Various articles have arrived in the first part of August, and as puzzle-pieces, they begin to fit together. First is from Anna Chen, an excellent writer and analyst in the UK, who had a great article this week: To save the planet, first we had to destroy it - The military machine is a major polluter so why is the West turning to war and away from public necessity? | ANNA CHEN | AUG 03, 2026 - "We could have stuck to ploughshares instead of swords in a peaceful and prosperous world. But, thanks to the elites, the only bright future we're likely to see is the red glow of advancing flames and the flash of their nuclear toys."
Trying to be concise, I left this comment: "The first problem the "Leaders" had with democracy was garnering enough power to actually govern. Then, succeeding in that, they figured out how to expand that power to be able to ignore the mugs that elect them. Where, exactly, is the fault in the system?"
Well, that really steps in it, doesn't it? Take a deep breath - we're going deep here. A whole bunch of pieces clicked together this week. Monday, August 10th, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand, issued more sanctions, this time against Streit Group and Guerman Goutorov for selling armoured vehicles to Russia. She said "With a history of supporting Russia's military-industrial complex by supplying Russian entities with defence products, Streit Group continues to feed Russia's war machine and the Putin regime's unprovoked and unjustifiable war against Ukraine."
No country's "sanctions" are valid without support of a Security Council resolution. It's beyond belief that a supposed normative nation would issue such a statement that totally ignores the history of the Ukraine situation. These Elites, trying to deeply align with corresponding European Elites, have repeated this nonsense so often that they fully believe it. And, of course, to mollify the large Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. They truly believe that Russia is The Enemy, putting the two largest nations in the Northern Hemisphere and sharing the Arctic Ocean, at loggerheads for no rational reason. This Eurocentric approach has gone so far that the neo-conservative Canadian Prime Minister now vacations in Europe. These are perfect examples of how these Elites in Europe and now in Canada float free in their own mental space, working up their economies to prepare for their dream of war.
The Foreign Minister is supposedly in charge of diplomatic efforts, nicht wahr? Yet diplomacy depends on respect between the parties - while if one party seeks the total elimination of the other as these Elites do, there is nothing to discuss. In the new Mecca Accord between Pakistan, Türkiye and KSA, as well as in the Putin/Xi accord, the world is moving toward "collective security" in place of the difficult European term of "indivisible security," meaning nations work together with mutual respect, from which comes regarding trust, allowing meaningful dialogue to solve any issues without resorting to war. This is in contrast to the American version of absolute security, an international version of Simon Says.
This type of elitist governance leads toward war instead of toward peace. In the August 13th Globe and Mail, Bob Rae, former UN Ambassador, In an article "Canada must not withdraw from peacekeeping," warned of the interlocked mindset between Canadian Forces and the Pentagon resulting funding moving away from previous peacekeeping missions to the growing NATOist war effort against Russia and China.
And there is ever less The People can do about it with the growing trend toward unitary-executive power, as outlined in Adam Dodek's article on the same day, "He could happen here," referring, of course to the fool occupying the White House. In fact, as the author illustrates, and as we have witnessed, it is much easier in Canada than in almost any other so-called democracy to obtain limitless power. Then we end up with the entire country being shunted off the rails into the unknown, this time, it seems, into yet another glorified version of the past, regarding war and fossil fuels production.
These outcomes are well-described in Tzeporah Berman's article, also on that same day, titled "Betting on the past," about the coming new oil pipeline to the west coast from Alberta, to ship out more tar sands bitumen for export income into a world that is trying to get off fossil fuels. This type of project, once mentioned, is no longer possible to stop - the proponents are beyond reasoning. Of course, it will terminate at a port which is totally incompatible with sea-level rise.
Such lousy governance ties right in to Sean @lifes2hard's comment: "Industrial civilization is locked into growth by political ideology, corporate power, infrastructural path dependency, and thermodynamic constraints, making transformative climate mitigation structurally infeasible rather than merely politically delayed." (in reference to Professor Tim Benton). And further comment - "What gives Tim Benton hope? - Nothing does. Collapse of agriculture and the other systems is unavoidable. He explains why that is so (see link)."
Yes, the granite edifice of power is unassailable by mere mortals - it has been built this way. How and when? Since like EVER!
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson has been wondering when the American Republic became the Empire, thinking that it came about following George H.W. Bush. As is known, Bibi funded Bill Clinton's campaign to defeat H.W., since he refused to violate the UN Resolution and continue the "Gulf War" to finish off Iraq.
The influence of isra3l has been corrupting America since its inception in 1948, with its funding of the Truman campaign. And Truman was still around to criticize the campaign of JFK, calling him too young. JKF was hoping to exit Vietnam and his National Security Strategy reflected this. However:
"On November 21, 1963, McGeorge Bundy – National Security Adviser to President John F. Kennedy – sat in the White House, drafting NSAM 273, a presidential directive on Vietnam. Kennedy's own directive, NSAM 263, had been signed just six weeks earlier, ordering the withdrawal of 1,000 military personnel by December 1963 and the majority of American forces by the end of 1965. Bundy's draft reversed it, committing the United States to 'win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy'. Bundy drafted the Vietnam policy reversal on November 21, 1963, while the president was heading for Dallas and the cabinet was in Hawaii. He wrote 'I agree' on the memo that buried the White House Conference on December 17, 1965." – see "Kennedy" from escapekey.substack.
And LBJ stepped right in with no transition period. This begs the question: So when, exactly, was the assassination planned? Everyone should read this entire Kennedy article for a deeply-detailed history of that time. Although it shows the mark of Claude Cowork, the information is deadly accurate. Apologies for using that word re JFK.
Drop Site News had a report on the depth of isra3li manipulation of international affairs, titled: "For Your Eyes Only": Israel's Mole Inside the United Nations
Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF's Washington office. - MURTAZA HUSSAIN - Drop Site News - AUG 04, 2026
"The [UN] Secretary General's special adviser on children in armed conflict issues, this annual report of countries that are violating the human rights of children in armed conflict, it creates a list that goes to the Security Council for accountability purposes. And every year the Israeli regime would be on that list and it would be removed in the Secretary General's office before the report went public. And here you see this Lichner guy working behind the scenes to make sure that the Israeli regime is purged from that list as well."
As more nations fall as vassals to the growing isra3l empire, to conform they must crackdown on dissent and free speech, just as nations wishing to join the EU must first align their legislation – A report on CEAP2040 – The EU's Surveillance Paradox: Criticising Authoritarianism While Practising It – The language changes. The machinery of control does not. – CEAP2040: MULTIPOLAR CEE – AUG 10, 2026, talks about the growing surveillance state.
Asa Winstanley is also talking about how control is effected – NATO's secret Nazi armies - How the CIA and MI6 created Operation Gladio – a Cold War terror network riddled with Nazis. Part one of a new series. | ASA WINSTANLEY | APR 11, 2022.
Supposing himself to be different from Biden and Harris, how did tRump fall into control by the zionists? On Dialogue Works Highlights (Aug 9), Pepe Escobar is talking about:
"a very good article in the New Yorker about Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn was the Jewish mafioso that taught everything that Donald Trump knows. So it's important for all of you to read this. It's a very good article. In fact, it's an extract of a book. I think this book is already out in the US. Explains in detail how Trump thinks and makes decisions. And he didn't do it by himself because he's a lousy student of everything, but he was a very dedicated student of Roy Cohn, who taught him all the tricks like never concede a defeat, always brag, always talk very, very, loud, always put everything in the media, be a master of spin, and never admit defeat. And never admit that you're wrong. So this is how Donald Trump thinks."
The advancement of modern colonial influence is first brought in via NGOs and powerful influencers, so we have the growing influence of the isra3li empire arriving in Canada. Yet another instance of this is revealed by Dimiti Lascaris of Reason2Resist. Dimitri is a lawyer who was in Legal at Goldman & Sachs, contemporary with the neo-conservative Mark Carney, and who ran for leader of the Green party of Canada, but the party management wasn't ready for someone that detests NATO. He paid a visit to AWZ Ventures (which I would rename AWZ Vultures) in Toronto. AWZ Ventures: A Who's Who Of Zionist War Criminals. Here is the first part of his report. If he was a real journalist, he would try to get the other side's story instead of being confrontational, so he got security called on him instead of a story.
"Good day. This is Demetri Lascaris coming to you from Toronto, Canada for Reason to Resist on August 14th, 2026. AWZ Ventures is a Canadian investment firm that is run by some of the most notorious zionist war criminals from Israel, the United States and Canada. After resigning from high-ranking positions in the Israeli, U.S. and Canadian security establishments, officers, directors and advisers of AWZ now profit from Israel's war crimes.
I am standing on Eglington Avenue in Toronto, 20 Eglington Avenue West to be precise, at the entrance to an office tower where reportedly one can find the headquarters of a heinous corporation by the name of AWZ Ventures. This corporation was co-founded by Yaron Ashkenazi who formerly worked for Israel Shin bet and apparently had significant roles in the security details of various Israeli war-criminal prime ministers. It was also co-founded by former Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper. Harper, one of the most fanatical Zionists in Canadian political history, and that's saying something. Harper fancies himself an evangelical Christian, but he is an affront to everything that Jesus of Nazareth ever espoused. In addition, the advisory board of this sadistic entity includes another American war criminal, James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. Also, Richard Fadden, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and last but not least, Tamir Pardo, former director of Israel's Mossad. These and other ne'er-do-wells and criminals are associated with this company and profit from its business which is to invest in surveillance and military technologies used by Israel and other egregious human rights violators around the world to oppress the victims of their genocidal crimes. Yes, that's what this company does. It is a war profiteer and provides the capital necessary to make the killing sprees of the Israeli military more lethal."
[Links added] So there, in that rather shabby office tower, you have deep israeli influence and lobbying coming in to affect Canada's military industry and surveillance of the population.
Can The People regain any power, and how did it all devolve to the State? Professor Einar Tangen speaks to this in Technofeudalism - Those Who Would Be Our Masters | EINAR TANGEN | AUG 10, 2026 *#8211; "what happens when some of America's most powerful technocrats decide democracy is an impediment to their vision and profits?" He concludes with "It is increasingly about whether the people or the elites will remain the ultimate source of political authority." I had a little comment for that: "'The People' lost political authority when politics became a spectator sport. And they lost agency by being so shut in by debt that they can't participate in community affairs."
Underlying this social malaise is the demise of education, well describe in an article from Ismaele, by Graciela Beatriz Oubiña, titled The twilight of education? - the collapse of scholarly achievement "was the reflection of a civilisation weary of itself." Then I left a comment: "'Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone' - 'We don't need no edjucashun' - The crass celebration of Ignorance is one of the direct causes of the failure of 'democracy' and the rise of despotism."
Yet it's mainly the belligerent nations of The West which have fallen into this state of decay, which may be fueling their contempt for the successful parts of the world. Ryan Perkins has updated his report The Rope Thickens: Shorts, Sanctions, the Yen Rescue, the Strait That Isn't Reopening, and a Message to the Markets - A Petroyuan Trap August Update on how Scott Bessent may be planning his biggest currency-short of his pathetic career, by shorting the CNH - Chinese Yuan Offshore currency, which operates differently from the internal yuan. "And [this] autumn, when the March fertilizer crisis becomes a food price spike it will converge with an energy repricing event. The spring will release." This could explain why the war on Iran just keeps dragging on - China is the target - Iran should figure out how they are being terribly exploited. Perkins' thesis explains why not only the war keeps being extended, but also why the price of oil and gas are kept low until it is time to spring the trap.
Another great analysis by Alez Krainer came in August 11th, on who really runs The System - who's behind the curtain and how the U.S. petrodollar operates. But that's too long to fit here, so will be a following post.
Remember, for updates on the war fronts, in both "Pivot States" Ukraine and Iran, see the map guys https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary and https://www.youtube.com/@Theti
Good overall reports can be found on https://www.youtube.com/@borzzikman KIEV was Swallowed by a Giant FireBall?Russia BLEW up Zelensky's Underground Plant at a Depth of 30m | BORZZIKMAN | 15 Aug:
Russia launched another devastating missile strike on the port infrastructure of the Odessa and Nikolaev regions. This time, Russian missiles and kamikaze drones once again rained down on maritime terminals, fuel storage facilities, repair workshops, warehouses, and the places of temporary deployment of Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries. By the way, during one of these missile strikes on Odessa, representatives of the Russian underground in Ukraine confirmed the destruction of a group of French mercenaries.
It is noteworthy that immediately after this, Paris officially announced the death of 62 year old French Vice Admiral Olivier Lebas. At the same time, French authorities claim that Olivier Lebas allegedly died in an accident while climbing a mountain peak in the Pyrenees. Nevertheless, Russian and Ukrainian sources claim that French Vice Admiral Olivier Lebas died in Odessa during a Russian missile strike. It is reported that he participated in military administration, assisting the Ukrainian army in organizing the supply of Western weapons systems.
My dear truth seekers, let me remind you that the French authorities are constantly concealing the deaths of their officers in Ukraine. For example, in August 2023, immediately after Russian ballistic missiles rained down on military facilities in Odessa, Paris officially stated that the former head of the French General Staff, General Jean Louis Georgelin, allegedly died as a result of an accident. According to Paris, this French general allegedly fell from a mountain in the Pyrenees. It is noteworthy that almost after every Russian missile strike on Ukraine, other NATO countries, including the United States and Britain, also report the deaths of their soldiers and officers due to accidents.
Meanwhile, details have emerged about the Russian missile strike on a secret facility in the suburbs of Kiev. According to sources, Russian intelligence has managed to identify the exact location of a secret military underground plant in the settlement of 'Kapitanovka', Buchan district, Kiev region. As a result, this object was simultaneously hit by seven Iskander-M ballistic missiles and three Zircon hypersonic missiles. According to witnesses, the explosion was so powerful it caused tremors that were felt throughout the Kiev region. At the same time, a giant fireball formed above the explosion site. Later, sources in the Russian defense ministry stated that the enemy used the destroyed underground plant to develop and test advanced unmanned aerial vehicles. Furthermore, they also confirmed that 60 high ranking Ukrainian army officers and 13 high ranking officers from NATO countries such as Britain, Sweden, Poland, Canada, and the United States were killed as a result of this missile strike. My dear truth seekers, it is worth noting that two days earlier, Russian intelligence stated that there are 9 secret military underground factories in Ukraine, located at a depth of 30-40 meters. Reports indicate that these factories produce attack and reconnaissance drones for the Ukrainian army.
Three NATO Generals were Brutally Killed by a Ukrainian Soldier during Military Exercises in EUROPE | BORZZIKMAN | Aug 16:
(from 7:14)- Meanwhile, shocking information has emerged that during the military exercises Baltic Trust 26, which took place from August 3rd to 14th at the Salonia training ground in southern Latvia, a Ukrainian soldier shot and killed three high-ranking NATO officers.
At the same time, it is reported that immediately after that, the Ukrainian soldier shot himself in the head. My friends, let me remind you that nearly 700 military personnel from all NATO countries, including Ukraine, Japan, and Australia, took part in these exercises.
It is noteworthy that immediately after this information emerged, the Latvian authorities stated that it was not true.
According to them, these rumors are being spread by Russian propaganda to sow discord within NATO. However, it is worth noting that European sources were the first to report that a Ukrainian soldier had killed three NATO servicemen.
Moreover, immediately after this, Ukrainian TG channel said that the deceased NATO servicemen were generals from countries such as Poland, France, and the United States. Commenting on this information, many experts stated that NATO leadership will always deny such incidents. According to them, the psychological state of many Ukrainian soldiers leaves much to be desired, and many of them blame the West for the destruction of Ukraine.
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