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  Meryl Nass MD makes the point that each of us can help others every day. The unacceptable is happening and the authorities blow it off, to numb us. De-numb!  

  Drones hit Europe's largest nuke plant, while Israel bombs public schools, starves and expels 2 million Gazans from their homes. Britain attacks the poor and Canada assists its citizens to die.    

  Please no more numbness. These are crimes against humanity. While in the UK, the government has made war on the population for tweets and posts, refused to police crimes, surveilled the citizens incessantly, closed city centers to cars and generally made life miserable.
  It is the Supranational state against everyone else.   

The unacceptable is happening and the authorities blow it off, to numb us. De-numb!

  Desperate for Escalation, Zelensky Bombs Zaporozhye Nuke Plant in Frustration   First: it can be said that this act of desperation was a strong signal to Zelensky’s own “partners” in the U.S. and the West. I predicted long ago—last year—that once things finally grind down to the gristle for Ukraine, Zelensky would have no choice but to begin threatening his partners through escalation to save his own hide. He would threaten not only pushing Russia’s red lines in unnerving ways which would pose the threat of nuclear annihilation to the U.S., but as a last ditch effort he would also float the threat of unveiling many secrets and ‘skeletons in the closet’ of his Western partners as blackmail.
  But what’s happening now is in effect a double nuclear blackmail. Not only was Zelensky trying to reach the Kursk nuclear plant for this very purpose, but has now acted out his furious frustration at the ZNPP, as well. It’s difficult to know for certain, but captured AFU POWs have in fact now attested to the Kursk plant as being the objective, or Kurchatov, the town where the plant sits. This was supposed to have been reached in the first day or two, which now appears to have been a miserable failure being covered up by more antics.   But getting back to the second point. I believe the ZNPP strike was also a double threat toward Russia. ZNPP may be currently inactive, but Kursk is in operation, and Zelensky likely meant to send a symbolic message that the Kursk nuclear plant may be “next”. In essence, it is saying: “Be wary, the Kursk plant is in my sights. This is just the first demonstration of my seriousness.”
  But why would Zelensky threaten his partners as well? The obvious answer is to shock them into providing more aid and committing totally to Ukraine’s victory. “Give us everything or we’ll take the entire world down with us in a ball of nuclear flame.” Funny how much similarity there is between Zelensky and Israel, what with their Samson Option and all...
.. A tertiary reason for Zelensky’s desperate dash into Kursk could be to deliberately nix negotiations, which much of the West is increasingly pushing on him. Just like his coeval of Netanyahu, Zelensky is trapped in an escalation spiral for survival, forced to continue the war at all costs to stave off his own loss of power, which would be followed by him being thrown to the wolves.   

SITREP 8/11/24: Desperate for Escalation, Zelensky Bombs Zaporozhye Nuke Plant in Frustration

  John Leake,  The Pitiful Death of John Bull

  For most of my life I believed that England was the cradle of free speech and individual liberty. With its Magna Carta, Common Law, Parliament, and long tradition of free speech—and explicitly defending free speech—going back at least as early as John Milton’s pamphlet “Areopagitica,” published in 1644, England was long personified as a jolly, good-humored, plain speaking man named John Bull. While people who lived on the European Continent were subjected to royal absolutism, John Bull stood for “English liberty.”...
..Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about John Bull—or more precisely, his pitiful death—as multiple friends have sent me videos of Englishmen being arrested in their homes for the crime of “posting inaccurate information on Facebook.”[video at link]   

The Pitiful Death of John Bull

  Alex Krainer, The slow dying of American democracy

DNC's selection of Harris as the party candidate is proof positive that they plan on cheating and stealing another election. Will the American voters shrug again?

  The "special relationship" between United States and Britain seems to be turning American democracy into something that increasingly resembles its former colonizer. The metamorphosis has been so slow and gradual that it's been difficult to recognize it for what it is...

..This year, the party boldly skipped the primaries altogether, anointing the staggeringly inept and even more unpopular Kamala Harris as the party's candidate. So far, all this has elicited waves of shrugs and feeble protests from much of the voting public.

  The obvious question is, why. Why would they choose such a dismal candidate as Harris, unless they were planning to cheat again and steal the 2024 elections? Evidence that they are already doing so is already piling up. Fake polls show Kamala is as popular as Trump, and a few bizarre videos and photos of her political rallies emerged over the recent days. They seem a tad inauthentic:  

  Whatever the case may be, they got away with epic election fraud in 2020 and so, what's to keep them from doing it again in November, even more brazenly this time? If the people acquiesce again, will the practice of getting deeply unpopular politicians with almost zero public support into office become the U.S. democracy’s new normal? If so, this would be just the fake democracy that's been perfected by Great Britain.
  The fact that the American political system seems to be evolving toward the model of its former colonizer, Great Britain is very significant. It suggests that like Britain, the U.S. is being ruled by a hidden oligarchy. Behind the establishment's self-serving facade, Britain is not a democracy at all, and that fact is obvious once you scratch below the surface. 

  In his 1966 book, "Tragedy and Hope," professor Carrol Quigley had much to say about the British political system.
Quigley wasn’t just any old college professor: he was a trusted insider in the Western political establishment and a mentor to the future U.S. President Bill Clinton. As a privileged member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he was allowed to peruse their archives (which are strictly closed to the public and to most CFR members) for two years which enabled him to write one of the most eye-opening accounts of our modern history (1890-1965). In fact, when the establishment finally understood the revealing nature of “Tragedy and Hope,” the book was abruptly withdrawn from sales and all remaining copies were destroyed, together with the printing-plates.

  Here's what Dr. Quigley had to say about the British political system:

“…the greatest difference between Britain and the US rests in the fact that the former has no constitution. This is not generally recognized (p. 461)”

“… many of the relationships which are covered by conventions are based on precedents that are secret (such as relationships between monarchy and Cabinet, between Cabinet and political parties, between Cabinet and civil service, and all the relationships within the Cabinet) and in many cases, the secrecy of these precedents is protected by law under the Official Secrets Act… (462)”

  “It is seriously stated in many books that the Cabinet is responsible to the House of Commons, and controlled by it. In truth, the Cabinet is not controlled by the Commons but the reverse." (463)

  [This should sound familiar:] "The fact that there are no primary elections in Britain and that party candidates are named by the inner clique of the party is of tremendous importance and is the key to the control which the inner clique exercises over the House of Commons, yet it is rarely mentioned in books on the English political system." (463)

  “There is also no separation of powers. The Cabinet is the government and ‘is expected to govern not only within the law, but, if necessary, without law or even against the law’ There is no limit on retroactive legislation, and no Cabinet or Parliament can bind its successors. The Cabinet can enter into war without Parliament’s permission or approval. It can expend money without Parliament’s approval or knowledge… It can authorize violations of the law, as was done in regard to payments of the Bank of England in 1847, in 1857, or in 1931. It can make treaties or other binding international agreements without the consent or knowledge of Parliament…" (469)

  "The idea, widely held in the US, that the Commons is a legislative body and the Cabinet is an executive body is not true. Legislation originates in the meetings of the inner clique of the party, acting as a first chamber. If accepted by the Cabinet it passes the Commons almost automatically. The Commons, rather than a legislative body, is the public forum in which the party announces the decisions it has made in secret party and Cabinet meetings and allows the opposition to criticize in order to test public reactions. Thus all bills come from the Cabinet, and rejection in Commons is almost unthinkable…" (469)

  “It is not generally recognized that there have been many restrictions on democracy in Britain… effectively curtailing the exercises of democracy in the political sphere. (470)” [things got a lot worse since 1966]

  “Since the two chief parties in England do not represent the ordinary Englishman, but instead represent the entrenched economic interests directly, there is relatively little ‘lobbying,’ or attempting to influence legislators by political or economic pressure. (477)”
  This is only a small sampling of verifiable facts...

..If such a large proportion of people are willing to believe absurdities, why should the DNC stop cheating? Why not steal elections again and then brazenly state that they were won fairly and browbeat anyone who questions that as Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot? ... ..Fortunately, today the facade around the British political system is crumbling, revealing Britain for what it is: a neofeudal oligarchy, still deeply attached to its colonial past, still keen on “ruling the waves,” and still contemptuous of its subjects.   

The slow dying of American democracy

​  Paul Craig Roberts, America Is Entering End Times ​  Does anyone remember the 2020 presidential campaign? Trump campaigned widely and had massive audiences. Enthusiasm was everywhere. Biden ventured out of the basement a few times and no one attended his campaign rallies. Trump got more votes in the 2020 election than he got in the 2016 election, but Biden got more votes than any president in history. Somehow the people elected an invisible candidate.
​  In the swing states vote counting was stopped in the middle of the night while truck loads of boxes arrived, some from out of state, in Democrat controlled vote counting centers. The votes were almost entirely for Biden, and when counting resumed, Trump’s lead disappeared.
​  The same thing is going to happen this November.​   https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/08/12/america-is-entering-end-times/

​  Celia Farber, just before the Trump-Musk "Conversation":  Unelected EU Politician Thierry Breton, Highest Paid Politician In The World, (Twice) Writes Threat Letter To Elon Musk; Mike Benz: "Greatest Threat To Free Speech In The US Is The "EU Digital Services Act."   

Unelected EU Politician Thierry Breton, Highest Paid Politician In The World, (Twice) Writes Threat Letter To Elon Musk; Mike Benz: "Greatest Threat To Free Speech In The US Is The "EU Digital

Elon Musk Claims Massive DDOS Attack On X Before Trump Conversation—Millions Unable To Access​, Imagine What The Actual "Election" 2024 Will Be Like​   

Elon Musk Claims Massive DDOS Attack On X Before Trump Conversation—Millions Unable To Access

Trump’s ‘interview of the century’ with Elon Musk: As it happened​, The X owner promised a “highly entertaining” conversation with the former US president​   https://swentr.site/news/602520-trump-musk-big-interview/

UK police block entire North American continent from its website as they begin arresting non-violent Brits for ‘inaccurate social media posts’…   https://revolver.news/2024/08/uk-police-block-entire-north-american-continent-from-website-as-they-begin-arresting-non-violent-brits/

  Surplus Energy Economics, Dr. Tim Morgan  Whatever happened to progress?  ECONOMICS AND THE INFLEXION OF CIVIL SOCIETY   Economic growth is an integral part of this narrative. The modernization theory of history proposes a link between economic expansion and the progression of social and political liberalism, the proposition being that economic growth and liberal democracy advance hand-in-hand.
  As society gets richer, it also gets more civilized, more liberal, more democratic, more humane, and more equal.   Perhaps the highest statement of this thesis is that history came to an end at the start of the 1990s, when liberal democracy and the free market economy achieved their final triumphs over the collectivist economics and political repression of the Soviet Union.
    On the downslope – life after history?
  Subsequent experience has not been comfortable for the modernist school of history. Since the ‘victory’ of  the early 1990s, even avowedly “democratic” governments have become ever more coercive, and ever less tolerant of dissent.
  The basic precepts of the market capitalist system – freely-functioning markets, and positive real returns on invested capital – have very largely been abandoned in the interests of perceived expediency.
  Increasing concentration of corporate power has been accompanied by worsening inequalities of wealth, income and opportunity. Security of employment has been undermined by the rise of the “gig economy” with its “zero-hours contracts”... ..We can cite many other instances of social regression that have occurred since history supposedly reached its triumphant conclusion at the start of the 1990s.
The point, though, is that none of this was supposed to happen in the enlightened, post-history societies created by the final triumph of liberal market democracy.
  This doesn’t necessarily mean that the modernist historians are wrong.
  A plausible alternative proposition is that, seen from the perspective of today, 1990 wasn’t a moment of irreversible victory, and a final arrival at the sunlit uplands of prosperous civilization, but, rather, a temporary peak, from which the subsequent direction of economic, social and political travel has been downwards.
  If this is so, it would accord with the Surplus Energy Economics analysis, which reveals that economic growth has long been decelerating towards contraction. For civilizational decay to follow economic deterioration, it isn’t necessary for the economy to contract – mere deceleration might have been enough to turn back the clock on liberal progress... ..Simply put, it can be contended that, if civilization advanced during the long years of growth, the approach of economic contraction has seen prior social and political progress go into reverse.
  This might give us some useful pointers to a future in which, as society gets poorer, it may also become less liberal, less tolerant, less egalitarian and, quite possibly, less democratic... ..In short, what we’ve been witnessing has been a gradual deceleration of the fossil fuel impetus which powered the rise of the industrial economy. For reasons which needn’t be revisited here, we have no complete replacement for the energy value hitherto sourced from oil, gas and coal... ..The post-War Keynesian consensus started to unravel in the first half of the 1970s. In material terms, there was no “energy problem” at that time, because energy supply was abundant, and ECoEs (Energy Costs of Energy) remained extremely low. But politics intervened when, in 1973, OAPEC imposed an embargo on oil exports to the West.  The resulting oil crisis led to soaring energy prices, runaway inflation and severe industrial disruption. This enabled opportunist politicians to win power, whereupon they strove to blame all of the problems of the 1970s on organized labour and the state, and to start dismantling the mixed economy... ..As we know – though the economics orthodoxy still does not – monetary expansion can’t drive growth in the material economy, because the latter is powered by a non-financial equation which involves energy supplies, ECoEs and the condition of the non-energy natural resource base. As a result, the inevitable consequence of the “credit adventurism” introduced in the 1990s was the global financial crisis of 2008-09.
  This crisis was countered by a recourse to “monetary adventurism” in the form of QE, ZIRP and NIRP. This means that, whilst the GFC was a banking (credit) crisis, the next crisis (“GFC II”) will be systemic (monetary) failure... ..The equations that determine material economic prosperity have long been moving against us – the costs of energy are rising, its aggregate supply might be close to its own point of inflexion from increase into shrinkage, and non-energy natural resources have been subject to their own processes of depletion.                             At the same time as material prosperity decreases, the real costs of energy-intensive necessities will continue to rise, imposing leveraged compression on the living standards of the average person.
  Like all dominant minorities before them, today’s elites will aim to carry on amassing ever-more wealth and political influence. This is what all elites do. At the same time, the political and administrative establishment will aim to maintain the continuity of the status quo, which, again, is what incumbencies always do... ..In a contracting economy, though, wealthy and influential minorities can no longer hand out “bread and circuses” sops to the majority. The rich can only get richer if everyone else – the majority – gets poorer. This majority is destined to experience a relentless (and leveraged) decline in its prosperity... ..During the recent wave of social disorder in Britain, it was suggested that “civil war” is “inevitable”, but such an outcome is, in reality, wildly implausible. The victims of leveraged economic impoverishment are most unlikely to be able to combine together in a concerted attempt to overthrow the established order. They are, in fact, likelier to ignore the establishment rather than fight it.
  The great weakness in the position of the establishment is its dependency on finance. The vast majority of the wealth of the rich minority is vested in stockholdings, and the values of these assets cannot indefinitely be maintained in the face of declining material prosperity.
  As the resources available to them decrease, governments will re-learn the lesson that policing by force is no substitute for policing by consent.   https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/286-whatever-happened-to-progress/

  Charles Hugh Smith is also aware of energy, but writes for an audience.   These Six Drivers Are Gone, and That's Why the Global Economy Is Toast   The six one-offs that drove growth and pulled the global economy out of bubble-bust recessions for the past 30 years have all reversed or dissipated. Absent these one-off drivers, the global economy is stumbling off the cliff into a deep recession without any replacement drivers. Colloquially speaking, the global economy is toast.
  Here are the six one-offs that won't be coming back:
1) China's industrialization.
2) Growth-positive demographics.
3) Low interest rates.
4) Low debt levels.
5) Low inflation.
6) Tech productivity boom.
  Cutting to the chase, China bailed the world out of the last three recessions triggered by credit-asset bubbles popping: the Asian Contagion of 1997-98, the dot-com bubble and pop of 2000-02, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. In each case, China's high growth and massive issuance of stimulus and credit (a.k.a. China's Credit Impulse) acted as catalysts to restart global expansion.   
  The boost phase of picking low-hanging fruit via rapid industrialization boosting mercantilist exports and building tens of millions of housing units is over.   

These Six Drivers Are Gone, and That's Why the Global Economy Is Toast

  The equation for a peace deal is different. Netanyahu's coalition still needs to escalate and continue the Palestinian Genocide to remain in power, but no major or regional power wants escalation to regional war, assuming the US takes Israel's side against Iran. Russia has urged time for diplomacy, with Russian intercession, and has been flying military transports of advanced missile systems, S-400 air defense systems, and 5000 kilometer electronic warfare systems to Iran and to Syria, presumably for local distribution.    

  Vladimir Putin offered  to facilitate negotiations. We should assume that he is doing so, and that this is part of it. It is Iran's move. Iran has agreed to calm the waters by pausing. Iran and the Axis of Resistance are greatly increasing the cost to Israel and the US of further attacks, removing any relative advantage which might have existed. Nobody can really afford a regional war, not even Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich, when it may be reasonably assured that even they will die in it. That's "parity".

  It appears that an embargo of Israeli ports, even if porous, would ruin the Israeli economy, and prompt more and more Israelis to move to other countries, making the apartheid state unsustainable. The natural gas rigs off the coast are also susceptible to threat of attack, even without physical damage.

  Hamas urges return to existing Gaza ceasefire proposal The group has said it wants a truce plan based on US President Joe Biden’s May 31 ceasefire proposal.   Hamas has asked mediators to present a plan based upon previous truce talks instead of attempting to find a new Gaza ceasefire deal, days ahead of talks proposed by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
  In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the group said that it wants a plan “based on [US President Joe] Biden’s May 31 ceasefire proposal, the framework laid out by mediators Qatar and Egypt on May 6, and UN Security Council Resolution 2735“.   The May 6 proposal, which Hamas previously agreed to and Israel rejected, also ensures the release of Israeli captives in Gaza as well as an unspecified number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
  Sunday’s Hamas statement added that “the mediators should enforce this [May 6 proposal] on the occupation [Israel] instead of pursuing further rounds of negotiations or new proposals that would provide cover for the occupation’s aggression and grant it more time to continue its genocide against our people”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/11/hamas-urges-return-to-existing-gaza-ceasefire-proposal

Rights group finds no evidence of military presence in Israeli bombed Gaza school   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/11/731189/Palestine-Euro-Med-Israel-Gaza--al-Tabin-School

  Netanyahu blasts defense minister for 'anti-Israel' comments
The Israeli Prime Minister responded to comments by Defense Minister Gallant critical of Netanyahu's calls for 'absolute victory'   Netanyahu has stated that Israel must achieve “absolute victory” by eliminating Hamas’s military and governance capabilities and winning the release of the remaining 111 Israeli captives held by the Palestinian resistance movement since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October.
  “This is the clear directive of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the cabinet, and it is binding on everyone – including Gallant,” the statement concludes.
In contrast, top Israeli officials, negotiators, and families of the captive Israelis have stated that Netanyahu seeks to sabotage a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
  The ministers in Netanyahu’s government, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have stated they want to continue the war. They say they wish to destroy Gaza, ethnically cleanse the strip of its 2.3 million indigenous Palestinian inhabitants, and settle Israeli Jews in their place.   https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-blasts-defense-minister-for-anti-israel-comments

  The World Court has ended the Oslo ruse
  The ICJ's ruling that international law protects the rights of Palestinians, and they need not negotiate with their oppressors for those rights, dealt a definitive blow to decades of Western efforts to situate Israel outside the reach of the law.   The Court found definitively that Israel was committing apartheid and racial segregation, that all of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza are occupied territory, that the occupation is unlawful, that Israel must remove all settlements, settlers, soldiers and occupation infrastructure, dismantle the apartheid wall in the West Bank, provide reparations to the Palestinians, and allow all those forced out to return home.
  Equally important, the Court said that all states have a legal obligation not to recognize or assist the occupation and are obliged to help to bring an end to Israel’s occupation and other violations. And it found that all states must end all treaty relations with Israel that relate to the Palestinian territories, cease all economic, trade, and investment relations connected to the occupied territories. Thus, the ICJ has given clear international legal authority to the anti apartheid movement, and to the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions.    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/the-world-court-has-ended-the-oslo-ruse/

Yes, preparing, but not doing it. Israel wants to seize the initiative... Israel Says Iran Poised For Major Retaliation; US Deploys Sub, Hurries Carrier Group   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/game-israel-again-thinks-iran-poised-major-retaliation-us-deploys-sub-hurries-carrier

  West Threatens Iran Over Plan To Supply Russia With Ballistic Missiles  (Exactly what "consequences", please Sirs?)   NATO countries have been warning of swift and severe consequences in the wake of widespread reports that Iran is considering transferring sophisticated ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
  A weekend Reuters story authored by multiple national security veteran reporters alleged that Russian personnel are already being trained to operate the Fath-360 close-range ballistic missile system. Several European intelligence sources were cited as the basis of the report, which Iranian leaders subsequently denied.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-threatens-iran-over-plan-supply-russia-ballistic-missiles

  Needle-sharing and sex are the typical risk factors for Hepatitis-B. Peter McCullough MD,  Routine Infant Hepatitis B Vaccination Fails to Protect Into Young Adulthood Parents Should Not Expect a Long-Term Benefit   

Routine Infant Hepatitis B Vaccination Fails to Protect Into Young Adulthood

 

 UK doctors ordered to ask men if they’re pregnant
The NHS reportedly issued the new guidance after an expecting transgender person had a CT scan, which could endanger the fetus   https://swentr.site/news/602449-uk-doctors-men-pregnant/

  Meryl Nass MD, The European Vaccine pass involves 9 countries, not 5. Looks like it will involve all the EU soon. They say it's totally voluntary. Voluntary while the pilot projects are being rolled out, sure. Then what?   

The European Vaccine pass involves 9 countries, not 5. Looks like it will involve all the EU soon.

  ‘It’s About Your Money’: New EU Vaccination Card Will Be Used to Control Access to Banking, Other Services     Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst joined “The Defender In-Depth” this week to discuss the EU’s plans for a European Vaccination Card, the plan’s similarities to the EU’s digital vaccination certificate, the global push toward digital ID and implications for health and medical freedom.   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/meike-terhorst-eu-vaccination-card-control-access-banking-services-digital-id/

Cyd Ropp's Gnostic Newsletter has an engaging view of how our conflicted world comes to be as it is.  As Above, So Below, part 2   

As Above, So Below

Acting Independently (picking black eyes peas next to okra plants)