Since the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979, Britain has undergone a great experiment. Economically, the UK became the exemplar of neoliberalism in Europe. Politically, the UK has quietly transitioned to a postnational state, undergoing one of the greatest demographic transformations in the West.
Although the landslide victory of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” in 1997 may have seemed like a return to the model of European social democracy that Britain exemplified after the Second World War, Blair’s “Third Way” represented rather the embrace of neoliberalism by the establishment Left, summed up nicely by their spokesman Peter Mandelson’s declaration that “we are all Thatcherites now”.
Under the leadership of both the Conservative Party and New Labour, Britain has transitioned from a traditional industrial and manufacturing powerhouse to a highly financialised rentier economy. The effects have been profound. The average Briton is considerably worse off and entire regions have been left behind at the same time London has become a booming centre of international finance. The UK has been denationalised by decades of mass-immigration and cultural leftism, and has become the prime example of “anarcho-tyranny”, where the state punishes minor offences and acts of dissent against the liberal consensus with extreme force, while serious crime runs out of control in major cities.
The Rentier Regime
The fundamental transformation in the British economy since the 1980s is the movement away from an economy that made things to an economy that made money . Up to then, Britain’s economic might had been centered on its manufacturing. Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, and the dual expansion of its colonial empire and rapid advances in engineering allowed for the creation of a vast trading network, where colonies provided the raw materials and markets for British manufacturing. Northern English cities like Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle became manufacturing powerhouses serving the world.
…The graph below demonstrates the explosion in London-based financial services in delivering growth for the British economy
UPDATE: This is an exceptionally good article. It covers much more than even a longish sample can convey. I highly recommend reading it. It has clarified and altered my understanding of the UK. ABN
The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.” The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.
The unprecedented shift has placed an ever greater number of soldiers, civilians, and contractors working under false identities, partly as a natural result in the growth of secret special forces but also as an intentional response to the challenges of traveling and operating in an increasingly transparent world. The explosion of Pentagon cyber warfare, moreover, has led to thousands of spies who carry out their day-to-day work in various made-up personas, the very type of nefarious operations the United States decries when Russian and Chinese spies do the same.
Newsweek’s exclusive report on this secret world is the result of a two-year investigation involving the examination of over 600 resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense decision-makers. What emerges is a window into not just a little-known sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated practice. No one knows the program’s total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.
The signature reduction effort engages some 130 private companies to administer the new clandestine world. Dozens of little known and secret government organizations support the program, doling out classified contracts and overseeing publicly unacknowledged operations. Altogether the companies pull in over $900 million annually to service the clandestine force—doing everything from creating false documentation and paying the bills (and taxes) of individuals operating under assumed names, to manufacturing disguises and other devices to thwart detection and identification, to building invisible devices to photograph and listen in on activity in the most remote corners of the Middle East and Africa.
While this program is being done abroad (allegedly) who is doing the same right here in USA? And who has been doing it for many decades? USA has been infiltrated, taken over, and is now being destroyed by a clandestine army similar to what is described in the linked article. And the army described in the article has been infiltrated as well. US policies alone reveal that everything has been infiltrated, taken over. We are living in the midst of a conquered and dying civilization. I bring this topic up often. If it is hard for you to see, just use your imagination while also noticing how rapidly USA has declined. This was not caused by ideas alone or just money. It has been accompanied by violence against young people; taking them out before they can contribute while also replacing them with infiltrators or cooperative ‘useful idiots’ (most of Congress, for example). Incidentally, this also explains the decline in IQ scores in USA. ABN
…One such program was alluded to in a little noticed document dump published by Wikileaks in early 2017 and called “Vault 7”: over 8,000 classified CIA tools used in the covert world of electronic spying and hacking. It is called ExpressLane, where U.S. intelligence has embedded malware into foreign biometrics and watchlist systems, allowing American cyber spies to steal foreign data.
An IT wizard working for Wikileaks in Berlin says the code with ExpressLane suggests that the United States can manipulate these databases. “Imagine for a moment that someone is going through passport control,” he says, hesitant to use his real name because of fear of indictment in the United States. “NSA or the CIA is tasked to corrupt—change—the data on the day the covert asset goes through. And then switch it back. It’s not impossible.”
….Most educated Romans were eclectic in their philosophical opinions, but the most influential school was Stoicism. It had the favor of Cicero at the end of the Republic, and of Marcus Aurelius at the zenith of the Empire. That Stoics professed a form of monotheism is beyond discussion. In a famous Hymn to Zeus, Stoic philosopher Cleanthes (third century BC) called God “Nature’s great Sovereign, ruling all by law,” to whom men must turn their minds in order to live “the noble life, the only true wealth.” Cleanthes prayed that people who do evil by ignorance can be enlightened: “Scatter, O Father, the darkness from their souls.”
It is said that Stoics confused God with the Cosmos or with Nature, and for that they have been labelled in modern times as “pantheists”. But we must be careful with Greek words and their translations: Kosmos means “order”, implying an “Intelligent Design”, and Nature (Phusis) has a dynamic meaning: it is the animating principle within Nature.
Greeks and Romans, however, did not pretend to know God, even less what God wants, what God says, or what God likes. Such anthropomorphism was acceptable for gods, not for God. God is, for the philosopher, the unknowable, or at least the unspeakable, since saying anything about God was putting a limitation on the infinite. This, we may call philosophical humility, which contrasts with theological arrogance.
But if God is unknowable, the laws by which He rules the Cosmos are partly accessible to human science. These laws constitute a sort of intermediate principle, the creative thought or wisdom of God, called Logos in Platonic tradition, sometimes identified as the feminine Sophia, the Wisdom of God. The fact that the universe is ruled by natural laws is proof of the existence of God, according to Cicero (Of the nature of gods II.12.34):
For when we gaze upward to the sky and contemplate the heavenly bodies, what can be so obvious and so manifest as that there must exist some power possessing transcendent intelligence by whom these things are ruled?
…We must remember that the struggle between Rome and Jerusalem is a central dialectical force in ancient history. This reality has been largely underestimated in Western historiography, heir to a Christian civilization whose vocation was to reconcile Rome and Jerusalem.
UPDATE: This is a very good talk by Cummins. He provides a basic overview that many people will be able to understand and agree with because they can see it with their own eyes. He skillfully and deliberately avoids going too deep into the weeds or into subjects which can be divisive. It is this kind of overview that we need today because this kind of thinking is most able to unite large numbers of people to resist what our ruling elites are doing. I have not heard anyone else provide such a clear summary. Those of us who understand the Western world is facing annihilation can most effectively unite behind this basic outline provided by Cummins. Is it Jews at the top or the USIC or the British royal family or European nobles and old money who are trying to seize control of the West and through that the world are not matters we all need to spend all of our time on. We will be much more effective if we encourage uniting around a general recognition of the disasters that have happened and why we must prevent them from continuing. ABN
Nigel Farage has reiterated that he blames the West and NATO for the Russian invasion of Ukraine – as he confirmed that he previously said he “admired” Vladimir Putin as a statesman.
Speaking to the BBC, the Reform UK leader was asked about his previous comments on Russia and Ukraine.
Asked about Russia’s 2022 invasion, Mr Farage told Nick Robinson that he had been saying since the fall of the Berlin Wall that there would be a war in Ukraine due to the “ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union”.
Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass asserted that Afrocentric claims about the “Black origins” of ancient Egyptian civilization are “false and misleading”, according to a statement published on Thursday, 20 June.
Hawass made these comments in response to a Facebook post by Afrocentric advocate Professor Kaba Kamene that stirred controversy among Egyptians.
In the post, which has now been deleted, Kamene shared a photo of himself with a group of Afrocentrists at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, asserting in the caption: “I am teaching the Kenet Travel Group about our history.”
Hawass highlighted that although the Black Kingdom of Kush briefly ruled Egypt around 500 B.C., marking the end of the Pharaonic era, it left no lasting impact on Egyptian civilization.
The Kingdom of Kush, also referred to as the Kushite Empire or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom situated in Nubia, spanning the Nile Valley in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
He emphasized that the facial features of Egyptian kings depicted in these artworks are distinct and do not suggest they were Black.
Hawass clarified that the issue is not about opposition to Black people, but rather against a group that spread unsubstantiated ideas after visiting the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square.
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas’s plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people weeks before the October 7 massacre.
The document, which was compiled in the Gaza Division, outlined Hamas’s intentions and was known to top intelligence officials, according to a report by Kan News.
The document, titled “Detailed End-to-End Raid Training,” was distributed on September 19, 2023, and described in detail the series of exercises conducted by Hamas’s elite units.
These exercises included raiding military posts and kibbutzim (collective communities in Israel), kidnapping soldiers and civilians, and maintaining the hostages once they were in the Gaza Strip.
The report by Kan News stated, “Security sources told Kan News that the document was known to the intelligence leadership, at the very least in the Gaza Division.”
IDF knew and so did USA. Beyond obvious it was a MIHOP attack to justify what we are seeing today in Gaza. 10/7 was a bold, violent act that forces people to take sides. I want to say it’s Bronze Age mentality, which it is, but the Silicon Age has been no better. Allowing your own people to be attacked and killed is a KOBK strategy which forces a decisive outcome. KOBK ultimately lies at the heart of human instinct. ABN
This is very good and well worth watching. In many ways what is described parallels what has been happening in USA with the tearing down of statues and the debasement of all of our institutions, mores, and laws. Conquerors always destroy the major symbols of the conquered and rewrite their histories. Everybody knows that Biden is not in control of USA and everybody also says they have no idea who is in control of USA. If that is not proof positive that we have been conquered, what more proof do you need? ABN
The adult stole $8 from the boy. In the comments where I found this video, people are outraged. One example of their ire: What a pathetic piece of fucking shit. Fuck that asshole and hope he rots in a cell. You have to be just absolute fucking scum to steal from a kid. Who can argue with this judgement? I want you to feel it because what I am going to say now is something much worse than that petty theft has been happening in the West for many decades.
We have been suffering a secret war against children; a war that disables our most promising children to keep them from gaining the leadership roles they would have gained had they not been disabled.
The disabling happens by poison, psychosurgery, sensory damage, maiming. Softer versions are educational misdirection, psychological abuse, stalking, reputation destruction and so on. There is no action too low for the parasites who did this and are still doing it today.
This form of warfare is almost invisible to most people because the victims, mostly boys and young men, are attacked secretly and their wounds typically do not show. For example, a mildly intelligent goon can be trained to drug a victim and give them a lobotomy in very short time frame.
Damage to the ears, energy weapons to the brain, poison to the nervous system–pay close attention to anyone who goes off the deep end. What looks like a mental breakdown or drug abuse may have had its roots in a very real physical attack that has caused serious harm, an attack that may have happened to an eight year old, a teenager, a young adult.
This is how our civilization has been taken over. It’s not been the only tactic, but it is the most important enemy tactic that is usually left out of analyses of the downfall of the West.
Please spend some serious time thinking about what I have said. Consider the rewards of conquering the West — the vast wealth and power, leading ultimately to world domination.
No one would be able to conquer the West through conventional warfare. But a clever group who could train and direct a small army of assassins and deploy them over several generations could conquer the West.
Indeed, they already have. Who does not wonder who is actually in control of the Biden administration? ANSWER: Our conquerors are in control of the Biden administration. The faces we see are their generals, their public fighters, and our toadies. The real power is held by the cryptocrats who control them.
Please give this some real thought. Once you see it, it will be obvious what has happened. Our only hope of surviving as a civilization is for a large number of us to understand our real plight. We will not be saved by a return to Christian values or renewed respect for the American Constitution. We have already been all but defeated by a multigenerational war of infiltration and clandestine interpersonal violence as described.
All the other stuff you already know about how our institutions, economies, and governments have been taken over is true. But so is the violence. It was and is real. By smiting our children they defeated the West. ABN
WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature.
There was something special about this horse: It had a genetic mutation that changed the shape of its back, likely making it easier to ride.
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study. That genetic diversity was evident in ancient DNA samples the researchers analyzed from archaeological sites across Eurasia dating back to 50,000 years ago.
As ascetics,31 the Śramaṇas (Buddhists) owned little more than a simple robe and a few other necessities. Thus did Gautama Śākamuni, ‘sage of the Scythians’, wander, meditating and searching for answers, before his “awakening”. He may well have met others doing the same thing, and studied with some of them, but we have no remotely credible evidence that he knew anything about Jains, Ājīvikas, or other non-Brahmanist sects. The traditional view, which actually accepts this problematic notion as dogma, has not been seriously questioned for a long time. Yet these sects are unattested in any dated or datable Pre-Normative Buddhist sources. It is because their teachings needed to be refuted and rejected by much later Buddhists that they eventually appeared in the written Buddhist tradition, but in works that are patently late doctrinally, full of magic and other forms of fantasy, and unreliable in every other way. Chronological incongruities reveal that the putatively “early” forms of what eventually became identifiably Jain, Ājīvika, and so on, did not yet exist as such anywhere near the time of the Buddha, but took on recognizable forms only much later due to heavy influence from Normative Buddhism, therefore no earlier than the Saka-Kushan period.
~Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 70-71). Princeton University Press
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