Artist Hiroyuki Hamada writes: "We continue our discussion on the Palestinian conflict; how it’s discussed in the media and dissident communities while the Palestinian cause seems to be wildly supported by many across the globe. What does it all mean in the context of the overall western imperial project?" With John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur and Hiroyuki Hamada. " Aesthetic resistance podcast #95.

https://soundcloud.com/aestheticresistance/podcast-95

There is no problem with carbon emissions as CO2 is good for the planet and does not cause warming, however:

"Volvo claims carbon-intensive production for battery and steel makes its C40 EV more polluting to manufacture than an XC40 with a petrol engine

It says at current global electricity mix, it needs to be driven almost 70k miles - 9 years based on average UK mileage - to offset its higher production emissions

This can be reduced to less than 30k miles if EVs are charged with green energy

It has called on world leaders to accelerate the clean energy investment

Swedish maker is publishing emissions transparency reports for all EVs released"

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10161697/Volvo-says-electric-car-making-emissions-70-HIGHER-petrol.html

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1716775495377866981?t=2tPOQhefW7-lSMizH9ueaA&s=09

None of this will be new to you, but you may find it helpful to refresh your memory on the key talking points about why retaining cash is so important.

Contactless payments are very convenient. I like tech being used voluntarily to meet a wish or need.

I’m wholly against governments or businesses forcing you to use digital payment methods & restricting or even abolishing cash.

To those who think my & others’ concerns about a control agenda is risible paranoia, ask yourself this. Are you certain that bad actors have not inserted themselves into the governance of Western democracies?
How sure are you that in the future, bad actors won’t have involved themselves in the payment system? I think it’s very likely they’d do so, had they not already done so.

While having a range of payment options is very good, restricting our option to use cash is always bad. It’s none of their business. I don’t insist they use some methods over others. If others don’t want to use cash, that’s fine, provided I can.

If we let cash disappear, it’ll never return, and marks arguably the biggest single change in the way government and citizens interact since the widespread introduction of physical money.

Yet we see evidence all around us that shops are decisively restricting your option to use cash. Ask yourself why this is happening now. Note that the same transition appears to be happening everywhere I’ve been in recent years.

In exchange, we see the proliferation of self service checkouts, each with its own camera and often a screen. A commonplace layout is that the bulk of these self service checkouts are card only. M&S in London Saint Pancras station has ten or so self checkouts, of which one or possibly two accepts cash. I always use cash.

In fact, for physical purchases, I’ve used only cash since January 1st this year. On only on two occasions have I weakened & used a card. One was self-inflicted, in that I’d failed to draw cash and inadvertently run out of it in my wallet!
The other, I needed a brown belt to coordinate with my shoes yet I own only one belt, in black. Most possessions I jettisoned when we left for the US in 2021. I was that day about to be in a setting where I’d be likely to be filmed. I was en route to the venue and there was just time make a purchase in a shop in the railway station. The shop did not accept cash. I chose to buy the item & used a card. The staff member agreed with me that the option to use cash was fundamental, but that head office dictated removal of cash payments.

Later on, I kicked myself. I should have asked courteously if the assistant would be willing to buy the item & then I would pay them cash. Worth a try next time anyway!

Use it or lose it. Retain the option of privacy and a direct transactional relationship with the merchant. No digital ID can be forced upon us in a world in which cash is in widespread use.

Best wishes and thanks for doing something with this.

Mike

https://www.monicasmit.com/keep-cash-alive/

Some numbers

- The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 5,791 dead, including 2,360 children and 1,292 women;

- 704 people were killed in the last 24 hours;

- More than 1,400 people, including 800 children, are still under the rubble;

- 12 hospitals and 32 medical centers are closed due to Israeli attacks and fuel shortages.

"Also featured is the number “48”, no doubt a reference to the 1948 Palestinian exodus, which occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of pre Palestine war population – fled or were expelled from their homes. The exodus was a central component of the fracturing, dispossession and displacement of Palestinian society, a traumatic and seismic event known as the Nakba." [Birmingham artist unveils Malcolm X mural in solidarity with people of Palestine, 2021]

I am almost certain Gates also made an investment in or donated money to UK’s medicines regulator, MHRA.

Fewer people know that, as Hedley Rees has recently made us aware, Bill Gates has founded a pseudo global medicines regulatory agency, ICMRA. It’s staffed by people from pharma and from past and even existing senior staff from legitimate regulatory agencies.

I fear they’ll be recognised one day by WHO and no one in the media will divulge that they’ve appointed themselves “World Medicines Regulatory Agency”.

Given Gates, through his eponymous foundation and also GAVI, which he Co-finances, are the single biggest contributors to WHO (or perhaps second only to Germany), Gates the malevolent individual he is, is more or less in charge of global authorisation of vaccines. It’s a very worrying prospect.

Best wishes
Mike

I’m very impressed that this group of private individuals have pulled this together.
If they manage to demonstrate plasmid DNA in the bodily fluids of injected individuals, it will be hard to suppress it, because simultaneously, hundreds or even thousands of physicians, pathologists and people would learn about this. Chapeau!

Best wishes
Mike

https://t.me/robinmg/31243

From Catherine Austin Fitts, a series of the best short videos on the problems with CBDC.
They’re excellent.
Monitoring, tracking, regulating, prohibiting and abstracting units of currencies are all within the capabilities of CBDCs.
In the absence of cash, this could be all there would be. It’s terrifying.
Please share.
To those who say “It’ll never happen here, we’re a democracy”, you have to be CERTAIN that at no point in the future will an executive be in place to misuse this technology. You cannot possibly so guarantee.
Best wishes
Mike

https://live.solari.com/video-playlists/7646f71b-2d9f-45af-afff-f220bb8bac92

The moderator of a World Economic Forum energy transition panel asked the audience to raise their hands if they own an electric vehicle. Only four people—less than 5% of the audience—did, once again demonstrating the neo-feudal nature of the WEF's 'Great Reset' agenda.

It's one rule for the peasants, and another rule entirely for the self-proclaimed "elites".
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Hypocrisy is so obvious.
Just like the way they all complied with lockdowns and didn’t party on.
Not.
They seem to think we can’t see them!
Best wishes
Mike

https://t.me/robinmg/31246

This is a quite remarkable short video narrated by Swiss lawyer and son of a Co-founder of WEF, Pascal Najadi and former WHO official, Astrid Stuckleberger (who I have spoken to many times).

They’re absolutely right.
Time to arrest the list of immediately involved alleged criminals, right out of their offices in Geneva.

Arranging events such that 5.7 BILLION people were injected with an intentionally harmful material is the greatest capital crime in human history.

It’s time to say STOP, We Will Not Comply.

Best wishes
Mike

https://x.com/najadi4justice/status/1715102503455404318?s=46&t=WSMLCQNckomGtNidcKiTmw

"These three comparisons are intrinsically flawed, as they are not asking the right question, which would be: “what does emit less CO2: the most efficient ICE or the most efficient EV, in a set category of vehicles?”. Indeed, if you compare an average ICE vehicle to a quality EV, it’s not a fair comparison."

https://open.substack.com/pub/covexit/p/evs-emit-more-co2-not-less?r=1n48k2&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Support Doc Malik's Right To Medical Free Speech

"My name is Ahmad Malik and I am an honest surgeon passionate about free speech and medical ethics.
I have been suspended without pay and cancelled because I dare to challenge the Government narrative, defend informed consent, oppose mandates and lockdowns, question experimental jabs and insist that there are only 2 biological sexes.
I am raising funds to take legal action against the hospital to lift my suspension and stop the attempts by organisations to censor me.
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Israeli survivor (not me) claims killing of civilians on 7th October during Hamas attacks was from Israeli helicopter, NOT by Hamas:

https://www.jta.org/2023/10/16/israel/i-decided-to-play-dead-my-son-is-still-missing-a-survivors-account-from-kibbutz-nir-oz

https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1716826698162004247

A Bill to 'prohibit ministers of the Crown from making or implementing any legal instrument which is not consistent with the Sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament unless it has been approved by referendum' has been proposed through Ten Minute Rule by MP Andrew Bridgen.

We must not allow unprecedented powers to be given to unelected bureaucrats to dictate public health policy.

The UK Government must uphold the integrity and Sovereignty of the British People by not agreeing to the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) nor agreeing to sign the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty.

More information about the 'Sovereignty and Referendums Bill' coming soon, subscribe for updates here:

www.SaveOurSovereignty.co.uk

We should also support this petition for the United Kingdom to ends its membership with the WHO:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648609?s=35

#SaveOurSovereignty #SOS

"The Ugly Stick"

Oct 24, 2023

"Zionism is one branch of the colonialist project that drove white supremacist thinking from the Industrial Revolution onward. Gottfried Benn said somewhere (and I paraphrase) ‘To be dumb and have a job, that is happiness’. And one clear overriding quality of life today is a sense of social decay. Everything is described as decaying, and such descriptions are largely right. But, there is a metaphor here that gets ignored. People psychologically *feel* this decaying process. And again, here one comes up against language. The fin-de-siecle Vienna was, in many respects, the birthplace of modernism. Or if not the birthplace, at least the kindergarten for modernism. And one problem with the lack of metaphorical recognition is how people, largely, have lost the ability to listen. I wonder if generally there has been a loss of hearing accompanying the emergence of the Ugly. The erosion of literacy, the inability to read complex sentences, to think critically, must certainly have physiological accompaniments. But ideas such as *society is decaying* are facile and sort of cocktail party chit chat level deep. More revealing is the metaphors chosen. Like Freud with jokes and humour, one could profitably list the metaphor and its relation to the unconscious."

https://john-steppling.com/2023/10/the-ugly-stick/

"A singularly brilliant and eccentric talent": Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini has died | Guitar World

"Bruschini had been suffering from lung cancer, a condition he publicly disclosed back in July."

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/massive-attack-angelo-bruschini-obituary