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title: Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=&quot;preload&quot;
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by Alistair Shepherd<br><p>Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/14/">Getting started with Web Performance</a> when you’re done here!</p>
<p>This year I’m back for more web performance, this time focusing on my favourite HTML snippet for <strong>improving the loading performance of web fonts using preloads</strong>. This short HTML snippet added to the <code>head</code> of your page, can make a substantial improvement to both perceived and measured performance.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>link</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">rel</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>preload<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/nova-sans.woff2<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">as</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>font<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>font/woff2<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">crossorigin</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>anonymous<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<p>Above we have a <code>link</code> element that instructs the browser to preload the <code>/nova-sans.woff2</code> font. By preloading your critical <em>above-the-fold</em> font we can make a huge impact by reducing potential flashes of unstyled or invisible text and layout shifts caused by font loading, like here in the following video:</p>
<figure>
  <video controls="controls" width="904" height="680" preload="none">
    <source src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/25/no-preload.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  </video>
  <figcaption>Recording of a page load illustrating how a font loading late can result in a jarring layout shift</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-web-fonts-are-loaded">How web fonts are loaded</h2>
<p>To explain how preloading fonts can make such an impact, let’s go through the process of how web fonts are loaded. Font files are downloaded later than you may think, due to a combination of network requests and conservative browser behaviour.</p>
<p>In a standard web page, there will be the main HTML document which will include a CSS file using a <code>link</code> element in the <code>head</code>. If you’re using self-hosted custom fonts you’ll have a <code>@font-face</code> rule within your CSS that specifies the font name, the <code>src</code>, and possibly some other font-related properties.</p>
<p>In other CSS rules you specify a <code>font-family</code> so elements use your custom font.</p>
<p>Once our browser encounters our page it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Starts streaming the HTML document, parsing it as it goes</li>
<li>Encounters the <code>link</code> element pointing to our CSS file</li>
<li>Starts downloading that CSS file, blocking the render of the page until it’s complete</li>
<li>Parses and applies the contents of that file</li>
<li>Finds the <code>@font-face</code> rule with our font URL</li>
</ol>
<p>Okay let’s pause here for a moment —  It may make sense for step 6 to be <em>“Starts downloading our font file”</em>, however that’s not the case. You see, if a browser downloaded every font within a CSS file when it first encountered them, we could end up loading much more than is needed. We could be specifying fonts for multiple different weights, italics, other character sets/languages, or even multiple different fonts.</p>
<p>If we don’t need all these fonts immediately it would be wasteful to download them all, and doing so may slow down higher priority CSS or JS.</p>
<p>Instead, the browser is more conservative and simply takes note of the font declaration until it’s explicitly needed. The browser next:</p>
<ol start="6">
<li>Takes a note of our <code>@font-face</code> declarations and their URLs for later</li>
<li>Finishes processing CSS and starts rendering the page</li>
<li>Discovers a piece of text on the page that needs our font</li>
<li>Finally starts downloading our font now it knows it’s needed!</li>
</ol>
<p>So as we can see there’s actually a lot that happens between our HTML file arriving in the browser and our font file being downloaded. This is ideal for lower priority fonts, but for the main or headline font this process can make our custom font appear surprisingly late in the page load. This is what causes the behaviour we saw in the video above, where the page starts rendering but it takes some time before our custom font appears.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/25/no-preload.webp" width="1480" height="886" alt="A waterfall chart with type, url, and time columns. Listed below are assets that are loaded including an html document, CSS and JS files, a couple of images and a font file 'lobster.woff2'. It's all fairly standard and expected but the font doesn't even start loading until after the JS is complete at 2.0s, and doesn't finish until 3.0s" loading="lazy">
  <figcaption>A waterfall graph showing how our custom ‘lobster.woff2’ font doesn’t start being downloaded until 2 seconds into the page load and isn’t available until after 3 seconds</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>This is an intentional decision by browser makers and spec writers to ensure that pages with lots of fonts aren’t badly impacted by having to load many font files ahead of time. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be optimised!</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="preloading-our-font-with-a-link">Preloading our font with a link</h2>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>link</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">rel</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>preload<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/nova-sans.woff2<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">as</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>font<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>font/woff2<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">crossorigin</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>anonymous<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<p>The purpose of my favourite HTML snippet is to inform the browser that this font file will be needed with high priority, before it even has knowledge of it. We’re building our page and know more about how our fonts are used — so we can provide hints to be less conservative! If we start downloading the font as soon as possible then it can be ready ahead of when the browser ‘realises’ it’s needed.</p>
<p>Looking back at our list above, by adding a preload we move the start of the font download from step 9 to step 2!</p>
<ol>
<li>Starts streaming the HTML document, parsing it as it goes</li>
<li>Encounters our preload and starts downloading our font file in the background</li>
<li>Encounters the <code>link</code> element pointing to our CSS file</li>
<li><em>Continues as above</em></li>
</ol>
<p>Taking a closer look at the snippet, we’re using a <code>link</code> element and <code>rel="preload"</code> to ask the browser to preload a file with the intention of using it early in the page load. Like a CSS file, we provide the URL with the <code>href</code> attribute.</p>
<p>We use <code>as="font"</code> and <code>type="font/woff2"</code> to indicate this is a font file in <code>woff2</code>. For modern browsers <code>woff2</code> is the only format you need as it’s universally supported.</p>
<p>Finally there’s <code>crossorigin="anonymous"</code>. This comes from the wonderfully transparent and clear world of Cross Origin Resource Sharing. I jest of course, CORS is anything but transparent and clear!</p>
<p>For fonts you almost always want <code>crossorigin="anonymous"</code> on your link element, <strong>even when the request isn’t cross-origin</strong>. Omitting this attribute would mean our preload wouldn’t be used and the file would be requested again. But why?</p>
<p>Browser requests can be sent either with or without credentials (cookies, etc), and requests to the same URL with and without credentials are fundamentally different. <strong>For a preload to be used by the browser, it needs to match the type of request that the browser would have made normally.</strong> By default fonts are always requested without credentials, so we need to add <code>crossorigin="anonymous"</code> to ensure our preload matches a normal font request.</p>
<p>By omitting this attribute our preload would not be used and the browser would request the font again. If you’re ever unsure of how your preloads are working, check your browsers’ devtools. In Chrome the Network pane will show a duplicate request, and the Console will log a warning telling you a preload wasn’t used.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/25/chrome-devtools.webp" width="1480" height="536" alt="Screenshot of Google Chrome devtools 'Console' pane. There are two warnings: 1. 'A preload for 'http://localhost:3000/lobster.woff2' is found, but is not used because the request credentials mode does not match. Consider taking a look at crossorigin attribute.'; 2. 'The resource http://localhost: 3000/lobster.woff2 was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window's load event. Please make sure it has an appropriate `as` value and it is preloaded intentionally.'" loading="lazy">
  <figcaption>Screenshot showing the Chrome devtools Console pane, with warnings for an incorrect font preload</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="result-and-conclusion">Result and conclusion</h2>
<p>By preloading our critical fonts we ensure our browser has the most important fonts available earlier in the page loading process. We can see this by comparing our recording and waterfall charts from earlier:</p>
<figure>
  <video controls="controls" width="1808" height="680" preload="none">
    <source src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/25/side-by-side.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  </video>
  <figcaption>Side-by-side recording of the same page loading in different ways. ‘no-preload’ shows a large layout shift caused by the font switching and finishes loading at 4.4s. ‘preload’ doesn’t have a shift and finishes loading at 3.1s.</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/25/side-by-side.webp" width="1480" height="440" alt="A side-by-side of two waterfall charts including type, url and time columns. On one side is 'no-preload' and the other is 'preload'. The key difference is that in 'no-preload' a font doesn't start loading until way after everything else at 2.0s. In 'preload' it loads very early, alongside other assets. Because of this the page finishes loading much earlier." loading="lazy">
  <figcaption>Side-by-side comparison of two waterfall charts of the same site with font file `lobster.woff2`. For the ‘no-preload’ document the font loads after all other assets and finishes at 3s. The ‘preload’ document shows the font loading much earlier, in parallel with other files and finishing at 2s.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>As I mentioned in <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/14/">Getting started with Web Performance</a>, it’s best to use preloads sparingly so limit this to your most important font or two. Remember that it’s a balance. By preloading too many resources you run the risk of other high-priority resources such as CSS being slowed down and arriving late. I would recommend preloading just the heading font to start with. With some testing you can see if preloading your main body font is worth it also!</p>
<p>With care, font preloads can be a simple and impactful optimisation opportunity and this is why it’s my favourite HTML snippet! This is a great step to improving font loading, and there are <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/14/#6-be-bold-optimise-your-fonts">plenty of other web font optimisations</a> to try also!</p>


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title: The underrated &amp;lt;dl&amp;gt; element
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by David Luhr<br><p>The <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dl">Description List (<code>&lt;dl&gt;</code>) element</a> is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized.</p>
<p>It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure, such as product attributes or cards that have several supporting details.</p>
<p>Developers often mark up these patterns with overused heading or table semantics, or neglect semantics entirely. With the Description List (<code>&lt;dl&gt;</code>) element and its dedicated Description Term (<code>&lt;dt&gt;</code>) and Description Definition (<code>&lt;dd&gt;</code>) elements, we can improve the semantics and accessibility of these design patterns.</p>
<p>The <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> has a unique content model:</p>
<ul>
<li>A parent <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> containing one or more groups of <code>&lt;dt&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;dd&gt;</code> elements</li>
<li>Each term/definition group can have multiple <code>&lt;dt&gt;</code> (Description Term) elements per <code>&lt;dd&gt;</code> (Description Definition) element, or multiple definitions per term</li>
<li>The <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> can optionally accept a single layer of <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> to wrap the <code>&lt;dt&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;dd&gt;</code> elements, which can be useful for styling</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="examples">Examples</h2>
<p>An initial example would be a simple list of terms and definitions:</p>
<p><img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/26/terms-and-definitions.jpg" alt="Example design with bold text terms followed by regular text definitions."></p>
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<p>A common design pattern is "stat callouts", which feature mini cards of small label text above large numeric values. The <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> is a great fit for this content:</p>
<p><img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/26/stat-callouts.jpg" alt="Example design with 3 groupings of small label text above large, bold number values."></p>
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<p>And, a final example of a product listing, which has a list of technical specs:</p>
<p><img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/26/product-details.jpg" alt="Example design a large placeholder image next to a product title and a key/value list of product details."></p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="accessibility">Accessibility</h2>
<p>With this markup in place, <a href="https://a11ysupport.io/tech/html/dl_element">common screen readers will convey important semantic and navigational information</a>. In my testing, NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on MacOS conveyed a list role, the count of list items, your position in the list, and the boundaries of the list. TalkBack on Android only conveyed the term and definition roles of the <code>&lt;dt&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;dd&gt;</code> elements, respectively.</p>
<p>If the design doesn't include visible labels, you can at least include them as visually hidden text for assistive technology users. But, I always advocate to visually display them if possible.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="wrapping-up">Wrapping up</h2>
<p>The <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> is a versatile element that unfortunately doesn't get much use. In over a decade of coding, I've almost never encountered it in existing codebases. It also doesn't appear anywhere in the top HTML elements lists in <a href="https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/markup#element-diversity">the Web Almanac 2024</a> or <a href="https://www.advancedwebranking.com/seo/html-study">an Advanced Web Ranking study of over 11.3 million pages</a>. The next time you're building out a design, look for opportunities where the underrated Description List is a good fit.</p>
<p>To go deeper, be sure to check out this <a href="https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/">article by Ben Myers on the <code>&lt;dl&gt;</code> element</a>.</p>


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by Alexander Muzenhardt<br><h2 data-sanitized-id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next day.<br>
A few days later, you receive an email from a user who can’t access the new feature. The user points out that they don’t understand what the button does. What do they mean? You review your code, locate the button, and start digging into the problem.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>i</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>icon<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>📆<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>i</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-problem">The Problem</h2>
<p>You find some good resources explaining that there are people with disabilities who need to be considered in these cases. This is known as accessibility. For example, some individuals have motor impairments and cannot use a mouse. In this particular case, the user is visually impaired and relies on assistive technology like a screen reader, which reads aloud the content of the website or software. The button you implemented doesn’t have any descriptive text, so only the icon is read aloud. In your case, the screen reader says, “Tear-Off Calendar button”. While it describes the appearance of the icon, it doesn’t convey the purpose of the button. This information is meaningless to the user. A button should always describe what action it will trigger when activated. That’s why we need additional descriptive text.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-challenge">The Challenge</h2>
<p>Okay, you understand the problem now and agree that it should be fixed. However, you don’t want to add visible text to the button. For design and aesthetic reasons, sighted users should only see the icon. Is there a way to keep the button “icon-only” while still providing a meaningful, descriptive text for users who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-solution">The Solution</h2>
<p>First, you need to give the button a descriptive name so that a screen reader can announce it.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Open Calendar<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>i</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>icon<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>📆<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>i</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>The problem now is that the button’s name becomes visible, which goes against your design guidelines. To prevent this, additional CSS is required.</p>
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<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>span</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>sr-only<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Open Calendar<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>i</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>icon<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>📆<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>i</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>The CSS ensures that the text inside the span-element is hidden from sighted users but remains readable for screen readers. This approach is so common that well-known CSS libraries like TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, and Material-UI include such a class by default.</p>
<p>Although the text of the buttons is not visible anymore, the entire content of the button will be read aloud, including the icon — something you want to avoid.</p>
<p>In HTML you are allowed to use specific attributes for accessibility, and in this case, the attribute <strong>aria-hidden</strong> is what you need. ARIA stands for “Accessible Rich Internet Applications” and is an initiative to make websites and software more accessible to people with disabilities.</p>
<p>The attribute <strong>aria-hidden</strong> hides elements from screen readers so that their content isn’t read. All you need to do is add the attribute <strong>aria-hidden</strong> with the value “true” to the icon element, which in this case is the “i”-element.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="alternative">Alternative</h2>
<p>An alternative is the attribute <strong>aria-label</strong>, which you can assign a descriptive, accessible text to a button without it being visible to sighted users. The purpose of <strong>aria-label</strong> is to provide a description for interactive elements that lack a visible label or descriptive text. All you need to do is add the attribute <strong>aria-label</strong> to the button. The attribute <strong>aria-hidden</strong> and the span-Element can be deleted.</p>
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<p>With this adjustment, the screen reader will now announce “Open calendar,” completely ignoring the icon. This clearly communicates to the user what the button will do when clicked.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="which-option-should-you-use?">Which Option Should You Use?</h2>
<p>At first glance, the aria-label approach might seem like the smarter choice. It requires less code, reducing the likelihood of errors, and looks cleaner overall, potentially improving code readability.</p>
<p>However, the first option is actually the better choice. There are several reasons for this that may not be immediately obvious:</p>
<ul>
<li>Some browsers do not translate aria-label</li>
<li>It is difficult to copy aria-label content or otherwise manipulated it as text</li>
<li>aria-label content will not show up if styles fail to load</li>
</ul>
<p>These are just a few of the many reasons why you should be cautious when using the aria-label attribute. These points, along with others, are discussed in detail in the excellent article "<a href="https://ericwbailey.website/published/aria-label-is-a-code-smell">aria-label is a Code Smell</a>" by <a href="https://github.com/ericwbailey/ericwbailey.website">Eric Bailey</a>.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-first-rule-of-aria-use">The First Rule of ARIA Use</h2>
<p>The “<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#firstrule">First Rule of ARIA Use</a>” states:</p>
<p>If you can use a native HTML element or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so.</p>
<p>Even though the first approach also uses an ARIA attribute, it is more acceptable because <strong>aria-hidden</strong> only hides an element from screen readers. In contrast, <strong>aria-label</strong> overrides the standard HTML behavior for handling descriptive names. For this reason, following this principle, <strong>aria-hidden</strong> is preferable to <strong>aria-label</strong> in this case.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="browser-compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>
<p>Both <strong>aria-label</strong> and <strong>aria-hidden</strong> are supported by all modern browsers and can be used without concern.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>Ensuring accessibility in web design is more than just a nice-to-have—it’s a necessity. By implementing simple solutions like combining CSS with <strong>aria-hidden</strong>, you can create a user experience that is both aesthetically pleasing and accessible for everyone, including those who rely on screen readers. While there may be different approaches to solving accessibility challenges, the key is to be mindful of all users' needs. A few small adjustments can make a world of difference, ensuring that your features are truly usable by everyone.</p>
<p>Cheers<br>
Alex</p>
<h1>Resources / Links</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F4C6">Unicode Character “Tear-Off Calendar”</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/">comport Unicode Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label">mdn web docs aria-label</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-hidden">mdn web docs aria-hidden</a></li>
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<h2>By David Ward [<a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/be-released-from-the-bond-age">Originally published on David’s Substack</a>]</h2><p>In this postmodern world, the meanings of words (as I’ve mentioned many times before) continue to shift. If you don’t have an old dictionary, you might want to find one, and keep it on hand; because the debasement of our language, along with our currency (and culture), is bound to continue — for a while yet. An online search now will yield an entirely different interpretation of the word ‘bondage’ — you might even call it a ‘fetish’ given every reference to this now leads to a porn site. <em>This </em>from the sadomasochist psychopaths who run the world, of course, who are determined to teach you to<em> love your bonds</em> – just as they want you to ‘own nothing and be happy.’</p><p>And even now, when more and more people understand the power elite’s plan for a new technofeudal world, we will be powerless to do anything about it, because the nature of money (and thus power) is not understood.</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%2Fa29d99cc-df52-4dae-93e3-5c4e3ed675dd_749x159.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%2Fa29d99cc-df52-4dae-93e3-5c4e3ed675dd_749x159.jpeg" width="749" height="159" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a29d99cc-df52-4dae-93e3-5c4e3ed675dd_749x159.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":159,"width":749,"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></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Not only is there an almost total lack of knowledge about how our monetary system currently works (please revisit my earlier ‘<a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/bank-heist">Bank Heist</a>’ post) or even how it worked historically (<em><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Making-Money-Currency-Coming-Capitalism/dp/0198709587">Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism</a></em>), a dangerous misunderstanding has been fostered — <em>intentionally</em>, it would seem. I would even go so for as to call this real ‘malinformation’ — a new term that we hear on occasion (which definitely won’t be in your our old Webster’s Dictionary). As a result, the actions we take (in the hope of fixing our economy) are likely to have precisely the opposite effect. This is the inevitable — and anticipated — final stage of that Great Reset transition, <em>however</em> things unfold.</p><p><strong>Whether the system collapses of its own accord (as Ponzi Schemes do)</strong>, or is <em>intentionally</em> collapsed at an opportune moment (as those bankers have often done) — or is <em>unintentionally</em> collapsed, the result of actions taken by well-meaning yet uncomprehending politicians — the results will be (essentially) the same: a massive contraction of the money supply and an equally massive transfer of assets from those without money to those with money.</p><p>Again, in any of the above situations, those with money (or a grasp of these concepts at least) will win. In an inflationary scenario, those with cash on hand will likely buy assets (these may or may not appreciate in value, <em>depending</em>, but that’s another story). In a deflation (as in the depression, where the Fed reduced the money supply by 33%) every dollar held actually gained purchasing power. <em>Spuriously </em>attributed to Thomas Jefferson:</p><blockquote><p><strong>“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. . .”</strong></p></blockquote><p>You can read more about this on the <a href="https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/private-banks-spurious-quotation/">Monticello</a> website, but I share these words because (like so many of those quotations floating around the monetary universe), ‘spurious’ or not, this analogy perfectly describes the reality of our current situation:</p><p>First expand the money supply and encourage debt; then contract the money supply, and strip those who cannot find a chair (when that proverbial music stops) of their assets. <strong>The game is elegant in its simplicity, and diabolical in design</strong>. No surprise of course, these characters have been at it for thousands of years — since Jesus got pissed off and kicked those moneylenders out of the temple. All these years later we are really no wiser (it would seem). The moneylenders / money creators must belly laugh over their cigars every time they pull this off, and here we are again. That old ‘capital adequacy’ (0% reserve) system (introduced 1991-1994) is no longer ‘adequate’ (the <em>capital</em> is no longer adequate that is) because <em>who knows</em> the <em>real value</em> of anything anymore, starting with the dollar?</p><p><strong>A new system is coming in </strong>(must come in), whether we like it or not. We hear conservatives everywhere today, repeat the same solutions to this problem: <strong>“balance the budget and pay off the debt.”</strong> This wasn’t an option, even in the <em>old</em> fractional reserve system, because Ponzi Schemes, as a friend at the Isle of Man Treasury once told me, “eventually hit the wall.”</p><p>Calling out this fact is undoubtedly going to ruffle a few feathers, since balancing budgets, and paying off debts (in most situations) isn’t a bad idea — and most conscientious people will see this is a prudent idea. <strong>But the system is not designed this way.</strong> In a debt-based money system, the money <em>is</em> debt. More precisely, the money is backed by debt — mostly bonds and other government securities. If all the debt were to be paid off, there would be no money in circulation. Further to this, deficits are new money coming into circulation (or they should be). <em>Too much </em>money has been created, misallocated and/or misappropriated. There is certainly wasteful spending, and bloated bureaucracies too, all of which should be cut, but these are a separate issues. For now we must stay focused on the nature of our monetary system.</p><p>As our friend, the 21st Century <a href="https://understandingcanada.ca/">Adam Smith</a> always says: the economy is like a car with no brakes. You can accelerate and change direction a little — but there’s no slowing down, and there’s no stopping (in this analogy too) until you hit a wall (or steer into the guardrail). Kate Raworth, in her <em>Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist</em>, uses the analogy of an aircraft that has taken off, but has no plan to land: ‘locked on autopilot, expecting to cruise at around 3% growth forever.’ If that 3% can’t be maintained, we have a problem; and we have a problem anyway, as eventually the dead weight of all this accumulating debt makes it impossible to maintain altitude.</p><p>Until 2020, most of the money circulated was created by commercial banks, in the form of loans. I’ve shared the graphic below before, from the Bank of Canada.</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%2F931a07ac-2d56-48ce-b70b-e5aa0075f86e_749x256.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%2F931a07ac-2d56-48ce-b70b-e5aa0075f86e_749x256.jpeg" width="749" height="256" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/931a07ac-2d56-48ce-b70b-e5aa0075f86e_749x256.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":256,"width":749,"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>If you check <em>The</em> <em><a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/banking">Canadian Encyclopedia</a></em><a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/banking">’s</a> page on banking, the first paragraph (and the first line here) will give you the impression that banks lend out deposits, however:</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%2F5ccb0163-62b7-401d-bf5e-3d814d2a6d36_750x105.png" 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%2F5ccb0163-62b7-401d-bf5e-3d814d2a6d36_750x105.png" width="750" height="105" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5ccb0163-62b7-401d-bf5e-3d814d2a6d36_750x105.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":105,"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></div></div></a></figure></div><p>From the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/modern-money-mechanics">Modern Money Mechanics</a></em> Publication:</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%2Fd71cddf7-2477-4c0e-95bb-7dd733cf547f_749x104.png" 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%2Fd71cddf7-2477-4c0e-95bb-7dd733cf547f_749x104.png" width="749" height="104" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d71cddf7-2477-4c0e-95bb-7dd733cf547f_749x104.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":104,"width":749,"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></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The commercial banks too create money ‘out of thin air,’ just like central banks, but central banks always get the blame when there’s too much money sloshing around in the economy and inflation becomes a concern. The trend of commercial bank created money accelerated (encouraged by falling interest rates) from the 2008 Great Financial Crisis until 2020, when ‘emergency’ money created by <em>central banks</em> flooded the world’s economies. Since interest rates have risen (although this was coming anyway), commercial bank money can no longer be created <em>in sufficient amounts</em> to keep the bubble inflated, so central banks must continue their money creation. I explained this in more detail in my <em><strong><a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/monetary-machinations">Monetary Machinations</a></strong></em> Substack. To see a graphic representation of this, please revisit the above page (scroll to bottom).</p><p>We are in a ‘debt trap’ of course. It can play out in various ways, and be extended to some degree, but there isn’t an easy way out of this. The government’s preference will (as always) be an attempt to inflate the debt away. Hence, those recent, token, interest rate reductions; but we’re talking about <em>unprecedented</em> amounts of debt now, and an alternative plan is required. This is why central banks and governments have been talking about Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). I’ve written a lot about this already (if you want to check some of my earlier Substack posts).</p><p>It’s going to be difficult to clear balance sheets of the massive amounts of money that have already been created. Assets have been inflated in price, but the money used to purchase them doesn’t actually exist now. This is what the financialisation of our economy had done, and a major revaluation will likely be required. So <em>there is</em> a way forward, which will seem unpalatable to some, but no more unpalatable (I’m sure) than the alternatives being put forward by those BIS and WEF authoritarians, who lust for absolute control over your life.</p><p><strong>We must take a trip back into history now, to see how this system evolved.</strong> If you feel your eyelids getting heavy at this point, and your mind is suddenly drifting off, you’ve probably been conditioned to respond this way. It’s the reason monetary reformers everywhere have so much trouble communicating these ideas. One day I must write a piece on this phenomena. Sometimes is almost seems like a kind of <strong>black magic</strong>, and if you read the history of those old banking families, that actually wouldn’t be surprising. <strong>For now, suffice it to say, the powers that be would rather you didn’t think about this subject at all. </strong>So grab another cup of coffee, and stay with me 🙂</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%2F1bea62c5-8f9c-42f4-a893-32d1062a33f6_749x422.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%2F1bea62c5-8f9c-42f4-a893-32d1062a33f6_749x422.jpeg" width="749" height="422" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1bea62c5-8f9c-42f4-a893-32d1062a33f6_749x422.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":422,"width":749,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>‘Bonded Labour.’ Feudal serfs and their ‘tax farmer’ in the fields — What’s old is new again, and I like the hoodie. Just for laughs, here’s a look at an alternative model, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI">anarcho-syndicalist commune</a> — Monty Python.</h6><p><strong>Coins, of course, date back thousands of years</strong>, to the silver “Shekel of the Sanctuary”<strong> </strong>and beyond. This ‘commodity’ money was originally a material with <em>inherent</em> value, and its form has hardly changed in 3000 years. But we must skip over this interesting early history, to the second millennia, with its tally sticks, and the first bonds. Bonds, in fact, replaced the ‘stock’ and ‘stub’ (foil) ‘tally stick’ system that has been used (successfully) since they were introduced by King Henry I in the 1100s. This system (of wooden sticks with notches cut in them, split down the middle) was so effective it functioned right up until 1826. Tallies were largely supplanted though, during the reign of Charles I and Charles II in the mid-1600s, with the introduction of bonds, which, soon thereafter, led to paper money. Perhaps the most interesting point here is the transition from private money (with coin), to public money with tally sticks (created by the crown), to bonds (which represented private money borrowed by the crown). Coins were not debt, tally sticks were not debt — one was a commodity, the other <em>represented</em> a commodity — but bonds <em>were</em> debt.</p><p>To quote from Christine Desans’ <em>Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism</em> (pg 235):</p><blockquote><p><strong>‘[R]efracted through the new and oddly narrowing lens of liberalism, coin looked more like commodity, pure and private, than it ever had before. As to tallies, their demise generated the conditions for a new kind of circulating credit: government bonds traveled hand to hand as had the older tallies but [they] bore interest from the beginning and operated to borrow money instead of compensating people for illiquid resources and services.’</strong></p></blockquote><p>She continues:</p><blockquote><p><strong>‘Bonds offered unprecedented opportunity to reach a large pool of popular lenders. The Change would make investors out of a broad swath of citizenry for the first time. Bonds also furnished the English with a new kind of liquidity: circulating credit that the government paid individuals to hold.’</strong></p></blockquote><p>It is true that the private Bank of England was founded on a subscription model (an original £1.2 million pounds in gold) paying 8% to the first 1268 investors, but bonds would allow for much greater participation in this process. The important thing here is that banking, at this stage, was more about attracting already existing ‘wealth’ (usually in the form on gold and silver) from ‘investors.’ Gold and silver, as commodities, did not pay interest; but now, as ‘money stock’ (backing for the new paper money) they could. The same could be said for tally sticks, which in the end were absorbed and phased out (in part) as a component of the initial funding of the Bank of England.</p><p>Without getting too far into the details of this evolution, tallies, in effect, became ‘Tallyes of loan,’ which were ultimately replaced by ‘Treasury Orders,’ and these early ‘bonds’ circulated as a kind of paper money. They were not quite money, because they could not be cashed on demand, but these ‘private bonds’ led to ‘Promises to Pay’ a ‘fiduciary instrument’ that really was paper money (and even, in the original form, paid interest dividends).</p><p>This paper money became separated from the underlying bond however, to circulate (publicly) while the bond still represented a private contractual agreement, paying interest to its owner. Tax revenue made possible by economic activity stimulated <em>by</em> new money in circulation (in one form or another) guaranteed interest on the bonds.</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%2F1db4cab2-0fd6-48b1-982d-1d8599555fd2_749x313.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%2F1db4cab2-0fd6-48b1-982d-1d8599555fd2_749x313.jpeg" width="749" height="313" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1db4cab2-0fd6-48b1-982d-1d8599555fd2_749x313.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":313,"width":749,"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><strong>Anyone reading this far will likely know the introduction of income tax in the United States, through the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, made the private, for-profit Federal Reserve (founded that same year) a viable business venture. </strong>The ability of the government to levy taxes in this manner (and on a permanent basis) is what made it possible to pay the 6% dividend on shares in the Fed (to this day), held by its member banks. These shares (which you and I cannot own) represent the capitalization, ‘the stock’ – the ‘base money’ — upon which this enterprise is based. The Fed (in the U.S. at least) is why taxes, which were not needed before, now can never go away. It is also the reason the debt is as large as it is, in the U.S., and almost everywhere else in the world.</p><h4><strong>So how do we turn this around?</strong></h4><p><strong>Some might say</strong> ‘<strong>nationalize the banks’</strong> and ‘<strong>monetize the debt</strong>.’</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F48cd3dff-1cab-4989-b093-7f6718c7266a_670x393.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%2F48cd3dff-1cab-4989-b093-7f6718c7266a_670x393.jpeg" width="670" height="393" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/48cd3dff-1cab-4989-b093-7f6718c7266a_670x393.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":393,"width":670,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This has been done in various places, with central banks too. The Bank of England, was nationalized in 1946 and the Bank of Canada in 1938. Did this help. We’ll yes, arguably, for a time. Central Banks shouldn’t be privately owned, but if the public doesn’t understand the basics of how the system works, these banks are still likely to work against the peoples’ interests (public or private), led by the <em>private</em> Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the <em>private</em> Federal Reserve.</p><p>When you hear someone say, usually with a note of disapproval,<strong> </strong><em><strong>they’re going to monetize the debt</strong></em>; you might reply, <strong>the </strong><em><strong>debt is already monetized. That’s what our money is: debt.</strong> </em>What they mean by this though, is that instead of banks purchasing and holding the interest-paying debt (in the form government bonds and securities), these will be held by the central bank. I explained some of these technicalities already: <em><strong><a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/monetary-machinations">Monetary Machinations</a></strong></em>.</p><p>What politicians need to know (if they plan to do the right thing) is that there will be immediate repercussions for trying to do <em>two things</em> that are effectively impossible to do. Even cutting the ‘deadwood’ in government bureaucracy will yield apparent savings at first, but the wages that are cut, represents money that now isn’t circulating in the economy. Of course, those who are dismissed from their government jobs will not be happy with the administration that does this. Others will be effected though as their business slows, in time, because of fewer dollars circulating. These people might feel the government is on the right course (<em>and it would be</em>), but if things get tougher, the government in power <em>will</em> take the blame<strong>. . . DOGE Days Trailer:</strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmleMzR5CcY">There’s a whole forest of deadwood out there, we’ve gotta get chopping, buddy!</a>”</strong></p></blockquote><p>No politician can fix this problem without <em>systemic</em> change — without <em>real monetary reform</em>. The Ponzi Scheme is too far along and the only real question now is: can the old system be unwound without a collapse? Politicians don’t understand the current system at all (apparently), and they certainly don’t have the knowledge to design a replacement. <strong>So again, this falls to the people</strong>, because politicians will, for obvious reasons, let their banker friends design the new system; and you don’t have to be a genius to guess <em>who </em>will benefit from the system these folk come up with.</p><p><strong>As I’ve said before, the monetary system is going to be reformed; if we don’t demand a system that works for us, we’ll be given another system, that works for the bankers.</strong></p><p>A great example of a now popular politician who doesn’t understand the monetary system, is Javier Milei. First he was going to use the U.S. dollar, then he was going to use Bitcoin, then he invited in BlackRock (following through on the invitation extended in Davos). Every one of these monetary ‘plans’ serve only to undermine the sovereignty of the nation. He was going to cut, cut, cut. (<strong>“</strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejTtxekdTw">afuera, afuera, afuera</a>”</strong></em>). This got him into power, and this is what he’s been doing, but Milei’s earlier <em>monetary</em> plans (to have even suggested these options) shows he has little to no understanding of money mechanics. BlackRock, however, brings in capital that will mask the impact of his other policies (for a time), and make it seem as if he’s doing a great job; but the multinationals are there for one reason: to extract a profit.</p><p>In that <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z44XP4u9Xs">speech to the WEF</a></strong> in Davos, Milei looked all bad ass and in command — telling those socialists off — but then pleaded for the WEF member multinationals to come to Argentina. This was all theatre of course, and the nation is now pretty much own by BlackRock (if it wasn’t already). This isn’t a victory, it is another neoliberal coup, in the place where neoliberalism was born (<strong><a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/neoliberalism">neoliberalism Part I</a></strong>); except that neoliberalism has morphed into something else now. Since the late 70s, early 80s, neoliberalism served elite well. As the money supply was expanded, and business activity artificially stimulated, <em>real</em> wealth was extracted by means of the offshore banking world — which also sprang up, in earnest, in the late 70s and early 80s. This isn’t a coincidence; these Offshore Financial Centres (IFCs) are an essential component of the neoliberal scheme. But this is a separate story, to which I must return later.</p><p>The system BlackRock is bringing in now is technocracy — ‘techno-feudalism’ might be a more appropriate description. You’ve heard those WEF control-freaks talk about their vision of the future for so long now, and you’ve also heard Larry Fink describe how he sees it working. I’ve shared the Larry <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVpth7uqb4">Fink link</a> before. Capitalism is in the process of destroying itself (with its own capital), as Marx said it would.</p><h4>So what do we do?</h4><p>We can’t pay off the debt (there isn’t enough money in existence) and yet we must get rid of the debt. <em>Now there’s a conundrum</em>. The debt shackles us, but also, a lot of people depend (directly or indirectly) on the interest from bonds. Anyone who owns bonds at the moment (and must now hold them to maturity to avoid selling at a discount) certainly doesn’t want to see bonds defaulted on. We must return to this too.</p><p>The bond in itself isn’t a problem, but a system built on bonds is; depending on who owns them, and what they do with them. Bonds denominated in other currencies can be a big problem (because of changes in the relative value of these currencies), bonds held by foreign countries too (because they ultimately extract wealth from economies). Unless you have the world reserve currency, like the U.S. (for the moment), you are subject bond vigilantes who can control nations by controlling their bonds (as Rothschild first cornered the British bond market after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815).</p><p>Syndicates of lenders organized as early as 1640, and still exist, buying, among other things, municipal debt; which now feels a little like getting a loan from the mob. Bonds held by banks are particularly problematic, as they facilitate the multiplying up of money, while they draw wealth out of the economy <em>in two ways</em>: as dividends collected on the underlying bond, then as interest received from loans issued. Recently a third way was added, when banks started to be paid interest on reserves at the central bank (again, I talked about this in <strong><a href="https://wdavidward.substack.com/p/bank-heist">Bank Heist</a></strong>).</p><p>Importantly, the interest extracted from loan payments becomes, in a sense, tangible; it becomes permanent (some use the expression ‘everlasting’ money). This is added to the bank’s profit (and capital stock); while the loan itself (which was issued as ephemeral bank ‘fiat’ money) is written off the books as the loan is paid back. This ‘money’ actually disappears; money creation, money destruction. <strong>The end result of creating money ‘out of thin air’ is that, ultimately, all real value gradually accrues to the banks</strong> — in the form of interest, at the current rate of interest.</p><p>The banks (and those in the know) do not sit on cash, they convert it into hard assets, or purchase more bonds — upon which more ephemeral money can be ‘spirited’ into existence, just long enough to extract <em>more</em> real ‘sovereign’ money from the economy. As a result, at the end of the neoliberal period, we have asset bubbles in all areas, real estate especially, and not enough money in circulation for everyday people.</p><p>Clearly, I’ve only scratched the surface here, and I cannot present all of the possible solutions in one short, introductory post, but let me quote once more (for now) from <em>Making Money</em>. As Tallies diminished under Charles I,<strong> they ‘were quickly converted. . . into a liquid advance; they acted as a request or channel for a money loan rather than as a method of creating a non-interest-bearing public credit currency.’</strong></p><p>I am not advocating a return of tally sticks of course, but I would suggest the return of <strong>non-interest-bearing public credit currency</strong>, and a system that could (hopefully) endure for centuries — to keep the moneylenders / money creators at bay. It was Henry I who began the dismantling of feudalism with his <strong>Charter of Liberties</strong> (forerunner of the Magna Carta), and a democratic money (as Christine Desan would call it) is essential if we are not to descend, nearly a thousand years later, into technocratic <em>neofeudalism</em>. How fitting that <em>our</em> new money should be inspired at least by that Great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England">Plantagenet King</a> (if not <em>of</em> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_York">House of York</a>, <em>from </em>the<em> </em>House of York) and his enduring ideas around the subject of money.</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%2Fd1717eea-e63e-4518-89ed-d9508f20ca7d_749x361.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%2Fd1717eea-e63e-4518-89ed-d9508f20ca7d_749x361.jpeg" width="749" height="361" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1717eea-e63e-4518-89ed-d9508f20ca7d_749x361.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":361,"width":749,"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><h6><strong><a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-9K4DVX/norman-henry-i-1100-1135-ar-penny-21mm-139-g-10h-double-inscription-type-bmc-xi-hereford-mint-ravenswert-moneyer-struck-circa-1115-vf">Henry I. </a></strong><a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-9K4DVX/norman-henry-i-1100-1135-ar-penny-21mm-139-g-10h-double-inscription-type-bmc-xi-hereford-mint-ravenswert-moneyer-struck-circa-1115-vf">1100-1135. AR Penny (21mm, 1.39 g, 10h). Double Inscription type (BMC xi).</a></h6><p>Now, as then, wealth is concentrated in (and controlled by) a small percentage of the population. These folk would be happy to lend their money at interest, and profit from our collective labour. In part, this is what those public-private partnerships are all about, but there’s an easy solution to this. As monetary reformers everywhere have said, many times before, a monetarily sovereign nation does not need to borrow it’s own money, and pay interest on this money, when it has the ability to create it’s own money. This is pure folly.</p><p>There would still be a roll for bonds of course, as they once existed — for specific projects — whereby investor’s money could serve a <em>productive</em> purpose. They should not be used to enable a private currency (as in the giant public-private partnership that is our system now); benefiting a few, invisibly, at the expense of the many, and enriching the bankers beyond measure. The people who once pretended to be capitalists, misused capital, destroying capitalism in order to bring in a strange technocratic fusion of communism and fascism.</p><p>An honest, <em>sound money</em> is required, if capitalism and democracy are to survive. There are so many alternative models and variations on themes to explore, and now is the time for monetary reformers (<em>who have essentially been talking to themselves for the past few decades</em>) to be front and centre. If we are not actually part of the conversation, we’re going to get whatever crazy scheme the technocrats can dream up to keep us all in bondage.</p><p>I hope you’ve enjoyed this very brief the history of money, and I look forward to continuing this conversation. Thank you for your continuing interest, and support.</p>

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by Schepp<br><p>Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design with performance in mind. However, performance optimization is an art form in itself. While implementing straightforward techniques like file compression or proper cache headers is relatively easy, achieving deeper optimizations can quickly become complex.</p>
<p>But what if, instead of solely trying to accelerate the loading process, we triggered it earlier—without the user noticing?</p>
<p>One way to achieve this is by prefetching pages the user might navigate to next using <code>&lt;link rel="prefetch"&gt;</code> tags. These tags are typically embedded in your HTML, but they can also be generated dynamically via JavaScript, based on a heuristic of your choice. Alternatively, you can send them as an <a href="https://www.debugbear.com/blog/resource-hints-rel-preload-prefetch-preconnect#resource-hints-in-http-headers">HTTP <code>Link</code> header</a> if you lack access to the HTML code but can modify the server configuration. Browsers will take note of the prefetch directives and fetch the referenced pages as needed.</p>
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<p><em><strong>⚠︎ Caveat:</strong> To benefit from this prefetching technique, you must allow the browser to cache pages temporarily using the <code>Cache-Control</code> HTTP header. For example, <code>Cache-Control: max-age=300</code> would tell the browser to cache a page for five minutes. Without such a header, the browser will discard the pre-fetched resource and fetch it again upon navigation, rendering the prefetch ineffective.</em></p>
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<p>In addition to <code>&lt;link rel="prefetch"&gt;</code>, Chromium-based browsers support <code>&lt;link rel="prerender"&gt;</code>. This tag is essentially a supercharged version of <code>&lt;link rel="prefetch"&gt;</code>. Known as "<a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/nostate-prefetch">NoState Prefetch</a>," it not only prefetches an HTML page but also scans it for subresources—stylesheets, JavaScript files, images, and fonts referenced via a <code>&lt;link rel="preload" as="font" crossorigin&gt;</code> — loading them as well.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-speculation-rules-api">The Speculation Rules API</h3>
<p>A relatively new addition to Chromium browsers is the <strong>Speculation Rules API</strong>, which offers enhanced prefetching and enables actual prerendering of webpages. It introduces a JSON-based syntax for precisely defining the conditions under which preprocessing should occur.</p>
<p>Here’s a simple example of how to use it:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>script</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speculationrules<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token script"><span data-sanitized-class="token language-javascript"><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prerender"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"urls"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token string">"next.html"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"next2.html"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>script</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
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<p>Alternatively, you can place the JSON file on your server and reference it using an HTTP header: <code>Speculation-Rules: "/speculationrules.json"</code>.</p>
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<p>The above <code>list</code>-rule specifies that the browser should prerender the URLs <code>next.html</code> and <code>next2.html</code> so they are ready for instant navigation. The keyword <code>prerender</code> means more than fetching the HTML and subresources—it instructs the browser to fully render the pages in hidden tabs, ready to replace the current page instantly when needed. This makes navigation to these pages feel seamless.</p>
<p>Prerendered pages also typically score excellent Core Web Vital metrics. Layout shifts and image loading occur during the hidden prerendering phase, and JavaScript execution happens upfront, ensuring a smooth experience when the user first sees the page.</p>
<p>Instead of listing specific URLs, the API also allows for pattern matching using <code>where</code> and <code>href_matches</code> keys:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>script</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speculationrules<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token script"><span data-sanitized-class="token language-javascript"><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prerender"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"where"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"href_matches"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"/*"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>script</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<p>For more precise targeting, CSS selectors can be used with the <code>selector_matches</code> key:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>script</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speculationrules<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token script"><span data-sanitized-class="token language-javascript"><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prerender"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"where"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"selector_matches"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">".navigation__link"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>script</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<p>These rules, called <code>document</code>-rules, act on link elements as soon as the user triggers a <code>pointerdown</code> or <code>touchstart</code> event, giving the referenced pages a few milliseconds' head start before the actual navigation.</p>
<p>If you want the preprocessing to begin even earlier, you can adjust the <code>eagerness</code> setting:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>script</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speculationrules<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token script"><span data-sanitized-class="token language-javascript"><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prerender"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"where"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"href_matches"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"/*"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"eagerness"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"moderate"</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>script</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<p><strong>Eagerness values:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>immediate</code>: Executes immediately.</li>
<li><code>eager</code>: Currently behaves like <code>immediate</code> but may be refined to sit between <code>immediate</code> and <code>moderate</code>.</li>
<li><code>moderate</code>: Executes after a 200ms hover or on <code>pointerdown</code> for mobile devices.</li>
<li><code>conservative</code> (default): Speculates based on pointer or touch interaction.</li>
</ul>
<p>For even greater flexibility, you can combine <code>prerender</code> and <code>prefetch</code> rules with different eagerness settings:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>script</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speculationrules<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token script"><span data-sanitized-class="token language-javascript"><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prerender"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"where"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"href_matches"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"/*"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"eagerness"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"conservative"</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"prefetch"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"where"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"href_matches"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"/*"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"eagerness"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token operator">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token string">"moderate"</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">]</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>script</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></code></pre>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="limitations-and-challenges">Limitations and Challenges</h3>
<p>While the Speculation Rules API is powerful, it comes with some limitations:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Browser support:</strong> Only Chromium-based browsers support it. Other browsers lack this capability, so treat it as a progressive enhancement.</li>
<li><strong>Bandwidth concerns:</strong> Over-aggressive settings could waste user bandwidth. Chromium imposes limits to mitigate this: a maximum of 10 prerendered and 50 prefetched pages with <code>immediate</code> or <code>eager</code> eagerness.</li>
<li><strong>Server strain:</strong> Poorly optimized servers (e.g., no caching, heavy database dependencies) may experience significant load increases due to excessive speculative requests.</li>
<li><strong>Compatibility:</strong> Prefetching won’t work if a Service Worker is active, though prerendering remains unaffected. Cross-origin prerendering requires explicit opt-in by the target page.</li>
</ol>
<p>Despite these caveats, the Speculation Rules API offers a powerful toolset to significantly enhance perceived performance and improve UX. So go ahead and try them out!</p>
<p><em>I would like to express a big thank you to the Webperf community for always being ready to help with great tips and expertise. For this article, I would like to thank Barry Pollard, Andy Davies, and Noam Rosenthal in particular for providing very valuable background information. ❤️</em></p>


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by Alexis Degryse<br><p>I think we all know the <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field.</p>
<p>It’s not an alternative for the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> element. A field associated to a <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> can still allow any value that is not listed in the <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> elements.</p>
<p>Here is a basic example:</p>
<iframe height="400" scrolling="no" title="Demo textual datalist on Codepen" src="https://codepen.io/twogrey/embed/preview/QwLEwvG?default-tab=result" frameborder="no" loading="lazy" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
<p>Pretty cool, isn't it? But what happens if we combine <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> with less common field types, like <code>color</code> and <code>date</code>:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>favorite-color<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>What is your favorite color?<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>color<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">list</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>colors-list<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>favorite-color<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>datalist</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>colors-list<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#FF0000<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#FFA500<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#FFFF00<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#008000<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#0000FF<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#800080<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#FFC0CB<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#FFFFFF<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>#000000<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>datalist</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<iframe height="400" scrolling="no" title="Demo color type field with datalist on Codepen" src="https://codepen.io/twogrey/embed/preview/YPKWPao?default-tab=result" frameborder="no" loading="lazy" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
<p>Colors listed in <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> are pre-selectable but the color picker is still usable by users if they need to choose a more specific one.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>event-choice<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>form-label col-form-label-lg<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Choose a historical date<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>date<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">list</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>events<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>event-choice<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>datalist</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>events<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>Fall of the Berlin wall<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>1989-11-09<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>option</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>option</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token 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<p>Same here: some dates are pre-selectable and the datepicker is still available.</p>
<p>Depending on the context, having pre-defined values can possibly speed up the form filling by users.</p>
<p>Please, note that <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> should be seen as a <strong>progressive enhancement</strong> because of some points:</p>
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<li>For Firefox (tested on 133), the <code>&lt;datalist&gt;</code> element is compatible only with textual field types (think about text, url, tel, email, number). There is no support for color, date and time.</li>
<li>For Safari (tested on 15.6), it has support for color, but not for date and time.</li>
<li>With some screen reader/browser combinations there are issues. For example, <a href="https://a11ysupport.io/tests/tech__html__datalist/html__datalist_element/convey_role/vo_macos/safari">suggestions are not announced in Safari</a> and it's not possible to navigate to the datalist with the <code>down arrow</code> key (until you type something matched with suggestions). Refer to <a href="https://a11ysupport.io/tech/html/datalist_element">a11ysupport.io</a> for more.</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="find-out-more">Find out more</h2>
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<li><a href="https://demo.agektmr.com/datalist/">datalist experiment</a> by <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/agektmr.com">Eiji Kitamura</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist">Documentation on MDN</a></li>
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<h5><strong>The following is the first chapter of Gerald Therrien’s The Unveiling of Canadian History, Volume 5. Access to Gerald’s substack and purchase his books (all info available at the end of this post)</strong></h5><blockquote><p><em>When trying to uncover the British Empire’s plot of secession for the United States, one impulsively turns one’s eyes to their use of the ‘southerners’, of the so-called ‘slave’ states, as the originators. But au contraire, the secessionist movement can be traced back to ‘northerners’, to New England, and to a failed so-called ‘federalist’ Timothy Pickering – Colonel, Senator, and former Secretary of State, who was part of the ‘Essex Junto’ - that Anglophile faction of slave-traders and opium-traders of Newburyport and Salem, Massachusetts (as told so well by Anton Chaitkin in ‘Treason in America’). Aaron Burr would become a part of this ‘Essex Junto’ conspiracy – whose plan would be stopped by one of our ‘unsung heroes’, Alexander Hamilton.</em></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%2F2154abf7-fcae-4d8c-b214-5b7b36ce2848_432x527.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%2F2154abf7-fcae-4d8c-b214-5b7b36ce2848_432x527.jpeg" width="258" height="314.7361111111111" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2154abf7-fcae-4d8c-b214-5b7b36ce2848_432x527.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":527,"width":432,"resizeWidth":258,"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><blockquote><p><em>Timothy Pickering</em></p><blockquote><p>‘Although the end of all our Revolutionary labors and expectations is disappointment, and our fond hopes of republican happiness are vanity, and the real patriots of ’76 are overwhelmed by the modern pretenders to that character, I will not yet despair: I will rather anticipate a new confederacy, exempt from the corrupt and corrupting influence and oppression of the aristocratic Democrats of the South. There will be – and our children at farthest will see it – a separation. The white and black population will mark the boundary. <strong>The British Provinces, even with the assent of Britain, will become members of the Northern confederacy</strong> …’</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>[Timothy Pickering’s letter to Richard Peters on December 24<sup>th</sup> 1803.]</p></blockquote><p>To find out where this treasonous plot to break up the American Union came from, one must look back in time, to the election year of 1800 – and to the election for president of the United States.</p><p>In the previous election in 1796, John Adams had been elected president by a mere three votes over Thomas Jefferson, as the ‘federalist’ party had swept the New England states, plus Delaware, New Jersey and New York. Jefferson and his ‘republican’ party supporters set out to win the next presidential election – by winning over New York to their side.</p><p>This unholy alliance of Virginia and New York – of Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton – was consummated in 1791. In May and June of that year, Jefferson and James Madison took a trip to northern New York state – supposedly to study the local flora and fauna (!?!) but, in reality, they went there to meet with Robert Livingston, George Clinton and Aaron Burr – to seek their support in opposing the policies of the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Livingston and Clinton would join forces to defeat Philip Schuyler, Hamilton’s father-in-law, and to elect Burr as the next United States Senator from New York.</p><p>Also, while on their trip to New York, Madison and Jefferson met with Madison’s former college room-mate at Princeton, Philip Freneau, to convince him to come to Philadelphia and launch a newspaper - the <em>National Gazette</em>, that would express their mutual fear and detestation of Hamilton’s attempt to shape the federal government, by attacking Hamilton’s policies as ‘British’ and ‘monarchist’ – the same policies that Madison had earlier agreed on with Hamilton, during the Constitutional Convention in 1787!!!</p><p>It was also during that summer of 1791 (quite suspiciously) that Hamilton became seduced into having an affair with Maria Reynolds – James Reynolds had been renting his stylish wife to various gentlemen, and then blackmailing them. Mrs. Reynolds would later file for divorce from her husband, hiring Burr as her lawyer!</p><p>Six years later, in July 1797, James Callender would publish documents that implicated Hamilton in this affair, but he would charge that Hamilton, with James Reynolds’s help, was speculating on government securities for his own personal gain. Hamilton almost fought a duel with James Monroe over Hamilton’s suspicion that Monroe was implicated in the leaking of these documents to Callender.</p><p>Hamilton wrote a pamphlet ‘<em>to place before the public an exact detail of the affair in all its circumstances accompanied with the written documents which explain unequivocally its true nature</em>’. While Hamilton was willing to sacrifice the reputation of his private life, he fought to preserve his public honor and the integrity of President Washington and his administration – identifying his true enemy as ‘<em>the Jacobin Scandal Club</em>’.</p><p>In regards to the presidential electors of 1800, the Constitution gave each state the right to choose its own method for selecting its presidential electors – Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee chose their electors by voters in each district; Rhode Island and Virginia chose their electors by voters statewide; all other states (including New York) had their state legislature appoint their electors.</p><p>On May 1<sup>st</sup> 1800, elections were held for the state legislature in New York. Hamilton organized the ‘federalist’ ticket, while Burr organized the ‘republican’ ticket, using an efficient political machinery to win – the Saint Tammany’s Society.</p><p>Burr felt that if he could deliver New York into the ‘republican’ camp, it would ruin Adams’s chance for re-election and throw the outcome to Jefferson – <strong>and</strong> Burr could parlay that feat into a claim for second spot on the ‘republican’ ballot under Jefferson. Burr had been on the ballot in 1796, but was 1 of 3 ‘republican’ candidates, receiving only 30 votes.</p><p>After 3 days of balloting, the ‘republicans’ had swept the city of New York, and now controlled the state legislature, while the ‘federalists’ still controlled the state senate. But the ‘republican’ gains were enough to give them a majority of the combined houses – <em>by one vote</em> – that would allow them to choose all 12 of the (‘republican’) presidential electors. Jefferson could now count on 12 electoral votes from New York, where he had received none in the 1796 election.</p><p>For the upcoming presidential election, the ‘federalist’ party had previously agreed that all of their Electors would vote for John Adams and for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, except that one Elector in Rhode Island would vote for Adams and John Jay, and thus avoid a tie vote (between Adams and Pinckney).</p><p>Jefferson had been assured that one Elector in South Carolina would cast a vote for George Clinton instead of Burr – ensuring that Jefferson would have one more vote than Burr. But somehow (?!?) this did not happen.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>One wonders if this had anything to do with the future governor of South Carolina, Joseph Alston, who was one of the wealthiest planters in South Carolina, and who would soon marry Burr’s daughter, Theodosia.</p><p>And while the ‘republicans’ defeated the ‘federalists’ in the presidential election, Jefferson and Burr were tied in the number of their electoral votes.</p><p>According to the original Constitution (before the twelfth amendment), the Electors of each state were to meet and cast two votes for two persons – not having to show which vote was for president and which vote was for vice-president. When the Senate met to tally these votes, the person having the greatest number of votes would be the president, and the person with the next greatest number of votes would be the vice-president – the framers of the constitution had not foreseen the rise of parties or factions in the presidential elections. And also, according to the Constitution, in case of a tie vote, the election would be decided by the House of Representatives – as each state would cast one vote, and a majority of states (at least 9 votes) would be needed to elect a president.</p><p>But this election would be decided by the outgoing House of Representatives (where the ‘federalists’ had a majority) and not by the incoming House of Representatives (where the ‘republicans’ had a majority). On the first ballot taken, the votes of 8 states were given for Jefferson, the votes of 6 states for Burr, and the votes of 2 states were equally divided – as ‘disgruntled federalists’, in their disgust at the thought of Jefferson becoming president, preferred an alliance with Burr.</p><p>Hamilton wrote letters to his ‘federalist’ friends urging them that although he strongly disagreed with Jefferson’s economic and foreign policies, he was infinitely preferable to Burr.</p><p>Finally, on the 36<sup>th</sup> ballot, the ‘federalist’ members in the states of Delaware and South Carolina abstained, taking their votes away from Burr, and the ‘federalist’ members in the (tied) states of Vermont and Maryland abstained, giving their votes to Jefferson. Hamilton’s work in stopping Burr had finally succeeded, and Jefferson became President!</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>Note:</strong> Hamilton’s distrust of Burr originated in Hamilton’s life-long admiration and dedicated defence of General Washington. When General Washington court-martialled General Lee in 1778, Burr wrote a letter to the court-martial defending Lee, and he became associated with a minority of the officers who disliked and disparaged General Washington’s ability and leadership. In November 1783, after the British had finally evacuated New York, General Washington said farewell to his officers – but Burr was not invited to attend the event. In December 1783, when General Washington was elected President of the Society of the Cincinnati, some officers refused to join – including Burr. In 1798, during the Quasi-war with France, Burr was nominated as brigadier-general, but was rejected by General Washington who considered him as too prone to intrigue. General Washington may also have heard the rumors of Burr’s private opinion of him as ‘a man of no talents’ who ‘could not spell a sentence of common English’.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><p>But, because Burr did not withdraw from the contest and concede the election to Jefferson, he lost any confidence he might have had with Jefferson, and any influence he might wish to have within his administration – and also, he knew that he would not become a future ‘republican’ candidate for vice-president (or for president).</p><p>In June 1802, the Clinton faction of the ‘republican’ party in New York turned against their former ally, and published a pamphlet ‘<em>A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr</em>’, accusing Burr of having secretly schemed to steal the presidential election away from Jefferson in 1800, and of plotting to gain ‘federalist’ support to run against Jefferson in 1804. This was done to ostracize him from the party and also, to secure the future ‘republican’ vice-presidential nomination for Clinton.</p><p>The ‘federalist’ party had continuously opposed the policies of President Jefferson, but especially opposed the purchase of Louisiana in 1803 – fearing that this acquisition would shift the balance of power away from the northern ‘federalist’ states.</p><p>A number of New England ‘federalists’ in Congress, called the ‘Essex Junto’, disillusioned from their defeat over ratification of the Louisiana treaty, and with no hope of the ‘federalists’ regaining the presidency, began discussing the idea of the northern states seceding from the Union. But, for their plan to work they needed the support from New York and so, they sought out the participation of Burr as part of their treasonous plan. With ‘federalist’ support, Burr would run for governor of New York, against the ‘republican’ candidate, and with his victory, Burr could then throw New York behind New England’s secession plot.</p><p>Proof of the participation of Burr in the plot is seen in an excerpt from the journal of Senator William Plumer (New Hampshire). In the winter of 1803-04, Pickering, Hillhouse and Plumer dined with Burr, and Hillhouse ‘<em>unequivocally declared that it was his opinion that the United States would soon form two distinct governments</em>’; and ‘<em>Burr conversed very freely on the subject … and the impression made on his mind was, that Burr not only thought a separation would not only take place but that it was necessary</em>’.</p><p>Proof is also seen in the following letters from Senator Timothy Pickering:</p><blockquote><p>(to George Cabot, January 29<sup>th</sup> 1804) – “But when and how is a separation to be effected? … (if) federalism is crumbling away in New England, there is no time to be lost, lest it should be overwhelmed, and become unable to attempt its own relief. Its last refuge is New England; and immediate exertion, perhaps, its only hope. It must begin in Massachusetts. The proposition would be welcomed in Connecticut; and could we doubt of New Hampshire? But New York must be associated; and how is her concurrence to be obtained? She must be made the centre of the confederacy. Vermont and New Jersey would follow of course, and Rhode Island of necessity …</p></blockquote><blockquote><p><strong>We suppose the British Provinces in Canada and Nova Scotia, at no remote period, perhaps without delay, and with the assent of Great Britain, may become members of the Northern League</strong>. Certainly, that government can feel only disgust at our present rulers. She will be pleased to see them crestfallen. She will not regret the proposed division of empire. If with her own consent she relinquishes her provinces, she will be rid of the charge of maintaining them; while she will derive from them, as she does from us, all the commercial returns which her merchants now receive. A liberal treaty of amity and commerce will form a bond of union between Great Britain and the Northern confederacy highly useful to both …”</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>(to Rufus King, March 4<sup>th</sup> 1804) – “The Federalists here in general anxiously desire the election of Mr. Burr to the chair of New York; for they despair of a present ascendancy of the Federal party. Mr. Burr alone, we think, can break your Democratic phalanx; and we anticipate much good from his success. Were New York detached (as under his administration it would be) from the Virginia influence, the whole Union would be benefited. Jefferson would then be forced to observe some caution and forbearance in his measures. And, if a separation should be deemed proper, the five New England States, New York, and New Jersey would naturally be united. Among those seven states, there is a sufficient congeniality of character to authorize the expectation of practicable harmony and a permanent union, New York the centre ...”</p></blockquote><p>It must also be seen that Pickering would not have openly asserted that Britain would assent to ceding her North American colonies to a northern confederacy, unless he had prior assurances that this would occur. It must be assumed that the meetings among the New England congressmen (beginning no later than December 1803) must have included Anthony Merry, the British minister to the United States.</p><p>However, Hamilton had stood out from the majority of his own party when he supported the Louisiana purchase, although he attributed it to pure luck on the part of Jefferson –</p><blockquote><p>“Every man, however, possessed of the least candor and reflection will readily acknowledge that the acquisition has been solely owing to a <strong>fortuitous concurrence of unforeseen and unexpected circumstances</strong>, and not to any wise or vigorous measures on the part of the American Government.”</p></blockquote><p>He had also spoken out against the campaign of Burr for governor, that</p><blockquote><p>“Col. Burr has steadily pursued the track of democratic policies. This he has done either from principle or from calculation. If the former he is not likely now to change his plan, when the federalists are prostrate and their enemies predominant. If the latter, he will certainly not at this time relinquish the ladder of his ambition and espouse the cause or views of the weaker party ...”</p></blockquote><p>And he touched on his real reason for opposing Burr – his fear of secession of New England from the Union, that</p><blockquote><p>“the ill opinion of Jefferson and jealousy of the ambition of Virginia is no inconsiderable prop of good principles in that country. <strong>But these causes are leading to an opinion that a dismemberment of the Union is expedient</strong>. It would probably suit Mr. Burr’s views to promote this result to be the chief of the northern portion and, placed at the head of the state of New York, no man would be more likely to succeed.”</p></blockquote><p>In the New York election for governor on April 24<sup>th</sup> – 26<sup>th</sup>, Burr carried New York City, but he could not carry the northern counties of the state, losing the election – with 28,000 votes to 35,000 votes for Morgan Lewis, the ‘republican’ candidate. Hamilton’s work had again stopped Burr from succeeding, and the threat of northern secession was set back, for now.</p><p>But this secessionist plot was to become the future plan of the British Empire for Canada – to use Canada as part of the plan to split the United States. The British Empire was in favour of a confederation of the northern states into Canada – but not the other way around – not of the annexation of Canada into the American Union.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><p>[next week - chapter 2 - Canada and the Threat of Western Secession ]</p></blockquote><h5><em><strong>For those who may wish to support my continuing work on ‘The Unveiling of Canadian History’, you may purchase my books, that are available as PDFs and Paperback (on Amazon) at the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/gerry-therriens-history-files/">Canadian Patriot Review </a>:</strong></em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 1 – The Approaching Conflict, 1753 – 1774.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 2 – Forlorn Hope – Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the War for Independence, 1775 – 1785.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 3 – The Storming of Hell – the War for the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, 1786 – 1796.</em></p></li></ul><h5><em><strong>And hopefully,</strong></em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 4 – Ireland, Haiti, and Louisiana – the Idea of a Continental Republic, 1797 – 1804,</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>may also appear in print, in the near future, while I continue to work on :</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 5 – On the Trail of the Treasonous, 1804 - 1814.</em></p></li></ul><h5><strong>Merci, et amusez-vous, mes amis.</strong></h5>

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<p>Using WSL is great for a lot of things, but often I find it limiting or quirky bugs that don’t happen on HyperV.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-a-enhanced-hyperv-session-in-windows">What is a Enhanced HyperV Session in Windows?</h2>
<p>This allows full 3D acceleration, large resolutions, audio passthrough, and shared clipboard. There are many other things that this can do, but these are main benefits. I was using WSLg and constantly found little problems about moving around or compiling taking a long time and other issues.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with WSL is it isn’t Linux. It feels like a bolted on system that I have a hard time programming in.</p>
<p>Enter HyperV!</p>
<p>HyperV with Enhanced Session feels like Linux and it is FAST! I can go full screen and using it like a Linux desktop forgetting I am in Windows. The startup is only a few seconds and a fantastic alternative than doing a dual boot.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="enabling-enhanced-session">Enabling Enhanced Session</h2>
<p>Arch Dependencies inside VM</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">yay -S xrdp xorgxrdp
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Windows Configuration (PowerShell)</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">Set-VMhost -EnableEnhancedSessionMode $True
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">Set-VM -VMName "NameVM" -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Configuration Script (install script)</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="bash" data-sanitized-class="language-bash"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="cp">#!/bin/bash
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="cp"></span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># This script is for Arch Linux to configure XRDP for enhanced session mode</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># The configuration is adapted from the Ubuntu 16.04 script.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"</span><span data-sanitized-class="k">$(</span>id -u<span data-sanitized-class="k">)</span><span data-sanitized-class="s2">"</span> -ne <span data-sanitized-class="m">0</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">]</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">;</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'This script must be run with root privileges'</span> &gt;<span data-sanitized-class="p">&amp;</span><span data-sanitized-class="m">2</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">exit</span> <span data-sanitized-class="m">1</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Use Qi to check for exact package name</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> ! pacman -Qi xrdp &gt; /dev/null <span data-sanitized-class="p">;</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'xrdp not installed. Run makepkg.sh first to install xrdp.'</span> &gt;<span data-sanitized-class="p">&amp;</span><span data-sanitized-class="m">2</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">exit</span> <span data-sanitized-class="m">1</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Use Qs to allow xorgxrdp-devel-git</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> ! pacman -Qs xorgxrdp &gt; /dev/null <span data-sanitized-class="p">;</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'xorgxrdp not installed. Run makepkg.sh first to install xorgxrdp.'</span> &gt;<span data-sanitized-class="p">&amp;</span><span data-sanitized-class="m">2</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">exit</span> <span data-sanitized-class="m">1</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">###############################################################################</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Configure XRDP</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">systemctl <span data-sanitized-class="nb">enable</span> xrdp
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">systemctl <span data-sanitized-class="nb">enable</span> xrdp-sesman
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Configure the installed XRDP ini files.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># use vsock transport.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">sed -i_orig -e <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'s/port=3389/port=vsock:\/\/-1:3389/g'</span> /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># use rdp security.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">sed -i_orig -e <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'s/security_layer=negotiate/security_layer=rdp/g'</span> /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># remove encryption validation.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">sed -i_orig -e <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'s/crypt_level=high/crypt_level=none/g'</span> /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># disable bitmap compression since its local its much faster</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">sed -i_orig -e <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'s/bitmap_compression=true/bitmap_compression=false/g'</span> /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># sed -n -e 's/max_bpp=32/max_bpp=24/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># use the default lightdm x display</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># sed -i_orig -e 's/X11DisplayOffset=10/X11DisplayOffset=0/g' /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># rename the redirected drives to 'shared-drives'</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">sed -i_orig -e <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'s/FuseMountName=thinclient_drives/FuseMountName=shared-drives/g'</span> /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Change the allowed_users</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"allowed_users=anybody"</span> &gt; /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#Ensure hv_sock gets loaded</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">[</span> ! -e /etc/modules-load.d/hv_sock.conf <span data-sanitized-class="o">]</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">;</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"hv_sock"</span> &gt; /etc/modules-load.d/hv_sock.conf
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="k">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Configure the policy xrdp session</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">cat &gt; /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/02-allow-colord.rules <span data-sanitized-class="s">&lt;&lt;EOF
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device" ||
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile" ||
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device" ||
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile" ||
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile" ||
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile") &amp;&amp;
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> subject.isInGroup("users"))
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> {
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> return polkit.Result.YES;
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s"> }
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">});
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">EOF</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># Adapt the xrdp pam config</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">cat &gt; /etc/pam.d/xrdp-sesman <span data-sanitized-class="s">&lt;&lt;EOF
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">#%PAM-1.0
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">auth include system-remote-login
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">account include system-remote-login
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">password include system-remote-login
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">session include system-remote-login
</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="s">EOF</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">###############################################################################</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># .xinitrc has to be modified manually.</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="c1">#</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"You will have to configure .xinitrc to start your windows manager, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Reboot your machine to begin using XRDP."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="nb">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Example: nano ~/.xinitrc"</span> and launch your desktop environment or window manager. Enter <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"exec dwm"</span> to launch dwm.
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="audio-issues">Audio Issues</h2>
<p>Depending on your audio setup you may run into issues. Currently, pulseaudio-module-xrdp is not working on the AUR for Arch. I have been unsuccessful in getting pipewire working with xrdp.</p>
<p>Check <a href="https://github.com/neutrinolabs/pulseaudio-module-xrdp">https://github.com/neutrinolabs/pulseaudio-module-xrdp</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you should be able to use pipewire with xrdp at <a href="https://github.com/neutrinolabs/pipewire-module-xrdp">https://github.com/neutrinolabs/pipewire-module-xrdp</a>. However, at the time of this writing it has not seen an update in 9 months. So this method will probably only work with fedora or debian based systems.</p>


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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/f6f31d1600ac0b09618ffbe7e0ff0805.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mel K &amp; Cynthia Chung | Operation Phoenix Revisited | 12-10-24"></p>December 10, 2024<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find Mel K’s work at:        <br>Website: https://themelkshow.com<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow<br>Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelKShow<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Cynthia &amp; Matt's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” here:<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America” here:<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EamfkiBTc&amp;t=5s<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs” here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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<p>The sequence of  events that took place during the last few months of this year, including the presidential elections in the United States and the war in Syria overshadowed important developments in the news cycle, especially on the economic front. One of them is the approaching collapse of Great Britain. </p><p>I believe that we are close to the precipice of events that will remain recorded in history, perhaps like the 1921 Weimar republic hyperinflation, 1929 stock market crash, or the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The events will cause a lot of pain for great many people, but if we correctly anticipate them and prepare for the coming changes, at the very least we should be able to weather the storm intact.</p><p>About three months ago, on 26 August I published an article titled “<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain">The coming collapse of Britain</a>.” If you missed it, give it a scan as it sets the backdrop to this report. During this year’s summer months, British ruling establishment appeared to be in a panic over Ukraine’s imminent military defeat and her debt default. Britain has invested quite massively in project Ukraine, which now looks like a failed investment. </p><p>Indeed, on 27 August, only one day after I published that article, Prime Minister <strong>Keir</strong> <strong>Starmer</strong> gave a <a href="https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1828356735436013697">speech in the Downing Street garden</a>, in which he disclosed that there was a “£22 billion black hole in the public finances.” Supposedly, his government only discovered this once they came to power. By “black hole,” Starmer was referring to the government’s unfunded liabilities.</p><h2>Catastrophic fiscal conditions</h2><p>To prepare the nation for more bad news, the Prime Minister announced that the October 30 budget would be “painful.” Well, October 30 is behind us and now we know. When the news broke, Deutsche Bank’s analyst <strong>Sanjay Raja</strong> characterized the budget as, “one of the largest fiscal loosening of any fiscal event in decades.” In the post-war years it was only surpassed in 2020 due to the Covid 19 lockdowns. </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%2F4404eb03-4b35-4860-bea3-42fb56ff6186_574x367.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%2F4404eb03-4b35-4860-bea3-42fb56ff6186_574x367.png" width="574" height="367" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4404eb03-4b35-4860-bea3-42fb56ff6186_574x367.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":367,"width":574,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":93351,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The new budget adds £142 billion in new debt, which the government expects to raise in capital markets. But the sheer amount of the planned borrowing took the markets by surprise. As it turns out, Britain’s gross financing needs are double what market analysts had expected.</p><p>The painful side to the budget which Mr. Starmer promised will come not only in terms of savage austerity imposed on society’s most vulnerable groups but also in terms of £40 billion in new taxes. The burden of these new taxes will fall largely on British employers, which will in turn hurt the working people. Ultimately, it will also hurt the government. In suffocating the economy, the government will only widen the gap between public spending and its tax receipts. Britain is already running one of the world’s largest budget deficits. Bloomberg’s analyst <strong>Simon White</strong> had a point when he judged the fiscal picture in Britain as catastrophic.</p><h2>Lipstick on a pig</h2><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F269a3098-e950-4f3a-aff1-05664394bd8a_771x332.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%2F269a3098-e950-4f3a-aff1-05664394bd8a_771x332.png" width="771" height="332" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/269a3098-e950-4f3a-aff1-05664394bd8a_771x332.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":332,"width":771,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":137684,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">OBR: Office of Budget Responsibility and airbrushing Britain’s finances.</figcaption></figure></div><p>UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) applied lipstick on the proverbial pig with some suspiciously rosy-looking forecasts. They projected that the government’s budget deficits will stay at around 2.5% through 2029. Inflation will stay perfectly under control, peaking at 2.6% in 2025 and then gradually fall back to 2% by 2029. The OBR also revised Britain’s 2024 GDP growth rate to 1.1%, up from 0.8% in March. In 2025, the GDP growth will soar to 2%.</p><h2>Reality begs to differ</h2><p>But the government might be a bit optimistic with all these figures. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently downgraded Britain’s economic prospects. They predicted that in 2024, the UK will have the worst performing economy among all the G7 nations with an expected growth of only 0.4%, not 1.1%; and 1% in 2025, not 2%.</p><p>But as it now turns out, even the OECD was much too optimistic. Namely, the official figures show that the British economy actually shrank 0.1% month-on-month for two months in a row, in September and October 2024</p><h2>Bold financial innovation</h2><p>But there’s more: to show itself in its best light, the government even resorted to bold financial innovation. Namely, they disappeared a large chunk of the public debt <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/uk-change-definition-debt-so-it-can-add-90-billion-more">by simply redefining it</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%2Ff6a08afc-2362-403c-ba52-60144a64194d_591x309.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%2Ff6a08afc-2362-403c-ba52-60144a64194d_591x309.png" width="591" height="309" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f6a08afc-2362-403c-ba52-60144a64194d_591x309.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":309,"width":591,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":236473,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In doing so, Keir Starmer’s cabinet gave itself £53 billion in extra borrowing capacity. If the capital markets embraced this bold 21st century financial innovation, all governments, companies and individuals around the world might want to follow suit.</p><p>If you've maxed out all your credit cards, additional borrowing headroom could be just a simple matter of identity politics. You could declare your debt an asset and perfectly good collateral at that, and progressive creditors should have to respect and honor your choices. The 21st century may not have brought us flying cars, but the financial innovations are just as exciting. Who knows, perhaps we could achieve further advancements by declaring that war is peace, slavery is freedom, vaccines are safe and effective, and that ignorance is strength.</p><p>Unfortunately for the government, however, all these innovations failed to impress Mr. Market who punished Starmer’s profligate budget within hours by selling off the government debt and adding 20 basis points to the interest rate on the 10-year British gilts.</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%2Fe8c94e92-ca5d-4df8-aeed-2dc8f6b30b87_712x374.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%2Fe8c94e92-ca5d-4df8-aeed-2dc8f6b30b87_712x374.png" width="712" height="374" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e8c94e92-ca5d-4df8-aeed-2dc8f6b30b87_712x374.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":374,"width":712,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":198289,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>The good old days of 2022</h2><p>But this reaction was quite minor compared to what happened in September 2022 when Chancellor <strong>Qwasi Qwarteng</strong> presented the <strong>Truss</strong> cabinet budget. The so-called mini-budget shocked the markets with £45 billion in unfunded spending commitments. There’s “only” £32 billion in unfunded commitments in the current budget, but there are a few reasons why the situation today could be much worse than what Britain was facing in 2022. </p><p>Back then, Britain was not yet as heavily invested in the wars in Ukraine and in Israel. In 2022, many people believed that Ukraine would prevail. This is no longer the case today. Also, in the summer of 2022, the interest rates on 10-year gilts were well below 3%. Today they’re over 4.5% and rising. In fact, the sharp rise in interest rates since 2022 itself indicates that the situation could be worse than we know.</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%2Fdf5cc833-b2e5-4cac-a2e5-6f55a891aae1_693x395.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%2Fdf5cc833-b2e5-4cac-a2e5-6f55a891aae1_693x395.png" width="693" height="395" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df5cc833-b2e5-4cac-a2e5-6f55a891aae1_693x395.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":395,"width":693,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":157806,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The most important indication that something was very wrong was the fact that the Bank of England (BOE) felt obliged to open the monetary spigots wide. Recall, on 22 July they hastily <a href="https://www.cmdportal.com/events/the-future-boe-balance-sheet-a-new-system-for-supplying-reserves/">introduced a repo program</a>, announced as a bold “transition towards a new system for supplying reserves” to financial institutions. This move was clear evidence that one or more of British financial institutions were about to collapse. </p><p>By September 5, the program already <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bank-england-allots-record-40-billion-pounds-weekly-repo-2024-09-05/">ballooned to over £40 billion</a>. We’ll take a small detour to talk about repos here because it’s important to explain what repos are and why BOE’s launching a repo program is significant. If you feel you know enough about repos, feel free to skip to the next heading.</p><h2>The repo red flag</h2><p>Repos or repurchase agreements are an important source of funding for large financial institutions. A repo is a form of borrowing where the borrower sells securities to the lender with an agreement to repurchase them at a slightly higher price. Simply, it’s a form of secured loan. In the first step of the transaction, the lender buys some financial assets from the borrower. </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%2Fd20c1cf6-a2b3-4904-91fd-dac6e2ffcecd_775x439.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%2Fd20c1cf6-a2b3-4904-91fd-dac6e2ffcecd_775x439.png" width="775" height="439" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d20c1cf6-a2b3-4904-91fd-dac6e2ffcecd_775x439.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":775,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":24229,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The assets also represent the collateral which secures the loan. Normally, the collateral in question would be highly liquid, low-risk securities like government bonds, but they could also be mortgage-backed securities. In the second step, the borrower repurchases the securities at a higher price. The difference between the sale and the repurchase price reflects the interest on the loan that’s due to the lender. The lender might also demand that the loan be overcollateralized: that the value of the collateral exceeds the purchase amount by some percentage.</p><p>Repos are usually very short-term transactions, most often overnight, but they can also be arranged for longer time intervals spanning several days or several weeks. They can also be open ended, with no term specified. As a rule, in repo transactions the lenders are private, non-depositary financial institutions or money market funds. For them, repo transactions are a lucrative source of investment returns as they earn reliable interest income in transactions that are almost risk-free. The borrowers are usually investment banks for whom the repo market is a critically important source of liquidity.</p><p>In the U.S. over a $1 trillion in repo transactions are conducted each day. During financial crises, however, the repo market is one of the first to seize up. If a borrower is unable to repurchase the securities they sold, the lender might remain stuck with the collateral. In a crisis, the value of that collateral could collapse. In such conditions, the lenders might demand higher interest rates and higher rates of recollateralization. They might even be unwilling to engage in repo transactions at all. </p><p>In 2007, the Global Financial Crisis was catalyzed by a run on the repo market: the funding for investment banks became either prohibitively expensive or entirely unavailable. At that time the Fed did not enter the repo markets, but Ben Bernanke injected at least $1.5 trillion of liquidity by purchasing financial assets through other, longer-term facilities.</p><p>In 2019, yet another financial crisis was about to hit the proverbial fan. In August 2019, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, <strong><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/360028ba-c702-11e9-af46-b09e8bfe60c0">James Bullard</a></strong><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/360028ba-c702-11e9-af46-b09e8bfe60c0"> said that</a>, “Something is going on, and that’s causing, I think, a total rethink of central banking and all our cherished notions about what we think we’re doing… We just have to stop thinking that next year things are going to be normal.” Well, as we now know, within a few months we got the New Normal!</p><p>The repo rates in the U.S. have been rising steadily since 2015, but by 2019 that trend began to accelerate quite sharply. On 16 September, repo rates exploded to 8%, fully 6% above the Fed Funds rate.</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%2F6346f6fd-19d5-4130-99e7-445eb5f95f51_713x354.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%2F6346f6fd-19d5-4130-99e7-445eb5f95f51_713x354.png" width="713" height="354" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6346f6fd-19d5-4130-99e7-445eb5f95f51_713x354.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":354,"width":713,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":104461,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>To avert another, much bigger Lehman Brothers moment, the Fed hastily intervened as the lender of last resort, providing tens of billions of dollars in liquidity to the repo markets. The intervention was supposed to be only temporary. The Fed’s repo facility was meant to be shut down by 10 October 2019. Except it wasn’t: instead, it continued to expand from the initial $53 billion to surpass $200 billion by the end of October.</p><p>We don’t know the full story however, because like the British authorities today, the Fed kept things very obscure. Writing about the episode in January 2022, Fed Watchers <strong><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/theres-a-news-blackout-on-the-feds-naming-of-the-banks-that-got-its-emergency-repo-loans-some-journalists-appear-to-be-under-gag-orders/">Pam</a></strong><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/theres-a-news-blackout-on-the-feds-naming-of-the-banks-that-got-its-emergency-repo-loans-some-journalists-appear-to-be-under-gag-orders/"> and </a><strong><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/theres-a-news-blackout-on-the-feds-naming-of-the-banks-that-got-its-emergency-repo-loans-some-journalists-appear-to-be-under-gag-orders/">Russ Martens</a></strong><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/theres-a-news-blackout-on-the-feds-naming-of-the-banks-that-got-its-emergency-repo-loans-some-journalists-appear-to-be-under-gag-orders/"> wrote that</a>, “We’ve never before seen a total news blackout of a financial news story of this magnitude in our 35 years of monitoring Wall Street and the Fed.” The Fed never had disclosed which banks got how much repo cash<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-britain-part-2#_ftn1">[1]</a>. The reason for all the secrecy was that the problem was much bigger than we were told and it wasn’t limited to the United States.</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%2Fc441f66e-4807-4751-bb8a-1dd2756153f8_771x435.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%2Fc441f66e-4807-4751-bb8a-1dd2756153f8_771x435.png" width="771" height="435" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c441f66e-4807-4751-bb8a-1dd2756153f8_771x435.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":435,"width":771,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":141293,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On Saturday, 19 October 2019 the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund held a meeting in New York. On the occasion, UN Secretary-General <strong><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1049631">António Guterres</a></strong><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1049631"> spoke</a> and underscored that the world economy was in “tense and testing times,” and facing severe headwinds. He pleaded with the overlords of global finance to “do everything possible” to avert the “the possibility of a Great Fracture” in the world. By January 2020, we had numerous reports about interbank lending and commercial credit drying up in Europe, with banks issuing margin calls and cutting credit lines. It appeared that a massive financial crisis was imminent.</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%2Fe51943a6-5873-4c03-89ef-e49bfbe63aee_1440x1100.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%2Fe51943a6-5873-4c03-89ef-e49bfbe63aee_1440x1100.png" width="1440" height="1100" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e51943a6-5873-4c03-89ef-e49bfbe63aee_1440x1100.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1100,"width":1440,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":289992,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>But just then, a miracle happened!</h2><p>But just then a fortuitous event almost miraculously rescued the banking system. The World Health Organization declared the Covid 19 pandemic, creating the perfect smokescreen for the bankers to stage a veritable global banking coup followed by the largest ever bailout of the entire Western financial system. </p><p>In the U.S. the CARES Act was passed, providing a $6.2 trillion ‘stimulus’ package for the economy. How much is $6.2 trillion? It is nearly $20,000 per man, woman and child living in the United States. Not only that, US lawmakers somehow had the foresight to introduce this Act into the Congressional procedure already in January 2019, more than a year before the pandemic was declared.</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%2F8b15b779-4d79-4abc-a12c-2fcdeea24222_667x360.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%2F8b15b779-4d79-4abc-a12c-2fcdeea24222_667x360.png" width="667" height="360" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8b15b779-4d79-4abc-a12c-2fcdeea24222_667x360.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":360,"width":667,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":90531,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Amazing foresight!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Ultimately, the total bailout gifted to the bankers exceeded 10 trillion dollars – well more than $30,000 per man, woman and child living in the United States.</p><p>That sum clearly dwarfed the Fed’s repo facility, but the repos were essential in averting the collapse in September 2019. Thanks to their opacity and complexity, repos saved the day as a sort of a Swiss Army knife in the bankers' survival toolkit. For example, they can serve as a means of perpetual bailout: among others, Lehman Brothers systematically used repo transactions to conceal their investment losses and create for a time a false impression of liquidity. For central banks, repos can be a covert mechanism of monetary policy. The Reserve Bank of India routinely uses repos and reverse repos to increase or decrease money supply in the economy.</p><p>Today, it seems that we are at the precipice once more. Keir Starmer’s budget represents the largest fiscal loosening since the 2020 lockdowns and the Bank of England is flooding the financial system with liquidity. It is fair to ask then, how bad could things be in the UK?</p><h2>The black hole: £71 or £22 billion?</h2><p>I don’t really know the answer to that question. As a market analyst and a former hedge fund manager, I regularly read the financial press, and I’ve done so for over 25 years. But over that time, I couldn’t help noticing that UK’s public finances aren’t subject to the same level of scrutiny as those of other nations. We hear a lot about the US, Japan, Germany, France, or China. About Britain, not so much.</p><p>What we can find from public sources isn’t exactly sensational. We already know that UK’s government debt is high and rising; in 2023 it was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-budget-deficit-totals-143-billion-pounds-nov-ons-2023-12-21/">nearly £116 billion</a>, 27% more than the year before. <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/bulletins/publicsectorfinances/august2024">UK’s Office of National Statistics says that</a> the government added £64.1 billion in deficit spending through August this year and that debt-to-GDP ratio reached 100%.</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%2F937d72a9-ba54-4c70-a121-2af1ed60e029_624x238.png" 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%2F937d72a9-ba54-4c70-a121-2af1ed60e029_624x238.png" width="624" height="238" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/937d72a9-ba54-4c70-a121-2af1ed60e029_624x238.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":238,"width":624,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":54835,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The figures are bad, but they’re hardly panic-inducing stuff. I suspect that the real state of things is much worse and that it is being deliberately concealed.</p><p>There are times however, when some truth breaks into the public view through political squabbles. For example, on May 1 this year, Kier Starmer confronted then Prime Minister <strong>Rishi Sunak</strong> about the £46 billion black hole <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g51qlxezro?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;ysclid=m13gebdoal816345505">before correcting himself</a>, first to £64 billion and then to staggering £71 billion! Whatever the case, the “black hole” is there and it is probably much bigger than we know. Of course, by the time Starmer became Prime Minister, the hole had magically shrunk to ‘only’ £22 billion – the sum that’s perhaps small enough that it can be fixed in part by freezing a few thousand pensioners this winter.</p><h2>The system that demands human sacrifice</h2><p>Incidentally: what is this financial system that requires a limitless flow of free money to gorge the gods of finance while at the same time it inflicts savage austerity on the poorest and most vulnerable members of society, condemning many of them literally to death. Whatever the Gods of finance are, they clearly demand human sacrifice. Our liberal democracies fear these gods enough that they are prepared to appease them at an industrial scale.</p><p>To save about £1.4 billion, <strong>Sir Keir Starmer</strong> has decided to cut winter fuel subsidies to 10 million pensioners in Britain. Back in 2017 Tory Prime Minister <strong>Theresa May</strong> floated a similar proposal. At the time, Labour was in opposition and their own research concluded that cutting winter fuel allowances would kill an estimated <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1946329/Labour-pensioners-dead-winter-fuel-thousands">3,850 pensioners that winter</a>. That was five years before "<a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9491/">typical household energy bills increased by 54% in April 2022 and 27% in October that year</a>.</p><p>Britain now has the highest cost of energy in the world and the required human sacrifice could turn out considerably higher than 3,850 pensioners, all to save a relatively insignificant sum of money: a mere £1.4 billion of the supposed £22 billion fiscal black hole.</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%2Fbdd48ba9-dfdc-47bd-93ae-ad0e5918f2d4_472x561.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%2Fbdd48ba9-dfdc-47bd-93ae-ad0e5918f2d4_472x561.png" width="472" height="561" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bdd48ba9-dfdc-47bd-93ae-ad0e5918f2d4_472x561.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":561,"width":472,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":145441,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>What they’re lying about…</h2><p>To be sure, Starmer was almost certainly lying about the size of that black hole. Massive government spending on unproductive, ideologically driven pet projects had created a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/04/pensions-stealth-tax-raid-hit-millions-savers/">£50 billion black hole</a> already in 2022. The cost of Covid counter measures was £9 billion. Government’s Orwellian <a href="https://fullfact.org/online/track-and-trace-project-cost/">track and trace program cost £37 billion</a>. In addition, vast sums are being spent on various <em>net zero</em> schemes. </p><p>Just <a href="https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-contribution-to-international-development-mitigating-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-developing-nations/">in 2022 the government spent £12.79 billion</a> on “mitigating the impact of climate change,” whatever that is. Furthermore, at the beginning of October 2024 they announced <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4301n3771o">they'd allocate another £22 billion for carbon capture projects</a>, building facilities to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground. To be fair, the said amounts will be spent over a period of 25 years, but still, this is just more and more billions wasted on completely unproductive projects, far into the future. Starmer’s government also added £2.9 billion to Britain’s “defence” budget, a 4.5% increase over previous year’s budget and more than twice as much as they’re saving by freezing the pensioners.</p><h2>The illegal immigration black hole</h2><p>Then there’s immigration: supposedly, the upkeep of illegal <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/16-million-migrants-uk-are-unemployed-costing-taxpayers-ps85-billion-report">migrants costs the government £8.5 billion per year</a>. But the actual cost is almost certainly much, much higher. Back in 2009, we were told that the <a href="https://centurean2.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/12-8-billion-a-year-cost-of-immigration-in-britain-poliliars-incapable-of-telling-the-truth/">cost of immigration was £12.8 billion</a> per year; in 2016 they said <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3593872/17bn-true-cost-immigration-UK-year.html">it was £17 billion</a>, and since then the number of migrants increased by more than 2 million, so the cost of their upkeep would not have halved since 2016. Most likely it would have increased and dramatically so.</p><p>Then there’s the all-consuming Project Ukraine. From February 2022 until now, Britain allegedly spent more than £13 billion in aid to Ukraine. But the real damage from this misadventure cost many times more. Sanctions against Russia have caused extensive damage to Britain’s economy, starting with a sharp increase in prices of energy and other inputs. Farmers reported that the cost of fertilizer has quadrupled, from £250/ton before the sanctions to £1,000/ton today. Many British companies lost business on account of sanctions.</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%2F595922c2-213b-4af9-81df-698ea698c4e3_509x512.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%2F595922c2-213b-4af9-81df-698ea698c4e3_509x512.png" width="509" height="512" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/595922c2-213b-4af9-81df-698ea698c4e3_509x512.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":512,"width":509,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":241470,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Just one example was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/08/ba-to-axe-direct-flights-from-london-heathrow-to-beijing">British Airways' cancellation of one of its most important routes</a>: the 4-times weekly direct flight from London Heathrow to Beijing. In a retaliatory measure against British sanctions, Russia closed its airspace to British commercial flights, rendering it uncompetitive and simply surrendering the business to BA’s Chinese competitors. There are probably thousands of similar cases where business relationships that may have taken years and decades to develop have been blown up over the ruling establishment’s geopolitical obsessions.</p><h2>Russia sanctions - the staggering collateral damage</h2><p>It would be difficult to quantify all the effects, but in June 2023, European High Representative for Foreign Affairs <strong><a href="https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/singapore-speech-hrvp-borrell-shangri-la-dialogue_en">Josep Borrell</a></strong><a href="https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/singapore-speech-hrvp-borrell-shangri-la-dialogue_en"> gave us an important clue</a>. Here’s what he said in his remarks to the Shangri La Dialogue forum in Singapore:</p><blockquote><p>“For the first time ever, we have been funding military support to a country under attack. … if you add up all the support – military, civilian, economic, financial and humanitarian – the level of support to Ukraine is about €60 billion for Europe. But let me show another figure which is really impressive: if you include the support that the European governments have had to pay in order to help their families and firms to face the high prices of electricity, of food, the subsidies to our people in order to face the consequences of the war is €700 billion – ten times more than the support for Ukraine. Which shows that the consequences of this war are not reduced to what’s happening in Ukraine but to the shockwaves that the war has been sending all around the world.”</p></blockquote><p>If the shockwaves Borrell was talking about hit Britain as hard as they hit the EU nations, the full cost of Project Ukraine could be £150 billion or even more. Keep in mind, Borrell made his assessment only half way through the Ukraine war. However high the real damage is, all that capital has already been flushed down the drain and will likely never be recovered.</p><p>In all, the situation in Britain is certainly far worse than we know. Over the top, Orwellian actions by the Starmer government and the Bank of England seem to support this view. What we have, in a nutshell, is an overhang of unpayable debts, growing government deficits, hard austerity, increasing militarization, continued foreign adventurism, not only in Russia but also in the Middle East, and an expanding monetary inflation by the Bank of England.</p><h2>The markets verdict</h2><p>Since my August article, I wondered if I wasn’t wrong to single out the UK as the most exposed economy and the one that’ll crash the hardest. I checked the capital markets’ verdict on the situation by comparing the recent performance of British, German and American bonds. Sure enough, so far the markets appear to agree:</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%2F8f3e80a5-dfcd-4d33-ab8e-5241d1d56ad9_1058x520.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%2F8f3e80a5-dfcd-4d33-ab8e-5241d1d56ad9_1058x520.png" width="1058" height="520" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f3e80a5-dfcd-4d33-ab8e-5241d1d56ad9_1058x520.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":520,"width":1058,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":90932,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Major geopolitical turning points seem to have accelerated the “bonds armageddon”</figcaption></figure></div><p>Over the last four years, British government’s debt has performed the worst of three. Germany’s debt has done marginally better and the US debt, as could be expected, has been the least affected. Over the coming months and years, Britain might be the first among the G7 economies to capsize and plunge into a deep crisis of stagflation and ultimately hyperinflation.</p><p>If that is so, how can we navigate the coming changes advantageously? Making a broad brush prediction is one thing – navigating it successfully is far less straightforward and it requires some foresight, skill, and a method.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-britain-part-2?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Nothing on this Substack is behind a paywall, so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-britain-part-2?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-britain-part-2?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>What happens next?</h2><p>The unravelling of this crisis will be for history books. Former Fed chairman <strong>Arthur Burns</strong> said that “A subtle understanding of economic change comes from a knowledge of history and large affairs, not from statistics or their processing alone.” Indeed, it was just this understanding of history and large affairs that’s led me to make a prediction about Britain’s descent already three years ago. In <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/10/27/the-fall-of-global-britain-an-investment-hypothesis/">an article I published on 11 October 2021</a> I wrote as follows:</p><blockquote><p>“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.”</p></blockquote><p>This is exactly what started to unfold over the last three years. For the record, I wrote the above before the war in Ukraine even started, adding tens of billions to the debt overhang. It was before <strong>Boris Johnson</strong> preannounced the war in his cryptic speech on Monday, 15 November of that year (2021). <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-russia-gas-nordstream-2-b1958075.html">Addressing the attending dignitaries</a> at the City of London banquet, then Prime Minister <strong>Johnson</strong><em><strong> </strong></em>issued a warning to the European governments:</p><blockquote><p>“We hope that our friends [in Europe] may recognize that a choice is shortly coming between mainlining ever more Russian hydrocarbons in giant new pipelines and sticking up for Ukraine and championing the cause of peace and stability.”</p></blockquote><p>How Johnson knew that this choice was shortly coming remains a mystery, but the fact that he did know it and that he included that announcement in his remarks was very significant. </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%2F062a8263-6942-4836-8eca-2c4932d1ed33_934x478.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%2F062a8263-6942-4836-8eca-2c4932d1ed33_934x478.png" width="934" height="478" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/062a8263-6942-4836-8eca-2c4932d1ed33_934x478.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":478,"width":934,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":999118,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">It’s not so much <em>what</em> you know - it’s <em>whom</em> you know.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The statement was a big reveal: it suggested that Britain took the leading role in Project Ukraine and gambled heavily on it. That gamble went badly wrong and the bills are now coming due. That is what induced the panic in the British establishment’s ranks. Incidentally, Johnson’s statement is also the lead to the main suspects in Europe’s escalating energy wars.</p><p>Project Ukraine accelerated Britain’s decline, but that decline has already been long in the making. In my 2021 article, which was titled, “The fall of Global Britain: an investment hypothesis,” I made the following specific prediction: </p><blockquote><p>“… at a macro level, we can expect the following developments over the coming months and years: 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.” </p></blockquote><p>Here’s how these predictions panned out thus far:</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%2Fc50af424-07f4-4dc6-b6f7-9cfd80e75cd8_1083x482.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%2Fc50af424-07f4-4dc6-b6f7-9cfd80e75cd8_1083x482.png" width="1083" height="482" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c50af424-07f4-4dc6-b6f7-9cfd80e75cd8_1083x482.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":482,"width":1083,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":81649,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Correct prediction, but bumpy trajectory</figcaption></figure></div><p>Broadly, my prediction was correct, but the price changes didn’t exactly follow straight line trajectories. This is normal; markets don’t do what we think they should do from the moment we become aware of some fact. They are driven by the collective psychology of their human participants and large-scale price events only begin to unfold when a critical mass of them adopt a certain view. This is why large scale price events are unpredictable and the challenge of navigating them profitably is not trivial. One thing we do know for sure is that large-scale price events unfold as trends that can span weeks, months or even years.</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%2Fc938fad0-7b29-4b7d-8d7d-c12a7cb759e8_661x375.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%2Fc938fad0-7b29-4b7d-8d7d-c12a7cb759e8_661x375.png" width="661" height="375" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c938fad0-7b29-4b7d-8d7d-c12a7cb759e8_661x375.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":375,"width":661,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":42670,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>How to navigate the fallout? Just follow trends!</h2><p>While nobody can predict the timing or magnitude of these events, one thing we know is that large-scale price events (LSPEs) invariably unfold as trends and these can span many months and even years. Indeed, in “The Art of War,” written more than 2,000 years ago, <strong>Sun Tzu</strong> said that there are three great avenues of opportunity: events, trends and conditions.</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%2F59262d52-ea4c-4ac4-b109-b70b5eced36a_337x159.png" 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%2F59262d52-ea4c-4ac4-b109-b70b5eced36a_337x159.png" width="337" height="159" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/59262d52-ea4c-4ac4-b109-b70b5eced36a_337x159.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":159,"width":337,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":40238,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the current British crisis, we seem to have all three of these avenues converging: the financial and economic <em>conditions</em> are causing <em>events</em> which will trigger great <em>trends</em>, which could be for future history books. Here’s how German imperial bund fared through the dying days of the Weimar Republic:</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%2F9465b5d6-94ca-4819-a1cf-073e6f955658_761x354.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%2F9465b5d6-94ca-4819-a1cf-073e6f955658_761x354.png" width="761" height="354" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9465b5d6-94ca-4819-a1cf-073e6f955658_761x354.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":354,"width":761,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":222085,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">We’ll only know with time, but the risk on bonds is on the downside.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Of course, such events are only obvious in hindsight. How to navigate them in real time is far from obvious. The most reliable way to do so is by relying on quality trend following strategies. Trend following cuts through the information overload straight to the final product of financial analysis: crystal clear, actionable decisions that will keep you on the right side of important trends in any market.</p><h2>Our navigation aide…</h2><p>That is precisely the kind of decision support we offer through our daily I-System <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass reports</a>. They’re based on <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/i-system/">time-tested algorithms</a> that my team and I developed 25 years ago and have used daily ever since. 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Recently, we launched a <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/">TrendCompass report on Substack</a> covering 16 key global markets which include the British pound, British gilt and FTSE 100 stock index (it’s priced at less than $1/day for top notch trend following signals).</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%2Fc90343ca-3db3-44c1-af61-9d499013f02a_771x435.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%2Fc90343ca-3db3-44c1-af61-9d499013f02a_771x435.png" width="771" height="435" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c90343ca-3db3-44c1-af61-9d499013f02a_771x435.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":435,"width":771,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":103541,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Thank you for reading! I wish you much health, happiness, prosperity and peace in 2025 and beyond</h2><p>As 2024 is drawing to a close, I wish you an excellent start in the new year with prayers for good health, happiness, prosperity and peace. 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title: The Courtenay Turner Podcast | Was the Intellectual Dark Web an Influence Operation? |Ep.460
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/77e0fe7b69b95f1d54fe7359a3dda470.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Courtenay Turner Podcast | Was the Intellectual Dark Web an Influence Operation? |Ep.460"></p>December 28, 2024  <br><br>Mike Holmes requested a collaborative discourse between Myself, Cynthia Chung and Courtenay Turner lf to shine a light on some sacred cows. For many the intellectual dark web was a key to their journey down the rabbit hole. When questions about the various members arise some experience extreme cognitive dissonance. My advice is always to adjudicate the information itself rather than glorifying or vilifying the source from which that information might be derived. However certain threads, involvement, activities and promulgation of messaging and narratives should not be ignored!<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find more about Courtenay’s work at:<br>https://courtenayturner.com/<br>https://rumble.com/user/CourtenayTurner<br>https://twitter.com/KineticCourtz <br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find more work from Mike Holmes at:<br>AtHomeWithHolmes:  Rumble:  https://rumble.com/user/AtHomeWithHolmes<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America” here:<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EamfkiBTc<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 1 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 2 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2024/02/27/episode-2-of-the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-has-been-unleashed-h-g-wells-war-of-the-worlds-and-the-dawn-of-a-new-age/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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<h3><strong>By Gerald Therrien</strong></h3><blockquote><p><em>Before we look at this treasonous plot that began fermenting in Burr’s mind after his private meeting with Wilkinson in 1804, first we need to look at a short history of Wilkinson’s prior intrigues with Spain and how he became ‘Agent 13’ - from his first attempt at bribery and secession in 1787, to his part in another attempt in 1796-97 - that was part of a larger British-instigated plot for western secession, that was exposed by another ‘unsung hero’ Andrew Ellicott.</em></p><p><em>Whether Wilkinson really wanted to have the western states secede, or whether he was only using this as a carrot to extract more money from the Spanish government is debatable. I tend to lean towards the case, that Wilkinson always looked out for himself above all else, and that he would just as easily betray either Spain or America, depending on which option gave him the most in personal gain.</em></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%2F7e5be5fc-dc2e-49a7-be6e-84bfcc58985f_320x400.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%2F7e5be5fc-dc2e-49a7-be6e-84bfcc58985f_320x400.jpeg" width="320" height="400" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7e5be5fc-dc2e-49a7-be6e-84bfcc58985f_320x400.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":400,"width":320,"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><blockquote><p><em>James Wilkinson</em></p><p>On May 23<sup>rd</sup> 1804, (a month after losing the New York governor election) Aaron Burr received a note from General James Wilkinson, asking to meet with him at his house – ‘<em>if it can be done without observation or intrusion</em>’.</p><p>There is no written record of what was discussed that night, but most probably Wilkinson explained to Burr that there was a ready opportunity for an ‘<em>individual of hardy enterprise</em>’ to lead an expedition into Spanish territory and to seize a large chunk of their empire; that he had the Spanish problem taken care of – they were ready to believe anything that he told them; and that, perhaps, the influence of Vice-president Burr might be used to secure the appointment of Wilkinson as the new Governor of the Louisiana Territory.</p><p>General Wilkinson, commander of the United States Army, along with William Claiborne, the Governor of the Mississippi Territory, had accepted the transfer of Louisiana from France to the United States on December 20<sup>th</sup> 1803 (5 months earlier).</p><p>While in New Orleans, Wilkinson had also tried to collect from the Spanish governor of Florida, $20,000 arrears on payments that he felt were owed to him for intelligence that he had been supplying to Spain. The Spanish government would agree to a payment of 12,000 pesos and a renewal of Wilkinson’s pension – as compensation ‘<em>for the services which I shall render, and more particularly, to indemnify me for the eventual loss of the office which I hold, and which it will seem necessary for me to abandon in case of hostilities</em>’.</p><p>In trying to re-construct Wilkinson’s motive and plan, we must look at the records of his previous attempts at intrigue/treason.</p><p>Earlier in 1787, Wilkinson, who had recently moved to Kentucky, wrote to the Spanish commandant at St. Louis, complaining of the actions of General George Rogers Clark – who had confiscated the property at Vincennes of some French traders, who were subjects of Spain. The favorable reception of this letter allowed Wilkinson to make a trip to New Orleans and to meet with Miro, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, where he presented a memorial – that the closing of the Mississippi river to traffic from Kentucky was causing much discontent, and that Spain should allow Wilkinson and his friends a monopoly of trade and immigration with Spain, and that Spain should help them in fomenting <strong>a secessionist revolt from the United States</strong>.</p><p>Instead, the Spanish government decided to allow Americans the use of the Mississippi river (subject to a duty of 15% to 6%), but Spain did not want to be implicated in any revolt – after Kentucky had established their independence, then a connection with Spain could be formed.</p><p>Wilkinson also offered to promote Spanish interests in the western states and to supply Spain with intelligence (although most of his information was of little value) and in return, he would receive a pension from Spain – and thus he became known as Spain’s ‘<em>Agent 13</em>’.</p><p>Later in 1793, the French Minister Genet had intrigued with General George Rogers Clark and others in Kentucky to attack the Spanish forces in Louisiana and New Orleans, but President Washington put an end to this invasion with his proclamation prohibiting Americans from ‘<em>invading and plundering the territories of a nation at peace with the United States</em>’.</p><p>Wilkinson wrote to Carondelet, the new governor of Louisiana, that his pension should be raised to $4,000 in case it was necessary for him to leave the army and devote himself solely to the interests of Spain; that he needed $12,000 to bribe the Kentucky leaders away from Clark, and needed $200,000 for bribes to prevent any alliances from being formed with Britain.</p><p>Carondelet, in response, proposed a conference with delegates from Kentucky and Spanish officials to reach an agreement concerning the navigation of the Mississippi river. Early in 1796, one of Wilkinson’s partners, Benjamin Sebastian, travelled to New Orleans to meet Carondelet but news then arrived of the treaty negotiated by Pinckney between the United States and Spain.</p><p>Afterwards, the Spanish government directed that <strong>all further attempts to encourage western separatism should cease, except so far as necessary to counteract British intrigues</strong>. Although Gayoso, the Spanish commandant of the Natchez District, ‘<em>believed that the General [Wilkinson] was ready to betray the interests of Spain in order to recommend himself to the American government</em>’, the Spanish authorities in Louisiana were not quite ready to discontinue their intrigues with Wilkinson and Kentucky.</p><p>An exposure of Wilkinson’s intrigues would be provided by Andrew Ellicott in a letter to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering on November 14<sup>th</sup> 1797.</p><p>Ellicott had been commissioned by President Washington in 1796 to survey the southern border of the United States with Spain, but also to watch Wilkinson –</p><blockquote><p>“President Washington communicated confidentially to this affirmant that suspicions had been signified to him of certain citizens of the United States improperly connecting themselves with the Spanish Government, among whom General Wilkinson was mentioned, and requested this affirmant to pay attention to that subject, but in as private a manner as possible, to prevent the increase of suspicions, perhaps ill-founded.”</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>[from a deposition given by Ellicott on May 22<sup>nd</sup> 1808]</p></blockquote><p>In the letter to Pickering, Ellicott was complaining that General Wilkinson and others received annual stipends from Spain, and that</p><blockquote><p>“the first object of these plotters is to detach the States of Kentucky and Tennessee from the union and place them under the protection of Spain … the design of detaching the western country from the union is but a small part of the general plan which is very extensive and embraces objects of immense magnitude; nevertheless, to ensure success, this point must be first carried; which being effected and by the system of promotion adopted by the court of Madrid, Governor [of Louisiana] Gayoso will be at Quito and the Baron Carondelet at Mexico about the same time: so soon as this arrangement takes place or sooner if the necessary officers can be corrupted a general insurrection will be attempted, and cannot fail of success if the first part succeeds. General Wilkinson is to proceed from Kentucky with a body of troops through the country by the way of the Illinois into New Mexico which will be a central position – the route has been already explored. Nine tenths of the officers of the Louisiana regiment are at this time corrupted and the officers of the Mexican regiment which is now in this country are but little better. The apparent zeal of the Spanish officers on the Mississippi for the dignity of the Crown, is only intended to cover their designs till the great plan which is the establishment of a new empire is brought to maturity. Their principles are highly revolutionary …”</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>“[Wilkinson’s] actions were designed to gain both the Americans and the Spaniards or to repudiate either or both, if such action should become necessary to advance (his) private fortune’.</p></blockquote><p><strong>While plotting the secession of Kentucky and Tennessee from the Union – with the protection of Spain, his plan would have then proceeded to double-cross the Spanish, by joining the western states with New Orleans and Louisiana, and declaring the independence of a new western empire that would have the single control of the Mississippi river.</strong></p><p>As we will see later, this appears so similar to Burr’s treason, that perhaps this is what Burr and Wilkinson discussed that evening in 1804 at Burr’s house.</p><p>At that time, Wilkinson was involved in an effort to defame the great patriot, General Anthony Wayne, who thought that Wilkinson was a ‘<em>vile assassin</em>’ and ‘<em>the worst of all bad men</em>’, and wished for Wilkinson be resigned from the army.</p><p>In October 1796, Wilkinson left the Ohio country and travelled to Philadelphia to defend his name ‘<em>against a variety of foul and infamous imputations</em>’, to support his ‘<em>allegations against Wayne</em>’ and to vindicate the ‘<em>conduct and character of many of my friends in Kentucky</em>’. But, with the ‘<em>untimely death</em>’ of General Wayne in December, Wilkinson now became the senior officer in the United States Army. While in Philadelphia, Wilkinson met Senator Blount, from Tennessee, where a new plan was being formed to organize an expedition to seize the Floridas and Louisiana.</p><p>The November 1797 letter from Ellicott would have been received by Pickering at nearly the same time that Pickering had received a letter from Rufus King, the American Minister in London – that contained a (November 29<sup>th</sup> 1797) statement from John Chisholm, concerning a plot to attack the Spanish settlements in West Florida and Louisiana, with British support.</p><p>Earlier on July 3<sup>rd</sup> 1797, President Adams sent to Congress a letter from William Blount to James Carey, outlining the conspiracy which promptly blew up the treasonous plot – sending the participants scurrying for cover! This resulted in articles of impeachment against Blount being presented in the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate on February 7<sup>th</sup> 1798; and a trial in the Senate, beginning December 17<sup>th</sup> 1798, until he was acquitted on January 10<sup>th</sup> 1799.</p><p>From the papers of William Blount, which had been seized in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate, is one letter of note – that written to Blount from Nicolas Romayne on May 13, 1797 that</p><blockquote><p>“I have spoken to Colonel Burr about a land scheme between you and me, and have requested his attention in getting letters for me. Your coming to this place will insure this business …”</p></blockquote><p>Although no direct evidence links Burr to Chisholm’s plot, one can only guess what ‘<em>land scheme</em>’ and ‘<em>business</em>’ was being hinted at!</p><p>According to Chisholm, in November 1796 he met with Blount ‘<em>who immediately agreed to give it his aid and influence</em>’; and he also met with Robert Liston, the British minister to the United States, who provided Chisholm with letters of introduction to the British government ministers. Chisolm sailed to London and met with ministry officials.</p><p>Chisholm’s plan had three attacks that were to be made on the same day: first, <strong>Joseph Brandt and Mohawks from Canada</strong><em> </em>would join with John Mitchell and men from New York and Pennsylvania to attack New Madrid; second, William Blount with men from Tennessee and Kentucky along with Choctaws would attack New Orleans; and third, John Chisholm and men from the Floridas along with Cherokees and Creeks would attack Pensacola. The British were asked to send 6 frigates to block the harbour of Pensacola and the mouth of the Mississippi river.</p><blockquote><p>“In case of success … the Floridas with Louisiana should be put upon the ancient footing of a British colony … (and) that Pensacola and New Orleans should be declared free ports, and the navigation of Mississippi should for ever remain free to the people of Great Britain and the United States.”</p></blockquote><p>This plan to include British naval assistance would also appear as a part of Burr’s and Wilkinson’s 1804 scheme.</p><p>Chisholm met with officials of the British Indian Department from Canada – including Captain Johnson, Captain Stedman and the Mohawk leader Joseph Brandt, ‘<em>who agreed to give their aid</em>’ to his plan. If Chisholm’s plan was successful, the British Empire would be able to block America’s western progress by completely surrounding the United States – from Canada to Louisiana, from the great lakes to the gulf of Mexico!</p><p><strong>It would seem that before the northern secession plot had become the British Empire’s policy for Canada, that the western secession plot became the British Empire’s policy for the use of Canada – both were parts of the same effort of the Empire to strike back after the loss of her thirteen colonies – to split the United States from the western states, and to stop America from becoming a continental republic!!!</strong></p><p>As both Ellicott’s letter to Pickering and of King’s letter to Pickering were written in November 1797, the question arises whether Wilkinson (and possibly Jefferson!) were part of Blount’s and Chisholm’s plot.</p><p>According to Chisholm,</p><blockquote><p>“but he [Blount] one day sent his little son to ask me to come to his house in the Evening. – On my coming into the room instead of finding him alone as usual I found Mr. Jefferson and General Wilkinson at table with him (it being dinner). It immediately struck me, but I might have been wrong, that Blount had sent for me in order to open my plan to these gentlemen – this I did not incline to do …”</p></blockquote><p>Although nothing directly points to Jefferson’s involvement in Blount’s plot, one is nonetheless drawn to a curious quote from a letter he wrote to Joseph Priestly (January 29<sup>th</sup> 1804 – after the Louisiana purchase) that</p><blockquote><p>“… I very early saw that Louisiana was indeed a speck in our horizon, which was to burst in a tornado, and the public are unapprised how near this catastrophe was. Nothing but a frank and friendly development of causes and effects on our part, and good sense enough in Buonaparte to see that the train was unavoidable, and would change the face of the world, saved us from that storm ...”</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>“<strong>Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies</strong>, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the Western confederacy will be as much our children and descendants as those of the Eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this: and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty and the desire to promote the Western interests as zealously as the Eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power ...”</p></blockquote><p>It should be remembered that President Jefferson had sent his envoys, Monroe and Livingston, to France with instructions to purchase the Floridas and the port of New Orleans – not Louisiana. He wanted the Mississippi river to be the western boundary of the original United States. Even after the purchase, his plan called for native Americans living in the Ohio country, to exchange their lands east of the Mississippi, for those lands west of the Mississippi. The Louisiana territory was to become Indian Territory.</p><p>Jefferson ended his letter to Priestly with another strange quote, that</p><blockquote><p>“Have you seen the new work of Malthus on population? It is one of the ablest I have ever seen. Altho his main object is to delineate the effects of redundancy of population, and to test the poor laws of England, and other palliations for that evil, several important questions in political economy, allied to his subject incidentally, are treated with a masterly hand.”</p></blockquote><p><strong>It would seem that the problem with Jefferson, in regards to political economy, was that he was a Malthusian!</strong></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><p>[next week - chapter 3 - The Beginnings of Burr’s and Wilkinson’s Secession Plot]</p></blockquote><h5><em><strong>For those who may wish to support my continuing work on ‘The Unveiling of Canadian History’, you may purchase my books, that are available as PDFs and Paperback (on Amazon) at the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/gerry-therriens-history-files/">Canadian Patriot Review </a>:</strong></em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 1 – The Approaching Conflict, 1753 – 1774.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 2 – Forlorn Hope – Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the War for Independence, 1775 – 1785.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 3 – The Storming of Hell – the War for the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, 1786 – 1796.</em></p></li></ul><h5><em><strong>And hopefully,</strong></em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 4 – Ireland, Haiti, and Louisiana – the Idea of a Continental Republic, 1797 – 1804,</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>may also appear in print, in the near future, while I continue to work on :</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 5 – On the Trail of the Treasonous, 1804 - 1814.</em></p></li></ul><h5><strong>Merci, et amusez-vous, mes amis.\</strong></h5><h2><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-152838724">Subscribe to Gerald’s substack here</a></h2>

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title: I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/01/vlcsnap-2025-01-04-17h35m51s229.jpeg" alt="I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR"><p>3D media has been around for decades, but there was a concerted push in the late 2000s and early 2010s to turn it mainstream. That moment has long since passed, but a custom VRChat world makes 3D movies more accessible than ever, and it's <em>really</em> cool.</p><p>Movies, TV, and games that give the illusion of three-dimensional perspectives have been around almost as long as standard 2D movies and games. 20th Century Fox's 1953 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(1953_film)"><em>Inferno</em></a> was shown in 3D, and Nintendo's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy">Virtual Boy</a> attempted to bring stereoscopic 3D gaming to homes in 1995. The big moment for 3D was arguably in the early 2010s, when movie studios started <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Blu-ray_3D">Blu-ray 3D home releases</a>, more theaters were equipped with <a href="https://www.reald.com/" rel="noreferrer">RealD 3D screens</a>, Sony updated the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 to support Blu-ray 3D, manufacturers made a lot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i1EQ1Niaiw">3D-capable TVs</a>, and the Nintendo 3DS brought glasses-free 3D gaming to millions of people.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4i1EQ1Niaiw?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="CES 2011: World's Largest 3D 1080p LED TV - Samsung 75&quot;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>I did buy (and still own) a Nintendo 3DS, and I saw one 3D movie in theaters when a friend accidentally bought 3D tickets for <em>X-Men: Apocalypse</em> instead of the regular 2D format, but that was the extent of my personal experience with the golden era of 3D media. I didn't have a 3D-capable TV, and as far as I can remember, neither did anyone I knew.</p><p>Just a few years later, the widespread demand for 3D still hadn't materialized, and the media industry moved on to 4K as the next big format. Samsung released its last 3D TVs <a href="https://www.whathifi.com/features/3d-tvs-died-before-they-had-a-chance-to-get-good-i-think-its-time-for-them-to-come-back">in 2015</a>. Mainstream 3D Blu-ray releases ended around the same time, though there are occasional new releases, like <a href="https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-3D-Blu-ray/337558/"><em>Avatar: The Way of Water</em> in 2022</a> and <a href="https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Jaws-3-4K-and-3D-Blu-ray/358719/"><em>Jaws 3</em> in 3D in 2024</a>. Some of the last few Nintendo 3DS games I bought, like <em>WarioWare Gold</em>, didn't support 3D at all.</p><p>I assumed the era of 3D movies had permanently passed me, outside of current movie theater showings that are mostly limited to new movies, or having enough disposable income to buy decade-old 3D players and TVs. It turns out those movies are more accessible than ever, and it's all thanks to media piracy and VR headsets.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="3d-aint-dead">3D ain't dead</h2><p>I've already <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/across-the-metaverse/">written about VRChat</a>, a social and gaming platform built around (but not limited to) virtual reality. VRChat has countless user-created worlds you can explore by yourself or with friends, from <a href="https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_b5c47aab-a6ff-4240-8033-2995edb00eb6" rel="noreferrer">realistic aquariums</a> to a <a href="https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_606aba82-47d2-4632-8b50-4afa7913ef55">1990s-era Super Kmart</a> to <a href="https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_61df6fc2-d6e8-4a62-910b-c2558731c4bb">jigsaw puzzle rooms</a>. I still think VRChat is the closest anyone has come to a 'metaverse' that is an actually fun and interesting space in VR.</p><p>One of the most popular custom worlds in VRChat is purpose-built for watching movies, including 3D movies. It contains a few different rooms, like a large movie theater-like environment, and a cozy blanket-walled room with couches. Each room has a large screen capable of playing videos synchronized across all players in your world instance, so you can bring over friends to watch something together. The video player is mirrored across all screens in the world, so you can also move between rooms as desired without resetting playback.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/01/vrchat.jpg" alt="I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The video player is connected to YouTube by default (powered by <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/yt-dlp-best-way-to-download-videos-audio/">yt-dlp</a>, I think), but you can enter a custom database URL that contains many popular movies and TV shows. This world and others like it are probably used for 2D content the most, but the video player does support several 3D playback modes, and the custom movie database has some 3D movies.</p><p>The 3D playback is the most interesting to me; I could finally try out 3D movies that ended their theatrical runs years ago, or were only ever released on 3D Blu-ray and other inaccessible formats. I had to give it a try.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="somebody-ring-the-dinkster">Somebody ring the Dinkster?</h2><p>This needed a proper test, so I invited some friends over to watch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Kids_3-D:_Game_Over" rel="noreferrer"><em>Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over</em></a>, released in 2003 as the third entry in Robert Rodriguez's <em>Spy Kids</em> series. It's jam-packed with absurd 3D effects, and I watched it many times when I was younger through the home DVD release made for red-blue 3D glasses. It apparently received <a href="https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Spy-Kids-3-D-Game-Over-and-The-Adventures-of-Sharkboy-and-Lavagirl-3-D-Blu-ray/57281/">a Blu-ray 3D release</a> in 2012, which I assume is the original source of the version I watched in VRChat.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sNPICoWmWGg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Spy Kids 3D (2003) Theatrical Trailer [4K] [FTD-0938]" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Some 3D movies and games have stronger parallax effects than others, and it's a balance that isn't always successful. If the effects are too subtle, there's not much of a point to the 3D format. If the effects are too strong, they can come across as cheesy and cause eye strain.</p><p><em>Spy Kids 3</em> cranks up the depth and pop-out effects to the max, matching my experience with early Nintendo 3DS games when I set the 3D slider to the highest setting. Thankfully, I am physically strong enough to withstand the entire 84-minute runtime in all its 3D glory.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/01/vrchat-2.jpg" alt="I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I'm sure most of my appreciation for the <em>Spy Kids</em> series is nostalgia, but there are so many perfect moments in <em>Spy Kids 3</em> that are amplified perfectly by the over-the-top 3D. Sylvester Stallone is a game developer with a split personality (and briefly portrayed by George Clooney), and Ricardo Montalbán (otherwise best known to me as Khan from <em>Star Trek II</em>) is a grandfather with a CGI body in the game world. Bill Paxton as Dinky Winks flying down from the sky and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwBHQajl5Vk">asking</a> "somebody ring the Dinkster?" is one of the most iconic lines in the history of cinema.</p><p>It was a lot of fun finally watching <em>Spy Kids 3</em> in its best-available format, and I also watched some snippets of <em>Max Max: Fury Road</em> and Stereo D's conversion of <em>Jurassic Park</em>. Those are pretty cool too, but are definitely less of a spectacle to the senses.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="movie-studios-take-note">Movie studios, take note</h2><p>The 3D movie experience in VRChat's custom worlds is impressive, but definitely not perfect. The movies have a lower video and audio bitrate, since they need to be streamed over the internet. The native version of VRChat on my Meta Quest 3 headset also isn't running at full resolution, and these worlds are occasionally taken down with DMCA claims.</p><p>This is yet another example of older media only being easily accessible through the work of community developers and piracy. There is no way for me to legally watch movies in this format unless I track down out-of-production 3D Blu-ray disc, a 3D Blu-ray player, and an expensive projector or a decade-old 3D-capable TV.</p><p>The only legally-sanctioned functionality I've seen like this is <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/welcome/applevisionpro">the Disney+ app on the Apple Vision Pro</a>. It has a small library of 3D movies, including <em>Avengers: Endgame</em>, <em>Encanto</em>, and <em>Avatar: The Way of Water</em>. However, the Vision Pro starts at $3,500, there doesn't seem to be support for watch parties, and it's limited to movies on Disney's streaming service.</p><p>I haven't seen any similar legally-sanctioned experiences for the Meta Quest headsets, which are much more affordable and widespread. The <a href="https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3s/">Meta Quest 3S</a> is $300 in the US, and a used Quest 2 (which can still easily handle video streaming) can be found for around $150 on sites like eBay and Swappa. However, if you have a PlayStation 4 and original PS VR headset, you can <a href="https://www.androidcentral.com/how-get-best-3d-blu-ray-experience-playstation-vr">watch 3D Blu-ray discs</a> with the headset.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/01/Untitled.jpg" alt="I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR" loading="lazy" width="1108" height="627" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>3D movies in the Disney+ Vision Pro app (Credit: Disney)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Studios are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3D_films_(2005%E2%80%93present)">still producing movies in 3D format</a> for theater showings, and VR headsets with the ability to stream those movies are <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/global-vr-headset-shipments-to-hit-96-million-in-2024-as-meta-leads">more widespread and affordable</a> than 3D TVs and projectors ever were in the 2010s. I still don't think 3D is ever going to be a mainstream format for movies and TV shows, but it does seem like an easy addition for any streaming service willing to build an app for virtual reality headsets.</p><p>3D movies in VRChat worlds, 3D video file playback in <a href="https://skybox.xyz/en/">Skybox VR</a>, and other similar experiences have made a failed media format accessible in a way it never was in its prime. I'm glad I finally got to try it, and movie studios should take note of the possibilities.</p><p><em><strong>Update on January 6, 2024:</strong> Removed the name of the VRChat world, at the world creator's request.</em></p>

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title: The political tides in Europe are turning against the Empire
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<p>On Sunday, 29 December 2024, <a href="https://www.izbori.hr/site/en/other/news/elections-for-the-president-of-the-republic-of-croatia-2024/4718">Croatia held presidential elections</a>. The incumbent President <strong>Zoran Milanović</strong> won the first round in a landslide against the pro-globalist challenger <strong>Dragan Primorac</strong>. Primorac was strongly backed by the ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Union, led by the Prime Minister <strong>Andrej Plenković </strong>who has been a loyal supporter of NATO, US, UK and EU policies. In winning the Presidency, the ruling party would have captured all of Croatia's key institutions of government.</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%2F90642142-0a0e-49ad-a024-1e4d5522563a_1616x796.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%2F90642142-0a0e-49ad-a024-1e4d5522563a_1616x796.png" width="1456" height="717" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/90642142-0a0e-49ad-a024-1e4d5522563a_1616x796.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":717,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1505903,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>(Another) Putin’s stooge wins</h2><p>To push their candidate over the line the ruling establishment and the media relentlessly demonized President Milanović as Putin's stooge and a pro-Russian player on account of his unwillingness to engage Croatian troops in NATO's excellent adventures in Ukraine. Well, their cunning plan backfired spectacularly and Putin's stooge won nearly 50% of the popular vote vs. less than 20% for the pro-freedom &amp; democracy challenger. That's about as close as it gets to a landslide in Croatian politics.</p><p>It would appear that, not only is there no appetite for the Empire and its military misadventures, but below the surface, the mood toward Russia is changing, and changing in a big way.</p><h2>Ballet or twerking?</h2><p>On Christmas eve, Milan's La Scala theater gave <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfXS_qzyNY">the performance of </a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfXS_qzyNY">Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky</a></strong><a href="https://www.teatroallascala.org/it/stagione/2024-2025/opera/balletto/lo-schiaccianoci.html">'s Nutcracker ballet</a>. This wouldn't seem exceptional: the ballet is a masterpiece and the music is among the most famous and most beautiful in our cultural heritage.</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%2F6a694a2d-1ca6-49eb-b17b-ee814d909cd7_1258x731.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%2F6a694a2d-1ca6-49eb-b17b-ee814d909cd7_1258x731.png" width="1258" height="731" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a694a2d-1ca6-49eb-b17b-ee814d909cd7_1258x731.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":731,"width":1258,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1255688,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But barely three years ago, everyone across Europe was falling over themselves to cancel all things Russian, including the performances of Tchaikovsky's music and university courses in Russian literature. Last week La Scala not only presented Tchaikovsky's ballet, it did so based on <strong>Rudolf Nureyev</strong>'s choreography and invited a Russian conductor, <strong>Valery Ovsyanikov</strong> of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre to direct the orchestra. To boot, Italian national TV broadcast the whole performance.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"0HfXS_qzyNY","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-0HfXS_qzyNY" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0HfXS_qzyNY?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>I am not a ballet fan, but La Scala's production was done so beautifully that I ended up watching a good chunk of it. The music, the scene, the costimography and the music were a feast for the eyes and I remained glued to the TV for a good half of the performance (otherwise I never watch TV anymore). It was a wholesome contrast to the twerking and other such lewd spectacles like the opening and closing ceremonies of Paris Olympics - the kind of demoralizing cultural poison we've come to expect in the West.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-political-tides-in-europe-are?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thank you for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-political-tides-in-europe-are?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-political-tides-in-europe-are?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>Are the countercurrents gathering?</h2><p>I couldn't help wondering if there wasn't something purposeful in La Scala's choice of production and artists this Christmas: a deliberate and explicit rejection of the Western devious junk culture as well as the forced, mindless hostility against Russia. If so, it seems that the same cultural countercurrents seem to be gripping many nations as the recent elections in the United States, Slovakia, Romania, Georgia, Hungary, France, Germany, Croatia and Moldova have shown (yes, Moldova too).</p><p>It may be that in spite of the loud banging of the war-drums in mainstream media, and among our political class, very different currents are gathering below the surface. These currents might continue to gain strength; it’s what our ruling establishments like to label as Russia's malign influence. More likely, the truth is that ordinary people got tired of the lies, hatred, hostility and the wars, as well as the intellectual and cultural junk food that's become the pervasive staple among Western nations. This is a hopeful sign, because escalating the wars could prove difficult for the imperial establishment. What if peace starts to break out all over the place in 2025? It’s a worthwhile idea to pray for and struggle for.</p><p>This post was <strong><a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/political-tides-are-turning-against">originally published</a></strong> on I-System TrendCompass on 31 December 2024.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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<p><strong><a href="https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/artifact/insectothopter/">CIA robot dragonfly spy device</a></strong></p>
In the 1970s the CIA built a tiny robot dragonfly listening device that could fly 200 meters in a few seconds to eavesdrop on conversations. It used a gas-powered fluidic oscillator to flap its wings 1,800 times per minute and could be controlled by an infrared laser beam. They claim the device was never used for a mission because it struggled with crosswinds above 7mph.
<p>At this link, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ3spmVqnco">second video</a> shows flight tests of the device.

    </p><p><small></small>Via <a href="https://danielmiessler.com/blog/">Daniel Miessler</a></p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/04/waymo-robotaxis-safer-than-any-human-driven-cars-much-safer">Study: Waymo robocars are safer than human drivers</a></strong></p>
An insurance company reported that Waymo has logged 25 mmillion fully autonomous miles and showed a 88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims. In other words, if humans had driven these same miles there would have been 8x as many property damage claims and 13x as many bodily injury claims.

    <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://danielmiessler.com/blog/">Daniel Miessler</a></p>


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

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<p>The best way to learn something is to try to teach it to others. The sense of responsibility to your student motivates you to understand a topic, and the act of explaining something helps you to connect the dots and commit them to memory.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="cite">— <a href="https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/25-useful-ideas-for-2025">Gurwinder</a></p>

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


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<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHGYfAIaVg">YouTube: Death Spiral of Army Ants</a></strong></p>
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<p>A phenomenon where army ants follow each other in circles, sometimes until they die — and thus known as an “ant death spiral” — was captured on camera at a university in Venezuela. Biologist Javier David Uzcategui Gonzalez filmed the footage at Simon Bolivar University in Miranda, describing the occurrence as “very rare”. In an August 2020 tweet, Gonzales explained that the phenomenon, also called an ant mill, will happen when some ants lose track of the colony and follow others “in a rotating circle of death.”</p>
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    <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/25-useful-ideas-for-2025">Gurwinder</a></p>


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


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<h2>By Rick Hines</h2><p><em>“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.”<br>-Matthew 23:15, New International Version</em><br><br>Today I was watching a discussion by Whitney Webb about dollars and Stable Coin Dollars, the US Dollar Hegemony, Argentina and El Salvador, and her mention of “Soft Power.” Halfway through it, I thought of something: a new verb.</p><p><em>“To Vaticanize.”</em></p><p>“Vaticanize” means to transform an Empire when it officially collapses, turn it into a diffuse Empire, and then use soft power to keep and maintain its control, as the Hard Empire crumbles. Centralized “decentralized” control replaces overt Centralized control. And it is done by using a central narrative, or <em>faith,</em> to hold it together, seducing adherents from abroad into becoming priests of that faith which they then use to do the Empire’s bidding.</p><p>Now I’m going to do a quick and dirty reminder of history, a <em>back of napkin</em> calculation, “good enough for government work” as they say to explain:</p><p>When Rome ruled, officially, that is, Pagan Rome, it was all about Boots On The Ground.</p><p>It ruled directly, with armies composed of men of proper Roman, or Italic, ethnicity. But what inevitably happened, we are told in school, was the Empire got weak and hollowed out from inside and corrupt. It increasingly became plagued with financial instability and unpayable debt. Having its armies spread thin, it could no longer hold it together.</p><p>Fast forward a couple hundred years and we have Vandals and Goths and Visigoths sacking and pillaging Rome and Rome “falls” into a heap of mayhem.</p><p>A few hundred years later it came back like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. But this time it was no longer administered and maintained by only Italians. No longer did Italians put on boots and don armor to occupy nations directly. Instead, we are told, it became an “Empire of Faith.” It ruled through soft power, and got “Germanics” (northern Europeans) onboard to do its bidding. It did this by seducing them into a faith, a story, a narrative. It had become the “Holy Roman Empire,” that is, the Papacy, or Vatican.</p><p>It ruled indirectly for a thousand years by controlling narratives, beliefs, and seduced non-Italians on board to do its bidding. Everyone –France, England, Germany–<em> everyone–</em> may have had their own local kings, fiefs, and lords butstill answered to Rome at the end of the day. Meanwhile, people who were wealthy could pay their indulgences to be able to sin. They paid the tithe and tax to the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Papacy.</p><p>This is how the “Phoenixed” Empire maintained its control. Of course, this might be an oversimplification, when you also consider Venice and its intelligence agencies and financial dealings, but it’s what we are told in high school and sometimes it’s best to start with the simple and relatable to get a point across, as I am trying to do here.</p><p>We are schooled into believing at an early age that this was the dominant order that held through the Middle Ages.</p><p>Fast forward eight hundred years and you find Britain, at the end of World War I. Britain’s empire, we are told, was on its last legs, at least officially. By 1950, it began losing its power to put boots on the ground in Kenya and India and other places. Crushed under the weight of debt, it could no longer put British soldiers on the front lines of colonial administration like it used to be able to do. There were just not enough British soldiers anymore to hold it together, and not enough taxpayers to support this top-heavy beam. It had spread too thin.</p><p>So what does Britain do?</p><p>It “Vaticanizes.”</p><p>It creates a new Holy Priesthood all of its own making: the Holy Priesthood of Scientism. It invites people from all over the world, from every ethnicity, to become “More British than British” by taking their Rhodes Scholar classes, and putting on their Rose badges.</p><p>One thing that stood out to me during this <a href="https://rumble.com/v5yu1r8-straussian-fires-burn-syria-georgia-greater-israel-and-the-new-crusades.html">most recent episode of Breaking History on Badlands with Ghost of Based Patrick Henry and Matt Ehret </a>was Mikheil Saakashvili from Georgia wearing his British Rose.</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%2Fd7f89178-79ab-4f8d-9914-9ecd15d65fff_750x472.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%2Fd7f89178-79ab-4f8d-9914-9ecd15d65fff_750x472.png" width="750" height="472" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7f89178-79ab-4f8d-9914-9ecd15d65fff_750x472.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":472,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The rose Saakashvili is wearing is very similar to the rose lapel worn by Queen Elizabeth II as well as other members of the British Royal Family and other high officials, seen here:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2adaf33c-f06c-4222-827e-e0a5220c7d37_750x501.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%2F2adaf33c-f06c-4222-827e-e0a5220c7d37_750x501.jpeg" width="750" height="501" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2adaf33c-f06c-4222-827e-e0a5220c7d37_750x501.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":501,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The discussion on the podcast was about the flag, however, which came from the flag of the Templar-run Kingdom of Jerusalem.</p><p>But Georgia’s newest flag just so happens to also be close to an early version of the British flag, because both, we are told, originate from St George’s Cross. You can even say that Georgia’s flag resembles that of Britain even more so than the Templar flag because the cross on that was yellow, while the original St George’s flag before the British flag evolved into the Union Jack was red:</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%2F7524d3a3-a8e2-4245-884c-7cbc41a3d50e_750x421.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7524d3a3-a8e2-4245-884c-7cbc41a3d50e_750x421.jpeg" width="750" height="421" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7524d3a3-a8e2-4245-884c-7cbc41a3d50e_750x421.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":421,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So, without doing any research or verifying any facts at all about Saakashvili or looking into his life, one immediately asks: <em>what school did Saakashvili </em>go to? Like a pig slopping at some trough, what trough did he slop from? The same trough that others, Rhodes Scholars, slop from? So, in this Holy British “Vaticanized” faith system, you go to Rhodes Schools like Oxford (But I like to call it “Rhodes School” because it really is more like a vocational indoctrination center than a real learning institution to help one develop his or her epistemology).</p><p>No matter what ethnicity you hail from, be it Arab, Iranian, Indian, Argentinian, African, or American, you walk into this building which is the British Empire, you go through this training, you slurp from this sloth being doled out, and you come out the other end as –something–. Like in Pink Floyd’s<em> The Wall</em> movie, you go through this machine as Play-Doh (not Plato), and you get pressed and molded into…,<em> something.</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%2F109173c6-9e25-4e83-a76f-75c3c5597864_372x264.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%2F109173c6-9e25-4e83-a76f-75c3c5597864_372x264.jpeg" width="372" height="264" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/109173c6-9e25-4e83-a76f-75c3c5597864_372x264.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":264,"width":372,"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>Youbecome a World Global Leader, you become a media spokesman or woman, or a head of an NGO, or maybe a corporation. And you put on your Bishop Hat to start “bishoping” for this new Decentralized-But-Centralized Holy British Empire over your region. Or…should I say…you put on your Bertrand Russell hat, and start repeating the mantra of “Science.” What is “Science” for a devoted grand strategist of the British Empire?</p><p>Why the “Science of Limits!” The “Science of What You Cannot Do,” as Matt Ehret so brilliantly put it. Or what others called “<em>The dismal science”.</em></p><p>Dismal is such an appropriate word, because it implies pessimism and doom and gloom. And isn’t that what we hear constantly day in day out from “experts?”</p><p>But wait…there’s more…</p><p>If you are rich enough to pay your Carbon Taxes, then you can run your mansion at a high energy consumption. Just like Al Gore! Or maybe fly a private jet to a climate conference, just like John Kerry. You can indulge now in Science “sins” that normie folks can’t, as they get their hamburgers cut out and replaced by seed oil seeping Plant burgers. Is this starting to look familiar now?</p><p>Britain had <em>Vaticanized</em>. It had ceased to be ethnically British and became Multicultural, multiethnic. Like in Disney’s <em>Mandalorian</em> show of <em>Star Wars</em>, where Djin Darin says Mandalore is no longer a race but a way. It used to be a race, but now it’s a way of life that anybody can be a part of, provided they jump through enough hoops, get their training, don their Beskar armor, get taken under the wing of someone important (you DO have to be connected), and become <em>Mandalorianized</em>.</p><p>Britain had “Vaticanized.” It had replaced “Direct British” with “Holy British” rule. It’s all about converts now. Yuval Noah Harari, who is Middle Eastern and has a thick Israeli accent, is more “British” than some English working class punk rocker in a slum in northern Manchester speaking in a thick Cockney accent.</p><p>For, Yuval Harari preaches the Gospel.</p><p>The Gospel of Climate and Carbon and Transhuman Faith.</p><p>“We’re going to merge with Machine and become Cyborgs,” “We’re going to replace the Human,” “There’s too many useless people.” “What do we do with all these useless people?” (here speaking about AI replacing jobs and echoing Malthus). Britain’s faith is the Gospel of Scientism, ala Bertrand Russel, Bacon, Malthus, Darwin, Dawkins, etc. You have all no doubt heard the unfortunately all-too familiar line: <em>Material reality is all that exists, forget about the supernatural, energy and time is running out, we’re doomed because of heat death and climate change, etc etc.</em></p><p>This is to the British Empire what Roman Catholicism had been to the revived Roman Empire in the Middle Ages.</p><p>Meanwhile, the US had replaced the British Empire as the official, “Boots On the Ground” empire, acting like Italian Romans proper back in Roman pagan days. And Dollar hegemony and the US war machine kept it going. But the debt tab just kept going up and going up. And, maybe there aren’t enough American soldiers to enforce it all. It’s so overwhelming. And so many countries want to <em>de-dollarize</em>.</p><p>So what does America do?</p><p>America will have to Vaticanize in its own way just as Rome and Britain did. That is, if it still wants to remain an empire rather than restoring its moral foundation as a republic as it should. But cynicism, and the power of financial elites, almost certainly dictates that it will probably adopt the former rather than the latter.</p><p>Is Libertarianism the New Faith that will replace Boots-on-the-Ground Empire with decentralized, centralized control?</p><p>Well, if future history in the next few years goes like what Whitney Webb is saying in this video, this is where it looks to be going:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTC08lgB6A">“It’s ALL Pre-PLANNED…” – Whitney Webb</a></p><p>Though she doesn’t use the words “Vaticanize,” what she is describing paints a clear and concise picture of what I am calling Vaticanization. Finding a soft power and faith-based replacement for boots on the ground as a way to seduce bishops abroad and from other nations to do Empire’s bidding. Creating a faith, a faith that Milei seems to be zealously implementing. It is the Gospel of Libertarianism and Privatization. But I have heard others call it <em>Free Market Fundamentalism. </em>As Caleb Maupin often likes to say, it is “the delusion that you can cut your way to growth.”</p><p>Indeed, in the short time since Milei took over presidency in Argentina and implemented his privatization and re-dollarization agenda, much <em>has </em>been done and the results and fruits are in: poverty rates have soared above 53% and debt is higher than ever. Results indeed! For the billionaire class, that is!</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/argentina-poverty-milei-economy-crisis-f766deb9302aa4ddde1bb9ae26aaf7af">Argentina’s poverty rate spikes in first 6 months of President Milei’s shock therapy</a></p><p>And yet, this is exactly what Ramaswamy and Elon Musk swear that they want to do for America in the up and coming administration. As Ramaswamy himself tweeted (or should I say “X’ed?”): “Milei on steroids!”</p><p>–</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%2Ffb8a98d7-268b-4645-87ba-24c558b1ad8a_630x309.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%2Ffb8a98d7-268b-4645-87ba-24c558b1ad8a_630x309.jpeg" width="630" height="309" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fb8a98d7-268b-4645-87ba-24c558b1ad8a_630x309.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":309,"width":630,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When you “Vaticanize” your falling Empire, in order to Phoenix it back out from the ashes of its own debt overload and out from the spreading thin of its military, what you have to do is create a Faith that sounds good to people. Like: Hey, the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, right? But don’t worry: if you can pay your tithe -pay your tax- then you can indulge. See? Not so bad!</p><p>We are constantly told that America founded itself on being a “Self-Made Man,” and set itself up in opposition to the British Empire and opposition to hereditary landed aristocracy rule.</p><p>But unfortunately it became Imperial and corrupt, thinking it could occupy the world militarily. And so, in the minds of America’s corrupt oligarchs, it will need to make a Faith. Well it already has one: “Private.” “Libertarian.” “Freedom.” “Free Markets.”</p><p>The way America is going to Vaticanize is by selling this faith as “private” and “free market” and Bitcoin and Stablecoin Dollar and so on, as well as other cryptocurrencies, but in a market that is really rigged and connected to govt control in order to create monopolies. Fake Libertarianism, in other words, and fake “free markets” that are rigged in favor of guys like Peter Thiel.</p><p>Meanwhile guys like Milei in Argentina, and Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, who is famous in the podcast alternative media world for his love of Crypto, Bitcoin Cities, and pseudo “free market” zones where rich and connected guys buy up land unfairly and engage in pseudo John Galt type paradises run by guys like Peter Thiel and other hedge fund investor types… These guys…Milei and Bukele…, these are going to become the new Bishops of the Vaticanized Holy American Empire.</p><p>As Bret Weinstein says: <em>“A republic if you can Phoenix it,”</em> but it really should be said like: “An Empire if you can Phoenix it.” Or maybe even “An Empire if you can Vaticanize it.”</p><p>The Gospel will be this Big Data, AI, and govt intelligence agency-directed Pseudo-Libertarianism where you create fake free markets that are really rigged from the start to prop up and create monopolies. The rich bitcoiners who go and buy up land to create “autonomous” zones at the invite of guys like Milei and Bukele will become the new Fiefdoms of this American Papacy.</p><p>In Medieval days, as the Knights were going out to fight the Crusades, there was a saying: <em>“To Be A Roman Is to Be a Christian, and To be a Christian is to be a Roman.”</em></p><p>Well maybe the American motto will go like: <em>“To be an American is to be a Libertarian and to be a Libertarian is to be an American.”</em></p><p>But only certain, connected, people will be able to become “Libertarians” while the rest of us, the great mass, will be just trying to get by and survive from day to day. Maybe we’ll have to go to witchdoctors and get “magical” cures and recite prayers over potions or scrying crystals, hoping our grandfather’s or uncle’s or mother’s cancer will go away. Because we just can’t afford healthcare like a billionaire can.</p><p>When the cry of “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy” rang out from the parapets of the World Economic Forum a few years ago, the MAGA crowd noticed it first, registered it, and voiced their opposition. They also voiced their hope that Donald Trump and other MAGA leaders would put up a legitimate opposition to the WEF’s “owning nothing and being happy” agenda.</p><p>One of the hallmarks of Owning Nothing and Being Happy, went many a podcaster, was that you will rent your house rather than owning your house. And you will pay exorbitant rents indeed, being at the mercy of a low vacancy rate and an “owner’s market” being increasingly gobbled up by housing corporations and real estate speculators, Black Rock, and so on.</p><p>But consider what happens if Ramaswamy and Musk convince the government to privatize Social Security, or Medicare, or put Medicare on Bitcoin so that it can float and be speculated upon. Next consider if Bitcoin crashes, taking down Medicare with it.</p><p>What are many aging Boomers and Generation X’ers going to do when they or a family member has a medical emergency? Say, Cancer, or Multiple Sclerosis, or any other number of genetically inherited maladies? What are they going to do in order to cover the medical expenses, never mind being out of work? Especially when these medical expenses are constantly rising and never falling?</p><p>Why, take out a second mortgage on their house, a house that they might have already paid for in full. Maybe they won’t be able to pay this mortgage, being incapacitated or unable to work due to medical conditions that require expensive drugs. Which are no longer covered, thanks to cuts inspired by Ramaswamy and the siren song of Free Market Fundamentalism and Self-Made-Man’ism.</p><p>Maybe they will also lapse on their property taxes. Now, with no inheritance of property left for their descendants, their descendants will now be turned loose to fend for themselves in this vicious, brutal, rental market. Maybe they will end up sleeping under the bridge or in a tent somewhere. That is…if they can avoid the <em>hostile architecture.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnqUoAEg6f4">NYC is Building Anti-Homeless Streets…</a></p><p>Talk about “Owning Nothing and Being Happy!” Who are they kidding?</p>

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<p>6 years back I posted <a href="https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/load-css-simpler/">the Simplest Way to Load CSS Asynchronously</a> to document a hack we'd been using for at least 6 years prior to that. The use case for this hack is to load CSS files asynchronously, something that HTML itself still does not support, even though <code>script</code> elements have supported both <code>defer</code> and <code>async</code> attributes for quite some time. The hack takes advantage of browsers' built-in behavior of loading CSS asynchronously whenever a stylesheet is referenced using a media type or query that doesn't match the browsing conditions, which is the opposite of the default stylesheet loading behavior, which is synchronous and render-blocking. Typically, that default blocking behavior is what you want, but when you do want async CSS, there's a way to take advantage of that non-matching media loading behavior: you can give the <code>link</code> element a non-matching <code>media</code> type and an <code>onload</code> handler that sets it back to <code>screen</code> or <code>all</code> when the stylesheet loads.</p>
<p>Like so:</p>
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<p>This works, and it's effective enough that many performance guides from Google and such recommend it. But it has a major downside: that <code>onload</code> handler relies on JavaScript to apply the CSS to the page. It's a hack, and even if it works well, I think it's long past time we get this behavior standardized.</p>
<p>The link element should support an <code>async</code> attribute, like this:</p>
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</code></pre>
<p>Over at the HTML living standard's issue tracker, I've chimed in to say as much and volunteer helping out if I can.</p>
<p>Here's the issue and my comment: <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3983#issuecomment-2581298073">https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3983#issuecomment-2581298073</a></p>
<p>If you agree, I'd love to see folks chime in with a +1. Thanks!</p>


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title: How Passwords Work and How to Hack Them: From DES to ZIP
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title: TheRedPillDiaries with Matt Ehret: The Cult of Elon and other Black Magic
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/4362b21533c89ca42ef04bb6cf790560.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="TheRedPillDiaries with Matt Ehret: The Cult of Elon and other Black Magic"></p>January 8, 2025<br><br>Rasheed &amp; I discuss the latest word news and the habit of the US &amp; NATO/EU nations overstepping what is acceptable and how their willful overstepping red lines is leading the world down the slippery slope of all out war.<br><br>A discussion on the breaking news around the world, especially Iranian retaliation against the Western Backed Israeli Zionist regime<br><br>A deep dive into the latest global events &amp; word news that shapes the lives of massive amounts of people around the world.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find The Red Pill Diaries at:        <br>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRedPillDiariesOfficial<br>Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pill_diaries<br>Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theredpilldiaries<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?” <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs<br><br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret

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title: Game~B building the Noosphere with Courtenay Turner
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/4dc9218fd8135a800da8adad27c10bc7.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Game~B building the Noosphere with Courtenay Turner"></p>ON January 5 Courtenay Turner delivered an explosive presentation on the topic of the transhumanist/Silicon Valley agenda to re-wire human civilization following a program called ‘Game B’. <br><br>Follow Courtenay's work here https://courtenayturner.com/<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/m...<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-hi...<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?”<br>   • The Arctic: Theater of War or Global ...  <br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/0...<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>  / canadianpatriot  <br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-hi...<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (   / @canadianpatriotpress3573  ) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8...<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpr...<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>  / mattehret  <br>

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title: Mel K &amp; Matt Ehret | Canada, The Crown, &amp; Us | 1-10-24
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/9c2a2797a6acfaca6eb4430357bbc97d.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mel K &amp; Matt Ehret | Canada, The Crown, &amp; Us | 1-10-24"></p>January 10, 2025<br><br>Mel K &amp; Matt Ehret discuss Canada, The Crown, &amp; US<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find Mel K’s work at:        <br>Website: https://themelkshow.com<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow<br>Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelKShow<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Docu-Series here<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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title: New Lyre Podcast #34: Contrappostos, Mughals, and the Miracle of Art
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Sarah Westall, Cynthia Chung &amp; Matt Ehret |How they Use Mind Control Tactics to Undermine Ourselves

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/990f1ffa92527c5478b78ec9fc562672.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Sarah Westall, Cynthia Chung &amp; Matt Ehret |How they Use Mind Control Tactics to Undermine Ourselves"></p>January 9, 2025<br><br>Today we oined Sarah’s program to explain the tactics used to destabilize countries and how it is being used today. They reference many historical examples and we discuss what this means in practical terms. How we can develop a critical mind and identify tactics used to throw us off from implementing meaningful solutions.<br>**********************************************<br>You can find Sarah Westall’s work at:        <br>Website: https://sarahwestall.com/ <br>Rumble:  https://rumble.com/c/SarahWestall <br>Twitter:  https://twitter.com/westall_sarahw <br>Facebook:  https://facebook.com/RadioHostSarahWestall<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 1 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episode 2 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2024/02/27/episode-2-of-the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-has-been-unleashed-h-g-wells-war-of-the-worlds-and-the-dawn-of-a-new-age/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret

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Send'Or TV' Sendra D on Haiti &amp; Geopolitics: Biden Recap &amp; What to Expect from Trump W/ Matt Ehret

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/dd03c3867b893b156d2e9987251a679e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Send'Or TV' Sendra D on Haiti &amp; Geopolitics: Biden Recap &amp; What to Expect from Trump W/ Matt Ehret"></p>December 30, 2024<br><br>In this powerful episode of Frankly Speaking, I join Sendra D. to discuss Haiti’s historical and modern geopolitical challenges, a critical recap of Biden's foreign policy over the last four years, and predictions and insights into what the next four years might look like under Trump.<br>The legacy of leaders like Toussaint Louverture and their influence on today's global politics.<br>Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that ties historical narratives with modern-day geopolitical strategies. Don't miss this insightful discussion!<br>*****<br><br>You can find Sendra D’s work at:        <br>https://www.youtube.com/@SendOrTV<br>https://x.com/sendraD<br>https://www.facebook.com/sendorcapital<br>*****<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “Like a Phoenix: The Death and Rebirth of America” here:<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EamfkiBTc&amp;t=5s<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs” here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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title: The Fearless Podcast: Breaking Wall Street with Matt Ehret
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<p>Last night I had the privilege of being included in a Zoom call with <strong>Steve Bannon</strong>, former investment banker and media executive, host of the "War Room" show and chief political strategist during the first seven months of <strong>Donald Trump</strong>'s first term in office. Much of what Bannon presented wasn't surprising, but what seemed significant was that he confirmed that Trump and his team will go on the offensive from day one in office. "The days of thunder begin on Monday," he said, and the world will not be the same again. Bannon wasn't talking about Trump going on the offensive against the Chinese, Iranians or the Russians. Trump and his team are preparing to take on the "they.”</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%2F957051a0-eb8a-48fe-8b01-e103d722d38c_1804x1096.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%2F957051a0-eb8a-48fe-8b01-e103d722d38c_1804x1096.png" width="1456" height="885" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/957051a0-eb8a-48fe-8b01-e103d722d38c_1804x1096.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":885,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2585538,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>"They," in Bannon's words, are the people who control the world's most powerful empire and, elections or no elections, democracy or no democracy, they will not voluntarily relinquish their privileges and the control over their empire: there will be a fight. In a few recent podcasts, I discussed what this likely implies, simply on the basis of what the nature of this power struggle entails. </p><p>Namely, taking on the imperial cabal is a fight to the death. "They," are vicious, unscrupulous and extremely vindictive. If Trump and his team falter in this struggle, the cabal will not content themselves with merely defeating Trump politically. I believe they would not relent until they entirely destroyed him, his fortune, his collaborators and his family.</p><h2>The price of defying the Empire</h2><p>When the United States declared independence from the British Empire, the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were not just a bunch of belligerent rebels with nothing to lose. In many ways, they were similar to the people flanking Donald Trump today. They were all educated men of means and privileged members of society. </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%2F14b23432-e42a-4788-af31-43f957337b1c_2633x885.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%2F14b23432-e42a-4788-af31-43f957337b1c_2633x885.png" width="1456" height="489" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/14b23432-e42a-4788-af31-43f957337b1c_2633x885.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":489,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2525270,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">They all defied the Empire and pledged their lives</figcaption></figure></div><p>Of the 56 signatories, twenty four were lawyers and jurists; eleven were wealthy merchants; nine were farmers and large plantation owners. In signing the Declaration of Independence they provoked the wrath of the empire, knowing for sure that if they were captured their penalty would be death. Five of them were in fact captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons and another two had their sons captured and imprisoned.</p><p>Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships in the revolutionary war. <strong>Carter Braxton</strong>, a wealthy planter and trader saw all his ships sunk by the British Navy. To pay his debts he was forced to sell his home and his properties. He died a poor man. To avoid capture, <strong>Thomas McKeam</strong> had to move his family around the country almost constantly. He served in Congress without pay and his family was kept in hiding. Ultimately, his possessions were taken from him and he too, died in poverty. The home and properties of <strong>Francis Lewis</strong> were destroyed and his wife was jailed. She died within a few months.</p><p>The properties of <strong>Ellery</strong>, <strong>Clymer</strong>, <strong>Hall</strong>, <strong>Walton</strong>, <strong>Gwinnett</strong>, <strong>Heyward</strong>, <strong>Ruttledge</strong>, and <strong>Middleton </strong>were vandalized and destroyed by British troops or their proxy terror squads. British <strong>General Cornwallis</strong> took over <strong>Thomas Nelson</strong>'s home for his headquarters. It was destroyed during the battle of Yorktown and Nelson died bankrupt. <strong>John Hart </strong>had to flee his homestead after his fields and gristmill were destroyed. For over a year he hid, living in forests and caves. When he returned home, his wife was dead and their 13 children all vanished. The grief and distress killed him within a few weeks. <strong>Norris </strong>and <strong>Livingston </strong>suffered similar fates.</p><p>When the imperial cabal decided to break up the United States, which precipitated the Civil War, they were confronted by President <strong>Abraham Lincoln</strong>. In 1863, Russian <strong>Czar Alexander II</strong> came to Lincoln's aid by dispatching his Baltic fleet to New York and his Pacific fleet to San Francisco. The move blocked the Empire's intervention on the side of the Confederation, which was planned by the British with the support of France and the Vatican. The U.S. - Russian alliance ultimately prevailed and the United States was preserved. </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%2Ff25cd116-1221-4d1b-84de-df40a59cbabf_1064x817.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%2Ff25cd116-1221-4d1b-84de-df40a59cbabf_1064x817.jpeg" width="1064" height="817" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f25cd116-1221-4d1b-84de-df40a59cbabf_1064x817.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":817,"width":1064,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":635346,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","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">Alliance between Russia and the USA saved the union from the British Empire. Note how Lincoln is portrayed as a troglodyte in London.</figcaption></figure></div><p>But to exact their revenge, the cabal dispatched assassins. Abraham Lincoln was killed in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, and Alexander II was assassinated in St. Petersburg in 1881. In 1917 the whole family of the <strong>Czar Nicholas II</strong> was killed by the Bolsheviks on the orders of the New York banker <strong>Jacob Schiff</strong>. Arguably, the low life expectancy among the <strong>Kennedy </strong>family men is also likely due to their propensity to irritate the imperial cabal.</p><p>I do believe that Donald Trump and at least some of the people around him are probably well aware of all this and understand the stakes in the struggle they took on. During our call last night <strong>Steve Bannon</strong> confirmed that this is indeed the case. The nature of this conflict dictates that "they" can't be left standing and whoever comes into the White House after four years of Trump will be tasked with continuing the struggle until the imperial cabal is entirely uprooted and disenfranchised. </p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/next-week-start-the-days-of-thunder?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/next-week-start-the-days-of-thunder?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>The clash is global and it’s between two systems of governance</h2><p>Just like in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere, what we'll witness is another front in the struggle between two systems of governance. In that sense, the geopolitical conflicts around the world will likely be subordinated to the civil war shaping up in the United States, which could prove the central battle in the whole conflict. That civil war might not resemble the civil wars of the past with large armies fighting one another in fields and insurrections in cities. Instead, we'll likely see chaos, sabotage, assassinations and terrorism in the U.S. - but also in Europe and the U.K. </p><p>One of the participants in yesterday's call was also <strong>Christine Anderson</strong>, member of the German AfD party and the European Parliament. She reported that the authorities in Germany, as in France, UK and other European nations, are "berserk," and that the Trump election has pushed them over the edge of overt authoritarianism which they no longer even bother to conceal. </p><p>As a result, there's open talk about cancelling the upcoming 23 February elections in Germany, and more aggressive censorship of social media. <strong>Elon Musk</strong>'s recent interview of AfD leader <strong>Alice Weidel</strong> only added to the hysteria and now German authorities want to prosecute Musk as they construed his interview of Weidel as an illegal campaign donation.</p><p>Participants from the UK reported perhaps the most distressing news, agreeing that the situation in the nation is simply awful, that they do not even recognize their country. One doctor said that he sees that people are increasingly giving up and many are "losing the will to live." One concrete piece of news, which was confirmed to be true, is that for some months now, elected politicians no longer appoint judges in Britain. I did not understand who does appoint them as our call ran overtime before I had the chance to ask, but I'm sure it's probably some really nice people.</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%2Ff68e9aba-41f4-4be8-afca-6ed325d0c702_1200x525.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%2Ff68e9aba-41f4-4be8-afca-6ed325d0c702_1200x525.jpeg" width="1200" height="525" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f68e9aba-41f4-4be8-afca-6ed325d0c702_1200x525.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":525,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Picture background","title":"Picture background","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Picture background" title="Picture background" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Another distressing development in the UK is the upcoming <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3707">Climate and Nature Bill</a> which, if passed, will legally enshrine Britain's commitment to net zero policies, which could prove devastating to its economy including the energy market, farming and industrial output. I elaborated what net zero entails for the British economy in <a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/by-hook-and-by-crook-nudging-the?utm_source=publication-search">this article</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%2Fe48249e3-29ca-4347-8ad2-336b5050e8fc_1518x575.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%2Fe48249e3-29ca-4347-8ad2-336b5050e8fc_1518x575.png" width="1456" height="552" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e48249e3-29ca-4347-8ad2-336b5050e8fc_1518x575.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":552,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":71213,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">You could get away with a 40 billion trade deficit if your currency was the world’s reserve currency, but the British pound is not.</figcaption></figure></div><p>In all, it seems that the days of thunder begin next week. These are the times to be brave. Maybe Trump and the people around him just want a bigger slice of the pie and there's nothing more to it than that. But perhaps the struggle is bigger than that. Steve Bannon recently spent four months in prison - not a country club, as he said, but a real prison. Trump had two, perhaps more attempts at his life. The struggle is very real.</p><p>However, Trump’s adversaries are in a panic, according to Bannon. Most of them really didn't think Trump would win the elections last November. Bannon said that Trump is a "blunt force instrument," and that the cabal sustained a "blunt force trauma." Hundreds, perhaps thousands of their minions, including <strong>Dr. Anthony Fauci</strong>, are jockeying to obtain pardons from the Biden team, even on a pre-emptive basis. Well, we’ll find out - it won't be boring.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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