In a bold new documentary titled "Cutting off the Head of the Snake," Pascal Najadi, a former Swiss banker, and Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, a seasoned health expert from Geneva, delve into the dark underbelly of global organizations headquartered in the serene city of Geneva, Switzerland.

Pascal Najadi is a retired Swiss business banker whose job was to advise countries and heads of state on the financial direction of the country.

Najadi was responsible for the resignation of the Swiss president after he filed a criminal lawsuit at the high Supreme Court of Switzerland against Alain Berset. He accused Berset of making false statements surrounding the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines.

Najadi was the son of the late Hussain Najadi who was assassinated in 2013 and reportedly was the co-founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Najadi revealed his father's disdain for the WEF, which led to his departure from the organization in the early 1980s, leaving Klaus Schwab at the helm.

"Everything evil in the world related to democide unfortunately comes from Geneva," Najadi said.

Judges in America's fastest-growing city are facing scrutiny for releasing dozens of suspected pedophiles and rapists without bail - including a cop who raped two women after using his badge to gain their trust.

A report from The Spokesman-Review unveiled the releases - showing how from 2021 to September 2023, judges in Spokane, Washington, have released 665 people accused of violent crimes.

Offenses ranged from rape, molesting children, making death threats, assaults, and vehicular homicide, the report revealed - but like ex-Spokane officer Nathan Nash, 39, all thought to be responsible were released as they awaited trial.

Others arrested for more serious offenses, like first-degree murder, were also able to walk out of one of the city's only two county jails unhindered - including 43-year-old Jordan Knippling, who prosecutors say killed a 53-year-old man at a homeless camp.

Several who spoke to the Review, including the county sheriff and city's spread-thin police chief, called the data concerning - with County Commissioner Al French telling the paper the releases do not stem from overcrowding.

In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy." The sentiment was expressed right on the heels of a banking crisis which led to the Panic of 1907. The event was widely blamed on a liquidity crunch, and this same crisis was used as a rationale for the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913-1916. Of course, it is the central bank and its ability to generate fiat money from thin air (unbacked liquidity) that has led the US to the stagflationary disaster we face today. The "solutions" offered by establishment elites are often worse than the problems they are supposed to solve.

The total inflationary damage done to Americans consumers since 2020 varies according to who you ask. Stats from the Federal Reserve and government are muddled in a series of creative mathematics in order to make the situation look much better than it is. CPI is not a valid indicator of true inflation given it is watered down with over 80,000 items and services, and many of them are not necessities for the common US household. If we look only at necessities like housing, food and energy, the economic picture looks increasingly bleak.

Food, as Alfred Lewis noted, is particularly vital to civil cohesion. The human body can in fact survive up to three weeks without a meal, but the vast majority of people in the first world are not acclimated to such conditions and might just panic after one or two days without sustenance.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) on Saturday scathingly critiqued seven of the eight Republican representatives who offered to accept discipline for dividing the Republican conference in exchange for votes to elect Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as Speaker of the House.

McClintock sarcastically wrote in a letter addressed to all eight representatives who voted against former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that the group's attempt at bargaining was "perhaps the most selfless act in American history."

"We should have appreciated how you (and 206 House Democrats) saved us from a Republican Speaker," wrote McClintock. "We truly don't deserve you."

The group of lawmakers headed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) maintained in their letter that, although they do not regret their decision to remove McCarthy from his leadership position, they would have been willing to accept punishment "in a manner that embraces reconciliation."

Former President Donald Trump is gaining ground with young voters, a demographic President Joe Biden dominated in the 2020 presidential election and will be critical in the election next year.

An Emerson College poll released Friday reveals Trump is now leading among voters under 30, with 45% of the support, while Biden trails 2 points behind with 43%. The shift among the younger electorate has been causing alarm among Democrats, as recent polls cast doubt on whether the president can make inroads with the new generation.

In 2020, Biden won about 60% of voters under 30, while Trump won about 36%, according to AP VoteCast, making them the most Democratic-leaning age group of those who voted.

In recent months, millennial and Generation Z voters have turned their back on the Democratic president, with national poll numbers dropping significantly since the start of summer. In June, Biden's favorability rating with voters under 35 was 51%, compared to Trump's 23%, according to an NBC News poll. However, in that same poll, young voters expressed little enthusiasm for a Biden reelection, with only 9% reporting they "strongly approve" of the president's performance.

"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."

-George Orwell, 1984

Does art imitate life, or the other way around?

The dystopia is getting very meta.

Via The Telegraph:

"George Orwell was a "sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic, sometimes violent" man who wrote women out of his story, according to a biographer of his wife.

Anna Funder said that Orwell was a brilliant writer but a complicated man whose personal life was at odds with the "decency" of his writing.

She has produced a biography of Eileen O'Shaugnessy, Orwell's wife - highlighting the contributions O'Shaugnessy made to his work, including helping him to write Animal Farm.

According to Funder, the darkness that runs through 1984 is a reflection of Orwell's soul..

"He desperately wants to be decent, and wanting to be decent is an honourable thing, a noble thing. But writing a book like 1984, which is violent, misogynist, sadistic, grim, paranoid: that comes out of a writer's flaws.

"It takes someone who is those things to go deep inside themselves and pull that vision out.

"A decent, everyman underdog, the ordinary person that he might have wanted to be, would not have had those visions...

She added: "That's a very curious thing that's going on. He's not 'a man of his time'*, it's not to be excused and thought of as 'back in the day'.""

It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film - a tour de force - and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story. For in it we see and hear a dying man speak eloquently of how he accepted the role that life brought him - a 9/11 truthteller and peace apostle - and now, as he departs the stage, hopes this last effort will ease his exit and help fulfill his mission as a man of peace.

Because Graeme MacQueen was my close friend for the last ten years of his life, I found it very hard to watch this film since his death on April 25th is still raw and painful. For more than three years he suffered greatly and yet found the strength to cooperate with his colleague Ted Walter in the making of this important film. Walter's direction admirably portrays MacQueen's nobility by having Graeme narrate his life's work interspersed with documentary footage that illuminates the truth about many issues, most notably the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks. The result is a very powerful and important lesson in personal courage and historical truth.

The social media company has launched a crackdown on war-related content since the Israel-Hamas conflict began.

Instagram's parent company, Meta, has apologized for an apparent bug that inserted the term "Palestinian terrorists" into the bios of some pro-Palestine users.

The bug was noticed earlier this week by TikTok user @ytkingkhan, who posted a video explaining that Instagram had falsely auto-translated his friend's bio, which featured the word "Palestinian" written in English, the Palestinian flag emoji, and the word "alhamdulillah" (praise be to God) written in Arabic, as "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

When I worked at Vogue House as the fashion bible's editor-at-large, there was a shop across the road on Bond Street that some of us staffers would visit — part retail therapy, part entertainment.

Back in the Noughties, Victoria's Secret, with its Swarovski-studded, heavily under-wired bras and neon lacy thongs felt fun, aspirational — empowering, even. This was the era of Juicy Couture-clad WAGs, and being as overtly boudoir-sexy as a burlesque dancer wasn't remotely frowned upon. I was seduced by the brand's sexy half-cup lacy bras.

My then teenage daughter was obsessed with the celeb-crammed catwalk extravaganzas that it was famous for. She adored the Angels (as its top models are known) with their glamazonian proportions, mermaid hair and lashings of make-up. Adriana, Candice, Heidi, Alessandra ...

I told you this was coming the day after the attacks in Southern Israel - specifically, that the corporate state would seize on the tragedy in Israel to promote more forever-war and simultaneously to clamp down further on speech using the pretext of combatting "antisemitism."

Here comes the new censorship regime, via the chief censor of the state, the ADL, cloaked in "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion."

Via Anti-Defamation League:

"In response to a surge of antisemitism around the world in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre of more than 1,100 unarmed civilians in Israel, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today called on CEOs of major corporations globally to speak out against hate and commit to ADL's "Workplace Pledge to Fight Antisemitism."

Over the past few months, more than two dozen major corporations and brands have responded to the challenge of preventing antisemitism in the workplace, becoming among the first to sign the pledge. Now, ADL is calling on leaders of Fortune 500 companies and other corporations to join in taking the pledge and to speak out against antisemitism.

"With antisemitism surging around the world, there's no more important moment than now for all companies to speak out," said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO. "Corporations must use their bully pulpits to strongly and forcefully condemn antisemitism in all forms and to ensure that their workplaces remain safe places for Jewish employees."...

By taking the pledge, organizations agree to actively prevent antisemitism in their workplaces, including addressing antisemitism in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, supporting Jewish employees through Employee Resource Groups or other means, providing religious accommodations for employees, and speaking out against antisemitism...

Signatories include Accenture, adidas, AEG, American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., CLYDE, Deutsch LA, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, NASCAR, National Basketball Association (NBA), New York Life, Northwell Health, Turner Construction Company, and UTA, among others."