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title: Ask me Anything with Matt Ehret (Occultism, Deep Politics, BRICS, Trump, and more)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/jsndLxCC6E4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ask me Anything with Matt Ehret (Occultism, Deep Politics, BRICS, Trump, and more)"></p>This video features an open dialogue with paid subscribers after a formal presentation on 'The Occult Roots of Fascism'. <br><br>Watch the main lecture The Occult Roots of Fascism here:<br>https://youtu.be/1gXTfDgcwzM<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsndLxCC6E4

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title: The Occult Roots of Fascism: What you weren't taught in school (Matt Ehret lecture)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/1gXTfDgcwzM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Occult Roots of Fascism: What you weren't taught in school (Matt Ehret lecture)"></p>In this presentation, Matt Ehret sheds light on the origins of fascism as the 'miracle solution to the great depression' and the occult proclivities of leading occult agencies that didn't disappear after WW2 but simply rebranded themselves under a new strategy to undo the system of sovereign nation states, normalize eugenics (in the form of Transhumanism) and revive a global techno-feudal dictatorship under a post-human New Age.<br><br>To watch the 'Q and A after the main presentation, click here:<br>https://youtu.be/jsndLxCC6E4<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXTfDgcwzM

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title: Cutting through Gordian Knots with Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/2DRqcNay6mo" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Cutting through Gordian Knots with Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret"></p>In this comprehensive roundtable, Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret share notes and discoveries pertaining to the subtle forces shaping our world.<br><br>Subscribe to Rounding the Earth here: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DRqcNay6mo

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title: Quoting Daniel Miessler
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<blockquote cite="https://danielmiessler.com/p/the-most-important-sentence"><blockquote>
<p>Fill in this sentence.</p>
<p>"I believe one of the biggest problems in the world is _ _ _ _ <em>, which is why I'm _ _ _ _ </em>."</p>
<p>Are you happy with your answer? ... Once you've found your sentence, you’ve then found a molten core for a thriving career. And not just your career, but maybe your life as well.</p>
<p>Everything builds off of how you are useful to the world.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This is a really great essentialization. I think his sentences has an incorrect bias against the arts so I'd reword the sentence to, "I believe one of the most important things in the world is _ _ _ _ <em>, why is why I'm _ _ _ _ </em>."</p>
<p>Notably, I'm deep in the process of revisiting my own answer to this question.</p></blockquote>
<p data-sanitized-class="cite">— <a href="https://danielmiessler.com/p/the-most-important-sentence">Daniel Miessler</a></p>

    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/life-design">life-design</a></p>


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title: EU: living in the banksta’s paradise
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<p>European Union’s eventual collapse is a certainty - it has been for a very long time. It’s been rigged for demolition through its financial architecture which institutionalizes a system of governance that’s typical of all historical eras where moneylending oligarchies gained control of the political system. The predictable result of all this is that European economies are floundering: their entrepreneurial dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically suffocated and slowly consumed by the parasitic leech hidden behind the EU bureaucratic institutions. For the ordinary people and businesses, this system is driving a steady, inexorable descent into poverty.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png" width="1456" height="929" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":929,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":4977612,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>European Stability Mechanism</h2><p>One of the main components of Europe’s pathological financial architecture is the European Stability Mechanism (ESM): Eurozone’s permanent bailout fund. The ESM is not exactly a household name, but you can really think of it as a monstrous vampire leech attached to Europe’s economy. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/system/files/document/2023-10/05-TESM2-HR1.en12.pdf">treaty establishing the ESM</a> is an astonishing legal concoction which established a limitless, institutional conveyor belt of bailout funds from the European taxpayer, ultimately to the banking cartel. ESM’s capital was supposedly limited to €500 million (in some documents it says €700 million), but the Treaty sets no limits on the obligations imposed on European taxpayers, no room for negotiation, no legal recourse.</p><p>As drafted, the ESM Treaty was a violation of the EU Treaty (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) as well as constitutions and/or laws of EU member states as it restricts each member nation’s fiscal sovereignty. Ratifying it necessitated a dismayingly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_the_European_Stability_Mechanism">convoluted process</a> of amending the EU treaty and circumventing member states’ domestic laws. </p><p>It came to an initial vote in January 2012 when it was passed with barely a mention in the press. The ESM became operational in October 2012 even though it was never fully ratified by all member states. Here are some of the Treaty's provisions:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Article 8:</strong> the Treaty does not limit the fund capital to its authorized capital (€500 or €700 billion), but to its issue value which is up to the ESM’s board of governors to decide.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 9</strong>: "ESM members hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertake to pay on demand any capital call made on them... within seven days of receipt."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 19</strong>: ESM governors may extend the scope of the ESM’s operations. ESM may borrow funds to bail out insolvent Eurozone banks in capital markets, without approval by national parliaments.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 21</strong>: ESM can borrow funds from banks or other persons or institutions without any limits. ESM member nations shall guarantee and be liable for the repayment of these sums.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 25</strong>: if one or more ESM members fail to meet their obligations, the other members are liable for the shortfall in proportion to their share of the fund capital.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 30</strong>: "<strong>Governors, ... and staff members shall be immune from legal proceedings</strong> with respect to acts performed by them in their official capacity and shall enjoy inviolability in respect of their official papers and documents."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 32</strong>: The ESM, its property, funding, and assets... shall enjoy <strong>immunity from every form of judicial process</strong> ... the ESM shall... be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation, or any form of seizure... by executive, judicial, administrative or legislative action." This article further stipulates that <strong>ESM shall be exempted from the legal requirement in any of the ESM member nations’ legal requirement to be authorized or licensed as a credit institution</strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 34</strong>: all ESM officials, governors and directors are to observe absolute professional secrecy in relation to any matter relating to the ESM.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 35:</strong> directors and governors will enjoy full legal immunity beyond their time in office and in both international law and that of the EU member states.</p></li></ul><p>If we boil down the legal language of the ESM Treaty, we have an unelected, supra-national body that can allocate unlimited bailout funds, ultimately to the benefit of Eurozone’s failing banks, at their discretion and in perpetuity.</p><h2>A different social contract</h2><p>ESM officers may not be held accountable at law, nor can their decisions be challenged. Member nations must guarantee such funds, but they can’t challenge ESM’s decisions. Article 9 may well be titled, "Stand and deliver," and articles 30 and 32 amount to what <strong>Nicholas Rockefeller</strong> arrogantly called the bankers' KMA card (KMA = kiss my ass): we can do what we want and there is no agency of government that can limit our power, investigate our actions or hold us to account in any way whatsoever. If we gamble and win, the gains are ours. If we lose, all you debt serfs and tax donkeys must make us whole.</p><p>This is truly a different kind of social contract. It effectively reverses one of the 19<sup>th</sup> century’s key political achievements: the transfer of fiscal sovereignty from unaccountable monarchical bureaucracies to democratically accountable parliaments. It thereby nullifies any notion of democratic governance of the people, by the people and for the people. </p><p></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>This legislation is clearly of the bankers, by the bankers and for the bankers. The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/legal-documents/esm-treaty">ESM treaty</a> was spearheaded by <strong>Mario Monti</strong>, former Goldman Sachs banker, one of the leaders of the Bilderberg group and a prominent member of the Trilateral Commission. He was enabled by another Goldman Sachs banker, <strong>Mario Draghi</strong> who had taken the helm of the ECB just in time for this heist, in November 2011.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg" width="1200" height="630" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":630,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Picture background","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Picture background" title="Picture background" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Bankster gangsta: Mr. Mario Draghi</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Crushing the resistance</h2><p>For a few days in October 2011, a group of Slovakia's MPs actually looked into the contents of the treaty. They held out and refused to approve the ESM bailout funds arguing that it was wrong, punishing prudent nations (their banks, actually) and rewarding the profligate ones. <strong>Richard Sulik</strong>, the leader of Slovakia's liberals conveyed the scale of the heist when he said that, "Since we joined the EU, our net receipts from the Brussels budget have come to just over 1 billion EUR. Under ESM, we are liable for 13 billion!" </p><p>The EU and ECB came down hard and fast against Slovakia. Within 5 days the government fell and the parliament quickly ratified ESM funds. The ESM became the industrial-sized conveyor belt, transferring wealth from those who created it to the gamblers in financial markets. In doing so, the ESM removed all accountability and constraints on the gamblers to act responsibly. </p><p>Twelve years after the ESM was established, the ordinary Europeans have seen their standard of living collapse even if they can’t tell how or why that happened. According to Eurostat, in 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie/status/1848657092128727146">more than 45% of European people struggled to make ends meet</a>. In some nations, like Slovakia, more than 65% struggle. This is not exactly the prosperity we'd been promised.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png" width="968" height="1146" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1146,"width":968,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":789164,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Of course, rather than fixing the system, the bankers will blame the Russians and demand war. Throughout history, when failure became undeniable and social pressures built up, the oligarchies always cried, “barbarians at the gates!” Then the military-aged men could be sent to fight and die in far off lands, safely away from the vampire leech’s seat of power.</p><p>As Mario Monti's BFF and fellow Trilateral Commission alumnus <strong>Zbigniew Brzezinski</strong> wrote in The Grand Chessboard, you get away with such schemes only "in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.<em>" </em>Therefore, that perception is being constantly manufactured for us: <strong>Putin </strong>evil, Russia bad. If you're disenfranchised and broke, blame the Russians who, by the way, are coming to get you! Real men go to war! </p><p>In spite of all that, socialism for the bankers will end as all socialist experiments have done through history: with stagflation (we're there already), hyperinflation (give it time), wars and civil wars (let us do all we can to avoid that outcome). It is time for the plebs to realize who the real enemy is.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/eu-living-in-the-bankstas-paradise?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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<h2>By Andrew Laverdiere</h2><h2><em>Preface.</em></h2><p><em>This investigation parallels the Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile cases in certain similarities, particularly the mass abuse of young females. To put him in context, I present this brief snippet of Jeffrey Epstein. After years at financial brokerage Bear Stearns, Epstein was picked up by Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, owner of Limited Brands, more widely known for its Victoria’s Secret chain of women’s scanty lingerie emporia, and pornographic catalogues and TV ads.</em></p><p><em>Through Wexner’s sponsorship, Epstein became the money manager of choice for the Mega Group, a secretive network of pro-Israel billionaires, implicated in a series of Israeli espionage probes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Wexner has been linked to organized crime families in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These ties may resurface, as the FBI digs deeper into the allegations that Epstein shuttled under-aged girls around the United States and the British Commonwealth, to service his friends and clients, including Prince Andrew which ties him in with revelations about a pedophile ring operating in high society, including within Buckingham Palace.</em></p><p><em>At the same time, Catherine Mayer’s biography has drawn attention to the status Prince Charles accorded the late Jimmy Savile—a TV personality and notorious pedophile (exposed as such only after his death in 2011)—as friend, confidant, adviser, and even “key aide,” as one newspaper account put it.</em></p><p><em>A 2013 Scotland Yard report cited abuse by Savile “on an unprecedented scale,” shown in complaints by 450 people, covering the period 1955-2009 and victims aged 8 to 47, particularly at the Kincora Boys Home in Ireland. To a lesser extent is the Harvey Weinstein case and his abuse of the Hollywood system in order to prey on women.</em></p><h2><strong>Nygård, Epstein and the Picture of Dorian Grey</strong></h2><p>I was alerted to Nygård by the offhand account of a co-host of a Kim Dotcom Twitter podcast discussing the Bitcoin crisis, who recalled the time that he was working for a Billionaire who would travel around the world in order to receive injections that would make him live forever. When hearing that, the Oscar Wilde story “Picture Of Dorian Grey” came to mind.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg" width="723" height="547" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":547,"width":723,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After I sent him a private message, he informed me that he had worked for Peter Nygård and that he fully believed that someday they would be able to make us live forever. Seeing that his entire twitter feed was solely focused on the masturbatory fantasy of virtual money, it wasn’t a stretch to think that he would fall for the snake oil of transhumanism.</p><p>When researching the background of transhumanism, I was amused by a comment by Lyndon LaRouche in his April 13 2000 article “Information Society: A Doomed Empire Of Evil” that references Wilde:</p><blockquote><p>“<em>For as far back into pre-history as our present knowledge can reach, the most efficient way to destroy a human culture, is the sneaky way, to induce it to doom itself. Writer Oscar Wilde describes such a process of corruption in his allegorical The Picture Of Dorian Grey.” See appendix below for a synopsis of the story.</em></p></blockquote><p>To recap the story, Wilde tells which is similar to the Faust story and the search for knowledge of everything at the cost of his soul, it revolves around three people; Dorian Gray, an innocent youth of 20, an aristocratic upper crust figure whose life revolves around music and the social scene of the Victorian era, the painter Basil Hallward who treats Gray as a muse for his paintings, and Lord Henry Wotton, the worldly cynic who corrupts Gray.</p><p>The book opens with Hallward painting a perfect likeness of Dorian. Lord Wotton pays a visit and impresses Dorian with the fact that as of now, his youth and beauty were going to vanish and he would eventually wind up old and ugly which sparked a crisis in Dorian. When the painting is finished, Dorian breaks down in tears and wishes to remain young forever and the painting to grow old instead which causes Hallward to accuse Lord Wotton of corrupting Dorian and then threatens to destroy the painting.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg" width="630" height="673" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":673,"width":630,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In a reference to the myth of Narcissus, Dorian stops Hallward because he has fallen in love with the painting.</p><p>In a poignant quip, Wilde says through Lord Wotton <em>“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others, that is what the world calls romance.</em>” Dorian first notices a change in the painting when he spurns the attention of a young actress which results in her suicide.</p><p>In a foreshadowing of his growing paranoia, he moves the painting up to an unused childrens play room in the attic and locks and bars the room.</p><p>His life after becomes a transit of various intellectual fads popular during that time but hints at Grays tendency to haunt the more unsavory localities in London without saying anything explicitly. This is punctuated by Gray occasionally visiting the painting in order to gape at the increasing horrible visage appearing on the canvas. Wilde then describes the dilettantes of his day by his description of the various “intellectual” activities of the upper crust British aristocrats, <em>“Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.”</em></p><p>After this course of events has gone on for a decade, Gray is paid a visit by Basil Hallward who was heading to France for an extended visit. He hasn’t seen Dorian for some time but has heard the most awful rumors about Dorian being involved in fights and other unsavory behavior that is becoming the talk of the town. After recounting an extensive list of scandals, he demands to know if they are true or not, although he admits that its none of his business in any case, but feels the need to defend his friend if only he would confirm or deny.</p><p>In response, Dorian leads Basil up to the attic where he throws the cover off and displays the grotesque scene now displayed. At first Hallward is totally stunned and shocked that it could be his painting, but after examining his signature and special touches, comes to the horrible realization of the events that transpired when the painting was finished and of what Dorian has become.</p><p>In a scene reminiscent of the Commendatore scene in Mozarts opera Don Giovanni, Hallward urges Gray to reform himself. Dorian responds by murdering Hallward with a knife. Stuck with a corpse in his attic, it requires bringing the figure of chemist Alan Campbell to the scene and blackmailing him to dispose of the body by chemical dissolution. Dorian thinks that he’s accomplished the perfect murder, but, like the <em>Tell Tale Heart </em>in Edgar Allen Poes story, the blood calls out.</p><p>Even after months have passed, Alan Campbell has committed suicide and the rumors about Hallwards disappearance are raging about the city. In order to satisfy his morbid curiosity, Dorian checks the painting and is shocked to see blood stains covering his legs. In a fit of rage, he then tries to destroy the painting with the knife used to kill Basil. The screams resulting wake everyone, and by means of climbing through the roof, discover a wizened and decrepit body with a knife stuck through its chest and a painting that has returned to its original state of Dorian Gray in his youthful 20 years of age.</p><p>By examining the rings on his fingers, its determined that the body is Dorian. A proper comment about this situation is commented on by Wilde, <em>“Society, civilized society at least, is never ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and charming. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value in its opinion than the possession of a good chef.”</em></p><h1>The Strange Case of Peter Nygård</h1><p>Peter Nygård was born Pekka Juhani Nygård in Helsinki, Finland, on July 24, 1941. His parents emigrated to Deloraine, Manitoba, Canada, in 1952, when Nygård was around eleven years old.</p><p>In 1964, Nygård graduated from the University of North Dakota with a business degree. Nygård established Nygård Apparel Manufacturing Company, later re-branded “Nygård International”, in Winnipeg in 1967. The company’s Canadian headquarters were located on King Street in Toronto, Ontario, while its world headquarters were located in Times Square, New York, New York, United States. As of 2020, the companies are currently in receivership following his arrangement in Toronto over sex trafficking charges. Wikipedia currently lists a large number of legal cases Nygård has been involved in regarding shady business dealings, tax evasion, and an extensive list of sexual abuse allegations. He has 10 children by 8 different women.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg" width="750" height="563" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":563,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Beginning in 1984, Nygård purchased a beach bungalow at Lyford Cay, Nassau Bahamas, an exclusive gated community populated by folks involved in offshore banking for $1.7 Million. In 1987 Nygård built a 14,000-square-meter (150,000 sq ft) compound. Around 2010, he announced a $50 million expansion of Nygård Cay which eventually landed him in trouble with the Bahama government over dredging and beach expansion. After seizure by the government, the facility is currently abandoned and in disrepair. The facility has been covered on numerous television programs like “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” and his “pamper parties” brought famous personalities such as George H. W. Bush, Prince Andrew, Robert DeNiro, Oprah Winfrey, Shawn Connery, Michael Jackson, Lee Iacocca, Jessica Alba, and Sylvester Stallone.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg" width="750" height="450" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":450,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>To put its location in context however, Nassau Bahamas was the original headquarters of Dope Inc. when Meyer Lansky set up Resorts International in 1961 after fleeing Cuba. 75% of drugs coming to the United States go through the Bahamas and Canadian Banks exclusively launder drug money at banks in Nassau.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg" width="750" height="419" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":419,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Most of the alleged sex abuse cases occurred at the Bahamas location but incidents in the United States and Canada are listed going back to 1968. Around 2005, after building a concrete pad for extra parking on his neighbors property, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and his neighbor, hedge fund Billionaire Louis Bacon, in which both sides claimed damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan. Bacons hiring of private investigator Chris Hanson in 2005 began the process that eventually led to Nygårds arrest.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg" width="750" height="426" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":426,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This happened despite decades of  Nygård liberally bribing local Bahama politicians and police to look the other way, most especially, the former Prime Minister <em>Perry Gladstone Christie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Counsellor_(United_Kingdom)">PC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament">MP</a></em> who served as PM from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017 on his dime. PM Philip “Brave” Davis is quoted at a press conference defending Nygård “I’m appalled at these extremely serious charges.” His trial in Toronto is ongoing and he is facing extradition to New York for trafficking charges.</p><h2>2020 sex trafficking arrest and lawsuits</h2><p>On November 24, 2019, Bahamian police began investigating six allegations of rape made against Nygård. All the alleged victims were under 16. On January 27, 2020, Nygård faced two separate lawsuits after being accused of sexual assault.</p><p>On February 13, 2020, 10 women filed a class-action lawsuit against Nygård in New York, alleging that he had raped them at his Bahamas residence. The alleged attacks took place between 2008 and 2015. The women also alleged that he maintained a sex-trafficking ring, and that seven of the women were under 18 when the attacks took place.</p><p>On February 14, 2020, it was reported that the Bahamian police were investigating the allegations made by four of the women in the class-action suit. On February 25, 2020, the New York headquarters of Nygård International were raided by the FBI and the New York City Police Department in connection with sex trafficking claims. After these, Nygård announced that he would step down from the company and divest his ownership interest. In March 2020, a judge said that there was no evidence Nygård had actually resigned, and that he still owned 100% of the shares of the Nygård group of companies.</p><p>On April 20, 2020, 36 new women joined the class-action suit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs in the sexual assault case to 46. On June 17, 2020, it was reported that 11 more women had joined the class-action lawsuit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 57. On July 9, 2020, Nygard filed a motion to dismiss the claims of 52 of the plaintiffs, stating that “numerous deficiencies” barred their claims, and in particular that the claims of 50 of the plaintiffs lacked any connection to New York. He also argued that the statute of limitations had expired for 38 of the plaintiffs.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg" width="750" height="421" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":421,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On August 17, 2020, Nygård was sued by two of his sons on accusations of directing a known sex worker said to be “his girlfriend” to rape them. On August 22, 2020, it was reported that the class-action suit had been placed on hold, the US government having requested a stay of proceedings while the criminal investigation was ongoing.</p><p>On December 15, 2020, it was reported that Nygård had been arrested in Winnipeg for extradition to the US to face charges of sex trafficking by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan. On February 5, 2021, Nygård was denied bail and faced extradition to the US.</p><p>On February 18, 2021, it was reported that a new lawsuit had been filed by one of the class-action plaintiffs, which named Peter Nygård’s niece, Angela Dyborn, as an alleged co-conspirator in the alleged sex-trafficking scheme. On March 26, 2021, Nygård was denied bail for a second time. In April 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face an extradition hearing in November 2021.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Peter Nygard agreed to be extradited to the US, to face the charges against him that were filed there. The same day Nygard was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 17, 2020, two days after Nygård’s arrest, it was reported that Discovery+ was releasing a series about Peter Nygård’s life entitled Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård. The documentary aired in February 2021, and included interviews with family members and former Nygård employees.</p><p>On January 25, 2021, CBC Podcasts released the first episode of their podcast, Evil by Design, about the allegations against Nygård. The podcast includes interviews with alleged victims. It was later adopted into a documentary series that appeared on CBC Gem. An episode of Dateline about the Nygard case also aired in December 2021.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" width="780" height="439" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":780,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Sexual abuse allegations</h2><p>In addition to his alleged sex trafficking ring, over the years Nygard has been accused numerous times of sexual abuse including rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment.</p><p>In 1968 Winnipeg police charged Nygard with a sexual offence, charges that were later dropped after his alleged victim refused to testify.</p><p>In 1980, the Free Press wrote that Winnipeg police charged Nygård with the rape of an 18-year-old girl. Later those charges were stayed because the girl refused to testify. It was later claimed in a lawsuit that Nygård used funds from his companies to pay her off.</p><p>In the 1990s Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba.</p><p>In 2015 and 2017, Nygård was looked at by FBI over claims of sex trafficking. He was also investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security for 9 months in 2016.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Nygård was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 2, 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face charges by Winnipeg police following a ten month investigation into allegations of sexual assault from eight women against him.</p><h2><em>Lawsuits</em></h2><p>Nygård has been involved in numerous lawsuits before his arrest in 2020, including suits involving alleged abusive labour practices, tax evasion, and conspiring to murder.</p><p>In 1978, Nygård’s takeover of a sportswear designer’s business in New York City led to a 12-year legal battle in New York federal court.</p><p>Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba in the 1990s.</p><p>In 1999, Nygård sued Linda Lampenius for defamation concerning her comments about Nygård’s parties with naked women. The case continued until 2001 when Lampenius states she ran out of funds and had to settle, which consisted of publishing an apology in the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.</p><p>In 2003, Nygård was sued in Florida by an American couple who claimed he deceived them into accepting jobs as managers of his Bahamas estate. The case was settled in 2007.</p><p>In 2005, after Finnish newspaper Iltalehti published an article about sex parties at Nygård’s mansion, even featuring a short interview with Jessica Alba where she had to leave a party at the Nygård Cay mansion (she was there filming Into the Blue) because of the debauchery with young girls going on. Nygård sued the parent company of the paper Alma Media for slander in Los Angeles. Nygård lost the case.</p><p>In 2006, Canadian tax authorities claimed Nygård underreported $15 million in taxes. Nygård argued that he severed residential ties with Canada in 1975; he was ultimately subject to taxes on an unreported $2 million.</p><p>In 2007, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and Louis Bacon and their associates, in which both sides claim damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan.</p><p>In 2008, Nygård was sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former girlfriend for slamming a door on her hand. Nygård quickly settled the lawsuit.</p><p>In 2012, Nygård launched a lawsuit against the CBC regarding copyright issues about private videos taken at his residence, which were then used in an April 2010 documentary. He had also launched a copyright complaint with the US District Court in New York and a lawsuit in Manitoba to prevent the piece from airing. He had previously sued two former employees for releasing confidential information and his lawyer claimed CBC harassed many of the employees. Nygård launched a civil suit against his neighbour and the Lyford Cay Property Owners Association alleging they conspired with the CBC to damage his reputation; he also filed a private criminal prosecution against three CBC journalists accusing them of conspiring to discredit him and his clothing empire.</p><p>In 2018, Nygård Cay was seized by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas as part of a legal battle surrounding Nygård’s efforts to dredge the sea floor around the estate.</p><p>In 2019, a warrant was issued after Nygård failed to appear in court multiple times for a sentencing hearing related to two contempt-of-court convictions in the Bahamas.</p><p>In September 2019, the New York Times was caught up in the feud between Nygård and Louis Bacon. The suit claims that the reporters for the paper “tried to steer the individuals to provide information to fit a story” and that reporters wanted to “bring down” Nygård.</p><p>On November 15, 2019, a judge in the Bahamas sentenced Nygård to 90 days in prison and fined him $150,000 after finding he breached a court order prohibiting the disclosure of emails that were stolen from a non-profit group. Nygård subsequently paid the fine, but appealed against the contempt order, and obtained a stay of execution of the prison sentence until his appeal was heard. On February 1, 2021, Nygård’s appeal against the contempt order was dismissed by the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas. On February 4, 2021, Nygård filed a motion requesting leave to appeal to the Privy Council, but the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas refused to grant this. The judge who delivered the refusal stated that Nygård could still apply directly to the Privy Council for leave to appeal.</p><p>According to Chris Hanson during an interview on VladTV <em><a href="https://youtu.be/vKjDl2tayUo">LINK</a></em> “He actually would impregnate underage girls, have them get abortions, then harvest the stem cells from the fetus’, to inject in himself under the belief that it would be more beneficial then random stem cells from another source. He would go to China &amp; other countries to learn how to do this and have it done, and the underage aspect of this is a big part of the investigation but that’s how fare this would allegedly go, to extend his life and his lifestyle.” “…Is being investigated for sexual assault going back five decades involving thousands of women. In Canada, In Los Angeles, in the Bahamas where he had a compound where he would routinely take underage girls, drug them get them drunk, seduce them, and rape them in a most vile &amp; vicious fashion.” Victims would have their passports confiscated and extortion sex with Nygård was required in order to get it back. When victims aged out, they would become recruiters similar to Ghislane Maxwell (Epstein) to bring lots of underage locals to his pamper parties to be drugged and raped.</p><p>At his property in Marina del Rey (a marina community south of Santa Monica) California, his accomplice Daniel Fitzgerald, a builder and renter of exclusive mansions for Hollywood parties would routinely trade female victims and Fitzgerald supplied women for his lavish parties. Fitzgerald is noted for renting mansions to various YouTube stars such as his sale of a $30 million mansion to the Faze Clan online gaming channel. <em><a href="https://youtu.be/-PZQqZ6n25k">Faze Clan</a></em></p><p>When one investigates his involvement in transhumanism, and the various interviews he gives expressing the lofty goals of stem cell research that he was proud to finance through his company Nygård Biotech in the Bahamas in 2009 and the International Stem Cell Society.  Nygård formed a partnership with the Chinese company BGI a leader in genome sequencing in Shenzhen “October 27, 2017 BGI announced a joint effort with George Church and launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis, located in the China National GeneBank in Shenzhen, China. Church reportedly accepted the appointment as the chief scientist of the Institute.” Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church helped develop genome sequencing as well as CRISPR genome editing, and founded or advised dozens of biotech companies. Martin Nowak’s Institute.” (Nowak, a Harvard biologist/mathematician, is also a Brockman client and <em><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/martin_nowak">Edge participant</a></em>.) He also met with Epstein “several times” Jefferey Epstein were with Nowak, to whose then-fledgling Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Epstein contributed $6.5 million in 2003, five years before his guilty plea. Church and Nowak have worked together on, among other things, the evolution of CRISPR-based <em><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1601964">gene drives</a>.</em></p><p>Many influential scientists met Epstein through New York literary agent John Brockman, who, starting in 1999, hosted an annual “<em><a href="https://www.edge.org/the-billionaires-dinner">billionaires dinner</a></em>” where some of his authors mingled with moguls. Epstein attended several of the dinners from 2000 to 2011, and Brockman described him on his online salon Edge.org as a “science philanthropist.”</p><p>Church, whose 2012 book “Regenesis” Brockman shepherded, said he met Epstein in 2006, either through Brockman or through the then-chairman of the Harvard psychology department, Stephen Kosslyn, a member of Edge.org. Church has gained some notoriety for a company that is building a dating app based on ideal DNA pairings.</p><p>The goal is to screen out sexual partnerships that could create a child with genetic diseases. In other words, Eugenics, the infamous breeding fad of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century that spawned the hideous “sciences” of sterilization and euthanasia as solutions to the problem of poor, insane, and inferior races of people. Harvard in particular was a center of Eugenics research through wealthy families such as the Harrimans in addition to the Eugenics Records Office at Cold Spring Harbor NY and Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena CA.</p><p>What better way then but to see what he thinks. This is an interview with Cheryl Martin, president of Gardens Wellness July 29, 2016 on the Aging Reversed YouTube channel. This is a straight transcript of his stream of consciousness style of answering.</p><p>“<em>Martin: You’ve been involved in research in you’re a pioneer in stem cell therapy now and injecting your own stem cells and this is to extend your life. How long do you expect to live, what is your goal, and do you have a fear of death?</em></p><p>“<em>Nygard: Of course we all have a fear of death. And, and, and how we overcome fear of death is that we invent this word called heaven. You know, heaven is everybody’s way of living forever. So mankind, man has always had this will to live forever, ah, the the Pharaohs you know mummified themselves you know and took all their belongings with him and went into this heaven right then and and and every one of us have been taught that that’s that’s the good place to go to you know.</em></p><p>“<em>I think instinctively we’re all instinctively almost by design by necessity, we’re designed that desire not to fear it because there is a better place you know? I think we all would like to live in this world as long as we possibly can and and and and not just go blindly into this this heaven area.</em></p><p>“<em>So it’s a roundabout way of answering your question, you know the we have now the capability with modern-day science and it’s a wonderful era were living in right now, we have now to to to live considerably longer, 20, 30, 40 years longer they have now good quote past, huh our magical age is 120. 120 is when your cells actually finally die you know. If you haven’t died from other diseases you know at a partly breakdown diseases then you’re gonna die just from losing your cells, and and if we can keep ourselves alive and and, and who knows how long that will take us so, so people’s common words today in a field that I mean you know it’s 20 to 40 more years you know that we can we can live to 150 for example.</em></p><p><em>And it’s a goal and good call I think it’s really meaningful for younger people like yourself, well if you especially if you start taking care of yourself early in the life you know and prevent yourself from getting old and, and avoid doing stop practicing all the things that are available out there that the Times Magazine came up with a picture of a child face and said that this person can live to the 180 years old you know you know. A person born now you know we have enough science now that by the time they become all that they couldn’t be able to live them as long with all of modern-day knowledge that we have right now you know and and then there’s a there’s a lot a lot of people in there besides myself who are now trying to make that a reality you know, and of course ultimately ultimately for ourselves you know but the byproduct of that is that if it’s not for self service is for a next generation of people you know so we really are we really gotta take this seriously.</em></p><p><em>I think there’s a first time in history that we really could see us being able to extend our life like big time, not just year or two you know but have a leapfrog and and and an interesting parallel to that we’re also seeing the world self-destructing. There’s a big element in here in the world today, that says that the next generation is not even going to live as much as our generation because we’re just killing yourself from eating, you know kill yourself and diabetes, you know what self-indulgent in a point so while we have the opportunity to live 40 is longer what we’re gonna do is blow it and leave less and this is all about the education process now, you know how people really want to approach this thing you know because because the opportunities are so immense and, and, and the more people learn about the world of stem cells and learn about the whole medical field the more and thrilled they become with it, so you got this to these two sides going at you all the time you know those people who just don’t care you know and just gonna eat themselves to death you know and get full of diabetes and die younger and then there’s going to be a whole new generation of people who are in my camp you know who sees the opportunities and and seeing it early you know so I talked to some my girlfriends and young people around me and to start taking care of it that stop aging age of 25 because you had at 25 it’s all downhill from there, so you want to stay at 25 start doing it right now because you can’t and you can yeah and so so so so I, I think it’s hard to say how long you know you know the word immortality’s is too far-fetched but I must tell you five years ago when I started this it was like Frankenstein, you know you’re talking about anti-aging was a strange word talking about reverse aging was even stranger. You know you’re kidding that you just come into this industry five years ago. Now it’s most popular topic out there everybody’s lips is talking about reverse aging rejuvenation you know and he’s so popular today so it’s really got a hole right now and this is growing exponentially.”</em></p><p>On the Aging Reversed youtube channel, Nygård is featured in interviews along with luminaries such as Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Yuval Harari, Liz Parrish, Aubrey de Grey, Bill Faloon, David Sinclair, Max Hodak, Adam Alonzi &amp; Philip Sabes. A further examination of Transhumanism and its parallel cult beliefs in Information Theory and Game Theory connected with the increasing push for a scientific dictatorship by the gurus of the financial system when you read the speech of Ray Kurzweil at the July 12-13, 2000, New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in  Manhattan, entitled “The Next Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control and Impact.” <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/2000/2729_cfr.html">LINK</a></em> at which the most chilling anti-human view was expressed by Game-theorist Peter Shwarz of the need of letting AIDS patients in Africa die as “quickly as possible. They should not be kept alive.”</p><p>After running through a Shwarz designed scenario of financial meltdown and a coup against the president, Kurzweil wrapped up the conference to promote virtual reality and promotion of virtual reality eyeglasses by 2010 and the ability of “non-biological intelligence” to match human intelligence by 2030. <em>“There will be no clear distinction between the two.”</em></p><p>When one discusses their perverted notion of extending human life and for what purpose it is helpful to put biological life and humanity in context.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg" width="649" height="400" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":400,"width":649,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the animal kingdom, a species population size and carrying capacity per square meter/mile is limited by environmental factors like adequate food, shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population will decrease until the resource rebounds. This is due to an animal’s instincts which is the ability to know without thinking, the capability to automatically know how to behave or respond in certain circumstances. This “knowing” ability occurs naturally or instinctively to an animal, and is inherited from birth.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg" width="546" height="416" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":416,"width":546,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In addition, some 80 years ago, biologists stumbled on the empirical “quarter power scaling rule,” which states that a mammal’s heartbeat is proportional to the creature’s mass taken to the minus one-quarter power (m-1/4). The rule says that a cat, for instance, weighing roughly 100 times more than a mouse, has a pulse rate 100-1/4 (about one third) that of a mouse; it’s actually 150 versus 500 beats per minute (bpm).</p><p>It’s not just that as animals get bigger their pulses slow in accordance with the quarter power rule, but that their life spans lengthen accordingly: A mouse lives about one third of a cat’s lifespan, five years versus 15 years. The quarter power rule holds across a vast range of sizes, from tiny shrew to huge elephant, leading to the astonishing “heartbeat hypothesis:” Humans aside, <em>at birth, mammals are all granted the same lifetime supply of heartbeats. </em>How many? About a billion.</p><p>Unlike nearly all animal species, humans are not governed by the whims of nature, the carrying capacity of the planet, nor of the biological constraints that are fixed upon birth despite the best efforts of the Oligarchies of the Venetian and British Empires to enforce their un-natural forms of political economy on humanity in the last 600 years</p><p>Abraham Lincoln summed up the the difference between humans and animals with his lecture on Discoveries and Inventions in various Illinois locations around 1858 – 1859:</p><blockquote><p>“All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself, in his physical, moral, and intellectual nature, and his susceptibilities, are the infinitely various “leads” from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny. In the beginning, the mine was unopened, and the miner stood naked, and knowledgeless, upon it.</p><p>Fishes, birds, beasts, and creeping things, are not miners, but feeders and lodgers, merely. Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. This improvement, he effects by Discoveries, and Inventions.”</p></blockquote><p>In discussing his discovery of relative potential population density the economist Lyndon LaRouche emphasized the Promethean character of humanity in its use of fire at increasing densities and discoveries of universal principles that when utilized in the economic process via the machine tool principle, increase our power over nature per capita and the increase of the density of people per square-meter/mile and at improved standard of living. This was accomplished through the development of various forms of infrastructure such as reservoirs, water mains, water purification, sewage processing and disposal which eliminated most of the sources of diseases and parasites that typically afflict people in lesser developed countries combined with the availability of hospital facilities and the breakthroughs in medical technologies, medicines and vaccines.</p><p>In addition, as LaRouche has pointed out, man is the only being able to invent new resources. When Dmitrii Mendeleev perfected his periodic table in 1869, only 69 elements were then known with 49 more having been discovered since then.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg" width="595" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":595,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2><em><strong>Information Society: A Doomed Empire of Evil by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr</strong></em>. <a href="https://larouchepub.com/lar/2020/4710-information_society_a_doomed_e.html#footnote-036">LINK</a></h2><h2>Appendix: Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels</h2><p>Chapter 26 (X) <em>[The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.]</em></p><p>After this preface, he gave me a particular account of the STRULDBRUGS among them. He said, “they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.</p><p>“If a STRULDBRUG happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.</p><p>“As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.</p><p>“At ninety, they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.</p><p>The language of this country being always upon the flux, the STRULDBRUGS of one age do not understand those of another; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.”</p><p>This was the account given me of the STRULDBRUGS, as near as I can remember. I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought to me at several times by some of my friends; but although they were told, “that I was a great traveller, and had seen all the world,” they had not the least curiosity to ask me a question; only desired “I would give them SLUMSKUDASK,” or a token of remembrance; which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the law, that strictly forbids it, because they are provided for by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.</p><p>They are despised and hated by all sorts of people. When one of them is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand years past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were four-score years old.</p><p>They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men. Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon distinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.</p><p>The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life. The king heard of all that had passed between me and my friends upon this occasion, and rallied me very pleasantly; wishing I could send a couple of STRULDBRUGS to my own country, to arm our people against the fear of death; but this, it seems, is forbidden by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, or else I should have been well content with the trouble and expense of transporting them.</p><p>I could not but agree, that the laws of this kingdom relative to the STRULDBRUGS were founded upon the strongest reasons, and such as any other country would be under the necessity of enacting, in the like circumstances. Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.</p><p>Nygard Biotech: Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Winnipeg City Councilor Kevin Klein worked there former CEO of Sun Media Manitoba and publisher of the Sun This is how it happened that he went to work (as had dozens of other Winnipeggers in the past) for Peter Nygard, who offered him the position as vice president of Nygard’s biotech medical research company. Kevin accepted the job, but it took only four months for him to learn that this was not a person he wanted to be associated with let alone work for. “I learned quickly I could not work with Peter Nygard. I strongly, very strongly, disagreed with how he treated his employees,” said Kevin. Nevertheless, he met a lot of people during that short time, and he ended up working for some of them. He has worked for and learned from many of the country’s top business leaders as part of the executive team at Post Media, Sun Media, MTS and New Cap.</p><h2>Leads</h2><p><a href="https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875">https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875</a></p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"dkyo1rDSPqQ","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-dkyo1rDSPqQ" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dkyo1rDSPqQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>  video about Nygard and Stem Cell research</p><p><a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/">https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/</a> CIA Dr. Charles Morgan resarcher on PTSD and trauma</p><p>https://adamandevewordresearch.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3kmie9z059rSfeChukr1Cj1FEo4OGYy6qrXtojSK-5JqNI8G9W8TjcvlE</p><p> link to many other transhumanist “scientists”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed">https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed</a>  transhumanist channel</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"o18PUHrBhN8","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-o18PUHrBhN8" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/o18PUHrBhN8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p> Nygard on Fighting Aging</p><p><a href="http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html">http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html</a>  Ray Kurzweil website</p><p><a href="https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement">https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement</a> vaccine development connected to eugenic</p><h1> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/">https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/</a>Oxford Society of Ageing and Longevity</h1><p><a href="https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute">https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute</a></p>

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I just learned that ruby supports re-writing this:
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total = plus_shipping(with_taxes(subtotal(items)))
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subtotal(items).then { |subtotal| with_taxes(subtotal) }.then { |total| plus_shipping(total) } =&gt; total
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title: Rails migrations can include an up_only part
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When writing a migration in Rails and you need to do one thing which can't be automatically reversed, I always convert a <b>def change</b> to up and down. It turns out you can slip in an <b>up_only</b> block:

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class AddFieldsToUsers &lt; ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
  def change
    add_column :users, :first_name, :string
    add_column :users, :last_name, :string

    up_only do
      User.delete_all
    end
  end
end
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Awhile back when I was ramping up on Typescript, I was leaning into the benefits of types. In the Ruby world, Sorbet is the most common way to add types so I gave that a shot. In the end, I ripped it out. I spent more time wrangling type checking then the time it spent catching bugs, and one of the issues was the verbose syntax. But recently I came up with a novel solution to this problem. First, here is the verbose syntax — you end up declaring all your arguments twice:
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sig { params(name: T.untyped, nickname: String).returns(Integer) }
def greet(name, nickname)
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
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<p>It may not seem like a big deal, but every time you change the name of an argument or change the order, you have to do it in two places. Recently I had an idea: could we do it in one line if we used Ruby to redefine how methods are defined? I got this syntax working and threw it up on a gist:
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<p></p><pre>
# Two positional arguments. The first, name, is untyped.
# The second, nickname, must be a String

df :greet,  :name, nickname: [String], returns: Integer do
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
</pre>

<p>
<a href="https://gist.github.com/krschacht/67d4c0bd523bff067ca20140b8172cbf">Here is a gist</a>. It supports positional and named arguments. I got it working with runtime and static analysis. I don't plan to take this experiment any further right now, but maybe it's useful to someone.
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        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Ruby">Ruby</a></p>

link:
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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/3/andressen-horowitz-discussion/#atom-everything
title: Andressen and Horowitz on AI Robots
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/1_ZB7O_9hlQ?si=g3GZ33j4z3RXPWN5">Andressen and Horowitz on AI Robots</a></strong></p>
In this discussion between Andreessen and Horowitz, they pointed out that we are on the verge of embodied AI being a generally useful too. My key takeaway was this:

<p>General purpose robots could do everything from be assistants in your home, build houses, fight wars, etc. This is being made possible by all the software advances in AI in addition to the hardware advances in actuators, batteries, and vision systems.</p>

<p>The U.S. currently leads on the software side of AI, but China has a significant lead on the hardware side. The U.S. has basically made manufacturing illegal in the U.S. through environmental regulation, minimum wage requirements, and unions so U.S. companies have outsourced more advanced hardware to China. Now more than ever, with our strained relationship with China, we need to build these capabilities in the U.S. and at the same time U.S. regulators have their eyes on regulating the software AI capabilities.


    </p><p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Emoji Favicon
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://fav.farm/">Emoji Favicon</a></strong></p>
When building a new site, populating the favicon is more annoying than it should be. It’s something I often put off. But this site will serve you any emoji as a favicon.


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/3/fair-source/#atom-everything
title: Fair Source
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<p><strong><a href="https://fair.io/about/">Fair Source</a></strong></p>
I’ve been keeping an eye on this initiative started by Sentry. One of the most common ways I see product companies utilizing open source is to release their software via open source and then make money by running a paid version of the service for people who don’t want to self-host.
<p>With this approach, it can undermine your business strategy if someone else decides to run a competing version of your hosted service using your open source software. I believe this was <a href="https://blog.sentry.io/relicensing-sentry">Sentry’s primary motivation</a>. I’ve also seen talk of Business Source License (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License">BSL</a>) but am unsure of the difference between this and Fair Source. Some day I may dig into this.</p>


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title: SQLite now runs on Cloudflare edge
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects/">SQLite now runs on Cloudflare edge</a></strong></p>
There is so much innovation happening with SQLite these days and now it appears that Cloudflare lets you run it at edge nodes. I don’t quite understand the significance of this, but now I don’t have to think of Cloudflare as a way to help handle large spikes in traffic to static pages. Simon Willison <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/zero-latency-sqlite-storage-in-every-durable-object/">elaborates</a> on this development.


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/3/automating-app-development-with-llm/#atom-everything
title: Automating app development with LLM
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-tdd-loop-script/">Automating app development with LLM</a></strong></p>
I keep automating more of my day-to-day programming using various tools, and this guy did a clever wrap around LLM. He writes a unit test in python, passes it to LLM, and it writes the code necessary to get the test to pass. This technique could prove useful for what I want to do with rails development.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Using LLM to process video
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.substack.com/p/video-scraping-using-google-gemini?open=false#%C2%A7video-scraping-extracting-json-data-from-a-second-screen-capture-for-less-than-th-of-a-cent">Using LLM to process video</a></strong></p>
I have done a lot of experimenting with passing screenshots into an LLM to give it additional context, but I really want to try passing video directly into the LLM. I believe Gemini is the only one that supports it. This is a summary of Simon Willison’s recent experiment with Gemini for video.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://jina.ai/reader">Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages</a></strong></p>
This is a really handy tool for simplify a webpage before passing it into an LLM. It turns HTML into semi-structured markdown.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/tQN79fUjAyk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)"></p>In this first of two Rising Tide Foundation presentations delivered by Africa expert Lawrence Freeman, the truth of China's intentions, methods and philosophy for development are laid out with a focus on Africa and putting out fires of war. <br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN79fUjAyk

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/MZmroGODK2s" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 05 (ELECTION SPECIAL)"></p>In this fifth AUM/RTF Peace Roundtable, SIX expert analysts are brought together to share their assessment of the dynamics shaping the USA going into the 2024 election and the global dynamics (economic meltdown, emergence of new multipolar security/economic architecture), civil war danger etc. Is Trump a fascist who will launch WW3 or a pragmatic patriot who will stop the forever wars? What about his entourage? Is Kamala a preferable candidate or is there something else being missed?<br><br>Garland Nixon, Peter Kuznick, Tom Luongo, Alex Krainer, Joaquin Flores and Martin Sieff hammer out these questions and more in this heated roundtable.<br><br>Websites to follow the work of the guest speakers:<br>Garland Nixon: rokfin.com/garlandnixon<br>Joaquin Flores: t.me/NewResistance<br>Tom Luongo: https://tomluongo.me/<br>Alex Krainer: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/<br>Peter Kuznick: https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick.cfm<br>Martin Sieff: https://pluralia.forumverona.com/en/authors/martin-sieff/<br><br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmroGODK2s

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title: Understanding China with Lawrence Freeman (and dialogue with audience)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/LrSlGPUheR0" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Understanding China with Lawrence Freeman (and dialogue with audience)"></p>Lawrence Freeman delivers a presentation featuring his recent trip to China.<br><br>Watch Larry's main presentation here: https://youtu.be/tQN79fUjAyk<br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Supplementary reading from Lawrence Freeman<br><br>Chinese Amb Xie Feng Rejects “zero-sum” Mentality of the West at 75th Anniversary<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/13/chinese-amb-xie-feng-rejects-zero-sum-mentality-of-the-west-at-75th-anniversary/<br><br>Replace Menacing Talk of War in The Horn of Africa With Designs for Economic Growth<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/05/replace-menacing-talk-of-war-in-the-horn-of-africa-with-designs-for-economic-growth/<br><br>“Rules-Based Order” Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/11/03/rules-based-order-complicit-in-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza/<br><br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSlGPUheR0

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title: New Lyre Podcast #27: Poetry Fireside Chat - Autumn 2024
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<div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p><em>The Chained Muse</em> is happy to announce the return of the weekly podcast for our flagship journal, <em>New Lyre Magazine </em>(old school episodes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@newlyremagazine/videos">here</a>).</p></div><p>In the latest discussion, we begin by reflecting on the current state of culture and poetry. We explore some of the timeless poetical gems featured in <em>New Lyre’s</em> autumn issue, happily putting to rest any fears of …</p>
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<p>On Wednesday, 6 November the world awoke to extraordinary news: against all odds, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> won the 2024 presidential elections to become the 47nd president of the United States. Heartfelt congratulations to the American people are in order. It was their victory: the ordinary deplorables rallied to the defense of whatever is left of their democracy and prevailed, seemingly against all odds over the powers that be. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png" width="1411" height="798" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":798,"width":1411,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2277769,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>They had the choice, essentially between two candidates. In electing Trump, they rejected the incumbent government’s brazen assault on civil liberties, the wokeism, the forever wars and the creeping Sovietization of the United States. To see the reactions to Wednesday morning’s news in social media, the uplifted spirits and, dare I say, joy, was beautiful and heartwarming. But after the celebrations, it will be time to roll up the collective sleeves and get to work.</p><h2>Now comes the hard part</h2><p>This victory was proof positive that when the people make a stand decisively, they can not be defeated. Now, that full court press must continue. Trump and his administration don’t have a magic wand to fix everything and make all the problems go away: it will be a massive labor. As the people supported them through the elections, so they must continue to back them through the coming challenges. With the people behind them, the magic will happen.</p><p>Before us is the struggle for truth, struggle to rebuild prosperity and to end the forever wars. The strength and power of people’s support, and the direction of that support will determine how successful the new administration can be. For his part, Trump and his team can do much to galvanize and turbo-charge this support and keep the people engaged in making America great again and making the American people healthy again.</p><p>Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my friend <strong>Mel K</strong> for a post-election discussion. It was published a few hours later, titled "<a href="https://twitter.com/MelKShow/status/1854675927604576305">Nuremberg 2.0: Global Tsunami of Truth, Justice and Liberty Commences...</a>" The title draws from the part where I opined that the new administration must take advantage of its massive popular mandate by going on the offensive, without hesitation, hedging or equivocation, which could muddle its message and leave the administration open to renewed attempts at sabotage and lawfare attacks by its opponents.</p><h2>Nuremberg 2.0</h2><p>As I put it during our interview, if I were Trump, I would drum up a Nuremberg-like process in a very public and explicit way and begin an open season on a number of unsolved mysteries of the last six decades beginning with the following:</p><ul><li><p><strong>JFK</strong>, <strong>RFK</strong> and <strong>MLK</strong> assassinations </p></li><li><p>9/11</p></li><li><p>Global War on Terror</p></li><li><p>Russiagate</p></li><li><p>C19 pandemic</p></li><li><p>Ukraine war</p></li><li><p>2020 elections</p></li><li><p>WEF agenda</p></li><li><p>Epstein and P Diddy lists</p></li><li><p>Lahaina</p></li><li><p>North Carolina, etc.</p></li></ul><p>At the very minimum, some of these issues must come under public Truth and Reconciliation inquiries. These should distill the truth with such clarity that it can become part of America’s and the world’s history curriculum for generations to come. They should also shine the sunlight at the epicenter of corruption and uncover its ultimate beneficiaries with names and mugshots. </p><p>Such a process would not only have full support of the majority of American people: it would captivate the attention and support of the whole world. Only, there should be no reconciliation for premeditated crimes against humanity: no walking away with the colossal proceeds of  crime, only to regroup and revert to predatory conduct. </p><p>The main conspirators should be sentenced to life in prison and a total, 100% expropriation of all of their earthly assets: personal, family, trusts, foundations and endowments – all of it. These funds should then be recycled in favor of those who lost their homes, businesses and livelihoods in consequence of these conspiracies.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png" width="900" height="506" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":506,"width":900,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":530902,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Link to the podcast on Rumble: <a href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html">https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html</a></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><h2>Trump means business, it seems!</h2><p>Only hours after this interview was published I came across a recorded statement by Trump, indicating that he does indeed intend to go on the offensive. The statement (video clip is in <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1854659468765626764">this tweet</a>)</strong> is a glove thrown in the face of the deep state swamp:</p><blockquote><p><strong>First</strong>, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively. <strong>Second</strong>, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible. <strong>Third</strong>, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it, they're lied to. <strong>Fourth</strong>, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them. <strong>Fifth</strong>, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges. <strong>Sixth</strong>, we will make every Inspector General's Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State. <strong>Seventh</strong>, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign. <strong>Eighth</strong>, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp. Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out. And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America. <strong>Ninth</strong>, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. Doesn't work that way—such a public display cannot go on and it's taking place all the time, like with Big Pharma. <strong>Finally</strong>, I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people. Thank you very much.</p></blockquote><p>This is music - symphony - to my ears. But wait, it gets better. Mel and I also spoke about the critical importance of free speech and the media.</p><h2>Taming the corporate media</h2><p>Anti-Trump hysteria induced by the <s>enemies of the people</s> media could be one way the new administration could be sabotaged. To avoid this, they should break up the media monopoly by making it easier for journalists and media entrepreneurs to set up independent operations and compete for viewership/readership by creating compelling, quality content. Again, it’s clear that Trump and his team have been thinking along the same lines. Trump issued the following statement (the 6-min. video clip is at <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1854949449518514593">this link</a></strong>):</p><blockquote><p>If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one - they’ll go down. That’s why today I’m announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. And “reclaim” si a very important word in this case, because they’ve taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Ssilicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything, from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately and here’s my plan. <strong>First</strong>, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any Federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban Federal money from being used to label domestic speech as miss-, or dis-information. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. <strong>Second</strong>, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of Federal Civil Rights law, Campaign Finance laws, Federal Election law, Securities law and Anti-Trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential civil, criminal, regulatory and constitutional offences. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, the Biden Campaign and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship. <strong>Third</strong>, upon my inauguration as president I will ask Congress to send the Bill to my desk, revising Section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful contents such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech. <strong>Fourth</strong>, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called myths and disinformation. The Federal Government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. universities are discovered to have engaged in censorship activities, or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data. <strong>Fifth</strong>, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, Government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information request such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and a right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I’m president, this this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.</p></blockquote><p>This is a very strong, important and enormously encouraging statement. It is in stark contrast with <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305">John Kerry’s</a></strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305"> authoritarian musings</a> about doing away with the First Amendment. Kerry laments that the Amendment is a major roadblock to <em>their</em> ability to build a consensus around any issue: “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern… and implement change…” </p><h2>The economy, stupid…</h2><p>The toughest struggle however, will be the fight to rebuild the American economy in a way that stimulates investment and creates favorable conditions for small and medium size businesses to flourish. This will require breaking the stranglehold of the too-big-to-fail banks over the US economy and transferring the credit allocation function from large banks to smaller local and regional financial institutions that can support local businesses. Very substantial investment capital could be accumulated in a number of ways: radically reducing government waste, improving tax collection from big corporations, expropriating the criminal class as discussed above, ending the forever wars and shutting down hundreds of foreign military bases.</p><p>Let’s see whether Trump and his team will issue any statements on economic reforms. My feeling is that they will. The question that remains is whether they will be able to carry all these reforms out. I believe that if they are continually and consistently backed by the people in the same way that they were supported through the presidential election cycle, they will almost inevitably be successful. In effect, the people of the United States will make America great again with Donald Trump as the administrator in charge.</p><h2>Cultivate optimism!</h2><p>As I wrote above, now comes the hard part and the struggles will be real. In this sense, cultivating optimism should be regarded as our sacred duty toward the future generations. Many people are warning that Trump is a billionaire, that he’s one of <em>them, </em>that he’s surrounded himself with other billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, etc, etc. That may be so, but it does not necessarily mean that they are all loyal to the occult oligarchy that we are opposed to. Recall, Robert and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were both part of the American aristocracy and political class, but they both paid with their lives for opposing the oligarchy.</p><p>Throughout history, many reform movements were led by members of the privileged classes who recognized that without reforms, a system under an unrestrained rule of oligarchs is on the road to perdition. Even in ancient Rome, many of the most determined reformers like Catiline, the Gracchi brothers and Julius Caesar were wealthy aristocrats. Like the Kennedy brothers, they all paid for their efforts with their lives. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg" width="600" height="300" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":300,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet.","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." title="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>This is our struggle</h2><p>Dismissing the Trump team solely on account of their station in life and sitting out the struggle that is before us would truly be a tragic waste of a hard won chance to make the world a better place. Ultimately it is a people’s struggle: OUR STRUGGLE!! Even if you had zero faith in the new leadership, cultivating optimism and doing your part must still be a sacred duty. I elaborated this in the article “<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-case-for-optimism?utm_source=publication-search">The Case for Optimism.</a>” </p><p>Remember, it will be the coming generations who’ll collect the fruits of our actions today. We have it in our power to gift them a better future and we should use that power to the best of our abilities. The floodgates are now open and we’ve no excuse not to give it our all.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/a-new-dawn?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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title: New Lyre Podcast #28: From Bukowski to Insta Poets - Sacred Cows in Poetry
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<p>From John Dryden to Billy Collins, the cult of Charles Bukowski to Instagram poetry, professor Johnny Payne joins us to discuss his latest polemics and re-examine some of the sacred cows of literature.</p><p>After discussing Johnny’s latest polemics, we have an extended dialogue on the nature of timeless verse and today’s golden age in poetry.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Read Johnny’s latest essays on <em><a href="https://merionwest.com/author/johnnypayne/">Merion West</a></em></p></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"c9f2cb42-9b48-440e-90a7-0daf90053e7b","caption":"Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Our Fall Magazine Is Published!","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-10-16T21:48:50.444Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec8d2a8-38ef-480d-81e4-a5e05d9e6e78_702x915.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/our-fall-magazine-is-published","section_name":null,"id":150038311,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":6,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"8a1a4fbd-3ca0-4e85-a51e-d60d37324ecc","caption":"One might think we have Wordsworth’s theory of poetic art to blame for the creep of Instagram and “street” poetry and the subsequent disfiguration of lyric into meme. 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title: Up ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy
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<p>Last week I had the pleasure of joining <strong>Jesse Day</strong>, the host of the Vancouver Resource Investment channel (VRIC), and <strong>Martin Armstrong</strong> of Armstrong Economics to discuss the "EU collapse and the slow decay of western supremacy." The core subject of the otherwise broad-ranging discussion is captured in its title. However, if I could boil down the gist of it, it would be that in the West, the powers that be are still scrambling, trying to induce people into compliance with increasingly authoritarian ways of governance through fear and ever closer control. </p><p>Part of that agenda includes doing away with physical cash and introducing central bank issued digital currencies (CBDCs). The overreach includes geopolitics, with attempts to tighten central control over all the world's regions and nations. So far however, this has never worked in history, as it pushes larger and larger sectors of the society to opt out of the matrix and transact their business (and personal spending) in black markets. </p><p>While the authorities can discourage small numbers from doing so, but if a significant percentage of people opt out, the situation spins out of control, and this is a real risk: in many nations like Venezuela and Argentina, a very substantial portion of economic activity is conducted in the black markets (in both cases close to half). </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>Herding cats</h2><p>Once they take root, black markets are extremely difficult to stamp out. They become true magnets for entrepreneurs and for consumers. For entrepreneurs they offer wide open field for profitable activity without red tape or taxes. For consumers they offer a wide variety of goods and services at much more affordable prices. Friends who are familiar with Argentina tell me that you can find anything you want in the black market there.</p><p>The problem for governments is that they collect zero taxes from such transactions, so the whole business of tightening the control over the people amounts to herding cats. Ultimately it fails. The same is happening in global, geopolitical terms. BRICS integrations are a reaction of many nations who wish to assert their sovereignty to explore other ways of doing business with the rest of the world, and it is an organically growing trend. </p><p>The dedollarization process won't happen overnight and the US dollar won't wither in the short run, but it will no longer be able to remain unchallenged either as a reserve currency or a trade settlement currency. Our full discussion is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"mQ4vYliTQJk","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-mQ4vYliTQJk" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mQ4vYliTQJk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4vYliTQJk">CHAOS Up Ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy</a></strong></p><h2>CBDCs: the impossible pipe-dream</h2><p>During our discussion I mentioned Nigeria’s experience with introducing a CBDC in 2023. In spite of all the efforts, all the preparations including best western technologies and top level consultants that contributed to it, the experiment entirely collapsed in only 108 days. You can find out more about this in the article I posted last October: </p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;201a7725-c108-43c4-ba23-bbdca951720a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Will the dreaded Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) become a thing? Will they be as awful as the ruling parasite class is planning? Will they be able to enforce our compliance with whatever rule they choose to impose, oppressing us under a draconian system of arbitrary restrictions and prohibitions? 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We are not termites: humans are hardwired with an indelible desire for liberty, which is part of our nature and our birthright.</p><p>We can be lulled to slumber through consumption, games and entertainment, and hypnotized to obedience through fear, but that state of stupor dissipates when we sense danger. Ultimately our nature will not allow us to be obedient serfs and to surrender our children to that fate. There’s a reason why throughout history rulers feared the people. If you push us past a certain point, we push back.</p><p>This is exactly what we saw last week as the American people rejected the steady erosions of their liberties and elected <strong>Donald Trump</strong> as their President. What his second term will bring remains to be seen, but the important and encouraging point is that it was the people's victory over the entrenched powers of the oligarchy. </p><p>More encouraging still is the fact that similar pushback happened in every single one of the ten major nations that held elections this year: in all of them, the incumbent governments lost support. It seems that all of humanity has now come together to reject the slide into the Orwellian globalist dystopia. In his 1915 novel, "The Golem," author <strong>Gustav Meyrink </strong>wrote,</p><blockquote><p>"Once in every generation, a spiritual epidemic spreads like lighting... attacking the souls of the living for some purpose which is hidden from us and causing a kind of mirage in the shape of some being characteristic of the place that, perhaps, lived here hundreds of years ago and still yearn for physical form... You can't hear the note from a vibrating tuning fork until it touches wood and sets it resonating. Perhaps it is simply a spiritual growth without any inherent consciousness, a structure that develops like a crystal out of formless chaos according to a constant law." </p></blockquote><p>Today something along these lines appears to be happening and unlike past generations humanity is now endowed with the internet which connects us in ways that was never before possible. The superorganism has grown its own nervous system, and now it is much more intelligent, faster and more agile than it’s ever been. Now it can move deliberately and purposely in the direction of its choosing!</p><p>In that sense, the internet adds a brand new variable to the social development equation, which has never before existed. This further implies that any prediction based on historical precedents is out of the question. As to the outcomes of current developments, all we can do is watch the pageant and see where it goes. Better still, we should do all we can to contribute towards desired outcomes.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. 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To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p><p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. 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title: The first state-of-the-art coding LLM that runs locally
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<p><strong><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder">The first state-of-the-art coding LLM that runs locally</a></strong></p>
This Qwen2.5-Coder-32B should run locally in about 20-30 gb of ram and assessments show it to be better than 4o at coding but not quite as good as Claude 3.5.


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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Xkf7ID_acVU" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Strategic Value of the Arctic in the 21st Century (Matt Ehret lectures)"></p>Matt Ehret delivers a short lecture to a Citizens' Symposium in Wakefield Ontario on the topic of the Arctic as a platform for cooperation or world war. <br>Check out the full Canadian Patriot program for the Arctic as the basis for a new renaissance here: https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/06/16/visionforcanada2060/<br><br> and the new film referenced by Matt here: <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs&amp;sttick=0<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkf7ID_acVU

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title: Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/e9c5659cf65890618433f984746f1607.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)"></p>At the Castello Road humanitarian crossing, the large green buses which were said to be evacuating militants from areas of eastern Aleppo in recent weeks were there again, waiting to ferry away more. Ten ambulances, three buses, and 14 minivans were lined up in anticipation of any civilians or militants trying to leave terrorist-occupied areas, whether for safe passage elsewhere or to settle in government-secured areas of Aleppo. At around 1:30 p.m. the first shell struck, hitting near Castello Road. About 10 minutes later, while I was being interviewed, a second hit, this time considerably closer, within 100 meters — close enough, in fact, to create a cloud of dark smoke over the road. It prompted security to usher me away from the road and move our delegation away from the crossing.<br><br>I later learned that another five shells targeted the crossing, injuring a Syrian journalist and two Russian soldiers.<br><br>No one passed through this or any of the other seven humanitarian corridors that day.<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/aleppo-how-us-saudi-backed-rebels-target-every-syrian-war-diary-by-western-journalist-eva-bartlett-on-the-truth-about-aleppo/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/

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title: International Peace Roundtable #6: Pros and Cons of the Post-Election USA
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/rmqMtu3kmUk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="International Peace Roundtable #6: Pros and Cons of the Post-Election USA"></p>Dr Edward Lozansky hosts the 6th Peace Roundtable featuring presentations by Caleb Maupin, Professor Lowell Gustafson, Tony Papart, Martin Sieff, and Come Carpentier<br><br>Follow Caleb's work here: https://x.com/realcalebmaupin?lang=en<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqMtu3kmUk

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/QYbpOLQKEA4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Whither Post-Unipolar West? – Discussion w/ Arnaud Bertrand, Glenn Diesen, Matt Ehret &amp; Stefan Heeb"></p>November 20, 2024Today, I had the privilege of joining up with Arnaud Bertrand, Glenn Diesen and host Stefan Heeb for a discussion on the topic “Whither Post-Unipolar West?”.We discussed what “the West” is, analysed the current moment and the West’s place in it, and brainstormed regarding the absence of awareness and imagination within the West regarding the inevitable transition to a multipolar and “post-unipolar” world, as well as possible ways to tackle this challenge.**********************************************You can find more about Stefan Heeb's work at his Substack:https://stefanjheeb.substack.com/**********************************************Get Science Unshackled herehttps://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-pressMatt and Cynthia's books:https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Docu-series here:https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriothttps://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriothttps://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substackhttps://matthewehret.substack.com/https://cynthiachung.substack.com/3) Buy some books!https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channelshttps://t.me/CanadianPatriotPressSince it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:On Rumblehttps://rumble.com/user/MattEhretOn Bitchute:https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/On Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYbpOLQKEA4

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guid: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in
title: Things they forgot to teach us in school about the way the system really works
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<p>[Originally published at <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in">I-System TrendCompass</a>] If you went to university you may have learned that corporations are persons, that they have shareholders, boards of directors and an executive suite consisting of the CEO, CFO, COO, etc. It was only yesterday (20 Nov. 2024) that I learned that corporations also had "protectors," or at least some of them do. </p><h2>Meet Jack, the Protector</h2><p>I learned this from <strong>Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky</strong> (MK), former member of "Sembankirshchina," the gang of seven bankers who ruled Russia during the 1990s and controlled most of its wealth (estimated at around 60% of Russia's GDP at the time). </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png" width="1152" height="768" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":768,"width":1152,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1176748,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">A miracle: from Komsomol, the Communist youth organization to Russia’s wealthiest oligarch.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mr. Khodorkovsky recently gave <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1858522646805143902">an interview</a></strong> and explained the concept of "protector," the detail which they forgot to teach to us in school:</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: "We made the decision to have a [company] "Protector" in the Trust, this is a person that watches everything that is happening [with the company]. … He must be completely independent and absolutely trusted, because he only has one function. In the moment he sees that the person holding a controlling stake in the company … acts under pressure, then he should open an envelope and hand over this control package to another person who will be written in that package. Our second person was [<strong>Leonid</strong>] <strong>Nevzlin </strong>but we never discussed it because no one should know who is second, who is third, who is fourth, who is fifth." </p><p>Q: This is in case you get killed?</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: No, in case they kill it's simpler. It's for example, if they take someone from the family hostage and start blackmailing with something related to the company. Since the company cannot be jeopardized, in this case the "Protector" must notice that I act under pressure and take away my powers. And that happened when they put me in prison. So they put me in prison, the protector made the decision that from there I can make decisions [only] under pressure and he passed the package to the next person.</p><p>Q: Can you name who the Protector was?</p><p>MK: Yes, of course. This is just a figure of great character whose role in the company everyone discussed differently, but no one knew the reality. [It was] the recently deceased <strong>Lord Jack Rothschild</strong>. He had the function of Protector. </p><p>Of course, by “Jack,” Khodorkovsky meant, Jacob. Exactly how legal transfer of ownership can pass from one individual to another, just like that, at the discretion of some absentee "protector" residing in London, is a bit of a mystery, but it did indeed work this way. I explained this relationship in part in my 2017 book "<a href="https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/">Grand Deception</a>," about the events in Russia, but the book was banned only 5 weeks after I published it. </p><p>Also, the sources I used in describing this particular relationship between MK and Lord Jacob Rothschild had been scrubbed clean from the internet. As a rule, the role of the London money lender oligarchy has always been scrupulously concealed from the public, which is probably why such details are not taught in universities either. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png" width="1456" height="712" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":712,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2720403,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">In the portrait on the left, Jack shows us some sort of triangle or pyramid sign with his thumbs. Maybe that’s just how his hands fall at rest and feel most comfortable.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>No, it wasn’t just Russia….</h2><p>At this point, someone will object: that happened in Russia, which is deficient in democracy and the rule of law, duh - we all know that!. In the West, the rule of law is just awesome, and we have democracy, and human rights, etc. However, I would object right back: are we quite sure about all that? We know for a fact that not even members of U.S. Congress may know the identities of the shareholders of certain large corporations like GE, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil, etc. They are secret even from the nation's lawmakers. It is then appropriate to ask, what else might be secret about the ownership and control of corporations?</p><h2>Visible oligarchs are merely trustees of the London Money Power</h2><p>When <strong>John Pierport Morgan</strong> died, everyone believed that he was the world's wealthiest man. But then it turned out that he only owned about 9% of his bank and was acting merely as the trustee of the bank's real owners who were (and perhaps still are) in the City of London. </p><p>Another example, recounted in the 1890 book by <strong>L. B. Woolfolk </strong>titled "The Great Red Dragon," was <strong>A. T. Stewart</strong>, the man who supposedly revolutionized (and nearly monopolized) the American retail industry back in the late 19th century. Just like Mr. Khodorkovsky, A. T. Stewart sprang from nowhere to great fortune overnight. The Scotsman owned a small shop on Broadway, only a few feet wide, where he sold needles, thread and tape.</p><p>Then somehow he came to control a massive retail business in palatial buildings, employing hundreds of clerks. He also had such stores in Glasgow, Belfast, Paris and in Germany. His wealth was estimated at about $100 million. However, when he died, he left his widow only a paltry $1 million. The rest of his fortune was transferred to a certain <strong>Judge Hilton</strong>, who was seemingly his handler and “number two” in line of substitute trustees: it was well known that Mr. Stewart met with the judge weekly and dined together every Sunday. </p><p>The media at the time concluded that the crafty judge had cheated poor <strong>Ms. Stewart </strong>out of her rightful inheritance and a court battle ensued where it was established that her husband in fact owned no interest in A.T. Stewart &amp; Co. but only collected commissions on sales. Judge Hilton himself was also only an agent of some power that remained hidden. However, the company he inherited was soon run out of business by three new retail establishments. With good quality merchandise and low prices they drove A. T. Stewart &amp; Co. and another 1,000 retail merchants in New York to bankruptcy.</p><h2>Hey, look over there - it’s them Jews!!!</h2><p>The new business model soon spread throughout the U.S. and much of the developed world. It was understood at the time that it was "the money power" exercising control from the shadows. As one merchant said at the time, "If things go on as they are, in a few years more, the Money Power will have monopolized the retail traffic, as it has monopolized and is now monopolizing all the other branches of business in the country." </p><p>To deflect people's attention away from the Money Power, the anger was directed at the Jews and the new retail establishments were commonly referred to as "the Jew stores." In fact, Judge Hilton himself blamed the Jews for A. T. Stewart &amp; Co's failure. Mr. Stewart's rise to power wasn't an isolated case: most of the oligarchs of that era were trustees of London Money Power.</p><p>The same was true for the Russian oligarchs that emerged from the Soviet Communist party after the USSR's 1991 collapse. Someone might object again: all that happened a long time ago, or it was in Russia. Today, in this day and age, we surely have transparency, rule of law, sanctity of contract, property rights, democracy and freedom, independent media, equity and inclusivity, etc.!?! But what if all those wonderful things are only the facade props, subtle means of persuasion, convincing us (including through our universities) that the system is wonderful and equitable so that we wouldn't suspect that there really <em>was</em> a sinister oligarchy exercising power from behind the shadows? What if this whole liberal democratic order was a sham?</p><h2>What of today’s exalted “oligarchs”?</h2><p>Such secret arrangements would be very difficult to prove, but if they did exist, they would help explain the rise to power of today's oligarchs like <strong>Jeff Bezos</strong>, <strong>Bill Gates</strong>, <strong>George Soros</strong>, <strong>Larry Ellison</strong>, <strong>Warren Buffett</strong> (oh, yes, him too), <strong>Eric Schmitt</strong>, <strong>Peter Thiel</strong>, <strong>Robert Mercer</strong> and many others. It would also explain why in one way or another they all end up in bed with the Deep State, the CIA, the Pentagon and with political parties. We're all encouraged to admire these people for their genius and entrepreneurial spirit, but what if that's the product of the PR machinery which nudges us to think of Bill Gates as the great benefactor and of Warren Buffett as the kindly old grandfather who just happens to be a brilliant stock picker? Really, when was the last time any journalist asked Bill Gates or Warren Buffett a tough question? </p><p>All this was true about Russia's oligarchs in the 1990s; they were always presented as young maverick businessmen reforming the economy and breaking new grounds, bringing capitalist free markets to Russia, etc, etc.  Then there was also the case of Elizabeth Holmes, who likewise came out of nowhere to become the youngest female self-made billionaire and was widely promoted in the media.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png" width="967" height="545" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":545,"width":967,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":814862,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This all worked as per the Money Power playbook until her company, Theranos collapsed in disgrace and it turned out that she invented nothing and controlled nothing.</p><h2>Theranos was the great revealer</h2><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png" width="1456" height="376" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":376,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1302033,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Theranos Board of Directors: Who’s who of the Deep State and the “defense” establishment</figcaption></figure></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Alex Krainer's Substack! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p>The disintegration of that business model showed for the whole world to see, that Ms. Holmes was a stand-in, controlled by her board of directors (every last member was a veteran of the Deep State and US defence establishment) and the people who funded the whole fraud. I dissected that fraud in the article titled, “<a href="https://thenakedhedgie.com/2021/10/02/the-theranos-scandal-the-real-story-1-3/">Theranos Scandal: the real story</a>.” Video version of that report is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"qk0_Y_FZN2k","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-qk0_Y_FZN2k" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qk0_Y_FZN2k?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><h2>Today, the Money Power demands World War III</h2><p>Returning to Mr. Khodorkovsky's recent revelations, they may also suggest the ultimate reasons why today we find ourselves at the precipice of a nuclear war: Lord Rothschild stole Yukos fair and square and then came the evil <strong>Mr. Putin</strong> and took Yukos back, which accounted for 20% of Russian oil production. So of course, now we must bring freedom, democracy, human rights, transparency, rule of law and property rights back to Russia even at the cost of setting the whole world on fire in the process.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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title: New Lyre Podcast #29: Poetry's search for the soul with Daniel Leach
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>What is the soul’s place in the modern world of poetry and culture? We speak with poet Daniel Leach about the changing tides in art and culture, false political dualities in the artistic realm, and the timeless quest for the poetic across the ages.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Daniel R. Leach</strong> is a poet living in Houston, Texas. He has spent much of his life fighting for the ideals of classical culture and poetry. His volumes of verse, compiling over 20 years of composition are “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Wind-Poems-Daniel-Leach/dp/1074204778/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Daniel+Leach&amp;qid=1561308110&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Voices on the Wind</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Places-Soul-Goes-Daniel-Leach-ebook/dp/B0995MFQDQ">Places the Soul Goes</a>.”</em></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. 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guid: https://odysee.com/NowTimeToFinallyLookCriticallyat911:2d9ea81d7caa75ca2d0834430641de23c01671a6
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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"Now is the time to finally look critically at 9/11. It's the foundation of the current war machine"

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/bb7099ced2ad53010b13e2f6b57a9947.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" now is the time to finally look critically at it foundation of current war machine></p>I spoke with Ted Walter, International Center for 9/11 Justice, on why now, 23 years on, speaking about 9/11 is important. <br><br>Excerpt:<br><br>"I would encourage people to look at 9/11 as a possible opportunity to expose the true nature of the national security state, of the war machine. It's about becoming more educated so that it's harder for the powers that be to carry out future deceptions. <br><br>People who dedicated their careers or spend much of their free time battling Western imperialism, battling the war machine, refuse to look at 9/11—which I think is the foundation of the current war machine. At 23 years, I think its time that people who have avoided it in the past, either for career-oriented reasons or because they themselves have fallen prey to the propaganda of the war machine that they are dedicated to taking down. Whatever it may be, now is the time to finally look critically at 9/11. If we don't understand 9/11, we really don't understand the world we live in."<br><br>Related Links:<br><br>https://ic911.org/ten-reasons/<br>on the “Hannibal Directive” <br>https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1810675316261838968<br>https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1832855065092075676 <br>https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/1843157368479346912<br>https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hannibal-directive<br><br>https://ic911.org/journal/articles/the-instantaneous-free-fall-of-world-trade-center-building-7-and-nists-attempt-to-hide-it/<br><br>23 years later, you owe it to yourself to finally trust your eyes <br>https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1833873999945781520<br><br>Perhaps these first responders can help you see what is actually going on here <br>https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1858595704249446897<br><br>Peace, War and 9/11<br>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28757454/<br><br>https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/technical-articles/articles-by-ae911truth/696-how-36-reporters-brought-us-the-twin-towers-explosive-demolition

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guid: https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-30-the-preservation
title: New Lyre Podcast #30: The Preservation of Fire
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”<br>—Gustav Mahler</p><p>In this wide-ranging discussion with poet Michael Yost, we explore the nature of the new burgeoning poetic renaissance in the world of arts and letters. From the timeless nature of classical forms to the comparison of epic poems in both classic and free-verse styles, we delve deep into the relationship between poetics and civilization.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-30-the-preservation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-30-the-preservation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Michael Yost </strong>is a poet and essayist living in rural New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as an alumnus and the Director of Admissions at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of St. Thomas in Houston Texas. His essays and poems have been published in places like The University Bookman, Dappled Things, Crisis Magazine, the St. Austin Review, The Brazen Head and Hearth and Field. Follow him on his Substack, <a href="https://poetryofmichaelyost.substack.com/">The Weight of Form</a>.</em></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to our journal.</strong></p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>New yearly paid subscribers will receive a complimentary hard copy of our journal of arts and letters, New Lyre Magazine (Fall 2024), delivered to the address of your choosing (we’ll contact you for mailing info).</p></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"8b421df6-e454-40ed-ab35-25211cffcb25","caption":"Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Our Fall Magazine Is Published!","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-10-16T21:48:50.444Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec8d2a8-38ef-480d-81e4-a5e05d9e6e78_702x915.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/our-fall-magazine-is-published","section_name":null,"id":150038311,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":6,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"b6cbcd2a-c734-43c1-b9b0-56acf91e17d7","caption":"No glass is pure","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"The Window","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-06-03T23:15:18.381Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b5af259-87aa-4f32-8fdb-c7fb90f5b3ac_1280x851.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/the-window","section_name":null,"id":145277099,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":11,"comment_count":8,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"9a324dc5-b733-48cb-b6e7-39328c7254ec","caption":"Communion","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Communion &amp; Poetry","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-07-22T00:25:27.663Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F195b2f5f-5811-4879-bfc6-44fbefa6fcc8_1024x814.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/communion-and-poetry","section_name":null,"id":146857322,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":9,"comment_count":15,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"b5f45cab-ea8b-444c-ad1e-47381e86b2d2","caption":"Featured in New Lyre - 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guid: https://odysee.com/geopolitical-insights-from-russia-with:aa110c302908b8485e702b38de013dc5e575bc16
title: Geopolitical Insights from Russia with Tim Kirby
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/geopolitical-insights-from-russia-with:aa110c302908b8485e702b38de013dc5e575bc16
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/1ND2SFWHx0o" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Geopolitical Insights from Russia with Tim Kirby"></p>In this RTF presentation, Tim Kirby delivers a geopolitical masterclass with a focus on the war in Ukraine, migration policies to Russia, arctic development, culture, banking, infrastructure and more.<br><br>Watch Tim's short response to accusations of Russia's involvment in the NWO on Rumble:<br>https://rumble.com/v5sruyb-tim-kirbys-response-to-black-pilled-analysts.html<br><br>Follow Tim Kirby's Telegram channel here<br>https://t.me/timkirbyhardcore<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ND2SFWHx0o

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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/the-pattern-in-our-history-warns-4cf
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
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title:
The Pattern in Our History Warns Us: The Danger of Assassination Comes from the Transatlantic Regime.

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<p>Tonight, in an emergency Zoom session with paid subscribers, I will present the pattern from history showing that the danger of assassination comes from the transatlantic regime.</p><p>Let me briefly introduce the nature of the grave danger we face.</p><p>A transatlantic regime now controls the governments of America, Britain, most of Western Europe, the British domi…</p>
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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/the-pattern-in-our-history-warns-1d6
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
link: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/the-pattern-in-our-history-warns-1d6
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title:
The Pattern in Our History Warns Us: The Danger of Assassination Comes from the Transatlantic Regime.

content:
<p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p><p>At 7 P.M Eastern time tonight, in an emergency Zoom session with paid subscribers, I will present the pattern from history showing that the danger of assassination comes from the transatlantic regime.</p><p>Let me briefly introduce the nature of the grave danger we face.</p><p>A transatlantic regime now controls the governme…</p>
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          <a href="https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/the-pattern-in-our-history-warns-1d6">
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          </a>
      </p>

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title: The Third Culture Behaviorist Revolution [CP Podcast with Johnny Vedmore]
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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guid:
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/klIrQkV1kX8" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Third Culture Behaviorist Revolution [CP Podcast with Johnny Vedmore]"></p>In this Canadian Patriot Podcast, Matt chats with Johnny Vedmore about his newest groundbreaking research on the transhumanist/billionaire cut outs shaped by behaviorist social engineers and cybernetics gurus following the program laid out by the Fabian Society and Oxford Rhodes Scholars since the 1960s.<br><br>Read Vedmore's two part series here:<br><br>Part 1: https://newspaste.substack.com/p/blair-and-clinton-the-third-way-dossier<br><br>Part 2: https://newspaste.substack.com/p/musk-and-epstein-the-third-culture<br><br>Listen to the previous Canadian Patriot Podcast with Vedmore on The Intellectual Dark Web and Eric Weinstein:<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-ugly-truth-of-eric-weinstein<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIrQkV1kX8

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title: The Economy of Well being Podcast with Matt Ehret &amp; Cynthia Chung
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/YoPu4MyLB6o" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Economy of Well being Podcast with Matt Ehret &amp; Cynthia Chung"></p>November 11, 2024<br><br>Mark Anielski, Cynthia Chung and I have a dialogue about how to deal with institutional and structure evil.<br><br>*****<br><br>You can find Mark Anielski’s work at:        <br>https://anielski.com/<br>https://www.youtube.com/@markusanielski<br>*****<br><br>You can find Cynthia Chung’s’s work at:        <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br>Watch her Docu-series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” here:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/escaping-calypsos-island/<br>*****<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs” here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoPu4MyLB6o

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guid: https://odysee.com/ar-live-with-special-guests-matt-ehret:30a0a719aa42c9bc5a70f9b2f5ef511397e2aff3
title: AR Live with Special Guests; Matt Ehret &amp; Jason Dahl
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
link: https://odysee.com/ar-live-with-special-guests-matt-ehret:30a0a719aa42c9bc5a70f9b2f5ef511397e2aff3
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/_ef7jTuBo9w" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="AR Live with Special Guests; Matt Ehret  &amp; Jason Dahl"></p>November 11, 2024<br><br>Jason &amp; I join the host Johnny to discuss our latest installment “The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Ep. 3: The New Age of the Sorcerers: UFOs, MK Ultra and the Cold War”<br>**********************************************<br>You can find all the links to America Rising Media’s work at:<br>https://allmylinks.com/americarisingmedia<br>**********************************************<br>You can find all the links to Johnny’s work at:<br>https://allmylinks.com/johnnyq<br>**********************************************<br>You can find all the links to Jason’s work at:<br>DAHL HOUSE STUDIOS: https://www.dahlhousestudios.com/<br>New Website: https://superspreaders.space<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/SuperSpreaders<br>Odysee: https://odysee.com/@SuperSpreaders:9<br>Twitter: https://twitter.com/super_spreaders<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs  series here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ef7jTuBo9w

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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/eight-dying-presidents-and-the-transatlantic
title: Eight Dying Presidents and the Transatlantic Regime -- the Present Danger.
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
link: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/eight-dying-presidents-and-the-transatlantic
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<p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p><h4><strong>Message from Anton Chaitkin: Last night (11/25/2024) the perfectly reliable Zoom platform failed. I was prepared to blow the whistle on the threat of assassination of the President-elect, and show from history the character of the threat and the identity of the perpetrators. </strong></h4><h4><strong>Under the circumstances, </strong><em>I am going …</em></h4>
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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/nasa-dragonfly-probe-to-saturn-titan-in-2028/#atom-everything
title: NASA's Dragonfly probe to Saturn's Titan in 2028
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/nasa-dragonfly-probe-to-saturn-titan-in-2028/#atom-everything
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<p>In 2028 NASA is launching a spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan to study its habitability in a mission named Dragonfly. It will land in 2034. They're sending a drone powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator so they can visit a variety of sites. Titan is notable because it's believed to have a similar chemistry to ancient earth. Past probes have measured the contents of the atmosphere and confirmed it contains a mix of hydrocarbons. The surface contains a lot of water ice and scientists believe there is a water ocean in the interior of the moon.</p>
    
        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/space">space</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/vampire-game-based-around-ai-voice-suck-up/#atom-everything
title: Vampire game based around AI voice: SUCK UP!
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/vampire-game-based-around-ai-voice-suck-up/#atom-everything
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=811JkxLfvoA">Vampire game based around AI voice: SUCK UP!</a></strong></p>
This is one of the best examples I’ve seen of games creatively incorporating LLMs. You are a vampire character, you walk up to houses in a neighborhood and as the player you actually talk aloud to your computer and the NPCs talk back. You have to convince these NPCs to let you into their house.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-web-based-database-admin/#atom-everything
title: Rails web-based database admin
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-web-based-database-admin/#atom-everything
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<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rails_db">Rails web-based database admin</a></strong></p>
A rails gem that gives you a web-based interface to your database.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Rails">Rails</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-activerecord-has-a-sole-method/#atom-everything
title: Rails ActiveRecord has a .sole method
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-activerecord-has-a-sole-method/#atom-everything
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<p>I just learned about `sole` and `find_sole_by`. They ensure that only a single record is returned and will raise if there is something other than one. It's the equivalent of:

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api_keys = user.api_keys.where(key: key)

if api_keys.length == 1
  api_key = api_keys.first
elsif api_keys.length == 0
  raise "No records found!"
else
  raise "More than one matching record found!"
end
</pre>

    
        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Rails">Rails</a></p>


title: pick is the single-value version of pluck in Rails
author: ;Keith Schacht
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https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/pick-is-the-single-value-version-of-pluck-in-rails/#atom-everything

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<p>Instead of doing </p><pre>Messages.pluck(:user_id).first</pre> you can do <pre>Messages.pick(:user_id)</pre>
    
        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Rails">Rails</a></p>

link:
https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/pick-is-the-single-value-version-of-pluck-in-rails/#atom-everything


guid: https://odysee.com/like-a-phoenix-the-death-and-rebirth-of:e37b80889efb5b3761043c9c64912f083260b83a
title: Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America [A Canadian Patriot Film]
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
link: https://odysee.com/like-a-phoenix-the-death-and-rebirth-of:e37b80889efb5b3761043c9c64912f083260b83a
hash: �* �8�E�GL$��`J
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/U3EamfkiBTc" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America [A Canadian Patriot Film]"></p>The Intellectual Dark Web isn't what you thought it was. <br><br>With Bret Weinstein's shocking call to "Phoenix the Republic" and Eric Weinstein's role in shaping the global mass migration policies of the United Nations, it is increasingly becoming clear that the American people are being played by the same Tavistock/Jesuit forces that manipulated the 19th century Native American tribes and 20th century Vietnamese to embrace cataclysmic acts of destruction under the Rosicrucian symbolism of "Phoenix operations". <br><br>The following Canadian Patriot Film written and narrated by Cynthia Chung, removes multiple layers of illusion preventing current citizens from understanding the past 150 years of social engineering, weaponized psychology, and psychological warfare premised on the Transhumanist belief that humanity must be made to embrace cataclysms in order for creation to emerge out of destruction. <br><br>The role of the Weinstein brothers within this dark agenda will shock you.<br><br>Support our work and help us make more films by making a donation here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>Purchase Cynthia Chung's new book The Shaping of a World Religion VOL 1: 'https://canadianpatriot.org/new-book-the-shaping-of-a-world-religion-vol-1-by-cynthia-chung/<br><br>Subscribe to Cynthia's Substack here:<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>Subscribe to Matt Ehret's Substack here:<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br><br>Follow Jason Dahl's work here: dahlhousetsudios.com and https://twitter.com/super_spreaders <br><br>Buy other Canadian Patriot books here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EamfkiBTc

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guid: https://odysee.com/Osmanonceasefire:7b5179b8ee6add650e4e3603c04468e737f0c27c
title: Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman on the ceasefire, Resistance achievements, and more
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
link: https://odysee.com/Osmanonceasefire:7b5179b8ee6add650e4e3603c04468e737f0c27c
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/934aadab72ab595d1473456b48d546a5.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman on the ceasefire, Resistance achievements, and more"></p>I spoke last night with courageous Marwa, who had just returned from visiting her village in southern Lebanon. <br><br>If you aren’t familiar with Marwa, I highly recommend following her:<br><br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman<br><br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB<br><br>*We were going to do video, but the connection was weak &amp; visual skippy, so I’ve made it audio only.<br><br><br><br>Related Links:<br><br>-nature of missiles being used<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1860157559430115666<br><br>-Statement from the Islamic Resistance Operations Room: The Islamic Resistance Operations Room announces that one of the sensitive military targets struck on November 18, 2024, in the city of Tel Aviv was the residence of the Israeli Air Force Commander, Major General Tomer Bar. The operation, carried out with a swarm of advanced attack drones, achieved its objectives with precision. The incident has been met with strict censorship by the Israeli military authorities.<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1861525266847408366<br><br>Zionist Israeli Occupation soldiers from the Golani Brigade have desecrated a church in the southern Lebanese village of Deirmimas. Ironically, this comes after the mayor of Deirmimas refused to allow Hezbollah resistance to operate in his village to confront such aggressors. Perhaps now he understands the cost of that decision. Only the resistance has proven capable of standing against these vile creatures—ask the people of Maaloula and Sqailabyeh in Syria who protected their churches against ISIS, and they will gladly tell you.<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1861168164245017072<br><br>A group of fellow journalists were exposed to gunfire while covering the return of the residents and the withdrawal, and some of them were injured in the town of Khiam by the enemy army that is still present in the town, and they were transferred to Hasbaya Hospital to receive treatment. Thank God you are safe.<br>https://x.com/BilaRakaba/status/1861753041801662663<br><br>https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-strike-killing-al-mayadeen--al-manar-press-crew-possible<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-khiam-prison-is-now-open/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/a-massacre-within-a-massacre-israel-is-exterminating-palestinians-in-northern-gaza-and-killing-palestinian-journalists-reporting-on-it/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/04/28/neglect-abuse-torture-the-west-is-ignoring-the-fate-of-palestinians-stuck-in-israeli-jails/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/ukraines-murder-of-30-russian-journalists-met-with-western-indifferenceor-grotesque-gloating/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/media-black-out-on-arab-journalists-and-civilians-beheaded-in-syria-by-western-backed-terrorists/

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guid: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event
title: Are they planning a false flag event in London?
author: ;Alex Krainer
link: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event
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<p>Yesterday, as I was finalizing my new report on Great Britain, an update to my August 26 article "<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain?utm_source=publication-search">The Coming Collapse of Britain</a>," YouTube randomly suggested to me a short video by one <strong>Craig Houston</strong> titled, "<strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEL_UR5AmE&amp;t=15s">Why are ALL LONDON webcams offline...?</a></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEL_UR5AmE&amp;t=15s">"</a></p><p>I was nearly floored: Mr. Houston looked through hundreds of Webcams across London and could not find a single one that was live. See for yourself <strong><a href="https://londonwebcam.co.uk/">here</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://london-webcam.co.uk/">here</a></strong>! That's extremely odd: clearly, <em>someone</em> made the decision to switch them all off - they couldn't all have failed randomly.</p><p>One of the webcams over the Westminster bridge displayed the last image it recorded: it was on 2 September 2024 at 16:51, which at least gives us a clue about when the Heart of Darkness went dark to the world. I posted a comment about this in my <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-attack">TrendCompass report</a> yesterday and one of the readers found a working Webcam at Abbey road. Still, that’s one out of hundreds that are still dark.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png" width="1456" height="2344" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2344,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":521413,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Why someone would decide to cut all the webcams is a mystery, and an ominous one. Mr. Houston didn't offer any explanations, which is understandable given that he lives in Britain where singing, "kung fu fighting," or silently praying on the sidewalk can get you arrested. But where he declined to tread, I'll venture a guess.</p><h2>They’re planning a false flag event to blame on Russia</h2><p>I think it's the only explanation that makes any sense to my mind: they are planning a false-flag terror attack on London which they'll blame on Russia, so that they can trigger an all-out, whole-of-society mobilization by all of the Western powers against Russia. Now, if this seems far-fetched, there are now several important elements that fit coherently with this scenario, starting with the general geopolitical state of things.</p><p>Western empire and the UK in particular, bet heavily on Ukraine and lost. By now the situation has become as undeniable as it is hopeless. But Western powers aren't showing any inclination to cut and run, like they did from Vietnam in March of 1972 or Afghanistan in August 2021.</p><p>Today, the West is facing the world's largest nuclear power with an established escalatory dominance in the region and a highly motivated, well trained, battle hardened and well equipped force, including with new, devastating conventional weaponry that eclipses anything the West has in its depleted arsenals. In spite of that, they are still escalating. The question is, why?</p><h2>In Ukraine, the whole world’s at stake</h2><p>Ukraine is too important for them and the stakes could not be higher. From the imperial cabal's point of view, the prize, in fact, is the whole world. In his paper, “Democratic Ideals and Reality,” <strong>Sir Halford Mackinder</strong> wrote that, “<em>Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-island; who rules the World-island controls the world.</em>”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png" width="711" height="401" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":401,"width":711,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":390595,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>By World-island, Mackinder meant the Eurasian landmass. His theoretical framework remained the foundation of foreign policy for British and American governments to this very day, as we learned as recently as 2018 from <strong>Wes Mitchell</strong>, <strong>President Trump</strong>'s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In a <a href="https://ee.usembassy.gov/strategy-toward-russia/">briefing to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee</a>, he made it explicit that the “<em>central aim of the Administration’s foreign policy is to defend US domination of Eurasian landmass as the foremost US national security interest and to prepare the nation for this challenge</em>.”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png" width="603" height="340" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":340,"width":603,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":135771,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Mitchell also said that the Administration was “<em>working with our close ally the UK to form an international coalition for coordinating efforts in this field</em>.” These views are not just idle musings of academics or entertainment for think tanks. The reality on the ground confirms that this is indeed how the imperial cabal regards the outcome of the battle for Ukraine. From the beginning of the war, a few of their lieutenants voiced the entrenched mindset:</p><ul><li><p>''<em>If we lose in Ukraine, the world order we created 80 years ago will crumble" - </em>then US Chief of Staff <strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/milley-russia-ukraine-war-so-goes-international-order-2022-4">Mark Milley,</a></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/milley-russia-ukraine-war-so-goes-international-order-2022-4"> April 2022</a></p></li><li><p>“If we lose in Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West." - <strong>Mateusz Morawiecki</strong>, Poland’s Prime Minister in a TV address, April 2023.</p></li><li><p>“If Ukraine loses, world order will be established by our enemies” - former NATO Secretary General (1999-2003) and member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament <strong>George Robertson</strong> in The Telegraph, Jan. 2024</p></li><li><p>"If Ukraine falls it would be a catastrophe for the West, it would be the end of Western hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves." - <strong>Boris Johnson</strong>, in <a href="https://twitter.com/RothLindberg/status/1780869826002448425">a short video message</a>, April 2024</p></li></ul><p>It is unlikely that the empire's vested interests will quietly accept this "catastrophe." This is why they are escalating provocations against Russia, desperately hoping that the Russians will strike at a NATO member nation, creating the pretext to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty and unleash a unified response where the collective West would confront Russia in a whole-of-society effort and hopefully snatch a victory out of the jaws of defeat.</p><p>Sometimes provocations work and they trigger the intended response. An example was the attack on RMS Lusitania in 1915, and another the Pearl Harbour attack, which galvanized the unwilling Americans to join World War II. The most recent one was the crisis that precipitated the current Ukraine war.</p><h2>Create a helpful wave of national indignation!</h2><p>But there are circumstances when a galvanizing event must be orchestrated to detonate the greater conflict, and the list of known examples through history is very long. Here's just a few cases:</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Manchuria, or "Mukden" Incident. I</strong>n September 1931, Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track owned by a Japanese company, then blamed it on China in order to justify the invasion of Manchuria.</p></li><li><p><strong>Attack on Gleiwitz Radio station</strong> in September 1939: the Nazis shelled the station and accused Polish troops for the deed, giving Hitler the pretext to launch the invasion of Poland</p></li><li><p><strong>Shelling of Mainila</strong> in November 1939. Soviets shelled the Russian village of Mainila and blamed the Finns, triggering the USSR attack on Finland</p></li><li><p><strong>Operation Northwoods</strong> in March 1962. The operation was shut down by President <strong>Kennedy</strong>, but the US Joint Chiefs of Staff planned a campaign of terror against civilian targets in Miami in order to "create a helpful wave of national indignation” and lead to a US invasion of Cuba.</p></li><li><p><strong>Gulf of Tonkin Incident</strong> in August 1964. Two US destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin radioed that they had been targeted by the North Vietnamese forces, triggering US Congress to pass the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" and authorize President <strong>Johnson </strong>to go "all in" in Vietnam.</p></li><li><p><strong>"September 11"</strong> terror attacks in 2001. They helped the Bush 43 administration launch their excellent Global War on Terror and radically reduce civil liberties at home</p></li><li><p><strong>Ghouta Chemical attack</strong> in August 2013. Orchestrated by Western proxy force with the help of the British-led and ISIS-staffed White Helmets, a chemical attack on civilians in Ghouta was blamed on <strong>Bashar Al Assad</strong>'s forces. Had the charge stuck, it would have crossed the "red line" for U.S. and NATO intervention in Syria</p></li></ul><p>The examples are very numerous. A new false flag attack, aimed at triggering World War III against Russia wouldn't be unusual in the context of history. If the population is taken by surprise and the people genuinely believe the official narrative about the attacks, this does invariably create the "helpful waves of national indignation," allowing the country's leaders to wrap themselves in the flag, promise justice at whatever cost, and start moving the pieces irreversibly toward the desired military escalation.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>I believe that this is the reason why Western powers are encouraging Ukraine to strike into Russia with their missiles, even though there is almost nothing to be gained. Such escalation only makes them directly involved as belligerents in the conflict. This is why incredibly, the U.S. is suddenly discussing <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/22/report-us-and-european-officials-discussed-giving-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/">providing Ukraine with nuclear Weapons</a>. They may hope that Russia will respond impulsively, but they know that Vladimir Putin almost certainly won't take the bait. That's where the false flag comes in, probably in the shape of the detonation of a nuclear weapon in London.</p><p>I can't imagine how this could be done. There should be a very rigorous custody control chain with every warhead warehoused in any Western power. But if such weapons were given to Ukraine, that's where the custody chain would end. From there, nuclear devices could be free to roam and drift back into the Heart of Darkness to serve their false flag purposes, perhaps on special CIA or MI6 flights, or perhaps in ordinary shipping containers.</p><p>Suppose if such a device were detonated from a shipping container on a ship, a train or a truck, some Webcam might catch the event. But if all the Webcams were dark, the news – which will have their stories scripted beforehand – can report that it was a Russian missile, and it would be very unlikely that anybody could ever prove otherwise. If such images ever did surface, they'd almost certainly be few and they could be quickly traced and removed from circulation.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png" width="711" height="401" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":401,"width":711,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":428206,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">That time the actors read out their lines out of sequence, revealing that the news were scripted in advance of events.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Switching off all Webcams in London can’t be a random event. It requires an explanation. Mine is a guess, but if there's a different coherent explanation for why all of London's Webcams went dark in early September, I can't even begin to imagine it.</p><h2>It’s time to be brave…</h2><p>Today is Thanksgiving and it almost pains me to share these dark musings. For one thing, I could be wrong - that much is obvious. And then it's a downer – it’s nothing to be thankful for. But if I happen to be right... The one way false flag events can fail is if the public sees through them.</p><p>False flag planners must ambush the people and shock them from the clear blue skies. A spectacular event like 9/11 will have a powerful impact on people's emotions and in that moment they'll be susceptible to deceptive narratives. That "helpful wave of indignation" will materialize. But if the public is forewarned and expects that a false flag <em>might</em> take place, they might suspect that it was "an inside job," and the attack could blow back into the conspirators' faces. I have therefore decided to take risk of ruining my American readers' long weekend and to also risk embarrassing myself.</p><p>In the thick of the Covid 19 pandemic, <strong>Dr. Mike Yeadon</strong> - one of the true experts who saw through the hoax and did not fear to speak out about it, said that this is the time to be brave. He wasn't saying that we should go out and tackle police officers or charge against tanks with Molotov cocktails. He was talking about taking the risk of being wrong, of embarrassing oneself. It is easier and safer to be silent about all this.</p><p>But we really do need to be brave and speak out like our children's future depends on it. <strong>Alex Jones</strong> famously predicted the 9/11 terror attacks quite clearly on 25 July 2001, but back then, his warning seemed so utterly preposterous that few ventured to share Alex's bombshell. Such reticence is misplaced. If he was wrong, so what? If I'm wrong today, nothing happens. If I'm right however, this information could change history.</p><h2>Happy Thanksgiving</h2><p>I'm not an American citizen, but my children are, so I'll allow myself to do the American thing today and express my profound gratitude for all the subscribers who read these reports. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. 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<p>In this latest discussion with poet D.B. Jonas, we explore poetics, craft, the mystery of art and works from his first collection, <em>Tarantula Season and Other Poems.</em></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DB Jonas</strong> is an orchardist living in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico. His work has appeared widely in journals throughout the US, UK, Europe and Israel. His first collection is titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tarantula-Season-Other-Poems-Jonas/dp/B0CN3WKPRZ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6wLHhvLH9jnyYYLGK-16rgCHvPvpCqkEwBan2sIlmUmcCiD3rML_5Ser2r-3_1nCimt9fkAOOKerDP2a-q2nHg.bLzH93b_yWUmA50sczpSFKu9GHFccTo0DvzJTKpMyXI&amp;qid=1712761410&amp;sr=1-1">Tarantula Season and Other Poems</a>.</em></p><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"0be1277e-11fb-4095-b0a8-47fe62357d4e","caption":"Featured in our New Lyre Winter 2024 issue. All paid subscribers get instance access to all New Lyre online content and archives. 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title: Tish Talks with Matt Ehret : Unravelling the Iran enigma and roots of Russian's war with Ukraine
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/kosjcXmoMFY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Tish Talks with Matt Ehret : Unravelling the Iran enigma and roots of Russian's war with Ukraine"></p>November 23, 2024<br>**********************************************<br>You can find more about Tish’s work at:<br>Thrive With Tish: https://www.tishconlin.com/<br>Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/GkrHrvSpkU11/<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/ThriveWithTish<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs series here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kosjcXmoMFY

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title: Peace Roundtable 7: Introducing The Academy for International Cooperation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/z9idbvfzdFA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Peace Roundtable 7: Introducing The Academy for International Cooperation"></p>In this 7th Peace Roundtable, Dr. Edward Lozansky, Dr. John Hipsley and Matt Ehret showcase the new Academy for International Cooperation, which will serve as a sub-project of the Rising Tide Foundation and will provide geopolitical insights into projects needed to bring about a healthy new paradigm for humanity. <br><br>Listen to Ed Lozansky’s recent interview with Todd Wood, who runs the US-Russia Cross Talk in the Washington Times: Euro Bytes-Ed Lozansky Direct From Moscow-Founder, President Of American University In Moscow-WWIII?<br>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/video/2024/11/23/live-sunday-1pm-est-euro-bytes-ed-lozansky-direct-from-moscow-founder-president-of-american-university-in-moscow-wwiii/<br><br>Other articles from Ed Lozansky can be found here:<br>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/5/how-about-highway-linking-new-york-and-london/<br><br>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/20/biden-lust-war-russia-ukraine-debacle/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9idbvfzdFA

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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/a-song-for-the-holidays
title: A Song for the Holidays
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<p>Note from Anton Chaitkin:</p><p>A family Thanksgiving has given me a short respite from my race to finish production of Volume Two of <em>Who We Are</em>. Target date for publishing is Christmas.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Anton’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>In place of history this week, I have …</p>
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title: Matt Ehret address to UAE Verona Summit: Hopes for a New Paradigm
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/RDMTVGdrv9E" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Matt Ehret address to UAE Verona Summit: Hopes for a New Paradigm"></p>In this short address to the 17th Verona Eurasian Economic Forum held in the UAE from Dec 5-6, 2024, Matt Ehret delivers his considerations for the world and hopes for an age of cooperation.<br><br>Learn more about the Verona Summit here: https://forumverona.com/ru/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDMTVGdrv9E

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guid: https://odysee.com/breaking-history-ep-73-the-syrian:c20d077820a249af70712959149a536888b4bdd7
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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Breaking History Ep 73: The Syrian Conflict – Secrets, Oil, and Power Plays (W/ Col. Towner-Watkins)

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/8E3Yzq6zMQE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Breaking History Ep 73: The Syrian Conflict – Secrets, Oil, and Power Plays (W/ Col. Towner-Watkins)"></p>November 27, 2024<br><br>In Episode #73 of Breaking History, host Gordon is joined by Colonel Towner Watkins for a deep dive into the complex history of Syria and its geopolitical significance. From CIA-backed coups to the $2 trillion push to overthrow Assad, this episode uncovers the hidden dynamics behind one of the most contested regions in the Middle East. Explore the roles of global powers, the significance of natural gas pipelines, and the interplay between historical and modern-day strategies of tension. Packed with insightful analysis and lesser-known facts, this episode is essential for anyone seeking to understand the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Tune in and discover how history shapes the present!<br><br>Watch Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET<br>Episode Archives are located at: https://rumble.com/playlists/UGjyoorl4Q8<br><br>**********************************************<br>Gordon’s Twitter (X) handle is: <br> https://twitter.com/GhostofBPH<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can visit the Colonel’s Corner at:<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-4232602<br>https://substack.com/profile/42258058-the-colonels-corner<br>https://twitter.com/ColonelTowner<br>https://truthsocial.com/ColonelWatkins<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 1 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 2 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2024/02/27/episode-2-of-the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-has-been-unleashed-h-g-wells-war-of-the-worlds-and-the-dawn-of-a-new-age/<br><br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3Yzq6zMQE

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guid: https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-32-enchanting-forms
title: New Lyre Podcast #32: Enchanting Forms with Poet Sarah Ashbach
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>In this latest episode, we talk with the 2024 Frost Farm Poetry Prize winner, Sarah Ashbach. From poetry’s religious enchantment and the gnostic, occult elements in modern verse to teaching poetry to high school students, join us for an enchanting journey with the young and talented Mrs. Ashbach.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Read Sarah’s poem “In the Time of the Latter Rain” below.</p></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"4bf2f099-0a7e-4443-b421-a7ef40feb11f","caption":"Black cows lounge on the hills and gaze toward dusk;","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"In the Time of the Latter Rain","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-12-08T01:31:13.397Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F88e892e3-027d-4716-a493-d5b9ff6748a5_1175x703.jpeg","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/in-the-time-of-the-latter-rain","section_name":null,"id":152776416,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":0,"comment_count":1,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"9cfff6ec-fdf3-4fbf-b7ac-cb9d267265dc","caption":"Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Our Fall Magazine Is Published!","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-10-16T21:48:50.444Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec8d2a8-38ef-480d-81e4-a5e05d9e6e78_702x915.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/our-fall-magazine-is-published","section_name":null,"id":150038311,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":6,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"b0f387b6-ef1c-4664-a22d-d882fd208a40","caption":"Modernism often produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. 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title: To Regain Self-Government, Make America Intelligent Again
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<h2>To Regain Self-Government, Make America Intelligent Again</h2><p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p><p>Assume that the President-elect survives to his inauguration on January 20.</p><p>Assume, further, that war has not been so escalated as to render the incoming President powerless to interfere.</p><p>Then the administration’s urgent mission will be to restore Constitut…</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/6JKYqlAs8CI" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="A Critique on Adam Smith, and Trump's Tariffs from a LaRouche Perspective"></p>In this Economics of Well Being Podcast, Matt chats with Mark Anielski about Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, the pros and cons of Trump's call for protective tariffs, and the science of physical economy as it was understood by the late Lyndon LaRouche.<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs series here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JKYqlAs8CI

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title: Dialogue with Dana Gioia: Being an Artist in a Confused Age
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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e01a0b-1106-4540-a267-6779c2d8fc8e_699x529.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e01a0b-1106-4540-a267-6779c2d8fc8e_699x529.jpeg" width="724" height="547.9198855507868" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e2e01a0b-1106-4540-a267-6779c2d8fc8e_699x529.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":529,"width":699,"resizeWidth":724,"bytes":94639,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In this latest episode, we explore the question of being an artist in a confused age with critic, translator, former Poet Laureate of California and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Dana Gioia. From Plato to pop songs, Greek theatre to Italian opera, and archaic magic to modern enchantment, we cover a wide range of subjects.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://poets.org/poet/dana-gioia">Dana Gioia</a></strong> was born in Hawthorne, California, on December 24, 1950. He received a BA from Stanford University. Before returning to Stanford to earn an MBA, he completed an MA in comparative literature at Harvard University, where he studied with the poets <a href="https://poets.org/poetsorg/poet/elizabeth-bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a> and <a href="https://poets.org/poet/robert-fitzgerald">Robert Fitzgerald</a>. In 1977, Gioia moved to New York to begin a career in business. For fifteen years Gioia worked as a businessman, eventually becoming a vice president of General Foods. In 1992, after publishing his first book of poetry, Daily Horoscope (Graywolf Press), in 1986, he left business to become a full-time writer.</em></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/dialogue-with-dana-gioia-being-an?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/dialogue-with-dana-gioia-being-an?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Check out Dana’s latest book, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Poetry-as-Enchantment-Other-Essays/dp/1589881958">Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays</a></em>, along with some of his other classics below.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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title: Syria: will it prove to be the empire's final quagmire?
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<p>On Sunday morning we woke up to the most surreal news: the regime of <strong>Bashar al-Assad</strong> in Syria is no more. From the day the new-and-improved Jabhat al-Nusra, now renamed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched their attack on Syria (Wednesday, 27 November at 7:50 AM) to Sunday, 8 December 2024, only 11 days' time. In those 11 days,  Damascus fell and president Assad fled to Russia. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) offered next to no resistance and HTS drove straight through Syria almost unopposed. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10334914-f502-4acf-8299-76c13def77f7_2115x1177.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10334914-f502-4acf-8299-76c13def77f7_2115x1177.png" width="1456" height="810" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/10334914-f502-4acf-8299-76c13def77f7_2115x1177.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":810,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3420611,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">West’s moderate head choppers in action</figcaption></figure></div><p>All of a sudden and seemingly out of nowhere, the already strategically defeated Western empire suddenly scored a brilliant victory and everything changed. The media and social networks are chock-full of stories about how this happened and explanations of why it happened this way. Supposedly Syria was too week, its troops too poorly paid, its leadership too corrupt to withstand the onslaught from Idlib.</p><p>The same Syria and its army under the same Bashar Al-Assad fought a concerted attack by Al Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra, Khorasan and other moderate head choppers supported by Turkey, US, UK and the whole Arab league.  They resisted for four long years, from 2011 until 2015, when Russia finally came to their rescue. The same Bashar al-Assad refused to flee Damascus back then. Since 2016, Syria had 8 full years to regroup, rearm and reinforce their defenses against the incursion which was fully expected.</p><h2>Syria folded with a stronger hand</h2><p>Not only that, in those past 8 years the circumstances changed quite substantially: until last Sunday, Syria was facing a much weaker West, a fractured Arab street (the Arab League, with the exception of Qatar was at least overtly supportive of the Assad regime). In 2011, Russia and Iran had a cold-to-hostile relationship but today they are in a close alliance and both were fully supportive of Syria. Furthermore, Iran and Saudi Arabia are no longer enemies and Iran has largely consolidated its dominance in the region. </p><p>The insurgency brewing under Turkish protection in Idlib wasn't a secret either. Iranian intelligence warned Assad and Syrian leadership months in advance that an attack was being prepared. HTS's leader <strong>Mohammad al-Golani</strong> made no secret that HTS's objective was not only Aleppo but Damascus itself. According to US reports, HTS &amp; friends have been attacking Syrian positions almost constantly since 2022 and SAA had heavily fortified positions capable of containing attacks from Idlib towards Aleppo. But when the attack came, they offered almost no resistance.</p><p>Keep in mind, the jihadi forces from Idlib counted between 20,000 and 30,000 troops. Syrian army counted nearly 270,000 troops. An invading force would have to outnumber the defending forces by a factor of 3:1 to overcome their resistance. As it was, the defenders outnumbered the attackers almost 10:1, were well equipped and well armed in fortified positions. This is the reason why the Israeli intelligence thought that Idlib incursion was a suicide mission.  SAA's best forces were concentrated in Hama, but when HTS attacked, Hama fell without a fight. </p><h2>Four beers to die defending your country</h2><p>Why did all of Syria fall without a fight? I suspect that many of the knee-jerk explanations circulating at present will prove wrong. The stories about poorly paid soldiers and corrupt commanders make as much sense as office fires bringing down steel frame towers. This simply can’t happen that way. </p><p>I served in the army during war and I remember that my salary was good to pay four beers out in the city. Regardless, I don’t recall a single conversation about whether our pay was enough for us to obey our orders. How and why the Syrian army vanished in 11 days’ time requires a better explanation. Either way, if I were sitting on the (currently) winning side, I'd be very worried by now: the only place you walk into this easily is a trap.</p><h2>The big picture: Syria and Ukraine are two parts of the same war</h2><p>Time will tell, but here are a few dots that might make coherent sense if connected. First off, the conflict in Syria is part of the same conflict that's also being fought in Ukraine. On 29 November in Astana (two days after HTS launched their incursion into Syria), <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> said the following with regards to war/peace in Ukraine:</p><blockquote><p>"Let me underscore the key point - the essence of our proposal is not a temporary truce or ceasefire, as the West might prefer, to allow the Kiev regime to recover, rearm, and prepare for a new offensive. I repeat: we are not discussing freezing the conflict, but its definitive resolution."</p></blockquote><p>And what is Putin's definitive resolution? It's nothing less than the creation of a new security architecture between the "heartland and the rimland" to use <strong>Halford Mackinder</strong>'s terminology. In other words, Putin is determined to end British geopolitics once and for all. The following section is an excerpt from my upcoming book about the conflict in Ukraine and I believe it is fully relevant to the recent events in Syria.</p><h2>Squashing British geopolitics</h2><p>Today’s wars are driven by the Western imperial oligarchy as they struggle to maintain their dominance and to impose their “rules-based” global order. The central element of their agenda is an overarching imperative to preserve their hegemony over the Eurasian landmass. This long-held obsession draws roots from the British Empire. It was explicitly articulated at the turn of the last century by the British scholar and statesman <strong>Sir Halford Mackinder</strong>.</p><p>Following an extensive study of world history and geography, in 1904 Mackinder published a seminal paper titled, “The Geographical Pivot of History” in which he argued that the Empire’s exclusive focus on sea power was misguided and that the destiny of the world would be shaped by land powers. Mackinder hypothesized that the long-term viability of states therefore critically depended on their space and location and concluded that optimum conditions of space and location were only to be found in the inner regions of Eurasia which he named the <em>Pivot Area</em>: a large expanse roughly encompassing Russia, the Caucasus region, Kazakhstan, Iran, and Afghanistan. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27b18cba-c718-4534-988f-37f6d4b80239_1260x786.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27b18cba-c718-4534-988f-37f6d4b80239_1260x786.png" width="1260" height="786" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/27b18cba-c718-4534-988f-37f6d4b80239_1260x786.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":786,"width":1260,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1032785,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In Mackinder’s framework, the Pivot Area is surrounded by the Inner or Marginal Crescent which includes Europe, Northern Africa, Asia Minor, the Arabian Peninsula, India, China and Japan, while the lands of the Outer, or Insular Crescent included the rest of the world. For Mackinder and the British imperial cabal, the Pivot Area was strategic because it was capable of emerging as an independently viable economic power that could spawn a powerful rival empire. </p><p>The introduction of Trans-Siberian railway in 1904, facilitating improvements in the region’s internal communications and transport which the railway made possible, was seen as a major catalyst of this development, as well as a cause of alarm for the imperial cabal in London. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1fc4ca7-578c-4395-9057-2b562fba8d25_1217x829.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1fc4ca7-578c-4395-9057-2b562fba8d25_1217x829.png" width="1217" height="829" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c1fc4ca7-578c-4395-9057-2b562fba8d25_1217x829.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":829,"width":1217,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1029328,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Russia was seen as the most likely nation to emerge as the pivot land power. Mackinder wrote as follows:</p><blockquote><p> “The spaces within the Russian empire and Mongolia are so vast, and their potentialities in population, wheat, cotton, fuel, and metals so incalculably great, that it is inevitable that a vast economic world, more or less apart, will develop inaccessible to oceanic commerce … In the world at large, [Russia] occupies the central strategical position held by Germany in Europe. She can strike on all sides, save the north. The full development of her modern railway mobility is merely a matter of time… The oversetting of the balance of power in favor of the <em>pivot </em>state, resulting in its expansion over the marginal lands of Euro-Asia, would permit of the use of vast continental resources for fleet-building, a<em>nd the empire of the world would then be in sight. This might happen if Germany were to ally herself with Russia.</em>”</p></blockquote><p>British Empire considered this to be an existential threat which had to be neutralized and destroyed. Mackinder proposed a solution to this challenge, which foreshadowed the century of British geopolitics:</p><blockquote><p>“The threat of such an event should, therefore, throw France into alliance with the over-sea powers, and France, Italy, Egypt, India and Korea would become so many <em>bridgeheads</em> where the outside navies would support armies to compel the pivot allies to deploy land forces and prevent them from concentrating their whole strength on fleets.”</p></blockquote><h2>Surrounding Russia with an arch of crises</h2><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63feaaae-e2fe-49b0-bb25-e10ff423b247_641x327.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F63feaaae-e2fe-49b0-bb25-e10ff423b247_641x327.png" width="641" height="327" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/63feaaae-e2fe-49b0-bb25-e10ff423b247_641x327.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":327,"width":641,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":172685,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">The empire’s arch of crises</figcaption></figure></div><p>In plain English, Mackinder suggested surrounding the Pivot Area with a crescent of crisis flashpoints and inducing nations like France, Italy, Egypt, India and Korea to bait the pivot power (Russia) into an unending series of exhausting, crippling quagmires. His suggestions were taken entirely seriously and have defined the foreign policy of the Western empire ever since. </p><p>Over the ensuing decades, the exact geography of the designated flashpoints shifted somewhat with the changing geopolitical opportunities and Mackinder’s language and ideas evolved. For example, in 1919 he published the paper, “Democratic Ideals and Reality,” in which he renamed the Pivot Area as “the Heartland,” and spelled out its significance: “<em>Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-island; who rules the World-island controls the world.</em>"</p><p>Today, Ukraine and Syria (and Israel) make part of the rimland, or the "arch of crises" which the empire arranged from the Mediterranean to the Koreas in order to keep Russia and its allied powers constantly at war. Weakening these pivot power and preventing the emergence of a rival empire on Eurasian continent is an absolute imperative for the Western oligarchy. They will pursue it even at the cost of nuclear war against Russia. </p><p>Taking this “big picture” context into account, from Russia’s point of view, it could make sense to draw the empire into its final quagmire in Syria. After all, this is how the West destroyed the Soviet Union in the 1980s: not through a frontal war, but by drawing the USSR into a quagmire in Afghanistan. It was a clever gambit, but not really rocket science. And it worked.</p><p>The brilliant victory the west is now busy celebrating might even sedate the panic in the ruling establishment, enough for them to draw their fingers away from nuclear triggers and to pile assets into Syria to secure and defend the unexpected prize. But if the past is prologue, they’ve only won a Pyrrhic victory and already lost the war. The track record of the West’s cunning plans and dirty tricks is very consistent and predictive.</p><h2>Of cunning plans and dirty tricks</h2><p>Western powers seem to revel in their duplicity and treachery. They long lost their moral compass if they ever had one. Supposedly they once did, in the good old days, but the more you know about events behind the headlines, they more you realize that the only thing that's changed since those good old days is that today we have a far more granular picture of events. Sanitized news and sanctimonious proclamations are no longer taken at face value quite as readily as they once were.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ad3376f-6e80-4af7-a407-7e14d4d7a3b9_480x208.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ad3376f-6e80-4af7-a407-7e14d4d7a3b9_480x208.jpeg" width="480" height="208" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ad3376f-6e80-4af7-a407-7e14d4d7a3b9_480x208.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":208,"width":480,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Many are now openly celebrating evil - because Putin bad, Iranians bad, Assad bad, etc. Syria fell, not to the forces of democracy and freedom, but to hastily scotched-up brigades of certified head-chopping jihadi terrorists - the same ones that have slaughtered Syria's Christians by their thousands between 2011 and 2015.</p><p> Before 2011, Syria was home to about 2 million Christians who lived there in peace; today there are only abpit 300,000 and most likely there will be none left before this year is out. And the jihadis are equal opportunity, inclusive head choppers: they harbor the same warm regards toward Shia Muslims, Alawites and the Jews. But hey, Assad fell so hooray, what a brilliant victory for our side!! So clever, so cunning, so triumphant!</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6c82f49-3276-474d-86f5-1a172d5a980f_1512x780.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6c82f49-3276-474d-86f5-1a172d5a980f_1512x780.png" width="1456" height="751" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a6c82f49-3276-474d-86f5-1a172d5a980f_1512x780.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":751,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2182973,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Freedom and democracy under moderate head-choppers: so much to celebrate!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Incidentally, HTS - the new &amp; improved Al Nusra front - has been on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations since 2018. The organization's leader <strong>al-Jolani</strong> has been on the list of wanted terrorists since 2013 and still to this day has a $10 million bounty on his head. Now all of a sudden they're all jolly good fellows, and so say all of us!</p><h2>Mind the long-term trends!</h2><p>But even if our moral compass is irreparably broken, at least some vestige of practical common sense and a sensitivity to historical patterns should survive in sober minds. The U.S. once triumphantly entered Kabul, deposed the terrible, horrible, no good Taliban regime and took Afghanistan from them. Twenty years and $4 trillion later the invincible hegemon had to withdraw from there and surrender Afghanistan to the same terrible Taliban again. </p><p>In 2003 the U.S. triumphantly walked into Baghdad. Two decades later, U.S. troops are holed up in their bases like sitting ducks at the mercy of Iran and its proxies. Capturing and executing <strong>Saddam Hussein</strong> was also celebrated as some great milestone in the democratic transformation of the Middle East. In effect, the great hegemon handed Iraq over to the Iranians. Then in 2013 we celebrated the fall of the terrible, horrible, no good madman <strong>Ghaddafi </strong>in Libya. Yet another brilliant triumph of Western forces of democracy and freedom. Only, it blew back spectacularly.</p><p>Recall, one of the main sponsors of that project in addition to <strong>Lord David Cameron</strong> was French president <strong>Nicolas Sarkozy</strong>. Decapitating Libya was supposed to help secure French hegemony over her dependencies in north and west Africa. Today France barely has any dependencies there and now even Chad and Senegal are kicking them out. </p><p>And let’s not forget Ukraine! In February 2014 we overthrew Ukraine’s president Yanukovich, installed a proto-fascist junta, coerced them to launch the brutal Anti-Terror Operation against the Eastern oblasts and strung the Russians along with Minsk Agreements to gain time to weaponize the whole country for the coming war against Russia. So, so clever. So brilliantly cunning!</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd07551ae-c33d-4d76-b2d9-4ac4d92330c7_440x320.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd07551ae-c33d-4d76-b2d9-4ac4d92330c7_440x320.jpeg" width="440" height="320" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d07551ae-c33d-4d76-b2d9-4ac4d92330c7_440x320.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":320,"width":440,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Sadly, a good chunk of the western audiences have come to regard bad faith craftiness, double-dealing and dirty tricks that score these short-term Pyrrhic victories as evidence of great strategic sophistication among the Western foreign policy establishments' ruling circles. Every uptick in geopolitics triggers loud cheering, trash talking and chest thumping while the long-term trendline is being conveniently ignored. </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/syria-will-it-prove-to-be-the-empires?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thank you for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/syria-will-it-prove-to-be-the-empires?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/syria-will-it-prove-to-be-the-empires?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>The long descent from our unipolar moment</h2><p>So, what does that long-term trendline look like? Let's remember that in 1993 - more than 30 years ago - the U.S. adopted the Wolfowitz Doctrine named after its brilliant author, <strong>Paul Wolfowitz</strong>. The Doctrine was meant to enshrine and cement Western empire's unipolar moment, secure its "full spectrum dominance" and prevent any rival from emerging. It also inspired the "Project For the New American Century," (PNAC) which put forth essentially the same geopolitical objective: total dominance.</p><p>In 2004, another one of PNAC's brilliant alumni, <strong>Michael Ledeen</strong> suggested that, </p><blockquote><p>"every now and again the United States has to pick up a crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to prove we are serious." </p></blockquote><p>Lovely, but how'd that unipolar moment work out over the last 30 years? For all the crafty cunning, double dealing and dirty tricks, for all the cheating on NATO expansion, regime changes, Minsk Agreement deception, for all the invincibility of the finest fighting force in the history of the universe, and all the blinding brilliance of the West's strategic leadership, things didn't seem to work out all that good.</p><p>The unipolar moment is no more and Western powers have devolved to relying on certified terrorists to help them achieve their short-term Pyrrhic victories. Even while the loud cheering is still echoing, there is no reason to believe that the misadventure in Syria will be worth celebrating any more than Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Ukraine are. Sadly, rivers of blood will be spilled, all for opposite outcomes and unintended consequences.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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Further information is at <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">link</a>.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09620c78-0881-42bb-8486-6af53ecdcc73_1027x553.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09620c78-0881-42bb-8486-6af53ecdcc73_1027x553.png" width="1027" height="553" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09620c78-0881-42bb-8486-6af53ecdcc73_1027x553.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":553,"width":1027,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1140235,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/glHb_6-Azkg" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Peace Roundtable #8: The World in Review f. Harley Schlanger, Alex Krainer and Larry Johnson"></p>Dr. Edward Lozansky and Matt Ehret host The Academy for International Cooperation's Peace Roundtable #8 featuring critical insights on the nature of the existential crises facing humanity as we end 2024 and both the dangers and opportunities going into 2025.<br><br>Special guests include: Harley Schlanger (representative of The Schiller Institute), Alex Krainer (Founder, Trend Compass) and Larry Johnson (former CIA Analyst and member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity).<br><br>Here's Cynthia's study with links to the original text by Schiller https://cynthiachung.substack.com/cp/152052946<br><br>An introduction to the Verona Eurasian Forum can be found here:<br>https://pluralia.forumverona.com/en/a/verona-eurasian-economic-forum-freedom-of-expression-tolerance-mutual-respect/<br><br>Visit Pluralia here: https://pluralia.forumverona.com/en/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glHb_6-Azkg

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<h1>Harding Fights for the Constitution</h1><p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p><p>It is time to revive the name and vindicate the memory of Warren G. Harding, the Republican President of the United States, 1921-1923.</p><p>Harding fought for his country and for civilization. He died fighting for national sovereignty, for improved living standards, and for peace.</p><p>He…</p>
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<p>The ongoing decline of Germany is gradually reversing one of the world's most remarkable economic success stories. The standard explanations of this sad development usually include criticism of the incompetent government, pursuit of net zero policies and sustaining collateral damage in the empire's war against Russia. All these explanations contain an element of truth, but what's usually missing from such discussions are the secrets of Germany's success.</p><p>Up until about ten years ago, Germany was the world's No. 1 exporting superpower. But contrary to what one might assume, most of Germany's exports were not products of known and recognized brands like Bosch, Mercedes or BMW. More than 50% of German exports were products and services developed by her (once) burgeoning small and medium-sized enterprises, most of them companies you may have never heard of. But such businesses were the engine of German industrial dynamism.</p><h2>Home of the hidden champions</h2><p>In a YouTube video titled, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FT-zyTX2nE&amp;pp=ygUnY29udmVyc2F0aW9ucyB3aXRoIHByb2YuIHJpY2hhcmQgd2VybmVy">Conversation with Professor </a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FT-zyTX2nE&amp;pp=ygUnY29udmVyc2F0aW9ucyB3aXRoIHByb2YuIHJpY2hhcmQgd2VybmVy">Richard Werner</a></strong>," Dr. Werner explains the phenomenon. Germany was the home base of the world's largest number of hidden "champions" - market leaders that occupied either first, second or third spot in terms of the global market share of whatever product or service they produced. Some 1,500 German firms qualified as market champions. </p><p>For perspective, the distant second in terms of number of market champions was the U.S.A. which has about 300 such companies. So, how did Germany create fully 1,500 market champions? We always heard stories about the excellence of German engineering and the well educated and disciplined workforce, etc. But those are children's tales that miss the mark and explain nothing.</p><h2>Banking as a public utility</h2><p>Rather, as Werner explained it, the secret of Germany's success, which has had a 200-year continuity in spite of suffering through biblical crises over this period, is in her banking system which Werner said was the best in the world. American economist Michael Hudson also wrote extensively about German industrial banking. Germany had the largest number of banks in Europe: about 1,500 small, local banks. </p><p>Fully 70% of these banks were non-profit community banking institutions. Their core business was funding local small and medium-sized enterprises. They tended to have close relationships with their clients and actively participated in their business development, helping them fund and organize their operations and finances, break into new markets and network with other, similar businesses. It was not uncommon in Germany for local banking institutions to extend 100-year loans to their clients.</p><h2>The magic is us (+ credit)</h2><p>I think I’m not alone when I say that I must have witnessed dozens, perhaps hundreds of enthusiastic conversations among friends about this or that business idea – something that would make sense and be successful; something they knew they could do if they had the money to get it off the ground… Sadly, all too often that entrepreneurial spark is extinguished for the lack of funding.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13c05542-b49d-41f3-9188-109c44a3a084_2575x1189.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13c05542-b49d-41f3-9188-109c44a3a084_2575x1189.png" width="1456" height="672" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13c05542-b49d-41f3-9188-109c44a3a084_2575x1189.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":672,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":6485950,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But with ample credit at favorable terms, family businesses could develop their products and services and find markets for them. The family's second and third generations, educated with advanced degrees in engineering, design, chemistry or biotechnology could refine and perfect the company's offerings and thus gain a competitive advantage over their worldwide rivals who did not benefit from such a fertile and beneficial environment and could not confidently make long-term commitments to the development of their business. </p><p>Ultimately, creating a favorable environment for the development of small banking institutions and incentivizing them to provide long-term funding for the development of SMEs in their own regions is what policy makers could and should do to kick-start the engine of economic development. It amounts to simply empowering the individuals with the <em>will to do and a soul to dare</em> with the support they need to get started.</p><p>This is actually a fairly well understood concept and should be pursued by any sovereign democracy. This principle is consistent across the world. In a 2019 article, <strong>Eric Peters</strong> of One River Asset Management recounted a discussion with a Japanese colleague and a former central banker. He said that, “The dynamism in Japan’s economy is not to be found in the conglomerates. To find the really interesting companies you must look at the small and mid-sized firms that supply the large players – they’re the ones where you find the creativity, the risk takers, the innovators.”</p><p>The world over, based on the data from some 70 different nations, it emerges that SMEs are the main job creators: up to 80% of all jobs are created by SMEs. They also create the right kind of economic dynamism because, unlike large systems, SMEs create the needed, productive jobs and foster efficiency, innovation and competitive advantage. Collectively, they generate a nation's wealth. By contrast, the large, zombified corporations tend to generate state dependency, kill innovation and dynamism and create what <strong>David Graeber</strong> called, "bullshit jobs." </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15c8d878-62fc-4551-8c12-d55c9f72c9bb_960x587.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15c8d878-62fc-4551-8c12-d55c9f72c9bb_960x587.jpeg" width="960" height="587" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/15c8d878-62fc-4551-8c12-d55c9f72c9bb_960x587.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":587,"width":960,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Picture background","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Picture background" title="Picture background" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Having a large number of successful SMEs also gives an economy a certain resilience through economic or financial crises: even in tough times, commitment at family owned SMEs remains high, downsizing limited and cohesion strong. Family-owned SMEs don't slave to quarterly earnings statements and they won't move their operations to another nation as readily as large corporations will. Regional rootedness of SMEs also creates the local wealth effect. </p><p>Their owners and workers tend to have roots in their own communities; they eat food and drink water locally; travel on local roads, send their children to local schools, sports clubs and cultural centers, use local doctors and local dentists and frequent local social events. This all fortifies a community spirit and the commitment to creating safe and beautiful living spaces and continuously improving the life of that community</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff09f93e4-6721-44ef-960f-96dd546aa6df_2143x1225.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff09f93e4-6721-44ef-960f-96dd546aa6df_2143x1225.png" width="1456" height="832" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f09f93e4-6721-44ef-960f-96dd546aa6df_2143x1225.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":832,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":6489979,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Why shouldn’t everywhere we live be beautiful?</figcaption></figure></div><p>This could have a real and durable effect, as opposed to hollow corporate virtue signalling for PR-purposes while every other consideration is subordinated to the tyranny of quarterly income statements (and therefore not a penny can be spent on anything that could reduce the corporation's profits and clip its share price).</p><p>Given that we actually know all this (not that it is being widely discussed), and that we know that our developed economies are phenomenally productive, it becomes harder to explain why Germany should now be in an economic decline. Indeed, why should any nation be in economic decline? The answers point to the global economic predator class, the moneylending oligarchy controlling the GSIBs, or Global Systemically Important Banks. </p><h2>Sovietization of Europe’s banking industry</h2><p>In the case of Germany, beyond the current government's misadventure with Project Ukraine and their commitment to Global Goals and net zero policies, the foundations of German economic success have been under a deliberate and sustained attack by the European Central Bank which has been on a mission of consolidating the banking industry and destroying small local and regional banks. </p><p>Across the EU, the ECB has thus far culled some 6,000 small banks, in many cases depriving Europe's SME's of their financial lifeline. We might also ask why the IMF's structural adjustments consistently move their client economies farther away from sustainable economic development and prosperity.</p><p>These are not accidents of incompetent leadership. The principles I summarized above are well understood by top level policy makers - or they should be. What we are experiencing is a deliberate demolition of Germany’s and Europe's economy. Our next question should be, why? To what end? Unfortunately, because they won't tell us, we have to try to deduct an explanation ourselves. The conversation continues…</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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For anyone inclined to explore further or contribute to this project, please see below:</p><p><a href="https://elephantrees.com/">Project Overview</a><br><a href="https://elephantrees.com/investors.pdf">Investor Proposal</a></p><p>The project is supported by a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, offering U.S. contributors tax-deductible options. For PayPal or wire transfer details, contact Roman directly.</p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. One-month test drive is always free of charge, <strong>no jumping through hoops to cancel</strong>. To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p><blockquote><h4>NEW: Check out <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/">TrendCompass on Substack</a>!</h4></blockquote><p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. 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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/eYLdrc1ldUc" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="A Republic If You Can Keep It   Or Phoenix It  w/Cynthia and Courtenay Turner"></p>Cynthia Chung joins Courtenay Turner to discuss her new film Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America <br><br>Watch the full film<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EamfkiBTc<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYLdrc1ldUc

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title: Matt on Inforwars: Revenge of the Mystery Cult Special
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/_Dc3aiLs38g" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Matt on Inforwars: Revenge of the Mystery Cult Special"></p>In this episode of American Journal on Infowars, Host Harrison Smith talks to Matt about his new book series 'Revenge of the Mystery Cults' and the connection between ancient mystery religions of ancient times, to gnosticism, Templars, Assassins, Edgar Poe, Jack the Ripper and today's Greater Israel geopolitical mess<br><br>Purchase Revenge of the Mystery Cults here <br>https://canadianpatriot.org/purchase-revenge-of-the-mystery-cults-vol-1-3/<br><br>Follow Harrison's show on Infowars here<br>https://theinfowar.tv/channel/the-american-journal<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs series here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dc3aiLs38g

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title: Davos Billionaires Want to Save the Planet… Why Don’t Developing Countries Trust Them?
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<h2>By Matthew Ehret</h2><p>A miracle appears to be happening, as the multibillionaires of the World Economic Forum (WEF) appear to have grown consciences.</p><p>As if by magic, it appears that these gold collar elites no longer yearn for profit and power as they once had. As COP26 closes up its 12 day annual ceremonies, leading WEF-connected figures like Prince Charles, Jeff Bezos, Mario Draghi, Mark Carney and Klaus Schwab have announced a new system of economics that is based on virtue over profit!</p><p>According to the COP26 website, <em>“95 high profile companies from a range of sectors commit to being ‘Nature Positive,’ agreeing to work towards halting and reversing the decline of nature by 2030.”</em></p><p>Prince Charles has boasted that he has coordinated 300 companies representing over $60 trillion to get on board with a global green transition, and after <a href="https://www.hola.com/us/royals/20211103306098/prince-william-prince-charles-meet-jeff-bezos-scotland/">meeting with the Prince on November 2</a>, Jeff Bezos announced his new $2 billion Earth Fund to protect nature’s ecosystems with a focus on Africa. Even Mario Draghi has joined Mark Carney on this new green path, as both men have moved beyond their old Goldman Sachs money worshipping days and embraced a better destiny. </p><p>The Prince himself (who also happens to be the nominal <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8384549/Prince-Charles-launches-Great-Reset-project-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.html">creator of the Great Reset Agenda launched</a> in 2020), spoke as an enlightened statesman saying to the world’s leaders <em>“as the enormity of the climate challenge dominates peoples’ conversations, from news rooms to living rooms, and as the future of humanity and Nature herself are at stake, it is surely time to set aside our differences and grasp this unique opportunity to launch a substantial green recovery by putting the global economy on a confident, sustainable trajectory and, thus, save our planet.”</em></p><p>Among the new array of financial mechanisms which we see being brought online in this war against humanity involve Bezos’ new Earth Fund, and Sir Robert Watson’s Living Planet Index (unveiled in 2018 at the World Economic Forum) and the new Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG) which seeks to turn global ecosystems worth an estimated $4 quadrillion into financial equity controllable by new private corporations (dubbed “natural asset companies”).</p><p><a href="https://www.intrinsicexchange.com/">On its website</a>, the IEG stated: <em>“In partnership with the New York Stock Exchange, IEG is providing a word-class platform to list these companies for trading, enabling the conversion of natural assets into financial capital. The NAC’s equity captures the intrinsic and productive value of nature and provides a store of value based on the vital assets that underpin our entire economy and make life on earth possible… In 2021, we began seeking regulatory approval to bring the first natural asset transactions to the capital markets. Our vision is to bring to market hundreds of Natural Asset Companies representing several trillion dollars’ worth of natural assets.”</em></p><p>These new companies will become the stewards of new protected zones across the globe which the UN demands encapsulate 30% of the earth’s surface by 2030 and much more by 2050.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc82d3e0d-4161-4de4-b311-cab1fa1649e9_1200x756.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc82d3e0d-4161-4de4-b311-cab1fa1649e9_1200x756.jpeg" width="1200" height="756" data-attrs='{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c82d3e0d-4161-4de4-b311-cab1fa1649e9_1200x756.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":756,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Is this time to rejoice, or is something darker at play?</p><p>To answer this question it is worth asking: Does this new virtue-driven order have anything to do with lifting people out of poverty or ending economic injustice?</p><p>Sadly, it is designed to do very much the opposite.</p><p>As we are coming to see, and as statesmen around the world are beginning to point out, this new order has more in common with oligarchical obsessions with controlling human cattle, and less to do with actually preserving the environment. The thousands of tons of CO2 <a href="https://thebiblefiles.com/2021/11/02/bezos-and-prince-charles-fly-in-private-jets-to-meet-for-a-cup-of-tea-and-complain-about-you-emitting-too-much-co2/">emitted by private jets</a> at Davos and COP26 represents on small aspect of this disingenuity.</p><h3><strong>Obrador Calls out the Rigged Game</strong></h3><p>On October 30, 2021 Mexico’s Former President Lopez Obrador called out this new virulent form of colonialism while presiding over a ceremony in celebration of the ongoing construction of the $6.7 billion high-speed Maya Train now being built in the southern regions of Mexico. </p><p>The project which would dramatically uplift living standards in Mexico by driving the growth of industrial and infrastructure production has fallen far behind schedule due in large part <a href="https://www.macaubusiness.com/court-halts-mexicos-maya-train-over-indigenous-health-rights/">to vast legal battles</a> led by indigenous groups who have been used as proxies by foreign interests to defend Mexico’s ecosystems. In many of the legal cases opposing the project, the argument has made that since several species of insect, fauna and even some leopards will be affected by the new railways, then the project must be ground to a halt and buried.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1e64776-a082-4a6b-9e57-779b03907031_1127x848.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1e64776-a082-4a6b-9e57-779b03907031_1127x848.jpeg" width="1127" height="848" data-attrs='{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1e64776-a082-4a6b-9e57-779b03907031_1127x848.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":848,"width":1127,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In his remarks to a journalist inquiring into the rail project, Obrador <a href="https://www.arout.net/feminism-environmentalism-and-animal-protection-were-created-by-neoliberals-to-hide-looting-amlo/">said</a>:</p><p><em>“One of the things which they [the neoliberals] promoted in the world, in order to loot at ease, was the creation or promotion of the so-called new rights. So, feminism, ecologism, the defense of human rights, the protection of animals was much promoted, including by them. All these causes are very noble, but the intent was to create or boost all these new causes so that we don’t remedy—so that we don’t turn around and see that they were looting the world, so the subject of economic and social inequality would be kept out of the center of debate….The international agencies which supported the neoliberal model, which is a model of pillage where corporations grab national property, the property of the people—these same corporations financed, and continue to finance, environmentalist groups, defenders of ‘liberty.’ ”</em></p><p>Many people have been confused over these remarks since they cannot conceptualize how neoliberal monetarists that have parasitically driven the new age of pillage under globalization would also support such ‘new rights’ groups outlined by Obrador.</p><p>For nations of the global south who feel resentment that their rights to support their people by having their lands and resources kept off limits, they are told not to worry, since streams of money will be showered upon them from on high. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of monopoly money will be sprayed onto the developing sector as rewards for remaining undeveloped. If that isn’t sufficient, then carbon exchange markets will be set up so that poor nations can sell their un-used carbon quotas to private polluting companies (perhaps the same companies controlling the African cobalt mines which seek a monopoly in controlling the renewable energy sector). That is another way they can make money which at least can keep them warm at night as kindling since the world’s poor will not have to worry about having nature-killing hydro electric dams mucking up their pristine environments.</p><p>As President Obrador has alluded to, today’s billionaire-funded conservation movement simply seeks to take earth’s ecosystems out of bounds of any human economic activity under a new global feudal system of controls.</p><p>Even the indigenous populations which such billionaires profess to admire as role models for global “good behavior” are being monetized by these new green indices, with monetary values being placed not only on keeping land and water untouched, but also the very cultural ecosystems of indigenous groups around the world receiving dollar values which wealthy green financiers will somehow be able to invest into. To the degree that such immutably fixed patterns of indigenous lifestyles remain unchanged by the toxic pollution of modern technology or infrastructure, the more these eco-assets will be worth for whomever professes to invest in them. This may not be scientific but it is sick.</p><p>The term ‘feudal’ is in no way used for hyperbolic purposes, as we can see a stark parallel to the 12th century Europe, except that today’s aspiring feudal lords manage such companies as Blackrock, Vanguard, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and State Street and seek to punish all serfs from infringing on properties which only the nobility may control. Blackrock alone manages over $9 trillion in assets and $21.6 trillion in technology platforms and along with Vanguard <a href="https://strangesounds.org/2021/07/blackrock-is-buying-up-us-homes-like-no-tomorrow-real-estate-market-housing.html">is fast becoming</a> one of the largest real estate owners in the USA with Bill Gates having recently become the largest owner of American farmland.</p><h3><strong>The Deeper Imperial Roots of Conservationism</strong></h3><p>With this vast imperial land grab in mind, one should not be surprised to discover that the modern conservation movement actually finds its origins not in Greenpeace activists fighting poachers as myth makers have cooked up, but rather in the bowels of the British Empire. It was this empire that innovated “nature conservation” regions in India during the late 19th century specifically to keep the poor of India under control after having destroyed India’s once powerful textile sector. The practice was applied across India during the greatest density of famines struck southern India in 1876 killing tens of millions. It was amidst this darkness that British Imperial overlords took the opportunity to create “The Imperial Forestry Department’ in 1876 putting two fifths of India’s lands under “protection” and off limits to humans. This ensured no starving subject could use the protected zones which they had relied upon for survival for decades for food, or water.</p><p>The Nazi embrace of both Anglo-American funded science of eugenics on the one side and the Reich’s embrace of nature conservationism were also not unconnected. Herman Goring, who served as Minister for German Forests believed in a poisonous worldview that held that: 1) nature is pure and thus good due to its pure unchanging natural order while 2) humanity is impure and thus un-natural due to our aspirations for progress. This dangerous equation resulted in seemingly innocent programs launched by the Fuhrer and Goring to cleans the German ecosystems of all foreign and thus un-natural fauna and flora in order to return the forests of Germany to their supposedly pure pre-industrial states. The worship of nature was an integral part of the new master race and the weeding out of impurities extended itself to human genetics following racial theories advanced by British eugenicists and anthropologists.</p><h3><strong>Julian Huxley’s New Eugenics Revolution</strong></h3><p>Upon Hitler’s defeat, the repackaging of eugenics took the form of British Eugenics Society Vice President Julian Huxley’s outline in the founding Manifesto for UNESCO <a href="https://ia801704.us.archive.org/25/items/huxley-unesco-its-purpose-and-philosophy/huxley%20unesco%20its%20purpose%20and%20philosophy.pdf">where he said</a>:</p><p><em>“At the moment, it is probable that the indirect effect of civilization is dysgenic instead of eugenic, and in any case it seems likely that the dead weight of genetic stupidity, physical weakness, mental instability and disease proneness, which already exist in the human species will prove too great a burden for real progress to be achieved. Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”</em></p><p>Putting this new eugenics into practical action <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/05/24/how-the-unthinkable-became-thinkable-eric-lander-julian-huxley-and-the-awakening-of-sleeping-monsters/">took on many heads of a hydra</a> in the post WWII years. The particular hydra head most relevant to the thrust of this article took the form of another project Julian created in 1948 called the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) followed soon thereafter by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1961 which he co-founded alongside two misanthropic princes named Philip Mountbatten and Bernhardt of the Netherlands.</p><p>Between 1959 and 1962 Julian had risen to become president of the British Eugenics Society and had put the finishing gloss on a new field of scientific misanthropic theology which he dubbed ‘Transhumanism’ alongside a Jesuit collaborator <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/26/pierre-teilhard-de-chardins-transhumanism-and-the-cult-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/">named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.</a></p><p>If you haven’t guessed, Transhumanism was merely another form of re-packaged eugenics serving the spiritual needs of a new priesthood of elitist social engineers that would be expected to manage the gears of a new technocratic feudal machine. This neo-paganism is not intrinsically different from the cultish beliefs of the <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/thule-society">Nazi Thule society</a> of the past which gave spiritual direction to the members of Hitler’s government.</p><p>The neo-Malthusian revival that these eugenicists would spearhead through the end of the 1960s took the form of a new array of international <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/05/31/from-russell-and-hilbert-to-wiener-and-harari-the-disturbing-origins-of-cybernetics-and-transhumanism/">organizations which incorporated systems analysis, and cybernetics</a>, which aimed to control nation states and ecosystems alike. This took the form of the World Economic Forum’s early embrace of the Club of Rome’s computer models outlined by Aurelio Peccei (<a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/world-economic-forum-davos-at-50-history-a-timeline-of-highlights/">and incorporated into Schwab’s second official Davos meeting in 1973</a>). These new models aimed to impose fixed immutable limits to humanity’s growth potential beyond which no technology or scientific discovery could ever penetrate. The fact that these same multibillionaires managing the overhaul of the world economy as it transitioned into a neo-liberal looting operation were simultaneously funding the growth of this new array of “new rights” groups led by a growing armada of non-governmental organizations, ecology protection and human rights groups is not a coincidence.</p><p>Today’s involvement of both Julian Huxley’s WWF and IUCN (no renamed Conservation International) as partners with the Intrinsic Exchange Group should not make any honest lover of nature in any way comfortable.</p><p>Much more obviously remains to be said both about the history of conservationism, and how it is being used once again to conduct a new age of population control, or how it has been used to disrupt large scale infrastructure projects across the world for over 120 years, or how nature reserves across the global south have supported <a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/study-shows-colombian-guerrillas-were-guardians-of-the-forest">narco terrorist groups</a>.</p><p>However, for the time being, it is sufficient to note that the world’s developing sector is generally not going to accept being sacrificed on the altar of a new Gaia cult managed by a priesthood of Davos billionaires. </p><p>Based on the momentum we see being driven by the Greater Eurasian Partnership, the Belt and Road Initiative and ambitions from Latin American and African leaders to finally break free of centuries of imperial manipulation, it is becoming increasingly obvious that COP26’s utopic computer models are increasingly breaking down when confronted with the reality of humanity’s creative power to leap outside of the fixed rules of imperial games when a true crisis moves us into action.</p><p>The author delivered a presentation on this topic which <a href="https://youtu.be/HXAfP2-iyPU">can be viewed here.</a></p>

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<h2>By Paul &amp; Phillip Darrell Collins</h2><h2><strong>The Waking Dreams of Sci-fi “Prophets” and Sociopolitical Utopians</strong></h2><p>There is an interesting ideational nexus where sociopolitical Utopianism and the science fiction literary genre intersect. While science fiction has not always been taken seriously as a literary genre, it has acted as a repository for several of the ideas espoused by serious sociopolitical Utopians. The ideational relationship has been largely a reciprocal one where Utopian theoreticians influence sci-fi authors and vice versa. This ideational relationship is partially attributable to a shared spiritual heritage. Nowhere is this shared heritage more demonstrable than with Cecil Rhodes’ Anglophile network and the “prophets” of British science fiction.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0a288-4d82-44f9-b3f7-7b4a1d7a88c8_389x303.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3c0a288-4d82-44f9-b3f7-7b4a1d7a88c8_389x303.jpeg" width="389" height="303" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c3c0a288-4d82-44f9-b3f7-7b4a1d7a88c8_389x303.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":303,"width":389,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Cecil Rhodes</figcaption></figure></div><p>Both were deeply tinctured by a Gnostic cosmological resentment and autotheism. Dissatisfied by the established facts of reality, both inhabited dream worlds where their Utopian fictions reigned supreme. While the likes of Wells, Stapledon, and Clarke rendered this dream world as attainable with colorful prose, the Anglophile network invested its vast reservoirs of political, financial, and social capital in the tangible enactment of that world. Ultimately, both the Anglophile network and the British sci-fi “prophets” maintained the same eschatological hope: an Anglotopia.</p><h2><strong>Fiction’s Revolt Against Fact</strong></h2><p>Traditionally, the binary of fact and fiction has been understood as a dichotomy. On the simplest level, fact can be defined as “that which is” while fiction can be defined as “that which is not.”</p><p>The two conditions are mutually exclusive and never shall the twain meet. Yet, there are those who are so thoroughly seduced by the enticements of their Utopian fictions that they actually attempt to re-sculpt reality to reflect their fantasies. These fantasies are inspired by a virulent cosmological resentment. The fantasizers conflate the cosmos with the postlapsarian ills that afflict it, thereby maligning the created order and lapsing into the same docetistic cosmological attitude espoused by the ancient Gnostics. They only deviate from their ancient antecedents in regards to how they deal with their present habitation.</p><p>Where the ancient Gnostics sought to escape the world, the new Gnostics seek to recreate it. They intend to supplant the facts of established reality with the fictions of their docetistic minds. Because these new Gnostics loathe the cosmos, they reject facts in favor of Utopian fictions. They actively demolish “that which is” in hopes of enshrining “that which is not” as the ultimate reality. They have no desire to believe what they see. Instead, they see what they believe, which is a vaporous schematic for their Utopia. Such a revolt against reality is exemplified by the principles of Hegel’s dialectical logic. Herbert Marcuse condensed these principles into a single relativistic aphorism: “That which is cannot be true” (qutd. in Katsiaficas and Emery, “Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociological Positivism”). Elaborating upon this dictum, Marxist academicians George Katsiaficas and Mary Lou Emery write:</p><p>“In other words, our existing society of racism, genocide, and possible nuclear holocaust cannot be the “truth” of human existence. Truth must lie somewhere else, not in the facts of the given reality, but in the negation or transcendence of those facts. Truth lies in the attempt to go beyond this reality to a better world. Thus, truth lies in our attempt to change the world, in our critique of the established reality.” (Ibid)</p><p>Just as the ancient Gnostics confused the consequences of the Fall with the very act of creation, Katsiaficas and Emery erroneously conflate “racism, genocide, and possible nuclear holocaust” with reality. Instead of recognizing “racism, genocide, and possible nuclear holocaust” as the products of man’s own disordered will, they ascribe such evils to the cosmic order itself. This Gnostic proclivity to associate extraneous evils with the otherwise good creation underpins the Marxist attempt to “go beyond this reality to a better world.” Instantiation of the Marxist fiction, namely a classless Utopia, stipulated the negation of the “facts of the given reality.” Because the “facts” (genocide, racism, and nuclear holocaust) were allegedly inseparable from reality, all that constituted reality had to be negated. The negation of reality typically entailed the imprisonment and/or extermination of any opposition. Again, the Hegelian aphorism declares: “That which is cannot be true.” On the Hegelian view, truth could be found not in established reality, but in the “attempt to change the world.” Once established reality was negated, the Marxists were free to populate the world with simulacra, bodied forth by grotesque parodies of once legitimate institutions.</p><p>This anti-reality crusade also underpins the massive Utopian project of the global oligarchical establishment, which, incidentally, created communism as an instrument for the consolidation of their power. Like their Marxist progenies, the global oligarchs uphold the Hegelian mandate: “That which is cannot be true.” For the global oligarchs, that which is (a world of sovereign nation-states) cannot be true. On the globalist view, evil is imputed not to man’s disordered will, but to the social cosmos. Because the sovereign nation-state is the chief unit by which the social cosmos is ordered, it must be swept away. Truth is found in the globalist attempt to change the world, which involves amalgamating nations into a single supra-national entity. Such a global arrangement has been euphemistically dubbed a New World Order.</p><p>It is a foregone conclusion that such anti-reality crusades are doomed to failure. After all, the crusaders reject the structure of reality. This rejection compels the crusaders to create a second reality or, as Eric Voegelin has called it, a “dream world.”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26770e15-cef2-444d-8207-eda15bf14a6a_750x281.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26770e15-cef2-444d-8207-eda15bf14a6a_750x281.jpeg" width="750" height="281" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/26770e15-cef2-444d-8207-eda15bf14a6a_750x281.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":281,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Eric Voegelin</figcaption></figure></div><p>The dream world is a Utopian schematic that the anti-reality crusader strives to impose upon reality through various forms of activism and political programs. For the globalists, building the dream world includes the enacting of economically deleterious trade agreements, reversing growth in industrialized nations, culling “surplus populations” through various Malthusian schemes, imposing technological apartheid on developing nations, and eroding national sovereignty through dubious international treaties. It is the globalist’s eschatological conviction that these programs operating in an alchemical synergy will expunge this ontologically deficient world’s chief aberration: heterogeneity.</p><p>Charlie Skelton summarizes the globalist aversion to heterogeneity: “The ideology of globalization perceives otherness as an evil to be overcome. Constantly merging and acquiring, dominating and consolidating, to the point of singularity” (“Silicon Assets”).</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d92327a-35bd-4174-a99d-a8f678e57e9d_750x374.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d92327a-35bd-4174-a99d-a8f678e57e9d_750x374.png" width="750" height="374" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d92327a-35bd-4174-a99d-a8f678e57e9d_750x374.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":374,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The dream world envisioned by the globalists is one bereft of differentiated beings. For the globalist, “otherness” is a corruption. Whether conveyed tacitly or explicitly, this animus toward differentiation stems from a distinctly monistic normative conviction: All must be one. Through the eyes of the oligarchs, differentiation is symptomatic of a cosmic corruption. The Eschaton envisioned by humanity’s aspirant hegemons is “pure” because it is undifferentiated. It is, in essence, an immanentized version of the Gnostic <em>Pleroma</em>.</p><p>On the globalist view, an outward expression of the cosmic corruption allegedly afflicting humanity is political and economic differentiation. Differing political and economic systems confound the elite’s efforts to amalgamate nation-states into a single, interdependent system. For the elite, such a world order would constitute a new Eden. Supposedly, under such Utopian conditions, man will undergo a glorious transfiguration and achieve apotheosis. To that end, the globalists have created several organizations and agencies devoted to promoting world government.</p><h2><em><strong>Pax Britannia</strong></em><strong>: The Dream World of Cecil Rhodes</strong></h2><p>Arguably, this crusade was, to a sizable extent, inspired by a 19<sup>th</sup>-century Anglophile network. In support of this contention, one needs only to cite the origins of one particular globalist think tank. Chief among the various globalist organizations actively pursuing the homogenization of otherwise disparate political and economic systems is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).</p><p>The CFR was merely a stateside branch of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) (Quigley 132-33). In turn, the RIIA was founded by the Round Table Groups (132-33). These Round Table Groups owed their existence to a directive presented in the last will and testament of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. This directive mandated the formation of a secret network committed to the imperialist objectives of the British Empire. Rhodes’ <em>Weltanschauung</em> was inspired by a speech delivered by John Ruskin at Oxford in 1870.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03de0d6c-e4cd-4195-bd55-08adbc9e1d74_750x445.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03de0d6c-e4cd-4195-bd55-08adbc9e1d74_750x445.png" width="750" height="445" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03de0d6c-e4cd-4195-bd55-08adbc9e1d74_750x445.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":445,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Embedded within the body of this speech was the clarion call of a new imperialism. This new imperialism, unlike earlier imperialist models, possessed a foundation of pseudo-morality and social reform. Ruskin was a true believer in this new imperialism and preached its tenets with the fervor of a missionary evangelizing on behalf of the Gospel. Ruskin used his professorship chair of fine arts at Oxford as a pulpit for his evangelization effort. Carroll Quigley elaborates:</p><p><em>“The new imperialism after 1870 was quite different in tone from that which the Little Englanders had opposed earlier. The chief changes were that it was justified on grounds of moral duty and social reform and not, as earlier, on grounds of missionary activity and material advantage. The man most responsible for this change was John Ruskin.</em></p><p><em>Until 1870 there was no professorship of fine arts at Oxford, but in that year, thanks to the Slade bequest, John Ruskin, was named to such a chair. He hit Oxford like an earthquake, not so much because he talked about fine arts, but because he talked also about the empire and England’s downtrodden masses, and above all because he talked about all three of these things as moral issues. Until the end of the nineteenth century the poverty-stricken masses in the cities of England lived in want, ignorance, and crime very much as they have been described by Charles Dickens. Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates as members of the privileged, ruling class. He told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency, and self-discipline but that this tradition could not be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and to the non-English masses throughout the world. If this precious tradition were not extended to these two great majorities, the minority of upper-class Englishmen would ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the tradition lost. To prevent this, the tradition must be extended to the masses and to the empire.”</em> (130)</p><p>For a group of Oxford undergraduates, Ruskin’s message was a source of inspiration, similar to the way the Torah, the Koran, and the Bible inspired their respective devotees. For better or worse, Ruskin’s new imperialism won disciples.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd20a917b-8180-45b9-a188-479ec0dc80cb_750x972.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd20a917b-8180-45b9-a188-479ec0dc80cb_750x972.png" width="750" height="972" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d20a917b-8180-45b9-a188-479ec0dc80cb_750x972.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":972,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">“Race Patriot” Cecil Rhodes from Punch Magazine lording over Africa</figcaption></figure></div><p>Undergraduate Cecil Rhodes appears to have been the most fanatically devoted of these disciples. Just as the Pope is regarded as the head bishop over the church by Roman Catholics, Quigley regards Rhodes as Ruskin’s chief disciple and the primary minister of the new imperialism. Ruskin’s message of salvation, which permeated the ruling class tradition, inspired Rhodes to undertake several imperialist projects. The fortune generated by these projects would serve as the early financial backbone of the new imperialism. By realizing Ruskin’s utopian vision, Rhodes hoped to see the creation of a world dominated by the English ruling class. Quigley writes:</p><p><em>“Ruskin’s message had a sensational impact. His inaugural lecture was copied out in longhand by one undergraduate, Cecil Rhodes, who kept it with him for thirty years. Rhodes (1853-1902) feverishly exploited the diamond and goldfields of South Africa, rose to prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890-1896), contributed money to political parties, controlled parliamentary seats both in England and in South Africa, and sought to win a strip of British territory across Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt and to join these two extremes together with a telegraph line and ultimately with a Cape-to-Cairo Railway. Rhodes inspired devoted support for his goals from others in South Africa and in England. With financial support from Lord Rothschild and Alfred Beit, he was able to monopolize the diamond mines of South Africa as DeBeers Consolidated Mines and to build up a great gold mining enterprise as Consolidated Gold Fields. In the middle 1890’s Rhodes had a personal income of at least a million pounds sterling a year (then about five million dollars) which was spent so freely for his mysterious purposes that he was usually overdrawn on his account. These purposes centered on his desire to federate the English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions of the world under their control. For this purpose Rhodes left part of his great fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford in order to spread the English ruling class tradition throughout the English-speaking world as Ruskin had wanted.”</em> (130-31)</p><p>Rhodes was not the only convert to Ruskin’s Anglophilic evangel. Several other adherents became associated with Rhodes. This network of Ruskin disciples would establish a secret society devoted to the cause of British imperialism and, ultimately, global government. Quigley elaborates:</p><p><em>“Among Ruskin’s most devoted disciples at Oxford were a group of intimate friends including Arnold Toynbee, Alfred (later Lord) Milner, Arthur Glazebrook, George (later Sir George) Parkin, Philip Lyttelton Gell, and Henry (later Sir Henry) Birchenough. These were so moved by Ruskin that they devoted the rest of their lives to carrying out his ideas. A similar group of Cambridge men including Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher), Sir John B. Seeley, Albert (Lord) Grey, and Edmund Garrett were also aroused by Ruskin’s message and devoted their lives to the extension of the British Empire and uplift of England’s urban masses as two parts of one project which they called “extension of the English-speaking idea.” They were remarkably successful in these aims because of England’s most sensational journalist William Stead (1849 – 1912), an ardent social reformer and imperialist, brought them into association with Rhodes. This association was formally established on February 5, 1891, when Rhodes and Stead organized a secret society of which Rhodes had been dreaming for sixteen years. In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader; Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and Milner were to form an executive committee; Arthur (lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a “Circle of Initiates;” while there was to be an outer circle known as the “Association of Helpers” (later organized by Milner as the Round Table organization). Brett was invited to join this organization the same day and Milner a couple of weeks later, on his return from Egypt. Both accepted with enthusiasm. Thus the central part of the secret society was established by March 1891. It continued to function as a formal group, although the outer circle was, apparently, not organized until 1909-1913. This group was able to get access to Rhodes’ money after his death in 1902 and also to funds of loyal Rhodes supporters like Alfred Beit (1853-1906) and Sir Abe Bailey (1864-1940). With this backing they sought to extend and execute the ideals that Rhodes had obtained from Ruskin and Stead. Milner was the chief Rhodes Trustee and Parkin was Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust after 1902, while Gell and Birchenough, as well as others with similar ideas, became officials of the British South Africa Company. They were joined in their efforts by other Ruskinite friends of Stead’s like Lord Grey, Lord Esher, and Flora Shaw (later Lady Lugard). In 1890, by a stratagem too elaborate to describe here, Miss Shaw became Head of the Colonial Department of the Times while still remaining on the payroll of Stead’s Pall Mall Gazette. In this past she played a major role in the next ten years in carrying into execution the imperial schemes of Cecil Rhodes, to whom Stead had introduced her in 1889.” (131-32)</em></p><p>When Rhodes died, the continuation of his imperialistic mission fell upon the shoulders of chief Rhodes Trustee Alfred Milner. It is with this development that the Anglophilic origins of the CFR come into focus. Under Milner’s coordination, the Rhodes network would establish the stateside surrogate organization that would adopt the appellation of the CFR. Quigley continues:</p><p><em>“As governor-general and high commissioner of South Africa in the period 1897-1905, Milner recruited a group of young men chiefly from Oxford and from Toynbee Hall, to assist him in organizing his administration. Through his influence these men were able to win influential posts in government and international finance and become the dominant influence in British imperial and foreign affairs up to 1939. Under Milner in South Africa they were known as Milner’s Kindergarten until 1910. In 1909-1913 they organized semisecret groups, known as Round Table Groups, in the chief dependencies and the United States… In 1919 they founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) for which the chief financial supporters were Sir Abe Bailey and the Astor Family (owners of The Times). Similar Institutes of International Affairs were established in the chief British dominions and in the United States (where it is known as the Council on Foreign Relations) in the period of 1919-1927.” </em>(132-33)</p><p>The CFR would eventually transmogrify itself into a <em>de facto</em> appendage of the United States government in 1939 with a project known as the War and Peace Studies Project. James Perloff describes this penetration of the halls of officialdom:</p><p><em>“In September 1939, Hitler’s troops invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany; World War II had begun.</em></p><p><em>Less than two weeks later, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, and Walter Mallory, the CFR’s executive director, met in Washington with Assistant Secretary of State George Messersmith. They proposed that the Council help the State Department formulate its wartime policy and postwar planning. The CFR would conduct study groups in coordination with State, making recommendations to the Department and President. Messersmith (a Council member himself) and his superiors agreed. The CFR thus succeeded, temporarily at least, in making itself an adjunct of the United States government. This undertaking became known as the War and Peace Studies Project; it worked in secret and was underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation. It held 362 meetings and prepared 682 papers for FDR and the State Department.”</em> (64)</p><p>The CFR used its temporary position as a government adjunct to spread its members throughout the government. The State Department was particularly infested. In fact, the CFR’s influence over State led to what can only be described as the privatization of foreign policy. American foreign policy became little more than a vehicle for the agendas of bankers, corporations, globalists, and elitists. Thus, the origins of this major purveyor of globalism were distinctly Anglophilic.</p><p>This Anglophile network may have found its origins in the pages of fiction. Duncan Bell, the University of Cambridge Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, observes that Rhodes’ “most innovative contribution to racial utopian discourse” was the suggestion “that a secret society was necessary to undertake the epic task” of uniting the world under Anglo-Saxon rule (Bell 134). This secret society, of course, became a reality and produced the Anglophile constellation described earlier. Bell describes the secret society envisioned by Rhodes:</p><p><em>“[Rhodes’] model was the Society of Jesus. Its members scattered throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, such a society would spread the gospel of racial superiority, recruiting the best and the brightest of each generation to further the unionist cause. It would have two interwoven objectives: bringing the “whole uncivilized world under British rule” and the “recovery of the United States.”</em> (134)</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0eabc2b-983a-4ccb-9202-50ea6aca6323_750x481.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0eabc2b-983a-4ccb-9202-50ea6aca6323_750x481.jpeg" width="750" height="481" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0eabc2b-983a-4ccb-9202-50ea6aca6323_750x481.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":481,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Where did Rhodes derive the idea of such a secret society? The source of inspiration may have been identified in a recommendation made by Rhodes to fellow Anglophile network participant and journalist W.T. Stead. Bell writes:</p><p><em>“Rhodes encouraged Stead to read An American Politician, an1884 novel by the popular American writer F. Marion Crawford. The reason is clear. Very loosely based on the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, the tale focuses on a politician driven by an overriding sense of duty and aided by an Anglo-America secret society.” </em>(134)</p><p>According to Bell, Crawford “was best known as a writer of ghost stories” (134). Crawford, however, demonstrated a knowledge of how covert power works in his 1897 novel <em>Corleone</em>, which has been called “the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature” (Francis Marion Crawford”). Crawford also concluded his 1900 novel <em>Rulers of the South</em> with a chapter about the Sicilian Mafia (ibid). Given Crawford’s comfort with topics such as secret societies and organized crime, it seems fitting that his literary work would inspire Rhodes to establish covert political circles dedicated to the realization of Anglotopia.</p><h2><strong>Envisioning Anglotopia: Rhodes’ Dream World Distilled as Sci-fi</strong></h2><p>The very same Anglophile milieu that gave rise to the CFR also carried on a reciprocal exchange of ideas with the science fiction literary genre. For several years, science fiction authors would draw inspiration from Anglophile theoreticians and vice versa. It is difficult to determine with whom this exchange began. Did it begin with the Anglophile theoreticians or the science fiction authors? While the answer remains elusive, it is a well-established fact that the progenitor of the Anglophile network, Rhodes, was inspired by a “universal history” penned by William Windwood Reade. Reade authored <em>The Martyrdom of Man</em>, a secular theodicy advancing the neo-Darwinian contention that man could be perfected through the painful, yet necessary evolutionary process. Robert Rotberg synopsizes <em>The Martyrdom</em> as follows:</p><p><em>“William Windwood Reade, the then-obscure British Darwinian, influenced Rhodes’ search for understanding. An unsuccessful novelist, Reade visited West Africa twice in the 1860s, the second time while Rhodes was in Natal, and published The Martyrdom of Man in 1872. Begun as an attempt to revise England’s accepted and critical view of the contribution of Africans to human civilization, The Martyrdom became a universal history of mankind, with long sections on Rhodes’ favorite mysteries: ancient Egypt, Rome, Carthage, Arab Islam, and early Christianity. The Martyrdom consisted of the kind of late nineteenth-century pseudo-science that appealed to Rhodes. It was larded with philosophically impressive arguments about the true “meaning” of man based on the post-Hegelian as well as neo-Darwinian notion that man’s suffering on earth (his martyrdom) was essential (and quasi-divinely inspired) in the achievement of progress. Man was perfectable, but only by toil. He could not be saved, nor would his rewards be heavenly, for Reade was a pre-Tillichean Gnostic who believed in God’s existence but, at the same time, not in deism and certainly not in the accessibility of an anthropomorphic Christian God. The rewards of man were in continuing and improving the human race. “To develop to the utmost our genius and our love, that is the only true religion,” </em>wrote Reade. (99-100)</p><p>While <em>The Martyrdom</em> doesn’t quite qualify as a piece of science fiction, Rotberg does liken Reade to Jules Verne because he:<em> “prophesied a locomotive force more powerful than steam, the manufacture of flesh and flour chemically, travel through space, and the discovery by science of a destructive force which would be so horrible as to end all wars” </em>(100). Such “prophesying” would become commonplace among science fiction authors. James Herrick explains:</p><p><em>“In a Saturday Review interview, influential science-fiction editor John Campbell argued that the genre’s principal social role was as “prophecy”—by which he did not mean simply foretelling the future, but also preparing its audiences to embrace a particular vision for the future. The man who shaped the careers of such science-fiction greats as Asimov, Heinlein, van Vogt, and Doc (E.E.) Smith assigned to science fiction an essentially moral or spiritual role.</em> (<em>Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs</em> 30)</p><p>Campbell’s contention that “prophecy” constituted science fiction’s chief social role underscores the genre’s imposing normative potential. Affirmation of this potential can be found in a May 2005 <em>New York Times</em> article entitled “Sci-Fi Synergy.” Therein, author Edward Rothstein states:<em> “A genre that 80 years ago was on the margins is now, at least in its cinematic incarnations, at the very center of culture”</em> (qutd. in Herrick, <em>Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs </em>22). Elaborating on the normative impact that the sci-fi genre wields in its cinematic incarnations, Herrick writes: <em>“Science fiction has emerged as a formidable social force with a worldwide reach and an international audience in the hundreds of millions. Seven of the twenty most profitable movies ever produced fall within the science fiction genre”</em> (22). Given its undeniable influence upon culture, science fiction clearly possesses the potential to affect audiences in a normative capacity.</p><p>In her essay over science fiction’s normative power, Martha A. Bartter makes it clear that science fiction does not necessarily “make people behave in ways they otherwise would not” (Bartter 169). This perception of science fiction typically engenders “either the tacit justification for propaganda, or the reverse, the explicit justification for censorship” (169). However, it is through the presentation of possibilities that the normative power of science fiction is most effectively demonstrated. Bartter explains:</p><p><em>“[F]iction can represent possibilities for action to a large number of people in such a way that they can more clearly perceive possible choices and the various socio-cultural sanctions attached to those choices. The very act of considering choices irrevocably alters our assumptions about ways we may act, and since actions derive from assumptions (in the sense that both doing and choosing not to do must be considered actions), fiction can indeed endanger the status quo. The censors are right—for the wrong reasons.”</em> (169)</p><p>Indeed, considering various choices and their concomitant socio-cultural sanctions can call the <em>status quo</em> into question. The propositional content of a fictional work can either partially or completely conflict with the dominant cultural conventions of any given society. Audiences that are exposed to such propositional content will invariably consider choices that could potentially revise the <em>status quo</em>. A prescription can be rendered more tenable within the body of an imaginative narrative. Once fiction starts making such prescriptions, it becomes normative in character.</p><p>Yet, Bartter discerns an “inherent ambiguity” to normative fiction (169). As products of specific time periods, fictional tales tend to uphold some of the cultural norms of their respective historical eras. Yet, simultaneously, fictional tales can present possibilities that are rendered feasible through elements such as characters, settings, themes, etc. When audiences are presented with these fictional devices, they tend to suspend their critical faculties and accept fantastical propositions. In so doing, audiences entertain alternative ideas and values. Propositions are tangibly enacted and a “new consensus” is considered. Bartter elaborates:</p><p><em>“On the one hand, every fiction arises from a particular time and place; it demonstrates to its hearers/readers a tacit consensus regarding cultural norms. On the other hand, and at the same time, it can introduce to its readers possibilities that they previously did not know or had not considered, and make these possibilities vividly “real” by fictional devices such as plot, character, setting, etc. Through a “willing suspension of disbelief,” readers conduct socio-cultural gedankenexperimente: they test how such ideas might work out in reality and what effects they might produce, and consider the possibility of a new consensus.” </em>(169)</p><p><em>Gedankenexperimente</em> is the German word for “thought experiment.” The famous science fiction writer and editor John W. Campbell proposed that sci-fi presented an “unparalleled opportunity for socio-cultural thought experiments” (183). Through such experiments, the ideas of a particular fiction are tested and aspects of the current culture are called into question. As the experiment progresses, revisions in the <em>status quo</em> might be entertained or even enacted. If certain cultural norms happen to be amended or jettisoned along the way, then the dominant culture could witness the emergence of a “new consensus.” Thus, the question is not whether science fiction can change society, but how? The nature of the cultural shifts induced by sci-fi depends upon the nature of the normative claims that inspired them. The more dubious an author’s normative claims, the more ominous their existential consequences.</p><p>While <em>The Martyrdom</em> is not really considered a work of science fiction, the book is replete with the same sort of fanciful technology forecasts that one finds in the pages of the fantastical genre. More significantly, it explored a theme that pervaded British science fiction: humanity’s inexorable evolutionary advancement toward perfection. Of this theme, Herrick writes:</p><p><em>“Inevitable human progress through evolutionary processes is a theme in some of the most imaginative and persuasive science fiction. It is particularly important to the works of three pillars of British science fiction: H.G. Wells (1866-1946), Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), and Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917). That Wells would have devoted attention to human evolutionary advancement is not surprising considering that he was a student at Huxley’s London School of Science</em>. (<em>The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition </em>145)”</p><p>Arguably, Reade is responsible for popularizing the evolutionary theme that would preoccupy the “three pillars of British science fiction.” Yet, it is with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that one finds the clearest example of Reade’s influence upon British sci-fi scribes.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69aedd7-b855-46a7-b84c-4c1ca356b002_750x549.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69aedd7-b855-46a7-b84c-4c1ca356b002_750x549.jpeg" width="750" height="549" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c69aedd7-b855-46a7-b84c-4c1ca356b002_750x549.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":549,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Doyle wrote several pieces of science fiction, including <em>The Lost World</em> and his Professor Challenger stories. Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, <em>The Sign of Four</em>, features a glowing reference to Reade’s <em>The Martyrdom</em>. While discussing the literary quality of some letters with Watson, Holmes states: “Let me recommend this book, —one of the most remarkable ever penned. It is Winwood Reade’s ‘Martyrdom of Man.’” Clearly, Doyle was familiar with Reade and he may have even expressed some affinity for <em>The Martyrdom</em> vicariously through the beloved character of Holmes.</p><p>As for Rhodes, the impact of <em>The Martyrdom</em> upon the Ruskinite imperialist was unmistakable. Rotberg states: <em>“Rhodes read Reade only shortly after its publication and later said that it was a ‘creepy book.’ He also said, mysteriously, that it had ‘made me what I am’” </em>(99-100). <em>The Martyrdom’s</em> impact on Rhodes makes a great deal of sense when one considers its anthropological proposition that humanity is perfectible. This was a commonly held anthropological assumption among sociopolitical Utopians. After all, changing the world stipulated a fundamental change within man first. Evolutionary theory dignified the anthropological assumption of perfectibility. Darwinism was the theoretical outgrowth of an older belief system known as transformism. On transformism, organisms were infinitely mutable and could alter themselves on the essential level through a mere act of will. Pat Shipman explains:</p><p>“<em>Transformism was a rather Lamarckian view of the mutability of species that preceded Darwinian evolution in Germany, France, and elsewhere. What connected the two theories was the essential belief that life-forms had changed over time; what separated them was the proposed mechanism, which for Darwin was natural selection and for transformists was a vaguely described will or yearning of the organism for self-improvement. However, transformism was the scientific equivalent of the French Revolution: a dangerous doctrine of the possibility of change in social as well as biological spheres. (91-92) “</em></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f5aed5a-3485-4cf7-9595-0409f2aac415_750x422.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f5aed5a-3485-4cf7-9595-0409f2aac415_750x422.jpeg" width="750" height="422" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f5aed5a-3485-4cf7-9595-0409f2aac415_750x422.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":422,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Indeed, such a view could be compared to the French Revolution, which was also underpinned by the anthropological proposition of human perfectibility. That which transformism advanced in the sociological sphere would be affirmed in the realm of biology by Darwinism. Darwinism is a variety of transformism that challenges the ontological fixity of species by advancing a process in which simple life-forms metamorphose into complex life-forms through random mutations. Suddenly, organisms were divested of any determinate properties and rendered as boundlessly malleable.</p><p>This was especially true for humanity, which the Darwinian transformist believed to be just an intermediary species migrating towards a glorious developmental terminus. Nick Bostrom reiterates:<em> “After the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859), it became increasingly plausible to view the current version of humanity not as the endpoint of evolution but rather as an early phase”</em> (“A History of Transhumanist Thought” 3).</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad7643bb-0f5e-4048-ad2e-c2172aecd819_750x422.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad7643bb-0f5e-4048-ad2e-c2172aecd819_750x422.jpeg" width="750" height="422" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad7643bb-0f5e-4048-ad2e-c2172aecd819_750x422.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":422,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For Rhodes, such a biological <em>tabula rasa</em> could be eventually shaped into the sort of citizen suitable for his dream world.</p><p>Darwinism also advanced the distinctly Manichean binary of the fit and the unfit, which accommodated Rhodes’ brutal enslavement of Africans in his quest to monopolize the continent’s diamonds. In this regard, Darwinism shares more in common with Gnosticism than its chronocentric proponents care to admit. John C. Wright states: <em>“Ancient Gnosticism shares a contempt for the Benighted that modern Darwinians share for those races of mankind fated to fail the test of the survival of the fittest” </em>(“C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke”).</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd35545cf-a5f2-4e7e-920f-3fe29b29db2a_750x410.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd35545cf-a5f2-4e7e-920f-3fe29b29db2a_750x410.jpeg" width="750" height="410" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d35545cf-a5f2-4e7e-920f-3fe29b29db2a_750x410.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":410,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Arthur C. Clarke</figcaption></figure></div><p>In fact, Dr. Wolfgang Smith has characterized Darwinism as a “Gnostic myth” because it dignifies the soteriological claim of self-salvation with the metaphysical claim of self-creation (242-43). Of course, the metaphysical claim of self-creation inexorably segues into autotheism, which is the tacitly espoused religion of Rhodes’ globalist progenies. Yet, in a world ruled by earthbound gods, not everyone can be a deity. Such was the case with Rhodes’ Africa, where those whom Darwinism had declared “unfit” were either enslaved or eugenically expunged through colonial warfare. For Rhodes and his imperialist adherents, the categories of deity and mortal were demarcated according to race.</p><p>Notions of a deific race were tacitly promoted through British science fiction, as is evidenced by the work of English occultist Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Baron Lytton “practiced ceremonial magic and was claimed by Madame Blavatsky to be a Theosophist” (Sklar 65).</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcbe761cd-808f-4953-9dd5-33b94ee1b3c9_519x362.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcbe761cd-808f-4953-9dd5-33b94ee1b3c9_519x362.jpeg" width="519" height="362" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cbe761cd-808f-4953-9dd5-33b94ee1b3c9_519x362.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":362,"width":519,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his book ‘The Coming Race’</figcaption></figure></div><p>Presumably, Baron Lytton believed that he was the keeper of a psychic energy dubbed “vril” (65). Supposedly, vril was an “electricity whose properties were the same as ‘the one great fluid’ with which all of life was pervaded” (65). According to Baron Lytton’s racial myth, an elite race of “Vril people” harnessed this divine energy through physical and mental practices similar to yoga (65). Baron Lytton promulgated this racial myth with the publication of the novel <em>The Coming Race</em>, which Dusty Sklar synopsizes as follows:</p><p><em>“Written in the nineteenth century, The Coming Race details a superhuman subterranean race of beings living in huge caves in the bowels of earth, who have developed a kind of psychic energy—vril—with which they are made the equals of the gods. They plan, one day, to take control of the earth and bring about a mutation among the existing human elite, subjugating, of course, the rest of slavish humanity.”</em> (65)</p><p><em>The Coming Race</em> inspired a transcontinental movement devoted to studying and harnessing Lord Lytton’s chimerical psychic energy. In fact, some elements of that movement would play a role in the development and rise of the Nazis.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd321d2b9-82c6-473f-8913-2d6623697d73_575x307.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd321d2b9-82c6-473f-8913-2d6623697d73_575x307.jpeg" width="575" height="307" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d321d2b9-82c6-473f-8913-2d6623697d73_575x307.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":307,"width":575,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ominously enough, Lord Lytton referred to the deific race who mastered vril as “Aryans,” thereby adopting an appellation “already employed in European intellectual circles to identify a supposed master race of the past” (Herrick, <em>Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs </em>170). Commenting on the transcontinental influence of <em>The Coming </em>Race, Herrick writes:</p><p><em>“George Edward Bulwer-Lytton used The Coming Race as a forum in which to advance his theory of a spiritually evolved master race destined to rule or destroy all other races. And his theories proved quite popular with his Victorian reading audience. Vril societies formed in England and on the European Continent, lasting well into the twentieth century. The Vril Society of Munich attracted several members who would later become prominent figures in Hitler’s National Socialist Party.”</em> (<em>The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition </em>147)</p><p>Baron Lytton’s <em>The Coming Race</em> “cemented 1 May 1871 as the formative moment of British science fiction” (Bell 207). Bulwer-Lytton’s literary work influenced many writers who used their fiction to promote global Anglo-Saxon dominion. Among them was Arthur Bennett. In his 1893 work <em>Dream of an Englishman</em>, Bennett provides a fictional account of the United States’ reabsorption into a revived British Empire, referred to as the United Empire of Great Britain (Bell 225). The rest of the world’s geopolitical power blocs eventually realize that they are inferior to the United Empire of Great Britain and submit to its rule, resulting in the creation of a world federation ruled by the Anglo-Saxons (226). Bennett then tips his hat to Bulwer-Lytton, asserting that the boldest members of “the coming race” were fixing their gaze upon the stars, preparing to expand Anglo-Saxon rule beyond the planet’s boundaries (226).</p><p>Of course, a world federation ruled by Anglo-Saxons would stipulate the reconciliation of the British with their racial cousins in the United States. Needless to say, there had been a considerable amount of ill will between the British and Americans since the Thirteen Colonies had achieved independence in 1783. However, an attitudinal reorientation towards the United States would eventually result in the mending of this racial rift. The attitudinal shift is literally written into the pages of British and American science fiction. The thematic shift, according to Duncan Bell, occurred in the1890s (211). Before the shift, American literature largely voiced the hostility Americans felt towards their former British rulers. Bell elaborates:</p><p><em>“The American choice of enemy was…. revealing. Numerous texts published during the 1880s and early 1890s portrayed a war between the United States and the British Empire, dramatizing the simmering animosity between the two countries and reflecting the deep-seated Anglophobia of large swathes of the population.”</em> (210)</p><p>The 1890s witnessed writers radically rethinking the relationship between America and the British Empire. A drastic overhaul to the roles of villain and hero took place in order to accommodate a desire for reconciliation and reunion among the Anglo-Saxons. Many British writers envisioned an Anglo-Saxon world power where the Americans were junior partners. American writers tended to imagine the inverse, with the United States taking the reins of an Anglo-Saxon world order while the British played a secondary role. These two styles of science fiction writing share the theme of a racial union leading to a worldwide racial utopia. Bell explains:</p><p><em>“Many novels, both British and American, imagined the United States and the British Empire as cooperative partners, allies, or parts of a reintegrated racial-political community. They supplied cultural currency to the push for rapprochement, though symptomatic differences remained, perhaps above all in the way that the way that the relationship between the two powers was emplotted. Unlike [Andrew] Carnegie and Stead, many British authors were unwilling to yield leadership of the Angloworld – and hence the planet – to Washington, and the kin across the sea” were typically cast as an enthusiastic though immature junior partner. This attitude was mirrored across the Atlantic, where in an act of familial role-reversal Britain was usually granted a supporting role alongside a newly dominant United States. This signified both a transformation in the balance of geopolitical power and an intraracial transfer of authority, with the old idea of translatio imperii given new science fictional form.” </em>(211; italics in original)</p><p>In his work <em>Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America</em>, Bell looks at a number of literary works that exhibit the unionist and Anglotopian thematic threads, starting with Frank Stockton’s successful 1889 novel, <em>The Great War Syndicate</em>. In Stockton’s popular tale, a heated argument regarding fishing rights touches off a war between Britain and the United States (211). A group of 23 “great capitalists” intervene in the conflict, sidelining impotent politicians who have failed to bring peace between the belligerent parties (211). Stockton’s capitalistic cabal calls to mind both plutocracy and technocracy. It will not the last time that these concepts emerge in Anglotopian science fiction.</p><p>Stockton’s story includes a plot device found in many Anglotopian science fiction pieces: destructive weapons that are used to coerce one or more belligerent parties into accepting a universal peace imposed by the Anglo-Saxons (211). In this case, the superweapons are used to force the British into surrender (211). The British are defeated, but not vanquished. The war facilitates the reunion between racial cousins, the British and the Americans (211). Bell explains:</p><p>“In an age of privatized warfare, the business leaders devise fearsome weapon systems capable of pulverizing the British, but rather than fighting their racial kin, the Americans instead demonstrate to them this newfound destructive power. Suitably apprised of their diminished status in the Anglo-American relationship, the shocked and awed British agree to serve as loyal lieutenants in “The Anglo-American Syndicate of War,” an alliance that eventually pacifies the Earth”. (211)</p><p>Stockton’s novel would become the source of inspiration for British author George Griffith’s <em>The Pirate Syndicate</em> (212). Griffith’s work ends with the establishment of an Anglo-Saxon federation (212). George Danyer’s 1894 novel entitled <em>Blood Is Thicker Than Water: A Political Dream</em> concludes with a similar union between the Americans and the British (212). The theme of racial union was taken up yet again by James Barnes’ <em>The Unpardonable War</em> (212). Barnes’ literary offering presents readers with yet another war between the British and Americans (212). An American victory is secured by the work of a character described by Bell as an “Edisonian inventor” (212).</p><p>The end result is an Anglo-American union (212). Roy Norton’s work <em>The Vanishing Fleet</em> possesses many of the unionist themes employed by Stockton, Griffith, Danyer, and Barnes. Norton imagines the Americans ushering in an Anglo-Saxon world through the deployment of superweapons, which swiftly defeat British, Japanese, and Chinese adversaries (212). The Americans, however, do not seek the total destruction of their racial kin.</p><p>Instead, the Americans extend an olive branch to the British and ask them to assist in establishing world peace (212). This results in the two Anglo-Saxon powers “pledging their formidable combined power to a new commission established to maintain international order” (212). All of these stories seemed to capture a burning desire held by Anglophile political circles. That desire was to see the divorce of 1775 successfully reversed. Bell writes: “Such texts fictionalized the debate over the possible benefits of an Anglo-American union being played out in the journals and clubrooms of the North Atlantic world” (212).</p><p>All cultural trends reach their zenith, and American science fiction with Anglotopian and unionist themes is certainly no exception to that rule. Bell states: “The American literature of racial union reached a crescendo of sorts in 1898” (212). The crescendo coincided with America’s war with the Spanish, a conflict that many regard to be a manifestation of American imperialism (212). This period of time produced Benjamin Rush Davenport’s <em>Anglo-Saxons Onward!,</em> a work whose title makes no attempt to hide its author’s unbridled Anglophilia (212). In Davenport’s novel, America spearheads “a ‘semi-alliance’ of the Anglo-Saxon nations to crush the Spanish empire and ultimately control the world” (212). Davenport, it seems, was exploiting the animosity that existed between America and Spain to promote Anglo-Saxon dominance. Another work authored during this time period was S.W. Odell’s <em>The Last War; or, the Triumph of the English Tongue,</em> which “identified genocide as a means to racially purify the earth” (212). Odell’s offering takes place in the 26<sup>th</sup> century and casts the Russians as the villains, thus capturing the anti-Slavic sentiments that seem to permeate Anglophile circles (213). An Anglo-American alliance determines that it is necessary to conduct a war of extermination against the Russian Czar and his racially intermingled empire (213). Bell writes: “Fusing racial millenarianism with the pornography of violence, millions of people are slaughtered before Anglo-American triumphs, completing the conquest of the planet” (213).</p><p>The year 1898 saw the publication of <em>Armageddon: A Tale of Love, War and Invention</em> (213). The novel was written by Stanley Waterloo, described by Bell as “the most famous American writer to pen a future-war narrative” (213). The novel follows the pattern found in most racial union literature, with an unprecedented crisis facilitating and alliance between America and Great Britain. Bell writes:</p><p><em>“Like so many novels of the future, it opens with a telescopic account of geopolitical turmoil, the Spanish-American war heralding the predestined entry of the United States onto the world stage. Yet confusion reigned and the nineteenth century, we are informed, “flickered out in something like racial warfare.” It was as if Charles Pearson’s grim predictions of global race conflict had come true. As the planet is engulfed by violence, the Americans and the British recognize their true affinities and shared interests: “the idea of an Anglo-Saxon alliance had grown and broadened.” This vision had been “fostered by thinking men of both Great Britain and America,” those who could “best foresee the future of races.” Ultimately, though, “a tentative alliance, at least, it was evident, must come.” It would form the basis of a majestic racial order.”</em> (213)</p><p>A war ensues, with the reunited Anglo-Saxons fighting alongside the Japanese and Northern European states “against a combination of the southern ‘Latin’ races, dominated by the French and Italians (with lukewarm German support), and the ‘Slavs,’ directed by Russia” (215). Again, the old Slavic bogeyman of Anglo-Saxon fever dreams rears its ugly head.</p><p>The Anglo-Saxon alliance secures a decisive victory during “a great naval battle in the Atlantic” (215). They are assisted in their endeavor by a brilliant inventor who hails from “an isolated farm on the Illinois prairie” (213). According to Bell, this Illinois-based inventor creates “a flying machine, a cigar-shaped aluminum tube able to mount a devastating array of weapons” (213-14). Employment of this new weapon results in the destruction of the enemy armada (215). Victory is followed by a Peace Conference in Amsterdam, where the “French, Spanish, and Portuguese empires are dissolved, their territories transferred to the more deserving Anglo-Saxons” (216).</p><p>Many writers of science fiction with racial union themes entertained the notion of an imperial federation ushering in a racial utopia. Julius Vogel, asserts Bell, “wrote the most interesting novel on the subject” (218). Regarding Vogel, Bell writes:</p><p><em>“Vogel was an ardent supporter of the imperial federation movement, arguing that without formal consolidation the British Empire would ultimately dissolve, reducing the mother-country to the status of a second-rate power and leaving the colonies at the mercy of larger predatory states”</em> (218).</p><p>Vogel’s 1889 work, <em>Anno Domini 2000</em>, reflects the desire of some Anglophile circles to facilitate the rise of an Anglotopia through imperial federation. In Vogel’s literary universe, a waning British Empire’s very existence is imperiled in the 1920s by a dispute centered around Ireland (221). The empire resolves the problem through the federation of the empire (221). There is a reconfiguration of the empire “as power drains away from the old imperial center without precipitating the dissolution of the whole” (221). Bell elaborates:</p><p><em>“Decline is followed by rebirth rather than Fall. Vogel’s Anglo-imperium is figured immune to traditional causes of degeneration, at once too large for external assault and too internally robust for corruption to corrode it from within. Imperial federation thus allows the reconciliation of grandezza and libertas – imperium could permanently escape the vicissitudes of historical time. Vogel can present London as partially corrupted by luxury, its inhabitants “chartered sybarites” and “luxurious to the verge of effeminacy,” but rather than serving its classical role as the primary agent of decline, such hedonism is rendered harmless, even comic, because of the dispersal of political authority and economic might. The British dominions have been consolidated into the empire of United Britain; and not only is it the most powerful empire on the globe, but at present no sign is shown of any tendency to weakness or decay.”</em> (221-22)</p><p>Vogel’s Anglo-Saxon empire is also strengthened through the adoption of technocratic practices. This transformation of the empire into a technocracy leads to unprecedented technological progress and the ascendancy of the Anglo-Saxon race. Bell writes:</p><p>“Political unity was predicated on technoscientific progress. Following the wise intervention of the Prince of Wales, the citizenry is no longer distracted by having to learn useless dead languages, but are instead given an intense practical scientific training, with the result that “each person was more or less an engineer.” More typically American than British, this Wellsian mode of subject formation further accelerated technological progress. The novel is studded with inventions – “phonograms,” force fields, aluminum air cruisers. At one point, people are rendered immobile by a mysterious but devastating weapon that harnesses the power of electricity. Portable silent “hand telegraphs” allow journalists to stream live accounts of political debate across the polity, creating a powerful sense of instantaneity and communal identity. Vogel’s novel exemplifies the fascination with infrastructural space, racial informatics, and communications systems that suffused the discourse of Angloworld unification. It imagines the Anglo-Saxon race as a cyborg assemblage, knitted together by a dense communications network pulsating with information. The transformative potential of communications technology is reinforced by new modes of aerial transport. Global geography is rewritten. “A journey from London to Melbourne was looked upon with as much indifference as one from London to the Continent used to be.” Confined to use by the government – in contrast to many American novels of the era – this airpower underwrites British military superiority over other states. We are informed that these mighty sentinels “made easily a hundred miles an hour” across the skies of the future.” (222)</p><p>Vogel pits the British Empire, reinvigorated by a federation model of management and technocratic practices, against the United States (223). This conflict is touched off by “dynastic dispute between the British Empire and the United States” (223). Vogel’s fictional war, however, is not meant to bring about the destruction of America. It, instead, acts almost like a Hegelian dialectic, synthesizing the two belligerent parties and giving rise to a reunified federated empire. Bell provides a summary of the contest between racial cousins and the end result:</p><p>“The Americans launch an impetuous attack on Canada only to be swatted aside like flies, before a vast British armada is sent across the Atlantic to punish them. The expeditionary force captures Washington and proceeds to outflank the American army in Canada. They demonstrate their abiding sense of kinship by refusing to massacre the brave but ineffectual American soldiers – presumably a fate reserved for the hapless “natives” that the empire continues to govern. The forlorn President is whisked aboard the advanced air-cruiser <em>The British Empire</em>, and the British celebrate “a triumph which amply redeemed the humiliation of centuries back, when the English colonies of America won their independence by force of arms.” The injustice of history redressed, the door is opened to reuniting Anglo-America. The terms of the subsequent peace deal include a plebiscite in New England, where the inhabitants vote overwhelmingly to (re)join the British Empire, with New York anointed the new capital city of the Dominion of Canada. The democratic empire is extended democratically. In a mirror image of many American tales, the United States – or at least the authentic “Anglo-Saxon” element – is simultaneously reincorporated into the Angloworld and assigned a subordinate position within it. It has been transfigured from a powerful independent state to a region within British imperial jurisdiction.” (223)</p><p>Vogel and scores of other unionist science fiction writers emphasized the reunification of racial cousins and the revival of empire. Other writers in the bizarre Anglotopian genre, however, stressed a supposed racial salvation found in the Anglo-Saxon race. Authors like George Chetwynd Griffith and Louis Tracy “posited the Anglo-Saxons as redemptive saviors of civilization” (226). In <em>The Angel of the Revolution</em>, Griffith envisioned the Anglo-Saxons saving humanity with “socialist Anglo-future” (227). Tracy, on the other hand, wrote <em>The Final War</em> in 1896, which saw the Anglo-Saxons’ salvific power wrapped in “the existing imperial capitalist order” (227). Through the medium of literature, Anglo-Saxons acquired a messianic mystique. The apotheosis of the Anglo-Saxon elite had been realized through the power of the pen.</p><h2><strong>Fact Abolished and Fiction Made Flesh</strong></h2><p>It is not surprising that the sociopolitical Utopians of Rhodes’ tradition carried on such an extensive reciprocal relationship with British sci-fi authors. Both adhered to a hermeneutical tradition steeped in a cannibalizing epistemic incredulity. The British sci-fi authors were deeply mistrustful of the cosmos because, according to the Baconian formulation of modern science, the universe was nothing more than a standing reserve of malleable material (<em>Bestand </em>as Heidegger put it). Ergo the cosmos was an ontologically suboptimal simulacrum. Meanwhile, Rhodes’ imperialist progenies were deeply suspicious (and forthrightly contemptuous) of the social cosmos because its inherent heterogeneity violently conflicted with their dream world of political, economic, and racial homogeneity. Ergo the social cosmos was an ontologically suboptimal simulacrum. This shared hermeneutical tradition was merely an echo of the cosmological resentment espoused by the ancient Gnostics.</p><p>Yet, Rhodes’ disciples and their fellow travelers in the literary world parted ways with their ancient antecedents concerning their response to the cosmos. While the ancient Gnostics sought to escape the world, Rhodes’ imperialist progenies sought to transform it. Envisioning an Eschaton in history, Rhodes and his Anglophilic crusaders adopted the Hegelian rallying call: “That which is cannot be true.” The facts of established reality had to be abolished so that the Utopian fiction of Rhodes’ mind could be made flesh. British sci-fi scribes merely committed Rhodes’ Utopian fiction to paper. Years later, the globalist offspring of Rhodes would continue to incarnate some variant of that Utopian fiction. Predictably, many modern science fiction authors continue the tradition of their British precursors by rendering the globalist dream world as an inescapable inevitability. Jutta Weldes elaborates:</p><p>“The neo-liberal discourse of globalization dominating public discussion is a self-fulfilling prophecy that rests on a well-rehearsed set of narratives and tropes, including an Enlightenment commitment to progress, the wholesome role of global markets, a rampant technophilia, the trope of the “global village,” and the interrelated narratives of an increasingly global culture and an expanded pacific liberal politics… this discourse displays striking homologies to American techno-utopian SF [science fiction]… These homologies help to render neo-liberal globalization both sensible and seemingly “inexorable.” (Weldes, “Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics” 3)</p><p>In light of these homologies, it is not difficult to understand why the popularization of certain sci-fi myths is so advantageous to the global oligarchical establishment. These myths both propagate and affirm “a well-rehearsed set of narratives and tropes” that undergirds global governance. Through the sci-fi literary genre, the power elite’s fanatical eschatological vision for world order is not only rendered tenable, but inexorable. Yet, the globalist dream world is neither tenable nor inexorable because it does not comport with the structure of reality. Reality will continue to relentlessly assert itself, rudely awaking the inheritors of Rhodes’ Anglotopian dreams.</p><h2><strong>Sources Cited</strong></h2><p>Bartter, Martha A. “Normative fiction.” <em>Science Fiction, Social Conflict, and War</em>, Philip John Davies, ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990, 169-85.</p><p>Bell, Duncan. <em>Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America</em>. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2020.</p><p>Bostrom, Nick. “A History of Transhumanist Thought.” <em>Nick Bostrom’s Home Page</em> 21 February 2006 &lt;<a href="http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/history.pdf">http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/history.pdf</a>&gt;</p><p>Doyle, Arthur Conan. <em>The Sign of Four</em>. 1890. Project Gutenberg. Web. Aug. 2023 &lt;<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2097/2097-h/2097-h.htm#chap02">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2097/2097-h/2097-h.htm#chap02</a>&gt;</p><p>“Francis Marion Crawford.” <em>Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia</em> 29 April 2024 &lt;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Crawford">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Crawford</a>&gt;</p><p>Herrick, James A. <em>The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition. </em>Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003.</p><p>—. <em>Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs</em>. Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2008.</p><p>Katsiaficas, George and Mary Lou Emery. “Critical Theory and the Limits of Sociological Positivism.” <em>Transforming Sociology Series</em>. 1978. Red Feather Institute 2008 &lt;<a href="http://www.tryoung.com/archives/176krkpt.htm">http://www.tryoung.com/archives/176krkpt.htm</a>&gt;</p><p>Quigley, Carroll. <em>Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time</em>. New York: Macmillan, 1966.</p><p>Rotberg, Robert. <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195049683/conspiracyarc-20/102-5485159-1789706?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;link%5Fcode=xm2">The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power</a></em>. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.</p><p>Shipman, Pat. <em>The Evolution of Racism</em>. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.</p><p>Skelton, Charlie. “Silicon Assets.” <em>Flaunt Magazine</em> 22 September 2015 &lt;<a href="http://www.flaunt.com/content/art/silicon-assets&amp;gt">http://www.flaunt.com/content/art/silicon-assets&amp;gt</a>;</p><p>Sklar, Dusty. <em>The Nazis and the Occult</em>. New York: Dorset Press, 1977.</p><p>Smith, Wolfgang. <em>Teilhardism and the New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</em>. Illinois: TAN Books, 1988.</p><p>Weldes, Jutta. “Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics.” <em>To Seek Out New Worlds: Science Fiction and World Politics</em>, Jutta Weldes, ed. NY: Palgrave, 2003, 1-27.</p><p>Wright, John C. “C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke.” <em>Live Journal </em>21 April 2009</p><p>&lt;<a href="http://johncwright.livejournal.com/243016.html">http://johncwright.livejournal.com/243016.html</a>&gt;</p><h2><strong>About the Authors</strong></h2><p><strong>Phillip D. Collins</strong> acted as the editor for <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140336799X/conspiracyarc-20/">The Hidden Face of Terrorism</a></em> and co-authored the books <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1419639323/conspiracyarc-20/">The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship</a></em> and <em>Invoking the Beyond: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man</em>. Both books are available at </p><p>http://www.amazon.com</p><p>. Phillip has also written articles for <em>News With Views</em>, <em>Conspiracy Archive</em>, and the <em>Vexilla Regis Journal</em>.</p><p>In 1999, Phillip earned an Associate degree of Arts and Science from Clark State Community College. In 2006, he earned a bachelor’s degree with majors in communication studies and liberal studies along with a minor in philosophy from Wright State University.</p><p>Phillip worked as a staff writer for a weekly news publication, the <em>Vandalia Drummer</em>, between late 2007 and 2011. During his tenure with the paper, he earned several accolades.</p><p>In 2011, he was inducted into the Media Honor Roll by the Ohio School Board Association for his extensive coverage of the Vandalia-Butler School District. That very same year, the Ohio Newspaper Association bestowed an Osman C. Hooper Newspaper Award upon Phillip for Best Photo. In addition, the City of Vandalia officially proclaimed that November 7, 2011 would be known as “Phillip Collins Day.” This honor was bestowed upon Phillip for his tireless coverage of the City and community.</p><p>Shortly after bringing his journalism career to a close, Phillip received another Osman C. Hooper Newspaper Award in the category of In-depth Reporting. This award was given to Phillip for his investigative work over the death of U.S. Marine Maria Lauterbach and the resultant Department of Defense reforms concerning sexual assault and rape. The case drew national attention and received TV coverage by major media organs.</p><p><strong>Paul David Collins</strong> is the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140336799X/conspiracyarc-20/">The Hidden Face of Terrorism</a> </em>and the co-author of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1419639323/conspiracyarc-20/"> </a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1419639323/conspiracyarc-20/">The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship</a> and Invoking the Beyond: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man</em><strong>.</strong> In 1999, he earned his Associate of Arts and Science degree from Clark State Community College. In 2006, he received his bachelor’s degree with a major in Liberal Studies and a minor in Political Science from Wright State University. He worked as a professional journalist for roughly four years.</p><p>From 2008 to 2012, Paul covered local news for several Times Community News publications, including the<em>Enon Messenger, the New Carlisle Sun, the Tipp City Herald, the Kettering/Oakwood Times, the Beavercreek News Current, the Vandalia Drummer, the Springboro Sun, the Englewood Independent, the Fairborn Daily Herald</em>, and the <em>Xenia Daily Gazette.</em></p><p>Paul also wrote for other local papers, including the <em>Enon Eagle</em>, the <em>New Carlisle News</em>, and the Lusk Herald. In addition to his work in the realm of mainstream, Paul has published several articles concerning the topics of deep politics and elite deviancy. Those articles have appeared in Terry Melanson’s online <em>Conspiracy Archive, Paranoia magazine, Vexilla Regis Journal</em>, and <em>Nexus magazine</em>.</p>

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