moneycircus | Zionism has lost its mask; for it is, and has always been, a tool of
globalist imperialism. (We’ll leave the religious aspects until a later
article.)
Readers know well the story. The European empires were
corporate ventures, beginning around 1600. Operating under royal charter
or exemption, corporations carved out territories according to where
the narcotics, textiles, spices, minerals and, later, the oil lay.
First
they drew on the investment of shareholders, and later the lending of
banks which provided a shot of steroids to the business of empire and
war, paying for troops and mercenaries, and greater and ever more costly
wars.
Today there is oil in them there hills, namely the Golan
Heights, for which Rothschild-backed Genie Energy (its board is a Who’s
Who of the deep state) secured a license in 2013.
There is oil off
the shore of Gaza, in the Mediterranean, and lip-smacking plans for
pipelines this way and that, with the potential to flow north to Europe
or east to Asia.
We saw this coming more than a year ago — as an outcome of the Ukraine war — when the NordStream pipeline was detonated. See Europe, Gas And The Endgame (Sep 30, 2022)
Longstanding
plans have resurfaced for a new canal to rival Egypt’s Suez, flowing
from the Red Sea directly to the Levantine gas fields, disappropriating
the residents of Gaza.
The British Empire’s favourite narrative is that as herders and nomads they are transients, having no land, nor rights thereto.
And so there are plans to expel much of the population of Gaza to allow for these projects.
While these economic machinations unfold, the general attitude is one
of compliance, lock step and censorship. UK political leaders and
corporate executives are firing any who call for ceasefire.
Florida has acted against students showing sympathy for Palestinians.
The
U.S., France and Britain may outlaw public critique of Zionism just at
the moment it is being exposed as an extension of globalism and
imperialism.
Such gagging is straight out of the Covid censorship
play book, and that is the connection they do not want you to make:
exposing the lie that governments care about the people whom they so
recently terrorised and poisoned.
For why should the same
politicians who marched in lock step to the dictates of big pharma and
the military care about Israel except for its role as a regional
bridgehead? It is the world’s most-jabbed nation — the laboratory for
Pfizer, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted.
Palestinians were not given the jab. He had other plans for them.
off-guardian | There is one thing that’s new about this latest propaganda drive since January, 2020. Whereas the others all united what
we (very loosely) call “the left” (along with certain sectors of the
GOP) against the “far-right” bogey, this one has abruptly split that gross alliance, as both parties—Trump et al. included—and the
“liberal media” have (predictably) swung virulently Zionist, while the
“woke” masses (predictably, and, often, virulently) “stand with
Palestine,” along with some few politicians, movie stars and rappers.
This livid falling-out has only weakened the antagonists, since both
sides are disabled by a common blindness to what’s really happening to them both (and all the rest of us).
“We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness—and light shall triumph over darkness.”
Thus spake Netanyahu two days ago, spelling out the Manichaean vision
that “our free press” has, by and large, been variously pitching since
October 7, and that has Zionists beside themselves with open genocidal
rage, not just at Hamas, and/or its armed confederates, but at the Gazans overall, and, no doubt, all Palestinians.
It was, of course, the “sudden” horror of Hamas’s attack, and the
endless invocation of the Holocaust by the Israeli government (and,
therefore, by “our free press”), that now has Zionists not only cheering as the IDF kills thousands more than
Hamas killed (and forcibly “relocates” many thousands more), but
attacking anyone who isn’t cheering, too, demanding that whoever doesn’t
“stand with Israel” be censored, fired, expelled from school or
otherwise eliminated in a crackdown that makes “cancel culture” seem (almost) benign.
This ferocious drive against the Palestinians, and anyone who
advocates on their behalf, is wholly based on the Official Story that
“our free press” (as usual) will not question, even though the
Israeli people don’t believe it, since there is overwhelming evidence
against it—evidence that “our free press” will not report, just as it
has long blacked out the agony in Gaza (and those eight years of Nazi
violence in East Ukraine).
And as the Zionists have been disastrously misled by the Official
Story, so have those who applauded Hamas’s bloody raids, voicing
“exhilaration” over what they took to be a righteous counter-blow against the occupying power, like the heroic uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. While Gaza does recall the Warsaw ghetto, Hamas’s “surprise attack” does not recall that uprising, which actually did come as a surprise (and, of course, killed no civilians), whereas “October 7” clearly was an “inside job,” as the Israeli people know—an inconvenient fact for all who now want to see still more people
die, whether Israelis, Gazans, Jews, Palestinians, Muslims or whomever
else they hate, for whatever reason (or no reason).
So let us finally pose the crucial question: Who benefits from the catastrophe that may now sweep us all away, if we don’t break the spell of the Official Story? It’s surely not the
Zionists, since Netanyahu obviously isn’t one, or he wouldn’t have
forced “vaccination” on his people, through what may well have been the
toughest “vaccine” mandate in the world. Despite his reputation, and his
demagogic rhetoric, Netanyahu would appear to be a globalist, not a Zionist.
Certainly this latest melodrama is now speedily intensifying the
repressive trends that started with the rollout of “the virus,” from
ever-tighter censorship, to still “smarter” surveillance, to the
splintering of opposition, to the exacerbation of the refugee crisis,
and so on, as this acute OffGuardian piece makes clear:
Now, let’s return to the only bit of good news in this whole hyper-barbaric episode—that the Israeli people get it,
not just about Hamas’s “surprise attack,” but about the “vaccination”
drive that Netanyahu forced on them, and which now has them “dying
suddenly” week after week, along with other peoples the world over.
Could it be that Netanyahu actually is not the ultimate or only author of “October 7,” and that its purpose wasn’t just to save his hide politically?
Is it not possible that, just as “his” drive to “vaccinate” all the
Israeli people was probably dictated from on high, he organized “October
7,” or okayed it, on the orders of the same powers who’ve been ravaging
the world since January, 2020?
Not only is this crisis serving perfectly to foster still more chaos,
division and economic ruination overall, but, more precisely, it has
(at least for now) completely drowned out the Israelis’ quiet, shared
awareness that “vaccination” is a stroke of democide, imposed worldwide not with the noble goal of “saving lives,” but—on the contrary—to end as many lives as possible, for the purpose of extreme depopulation everywhere (as
Bill Gates once incautiously revealed, when he referred to the eventual
concluding phase of global “vaccination” as “the final solution”).
The last thing that our masters want is for the Israelis’ consciousness of what’s been done to them to spread to other countries, so that enough of us wake up, and unify enough to put an end to these catastrophes at last.
And so those whose eyes are now so full of blood that they just want to see more people die—whether Jews or Palestinians—had better understand, for their own sake, that those behind the “vaccination” drive agree with you, and with your enemy, since they want nearly all of us to die, and the sooner the better.
So if you can’t stop hating any others to the point of
wanting them all dead, go ahead and keep it up. It’s your funeral
(assuming anyone will be around to bury you).
Off-Guardian | “We need a new approach to digital identity”, so say the authors of an “Agenda Article” for the World Economic Forum, published on the 28th of September.
Digital ID has been in the news a lot lately, obscured for the past week in the mist of the Israel-Hamas situation.
Just last week, Forbes Australia published it’s guide to what “Australians need to know” about digital IDs, and 9News reported that they could be in place as soon as next year.
Meanwhile, also in Australia, the world’s 21st largest bank is
changing its terms and conditions to allow it to “de-bank” customers.
The National Australian Bank’s “revised” terms and conditions go into force on November 1st and include, in clause 11: “NAB may close your account at any time at its discretion”.
The reasons NAB would consider enforcing clause 11 make for interesting reading [emphasis added]:
NAB can take a range of things into account when exercising its rights and discretions. These can include:
[…]
(e) NAB’s public statements, including those relating to protecting vulnerable persons, the environment or sustainability;
(f) community expectations and any impact on NAB’s reputation;
So – as of November 1st – NAB reserves the right to de-bank you if
you get cancelled, or say something they don’t approve of about climate
change or “vulnerable people”.
In the UK, just two days ago, it was reported the government is
planning to upload every passport photo in their records to a facial
recognition database.
Just yesterday India announced the launch of trial wholesale digital currency, and the South China Morning Post reported a new “hard-wallet” for SIM-based CBDC payments, a joint project between the Bank of China and Chinese telecommunications giants.
Back to Australia, where it was reported on October 12th that
Mastercard and the Reserve Bank of Australia had “successfully trialled”
the interoperability of CBDC systems, whilst ensuring that “the pilot CBDC can be held, used, and redeemed only by authorised parties“.
Mastercard’s report also notes that the benefits of CBDCs are “programmability, transparency, and compliance”.
KCUR | You know how holiday stuff is expensive when you most want to buy it, but cheaper after the holidays?
The same dynamic will soon apply to what you pay for electricity on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area.
All
of Evergy’s Missouri customers will see a steep price hike for the
electricity they burn during the peak demand hours of late afternoon and
early evening.
It’s called time-of-use pricing and Jim Busch, the director of
industry analysis at the Missouri Public Service Commission, said it
makes sense.
“When you look at the overall benefits to the
consumers and the company and society as a whole,” he said, “it’s a
better path to go down.”
Evergy's change to the time-sensitive model comes with particularly dramatic upticks.
Electricity
costs more to generate at peak times, like summer evenings when
everyone’s running their air conditioners. Companies have to fire up
auxiliary generators to meet that demand.
That means burning
natural gas. Cranking up those gas plants costs more to kick out the
same power than coal, solar, wind and nuclear.
Time-of-use rates
reflect that added cost. Customers pay something closer to the actual
cost to produce power at a given time — and have an incentive to use
less electricity when it costs the most to produce.
Power
companies already send out bills based on time-of-use rates in much of
the western U.S. Evergy has allowed customers in both Missouri and
Kansas to voluntarily opt-in to variable price billing for years. And
the method is catching on, Busch.
But there’s something different about the time-of-use billing schedule for Missouri that Evergy customers will see this fall.
Typically,
the price of electricity varies only slightly over the course of the
day. Rates may go up or down one or two cents per kilowatt hour.
Some
Missouri Evergy customers, on the other hand, will see rates fluctuate
dramatically. Under the default plan, customers will be charged 9 cents a
kilowatt hour most of the time. But the rate vaults up to 38 cents
between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on summer evenings. That’s a 322% spike.
“That is a huge increase,” said Daniel Zimny-Schmitt at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. “There’s no way around that.”
He
said 38 cents a kilowatt hour, the top rate under Evergy’s default
plan, would mark one of the most expensive residential electricity rates
in the country outside of California.
The default plan —Evergy
brands it “Standard Peak Saver" — is one of four options that Missouri
Evergy customers can choose from by October. If you don’t do anything to
your Evergy account, that’s the billing structure you’ll have.
Vox | In an economic race with enormous winner-takes-all
stakes, a company is primarily thinking about whether to deploy their
system before a competitor. Slowing down for safety checks risks that
someone else will get there first. In geopolitical AI arms race
scenarios, the fear is that China will get to AI before the US and have
an incredibly powerful weapon — and that, in anticipation of that, the
US may push its own unready systems into widespread deployment.
Even if alignment is a very solvable problem, trying to
do complex technical work on incredibly powerful systems while everyone
is in a rush to beat a competitor is a recipe for failure.
Some actors working on artificial general intelligence,
or AGI, have planned significantly to avoid this dangerous trap: OpenAI,
for instance, has terms in its charter specifically aimed at preventing an AI race once systems are powerful enough:
“We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a
competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions.
Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to
building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start
assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case
agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a
better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.”
I am generally optimistic about human nature. No one actively wants
to deploy a system that will kill us all, so if we can get good enough
visibility into the problem of alignment, then it’ll be clear to
engineers why they need a solution. But eager declarations that the race
is on make me nervous.
Another great part of human nature is that we are often
incredibly competitive — and while that competition can lead to great
advancements, it can also lead to great destruction. It’s the Cold War
that drove the space race, but it was also WWII that drove the creation
of the atomic bomb. If winner-takes-all competition is the attitude we
bring to one of the most powerful technologies in human history, I don’t
think humanity is going to win out.
express.co.uk | French President Emmanuel Macron is said to be in a "panic" as the issues with France's ageing nuclear reactors have laid bare the flaws in the country's energy
plans, an expert has told Express.co.uk. Sixteen out France's 56
nuclear reactors are currently offline due to corrosion and maintenance
issues, sending its normal power output levels plummeting in recent
months. Prior to these problems, France's nuclear fleet generated 70
percent of the country's electricity.
According to Dr Paul Dorfman, a nuclear expert from the University of
Sussex, France's "chickens are coming home to roost" as the decision to
rely so heavily on nuclear is appearing to backfire, with further
delays to repairs also announced this week.
He
said: "France was nuclear power excellence, post-war all buffed up with
power - it said it was going to be the top dogs. So it had a vast
quantity of nuclear reactors dotted all around France. But what is
happening now is that its chickens are coming home to roost.
"EDF
(owned by the French state) is 43billion euros in debt, it faces a
100billion euro bill for mandatory safety upgrades, and a significant
number of its reactors continue to be offline due to ageing corrosion
problems. It also faces a huge decommissioning and waste management bill
that is uncosted - they are just beginning to say 'oh my god'.
"Around
a quarter of their reactors are still offline at winter when they
really need it. They are even importing power from Germany after being a
net exporter. France is panicking about what to do about renewables and
insulation."
But all this could be of concern for Britain, which does rely on some
French imports that are sent across the Channel via interconnectors.
National Grid has previously warned that if the UK fails to shore up
enough energy imports from Europe this winter, it may have to roll out
organised blackouts in the "deepest, darkest" nights of the coldest
months of the year.
However, while France's nuclear power issues
have sparked concern, Dr Dorfman said the UK is luckier than France in
that it is one of the leading players in offshore wind, which could
provide a vital lifeline this winter.
He said: "The UK has
seriously thought about renewables in the last few years, without any
question. But there have been problems with onshore wind and legislation
issues. There also problems with the legislation for solar, but
offshore wind has helped enormously. But the UK hasn't really considered
about the lowest hanging through which is energy efficiency and
insulation."
When asked whether the UK is lucky that it has not
copied the French model, Dr Dorfman responded: "We are hugely lucky.
France is in a catastrophic situation in terms of the vast debt that it
owes in nuclear and the existential waste and decommissioning problem
that it is facing...The UK is certainly in a better position in terms of
offshore windpower, but it needs to get its act together in terms of
allowing much greater onshore wind and much greater solar...and all the
things that make up a balanced energy portfolio.
As I've previously reported, the Department of Homeland Security's new definition of "domestic extremist" includes not only anti-government groups on the right but also anti-establishment left-wing groups such as animal rights and environmental activists:https://t.co/7INcvJjjk8pic.twitter.com/JOaHpeoPEh
piie | This paper is about the critics of the “doers” of globalization. It describes who they are, where they came from, what they want, how economists, policymakers, and others might understand them better, and where globalization might head from here. Many critics are themselves strongly internationalist and want to see globalization proceed, but under different rules. Some, particularly the protesters in the streets, focus mainly on what is wrong with the world. But some of them put forward broad alternative visions and others offer detailed recommendations for alleviating the problems they see arising from status quo globalization. Most of them have roots in long-standing transnational advocacy efforts to protect human rights and the environment and reduce poverty around the world. What brings them together today is their shared concern that the process by which globalization’s rules are being written and implemented is undermining democracy and failing to spread the benefits broadly. This paper sketches the key issues and concerns that motivate the critics in a way that is broadly representative and intelligible to economists. It finds more resonance for the critics’ agenda in economics than they commonly recognize. And it attempts to capture the concerns of Southern as well as Northern critics and to analyze the issues that divide as well as bring them together. Finally, it evaluates those issues and alternative proposals on which even globalization enthusiasts and the critics might come together cooperatively.
greenwald |“Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” the March 1 Report
from the Director of National Intelligence states that it was prepared
“in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland
Security—and was drafted by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), with contributions from the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).”
Its primary point is this: “The IC [intelligence community] assesses
that domestic violent extremists (DVEs) who are motivated by a range of
ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the
United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.” While
asserting that “the most lethal” of these threats is posed by “racially
or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and militia violent
extremists (MVEs),” it makes clear that its target encompasses a wide
range of groups from the left (Antifa, animal rights and environmental
activists, pro-choice extremists and anarchists: “those who oppose
capitalism and all forms of globalization”) to the right (sovereign
citizen movements, anti-abortion activists and those deemed motivated by
racial or ethnic hatreds).
The U.S. security state apparatus
regards the agenda of “domestic violent extremists” as “derived from
anti-government or anti-authority sentiment,” which includes “opposition
to perceived economic, racial or social hierarchies.” In sum, to the
Department of Homeland Security, an “extremist” is anyone who opposes
the current prevailing ruling class and system for distributing power.
Anyone they believe is prepared to use violence, intimidation or
coercion in pursuit of these causes then becomes a “domestic violent
extremist,” subject to a vast array of surveillance, monitoring and
other forms of legal restrictions:
Reuters | Concerns
about a U.S. recession and a trade spat Mexico is embroiled in with the
United States and Canada over Lopez Obrador's energy policy, which
critics call nationalist, muddy the outlook for the peso.
"The
perception of risk could rise due to the consultations in the framework
of the USMCA (trade deal), which could lead to the imposition of
measures against Mexico," said Banco Base.
Traders
at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, considered a bellwether of market
sentiment, have started to bet the peso will begin depreciating.
Mexico's
peso, which is ending 2022 with one of its strongest performances in a
decade, could have its gains wiped out in 2023 after an expected end to
the Bank of Mexico's rate hikes cycle and a possible recession in top
trade partner the United States.
The
peso last month clawed its way back to pre-pandemic levels and has
appreciated over 5% versus the U.S. dollar in 2022, making it one of the
best-performing global currencies alongside Brazil's real .
Houstonchronicle | Just weeks before President Joe Biden’s planned visit to Mexico,
talks on the neighbors’ biggest trade dispute have stalled due to the
departures of negotiators from the Latin American nation’s side and its
reluctance to make concessions, according to people familiar with the
matter.
The two sides have struggled to make headway on the
energy-policy spat after Tatiana Clouthier, the economy minister at the
start of the dispute in July, resigned in October, said the people, who
asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. The
dismissal of her trade deputy and more than a dozen senior staff also
hindered progress, they said.
Divisions
have affected the Mexican team, with Energy Minister Rocio Nahle and
Manuel Bartlett, the head of the electric utility, refusing for months
to provide the nation’s trade negotiators with key information needed to
address U.S. concerns, the people said.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also has been
unwilling to push for major changes in the nationalist energy policy at
the heart of the U.S. complaint, the people said.
A spokesperson for the Mexican economy ministry
didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for
the White House National Security Council acknowledged the request but
didn’t immediately respond. The U.S. Trade Representative’s press office
declined to immediately respond.
The two sides and Canada — which has some of the same
concerns as the U.S. — are working to address the conflict before Biden
visits Mexico next month, but American negotiators have little
expectation for advances in that period, the people said.
Lopez Obrador’s policy privileges Mexican state-owned
oil producer Petroleos Mexicanos and the electricity provider known as
CFE. The U.S. says this violates the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on
trade, which went into force in 2020 to replace the two-decade-old NAFTA
pact. Canada filed a similar request for talks over Mexico’s
electricity policy.
Lopez Obrador denies that his policies violate the pact, saying that the U.S. must respect Mexico’s sovereignty.
pamho | The
plan is to make Stockholder ideology, oops, sorry, *Stakeholder*
ideology THE ideology of a new world system of governing. Leading
non-governmental organizations — like The UN, The World Bank, The IMF,
along with the biggest corporations and investment funds — and of course
the governments of America, Europe, Asia and so on — they will kindly
ask our new African friends to pretty please join our save-the-world
party. The leaders of countries and businesses who don’t want to hop
aboard the Stakeholder express, well, they don’t want to make all those
groups and people have a sad at them do they? We are all in this
together people.
Soon
enough the African countries will “see the smart thing to do.” Capeesh?
Like giving up on “advancing their economy” in favor of “saving the
world” so Babs and Granpa Snooty feel like they are saving the world by
telling them what they can and can’t do. And of course since batteries
are such an important part of saving the world, “everyone” will have to
pitch in and help the worldwide group effort. And wouldn’t you know it,
it just so happens that the stuff that needs to be mined to make lots of
powerful batteries are stuck, by gosh — under the ground in the
underdeveloped world! Wow, what a coincidence!
So
instead of their economy being based on uplifting their people out of
their underdeveloped state, they can now focus on being good people!
Good people who know their place in the worldwide effort to “save our
planet!” Which means they must renounce the dirty fossil fuels they say
will make them rich like America and Europe. I mean, fossil fuels are so
damaging to our shared prosperity in our new Stakeholder world, right?
People in Manhattan and London have just as much right as people in the
Congo and Bolivia to say what the rules of industry are for the Congo
and Bolivia because WE ARE THE STAKEHOLDER NOW!
Sure,
some cynics might say that rich people from the developed world in
reality just don’t want what they believe are “the limited stores of oil
and gas left in the world,” to be “wasted” on building up Africa or
other underdeveloped areas of the world.
But
no no no, that cynicism is what Stakeholder Capitalism is supposed to
put to rest. Don’t be cynical, because The Great Reset is all about
equity, inclusion, AND anti-racism. Being good stewards of the
environment, stopping climate change, and other words meant to make them
look good is what it’s all about baby. It’s most definitely not about
“creating a worldwide enforcement system funded by the richest and most
powerful capitalists in the world to make themselves richer and more
powerful.”
It’s
also NOT about keeping undeveloped nations undeveloped so a cheap labor
force can continue to be exploited in mines and factories. The new and
purehearted “green economy” is about equity, clean air, buzzword, and
another buzzword. So what if you can’t travel when and where and how you
want? You will be safely made to take your medicine when you are told,
and safely made to show your papers when you are told. No more scarey
free speech and freedom to live as you choose! That’s old selfish
extremist thinking. You must think the right safe thoughts. You must.
No, really. YOU MUST.
The Great Reset also includes some newer ideas for newer “problems,”
like a system to be set up for worldwide coordinated reaction to
health-based “emergencies.” I mean, you can’t have the common non-rich
people making the rich nervous by breathing near them can you? If it is
flu season we don’t nay WE WILL NOT ALLOW Sally the waitress to be able
to breath properly if the person she is serving has a trust fund. What
to speak of flying on the same plane. I mean private jets don’t grow on
trees people. It’s so much simpler to make sure Sally is kept from
causing any potential harm she might bring to Justin and Jules on their
bi-weekly getaway to the islands. So a no-fly list for Sally is best.
She can visit her sick Dad next year when the flu isn’t so bad.
PRIORITIES PEOPLE! The Great Reset knows best.
emeatribune | The end of France’s coal era seemed so certain last year that the
operator of one of the country’s last coal-burning plants posted an
upbeat educational video on YouTube titled “Let’s visit a coal plant
that’s going to be destroyed!”
The plant in the northeastern town of Saint-Avold indeed halted coal
production as scheduled earlier this year — but not for long. This week,
its workers were back at the controls, transporting coal from storage
heaps and refiring furnaces, as part of emergency efforts to keep the heat and electricity on this winter.
The energy crisis across Europe unleashed by Russia’s war in Ukraine has paved the way for coal’s comeback in some regions, to the dismay of politicians and activists who warn this endangers climate goals, the climate itself and public health.
“Working here we know the negative impact of the coal plant, but
nonetheless we see it as a necessary evil,” said shift supervisor Thomas
About at the Emile-Huchet Power Plant in Saint-Avold.
“Given the current state of the electrical network, I nonetheless
fear greatly that this production tool is necessary in the medium term,”
he told The Associated Press.
Nearby, wheel loaders scooped mounds of coal and dumped it onto
conveyor belts, and gray fumes rose from the plant’s smokestacks.
In France the return to coal is surprising because the country
started phasing it out decades ago and relies heavily on nuclear power
instead. But this year, on top of Russia largely cutting off natural gas
to Europe, nearly half of France’s nuclear reactors shut down for maintenance or corrosion and other problems.
Facing a worst-case scenario of rolling power cuts to households, the
government issued a decree in September to allow Saint-Avold to start
again and continued activity at another coal plant in western France,
citing the “exceptional” and “unforeseeable” context of energy supply
challenges.
President Emmanuel Macron had initially vowed to close all
coal-burning plants in the country by the end of this year due to
climate-related concerns.
As an aside: France does not depend on Russia for uranium: everything
comes from Niger (34.7%), Kazakhstan (28.9%), Uzbekistan (26.4%), and
Australia (9.9%) and is then processed into actual fuel in France.
However, it is entirely dependent on Russia for reprocessing depleted uranium.
The French can perform a first phase (separating plutonium from spent
fuel), but their much-touted prowess in turning “nuclear waste” into
usable fissile uranium is only possible thanks to the Rosatom
reprocessing plant in Seversk.
The last transport with depleted uranium from France to Russia took
place in October, and the French firm Orano, which supplies French
atomic power plants, does not intend to renew the contract. Which means
that spent fuel may soon start to accumulate as genuine waste on the
premises of French power plants…
stilumcuriae |Medical
Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is
grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking
to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began
with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by
and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation,
complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was
unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the
entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably
cataclysmic results.
MD4CE
International is an international group of medical doctors, scientists,
lawyers, journalists, economists, historians, politicians,
philosophers, data analysts, bankers, military/intelligence experts and
others from all over the world, working determinedly together to expose
the terrible truth of what has happened during the past three years to
the people of the world, their families, their communities, their
countries, and to hold those responsible for the great crimes committed
properly to account.
Dear and distinguished friends,
Allow
me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has
extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank
all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is
commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had to face
in order to remain consistent with your principles, and I hope that the
damage you have suffered can be adequately repaired by those who have
discriminated against you, depriving you of work and salary and
labelling you as dangerous no-vaxxers.
I
am pleased to be able to speak and share with you my thoughts about the
current global crisis. A crisis that we can consider to have begun with
the pandemic emergency, but that we know has been planned for decades
with very specific purposes by well-known personalities. Stopping at the
pandemic alone would in fact be a serious mistake, because it would not
allow us to consider the events in their full coherence and
inter-connectedness, thus preventing us from understanding them and
above all from identifying the criminal intentions behind them. You too –
each with your own expertise in the medical, scientific, legal or other
fields – will agree with me that limiting yourselves to your own
discipline, which in some cases is extremely specific, does not fully
explain the rationale for certain choices that have been made by
governments, international bodies, and pharmaceutical agencies. For
example, finding “graphene-like” material in the blood of people who
have been inoculated with experimental serums makes no sense for a
virologist, but it does made sense for an expert in nanomaterials and
nanotechnology who understands what graphene can be used for. It also
makes sense for an expert in medical patents, who immediately identifies
the content of the invention and relates it to other similar patents.
It also makes sense for an expert in war technologies who knows about
studies on the enhanced man (a document of the British Ministry of
Defense calls him “augmented man” in transhumanistic terms) and is
therefore able to recognize in graphene nanostructures the technology
that enables the augmentation of the war performance of military
personnel. And a telemedicine expert will be able to recognize in those
nanostructures the indispensable device that sends biomedical parameters
to the patient control server and also receives certain signals from
it.
Once
again: the assessment of events from a medical point of view should
take into account the legal implications of certain choices, such as the
imposition of masks or, even worse, mass “vaccination,” made in
violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. And I am sure that in
the field of health governance the manipulations of the classification
codes of diseases and therapies will also emerge, which have been
designed to make the harmful effects of measures taken against Covid-19
untraceable, from placing people on respirators in intensive care to
watchful waiting protocols, to say nothing of the scandalous violations
of regulations by the European Commission which – as you know – has no
delegation from the European Parliament in the field of Health, and that
is not a public institution but rather a private business consortium.
In
light of these statements – and those of others no less delusional than
Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab’s adviser – we understand how the pandemic
farce served as a trial balloon for imposing controls, coercive
measures, curtailing individual freedoms, and increasing unemployment
and poverty. The next steps will have to be carried out by means of
economic and energy crises, which are instrumental to the establishment
of a synarchic government in the hands of the globalist elite.
Your betters are simply letting Nature take its course, with a little encouragement.
There’s a problem with human overpopulation.
Why not let it self correct
when there’s so much money to be made and power to be had doing so?
Look who it’s killing (so far), the old and the weak.
Eliminating the useless and unfit, putting Social Security on a sound financial basis.
Real benefits for society!
As long as the virus doesn’t mutate into something really nasty, and as
long as it doesn’t inconvenience too many people that matter,
everything will be just fine....,
expose | UK Government confirms the Triple / Quadruple Vaccinated account for 91% of all COVID Deaths since the beginning of 2022
In January, the vaccinated accounted for 85% of
Covid-19 deaths, whilst the unvaccinated accounted for 15%. By March,
the vaccinated accounted for 93% of Covid-19 deaths, whilst the
vaccinated accounted for just 7%. And by May, the vaccinated accounted
for 94% of Covid-19 deaths, whilst the vaccinated accounted for just 6%.
Many people may believe that this is simply because, according to
data published by the UK Health Security Agency, 50% of the population
of England refused the third jab, and those vaccinated deaths are among
the double vaccinated and partly vaccinated. But unfortunately, those
people are wrong.
Overall, there were 15,113 Covid-19 deaths by 31st May 2022, and a
shocking 13,666 of those deaths were among the vaccinated population.
But what’s even more shocking than this is that 12,442 of those deaths
were among the triple/quadruple vaccinated population.
This means the triple/quadruple vaccinated population have
accounted for a frightening 91% of all Covid-19 deaths among the
vaccinated since the beginning of 2022.
U.N. | We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge
that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the
plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips
with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to
many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's
economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where
there is a need for manual labour.
We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside
holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work
for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they
work so hard either in producing food for themselves in
subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in
exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were
not for the threat of hunger? More importantly, how many of us would
sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?
When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the
factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who
work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap
labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.
The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying
jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves:
200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1
While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to
understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be
created. Who would have established massive biofuel production
operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry
people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who
would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people
would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates?
Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to
assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive.
That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people
who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical
activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that
work.
The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as
people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates
that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2
including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as
bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who
might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to
walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most
people who work are slaves to hunger?
For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger
globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who
would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work
in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to
produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the
high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us,
hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
lefteast | Amid the geopolitical and humanitarian crisis generated by the war in
Ukraine, another crisis is unfolding globally which is also heavily
affected by the war. Global food supply problems
could cause food shortages and famine in several low-income countries
in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Global food prices,
increasing since the early 2000s, had already reached new peaks in the
last years. Owing to the important role of Ukraine and Russia in the
global food system (they are both among the largest grain exporters in
the world, and Russia has a significant role in the fertilizer industry
as well), they are expected to further accelerate to highest-ever
levels. The war also reveals how important local food systems
are in providing nutrition in Ukraine: people fleeing the cities are
depending at the moment on food produced by small family farms. The
solidarity of Romanian farmers providing Ukrainian family farms with
seeds also shows the power of alternative ways of thinking outside the
logic of the global food system.
The growing food crisis points to characteristics of the global food
system that has emerged in relationship to the capitalist economy. The
global food system’s dependence on fossil fuels, commercial seeds, and
chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides), and its devastating
societal effects in certain parts of the world make the system
unsustainable. Rural societies in general, but more specifically small
producers and rural communities in peripheral and semi-peripheral
regions, are affected by the global food system in a way that is
inherently unjust. The marginalization of small producers and peasant
communities who lack the capacity to successfully integrate into the
global food system (but are also unable to remove themselves from it ),
and inequalities in access to land and natural resources caused by land
concentration or land grabbing are significant consequences of the
global food system. The global division of labor means that while
peripheral and semi-peripheral regions more frequently specialize in the
more labor-intensive and less profitable activities in the global
commodity chain, core countries are generally involved with more capital
and technology-intensive production and more profitable activities,
reproducing global inequalities in the accumulation of capital.
Liberalization of the land market in semi-peripheries and peripheries,
rather than aiding small or medium farms, has tended to benefit mostly
the local elite (a minority of the rural society) or multinational
corporations based in core countries. In semi-peripheral Hungary, the
food-processing industry and supermarkets, which realize a great amount
of profit from the food commodity chain are also to a significant extent
operated by foreign capital.
The global food system has negative effects on society and more
broadly a damaging impact on the environment. It is a main culprit in
the loss of biodiversity and a major driver of climate change. Negative
environmental effects like the emergence of herbicide-resistant
superweeds, the loss of pollinators, and the increasingly prevalent
droughts hit back at the global food system. Requiring costly
interventions in agroecosystems such as new pesticides, artificial
pollination, and irrigation, they contribute to higher food prices.
The concept of food sovereignty was developed and propagated by the
international peasant movement La Via Campesina (The Peasant Way).
Originally rooted in autonomous peasant organizations in Latin America,
the movement later became global, and now has members from Africa, Asia,
North America, and Europe. La Via Campesina centers its work around
claims of social justice, the right of peasants to produce food, and
more equal access to lands and other resources (like water or seed). It
also focuses on the localization of food systems and emphasizes the
right to control one’s food and the right to access healthy, culturally
appropriate food instead of producing for and consuming the products of
the profit-focused global food system. Food sovereignty not only
concentrates on the health of people, but the health of the environment
as well, it argues for ecologically sound and sustainable agriculture.
In its thematic issue on food sovereignty
(#29), the Hungarian critical journal Fordulat addresses how the
operation of the global food system affects rural society and ecosystems
in Hungary and discusses the struggles and strategies of small
producers, including those of women who work in agriculture. The first
part of the issue contains five original articles and a translation,
tied together by the concept of food sovereignty and what it entails. It
gathers theoretical and empirical works that show how the history of
struggles of rural societies for more fair distribution of land and
natural resources and environmental degradation have developed in tandem
with capitalism, focusing specifically on transformations in Hungary’s
agriculture. It shows how the dialectical relationship between nature,
society, and the capitalist system to a large extent shapes rural life
in this semi-peripheral context today. The second part of the issue
presents three book reviews that reintroduce anthropological works
discussing local conditions, practices, and the changing meanings of
food and farming as well as resistance and struggle, amid the capitalist
and socialist transformations of the food systems in peripheral and
semi-peripheral places. While these books were written several decades
ago, they still hold relevance for understanding struggles in these
rural areas today.
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journal-neo |Sadly, the Fed and
other central bankers lie. Raising interest rates is not to cure
inflation. It is to force a global reset in control over the world’s
assets, it’s wealth, whether real estate, farmland, commodity
production, industry, even water. The Fed knows very well that Inflation
is only beginning to rip across the global economy. What is unique is
that now Green Energy mandates across the industrial world are driving
this inflation crisis for the first time, something deliberately ignored
by Washington or Brussels or Berlin.
The global shortages
of fertilizers, soaring prices of natural gas, and grain supply losses
from global draught or exploding costs of fertilizers and fuel or the
war in Ukraine, guarantee that, at latest this September-October harvest
time, we will undergo a global additional food and energy price
explosion. Those shortages all are a result of deliberate policies.
Moreover, far worse
inflation is certain, due to the pathological insistence of the world’s
leading industrial economies led by the Biden Administration’s
anti-hydrocarbon agenda. That agenda is typified by the astonishing
nonsense of the US Energy Secretary stating, “buy E-autos instead” as
the answer to exploding gasoline prices.
Similarly, the
European Union has decided to phase out Russian oil and gas with no
viable substitute as its leading economy, Germany, moves to shut its
last nuclear reactor and close more coal plants. Germany and other EU
economies as a result will see power blackouts this winter and natural
gas prices will continue to soar. In the second week of June in Germany
gas prices rose another 60% alone. Both the Green-controlled German
government and the Green Agenda “Fit for 55” by the EU Commission
continue to push unreliable and costly wind and solar at the expense of
far cheaper and reliable hydrocarbons, insuring an unprecedented
energy-led inflation.
Fed has pulled the plug
With the 0.75% Fed
rate hike, largest in almost 30 years, and promise of more to come, the
US central bank has now guaranteed a collapse of not merely the US debt
bubble, but also much of the post-2008 global debt of $303 trillion.
Rising interest rates after almost 15 years mean collapsing bond values.
Bonds, not stocks, are the heart of the global financial system.
US mortgage rates
have now doubled in just 5 months to above 6%, and home sales were
already plunging before the latest rate hike. US corporations took on
record debt owing to the years of ultra-low rates. Some 70% of that debt
is rated just above “junk” status. That corporate non-financial debt
totaled $9 trillion in 2006. Today it exceeds $18 trillion. Now a large
number of those marginal companies will not be able to rollover the old
debt with new, and bankruptcies will follow in coming months. The
cosmetics giant Revlon just declared bankruptcy.
The
highly-speculative, unregulated Crypto market, led by Bitcoin, is
collapsing as investors realize there is no bailout there. Last November
the Crypto world had a $3 trillion valuation. Today it is less than
half, and with more collapse underway. Even before the latest Fed rate
hike the stock value of the US megabanks had lost some $300 billion. Now
with stock market further panic selling guaranteed as a global economic
collapse grows, those banks are pre-programmed for a new severe bank
crisis over the coming months.
As US economist Doug
Noland recently noted, “Today, there’s a massive “periphery” loaded with
“subprime” junk bonds, leveraged loans, buy-now-pay-later, auto, credit
card, housing, and solar securitizations, franchise loans, private
Credit, crypto Credit, DeFi, and on and on. A massive infrastructure has
evolved over this long cycle to spur consumption for tens of millions,
while financing thousands of uneconomic enterprises. The “periphery” has
become systemic like never before. And things have started to Break.”
The Federal
Government will now find its interest cost of carrying a record $30
trillion in Federal debt far more costly. Unlike the 1930s Great
Depression when Federal debt was near nothing, today the Government,
especially since the Biden budget measures, is at the limits. The US is
becoming a Third World economy. If the Fed no longer buys trillions of
US debt, who will? China? Japan? Not likely.
oftwominds |Many other dynamics changed around the same time: social, cultural, political.These charts reflect the
end of the postwar era and the ushering in of a new era.
Again in broad-brush, the key economic dynamic was the decline of labor's share of the
economy in favor of capital. Those who had only their labor to sell lost purchasing power,
while those who could borrow or access capital benefited enormously. The charts below tell
the story: labor's share of the national income has stairstepped lower for 50 years (since 1970)
while the super-wealthy's share has outpaced everyone else 15-fold.
The dominance of financial capital is visible in the third chart, as private-sector financial
assets are now 6 times the nation's GDP, double the percentage of the postwar era.
This capital-friendly era was rocket-boosted by financialization in the 1980s, technology in
the 1990s and globalization in the early 21st century. You can see each advance of
capital's top tier--the top 0.1%--in the chart below: the top 0.1% first pulled away in the 1980s
financialization, stutter-stepped in the early 1990s and then exploded higher as technology
fueled capital's leverage and exposure to the gains reaped by computers and the Internet.
Alas, these extremes are not stable or sustainable, and so each wave ends in a devastating crash.
The income of the top 0.1% took a hit as the dotcom bubble burst, but then China's entry into the
WTO saved the day as rampant globalization and additional extremes of financial leverage and fraud
boosted their fortunes in the 2000s.
The dual extremes of financialization and globalization created the 2008 bubble, and its
collapse almost took down the entire global capital house of cards. Central banks, ultimately
financed by the Fed to the tune of $29 trillion, twice the size of America's entire GDP,
instituted The Great Reset under the usual guise of "emergency measures" which then
became permanent policies.
The Great Reset led to the hyper-centralization of control over the global economy's
money as central banks coordinated unprecedented money-printing and financial repression,
which includes zero-interest rate policies (ZIRP), as the debt-bubble would pop if rates
aren't nailed down to zero.
All the PR being spewed about The Great Reset is the final frantic flailing of
a system that's drowning in its own excesses. The 50-year long era of the few enriching
themselves as the expense of the many has ended, for the same reason eras of extreme exploitation
always end--the elites got too greedy and overshot the economy's ability to sustain their
rapidly expanding share of the income and wealth.
Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there's nothing
left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The hyper-centralized global money control has run
out of rope as the cheap oil is gone, debts have ballooned to the point there is no way they'll
ever be paid down, and the only thing staving off collapse is money-printing, which holds the
seeds of its own demise.
Allow me to summarize the only way The Great Reset envisioned by global elites
can actually manifest: The Martians arrive towing huge meteorites of pure lithium and gold,
and rather than incinerating the global elites, they hand the global elites the meteorites to
further their concentration of wealth and power.
Short of that science fiction, this sucker's going down.The Great Reset has already
run its course after 12 long years of artifice, fraud and trickery. So global elite shills,
lackeys, factotums, toadies and apparatchiks--prepare for your Wil-E-Coyote moment of truth.
thesaker | There have been many explanations for what is going on and the most
common is the fight between two possible futures; a multipolar world
where there are several power centers in the world, and a unipolar world
where the West governs the world. This is correct as far as it goes,
but there is another reason which explains why this is happening now and
all the urgency and panic in the West.
Recently the New Zealand tech guru Kim Dotcom tweeted a thread
about the debt situation in the US. According to him all debt and
unfunded liabilities of the US exceed the total value of the entire
country, including the land. This situation is not unique to the US.
Most countries in the West have debt that can only be paid back by
selling the entire country and everything it contains. On top of that,
most non-western countries are buried in dollar-denominated debt and are
practically owned by the same financiers who own the West.
During the last few decades, the economy of the US and Europe has
been falsified on a level that is difficult to believe. We in the West
have been living far beyond our means and our currencies have been
massively overvalued. We have been able to do this through two
mechanisms:
The first one is the reserve status of the dollar and the
semi-reserve status of the euro which have enabled the West to export
digital money and receive goods in return. This has created enormous
financial power for the West and enabled it to function as a parasite on
the world economy. We have been getting a lot of goods for free, to put
it mildly.
The second falsification mechanism is the increase in debt to a
level where we have essentially pawned everything we own, including our
houses and lands, to keep up our living standards. We own nothing now
when the debt has been subtracted. The debt has long since become
unserviceable – far beyond our ability to pay interests on – which
explains why the interest rates in the West are in the neighborhood of
zero. Any increase would make the debt unserviceable and we would all go
formally bankrupt in a day.
On top of all this, the falsification has created artificially strong
currencies in the West which has boosted their purchasing power for
goods priced in non-western currencies. These mechanisms have also
enabled the West to run bloated and dysfunctional service economies
where inefficiencies are beyond belief. We have giant groups of people
in our economies that not only create no value but destroy value
systematically. What maintains the West’s standard of living now is a
small minority of productive people, constant debt increase, and
parasitism of the rest of the world.
The people who own all this debt actually own everything we think we
own. We in the West own nothing at this point – we only think we do. But
who are our real owners? We know more or less who they are because they
meet every year at the World Economic Forum in Davos along with the
western political elites who they also happen to own.
It is clear that our owners have been getting increasingly worried,
and their worries have been increasing in sync with the increased
pressure applied by the West on the rest of the world, particularly the
Independents. During the last Davos meeting, the mood was bleak and
panicked at the same time, much like the panic among the western
political elites when the isolation of Russia failed.
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 standards 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:
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.
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. Fist tap Dale.
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