The point has been made against the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)  by US Congressman Tom Emmer that they are easily weaponised to deprive people of financial privacy. They would be “easily weaponized” as a spying tool to “choke out politically unpopular activity.” "As the federal government seeks to maintain and expand financial control to which it has grown accustomed, the idea of the central bank digital currency has gained traction within the institutions of power in the United States as a government-controlled programmable money that can be easily weaponized into a surveillance tool.” That is all true, as was dramatically illustrated by the Canadian government cancelling the bank accounts of the trucker protesters. This social control is the key reason why the ruling elites want CBDCs, as they can never have enough power.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdcs-could-be-easily-weaponized-to-spy-on-us-citizens-congressman

This is just a personal view and I am not offering health or medical advice. If you want that you know who to see. But for me, I have lost faith in my doctor. The pushing of the Covid vaxxes, and shrilling for Big Pharma, was the last straw, but it has been coming for some time. Mistakes, due to rushing to get as many patients through as possible, with little time to seriously address issues; that finalised it. One GP prescribed a power anti-depressant, when my condition was some sort of skin infection; I researched the drug and in astonishment threw the script in the bin.

We have reported on the issue of excess deaths in Australia, being the highest in 80 years. The mainstream media has said that the Covid vaxxes are not to blame, that the real causes, unknown, could be long Covid, or even deaths from people not having access to hospitals in the lockdowns. But, that explanation is implausible, since people could still go to hospitals during the lockdown: hospitals did not close. Some elective surgery was cancelled, but not the serious stuff. But the key issue here is that all of these explanations should apply to other jurisdictions in the West. Yet, the excess mortality in Australia is greater than most other Western countries. And, passive and compliant Australia is one of the most highly vaccinated countries on earth, although the initial enthusiasm has died with the fifth jab now being pushed. The most plausible explanation then, is that it is the workings of the vax.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/excess-deaths-in-australia-off-the-charts-following-covid-vaccines-highest-in-80-years/

This is another human-interest example of how woke ideologies, and climate change mania are now coming together in a Leftist narrative of white critique. We are to suppose that white drivers are contributing to the ill health, and adverse climate change effects, by their disproportional use of cars in LA. They drive through Black communities, causing ill health from their car pollution. It is supposedly all due to racism in the initial building of the cities, where whites were able to keep highways out of their neighbourhoods.

Now, there is some truth to this, but the argument goes of the rails by taking the race detour. In fact, the problem is general one, and the highways also impacted upon poor whites, who are no longer part of the research subject matter from the Left. It is not a mere product of racism, but more one of general poverty and class. Poor whites have been affected just as much as Blacks. And, it is nothing new to say that the elites of society have moved to secure nice clean neighbourhoods, as getting the choice pick of the crop, is just what they do!

It goes without saying that there is no modern life without electricity. The world would be like being on a camping trip, only most camping trips in the West today take a fair number of electric devices with them. Everything from cooking to having water in one’s home, to communications and banking, depends upon elasticity, so a secure supply is vital for the continuity of modern life and commerce. But, heating during the cold dark winters of Europe can no longer be done extensively by fire wood, so fossil fuels are what keep people from freezing. We experienced this during the UK cold spell of late December/early January, where there were blackouts as according to the energy guru, National Grid: too many people were having the heating on. The problem here is that the UK has moved away from conventional fuel sources, to embrace as much as possible the renewables, and it has been a disaster, as Germany has also found out, and is now reversing its move. And, the UK government had to take out of moth-balls, so to speak, three coal-fired power plants that were due for decommission and demolition to meet those December 2022 and January 2023 demands.

Keith Windschuttle has an insightful piece on China’s global ambitions, that is, to rule the world. He discusses a book by a former People’s Liberation Army officer, Liu Mingfu, who is a thinker  seen to closely articulate the philosophy of Xi. Liu’s book The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Power in the Post-American Era (2010, translated 2015), details how China intends to do this. The basic argument is plausible: America is facing internal disintegration, and thus a loss of national confidence. One need only reflect upon the fact that people support a senile old man like Joe Biden to see that this is true.

While here will be war, which Liu believes China will win, China will also win the battle of ideologies: “A new Chinese order, a “China model” of vertical meritocracy with superior leadership and based on what Yan calls “humane authority, sovereign state equality, and non-hegemony” will increasingly outperform Western democracy as the world’s most attractive political system. From Beijing’s perspective, as a new global configuration of “one world, two systems” evolves in the 2020s and 2030s, the “Yalta hegemonic world order” is likely to stagnate and die and to be replaced in mid-century by a new Chinese-led global system with the Orwellian name “The Community of Common Destiny for Mankind.”

My predictions are usually wrong, but I think that the present US bank collapse situation is merely local, and that mopping up operations will supply the appropriate band aids to stop the haemorrhage. Still, some think that this is really the beginning of the end, and if it is, I would not like to think, while rumbling through the rubble, that I did not cover it. Mike Adams, for example thinks that the world financial system is in serious trouble, as shown by the winding up of the cryptocurrency player, Silvergate Bank, which now has a liquidisation plan.  The bank suffered from the impact of a large number of cryptocurrencies going bankrupt, as well as the collapse of FTX, whom Silvergate had on-going dealings with. Thus, people moved to take out deposits, and the deposit base dropped from $ 14.3 billion, to $ 3.8 billion. Thus begun the slide to oblivion.

Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown  said “Today we are seeing what can happen when a bank is over-reliant on a risky, volatile sector like cryptocurrencies.” But, Silvergate is only one player among many servicing the volatile cryptocurrency industry, and who knows when the next big crash occurs here.

Here is yet another warning about the coming hard economic times to come, this time from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. In the aftermath of the banking collapses he said, that the US is probably in a recession, which, if true, will soon have a kick-on effect for Australia, given its economic connections with America. "I feel bad for all of these people that lost all their money in this woke bank. You know, it was more distressing to hear that the bank officials sold off their stock before this happened. It's depressing to me. Who knows whether the Justice Department would go after them? They're a woke company, so I guess not. And they'll probably get away with it," 

On that he is certainly true; the system will let the major players walk. And, in the short term, that is, months, it is too much to hope for radical financial reform, although we must constantly be working to that, and keeping our eye on that horizon. But the first rule of life, a wise man once told me, is to survive, and I think we need to heed the warnings made by the capitalist elite, who have their fingers on the dying pulse of Western civilisation.

What has happened in the southern states of the US is now happening here in the UK, perhaps at an accelerated rate to catch up in woke. Statues of “older white men,” those who founded the modern nation, are to be torn down, as it offends the diverse. For example, the Welsh government guidelines state that monuments “can be offensive to people today who see them in a different light,” including as “aggressors who conquered peoples to expand the British Empire.” Existing memorials project the “perception that the achievements that society considers noteworthy are those of powerful, older, able-bodied white men.”

I wonder if white Britons will simply take this Great replacement and go quietly into the night, with no rage against the dying of the light, to allude to Dylan Thomas. At least the idea that multiculturalism being about just accepting diversity, under the existing social framework, is decisively refuted.

Most of mainstream science is based upon the thesis of physicalism, that all that exists are physical entities, that can be described without recourse to any non-physical entity. Thus, the origin of life, and the universe, as well as the end of he universe cannot make any valid recourse to God, a non-physical being outside of the system. Thus, there is the theory of biological evolution, and cosmological theories based upon the Big Bang – that matter and energy just existed in a tiny space, then exploded, and ultimately made everything, by chance.

As noted below, there are deep cracks in the physicalist world view, with a possible failure of its cosmological model coming up. But, it is a secular religion of the age, one of its cults being, for example, vaccine worship, so we cannot expect the paradigm to fall too soon. As I  see it, this scientism underlies technocracy, which is based upon an unquestioned faith in science. History may chip away at this, ultimately exposing its bankruptcy.

Gordon Chang, a leading China critic has noted that China is giving clear war signals. Xi Jinping has now set up a war cabinet, and has undertaken other moves, such as the largest military build-up since World War II, and the preparation and mobilisation of the civilian population, putting them on a war footing. Private factories are being taken over by the military, and are now used for military production. The Reservists law has come into effect, securing an even larger PLA force. While all of these war preparations are occurring, both the United States, and the Australian populations are not being prepared at all, but continue in consumer lotus-eating land. This is beyond dangerous, as when war breaks out, populations will be dumb with fear and astonishment, not believing that the comfortable world of cheap, made in China goods, has disappeared.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/if-china-s-foreign-minister-tells-us-war-is-inevitable-we-should-listen-20230309-p5cqqa.html

Here is a warm human-interest story from the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Greg Becker, sold $3.6 million in shares of the financial institution’s parent company several weeks before its collapse. Now, the timing here is perfect, too perfect, so it stands to reason that he could feel what way the foul wind was blowing. And, this all fits a time proven pattern; that prior to some large company going under, those in the know jump ship.

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From my counting, three US banks have crashed, but the Federal Reserve  has moved in a bailout, as it looked like panic was developing, and it does not take long in this age of on-line banking, for a cascading collapse to occur. The example of how this contagion can occur, is seen how the impact of the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in California, which led to almost £30 billion wiped off their portfolios of British and European Union lenders.  The European-UK banking index saw a one-day decline of 3.8 per cent, with €33.5 billion (£29.6/$35.6 billion) being wiped off their balance sheets. This illustrate how volatile the mainstream financial system is, which totters on collapse. Naturally, the globalist financial elite hope to bring in digital currencies, and a collapse of the banking system would kick start this evil program.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/11/svb-international-fallout-uk-and-european-lenders-lose-30-billion-overnight-as-panic-spreads/

The Japan Times, a mainstream media entity, has reported on a 42-year-old woman who had one jab of the Pfizer mRNA vax, and two hours later, she was dead. She died of acute heart failure, and the health ministry panel reported a “causal link.” Even though there have been almost 2,000 reported deaths in japan, this is the first death to be unquestionably linked to the vaccine. I suppose it was becoming too unrealistic to ignore the deaths, so one is admitted to give the illusion of objectivity.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/pfizer-mrna-bivalent-booster-kills-42-year-old-japanese-womandead-from-heart-failure-in-under-2-hours-05670351

With there being concern in the US that the banking system might come apart, although the Federal Reserve has stepped in to try and plug the hole in the sinking ship. So, maybe the panic that has started, leading to bank runs, can be stopped, so the chain reaction does not occur. But, even so, there is another dire prediction of the stock market collapsing in a mere 60 days. That has been made by Larry McDonald, leading financial analyst. It is not easy to summarise his view, but in short, he gives a doomsday summary of an over-heated, misfiring economy, that is set to suffer a burn out. Rising interest rates and a credit squeeze, will further impact upon the middle class. "Auto loans right now are approaching 14%, almost 20% of auto loans are one thousand a month, and so the middle-class families are getting hammered here," the expert McDonald said. "So, the consumer pressures are violent, but on the high end, the wealthy are doing well with excess savings and higher interest rates."

We will wait and see how this evolves, but certainly if this crash prediction is true, Australia faces the same cascading collapse, so it would be a good idea to put away a few extra tins of baked beans.

Dr. Francis Boyle, an international law expert,  during a Stop Vax Passports Task Force Webinar, warned that the world Health organization (WHO), is seeking to establish a global medical dictatorship. The international “pandemic accord” currently being negotiated by the WHO, due for a vote as early as May, according to Boyle “will set up a brand-new international organization with powers to issue legally binding orders all the way down … to your primary care physician.”  Given its new power, the WHO will, come the next plandemic, force “vaccinations,” quarantine detentions in concentration camps that Australia has already constructed, and censor of dissenting health information, and dissents. The WHO will have the power in  “directing and coordinating authority on international health work, in pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery of health systems, and in convening and generating scientific evidence, and, more generally, fostering multilateral cooperation in global health governance.”

As has been said many times at the blog, this is highly dangerous, and will erode national sovereignty quickly, bringing in the New World Order, at least within 12 months. As has been said, health is a good one for the globalists to work on as in recent times, many issues, such as race relations, gender issuers, and climate change have been re-defined as health issues.

A shown in videos in the link below, one can see the Dutch military being deployed in The Hague, to enforce the tractor ban in the city, made by farmers to oppose the government closing down farms in the name of the globalist elite’s climate change mania. This example shows that when the crunch comes, the Deep State will call out its thugs against the people.

As George Christensen has argued, events like the closing of farms, is part of a globalist agenda: “This is all part of a plan to gain a monopoly on food production and then significantly start rising their prices to induce a global famine.

Moving on from the banning of farms, the climate change globalists in Scotland, a place which in recent times has become hyper-woke, have now banned inhaled aesthetic gases, such as desflurane. The authorities claim that this and other such gasses, has global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide, so it has to go. England is not far behind, with a ban by early 2024. Now, as I understand it, these gasses are much more efficient as anaesthetics, than the probably injectable alternatives. So, in the name of climate change medicine turns back the clock on surgical anaesthesia. If the elites were really serious about controlling carbon emissions, then reducing free trade would be a better step, but they will never do that.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-13-scotland-bans-anesthesia-due-to-impact-climate.html

The Bad Cat, whose site for some reason does not use capital letters, which I think makes it less serious, but someone pretending to be a cat, would not care, makes a very interesting observation about the over-blown nature of pandemics, in particular, the Spanish Flu epidemic that hit during World War I. The odd thing was how the Spanish flu killed otherwise healthy soldiers in a few days, but other people, not so quick, or not at all.  “The unprecedented overall mortality and the mortality rate among young adults during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic is incompletely understood. Deaths in the United States peaked with a sudden spike in October 1918. Later, Wade Hampton Frost studied surveys of 8 US cities and found that, for every 1000 persons aged 25–29 years, ∼30% were infected with influenza virus, and 1% died of pneumonia or influenza. This 3% case-fatality rate has been called, “perhaps the most important unsolved mystery of the pandemic.”

One hypothesis for why this occurred, is that the higher mortalities of the soldiers was iatrogenic, doctor caused. In 1918, aspirin was first marketed, and Big Pharma was keen to push its new wonder drug. Doses of 8-31 grams were given to sick soldiers. It is known today that the daily dose of aspirin should never exceed the level of mgs, even in exceptional circumstances, and doses are far, far lower to avoid toxicity, and other side effects. But, the even higher doses would likely produce the rapid declines and deaths that were observed. Bad Cat cited some peer reviews papers that support his idea.

The truth, like water, has a tendency to leak out. At present this is occurring with aspects of the Covid plandemic, but it is also occurring with the US  House Judiciary Committee, over the “Twitter files,” and Big Tech censorship, and the way the government weaponised this. Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified to Congress. By way of summary. According to Shellenberger: “Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps twenty quasi-private entities doing the same thing.”

There has been something of a small break in this, with Elon Musk giving Twitter more free speech, but as far as the evidence indicates, nothing has changed with the rest of Big Tech. This was a major issue during the Covid plandemic, where criticism of the vaxxes, and mandates, which all turned out to be true, were censored, and critics found themselves removed. This still goes on, so it is early days yet in the struggle to regain a level of free speech, that existed even a few years back.