into bunker mode as he prepares for inauguration.
Washington DC voted 95 per cent for Harris, which shows its divide with the rest of the country. Trump is on course to win all seven of the swing states in the 2024 race and both the House and Senate, beating Harris by a humiliating margin.
Washington is 95 per cent in the Democrats' pocket because it's full of organisations with their hand stuck firmly in the government pocket.
Government cannot be changed without removing the networks of non governmental organisations (NGOs) that have a voice in setting policy, and profiting from it.
Crisis 2: Germany's Coalition SplitsGermany's ruling coalition has fallen apart. They performed disastrously in the elections in eastern Germany in September 2024, but the Greens/SPD on the one hand, and the Free Democrats on the other, also disagreed on policy.
In October, FDP finance minister Christian Lindner effectively denounced the coalition's entire economic and financial policy.
Funny business — using billions of euro earmarked for Covid, to shore up climate policy — which the top court ruled illegal, leaving a €60 billion hole in the budget.
The Greens/SDP want to replace welfare with a citizens' income, add 400,000 new homes each year, pensions were to be financed from the stock market.
Neoconservative buccaneering takes a lot of money. The West has printed money for too long and the debt. The British government collapsed two years ago over borrowing, and it is in the same situation again. So are other Western governments.
Worse, they de-industrialised.
Scholz will concede a confidence vote on January 15. If he loses, a snap election is set to take place by March. [5]
Crisis 3: Israel Rumours of CoupIsrael is in ferment over the firing on Tuesday of the popular (relatively) defence minister Yoav Gallant.
"Last night, it became official: Israel is being led by a prime minister who is a danger to state security," veteran military correspondent Yoav Limor wrote, calling the move "a stinging slap in the face to everyone who has paid the price of this terrible war."
It has re-opened division that were seen during the Covid response when Haredi (ultra orthodox) community resisted the "safe and effective." Now it is military service — from which they are exempt.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth carried the headline "Gallant's Dismissal was Carried Out for the Sake of Haredi Parties" — a reference to political pressure from ultra-Orthodox groups to scuttle a bill that challenges their exemption from military service.
The prime minister's spouse Sara Netanyahu has previously accused elements in the military of plotting a coup. [6]
What can change?
[1] Foreign Affairs, Oct 30, 2024 - How America Can Succeed in a Multialigned World
[2] IPD, Jan 2024 - The United States And China In The Multi-Aligned Middle East
[3] Europe's Leaders May Walk Into A Trap - Could the U.S. abandon Europe to fight Russia alone? (Jun 16, 2024)
[4] Holland & Knight, Nov 6, 2024 - A Look at the Upcoming Trump Administration's Policy Priorities
[5] DW, Nov 6, 2024 - Germany's coalition government falls apart — how it happened
[6] JP, Jun 2024 - Sara Netanyahu accuses IDF chiefs of coup against husband while meeting hostage families
Orange filters and Russia return; deep state play book unchanged since 2016
Harris avoids concession speech; Europe shows that political squatting works
Boxes of ballots continue to arrive for late-night counting in echo of 2020
This time Trump won the popular vote, hampering Democrat lawfare
January's inauguration is weeks away; Antifa has taken to streets of Seattle
The West has been set up, with orchestrated chaos he'll struggle to solve
Porous borders - millions in the past year - denote unrest at home, wars abroad
NATO-EU has made proxy war against Russia 'Trump proof' with $50 billion
And the legacy of the military's 'safe & effective' hangs around his neck
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The 'Fascist' Word And The Real Threat - Rival orders of Woke may combine in a 1930s reboot (Nov 04, 2024)
Art Of The Deal In War & Peace - Will Trump overcome the globalists? (Nov 03, 2024)
German Voters Reject Political Squatters - 'Centrist' parties defy popular fury, cling to power (Sep 03, 2024)
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Reaction to the U.S. election was cautious; the MAGA crowd was reserved.
Even if Trump advances smoothly to the White House there is much that can happen before the inauguration in January.
The litany of litigation, or lawfare, won't stop. Antifa is already on the streets of Seattle. Time magazine's Molly Ball documented the 2020 an agreement between the AFL-CIO, the biggest union, which works with the intel agencies and the Democrats in the event of a Trump victory. It is possible that the same "transition integrity project" remains in place.
We have described how the opponents of Trump are foreign as well as domestic: British intelligence worked with the Clinton campaign to concoct Russiagate.
Accusations of "Russia, Russia, Russia" are being repeated across social media, some saying Putin's agents had called in bomb threats to voting locations.
This tells you that the Democratic Party's line is going to say the election was not free and fair, accusing Trump's team of voter suppression and intimidating language.
Kamala Harris declined to make a concession speech. As she is already incumbent in the White House, there could be an attempt to stop Trump entering in person.
Elections in Europe this year have shown examples of political squatting.
See German Voters Reject Political Squatters - 'Centrist' parties defy popular fury, cling to power (Sep 03, 2024)
Times changeTwo things are different to 2016 and 2020: Social media and Twitter in particular are free to monitor cheating in real time and more importantly Trump won the popular vote.
The results so far:
Electoral college Harris 223, Trump 276
Popular vote Harris 66.1 million, Trump 71.2 million
Winning the popular vote will insulate Trump from Democrats challenging the result. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, 65.8 to 62.9 million while losing the electoral college.
In 2020, Joe Biden stayed in his basement almost the entire campaign. His public meetings attracted less support than Harris'. Yet Biden won 81 million votes, 15 million more than the wildly popular Barack Obama.
Suspicious mindsBoxes of ballots arrived late at night at Detroit's Bureau of Elections. The deliveries, reportedly occurred around 11pm, delivered by cars with California plates — Project Veritas footage.
Kamala Campaign issued a memo: "Go home and get some sleep. we need to wait until 3am to determine who won."
These could indicate the same ballot fraud techniques as in 2020. Yet voters are wise to the game and have turned out in such numbers that they may "stop the steal."
CNN said a batch of 10,000s of mail-in ballots was expected to arrive in Philadelphia at midnight.
Media complicityThe press was slow to "call" the race, even though Trump was far enough ahead to do so. Fox was the first to ascribe Pennsylvania to Trump just after midnight.
TV and press seemed to be waiting on hints from the Harris campaign, or from the intelligence services that run the media nowadays — more likely they were dragging it out to keep people watching and maximise ratings.
Bomb threatsThe FBI made allegations that Russia was behind bomb threats against polling stations. One led to the temporary closing of a Georgia polling station. It was found to have come from a poll worker, who had sent letters to himself, a "closeted liberal election fraudster." [1]
Protests beginSeattle Police responded to a group of Antifa rioters in black bloc who gathered in response to a call for an election night attack in the former CHAZ area.
Yet the "diversity ploy" has backfired. If Democrats thought that an influx of migrants would expand the plantation of voters it alarmed legal immigrants.
Exit polls suggest Harris got fewer Latino votes than Biden, at 50 per cent. Trump won 54 per cent, from Hispanic men in particular.
Who's in controlThere is much that Trump cannot control.
As detailed here at Moneycircus, the U.S. dollar is quite likely reaching the end of its dominance, the very wealthy will protect their wealth by any means necessary.
When we combine the effect of wars, demographics and borders, and the price inflation that eats at the wealth of the domestic population, we notice that those events which grab the headlines are merely levers in a mechanism to transition to a new monetary system.
See Art Of The Deal In War & Peace - Will Trump overcome the globalists? (Nov 03, 2024)
Trump enters office facing a much greater crisis than in 2016. The deep state resisted him at every step but it was not until the last year of his presidency that Dr Anthony Fauci's prediction, made in January 2017, came true: that "no doubt' Trump would face surprise infectious disease outbreak.
Trump was caught off guard. He asked on camera that if this was a "live exercise"... "why didn't you tell me."
He later learned that the "safe and effective" was produced by the military — and in the pecking order of the military industrial complex, the president follows orders.
So he has never atoned for the Covid response and will have to contend with its legacy.
Now there is also the open borders crisis.
First they came for free speech, and I did not speak out
Democrats led attack on First Amendment and Constitution, but Right joins in
Danger is that parties may compete to out-do each other, as we saw during Covid
Gleichschaltung underway, placing society into gleich (same) schaltung (circuit)
Uniparty and media speak with one voice - ominous clue
Climate and crisis, answered by Green degrowth and war
Only beneficiary will be those rich enough to retain wealth and profit
Governments present migrant scapegoat to compete with the middle class…
Driving bourgeois to their socialist adversary - Woke Left meeting Woke Right
Related:
Green policy and war - the third rail Great Reset Exposed As Replacement - Globalists have nowhere to hide (Oct 22, 2024)
The Great Replacement Of Everything - Dollar, Western civilisation sidelined: what gives? (Jul 21, 2024) Crisis Kamala's Price Controls - Accidental communist or globalist plaything? (Aug 20, 2024)
This Could Be The Last Election - Assemblies will be used to validate unpopular policies (Jul 08, 2024)
When The Skies Were Free - Clouds, currency and carbon: all that's sequestered is the truth (Jun 12, 2022)
Übermensch or Lawgiver: Who Rules Among Us? - And why there is only one party (Aug 14, 2021)
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Nov 4, 2024
Waiting for the results of the U.S. electiont feels like circling in a jet for hours waiting to land, at the risk of being diverted.
Travelling to Toronto around 1976 to visit my parents, the plane landed at Montreal but could not take off again due to a snow storm.
We passengers were put on a bus, with ill-fitting doors, to shiver our way for six hours down to Toronto.
At least we knew we'd make our destination eventually; the skies were still free. In this election, the outcome, even when one of the candidates declares victory and the other concedes, is far from certain.
About Kamala Harris the less said the better. If she is installed, it will be as a candidate with a legend more opaque than the shadowy elitist Barack Obama.
Clowns to the… Jokers to the…Outrage from stage left, entertainment from stage right. My favourite was Joe Biden calling the opposition's supporters garbage. The White House altered the presidential record to soften his words.
They have worn out the word Orwellian. And then Donald Trump turned up in a bin man's reflective vest, sitting atop a garbage truck.
Gotta give props to Trump for doing four rallies a day. Voters were stentorian, 75 million voting by Nov 4th — and yet the campaign was unsatisfying.
The amount of impedance, resistive and reactive, is ohminous (irresistible pun).
Despite the high jinx, the deep state grumbled in the background. The most notorious war hawks of the early 2000s — Dick Cheney, the McCain family, and a daughter but not George W Bush himself — lined up behind the Democratic party.
The war tendency likes any horse, so long as it's Trojan.
Yet much was NOT discussed, topics flew under the radar, while the press did its best to distract us with identity politics and pure invention.
There was nothing, for example, about the life-transforming, socially cataclysmic events of the past five years.
Trump was not held to account for the Covid response and the "safe and effective" — not even by Joe Rogan.
In my opinion his compliance and silence is due to the fact that the Covid response was a project of the military, which created and deployed the vaccine, but you are entitled to yours.
Is Trump controlled? The Dems have spent nine years digging for dirt, finding fewer weaknesses than in the average person — and why would he give up his retirement to stay in the race as he has done since 2015?
Yet it feels wrong to wade into partisan politics when the technocrats are open about their intent to dispense with politics. One Google founder says AI will make voting redundant; Yuval Harari says free will is a myth.
Better focus on artisan politics, than partisan.
Digital nirvanaThe trouble with war as a political issue is that it's always "over there."
Trump has promised if elected to end Ukraine's war with Russia, but the country would likely remain militarised.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his British handlers plan to turn Ukraine, said Max Blumenthal, into an "ethno-nationalist, Spartan, hyper-militarized bastion, armed to the teeth by NATO, existing for years in a state of permanent war against Russia, and we, the taxpayer, nothing we can do about it." Zelenskiy in April 2023 said:
"We cannot talk about being a Switzerland of the future but we will definitely become a big Israel, with its own face. We will not be surprised to have representatives of the armed forces and the national guard in all institutions, supermarkets and cinemas. There will be people with weapons. I am sure that our security will be the number one issue in the next 10 years."
Such a state clearly would brook no opposition or dissent. Zelenskiy has banned his political opposition, amounting to 11 political parties, on the pretext that they have ties to Russia and has shut down much of the media.
Degrowth and warRemember, too, that Ukraine is a testing ground for the World Economic Forum's model of social control. Ukraine and South Africa were the first countries outside of China to launch digital ID and social credit.
See Beware The Trifecta Of Tyranny (Moneycircus, Nov 24, 2022)
The methods by which we wage war abroad eventually come home, to be imposed on the domestic population.
See Any 'Emergency' Would Be Step Closer To Dictatorship - Hate laws will censor all dissent (Sep 21, 2023)
We have discussed war in many notes; no need to repeat comments here.
See German Voters Reject Political Squatters - 'Centrist' parties defy popular fury, cling to power (Sep 03, 2024)
There was no discussion of the Net Zero agenda. I refer not to climate science but the response which is "hoist with (its) own petard."
Who can point to a plan to save humanity? There is a gaping hole where there should be a whole-of-society strategy to transition to lower energy use.
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If you look the proposals to reduce energy consumption, it leans heavily on halting travel and imprisoning people within 15 minute zones.
C40 Cities is the globalist project to tackle climate change. On reducing energy consumption it says: "share good practices on water management... provide guidance to improve energy efficiency in buildings... local use of low emission local heating and cooling systems." [1]
Simply put, that's a joke. If the climate emergency is a fraction as bad as they claim, that is a lame response.
At least Maui, Hawaii residents experienced those "good practices on water management" when the county restricted water to fight the wildfires on the grounds of equity.
The deputy director of water management, M. Kaleo Manuel promotes an holistic "One Water" approach in which water is revered, not used. Water requires "true conversations about equity," he said in a 2022 video.
See Maui's Fire Hydrants Ran Dry; The Politics Of Water - H20 is being rationed in an attack on humanity (Sep 18, 2023)
We live in a wondrous time because we are able to weigh these technocrats' words, in real time, against their actions. This gives us the power to pin politicians like butterflies to a board and confront them with their own actions, contrasted with their words.
But we did not. Why is that?A genuine transition to low-consumption society would require a bottom-up, grass roots, whole-of-society effort: imaginative, and ground breakingly inventive.
What we have instead is a process, driven by a clique obsessed with shoe-horning reality into models. They impose standards which are simply labels, so they can box-tick their targets and claim to have met managed outcomes.
This recalls the scientific absurdity of the Soviet bureaucrat Trofim Lysenko who believed he could teach wheat to grow in winter. He framed his ideas in Marxist terms to gain political protection and used this power (1920s-1960s) to silence critics and send rival scientists to the GULAG.
Lysenko's victims — in an eerie and ironic inversion — were the early geneticists, and tens of millions who died in famine. Wikipedia says Mao Zedong adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, contributing to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.
As we shall see, without free speech there is no scientific research. The ominously numbing phrase, "the science is settled" has become not just a guide to medicine or the weather but an instruction on the virtue one must signal to be accepted in society!
See Bankers Prance To War And Slavery, Pt 1 - 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day' (Dec 04, 2021)
We ignore this human experience — for it is not dry history — at our cost. We let XR have the stage, while Extinction Rebellion whips up an emotional response, (mis)directed at CO2.
Carbon is essential to the financialisation of nature. Poorer countries will be able to put their forests into a contract to offset polluting or carbon-producing activities by the rich.
Pirates of the CaribbeanThen they'll be able to borrow against these forests. But woe betide if they default on those loans or fail to fulfil the contract in any way. The carbon brokers will sue; the banks running the carbon market will foreclose, the asset will be seized.
The rich who control or invest in manufacturing will, through this process, get their hands on new colonies as surely as they did during the days of European Empire.
This is one reason we see NATO expanding into the South Atlantic. It already has Colombia and Brazil on board, Argentina is next.
This is not "climate denial" or political point-scoring; it is well-intended question, given we have been told since the 1970s that the world will end every 10 years. If it is an existential crisis, where is the plan to move the population to sustainable living?
Remember the Covid response was imposed within a month, with identical language, by leaders around the world, while in many countries legislators were sent home, paid bonuses to stay safe and say nothing.
We saw governments in lock step on Covid yet where is the similar response to floods in the Carolinas and Valencia, where bodies still under the mud. People pelted the Spanish prime minister with mud, forcing him to flee, complaining of government inaction. [2]
Greater goodWhat kind of greater good is imposed on humanity without debate, as if the universality of the act is justification enough? This is the essence of totalitarianism.
Borders, demography, debt, default and inflation - suicide brings on many changes
Continents in play, Western countries and peoples on the hook in a proxy war
Gains go to the asset managers and corporations cutting deals in Kyiv
Anglo-American Establishment shows its hand as it fears a Trump victory
We parse the comments of CFR/Chatham house, centuries-old motives emerge
Desperate to retain wealth, they struggle to shed imperial world view
Financiers maneouvre as the banking crisis deepens
Ditching dollar is not a contest with the global south but central banks vs retail
The People are caught in the gears of a transition to a new monetary system
See also:
The Great Replacement Of Everything - Dollar, Western civilisation sidelined: what gives? (Jul 21, 2024)
Kamala's Price Controls - Accidental communist or globalist plaything? (Aug 20, 2024)
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Nov 3, 2024
The Economist makes clear where the banking-intelligence nexus of the City of London stands.
The writing style is to-the-point and persuasive, the format concise, anonymous and uniform —Reader's Digest for those whose day job requires a world view.
Its headline declares "A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks."
"By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace…"
… as opposed to the centrists who locked down the world for a coronavirus, mandated the "safe and effective," pursue war in Eurasia and west Asia (Mid East), have set their countries on a path of energy shortage and de-industrialisation while importing unskilled migrants for whom they have no jobs — conspiring to defy the voice of voters who dissent en masse. Centrists…
But we digress.
The Rothschild-Agnelli magazine shares views close to Chatham House, which advises the British Foreign Office on policy. Full name the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), it is better resourced than the FO.
Then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton called its sister organisation, the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the mother ship.
Shoot friends and influence peopleIn the United States, the Cheney, Bush, McCain and Romney families are backing vice president Kamala Harris. The war party has never been more obvious.
In a string of articles this year Chatham House and the CFR became more vocal as a second Trump inauguration seemed increasingly plausible. It insists:
This administration would not be moderated by so-called "grown ups in the room," the national security advisers and secretaries of state and defense from his first term…
Trump gives voice to an isolationist/nationalist tradition, yet the world has changed: it is no longer possible to think, as in 2001, of Russia and China becoming "responsible stakeholders…."
He has made the Republican party hostile to the Western establishment, suggesting it has destroyed working-class communities while sending American youth to fight unwinnable wars…
British viceSir Richard Dearlove, former chief of the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, said in January that the greatest threats to British national security were the Russia-Ukraine war, China's possible threats to Western interests and Taiwan and the potential re-election of Trump in the U.S.
Britain's Integrity Initiative and the Russiagate hoax, run by British intelligence operatives, came close to paralysing Donald Trump's first administration. Its loudest media voice was Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow on Microsoft-NBC. MI6 operative Christopher Steele's "pee pee dossier" was financed by the Clintons (Bill, not Hillary, is the Rhodes Scholar).
So it is not a wild guess to expect more of the same as Trump closes in on a second term.
Empire daysRIIA adopts a parochial view of Ukraine, as if it were a region of Britain, while it argues over who should fund the local constabulary, NATO. It is worried that the U.S. under Trump won't foot the bill.
Yet RIIA takes a colonial view of the U.S., outraged that its former dominion should consider placing a 10 per cent duty on imports regardless of origin. It is the mother country's right, after all, to impose duties as with tea in 1773.
As a former naval power, RIIA is worried for loss of the seaways. Rivalry with China could compromise trade routes to South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.
The British empire fought two wars to pry China open to business, and a third to limit its manufacturing, backing Mao's communists over Sun Yat-sen's successor Chiang Kai-shek. Time was not ripe.
It was 100 years later that the Anglo-American establishment decided to shift manufacturing to China. Now that's under threat from Trump's plan to impose a 60 per cent duty on Chinese goods.
The world is under stress, says RIIA, as if it was a disinterested observer pretending not to know its fellow chaos agents.
War in Europe is entering a third year with little end in sight, it says, forgetting that former British prime minister Boris Johnson scuppered the peace talks…
Trump would be an appeaser if he tried to make a deal with Putin — whom Americans have come to hate which has nothing to do with the establishment's hold on the media…
It salivates at the prospect of cornering Trump so that he has to INCREASE military support to Ukraine to force Putin to the negotiating table.
War in west Asia (Mid East) is shaped by pipelines and gas fields but the London-centric commentary of Chatham House says it is Trump's friendship with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that could stoke war with Iran…
Nothing to do with Tehran's juicy oil and gas fields — commodities essential to refinancing the West's tottering banks and financial system.
It admits that rules are unfair — the West supports statehood for Ukraine not Palestine, ethnic-Albanian Kosovans not ethnic-Russians in the Donbas — and that the West imposes tough economic rules on those least able to protect themselves.
It acknowledges that Russia and China are setting the pace with infrastructure projects and lending in Asia, Africa and South America.
The West has made "mis-steps" through the colonial era and the Cold War, and the Western project has tough years of adjustment ahead…
Realpolitik playTo help Chatham House with its analysis, let's straighten out a few things.
The Western project, since at least the British empire, has been mercantilist. Trade routes and resources are controlled in order extract value and send money home to the motherland. The periphery, whether that is the PIGS of southern Europe or the global south, is expected to open its waters and fields, and mineral mines, and work cheap labour to the bone, and if they refuse then BlackRock and Co will "force behaviours."
Consider the Jones Act, a 1920 law that requires any maritime vehicle transporting goods between two American ports to be built, owned and crewed in the US for security reasons.
That is what they mean by free trade: neo-liberalism for the colonies, while the mother ship protects its interests through control of the monetary system and bodies that regulate trade, set international laws, and impose by military means if necessary the "rules based international order."
This is now under challenge.
Trump's cardsWould a Trump administration solve the problem?
Loss of Russian gas has plunged Germany into two-year economic decline
Germany was the manufacturing powerhouse and paymaster of European Union
Globalists shift industry to Asia, while importing low-skilled labour to West
Industry is energy intensive: you cannot cut energy and maintain present society
What will they do with Europe once it's been subjected to degrowth?
The outcome is simple: depopulation, rewilding & anti-speciesism
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Europe's Parallel Reality: C02 & Degrowth (May 09, 2024)
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Nov 2, 2024
An activist approached the cooling towers near the Bavarian town of Grafenrheinfeld in a desperate act of protest.
He managed only to delay the detonation of the giant vents, almost 500 feet, or 150 meters tall.
It is an act of vandalism being repeated across the West. On a tributary of the River Trent stand the towers of Britain's last coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
After 56 years, its turbines stopped spinning for good as the British government banned the use of coal.
Britain is demolishing its remaining cooling towers at a rate of 10 to 20 a year. They destruction is symbolic. They are not being turned off but knocked down, so that they cannot be used if even in an emergency.
As cooling towers generate a natural updraft, surely they are the ultimate form of renewable energy themselves, so why demolish them?
It is symbolic of our culture's refusal to learn from the past. The Persian wind tower was a well established way to cool buildings before today's reliance on electricity. [1]
The ice house was a common feature to stop it from melting, even in summer, due to its architectural design.
Our cooling towers are less beautiful but follow the same ideas. See this article in Anthropology News. [2]
Inner chiEnergy is the force that gives life - or "inner chi."
It is the person who urges change without specifics (Barack Obama) or forces behaviours (Larry Fink) who is an external and unwanted drain on that energy. At best a liability, at worst leeching energy.
Disruption challenges the status quo, but sometimes "the state in which things are" has a logic.
Only this January those turbines in Nottingham spun at full speed as Ratcliffe fired up all four of its generating units as an "Arctic blast" froze the country.
The Guardian mentions it as an aside — but there you have the criminal negligence behind the Green energy proposition. The generation capacity of oil, gas, coal and nuclear can be turned up at will. The article contains no reference to what will replace Ratcliffe's 2,000 megawatts, enough to power two million homes when it shut at the end of September.
You are not supposed to make the connection. So The Guardian spins a cheery yarn. [3]
Comments like, "I guess, we have been the scaffolding that the energy system has leaned on to enable renewables to play a bigger part."
It twists the 1984-5 miners' strike into a heart tug between loyalty to the unions and keeping the lights on. The real choice was between saving the coal industry and de-industrialisation.
Germany decided to persist with the shut down of its nuclear power industry, even after it lost most of its gas supply with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline on September 26, 2022.
An amendment to the Atomic Energy Act allowed for a short extension of life, which has now expired.
Construction of the Grafenrheinfeld NPP in the southern state of Bavaria began in 1975 with the plant beginning commercial operations in 1982. It was Germany's oldest nuclear power plant but was closed in 2015 as part of the government's policy to transition away from nuclear power.
Germany has not yet replaced the 1,300 nuclear megawatts that the plant produced.
Mad changeWelcome to the mad, mad world of climate change, Greenery, Russophobia and de-growth.
European gas prices hit the highest in a year, at the wholesale level, after a smoke alarm at Norwegian state producer Equinor led to a temporary shutdown.
It shows the nervousness despite gas storage being 95 per cent full. That's because weather forecasts suggest a cold winter, unlike the mild one of 2023-24.
The U.S. and Azerbaijan are struggling to meet European demand - meaning it all hangs on the wea'vah.
The good news is that Europe already has access to sufficient supplies to meet its gas demand needs past 2040, based on pipelines from Algeria as well as Norway.
This suggests the drive for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) may not be necessary in the long term. According to Zero Carbon Analytics LNG contracts will exceed demand by 2027.
How can both be true: a possible gas shortage this winter in Europe, but declining need for LNG?
Well, the clue is in the phrase Zero Carbon; assumptions that Europe won't need LNG are based on declining use of gas, as Europe switches to those renewables - like the solar panels washed away in Valencia.
But is it renewables, or declining demand, known as demand destruction?
Green degrowthSince the detonation of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in September 2022 businesses have had to cut back. Some are closing operations in Europe and shifting production to the U.S., China and elsewhere.
The State of the Energy Union Report says demand destruction stood at 138 billion cu m between August 2022 and May 2024.
The EU's narrative spinners say it is good that demand for gas is falling because Western Europe is reducing its reliance on Russian gas, while going Green.
Russia supplied 45 per cent of Europe's gas in 2019. That was down to 16 per cent by the start of this year. It is likely to fall further as Ukraine's agreement to transit Russian gas expires at the end of this year. [4]
Supercooling gas and storing it on ships — or liquefied natural gas (LNG) — tends to come from places with lower upstream (initial) costs, and proponents reject the claim that it is wildly more expensive than pipeline gas. On the other hand, gas is already 1000 times less energy dense by volume than crude oil. So transport takes up a lot of the cost.
Don't forget that in January 2024 climate activists pressured the Biden regime to halt the construction of LNG export terminals, though it was overturned by the courts. [5]
Madness: another example. The European Commission under gauleiter Ursula von der Leyen wants to replace Russian gas with Azerbaijan's, but the latter lacks the capacity to meet Europe's needs. So it is proposing a swap deal with Russia to fill its pipes.
In other words Europe would still buy Russian gas, but via a contract with the Azeris.
It has a certain logic not half as crazy as shutting down nuclear and coal-fired power plants before wind, solar and renewables are ready to take up the slack.
In the 1960s and 70s long-distance pipelines were built - some of us would say life was better back then; does this explain why.
The Baltic Nord Stream was completed in the 2010s. Despite the war, Ukraine has continued to transit Russian and Kazakh oil through the Druzhba, or friendship, pipeline across 4,000 kilometes to the former Soviet client states of Eastern Europe.
It's a gasGermany faces the slowest growth this year, out of 38-member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — except, that is, for Britain. Its economy has contracted for two years since Nord Stream was detonated.
The three main reasons, according to Harvard International Review are the loss of cheap Russian, gas, closing its remaining nuclear power plants, and the slow transition to - or failure so far of renewable energy.
Google could shift between 6 and 25 million votes next week
Politicians sell out to intel & tech, who offer to manufacture the public mind
Polarisation disguises the process - you think there is (un)healthy debate
U.S. election will show how (un)free speech can directly impact events
Is it dangerous to encourage extreme views? Yet polarisation drives compliance
Shaping media: we're not concerned with technics but political outcomes
Related:
Who Is Afraid Of Democracy? - It's under attack from those paid to protect it (May 15, 2024)
Just Following Orders: How Media Creates Conformity - Polarization leads people to side with authority (Jan 28, 2024)
The Public-Private Censorship Industry - Official culture of playing loose with the truth could crush fragile trust in media (Feb 27, 2023)
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Nov 1, 2024
Already rumbles of trouble with Dominion voting machines and burning ballot boxes. But the biggest manipulation in the coming U.S. general election is in the mind.
The media tells us that we live in a post-truth era. The Oxford Dictionary's publishers declared it international word of the year in 2016.
Since then, politicians have conceded the issue is not so much truth, but trust. And while they blame the people for believing the wrong things, or trusting the wrong information, they admit it is they who have lost the people's trust — or as they put it, the people no longer trust their elites. [1]
Their answer, of course, is to censor critics, and to "flood the zone" with nudges and messaging, intended to shape our behaviour. The World Economic Forum call this the Great Narrative.
The public will be told that We The People are the source of misinformation, to try to shame us into silence.
In a society where politics is polarised the technique is easy to spot: because it is the polarisation!
You will notice the TV anchor or presenter only allows two opinions, which are purposely polarised. I am not making a moral judgement on the following, merely recounting what we observe.
A recent example is the opening question, "Do you condemn Hamas? — the boundaries of interview are set: you are 100 per cent behind Israel, or you are a terrorist supporter. No nuance allowed!
Other issues are polarised by re-framing the debate: sex equality has become gender, kindergärtners are dragged into the debate; race relations becomes privilege and supremacy, reparations demanded; environment and pollution become climate change, an immediate, existential threat of millenarian proportions. [2]
It is easy to make something a pseudo-religious cause: "the world is ending and I'm the man to fix it." Simply present it as the ONLY problem, to which everything else must be subordinated and sacrificed. That is pure, millenarian religion.
The Guardian has for decades led a campaign to de-platform "deniers."
The middle ground crumbles like a bridge in a flood; you must commit fully to one of two camps, representing the most extreme views.
Next comes the attack of the bots. They amplify or attack an already polarised argument, scaring away those seeking moderate debate.
This swarm represents half, or more, of interactions. Human use of social media fell to 50 per cent, says the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report. Research suggests that 58 per cent of the time humans cannot identify a bot. [3]
The purpose of bots is to influence humans, and that includes those who follow your account; friends and employers.
The editor of the magazine Artforum was fired after he published an open letter from artists calling for "an end to the killing and harming of all civilians." Prominent individuals like Alan Dershowitz called for employers not to hire those who expressed pro-Palestinian opinions. [4]
After the murder of three schoolgirls in Southport in August, British prime minister Keir Starmer declared: "Let me also say to large social media companies and those who run them: violent disorder was clearly whipped up online."
But whipped up by whom?
The U.S. Department of Justice accuses Russia of operating troll farms and in July seized two domain names and 968 social media accounts on X. [5]
Israel also operated hundreds of X accounts posing as Americans to boost support for its actions in Gaza. [6]
Cyber activity is easily disguised. The CIA's Vault 7 hacking tools showed it could add Russian fingerprints to its own activity.
Bots that promoted Nigel Farage's Reform party were investigated by ITV journalists. They seem to have originated in the UK, with name, surname, followed by four digits, but they were shared and amplified from Nigeria.
Edward Snowden revealed the U.S. National Security Administration spying on Americans, but also Britain's equivalent GCHQ and its JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group) which more than a decade ago claimed the ability to infiltrate sites and discussions, up and down vote (and presumably follow and unfollow), change content, delete an online presence or plant compromising information or viruses. A Reddit threat accuses JTRIG of trying to stop discussions or lure participants into direct messages or other fora through honeytraps. [7]
The polarising of social and political debate is orchestrated by broadcasting corporations, owned by the asset managers and billionaires who fund politicians like Starmer.
Why would the government have anything to gain from dividing the people — except to conquer them?
The hand-wringing over polarisation is a distraction. If you study the research, something different emerges: polarisation may drive conformity.
When motivated by an extremely pro-social or antisocial agent, participants conform to what they presume is demanded of them: either to authority (the power vertical) or by following norms among their fellows (horizontal influence). [8]
Polarisation is the cymbal clash of civilisation: setting up people in conflict with each other to drive managed outcomes.
In this caterwauling of epithet-flinging, in which your adversary is a fascist, the erosion of liberties proceeds unnoticed.
Polarisation leads the majority to self-censor, but did you know that it also makes them compliant?
Polarisation is not a bug, it's a feature. The powers that be may complain it is a source of disunity but in fact they are using it to drive compliance.
See Just Following Orders: How Media Creates Conformity - Polarization leads people to side with authority (Jan 28, 2024)
You may encounter online a rather narrow range of opinions: even a direct search yields limited results. This hampers the use of Twitter or social media as a research tool (though they are still better than the censored search engines like Google).
The so-called filter bubble deliberately concentrates and polarises results, in the attempt to build a profile of your tastes and opinions. (The question is how to counter it. One way is to list a range of interests, public figures and commentators of all shades and follow them.)
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Georgia's president sides with youth, NGOs, EU-U.S. to criticise election
Hungary PM Viktor Orban visits Tbilisi - EU members condemn
U.S. State Department warns of 'consequences'
False narrative: election was not about Russia vs West for vast majority of voters
As in West, voters are more concerned about economy and stability
Anyhow, membership of the EU and NATO is embedded in Georgia's constitution
Those who pull the strings prefer managed outcomes
Americans will see the same playbook as Georgia in Nov 5 presidential contest
Rows over voter ID, questioning results in advance, taking to the streets....
This is not just about Georgia. It is about Europe. See:
Europe's Parallel Reality: C02 And Degrowth - Turning nature into currency is a plan for a mercantile feudalism (May 09, 2024)
What Is This Europe That Georgia Would Join? (May 7, 2024)
Related:
Georgia Next In Brussel's Conquest- EurasiaNote 98:While waging cultural war, Europe has no definition (Oct 26, 2024)
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Tbilisi, Oct 29, 2024
Youth protest loudly on the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The French-born diplomat, Salome Zourabichvili, who serves as Georgia's president has sided with them, after originally praising the election campaign.
Let's not pretend that it's only opposition parties trying to overturn the election in Georgia. EU foreign ministers have been on the streets of Tbilisi all year long.
In March foreign ministers of Latvia, Estonia, Iceland and Lithuania, on a "working visit" to Georgia, joined protesters on Rustaveli Avenue to protest against the "Transparency of Foreign Influence" law.
If you doubt the intent of these individuals, Lithuania's FM Gabrielius Landsbergis just called for European boots on the ground in Russia.
False narrativeThe protests are an EU/NATO operation, with the assistance of U.S.-funded NGOs.
Whether they succeed or not depends on the commitment and money of the above to pressure the Georgian governmen, and secondly whether local authorities consider they can resist or buckle under the offer of silver or lead.
Just weeks before the election the U.S. and EU withheld about $200 million in combined aid and imposed travel restrictions on Georgian Dream officials. In March the EU suspended Georgia's EU membership process — a symbolic act since nothing was happening.
The Western press frames the election as pro- or anti-EU; either you're with us or your with Russia — few people see their world in those terms except perhaps students in a Facebook Metaverse.
Membership of the EU and NATO is embedded in Georgia's constitution. The incumbent party of government, Georgian Dream, says it wants membership but the speed, and the decision to accept Georgia, is in Brussels' hands, not Tbilisi's.
As for president Zourabichvili, on election day, October 26 she said: "Georgia has shown democracy, europeanity and maturity … I am proud and confident in our European future!"
On Oct 27 she changed here tune: "I urge our international partners to protect Georgia by standing with the people, not an illegitimate government."
Heated rhetoricSuch facts get in the way of the rhetoric of the streets.
This does not suggest smooth sailing in the days ahead. Extremists were on the ground in Georgia during the elections. Hotheads could stage a happening to shape perceptions.
At least four people in fatigues with Ukrainian patches seen in the crowds outside Georgian parliament in Tbilisi.
Russian news agency TASS went so far as to say Ukraine-trained snipers are arriving in Georgia to stage provocations during mass protests, a regional official familiar with the situation told TASS.
"In their attempts to knock off balance the internal political situation in Georgia following the October 26 election and set off another color revolution, Westerners stop at nothing. Ukraine-trained snipers are arriving in the republic to organize provocations during mass protests," the person said.
Granted, that's a Russian state news agency but Ukrainian nationalist politician Oleksiy Goncharenko was in Georgia, as a parliamentary election observer.
Goncharenko can hardly be considered unbiased. He has been connected to attacks on ethnic Russian Ukrainians. At least 50 rival protesters were burned to death in a trades union building in Odesa in 2014.
Yet he was among 60 political observers along side the 500-strong OSCE team.
As in Ukraine there are two dimensions: one on the ground, and the other exists only in the aether of the Internet — but it is the latter which the Western public is told, and according to which politicians act.
Footloose investors shift production from old Europe to Asia reborn
War is when the elite points at an enemy and demands your money or your life
Stick to the end for light relief
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Italy Goes To Polls, German Troops To The Streets - Analyzing the nexuses that vie for control; and the subservient role of politicians (Sep 24, 2022)
From Argentina To A Street Near You - A crisis born of elite conceit is about to be exported around the world (Aug 16, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2024
We'll get war, it is only a question of where and which flavour.
If Joe Biden had run for re-election and won, it would have been an ice cream bombe; if the next president is Kamala Harris, it will be topped with the flaming joy of a cackling sparkler; and as for Donald Trump, well the jury is out. Maybe we'll frying tonight.
If you're in Europe just don't try to use gas, because we've cut off the supply from Russia.
And why are the European states in particular so eager for war?
If the European single market and currency survives, it will be by expanding into new states, not so much for lebensraum as for resources. As such expansion goes hand-in-hand with NATO, it will perpetuate conflict with Russia.
If Europe's internal crisis deepens (see below) then it may seek war to get off the hook; to be rid of welfare and pension obligations, perhaps to default on its debt. We're in a Great Reset, after all.
It comes back to money. The monetary system creaking under credit; the Medicare and Social Security systems will become insolvent over the coming decade; and if that's not shocking enough, it is possible that countries have been set up to fail.
We won't go into the woo about whether the British ever relinquished control of the American colonies. Others are more knowledgeable than me.
There is evidence, however, that the European monetary system was set up in such a way that the bankers knew it would fail, and intended such.
Green warThe West is pursuing twin policies of war and Green energy, which currently is leading to a crash diet of degrowth.
Is this self-denial temporary, just to spite Russia; or is it a permanent sea change, in which the future of industrial production shifts from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
The owner investors are footloose, corporations exist outside and above the nation state; the lender no longer lives above his shop. If the productive assets are in Asia reborn, the beneficiary can live in old Europe.
He no longer needs the European work force, beyond a few technocrats and menial workers.
Here is the answer to the paradox of environmentalist Greens being Europe's leading warmongers: shut down oil and gas.
It explains why the only industry they'll subsidy is warmaking, like Germany's Rheinmetall: weapons are good for sustainability if you plan to de-industrialise a continent.
Sadly the malfeasance does not end there. Wealth redistribution on a massive scale does not happen by accident: "make it happen on purpose" (MIHOP).
And so, with the help of some great and open minds, we shall weigh probability.
A special delivery Heretofore, unburdened notWe have to start in the present and work back.
The hand of Perfidious Albion is seen in Ukraine and the spark of conflict
Israel and Iran exchange blows: who has supremacy?
Georgia may seem remote but the actions of U.S./EU are the same as elsewhere
References:
Spies, Dupes and Charities - Rivals for Power, Part 4. Norman Dodd and the tax-exempt foundations (Aug 07, 2021)
EurasiaNote 98 - Georgia Next In Brussel's Conquest - While waging cultural war, Europe has no definition (Oct 26, 2024)
Censors Toy With Global Blackout - Truth & Servitude Part 3. Australia and Brazil seek to silence internet (Apr 25, 2024)
Globalism, Socialism, Fascism, Feudalism (Sep 19, 2022)
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy was elected in 2019 on a platform of making peace with Russia.
Former Ukrainian Embassy official in the US, Andrey Telizhenko, says Zelenskiy was intercepted by Britain's SIS, commonly known as MI6, as he prepared to make a speech of reconciliation in the Donbas.
Zelenskiy's patron, oligarch Ihor Kolomoskyi, agreed with the peace drive, Telizhenko says, along with other influential figures in Kyiv. It was just three weeks after his election.
Yet the speech never happened. Zelenskiy was taken to London and instructed to launch a war says Telizhenko in communication with the journalist Alexander Shelest.
This fits with what Scott Ritter and Igor IsraLopotonok argued in August 2023: that Kolomoskyi was not Zelenskiy's ultimate controller.
It also accords with what we have written, that Washington, London and Brussels misled Kyiv on its chances of joining the European Union in order to wean it away from Russian subsidies.
It was a typically perfidious British ruse, since the process of joining the EU for a transition economy like Ukraine takes years, if not decades with no guarantee that it will ever transpire — whereas Moscow already was paying Kyiv handsomely to transit Russian gas across Ukraine to Europe, and was offering further development aid.
"Unfortunately, Zelensky was swayed by the West's promises of becoming an important leader and gaining more than Russia could offer. That's why we are all suffering today."
"The West has its own long-term game, and they understand they're holding onto Ukraine, and how long they will hold on depends on the U.S. and Russia. In this situation, Ukraine does only what the West tells it to, unfortunately. Ukraine no longer has a voice. After the Minsk Agreements and the Istanbul process for peace were undermined," said Telizhenko.
Did he already know there would be war?
Telizhenko replied: "Zelensky made an agreement with British intelligence in London. They knew after that, Ukraine was sold out. That's why Kolomoisky argued for abandoning NATO and negotiating with Russia—there's an article about it in The New York Times. Kolomoisky tried to negotiate, to get money from Russia to avoid this war, offering Zelensky an alternative to what the West had proposed.
The New York Times wrote on Nov 11, 2019, "A Ukrainian Billionaire Fought Russia. Now He's Ready to Embrace It."
Zelenskiy: The MI6 linksFormer U.S. marine intel officer and weapons inspector Scott Ritter exposes how the comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy was created president. YouTube has deleted Ritter's video. You can still find it on Rumble. [1]
The trick with Obama had been to prefigure his presidency in Hollywood — Morgan Freeman in the disaster movie "Deep Impact", Dennis Haysbert in "24", even Chris Rock in the comedy "Head of State."
Intel agencies used the same trick with Zelenskiy. Igor Lopotonok argues that the oligarch Ihor Kolomoskyi is not Zelenskiy's ultimate controller. In October 2020 Zelenskiy was summoned to the MI6 headquarters for a meeting with SIS chief Richard Moore.
Protocol would say president Zelenskiy, on a visit to Britain, would meet his counterpart, the head of state. The chief of MI6 might call on a foreign president abroad... but this in this case, Zelenskiy reporting to the MI6 headquarters effectively reveals him to be an asset of MI6. Former Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Mishin says Richard Moore is Zelenskiy's handler. The president's security team is also British.
Excerpt, Eurasia note #81: Mercenary Leader Disappears In Plane Explosion - Wagner Group Yevgeniy Prigozhin's phone is found; not yet his body (Aug 24, 2023)
Rabbit Borscht - The hole goes deeperOn a visit to the Vatican in May 2023, Zelenskiy was dismissive of Pope Francis and held an hour-and-a-half meeting with Cardinal George Gallagher, the Pope's envoy on foreign affairs, and another Brit. Who was also present, but MI6 chief Richard Moore.
Former Ukrainian PM Mykola Azarov said Western intel had to build up the Nazis, because only Nazis would fight Russia. Western intel crated the Ukrainian ruling bureaucracy, military leadership and intelligence apparatus through the German Marshall Center (relevant section starts at 20 minutes).
Britain and the U.S. lack the stomach to fight on. The image of Zelenskiy looking lost at the Vilnius NATO summit says it all. Biden said Ukraine was "out of weapons," and the British defence minster said "we are not Amazon."
The risk for the West is that the counterattack comes from Russia in the direction of Odesa.
The press will not tell you, because it is as compromised today as it was 100 years ago.
Once ascribed to Hilaire Belloc, it was, in fact Humbert Wolff (1885–1940) an Italian-born poet, translator and British civil servant with the Ministry of Labour who wrote:
"You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to."