"It only makes sense if the goal is to completely destroy the west."

In a compelling monologue, Tucker Carlson warned that "history changing events" including energy and food shortages are occurring all at once and society is rapidly collapsing while the masses try to ignore it.

Carlson pointed out that "Europe is descending into poverty" because of spiralling energy costs and the inability of countries to provide their own power sources.

"Energy is the key to a functioning society, and the elites don't care," Carlson pointed out, adding the caveat "Or maybe they do care — and they're making things worse on purpose."

Republicans and independents overwhelmingly disdain the US president's Philadelphia speech.

More than half of Americans believe that President Joe Biden's September 1 speech in Philadelphia was a "dangerous escalation" of political rhetoric, designed to "incite conflict" in the US. Republicans and independents are overwhelmingly alarmed by Biden's words, and even 18% of Democrats agree, according to a poll published Tuesday by the Trafalgar Group.

Standing before Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden used Thursday's televised speech to claim that "equality and democracy are under assault" by "MAGA Republicans" led by his predecessor Donald Trump.

According to the Trafalgar survey, 56.8% of the Americans saw the speech as "a dangerous escalation in rhetoric and is designed to incite conflict amongst Americans," while 35.5% said it was "acceptable campaign messaging that is expected in an election year."

Inverted priorities and their consequences.
What are we to do with all these useless eaters?

This is a question that the self-appointed architects of the future have been asking increasingly openly of late, as they plot out our trajectory towards a posthuman cyborg futurity in which machine intelligence will perform the economic functions formerly fulfilled by human physical and mental labour. When the factories are fully automated; the vehicles self-driving; the farms encased in hydroponic towers tended by insectile drones; the buildings constructed by swarming necrobiotic servitors¹; the text of advertisements, news stories, and scientific reports composed by deep learning language systems, and their accompanying graphics developed by their visual equivalents; and even the software is self-writing ... when all of that has come to pass, what use will there be for humans?

The answer that the WEF's court jester LARPing as a court philosopher, the schizo-autist Yuval Harari, has come to is that there is no use - hence, useless eaters. The overwhelming majority of the species serve no function in their system. The best thing they can do with us is to allow us to quietly, painlessly exit evolutionary stage left, our disappearance from the life of the world eased with drugs and virtual reality. They'll provide us a pod, some soy and bugs to eat, and enough UBI to obtain the credit necessary for basic subsistence, distributed via a programmable central bank digital currency that ensures we can only spend our allotted pittance on whatever consumer subscription services our social credit score permits us.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine lightless and cavernous warehouses, racked and stacked with smooth plastic coffins encasing emaciated forms with neither fat nor muscle tissue between grey skin and brittle bone, yellow eyes rolled back in their heads, neural induction crowns wrapping their temples, flesh pierced with IV tubes, midsections wrapped with catheters, suction hoses vacuuming the drool from their slackly grinning lips.

The horror will be out of sight and out of mind, it will not be experienced as a horror by the victims, and in any case will be over soon enough. A generation or two and the population will crash down to sustainable levels, a few hundred million or so, the descendants of the oligarchs and whichever of their livestock they find marginally useful, amusing, or sexually diverting enough to preserve, who will then live in a robot utopia tended to by machines of loving grace as they merge into the cyborg hive mind and ascend to digital apotheosis.

The core assumption driving this war crime in waiting is that it is the purpose of human beings to serve the economy, rather than the other way around - that we live to work, rather than work to live, as the saying goes. As with all the most dangerous lies, there's a shell of truth to this. Humans find meaning in their service to other humans. Nothing rots the soul more rapidly than the realization that one is fundamentally of no use to anyone around them. This is why welfare states invariably lead to spiritual demoralization, a decay that you can plainly see written in the neglected flesh of those parts of the population that become reliant on handouts. A purposeless existence rapidly leads to no existence at all.

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The tiny gang of criminals with all the money that power can buy, and all the power that money can provide, want to hold on to their full-spectrum world domination.

Historically, they have used a range of techniques to ensure that key people, particularly politicians and royalty, are safely under their control.

Bribery is one possibility and many unprincipled individuals are quite prepared to sell their soul if the price is right.

But what happens if they start getting too greedy or unreliable? How many gifts will it take to keep them on board for the long term?

The manipulators may choose instead to lend money to their target, gaining a legal hold on the debtor. This works for institutions, such as nation-states, as well as for individuals, by the way.

Even better is to combine the use of bribery and debts with blackmail. The target has simply to be lured into a trap, such as involvement in dubious sexual activity.

The criminals have evidence of this serious misdemeanour and the possibility of it becoming known will shut the victim up for the rest of his or her life.

As a last resort, of course, there is always violence and the implied threat of violence for anyone stepping out of line or spilling the beans. "Dead men don't talk", as gangsters like to say.

While the global manipulators have successfully used combinations from this bag of tricks for centuries, it is a time-consuming process.

Rather than ambushing each new individual who arrives in the corridors of power, wouldn't it be easier to take control of the supply of these individuals?

When the criminal conspiracy already owns all the existing key players in positions of power, what could be simpler than to instruct them to appoint as their successors the next generation of remote-controlled agents?

These can be selected and prepared for their role well in advance through various programmes.

Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia's far eastern coast to listen to Moscow's economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific.

The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok is one of the indispensable annual milestones for keeping up not only with the complex development process of the Russian Far East but major plays for Eurasia integration.

Mirroring an immensely turbulent 2022, the current theme in Vladivostok is 'On the Path to a Multipolar World.' Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, in a short message to business and government participants from 68 nations, set the stage:

The obsolete unipolar model is being replaced by a new world order based on the fundamental principles of justice and equality, as well as the recognition of the right of each state and people to their own sovereign path of development. Powerful political and economic centers are taking shape right here in the Asia-Pacific region, acting as a driving force in this irreversible process.

In his speech to the EEF plenary session, Ukraine was barely mentioned. Putin's response when asked about it: "Is this country part of Asia-Pacific?"

The speech was largely structured as a serious message to the collective west, as well as to what top analyst Sergey Karaganov calls the "global majority." Among several takeaways, these may be the most relevant:

• Russia as a sovereign state will defend its interests.
• Western sanctions 'fever' is threatening the world - and economic crises are not going away after the pandemic.
• The entire system of international relations has changed. There is an attempt to maintain world order by changing the rules.
• Sanctions on Russia are closing down businesses in Europe. Russia is coping with economic and tech aggression from the west.
• Inflation is breaking records in developed countries. Russia is looking at around 12 percent.
• Russia has played its part in grain exports leaving Ukraine, but most shipments went to EU nations and not developing countries.
• The "welfare of the 'Golden Billion' is being ignored."
• The west is in no position to dictate energy prices to Russia.
• Ruble and yuan will be used for gas payments.
• The role of Asia-Pacific has significantly increased.

In a nutshell: Asia is the new epicenter of technological progress and productivity.

The IAEA report doesn't name the perpetrators of attacks on Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, but the mission itself left Kiev frustrated

If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again. This seems to be the mantra of the Ukrainian government as it seeks to blackmail the international community into helping it evict Russia from the territory encompassing Europe's largest Nuclear Power Plant.

Kiev's Energy Secretary German Galushchenko declared in a message posted to Facebook on Monday, September 5.:

"The world is once again on the brink of a nuclear disaster. The last line connecting it with the energy system of Ukraine...separated due to the fire that occurred as a result of shelling. Any repair of the lines is impossible now - there are combat operations around the station."

Galushchenko's warning came as the bulk of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission, dispatched late last week to inspect the safety of the Zaporozhye facility, and personally led by Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, departed the nuclear power plant.

"I have no comments to offer... other than being mystified at my inclusion in this list." That's how former National Security Advisory Board head P.S. Raghavan, a retired foreign service officer who also served as India's ambassador to Russia, replied to an accusation of disseminating 'Russian propaganda.'

It was made by the Center for Countering Disinformation, a subsidiary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.

The body released the list on July 14, and it included "speakers promoting narratives consonant with Russian propaganda." Two more Indian nationals - veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi and Sam Pitroda, a former adviser to Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh - found themselves among the politicians and experts whose positions on the Ukrainian crisis appear to be a dissonant chord in the chorus of Western narratives.

The selection of Liz Truss as prime minister signals a "crisis of democracy" in the UK, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Asked by TASS whether Truss will be a disaster for Britain, Zakharova replied that if "shop owners are decorating the window in this way, then they believe this is the best item they have in stock today."

Sometimes, the spokeswoman claimed, countries with large populations and long-standing democratic traditions make you wonder if they really do not have anyone that can "adequately, professionally, and intelligently represent the various branches of government."

Perhaps the problem is in the crisis of British democracy, because this 'result' has nothing to do with the direct choice of the British people, since the system of indirect elections dominates the Anglo-Saxon duo.

The long-serving monarch was placed under "medical supervision" on Thursday as her health deteriorated

Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace has announced. Her reign lasted 70 years, making her the longest-serving British monarch and female head of state in history.

The Queen's doctors placed her under "medical supervision" at her residence in Balmoral Castle in Scotland, on Thursday, after becoming concerned with her health.

Born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in 1926, she ascended to the throne in 1952, at the age of 25, after the death of her father, King George VI.

The Argentine ambassador to China, Sabino Vaca Narvaja, announced Wednesday that last week Fernandez sent a missive to his Chinese counterpart, who holds the 'pro tempore' presidency of BRICS, to formally request Argentina's inclusion in the bloc of emerging countries comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

"For us, the group is an excellent alternative for cooperation in the face of a world order that has proven to be created by and for the benefit of a few," said the Argentine representative at the BRICS forum held in the Chinese city of Xiamen.

In this sense, Vaca Narvaja was convinced of the "historic opportunity" that being a member of the bloc means for the development of a true joint strategy among the partner countries in order to face the complex global scenario.