As I noted yesterday, last evening I accepted an invitation to speak on a panel…
State of Climate 2024 Report signals worse is coming – like very nearly now
This is my Wednesday blog post on a Thursday, given that I spent yesterday dealing with Australia’s latest CPI data release. So today I consider a range of topics in less detail, which is my usual Wednesday practice. Today, I comment on the latest ‘State of Climate 2024’ Report just released in Australia. I also consider the view that underneath all the regional wars at present where war lords fight to gain control of failed states is a voracious surplus extraction system we just happen to call Capitalism. And then some other items that have interested me this week. And a music segment.
State of the Climate 2024
In Kyoto at present it is regularly 10 degrees above average for this time of year.
While that is pleasant and better than the much colder weather that is normal around now, the ‘pleasant’ days portend global disaster.
The latest extreme weather event in Spain is causing chaos.
The ABC Report (October 31, 2024) – What is DANA, the weather system that brought Spain a year’s worth of rain in one day and its worst natural disaster in modern history? – attributes the floods and extreme rain to the “warming planet” and concludes that:
… extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and in much greater strength than ever before.
Yesterday’s Australian CPI release reported that ‘insurance’ costs are rising fast as a result of climate risk factors increasing.
Some coastal areas in Australia are now no longer insurable, which means that people who have spent hundreds of thousands on a house are left with a stranded asset because the banks will not loan to anyone who wants to buy, so the turnover market evaporates.
You would think our politicians would be doing everything possible to fast track changes.
But like Nero, our decision makers are mostly ignoring the issue as the planet burns.
Australia is now in the bushfire season, which is coming earlier and earlier each year and regularly causes massive damage.
I spoke to one house builder recently who predicted the supply of timber in Australia will evaporate over time as sequential bushfires wipe out the plantations.
He is researching house printing solutions using bio products – this is an emerging field but not yet viable for large-scale application.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) released their latest – State of the Climate 2024 – which is a comprehensive analysis of the latest scientific evidence regarding climate change.
The Report is written in collaboration with the – CSIRO
This is the 8th Biennial report and provides “a synthesis of the science that underpins our understanding of Australia’s climate”.
There are several key points in the Report including:
1. “Australia’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.51 ±0.23 °C since national records began in 1910.”
2. “Sea surface temperatures have increased by an average of 1.08 °C since 1900.”
3. “The warming has led to an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events over land and in the oceans.”
4. “Heavy short-term rainfall events are becoming more intense.”
5. “There has been an increase in extreme fire weather, and a longer fire season, across large parts of the country since the 1950s.”
6. “Snow depth, snow cover and number of snow days have decreased in alpine regions since the late 1950s.”
7. “Oceans around Australia are becoming more acidic, with changes happening faster in recent decades.”
8. “Sea levels are rising around Australia, including more frequent extreme high levels that increase the risk of inundation and damage to coastal infrastructure and communities.”
An ABC news report about the release (October 31, 2024) – – concluded that:
The report has a clear message – the world is sick, it’s addicted to fossil fuels and the only way to bring the temperature down is to get off them.
A couple of graphs in the BOM/CSIRO Report caught my attention.
First, this graph shows the “Frequency of extreme heat events is increasing”.
The second graph relates to the Chapters on ‘Sea Surface Temperature’ and ‘Ocean heat content’.
The Report notes that:
The world’s oceans have taken up more than 90% of the extra energy stored by the planet as a result of enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations … Ocean warming has accelerated since the early 2000s.
Climate variability is directly linked to this trend.
The vertical axis is a ‘zettajoule’ which “is somewhat more than the amount of energy required to heat the Baltic Sea by 1 °C, assuming properties similar to those of pure water.”
The ABC Report notes that these changes “are many standard deviations above the mean over the last couple of years” and that sort of outlying behaviour is very scary.
Capitalism is at the heart of international conflicts and oppression
I read an interesting article in The Japan Times (October 27, 2024) over the weekend – The dark reality of global capitalism and perpetual war – which provides another dimension to the policy crisis facing humanity.
I have long held the view that Capitalism – as a system of production and exchange – is unsustainable from both a human rights perspective and an environmental health perspective.
I consider that approaching calamity will force changes on us which will make it clear that the current way of doing things is not consistent with a sustainable human existence on this planet.
This article tackled one dimension that underlines that reasoning.
It reminds us that while the media is concentrating on Hamas or Netanyahu, or Kim Jong Un or Putin as evil demonstrations of “our brutal age”, the reality is much more horrible than anything those names have delivered.
And don’t get me wrong – what is happening in the Middle East as Israel kills and maims tens of thousands of innocent people and destroys their livelihoods and communities is about as bad as one can conceivably imagine.
The article, written by Slovenian philosopher – Slavoj Žižek – however, reminds us of the shocking events unfolding in Sudan, which he says:
… exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
He documents a plethora of atrocities forced onto the civilians as the “country’s new warlords” struggle for supremacy.
Supporting the massacres and oppression is the “the role of external forces” like the private Wagner Group militia and some nation states (UAE, China) which have been furnishing the rival armies “with military supplies, helicopters and weapons” etc.
One group leader also controls the “abundant gold reserves that allow him to purchase all the weapons he needs”.
The point he makes is:
We are thus reminded of a sad truth facing many developing countries: Natural resources are as likely to be a source of violence and poverty as they are to underpin peace and prosperity.
He suggests that if they had no valuable resources – and he uses the Democratic Republic of Congo as an example, which is also riven by conflict and military struggles:
… it would still be poor, but it might be a happier, more peaceful place to live.
And underpinning all the strife in various nations in the world are:
… the unmistakable contours of global capitalism.
How does he draw that conclusion?
He argues that various warlords use strong arm tactics including murder etc to replace functioning governments and then prosper by maintaining:
… business ties with the foreign corporations that are exploiting the region’s mineral reserves.
In other words, both the war criminals and the corporations prosper while the citizens live in fear and misery.
Further, the corporations love these arrangements because:
… get mining rights without having to pay state taxes and the warlords get money with which to buy arms.
One set of corporations get the mining revenue while another set within the military-industrial complex sell the weapons.
Win-win.
But another dimension to this scandal is the role that you and I play in perpetuating it.
When I was a graduate student at Monash University in Melbourne in the late 1970s, a friend and I ran a series of films that we were able to get free of charge from the Victorian Film Archive.
We called our series a ‘Radical Film Festival’ and screened films from Latin American, Africa and other places where global capitalists were siphoning off real resource bounties at the expense of the local residents.
One film focused on the Tin Miners in Bolivia who were forced to work under shocking conditions that kept them in poverty and caused all sorts of health issues.
We would close the sessions with a discussion with the audience and at the end of that film I recall one of the students who attended (and remember all these students were typically well-heeled from very well-off families) decided to challenge the logic of showing these sorts of movies in Australia.
He said something like “what has all this got to do with life in Australia?”
I responded by asking him whether he or his family ever bought tinned goods like fruit, soups, vegetables.
He said: “Of course, so what?”
And that is the point.
Slavoj Žižek writes that in these war-torn countries:
Many of these minerals then end up in our laptops, mobile phones and other high-tech products. The problem is not the “savage” customs of the local population; it is the foreign companies and the wealthy consumers who buy their products. Remove them from the equation and the entire edifice of ethnic warfare crumbles.
That is, as a result of our mass consumption patterns, we all become part of the problem in the same way that we are part of the climate problem.
He cites many examples of these linkages.
Libya – run by war lords after the US decided to liberate it and deliver ‘freedom’ – who “sell oil directly to foreign customers, reminding us of capitalism’s tenacity in securing a steady supply of cheap raw materials.”
He argues that capital doesn’t care about the morality of the cases involved and the way the mainstream media and politicians frame the problems – as “‘backward’ people who are not ready for democracy” – misses the point entirely.
These devastating conflicts are really:
… about the continuing economic colonization of Africa — not just by the West but also by China, Russia and rich Arab countries.
Which tells us that without a fundamental change in the way resources are allocated and our mass consumption behaviour – not a lot of progress will be made towards peace and improving the human condition.
It is a very bleak assessment.
And just think if the US stopped supplying weapons etc to Israel, how long do you think the slaughter there would continue?
Cultural Boycott
As a published author, I received an invitation this week to join the cultural boycott of Israel – Refusing Complicity in Israel’s Literary Institutions.
You can read the press release – HERE.
I signed along with thousands of other authors and publishers.
I have long been a supporter of the – BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) which aims to “end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.”
The cultural boycott is consistent with that aim.
I urge readers to join the long list of people who are calling for this boycott.
There is however polarisation in the literary community about this issue.
The UK Guardian article (October 28, 2024) – Nobel and Pulitzer winners denounce ‘dangerous’ Israel cultural boycott – reports on the criticism of the boycott and claims that “Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas and Hezbollah”.
I disagree strongly with that characterisation.
42,000 innocent Palestinians were not threatening Israel’s existence.
I remind people of the concerted global pressure on the apartheid government of South Africa during the late 1960s and 1070s which finally – through the sporting boycotts – forced change.
Boycotts work and we should engage in such organised and coordinated activity more often.
Ultimately, capitalism relies on things being sold for a profit.
And the literary community leads the way in influencing ideas in societies.
It cannot be sequestered from what the governments do.
US Presidential Election
I note Bernie Sanders is calling on Americans to vote for Harris even though she has an appalling record with respect the Palestinian situation and pledges to continue supply weapons to Israel.
His reasoning seems to be that Kamala is bad but Donald is worse.
I don’t agree.
Progressives should push their votes towards Jill Stein who is not a perfect candidate but voting for her would send the other two terrible candidates a strong message.
How could anyone with a good conscience vote for Harris?
Smith Family Manga – Next Episode coming November 15, 2024
We were due to release Episode 8 in our – The Smith Family Manga – this coming Friday.
However, we have decided to change the release schedule from fortnightly to monthly for the remainder of Season 2.
We are finding that it is difficult to meet the deadline given the time it takes to create the series – particularly the quite elaborate drawing involved – and the time demands of our ‘real’ jobs.
The Manga Team is small (two persons with some translation help from a third) and we have to do it in our ‘spare’ time.
So the next episode will come out on November 15, 2024.
We will probably delay the launch of Season 3 into the new year so that we can build up a stock of episodes and revert back to our preferred fortnightly release pattern.
Music – Bob Dylan
Last Friday, the band I play with in Kyoto did a gig at the famous – Jittoku Live House – and one of the songs we did was – Knocking on Heaven’s Door – by – Bob Dylan.
Here is the 1973 version as it accompanied the movie – Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
It is such a simple song in structure (3 chords verse, 3 chords chorus) and lots of harmonic variation possible.
We had a lot of fun playing it.
I will post our live ‘put together’ version when it is edited.
And here is Bob Dylan’s live version which is an extended version of the original.
Either way, a great song.
That is enough for today!
(c) Copyright 2024 William Mitchell. All Rights Reserved
I’ve seen today one of the most gruesome videos of my life: in Spain, a road became a river and hundreds of cars, still with the lights on, were beeing draged along the river, like some scene of some scientific fiction movie.
Except, it’s not fiction.
It’s happening now.
Maybe we should take the war mongers and oil industry’s money lovers to were they should be: to the trash can.
It’s too late to ‘fix’ the climate, which most people will think restoring the atmospheric values to pre-industrial levels – but that’s simply fanciful and unrealistic. The pollution and emissions from burning FFs are a serious risk to our health, but they also act as a catalyst impacting other ecosystems; the oceans ability to absorb CO and the greenhouse effect increasing global temperatures. Even if we stopped all FF use today, it will take centuries if not millennia for these effects to diminish. But we should stop all FF extraction and use immediately. Stop driving your cars and trucks. Stop using airlines, which are one of the worst, most harmful emitters. Most of all, change the way you think.
We inherited the Garden of Eden and transformed it into a toxic, desolate, inhospitable nightmare….and we cannot stop our destruction. In a very short time, we will lose the capacity to produce enough food to sustain the global population and by then, there will be a complete collapse of the social, economic model we live by. No public services, healthcare, energy, transport – just survival of the fittest. Money won’t exist as it will hold no value whatsoever.
That future awaits our children and grandchildren. Who knows if the family line will extend much further than that.
Why? Because we couldn’t change our behaviour and addictions, didn’t care and didn’t respect anything of true value. When you watch the horrific images from Gaza – and the desperate videos from the flooding in Spain and USA – we have to be saying to ourselves: “We could have stopped this.” But we didn’t and it’s too late now to make any difference.
Yeah I contemplated voting for Jill Stein. But unfortunately sending a message about our broken, corrupt system, all around, is futile. There isn’t enough mass effect to make a pile of beans difference. Trump is a disruptive ogre that only compounds the problems of it all. The disease has become systemic and the organs of democracy are failing.
Harris, figurehead of the phony democratic party now is at least something better? We don’t know what of yet. But Trump smells… Literarily. At least that aspect is better with Harris.
Voting for someone who isn’t really the counterbalance candidate is nice a ‘protest vote’ and ‘real progressive’ credentials, but is really a proxy vote for Trump. His supporters aren’t deviating, they’re voting for him.
In case of Sudan, its mainly the UAE responsible.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/washingtons-mixed-messages-fueling-war-sudan
@Ferdinand That just shows the current system is undemocratic. You can’t even vote for who you want. Turnout will be much lower. The same argument has been used since 2016.
Our species is in a predator-prey relation where the predator is our planet’s biosphere changes arising from our own actions. And all of our present predicament is in exchange for a human devised construct called money (plus power and control over others). I’ve long considered humans, as a collective, to be absurd and the most self-delusional species on the planet, while we tell ourselves how clever we are. We’d rather be optimistic and stay positive instead of facing reality.
Bread and circuses and acting as if a horse race election in the evil empire of never ending military Keynesianism will change anything. Those distractions matter not one jot in waking humans up to existential reality.
Thinking critically takes effort and can be extremely challenging, especially when it reveals aspects that crash up against long held views and biases (very often long propagandised into ones thinking). Binary thinking or decision making based on heuristics is most often the fallback that is taken. In the words of H L Mencken “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear simple and wrong.”
I submit that our species has grown technologically and in population, via a work multiplier provided by our exploitation of fossil fuel concentrated energy, at a rate that has greatly outpaced our commensurate capacity to adapt to or act to control those changes. We have great difficulty in changing thinking from linear to exponential growth and please don’t raise amplifying feedback loops and tipping points. This has left us as a species evolved to a stage of apes with apps, being not long out of the trees despite the stories we tell ourselves.
Military weapons contribute to climate
### Concept: **Magnetic Eater Gun (MEG)**
#### Overview:
The Magnetic Eater Gun is a theoretical firearm designed to combine advanced technology with an unconventional approach to ammunition. Its primary feature is a bullet that is magnetically guided toward a target and subsequently absorbed after it penetrates the body, minimizing environmental impact and eliminating the need for traditional bullet recovery.
#### Design Features:
1. **Guided Ammunition**:
– **Magnetic Propulsion**: Each bullet is equipped with a small magnet and utilizes a propulsion system that can alter its trajectory slightly mid-flight, ensuring it homes in on the target.
– **Smart Targeting**: An integrated targeting system uses sensors to detect the optimal trajectory and adjust the bullet’s path in real-time, improving accuracy.
2. **Biodegradable Materials**:
– The bullet is constructed from biodegradable materials that can break down after use, reducing the environmental footprint. The design allows it to disintegrate upon impact or shortly after being absorbed.
3. **Magnetic Absorption Mechanism**:
– **Internal Magnet**: The gun has a powerful magnet located near the muzzle that activates once the bullet passes through the target. This magnet pulls the bullet into an internal chamber for safe disposal.
– **Safety Mechanism**: The gun would include safety features to prevent the magnet from activating until the bullet has exited the barrel.
4. **Energy Efficiency**:
– The gun would use an energy-efficient design, possibly powered by a rechargeable battery, to operate the magnetic systems, ensuring a lightweight and portable option.
5. **User Interface**:
– A digital display providing real-time feedback on battery status, targeting information, and safety settings, allowing users to engage with the gun in a smart, intuitive way.
6. **Variable Settings**:
– Users can adjust the strength of the magnetic guidance and absorption based on their needs, offering flexibility for different scenarios (e.g., hunting, law enforcement).
#### Potential Challenges:
– **Regulatory Issues**: The unique design may face legal scrutiny in various jurisdictions.
– **Technical Feasibility**: Ensuring reliable guidance and absorption technology could be complex and costly to develop.
– **Ethical Considerations**: The implications of such a weapon would require careful examination regarding safety and responsibility.
### Conclusion:
The Magnetic Eater Gun represents a futuristic vision of firearms technology, emphasizing precision, environmental responsibility, and innovative design. While theoretical, such a concept could inspire discussions about the future of weaponry and its intersection with technology.
What happened to the many species of megafauna in the Late Pleistocene? What happened to the Neanderthal?
Is it a coincidence that megafauna extinctions in the Late Pleistocene in Australia-New Guinea (50k years ago), and in the Americas (13k years ago), coincide with human migration into these regions?
Is capitalism to blame?
Or something else?
Bill, about five years ago, we set up a cooperative to finance and operate solar panels on the roofs of people who could not afford or be able to do it themselves or could not access interest-free loans given out by the government.
We installed one set with finance from some members. We showed the approach was economically viable – meaning that occupants bought panels by paying the cooperative 70% less than the grid price for electricity. Investors would receive a 10% annuity for 20 years or an annuity of 15% for 10 years. The profits from the cooperative were going to build reserves of more panels. The capital in the co-op was held as shares, and the total share value was the value of replacing the panels. However, money could not exit the cooperative – only people and panels could. It set up what we called a Permanent Asset Market.
We could not obtain finance from any bank (including community banks) or access members’ superannuation funds. The reasons were all “administrative”. For example, you cannot invest self-managed super funds in something that directly benefits you, and accountants would not sign off on a loan for self-managed super funds. Banks would not give a loan without getting a lien on occupants’ houses. Governments would not provide interest-free loans to cooperatives or most prospective members. For example, I could not get an interest-free loan because I was too old.
After much investigation and trial, I realised that if MMT ideas were adopted, our community could be eligible for a new money grant to install solar panels if we ensured that the money went into panels, benefitted members equitably, and was not taken out of the cooperative.
The approach would provide an asset that benefits the community, does not require government tax money, and provides a high-return investment for members. In other words, it is a very productive and efficient way to introduce money into the community (as well as the cooperative’s intention to reduce GHGs).
In the last year, I have investigated the current method of increasing new money into society, and I have found that banks – who introduce new money into society through loans do it by giving themselves an unjustified “return on investment” by charging borrowers the same amount as interest and bank fees and calling it a capital gain. They do it by debiting a loan account with the amount of interest and fees and calling it their return on money. Banks provide a service of lending out government money and collecting rent on the money. They are not entitled to capital gain when lending money. If anything, it should go to the government or, better still, never collected.
The amount involved is staggering. I estimate that interest and bank fees are $300 billion annually or about 16% of GDP. Add in the cost of all the money removed from the economy when a loan is repaid, and it about doubles the savings to the economy.
Some simple modelling with NetLogo indicates that we can make enormous gains in productivity by reducing the cost imposed by the finance system and doing most of the changes with a few accounting adjustments.
You may have a student or researcher who could confirm (or not confirm) the above.
No one in the government or community banks is interested. However, because banks use the same trick of debiting loan accounts for government loans, we hope to get our politicians to ask some questions about why banks are getting capital gains from loans to the government when the government owns the money. Suppose we get them to question the whole loan process to introduce money into the economy. In that case, we may persuade them to introduce money to put solar panels on everyone’s roofs, as it would be electorally popular.
Permanent capital markets can be set up for any asset, including housing, hospitals, water, food production, and public transport.
If we can help you in anyway to spread the MMT word please ask.
@ Kester Pembroke: Man’s ingenuity has no bounds when it comes to killing each other. Wouldn’t it be amazing if the same imagination could be applied to saving each other instead?
The US messed up in its unipolar moment chasing its Liberal Democracy agenda on whoever wanted. That moment was from around late 1990’s to 2017.
Rather than stay on track with Realism policies to continue its hegemony.
The Liberal Democracy invasions and wars resulted in eventual pushback, Tumps drive to punish China with tariffs has backfired, with supply chains that will never recover as China pivots to go its own way instead if relying on western research and development in tech. Make no mistake, the west politically today is merely beholden to class donors for policy direction.
The two major parties have zero difference because of neoliberalism and appeasing to religious groups (likely why labor is more conservative) to gain votes. Let alone donors.
Progressives are not voting for who is actually beneficial to their cause. Since when was genocide an ok policy for Democrats? Certainly not when JFK was in power. Since then? No different to Republicans. Democrats today are also more hawkish.
As a hegemony that I am forced to bow to, i will never allow myself to be deluded by its myths, lies, fantasies in order to control the public discourse to appease a narrative financed by the class donors.
The west is a sad joke, that is becoming more like its enemy that it says is authoritarian. The west even lies in its narratives for economics.
How do these elite people sleep at night?
Today the globe is multipolar, and the west brought China, Russia, Iran and DPRK closer together. The US military is no longer as powerful as it says, because it can no longer supply enough weapons to continue its deluded lie about Russia in Ukraine.
The IDF is getting clobbered, and the resistance against zionism will never be defeated. The narrative of course is a lie that the IDF is winning, its not, it is inly slaughtering women and children to ethnically cleanse all of greater Israel.
Shameful.
@Michael Dalrymple China hasn’t pivoted because of Trump, but because it’s reached a stage, just as other technologically advanced countries have done before, where it has learnt from more advanced countries (whether ‘stealing’ or not).
‘Progressives are not voting for who is actually beneficial to their cause.’ Who are these progressives and what choice do they have? Sadly, in ‘the west’ the ruling classes’ propaganda continues to be most influential and democracy set up to ensure the status quo, just as in China the system is set for the mindset of rulers and people. You, as an ordinary prol. wouldn’t be contributing to a blog such as this in China.
‘The US military is no longer as powerful…’ Perhaps, but not because it can’t supply enough weapons to Ukraine. It doesn’t, by choice, also fed by the particular dichotomy in US thinking, on the one hand a global power instinct and on the other, its insularity. It clearly has a different policy of weapons supply for Israel, which it has much greater links with than Ukraine. And sadly, though actual statistics for IDF casualties may be higher than occasionally let out, due to its barbaric method of operation, killing Palestinians en-masse and reducing their society to rubble, only one side is winning, just as only the colonial side won in America and Australia. Resistance somewhere may not be defeated, but Israel seems to thrive on playing the victim card. You’re right it is shameful.
Apologies for the long post. I’d be grateful for your views.
Shameful is the appropriate word. We feel ashamed at our impotence; our inability, despite protests and pleas, we cannot seem to make any difference as our governments continue to finance the industrial war machine and genocidal slaughter.
But I wonder if that is really the case or there is a simple but powerful mechanism to force a volte face?
You can stop paying your income tax for one. Indeed it is your legal and moral imperative to do so if your government is arming or funding the wars around the world just now. The relevant legislation is referenced below.
I presume you have heard of a Conditional Revocable Trust? It creates a beneficiary (your relevant tax authority) who can collect the trust funds providing they comply with the conditions and exhibit their compliance satisfactorily. You deposit the tax demanded by the authority into the Trust and serve them with the following letter: (Template for the UK)
………………………………………………………
NOTICE OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY TO AGENT AND PRINCIPAL
For the attention of: [insert name of individual]
I hereby acknowledge receipt of your correspondence dated [insert date], which constitutes a demand to pay the sum of £[insert amount]. Be advised that I have discharged the entirety of this alleged unlawful debt by depositing it into a Conditional Revocable Trust, wherein you are designated the Primary Beneficiary. This sum shall be made available to you within a period of fourteen (14) days, contingent upon the provision of irrefutable proof that the demand is lawful and that the following five conditions of the said Trust have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of my trustee.
Conditions of the Trust
You are required to furnish proof that a court of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated and ruled that:
1. Exclusion from Criminal Offences:
All taxes, levies, and transfers of money or property to Her Majesty’s Government, public officials, Crown agents, and taxpayers (including tax collectors in both business and government such as yourself and your colleagues) are expressly excluded by law from the criminal offences enumerated in sections 15 through 19 of the Terrorism Act 2000, section 52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001, and article 2 of the International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001.
Nota Bene: It is my understanding, as a matter of law, that the criminal offences under the aforementioned Acts of Parliament take precedence over all taxation and public finance legislation. These statutes apply to all Members of Parliament, Peers of the Realm, public officials at all levels of government (national, regional, and local), members of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, and all law enforcement officers (including, but not limited to, judges, police, lawyers, court officials, and bailiffs), as well as tax collectors, company directors, accountants, business managers, and every adult taxpayer resident within the United Kingdom.
2. Termination of Unlawful Acts of War and Genocide:
The United Kingdom’s involvement in the criminal wars and military and medical genocides, as detailed in paragraphs 2 through 4 of the attached Deed of Trust, has been explicitly terminated. Furthermore, new laws, rules, procedures, and protocols have been implemented to guarantee that no elected or appointed Minister of State, Crown agent, or public official within the United Kingdom can again violate or breach domestic and international laws governing warfare and peace.
3. Commencement of Criminal Proceedings:
Criminal proceedings have commenced against no fewer than one thousand (1000) United Kingdom leaders and tax collectors responsible for initiating, financing, or supporting the eight (8) illegal wars and ten (10) military and medical genocides that, since 2001, have resulted in no fewer than five million (5M) serious injuries and two and a half million (2.5M) deaths of innocent civilians, none of whom had the opportunity to defend themselves before a court of law.
4. Compliance with International Law:
Every Member of Parliament, Peer, and public official within the United Kingdom is acting in full compliance with the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Code, and the Declaration on Principles of International Law.
5. Immunity from Prosecution:
I am guaranteed, both now and in perpetuity, full immunity from prosecution in respect of any and all alleged offences arising from the payment of monies to Her Majesty’s Government.
Failure to Meet Conditions
Should you fail to provide incontrovertible evidence satisfying the aforementioned conditions by no later than 1 January 2025, your claim to the aforementioned sum will be nullified, on the grounds that the funds are likely to be used for criminal purposes. In such a case, the monies held in Trust shall be transferred to the Secondary Beneficiary as stipulated in the attached Deed of Trust.
Clarification on the Use of Public Funds
The assertion made by public authorities that no public monies are utilised for purposes of terrorism or war is patently false. As stated on Her Majesty’s Government’s own website: “The Consolidated Fund (CF) was first established in 1787 as ‘one fund into which shall flow every stream of public revenue and from which shall come the supply for every service.”
My Position on War Crimes and Genocide
Under no circumstances, as delineated in the attached Deed of Trust, will I, under any condition, participate in the funding of mass murders, military, or medical genocides, which have injured and claimed the lives of millions of innocent men, women, and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, and indeed Britain, since the year 2001.
Your Legal Obligations under International Law
It is imperative to highlight that you, your colleagues, and every resident of the United Kingdom are bound by the Nuremberg Judgement and the statutory provisions enumerated in Condition (1). You are under a legal obligation to cease and desist from following government orders when such orders are manifestly illegal. The use of taxpayers’ money to fund war, mass murder, and genocide is manifestly and unequivocally illegal under both domestic and international law.
Now that you are fully aware of the fact that His Majesty’s Government utilises taxation revenues for the criminal purposes of war, terrorism, mass murder, and genocide, you, as a tax collector and taxpayer, are legally and lawfully bound to refuse to comply with such governmental directives. Furthermore, should you persist in following such orders and continue to remit funds (in the form of taxes) to Her Majesty’s Government, you may be held personally liable under criminal law and subject to arrest, trial, conviction, and imprisonment, alongside political, civil, judicial, and military leaders, for the offences of fundraising for purposes of terrorism and conduct ancillary to genocide.
Reporting of Criminal Conduct
In the event that you or any of your colleagues continue to transfer monies (taxes) to Her Majesty’s Government in contravention of sections 15, 16, and 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000, my trustee is compelled, by virtue of section 19 of the Act, to report you and/or your superiors to a police constable for the commission of a criminal offence. Accordingly, I urge you and your superiors to familiarise yourself with, uphold, and enforce the laws of war and peace, as your legal duty demands.
Yours faithfully,
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The Conditional Revocable Trust has been used for some years by many individuals who have never been prosecuted or had assets seized. If enough tax payers used this perfectly legal lacuna, which compels the government to stop spending tax receipts from the Collective Fund for military purposes, or you retain the Trust funds.
If the majority did the same, it would change everything. The legislation:
The Terrorist Financing Convention 1999
Article 2. Any person commits an offence if that person by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and wilfuly provides or collects funds in the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out any act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to any other person when the purpose of such act is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 25. Individual criminal responsibility In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime [a war crime, a crime against humanity or genocide], whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible;
(b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime…
(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission… including providing the means for its commission;
Article 27. Irrelevance of official capacity. This Statute shall apply equally to all persons without any distinction based on official capacity. In particular, official capacity as a Head of State or Government, a member of a Government or parliament, an elected representative or a government official shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility under this Statute.
International Criminal Court Act 2001
Section 52. It is an offence against the Law of England and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime.
For Mark Russell:
In that government doesn’t “collects funds in the knowledge that they are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out any act intended to cause ….. doing any act” but spends new funds into existence every time it spends (taxpayer money is not spent), then it looks to me that the Conditional Revocable Trust ploy to not allow tax to be collected unless and until… falls at a basic hurdle. The government is not in any way compelled by such a Trust “to stop spending tax receipts” because that is not what it does with taxes it receives.
If you’re suggesting a ploy that many people engage in this procedure to then force the government to act to collect unpaid taxes, without meeting the conditions of the Trust, to demonstrate their power of enforceability then another scenario arises. A court challenge of government action could present evidence to reveal that taxes are not collected to “pay for” which would likely leave the taxpayer liable for non-payment penalties while at the same time reveal the government’s lie that taxes are collected to “pay for”. That revelation of the government lie would be highly embarrassing as showing the government’s contempt for taxpayers through the never ending lie that they have perpetuated over decades.
Hello Fred,
Yes, that’s exactly what I thought. Hoist by their own petard.
Kind regards
Apologies – I meant to include this link to the previous post.
https://probityco.com/