We Are Stealing From Our Own Future

Remotely Controlled Killing Machines Made In The UK.
From 10-13 September, London’s ExCeL Centre hosted arms companies from around the world.
Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEI) is the world’s largest arms fair.
On 11 September, the government announced a contract worth ‘approximately’ £100million for new drones.
It stated: The world-class Protector will be the first remotely controlled aircraft capable of attacking targets anywhere in the world while being operated from their home base in RAF Waddington.
The government also stated that Protector will use enhanced data links and carry next-generation, low collateral, precision strike weapons, including the UK-made Brimstone missile (MBDA) and Paveway IV Laser Guided Bomb (Raytheon UK).
The aircraft’s design enables almost unlimited payload options in the future, depending on requirement.
The Protector will be armed with the same missiles used in the brutal Yemen war.
In 2018, evidence emerged that since 2013, the UK sold 2,400 Paveway IV bombs worth £150 million, and 1,000 Brimstone missiles worth £100 million to Saudi Arabia.
The key selling point of Protector is that it can fly for up to 40 hours and operate in civilian airspace.
The U.S. and Israel led the way in the use of armed drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). China followed.
Following 9/11, the U.S. was the first country to kill people with missiles launched from drones.
The UK seems keen to push further forward as a world-leader in this technology.
Authoritarian countries around the world are increasingly violating international law using these drones.
The U.K., Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Nigeria, and Turkey have all used armed UAVs to kill targets since 2015.
The U.S. has set a precedent of impunity by carrying out hundreds of strikes that have killed civilians over the last decade.
In Yemen’s brutal war, U.S. drone strikes alone have killed over 1,000 people.
This includes around 200 civilians and up to 50 children.
In 2018, as people in Gaza protested against Donald Trump opening the Israeli embassy in Jerusalem, Israel launched drones to unleash lung-burning tear gas on demonstrators.
In 2012, Israeli drones constantly circled the skies over Gaza launching hundreds of missiles.
Despite Israel’s violations of international law and Palestinian human rights, the British government is importing Israel’s drone technologies to be integrated into its armed forces.
( Fréa Lockley, 21.09.2019 )

Families Housed In Converted Shipping Containers After An 80% Rise In Homelessness Since 2010.
Cheap, quick to build, a prefabricated apartment block in Ealing, west London, built from converted shipping containers.
According to Ealing council, the flats offer “a stable, private environment for homeless families with nowhere else to go”.
There are others like it in Ealing, as well as Brighton and Bristol.
The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, criticised them as unsuitable and unsafe.
They were cramped, with nowhere to play or do homework, stiflingly hot in summer, and too cold in winter.
That youngsters were growing up in them, she said, proved that “something has gone very wrong with our housing system”.
The housing charity Shelter weighed in, saying housing families in unsuitable converted shipping containers for months at a time was a “sad reflection” of the housing crisis.
Poor temporary housing, said the Children’s Society, left youngsters feeling unsafe and anxious, and risked damaging their health and psychological wellbeing.
It is easy to see why prefabricated housing looks increasingly attractive to local authorities on the frontline of England’s housing crisis.
They are facing rising homelessness, together with a shrinking pool of affordable homes, and a £1billion bill for the 62,000 homeless families and 124,000 children living in all forms of temporary housing in England, an 80% rise since 2010.
( Patrick Butler, 23.08.2019 )  ..  theguardian.com

The UK Are Currently Engaged In Conflicts In Seven Countries.
UK special forces (UKSF) are currently engaged in conflict in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
Yet the nature of UKSF operations means that our political system enables ministers to conduct secret wars in our name with zero parliamentary or public oversight.
The British government states that its policy on the covert wars it fights is “not to comment, and to dissuade others from commenting or speculating, about the operational activities of special forces because of the security implications”.
Added to this, the UK’s Freedom of Information Act gives “absolute exemption” to UKSF activities.
So this makes it virtually impossible for anyone to question or “scrutinise policy”.
( Extract from an article by Fréa Lockley, 18.09.2019 )

We Will Sanction And Prosecute Any Company Or State That Assists The International Criminal Court With Investigations Against Americans, Says The White House National Security Advisor.
The U.S.A. has threatened to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it moves to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes.
White House National Security Advisor John Bolton called the Hague-based rights body “unaccountable” and “outright dangerous” to the United States, Israel and other allies, and said any probe of U.S. service members would be “an utterly unfounded, unjustifiable investigation. If the court comes after us, Israel or other US allies, we will not sit quietly.”
Bolton also said: “We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans.”
Bolton made the comments in a speech in Washington to the Federalist Society, a powerful association of legal conservatives.
 ( 11.09.2018 )  ..  france24.com

We Are Stealing From Our Own Future.
We demand more, you have heard the aspiring tyrant’s words that promise more.
Political promises evaporate when there is insufficient energy to support them.
The notion of “Saudi America” is reassuring, but the facts are not.
Despite the rhetoric and posturing, reality cannot be ignored.
The USA produces around 12+ million barrels of oil a day, but uses 0ver 19 million barrels a day (2016).
This imbalance is not going to change, despite collective belief to the contrary.
The USA cannot produce sufficient oil to sustain itself.
Price fluctuations and the ebb and flow of gluts should be ignored.
If the cost of oil rises to a level that sustains the producers, users can’t afford to buy it.
If it falls, oil producers can’t afford to extract it.
This is the economic vice that is inexorably crushing the global industrial system as oil supplies decline.
As surplus energy falls away, so does real income.
We have substituted debt for income and caused that debt to grow to mask the reality of our situation.
We are stealing from our own future and from generations unborn to stay solvent.
It might be called intergenerational larceny.
When our great grandchildren arrive they will find nothing left for them to burn.
We are already in the phase of expending too much energy to get energy, which is why real income has been static for 30 years.
We live in an energy economy, not a money economy.
We cannot devote our commercial existence to the businesses of finding new sources of energy.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )

The Dead Of Belsen Concentration Camp Were Victims Of War And Disease, Not A German Extermination Policy.
The ghastly images that were captured by Allied photographers at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in mid-April 1945 and widely reproduced ever since, have greatly contributed to the camp’s reputation as a notorious systematic extermination centre.
However, in actuality, the dead of Bergen-Belsen were, above all, unfortunate victims of war and its turmoil.
It can be verifiably argued that the effects created by the Allied destruction of the entire European theatre, through the terrorism of their ‘Obliteration Bombing‘ policy, created the very conditions that led to their deaths.
War conditions, not  Extermination Policy as the British enacted and, with the joint-coordination of the U.S., systematically implemented in their genocidal campaign upon Germany.

Belsen served as a Transitional Camp, where more than 9,000 Jews with citizenship papers or passports for Latin American countries, entry visas for Palestine, or other documents making them eligible for emigration, arrived at Bergen-Belsen in late 1943 and 1944, from Poland, France, Holland and other parts of Europe.
During the final months of the war, several groups of these emigre’s were transported from Axis-occupied Europe.
German authorities transferred several hundred to neutral Switzerland and, at least one group of 222 Jewish internees was transferred from Belsen to British-Mandate Palestine.
Up until late 1944, conditions were generally better than in other camps.
Marika Abrams, a Jewish woman from Hungary, was transferred from Auschwitz in 1944 and her testimony confirms the hygienic and routine conditions at Belsen, even that late in the war.
Years later she recalled just her arrival at Belsen;
“We were each given two blankets and a dish. There was fresh running water and latrines. The conditions were so superior to Auschwitz, we felt we were practically in a sanitarium.”

Inmates received three meals a day.
Coffee and bread were served in the morning and evening, with cheese and sausage when available.
The main mid-day meal consisted of one litre of vegetable stew and bread.
Families also lived together, otherwise, in keeping with the morality of the day, men and women were housed in separate barracks and for their safety from other potentially dangerous inmates.
This was not just ethical, but due to the NSDAP’s strict adherence to the Third Geneva Convention, which Germany was not only signatory to since 1929, but it was Ratified by Hitler in February 1934.

During the final months of the war, tens of thousands of refugees were evacuated west to Belsen from Auschwitz and other eastern camps, that were either deteriorating due to war conditions or were increasingly threatened by the advancing Jewish-Bolsheviks.
German officials of the camps gave the internees the choice to stay or leave with them as they evacuated.
A great majority voluntarily left with German officials, to avoid the encroaching Red Army, while those too sick to travel remained.
Belsen became severely overcrowded as the number of inmates increased from 15,000 in December 1944, to 42,000 at the beginning of March 1945, while it rapidly increased to more than 50,000, less than one month later, many bringing with them disease infested lice, due to the conditions of the war-torn east.

So catastrophic had conditions become during the final months of the war, that about a third of the prisoners evacuated to Belsen in February and March 1945, perished during the journey and were dead on arrival, as well as German officials.
Many also being shot up by Allied fighter planes, which strafed anything and anyone that moved, even trainloads full of people and camp supplies.
As order broke down across Europe during those chaotic final months of the war, regular deliveries of food and medicine to the camp stopped.
Foraging trucks were sent out to scrounge up whatever supplies of bread, potatoes and turnips that were available in nearby towns, trying to evade Allied strafing during the task, often not returning.

Disease was kept under control by routinely disinfecting all new arrivals.
But in early February 1945, a large transport of infected Hungarian transports was admitted while the disinfection facility was out of order.
As a result, typhus broke out and quickly spread beyond control.
Commandant Josef Kramer quarantined the camp in an effort to save lives, but SS Camp Administration headquarters in Berlin, unaware of how extreme conditions had become, insisted that Belsen be kept open to receive still more evacuees arriving from the East.
The worst killer was typhus, but typhoid fever and dysentery also claimed many lives.
Aggravating the situation was a policy during the final months of transferring already sick inmates from other camps to Belsen, which was then officially designated a Sick or Convalescence Camp.
The sick women of Auschwitz, for example, were transferred to Belsen in three groups in November-December 1944.
Disease being the cause of death is confirmed by Dr. Charles Larson, leading Forensic Pathologist, Colonel of the U.S. Medical Corps, assigned to the Judge Advocate Generals Department and the only Forensic Pathologist in the entire European war theatre.
( Historical Tribune )  ..  historicaltribune.wordpress.com

Our ‘Survival Brain’ Hasn’t Developed Beyond The Level Of The Hunter.
Energy is required to sustain all life forms, we cannot go on taking more than our fair share.
80 million new people arrive on the planet each year.
They demand to be housed, clothed and fed, spreading available resources even thinner.
The mothers of the next 2 billion people are alive now.
They will reproduce as a matter of personal survival, taking global population beyond 9 billion by mid century, guaranteeing our fall off the ‘energy cliff’ because the means to sustain that number does not exist.
We are 7.5 billion people on a planet that, pre-oil, supported between 1 and 2 billion.
By any reckoning, 5 billion people alive now do not have a future, let alone 2 billion more due over the next 30 years.
We must burn fuel to maintain what we have, but the act of burning destroys what we have.
This is contrary to human instinct, because our ‘survival brain’ hasn’t developed beyond the level of the hunter/gatherer.
The only recourse will be violent conflict to take what others have.
All wars are about survival and acquisition of resources.
Conflict will destroy what energy sources we have left and finally exhaust any survivors.
As energy supplies deplete, the industrial economy will enter its terminal phase, still suffering collective denial.
But no nation can hold together without the fuel sources that created it.
Secession will become inevitable, into five, six, seven or more regions in the USA, along racial, religious, political and geographic lines.
The faultlines are already there, with no energy base there will be nothing to stop ultimate breakup.
Other conglomerations of states and provinces will also disintegrate.
The EU, Russia, China, Africa will react and deny, but the end result cannot be avoided: Energy depletion = social/economic collapse.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )

Leading Brexiteer And Conservative MP Benefits From Brexit.
Leading Brexiteer and Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is estimated to have earnt £7million from one of his investments since the referendum.
He refused to disclose the precise amount he received in dividends from Somerset Capital Management (SCM), the investment firm he set up in 2007.
Rees-Mogg owns at least 15% of the firm which according to one financial expert’s estimate could have put him in line for a pay-out of around £7million since 2016.
Asked if the figure of £7million is accurate, Rees-Mogg said: “The amount that I received is not for public disclosure. I’m entitled to the same privacy in my affairs as anyone else in parliament is.”
Rees-Mogg declares in his House of Commons Register of Interests that he is paid £500 an hour for his work at SCM and takes home around £15,000 a month on top of his MPs salary.
Mr Rees-Mogg denied that the increase in SCM’s earnings was related to Brexit.
He also rejected claims that SCM’s decision in the past year to open two new funds in Dublin rather than London had anything to with Brexit.
( Channel 4 Dispatches, 11.03.2019 )  ..  channel4.com

David Goldberg Was Found Dead In New York On June 8th., 2019.
Friends of Mr. Goldberg believe he was murdered and did not pass away of natural causes.
His friends were also given access to his accounts before his passing.
They are reviewing many documents in Mr. Goldberg’s possession, some of which appear to be top-secret government documents and White House memos.
The documents and much of what Mr. Goldberg posted on his YouTube account relates to the upcoming planned Iran War, which will be precipitated by a series of False Flags conducted by the United States and Israel.
Mr. Goldberg’s Iran War false flag video was posted first on April 14th, 2019.
Goldberg says that new alternative media organisations, particularly the ones exposing Israel and Zionism, those with the best work, highest standards, are run by Israel to tag activists for assassination.
Goldberg, before he was murdered, says Israel plans to murder 15 million Americans using disease, accidents and eventually, as America becomes more “Trumpish,” simply outright murder.
( Veterans Today, 01.09.2019 )

Documents David Goldberg Felt Could Get Him Killed.
David kept me abreast of things over email, and he told me he had been given some documents he felt could, for certain, get him killed.
The documents related to some internal White House memos in which a couple of New York rabbis were meeting with Trump frequently, and the memos talked about the nature of those meetings.
I didn’t get full details, except that it seems the rabbis were going to deliver for Trump a re-election victory if he did things they were asking.
I guess Trump was listening intently, because — well this is what David said to me — because the rabbis had a lot of power, in ways in which they could rig the elections if they needed to.
The memos also talked about how Trump’s poll numbers were not very good and he could easily lose in 2020, and the White House knew this, and this was part of the reason why Trump was paying so much attention to these rabbis.
I guess they just have a lot of control or something, and Trump needed them.
David said the documents, if they ever got out, would be very bad for Trump, because there was no way to put a positive spin on them.
He said the memos were pretty blunt, and seemed to have been written by a couple of staffers coordinating the meetings.
( A friend of David Goldberg who wishes to remain anonymous, Veterans Today, 13.06.2019 )

Around 6,600 Iraqi Civilians Killed After U.S. ‘Tested’ New Air Attack.
The term ‘shock and awe’ was coined in 1996 by Harlan Ullman and James Wade of the American National Defence University to describe how the ‘surgical’ use of air power against an enemy could paralyse its will to resist in a very short space of time.
The Iraq war gave U.S. forces the opportunity to see whether shock and awe worked.
Attacks on Baghdad began on March 19, 2003, in an effort to kill Saddam Hussein.
On March 21, coalition air forces launched a massive wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital, many of them using cruise missiles.
An estimated 6,600 civilians died.
The results were unclear and the idea that massive air power can paralyse an enemy has still not been demonstrated beyond doubt.
Perhaps only nuclear weapons possess the real potential for shock and awe. 

Suppression Of Truth Is Already In Hand.
People with full bellies, stable homes and secure employment do not allow themselves to be involved in civil disorder.
Unfortunately we are living on borrowed money in a bankrupt society.
When our debts catch up with us, society will collapse, violent disorder will ensue and martial law will be inevitable.
Before our era of fossil fuels, despotic rule was the norm and democracies did not exist – we are going to return to that era.
The hallmark of the tyrant is already being stamped on the nation for anyone willing to recognise it.
Suppression of truth is already in hand, information on climate change has been removed from government websites.
It is the preparation for your future governance.
Oil is our prime source of energy, ‘alternatives’ cannot power our industrial infrastructure.
Any business that continually burns through its assets at ten times the rate of replacement can be said to be bankrupt.
That describes the global economy as clearly as it describes the smallest business enterprise.
Fossil fuels are the only asset we have, because everything else is a derivative of coal oil and gas inputs.
Without heat, nothing can be manufactured.
We elect politicians to lie on our behalf, and offer prayers that the laws of physics should be contravened.
We want to be told that our resources and growth are infinite.
Everyone is complicit in the grand deceit.
To accept the truth would destroy the existence of all of us.
So to perpetuate that lie there is a collective insistence that the global economy must continue to function to a very simple (but ultimately nonsensical) formula: the more fuel we burn, the greater our gross domestic product.
The faster we burn it, the higher our percentage growth.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )

Excess Heat Is Altering Our Climate Beyond Human Tolerance.
Collective prosperity at the global level depends on cheap surplus fossil fuel energy.
For two centuries we have been able to use those fossil fuels as collateral for future debt, to build ever bigger machines to extract elemental resources from the earth.
This has been our great burning, because extracted materials of themselves are of no use to us unless we use heat to process them into desirable commodities.
That excess heat is altering our climate beyond human tolerance.
But heat provides our industrial growth economy: fuels must be consumed to sustain it and provide continued employment to make things that are ultimately thrown away in order to consume more to enable our debts to be continually carried forward.
Our system of rolling debt depends on increasing energy input and burning it ad infinitum.
So they who assert that climate change is a hoax get voted into office, granting permission to burn our planet forever.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )

Accused Of Holding The Prime Minister Hostage.
A group of pro-Brexit Tory MPs led by Jacob Rees-Mogg were spoon-fed questions intended to undermine their own government.
The European Research Group (ERG) encouraged its members to wrong-foot the prime minister and senior ministers on everything from control of migration to trade deals and EU laws.
The European Research Group received hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ money over the last four years.
The ERG’s work, claimed as part of MPs’ pooled resources, is supposed to be research that is politically neutral, essentially not for party political purposes.
The ERG has been instrumental in forcing Boris Johnson to push for a no deal Brexit.
Conservative MPs who are not involved in the ERG say that the group operates as a party within a party and that taxpayers’ money should be returned.
The ERG, previously headed by former Brexit ministers Steve Baker and Suella Braverman, keeps its ‘research’ private and refuses to publish names of its members.
It is believed that between 60 and 80 Tory MPs are, or have been, ERG members.
They have been accused of holding the prime minister hostage in key votes in the Commons and of forcing their own Brexit plans on Downing Street.
( James Cusick, Jenna Cordero, Peter Geoghegan, 22.07.2019 )
Link:  opendemocracy.net

Fascism Cloaked In Holy Orders.
Without the power of fossil fuels there will be an inexorable regression to the brutalities of medievalism, where the command of muscle reflects political power.
As civil unrest takes hold, governments will act in the only way they know how: violent suppression to restore order.
This will mean military intervention and imposition of martial law as civil breakdown becomes widespread.
At that point your elected leader will assume the role of dictator and suspend the constitution.
Once established, godly certainties among those around him will cloak this in righteousness and subvert it into a theocracy of the worst kind.
That will make it easier to identify the heathen and justify any form of retribution.
It will be fascism cloaked in holy orders.
Those who support him will become part of the new order.
Those who do not will be dismissed from office, either voluntarily or more likely by force.
Police and military will fall in behind whoever pays their wages, and enforce the new regime.
Totalitarian states have shown that there is never a shortage of willing hands to perform unpleasant tasks.
They are always ready and waiting to be recruited.
So what of the years to come?
The dictator’s power will grow for a time, and make life unpleasant for millions, but ultimately his Reich will extend only to the door of his bunker.
No doubt he will remain in his seat of imagined power for as long as possible, issuing incoherent commands that cannot be fulfilled because there will be insufficient energy to do so, just as his predecessor discovered 75 years ago.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )