Not for any of the hysteria described, the frankly alt-right compatible ethnostate themes, the communist-feminist tropes, the obvious racism, no, it goes deeper than that. Even disregarding the obvious gaslighting at play, and the subtle injection of “colonialist” comments, the dialogue was flat, a forced attempt at creating a “high language” with simple words, and tries to portray some fantasy level of emotional and spiritual enlightenment, that is contradicted everywhere. Also despite what appears to be intense focus on the first super-villain of the movie, the first “white” character of note, it’s hard to pin the evils of an apparent South African Boer, onto the wider Caucasian populations the actors take aim against. The real problems with this movie are more pervasive and technical, and can’t be fixed with simple jiggery-pokery of lines or looks.

It had some serious structural problems that made everything about the premise/origin fail. The original “Black Panther” ate some magical fruit granting them extra strength, speed, and reflexes, supposedly without any training. Are these fighting skills? Possibly. Do these skill upgrades have more practical uses in day to day life? Well, yes actually, you could do a lot of heavy lifting, you could be a sports hero, you could even turn your attentions to mastering various mental challenges. All of these things could have very good civilian applications, but since we’re talking about Africa, and Africans, it has to mean tribal warrior. Nothing else will do, because nothing else earns their respect, and this movie is all about respect.

Herein is one of the key areas where they’ve missed the mark by 13 miles. Silly “white people” tend to respect kindness and intellect in general, or at least non-physical achievements such as negotiating or inventing great things. These “colonialist white people” constantly referenced, seem to be the core demographic of who these Wakandans want to be respected by, not other Africans, they can deal with them militarily, nah, they demand respect from white folk! It is both the height of narcissism AND an inferiority complex that their superior technology hasn’t been able to shake. Who said black people don’t love stereotypes?

On a more fundamental level, human nature would have prevented many of the elements of the story happening, and if they had managed to overcome that hurdle, would have been impossible to maintain for any length of time. Certainly their civilization wouldn’t have lasted for centuries if the people’s psycho-emotional needs weren’t met, at least some of the time. That means there had to be struggle, a lot of it, people had to be constantly reminded that working together achieves more than working individually, or separately as distinct tribes. They would have to be reminded at least once per generation, to overcome those built-in instincts that drive us to eat, have sex, and own things. Each generation has to reach the same conclusion the hard way, each child has to make the same mistakes as the parents, each child needs to learn that whatever they rebel against is the best way. They aren’t going to believe in that common vision by being told to, any parent can tell you this.

Then there’s the pesky technicalities. Let’s presume any of vibranium’s resultant technology or biological effects can work, even then the story doesn’t get much more sensible. Staring at the source, there’s some vibranium fruit that the king eats to become “Black Panther” with enhanced abilities, not superpowers mind you, but the guy playing masked kitty in previous Marvel franchise movies doesn’t actually eat it until this movie, after he becomes king, which goes unchallenged. Therefore all his heroic antics, as spectacular or inhuman as they were, previously depended on being a pampered man in a bulletproof vibranium suit. The catsuit in question is very unlike Ironman’s high-tech armoured thing, the catsuit provided no active boost to his strength, speed, nor did if have propulsion or weaponry added besides the thematic claws. In such a case, one would assume the suit is actually harder to maneuver in as a man, if it is strong enough to stop bullets, it is surely going to resist any acrobatic attempts isn’t it?

This makes the actions of the man, in that suit, particularly difficult, with the result that most of his fight scenes should look awkward and bumbling, achieving his victory by sheer grit instead of ability. Ignoring the other movie appearances of Prince T’Challa, at the beginning of Black Panther that privileged man in a suit jumps out of an airplane, with zero super powers. He lands in a jungle without twisting an ankle, before jumping off trees, and hurling entire grown men around like beanbags. Not a problem for vibranium enhanced King T’Challa, but quite another for Prince. They stupidly also have a drink that disables the super powers, something that can only exist as a comicbook trope, and I can’t see anyone actively trying to invent such an antidote, but that’s another idiocy that isn’t relevant here.

So what about the special cocktail that makes the King of Wakanda into a badass, in an almost impervious suit, with spaceships, and a gadjillion of whatever they use for currency? Well they are borne of a special meteorite, just like the source of the Shimmer in the new movie Annihilation, or the leaking meteorite in the movie Evolution, both of which create a unique ecosystem of altering life around it, or many other stories/movies that use a variation of pan-spermia as a plot element. Yet, after how many centuries, only a handful exist which are attended to and cultivated by the cleric equivalents of Shaman. They have what appears to be a few dozen plants, flowering occasionally with a long ripening period, but only the King gets to eat one.

To decide who gets to eat the forbidden fruit as king, they have a gladiator ritual, a duel, so presumably they could go through a lot of these fruit if a lot of men depose the existing ruler after a short reign. These plants exist in a glorified basement apartment in a cave, without natural sunlight. There aren’t enough to make an army of super soldiers, which you’d think would be the primary use of such an enhancer, unless you had a good chance of dying when consuming it, but too many for just kings. Everything about that seems wrong, it breaks human nature, it ignores emergencies, it escapes the inevitable jealousy, or theft, and a number of factors that would prevent the peaceful sequestering of the fruit for very long. The most likely outcome would actually be a rival warrior group killing all the caretakers, and becoming super-warriors themselves, thus giving them an advantage over whoever rules. Though like most clan victories, that too would probably devolve into petty rivalry as to which vibranium-enhanced warrior deserves to be the King, and rather quickly they would kill each other.

The technology is no more plausible, unless it has nothing to do with vibranium, although here again we are helpfully guided into believing it all is when the nerdy warrior-feminist scientist says it is everywhere. We can discuss the paradox of having a young woman as a scientist, much less Shuri who is so incensed by the idea of colonialism that she can’t stop talking about it, as being the chief know-it-all of the group. It’s one thing to be the smartest one in the room, it’s quite another to be passionate about making a difference, those two things are not synonymous, and any inventor-scientist will tell you that science and development is a slow grind full of heartbreak and frustration, with years of efforts often wasted on minute details that are incremental at best. The role she fills is not the role a woman would want, not the role a political activist would want, and certainly not a big-picture political strategist, all of which we are expected to believe from her. Being a scientist would drain her, she would feel stifled and unappreciated, not spritely and cheerful.

Anyway, the creative uses of vibranium have no end it seems. The technology they wear, earpieces which allows unlimited range communication, holographic projection phone-watches, and spears with a kind of gravity-wave punch, anti-gravity levitation dollies and ships as typical in sci-fi, but of all the uses, apparently the only people who wear the vibranium suits are Mr. Dark Kitty himself. Is this another example of necessary narcissism? It has striking similarities to Tony Stark’s Ironman, he’s very obviously a narcissist, and he has several special suits as well. Perhaps we’re expected to make an exception in this case, because he’s an enlightened black man, not some privileged upper class man with a rich daddy… oh wait. Again, if it’s so good for him, why doesn’t everyone else wear vibranium suits instead of running around in furs and miniskirts?

Which brings us into the politics of Wakanda itself. Apparently it is a collection of tribes in a region, that vie for power during the bloodsport extravaganza that are the contests for kingship, but peacefully obedient and loyal to the crown at the other times. Except that isn’t entirely true, they don’t all work together, as especially made clear with the mountain gorilla clan, who keep to themselves and don’t seem to get much share of the technology pie. If that isn’t petty tribalism, or *gasp* racism, then everyone in Black Lives Matter should go home and twiddle their thumbs. There’s also no mention of exactly who provides the bureaucracy or functionary duties, you know, those necessary jobs that make a wealth country with a capitol city full of skyscrapers possible? If they have all these things, they were either centrally planned, or privately built with private capital. Yet, you get the distinct impression that everyone is a warrior, dancer, farmer, or even lowly street merchant, and no one seems to be in much hurry at all. Those are not the conditions that provide a surplus of private capital to build megaliths, which would suggest at the very least, that it is all financed by the King, regardless who’s idea they were.

Now the important question, with all this cool technology, relative peace, and the freedom to wander around in ornate robes, what has their society actually solved? Everytime we see a flyover of the countryside, we see people just outside the walls of the city, as well as people father away, but still within Wakanda territory. Those people farm like peasants, using stone age tools, they slave away in relative poverty, picking fields in the hot sun, and despite an unusual level of happiness you don’t get the sense that there is any kind of wealth/income equality at all. All the Marxist-feminist inserts into the movie can’t escape this one fact, there is massive inequality in Wakanda, both economic and sexist. Then with a multitude of tribes present, all maintaining distinctiveness, there is additional inherent conflict always present, and the epitome of that distinction always comes back to warlike traits, so civil war should be routine.

Wakanda is basically like any other warlord state, with a rigid caste system, and concentrated wealth within a monarchy or despotic government. One that has decided not to share it’s resources with the neighbours, and while spying on everyone, lying constantly about their own military prowess, and thus inherent victim status. It might as well be a monarch version of Israel. The alt-right is wrong, it isn’t a conservative ethnostate protecting its people, it is the noble superpower fantasy of the average Zionist, with the Real&trad; messiah as their King.

In fact, having seen endless comments about the movie, people identifying with T’Challa or cousin Killmonger, I could only conclude they are a bunch of entitled pricks, with very little sense of responsibility, and a massive hard-on for ceremony, or in Killmonger’s case, to be worshipped. The character I found most likeable was M’Baku, a pragmatic leader, maybe a little over-confident, but with a sense of purpose, and strong moral fiber. M’Baku also saves T’Challa despite losing in battle. Rather than selfishly taking the vibranium fruit for himself, he dutifully gives that to T’Challa too, saving his life, showing an immense respect for the traditions, and showing unassailable personal honour. Even his amusingly dismissive commentary before the final battle exemplified good leadership, his marginalized tribe could rightfully feel spiteful of the monarchy, and still he offers safe haven to queen-mother, while putting his people’s safety first, even though it could earn him favour with the King.

M’Baku is the King Wakanda needs.

The arguments and narrative around “climate change” today, are absolutely hysterical compared to the earliest prognostications when Al Gore released his famous movie, I’m pretty sure everyone has noticed this fact. It seems like every other day, some new think tank or scientific working group is competing for the honour of the most sensationalist predictions. I recall mere months ago that some study predicted that sea level will rise by 9 feet, by the end of the century, despite the fact that according to several key measures, sea level has risen by far less than the conservative predictions when this all started. If the conservative predictions have been wrong, why would the wild predictions be any more accurate?

If you think that’s an unfair assessment, David Suzuki, famous for his narration of the popular Nature of Things TV show, and his admirable advocacy of aboriginal issues like land rights, was recently stumped and even partly roasted on an Australian TV show where he had to answer climate change related questions. His inability to accept facts that run contrary to his personal beliefs around climate change, belies his personal divergence with the scientific method, where conclusions must change based on evidence, not the other way around. Either he’s been seriously misinformed, being more of an ambassador for the current groupthink, or he’s genuinely uninterested in challenging the underlying narratives.

Whilst Suzuki may not represent the entirety of the scientific community, his positions and his language are consistent with the political consensus of the IPCC, and is therefore very representative. What the climate change debate has become, is the battle of cognitive dissonance; a rather fancy way of saying someone who believes in contradictions, or someone who has so compartmentalized their mind, that they can’t create a cohesive narrative when questioned properly. Neither side seems particularly interested in finding the truth, because each is invested in the outcome of their point of view. The IPCC is particularly not interested in the truth, since as part of their mandate, they are not to look at any potential climate drivers that aren’t directly attributable to mankind.

Sometimes the supporters of the doom and gloom narrative will attack the Republicans in the United States Congress for being denialists, or in the pay of the fossil fuel industry, which are perfectly valid criticisms, and probably very accurate. These criticisms are just as apt to level at climate change proponents however, many of whom owe their jobs or at least project funding, to the belief in the scary climate change models, even though all of those models have been proven incorrect.

In the 1980’s, scientists were very worried at the possibility that we might be entering another mini-iceage, or global cooling, based on solar cycle records, and the apparent drop in temperature readings since the hottest year on record, 1940. After the ozone depletion scare of the late 80’s, science started to focus more on understanding the processes of weather formation, which would further enhance the military’s understanding of how to manipulate it more effectively. It is during this time the climate change hysteria flipped 180 degrees, and started panicking about global warming. Curiously, the predicted symptoms were identical between global cooling and global warming, does that make any sense? This is becoming a lot like the yearly hysteria over the next big earthquake in California, the one that never happens.

Thus, as any reasonable person should, I choose to disbelieve all the political conclusions drawn, and all the political rhetoric spoken, to focus on the scientific data.

The latest crazy idea to emanate from the climate change proponents, is actually based on some scientific observation, and a whole lot of conjecture. The logic goes like this: CO2 levels are rising, but atmospheric CO2 is rising half as fast as our CO2 output, therefore the other half must be trapped by the ocean, and CO2 in the ocean must produce carbonic acid, therefore the ocean must be turning acidic. Like every other climate change prediction, this theory would also be wrong, but at least it seems sensible at a glance. Once again, truth is the victim, as is any scientist who dares object to this assertion directly.

Since we are all familiar with the penny in Coca-Cola experiment, this assertion elicits a truism, that acid is powerful, and will dissolve things. It sounds very reasonable if you don’t know that Coca-Cola’s cleaning power is actually related to its phosphoric acid, not the carbonation. The same experiment doesn’t work with pure carbonated water, which is basically what the ocean acidification theory supposes happens, that is the ocean becomes carbonated. Not one acidification proponent ever explained how all the CO2 absorbed by the ocean turns into carbonic acid, not something else, only asserting that the ocean’s pH must therefore drop, and that’s what really matters.

If we stopped here, we would have to accept that the ocean can or will become acidic, but to know that for sure, we would have to know exactly what pH it is now, and what pH it will become. Keep in mind a pH of 0 is fully acidic, 7 is neutral, and 14 is full basic, also considered alkaline. That means any pH above 7 is not acidic, and the oceans would have to fall below a pH of 7 regularly to be considered acidic. It might surprise you then that the oceans are generally around a pH of 8, with some pretty significant fluctuation throughout the seasons, and even during storm activity. What the ocean does not become is acidic.

Given that we are pretty familiar with what happens when acid is poured onto other materials such as rock, there should be no rational way to assume that the ocean could ever actually be acidic, when there is so much material that would react with it. More to the point, the acidification theory seems to completely ignore the carbon capture by lifeforms. Just like on land, plants and other forms of life ingest CO2 for use in making sugars, or even making hard structures like chitin. At the least, any credible scientist should be examining whether life is indeed harnessing the increased CO2 content for constructive purposes, but the oceans are vast, and who wants to do that kind of real research anyway?

So we are left with people who sit at their desks, not sure about what’s going on underwater, not even sure the CO2 is being trapped by he oceans, also not sure how much of the missing CO2 was captured on land, but still making computer models that show we’re all going to die unless we stop producing CO2. We also know acidification articles are not penned by people who want to be scientifically accurate, because unless the oceans are already acid, they are only being neutralized. This is the state of science today, fit for a 3 year old’s colouring book, that’s about it.

Sometimes I get the sense that climate change alarmists are suffering from some kind of guilt complex. They spend much of their time trying to blame human consumption, blame urbanization, blame fossil fuels etc, as an allegory for blaming humanity. They may be right to blame humans, but they are misguided by the low hanging fruit, and the majority will hypocritically support the industrialization of the world that has brought us amenities like washing machines. It’s fine and dandy to want to save the planet, but if we are honest, we will need to understand cause and effect relationships, to a far greater degree than we do today, to have any chance of success. Assuming the worst can be just as detrimental as pretending everything is fine.

Everyone will agree that chopping down a rainforest to raise cows is a bad thing, but some will focus on the loss of habitat, others will focus on the destruction of the vast carbon sink that such a forest creates, while others will focus on our inhumane treatment of the animals. The climate change activists focusing on carbon downplay the loss of biodiversity, and the activists focusing on the welfare of cows ignore the millions of acres of forest being clearcut for the sake of farmland, that’s just how activism works. Saving the gorillas hasn’t helped the orangutans, and while millions of people were upset at Cecil the lion’s death, not many gave a second thought about the ecological disruption caused by farmers killing too many wolves.

Hypocrites, every damned one.

Every theorem needs some basis to exist, and where the evidence is lacking or inconclusive, truisms seem to take their place. The best example of this is the recent linking of ocean acidification with the destruction of coral reefs. There is no actual evidence to suggest reefs are being destroyed by slight reduction of pH towards neutral, but it sounds good. What if you found out the real enemy of the reefs was mankind, but by an entirely different mechanism?

We’ve been hearing stories about how the reefs are being destroyed for some time now, sometimes they will call it bleaching, other times they won’t even explain what is happening, just that we are killing them with climate change. If you search for the right terms, articles from every journal and daily will talk about the seriousness of climate change induced die-offs of coral, yet these same publications mention nothing about climate change when there are mass die-offs of dolphins, seals, whales, squid, etc. Why is that? Also notable will be the absence of NOAA and NASA articles specifically linking CO2 or temperature to coral death, any link is implied only, while they openly admit it is complex:

The NOAA Coral Reef Watch program’s satellite data provide current reef environmental conditions to quickly identify areas at risk for coral bleaching, where corals lose the symbiotic algae that give them their distinctive colors. If a coral is severely bleached, disease and partial mortality become likely, and the entire colony may die.

Continuous monitoring of sea surface temperature at global scales provides researchers and stakeholders with tools to understand and better manage the complex interactions leading to coral bleaching. When bleaching conditions occur, these tools can be used to trigger bleaching response plans and support appropriate management decisions.
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Since NOAA doesn’t prove what’s causing the bleaching, nor dispute the accepted narrative, we are encouraged to conclude the other articles must have the answer, and they all say it’s climate change right? Only if you don’t know what to look for, but let’s continue with the alarmist narrative about the reefs. Here’s a reverse study, doing the opposite to see if the opposite result happens:

The team manipulated the alkalinity of seawater flowing over a reef flat off Australia’s One Tree Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef. They brought the reef’s pH closer to what it would have been in the pre-industrial period based on estimates of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the era. They then measured the reef’s calcification in response to this pH increase. They found that calcification rates under these manipulated pre-industrial conditions were higher than they are today.
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There is a major problem with this study, let’s accept their premise that more alkalinity equals more coral growth, it still assumes there is an ideal growth rate for coral, although there is nothing to suggest they increased alkalinity while removing CO2 or how alkalinity even affects CO2 capture. We could repeat the same study with tree rings, and we would find years with more CO2 yielded more growth, in direct contradiction to the supposed growth rate of coral in the presence of increased CO2. Importantly, the increased tree growth would also correlate to increased crop and plant growth, and who doesn’t want that?

We would then have to ask the question, what takes precedence? Since ultimately we are trying to make a judgement about what their ideal growth rate is are we not? If the two are mutually exclusive, more CO2 equals less coral and more terrestrial plant growth, are we prepared to accept a reduced plant growth rate for the sake of increasing the corals? Probably not, but this kind of nuanced big picture thinking is completely absent from the climate change debates altogether. That’s if you even manage to get a debate organized, most climate change proponents refuse any and all attempts at a moderated debate with skeptics, even Al Gore.

The Australian Great Barrier Reef is one of the natural wonders of the world, it is the calcified remains of untold numbers of tiny lifeforms, the same reef billionaires frequently damage with their yachts. It has been around thousands of years, but seems to be dying at unprecedented rates in the last few decades. Naturally the activists that hypocritically hate humanity have attached this tragedy to the current armageddon scenario of runaway global warming, as further proof of how bad things really are, and how much worse they will get, but are they right? Nope.

Bleaching is a natural phenomenon with coral, when sea levels fall and the sun penetrates deeper, or the water becomes too warm for other reasons, coral tends to expel the symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. Just like trees change colour in the fall, as the available spectrum changes, and the unneeded types of chlorophyll dies off, it is a natural response. When the coral expels the algae which normally captures light for photosynthesis, it becomes brighter, and brighter objects reflect heat. Simply put, the coral has a mechanism to deal with excess heat and sunlight. Unfortunately this mechanism doesn’t help it block excessive UV rays, which every weather channel will constantly remind you about is higher than normal, but the bleaching in itself is obviously not the problem, nor is it related to CO2.

I was first alerted to the real danger to the reef in an obscure science posting, but it was only in passing, no details were given, nor the enormity of the danger. Also missing was the precise cause, which took some digging to find, and for the self-loathing activists, they are at least partly right, mankind is at fault, it just has nothing to do with CO2, even if we can link climate to it somehow. In fact, it has everything to do with man-made ecological destruction, and man-made modern agricultural farming.

You see, the corals have a natural enemy, and that enemy is benefiting from our terrestrial farming activity. Every day, hundreds of tons of farm runoff, containing pesticides, effluent, and fertilizers runs into the sea around Australia. They irrigate and fertilize places that never were when the Great Barrier Reef was formed, but that’s only half the story. That’s our contribution to the problem, and it’s very similar to how we almost killed Lake Erie with phosphate detergents.

The enemy is a starfish, their natural predator, who knew? Well some knew, some have known for a very long time, it is just suppressed by the people with a political agenda, who have so thoroughly hijacked the scientific community with bribery and threats. Of course, onc eyou know what to look for, the studies and evidence is all there for you. It’s a shame you can’t rely on NOAA or NASA to give the full truth and nothing but the truth.

Population outbreaks of the coral eating starfish Acanthaster planci have been responsible for 42% of the over 50% decline in coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef between 1985 and 2012
Katharina Fabricius, Australian Institute of Marine Science

Lest you think that’s an outlier, the World Wildlife Fund concurs.

The crown-of-thorns starfish, is one of those impressive, yet simple creatures. It has many poisonous spines on it’s back protecting it from fish or animals who might have a taste for the meat, and it can grow up to 21 legs, with old ones reaching a span of 3 feet. It moves slowly, and eats slowly, but scientists estimate a large one can eat about a dinner plate sized area of coral every day. Multiply this by millions, and pretty soon we have one mighty appetite for coral.

It’s estimated there are already between four and 12 million starfish on the Reef now. In The Starfish That Eat The Reef report Dr Glen Holmes calculates those numbers could reach 60 million over the next five years.
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Researchers have been studying the Great Barrier Reef, and many lesser named reefs surrounding it extensively since the 80’s. They have charted the slow decline over the years of some large regions, and noticed no loss in other regions. This doesn’t imply climate change is the culprit either, since we have very different results across the span of the reef. Perhaps the issue is more complex than we are aware of, and maybe the starfish is just capitalizing on a slight change in conditions caused by man, as life tends to do, but then we shouldn’t be making terrifying predictions either. We also shouldn’t be trying to make billions of people feel guilty for something they had no hand in doing, especially when that faux-guilt will enable the elites to levy even more taxes on everything, as their traditional revenue sources dry up in the coming economic collapse.

The research shows that the reef could rebuild itself in 20-30 years despite the cyclones and bleaching, if the starfish population died back.

The experts agree that doing nothing is not an option at this point. “The problem is entirely soluble, and coral reefs can be saved through concerted effort over this and the following two or three generations,” said Kaufman. “There is absolutely no excuse for failure to do this, and if we do fail our generation will forever be remembered for unimaginable, unforgivable stupidity and sloth.”
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That sounds rather optimistic coming from the people who best understand the issues. Words we don’t hear from some political panel in a meeting room in Copenhagen, which seems to want us to jump through any hoops they can think of, while demonizing the primary food of life on this planet.

Some honest debates might be nice too, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

We in the west are told daily about the virtues of democracy, freedom, and bacteria infested hotdogs on glyphosate-laced buns. We are taught that only democracy can be a true representation of the will of people. Anyone observant will realize this is a total lie, there’s very little representative about a Senate, Congress, the House of Lords, or even the parliamentary houses of the various other nations. They promise things to get elected, they sway voters with their apparent intentions and as-presented moral compasses, but what happens after election is usually the opposite, only loosely dressed in excuses and mitigating nonsensical logic.

David Cameron, who beat back the populist Labour party threat of Jeremy Corbyn, did so with a clever fear campaign. Cameron was backed by financial elites and the Rupert Murdoch spiderweb of media, who vilified Corbyn from the day he entered the race for party leadership. They snatched a majority victory from what should have been something more representative: a minority parliament.

Perhaps as usual, the people mollified by the democratic process itself, mostly accepted the Tory dictatorship without question, focusing instead on dealing with whatever new agenda they would foist on the people. It personally amazed me how sympathetic and gullible the Tory voters were, as history should have told them Cameron was just the new Tony Blair in disguise. I’m still not sure how much of the result was the fear of change, or the fact that Cameron promised to hold a referendum on the EU membership, but the campaign worked. The austerity programs favoured by the EU and the financial elites came soon after. The public outcry came soon after that.

They proceeded to use their majority powers to continue the wanton destruction of the National Healthcare Service, like underpaying new doctors, or fiddling with complex hiring practices. They implemented new tax schemes and housing regimes which further hurt the working poor, all to save a few billion here and there. Schools were shut down as too much of a drain on various city councils, since the federal funding dried up too. This would have been somewhat acceptable, as everyone in the west is being badgered endlessly about low growth, and the need for cutbacks, but they did this while stumping the need to spend more than 167 billion pounds on modernizing the fleet of nuclear missile submarines. This didn’t go over very well with the average person, not at all.

I’m sure the elites knew there was a crescendo of discontent rising, but in their hubris they assumed they could handle it, like they had “handled” the Scottish independence referendum.

Corbyn, who had won nomination by overwhelming majority in his party, only won by being what Blair was not, therefore inspiring a whole wave of new members to give him a shot. Labour had lost a lot of support out of disgust with Tony Blair, and the Iraq war he promoted, but some of these Blairites hung onto their seats, quietly campaigning for the very same entrenched interests that Cameron represented. Much like the Democrats and Republicans in America, often you can’t tell the difference between the party in power, and the official opposition. Corbyn and his supporters sought to change that, and for a moment it seemed he had.

Once Corbyn was seated at the top of Labour, you would naturally expect electioneering nonsense to have stopped, but you’d have been wrong in thinking that any of the anti-Corbynism had to do with jockeying for leadership. After the nomination, the antagonism switched from external attacks in the newspapers and TV, to internal attacks by the Blairites of the Labour party. As such, you had immediate divisions between Corbyn’s new anti-nuke, pro-environment members, echoing the sentiment of the people who elected them, and the “establishment” muppets.

One major point of contention persisted from before the campaign, the whole issue of the leased American Trident nuclear missiles, ostensibly for deterrance against some phantom aggression from Russia. Many of the Trident supporters didn’t quite understand the nature of the limited partnership with the Americans, specifically that the UK had no authorization to launch the missiles without express approval from Washington, and the unlock codes provided by their Department of Defense. This made the whole argument rather hilariously vague, because no one in the establishment wanted to admit the UK had no sovereign rights to the nukes, and none of the new branch of anti-nuke Corbyinites wanted to suggest mothballing all the submarines specifically designed to host the Trident system. In the end Corbyn compromised on his tough stance on the uselessness of nuclear weapons in the modern age, allowing ministers in his party a free vote on any such matters, but this damaged his credibility as an ardent anti-nuke campaigner.

Another challenge came in the form of the Jewish lobby viciously attacking a Labour party member for some anti-Israel comments, because as we all know, the Jewish lobby likes to associate Israeli politics with the very identity of being Jewish. Corbyn acted swiftly to get the this evil offender of Jewishness out of the party, but then one of the oldest party members made a crude joke suggesting Hitler was a Zionist, as a casual remark on the aforementioned incident, which drove the Jewish lobby mental yet again. Thus Ken Livingston was fired for reminding people of the little known Transfer Agreement, whereby Hitler encouraged Jews inside Germany, with the help of Zionists outside of Germany, to smuggle people and wealth into Jewish Palestine, past the English economic embargo. Poor Ken was hoisted on his petard for knowing his inconvenient history, but this too seriously damaged Corbyn’s reputation, as most of his genuinely leftist supporters are also very much against the establishment’s support of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. I’m sure Corbyn read the tea leaves wrong here, and tried to play it safe, doing what he could to prevent the anti-semitic label from sticking to his party, but it cost him dearly.

David and the unscrupulous Tories won the election, for all appearances cementing the status quo, but to be absolutely sure, the elites most threatened by this sudden burst of populist democracy, refocused their efforts on snuffing out the movement as quickly as possible. It seemed like any attack on Corbyn and the Labour party was rubber-stamped, truth didn’t really matter. The Murdoch press slandered him for being unpatriotic, for trying to make Britain defenseless, and to destroy the financial industry with his socialist views on public financing, instead of constant bank bailouts and market manipulation. The internal Labour party strife was just icing on that cake.

What was interesting for the keen-eyed spectator, wasn’t just how obvious this vilification agenda was, but how obviously the attacks came from the entrenched political and financial elites, the same ones who supported the economic destruction of Greece to maintain the EU status quo. These were the warmongers of Westminster, the anti-democrats, ostensibly taking orders from the same groups of psychos that control the Pentagon from across the pond. Exactly like the neo-liberal Democrat imperialists, who pre-ordained Hillary Clinton as their fearless liar-in-chief; the same ones who spread all sorts of negative stories about the perils of Bernie Sanders getting nominated. The parallels were endless.

So having witnesses Corbyn trudge through the worst overt attacks I’ve seen since Obama’s first couple of years, it struck me that Corbyn is a genuinely good man. The problem he has, is the same problem plaguing the genuine left-of-center politicians, they are so used to trying to be tolerant, and helping the “oppressed” groups overcome some nebulous danger, that they fail to take a tough stand on any issue, out of fear of “oppressing” some other group, or seeming “intolerant” towards another. Their very reputation actually depends on their spinelessness!

In short, this new wave of cultural-Marxism has castrated the left, possibly for decades to come. I predict that the only intellectual and moral individuals to emerge from this new paradigm will all come from the “right” side of the aisle. Though this doesn’t have to be the case at all, you can be a genuinely good person, believe in all manner of social programs for the unfortunate, and still have strong convictions. The problem is with the voters, the destruction of critical thinking skills over the last several decades, the deliberate imposition of impossible equality through draconian means, and the constant barrage of disinformation from government bodies to further their agenda.

I could use the very rise of the far-right parties in Germany and Austria as perfect examples, their leaders and members are unafraid of upsetting people, because they realize their very culture hangs in the balance. They may (or may not) have good policies to serve the people they are trying to protect, but their anger at the castrated left is palpable, their disgust with the short-sighted actions of forced multiculturalism is very real, and their intellectual objections to neo-liberalism is perfectly valid. It is the failure of the “left” to not engage with the far-right, not the other way around. It is the failure of the neo-liberal advocates of globalism to not listen to their people, not the other way around.

This lack of a clear moral center then makes the “liberal”, or “socialist”, or “leftist” leadership easy to manhandle, by the vested corporate interests that should be in direct opposition to them.

David Cameron was visible shaken after the BREXIT referendum, he had made a desperate final push to win his election by promising to hold a referendum, so in that sense, his gambit worked. What he and the majority of establishment couldn’t see, is the more they pushed, the more the people pushed back. The other day, I saw a poll showing the sentiment leading up to Obama’s visit, and his frankly insulting ultimatum speech might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. Leave sentiment started skyrocketing, and the increasingly dire warnings via the mass media only fanned the flames, the elites were afraid, the citizens could smell it.

Just like in America, the people have had enough of their living standard falling every year, and most certainly had enough of the blatantly unrepresentative behaviour of their elected officials, and for some reason, a critical mass was reached this year. I could feel the slow buildup of political rage brewing, and each time democracy was denied for a people, it made the rage stronger, and the determination of the average voter more intense. I firmly believe this populist movement to take back power from the oligarchs was heavily influenced by external events, starting with the Greeks being betrayed in their own GREXIT referendum, and ending with the DNC snub of Bernie Sanders through outright fraud. The people had tried begging, they tried pleading, they voted, signed petitions, they showed up at community meetings, and nothing changed.

The elites had been relying on decades of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and arcane election rules to maintain voter apathy, and decrease voter turnout. The establishment’s only weapon was to disenfranchise people, to beat them down, to make their contribution feel meaningless, to take away their hope of change. Only then would ordinary people willingly play the game, and keep the economic rape-train going. However, when Bernie Sanders came so close to clinching his party nomination, people didn’t give up, for the first time, there was only a hair between failure and victory. Canada proved that when people mobilize, crazy things can happen, and the third place contender rocketed into office with a majority, with the highest voter turnout in about 22 years. High voter turnout is the best weapon we as people have to make a difference.

The message of hope and real change resonated with Canadians, who elected to throw out their ruling Conservative party with prejudice, for being undemocratic, and to put it bluntly, un-Canadian, at the end of 2015. The same message resonated with tens of millions of Bernie Sanders supporters, who were engaging the political mess for the first time. This was going to be the year of the voter turnout. The Brits were not going to be denied their say. Anyone who didn’t see then, and doesn’t see it now, that this is a worldwide movement, is either too dense, or willfully ignorant.

And just like that, the European statist regime was kicked in the teeth.

From the Tory side, Cameron at least gave a depressing stump speech about not being the man to steer the ship any longer, as a final excuse to resign. Osborne, the financial terrorist who cut social programs for the needy, to finance the war machine, just disappeared into the wallpaper. And Boris Johnson, the former mayor who was spearheading the Tory camp in favour of exiting the EU, now has to explain the ramifications of the successful vote, to a largely hungover electorate. There is no doubt that having been on the right side of the vote, Boris the Destructor will do just fine politically.

The same however can’t be said about Corbyn and the Labour party. Fractured and broken by the scandals, torn apart by the ostensible failure of the Labour leadership to mobilize Britons to vote stay, there are calls for Corbyn’s head. There is some deep irony here, elected as the populist, the staunch supporter of human rights, and a strong supporter of social democracy, he found himself on the wrong side of the vote, and the wrong side of the people. The accusations are flying as I write this, that Corbyn sabotaged the UK by not drumming up more support to stay, though in hindsight, he doesn’t seem like a man who would have fought to stay in the EU personally, and it was likely yet another compromise.

I do understand he must have been in a tough position, the youth vote mostly leaned towards stay, and the old white English population which had mostly voted Conservative, were the main force behind the leave vote. I still believe he should have taken a more principled stand on all the issues he faced. He should have kept up the fight on Tridents and the ridiculously top heavy Royal Navy, against whatever his Blairite and pro-corporate-welfare party members wanted, maybe even fired them all. He should have defended his new members from the spurious accusations of anti-semitism from the Jewish lobby, and any of the sycophants who support them, to prove that he’s in solidarity with the truth, not some pushover. Anytime a politician sides with Israel, or any Jewish groups, they are by default throwing Palestinians under the bus. I think, had he stuck to his guns, his life would have been harder, but he would have come out of this whole BREXIT episode with the reputation of a leader people would actually want. He might have even prevented a BREXIT, by mobilizing those voters that instead gave up on him.

Perhaps more importantly, this was a repudiation of NATO, not just the EU. Voters were sick of supporting the wars-of-false-pretexts started with Tony Blair. They have been hurt by the sanctions against Russia, for Crimea’s boldness in leaving the post-coup Ukraine to drown in its Neo-Nazi blood. A place that will be another quagmire for years to come, and one that threatened to unleash another horde of unemployed Ukrainians into the EU, many of which would settle in the UK ultimately. NATO is the biggest threat to peace in the world, but the UK voter didn’t get a chance to opt-out of NATO, they got a chance to opt-out of the main organization supporting its existence.

As it turns out, nearly everyone got it wrong. The Conservatives who banked on the vote securing their future, lost their future because of the Conservative voters. Labour and the new “left” supported the untenable existing order of things, which was the opposite of what they were elected to do. Boris Johnson pulled off a deft move, by siding with Nigel Farage’s UKIP to vote leave, he probably won the hearts and minds of the UKIP membership, who seemed to exist solely for this issue, while simultaneously gutting the Labour opposition. At this point, it’s doubtful anyone could mount a successful challenge to Boris ascending the throne, short of an outsider like George Galloway jumping into the contest, who also supported the leave side. No one else has any credibility with voters. That’s if they ever did.

It really is amazing how so many people got it so wrong, or just ignored the silent majority.

Most people we call “Jews” today, are not related one bit to those referenced in the Bible or Torah, they are a small number of intellectual exiles from the Babylonian empire, mixed with a lot of Khazarian converts in the Caucuses region. This is significant only in that much of Europes Jewish intellectuals come from this particular tribal soup, as most of the Middle-Eastern Sephardic Jews had already been driven out, or forced to convert to something else, leaving a vacuum.

It would have been a time of chaos and destruction that allowed strong leaders to quickly seize power, that created the conditions for Khazaria to flourish. The Khazars were at some point a kingdom of khanates, not unlike the Mongol empire that swept deep into Europe, and their empire was destroyed or dissolved around the time the Turkic Tatars moved into the region, though many of the people there already had Turkic origins themselves. It is remnants of these Crimean Tatars that later sided with the Nazis against the primarily Jewish-led Communists. It is interesting to see how seemingly unimportant tribal history can affect world politics centuries later.

Not too much is known about how the Khazarian empire fell, or specifically what happened to Judaism in the region, but we can draw parallels from other invasions. What is most likely, is that since the Khazarian kingdom converted to Babylonian Talmudic Judaism, which we know was done top down, that is to say the leaders declared all the people will officially convert, that any subsequent replacement of that leadership would just as likely expunge the conquered region of most Judaism.

This happened in Hungary, where we know the ruling class of Magyars, intellectuals, land owners, monarchs, were in the minority, according to genetic studies, and we know it was the rulers who declared the country shall be Catholic. Likewise we know in Egypt several millenia earlier, where Pharaoh Akhenaton had attempted to convert his Egyptian Kingdom to monotheism, but the lands quickly reverted to polytheism after his death. People are people, no matter where they are, and which gods they prayed to wasn’t all that critical to most. It is guaranteed that the majority of people would have just converted to something else, in this case Islam, if pressured to do so. Islam has maintained a strong presence in the region ever since.

Why this is important is twofold. It seems that being converts, with very few of direct Middle-Eastern Jewish lineage, these new breed of Jews were more pragmatic, more nomadic, and less dogmatic. Thus we can be pretty sure that only the most diehard Khazarian Jews who would have refused to convert to Islam, or revert to paganism, and they would have been the ones who migrated westward into north and central Europe. It might also have instilled yet another cultural shock, and a sense of vengeful anger towards other peoples, that wasn’t as prevalent amongst Mesopotamian or Yemenite Jews.

Since the territory covered by the Khazarian empire extended farther west than the Tatars eventually controlled, the Tatars stopping around Crimea, the largest settled populations in the Ukrainian basin would have almost certainly stayed put. This is why there were so many of these “Jews” living in Poland and Ukraine until World War 2, and why the Bolsheviks were so intent on reuniting with them. Which is again a very similar story to how the Mongols demanded the return of the Bulgars from the Hungarian empire, after the Hungarians knights had briefly pushed them back. Civilians have been used as pawns in territorial and political disputes for all of recorded history, because tribalism is a powerful ideology.

If we step back a bit to focus on the people themselves, and examine what this tapestry of history would do to the now European Jewish culture, it wouldn’t be very speculative to say it was crushing, dispossessing even. According to their oral traditions, the Jewish peoples were kicked out of their notional homeland by god as punishment, but this theme wouldn’t really apply to converts the same way. The Khazarian Jews had a homeland, with a standing army, something the Jewish people didn’t have for over a thousand years; they didn’t earn it, nor did they conquer it as Jewish people, but they were kicked out of it all the same, by humans this time. It isn’t a stretch to conclude that any Khazarian exiles would have been small in number, primarily the intellectual elites, and would have looked at new ways to preserve their ideas and values, while they try to rebuild their population elsewhere. New ways that would have preferred infiltration and subversion over confrontation. In hindsight, we can also see how they influenced the economic and legal systems of their host nations, to prevent any persecution, until the Nazis nearly stopped them cold.

It was this new tribe of the Talmud that spawned many secret societies, focused on intense tribal loyalty, occult rituals, and even some very Satanic off-shoots. It was this new diaspora that created the German-Jewish banking power base, which spread to France and England with the Rothschilds and Warburgs, and later around the world. They also managed to create a large presence in the shipping and merchant industries, by marrying the daughters of successful merchants to Rabbis, linking the new European Jew to nearly every industry. It is during this time when Jewish “evolution” really took off, spawning some weird and perverse ideologies, loosely based on tribal thinking, the idea of cultural or ethnic supremacy, and twisted Talmudic logic, which basically concludes that everything is relative. And while we could digress in any number of directions, this story is about evolution…

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In comes Darwin with his ape-man theory. In an academic environment rich with religious rejection, amoral scientific studies, and revolutionary spirits, this was both shocking, and surprisingly welcomed. The biological change wasn’t so much the problem, but rather the philosophical conclusions drawn by Darwin and his followers, that evolution favours the strongest, that it isn’t random. It wasn’t Darwin himself that declared evolution is the “survival of the fittest”, yet it was that catchphrase that stuck ever since. There’s only one problem, it is almost entirely wrong.

At the time, the field of study wasn’t populated by many students, who could have assailed Darwin’s actual observations, to soundly dispute the conclusions on a technical level. Most of the objections to Darwinist evolution theory was from the generally accepted view that mankind is not an animal, that we are special. This is of course an idea in many cultures, and a core tenet of the Abrahamic religions, which most of the “civilized world” followed. Their objection came down to their abhorrence to having a monkey as an uncle. Their very godly image was suddenly in question! Oh the heresy!

While Darwinism may be incorrect about the mechanics, the truth is hidden in plain sight. To correctly figure out the riddle of evolution, one has to ask the right questions, something Darwin had failed to do, because of his cultural bias. Tribalism, and therefore tribal supremacy is a core theme in Judaic religions, they believe they are god’s chosen people, which by default, makes everyone else not-chosen people, or simply lesser. Some Jewish scholars will argue this point with tortured logic and tongue-in-cheek references to the Torah, especially the commandments produced by Moses, but it is all misdirection.

There is no way to square equality with supremacy, some can’t be “more equal than others” as George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. It is tribalism or racism at it’s finest to believe evolution favours the best, because by that logic, the ethnic cleansing of a country would be perfectly acceptable. This kind of thinking is incompatible with compassion and morality, or even the very laws of Moses. It also doesn’t reserve space for accidents or even co-existence. This is why Darwin couldn’t see it, though he later alluded to this paradox in his books, without actually resolving it.

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Let’s say you believe evolution happens, that it is a natural process, and has managed to produce amazing things, but you reject Darwinism, then what you need is an alternative mechanism to replace it. Asking the right questions actually points you right at the multi-faceted answer, that there is more than one mechanism, and there is very little consistency between the paths of apparent competitors. The very existence of the oddball giraffe, more or less proves, that not every animal is willing to adapt the same way, to the same problem.

The first question we need to ask, is what advantage does the colour of a birds belly or crest have to do with success? There is only two possible answers, since it is entirely a visual cue, it has to be related to visibility. The first possibility is that it serves as camouflage against predators/rivals, which could even be colour-blind. In this scenario, an orange tabby cat actually blends well into green-brown underbrush at night, which could be useful, as would brown, so why don’t we see brown cats? The second possibility is the visibility to a potential mate, like a peacock which has the most ornate tail imaginable. In this scenario, if the bird is yellow crested, and the island it inhabits has only yellow flowers, this could be a drawback, but it wouldn’t favour having a red crest, over a blue crest, over a green crest. We can therefore rule out camouflage and attractiveness as the primary evolutionary driver in a large number of cases. We can also safely apply the same reasoning to the sounds an animal makes, or the colour diversity of plant life.

The next question to ask is where do we see or encounter the most evolutionary change? We know that isolated places like Hawaii, that are relatively recent volcanic constructs, far away from any landmass, now have rich and diverse ecosystems, which we can be sure originated with a small number of invasive species. Scientists have been studying Hawaii’s plant and bird diversity for a long time, and have generally concluded that only a handful of bird species managed to find their way to the island, or were brought there by early seafarers thousands of years ago, and it was this handful that diversified into dozens of new species, some of which have gone extinct since. Looking at Hawaii specifically, we can see that great opportunity and great stress, on small populations, encourages rapid evolution, measured in as little as centuries.

We could then ask, what factors conspire to limit the evolution of species? Three are many species that remain largely unchanged for many many millions of years, the obvious ones that come to mind: turtles, crocodiles, and sharks. One of those is a grazer, one is a coastal predator, and one is a deep sea predator, each with its own habitat, its own food source, and very little physical similarity. What can we rationally conclude about them? They are all long lived, with slow metabolisms, and long periods of low energy output, which suggests they are good at surviving with little food, but suggests nothing about their slow evolution, since we bipedal apes evolved faster, and we have similar lifespans. Drawing from this, we can infer that large populations with long lifespans, evolve more slowly. If this is the case, that would make the relative success of a species into it’s own evolutionary inhibitor, and increase the risk of it going extinct with a drastic environmental change. Interestingly, the much higher birthrate of crocodiles relative to sharks doesn’t seem to be a factor, since arguably crocodiles have evolved more slowly, and neither has many natural predators (humans don’t count for this exercise) of consequence.

We can even look at the role resilience or population fluidity has on the long-term success of a species. One example of this is the population of lions in Africa, where a combination of drought and canine distemper recently killed an estimated 70% of some of the largest prides. The prides almost fully recovered in numbers in less than 3 years, because of high birth rates, and short gestation periods. There are also examples were a few dozen wolves were re-introduced to national parks around North America, with the aim of controlling runaway populations of beavers, deer and other vegetarians; they quickly exploded to hundreds of wolves, in dozens of packs, each with distinct hunting grounds. When the prey animals started thinning out, predator populations dropped to match, they balanced out. For many species, their success is therefore inseparably linked to the survival of many other species in the region, which doesn’t really sound like an advantage at all. The same balancing act doesn’t apply to all species equally either, some species don’t have a regulation mechanism until all the food is exhausted. It is possible to be too good, or too efficient a consumer.

We also need to examine what role Darwin’s fitness-for-purpose actually plays in evolution, don’t we? This one is the trickiest to answer, because there are so many species that ratchet up and down in size, or numbers, as the environment permits, while not meaningfully changing. The best example of this is insects. No one much cares to think of insects, but they evolve really slowly considering how short each generation is, often only a few days, and how many trillions are alive at any given moment. We have fossil records of insects, and others preserved in petrified tree-sap from tens of millions of years ago, which have shown strikingly little change with modern insects of the same species or genotype, while the biggest difference was size. The size variance is simplest to explain. Insects have a passive breathing apparatus unlike us humans, they have tubes that allow tiny pockets of air to exchange throughout their bodies, and it is the concentration of oxygen in the environment they live, that dictates how large they can grow. Thus when oxygen levels were a good 10% higher than today, such as during the time of the dinosaurs, dragonflies were able to grow several feet long. The same is true for the tarantulas that grow to be a foot in long in the Amazon rainforest, where the rich vegetation increases available oxygen locally during the day, everywhere else they manage less than half of that. Comparing insects to animals, we can clearly see that evolutionary stresses don’t apply equally, if at all. Insects dominate with numbers not fitness. You just can’t kill ’em all.

Then we need to question the role sex, and the method of reproduction plays in evolution. Perhaps the most uncomfortable topic in previous centuries, fertilization and sexuality are a crucial part of why some species evolve quickly, while others barely seem to have evolved at all. This should be as obvious as it gets. Humans share chromosomes to average out flaws, meaning any genetic damage or mutation, has 1/4 chance to be passed on from a grandparent to child. This gene-sharing can be particularly useful in complex multi-cellular organisms, especially ones constantly exposed to toxins or infections, but has no importance for a uniform cluster of bacteria, or fungus. There is no benefit for a mushroom to have an immune system, or any gene-sharing methods with nearby mushrooms of the same species. Scientists estimated that there was a period, anywhere from 50 to 100 million years, after what we call trees had colonized land, before a fungus evolved that could digest the strong fibers in it. It is that absence of fungal degradation that ensured forests grew directly on top of dead trees, compacting the old wood, for millions of years, which is what created all those coal deposits we mine today. Why did it take fungus so long to figure this out? It has to come back to accidental mutation, because fungus doesn’t have sex. We can then reasonably conclude that species which have sex, where multiple organisms are required to produce offspring, are more inclined to evolutionary changes, as the very incidence of a mutation spreading, is greater.

Lastly, we can ask, just what are the methods that produce evolutionary change, or to be more precise, what methods change dna? This one is fairly easy to answer, but often ignored by people subscribed to the Darwinist theory. There is genetic mixing by way of sexual fertilization, there is random mutation, viral injection of dna, and even lateral gene transfer. If you were to ignore lateral gene transfer, you’d be ignoring probably half of the evolution that took place. We also can’t eliminate virii as an important factor. There are microscopic animals called tardigrades, they look like a wrinkly potato with legs, they have survived being frozen on the outside of the ISS space station, and survived the intense radiation as well. They are in many ways, one of the most resilient creatures on Earth, and they are the product of over 1300 other species, due primarily to lateral gene-transfer. That means those little “water bears” evolved by absorbing genetic material from plants, animals, bacteria, and who knows what else. Obviously a lot of these genetic hybrids were fit enough to survive, but could we really conclude that the absence of some of these gene-transfers would have had a drastically negative effect on their competitiveness? I don’t believe so.

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Can a Darwinist conclude lichen is the best design it can be, or that the slower bee with the suicidal sting is better than the wasp? How fit were the dinosaurs if an unlucky meteor wiped them out, but not mammals and birds? What makes a giant hairy vegetarian like a bison succeed, while another giant hairy vegetarian like a mammoth didn’t. Life is full of contradictions to the Darwinist view of evolution, we can see it everywhere. This isn’t to say Darwin’s theory is universally wrong, there are indeed some cases where evolutionary pressure does favour one or more given traits exclusively, but it happens in a relatively narrow subset of circumstances, to only select species, at a given time.

Answering the above questions, we can draw a more thorough picture of how evolution really works. We can make broad conclusions about when adaptation is less important, or when evolution is most likely to occur, then work backwards. We can be sure that sometimes evolution is not important at all to the survival of the species, and sometimes it is. We can probably all agree that luck has just as much to do with which specimens survive, luck is one of the primary reasons that mankind exists today.

There is plenty of evidence that evolution happens most rapidly in small populations, under stress. Those evolutionary stresses could be predatory pressure, a scarcity of food, a missing or deficient nutritional content in available food, temperature fluctuations, etc. There are so many factors for life to adapt to, that life has chosen not to in most cases. Life has largely favoured the simplest, and often most specialized lifeforms, with many slight variations to succeed where fewer, heartier variants could have sufficed. Of course the largest stresses are the unpredictable ones, like volcanos, asteroids, solar cooling cycles, and so on. Cyclical stressors can be adapted to, like the tides, or seasons, but there are these latter kinds of stressors that just don’t happen often enough. Though even this isn’t a universal truth, since tardigrades can be 97% dehydrated, survive for 30 years without food, survive in the deepest ocean trenches, or even on frozen mountaintops, their adaptation is one of resurrection when conditions are right to thrive.

There is also plenty of evidence for evolution that serves no beneficial or competitive function. Fruits are often very colourful, with the specific intent of being eaten, and therefore it’s seeds would be deposited in manure, well away from the source plant, but this reason for standing out with a bright colour, wouldn’t apply to a rose, since it isn’t trying to be eaten. What is the discernible benefit for a tigershark to have stripes, when the vast majority of hunting sharks are plain, even in the same hunting grounds? We have to accept, that sometimes evolution has no purpose, as long as it is adequate. Trial and error.

Above all, Earth’s ecosystems have proven that the individual is less important than the system it belongs to. That the strongest, fastest, most brutal killer, has no greater part to play than the insignificant maggot. It is the ecosystem that we belong to, the survival of that ecosystem which takes precedence over the survival of a given species, in almost all cases. It is man who has broken this rule. It is modern man who has singly decided not to be bound by the laws of life. The Abrahamic notion of being chosen by god, or created in his image, is just another example of hubris.

Mankind is a part of the story of Earth. In other words, we are not tardigrades, we are going to die on this rock.

It may be obvious, but wouldn’t a homogeneous human race be rather dull?

The very nature of a hypothetically “pure” empath is to immediately feel for others they encounter. There is no logic attached to it, it is like a sponge falling into water, they absorb and feel. The empathic person is therefore often the least in control of themselves, a side effect of their empathy. It can take years of deliberate self-training for even a strong empath to learn how to filter or squelch what they feel, enough to function when surrounded by distress or pain. Not everyone empathic recognizes the danger of being so exposed, or the importance of developing a thicker skin, and doesn’t make the effort to learn.

There is one critical point to make here, that is feelings are entirely personal. Thus what an empath is really doing, is simulating being the other, and recognizing what the other must be feeling based on how they would feel. It is a kind of reverse projection, they apply who they are to the scene they witness, and project those feelings back at themselves, stronger than their own feelings. An empath will often ignore their own feelings as less important, and as you might imagine, this can make a person quite gullible, or vulnerable to manipulation. They might empathize with an assailant more than they empathize with their own predicament as victim.

However, vulnerability aside, the empath is also immensely powerful. The very nature of being able to absorb and channel so much emotional energy, is not to be underestimated. Empaths are suckers for victims, but they are empowered by joy and group successes. Their combination of apparent selflessness, with their ability to harness everyone elses energy instead of relying on their own, can make them fantastic leaders in certain situations, or relentless fighters in another. Assuming they are strong and disciplined enough to hold those forces together.

In fact, I would argue the empath has the most potential, to be influential, or powerful, and yet is the weakest type of person externally, out of fear of embracing the pain. This is the paradox, the person most able to withstand suffering, the person most opposed to perceived wrongs, is the most afraid of it, and afraid of themselves. That said, there are also very militant empaths, who want to save anyone who feels bad, from whatever makes them feel bad, often bearing a misguided grudge against the source of those feelings, regardless of the justness of what caused it.

It can be a very hard for an empath to let something they feel go, to understand that hurt doesn’t equal injustice, and happy doesn’t equal righteous. Birth is a painful experience, and people can die painlessly. A feeling isn’t a self-evident truth.

We all use the term psycho to describe what we judge to be ruthless or incomprehensible people, people that will do whatever it takes, regardless of who gets hurt. The legal definition boils down to being highly anti-social, usually aggressive, and remorseless. This is all only partly correct though, as psychopathy is basically the absence of empathy, and those definitions are really just symptoms. If you don’t feel for people, you won’t feel bad for hurting them later, right?

When a psychopath makes judgements, they make it thinking of themselves, with a kind of ultra-selfish logic. A psycho could therefore be causing harm to others indirectly, and even be aware of this fact, without the slightest intention of being malicious. It is a purely logical calculation, a cold, terrifyingly honest calculation, of their needs and wants, versus those of others.

What an ordinary person sees is normally heavily distorted by their relationships, by their loyalties, by their compassion, or even hatred, whereas the psychopath sees ordinary people doing predictable or unpredictable things. It is not devoid of logic, nor is it devoid of the ability to determine right from wrong, it is just a different set of parameters they use. To many people, they will seem alien, others will envy their ability to focus on what matters.

Because of this lack of empathy, a real psycho has a glaring problem in society, they don’t bask in anyone elses joy, nor do they sympathize with someone who suffers. They may fail to smile at the right time, and their smile won’t be entirely natural, as they are really just trying to mimic a real smile, without quite understanding it. They might fail to laugh in a situation where others would find the laughing contagious. They also may not flinch when something gruesome happens right in front of them, or show fear when things go horribly wrong, but the eyes always reveal the truth.

Collectively, psychopathy makes a human seem inhuman, and the empath who is used to absorbing what other people feel, will be frightened by them. This can make for some interesting dynamics, where the empath and psycho could find themselves enemies, over literally nothing happening. Most people would shrug it off as a clash of personalities, not knowing how fundamentally incompatible they are. It is also worth noting, that someone can be quite benign, even though they don’t care how others feel, because their actions are still by choice, and they are perfectly capable of factoring other people’s needs into their calculations.

This is why a judge will always take remorse into account when sentencing a criminal. It is a meaningful metric when assessing if someone can be reformed by punishment, or whether they will remain a serious threat to society. Implicitly, this discretionary detail revolves around a criminal’s ability to feel for those they have harmed, or wronged, without attributing it to a specific mental disorder, which would be legally problematic. It is also the judge’s duty to distinguish between any kind of remorse for a victim, and the pain of self-pity for being found guilty.

Some philosophers, and Darwinists will argue that psychopathy could be viewed as the last step to metaphysical freedom, and that the psycho should be revered as the greatest evolution of humanity. Much like how we view short necks and stubby legs to be throwbacks to our ape ancestry, some of these ideological thinkers see our emotional baggage as a vestige that should be left behind on the evolutionary tree as well. If you subscribe to the idea that survival is based on fitness for purpose, and not a complex arrangement of environmental factors, happy accidents, and possibly lack of competition, you might view emotions as a hindrance.

From a holistic view however, you might actually see that our emotions have evolved with us, and have served us very well from the time we domesticated the land, forming permanent settlements, and strong communal identities. We could also point out that insects aren’t compassionate, though I suspect a Darwinist wouldn’t like that comparison very much.

The people in the middle are what I call the mundanes, neither here or there. Most of them blissfully unaware of the spectrum, or where they fit into it. Most of these people have a little of everything, a little compassion and a little cruelty, a little cold logic and a little uncontrolled passion, but not clearly anything in particular.

Being one of the mundane is not the same as having no orientation, everyone between the two opposites has some varying level of empathy, and ascribes a varying amount of importance to what they feel. Some are excellent at focusing on a task, limiting the intrusion of feelings or compassion that might distract them from their duties. Others are absolutely terrible at tuning out, and will be thrown into turmoil just by the presence of someone highly emotional.

Still, as a species, the one consistency we have is inconsistency. We’re all based on the same stuff, and we’re all designed roughly the same way, but small differences have big impacts. We also have defense mechanisms, which we aren’t always aware of, that can change the equation drastically. Someone who is victimized could become a temporary psychopath, in a kind of mental shock, where the non-essential (emotional) parts of the brain are turned off or bypassed, allowing them to endure any horror to survive. Other times, someone usually cold and unfeeling, could suddenly experience an invigorating sense of happiness, from a child they just met.

There is also diversity in the range of the spectrum people can straddle, some people seem to be able to shift as the situation dictates, from one direction to the other, even show a duality about themselves. Conversely, some people are immovable like bedrock, they will be what they always were, no matter what happens around them. As annoying as people can seem, would it be so absurd to posit that there is no “right” way to be, since it depends on the situation?

Then there’s the confusing bunch. The no-longer-called-sociopath condition, is generally regarded as psychopathy with a conscience. The general diagnosis revolves around the person’s ability and willingness to integrate into society. Someone who is anti-social for instance, despite the fact that they might feel a great deal of contempt for the mundanes, and merely avoid them to avoid feeling that way. Alternately, a sociopath could be the most effective manipulator, as they can feel what normal people feel, even empathize to some level. Being far more in-tune with the people they encounter, they are much more dangerous than a typical psychopath, as they can better understand peoples reactions.

Thus a sociopath with very little empathy, is not much different to a psycho, and one that’s very empathic, can be a heroic leader should the need arise. The question keeps coming back to the level of empathy, so maybe the correct way to view a sociopath, is kind of split-personality disorder, where they are able to think emotionally to some degree, as if they are two distinct people. So a sociopath may choose to hurt someone to teach them a lesson, and feel bad about it, just not bad enough to stop themselves.

A good example would be Saddam Hussein, when he consolidated his power as president of Iraq, he culled the political assembly of threats to his presidency. A politically expedient thing to do in a semi-tribal society. He had dozens of people arrested and later executed, including friends of his. He was even filmed crying a bit while giving the orders from his chair, and hearing their pleas as they were dragged away. Was he more or less justified in killing these people, having shown sympathy and possibly even regret? He certainly had the authority to do so, but this is where the the observer’s position on this spectrum of empathy matters, and there is no universal answer. Does authority make any decision right, or is justice (and morality) a universal constant that trumps legality?

The way you feel affects your view of right and wrong, and your entire sense of fairness. I think it’s important to remember that.

In any well functioning society, there’s inevitably going to be a small group of people who disagree with laws, or the basic moral tenets people are supposed to adhere to. It is like battle between socialism and libertarianism, or collectivism versus individualism. Neither way is inherently better or worse on the whole than the other, except when taken to the extreme. Like shooting a terrorist versus dropping a 500 pound bomb on the heavily occupied building he lives in, at some point it just becomes a bad thing.

When collectivism starts determining what people must do against their will, when majority decision is considered justice, or when the freedom to criticize is suppressed in the name of harmony, that’s when it turns bad. It can also fail when education and knowledge become too concentrated, and the larger group is unable to grasp the nuances of a challenge they face. A common result is that mob rule takes the place of cautious reasoning, the logical few are outvoted by the emotional many. Such an asymmetrical society inevitably leads to central planning as a way to “solve the problem”, and heads down the path of totalitarianism if unchecked.

When taken to the extreme, libertarian values are synonymous with anarchy, the belief that people will happily co-exist, for mutual benefit, without structure or artificial limits. As we know from our tribal past, that any form of anarchy will fail, or end in conflict. It only takes a few who would rather amass power starting to do so, and in the absence of collective structure, are free to become dominant, centralizing power once again. A group of anarchists would have great difficulty preventing the rise of a demagogue at a time of hardship, being primarily focused on themselves.

The struggle within any modern form of society, is how to balance the needs of the many, without favouring the few, to an extent that the few need to be afraid of angry mobs coming to kill them. This balance is complicated immensely by the fact that a small percentage are totally opposed to hurting anyone, and another small percentage will present rational arguments as to why hurting people is ok, for the greater good. This battle of societal righteousness, often resembles a bully fighting a pacifist. The mundanes who keep to themselves, the people who don’t dare pick a side, the voiceless downtrodden, all continually skew society whether they intend to or not, just by their ratio in the population. Just as the silent killers, the ruthlessly ambitious, the ones who feel no loyalty to the fragile mundanes around them do.

The one societal structure that we as a species hasn’t outgrown is the tribe, and is the most immune to personality demographics. Like in Afghanistan, where the eldest male in the family is usually the ruler of the clan, and then belongs to a council of elders of the community, which then have sporadic meetings with other councils to decide trade policies and settle feuds. This can be viewed as a tyrannical system, where at various levels there is no democracy, and no representation of disparate views. However, since the tyrants belong to the families they rule over, they have a much deeper loyalty to do what’s right, to help their children and grandchildren prosper.

The reason tribalism works so well, is that the leader is capable of banishing anyone dangerous to the group, and may have the wisdom to prevent someone untrustworthy from joining the tribe. The emotional whirlwind of an empath can be silenced, and the psychopath can be denied, at some small amount of personal risk. There is no option for a majority to gang up on a minority opinion, and there’s usually less question of allegiance. Everyone at the council level has great responsibility, and acts to ensure peace is maintained though the integrity of each family.

We could also look at what conditions a state of war between tribes produces. In a scenario where peace and harmony just can’t be achieved between tribal representatives, or where one tribe is violently expansionist, there could be a need to shift mentality. Those anti-social types might make really good soldiers, maybe even cunning military strategists. Certainly there are times when too much empathy can get you killed, but too little empathy will be inversely problematic at times of peace. There needs to be a level of dynamism in a society, and we might even consider war to be a consequence of too many of the wrong kind of people in the group.

Violence may in fact be a natural cleansing mechanism which resets a community to be more cooperative, by disproportionately killing off the psychos, along with the most aggressive people. It is indeed very likely that the number of psychos in a population were kept to a minimum, even in times of peace, as their kind was hard to tolerate in organized society, and many of them preferred to be alone. Unlike today, where psychos get to excel in antagonistic, amoral activities, like investment banking, and corporate raiding, which handsomely reward the most pathological specimens.

When we really start to delve into what makes a political system work or fail, popular or unpopular, fair or unfair, it really comes down to people. The diversity of a community, specifically the way people think and feel, the traditions they hold onto, the ambitions they seek to achieve, all play a major role.

If a community of artists who all feel a common love of nature and anarchy come together, they can probably form a very successful cooperative based on the principles of individualism. It is also possible their libertarian utopia could succeed for a generation or two after them, but there will come a time when there are enough new members in the group, that want something different. When that time comes, the group will have an identity crisis, with the original founders having grown old or died off, the community will no longer have the ideal mix of personalities to maintain their free style of living. There is an inevitable rethink, which may be towards centralized authority, or even a cultural mutiny leading to an exodus of members.

What Americans are experiencing in the 2016 election cycle is similarly disruptive. Long have certain groups been lulled to sleep by the ineffectiveness of their vote in changing the policies of government. Others have been more recently lulled to sleep by promises of change by Barry Obama, until it turned out he couldn’t change the system, the system changed him. The political elites from the two main parties have spent the last several decades gerrymandering electoral boundaries, passing arcane electoral laws, fighting over voter registration (ie. suppression) methodologies, all to prevent their constituents exerting too much power over what the representatives can do. Then suddenly, two populist candidates arose simultaneously, demonstrating that the people in power really aren’t representative at all.

It would not be much of a stretch to suggest that the Democrat and Republican parties have been complacent, having coalesced around the idea of swapping power every election or two, giving voters a false choice, with an arbitrary enemy to vote against. Equally, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to suggest the voters are sick of the games, sick of their voices not being heard, possibly even sick of the faux-republic. They see a Pentagon full of unaccountable psychos cheerleading wars they can’t win, they see Congress full of sociopaths acting out Shakespearean dramas about the size of government, and they see Wall St. laughing their heads off in Congressional hearings about how they fucked the economy. And it’s not just America, countries all over the world are suffering from globalism imposed by American might, ultimately causing the exact same problems.

Just like the politicians, police in America no longer work where they live, specifically so that they don’t grow attachments to the people they Beat and Harass. The last thing the elites they protect would want is police empathizing with their community, possibly resisting unjust orders from above, out of a sense of loyalty. Even though a neighbourhood isn’t a tribe per se, people will unconsciously apply a sense of family unity to their community, especially in residential pockets where people socialize a lot. A police force that can’t empathize with community they serve, will become a police force that oppresses that community instead, which then attracts people with the weakest consciences and least amount of empathy into the force, making it that much worse.

The entire western world is also setup on a centralized model of authority, allowing economic monopolies to flourish, and any notions of a de-centralized republic to be crushed under a mountain of bureaucratic nonsense, protected by a sprawling policing apparatus. Since the government representatives are encouraged to rid themselves of pesky things like morality, these days it takes organized phone campaigns and huge online petitions to remind them to fear their voters. Often the least moral people are given the most important positions too, like the terrorist loving John McCain being chair of the Committee on Armed Services, where he gets to approve mammoth military expenditures, to fight the terrorists he created. It would be a fair assessment to say the Pentagon is really a “protection racket” worthy of the mafia at this point, and the Senate is their spokesman.

The ability of voters to change the entire bench of representatives every few years also decreases the loyalty of many representatives. They don’t have to worry about the long term consequences of their actions, since they may not even be the figurehead of their community a decade later. Likewise, an unpopular representative doesn’t have to fear being overthrown in a popular coup d’etat when they least expect it, which might keep them honest, as a nice long election cycle gives plenty of warning. Imagine if voters could un-elect their politicians at any time, that would strike some fear into their greedy hearts.

It may start to become clear why the westernized world hates tribalism. Although the media have been trying to sell ordinary people the idea of it being backwards, unrepresentative, and stifling, it isn’t the citizens who are in charge of bombing campaigns against tribal nations. No it’s the established elites who are deathly afraid of the true de-centralization of power, far beyond what a republic can endure. Most importantly, the decision maker in a populous nation can’t be directly related to all the citizens, but they can in a tribal system. It is this divorce of people in power from people without power, that allows an elected representative to become more selfish, and less sympathetic. In effect, a republic creates conditions that shift politicians away from empathy, towards psychopathy.

Some people have rhetorically asked how things got this way. How has the western world failed it’s people so completely? How has the government become so unrepresentative? How have the courts become so skewed towards businesses with zero conscience? How has the policing become so violent and yet be supported by the justice system at every turn? The answer must come back to people; the way they think and feel in all aspects of government, and whether the way they are is anything like their voters.

So if we take a close look at the failure of government in America, or any number of westernized countries in Europe, rather than seeing bureaucracy or waste as the cause of its problems, rather than focusing on false issues like the sustainability of social programs, really digging into its essence, isn’t it just a lack of empathy? And if so, can a society function if all its functionaries are acting psychos, even if only by training and encouragement? From my perspective, that’s looking like a giant nope, and at a glance, it appears to have less to do with the type of political system, than it does the scale of the system.

Perhaps the lesson we can learn from today’s turmoil isn’t just that the societies have changed, and that government has failed to respond, that would be a flippant excuse. What it could be telling us, is that a society can’t easily survive if the leaders don’t genuinely care for the people they rule over. That maybe the only way to have justice also requires empathy, and that only some minimum level of compassion can prevent many of the abuses we have found. Even though it will cause some people pain either way, empathy is incompatible with imperialism, which is a damned good start.

We could even go farther and say, we have to embrace emotional reasoning, and logical reasoning at the same time. The more effectively we can see a situation from both halves of the spectrum, instead of embracing just one side, the more rational and humanist we will be. This may require lots of practice for people used to internalizing the opinions of famous people, and it may require a total overhaul of the educational systems to focus on philosophy as much as mathematics, but it is possible. Crucially we need to realize that the struggle will never end, we’ll have to keep fighting to return to that balance, or find some process to excise anyone who demonstrates too much psychopathy from a position of power, without resorting to guillotines preferably.

The one thing people have repeatedly proven, is they are always dissatisfied, even if when they get what they want, and will pressure their peers to move the line again.

So it is with great speeches, and thunderous rhetoric, that we are allowed to spectate on the rise of people like Bernie Sanders and Donald Drumpf. In both cases we have candidates making a mark by being anti-establishment, and firmly by all appearances. All the other candidates in the 2016 election are basically sockpuppets, they speak when they are told to speak, they support who pays them, and in the most bizarre way, criticize each other for not being “establishment” enough. Members from both parties have been voicing concerns about their own candidates, warning that the party will end if the populists get the vote, which might actually be true, and it would be exactly what the electorate seems to want.

Naturally, in the first phase of candidacy, everyone will attack everyone, and will only play nice with other candidates, once they themselves have dropped out, or once the party has picked their leader. Since we’re in the first phase still, albeit very close to the point-of-no-return, some jabs and swipes are to be expected. Yet when you listen to the pundits and reporters, you find the pro-Democrat MSNBC doing whatever they can to ridicule or dismiss their most popular candidate Sanders, and the pro-Republican Fox News finding any excuse to bash Trump. It goes well beyond reason in some cases, it goes well beyond truth in too many cases.

In the case of Trump, the establishment is in danger more along the lines of a new King succeeding the last. In basic terms, the old cronies are likely to be ejected and replaced by new cronies, but otherwise not much will change structurally. Which is why the attacks are becoming more absurd. This isn’t to say there wouldn’t be vast changes, on the economic front, Trump has promised to audit the Federal Reserve, and dismantle all the destructive free-trade deals, but he never suggests breaking up the largest corporations or banks, which would set up quite a grudge match. On the business side of things, Trump’s promise to end all the military interventions around the world will necessarily bankrupt much of the military-industrial complex as we know it, and possibly bankrupt the majority of States that depend on them to employ their people. The megalithic businesses that fail could be replaced by numerous smaller businesses of course, as the flow of foreign made goods dries up, local business is incentivized to pick up the slack, but this will take time, possibly a good decade or more.

Under a Sanders administration, we would have a political retrenchment primarily, with the bulk of change happening in the legal arena. His focus seems to be restacking the deck, altering the makeup of the courts to serve the people once again, rather than being protectors of big business. To this end, strengthening the EPA and other counter-balance institutions to business would be a priority. There would be no mass layoffs or GDP sized deficits as some internet memes might suggest, but Sanders has also promised to end foreign wars, and not enter into any more free-trade deals. His socially focused policies on things like minimum wage and a single-payer healthcare system would lift millions out of poverty, and give the average person less downside risk. The real risk is that the established oligarchs would still have their cronies in key positions, and will do everything they can to stonewall or corrupt Bernie’s populist policies.

All the Jews over 40 are with Hillary Clinton. They just are. We just are…
Steve Rabinowitz, a Jewish Democratic political consultant

The groups that make up the lower classes, the urban blacks, the rural hispanics, the disaffected youth etc, will all have a greater say in what happens. This thought is terrifying to the top of the 1%ers at the top, who have spent fortunes to maintain dynasties throughout the last century and beyond. The unspoken truth is that most of the oligarchs in power today, are actually descendants of the Robber Barons of yore, and had very little hand in creating their fortunes. The bulk of modern-day economic titans also owe their success to those established dynasties and their cronies in the government. Google for example, received ample doses of seed-funding from defense contractors and agencies alike, their reward is unfettered access to the largest consumer oriented behavioral database, and even contracting them to aid terrorists disguised as Google Ideas groups.

A deal with the Devil is still a deal.

The Rothschilds controlled central banks have been rigging the economies of most developed and developing nations around the world for decades, but more recently have been aggressively rigging the investment markets, choosing winners and losers, often against the will of the market participants. This manipulation has not only become obvious, but so pervasive that the majority of investors can no longer pretend it isn’t happening, and they are losing confidence by the day. In perhaps a great irony, many of the new breed of multi-millionaires and above actually side with the middle-class on issues of wage disparity and a lack of free markets. Many of these new 1%ers are not so entrenched as to be immune from market crashes, or not well connected enough to get advance warning when the ponzi scheme will implode, and many more are waking up to the very real possibility that central banks have lost control. They don’t see much long-term upside to continuing along the path we’re all on, which more and more seems like the controlled demolition of everything that made America an economic powerhouse. They want a total rethink of the economy, just like many of their technologies disrupted incumbent businesses before.

Yet very little of the topics mentioned above make it into the predominantly Jewish oligarch controlled mainstream media (MSM). In fact, they deploy an endless stream of paid shills to pretend to have deep insight into the issues, when what they are really doing is steering the conversation away from the issue. When Donald argues about deporting immigrants, he’s tapping into tribal fears about unwanted aliens competing on their territory, which isn’t specifically racist, but also highlighting the underlying issue, that American jobs are being given away to non-Americans by the establishment en masse. He’s not entirely accurate on the mechanics of the outsourcing, and he’s not specifically blaming the right groups occupying those jobs, but it’s still a very effective rallying cry, behind  which he can tackle the actual problem. The MSM refuses to let anyone hear that kind of analysis however, and they will imply anyone who sides with him as obviously racist. Just like the Jewish lobby and media moguls will coordinate a mass assault on anyone who dares criticize the political (and illegal) state of Israel as racist.

What’s rather funny about this election, and the media’s obsession with Trump’s far-right-wing supporters, is that Sanders supports many of the same policies, and they can’t attack him for being racist. In fact, the Jewish elite doesn’t know how to quite handle Bernie. They can’t smear him with ad hominem attacks as they can with Trump, because he’s one of their own, even if he disagrees, as that could break down the well-crafted image of the Jewish neo-liberal or neo-conservative elite as being entirely benevolent. Imagine, “liberal” Jews attacking a very popular “socialist” Jew, that’s not going to fly is it? And being Jewish never helped anyone running for office previously.

Sanders is also the son of poor immigrants, that gives him an even more powerful connection with the downtrodden elements of society, a connection that the Jewish elites who oppose him don’t have. He’s also not an overt Zionist, possibly because he understands Palestinians in refugee camps, are not much different to ostracized immigrants, even though he has made unpopular pro-Israel statements on his campaign stops. A direct character assault on Sanders is thus rather difficult to pull off, at least without alienating the people they need to convert. The best they can muster is sweeping him under the rug wherever possible, hoping media silence is enough. Their backup plan seems to be vilifying Sanders supporters as naive anti-capitalist bums, who just want free stuff, paid for by the noble blue-collar worker. Judging by the closeness of the Democrat primaries, it’s not working too well though.

All this brings to light an interesting question, how would America be different, if the media representation of events and facts actually reported the tribal attachments of all the actors involved? We see this happen everyday when it comes to Islam, “Islamic extremists” or “linked to Al-Qaeda” were hugely popular sayings in the media for over a decade now. Imagine the media had referred to neo-con hawks in the Bush Jr. administration, with their affiliations and associations like this:

• Paul Wolfowitz, a Jewish military doctine author for the State Dept.
• Bill Kristol, an ardent Zionist and son of a primary founder of neo-conservatism.
• Richard Perle, linked to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and member of the Bilderberg Group
• Michael Ledeen, linked to the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
• Charles Krauthammer, Jewish strategist, and a strong defender of the Likud party in Israel.
• Robert Kagan, linked to Mossad and the Israel lobby.
• Dov Zakheim, a Jewish arms industry shill, and partly responsible for militarizing Israel.
• And many more…

Clearly a little word association changes the entire feel of the “Americanism” of the George W. Bush presidency. Nearly everyone he listened to was Jewish, linked to Israeli interests, and had with close ties to businesses that profit from war, including his own father and his VP. We also don’t hear much about the Bush family’s involvement with the Nazis in World War II, but people might feel that’s historical information, and no one wants to admit the Nazis actually asked the Jewish people to leave Germany, as that would screw up the holocost narrative.

So what if all news stories carried such qualifications for everyone mentioned?

The first thing it would expose, is just how “Jewish” the influential American elite really are. Not only the media moguls, the Hollywood producers, the military contractor executives, etc, but a good chunk of key intellectuals inside the government. Obama’s current pick to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court is Jewish, and if appointed successfully, 4 of 9 Justices in the most powerful court in the land will be Jewish, which is very disproportionate for a group making up a very small minority of America by population.

The second thing that would be exposed, is just how unfairly and selectively labels are attached to other peoples in the media. It is this selective painting of tribal affiliations that encourages xenophobia, and to some extent racism. People are labelled loners, psychopaths, thugs, etc by the media all the time, and while they may or may not be apt, they are also not tribal identities. It’s when people are labeled collective titles, that things start taking on extra emphasis in any given narrative. Like how the false-flag Paris attacks on Friday the 13th we pinned on Syrians, then people transiting through Turkey, then Belgian nationals, the story kept changing, but the associations are never refuted. It all serves to reinforce the broader message, that people from the Middle East are fanatical Muslims who kill nice friendly white people listening to death-metal bands, in a theater owned by a Jewish couple.

The good old days, I remember them well… not.

Over the last century, the American political elites, although largely Christian at the time, were pushing the American way onto the rest of the world as they do today. Concurrently the Jewish dominated Hollywood was producing films that encouraged or exemplified given behaviours of the American people, a kind of social conditioning, while appealing to the conservative masses. Many stories involved underdogs, which can be an allegory for revolutionaries, the David vs. Goliath story was very popular. Subversive Jewish ideologies were disseminated everywhere, in perhaps a less perverse form than today.

Part of the problem of this quest to create political pervasiveness throughout the world, which intensified with the Communist “threat”, is that Hollywood was exported with it, and the two began to co-mingle. Each group used the other to promote Americanism, and jointly were very successful. And is there really much difference between the Jewish idea of chosenness versus American exceptionalism? Are these two ideas not one and the same, aside from religious context?

Many Hungarians fleeing in the wake of the revolution in 1956 had never even heard of Canada, when it opened its refugee program, most of them made the trip only knowing that it was “like” America. They knew this only by association, the American propaganda machine, with the help of Hollywood, had so effectively drowned out most other options. It’s this kind of brute-force culture machine that most Muslim countries resist today, and it’s a machine that’s still controlled almost exclusively by Jewish executives and owners, unless you count faceless shareholders.

Even “alternative” media outlets like Infowars, which started out as a voice of reason against the establishment, have been corrupted from the inside out. There was reason to think Alex Jones was very anti-Israel in the beginning, when he produced 9/11 documentaries, pointing out the Mossad agents video taping the event, and worked with Jesse Ventura to expose many coverups, but that all changed. How it happened is clear, he hired staff linked to Mossad, and suddenly changed his tune. Alex LaFarge Jones, no longer allows criticism of Israel or Jews directly, he merely calls them globalists, refusing to connect the last dot. We can deduce why easily enough too.

Alternative media is a tough business to be in, not only because production is expensive, but it’s hard to filter through the endless crud called “news” to find the juicy bits without a huge staff. So to stay on top of things, a site might need a helping hand in the form of a mole, or well-connected benefactor who can drip feed some conspiratorial materials. Mossad is ideally positioned to do just that with America’s secrets, and there are some political advantages gained for Israel to have the capacity to leak fabricated or altered intelligence into the wider world without showing their involvement. It is also possible Alex was hitting too close to home, and some nice Jewish fellas paid him a visit with an ultimatum.

Wikileaks, which made a name for themselves exposing leaked military footage from the early stages of the occupation of Iraq, showing a helicopter pilot casually killing people milling about, and then killing them s’more. We know now that the Private Bradley Manning was the source of most of their material, but it wasn’t long until Mossad started leaking some embarrassing documents to bolster Wikileaks too. Since Assange is still holed up in an embassy building in London, it’s not likely he has any direct contact with Mossad agents, except through his laptop. Nevertheless, Julian’s leaks never seem to involve any material damaging to Israel, which follows the same pattern.

The enemy you know…

The Jewish intellectuals, oligarchs, elites, however you like to think of them, have mastered one more art form, and that’s creating a controlled or satellite opposition. It is basically what Israel has done with the BDS movement, and with so many other political groups trying to oppose Jewish ideologies or Israel, like the 9/11 truth movement:

The BDS movement was compromised from its onset. BDS changed its goal statement in an effort to appease its Jewish supporters and Zionist funders.* Many commentators now see that BDS has been reduced to an internal Jewish exchange that benefits Israel and Zionism. Instead of debating ‘Israel’s right to exist’ the argument has been changed into various Jews arguing about the ‘right to BDS.’ This is a very clever move on Netanyahu/Mondoweiss’ part.

BDS, originally intended to mount economic and political pressure on Israel and its supporters, achieved the opposite. It united the Jews, both Zionists and the so called ‘anti’, in a debate on BDS.

The new British anti-BDS bill is a spectacle of Jewish power, both Zionist and ‘anti.’ BDS is now an internal Jewish debate. Read today’s Middle East Monitor report on the dissent to the new directive. The Palestinians are not even mentioned. Instead we learn about the good BDS Jews.  “Amongst those who have objected to the plans were British Jews from various organisations who defended the BDS movement as a weapon of moral persuasion, deploying a tactic frequently used by powerless people in their opposition to racism, slavery and oppression.”
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If the entire conversation is hijacked, and the first 90% of it had you enthralled, one of two things will happen, either you get sucked down a hole that leads nowhere, or you become disenchanted with the entire topic. Doesn’t really matter to the people keeping the secret, a discredited conspiracy theorist is just as good as someone who never believed.

The War was Good wasn’t it?

Most of the films produced by Hollywood during and in the years following WWII, were war propaganda. Let’s just be honest about that. Most were CIA or Pentagon funded, most gave the government of the day final edit on the films, and often rejected scripts, or forced rewrites, all to further the illusion of America to its own citizens. Sometimes it was to promote the bravery of killing indigenous people for mineral rights in their backyard, other times it was to promote a sense of invincibility of the American military machine, but usually it was just trying to imply that America’s position in all cases as justified. What liberal 18yr-old would volunteer to fight for a corporate army, in a war of aggression that their own family would not benefit from at all?

What these people learned, no doubt in part from the example of the Catholic Church throughout history, is that once you control the moral center of your society, which is what all religions have traditionally done in the past, you gain control of your populace more completely than through laws. It is this power that caused Kings to so fear the  Church, and it is this power that television has taken away from them. In this way, the Jewish dominance of the media, has to a large extent, shaped American society, and by export, has shaped all western societies. To pretend this is not the case should be as illegal as disputing the official version of the holocost is today.

This time though, the moral center was deliberately made more fluid, and based on vague notions rather than specific tenets. A rigid orthodoxy is always backwards facing, and cannot be adjusted easily as they wish it, unlike some vague notion of patriotism, that can justify murdering innocent civilians in far away places, as a solution to a collective resentment. You can see how the media dialogue changes from the invasion of Iraq, to the endless quagmire it becomes. The justification for involvement changes from getting rid of evildoers, to supporting the troops, and who can argue with that, some godless Commie?? They accomplished this feat, mainly by destroying intellectual criticism, and subverting the language, something George Orwell warned us about in 1984, and George Carlin warned us about later.

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When a language is co-opted and contorted, war becomes good, free speech becomes bad, and anyone who asks the wrong question is unpatriotic. Take for example the famous “War on Terror”, how can you have a war on a feeling? Precisely! How about a “War on Drugs”? Absolutely! In 1984 Winston is educated by his friend, he explains how the word bad is redundant, since all we need is good, and ungood. It is elegant, even beautiful he suggests. This is the new front in the warfare between the elites and the rest of us, controlled opposition, and controlled language to express the opposition.

In 2016, the United States is a cultural battleground, where many disparate groups, each with their own vision of American society, or at least their vision of an ideal society, are fighting a high stakes duel to determine the future. It is kind of laughable to think that many of these visions are inspired by the sit-coms and cartoons they grew up with. Everything from feel-good shows like Leave it to Beaver, to period defining shows like All in the Family, to gender-bending brainwashing like Teletubbies. People are not necessarily a product of what they watch, but you can be sure it leaves a mark, or leaves a door open to a certain ideology.

The post-war conservatives, who pine for the 1950’s all over again, fight to assert their televised Americanism on the government, and are increasingly perturbed by the government’s resistance. They are equally maddened by the cultural-Marxists masquerading as “liberals” who demonize them for it. In this way, much of their conflict has been hijacked, they are not fighting the right enemy to achieve what they want.

There are also generally liberal people, who think the 80’s was the pinnacle of American civilization, with flashy cars, flashy suits, and a haze of limitless empowerment. Even though this is also pure fantasy, and the swing towards environmental friendliness has nailed that coffin, it’s still motivating people to this day through films like Wall St. High finance, and the information economy would save us all they said. High finance nearly destroyed the economy in 2008, and the “information economy” destroyed manufacturing. Hurrah.

In an ironic twist, there are now younger generations that are less tolerant than their parents. A product of political-correctness, crossed with increasingly sandboxed feminist intellectuals promoting ever more twisted forms of gender conflict, and sprinkled with heavy doses of sexual confusion, these people have become militant victims. They find flaw with everything that exists, and seek to celebrate oppression in all its forms, even where no oppression exists. The schools are becoming nurseries, education is being whitewashed of anything conflicting with today’s values, and critical thinking has been displaced by padded rooms where people can go to escape disturbing ideas.

There is no doubt the media is complicit in screwing up society in this way. There were some very tiny problems with intolerance, and their solution was to expose children with little to no understanding of these concepts, earlier and earlier in life. If it was merely exposing children to the idea of gay marriage, or that strange people exist, that would be one thing, but now an entire curricular system foisted upon the entire country, called Common Core, is riddled with abnormal sexual and non-binary gender themes. There is so much of it, that any logical person would think the solution is more harmful to normal children, than the harm previously caused to a minority through omission, while not tackling the major problem of the sexualizing of children on TV. Because of intolerant standardized testing, and arbitrary attitude evaluations, we can expect entire generations of kids to grow up feeling inferior, unable to express their frustration, having difficulties connecting with partners, and have no ability to problem solve or manage risk.

We need to step back and ask if this is by design. Are the elites, in their adopted tribe of 1%ers, waging intellectual and moral warfare on everyone elses children? We can perhaps answer that by noting how many States are preventing home-schooling. Curricula are being made entirely rigid as well, with no flexibility allowance for children slightly immature, or slightly advanced. Recess is being systematically excluded or cut back in most schools, all in the false belief that children need more seat time to get higher grades, despite scientific studies to the opposite from all over Europe. School is becoming a forum for indoctrination, snitching on parents, and subduing individual will.

We can likewise ask, are the Jewish media and production companies waging an intellectual and moral war against adults? Here too we can answer by observation. Whistleblowers are being routinely punished. Any and all criticism of American imperialism leads to black listing for government employees, leads to journalists being targeted for surveillance, and in some cases being added to no-fly lists. All these actions are unconstitutional, as people are not allowed to be punished without a crime being committed.

Yet every day, the MSM lies to our faces, spinning whatever version of the truth they feel like that day. The spin cycle is nonstop now, it serves to make sure people end up believing false facts, which then prevent accurate deduction, and be vulnerable to ridicule if any of those facts are disproven in a well researched debate. Perfect for making people inarticulate, with incoherent memories. The insidious part is that media lies are protected “free speech”, as are the obscene contributions they make to political parties, whereas an individual lying is at risk of a libel suit, and has a contribution cap.

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
John Basil Barnhill, 1914

We would be remiss not to ask if the English language itself is safe from similar psychological warfare? The truth is probably murky on this point. The language as proposed in 1984 is a comical extreme of sanitizing speech, yet the Social Justice Movement, which is really the embodiment of “political correctness” in tribal format, and completely devoid of justice, seems to be promoting exactly that. Label everything, unless it’s a hurtful label, then pick a new label! Until we end up with people in yelling matches over the correct way to not offend someone. Total lunacy, because continuing down this path leads to people completely dependent on their adopted tribe of freaks, retards, deviants, loners, stoners, zealots and dingbats, when what society really needs is more intellectual resilience.

Some of the new-wave feminists, Social Justice Warriors, and other morally confused neo-liberals, have suggested removing all forms of labelling from the news, and even from conversations. People would be no longer referred to as “black” or “African-American”, because that creates “disunity” and perpetuated the idea of race, and hence allows for racism. What they fail to realize is the real problem can’t be fixed with sterile language. I would argue the exact opposite, we need to see more descriptiveness of persons in the news, we should hear more details about ethnicities, so that that people are forced to realize just how much diversity exists. Likewise we need to see who supports what ideology where possible, so that we as thinking observers can keep a tally of who is likely loyal to whom, and learn what to expect from people who follow those ideologies. We also need to dispel the notion that religions, or even sects within religions, are somehow uniform, or supportive of each other. We can’t do these mental gymnastics if we are kept completely unaware of these subtle facts.

Lastly, we can ask what comes next? Just what happens to a society which is intellectually exploited, sexually confused, morally vacant, and yet indignant about damn near every trivial matter the media tells them to be? Nothing good I fear. Nothing good for anyone.

At its heart, this is suppression of freedom, and suppression of dissent. Serfdom by another name. Them versus us. The tribe of the 1% against the rest. Viva la revolucion?

There was a pseudo-military anti-terrorism drill in San Bernadino. The various first responders and civilian safety apparatchiks were all notified. This was a routine drill, like the others hosted in months prior. About once a month actually. Cameras were positioned to catch the dramatic non-event, completely unawares that it would be elevated to a mass panic inducing event. The kind the media vultures live for! I’d like to know just how many of them knew ahead of time, but since most of them just read a script handed to them from on-high, they don’t really have to be in on it. Except when pesky callers accidentally tell the truth on live TV, screwing up your whole narrative.

Luckily many bystanders these days have cameras too, and the video evidence tells another story. Interestingly, the media’s zealotry also managed to capture an unfolding story as a kind of large scale time-lapse shot. Seeing the progression of the scenes, the interviews subtle changes, the “new” evidence being released by insiders, clearly showed there was something very very smelly with the whole affair.

As clever amateur sleuths poured over the media, we could see the supposed scene being rehearsed, the same cars passing by, the almost turtle like enactment of the police chase, and plenty of scene tampering to embellish the story. In the videos, reporters unwittingly recorded the convoy of white and black trucks heading towards the big shootout intersection, yet the timelines were all wrong. Some witness interviewed, obviously a scripted actor, even told about how he could see the whole thing go down, had recorded it on his cell phone. The video in question shows a him running alternately waddling for cover, and being brave to continue recording, then a bunch of breathless commentary telling you what to believe in great detail.

Now, if you do your research, there’s plenty of damning evidence to be had, and that’s for other articles. The interesting part is how this charade comes back into relevance today.

I recently wrote a piece about the tug-of-war, between the forces that want to encrypt everything all the time, and the oppressors who tell is we can’t be safe if we are still allowed to have thoughts in private. These are the same forces that want to make Snowden a hero for revealing evidence of the massive domestic surveillance program, setup to spy on citizens by the NSA, which is hopelessly unconstitutional, illegal and immoral, and those would would throw Snowden into a deep dark hole for “rendition” (aka torture) for treason, for daring to undermine their efforts. This is the age old struggle between self-determination and tyranny, but in the digital age.

I conclude the the battle has largely stalemated, as the issue has become so contentious, and potentially damaging to any politician who tries too hard to get involved. If they try to woo the people with their defense of liberty, they risk being outcast by the Deep State machinery at the least, personally threatened, or at the worst, upsetting their corporate donors. If they try to be Dr. Strangelove, embracing the nuclear option, making everyone vulnerable to the Feds, which incidentally means vulnerable to hackers too, then the little people could oust them from power, or harass them endlessly as revenge. Who knows, even the group Anonymous could get involved…

So what we have here is an escalation of the battle, a way to break the deadlock. The courts have already sided with the Feds, which they generally do, but they know an appellate court could overturn it just as easily, and a Supreme Court case is probably out of the question since Scalia’s death. The only battleground that remains is the public space then, to convince enough people, that just this once, they need to make an exception to their otherwise fine stewardship of liberty and democracy. And we all know they would have zero intention of rescinding any powers they gain, since they never have.

How then do you convince the entire population addicted to iPhones, that their fruity lifestyle choice has to be compromised? Well the answer to that is hardly straightforward, but the usual gameplan basically involves boiling a lobster to death, the lobster being people, and the laws being the boiling water. Incrementally, they sap the rights of citizens, in arcane ways, in obscure instances, until all the wagons are circled, all the leaks plugged, and they own you.

A company like Blackberry was a special case, where they were never asked to compromise on security, having been the preferred supplier of military grade communications equipment to most of the government itself, so even on the other side there are exceptions. It’s not that the psychopaths at the NSA didn’t want to crack Blackberry phones used by other governments, but they needed at least one secure platform, for selfish reasons, more than that. It’s just rare that the government falls on the same side of an issue as the rest of us plebeians.

For Apple, this might be an existential crisis. The entirety of the Apple brand revolves around being cool and different, just like everyone else; believing some techno-utopian vision of the future, where ethical companies really care about their peeps. Deluded as they may be, the fact is corporations can resist the feature-creep of government. The irony here is that Apple isn’t one of the techno-utopian companies, they collaborated in secret with the NSA, until it became public, then they didn’t. According to documents leaked by Snowden, the NSA had the capability to unlock any iPhone at one time, as long as they had physical access to the hardware itself. They bragged about 100% effectiveness breaking Apple security, something they couldn’t brag about for competing platforms, hurray for uniformity!

This unfettered access was abruptly cut following the Snowden revelations. Google and Apple started encrypting their backhaul finally, and Apple went one step further, storing all the customer data encrypted, without saving the key for themselves. Suddenly, Apple was now a gatekeeper, rather than landlord, and this expression of democratizing security was a tough pill to swallow. Now this isn’t to say Apple had no way to circumvent the protection, judging by statements made recently, since they could just as easily modify their digital storage locker, case by case, to store everything unencrypted. The only caveat is, they have to force the iPhone to do a data backup to the iCloud, and thereby dump it’s secrets into an open locker. There is no doubt a technical reason to have this ability, older iPhones that use older operating systems, and troubleshooting synchronizing errors, but this is why even a well-intentioned backdoor, or master-key if you will, is generally a bad idea in the digital world.

Having this “backdoor” to obtain customer data, also meant the Feds didn’t push Apple so hard to abandon it’s protective technology, something that I’m sure made Apple executives happy. Even frivolous lawsuits are expensive, and when it’s a lawsuit by the government itself, you’re effectively dealing with unlimited budgets. Apple has huge lawsuits in motion at all times, it’s a side effect of being a large target, and also for using so many technologies in your product. I will save my condemnation of the patent system for another time, but it shares the blame too.

Would it then surprise anyone to know that Apple still cooperated with the law enforcement agencies in America?

According court records, Apple had complied with aiding the police, around 70 times between 2008-2015, for cases involving suspected narcotics offenses. Where was the outcry from Apple? Were they just keeping silent on the issue, until a truly defensible case came along? Afterall, how certain can we be, that techno-utopians are going to side with a drug dealer, let alone have them whip up privacy infringement storm among the huddled masses? If that was going to be their position, finding the “right” court order, or government lawsuit to fight, this isn’t it. Sympathy for terrorists is at an all time low, matched only by the average citizen’s support of Congress, and the collective respect we have for Kanye.

Perhaps there was a technical reason? The previous cases in the court records indicated largely older iPhones, ostensibly running their older iOS 7, which doesn’t have much of the device security, and possibly much less communication security of their latest operating systems. This would start to make some sense, fighting on technical grounds, arguing it isn’t feasible, again this isn’t likely. The iPhone in question is running iOS 8, which has a limited number of password guesses before completely locking out a user attempting to access it, and that is one of the reasons cited by the authorities for requesting the help.

Imagine for a moment that this is the entirety of the problem, the Feds are worried about turning it into a brick by guessing wrong, we would then have to believe Apple has stopped adding diagnostic ports on the circuit board that could bypass the BIOS, the thing that would do the locking. If that was the case, there wouldn’t be much of a repair industry. There’s also another wrinkle to the cover story, while the iPhone was in custody, and the supposed terrorist was lying in a freezer somewhere, quite dead, someone changed the Apple account password. Which means one of two things, the Jihadi wannabe didn’t own the phone, or didn’t own the Apple account.

Mull on that for a minute.

If the iPhone didn’t belong to the killer, that creates three further possibilities, the phone is planted evidence, the real killer was never killed, or this was a complete hoax and there was no massacre at all. The one common element here, is that there is a hidden hand trying to perpetuate a story, one that doesn’t even support itself.

If this was a case of planted evidence, like how we find magical passports at nearly all these events, or how the cops seem to know every detail about the killers and victims, without having had time for an investigation, then this entire kerfuffle over unlocking the phone is misdirection isn’t it? Because clearly, whoever planted it would know, and whoever that was, was FBI. Further more, if the planted evidence was supposed to found, and supposed to be used as proof of guilt, why would whoever supplied the iPhone change the password? This scenario doesn’t add up. It’s sure handy everyone was conveniently killed eh?

If the real shooters, the three tall white male shooters of semi-muscular build, wearing tactical or military gear, as described by two witnesses, accidentally dropped the phone, then the entire spectacle of the car chase, and in fact all the information on the suspects released thus far, is bogus. That means every shred of documentation suggesting this Middle-Eastern couple were the killers, is false, and they couldn’t have been killed in their SUV, unless it was mistaken identity. False identities are often used in intelligence operations, and as we found out after the fake Paris massacre recently, sometimes those identities belong to living people, who have no idea they were killed. Funny that. And don’t forget the area was crawling with cops, doing an anti-terrorism drill, exactly where they were.

Unless of course, the third man in their party escaped, and it was that man who owned the iPhone. Which would mean, one killer is still at large, and the cops have failed to get their man. This slim possibility would nullify the need for the entire security apparatus that the Department of Homeland Security setup, the billions of dollars spent, the hundred of re-purposed military vehicles, the countless hours of anti-terrorism training for local police, and the entire NSA spy machine. Invalidating the police-state is obviously a non-starter, and an escaped killer would never be made public, but the story of the terrorist couple was planted in the media in advance, with photos and biographies ready to go. Once again, this isn’t it.

The last possibility, the only one that stands up to scrutiny, that the entire event is a complete hoax, is not invalidated by the presence of real shooters. The only aspect to this that matters, is the false narrative being peddled to the public. It doesn’t matter if there were more shooters, or if they were Israeli, or if they worked for Blackwater. The point is, that the event is a case of political jiggery-pokery, to affect or influence the public, to support more militarism, and more draconian laws. The iPhone in question doesn’t matter either, the agents have no need to access it, and since there’s no one to prosecute, they can’t even argue they need evidence for a trial.

The question we should be asking, is why the urgency? Why do the various agencies want to step up the fight against privacy right now?

Serves them right. For some odd reason, perhaps complacency, perhaps a naive belief in their own supremacy at psychologcal warfare against the world, the Western Main-stream media (MSM) has just realized that the Russians are quite capable of delivering their message too. This is not to say the Russians are doing anything really like the MSM, they aren’t running a propaganda campaign to bamboozle their audience, they have the luxury of telling the truth.

Now we could argue the truth is a slippery fish we all want to catch, but at it’s most basic level, the truth is largely just well described obviousness, and much of what’s going on is entirely obvious. Unless you’ve spent a lifetime believing the propaganda, then it might not seem so obvious.

It’s a funny thing for East-Europeans who grew up during WWII, or anywhere within the Cold War period, to watch the level of bullshit get swallowed by North Americans, and even Westernized populations like British, or Germans. It’s equally laughable to most Arabs in the Middle-East, who seem to implicitly know what’s going on, partly the result of growing up in a largely tribal society, like which group is beholden to whom. Ask your average educated Londoner, who Harakat Al-Nujaba fights for, or who supplies Jaish Al-Fatah, and you probably get blank stares.

So it’s not entirely suprising that after years of MSM rinse-repeat-cycles using the very simplest terms, with overly simplistic explanations, has put an intellectual vice around the average Western citizen’s head. we were all told Al-Qaeda was enemy #1, ever since the day of 9/11, when an Israeli on international TV said we will all be fighting a new war, a war against people in caves, in far away places because of this event. He even warns us that traveling will become difficult, and general freedoms will be taken away. Yay!

No one at the time seemed bothered that Al-Qaeda as we knew them, were the same group of pseudo-terrorists trained and armed by the CIA as the Mujahadeen, the ones we supposedly loved for fighting against the evil Communists in Afghanistan a decade earlier. Just like no one seems bothered today, when Al-Qaeda in Syria was rebranded to Jahbat Al-Nusra, or the English-friendly Nusra Front.

Even when prominent officials like John McCain travelled to meet with the leaders of Al-Nusra and what we call the Islamic State group, calling them moderates he can work with, the response was muted. Seeing a mozquito in a room would have had a greater reaction in the West. What we have in the place of an uproar, was a media blitz about how the democratically elected President of Syria is a brutal dictator. Because as we all know, America is the sole authority on who is elected.

Despite the battle of words in the public sphere, the real treat for observers is the struggle on the ground, between the proxies of the West, and the citizens who want them gone. That is the battle that has the highest stakes, and the most vested interests. The negotiations in Geneva are a sideshow, or at best a way to appear to be doing the next logical thing, while the real activity of repositioning on the battlefield takes place. There are a lot of terrorist groups to coordinate, many of them are now out of reach of supplies, even by air-drop, thanks to the Russian airforce. All in all, it’s a bad time to be a terrorist.

Whatever you hear courtesy of the MSM right now sounds disjointed, contradictory, incoherent, or just outright insane. Which is just as much a reflection on the situation, as it is on the utter strategic confusion of the Coalition. They never expected Russia to step in, but I’m sure they expected some kind of support at least. They never expected the Syrian people to support their President Assad so strongly, but I’m sure they expected the Iranians to help. There’s many instances of being caught off guard, eventualities the strategic planners had not mapped out fully, or had just assumed in error.

So, the West’s precious terrorists, having lost the advantage they had in Lybia, by way of imposing a no-fly zone, virtually guaranteed the Syrian government forces would more effectively fight back. The Syrian Airforce was antiquated though, and the Pentagon knew that. Maybe some analyst weighed this calculation, concluding a no-fly zone wasn’t considered imperative at the time, and while it’s a good thing for the people of Syria, this was a tactical mistake for the Pentagon. It’s failures like these that will have caused a ripple effect within the warmonger circles, questioning their own choices, questioning all their comforting previous assumptions. Total intellectual disarray. Shattered egos.

In short, the planners of this proxy war are having a crisis, a crisis that needs a salvageable outcome, or heads will roll. Perhaps this is why the disgraced General Petraeus is aiming for a political comeback, and why a traitor like John McCain is so pleased by the idea. What’s being done is just not working, that much is obvious, but the psychos at the Pentagon don’t think rationally like we do. When we see a hypocritical policy of supporting terrorists with the left hand, while fighting to contain them with the right hand, they a policy implementation error, their plans failed because Obama is too soft.

None of this is to say mistakes weren’t made on the other side, the Syrian government made a few big mistakes early on, losing outlying military bases, and underestimating the support the terrorists enjoyed. President Assad and his Generals couldn’t comprehend the scope of weaponry and money being provided to the terrorists invading their countryside. Though in fairness, I’m not sure how any leader could have, unless they explicitly knew Daesh and its various cousins were really just trained mercenaries, trained by CIA, Mossad, MIT and other intelligence agencies in the Coalition countries. The Syrians even admitted that losing the Idlib province was mostly tactical blunders, not a question of military power.

The red line that drew the Russians into the fray, was the Iranian General Soleimani unequivocally stating Latakia province would fall, putting at risk the Russian naval port at Tartus. President Assad and President Putin then made a deal, a deal unlike the typical arrangements made by the Americans or British, a deal that was mutually beneficial. A deal made under international law, to protect Syria from the destabilizing foreign fighters, for the duration of Syria’s choosing. There was no economic takeover, or strong-arming involved. This appalled the corporate-fascists who had been salivating on raping yet another country.

The Russians brought some much needed modern equipment and professionalism to the fight, while the Iranians crack troops would operate mostly as special forces, Russian advisors would bring their own tactical expertise into any joint operations. Perhaps the greatest achievement was the creation of joint intelligence centers in Iraq, Syria and Jordan, where all parties would share information, discuss tactics and decide targets, which would all be verified by drone and satellite surveillance. That’s when things got serious. That’s when the tide turned against the West.

Thus, the Syrian Arab Army, the National Defense Forces, Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias from just across the border, including Kat’Eb Hezbollah from Iraq, and of course Russian Defense Forces, are kicking ass. The gains they’ve made are stunning, as are the previously ineffective Iraqi Army gains, which have all but expelled the terrorists from Ramadi, despite the Coalition’s best efforts to stop them. The pro-govt ground troops are making steady gains, while the terrorist groups are falling apart, in part because the foreign puppet-masters aren’t invited to the intelligence sharing party, and therefore can’t see the strategy being employed to find an effective counter-strategy. Targets all over the country are being bombed, and ground offensives are taking place at almost as many, it must be very confusing looking in from the outside.

Even though the Russians have offered to share information formally with the American-led Coalition, they have always refused, they know it would put them into an awkward situation, like when they tell their own pilots (who can see the terrorists) to stand down. We can guess that there’s some unspoken level of irony that’s just too much for the Department of State to handle. The reality is, if the Americans admit they know where all the terrorists are, it
would make them look complicit for not bombing them, which they are. Yet if they pretend to know nothing, then they would look incompetent which might even be worse in the public’s eyes. There’s no upside for them to share anything.

I don’t however believe the Russians expected anything to the contrary, they were just playing the game politely, doing what they would do if everyone was earnest, while having some fun with it. Sometimes I wonder how Lavrov keeps a straight face when dealing with Kerry. I would even say that the entire Russian leadership is well aware of NATO’s duplicity in Ukraine, and just as aware of the Saudi-Qatari-Israeli-Turkish-American terrorist operation to destroy all the independent nations in the region, then use them as a launching point to spread into the former Soviet states, to ultimately threaten Russia. Yet, the Russians say nothing. It is the wise thing to do.

Watching the situation maps from various sources is both interesting and misleading though. Some will show vast swathes of land controlled by Islamic State, Ahrar Al-Sham, or other groups, when most of that area is flat desert or farmland, and there’s nothing really to capture. Some will show narrower strips of controlled areas, and who controls them, which are far more representative of the situation, since you can’t very well have guns pointing
at everything all the time. At their height, the terrorist groups represented around 90,000 people, most of who were not Syrian, and it would be a large stretch of imagination to believe they could hold the territory of Texas, even with the millions of dollars, smuggled arms, stolen aid supplies, and freshly trained reinforcements from Turkey.

Even if we were to imagine that the Americans or Saudis were actually fighting the terrorists they support, they would still be at a major disadvantage, without having troops on the ground to hold a position they liberate with bombing campaigns, and a further disadvantage of selecting targets, without troops on the ground to gather intelligence or visually verify what they see from above. It’s important to remember that “air power” is a force multiplier for a ground force, it’s impossible to win a “war” from the air alone, short of nuking the target.

We can ask ourselves what it would take to win the war, but the better question to ask is, what will the losers do? Because we know that many of the oil companies have been profiting from the looted Syrian and Iraqi oil, we know the Western political leaders will be under intense pressure not to let the taps get turned off, it’s very hard to find production that’s still profitable at current crude prices. Likewise, because billions of dollars has been spent funnelling small-arms, missile systems, and trucks into the fight, a lot of corrupt politicians risk being exposed as contravening weapons bans, or violating international laws against supporting terrorism. The victor usually writes the history afterall.

With so many conflicting agendas in play, most of them entirely dishonest, it’s really not surprising that everyone is unhappy, except Putin, he’s loving it. There has to be some logarithmic irony scale applied here, because Putin, and the entire Russian alliance with their Middle-Eastern partners, has managed to rout the other coalition in the public space, just by telling the truth. Every day there are meetings held in London and Washington, trying to figure out why their media empires are losing viewers, and losing the propaganda war against Russia, never once stopping to think that people are sick of their faux news. To them it’s just another battle/war to fight, against the Reds. Against Russia Today and Sputnik News. It’s a collective delusion at it’s finest.

So what really can the negotiations in Geneva achieve? Certainly Geneva can’t be mistaken for Damascus, and it’s hard to see how groups that exist solely to topple the Syrian government will agree to anything that doesn’t er… topple the government. We can also be pretty sure that the legally elected President of Syria, a patriot, doesn’t have any intention of handing over the country to a cabal of capitalists, and to be financially imprisoned by a Rothschilds central bank. With the balance of power swinging firmly back to the regime’s hands, they are also under no real pressure to compromise, Syria has survived without Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs just fine this long, they can survive a few millennia longer without. What are the negotiations but a really bad opera then?

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) meme has all but vanished from public discourse around Syria these days, and rightfully so, after the Russians have repeatedly proven that the groups supposedly under the FSA banner were the same motley crew of extremists, jihadis, and mercenaries as the worst. It has even been documented that various FSA groups have fluidly changed allegiances between their own leadership, operating in absentia in Turkey, and Islamic State, while being allied with Jahbat Al-Nusra, with whom they’ve done joint offensive against government and civilian positions.

Since shelling a city full of unaligned citizens isn’t going to win you any PR, the fraudulent human rights groups like the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR or SHRO) are used to falsely blame the government forces, without ever explaining why they would do that. Ever since October, the American officials have planted spurious stories in MSM about Russians attacking the wrong targets, with the MSM gleefully pushing it, and often citing SHRO reports of imaginary casualties.

One particularly troubling report indicated up to six hospitals were attacked by Russian jets within a week, which investigations later showed was false, only one of the cited locations even had a hospital. Again the irony meter must have been pegged when the Coalition jets bombed a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan, on purpose, for half an hour.

Are we then to believe anything the MSM or its “unnamed sources” say? Are the intelligence psy-ops more believable than what they decry as Russian propaganda bullhorns? I don’t think so. More importantly, a growing number of people around the world don’t think so.

When the Whitehouse PR guy comes to his podium and suggests the beleaguered “moderate opposition” need more weapons and vehicles to fight the evil terrorists, does it seem like they have the worst job in the world? During the Bush Jr. Presidency, they were going through professional liars once every 2-3 months, these days under Obama, they graduated to rotating several, maybe they realized the impossible position they are put in is bad for their health?

In any case, the Free Syrian Army has all but dissolved, with whatever loose associations it had, and it’s clear the Whitehouse has stopped pretending they mattered. They either came to the conclusion that the groups no longer have cohesive leadership, or the Coalition stopped supporting them for being ineffective, or because many of the genuine moderates are now helping the Russians by ratting out their extremist buddies for airstrikes. The actual reason is not terribly relevant, but the whole episode is just one of many that got brushed under the rug.

The Americans did try again to raise a mythical anti-terrorist opposition beast, this time they called it the Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC), consisting of some Kurdish groups, and some supposed moderate group funded by the Pentagon. This charade didn’t last long, and the discourse reverted to talking about the Coalition, not the Syrian version specifically. This one might have been a tougher sell to the public though. Since Syrian Kurds are being attacked by Turkey constantly, while the Pentagon works with many of the same Kurdish groups against Islamic State, and trying to explain how that’s acceptable could be challenging. Not more challenging than explaining how really Turkey isn’t supporting the terrorists, despite buying their oil, buying their stolen antiquities, sending them aid, selling them weapons, and throwing a tantrum whenever Russian or Syrian airstrikes kill them, but challenging.

Turkey is playing a dirty game of refugee blackmail with Europe, double-crossing the Kurds, helping the terrorists in Syria, and trying to incite the Russians into an aggressive confrontation, and doing it with tacit support from Washington. The Turkish President Erdogan clearly has brass balls, but the same can’t be said about the Saudi Prince in charge of the disastrous war in Yemen, nor about President Obama. As the Coalition is losing the proxy war in Syria, Erdogan is really the primary aggressor still invested in all-out war.

For Turkey, Syria has some prime real estate to nab, and Erdogan is paranoid about the Kurdish solidarity movement taking hold. The Kurds could potentially unify a giant belt of territory, stretching from Turkey to Afghanistan, into an unrecognized defacto Kurdish nation. Any Kurdish government would then have a stranglehold on trade in the region, would by default require concessions on any oil pipelines built, could tax or embargo any shipments between Turkey and most of the Middle-East, and just be a general pain to deal with.

It’s for this reason that America lightly supports the Kurds, it’s a very effective bargaining position against all the sovereign states in the region. This is a rouse however, they are just gaslighting the Kurdish people, alternately pushing for Kurdish autonomy, and then allowing their allies to attack them. The Kurds aren’t a serious ally, they don’t have a vote on the Security Council, they are just leverage. Divide and conquer, even among allies. The psychopathy of the Pentagon and CIA has no bounds.

Turkey aside, most of the terrorist supporters seem to be quietly acknowledging the facts on the ground, and the fact is they aren’t going to win in Syria, which then begs the question, what do they do with all these trained and semi-loyal dependent militants? The answer is to move them somewhere they can be useful, before they all get killed, or desert.

To this end, the Saudis have been transporting thousands of militants from Syria into Yemen to help destabilize the country, which has remained remarkably resilient with the Houthis and Yemeni Army standing their ground. The Saudi-led group of aggressor nations is making little to no military progress, and spends most of its time bombing civilians, though most of the alliance does little more than guard Saudi installations, as none of them are keen to see people killed.

Of the terrorists fighting in Syria, they are slowly being suffocated as they are encircled, or their supply lines to Turkey get severed, and largely out of reach. So just where is this sudden surge in Islamic State in Lybia coming from? Simple, it’s the thousands of militants, mercenaries really, that have abandoned ship, departing for the extremist haven of Turkey. These newly unemployed faux-jihadis are being recruited and shipped over to Lybia, at least the ones that didn’t find their way to Europe with fake passports, but they were probably too moderate anyway right?

And thus the merry-go-round of destabilization continues, with a change of clothes, a change of venue, and another excuse for the American Empire to get involved, curtailing the French interests in the region as a side effect. Divide and conquer.

The basic social requirement of staying current, or even trendy, was amplified by the fear of social exclusion for many as well. What good is a smartphone if you can’t run the apps to communicate with your friends or colleagues? So, inevitably, the free market tended towards a monopoly for Apple, at least briefly. Once Android became a serious contender, a tipping point when the hardware had caught up, and the operating system became slick enough, it was able to breakout of it’s contrarian niche, to make it a duopoly. In the subsequent market split, lazy app developers no longer had the security to remain only on one of he platforms, and more eager developers were relieved that there were only two to target, which ironically boosted app availability for both.

There was a huge cost to this arms race as could be expected, average selling prices (ASP) of devices were reaching stratospheric levels that only Blackberry was able to maintain previously. These days it’s not unusual for a trendy smartphone to exceed $600, a retail price not seen since the early days of Motorola flip-phones, though it was often hidden in lengthier contracts. Blackberry’s ASP was defined much differently though, a side effect of mostly dealing with government or big business clientèle is much larger budgets, with much more specific performance demands. Android devices were allowed to crash, iPhones were allowed to lose information, they were “consumer” devices afterall, a Blackberry wasn’t.

Thus the demand for either iPhone or Android smartphones kept rising, their costs kept creeping up with every revision of their flagship models too, and their desirability to thieves rose with it. And so theft became a serious issue, made worse by the lack of serious security in the devices themselves. Everyone knew that stealing a Blackberry was just about pointless, it used centralized servers to provide the “smart” services, and having it without that infrastructure made it less useful than a scientific calculator, something not the case with a stolen iPhone, as it could be sold to a customer in a zone that has no worldwide blacklist checks. Then imagine having your phone stolen, with all your irretrievable data and personal information stored on the phone itself, you might start to panic.

This provided a great opportunity for profit-squeezed vendors to get back a bit of margin from the end-user, to push lost and stolen phone insurance, something that became rather indispensable, and therefore lucrative. Insurance couldn’t save your information though, just cover a similar value replacement most likely, since phone models were obsoleted and replaced with new models within months. While buyers were encouraged to protect their expensive devices as any insurance is supposed to do, even that was used as an upselling opportunity to get punters into the latest iteration of the same damned thing, for even more money, yielding that much more profit by churning.

Perhaps ironically, phone providers were under no incentive to protect their users from theft, rather the opposite, they made more money every time a phone was stolen.

Consumer oriented smartphones managed to permeate enough of popular culture, that even business people were under immense pressure to move away from secure Blackberry devices, and allow the free-for-all of BYOD. With iPhones and various Android operated devices becoming more popular for business activity, data loss was becoming a rather serious problem. You could see this as the democratization of employment standards, but really just exposed how complacent big business has become, and how unaffordable business oriented systems were for smaller companies.

When people had a serious business enterprise, and they had deployed Blackberry phones for employees, people still used to hang onto their private devices for everything else. As new businesses were forced to adopt a device agnostic approach, and old businesses started moving away from Blackberry servers with their uncertain future, the separation of business and pleasure ceased to exist. Increasingly with the ubiquity of the phones, they were being taken into the bath to text, or taken mountain climbing for selfies, accidents became common. Not good for the budding pseudo-professional Yuppie.

Also, with phones being commodity property, with lightning fast release cycles, many users began to view their phones with contempt. Waiting for the next greater thing, and researching the latest must-have gizmo, became a part time job for many. Phone envy became a big thing,  benchmarking programs were released to show who’s coloured lines were longest, something that was only common for the homebuilt computer user before. All very unhealthy if you ask me, since there was nothing you could do about it anyway, short of getting an entirely new phone.

Then in comes Apple with their fantastic borrowed-idea solution for the lost data, Cloud storage. Basically mimicking Blackberry’s centralized storage for all your important stuff, you were now free to lose your cell phone, and have it replaced, without skipping many beats. Cloud storage coupled with insurance seemed like the antidote to the poisonous issue of theft, but it may have actually made things worse. This allowed careless users to be even more careless, as “loss” became less critical, and as their fears were lessened.

Of course, during all this time, contract laws were amended to have shorter terms to allow voracious data users to flip between carriers more easily, to chase discounts. This unintentionally drove up phone costs for many end-users, as carriers were no longer able to feast off of their captives for long durations to cover the phone subsidies; subsidies that had already been hurting the bottom line, with the uncontrolled growth of cell phone ASPs. While some carriers chose to roll the subsidy costs into higher monthly premiums, it was a losing proposition when there was competition in the region, and people didn’t take kindly to it. Most carriers decided instead to offer full-price (or nearly full) phone purchases, with much more flexible plans, or even no-contract service, which seemed to be a more palatable way to eliminate their exposure to risk.

Having the price increases finally trickle down to those ending existing plans, and higher device costs for new customers, suddenly the issue of theft became serious again.

The NSA loved this move towards Cloud storage, an American corporation collecting enormous amounts of personal information, including location tracking, associative links to other people, and even the email contents in some cases being stored for harvest was irresistible. For the first time in human history, a profile of someone’s entire life could be compiled remotely, without having to deploy any surveillance vans or badly dressed spies. All the agencies wanted a piece, national security threats, blackmail, deep cover tracking, all these things dovetailed with their incessant need to create criminals, to justify their very existence.

The vast majority of “terrorists” caught in the United States since 2001 were actually trained and encouraged by FBI agents. In most cases, it was federal agents who provided the fake explosives, or brokered arms purchases, or crafted the activities to make sure they couldn’t do any damage, then arrested them with the insider knowledge they already had. In none of these scenarios was universal surveillance required, and a lack of database access to AT&T would not have hindered them, but they demanded more and more access anyway.

Retrospectively we know how Apple was blackmailed, with secret directives, with the flimsiest justifications, and like many communications companies voluntarily gave up information on request, without being able to admit it even to the affected user. It was only under huge pressure from customers that found out about these programs from the Prism program leaks, that Apple and others exerted any pressure on the government to restrain themselves. And although the government was clearly uninterested in restraint, many of the compromised companies started employing encryption to frustrate the agents who had enjoyed siphoning everything freely until then. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to know that the NSA has been infiltrating the various security standards bodies to weaken encryption, because it’s really just another attack vector of their battle to know everything.

There was even a document released by Snowden, that showed how the NSA, and other acronymed branches of the US government, could break into an Apple phone with 100% certainty, if they had to search it, and a high percentage for popular Android devices as well. This may have had to do with the physical hardware designs between manufacturers, where Apple released few unique devices for their market share, competing Android market share was divided across a huge diversity of devices that shared little in hardware design, and reverse engineering each board wouldn’t be practical, even for the NSA.

This second level of compromise also drove Google, the maker of Android software, to see an opening against it’s iPhone rival, and began implementing full device encryption. We might be tempted to think of Google as a “good guy” in the fight for consumers rights against The Man, but Google itself was seed-funded by government entities, and has close cooperation with DARPA and the CIA to this day. Probably, like all customer centric businesses, it was more an act of self-preservation than altruism, but each affected company was under the same pressure (or backlash) to do something, and each has their own approach to appease the masses. Even here, they have to walk a tightrope, or risk being excluded from important contracts, face licensing challenges, and other sandbagging by a jilted administration.

All this just made the federal agencies even more paranoid about losing their unfettered access to everyone’s private thoughts and actions. The NSA directors (and former directors) regularly participate in debates and interviews, decrying their need to know what every terrorist is doing, because everyone hates American freedom. FBI directors take a more subtle approach, releasing memorandums and policy papers to be discussed in hearings, arguing that encryption makes their lives difficult, and it’s so unfair. Lately we even hear fear-mongering over the key internet governing bodies leaving the umbrella of American hegemony, to act more independently, more internationally, and no longer cater to every whim of POTUS, nor to some agency lawyer demanding changes.

Funny that we don’t mind faceless corporations owning all our information, or even tracking us, but throw a tantrum when the feds do…

Not that long ago, there was a court case demanding one phone provider offer a safe method to not only blacklist a phone, but to kill it, making content unreadable, and the device totally unusable. It seemed to have disappeared, but some municipalities and police departments took up the cause, and California was the first to enact legislation to that effect. It remains to be seen how this will play out nationally across the other States, or whether Canada and Mexico will follow suit, but California was suffering from unusually high cell phone theft, higher than the other regions.

Now on the surface this seems very sensible, if you can order your phone killed, rendered inoperable, then thieves will eventually realize there is no value in stealing _any_ phones in the first place. Yet like all sensible laws, there is a morally ambiguous center to it. There’s obviously authority granted to the carrier to kill the phone, which may or may not void warranty in itself, and may even require the cooperation of the phone manufacturer to implement, otherwise flashing the phone with new software would just overcome the hurdle. Finally, we have the user who is supposed to initiate the killing request, with an implicit requirement to understand what they are asking for, and most people are not very technically savvy when it comes to telecoms. Would the average user even consider asking it if was possible to opt-out of the feature?

Just what happens if a phone is reported stolen, and sent a kill order, but later found underneath a friend’s couch? People temporarily lose stuff all the time, does the hapless user now have to buy a new phone, or is the theft insurance supposed to cover it? Does the kill switch even work if the battery is removed immediately, and the phone is sent to Zaire, to be re-activated outside the reach of the original hostile service provider? If it doesn’t, then what has the law really solved, or did it just make it less profitable? Who’s responsibility is it, if let’s say the kill switch doesn’t work, or the signal never activated it? Is anyone liable? Lastly, is the process reversible, can a kill order be rescinded after the fact?

There’s many questions in practice too, how they send the kill signal will alter its effectiveness, for example, DirecTV would send a kill signal to receivers to ban certain cards/codes from operating, effectively destroying it. DirecTV would send the signal multiple times over the course of a week, every week, for several months, knowing some people were hoping to get around it by leaving it unplugged for some time. Bell Expressvu in Canada did something similar with their satellite TV service, but there are many potential methods, that in theory have workarounds for each. It’s also safe to assume, that implementation of the cell phone killing mechanism will draw on the industry’s experience in the satellite TV market, who have been grappling with kill switches for well over a decade voluntarily.

Time will tell if the legislation has the intended effect, but not everyone is happy to give someone else that much control over their device either. The feds, or specifically the Department of Homeland Security, have a directive in place called SOP 303, which loosely gives them the “authority” to shut down cell towers in case of emergency. This is one of those legally ambiguous procedures, devised in private, to coerce independent businesses into doing something that would negatively affect themselves, or their reputations. There is also technology capable of disrupting all cellular devices and services within a several block radius, which has already been deployed during protests, without consulting with the telcos at all.

The insidious nature of these directives, is the symbiotic relationship these corporations have with the government, both providing the license to operate, and potentially the demand to shut it down as desired, so could a telco reject the request without facing retribution? It isn’t quite the same thing as killing a phone, but shares a lot of overlapping legal ramifications. Then again when do the feds ever ask permission, especially when they already have the capability?

And there’s one more wrinkle, if the TPP or TTIP passes, and the telco is owned by a foreign corporation, under the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism, they could sue the government for lost profits…

It should be clear the feds want access to everything, they don’t want privacy to exist, despite the Constitutional guarantee to privacy in most westernized nations. It should also be clear they fear new technology, especially when that technology revolves around encryption, as it hinders their unofficial goal, even if it does nothing to hinder their officially stated goals. There’s a clear war going on between the privacy activists, who include many of the nerds that invented our communications protocols and the internet they operate, and the anti-privacy federal agencies, the ones that can’t seem to find any needles in the numerous haystacks they already have.

Except, no one is really discussing the illegality of no-fly lists, or even watch-lists when they trample over individuals rights to liberty, or even basic human rights like dignity, which are quite relevant to this topic. If a secret FISA court is able to compel a telecoms provider to turn over all metadata or records about a customer on demand, would they not be able to order the provider to kill their customer’s phone too? Who then has the court authority to challenge that decision, could a harmed customer sue their phone company for acting illegally without due process?

I expect any legal challenges will be contested with “expert” witnesses who support the surveillance programs, and “friends of the court” submissions which seek to squash the legal test altogether, making it a totally unfair fight, and ridiculously expensive to prosecute. The most likely outcome would then be a settlement, perhaps the affected customer will get a new phone, without much incentive to stay with the same provider, but also with many thousands in legal expenses to carry. Which really makes it an exercise in judicial extortion, give up your rights willingly, or “win” a crushing monetary defeat.

The whole situation can get really messy, and I have to wonder if the kill switch won’t end up being reversible anyway? There’s every likelihood the feds would like to recover all the frozen information still stored on a target’s phone they had killed. Unless the phone has a backdoor, a method to bypass any hardware-level storage encryption, or to bypass the killed part of the firmware with some external module, a genuine kill switch seems like something they wouldn’t want all that much. The fight is far from over, but we as the users are the dependents, we rely more and more on the interconnected services, and we give up our leverage over those who provide it, by needing it more, than they need us.

Last month, the US government tried to force Apple to unlock user’s phones for inspection, using the All Writs Act of 1789, updated again in 1911. This laughably old piece of legislation pre-dates phones by a weee bit, which is one of the unwritten tests courts tend to apply to technology, generally opting to get the legislation amended (or new ones passed) to cover the matter more befitting of the times. The challenge was over the password a user had installed, not a fight over some underlying technology like encryption this time, and failed when Apple successfully fought back using the Bill of Rights. The failure was partly because it would have: conscripted (forced) a third party (Apple) to act unannounced (unbeknownst to the owner) to obtain information they (Apple) don’t possess or control.

We could also end up with this power being abused, either by unscrupulous agents, or even hackers. The feds will seemingly dredge up any old statute, or precedent on the books, to force users into compliance with their insatiable hunger for data, legally entitled or not. The famous call-to-arms “Give me liberty, or give me death” could now apply to cell phones, because liberty in this case is incompatible with a centralized kill switch. North America could just go back to using undesirable landfill-grade phones, the kind most common in low income countries, but we know that won’t happen anytime soon.

So we have a kind of conundrum for the end user, the owner of the cell phone, with really no good options, only less invasive, and less detrimental ones to privacy. We could have a 100% effective encryption on the phone hardware, which makes it difficult to repair, and nearly impossible to recover data from in case of damage, but will thwart any tyrannical regime from accessing it too. We could also have a 100% effective kill switch, one that can’t be reversed, which could deter theft, but give authorities pre-emptive powers to shut you down. Just like we can use stronger password systems, and rowdy police officers will still demand access, threatening jail time or prosecution for not complying, even when it is unlawful for them to search the phone without a warrant. The tug-of-war over rights and privileges isn’t going to go away.

In the long view, what’s likely going to happen is whatever the government wants most, if they ever manage to agree on that, and the telcos will market it as a benefit to consumers. The situation will remain that way unless there’s a major consumer backlash that could hurt their stock price, but even then, we can’t exclude the possibility of the feature remaining, just hidden behind some extra layer of obfuscation…

The truth is however, that social programs serve to keep the poorest citizens of a nation contributing to the economy, and austerity programs essentially prevent GDP growth, by excluding ever more people from the consumer economy. This is a true, but unpopular way of viewing social programs in America. Most people prefer to think of it as a class of unemployed moocher taking away their hard-earned tax dollars, a belief that the wealthy elites have fostered in America for generations, by constantly complaining about government waste, and high taxes. Hardly anyone dares question the logic of taking from the less poor to pay for the poorer, while the richest pay less and less; there seems to be some selective amnesia or collective psychosis around this topic. Economic “activists” like Robert Reich, and working-class politicians like Bernie Sanders are trying to fight back, but it’s an uphill battle.

In Europe the situation is much different. The people themselves know the value of social programs or safety nets, but their leaders insist on effectively disobeying the will of the people. Right now, many of Europe’s central banks are teetering on insolvency, putting pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB), as their economies flounder, trying to offer more loans, more recklessly. A few countries have even gone so far as introducing negative interest rates to drive consumer spending by the crack of a whip, while taking away their ability to save. People with no savings have no safety net of their own, making the cuts to social programs even more dire, and only increasing the tensions between the voters and electorate.

All this shortsighted monetary policy just creates deflation, not the inflation they are seeking, as it would in better times. It creates a growing resistance to spend on discretionary goods, many opting instead to paying off debts like mortgages. Just as we see with commodity prices around the world falling, as a result of corporations being unwilling to invest in growing their businesses, preferring instead to buy back their own shares. This is exactly the activity that doesn’t spur economic growth, and yet the current crop of experts, trained only in partial Keynesian economics, insists on doubling-down on this lunacy. The people who know better, like the former Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, are preaching anti-austerity to anyone who will listen, and a lot of people are listening. It is perhaps ironic, that Canada has decided the opposite, to run deficits, and invest in infrastructure spending, exactly like the contrarian economists suggest.

The building rage over austerity programs in Europe really overflowed in Greece, where riots and political turmoil resulted, but it’s everywhere now. There are nearly constant protests in heart of Europe, in all the countries that have worked hard to achieve first-world standards of living, because they can feel it slipping away, they’ve seen what happened in Cyprus and Greece, and can see the cycle repeating in Portugal and Spain. Conversely, they have good examples like Hungary, which to the chagrin of the global banking cartel, has managed to pay off it’s entire foreign debt by first implementing deep cuts, and by acting swiftly with a resurgent domestic currency. Hungary, the country that has survived nearly every form of socio-political system, is perhaps the only country at the moment to have beat back the encroachment of debt-slavery inherent in “westernization”.

To many people austerity is closely linked to the immigration crisis as well. They see hundreds of thousands of belligerent Africans, impoverished Afghans, well-educated Syrians, and a mishmash of peoples from the Caucuses including Chechnya arriving, demanding they be taken care of too. On the surface this argument is no different than the constant fear-mongering over Mexicans over-running American states, when they actually contribute to the workforce and taxes, but it is very different, because the Americans states don’t give universal benefits to fence jumpers, nor are they entering a country unaccustomed to those people. In most southern states, like Texas or Florida, there is plenty of signage in Spanish, and many of the resident speak the language too, the same can’t be said about Lybians entering Austria, or Kurds entering Sweden.

The less known aspects to the migration crisis revolve around the agents encouraging it every step of the way. It is well known that the Turkish intelligence services (MIT) sell forged passports to anyone trying to cross into Greece on a dinghy, and turn a blind eye to all the “human traffickers” that facilitate the trip. We also know from Hungarians who witnessed the early phases of the migration, that wealthy Arabic and Turkic men have been paying individuals to transit into Europe, then collecting them on the other side in expensive cars. The recent cargoes of guns and ammunition caught in Bulgaria and Italy, also came from Turkey, proving at the least that Turkey is a conspirator, and a facilitator to the crisis, if not one of the culprits.

It is with no small irony, that it is France and Britain that insisted on demolishing the thriving African nation of Libya, intent on stealing the oil riches amidst the chaos, which has contributed to around a third of the migrants, and thousands of civilian deaths.

The supporters of this pseudo-imperialist corporate-fascism are no longer limited to what we know as “left” or “right” in politics either, since we see so little dissent. In fact we can safely call this neo-fascism, as it has corrupted the entire political spectrum with ill-gotten gains. We can even reasonably say, that the entire terrorist network operating inside Syria and Iraq is a business enterprise, selling looted oil and priceless antiquities for profit, with selective ethnic cleansing and barbarity thrown in for good measure; by any historical account, that spells fascism too. The fact that they are also being externally gifted recruits, funds, and weapons, from wealthy Islamic Extremists and NATO/CIA programs, doesn’t change this fact.

Conservative leaders like the former president of France, Sarkozy, and the current liberal president, Hollande, are both very much establishment players, they followed the neo-liberal globalist agendas at home, and they followed the neo-conservative regime change imperialism agendas abroad, only varying in degree. The same can be said about Tony Blair and David Cameron, supposedly opposite, strikingly the same. In lay speak that means selling out their citizens to the needs of corporations, then redirecting the money from unemployment benefits, pensions etc, to warring in far away lands, to give those corporations even more business.

By destroying whole countries, the “westerners” under the auspices of NATO, under the banner of humanitarian intervention, have created a need to rebuild, and who better to rebuild than “western” corporations? It is with no small irony, that it is France and Britain that insisted on demolishing the thriving African nation of Libya, intent on stealing the oil riches amidst the chaos, which has contributed to around a third of the migrants, and thousands of collateral civilian deaths.

Thus the waves of anti-austerity, anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist sentiment is also causing a crisis at the top levels of the European establishment. The spineless bureaucrats that follow their marching orders from the elites are very, very nervous these days. Marine Le Pen in France, and Jeremy Corbyn in Britain have been outside critics of this destructive order, and were marginalized by their cohorts at first, vilified by the media later, but have surged in popularity amongst the voters exactly because of it. The people are sick of being used like pawns, and getting nothing in return.

Patriots like Viktor Orban are no longer seen as tyrants, once demonized for building a razor fence across Hungary’s border to stop migrants entering, he is now joined by the leaders of several central-eastern European countries doing the same. So when Angela Merkel announced Germany would take nearly a million “refugees”, unleashing a torrent of new migrants, she simultaneously slapped every working class citizen in the face.

There is a huge power shift going on, and the power is flowing from the pro-EU/pro-NATO members into the hands of the anti-establishment skeptics. Once merely fringe politicians, and radical back-benchers, they are now in the spotlight, giving damning interviews. Not a result the New World Order types wanted to see.

This rise of the Euro-skeptic was originally centered on monetary policy, but has morphed into a complete distrust of the very structure of the EU. We have a situation now, where larger economies such as France and Germany, are able to strong arm smaller economies like Poland and Italy, where the smaller economies didn’t have all the traditional tools available to fight back. This is what happened with Greece, having given up it’s own domestic currency for the sake of the euro, it was not able to devalue it’s currency to become more competitive. The euro itself is therefore problem, it is the untenable imposition of a common currency across a wide range of countries that’s the problem, countries that should never have been part of the monetary union in the first place. Leading to predatory bailouts to recapitalize the banks, leading to more austerity, leading to privatization, and leading to runaway unemployment as recession sets in.

This is by the way, the same effect that free-trade deals have on nations. For example, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty being discussed in secret, is yet another corporate giveaway, a burden that will be share by the ordinary people trying to make a living. Those fighting to retain the social programs are the ones trying to enter the workforce, the ones in the workforce have to fight to keep their jobs, and are therefore in competition already. By the allowing these megalithic “free-trade” deals, the technocrats in Brussels will effectively impose austerity by another means, an austerity of wages, leading to lower taxes, forcing the governments to cut ever deeper.

It’s a self-defeating circle in the near term, where household earnings will suffer, corporate earnings will suffer, and a total takeover of democratic authority by corporations in the long term. Spread out on a long enough timeline, as things stabilize at a new lower median wage, the weaker corporations will be swallowed up by the larger ones, concentrating both power and wealth, in the hands of fewer and fewer. Ultimately, this also leads to unhealthy monopolies, but ones that will demand greater concessions from anti-monopolists, claiming that competition would be unbearable with such low consumer spending power. If the future is anything like history, the corporations will win the fight. Here the Euro-skeptic is joined by the EU-skeptic, and their revulsion to unelected EU ministers dictating national policies, especially when they see where it’s heading.

The traditional movements towards European solidarity were based on the common understanding that Europe would not tolerate another World War. This singular thought motivated the distraught economic and social planners to create a method to unify Europe politically, but to do this, they decided to unify Europe under a common currency first, to force that change. This was wishful thinking at best. We can see in hindsight that Europe wasn’t ready, the economies weren’t ready, there was too much variation in wages and living standards to make this plan work, and today we see it failing. Though Germany and France have been fighting as hard as they could to save it, other actors have been secretly trying to destabilize it. Actors like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the not-so-hidden hand of the United States.

Which then also leads us to the wishful thinking that is Ukraine, specifically the idea of Ukraine entering NATO, and being able to threaten Russia without a buffer zone between. We could see this as a strategic gamble that didn’t pay off, or more reckless behaviour from the same warmongering elites sprinkled throughout the NATO command structure. I prefer to think that the latter is the more correct, with the added influence of wanting to see some kind of immediate success, something that hasn’t been forthcoming from Afghanistan or the Middle East. The plans to overthrow the Ukrainian government were in the works less than a month after their previous “Orange revolution” poster-boy lost the election, to a pro-Russian patriot. You’d think the people pulling the strings would have learned from this u-turn, or from Egypt, where the “Arab spring” installed Muslim Brotherhood member, was also ousted after a brief stint.

It should be obvious to anyone watching that making a coup d’etat stick, isn’t as easy as winning an election. We would also be amiss in believing the people making the decisions to overthrow democratically elected leaders are sane, or even working for the greater good. There seems to be no shortage of finger pointing, and an endless propaganda barrage against anyone, or any organization, who dares to question their interventions. This is what bullies do. This is what people who know they are wrong do. This is what crazy, imperialist, freedom hating, amoral globalists do. They shoot the messenger, they imprison the whistleblowers, they smear the honest journalists who question too much, and assassinate the characters of informed dissenters as conspiracy nuts.

The Ukraine project is the lovechild of a frustrated American hegemony intent on isolating Russia, rooted in Cold War mentality, and an pessimistic (or is that realistic?) Europe, eager to bolster it’s underwater financial sector, and to bolster the problematic euro itself. Viewing it like this, we can see it was only really an arrangement that seemed synchronous, they were obviously not mutually-exclusive goals, but they were never that parallel to begin with, nor does Empire America ever tolerate equals. So, as with most geo-political events, Washington took the lead.

It shouldn’t be much of a revelation to realize why it failed. Americans have a history of interjecting their point of view into everything, which is understandable to some extent, we see the world as we see ourselves, and this was as true in Vietnam, as it was in Iraq, as it is in Ukraine. Whatever prospect of success there existed in permanently turning Ukraine into a NATO member, was never allowed to happen, because the foundations were never built, and the actors chosen for the job would have been locked up in any self-respecting NATO country. There was no recipe for success, only a list of possible actions, that might lead to outcomes that served America’s interests, and if they were lucky, Europe’s interests too.

We should all be aware of the beginning of the end by now, that fateful day when America used it’s international muscle, to impose sanctions on Russia. The Malaysian airliner being shot down was one excuse, the declaration of independence by the Crimean people was the other, but more targeted sanctions were imposed since then as well, with little attempt at justification. This wasn’t the obvious turning point in Ukraine’s future, until some time had passed, and all those blind supporters suddenly realized that it was hurting them. Countries like Germany, France, Italy, Japan, all suffered for their adherence to American hegemony, and their insecure need to stand in solidarity with NATO. France suffered a slightly more humiliating pain, when under pressure from Canada, America, and Britain, president Hollande cancelled their contract to sell some very expensive ships to Russia, a hit to their economy for sure, but also a huge hit to their business reputation.

As Europe’s economies were being hurt, the Americans ploughed ahead with their post-coup structural support of Ukraine’s newly unelected puppet regime. They probably watched the Europeans squirm with delight, as they imported more trained mercenaries into Ukraine, including contractors like Blackwater, which earned the reputation of being indiscriminate killers in Iraq. These killers would fight along side the mysteriously fast ascending Right Sector neo-nazi groups, supporting a Jewish president of all people. Later the Ukrainian constitution was changed to allow foreigners to serve in the nation’s military, as if whatever pretence of legitimacy no longer mattered.

Except even this wasn’t enough to overcome the entrenched separatists in the Donbass and Lugansk regions, who had much of the major manufacturing, and a lot of ethnic Russians, with a lot of Russian friends not far away. As it turned out, a lot of Russian military personnel took time off to visit these regions, funny that. The dreams of American shale gas developers having dibs on the Donyetsk shale deposits slipped away with every passing day.

The Ukrainian civil war was a big mess for all involved, friends became political enemies, families were forced to flee, neo-nazi extremists were killing and beating anyone with so much as familial ties to Russia. As bad as the war became, the worst hit in all this actually ended up being the Ukrainian economy, as the currency crashed with the ruble, everything they were buying became unaffordable, except what few items were available from nearby Russia. We could mull over the idea that this effect was never anticipated, and that it caught the Maidan coup d’etat planners off guard, but then we would have to look at them like bungling idiots wouldn’t we? That’s hardly any more flattering than power hungry psychos.

Then to make matters even worse for the US-backed regime, Russia stepped in to supply humanitarian goods, with plenty of ammunition as well, ensuring the fighting separatists could hold out, while the most vulnerable families could take refuge on the Russian side of the border. It was at this moment, more than any other, that Putin put to shame all the heartless western leaders complicit in the project, and in doing so, earned the respect of a lot of ordinary people around the world. This was exactly the opposite of what the narrative was supposed to be, the narrative being peddled 24/7 by the western media conglomerates.

This naturally made the Americans quietly furious, and even more aggressive, maybe even a little hostile to Europe, at least to those who dared to voice their concerns openly. They pay close to a billion dollars a year to spread anti-Russian propaganda around the world, and this is what they get for it?

Then we started hearing opposition groups become more vocal, sensing their opportunity to side with the people, they took full advantage. Nigel Farage in Britain would give long speeches about the evils of the EU, and it’s unjustifiable support of U.S. foreign policy; while Marine Le Pen in France would openly praise Vladmir Putin, while decrying American interventions on Europe’s doorstep.

Curiously, Angela Merkel stayed silent in her disapproval of the actions of the American neo-nazi militias running wild in Ukraine, but this was likely the result of some clever blackmail by the CIA and NSA, who threatened to withhold key spying software and any information on potential terrorist activity. To Merkel, national security came before sound national policy, and the issue quietly went away. Yet it wasn’t the German compliance that was unusual, but the lack of a strategy. Never a good sign.

This economic suicide was foisted on Europe and Japan, they didn’t lead the charge, and it wasn’t going to hurt the Americans one bit. This coupled with the increasing insanity spewing from Washington, began to take it’s toll on the world leaders themselves. They had to support this madness as their own citizens were protesting, they had to give speeches to quell the masses with the flimsiest of excuses, and when confronted in earnest, had to stand their ground with a notable absence of sound logic.

Meanwhile, Putin accelerated plans to circumvent the sanctions, working even closer with the Chinese to create alternate methods of moving capital, although still hobbled by a lack of low interest loans from abroad. This began to look more and more like Russia would come through it just fine to the Europeans, and stress fractures in the Union started showing up in unexpected places. Merkel even started making noises about improving relations with Russia for the sake of mutual interest, not that her leash would let her go that far, but it was a clear sign that Europeans were increasingly unhappy with the arrangement, and they didn’t see Russia as the enemy as they were supposed to.

Perhaps Europe wasn’t about to sacrifice itself for American interests.

Up until the Russian intervention in Syria, Turkey was playing a long game on behalf of the United States. Being a key ally with a minority government, wasn’t really conducive to much beyond that. They fought the Kurds, they pretended to fight terrorists, while immensely profiting with European oil companies who partnered with them, to sell the terrorist oil. Some of it for as little as $10 per barrel, at a time when the average price was well above $60 per barrel on the open market.

Erdogan’s own son, with the full support of the intelligence services, had built up an entire supply trading structure, that directly benefited Europe coincidentally by driving down prices. Whatever other plans the world leaders had in the region regarding pipelines, and bypassing Russia or Iran, was really more daydreaming than anything. I don’t really think the Turks were expecting much from Syria’s “civil war” in the sense of economic interests, they seemed to be content just siphoning profit for the most part, hoping one day to annex part of the territory from a failed state. They were fully complicit in the destruction of Syria of course, bombing civilian areas to drive people out, and providing the chemical weapons to the terrorists, which they would try to pin on Assad’s forces, with little success.

This destruction however had bizarre results, it increased the number of refugees, but not how they expected. Most Syrians didn’t want to leave! Many of them intially moved over the borders into Iraq, trying to stay within range of their home, and had to be forcibly driven out by coalition air strikes for not following the plan. While an even larger number of Syrian “refugees” slowly migrated west, towards Damascus and other government controlled areas, and it was these suburbs that came under the heaviest mortar fire from the terrorist groups in the south, given the friendly sounding Free Syrian Army moniker.

When it became obvious that Syrians just didn’t want to leave, the Americans employed various Kurdish extremists to drive ethnic minorities out of the Kurdish dominated regions. Trapped by the really awful terrorist groups to the south, most of these minorities, including many Christians, fled to Turkey. Again, on the surface this seems unrelated to anything, but being the opportunists they are, Turkey started demanding money to build refugee camps along the border, and billions they got. Who can resist a feel-good refugee story afterall?

Erdogan used the opportunity to create buffer zones between the Turkmen who supported him, and the Kurds who didn’t. It was in many of these camps that the CIA and Pentagon recruited from, for additional fighters to be implanted back into Syria, and initially they did. They managed to cobble together poor men of fighting age into fairly useless squads, which they would also conveniently label the Free Syrian Army, even though they had no relation to any of the other groups. By the time the Pentagon actually admitted that most of these recruits deserted, or got absorbed into Jahbat Al-Nusra around Aleppo or other hardcore terrorist groups in the east, you could almost laugh.

Everything changed when Russia was invited to help the Syrian government beat back the encroaching terrorist groups supported by the CIA and Pentagon. At first, Turkey sat quietly and watched, their oil smuggling operations were safe under coalition air cover, and their arms smuggling by Turkmen groups to Al-Nusra in western Syria was not in the crosshairs. Assad had asked primarily to re-attach the severed routes between the various provinces, many of the cities were safely under Syrian Arab Army control, but the transit corridors were littered with terrorist hotspots. Russia obliged, spending the majority of the first week clearing the major highways from Damascus to Aleppo, around the naval base at Tartus, and the important air base in Latakia. With Syrian ground forces now able to deploy wherever needed, and full aerial surveillance, any momentum the terrorists had was now reversed.

That is when the coalition lost their minds.

Suddenly it dawned on everyone, just like Ukraine, Syria would stall, and their fantasies of unfettered imperialism fizzled like overcooked bacon. Russia was the one player that could forestall any clear victory, and hold them to account. Worse still, the Russians could easily halt the flow of cheap oil into Europe, expose the coalition’s phony bombing campaign, or worse, create a no-fly zone over Syria.

Russia was on the side of international law here. As astute or as dense as the western leaders are, this puts them into a giant paradox, break all the international laws they all swore to uphold in order to protect their hegemonic adventurism, or allow the Russian alliance with Syria and Iran run the show. This was clearly a challenging problem to solve for NATO, it was one more wedge between American and European interests. It so utterly exposed the schizophrenic adherence to international laws among the western leaders, not just the rhetorical war in the media, but when it came to skin in the game. Even the United Nations Security Council was being gamed to support wars that are illegal under both UN Resolutions, and the Geneva Conventions. It just wasn’t that obvious to the dulled masses before.

Those of us paying attention since the Gulf War era could easily remember, one day they were arguing that a country needs a regime change for being undemocratic, the next day arguing that a democratically elected government is illegitimate. This total hypocrisy only worked because of widespread complicity, a unified message across the important dignitaries at these worldly forums, and total capitulation by the mainstream media. When the message stopped being unified, when the leaders started staring at each other uncomfortably instead of talking, when the backup plans were all used up, all that was left were a bunch of naked wannabe emperors.

The growing confusion in the United States position on any given topic was palpable, but aside from the effect on the public that had once unconditionally supported everything, the effect it had on the rest of Europe was more damaging. NATO itself has been a tool of American foreign policy, it has rarely if ever operated on its own, without a leash leading to their handler in Washington. NATO has therefore operated more like a pack of wolves than any a round table, falling in behind the leader of the pack, and now the leader was sulking in the corner, doubting its ability to get anything done.

This crisis of faith within NATO, combined with the stress of the migrant crisis, overlaid onto a very fragile Eurozone, is for the first time forcing the establishment leaders to think for themselves. And as they did that, they might just have realized they aren’t on the same page afterall. Erdogan certainly took this as his moment to be a chaos agent, further putting the screws to the Europeans begging for relief from the migrating hordes of the unclean. The American Empire might have relished the thought of a diminished European Union, but they might have set in motion a destruction tsunami of bad policies, and NATO’s very foundation is at stake.

Then Turkey did the one thing that no one foresaw, except some State Dept or Pentagon officials that will never admit it, chose their own adventure, and had their airforce shoot down a Russian fighter-bomber, in a pre-planned strike. Worse still, his own Turkmen terrorist group operating in Syria, headed by his own intelligence officers, killed the parachuting pilot in a brazen act of war criminality, which they had the foresight to record from 8 directions. If what we saw up to this point was an incoherent drunkard in NATO, this was an act of spite, wrapped in hubris. Turkey gave a big middle finger to Russia, and NATO in the same breath. In a single move, Erdogan became a wife beater, and everyone saw him do it.

Without warning, everyone’s favourite clearing house for stolen oil, arms trading, terrorist training, and money laundering, became a pariah, irreparably harming the reputations of those who stuck with them this long. Even Israel, complicit in many of the same dirty deeds, and oft times partner of Turkey decided to seek cover from the fallout. It’s safe to assume Erdogan was brimming with narcissistic pride at the time, he had just secured another 3 billion euros from the disgruntled EU, and had just received a few more military toys of his own. He probably thought he was untouchable, masterfully playing all sides with impunity, cruising his country to EU membership.

Erdogan, as so many US-backed tyrants, made the ultimate mistake in hindsight, he had defied his masters, made fools of them, and possibly derailed all their plans. It remains to be seen when his excellency will be punished by his own, but Putin isn’t waiting around for it to happen. Whatever pre-text NATO had to impose the no-fly zone that Turkey had demanded for the past year, was gone. A no-fly zone would have only benefited the terrorists, allowing them to regroup without fear of bombs, exactly what they wanted, despite any rhetoric to the contrary. Yet for all their scheming, it was all to be replaced by a Russian controlled air-space, with triple the aerial firepower on tap, and plenty of cutting edge surface-to-air missile systems to keep it that way.

Whoever masterminded the attack on the Russian jet underestimated the level headed Putin, and his highly decorated ally General Soleimani, who personally launched a successful anti-terrorism operation on those Turkish fighters, recovering the co-pilot from hostile territory. Having sorted out that little mess, Russia now unequivocally owns the skies above Syria, and there’s not a damn thing any of the supporters of terrorism can do about it.

The downing of the Russian passenger jet in Egypt, along with the downing of the bomber in Syria, gave Putin all the legal authority he needed to crush these bastards, and even the American people are with him on this one.

The way I see it, the Eurozone has a serious structural flaw, and it will inevitably fail. The question they face, is whether to back away willingly, or hold onto their sinking ship as long as possible. Possibilities that they don’t want to entertain. The best of the two is backing away, namely reverting to national currencies, and using the euro purely as a Europe-wide reserve currency. This would totally mess up the Eurobond market, and nullify the various “stability mechanisms” available to the ECB. It would in no small way, diminish any centralized authority over the region, and set back the globalist agenda by decades.

As for NATO, it has a similarly bleak future, if it also can’t accept the obvious solution, which currently it can’t. NATO could do the unthinkable, and invite the Russians, Iranians, and possibly even China or India, to be permanent members. NATO’s entire reason for being was to fight the Communist advance around the world many decades ago, it prided itself on bringing together the “free” western nations as a bulwark, but that “threat” has long since vanished. Inviting Russia would therefore be the antithesis of NATO as it exists today. Which at the very least would require a name change, I rather like: United Hemisphere Organization of Hope (UHOH)…

In many ways, the current threat to the world is NATO itself, and its coalition of imperialist neo-fascist nations, all pretending to be the “good guys”, while supporting all the evils it purports to fight against. It is also not hard to imagine the very fate of the European Union is linked to the fate of NATO. If NATO collapses, the EU will likely back into devolve into distrustful nationalism, taking the down the power structures of the European Council, and if it’s the EU that collapses, then NATO will lack the cohesive will to get anything done, much less agree on who will pay for it.

It remains to be seen whether Turkey, who has sought full EU and NATO membership, will be the agent of it’s destruction, or whether the institutional members will do it on their own. If it starts falling apart, it will be interesting to see if the powers can manage it like a controlled demolition, or lose all control, and get a nasty surprise ending. One world government advocates must be very optimistic at the moment.

It’s become really hard to keep portraying Xi Jinping as a modern day Communist, and Vladmir Putin is no Dr. Evil, when they seem to be the only ones behaving logically, although these days, they look a bit smug don’t they?