How much would it surprise you to learn that Gordon Ramsay is a herald of the end of empire?

This is according to a famous British soldier and military strategist who was an active participant in the end of the last one, Sir John Bagot Glubb. He wrote a book -possibly the book- on the subject: The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival.

In Sir John’s system, empires go through distinct ages, summarised below.

The Age of Pioneers This period is marked by the protagonist generation preparing the foundations of the new empire. This pioneering generation are considered as hardworking, daring innovative and ambitious. This generation were also the underdogs who were never considered by the then pre-existing world power as relevant in the scheme of affairs. The pioneering American immigrants were looked down upon by the British, the Arabs were relegated as backward by the Persians and Romans until the advent of a unifying religion in the form of Islam. The Age of Conquest According to Glubb, Conquest may or may not be Military in definition alone. The Islamic Caliphate grew by Military conquest so also was the case of the Mongols. The Roman conquest was a combination of both Military and high level diplomacy borrowed from the Greek model. The British Empire relied on commerce alongside Military expeditions while that of the United States was a conquest of a whole continent by a few brave and hardy immigrants. The Age of Commerce Closely following the Age of Conquest is that of Commerce. The advantages of a large extensive land mass territory opens up any new Nation to natural resources locate there within and also allows for a large economic bloc. The splinter societies and realms that existed prior to the expansion of the Roman Empire were open to a larger market with little or no trade barriers. The Roman empire stretching from Syria to Britain was much an economic bloc. The Age of Intellect With a booming economy , competition is natural to follow and as such technological innovations and development begin to take shape.

This is age also sees more technology transfer to the Military thereby consolidating power for the central administrative body of the Empire. The Age of Affluence This age marks the period of an improved standard of living for citizens within the realm of the Empire. Unfortunately, this leads to a widening gap between the rich and the poor. An elitist society then emerges within the Empire which so happens to control vast resources of the empire. The Age of Decadence The last and final stage of all Empires is marked by a lowering of moral virtues and principles usually championed by the super affluent group and the middle-class. Their show of wealth and conspicuous consumption lifestyles will natural lead to an uprising by the poorer sections of society to revolt.

It is pertinent to state that most Empires are destroyed from within. A sort of implosion occurs usually instigated by the less privileged members of that society.

The last stage of the empire are usually marked by the following social upheavals: Society moral standards are greatly lowered.

A large and undisciplined Army.

Glorification of celebrities.

Economic meltdown brought about by a devaluation of the currency. The hallmarks of the above were seen in the declining phase of the Roman Empire. The Military was large undisciplined and fragmented, the Roman elites were more interested in attending sex orgies and gladiator games where gladiator fighters were paid vast sums of money. The last days of Rome also saw economic meltdown since the ruling elites spent so much of the Empires resources maintaining a huge standing army coupled with investments in public infrastructure such as temples, coliseums, etc. The Roman denarii was originally based on Silver but with years of inflation, the coins were reduced to mere silver coated copper coins which had the silver wear out within days of minting.

Rome’s imperial twilight has been revised considerably in the subsequent decades since his book was published, but enough similarities remain to discern on overall trajectory. Sir John is even more specific about the glorification of celebrities. Rome had celebrity chefs in its last days, as one of the most visible symbols of decadence is obscene, expensive over-consumption. From a media history point of view, the rise of the celebrity chef over the last decade is interesting. The previous forty years of cooking programmes were either training people on basic, socially-approved food preparation (Delia) or drunken travelogues meant as location porn rather than food porn (Keith Floyd… who was a champion).

The rest seems to be in place… a rapid expansion of the money supply -which you experience as inflation, state-controlled entertainment -literally anything on television, a large and undisciplined army -for ‘undisciplined’ read ‘privately owned and not subject to the state’. What about the civil unrest from the lower orders?

Do you mean like the civil unrest the Pentagon is actively planning for? Or the unrest they are spending millions looking to suppress by manipulating social media?

During the height of the Victorian era, Britain liked to compare itself to Rome. London’s mayor still does. But the American empire more closely resembles the Roman one for two pertinent reasons. Firstly, it’s an empire of military bases which are used to control local politics rather than a full-on colonial expansion. Secondly, it keeps playing from the same playbook even as everyone has learnt its moves, even as those moves get more expensive and less effective, and shows no intention of deviating from it. (Third place is Rome and America’s main export is war, Britain’s main export was Britain: currency, queen, religion, cuisine, railroads, etc.)

What is this playbook then, and where did it come from?

The Playbook

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Engineer the collapse of parts of the world that have resources you want so you can force them to exchange those resources for pieces of paper that you print and entirely control.

That’s it. You can write it on a napkin. The rest is commentary. ‘Preventing the rise of blah blah blah’ means ‘preventing an alternative economy to the one you control from appearing’. We have known this for almost a century thanks to American hero Smedley Butler’s book, ‘War is a Racket’. And he was one to know. There are four moves in this play.

Arm and fund a resistance

Fake an event or stage an assassination

Intervene

Tell a completely different story through your propaganda mechanism

On that last point, did you know it was Brzezinski who first coined the term ‘tittytainment’? Congratulations. Did you know that the wikipedia page describing this has been deleted? More on that a bit later, eh?

Who is Brzezinksi, I hear no one ask? Why, he is the demon coach who wrote the playbook. By now everyone knows that PNAC all but admitted 9/11 complicity when they called for America’s need for a ‘new Pearl Harbour’. But these guys are Johnny-come-lateys. (Sidebar: It is worth your time doing some research into who the neo-cons ran with at college and what side of the spectrum they started on.)

Before we get to that, I want to play a little thought experiment from the Austrian School theorist, Llewellyn Rockwell. Below.

Just imagine if the democratically-elected government of Canada had been toppled in a Russian-financed coup, in which far-right extremists and neo-Nazis played a prominent role. That the new unelected ‘government’ in Ottawa cancelled the law giving the French language official status, appointed a billionaire oligarch to run Quebec and signed an association agreement with a Russian-led trade bloc. Just imagine… If Russia had spent $5 billion on regime change in Canada and then a leading Canadian energy firm had appointed to its board of directors the son of a top Russian government politician. Just imagine… If the Syrian government had hosted a meeting in Damascus of the ‘Friends of Britain’- a group of countries who supported the violent overthrow of David Cameron’s government. That the Syrian government and its allies gave the anti-government ‘rebels’ in Britain millions of pounds and other support, and failed to condemn ‘rebel’ groups when they killed British civilians and bombed schools, hospitals and universities. That the Syrian Foreign Minister dismissed next year’s scheduled general election in the UK as a ‘parody of democracy’ and said that Cameron must stand down before any elections are held. Just imagine… If in 2003, Russia and its closest allies had launched a full-scale military invasion of an oil-rich country in the Middle East, having claimed that that country possessed WMDs which threatened the world and that afterwards no WMDs were ever found. That up to 1 million people had been killed in the bloodshed that followed the invasion and that the country was still in turmoil over 10 years later. That Russian companies had come in to benefit from the reconstruction and rebuilding work following the ‘regime change’.

We can now turn to the demon coach himself.

In 1989, Brzezinski quit his job at Columbia University where he taught since 1960 to work on Ukraine’s independent status plan. This marks the beginning of his compromise to prevent the resurgence of Russia as a superpower. He defended Russia’s integration to the Western system and the “geopolitical multiparty system” in the territory of the former Soviet Union. He also developed a “plan for Europe” that included NATO’s expansion to the Baltic republics, a dream that came true when three of them joined NATO in 2002. During the 90s he was the special envoy of the American President to promote the most important oil infrastructure project of the world: the Baku-Tbilissi-Ceyhan pipeline which was his best opportunity to prevent the resurgence of Russia. He has also been, since 1999, the president of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, whose headquarters are located at the Freedom House facility. This position allows him to intervene in peace negotiations between the Russian government and independence fighters led by Mashkadov. However, the truth behind these good will “democratic” activities is to assist independence followers to maintain a war in the area, like the Afghan one, to weaken Russian and to keep it away from the gains of the Caspian Sea. Brzezinski’s doctrine –The power ruling Eurasia will control two of the most economically advanced and productive areas of the world– is related to NATO’s expansion to the East, something the Clinton’s Administration actively worked on. But, how could they sell NATO to Europeans?

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“The European region located in the Western border of Eurasia and next to Africa is much more exposed to the risks of the increasing global disorder than a more politically united, military powerful and geographically isolated America (…) The Europeans will be more exposed to risk if an imperialist chauvinism encourages Russia’s foreign policy”

said Brzezinski to National Interest magazine in year 2000. The whole thing is quite clear: the deployment of NATO’s forces around Russia was a preventive measure. If Russia’s reaction is to be defensive, it means that it is planning to restore its empire and totalitarianism.

He also founded the frikking Trilateral Commission and has spent the last fifty years educating every single archon you’d care to name. Cheney, most presidents including the current one, the lot. The CFR/Trilateral Commission angle should give you an indication of who Brzezinski’s true master is and it certainly isn’t the American people. If you have ever wondered why it seems Putin has been at least two steps ahead of the west this last year, it is because we published our playbook four decades ago and refuse to deviate from it.

Here’s a 1998 interview with him by a Paris newspaper. It is extremely telling in light of recent aerial events in Ukraine.

Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it? B: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today? B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists? B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today. B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

Here’s a quote from 2007, from his own organisation’s creepy newsletter, Foreign Policy.

FP: Will Russias influence on the European Union continue to grow? There have been many dire warnings about EU member states reliance on Russian energy. Do you believe this is a threat, and can Europe wean itself off Russian energy? ZB: Its a potential long-range threat. It is not yet a threat. If Europe and the United States jointly do not do what is needed to obtain great diversification of access to energy, Europe could become politically vulnerable. This is why its important to the West to see access to the Caspian Sea energy resources and beyond the Caspian to Central Asia. This is why the West should promote such projects at the Nabucco pipeline through southeastern Europe to central Europe.

Brzezinski also happens to think we are too moronic to actually follow his cleverly unconcealed plan. We’re too busy with tittytainment.

Question: The dominant voice among intellectuals and in the media seems to be a liberal hawk/neoconservative groundswell, a moralistic call for action in Syria based on emotion. Why do you think, even after the debacle of the Iraq War, that the foreign-policy debate remains quite skewed in America? Brzezinski: (laughs) I think you know the answer to that better than I, but if I may offer a perspective: this is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. I think in a complex situation, simplistic solutions offered by people who are either demagogues, or are smart enough to offer their advice piecemeal; it’s something that people can bite into.

Jumping ahead three years, Brzezinski warns the Council on Foreign Relations in a Montreal speech that we have tired of tittytainment and that the alternate media is getting in the way of their plans for evil and genocide. Lol soz Brzzy!

Brzezinski’s call of warning to the “global political awakening” has only intensified in recent years. Last year during a speech in Poland, Brzezinski noted that it has become “increasingly difficult to suppress” and control the “persistent and highly motivated populist resistance of politically awakened and historically resentful peoples.” Brzezinski also blamed the accessibility of “radio, television and the Internet” for the “universal awakening of mass political consciousness.” “[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people,” said Brzezinski during a 2010 Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal.

Let’s pull that back together then.

Militarily surround Russia. Goad them into intervening in conflicts on their doorstep by funding and arming groups hostile to their existence. Collapse and control energy resources in Eurasia, particularly because Europe is reliant on Russian energy and America cannot risk Russia and Europe coming together or else they’d lose control of global economics. Lie, lie, lie about all of this because the populace is too stupid to cope with the reality of the situation.

Have I missed anything?

Geopolitics and propaganda

I said last time that regime change is always preceded by a failure of propaganda. That’s what Brzezinski is concerned about and that is exactly what is happening. Have a look at this nightmare of a slide. Whatever spook put this together is a fucking moron.

Yes, we can see they are all over the place with their persistent deception and manipulation. If you were presenting a communication strategy to me in a work environment and you flashed this slide up you’d be out the door. It’s all over the place. (Although it gets a point for opening with Batman.) Is that why:

They’re throwing all kind of crap at the wall and hoping it will work because that’s the playbook. Do more and more of the same thing and have it be less and less effective. Double down, go again. Here’s a video of an admirable congressman exhorting his fellow congressmen and women to go into a locked room and read a secret 28 page document pertaining to Saudi involvement in 9/11. Just listen to all his near-slip-ups when trying to describe things he’s sworn to secrecy over.

Consider the following examination of the failure of Israeli propaganda by a Rutgers University professor.

Israeli propaganda has a long history. In 1982 the Israeli invasion of Lebanon was met with international condemnation. In particular, the massacre of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila damaged its public image. Israel then instituted a permanent PR establishment that would work to cultivate good media coverage in the US. The Hasbara project involved training Israeli diplomats and press officers on how to speak in ways that ensured favorable media coverage. The media watchdog group, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) was formed to monitor and respond to “unfair” media coverage of Israel. But pro-Israeli coverage isn’t simply the product of good talking points rather it stems from the “special relationship” between the US and Israel and their mutual interests in the Middle East. It is not a coincidence that Jen Psaki would use the same language as Mark Regev. Or that John Kerry would echo Benjamin Netanyahu. The US political elite, the elite in Israel, and the owners of the corporate media share a set of common economic and political interests that ensures that pro-Israeli propaganda dominates in the establishment media. Should journalists and media organizations break from the script, various pro-Israeli groups, such as CAMERA, generate flak and bring enough pressure to bear on editors and reporters that they are brought back into line. As Glenn Greenwald noted recently, media figures and executives are more “petrified” of covering Israel than any other issue. Jon Stewart comically made the same point in his segment “We Need to Talk about Israel.”… The dynamic at work is as follows: First, independent media have played a crucial role in countering Israeli propaganda and offering alternative accounts. Second, social media have provided a forum from which independent journalism, as well as first hand reports from Palestinian people in Gaza, are circulated. Third, in these spaces Israel is losing the propaganda war, despite its vast resources of trolls and misinformation experts. Fourth, grassroots activists using social media have been able to bring pressure to bear on the establishment media. Fifth, this climate has enabled establishment journalists on the ground to be more forthcoming about the horrors of what is happening in Gaza. Thus, Tyler Hicks, a photojournalist for the New York Times, who also witnessed the Israeli attack on the beach was allowed to contribute a story in the Times about his experience. Calling the lie to Israel’s claim that it only bombs Hamas targets, he wrote: “A small metal shack with no electricity or running water on a jetty in the blazing seaside sun does not seem like the kind of place frequented by Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces’ intended targets. Children, maybe four feet tall, dressed in summer clothes, running from an explosion, don’t fit the description of Hamas fighters, either.”

So little of this is officially hidden. Most of it is just ignored. Which is why ‘The Forbidden Bookshelf’ idea is such a refreshing one… almost as refreshing as hearing an honest academic interviewed by broadcast media. Check it out, then check out the site. Worth your time and support.

MH 17 (and 370)

Let me tell you about the time the Russians shot down a commercial airliner.

It had strayed off course and into strategically sensitive airspace.

It was met by a Russian fighter that repeatedly signalled for it to change course. It didn’t.

A US spyplane was seen in the area only a few hours before.

The Russian pilot was ordered to shoot it down, so he did, killing everyone on board.

The American president referred to it as the ‘deliberate downing of a civilian passenger plane’.

The American news media called it ‘murder in the sky’.

Intelligence agencies were tasked with finding ways to maximise the spin in global media with the intention of turning more of the world against Russia.

Radio transcripts from the incident were doctored down from 50 minutes to just over 8 minutes before being released.

The flight was KAL-007 and the year was 1983. It was only a decade later, when the full transcripts came out, did it transpire that the shoot-down was a tragic accident. The Soviet pilot genuinely believed he was shooting a spy plane.

Let me tell you about another airline tragedy. Or rather, let a former CIA analyst with 27 years experience tell you about it.

I also have grown more and more suspicious of the official U.S. government account about the crash of TWA-800 on July 17, 1996. Shortly after departing Kennedy Airport in New York, the plane exploded off Long Island with 230 people killed. More than 100 eyewitnesses reported seeing an object they described variously as a “missile,” “flare” or “rocket” rise up into the sky and merge with TWA Flight 800. The immediate suspicion was that the disaster was an act of terrorism, although some speculation focused on the presence of U.S. Navy missile-carrying warships in the area. However, after raising much of the plane’s wreckage from the sea bottom, the National Transportation Safety Board and Justice Department/FBI dismissed the eyewitness accounts of a missile and concluded instead that the explosion was caused by an electrical malfunction. To help in selling this version, the CIA “technical experts” working under CIA Director George Tenet – yes, the same fellow who described the Iraq WMD evidence as a “slam dunk” – were enlisted to prepare a video artfully designed to discredit the missile claims. But the TWA800 Project Investigative Team – a determined group of engineers, scientists, eyewitnesses and journalists – have continued to challenge the official findings, including the CIA video.

July 17, you say? Exactly 18 years before MH17 -another number 17- fell from the sky over Eastern Ukraine from a height of 33,000 feet. 17, 33 and the anniversary of another likely shadow state shootdown. Where have we heard all this before? In billionaires and astrology. (Which creepily, I wrote in Ukraine after an airline incident of my own and then finished off in the air.) Once again we have the combination of ritualistic numbers and an anniversary of a similar event. This, to me, is the signalling behaviour Chris Knowles talks about… and I think the appearance of another 17 in yesterday’s crash is worth considering. The whole thing is ‘vintage playbook’ and you really have to be stupid, stupid, stupid not to see it.

Planes crashing all over the place, flights cancelled into Israel, ‘credible threats’ that lead to people with uncharged phones being booted off transatlantic flights and the persistent unfindability of MH370. Commercial air travel is a fantastic theatre of shadow state warfare because it’s a place where civilians are already scared and thus it becomes easier to introduce swingeing population control laws. Expect these laws to pertain to freedom of movement and identity. (My suspicion is that it won’t be long before you have to notify the gummint of your intention to go somewhere at least two weeks in advance, even domestically.)

Now let’s look at some points that seem to be entirely eluding the west.

Then there’s this.

The United States has been itching to slap heavy sanctions on Russia, but only if the European Union follows suit. Europe, however, understands that worsening relations with Russia are not in their interest, therefore the EU refused to follow America’s demands. In response, Washington tried to provoke Russia into a military intervention into Ukraine by allowing Ukrainian President Poroshenko to bomb ethic Russians in Ukraine and even shell Russian territory, killing one Russian national. Russian President Vladimir Putin understood the game that Washington was playing and held his nerve, thus failing to provide the U.S. with an excuse to hit Russia with heavy economic sanctions. The plane crash gives Washington the perfect opportunity to pressure the EU to sanction Russia. Ultimately, this disaster is much more beneficial to Washington than to Russia or Ukrainian rebels.

If the story wasn’t so unremittingly awful, the state of the west is almost comical. Here is Russia’s deputy defense minister on Washington’s claims:

Mr Antonov said US intelligence experts had claimed they could “prove the guilt of the [pro-Russian] militia and almost Russia itself” and were in possession of technical data and satellite photographs to back up their accusation. “So where is this evidence?” he asked on the Rossiya-24 channel. “Why is it not presented to the public? Is it, if I may say so, still being finished off?”

Just as it is highly informative to look back over the demon coach’s previous career given where the world has ended up, it’s grimly fascinating to go over the lies from a couple of months ago to see all the Ukraine pieces put into place. Look at this sober examination of US propaganda versus the State Department’s persistent claims that RT was releasing nothing but disinformation. It is noteworthy that the Kiev Nazis now want East Ukraine separatists to be legally declared ‘terrorists’.

In his unspecified litany of other purported RT offenses, Stengel also cites “the constant reference to any Ukrainian opposed to a Russian takeover of the country as a ‘terrorist.’ Or the unquestioning repetition of the ludicrous assertion last week that the United States has invested $5 billion in regime change in Ukraine. “These are not facts, and they are not opinions. They are false claims, and when propaganda poses as news it creates real dangers and gives a green light to violence.” However, regarding the use of the word “terrorist,” which Stengel finds so offensive, it has actually been applied promiscuously not by RT but by the Kiev regime and the U.S. State Department against the anti-regime protesters in eastern Ukraine though they have not engaged in behavior that is traditionally considered “terrorism.” The Russian ethnic protesters in the east have engaged in no indiscriminate killing of civilians for political purposes, the classic definition of “terrorism.” Yet, the post-coup regime in Kiev has repeatedly announced plans for an “anti-terrorism” campaign against the east. In other words, Stengel’s “side” is guilty of what he accuses RT of doing. As for RT’s “ludicrous assertion” about the U.S. investing $5 billion, that is a clear reference to a public speech by Assistant Secretary of State for European Affaris Victoria Nuland to U.S. and Ukrainian business leaders on Dec. 13 in which she told them that “we have invested more than $5 billion” in what was needed for Ukraine to achieve its “European aspirations.” Nuland also was a leading proponent of “regime change” in Ukraine who personally cheered on the Maidan demonstrators, even passing out cookies. In an intercepted, obscenity-laced phone call with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Nuland said her choice to replace Yanukovych was Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who ended up as Prime Minister after the coup. If Stengel wants to quibble about whether Nuland’s $5 billion remark was a reference to “regime change” or not – although the European association was a key issue in Yanukovych’s ouster – the under secretary can make his argument. But to ignore the obvious context of Nuland’s $5 billion reference is again either a sign of stunning ignorance or willful deception. As for Stengel’s office of “public diplomacy,” it is a segment of the State Department that I have personally dealt with since the 1980s during my days covering the Reagan administration’s Central America policies for the Associated Press and Newsweek. Back then, some of us referred to the “PD” office as “the office of propaganda and disinformation” because of the endless distortions and lies generated in support of U.S.-backed “death squad” regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala and for Ronald Reagan’s beloved Nicaraguan Contra rebels who fairly could be called “terrorist” given their proclivity for slaughtering and raping Nicaraguan civilians and for collaborating with cocaine traffickers to make money on the side.

Inevitably, we come to MH370. Just like MH17, it is likely we will never know the complete story. But then, this whole post series is about how rare it is that we do know it anyway. We shall bullet point and conclude.

There’s a two-tonne cargo variance in MH370’s manifest that has never been explained but has something to do with lithium batteries. Clearly this is related to the ‘credible threat’ that now means passengers have to turn their phones on at security. So some story will eventually be cooked up here, methinks.

Some rinky-dink company in Adelaide thinks it has found the wreckage in the Bay of Bengal using what appears to be flim-flammery. It’s possibly some attempt at PR. Nevertheless, they make two excellent points:

Firstly, how did Australia’s over the horizon radar capability miss a giant, slow moving passenger jet when my home country seems to excel at spotting and intercepting tiny, leaky boats filled with refugees coming from the same area?

Dear Australia: are we lying about having radar or are we lying about what we saw with it? Because we would have seen it come along this arc and then stop.

That part of the world picks up UFOs all the time. You telling me we can’t see a 777?

The second point GeoResonance makes is to do with data disclosure.

The families are asking why some commercial cargo remains unidentified. Considering the scale of this tragedy all details must be released. The families want to know why the Malaysian Government would withhold such crucial information. The families also would like to know why Rolls Royce will not release the data on pings sent from MH370 at: 2:25am, 2:27am and 8:19am. The pings at 2:25am and 2:27am are out of the ordinary, as pings should normally be sent every hour only unless there is a problem with an engine. The data would normally include engine performance details as well as other aircraft data.

That last one is quite a big deal, actually.

Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister (22 years!) posted on his blog that the CIA knows damn well where the plane is, that looking for wreckage is pointless because it is likely intact and hidden somewhere, that all monitoring features were deliberately turned off, that Boeing is deliberately withholding information, and so on. Quite brave. And significant.

Voice recordings from the flight were edited before being released.

Diego Garcia. Media coverage is saying ‘it’s not really a naval base’. It’s got 3,000 people on it! It was used by the CIA for rendering ‘terrorists’!

Heartbreaking yet inspiring, the families of the victims have set up a reward fund because they -like the rest of us- are completely dissatisfied with the official version of events:

As for why these families decided they needed to start such an effort, American Sarah Bajc – whose partner, Philip Wood, was on the plane when it disappeared – said it’s necessary considering the failure to locate the plan up to this point. “We are taking matters into our own hands,” Bajc told USA Today. “There is no credible evidence” the plane is somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. “I’m convinced that somebody is concealing something.” Although Bajc is certainly not alone in feeling that way, these accusations have been denied by officials conducting the search. “Nothing important is being concealed in any way,” said Angus Houston, the head of Australia’s joint agency managing the search. “My approach has always been to be as open as I could possibly be.” Houston acknowledged that not all the information is out in public just yet, but that a complete review is underway and should be finished sometime in June. Meanwhile, Malaysian officials have also denied that transparency is an issue, though the country’s acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein has stated that “requests made by next-of-kin and international media cannot be accommodated 100%.”

Fuck you guys. Fuck you.

Why Malaysia? This actually came up in conversation with a corporate lawyer at my sister’s wedding. She specialises in corporate fraud and bribery. (If you are in central Africa for work and someone puts a gun to your head and demands five hundred bucks, if you give it to them you have committed bribery under US law. Good to know.) Our guess was because Malaysia is the only Southeast Asian economy of a suitable size that isn’t under America’s thumb -if you couldn’t tell that from the former prime minister’s blog post. Collapse it and the only choice is Indonesia… which has been a vassal for decades. This would give the intelligence community and shadow state fingers in the currently-baking wealth pies of the planet’s next Great Theatre.

So it is the Pacific Pivot, innit? As is China warning the US to stay out of the South China Sea -which led to an increase in US military presence there… which then led to China sending its own spy ship to Hawaii to monitor naval war games. Outstanding. Obama’s golf handicap must be absolutely killer these days.

De-Dollarization

That economic phenomenon I mentioned in an earlier post in this series about how the rest of the world is beginning to erode the US’s huge economic advantage by having global reserve currency status now has a term… de-dollarization.

Much has been made of the BRICS countries building their own development bank, the fact that attendees from every single South American country met with Putin during the World Cup to discuss BRICS economics and rebalancing the number of votes for IMF member countries… votes which currently favour the Anglo-American elite.

But you know the end is nigh when even the loyal British bull lapdog inks a deal to trade directly in Yuan/GBP. I appreciate this may not sound important but let me lay it out thusly:

Two thirds of US dollars are held overseas. Remember the plan about harvesting resources and swapping them for paper? That.

Inflation isn’t things getting more expensive. Inflation is an increase in the money supply. So what happens to prices when all those dollars come home?

And what happens to interest rates when inflation spikes? And what happens to all those zombie mortgages that are being kept off the banks’ books by the very low interest rates that allow mortgagees to just scrape along?

Having global reserve status effectively means a country can ‘outsource’ its inflation to the rest of the world… for as long as it lasts. Dr Farrell’s latest New and Views deals with the appearance of a Renminbi zone in British Columbia. Watch.

Below is a map of the world showing countries that are or are not part of the World Trade Organisation. What do you notice about the countries that aren’t? Are you aware that both Saddam and Gaddafi agreed to trade oil in Euros rather than dollars? How did that turn out?

More here.

NATO has been targeting countries that do not have private central banks manipulating and setting prices of all capital markets for the personal gain of bankers and countries that are not part of the new world order World Trade Organization (WTO) for war and destruction.

My opinion of ‘The Plan’?

I think the race is on to get every country into the WTO so the IMF can create and roll-out Special Drawing Rights before parts of the world (BRICS) get away from them or setup their own thing. I think that’s why fronts are opening up all over the place. The outgoing archons haven’t realised they have failed… they’re trying to do it all at once.

SDR assets would function as ‘imaginary gold’ in much the same way bitcoins have a finite and slow-growing amount. (Bitcoin is a prototype. Follow the ownership of bitcoins since they began.)

These SDR ‘assets’ would be fixed to the dollar much as gold once was, and handed out to countries in such a way as the IMF deems suitable.

Eventually physical currency will be completely replaced with a digital currency that records every single transaction that SDR dollar ever made with it. (So good luck buying cigarettes or a burger if you’re fat… or good luck buying baby food when you are late on your energy bill.)

Too sci-fi for you? From a technical perspective, we’re already there. All that is lacking is the ‘legal’ infrastructure:

Only the tiniest fraction of all currency is physical, anyway.

M-payments now have a platform of two billion people, more than any other form of money ever (excluding gold, I guess).

Cryptocurrencies can already record every single transaction made with them which you credit card has done for decades.

SDRs already exist.

The smart home is on the way with Google having acquired Nest. (Google which has your financial information, phone number, email address, etc.)

I don’t care if cognitive dissonance is setting in at this point. I don’t care if your inexperience with a smartphone makes this seem impossible. I’ve been in rooms where rich, smart people have discussed exactly this. To quote Captain Barbossa: “You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You’re in one.”

Pure, perfect, centralised control without the need for one world governments or FEMA camps or any of that other disinformation and cointel. Such a regime favours the existing Anglo-American elite at everyone else’s expense. Why do you suppose Brzezinski was so keen to crush the Communist system and is still so keen to crush the only country with the borscht to offer an alternative economic system? (Trilateral Commission, CFR, BP Amoco… he has only ever worked for the Rockefellers.)

Putin sees this coming. The BRICS countries see this coming. Germany sees this coming. The race is on between centralisation and decentralisation, chaos and order. Guess which side I want to win?

Peak Everything

Fortunately we do not hear too much about Peak Oil anymore, once it became clear that oil prices are entirely down to criminal manipulation rather than an indication of scarcity.

So forget Peak Oil. We are at Peak Everything. California is down to whatever water is left in the bong!

Which brings us back to Eurasia. As we see the emerging caliphate of oil-pipe-istan grow underneath a warlord that Obama released from prison five years ago, let us immediately dispense with the hugely-racist narrative that ‘there has always been sectarian violence in the Holy Land.’ (As opposed to peaceful ol’ Europe, eh? No European wars ever. No sir.)

Nearly fifty years ago, London and Washington backed a Syrian assassination plot to secure access to its energy reserves. Fifty fucking years ago. As for Iraqi sectarianism, here’s an Iraqi-born sociology lecturer and refugee of Saddam’s regime:

The main difference between the two sides seems to be that Blair believes western intervention is the answer; some of his critics say Iraq needed a dictator like Saddam to hold the nation together. Neither side, though, has yet produced historical evidence of significant communal fighting between Iraq’s religions, sects, ethnicities or nationalities. Prior to the 2003 US-led occupation, the only incident was the 1941 violent looting of Jewish neighbourhoods – which is still shrouded in mystery as to who planned it. Documents relating to that criminal incident are still kept secret at the Public Records Office by orders of successive British governments. The bombing of synagogues in Baghdad in 1950-51 turned out to be the work of Zionists to frighten Iraq’s Jews – one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world – into emigrating to Israel following their refusal to do so. [More.]

So to the nightmare that is the current Gaza atrocities. Or at least they are atrocities according to everyone except the unsurprising American cheese, standing alone:

More interesting here are just how many European countries abstained from voting on whether genocide is genocide. It is not because they are worried about Hamas. Everyone who participated in that vote knows Hamas is an Israeli invention.

Twitter is all abuzz in impotent outrage, listing off all the war crimes and the number of dead Palestinian children under the hastag #gaza. But let us return to what Brzezinski has been saying for thirty years about European energy security. Consider this:

The issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine. The death of Yasser Arafat [Gordon: remember how he was poisoned??], the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza’s offshore gas reserves. British Gas (BG Group) has been dealing with the Tel Aviv government. In turn, the Hamas government has been bypassed in regards to exploration and development rights over the gas fields. The election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestine’s sovereignty over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that “Israel would never buy gas from Palestine” intimating that Gaza’s offshore gas reserves belong to Israel. In 2003, Ariel Sharon, vetoed an initial deal, which would allow British Gas to supply Israel with natural gas from Gaza’s offshore wells. (The Independent, August 19, 2003) The election victory of Hamas in 2006 was conducive to the demise of the Palestinian Authority, which became confined to the West Bank, under the proxy regime of Mahmoud Abbas. In 2006, British Gas “was close to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt.” (Times, May, 23, 2007). According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt. The following year, in May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority.” The proposed contract was for $4 billion, with profits of the order of $2 billion of which one billion was to go the Palestinians. Tel Aviv, however, had no intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. An Israeli team of negotiators was set up by the Israeli Cabinet to thrash out a deal with the BG Group, bypassing both the Hamas government and the Palestinian Authority: “Israeli defence authorities want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that no money go to the Hamas-controlled Government.”

The second-most recent Israeli invasion of Gaza was in 2008; Operation Cast Lead. The article continues.

The invasion plan of the Gaza Strip under “Operation Cast Lead” was set in motion in June 2008, according to Israeli military sources: “Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago [June or before June] , even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.”(Barak Ravid, Operation “Cast Lead”: Israeli Air Force strike followed months of planning, Haaretz, December 27, 2008) That very same month, the Israeli authorities contacted British Gas, with a view to resuming crucial negotiations pertaining to the purchase of Gaza’s natural gas. “Both Ministry of Finance director general Yarom Ariav and Ministry of National Infrastructures director general Hezi Kugler agreed to inform BG of Israel’s wish to renew the talks. The sources added that BG has not yet officially responded to Israel’s request, but that company executives would probably come to Israel in a few weeks to hold talks with government officials.” (Globes online- Israel’s Business Arena, June 23, 2008) The decision to speed up negotiations with British Gas (BG Group) coincided, chronologically, with the planning of the invasion of Gaza initiated in June. It would appear that Israel was anxious to reach an agreement with the BG Group prior to the invasion, which was already in an advanced planning stage. Moreover, these negotiations with British Gas were conducted by the Ehud Olmert government with the knowledge that a military invasion was on the drawing board. In all likelihood, a new “post war” political-territorial arrangement for the Gaza strip was also being contemplated by the Israeli government.

And so I have a question for my Europeans on twitter who are all (rightly) outraged at the ongoing destruction of Palestine. It is a similar question posed by the presence of two thirds of American dollars being outside the country, and it is the same question that has defined Brzezinski’s strategy for the creation of Ukraine and management of Eurasian politics:

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Are you prepared to pay triple for energy and everything that requires energy to reach you (which is everything)? CAN you afford to pay triple? Because even if you think you can avoid or mitigate these costs, you will still pay it in the form of increased taxes. Otherwise how much of the population will starve?

How many Palestinian babies are worth keeping your energy bill down and your food affordable? It’s a serious question. You cannot have peaceful Palestine and out-of-season grapes or cheap clothing. It is fundamentally zero-sum. War is the cheaper option for the west at the moment. Inevitably it won’t be. These are the mathematics the great ‘They’ are trying to outrun with their digital currencies and Eurasian collapses and destruction of Russia.

Do you wonder why we are destroying our own lands and poisoning our children with fracking and so on? Shits and giggles? Moustache-twirling evil? No, simple arithmetic. Behold the archon of the abacus, the economics of Rewilding Witchcraft.

Welcome to Peak Everything.

Welcome to the Fate of Empires.