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# entry

guid: https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world-apollonians-f45
title: Escaping the Brave New World: Apollonians, Dionysians, Prometheans and Epicureans
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>In this episode of <em>Escaping the Brave New World</em>, the Confucian doctrine of the “Rectification of Names” and the current attempt to deconstruct Western civilization are explored in depth.</p><p>In the <em>Analects of Confucius</em>, the philosopher says:</p><p>“A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.”</p><p>— Confucius, Analects, Book XIII, Chapter 3, verses 4–7, Analect 13.3, translated by James Legge</p><p>Today, many words and labels are thrown around, often with little appreciation for their historical development and origins. As a result, political discourse has been polarized into two very narrow categories: the Left and the Right. However, with a broader historical perspective, and a consideration of four diverse but very relevant ancient outlooks—the Promethean, Apollonian, Dionysian and Epicurean—we are afforded the opportunity to approach the paradoxes of the modern binary system of political control (and its alternatives) in a more nuanced and revealing light.</p><p>Stay tuned for the next installment where we will discuss the various personae involved in the affairs of managing a state using Plato’s definitions of the Aristocratic man, the Timocratic man, the Democratic man, and the Tyrant.</p><p>Watch more episodes of <em>Escaping the Brave New World</em> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyUmuQJBo5s">here</a>.</p><p><br><br>Thank you for subscribing. <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world-apollonians/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTg0ODQ2NzYsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNjk5NzU5ODI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.qKaBf33RHAey9Htj2qNpA-Bi3M2T1f8nrBAd4KdO1yg&amp;r=epxfm&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">Leave a comment</a> or <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world-apollonians?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTg0ODQ2NzYsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNzAyMDkyNjI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.unxwD27usuOWRBNcsGwqkvyfd50oEdIgl-HhkDUtEM8&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">share this episode</a>.</p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8658
title: It’s Already “Thumbs Down” for the Gazans
author: ;Ray McGovern
link: https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/09/its-already-thumbs-down-for-the-gazans/
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">The Emperor will preside in person at classic (classical) panem et circenses this afternoon. It’s already “thumbs down” for the Gazans; still more US-made bombs for those refusing to leave home. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Pass the potato chips. https://nj.com/news/2025/02/trump-breaks-news-before-attending-super-bowl.html</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/09/its-already-thumbs-down-for-the-gazans/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/9/dario-on-agi/#atom-everything
title: Quoting Dario’s interview with Lex Friedman
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<blockquote cite="https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=dl_9Yb-13COwk_QU"><p>Dario from Anthropic is the most articulate and thoughtful person I’ve found on the subject of AI. In this interview he made a fantastic point I had not heard:</p>
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<p>Let’s say it was 1995 and Moore’s Law was making computers faster and everyone was saying, “some day we’ll have super computers and we’ll be able to sequence the genome and do all these great things.” But there is no discrete point where we pass a threshold and then have super computers.</p>
<p>Super computers is a term we use but it’s a vague term we use to describe computers which are a lot faster than what we have today. I feel the same way about AGI. There is a smooth exponential. And if, by AGI, you mean AI is getting better and better and will do more and more of what humans do until it’s smarter than humans and it will continue to get smarter from there, then I believe in AGI. But if AGI is some discrete thing, which is how many people talk about it, then it’s just a meaningless buzzword.</p>
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<p>But he then goes on to reference his essay in which he gives one of the best descriptions of an almost discrete point I’ve read! He doesn’t call this AGI but instead uses a great descriptor:a country of geniuses in a datacenter:</p>
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<p>In terms of pure intelligence4, it is smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields – biology, programming, math, engineering, writing, etc. This means it can prove unsolved mathematical theorems, write extremely good novels, write difficult codebases from scratch, etc.</p>
<p>In addition to just being a “smart thing you talk to”, it has all the “interfaces” available to a human working virtually, including text, audio, video, mouse and keyboard control, and internet access. It can engage in any actions, communications, or remote operations enabled by this interface, including taking actions on the internet, taking or giving directions to humans, ordering materials, directing experiments, watching videos, making videos, and so on. It does all of these tasks with, again, a skill exceeding that of the most capable humans in the world.</p>
<p>It does not just passively answer questions; instead, it can be given tasks that take hours, days, or weeks to complete, and then goes off and does those tasks autonomously, in the way a smart employee would, asking for clarification as necessary.</p>
<p>It does not have a physical embodiment (other than living on a computer screen), but it can control existing physical tools, robots, or laboratory equipment through a computer; in theory it could even design robots or equipment for itself to use.
The resources used to train the model can be repurposed to run millions of instances of it (this matches projected cluster sizes by ~2027), and the model can absorb information and generate actions at roughly 10x-100x human speed5. It may however be limited by the response time of the physical world or of software it interacts with.</p>
<p>Each of these million copies can act independently on unrelated tasks, or if needed can all work together in the same way humans would collaborate, perhaps with different subpopulations fine-tuned to be especially good at particular tasks.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="cite">— <a href="https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=dl_9Yb-13COwk_QU">Dario’s interview with Lex Friedman</a></p>

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title: Webcast: We Have The Solution: Build LaRouche’s Oasis Plan
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<p>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her Live Dialogue, Feb 12, 11.00 am EDT / 5pm CET. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org</p>



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<p>In her concluding remarks after a discussion with international collaborators Monday Feb. 10th Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, emphasized that her late husband Lyndon LaRouche had the capacity to bring in a new idea which brought order to a seemingly very messy unfolding situation.<br>This relates to a very specific way of thinking, where a situation is approached from the top, not bottom up. This scientific way of thinking gives one the ability to look at the principles at play, not particular events that interact in so-called empty space.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN1Dw-5dVtE&amp;ab_channel=TheLaRoucheOrganization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a speech</a></strong> at the Central Connecticut State University in May 2009, Lyndon LaRouche elaborated this point in regard to the Israel-Palestine crisis, the crisis can only be solved by looking at Israel and Palestine as part of world-historic dynamics over centuries. The implantation of the <strong><a href="https://laroucheorganization.com/larouche-plan-southwest-asia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LaRouche Oasis Plan</a></strong> would and will change the whole geometry of Southwest Asia by uniting all involved for a common mission. The idea of mutual economic development can be applied to all crises spots that are victims of British geopolitics and those places that have been deindustrialized in the name of British Free Trade and saving the speculative bubble economy.</p>
<p>She concluded, “So I think we should proceed from the assumption we know how the world should look like, we need a new international security and development architecture, because nothing less will do, in order to avoid World War III. I think we should really go with great optimism into this next period, because a lot of people realize that things are no more going to be as they were, but they are absent of any positive conception of how the future should look, so I think we have a tremendous vacuum.”</p>


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guid: yt:video:TcZ_hZepdgE
title: What Would A Roosevelt Or a Lyndon LaRouche Do Now To Defeat the Coup? - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat
author: ;Promethean In-Depth
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guid: yt:video:8TzB8d5RHVg
title: New Coup Plot Exposures Define Central Issue of U.S. Election as War or Peace
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guid: yt:video:OHlpL6AresQ
title: The British Empire Is Attacking the President; Weaponize the American System
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title: Why The Polls Will Be Wrong and What is to be Done - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat
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guid: yt:video:1qak8sVy0HE
title: How to Think in a Time of Crisis? Think Like Beethoven!
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guid: yt:video:BIvI5gbfA5M
title: The Democrats’ Plan — A Coup, Then British Parliamentary Democracy/New Confederacy
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guid: yt:video:nWMH8D8vjrM
title: British Hands Off the American Presidency!
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guid: yt:video:TCUOYZzp4Ok
title: How You Can Help Donald Trump Defeat the Coup and Prevent a Hunger Holocaust - LaRouchePAC Fireside
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guid: yt:video:X4U7dJkfNw8
title: Emergency Food Aid to Africa Now! President Trump Can Make All the Difference
author: ;Promethean In-Depth
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guid: yt:video:DqwUda8PU6I
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
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&quot;Who We Are&quot; - the inside story of who created America's rise to power in the Industrial Revolution

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title: Lunar Society: Was Benjamin Franklin “the Father of the Industrial Revolution”?
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
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title: Zoom meeting 2021 11 20 Update 1 on Part 2 of book
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
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title: How to Avoid WWIII - Anton Chaitkin. An appeal and a challenge to the American people
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guid: https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world-0ce
title: Escaping the Brave New World
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>Watch with video <a href="https://youtu.be/smVvJzijAek">here</a>.</p><p>How did western civilization lose its connections to the historic moral and philosophical traditions that imbued it with a love of progress, respect for the past, and sacrifice for the future for centuries?</p><p>In this discussion between poet and host of <em>Escaping the Brave New World,</em> David Gosselin, and <em>RTF</em> director, Matthew Ehret, this question is unpacked from a variety of angles.</p><p>This episode deals with the rise of social engineering during the 20th century with a focus on London’s Tavistock Clinic, MK Ultra, CIA cultural warfare in the post-war age under the Congress for Cultural Freedom and much more. We explore the roots of epistemological warfare stretching back to the days of ancient Athens to our present age, and the post-WWII techniques deployed in the form of the Frankfurt School, political correctness, and the “authoritarian personality project” which aimed to proclaim that individual genius, moral leadership or love of truth were merely forms of fascism that must be destroyed by new forms of “group think” and “popular opinion” in order for free capitalist democracy to win the Cold War.</p><p><br><br>Thank you for subscribing. <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI4OTM1NzcsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNjk5NzU5ODI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.h3FUHBVHhLhBI6_tbWUjYRQbTQBbbZ1PBWYQxXk_hf0&amp;r=epxfm&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">Leave a comment</a> or <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/escaping-the-brave-new-world?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI4OTM1NzcsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNzAyMDkyNjI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.FSiBupdOaFev63oMQSFmp789yW1b_YVL7fFT2OCBz6s&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">share this episode</a>.</p>

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guid: https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/exiting-the-cave-timocrats-democrats-5bc
title: Exiting the Cave: Timocrats, Democrats, Oligarchs and Tyranny
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>Psychiatrist and Confucian scholar Dr. Quan Lu joins <em>Escaping the Brave New World</em> to discuss the transcendental leap and epistemological challenge faced by civilization at this critical juncture in human history. Beyond mere politics and rhetoric, whether expressed in their ancient forms or embodied in the latest social engineering, Dr. Lu outlines the nature of humanity's ascent from the animal kingdom of vitality, intellect, and psyche into the timeless realm of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.</p><p>After an initial discussion of the various categories and cast of characters encountered within the lower realm of politics—the Democratic, Tyrannical, Oligarchical and fake Timocratic souls—we venture into the realm of the true Timocratic, Aristocratic and Philosophical souls. These reflections lead into a playful exploration concerning the nature of great art, culture, and civilization, with special attention paid to the many subversive “imitations” and perversions of “the real thing.”</p><p>Disabused from the imitations found in both <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/lifting-the-veil-from-ancient-rhetoric">the ancient and modern world</a> of political psy-ops and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyUmuQJBo5s">epistemological warfare</a>, the dialogue culminates with an exploration of the many possibilities that arise as a civilization begins “exiting the cave.”</p><p>Video of this discussion available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWKrlQ8fepA&amp;t=0s">here</a>.</p><p><br><br>Thank you for subscribing. <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/exiting-the-cave-timocrats-democrats/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NjkwODg3MDMsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNjk5NzU5ODI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.PxU-gmg3ePnODQYidcNAuoifC3WSpwk3tvV4he0gThE&amp;r=epxfm&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">Leave a comment</a> or <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/exiting-the-cave-timocrats-democrats?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNDcyNDM1NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NjkwODg3MDMsImlhdCI6MTY5OTUwMDYyNSwiZXhwIjoxNzAyMDkyNjI1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDQwMjc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.jRjzk5gxsDdMUJkiAa9EzD-nLDGR4uB5GRIhqy6SNEA&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_5">share this episode</a>.</p>

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title: Censortube Deletes My Video. Here's How To Watch It.
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/-MPlfHBMomA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Censortube Deletes My Video. Here's How To Watch It."></p>If you would like to watch the clip which a certain platform (cough cough) deleted, please visit:<br><br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/outpost-soldiers-humnity:5<br>https://rumble.com/v1qvf0c-donbass-commanders-ukrainian-people-are-our-friends-relatives.-well-liberat.html<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPlfHBMomA

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guid: https://odysee.com/14-year-old-is-one-of-87-donbass:204055b1364c737030cca41ed0de2ea2e7c60749
title: 14 Year Old Is One of 169 Donbass Civilians Maimed By Petal Mines Fired By Ukraine
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/K-QSv-zwoSU" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="14 Year Old Is One of 169 Donbass Civilians Maimed By Petal Mines Fired By Ukraine"></p>*Warning: video contains disturbing/graphic scenes (...which Donbass civilians get no warning for before they are maimed or murdered by Ukrainian shelling).<br>*Title updated (November 28, 2024) with up to date number of victims.<br><br>Fourteen year old Nikita is one of nearly 100 Donbass civilians injured by Ukrainian-fired Petal mines. Nikita, who formerly did breakdancing &amp; Mixed Martial Arts lost his foot after stepping on a mine.<br><br>As of November 28, 2024, 169 civilians have been maimed by these mines, incl. 10 children and numerous elderly. Three of the injured died in the hospital.<br><br><br>MY RELATED:<br><br>-Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘Petal’ mines<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukraine-turns-donetsk-into-a-minefield:7?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=375573ed222074153220958b40356704ae21887e<br><br>-Donetsk Emergency Services &amp; Sappers Clear Residential Areas of Ukraine's Mines<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/donetsk-emergency-services-sappers-clear:2?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=375573ed222074153220958b40356704ae21887e<br><br>-Ukrainian Terrorism: Firing Munitions Containing Petal Mines On Donbass Orphanage, Another War Crime<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukrainian-terrorism-firing-munitions:3?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=375573ed222074153220958b40356704ae21887e<br><br>-The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘Petal’ mines, Aug 7, 2022<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/the-west-is-silent-as-ukraine-targets-civilians-in-donetsk-using-banned-petal-mines/<br><br>-In Just Under Three Weeks, Ukrainian-Fired Prohibited “Petal” Mines Maim At Least 44 Civilians, Kill 2, in Donetsk Region, August 23, 2022<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/in-just-under-three-weeks-ukrainian-fired-prohibited-petal-mines-maim-at-least-44-civilians-kill-2-in-donetsk-region/<br><br>-What I’ve seen of Ukraine’s war crimes against civilians in the Donbass over the years<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/<br><br>-The Donbass: My Articles, Videos &amp; Interviews From/On the Donetsk &amp; Lugansk People’s Republics (2019-present)<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/

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guid: https://odysee.com/tcf-speaker-series-ep1-eva-bartlett:04e7e175a2e0bdec1a65c90a8142fda076df038b
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/x4kZjl1Y-TE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" tcf speaker series ep1: eva bartlett: donbass pain resolve shadows of syria canadian betrayal></p>I was recently interviewed by Aiden Jonah of The Canada Files.<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqXdiY4LFU<br><br>TCF launches end-of-year fundraising campaign!<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAYbF3RZ9Y<br><br>Related links at this blog post:<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/interview-tcf-speaker-series-ep1-eva-bartlett-donbass-pain-resolve-shadows-of-syria-canadian-betrayal/<br><br>*Please consider following me on other platforms. My time here on Youtube is limited &amp; will end.  I'm on:<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-2030196<br>https://t.me/Reality_Theories<br>*<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4kZjl1Y-TE

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title: Interview: "A talk with Eva Karene Bartlett"
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/sKpw90HMnlw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview: " a talk with eva karene bartlett></p>Interview I did yesterday. Absolutely lovely man--Alexandre Guerreiro--who interviewed me, he brought knowledge &amp; compassion to the interview.<br><br>First published here:<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BeXKYSO5HY<br><br>His Twitter: <br>https://twitter.com/ATGuerreiro<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpw90HMnlw

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title: Senator Richard Black on Ukraine War on the Donbass, Russia's Reaction, NATO's Drive to Nuclear War
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ys_lI6mXA_c" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Senator Richard Black on Ukraine War on the Donbass, Russia's Reaction, NATO's Drive to Nuclear War"></p>“There is this element of madmen—some of the politicians, some of them military people, many of them in the US State Department, the CIA—who would be willing to do the most reckless and insane of actions to risk nuclear war or even to initiate it.” <br><br>On December 16, I spoke with Senator Richard Black about Ukraine's long war against the civilians of the Donbass, Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine, and the Western warmongers behind it all and their drive for endless war.<br><br>Senator Black has had an extensive military, legal and political career, serving in the US marines, and after obtaining his law degree, serving in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps and head of the Army’s Criminal Law Division in the Pentagon. He served eight years in the Virginia State Senate.<br><br>He is one of the few sane American voices loudly advocating for the end to Ukraine's genocide of the Donbass people, and for an end to the West's proxy war against Russia.<br><br>Follow him at:<br><br>http://www.senatorblack.com/<br>https://twitter.com/SenRichardBlack<br><br>Related Links:<br><br>*Chronology of events: the war didn't start in February 2022<br>https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/<br><br>*My Donetsk &amp; Lugansk People's Republics playlist<br>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqtiZC-4QZC3VvabZMbM0FbOcwBoLdGBT<br><br>*My Syria writings<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/ <br><br>*The Referendum on Joining Russia<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/dpr-civilians-on-why-they-wanted-a-referendum-to-join-russia/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/10/01/interviews-with-donetsk-residents-after-joining-russia/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/my-interview-from-donetsk-on-the-peoples-eagerness-to-vote-to-join-russia/<br><br>*Ukrainian war crimes I've experienced or documented<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/ukrainian-army-war-crimes-include-shelling-of-ambulences-firetrucks-and-rescue-workers-in-the-donbass-republics-similar-to-israelis-and-u-s-backed-terrorists-in-syria/<br><br>14 Year Old Is One of 87 Donbass Civilians Maimed By Petal Mines Fired By Ukraine<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QSv-zwoSU <br><br>Carnage: Ukraine's terrorism on Donetsk September 19 killed 16 civilians, 9 in one spot<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJpXcwMAVeI<br><br>Ukraine shelled a completely civilian area of central Donetsk, killing at least 5 civilians<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqeFG7DhIs<br><br>Ukrainian Terrorism of Central Donetsk September 17 Kills 4, Using Western Weapons<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzew0mXOo2Y <br><br>More Ukrainian War Crimes: Killing &amp; Maiming Heroic Donbass Medics &amp; Emergency Workers<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJZvxWQfSHc <br><br>Donbass Frontline Villager: "Ukraine Doesn't Consider Us Human", Wants To "Annihilate Us”<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLC5hsd2aA<br><br>Using American HIMARS, Ukraine Bombed Central Donetsk Building Nov 7<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EArikOHkXc <br><br>Ukraine's Bombing of Central Donetsk August 4: 2 Ballerinas Among the 6 Murdered by Ukraine<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQNQ_vT_j-k <br><br>Ukraine bombed just outside the hotel I was in. Was Ukraine targeting journalists?<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZgG7s-Sjw <br><br>Ukrainian Terrorism: Firing Munitions Containing Petal Mines On Donbass Orphanage, Another War Crime<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCpRy1iDXcA<br><br>Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘Petal’ mines<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wJbPJv0kk <br><br>Civilians Fled Ukraine's Shelling of Popasnaya For Safety in Stakhanov, But Ukraine Bombs There Too<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3H2zrrW3Dk <br><br>Ukraine Bombarded Donetsk, Including Bombing a Maternity Hospital, Then Claimed Russian Did It<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsLWcR21iK8 <br><br>Ukrainian bombing of civilian areas of Donetsk June 13 killed 5 &amp; caused massive fires<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tlJ8MgMCLs <br><br>Kirovsk, a City Under Ukrainian Fire<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpI05Rhcg4<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/in-just-under-three-weeks-ukrainian-fired-prohibited-petal-mines-maim-at-least-44-civilians-kill-2-in-donetsk-region/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/09/26/western-media-continues-to-ignore-how-ukraine-is-using-nato-weapons-to-kill-innocent-civilians-in-the-donbass/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-past-few-months/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/ukraine-bombed-a-donetsk-hotel-full-of-journalists-heres-what-it-felt-like-to-be-inside-at-the-time/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/western-media-and-politicians-prefer-to-ignore-the-truth-about-donetsk-civilians-killed-in-ukrainian-shelling/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/ukrainian-strike-on-donetsk-market-was-a-terrorist-act/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/they-saw-and-heard-the-truth-then-lied-about-it-media-on-donbass-delegation-omitted-mention-of-ukraines-8-year-war-on-the-autonomous-republics/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_lI6mXA_c

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title: "Eva Bartlett Western Silence As Ukraine Targets Civilians in Donbass"
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ETpa-W0lJMc" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" eva bartlett western silence as ukraine targets civilians in donbass></p>First published here:<br>https://youtu.be/Pg_AxQqqj0w<br><br>"Addressing the EIR Symposium, "Peace On Earth, Or Humanity's Doom? The Case For Negotiations," Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett, who was granted the 2017 International Journalism Award by the Journalists’ Club of Mexico and has spent years doing on-the-ground reporting of wars in the Middle East, gave an eyewitness account of the ongoing genocide against the people of Donbass, where she has been reporting for the last year. Since 2014, she reported, 12,500 civilians have been killed by sniping and shelling with NATO weapons in both the Lugansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic, with over 4,500 killed since mid-February of this year. Given that civilian areas are targeted, this shelling constitutes terrorism and war crimes. <br><br>According to Bartlett, the Ukrainian military has also been saturating the Donbass with PFM-1 “petal” mines, insidious devices designed not to kill but to maim victims by blowing off their hands or feet. Children are particularly susceptible to these devices. She made the point that were Russia committing these crimes, it would be covered as a constant scandal by Western media. Bartlett ended her remarks by pointing to a flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic she proudly displays on the wall of her home, representing to her the resilience of a people shunned by most of the world and ridiculed as if their lives are meaningless. She expressed hope that the work she is doing will lead to Ukraine being held accountable for its war crimes and help allow people to speak openly about the fact that Ukraine is committing genocide."<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpa-W0lJMc

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title: Visit To An Incredible Dog Shelter in Donetsk
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/uYlzc_RqrDo" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Visit To An Incredible Dog Shelter in Donetsk"></p>On my last couple of visits to Donetsk, I went to an incredible dog shelter caring for over 800 dogs.  <br><br>I apologize for taking too long to put together &amp; share footage I took, but better late than never.  The shelter could really use support in order to buy food &amp; things related to treating &amp; caring for the dogs. <br>*Note: I have no financial or other affiliation to the shelter, just really appreciate what they are doing ❤️ <br><br>Follow the shelter here:<br>https://t.me/pif_dn<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlzc_RqrDo

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title: Kherson Refugees Reject Western Media Claims of Russia "Kidnapping" Them
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/MhItnEdw38U" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Kherson Refugees Reject Western Media Claims of Russia " kidnapping them></p>Western media claim up to 1.6 million refugees seeking safe haven in Russia were “kidnapped”.   <br><br>According to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as of September 9, 2022, Russia has nearly 4 million refugees from Ukraine.  <br><br>Anyone following Ukraine's over eight years of war on the Donbass understands why people would seek refuge in Russia.  <br><br>I went to refugee centres in Anapa, a southern Russia city and spoke with a number of refugees from Kherson.  <br><br>Western media won't speak about those refugees, nor those I interviewed, fleeing Ukraine's shelling or due to the risk of being persecuted.   <br><br>By the way, unsurprisingly, Western media pulled this "kidnapped" stunt before. In 2019, Western media was *so concerned* about Syrian refugees from a camp in Syria's east, which Western media alleged were being held at gunpoint in refugee centres in Homs.  <br><br>After interviewing a number of such IDPs, I wrote a detailed article noting the deceptive media reporting on Rukban. [https://www.mintpressnews.com/voices-syria-rukban-refugee-camp-media-reporting/260197/]  I emailed two different high level UN employees, whose replies contrasted the wild claims of Western media reports.  <br><br>They noted the UN had visited the shelters multiple times, “and has found the situation there adequate and in compliance with standards,” and that claims of refugees being shot or threatened were “unfounded”. <br><br> So much that happens in the Donbass &amp; Ukraine has happened in Syria, with Western corporate media again inverting reality and lauding terrorists, in order to manipulate public opinion in favour of NATO's wars.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhItnEdw38U

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title: Festive lights in resilient Donetsk. ❤️
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/4wiOz8gFz9k" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Festive lights in resilient Donetsk. ❤️"></p>I walked around the city tonight &amp; had fun putting this short clip together.<br><br>Happy New Year.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiOz8gFz9k

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title: Ukraine Sent 25+ Grads to Donetsk Early This Morning. Happy New Year
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/XIiVTn1-7rw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ukraine Sent 25+ Grads to Donetsk Early This Morning. Happy New Year"></p>Ukraine sent Donetsk a New Years gift, many actually, bombing the city centre around 4 am this morning. I haven't seen any updates on whether anyone was injured or killed, I hope not. <br><br>I went out walking &amp; filming a couple hours ago.  These are some of the scenes around where Ukraine shelled.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIiVTn1-7rw

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title: Donetsk resident: The Ukrainians shell us every day
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/anaKaHmhX_U" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Donetsk resident: The Ukrainians shell us every day"></p>Footage from Kuibyshevsky district, northwestern Donetsk, yesterday, where two houses were destroyed by Ukrainian shelling (and two elderly women injured, thankfully not gravely), the latest consequences of Ukraine's relentless shelling of that residential district, the latest in Ukraine's over 8 years of war crimes against the people of the Donbass, Ukraine's genocide. <br><br>One older man there who I interviewed asked me if I'll be honest, evidently aware of western media lies on the Donbass.<br><br>'It's not just yesterday, it's shelling here every day. It's thanks to Christmas today that God must be hearing us, so far this morning there has been no shelling.'<br><br>Russian Investigative Committee inspectors determined the shell was a 155 mm shell, which NATO, not Russia, uses.<br><br>Video is without additional commentary, the people &amp; scenes speak for themselves.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anaKaHmhX_U

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title: It's 2023 and Ukraine Continues Its Terrorism of Donbass Civilian Areas &amp; Infrastructure
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/HSiUvb1ci5I" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="It's 2023 and Ukraine Continues Its Terrorism of Donbass Civilian Areas &amp; Infrastructure"></p>*Warning: end of clip shows graphic images, civilians slaughtered by Ukraine last year.*<br><br>On January 7th &amp; 8th, Ukrainian forces shelled two Thermal Power Plants &amp; a commercial building in areas around Donetsk, killing two people, all with western weapons.<br><br>Ukraine's terrorism of 2022, and since 2014 in fact, continues into 2023, unsurprisingly. Just as unsurprisingly, Western media ignores or whitewashes it, and the West keeps absurdly pledging more weapons to Ukraine. <br><br>Geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic routinely notes that the weapons/military aid the west supplies Ukraine is no where near what Ukraine needs to recover its losses, much less challenge Russia. <br><br>And the West knows this, knows their weapons are being used instead to slaughter Donbass civilians and target infrastructure, and still they send it....<br><br>Video mentioned at end:<br><br>"The Ukraine Arms Drain: Now and in the Future"<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZfjd-byNk<br><br>*Please consider following me on other platforms. My time here on Youtube is limited &amp; will end.  I'm on:<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-2030196<br>https://t.me/Reality_Theories<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSiUvb1ci5I

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/NNZMjyfB3KE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Sparta commander: " we are fighting against the genocide of russian-speaking population></p>During my last trip to Donetsk, over the Christmas &amp; New Years holidays, I joined RT in some reporting. We filmed Artem Zhoga, commander of the Sparta Reconnaissance Battalion, on NY's eve:<br><br>"What are we fighting against? We are fighting against injustice, against genocide—the genocide of the Russian-speaking population, the dissident population, those who do not think like the, nationalists, the Nazis—against this Russophobia that has formed in the Western world. <br><br>Against the genocide of the civilian population, because there is no other way  to call the enemy's firing on institutions such as the Kalinin hospital, schools, the city center, and the market district.There is no other way to call it, this is precisely the genocide of the civilian population."<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNZMjyfB3KE

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guid: https://odysee.com/ukrainian-nazi-paraphernalia-western:fca88c51f7531ab014ee00db0197e102be7299ff
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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Ukrainian Nazi Paraphernalia &amp; Western Combat Instructions &amp; Munitions Found In Mariupol Plant

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/cEqdF9rY2i4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ukrainian Nazi Paraphernalia &amp; Western Combat Instructions &amp; Munitions Found In Mariupol Plant"></p>When in the Donetsk People's Republic recently, I visited the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works plant, a sprawling Mariupol plant which was secured in mid-April last year, when over 1,150 Ukrainian Marines surrendered or were captured by Russian forces.  Even now, sappers work to clear the vast plant which Ukrainian forces littered with left behind explosives, as well as boobytraps, tripwires and mines. <br><br>Boobytrapping areas they fled from is something Ukrainian troops did elsewhere in Mariupol, including in apartment blocks. It's something terrorists in Syria likewise did, both with the intent of killing or maiming still more civilians, as well as soldiers—but given that such explosives were left in doorways and areas of homes civilians wouldn't think to be boobytrapped, these were particularly insidious acts of terrorism by both the Western-backed terrorists in Syria and the Western-backed Ukrainian forces and Nazi battalions in the Donbass.<br><br>Also found at the plant were still more evidence of Ukraine's Nazi problem, paraphernalia from the Misanthropic Division &amp; Azov Battalion,  as well as US&amp; Canadian Anti-sniper Fighting instructions, a US combat manual, and a UK Advanced Surveillance and Reconnaissance Course. Some were in both Ukrainian &amp; in English.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEqdF9rY2i4

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title: Anton Chaitkin appeared on the John Age show on January 27, 2023
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title:
Commentator &amp; Journalist, Marwa Osman, on the Western Sanctions Preventing Syria's Rescue Efforts

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/NXvvDoZ2f88" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Commentator &amp; Journalist, Marwa Osman, on the Western Sanctions Preventing Syria's Rescue Efforts"></p>Early last week, Turkey, Syria &amp; surrounding countries experienced a series of earthquakes &amp; aftershocks which tragically struck Syria and Turkey the hardest, killing over 35,000 people now, including over 4,300 in Syria. <br><br>Syria has already suffered over a decade of the West's devastating war on the Syrian people. Now this tragedy. <br><br>I spoke with Marwa Osman to discuss the impact of the West's cruel anti-Syrian sanctions on the current rescue &amp; relief efforts in Syria. Marwa is a Lebanese journalist, political commentator, host &amp; producer of the Mideast Stream, and a university lecturer.<br><br>“It's already devastating in Syria because of the cumulative effect of the sanctions. Before the earthquakes, the sanctions worked on three specialized levels: <br><br>The first level is on the financial institutions in Syria  that are directly linked to the government. If you want to wire money from outside of Syria to any bank in Syria, it has to go through the central bank of Syria, which has been sanctioned since the early days of the war. Which means if you want to transfer &amp; wire money to the people affected by the earthquake to their bank accounts in Syria, you can't, because its still under sanctions...<br><br>The second level: the health sector in Syria. The sanctions are on everything within the governmental institutions in Syria, one of which is the Ministry of Health, which controls all of the health sector in Syria. Syria does have privatized hospitals, but majorly all of the hospitals in Syria are controlled by the government, because everyone has the right to have medical care in Syria. By doing these sanctions on all institutions related to the Syrian government, you by default sanction the health sector in Syria.<br><br>Third: sanctioning any country that deals with the Syrian government, whether buying selling products, especially medical products or machinery needed for reconstruction, ambulances...You're not allowed to deal with Syria or you will be sanctioned...If you have the right technology, you can detect whether there are people under the rubble. Syria isn't even allowed to buy this technology, because of the sanctions.”<br><br>Follow Marwa:<br>https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman<br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB<br><br>LINKS FOR DONATING TO SYRIA:<br><br>https://www.facebook.com/wataawanoo?mibextid=ZbWKwL <br><br>https://haysatar.com/campaign/242/help-the-earthquake-victims-in-syria <br><br>https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02agS6UrYXDJxaMzFsiwekyYUFmCjKzH5txoHz7JsMUmqPeKnAE1QFd4hBW2qLUjzwl&amp;id=100069728167963&amp;mibextid=Nif5oz<br><br>RELATED TO THE SANCTIONS:<br><br>Western sanctions will mean that more Syrians die after the earthquakes<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20230212044123/https://www.rt.com/news/571295-western-sanctions-syria-earthquake/<br><br>US sanctions are part of a multi-front war on Syria, and its long-suffering civilians are the main target<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20230212045008/https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494613-us-sanctions-war-syria/ <br><br>Western leaders, screw your ‘Sanctions Target the Regime’ blather: Sanctions KILL PEOPLE<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20230212054459/https://www.rt.com/op-ed/475983-sanctions-kill-people-syria-us/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXvvDoZ2f88

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Tamara Lorincz: Canada's Support For Ukraine's War on the Donbass &amp; Canada's Anti-Russia Policies

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/KpEaovhVois" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Tamara Lorincz: Canada's Support For Ukraine's War on the Donbass &amp; Canada's Anti-Russia Policies"></p>I spoke with Canadian researcher and writer,Tamara Lorincz, about Canada's militaristic foreign and defence policies, Canada's belligerent NATO role in bombing sovereign nations, Canada's role in fomenting the Maidan protests which preceded the (2014) illegal coup in Ukraine, and, among other things, Canada's support to Ukraine's war on the Donbass.<br><br>Tamara has a Masters in International Politics and Security Studies and is currently working on her PhD. She has has long been very actively involved in various anti-war, peace &amp; educational initiatives, with an emphasis in exposing the military’s impacts on the environment, Canadian defence and foreign policy, disarmament, &amp; resistance to NATO,  among many other things.<br><br>See her bio here: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/people/tamara-lorincz/ <br>Follow her: https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz<br><br>Conversation points:<br><br>*Trudeau government &amp; Canada's new defence policy: (June 2017) “Strong, Secure and Engaged”--a “militaristic, belligerent, posture on the world. Canada will spend $553 billion on military over next 20 years...Defence policy very informed by membership in NATO &amp; partnership in NORAD.”<br><br>*Canada's role in the illegal bombing of the former Yugoslavia (1999)<br>*Canada's role in the US-led illegal occupation of Afghanistan (Canada has never been held accountable for war crimes committed in Afghanistan)<br>*(2011) Canadian general led NATO's bombing of Libya, killing civilians &amp; destroying civilian infrastructure<br>*(2014-2016) Canada's illegal bombing, with US-led coalition, of Syria.<br><br>*Under Harper government, FM Baird was on the ground fomenting the Maidan protests &amp; illegal coup; under Trudeau and Freeland support for Ukraine continues.<br><br>LINKS:<br>https://rabble.ca/politics/world-politics/canadas-interference-in-ukrainian-democracy/<br>https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operations/military-operations/current-operations/operation-unifier.html<br>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canada-failed-when-it-trained-ukrainian-troops-linked-to-the-far-right-says-nazi-hunter<br>https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/the-canadian-bandera-network<br>https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm<br><br>*My reports from the Donbass, under Ukrainian fire.<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/<br>https://www.mintpressnews.com/under-fire-from-ukraine-everyday-life-in-the-donetsk-peoples-republic/262363/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/on-the-osces-claims-of-russian-war-crimes/ <br><br>*CBC<br>https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1544813798069923840 <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/ <br>https://t.me/Reality_Theories/10222<br>https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/facts-are-subversive-how-canadas-mainstream-media-spreads-disinformation-about-the-conflict-in-ukraine<br><br>*Ukraine Intensified Its Shelling of the Donbass Weeks Before Russia's Special Military Operation:<br>https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/<br><br><br>*Disrupting war mongers:<br>I disrupted #Canada's Minister of @NationalDefence @AnitaAnandMP. War in #Ukraine is not about "democracy". #Canada should call for a ceasefire not send more weapons. @TorontoMet Uni should have a real debate &amp; stand for #peace <br>https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1583683692047699969<br><br>https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1571957556435898369<br><br><br>Join us to stand for "Peace Now! Stop the #Ukraine #Russia War, Stop #NATO" on Sun. Feb. 26 from 1-2pm at the Waterloo Public Sq. 75 King St. Part of the International Weekend of Action. <br>https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1626695803585679380<br><br>Fascinating Insights on Russia, by Americans Who Chose to Relocate Here<br>https://youtu.be/VHhePpl723g<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEaovhVois

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title: Dr. Marwa Osman On Recent Developments in Occupied Palestine
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/0vc6tMaKlJI" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Dr. Marwa Osman On Recent Developments in Occupied Palestine"></p>Following our mid-February conversation, I spoke again with Lebanese journalist and political commentator, Dr. Marwa Osman, about recent developments in occupied Palestine. <br><br>Among the things discussed were:<br><br>-The new Israeli law passed in the Knesset that legitimizes the deportation &amp; ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by revoking their citizenship and residency.<br>-The near-daily resistance acts against the occupation forces, particularly at inhumane “checkpoints” &amp; against Israeli invasions into Jenin Camp.<br>-The UN Charter on right for people under occupation to defend themselves by any means possible, including armed resistance.<br>-That Israel bombs Gaza and Syria routinely without world condemnation, including just two weeks after the worst earthquake to hit the Levant in 100 years.<br>-The brutal Israeli policies of terrorism in Gaza: gunning down fishers and farmers; shooting medics, including firing dart bombs at medics; the over 15 year full blockade of Gaza; destroying Gaza's sole power plant and not allowing Palestinians to rebuild it; not allowing Palestinians to maintain or improve on their sewage holding and treatment facilities (meaning floods of sewage, sewage pumped into the sea, sewage contaminating the ground water).<br><br>Follow Marwa:<br>https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman <br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB <br><br>[See our previous conversation: Commentator &amp; Journalist, Marwa Osman, on the Western Sanctions Preventing Syria's Rescue Efforts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXvvDoZ2f88 ]<br><br>RECOMMENDED LINKS:<br><br>https://twitter.com/palinfoen<br>https://twitter.com/QudsNen <br>https://twitter.com/PalEvePlus <br>https://twitter.com/MyPalestine0<br>https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency <br>https://twitter.com/j_nagency<br><br><br>RELATED LINKS:<br><br>https://www.972mag.com/citizenship-residency-revocation-explainer/<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/huwara-lines-one-of-israels-degrading-deadly-military-checkpoints<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/israeli-settlers-attack-palestinians-steal-land-with-impunity-imagine-outrage-calls-for-sanctions-if-any-other-state-did-it/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/stars-and-bombs/<br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/428<br>https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1627169416105304065 <br>https://www.rt.com/op-ed/532726-israel-airstrikes-syria-lebanon/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/caged-in-ram/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/nablus-invasion-aftermath/<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/azzoun-village-under-israeli-assault-and-lockdown/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/gaza-has-suffered-the-longest-most-barbaric-lockdown-in-the-world-i-know-because-i-lived-through-three-years-of-it/<br>https://pchrgaza.org/en/category/fishermen/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/videos-from-gaza/fishing-under-fire/<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PVoHhuZqrQ <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Vt4jSw8y0<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/they-would-have-already-shot-us-by-now/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/israeli-terrorism-at-sea-israelis-destroy-boats-and-lives/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/israeli-naval-abductions-and-shooting-at-palestinian-fishermen-its-routine/ <br>https://gisha.org/en/increase-in-israeli-navy-attacks-on-gaza-fishermen-including-children/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/israel-destroying-gazas-farmlands-arson-in-johr-ad-dik/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/videos-from-gaza/farming-under-fire-in-the-border-region/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/canada-okay-with-israeli-soldiers-firing-on-unarmed-palestinian-farmers-and-us/<br>https://www.youtube.com/@gazanews2009/videos<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/the-third-hit-her-in-the-kneecap-teenager-targeted-by-zionist-soldiers/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/lost-in-the-buffer-zone/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/how-israeli-policies-and-attacks-have-ravaged-gazas-agricultural-sector/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/7-minutes-before-the-2nd-bombing/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/abu-tomaa-house-deir-al-balah-now-an-f-16d-crater/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/israeli-army-kills-palestinian-medic-with-dart-bomb/ <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/ensuring-maximum-casualties-in-gaza/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/next-time-it-will-hurt-more-israeli-threat-against-surviving-family-members-of-white-phosphorous-attack/<br>WP over Jabaliya<br>https://youtu.be/O_sK87XjEDc<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/attack-on-water-brings-sanitation-crisis/<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVedD30tvu4 <br>Gaza playlist<br>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqtiZC-4QZC3l7asjnh7Fq8E-UxLt2EjT<br>https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/09/22/shireen-abu-akleh-was-deliberately-killed-by-an-israeli-sniper-claims-fresh-investigation-report/<br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/447<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vc6tMaKlJI

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/h1uuDgFUAnc" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview With Jeff Monson: " the people of donbass want peace.></p>In Moscow I spoke with Jeff Monson, a world-acclaimed American mixed martial arts fighter and political activist. <br><br>Jeff travelled to the Lugansk People's Republic in 2016, and has returned to the LPR and neighbouring Donetsk People's Republic nearly a dozen times since, speaking with every day people about their lives under Ukraine's war on the Donbass.<br><br>We spoke about his experiences in the Donbass and how they directly contradicted media claims, as well as his opening of dozens of sports schools in Russia and now in Donetsk.<br><br>Monson, together with RT journalist Donald Courter, collaboratively-produced the independently-funded documentary “8 Years Before”, on the suffering that the people of the Donbass under Ukraine's 8+ years of bombings.<br>[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0VYkL_UI4 ]<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1uuDgFUAnc

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title: Donetsk Residents About Victory Day Importance
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/9XutRAzYGTk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Donetsk Residents About Victory Day Importance"></p>Powerful words of Donetsk residents speaking about what Victory Day means to them, with grandparents who fought to defeat fascism, and who for the past 9 years have lived under Ukraine/NATO's fascism.<br><br>May peace return to them soon.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XutRAzYGTk

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/jpEHsxbqZ6I" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Artyomovsk Refugees Speak of Ukraine's " white angels abducting children></p>In late April, survivors of Ukrainian bombing in Artyomovsk spoke to Christelle Néant (Donbass Insider (https://t.me/donbassinsider)) &amp; myself about the horrors they endured on April 11, when Ukrainian forces deliberately blew up the ground floor of their apartment building, burying the civilians sheltering in the basement below. <br><br>Seven of the seventeen civilians in that basement died almost immediately, including a seven year old child. <br><br>These civilians spoke about how people known as "White Angels", Ukrainian military police, were actively seeking to abduct children, and were succeeding.  <br><br>“They were hunting our kids, and we were hiding them around the buildings.”<br><br>Kiev openly announced they would be forcibly taking children, under the premise of providing security. They do so, according to the people we spoke with (and many other testimonies since) against the will of parents, without their consent.<br><br>Kiev is doing precisely what it falsely-accused Russia of doing (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/10885): abducting children, without their parent's consent.<br><br>My article on this, as well as longer testimonies from the Artyomovsk refugees, will be published soon.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEHsxbqZ6I

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title: Global Britain is circling the drain
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<p data-sanitized-class="has-medium-font-size">Decades of steady economic and social decay… at what point can we call this a failed system?</p>



<p>Earlier this month I visited the UK to speak at the <a href="https://betterwayconference.org/">Better Way Conference</a> in the beautiful city of Bath, alongside eminent thought delinquents like <strong>Dr. Pierre Kory</strong>, <strong>Neil Olver</strong>, <strong>Prof. Dolores Cahill</strong>, <strong>Andrew Bridgen, Melissa Ciummei</strong>, <strong>Vera Sharav, Dr. Mattias Desmet</strong> and many others. The title of my speech on Sunday, 4 June was, “Freedom of speech is our sacred birthright,” and I’ll be posting its contents here in a few days’ time.</p>



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<p>The conference itself was extraordinary: an abundance of extraordinary content with one speaker after another delivering mind-blowing remarks – the result of years or decades of deep research into important social, economic, scientific or medical issues which the mainstream is trying to obscure to oblivion. It was so much more than one could absorb in one sitting and I’ll have to revisit much of what I’d heard in Bath – it was an overload of awesome.</p>



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<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Poverty on the streets of England</h2>



<p>However, the economic and social conditions I could observe during my 4-day visit were disheartening. People on the street – most of them perhaps – do not appear prosperous. Physically, they’re not the picture of radiant health, far from it. For a tourist spot, the city of Bath – otherwise a very beautiful place – is surprisingly dirty and homeless people are pretty much everywhere. Bristol, where I spent a day, looks even worse. The fact that the ordinary Britons are truly struggling is now quite visible.</p>



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<p>The streets of Bristol resemble a third world country, not what one might expect to find in one of the world’s richest and most advanced economies.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Strikes are erupting everywhere</h2>



<p>My return trip was disrupted by a strike and I was unable to get from Bath to the Bristol Airport by train. Indeed, it seems that strikes are becoming increasingly frequent in the British economy:</p>



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<p>Statistical measures confirm that the struggle is very real and large segments of the British society are slumping into a Dickensian era poverty, confirming my contention that empires sow mayhem abroad and misery at home. According to the recent 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 <a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/EYS-UK-Factsheet-2022-23.pdf">has increased</a> from 1.35 million in 2017/18 to a record 2.99 million in 2022/23. One in five households have trouble paying their water bills, and many more are struggling to keep up with their energy bills. Even with the subsidies government provided for last winter, electricity bills in the UK are more than five times higher than the European average! </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Everything points to a horrific cliff-edge</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/energy-profits-british-gas-prepayment-meters-scandal">As the Guardian wrote</a> a few weeks ago, “Everything points, in short, to a horrific cliff-edge looming this spring, 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>



<p>When businesses are losing sales to poverty, rather than competition, we know that the financial parasite has begun to kill its host. And it is not that the government isn’t doing enough social spending: <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11664757/Over-half-households-State-pay-tax.html">more than half of all British households</a> (54.2% of households, or 36 million people) receive more in benefits from the Government than they pay in tax. This is the highest ever level of dependency. It has increased from 24 million, or two-fifths of households from the turn of the century, when Sir <strong><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/tony_blair/index.html">Tony Blair</a></strong> was in power. In other words, the system is locked in a slow, steady and consistent deterioration which now appears to be accelerating.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Creators of this disaster: aloof and tone-deaf as it gets</h2>



<p>At the same time, monetary authorities who are the creators of this appalling state of things, are beyond tone-deaf. In a recent interview, Bank of England’s top economist, <strong>Huw Pill</strong>, thought <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. 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…” </p>



<p>Last year, the Bank’s Governor, Mr. <strong>Andrew Bailey</strong> admonished British workers not to demand pay raises in order to do their part in the fight against inflation. Thus, the top genius in the country seems to seriously think that British people could help counter inflation by embracing poverty and by not eating? At the same time, <a href="https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/farage-britain-addicted-to-cheap-imported-labor-and-let-down-by-dishonest-globalist-conservative-party/">immigration into Britain</a> has reached the highest figures ever recorded: 606,000 people in 2022. And this is all awesome, because immigration supposedly helps economic growth. Somehow however, the first 8 million immigrants over the last 25 years did not yet do the trick. Perhaps the next 100,000 or so will improve things? If not, another million or another ten? Perhaps professor <strong>Neil Ferguson</strong> will know how to model the right figure. This is a failed system and calling it successful will require increasingly absurd level of lying and increasingly harsh suppression of truth.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Economic consequences</h2>



<p>The more predictable consequences of all this include further quantitative easing as the Bank of England will be forced to backstop the gaping bad debts on the balance sheets of the British Banks, more government intervention in the economy through greater deficit spending, higher interest rates and higher inflation – the recipe that’s been tried and tested by nations including Zimbabwe, Argentina and Venezuela, and which invariably yields the same results. I pointed out these developments in an article titled, “<a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/10/27/the-fall-of-global-britain-an-investment-hypothesis/">The Fall of Global Britain</a>,” making the following prediction:</p>



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<p>“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. … At a macro level, we can expect the following developments over the coming months and years: <strong>asset prices will probably continue to rise (i.e. a bullish cycle for the FTSE 100), but the government bonds will continue to slide along with the British pound</strong>.”</p>
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<p>Here’s how that prediction, made on 27 October 2021 panned out thus far:</p>



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<p>I expect that things will continue to evolve along the same trajectory. Social tensions and strikes will only accelerate the progression of this crisis and while predicting what its full unravelling could entail, historical precedents suggest that the decline of fallen empire can get very ugly. The chart below shows the way German imperial 3% bond fared during the opening decades of the 20th century:</p>



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<p>Britain’s crisis might not quite reach these dismal proportions, although I do expect that the policymakers will continue to make all the mistakes committed by their counterparts in the past, ensuring that the crisis will continue to get worse. Unfortunately, it will be the people of Britain who’ll pay the highest price. Let us hope that leaders like <strong>Andrew Bridgen</strong>, will gain enough political power to pull the nation away from the precipice and out of costly imperial adventures that are dissipating the wealth of the British people which could be better spent at home.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Navigating the fallout</h2>



<p>For investors and people with savings to protect, navigating the unravelling of a crisis will be difficult. While nobody can predict the timing or magnitude of events like the decline of the British pound and the government bonds, one thing we know is that large-scale price events (LSPEs) invariably unfold as trends which can span years. As the above charts show, British pound, Gilts and the FTSE each followed a very different trajectory and their decline/rise unfolded at different time intervals. The most reliable way to navigate these trends by following high quality trend following strategies, precisely the kind of decision support we offer through <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">I-System TrendCompass</a></strong> reports.</p>



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<p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. One-month test drive is always free of charge, <strong>no jumping through hoops to cancel</strong>. To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p>



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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/nvDgw_UHSJw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" media on trial with mike robinson eva bartlett fiorella isabel and vanessa beeley></p>Via UK Column:<br><br>"Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Fiorella Isabel about what it's like to report from the front lines of conflict zones, what they have experienced in their interactions with legacy media journalists and what it's like to live and work in Russia and with RT.<br><br>Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist, peace activist, photographer and regular contributor to the UK Column. She can be found on Twitter, and on her Substack.<br><br>Eva Bartlett is an independent journalist with extensive experience in Syria and in the Gaza Strip, where she lived a cumulative three years (from late 2008 to early 2013). She has also reported from the Donbass and Venezuela. She can be found on Twitter, and on many other platforms.<br><br>Fiorella Isabel is a journalist and geo-political analyst. She can be found on the news at RT, on the Convo Couch, and at her Substack"<br><br>Original link: https://www.ukcolumn.org/media-on-trial-vanessa-beeley-eva-bartlett-and-fiorella-isabel<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvDgw_UHSJw

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<p>Throughout 2023, the yields on Italian 10-year Treasury Bonds have been trading at above 4%. Only last summer, they were 0.6%. When they began approaching 4% last December, the financial markets thought that level would trigger a panic. Fast forward nine months and we’re still above that panic level.</p>



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<p>Currently the yields are just over 4.4% but they appear to be trending higher. Namely, since June, every pullback reversed from a higher trough. It’s hard to see how this trend could reverse, absent some miraculous outcome that isn’t even theoretically in the offing. The moment when the yields rally to new highs could mark the beginning of the unraveling of the eurozone. Italy’s fiscal collapse could destroy the ECB’s and EU’s credibility which, however diminished, is perhaps all that stands between the place where we are today and the abyss.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Thirty years of neoliberalism</h2>



<p>Italy has been a good pupil of the IMF’s class of neoliberal economics: between 1992 and 2009, it implemented the most severe fiscal consolidation measures of all EU countries, including sharp spending cuts, liberalization of its labor markets and a clampdown of its labor unions. The cost of these reforms has not yet deterred successive governments in spite of the precipitous decline in the living standards. Italy is the only EU economy where real wages registered negative growth since 1990! </p>



<p>In 2000, Italian living standards were comparable to those in Germany. Today, Italy’s per capita income is 20% below Germany’s. For a society that was very affluent a generation ago, it has deteriorated fast and today more than one in five Italians live in poverty. Nearly 10% of the population (5.6 million Italians, including 1.4 million children) now live in absolute poverty and the population has declined by nearly 2.5% since 2014 (from 60.346 million to 58.851 million today).</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">It’s been a criminal enterprise all along</h2>



<p>Well, all that pain must have yielded some gain? Well, not so much. To begin with, Italy has surrendered its sovereignty to NATO and the EU (read, ECB). Its foreign policy is dictated by NATO and its economic policy is almost entirely in the hands of a convicted criminal, the ECB chief <strong>Christine Lagarde</strong>. </p>



<p>A small digression: that’s the same Christine Lagarde who, in her position as the head of the IMF, helped orchestrate the 2014 coup in Ukraine and arranged IMF funding for the Kiev fascist junta, but only on condition that they step up their vicious anti-terrorist operation against the Donbass region. The puppet junta obliged and over the next two months killed at least 2,000 Ukrainians (according to Kiev’s official figures). Of course, Lagarde’s sterling leadership qualified her to head up the EU’s central bank. </p>



<p>Now the EU’s economy too, is in the hands of the brightest and the best so we can look forward to EU and Italy following in the footsteps of Ukraine’s economic miracle. Here’s an example of how it’s done: Italy’s nonperforming loans collapsed from 17% of bank assets in 2016 to only 4% last year. How was that miracle accomplished? The regulator simply declared the bulk of those bad debts just awesome, approved them as “healthy” collateral for the REPO markets and swept them into the black hole of toxic junk that is Europe’s Target 2 rebalancing system. And we all lived happily ever after. Easy-peasy!</p>



<p>By this time, the EU should consider adopting <strong>George Michael</strong>‘s song “Freedom” as its official hymn: </p>



<p>“All we have to do now, is take these lies and make them true…” </p>



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<p>But lies can’t be made true. Recall, the Eurozone nearly came apart in similar circumstances in 2010-2012. At the time, Italy’s Prime Minister <strong>Silvio Berlusconi</strong> wanted to take Italy out of the Eurozone and bring back her national currency. But true to Europe’s democratical values, the ECB’s then chief, <strong>Mario Draghi</strong> quickly orchestrated Berlusconi’s ouster and sealed Italy’s fate on the sinking ship that is the EU. </p>



<p>Oh, and then Draghi himself became Prime Minister in February 2021 because, freedom and democracy! Today’s cabinet led by <strong>Giorgia Meloni</strong> seems impotent at best, and completely subservient to Lagarde’s ECB whose policies Meloni’s coalition partner and former Prime Minister <strong>Matteo Salvini</strong> called “unbelievable, baffling, worrying.” </p>



<p>The predictable result has been further suffocation of the Italian economy which registered a sharp decline in manufacturing output, a 0.4% negative GDP growth during the second quarter of 2023 and a rise in unemployment which is now at 7.6%. Neither Italy nor the rest of the EU are in any shape to sustain another 2008-style financial crisis. The EU little shop of horrors is due to turn up many “surprises” over the coming months. </p>



<p>I believe that we’ll see sovereign bond yields shoot up higher and their prices tank along with the Euro. If the brightest and the best talent in charge of the economy prove unable to stem the gathering avalanche, the Eurozone, the EU and the NATO might all come crashing down like a house of cards. If only we could take all the lies and somehow make them true! </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">To war!</h2>



<p>Otherwise, the only alternative that’s been used by the democratical ruling parasite class since the days of the Roman Empire is to drum up the “enemies at the gates” alarm and orchestrate a big war. It’s just the kind of emergency that always helps the ruling establishment deflect the people’s anger away from their own mismanagement and toward an external enemy who could be blamed for all of their troubles. Luckily for Europe’s degenerate oligarchs, there’s an evil dictator in the east who might just fit the bill. To war!</p>



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<p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. One-month test drive is always free of charge, <strong>no jumping through hoops to cancel</strong>. To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p>



<p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. For more information, you can drop me a comment or an email to <a href="mailto:xela.reniark@gmail.com">xela.reniark@gmail.com</a></p>



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title: Mean Reversion or Trend Following?
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<p>All investment strategies fall in one of these two categories. Which one’s better? Surprise: it’s trend following.</p>



<p>In his most recent podcast, <strong>Joris Bastien</strong>, founder and CEO of Quantraxia rightly summed up the universe of investment strategies: “<em>… however you look at it, investment strategies – quantitative or not – fall into two broad categories: trend following and mean-reversion</em>.” He explains each, in turn. </p>



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<li>Mean-reversion strategies, also called “short volatility” are based on the philosophy that when values diverge away from their historical norms, they subsequently revert to them (to the <em>mean). Such strategies </em>include value investing, pairs-trading [arbitrage], and options selling.</li>



<li>Trend following is also called “long volatility” or divergence strategy based on the idea that market equilibriums change over time and that this transition can be captured. In this category we have CTAs (commodity trading advisors), and any kind of momentum strategies.</li>
</ul>



<p>In essence, Bastien articulates the same school of thought that I had embraced already in the 1990s and explains that trend following is, “positively skewed, with many small losses and fewer large wins, with low-to-medium turnover. Trend following strategies exhibit higher volatility; … the performance of trend following is highly cyclical and will definitely test your patience.” I think that Bastien’s short podcast provides excellent and very valid food for thought and is well worth its 7 minutes. You can find it at <strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jorisbastien_quantaraxia-money-management-ugcPost-7108810361738330112-QJua?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">this link</a></strong>.</p>



<p>In the past, in explaining my own approach, I said many times that the question is not whether I-System Trend Following works. The question is whether markets move in trends. In Bastien’s formulation, are they mean-reverting or do they exhibit shifting equilibriums over time? This report now has a nearly 4-year continuity and in that time, the 15 markets we track have begun to crystallize an answer, discernible in the chart showing the performance of 180 strategies in our Major Markets portfolio, which I had recently shared:</p>



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<p>The negative performance of our strategies is more limited and its bottom extent has remained relatively <em>horizontal </em>(our worst losses haven’t exceeded 70% of the risk budget in any market over the past 4 years), while its upper extent has an upward-trending bias with gains in four markets exceeding 100% of their risk budget. While we use <em>different</em> trading strategies in each market, they are all based on the same trend following algorithms. </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Empirical evidence of mean-reversion in the markets is thin</h2>



<p>Of course, this observation doesn’t represent a very large sample, nor a very long time interval. Still, the reason why I believe it is nonetheless valid, is that it conveys the result of a large number of strategies and signals generated in real time, not a backtest.  </p>



<p>Last year however, researchers at Goldman Sachs analyzed markets for evidence of mean-reversion based on over 140 years’ worth of stock market data. Their conclusions validated the trend following approach in a very important way. As <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://realinvestmentadvice.com/goldman-sachs-destroys-an-investing-myth/" target="_blank">cited by <strong>Lance Roberts</strong></a>, Goldman’s lead analyst <strong>Sam Ro</strong> wrote that, <em>“While valuations feature importantly in our toolbox to estimate forward equity returns, we should dispel an oft-repeated myth that equity valuations are mean-reverting.” </em></p>



<p>The report concludes: “<strong><em><u>We have not found any statistical evidence of mean reversion</u></em></strong><em>.<strong>” </strong></em>Ro’s analysis found that the mean-reversion significance of the Schiller CAPE metric since 1881 is very low, at just 26%. That conclusion would very much corroborate the findings of <strong>Dimson</strong>, <strong>Marsh </strong>and <strong>Staunton </strong>on momentum investing, which I summarized in my article, “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://isystem-tf.com/2020/12/17/tesla-and-the-power-of-momentum-investing/" target="_blank"><strong>Tesla and the power of momentum investing</strong></a>.”</p>



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title: Market experts: crude oil to go to $12 or $65 or $150 or $380 per barrel…
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<p>It has long been my contention that in securities markets, prices lead and narratives follow, as I summed up in this 2016 article: “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://thenakedhedgie.com/2016/04/12/market-facts-vs-market-narratives/" target="_blank">Market facts vs. market narratives</a>.” Yesterday we had another case in point: the price of Crude Oil rallied and the media rushed a slew of articles and commentary explaining the move. </p>



<p>ZeroHedge headline read, “<strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-shale-giant-agrees-jpmorgan-oil-headed-150" target="_blank">US Shale Giant Agrees With JPMorgan: Oil Headed For $150</a>.</strong>” Without a doubt, had the price of Crude Oil crashed, we’d have a slew of articles and commentary explaining all the reasons why that had happened. It calls to mind these two articles, published by Bloomberg on the same week last summer and showing a very different forecast from JPMorgan:</p>



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<p></p>



<p>So, oil is going to $65, or $150, or $380… Other analysts still called for Crude Oil going to $20-handle, and let’s not forget <strong>Cathy Wood</strong>‘s genius 2020 forecast for oil at $12/bbl. All these predictions were duly reasoned by learned analysts working diligently at their great big market institutions armed with all the information money can buy. Given the broad range of all these forecasts, someone will prove right and they’ll probably be ushered before the viewers at CNBC, Bloomberg and other media to talk about <em>how they knew</em>… Next, we’ll read about “the analyst who predicted <em>bla, bla.. </em>who now says that, <em>bla, bla, bla…”</em></p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">There has got to be a better way!?</h2>



<p>This kind of thing has been going on forever, but from an investor’s point of view, it’s all worth less than zero. As an oil market analyst in the 1990s, after about three years of following many market experts, I realized that this kind of guidance was worthless, which led me to develop a quantitative trading approach based on systematic trend following. </p>



<p>Here’s how the 12 Crude Oil strategies included in our Major Markets portfolio have performed, basing the trading decisions exclusively on Brent’s price fluctuation dynamics, without any sort of prediction involved:</p>



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<p>It’s a busy chart for sure, but what it shows is the price of Brent Crude Oil contract, I-System’s <em>trend confidence</em> function, our exposure based on the 12 strategies, each trading a single contract of Brent Crude, and the trading performance of these signals. </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">The current positioning…</h2>



<p>We switched from net short to net long on 12 July when Brent closed at $81.11 and added to a full long position at an average price of $83.91 for an unrealized gain through last night’s closing price of $10.45/barrel. Also, please note that trend following includes deep and long drawdowns, which is why I repeatedly drum on the need for patience and discipline. </p>



<p>With respect to our current (unrealized) gain, it might grow, or it might vanish, depending on future price fluctuations, which we cannot predict. Perhaps the price of the barrel goes to JPMorgan’s target of $150, or JPMorgan’s other target of $380, who knows. Or perhaps it goes to Cathy Wood’s $12.  </p>



<p>The point is that markets move in trends and that <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/11/market-trends-far-and-away-the-most-powerful-drivers-of-investment-performance/" target="_blank">large-scale price events represent the most powerful driver of investment returns</a>. A disciplined, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://isystem-tf.com/2020/05/26/trend-following-is-the-only-valid-answer-to-the-problem-of-uncertainty/" target="_blank">patient adherence to a set of tried-and-tested rules</a> offers more sustainable, more reliable guidance to markets than expert forecasts can, which is the whole <em>raison d’etre</em> behind I-System Trend Following and the TrendCompass newsletter. </p>



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<li>Get real-time CTA intelligence in <strong>seconds per day</strong></li>



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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/DpnIV4qSA1w" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Battle Against Slavery and the Roots of the USA [Nancy Spannaus RTF Lecture]"></p>This Sunday September 24, The Rising Tide Foundation hosted American System Now President Nancy Spannaus brilliantly refuted the popular narrative that the USA was a nation built upon exploitation, hypocrisy, slavery and empire.<br><br>Nancy unpacks the principled battles that occured before, during and after the American revolution over the issue of the idea of freedom for all citizens regardless of skin color. <br><br>Nancy Spannaus is the author of Hamilton vs Wall Street which can be purchased here:  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hamilton+Versus+Wall+Street&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss<br><br>Her website is: https://americansystemnow.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpnIV4qSA1w

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Eva K Bartlett describes the horrific conditions suffered by the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/58577564e603940d1f1f725e21f53215.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Eva K Bartlett describes the horrific conditions suffered by the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza"></p>Video thumbnail photo: Gaza, January 2009.<br><br>Mike Jones [https://foreignagent.tv/] had me on yesterday. He wrote:<br><br>Now banned from YouTube, Eva K Bartlett ( @Reality_Theories ) was kind enough to sit down with me and share her experience of living in Gaza. <br><br>She describes the horrific conditions suffered by the Palestinian people and numerous war crimes perpetrated on a daily basis by Israel providing an educated and qualified perspective you'll likely not hear reported in the Western Media.<br><br>Some recommended reading and resources from Eva:<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br><br>Marwa Osman telegram channel:<br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB<br><br>Eva's account of Israel killing medics: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/14526<br><br>You can find Eva's videos backed up at:<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9<br><br>*<br><br>In our conversation, I did note that many of the Palestinian voices in Gaza who I'd recommend following for updates are in the dark, after Israel cut off every aspect of life to Gaza. For now, I strongly recommend people follow:<br><br>-Marwa Osman (https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB) (as mentioned)<br><br>-Resistance News Network (https://t.me/PalestineResist)<br><br>-Vanessa Beeley (https://t.me/VanessaBeeley)<br><br>-Louis Allday (https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday)<br><br>-Ghassan Abu Sitta (https://twitter.com/GhassanAbuSitt1)<br><br>-Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline)<br><br>-Yves Engler (https://twitter.com/EnglerYves)<br><br>-Dan Cohen (https://twitter.com/dancohen3000)<br><br>-Seyed Mohammad Marandi (https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi)<br><br>-Peter Ford<br> (https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/07/712230/Palestine-at-the-United-Nations)<br><br>-Palestine Declassified (https://t.me/palestinedeclassified)<br><br>-Mint Press News:  (https://www.mintpressnews.com/)<br><br>-Fiorella Isabel  (https://t.me/fiorellastele)<br><br>-Believe in Syria (https://t.me/believeinsyria)

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title: Talking finance and trend following with 2 vikings
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p> </p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal">Last week I had the pleasure of joining “2 Vikings” for a podcast interview. The 2 Vikings are <b>Frank Nilsen</b> and <b>Stian Nicolaysen</b>, two Norwegian podcasters and successful entrepreneurs (Frank was a top 10 podcast producer on iTunes). The unusual aspect of our long conversation (it had to be broken into two parts) was that our discussion converged on the fallen financial system in which we’re forced to operate and further moved onto the subject of trend following. Part 1 of my discussion with the 2 vikings (audio only) is available at the following link: </p>



<p></p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HR"><a href="https://sites.libsyn.com/489920/how-does-the-financial-system-work-with-alex-krainer" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://sites.libsyn.com/489920/how-does-the-financial-system-work-with-alex-krainer</span></a></span></p>



<p></p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal">As investors, Frank and Stian were very interested in this subject and our conversation just took off from there. As I told them afterwards, I’ve been averaging two or three podcast interviews per week for months now, but the day-job – the subject one could talk about for hours and hours – that subject almost never comes up.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">No, trend following is very much relevant</h2>



<p></p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal"><span>In a way, that’s understandable; as the world hangs on a thread with risk of nuclear armageddon more acute than it’s ever been, trend following may seem like an obscure and irrelevant subject. However, I think it is a very important subject. Most of our problems today derive from the fraudulent monetary system which predictably erodes the purchasing power of our savings. In effect, they are systematically being stolen by those who have usurped the power to print money and dilute everyone’s wealth by creating and circulating new money. </span></p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Trend following is the Swiss Army knife of investing</h2>



<p></p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal"><span>To avoid being robbed in this way, we must endeavor to invest our savings and convert them into assets that can generate sufficient return for us to offset the dilution of our purchasing power. Well, since we’re forced to speculate and invest, discussing effective strategies of investing is a very relevant subject – one we should try to master in order to navigate our economic environment effectively. Trend following might be the Swiss Army knife of investing that belongs in every investors’ toolbox of essentials</span> and the most recent example of this has been the last two years decline in bonds prices which has escalated into the greatest bonds bear market in over 236 years! This episode and the performance of trend following strategies has been very fascinating to observe and I will cover it in a follow-up article.</p>



<p></p><p data-sanitized-class="MsoNormal"><span lang="HR"></span></p>For investors who wish to receive effective and reliable CTA directional exposure signals in real time, look no further than I-System TrendCompass – see below:



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<li>Navigate trends profitably, with confidence and <strong>peace of mind</strong></li>
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<p>One month test-drive is always on us. Sign up for a 1-month FREE trial by e-mailing us at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com" target="_blank"><strong>TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</strong></a></p>



<p>To learn more, please visit <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I-System TrendCompass</a> page</strong>.</p>



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title: Understanding Gaza, under fire and under siege: Interview on UK Column
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/a08081ab94c750809f7c085cb4321a24.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Understanding Gaza, under fire and under siege: Interview on UK Column"></p>Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlet and Cynthia McKinney about their experiences of living in Gaza.<br><br>Some of my own related links:<br><br><br><br>https://www.youtube.com/@gazanews2009/videos<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/on-board-the-dignity-en-route-to-besieged-gaza/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-hardest-thing-parents-speak-of-their-children-killed-by-israeli-bombings/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br>


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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/2bfb7286ca8840c70bcfaf2df726824d.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview: On Israel's Ongoing Genocide of Gaza"></p>I was interviewed on Scott Ritter's Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023. <br><br>Streamed on: Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 109: Ask the Inspector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHo5tZ2ftc<br><br>Related Links:<br><br>Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza (My 2014 overview of Israel's brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers &amp; fishers...)<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br><br>Observations from Occupied Palestine, part 1 (My overview of what I witnessed in 8 months in the West Bank)<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/<br><br>My 2007 West Bank writings:<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/<br><br><br>

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/23ae0b6c2c39b8db662dbc2ce8163563.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Under Fire: Israeli Sniper Targets Uniformed Medics--what I witnessed in Gaza"></p>On January 7, 2009, as I and a Spanish human rights advocate accompanied Palestinian medics to retrieve the body of a man shot earlier by invading Israeli forces, we were also shot at as the medics carried the body towards the ambulance. It was in Dawwar Zimmo, eastern Jabaliya, near the area which has been occupied by Israeli soldiers since the land invasion began.  It’s an area where 10s are thought to have been seriously injured by bombing and shooting from the Israeli army, and where many, many more will lie dead, uncollected for days, or weeks, out of reach of the medics whose duty is to retrieve them.<br><br>Hassan al-Attal and Jamal had gotten out of the ambulance, a clearly-marked 101 ambulance, and approached the corpse lying in the middle of the street.  They wore their PRCS uniforms –Hassan’s was bright red with reflective tape, Jamal’s bright orange and white, also with reflective tape –and approached slowly, hands free of all but a stretched to take away the body.   Arce filmed as the medics picked up the dead man, put him on the stretcher and began the retreat towards the ambulance.  Arce was still filming when the shots cracked out, rapidly but evidently a targeted sniper’s shot, not a machine gun.  Incredibly, Hassan and Jamal continued to try to evacuate the body, running with the dead man, before finally dropping the stretched and fleeing for their lives.<br><br>It was about 1:30 pm, it was the first day of Israel’s self-declared “cease-fire” and the sniper was aiming at the medical personnel.  The ambulance’s siren was still screaming, the driver had been moving quickly away from the sniper, to avoid further hits on us or himself, and we were frantically scouring to see Hassan and Jamal.  In the days prior to this attack, 7 medics had been killed since the start of Israel’s air and ground assault on Gaza’s population.  Tens more had been injured, and Hassan was to join their ranks.  A sniper’s bullet caught his thigh, and as he scrambled into the ambulance, the blood seeping through his pants alerted us to his injury.<br><br>These medics are all too aware of, many all too familiar with, the mortal risks of their job in the face of invading Israeli soldiers with, apparently, no regard for the Geneva Conventions which should allow and oblige medics to reach the injured and the dead, without fire from the invading army.<br><br>It was frightening.  I thought we’d lost them both, and they are both young, wonderful men doing a job worthy of medals.  The 10-15 seconds it took before Hassan and Jamal could jump into the ambulance and pull down its back door were a painfully long stretch, during which I’d feared the worst.  As we pulled away, a final bullet caught the back door of the ambulance.<br><br>Medics worked quickly on Hassan’s thigh injury: the bullet had penetrated from the inside of his upper left thigh, digging into muscle, and exiting a couple of inches from the entry wound.  He was impressively brave about it, though obviously in a great deal of pain.<br><br>The other volunteer’s video footage caught the incident, and is testimony to what we’ve seen, what medics have told us they’ve long endured, and what Israeli authorities belligerently continue to deny: Israel is targeting medical personnel, as Israeli forces target journalists, civilians, and these days in Gaza anything that moves.  No sanctuary, no safety, no guarantee of medical service.<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/israeli-sniper-targets-uniformed-medics-what-i-witnessed-in-gaza/<br><br><br>See also:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/israeli-army-kills-palestinian-medic-with-dart-bomb/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/ensuring-maximum-casualties-in-gaza/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/rescuers-targeted-one-year-on/<br>

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title: The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Episode 1: Lifting the Esoteric Veil
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/BbVB7YjwIho" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Episode 1: Lifting the Esoteric Veil"></p>In this first episode of the new 8 part series 'The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs' produced by the Canadian Patriot Review and co-created by Cynthia Chung and Matthew Ehret and edited by Jason Dahl, the ancient mystery religions of the pre-Christian world are introduced in order to set the stage for the growth of the UFO disclosure movement and alien mythos in the 20th century.<br><br>To support this crowd-funded series, donate here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br>Get Matt and Cynthia's books here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Follow our work on t.me/canadianpatriotpress<br><br>Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVB7YjwIho

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guid: http://isystem-tf.com/?p=3472
title: Cocoa “mayhem” and trend following
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>Few investors pay attention to cocoa prices, but starting in June, cocoa has been in the news quite a bit. The reason: cocoa prices nearly doubled over the past 12 months. The higher they rose, the more they caught the attention of traders and the inevitable expert commentariat.. Here we have another confirmation that the price always leads the narrative, not the other way around. </p>



<p>Earlier this month, ZeroHedge, which doesn’t often post articles about soft commodities ran an article titled, “<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/cocoa-mayhem-sends-prices-4000-ton-highest-1978" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cocoa Mayhem Sends Prices to $4,000 Per Ton, Highest Since 1978</a>.” It mentions the poor cocoa crops in West Africa, low crop yields in Ivory Coast and Ghana, the El-Nino related weather disruptions that could further damage cocoa production, and even the inflation-driven price rises in consumer markets.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Trend followers have been long since 2022</h2>



<p>But long before this was being discussed, and without needing to know anything at all about the crops or about El Nino, trend followers had already boarded this ride. Here’s how I-System strategies traded Cocoa over the last (nearly) five years (their performance is shown in terms of USD per Metric Ton gained or lost trading cocoa futures):</p>



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<p>This is a busy chart, but it is instructive as it also tells the story about trend following. The top chart shows cocoa prices, overlaid with the curve showing our net exposure (how many of our 12 cocoa strategies were long or short on the scale of -12 [fully short] to +12 [fully long]).  </p>



<p>Why do we use 12 strategies? It could be fewer, or more, but the answer is that while we formulate strategies on past data, we’ve no way to know how well any one strategy might perform in the future. By diversifying our decision making among multiple strategies that are similar but different, we reduce the likelihood of disappointments (as with the strategy shown in red) and enhance the probability of positive performance.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">The testing of discipline, patience…</h2>



<p>During four full years, cocoa prices fluctuated sideways, in a horizontal range around $2,500/MT and our strategies flatlined. In the second half of 2021 they went into a painful drawdown that lasted almost a full year before staging a gradual recovery. Here again we see that large-scale price events (LSPEs) unfold as trends that span long periods of time which is why systematic trend following reliably captures windfalls from such events. </p>



<p>But the experience also shows the cost of that performance in terms of risk, drawdowns, discipline and patience which can be considerable in some cases. At its low point, in May 2022, the average strategy was down $713/MT ($7,130 per CSCE contract). With Friday’s closing (17 Nov. 2023), it was up $593. So was it even trading Cocoa worth the trouble at all? Yes, under two conditions: (1) if your business entails exposure to coca prices and you need to hedge against unfavorable price changes or (2) for portfolio diversification purposes. </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Diversification: the only free lunch</h2>



<p>For a well diversified portfolio, any one market should only represent a relatively small risk allocation. Diversification is the only free lunch in investment speculation, so it is always worth considering it whenever possible, even accepting the fact that some markets will test our patience (in fact, this is still the case with some investors’ favorites, Gold and Silver, for example). Markets do move in trends but we have no way of telling <em>when</em> such events might unfold, <em>how long</em> they would last, or <em>how high</em> (or how low) they might reach.</p>



<p>In terms of <em>discipline,</em> which primarily refers to the risk management, the above chart also provides some guidance in terms of gauging our risk appetite: if the average strategy could cause a $713/MT draw-down on cocoa ($7,130 per contract), what part of our total portfolio risk should that sum represent? If that sum is small enough, say 1% or 2% of the total portfolio, we need not suffer any anxiety even from long, painful drawdowns. Unfortunately, this is quite out of range of most individual investors. </p>



<p>However, risk can be better fine-tuned with smaller-denominated mini-contracts, CFDs and even ETFs which provide a valid proxy for exposure to cocoa prices. Adding markets like cocoa, sugar, coffee and other commodities to your portfolio should be considered also in view of the <em>commodity super-cycle</em> scenario which could unfold over the next decade or two. Thanks to trend following, investors can capture windfalls from future LSPEs without needing any special expertise in those markets, other than their price histories.</p>



<p>For investors who are so inclined, TrendCompass reports offer real time trend following signals covering over 200 different financial and commodity markets. For more information, and how to subscribe, please check I-System Trend Following | <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>TrendCompass</strong></a>. One month’s ‘test drive’ is always free of charge with no strings of any sort attached.</p>



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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ngJg9nKxjD0" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Embracing Uncompromising Truth and Growing Through Crisis (Holmes Fam interview with RTF)"></p>In this Podcast, Matt and Cynthia talk to an incredible politically active family in Alberta who have found a way to grow through the pandemic, and create a foundation of love and learning which is a role model for all freedom loving citizens.<br><br>Follow 'Over to the Youth' here: https://overtotheyouth.com/2023/04/13/over-to-the-youth-podcast-navigating-historical-times/<br><br>Watch Matt's previous discussion with Mike Holmes about the political fight in Alberta: https://rumble.com/v3u2rfs-albertas-fight-is-canadas-fight-mike-holmes-on-the-canadian-patriot.html<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Visit www.risingtidefoundation.net for more info<br><br>and follow us on t.me/RisingTideFoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngJg9nKxjD0

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title: Science Unshackled Family Review with Matt Ehret and the Holmes Clan
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/gv97LL4LUNw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Escaping Calypso's Island Ep.2: Trapped in the Cave (The Curse of Game Theory)"></p>Is the world a zero sum game or an open system shaped by creativity and cooperation? What truly defines humanity's supposed "limits to growth" and what is a "limited resource"? Is overpopulation a true crisis or is it a myth?<br><br>In this second episode in the ongoing series 'Escaping Calypso's Island', Cynthia Chung explores these questions, and examines the fallacies underlying the popular notion that human civilization can only grow at the expense of nature.<br><br>To watch Episode One (The Song of the Sirens), click here:<br>https://youtu.be/eH9qaTawttE<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Sponsor these videos by making a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv97LL4LUNw

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title: Middle Eastern tensions: is the oil price about to explode?
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>On the morning of 12 January 2024, the <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong> and Britain, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands, launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes against some 60 Houthi (Ansar Allah) targets across <strong>Yemen</strong> in an attempt to check their attacks on ships in the Red Sea. In spite of claiming self-defence, the “freedom and democracy” enforcement squad conducted the attacks unilaterally, without a UN Security Council resolution. In doing so, they’ve exacerbated the risks of an escalation to a wider regional war with unpredictable consequences. </p>



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<p>An escalation could have a severe impact on oil prices, deepening the energy crisis in the West. In fact, this was one of the concerns of many observers and the producer with Sputnik News reached out to me to comment on this. However, <a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240112/how-will-yemen-attacks-affect-global-oil-market-1116134665.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">my response</a> wasn’t exactly a standard fare commentary, but it does reflect my nearly 30 years’ experience in commodities markets.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">First, ignore the hype</h2>



<p>To be sure, the geopolitical events in West Asia <em>could</em> push oil prices higher, but we should not assume that they necessarily will. There could be a spike upward in the short term, but whether the upward pressure on prices will be sustained is an open question. This will depend on the way the situation evolves. If tensions escalate, we’ll almost certainly see oil prices increase sharply. </p>



<p>In these situations, market analysts and the commentariat tend to generate a blizzard of extraordinary predictions and hype, but we should be cautious with any sensational interpretations of what’s to come.</p>



<p>For example,on Saturday, 14 September 2019 a missile attack on Saudi Arabia caused substantial damage to Aramco’s Abqaiq oil production facilities. The following Monday, Brent crude oil experienced the largest-ever one-day price jump, reaching $70.32 during the day and closing at $67.78 – $8.42/bbl above previous Friday’s closing price ($59.25/bbl). </p>



<p>This event is marked as <strong>(A)</strong> in the chart below. Fearing further escalations, many market participants expected that the price would rapidly move toward $100/bbl but this did not happen. Instead, the price quickly dropped back below $60/bbl and continued to fluctuate between the high $50s and low $60s for the rest of the year:</p>



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<p>In 2020, entirely different circumstances evolved with the pronouncement of the Covid 19 pandemic, which had a different impact on oil prices altogether:</p>



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<p>Seen in this perspective, the September 2019 attack on Aramco facilities appears only as a blip on the historical price chart. For traders who got taken up by the day’s hype, anticipating a rapid ascent toward $100/bbl probably left them with crippling losses. </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Prediction is difficult</h2>



<p>As <strong>Niels Bohr</strong>, the nobel laureate in physics and father of the atomic model said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Bohr had it exactly correct. In addition to geopolitics and the supply and demand economics, oil prices are determined by a very complex confluence of factors that are almost impossible to account for.</p>



<p>During most of the last 20+ years, the most important single factor influencing oil prices has been the US dollar which has had a very strong inverse correlation to oil prices:</p>



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<p>We can see that this correlation has broken down after 2021 (marked “?” in the chart), but it nevertheless tells us an important story: that of all factors impacting oil prices, the US dollar has been by far the most important one. This implies that factors like US economic performance, employment, inflation, Federal Reserve policy, and interest rates play a much greater role in determining the price of oil than do the discernible supply/demand economics and even geopolitics. </p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">How to navigate the roller-coaster?</h2>



<p>The next question is, how should market participants – investors, traders and hedgers – navigate the roller-coaster, since making predictions is out of the question? My own strong conviction is that the only way to navigate through uncertainty is through systematic trend following. The chart below illustrates how a set of I-System Trend Following strategies have performed during the 2019/2020 period:</p>



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<p>I-System strategies are based entirely on the analysis of price fluctuations and are blind to factors like supply/demand fundamentals or geopolitics. As such, they can’t anticipate nor react to unpredictable events like the Abqaiq attack. But what is far more relevant to oil traders are the large-scale price events (LSPEs), which represent by far the greatest risk (and conversely the greatest opportunity) for oil-related businesses. </p>



<p>While we can’t predict the timing or the magnitude of LSPEs, we do know that they invariably unfold as trends, spanning weeks, months and even years. It follows that tracking the markets with a set of high quality trend following strategies will likely prove the most effective and most sustainable way to navigate them profitably, confidently and with peace of mind.</p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ntPOFy2smkc" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Truth About Plato (Reading Session 01)"></p>Since we last worked through a four week reading of How Jesus and his Followers Saved Civilization followed by a 3 week reading of Philo of Alexandria’s On Creation, The Rising Tide Foundation study group now maps out the geopolitical terrain of ancient Athens in the centuries prior to the births of Jesus of Nazareth and his contemporary Philo of Alexandria. What better way to conduct this exercise than to plunge into the two part mega-essay The Truth About Plato written by Charles Tate and published in two editions of the Campaigner Magazine in 1980.<br><br>Click here to download the full PDF of the Truth About Plato by Charles Tate (published in a 1980 edition of the Campaigner) part 1: https://canadianpatriot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8102-Truth-about-Plato.pdf<br><br> and click here for part 2: https://canadianpatriot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8104-Socialism-and-fascism.pdf<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<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=ntPOFy2smkc

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title: Markets move in trends: the Cocoa edition
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<p>The core twin hypotheses behind I-System Trend Following and this newsletter are that, </p>



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<li><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/11/market-trends-far-and-away-the-most-powerful-drivers-of-investment-performance/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Market trends are far and away the most potent drivers of investment performance</a>, and that </li>



<li><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2020/05/26/trend-following-is-the-only-valid-answer-to-the-problem-of-uncertainty/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Systematic trend following is the most reliable way to capture value from trends</a>.</li>
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<p>But as I mentioned before, getting the best long-term results out of systematic trend following also requires iron discipline and a great deal of patience, because while markets do move in trends, we’ve no way to predict when trends might emerge, how long they could last nor how high (or low) they will push the price. The latest example illustrating all this is the Cocoa market, one of the few markets that have trended during the last 12 months. Last Friday, 14 March 2024, they closed at $8,018/MT. The average I-System strategy generated over $3,300/MT ($30,304 per contract). The chart below illustrates the evolution of our gains from this last LSPE. The chart below tells the story:</p>



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<p>Top chart shows the price of CSCE Cocoa (USD/metric ton) overlaid with the I-System <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/isystem_descriptionofatypicalstrategy.pdf">trend confidence function</a>, fluctuating between -100 (<em>certainty</em> that we are in a downtrend) and 100 (<em>certainty </em>that we’re in an uptrend). The middle chart shows the total net exposure of the 12 trading strategies we use to track Cocoa futures, fluctuating between <em>fully short</em> (-12) and <em>fully long</em> (+12). Every change in value along that chart is the result of a <em>buy</em> or <em>sell</em> signal generated by the I-System. Bottom chart shows the results in USD per metric ton of Cocoa: the performance of each of the 12 strategies and their average performance.</p>



<p>If we look at the start point and end point, the trading looks like a success: in just over 4 years, the strategies generated a profit of just over $3,300 per metric ton on average, or $30,304 per contract traded. However, this windfall only started to accrue from mid-2022. If there is one thing that the above chart should make clear is that it had a real cost in terms of risk, discipline and patience. Trading Cocoa hasn’t been great fun during the first 2+ years, in the above chart, and at one point we had about $600 loss per metric ton, or $6,000 per contract. That may seem tolerable, but the fact this loss had been accumulating for more than 2 years makes it challenging from the psychological point of view.</p>



<p>The performance progression shown above is by no means universal, but it is typical and illustrates the importance of cultivating patience and adhering to discipline in trading. We can have patience if we believe that markets move in trends and that a trend will ultimately emerge and redeem all the small losses we must incur to catch a LSPE. Discipline obliges us to continue taking risk in spite of the long sequence of unsuccessful trades and the drawdowns they generate. </p>



<p>Discipline also requires that our risk taking remains conservative enough that we can withstand a long period of drawdowns and retain enough “dry powder” to be able to profit from conditions when they turn favorable. Finally, having faith is easier if we can rely on high-conviction trading strategies. This is not an easy feat. As <strong>Baruch Spinoza</strong> pointed out, “all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">The versatility of trend following</h2>



<p>The great advantage of systematic trend following is that once we’ve mastered the art, we can use it in any market, allowing us to take advantage of the only free lunch available in investment speculation: diversification. Trend following is the same game whether we’re trading Gold, Oil, Soybeans, FX pairs, Treasury bonds or Cocoa. I literally don’t know anything at all about the supply and demand fundamentals of the Cocoa market. In spite of that I can trade Cocoa futures with the same confidence as any other market and I have done so for many years. Again, in addition to quality strategies, the key is discipline and perseverance.</p>



<p>Incidentally, the above graph also tells us something important about risk management. For illustration, at the price of $2,500/MT each contract is worth $25,000. However, when trading futures, we don’t need to pay the full price for the contract, but only the maintenance margin which tends to range between 2% and 10% of the value of the underlying contract. This is how some traders get themselves in trouble and it is also the reason why many investors mistakenly believe that trading futures is very risky. It is very risky, but only if you use too much leverage. </p>



<p>Suppose that the maintenance margin for a contract worth $25,000 is ‘only’ $2,500. If you had $10,000 in your risk budget you might be tempted to buy 4 contracts (4 * 2,500). But the historical performance in the above example tells us that, regardless of how much leverage we <em>can</em> have (because the margin requirement is low), we should reserve a $10,000 risk budget for each contract of Cocoa we plan to trade (more if we only trade 1 contract, less if we trade multiple contracts). </p>



<p>This is one of the valid methods of establishing your position limits. The major part of trading discipline is to never exceed your position limits. Instead, you maintain your risk profile and continue to position risk for those windfalls which arrive when they arrive – there’s no predicting them. Until then, the job is to maintain sufficient dry powder to be able to take advantage of them <em>when</em> they happen.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Get the signals with I-System TrendCompass</h2>



<p>In addition to Cocoa, we track more than 200 financial and commodity markets, generating daily trend following signals. To learn more, check out the <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>TrendCompass page</strong></a> and if interested, please feel free to request a one months free trial. There’s no strings attached nor hoops to jump through to cancel.</p>

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#Commodity price #CTA #Hedging #I-System TrendCompass #Quantitative strategies #Trend following #TrendCompass #Cocoa #CTAs #I-System

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/SbOTENDrpbs" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="1979: A Polarized Persia (RTF lecture with Gordon McCormick)"></p>On Sunday (January 28) the Rising Tide Foundation hosted a live lecture with Gordon McCormick (co-host of Breaking History on Badlands and geopolitical analyst extraordinaire) who delivered a historic outline of the hand of Anglo-American intelligence in the Middle East with a focus on Iran and the 1979 revolution.<br><br>Some additional chapters from Guanzi for those interested in reading more:<br>Public Download link to full book:<br>https://ebin.pub/guanzi-political-economic-and-philosophical-essays-from-early-china-volume-two-2-0691048169-9780691048161.html<br><br>On Maintaining Restraint (pg 214)<br><br>Discourse on Economic Matters (pg 368)<br><br> Kingship Based on the Sea (pg 372)<br><br>The State's Store of Grain (pg 376)<br><br>Qing Zhong Economic Policies A - F (pg 446-509)<br><br>Ready to start your journey to learn Mandarin? I highly recommend this book, by far the best introduction to the characters, slow paced with no speaking required, absolutely anyone can complete it:<br><br>https://www.amazon.ca/Fundamentals-Chinese-Characters-John-Jing-hua/dp/0300109458<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=SbOTENDrpbs

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<h3 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">We’re in a new game, requiring new thinking, versatility and resilience.</h3>



<p><a href="https://substack.com/profile/21365744-alex-krainer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a></p>



<p>Navigating the markets has become increasingly difficult and rife with risk. We should recognize however, that even in the best of times, investors have a strong tendency to underperform market benchmarks. Over a 20-year period from 1988 through 2007, the S&amp;P 500 returned 11.81% annually. During the same interval, the average investor lagged far behind with only 4.48% (<strong>N. Scott Pritchard,</strong> <a href="https://capdir.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/The_Tyranny_of_Choice_in_JPBAutumn2008.pdf">Journal of Pension Benefits, 2008)</a>.</p>



<p>That’s a staggering underperformance. In his commentary to <strong>Benjamin Graham</strong>’s “Intelligent Investor,” <strong>Jason Zweig</strong> suggested that investors achieve such poor results “<em>simply by buying high and selling low</em>.” One blogger illustrated it succinctly enough:</p>



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<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Pros do the same</h2>



<p>Professional investors – the types that probably manage your pension plans – are equally susceptible to this pitfall. In his 2010 report “<a href="https://hbr.org/2011/02/untangling-skill-and-luck">Untangling Skill and Luck</a>,” Legg Mason’s <strong>Michael Mauboussin</strong> cited a study by finance professors <strong>Amit Goyal</strong> and <strong>Simil Wahal</strong>, who studied how well 3,400 plan sponsors (retirement plans, endowments, foundations) performed at hiring and firing investment managers over a 10-year period.</p>



<p>They found that pension plan sponsors hired investment managers <em>after </em>they had generated superior returns, only to see post-hiring returns revert to zero. They fired the managers for a variety of reasons (poor performance topped the list), only to see the managers they fired deliver statistically significant excess returns. That’s exactly the same error that the above image illustrates. The key reason for this is that they tend to make their investment decisions when the assets/funds do well and pull the money out when they fall behind.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">It’s about the strategy, not the stats</h2>



<p>At peak performance, an asset will looks attractive and its performance statistics may appear stellar. But even a temporary decline in performance will make those statistics look much less attractive. When we consider investment funds or pension plans, statistics can’t convey the most relevant attributes of an investment: its quality. Is it based on a valid strategy? Is the investment process credible, well thought-out, and robust? Is the risk management properly calibrated? As Mauboussin concluded:</p>



<p>“<em>in evaluating an analyst or portfolio manager, it is much less important to see how she has done recently than it is to assess the process by which she did her job… And make no mistake about it: the reason to emphasize process is that a good process provides the best chance for agreeable long-term outcomes</em>.”</p>



<p>Inevitably, investing comes with periodic rough patches. In such conditions, the “keep calm and carry on,” could be the best approach, so long as the strategy remains valid. But what strategies make sense for the uncertain times that lie ahead?</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Which strategies for the future?</h2>



<p>The last 30+ years were defined by globalization, monetary inflation (credit expansion), commodity price suppression and a continued decline in interest rates, as the following chart illustrates:</p>



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<p>This trend shaped the conditions that constituted our <em>normal. </em>Most of what we think we know about the economy, capital markets, valuation metrics and risk, we learned in that normal. But those conditions are now gradually dissipating and different trends will shape the next normal. The three key trends we should prepare for include:</p>



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<li>A continued rise in interest rates</li>



<li>Stagflation</li>



<li>A commodity super-cycle that could span the coming two decades or so.</li>
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<p>Furthermore, the unfolding geopolitical changes could overturn the the centuries-old primacy of the West in global trade, which will drive economic changes in ways that would be impossible to predict. The future is indeed shrouded in uncertainty, so how should investors prepare to navigate the coming changes?</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">The good news: markets move in trends</h2>



<p>Some 2,500 years ago <strong>Sun Tzu</strong> wrote in “The Art of War,” that there are three avenues of opportunity: events, <strong>trends</strong> and conditions. As we saw in the above chart, the 30-year decline in interest rates did in fact unfold as a trend. Future changes will almost certainly unfold in trends, and therein lie the good news.</p>



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<p>With more than a century’s worth of empirical evidence, trends have proven to be far and away <strong>the most powerful drivers of investment performance, </strong>and trend following strategies have proven effective in capturing investment profits from trends. I have summarized these twin hypotheses in two earlier articles you can find at the following links:</p>



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<li><strong>Why <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/11/market-trends-far-and-away-the-most-powerful-drivers-of-investment-performance/">trends are the most powerful drivers of investment performance</a></strong></li>



<li>Why <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2020/05/26/trend-following-is-the-only-valid-answer-to-the-problem-of-uncertainty/">trend following is the only valid answer to the problem of uncertainty</a></strong></li>
</ul>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Crossing the mindset barrier</h2>



<p>Trend following has enabled many investors to outperform market benchmarks for more than 50 years. Yet, in spite of its undeniable success, most investors either don’t know enough about it, or continue to regard the strategy as an oddity, not entirely fit for the ranks of serious market professionals – you know, the same folks that habitually underperform. But the reason for this rejection of trend following has nothing to do with performance. It is largely cultural.</p>



<p>Namely, most of today’s market experts were educated in the Cartesian tradition which validates rigorous scientific method as a way to acquire knowledge. Value is placed on understanding linear cause-and-effect relationships that allow us to make predictions about stuff. This mindset has an obvious appeal in investment speculation: we expect to profit from market events by understanding and predicting how the conditions we can observe would cause those events. That same mindset also gives us the comforting sense of competence and control.</p>



<p>Trend following is a cultural misfit in this intellectual tradition. To begin with, it is based on a field of study called <em>technical analysis</em> where knowledge accrues through judgment heuristics and experience rather than empirical science. Trend following also blurs the relationship between intellectual work and its expected results. The linear thinking investor judges a transaction according to an explicit understanding of how and why that transaction should generate a profit.</p>



<p>By contrast, a trend follower simply implements a strategy, a set of predefined rules, accepting that any given transaction may produce a loss. He expects profits, not from any particular transaction, but from the process that spans long sequence of trades extending indefinitely into the future.</p>



<p>Thus, while the conventional approaches to investing stem from an understanding of a particular situation, trend following is based on the <em>belief</em> that a certain strategy will deliver positive results over time, regardless of the economic situation, industry, market, or geography. Incidentally, this is another great advantage of trend following: its versatility.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Versatility and resilience</h2>



<p>Namely, if you learn how to read price charts and formulate effective trend following strategies, you’ll be able to greatly enhance your universe of opportunities and participate profitably in many markets you might not know much about, like metals, energy, agricultural commodities or foreign currencies.</p>



<p>In the evolving new normal, a rigid adherence to the old thinking and <em>business as usual</em> approach to investing could prove dangerous. Adopting new approaches, including trend following, will provide investors with a degree of resilience that could make the difference between success and failure.</p>



<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading">Trend following “bible” is free</h2>



<p>For those who are inclined to expand their horizons, in 2021 I published a book titled “<strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/alexkrainerstrendfollowingbible_pdf.pdf">Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible</a></strong>,” which one reader described as, “no doubt one of the best books on financial markets and trading I have ever read!” The book is available as a free download at the link above. It is not free because it’s rubbish, but because Amazon cancelled me entirely (and appropriated more than 3 years’ worth of earned royalties).</p>



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<p>Further resources are available on my website, <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a>. Active traders can subscribe to our daily <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass reports</a> which provide daily trend following signals on more than 200 global financial and commodities markets including all major equity indices, treasury bonds futures, commodities and some 100 FX pairs.</p>



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<p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. One-month test drive is always free of charge, <strong>no jumping through hoops to cancel</strong>. To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p>



<p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. For more information, you can drop me a comment or an email to <a href="mailto:xela.reniark@gmail.com">xela.reniark@gmail.com</a></p>



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title: Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/5dcaae7ef8723ff0475d31a40e85a920.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett"></p>"In a conversation with Eva Bartlett, Brian Gerrish (UK Column) learns what takes a young woman from Canada to travel to explore the world.<br>Bartlett (2007) paid for herself to go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2008-2013) to understand what was really happening. <br><br>Eva paid a price for her courage on the front lines: she suffered physical harm from Israeli soldiers &amp; from illegal Jewish colonists; she endured arrest, shackling and custody by the Israeli police; and she experienced the trauma of being in the firing line when Israeli troops targeted live rounds against unarmed Palestinian protestors—a frequent occurrence. <br><br>Eva visited Syria (2014-2021, 15 times), rather than relying on the reports of others while observing from a distance. Western media reports on the Syrian war were heavily distorted to meet what she clearly regards as a US-UK-NATO official line.<br><br>In more recent years, Eva went to see and experience the reality of life in both the Crimea and in the Donbass.<br><br>It was in the Donetsk environs that Eva was to understand the horrors of the Ukrainian shelling and rocket attacks that the Russian civilian population has endured for nearly a decade. She spoke with local families, she witnessed the destruction, and she filmed and reported the reality of the dead bodies and parts of bodies of those killed in recent attacks.<br><br>Placing herself at risk on the front line of conflict zones, Eva Bartlett has then had to defend herself against vile and dangerous social media and related attacks. Abuse ranges from accusations of cowardice by armchair social media warriors to her being placed on Myrotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the supposedly non-official Ukrainian death list <br><br>Canadian state-aligned media  (CBC), clearly intent on undermining her Donbas reporting in whatever manner they could, smeared her, drawing from the kill list entry... <br><br><br>Related:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/<br><br>Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer<br>https://youtu.be/zSECq3kxT4I?si=nkVj9UD-EFD3hqin&amp;t=88<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br><br>My Gaza playlist:  https://odysee.com/$/playlist/ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/ <br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/

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author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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Interviewed on The David Kurten Show: “Hypocrisy and culpability of Western politicians/MSM on Ukraine and Gaza”

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/1157824159d9088753f5ab7b258e1fd6.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interviewed on The David Kurten Show: “Hypocrisy and culpability of Western politicians/MSM on Ukraine and Gaza”"></p>First published:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37a4haHEw7I   &amp;   https://tntradio.live/shows/the-david-kurten-show/<br><br>My Related Links here:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/interviewed-on-the-david-kurten-show-hypocrisy-and-culpability-of-western-politicians-msm-on-ukraine-and-gaza/

link:
https://odysee.com/Hypocrisy-and-culpability-of-Western-politicians_MSM-on-Ukraine-and-Gaza:9ce3f2163abc4f41b0627e46b0fad487d71f33b2

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guid: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu:59aaeb86308356bde0b736f39adbb50465f7ff24
title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu:59aaeb86308356bde0b736f39adbb50465f7ff24
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/_TnjUNiyM8k" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]"></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=_TnjUNiyM8k

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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu-2:bd7750b4f6dd6dc3e0141d2e4e6f063cacb7f883
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/dbbIUn65ReY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]"></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=dbbIUn65ReY

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guid: https://odysee.com/the-importance-of-embracing-historical:3bf77aca930e39de1c1b44116d9e017349ce3d8a
title: The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/t2L9WQG9WjE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)"></p>In this presentation, film maker, researcher and philosopher Fehmi Krasniqi provides a concise demonstration of the origins of the metric system using water droplets- a lost discovery known to the ancient Egyptians and demonstrated in his film K19: The Great Pyramid. The importance of embracing the truth of the vast contributions to human civilization and the growth of ancient Egyptian science by black Africans is discussed at length as well as the existential importance of choosing the more difficult of the two paths ahead of humanity going into a very precarious future. Additionally, Fehmi's new documentary "The 10th Hieroglyph: Mother" is also discussed at the end of the presentation.<br><br>To Watch part one of this two part presentation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4LmigzNek<br><br>Watch the trailer for Fehmi's new film "The 10th Hieroglyph: The Mother" (en francais) here: https://youtu.be/hANujYTe1v0?si=eJjcxoaMgBsDL6uM<br><br>Watch K19: The Great Pyramid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAtkjy_YK4<br><br>Support Fehmi's work here:<br>https://www.gofundme.com/f/book-great-pyramid-k-2019<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=t2L9WQG9WjE

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title: Education, Economics and the Mind with Cynthia Chung
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ChLyUhpIZBA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Education, Economics and the Mind with Cynthia Chung"></p>In this excerpt, Cynthia Chung speaks with Vince and Brandi (hosts of the Campus Earth Curriculum on the Grass Roots Warrior Network) to discuss her work on history, philosophy, cultural warfare and solutions.<br><br>Watch the full 2 hr interview here: https://rumble.com/v3xje9d-campus-earth-curriculum-28-education-economics-and-the-mind-with-cynthia-ch.html<br><br>Follow the Alternative Education Alliance here<br>alternativeeducationalalliance.org<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=ChLyUhpIZBA

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https://odysee.com/education%2C-economics-and-the-mind-with:58ebddcb321b44404a3a1af3a16ccd1bc92d72dd

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title: Escaping Calypso's Island Ep.03: Energy Wars
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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https://odysee.com/escaping-calypso%27s-island-ep.03-energy:c9e6f2cd05b99a0f8a051fbcef374a641891953e

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/-pX1Hf3U2tM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Escaping Calypso's Island Ep.03: Energy Wars"></p>Watch ep. 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9qaTawttE<br><br>Watch ep. 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv97LL4LUNw<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Sponsor these videos by making a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pX1Hf3U2tM

link:
https://odysee.com/escaping-calypso%27s-island-ep.03-energy:c9e6f2cd05b99a0f8a051fbcef374a641891953e

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title: TRAILER: Calypso's Island Energy Wars (1 min)
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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https://odysee.com/trailer-calypso%27s-island-energy-wars-%281:751c598d1d8facc628f9c22b757aa34474788596

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/J7-7NxjVy0A" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="TRAILER: Calypso's Island Energy Wars (1 min)"></p>Watch the full episode here<br>https://youtu.be/-pX1Hf3U2tM<br><br>And watch episode 1 here <br>https://youtu.be/eH9qaTawttE<br><br>and episode 2 here<br>https://youtu.be/gv97LL4LUNw<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Sponsor these videos by making a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-7NxjVy0A

link:
https://odysee.com/trailer-calypso%27s-island-energy-wars-%281:751c598d1d8facc628f9c22b757aa34474788596

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title: The Edward Teller Plan for the Strategic Defense of the Earth with Chuck Stevens
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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https://odysee.com/the-edward-teller-plan-for-the-strategic:41b8ffed471bc5326abfc9e6f033deb1442ccf59

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/l4a0rwyH2Gw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Edward Teller Plan for the Strategic Defense of the Earth with Chuck Stevens"></p>As the world careens towards a dangerous precipice of thermonuclear war, the need for creative problems solving has never been higher.<br><br>On Sunday May 12, 2024, the Rising Tide Foundation hosted Chuck Stevens (co-founder of the Fusion Energy Foundation and International Labor Committees) who introduced the hidden history of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the rise of pulsed electron beam weapons, the efforts to break free from the Cold War formulas of Mutual Assured Destruction, Lyndon LaRouche’s Fusion Energy Foundation, and the modern world’s last chance to revive a strategic doctrine to convert next generation fusion-driven technology towards a real defensive strategy.<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=l4a0rwyH2Gw

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https://odysee.com/the-edward-teller-plan-for-the-strategic:41b8ffed471bc5326abfc9e6f033deb1442ccf59

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guid: https://odysee.com/christelle:dfe50f4e70cf15172fcb52dc8f9a98fd17d818ef
title: French Journalist Christelle Néant on Ukraine's Decade of War on Donbass Civilians
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
link: https://odysee.com/christelle:dfe50f4e70cf15172fcb52dc8f9a98fd17d818ef
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/d9ea32403a906b4e794b4212e7962f25.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="French Journalist Christelle Néant on Ukraine's Decade of War on Donbass Civilians"></p>Christelle arrived in Donetsk in 2016 to report on what had already been two bloody years of Ukraine warring on its former population in the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics. <br><br>She reported from extremely dangerous frontline positions, documenting the Ukrainian shelling and violations of Minsk accords, also giving a human face to the civilians being terrorized by Kiev's forces. <br><br>When the Special Military Operation began in February 2022, Christelle had already seen towns destroyed--and people she knew and had come to love killed--by Ukraine's bombings.  She reported from Mariupol--the city Western corporate media lied about from afar--taking testimonies from civilians who spoke of being prevented from leaving by Ukrainian forces, fired on by Ukrainian forces. <br><br>Néant saw time and again how Ukraine used civilian populations as human shields in cities and towns throughout the Donbass, Russian forces liberating them with painstaking care.<br><br>Her words are incredibly powerful, providing and overview of nearly the entirety of Ukraine's (NATO's) bloody war on the Donbass and on Russia.<br><br>Follow her work at:<br><br>https://t.me/internationalreporters  <br><br>https://www.ir-press.ru/<br><br><br>My related links at this post: <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/french-journalist-christelle-neant-on-ukraines-decade-of-war-on-donbass-civilians/<br>

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guid: https://odysee.com/dmitry-int:b402ece4714348f25d3e6a357d82f5fe497c3757
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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Donbass War Correspondent &amp; Journalist, Dmitry Astrakhan, on 10 Years of Ukraine's Brutal Terrorism &amp; Slaughter of Donbass Civilians

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/4206080c7ef70cd3cefabe1a95e5e15e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Donbass War Correspondent &amp; Journalist, Dmitry Astrakhan, on 10 Years of Ukraine's Brutal Terrorism &amp; Slaughter of Donbass Civilians"></p>In Donetsk's Kievsky district on May 27, I interviewed Dmitry Astrakhan, a war correspondent and journalist who has covered Ukraine's brutal war on the civilians of the Donbass since its inception one decade ago.<br><br>He details Ukraine's war crimes, attacking Donbass civilians since 2014, along with the complicity of the OSCE in enabling these atrocities. He covered the liberation of  Mariupol, and countless other Donbass regions, and saw Ukrainian forces using civilians as human shields, a well-established fact by now, keeping civilians on one or two floors, and putting Ukrainian forces above them who then fired on Russian forces. <br><br>“You could see white flags on one level, and machine gun firing from another.”<br><br>He took testimonies regarding Ukrainian snipers shooting at civilians, Ukrainian forces exploding buildings knowing there were civilians inside, in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).<br><br>Dmitry spoke of too many Ukrainian war crimes to detail here. Instead, listen to the first-hand experiences of this courageous Donbass journalist. <br><br>Follow Dmitry at:<br><br>https://t.me/astrahandm<br>https://iz.ru/author/dmitrii-astrakhan-0 <br><br><br>My related links:<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/donbass-war-correspondent-journalist-dmitry-astrakhan-on-10-years-of-ukraines-brutal-terrorism-slaughter-of-donbass-civilians/

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/jfks-cia-killers-who-managed-a-global
title: JFK's CIA Killers Who Managed a Global UFO Psyop (Montreal Seminar featuring Matt Ehret)
author: ;Canadian Patriot Review
link: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/jfks-cia-killers-who-managed-a-global
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<h2>By David Gosselin</h2><p>They are playing a game. They are playing at not<br>playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I<br>shall break the rules and they will punish me.<br>I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.</p><p><em>Knots</em> – R.D. Laing (Psychiatrist and <em>Tavistock Insitute</em> resident)</p><p>In the 1950s and 60s, R.D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, and several other Tavistock and MK-Ultra-linked researchers took a keen interest in the study of schizophrenia. One of the key concepts that emerged was the idea of “double binds,” <a href="https://solutions-centre.org/pdf/TOWARD-A-THEORY-OF-SCHIZOPHRENIA-2.pdf">coined by Gregory Bateson in 1956</a>. Bateson posited that schizophrenics exhibited signs of inner division and splintered personalities due to certain “communication dilemmas” they had experienced within dysfunctional family systems. These individuals, usually from early childhood, repeatedly found themselves in situations where they were confronted with mutually contradictory expectations about their thought and behavior, both of which they had to adhere to simultaneously.</p><p>For example, if a child was expected to be a “perfect boy” or “perfect girl” and meet the expectations of an emotionally unstable or “needy” parent, meeting these needs meant the child had to suppress his or her own feelings of sadness, joy, or helplessness as a means of regulating the outside world i.e., the family. On the other hand, were the child to express their authentic feelings or “tell the truth,” since perfect boys and girls never lie and <em>always</em> “tell the truth,” they would be punished, deemed selfish and ungrateful “bad girls” or “bad boys” who didn’t appreciate all the things their parents did for them. In a word: these scenarios involved keeping the outside voices happy by silencing the <em>inner voice</em> or upsetting the outside voices and being true to the<em> inner voice</em>.</p><p>These basic communication dilemmas created what Bateson termed “binds” or what Laing called “knots,” inescapable predicaments in which there was “no way to win.” Moreover, because leaving a family was not and never could be an option for a helpless child, a dissociation occurred, leading to what R.D. Laing famously described as the “Divided Self.”</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%2F54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.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%2F54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.jpeg" width="434" height="317" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":317,"width":434,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Laing famously captured these predicaments in his <em>Knots</em>, a book where he explored the many “games” individuals encountered within various relationships, including with themselves, their “self,” others, and the family. These divided selves could hold mutually contradictory ideas, and even contain markedly different personalities, each of which ultimately belonged to one and the same person. Depending on the situation, the individual would access different parts of themselves and simultaneously shut off others.</p><p>Alas, is this perhaps why Tavistock and related MK-Ultra networks across the web of Anglo-American “<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/03/14/are-governments-across-the-five-eyes-using-hypnosis-against-citizens/">Five Eyes</a>” took such interest in studying what Laing and researchers at the Rand Corporation called “games”? When observing the countless “double binds” and “illusions of choice” churned out by our Western Narrative Matrix, leading people to box their identities and thinking within the narrow confines of Left vs. Right politics, “vaxxed” and “unvaxxed,” Capitalism or Communism, one can’t help but feel as though much of what we see and hear is a “game” not unlike the ones studied by Laing and company in Palo Alto, California.</p><p>And this is where our story of “games” begins.</p><h2><strong>The Divided Self</strong></h2><p>In <em>The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness,</em> Laing described the problem of the schizoid personality and schizophrenic experience. The schizoid personality was either trapped watching their inner world from the outside or watching the outside world from the prison of their inner world. In a word: they were estranged from their own <em>self</em>, exiled from home in their own body. However, Laing didn’t only look at the question of schizophrenia in the usual clinical sense, but also in a broader phenomenological and existential sense: the schizoid individual was not able to “experience” his or her own “experience” of “experiencing” either his or another’s “experience.”</p><p>Later, in <em>The Politics of Experience</em>, Laing reflected on the more general idea of existential madness permeating our society:</p><p>“If we can begin to understand sanity and madness in existential social terms, we shall be more able to see clearly the extent to which we all confront common problems and share common dilemmas.” (Laing, 108)</p><p>Laing rightly observed that many “normal” and “everyday” families engaged in very irregular and “crazy-making” behaviors, but for him the schizoid personality was believed to be on the extreme end of a much broader spectrum, the schizoid being an individual whose identity and primordial <em>self</em> had been completely dissociated due to the various unbreakable “binds” and “dilemmas” that characterized their daily life.</p><p>So, he observed that even people who were healthy and normal could experience disassociated states under extreme stress. In <em>The Divided Self</em>, Laing writes:</p><p>“It is well known that temporary states of dissociation of the self from the body occur in normal people. In general, one can say that it is a response that appears to be available to most people who find themselves enclosed within a threatening experience from which there is no physical escape. Prisoners in concentration camps tried to feel that way, for the camp offered no possible way out either spatially or at the end of a period of time. The only way out was by a psychical withdrawal ‘into’ one’s self and ‘out of the body. This dissociation is characteristically associated with such thoughts as ‘This is like a dream’, ‘This seems unreal’, ‘I can’t believe this is true’, ‘Nothing seemed to be touching me’, ‘I cannot take it in’, ‘This is not happening to me’, i.e. with feelings of estrangement and derealization. The body may go on acting in an outwardly normal way, but inwardly it is felt to be acting on its own, automatically.” (Laing, 78)</p><p>This became the standpoint by which to analyze the overall family and societal systems which appeared to induce many to alienate their own <em>self</em> in order to become “well-adjusted” members of society. Laing observed that much of our experience is structured in such a way that many lose the ability to explore the deeper nature of their authentic <em>self.</em> Interestingly, he observed that fantasy was “the first kind of meaningful experience that children are taught to sever themselves from early on.” There were also dreams, imagination, and many other aspects of one’s “subjective” inner world. Alas, from an early age we learned very much about “the world” outside us, but very little about how to navigate the inner world within ourselves, or the <em>self</em>.</p><p>Most famous for his book <em>The Divided Self</em>, <em>The Politics of the Family</em>, and <em>The Politics of Experience</em>, Laing also examined these unique predicaments in <em>Knots</em>, a book exploring the many “binds” individuals could encounter within various family situations, including relationships with others, one’s “self,” “false selves,” the family, and society in general. Ultimately, Laing, like other tavistockians, recognized that these general “group dynamics” within the dysfunctional family system could ultimately be modelled and extended to society generally, albeit with certain adaptations for scope and scale.</p><p>And this is where our story of “games” takes a turn.</p><h2><strong>Let’s Play a Game</strong></h2><p>In the 1960s, Laing had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7j1b6F3MFU">the idea of applying “Game Theory,”</a> championed by the Rand Corporation as the military strategy for winning the Cold War game of nuclear chicken with the Soviet Union. He had been introduced to the theory at the <em>Mental Research Institute</em> in Palo, Alto, California—the same institute that was the stomping ground for none other than <a href="https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle">Bateson, Huxley and a whole crew of social engineers</a> and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/">“researchers” of MK-Ultra notoriety</a>. He observed that much psychiatry and the mores of society in general seemed geared towards creating “well-adjusted” individuals, each operating based on a set of learned behaviors unconsciously modelled after their early exposure to life within the dysfunctional family.</p><p>So, Laing studied the various communication dilemmas and incongruent thought patterns and behaviors that ostensibly “normal” families used as a means of covertly meeting their own needs and interests. Notable was the proclivity for playing a host of “games,” each member having its own set of rules and patterns to play by. However, these were not “normal” games. There existed two sets of rules: one was explicit, the other was not i.e. there was a “quiet part.”</p><p>Before proceeding, we should consider: what is a tribe, whether political, social, or cultural, if not a special kind of extended or artificial <em>family</em> within which one’s broader identity and “ego” are wound up? It is a well-known fact that from an early age, children learn to see themselves either in reflected glory or disgraced shadows. So, when faced with some cognitive dissonance, or abuse (whether emotional, physical, or psychological), the child is faced with a bind: recognize that they are powerless and have no ability to resolve the situation, and must therefore learn “to cope,” or try to defend one’s <em>self</em> and then experience the threat and feeling of alienation or exile from the tribe, in this case the dysfunctional family. In either case, one loses.</p><p>Usually communicated covertly in the form of “shaming” or threats of “punishment,” given the child is unable to face the unmanageable reality of there being something deeply wrong with the family or tribe itself, the child resorts to “make-believe,” that is, rather than accepting that there is something wrong with the family, they come to believe that there must be something wrong with them. A world of “make-believe” emerges, serving as a means of convincing oneself that things are “normal” and that “this is the way things are.” We learn what to see and what not to see.</p><p>From a phenomenological and existential standpoint, Laing rightly observed that many everyday families engaged in very irregular and “crazy-making” behaviors, but his ensuing observations and solutions only led to a more intricately woven web of madness—one which still entraps many individuals who aspire towards a transcendence of society’s <em>madness</em>.</p><h2><strong>From Insane Normality to Creative Madness?</strong></h2><p><em>Thus I would wish to emphasize that our “normal” “adjusted” state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities, that many of us our too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt to false realities.</em></p><p><em>—R.D. Laing</em></p><p>Keying off Freud, in the preface to the Pelican edition of <em>The Divided Self</em>,Laing wrote that:</p><p>“Our civilization represses not only “the instincts,” not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely forget or deny, will run the risk of either being destroyed by others, or of betraying what he knows.” (Laing, 11).</p><p>So, Laing said that psychiatry should be on “the side of transcendence, of genuine freedom, and of true human growth.”  Like Freud and others, he observed that there was much darkness to unearth beneath the veil of supposedly “normal” families, all of it stifling the natural growth of “human potentialities”:</p><p>“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the ‘Underworld’ and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see if we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.”</p><p>(Id., 25.)</p><p>When Dante descended into the underworld, he was not alone. He was guided by the poet Virgil, a bridge to the wisdom of the classical world. He also had a second guide, a voice of love and reason belonging to the <em>higher spheres</em>, embodied in Beatrice. Whether ontologically or metaphorically, there was no such thing for Dante as the existence of the<em> Inferno—</em> “the underworld<em>”—</em>without the existence of <em>Paradiso</em>, nor the mediating climb of <em>Purgatorio</em>. The “underworld” was ultimately only understood as the logical extension of what happens when we do lose sight of the<em> higher spheres. </em>Knowledge of one without the other, however, was not really knowledge, only “experience.”</p><p>Alas, Laing, like Freud, descended into the underworld, but with none of the classical wisdom or appreciation for an innate creative spark of love that guided and informed the poet Dante, and all true philosophers and saints. Psychiatrists like Laing, Freud and many others concerned themselves with modelling and analyzing the psychoanalytic mechanics and psychodynamics of our existential experience of reality, its subterranean recesses and “underworld,” but they also got lost in doing so. In the case of Laing, whether after a psilocybin or LSD trip where one too many series of false connections were made or through some vein attempt to find oneself by “losing oneself,” from a higher epistemological standpoint, Laing seemed to have lost sight of a <em>simple</em> truth: one can only learn so much about health from studying sickness. Said otherwise, Beauty is much more than the absence of deformity and proportion; Good is much more than the absence of bad or evil, and Freedom is much more than the absence of oppression.</p><p>The idea of breaking free from the strictures of an overly compartmentalized identity, an oppressive world, or of no longer being the slave of arbitrary law and customs is not a new one. In pre-classical Greek times, Dionysian rituals and later bacchanals typified the misguided attempt to “transcend” the world, that is, to “lose oneself” and no longer feel bound by the limitations of the material world. This was done largely through frenzied hypnotic dance and song, and substances.</p><p>Fast forward to our own times and we find parallels with the modern drug culture. This is especially the case with LSD and “psychedelics,” heralded as the mind-altering trip to hyperspace that can “free” us from the prison of our limited experience and make us the more creative and insightful individuals that we always wanted to be. One need only eat a particular species of mushroom or consume a “magical” substance, suddenly the ego dissolves, we splinter into pieces— “losing ourselves”—old bonds are undone; finally, the pieces are reassembled and lead us to a truer <em>self</em>.That many of the new “connections” respecting the real world might not actually be true, no matter how true they<em> feel</em>, won’t matter, since we can always just take another trip and try it all over again.</p><p>Laing concludes chapter 6 of <em>The Politics of Experience</em> with the following reflection:</p><p>“From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not “true” sanity. Their madness is not “true” madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us and by them on themselves. Let no one suppose that we meet “true” madness any more than that we are truly sane. The madness that we encounter in “patients” is a gross travesty, a mockery, a grotesque caricature of what the natural healing of that estranged integration we call sanity might be. True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality; the emergence of the “inner” archetypal mediators of divine power, and through this death a rebirth, and the eventual reestablishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.” (Laing, 101)</p><p>Alas, whether through the Dionysian mysteries of old or psychedelic trips of late, these various attempts at transcendence through “liberation” of one’s inhibitions are a quintessential example of what Plato called “imitations.” Imitations of freedom by “losing oneself” or imitations of the “mystical” by mimicking what <em>feels</em> like freedom and transcendence. However, both remain classic examples of an epistemological and philosophical <em>bind</em>—one that no number of substances, distractions, or “magic” can resolve. However convincing the ensuing illusion of freedom, as we will see, these “imitations” are not “the real thing.”</p><p>Unfortunately, once broken through to <em>the other side</em>, Laing came to associate creativity and new forms of thought and action with the irrational and esoteric “mysteries,” harkening back to the paganism of pre-classical Greece. </p><h2><em><strong>Creative</strong></em><strong> Freedom</strong></h2><p><em>I wish to relate the transcendental experiences that sometimes break through in psychosis to those experiences of the divine that are the living fount of all religion.</em></p><p>—R.D. Laing</p><p>The longing associated with the idea of transcending our world, whether we think of it as a “vale of tears” or “mortal coil” has been expressed by poets, theologians, and philosophers throughout history in poetry and song, treatise and dialogue, speech and sermon. It is the desire to access that part of us which has something perennial, transcendent, and which exists above and beyond the flurry of ephemeral ebbs and flows. Shelley described it as the “desire of the moth for the star,” C.S. Lewis called it <em><a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/cs-lewis-weight-of-glory-longing">sehnsucht</a></em>, the sage and poet Rumi described it as a returning to one’s “native home.”</p><p>How a Beethoven, Einstein, Keats or the others never needed an LSD trip to “find themselves” or develop the kind of creative and moral Promethean identity that allowed them to access “the real thing” escaped Laing and his disciples, as it did the initiates of Dionysian mysteries of old, as it still does so many of us.</p><p>But the exceptional and difficult cases like Beethoven, Keats, or Einstein, which might be cast aside by the average psychoanalyst, clinician, ideologue or populist, are the true teaching moments. That these individuals were able to transcend their own mortalities and the preconceived notions that bound their spheres of thought and experience was lost on the spawn of tavistock in much the same way today’s LSD and “flow state” enthusiasts commit the same epistemological blunder, each in their own original way arriving at the same essential fallacy.</p><p>Based on the modeling of “madness” vs. “well-adjusted” normality, transcendence and creativity were treated as closer to the irrational, sensual passion and esoteric. Lacking the moral fortitude and true <em>foresight</em> of the Promethean, as has happened many times before, the pendulum swung from the suffocating strictures of the traditional Apollonian to the irrational frenzy of the Dionysian.</p><p>So, Laing wrote:</p><p>“But since society, without knowing it, is starving for the inner, the demands on people to evoke its presence in a “safe” way, in a way that need not be taken seriously, is tremendous — while the ambivalence is equally intense. Small wonder that the list of artists in, say, the last 150 years, who have become shipwrecked on these reefs is so long — Holderlin, John Clare, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud, Strindberg, Munch, Bartok, Schumann, Buchner, Ezra Pound…(Ib., 116.)</p><p>Laing committed an epistemological fallacy in his own somewhat original way, and in some sense useful manner. However, even in his time, other psychoanalysts on the side of genuine transcendence, health, and creative freedom already pointed to a much healthier approach, namely, by identifying and removing the various neurosis which were developed to protect ourselves when we could not and thus inhibited the free interplay of the creative faculties and insight into the nature of the creative mind and spirit—our deeper <em>self</em>.</p><h2><em><strong>Introducing Lawrence Kubie</strong></em></h2><p>In his book <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process</em>, Dr. Lawrence Kubie describes an important aspect of this healing through the function of “free association” and the myriad qualitative transformations in outlook, feeling, and being that individuals can experience when they learn to properly <em>master</em> what he calls the <em>preconscious</em> processes.</p><p>Dr. Kubie writes:</p><p>“Free associations have a general significance beyond their exploratory importance in psychanalytic technique. It is through free association that the mind shakes itself out of its ruts, or if you prefer Max Muller’s figure shakes itself apart and together again, finding its way off the beaten path, stumbling onto new connections. It is through free association that the mind moves without conscious, deliberate bias or preconception from thought to thought, from idea to idea, from feeling to feeling.” (Kubie, 53.)</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%2F03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.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%2F03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.jpeg" width="302" height="351" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":351,"width":302,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Dr Lawrence Kubie</figcaption></figure></div><p>Kubie elaborates how free associations, properly understood, are how man creates, “whether an artist, scientist, lawyer, businessman, analyst, or analysand.”<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/12/02/breaking-the-binds-curing-western-schizophrenia/#_ftn1">[1]</a> Kubie then elucidates knowledge of a matter that has ever eluded the compulsive Kantian or modern contemporary and theorist, but which was understood and demonstrated by the greatest classical artists throughout the ages, namely, the relationship between art and science, artistic insight and scientific epiphany:</p><p>“There is an important analogy between the creative process in the sciences and the arts and the processes of free association: an analogy which is so close as to be almost an identity. This arises from the fact that it is impossible to produce free associations, to be freely imaginative, to be freely creative if at the same time and in the very moment of “freedom” one attempts to maintain a watchful, critical scrutiny of what one is producing. The person who is producing free associations with least internal friction and interference is unable subsequently to retrace the path of his associations, unable usually to remember many of the items or their sequence. (This is analogous to the difficulty one has in recalling a list of nonsense syllables, which, rearranged to form words and sentences, would be easily remembered as a single unit.) Therefore, any retrospective inspection of free associations must depend upon a detached observer who notes and records their sequence, or upon some automatic recording device. Similarly, the creative scientist or the creative artist, writer, or musician, has been to set down his productions, put them aside, and let time elapse, before he will be able to turn back to them with objective scrutiny”, with lessened identification and less personalized defense of them, than is possible at the moment of creating or immediately thereafter.” (Id., 54-55.)</p><p>Kubie describes how the same free associative processes have much value in both psychoanalytic-therapeutic processes and artistic or scientific ones:</p><p>“This conflicting confluence of forceful influences occurs under two circumstances: (a) It is used deliberately and for therapeutic purposes in analysis to expose the distorting influence of unconscious processes. (b) It occurs in spontaneous or induced state of partial dissociation, as in falling asleep or waking, in hypnagogic reveries, under hypnosis or drugs, in states of abstraction or trance, or in those states of extreme concentration of attention which approach the process of hypnotic induction, and in which much scientific and artistic, literary, or musical creativity occurs.” (Id., 58.)</p><p>Yet, contrary to the perceived and popular notion of “freeing ourselves,” whether in lifestyle, taste, philosophy, or outlook, Kubie points to the artful and at the same time scientific approach necessary to harness, guide, and master these <em>preconscious</em> processes:</p><p>“I have said that free associations are the most natural and spontaneous creative process of which the mind is capable. Yet it would be quite fallacious to conclude from this that they are also the easiest. There are individuals for whom the process is impossible, except where they are entirely off guard, as when dozing, falling asleep, waking, under drugs, or delirious. These are individuals for whom this mental leap-in-the-dark is so fraught with guilt or terror that they can no more allow their thoughts to roam freely than they could run down a flight of stairs with closed eyes. Such individuals have to stretch out their mental toes to feel carefully for each next step before they can trust themselves to express a next word. Logical and chronological sequences are the hand-rail to which they always cling. For some people this is true even when they are alone. For others it is true only when in the presence of other human beings. Still others are hampered in this way when in the presence of certain people, but not of others. Actually for everyone, although in varying degrees, free associations carry implications of guilt or anger.” (Id., 58.)</p><p>Mastering these processes allows us to make a host of new “connections” in a manner where we learn to consciously master the creative <em>interplay</em> between various parts of our mind, rather than relying on “magic.” Without conscious appreciation or mindfulness about the nature of the creative process, one may often be left with pseudo-creative novelty, neurotic art, or simply incomplete or confused art due to its remaining caught in the preconscious realm, <em>without</em> the conscious philosophical and spiritual faculties necessary to impart to this preconscious work a lasting or <em>timeless</em> form, as all great art has.</p><p>To the degree the preconscious or conscious aspects of the creative process are hindered or incomplete, the other side must suffer. We will therefore lack the creative freedom of an authentic <em>self</em>. If connection from the preconscious towards the conscious is confused, the art will lack the refinement which only a conscious mind can affect; if the reverse is the case, the art will likely be stilted, formulaic, lacking in the originality and creativity springing from preconscious thought, given the mind is not given the sufficient freedom to wander and creatively <em>play </em>between worlds. The reason why the former fallacy is more prevalent in “liberal” thinkers and the latter more obvious in “conservative” thinkers becomes increasingly clear.</p><p>So, madness was for Laing seen as something that more closely modelled creative epiphany, given the more obvious limitations of the “well-adjusted” individual, the “one dimensional man” of Marcuse, or in modern parlance, the “normie.” While this <em>madness</em> allowed one to depart from certain pre-established and preconceived notions that others felt tied down to i.e., finding one’s <em>self</em> by losing oneself, everything concerning our deeper understanding of creative <em>insight</em>, epiphany and true transcendence depends on our ability to unwind the seemingly intricate loops and splices of this Laingian “knot.”</p><p>Kubie understood the paradox:</p><p>“Consequently, creativity itself depends upon the process of free association, which makes possible preconscious analogic processes, yet at the same time exposes them to deformation under the influence of concurrent unconscious processes. This inescapable paradox lies close to the heart of our problem. Free associations are essential to creativity; because they free the sensitive, fluid, and plastic preconscious system from the rigidity imposed at the conscious end of the symbolic spectrum. Yet at the same time they expose it to the distortions and also to the rigidity imposed by the unconscious system.” (Id., 57.)</p><p>To face the madness, we require some higher ground by which to transcend it. Freud, Laing, and others believed we had to move past the creation of “pseudo-realities” and “pseudo-subjects,” including the many coping mechanisms individuals used as a means of operating in “the real world” from early on, but in modelling the endless mechanics of everyday dysfunctional systems, they also lost sight of the simple truth that no amount of modelling can ever arrive at.</p><p>Now, it’s time to break the binds.</p><h2><strong>From “Double Binds” to “Double Loops”: Crossing the Threshold of the </strong><em><strong>Self</strong></em></h2><p>Most of us have at some time in our lives found ourselves stuck in some kind of “knot” or situation where there appeared to be “no way to win.” In more instances than should be the norm, our lives became entangled in these “knots” and “binds without knowing that we were playing a “game.” The “self” became organized around these perceived psycho-spiritual paradoxes, bounding our sphere of thought and action according to a set of fixed “rules.”</p><p>However, much of these “rules” were not consciously followed but learned as a series of “felt thoughts” or cognitive dissonances. Though it is normal to instill healthy felt thoughts in children about what behaviors they should feel good about and which ones they should feel bad about, given children only learn by felt thoughts until they develop the capacity to use their higher faculties of reason, the problem is that just as easily as good “felt thoughts” can be instilled, so too can bad ones, leading to practices and behaviors that lead to <em>self</em>-destruction, as Laing so often observed in patients struggling with “knots.”</p><p>While Laing studied many “knots” and “binds,” some of his solutions were in many ways just as sick. However, instead of the “double bind” pioneered by the likes of a Bateson or Laing, some clinicians have proffered the idea of a “double loop.” Let us take an example from Laing’s <em>Knots</em> and then consider the difference between the nature of “double binds” and “double loops”:</p><p>My mother loves me.<br>I feel good.<br>I feel good because she loves me.<br>I am good because I feel good.<br>I feel good because I am good.<br>My mother loves me because I am good.</p><p>My mother does not love me.<br>I feel bad.<br>I feel bad because she does not love me.<br>I am bad because I feel bad.<br>I feel bad because I am bad.<br>I am bad because she does not love me.<br>She does not love me because I am bad.</p><p>The “bind” involves a felt thought tied to an image. If that felt thought and image cannot be readapted and changed to something more adaptive, one will always follow the other, creating an eternal feedback loop. The “double loop” involves an individual doing what would in therapeutic work generally be called “grief work.” The individual allows himself or herself to sit in the pain, to feel the whole of the experience that they’d been pushing down or trying to avoid in order to regulate their affect. Instead, they allow themselves to go through the entire process and make it to <em>the other side</em>. Said otherwise, they don’t play the “game,” instead they sit through the pain.</p><p>Of importance is that a qualified and competent therapist or guide is there to affirm the person in that state of grief, which involves a re-integration of the lost parts of one’s <em>self</em>. This is also the moment when new healthier and adaptive thoughts can be introduced, ones that reflect a higher truth about one’s <em>self</em> and the world. On a higher spiritual level, it involves the truth washing in over us or the light breaking in, with a rediscovery of that sacred spark, an image of God—a glimpse or a glimmer—of the “real thing.” For, in that moment we are seen and <em>see</em>.</p><p>So, once Dante had emerged from the underworld and beheld scene after scene of madness, sin after sin, he saw in many of these souls a bit of himself. In seeing the same weaknesses within himself and at the same time allowing himself to hear a higher calling or <em>inner voice</em>, he became capable of slowly and lovingly removing all the imperfections or obstacles that stood in the way of his divine <em>self</em>. Ascending the mount of <em>Purgatorio</em>, he found the climb became easier and easier. Finally, he rose through the spheres of <em>Paradiso</em>, becoming lighter and lighter and lighter as the truth became clearer and clearer and clearer.</p><p>In the “double loop” moment we are seen as whole, with the many broken off parts reintegrated into their coherent whole and everything slowly falling into place. In a limited but powerful form the process metaphorically mirrors the broader idea of being <em>seen</em> not only by others, but by God himself, that is, pure Being unencumbered by the contradictions and illusions that characterize our world i.e., absolute Truth and clarity—the truly transcendent—of which mortals can only attain a glimpse, whether through song, poetry, prayer and meditation, or acts of charity.</p><p>When properly achieved, the “double loop” offers us a said glimpse of being <em>seen</em>—the “real thing.” So, it’s no surprise that when the poet Dante rose to the summit of <em>Paradiso</em> and gazed into the bright light until he could look no more, what he saw in that final vision was not some Zeusian deity or bearded old man, but as the poet recounts, he saw an image of his own face, “a human face.”</p><p>The poet was finally <em>seen</em>.</p><h2><strong>Unbinding</strong></h2><p>A heavy drinker and depressive himself, Laing never appeared to escape the underworld he descended into. With fame and fortune and all the freedom necessary to achieve “transcendence,” Laing was a surprisingly unhappy soul and self. Neglectful towards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society">his own family,</a> sadly, Laing’s oldest child, Fiona, spent years in mental institutions, also treated for schizophrenia. His oldest son from his second marriage, Adam, committed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society">suicide after a break-up</a> with his long-term girlfriend. Having lost access to the real thing inside himself, having become alienated from the deeper creative spark which lies at the heart of every great discovery, conversion, or great art, Laing lost the ability to see it within himself and others.</p><p>When we have access to genuine knowledge of it within ourselves, we become capable of <em>seeing</em> and reaching it in others; when we don’t, some of us become exceptionally good modelers, like Laing and his heroes. Through bad epistemologies and in certain cases, arguably a dash of evil, false notions of spiritual transcendence were proffered, “ecologies of mind” and transcendent “ecstasy,” essentially harkening back to pre-classical paganism, the “losing oneself” in a ritualistic hypnotism of dance and song, and substances.</p><p>One does not get “lost” when listening to the late quartets of Beethoven or passions of Bach, when reading the sonnets of Shakespeare or degrees of prayer of St. Theresa, one “gets found.” One does not get lost when hearing the Sermon on the Mount or reading the letters of St. Paul the Apostle, one gets <em>found</em>. We discover something that had been there all along, reflected at one time “through a glass darkly,” and then finally, “face to face.”</p><p>Unlike the best of Western classical culture and its Judeo-Christian traditions, these new forms of “transcendence” were offered, at least ostensibly, in an attempt to cast off the rightfully decried Apollonian chains of a “well-adjusted” society held together by certain rarefied religious customs and traditions, which had admittedly been drained of much of their vitality and spiritual depth within an increasingly affluent modern West. For, while many new great things like industrial agriculture and technological revolutions allowed humanity to rightfully uplift and raise masses out of the poverty and oppression presided over by a once untouchable class of “gods,” this genuine and necessary progress was not without a response by the would-be “gods.” A new kind of “brave new world” emerged, one rife with all the distractions, drugs, and “entertainment” that could be used to divert and distract people from the “real thing.”</p><p>So, transcendence and authentic self-actualization were in the hands of modern social engineers presented in the form of clever imitations—some even with a luciferean bent i.e. “the worship of the self.” These were presented over the discovery and development of a whole divine <em>self</em>, an <em>imago viva dei</em>, itself the intimation of a universal <em>Self</em>—God—such that we know even the most authentic, creative, and loving human individual to be only an image or <em>glimpse </em>of the “real thing.”</p><h2><strong>No More Games</strong></h2><p>Laing spent much of his time modelling the “games” played within dysfunctional families. In particular, he paid special attention to those played within the kinds of family systems which gave rise to schizoid personality types. So, Laing, a good modeler, achieved positive effects in treating some of his schizophrenic patients because he acted in such a way that they felt seen.</p><p>However, what Laing lost sight of within himself, or others, is a simple truth, one which no amount of modelling, existential phenomenology and mechanics can ever arrive at. For, one <em>cannot</em> model the soul or the mind, but we can begin to acquaint ourselves with the mysteries of our own deeper <em>self</em> and soul and mind by developing the practices and engaging in original creative work or charity, under the condition that we never lose sight of the guiding light for such work, that is, never lose sight of the <em>higher spheres</em> from which such inspiration or creative insight descends. The “underworld” can ultimately only be understood as the logical extension of what happens when we do lose sight of these said<em> higher spheres.</em> Or, as Augustine put it, evil has no ontological existence.</p><p>Individuals with epistemologically and spiritually impoverished maps of reality will often be compelled to deduce what their experience of the world offers them as reality, no matter how twisted or divorced it might be from the simple Truth and eternal laws—laws which the innate creative spark found within each sovereign individual makes us uniquely capable of discovering. That most people around us may not be able to hear a sacred whispering within themselves, or simply have it drowned out by a “brave new world” or trauma or other forms of brainwashing does not in any way erase the existence of this sacred whispering—not if we <em>listen</em>. The best a “brave new world” can do is try to drown it out, but it can never be erased.</p><p>Alas, individuals like Laing, Freud, and others were psychiatrists who had descended into the <em>Inferno</em> without a guide or the classical wisdom necessary to carry them to the higher spheres. As a result, some of the theories they brought back were mad or madder than what they themselves saw within the underworld they had so diligently studied.</p><p>Having spent so much of his time in the existential mire of modelling the myriad dysfunctional and twisted games observed in dysfunctional families, Laing had forgotten how to distinguish between imitations of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty and “the real thing.” Laing in many ways became the very alienated and disassociated individual he spent much of his life studying. Like many before him who descended without a guide, gazing into the abyss, the abyss gazed back.</p><h2><strong>Winning the Game</strong></h2><p>They say we’re only as sick as our secrets.</p><p>As long as we allowed ourselves to be fooled by imitations, having spent much time fighting monsters or breaking out of one illusion only to fall into the next, the game always won.</p><p>To survive, we attached ourselves to false ideas of love, truth and humanity. We believed that it was the only way to survive, to “stay in the game.” Having felt perhaps never truly seen, we lost sight of our own deeper<em> self</em>, or as in too many cases, never realized that there was something more already there—a sacred spark. Perhaps we lost sight of it because we were from an early age only taught to view our experience and thoughts in the light of others’ expectations, distortions, or false prescriptions, whether imparted to us by parents, institutions, or the very <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/lifting-the-veil-from-ancient-rhetoric">magicians themselves</a>.</p><p>Rather than remaining the disenchanted players of a rigged game or escaping into the fantasy of games which only we could control, we one day realized that the only way to win the game was to stop playing the game.</p><p>We decided to play <em>no more games</em>.</p><h2><strong>Works Cited</strong></h2><p>Laing, R.D. <em>Knots</em>. Pantheon Books, 1970.</p><p>Laing, R.D. <em>The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Madness</em>. Penguin Books, 1960.</p><p>Laing, R.D. <em>The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise. </em>Penguin Books,1967.</p><p>Kubie, Lawrence S. <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process. </em>The Noonday Press, 1963.</p><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/12/02/breaking-the-binds-curing-western-schizophrenia/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Kubie, Lawrence S. (M.D.),. <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process,</em> p. 53<em>. </em>The Noonday Press (1963).</p><p><em><strong>David Gosselin</strong> is a poet, researcher, and editor based in Montreal. He writes on Substack at <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/">Age of Muses</a>.</em></p>

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<h2>By Matthew Ehret</h2><h3><em><strong>Perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to saving the beleaguered republic at this late stage of self-induced rot is a pervading belief among a large portion of the US citizenry that America itself were better off burnt to a crisp.</strong></em></h3><p>It isn’t just the Antifa or BLM rioters who lit cities on fire in 2019-2020 who believe this to be true, but the majority of the Democratic Party base itself has become drunk on the idea that the USA is a nation built entirely on slavery and systemic racism with no redeeming value. Eco-terrorists like Extinction Rebellion, and Deep Green Resistance justify the notion that declaring war on industrial civilization is a legitimate goal for the 21st century, while establishment technocrats race to “reset” civilization under Great Narratives more compatible for a depopulated, post-truth, bug eating world order to which the plebs of earth are expected to adapt.</p><p>The creation of this new generation of Americans yearning for the collapse of America did not emerge over night. With the murder of John F. Kennedy, educational systems were increasingly infused with a doctrine known as Critical Theory which posited that all of history had to be interpreted through a lens of “minority groups suppressed by systemic white males” with no room for nuance, free will, or actual causal ideas. <a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/investigative-reports/the-club-of-rome-and-the-rise-of-the-predictive-modelling-mafia/">Cybernetics and Systems Analysis</a> became the conduits for this reform under the influence of the OECD’s Sir Alexander King (Lord President of the British Empire’s Scientific Secretariat, Director General of Scientific Affairs of the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD) and advisor to NATO.</p><p>Slowly, this perverse Marxist-Freudian worldview, sometimes dubbed <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-the-frankfurt-school-and-critical">“The Frankfurt School” </a>took over the institutions of America during the Cold War, finding its loudest expression in something known as “The 1619 Project”.</p><h3><strong>What is the 1619 Project?</strong></h3><p>The New York Times’ 1619 Project which was unveiled in June 2019 by Nikole Hannah-Jones and attempts to smear the entirety of American history as simply a slave-promoting fraud from the moment the first slave arrived in Jonestown in 1619.</p><p>During its short existence, this “project” has quickly won over thousands of academics, and in spite of its proven fallacies (<a href="https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memory-hole/">which it had to secretly cover up in Orwellian fashion</a>), Jones was still <a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/nikole-hannah-jones-wins-pulitzer-prize-1619-project">awarded the Pulitzer Prize</a> legitimizing the fraud in the minds of countless school administrators, policy-makers, and academics.</p><p>If one truly accepts the claims of the 1619 Project, which have been turned into a Pulitzer curriculum and already <a href="https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/education/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4-500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has/article_a2921b75-d012-5e9e-9816-8e762539f1d4.html">embedded in 4500 U.S. schools</a>, then America’s dissolution would be no great loss to the world. In fact, one would have to conclude that since the republic was always built upon the defense of slavery (going so far as to paint the British Empire as an anti-slavery bastion which the founding fathers broke away from only due to their fear of having their slaves removed), then America was always… evil.</p><h3><strong>The First Paradox</strong></h3><p>If it were true that the creation of the American republic was just driven by a desire to protect the institution of slavery from the abolition-loving British then it should be asked: why did every American state shut down the African slave trade by 1793??”</p><p>Don’t believe me? Let the facts speak for themselves.</p><p>By 1784, six states in the new nation had voted to totally abolish slavery (Rhode Island in 1774, Vermont in 1777, Pennsylvania in 1780, Massachusetts in 1781, New Hampshire in 1783 and Connecticut in 1784), while the importation of all new slaves was banned by every other state by 1793. The important Northwest Ordinances passed in the 1787 Continental Congress ensured that no slavery would be permitted in the immense North West Territories (giving rise to the later addition of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin as free states). This agreement was established during the 1774 Continental Congress where a non-importation act was signed by all colonies stating: <em>“That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported, after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.”</em></p><h3><strong>Another Paradox</strong></h3><p>If Britain was threatening to end the slave trade as the 1619 Project authors teach, then why did the Empire override dozens of petitions from the colonies between 1650-1765 demanding an end to slavery? Rather than oppose slavery, the British Royal Africa Company, under the direction of the Privy Council, and Board of Trade enforced the mass important of 8 million African slaves into the Americas during the 18th century alone! These same organizations constantly strove to destroy all efforts to establish manufacturing within the colonies from 1630-1765 which everyone knew was the only effective pathway to liberating a society from reliance on slave labor.</p><p>Additionally, IF it were true that the 1776 revolution were driven by the intent to protect the slave economy from the freedom-loving British Empire, then why did England only ban slavery in 1807 and why did they wait until 1833 to begin extending this ban across their colonies?? Did the founding fathers have a crystal ball and act on events that would occur only 65 years in the future? If the British truly hated slavery so much, then why did the empire maintain a global system of subjugation, famine, and exploitation across Asia, Ireland and beyond for so many generations?</p><p>So what happened? Was the British Empire seriously pushing an anti-slavery agenda? Why did America’s anti-slave trajectory fall apart so soon after the revolution and why did the rot spread to the point of necessitating a Civil War by 1861?</p><p>How to proceed with a serious investigation?</p><h3><strong>The Matter of Money</strong></h3><p>Since one of the most effective keys to understanding history starts with the question of “who controls the money”, economics is a good place to start.</p><p>Approaching the matter this way will cause the inquiring mind to confront the battle between two opposing paradigms of statecraft which defined the world in which the American revolution arose <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/07/04/the-international-dimensions-of-1776-and-how-an-age-of-reason-was-subverted/">as part of an international phenomenon involving leaders from Russia, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, India, and Morocco.</a></p><p>The battle over what sort of system of economics would govern America after political independence was achieved in 1783 will here become a very valuable question.</p><p>Where certain players of that age believed that “value” should be locked into rules of money-worship and profit (which all people desired since money bought pleasure and helped us avoid pain), others disagreed and believed value should be looked for elsewhere. These others believed that value transcended matters of pleasure/pain and touched upon something less transient and more universal… but what?</p><h3><strong>Introducing Ben Franklin</strong></h3><p>During the 18th century, these latter forces centered themselves around the figure of America’s “father of founding fathers”, Benjamin Franklin, who drafted some of the most important policies that led to the sovereign control over currency from his <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0041">1729 ‘On the Necessity for a Paper Currency’</a>, onwards. Franklin used his powerful printing presses to spread both sovereign banking and anti-slavery pamphlets, books, and treatises for decades before the revolution itself was declared in 1775. One of the most powerful anti-slavery books printed by Franklin was the influential 1737 ‘<a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2019franklin38906/?sp=15&amp;r=-0.91,-0.106,2.82,2.122,0">All Slave Keepers Who Keep the Innocent in Bondage’</a> by Benjamin Lay which argued that any Christian keeping slaves was an offense against God.</p><p>Lay wrote: <em>“No greater sin Hell can invent than to prophane and blaspheme the pure and Holy Truth, which is God all in all, and remove God’s creatures made after his own image, from all the comforts of life and their country… and bring them into all the miseries that dragons, serpents, devils and hypocrites can procure and think of”.</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%2Fcb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.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%2Fcb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.jpeg" width="506" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":506,"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"><em>Ben Franklin</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>In the mind of Franklin and his co-thinkers these issues (economics and slavery) represented two sides of the same fight.</p><p>Franklin argued in his many writings that “value” originated in what you create that satisfies the needs of humanity, and not what “things” you possess or wish to consume. Since a society of creators/producers requires sovereign manufacturing to generate real wealth and constant internal improvements of infrastructure to coordinate the development of all parts of a nation under a unified intention, Franklin recognized clearly that the production generated by “slave labor” is a chimera and actually represented a form of “anti-value”. Like heroine consumption today, anti-value simply means any form of “momentary profits” that might even be measurable as GDP and generate money flows, but actually represent a destruction of that society’s ability to sustain its own existence over time. (1)</p><p>The reason for this is simple.</p><p>Slavery destroys the creative powers of mentation in both the laboring slave who is valued only for their animal labor, and also the decadent slave master who’s potential for creativity becomes narrowly defined by ways to keep the slave under control.</p><p>It is thus no coincidence that Franklin also created the anti-slavery alliance in the 1760s and later founded the 1785 Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves alongside several of his devoted proteges. These proteges included the figures of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Gouvernor Morris who all happened to become the creators and leaders of the “American System of political economy” premised on the use of a national bank, productive credit, protective tariffs, and large scale manufacturing to promote the economic sovereignty of the new nation. I introduced some of this in my recent essay <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-part-288">How to Save a Dying Republic part 2.</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%2F999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.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%2F999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.jpeg" width="750" height="356" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":356,"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>When Jefferson took control of the Presidency from 1801-1809, a major victory was won for the pro-slavery oligarchs of America who saw immense profits to be gained by spreading their <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2018/10/30/two-confederacies-converge-on-lincoln/">peculiar form of society under a perverse form of Manifest Destiny.</a></p><p>Admittedly, these oligarchs would have been much happier with the victory of Aaron Burr to the presidency in 1801 since an immediate dissolution of the union would have occurred between slave and free states as early as 1804 (to be discussed in a future essay). Unlike Burr, Jefferson was at least against breaking up the Union into northern and southern confederacies (with the free states merging with Canada and the slave states becoming their own nation), and that is why Hamilton (Jefferson’s political nemesis) ironically organized aggressively for his victory winning the fatal ire of Burr.</p><p>Sadly, Jefferson’s devout belief in agrarianism, hate for manufacturing, love of slavery, and British enlightenment thinking still made him an instrument for the slave power’s cancerous growth during his terms in office.</p><h3><strong>The British Empire’s Global Game</strong></h3><p>By destroying Indian textiles and subduing the “Chinese dragon” with a program of <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/what-can-we-learn-from-the-opium-wars-between-british-empire-and-china/articleshow/71461004.cms">mass opium consumption that would stain the 19th century</a>, the City of London quickly took control of world textile manufacturers which created a primary export market for southern slave plantation cotton and a new set of addictions began: the addiction to the easy money derived from cheap slave labor. This proto globalization established a global closed system of controls onto all nations through cash cropping, free trade, speculation, and drugs.</p><p>By 1840, over 20% of the British population was employed in textiles under such anti-human conditions that Charles Dickens described in his <em>Tale of Two Cities</em> and other writings.</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%2F7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.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%2F7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.jpeg" width="750" height="356" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":356,"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><h3><strong>The Best of Times and Worst of Times</strong></h3><p>With the <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-1804-northern-secession-plot">1804 murder of Hamilton</a>, and undermining of America’s national credit system between 1804-1836, British free trade grew as protective tariffs were taken down, and credit towards infrastructure projects like the Erie Canal, roads, rail, etc., shriveled up. Speculation ran rampant whenever this monetarist system was unleashed driven by booms and busts and the rise of “state-rights” programs that superseded all national initiatives. This process was taken directly from classic divide to conquer tactics which I outlined in my last essay <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-part-93e">Lincoln and the Greenbacks</a>.</p><p>An astute Whig economist looking upon this bipolar process in America (while comparing it to the depressingly stagnant Canadian economic situation of 1791-1850) stated in 1853:</p><blockquote><p>“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 as poor as they were half a century since. They have enjoyed the blessings of Free Trade with England all the time, we have only a part of the time. Whenever we have attempted to supply ourselves by our own industry, with the comforts and necessaries 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 even the ups and downs of prosperity and bankruptcy in succession.”  (2)</p></blockquote><h3><strong>The Slave Power Spreads</strong></h3><p>By 1836, the 2nd National Bank was officially killed after a mass propaganda campaign convinced a duped mob that it was an instrument of tyranny in America, and over the coming 6 decades, the only five presidents who would make any serious effort towards reviving America’s nationalist system would end up dead while in office (Harrison in 1841, Taylor in 1850, Lincoln in 1865, Garfield in 1880, and McKinley in 1901). The man who is today celebrated for having “killed the bank” and “paying Americas debts” was in reality a force of pure destruction. Jackson “paid the debt” by cutting all infrastructure projects and unleashing mass speculation which resulted in a devastating 1837 bank panic that drove the nation into discord and depression. An unrepentant racist, Jackson also gave enormous assistance to the slavocracy by emptying the southern lands of Cherokee in the genocidal “Trail of Tears” and giving the land over to cotton planting oligarchs loyal only to their profits, “way of life” and the British Empire.</p><p>This story is told in all of its ugly detail in historian Michael Kirsch’s groundbreaking 2012 study <a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2012/eirv39n49-20121214/04-45_3949.pdf">“How Andrew Jackson Destroyed the United States”.</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%2F00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.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%2F00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.jpeg" width="750" height="355" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":355,"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>Between 1801 to 1840, southern cotton exports exploded from 100,000 bales/year to 1 million bales/year with 80% of the exports going to Britain. The City of London-Wall Street-New Orleans triangle dominated the world system with New Orleans representing over 12% of all U.S. banking capital. The southern slave states grew to represent the world’s fourth biggest economy through the support of the British Empire both financially and also in the logistical support needed to import mass slavery into the Americas. This degeneration proceeded slowly until the presidencies of Jackson and his handler Martin van Buren, but after this, cotton exports increased to 4 million bales/year by 1860 and the slave power grew immensely under the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that ensured the spread of slavery west of Mississippi.</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%2F9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.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%2F9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.jpeg" width="750" height="463" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":463,"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>While many radical abolitionists in the USA and British Canada then advocated the dissolution of the union as an alternative to civil war, stronger souls <a href="https://youtu.be/iqYfFUwacUM">like Frederick Douglass recognized the higher historic fight at hand</a>.</p><p>As a lesson to modern leftists who believe in the 1619 Project and feel no sorrow at the burning of America under a new civil war today, Douglass took the time to research history, and broke with William Lloyd Garrison (the leader of the abolitionist movement) defending the Constitution in 1852:</p><blockquote><p>“I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory… In that instrument [the U.S. Constitution] I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but interpreted, as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slaveholding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it”.</p></blockquote><p>This higher understanding of history and the principles of the Constitution caused Douglass to ally himself with Lincoln where he worked with all his might to recruit 200,000 black soldiers to the cause. Later in life, Douglass attacked British free trade and “cheap labor” in defense of the Nationalist system <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/fredfree.htm">writing in 1871</a>:</p><blockquote><p>“Cheap Labor, is a phrase that has no cheering music for the masses. Those who demand it, and seek to acquire it, have but little sympathy with common humanity. It is the cry of the few against the many. When we inquire who are the men that are continually vociferating for cheap labor, we find not the poor, the simple, and the lowly; not the class who dig and toil for their daily bread; not the landless, feeble, and defenseless portion of society, but the rich and powerful, the crafty and scheming, those who live by the sweat of other men’s faces.”</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%2F7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.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%2F7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.jpeg" width="750" height="531" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":531,"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><h3><strong>The British Hand Behind the Civil War</strong></h3><p>During the entirety of the Civil War, the British Empire’s <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/07/24/the-imperial-myth-of-canadas-national-policy-and-its-implications-for-today/">guiding hand could always be felt</a>, from supplying the south with battle ships, weapons, and finances to providing logistic and diplomatic support internationally. <a href="https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/montreal-city-of-secrets-civil-war/">Even British Canada was given over to the Confederacy’s intelligence headquarters</a> which deployed spying, money laundering, and terrorist operations against the Union during the entire war.</p><p>Speaking to the British Parliament, Lord Robert Cecil (Marquis of Salisbury) expressed Britain’s logic succinctly when he said in 1861:</p><blockquote><p>“The Northern States of America never can be our sure friends because we are rivals, rivals politically, rivals commercially…. With the Southern States, the case is entirely reversed. The population are an agricultural people. They furnish the raw material of our industry, and they consume the products which we manufacture from it. With them, every interest must lead us to cultivate friendly relations, and when the war began they at once recurred to England as their natural ally.”</p></blockquote><p>A future installment will tackle the role of British operations in Canada that organized the murder of Lincoln, sabotaged the industrial reconstruction of the South, and undid the internationalization of Lincoln’s system around the world during the 19-20th centuries. This sabotage of potential created the foundations for the creature embedded within America now organizing a new Civil War and dissolution of the republic once and for all.</p><h4>Footnotes</h4><p>(1) In the minds of those dirigistes like Franklin (including the Colbertist school of France, and its international leaders like Jonathon Swift, Daniel Dafoe, and Cotton Mathers in America who all wrote pamphlets supporting manufacturing over slave labor), a machine produced by the creative mind of man can accomplish the work of 100 laborers- thus liberating those laborers from the demands of the material forces of nature and freeing them to develop their powers of mind.</p><p>(2) Ezra Champion Seaman, Essays on the Progress of Nations (1853), p. 599</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%2Fb2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.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%2Fb2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.jpeg" width="750" height="238" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":238,"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></div></div></a></figure></div></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%2Fe154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.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%2Fe154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.jpeg" width="750" height="515" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":515,"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><h2>And follow my work on Telegram: t.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h2>

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The Fatal Flaw of Controlled Oppositions: Collectivism vs Individualism, East vs West, One vs Many (and everything in between)

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<p><em>“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”</em></p><p><em>-Rudyard Kipling</em></p><p>The British imperial poet Rudyard Kipling’s famous lines showcase a pervasive belief of all oligarchist systems that the world— with its diverse cultures, languages, races and creeds- can never work together in brotherhood. Said otherwise, the differences of the parts making up the whole cannot be resolved in any way unless those differences can be destroyed through purgative violence, or cultural homogenisation. Outside of death or Borg-like assimilation, no resolution to the paradox of the ‘One and the Many’ or ‘East vs West’ exists in the mind of a Kipling, Rhodes, Mackinder, Kissinger, Schwab or Huntington.</p><p>Sadly, due to the dominance of the British Empire since Kipling wrote those words, which has shaped so much of our recent history (and academic systems), these assumptions have trickled down into the minds of most citizens living in the western world.</p><p>It is my hope that in the course of the following short essay, that Kipling’s racist, ignorant, and outright wrong-headed belief in both the “white man’s burden’ as well as the incompatibility of eastern and western thinking will be resolved in your mind.</p><p>BUT, before getting into the thick of things, I wanted to say a few words about an important technique of epistemological warfare used by oligarchists for millenia… The creation of false opposites.</p><h1>False Dualisms (or How to Keep Your Mind in an Invisible Box)</h1><p>Here’s how the game of herding humanity with false mental models of reality works:</p><p>1) Create a theorum-lattice grounded in a limited set of intentionally wrong fundamental axioms and assumptions. That then creates a “school of thought” controlled by a priesthood.</p><p>2) Then encourage a nearly infinite array of disputes within that school over time giving off the false impression of free choice, but none of the substance as those limited axioms and typically un-examined assumptions are preserved in all the apparently opposing sub-schools.  </p><p><em><strong>(For a fuller treatment of theorum-lattices, I highly encourage everyone to dive into the challenging yet rewarding 1995 essay by Lyndon LaRouche<a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1995/eirv22n32-19950811/eirv22n32-19950811_016-non_newtonian_mathematics_for_ec-lar.pdf"> ‘Non-Newtonian Mathematics for Economists’</a>)</strong></em></p><p>All infinite possible statements that emerge out of those limited sets of axioms– even the factually true statements– are thence contaminated by the fallacy of the rotten unexamined axiomatic roots. From this moment onward, controversy may be unleashed between rival sub-schools that appear to differ in various ways but which are, in fact united in their common adherence to that limited set of core assumptions that forms an invisible cage in which the infinite possible array of choices, and disagreements emerges.</p><p>Are you a follower of bottom up Austrian School thinking or are you a follower of the top down Keynesian school? Are you a Marxist collectivist or a free market individualist? Pick a side and fight.</p><p>Yet while this fighting is happening, the dupes in either camp (which may take on a republican/conservative vs democrat/liberal appearance) <em><strong>will not recognize</strong></em> how Keynes and von Hayek <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-keynes-vs-von-hayek-debate-a">both shared identical views of human nature</a> (expressed through their admiration of British hedonists like Jeremy Bentham and Bernard Mandeville), both believed equally in the intrinsic value of money due to people wanting it, and both equally admired world government (with Hayek devoting a chapter to its necessity at the end of Road to Serfdom).</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%2F0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.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%2F0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.jpeg" width="600" height="395" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":395,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Neocon perversion that has taken over major sections of America’s republican party over the past 60 years is another example of a false opposition group to their rival ‘liberal imperialists’ of a Fabian branding that took over the Democratic Party since the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945.</p><h1>Neocons vs Neolibs (aka: The Uniparty)</h1><p>One grouping portrays itself as ‘nationalist-brand imperialists projecting Pax America onto the world (while cultivating the support of Christian Zionists aching for end times prophecy) while the other group portrays itself as ‘internationalist-brand imperialists’ seeking to subdue the USA’s interests to technocratic high priests of Davos, NATO and the UN as arbiters of global order.</p><p>The Clinton Rhodes Scholars, and Blair-Obama Fabians who represent this ‘team blue’ share the exact same Nietzschean elitist worldview as their Nietzschean rivals among the neo-con elitists like Wolfowitz, Nuland, Kagan, Cheney, etc.</p><p>Perhaps, one group has a less overtly religious hue than the other, but both are shaped by doctrines of ‘will to power’ of ‘ubermenschen’ master-slave relations, and the belief in purgative violence requisite to subdue humanity under some form of Hobbesian Leviathan.</p><p>Both equally share an eschatological self-image of destiny with one version shaped by variations of Bible prophecy, and the other by transhumanist beliefs in a future ‘singularity’ where machines supposedly become self-conscious and a priesthood of social engineers take control of the levers of evolution.</p><p>While one group passes itself off as ‘religious’, and the other ‘scientific’- they are in truth simply different shades of evil.</p><p>Factions representing either group (with countless sub-groups in between) debate endlessly at seminars hosted by the World Economic Forum, or Council on Foreign Relations, and yell at each other in Congress— YET all apparent schools are united in the belief in a very sick universe.</p><p>Like polarized lenses that cut planes of light, these polarized<em><strong> intellectual lenses</strong></em> (with topography shaped by false axioms pertaining to the nature of humanity, space, time, matter, and other general articles of supposed reality) <strong>then block out unwanted spectrums of reality</strong> that would threaten the organizational structure of the oligarchy and bring humanity into greater voluntary accord with their own powers of true reason/true understanding (vs academic opinions wearing the costume of understanding) and the universal principles shaping both their mind, human history and the universe itself. </p><p>From a historian’s perspective, which should involve epistemology, and a sensitivity to political intelligence, you’ve gotta hold this in mind always when looking at history as a chimera of reality when filtered through acceptable “models” that are shaped by controlling agencies of the oligarchy.</p><h1>The Strange Case of Two Fighting Keynesians</h1><p>Keynesians like Jeffrey Sachs and pseudo-Keynesians like Isabella M Weber (editor of the Journal of Keynesian economics, Keynes prize winner and ‘critic of Jeffrey Sachs) are perfect examples of this phenomenon.</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%2F4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.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%2F4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.jpeg" width="750" height="438" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":438,"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>Both figures are promoted by such think tanks as the Fabian Society’s London School of Economics, and Roundtable Movement’s Council on Foreign Relations… YET both figures dispute publicly with one another over a variety of details about pricing, mechanisms of capital controls, interest etc. Due to their common criticisms of the obvious failures of neoliberalism, both Sachs and Weber have led in charm offences targeting the Chinese intelligentsia from varying angles while simultaneously promoting “Green New Deal” programs across the west and east alike.</p><p>Both Sachs and Isabella M Weber are not only united in their adherence to Keynes’ general worldview, but they additionally share other common characteristics in regards to promoting the dual lie that:</p><ol><li><p>Plato’s philosophy was ‘advanced’ by Aristotle with both men equally founding the thing falsely labelled ‘western civilization’.</p></li></ol><p>and</p><ol start="2"><li><p>Asian philosophy exists in another universe completely separate and removed from western ‘logical’ civilization of the imagined Plato-Aristotle hybrid.</p></li></ol><p>While Isabella Weber developed this fallacious thesis in her best selling book ‘<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372836855_Isabella_M_Weber_How_China_Escaped_Shock_Therapy_The_Market_Reform_Debate">How China Escaped Shock Therapy</a>’, Jeffrey Sachs recently played the role of Aristotle in a terribly stage-managed debate with Ban Ki-Moon who played the role of an incompetent Confucius <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnRXZnAtF0">at a recent Athens Democracy Forum</a>.</p><p>The fact is that, the assumption that Plato’s philosophy is not opposed to Aristotle and the assumption that ‘western logical thinking’ exists in an opposing universe to eastern sensibilities are among two of the most virulent lies at the heart of imperial mental controls of humanity.</p><p>Plato’s Republic (on the organization of the soul and the state around a pursuit of Justice) and especially his Laws feature alot of material on the practical management of society around practical principles- very much in harmony with the principles of the Guanxi that have animated Chinese economic thinking for over four millenia.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"6AAESZHz6Ic","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-6AAESZHz6Ic" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6AAESZHz6Ic?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Additionally, the Confucian concepts of Tian Ming (aka: <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.substack.com/p/the-harmony-between-tianxia-and-westphalia">the Mandate of Heaven</a>) and the notions of Natural Law developed by Plato and Christian Platonists like St. Augustine and Thomas More represent identical universal principles expressed through western and eastern garbs in both theory and forms of practice.</p><p>Dr. Quan Le’s recent presentation on this topic provides a wonderful gateway to begin to think about this concept:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"PtFZXvWFmbA","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-PtFZXvWFmbA" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PtFZXvWFmbA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Throughout their many writings, Jeffrey Sachs and Isabella Weber are correct to identify Aristotle’s worldview as more prescriptive than Plato’s, but Aristotle’s system is also devoid of honesty, and presumes axioms like the blank slate in contrast to the presumption of a pre-existent harmony expressed in creation or the soul of Plato’s worldview. Aristotle’s system additionally presupposes an impotent God as “prime mover” while Plato’s system presumes an active living creator and Aristotle’s God found it reasonable to create a world of born masters and born slaves with different sets of “Justice” applied to each caste.</p><p>These are notions which both Plato and Confucius entirely reject.</p><p>Just to be clear: I don’t disagree that there are different points of emphasis from Chinese or Platonic/Christian western ideas, but <strong>the core universal principles </strong>are the same and the principle of<em><strong> striving </strong></em>to strike a balance between broad universal principles and practical action (tied intimately to the freedom-duty/ destiny-free will/change-no change paradox) is the same in both worlds.</p><p>The works of Confucius’ student Mencius provides an excellent gateway into this topic:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"1AP63IN7PYQ","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-1AP63IN7PYQ" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1AP63IN7PYQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Similarly the same<em><strong> defects of thinking</strong></em> that encourage unexamined assumptions, blind faith in mysticism and belief in irrationalist universes are also found with common attributes in both Western and Eastern worlds with trails of wars, depopulation, dark ages and occult priesthoods littering the historic experiences of both worlds.</p><p>EIR researcher Michael Billington’s work on this topic is of most profound interest. His work on <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/973_deconst_china.pdf">The Deconstructionist Assault on China’s Cultural Optimism</a> and <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/943_tao.html">The Taoist Perversion of 20th Century Science</a> are two of the most potent treatments this author has seen on this issue.</p><p>Guiding prescriptions for philosopher kings (or even lower level managers who are not at that higher level) are expressed beautifully in ancient Chinese ethical texts like the Guanxi, Analects and Five Classics.</p><p>It is also found within the corpus of writings of all <em>true</em> Platonists of the western world.</p><p>I say “true Platonists” in order to differentiate from the infinitely divisible schools of neo-Platonist occultists and Aristotelians-acting-like Platonists which have carried out immense damage to humanity (and Plato’s name) for over 2300 years. These counterfeit Platonists are, in many ways, similar to the worst of China’s legalists who have portrayed themselves as Confucians- yet who merely justified tyranny instead of cultivating the love of humanity as Confucius espoused.</p><p>The priesthoods of mystery religions have always organized these false schools with their infinitely divisible controversies and creations of new innovative models that are not dissimilar to the modern incarnation of the occult mystery school techniques shaping Cambridge where ‘apostles’ like Lords John Maynard Keynes, and Bertrand Russell served as high priests of the Empire.</p><h3>How China is Reviving the American System</h3><p>A couple of years ago, I composed a presentation on the roots of the Westphalian system from Plato’s Republic to the American Revolution.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"R5cqHvGCuZo","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-R5cqHvGCuZo" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/R5cqHvGCuZo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p><a href="https://youtu.be/R5cqHvGCuZo?si=JyAXn83U8XLChciP">In this lecture </a>(which also makes up a chunk of my <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/04/28/now-available-volume-3-of-clash-of-the-two-americas-the-birth-of-a-eurasian-manifest-destiny/">Clash of the Two Americas volume 3</a>), I attempted to demonstrate the evolution of the American System of Political Economy from Solon and Plato through Cicero’s Commonwealth, St. Augustine, Charlemagne (who created a dynamic with Haroun Al Rashid and the Tang Dynasty), to the Cameralist school of Germany, and the Dirigiste school of France’s Jean-Baptiste Colbert.</p><p>I additionally sought to illustrate how these same Dirigistes emerged in England around Erasmus, Cardinal Thomas Morton and Thomas More (who’s book “Utopia” offers both practical and ideal lessons for rulers).</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"mRVlB7vHAA0","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-mRVlB7vHAA0" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mRVlB7vHAA0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>This school of political-economic theory had a powerful expression in Florence and Spain as well, and it flowed into the work of the great scientist Gottfried Leibniz (<a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/1992/fidv01n03-1992Fa/fidv01n03-1992Fa_054-gottfried_leibniz_society_and_ec.pdf">On Society and Economy 1671</a>, and Emmerich de Vattel, James Logan, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton, etc.</p><p>In reviewing the writings of leading representatives of this school of political economy, I was struck that they are always authentic Platonists… without exception. These figures were proponents of both the theory (realm of ideals) and also the practical material application of national programs that gave rise to the American System of Political Economy. Despite the name ‘American System’, leading representatives of this school before and after the American revolution included German industrialists like Otto von Bismarck and Friedrich List as well as French, Russian and Asian nationalists like Sadi Carnot, Sergei Witte and President Sun Yatsen.</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%2F71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.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%2F71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.jpeg" width="750" height="328" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":328,"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>All of this is investigable <em><strong>as an unbroken continuity in both theory and practice </strong></em>within universal history.</p><p>This school’s very existence is entirely rejected by Marxist collectivists and Adam Smith Free Trading individualists… as well as Keynesians and Austrian School libertarians.</p><p>The reason for the rejection of this school’s unbroken existence from Solon and Confucius to our current age may have something to do with the fact that it is characterised by the rejection of any notion of value premised on the belief in either pleasure-pain principles or cold utilitarianism. The pleasure-pain principle and cold utilitarian principle of ‘what is useful is good’ serve as the basis of all functional false oppositions from ancient times to our present confused age, so it is no wonder that an entire school of thought built upon creative discovery, moral virtue and Natural Law would be seen as a grave threat to those puppet masters controlling the shadows on the cave wall entrapping most of humanity, for most of the time.</p><p>In the American system of political economy, theory (the transcendental realm of Ideas/Being) and practice (the material realm of Action/Becoming) are co-developed with a look to creating a society where all men and women could attain the qualifications of being truly aristocratic (ie: the best cultural expression of themselves as beings animated by the pursuit of knowledge, love of wisdom, devotion to humanity and playful exploration).</p><p>Geopolitical analysts Glenn Diesen and Pepe Escobar have both demonstrated a solid comprehension of this history and Glenn <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-War-Eurasian-World-Order/dp/1949762955/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EF6WSQ3MQTSF&amp;keywords=the+ukraine+war+and+the+eurasian+world+order&amp;qid=1706696353&amp;sprefix=The+Ukraine+War+and+%2Caps%2C312&amp;sr=8-1">even wrote a book on the topic </a>which was reviewed by Escobar in an article titled <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-will-hegemon-ever-accept-new-westphalian-world-order">Will The Hegemon Ever Accept A New Westphalian World Order?</a></p><p>In his review of Diesen’s book, Escobar writes:</p><p><em>“With a lovely on the road formulation, Diesen shows how<strong> ‘Russia can be considered the successor of the Mongolian nomads as the last custodian of the Eurasian land corridor’</strong>, while China revives the Ancient Silk Roads ‘with economic connectivity’. In consequence,<strong> ‘a powerful Eurasian gravitational pull is thus reorganizing the supercontinent and the wider world.’</strong></em></p><p><em>Providing context, Diesen needs to engage in an obligatory detour to the basics of the Great Game between the Russian and British empires. What stands out is how Moscow already was pivoting to Asia all the way to the late 19th century, when Russian Finance Minister Sergei Witte started to develop a groundbreaking road map for a Eurasia political economy, ‘borrowing from Alexander Hamilton and Friedrich List.’</em></p><p><em>Witte ‘wanted to end Russia’s role as an exporter of natural resources to Europe as it resembled ‘the relations of colonial countries with their metropolises’.”</em></p><h1>The Fatal Imbalance of Individualism vs Collectivism</h1><p>The problem in the west is tied, in my view to the volatility caused by the powerful (but also powerfully destructive) insight into the Promethean nature of humanity expressed in Christianity which resulted in the concept of the sacredness of the individual and associated notion that we are all equally made in the image of a living loving, reasonable Creator.</p><p>While the sacredness of the individual is found within Chinese, and Indian texts, it never emerged as explicitly and loudly as it had within the west- and like they say, with great power comes great responsibilities. In this case the freedom of the individual must accompany the maturation of reason and conscious of the individual such that each sovereign citizen becomes willfully obedient to discovered truths about moral laws- uniting the sense of individual liberty and happiness with the liberty and happiness of the whole nation.</p><p>If that doesn’t happen, then that power can cause the extreme damage in the hands of an oligarchical high priest class of Satanists.</p><p>This imbalance appears to be the cause of the Golden Renaissance’s decadence and the perversion of that beautiful potential for Goodness which decayed into the empiricist enlightenment, with accompanying wars, pride in the self, emergence of god-less perversions of science, and Hobbesian systems of empire to which both Keynes, von Hayek, Jeffrey Sachs and Isabella Weber have devoted themselves.</p><h3><em>Also watch for free our RTF Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/introducing-a-new-video-series-escaping">Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion</a>” and our CP Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/new-documentary-release-the-hidden">The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs</a>”.</em></h3><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%2Fc32e687e-e086-4c97-8ef2-e0d99ec8ccb4_750x391.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%2Fc32e687e-e086-4c97-8ef2-e0d99ec8ccb4_750x391.png" width="750" height="391" 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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 4]
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/jruQplClvfM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 4]"></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=jruQplClvfM

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-the-khazarian
title: What’s the Deal with the “Khazarian Mafia” Explanation of Everything?
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<p>Matt Ehret chats with Courtenay Turner about all things Khazaria with a look towards the origins and corrupting influence of the Kabbalah on Judaism, to the gnostic Christian cults that served as a cover for the ancient mystery religions that plagued the world for millennia.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v44u249-is-the-khazarian-mafia-a-conspiracy-theory-w-matthew-ehret-the-courtenay-tu.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ce0a7af-df6c-499a-a780-d9eab6501481_750x412.png" width="750" height="412" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ce0a7af-df6c-499a-a780-d9eab6501481_750x412.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":412,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":"https://rumble.com/v44u249-is-the-khazarian-mafia-a-conspiracy-theory-w-matthew-ehret-the-courtenay-tu.html","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><a href="https://t.me/courtenayturnerpodcastcommunity">Follow Courtenay Turner here</a>.</p><h3><em>Also watch for free our RTF Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/introducing-a-new-video-series-escaping">Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion</a>” and our CP Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/new-documentary-release-the-hidden">The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs</a>”.</em></h3><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%2F179320ac-5bad-477d-b71d-97ea5d9dd4de_750x391.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%2F179320ac-5bad-477d-b71d-97ea5d9dd4de_750x391.png" width="750" height="391" 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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%2F11323a80-5f79-4b51-a099-f741a8def323_750x240.jpeg" width="750" height="240" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11323a80-5f79-4b51-a099-f741a8def323_750x240.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":240,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"> </figcaption></figure></div><h3>Follow my work on Telegram at: T.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h3>

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title: Mariupol 2024: construction, renovations, pulse of life
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/b512759d3e9f511c547c058dc21a331e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mariupol 2024: construction, renovations, pulse of life"></p>On my last visit to Mariupol, one morning I walked ~15 minutes (if I didn't keep stopping to film) from the centre to the site of newly constructed apartment buildings. While doing so, I kept stopping every 5 or so metres to film renovations on the street I was walking on, so prevalent are the ongoing renovations.<br><br>I would like to reiterate that rags like the Guardian which claim Mariupol was completely "destroyed" were/are lying through their teeth, as they did re Syria (where the Guardian rendered terrorists into fuzzy "rebels" and whitewashed al-Qaeda in Syria (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/)). They also do not mention the reason for what damage and destruction there was in Mariupol (In summary: Ukrainian troops, and Azov Nazis, occupying upper floors of apartment buildings and firing on Russian troops (and also on civilians).<br><br>I'll be writing an article which will address some of the dirty tricks the Guardian used in an article (2023) I only recently came across, wherein they grossly distorted satellite images to fit their lying narrative that Mariupol was completely destroyed (as in levelled like the US actually did to Raqqa, or as Israel actually has been doing all over the Gaza Strip). <br><br>For now, this clip, which includes some conversations I had with a woman who lived in Mariupol during 2022 (when Ukraine was severely bombarding Donetsk (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/), where she was from), and her notes on changes in Mariupol that surprised even her.

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title: Mariupol pulse of life, May 2024
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/8a485c63ac204efb07f1ada83339a71d.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mariupol pulse of life, May 2024 "></p>Following my re-visits to Crimea (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/18833) &amp; Donbass (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19036), 🇷🇺 I've finally found the time to stitch together some of my footage from Mariupol!<br><br>The city is brimming with life &amp; construction. This short clip is a taste of what I saw in my recent visit, with a couple of clips from visits last year &amp; late 2022.<br><br>I'll be putting together more videos from my last visit—there is so much construction that's happened since I visited last year. I was astonished. <br><br>For a city "destroyed" (as Western mouthpieces claim), Mariupol is pulsing with life.

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guid: https://odysee.com/rbn:da60b00912c57acc089704299f522e57686727cf
title: Interview with Revolutionary Blackout Network
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/1b62f5323f3e44704e4f5466e9e84ab6.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview with Revolutionary Blackout Network"></p>I spoke recently with Nick of Revolutionary Blackout Network on a variety of issues, including the on the ground community-building work he is involved in, supporting Palestine—especially Palestinian Resistance, and why average people have been conditioned to hate places like the DPRK (North Korea).<br><br>A very interesting conversation, I'm grateful to Nick for his time. <br><br>Follow him at:<br><br>https://www.youtube.com/@revolutionaryblackout7315<br>https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com/<br>https://x.com/SocialistMMA<br>https://www.patreon.com/RevolutionaryBlackout<br><br><br><br>Related Links:<br><br>-The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist. 22/06/2021, Louis Allday<br>https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist n<br><br><br><br>-Bilin &amp; nonviolent resistance<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/protesters-take-rubber-bullets-to-head-and-stomach-at-bilin/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/good-ole-cnnenterprise/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/no-iof-love-for-bilin-non-violent-protesters/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/<br><br><br>-Bassem Abu Rahme, killed by Israeli army in Bil’in protest against the Wall<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/bassem-abu-rahme-killed-in-bilin-protest-against-the-wall-rest-peacefully/<br><br>-Great March of Return protests <br>https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return <br><br>-Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria (regarding “nonviolent” “rebels” in Syria )<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ <br><br>-My report from visit to the DPRK<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/  <br><br>-We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E <br>Interview With The Makers of “The Haircut (2017) A North Korean Adventure”<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/interview-with-the-makers-of-the-haircut-2017-a-north-korean-adventure/ <br><br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/<br><br><br><br><br>

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-americas-anti-fascist
title: What Happened to America’s Anti-Fascist Traditions?
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<p>By Matthew Ehret</p><p>Americans once took great pride in the defeat of the Nazi scourge that threatened to run roughshod over the 20<sup>th</sup> century and beyond. <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/11/10/how-to-crush-a-bankers-dictatorship-a-lesson-from-1933/">Under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt,</a> America mobilized not only to heal from the devastation of the Great Depression, but also became a global leader of industrial power supplying the Allies with the tools they needed to fight the war before entering the fight herself in 1941.</p><p>Coming out of that scarring experience, there was great hope that the world would finally be raised out of the fires of imperialism, poverty and war. The UN charter enshrined <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/01/08/fdrs-four-freedoms-indict-inspire-us-today/">Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms</a>, respect for sovereignty and a mandate for economic cooperation into law giving hope that a new age of brotherhood was upon us.</p><p>Despite certain pushbacks by US Statesmen to the Anglo-American special relationship, and military industrial complex that began to take on a life of its own, <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/02/06/fdrs-anti-colonial-vision-for-the-post-war-world-as-he-saw-it-revisited/">FDR’s vision for world peace</a> continued to die throughout the Cold War.</p><p>Perhaps it was allowing RAND Corp computer modellers to shape international policy, or perhaps it was the FBI-McCarthyite witch hunts and constant threat of global nuclear annihilation that caused once-courageous Americans to become gullible and fearful. Whatever the cause had been, the fact that major components of Hitler’s intelligence apparatus and unapologetic fascists were repurposed after the war to be used to combat Communism throughout the Cold War did not help.</p><p>Allen Dulles was quick to instal Hitler’s top intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen as the head of West German intelligence along with his entire network, and then before we knew it, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhRBxxyRqs">Operation Gladio was launched</a> by the CIA and NATO which utilized armadas of Nazi war criminals dubbed “stay behinds” throughout Europe. This operation ran terrorist attacks, and assassinations targeting civilian population and even troublesome statesmen like Enrico Mattei or Prime Minister Aldo Moro who didn’t wish to play ball with Cold War games. At least several of the 30 attempts on de Gaulle’s life were attributed to this network.</p><p>It was within this context that the plague of Ukrainian Nazism <a href="https://southfront.org/an-inside-look-at-how-us-funded-fascists-in-ukraine-mentor-us-white-supremacists/">running rampant in Ukraine today</a> and which has done so much damage during the past eight-year Civil War in Eastern Ukraine is to be found.</p><p>Stephan Bandera who was honored as an official national hero in Kiev was himself a Nazi-collaborator during WWII whose Organization for Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) exterminated over 100 thousand jews and poles between 1941-1944. After the CIA forgave the OUN for all crimes in 1951, Bandera was quickly installed into Gehlen’s networks and immediately went to work in Gladio terror operations and was killed by the KGB in 1959. Bandera’s colleague Mykola Lebed who also oversaw OUN-directed genocides fared better in the USA where he led a consulting company called Prolog Research Corporation alongside head of CIA directorate of plans Frank Wisner.</p><p>Is it any wonder that that it was in this atmosphere that, America lost touch with her constitutional traditions?</p><p>How could the great republic navigate through the world as a moral leader when she had so deeply compromised on her own anti-fascist principles? From the earliest days of the Truman Doctrine, unjust wars were launched abroad, and nationalist leaders of foreign countries not wishing to play Banana republic roles in the Great Game often found themselves assassinated or overthrown in CIA-run coups.</p><p>The practice of lying to Americans using false flags (such as Operation Northwoods and the Gulf of Tonkin non-incident that unleashed the Vietnam War) became common practice and the military industrial complex which Eisenhower warned of in 1960 only grew.</p><p>Under Zbigniew Brzezinski’s guidance, <a href="https://www.sott.net/article/352366-Grand-architect-of-modern-terrorism-The-true-horror-of-Zbigniew-Brzezinskis-policies">the CIA-funded emergence of Islamic terrorism</a> became just another chess piece on the Great Game. Like the use of Nazis stay-behinds earlier, this was of course justified by the belief that all evils were good if they stopped the supposedly expansionist Soviet Union.</p><p>Many hoped that the dissolution of the Soviet Union would finally put an end to this age of chaos, confusion and murky morality.</p><p>Sadly, it wasn’t long after Bush Sr’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/09/12/bush-out-of-these-troubled-times-a-new-world-order/b93b5cf1-e389-4e6a-84b0-85f71bf4c946/">1990 New World Order speech</a> and Desert Storm that the Wolfowitz doctrine was established calling for the prevention of “the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere”. <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Toward-a-Neo-Reaganite-Foreign-Policy-Kristol-Kagan/729df229a342db6c0e741a29231035e809569f75">In a bone chilling 1992 manifesto</a>, William Kristol and Robert Kagan (husband to Victoria F-the-EU Nuland) called for the USA to lead a “benevolent global hegemony”.</p><p>Rather than seeing a renaissance of US-Russian relations and an age of peace as hoped by many, the dream was again killed as it had been earlier in 1945. Instead of promised investments into Russian industrial growth, the USA oversaw the destruction of Russia under Perestroika, and the creation of a new parasitic oligarchical class. With the help of money from Soros, the NED and CIA, former Soviet states saw their economies torn to shreds and militaries enmeshed increasingly into NATO whose raison d’etre should have dissolved in 1992. A logic of full spectrum dominance encircling Russia became increasingly recognized as the driving intent behind NATO’s growth which always had the Ukraine and Georgia in its crosshairs.</p><p>The USA continued to advance into the 21<sup>st</sup> century under the religious like assumption that the New World Order must be shaped by unchallenged Anglo-American hegemony as outlined by the Wolfowitz doctrine earlier and restated by the authors of the Project for a New American Century who seized power in 2000.</p><p>Since the 2014 Maidan coup which saw fascist mercenaries under Azov, Svoboda and Right Sector banners overthrow the pro-Russian government of Yanukovych, thousands of civilians in East Ukraine have been killed. Openly brazen neo-Nazis like Dimitry Yarosh have been appointed as special advisor to the head of Ukraine’s military (in Nov. 2021) and it has become evident that the old Cold War practices have been tough habits to break.</p><p>We are being told by nearly all media outlets in true Cold War fashion that Putin has started a war with his 2022 special military operation. </p><p>I maintain that the NATO/neo-Nazi war against Russia began in 2014 and that in many ways WWII itself never truly ended. Taking those often-ignored facts of history into account, it appears Putin might be trying to finally end it.</p>

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