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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/war-and-betrayal-or-the-good-neighbor
title: War and Betrayal, or the Good Neighbor
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
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<p>Trump’s Supreme Test Will Come Quickly:</p>
<h1 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post">War and Betrayal, or the Good Neighbor</h1>
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<p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p>
<p>The recent US presidential election was a referendum in which voters rejected permanent war.</p>
<p>Americans share the choice of peace with the great majority of mankind.[1] This point of view is not left-wing or right-wing. People know that …</p>
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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>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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[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Western media distorted Syria's prisons to normalize the Al-Qaeda takeover and the Gaza genocide. Part one of a two-part series.

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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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<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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On the Eve of His Murder, Martin Luther King Invoked America’s Nationalist Heritage to Challenge the System

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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef70a739-f342-42bb-b43c-01de4febdcfa_680x650.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><h3 data-sanitized-class="subtitle">by Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</h3><div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="body markup">
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<p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p>
<p>At the end of March, 1968, Dr. King was in the final stages of arrangements to lead a Poor People’s campaign, that would disrupt Washington until its demands were met.</p>
<p>In a Christian sermon in Washington’s …</p>
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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><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>


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title: Forget “A Republic If You Can Phoenix it.” How about: “An Empire If You Can Vaticanize it?”
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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. 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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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<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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<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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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/remaining-awake-through-a-great-revolution
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<p>When Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his sermon in the nation’s capital on March 31, 1968, the coup d’état was in full swing.</p>
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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><em><span>Read part 1</span> <a href="https://www.uncaptured.media/p/syria-psyop-theater-inside-the-sednaya" rel>here</a><span>.</span></em></p>
<p>For over a decade of color revolutions and destabilization plots in West Asia and North Africa, U.S. government officials with their allied NGOs and media outlets have summoned the spectre of mass graves to justify their interventionist policies.</p>
<p><span>“As President, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action,” President Barack Obama declared in a March 2011</span> <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya" rel>speech</a> <span>justifying Operation Odyssey Dawn, the U.S. airstrikes that led to the deposal and grisly murder of Libyan president Moammar Qadaffi.</span></p>
<p><span>“Why batter Colonel Qaddafi and not intervene on the side of the opposition in Yemen, Bahrain, perhaps even Syria?,”</span> <a href="https://www.economist.com/lexingtons-notebook/2011/03/28/the-birth-of-an-obama-doctrine" rel>The Economist</a> <span>wondered.</span></p>

<p><span>From the earliest days of the Syrian crisis, Western media began to disseminate anonymously-sourced and unverified claims of mass graves, particularly in the cities of</span> <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2011/05/12/more-stick-than-carrot" rel>Homs</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-13423418" rel>Deraa</a><span>, while ignoring the presence of armed opposition groups and their killings of Syrian police and military personnel.</span></p>
<p><span>Father Frans van der Lugt, a Dutch Jesuit priest who had spent decades in Syria before being murdered by armed opposition groups in 2014,</span> <a href="https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/syrian-dirty-wars-secret-origins" rel>wrote</a> <span>that “From the start I saw armed demonstrators marching along in the protests, who began to shoot at the police first. The violence of the security forces has been a reaction to the brutal violence of the armed rebels.”</span></p>
<p>“The opposition of the street is much stronger than any other opposition. And this opposition is armed and frequently employs brutality and violence, only in order to blame the government,” he wrote in another report.</p>
<p>This sort of vital information was rarely included in reports, certainly not by mainstream media outlets and billionaire-funded human rights groups.</p>
<p><span>In June 2011, a Human Rights Watch report</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2011/06/01/weve-never-seen-such-horror/crimes-against-humanity-syrian-security-forces" rel>alleged</a><span>, based on interviews with “more than 50” anonymous Syrians and “Jordanian nationals” (some conducted by phone), that multiple mass graves existed in Deraa. The only tangible evidence provided was a</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/monI7Twd6U0?si=M69Qq5LYMAaG3ewJ" rel>video</a> <span>produced by the Turkey-based opposition-affiliated Sham News Network, which received</span> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/tech/web/shaam-news-syria/index.html" rel>glowing coverage from CNN</a><span>, of a shallow grave dug with a single corpse and three body bags visible. A single source, who was not in Syria, claimed the bodies were of his family members. The report failed to substantiate its claims, noting that “While we did our best to verify the names and circumstances of the killings with witnesses and family members, this was not always possible due to restrictions on access and communications in Syria.”</span></p>
<p>The only documented mass grave of the Syrian government is in the southern Damascus neighborhood of Tadamon.</p>
<p><span>Tadamon was a</span> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/02/world/meast/syria-damascus-suburb-pleitgen/index.html" rel>front line</a> <span>in the first years of the Syrian war, with the Syrian military and Palestinian faction</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/world/middleeast/Syria.html" rel>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command</a> <span>fighting against a collection of armed groups which journalist Charles Glass</span> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/12/05/syria-way-genocide/?srsltid=AfmBOop-9OUhWu5AlUgmbAM0SMyL4OyFwdLoTG2yyk1hmiPzWWGSRTTb" rel>identified</a> <span>as “troops from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and its erstwhile allies the Nusra Front, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and other extreme Salafist militias.” The armed opposition was so brutal that, according a The New York Times</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/middleeast/a-hired-killer-in-syria-reconsiders-his-role.html" rel>report</a><span>, Jabhat Al-Nusra militants captured an Alawaite family in Tadamon and forced a brother to rape his sister at gunpoint.</span></p>
<p><span>The anti-government armed groups, according to a March 2013 Amnesty International</span> <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde240082013en.pdf" rel>report</a><span>, executed anyone they suspected of being informants for the Syrian government, and dumped their bodies into a “a large hole dug for the foundations of a building in Souk al-Talata,” called the “hole of death.” Among the victims was Palestinian refugee Ali al-Zamel. When the Syrian military temporarily regained control of the neighborhood around September 2012, it recovered bodies from the hole, but Jabhat al-Nusra once again ousted Syrian government forces in 2013.</span></p>
<p><span>However, this opposition mass grave was ignored while a a Syrian military intelligence mass grave was featured in an exposé jointly-published by the U.S. government-funded</span> <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-a-massacre-of-nearly-300-in-syria-was-revealed/" rel>New Lines Institute</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/massacre-in-tadamon-how-two-academics-hunted-down-a-syrian-war-criminal" rel>The Guardian</a><span>, and Al Jumhuriyah, a staunchly pro-opposition Germany-based outlet,</span> <a href="https://www.arabculturefund.org/Grantees/9537" rel>funded</a> <span>by the German and Norwegian governments, Open Society Foundation and Ford Foundation, among others, through a</span> <a href="https://www.flipsnack.com/arabculturefund/afac-annual-report-2023-english/full-view.html" rel>cultural institution</a><span>. The exposé was done in collaboration with two researchers at the University of Amsterdam, one of whom wrote that she posed as a fervent support of the Assad government in order to lure an intelligence officer who participated in the massacre to confess his participation, and said it was done in “revenge,” apparently for the killing of his brother.</span></p>
<p>The report found that a small group of Syrian military intelligence officers executed 41 people in a mass grave, set their bodies alight, and then covered up their crime.</p>
<p><span>When the reports were published in 2022, the Syrian government</span> <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220531-syria-regime-detains-chief-suspect-in-tadamun-massacre/" rel>arrested</a> <span>the confessed perpetrator, Amjad Yousef.</span></p>
<p><strong>Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham and ISIS mass graves</strong></p>
<p>While Western media focus on the Syrian military’s mass grave in Tadamon, they have omitted the overwhelming majority of documented mass graves made by anti-government terrorist groups in Tadamon and throughout the country in territory that opposition forces had held.</p>
<p><span>In late 2011, Jabhat al-Nusra (which would go on to become Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), Ahrar al-Sham, Jaish al-Islam, and Jaish al-Fatah began to use the Idlib province’s Al-Habat quarry as a mass grave, according to a 2021</span> <a href="https://scm.bz/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Mass-Grave-Al-Ahm-Hole.pdf" rel>report</a> <span>by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. Militants threw into the</span> <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/35%C2%B059'49.9%22N+36%C2%B038'11.2%22E/@35.9948079,36.6377067,3857m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d35.997201!4d36.636445?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" rel>quarry</a> <span>Syrian soldiers, members of government-allied militias, people accused of collaboration with the government, people accused of apostasy, adultery, or homosexuality, and Shia Muslim residents of the village of Foua and Kefraya (condemned as “infidels”), earning it the title “the Al-Ahm death hole.”</span></p>
<p>Video uploaded by the “Idlib Special Operations Brigade”, a faction of the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army, shows militants with captured Syrian soldiers in a truck who, according to the report, were then killed and dumped in the mass grave.</p>

<p>By 2015, the Al-Ahm “death hole” contained at least 110 bodies, and by 2017, 30 more victims had been thrown in. While some had already been executed, others were thrown in alive, or blindfolded and told to run for freedom, only to fall to their death.</p>
<p>HTS reportedly ceased using the pit to dispose of its victims and began to use it as a garbage landfill for all of Idlib province, which it governed. However, the report documents further cases in 2020.</p>

<p><span>In 2011, anti-government militias</span> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-13/syria-troops-storm-town-mass-grave-found/2755880" rel>dumped</a> <span>the “mutilated bodies of 10 security agents whose hands, head and feet had been cut off” in a mass grave in Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib province. “At least four of the bodies were beheaded or struck on the head with an ax,”</span> <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/12/syrian-army-regains-control-restive-border-town/" rel>according</a> <span>to an Associated Press reporter.</span></p>
<p><span>In November 2013, Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/bHpZdGbZnks?si=8_aIdiSscyUwfO9r" rel>attacked</a> <span>the ancient Chrisitan city of Sadad, ransacking the city, desecrating churches, and taking a man as a</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/19/syria-opposition-abuses-during-ground-offensive" rel>human shield</a> <span>before they</span> <a href="https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/23532" rel>murdered</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-christian-fighters-scramble-defend-syrian-town-isis-advance-336227" rel>46</a> <span>Syrian men, women, and children and dumped their bodies in two mass graves.</span></p>

<p>"What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two and a half years... 45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves. Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing,” Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh said.</p>
<p><span>After the Syrian government’s army expelled Islamic state forces from Palmyra in 2016, they discovered a mass grave that</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35950517" rel>contained</a> <span>40 bodies.</span></p>
<p><span>The greatest concentration of mass graves was in eastern Syria, where ISIS held territory for years, from Raqqa to</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46544924" rel>Albu Kamal</a> <span>and around Deir Ezzor.</span></p>
<p>In 2017, the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, with U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fighting under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces, expelled ISIS from Raqqa, leveling 80% of the city. First responders and residents began to uncover mass graves there too.</p>
<p><span>Unlike the White Helmets, who are lavishly</span> <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/syria/press-releases/oct-25-2024-International-Donor-Group-Praises-the-White-Helmets-for-Decade-of-Extraordinary-Humanitarian-Efforts-in-Syria" rel>funded</a> <span>by the U.S., UK, and Qatar and were once called the “</span><a href="https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/857043935293620224" rel>Islamic state fire brigade</a><span>” by ISIS prisoner journalist John Cantlie, Raqqa’s first responders received little funding from the U.S. government.</span></p>
<p><span>According to a July 2018 Human Rights Watch</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/03/syria-mass-graves-former-isis-areas" rel>report</a> <span>on the mass graves, the U.S. was hesitant to allocate funds to exhuming graves there because it did not want to offend Ankara, which considers Kurdish groups to be terrorists.</span></p>
<p>“One of the issues reported is that some international organizations are unwilling or reluctant to support local authorities for fear of alienating Syrian government authorities in Damascus or to jeopardize their relations with Turkey, both of which are hostile to the local authorities,” HRW wrote.</p>
<p>Despite having no training or experience and little equipment, they organized themselves from the Raqqa Civilian Council and volunteered to exhume human remains of civilians and fighters killed by ISIS and by anti-ISIS forces, hoping to help bring closure to families missing their loved ones, the report stated.</p>

<p>By July 2018, they had found nine graves in Raqqa, with “each one estimated to have dozens, if not hundreds, of bodies, making exhumations a monumental task,” said Priyanka Motaparthy, then HRW’s acting emergencies director.</p>
<p>However, the paltry support was insufficient for the job.</p>
<p>“If workers continue to exhume the graves without adequate technical training, equipment, and support, families may lose the opportunity to accurately identify the remains of their loved ones. Evidence regarding crimes in the area, including ISIS crimes, may be lost,” the HRW report added.</p>
<p>Despite its limitations, the teams managed to excavate 22 mass graves in the Raqqa environs, discovering 5,656 bodies, and 522 in northeast Deir Ezzor from 2018 to 2019.</p>
<p><span>A 2020</span> <a href="https://www.icmp.int/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/icmp-gr-mena-065-6-w-doc-stocktaking-missing-persons-in-north-east-syria.pdf" rel>report</a> <span>by The International Commission on Missing Persons, titled “The Missing in North East Syria: a Stocktaking.” There, residents and researchers began to uncover mass graves, from which 3,797 human remains were exhumed.</span></p>
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<p>In January and February 2019, they exhumed 793 human remains in Raqqa’s Panorama Park “believed to contain a large number of bodies killed by the Global Coalition, including ISIS fighters.”</p>
<p>The Al Fakhikha Grave south of Raqqa City was exhumed from January to June of 2019 and contained 673 bodies.</p>
<p>Al Tala’a Camp Grave, south of Raqqa City, is the largest documented mass grave, containing 815 bodies. Excavation began in June 2019 and lasted until September 18.</p>
<p>The most shocking mass grave, which is believed to contain thousands of bodies, is in the Al-Houta gorge, which had been a popular hiking and tourist destination north of Raqqa city, near the town of Hammam al-Turkman.</p>
<p><span>According to</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/04/abyss#_ftn5" rel>Human Rights Watch</a><span>, a terrorist group known as the al-Qadsiya Brigade, led by a local man named Faysal al-Ballo, attacked and overcame a Syrian government checkpoint in July 2013. The brigade had originally pledged allegiance first to Ahrar al-Sham, then to the Free Syrian Army, and finally to Jabhat Al-Nusra. The fighters executed at least 16 Syrian soldiers, the celebratory aftermath of which is shown in the video below, and then reportedly dumped their bodies in the Al-Houta gorge. This practice was continued by ISIS, which dumped bodies of hundreds of Syrian military personnel, religious minorities including members of the Muslim Ismaili sect, and anyone accused of collaborating with the enemy.</span></p>

<p><span>According to the ICMP report, under the command of a security chief whose</span> <em>nom de guerre</em> <span>was “Abu Yasser al-Iraqi,” ISIS killed members of the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army, at least 20 government soldiers, and Kurdish YPG fighters.</span></p>
<p>They not only disposed of dead bodies by the car-full into the gorge but also employed sadistic methods of murder, sometimes throwing people alive to their deaths, executing victims at the edge to allowing their bodies to fall in, or having victims “brought blindfolded and told to run to their deaths, under the pretense that they were being released and running to their salvation,” the same practice used as the Al-Ahm “death hole.” The report does not give a specific number of victims but believes it to be in the thousands.</p>
<p>When local residents complained to ISIS authorities of the stench and possibility of diseases from decomposing remains, ISIS dumped crude oil into the gorge and burned it.</p>
<p><span>Human Rights Watch</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/iOW-aMUYNNs?si=Ftg7D1MDCiQbimYx" rel>published</a> <span>footage of militants executing prisoners and throwing bodies into the gorge, which a researcher had obtained from a worker at a computer repair shop who found the footage on a computer left by an ISIS militant and clandestinely sent it to the group.</span></p>

<p><span>In 2020, Human Rights Watch also</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/04/abyss" rel>documented</a> <span>the Al-Houta mass grave, with its researchers flying a drone into the depths of the gorge and revealing three corpses in pools of oil at its bottom.</span></p>

<p><strong>‘Lack of political will’ to investigate HTS/ISIS mass graves</strong></p>
<p>Any hopes that the families who had lost loved ones might have had of finding their missing relatives were dashed by the October 2019 Turkish-backed invasion of Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Syria, greenlighted by the Trump administration. Since then, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army has held the area. There have been no attempts to recover the bodies from the gorge nor international pressure to begin such a process, whether on the SNA itself or its Turkish sponsors, which have long supported the HTS and ISIS terrorists that dumped the bodies in the gorge.</p>
<p><span>“The families of the missing who spoke with Human Rights Watch said they had hoped that the territorial defeat of ISIS would quickly lead to information about their loved ones. However, a series of delays and an apparent lack of political will placed significant obstacles in their path,” HRW wrote in its</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/02/11/kidnapped-isis/failure-uncover-fate-syrias-missing" rel>report</a><span>, entitled “Kidnapped by ISIS Failure to Uncover the Fate of Syria’s Missing.”</span></p>
<p>In 2019, HRW again noted that there were no efforts from the various forces, mostly foreign, to investigate these mass graves.</p>
<p>“At the time of writing, the extent of the control by the Syrian government, Turkey, NES, and the US-led coalition in former ISIS-held areas remains unclear, making it more difficult for families to identify who to speak to and recovery efforts more precarious… Regardless of who currently controls these areas, these developments highlight the urgency with which authorities should act on any leads available to learn what became of those missing at the hands of ISIS,” the report stated. “Thus far, authorities on the ground have not coordinated or systematized the limited local efforts to take up this issue.”</p>
<p><strong>Legacy media ignore documented mass graves, promote evidence-free claims of Syrian government-filled mass graves</strong></p>
<p>While mass graves in former al-Nusra and Islamic state-held territory in eastern Syria generated little interest in Western media, these outlets have promoted specious claims of mass graves perpetrated by the Syrian government.</p>
<p><span>The New York Times in 2022 published a</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/world/middleeast/mass-graves-syria-war-crimes.html" rel>report</a> <span>entitled “Mass Graves Identified in Syria Could Hold Evidence of War Crimes.” This misleadingly titled article contained no evidence of mass graves, relying instead on grainy and vague satellite photos of a field, described as a “suspected” grave, and an image of the Najha cemetery.</span></p>
<p>This was packaged with interviews from four Syrian men, two of whom were in Germany, another in Lebanon, and another in Syria. The Times granted them all anonymity for “fear of retribution by the Syrian government” despite the fact that all but one of them had left Syria.</p>
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<p><span>One of the men who was interviewed participated in a trial against Anwar Raslan, a Syrian government official who defected to the opposition and was granted asylum in Germany. There, he gave lurid accounts about mass-torture in government prisons but was then convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison despite</span> <a href="https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/la-traque-anwar-raslan/ep3-deserteur/" rel>significant doubts</a> <span>about his testimony, and the</span> <a href="https://cijaonline.org/news/2020/11/19/cija-testifies-in-case-of-anwar-ruslan" rel>participation</a> <span>of the CIJA.</span></p>
<p>The New York Times, however, ignored those details and offered no evidence to support its allegations of mass graves or whom might have been buried in the graves, admitting that, “The Times could not independently corroborate all the details in their accounts, including the total numbers of bodies they recalled seeing.”</p>
<p>Another one of the men interviewed appeared masked in the U.S. Congress, calling himself “the gravedigger,” spinning lurid tales of mass murder and pressing to ramp up sanctions on Syria.</p>
<p><span>His March 2022 congressional testimony was</span> <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/blog/a-message-to-america-from-a-gravedigger-in-syria" rel>promoted by The Holocaust Memorial Museum</a><span>, which had on its board ex-U.S. government official</span> <a href="https://nacla.org/news/2023/12/01/call-conscience-committee-takes-aim-elliott-abrams" rel>Elliot Abrams</a><span>. He oversaw massacres in Latin America and was convicted of unlawfully withholding information from Congress in the Iran-Contra scandal.</span></p>

<p><span>The “gravedigger” character appeared in Congress again in June 2022 and</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/N_Is4ohpRFI?si=__Pfwkyz3HUXc_VK" rel>April 2023</a><span>, and in numerous media outlets including a September 2022</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/lmmsLJhrmPE?si=Lq0fchHC9xMjH-6x" rel>Vice</a> <span>interview. Each time, however, the “gravedigger” appears to be a different person.</span></p>
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<p><span>The New York Times also referenced a Human Rights Watch</span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/syria1215web_0.pdf" rel>report</a> <span>that cited two anonymous defectors, interviewed in Lebanon and Turkey, who claimed to have served at military hospitals. The Times did not clarify if they relied on the same sources that HRW relied on.</span></p>
<p>“The two defectors Human Rights Watch interviewed who served at military hospitals said that soldiers transported the bodies to mass graves located on military land in the greater Damascus area, including near the Najha cemetary, near the Third Brigade military base, and near the Dhamir military airport. Human Rights Watch was not able to confirm these claims.”</p>
<p><span>While the Times alleged Qutayfah to be the largest mass grave, it was not mentioned in the 2017 Amnesty International “Human slaughterhouse”</span> <a href="https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Human-Slaughterhouse-Mass-Hangings-and-Extermination-at-Saydnaya-Prison-Syria.pdf" rel>report</a> <span>that first claimed the Assad government was “exterminating” tens of thousands of prisoners and burying them in mass graves.</span></p>
<p><strong>Staging a mass grave?</strong></p>
<p>Outside of Damascus, graves may have been tampered with to produce the desired imagery.</p>
<p><span>Multiple reports documented an alleged mass grave in Adra, located near Damascus, which was being exhumed by the White Helmets, who have participated in numerous summary executions themselves and have demonstrated their capability to</span> <a href="https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1394742294629265418" rel>stage scenes</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>A</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/Pnk7ImrhnVA?si=kz6jRFqNepN_t6l6" rel>report</a> <span>by Turkish-state media outlet TRT showed the White Helmets at work, finding several bags of human remains in crypts. Correspondent Randolph Nogel made no effort to investigate and stated that they were all victims of Assad. However, an AFP</span> <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241225-syria-rescuers-activist-say-site-outside-damascus-believed-to-be-mass-grave" rel>report</a> <span>casually suggested that the graves were tampered with. According to Diab Serriya, co-founder of the Turkey-based Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison, “the bags of bones were probably brought from other graves" and "probably this grave contains detainees but also former regime or opposition fighters killed in battle.”</span></p>
<p><span>Neither report notes that Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups</span> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-adra-20140925-story.html" rel>overran Adra in December 2013</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-adra-20140925-story.html" rel>massacred Syrians soldiers and civilians from religious minority groups</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><strong>Assad falls and the narrative takes hold</strong></p>
<p><span>The “gravedigger” was accompanied by Mouaz Mustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a regime-change outfit funded by the</span> <a href="https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1864014565647798628" rel>U.S. Agency for International Development</a><span>. Since the earliest days of the crisis, Moustafa has played a central role. In 2013, he arranged for and accompanied neoconservative senator John McCain to illegally enter Syria to</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/IbfsTcJCKDE?si=SXaCDrrzIK0n7imz" rel>meet</a> <span>with anti-government militants who had</span> <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10089697/John-McCain-denies-he-knowingly-posed-with-with-rebel-kidnappers-in-Syria.html" rel>kidnapped 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims</a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p><span>As soon as the Syrian government collapsed, Moustafa</span> <a href="https://www.wunc.org/2024-12-09/for-mouaz-moustafa-the-fall-of-the-assad-regime-is-an-emotional-victory" rel>met</a> <span>with Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan – who infamously wrote that “</span><a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225" rel>AQ [al-Qaeda] is our on side in Syria</a><span>” – and then headed to Damascus along with his staffer Celine Kasem.</span></p>
<p>Moustafa apparently furnished multiple western media outlets with access to the alleged mass graves and interviews.</p>
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<p><span>Days later, Channel 4, a British state-funded media outlet, published a</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/eevV8cuxpJY?si=cLt4UhNItCFKX-bc" rel>report</a> <span>called “True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave,” showing what it claims are two mass graves in Qutayfah, east of Damascus, including one in which “around 150 thousand people may have been buried.”</span></p>
<p>The report contained no evidence and relied on drone footage of the open field that the New York Times alleged is a mass grave in its 2022 report using satellite photos and claims from the Syrian Emergency Task Force. The Channel 4 report also contains testimony from figures who claimed to have witnessed the disposal of bodies.</p>
<p>At a formal cemetery, the town’s former mayor, Mohammed Abdel Magid, estimates 300 to 400 bodies were dumped in a mass grave. The Channel 4 report additionally interviews a man named Esam Saad, who claimed to have been involved in covering up bodies.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">An alleged mass grave in the Shamalia cemetery, what the reporter called “the biggest mass grave in the 21st century” (at 0:38)</figcaption></figure></div>
<p>The report also featured Moustafa, who speculated that his uncle may be buried there.</p>
<p><span>On December 17, Reuters</span> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-100000-bodies-syrian-mass-grave-us-advocacy-group-head-says-2024-12-17/" rel>reported</a> <span>that “a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad,” explicitly referencing Moustafa.</span></p>
<p>"One hundred thousand is the most conservative estimate" Moustafa claimed. "It's a very, very extremely almost unfairly conservative estimate."</p>
<p>However, Reuters was forced to admit that it was “unable to confirm Moustafa's allegations.”</p>
<p><span>A separate Reuters video</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/F-OmrrUuR98?si=vkDiZrKNXhyVJ1An" rel>report</a> <span>visited the Najha cemetery, which the 2022 New York Times article flippantly described as a mass grave without providing evidence. Reuters shows a neatly dug trench that appears to have been recent, but there are no human remains or any other evidence visible to prove their claim.</span></p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span>A trench next to the Najha cemetery, what the New York Times and Reuters state is a mass grave. No evidence is visible. Source:</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/F-OmrrUuR98?si=5p7L0dDSUhH5chAK" rel>Reuters</a></figcaption></figure></div>
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<p><span>A man looks inside a hole dug under a marked grave, what Reuters reported is a “mass grave.” No evidence is visible. Source:</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/F-OmrrUuR98?si=5p7L0dDSUhH5chAK" rel>Reuters</a></p>
<p><span>The X account Levant_24_</span> <a href="https://x.com/Levant_24_/status/1869004868175700031" rel>published</a> <span>images of Najha cemetery taken the same day that Reuters visited (evidenced by the armed man visible in both the video and photos), incorrectly describing it as located in Qatana and claiming it to be a mass grave of 100,000 of Assad’s victims.</span></p>
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<p><span>A</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/qpGINupJYtc?si=GnEElF6xGb4LsOZT" rel>report</a> <span>from Qatari-state media Al Jazeera also interviewed Qutayfah’s former mayor and a man named Issam Ali Saad who identified himself as the owner of a construction business. He said that the Syrian government borrowed his machinery to bury tortured prisoners in Qutayfah. Also interviewed was a man named Abdo Sheikh, who identified himself as the graveyard’s keeper and claimed the government buried around 100 people there, a fraction of the amount alleged by the former mayor in the Channel Four report, identifying all of them as innocent civilians. This report too shows no evidence of its claims.</span></p>
<p><span>The Free Press, a neoconservative outlet run by Zionist cancel-culture queen Bari Weiss, published another</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/PovQlfyztzU?si=RZf6MlYi1mjLZqza" rel>video</a> <span>entitled</span> <em>“Exclusive: Syria's Largest Mass Grave</em><span>,” produced by the Center for Peace Communications. This outlet also interviewed Saad on the same day (as evidenced by his clothing) but identified him as a gravedigger (it is possible but seems unlikely that he is both.) The report alleged that 200,000 victims were buried in Qutayfah but, like all other reports, showed no evidence.</span></p>
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<p><span>Al Jazeera also published a</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/4dGOHVFoptQ?si=YSQSooRm0VotynLJ" rel>report</a> <span>from a cemetery in Homs, claiming it to be a mass grave. The report contains footage of preparation for a mass grave but insists that the Assad government lied that some were Syrian soldiers. The report shows what it says is the cemetery register of bodies delivered from the military hospital but does not investigate the identities of any of those in the graves.</span></p>
<p><strong>Hailing the mass murderers, memory-holing their mass graves</strong></p>
<p>Since the Assad government’s ouster, the former opposition forces that used rape as a weapon of war, carried out summary executions, and threw thousands of bodies into mass graves have been transformed into heroic forces.</p>
<p><span>“When rebels overran portions of Tadamon early in the civil war, the district became an emblem of the resistance. Then when evidence emerged of mass killings, it seemed to encapsulate the sadism of Assad’s security forces,” Nabih Bulos</span> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-12-19/syria-massacre-rumored-hanging-assad-tadamon-rebels-justice" rel>wrote</a> <span>in the Los Angeles Times, making no mention of the atrocities carried out by HTS of any of its allied armed groups.</span></p>
<p><span>In the immediate aftermath of the coup, Democracy Now hosted Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin in a</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/zh5N7WotuIs?si=fIJuH6kh77ZzAc4z" rel>segment</a> <span>entitled “</span><em>Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones' Disappearances Under Assad</em><span>.” Zayadin spoke at length about the Tadamon massacre as Democracy Now showed drone shots of the Qutayfah field alleged to be a mass grave. However, she made no mention of the HTS “death hole” mass grave in Tadamon, or any of the other numerous mass graves in Syria, many of which were documented by HRW itself, that could not be attributed to the Assad government but to its opponents.</span></p>
<p><span>Similarly, the U.S. government-funded PBS Newshour published a</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/FsJ0jx9mkM4?si=wYa3PkY5IXAFbagr" rel>report</a> <span>from correspondent Simona Foltynon on alleged mass graves. She visited an alleged Assad government massacre site and a rubble-covered area that she claimed was actually a mass grave where “countless souls perished in summary executions” carried out by the Syrian government. The only evidence shown is a single mandible on top of a street. The rest of the human remains, she alleged, were buried under the rubble after the Syrian military blew up the area to cover the evidence.</span></p>
<p>Foltyn interviewed a man identified as a neighborhood resident who claims to have witnessed heavy “massacres,”but also admits that the neighborhood was the “front line in the fight for Damascus,” although neither Foltyn nor the man interviewed mention the extremist nature and shocking brutality of the armed opposition groups. Like HRW’s Zayadin, Foltyn made no mention of the HTS’s “death hole” mass grave in Tadamon or any other mass graves the new HTS regime or ISIS were responsible for throughout the country.</p>
<p><strong>Executing a long standing plan</strong></p>
<p>At the center of the supposed evidence collection is CIJA, the aforementioned organization that paid huge sums to have false documents smuggled out of Al-Qaeda and ISIS-controlled territory.</p>
<p><span>CIJA’s</span> <a href="https://cijaonline.org/who-we-are/stephen-rapp" rel>chair</a> <span>is Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. congressman appointed by the Obama administration as Ambassador-at-large for Global Justice. The position was</span> <a href="https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/gcj/c53694.htm" rel>created</a> <span>by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who famously</span> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193" rel>justified</a> <span>the killing of half a million Iraqi babies.</span></p>
<p><span>“We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” Rapp</span> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-mass-graves-expose-machinery-death-under-assad-top-prosecutor-says-2024-12-17/" rel>said</a> <span>following visits to the alleged mass graves in Qutayfah and the Najha cemetery. In a CNN interview, he called the Assad government’s crimes “The worst atrocities of the 21st century,”</span> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/Tv/video/amanpour-rapp" rel>likening</a> <span>them to the Holocaust.</span></p>
<p><span>Rapp is an overtly political actor and has been a vociferous supporter of regime change in Syria, appearing at a 2014</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/tLEQkuvT8O0?si=9C12ntJO3lyAFDpt" rel>Atlantic Council event</a> <span>called “Making the Case Against Assad.”</span></p>
<p><span>More recently, Rapp</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/ZHMsj_0ZkXw?si=t84xRHcyBSEPdyau" rel>defended</a> <span>Israel from international criticism, saying that evaluation of its actions in Gaza is “extremely complex,” denied the extermination of Palestinians there amounts to genocide, and admitted he advised Israel to feign internal investigation as a “magic bullet” to avoid international prosecution.</span></p>
<p><span>The Washington Post, like virtually all top legacy media outlets, published a</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/24/syria-mass-graves-assad/" rel>report</a> <span>on Assad’s alleged mass graves in Qutayfah and Najha too, entitled “</span><em>Mass graves shed a light on Assad’s ‘killing machine’”</em><span>. Authors Loveday Morris and Suzan Haidamous noted that the alleged mass graves “will provide evidence for future war crimes trials.”</span></p>
<p><span>CIJA’s public relations figure Nerma Jelacic stated in an</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/qpGINupJYtc?si=oVLyvT2Ef5Da5sr2" rel>interview</a> <span>with Al Jazeera</span></p>
<p><span>that the alleged mass graves “are being ransacked by a variety of actors for a variety of reasons” – a similar excuse was given for the</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html" rel>lack of forensic evidence for allegations of Hamas mass rape</a> <span>on October 7, 2023 – but insists prosecutions will go on using the already discredited evidence in Europe.</span></p>
<p><span>Two days after the Assad government was overthrown, the ICMP, funded by the UK and Germany specifically for its Syria project, produced a</span> <a href="https://icmp.int/news/syrias-disappeared-justice-must-be-secured-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-victims-and-survivors-of-the-assad-regime/" rel>report</a> <span>called “</span><em>Syria’s Disappeared: Justice Must be Secured for Hundreds of Thousands of Victims and Survivors of the Assad Regime</em><span>,” using hyper-politicized language and making no mention of the HTS and ISIS mass graves throughout the country.</span></p>
<p><span>The ICMP’s work on Syria was collected in a</span> <a href="https://www.icmp.int/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/pcg-016-1-W-doc-addressing-the-issue-of-mass-graves-in-syria.pdf" rel>document</a> <span>called “</span><em>Addressing the Issue of Mass Graves in Syria”</em> <span>by its Policy Coordination Group (PCG) for Syria’s Missing and Disappeared, a project specifically funded by the UK and Germany.</span></p>
<p><span>Ironically, the report’s only evidence was of the HTS and ISIS mass graves. The document referenced its 2020 report on HTS and ISIS mass graves but tacked on the aforementioned New York Times</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/world/middleeast/mass-graves-syria-war-crimes.html" rel>article</a> <span>that failed to provide evidence for its allegations, and a</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191024214500/https://www.aljumhuriya.net/ar/content/22258778" rel>report</a> <span>from Al Jumhuriya that details, similar to the ICMP report, mass graves in Raqqa under HTS (then called Jabhat al-Nusra) and ISIS.</span></p>
<p><span>It is not only Rapp, CIJA, and ICMP that are involved in the whitewash. A United Nations investigative team known as the “International, Impartial, and Independent Mechanism for Syria”</span> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/24/un-investigative-team-says-syrias-new-authorities-very-receptive-to-probe-of-assad-war-crimes-00195983" rel>stated</a> <span>that the new HTS Syrian government is receptive to prosecuting Assad government officials but made no mention of HTS or ISIS mass graves.</span></p>
<p>Clearly, a nefarious and deceptive political agenda seeks to whitewash the new ISIS-in-suits HTS regime rather than bring closure to long suffering families, provide a semblance of justice, and build towards a better future. Instead these “human rights” outfits and the mainstream media cherrypick and distort reports on mass graves, as Syria spirals into another civil war.</p>

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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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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Dr. Mark Trozzi | Published via Substack</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Canadian law professor Bruce Pardy highlights a striking irony during his testimony before a federal committee on freedom of expression: Free speech is a fundamental right that protects individuals from government interference. In its purest form, free speech means the absence of government-imposed restrictions on expression. The most effective way for governments to protect free speech is simply to stay out of the way.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">To truly safeguard free speech, governments must stop limiting it. This includes defeating Bill C-63, the <em>Online Harms Act</em>; repealing Bill C-18, the <em>Online News Act</em>; repealing Bill C-11, the <em>Online Streaming Act</em>; and repealing the gender amendments to the <em>Canadian Human Rights Act</em> introduced in the former Bill C-16.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy underscores his point by invoking Winston Churchill: “There is nothing government can give to you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.”</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.drtrozzi.news/p/defending-free-speech-a-call-to-repeal" target="_blank">For the original version of this piece, see the author’s Substack here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Prof. Pardy’s testimony to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Dec. 4, 2024, appears below.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">For more coverage, see: <a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/gtfbgm0bdqk592s4bqxem7tm34tlyx">Protect Free Speech by Getting Governments Out of the Way</a></p>





















  
  



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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/611d497de41f3329a7436f79a6836c26.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Breaking History Ep 79:  Breaking Free of Scarcity with NAWAPA and New Discoveries"></p>January 15, 2025<br>In this episode of Breaking History Matt &amp; Gordon discuss Breaking Free of Scarcity with NAWAPA and New Discoveries<br>**********************************************<br>Gordon’s Twitter (X) handle is: <br> https://twitter.com/TheGhostOfPatr2 <br><br>**********************************************<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/de85084a8608145bacb30f04c16364fd.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="CP Podcast: The Ugly Truth of the LA Fires (featuring Peter Duke)"></p>On this Canadian Patriot Podcast, Matt Ehret speaks with Peter Duke (editor in chief of The Duke Report) about the LA fires, the case for arson, the World Economic Forum, the California mafia operation that ties the Newsom family, Pelosis and Getty's together, and the extremely suspicious social engineering program managed by Nicholas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels.<br><br>Subscribe to Peter Duke at thedukereport.com<br>on Substack at https://thedukereport.substack.com/<br>and donate to Peter here: https://buymeacoffee.com/thedukereport/c/12497602<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?”<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret

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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1043718d-5f55-45eb-bae0-4f40d03ea5c1_1280x682.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%2F1043718d-5f55-45eb-bae0-4f40d03ea5c1_1280x682.png" width="1280" height="682" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1043718d-5f55-45eb-bae0-4f40d03ea5c1_1280x682.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":682,"width":1280,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1344768,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>During the <strong><a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/treasury-sec-nominee-scott-bessent-testifies-at-confirmation-hearing/654305">confirmation hearings</a></strong> of the Treasury secretary nominee <strong>Scott Bessent </strong>on Thursday, 16 January, this exchange caught my attention (at about 52-min. mark of the video linked above):</p><p>Sen. <strong>John Cornyn</strong> (R-Tex): “As you know, the market for U.S. Treasuries is the largest in the world at $28 trillion, and it's critical for the financial stability of the United States. There's actually a proposal for an entity to clear U.S. treasury futures at the London clearing house which is overseen by the Bank of England. Some argue that the Bank of England would have control over ... a default scenario in this critical market instead of the U.S. Is this of concern to you?” <a href="https://x.com/WayneTechSPFX/status/1879934087064088636">Scott Bessent replied</a>:</p><blockquote><p>You raise a very important question and one that I will investigate further. I was unaware, until the past few days, of this with the new exchange. What I can tell you, as a student and professor of economic history, is that it is important for the U.S. - for the U.S. Treasuries, for us to be able to resolve any stress issues in the markets in the U.S. We saw during the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, that much of the, many of the problems emanated from the U.K. subsidiary, so this is something that ... my inclination is that the resolution authority must lie here in the U.S., but I will get back to you in writing with an answer on this, if confirmed.</p></blockquote><p>Before declaring his "inclination," Bessent thanked Senator Cornyn for bringing the matter to his attention, and during their exchange, Cornyn made it clear that the two have visited together at his office and discussed the issues. The first, obvious question is, why should American treasuries be cleared in London, through a clearing house under Bank of England's control? Who wanted this to happen, and where did such a proposal originate from? Why is there no public debate about such a major development? Why are the media ignoring it?</p><h2>Why should the Bank of England control U.S. debt?</h2><p>Moving the market for U.S. Treasuries - the world's largest market - to London is a huge deal with important consequences that should have to be explored, disclosed publicly, and clearly understood by the American people. Yet, even a learned professor of economic history wasn't even aware of this? I did find it interesting that it was a sitting U.S. Senator who brought the issue to Bessent's attention. What could possibly be the attraction of clearing US Treasury futures through London? For the U.S., nothing: this is yet another story exposing the hidden hand of London manipulating the internal and foreign policies of the United States.</p><h2>The Great Red Dragon</h2><p>In his book, "The Great Red Dragon," (<strong><a href="https://www.alor.org/Storage/Library/PDF/Moolfolk%20LB%20-%20great_red_dragon.pdf">PDF</a></strong>) American author <strong>L. B. Moolfolk </strong>explained how, in the second half of the 19th century, many U.S. farmers were ruined after the establishment of centralized clearing houses ("boards of trade") which were under control of British financiers or their agents. The clearing houses were able to manipulate the prices of crops and depress them to drive farmers out of business and thereby acquire large swathes of fertile agricultural land at fire-sale prices.</p><p>Scott Bessent's mention of Lehman Brothers reminded me of another kind of manipulation described by Moolfolk. I condensed Moolfolk's prose in this newsletter last May (I later posted it on Substack - it is at <strong><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/downfall-the-empires-destiny?utm_source=publication-search">this link</a></strong>):</p><blockquote><p>In broad strokes, [The Great Red Dragon] documents the takeover of the American economy by British banking interests. Their methods entailed periodically flooding the economy with credit and generating a boom. Then, when the bankers' nets were full and everyone was in debt, the bankers would abruptly withdraw credit. The practice was simply predatory. The triggering event usually involved a high-profile bank failure, which would cause an economy-wide avalanche of bankruptcies. Large, politically connected banks would then take over choice businesses, farmland and real estate for pennies on the dollar. Within our lifetimes, the Lehman Brothers’ failure in 2008 would have been a typical example of this, but Covid pandemic response in 2020 served the same predatory purpose.During the 19th century, US economy endured three major financial crashes: in 1837, 1857, and in 1873. Each crash triggered major economic depressions with mass-scale culling of smaller banks and other businesses. The collapse enabled the ruling oligarchy to consolidate monopolies over all the key industries.</p></blockquote><p>Relinquishing control over the U.S. Treasuries market to the Bank of England could enable similar manipulations. Incidentally, I do find it curious that the city of London features so many dragon sculptures:</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%2Ffd22cd6c-ade4-4cc8-8d9d-50fd207f90b2_1900x1900.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%2Ffd22cd6c-ade4-4cc8-8d9d-50fd207f90b2_1900x1900.jpeg" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fd22cd6c-ade4-4cc8-8d9d-50fd207f90b2_1900x1900.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1456,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1016755,"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">Hmm… OK, so someone in London is into dragons.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>World system of financial control in private hands</h2><p>In "Tragedy and Hope," <strong>Carroll Quigley</strong> warned us that, "The powers of financial capitalism had [a] far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. … The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and direct injury of all other economic groups.”</p><p>Quigley wrote those words in 1965, suggesting that the conspiracy was discernible many decades ago. Some 18 years later (1983), <strong>Lord Jacob Rothschild</strong> suggested that, "Two broad types of giant institutions, the worldwide financial service company and the international commercial bank with a global trading competence, may converge to form the ultimate, all-powerful, many-headed financial conglomerate."</p><h2>Soft disclosure foreshadows the coming battle</h2><p>The exchange between Senator Cornyn and Mr. Bessent seems to be a part of the 'soft disclosure' of the secretive arrangements and relationships involving Great Britain, which have influenced global events during the past decades. We've seen <strong>Elon Musk</strong> attack the British government in a series of searing posts on X. Donald Trump did not invite Britain's Prime Minister to his inauguration, but he did invite the Russian and Chinese presidents.</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%2Fd2845feb-9f9a-4c54-a935-93af63a44eda_1167x696.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%2Fd2845feb-9f9a-4c54-a935-93af63a44eda_1167x696.png" width="1167" height="696" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2845feb-9f9a-4c54-a935-93af63a44eda_1167x696.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":696,"width":1167,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":616734,"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">These aren’t even the worst of Mr. Musk’s tweets!</figcaption></figure></div><p>Earlier this week, former British MP <strong>Andrew Bridgen</strong> gave an interview in which he disclosed some shocking information about the sickening depravity and the utter moral bankruptcy of Britain's political class - at the very least a significant part of it. The relevant 2-minute segment of that interview is at <a href="https://x.com/triffic_stuff_/status/1879070683847639114">this link</a>.</p><p>More than a century ago <strong>Lord Acton</strong> prophesied that, “the issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the bankers.” It may be that this fight is now upon us. It seems that the “<strong><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-war-upon-us-all-is-the-war-we?utm_source=publication-search">monolithic and ruthless conspiracy</a></strong>” that JFK warned us about is now facing an existential struggle for survival. The signals coming out of the Trump team through these 'soft disclosure' communiques may be foreshadowing what is to come. Apparently Trump has over 100 executive orders already written and he'll be signing them on his first day in office.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/its-now-people-vs-the-banks?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTM2NTc0NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTU1MDAxMzc5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzcyOTAwODEsImV4cCI6MTczOTg4MjA4MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMxNTA5NjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.PA4WnJc_PNLEM5Jlp8JUtS0xJtSy-7hcT68MEuz-ohI","text":"Share","action":null,"class":"button-wrapper"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/its-now-people-vs-the-banks?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTM2NTc0NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTU1MDAxMzc5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzcyOTAwODEsImV4cCI6MTczOTg4MjA4MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMxNTA5NjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.PA4WnJc_PNLEM5Jlp8JUtS0xJtSy-7hcT68MEuz-ohI" data-sanitized-class="button primary button-wrapper"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>Is the UK about to lose its colonies in Africa?</h2><p>These events are relevant to investors since they'll impact world geopolitics, the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain, as well as Britain's debt, currency and its stock market. Something fascinating that I recently learned is that Britain is still heavily reliant on its former colonies for its GDP and public revenues.</p><p>Namely, according to a 2016 report, "<strong><a href="https://waronwant.org/resources/new-colonialism-britains-scramble-africas-energy-and-mineral-resources">New Colonialism: Britain's Scramble for African Energy and Mineral Resources</a></strong>," 101 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, most of them British, have mining operations in 37 sub-Saharan African countries. They collectively control over $1 trillion worth of Africa's most valuable resources. The UK government has used its power and influence to ensure that British mining companies have access to Africa's raw materials. This was the case during the colonial period and is still the case today. The decolonization movement that has now largely deprived France of its African dependencies could do the same to Britain.</p><h2>Will FTSE rally, or will it tank?</h2><p>The reason I bring this up is because in the past I predicted that Britain's gathering financial and economic crisis will cause a strong rally in the British stock markets. But if Britain loses control over resource rich areas of Africa (and the Middle East), then its stock market could collapse. Either way, I believe the most reliable way to trade these events is through trend following, which is why I included the GBP, FTSE and gilts in our <strong><a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/">daily TrendCompass Key Markets report</a></strong>: if the coming trends are bullish, we'll be long; if they’re bearish, we'll be short. The market itself will tell us.</p><p>I originally published the above article in the above linked TrendCompass report. A few hours later I sat down for a chat with <span data-attrs='{"name":"CryptoRich","id":80529706,"type":"user","url":null,"photo_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/41401c34-92cf-4806-9aa7-bf1147e63410_1024x1024.png","uuid":"2b5e378a-a591-4ae8-bac9-bb5fa7f7e3d2"}' data-component-name="MentionToDOM" data-sanitized-class="mention-wrap"></span> and Tom Luongo. We spent the first hours brainstorming about all this and the discussion turned out to produce a fortuitous combination of knowledge, experience and perspective yielding what was hands down my favorite podcast with these two gentlemen. CryptoRich only just posted it today and it looks like I’m not the only one that feels that way:</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%2F6fdf81a1-adab-4f1c-9c53-a32e382a7ee5_778x169.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%2F6fdf81a1-adab-4f1c-9c53-a32e382a7ee5_778x169.png" width="778" height="169" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6fdf81a1-adab-4f1c-9c53-a32e382a7ee5_778x169.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":169,"width":778,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":23175,"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 discussion starts to build from about 4-min. mark and gets into the big questions at around 20-min. mark - I think it’s well worth the listen. It’s on X, at this link:</p><p><strong><a href="https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1880928191751020653">https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1880928191751020653</a></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%2F0a304fe9-f09e-478a-85d8-bd067b0bf0af_700x391.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%2F0a304fe9-f09e-478a-85d8-bd067b0bf0af_700x391.png" width="700" height="391" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a304fe9-f09e-478a-85d8-bd067b0bf0af_700x391.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":391,"width":700,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":431778,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><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>Award-winning poet Jesse Keith Butler joins us to discuss his work, along with the higher questions of artistic vision, ambition in modern poetry, and the inescapable mysteries of art.</p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Read Jesse’s award-winning poem, “<a href="https://www.dappledthings.org/poetry/lightning-strikes-churches">When Lightning Strikes Churches</a>.”</p></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. 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There are not a lot of great open source rails projects to learn from, but lately I’ve seen some notable discussion about this one. I’m bookmarking it so I remember to dig in at some point and see what I learn.


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title: William Ramsey: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: Two sides of one Magic Trick with Matt Ehret
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/c64a6b1815c201cb69b9752624300aa3.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Breaking History Ep 80:  Trump's Return and the Geopolitical Impact"></p>January 22, 2025<br>In this episode of Breaking History Matt &amp; Gordon examine Trump's Return and the Geopolitical Impact.<br>**********************************************<br>Gordon’s Twitter (X) handle is: <br> https://twitter.com/TheGhostOfPatr2 <br><br>**********************************************<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br><br>

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<p>Recently, a friend asked if I knew of a Web Component that generates a QR Code from meaningful HTML. She said that there seemed to be plenty of options for creating QR codes <em>in general</em>, but none that worked by extending already-useful HTML instead of just configuring it all with JavaScript. I couldn't find any either, but thinking through these kinds of patterns is <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/">probably what I enjoy most about working on the web</a>, so I thought I'd write up how I'd make one.</p>
<h2>Gathering Materials</h2>
<p>To make my web component, the first thing I set out to find was a good (<em>read: tiny</em>) JavaScript function for generating a QR code from string input. Admittedly, the part I just mentioned covers probably 99% of what my component will <em>actually do</em>, but to me it's the least interesting part of the pattern. There are plenty of good tools that can do that part well, so I want my web component to delegate that work so it can focus on using it in a resilient, declarative manner. As far as I'm concerned, somebody else can <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl">draw the rest of the owl</a>, but I want to make sure the circles are drawn just right.</p>
<p>A bit of searching led me to find <a href="https://qr.davidje13.com/docs/">Lean QR</a>, which only costs a few kilobytes in transfer size and is surprisingly full-featured. Lean QR works by turning an empty <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> element into a QR image, like so:</p>
<pre><code data-sanitized-class="language-js">&lt;canvas id="my-canvas"&gt;&lt;/canvas&gt;
&lt;script type="module"&gt;
  import { generate } from '/path/to/lean-qr.js';
  const code = generate('https://scottjehl.com');
  code.toCanvas(document.getElementById('my-canvas'));
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;style&gt;
  #my-canvas { width: 100%; image-rendering: pixelated; }
&lt;/style&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Clear enough! <em>And as an aside, that was the first time I've seen <code>image-rendering: pixelated</code>, which turns out to be pretty interesting in itself.</em></p>
<p>As I had expected from the outset though, that initial HTML (that canvas element) is meaningless until the JavaScript loads and runs (and it's not meaningful afterwards either for that matter, from an accessibility standpoint).</p>
<p>My web component will aim to make this a little better.</p>
<h2>Wiring things up.</h2>
<p>For the HTML, I want to start with an ordinary link, which happens to fit the use case my friend was dealing with. Basically, she frequently speaks at conferences and typically displays helpful links on her slides. Pairing those links with a QR Code would make it easy for the audience to scan them and open them on their phone during the talk. I have been seeing this more and more at conferences and happen to think it's pretty cool.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'll start with a usable HTML link:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;a href="https://scottjehl.com"&gt;My Website&lt;/a&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>To enhance that link further, next I'll wrap it with a custom element that I'll name <code>&lt;q-r&gt;</code>. <em>Custom elements can be almost any name you want as long as they have at least one dash somewhere after the first letter, so I could've gone with <code>&lt;qr-code&gt;</code> I suppose, but <code>&lt;q-r&gt;</code> is concise.</em>.</p>
<p>On their own, custom elements are about as semantically meaningless as a <code>&lt;div&gt;</code>, but custom elements are special because they come with a <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components/Using_custom_elements">built-in JavaScript lifecycle</a> that I can use to extend their behavior and meaning to do whatever I'd like, much like if I were building a built-in HTML element!</p>
<p>Here's that custom element wrapping my link:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;q-r&gt;
    &lt;a href="https://scottjehl.com"&gt;My Website&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/q-r&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>So far, that <code>q-r</code> element doesn't add any value to the user experience, so next I'll write a web component that extends it to append a generated QR Code. To do that, I'll add a JavaScript snippet that takes the following steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Import the Lean QR library</li>
<li>Define my <code>q-r</code> element by calling <code>customElements.define</code>, passing the element's name and a class that defines it (<em>which always needs to extend the built-in <code>HTMLElement</code> class that provides the default DOM properties and such for all HTML elements - including undefined custom elements</em>).</li>
<li>Use the <code>connectedCallback</code> lifecycle method to gather the URL from the HTML, generate the canvas, add a role and description to it to improve its accessibility, and append it as soon as the browser discovers a <code>q-r</code> element in the DOM.</li>
</ol>
<p>Here's that code in its entirety:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;script type="module"&gt;
import { generate } from '/assets/q-r/leanqr.js';
customElements.define('q-r', class extends HTMLElement {
  connectedCallback(){
      let destination = this.querySelector('a').href;
      const qrCode = generate(destination);
      this.canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
      this.canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img');
      this.canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Scannable QR Code for the link that follows');
      qrCode.toCanvas(this.canvas);
      this.prepend(this.canvas);
  }
});
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>And here it is in action:</p>

<q-r>
    <a href="https://scottjehl.com/">My Website</a>
</q-r>

<h2>Taking things further</h2>
<p>This is a simple pattern that could probably improved in a number of ways. Perhaps the final HTML would be more meaningful if it used a <code>figure</code> and <code>figcaption</code>, for example. Maybe it'd also be nice to update the <code>canvas</code> if the <code>href</code> attribute ever changes dynamically. Also, in a real implementation, I'd likely move the script to an external file so I could reuse it across many pages, which I could do by keeping that <code>type=module</code> attribute and adding a <code>src</code> to reference a file that contains the scripting that the element formerly contained. If you have thoughts or ideas, feel free to reach out on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scottjehl.com">Bluesky</a> or <a href="https://mstdn.social/@scottjehl">Masto</a>. Thanks for reading.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="wcdnote">Oh and hey! If the ideas in this article interest you, perhaps you'd also be interested in my course, <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Demystified</a>:</p>
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