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Gaius Baltar, REPOST – WW3 FOR DUMMIES
Note to readers: This is a repost of an article I wrote and was published on June 18, 2022… That was long before I started a Substack account. Some of you may already have read it. When it was published on “the saker” blog, the Russo-Ukraine war was still young but an obvious civilizational conflict was underway. This article was an attempt at describing some of the forces driving the conflict, including economic ones...
…What is about to happen
The panic of our owners and their politicians is understandable because we have come to the end of the line. We can no longer keep up our living standard by debt increase and parasitism. The debt is reaching beyond what we own as collateral and our currencies are about to become worthless. We will no longer be able to get free stuff from the rest of the world, or pay back our debt – let alone pay interest on it. The entire West is about to go bankrupt and our standard of living is about to go down by a massive percentage. This is what has our owners panicked and they see only two scenarios:
1. In the first scenario most countries in the West, and everything and everyone within them, declare bankruptcy and erase the debt by diktat – which sovereign states are able to do. This will also erase the wealth and political power of our owners.
2. In the second scenario our owners take over the collateral during the bankruptcy. The collateral is us and everything we own.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out which scenario was chosen. The plan for the second scenario is ready and being implemented as we speak. It is called ‘The Great Reset’ and was constructed by the people behind the World Economic Forum. This plan is not a secret and can be examined to a certain degree on the WEF website.
The Great Reset is a mechanism for the seizing of all debt collateral which includes your assets, the assets of your city or municipality, the assets of your state and most corporate assets not already held by our owners.
This asset seizure mechanism has several components, but the most important are the following four:
1. Abolishment of sovereignty: A sovereign (independent) country is a dangerous country because it can choose to default on its debt. The decrease in sovereignty has been a priority for our owners and various schemes have been attempted such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans Pacific Partnership. The most successful scheme is undoubtedly the European Union itself.
2. The down-tuning of the economy: The western economy (and indeed the global economy) must be tuned down by a very significant percentage. This down-tuning is necessary because the western economy is massively falsified now and must be taken down to its real level – which may be as low as half of what it is now – or more. The slow takedown has also the purpose of avoiding a sudden crash which would cause massive social unrest which would be a threat to our owners. A controlled takedown is therefore preferable to an uncontrolled crash. This controlled takedown is already happening and has been going on for quite some time. Many examples can be mentioned of this takedown, including the EU and US energy policy which is designed to sabotage the western economy, and the obvious attempts at demand destruction during and after the epidemic, including the fairly bizarre logistical problems which suddenly came out of nowhere.
3. Asset harvesting (you will own nothing and be ‘happy’): All assets that can be considered to be collateral to our private and collective/public debt will be taken over. This is a clearly stated aim of the Great Reset but it is less clear how this would be carried out. Total control of western governments (and indeed all governments) would seem to be necessary for this. That precondition is closer than one might think because most western governments seem to be beholden to Davos at this point. The process will be sold as necessary social restructuring because of an economic crisis and global warming and will result in massive decrease in living standards for regular people, although not the elites. [See Ellen Brown, The Great Taking, How They Can Own It All.]
4. Oppression: A great many people will not like this and an uprising is a likely response, even if the takedown is done gradually. To prevent this from happening, a social control mechanism is being implemented which will erase personal freedom, the freedom of speech, and privacy. It will also create absolute dependence of the individual on the state. This must be done before the economic takedown can be completed or there will be a revolution. This mechanism is already being implemented enthusiastically in the West as anybody with eyes and ears can see. [See “The Coming Collapse of Britain.]
Note to readers: This is a repost of an article I wrote and was published on June 18, 2022 – 18 months ago. That was long before I started a Substack account. Some of you may already have read it. When it was published on “the saker” blog, the Russo-Ukraine war was still young but an obvious civilizational conflict was underway. This article was an atte…
8 months ago · 87 likes · 34 comments · Gaius Baltar
Ellen Brown 10/3/23, “The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
The derivatives bubble has been estimated to exceed one quadrillion dollars (a quadrillion is 1,000 trillion). The entire GDP of the world is estimated at $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; and the collective wealth of the world is an estimated $360 trillion. Clearly, there is not enough collateral anywhere to satisfy all the derivative claims. The majority of derivatives now involve interest rate swaps, and interest rates have shot up. The bubble looks ready to pop.
Who were the intrepid counterparties signing up to take the other side of these risky derivative bets? Initially, it seems, they were banks –led by four mega-banks, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. But according to a 2023 book called The Great Taking by veteran hedge fund manager David Rogers Webb, counterparty risk on all of these bets is ultimately assumed by an entity called the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), through its nominee Cede & Co. (See also Greg Morse, “Who Owns America? Cede & DTCC,” and A. Freed, “Who Really Owns Your Money? Part I, The DTCC”). Cede & Co. is now the owner of record of all of our stocks, bonds, digitized securities, mortgages, and more; and it is seriously under-capitalized, holding capital of only $3.5 billion, clearly not enough to satisfy all the potential derivative claims. Webb thinks this is intentional.
What happens if the DTCC goes bankrupt? Under The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005, derivatives have “super-priority” in bankruptcy.(The BAPCPA actually protects the banks and derivative claimants rather than consumers; it was the same act that eliminated bankruptcy protection for students.) Derivative claimants don’t even need to go through the bankruptcy court but can simply nab the collateral from the bankrupt estate, leaving nothing for the other secured creditors(including state and local governments)or the banks’ unsecured creditors (including us, the depositors). And in this case the “bankrupt estate” – the holdings of the DTCC/Cede & Co. – includes all of our stocks, bonds, digitized securities, mortgages, and more.
It sounds like conspiracy theory, but it’s all laid out in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), tested in precedent, and validated by court rulings. The UCC is a privately-established set of standardized rules for transacting business, which has been ratified by all 50 states and includes key provisions that have been “harmonized” with the laws of other countries in the Western orbit. https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/
Alex Krainer, The coming collapse of Britain 30 minute talk with transcript
“Everything points… to a horrific cliff-edge looming… an avalanche of debts, defaults, evictions and unpaid bills to follow.”
A series of bizarre developments that have unfolded in Great Britain over the last few weeks suggest that its financial system came to the verge of collapse, probably as a consequence of Ukraine’s debt default…
..The stabbings of three young girls (6, 7, and 9 years of age) that happened in Southport, UK on 29 July apparently unleashed widespread rioting and clashes in Britain, notably between the immigrant Muslim community and what PM Keir Starmer called, right-wing thugs. The authorities’ reaction has been nothing short of Orwellian including a radical and ongoing crackdown on free speech.
But it would appear that the riots and clashes haven’t been quite as widespread or as violent as the media portrayed them to be. In a recent podcast, Alexander Mercouris pointed out that not only did everything seem calm in London, but that a number of his friends and acquaintances around the UK all told him the same, even for the cities where rioting had been reported. Could it be that the government overreacted and exaggerated the threat in order to justify stepping up its authoritarian control which is now gripping Britain?
Rather than appealing for calm, the government’s messaging clearly aimed at intimidating the population. The UK’s Home Office warned that “Actions have consequences,” and boasted that over 1,000 arrests have been made thus far. British courts already sentenced many people to stiff prison terms for wrongthink expressed on social media and they made sure that these sentences got wide publicity...
..The media personalities, even after a lifetime of indoctrination with free speech as the core Western value, suddenly seemed to have no qualms about advocating curbs on freedom of expression...
..Given that violent crime and knife stabbings are nothing new in Britain (they’ve been on the rise for years) and that people’s resentment against immigrants isn’t new either, it occurred to me to wonder, why is the government turning as radically authoritarian? And why now?
If the crackdown is being deliberately orchestrated and I believe that it is, then what is the reason for it? Our discussion converged on the idea that Britain might be facing an imminent financial crisis which could accelerate her economic and social collapse. My suspicion was that it might have to do with the fact that Britain got overextended in Ukraine trying to regain the leadership, affluence and the prestige which it has been steadily losing over the recent decades...
..In October 2021 I published an article titled, “The Fall of Global Britain – an Investment Hypothesis”... Noting that Great Britain is displaying many of the symptoms of imperial powers in decline, I predicted that it won’t revert to simply minding its own domestic business as a neutral island nation…
..” 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.” …So far, so good…
..A sudden deterioration, which developed during the course of this year seems to be related to the Western powers’ impending military defeat in their proxy war against Russia. Britain has been the principal cheerleader and sponsor of that conflict, and she seems to have gone “in over her head.” In addition to providing at least£7.5 billion in military aid (nearly $10 billion), Britain gave another £5 billion ($6.5 billion) to Ukraine in financial support.
Furthermore, Britain has also guaranteed multiple tranches of World Bank loans to Ukraine and many British financial institutions have purchased billions’ worth of Ukraine’s bonds. Others made extensive direct investments there…
..In addition to the near-certain military defeat, Ukraine was also facing a looming economic and financial collapse. Ukraine’s economic performance was already dismal before the conflict with Russia started in February 2022. But since that time, it has collapsed by another 25%. With tax receipts dwindling, Ukraine’s 2024 budget deficit is expected to rise to nearly $44 billion. If Kiev were to service its debt obligations, they would eat up fully 15% of her GDP, the second largest expense item after defense (which stands at 31.3% of the GDP).
Keeping Ukraine’s government and military in operation has become entirely dependent on her Western backers. But by 2024, that support began to dry up as more and more decision makers started to doubt Ukraine’s prospects...
..A World Bank official involved with the matter noted that Ukraine was facing bankruptcy. Significantly, he added that, as with previous transactions, the World Bank did not provide its own funds for Kiev, but “once again took advantage” of guarantees from two of Ukraine’s donors, primarily Japan and the UK... Out of the $1.5 billion given to Ukraine, $984 million of the sum originated from Japan and $516 million from Britain. But Ukraine is now unable to service her mounting foreign debts...Monday, 22 July 2024: we have a deal!
Almost as soon as Zelensky’s visit in London concluded, the Government of Ukraine announced that a deal was reached with its main bondholders to restructure the country’s near-$20 billion worth of bonds, including a 37% reduction of the amounts owed. But this was only “an agreement, in principle,” reached with an “ad-hoc creditor committee,” and it wasn’t binding on all the bondholders...
..Wednesday, 24 July 2024: Ukraine strikes the Fitch iceberg
Only two days after Ukraine announced the deal with their bondholders, Fitch downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating from CC to C, reflecting extreme credit risk reserved for countries that “entered default or default-like process.”… Fitch brought forward their credit rating review for Ukraine by nearly six months, either because her financial position suddenly and significantly deteriorated, or because somewhere, someone who had the power to pull strings, decided to capsize Ukraine (and the UK and EU along with it).
Monday, 29 July 2024: stabbings in Southport
The stabbing of three young girls took place in Southport, UK. The event reportedly unleashed widespread rioting and clashes around Britain. End of July was also the time when The Economist predicted Ukraine would face bankruptcy.
Wednesday, 31 July 2024: Zelensky ‘temporarily’ suspends debt repayments
Zelensky signed a law enabling Ukraine to suspend payments of external debts for two months (or longer).
Thursday, August 1 2024: debt repayments freeze takes effect
Bondholders’ grace period expires; Zelensky’s unilateral debt repayments freeze takes effect.
Tuesday, 6 August 2024: Ukraine launches Kursk incursion
Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into the Kursk region of Russia. The plan to attack the Kursk region had been made at least a year earlier, but it was never implemented, most likely because strategically, it made little sense…
..Noting that the Russians were taken by surprise at Kursk, the professor thought they were unprepared because “it’s such a crazy idea that the Russians didn’t think that the Ukrainians would be foolish enough to do it.”
If Professor Mearsheimer is right, this raises an important question: why did the Armed Forces of Ukraine pull the trigger now, as the country was already on the verge of military defeat and financial default?
What we do know is that Ukraine launched the incursion only 18 days after Zelensky’s visit in London. Zelensky’s security advisor Mikhailo Podolyak admitted that the Kursk invasion was discussed with the British. On August 18, The Sunday Times of London revealed that Britain played the pivotal role in the operation…
..Wasting no time, on that same Tuesday, 6 August the European Council approved 4.2 billion euros in financial support for Ukraine. It would be the first regular payment out of the 50 billion euros financial aid package set aside for Ukraine by the European Union…
Wednesday, 14 August 2024: WHO declares Mpox pandemic
In addition to all this, on 14 August, the World Health Organization Director-General declared Mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. We’re all in this together (again)and now further restrictions on public gatherings and freedom of expression might be justified.
Another two events coincided with Ukraine’s de facto debt default. On 30 July 2024, Israelis assassinated senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr and an Iranian military advisor, Milad Bedi in Lebanon, along with five Lebanese civilians (including two children).The following day, on 31 July they also assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, in Tehran.
We can’t be sure whether all these events are related, but they do have this in common: they all had the potential to precipitate worldwide states of emergency either due to escalation of military conflicts or due to a pandemic. And they all took place within days from Ukraine’s default, which has put the western financial system in jeopardy...
..Panic at the Bank of England?
On 22 July, the same day when the agreement between the government of Ukraine and the “ad hoc committee” of her private creditors was announced, the Bank of England also announced a seminar titled “The Future Bank of England Balance Sheet – managing its transition towards a new system for supplying reserves.”…
..Here’s how Bloomberg’s macro strategist Simon White put it: in a demand-led system, “what banks use to settle balances each day *must* be ‘shiftable’ on to the central bank’s balance sheet in a crisis. If they are not, liquidity is at risk of seizing up altogether. Thus, in a crisis, potentially no asset under this scheme will be turned away.” That could include even Ukraine’s bonds.
What is clear from this and from the BOE’s language is that the bank is now anxious about Britain’s financial system collapsing and it has resolved to avert the collapse in the worst possible way: by loosening its credit standards and accepting junk quality collateral in exchange for cash. This is the clearest possible sign that the system came to the verge of collapsing…
..The dying economy
In addition to making heavy direct investment in the “project Ukraine,” Britain has sustained high indirect costs as a consequence of sanctions imposed on Russia. Today, large segments of British society are slumping into Dickensian era poverty.
According to last year’s figures from Trussell Trust, the number of people in the UK who needed emergency food supplies from food banks more than doubled in the last five years, to 3 million. One in five households have trouble paying their water bills, and many more are struggling to keep up with their energy bills. Electricity bills in the UK are over five times higher than the European average and will substantially increase this winter again, as the suppliers’ wholesale costs increased by 20% over the last few months! It’s little wonder that as many as 48% of Britons said that they would have to turn down the heat, or switch it off completely to survive the winter financially...
..Indeed, as The Guardian put it last year:
“Everything points… to a horrific cliff-edge looming… and an avalanche of debts, defaults, evictions and unpaid bills to follow. … Put simply, frighteningly large numbers of people just don’t have enough money to absorb the shocks that are coming. Wages are too low, benefits too mean, and the cost of living too high for them to afford even the basics. … The CEO of one British retailer complained that his stores were losing customers to food banks or simply “to hunger.”
The parasite is killing the host
When businesses are losing sales to poverty, rather than competition, we know that the parasite is killing the host. The parasite, of course, is the banking cartel and it doesn’t care about the plight of the ordinary British people...
..The policy of immiserating the British people has been sustained and deliberate. According to a report written in2018 by Prof. Phillip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, a “systematic, willful, concerted, and brutal economic war” was being waged against the poor and vulnerable sections of British society. Since then, things have only gotten a whole lot worse: for British families, “2024 was shaping up to be, financially, the worst year in living memory.”
Now, if these policies were deliberate, then what is their objective?Well, Gordon Brown did spell it out in his February op-ed: he called on the chancellor Jeremy Hunt (who had then replaced Kwarteng) to “undertake a root-and-branch review of universal credit.” But the “universal credit” Brown was mentioning is merely the lure. The actual bill of goods that Brown was selling as he feigned outrage over poverty he himself helped create, was forcing a neo-feudal subjugation on British citizens by making them dependent on the nanny state for handouts.
This is why his partner in crime, Tony Blair has been pushing so hard to introduce a digital ID in the UK. It will be needed to police British people’s obedience and compliance with whatever rules, norms or restrictions that the ruling establishment might demand. It could be vaccinations, confinement to 15-minute cities, carbon quotas, death panels, insect protein fodder, love for the big brother, military conscription, forever wars, etc. Now that their ship has sunk in Ukraine (and in the Middle East), they need these measures in place, yesterday! This is not progress toward greater prosperity and freedom but rather a future that George Orwell described as, “a boot stamping on the human face, forever.”… ..It remains to be seen whether the British people will find the strength and determination to fight back and win a better future for the coming generations. I sincerely hope that they will fight back. The same fight is gathering for all of us in the Western world.
Quick update: I’ll be joining Tom Luongo later today to discuss the contents of this report. It’s bound to be a riot…
a day ago · 311 likes · 167 comments · Alex Krainer
I posted this on June 3, 2024: THE REAL REASON SUNAK CALLED AN EARLY ELECTION IN JULY – ANDREW BRIDGEN MP (Rishi can’t be a “war prime minister”. Rishi needs out.) https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1793568491456668057
“We’re Looking At Serious Civil Unrest Regardless Who Wins” – Martin Armstrong Fears Post-Election Chaos On gold at $2,500 an ounce, Armstrong says it’s not about inflation, it is about the fear of a US debt default. This is why central banks are buying. Armstrong says,
“If there is a big war, the US will default on it’s debt. … I am very concerned they will start WWIII before the end of the year and maybe by September.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-looking-serious-civil-unrest-regardless-who-wins-martin-armstrong-fears-post
Gilbert Doctorow, For Russia, recovering Kursk is no walk in the rose garden Last night’s edition of the talk show The Great Game gave a very different picture of the state of conflict in Kursk from what my peers are saying and of where this proxy war may be headed NOW, not in some distant future.
The key personality in this discussion was Frants Klintsevich, identified on the video as leader of the Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan. His Wikipedia entry further informs us that after serving as a Duma member for many years he is now a Senator, i.e., a member of the upper chamber of Russia’s bicameral legislature. He has represented the city administration of Smolensk in the western part of the Russian Federation, where he is no stranger, having been born just across the border in what is now the independent state of Belarus.
For 22 years ending in 1997, Klintsevich was an officer in Russia’s Armed Forces, serving primarily with the parachutists, meaning that he has guts and knows what it means to face battle. He retired with the rank of colonel, but continued his military education in the Military Academy of the General Staff, graduating in 2004. He also has a Ph.D. in psychology and is a gifted linguist, with command of German, Polish, and Belarussian. He is a member of the steering committee of the ruling United Russia party. I bring this out to make the point that Klintsevich is no garden variety ‘talking head’ but a very authoritative source…
..Klintsevich’s commentary last night was intended to sober up the television audience and explain why the fight in Kursk is far more complicated and challenging than anyone is saying either on Russian or on Western news. It also lays the foundation for a dramatic Russian escalation of the proxy war into a hot war threatening to become WWIII. Why? Because the so-called Zelensky gambit in Kursk is fully enabled by the United States and its NATO allies, using skills, satellite and airborne reconnaissance, command and control resources in real time that are superior to anything the Russians possess. It also has Western including U.S. boots on the ground. And in conditions like this, the disadvantaged side faces a strong temptation to go for the great equalizer, nuclear arms, to defend itself and to assure its victory.
Klintsevich also said what I have not seen elsewhere, given the ubiquitous belief in Opposition interviews that the Ukrainians in Kursk are cut off from sources of supply: that Kiev has now raised the number of its forces sent to Kursk from 12,000 to 20,000.
In short, the Zelensky gambit that is being enabled fully by the United States is not a PR stunt but a full-blown invasion intended to be the vanguard of what will be an air assault on Russia’s strategic assets far in the rear using JASSM, Storm Shadow and other long-range missiles launched from F16s.
Klintsevich has further intimated that the two U.S. aircraft carriers and their escorts now in the Eastern Mediterranean may be there not to contain Iran but for an all-out attack on Russia using their jets to deliver nuclear strikes. I add to his analysis that this may explain the knock-out of Russia’s early warning radar stations in the south of the country by Ukrainian drones acting on orders from Washington.
So far, the Russian response to these gathering storm clouds has been two days in succession of massive missile and drone attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine. But let us not have any illusions: if the Russians sense that the United States is about to pounce on them, to use the assets in Ukraine and beyond not just against Russian planes, which have been moved back beyond the 900 km range of the , JASSM and Storm Shadows, but on critical civilian infrastructure to disable the war effort, then a preventive Russian attack on NATO, on the continental United States. not to mince words, is entirely conceivable.
All of this is sure to play out in the weeks before 4 November and the U.S. elections. The Biden administration is evidently committed to a struggle to the death. Who will flinch? Who will “win” is an open question. Washington, you have been forewarned by Mr. Klintsevich, who is surely speaking on behalf of the Kremlin.
In my last appearance on Judging Freedom, Judge Napolitano asked me whether the Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region would be ended by the time of our next chat, two days from today. The implicit assumption behind this question is that the Russians were doing so well destroying all the NATO-supplied tanks, personnel carriers and other advanced equipme…
a day ago · 24 likes · Gilbert Doctorow
Simplicius, Powerful Russian Strikes Usher in Season of Ukrainian Discontent The main object of the strikes appeared to be important energy substations, particularly of the 750kv variety—which, as I understand, are far more significant and irreplaceable than the smaller run-of-the-mill substations... ..Immediately every region of Ukraine plunged into darkness, with Zelensky promising that they’re working on restoring power. News stations even lost power live on air… ..This could be the beginning of the next phase, and the beginning of Ukraine’s demise, if Russia continues the systematic pressure on the power grid from here on out until next year.
In the meantime, Kursk remains stalled with Ukraine claiming to have captured another small settlement or two while Russian forces likewise recaptured some as well, with the overall front not shifting significantly... ..On the other hand, significant advancement continues to be made on the Pokrovsk-New York-Toretsk front. Ukrainian military accounts remain furious at the wasteful operation in Kursk, which comes at the expense of every other front…Russian forces hardly even have to damage… the towns anymore, and are capturing them clean as Ukrainian forces simply flee for their lives..“The situation is difficult, we are losing positions, the enemy is pushing us back,” said Captain Dzvenyslava Rymar of the 47th brigade, which is involved in combat near Pokrovsk. “People are exhausted,” she added. “We need fresh people. No matter how well-trained our fighters are, the Russians still manage to crush us with their numbers. It’s not possible to hold the line when there are just two or three of you and ten to 20 of them coming at you.”… ..As a needed reminder, they note that Pokrovsk will be the largest city Russia’s taken in almost 1.5 years… ..One last interesting thing the article hints at is that the Kursk operation is now all about getting allies to push Putin’s red lines by authorizing long range strikes on Russian territory—a narrative that has now completely taken over the discourse, as per the plan. It gives us insight into what the remaining strategy seems to be: Zelensky merely wants to use the Kursk incursion as a springboard for inching NATO one step closer to confrontation with Russia by utilizing ATACMS and Storm Shadows on some sensitive object deep within Russian territory.
But it seems one of the reasons the US remains cold-footed is the dawning realization that Russia’s red lines were actually real, and the more they’re crossed, the less chance there is of any negotiations—a ‘no turning back’ some in the US establishment deeply fear.
This past morning Russia struck Ukraine with what was said to be the largest air strikes of the war. That could be an exaggeration but it was likely in the top 3-5 at least…
2 days ago · 579 likes · 365 comments · Simplicius
Poland in ‘state of hybrid war’ – deputy defense chief
Cezary Tomczyk cited tensions on the border with Belarus and Russian balloons straying into Polish airspace https://swentr.site/news/603134-poland-hybrid-war/
US nuclear project ‘years’ behind schedule – WSJ, Rebuilding silos for Sentinel missiles is creating headaches for the Pentagon https://swentr.site/news/603115-us-nuclear-missile-problems/
Cabinet ministers warn Ben Gvir endangering Israel with ‘reckless’ Temple Mount moves
PM insists status quo at flashpoint site remains unchanged after Ben Gvir says he’d support building a synagogue atop it; coalition, opposition members call for him to be fired National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sparked an uproar on Monday morning after he again declared that Jewish worshipers have the same rights as Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount, and agreed that he would establish a synagogue atop the flashpoint site if he could.
The ultranationalist minister, who has made numerous controversial visits to the site since he entered the government, told Army Radio on Monday that Israeli law does not discriminate between the religious rights of Jews and Muslims at the Temple Mount, which is considered the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam.
“The policies on the Temple Mount allow prayer, period,” Ben Gvir said. “You are allowed to pray; it’s illegal to prevent you from praying.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-ministers-warn-ben-gvir-endangering-israel-with-reckless-temple-mount-moves/
Patrick Lawrence: “The End of Days” This believing-without-thinking is well inside the Netanyahu regime by virtue of Bibi’s dependence on extremist Zionists such as Ben–Givr, Smotrich, and Strook for his political survival. There are implications to think about here. And we should then take care to connect some dots: Christian Zionists in America are less influential on the Israel question than these shockingly deluded extremists, but not by much, and America’s Christian Zionists are just as extreme in their version of “the end of days.”
We cannot look upon Israel’s Zionists with any kind of detachment or critique from some conjured place of elevated superiority. Americans have long told themselves similarly grand, delusional stories to justify their history of injustices and cruelties: Bush II’s Gog and Magog bit is merely an over-the-top telling, a variant on the theme. U.S. policy, certainly since the 11 September disasters, has been based ever less on rational calculation—to say nothing of concern for the global commonweal—than on what I think of as desperately held beliefs in the face of twenty-first century realities.
It is the same with the Israelis as the killing proceeds daily in Gaza and, increasingly, in the West Bank. Israeli policy—and this is true of American policy, too, at bottom—is conceived and executed by people who do not act rationally. They answer to their gods, whether this means Yahweh or divine Providence—“the Great Œconomist,” as some of the eighteen-century historians used to put it.
There are grave implications here. Chief among them, there is no talking to these people, for they live and act behind the thick, protective wall of messianic belief. They may pretend to listen to others, but they do not hear. Nothing others may say can change them. This is a highly consequential circumstance, given the power people who act irrationally hold.
Between the U.S. and Israel, our world is defined by those who view it in radically simplistic binaries. To them there is no place for complexity in our increasingly complex global environment. One could argue this is a good definition of incompetence. This is our dreadful predicament—dreadful because the way forward, beyond these people, cannot be but long and arduous. And here we come to a final conclusion of sorts.
Only failure holds any promise of forcing either Israel or the U.S. to change course. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/24/patrick-lawrence-the-end-of-days/
Israel Plans Colony on UNESCO Heritage Site as Land Theft Surges https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/26/israel-plans-colony-on-unesco-heritage-site-as-land-theft-surges/
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has exposed the torture and mistreatment of Palestinian healthcare workers by Israeli occupation forces since October 2023. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-torture-of-palestinian-healthcare-workers-exposed–h
Are you SURE? Polio vaccines either cause mild polio or don’t work: EU Urges ‘Polio Ceasefire’ In Gaza As WHO Seeks To Vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian Children https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/eu-urges-polio-ceasefire-gaza-who-seeks-vaccinate-640000-palestinian-children
Kyle Young presents: Donald J. Trump – part 2 – The Forbidden Story, a Tale of Two Trumps, Tesla, Death Rays and UFO’s Dr. Vannevar Bush, General of Physics I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it. Morpheus, The Matrix… ..This “death-beam,” Dr. Tesla said, will operate silently but effectively at distances “as far as a telescope could see an object on the ground and as far as the curvature of the earth would permit it.” It will be invisible and will leave no marks behind it beyond its evidence of destruction.
An army of 1,000,000 dead, annihilated in an instant, he said, would not reveal even under the most powerful microscope just what catastrophe had caused its destruction.
When put in operation Dr. Tesla said this latest invention of his would make war impossible. ..President Donald (John) Trumps uncle, Dr. John Trump (1907-1985) was a professor of engineering at the MIT School of Engineering. Leading up to that, his primaryteacher at MIT was Professor Robert Van D Graff(1902 -1967) who is known for 7 patented inventions having to do with ‘Van De Graff’ high voltage generators.
Wikipedia – In 1946, Trump, Robert J. Van de Graaff, and Denis M. Robinson initiated the High Voltage Engineering Corporation (HVEC) to produce Van de Graaff generators.
But John Trumps real mentor at MIT was Dr. Vannever Bush (1890 – 1974) the dean of The School of Engineering, the founder of Raytheon and science advisor to Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower... Bush coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare.… Bush played a critical role in persuading the United States government to undertake a crash program to create an atomic bomb. When the NDRC was formed, the Committee on Uranium was placed under it, reporting directly to Bush as the Uranium Committee... ..As Dean of the MIT School of Engineering, Bush, who was 17 years older than John Trump, took him under his wing and mentored him about his real passion, UFO’s... ..When Nicolas Tesla (1856 to 1943) died, John Trump, who by then was Dr. John Trump and was a leading force at the MIT School of Engineering, was tapped by the FBI to review Tesla’s papers, right in Tesla’s apartment in NY, shortly after he died.
The FBI claimed that Tesla had invented a “death ray” that had the ability to take “flying objects down” (not destroy them) and they wanted to get their hands on any and all notes in Tesla’s possession, so they turned toDr. John Trump, the leading authorityon the topic.
Dr. John Trump –
“I was particularly looking for something that would be evidence of a secret weapon which I was reminded by the two (fbi) agents, who were present during the entire time, was of concern to the United States. It had the capability of acting at a great distance, of being destructive to flying objects, and things of that kind, at a place that was remote from the source.” … ..Fast forward from Tesla’s death in January of 1943 to July of 1947 when a UFO crashes near Roswell NM. Then on March 25, 1948 another one crashes near Atec NM. Its hard for me to imagine that beings so sophisticated and intelligent that they have technology advanced enough to get here from who knows where, would crash two of their craft in less than a year merely flying around at slower speeds in earths atmosphere. Was this weapon used to take down those UFO’s? Does this weapon explain the mysterious airline fights that have been taken down in more recent decades? … ..Why did the FBI call in Dr. John Trump to go through Tesla’s papers? It’s because of his mentor-ship with Dr. Vannever Bush. We need to understand the depth of Bush’s involvement in the DoD UFO technology redevelopment program...
..In 1983 William Steinman, author of UFO Crash at Aztec, asked Dr. Sarbacher for information regarding the US UFO program. He responds in a letter saying Vannever Bush was involved in the program. Suaerbacher goes on to say that the aliens are constructed in a very light, low-mass, insect-like manner which enabled them to withstand the inertia generated in the high g-force movements of their spacecraft. He ends by saying he doesn’t understand why the existence of this is being denied.….Nixon, for all of his faults, was intent on disclosing UFO files. He was also interested in Tesla’s work on free energy and was in the White House when UFO redevelopment technology was really taking off at Pine Gap. Nixon wanted to make some of the UFO information public. Then he was impeached… ..Nixon created a time capsule that was to be opened in 2025. He gave the time capsule to Robert Merritt, told him what was in it, and told him to give it to Henry Kissinger. Many speculate the time capsule contains important information about UFO’s and an alien that has been in US custody for some time, an alien who has disclosed a lot of information. The story is little blurry, but apparently the time capsule is to be opened in 2025.
Through his wife Pat, who likely got the prediction from the occultist Jean Dixon (1904-1997, predicted JFK’s assassination, consulted with the Nixon’s 70 times while they were in the White House) Nixon tells Donald Trump in a 1987 letter, that he will become president. After his resignation, Nixon, the California guy, moves to NY. Trump and Nixon send a number of letters back and forth and Trump even flies Nixon around the country a few times. They become friends. Trump still speaks highly of Nixon to this day.
This story is vast. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Nixon, shared Nixon’s desire to open UFO files – which may explain why Nixon wanted Merritt to give the time capsule to Kissinger... ..So… we have Donald Trump’s uncle John passing on his UFO legacy to his nephew, who has close ties to Nixon, the former president who knew about Trumps uncle John and wants to open up the UFO files. Trump wants to run again in 2024, so the FBI raids his home in Mar A Lago. Click clack clunk, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. One of the first things Trump did upon occupying the White House was to hang the prediction letter from Nixon on the wall in the oval office.
On June 30 2017,Trump signed an executive order that revives The National Space Council. On December 20, 2019 he signed into law a bill that created the US Space Agency. I’ll let all of you great researchers out there suss out the reasons why he did that.
We need to understand here that during Eisenhower’s time in the White House UFO matters were taken away from presidential control by the deep state. Eisenhower alluded to this in his epic outgoing speech in 1962.Since that time UFO secrets have been given a higher security level than nuclear secrets... ..Once it looked like Trump was going to take the White House – a man close to Nixon (who had gleaned a lot of information about UFO’s) and whose uncle John likely had more insider information about UFO’s than anyone else on earth – grave concern arose among those in the deep state who want to keep the UFO files secret. So the deep state was happy to cooperate with the Clinton’s and run CIA operations attempting to do whatever they could to try and make Donald Trump look bad, including accusing him of being a Russian asset. More recently, the deep state uses the FBI to do the same thing by raiding his home at Mara A Lago. Why are these people so terrified of Trump? Is it because of his knowledge about UFO’s? Is it because if he were to expose what he knows he could throw a huge monkey wrench into the machinery of the current highly profitable paradigm for UFO insiders?
Will Trump be in a position to open Nixon’s time capsule, stashed somewhere in the White House by Kissinger, if he occupies the White House in 2025?
I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it. Morpheus, The Matrix…
2 years ago · 71 likes · 41 comments · Kyle Young
Charles Hugh Smith, The Social Recession Is Accelerating Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is social recession in a nutshell. In my analysis, social recession refers to the narrowing of opportunities to marry and raise a family, own a home and have a secure livelihood from the vast majority of the populace to an elite selected by fierce competition–a competition few have the means to win, as the winners tend to win by choosing their parents wisely.
In the purely financial / economic terms of growth of GDP, household income, corporate profits and the value of assets, the US has only been in an economic recession for a few months in 2008-09 and at the start of the pandemic lockdown. But when measured by the ability of just about anyone willing to work hard and practice basic frugality to buy a house and start a family, the US has been in a social recession since 2009.
A reader asked about the term social recession which he’d noted in my book Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy. Here is the paragraph…
5 days ago · 51 likes · 7 comments · Charles Hugh Smith
Alastair Crooke, The western way of war – Owning the narrative trumps reality The DNC convention in Chicago however, underscored a further concern:
Just as the hegemonic West arose out of the Cold War era shaped and invigorated through dialectic opposition to communism (in the western mythology), so we see today, a (claimed) totalising ‘extremism’ (whether of MAGA mode; or of the external variety: Iran, Russia, etc.) – posed in Chicago in a similar Hegelian dialectic opposition to the former capitalism versus communism; but in today’s case, it is “extremism” in conflict with “Our Democracy”.
The DNC Chicago narrative-thesis is itself a tautology of identity differentiation posing as ‘togetherness’ under a diversity banner and in conflict with ‘whiteness’ and ‘extremism’. ‘Extremism’ effectively plainly is being set up as the successor to the former Cold War antithesis – communism.
The Chicago ‘back-room’ may be imagining that a confrontation with extremism – writ widely – will again, as it did in the post-Cold War era, yield an American rejuvenation. Which is to say that a conflict with Iran, Russia, and China (in a different way) may come onto the agenda. The telltale signs are there (plus the West’s need for a re-set of its economy, which war regularly provides). https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/26/the-western-way-of-war-owning-the-narrative-trumps-reality/
Harris is sufficiently evil, but insufficiently able to weave facts she can remember into a narrative she can sell. Kamala Grants Interview to Leftist CNN Anchor Dana Bash Those expecting a tough interview with hard-hitting questions might find themselves disappointed because it will be held on CNN and hosted by left-leaning anchor Dana Bash.
In an unusual move, Harris will also share the spotlight with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The pre-taped interview will air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, roughly 39 days after President Joe Biden exited the 2024 race and endorsed Harris as his successor. https://headlineusa.com/kamala-grants-interview-to-leftist-cnn-anchor-dana-bash/
Harris agrees to debate rules – Trump, The two candidates will be standing and neither will be allowed to use notes, the former president has said Harris “is ready to deal with Trump’s constant lies and interruptions in real time. Trump should stop hiding behind the mute button,” a spokesman for the vice president said on Monday.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller replied that the Republican candidate had “accepted the ABC debate under the exact same terms as the CNN debate,” before claiming that Harris asked for “a seated debate, with notes, and opening statements.” https://swentr.site/news/603171-trump-harris-debate-rules/
A federal appeals court on Aug. 26 declined to block Google from removing Robert F. Kennedy’s videos, ruling that Kennedy has not shown that the California-based company was a state actor when taking down the videos. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-turns-down-rfk-jr-bid-injunction-against-google
Durov’s arrest is ‘hallmark of dictatorship’ – Tucker Carlson to RFK Jr. The Telegram CEO was detained last week after his private jet landed in Paris Durov was arrested in Paris last week, and is being held for questioning in connection to a broader cybercrime probe into illicit activities on the billionaire’s end-to-end encrypted social media platform, the French authorities have said. Telegram generally refuses to share user data and chat logs with law enforcement, and Durov has claimed that this privacy-first approach has drawn attention from intelligence agencies around the world.
In the interview on Monday, Kennedy said the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of expression from government interference, should also protect “misinformation,” as well as information that “no one wants to hear.”
Carlson replied that the administration of US President Joe Biden currently views anything that criticizes the “job that they’re doing” as misinformation.
“With that in mind, you see the Biden administration encouraging France, [French President Emmanuel] Macron to arrest the owner and founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, who is, as of now, in a French prison,” Carlson said, adding: “that’s the hallmark of dictatorship.”
“We’ve lost Europe,” Kennedy replied. “Europe now does not have free speech.” https://swentr.site/news/603122-durov-arrest-hallmark-dictatorship-carlson/
Pepe Escobar: EU to Telegram – We’re Coming to Get You Two more inevitable questions. Why now? Because the EU needs it, badly. And who profits? The leading candidates are the “esprit de corps” of ultra-regimented French bureaucracy and their Franco-European oligarch connections. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240827/pepe-escobar-eu-to-telegram—were-coming-to-get-you-1119928501.html
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been in French detention since Saturday, when he was arrested at Paris’s Bourget Airport, with a period of “questioning”(but with no formal charges) having now been extended into several days.
But breaking reports say the39-year old billionaire who has French, Russia, and UAE citizenship has been transferred to a Paris court to face a judge in preparation for possible indictment. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/telegram-ceo-durov-transferred-paris-court-possible-indictment-imminent
‘This Election Is Being Stolen From Us’: French Left Calls Mass Protest Against Macron [Macron is a Rothschild-Paris banker, as you will recall.]
“The people must get rid of Macron for the good of democracy,” said the leader of France’s Green Party. Leftist parties in France on Tuesday accused President Emmanuel Macron of election theft and announced mass protests after he rejected Nouveau Front Populaire’s proposed candidate for prime minister, even though the left-wing coalition won the most seats in a snap parliamentary contest last month. https://www.commondreams.org/news/french-left-macron
Tulsi Gabbard discusses US military biolabs in Ukraine, as does RFK Jr. sometimes. They are on Team-Trump now. https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1828150312265547911
Just Say ‘No’ WHO Launches Global Monkeypox Strategy, Including Strategic Vaccinations https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/who-launches-global-monkeypox-strategy-including-strategic-vaccinations
Steve Kirsch posts: US and UK all-cause cumulative excess mortality graphs clearly show that our interventions were counterproductive Four graphs. Do you think the COVID interventions saved lives? No chance. These charts are monotonically increasing which means everything we did was useless or made things worse!
Executive summary…
a day ago · 375 likes · 101 comments · Steve Kirsch
Denmark, Finland, and Norway graphs show all-cause mortality kept rising after the shots rolled out
I got a tip from one of my colleagues that Denmark, Finland, and Norway had very similar vaccine policies. Mortality kept going up after the shots
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a day ago · 425 likes · 111 comments · Steve Kirsch
New Zealand data, The simplest way to show the COVID shots increase ACM Vaccines are supposed to lower all-cause mortality. The COVID shots don’t do that. Here’s the clearest evidence I’ve seen to date.
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18 hours ago · 283 likes · 160 comments · Steve Kirsch
It doesn’t work right. It might burn up or crash. NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-starliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/
Bicyclist for Peace (pictured recently in Palestine jersey)
