There is a dynamic in play, one which I suspect is always present when there is a non-sudden lurch from seeming freedom into a state of subjugation. In a revolution, whether organic or color in nature, events tend to move with greater rapidity and the deployment of kinetic options obviates the requirement for intermediate events. In addition, revolutions tend to be in support of an existing political (or military) faction which seeks power for itself. Ground up, organic revolts which lack organised support – whether foreign or domestic – are very unlikely to succeed, even in countries with an armed citizenry.
We aren't in that situation yet. Instead, we find ourselves in an equally invidious position; we are coming to a realization that not only is the past not as we imagined it to be, but that the future may very well bear little or no resemblance to one that we desire. Having lived through that past, some of us (I suspect) are struggling to get to grips with both the enormity of the deceptions that were practiced upon us and with what that tells us about the character of those doing the deceiving. We trusted institutions and systems that were supposed to exist for our benefit, but which have been corrupted and hollowed out and used to control us and harm us instead – the academy, the judiciary, health services and publicly-owned media to the fore.
In particular, the struggle seems to be hardest around the issue of intent – wrapping one's head around the only logical conclusion (which is that yes, they really do mean us harm) is, naturally, a difficult task. As is turning compliance into defiance. There is a mental process that we must go through, akin to the five stages of grief. There is also a moral inertia to overcome and a potential cost to opposition, whether that be financial or social. Therefore, our enemies have benefited from a substantial lag in the timeliness of our response.
The reason for this awakening is, of course, the 'pandemic'. But the further it recedes into history, the less it resembles a final play gone awry. The timing seems completely off – the companion pieces (all things digital, especially IDs and money) weren't sufficiently developed at the outset of the engineered crisis and still aren't deployed even now. Instead, it seems likely that its primary function was twofold; to kneecap Trump and to cull as many useless eaters as possible. The lock-downs normalized the concept of mail-in ballots, without which the Big Steal would have been logistically implausible, if not impossible and the 'vaccine' mandates (real or de facto) did the rest.
The 'pandemic' also served as a societal plumb-line – a way of gauging how much we had either absorbed the gaslighting or were cowed into compliance. But there were other, less easily measured consequences too. As time passed, for many of us, the ever-widening gap between what we were being told and what we could see with own eyes became impossible to ignore.
Many of the newly awake (and some whose slumber had been interrupted much earlier in the piece) now believe that bringing about these revelations is an own goal by the ruling class. It certainly seems that way but, in truth, it's only a problem if our opinions are in any way meaningful to them. This doesn't seem to be the case. Which isn't to say that they aren't making a miscalculation – more that they are not behaving in ways that are calculated to endear them to the voting public and there are elections in the US, the UK and the EU this year. If they realize that their invisibility cloak has malfunctioned, they don't seem overly perturbed.
And so we have a citizenry that is slowly switching on and a ruling class which is still intent on implementing its master plan, no matter what. As the need to corral us before we become a serious problem gathers pace, the narrative becomes ever more shrill and divorced from reality. This is drawing a counter response, notably from farmers across Europe and from the great state of Texas, both of whom have put one over on the globalists within the past month. Neither are backing off; it's simply that the legacy media are refusing to report ongoing events.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Once again, a distinction must be drawn between the string-pullers and those being manipulated, which also includes most factions of the enemy. I would estimate that there are four distinct groupings within the opposition; the behind-the-scenes Masters of the Universe (what we might refer to as the Deep State), the managerial class who comprise the administrative state (aka unelected government) who are characteristically of a Leftist persuasion, the progressive/activist types who can be relied upon to throw paint at an Old Master or block four London bridges simultaneously and, lastly, old school liberals who haven't yet realized that their interests haven't been represented by the Left since the ascension of St. Tony (followed, a decade later, by Barack the Lightbringer).
Not all the string-pullers share an identical motivation. While Soros genuinely seems to despise Western civilization (along with Obama), Gates, Fink, Dimon et al seem more interested in the financial side of things and Schwab's pet obsessions are of the technological variety. What they all have in common, however, is the thirst for power and the desire to exercise it in pursuance of their agendas. And so, they mobilize the troops and put them to work. At present, there seem to be five major threads; the destruction of political opposition wherever it presents itself, the silencing of dissent, the construction of the digital prison, an acceleration of the culture wars and the continuation of armed conflicts.
One would hypothesize that the smarter string-pullers must be aware that there is a narrowing window of opportunity. There's a timing issue; the upcoming US election is a serious consideration. Of the three possible outcomes – a Democrat triumph, a RINO victory or a Trump win – one is optimal, one is bearable and one is catastrophic. A victory for Haley, for instance, would represent Uniparty business as usual. Nominally, of course, the GOP would be expected to stem the progressive tide, but much of what is coming down the pike isn't explicitly progressive – such as a new forever war or the imposition of a CBDC, neither of which prospects will be resisted by congressional Republicans.(6)
“The voting numbers of the Congress show that we no longer have a representative democracy. Nor are we Republicans and Democrats. We are Nationalists and Globalists.
Based on their voting, the Globalist Party consists of 69 percent of the Senate and 65 percent of the House. Constituents, however, voted for 49 percent of the Senate and 51 percent of the House.”(7)
They haven't gone to bat on the issue of Net Zero, either, and were as complicit as the Blue Party in the scam pandemic. Plus, a Haley presidency would likely rent the GOP asunder, as promise after promise go unfulfilled. Nonetheless, the calculation may be that a RINO presidency will still throw too much sand in the gears; that and the fact that the progressives would hate to lose power – it would be a personal affront.
And they certainly seem to be preparing the ground for a September Surprise. Biden is suddenly fair game (to at least one faction, at any rate), undone by the report by Special Counsel Hur which concluded that the President was too cognitively impaired to be prosecuted (the exact words were “an elderly man with a poor memory”)(8) for his own classified documents fiasco.(9) Various staunchly liberal entities, no doubt following the Deep State script, then starting calling for Biden's head.(10)(11)(12)(13) It's possible that Trump's lead over Biden in the swing states has panicked the string-pullers; perhaps they are nearing the point at which their reservoir of fake ballots will prove insufficient for another slow motion 'victory'.
Figure 1
Biden himself does not seem minded to comply, although the scuttlebutt is that it is Dr Jill who most wishes to remain center stage.
“She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge...the idea of relinquishing it all after you’ve taken the slings and arrows of the last years of attacks, and at the last minute, just when you get all the delegates you’re going to say, I’m going to open it up to a bunch of people — it’s very childish when you read those kind of reports.”(14)
The permutations are plentiful, but they are somewhat complicated by the fact that Kamala Harris is the VP and even more unpopular than Sleepy Joe,(15) which is her most notable achievement of the past three years. Any rearranging of the deckchairs that leaves Harris as the candidate ahead of November will simply compound the problem, so the most likely scenario might feature a last minute Biden decision to not contest the election followed by the parachuting in of A.N. Other – perhaps the 'Dream Team' of Michelle and Narcissist Newsom.
The narrative is that Michelle is (was) famously popular with the Democrat base, which would provide the pretext for a sudden surge in support and a surprise victory, courtesy of drop-box mail-in ballots. Importantly, in our world of illusions, Obama's actual popularity is far less important than her astroturfed popularity and the media would, no doubt, prove far too squeamish to question election integrity. Michelle wouldn't have to submit to the indignity of seeking approval at the Democrat National Convention, nor would she have to do much in the way of campaigning, as Biden will be the presumptive nominee for virtually the entire campaign.
And, just like that, Barack Obama would be back for his fourth and fifth terms (this being his third). I appreciate that the last sentiment is one that is frequently asserted, usually without evidence. However, there are 21 Obama appointees who are either members of Biden's Cabinet or key advisors – who occupy the most important posts, such as Secretary of State (Blinken), Secretary of Homeland Security (Majorkas), National Security Advisor (Sullivan), Secretary to the Treasury (Yellen) and Attorney General (Garland) – and seven who are (or were) White House Aides.(16)
There does seem to be some elite uncertainty, though. They are not giving the impression that their triumph is locked in – perhaps that's a gambit designed to garnish the narrative that elections are 'safe and secure' and that precautions are, therefore, necessary in the event of a possible loss. I'm not convinced that this is the case, though, as they didn't make any attempt to campaign in 2020 and yet went for the steal, anyway. I don't think that they are humble enough to care about what it looks like and spend nine exhausting months actually campaigning.
In any event, the Left (with RINO complicity) is doing its best to future proof its agenda, ostensibly as a protection against a Trump presidency. The recent Senate bill that pours an additional $60 billion into the bottomless pit that is the Ukrainian war doesn't just fund keep Zelensky and co in Iberian villas and super yachts in the here and now – it also finances them for the years 2025 and 2026.(17)(18) Any attempt by Trump to end the futility will, once again, leave him open to impeachment if he doesn't continue to send the greenbacks.
It isn't just the GOP senators who are attempting to meddle with future policy. The Republican-controlled House has also passed a bill that prohibits any normalization of diplomatic relations with the Syrian government of al-Assad.(19) It further provides for the imposition of harsh sanctions upon any individual or entity that does business with the Syrian government (a regionally unremarkable despotic regime), which allegedly gasses its own citizens – except, it didn't; the international chemical weapons watchdog believes that ISIS did instead.(20) But, no matter - apparently it is US policy to prevent the reconstruction of Syria by the existing regime, although foreign policy is not the preserve of Congress; it is the executive branch's prerogative and that arm of government is under the direct control of the President – but not if that President might be Trump.
The administrative state is also lacing up its gloves. The 45th President is now aware of how officials slow-walked a number of his initiatives and policies (and also lied to him) and is determined to prevent that happening again.(21)(22) He has been open about his plan to reshape the federal bureaucracy – including firing thousands of employees and installing loyalists – and the managerial class do not approve.(23)(24) To that end, incredibly, they are installing roadblocks on the QT:
“A collection of activists, advocates and legal experts is promoting new federal rules to limit presidential power while urging Biden’s White House to do more to protect his accomplishments and limit Trump in a possible second term...The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s chief human resources agency, proposed a rule against reclassifying tens of thousands of workers so they can be more easily fired. According to spokesperson Viet Tran, the office will finalize the rule in April. That means that a future administration would likely have to spend months — or even years — unwinding it if they want to try to do so.”(25)
It's all hands on deck for the blob and they are open about the reason for their efforts which, in turn, means that they somehow believe that what they are doing is not reprehensible and preemptively insubordinate – which, of course, they don't, because it's Trump and Trump is “a threat to Our DemocracyTM”. The hubris is something to behold.
And, latterly, another scheme is taking shape – House Democrats are contemplating a future in which Trump wins the Presidency, but they somehow win a House majority. They would then face a choice (according to them, anyway); confirm Trump as the winner, or defy the will of the voters and refuse to do so, citing their belief in his ineligibility – a belief that would not be backed by any evidence. They say they are seeking 'guidance' from SCOTUS, guidance which the court seems disinclined to give.(26)
The conceit is that, because the Democrats recently won a special election in a New York seat previously held by a Republican, they are likely to be equally successful elsewhere – a prospect that seems highly unlikely, given the administration's lack of popularity. But my suspicion is that the Republican establishment may very well be in on the plan – they are doing their very best to put up useless candidates who are bound to lose. The New York election was a case in point; they actually nominated a registered Democrat as the Republican candidate.(27) They are poised to repeat the dose with a Senate candidate who donates to the opposition.(28) In my estimation, ridding themselves of Trump is a bigger priority than winning power. However, were the Democrats to go this route (with RINO complicity) there would undoubtedly be a constitutional crisis, but it's the Left; anything is possible if it results in victory.
There will also be a general election in the UK this year but, in contrast, it doesn't really matter who wins. The Tories, in power for nearly fourteen years and counting, will almost certainly be wiped out, but that will be no cause for celebration as, alone among the major Western nations, there is no viable electoral alternative. An incoming Labour government would, in policy terms, be marginally worse than the Conservatives and substantially worse if Sir Keir Something manages to embed his anti-democratic agenda; one that the voting public is, seemingly, wholly unaware of.
“What does Starmerism mean? It is a policy of enforcement. It is the declaration that the society created by Tony Blair, challenged after 2016, must stand forever. It is the project of a radicalised British establishment that has, in the face of these challenges, despaired of electoral politics altogether and wants to replace it with an explicit codification of the status quo...Under Starmerism, the rule of the judge, of the quango and of the bureaucrat – long implicit – will at last declare itself openly...He really is something new. What the British establishment wants is an inquisitor, and in Keir Starmer they have found one.”(29)
One that plans to decarbonise the UK grid by 2030, five years ahead of even Sunak's impossible deadline. The usual magical thinking is much in evidence – according to the Labour Party, 'clean' energy is the cheapest energy around. It arrived at that conclusion by some creative accounting, in a manner consistent with “comparing the cost of a bus journey using a season ticket to that of hailing an Uber in rush hour.”(30)
That's what the UK will get come January of next year, at the latest; it will become a communist/socialist state. The UK's disruptor-in-chief, Nigel Farage, may well run for parliament (although he demurs, at present), but the party of which he is honorary president (Reform UK) is only polling at 10% to Labour's 43% and in the UK's first past the post system, may not win even a single seat.(31) It's difficult to identify a path to redemption, because the damage has been done by the nominally right-of-center government. A return to the EU cannot be ruled out, especially as Sunak has been busy writing EU equality rules into British law,(32) Brexit be damned.
The German government, on the other hand, does face credible opposition and (in true autocratic mode) is determined to destroy it, rather than compete with it. They have been targeting the AfD for years and think nothing of siccing the security services onto prominent political opponents.(33) Now, however, they are stripping away any semblance of fairness. The current chair of the Armed Services Committee in the Bundestag called AfD supporters “flies on a pile of shit”,(34) which knocks Hillary's description of Trump supporters as Deplorables into a cocked hat.
The ruling coalition has been busy organizing street protests against the AfD for over a month now, simply to give them a pretext to move against the “Far Right”. The AfD isn't Far Right and has been simply going about its business as a political entity. Its only crime is to be increasingly popular, polling at over 20%.(35) Nonetheless, the globalist class are gunning for “the extremist...New Right.”(36) And, once again, the language is openly dystopian:
“I would like to treat right-wing extremist networks in the same way as organised crime. Those who mock the state must have to deal with a strong state, which means consistently prosecuting and investigating every offence. This can be done not only by the police, but also by the regulatory authorities such as the catering or business supervisory authorities. Our approach must be to leave no stone unturned when it comes to right-wing extremists.”(37)
That's from an official report published by the Interior Ministry. Apparently, even mockery is now anti-democratic. By simply applying a random label to political opponents, with no attempt to actually prove its veracity, the government seeks to criminalize opposition. They want to change the law, the better to financially harass those who exercise undue “social influence” (that would be, “undue” according to the government)(38). They want the security services to target anybody that is merely suspected of “extremism” (yet another subjective judgment), they plan on publishing names of individuals who donate to disfavored organisations and they also want to restrict other freedoms:
“We are just as determined to restrict the international networking of right-wing extremists. Right-wing extremist hatred must neither be exported out of Germany nor imported into Germany. That is why we are working together with the relevant state authorities to prevent right-wing extremists from travelling in and out of the country as far as possible.”(39)
And they don't want to be hamstrung by too much in the way of exactitude, either. A wide remit is essential, one that targets all non-establishment political thought, because of extremism's “shifting verbal and mental boundaries.”(40) It seems that thought crimes, à la Minority Report, are to be introduced in the Fourth Reich. Perhaps this shouldn't be all that surprising in a country in which the federal government supports Antifa,(41) effectively outsourcing its political thuggery. Germany is on the slippery slope; if and when the AfD enter government (and that may happen as soon as September thus year), they may very well be disqualified on spurious grounds;(42) if that happens then Germany will join the UK (and, potentially, the US) in the democracy-free zone.
The EU, never intended to be anything other than a federal republic ruled by the unelected, is also attempting to stomp all over those attempting to hold it to its own constitution which, these days, means the Hungarians. Viktor Orbán's government is, as usual, being accused of 'rule of law' violations, a tiresome game whereby Brussels makes ill-defined accusations about democratic shortcomings while withholding funding. Sometimes, however, there are specifics – currently, the Commission wants the Hungarian government to overturn a law
“...forbidding the display of homosexual content to minors in media, including television, films, advertisements, and literature. Legislation also prohibits discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in school education programs, as well as ‘public display of products depicting or promoting gender deviation.’ Budapest is also turning away asylum seekers at its borders, requiring them to begin the asylum process at Hungarian embassies in Serbia and Ukraine.”(43)
Orbán is always on the naughty step; this time it was also to do with a €50bn aid package for Ukraine (not an EU member), which required unanimous support.(44) The Financial Times reported that the nuclear option would be deployed if the Hungarians didn't bend the knee:
"If he does not back down, other EU leaders should publicly vow to permanently shut off all EU funding to Budapest with the intention of spooking the markets, precipitating a run on the country’s forint currency and a surge in the cost of its borrowing, Brussels stated in the document."(45)
It appears as though the Commission is trying to rid itself of the Hungarian problem, once and for all. They are also insisting that the Hungarians lift their ban on imports of Ukrainian products, even though Zelensky no longer needs the help and Hungarian farmers (farmers throughout Europe, in fact) are facing serious competitive disadvantages.(46)
The Americans also have their issues with Orbán, as well. They want him to green-light Sweden's entry into NATO, but neither he nor any members of the Hungarian Parliament want anything to do with that.(47) When some US senators showed up in Budapest, trying to force the issue, there was no-one willing to even meet with them. Predictably, the s-word (sanctions) has already been whispered.(48) No opposition must be allowed to confront the collectivist, globalist front.
In fact, dissent of all shades must be suppressed and the effort to do so is the best evidence yet (bar the near-identical 'pandemic' responses) that there is a hidden hand coordinating an agenda across the entirety of Western civilization. Legislation to restrict free speech and control the flow of information has already been passed in the UK and France,(49)(50) it has been proposed in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany (as we've seen), the Netherlands and Brazil (and, no doubt, elsewhere).(51)(52)(53)(54) The EU, predictably, has been in the vanguard with its Digital Services Act, which requires the likes of Twitter/X and Facebook to
“...share their data with “vetted researchers” from non-profits and academia, which would cede content moderation to NGOs and their state sponsors.”(55)
Failure to comply results in swingeing fines of up to 6% of global turnover. Quite where the Commission believes it gets these powers from is beyond me. It seems that, once again, an entity assumes them and everybody else plays along; it's somewhat reminiscent of the complete abandonment of the concept of informed consent, despite Human Rights law and the Nuremberg Code. We live in a time when the fundamentals can simply be ignored.
But even this level of control isn't enough for Ursula von der Leyen; she told the Davos faithful that the number one priority was control of speech and information, especially the strains that endanger the globalist agenda.(56) The hoary old buzzwords – mis- and dis-information – were rolled out once more. It is notable that the arrogance is in no way tempered; not in von der Leyen's speech, nor in the rhetoric of any other 'global leaders'. They know all the answers – they are the adults in the room. There is no suggestion that opposition should be engaged with, or that the globalist approach should be tempered. Superiority and rectitude are simply taken as read.
So the French state criminalizes and fines political speech on the nebulous grounds of incitement or intimidation. A teenager is charged for stating that Islam was a “religion of hate”.(57) Marine Le Pen's father was fined because he said Roma gypsies were “smelly”.(58) A French Senator is currently charged with incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence for tweeting “Theo, 18 years old, murdered yesterday by a Senegalese [migrant]… Immigration kills the youth of France.”(59)
The Irish want to criminalize 'hate speech' – defined as anything that the regime deems offensive – and imprison the recalcitrant for up to five years.(60) The UK government has granted itself the power to require communications companies to bypass their own encryption, effectively outlawing private online conversations,(61) as well as arresting 3,300 people last year for online social media faux pas' (Russia arrested 400).(62) Trudeau's party has tabled a bill that seeks to jail people who speak in favor of hydrocarbon fuels,(63) in addition to the other abominations they have wrought; the state already controls what Canadians view online.(64) In Australia, governments officials can force social media companies to take down content that the state objects to.(65)
The US's Restrict Act “threatens 20 years in prison or a $250,000 fine for accessing blacklisted websites through “virtual private networks,” or VPNs, which are ways to create a private connection between a computer or phone and the Internet.”(66)
The attack on the First Amendment in the US is multi-faceted. The Washington state AG is attempting to push through legislation to establish a panel to determine what constitutes mis- and dis-information, with a focus on domestic extremism – like Catholics and parents critical of school boards who allow LGBT porn into school libraries, one assumes.(67) Missouri v. Biden, shortly before the Supreme Court, concerns government efforts to circumvent the US Constitution by requiring third parties (social media companies, in this case) to censor information.(68) And Netchoice v. Paxton will also be heard by SCOTUS;(69) Netchoice, the trade association for large social media sites such as YouTube, X and Facebook, is trying to overturn a Texas law that prevents them
“...from censoring messages that would otherwise be legal and acceptable in any normal public forum. The law essentially requires social media to allow access to all political messages and viewpoints the way a telephone company must carry all messages and viewpoints.”(70)
They really want to retain the ability to do the blob's bidding. The crusade is being joined by all sorts of notable authoritarians. Jacinda Ardern, for instance, fresh from feeding New Zealand through the woodchipper, now lectures the masses from her sinecure at Harvard. She recently spoke at the UN, noting that “free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech.”(71) She doesn't think that leaders can win the 'war on climate change', for instance, if the people don't believe what those same leaders say about it. The solution, then, “is to silence those with opposing views. It is that simple.”(72)
A co-ordinated, concerted effort, then – to control what we see and what we say. And, just in case we still aren't alive to the dangers of wrong-think and wrong-speech, we only need to note Trump's fine of $83.3 million for 'defamation' – the defamation being that he denied a rape accusation, said that she wasn't his type and suggested that she'd made the story up to sell more books.(73) This after a jury had found him not guilty of said rape.
Or we might care to peruse the judgement in Rudy Giuliani's defamation case in Washington DC. He was sued by two former election workers from Fulton County, Georgia who had been filmed dragging hidden boxes of ballots from underneath tables, then running the same ballots through the vote tabulators multiple times; all of which activity took place once one of them had told the observers to go home for the night.(74)
The judge, the infamously partisan Beryl Howell - who is also overseeing one of the cases against Trump - didn't even let the case go to trial; she simply entered a default judgement against him when he didn't produce documents in what she deemed a timely manner. The fact that he couldn't produce the documents because investigators in another case were holding them was not deemed relevant.(75) So, as with the bogus case over Trump's property valuations, the judge simply presided over the punishment process – this time, a grotesque $148 million penalty for telling the truth.(76)
Or perhaps we might absorb the lesson of Mark Steyn's trial, a decade in the making and also held in enemy territory in DC. Steyn had excoriated Michael Mann's hockey-stick climate change falsity and rightly so; his graph was provably nonsensical.(77)
Figure 2
The prosecution was obliged to prove that Steyn was lying and
“...that Steyn subjectively knew what he was saying wasn’t true. But as Steyn pointed out at trial, he’s been saying the same thing about Mann’s hockey stick charade for over two decades and even wrote a book about it. No way that test is met. And, of course, Mann needs also to prove reputational damage. But given the clear benefits of being on the climate change gravy train he couldn’t call a single witness to allege any damage Mann ever suffered.”(78)
And in the make-believe world of US justice, the truth is unimportant. A case that should never have made it to court, which was (once again) concerned with persecuting somebody for telling the truth, went against the dissident. Mann's lawyer specifically requested exemplary damages – the better to discourage other sceptics from questioning the global warming scam - and the jury obliged with a $1 million judgement against Steyn.(79)
One might also factor in Trump's other lawfare travails and the campaign against his associates – the number of aides, alternate electors and legal advisers who have been prosecuted is now at least 48 – and against the January 6th defendants (over 1,200 of whom have been charged).(80) And take note of the prosecution of Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, who the regime wanted to jail for ten years because he posted this meme on Twitter. Apparently, it amounted to “conspiracy to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”(81) Although anyone who was stupid enough to fall for this is not likely to be someone you'd want to vote, anyway.
Figure 3
The string-pullers and their ever-willing facilitators are cracking down – they want to curate the information we are able to access and they will persecute those that they deem a threat, pour encourager les autres. Even nominal liberals, such as investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, can be dispensed with if they prove to be too independent-minded.
“The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.”(82)
It's not subtle, but that's by design. CBS seized all her files, which included information on her confidential sources – an unprecedented procedure.(83) Another message sent to the wider world; if you think that you can investigate us and expose us, think again. We have the means to thwart you. I would imagine that whistle-blowers will now think again, as they now know that the integrity of the journalist counts for nothing if it can be circumvented.
The blob's denizens will decide what is true and what is dis- and misinformation, because their mission cannot be accomplished in sunlight. They cannot be explicit about what they have in store for us, because there would be uproar if they were, and they cannot afford freedom-lovers of any hue – whether they be political opponents or humble X memers – to fill in the knowledge gaps. So, across the West, they are clamping down. And, in parallel, they are stealthily constructing our digital prison; or, as they term it, GovTech,(84) which is getting a dry run in Ukraine.
Biometric identification and facial recognition are already becoming pervasive, especially the latter. Automatic check-in at some airports has been in place since at least 2019 and is now being rolled out more widely.(85) The UK Home Office is all-in on using the technology for the “prevention and detection of crime”(86) although, in reality, the scanning of customers in retail settings has been happening for years. Unsuspecting pedestrians in London are also having their biometric data captured and stored on databases.
And in November, the EU reached a final agreement on the establishment of European Digital Identity Wallets, a centralized digital ID:
“Under the new law, the EU will offer its citizens so-called ‘digital wallets’—on a voluntary basis, at first—which will contain digital versions of their ID cards, driving licenses, diplomas, medical records, and bank account information.”(87)
Note the strategic deployment of the word “voluntary”, which will no doubt become a redundant concept once living a normal life becomes impossible without one. Uncoincidentally, this cosy agreement between the bureaucrats in Brussels (taken without a mandate from the people they allegedly serve), followed hard on the heels of another announcement, this time from the ECB (the European Central Bank), which declared that it was commencing the digital euro preparation phase;(88) a CBDC to you and I. Well, there's no point having a digital wallet if there's nothing to put in it, is there? The IMF is helpfully constructing “a global CBDC platform” to accommodate all the national digital currencies that are on the way. Interoperability – another conspiracy theory made flesh.(89)
The UK has made similar plans; the government wants to assure people that they're “working to help people securely prove who they are without having to rely on physical documents” -(90) ye olde convenience justification again. It's either that or pathological care, as in the desire to censor our news (to protect us from all that misinformation), read our private messages (to prevent the commission of crimes) and stifle dissent (to defend 'democracy').
The Australian government is also rolling out a digital ID this summer,(91) Biden's Senate has a bill prepped (but not yet passed, although the Department of Homeland Security is already developing digital wallets for “travel, immigration and citizenship status, employment, residency status and more.”),(92)(93) and a host of other countries will be following suit. The UN is proposing a global ID linked to our bank accounts;(94) the explanation as to why plumbs new depths of vapidness:
“The present brief proposes the development of a Global Digital Compact that would set out principles, objectives and actions for advancing an open, free, secure and human-centred digital future, one that is anchored in universal human rights and that enables the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.”(95)
Of course. Sustainable Development Goals like Net Zero, no doubt. Over at the WHO, Tedros the Terrorist is anxious to introduce a global vaccine passport, in league with the EU.(96) Just jab and go. Don't think that the digital ID's fanboys and girls are all Leftists, either – allegedly conservative states in the US are just as enthusiastic, cloaking their authoritarian impulses in a miasma of incomprehension and fake stupidity. They seem to believe that they can get away with failing to recognize the potential uses of the biometric digital ID/CBDC combo.
As ever, what the enthusiasts say matters not; whether it'll be more convenient, safer, voluntary... all the verbiage is irrelevant. The only thing that really matters is what could be done with the technology – that's it. And what could be done is glaringly obvious. Imagine what would happen if your lifestyle is scored as less than “sustainable”:
“All of a sudden your digital ID will flash a warning to the scanners at various entry points to everyday societal functions, and eventually these scanners will be all over, barring you from entry. You won’t even be able to log onto the internet. You will no longer qualify for any government services, a driver’s license, social security, Medicare and Medicaid, veteran’s benefits, etc.”(97)
Ditto for a refusal to take another experimental gene therapy or for peddling “misinformation” on the interweb. No cash (which, of course, is not a part of the plan that the authoritarians want to focus on) will mean no privacy and the surrender of any semblance of control over normal life; and banks are closing branches at an alarming rate – over 3,000 in the US alone last year.(98) Negative interest rates (the financial naughty step) could bleed your account dry. Your 'money' could simply disappear – a glitch, you understand. And it's no use saying none of the events will happen; neither of us know exactly what it will look like. But what I have set out will be possible and that is the only thing that matters.
Some Republicans in the House are prepared to admit that they've twigged what's being introduced on the down low. They are re-introducing a bill that will forbid the imposition of a CBDC:
“If not designed to be open, permissionless, and private – emulating cash – a government-issued CBDC is nothing more than a CCP-style surveillance tool that would be used to undermine the American way of life.”(99)
Which is the point of it. If the blob was truly in favor of digital currencies, Biden's administration wouldn't have spent the past little while trying to kill off other cryptocurrencies by decoupling them from the financial system.(100) The justification will be all too familiar, as it will also be used to dispense with cash – illicit finance such as drug dealing and money laundering must be targeted. Financial regulators are already making noises.(101)
So, the electronic gulag is on its way and it's approaching at speed. It's possible that the seeming imminence of its arrival has made the progressives giddy with excitement and commensurately less circumspect, not that the latter trait has ever been much in evidence. Whatever the reason, every time peak crazy is achieved, they manage to raise the bar higher still. The Democrats in the US House were recently enraged when a guest pastor was invited to Congress to deliver an invocation and, in doing so, warned of a “coming day of judgement”.(102)
His card had already been marked as a “Christian Nationalist”, which is the newly-minted insult de jour for Leftists to mouth and which is used to refer to anyone who adheres to biblical teachings on such subjects as abortion and transgenderism. Comically, the Representatives then complained that they had been denied the opportunity to invite a man from the Freedom From Religion Foundation to give an alternate blessing. Complaining about a Christian pastor in the People's House, where lawmakers seek to abide by a Constitution that speaks of God-given rights is a new low, but in keeping with the intensifying campaign to stifle opposing views.
The targeting of Christians is not a fever dream. Later that same week, a talking head on MSNBC was unburdening herself of the opinion that the aforementioned Christian Nationalists were in some way problematic for believing that God-given rights were an actual thing, continuing a trend that has been evident for some time – especially on that particular channel.(103)(104)(105)(106) In the very same week, a Democrat Senator proposed a bill that would accidentally-on-purpose prevent churches from protecting themselves with armed security (as many are now doing with good reason);(107) attacks on Christian churches are up 800% over the past six years alone.(108)
However, academia, as ever, leads the progressive way and provides us with a guide to the near future – what is acceptable there has been taught to our future leaders. In the UK, the Russell Group universities have informed their staff that saying “the most qualified person should get the job” is a “microaggression”.(109) Apparently, so is “everyone can succeed if they try hard enough”, “men and women have equal opportunities for achievement”, “positive action is racist” and woe betide anyone who denies their individual prejudice – that, too, is a microaggression.(110) “Basically, vocalising disagreement with woke dogmas is microaggression, so shut up or face disciplinary action. Got it?”(111)
But American universities aren't prepared to let the Brits make off with the gold medal at the Woke Olympics; they are putting up a sturdy defense of their title. The University of California marked Black History Month by hosting a certain Dante King, author of "The 400-Year Holocaust: White America's Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide -- and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory".(112) Among King's most incendiary observations were the following:
"There's no discussion about the delusion and the perversion of whiteness....[W]e have it written in the law -- you can rape black women....Whites are psychopaths. And their behavior represents an underlying biologically-transmittable proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history.”(113)
It would be good to report that King is an outlier, but he isn't. Yale Medical School welcomed a psychiatrist who dreams of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.”(114) Tennessee University ran segregated anti-racism workshops, so that the Whites could “authentically and critically engage in whiteness, white privilege, and hold each other accountable for change,”while “the Black, Indigenous, Multiracial People of Color (BIMPoC)...will provide a safe and supportive place to naming the problem and defining or reframing the problem.”(115)
A University of Alabama professor recently opined that “when white people are whole, they don’t go out lynching people. When they feel whole — instead of rage — they are not out, you know, shooting up schools.”(116) Even Caucasian scholars are weighing in; “all white people are racist, in that all white people have been conditioned in a society where one’s racial identity determines life experiences/outcomes…”.(117) These people, mad though they are, are allowed an uncritical platform – they aren't outliers, they are plentiful. And they are becoming ever more vocal.
Black academics also get torched by the wokerati if they don't play their allotted role. Professor Roland Fryer of Harvard conducted a study of Houston police shootings, expecting his results to show a clear racial bias. When they didn't (in fact, they showed that officers were 23.8% less likely to shoot at blacks as at whites), he took a deep breath and published anyway.(118) It took all of four minutes for the first hateful message to arrive, which was followed by a flood of further missives. Before the storm eventually passed, he was obliged to resort to armed security.
I have concentrated on one aspect of the progressive agenda, albeit a foundational one; race-baiting is deeply ingrained in the Leftist psyche. And 'affirmative action' style DEI initiatives have been all the rage for some time now – between 2011 and 2020, American TV series staff moved from 35% women to 63% and from 72% white to 44% white.(119) Biden's federal judge picks are demographically near-identical; 76% female and 34% black, despite the fact that only 5% of America's lawyers are black.(120)
But the fruits of the Left's labors are readily apparent in other spheres, also. Shortly after the October 7th attack on Israel, a poll found that 48% of Americans between 18-24 supported Hamas (which contrasted starkly with the over 65s, 95% of whom supported Israel).(121) My intuition tells me that, just possibly, billions of dollars of Qatari funding of US universities (a separate funding stream from the one that supports Hamas) might have something to do with prevailing attitudes in academia.(122)
But there's plenty of ignorance to spread around elsewhere. Apparently, “...two-thirds (67%) of young people in Britain would like to live under an explicitly socialist economic system”.(123) That's what happens when your professors gloss over the economic miracles wrought by Pol Pot, Mao Zedong and Stalin, which left tens of millions dead. I imagine that it will be better this time around because, as we know, “true Communism has never been tried”.
Indeed, the UK is becoming unrecognizable. The progressive's obsession with race has infested institutions to such an extent that a Church of England bishop (pictured below) can advocate for BLM, persuade the General Synod to embrace wokeness and “encourage parishes and deaneries to develop local action plans to address issues of racial injustice.”(124) A vote on the subject passed 364-0. She may be on to something, though; according to the Wildlife and Countryside Link (a coalition which includes the likes of Greenpeace and the WWF) the British countryside itself is a racist, colonial white space, hostile to people of color.(125)
Figure 4
We can expect much more of this and other nonsense besides, as the Loony Left is given center stage. Anything that undermines religion (as distinct from the Church), the family, conservative thought and racial harmony or which promotes the LGBT agenda will be foisted upon us with increasing abandon – all the while our leaders meddle overseas in attempts to embroil us in more forever wars.
Although it seems that Biden and Blinken have lost control of the war in Gaza, which is turning into a PR disaster for the Democrats as their Muslim support hemorrhages, along with that of other Leftists who are imprisoned within the oppressor/oppressed matrix. Biden wanted Netanyahu to tone down the Gaza campaign because of that very concern and his administration was comfortable enough in their reasoning to brief the media in those terms.(126) Unsurprisingly, the Israelis are less concerned with US elections than they are with ensuring their own survival as a nation – especially as they would be aiding in the re-election of an administration that openly funds Israel's sworn enemies.
While official US policy has been to support Israel, Biden has also sought to undermine Netanyahu at every turn. Calls for ceasefires (which Hamas explicitly rejected),(127) for the provision of 'humanitarian aid' to Gaza when it is blindingly obvious that it was also be used to sustain Hamas and now for the imposition of a two state solution. I am unclear as to why the US still believes that it has the moral authority to decide outcomes in the Middle East, but that's probably something to do with a belief in American exceptionalism, which dovetails nicely with the progressive's unquenchable desire to tell others what to do.
Whatever Biden's reasoning, it has absolutely nothing to do with true morality, as he wouldn't be putting his own electoral prospects above Israel's security if it was. It is much more likely that personal animus plays a large role, as Netanyahu is a conservative. Reportedly, Biden has disliked the Israeli Prime Minister since at least 2010 and sparks fly anew whenever Netanyahu refuses to put US priorities above his own country's.(128)(129)(130) Biden isn't alone in his antipathy – Western liberal elites are all on the same page.(131)
“His detractors demand he cede – reward terror with Statehood (the Palestinian Authority pays stipends of American dollars to families of the October 7 terrorists under the ‘pay for slay’ policy) – and be disappeared quietly so he can (like Trump, Bolsonaro, Khan and others) be locked away while the globalist project proceeds unopposed. Nation state democracy remains its greatest threat. That is they hate Netanyhu...”(132)
The Israeli Prime Minister seems to have finally had enough of the double-dealing and the attempts by Blinken to direct Israel's prosecution of the war. But, once again, the progressive's cannot leave well alone and are now floating a scheme to unilaterally declare the creation of a Palestinian state, together with other Arab nations,(133) a plan that is equal parts epically unintelligent and profoundly tin-eared. Not only will Israel not accept it – neither will the Palestinian Arabs, “74.7% of whom desire a Palestinian only state that supplants Israel.”(134) So, try and force the Israelis to recognize a state that doesn't recognize them or their right to exist. Stupid is as stupid does. Keeping the conflict bubbling is the aim, but Netanyahu has finally bitten the bullet. He wants “total victory...we won't settle for less.”(135)
So Biden has been reduced to showcasing his ineptitude in the Red Sea and in various interactions with Iran and its proxies. Ever since Obama's pivot towards Iran and away from Israel in 2009, the progressive agenda has favored the mullahs. Now they, and their Houthi proxies, are flexing and Biden has to appear to be doing something about it – and the key word is “appear”.
The ongoing jeopardy in the Bab-el-Mandeb is probably less about the war in Gaza than it is about the Houthis shoring up their domestic popularity, which has taken a knock since the commencement of peace talks to end the Yemeni civil war. Attacking Israeli targets is a cost-effective way to do so, as sticking it to the Jews is an ever-popular pastime, but if Iran was truly interested in plunging the region into yet another conflagration, I suspect the mullahs would not be calibrating their offensive so carefully. Hezbollah would have been given its head, at minimum, but that campaign hasn't materialized.
But the Iranians haven't been afraid to target US bases in Syria, Jordan and Iraq. By the end of January, their proxies had launched a minimum of 158 attacks since October 7th.(136) Biden has responded anemically, talking tough but doing very little to deter further strikes. Eventually, regime embarrassment resulted in a “multi-layered” response at certain targets, the detail of which was then leaked to the Iranians ahead of time.(137) The Iranian Republican Guard commanders in the target areas simply removed themselves from the fray until the after the bombs had fallen.(138)
The US and their mini me, the UK, had already been busy allegedly carrying out “large-scale” military strikes against Houthi missile systems and launchers; not that it's had any effect. In the past week there have been well over half a dozen attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea. Two US tankers were hit and a UK tanker is currently disabled and partially underwater 70 miles off Aden.(139)(140) None of which is truly problematic to any Western government committed to Net Zero (which is to say all of them), because the rebels are doing their dirty work for them by screwing with supply chains.
Figure 5
Figure 6
But, despite the fact that American assets are being explicitly targeted and, additionally, that American servicemen have been killed and injured,(141) there is none of the inflammatory rhetoric that gets directed at Putin who, lest we forget, isn't at war with the US or with any member of NATO. It's apparent that Biden wants to wish this particular conflict away, rather than have it escalate, but his weakness – and obvious lack of a Plan B, given the long-standing policy of appeasement – is emboldening the Iranian proxies.
And so we are treated to Russia! Russia! Russia! instead; this is where Western escalation has been ratcheting up for months. Putin is Hitler, Trump is Putin's buddy, Zelensky is a latter day saint and so forth. Which brings us to the great Russian freedom-fighter, Alexei Navalny - Putin's erstwhile opposition. An opposition with 2% name recognition inside Russia,(142) who was only imprisoned after several suspended sentences. The genuine opposition is a man called Boris Nadezhdin, who is rabidly anti-war and has just been barred from standing for election.(143) Navalny was a Western construct:
“Navalny worked with NATO intel cutout Bellingcat and went through the "Yale World Fellow" program, a regime change training ground.”(144)
A close associate of Navalny's, Vladimir Ashurkov, was caught asking an MI6 officer for $10-$20 million to finance a colour revolution inside Russia.(145) Navalny was part of the Russiagate hoax that was leveraged to damage Trump,(146) and also worked for a Soros-backed left-wing NGO in Russia, before Putin banned them.(147) In short, he appeared to be working on behalf of Western governments and NGOs, all of whom were hostile to his mother country. Only in the parallel universe inhabited by the Leftist, regime-change enthusiasts would Navalny be considered a 'patriot'.
Figure 7
Nonetheless, he apparently died in a Russian jail this past week, allegedly after suffering a heart attack or similar after taking a walk. The usual suspects immediately claimed that Putin had had him killed; to Zelensky it was “obvious”, and Biden's cue cards told him to say that “Putin and his thugs” were responsible.(148) Western media simply rehashed all their boiler-plate anti-Putin propaganda, despite the fact that they couldn't possibly know the details of what had happened. I don't know, either – but color me skeptical. The timing is deeply suspicious and the motivation, from the Russian side, to do away with someone the overwhelming majority of Russians had never heard of, is difficult to discern.
The string-pullers desperately needed some kind of victory. Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson - during which he avoided any psychotic episodes and appeared to be intelligent and of sound mind – has been viewed several hundred million times. The US Senate's Ukraine funding bill is stalled in the House and much pressure was being brought to bear. One particularly asinine Senator even had this to say:
“In the next front against Russia, it will be Americans on the front lines...“We are best off investing in the Ukrainians who are fighting bravely for their own freedom than allowing [Russian President Vladimir] Putin the opportunity to spread further chaos and violence across Europe.”(149)
In addition, the Ukrainian military have been circling the drain for months and the European public (probably echoing sentiment elsewhere), who can no longer be relied upon to artlessly imbibe mainstream lies and misdirection, are done with the entire saga. Only one in ten think that Ukraine can win.(150) That was before Russia pushed through the Ukrainian defenses and captured another long-contested city – Avdeevka, on this occasion.
Curiously, Navalny's wife was rubbing shoulders with Zelensky and assorted US senators and establishment figures at the Munich Security Conference at the time of the announcement of her husband's death and was, therefore, available to be anointed as the new leader of the Russian opposition.(151) The timing certainly was propitious, but it's difficult to see what Putin could possibly gain from killing Navalny and contrastingly simple to see what he might lose.
At a stroke, Putin's interview is memory-holed, more pressure is applied to the House, which will now be accused of being pro-Putin if they refuse further funding of the war, apologists for the West's proxy war have been handed another stick with which to beat critics and the string-pullers have given themselves cover to impose yet more nonsensical sanctions on over 100 firms and individuals who bear no responsibility for prison conditions in the Arctic Circle.(152) Biden was given another collection of words to recite, words that (as usual) have a distant relationship with the truth:
"The American people and people around the world understand that the stakes of this fight extend far beyond Ukraine. "If Putin does not pay the price for his death and destruction, he will keep going. And the costs to the United States — along with our NATO Allies and partners in Europe and around the world — will rise."(153)
The EU has also chimed in with its own measures. These sanctions won't work any better than those that were already being applied – which is to say that they won't work at all. Even the Wall Street Journal knows that.(154) But that's not really the point of the exercise, anyway. It's simply political posturing, but it does solve one puzzle. It wasn't clear whether the Uniparty in the Senate, in passing its funding package, was trying to palm off the blame for Ukraine's inevitable defeat onto the MAGA Freedom Caucus in the House (and, by extension, onto Orange Man Bad), who are the most vocal opponents of throwing good money after bad. It seemed as though an off ramp was being constructed.
But it now looks as though the blob really does want to keep funding the war – not because they care about Ukraine or because they think that Zelensky will prevail, but likely because they want to keep the pot boiling. And because they are desperate to escalate the conflict. To that latter end, Navalny's death has been used as a pretext to green-light the most dangerous decision yet – the US and NATO have okayed the use of NATO F-16 jets to target locations inside Russia itself.(155) Not that the jets have yet been supplied, as Ukrainian pilots are still being trained. But it seems as if they'll be in action later this year.(156)
Putin has repeatedly warned NATO and the US that this is a red line but, as is always the case with the liberal elites that make these decisions, they eschew any opposition and double down instead. The Ukrainians had already tested the waters by using a Patriot missile system to take out a Russian transport plane (filled with returning Ukrainian prisoners-of-war) in Russian airspace.(157) Now, Zelensky will ensure that they provoke Putin as much as humanly possible, as he knows that the only way he has a hope of salvaging anything from the morass is to get NATO boots on the ground. It seems likely that he has been given those assurances behind the scenes. And it seems as if Biden wants his war. Why would that be?
Well, because the US has wanted a war with Russia for a decade or more. If we recall, this has been Putin's contention – that the Americans were training the Ukrainian military with a view to attacking Russia. The US always denied it but now, it seems, Biden wants us to know that Putin was right. That's the only reasonable explanation for yesterday's New York Times 'exposé' – the NYT doesn't do proper journalism any more, as its role is now to curate the establishment narrative.
It transpires that the CIA and the US military have indeed been training Ukraine's commandos and intelligence services since at least 2014.(158) Not only that, though; they also have a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border, from which they have co-ordinated attacks on infrastructure inside Russia itself.(159) They hid it from Trump, however, as he was not viewed as sufficiently Russophobic:
"But whatever Trump said and did, his administration often went in the other direction. This is because Trump had put Russia hawks in key positions, including Mike Pompeo as CIA director and John Bolton as national security adviser."(160)
Another echo of the lies the military told Trump about the American presence in Syria and elsewhere. Now, however, they want the world to know of their perfidy; and they particularly want Putin to know. It's inconceivable that these revelations will de-escalate tensions and, in publishing them, the string-pullers are voluntarily suffering reputational damage by their own hand. The upside must, therefore, be considerable and I have a suspicion that they have a plan that is hermetically sealed.
I suspect that they want us to believe that the NYT story will finally cause Putin to snap. They continually talk of Putin's wider ambitions, not that Putin has expressed any. But what if there was a sudden attack on, say, Poland? One that could be blamed on the enemy? It's been done before; Hitler used the Gleiwitz incident, a German false flag attack on a German radio station just across the border from Poland, as a casus beli for an invasion.(161) The Russians and the Belarusians believe that provocations of a similar nature are on the cards and have been sounding the alarm since last June.(162) Lukashenko, the Belarusian President, said just last week:
"Polish and U.S. intelligence are preparing a large-scale provocation against the Polish civilian population, which they will blame on Russia and Belarus.”(163)
There are currently 32,000 NATO troops deployed near Belarus and Russia, ostensibly for a drill. There are another 60,000 or so training elsewhere in Europe.(164) Conditions would seem to be advantageous. And the blob does like to control as many variables as possible. Plus, Putin is very unlikely to bite. He has demonstrated considerable restraint in the face of repeated provocations, not simply limited to the US and EU funding of Ukraine's military. There would seem to be little reason to lash out now, when knowledge he already possessed has simply been made public.
But, again; why? Why embroil NATO in a war? I can think of any number of reasons why the elites would think it a good idea. In no particular order; it would make it politically impossible for conservatives in the House to block the Senate bill; it would allow the EU to issue war bonds, bypassing national governments and forcing the imposition of a direct EU tax (advancing the dream of federal integration considerably); “war and threats to national security are permanent states of exception that a regime can use to ram through all manner of draconian laws and limits to free expression”;(165) it would allow for the imposition of martial law and the suspension of federal elections, as Zelensky has just demonstrated once more;(166) and, I'm sure, much else besides. One might, therefore, see how attractive a war is to authoritarians who are attempting to accelerate their takeover while they still can.
I suspect that this is where we are headed. It simplifies matters considerably, because a war allows the string-pullers to turbo-charge their agenda and not only drastically reduces the period of awakening for the normies, but also makes it near-impossible for existing critics to continue to make themselves heard. The coming digitization of life will not be subject to the scrutiny it would otherwise receive and all eyes will be on the war. If I were them, it's what I would do. Putin will have no option but to respond.
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(110) Ditto
(111) Ditto
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(124) https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/26/church-of-england-vows-to-become-even-more-woke/
(127) https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1749800765831741856
(129) https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/biden-netanyahu-frustration-israel-j-street/index.html
(130) https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-israel-speech-netanyahu-1.3542155
(131) https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-the-western-liberal-elites-hate-benjamin-netanyahu/
(132) Ditto
(133) https://www.wnd.com/2024/02/scheme-uncovered-announce-palestinian-state-right-away/
(134) https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/15/october-7-proved-now-is-not-the-time-for-a-palestinian-state/
(136) https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/28/politics/us-troops-drone-attack-jordan
(139) https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1760006290368078258
(141) https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1751645676344082549
(142) https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1758488091323515188
(143) Ditto
(144) Ditto
(145) https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1758544466129064212
(148) https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences
(154) https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1761091482520563854
(155) https://www.newsweek.com/nato-chief-notes-dilemma-supplying-f-16s-ukraine-1871800
(158) Ditto
(159) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
(160) Ditto
(161) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
(162)
(165) https://expose-news.com/2024/02/21/regime-will-crush-its-internal-in-the-name-of-war/
(166)
Figure 1 https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1721187586268389858
Figure 2 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Mann-Bradley-Hughes-hockey-stick-graph_fig2_309880609
Figure 4 https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/26/church-of-england-vows-to-become-even-more-woke/
Figure 5 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68363692