3 Crises: War Flares, Harris Snorts, Soldiers Flee

Israel, Ukraine, Hollywood, Starmer-Maxwell, Geoengineering

Sep 27, 2024

(2,800 words or 14 minutes of news in brief/ labour theory of value)

Sep 27, 2024

Israel/Lebanon

Almost 500 killed on one day, the largest toll by Israeli strikes since the 1975-90 war, if you exclude October 7th.

The IDF said it hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets in 24 hours.

U.S. sticks to the policy of "escalate to end the escalation"

An adjunct professor at the American University and a journalist with the Al Quds Daily newspaper, Said Arikat, told AJ there is no contradiction in US policy when officials call for de-escalation while also promising to defend Israel.

“The US position is very clearly on the side of Israel,” Arikat told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.

“Israel could not have possibly waged such a strike [on Lebanon] without [an] American green light. After all, these are American aeroplanes and American weapons, including the F-35 fighter jets and the Hellfire missiles."

From Elijah Magnier's latest article:

"Hezbollah is expected to unleash its larger, long-range missiles without hesitation, extending its reach into the Negev, where Israel's military bases are located. This will demonstrate that the whole of Israel is within Hezbollah's missile range...”

Russia/Ukraine

While Ukraine, with the help of NATO, diverted its forces to invade Russia's Kursk region, Russia has been pushing through the former's front line.

This makes the war much more volatile. Unwittingly or by design, the focus on Kursk has left eastern Ukraine undefended, and has ended the stalemate that kept Russia pinned down.

Once it penetrates Ukraine's front line, there is little to stop Russia pushing for the Dnieper river which divides the country.

NATO has a choice of agreeing to Ukraine's loss of territory or escalating. The attack on a massive ammunition store in Tver region, West of Moscow, on September 17, suggests which option it's chosen.

But at what cost will NATO pursue war; what is the lasting price Western Europe will pay? Is there any connection to other wars, especially in the Mid East, and how does this crisis overlap with those to which the United Nations gives more attention, such as climate, pandemics, farming and fuel?

Ukrainian soldiers, having served more than two years without rotation, are deserting. Even the Ukrainian press admits it.

"According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, more than 60,000 criminal cases have been initiated for unauthorized abandonment of a unit or desertion since 2022, with nearly half of the cases occurring this year."

Dancing the Unipole

More than 700 current and intelligence officials have endorsed Kamala Harris. Why would they even do that? Just a few short years ago they would have been far more discrete.

"VP Harris has proven she is an effective leader able to advance American national security interests," the letter says. “Her relentless diplomacy around the globe preserved a united front in support of Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression..."

Some liberties with the truth, but let's push on.

A Kamala Harissism:

"For that it may be, and thus should; or that it was, and should
not... have... been."

My bad joke. That's not what she said and she is not funny.

"What can be, unburdened by what has been" is the logic of Pol Pot's Year Zero: to wipe out what has been to arrive at the new. [1]

Including wiping out memories and creating Mao's blank sheet of paper.

Green weapons factories

Ukraine's former president Zelenskiy was campaigning with the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, in the swing state, saying the continued war with Russia will lead to new American factories and jobs.

This is the strange combination of Green de-growth, energy rationing and war. An Orwellian economy geared towards little but producing armaments, while the mass of the civilian population lives in austerity, even starvation, while dodging incoming missiles, increasingly familiar to those in Israel and Lebanon, Ukraine and Russia.

If this war economy takes hold, can you be sure you won't share the experience of this wartime existence?

Countries closer to the warzone say it must end. Kiev should accept the “temporary” loss of some territory as its victory conditions are impossible, says Czech President and former NATO general Petr Pavel.

But the Party, which transcends reds and blues, aspires to rule what we might call the 'Unipole' — a vertical hegemon which brooks no rivals.

Given its addiction to the profits of war — said to be 10 times what an equivalent manufacturer can earn from peace even in WW1 — combined with the need for boogeymen with which to terrify the populace into compliance, would it ever give up war?

Orwell's states of forever war do not seem so fictional.

My Beautiful Laundrette

Money sent to Ukraine is laundered back into the U.S. The combined profit of money laundering, human trafficking and BlackRock in Ukraine vastly exceeds its GDP.

Campaign donations in the U.S. have exploded and no-one knows where the money to PACs has come from.

Ukraine may be a shell country, like a shell company. There is little evidence that its population is now more than 20 million people.

Shell countries may be a part of the Great Reset agenda... as the native populations are under assault, while the future of people imports is unknown.

However, money does not explain everything. Woke-Go-Broke is driven by profit.

Rearm, rearm, It's from yourself you have to hide

Proof rests in the pudding that is the rest of the warmongering world.

Germany and Japan are being re-armed; the same objective with AUKUS in Australia.

Yet at the same time as this militarisation, the people are being repressed and there is no attempt to hide it.

Charlie Kirk summed up the process from a U.S. perspective:

"Springfield, Ohio, is a perfect example of how the ruling class has treated the heartland of the country:

Step one, we close the factories and we send them overseas so that people don't have work;
step two, we flood these communities with opioids so that they are permanently addicted and we kill a lot of them;
step three, we send their kids, their sons and daughters, to fight no-win wars and they come back with permanent health issues;
step four, we flood their town with foreigners after we have completely abused and broken them and we sent their jobs overseas;
step five, the residents who are still there and have survived all this abuse, notice that the foreigners are doing really weird stuff, illegal stuff, like driving in head-on traffic, killing kids, eating cats and taking geese out of the pond.

“And then we call the people that are still there in Springfield racist after their factories have closed, their sons died in Iraq, and they're addicted to opioids, and their local school is being over run by Haitians but they are racist for noticing that their home is turning into Port Au Prince." [2]

Pull focus to Australia, NZ, Canada, Britain, Germany... and there is some variant of this same story.

The salt of the Earth is abandoned:

To inquire about the objective makes you, in the eyes of police, politicians and media that serve the Establishment, a conspiracy theorist; perhaps even a terrorist.

British journalist Richard Medhurst was held for 24 hours under terrorism laws. His frustrated plea, "I am a Medhurst," in reference to the members of his family who had fought for Britain in two world wars, fell on deaf ears.

Land of my birth means nothing when arbitrary terror laws are open to every and any interpretation. No different from the Bolsheviks:

"The Terrorism Act 2000 defines terrorism, both in and outside of the UK, as the useor threat of one or more of the actions listed below, and where they are designed to influence the government, or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public." — The Crown Prosecution Service.

On August 29, more than a dozen police officers, some of them from the UK's counter-terrorism unit, arrested Palestine activist and journalist Sarah Wilkinson.

What objective, you may ask, is so controversial that the State dare not mention it: that requires the corporate media to march in lockstep and the people to be locked down?

What requires they antagonise and provoke the people so they can jail them?

Look at Britain where the jailing of people for Tweets or Facebook posts was followed a month later by probation and a slap on the wrist for a serial predator: the BBC's most senior and long serving presenter, Huw Edwards, who was the voice of Queen Elizabeth's funeral and King Charles' coronation.

In Australia, the Albanese government has given the public barely a week (until September 30) to make submissions to a Senate inquiry into a bill to censor social media of anything the government deems to be “harmful” mis- or disinformation.

I think you can be sure that politicians, the media and The Powers That Be who own and control them, are hiding something.

I am being coy. We have discussed on many occasions their intention - yet mostly, even with Charlie Kirk, we hear mostly about the symptoms and not the cause.

United Fasces

Turn to the United Nations, and again we see the mechanism of repression — but they still do not mention where they are taking us:

The United Nation's Pact For The Future promises to "transform global governance" for all humanity.

It is not a normal treaty. It speaks in generalities and relies on references to other documents or agreements to provide the details:

Sustainable Development as the pretext for a new monetary system;
Agenda 2030 at the centre of multilateralism aka global governance;
give the UN Sec-Gen emergency powers, like the WHO Director, whenever there is a "global shock" of any kind;
could be famine, pandemic, war, supply chain disruption etc

I quote the Carnegie Foundation which concluded there is no more effective way to transform the life of an entire people than war. That was in 1908 and they took us into two World Wars, a fake Cold War and now they want World War Three.

This is a variation on Hegel's comment that conflict is the path to progress.

See my three reports:
UN Seeks Control Of Nations (Sep 22, 2024)
Russia Rejects UN Pact For The Future (Sep 23, 2024)
UN & The Fake Limits To Growth (Sep 24, 2024)

You probably recognise these scenes from your own country but notice that there is one piece of information missing: In what way do the oiler-bankers, the owner-investors and the Money Power wish to "transform the life of an entire people"?

On that piece of the plan they, and their Minions like Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Dan Andrews and Keir Starmer, are curiously silent about the objective.

Maxwell family ghoul

The ghost of Robert Maxwell stalks Britain and the United States - simultaneously.

How is it that the father of sex-blackmail operator Ghislaine Maxwell still casts his corpulent shadow over the U.S. and UK more than 30 years after his death?

Former head of the Maxwell empire Waheed, Lord Alli helped choose Labour MPs. Anthony Blinken, whose stepfather was Maxwell's long time legal adviser and consigliere, is running the White House.

The clue is in the nature of politics, how it has been traduced, and who runs the biggest influence operation in Western politics. [3]

There is hardly anyone in the UK Labour Party leadership who did not receive gifts of New Boots And Panties from Alli.

Ian Dury's musical LP New Boots And Panties (1977) captured the seamy side that is bubbling just beneath the polished corporate and political image — the plastic mac and back alley.

His lyrics captured the grinding reality of Britain's struggle to emerge from power-war decline. It was written and composed in the last years of the Harold Wilson-James Callaghan Labour governments. Yet with foresight it would contrast with the shiny new Britannia that Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair would project.

Thatcher said her greatest achievement was Blair, as Starmer is Blair's.

It is thus strangely appropriate that the first scandal of Starmer's premiership is the revelation that he and his wife accepted "new boots and panties" from Labour donor Waheed Alli, a publisher who made his fortune under Robert Maxwell.

See Another Trump Shooter; Plot Thickens - Stochastic terrorism (Sep 16, 2024)

As well as being the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert's closest adviser and consigliere was Samuel Pisar, step father of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Don't forget the techy transhumanism financed by Ghislaine Maxwell's partner in crime Jeffrey Epstein, also financed by others like Bill Gates and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone.

Research by Charles Lieber into micro-computerization, nanowires and graphene - pooh-poohed and avoided like the plague by most of the Alt media.

See Lieber Case: Crossed Wires and Parallel Lines - Nanoscientist's case is quarantined, despite Maxwell-Epstein links (Dec 17, 2021)

Maxwell Case: Surveilled And Silenced - Twitter censors trial coverage as FBI connections broached (Dec 10, 2021)

Hollywood... Timberrrr!

Consolidation demands cheap films, the structural logic of recouping the cost of mergers by cutting costs.

Yet, as Hollywood quality plummets, is there truly a logic to the structure of consolidation - is it necessary; does it make sense?

Consolidation is a function of private equity, which asset strips in search of the quick buck. Decades of artificially low interest rates have repeated this pattern of hyper-financialisation in every economic crevice.

This, in turn, delivers "corruption, self-dealing, and institutionalized, almost automated vice," James Poulos writes in The Blaze.

The Money Power that created this problem responds that the solution is to use fewer humans - let artificial intelligence produce content.

We hear this same argument - that humans have been tried and found wanting, so let's go post-human - from every soap box in the citadel.

This is the Hegelian argument familiar from our discussion of Communitarianism. Hegel said war was the best way to move society forward. Many will die but think how good society will be after we solve those problems. It's a high price to sacrifice life and liberty, but think what pleasure and profit will result.

Or perhaps not. Poulos names the coming Hollywood content, "Bot slop". [4]

Theory of value

"Due to escalating technological advance, capital is increasingly impotent vis-a-vis its mission of squeezing surplus-value out of labour-power. With the unleashing of artificial intelligence this truly becomes mission impossible – game over."

I heard this 15 years ago... that robotics is a race to the bottom. There is a win for the first mover but it cannot last.

This is a twist on the labour theory of value. Why is it that once a product no longer requires the skills of a craftsman, and can be reproduced ad nauseam by a robot, it loses value?

The robot is the factory owner's nightmare of surplus production and dwindling margins.

Profit has to be recalibrated, based on control of mineral resources, ie rationing. Welcome to the great reset.

Once the masses cannot afford the hamburger patty made by a robot (already happening) who is the robot's customer?

Bonus crisis

Something strange is happening in the climate, magnetosphere, tropo-wrangelshere, electro-funk-whatever.

The wild dogs and my pet tortoises are in heat, trying madly to hump each other at the end of September!

Tortoises hump all the time (a dominance thing) but they've stopped eating and dedicated themself to the perpetual boner.

The pet dog is barking day and night to protect his territory from interlopers who have come after the bitches.

Something in the air

Do you want to know a secret... the cats are fighting, dogs barking all night.
Even I struggle to control aggression... I let fly a cashier who cheated me when I usually let such things pass (you win some, you lose some).

There is discord in the aether.

Musical interlude. Images from my youth:

In March of this year I posted this on another site:

I have not seen the forest dogs so wild. Each night they attack each other. The shrieking this morning set off a neighbour's dog to howl until they took him inside. They keep attacking and even killing cats. Something unnerves them.

The spring is cold. The media tells us the winter was unseasonably warm but it's as if the cold weather shifted slightly into spring, with an inevitable impact on plants.

Half the seedlings I'd planted in readiness for March have died. I'm having to start over.

The Caucasus tortoises are looking at me and saying, why did you wake me from hibernation in March (when they usually awaken)... and it's going on April.

Yet I refrain from reading much about weather from the news sites. The takeaway from the geoengineering comments is that perception management is rated as important as reality — ie propaganda.

Climate change/weather modification — you can't trust a word from the mouth of a "climate scientist.” If his lips are moving, he's lying.

Hopefully this Global Boiling will warm up a bit.

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