BIT THE FUCK OUT OF FIAT

Fiat money is a currency established as money, often by government regulation, that does not have intrinsic value. Fiat money does not have use value, and has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value. (Wikipedia)

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software. (Wikipedia)

You may conceive that Wall Street and the City of London, the World Bank, the IMF and others are some of the strongest institutions in the world. The establishment elites of the western world have fostered this impression in the same way that outright propaganda fosters impression in the human mind. They have been able to do this because the increasingly criminal nature of western elites and their increasing grip of so-called news entities has given them the ability to create the perfect environment for such conditioning/brainwashing.

Elites wash each others’ hands constantly and this has been increasingly the case in the West since 9/11. 9/11 essentially ended the inclination to criticize the establishment narratives on all but the most parochial and essentially unimportant issues. Criticism of the elites, whether they were engaged in overseas regime change wars or internal fleecing of their own populations to deliver cash to their corporate partners, was no longer allowed as a legitimate concern. The era of ‘You’re either with us or against us’ began after 9/11 and exists in ever stronger form now than ever.

Only those independent of the governmental, media and business mafia have the freedom to speak out to offset this state hypnotism, behaviorism and conditioning by repetition. This band of independents has been growing steadily since 9/11. The skepticism of all state narratives and those of their prostitute mass media “news” agencies reaches new peak after new peak now. And with this skepticism came the search for voice who had not been bought by moneyed or politicized interests.

Figures such as Max Keiser arose to deliver facts not covered by those only interested in delivering pro-elite narratives that gave some solidity to the smoke and mirrors illusions necessary to manipulate as many of the gullible as possible. We are now approaching an equilibrium in the ratio of gullible to skeptical. And it is the skeptical and aware that are rising as mass media degrades its output more and more obviously.

The latest indicator of the strength potentially wielded by those of independent mind is the insurgency of Reddit and elsewhere against the hedge funds of Wall Street. Through hundreds of thousands if not millions of activists learning of the weaknesses within the hyper-greedy systems of Wall Street they have been able to create crippling losses within some hedge funds.

However, it appears certain that it will be Bitcoin and other digital currencies that will finally bring down the criminal elite that reside as financial and political dictators at the top of western societies. Since the crash of 2008 fiat cash has been growing more and more worthless to the point where it has minimal intrinsic value. The criminal activity of Wall Street will never be subject to reform. There will be no return to any largely mythical period of honesty. The criminality of elites across the western world from the political sphere to the corporate and media spheres is endemic and reform of one would require the reform of all and none of them will ever allow any of their number to suffer this.

Activism against this rotting hulk of criminality will not come from any elite and that includes the judicial system. All are wrapped in one large stinking parcel. With reform impossible the only other recourse to change possible is by dismantling the edifice through activism. And activists have now found a tunnel that takes them inside the system to destroy it from within.

If you have been following the news items related to the bricks and mortar company ‘Gamestop’ and others you will know that the technologies behind selling and buying shares has been used to undermine and impoverish massive hedge funds, to take out some of the top criminal elements within Wall Street.

This is only the beginning of a hopeful worldwide phenomenon whereby the crooks of the 1% who have been increasingly sucking all wealth up to themselves from the rest of us will be steadily brought to their knees.

By ending any contact with the hypnotic, endlessly repeated propaganda of the mass media, realizing that these entites are essentially lie factors for western elites that have an absolute necessity to dupe us, we can escape all conditioning being attempted. Our skepticism of these so-called news outlets must be 100% at all times, treating them always with the utmost scorn.

If possible and we have resources to do it of any kind whatsoever it is imperative for future generations that we act to undermine all the criminal elite entities that at the moment are above the law... for they act AS the law only ever accusing others of criminality, never themselves.

In this digital age these elite entities believe they are close to having us right where they want us, subservient to their online systems, atomized, locked in our homes, subservient and obedient to their all-permeating news channels. However, this is the exact moment when those of us who remain independent of their programming have the tools to bring them all crashing down and free the world from their malign existence.

It is a David and Goliath struggle, there is no doubt about that. Their power remains massive while we have a great many restrictions upon us making us appear weak. But we only appear to be weak. The reality is that we have strength in numbers and that we are not asleep.

The giant has an Achilles' heel... the very digital systems they set up to aggrandize themselves can be used to bring them down.

Their state money laundering which has reduced their currencies to zero in effect have no basis in solid reality inspiring confidence. They may look strong but in fact they are incredibly weak. The elites are paper targets waiting to be torn down.

And so we are going to bit the fuck out of their worthless fiat currencies from this point on.

GAMESTOP, DON’T STOP. TURNING THE TABLES ON THE TYRANTS!

The enemies of the 99% are all huddled in a virtual mob on Wall Street, the City of London, Whitehall and Washington.

They will increasingly be at the mercy of online Robin Hoods setting their forests of money on fire.

These tyrannical, super-greedy elites deserve to be taken down, taken to the cleaners and relieved of their ill-gotten gains.

They have been siphoning off the funds created by the sweat of many brows, they have sucked the 99% dry for decade after decade without an iota of mercy. They have vacuumed every cent they could get their filthy robbing hands on.

Now it’s payback time and they are going to pay big time.

We can turn the tables on these tyrants through multiple online regime change wars to beat them and beat them up at their own game.

The warrior worms are turning, in our millions and the buzzard bastard elites don’t stand a chance!

This is only the start of the bring down of the elites from their established gilded hideouts. An online army is on the march and they are spreading the battlecry to the streets with billboards across the USA. Those hearing the call have pent up rage to last decades now until every last lying, thieving elite is busted and broken down to a level commensurate with their true stature: the lowest of the low.

The time of the Thatcher Thieving and Reagan Robbery is ending. Their trickle down failed, now it’s their extraordinary unearned wealth that will do more than trickle down... it will gush down in waterfalls of cash leaving their rancid reservoirs as dry as the Sahara.

If we stand together and put our money where our mouths are Wall Street will become washed up. The City of London will be made shitty as hell.

If we of the 99% pool our strength and use the power tools of the internet we can bore a hole right through their fascistic wealth factories and leave them as devastated and empty as those in the rust belt of America after they offshored for profit.

It’s time for the chickens to come home to roost and peck all their dollar bills to dust.

The tyrants are running scared. Their boat has not only been rocked, it’s holed and sinking.

These are the money metaphors. Multiple, myriad methods to make sure the dollar dictators are doomed.

The online army of ferocious tigers have sharpened their teeth with all the internet tools they need to savage the beast that has been savaging the 99% for far, far too long now.

At long last we will turn the tables on these tyrants... and with the technology they believed would keep them secure and endlessly stealing within their greedy walls.

THE WESTERN ESTABLISHMENT IS YOUR ENEMY

If you live in the western world you are being conditioned to believe your enemies are in Russia and China. This is a lie. Your enemies are much closer to home. In fact your primary enemy is the elite that runs your country and corporations.

Over the course of the last several decades while people power may appear to have risen in certain parts of the world. The so-called 'Arab Spring’ is an example of this along with the coup in Ukraine and the prospective mass movements to gain power seen in other western elite regime change targets.

However,the facts are that the wealthy and powerful 1% in the West have been the ones who have gained over these years and in exponential terms and the losers have been very much the 99%, the rest.

If you have sufficient years you will recall the Thatcher years in Britain and the Reagan years in the USA. These were the years when, in the name of ‘efficiencies’ and 'competition’ money began to by siphoned upward though various means such as eliminating staff costs which was accomplished by diminishing the bargaining power of unions, offshoring jobs and in general cutting work forces and holding down pay while demanding ever-greater efficiency and productivity from workers. Then came the gig economy where costs could be kept down due to those unemployed finding work harder and harder to come by therefore being forced to accept conditions that raised profits for companies while diminishing staff costs.

If you have been part of the work force in the UK or USA at any time since the Reagan-Thatcher years, unless you have been in a very high-flying position you will have experienced greater and greater levels of stress while your job security and satisfaction has shrunk. You will have been manipulated into working harder for longer and kept in line by stricter and stricter management that if it ever was, was now no longer your friend. You became a target for replacement if a cheaper option could be found. Of course if your expertise was a rare resource with few in the market place that could do your job as well as you then you may well have felt reasonably safe from redundancy or excessive management pressure.

Even those rare specialists however are going to find their expertise eroded in future. A.I. is going to swallow many of their jobs too.

But let’s talk of those further down the career ladder in respect of job security for they are the vast majority of people holding on to middling to lower positions.

The western world is now being hit by a double whammy. The movement to squeeze every last cent out of everybody has been ongoing for decades now even as payment for elite positions has soared. Megacorps such as Amazon have also now risen in recent times where virtual slave labor is called for and this at least has provided certain low-level jobs. But for how long. How many believe that A.I.-based automation won’t whittle these down to virtually nothing over the next ten years? Amazon warehouses are already automated to a degree. Do you really think they will remain as they are when the cost of employing humans is so much greater and more trouble in myriad ways than machines that can work without sick or holiday pay twenty four hours a day 365 days a year with no personnel records to keep or personnel staff needed to deal with advertising jobs, placing ads, conducting interviews, etc. etc. etc?

And now we have the pandemic. A recent statistic showed that 52% of large U.S. corporations increased their profit margins by significant amounts during this pandemic when compared to the year before. What do you think they are going to do with that extra income? Invest in jobs for humans or figure out ways to eliminate humans susceptible to illness? And this just as A.I. begins to rise as the next wave of hyper-automated service opportunities.

The super-rich have become hyper-rich in recent times. Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Washington Post is now the richest man in the world by far. But he is not alone. The moguls of social media are not far behind. And they are being asked collectively to arrange multiple platforms to deliver online health, education and multiple other services that can be delivered without human intervention.

Authors over the last decade or two have been warning that if jobs can be converted to zeros and ones they will in due course be digitized. It has been estimated that 20 million jobs could go by 2030. (See Below.)

•     37% of workers are worried about losing their jobs due to automation.

•     The number of industrial robot jobs increases by 14% each year.

•     More than 70% of people are willing to augment their brains and bodies in order to improve their employment prospects.

•     Three industries facing the highest risk of automation are transportation, storage, and    manufacturing.

•     By 2022, the total task hours completed by humans will drop by 13%.

•     Robots could displace 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030.

•     Generation Z is at the highest risk of being displaced due to automation.

(Source: https://fortunly.com/statistics/automation-job-loss-statistics)

Do you see any sign that the elites within the capitalist UK or hyper-capitalist USA are interested in the social welfare of those it will increasing exclude from gainful employment?

Do you see any sign that the wholesale approval of the free market capitalist mentality is in any danger of modification when both the Tory Party and Corbyn-excluded Labour Party in the UK and the Republicans and Democrats in the USA both agree on the benefit of free-market capitalism as the ONLY way forward?

The elites of both nations are doing just fine while the vast majority are increasingly disenfranchised, with less life chances than ever, greater stress levels and in danger of losing access to affordable health care. Yes, the UK still has the National Health Service but the number of well-heeled managers has soared since Thatcher and the pressure to privatize this, that and the next service has been ongoing since then too. In the U.S. bankruptcies are soaring while millions lose their jobs along with their health insurance.

While stock markets soar.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

I repeat: If you live in the western world you are being conditioned to believe your enemies are in Russia and China. This is a lie. Your enemies are much closer to home. In fact your primary enemy is the elite that runs your country.

The established elites are your enemy.

Accept no lies they tell you hoping you’ll look elsewhere. 

 Focus on your TRUE enemy, right there at home...

PUTIN’S SPEECH THAT SHOOK THE WESTERN WORLD & MADE HIM ITS ENEMY

Putin made a certain speech in Munich at the Conference on Security Policy in February of 2007 which totally changed the way western elites viewed him.

In that speech he made it perfectly clear that Russia with him as president would carve her own path and not be anyone's slave.

That night in 2007 was the point where Putin became public enemy number #1.

From 2000 when he became Russian president to that speech in 2007 Putin was feted everywhere in the West in the hope he would simply be a sober Yeltsin, malleable and easily controlled by every western elite that wanted a bit of Russia for themselves.

After that speech he became persona non grata.

Look it up on YouTube, the whole thing is there, with translation into English or with English subtitles. The speech is incredible, bold, brave and prophetic. In it he called for unity between all the world powers to make the world safer by making agreements and cooperating over all threats that faced us, including nuclear proliferation.

John McCain, Merkel and so many others of note were in the audience. EVERYTHING changed in their attitudes afterwards.

Along with saying Russia would cooperate for the good of the entire planet but stay independent, Putin also said he didn’t agree to the West/USA being the rulers of a unipolar world. This latter concept was almost taken as a given in 2007. The West had won the Cold War, Russia was put in its place and was expected to shut up and stay there, compliant and plundered by others.

Here is the speech in full:

‘Putin (in Russian): Thank you very much dear Madam Federal Chancellor, Mr Teltschik, ladies and gentlemen!

I am truly grateful to be invited to such a representative conference that has assembled politicians, military officials, entrepreneurs and experts from more than 40 nations.

This conference’s structure allows me to avoid excessive politeness and the need to speak in roundabout, pleasant but empty diplomatic terms. This conference’s format will allow me to say what I really think about international security problems. And if my comments seem unduly polemical, pointed or inexact to our colleagues, then I would ask you not to get angry with me. After all, this is only a conference. And I hope that after the first two or three minutes of my speech Mr Teltschik will not turn on the red light over there.

Therefore. It is well known that international security comprises much more than issues relating to military and political stability. It involves the stability of the global economy, overcoming poverty, economic security and developing a dialogue between civilisations.

This universal, indivisible character of security is expressed as the basic principle that “security for one is security for all”. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said during the first few days that the Second World War was breaking out: “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.

These words remain topical today. Incidentally, the theme of our conference — global crises, global responsibility — exemplifies this.

Only two decades ago the world was ideologically and economically divided and it was the huge strategic potential of two superpowers that ensured global security.

This global stand-off pushed the sharpest economic and social problems to the margins of the international community’s and the world’s agenda. And, just like any war, the Cold War left us with live ammunition, figuratively speaking. I am referring to ideological stereotypes, double standards and other typical aspects of Cold War bloc thinking.

The unipolar world that had been proposed after the Cold War did not take place either.

The history of humanity certainly has gone through unipolar periods and seen aspirations to world supremacy. And what hasn’t happened in world history?

However, what is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making.

It is world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.

And this certainly has nothing in common with democracy. Because, as you know, democracy is the power of the majority in light of the interests and opinions of the minority.

Incidentally, Russia – we – are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves.

I consider that the unipolar model is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today’s world. And this is not only because if there was individual leadership in today’s – and precisely in today’s – world, then the military, political and economic resources would not suffice. What is even more important is that the model itself is flawed because at its basis there is and can be no moral foundations for modern civilisation.

Along with this, what is happening in today’s world – and we just started to discuss this – is a tentative to introduce precisely this concept into international affairs, the concept of a unipolar world.

And with which results?

Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not resolved any problems. Moreover, they have caused new human tragedies and created new centres of tension. Judge for yourselves: wars as well as local and regional conflicts have not diminished. Mr Teltschik mentioned this very gently. And no less people perish in these conflicts – even more are dying than before. Significantly more, significantly more!

Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force – military force – in international relations, force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts. As a result we do not have sufficient strength to find a comprehensive solution to any one of these conflicts. Finding a political settlement also becomes impossible.

We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. And independent legal norms are, as a matter of fact, coming increasingly closer to one state’s legal system. One state and, of course, first and foremost the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?

In international relations we increasingly see the desire to resolve a given question according to so-called issues of political expediency, based on the current political climate.

And of course this is extremely dangerous. It results in the fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasise this — no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them. Of course such a policy stimulates an arms race.

The force’s dominance inevitably encourages a number of countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, significantly new threats – though they were also well-known before – have appeared, and today threats such as terrorism have taken on a global character.

I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security.

And we must proceed by searching for a reasonable balance between the interests of all participants in the international dialogue. Especially since the international landscape is so varied and changes so quickly – changes in light of the dynamic development in a whole number of countries and regions.

Madam Federal Chancellor already mentioned this. The combined GDP measured in purchasing power parity of countries such as India and China is already greater than that of the United States. And a similar calculation with the GDP of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – surpasses the cumulative GDP of the EU. And according to experts this gap will only increase in the future.

There is no reason to doubt that the economic potential of the new centres of global economic growth will inevitably be converted into political influence and will strengthen multipolarity.

In connection with this the role of multilateral diplomacy is significantly increasing. The need for principles such as openness, transparency and predictability in politics is uncontested and the use of force should be a really exceptional measure, comparable to using the death penalty in the judicial systems of certain states.

However, today we are witnessing the opposite tendency, namely a situation in which countries that forbid the death penalty even for murderers and other, dangerous criminals are airily participating in military operations that are difficult to consider legitimate. And as a matter of fact, these conflicts are killing people – hundreds and thousands of civilians!

But at the same time the question arises of whether we should be indifferent and aloof to various internal conflicts inside countries, to authoritarian regimes, to tyrants, and to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction? As a matter of fact, this was also at the centre of the question that our dear colleague Mr Lieberman asked the Federal Chancellor. If I correctly understood your question (addressing Mr Lieberman), then of course it is a serious one! Can we be indifferent observers in view of what is happening? I will try to answer your question as well: of course not.

But do we have the means to counter these threats? Certainly we do. It is sufficient to look at recent history. Did not our country have a peaceful transition to democracy? Indeed, we witnessed a peaceful transformation of the Soviet regime – a peaceful transformation! And what a regime! With what a number of weapons, including nuclear weapons! Why should we start bombing and shooting now at every available opportunity? Is it the case when without the threat of mutual destruction we do not have enough political culture, respect for democratic values and for the law?

I am convinced that the only mechanism that can make decisions about using military force as a last resort is the Charter of the United Nations. And in connection with this, either I did not understand what our colleague, the Italian Defence Minister, just said or what he said was inexact. In any case, I understood that the use of force can only be legitimate when the decision is taken by NATO, the EU, or the UN. If he really does think so, then we have different points of view. Or I didn’t hear correctly. The use of force can only be considered legitimate if the decision is sanctioned by the UN. And we do not need to substitute NATO or the EU for the UN. When the UN will truly unite the forces of the international community and can really react to events in various countries, when we will leave behind this disdain for international law, then the situation will be able to change. Otherwise the situation will simply result in a dead end, and the number of serious mistakes will be multiplied. Along with this, it is necessary to make sure that international law have a universal character both in the conception and application of its norms.

And one must not forget that democratic political actions necessarily go along with discussion and a laborious decision-making process.

Dear ladies and gentlemen!

The potential danger of the destabilisation of international relations is connected with obvious stagnation in the disarmament issue.

Russia supports the renewal of dialogue on this important question.

It is important to conserve the international legal framework relating to weapons destruction and therefore ensure continuity in the process of reducing nuclear weapons.

Together with the United States of America we agreed to reduce our nuclear strategic missile capabilities to up to 1700-2000 nuclear warheads by 31 December 2012. Russia intends to strictly fulfil the obligations it has taken on. We hope that our partners will also act in a transparent way and will refrain from laying aside a couple of hundred superfluous nuclear warheads for a rainy day. And if today the new American Defence Minister declares that the United States will not hide these superfluous weapons in warehouse or, as one might say, under a pillow or under the blanket, then I suggest that we all rise and greet this declaration standing. It would be a very important declaration.

Russia strictly adheres to and intends to further adhere to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as well as the multilateral supervision regime for missile technologies. The principles incorporated in these documents are universal ones.

In connection with this I would like to recall that in the 1980s the USSR and the United States signed an agreement on destroying a whole range of small- and medium-range missiles but these documents do not have a universal character.

Today many other countries have these missiles, including the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, India, Iran, Pakistan and Israel. Many countries are working on these systems and plan to incorporate them as part of their weapons arsenals. And only the United States and Russia bear the responsibility to not create such weapons systems.
It is obvious that in these conditions we must think about ensuring our own security.

At the same time, it is impossible to sanction the appearance of new, destabilising high-tech weapons. Needless to say it refers to measures to prevent a new area of confrontation, especially in outer space. Star wars is no longer a fantasy ¿ it is a reality. In the middle of the 1980s our American partners were already able to intercept their own satellite.

In Russia¿s opinion, the militarisation of outer space could have unpredictable consequences for the international community, and provoke nothing less than the beginning of a nuclear era. And we have come forward more than once with initiatives designed to prevent the use of weapons in outer space.

Today I would like to tell you that we have prepared a project for an agreement on the prevention of deploying weapons in outer space. And in the near future it will be sent to our partners as an official proposal. Let’s work on this together.

Plans to expand certain elements of the anti-missile defence system to Europe cannot help but disturb us. Who needs the next step of what would be, in this case, an inevitable arms race? I deeply doubt that Europeans themselves do.

Missile weapons with a range of about five to eight thousand kilometres that really pose a threat to Europe do not exist in any of the so-called problem countries. And in the near future and prospects, this will not happen and is not even foreseeable. And any hypothetical launch of, for example, a North Korean rocket to American territory through western Europe obviously contradicts the laws of ballistics. As we say in Russia, it would be like using the right hand to reach the left ear.

And here in Germany I cannot help but mention the pitiable condition of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

The Adapted Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe was signed in 1999. It took into account a new geopolitical reality, namely the elimination of the Warsaw bloc. Seven years have passed and only four states have ratified this document, including the Russian Federation.
NATO countries openly declared that they will not ratify this treaty, including the provisions on flank restrictions (on deploying a certain number of armed forces in the flank zones), until Russia removed its military bases from Georgia and Moldova. Our army is leaving Georgia, even according to an accelerated schedule. We resolved the problems we had with our Georgian colleagues, as everybody knows. There are still 1,500 servicemen in Moldova that are carrying out peacekeeping operations and protecting warehouses with ammunition left over from Soviet times. We constantly discuss this issue with Mr Solana and he knows our position. We are ready to further work in this direction.

But what is happening at the same time? Simultaneously the so-called flexible frontline American bases with up to five thousand men in each. It turns out that NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders, and we continue to strictly fulfil the treaty obligations and do not react to these actions at all.

I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernisation of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact? Where are those declarations today? No one even remembers them. But I will allow myself to remind this audience what was said. I would like to quote the speech of NATO General Secretary Mr Woerner in Brussels on 17 May 1990. He said at the time that: “the fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee”. Where are these guarantees?

The stones and concrete blocks of the Berlin Wall have long been distributed as souvenirs. But we should not forget that the fall of the Berlin Wall was possible thanks to a historic choice – one that was also made by our people, the people of Russia – a choice in favour of democracy, freedom, openness and a sincere partnership with all the members of the big European family.

And now they are trying to impose new dividing lines and walls on us ¿ these walls may be virtual but they are nevertheless dividing, ones that cut through our continent. And is it possible that we will once again require many years and decades, as well as several generations of politicians, to dissemble and dismantle these new walls?

Dear ladies and gentlemen!

We are unequivocally in favour of strengthening the regime of non-proliferation. The present international legal principles allow us to develop technologies to manufacture nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. And many countries with all good reasons want to create their own nuclear energy as a basis for their energy independence. But we also understand that these technologies can be quickly transformed into nuclear weapons.

This creates serious international tensions. The situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear programme acts as a clear example. And if the international community does not find a reasonable solution for resolving this conflict of interests, the world will continue to suffer similar, destabilising crises because there are more threshold countries than simply Iran. We both know this. We are going to constantly fight against the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Last year Russia put forward the initiative to establish international centres for the enrichment of uranium. We are open to the possibility that such centres not only be created in Russia, but also in other countries where there is a legitimate basis for using civil nuclear energy. Countries that want to develop their nuclear energy could guarantee that they will receive fuel through direct participation in these centres. And the centres would, of course, operate under strict IAEA supervision.

The latest initiatives put forward by American President George W. Bush are in conformity with the Russian proposals. I consider that Russia and the USA are objectively and equally interested in strengthening the regime of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their deployment. It is precisely our countries, with leading nuclear and missile capabilities, that must act as leaders in developing new, stricter non-proliferation measures. Russia is ready for such work. We are engaged in consultations with our American friends.

In general, we should talk about establishing a whole system of political incentives and economic stimuli whereby it would not be in states¿ interests to establish their own capabilities in the nuclear fuel cycle but they would still have the opportunity to develop nuclear energy and strengthen their energy capabilities.

In connection with this I shall talk about international energy cooperation in more detail. Madam Federal Chancellor also spoke about this briefly – she mentioned, touched on this theme. In the energy sector Russia intends to create uniform market principles and transparent conditions for all. It is obvious that energy prices must be determined by the market instead of being the subject of political speculation, economic pressure or blackmail.
We are open to cooperation. Foreign companies participate in all our major energy projects. According to different estimates, up to 26 percent of the oil extraction in Russia – and please think about this figure – up to 26 percent of the oil extraction in Russia is done by foreign capital. Try, try to find me a similar example where Russian business participates extensively in key economic sectors in western countries. Such examples do not exist! There are no such examples.

I would also recall the parity of foreign investments in Russia and those Russia makes abroad. The parity is about fifteen to one. And here you have an obvious example of the openness and stability of the Russian economy.
Economic security is the sector in which all must adhere to uniform principles. We are ready to compete fairly.
For that reason more and more opportunities are appearing in the Russian economy. Experts and our western partners are objectively evaluating these changes. As such, Russia’s OECD sovereign credit rating improved and Russia passed from the fourth to the third group. And today in Munich I would like to use this occasion to thank our German colleagues for their help in the above decision.

Furthermore. As you know, the process of Russia joining the WTO has reached its final stages. I would point out that during long, difficult talks we heard words about freedom of speech, free trade, and equal possibilities more than once but, for some reason, exclusively in reference to the Russian market.

And there is still one more important theme that directly affects global security. Today many talk about the struggle against poverty. What is actually happening in this sphere? On the one hand, financial resources are allocated for programmes to help the world’s poorest countries – and at times substantial financial resources. But to be honest — and many here also know this – linked with the development of that same donor country’s companies. And on the other hand, developed countries simultaneously keep their agricultural subsidies and limit some countries’ access to high-tech products.

And let’s say things as they are – one hand distributes charitable help and the other hand not only preserves economic backwardness but also reaps the profits thereof. The increasing social tension in depressed regions inevitably results in the growth of radicalism, extremism, feeds terrorism and local conflicts. And if all this happens in, shall we say, a region such as the Middle East where there is increasingly the sense that the world at large is unfair, then there is the risk of global destabilisation.

It is obvious that the world’s leading countries should see this threat. And that they should therefore build a more democratic, fairer system of global economic relations, a system that would give everyone the chance and the possibility to develop.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, speaking at the Conference on Security Policy, it is impossible not to mention the activities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As is well-known, this organisation was created to examine all – I shall emphasise this – all aspects of security: military, political, economic, humanitarian and, especially, the relations between these spheres.

What do we see happening today? We see that this balance is clearly destroyed. People are trying to transform the OSCE into a vulgar instrument designed to promote the foreign policy interests of one or a group of countries. And this task is also being accomplished by the OSCE’s bureaucratic apparatus which is absolutely not connected with the state founders in any way. Decision-making procedures and the involvement of so-called non-governmental organisations are tailored for this task. These organisations are formally independent but they are purposefully financed and therefore under control.

According to the founding documents, in the humanitarian sphere the OSCE is designed to assist country members in observing international human rights norms at their request. This is an important task. We support this. But this does not mean interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and especially not imposing a regime that determines how these states should live and develop.

It is obvious that such interference does not promote the development of democratic states at all. On the contrary, it makes them dependent and, as a consequence, politically and economically unstable.

We expect that the OSCE be guided by its primary tasks and build relations with sovereign states based on respect, trust and transparency.

Dear ladies and gentlemen!

In conclusion I would like to note the following. We very often – and personally, I very often – hear appeals by our partners, including our European partners, to the effect that Russia should play an increasingly active role in world affairs.

In connection with this I would allow myself to make one small remark. It is hardly necessary to incite us to do so. Russia is a country with a history that spans more than a thousand years and has practically always used the privilege to carry out an independent foreign policy.

We are not going to change this tradition today. At the same time, we are well aware of how the world has changed and we have a realistic sense of our own opportunities and potential. And of course we would like to interact with responsible and independent partners with whom we could work together in constructing a fair and democratic world order that would ensure security and prosperity not only for a select few, but for all.

Thank you for your attention.’

WESTERN MASS MEDIA REPORTING

I would like to link to three videos of an event which took place in Lugansk on the second of June 2014 and discuss what happened on that day, how it was reported or not reported and what this means for western mainstream reporting of events within western regime change targets.

WARNING:

The amateur video, the second below is shocking and extremely hard to watch in full... however, even more shocking was the lack of coverage in the West that followed it.

It is my firm conviction that we will see increasingly more of this approach where only events which support the framing of regime change targets as evil, sub-human and in need of being eliminated while no reference is made to crimes against humanity by western elites or their allies.

In my example event below eight people died, five women and three men. They were civilians who happened to be in the street in front of an administrative building when the attack took place.

The event took place in the town of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine on June the second 2014.

I searched globally the day after the event for reports. In the end I found only three. One was a tiny mention in a French publication that was very brief. The second was on the BBC’s News Online where all that was said was that there had been a “blast” within an article about other events in Ukraine that day. The third was the best report of the three and came from CNN who happened to have a reporter nearby who sent back an on-the-ground, albeit a heavily-edited, sanitized video of the loss of life and devastation caused.

Please read the information below before watching the three videos below which will reveal the true state of affairs regarding what happened in Lugansk that day and how almost non-existent and highly partial the reporting of what occurred.

The responses below give an indication of what we can expect from western news agencies of the mainstream when they are embedded with allies of western states.

These were the responses that were fed to western foreign correspondents:

A government source in Kiev initially told enquirers that an air conditioning unit had exploded.

Later they said that the rebels had been experimenting with some new type of missile and it was this that caused what happened.

Finally, after the CNN report they admitted that their jet(s) had hit the administrative building and killed the five women and three men who had been in the street outside. I believe they eventually said they were rather proud of the attack, saying that more aircraft took part in the attack than had been reported.

No additional reports appeared anywhere across western mainstream media after those initial three.

First the CNN report which contains no gory images of any kind but which refutes the stories emerging from Kiev:

Next is is an amateur video which remains on YouTube unsanitized. I should warn you it spares no feelings and is not for the squeamish. One of the victims of the attack Ms Kukuruza was still alive and able to communicate to the man taking the video even though her legs were shattered. She died soon after.

There was confirmation by the OSCE that the attack was from the air:

 Some final thoughts:

This event took place approximately two weeks before the first presidential election in Ukraine after the Maidan events caused the previous, democratically elected president to flee. I suspect this, among other reasons, was the primary cause for the almost complete lack of reporting on this event apart from those mentioned above.

The BBC eventually emailed me to say they would no longer accept my complaints through their online complaints process as I had filed too many.

This is how it has been for some time now regarding western mainstream media whether corporate or state owned. And this is the way it will be from now on as far as I can see. There are stipulations against objective reporting in the mainstream and have been there especially since 9/11 and I see no sign that they will ever be revoked.

False flag events can be expected such as those seen in recent years in Syria and debunked by independent journalists such as Aaron Mate.

This is why it is so vital that we be able to access independent journalists worthy of the name who are not bought and paid for by corporate mainstream media titles and channels, those such as Jimmy Dore, Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, George Galloway and others. They are our lifeline to objective facts, access to nuanced reality, and reaching some approximation to truth in detailed form. Without such people who have maintained their integrity despite every sanction against them and effort to silence them we would be virtually blind.

If they are disappeared from our screens and newsprint sources then we will be left totally submerged within the propaganda soup of western mass media reporting lie after lie after lie.

THE PERMANENT STATE OF THE USA

The permanent state of the USA constitutes all those who pass on from one administration to another all the while maintaining the same group-thought outlook regarding the exceptional nature of the USA.

There are of course a great many individuals involved and they cover many disciplines from the military field to that of intelligence to the purely administrative, to many serried ranks of analyst wonks and CIA staffers, many think-tank influencers of policy, the donors who expect to be kept informed and to have some input regarding policy and various other powerful elites from the media sphere.

They work in coordination with whatever politicians arrive as the next incumbents of the White House and its attendant corridors of power. They all have the same exceptionalist mentality where all not within their circle of allies are regarded as adversaries if not outright enemies.

These elites are all bound within the same belief bubble that no contrary data permeates. The only data to freely enter is that which supports their fixed concepts which they regularly reinforce with each other. All involved know that to voice any contrary view will be duly noted and that although they may never be officially notified of it, it will count against them and be seen as an indicator that they are suspect and worth monitoring as a potential agent of an adversarial power.

Within the permanent state there can only be agreement at almost every level. If you have seen Oliver Stone’s wonderful film, 'JFK’ about The Cuban Missile Crisis and the response by the two Kennedy brothers to it along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff you will know how this works at the everyday level. The general thrust of advice was to attack then invade Cuba potentially sparking a world war between the USA and the then Soviet Union. A single advisor spoke up in opposition to this policy offering a peaceful alternative. He prefaces his suggestion with a remark to the effect of, “I know I am ending my career by saying so, but this is my suggestion how we might best resolve this peacefully...”

I am sure you can intuit how even this situation of virtual gags on everyone offering a non-jingoistic, peace-preserving idea became even more of an issue after 9/11. Only warriors need apply at that point. And any suggestion that any moral, ethical or judicial barriers of any kind should be set that hindered U.S. freedom of action in any way in response to 9/11 were automatically a signal for an exit of whoever even broached the subject. There were to be no restrictions of ANY kind in the defense of America. No matter the consequences for others of of those actions wherever those effects were felt at home or abroad. The imperative was to do EVERYTHING and without limits of any kind that hit targets hard. Anyone not on board with that was out.

The problem with this gag of silence on anyone not on board and with of course the weeding out of all not totally and enthusiastically on board along with the way the post-9/11 protocols were set up to be incontrovertible and permanent until global control was asserted... is that this whole milieu and ethos is still with us today 19 years later.

The permanent state of the USA continued right through the Trump administration also. This can be seen in the type of people Trump put in positions of most power. People like Bolton, Pompeo, Haley and Haspel. Neocons to the core. Exceptionalists without exception. The most warmongeringly aggressive dogmatists to be found.

Trump was clever in that he echoed what the American public by majority wanted. They were and still are sick of war. America has been at war for decade after decade and the vast majority of Americans have consequently suffered while the elites who profit from war and its related industries did extremely well. While the 1% prospered and Washington’s elites and wonks did also the infrastructure of the USA was steadily crumbling, prices were rising while wages remained virtually static. The famous ‘American Dream’ became steadily less attainable. Both parents now had to work just to keep standing still, surviving from pay check to pay check forever unable to move upwards to the beautiful white picket-fenced home the American Dream promised. They were hit by bankruptcies and foreclosures through job loss and destitution due to ill-health and the unaffordable cost of health care. They saw conditions worsening around them with drug crime, murders and other crimes soaring, suicides rising, opioid deaths also and less and less options to escape the increasing hell they lived within. In recent times a militarized police force arrived on the streets and the killings of people of color by them rose while incarceration of those same people of color rose exponentially.

Two of the leading causes of this final circumstance are now president and vice-president. Biden, the author of the 1994 Crime Bill which resulted in a massive increase in the jailing of primarily men of color. As a self-proclaimed ‘Top Cop’ Kamala Harris worked hard to keep a clearly innocent man in jail and then on multiple occasions worked to reverse decisions that would have freed him as it was completely obvious that he was innocent. She then worked hard and succeeded in denying him any compensation for all the years he had been unjustly imprisoned. Industrialists in the state where Harris presided over the police department were using the cheap labor provided by the prison population. Harris was loath to release anyone due to a dedication to making the prisons under jurisdiction pay.

This is how the permanent state works. It does not work for the 99%. It works for the 1%. Always. No matter how it may protest about human rights of those in other nations or how they wish to bring everyone the benefits of freedom and democracy it is always a crock of shit, a devious ploy to simply increase the dominating effect of elite political power and the wealth of their elite donors. They care nothing for the people involved and have proven this by slaughtering hundreds of thousands in regime change wars of choice in recent years leaving the nations targeted devastated and impoverished.

These permanent and semi-permanent elites perform various tasks leading to the repeating final outcome of their group-thought mania and lies, increased division in our world, ever more efforts to create discord, warmongering designed to destabilize, undermine and fracture nations always bringing chaos in their wake using all the ultra-violent responses the CIA and U.S. military are capable of.

When convenient for political reasons to differentiate between particular politicians and a hidden ‘deep state’ this is only cosmetic at its heart. The deeper truth is that politicians of every persuasion know and follow what is best for them. idealist politicians are as rare as hen’s teeth. No one can navigate the channel to the White House without negotiating with those who hold the reigns of power and agreeing to their strictures regarding the division of those powers and the limits on individual power that are set.
Trump had choices he could have made that matched his rhetoric of seeking harmony with other nations, choices that reflected his statement that lessons had been learned from previous regime change wars and that this policy would end. But he chose rabid warmongers like Bolton and Pompeo, two men utterly opposed to all of these concepts that most Americans hungered for. That he chose such neocons tells you all you need to know about Trump in relation to the permanent state.

Trump saw where his best advantage lay of maintaining personal power and he was merely the latest to join the endlessly divisive, ultra-violent and endlessly warmongering permanent state.

Just as his rival, Biden and his neocon crew are likewise deep within that same insane state of mind that constitutes the greatest threat to stability and world peace, the permanent state of the USA.

 

BIDEN, BLINKEN AND WAR

Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden’s Secretary of State has signaled that China and Venezuela remain in the firing line for regime change. Biden has himself stated that Russia remains a target. These two warmongers are set to continue the regime change policy of the USA that has so far caused the deaths of upward of half a million deaths in the last several decades.

War is what we can all expect from these two and the rest of Joe Biden’s cabinet of neocons.

There will be no true diplomacy, dialogue or detente. There is only the fixed intent to weaken, destabilize or, if possible, destroy all rivals... what they will call adversaries or enemies.

They will try to dupe us all into believing that the western world, its democracy and values are all in mortal danger from people we will be told are sub-human and evil, deserving everything that’s coming to them.

Biden and his mobsters will use every lie and dirty trick in the CIA’s manual of evil plus all other similar manuals across the western world within its noxious orbit to brainwash us with a perpetual diet of propaganda. You are going to hear a single version of reality cooked from carefully constructed bullshit stories some of which will emanate from false flag events. Every mass media title and television channel across the western world is going to mirror their narratives until every gullible brain is infested with an incessant stream of conditioning.

The White Helmets and their particular form of evil but believable, bullshit will be one of the standard formats they will play to. You can expect “atrocities”, “chemical weapon attacks”, human rights “abuses” and “genocide”. You can expect narratives including every buzz word available to the lie factory known as the CIA apart from those already stated. “Torture”, “Murder”, “Corruption”, “Criminality”, “Electoral Fraud”, “Money Laundering”, “Graft”, “Kidnap”, “Extortion”, etc. Anything that can be understood as being negative in any form whatsoever will be disseminated into each western population like an injection of poison into a living organism that heads straight for the brain and destroys its ability to engage in rational thought.

Emotions will be played with mercilessly. Children will be a prime button as they were in Syria by the White Helmets. Hospitals and schools also. Anything that helps demonize the “enemy” will be used to render them sub-human to western onlookers who will have their lips curled for them in the desired response. The subsequent nodding dogs within western public opinion will then acquiesce to the preplanned violent acts that needed this insurance response before they could be “safely" initiated. The subsequent information will be manipulated to the nth degree via the same mass media that assisted in the green-lighting of the entire operation.

Biden and Blinken will stand proud, pretending to be innocents defending every human right you could name. Not a chink of revealing light will sully their obnoxious facade. The entire elite circus of CNN, BBC, MSNBC and all the others will applaud and provide perfect cover for these two murderous thugs, carefully avoiding any sight of the blood dripping from their well-cleaned hands.

This is just the next in a multi-part series interrupted temporarily by a four year detour into death by other means, sanctions instead of missile strikes. Now normal service will be resumed.

Welcome to the continuing saga of America’s quest for full spectrum dominance courtesy of Biden, Blinken and war.

THE TRUST DEFICIT

At the end of World War II the western powers had established a certain reputation for unity and dependability. Along with the forces of the Soviet Union Hitler’s Nazis had been defeated.
The level of trust the world’s population had for the forces for good was the highest it would ever be.

Trust levels remained high for a year or two before the erosion of that trust began.

With the start of the Cold War and the formation of the CIA from the Office of Strategic Services in the USA a coordinated propaganda campaign began, incorporating Britain’s MI6 and the intelligence agencies of other allied western nations.

No matter how subtle a propaganda campaign is the bald fact of the matter is that it incorporates lies disseminated into the life blood of the societies into which it flows.

The infusion of fake news and skewed reporting into the public sphere by the CIA was exposed by several journalists before an investigation was carried out by a committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church which fully exposed the procedures, intent and mind set behind the CIA’s 'Operation Mockingbird’ to manipulate the news stream.

‘In the early years of the Cold War, efforts were made by the United States Government to use mass media to influence public opinion internationally. Published in 1976, the (Church) Committee's report confirmed that the CIA had cultivated relationships with private institutions, including the press. Without identifying individuals by name, the Church Committee stated that it found fifty journalists who had official, but secret, relationships with the CIA. In a 1977 Rolling Stone magazine article, "The CIA and the Media," reporter Carl Bernstein expanded upon the Church Committee's report and said that around 400 press members were considered assets by the CIA.’ (Wikipedia)

In general western populations were so infused with misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and continually skewed, one-sided reporting on the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies that they fell almost entirely under its spell. That is not to say there were not deep flaws within their systems of government or that there were not policies designed to stabilize the power that resulted in oppression but that is a discussion for another time. The main point is that news, such as it was, became significantly degraded by outside influences at this time.

As the above was occurring Senator Joe McCarthy began his witch hunt against everyone that could remotely be connected with a belief in or support for communism. This was preceded by President Harry S. Truman signing an executive order in 1947 to screen federal employees for association with organizations deemed "totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive".  There were two bouts of ‘The Red Scare’ at this time and McCarthy took full advantage to  make accusations of subversion or treason against those brought before his committee without any recourse to evidence, only hearsay. Many careers were ruined and lives devastated in the process.

With the onset of the Korean War and later the war against North Vietnam Cold War rhetoric, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and the general permeating of western populations with generally state-framed geopolitical “news” continued. Toward the end of the Vietnam War however real news began to leak out and this transformed the previously docile U.S. public to an entirely different frame of mind, one increasingly opposed to the war. This was arguably the time when public trust in news broadcasting institutions faltered most seriously and broadly.

Coming closer to present time, the most significant breakdown in trust between western populations and their governments and media occurred when a plethora of claims concerning Iraq and weapons of mass destruction proved to be false. The response to 9/11 by both western states and their mainstream media news outlets was to maintain a strict line whereby no doubts were expressed regarding the claims that underpinned the regime change policy that had been set and agreed upon after 9/11. More than ever before state and mass media were in lockstep. This ultimately brought both into a high degree of disrepute.

However, some memories are conveniently short in this respect.

Several more regime change operations were conducted and in general received support from the western general public. A new aspect had been found to generate support and consent, the use of humanitarian concern. This entailed the pressing of emotional buttons across both political and media elites. In the cases of both Libya and Syria this received maximum coverage and in general proved a successful tactic to manipulate public opinion.

During this period from the first attack on Iraq to the later Afghanistan to Syria campaigns a new discipline was forced on observers, they were embedded with the U.S. military and fed the information for publishing in nightly briefings. Very few actual journalists reported on any of the wars of choice of the USA and its allies from the first Iraq campaign onward. These included luminaries Robert Fisk, Robert Parry, Sy Hersh, Chris Hedges and John Pilger who gave independent commentary that largely contradicted the so-called news eminating from state or corporate “journalists”.

These few true journalists inspired others who were determined to maintain an independent and objective stance.

In recent times those funded by a crowd-funded or other process independent of corporate money have risen to provide the objective insight and views that those skeptical of mainstream news have always sought out. Those such as Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Aaron Mate and others within the YouTube/RT nexus of Jimmy Dore, Kim Iversen, Josh Rogan and many others who have nought been bought by those who look to their elite peers, advertisers, donors, politicians or the CIA for their talking points and state-compatible viewpoints.

In the most recent times we have seen the most outrageous liar assume the presidency of the USA whose every pronouncement almost was an obvious lie. Within this overall description of a sociopath’s mentality he did pick on one target that resonated above all others, that mainstream media was corrupted to an extent that it had become an enemy of the people. This struck a chord with many, even those who despised everything else about Trump and his divisive and destructive policies. The deceiving edifice of corporate and state “news” entities was known in widespread, almost global uniformity to be as untrustworthy as it could possibly be in political and geopolitical terms.  

In this relatively short period in geopolitical terms since the end of World War II we can see how trust has decayed to an enormous extent and subsequent to this many are now wholly skeptical of establishment narratives to the point that that even instructions given during a pandemic are greeted by massive mistrust.

All this is bad enough. But the consequences for the future are even more dire. The current pandemic is proving more virulent and long-lasting than presumed by the majority of laymen and women, politicians and experts alike. It appears to be here to stay in some form or another. In addition we have the imminent prospect of climate change catastrophes. Without unity built on trust we will render ourselves incredibly vulnerable just when we desperately need to be strong and united.

We stand here at a moment when the threat of catastrophe is all around us. We have been mortally weakened by the irresponsible acts and policies of western elites in particular.

If we are to survive trust must be rebuilt. Somehow we must come together in recognition that no fantasies cooked up to serve political or geopolitical purposes will save us now. e need to stand together somehow, not making plans to damage so-called enemies but making plans to build desperately needed bridges between us.

All to undo if we can, the trust deficit that is hollowing out every hope we have at this point.

THE INFORMATION LOCKDOWN

“Did you hear the latest?”

“No, what?”

“They took out Kim Iversen now. She’s gone too.”

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After the double dramas involving Russia and China that occurred in quick succession in the Spring of 2022 the information lockdown began in earnest.

One of the first to go was Jimmy Dore.

It was clearly a warning to everyone else dealing in the free expression of opinions that things had changed so significantly that such activity helped our enemies and could no longer be tolerated.

There had been rumblings in the house and senate for months following the election of Joe Biden as president voicing concern about those spreading misinformation. Misinformation was increasingly defined as anything that did not conform to the official narrative on certain defined issues.

It had begun earlier as a social media owner initiative. In mid-2020 they had begun to tune out voices that in any way contradicted the official narrative on the response to Covid-19. Platforms we de-monitized and many of the less popular platforms were de-platformed entirely, their voices effectively silenced across Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

As time went on these three major platforms could quite appropriately have been given the communal name of OurTribe. If you did not belong to their tribe you were first effectively ostracized and then exiled.

But even in 2022 there still remained a number of prominent free voices, that of Jimmy Dore included.

Then The Trump Party began to attract major followers and many of those began using massive financial backing to create channels that attracted millions. The diversity of viewpoints started to resemble a veritable Tower of Babel and much of it rang to the sound of vitriol against the Biden-Harris administration.

By the end of 2022 the draconian hammer of OurTribe was coming down multiple times daily.

Still they refrained from pulling the rug out from under the longest-lived and most popular people still surviving across their three networks, Jimmy Dore and Kim Iversen among them.

It seems to have been the incidents in the South China Seas and Moscow that put them over the edge.

Jimmy Dore was cancelled. The uproar on Twitter was enormous and didn’t seem destined ever to end despite cleverly worded statements by Jack backed up by several prominent figures in the house and senate. Demonstrations of support for Jimmy hit the streets and a new movement arose, ‘Save Our Voices’. Kim Iversen spoke eloquently and angrily in several editions of her show daily. Kim had been warning about the trend she had clearly seen from the very first days of the Biden presidency and her back catalog of shows was in high demand. Kim left YouTube after receiving final warnings from YouTube management that her shows contravened their standards and if she continued there would be consequences.

Kim’s final show on YouTube was a straight fifteen minute diatribe directed full blast at YouTube management specifically and the dictatorial cabal that had criminally decided they would be the arbiters of what was allowed in terms of free speech and what was not. Her parting shot received a record fifteen million views. From the final moments of her last show Kim was available only on Rokfin, through her podcasts and privately through her email service.

Things proceeded to worsen. The president responded to the continuing chaos on the streets, much but by no means all, helped along, promoted and fomented by the most fervent members of The Trump Party, through a broadcast on the subject to the nation. He spoke of the need for national unity in a time of crisis. He evoked the spirit shown by the American people during the Second World War when everyone pulled together for the good of the nation. He alluded to the succor America’s enemies received whenever critics attacked his democratically elected presidency and administration and how there was no certainty America could win out and did they really want to be ruled by Russians or Chinese. He made the case for a temporary period of silence where the inalienable rights of dissent, protest and freedom of speech be suspended for the national good.

As the broadcast neared its end he hesitated, looked directly into the camera lens in silence for a few moments then delivered the statement that was to make headlines across the USA that evening and the following day.

“I am announcing with immediate effect that due to the urgent need for absolute unity in this our hour of greatest national threat and where we must be at our absolute strongest to fight against the powerful enemies that threaten us, certain emergency measure MUST be taken.

There will therefore be a moratorium on the right to protest, to criticize national policy, to contradict any aspect of policy by government, military and all those who assist in the project to save America from harm.

This measure is taken with a heavy heart, it is not taken at all lightly and will, as I say, be a purely temporary circumstance lasting no more than six months in the first instance. At the end of this period the situation will be looked at once more comparing the international situation and its compatibility with the norms of America as guaranteed by the first amendment.

I am fully aware of the gravity of what this signifies in respect of the first amendment and I assure you we would not be taking this step unless it was totally necessary for the sake of our nation.

God Bless America.”

Of course most of us knew the eruption of protest that would ensue and knew also that the attendance would be huge and composed of individuals from every strata of society.

What we did not know, indeed could not bring ourselves to contemplate, was the extent, violence and methods which were used to crush the protests.

Twenty nine people lost their lives on the first night alone. However, the resulting even larger protests in response saw no backing down from the White House. CNN and mainstream media as a whole were put in a quandary. They had fulsomely welcomed this administration after the Trump heretic was finally removed from power. They had invested heavily in reporting any successes they could and gushed continually in praise of every one they found or could conjure into existence. But how to deal with this?

The boardroom and editorial suite meetings were fractious affairs where all gave vent to their feelings and inevitably the requirements of their owners and advertisers. Ultimately they came down in favor of constructing a narrative which favored both corporate and political imperatives over those of freedom of speech. This didn’t come easy and some few resigned unable to stomach this decision... but ultimately such men and women of integrity came to a very few indeed.

And so the corporate mass media of America fell into line behind the president, the administration, the military and inevitably they feel in line also behind the entire U.S. military industrial complex.

The final indignity for the 99% had arrived. And the 1% remained entirely unaffected, in fact their fortunes were much enhanced. All elites except for those working for entities such as The New York Times whose editorial task became much more laborious as they sought to eliminate anything looking like a criticism of any government policy and had to search around for other acceptable content to fill the gap. CNN, MSNBC and their fellow channels of a liberal mentality changed little. Fox News however went through a virtual revolution... finally resolved through the use of heavily coded references such as those which had been used by various outlets in the Soviet Union at the height of Cold War censorship.

Wall Street soared and soared and soared. Especially Raytheon, Boeing and every corporate entity even peripherally associated with the M.I.C.

In those first few days Twitter follower counts began dropping like a stone as a whole new batch of contractors were hired to pore through every tweet posted in the last twelve months with instructions to “execute” anyone who had delivered an unacceptable opinion during this time period. This exceeded the policy Biden had laid out in his broadcast but OurTribe owners were taking no chances and were thinking ahead anticipating what may be still to come.

Then many Twitterati who had built sizeable followings through criticisms of establishment narratives and figures began to disappear without a trace joining Jimmy Dore on the streets rather than on personal computer and cell phone screens. Of course they did not remain long on those streets. All their faces were known, their personal details long-logged and held ready for the day. That day came very quickly after their being excised from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere. New jails were required very soon after the ‘Clean Up’ began, as it was called by those to whom critical free speech had been branded ‘Dirt’.

So it was that the final sweep included Kim who had been railing longest and warning loudest about what was now a living nightmare. She was shut down.

But Kim saw what had happened to her colleagues and knew she was needed elsewhere than on the streets if she was to stay free and begin the fightback to regain what was lost, the right to live free and speak free.

The fightback would go underground and though they knew Kim’s views well they also knew she had become the main figurehead as her prediction of this very situation had born out precisely as she had said. Millions now looked to her and they could not touch her or risk a conflagration which they were simply not geared up to handle. It had been bloody so far... but adding this new situation could potentially be much worse. Kim was therefore immune but closely monitored.

No monitoring system is foolproof however. No such system can cover every single base.

Free speech went underground.

The ‘New Samizdat’ revolution began. 'The Weekly Samizdat’ swept the nation moving from hand to hand, each edition read hundreds, perhaps thousands of times till its surface was tinted, tainted, black, creased, crumpled, tattered and torn but crucially still legible.

What would be a new America began in those moments.

And with it the one all owed for the possibility of future real freedom to come... the heroine of Free Speech, Kim Iversen.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Biden just started escalating in Syria again. His people are talking tough on Russia. Why?

The reason is simple.

The goals agreed immediately after 9/11 are inviolate, non-negotiable, set in stone and never to be rescinded. They require full compliance. In totality. The goal demands a 100% success rate. 99.99% will not be considered good enough.

You might think 99.99% would satisfy most requirements, wouldn’t you? Not this time.

That 0.01% represents risk. Risk to the United States, something completely intolerable on the day after 9/11 and equally intolerable now. That 0.01% represents threat. The threat of a repeat event, whether to the same extent or smaller is not the point, as long as that threat, no matter how small exists the goal has not been achieved therefore risk... and threat exist.

The goal is 'FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE’, not ‘99.99% DOMINANCE’, total, 100%, undoubted certainty that all bases are covered, consistently monitored, fully predicted, closely manipulated, controlled and 100% known, in advance and in real time... GLOBALLY.

Every individual that represents any negative view of the USA, any individual that displays even a potential lack of compliance with U.S. interests, each leader not within the U.S. network of close allies, every nation outwith the NSA’s scope of operations and each location hidden from satellite view, every diplomat evincing anything other than straight down the line alliance with U.S. goals, each military unit unavailable to U.S. high command... in short everyone, anything and anyplace not working to U.S. command is a target for replacement.

These are the sub-goals for completion that as a whole completely delivered to the very last entity deliver ‘FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE’ for the USA and there can be no reduction in effort at any time to the effort to deliver at the earliest possible date.

No ethical, moral or humane law or stricture can ever limit the primary goal and the sub-goals required to achieve the primary goal are to be minimized, reduced, given lower priority or changed for any other purpose except to speed the delivery of the primary goal at the level required, 100%.

This is why there ought to be no expectation that anything whatsoever will impede, slow or halt to regime change, covert, psychological, black and any and other operations that have been initiated and will continue to be operated in perpetuity until and only until the primary goal is fulfilled.

No human misery, destroyed nation, fractured region or continent reduced to ashes will stop its forward movement. No ethical or moral concerns will affect the maximum possible performance of each and every sub-goal and project steps to accomplish them.

No statute, entity or any body of law of any kind will limit any required operation in any way whatsoever.

Decisions will be taken quite irrespective of International Law, The Geneva Convention, The Ban on Torture, Statutes on Inhumane Treatment, Strictures against assassination, common murder, terrorist proxies, the use of plague, chemical, biological, electronic, cyber, economic, mercenary, guerrilla, proxy, propaganda, standard military and nuclear warfare on land, sea, air and space will not play any part in minimizing the theater of operations. In short there will no barriers whatsoever to the USA exerting its supreme will in defense of itself.

Syria is unfinished business. Russia is unfinished business. Iran is unfinished business. Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are all unfinished business. Yemen is unfinished business as are the Palestinians. When these and all other elements are moved from red to blue, neutralized, totally neutralized or rendered fully compliant then the final target, also being softened up in tandem will receive total concentration. That target is the most important of them all, the biggest, strongest and most difficult target by far. That target is of course China.

While completion of the 100% nullification process takes place, quite possibly requiring a nuclear strike element, mop-up, enforcement, control and monitoring procedures will be ongoing to firm up all  aspects to render defeated elements null and void in perpetuity. No stone will be left unturned. All will be in hand. The planet will finally be made safe for the USA and the goal set in the days immediately after 9/11 will have been accomplished to 100%.

No unfinished business will remain.

OUR NEW WORLD, 2030

(A speculative fiction based on present geopolitical realities.)

It is December 31st 2029. Tonight we celebrate the beginning of not only a new decade... but a new world. Two new worlds to be absolutely precise. We are full of trepidation, anxiety and some dread, but also some hope for a better future than our recent past.

The seemingly endless wars are over, at least for our sector, our Eurasia.

We hear little of the Americas now... less and less since the final conflagration.

Tonight there will be two separate celebrations though we know for our cousins in the southern American hemisphere they will certainly be muted. Geography finally defeated both them and us for it was clear in negotiations that the final agreement could not work as a patchwork of nations with no clear dividing line. A clear dividing line was ultimately seen to be the only viable option.

The USA along with the UK had pushed and pushed as our decade had worn on. After the infamous heretic president had been all but erased from our minds and virtually all history books except for a brief, apologetic paragraph, the USA begin to rebuild and restrengthen its alliances ready for the Ice Cold War that followed.

NATO pushed ever forward creating a path of fear for itself. It added to its forces within all its member states, providing them with the latest technology, all urged on by Biden, then later Harris. Russia pushed back diplomatically criticizing each new threat, but it could do nothing but protest and ready her military forces for every eventuality. That was until the Crimea attack which took place in the early hours of the morning of the 3rd of November 2023.

The multiple explosions taking out complete sections of the Kerch Bridge were said to be the work of Ukrainian special forces, but very few believed this. Everyone suspected it was in fact a U.S. task force, long in preparation, that had carried out this covert operation. Only satellite data or high-altitude surveillance could have provided the required data on the specific areas of weakness that had been hit. This could of course have been passed on to the Ukrainians but the general consensus was that this was a special op by U.S. forces from beginning to end.

Within minutes this attack was followed by multiple strikes on strategic targets in Sevastopol including a number of military craft.

An ultimatum from Kiev was transferred simultaneously by diplomatic cable to Moscow to coincide with the very first strikes. Surrender Crimea to Ukraine or this would only be the start of a much longer campaign. Moscow responded with a surgical strike on the Ukrainian Duma three minutes later. A secondary strike hit military targets near Lviv two minutes subsequently.

An ultimatum from Moscow was then fired back to Kiev. Crimea, as an integral part of  Russian Federation territory being under attack meant a state of war existed between the two nations. Kiev was to desist all belligerence immediately or many more Russian strikes would follow.

At this point Washington became directly involved with a cabled threat to Moscow to desist in its aggression immediately. (At this point news was relayed of the Russian strikes across western mass media but nothing of the Ukrainian/U.S. strikes which had preceded them.
There was a pause at this point while Moscow debated possible strategies for the best way to proceed.

Meanwhile, several small flotillas of Ukrainian battle craft had eluded radar stations by extreme stealth in the Perekops'ka gulf region and were dispersing black-clad saboteurs to locations in Armiansk, Krasnoperekopsk and several small towns further south readying explosives for detonation. Other craft were attempting to breach the Russian border at several other points along the coast with varying degrees of success.

Moscow had ordered full alert as soon as the first attack upon the Kerch Bridge had taken place but at 03:45 a.m. this had taken some time to become fully operational.

Five minutes passed during which deliberations were held in Moscow, Kiev and Washington. Only two of the three had a fully mapped plan shared between them.

Now five units of Ukrainian saboteurs were in place and ordered to stand by. At 04:10 they were authorized to initiate the next stage of localized explosions.

A second ultimatum arrived in Moscow this time also from Washington. Give up Crimea or multiple strikes will be authorized on your bridge.

As this was received reports came in of explosions in and around infrastructure in the north west of the peninsula. Moscow’s attention was being stretched and pressurized from multiple points. Several further targets with Ukraine were immediately reduced to rubble.

A strategic decision was then made. Some U.S. sensitive target MUST be hit in response to these threats. Surrender of Crimea and the base of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol would not and could not be contemplated.

Šiauliai Air Base, Šiauliai 77103, Lithuania was chosen along with NATO AWACS airbase at Geilenkirchen, Germany. Both were hit hard using upgraded Iskander M missiles launched from Kalingrad.

Public reaction was building fast in areas hit within the Crimean peninsula and from vehicles trapped on the Kerch Bridge and from the motorway access roads.

New targets were listed for targeting depending on eventualities.

President Putin had immediately attempted to call President Harris as soon as hostilities began.
barely twenty minutes had passed in a flurry of activity on both sides before the hotline functioned.

The heated discussion is not known in verbatim form however, it came down to a stalemate where neither side could agree a path forward after Harris demanded Russia release Crimea back to Ukrainian control. Putin point blank refused.

Finally a halt was called to all hostilities for two hours for the tenuous, fraught dialogue to resume after more strategic personnel were called in on the Russian side. The demand from the U.S. side remained as an ultimatum that would not be withdrawn.

Lavrov arrived just in time from Turkey where he had been in talks with the new government on its purchase of several upgraded defense systems. Hurriedly he was briefed and forward tactics intently discussed before the deadline for the renewed call.

Ukraine was to be given greater access to the peninsula under a new agreement which proposed certain undertakings which would allow Donetsk and Lugansk regions with Ukraine’s Donbass to have full autonomy. Under these circumstances, also including guarantees of security for the mutual security of those on Crimea through a co-governance agreement with Kiev. All of this to be thrashed out at a specially convened conference in Minsk.

The second hotline conversation became a conference call which eventuated in a begrudging acceptance of the proposed conference with major caveats regarding the use of further force at any time if deemed necessary by either U.S. or Ukrainian forces. Russia reserved the right to respond with equal or greater force if deemed necessary.

This then is how it all began.

(Though of course preceding events led up to these, but those are well known.)

The conference failed to reach agreement and talks dragged on interminably for many months thereafter. The three sides, plus input from France, Germany and Italy simply could not find common ground enough to link all expectations, demands, safeguards and treaties required to make peace either stable or long-lasting.

The perpetration by both sides of such violence, death and destruction that had occurred shocked all sides and all nations to the core. No nation felt safe. The genie had been let out of the bottle. How could anyone be assured now that anything approaching peace could ever be found and maintained? The situation was intolerable.

The next steps led us here and our long anticipated end-of-decade moment at midnight which had gripped us all for months. We had this one last chance in a world now terminally broken between sides where no stable agreement had been possible and was seen clearly to be never possible at any future time.

China had stepped in early on in the ‘Final Settlement’. In a mirror image of the Berlin settlement at the end of The Great Patriotic War the world would be permanently divided into the Americas and western Europe and our Eurasia. The negotiations naturally were extremely prolonged, myriad details had to be discussed, national interests argued for and often given up and replaced by other concessions from the other side. The process took seven long years.
Seven years to divide a planet in two. To preserve the future peace and stability of one half as the U.S. zone of control (with European nations and Latin America in subservient roles) and the other, our Eurasia with China and Russia holding positions that in theory demarcated a partnership but with Chinese economic dominance a primary factor.

At the end of a bitter and violent struggle from the earliest days of humankind it appeared a final fix where geopolitical ambitions could be nullified and violent instincts inclined toward conquer, could be quarantined, had finally been arrived at.

It is 23:59 on the 31st of December 2029. I am standing in Red Square Moscow with my family around me and twenty five thousand or so others also. Our hearts are pounding. We dare to hope through myriad emotions from fear to joy to grief and back again, our bodies shake involuntarily, the moment is too much for us with all its significance. Tears begin to well in our eyes then and roll down our cheeks as the first toll from the mighty Spasskaya Tower bell booms out from far above us.

The last chime tolls and it is finally midnight. Everyone is shouting and kissing one another, drinks in hand. It’s a new time, a new world and we have new hope in our hearts.

Above, the fireworks begin, rockets burst above us raining down showers of multicolored light. It looks and feels a little like a battlefield as we shake with emotion again, hot tears of joy and pain fall uncontrollably as we exchange smiles, hugs and kisses with all around us... knowing with some good will and good fortune will there will be no more battlefields, ever again.