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<h2>By David Gosselin</h2><p>The last few years have seen a culmination of a nearly century-long effort to perfect social engineering and psychological warfare techniques in the Western world. Some observers have remarked that a significant portion of the population appears to be under a spell. They may be closer to the truth than they think.</p><p>As previously reported by <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/08/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour">The Guardian</a></em> and <em><a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/brian-gerrishs-testimony-to-reiner-fullmich-our-oppressors-are-very-frightened-people">The UK Column</a></em>, governments across the Western world—especially among the Five Eyes—have been using “Nudge Theory” and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to effectively change people’s behaviors without their conscious knowledge.</p><p>The purpose of this article is to provide an in-depth look at precisely how these psychological techniques work, as well as the main nodes tasked with weaponizing them. We will then consider how a precise understanding of <em>how</em> the methods are used can essentially allow people to neutralize them, as well as <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537265-nato-cognitive-warfare-public-mind/">their future use</a>.</p><p>Notable among the array of techniques used in the covid-19 pandemic response is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP includes the idea of “re-framing” people’s perception of reality by changing the context in which various situations or realities are viewed by individuals. Interestingly, the first book on NLP, <em>The Structure of Magic</em>, includes such chapters as “Becoming a Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “The Final Incantation.”</p><p>Therapeutic techniques associated with NLP are often described as having magic-like qualities. While these techniques may be considered neutral and potentially very useful for clients wishing to resolve personal issues, they can by their very nature be weaponized and used to redefine people’s perception of reality. As we will see, by “re-framing” an individual’s perception and transforming their “linguistic model,” they may be convinced to make choices that they would not consciously make were a wider or alternative “context” presented.</p><p>Re-wind to the UK Institute for Government’s 2010 <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/mindspace">MindSpace</a></em> discussion document and we find something akin to a twenty-first century “<a href="https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/the-sorcerer-s-apprentice">Sorcerer’s Apprentice</a>” handbook. Commissioned by the UK Cabinet Office, <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MINDSPACE.pdf">MindSpace</a></em> is filled with techniques that could be used to target what its authors refer to as “automatic processes” i.e. unconscious processes. The document reads like a “how to” on changing people’s thoughts and behavior patterns without their conscious knowledge or consent. As we will see “re-framing” techniques feature prominently in the form of the document’s “context” model of behaviour change. Today, we observe their application in virtually every sector of public policy-making.</p><p>Ostensibly a discussion document, the “About this document” section of the report describes its purpose as “exploring the application of behavioural theory to public policy for senior public sector leaders and policy-makers.” Hailing from several of the UK’s “elite” institutions, including London Imperial College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, its authors are some of the leading experts in the fields of social psychology and behavioural science.</p><p>On page 14, the<em> MindSpace</em> authors outline the basic outlook and insights guiding their approach to “behaviour change” by making the distinction between “automatic processes” and “reflective processes”:</p><p>“The contrasting model of behaviour change focuses on the more automatic processes of judgment and influence – what Robert Cialdini calls “click, whirr” processes of mind. This shifts the focus of attention away from facts and information, and towards altering the context within which people act. We might call this the “context” model of behaviour change. The context model recognises that that people are sometimes seemingly irrational and inconsistent in their choices, often because they are influenced by surrounding factors. Therefore, it focuses more on “changing behaviour without changing minds.” This route has received rather less attention from researchers and policymakers.”</p><p>Page 14 of the “Introduction” section includes a chart outlining the characteristic differences between the two systems:</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%2F5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.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%2F5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.png" width="517" height="279" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":279,"width":517,"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>“Changing behaviour without changing minds” is in many ways similar to NLP “re-framing” techniques. Considering its significance and potential future use, a few words on the nature of NLP should be added.</p><h2><strong>The Structure of “Magic”</strong></h2><p>Since its foundations were laid in <em>The Structure of Magic</em> by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, NLP practitioners have described NLP as having magic-like qualities. NLP is usually framed as a question of expanding a client’s ability to deal with the real world by transforming the linguistic models through which they interface with the world. NLP practitioners point out that none of us directly interact with the real world, but rather do so in accordance with the models that we have ourselves developed to map the world. Said otherwise, our actual experience of the world and the models or maps that we create based on that experience are not identical. In <em>The Structure of Magic</em> the authors use the example of an actual map, which is not the actual territory, but only a representation of it. The map is useful to the degree that it resembles the actual territory, but it is not the territory. From there, the authors list three basic ways that people may misshape their own maps of reality: deletions, distortions, and generalizations.</p><p>By helping the client to change his/her map—formed linguistically—an NLP practitioner can help change how a person responds and behaves under various circumstances.</p><p>As an initial practical example of the potential effects, one can change the frame of reference in respect to time: someone told they have one hour to write a paper will likely have a significantly different response than if they are told they have one week to write the same paper. Time becomes a critical frame of reference.</p><p>John Grinder gives the example of a session with a client who complains: “My son makes me so angry when he comes home late.” The mother is always upset when her son arrives home late. There seems to be no option that doesn’t lead to some kind of distressed state. So the therapist may ask: “Is there a time when your son came home and you weren’t angry?” By asking the client to identify some time where they didn’t have the same reaction, they are being challenged to retrieve new information from their “deep structure” and integrate it into a new expanded model. The client is creating choice where it previously did not exist.</p><p>In NLP terms, the “surface structure” (My son makes me so angry when he comes home late) suggests that their son coming home late, regardless of any context, is the cause of their anger and distress. In that limited surface structure no alternative choice or response exists in the event their son arrives home late. However, using a series of questions the therapist can challenge the client to refine their own model in order to create a more adaptive one. So cases included in the client’s “deep structure” are brought to the surface i.e. perhaps coming home late was not the actual problem: maybe it was the fear of their child being out late after dark, or a feeling of disrespect, a refusal accept the maturation of their child, or a feeling of neglect? In a word: the client is challenged to create “well-formed” sentences which include the deletions or reject the generalizations, distortions. In a word: the NLP expert can help clients re-evaluate their linguistic map, allowing for a change in their potential response or choice in various situations.</p><p>With these basic NLP techniques or “incantations,” patients are provided with new opportunities to reframe their experience. However, this “reframing” of the world according to alternative linguistic models also means that their thoughts and behaviours may be altered either for better or for worse. The naturally neutral nature of “re-framing” techniques may be either more accurate or less accurate, or even completely false, depending on how one “re-frames” their perception of reality.</p><p>A relevant example would be recent covid-19 messaging slogans like “Stay Home. Save Lives.” While a seemingly simple and straight-forward message, upon further examination the seemingly simple surface structure “Stay home. Save lives” has a very specific “deep structure.” The statement includes what in NLP terms could be considered “deletions” or simply “generalizations.” For example, if one tries to invert or explore the statement “Stay Home. Save Lives” and all its possibilities, one finds the slogan has only one alternative: “leave your home and murder people.”</p><p>The linguistic model frames reality as a set of two choices: making the conscious decision to save lives or take lives. There is no nuance, no exceptions for young and healthy people, or specifications for people at higher risk of becoming ill. According to the “Stay Home. Save Lives” model, one can effectively murder people simply by choosing to leave their home.</p><p>The reframing of basic everyday scenarios in order to elicit the maximum fear response with almost scientific precision is not by chance. Social engineers understand that by framing questions in a certain manner such that they directly target “automatic motivations,” basic evolutionary mechanisms can be activated and weaponized.</p><p>In fact, as the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22032020.pdf">March 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 board meeting summary</a> documents, the perception of personal threat and danger in respect to covid-19 had to be increased in order to increase compliance with covid-19 social-distancing measures. Point 2, under the “Persuasion” option of the SAGE meeting minutes reads as follows:</p><p>Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group (8), although levels of concern may be rising. Having a good understanding of the risk has been found to be positively associated with adoption of COVID-19 social distancing measures in Hong Kong (10). The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting Evaluation of options for increasing social distancing Page 2 emotional messaging. To be effective this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22032020.pdf">March 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 SAGE Meeting Minutes</a></p><p>While the SAGE board is a UK government organization, various other UK agencies and outlets turn out to be at the very center of the covid-19 messaging campaigns across the entire Five Eyes i.e. Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. Specifically, the <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/">Behavioural Insights Team</a> (BIT) appears to be one of the crucial and most effective nodes in this psychological warfare web, operating under the guise of crafting effective covid-19 messaging and using <em>MindSpace</em> “behavioural insights” to shape public policy.</p><h2><strong>Entering </strong><em><strong>MindSpace</strong></em></h2><p>With some background knowledge of how the latest research into social psychology and behavioural science is being applied, let us take a closer look at exactly how specific knowledge of <em>MindSpace </em>and its particular “behavioural insights” can vastly transform our own ability to not only defeat present psychological warfare operations, but may also prevent future ones.</p><p>As we have said, the main focus of <em>MindSpace</em> is centered on the crucial distinction between “reflective processes” and “automatic processes”:</p><p><em>The two s</em>ystems have different capabilities: the reflective mind has limited capacity, but offers more systematic and “deeper” analysis. The automatic mind processes many things separately, simultaneously, and often unconsciously, but is more “superficial”: it takes short-cuts and has ingrained biases. As one academic source explains,<em> “once triggered by environmental features, [these] preconscious automatic processes run to completion without any conscious monitoring.”</em></p><p><em>“Without any</em> <em>conscious monitoring” </em>means if certain messages are framed in such a manner <em>t</em>hat they bypass conscious processes and speak directly to the automatic processes, then by the nature of the evolutionary mechanisms built into us (for example, fight or flight responses), humans are hard-wired to respond without having to resort to self-conscious decision-making. An example of triggers for our automatic processes and motivations are the sudden appearance of existential danger, or someone threating our children: our bodies and minds are hard-wired to respond; our adrenaline spikes; fight or flight responses kick in whether we wish them to or not. Furthermore, regardless of whether the perceived threat is real or not, the perception of such a threat has essentially the same effect on our built-in mechanisms and<em> “automatic processes.”</em></p><p>In this light, consider the fact that<em> Mindspace</em> is essentially a document discussing the vast array of techniques to trigger and direct our automatic motivations with scientific precision and with the least amount of intervention by our “reflective processes.”</p><p>Page 18 in the “User’s Guide” section presents a checklist of influences on our behaviour:</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%2Fc880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.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%2Fc880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.png" width="720" height="403" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":403,"width":720,"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>So today, it is believed that by “re-framing” reality and <a href="https://www.weforum.org/videos/the-great-narrative-the-great-narrative-a-call-to-action-english">the narratives</a> people live their lives by i.e. “the context model” and “nudging” people from the standpoint of various behavioural insights found in <em>MindSpace</em>, including natural “defaults,” “norms,” “cues,” “priming”—all of which target the automatic processes—it’s believed that people can be “nudged” into making choices they otherwise would not make. Morever, it’s believed that because behaviours and thoughts will be changed “below-board” i.e. using automatic motivations, even if people know their ideas have changed, they won’t necessarily be able to know how or why.</p><p>In a word: the whole art of “nudging” and “re-framing” lies in crafting messages that speak directly to our automatic processes with the limited intervention of our “reflective processes.” For, the latter instantly slows down the “click whirr” response of automatic processes and leads to more questions.</p><p>Of course,<em> MindSpace</em> uses benign examples to demonstrate how its “non-coercive” influences work, from putting a vegetable option first in school cafeterias in order to improve diet among children, to creating more smoke-free zones using distance. However, when looked at more closely, it is precisely the “automatic motivations” that can be triggered and weaponized within various contexts, especially in times of perceived crisis or threat.</p><p>Having discussed the basic outlines and intentions behind <em>MindSpace</em>, we can now fast-forward to the application of these techniques in the recent two years. Enter the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known as the “Nudge Unit.”</p><h2><strong>The BIT: </strong>“<strong>Nudging</strong>”<strong> Towards a Brave New World</strong></h2><p>According to its website, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is jointly owned by “the UK Cabinet Office, the innovation charity Nesta and BI employees.” Not surprisingly, the UK Cabinet Office is the same institution that commissioned <em>MindSpace</em> several years earlier.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/">Behavioural Insights Team</a> (BIT) appears to be one of the most effective nodes in this psychological warfare web. Its website states that they have <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/our-offices/">offices</a> across the entirety of the Five Eyes, as well as France.</p><p>Known as the “Nudge Unit,” it has pioneered “nudge theory” as a means of changing people’s behavior in order to implement economic, public, environmental, and health policies. As we have discussed, nudging includes recognizing certain “default” positions that people have and “re-framing” the context of perceived choices according to various specifications. By their nature, these techniques involve Neuro Linguistic Programming where “anchors” and “cues,” “priming” and “re-framing” are utilized. These techniques have all been honed after decades of research such that an unknowing citizenry bombarded with a panoply of techniques meant to trigger their automatic motivations should hardly be able to recognize how these operations are being deployed across vast parts of the world. And yet, this is exactly what teams like the BIT are involved in.</p><p>As reported by the <em><a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-controls-british-government-response-covid19-part-one">UK Column</a></em>, two teams were identified as leading the covid-19 response in Britain:</p><p>The first is the team at Imperial College led by Neil Ferguson, which claims to be able to use its computer models to forecast the spread and impact of the disease. The second is the army of behavioural “scientists” who have been ‘nudging’ us at every opportunity into making decisions which favour the preferred options set by global policy makers.</p><p>While the role of London Imperial College (LCI) in producing the doomsday models to justify the complete lockdown of the Western world is beyond the scope of this essay, it should be pointed out that the LCI has played a role very similar to that of the UK’s <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/09/29/the-collision-of-two-opposing-green-destinies-cop26-and-east-anglias-fraud/">East Anglia University</a> managing the statistical data used to generate “climate change” doomsday models, which are then cited by the UN and other government bodies the world over. Of interest for this report is the latter team: the “army” of behavioural scientists (of which the BIT appears to be a top-tier division).</p><p>Take for instance the BIT’s study of “<a href="https://www.bi.team/blogs/four-messages-that-can-increase-uptake-of-the-covid-19-vaccines/">Four Messages that Can Increase the Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines</a>” published on March 15<sup>th</sup>, 2021. The most effective message for increasing vaccination uptake was “protecting loved ones”:</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%2F409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.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%2F409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.png" width="501" height="475" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":475,"width":501,"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>Having studied the <em>MindSpace</em> findings on “automatic motivations,” the top-ranked message should come as no surprise: if someone is faced with the choice of “protecting loved ones” from an existential threat—whether real or perceived—the decision is <em>automatic</em>. Additionally, from the standpoint of “defaults” (losses looms larger than gains), most empathetic human beings will not want to risk losing loved ones—a major loss—for the sake of say attending some social function—a minor gain. Moreover, they will be willing to make great sacrifices in order to avoid even larger losses, whether potentially real or simply perceived.</p><p>As readers look over each of the four messages they should consider the fact that none of the messages themselves essentially require any sort of serious reflective process or conscious evaluation. Even the use of phrasings like “according to most experts” or “research shows” are themselves <em>not</em> scientific statements, but appeals to group think.</p><p>In reality, no honest scientist argues over the validity of their work or research by saying “most scientists agree.” Scientific truth and fact are <em>never</em> the product of consensus. And yet we have seen a very steep rise in the use of group-think arguments for promoting public policy, from the idea that “97% of scientists agree on global warming” to “thousands of healthcare workers are getting vaccinated.” Virtually all covid-19 public messaging is crafted to appeal to precisely the human tendency for group think and adherence to “norms.”</p><p>Consider the next three most effective messages.</p><p>Number two was covid-19 vaccination programs have the “<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/17-000-health-care-workers-quebec-vaccination-suspended-1.6191433">approval</a>” of healthcare workers.</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%2F391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.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%2F391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.jpeg" width="530" height="568" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":568,"width":530,"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>Number three lists “Getting Lives Back,” but specifically prescribes <em>not</em> making promises that life will ever go back to “normal.”</p><p>The fourth and final most effective message is a simple and outright appeal to group-think i.e. “social proof.”</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%2Fd5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.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%2Fd5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.png" width="508" height="532" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":532,"width":508,"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>None of these messages require critical faculties. In fact, they discourage them. They are specifically crafted to bypass conscious processes and directly speak to “automatic processes.”</p><h2><em><strong>Conclusion</strong></em></h2><p>As we mentioned at the beginning of this report, these latest developments in psychological warfare represent a culmination of a century-long effort to perfect social engineering in the Western world. While we discussed the application of these techniques in respect to covid-19 messaging, these techniques can be seen in public-policy messaging across virtually every sector of society, especially concerning the environment and economic policy.</p><p>When considering the current and future use of these kinds of techniques for “behaviour change,” let us remember the words of an early social engineering enthusiast and descendent of one of England’s oldest imperial lines, Lord Bertrand Russell. Over a half a century ago, Russell remarked:</p><p>The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.</p><p>Concluding his optimistic musings on the future of social engineering techniques, Russell writes:</p><p>Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.</p><p>Bertrand Russell – <em>The Impact of Science on Society</em> (1951)</p><p>While much of the applied research in the fields of social psychology and behavioural science appears to have enabled social engineers to imbue their messages with an almost spell-like quality, as even the founders of NLP described in <em>The Structure of Magic</em>—these “incantations” and “nudges” have a very definite structure. They are formulaic and therefore easily identifiable once a name has been put on them.</p><p>Since the would-be sorcerer’s apprentices of today appear to have no <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537265-nato-cognitive-warfare-public-mind/">plans of letting up</a> on the application of these techniques across virtually every sphere of thought and action, the simple act of putting a name on them may be the essential step to “breaking the spell.” For, the act itself essentially neutralizes the “nudges” by turning them into conscious objects. Suddenly, “the populace” is “allowed to know how its convictions were generated.”</p><p>As <em>MindSpace</em> authors mentioned, automatic processes can go on operating unimpeded and without any monitoring by the conscious self until completion. In the case of an ever-changing crisis-management response and the organization of society around “pandenomics,” those simply waiting for the spells to wear off may find themselves disappointed, and neck-deep in crises far beyond the control of a twenty-first century sorcerer’s apprentice. The key to breaking the spell is naming it. O<strong>nce a name is put on these “structures,” forcing them out of the automatic processes and into conscious processes, the programs essentially stop running at their automatic “click, whirr” speed. Unconscious thoughts—the “deep structures”—are brought into view of other analytical processes—essentially gumming up the works. Suddenly, the “magic” disappears. The smooth and well-oiled thoughtless automatic flight forward reaches a screeching halt.</strong></p><p><strong>The spell is broken.</strong></p><p><strong>David B. Gosselin</strong> is a poet, translator, and linguist based in Montreal. He is the founder of <em><a href="https://www.thechainedmuse.com/">The Chained Muse</a></em> poetry website and the founder of the <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsAdXbEm8o&amp;feature=emb_title">New Lyre Podcast</a></em>.  His new collection of poems is entitled <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Dreams-David-Gosselin/dp/B0915VD4KZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=modern+dreams+david+gosselin&amp;qid=1637386510&amp;qsid=145-4735233-3300616&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;sres=B0915VD4KZ&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK">Modern Dreams</a></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Dreams-David-Gosselin/dp/B0915VD4KZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=modern+dreams+david+gosselin&amp;qid=1637386510&amp;qsid=145-4735233-3300616&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;sres=B0915VD4KZ&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK">.</a></p><p><strong>Works Cited</strong></p><p>Bandler, Richard, and John Grinder. <em>The Structure of Magic</em>. Science and Behavior Book, Inc. 1975</p><p>Halpern, David, et al. <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/mindspace">MindSpace</a></em>. Institute for Government. UK Cabinet Office (2010).</p><p>Russell, Bertrand. <em>The Impact of Science on Society</em>. Routledge; 1st edition (Jan. 1 1985)</p><h2>Author bio: <strong>David Gosselin</strong> is a poet, researcher, and translator in Montreal, Canada. He is the founding editor of <a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/">The Chained Muse</a>. His personal Substack is <a href="https://ageofmuses.substack.com/">Age of Muses</a>, where he publishes historical deep-dives, original poetry and a variety of writings for a new renaissance.</h2>

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<h2>By Gerald Therrien</h2><p><em>On July 1st, we celebrate Canada day, or as it used to be called Dominion day, to celebrate the original confederation of 4 separate colonies under the British monarchy, into 1 Dominion of Canada under the British monarchy, on July 1st 1867. This is the story of how Canada became a ‘Dominion’ of the British parliamentary monarchy – that it remains to this day.</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%2Fce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.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%2Fce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.jpeg" width="1456" height="780" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":780,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1584878,"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></p><h1>The Dark Side of Canada’s Confederation (Or How Palmerston’s Zoo shaped Canada)</h1><p>It is estimated that during the American Civil War, up to 40,000 Canadians volunteered to join the Union Army (many of them already living in the United States, including Calixa Lavallee – who would later compose the music for <em>O Canada</em>), while maybe up to 4,000 fought for the southern confederacy. </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%2Fc583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.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%2Fc583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.jpeg" width="279" height="585" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":585,"width":279,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" 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><em>Calixa Lavallee in his Union uniform</em></p><p>[for more of the story of Calixa Lavalle, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/05/25/calixa-lavallee-father-of-canadas-national-anthem-and-lafayette-of-american-music/">Calixa Lavallee: Father of Canada’s National Anthem and Lafayette of American music</a>’, by Matthew Ehret]</p><p>While the majority of Canadians were pro-American, the British government of Canada, however, was in favour of the break-up of the United States.  While the British did provide support to the southern confederates – allowing the confederate secret service to freely operate out of the Canadian colonies during the civil war, the British also supported the annexation of the Canadian provinces with some of the northern American states.</p><p>However, the British policy of Lord Palmerston meant that those northern states would be annexed into the British North American colonies <em>– </em>but not the other way around – NOT annexing the Canadian provinces into the American union.</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%2F8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.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%2F8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.jpeg" width="318" height="500" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":500,"width":318,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":"undefined","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" 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><em>Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston</em></p><blockquote><p><em>“the confederated States of British North America … would virtually hold the balance of power on the continent, and lead to the restoration of that influence which, more than eighty years ago, England was supposed to have lost”</em></p><p>[Excerpt from the Morning Post, ‘the recognized organ of the Palmerstonian government’ in <em>The Civil War and the American System</em>, by Alan Salisbury. Page 30-31]</p></blockquote><p>On July 2<sup>nd</sup> 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the<em> ‘Pacific Railroad Act’</em>, to build a trans-continental railway from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California and the Pacific coast of America (accomplishing the greatest engineering feat that had ever been attempted), the British Empire saw their possessions of their small colony on Vancouver Island and the huge land holdings of the Hudson Bay Company in northern Canada threatened by America’s Manifest Destiny.</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%2F46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.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%2F46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.jpeg" width="750" height="295" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":295,"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>With the Union army victories at Vicksburg and at Gettysburg in July 1863, the British plan of separation and annexation was doomed. Not only that, but a new possibility of America’s annexation of British American colonies into the republic became a great fear for the British Empire, and had to be stopped at all costs.</p><p>And so began the Empire’s plan for Canada.</p><p>In the fall of 1863, Arthur Gordon, Governor of New Brunswick (and the son of the former British Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon (1852-1855)), proposed a meeting with the governors of the other maritime provinces – with George Dundas, the Governor of Prince Edward Island, and with George Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave, the Governor of Nova Scotia (and the former Treasurer of the Royal Household under the current Prime Minister Palmerston). </p><p>When Phipps left Nova Scotia to return to Britain in September 1763, his successor, Sir Richard MacDonnell, was sent to Nova Scotia with instructions to support a union of the maritime colonies. </p><p>Confederation was a high-level Palmerston project – run through the supporters of the government in the Canadian colonies – not the (real) Canadian reformers which they are often confused with today.</p><p>Gordon’s proposal was for a meeting of the three governors, along with their three provincial premiers – only! </p><p>However, Charles Tupper, who became the new premier of Nova Scotia in May, stated that the government of Nova Scotia would not attend Gordon’s conference unless delegates from the opposition were also allowed to attend, and the provincial legislature approved a resolution for a five-man all-party delegation to participate.  The premiers of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island followed Tupper’s lead. It was agreed by the 3 provinces, that the conference would start on September 1<sup>st</sup> in Charlottetown.</p><p>Tupper saw this issue as potentially divisive, unpredictable and dangerous, and to go alone to the conference meant making a commitment – a commitment which might not be welcomed by his own party, or by the voters – where support for maritime union was barely an inch deep.</p><blockquote><p>“It would be better to share the credit than risk taking the entire blame.”</p><p>[from <em>‘1867 – How the Fathers Made a Deal’</em> by Christopher Moore, p. 42]</p></blockquote><p>Meanwhile in Canada [i.e. Ontario and Quebec], on June 14<sup>th</sup>, the Tache-Macdonald government suffered a vote of no-confidence, with the prospect of a dissolution of parliament and a new general election.  However, with the assistance of Charles Monck, the Governor-general of Canada, the free-trader George Brown was brought into negotiations to join the government, and on June 30<sup>th</sup> became the President of the Executive Council, replacing the now-ousted Isaac Buchanan. </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%2F38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.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%2F38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.jpeg" width="217" height="301" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":301,"width":217,"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 more of the story of Isaac Buchanan, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/24/the-american-system-in-canada/">The American System in Canada</a>’, by Alexandre Poisson]</p><p>And on that same day, Monck wrote to the governors of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, asking if a delegation from the new coalition government of Canada would be permitted to attend the Charlottetown conference.</p><p>At its first meeting on September 1<sup>st</sup> 1864, the Maritime delegates learned of the arrival of the Canadian delegates, and then decided that the discussion of Maritime union would be postponed until after the Canadians had presented their plan for federal union.  When the discussion of Maritime union was later held, the maritime delegates could not agree and decided that:</p><blockquote><p>“… confederation seemed possible, but maritime union would not help confederation and, given its difficulties, would probably delay it.  If we could get confederation now, we could easily unite the maritime provinces … afterwards.”</p><p>[from <em>‘1867 – How the Fathers Made a Deal’</em> by Christopher Moore, p. 56]</p></blockquote><p>This intervention by the delegates from Canada had temporarily derailed the plans for Maritime Union, and instead had put forward the plan for confederation with Canada.</p><p>After the Canadian delegates were re-admitted to the session, it was decided that a new conference to discuss a federal union for all of the British North America colonies would be held, and this conference was set to begin at Quebec in October 1864, and after 3 weeks of this Quebec conference, it would result in the signing of 72 resolutions – not a plan for union, but resolutions to be sent to the British government.</p><p>But something was still needed to be able to stampeded the Canadian and Maritime populations into agreeing to this confederation scheme.</p><p>The Confederate Secret Service, under the watchful and supportive eyes of British intelligence, would now organize and launch raids from British North America into the territory of the United States.  A confederate raid, organized out of Montreal, into St. Albans Vermont on October 19<sup>th</sup> 1864, robbed three banks of $208,000, and the raiders were able to escape back into Canada.</p><p>In response some Americans called for an invasion of Canada (as was the intention of the plan).  These reports caused a great concern among the Canadian population and were used to attack their pro-American outlook; and it would also be used to give a sense of urgency to those delegates who were in the middle of meetings at the confederation conference in Quebec City.</p><p>After the end of the Quebec confederation conference, the Morning Post in London (a Palmerston organ) printed that:</p><blockquote><p>“there is but one enemy which the new confederation can have cause to fear, namely, the Northern section of the late American republic; and it is in the possibility of an American invasion of Canada as soon as all the hopes of subjugating the Southern Confederacy are abandoned which has dictated the union which would now seem to be determined on.”</p></blockquote><p>But, Lincoln rescinded the orders from General Dix to send troops to St. Albans to find the raiders and, if necessary, to pursue them into Canada. Lincoln feared that a war with Britain would open up a two-front war and that this would only aid the southern confederates who were now facing defeat. </p><p>General Sherman had by this point occupied Atlanta on September 2<sup>nd</sup>, and the Confederate army was precariously sitting between Sherman’s ‘anvil’ and Grant’s ‘hammer’. Lincoln decided that he would wait until after the upcoming presidential election on November 8<sup>th</sup> to deal with the British.</p><p>Within 24 hours, the Canadian government had arrested 14 of the raiders and had recovered only $86,000 of the stolen funds – $120,000 had simply disappeared!  When the trial was finally held, Judge Charles Coursol (who was the son-in-law of the Canadian premier Tache) ruled that the court had no warrant from the Governor-general and therefore no jurisdiction over the case, and the prisoners were released – along with the $87,000!</p><p>The raiders had excellent legal counsel, including lawyer John Abbott (who would later become Prime Minister of Canada, on the death of John A. Macdonald in 1891).  Abbott showed the court that there was a flaw in the extradition treaty between the United States and British North America, and that the raiders could not be extradited to the United States, to stand trial there.</p><p>On December 6<sup>th</sup> 1864, the newly re-elected President Lincoln in his address to Congress said, that :</p><blockquote><p>“In view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and depredations committed by inimical and desperate persons, who are harbored there, it has been thought proper to give notice that after the expiration of six months, the period conditionally stipulated in the existing arrangement with Great Britain, the United States must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the lakes, if they shall find that proceeding necessary.  The condition of the border will necessarily come into consideration in connection with the question of continuing or modifying the rights of transit from Canada through the United States, as well as the regulation of imposts, which were temporarily established by the reciprocity treaty of the 5<sup>th</sup> June, 1854 ….”</p></blockquote><p>On December 13<sup>th</sup>, the same day that the St. Albans raiders were released, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution authorizing the President to give the requisite notice for terminating the treaty made with Great Britain on behalf of the British provinces in North America [i.e. Canada and the Maritimes], and to appoint commissioners to negotiate a new treaty with the British government, based upon the true principles of reciprocity.  After the resolution was also passed by the Senate, the resolution was approved by President Lincoln.</p><p>The reciprocity treaty of 1854 was to be for 10 years, after which either side could end the treaty.  The treaty was now set by the United States to expire in one year, on March 17<sup>th</sup> 1866.  Canadian vessels would no longer be able to sail freely in American waters, and Canadian goods would no longer pass freely across the border.  Lincoln was, in effect, sealing the border.</p><blockquote><p><strong>Some Words About the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854</strong></p><p>When Britain had repealed the corn laws in 1846 in favor of a free-trade policy, because of the adverse effects on the Canadian economy, an annexation movement was organized in 1850, in support of Canada joining the United States.  To defeat this movement, the Governor-general of Canada, Lord Elgin, negotiated a free-trade deal, the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, with William Macy, the Secretary of State under the treasonous President Franklin Pierce.</p><p>The treaty provided for free trade of natural resource and agricultural products between United States and the British colonies.  Previously, the British tariff on American goods into Canada had been a low 2 ½ %, while the US tariff on Canadian goods had been 21 %.  In exchange for the American generosity, the United States were given free fishing rights in Canadian waters, and the Canadians were given free fishing rights in American waters north of 36 degrees.</p><p>It was because of the inadequacy of this treaty regarding manufactures, that Isaac Buchanan organized for the passing of the Cayley-Galt tariffs of 1858 and 1859 – increasing the Canadian tariff to 25% on all manufactures that competed with Canada’s domestic industrial products.</p><p>Henry Carey had organized in the United States to defeat the attempt of a reciprocity treaty, but <em>“the election of Mr. Pierce, and consequent return of the proslavery party to power, brought about a change, however; it having then become to the South most clearly obvious that for preventing annexation of the British Possessions there was but a single remedy – that of granting to the Provinces all the advantages of being in the Union, while requiring of their people the performance of none of the duties, the bearing of none of the burdens, of American citizens.”</em>   </p><p>[from ‘The Civil War and the American System’ by W. Allen Salisbury (page 177 – ‘Open Letters to Henry Wilson”]</p><p>Carey would later provide advise for the drafting of the Morrill Tarriff, passed in 1861, that increased the duties on imported manufactures.</p><p>With the end of the free-trade policies in the United States, and the end of free-trade treaty with the United States, Britain was again worried about the threat of an annexation movement in Canada.  Remember – Palmerston favored the northern states being absorbed into British North American, but in no way, would allow the absorption of the British colonies into the United States!</p></blockquote><p>In December 1864, George Brown was sent to London to explain the plan of confederation to the British ministry.  He travelled with British Lt-Col Jervois, who had been sent to Canada by the Colonial Office to advise the Canadian government on measures of defence needed in Canada. </p><p>Brown would seek approval of the confederation scheme, and met with Cardwell, the Colonial secretary, with Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with Russell, the minister of Foreign Affairs, with members of the War Office, and would spend a weekend with Palmerston.</p><p>On March 10<sup>th</sup> 1865, after much debate, the majority of the Canadian legislature approved the Quebec resolutions – by a vote of 91 to 33.  But the resolutions could only get passed in the Canadian legislature, where Brown’s Grits and Macdonald’s Tories in Canada West were both in the grand coalition government with Cartier’s Bleues from Canada East – only Dorion’s Rouges in Canada East opposed the resolutions. </p><p>In the Maritime provinces, even though the leaders of the government parties and the opposition parties had attended and signed the resolutions at Quebec, they couldn’t get the resolutions passed in their legislatures! </p><p>On March 6<sup>th</sup>, the New Brunswick government of Tilley was defeated in an election, centered around the issue of confederation, with only 8 supporters of the union plan, with 28 opponents of confederation (and with 4 of doubtful opinion) elected to the new legislature. And Nova Scotia’s government was too afraid to even put the Quebec resolution to a vote.  </p><p>Confederation with the Maritime provinces at this time was a dead letter!!!</p><p>That same week, the Canadian government cabinet would send a new delegation (including Macdonald, Brown, Galt and Cartier) to London, to explain the new situation to the British imperial cabinet.  The delegation was presented to the Queen and <strong>were allowed to kiss her hand</strong>, and they were able to meet with the British cabinet. </p><p>Brown was to write to his wife that <em>“they are willing to do whatever we desire”,</em> because Confederation was the policy of the British Empire.</p><p>On April 15<sup>th</sup>, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, using the same Confederate Secret Service nest run out of Montreal.</p><p>[for more of the story of Canada and Lincoln’s assassination, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/11/03/understanding-the-tri-fold-nature-of-the-deep-state/">Understanding the Tri-fold Nature of the Deep State</a>’, by Matthew Ehret]</p><p>But by July 1865, the Union Pacific Railway had finally begun construction at Omaha, and the Central Pacific Railway had built almost 50 miles of track and had arrived at the Rockies.</p><p>In September, the British ministry convened a Confederate Council on Commercial Treaties in Quebec, under Governor-general Monck, (including Brown and Galt from Canada, and one representative each from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland), to adopt resolutions to try to seek a temporary continuation of the present reciprocity treaty with the United States.</p><p>This is important to keep in mind since the civil war was fought as much over slavery, as it was over economic policy. The monumental change in the United States began with the election of Abraham Lincoln and the return to the American System of Alexander Hamilton.</p><p>The fight continued, as the protectionist policies of the Henry Carey-wing of the Republican party defeated the sabotage of the free traders in the Republican party (like William Cullen Bryant of New York). The United States, led by Lincoln and Carey, had established the Morrill tariff, begun the trans-continental railroad, and created a national currency (greenbacks) with government bonds to finance industrial and economic expansion – in order to win the civil war.</p><p>In November, Brown was sent to the Maritimes, to try to revive the prospects for confederation. </p><p>The Maritime supporters of confederation were promising to build an Inter colonial Railway from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Canada East (to link up with the Grand Trunk rail-lines to the west, and the line from Montreal to Portland, Maine); while the Maritime opponents of confederation were promising to build a railway from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Maine – but this would require support from both the presently-indifferent American government and from the unsympathetic British government.</p><p>At that time, Nova Scotia had a 60-mile railway from Halifax to Truro, and New Brunswick had a 100-mile railway from St. John to Shediac – while the United States was engaged in building a trans-continental railway of over 1500 miles across the American desert and the Rocky Mountains!!!</p><p>In New Brunswick, Brown met with Governor Gordon, who after his visit to Britain that summer was now a firm supporter of confederation (and against a Maritime Union), and with Wilmot, who had been a delegate to September’s Confederate Council.  Wilmot, a Liberal, had previously been in Conservative governments, but had rejected confederation and had joined the new anti-confederation liberal government.  Wilmot would shortly resign from the government and proclaim himself pro-confederation!</p><p>At the same time, Galt had traveled to the United States and had been able to meet with Secretary of the Treasury, McCulloch, and with Secretary of State, Seward. </p><p>Seward said that a new reciprocity treaty was out of the question – the only option would be to have trade legislation enacted by both governments.  While the Canadian cabinet approved of these negotiations, Brown disagreed, because without a treaty and with legislation only, it meant that either side might repeal any legislation at a moment’s notice, and Brown then resigned from cabinet.</p><p>Although Lord Palmerston, the British prime minster, would suddenly die on October 18<sup>th</sup> 1865, his policies were to be continued uninterrupted by Lord Russell.</p><p>For 31 years, from 1835 to 1866, (except for 4 short intervals totalling about 8 years), Palmerston and/or Russell were either Prime Minister and/or Foreign Secretary – including the periods of the 1837 rebellions, the 1849 annexation movement, the 1854 reciprocity treaty, the American civil war, the Fenian raids and confederation.  From 1846 to 1866, all the governor-generals of Canada were appointed by a Russell or Palmerston Government!</p><p>But something was still needed (besides bribery and blackmail of the weak officials) for the stampede of the Maritime population into supporting the Confederation plan, and thus pulling along the last hold-outs in the Maritimes against Confederation.</p><p>And the Fenians, from ‘Palmerston’s Zoo’, would now be set loose to save the British Empire’s confederation plan.</p><p>[for more of the story of Palmerston’s Zoo, please read ‘<a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415_006-palmerstons_london_during_the_18.pdf">Palmerston’s London during the 1850s: a tour of the human, multicultural zoo</a>’ by Webster Tarpley.]</p><p>[ to be continued in part 2, The Fenian Vision]</p><h4><strong>*******</strong></h4><h5><em>For those who wish to support my continuing work on ‘The Unveiling of Canadian History’, you may purchase my books, that are available as PDFs and Paperback (on Amazon) at the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/09/23/two-new-canadian-patriot-books-forlorn-hope-and-the-coming-storm-by-gerald-therrien/">Canadian Patriot Review </a>:</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 1 – The Approaching Conflict, 1753 – 1774.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 2 – Forlorn Hope – Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the War for Independence, 1775 – 1785.</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>And hopefully,</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 3 – The Storming of Hell – The War for the Territory Northwest of Ohio, 1786 – 1796, and</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 4 – Ireland, Haiti, and Louisiana, and the Idea of a Continental Republic, 1797 – 1804,</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>may appear in print, in the near future, while I continue to work on :</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 5 – On the Trail of the Treasonous, 1804 – 1814.</em></p></li></ul>

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title: The dubious legend: Jim Simons and RenTec Medallion Fund
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<p>The legendary investor behind Renaissance Technologies (RenTec), <strong>Jim Simons</strong> passed away on Friday, 10 May 2024. May he rest in peace. Having said that, I have to address all the fawning commentary that burst forth all over the internet over the weekend. Example: an admirer posted <a href="https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1788972147567661394">a Tweet stating in all caps that</a>, “IF YOU INVESTED JUST $1,000 IN JIM SIMONS MEDALLION FUND IN 1988 YOU WOULD HAVE OVER $42 MILLION DOLLARS, [BLA, BLA, BLA…]”</p>



<p>There’s a number of reasons why I don’t buy <em>the legend</em> of the RenTec Medallion fund or their performance figures, and neither should you. Over the last 25 years, I’ve devoted a good deal of time and effort into researching the performance of active investment managers and found that while there are some outliers, over the long term the best among the best tend to perform in the mid to high <em>teens</em>: around 16-17%. The outliers may go to low 20s, but almost invariably, such outperformance (like <strong>Peter Lynch</strong>) overlaps a major boom cycle, or like <strong>Buffett</strong>, they systematically follow the momentum strategy (even while they sell it as ‘value investing’). In that context, it is very extraordinary to encounter a fund that managed to outperform even <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong>, delivering a 62% performance for over three decades wit zero negative years. According to themselves, that is.</p>



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<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The strategy: mostly mumbo jumbo</strong></h2>



<p>The company is very secretive, and for the longest time Simons has been reluctant to discuss the fund’s performance. But he has given some interviews, and here’s how he explained the fund’s strategies: “Our trading models tend to be contrarian, buying stocks recently out of favor and selling those recently in favor.” Having spent over 25 years researching markets and price fluctuations, I would award Simons zero credibility points for that particular statement. It is extremely unlikely that the fund earned 62% <em>buying stocks out of favor and selling those in favor</em>. Not. A. Chance!!!</p>



<p>In a November 2000 interview with <em>Institutional Investor</em>, Simons offered a different, but slightly more detailed explanation of Medallion’s strategy: “We look at anomalies that may be small in size and brief in time. We make our forecast. Then, shortly thereafter, we reevaluate the situation and revise our forecast and our portfolio. We do this all day long. We’re always in and out and in. So we’re dependent on activity to make money.” Err… that sounds like high-frequency trading – why hasn’t anyone else thought of that?</p>



<p>I’ve come across another few statements from Simons, including crediting his success to luck (what, for 3 decades straight and without a single ‘unlucky’ year in between?). In all, I never found anything that felt even half-way authentic; it’s all <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-07/worlds-most-successful-hedge-fund-manager-ever-reveals-some-medallions-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mostly mumbo-jumbo</a> about “a great computing system, good scientists and low turnover,” at the core of the company and about never stopping improving the models to stay a step ahead of competition, bla, bla, bla…</p>



<p>According to Simons, Renaissance was basically doing what all other active hedge fund managers do. Yet somehow they outperformed the best of the best by a factor of 3 – and over a 33-year period!! Why would anyone believe such a story without independent verification (there is no independent verification) is a mystery all in itself.</p>



<p><strong>Believe us… because we say so!</strong></p>



<p>Medallion is open only to company insiders, so there’s no independent administrators, independent accounting nor external auditing of its performance: they can report whatever figures they like and I can think of a few reasons why they might like to spike those figures. Would you be surprised that <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-14/irs-claiming-hedge-fund-owes-it-68-billion-dollars-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a dispute arose</a> when the IRS wanted to collect its due share of those famed profits. It appeared that RenTec short-changed the IRS by a whopping $6.8 billion over a 15-year period. Was it because the firm’s profits weren’t quite as rich as advertised? We don’t know because RenTec settled quitely with the IRS. But wait, there’s more…</p>



<p>In 2005, RenTec launched the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund (RIEF). Unlike their insider-only Medallion fund, RIEF was open to outside investors and Simons expressed the hope that it could grow to $100 billion under management. Well, who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to invest in such a stellar outfit? But somehow, in spite of the very same “good scientists, good computing systems, and low turnover,” RIEF turned out to be a disappointing flop. From launch in July 2005 to its closing in 2009, the fund lost 4.42%.</p>



<p>These figures were reported in a 17 Feb. 2010 Financial Times article by hedge funds correspondent <strong>Sam Jones</strong>. Interestingly however, all traces of that article have subsequently been removed from the internet. That’s a sure sign of power public relations agency work. Another of RenTec’s funds open to outside investors, the Renaissance Institutional Futures Fund (RIFF) performed even worse than RIEF and had a short shelf-life. But wait, there’s more…</p>



<p>Like many famed, high-flying outfits, RenTec has strong deep-state and political connections. Before setting up his investment management firm, Jim Simons worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses under the auspices of the National Security Agency. RenTec’s long-time CEO, <strong>Robert Mercer</strong> (1993-2017) was also recruited from the defense industry (before joining the firm he worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base) and became a huge political donor with very extensive involvement in politics. In 2015, <em>The Washington Post</em> called Mercer one of the ten most influential billionaires in politics.</p>



<p>There’s more still, but as fascinating as the case of Renaissance Technologies may be, my point is simple: the legend of RenTec doesn’t pass the smell test and its stellar reputation is almost entirely based on what RenTec and their paid PR agents have to say about RenTec. </p>

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title: "Eva Bartlett Joins RBN Live. Zionists Push Censorship Regime. TRUTH About North Korea"
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/f1733259b8805d5e14c0e6e4b6e5d6b2.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" eva bartlett joins rbn live. zionists push censorship regime. truth about north korea></p>Conversation on RBN yesterday on matters occupied Palestine &amp; a bit about my DPRK visit (2017) &amp; impressions. <br><br>First pubished here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ACBnHZmxeBw<br><br>My Related:<br><br>-My entries from occupied Palestine, April-December 2007 (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/)<br><br>-Overview of time in West Bank (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/)<br><br>-Huwara lines: one of Israel’s degrading &amp; deadly military checkpoints (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/huwara-lines-one-of-israels-degrading-deadly-military-checkpoints/)<br><br>-We were arrested for protesting Israel’s illegal roadblock cutting Sarra village off from Nablus (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/ )<br><br>-Illegal Israeli colonists assault Palestinian farmers &amp; me (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/ )<br><br>-Bil'in entries (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/bilin/)<br><br>-Susiya entries (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/susiya/)<br><br>-Nablus After the Israeli Military Invasion (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/nablus-invasion-aftermath/ )<br><br>-Israeli massacre of Gaza December2008-January 2009 (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/)<br><br>-Israeli massacre of Gaza November 2012 (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/)<br><br>-Gaza overview (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/)<br><br>-Gaza videos playlist (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Gaza-Strip%2C-from-Nov-2008-March-2013:c?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6)<br><br>-DPRK overview (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/)<br><br>-DPRK videos playlist (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/DPRKorea%2C-a-visit-to-the-north%2C-2017:e?lid=e2e1e1158cfb7640c4e42a3d212b189d7c941c7d) <br><br>[Excuse the blurred background, couldn't figure out how to unblur.]<br><br>

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title: Bill Burch RTF science
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/AkM37Af7SRA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Bill Burch RTF science"></p>Since the start of 2008, there's been a quiet monster growing in the USA oil fields of how to dispose of the radioactive isotope laden, toxic heavy metal contaminated waters that come with the oil and gas production. As the number of wells drilled increased, so did the size and extent of the problem - and nowhere is it more evident than the Zombie Wells phenomena happening in the Permian Basin. Three of the five biggest Earthquakes in Texas' history have occured in the last 18 months and the regulators still haven't addressed the issues surrounding the proven groundwater pollution that's already occured.<br><br>Join the Canadian Patriot Review for a special live presentation and Q and A where special guest Bill Burch<br><br>Speaker Bio: William “Bill” Burch is an oilwell firefighter and drilling engineer based out of Houston, Texas. He’s worked in 60+ countries and holds patents in water treatment and hydrogen production. Bill recently ran for executive office in the State of Texas for the Texas Railroad Commission which is one of the most powerful Energy positions in the United States.<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) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkM37Af7SRA

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title: A new paradigm in cosmology and climate science
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/c5V-BQMyqlM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="A new paradigm in cosmology and climate science"></p>This Sunday July 14, 2024 Richard Moore was featured guest at the RTF lecture series on the topic of a New Paradigm in Cosmology and Climate Science. A wide range of topics ranging from the electric universe model of climate, to metaphysics and philosophy will be developed in this presentation and discussion.<br><br>Richard’s Bio is here: https://cyberjournal.org/about-richard/<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) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5V-BQMyqlM

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Canadian journalist &amp; author, Yves Engler, on Canada's complity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/6c3bf420c0f039aa3aa8471b09cf6a05.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Canadian journalist &amp; author, Yves Engler, on Canada's complity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza"></p>I spoke with prolific Canadian journalist and author Yves Engler about Canada's unconditional support to Israel, even, or especially, as Israel has slaughtered up to nearly 200, 000 Palestinians in Gaza (Lancet), or potentially double that number (Gilbert). <br><br>Yves lays out Canada's long history of support to Israel, including during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza, and including over 7 decades ago with Canadian pilots participating in the Zionists'  ethnic cleansing of Palestine. <br><br>He talks about Canada's arms to Israel, and providing components to the fighter planes which bomb Gaza now, and about the Canadians fighting in the Israeli army, and those being recruited by various charities and organizations in Canada.<br><br>Important information you won't hear on legacy media.<br><br>Yves is author of 13 books, and publishes at yvesengler.com &amp; https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/articles?author=57f2952659cc6814c896c9fa   <br><br>He tweets at https://x.com/EnglerYves <br><br>Some of his books:<br>https://www.barakabooks.com/?post_type=dd-product&amp;s=yves+engler <br><br><br>My blog post with related links:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/canadian-journalist-author-yves-enger-on-canadas-complity-in-israels-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/<br>

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title: RTF Montreal Symposium part 1: Matthew Ehret on Science of History and global dynamics of 1776
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/vPDeDNHuRRg" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Montreal Symposium part 1: Matthew Ehret on Science of History and global dynamics of 1776"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part one: On the Tragedy and Hope of the American Revolution<br><br>In this first of three presentations delivered to a live audience in Montreal Canada, Matthew Ehret introduces the study of history as a function of science and a study of potential (both actualized and aborted) using the case study of the American revolution and the failure of the people of Canada and France to recognize the proper principles of the universe at play during the pregnant moments that pressed upon either nation...<br><br>Watch part 2 here: https://youtu.be/f2z89mzVwFs<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) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDeDNHuRRg

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guid: https://odysee.com/rtf-symposium-pt-2-cynthia-chung-on-the:dd77ece3c95d8617cb6af5b6481864ebc581b48b
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RTF Symposium pt 2: Cynthia Chung on the Tragedy of the French Revolution &amp; Jacobin Birth of Fascism

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/f2z89mzVwFs" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Symposium pt 2: Cynthia Chung on the Tragedy of the French Revolution &amp; Jacobin Birth of Fascism"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part two: How the French Revolution was subverted, by British Masonic and Dominican psyops, and the 18th century origins of fascism: from the Jacobin Terror to Giuseppe Mazzini and Pan Europa by Cynthia Chung<br><br>Watch part 1 by Matthew Ehret here: https://youtu.be/vPDeDNHuRRg<br><br>Watch part 3 by David Gosselin here: https://youtu.be/L5l3LwqkGMY<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) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2z89mzVwFs

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title: RTF Symposium pt 3: David Gosselin on Breaking out of Tragedy with Friedrich Schiller
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/L5l3LwqkGMY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Symposium pt 3: David Gosselin on Breaking out of Tragedy with Friedrich Schiller"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part 3: Schiller vs the Savages and the Barbarians (or 'The Art of the Republics) by David Gosselin<br><br>Watch part 1 by Matthew Ehret here: https://youtu.be/vPDeDNHuRRg<br><br>Watch part 2 by Cynthia Chung here: https://youtu.be/f2z89mzVwFs<br><br>Subscribe to David Gosslin's work here:<br>https://ageofmuses.substack.com/ and thechainedmuse.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>4) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5l3LwqkGMY

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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 5]
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/zVJ2wgzVSuA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 5]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<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=zVJ2wgzVSuA

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title: Plato's Philebus (on the Purpose of Pleasure and Nature of the Good) Reading Session 02
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/gSP6tjPtaFs" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Plato's Philebus (on the Purpose of Pleasure and Nature of the Good) Reading Session 02"></p>Reading #2 of The Philebus Dialogue.<br>Click here to access reading #1:<br>https://youtu.be/41_N-S952xc<br><br> the Philebus dialogue, Plato's teacher Socrates tackles these questions and more with a look to the quantized nature of the universe and all ponderable elements within it recognizing that a trifold relationship exists within all things that co-exist as a One, an Infinite and a Many<br><br>Download the Philebus by clicking here:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PHILEBUS-by-Plato.docx<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=gSP6tjPtaFs

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title: Unravelling the World-Historic Achievement Called the American Revolution with Nancy Spannaus
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/IE6DtxyuOjk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Unravelling the World-Historic Achievement Called the American Revolution with Nancy Spannaus"></p>As the world careens into a storm of epoch-shifting proportions, it is incumbant on citizens and leaders to keep their heads on their shoulders and move with the greatest poise and understanding of those historical dynamics shaping our world. And so, it is my greatest pleasure to host the historian and author Nancy Spannaus (author of Hamilton vs Wall Street and Defeating Slavery) during this Sunday’s RTF weekly lecture.<br><br>The real nature of the American Revolution has always been controversial, and today is no exception. Was it, as Abraham Lincoln said, a nation dedicated to the principle that "all men are created equal" and dedicated to using the power of government to achieve that goal?  Or was it a complex power struggle, which enshrined the libertarian principle that rejects the idea of the general welfare, and pits the individual against the any exercise of power?<br><br>In her talk today on Sunday Aug. 4 at 2pm Eastern Time, Nancy will introduce this topic with a discussion of the Declaration of Independence, and then delve into a historical review of the "Causes of the American Revolution," and an analysis of "How Revolutionary was the American Revolution." For reference, much of the material in her talks have been introduced in her 2023 book, Defeating Slavery: Hamilton's American System Showed the Way, available from Amazon in ebook and soft cover.<br><br>Buy Nancy's books here:<br>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNP5RY3N?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4EV8QVEABBGNWJK0FJRK<br><br>and here:<br>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNP5RY3N?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4EV8QVEABBGNWJK0FJRK<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=IE6DtxyuOjk

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/c0a4ffca5b7c06cc50d42c87099da6a7.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Camila Escalante on Venezuela's Presidential Election &amp; Opposition Violence"></p>I spoke with Latin America correspondent for Press TV, Camila Escalante, about what she saw and heard on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela, before, during and after the recent Presidential Election. <br><br>A well-travelled, longtime correspondent all over Latin America, Camila brings a deep understanding of the history of the country and region, and of the people. With ample experience in Venezuela in years prior, she speaks with first hand knowledge on the positive changes in the country, in spite of the brutal Western sanctions against the Venezuelan people. <br><br>Follow Camila at:<br><br>X: camilapress<br>Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CamilaPress<br><br>My Related Links:<br><br>-My Venezuela (2019) playlist: https://rumble.com/playlists/YCmDnKNOVWc<br><br>-The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ‘needed’ intervention<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/<br><br>

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title: The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/DncisMFT_BQ" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?"></p>In this new film, the Arctic is presented as you've never imagined it: Both as a strategic battleground over the future of the human species today, and as pivot of world history shaping the Russia-USA partnership that saved the Union during the Civil War.<br><br>This film showcases how the Arctic represents either a domain of total warfare, or represents the basis of a new era of rail development and friendship among world civilizations characterizing the end of the 19th century. If you didn't know why Russia sold Alaska to the USA in 1867, or why the two transcontinental railways (Russian and American) completed by 1905 werre meant to extend through the Bering Strait (as was planned by Lincoln and Czar Alexander II) then this film is for you.<br><br>The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation' introduces this sweeping history and thereby helps the viewer understand the real reasons Canada remained loyal to the British Empire in 1867, and how the age of assassinations and war overturned that paradigm of cooperation ushering in a war-ravaged 20th century. <br><br>We also introduce the attempted revival of this positive vision in the form of the FDR-Wallace plans to build rail and roads across the Bering Strait during WW2, and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's plans to adopt a northern vision during the 1950s-1960s, leading all the way up to Donald Trump's plans for an Alaska-Canada railway in 2020 and the Russia-China Polar Silk Road today.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DncisMFT_BQ

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/9086a55a775c6310e51fbc394f2614cb.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Venezuela &amp; The Resistance Fight Against Yankee Imperialism with Eva Bartlett"></p>Wednesday, August 7, 2024<br>[ https://rumble.com/v5a1xeb-venezuela-and-the-resistance-fight-against-yankee-imperialism.html] <br><br>Eva Bartlett, independent journalist who goes to the places she talks about. Based in Russia with extensive, ground-based knowledge in West Asia including Gaza, Syria and Donbass. But Eva has also been to Venezuela which is why she's here today to talk about the similarities the country faces today as well as connections that operation could have in the Middle East.<br><br>"Fi" Fiorella Isabel:<br>===============<br>Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM<br>Fiorella Isabel on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5021915<br>Fiorella In Moscow YT: https://www.youtube.com/@FiorellaInMoscow<br><br>**<br><br>My Related Links:<br><br>My Venezuela (2019) playlist:<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Venezuela:1e?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=1e213e88fef5948f7c2faafebe20bf423242a37b<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/

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Crimean Tatar &amp; Interethnic and Interfaith Relations Chair, Ibraim Shirin, Counters Western Lies on Crimea

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/85ab680cf4f354c2c233d6ad4409b733.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Crimean Tatar &amp; Interethnic and Interfaith Relations Chair, Ibraim Shirin, Counters Western Lies on Crimea"></p>This interview was conducted in Simferopol, Crimea, May 2024.  <br><br>Mr. Shirin Ibraim Reshatovich, Chairman of the Commission on Interethnic and Interfaith Relations and Public Diplomacy in the Public Chamber of the Republic of Crimea—is himself Tatar. The West has for years tried to claim Tatars are oppressed in Crimea &amp; didn't support the 2014 referendum to (rejoin) join Russia. Listen to this delightful man to hear the truth on how life improved dramatically for Tatars in Crimea, and for Crimeans as a whole! <br><br>—My related 2019 article after visiting Crimea then: Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/)

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<p>Quick update: I’ll be joining <strong>Tom Luongo</strong> later today to discuss the contents of this report. It’s bound to be a riot…</p><p>A series of bizarre developments that have unfolded in Great Britain over the last few weeks suggest that its financial system came to the verge of collapse, probably as a consequence of Ukraine’s debt default. The last thing the people in power will tell us is the truth, but if we dig in dark places and connect the dots, I believe the conclusion practically makes itself. The consequences for Britain, and probably for “his majesty’s” other dominions will be extreme. Let’s dive in…</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%2F10b86f48-d2e2-4777-acc5-fa349e6759ef_960x546.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%2F10b86f48-d2e2-4777-acc5-fa349e6759ef_960x546.png" width="960" height="546" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/10b86f48-d2e2-4777-acc5-fa349e6759ef_960x546.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":546,"width":960,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1067670,"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>The riots that weren’t (quite)</h2><p>The stabbings of three young girls (6, 7, and 9 years of age) that happened in Southport, UK on 29 July apparently unleashed widespread rioting and clashes in Britain, notably between the immigrant Muslim community and what PM <strong>Keir Starmer</strong> called, right-wing thugs. The authorities' reaction has been nothing short of Orwellian including a radical and ongoing crackdown on free speech.</p><p>But it would appear that the riots and clashes haven't been quite as widespread or as violent as the media portrayed them to be. In a recent podcast, <strong>Alexander Mercouris</strong> pointed out that not only did everything seem calm in London, but that a number of his friends and acquaintances around the UK all told him the same, even for the cities where rioting had been reported. Could it be that the government overreacted and exaggerated the threat in order to justify stepping up its authoritarian control which is now gripping Britain?</p><p>Rather than appealing for calm, the government’s messaging clearly aimed at intimidating the population. The UK's <a href="https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1823671812917444803">Home Office warned</a> that "Actions have consequences," and boasted that over 1,000 arrests have been made thus far. British courts already sentenced many people to stiff prison terms for wrongthink expressed on social media and they made sure that these sentences got wide publicity.</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%2Fd3cede34-2e4b-451c-9b3b-23352f20e35d_581x329.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%2Fd3cede34-2e4b-451c-9b3b-23352f20e35d_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d3cede34-2e4b-451c-9b3b-23352f20e35d_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":167843,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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">Wrongthink shall not be tolerated.</figcaption></figure></div><p>For a supposedly free society, recent <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1821178852397477984">statements by policy makers and public officials in the UK</a> started to sound as though they came from the plot of the 2005 dystopian sci-fi film, "V for Vendetta." The media personalities, even after a lifetime of indoctrination with free speech as the core Western value, suddenly seemed to have <a href="https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1821224456968192202">no qualms about advocating curbs on freedom of expression</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%2F8afc0827-40f7-4aba-9b5d-a0f55f1c0315_581x329.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%2F8afc0827-40f7-4aba-9b5d-a0f55f1c0315_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8afc0827-40f7-4aba-9b5d-a0f55f1c0315_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":127268,"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>On Friday, 16 August, I joined <strong>Tom Luongo</strong> at the <a href="https://odysee.com/@cryptorich:e/talex-AUGUST:1">@CryptoRich podcast</a> to discuss the situation, which turned into a bit of a brainstorming session: given that violent crime and knife stabbings are nothing new in Britain (they've been on the rise for years) and that people's resentment against immigrants isn't new either, it occurred to me to wonder, why is the government turning as radically authoritarian? And why now?</p><p>If the crackdown is being deliberately orchestrated and I believe that it is, then what is the reason for it? Our discussion converged on the idea that Britain might be facing an imminent financial crisis which could accelerate her economic and social collapse. My suspicion was that it might have to do with the fact that Britain got overextended in Ukraine trying to regain the leadership, affluence and the prestige which it has been steadily losing over the recent decades.</p><h2>Britain’s long descent</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%2F20325fac-e46e-44c8-86fc-9a77f84db5e9_818x462.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%2F20325fac-e46e-44c8-86fc-9a77f84db5e9_818x462.png" width="818" height="462" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/20325fac-e46e-44c8-86fc-9a77f84db5e9_818x462.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":462,"width":818,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":600704,"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>Indeed, Britain's decline has been long in the making. In October 2021 I published an article titled, "<strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/10/27/the-fall-of-global-britain-an-investment-hypothesis/">The Fall of Global Britain - an Investment Hypothesis</a></strong>" together with a <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hHUv3s5iQ8">video report</a></strong> with the same title. Noting that Great Britain is displaying many of the symptoms of imperial powers in decline, I predicted that it won’t revert to simply minding its own domestic business as a neutral island nation. Here’s what I wrote back then:</p><blockquote><p>"<em>Today the UK could be in the early stages of the same sequence of events </em>[as all other imperial powers in decline]<em>: a severe crisis at home coupled with the dramatic loss of international leverage and a very costly addiction to imperial prestige. The UK will likely make all the mistakes made by other powers in that similar position through history: it will suffocate its domestic economic growth by imposing hard austerity at home while at the same time increasing military spending and foreign adventurism. Britain’s public debt will continue to outpace its GDP growth and the government’s budget deficits will be covered by Bank of England’s monetary inflation. This recipe reliably leads to stagflation and possibly to hyperinflation.</em>"</p></blockquote><p>So far, so good: three years later, it is clear that the UK has continued making all the mistakes made by other decaying empires, particularly in terms of foreign adventurism.</p><p>A sudden deterioration, which developed during the course of this year seems to be related to the Western powers’ impending military defeat in their proxy war against Russia. Britain has been the principal cheerleader and sponsor of that conflict, and she seems to have gone "in over her head.” In addition to providing at least £7.5 billion in military aid (nearly $10 billion), Britain gave another £5 billion ($6.5 billion) to Ukraine in financial support. </p><p>Furthermore, Britain has also guaranteed multiple tranches of World Bank loans to Ukraine and many British financial institutions have purchased billions’ worth of Ukraine's bonds. Others made extensive direct investments there. In the timeline that follows we’ll trace the way Britain’s perfect storm shaped up in Ukraine.</p><h2>Timeline of Ukraine’s slow-motion train wreck</h2><p>It is clear that 2024 wasn’t going to be a good year for Ukraine. Public sentiment across Europe picked up on that, as confirmed in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/barely-10-per-cent-of-europeans-believe-ukraine-can-defeat-russia-poll">a poll of 17,023 respondents in 12 EU nations</a> conducted in January by the European Council of Foreign Relations. It found that only 10% of the EU citizens believed that Ukraine could defeat Russia. A few weeks later things got still more bleak after Russian forces captured the strategically important town of Avdeevka.</p><p>But in addition to the near-certain military defeat, Ukraine was also facing a looming economic and financial collapse. Ukraine’s economic performance was already dismal before the conflict with Russia started in February 2022. But since that time, it has collapsed by another 25%. With tax receipts dwindling, Ukraine's 2024 budget deficit is expected to rise to nearly $44 billion. If Kiev were to service its debt obligations, they would eat up fully 15% of her GDP, the second largest expense item after defense (which stands at 31.3% of the GDP).</p><p>Keeping Ukraine’s government and military in operation has become entirely dependent on her Western backers. But by 2024, that support began to dry up as more and more decision makers started to doubt Ukraine’s prospects. In late March 2024, while the $61 billion US aid package was still stalled in US Congress, the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-receives-15-bln-funding-tranche-under-world-bank-programme-says-pm-2024-03-29/">World Bank approved $1.5 billion</a> in financial support for Ukraine. The draft document on the allocation of these funds underscored the “catastrophic” state of Ukraine’s public finances and acknowledged the “extremely high” risk of cooperating with Ukraine.</p><p>A World Bank official involved with the matter <a href="https://www.rt.com/business/595212-ukraine-bankruptcy-world-bank/">noted that</a> Ukraine was facing bankruptcy. Significantly, he added that, as with previous transactions, the World Bank did not provide its own funds for Kiev, but <em>“once again took advantage”</em> of guarantees from two of Ukraine’s donors, primarily Japan and the UK. Ukraine’s Prime Minister<strong> Denis Shmigal</strong> <a href="https://aboutinsider.com/ukraine-secures-vital-1-5-billion-funding-tranche-from-world-bank/">divulged that</a> out of the $1.5 billion given to Ukraine, $984 million of the sum originated from Japan and $516 million from Britain. But Ukraine is now unable to service her mounting foreign debts.</p><h2>Sunday, May 4, 2024: bondholders pressure Ukraine</h2><p>On May 4, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/ukraine-debt-payments-russia-war-1c0c301e">Wall Street Journal reported</a> that a group of foreign bondholders, including such behemoths as BlackRock, PIMCO and France’s Amundi put pressure on the government of Ukraine to start repaying some of its debts. Back in July 2022, this group <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-wins-investor-approval-to-pause-payments-on-foreign-debts-11660146243?mod=article_inline">granted Kiev a two year grace period</a> to pause repayments of some $20 billion in bonds they had previously issued. That agreement was due to expire on August 1, 2024.</p><p>According to the media reports, the interest payments on those debts alone would amount to $500 million annually. I’m not sure how they came up with that figure: the bond issues in question are all listed in <a href="https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/PYP2/ukraine-reaches-agreement-with-bondholders/16578910">this document</a> and the average interest rate on these bonds is about 7.54%, suggesting that Ukraine’s annual interest expense was $1.487 billion, nearly triple what media reports suggested.</p><p>And here we’re still talking about only $20 billion out of Ukraine’s total debt of $161.5 billion! Given the catastrophic state of the country’s finances, the repayment of these debts would collapse Ukraine’s government and its economy.</p><h2>Sunday, June 30 2024: one month to avert default</h2><p>The Economist published an article titled, “<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/30/ukraine-has-a-month-to-avoid-default">Ukraine has a month to avoid default</a>,” or until the end of July 2024. Something had to be done.</p><h2>Friday, 12 July 2024: negotiations with bondholders start</h2><p><a href="https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/PYP2/ukraine-reaches-agreement-with-bondholders/16578910">Private discussions began</a> about restructuring Ukraine’s debts with members of an ad hoc creditor committee. The discussions would conclude on July 19. The government of Ukraine was advised by Rothschild &amp; Co as financial advisors and White &amp; Case LLP as legal advisors (odd how the same names tend to crop up in the works wherever a land is drenched in blood). Ukraine <a href="https://www.rt.com/business/600269-ukraine-debt-restructuring-default/">demanded a 60% debt reduction</a> while creditors thought that 22% was <em>“more reasonable.”</em></p><h2>Thursday, 18 July 2024: Zelensky arrives in London</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%2Fc32a12e3-320b-411d-b2ce-378210491aba_581x329.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%2Fc32a12e3-320b-411d-b2ce-378210491aba_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c32a12e3-320b-411d-b2ce-378210491aba_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":241580,"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>Zelensky arrived for an official visit to London. First, <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arrives-in-uk/">upon arrival he met with </a><strong><a href="https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arrives-in-uk/">General Valery Zaluzhny</a></strong>, former Commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and recently appointed Ambassador to Britain. Later in the day Zelensky participated at the <a href="https://twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1813988448354681196">European Political Community summit</a> held at the <a href="https://twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1813831570203291844">Blenheim Palace</a> in Oxfordshire along with delegates of 44 other countries. Speaking at the event, Zelensky underscored that the UK had been “one step ahead in its determination to support Ukraine” since the Russian invasion began. </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%2F0ac346fd-dfe9-4aa2-837a-7efb9a7bebb9_900x600.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%2F0ac346fd-dfe9-4aa2-837a-7efb9a7bebb9_900x600.jpeg" width="900" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ac346fd-dfe9-4aa2-837a-7efb9a7bebb9_900x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":900,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Photo of European leaders outside Blenheim Palace.","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Photo of European leaders outside Blenheim Palace." title="Photo of European leaders outside Blenheim Palace." 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 summit concluded, apparently with the <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2024-07-18/zelenskyy-to-address-cabinet-in-first-downing-street-visit-under-starmer">participants reaching an agreement</a> to target Russia’s “shadow fleet” of tankers: some 600 vessels enabling Russia to evade West’s oil sanctions. On the sidelines of the Summit, Zelensky also met with UK’s king <strong>Charles III</strong> and Prime Minister <strong>Starmer</strong>. Allegedly, he also met with the <a href="https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/07/18/zelensky-showed-charles-iii-who-is-the-king-in-britain">representatives of some of Ukraine's financial and corporate backers</a> like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Bridgewater, Blackstone and ArcelorMittal.</p><h2>Friday, 19 July 2024: Zelensky addresses Starmer’s cabinet</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%2F94b3be80-cb6a-4dae-b52f-5b5a86316d69_1333x884.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%2F94b3be80-cb6a-4dae-b52f-5b5a86316d69_1333x884.png" width="1333" height="884" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/94b3be80-cb6a-4dae-b52f-5b5a86316d69_1333x884.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":884,"width":1333,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2156400,"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>Zelensky paid an official visit to Prime Minister Starmer and on the occasion <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/show-support-uks-starmer-invites-ukraines-zelenskiy-attend-cabinet-2024-07-18/">addressed the meeting of the British cabinet</a> which greeted Zelensky with a standing ovation. This was the first time another head of state has done so since 1997, when <strong>Bill Clinton</strong> addressed <strong>Tony Blair</strong>’s cabinet. In opening the meeting, Keir Starmer said that, “Ukraine is, and always will be, at the heart of this government’s agenda and so it is only fitting that President Zelensky will make a historic address to my cabinet.”</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%2F11104202-8937-4b85-9b7d-ef0632dd413b_1342x750.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%2F11104202-8937-4b85-9b7d-ef0632dd413b_1342x750.png" width="1342" height="750" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11104202-8937-4b85-9b7d-ef0632dd413b_1342x750.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":750,"width":1342,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1786967,"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">If you can’t, if you can’t give us money, OK, OK, just give us credit and we pay you back!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Addressing Zelensky, Starmer said that, “This is a very, very important meeting for us and you’re very welcome here. It is a real pleasure and a privilege to be able to welcome you to Downing Street this morning. This is a real piece of history.” The invitation extended to Zelensky to speak to the British cabinet, Starmer continued, was indicative of “the esteem you’re held in… in this country and around the world.” Incidentally, this same Friday was also the last day of discussions about restructuring Ukraine’s debts, so we can infer that those debts to private bondholders were among the “very, very important” matters discussed by the Starmer cabinet that day.</p><h2>Monday, 22 July 2024: we have a deal!</h2><p>Almost as soon as Zelensky’s visit in London concluded, the Government of Ukraine <a href="https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/PYP2/ukraine-reaches-agreement-with-bondholders/16578910">announced that a deal was reached</a> with its main bondholders to restructure the country’s near-$20 billion worth of bonds, including a 37% reduction of the amounts owed. But this was only "an agreement, in principle," reached with an “ad-hoc creditor committee,” and it wasn’t binding on all the bondholders. </p><p>Instead, it imposed on Ukraine’s government “the Restructuring as soon as practicable,” to be implemented through a “consent solicitation.” In other words, Ukraine was expected to chase after its creditors and beg them to accept the deal, even offering them a 1.25% “consent fee.” Well, things were about to take a sharp turn for the worse…</p><h2>Wednesday, 24 July 2024: Ukraine strikes the Fitch iceberg</h2><p>Only two days after Ukraine announced the deal with their bondholders, <a href="https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-ukraine-to-c-24-07-2024">Fitch downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating from CC to C</a>, reflecting extreme credit risk reserved for countries that "entered default or default-like process." Significantly, Fitch made it explicit that “the publication of sovereign reviews is subject to restrictions and must take place according to a published schedule…”</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%2F0b5d35ca-f33c-4b44-a557-50c8d3766c4d_581x329.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%2F0b5d35ca-f33c-4b44-a557-50c8d3766c4d_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0b5d35ca-f33c-4b44-a557-50c8d3766c4d_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":42738,"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">Bad day: Ukraine and her sponsors struck the Fitch iceberg</figcaption></figure></div><p>For Ukraine, the next scheduled review date was set for 6 December 2024. However, Fitch determined that there was a “material change in the creditworthiness of the issuer” which would have made it “inappropriate for us to wait…” Thus, Fitch brought forward their credit rating review for Ukraine by nearly six months, either because her financial position suddenly and significantly deteriorated, or because <strong>somewhere, someone who had the power to pull strings, decided to capsize Ukraine</strong> (and the UK and EU along with it).</p><h2>Monday, 29 July 2024: stabbings in Southport</h2><p>The stabbing of three young girls took place in Southport, UK. The event reportedly unleashed widespread rioting and clashes around Britain. End of July was also the time when <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/30/ukraine-has-a-month-to-avoid-default">The Economist predicted</a> Ukraine would face bankruptcy.</p><h2>Wednesday, 31 July 2024: Zelensky ‘temporarily’ suspends debt repayments</h2><p>Zelensky <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-signs-law-allowing-ukraine-debt-payment-suspension-2024-07-31/">signed a law</a> enabling Ukraine to suspend payments of external debts for two months (or longer).</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%2Faf5f46b9-2a8f-46f1-8b6d-b97a4d4f317d_1500x845.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%2Faf5f46b9-2a8f-46f1-8b6d-b97a4d4f317d_1500x845.png" width="1456" height="820" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af5f46b9-2a8f-46f1-8b6d-b97a4d4f317d_1500x845.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":820,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":105266,"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">July 2024 was a pivotal month which induced the panic, reactions and the fallouts shaping the fall of Ukraine and Britain with it.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Thursday, August 1 2024: debt repayments freeze takes effect</h2><p>Bondholders’ grace period expires; Zelensky’s unilateral debt repayments freeze takes effect.</p><h2>Tuesday, 6 August 2024: Ukraine launches Kursk incursion</h2><p>Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into the Kursk region of Russia. The plan to attack the Kursk region had been made at least a year earlier, but it was never implemented, most likely because strategically, it made little sense. In fact, Prof. <strong>John Mearsheimer</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlhX30TeGq4">called the attack a fiasco</a>. Here’s a part of his statement:</p><blockquote><p>“I think it was a huge mistake on the part of the Ukrainians to invade Russia. … it's going to speed up their defeat. … It’s a giant killing zone. … the Ukrainians cobbled together a strike force that’s comprised of some of their most formidable fighting forces. That strike force went on the offensive. … you're presenting the other side with a huge number of targets. … the Ukrainians have been losing twice as many armored vehicles on a daily basis than they were in the war before August 6. … I think it [was] a remarkably foolish thing to do. … It's hard to believe that to make the Kursk offensive work, the Ukrainians had to pull forces off the Eastern front where this war is being settled, and where they're in deep trouble. And to pull forces away - it's not only that they didn't send reinforcements to the Eastern front, they pulled forces away from the eastern front. … it's quite clear that the Russians are doing better by the day because Ukrainian resistance is weakening by the day. Because Ukrainians have funneled and are funneling forces away from the Eastern front and into the Kursk region. This, in my opinion, is remarkably foolish…"</p></blockquote><p>Noting that the Russians were taken by surprise at Kursk, the professor thought they were unprepared because “it's such a crazy idea that the Russians didn't think that the Ukrainians would be foolish enough to do it.” </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%2Fe01435f2-0da3-4680-9368-a9f645d2ecfd_581x329.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%2Fe01435f2-0da3-4680-9368-a9f645d2ecfd_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e01435f2-0da3-4680-9368-a9f645d2ecfd_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":291800,"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>If Professor Mearsheimer is right, this raises an important question: why did the Armed Forces of Ukraine pull the trigger now, as the country was already on the verge of military defeat and financial default?</p><p>What we do know is that Ukraine launched the incursion only 18 days after Zelensky’s visit in London. Zelensky’s security advisor <strong>Mikhailo Podolyak</strong> admitted that <a href="https://en.news-front.su/2024/08/15/podolyak-said-that-kiev-had-discussed-with-the-us-and-britain-the-invasion-of-kursk-region/">the Kursk invasion was discussed with the British</a>. On August 18, The Sunday Times of London revealed that Britain played the pivotal role in the operation:</p><p>“Unseen by the world, British equipment, including drones, have played a central role in Ukraine’s new offensive and British personnel have been closely advising the Ukrainian military… on a scale matched by no other country.”</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%2F53cee476-8e7c-45b7-9977-939566a58ec2_581x329.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%2F53cee476-8e7c-45b7-9977-939566a58ec2_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53cee476-8e7c-45b7-9977-939566a58ec2_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":45311,"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>ZeroHedge commented that the operation was, “<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-disclosures-kursk-op-british-plan-british-weapons">A British Plan With British Weapons</a>.” The leadership of Ukraine gave at least three unconvincing explanations for the incursion: (1) to improve Ukraine’s negotiating position vis-à-vis Russia; (2) to divert Russian forces from the Donbass front; and (3) to create a buffer zone inside Russia.</p><p>Neither explanation made much sense, but the move did create a window of opportunity for the West to talk up Ukraine’s great military success which could prove to be a turning point in the war. Wasting no time, on that same Tuesday, 6 August the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-08-06/eu-governments-give-green-light-to-4-2-billion-euros-payout-to-ukraine">European Council approved 4.2 billion euros in financial support</a> for Ukraine. It would be the first regular payment out of the 50 billion euros financial aid package set aside for Ukraine by the European Union.</p><p>The European Council’s decision to approve the funds was based on the EU Commission's assessment that Ukraine had satisfactorily fulfilled nine reform indicators related to the first regular quarterly payment. These conditions included the government’s public financial management, management of state-owned companies, business environment and energy and mine clearance. </p><p>It was unclear however, whether the European Commission was equally impressed by Ukraine’s credit rating downgrade and the government’s suspension of external debt repayments, but what is important is that <em>somehow</em> the decision was made, and the money was transferred to Ukraine without undue delay.</p><h2>Tuesday, 13 August 2024: Ukraine receives EU funds</h2><p>The European Commission <a href="https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/13/7192016/">transferred €4.2 billion to Ukraine</a> as part of the first tranche of the Ukraine Facility program.</p><h2>Wednesday, 14 August 2024: WHO declares Mpox pandemic</h2><p>In addition to all this, on 14 August, the World Health Organization Director-General declared Mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. We’re all in this together (again) and now further restrictions on public gatherings and freedom of expression might be justified.</p><p>Another two events coincided with Ukraine’s de facto debt default. On 30 July 2024, Israelis assassinated senior Hezbollah commander <strong>Fuad Shukr</strong> and an Iranian military advisor, <strong>Milad Bedi</strong> in Lebanon, along with five Lebanese civilians (including two children). The following day, on 31 July they also assassinated <strong>Ismail Haniyeh</strong>, the political leader of Hamas, in Tehran.</p><p>We can’t be sure whether all these events are related, but they do have this in common: they all had the potential to precipitate worldwide states of emergency either due to escalation of military conflicts or due to a pandemic. And they all took place within days from Ukraine’s default, which has put the western financial system in jeopardy. Further signs of panic in the banking circles came from the mothership itself…</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%2F391e8d31-94a6-4447-a970-a91445c3ece9_1499x843.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%2F391e8d31-94a6-4447-a970-a91445c3ece9_1499x843.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/391e8d31-94a6-4447-a970-a91445c3ece9_1499x843.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":84666,"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">And the month ain’t over yet…</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Panic at the Bank of England?</h2><p>On 22 July, the same day when the agreement between the government of Ukraine and the “ad hoc committee” of her private creditors was announced, the Bank of England also <a href="https://www.cmdportal.com/events/the-future-boe-balance-sheet-a-new-system-for-supplying-reserves/">announced</a> a seminar titled "The Future Bank of England Balance Sheet – managing its transition towards a new system for supplying reserves." The seminar took place the same day (a bit of a short notice for most people) and featured a speech by <strong>Victoria Saporta</strong>, Executive Director of the bank’s Markets Directorate. In the announcement, the BOE explained that its “balance sheet plays a key role in helping [the bank] achieve its financial stability and monetary policy objectives.”</p><p>Saporta’s speech, titled “Let’s Get Ready to Repo!” laid out the Bank’s latest thinking on the future of its balance sheet which would transition towards a <em>demand-driven system for supplying reserves</em>. Saporta suggested that the bank would need to accept a “broader range of assets” as collateral to make the system “usable for the widest range of firm business models.” She added that, “The single punchline is that both we, the Bank and you, the market, need to prepare ourselves for increased usage of both our short term and long term repo operations. Or in short, let’s get ready to repo!”</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%2Faeb8f2ac-6295-4735-94f5-9b74cae3b626_1565x815.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%2Faeb8f2ac-6295-4735-94f5-9b74cae3b626_1565x815.png" width="1456" height="758" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aeb8f2ac-6295-4735-94f5-9b74cae3b626_1565x815.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":758,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1467100,"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">Seriously, where do they find these people?!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Here’s how Bloomberg’s macro strategist <strong>Simon White</strong> put it: in a <em>demand-led</em> system, “<em>what banks use to settle balances each day *must* be ‘shiftable’ on to the central bank’s balance sheet in a crisis. If they are not, liquidity is at risk of seizing up altogether. </em>Thus, in a crisis, potentially no asset under this scheme will be turned away.” That could include even Ukraine’s bonds.</p><p>What is clear from this and from the BOE’s language is that the bank is now anxious about Britain’s financial system collapsing and it has resolved to avert the collapse in the worst possible way: by loosening its credit standards and accepting junk quality collateral in exchange for cash. This is the clearest possible sign that the system came to the verge of collapsing. Not so long ago, we had a glimpse of just how fragile Britain’s financial system is. </p><h2>Kwarteng’s “mini budget” was a foreshadowing</h2><p>On Friday, 23 September 2022, shortly after the new cabinet led by Prime Minister <strong>Liz Truss</strong> took over, her Chancellor of the Exchequer, <strong>Kwasi Kwarteng</strong> presented his "mini-budget." The markets did not react well and both the British pound and the price of gilts sold off sharply (gilts are British government bonds). This in turn caused thousands of British pension funds to face margin calls. </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%2F68605c0c-5f49-431f-b6e6-7ed48bd9f515_581x329.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%2F68605c0c-5f49-431f-b6e6-7ed48bd9f515_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/68605c0c-5f49-431f-b6e6-7ed48bd9f515_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":363664,"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 red and black labels on their vests read, “Proud to be safe,” I shit you not!</figcaption></figure></div><p>To come up with cash for those margin calls, the pension funds needed to urgently liquidate some of their gilt holdings. However, by Tuesday, 27 September, there were no buyers for long-dated gilts. To avert a price collapse, the Bank of England had to intervene. As the bank subsequently informed the Parliament in a letter dated 5 October, on September 27 and 28, the system had "come within hours" of collapsing. The bank came through as the buyer of up to £40 billion in gilts.</p><p>What’s peculiar about the British financial system is that the taxpayers are obliged to reimburse the Bank of England for any losses it sustains on its balance sheet assets. If the price of gilts on the bank’s balance sheet collapses, British taxpayers must cover those losses and make the bank whole. So, what kind of money are we talking about? As the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ee8e33ee-e16e-459b-af32-5709db6874de">the FT reported last July</a>, the BOE has estimated it will require the Treasury to transfer a total of £150 billion by 2033 to cover expected losses on the central bank’s quantitative easing program.</p><h2>Stand and deliver!</h2><p>So how much is £150 billion? Provided that things haven’t deteriorated since July 2023 (they have), we’re talking £2,240 per man, woman and child in Britain. Stand and deliver: that’s the ransom that the BOE is claiming from them! But given that the British workforce is only about half the population, and that private enterprise accounts for less than 55% of the British GDP, this sum represents nearly £10,000 per employee working in the private sector. </p><p>In all, the situation is impossible and all the cabinet reshuffles and cosmetic patches changed nothing of substance in the UK; they amounted to a sort of rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic as the ship is already sinking. So where is all this headed? Let’s have a peak at the economic and social conditions in the UK to consider the possible outcomes of the crisis.</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>The dying economy</h2><p> In addition to making heavy direct investment in the “project Ukraine,” Britain has sustained high indirect costs as a consequence of sanctions imposed on Russia. Today, large segments of British society are slumping into Dickensian era poverty.</p><p>According to last year’s figures from <a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/#factsheets">Trussell Trust</a>, the number of people in the UK who needed emergency food supplies from food banks more than <a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/EYS-UK-Factsheet-2022-23.pdf">doubled in the last five years, to 3 million</a>. One in five households have trouble paying their water bills, and many more are struggling to keep up with their energy bills. Electricity bills in the UK are over five times higher than the European average and will substantially increase this winter again, as the suppliers’ <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy54r9r1355o">wholesale costs increased by 20%</a> over the last few months! It’s little wonder that as many as <a href="https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/one-in-four-people-could-be-forced-to-turn-off-their-heating-and-hot-water/">48% of Britons said</a> that they would have to turn down the heat, or switch it off completely to survive the winter financially.</p><p>In February this year, The Guardian published an article titled, "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/gordon-brown-slams-obscene-levels-of-destitution-in-the-uk?CMP=share_btn_tw">Gordon Brown slams 'obscene' levels of destitution in the UK</a>." Its opening paragraph states that, "Britain is in the throes of a hidden poverty epidemic, with the worst-affected households living in squalor and going without food, heating and everyday basics such as clean clothes and toothpaste..." The Guardian also published a column written by Brown himself titled, "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/08/child-poverty-britain-anger-gordon-brown">Tables without food, bedrooms without beds. Grinding child poverty in Britain calls for anger - and a plan</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%2F2b6c3a35-b304-4c7e-9556-e3a3a96785b9_581x329.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%2F2b6c3a35-b304-4c7e-9556-e3a3a96785b9_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2b6c3a35-b304-4c7e-9556-e3a3a96785b9_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":419990,"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>Brown lamented that in some neighbourhoods of his own home town of Kirkcaldy, 70% of children were in poverty which is the worst he had seen in his lifetime. He described Britain as being "haunted by poverty we thought had been consigned to history." Indeed, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/energy-profits-british-gas-prepayment-meters-scandal">as The Guardian put it</a> last year: </p><blockquote><p>“Everything points… to a horrific cliff-edge looming… and an avalanche of debts, defaults, evictions and unpaid bills to follow. ... Put simply, frighteningly large numbers of people just don’t have enough money to absorb the shocks that are coming. Wages are too low, benefits too mean, and the cost of living too high for them to afford even the basics. ... The CEO of one British retailer complained that his stores were losing customers to food banks or simply “to hunger.”</p></blockquote><h2>The parasite is killing the host</h2><p>When businesses are losing sales to poverty, rather than competition, we know that the parasite is killing the host. The parasite, of course, is the banking cartel and it doesn’t care about the plight of the ordinary British people. In an interview last year, Bank of England's top economist, <strong>Huw Pill</strong>, thought that <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uk-inflation-unexpectedly-comes-red-hot-remains-double-digits">the best advice he could offer to his fellow Britons</a> was to just accept being worse off. </p><p>He literally said that, "Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices..." Parroting the same mindset, the Bank's Governor, <strong>Andrew Bailey</strong> admonished British workers not to demand pay raises in order to do their part in the fight against inflation.</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%2Faf9f7427-0cf8-41f3-8265-1adc26e08aa5_581x329.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%2Faf9f7427-0cf8-41f3-8265-1adc26e08aa5_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af9f7427-0cf8-41f3-8265-1adc26e08aa5_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":83037,"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>None of this is accidental; it’s not like Britain has been cursed with the bad luck of having consistently incapable or uncaring governments. Rather, the policy of immiserating the British people has been sustained and deliberate. According to a report written in 2018 by Prof.<strong> Phillip Alston, </strong>UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, a "systematic, willful, concerted, and brutal economic war" was being waged against the poor and vulnerable sections of British society. Since then, things have only gotten a whole lot worse: for British families, “2024 was shaping up to be, financially, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/gordon-brown-slams-obscene-levels-of-destitution-in-the-uk?CMP=share_btn_tw">the worst year in living memory</a>.”</p><p>Now, if these policies were deliberate, then what is their objective? Well, Gordon Brown did spell it out in his February op-ed: he called on the chancellor <strong>Jeremy Hunt</strong> (who had then replaced Kwarteng) to "undertake a root-and-branch review of universal credit." But the “universal credit” Brown was mentioning is merely the lure. The actual bill of goods that Brown was selling as he feigned outrage over poverty he himself helped create, was forcing a neo-feudal subjugation on British citizens by making them dependent on the nanny state for handouts. </p><p>This is why his partner in crime, <strong>Tony Blair</strong> has been pushing so hard to introduce a digital ID in the UK. It will be needed to police British people’s obedience and compliance with whatever rules, norms or restrictions that the ruling establishment might demand. It could be vaccinations, confinement to 15-minute cities, carbon quotas, death panels, insect protein fodder, love for the big brother, military conscription, forever wars, etc. Now that their ship has sunk in Ukraine (and in the Middle East), they need these measures in place, yesterday!</p><p>This is not progress toward greater prosperity and freedom but rather a future that George Orwell described as, “a boot stamping on the human face, forever.” Britain’s not so excellent misadventure in Ukraine tore the last shiny fragment from her democratic façade, revealing her feudalistic, authoritarian rule by an unelected, unaccountable and depraved oligarchy. </p><p>History suggests that such regimes ossify and have a certain tendency to drag their host nations into dark ages where they may remain mired in backwardness for generations. It remains to be seen whether the British people will find the strength and determination to fight back and win a better future for the coming generations.</p><p>I sincerely hope that they will fight back. The same fight is gathering for all of us in the Western world. In my next report I’ll address the changes that will likely impact the financial markets in Britain and her dependencies like Australia and Canada. As the empire unravels – good riddance – it will create opportunities for major windfalls, possibly one of those rare occasions worth paying attention to. In concluding, I’ll only foreshadow what I believe is possible by presenting the chart of the German Imperial Bond at the turn of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</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%2Fa8c9d234-3be0-4a9c-9cca-24dc1165b0aa_581x329.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%2Fa8c9d234-3be0-4a9c-9cca-24dc1165b0aa_581x329.png" width="581" height="329" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8c9d234-3be0-4a9c-9cca-24dc1165b0aa_581x329.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":329,"width":581,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":114225,"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>Current British circumstances are in many ways similar to those faced by the Weimar republic a century ago, suggesting that it might travel along a similar trajectory to a similar end.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain?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! 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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/595f7a137abec2ccab08691bfdc083c3.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Coffee and a Mike: Eva Bartlett"></p>Michael Farris had me on his podcast recently for a conversation spanning many topics.<br><br>First published: https://rumble.com/v5cs0e5-coffee-and-a-mike-eva-bartlett-blissfully-unaware.html<br><br>Please visit his rumble to see where to follow him &amp; how to support his work.<br><br><br>My Related Links at this post: <br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/interview-on-coffee-and-a-mike/

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/FRTw599mFXY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="UpThinking Finance : Emerson J. Fersch &amp; Cynthia Chung | Energy Wars"></p>We’re being told that there isn’t enough energy to go around, and that we have to focus on green initiatives. But is that true? Dive deeper with us in this episode of UPThinking Finance™.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find Emerson J. Fersch’s work on:<br>YouTube: https://themelkshow.com<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1727191<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Cynthia &amp; Matt's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” here:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/escaping-calypsos-island/<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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTw599mFXY

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Fd6_sxBMP-M" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Schiller's On the Beautiful (RTF Reading)"></p>Click here to download the reading (translated by William Wertz)<br><br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Philosphical-and-Aesthetical-Writings-of-Friedrich-Schiller.docx<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6_sxBMP-M

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/-2ABT8rAPBY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="An Afternoon of Geopolitical Insights with Joaquin Flores"></p>The RTF presents an in depth geopolitical presentation by Joaquin Flores on Sept. 8, 2024<br><br>Follow Joaquin's channel on t.me/NewResistance<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=-2ABT8rAPBY

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(2019) Accused of Treason and Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts His Harrowing Time in a Ukrainian Prison

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/70bf607dcd5e6a4e03adbe22ea5cf04a.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="(2019) Accused of Treason and Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts His Harrowing Time in a Ukrainian Prison"></p>October 2019:<br><br>In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason. <br><br>Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster the declining popularity of [then] President [Petro] Poroshenko in this election year.” <br><br>Vyshinsky noted that his arrest was advancing the incessant anti-Russian hysteria now prevalent among Ukrainian authorities, as he holds dual Ukrainian and Russian citizenship. He noted that the charges against him, which pertain to a number of articles he published in 2014 (none of them authored by Vyshinsky), became of interest to Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services four years after they were published. To Vyshinsky, this supports the notion that neither the articles nor their editor were a security threat to Ukraine, instead, he says, they were a political card to be played. <br><br>In early 2019, I traveled to Kiev to interview Vyshinsky’s defense lawyer Andriy Domansky about the logistic obstacles of his client’s case. Domansky viewed the Vyshinsky case as politically motivated and expressed concern that he could himself become a target of Ukraine’s secret service for his role in defending his client, an innocent man. <br><br>Domansky told me at the time,<br><br>The Vyshinsky case is key in demonstrating the presence of political persecution of journalists in Ukraine. As a legal expert, I believe justice is still possible in Ukraine and I will do everything possible to prove Kirill Vyshinsky’s innocence.”<br><br>To the surprise of those following the case against Vyshinsky, in late August 2019 he was released with little fanfare after serving more than 400 days in a Ukrainian prison but still faces all of the charges brought against him by the Ukrainian government and is “obliged to appear in court or give testimony to investigators if they deemed it necessary.” <br><br>By early September, Kirill Vyshinsky was on a plane to Moscow. Despite never being tried or officially convicted, he found himself the subject of a prisoner exchange between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.<br><br>I interviewed Vyshinsky in Moscow in late September. He told me about his harrowing ordeal, the Ukrainian detention system, other persecuted journalists, and what lies ahead for him.<br><br>He also touched on the inhumane conditions he experienced in Ukrainian prisons. He noted that a pretrial detention center as we know it in Western nations is a very different entity in Ukraine and that Ukrainian prisons were so over-crowded that it was common for inmates to sleep in three shifts in order to allow enough standing room for inmates crammed into a cell.<br><br> ...SEE FULL description here: <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

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<p>Nothing says "our values" like reducing deficits by killing pensioners. Britain's new Prime Minister <strong>Sir Keir Starmer</strong> has recently announced his government's plan to cut winter fuel subsidies to 10 million pensioners in Britain. It's a tough decision, it will be unpopular and it'll hurt, but it just must be done. Namely, Sir Keir and his cabinet discovered, to their utter shock and consternation, that there was a £22 billion "black hole" in Britain's public finances! This is an emergency that must be rectified even if it causes some discomfort to a few pensioners.</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%2F8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.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%2F8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2432696,"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></p><p>How much discomfort, and to how many pensioners? Back in 2017, when Tory Prime Minister <strong>Theresa May</strong> floated a similar proposal and Labour was in opposition, their own research determined that cutting winter fuel allowances would kill an estimated <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1946329/Labour-pensioners-dead-winter-fuel-thousands">3,850 pensioners that winter</a>. And that was five years ago - practically the good old days, before the "<a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9491/">typical household energy bills increased by 54% in April 2022 and 27% in October 2022</a>."</p><h2>Selective discernment and sizing of black holes</h2><p>Saving money by killing people may seem wrong, and Sir Keir himself had no trouble understanding this before he was Prime Minister: as recently as May of this year, he righteously lambasted the then PM <strong>Rishi Sunak</strong> about black holes and killing pensioners. He boldly confronted his predecessor: "So will [the Prime Minister] now rule out taking pensioners' winter fuel payments off them to help fund his £46 billion black hole?" </p><p>Yes, you read that correctly: Sir Keir already knew about the black hole and said it was £46 billion, not £22 billion. Well, let's not be too fastidious about these details: the black hole is there and it's size 22 or 46 or some other number, whatever. Who knows, maybe science had changed since May 2024. Whatever the case, Labour is now in government and, confronted with the 22B-size black hole, they no longer see what the big fuss with killing pensioners is all about.  And it’s not exactly like this is a new thing - here’s a Daily Mail headline from 12 years ago:</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%2F0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.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%2F0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.png" width="919" height="487" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":487,"width":919,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":92851,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>Losing power, regaining the moral compass </h2><p>Meanwhile the Tories, now that they're in opposition, suddenly regained their moral compass: on Sunday, 8 September Tory chairman <strong>Richard Fuller </strong>said that, "this week's vote on the Conservatives motion is a vote to protect millions of vulnerable pensioners. No MP from any party should run scared from stopping Labour's cruel plans... It's time for all Members of Parliament to put aside party politics and do the right thing." </p><p>Again, to avoid any confusion, by "the right thing" he meant continuing to pay out the pensioners' heating subsidies, not plugging the black hole with their corpses. Even the Tory establishment aristocrat <strong>Jacob Rees-Mogg</strong> rushed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mVh6CYJm4">seize moral high ground and pile in on Starmer</a>. Apparently, discerning right from wrong is only given to those who are in opposition, then cruelly taken away as soon as they're in power. This is such a wonderful, top-grade democracy, it must be exported everywhere around the world and by force if necessary, especially to dark tyrannical autocracies like Russia. </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%2F949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.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%2F949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.png" width="1092" height="607" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":607,"width":1092,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1331884,"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><h2>Meanwhile, folks are cozy in Russia</h2><p>In spite of not enjoying our sterling liberal democracy, it would appear that ordinary Russians don’t fear winter, black holes or utility bills. </p><p>Just yesterday, Irish businessman <strong>Chay Bowes</strong> who now lives in Russia <a href="https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1833123151833616856?t=IVefxdyhb55Tvz3XOkrLrQ&amp;s=03">shared his own utility bill on X</a> and wrote as follows: "Dear Europeans. I've just paid my annual energy bill here in Moscow Russia. It covers all electricity, heating (on all through winter automatically from the city), and Water (hot and cold) and rubbish disposal. It cost me €146 for everything for the entire year." </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%2F7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.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%2F7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.png" width="888" height="650" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":650,"width":888,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":600286,"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>How does that compare with the democratical UK? In Britain, the average energy bill is a bit higher: it’s <a href="https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/property-news/average-uk-energy-bills-how-to-save-money/">it amounts to £176</a>, or in euros, it’s 209. But that’s <strong>per month</strong>, which works out to just over €2,500 per year - a whopping 17 times what Mr. Bowes pays in Moscow! Given that the average monthly retirement income in the UK is <a href="https://www.unbiased.co.uk/discover/pensions-retirement/planning-for-retirement/what-is-the-average-uk-retirement-income">only about £1,512</a>, these are very high rates, forcing many pensioners to choose between heating and eating.</p><p>The Russians do seem significantly more comfortable and less anxious about having such basic things as hot water, electricity and heating available to them. They are even free to use wood-burning stoves if they prefer - it’s a luxury that could result in <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700317/Woodburning-stove-leave-300-penalty-criminal-record-new-regulations.html">a £300 penalty or a criminal record</a> in democratic Britain.  </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>Russia’s social welfare state</h2><p>Enjoying certain comforts in Russia is not a fortuitous accident of chance: in its constitution, Russia is explicitly defined as a social welfare state. Welfare of its citizens is the government's core responsibility. In my book "<a href="https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-pdf/">Grand Deception</a>," I highlighted two well known examples of the way this works in reality. Here's one:</p><blockquote><p>During [<strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>'s] first winter as President [in 2000], entire towns and villages across the far east of the country counting as many as 400,000 inhabitants, lost heating for the lack of coal. A serious crisis emerged with mines shutting down, workers out in the streets and even hospitals ceasing to function because of the cold. But the coal for heating was available in Russia, only most of it was already allotted for export. Vladimir Putin didn’t think that Russian people should suffer freezing conditions all winter in order for that coal to be exchanged for American dollars. He decreed that export of coal be stopped immediately and that all available quantities be sent back to Siberia to fuel the boiler stations. ... in Putin’s world, well-being of the people takes precedence over financial profits of the investor class. This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners who for a generation had been brainwashed with neoliberal economics where profits trump any and every other concern, including health and well-being of the people. Nonetheless, I believe that beyond the brainwash, every normal person – even western-educated economists – would agree that in a crisis, the decent thing to do would be to take care of the people and let the oligarchs cope with one quarter or a year of impaired profitability of their enterprises.</p></blockquote><p>Unfortunately however, in western liberal democracies, this ability to discern right from wrong depends on being in opposition or, for most public officials, being in retirement. While in power, Western officials seem to lose this faculty. </p><h2>About economic theories and neoliberal ideology</h2><p>Thankfully however, we always have ideology and economic theories to fall back on. They provide a compelling case for why ours is the best economic system in history of creation, why ensuring people's welfare is socialism and therefore bad and evil, and why unscrupulous selfishness by the individual magically yields the best possible outcome for the collective. For decades now, we’d been sold the bill of goods that privatized, for profit, deregulated enterprise automagically result in the most reliable service, enhance consumer choice and lower the costs, and so utilities, trash disposal, postal services, roads, railroads, ports and most other infrastructure has been sold to private investors and turned into for profit enterprises. So far as utilities are concerned, the result is that in the UK, the mothership of neoliberal economics, people pay some of the most extortionate utility bills in the world.</p><p>Well, so far as our ruling establishment is concerned, the solution is that we first need to regime change Russia and get rid of the evil Mr. Putin. He is ruining our neat theories and the ideology they support. Once we can force our neoliberal order along with democracy and freedom onto Russia, everything else will fall neatly into place. It is therefore just and right for the British establishment to call on their nation to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/uk-must-be-ready-for-war-with-russia-says-armed-forces-chief">prepare to go to war against Russia</a>, no matter the cost in black holes, freezing pensioners, or any other such undignified trifle. For king and the country, by jingo!</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/our-values-killing-pensioners-to?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! 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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/00041b1ef719473b808175f9c07d3421.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Maria Butina, Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee member, discusses her politicized incarceration in the United States and describes the horrific conditions in US prisons"></p>Maria Butina was a student of foreign affairs at the School of International Services (Washington, D.C.) in 2018 when she was convicted as acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and was imprisoned for 18 months—including 4 torturous months in solitary confinement.<br><br>In this conversation, Maria describes her incarceration and the harsh, inhumane and filthy conditions she experienced in various US prisons. She was subjected to psychological torture via sleep deprivation and prolonged isolation.<br><br>She now advocates for people facing political persecution. <br><br>“Now I help people who want to come to Russia, looking for asylum here, they fear their own state.”<br><br><br>Excerpts from her memoir, Prison diary, can be read here:  <br>https://www.rt.com/russia/507910-maria-butina-prison-book-journal/<br><br><br>[Regarding my reference to the likewise horrible conditions journalist and editor Kirill Vyshinsky endured, imprisoned without trial for nearly 1.5 years in Ukraine, see my 2019 interview with Kirill.]<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/25b931ac0b43fef932c14e77c8dd4608.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ukrainian drone terrorism in my southeastern Moscow district"></p>Starting early Tuesday, September 10, Russian air defense shot down 144 Ukrainian drones in 9 regions, including 72 drones above Bryansk Region and 20 above Moscow Region, according to the Ministry of Defence. <br><br>Three drones managed to hit three different apartment buildings in the Ramenskoe district, one impact tragically killing a 46 year old woman and injuring at least three other civilians. These were completely civilian, residential, areas. Ukraine sending drones to strike there was pure terrorism. <br><br>Just over one week prior, on September 1, Russian air defense shot down or intercepted 158 drones, some of those again in the Ramenskoe region.<br><br>From my nearby district just after 2:15am Tuesday, I heard the first air defense blasts targeting drones, followed by several more until daylight. <br><br>On Wednesday, I went to the area within Ramenskoe district where the drones impacted. Irina Medvedeva, a friend's sister, was in an apartment next to one of the buildings struck. She witnessed the first explosion which killed Zinaida Akhmetovna.<br><br>While there, we met a man who had come from Kursk (which Ukraine started attacking last month) for a week of quiet. He said he would go back to Kursk, in spite of Ukraine's continued (failed) attacks on the city, spoke of how the people there support their army and said Russia would defeat the Ukrainian terrorism.<br><br>Related links here: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/20594

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title: How Saudi Arabia Broke Free of the Empire
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/QI6uowqDxQQ" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="How Saudi Arabia Broke Free of the Empire"></p>On Sunday Sept 15 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted Gordon McCormick who unpacked some extremely important historic lessons of British Imperial manipulation of Southwest Asia and the battle of the two Saudi Arabias.<br><br>Follow Gordon's work on Badlands.substack.com<br>and https://x.com/GhostofBPH<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=QI6uowqDxQQ

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title: Schiller Workshop: Of the Sublime (Reading 01)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Rb2Ri29td88" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Schiller Workshop: Of the Sublime (Reading 01)"></p>The RTF weekly study group dives into the second Schiller philosophical study in the 1794 'Of the Sublime'<br><br>Download the original text here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Philosphical-and-Aesthetical-Writings-of-Friedrich-Schiller.docx<br><br>The previous Schiller reading session can be viewed here:<br>https://youtu.be/Fd6_sxBMP-M?si=sxprQ7jeOQ3Axu7P<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=Rb2Ri29td88

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title: Tarik Cyril Amar on Palestine, Zionism, and Ukraine's failed tactics
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/9b0d0553cb5fc9413ea4d7e58c8b4856.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Tarik Cyril Amar on Palestine, Zionism, and Ukraine's failed tactics"></p>Tarik is an author, a historian and an expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University.<br><br>Follow him at:<br><br>https://substack.com/@tarikcyrilamar<br>https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-icc-israel-and-the-gaza-genocide<br>https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/ <br>https://x.com/TarikCyrilAmar<br>

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guid: https://odysee.com/JacquesBaudNATOThreatenedRussia:507d646aac8546eea7d79389636e7466da5256af
title: JACQUES BAUD: NATO ATTEMPTED TO DESTABILIZE &amp; THREATEN RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/7897330d6cb535bfe20547dfa6718320.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="JACQUES BAUD: NATO ATTEMPTED TO DESTABILIZE &amp; THREATEN RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022"></p>This is a must-listen interview for those who think Russia “invaded Ukraine without reason”, and those who believe the West’s propaganda about Russia “failing” in its objectives, and many other lies put out by Washington and parroted by Western corporate media.<br><br>Former Swiss intelligence, Jacques Baud, on the Ukraine-NATO history that forced Russia to start its Special Military Operation in February 2022.<br><br>He is the author of numerous books, including: “The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat”and “Operation Z: The Hidden Truth of the War in Ukraine Revealed”.

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title: Was there a palace coup at the White House?
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>Did we just have a palace coup in Washington?</p><p>The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain's new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West's proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn't be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.</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><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%2F46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.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%2F46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.png" width="1456" height="823" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":823,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":739177,"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>The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new "Nuclear Employment Guidance" in preparation to fight and "win" a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State <strong>Antony Blinken</strong>, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under Prime Minister <strong>Rishi Sunak</strong> and under the new PM <strong>Keir Starmer</strong>.</p><h2>Starmer’s diplomatic charm offensive</h2><p>Since its inauguration on July 5, 2024, the new Labour government in Britain immediately engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activity and meetings with many government leaders across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, much of it a charm offensive to “reset” the previously strained or neglected relationships. Within the cabinet’s first ten days, their Defence Minister <strong>John Healey</strong> visited Ukraine, Foreign Minister Lammy called his Ukrainian and American counterparts on his first day on the job, then on July 6 flew straight to Germany to meet with the German FM <strong>Annalena Baerbock</strong>, then to Poland the next day to meet with FM <strong>Radek Sikorski</strong>, and after that, straight to Sweden to meet then FM <strong>Tobias Billstrom</strong>.</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%2F64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.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%2F64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.png" width="1080" height="1350" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1350,"width":1080,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2504178,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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 July 9, his fifth day on the job, Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-strategic-defence-review">Strategic Defense Review</a>” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the <em>special relationship </em>itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.</p><h2>Trump-proofing the “special relationship”</h2><p>In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%E2%80%93UK_Mutual_Defence_Agreement">Mutual Defense Agreement</a> (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-amendment-to-the-agreement-for-cooperation-on-the-uses-of-atomic-energy-for-mutual-defense-purposes-cs-usa-no12024">formulated by the British government in July of this year</a>: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.</p><p>Indeed, the nuclear saber-rattling does seem to emanate largely from out of London. For example, <strong>Malcolm Chalmers</strong>, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Britain's oldest and most prestigious think-tank, proposed already in 2022 that the West should resort to nuclear brinkmanship in order to destabilize Russia. It was this same Malcolm Chalmers who was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: "It is good news for the UK that it doesn't need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage." How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s wars of choice.</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%2F11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.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%2F11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.png" width="390" height="521" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":521,"width":390,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":267843,"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 episode once more reinforces the impression that the "special relationship" between the US and the UK is a Master-Blaster arrangement (for those old enough to remember Master-Blaster from the movie Mad Max 3). In this arrangement, Blaster is the powerful, muscular giant who is manipulated around by his Master, a vicious old dwarf riding on the giant's back. Once you start to pay attention to this dynamic, you’ll find more and more evidence that the drive and the ideas shaping the west's permanent wars, especially against Russia, originate from London.</p><h2>Parading the alliance</h2><p>All the diplomatic activity under the Starmer government also involved much public parading of the “special relationship” with the view of projecting the image of a powerful, rock-solid alliance that remains 100% committed to defending the international “rules-based order” and intimidating any uppity newcomer who would dare to challenge it. On 7 September we saw, for the first time ever, <strong>Sir Richard Moore,</strong> the head of Britain’s MI6, and <strong>William Burns</strong> the CIA chief, appear together and on stage!</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%2F696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.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%2F696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.png" width="1350" height="762" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":762,"width":1350,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1320524,"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 body language is interesting: CIA’s Burns’s body is turned away, legs crossed and arms folded, looking at Moore over his shoulder. Sir Richard’s open, facing Burns and the audience directly.</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>For anyone who missed the occasion, the talented Mr. Moore published <a href="https://x.com/ChiefMI6/status/1832414346229785075">a tweet about it</a>, linking to the video recording of the event. Two days later, the pair published <a href="https://t.co/zN2JpVFW2i">an OpEd in the Financial Times</a>, waxing eloquent about the threats to the rules based order and how to defend it. Most importantly, they expressed their iron-clad commitment to defending Ukraine for as long as it takes.</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%2F32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.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%2F32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.png" width="1319" height="1106" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1106,"width":1319,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2071940,"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>The following day, on 10 September, US State Secretary <strong>Antony Blinken</strong> came to London to <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1833469773218230486">meet with his British counterpart</a> <strong>David Lammy</strong> and the day after they both went to <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1834189981864132811">visit Kiev together</a>. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things.</p><h2>Something went wrong in Washington</h2><p>Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things. Their meeting would take place only at the point when the agreement could be signed and announced in a joint press conference: a public showing of their unity, shared objectives and determination. In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.</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%2F7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.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%2F7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.png" width="1456" height="399" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":399,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5363221,"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 awkward meeting didn’t produce the ceremonial signing or the joint press conference.</figcaption></figure></div><p>It appears that the U.S. military leadership took <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>'s warning about this escalation seriously. His words are worth pondering carefully:</p><blockquote><p>“There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about authorizing or banning the Kiev regime from striking across the entire territory. They are already striking with the help of drones and other means. ... The Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern long-range precision systems of Western manufacture. It cannot do this. It can only do so using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. This is data only from EU satellites or from the United States in general, from NATO satellites. … And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike. It is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation. And this already, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the nature of the conflict. This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”</p></blockquote><p>According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined. This is why the US-UK agreement to escalate against Russia didn’t get the Blaster’s signature.</p><p>The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. <strong>General Michael E. Kurilla</strong>, the head of U.S. Central Command <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-centcom-chief-meets-idf-generals-presented-with-plans-for-lebanon-operation/">visited Israel</a> last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own. </p><p>The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments.</p><h2>When Hitler’s general staff mutinied in 1938</h2><p>The latest escalation, concocted with the British, would put the U.S. in severe jeopardy. The burden of coping with the resulting fallout would fall squarely on the military. At the same time, it remains unclear what, if anything, could be gained from Starmer's and Blinken's reckless adventurism. This is a textbook recipe for provoking a mutiny, and such mutinies do tend to happen at critical junctures throughout history. </p><p>For example, when, on 21 April 1938 <strong>Hitler</strong> ordered General <strong>Wilhelm Keitel</strong> to draft plans to invade Czechoslovakia, German military brass were deeply alarmed – so much so that a group of top commanders, clustered around Hitler’s Chief of the General Staff, <strong>General Ludwig Beck</strong>, hatched a three phase strategy to disrupt Hitler’s reckless pursuit: (1) they would try to dissuade Hitler from pursuing his plans; (2) they implored the British to stand firmly by Czechoslovakia and warn Hitler that Britain would oppose him; and (3) if Hitler persisted in his resolve to wage war, they would proceed to assassinate him. The date for this act was set for September 28, 1938. </p><p>Of course, General Beck and his General Staff had no idea that it was exactly the British who were maneuvering Germany to war (though not against Czechoslovakia but against the USSR), just as they are maneuvering the U.S. to war today. In fact, the most recent episode hopefully helped dispel the idea that the imperial adventures are all hatched in the U.S. and that the UK is only being dragged along reluctantly, their only fault being their unshakeable, steadfast loyalty. </p><p>Incidentally, that’s the same defence <strong>Prince Andrew</strong> used to explain his continuing friendship with the convicted sexual predator <strong>Jeffrey Epstein</strong> (the Prince’s only regret was being "too honourable"). The truth is that through channels unseen and unknown, London is often in the driver’s seat when it comes to fomenting dirty tricks and military misadventures in defence of the empire. Again, the more you pay attention to this, the more unmistakeable the relationship becomes.</p><p>Whatever the case may be, if there was indeed a mutiny at the Pentagon and a palace coup in the White House, the escalation to World War III might have been averted, and this would be the best news you'll read all day today. Meanwhile, on Thursday, 19 September European Parliament voted in favor of escalating the war, but that move might only serve to accelerate the disintegration of the European Union. The MEPs can vote whatever they like, but as Poland’s Foreign Ministery <strong>Radek Sikorski</strong> revealed to the Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus earlier this month, "there is no willingness to enter the war in Western Europe." 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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/XHfwgoI3iu4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02"></p>In this second roundtable hosted by the American University in Moscow and the Rising Tide Foundation, Matt Ehret, Dimitry Lascaris and Hall Gardner discuss the causes and solutions to the current world crisis.<br><br>The official website for Dimitry Lascaris is here:<br>https://dimitrilascaris.org/about/<br><br>Hall Gardner's website is: https://www.hallgardner.com/<br><br>To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky or register online here:<br>https://russiahouse.org/american-university-in-moscow/<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfwgoI3iu4

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<div data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs='{"mediaUploadId":"1ccc8f72-45d5-4fa2-b157-6a03aa6d04d5","duration":null}' data-sanitized-class="native-video-embed"></div><p>Kickstarter page is here: <strong><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646650391/alliance-for-truth-phase-one">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646650391/alliance-for-truth-phase-one</a></strong></p><p>In March last year I have introduced <strong>Admiral Davorin Domazet</strong> in my article, “Why hypersonic weapons change everything.” Admiral Domazet said that the conflict we are witnessing in the world today is the clash between Christ and Antichrist. He described it not as a world war but as a much bigger conflict, a “global total war” because it is affecting us all across the world and in nearly every aspect of life. The most powerful sword we can possibly wield to prevail in this struggle is the written and spoken word.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/alliance-for-truth-kickstarter-campaign?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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I’ve personally known Roman for about 35 years – from even before the 1990s war in the Balkans. His fearless war reporting ultimately marked him for death and he had to flee Croatia in 1996 to save his life. </p><p>Roman is also one of the very few people I know whose personal integrity is beyond reproach. Branko has devoted his life to investigative journalism and is the winner of multiple awards for his journalistic work. He’s also one of the few who had the the professional integrity and the backbone to raise his voice publicly and campaign for the release of <strong>Julian Assange</strong>. </p><p>As we all know however, uncovering and revealing the truth does not pay in today's free world. To the contrary, it has become a punishable offence. But truth is worth fighting for: it is the essential antidote to the chaos that's being fomented by our ruling establishments. </p><p>Truth is the key to humanity's emancipation and our ability to transcend the current state of oppression, censorship and endless wars. I have therefore decided myself to contribute to this project, both financially and as an author. </p><p>A truthful source of reporting from the Balkans could prove particularly important because this region has been designated as one of the flashpoints that could precipitate future European wars. Recall, the assassination of the Austrian archduke Ferdinand, which triggered the descent into the first world war, took place in Sarajevo in the heart of the balkan peninsula. </p><p>At the same time, journalism has been systematically eviscerated in most of the Balkan nations. We need to know what goes on there. If you can, and if you feel so inclined, please consider making a contribution to this initiative which launched on Kickstarter today.</p><p>Roman and Branko are looking to raise 14 thousand us dollars. It is a very modest sum needed to cover the bare essentials. The way crowdfunding algorithms work, even a contribution as small as 1 dollar can make a huge difference as it raises the project's profile and makes it more likely that it will reach its funding objectives.</p><p>This is an all or nothing fundraiser and no money will change hands unless the full sum is reached. Making a contribution (it’s the algorithms again) is particularly important during the next 8 hours. The link to the project's kickstarter page is above, below the video introduction.</p><p>For all who can contribute, I hank you in advance.</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%2Fde795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.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%2Fde795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.png" width="673" height="797" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/de795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":797,"width":673,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":624090,"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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title: Dr. Assal Rad on How Media Whitewash (and Enable) Israeli War Crimes
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title: Iran missile attack: what we learned last night
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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%2F4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.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%2F4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.png" width="1456" height="556" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":556,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":925296,"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>During the night of 2nd October 2024, Iran unleashed their operation "True Promise 2," launching between 200 and 400 ballistic missiles into Israel. As the video footage coming from Israel has shown, many of these missiles reached their targets inflicting substantial damage on the ground. Apparently, some offshore gas platforms were also struck. Claims and counterclaims are a bit all over the place at the moment: Israelis have claimed that the Iranian attack failed and that most of the missiles were intercepted. Netanyahu's aide <strong>Hananya Naftali</strong> even <a href="https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1841202859481649297">tweeted a "BRAVO"</a> to Israel's aerial defence systems for intercepting "nearly all the missiles." </p><p>But the footage from last night gives a very different impression; it corroborates those who claimed that many missiles hit their targets. A few of the videos also confirm that the Iranians do indeed possess hypersonic missiles. We also know now that these have a long range and seem accurate enough. This lesson alone could be a game changer.</p><h2>Why hypersonic missiles are a game changer</h2><p>Hypersonic missiles can't be intercepted. The most advanced Western air defence systems can shoot down incoming projectiles flying at up to mach 3. So far as the Patriot Missiles are concerned, their success rate is very poor even at that. Nothing in Western powers' arsenal can defend against hypersonic missiles and this certainly got the Pentagon's attention. The implication is that all US Navy assets and military bases in the Middle East are defenceless, and that Iran has the capability to strike them. </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%2Fba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.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%2Fba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.png" width="1456" height="807" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":807,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3064292,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>During yesterday's attack, two U.S. destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean <a href="https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1841285332706394371">launched twelve SM-3 ballistic missile interceptor rockets</a>, their most advanced air defence system. The problem is that the <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-u-s-navys-missile-production-problem-looks-dire/">current production rate</a> of SM-3s is down to zero! Thus, even if SM-3s are effective, Western air defence systems are not for the long haul and will deplete rapidly in case of further escalation. </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%2F78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.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%2F78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.png" width="1080" height="1512" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1512,"width":1080,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1230791,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>At the same time, Iran has many thousands of missiles ready. <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/iran/">Here's what CSIS says</a> about Irans' arsenal: </p><blockquote><p>"Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, with thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles, some capable of striking as far as Israel and southeast Europe. For the past decade, Iran has invested significantly to improve these weapons' precision and lethality. Such developments have made Iran's missile forces... a credible threat to U.S. and partner military forces in the region.”</p></blockquote><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%2F0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.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%2F0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.png" width="1456" height="996" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":996,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1511544,"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><h2>Hezbollah can shoot 3,000 missiles a day?</h2><p>Then there's Hezbollah. According to a 130-page report titled, "The Most Deadly War of All," compiled by a group of six Israeli think-tanks and based on three years of research and the opinions of over 100 Israeli defence experts and IDF commanders, war on Hezbollah would be, as the report's title suggests, the most deadly war of all for Israel. According to the report, Hezbollah would be capable of launching 2,500 to 3,000 missiles per day, a combination of long-range precision guided and unguided rockets. </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>The barrages would be launched toward specific targets in Israel with the potential of destroying the Iron Dome air-defence capability. IDF's reserves of Iron Dome and David's Sling interceptor missiles would likely be depleted within a few days from the start of a full-scale war with Hezbollah, leaving Israel exposed to thousands of missiles and drones launched by Hezbollah. This all could result in thousands of casualties and widespread panic among the settlement populations (already an estimated 200,000 settlers have abandoned their settlements  in the north of Israel since the start of hostilities).</p><p>Not to mention, both Iran and Hezbollah have been preparing for this outbreak for over two decades now, and the Iranians now promised a much more painful strike if Israel decides to escalate further. Western powers won't be able to stem the tsunami that Netanyahu is working to unleash, any more than the Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea has been able to restrain the Ansarallah in Yemen.  But therein lies the good news, I think. </p><h2>The good news, inshallah!</h2><p>Certain political factions in Israel and in the West have been working overtime to provoke a major war and draw in both Iran and the United States. Some of the pro-Israel voices are utterly rapturous about the prospect; the things they say sound utterly deranged and surreal. It’s as though they convinced themselves that Israel is somehow endowed with superpowers and that it can instantly turn anyone they wish into a smoldering heap of ashes. They also seem to think that by killing <strong>Hassan Nasrallah</strong>, Israel eliminated Hezbollah. They ignore the fact that Hezbollah is a very extensive military and political <strong>organization</strong>. If the Israelis bombed the Vatican tomorrow and killed the pope, that wouldn't be the end of Catholic Church.</p><p>Indeed, very childish and dangerous delusions gripped the most fanatical cohort of Israel supporters and saner heads must by now be aware of the extremely reckless adventure they’re dragging us all into. If a wider war erupts, all of US, UK and NATO assets in the Middle East are sitting ducks and will be destroyed or expelled from the region. </p><p>Furthermore, an interruption of crude oil traffic from the Persian Gulf would inflict a devastating blow to G7 economies at a time when they least need it. In addition, all of this could be hitting the proverbial fan just ahead of the elections, and they haven't even managed to assassinate <strong>Trump </strong>yet! It is all reckless in the extreme; the odds of victory (which is yet to be defined) are slim to none, while a cataclysmic failure is nearly certain. </p><p>I may be succumbing to wishful thinking myself, but I believe that we will shortly see leaders in the West pull hard on the handbrake and effect the quickest 180 degree turn yet! In the end, perhaps they will arrive at the calculation that sacrificing <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> and allowing Israel a break so they can sober up and reassess their predicament is a much better deal than following the unhinged fanatics and committing a collective suicide. We'll know soon enough. Who knows, maybe we can avoid World War 3. </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/iran-missile-attack-what-we-learned?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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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%2Fa3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.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%2Fa3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.png" width="1456" height="785" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":785,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1745626,"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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title: Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/CUZr3JONq_o" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02"></p>In this third Roundtable co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow and Rising Tide Foundation, experts Alistair Scott, Martin Sieff and Anton Chaitkin deliver their analysis on the geopolitical landscape and the historic and philosophical undercurrents shaping today's crisis.<br><br>Martin Sieff's work can be accessed at: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002T3QW26<br><br>Anton Chaitkin's work can be accessed at: <br>https://www.amazon.com/stores/Anton-Chaitkin/author/B005VGWXXA?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&amp;qid=1728269374&amp;sr=1-2&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true<br><br>Alistair Scott's work: https://pravda-en.com/world/2024/08/28/710925.html<br><br>To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky or register online here:<br>https://russiahouse.org/american-university-in-moscow/<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZr3JONq_o

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title: JACQUES BAUD: US MEDIA SHIFT NARRATIVE ON UKRAINE BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/b3eb93abd78f33b4f23a5be11ba78591.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="JACQUES BAUD: US MEDIA SHIFT NARRATIVE ON UKRAINE BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS"></p>Former Swiss intelligence, Jacques Baud, is author to numerous books, and offers critical commentary--while bringing needed historical context--on current issues.<br><br>In this conversation, Jacques speaks on the media's shift regarding reports on Ukraine, noting it aligns with the Biden administration needing some sort of perceived success before election (eg: peace talks).<br><br>He notes that Ukrainian media is more critical (than at first) of Zelensky, with even a recent Kiev Post article stating that the war is between the West &amp; Russia, on Ukrainian territory.<br><br><br>See our previous conversation: JACQUES BAUD: NATO THREATENED RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022

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title: Towards a World of Sovereign Republics: The Clash of Two Futures
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<p>Our current society has the choice of either collapsing into a long dark age, or renewing the great birth of mankind which expressed itself brilliantly with the establishment of its first Constitutional Republic via the American Revolution of 1776. As those foolish decisions shaping history would have it, the world of sovereign republics free of colonialism would not be carried into reality with the birth of America.</p><p>All developments leading up to the present crises have been shaped directly by the intrinsic tension between two inclinations. On the one side, we find the spirit of discovery and faith in the perfectibility of the universe and man embodied in the best traditions of the United States of America, while on the other do we find an inclination towards stasis and the pessimistic attitude that not only is the universe a cold, evil place, but so too is the humanity found within it. While history has been a struggle between representatives of these two outlooks, with the advent of thermonuclear capabilities, and the actual possibility of self extermination, no longer is mankind afforded the liberty to tolerate their co-existence. One must prevail.</p><p>Canada must locate its true character within this historical dynamic if it is to overcome the greatest obstacle to its evolution. This obstacle is to be found within the un-principled British imperial system which formed its historical and present behaviour.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>It is the design of the present report to shed light several key fallacies embedded within the foundations of Canada’s paradoxical system in order to ensure that she does not remain a tool of those interests intent on subverting the best traditions of humanity during this time of economic crisis and war. Rather, the author intends that these existential crises provide an opportunity of honest self examination such that this great northern territory take up its vital role as a servant to the interests of humankind as a true sovereign nation.</p><p>To re-emphasize; this system has proven to be one of the greatest sources of confusion and evil in our nation’s history and if we are to overcome its intended limitations, we must take a moment and evaluate what underlies it.</p><h2><strong>What is a Sovereign Nation?</strong></h2><p>The very toleration of something as self contradictory as a Party System as a pillar of a nation state, could only occur to the extent that a fallacious idea of sovereignty were maintained. Contrary to popular belief, nations are not the effect of some “social contract” agreed upon to check the innate selfishness of mankind. Nor can it be assumed that empires are simply the natural outgrowth of nations, within a Hobbesian world of each against all.</p><p>Since modern international law and the sacred right to national sovereignty now being threatened by the Blair doctrine of R2P and the `World Government“, is rooted in the <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/12/24/15303/">1648 Treaty signed in Westphalia</a>, it would do well to look to that founding document to see first hand upon what basis a nation is to be considered sovereign. In this way, we may re-evaluate to what degree sovereignty has been destroyed under the monetarist system of Globalization… especially in those nations popularly perceived to be the most free and democratic of the world.</p><blockquote><p><em>`That there shall be a Christian and Universal Peace, and a perpetual, true and sincere Amity, between his Sacred Imperial Majesty and his most Christian Majesty as also between all and each of the Allies…That this Peace and Amity shall be observed and cultivated with such a Sincerity and Zeal, that each Party shall endeavour to procure the Benefit, Honour and Advantage of the other; that thus on all sides they may see this Peace and Friendship in the Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of France flourish by entertaining a good and faithful neighbourhood</em></p></blockquote><p>The preamble goes on to outline the need for mutual forgiveness of transgressions, and mutual cooperation of all parties. What is remarkable is that for the first time in history, was a legal framework crafted that not only put an end to war, but established the necessary ingredients foe a durable peace… not as a negation of war, or a list of `do nots`, but rather as a positive principle` of creative change.</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%2Fa082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.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%2Fa082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.jpeg" width="387" height="381" data-attrs='{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":381,"width":387,"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>One is also struck by the spirit of Grace, Forgiveness and Charity which shine forth in these words, especially the mandate of <em>`the benefit of the other`.</em> This spirit did not embody the vast majority of signers of the Treaty, but rather only a small minority of individuals working directly with its leading architect, Cardinal Mazarin of France. Yet, even so, the principled character of the individual personality, not some mob, was necessary to forge its success, and as an effect has had a durable effect upon the cultivation of personalities born and raised under the new framework shaped by Mazarin and his law. A handful of such personalities would go on to found the United States of America as a direct outgrowth of this revolution in statecraft.</p><p>What we find is that Sovereign nations have a<em> character</em> analogous to the character of what we would classify as the virtuous individual. Just as some individuals are weaker and stronger, some are foolish, and others wise, some are trapped by selfish impulses they themselves don’t fully understand and others by principled motives, so too do we discover nations are similarly defined. As the character of a human is also known as his or her <em>constitution</em>, so too are statesmen obliged not to act as careerists or pragmatists for present concerns as is too often the case today, but rather to ensure the foundation, defence and cultivation of good constitutions which will form the character of its people, in order for its people to reciprocally reinforce and develop their nation’s constitution.</p><p>This fact has been a matter of intense reflection by the most powerful minds and strategists for good and evil throughout history, so it would be wise for any reader to take such considerations as seriously as the founding fathers did when they chose to risk their lives for those universal ideals expressed in the words written on the founding documents of the U.S. republic. It must also be considered when evaluating the unprincipled founding documents of Canada, a nation which, though many believe to be a beacon of democracy and freedom in the world, is actually one of the most tightly controlled colonies of an unseen empire. This British empire advocates nothing less than the reduction of humanity both in quantity and quality as proposed by the likes of Prince Philip<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn1">[1]</a>. This has been the legacy of the British Empire System of Empire, of which Canada is still an unacknowledged part, as juxtaposed against the empire’s mortal adversary, the American system of political economy embedded in the United States Constitution.</p><p><strong>We will continue this discussion in a few days with a comparative investigation of the Canadian vs American constitutions.</strong></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h3>Footnote</h3><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref1">[1]</a> “Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed–not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”<br>-Prince Philip, founder of the World Wildlife Fund</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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title: Have they weaponized hurricanes?
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>After hurricane Helene wreaked havoc through Southeast of the United States, <a href="https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2024/hurricane-milton">hurricane Milton</a> is about to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf coast, also with catastrophic potential. US Government’s inability or unwillingness to adequately respond to the resulting disasters has unleashed heated discussions on social media, including the speculation that they are somehow deliberately engineering these storms. </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%2F269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.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%2F269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":9501970,"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>The conspiracy theories can’t be dismissed; our government agencies as well as certain oligarchs like <strong>Bill Gates</strong> have been busy playing God with climate-engineering technologies like cloud-seeding, HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), AAI (atmospheric aerosol injections), carbon sequestration, sun dimming, and who knows what else. These technologies exist, and they can and do <em>influence</em> the weather. Here’s the former CIA director <strong>John Brennan</strong> talking about AAI in 2016: </p><div data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs='{"mediaUploadId":"6670d02c-759e-4821-817a-217d5f7f96c8","duration":null}' data-sanitized-class="native-video-embed"></div><p>Clearly, they’re busy messing with the climate. At the same time however, I very much doubt that they are capable of controlling anything much. In fact, tropical storms and hurricanes vividly expose the limitations of science and technology at understanding and forecasting the behavior of complex systems. Hurricane forecasts have greatly improved over the last few decades and the 24 and 48 hour forecasts of their <em>trajectories</em> tend to be fairly good. <em>Good</em> however isn’t the same as <em>accurate. </em>But our ability to predict a hurricane’s <em>intensity</em> isn’t even good. If we can’t predict something, how would we even begin to control it?</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>How hurricanes form</h2><p>Scientists’ ability to predict a hurricane’s trajectory has improved thanks to our greatly enhanced understanding of how hurricanes form and why they move the way they do. Here’s a condensed account of what we <em>do</em> know about hurricanes. They likely originate from the low and mid-level atmospheric winds blowing from the east across the Ethiopian highlands. As they blow over these high mountains, they form vortices that drift westward. When they reach the Atlantic Ocean, moist monsoon winds from the Gulf of Guinea inject humidity into the vortices. If enough humidity meets a sufficiently strong vortex, masses of clouds begin forming rapidly.</p><p>Out of the total of around a hundred such easterly waves, twenty to thirty will move each season across the Atlantic with the potential to turn into tropical depressions given the right conditions – primarily high humidity and heat. As water temperatures off the west coast of Africa warm to their late-summer peak, moist air begins to rise high into the atmosphere adding more energy to the system and providing humidity for continued cloud formation.</p><p>For a large storm to form, the following ingredients are required: the ocean’s surface temperature must rise above 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Farenheit); the pool of warm water must span at least a few hundred square miles and be at least 60 meters deep (196 feet); a large layer of warm, very humid air must also be present, extending from the ocean’s surface to an altitude of some 5,500 meters (18,000 feet). In such conditions, normally in place from June until December and peaking from August through October, the atmospheric disturbances caused by the easterly waves can trigger the formation of large storms.</p><p>One element however, must be absent for a hurricane to form: winds in the atmosphere over the large pool of warm ocean must be mild or consistent from the ocean surface to an altitude of at least 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) because strong and varied winds tend to tear cyclones apart. This is the key reason why hurricanes don’t form in the southern Atlantic.</p><p>The trajectory of hurricanes is determined in part by Earth’s rotation, so they predictably move from East to West rising gradually in latitude along the way. A large area of high atmospheric pressure usually present around the Bermudas (the Bermuda high) causes the hurricanes to swerve northwards and then continue to move toward the North-East following the Gulf currents. The regularity of these conditions gives hurricanes a somewhat predictable trajectory as the map below shows.</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%2F1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.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%2F1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.jpeg" width="1456" height="816" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":816,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" 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">Trajectories of all hurricanes and tropical storms from 1851 to 2019</figcaption></figure></div><p>What I presented above is only a very crude summary of a vast and detailed body of knowledge scientists have accumulated about the formation of hurricanes. But in spite of all that knowledge and a great deal of technology enabling storm monitoring in real time, we can never be sure about which disturbances will grow into hurricanes and which ones will dissipate or pass with only minor rainstorms. The structure of hurricanes is largely variable and can change from one day to the next leaving scientists unsure about how exactly all the factors in the atmosphere interact to cause hurricanes to gain or lose strength.</p><h2>Modelling the storms</h2><p>Mind numbing advances in computer modelling of the storms have enhanced meteorologists’ ability to work out probable outcomes, but not accurate prediction. Weather forecasting models used by meteorologists today fall in three distinct categories:</p><ul><li><p>statistical models,</p></li><li><p>dynamical models</p></li><li><p>hybrid statistical-dynamical models.</p></li></ul><p>Statistical models start with the information such as a storm’s location and the time of the year to make a prediction based on previous observed storms at the same location and at the same time of the year. Such models are based on the assumption that over the next 24 or 48 hours, the present storm will behave similarly to the previous ones. </p><p>Dynamical models analyze all the available information about the storm and its adjacent weather conditions and use the basic laws of fluid dynamics in the Earth’s atmosphere to forecast the future development of the storm. Concretely, scientists use six specific mathematical equations to describe the Earth’s atmosphere: three hydrodynamic equations that rely on Newton’s second law of motion to find horizontal and vertical motions of air caused by air pressure differences, gravity, friction, and the Earth’s rotation; two thermodynamic equations that calculate changes in temperature caused by water evaporation, vapor condensation and similar occurrences; and one continuity equation that accounts for the volume of air entering or leaving the area.</p><h2>Building up the monitoring grid</h2><p>With the rapid evolution of computer technology, scientists could handle increasing levels of complexity these equations entail. They have advanced by modelling the Earth’s atmosphere as a three-dimensional grid consisting of a number of horizontal data points stacked in a number of atmospheric layers. </p><p>One of the first such models was developed in the mid-1950s by the US Weather Bureau. Its grid was rather crude, consisting of a single level of the atmosphere at about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) and data points spaced 248 miles apart. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hurricane Center developed a much more complex model consisting of ten layers of atmosphere with grid points 37 miles apart. At the time, computers couldn’t handle this model’s complexity over a large area, so the grid had to move about with the storm, keeping it in the center of an area covering 1,860 miles on each side (it was called the Movable Fine Mesh model).</p><p>In the 1990s, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research center in Princeton, New Jersey developed a model that analyzed data at 18 levels of the atmosphere within three nested grids, the finest of which covered an area of 345 square miles with data points 11.5 miles apart. GFDL’s model thus consisted of some 16,200 points receiving data in time steps of 15 seconds. Even at such fine resolution, the model could only represent a hurricane with an idealized vortex structure based upon only a handful of parameters of the real storm (maximum winds and the distance of maximum winds from the storm center).</p><p>In parallel, the US Navy developed its own, somewhat less detailed model named Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS). NOGAPS consisted of a horizontal grid resolution of about 52 miles with 45 data points in each layer over an area covering 345 square miles. Running on the Cray C90 supercomputer, NOGAPS took about 20 minutes to produce a 24-hour forecast. If the NOGAPS model were run with the finer grid of the GFDL model, it would require about a week’s time to produce a 24-hour forecast. </p><p>Since the late 1990s, further advances have taken place both in increased model resolution,<a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/02/hurricane-science-for-investors-and-traders/#_ftn1">[1]</a> speed of computation and processing capacity. Nevertheless, the practical reality of the problem seems to be converging upon the theory (of computation): as computer models of storms have gone from cruder to finer grid resolution, their complexity has increased exponentially requiring exponentially greater computing power to produce timely forecasts. A <a href="https://blog.mapbox.com/3d-animated-hurricane-map-from-radar-data-affaed8a3d70">visualization below was generated</a> with data for the hurricane Doublas (July 2020) from NOAA’s Weather and Climate Toolkit:</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%2Fac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif" 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_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif" width="758" height="474" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":474,"width":758,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"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>The a mount of data that’s collected is impressive, but the resolution is still rather grainy. Nonetheless, the fatal flaw of computer modelling is not only in the resolution of models or in the processing speeds of computers.</p><h2>The brick wall of complexity</h2><p>An impossible problem also lies in the complex models’ sensitivity to input data. Namely, very small differences in the values of initial variables can lead to very large variations in outcomes. The seemingly insurmountable problem in modelling complex systems was discovered by MIT’s theoretical meteorologist <strong>Edward Lorenz</strong>. Lorenz developed a relatively straightforward computer model emulating the weather. </p><p>One day in 1961, Lorenz resolved to rerun the results of one particular simulation starting at the half-way point, using the results he had for that particular point in his print-outs. The new simulation quickly started diverging from the original results and soon bore no resemblance to it.</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%2Fa42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif" 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_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif" width="320" height="168.64864864864865" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":156,"width":296,"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></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Sensitive dependence on initial conditions</figcaption></figure></div><p>The ultimate explanation for this divergence had profound implications for science: while Lorenz’s program took its calculations to six decimal places, his print-outs only showed the values to three decimal places. The minute difference between say, 1.234567 and 1.235 applied in the second simulation led to very large differences in the final results. Lorenz termed this phenomenon, “sensitive dependence on initial conditions.” </p><p>We have every reason to expect that other complex systems will display a similar sensitivity, implying that the problem of accuracy of measurements poses another stumbling block in science’s attempt to get to the bottom of such systems. Indeed, accurate prediction will likely remain unattainable regardless of advances in all areas of research. As <strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3hsdv9A">Bob Sheets</a></strong>, the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami put it:</p><blockquote><p>“<em>The grid for the computer models does keep getting smaller and smaller, but we’re still taking in terms of miles, while the actual weather is taking place at the level of molecules.</em>” <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/02/hurricane-science-for-investors-and-traders/#_ftn2">[2]</a></p></blockquote><p>Hurricanes, like all other complex systems will continue to defy prediction. Simply, our efforts to understand and predict a system’s behaviour are up against a brick wall of complexity. Beyond the very near-term, the whole business of forecasting amounts to educated guesswork. </p><h2>“They”: cruel, sadistic and stupid juveniles</h2><p>To suppose that anyone would actually be capable of controlling such systems and achieving desired outcomes is to credit them with omniscience and omnipotence that’s beyond the human grasp. It takes a particular mental disposition to venture and play God with our societies, economies, viruses, earthquakes or weather modification technologies. </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%2F9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.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%2F9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.png" width="948" height="643" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":643,"width":948,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1497377,"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">Masters of the universe or overgrown brats?</figcaption></figure></div><p>Based on what we’ve seen so far, the people who are inclined to do so have much more in common with cruel, sadistic and stupid juveniles than they do with learned, mature and responsible scientists. They can set things on fire and destroy life, but they wouldn’t know how to create or control something if their degenerate lives depended on it. They are good at one thing only: failing. </p><p>Recall, <a href="https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/23-07-2022-who-director-general-declares-the-ongoing-monkeypox-outbreak-a-public-health-event-of-international-concern">on 23 July this year, the World Health Organization declared the Mpox pandemic</a> a public health emergency of international concern. That should have snapped the world into another “new normal,” but the world shrugged, yawned and moved on. They are not omnipotent and they are light years away from being omniscient. They’re losing and we are winning for we have the truth on our side. Slowly but surely we are prevailing in the struggle for truth and we’re doing it every day.  </p><p>The above article was adapted from my 2016 book “<strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/masteringriskanduncertaintyincommoditiestrading_6x9printlayout.pdf">Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading</a></strong>” which was rated #1 book on <a href="https://www.financial-expert.co.uk/">FinancialExpert.co.uk</a> list of “<a href="https://www.financial-expert.co.uk/best-commodities-books-uk/">The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders</a>” for 2021 and 2022. You can download it for free at the link above. 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<h2><strong><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/towards-a-world-of-sovereign-republics">Part one is here</a></strong></h2><p>Before embarking upon a comparative study of these two systems, it must first be noted that Canada has no explicit single constitution. It has a list of “founding documents” which include the Quebec Act of 1774 included among the intolerable acts of the 13 colonies<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn2">[2]</a>, the Act of 1791 that established Upper and Lower Canada, the failed Act of Union of 1840 and the British North American Act of 1867. The later was established as a response by a bankrupt British oligarchy to keep Canada from developing a real constitution modelled on that of Lincoln’s USA after the British-run Confederacy operation failed in its attempted dissolution of the Union with Lincoln’s victory in 1865<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn3">[3]</a>. While this Act lasted another century, a final Canada Act passed by an order in council in the British and Canadian Parliaments in 1982, now called The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was added to the mix of legal documents. Many believe (falsely) that this document is now the sole Canadian Constitution.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>In the case of the United States, two founding documents exist, amended over time, but unchanged in principle. These are the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1787). Just as Abraham Lincoln argued that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were to be viewed as one doubly connected document, so too will we here.</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%2Fcd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.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%2Fcd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.jpeg" width="894" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":894,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":172665,"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></p><p>The American Declaration of Independence begins with the words:</p><blockquote><p><em>“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”</em></p></blockquote><p>In the midst of a laundry list of rights granted by order of the Queen, we find article 7 of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 that reads<em>;</em></p><blockquote><p><em>“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”</em> And then a little later, in article 15: <em>“Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability”</em>.</p></blockquote><p>After a comparative reading, a nominalist would conclude that both systems are almost equivalent. The right to life, and liberty are to be found in both, as well as the acknowledgement of individual equality. So why is the Canadian Constitution vastly inferior to its American counterpart? To answer this, it is useful to pose another question, namely, what is the <em>source </em>from which these rights are derived in both cases? In the case of the American system, such rights are deemed self-evident and inherent in the soul and as such to be given or taken by no mortal as one would treat a physical object. In the Canadian Constitution, a very different beast rears its head. These rights are granted to the people, as a form of legal contract! While souls cannot be made null and void based on whim and circumstance of a dictator, a contract always can. If the source of Canada’s true director is still ambiguous to the reader, let them merely refer to the last article (62) of the act; <em>“This Act may be cited as the CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982, and the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1975”</em></p><p>It is here that the cat is let out of the bag. The Constitution Act of 1982 did not replace the longstanding British North American Act of 1867 as most Canadians have been led to believe. Rather, the Act of 1867 was merely amended, and renamed, though its principles and intent never repealed. Thus, let us see what the 1867 constitution establishes clearly in its preamble, as the true purpose of Canada:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom: And whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the Interests of the British Empire”</em></p></blockquote><p>There it is. The rights of people in Canada are presumed to be derived from the <em>“fount of all honours”</em> otherwise known as the monarchy, while Canada’s stated purpose is nothing more than to <em>“promote the interests of the British Empire</em>”! Looking towards the geopolitical dynamics of Canada’s history, one is struck that not one ounce of blood was ever dropped for liberty in establishing our founding documents, and for that reason, no honest liberty was ever won. Only a cheap counterfeit for liberty prances around the Canadian soul calling herself “comfort”, or the freedom to ”go along to get along”.</p><p>Let us compare this with the “mission statement” of America by looking at the preamble of its Constitution:</p><blockquote><p><em>“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#DOMTRAN">domestic Tranquillity</a>, provide for the common <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/constmiss.html">defence</a>, promote the general <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#WELFARE">Welfare</a>, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#POSTERITY">Posterity</a>, do <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#ORDAIN">ordain</a> and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”</em></p></blockquote><p>The liberty derived from this idea is a far different matter than the thing roaming around with the same name in Canada. The fact is that nowhere in the U.S. founding documents do we find that the republic is at all a party system, nor even a democracy, but rather a democratic republic, designed explicitly around the principle of the <em>General Welfare</em>, not only for present generations, but into <em>infinite posterity</em>. That is an idea of freedom worth fighting for.</p><p>Canada’s founding documents were modelled explicitly on the British geopolitical doctrine known as <em>balance of power</em>, derived from the bestial social program of <em>each against all</em>. The absolute power of a monarch using her appendages of the Privy Council and Governor General must “counter balance” the power of an unelected House of Lords representing the aristocracy and nobility (in Canada known as “The Senate”) who in turn “balance” the power of the those elected by “the commoners” known as the House of Commons. The Commoners must not be allowed to decide their destiny on principle, but only according to a perverted form of group think known as “party politics”.</p><h2><strong>Siamese Twins: The Party System and Free Trade</strong></h2><p>In observing the root evil of the Party system, we must come to recognize that its foundation hinges upon the total destruction of individual conscience. Not only that, but any standard of truth and justice upon which competent deliberation about national policy should be based is reduced to a “hedonistic calculus” of pleasure versus pain. This same “pleasure-pain” fallacy can be clearly seen when evaluating the unprincipled structure of the bastard sibling to the Party System known as British Free Trade. It is impossible to evaluate one child of the British System while ignoring its ugly twin. A useful excerpt from the official architect of Free Trade Adam Smith in his 1759 <em>Theory of Moral Sentiments</em> will suffice to communicate the issue at hand:</p><blockquote><p><em> “Hunger, thirst, and the passion which unites the two sexes, the love of pleasure, and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply those means for their own sake, and without any consideration of their tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of nature intended to produce by them.”</em></p></blockquote><p>Just as the Party system is designed around the negation of truth and its replacement by popular opinion, so too is British Free Trade designed around the pre-eminence of hedonistic personal desires, and popular opinion before the well being of the nation as a whole. Why plan for the future, when the “hidden hand” of the market guides our personal vice to those mysterious “beneficent ends” which only “the gods” may know… but not lowly man.</p><p>With that said, we may ask: how could it be possible that the superior reason and morality of an exceptional individual be permitted to win over adherents to his or her policy initiative, when that individual’s views and opinions must a-priori conform to the desires of “the party”? How can a place exist in a civilized society for such a function as a party “whip” whose function is to ensure that all party members are kept in line with “the party”? How can the general welfare ever be assured when the Party’s primary mandate is to be maintain power by being popular with “the right demographics”? Where do we find a place for “truth” in such a world?</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Similarly, in the case of Free Trade let us ask: <em>How can the wise understanding of a nation builder favour the debt incurred to build a hydroelectric dam, relative to a network of whorehouses, when the monetary sums associated with both of them may be equal, and in fact promise a far greater return when invested in a whorehouse (or a hedge fund)? </em>In the logic of free trade, a nation must allow both its infrastructure, and productive powers to rot in favour of the types of “investments” that bring ever more obscene rates of momentary pleasure (aka monetary profit) by the gods of “the market”, even at the expense of the future survival of society. How else could one explain the recent explosion of derivatives to the scale of 10-20 times the world GDP? How about the satanic case of 40% of a nation’s corn production transformed into ethanol for gas tanks and speculation in a world that suffers the deaths of 30 000 children by starvation every day?</p><p>While the British system has been sometimes adopted and sometimes resisted by America (seen in hindsight as times of alternating growth and collapse), it has almost  perpetually held the Dominion of Canada in its clutches, with very few respites from the corruption, confusion and impoverishment which are its children. As one American economist observed the sad case of Canada in the early 1850s:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Though the ratio of the increase of the population has been greater in Canada than in the United States, yet their increase of wealth has barely kept pace with the population, and they are all as poor as they were half a century since. They have enjoyed the blessings of free trade all of the time, we only a part of the time. Whenever we have attempted to supply ourselves by our own industry, with the comforts and necessities of life, we have improved our condition as a people; and during the intervals of free trade and large importations of foreign goods, we have relapsed again into a condition bordering on bankruptcy; while the Canadians have been constantly exhausted, and kept so poor by free trade, as to be unable to get sufficient credit to have the ups and downs of prosperity and bankruptcy in succession”<strong><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn4">[4]</a></strong>.</em></p></blockquote><p>A leading American political economist of the Hamiltonian school named Henry C. Carey not only led Abraham Lincoln’s national economic program that turned the USA into the preeminent force for progress by the end of the 19th Century but explicitly laid bare the methods of the Union’s true enemy in his many books, speeches and pamphlets, one of which is called <em>The Harmony of Interest</em>s in 1858:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing commodities with which to trade, with necessarily diminished return to the labour of all; while the other looks to increasing the proportion engaged in the work of production, and diminishing that engaged in trade and transportation, with increased return to all, giving to the labourer good wages, and to the owner of capital good profits… One looks to underworking the Hindoo, and sinking the rest of the world to his level; the other to raising the standard of man throughout the world to our level. One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other in increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other we may be proud to call the American system, for it is the only one ever devised the tendency of which was that of elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world.</em></p></blockquote><h4><strong>This story will continue in a few days with an investigation into the principle of progress</strong></h4><h3>Footnotes</h3><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref2">[2]</a> The Quebec Act was designed to bribe French Canada with superficial rights… mostly religious as long as loyalty to the Crown were maintained, and thereby subverting Quebec`s near entry into the revolution as a 14th colony and blocking the western expansion policy of America by bringing the Quebec possessions down into Ohio. See Pierre Beaudry`s <em>The Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act of 1774</em>, published in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Canada-Consequences-Challenge/dp/179273123X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QINNJZ27QPZH&amp;keywords=untold+history+of+canada+pierre+beaudry&amp;qid=1640589566&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=untold+history+of+canada+pierre+beaudry%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C64&amp;sr=1-1">The Untold History of Canada vol. 1</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref3">[3]</a> See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYKyWnfbNs">1932: Speak Not of Parties</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Ezra Champion Seaman, Essays on the Progress of Nations (1853)</p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/GnFVm_tTjws" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The 2024 Elections: What are the Stakes, and will they happen? (Global Research Radio)"></p>In this episode of Global Research Radio, Matt Ehret discusses the historical dynamics shaping the 2024 presidential elections, and the various scenarios for good, bad and ugly outcomes (with a special focus on the lessons of 1934 and the aborted bankers coup against FDR). To watch the full episode of Global Research Radio click here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-beyond-the-duopoly-a-peoples-analysis-of-election-2024/5869976<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 Canadian Patriot Film “The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?”<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs<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>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=GnFVm_tTjws

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<p>While the principles of republicanism embodied in the American System demand a protective tariff, and productive credit, while the British System demands the inverse, it is worth asking; <em>“do the upper quotes mean to infer that Free Trade is intrinsically an evil?”</em> Not at all. In fact, guided by a principled intention towards progress and development among all sovereign participants, freedom of trade has had the effect of uniting and empowering all involved. </p><p>Among the clearest cases, we need only look to the newly liberated colonies themselves just after the Declaration of Independence. These former colonies, left to their own personal self interest, local currency controls, and fragmented tariff policies on imports, were so divided that a re-conquering was all but inevitable. However, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s bold program to federalize legitimate debts opened up an ability to pay off the debt occurred during the war, and trade freely amongst themselves under a federal government acting for the general welfare which ensured great unity and national power. </p><p>A similar case can be viewed in the formation of the German Zollverein led by the follower of Alexander Hamilton, German economist Friederick List, or the attempted Reciprocity Treaties arranged between America and Canada of the late 19th century by the Canadian followers of Abraham Lincoln such as the statesmen Isaac Buchanan and Wilfrid Laurier.</p><p>The key that united these case studies is 1) their common blocking, via protective tariffs, of Monopolized private interests controlled by the financier oligarchy centred in London, 2) the abolishment of usury and wild speculation and 3) the instituting of visionary programs which were designed to promote the general welfare. These long-term projects would not only be fuelled by 4) national credit issued via national banking procedures, but would ensure that 5) investments and private industry would be tied to physically productive enterprises. Profit is good… as long as it is tied to something truly useful to the success of humanity, as well as the entrepreneur.</p><p>However, when no guiding principle is actively moving the participant states towards common aims of all, and only the mindless unruly beast known as “the Market” is left to rule freely over the many, then no durable good has ever, will ever or could ever occur. A society that tolerates a system which severs human intention and principle so absolutely from its behaviour, in favour of popular opinion and pleasure worshipping, has lost all moral fitness to survive, and the oligarchy which will run free to monopolize all commodities under such a “laissez-faire” logic of enslaved nations shall, by its very nature, not stop until the society which it has trapped in its ideological web has consumed itself into oblivion.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h2><strong>Case Study: Changing Nature</strong></h2><p>The final test of any system will not occur in a class room, or academic high tower, but in applied reality. In this way, by acting on our concepts, and observing how the universe responds to our ideas may we competently judge whether to keep or discard a hypothesis. </p><p>This is no less true for political economy as it is for the so-called “hard” sciences. If someone were to confront us and assert: Isn’t the notion of the superiority of the American System over the British System merely a matter of opinion? We may with self-assurance warmly reply that they are mistaken. Just as universal gravitation was not discovered by a mystical fraud like Isaac Newton<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn5">[5]</a>, or by a consensus, but by the genius of a Kepler, so too can we assert that the universal validity of the American System is discoverable to <em>self conscious reason</em>. As mankind has become more aware of nature’s secrets, keys have been discovered unlocking doors to her bounty, and the unruly chaos which is her “natural” state has yielded in increased tameness to the gentle hand of the plough, the sail, and the dam.</p><p>Where wilderness of the West had kept civilization at bay, Lincoln’s Transcontinental Railway program opened new corridors to development and the blossoming of new cities. Where deserts have made way to valleys and farms such as California’s Imperial Valley, so too have swamps been tamed as under the Tennessee Valley Authority, both programs effected under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Where unruly rapids and shallow waters prevented shipping, has the St. Laurence Seaway opened up rivers to humanity’s field of activity, and where the earth had determined the limit of man’s existence for all of human history, did JFK’s dream extend our field of activity to other planetary bodies.</p><h2><strong>The Anti-Entropic Science of Physical Economy</strong></h2><p>In refuting British Imperial thinkers Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin by name in his book <em>The Unity of Law</em>, Henry C. Carey (advisor to Lincoln and leading American System economist) observed that the only reasonable metric to determine a nation’s success is the increase of the productive powers of labour, manifest in 1) the unbounded increase of powers of association of producer and consumer, 2) the unbounded increase of the ratio of Mind’s dominance to Matter. In refuting the British notion that returns on production MUST always diminish and decay over time, leading inevitably towards overpopulation, starvation and war, Carey makes his case for the higher unity of law which is apparent with the acknowledgement of creative reason:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Here was further proof of the universality of natural laws- the course of man, in reference to the earth at large, being thus shown to have been the same that we see it now to be in reference to all the instruments into which he fashions parts of the great machine itself. Always commencing with the poorest axes, he proceeds onward to those of steel; always commencing with the poorer soils, he proceeds onward toward those capable of yielding larger returns to labor; increase of numbers being thus proved to be essential to increase in the supply of food. Here was a unity of law leading to perfect harmony of all real and permanent human interests, and directly opposed to the discords taught by Mr. Malthus… Reflecting upon this, he (Carey) was soon brought to expression of the belief, that closer examination would lead to development of the great fact, that there existed but a single system of laws; those instituted for the government of inorganic matter proving to be the same by which that matter was governed when it took the form of man, or of communities of men.”</em></p></blockquote><p>In the 20th Century, Lyndon LaRouche, having independently come to Carey’s conclusion and without any foreknowledge of the American System of Political Economy, established in his science of physical economy the metric of the unbounded increase of mankind’s Relative Potential Population Density, measured as an increase of the productive powers of labour measured per capita and per square kilometre. Redefining notions of Work, Energy and Power behind notions of Leibnizian Dynamics rather than Newtonian statistical notions prevalent in academic circles<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn6">[6]</a>, LaRouche explained his discovery in various texts, not the least among them is the <em>Science of Christian Economy </em>where LaRouche writes:</p><blockquote><p><em>“The science of political economy is premised upon conclusive, empirical evidence of a fundamental difference which sets the human species absolutely apart from and above, all of the animal species, as Moses specifies in Genesis 1:26. This crucial difference is mankind’s power to increase the potential population density of the human species as a whole by means of the voluntary generation, transmission, and efficient assimilation of scientific and technological progress. Mankind is capable of increasing, intentionally, the maximum size of the human population which could be self-sustained by its own labor, per average square kilometre of land area, while also raising the average physical standard of living. No animal species can accomplish this.”</em></p></blockquote><p>The scientific formulation of a system usually taught as a mere social theory is not only a crucial breakthrough in human history, but has given leading world citizens around the world the necessary tools, the “objective” metrics of value, for them to successfully develop their national economies which serving the inalienable Rights of Man. The current mental block to an open recognition of the validity of this new thought in practice, especially among leading Western governments, has been mankind’s inability to break free from the imperial conditioning called “the second law of thermodynamics” or simply “entropy”.</p><p>The cultish religious belief that the universe as a whole is not only a closed (bounded) system, but also a system which is moving constantly towards increasing states of disorder and towards a reduced potential for change, can only be adhered to via a total disregard for the evidence found in the directed change in evolution since the Cambrian epoch<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn8">[8]</a>, Kepler’s proof of the harmonic ordering of Solar Systems, as well as mankind’s powers of creative reason that have permitted him, over millennium, to constantly leap beyond his supposedly fixed spiritual and material limits. All evidence that creative thought has intrinsic active existence within the universe must be totally ignored for any such belief as Entropy, Darwinian biology, or even monetarism to hold any influence in society.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h2><strong>Manifest Destiny as Anti-Entropy</strong></h2><p>In contrast to the entropic view of the British System stands the American System mandate of constant anti-entropic development which has been expressed both theologically in the form of Genesis 1: 28 <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn9">[9]</a>, politically in the form of Cusa’s New World Project taken up by Columbus in 1480, and economically as John Quincy Adams’ policy of Manifest Destiny<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn10">[10]</a>.</p><p>It is vital for citizens everywhere, but Canadians especially, to comprehend that with the ironic possession of greater land potential and one tenth the population of the USA, whatever progress achieved throughout Canada’s history has occurred in spite of and never because of our adherence to Britain’s system of Party Politics and Free Trade. </p><p>Inversely the only reason why America has not progressed MORE than it has, is because of the British Policy of Party of Politics and Free Trade subverting its own constitutional traditions introduced under such populist anglophiles such as Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn11">[11]</a>.</p><p>Were we as a nation, and humanity as a whole, to continue to hold onto the foolish doctrines endorsed by the British Empire, and not overcome our corrupt habits of “lazy reason” which have permitted us to tolerate the self- destructive British System for so long, our self- extermination by war, disease, and starvation are all but assured. Were we <em>not</em> to recognize the solid foundation of reason that the American System of Republic has provided humanity in 1776, then the double edged sword of democracy and tyranny outlined in Plato’s Republic would perpetually take turns draining the blood of our children until no more blood could be drawn from the body of humankind.</p><p>But as the Founding Fathers recognized that the time had been made ripe to pluck the seeds planted by Plato in his challenge to future generations in the Republic 2000 years earlier, so too must we now ensure that the ripeness of this time of great peril is not missed by a sleeping, cowardly society. The policies of Russia and China are echoing a future time that today exists naught but as a potential for something better<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn12">[12]</a>. </p><p>Connecting the old and new worlds via rail through the Bering Strait, greening those wounds known as deserts via great water projects such as the <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/john-f-kennedy-nawapa-and-chinas">North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) </a>and Africa’s Transaqua exist as pillars on earth around which a new financial system may be created. Pillars beyond the earth include Russia’s bold program for Asteroid Defence, China’s lunar mining initiative and international Mars colonization projects echoed by the successful landing of the Curiosity Rover in August 2012. </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%2F2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.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%2F2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.jpeg" width="697" height="554" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":554,"width":697,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":303798,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","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>All of these endeavours shall accelerate and be accelerated by the advent of man’s long overdue harnessing of fusion energy for civilian use, followed soon thereafter by controlled Matter-Antimatter processes. All will have the effect of increasing those key parameters laid out by Henry C. Carey over a century ago. All will demonstrate the anti-entropic nature of mind.</p><p>With this potential and necessary future looking upon us and demanding that the American Revolution finally be completed the world over, may we not safely ask; Is it not time that Canada becomes a republic?</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref5">[5]</a> For a full expose of the the political agenda behind the creation of the Isaac Newton myth and an introduction to Kepler, Leibniz and Huygens’ real discoveries of gravitation, the infinitesimal calculus and optics (attributed wrongly to Newton), see the<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2014/03/18/venice-and-leibniz-the-battle-for-a-science-of-economy/"> Venice vs Leibniz </a>by Michael Kirsch (published on the Canadian Patriot Review in 2014)</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref6">[6]</a> The most extensive treatment of LaRouche’s discovery can be found in his 1984 textbook “So you wish to Learn about Economics” <a href="http://www.wlym.com/archive/pdf/iclc/soyouwish.pdf">downloadable as a free PDF here.</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref8">[8]</a> See the 2010 film by Cody Jones <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFER48yT3M">“To Be or Not To Be: A Galactic Question”</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref9">[9]</a> “And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref10">[10]</a> Adams insisted that the westward expansion of the United States not result in the expansion of slavery, or conquests of other lands, but rather the extension of republicanism as expressed in the Declaration of Independence… And Adams was clear he did not see expansion by conquest, even of Canada (Nancy Spannaus, John Quincy Adams and teh Community of Principle, Executive Intelligence Review, January 28 2000). The clash of various “versions” of manifest destiny was taken up in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Manifest-Destiny-New-Expanded/dp/1700595016/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=untold+history+of+canada+matthew+ehret&amp;qid=1603824259&amp;sr=8-1">volume two of the Untold History of Canada: In Defense of Manifest Destiny.</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref11">[11]</a> The majority of American presidents have been treasonous puppets who were deployed to destroy the American system. These three men stand out for their treachery as men who were united by common tendencies of democratic populism, and as such ushered in waves of speculation, free trade, and imperialism at times when the influence of the American System based on Sovereign republics were on the verge of overtaking the British Empire and their colonies.</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref12">[12]</a> For an overview of the development programs so threatening to the British Empire arising out of Russia and China’s current commitment to survival, I advise you to check out<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/clash-of-the-two-americas-vol-2-1890-the-future/"> Clash of the Two Americas vol. 2</a></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>

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title: John Carmack on Functional Programming
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<p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170116040923/http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php">John Carmack on Functional Programming</a></strong></p>
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<p>A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. In a multithreaded environment, the lack of understanding and the resulting problems are greatly amplified, almost to the point of panic if you are paying attention. Programming in a functional style makes the state presented to your code explicit, which makes it much easier to reason about, and, in a completely pure system, makes thread race conditions impossible.</p>
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<p>A significant part of John Carmack’s intelligence is his ability to recognize the importance of having principles while not shunning pragmatic tradeoffs.

    </p><p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785930">HN</a></p>


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


guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/the-ugly-truth-of-us-biowarfare-in
title: The Ugly Truth Of US Biowarfare in the Ukraine and Beyond (CP Podcast with Jeff J. Brown)
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<p>In light of the recent biolab fire in Georgia, I highly recommend people review this discussion on the ugly truth about US biowarfare.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/" 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%2Fb6aed6e3-cf7d-4bc9-a523-936072f862ff_636x333.jpeg" width="636" height="333" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b6aed6e3-cf7d-4bc9-a523-936072f862ff_636x333.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":333,"width":636,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":"https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In this <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/">Canadian Patriot Podcast</a>, Matt and Cynthia talk to Jeff J. Brown, author, co-founder of the Bioweapon Truth Commission and the curator of the Global Online Library (BWTC-GOL). During this interview Jeff provides an overview of biowarfare in the 20th century from the dark days of WWI to the Pentagon’s acquisition of Unit 731 Japanese biological warfare specialists in the wake of WWII. Examples of US/UK abuses of biological warfare in defiance of international laws is also discussed leading us into the heated topic of today’s 13+ Pentagon-managed biolabs in Ukraine which have been a cause of major concern for Russian leadership for years. Jeff additionally takes us through China’s similar concerns with US biolabs littered throughout Asia and much of Africa.</p><p>Since this discussion Jeff Brown has recently published on his substack <strong><a href="https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/breaking-nato-chemical-false-flag">BREAKING! NATO chemical false flag attack uncovered in Ukraine to blame Russia. JB West and JB East present: See You In The Hague! #51. Transcript and podcasts.</a></strong></p><h4><strong><a href="https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2023/03/05/breaking-nato-chemical-false-flag-attack-uncovered-in-ukraine-to-blame-russia-jb-west-and-jb-east-present-see-you-in-the-hague-51-transcript-and-podcasts/">The transcript to the NATO chemical false flag discussion can be found here.</a></strong></h4><p>Visit Jeff’s primary website where you can see his research, listen to his podcasts and buy his books: <a href="https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2022/02/28/is-russia-in-ukraine-because-of-the-usas-13-plus-exclusive-use-wmd-germ-warfare-laboratories-there-not-to-mention-ukie-nazis-killing-10000s-of-their-own-citizens-for-the-last-eight-years-c/">https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2022/02/28/is-russia-in-ukraine-because-of-the-usas-13-plus-exclusive-use-wmd-germ-warfare-laboratories-there-not-to-mention-ukie-nazis-killing-10000s-of-their-own-citizens-for-the-last-eight-years-c/</a></p><p>Subscribe to Jeff’s Substack here:</p><p><a href="https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web">China Rising Radio Sinoland</a></p>

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title: Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 04
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/EWi0vdX-R9E" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 04"></p>In this fourth Roundtable co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow and Rising Tide Foundation, experts Alex Krainer, Glenn Diesen and Come Carpentier deliver their analysis on the geopolitical landscape and the historic and philosophical undercurrents shaping today's crisis.<br><br>To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky or register online here:<br>https://russiahouse.org/american-university-in-moscow/<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWi0vdX-R9E

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/the-strategic-importance-of-the-alaska
title: The Strategic Importance of the Alaska-Canada Railway
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<h3>Will Trump revive it?</h3><h2>By Matthew Ehret</h2><p>In my recent film ‘The Arctic: Platform for War or Global Cooperation’, I outlined the fact that in the early hours of September 26, 2020, President Trump <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7361339/alberta-alaska-rail-trump-approval-a2a/">sent out the announcement</a> that a gigantic continental project long thought dead and buried will be revived: The 2570 km Alaska Canada Rail connection, which will move freight, oil, grains and other goods from Anchorage to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Northern Alberta.</p><p>In his tweet, Trump stated:</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%2F1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.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%2F1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.jpeg" width="733" height="425" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":425,"width":733,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","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>For those who are not aware, anyone wishing to take rail from the USA north, will only make it as far as British Columbia, as a 1000 km gap separates any rail from Alaska.</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%2F55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.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%2F55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.jpeg" width="750" height="581" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":581,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" 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>When looking at the post-WWII battles for continental development, it is somewhat incredible that this gap has remained in place for decades, with the northernmost rail line extending as far as Dease Lake BC, built over 50 years ago by the great pro-development Premier W.A.C. Bennett.</p><p>For decades the Dease Lake line was called “the railway to nowhere,” and featured a price tag of only one dollar, which in fact is today only a relic of a sabotaged northern vision, which was always designed to connect Canada and the USA, while opening up the north for development.</p><h3><strong>Premier W.A.C. Bennett’s Fight to Open the North</strong></h3><p>From 1952- 1972, <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/06/14/forgotten-battles-against-the-deep-state-part-3-w-a-c-bennett-vs-the-malthusians/">British Columbia’s great Premier W.A.C. Bennett</a> fought a hard fought battle to ensure that British Columbia would finally become more than a colonial underdeveloped region, as its British rulers had long condemned of her. Bennett was convinced that the opening up of the arctic and the industrial boom of British Columbia were possible if a policy of state directed investment into capital intensive infrastructure, social programs, and industrialization were made the focus of the national purpose.</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%2Ff926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.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%2Ff926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.jpeg" width="564" height="423" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":423,"width":564,"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><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Premier W.A.C. Bennett at an event celebrating the Peace River Power Dam in July 1964. PHOTO BY DENI EAGLAND /Vancouver Sun files</figcaption></figure></div><p>Bennett’s clashes with the technocrats in Ottawa, beginning with the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/06/14/forgotten-battles-against-the-deep-state-part-3-w-a-c-bennett-vs-the-malthusians/">sabotage operation </a>against the Columbia River Treaty and continuing beyond the<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/"> ouster of Diefenbaker in 1963 </a>instilled Bennett’s resolve to use the vast powers of the Province over its economy to nationalize BC Power Corporation and create new BC-run institutions such as the Bank of British Columbia to execute his grand design. Bennett’s struggle to develop BC was also made possible through his association with John F. Kennedy, who sided with Bennett over Ottawa’s civil service in regards to the Columbia River Treaty.</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%2F45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.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%2F45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.jpeg" width="430" height="328" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":328,"width":430,"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>Using revenues generated from the Columbia River treaty, Bennett was able to invest in a vast rail expansion process that continued through the 1960s, which opened up development corridors in previously inhospitable regions of the great north. While these projects were begun based upon the exploitation of fossil fuel, lumber and other raw materials, the creation of manufacturing industries had soon begun to appear, with permanent cities in the Peace River region.</p><p>Alaska-British Columbia-Yukon conferences through this period were instrumental in advancing Bennett’s vision for an eventual connection between BC’s rail system and that of Alaska. Due to the sabotage of the rail system by W.A.C. Bennett’s son Bill Bennett, the great Canada-Alaska rail connection became forever known as the “rail to nowhere,” ending in Dease Lake.</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%2Fde254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.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%2Fde254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.jpeg" width="624" height="410" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/de254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":410,"width":624,"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>Completing Bennett’s rail vision in the 21st century is a necessary component to the Bering Strait Rail Corridor program proposed by the governments of Russia and China, which will advance transportation corridors all the way from the Eurasian New Silk Road through the Siberian development belt and into the Americas, connecting down into the west coast and New York. The Alaska-Canada rail connection is one of the greatest projects in the Americas, and involves the 1800 Km construction of rail between Dease Lake and into the Yukon and Alaska.</p><p>Bennett astutely observed Canada’s destiny with Asia, when he said in 1971, “there are great mountains separating B.C. from Ottawa, but between us and Japan, there’s only the Peaceful Sea (Pacific Ocean).”</p><h3><strong>The Arctic Science Cities: Diefenbaker’s Sabotaged Vision</strong></h3><p>Ultimately, the opening up of the Arctic as the new frontier of human development requires that Canada learn from Russia’s plans to build a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/umka-russia-arctic-2011-10">nuclear powered domed city of Umka on the island of Kotelny</a>, only 1000 km from the North Pole.</p><p>More recently former Defense Minister Sergey Glazyev’s program to construct <a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2021/09/sergei-shoigu-has-grand-masterplan-siberia-it-will-move-russia-towards">five advanced cities in Russia’s arctic</a> express this forward thinking paradigm that the west lost many decades ago.</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%2F13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.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%2F13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.jpeg" width="275" height="183" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":183,"width":275,"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></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Putin and Shoigu</figcaption></figure></div><p>In order to meet the challenge of housing over 5,000 workers and their families in the harsh arctic climate, which requires internal climate control, waste evaporation, internal agricultural capacities and reliable energy, Russian designers have used the International Space as their model. This ISS design is important, since the Arctic will play a vital role in the investigation of cosmic radiation, a galactic (and intergalactic) phenomenon driving both the evolution of the living and non-living material on the earth.</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%2F043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.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%2F043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.jpeg" width="308" height="426" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":426,"width":308,"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>This model “city of the future” echoes back to the planned <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/under-the-dome-1958-plan-for-iqaluit-was-town-under-concrete-shell-1.2763922">domed city of Frobisher Bay</a>, Nunavut, which Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had committed to build as an integral component of his <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/">1958 “Northern Vision” campaign</a>.</p><p>Frobisher Bay’s design as produced by the Department of Public Works announced a domed city, encircled by 12 large towers housing 4,500 workers and families connected by an underground network of tunnels. In order to ensure that this city was truly one of the future, recreation facilities, shopping centers and other amenities were included to ensure that the comfort of Toronto would be something accessible even in the Arctic.</p><p>Diefenbaker laid out this program for opening up the arctic frontier by saying:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>“<em>This national development policy will create a new sense of national purpose and national destiny.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>One Canada. One Canada, wherein Canadians will have preserved to them the control of their own economic and political destiny.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>Sir John A. Macdonald gave his life to this party. He opened the West. He saw Canada from East to West. I see a new Canada—a Canada of the North. What are these new principles? What are our objectives? What do we propose?</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>We propose to assist the provinces, with their cooperation, in the financing and construction of job-creating projects necessary for the new development, where such projects are beyond the resources of the provinces. We will assist the provinces with their cooperation in the conservation of the renewable natural resources. We will aid in projects which are self-liquidating. We will aid in projects which, while not self-liquidating will lead to the development of the national resources for the opening of Canada’s north land. We will open that north land for development by improving transportation and communication and by the development of power, by the building of access roads. We will make an inventory of our hydroelectric potential.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Ultimately, Diefenbaker`s Northern Vision, which incorporated a bold “Roads to Resources”, and frontier science program was to be funded by a re-chartered Bank of Canada. Diefenbaker’s brilliant financing approach took a page from <a href="https://rumble.com/v3e07e0-mel-k-and-matt-ehret-is-lincolns-greenback-movement-a-viable-economic-solut.html">Alexander Hamilton and Lincoln’s Greenback system</a>, which involved public bonds issued by Canada’s National Bank in order to connect both old, maturing WW2 Victory Bonds as well as new bonds directed towards Canada’s development.</p><p>Diefenbaker’s vision for a true national credit system was encapsulated in his 1958 radio announcement:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>“<em><strong>This, the largest financial project in our history, offers an opportunity to all holders of victory bonds which were purchased as an act of patriotic faith during the war years, to re-invest them for the greater development of greater Canada. These monies that were advanced during the days of war, and which contributed to the victory, we now ask to be made available to speed the pace of peaceful progress and the program of national development… The action we are taking will make it possible for our nation to embark on a new era of peacetime prosperity far and beyond anything we have ever known.”</strong></em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>While this National Credit and Northern Vision program <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/">was sabotaged by a Rhodes Scholar coup coordinated from London</a>, Diefenbaker’s strategy is just as applicable today as it was in 1958.</p><p>Today, Frobisher Bay plan remains the paragon of northern development, and complements the multi trillion dollar development policy of the Trans Eurasian Belt Development, which former Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin described on March 23 2015, must be an <em><strong>“inter-state, inter-civilization, project. It should be an alternative to the current (neo-liberal) model, which has caused a systemic crisis. The project should be turned into a world ‘future zone’, and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies.”</strong></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%2F4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.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%2F4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.jpeg" width="614" height="443" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":443,"width":614,"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><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Yakunin and Putin</figcaption></figure></div><p>Since Yakunin’s 2015 remarks, President Putin’s <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/7460">Far East development</a> has been unveiled as a “21st century national priority” for Russia.</p><p>The development of new cities, mining, transport corridors and oil and natural gas of Russia’s Far East represent one of the greatest boons for economic investment during the coming century, and already features an array of partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India and other APEC nations.</p><p>Putin’s 2018 proposal that the USA join in this project of win-win cooperation is important not only because it would build trust, create business opportunities and re-establish the lost art of long-term thinking, but would also help link up western businesses into partnership with the Asia Pacific development process now being shaped by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and especially the Polar Silk Road.</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%2Fe916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.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%2Fe916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.jpeg" width="750" height="500" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":500,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Polar Silk Road","title":"Polar Silk Road","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Polar Silk Road" title="Polar Silk Road" 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>Although tensions have been enflamed to schism China and India from cooperating directly on the BRI, <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/15/art-of-flank-india-and-other-asian-nations-join-polar-silk-road/">India’s embrace of Russian Far East development</a> investments has created a non-linear flank which can help bring these two Asian giants into harmony.</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%2F0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.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%2F0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.jpeg" width="480" height="360" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":360,"width":480,"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><h3><strong>The Arctic as Platform for War or Peace</strong></h3><p>When compared to the robust development of Russia’s Arctic and the new emerging Polar Silk Road paradigm, which have united China and Russia ever closer into a long term Arctic growth program, the North American Arctic remains an underdeveloped, barren tundra. Despite the bountiful resources in the Arctic, no roads, rail or other development have been permitted to extend northward for decades.</p><p>Other than President Trump’s 2020 announcement of Federal support for this new project, the only North American Arctic discussions of note in recent decades have centered on anti-Russian <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2016/05/26/new-silk-road-or-new-world-war-for-nato-colonies/">militarization and Anti-ballistic missiles.</a></p><p>This has amplified to nuclear hysterics in recent months, as Canada unveiled a new Arctic Defense doctrine in April 2024, embracing long range ballistic missiles in the Arctic in Canada’s Arctic, and participation (with Japan and New Zealand) into the US-UK-Australia AUKUS nuclear submarine military program.</p><p>Instead of that hoped-for era of prosperity and win-win development envisioned by Bennett, John F. Kennedy or Canada’s John Diefenbaker, who all envisioned pro-industrial growth visions for the North American continent, what arose in the wake of the 1971 floating of the U.S. dollar was a 45 year slide into consumerism, speculation, and zero-technological growth at home and abroad, which saw all of the frontier projects led by great statesmen during the post-WW2 decades increasingly grind to a halt.</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%2F77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.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%2F77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.png" width="749" height="628" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":628,"width":749,"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>While the Albertan and Alaskan governments have made several small efforts to encourage the plan over the years—very little headway occurred due to the monetarist-rules underpinning Globalization, which place supposedly “free markets” on the throne, and nation states in the dungeon of economics. Ignoring the fact that top down national planning has driven all of the greatest bursts of prosperity in history including the periods of rail expansion in the 19th century and post-war period, Globalization’s architects have ensured that nations are to play no role whatsoever, while “live in the moment” hedonism runs amok.</p><p>In the year 2000 the Alaskan government spent $6 million on a feasibility study followed in 2015 by a similar study funded by the Province of Alberta, desperately sitting upon the edge of total economic despair under the weight of decarbonization initiatives being pushed into law by Ottawa technocrats. It was here in 2015 that A2A was created as a private initiative to advance the plan, which the federal government had committed to blocking for far too long.</p><p>Standing for the Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation, A2A’s CEO Sean McCoshen has stated:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“This is a world-class infrastructure project that will generate more than 18,000 jobs for Canadian workers at a time when they are most needed, provide a new, more efficient route for trans-Pacific shipping and thereby link Alberta to world markets.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><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%2F06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.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%2F06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.jpeg" width="750" height="475" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":475,"width":750,"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>This last concept of linking North America into the Pacific now being increasingly shaped by the Belt and Road Initiative and Multipolar Alliance is vital.</p><p>Any chance the west has to avoid a total meltdown under an emerging total economic blowout of the system and civil war is premised upon tying our economic destiny to the pro-growth, win-win model of the east. The opportunities for war-avoidance both in the Arctic and in the Pacific <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/16/polar-silk-road-comes-to-life-as-new-epoch-history-begins/">should be obvious to all</a>.</p><p>The Bering Strait Rail Tunnel, and Alaska-Canada Railway not only gives us the opportunity break out of this process of British geopolitics, but also allows us to re-build former industrial cities that have been ravaged by decades of globalized outsourcing, while building new permanent cities in turn.</p><p>The unfulfilled dream of such visionaries as <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/502">W.A.C. Bennett</a>, who fought to connect Canada with Alaska by rail, and John Diefenbaker who attempted to build the <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/505">Northern Vision</a> will be finally permitted to blossom once again, and our true heritage as a pioneering people allied in a common destiny with our neighbours can be re-awoken.</p><h3><strong>National Banking and Glass-Steagall</strong></h3><p>The greatest benefit of building the Bering Strait and its associated policy of nation building is that Canada and the USA will need to return to a sane system of economic value based on <em>future productivity</em>, not “market-driven” ventures into derivatives (the USA’s derivatives time bomb is now marked at approximately $1.2 quadrillion of nominal assets ready to explode at any moment).</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%2Ff3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.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%2Ff3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.jpeg" width="750" height="298" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":298,"width":750,"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>Similarly, the colonial “resource exploitation” policy dominant in Canada and the USA since NAFTA was imposed must now come to an end. <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2018/06/11/the-death-of-nafta-is-a-blessing-not-a-curse-for-all-countries/">Donald Trump’s flushing of NAFTA </a>was a vital pre-condition to giving power to sovereign nation states over private corporations, but much more still needs to be done.</p><p>Indeed, the only way that such a systemic change could occur, would be for the two fold restoration of</p><p>1) Glass-Steagall (known in Canada as the “<a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/615">Four Pillars</a>“) to separate commercial banking assets fully from high risk banking assets such as derivatives, and</p><p>2) the revival of a genuine national banking system (as opposed to a private central banking system) as an issuer of productive credit for the sovereign needs of the people.</p><h3><strong>A New Economy</strong></h3><p>A third complementary policy must be also considered, which relates to an international nature as well.</p><p>This 3rd element is most vital, and is known as the New Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, which the governments of Russia and China have already expressed much interest in revisiting in the face of the current collapse. While gold may or may not be a reserve for a new Bretton Woods system, it is necessary that the discoveries in economic science of “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNXsLvJlwP0">increasing energy flux density</a>” be understood as the new metric of determining value.</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%2F344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.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%2F344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.jpeg" width="749" height="691" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":691,"width":749,"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>The science of Physical Economy was first developed by <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/some-considerations-of-the-life-and">American statesman Lyndon LaRouche,</a> and is distinct from all monetarist-statistical economic theories, in that LaRouche’s system does not assume that all monetary claims within a system are equally valuable, as the monetarist foolishly does who does not care whether said claims are tied to nation-destroying hedge fund gambling, whore houses or productive steel mills. Reality is far different from the world which Wall Street and Bay Street speculators believe they live in.</p><p>Real economics is based neither on “monetary values” or “carbon footprints” but rather on the <em>successful reproduction of society into the deepest future possible</em>. It is only in this pursuit of true progress that increases in prosperity of every nation and every individual can occur. Such increases are measured in terms of increasing rates of productive powers of labour per capita and per square kilometer, requiring ever greater densities of scientific creative breakthroughs in time.</p><p>This is a pre-requirement for survival, which empires have yearned to crush since ancient Rome, because such a society would not tolerate the fixed system of zero change demanded by empire, and expressed most venomously by Prince Philip’s Green agenda for depopulation and war.</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%2Feb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.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%2Feb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.jpeg" width="750" height="491" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":491,"width":750,"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>Only the Bering Strait offers all of the preconditions for war avoidance, green suicide and nation building, with the necessary effect of increasing the energy flux density of the society as a whole.</p><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media <a href="https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-strategic-importance-of-the-alaska">where this essay was first published.</a></strong></p>

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