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Sunday 11 June 2023

Australian Conservative Monthly – War, Famine, Pestilence, Elections

 

Part Two - Post COVID Roundup and 'Who Dares to be a Christian?

 

Welcome dear reader,

This will be the last Australian Conservative before Christmas due to work pressures. Let’s take a pause and reflect on the last three years. See here for back issues.

Currently my family are eating the food we stored two years ago because at that time we did not know whether we would be allowed into shops to purchase any. That wasn’t crazy. Australia generally follows the US and Britain in public policy. At that time policy makers and social commentators on both sides of the Atlantic were suggesting that “unvaccinated” persons should not be allowed in shops or public spaces, or should be confined to their homes even if that meant starvation, or should be locked in internment camps. These voices came from both sides of politics. Even self-proclaimed libertarian intellectual Noam Chomsky advocated forcing the unvaccinated to starve at home. In China, apartment blocks were welded shut with the residents inside who were then left to starve. Some jumped. In Australia it was suggested that “unvaccinated” persons should not be allowed to own or register an Australian Business Number or Tax File Number. They would be essentially exiled from society.

Families split over attending family events. Church leaders took it upon themselves to enforce government mandates, and split churches. Those leaders who resisted were often persecuted. Australian governments did in fact build internment camps, and in the Northern Territory some Indigenous people were forcibly rounded up and interred. Yes, that happened.

This was one of many red flags. Here are some others:

·         Governments around the world signed secret agreements with the vaccine manufacturers without Parliamentary approval or oversight.

·         These agreements included obligatory percentages of the population to be jabbed. What penalty clauses were included is not known to me but are reported to include seizure of national assets i.e. forced privatization.

·         As a condition of supply, governments were obliged to provide statutory immunity for the jab manufacturer i.e. the manufacturer cannot be sued.

·         The contents of the Pfizer jab were subjected to a 75 year secrecy order. (I don’t know what secrecy arrangement pertained to the other vaccines).

·         Proven effective treatments such as Ivermectin were banned, then conveniently unbanned after vaccination targets were reached.

·         The safety/testing data was either non-existent or not disclosed to national health authorities.

·         National health authorities imposed mandatory vaccination despite the safety/testing data being non-existent or not disclosed.

·         Major world media outlets signed an agreement to suspend journalism and only promote the ‘pro vax’ narrative.

·         Military psychological operations were used against domestic populations to counter ‘vaccine hesitancy’.

·         Moral, medical, legal and political norms were suspended.

·         The Australian Constitution was violated.

·         The Nuremberg Code was breached.

·         There were egregious breaches of human rights.

·         While proclaiming the vaccine ‘safe effective and free’ national governments also set up vaccine injury compensation schemes.

·         Health authorities stated that the jab would stop you contracting COVID. Then at the same time, said that you could die from coming into contact with COVID if an unvaccinated person had it.

·         Our entire COVID lockdown policy proceeded on the basis of that total illogicality.

·         While the media-government-medical-pharma complex hammered on everyone to ‘follow the science’, those scientists and medical professionals who had a different opinion on the science were censored, silenced, threatened, and in some cases had their careers destroyed.

·         These included world leading medical experts (see previous issues).

·         Our economy, medical, and educational systems have yet to recover as thousands of professionals were thrown out of work for refusing that jab.

·         The last three years have seen the greatest transfer of wealth and power in human history outside the Communist block. This passed without note or censure by both sides of politics including the radical Left.

·         All of this was supposedly to stop what turned out to be little more than a bad seasonal flu.

·         The US FDA meanwhile has decided that vaccines do not have to prevent contraction or transmission of a disease.

We must never forget this.

Let me say plainly, that whether you took the jab or not, you did so for the right reasons. You did so to protect your and others’ health, to protect your loved ones, to provide for your family, because you trusted the experts, because you believed it to be the right thing to do. Everyone who refused the jab or took the jab, did so for the same reasons. There is no reason we cannot be friends.

For that reason we must never forget that vaccinated and unvaccinated marched together in our streets in the hundreds of thousands to protest lockdown and forced vaccination. We must also never forget that the media downplayed or refused to cover the marches. Victoria police even sought a restraint order to prevent the marches being filmed from the air.

Over half a million people, many of them made bankrupt and made desperate by some of the world’s harshest lockdown policies, converged on Parliament House in Canberra. The response by the authorities is instructive. Both the (then) Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader (now Prime Minister) told them dismissively to go home. Neither would meet with them. Police used directed energy weapons and jamming – military technologies normally used against foreign States – against protestors. In Victoria peaceful marchers were gratuitously shot with rubber bullets and beaten.

In the subsequent national election both major parties agreed to swap preferences with each other against freedom party candidates thus proving themselves to be a Uni-party. This came on the back of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) waging a quiet undeclared bureaucratic warfare against conservative or libertarian mico-parties in the lead up to the election. I know this through personal involvement and contacts. Nevertheless, the national election saw half a dozen credible freedom parties field candidates. The AEC outsourced the conduct of the election to a private company. That company provided false advice to the Australian public that if a minor party candidate did not make a quota that vote is wasted and would not flow to preferences. Perhaps 30 per cent of the Australian public who may have voted for a freedom party, believing a vote for a freedom candidate to be a wasted vote, stead voted for the majors. Having been kicked in the face, the Australian public returned like a beaten down battered wife, to their abusive husband. In France the election was simply stolen.

In Australia, as a double insurance against a popular vote against the Uni-Party, the AEC is now considering reducing paper ballots in favour of the Dominion voting system. It was precisely that system that allegedly allowed the US Presidential election to be stolen since it allows anyone with administrator access to move votes around. Dominion was built from the ground up to facilitate election interference.

So what has happened since?

The jabbed are dropping dead and becoming injured in large numbers (see for example here), few of which make it onto any official lists. There is national class action brought by a young medical doctor. The background to this action is a genuinely interesting human story. Watch and listen here.

While experts continue to argue about numbers, morticians are run off their feet and finding truly strange and horrifying things in the bodies of the jabbed. See full documentary here. For a fairly straightforward explanation see here. This is now confirmed by over one thousand scientific studies.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics ‘all cause mortality’ is up 16 per cent or roughly a Port Arthur massacre per week equivalent. Some of this is, rightly or wrongly, attributed to COVID. The balance is a mystery….. This has not exactly been headline news. Here is Monica Smitt taking these findings to the public. Monica was arrested on spurious charges, strip searched and spent 22 days in solitary confinement. Those charges have just now been dropped.

The UK is reporting similar figures which for them means a Twin Towers every week equivalent mortality. Over thirty thousand Britains are now dead with no credible official explanation. See Dr Campbell on the UK health data.

Even more concerning, preliminary data shows a 60+ per cent drop in live births in Australia. There are similar findings in the UK and USA. Whether this is a temporary phenomenon or a national or global genocide remains to be seen.

Meanwhile some clever lawyers in the US, (that great land of lawyers) have obtained most of the Pfizer data that was previously subject to a 75 year secrecy order. It is a vast trove of documentation but there is a team of citizen scientists working through it. Their findings confirm the worst fears of the ‘conspiracy theorists’. Feminist author Naomi Wolf explains here. 

Meanwhile COVID has behaved exactly as I predicted in late 2019. Like all highly contagious respiratory diseases it has gone through the population, flattened the curve, mutated, become less dangerous, and is now an endemic seasonal flu. I sincerely hope that somewhere in all this the jab has at least saved some old people, but I have seen no evidence to that effect. What I do know is that the elderly are killed in large numbers each and every year by flu viruses, but in the US in recent times all of those deaths were written up as COVID.

How did this all happen? Is it all just coincidence? Is normal corruption and incompetence a sufficient explanation? Did someone declare war on us? This documentary puts together the ‘coincidences’ around COVID. Decide for yourself.


One thing we do not have to speculate about is the World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic treaty power grab that is currently being negotiated. The treaty commits national governments to automatically follow any ‘health’ measures dictated by the WHO in the event the WHO declares a pandemic. On the face of it that may seem reasonable, but let’s just look a little closer. In the UK there has been a Parliamentary debate. This from Dr Campbell.

During COVID the WHO altered the definition of ‘pandemic’ from a widespread disease, causing illness and death’ to a ‘wide spread disease’. That means every flu season could be declared a pandemic. The WHO is headed by a former Communist dictator and is largely funded by Bill Gates and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP are committed to ‘5th generation unconventional warfare’. That is a big topic but it includes biowarfare and economic sabotage. So the WHO pandemic treaty would likely give the CCP plenary power to simply shut down Western world economies at will and imprison us in our homes. Of course that would depend on the cooperation of the signatory States, but presumably they wouldn’t sign unless they were willing to cooperate. In Australia, Daniel Andrews enjoys a close relationship with the CCP committing Victoria to the Chinese ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. On communist penetration of political parties and institutions see Trevor Loudon who has been working in that space since the 1970s.


There is also talk of a global (read Chinese) United Nations army to enforce stuff like this  Both sides of politics in Australia, Canada and New Zealand lined up to sign the treaty. Without public debate. Without Parliamentary discussion or approval. The treaty was stopped by African countries who, under pressure from the church, made a stand. It is similarly African countries who, under pressure from the church, are resisting the new colonialism of UN sponsored ‘comprehensive sexuality education’. This month the WHO is trying to get the pandemic treaty up again. Sooo….Christians….

 

Christians in the Cross Hairs

Christians form the core of the resistance to the advance of totalitarianism in its various guises. They are the core of the freedom movement just as they were and are in communist countries. It is natural therefore that those who subscribe to communist ideologies of various sorts would seek to eliminate Christians. Eliminating an ‘undesirable’ group – Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, whoever – always begins with labelling and dehumanising, and this begins with language. In the 1930’s Jews, like the un-jabbed today, were labelled dirty, morally suspect, not really citizens ‘like us’ but ‘other’ and a risk to public health. It was this social conditioning that made the holocaust possible.

Christians are now labelled as various ‘phobes’ – transphobes, homophobes etc; probably domestic terrorists, anti-science, far right, Nazis, and so forth. This labelling is intended to create the social conditions for public violence and State repressive measures. In that context the culture war just went kinetic when a self-described trans woman entered a private Christian school and murdered three young children including the little girl pictured with her Daddy, and three adults, in cold blood before armed police gunned her down. By way of background, the trans movement teaches confused and impressionable young people that by refusing to recognise their trans identity, Christians are committing a ‘genocide’ of tans people. It is a very small step to then justify actual violence against Christians. All of this craziness and hate does actually translate into policy and policies have real consequences, one of which is institutional rape.

This little girl was shot dead by a trans activist who intered a private Christian school

School massacres are unfortunately a feature of life in the USA. Perpetrators come from mixed ethnic, sexual, religious, political and ideological backgrounds. There is very little pattern. However what is instructive here are the public responses from the Left which included further call for violence against ‘transphobes’, and complaints that the reporting misgendered the offender. The FBI meanwhile is keeping the shooter’s manifesto secret. One wonders why. Here is Peterson on transgenderism. This five year olds explanation that actually makes sense is delightful.

Of course that would never happen here….

What has happened here is an official declaration of war by Queensland police against practicing Christians. NSW police followed suit. As idiotic as that all is, it serves a purpose.

There are belief systems that do lead to violence. Karl Marx wrote candidly about abolishing, through violence, every Western country, the church and the family. These were not mere words. Countless millions died in consequence. Roz Ward, co-author of the 'Safe Schools (sic) Program' is a Communist and is on record as saying the hammer and sickle should fly over the Vic Parliament. Ward is also on record saying that Safe Schools is not about bullying but about abolishing gender in order to destroy the family in order to destroy capitalism because "we have to control everything to make it fair for everyone". Black Lives Matter is a Marxist domestic terrorist movement. There are Muslims who preach the overthrow of Western civilisation and democracy (not all do). ANTIFA et al also seek the overthrow of Western civilisation and democracy.

So why pick on Christians? I guess it’s easy when Christians are a soft target and just can’t accept that no matter how nice they are they will be hated, but I suspect the real reason is that a minority of Christians continue to resist tyranny. In Britain meanwhile, prayer is now a thought crime.

Queensland police explaining that Christians are terrorists


Freedom in the Land of the Free

While the narrative on the ‘January 6 insurrection’ (sic) has been tightly controlled defence lawyers finally managed to access some of the CCTV footage. Let’s just say it doesn’t support the narrative. Did I mention that Tucker Carlson aired this footage? Yeah, he just lost his job. Seems to have been a wake-up call. As the highest paid and most popular talk show host in history, these are his comments.  Meanwhile an album of Jan 6 prisoners has reached number #1 while Natasha Owens song ‘Trump won and you know it’ is topping charts.

Some editions ago I mentioned Millicent Weaver who was arrested in 2020 on spurious charges shortly after releasing a home-made documentary ‘Shadow Gate’. See the documentary here: SHADOW GATE – FULL FILM by Millie Weaver - 2020 (rumble.com)  Since then charges have been dropped and Weaver released a sequel SHADOWGATE 2 MILLIE WEAVER - MY HIGHLIGHTS PT.1 - THE SMITH-MUNDT ACT AND DEEP STATE PROPAGANDA (rumble.com) and another documentary on Big Data: Big Data Is Watching - Full Length Documentary. Millie Weaver 2023 (rumble.com)  Watch for yourself and draw your own conclusions. As an intellectual exercise it can be fun to compare reporting by outlets such as the New York Times or Washington Post who frequently cite ‘anonymous sources’ or ‘sources within the intelligence community’, with home made documentaries such as this. Which have the more reliable sources over all? For comedic relief see here.



Of course, there is more. Heaps more. This is how civilisations in the fourth stage of Yuri Besmenov’s stages of demoralisation look. None of this is new, as Putin was at pains to remind the representatives of 183 nations gathered in Russia at the Valdai Economic Forum.


The Sane in the Asylum

Sanity in the West today is now a counter-cultural choice. Those wishing to maintain it had best find or build a supportive community. Freedom groups are springing up all over the country. They do not generally advertise and membership is by invitation. Leave your smart devices in the car. It isn’t going to get better any time soon. Now is the time to build the necessary human networks and learn the skills to resist totalitarianism long term. There are no easy answers.

 

 

In Australia, formal NGOs which show a capacity for critical thinking and evidence of sanity include:

Binary Australia

Advance Australia

Turning Point Australia

Reignite Democracy Australia

The Light newspaper

Graham Hood – Club Grubbery

One Nation

The Australian Christian Lobby

Cauldron Pool

Canberra Declaration

Red Union

The Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies

That is not to say that I personally endorse everything they say or do, only that they are operating on a basis of reason.

 

The World at War (Again)

After Putin launched the worlds most provoked invasion over 14 months ago the war has now descended into a declared proxi war between NATO and the Russian Federation, a fact now openly acknowledged by both sides.

The Western MSM is in full war propaganda mode trying to convince us that the Russians are hopeless, their country is on the ropes, and the Ukrainians are about to be victorious. Wherever you ‘stand’ this lying is both pathetic and dangerous.

For the record, the Russian Federation has so far destroyed two armies. Ukraine began the war with an army of 400,000 men trained to NATO standards and very well equipped. That army was defeated in the first months of the war and Ukraine was forced to the negotiating table. At that point Boris Johnson intervened publicly and told Zelenski that he was not allowed to negotiate. Ukraine then launched a recruitment drive and NATO re-equipped the Ukrainian army with ex-Soviet hardware from Eastern Europe plus HIMARS and other top tier Western equipment – billions of dollars worth of military aid. That second army re-captured a lot of farm land in the northern sector of the front but could not penetrate Russian defensive lines and has since been largely destroyed.

NATO has now built a third army equipped with Western arms. That army includes numerous foreign fighters and men literally picked up off the street and forced into uniform. Ukraine is now about to launch an offensive if only to prove that the billions of dollars invested by Western tax payers hasn’t been wasted. I predict the total destruction of the third army in the next 6 months. German tanks will once again burn on the steppes of Ukraine. The West will then have a clear choice – actually declare war on Russia, or admit defeat and go home. Right now the war has to all intents and purposes gone nuclear while Ukraine threatens Europe with terrorism.

This is the best source I have found for a clear view on the conflict.

For people with an interest in military matters, including such nonsense as Russian soldiers attacking with shovels, this source is both entertaining and well researched.

Meanwhile internal repression within Ukraine continues. The Zelenski regime has shut down all political opposition and has targeted the Orthodox church for repression. Famous foreign national Gonzolo Lira was recently arrested for stating literal historical truths about the conflict. Speaking the truth, or speaking Russian, is treason in Ukraine. There is no freedom in that country.

Meanwhile the US and its allies are becoming increasingly isolated. 183 nations attended the Valdai world economic forum eager to do business with Russia whose exports have increased under sanctions. That has happened because the US has clearly signalled to the world that if US internal politics dictate that a nation or its leader fall out of favour, then the US will steal its gold reserves, it’s assets, sanction its economy, cut it off from the global financial system, and start wars on its borders. Faced with that reality, middle power nations are quite sensibly taking their business elsewhere.

While the physical fighting is going on in Ukraine the economic war is now global. In that context let’s just say that the world’s most significant events were not reported in the West. See one example here. Nevertheless there are honourable exceptions.


Concluding Words

I would wish that this edition was more upbeat. It has been a traumatic few years. I spent two of those years developing an online resource for trauma healing call ‘Trauma Life Recovery’. It is available at www.traumaliferecovery.com.au

 


There are two companion facebook pages. A general community page: https://www.facebook.com/TraumaLifeRecovery

And a page specifically for those traumatised by policies around COVID: https://www.facebook.com/TraumaUnvaxxed/

We can at least still use humour to help free those well meaning souls who are trapped in the matrix. Totalitarians hate being laughed at…so laugh at them and make them small; because they are small.

 


The Sealed Section (for God Botherers and the Curious)

To everything there is a time

In breaking news the Devil has quietly retired. Read all about it here.

Meanwhile this might help you come out to your liberal parents.

...and for some straight forward comedy

The following is taken directlys from the Christopher Dawson Centre:

KING CHARLES'S SPIRITUALITY 

Monarchy Re-enchanted, by Francis Young, intriguingly argues the rite of Coronation is deeply respectful of Christian tradition:  'The new processional cross contains a relic of the True Cross given to the King by the Pope; the holy oil for the King’s anointing has been consecrated in Jerusalem. Furthermore, the King has insisted that his anointing, the holiest moment of the ceremony, be entirely hidden by a specially designed screen adorned with words of the mediaeval mystic Julian of Norwich.' 

 

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NIGERIA 

According to this article from Nigeria 52,000 Christians and 34,000 Muslims have been murdered in that country since the radical Islamic uprising began in 2009. 

 

...BUT DON'T GIVE UP ON AFRICA 

This more positive piece by a Kenyan writer, Mathew Otieno, helps put out thinking in perspective.  He concludes provocatively:  'if we were to despair for the future of any part of the world, we would do well to focus on the countries of the ageing and sclerotic First World. Unlike Africa, they may not have a future at all if they fail to reproduce themselves.' 

 

LOOKING BACK ON THE COVID NIGHTMARE 

The West's flaccid and subservient mainstream media plumbed new depths during the pandemic, when non-compliant opinions about the disease itself or the consequences of isolation were either suppressed or labelled 'misinformation'.  This article from Scarrablog carefully exposes much of what went wrong, lavishing special praise on The Australian's Adam Creighton, a brave man who has suffered for his opinions.   

 

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 

Australia faces a possible constitutional change later this year when we shall be asked to approve The Voice, a modification to our foundational document that will not only formally recognise the first occupiers of our continent, but establish a special body to represent their interests.  The Dawson Centre takes no position on this question, but here's a piece in favour by distinguished ethicist Prof Margaret Somerville, and another here.  But an alternative view comes from aboriginal Senator Jacinta Price here.   

 

Regardless of what position one takes, all proposed changes to the constitution deserve and demand deep consideration.  Hearts can be broken, no matter what side prevails, and there are always unforeseen and unintended consequences.   Tinkering with a constitution is a very serious matter.  Here's Lord Macaulay, in 1857 - three years before the election that ensured the American Civil War - writing to an American biographer of Jefferson, H S Randall. Was he prophetic or what? 

 

'There is nothing to stay you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. As I said before, when a society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand; or your Republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals, who ravaged the Roman Empire, came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions.' 

 

'LET'S MAKE SANITY COOL AGAIN' 

This ironic little piece by Russian-English commentator Konstantin Kisin finds common ground between decent men and women of both the Left and the Right. 

 

PLATO AND ARISTOTLE IN CHINA 

This recent article by David Schaefer reviews a new book by University of Chicago classicist Shadi Bartsch, and carefully analyses the surprising incorporation of classical philosophical ideas into contemporary Chinese political theory. 

 

ROGER SCRUTON ON NATIONAL IDENTITY 

The late Sir Roger Scruton kindly consented to join the Dawson Centre's International Advisory Board shortly after our establishment ten years ago.  This article by Adrian Wooldridge is unfortunately available to subscribers only, but it's a good read and may tempt you... 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 25 September 2022

Australian Conservative Monthly – War, Famine, Pestilence, Elections

Part One – War and Famine

As a backgrounder to the following, please listen to this discussion with Jordan Peterson Cometh the Horsemen: Pandemic, Famine, War | Michael Yon | #274 - YouTube



WAR

So in February this year the thug Putin for absolutely no reason at all invaded a totally innocent neighbouring country for which both he and 130-150 millions Russians should be soundly punished. Fortunately St Zelenski and the heroic peoples of Ukraine are pushing the Russians back in blood and shame after which Putin will fall and the Russian people will spontaneously hand over their country to the US/NATO, after which Russia will miraculously change from being Mordor to become a Jeffersonian democratic paradise.

…interesting.

Well that is what the media want you to believe. Since the media lie about pretty much everything let’s just unpack some simple facts about this conflict.

The March to War

Neither Russia nor Ukraine have natural borders. The word ‘Ukraine’ means ‘borderland’. Eastern Ukraine has a large, in some places majority, Russian speaking population who are loyal to Russia. It’s a complicated history. The Europeans, Scandinavians and Russians have been reorganising one anothers borders since pre Roman times. France and Germany for example, had a border war in 1870. A border war in the border lands is, frankly, not a big deal.

It has become a big deal because it is now a war between two alliances. It is the biggest war in Europe since WWII and is now drifting into WWIII.

On one side are patriotic Ukrainians, ultra nationalists, actual bona fide Baderite Nazi militias, the US and NATO directly and by proxi, and numerous mercenary forces.

On the other side are the armed forces of the Lukhansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, Chechyen volunteers, the Wagner Mercenary group, and the regular armed forces of the Russian federation.

Here is a list of provocations prior to Russia’s “unprovoked invasion.”

  • As part of the conditions for the dissolution of the USSR, Russia was promised that NATO would not move “one inch East”. That is a sensitive issue since the last time a European coalition headed east was WWII and 27 million Russians died. Having made that promise, NATO then moved to Russia’s borders, absorbed nearly the whole of Eastern Europe, invaded Serbia by proxi, and bombed Belgrade.

  • The USA then supported Islamic militants to destabilise Chechnya and southern Russian, precipitating a long and bloody stabilization operation.

  • The USA then used its proxi in Georgia to massacre Russian peacekeepers, obliging Moscow to intervene.

  • The USA/NATO then upended the nuclear balance by ringing Russia with early warning radars a missile shield that is both defensive and offensive in nature.

  • The USA turned Libya, a stable secular Arab country, into an Islamist hell hole to the notable detriment of Russia (and everyone else except rapists and slave traders). This was thoroughly documented by Wiki leaks…remember wikileaks?

  • During that time the Western world media propaganda machine continued a non-stop campaign of smearing Russia, its culture, its people, its history, and its leadership in every imaginable way except by referring to actual evidence.

  • During this time Russia was made subject to every imaginable form of economic and cultural sanction often on the slimmest of pretexts.

  • During this time the USA established a string of biowarfare laboratories in Eastern Europe aimed at creating a bioweapon specifically engineered against Slavs, various Russian ethnic groups, and Russian agriculture. Putin complained vociferously about this for a decade and was ignored.

  • Putin laid out a vision for a ‘multipolar’ cooperative world order then spent a decade seeking economic and security cooperation with the United States. All of this was rebuffed in the crudest terms.

  • In 2014 the US State Department led by Victoria Nuland successfully conducted a violent ‘colour revolution’ in Ukraine in which pro-Russians were burned alive, and then country turned into an anti-Russian entity.

  • A toxic combination of Nazis, nationalists, and assorted Russiaphobes then turned on the Russian speaking populations of East Ukraine precipitating an eight year civil war/war of independence between the central government and the new breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.

  • Russia, Germany and Ukraine brokered two peace accords which Ukraine broke with NATO backing.

  • During that time approximately 14,000 people of the Lukhansk and Donetsk republics were killed by Ukrainian/NATO forces.

  • NATO (read USA) then turned the Ukraine military from a defeated and largely lawless force into a very well equipped NATO standard army of 300 thousand troops, and created a series of fortifications, trapping Russian speakers in the Donbass.

  • During that time Ukraine continued to shell and rocket civilian areas, while engaging in numerous alleged war crimes. That is never reported in the West.

Red Lines

  • Putin stated clearly and repeatedly that he would not allow the build up of a large hostile NATO force on Russia’s borders. Ukraine and NATO then did exactly that.

  • Putin stated that granting Ukraine NATO membership would precipitate war. Zelenski promptly began courting NATO membership even as NATO trained his army.

  • Putin stated that Ukrainian pursuit of nuclear weapons would be a red line. Zelenski immediately began talking about obtaining nuclear weapons.

  • Putin stated that a Ukrainian invasion of the Donbas would precipitate war. Zelenski immediately began talking about re-claiming the Donbas.

  • Historians will argue for years to come whether Kiev intended to launch an invasion of the Donbass. Either way, their preparations for such action were well advanced by early 2022.

  • Putin cited intelligence that Ukraine was about to invade the Donbas and precipitate a genocide, and was ignored.

  • Shortly afterwards, citing a duty to protect under international law, Putin launched Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ aka “unprovoked invasion”.

The special military operation (SMO) has three stated goals:

1.   Demilitarisation of Ukraine

2.   De-Nazification

3.   Keep Ukraine out of NATO

 

Lies lies lies

Having lied about everything leading up to the war, the Western media have since lied about the war itself. For example;

  • We were supposed to believe that Russia has been losing all this time despite capturing 20 per cent of the country with a roughly 5:1 kill ratio in favour of Russia, specifically 75,000 Ukranian dead vs 15,000 Russian alliance; this despite the Ukrainians have a 3:1 numerical advantage, and pre-prepared defensive positions.

  • We are supposed to believe that Russia shelled a nuclear power station that they had captured and were guarding.

  • We are supposed to believe that Russia is isolated when 183 countries recently lined up to do trade at the Valdai economic forum etc etc

But the propaganda is really in the framing.

The Western press simply doesn’t report:

  • Grateful civilians cheering Russian troops in Ukraine

  • The ongoing shelling of civilian areas by Ukrainian forces

  • The Ukrainian policy of placing military equipment in civilian areas including schools

  • Ukrainian use of HIMARS rockets to sow butterfly mines in civilian areas
  • The extent of Ukrainian losses

If they did there would be calls for the war to end on humanitarian grounds. See for example Scott Ritter here.

However, the press has risen to the challenge of ‘memory holing’ a decade of reporting on the Nazi problem in Ukraine in favour of rehabilitating said Nazis as freedom fighters. It is an accomplishment worthy of 1984. 



While this is a sensitive issue, the fact is, Ukraine is the only country to allow actual Nazis to have their owned armed militias with their own reporting structures and representative in Parliament.

Since the war started there has been an effort to bring them under control.

Nevertheless, this is the footage you were not allowed to see of Russian forces capturing the Azov Battalian headquarters in Mariupol. Watch to the end. Note the Western supplied anti-tank missiles in the corridor.

This from the Guardian: Ultranationalism in Ukraine – a photo essay | Ukraine | The Guardian

This from the Atlantic Council: Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline) - Atlantic Council

Here is a list of ‘who's who in the Nazi zoo’ in Ukraine.


Zelensky has outlawed all opposition parties, taken direct control of the press, and uses the secret police to silence criticism of himself or the war. Ukranian citizens have restricted movement within the country and are subject to conscription. By any objective measure, the Ukrainian government, one of the most world’s most corrupt, is now a fascist regime. Supporting this regime has become the new virtue signal. This is the man who addressed the Australian Parliament to near universal applause.

US military ‘think tankers’ and foreign policy people are now openly declaring that this is a war on Russia and is only peripherally about Ukraine. In case anyone is in doubt about that, NATO member Lithuania was persuaded to cut off the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad contrary to all agreements and all reason. This presumably is intended to force Russia into military action against a NATO member state thus triggering the NATO articles and World War Three. 

For their part, the Kremlin have stated publicly that NATO is engaged in a war on Russia to which Russia will respond. The Australian government enthusiastically supports both the economic war, and the military campaign, against Russia.


Note above that Russia's current population is 130-150 million souls.

So what now? Russia suffered its first serious setback of the war recently when their forces were overwhelmed and forced to retreat from a large sector of the Northern front. Significantly they faced a new NATO trained and equipped army of which a significant proportion were not Ukrainian. Here is a list of US military aid. Russian itself is seeking to stabilise existing lines and prepare for their winter offensive with 300,000 freshly mobilised troops; 1.2 per cent of their total reserves.

The take home news here is that the combined West are now at war with Russia and Russia understands this.

See here from Mr Shoigu and key points from  Putin.

Meanwhile Western media networks are speculating about a Russian tactical nuclear strike. That is curious since Russian nuclear doctrine is crystal clear and does not allow this scenario. Either NATO is seeking to goad Russia, or they themselves are planning a nuclear option.

 

Agenda agendas agendas

So, who benefits?

The war industry obviously. All those billions in aid are not actually going to Ukraine, they are just a wealth transfer from the tax payer to the military industrial complex.

The US has finally managed to sever the flourishing trade ties between Europe and Russia and destroy the German economy. This consistent with their long term foreign policy objectives or keeping themselves in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.

More specifically a destroyed Europe is easier to colonise and control than a vibrant independent Europe/Eurozone.

A war that destroys Europe and weakens Russia plays into the longer term objective of splitting Russia into multipe weak states effectively under US control.

A major war in Europe in the context of a collapsing economy and global famine creates the right conditions for the WEF to impose the ‘Great Reset’ aka New World Order.

China is not a party to the conflict but will observe with interest that the combined West can  no longer prosecute industrial warfare convincingly.

 I have written a course on international relations which provides good background reading to the current conflict. See further here: https://3ptraining.com.au/the-international-scene-lessons/

The war comes home

Like syphilis, war propaganda is nothing new. Nevertheless, it shows utter contempt for the principles of representative democracy, informed consent, and justice. It demonstrates the indifference and contempt with which our rulers regard us. It disrespects all sides to the conflict, all victims of war. It dishonours the blood of brave men. It always has.

However, the current propaganda is unique ‘next level’ stuff. The rulers and propagandists of the combined West have not just lied about another war, they have cancelled an entire civilisation. Russia is neither a ‘gas station masquerading as a country’ nor is it Putin or its rulers. Russia is a thousand year old Christian orthodox civilisation. Currently banned in Europe are visits by Russian clergy, cultural events, art, music, trees (I kid you not), sports, books, TV channels, and entire swaths of the internet. This in addition to stealing all Russian gold reserves stored outside the country and banning trade.

Personally, I don’t care what you think about Russia or Putin. But here’s the thing. If they can ‘cancel’ an orthodox Christian civilisation, what will they ban next? What does that mean for you? Jordan Peterson again


 

Are there any journalists left?

How did it come to this? Put bluntly, subverting journalism is the full time professional job of the world’s intelligence agencies. The CIA were temporarily caught out when ‘Operation Mocking Bird’ was exposed, but both they and the British continued on. For a more contemporary exposure I recommend the late Udo Ulfkotte’s book ‘Bought Journalists’ in which he describes his own process of grooming and concludes with evidence that pretty much every Western European journalist is bought and paid for by the CIA. He gained nothing from this exposure and the book was published shortly before his death. Of course, other foreign intelligence agencies also do influence operations.

Consequently, if you want to understand what is happening in the world you must ignore the mainstream media in totum and look elsewhere. Following are some English language journalists I know of who actually attempt journalism. I am not agreeing with or endorsing their writing. I am simply pointing out that they are attempting journalism:

Julian Assange, John Pilger, Chris Hedges, Oliver Stone, Pepe Escobar, George Galloway, Robert Scheer, Daniel Ellsberg, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, Brian Becker, John Kiriakou, Scott Ritter, Mnar Adley, Lee Camp, Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Alexander Rubenstein, Patrice Greanville, Rania Khalek, Peter Dale Scott, Aaron Good, Eric Zuesse, Gerald Horne, Garland Nixon, Whitney Webb, Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Caitlin Johnstone, Gordan Chang.

Specifically on the Ukraine conflict see the military summary channel for daily updates: Military Summary - YouTube .

For military and media analysis see The New Atlas: The New Atlas - YouTube

If you believe that what I have written to this point is ‘Russian propaganda’ that’s OK. Here is a list of pro-Western sources, some with links to Western intelligence, supplied to me by an Australian defence academic with deep contacts in the Western defence/intel community. Note that the Atlantic Council is a CIA front organisation. Happy reading:

Steve Blank and Phill Karber
https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2022/01/27/webinar-ukraine-what-is-putin-thinking/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-j-blank/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-karber-542209ba/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579379042931042008

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/07/28/siren-call-of-empire-will-wreck-russia-a37753

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg97882/html/CHRG-114shrg97882.htm

https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-blank-europeans-should-wake-russia-war-them-590408

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainian-neutrality-would-not-appease-putin-or-prevent-further-russian-aggression/

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/583617-the-dual-threats-confronting-ukraine

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/907/

https://www.academia.edu/29799243/Stephen_Blank_Ukraines_Got_a_Real_Shot_at_NATO_Membership_A_Reply_to_Andreas_Umland

Other

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/upgrading-ukraines-air-force-could-deter-russia/

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/04/21/military_aid_for_ukraine_offsetting_moscows_asymmetric_edge_773699.html

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/12/16/military_aid_for_ukraine_deterring_russia_promptly_808177.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/dr-phillip-a-karber-about-the-war-in-ukraine

https://www.ausa.org/articles/russia%E2%80%99s-new-generation-warfare

https://ukrainianweek.com/World/252082

https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/ben-hodges-phillip-a-karber-ukrainian-security-nazarovs-crucifixion.html

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/01/putin-is-not-stupid-this-expert-spent-182-days-on-the-russia-ukraine-battlefields/

See also:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/47214.html

Joel Harding
https://toinformistoinfluence.blogspot.com/

https://toinformistoinfluence.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/let-slip-the-dogs-and-cats-of-war-turning-propaganda-memes-against-their-creators/


https://toinformistoinfluence.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/the-nostradamus-of-information-warfare/

Prof Goble
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/

 

Guns

On the other side of the Atlantic, Joe Biden has opened the borders to the immigrant invasion of the USA. That is, de facto, an act of war/treason. While stiving to make white people a minority in their own country he then effectively declared a civil war, branding any patriotic American willing to defend their country as a ‘domestic terrorist’ before sending the politicised FBI to raid the homes of both Trump and his supporters, among others. see also ‘The Truth About January 6th’.  Today the FBI 'SWATTED' the home of a home schooling family over an alleged incident at an abortion clinic in 2021 that had already been thrown out of court.

Just to make the divisions clear, he also bragged that any gun owner thinking of threatening the US government should get themselves an F-15 fighter jet (subtext – you can’t beat us with automatic rifles, we have planes and tanks). It was a curious speech given that the Taliban just beat the US military with automatic rifles, not withstanding the fact that the US military had F-15 jets. Needless to say, a violent uprising/civil war is something the US establishment has been preparing for for a long time .


The pretext for this sudden enthusiasm for cancelling the second amendment is a school shooting in Texas. There are of course cogent arguments for and against gun control. That said, ‘gun control’ does not mean getting rid of guns. It never has. It only ever means that the State has guns and you don’t. To put that in context, the following is a brief history of gun control:

  • Turkey established gun control in 1911. Soon after, 1.5 million Armenians unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. Soon after, about 20 million dissidents unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • China established gun control in 1935. Soon after, 20 million political dissidents unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • Germany established gun control in 1938. Soon after, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • Cambodia established gun control in 1956. Soon after, one million people unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • Guatemala established gun control in 1964. Soon after, 100,000 Mayan Indians unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • Uganda established gun control in 1970. Soon after, 300,000 Christians unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

  • Australia established gun control in 1996. During 2021 Australian citizens were brutalised and terrorised by their tyrannical government.

  • Venezuela established Desarma La Violencia to disarm citizens in 2010. Once one of the richest countries in Latin America, Venezuela is currently free falling into violent unrest and extreme poverty.

  • New Zealand expanded gun control in 2019. Right now, New Zealand citizens are being brutalised and terrorised by their tyrannical government.

  • Canada expanded gun control in 2020. Right now, Canadian citizens are being brutalised and terrorised by their tyrannical government.

  • Oh, and let’s not forget the tens of thousands of Christeros who handed back their weapons to President Calles' Federal force in Mexico as part of a peace pact (brokered by the Vatican) only to be summarily executed.

History suggests that if you want to avoid massacres, an armed population is the best way to do so.



Whatever the arguments for gun control, the Texas school shooting should never have been one of them.

Police physically barricaded armed parents who would have rescued their children, then waited while the shooter rampaged within the school

 Eventually one parent armed with a shot gun managed to get past the police cordon, locate the offender, and shoot him.

There could not be a more clear example of the superiority of armed civilians over armed police in such situations. To use this incident as an argument for gun control is beyond absurd. Nevertheless, the propaganda media took it up and numbers are now close to being sufficient to force a constitutional referendum. If that gets up and guns are ‘controlled’ then the last defence against open gestapo style fascism within the United States will be gone. While the agenda remains tediously the same, the excuses for fascism vary. Climate fascism appears to be the latest.

 

Famine

Meanwhile Europe faces the perfect storm. Europe has already turned against its farmers and its reliable sources of energy, all based on unreliable models and under the nefarious excuse of placating Gia. Having now cut themselves off from Russian gas and fertilizer, Europeans face both cold and hunger.

This is the view from  Russia

This is the view from an Oxford PhD

Add to the mix, large parts of Europe are no longer European but outposts of Islamic cultures. These are violent tribal people who will not tolerate hunger. European leaders are now faced with the choice of ignoring Washington’s dictate and re-establishing report with Russia OR bringing the army onto the streets while Europeans freeze and starve. This is Germany’s choice . Put bluntly, Europe is heading back to the economic, social and political conditions that existed in the decade before WWII.

Naturally this will require even more propaganda. Gone are the primitive posters of yesteryear. Messaging is now embedded within movies, soap operas, institutions, and the academy. Paul Joseph Watson puts it quite elequently here and here .

Beyond the borders, one government Sri Lanka has already fallen as a result of famine caused by restrictions on Russian oil exports. Currently only seven countries in the world are self-sufficient in food. Even these rely heavily on affordable fertilizers and petroleum now made less affordable by bans on Russian oil and fertilizer. Ukraine, directly through grain export, and indirectly through fertilizer export, fed entire populations. Winter is coming. You do the maths.

Faced with imminent global famine compounded by supply chain problems caused by ill considered COVID policies, you would think that all efforts would be directed towards food security. You would be wrong. Instead we see a coordinated campaign of sabotage directed towards food processing plants, and a transatlantic campaign against fertilizer, farmers and food production. At the same time the WEF is pushing its agenda to force the peasants (that’s you and me in case you missed it) to stop eating meat and eat bugs instead. This is occurring against the greater backdrop of planned economic collapse. Here is Austin Fits. If you prefer someone more mainstream and less conspiratorial, here is Robert Kiyosaki (author of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’). See also here .



In this overall context, renewed calls for gun control are hardly surprising. Now is a good time to befriend a farmer and secure your own direct supplies of food.

Here are some thoughts on how to build resilience

Some insights from the Amish.

In the opposite spirit to the hatred, poverty and violence being visited upon us, here is an old song sung by two iconic australian artists:

‘till next time.