A few summers ago I stopped for a break at one of Ontario’s On Route service centres. I’m staying away from Tim Horton’s as much as possible these days, because of the company’s hiring practices (most recently), and so I headed over to the Starbucks counter instead — I know, this probably isn’t much better, but I needed a caffeine infusion for the last stretch of long drive. I was shocked when quoted the price for my “medium” coffee (I refuse to use the Starbucks lingo), but handed over my $5 bill anyway.

“You’ve just been robbed, mate,” some witty British chap behind me couldn’t resist commenting — at the extortionate price for a cup a coffee. I know what a cup of coffee costs in the UK, and so I had to agree as I threw whatever change was returned into the tip jar. The girl at the counter had no control of the price she was forced to charge, so there was no point complaining (there, at least). The management can make these decisions knowing they’d never have to face the customer, and that most customers will simply pay the price they’re asked — If they don’t want to, they could always go elsewhere, or even stop drinking coffee.

Say what you will about market forces, and the free-enterprise system, the mechanism of price discovery generally responds, eventually — Not so, however, in the public sector. Now I’m not an Anarcho-Capitalist (I should point out) and I’m certainly not a Neoliberal, but I’m no less critical of government. And, unbeknownst to most, over the past few years we have moved to a whole new economic reality: that ‘New Normal’ they warned us about. Of course, almost no one understood what was meant by this, or ‘The Great Reset’ . . . or the ‘Going Direct’ reset (a year earlier).

I hope you’ll take a little time to read my four-part piece on Neoliberalism, especially if you see yourself somewhere on the Libertarian ‘spectrum.’ But let me return home again, to Durham Region, and our new (surprise) 10-year Strategic Plan.

As I have said to Councillors and staff in my own home town (and at the Region), our Region Strategic Plan should be torn up and thrown out. . . The same should happen everywhere, of course, because Councillors, everywhere, have all been ‘Delphied.’

The same old Delphic performance is being staged today (metaphorically speaking), and ‘the stage’ set to usher in Agenda 2030. There is increasing criticism of this process however, and the following is an illustration of how this method may be misused (in my opinion). After all, on the heels of Durham’s new Strategic Plan came the truly alarming 10-year financial projections, that will saddle taxpayers with massive amounts of new debt, and ever increasing taxes.

‘Delphied’ (past participle) freshly-coined conjugation of the noun / now verb — ‘to Delphi’ (application of the ‘Delphi Technique’ in the real world). And the ‘Delphiing’ (gerund) continues (spelling? Maybe this is appropriate, as in: skiing).

Earnest Councillors and earnest staffers are all seemingly doing their earnest best for the community, as local residents and taxpayers are maneuvered into guaranteeing a return on investment for Global investors through the municipal debt market, and those clever Public Private Partnership (P3) partners (‘Stakeholders’) who are itching to build infrastructure for the ‘replacement population’ of Durham Region.

Perhaps other jurisdictions are not quite so transparent (we can give our Regional Council credit for this at least); or perhaps those sophisticated Internationalist city-slickers (who communicate their wishes to ‘oracles’ through the ‘vapours’ in our Municipal Council Chambers) think we’re just a bunch of sleepy-head ‘country bumpkins’ (in this beautiful, and largely rural, region of ours). Maybe they’re right? They certainly fooled our elected representatives on the Regional Council; though some, in fairness, have tried to speak out.

A shadow (shadowy) government of special interests (and ‘focus groups’) has been running Canada’s Government/s for years (until 2020, of course, when all was revealed). Despite the Rebellion of 1837, the notion of Responsible Government was short-lived, at best (if it was every a reality). The ‘Family Compact’ and Château Clique oligarchs retreated into the shadows for a time. . . but they’re back now, it seems.

Every now and again, the puppet masters show their hand. They've shown their cards too (at the risk of mixing my metaphors), well ahead of the next municipal elections. What we are confronting now (at the end of the latest monetary cycle) with all those Agenda 2030 SDGs bearing down on us (though much of the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Net Zero) is the preparation for an ‘asset transfer’ like we've never seen before; on a scale larger, even, than that of the Great Depression (scroll to the bottom of this article).

No one on Council (or at the oversized, egregiously overstaffed and overpaid Region HQ) has any experience with such a things; so this is not a ‘conspiracy’ (as such) on their part. Councillors and town employees are (for the most part) being manipulated too, and I suspect most are totally oblivious.

No one at the Region (or on our municipal Councils or staff) lived through the Depression, or the 1944 Bretton-Woods monetary reset. Few would remember the 1971 to 74 reset (the end of gold-backed money and the introduction of a 'floating' exchange rate system). Some might have been on staff 1991 to 1994, but I guarantee they were unaware of the introduction of the 0% Reserve, Capital Adequacy system, which (in part) lead to the Great Financial Crisis. And besides, those who enjoy public sector pay, and indexed OMERS pensions, are so comfortably insulated from the financial realities of life that they learned nothing, and still know nothing — about any of this at least.

Central Bankers’ Legacy: Bank of England Governors, Sir Mervyn King (2003–2013) Mark Carney (2013–2020). Left: is King’s 2016 book, which is an exceptionally good read, and surprisingly revealing. “If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world,” wrote Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short). It might have, but King’s book didn’t get the attention it deserved. Then came Mark Carney, to manage England’s continuing decline, before returning to Canada where, as Prime Technocrat Minister, he presides over the implementation of what is know as the “Going Direct” reset. I haven’t included his book, Values (though perhaps I will post of review of both these works later) because his Keynote speech in Jackson Hole in 2019 (that has come to be known as ‘Going Direct’) is, in fact, his real Legacy. In effect, this is the managed decline (some would say ‘demolition’) of the old monetary system, setting the stage for a replacement system, more commonly referred to as ‘The Great Reset.’

In 2016, when Former Bank of England Governor, Sir. Mervyn King (‘Merv the Swerve’ as the British people knew him) told us that another crisis was ‘inevitable’ — and that it would be “exponentially worse” than the 2007/8 Great Financial Crisis (GFC) — Mark Carney (‘Carnage,’ as those irreverent Brits called him) was already on the job.

Banks didn’t reform as they might have — King lamented. Meanwhile, on other fronts — adding fiscal pressure at the same time — the public sector only got larger, and salaries continued their upward trajectory. This only accelerated in 2020. . . but no matter what, the ‘bewildered herd’ tax cattle (pacified with the few bones thrown to them — in the form CERB money — and distracted by the Covid circus) continued to pony up whatever tribute was demanded from them.

Such is the extent of the mind-control (or public opinion research). The oracles of Delphi knew a thing or two (or those who staged their performance at least - and I shudder to think what these girls were subjected to behind the scenes); and in this same tradition, governments — those rulers of the mind (Guber-mente) — continue to extract tribute from their tax slaves.

The spell is breaking though, and the extortion racket may be about to end.

Only the most mind-controlled (or complicit), at this point, is ‘unable’ to see what the numbers are telling us. Before we take a closer look however, let’s return to Durham Region’s ‘Delphic Oracle for hire’ — the consultant who imparted ‘strategic foresight’ on our Councillors. We will dig more deeply into this in a future post, as all of the factors to be kept in mind while drafting ‘Envision Durham’ — when “unimaginable” becomes real — were misrepresented, incorrect, exaggerated, or (a year later) irrelevant. In concert with this dubious 10-year plan, of course, came those disturbing 10-year financial projections; currently at $7.4 billion.

As you will see, those of you who pay the salaries of everyone on the Region's payroll (your employees) — and the fees for all those experts, consultants and shadowy spirits (communicating through ‘the vapours’) — you are specifically ignored.

All the world’s a stage.

As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII).

And to set this stage: We are nearing the end of a special Council meeting here — a meeting dedicated to the ‘shaping’ of our new, ‘surprise’ 10-year Strategic Plan. The budget took two full days to hash out, but the 10-year ‘Strategic Plan,’ by comparison, was over (but not done with) in just under 6 hours. Here, a few last ‘questions’ are being accepted as our current Regional Council wraps up for the day (at a meeting that will inform every policy — and tax — decision, for the next ten years).

At the 5 hour and 35 minute mark, Regional Councillor (head of council for the Municipality of Clarington) poses a question on “push polling and surveys” to the Commissioner of Strategic Initiatives — in a theatrical exchange presented (it seems to me) to allay any concerns that something untoward might be afoot:

“Can we use a survey as a way of gathering information, and perhaps promoting ideas or educating at the same time? I hesitate to use the word, ‘doing it more cleanly’. . . have you put any thought into that?”

5:36:18 The Commissioner responds (with exaggerated emphasis):

“Of course we have” (laughter). “I liked the conversation earlier about the amount of skill and expertise and diversity of thought in this room. So, maybe you don’t know, my previous career before I came to government was public opinion research. So we’ve thought a lot about this survey.”

The Commissioner continues:

“There are absolutely methodological approaches to providing some education within the survey content that in no way leads the respondent. That kind of clarity is important to us, from a research perspective. I will say that we use the surveys as a tool for engagement. . . we don’t ever purport that they are representative of our population plus or minus 3.5%. That requires going out and ensuring that you have representative samples and doing weighting, and ensuring you’ve got your proper cross-section. We do this as an ‘open survey’ and then what is more targeted are those focus groups, where we’re really looking to get to some of our harder to reach population that might not complete a survey.”

5:37:33 The Regional Councillor: “So we’re not ten minutes past the meeting, and that was a brilliant answer, Mr. Chair.”

5:37:40 The consultant steps in: “Thank you.” Completing this phase of the presentation on behalf of the Chair, before moving on to the ‘Next Steps,’ the ‘Public Consultations and Community Survey’ education. . . Education “that in no way leads the survey respondent,” of course.

As the Consultant said to the Councillors present at the beginning of this process (36:50), this is “the opportunity to give your input so that we can make this strategy even better. I’m not writing it, I’m just facilitating the conversation, it’s really yours to produce.”

But wait. . .

“We don’t even purport that they [‘open surveys’] are representative of our population plus or minus 3.5%. That requires going out and ensuring that you have representative samples and doing weighting, and ensuring you’ve got your proper cross-section.”

So these weren’t really surveys, at all; but rather, ‘methodological’ tools designed to produce a predetermined outcome — supposedly, ‘a Vision’ for the Region.

“We do this as an open survey, and then what is more targeted are those focus groups where we’re really looking to get to some of our harder to reach population that might not complete a survey.”

You might be curious why this ‘harder to reach population’ was ‘harder to reach,’ and whose ‘vision’ was this, really? Why might the ‘harder to reach’ population not have been able to complete a survey unassisted? Instead (we’re told) the desired responses (all schemes of the UN, WEF and such; coincidentally, of course) were cherry-picked — and anything not aligned with their ‘Agenda 2030,’ ‘Net Zero,’ ‘Vision Zero’ Visions, was then discarded. This would explain the overwhelming support outlined, with as much as 97% of respondents in favour of the ‘pathways’ chosen — a little like those ‘voter’ returns in banana republic dictatorships, where 100% of the population re-elect their Great Leader. . . And no one ever believes these numbers of course.

Question: Would you like a better, more equitable, sustainable, resilient and vibrant life?

100% of our respondents said ‘YES’ . . . What’s not to love? So here’s our Plan.

We are told, those envisioning Durham Region’s future and crafting the ‘pathways’ to a better life (over ‘the vapours’ of the Delphic Council Chamber) decided to exclude anyone who might have completed such a survey on their own. To this point, the suggestions of people I know were certainly ignored — but we’d not undergone the requisite ‘education’ of course. Those excluded here also appear to be the so-called “heritage residents” (as established long-term residents of Durham Region are known).

But Durham Region property taxes don’t even come close (anymore) to covering the costs (of the new 10-year projected spending). Property tax revenue is mostly gobbled up to pay for salaries and benefits of Councils and staff, the schemes they envision and the massive amounts of borrowing required to pay for everything.

All of which was announced at a debenture committee meeting in 2023, so this shouldn’t really be a surprise. From an email to Council after I sat in on this meeting:

‘[The Committee Chair] introduces [the Commissioner of Finance (20:30 mins in). The following is a partial transcript (key points highlighted):

‘[T]he region will be engaging in a more significant amount of borrowing on our behalf and on behalf of the local Municipalities in the coming years, and that means we need to restructure how we borrow. We traditionally did what’s called serial debentures, and those generally are for 70 or 75 million [dollars] or less. If we need to move away from that, if we’re doing larger volumes in the amounts of borrowing, and that means that we need to move to what’s called bullet debentures and sinking funds, and those require debenture committee. So this debenture committee is set up to help us essentially advance and modernize how we’re dealing with our debt issuance. . .’

Maybe the local tax cattle are happier to not know any of this? Our Councillors certainly don’t seem interested; some of them seem quite happy to ignore the obvious, and to keep you paying those ever increasing taxes — while some of them (I’m feel certain) have their personal ‘exit plans’ already in place. Our public servants all have nice public sector salaries and indexed OMERS pension to look forward to. Maybe they even have homes somewhere else (Costa Rica maybe), and a plan to leave Durham shortly after they leave office?

Councillors, take your leave!

Bizarrely, in a follow up meeting (when the information from all that public consultation had been collected) a celebration of Durham’s new vision for the future was presented — “Framing the Future We Want” — (I’m not sure who ‘We’ is) but Councillors were invited to leave; as if the new 10-year Strategic Plan could not possibly be of any interest to any of them (or their constituents).

Ironically, following the pitch for a $1 billion Cable Car project in Oshawa (the bulk of this video), The Chair announces to “members of Council”: “ if you’d like to take your leave now, please take your leave!” (3:38:18). There’s nothing like plausible deniability, of course, when you’re wanting to move something forward that taxpayers might later discover and disapprove of. Best just take a taxpayer funded afternoon off . . .

Following the DURHAM REGION 50th Anniversary Review (3:39:08). Students’ ‘visions’ for the Region were presented (3:41:30). At (3:42:07) one particular ‘vision’ for Durham was presented as a spontaneous walk-and-talk video. We are expected to believe (to have 'faith' no less) that this was actually not scripted; but no young person speaks like this unless they have been coached. We all know those UN buzzwords and catchphrases, and their use is always the first clue that a Globalist agenda is being advances; couched (as always) in fuzzy feel-good, ‘inclusive’ language. Those old wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Is the new, surprise 10-year Strategic Plan, a real ‘Vision’ for Durham Region, as ‘envisioned’ by one of the Region's own (young residents)? I don’t think so. Of course, no one here calls this out; in the January 2025 meeting (or any of these meetings).

At the 19 minute mark in the Oct 9th meeting, a report on the visioning session: ‘The 2025 plan reflects a community Vision, strategic directions, and Pathways for the future of Durham Region over the next 10 years.’ “Which again, reflects your direction at the beginning of the process, to develop a plan that went beyond the 5-year time horizon,” we are told. . . But:

The above, as you see, appears 5hrs 20minutes into the January 25, 2024 ‘Special Regional Council Meeting.’ It seems most of the Councillors (even in this initial survey) were not aware that a 10-year plan was an actual option; hence, zero votes for this timeline. Less than half of our Regional Councillors (13) bothered to respond to this survey, out of 29 representatives (of the people).

Were the others completely derelict? Or did they know that these were not real surveys, and those administering things were going to do what they wanted regardless? We don’t know which Councillors participated (or not) in the survey. Of those Councillors who responded in person, in the meeting — Roy, Lee, Kerr, Schummer, etc. — all opted for either a four or five year plan.

The “direction at the beginning of the process” did not then reflect a duration “beyond the 5-year time horizon.” This idea was introduced by the consultant and the Commissioner of Strategic Initiatives; and somewhere (at some point) it was decided this wasn’t important enough to warrant a vote (by elected representatives). This staggeringly expensive decision (therefore) was purely bureaucratic; and it amounts to ‘Taxation without representation’ (as they used to say).

Importantly, in this meeting, Councillor Schummer (then Mayor of Brock) stated new Councils “can always decide to do a new Strategic Plan themselves.” ( 5:24:15). This is something to keep in mind. . . and to which we must return, as this may be the only way out of our current financial ‘Crisis’ ( a word used 7 times in the budget meeting).

Skipping ahead now to that meeting, and the 10-year budget and financial projections. In the course of the two-day deliberations, various departments weighed in; public works, transportation, police services, etc.

When it came time for ‘Finance and Administration’ to report (8:11:15) the Committee Chair (who didn’t attend the meeting in person) had not prepared a “formal report” and for some reason, did not want to appear on camera either (Laughter in Council Chambers at this). “Any questions? Seeing none,” declares the Regional Chair, “So we'll just move on!”

And that was that!

The joke is on all of us though, the taxpayers of Durham Region. So the department responsible for issuing debt, and the department responsible for the administration (with its massive salary and pension benefits burden on taxpayers), couldn’t be bothered to issue a formal statement. . . nor could our representatives be bothered to ask any questions. Shortly thereafter, of course, came the shocking multi-billion dollar 10-year ‘Capital Budget forecasts,’ that the Chair actually said (at 6:31:50 in that same meeting) “. . . will drive municipalities to bankruptcy.” But “nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care” — in the words of George Carlin. Apparently, it’s all a joke.

Interestingly, the Chair of Finance and Administration introduced the outgoing Commission of Finance at that earlier referenced Debenture Committee meeting. Staff (at least) knew that there was massive spending (taxing and spending - in ‘The New Fiscal Age’) in the pipeline, long before the mystery 10-year Strategic Plan, and those alarming 10-year financial projections.

Were our representatives not paying attention? More importantly, why are they still most still ignore this issue as the municipal elections approach? I’ve been writing about the ‘New Fiscal Age’ for years now, and sadly, I’ve not been able to communicate what this is, and what it means to taxpayers.

The plan, you will understand now (I’m sure) is to ‘extract equity from your home’ (and property) in the form of taxes; from the Durham ‘Cash Cow’ baby boomer generation mainly (the irony of this, because most of you remember — stories at least — of the era above. Baby boomers are direct descendants of the Great Depression). So this has all happened before of course, in the whip-saw of inflation and deflation caused by the monetary machinations of those central bankers. . . but this time, don’t forget, it’s ‘The Great Reset.’

So, before you lose your home (and all of your assets), to digitization and tokenization (in the coming ‘Great Stagflation’), I hope you’ll ‘Like’ what I have to share here (the result of hundreds of hours of work, and many Carbon Emissions).

Hopefully, what I’ve shared this time though, has painted a clearer picture, and more readers begin to understand the gravity of this situation. I feel I’m being shadow banned here (in fact, I know this is the case, should you read comments on my last post), and this is why it’s been a challenge to build any meaningful, and engaged, readership.

There were not too many other people sitting in on the Council meetings I’ve been attending over the past few years (many a time I was the only person there, in the audience), but if enough of you understand what I’m sharing with you here, I believe we can turn things around. And we must turn things around.

Thank you, again, for your interest, and your support. . . and maybe we’ll see you at our next ‘open’ public townhall meeting, later this month.

David

I have literally just returned from two weeks in Haida Gwaii (as I mentioned earlier). I’ll come back to this, and to an update on the local politics as well, but my most recent flight is fresh in mind. So I feel I should talk about this, and quickly revisit my Nov 11th 2025 post, Keeping it Human: Be a an ‘Opt Out’ VIP, as the Digital ID rollout is beginning now in earnest — The ‘line’ starts here.

Some of you fly more frequently than I, and you may have seen this sign already; this was a first for me though. Now I shouldn’t give you the impression I fly much at all (any longer) but I wish to have that option to do so in the future. Just as I can no longer park in one of those spots that requires the use of a SMART phone to scan a QR code, thanks to the unquestioning acceptance of this ‘convenient’ technology, it won’t be long (if the technocrats have their way) until a SMART phone Digital ID app is mandatory on commercial flights.

You maybe remember the fortuitous circumstances, and that most enjoyable, ‘human’ experiences in my previous ‘Keeping it Human’ commentary — before a flight back from Florida last November. Of course, I refused the millimeter wave scanner again this time too, in both directions, and was happy to see a couple of others opting for the pat down rather than a full body EMF irradiation. This time I would like to share my experiences at the Vancouver airport, as I waited to board the 18:00 AC124 flight to Toronto (following my return from Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, just a few hours earlier).

As you see above (image 1) there was only one eager-beaver, earlier-adopter technology fanboy who jumped into the ‘convenient’ fast track line (this image does not misrepresent the situations). I walked over to see what was going on, and after a few attempts, the attendant said to him, irony of ironies: “Sorry sir, it doesn’t seem to be working. You’ll have to wait until we get the others boarded.” Oh, the sacrifices we make ;-)

When the untouchables in Zone 4 were called up, and I was directed past the none-functional Digital ID gate, I had to comment:

“So the digital ID system isn’t working?”

“No, sir; unfortunately.” He answered, with emphasis on the ‘unfortunately.’

“No,” I responded, “that’s most fortunate. I’ll never fly again if digital ID is mandated, and a lot of others won’t either. Pass that on to your supervisor. . . it’s about you keeping your job of course.”

“Ah.” He replied, as he handed me back my tried-and-trusted (analog) passport and boarding pass. . . understanding this much at least.

Needless to say, this is only the beginning, as a large percentage of travelers need to draw a line here, and simply refuse to use this (or any) digital ID system — No matter how long the technocrats contrive to keep us standing in line (hoping that we will cave and adopt there ‘convenient’ new technology). Or, instead (as in Florida) standing to one side, explaining why we’re standing to one side, while the others obediently file by.

That outrageously funny ‘Architect Sketch’ comes to mind, for some strange reason (though I find a surprising number of Canadians actually don’t ‘get’ Monty Python’s dark humour). I think most people reading my posts however, understand the implication of this system, so I shouldn’t belabour the point. We know this technology isn’t for expediting the seating of a few ‘special’ people, and it certainly isn’t about our convenience.

You might find yourself on a ‘no fly’ list one day for Civil Disobedience of some kind (as you could today), but simply not being in the carbon tracking system might be enough, in the not too distant future. Those who would never attend a demonstration (and obediently toe whatever line is put in front of them) might also find they can’t travel; and when they’ve exceeded their assigned carbon allowance, their digital ID (tied into programmable digital currency) could also prevent them from buying steak for dinner. People think we’re joking when we say things like this; but scroll down to check out Durham Region’s own Climate Roundtable GHG Report, and recommendations.

The Globalist know no limit when it comes to interfering with your life and your rights. Your ‘right’ to travel (when, where, and how you want) is very quickly becoming a ‘permission privilege,’ and you will soon travel, when, where and how ‘they’ decide —or not at all, should you use up your carbon allowance, or misbehave. When enough fanboys (and sheeple) download the app onto their digital-slave-device and jump into the new line — for the convenience, or perceived early-adopter cache — the automated digital gate will be closed to us, and our right to travel suspended.

It’s sad that employees are so short-sighted (or so cowed into compliance) that they promote (and defend) the tools of their own redundancy. Because the moment this system works (at the supermarket, at the sports stadium, at the Town Hall, etc.) those trying to implement the ‘low trust society’ technology will be the first to lose their jobs.

Here, of course, we are working towards building a ‘high trust society’ (more on this later), but if we are not successful, and the ‘untouchables’ in the Zone 1, 2, 3 and 4 lines diminish — as the sheeple shepherd themselves into the automated digital ID line — that whole check-in desk will become redundant.

You tell me (because I know anyone who has read this far understands the gravity of the situation), is it time to start shaming these people? I don’t think I’ve ever used the expression ‘sheeple’ before (in my writing at least), but those who are so easily herded and corralled, apparently cannot see beyond the next shiny new convenience. And those who won’t stand with us, for whatever reason — the love of technology, the love convenience, naivete, laziness or ignorance — are threatening our freedoms in a very really way; in a way not even a corrupt government can do.

The freedom to travel, and to eat what we want eat (as I mentioned above), is all related, and it isn’t just the Globalists threatening this; it is ‘they,’ the technocrats and tech fanboys in your own Regions and Municipalities as well, that want to tell you how to live. And they are designing systems locally to enforce their will. From the 2024 Ontario Tech University (OTU) Climate Roundtable GHG Report, in partnership with Durham Region (the 2025 report is delayed for some reason):

•Shift to low-carbon integrated mobility (far fewer single occupant vehicle trips, especially in internal combustion engine vehicles);
•Redesign neighbourhoods to be far less reliant on car access; Phase out natural gas for space heating (urge provincial adoption of bans on natural gas in new neighbourhoods, similar to Vancouver and Montreal);
•Shift personal purchasing practices, e.g., fewer flights and cruises, eat less meat (especially beef), emphasise waste minimization (especially food waste). . .

And yet our Councillors tell us they would never dream of limiting our travel, or restricting our diet. I might agree with the latter point however (as I grow a lot of my own food, and I know how much work this is). In the age of food insecurity — that the technocrats, bureaucrats and bought-and-paid-for politicians have brought upon us intentionally, I would suggest, (seeing the intentions listed above) — how do these people propose to solve this problem?

By tracking every aspect of our lives, of course (no surprise here) and by controlling our consumption. Every detail of our lives is to be monitored, if they have their way, and the same tools will be used to enforce the restrictions. The food sovereignty story must continue. In the meantime though, there could be no more of this for you:

Leaving Vancouver, and flying over those prairie thunder storms. . . en route to Toronto

If you submit to the digital ID (for the ‘carrot’ of a priority boarding ‘privilege’ they promise now), you know that as soon as enough fanboys and unthinking sheeple are in the system, this (and other) privileges will soon become ‘conditional’ — on your joining their club — and then, only with their permission. Once you’re in the digital ID system, your movements and purchasing patterns can be centrally tracked, and then the carbon allowance countdown will on.

So It is Game On.

Are the fanboys and the sheeple (and those who suspect what is happening, but love their conveniences way too much) going to enable the locking out (and the locking down) of all of us?

I enjoyed chatting with others on the flight, and all of us here must have this conversation — with everyone we know, at every opportunity. I would like to commend one French Canadian flight attendant onboard this day, who was an absolute delight, with respect to ‘keeping it human.’ He had the passengers in stitches with his jokes. I could write an essay about this too, as this is what life is about.

The technocrats are determined to lock us out of our own world, and they plan to be the gatekeepers (and toll-takers) for everything. So we must start by writing to Air Canada, and other airlines, to tell them now that we will not use this system; and we must actively work to see that others refuse to use this system too.

To close on a positive note: having just returned from Haida Gwaii, where I had many a conversation with locals, it seems an essential element of the Globalists’ scheme is failing.

Why $25 million of Carbon Credits from the Great Bear Rainforest are Sitting on the Shelf

Experts Warn BC’s Forest Carbon Market is Hitting a Dead End

There are other solutions of course, to preserve the forests of the west coast (and the health and well-being of our planet as a whole) but these won’t come from the technocrats who want to assign a price to everything, and everyone — then control every aspect of our lives.

The carbon credit system ties in with everything we’re talking about of course. The conversation has begun, with real people, and we will continue this conversation here. What gives me reason for optimism — though we all see that there is a problem with the over-logging of old growth — is that there’s a growing distrust among the people of politicians and technocrats, and all those presenting these schemes as a lucrative ‘pathway’ to ‘sustainability.’ An increasing number of people are questioning these programs now, and realizing that this entire concept might just be a scam (certainly, that was the case with the projects in Brazil):

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation

So the truth is finally coming out, and there is also the growing sense that this system is very likely a front for something much darker — which it is. I look forward to sharing further details (later), but you remember this of course:

London, Ont. cricket plant ordered into receivership amid $41M debt bill to creditor

So good news on the You vill eat zee bugs front too (though too much tax payer money is being wasted on these schemes, by inept, corrupt, scheming governments). But returning to the cultural for a moment, on my previous flight out west, in 2024 (as I recall sharing previously), I read the book Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis. This time, on my flight home, I read Chief Robert Joseph’s NAMWAYUT. The author of this work isn’t Haida, but I’ve been looking from other insights, from other indigenous groups. I look forward to sharing more on this, and the common-ground to be found here. As Chief Joseph writes (p 30):

‘[W]e must always remember that all of us still are one people. We have been here forever. They are here, and they are not going away. We have to try to find a way to live together. Share the land, share the bounty. Talk to each other. Hear each other.’

And on page 74

‘[In] sharing our stories, in expressing and exchanging information with friends and others, that’s when change manifests.’

And, of course, that’s what we hope to do here. So please share, and — more importantly — keep all of this in mind the next time you travel by air.

Thank you for your continuing interest and support.

And, of course, Happy Canada Day! Happy 4th of July, all of my American friends, and Happy Tynwald Day (July 5th) to my friends in the Isle of Man :-)

David

Are we going to be run over by the coming train, or destroyed in the wreckage when it reaches the end of the line?

This post is a little longer than usual, but do scroll through (and particularly to the University climate reports near the bottom) as much of this will have a profound impact on your life — and your bank account — in the not-too-distant future.

Committed groups of concerned residents and taxpayers are attending Council meetings, researching material and pushing back — countering the inertia — in the hope that we might avoid a financial ‘train-wreck.’ In Britain, we already see city after city going bankrupt, the result of economic destruction caused, in large part, by Mr. Carney’s Net Zero schemes, and other misguided polices — conveniently in line with Agenda 2030, and that ‘Great [monetary] Reset’:

‘[N]early one in 10 councils say they will likely declare bankruptcy this financial year [2024]. Half say they are likely to in the next five.’

This will sound alarmist, but there are many commentaries to be found; those on ‘Section 114 notices’ are particularly alarming, as here, unsuspecting home owners and ratepayers cover City debts through large increases in local taxes. The country of my birth is being devastated, thanks to inept and / or corrupt politicians (and central bankers of course). Canada is being similarly mismanaged, to near dissolution, with divisive policies and the financial sabotage of Globalists who seem determined to bankrupt Canadians (and ‘appropriate’ their assets).

Above is a detail from my third 2026 painting, still in-progress here — on the island of SG̱ang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii (acrylic on canvas 28” x 21”). Please scroll to the bottom to see a full (in-progress) image.

I’d prefer to be painting, rather than sitting in Council meetings and debating the obvious with our uninformed (or ‘misinformed’) representatives. I’d love to tune out and forget it all. I wish I had time to play volley ball again in the evenings; I wish I could paint all day again, as I once did (before 2020); but (in my town at least) there are not enough of us (yet) engaged in the information campaign, and push back.

The Region has told us: “The climate science is settled.” But ‘This Isn’t Science, It’s Ideology’ — Kathryn Porter (energy consultant). At 39:30: “science is never settled”. Yet we hear these same words, from various government officials and staffers, especially those whose salaries depend on a continuing ‘Climate Emergency.’ And this view is expressed in item number one of Durham Region’s Strategic Plan (and Strategic Plans everywhere), informing policy decisions every day. So spending on projects that enrich Public Private Partnership (P3) partners (and contribute to the paychecks and pensions of Municipal employees) is bound to continue upward; and no one in the system has any real interest in the science that contradicts their profitable climate policies — ‘profitable’ to the corporate ‘Stakeholders’ that is.

The inertia of these ‘Captured’ governments will carry us inexorably forward; while elected representatives (staff and committee volunteers) play down our concerns, and deny published facts. We don’t get called ‘conspiracy theorists’ so often now (as we’ve been correct so often in the past); but we still get uncomprehending stares, few if any questions, and no action. Deflect, demur and delay — are the tactics employed, unless it’s a project for the Province or Feds; United Nation, WHO or WEF, et al.

This year’s Climate Roundtable keynote speaker, however, seems keen on action — to stop those who counter the official policy, and maybe have them charged, with ‘misinformation or disinformation’. Apparently, Ontario Tech University is working on technology to watch for just such misinformation or disinformation, and again, I draw your attention to the Orwellian nature of the 2025 event: ‘Clearing the Air: Climate Communication in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation. ’

If we don’t speak up now, and these technocrats have their way, we will not be allowed to speak out in future. After many requests to post video of the proceedings, we finally had to accept no video was taken — that anyone wants shared publicly, at least. This event was labelled a ‘special meeting’ but it was, nonetheless, a public meeting — staged at the public’s expense — and a video should have been made available. I’m assured this may well be the case next time; so that, at least, is progress . . .

I recently put together a series of charts countering the official climate consensus, and presented these to the local Environment Committee on Feb 23^rd; digital copies (of much of this material) were sent the next day. I’ll include all of that here, in time, but one of the main assertions of the Ontario Tech University keynote speaker was the claim that forest fires in Canada were a direct consequence of global warming. He also expressed some disillusionment at Thorold’s exit from the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) — ICLEI /UN initiative — and there was spirited audience reaction to this (more later). For now, let me show you the data presented, specifically that contradicting the fire ‘misinformation’ of climate advocates and profiteers.

Forest fires are not on the rise, as you see below, and more to the point, the fact that Canada seems like an outlier here, may very well be attributed to the spraying of Glyphosate, that some local and provincial governments are allowing. Patricia Conlin is taking a lead on this in Scugog (the next municipality over in my Region) and I hope to have more on this soon.

Halifax Examiner: ‘Nova Scotia approves glyphosate spraying on 3,577 acres of drought-stricken, fire-prone forest’

My suggestion was that our Environment committees, might best serve the residents of this Region, and other Regions, by looking into subjects of this nature, the use of glyphosate and biosludge on farms lands, micro plastics and ‘forever chemicals’ in water, etc., rather than arguing over CO2. As one astute Committee member put it, “you can find a chart to prove anything you want.” Exactly. . . And, if you torture the numbers long enough, you can make them say anything you want. Everyone is familiar with that famous ‘Hockey Stick’ temperature chart, of course, that reaches from the present day back to 1000 AD. As you see below though, this chart is conveniently cherry-picked to exclude the 800s and the Roman era (2000 years ago) — where temperatures were as high, or higher, than today. If we go back to the Holocene, the temperatures were higher still. These are random charts I’ve had on my computer for some time, but there are plenty of others to be found on line, to compare.

I found a particularly interesting commentary on the ‘Petrophysicist’ page, not because this is a source you should automatically trust, but rather, because it is also important to check what the so-called ‘fact checker’ have to say. And I’ll return to this with some material of my own, fact checking ‘fact checkers’ next time.

And none of this is to dismiss the suggestion that it has been warmer; rather, it is to point out that CO2 isn’t necessarily the problem. . . More on this from NASA next time. Looking at the cycles above though, you might actually conclude (as ‘Spock’ seemed to believe) that cooling may soon be of more concern — and cold kills far more people than heat.

Moving on from this, for now, I will suggest that CO2 is portrayed as the problem, because Carbon has already been financialized. Carbon trading is already happening and, though these markets are not thriving, there are vested interests backing them; for the simple reason that establishing a carbon price — then giving all goods and services a carbon score — is massively lucrative for those selling carbon offset credits. When people are eventually assigned their life-time carbon allowance, they’ll be micromanaged (and controlled) in ways most cannot yet even image.

Having said this, a considerable percent of regular folk don’t see ‘Climate Change’ as a priority. Maybe some already feel Net Zero is another money grab (it wouldn’t be the first time); what they don’t know yet, is what’s going on at the Regional and Municipal level. Below, is a recent poll which ranks the concerns of people across Canada; and less than one-in-five Liberals, even, now rate climate change as a priority:

Not withstanding so-called ‘Trump derangement syndrome,’ that has some life-long ‘Conservatives’ rationalizing that Mr. Carney might be working for Canadians after all, most Canadian’s realize there is something else going on, and that ‘climate' alarmism is being used as a tool to extract ‘value’ (in the form of tax dollars and fees) from the unsuspecting and uninformed.

If you assume, as politicians will tell you, that you are a ‘stakeholder’ (in the WEF’s new ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ model that all levels of government have adopted) you would be mistaken. . . You are not, although they may be. This is a “Big Club” as George Carlin explained, “and you ain’t in it.” Surprisingly, the word ‘Mayor’ does not appear in our Municipal Act . . . There is a ‘head of council’ though (a CEO), and this individual represents the interests the Corporation of the Township or City (and is effectively subordinate to the CAO); neither puts the wishes of constituents first. They will tell you they do, until something we might like to see is in conflict with a corporate entity that wishes to do business with the Corporation of the Town. Of course, whatever this business is, the unwitting local tax payers will be forced to pay. This, as you might have guessed, is how ‘Stakerholder Capitalism’ works — for the actual ‘Stakeholders’ (all of which, we must return to later).

Depopulation and Replacement Migration — in a growing Police State?

‘Stability’ for now, that is; on a determined upward trajectory with no end in sight. So what are we mostly paying for this time? Boots on the ground and drone fleets, perhaps hooked into Palantir’s system? God knows. . . Someone needs to be keeping a closer eye on this too. The feeling that our future is being decided for us is overwhelming sometimes — see my earlier post: ‘Man at the Crossroads–Again: Controllers of the Universe’ (which, coincidentally, includes a notice of the previous Climate Roundtable).

There are various reasons for the current decline in Canada’s population: Reduced foreign students and expiring visas, students and new immigrants who realize it’s almost impossible to exist in this completely mismanaged country, entrepreneurs who realize this government will choke the life out of their aspirations, and those with means, who are on their way out the door already.

Most of my friends are pretty Black-Pilled. Some of this is post-traumatic stress, from being aware of so much for the past six years, but some of this is ‘programming’ too, in my opinion — the “ideology of futility.” Whatever the reason, we don’t get enough help canvassing and attending meetings, because so many people think it’s a complete waste of time talking to Council — and they may be right! Consequently, and just as concerning, many of ‘the best and the brightest’ are giving up, and would rather just leave; we see this in the population statistics below.

Many see what has happened in the past few years as ‘weaponized’ migration; that is, mass-immigration designed to destabilize society, with a possible long term hidden depopulation agenda — for ‘heritage residents’ and those with assets, or who stand in the way of a resource grab / asset transfer. This is a theory, about a real conspiracy, but you can check the documents below and make up your own mind of course. What happened in 2025 however, might simply be an adjustment, but Canada is the world’s second largest landmass, and second richest resource base after Russia. . . and we know there are some pretty ruthless people out there in the world.

Of course, our own technocrats — an ‘army of occupation’ of sorts — have already assumed control, and have almost secured this control with their technology (while we were not paying attention and cheering on technology). Even the Canadian band Rush tried to tell us this was coming back in the 70s as Neoliberalism was taking hold (it’s always the artists): “Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. . . We have assumed control.”

Despite the Century Initiative’s mass-immigration plan, Canada’s population, for the first time ever, decreased in 2025. In Q1, the population of Canada zeroed out:

And by Q3, Canada’s population shrank by 75,000. Predictions are this trend will continue into 2027, however, if the ‘Century Initiative’ folk have their way, by 2100 Canada’s population will 100 million — more than double the current size — and (many predict) predominantly Indian (migrants from India that is). We have, I would suggest, a very short window of time; it might be too late from Europe, but some of us are still optimistic for this county.

As a monetary reformer, I’m not a fan of perpetual growth for other reasons, mainly the environmental impact; though, like many indigenous people (who were not thrilled about being ‘settled’ the first time) I’m also not happy about the nature (and culture) of this country being just as radically changed. In the true spirit of Reconciliation, we must be together on this point.

The UN’s ‘Replacement Migration’ — implemented by all levels of government — is about the replacement of ‘legacy residents’ (as one local head of Council calls us), and this will effect first nations too. None of this would be necessary, of course, if we didn’t have an actual Ponzi Scheme, which requires perpetual growth, as a monetary system; but, also, if our current politicians hadn’t so mismanaged the country — that our existing young residents don’t want the responsibility of children — there would not even be a rationale to ‘grow’ our population through mass-replacement migration.

Ponzi Schemes require continual in-flows of capital, and exponential growth so as not to collapse. ‘Growth’ is presented as a positive indicator of ‘progress’ therefore. Massive growth also allows a parasitic class to extract massive profits from the system, without the (host) ‘peasants’ realizing they’re been bled dry. Artificial growth can be generated for a while, by inflating the money supply and debasing the currency, but this is where the real wealth extraction to take place.

Will people figure this out in time? Probably not, as only 1 in 100 (perhaps only 1 in a 1000) understand the monetary system is designed for this purpose — and the mind-control runs deep. Stay distracted, and believe whatever the media tells you to believe — but we here, at least, now how these magicians work! You’ll probably remember this clever (and not-so-subtle) brainwashing — of Canadians in this case:

“I believe in diversity, not assimilation... I am Joe, and I Am Canadian.”

And remember when Patriotism was a thing? Before 2015 that is, when Mr. Trudeau announced that Canada was the world’s first “Postnational State.” By 2022, you were considered a ‘racist’ if you professed to be a Patriot; heaven forbid you put a flag on your car! And now Carney’s ‘Elbow’s Up’ crew claim to be Patriots, as they fly their appropriated Maple Leaf and cheer on the “New — World — Order” (forgetting that they called us ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ for using these words, just a couple of years earlier. Of course, anyone who fell for ‘Elbows Up!’ will believe absolutely anything:

“Hello handsome. . . you look like a good Joe!”

An AI girlfriend anyone, to tell you how SMART you are? Hard to believe this is a thing now too. It’s a complete Circus out there, and the show is only going to get crazier as the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds. The ‘AI slop’ is increasing and creating more confusion, and more addled minds. Those who haven’t glimpsed the wizard behind the curtain by now are probably not going to come to their senses without an actual psychotic break, at this point, as their bubble-worlds diverge further and further from reality.

Canada is being dismantled before our eyes and — with land rights issues, the tokenization of our assets, C40 cities plans and so-called ‘rewilding’ — the stage is being set for the new ‘Land Clearances’ and a neofeudalism.

The title of this post came about for two reasons. First, it relates to my previous piece (just fill in the evil blank) — with that famous quotation from Nuremberg — but a commentary in this video about Mel Gibson (that popped up a few days ago) grabbed my attention: ‘He knew… He even warned us’

At 35.36 : “The banality of evil. . . Thousands of people making small cowardly decisions that add up to systemic abuse — which is far more disturbing because that’s what happens with the government; like fraud, and sh _t . . . That’s the banality of evil. . . 50 people with malicious compliance [but] it’s no one’s fault. . .”

I don’t need to say any more on this (after the last post) and I don’t want to appear partisan here either; after all, it was the ‘Con’servatives who signed us onto the United Nations’ Agenda 21 in 1992 (Mulroney), and Agenda 2030 in 2015 (Harper), setting the stage for the sell out of Canada by subsequent Liberal administrations, as the actual ‘administration’ of Canada shifted to the United Nations (it now seems).

It is obvious, after three consecutive Liberal (Globalist) regimes, that the dismantling of Canada (and the selling off of its assets) is moving into high gear, thanks to Brookfields’ bankruptcy specialists — and now Brookfields’ ‘Prime Minister.’ While cleaning up my studio a few days ago, as it happens, I came across a copy of the Financial Post Magazine, December 2008 (in the midst of last financial Crisis). A smug ‘Senior Manager of Brookfield Asset Management’ graces the cover. Ah, those money magicians! They’re laughing at us. . . all the way to the bank: Crisis?

And, more recently, Canada’s de facto Chief bankruptcy trustee, appeared on the cover of a 2021 CPA professional publication (and don’t expect our professional accountants to ever speak up either). The title of this article in Pivot: ‘A Call to Action’ . . . ‘UN special envoy for climate action and finance, sits down for an exclusive Q&A on how to create value via net-zero.’ ‘Value’ for Brookfield’s clients that is, and other offshore vulture capitalists — through net-zero infrastructure P3s, and such.

Again, as a monetary reformer, I must repeat the old mantra: A monetarily sovereign nation (especially one with resources like those in Canada) does not need to borrow money. Canada could create its own money (for infrastructure) and does not need to borrow, at interest — let alone, from international ‘investors’ through P3s.

And its funny how the Liberal’s much loved ‘DP World’ (Dubai Ports) private equity firm, keeps coming up: First, with the dubious Port of Montreal Public Private Partnership deal (in my post ‘Captured’), then the resignation of its CEO, for sharing ‘torture videos’ (in ‘Musings on Pure Evil’) and now, with DP World’s predictable involvement in shipping LNG, profiting the companies and investors elsewhere in the world, when Canada could be producing, and transporting, its own domestically produced natural gas — at a fraction of the price, and (ironically) at a fraction of the Carbon footprint. But Net Zero, and all of those other Greenwashing scams, are not about the environment; they are about enriching Green Grifters and Globalist elites, at the expense of unwitting (and uninformed) taxpayers.

I don’t have space here for all of the charts (and statistics) I’ve provided to my local Councils and Committees (over the past few years), but this too is a ‘work-in-progress’ (you might say) and I will share more later. The main point I’d like to make here is: We are often called ‘conspiracy theorists’ for talking about social engineering ‘goals’ published in official documents — C40 cities’ ‘The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World’, for instance, from the University of Leeds — while these same ‘goals’ are listed in the 2024 GHG Emissions Report from Ontario Tech University, in partnership with Durham Region:

•Shift to low-carbon integrated mobility (far fewer single occupant vehicle trips, especially in internal combustion engine vehicles);
•Redesign neighbourhoods to be far less reliant on car access; Phase out natural gas for space heating (urge provincial adoption of bans on natural gas in new neighbourhoods, similar to Vancouver and Montreal);
•Shift personal purchasing practices, e.g., fewer flights and cruises, eat less meat (especially beef), emphasise waste minimization (especially food waste);
•Continue to pursue, and expand, programs such as building retrofits and the Durham Community Energy Plan.

Although Councilors have repeatedly assure us that the idea of 15 minutes cities is “crazy talk,” and that they wouldn’t dream of restricting our travel, or preventing us from eating meat, here (in the Region’s own documents) are all of these ‘restrictions’ — ‘priorities’ so-called — that will continue to shape the policy decision of our Region, and our Municipalities. . . until the ‘Climate Emergency’ is ended.

How, might you ask, are the ‘powers that be’ planning to implement and enforce these priorities (so that you will take far fewer trips in your internal combustion engine powered vehicle)? Total surveillance of course, and SMART city (Intelligent Community) geo-fenced ‘districts’ to make sure you don’t (can’t) drive too far — or get to the airport for that flight to your cruise?

So you are being ‘misinformed’ — I won’t say ‘lied to’ because our representatives, I feel, are grievously ‘misinformed’ themselves — and this has to change. In addition to the reports above, I’d suggest you also revisit ‘Absolute Zero’ (the chart on pages 6-7 in particular) in this University of Cambridge document. Net Zero is ‘big business’ these days, because everything you own is up for grabs now, thanks carbon trading and tokenized assets — and most taxpayers don’t even know that everything they think they still own is being tokenized (and prepared for the taking).

The job of your elected representative, it would seem, is to distract you from all of this; to deny everything and tell you ‘you’ve got it all wrong’ — while they usher in the (‘data-driven decision’) technology that is designed to track you, measure your carbon footprint, and lock you down again, whenever those with real power desire.

Funny no one seems to be talking about ‘climate lockdowns’ anymore; the world went back to sleep when the ‘health emergency’ ended and life (sort-of) returned to ‘normal.’ But don’t forget, that ‘digital slave device’ (your not-so SMART phone), is an essential component in the utopian, digital gulag. . . tracking your purchases, your carbon allowance, and your whereabouts (when you will travel only by permission, if you behave) in the not too distant future. The image below, thanks the Jeanette Miller:

So do get involved . . . before your ‘cart’ gets disabled too :-)

I need to get back to my easel now, to escape for a while, and dream of a summer trip to Haida Gwaii. Below, as you’ll see, is a larger picture of my latest painting (still just a detail): ‘Driftwood Beach.’

Thank you everyone, who read this far (or scrolled downed to see my latest painting — celebrating, or remembering, this beautiful Nation of ours, Canada).

Your interest and on-going support is much appreciated.

David

Those who would prefer to live unmolested (shall we say), with Eyes Wide Shut, are waking up fast (those who can be awakened that is) because it isn’t just the mainstream media; everywhere, the truth is being revealed, in the most public and creative ways:

‘GOP Slammed as “Guardians of Predators”’

This past weekend a couple of friends mentioned to me a Tucker Carlson interview with comedian Tim Dillon. Believe it or not, I’d never actually seen anything of Dillon before (we all live in our little bubble worlds). When I searched for this however, another commentary popped up instead: ‘Bondi, Baal, and the Dow’ . . . Who could resist?

Now, I’ve not delved too far into any of the actual details. We know, of course, that we have limits; and we don’t really want to know (let alone see) the depths of the depravity. Those who already have no soul (or lost their souls) will no doubt relish the salacious details, but as U.S. Representative, Becca Balint, appropriately put it — after viewing un-redacted Epstein files: “They’re a bunch of sick f---s!”

It’s hard enough for us (who kinda know what’s going on) to confront the sordid world of our so-called ‘leaders’ and favourite celebretards. For those who have lived in a metaphorical ‘Disney Land’ all their lives it is rather more shocking, but now this is a topic of everyday conversations. . . the Overton window has shifted:

At 40:52 minutes in the Dillon commentary:

“It is just so funny. The Overton window on this stuff has now moved into like where. . . it’s completely possible in polite society right now to say to yourself: Oh wait, are they [pedophile] cannibals? . . And you can say that now at a lunch. . .”

And at 51:43 minutes:

“This is not a great week for the people that say conspiracies are fake, and everyone who believes in them are dumb. . .”

Indeed. It would be nice if we could take some satisfaction in this; and if this actual conspiracy were not absolutely abominable, we should. So it turns out the people who run this world and shape our reality (I can’t italicize and underscore this enough) are such “a bunch of sick f---s” that even the sleepiest of ‘sleepy head’ normies have to (finally) confront reality.

And where does this stop? Is this just the Globalist elites, or is it all of our Federal Governments, our State, County and Provincial Governments, our local, Regional and Municipal Governments as well?

Who is trafficking and racketeering; who is corrupt and on the take; who is involved in some evil conspiracy to bankrupt and exploit the unsuspecting and unwitting residents and taxpayers?

Even some of those NPCs are being moved — and roused from their slumber — as this is, clearly, a ‘spiritual war.’ The self-anointed predator ‘Elites’ have made it such, with their insane satanic behavior. Normal, everyday (good) people should not be willing to accept this evil anymore, and should no longer be willing to accept the status quo. . . or has all this just been normalized? Will the sheep NPCs just go back to their little lives, and pretend everything is still normal?

Within the ‘uniparty,’ at least there are one or two people (maybe a handful even), who call out this evil. Any Democrat or Republican; Liberal, NDP, Bloc or Conservative, in Canada; LibDem, Labour, Conservative, Reform or Restore Britain representative, in England, who does not call this out, is immediately suspect (in my opinion), and the derelict who do not take steps to remove those involved in (or with connections to) this evil, should no longer be in office.

The veil has been lifted on the uniparty, and we must hope this is a new beginning. The world is now onto this game, and the elite puppet masters behind the scenes. The remaining Monarchies too, may fall, and so-called ‘colonies,’ such as Canada, might speed this along. Those central bankers (who have been pulling the strings throughout history, since that Babylonian Money Magic spell was first cast over the slaves) should have a very bright light shone of them too. . . as Trump did recently (or appeared to do) when he humiliated Jerome Powell, regarding the Fed’s underground ‘development’. . . And what the f--k (pardon my language in this post) is the great Canadian bunker all about?

Of course, they started digging in 2020 and plan to finish 2030 (no connection to Agenda 2030 of course). Here, and elsewhere (as people in the industry, and local residents, will tell you) ‘bunkers’ suddenly became all the rage.

Many would suggest there is more than meets the eye here. . . A few mind-controlled normies will laugh at you, if you even hint this isn’t just a renovation or expansion; but how many times have such ‘crazy’ conspiracy ‘theses’ proven correct in the past? Almost every time, I would suggest. . . and at the very least, this is a massive theft of Canadian’s tax dollars. We need a much smaller government, not an even larger one — operating out of a bunker in Parliament Hill’s Canadian Shield bedrock.

What are they preparing for, really?

There are so many stories we can tell (and will, another time) but returning to the subject at hand — putting the ‘Baby’ in Babylonian. Anyone who is not moved to act on what has been revealed, I propose, must have lost their soul already. . . just like all those celebrities, who clearly sold their souls for fame (and money), and proudly signal to you they have done so — all so happy to be in their evil club:

But I don’t want to go down this celebretard, mind-control rabbit hole yet. Let’s, instead, refer to comments on Carney’s P3 deal with the DP World, from my earlier commentary, ‘Captured’:

‘Whoever the owners are, what Canadian resources (I wonder) might DP World want shipped out through the Port of Montreal?’

Or in . . . ‘resources’ indeed. How convenient (for anyone in the human trafficking business) to own and control shipping and ports. And these folks are the worst of the worst, apparently.

You recall, I included links to DP World in my previous ‘Captured’ post, and now, wouldn’t you know it, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the former chairman and CEO of DP, has been identified as the recipient of an email from Epstein containing the subject:

“where are you? are you ok I loved the torture video.”

This previously redacted document was revealed thanks to the efforts of another one of the ‘good’ people in in Congress, Thomas Massie. I don’t need to dig further into this, other to say, Mr. Carney and his wife’s (apparently) close relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (and maybe Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem too) is grounds enough for his removal from office. . . to start with.

And to think, we thought Mr. Carney’s Public Private Partnership (P3), between DP World and the Port of Montreal, was just about taking money from the Canadian people and pushing the scam ‘Net Zero’ agenda; when, in fact, this might (possibly) be a key asset in the human trafficking industry ‘infrastructure.’ What a ‘coincidence’ that this project — and they’re always building ‘infrastructure’ at our expense — should have been prioritized and celebrated by the Liberal Regime. Hmm.

Enough said. It is time for a BIG investigation, and for all the criminals (and anyone with even slightly dubious connections to the criminals), both sides of the uniparty, to go . . . So get engaged, if you have any compassion for the victims and/or concern for your future (and for your children’s future) . . . Keep the conversation going, and keep the pressure on.

Thank you — all of you ‘good’ people out there.

David

The ‘magic’ of art is an expression of that creative spirit, that cannot be separated from life (as I described both in ‘Genius Loci’ and ‘On Art and Life’). I firmly believe, therefore, that art not only shapes our perceptions of reality, but reality itself.

Such ideas are not new of course. Those iconic paintings in the Lascaux caves, for example, are not just decor — representations of a day’s events — they were meant as a bridge between two worlds. . . I won’t get into a deep exploration though (this time), of the meaning of Art, or even the role of the artist in society; as I’d like to share a story, and something more of our Haida Gwaii adventures, past and future. . .

My first painting of 2026 was dropped off at Loch Gallery in Toronto, last Saturday: ‘Ocean Bound’ (Dixon Inlet) acrylic on canvas - 12” x 30”. The scene is directly in front of my friend April White’s Lodge, White Raven House in Old Massett, Haida Gwaii.

In recent months, I’ve been moved by commentaries from friends here on Substack — Doreen at ‘Our Greater Destiny,’ Karafree and Matthew Ehret — all of whom have posted recently on the subject of art and creativity: Your Mind Creates Reality, for instance, and We Were Created to Create, both from ‘Our Greater Destiny.’ But let me continue with the story:

This summer, a small group of Toronto artists will be returning to Haida Gwaii for the 10 year Anniversary of our 2016 ‘ReEncounter’ expedition (when we went in search of a ‘lost’ totem pole). The resulting short documentary, ‘Eyes of Society’ (Braid Films) you might have already seen; we enjoyed many screenings at the time, including six months on Air Canada’s inflight entertainment, the Banff Mountain Film Festival, Washington DC short docs, and other such events.

Here on a flight to Vancouver in 2017. You might ask though, if you watched the video above: What happened to that totem pole? Our ‘Indiana Jones’ search-for-a-lost-cultural-treasure ‘theme’ became something else entirely, when we located the pole almost immediately. I will share the full story at some point, but here we were, deep in Gwaii Haanas — with the filmmakers, a support vessel, and 13 more days of kayaking and filming ahead — there was plenty more to explore though (If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll see a painting of the site too) :

The village site of Tanu in 2016, on the first day of filming. When the rest of the world thinks of North American native culture, they usually picture Haida art. Haida Gwaii was home to the finest monumental carvings on the west coast, and the village of Tanu was the epicenter of this culture. There are ‘virtually’ no artifacts left here today however, because museums around the world (if they wanted a totem pole for their collection) looked first for a Tanu pole. That is why this ‘treasure’ was so important. Locally, you can seem examples of Tanu poles at The Museum of History, Ottawa/Gatineau, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, and the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. Prior to this trip, I was introduced to George MacDonald, director of the Museum of Civilization (1983 to 1998) and the author of (a ‘bible’ of sorts) Haida Monument Art. We chatted and exchanged many emails, as we both had strange stories from Tanu. I wish I could include George now, but sadly, he passed away in 2020.

What emerged, instead, was an introduction of sorts, to a very different story; which resulted in a series of exhibitions (over three years). A follow up film, of course, was anticipated. Plans for a longer ‘Eyes of Society II’ stalled however, in part, because of the loss of additional footage, the result of a break in and theft of equipment. Two later treatments were developed, but these would entail another expedition, and more filming. The story could have gone in many directions; the writing and research, therefore, took far longer than we had imagined. . . And then came 2020.

I’ll share more of our film experiences later, as we will be heading back to Haida Gwaii as a group in June 2026; not the whole group this time — just myself, Anja Karisik, Gary Landon (at this point) — where we will embark on a new project . . . two projects, actually. The first being another ‘expedition’ (of sorts) with our friend April, to her ancestral village site. . . a location in the northwest, so wild that kayaking is not in the cards (for the whole group at least). The second project, we should probably keep under wraps for the moment, but the stars appear to be aligned for us, as we make plans for our next big artistic adventure:

This past Saturday, I dropped off the painting above at my gallery in Yorkville. As mentioned, this is my first painting in 2026. I have a couple of other pieces underway of course, but I wanted to take in at least one completed work when I stopped by for a visit and New Year’s catch up. . . As I was about to leave, I was handed a cheque for my first sale of 2026. It is my own personal superstition never ask if anything has sold — as this often seems to jinx things — and the gallery doesn’t ever tell me until they have a cheque in hand. It’s a crazy arrangement, and a crazy way to make a living, but that’s the artist’s life of course. . . always on the edge. In a moment of perfect synchronicity though, which is a kind of magic (in my opinion), the painting that just sold was also of Dixon Inlet:

‘Dixon Inlet Dandy’ 13” x 17¾” - acrylic on canvas - 2024

The details aren’t easily discernible at this resolution, but the fishing boat washed up on the beach here is ‘Dan D.’ . . . My intention, of course, was that the tall ship making its way inland would be taken as the ‘Dandy’ (before the viewer looked deeper into the image). The setting though, is along the east shore of the Inlet, just down the beach from April’s Lodge, where we’ll be staying for part of the time in June. ‘Dixon Inlet Dandy’ meanwhile, has found a new home, in California.

But returning to that magic for a moment: it’s funny how this crazy old world of ours works — all those coincidences, symmetries and synchronicities, to let us know when we’re on the right path. I’m reminded of a wonderful book (on this subject) that I picked up the year it was published, back in 1987: Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. And also, in this vein (though rather more fanciful), I’m currently re-reading my absolute favourite novel, What’s Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies, 1986. Artists especially — though anyone really, who lives their life on the ‘Edge of the Knife’ (as our Haida friends say) — might want to find a copy of both these works.

Those ‘signs and wonders,’ little nudges, and the unexpected help we get as we travel along our path in life, could have another explanation altogether; in mystical ‘edge of the world’ places like Haida Gwaii, the ‘veil’ between our world, and a very different reality, is thin. . . sometimes, hardly there at all.

To share a little more of this mythic world with you, here from the Haida perspective, you might want to check out the Edge of the Knife film trailer; the first full-length Haida language film, by director Helen Haig-Brown and our friend and co-director, Gwaai Edenshaw. And, should you have the time, let me draw you a little deeper into these enchanted islands, with Restoring the Balance, and an audio only episode of The Current: ‘Carving a 15-metre canoe’ with Christian White.

In 2024, I dropped by Christian’s carving shed myself, where I met some of his family, apprentices and students, and saw this incredible canoe as a work-in-progress. You may recall I painted two Haida Canoes previously (with permission). Both sold, one just recently, and (for works of this nature) I donate half of my proceeds to local cultural organizations. . . Perhaps this canoe will be the subject of another painting project (later in 2026) to raise a little extra ‘working capital’ for Tluu Xaada Naay? — The ‘Canoe People’s House.’

There are so many stories to tell, but let me wrap up here, for now, with a few more images from Haida Gwaii; and I’ll look forward to sharing more paintings (and stories) as our next project takes shape.

Crab fishing on ‘North Beach’ acrylic on canvas - 10.5” x 30” - 2024

‘Collison Bay’ acrylic on canvas - 10” x 17¾” - 2024 My ‘Hudson River School’(esque) impression of a picturesque bay on eastern shore of Gwaii Haanas .

‘The Woodshop’ acrylic on canvas - 10” x 13” - 2024 With permission from Jim Hart - various elements from his Reconciliation Pole project (here, a Haida canoe and European rowing boat) very much ‘works in progress’ at this point.

Four Haida Gwaii paintings at my Loch Gallery solo show in 2017, Toronto. On the right is a representation of the ‘lost’ pole (mentioned above) ‘ReEncounter’. This painting was also a center piece for our group exhibition at the Robert Bateman Centre in Victoria, in 2018. The story of this painting, and the larger ReEncounter project, is still unfolding, and I look forward to sharing more in the next chapter of our adventure.

More on this exhibition — which featured work from Jim Hart, Guujaaw, April White, Jaalen and Gwaai Edenshaw, Anja Karisik, Sophie Lavoie, Andrew Sookrah, Gary Landon and myself — next time. Robert Bateman, of course, provided a fitting piece for the show, and joined us for the opening.

Thank you again for your interest and on-going support. Have a great rest of the month. . . as we revisit those 1970s winters (here in Ontario at least).

David

A view from in front of 4 Belgravia. Onchan Head, Isle of Man (supposed Head Quarters of Brookfield IoM) — looking out across the Irish Sea. See my previous post ‘Captured’ for more on this. Some of my own pictures from this place (including ‘the gnome’ — No4’s Genius Loci ) I shared with my personal mailing list recently.

There is a wonderful line in Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary that, in my mind, says it all (whatever your thoughts on the man and his philosophy) — pg 410:

‘. . . [A]rt is more like a living being than a thing. That our encounter with that being matters and means something depends on the fact that any living being is in itself whole and coherent, and forms part of a larger context in which we too are involved and engaged.’

On the subject of ‘engaging’ with art (and the ‘larger context’ of life), I must put together a dedicated Substack to document all of the odd (suspiciously ordained?) places my works have traveled in this world, and then re-emerged, ‘in the corridors of power’ — as Matt Ehret put it recently. But this is very definitely a story for another day.

Our ‘children’ go out into the world and they have lives of their own, over which we have little (if any) control. . . I hope you’ll enjoy the story of two such children, in my book excerpt below.

I promised in my previous post to share more from this story (that I began writing in 2011). Time Enough: An Amoral Tale was published in 2013, and my main book signing was Dec 23rd, in the Isle of Man, (intentionally) on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Reserve Act. Below, for your interest, is roughly half of ‘Genius Loci’ (Chapter 10) about the gnome who stands guard in front of Brookfield’s Isle of Man tax avoidance ‘Head Quarters’ — among other things.

First though, very quickly, so that you don’t think this book is ‘New Age’ Woo Woo, let me include a short passage from Chapter 16, ‘The Medium of Exchange.’ I make rather a lot of statements and monetary prediction in this work, and it is interesting to revisit these, thirteen years later:

I’m no fan of Margaret Thatcher, though I am sympathetic, as she could not possibly have known what Neoliberalism was, at this time (She and Ronald Reagan, both, were duped or threatened into promoting these Globalist ideas). In my previous post, I mentioned Yanis Varoufakis, and a recent video of his caught my attention:

Europe Has Crossed the Point of No Return—Economic Collapse Is Now Inevitable

As I add the link here I see that his YouTube account has been shut down; apparently you can’t say such things if you are someone as influential as he is. Specifically — if we can find this video again — at 1.13 mins (according to my own Dec 27the time stamp notes): “There can be no monetary union without fiscal union.” Here, Varoufakis too concludes that Europe’s monetary system is ‘fatally flawed’ — and will collapse.

While searching for the above mentioned video, I discovered it may well have been a deep fake: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-deepfake-era-has-begun/  (Dec 30th) Here, Yanis states: "It was two minutes into the video that I realize it wasn't me. Two minutes is an eternity, and when you have someone saying something you never said, but could have said. . ." (Please take time to watch the UnHerd conversation). Having recently read his book, Technofeudalism, and listened to many of his lectures, the above is something Varoufakis would, and does, say (in so many other words). So I've decided to let this stand, and perhaps we can talk about the impact of these deep fakes some time soon. The following, I assure you, is very 'real.' For your interest: 

In Europe, the central bank (ECB) controls interest rates (monetary policy) while independent nations still retain control of taxes and spending (fiscal policy); and herein lies that ‘fatal flaw’ (built in since 1999). Because no one has control of both ‘levers’ (as it were), this especially dubious ‘fiat’ currency cannot be managed much longer.

Don’t worry though, the authoritarian ECB is working toward ‘total control’ — ‘Absolute Control’ as the one time General Manager of the BIS, Agustín Carstens, famously put it. When European economies fail, because of a failing Euro, a digital currency ‘control grid’ (instead of real money) will be implemented.

I include this short ‘preamble’ to underscore the fact that nothing happens by accident and that this is another of those ‘invisible environments’ (that people generally do not see). It will be clear to almost everyone here at least, on Substack, that what we’re experiencing today is unfolding according to a plan set in place many years ago. Of course, the folk who ‘pretend’ to be working for us, and purport to have our best interest in mind, also never see (or report on) anything like this — information that might actually be helpful that is.

On this note, let me share a couple of videos — looking ahead again (because it is clear to those with eyes to see and ears the hear, where these people are taking us). From the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation (CBC) and Globalist News:

Rosemary Barton’s 2025 year-end Mark Carney interview

Mark Carney year-end interview with Global’s Dawna Friesen

We can dissect these later, but pay close attention (I would suggest) to the casual mention of carbon pricing and carbon sequestering, because these two things lie at the heart of the Globalist’s new monetary system (and you will be paying for them, one way of another).

As we all know (and must continue to repeat): ‘In the Net Zero future, you are the carbon they are trying to eliminate.’ In the 1920s, these same technocrats proposed the use of energy credits as money; today, central bankers everywhere are preparing a monetary system linked to your personal life-time carbon allowance (that they will assign you) and carbon offset credits — for those of them, wealthy enough to opt out.

Notice, also, the cultural ‘framing’ of these two broadcasts: the National Gallery and the Canadian Museum of History — someone also understands the importance of culture as a tool of governance.

Perhaps a few of you here will remember Mr. Carney’s conversation with the Young British Artist (YBA) Damien Hirst, as the greatest huckster of them all schooled our current Prime Minister in non-fungible tokens (NFTs): “Tell me something about it. I think I know something about currency, but I’m confused, Damien.” Mr. Carney was not confused at all, I would suggest; this was ‘predictive programming’ by the then Governor of the Bank of England — ‘familiarizing and normalizing’ the concept of digital assets, and digital tokens on everything; paving the way to ‘tokenization’ (and control over thereby) all of your assets? There’s so much more to explore, and it really is important that everyone get up to speed on this; or your assets may not be your assets for much longer.

Imagine, for instance, if you’d invested in gold in 1999, when all those European governments sold off their reserves to make it look as if their books balance, before the launch the Euro? You won’t just miss out on a nice ‘investment opportunity’ next time — you’ll have the assets you’ve already managed to accumulate debased, drained away or confiscated.

On a lighter note though, let me take you back to a more carefree time, in my spiritual home (and ‘Home away from Home’ for a time) — the Isle of Man.

Below is the first half of Chapter 10, from Time Enough: An Amoral Tale. Here, in 1999, as the European countries ‘aligned’ for the launch of the Euro, my old friend Andy, who worked for Merrill Lynch at that time, has just moved to his new flat — soon to become the Brookfields IOM Head Quarters. But this chapter, at least, is more of a cultural journey. I hope you will enjoy:

‘Of you who smile at the simple faith of the mountain rustic, we ask – Does no familiar-spirit, no spectre from the past, fling its shadow over your homes, and colour your meditations? It almost seems as if poor Human nature could only open one eye at a time.’ — Elizabeth Cookson

The ‘forest’ (painting) mentioned above (picture below) sold to Shaw Corp shortly thereafter, and hung in the head office until the founders of the company retired. When they moved to the Caribbean, shortly thereafter, they took the painting with them, and I was called back to help pack the piece (It was moving that someone cared so much about a painting that only the artist would be allowed to prepare it for travel). Maybe next time I will share some pictures of the piece in situ. ‘Of fire and Stone’ (immediately below) never sold — for some strange reason — and remains with me to this day.

The image above: ‘Of Fire and Stone’ (Hotspring Island, Haida Gwaii) - acrylic on canvas - 17½” x 36” - 2000

The image above: ‘Forest Labyrinth’ (Ninstints, Haida Gwaii) - acrylic on canvas - 34” x 48” - 1998

As I plug in this last image, once again, Substack tells me my post is too long. Perfect! Is that their AI ‘reading’ the text in these images though, or just a coincidence? Whatever it it, I could not have picked a better place to leave off — with a little bit of a teaser. We meet some interesting ‘people’ on our journey through life. . .

I’d like to share the rest of ‘Genius Loci’ at some point, but there are more pressing issues at the moment. I’ll get to it, eventually; in the meantime, keep your eyes open!

And of course, A Very Happy New Year to you and yours! (2026! Can you believe it?)

:-D avid

Yantree - ‘Behave Chumbawamba’: (Local politics) ‘A lot is a like this, except they use your money.’ Credited to Very Demotivational.com

In my earlier 20s, when I worked as a trader on the floor of the Toronto Futures Exchange (TFE), the veteran floor traders used to remind me (contrarian that I was): “The trend is your friend.” All these years later, I would have to say, the current ‘trend’ is very definitely not your friend.

Perhaps some of you here even, have shares in Palantir, Verra Mobility, DP World, and the numerous other Globalist corporations that have entered into Public Private Partnerships with governments around the world. While these investments may have done well for individuals, public indebtedness is moving upward at an accelerating pace, and our communities (and countries) are paying the price. In the comfortable and complacent town of Uxbridge, Ontario, however, we are removed from the troubles that other communities now confront — even those in our own Region — but we are still on the hook, and will be expected to cover the costs.

An ‘investment’ in the current trend is generally profitable; though many of the ‘gains’ today are the result of a new ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ model, which is championed — alongside ‘Public Private Partnerships’ (P3s) — by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Far from those Libertarian ideals of open markets and free exchange; instead of building new productive (and even competitive) businesses, profits are extracted by governments (read: extorted) in collusion with select corporations. This new predatory economic model might also be labelled crony capitalism.

Like those proverbial frogs in a slowly boiling pot of water, Regional taxpayers haven’t yet felt enough pain (apparently); they are not jumping out of the pot, or into action. Attendance at the most recent Durham Region budget meeting is a case in point; our taxes were hiked again (over 6% on this occasion); this trend is not going to stop anytime soon, but who was there? I will return to this later (scroll down to the pictures below). First, though, let me explain how this new ‘stakeholder capitalism’ model works. The most egregious ‘case,’ of course, was that of Covid.

STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM (a case study):

1. Pharmaceutical and PPE companies (for example) made arrangements with their ‘partners’ in government (behind closed doors of course) to secure taxpayer dollars (print or borrow money) for the purchase of their various products; guaranteeing a profit for the ‘stakeholders’, and even some lucky shareholders.

2. ‘Consumption’ of these products was then mandated on those who would cover the cost. The true costs were invisible at first; yet inflation and taxes, both, would increase over time.

3. Procedures and policies were changed (often in contravention of existing laws and practice), and the definition of words too — what constitutes a ‘pandemic’ for instance. Liability was waved by those involved, for those involved; manufacturers, most importantly, so that unwitting taxpayers and consumers would have no recourse.

As in all ‘Public Private Partnerships’ (P3s) the profits are privatized (for the benefit of the ‘private partners’); while costs, losses and liability are socialized, and foisted upon the ‘public partners’ (the largely oblivious public). It’s the reason this model is so popular today, as running a regular business becomes increasingly difficult and risky.

Meanwhile, ‘public’ employees (elected representatives and hired staff) continued to enjoy their Sunshine List incomes, salary increases and bonuses (many more were added to this list, in fact, as this was an ‘emergency’ — after all). These folks (here in Ontario) also all look forward to their indexed OMERS pension (which is invested in many of the companies our Municipalities are making decisions to enrich). No conflict of interest here of course. And all along, ‘bought-and-paid-for’ mainstream media propagandizes the hapless constituent (taxpayers) and refuses to investigate the personal gains of those who might be insider trading (rather more directly) within government.

Welcome to the ‘New Fiscal Age.’

Here, again, I must refer you back to my four part series on Neoliberalism. Our concern isn't Capitalism or Neoliberalism anymore. Like some professed socialists even, such as Yanis Varoufakis, I remain committed to defend Capitalism, because what we are experiencing today isn’t Capitalism. Complaining about Capitalism is ‘rear view mirror’ thinking (as Marshall McLuhan would say); and even then, through the years of the ‘post-war consensus’ and ‘embedded Liberalism’ (1944 into the 80s and 90s) Capitalism actually allowed for the Middle-Class to flourish, distributing economic benefits more widely than ever before in history.

Now, as all of you here know well, our biggest concern is full-on Communism, and/or Techno-Feudalism; and our local governments are captured by people who are busy implementing these ideas and programs (whether they understand what they’re doing, or not). Globalists, and those brainwashed by Globalists — and all those other well-meaning people who are too afraid to speak out against the agenda, too uninformed or (maybe) too stupid or lazy to understand any of this — are busy making very costly decisions for those who are not aware of what’s going. One way or another, the banker’s Globalist agenda is promoted at all levels of government.

There are a few individual exceptions to the rule, of course, but any brave soul who speaks out today is likely to be reprimanded — and any Council that actually wants to represent the interests of its constituents (in a way that goes against the Globalist agenda) is probably going to be shut down by its Mayor. The new ‘Strong Mayor Powers’ is a whole other story (to be examined before the 2026 Municipal elections). Any new Mayor (in my opinion) must ‘swear’ to represent his or her constituents, and to not (ever) assume Strong Mayor Powers. This should be obvious, if we still live in a democracy — We still live in a democracy, don’t we?

I shared the following with the folk on my personal mailing list a few days ago, just before the most recent ‘Council of the Whole’ budget meeting in Durham Region (which we will get to soon). And related to this, for your interest, one of Solari’s latest publications: Plunder Capitalism Land Grab Tactics

If you are not a Solari Subscriber, you really might want to consider this. I’ve been following Catherine Austin Fitts for over a decade now, and (being from that world myself, though not at this level of course) I feel there is no other person who can provide such insights on the monetary and political realities of our day.

Over time (and it shouldn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to see this): property taxes and demographics (in the real world) will result in people losing their properties, or being forced to liquidate their most important asset at a most inopportune time — or even, in distress. The Middle-Class has already been decimated (Thanks to Globalism and Neoliberalism) and we are now in the ‘asset stripping’ phase of the (monetary) ‘Great Reset’ — before the ‘currency’ is collapsed too.

Interestingly, for the ‘old school’ investor, Warren Buffett has a few insights on the demographic (dimension) of the coming economic/monetary ‘reset’: “Warren Buffett: Most Seniors Will Lose Their Homes In The Coming Crash!”

Most people haven't realized this yet though, because of that comfortable (and unfortunate) middle-class normalcy bias. The last time there was a challenge to the ruling elite was between the Great Wars, when the peasants got “above their station” — as the aristocracy would say (and clearly worry about) — and this resulted in the economic system that brought the middle-class (the greatest threat to elite rule the world has ever known) into being (until Neoliberalism took that power back).

This first opportunity (of regular people) was squandered however, because all of us (the ‘bourgeoisie’) are new to this ‘station in life’ . . . we have been conditioned, over generations, to think like peasants. This time though, if we remember the lessons of the past, we (the people) can permanently secure our rightful place in this world — and not become techno neo-feudal serfs. The Middle-Class is not down yet (I/we must believe), because this is the eternal struggle (which, gradually, we are winning).

On-the-ground though (one way or another) the elite’s agents, will attempt to force property owners to relinquish their property (at knocked down prices). What is about to happen might be nothing less than a new ‘Land Clearances,’ something I’ve discussed at length previously (and will probably return to), as people are ‘encouraged’ to move into densely packed population centers. For the migrants being brought in, of course, it is the intention that they will (for the most part) become residents of 15 Minute City developments; which are now even being funded by the government (our taxes that is) in some areas.

However, the ‘reverse migration’ has already started, of its own accord; though Canada (farcically) does not keep proper records of this. There are a lot of people who no longer want to live in Canada (including many new arrivals), because of the cost of living and a massive failure of governments (and staff) to foster a thriving economy in this country.

Two nights ago (quite coincidentally) I listened to a Steve Paiken Podcast: ‘Did Trudeau Destroy Canada’s Consensus on Immigration? | Everything Political’

‘Tony Keller joins the Everything Political panel with former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement to discuss his book “Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong” . . .’

Tony and I used to meet for lunch (many years ago); we had mutual friends, aspiring writers and photographers all, at the Toronto’s majors; The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, The Financial Post (before the National Post). A bygone age, sadly, when people of all political stripes could still hang out and have interesting conversations (in the newspaper world at least). In the hyper-polarized world we now live in though, such conversations are rare. Tony was already at the Globe and Mail, a paper I had a subscription to back then, in part, because it included commodity prices. It was a pleasant surprise to see him again, though I haven’t yet read his latest work (I will touch base with him again soon though, and I feel we still have much common grounds, based on comments made).

Meanwhile, it seems as if Canada is on track to become a new Third World resource base, for those new post-neoliberal Globalist elites (despite the Green affectations of almost everyone these days). To borrow an idea (and paraphrase) Mark Goodwin (from a recent Solari discussion on the tokenization of assets): ‘It’s great being ‘Green’ until your Digital ID personal Carbon Credit score won’t let you buy a steak, or fill up your car.’

Canada’s Bankruptcy Trustee (as some folk refer to Mr. Carney) is busy breaking up this country and selling it off in parts; and he calls this (in a classic example of Orwellian double-speak) ‘Nation Building.’

As a life-long monetary reformer, the use of this term is galling; as no ‘monetarily sovereign country needs to ‘borrow’ money from other nations (or foreign private investors even) for infrastructure: ‘Nation Building’ that is. Canada is being sold out, I would suggest, and our national assets are about to be sold off on a scale we have not seen before. The Recent P3 investment in the Port of Montreal, with DP World, is a case in point — a company ‘fronted’ by UAE royalty. I wonder who the private investors in this firm are (since DP World became a Private Equity venture in 2020) and what did they know ahead of time?

‘DP World Limited is a government-owned entity and is no longer publicly traded as a standard stock. The company returned to full state ownership in 2020. The stock was previously listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) under the ticker symbol DPW’ . . . Investors - Investor-enquiries - Our locations

Whoever the owners are, what Canadian resources (I wonder) might DP World want shipped out through the Port of Montreal?

‘[A]n executive with the Montreal Port Authority, explained the project has evolved to “meet today’s standards” with electrified and low-carbon equipment.’

Maybe they don’t care whether this project is profitable or not, as Canadian taxpayers will cover the losses, and the additional costs, of that ‘electrified and low-carbon equipment’ — which, most likely, is manufactured by other ‘P3 partners’ in the offshore world? For those of you with time on your hands, the following will be of interest: www.dpworld.com/en/news/dp-world-in-canada-and-the-mpa-sign-joint-development-agreement\

www.cmisa.ca/articles/montreal-port-project-backed-sees-cost-rise-to-17-billion

www.gcaptain.com/montreal-port-project-backed-sees-cost-rise-to-1-7-billion/

As mentioned, no monetarily sovereign country (any nation that issues its own currency that is) needs to ‘borrow’ from private investors, or enter into dubious WEF Public Private Partnerships (P3s), for the building of national infrastructure; and no nation needs to spend, at the taxpayers expense to meet arbitrary Net Zero targets.

I repeat this (mostly) for other monetary reformer, who (it seems) don’t fully understand the implications of ‘private bank money creation’ and ‘offshore flow throughs’ (which is how, Mr. Carney told us, his companies profit offshore without having to pay taxes here). I will return to this in the future.

Interestingly though, you may recall an earlier Substack post, in which I included a Rebel News article about Brookfields IoM’s dodgy offshore ‘headquarter.’ I mentioned (in that piece) that this was ‘just up the road’ from where a friend of mine used to live.

Coincidentally (once again), I was tidying up some things in my studio a week or so back, and I found a baggage tag from a flight to the Isle of Man back in the 2000s. My friend ‘Andy’ lived in the very same building (though almost no one would believe this) that Brookfields used as a ‘front’ address. I can provide numerous pictures, from earlier visits (and from the time I helped Andy move from this flat in 2014), and I will included a few of these in my next private email update (should anyone here think I’m making all of this up). And if any of you read my book, Time Enough: An Amoral Tale, you can almost see the gnome, one of those Zurich Gnomes maybe (now that I think of it) beneath the window (Chapter 10: ‘Genius Loci’), and you can just see the statue in the front garden, over the van’s windscreen (not my rental van, I must add).

Please revisit my previous post, On Art and Life II, and the above mentioned report from Rebel News.

The point of returning to this:

First, a coincidence like this is beyond calculation (particularly given my own interests and artistic mission), and Second; to underscore how sketchy some ‘blind’ trust holdings actually are.

Legitimate offshore operations have legitimate addresses, at offices established for this purpose (and the Isle of Man is known for its ‘International Business Corporations’ - IBCs), in the City of Douglas. That this Brookfield(s) ‘front’ address is on some random back street, in an everyday working community (well outside IoM’s legit financial district), should throw everything we’re told into question. In the meantime, the Canadian people, who (for the most part) don’t understand the offshore world — let alone money mechanics and monetary theory — are been taken for suckers.

The World Economic Forum’s “you will own nothing” plan isn’t unfolding quite as they hoped, however, because the inflation of asset prices (thanks to the greed of some) has raced too far ahead. We are already in a deflation, which is why most people actually don’t have any extra money these days . . . See the Bank of Canada ‘Money Aggregates’ chart below (if you look at the green line, it is about where it was in 2018, and lower than where it was in 2015). The money supply is being contracted, and people are finally waking up as life gets tougher; because of inflation and deflation together (‘stagflation’ they called it in the 70s). The last of those (who can be awakened) are starting to pay attention now, as their assets also begin to depreciate in value.

Any technical analyst will look at this chart, and wonder, where’s this going next? The government (and Bank of Canada) could actually increase the money supply to make improvements to the Port of Montreal (and national infrastructure everywhere) as was the case in Canada’s actual ‘Nation Building’ period, when the St. Lawrence Seaway and other such massive projects were undertaken, with almost no debt (weird how that that works). Today though, most of our sovereign money gets sucked into the offshore money system and disappears (into the bank accounts or assets of insiders) so none of this really matters, until we have meaningful monetary reform — rather than a ‘Great Reset.’

Some Canadian politicians even might own share in these international / offshore businesses, and stand to profit directly? This is wild speculation of course (‘conspiracy theory’ even) but if anyone here has experience in forensic accounting, and would like to look into these international offshore tax dodge schemes (or the financial holdings of those in office) you might find something interesting. Personally, I just want to be an artist again, but my life keeps dragging me back into this sordid mess (for some reason).

Let’s cut to the chase here: In addition to the recent Durham budget meeting, I also attended the Nov 15th Durham Region ‘Climate Roundtable Fall Forum’ and I must share a few thoughts on this too:

The discussion here, strangely enough, wasn’t about the Climate, per se, but rather, how to silence those who question the profitable corporate Climate narrative. Those who question the cherry-picked ‘settled science’ ‘talking talking points’ and are now considered purveyors of ‘Mis. and Disinformation.’

Holding court, and proposing ways to stop ‘Mis. and Disinformation’ (a transition of slides here). Above are: (speaker) Dr. Tanner Mirrlees - Digital Media Studies, Ont. Tech University (OTU) and Keynote Speaker. Mr. Ian McVey -Director Environment and Climate (Durham Region). Ryan Turnbull MP - Liberal (Whitby) Who met with the PM just the week before, we were told.

The Q&A was cancelled, because it looked as if there were people in the audience who might ask uncomfortable questions (I suspect). Turnbull and Tanner had to leave immediately, we were told, but I did manage to chat with the Director of Environment and Climate afterwards. “The science is settled,” he told me, “and we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.” In his words: “The only area of discussion is government policy.” Oddly, he seemed to nod in agreement when I suggested the Region should not be engaged in ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ (though I’m not entirely sure he fully understood what I was referring to). Previous PPC Candidate in the Annex, David Kent (who ran against Chrystia Freeland, no less), joined us at this point, and listened to much of this conversation. “We can discuss Policy,” Mr. McVey told me/us. Surprisingly, he was actually against giving taxpayer subsidies to EV battery plants here in Ontario (so maybe we can find some common ground after all).

Further discussion was welcomed, and I will to engage the Region, and our local environment committees (again). It is easy to contact these folks, but surprisingly difficult to actually ‘engage’ on this subject. No one ‘in the system’ wants to question the official narrative (not surprisingly); though ‘off the record’ many have questions and concerns. With Municipal elections less than a year away though, the cost of those dubious ‘Net Zero’ Climate Change initiatives be will foremost in the minds of most Durham residents.

The important thing to understand now, is that this ‘agenda’ is on ‘autopilot’ and the Stakeholder Capitalists (in collusion with their government ‘partners’) are going to take us for everything we have, if we don’t put an end to the ‘climate emergency’. Attending that day, I counted 144 in the audience (+ or –).

A dozen of the people there (by my count) were ‘award’ winners; 7 (or so) were full time Region Staff; 45 (or so) were people staffing information tables outside, and 18 were people like myself, keeping an eye on things for those who were unaware of this event (my original count was 12, but I now know this number was higher). I’m sure there were other residents in attendance (from Durham’s eight Municipalities); to my knowledge though, there was no one else there from Uxbridge (please comment if you disagree).

So (if my math is correct) there were around 60 people in the audience who might not have been directly involved, presumably some Committee members from other towns, and a few additional random residents. The population of Durham (in 2023) was 753,090 people (paying for all of this); yet only a few dozen, at best, are watching what is going on — though we will all be paying for decisions made here. Even fewer Durham residents (surprisingly) attended the last budget meeting on Dec 11^th, where a 6.04% property tax increase was rationalized. You can see Durham Region’s latest proposed budget here.

But don’t worry, the latest budget ‘advances the goals of the Region’s Strategic Plan’ Priority Number 1 (and I’m sure nothing here will lead to massive future expenditures):

‘C1. Align Regional infrastructure and asset management with projected growth, climate impacts, and community needs.’

Again, I’ve written way too much, but let me finish with a quote that captured my imagination (from a video posted couple of days ago by our friend Doreen at ‘Our Greater Destiny’:

‘How Switzerland Became a Surveillance State Overnight’ (at 4 mins):

“Free people don’t have authorities, they have public servants.”

On that note, it’s time to get involved. We live in a participatory democracy, and public engagement is essential to ensure those whose salaries we pay — our public servants — serve our interests, not those of international financiers and corporate stakeholders.

Thank you everyone, and I look forward to seeing you at an upcoming meeting.

David

Credit / permission: https://solari.com/toon-frogs-in-boiling-central-banker-water2-678x384-1/

Before I tell a couple of heart-warming stories — moral tales actually; because that karma comes back to us, good or bad — let’s take a quick look at what all the fuss is about. The fuss, such as it is, currently seems to be from just a handful of ‘cranks’ like me, who just refuse to go along. I should say, I do know a handful of others, who regularly refuse to go through the body scanners, and for all of you (who would like to share your experiences in writing), here are a few sources for official images (since we’re not allowed to take pictures in the security check zone):

The primary issue, of course, is the health concerns of ‘millimetre wave’ and ‘ultra-low-dose backscatter X-ray’ technology (no matter what anyone tells you, this is not ‘sonar’):

‘[T]he FCC standard was based on the thermal effect of electromagnetic radiation (if the device does not heat the body, it does not harm the body). The biological effects of RF radiation over a long period of time on the human body at different frequency ranges have never been studied.’

The dangers of increasingly dense ‘EMF fog’ are clearly a concern, and there is much literature on this; but here we must focus on the short-term exposure, and ways to halt a dangerous trend, longer-term. There’s a lot of ‘official’ material on EMF safety of course, and on the subject of full body scanners too; mostly by manufactures and (possibly?) captured public ‘health’ agencies. I don’t profess to be an expert; I just read a lot, and a lot of stuff just doesn’t add up. . . but you can tell me (your comments here are always appreciated).

The second page to pop up when I started looking into this subject, before my first flight to the U.S. in many years, was ‘National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’ 2017: ‘Airport Passenger Screening Using Millimeter Wave Machines: Compliance with Guidelines.’

‘The technical difficulty of implementing the concept is a consequence of the three-dimensional nature of the subject. The solution to this technical problem, as implemented in the L3 ProVision series of scanners, is to have the subject enter a “portal,” a cylinder in which the subject stands erect, with arms raised. A linear array of antennae pairs, arranged vertically as part of a “mast,” transmits (the transmit antenna of the pair) a set of millimeter wave signals, which reflect off the subject and are received by the linear array (all the receiving antennae of each pair, approximately 200 in total for each of the two arrays).’

Here, of course, we’re talking about ‘millimeter wave’ technology, and not the ‘ultra-low-dose backscatter X-ray technology’ (ionizing radiation that is) . . . Needless to say, we only have their word on this . . . that this is ‘ultra-low-dose’ (ionizing and non-ionizing radiation). In the U.S. at least (though not here in Canada, apparently) the authorities will inform passengers. ‘Informed consent’ is important (I needn’t tell anyone here), and on my return trip from the U.S., Sunday November 8^th, it was clearly stated that the full-body scanners ahead employed ‘millimeter wave technology’.

So the moment I threw my carry-on luggage, shoes, laptop and miscellaneous odds and ends, in the trays provided, I informed the attendant at the X-ray machine that I was opting out of the scanner (because of the notice they’d posted) and requesting a pat down instead. She immediately called this in, and asked me to step out of the line.

I’ll continue with this story below, but first, let me share a few more details pertaining to this technology. Of course, I’d encourage anyone who cares about their health – encroaching surveillance state and creeping authoritarianism – to do a little research of their own, but here are a few things that jumped out at me. I don’t profess to be an expert (though almost no one believes ‘experts’ anymore in any case), but this isn’t just about body scanners. EMF pollution is a serious problem, and we should all know more (than the health authorities are willing to share with us). Everything from these folks, of course, is ‘Safe and Effective;’ especially those who manufacture the equipment (and products), and profit handsomely from mandates requiring their use. ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ is what they call this new business model.

Wikipedia, however, includes some critical opinions on this subject (which is saying something); such as the Italian Government’s decision to abandon airport body scanners. . . because they are, in fact, “slow and ineffective” (as cited there).

Captured ‘health’ authorities don’t care about this though, because their job is to pacify an ‘uninformed,’ compliant and unquestioning population, and assure them that all this new technology is convenient . . . and totally safe.

Further to this:

So we should do our home work, and see exactly what they say. Here is the CATSA link, reference above; and ‘Safety Code 6.’ There has been criticism, as you saw above, that the only ‘metric’ recorded is how much EMF radiation ‘heats’ the flesh — think microwaves here, and if you look on the back of the microwave in your kitchen, you’ll see it operates a 2,450 megahertz (MHz), or 2.45 gigahertz (GHz) — which is the same as the cool and convenient Bluetooth earbuds that people insert actually into their heads — (2.4 GHz ISM) radio band. Some people apparently don’t mind the ‘heating’ of their brains, and I’m sure there’s no connection between this and a recent spike in brain cancers. Moving on though (because you can’t tell anybody anything):

Health Canada informs us:

‘Continuous’ but not long-term. Continuously looking at the same metric (how much a certain amount of body tissue is heated by microwaves and millimetre waves that is) is not a proper study; when we also take into consideration, for instance, the genetic damage caused by long-term EMF exposure. Needless to say, the word ‘continuous’ is ‘regulatory capture’ double-speak; which is provided now everywhere, by bought and paid for Government agencies.

The health considerations of (ever increasing) EMF pollution are without doubt the main concern, but there are others, of course, related to this technology specifically. Again, as documented on Wikipedia:

‘Full-body scanning allows screeners to see the surface of the skin under clothing.[43] Prosthetics including breast prostheses and prosthetic testicles may require a potentially embarrassing physical inspection once detected. The scanners can also detect other medical equipment normally hidden, such as colostomy bags and catheters.[44] The transgender community also has privacy concerns[45] that body scanners could lead to their harassment.’

Maybe you don’t care about strangers checking out your ‘tackle’ – even the pat down avoids those regions – but the Creative Commons image shown here is completely misleading:

The following, is closer to reality:

Above are real images, from https://www.livescience.com/5387-airport-body-scans-reveal.html And you can compare these to the fake (‘doctored’) government images, above at: https://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/en/full-body-scanner (notice the blurred faces).

Personally, I don’t care, but for a lot of folk, the revealing images above will be disconcerting. Some people see being patted down as a humiliation ritual, but I would suggest it is far more humiliating to be herded like cattle into a glass chamber (“hands above your head”) and systematically irradiated (and who really knows what level of radiation these machines emit – or can be randomly caused to emit?). Once at the mercy of the technocrats, absolutely anything is possible; and you have no idea what you are really being subjected to.

But this is enough technical stuff, let me return (should you wish to take this journey with me) to my Tale of Two Cities; Toronto, and one south of the border, in the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free (er).

A Moral Tale (with a happy ending)

My first encounter with these full body scanners was at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. Coincidentally, I had just watched an old series of the Battlestar Galactica program; the prequel, Caprica (a story in itself that I’ll save for a future piece on the Metaverse ‘predictive programming’ PsyOp). One of the characters in this science ‘fiction’ tale submits to a full body scan in order to create an ‘avatar’ for his consciousness to inhabit once migrated into the proto-Metaverse. . . and there was no way I wanted to be subjected to this.

“But it’s totally safe,” the security guard advised me when I informed him I would opt for a pat down. “It’s just sonar.” He added. I actually didn’t know anything about this technology at the time, but I knew this was total BS. He maybe thought he’d understood what he was told about the equipment, and misspoke, so maybe this wasn’t a bold face lie; but I insisted, I was not going through the scanner.

I couple of people were summoned from behind the scenes and I was asked whether I wanted to be processed in a private room, or right here. “Right here,” I insisted. Again, giving these folk the benefit of the doubt, perhaps they thought the experience would be humiliating. I didn’t feel this way; rather, it seemed like a way to show others that there was an alternative. It would seem more alarming for people observing this, I thought, if I were taken into a back room for ‘processing’ and then they never saw me again (having moved quickly and ‘conveniently’ on, themselves).

Two staff members undertook the patting down, as it happens; a young man, and a middle aged woman (who oversaw the procedure). Perhaps the younger staff member was in training. “I’m going to have to touch you,” the young fellow said. “Not a problem,” I replied. And he proceeded, somewhat nervously it appeared. It’s a pretty simple routine, as the TSA video on the ‘Full_body_scanner’ Wikipedia page above illustrates, so I’ll not outlining the process step by step here.

“Please turn around and face me,” he then requested, “I have to do the front now”. . . Sorry.” He added, in that most disarming (and sometimes annoying) Canadian manner. At which, I couldn’t help responding: “Not to worry, I prefer the personal touch.” The lady observing actually laughed, and his demeanor changed entirely too. At one point, I even thought he might be enjoying this a little too much, but the point was, the whole experience had been changed, with a conversation and a little real human interaction.

“With all this technology,” I offered, “I just wanted to make sure you guys still have your jobs next year.” This was something that resonated; and the prospect of redundancy was not nearly so immediate then as it is today, with the full rollout of AI.

Fast forward to this past Saturday (November 8^th), and a return flight from Florida; where I was surprised to encounter this equipment again. On the way down, going through U.S. security and customs at the airport in Toronto, I was happy to see there were actually none of these scanners; so I didn’t expect to see one on the return trip.

Once again, I informed the girl sorting X-ray machine trays that I would be opting for a pat down. It seems more positive this way; opting for something, rather than refusing something. Without a moment’s hesitation, she pulled out her radio and called for an assistant, and I was asked to wait off to the side. Another attendant took a minute to let me know they were short staffed that day (I now understand there was a strike going on and today was one of those ‘work to rule’ situation). In the end (and I’m guessing here) I probably had to wait twenty minutes or so longer.

As it happens, this gave me time to chat with other passengers in the line, as they filed past. I made a point of engaging anyone who actually seemed aware of my presence. Most just marched by, eyes forward, fixated on the apparatus and procedure ahead; but a few of those souls looked questioningly at me, and I said to them (pointing at the ‘millimetre wave technology’ sign): “I’ve read too many studies and I’m worried about the damage it might cause to my eyes.” Some nodded, or acknowledge in some fashion, but none questioned me, or seemed even remotely curious to know more. Maybe they would sit in the departure lounge later, and search for information themselves (I have no idea); but sadly, no one opted to join me. One by one, they stepped forward to be processed.

Occasionally, a passing staff member would question me why I was waiting there, and they nodded understandingly when I told them. They probably realized I might be there for a while. The last stragglers at the end of the line were throwing their belonging onto the X-ray machine rollers when a large African American guy opened the security gate and wave me inside.

He was BIG, like a night club bouncer, but I could feel he had a heart. My belongings had been removed from the rollers at the other side, and placed on a table. I’d been keeping an eye on them the whole time. He ran through the explanation of what he was about to do, as in the video above; I assured him I was fine with this, and that I didn’t need to go to a private room in the back. The process took no more than a couple of minutes, but it was enough time to explain to him also that, “as an artist, I’m particularly concerned about my eyes,” and again, that “I’d also like all of you here to still have a job next year.”

He too, in the present labour dispute situation especially, seemed particularly moved by my concern (from a complete stranger yet) for his well being and livelihood. “Those are your things?” He asked, pointing to my coat and lap top. He’d pulled out a swab, to screen for drug residue and whatever else it is they look for, but then he put it down again. “You’re good, he said. You can go.”

I was surprised, but thanked him, and wished him a good day; then quickly grabbed my things and headed off to find my gate, and a coffee shop. Not a minute after I picked up my coffee, I heard my name announced: “Would passenger David Ward return to security.” Hmm, and thought; but I had to go back there of course. The Starbucks was actually at the furthest point in the departure hall from security, so it took me a while to return. When I entered security again, the same fellow who had patted me down came out from behind the X-ray machine conveyors, and gestured toward the open door of a room at the back of the security area. His boss has called him out, I thought, for not doing a thorough check.

I followed him of course; but he stopped at a table beside the door, picked something up, and then walked back towards me.

“Is this yours,” he asked, holding out a memory stick.

It was (and there was some rather important information on it too). The jumble of items I’d deposited into the tray with my coat – wallet, boarding pass, passport, phone . . . and a memory stick – had all been thrown in loose, one item at a time as I emptied my pockets. When I’d scooped everything up at the other side, clearly, I’d missed this one item. It had no name on it of course, but I was the only person this security guard remembered from the last hour of work, and something about our encounter was important enough that, on a hunch, my name was located, and the call put out. Another guard, sitting behind the desk at the door, caught my eye as I left security again: “Don’t be in such a rush next time,” she said, with a smile.

So the moral of the story: Yeah, what’s the rush. . . and, of course, keep it human. Refuse all technology that promises convenience – safety and efficiency – while stealing the livelihoods of our fellow everyday working people. The anti-human technocrats get richer by gutting and dehumanizing our world; but we can stop them, by refusing to go along, and by seeking out real human interaction wherever possible. I hope all of you (and if not you, the readers of Substack, who?) will take a stand, to keep it human.

A routine security humiliation (and irradiation), was instead, for me (as I took a stand for all of us) a wonderfully human experience. My extended community grew a little more, and I made new friends. I may be in Florida again in a couple of months; perhaps our paths will cross once more, and maybe next time, I won’t be the only one ‘stepping out of line.’

Thank you all for your continuing interest and support.

David

Yet the world is already inundated with information; Too Much Information. For this reason, I also opt to take ‘another direction’ (as discussed previously in ‘Reality Rubicon’). The answer, I believe, is not to be found in more information; we are not AI data centers, crunching the world’s recycled chatter in the desperate search for an insight or two, and a glimmer of intuition. We are creative souls; visionaries even.

Instead of more information, we seek a different way of seeing and understand the world around us. This, I believe, is the role of Art; I would, of course, being an artist. But this is why artists continue to do what they do, despite the difficulties of making a living, and particularly in this new cultural Dark Ages. We, at least, must believe that a new Renaissance is possible, and work toward this end.

If we are to take back our world from the technocrats — the Globalist’s courtiers, collaborators and profiteers — there must first be a rebirth of our culture; and the rest will follow.

Art isn’t going away, I hasten to add. In fact, for a core group of Regionalist painters, sales are still strong. Two weekends back, I attend the opening of Travis Shilling’s latest exhibition at Ingram Gallery in Yorkville, Toronto. But the event of the season, I would say, was Anja Karisik’s (also virtually sold out) exhibition in May. Sales next door, at Loch Gallery, have also been strong.

I’ve documented some of my own works (and sales) over the year, and my latest piece, ‘Off Resolute,’ (CCGS Des Groseilliers in the Northwest Passage) — acrylic on canvas 17” x 36” — sold just two days after I dropped it off (I included an in-progress image in my last post, and here is the final work):

Art has never been more important than it is today, but this is the natural cycle of things. When a ‘civilization’ losses its way, and is bereft of new ideas, it falls once again to artists to envision a new way forward. The work above appears somehow emblematic of this; perhaps this is why it was received so enthusiastically (I’d love to add a commentary on climate here too, of course, but this must wait for another time).

In this increasingly chaotic world it feels (for many) as if society is falling apart; certainly a lot of illusions are about to be shattered (at the very least). So much is about to change, but the technocrats have it all figured out (or so they would have you believe) and they’re pushing forward with their ‘transitions’ and ‘resets’ as fast as they can, without any regard for the impact on society. The technocrat’s dream — digital ghettos for the new underclass, and digital gulags for dissenters — is being promoted, very subtly, by Internationalist cultural institutions such as MoMA. Everyone (almost) knows about The Line (crazy Futurist idea this is); but the concept is being implemented everywhere, as you will have noticed — and here is the technocrat’s future vision for Pickering, Ontario (on hold for the moment, I understand):

There is so much more to say on this (as you can image), but the funny thing is, the elites who are building this new ‘artificial world’ — those really in the know — seem concerned that things might not work out quite so ‘neatly.’ As they construct total surveillance 15 minute cities for us, they’re busy building bunkers and remote island retreats for themselves.

That ‘artificial world’ the technocrats are constructing for us; and selling to us as a utopia, will be anything but. This is also a way to justify a massive transfer of wealth (to enrich their P3 partners through numerous new ‘infrastructure’ projects) in the final days of our current monetary system; we only need to look at our local Municipalities to see the debts Globalist collaborators are accruing, for local property owners to pay.

Elon Musk’s Ex Partner, Grimes, has a much darker prediction for the future though; for artists, and for people in general. She drops this bombshell casually in an interview for Time (as if it were ‘a given’ in her elite circles):

“[W]hat are we going to do as people’s jobs start being taken fairly aggressively [by AI]. Luckily there’s a massive population drop coming so maybe everything is just fate and it’s going to work out okay. . . but I feel like we might get, like, very very very good AI across every pillar of art. . . before there aren’t any more people to make art” (19:20mins)

So, there is “massive population drop coming” . . . “Luckily”? The people planning our future are psychopaths, we must never forget. But what could she possibly means by this (I wonder)? The interviewer smiles, knowingly, and moves right along. . . Nothing to see here of course. But you can decide for yourselves: ‘Why Grimes No Longer Believes Art is Dead.’

We shouldn’t forget, of course, that Henry Luce, the founder of Time, had a long standing relationship with the CIA (and I’ll come back to this later too). I do agree with Grimes, that Art isn’t Dead; if there are any artists left (as she says) after the upcoming ‘massive population drop.’ But this isn’t just about artists of course.

Some people will simply never wake up (and, ‘sadly,’ they may not be with us for very long). In the meantime, for the rest of us, real Art (not ‘AI slop’) provides a beacon of light and hope; and also, I believe, the answer. It is time for artists and poets to provide a new vision for the future; and for everyone to get engaged, and push back.

On this note, let me focus on art for a while; representational art in particular, and realism especially. We now know (it is well documented) that Abstract Expressionism was the biggest cultural PsyOp / scam ever perpetrated on the people (it was the Trump ‘Meme Coin’ of the 50s); complements of Nelson Rockefeller (Internationalist and banker, who coined the phrase, ‘Free Enterprise art’), Clement Greenberg (curator) and Alfred Barr (first director of MoMA) — ‘The Congress for Cultural Freedom’ and the CIA’s 1952 ‘Doctrinal Program’ — PSB D-33/2.

Since this time, the west has been under a relentless barrage of propaganda and brainwashing (in the guise of culture). Consequently, Western societies, and their populations, are in decline. For those who wish to resist technocracy and technocratic rule — and thereby escape The Matrix — this Substack is for you.

Over the coming months I hope to share a series of essays I wrote (began writing) around 2010, when I first heard about the Psychological Strategy Board’s 1952 cultural ‘directive’ (implemented 1953, declassified 2003, and quietly released in 2005). This history must become more widely known, if we are to reverse the systematic destruction of our culture; of course, the system doesn’t want to have ideas of this nature broadcast (not even Substack it seems). So please share (the occasional ‘Like’ is much appreciated also). The active engagement of those who’ve broken free of the programming is essential.

At this point, I should include a video shared recently by my friend Doreen, at Our Greater Destiny, to show how subtle the mind control can be: Mentalist Lior Suchard Bends Harry Connick Jr. & Alice Eve’s Minds

This could all have been staged of course (we should assume this). Before you skip ahead though (and don’t cheat), I’d be curious to know what image you would have drawn? For some reason, ‘sunglasses’ popped into my head. . . and I’m certain almost no one here would have fallen for this trick either. . . because you’re not Television People.

I left the following comment:

‘That’s pretty messed up, but we know it’s real. . . I bet you didn’t draw the same thing this audience drew. These are TVland people, of course, and I’m certain most of the readers of this Substack (of Substack in general) haven’t watched TV in years :-)

The show may have been staged, but we know this is how most people ‘group’ think — ‘Elbows Up’ :

Mind control, in different forms and through various media — ‘nudging’ as the social engineers say now — is the means by which consent is ‘manufactured’ and the masses herded. I will return to Art’s role in the shaping of thought soon; and we must hope that Art (Capital ‘A’) can, once again, free the human mind. For now though, I’d like to share a little more of my own artistic journey, to begin this exploration.

One of the reasons I haven’t posted for a while is that earlier this month I took a quick trip to Newfoundland. I’d been there before, in 1991, and my second series of paintings (after a 1987 road trip to Nova Scotia) was from Trinity Bay, Conception Bay and Bonavista. Here are a couple of paintings, still posted on my old website, I hope you’ll enjoy: ‘English Harbour’ and ‘Early to Rise.’ Since I started this post with a piece of music (by The Police) here is the tune repeated over and over on the radio as I drove around NFLD in May, 1991: Londonbeat - I’ve Been Thinking About You

I had hoped to revisit (in person) one of the other paintings from this series, now part of the collection ‘housed at’ The Rooms (Newfoundland’s Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s); the work was out on loan, however (which is always flattering):

You may recall earlier posts, of my work in the Lieutenant Governor’s office (here in Ontario), Ministry of Tourism, Governor General of Canada (Rideau Hall), Stornoway, and this is where works from these collections circulate. As it happens, I didn’t have time to track down my painting ‘Awash’ (with it being a long weekend, for Truth and Reconciliation Day), but maybe I’ll head back next summer.

And here is the painting that found its way into The Rooms in 2011:

In part (ironically perhaps) it was the ‘popular culture’ aspect of this piece that moved the acquisition forward. The image had been licensed, a year or so earlier, to Cobble Hill Puzzles, and it as produced (reproduced) as a jigsaw puzzle. Fortuitously, when the catalogue came out, my work appeared alongside paintings by, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, E.J. Huges and Emily Carr. I felt like I’d finally made it, as an establishment Canadian Artist ;-) The acquisitions committee seemed satisfied at least.

It is a kind of magic, really, but Art ‘transports’ us into very different worlds. I showed a ‘work in-progress’ picture of my recent painting ‘Works In-Progress’ (Reconciliation pole) a couple of months ago; and I must dedicate a full post to ‘Reconciliation’ later. . . its well-intention origins, and subsequent subversion and politicization. Of course, I had permission from the artist (lead carver) Jim Hart, to create this image (of his work in-progress), and I donated half of my proceeds to the Carl Hart Foundation.

‘Works In-Progress’ Reconciliation Pole, Old Massett, 2016. Acrylic on canvas - 20” x 28” - 2025. The two other figures here (on the right) are Andrew Sookrah, creating a drawing of the carving, with the assistance of artist Anja Karisik (mentioned above) who is supporting his large sketch pad. So the ‘works in-progress’ here are, not just the Reconciliation Pole, but Andrew’s drawing, and of course, the Reconciliation project itself.

Substack is telling me my post is too long again, so I’ll continue this story later. In the meantime, if you find yourself in the city anytime soon, I would invite you to visit Yorkville (‘remember the War of the Roses’) and drop by both Ingram and Loch Galleries.

Before I close though, I’d like to underscore the importance of realism in art. There appears to have been a renewed appreciation of realism in recent years, since the 2020 PsyOp began. That date isn’t a coincidence either, of course, in terms of its connection with the idea of vision. Everything is symbolic, in the great theatre of life.

Let me quote from the 2001 documentary, ‘The Spectre of Hope,’ in which photographer Sebastião Salgado talks about his collected photographs (and later book) Migrations. At 32 minutes:

“[I]t is necessary that the inner life of man — the life which he creates within his mind — resemble as finely, that is to say, as truthfully as possible, the actual world. The whole history of art and philosophy is a history of a long and extraordinarily hard struggle to make this possible.”

The history of art and philosophy really is a long and extraordinarily hard struggle, precisely because those who control our culture have been subverting art for a very long time; and, believe it or not, they have been employing the same tactics as were employed during the first Bolshevik Revolution. Salgado’s work is a commentary, not just on Globalism, but also, on ‘weaponized migration’ (to which we will return).

Here I must revisit a commentary I’ve shared many times before. I can’t emphasize the importance of the following enough. Yuri Bezmenov outlines the process by which cultures are subverted and destroyed; ‘Ideological subversion’ (here we think in terms of ‘cultural subversion’) is a process known by other names of course:

“active measures, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality. . . ”

Bezmnov goes on to explain the four stage of ideological subversion.

First: 20 years (at least) of a process called ‘demoralization’ at 1.48mins (we might start this clock at the time of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis). Then, 2 to 5 years of ‘destabilization’ at 6:19mins; followed by a 6 weeks ‘crisis’ (we haven’t officially arrived here yet); and finally, the ideological perception of ‘normal’: “ normalization’ (7:25mins), for which we are already being prepared. It’s no longer okay to be a normie!

All of us here (those of you who have read this far) would probably agree that we are in “a state of undeclared total war” (8.43 mins) — Just another PsyOp in that ages old psychological battle for hearts and mind: the Kulturkampf.

There are various edits of this interview online. Perhaps the most important comment (at 11.50mins in the video linked above): “educate yourself in this process.” In another short cut:

“leftists in United States, all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of subversion only to destabilize the nation. . .” (5:40 mins) “When their job is completed they are not needed anymore, they know too much.”

The fate of these ‘useful idiots’ (to use their language), is clearly stated at 5:55 mins in the interview above (included in an earlier post). The full interview can be seen here: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion

‘Politics is downstream of culture,’ and our culture is still being systematically dismantled by (largely) unwitting collaborators and profiteers — a process that began in earnest in with the ironically named ‘Congress for Culture Freedom,’ and is perpetuated to this day by a system of well-organized and well-financed Globalist / Internationalist cultural organizations, beginning with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

To reiterate (and paraphrase) Salgado’s words: ‘Unless the life man creates within his mind resembles as finely and truthfully as possible the actual world’ . . . our culture will be lost (I would suggest) and the West will become a slave state (techno-feudal state) this time, according to the wishes technocratic elite.

We started our independent culture projects back in 2015, with the following quotation, from Norman Bethune:

“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world”.

So I hope the content of this post is disturbing enough to ‘arouse’ (and spur into action) a few more free individuals; and that together we really can shake those ‘complacent pillars.’

I look forward continuing this exploration of realism soon.

Until next time though, thank you for your continuing support,

David

I was moved by a comment from one of the Substack contributors I follow, who has frequently commented on the inscrutable nature of algorithms (as an obstacle to building a meaningful audience here) and, more recently, on the impact of AI.

From Our Greater Destiny:

“The proliferation of AI publications by large language models, by authors who obtain their material from AI programmed by humans to psychologically manipulate desired outcomes, hidden agendas and propaganda compel me to move in another direction.”

I must admit, I've been having similar thoughts over the past year:

I've often said I’d like to dedicate more time to my efforts here, but I am a painter (at heart) and I communicate (primarily) through a very different medium. As suggested above, algorithms set by social media platform overlords govern what the ‘digital’ world sees; and now the generation of AI content is quickly obliterating our culture’s already tenuous connection to reality. So it is not entirely clear at this point, if more information (even sound information) is the answer. And it's questionable whether those who haven't yet understood they're being manipulated — five years into the biggest PsyOp in history — will ever understand. So, as my friend Brett Hawes always says: “Now is the time for action”

On the cusp of a technocratic ‘digital utopia’ (as the ‘digital overlords’ like to present it), the real world — local community and the people we know directly, and trust — is paramount. And we will prevail, in good time. Remember The Revenge of the Analog.

Not long ago (and perhaps the Charlie Kirk PsyOp is our watershed moment) we crossed that long predicted Rubicon, where we can no longer trust anything digital. To paraphrase Marx (on the subject of Capitalism), so too ‘the Digital’ contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

That opening quotation in mind, with AI already in control of the Great Illusion (that is our understanding of the world), it feels as if we may be at a point of diminishing returns, even here on Substack; for all our efforts to present real information, in a sea of (dubious) opinion. This is the point, in that Brave New World, where we are being forced ‘to move in another direction.’ And maybe we can play our story out in a very different way.

The Old World? Mad Max: Fury Road Official Trailer

“That's what they call a satellite. . . They used to bounce messages across the earth. Everyone in the old world had a show.” (1.22.22mins)

Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk (if you are gone from this world). I like to think you are a real hero. . . Given the way your message changed in recent months, maybe what we saw was real. In which case, you will be in Valhalla now, where all those who die on the field of battle go (including those who die in this Fifth-Generation Information War).

There is no doubt that Kirk was a mysteriously well-funded construct (asset); perhaps unwitting, perhaps having second thoughts. I don't think it's a coincidence though that ‘Kirk’ is the Norse word for ‘Church.’ Everything (as all of you here know) is symbolic; and being from that old land of the DaneLaw I find this Viking reference especially interesting. I hope to follow up with a piece about this, and the Wapontake (there’s no Wiki page for this) very soon; as we try to reclaim and reshape our systems of local governance

I know a lot of you have mixed feelings about Michael Yon, but I think his comments on this assassination PsyOp are perhaps the most astute (next to Matt Ehret’s of course, which you will see below). Charlie Kirk Psyop - Off the Reservation

Enough has been said on this subject though. I didn't tempted to ‘weigh in’ at the time, and I have nothing more to add here; other than to say, we all know, for sure, that someone is messing with our minds.

But what has been occupying my mind (and time) recently?

(as I too pondered how best to move forward from this point)

First, is my own art (and for your interest, here is my latest work in-progress):

Des Groseilliers — Off Resolute (acrylic on canvas - 17” x 36”) There will be a story for this soon (of course).

Second: Community meetings and the real world events — to support others who are trying to present meaningful information. Earlier this month, I attended a film screening of Matt Ehret and Cynthia Chung's latest work:

On the Saturday (Sept 6^th), I organized a group of ‘real people,’ to attend a ‘real world’ event at Innis College at UofT. Fourteen of us went to the Duke of York afterwards. . . and here's a story too, relating back to that old War of the Roses (everything is symbolic of course). There'll be more on this later, as we continue to expose the ‘sub rosa.’

It is always a pleasure to meet with Matt and Cynthia, and I was especially pleased (this time) to meet their friend (who was a moderator at the Saturday event), David B. Gosselin. I'm currently reading his book: A Renaissance or New Middle Ages: Magic, Mystery, and the Trance Formation of the West (which is quite brilliant). He, Cynthia and Matt all presented the next day, at an event in Claremont, Ontario (which I like to see as a sort of ‘commanding heights’) and it was a treat to have an event of this calibre, literally, on our own doorstep.

A big Thank You to all of our local friends who came out to support, as we work toward the manifestation of a new Renaissance, while that crazy ‘digital’ world seems determined to bring about some kind of new technocratic Dark Ages.

I share all of this (as much as anything) to explain why so much time has elapsed since my last post. I'm not going to disappear from Substack (unless I get shut down for not monetizing this, or for saying something I shouldn’t), even if only a few hundred people read (and only a handful ‘like’) what I post.

I'm preaching to the choir here, of course, when I talk about our corrupt politicians and point out their lies; but I also share the work of others, who have real solutions for the problems of our day, and it is important that as many people as possible are exposed to these ideas. Where I really can contribute something more, I believe, is in the area of monetary reform, art and culture. And I hope you’ll revisit my previous posts when you have time.

So I look forward continuing this discussion, as we detour from that road to a ‘digital utopia’ — as David Sax wrote (you know how those ‘Utopias’ always play out).

And on that note, I have a painting to finish :-)

Thank you for your continuing interest and support,

David

I’ve been told I'm a little too preoccupied with all of this (and that may be true); based on comments from Adam Smith on my last post though (Toronto's 21st Century Adam Smith that is), I felt I should expand on Gaslighting ‘I’ to underscore (and explain further) the gravity of this situation.

‘It is kinda strange’ wrote Adam ‘that Carney would use the phrase “fractional reserve banking”, not only because (as you pointed out) it has not applied to Canada since 1994 under our 0% reserve system, but also it's very arguable if that phrase was ever apt because banks make loans first and seek reserves after the fact. Where banks get into trouble is when they make more loans than they can easily find reserves to back, and then have to pay a premium for those reserves, and if any of the loans go bad they begin the road to insolvency.’

We have become inured to the constant stream of lies from politicians (and captured media); but if there is one lie, above all others, that guarantees you will ‘own nothing and be happy’ by 2030 (or shortly thereafter), this is it! Gaslighting is most galling when it is direct and personal; and all of us here (I am certain) have being dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ at one time or another — by politicians especially, whenever we suggest they are being directly influenced (if not controlled) by the World Economic Forum and United Nations. We may (all of us here) have become used to this now, but for many, the Gaslighting (in all its forms and on all subjects) is dangerous.

I found this video essay most informative. Needless to say, the algorithms ensure that hardly anyone finds such material (in the course of random viewing), which is why this piece (like so much important internet and social media content) only has a handful of views (74 views in the last 8 months — and two of those are mine). I don’t know why anyone even bothers with social media anymore, it is so hopelessly controlled. An opening scene portrays protesters in Ottawa during the trucker convoy. . . No government gaslighting (or censorship) around these events of course!

I’m just as tired of hearing World Economic Forum pronouncements as anyone at this point, especially “you will own nothing” — but I must keep pointing to this ‘prediction’ to underscore the fact that it has been the Great Monetary Racket (of private money creation) that has brought us to this point. Happily, the WEF appears to be coming unhinged at the moment; but rest assured, the central bankers are not going to quit until they get what they want: absolute control through a digital control grid.

Adam explains (as economist Richard Werner stated in the conversation I shared previously) why ‘fractional reserve banking’ has never been a real thing (since banks kept gold in vaults to back their loans). You can see this full comment, along with my response, if you take a moment to check the comments section (at the bottom of my last post); and I cannot emphasize enough just how important this is (as Matthew Ehret was thoughtful enough to add).

The bankrupting of the middle-class and the creation of a new (neofeudal) under-class, need not happen of course; but the Bank for International Settlements is clear about its objectives (as I referenced in very my first Substack post). Incidentally, BIS General Manager, Agustín Carstens, stepped down a month ago (June 30th 2025). This will change little, though we should probably be grateful to the most forthright Mr. Castens. These rare moments of shocking honesty (however they managed to slip out) are helpful in waking up those who haven't yet quite understood what’s going on.

We must continue, therefore, to share such information, in the hope of reaching as many people as possible (in whatever time we have); because the dead weight of those who can't grasp what ‘absolute control’ means, threatens our freedom and our future.

I've suggested, previously, that there seems to be some kind of ‘black magic’ at work here — a centuries-long brainwashing effort at least — that prevents a lot of folk from understanding (I won't say ‘most folk’ anymore, because I know this is no longer the case). Whatever power those in power have had over us (despite the occasional shocking election result), they are losing their grip — on our minds especially.

I'm reminded of a 1970s television Sci fi series (from my childhood in the UK): The Tomorrow People. It was likely just predictive programming (these people are way ahead of us) but it really does feel as if something is happening now; as a kind of evolutionary step — and not just with a few odd people (They didn’t use the term ‘awaken’ back then, but rather, “breaking out,” which seems much more appropriate now). Whatever the motives behind this old TV series, it gives me a sense of optimism today.

Having said this, most folk still can’t get their heads around Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Digital ID, and would (I suspect) accept both in a flash; particularly if they were left little choice. The same too for other forms of programmable currency, stable coin and the tokenized assets, about which most people (also) haven't a clue — despite the fact that their property and real estate is currently being moving into a digital ‘twin’ world, controlled by the globalists.

Nevertheless, a few dedicated souls, like Margaret Byfeld, have had some success in resisting this dangerous technology: ‘NYSE Pulls Plan for Environmentally Sustainable Asset Class.’ The development NACs continues though — ‘ostensibly as a means to fight climate change and protect biodiversity’ — and without wider awareness, the Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG), and companies like BlackRock, will find a way to make all of this a reality (just as carbon markets have been integrated into the economy).

What we need to work on now (taking our lead from those folk at American Stewards) is the dismantling of systems that have already been established; particularly where private assets have been tokenized without consultation or consent. By moving our existing property (and everything in the commons) into this parallel digital realm — the ‘Metaverse’ — those technocrat ‘gatekeepers’ can (and will) assume ‘absolute control.’ I suggest that all new technologies (of this kind) must be challenged, therefore.

This is a huge, unfathomably deep Rabbit Hole, so I'll move on in a moment. If we are to survive this next ‘Great’ financial reset though (with our assets, and our freedoms, intact) we must understand what this technology can enable — beyond the promised ‘conveniences’ and ‘efficiencies’ The 21st Century ‘enclosures movement’ is underway (busily ‘enclosing’ your property, as you read) and only through a concerted effort to resist, will we save ourselves from becoming WEF neofeudal serfs.

Meanwhile, alarming financial stats continue to surface: Half of Canadians are just $200 from insolvency, for instance. We have to ask, of course, what will these people agree to — what freedoms will they give up in exchange for help — when they don't have enough money to eat? That proverbial music will stop (likely at a point of the bankers’ choosing) and a great many Canadians are locked into debt traps, already just a hair’s breadth away from serious financial problems. In Alberta, for instance, 1.8 million (out of a population of 5 million) ‘say they are close to financial insolvency.’

So the real question for anyone here, thinking about such things:

When this house of cards collapses due to cascading defaults in the private debt market (and millions of Canadians are forced to accept a digital ID in exchange for their programmable CBDC Universal Basic Income), how do those who are not in this situation ensure they don't get dragged in too?

Let me return to Mark Carney's Values, in which he explains (at the beginning of ‘Chapter 5’):

‘Fintech heralds the dawn of narrow banking and portfolio optimization. It will change the nature of money,¹ shake the foundations of central banking and deliver nothing less than a democratic revolution for all who use those financial services.’

Now this is a fintech sales pitch, and (because we must assume central bankers and politicians only tell us what they want us to believe) we might ask: Whose portfolios will actually be optimized by this? (I’m guessing Brookfield IoM and Brookfield Bermuda stand to benefit). And how does a digital payment system with total surveillance and absolute control over what you can spend your money on (and where) result in a ‘democratic revolution’ — unless it sparks an actual revolt?

‘'Knavery of the Rump”(parliament) playing cards — House of Cards — 1679, at the time of the English Civil War. “Cursed be Meroz” as they used to say. Things are more complicated than ever today, but maybe there’s a lesson or two here anyway (with so many nations on the bring of civil war)?

Ironically, hidden behind this predicted ‘dawn of narrow banking’ (and portfolio optimization for the extra-national moneyed classes) is a revelation that could be of use to all of us.

As the ‘nature of money’ citations reads (page 476): ‘Especially the balance between inside money (created by commercial banks) and outside money (created by central banks).’ This is almost an Agustín Carstens moment! First, this is an admission that private commercial bankers are the ‘insiders’ (we already knew this, of course), while those who should benefit from the sovereign money of a public central bank (the public that is) are considered ‘outsiders.’

More importantly though, the fact that two separate money system exist (side by side, yet invisibly) allows for this possibility in a new system; one that makes possible an ‘opt out’ for those who chose to (or can) — and the opportunity for those who are corralled into a new central bank digital currency (CBDC) control grid, to ‘break out’ (as Thames Television put it) and transition back to a parallel, national, sovereign money system.

‘Under this model, banks would function as custodians and payment processors, separate from the lending function performed by other financial intermediaries,’ to quote from the Wikipedia definition of a Narrow Bank. Narrow banking, which ‘prohibits traditional lending activities,’ is something commercial banks must return to, in this new ‘dawn’ (many would suggest). And those ‘other financial intermediaries,’ which can lend (preferably at near 100% reserve) must be publicly owned. The bulk of monetary reformer debates today (for those groups not already captured, and that don't advocate for linking money creation to Net Zero, ESG and DEI) is about just this.

I must return to this subject because there are other options too, and we must be instrumental in developing all of them — if there really is be a ‘democratic revolution’ (to save us from the creeping authoritarianism).

Maybe this is a good place for a comedic intermission on the subject of Gaslighting (or it would be comedic it if weren’t so sad). As the globalists and private bankers have perpetrated their ‘Palace Coup’ (just a step or two away from completion now) they’ve sent in their clowns. As things get even more dire, the antics get more outrageous and the gaslight gets brighter. We’re approaching Xenon Arc Light intensity at this point, so lets revisit a few of the latest goings-on.:

Circulated by Elon Musk on X (I’m told). I bet this got more than 74 views. Though it is pretty funny!

I don’t know who should be given credit for this one, but it’s pretty clever too, following Trump’s suggestion that Ghislaine Maxwell is actually the victim of a ‘witch hunt.'

And on the subject of money:

Nov 2nd 2017. President Trump appoints Jerome Powell to the FED:

“It is my pleasure, and my honor, to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve.”

July 16th, 2025.

“He's a terrible fed chair, I'm surprised he was appointed. I'm surprised, Frankly that Biden put him in, and extended him.”

I don’t want to give the impression I’m picking on the Trump administration here; I’m certain there’d be even more to criticize (and worry about) if Harris and Walz were in the Center Ring right now. But it’s the ‘Uniparty’ that runs things in the United States, just as it is in Canada, and all of these ‘circus sideshows’ (of course) are to distract us, while the international elite plunder our countries. So if you’ll bear with me, perhaps we could dig a little deeper into Values.

As I mentioned above, it is now clear that some monetary reform groups (many of which did incredible work in the past) are now advocating for policies inline with the world's central banks — Just a crazy thought, but maybe they’re getting paid? It will come as no surprise that much of Mark Carney's book is about just this. ‘Chapter 15’ (page 390) ‘Securing Climate Impact: the Transition to Net Zero as a New Asset Class,’ harkens back to the early comments here on Natural Asset Companies (NACs), though from the perspective of a global ‘investor.’ Theoretically, there is money in this, as taxes will be extorted to cover many of the costs; but the real profit is for those ‘insiders’ who can take the government grant money up front, and needn’t wait for some future, Green, revenue stream.

Jordon Peterson did an interesting review of this book (and Carney) back in April. As I recall, he suggested you read just the first five chapters, and the last five. . . and that the rest was ‘filler’ (words to this effect). He read this, as he put it, “so you don’t have to.” Fair enough, I’m doing the same I suppose, though I do recommend borrowing a copy somewhere, and reading it right through (if you can); because there are more Agustín Carstens moments here than I would have expected. Including this, from page 80 (in case you ever wondered): the Bank of Canada really doesn’t have any gold. Apparently, we sold it all ‘in the 1990s.’

Now the same thing happened in Europe, to make government finances appear better than they were, and to align economies and currencies before the launch of the Euro. This, drove gold to a low of $256.75 per oz in July 1999.

But Canada wasn't joining the Euro, so the selling off of this national asset amounts to monumental stupidity (at best), considering the price of gold is around $3400 per oz today. Some of those ‘insiders’ though, will have done well; because commercial banks, and some central banks, have been buying all the way up from that artificially created bottom in the market. The average citizen of course — the ultimate ‘outsider’ — got ripped off, again.

As I see it: central bankers and Treasury officials took a national asset (which belonged to the people of Canada) and quietly sold it off (at bargain basement prices keep in mind) to make their books look better, making the administration at the time look better; which, in turn, would help that administration get elected again. I’m just an outsider of course, but it all seems pretty crooked to me.

What outsiders (like all of us) must understand, is that the government is not coming to help if things go south. They might pretend to help, but everything they do will be setting the stage for the next (even greater) theft of public assets. Having said this, it's unlikely the system will be allowed to completely collapse (if that's any consolation), because a monetarily sovereign country, like Canada, cannot default on debt issued in it's own currency. The government can print whatever it needs to buy back its own existing bonds (in debased currency of course); and it can issue digital currency tokens for the more unfortunate, who can then purchase rations at their local 15 Minute City Bodega. If investors will no longer exchange other currencies or assets for the country’s ‘bonds’ though (at any price or interest rate), things will get very ‘creative’ — and probably quite ugly.

I don’t want to get into detail here, as I’ve talked about this in the past, and will in the future. Again though, I must underscore the importance of informing as many people as possible that there are multiple options, if the current system goes down. This reset (however it plays out) must not be allowed to strip us of our assets or our freedoms; and solutions provided by the people who created this problem, absolutely, should not be accepted. The last thing we need is a more fintech, and more ‘portfolio optimization’ for extra-national elite.

We have tried and trusted solutions already, as history — and present day examples elsewhere — clearly demonstrate; and our friends, neighbours and families need to know about these alternatives.

A quick aside: let me share an ‘apparent’ new subscription to my Substack — I suspect this was just a bot, sent to encourage me to continue posting here (though it unsubscribed just a few days later). Regardless, I thought the image was apropos:

Why do they lie to you?

L. Randall Wray asks this question in his exploration of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), just as Catherine Austin Fitts mused in a video included in my last post. So here we have two authorities on the subject — who represent opposite monetary camps — and yet both ask the same question. I won't get into a discussion of MMT vs. the ideas of Fitts and Werner here (other than to say, for now, that I’m more comfortable with the latter); however, I watched the following recently (the evening it was posted actually) and Jim Rickards has some interesting things to say about MMT:

5 MINS AGO! “The Housing Market Is Going to EXPLODE - Here's Why!”

At the 4 minutes mark, you'll see that Rickards tell us that the MMT people are correct — this really is how the system works — and you need to take precautions therefore.

4:14 mins: “Modern Monetary Theory, MMT for short. Everyday viewers, everyday people [don't] know anything about it. But more to the point, economists don't know anything about it. . .” 7:24 mins: “So all the elements of the thesis are actually correct.”

And this idea, ‘that economists don't understand monetary theory,’ is explained in the following: ‘Why don't Economists understand money?’

Politicians don't understand money! Economists don't understand money! Even banker don't understand money (apparently)! This is the Clown World of course!

So whether the clowns in power now are inept or corrupt, makes almost no difference: I suspect no one is going to be able to save the current system! The only ‘plan’ on the table currently is the bankers’ plan, which is to change the very ‘nature of money.’ And this will not just ‘shake the foundations’ of the world we know, it will bring large parts of the edifice (and western culture itself) crashing down. This is inevitable now…

“You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.”

. . . Unless an alternate plan is on the table.

So we need to gather ourselves, and get out of the way of that approaching train (wreck). It seems very likely (though I can only speculate on such things), that our globalist CEO was installed to complete the destruction of Canada’s economy. I know quite a few people who describe him as the ‘bankruptcy trustee’ (a whole other discussion) whose job it is, specifically, to destroy Canada and sell off its assets. Mr. Carney has a very close relationship to the British Crown, and as we all know, and the Crown believes it owns Canada . . . ‘Crown land’ and all. So they are lying when they tell indigenous people that this is their land, and they are lying when they suggested to everyone else that we are ‘the owners’ of this country:

‘Trump and Canada's Mark Carney's Oval Office meeting’ Face the Nation CBC — ‘87K views 3 months ago’

8.28mins: “Having met with ‘THE OWNERS OF CANADA’ over the course of the campaign last several months — It's not for sale, won't be for sale ever. . ."

Though they could just steal it from us with the help of the United Nations, I feel compelled to add. Considering the lead in to this though:

8.17 CARNEY: “If I may, as you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale; we're sitting in one right now.” TRUMP: “Sure.” CARNEY: “Buckingham Palace you visited as well.” TRUMP: That's true.

That wouldn’t be ‘doublespeak’ would it? Although this is all theatrics, as we know. Prime Ministerial Candidate Carney, spoke to many of the ‘owners of Canada’ (in Canada) over the ‘several months’ leading up to the General Election (Writ dropped March 23rd, 2025 — with permission from the Crown), the ‘last several months’ though, also includes this visit to Buckingham Palace (March 17th, 2025). So which ‘owners of Canada’ are we talking about here"?

Okay, that’s it. . . Substack just notified me I’ve written too much (again). So let me wrap up, with a little music this time, from of one of my favourite UK bands (from my old home town, Leeds). Everybody knows ‘Tubthumping’ but here's a stirring response to our ‘Prime Ministers’ from those Yorkshire lads of lasses (perhaps one or two of them are from the House of York even. . . though I wouldn’t know about such things) — and please forgive the language ;-)

“Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of . . .”

You'll be humming this one all weekend! And there's not much more to add really. . . except that we're done with the Gaslighting, and the Clown World, and it's time to “Do Something About It!”

Thank you everyone. I'll look forward to ranting again, sometime soon :-)

David

When so often quoted, such ideas become cliché (people even roll their eyes), but this doesn't diminish their veracity. Rather, it seems most of the population never understood what Eisenhower was sharing with posterity; or they figured it was all just history, with no relevance today (sixty-four years later); or they simply couldn't deal with the reality of ‘forever wars’ (although this is the sad record of humanity, as anyone who has read much history will know). These important moments (and these important ideas), therefore, must never be allowed to disappear down the ‘memory hole.’

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently decided to re-read that 1948 classic, 1984. I read this book in high school; being the class of 82 of course, this work was on our minds. ‘When the year came and the prophecy didn't,’ Neil Postman wrote in his 1984 work Amusing Ourselves to Death, ‘thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves.’

‘Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing.’

I didn't read Postman's book until many years later, but the next book on my reading list after that, no surprise, was Brave New World. All three works have never been more relevant. It shouldn't be a spoiler to say that Huxley's vision (according to many), his world of entertainment and recreational drugs, paves the way for a more overtly authoritarian vision.

Now that we have lived through Huxley's recreational future vision, the ‘Golden Years’ for some, the Orwellian vision is on our doorsteps; and it is starting to dawn on us (despite Trump's assurances) that those ‘forever wars’ may well be with us forever too. 1984, as you will recall, is set in a state of ongoing war, between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. This dynamic (at least), dividing the world into three distinct zones, and this is the goal of the present day Trilateral Commission (no connection here, I'm sure).

The three fictional superstates of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are Oceania (black), Eurasia (red), and Eastasia (yellow). 'Disputed territories' are indicated in grey. Wikipedia

We also shouldn't assume, in 2025, that most people even know the things we once considered common knowledge. We forget (or I forget, at least) that ‘schools’ today, are not what they were (in terms of history especially) even a decade or two ago . I think back fondly to my days at grammar school in England, and what an enriching experience that was.

I revisited this place (in a manner of speaking) quite recently, and I would love to share some stories (as a result) that will tie in with the War of the Roses piece I posted in April.

As Dr. Pamela Peck wrote in The Cannibal's Cookbook: Recipes and Remedies for Human Sacrifice, schools have become institutions of ‘Hire Education,’ as opposed to ‘Higher Education’. . . and today, they’re not even that! In addition to the blatant indoctrination, these institutions have become for-profit ventures, shackling people to debt before they even get out into the world. They perform this function at least — as WOKE Brave New World ‘State Indoctrination Centres’ — exceedingly well.

A generation or two, therefore, have not learned the basic precautionary lessons, to enable them to function in this declining, predatory world — in this Brave ‘New Normal.’ Generations have been emotionally and intellectually disarmed, in the ‘la la land’ that is the postmodern west; for anyone who took history's lessons to heart though, the warning signs are everywhere, and alarm bells are ringing.

I remember, as if it were yesterday, gathering with a group of artists in Algonquin Park (in May 2021). Among us were a couple of ladies from Eastern Europe (who had escaped Communist regimes in their respective countries, not that long ago); they reminded us around the campfire that weekend (repeatedly) that they had seen all of this before.

In the comfy womfy, leisure culture west (Disney Land), everything is just awesome (until it isn't). And that is by design of course, to lull the masses into complacency. Who among us (if we're to be honest) actually wants to believe that there’s something malevolent afoot? Particularly when we’re onto a good thing, and life is ‘still’ pretty comfortable.

V for Vendetta: “Do you believe that load of bollocks?” (13 mins)

It’s so much easier to let the mainstream media's mollifying words wash away our concerns — to ‘spin’ things and assure us that those troubling ideas we hear are just crazy ‘Conspiracy Theories’ — and then reassure us (in some manufactured ‘Emergency') as they prescribe the ‘easy steps’ to a quick fix.

When the telescreens tell the ‘Gaslit’ that it's time to step up and pitch in, flatten some dubious (mathematical model) curve or save the planet, we see how effective the indoctrination really is. But I'm preaching to the choir here of course. The origins of this term is quite interesting: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting And these are all still personal relationship issues, in the realm of politics and mass media, as we feel (or we’re lead to feel) that we actually have a relationship with these people on TV.

We are in an abusive relationship just the same (just as defined above) with those people we elect to office, or watch on the ‘news.’ We are Gaslit every time one of these people lies to our face and distorts our reality; when they contradict what is evident to all in order support some officially sanctioned version of reality. Most of the world (at this point) knows the narratives of the past many years were completely fabricated; and yet the figure heads, and talking heads, persist; dismissing and ignoring volumes of documented evidence that fully discredits their official narrative.

One of the more notable example of Gaslighting recently, was the introduction of Albert Bourla (CEO of Pfizer) by a newly elected Trump, at the Whitehouse:

“We also have the head of Pfizer here, one of the great great people, one of the great businessmen. Thank you, Albert, Thank you. . .”

The entire room (as you hear) erupts in boos and heckling when Pfizer is mentioned. Trump seems to ignore the overwhelmingly negative response, he laughs it off. "Thank you," he continues; and then he reiterates, “Thank you,” apparently to the press corp and audience. What is going on here?

Trump is a trickster, as we all know. So maybe this shouldn't have been my first reference. It does, however, perfectly illustrate the idea of two separate realities, completely at odds with one another.

If we follow this plot line (because all the world's a stage) it will not be long until those who are complicit face the judgement of the ‘Prols.’ The west hasn't quite seen the full extent of Orwell's vision yet; so the established order will fall, and there will be a reckoning. Even if we move to another kind of authoritarianism, there is a dark warning for all those ‘useful idiots’ (who aided in the dismantling of the previous order and are no longer useful). These regimes love their purges. Anyone who hasn't seen Yuri Bezmenov’s famous commentary, might want to hear how Bolshevik strategy unfolds. Again, our friends from Eastern Europe saw the signs immediately.

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)

The jury's out on Trump, so far as I'm concerned (and that may be mostly wishful thinking). There's lots to complain about, for sure (a story in itself). I've never been MAGA, though of course, who doesn't want America (Canada, England and the rest of Europe) to be great again? Only the fully indoctrinated, who are apparently happy to see western society fall apart (so long as they’re still comfortable):

A meme circulated recently: The ‘Million Dollar Question’!

But those with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ might well remember the role of the Trickster character in mythology (Though I have no idea how those ‘State Indoctrination Centers’ present a subject as subtle as mythology these days). To break from an old paradigm though, in order to move the world forward (as must happen from time to time) requires stepping outside the bounds of accepted conventions; and Trump certainly does that. The Trickster character, we should also remember, often outwits himself in the end, bringing about his own demise; and maybe this is already happening.

Perhaps Trump actually singled Bourla out, specifically to shame him, and to shine a light on the reality of things? I certainly have no inside track (not this deep at least) and I'm not a psychologist, but we can all see when there is something going on behind the scenes. What, I keep asking myself, must anyone who believed what they saw on TV over the past few years, make of the clear displeasure, anger even, at the mention of Pfizer? Needless to say, the mainstream media, which still maintains that Pfizer and Moderna saved the day, never showed this particular event; or showed it once (if there was live coverage) and then never again.

But the truth is coming out, as fast as it is possible can. The level of indoctrination, as we’ve seen, is staggering; and the fact that mainstream media still has influence is confounding — considering almost no one watches the mainstream media anymore (according to the stats). There is more to this of course (for another time).

Another example of full on Gaslighting, comes courtesy of Canada's newly installed Globalist CEO. Many examples actually, and I should have shared more of these last time — beginning with: ‘Mark Carney Starts Off as PM by Lying to Canadians.’ According to Brian Lilley.

My focus for now though, is on the most important deception of all (as I see it); something I've been talking about for years. I mentioned in my previous post that I was reading Mark Carney's book, Values. I’ve made some headway since I last mentioned this; though 1984 and a couple of other books, pulled me away. I'm nearing the half way mark, all the same, but I’ve been struggling since Chapter 3 ‘Money, Gold, and the Age of Consent’ (pg 53 specifically), where the author embarks on an explanation of fractional reserve banking.

Here, Carney goes on to describe (in a history of money) how fractional reserve banking is ‘still the heart of modern finance.’ Ninety nine percent of the population would not recognize the lie at the heart of this statement — which makes the perpetuation of this myth that much more insidious. For, when the Liberal Party is removed and a Conservative administration takes power (which will happen, when the Elbows Up folk realize they’ve been fooled), the bankers will continue to control everything from behind the scenes — as they always have (from 1974 at least, here in Canada).

In fact, there are three examples of ‘misinformation’ (let’s call it) in just two short paragraphs on page 53 of Values.

In fairness, it's helpful that Carney admits, publicly, that banks create most of the money in the system (rather than governments); we monetary reformers can use this. For those who still believe that banks are lending out depositor's money when they make a loan, perhaps we can finally dispel this myth? (It’s a central banker saying this now, and not just crazy Dave, the monetary crank). However, he does misrepresent (or understate rather) the extent of this private money creation and profiteering.

First:

Carney states that 80% of money in the system is created by banks. The document he cites however, I know well. I've quoted from this Bank of England paper myself, for years, in my own monetary reform presentations. ‘Money creation in the Modern Economy’ Quarterly Bulletin (2014) Q1, actually states (on page 15): ‘Of the two types of broad money, bank deposits make up the vast majority — 97% of the amount currently in circulation.’

I'm sure this was an honest misquote (not fact checked before going to press). And 80%, vs. 97% makes little difference. Although, 97% does mean that, effectively, all money in circulation has been created by private (for profit) banks, rather than by governments.

When a government cheque is deposited, the bank effectively recycles this money, ultimately buying securities. The bank then issues you its own ‘money’ when you make a transfer or withdrawal; unless the withdrawal is in actual sovereign, paper money (that other 3% of the money in circulation). These private banks therefore (because they create new money every time they make a loan or issue credit) have been responsible for almost all of the inflation too, just as they are responsible for those destructive boom bust cycles. I've spoken in the past of a ‘New Fiscal Age’ because now (as new government debt becomes increasingly difficult to sell) governments will be coming after your savings and assets. (And we'll return to this later).

Second:

More egregiously, the' ‘fractional reserve system’ (so-called) has not existed since (at least) 1994 when the 0% Reserve, ‘Capital Adequacy system’ was fully implemented. This is why banks no longer lend out deposits (referring back to the first point). I'll not go into the details again here, as I've explained the mechanics of this process previously.

What is most interesting though, is that an ex-central banker would go to lengths to misrepresent how the system actually works. Either, he is lying (as some maintain); or he thinks his readers are too stupid to understand; or he doesn't fully grasp this concept himself. . . which sounds crazy, but this might explain why he acquired the nickname ‘Mark Carnage’ during his time as Governor of the Bank of England. Now Mr. Carney's booster will claim (do claim) that he saved the British economy after the Great financial Crisis, and this really is ‘Gaslighting’ of the highest order. Just look at Britain now. The economy has been devastated, largely as a result decisions Carney made as Governor of the Bank of England (along with Net Zero, SDG, ESG policies). Interestingly, the conversation I had with his predecessor at the BoE, Lord Mervyn King (mentioned previously) was also about this issue: the pretense of fractional reserve banking.

Third:

More a point of debate within the monetary reform community, is the question of whether or not fractional reserve banking has been a thing (at all), since money was no longer backed by gold? (a process that took place between 1971 and 1974)

I included parts of this video series from Positive Money UK before, which explains the money multiplier, fractional reserve and 0% reserve banking. You can revisit these here in parts 2 and 3. I'd also like to share the following conversation between Catherine Austin Fitts and German economist Richard Werner, in which they specifically discuss this question. ‘Sovereign State Banks.’ Around the 1:14:00 min point: “this original fractional reserve concept, is actually plain wrong.” 

Most people would agree (on principle) that no one should be lending out money they don't actually have. Private commercial banks do, however, which explains why they have been so profitable (until they get into trouble); this also explains the on-going 100% reserve system debate, and increasing pressure for public ‘sovereign’ banking.

I wanted to touch on Carney's speech at Jackson Hole in 2019, and the ‘Going Direct Reset,’ but we're teetering on the edge of another huge rabbit hole here. You might want to check this though, later — a little easy reading ;-) (link above) And here are some thoughts from the Financial Times: ‘Mark Carney calls for global monetary system to replace the dollar.’

“Mr. Carney will leave the BoE at the end of January but, lacking support from Europe or the US, currently has little chance of securing the top job at the fund.”

We can only wonder why Mr. Carney lacked support from Europe and the US, to head up the IMF? Instead, he’s back in Canada, where (as outlined in his book), he will continue working to further the United Nations’ agenda, bringing about conditions needed for the Great Reset — and that ‘global monetary system’ — by 2030 (of course).

‘Elbows Up’ everyone :-)

I do hope a few of more folk will watch the videos linked above and dig into some of the documents I included here. If we don't understand the nature of this financial game, we will continue that old — left, right, left, right — march toward full authoritarianism; probably a kind a fascism, emanating from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) — The ‘Nazi Bank,’ as it is sometimes called; quite legitimately, if you look into the history of this sketchy organization. But it won't much matter in the end, whether it’s out right fascism, or plain old communism; once we lose our freedoms, and agency over our own lives, we will have fully realized Orwell's vision — and (with today’s technology) without even those few remaining freedoms that Winston and Julia enjoyed, and which made their story possible.

Perhaps I can share one last (short) video discussion here, between Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus, on the subject of RFK’s apparent Gaslighting. The question is posed (at 2:40 mins) : “Why are you lying?” Again, many of us hope for the best (maybe RFK is doing all he can, making the best of a bad situation) but it is increasingly difficult to see past certain statements and actions.

I’ve probably included ‘too much information’ again, so I'll wrap up here. The Substack algorithms likely won't share this post far; partly, I suspect, because I haven't yet monetized my account (which is another story). So please ‘like’ and share — unless you've been completely indoctrinated of course, in which case none of this will seem important ;-)

Thank you again for your continuing interest (and support on Patreon) and I look forward to posting again (a little more punctually),

David

While the Globalists now represent an ‘army of occupation’ in all of our previously free sovereign nations, freedom fighters are winning the ‘battle for hearts and minds’ and this film represents a ‘beachhead’ of sorts — on this critical front. A big Thank You to Oracle Films of course, for pulling this documentary together, and to those who keep on top of such things: ‘Solari Report,’ ‘The Void’ and closer to home, ‘Our Greater Destiny.’ Here’s a comment, and suggestion, I left on the latter:

These Substack folk have become our eyes and ears on the world. My own posts (as you know) are mostly retrospective, though additional context is often important. So again, let me share a recent update to my regular mailing list. Because I'm a working artist (and not a full time blogger / podcaster) my ‘retrospectives’ present a different ‘perspective’ — please scroll to the bottom for an update on my ongoing work.

The important thing here (as I mentioned in the comment above) is that we don't just share this on social media — mediated, as it is, by the people who stand to gain more than anyone from the Technocratic ‘Agenda.’ The folk who run these platforms have the power to decide who will see your posts; we have “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” as they tell us. Consequently, I believe we should all share this film directly with the people we know: our family, friends and acquaintances — from the hopelessly oblivious to the willfully obtuse — everyone. The only way to resist this AI driven algorithmic offensive (in keeping with my last post) is through relationships, in the real (analog) world. As Catherine Austin Fitts has long maintained: “the currency of the future will be relationships of trust.”

So please share The Agenda far and wide. We know that many people have been asking questions in recent months. Those who remain uninformed (we must now conclude) are willingly deaf and blind to anything that threatens their perception of reality; nevertheless, at least one of the points made in this documentary will resonate (with even the most stubborn of them). So when you share this video, provide a time-stamped URL that will take your friend (or family member) directly to the material that will be of greatest interest to them. The ‘Sleepy Heads’ (as a friend of mine likes to say) are walking all of us all into a digital gulag, and this cannot be allowed to happen.

Those we elected to represent us (and please add these folk to your ‘friends’ list too) are either complicit (and therefore directly responsible, and liable, for allowing things to get this far), or so uninformed that they are not fit to representing our interests, and must be removed in the next election.

There is a subset of representatives (MPs, MPPs, and Councilors and Mayors) who are looking for an opportunity to do the right thing however, and they need our support and engagement; they need to know we have their backs, because they are currently besieged (and this is a whole other story).

Before I share my latest private mailing, let me share an intro to a commentary from the offshore world that I posted on a private page on my personal website in 2017 (the ‘résistance’ started long before 2020). I promised to share this previously, when I mentioned Mark Carney’s casual reference to “flow through” in my last post:

My lengthy posts are nothing new, so I'm only including a couple of excerpts from this piece here (to back up my comments in the last post). You might also like to visit the Isle of Man government page mentioned above, at: Manx Currency — Coins and Notes. I will explore this in more detail next time, when I post the rest of the material from this piece (along with a summary of a serendipitous meeting — and conversation — with Mark Carney’s predecessor at the Bank of England, Governor, Sir. Mervyn King).

Material of this nature isn't of great interest to the general population, of course, so I appreciate your interest. As a consolation, I firmly believe that all of you here (who do see how this information could be relevant) will be the survivors. So let me get to the material from my last email now (excerpts from, with a few additional items):

‘Babylonian Money Magic, 'Turtling for Cash' and a local initiative – or two”

Hi everyone. Happy June 3rd!

I can't believe it's been over two weeks since my last note. . . and, more shocking, that we're nearing the 2025 half way mark, already!

Last week was especially busy, and I'll have lots to share on this later. In the meantime, we continue to 'turtle' along, as Catherine Austin Fitts often says. We just have to keep moving forward, regardless of everything.

On this note, I watched the following a few nights ago, an interview with Susan Luschas in South Dakota: ‘Turtling for Cash’

I've spent a lot of time in South Dakota in the past, on road trips to art shows in the West (In Jackson, Seattle, Tacoma, Corvallis, Portland, Tulsa, Vancouver, Calgary, etc.). . . Those were the days (in the 90s and early 2000s). I had/have friends in Sheridan and Rapid City, and always drove out through the Black Hills (on these west country runs). There are so many stories to tell (of my adventures along the way).

Extricating myself from the frozen mud on a side road in the middle of nowhere, after being forced to spend the night in my car. Saved by a frozen crust, a tire iron and some tumble weed.

In keeping with everything I've been talking about for the past decade or two, Susan is a kindred spirit, and an inspiration! I know all of you will be moved by her story.

I said in a recent chat with Patricia Conlin and Adam Smith, that the work Catherine (Austin Fitts) is doing might well be the basis for a new (more enlightened) Monetary Reform movement. . . and there has to be a new beginning, as almost all of the old monetary movements (that I know) are now captured, and/or under some kind of [Central Banker’s] mind control.

That old Babylonian money magic is as powerful as ever, and this is evident in the way that most folk immediately turn off whenever the word 'monetary' is mentioned. ‘Money’ gets attention (everybody wants more money) but that ‘word magic’ incantation (anything including) the word ‘monetary,’ immediately puts people to sleep — it would seem. 

I know all of you will find the following of interest though (the first chat in an ongoing exploration, I hope). Thank you Tish for inviting us to talk about this stuff :-)

Monetary Reformers Discuss Money and Banking Myths and Realities

While most Canadians are still racking up debt (Canadian Household Debt Surpasses 3 Trillion), there are things everyday people can do (and we will return to this) .  .  .   Ultimately though, we really need a new (and effective) Monetary Reform initiative (for Canadians). It's funny that I mentioned the film Trading Places in my last Substack.

Why did Susan Luschas get so much push back when she introduced her monetary initiatives in South Dakota? It isn't mentioned in the interview above, but South Dakota played a central roll in the introduction of electronic credit transactions, and still profits handsomely from this business.

Despite the fact that someone in this state clearly understood the importance of monetary sovereignty (a public 'central' bank and all) everyday people (even here) remain largely oblivious. Since the economy has always thrived in South Dakota, even during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (Hmm, funny how that works), South Dakota has the second lowest credit card debt per person in the United States (to this day) — if people can pay off their credit cards, the typically do.

‘A history of credit in the United States’:

cambridge.org/core/blog/2017/08/21/why-your-us-credit-card-bills-come-from-sioux-falls-a-brief-history-of-us-consumer-finance/

I can't find the specific video clip that I wanted to share, from the Trading Places film; in the meantime though, here's an excerpt from the script:

“My butler will give you $50, and drive you anywhere you wish.

You don't exactly look like the type that has a butler.

If you're hustling me. . .

Hustling you, hustling you? You don't think they give these. . .”

[Aykroyd produces his wallet to display multiple credit cards]

“. . . to just anyone, do you?

I can charge goods and services

in over 86 countries around the world.

Yeah? Well I don't take credit cards.”

Apparently they did “give these to just [about] anyone” . . . and this was part of the marketing campaign of course. I'm sad to say that Trading Places (like most other films) was just another ‘product placement’ ‘nudge program’ psychological operation. Nevertheless, we love our conveniences as much as our sentimental recollections of the past – does this qualify as Stockholm syndrome? ;-) 

Here, if you're interested, is the official, ‘behind the scenes’ story of how this film came about:

TRADING PLACES (1983) | Behind the Scenes of Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd

The reason this caught my attention was that in 1988, when I first drove to Mexico, I was at a bar in San Miguel de Allende and didn't have enough Pesos on me to settle the tab. I was forced to pull out my own credit card. “Aceptan tarjetas de credito?” I asked the bartender (a friend of friends). He examined it closely and (clearly impressed) exclaimed: “Es internacional!” 

Well, of course. ‘I can charge goods and services in over 86 countries around the world’  – don't you know? ;-) My credit was good, I'm happy to say, and from that point on, he (and the regulars there) assumed I was Mr. Moneybags . . . It took a while to convince them that not everyone from El Norte es muy rico, especially las artistas Canadienses.

There are so many stories I'd love to share from my time/s in Mexico, but the point I wanted to make here, is that the introduction of credit cards didn't happen all that long ago.  People in our world (“Disney Land” as my Mexican friends always called Canada and United States) were ‘sold’ credit cards as the latest, cool and ‘convenient’ symbol of your own personal ‘yuppie’ upward mobility . . . And the easy credit that came with this changed the world in ways we're only just beginning to figure out (and have still not seen the resolution of).

This is a whole other story of course, but let me share one more important local developments, before I wrap up here.

The above is a very local issue (for those of you in Ontario). If you do live in this province, please visit the following, and consider writing to your representative: ‘STOP, BILL-9, Municipal Accountability Act 2025’. (Accountability to whom? we must ask. . . Every Bill, as you already know, is the reverse of whatever the title implies)

To expand on some of the credit card issues above, I thought the following would be of interest too:

Here are a couple of charts showing Canadian debt, going back over the past few decades. The first, from Statistics Canada and Desjardins, shows a key moment on this slippery upward slope. The second, provides a greater perspective. The four points (1,2,3,4) I added myself, to explain:

1. The point at which the marketing of credit cards began in earnest. Specifically, the year Trading Places was released. 2. 2004 was a personal turning point in my career, where sales of art suddenly began to take off. 3. The high point (as I documented in my book on this subject) of the boom in Isle of Man. This extended nearly to the point of the Great Financial Crisis, though behind the scenes, the signs that something was about to happen were there. 4. Private debt as a ‘leading indicator.’ Notice how household debt started to climb once again, 2003/4. This meant that enough ‘bank created’ fiat currency was sloshing around in the economy that government debt (relative to GDP) could continue downward. Only when the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) hit, did the Federal government accelerate its money creation (again), as provincial governments had to ratchet up their borrowing.

Arrrgh. . . Substack is telling me my post is too long (again). That may be. I would like to continue exploring this subject, as there are some key points to discuss if we are to divine where things might go from here. Until then, since things are moving so quickly (June 12th is approaching), I hope you’ll find the following of interest:

US Struggles to Sell $22 Billion in Bonds Amid the Most Dangerous Bond Auction

URGENT PETITION: Why is Mark Carney pushing to ban cash?

The End of Stablecoins (Goodbye, Tether)

I’ll wrap up here, as this last link is a nice segue into my next post. Before I sign off though (as promised earlier) here is another in-progress image of the painting I shared with you last time. The Reconciliation Pole (in-progress itself) in Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, 2016. The back story to this will be of interest, I’m sure, so I look forward to sharing more on this project (and more ‘in-progress’ pictures) in future posts.

Until next time, thank you again for your interest and support,

David

This past weekend I started reading Mark Carney’s book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All (all ‘elites’ I might add). The world needs more elites (for some reason) and more Globalism too, according to Mr. Carney; despite the fact that Globalism has decimated the middle-class and destroyed the economies of almost all western nations in just fifty short years. No surprise, of course, that all of Mr. Carney’s professed ‘values’ are totally in line with those of the United Nations and World Economic Forum (organizations with which he is closely associated); King Charles too, and other Internationalists — Net Zero for you; private jets for all our elite friends.

How ironic it is that this ‘contest’ was about sovereignty; all ‘elbows up’ when it comes to the U.S., yet arms wide open to those Internationalists at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), WEF, WHO . . . and the radical ‘Green’ British monarch too.

The Liberals, it would appear, just can't wait to hand Canada’s sovereignty over; symbolized, of course, by the tactless invitation (at this point in time) to the monarch of a foreign land to open Canada’s Parliament. This is an ironic twist on what it means to be sovereign; that will be lost, of course, on those who voted to continue the economic destruction (and further exploitation) of this now coveted resource base.

Mr. Carney has a very close relationship with the royal household it turns out; as you’ll have heard, his brother is COO of Kensington Palace. Mark Carney is far from being the outsider he claims to be. As Lorrie Goldstein puts it, “[Mr. Carney] and the truth often seem to be like two ships passing in the night” (4:20mins) . . . “he [lies] on issues he doesn’t even have to. . .” But this is something we will return to later.

Now, all of a sudden, as ‘Great’ Britain seems to be collapsing, the elites are interested in Canada’s resources (despite what they say) and the ‘divide and conquer’ techniques will continue. When Carney met with Trump, he was humiliated (the CBC presents this as some kind of victory of course, as it is paid to put a positive spin on things).

Britain, meanwhile, the seat of an ill-fated Charles III, is collapsing (it saddens me to say). In part, because the so-called ‘Protector of the Faith’ is no longer protecting the Faith or the Nation, as the EU Migration Pact and UN Replacement Migration ideology destroys the culture of this once Great nation (along with most of Europe).

As goes Britain, so too will Canada (and in short order). Our indigenous friends, perhaps more than any of us, should be paying attention to this development. If early ‘settlers’ were a problem, what is coming will be exponential worse. If our nation does not take this opportunity to become truly sovereign — in the original, Regionalist, spirit of Reconciliation — free of the Monetary Internationalists, the Crown too, Canada (as we once knew this beautiful village) will become unrecognizable.

Canada is already a ‘monetarily sovereign’ nation; and of course, almost no one knows what this means — except for a few loyal (in the new sense of this word) monetary reformers, and the Globalists who are using this power against the people of Canada (to fund their takeover).

I'll pick up on the cultural front in a moment (where I left off in ‘Art and Life II’) but I couldn’t let this election outcome pass without comment:

So here we have it (in answer to a question posed in my last post): a significant portion of the population is (we now see) ‘indoctrinated by the left-wing media’ and these people did not ‘break free of their programming’ — unless the election was, in fact, fixed.

This is critically important, with recounts being ‘tipped’ by as little as just one vote (A new by-election should be called in cases like this). This is not democracy, it is a recipe for a revolution; or, at least, the dissolution of Canada. Half of the population — half of those (maybe) who went out to vote at least — cannot allow the transfer of Canada’s sovereignty to the Internationalists. Changes that are poised to come in now are of such import that most of the upcoming legislation should (in right) be subject to referendums.

Our best hope (again) is that no legislation can be passed, forcing another general election; at which time, hopefully, more people will have had a chance to learn about the country’s newly installed leader, and his backers. We are hanging from a thread here (western culture itself, in fact, is hanging by a thread), because we assumed no one could possible believe the Liberal propaganda. But to assume anything ‘makes an ass of u and me’ — as they say. We underestimated how effective the Liberal mass-media mind-control still is.

It's puzzling, while the CBC's ratings have fallen off a cliff, and almost no one listens to this biased coverage (or almost no one admits to listening that is), that Canada is still shaped by the CBC's subtle (and not-so subtle) Globalist world view. Second only to Mark Carney's Brookfield investments (those Green ‘renewable’ Funds in particular), the biggest conflict of interest (by far) is the Liberal funded, bought-and-paid-for, media. You'll likely have seen these two Rebel News reports already, and (even if you don’t like Rebel News), please share with your Liberal friends; who (I guarantee) have no idea how the offshore world works:

EXCLUSIVE: I went to Bermuda to find the money Mark Carney hid from the CRA

Rebel News investigates Mark Carney’s money-laundering scheme

Remember how the mainstream media used to talk about the offshore world? As a den of tax dodgers, money-laundering drug dealers, human trafficking kingpins, and such. That much (in some places) is probably true. . . I mentioned those Panama Papers not too long ago also (I absolutely must follow up on this soon).

If you watch the Bermuda video above, it open’s with Mr. SDG himself talking about “flow through.” This language sound all very benign (legal even), but this is offshore financial lingo. This very phrase, in fact, reveals the most most important secret of this world: the means by which profits are skimmed off the top, and your productive labour is harvested by the elite (a lot of people, I suspect, will not be happy that Mr. Carney is drawing so much attention to this offshore business). So we have an opportunity here to resist whatever Globalist ideas Mr. Carney brings forward, while pointing out the obvious conflicts of interest. . . and other inconvenient truths.

Back in 2017, I wrote a piece on this idea of ‘flow through.’ This was my own personal epiphany, in fact, after spending many years in this world. It is how neoliberalism (Globalism) destroyed the middle class, while enriching the elite. I shared this story with my personal mailing list eight years ago, and I will post (repost) it again here. In the meantime, the election of Mr. Carney represents a clear and present danger for all Canadians; though most of them haven’t (yet) got a clue.

I’ve written way more than I planned to, again. Politics has forced itself upon us all and this is the sad reality: we cannot take our eyes off these people for one minute.

It saddens me that the East Coast of Canada is now almost totally red (as compared to Alberta). Is it something in the soil? That red PEI earth, or maybe it’s something in the genes, passed down from Erik the Red? . . .

You all understand why the country is divided this way of course, and why the West (therefore) is so upset. Those equalization payments have long been a bone of contention, and the problem has become insufferable. Perhaps nothing so clearly illustrates the fact that economic (and monetary) issues underlie everything. So do we really want BIS Globalists (or Americans with Imperial aspirations) hashing out a solution to this? To be continued another time.

Returning (finally) to Art and Life:

I mentioned the East Coast previously because of a 1986 road trip in the ‘Sid Mobile’ (please refer back to my earlier post). This is a place I still have great affection for — despite the politics. I still can't find a picture of the Toronto Futures Exchange (TFE) trading pits (from where I embarked on that journey), but here’s a short description from The Traders: Inside Canada’s Stock Markets, the 1984 (‘Greed is good’ era) classic. . . and a record of the little-documented Canadian experience:

One of the paperback novels I started reading there, in the pits of the TFE, was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It was this book that sparked a desire to head out on the open road. Below are four of my early paintings (from this first road trip). As I described before, it was the success of this first collection that inspired me to pursue art for as living (rather than trading). The selected pieces below are mainly from Nova Scotia: ‘First Light’ (Blue Rocks) 15¾” x 24” - ‘Indian Harbour’ 18” x 36” (approx) - ‘Peggy’s Cove’ 20” x 32” - and (bottom right) ‘A New Day’ (also Blue Rocks) 15¾” x 24”

These painting tell another story however. This collection was published as a set of table placemats by the (now defunct) New Zealand company, Jason (Globalism was never about giving small companies access to global markets, but a means by which multinationals could eventually dominate all trade). Box Cover:

‘PROUDLY NEW ZEALAND OWNED AND MANUFACTURED BY JASON PRODUCTS LIMITED. PO BOX 20 145 AUCKLAND 7 NEW ZEALAND’

www.jasonproducts.com

Website now available for $5279 USD: perfectdomain.com

In the 80s, there were unlimited possibilities. You could leave school and make money doing almost anything you wanted to do, even with no degree; there were unlimited options. My inspiration for trading futures, in fact, came from the 1983 film Trading Places, starring Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy. As simple as that. . . It was another world and another time; a Golden Age in fact. . . before postmodern ideology and neoliberal economics (Globalism that is) slowly hollowed out our cultures and destroyed the promise of the post war years.

I will be returning to this with a follow up piece on the parallel rise of offshore banking. But for now, let me share a quick update on my latest painting (to end on a more upbeat cultural note). The commission I mentioned last time is now very much:

If you read my last post, you’ll see some background on my latest painting (20” x 28”) and I'm pleased to share this working canvas with you, as I wrestle my way toward reconciliation ;-) And on that note, the easel beckons.

Thank you again for your interest and continuing support. I look forward to sharing more on all of the above, and another installment of this work-in-progress as well.

Have a great week or two,

David

It's funny how each side comes to regard the other in these struggles. A joker friend of mine suggested that maybe the person who wrote this was actually a Peoples Party supporter. I do know some pretty stubborn Conservatives (too) come to think of it ;-)

The battle will continue of course, because the media (public or corporate) will continue to ‘massage’ opinions (as McLuhan warned). And when a right-wing administration takes power, what remains of the state media (if the CBC isn't privatized) will probably change its tune, and deliver whatever ‘massage’ it is given. Otherwise, as I suggested before, our future entertainment and fake news will be ‘Brought to you by Pfizer’. . . so don’t expect much to change.

He who pays the piper always calls the tune.

Apparently, a lot of people still haven't learned this basic life lesson. Or maybe that ‘collective amnesia’ we complain about, really is accelerated Hippocampal decline (discussed in my earlier post ‘The Hippo in the Room’). In which case, we may be fated to spiral down into technocratic authoritarianism, like that of Sir Keir Stasi's not-so United Kingdom. . . or worse.

Right after I posted my last piece, on ‘Vote Splitting’ (or not), our monetary reformer friend Adam Smith sent me his latest political commentary (just posted at the time), which I know you'll enjoy: Libs vs Cons 2025

“It makes no difference who you vote for, either way your country is doomed. . . Doomed”

Everything needs to be reformed today: the media, the electoral system and, of course, the monetary system. To begin with, we must free ourselves from this old left vs right trap; which entails completely ignoring the media (just as the media ignores the PPC, and literally changed the rules so that Maxime Bernier could not share his ideas with a larger public). Thank you to Tucker Carlson, Matthew Ehret and others, for getting the word out (what an indictment this is of those bureaucratic, wannabe authoritarians, who are already restricting free speech in Canada). And “nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.” The vast majority of Canadians are entranced by the theatre; or forced, out of fear, to vote the way those old Kingmakers (behind the scenes) want them to vote.

Herbert Marcuse's book, One-Dimensional Man, has never been more relevant. I know, a lot of folk will say: “Oh, but he's one of those Frankfurt School Hegelian Marxists.” To which I reply, “it’s better to know your enemy” (if this is what they are). Marcuse is 100% correct in this assessment however; it's the reason many people (still) cannot see through the illusions, the gaslighting and the lies (no matter how obvious), and remain just as susceptible to advertising and propaganda as they ever were. Fortunately, you always know when you’re talking to the indoctrinated: they have no depth of understand, and keep repeating whatever they just heard on the television.

And speaking of knowing your enemy, I stumbled across the following a few days ago, from Jordan Peterson:‘Reaction to Imminent Liberal Victory in Canada.’ I believe this is more an ‘imagine if’ scenario, but the thought of such an outcome certainly grabbed my attention — It's hard to remain dispassionate when so much is at stake. A lot of people like to call Jordon Peterson, Tucker Carlson and others, ‘controlled opposition’ — and who knows? (anything is possible) To avoid falling into that old left vs. right trap though, we mustn't assume that because one side is obviously corrupt, that the other is going to save us. But this can keep for another day, as we hold the Conservatives to account (in turn).

Peterson's characteristically animated delivery aside, he “did the work” and read Carney's ‘manifesto’ Values; which most of us would not have the patience to do. The ‘values’ outlined here are Carney's guiding principles — his raison d'être no less — and we (at least) won’t forget this, as he cynically (and temporarily) reduces the carbon tax to zero, and says what he thinks he must to win over the One-Dimensional among us. Peterson presents some important observations here, along with a history most people have forgotten (or never knew).

So let me diverge here for a while, on this rambling journey of art and life — politics, money and art, in all its forms.

I have followed our erstwhile Governor of the Bank of Canada since my currency trading days. A bizarre (pre)occupation, for an artist, that began in the Gerald Bouey years 1973–1987 (in my case 85–87), and continued on through John Crow 1987–1994, Gordon Thiessen 1994–2001, David Dodge 2001–2008, right up to the term of Mark Carney 2008–2013. Appropriately, this was the year I shut down my trading account at Friedberg Mercantile (which had been my clearing firm since I first stepped onto the trading floor, at the beginning of 1985). I traded Stock Index Futures at that time (and was licensed to trade bonds). Later I became more interested in commodities and currencies, and if you're going to trade currency futures, you probably want to keep an eye on what those central bankers are up to.

My experience as a futures trader (though I didn't see it this way at the time) seems more like a kind of ‘performance art’ now (reminiscent of the London Regionalists, who started their own political party, or Toronto's artist collective, ‘General Idea’ pretending to be business men and doctors — except, I wasn’t pretending). So the comparison (with General Idea at least) ends here (the London Regionalists however, theoretically, might actually have won a seat). Whatever this experience was, it did give me certain insights, and it continues to informed every aspect of life, including my art.

‘Exchange II’ Acrylic on Canvas 42" x 90" 2016

The cover of my 2013 book, Time Enough: An Amoral Tale, features a chart of the British Pound, along with moving averages, and other indicators a technical trader should (also) keep an eye on:

This account of 16 years, during which I visited the island many, many time (for the reasons explained therein) is particularly relevant today; following Mark Carney's (now revealed) curious, and most dubious, connection to the offshore world. A friend sent me this Rebel News report a couple of days, filmed in the Isle of Man, where Brookfield (apparently) has set up a fake business head office. You can judge for yourself:

‘BREAKING: the trail of Mark Carney’s money-laundering scheme’

The Isle of Man has long been my Home away from Home, and now, bizarrely (small world that this is) my old pal ‘Andy’ — from this story (that I might best describe as Dave and Andy's ‘Excellent Adventure’) — lived just up the hill from this address on Belgravia Road!  Sadly, Andy is not the ‘beneficial owner’ of Brookfield IOM, but he and I have walked past Mr. Cummins’ place many times.

Returning to the heart of the financial world though, for a moment. In my twenties, I did make a little money as a trader (nothing like these central banker politicians of course, and a probably a lot more honestly). Much of this, sadly, I gave back when my own greed (and cockiness) got me into trouble on Black Monday, Oct 19, 1987. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6% that day, and the TSE, 11.32%. It's an interesting moment to revisit: CBC Archives: Market Crashes, 1987

I was ‘bailed out’ (shall we say) by a friend at one of the big trading firms (totally kosher of course). I caught his eye in the frenzy (I probably looked a little like the young guy ‘watching the developments’ in the ‘Black Monday’ article above) and he bought my two contracts before the market could go limit down.

This isn’t the exact ticket (I wish I’d kept this now), but I was getting out of a long position here too, sometime early 1988 by the looks of it. I usually made more money selling short (I seemed to have an instinct for that). It was the gambler in me . . . and I feel the old bug coming back just looking at this. It was a bit of an addiction really.

But I was already feeling a kind of emptiness. The excitement of the casino soon wore off (though I had more fun than I can tell you about here, for a couple of years). I didn't aspire to live the lives of the guys around me though. “Get out now, while you still can,” was the advice from one of the crusty old traders. You can’t get more direct than this. . . messengers visit us (at various times in our lives) and we must heed their words.

I was painting even then, of course, and I'd sold work to a few of the guys on the floor. I even traded three paintings for a car, back in 1986, when Sid B. moved to Australia to take a bond trading position at the Sydney Stock Exchange. My first real series of paintings emerged from a road trip that summer to Nova Scotia — in the ‘Sid Mobile’ (as my friends affectionately called her).

Ah, Free at last: The 1978 Pontiac Grand Prix. The most ‘comfortable ride’ I ever owned — white walls and all. Forget snowmobiles (kid’s stuff) we’re talking automobiles now. Isn’t she a beauty?

All of my Nova Scotia work sold immediately, and my art began pulling me into a very different world — especially when I started to make more from painting than I did trading. It was a more predictable income too, which says something (about trading) as anyone who has tried to make a living from their art will understand.

There are so many stories I'd like to share though; among them, the excitement of being on the floor the day the DOW hit 1200. People invariably correct me when I tell this story: “You mean 12,000.” No, I really do mean 1200 (one thousand, two hundred), in January, 1985. The way history is compressed these days, so that it feels as if 1985 were just a few months ago, is absolutely bizarre; maybe that's what it is to have a few decades of perspective on this crazy world (speaking as an artist, of course). We've all been encouraged to live ‘in the moment,’ and so we still get caught up in the moment; and this, of course, serves those with a long memory well.

So I escaped that blood curdling debacle on Black Monday, with a loss that took me pretty much back to where I started, two years earlier. Things never really improved, though I never took any more big losses either. I've often likened myself (since then) to that ‘break even guy’ from the ‘Even Steven’ episode of Seinfeld.

Though I never particularly liked this humour (which seemed designed to diminish everything to some meaningless cliché) but this scenario, at least, summed up my own experience of life — monetarily speaking.

The life of an artist though, is ‘rich’ in other ways, and when I left the floor of the Toronto Futures Exchange in 1988, I never looked back. Though I continued to trade futures for many years after this (over the phone) art has continued to been my livelihood (such an appropriate word) for over three decades now.

The main reason I finally left the financial world however, was not a bad day in Oct 87, but an incredible experience in Haida Gwaii, in the summer of 1988. I'd like to share more on this as well, but for now, you may enjoy this short documentary from my 2016 trip (with artists from across the country, and a couple of our Haida friends) — Braid Films: Eyes of Society

My connections here have only deepened over the years, and I've done more paintings from this place than any other. Five of these works are now in the Crown Collection. One — ‘Spirit of the Hills’ — recently appeared in a group picture on Pierre Poilievre’s Instagram (in a weird overlap of art and politics), above the mantelpiece in Stornoway, when former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney passed away. I'll share more of these works (from various public collections) in a future piece, but for now, returning back to the real world, let me share with you, The Woodshop.

Although this piece hasn’t yet sold, it did inspire a major commission request, which is to include the Reconciliation Pole itself, as a work-in-progress, just outside the Woodshop. The two boats here are elements of that work (as you will see if you click on the link above) by artist and chief James Hart. They are meant to symbolize our two cultures, sailing into the future together. I’ve prepared a canvas already (20” x 28”) and the first splashes of paint will go down tomorrow, appropriately, when I return from the polls.

It's been another long day (distributing the last of the fliers) and I’ve been rushing to organize my thoughts here. History is unfolding around us, and I hope you’ll join me again, as we sail into the future together.

Thank you for your interest and continuing support,

David

It was a packed house, though sadly, the Conservative candidate did not attend; as you will hear, below. If you'd like to listen to this debate, please visit the: Uxbridge Cosmos Federal Election - Candidates Forum

But let me cut to the chase here, with respect to the question above.

Theoretically at least, there should be no splitting of votes; if a particular party is able to sufficiently motivate its voter base. Voter turn out is often very low, as the graphic here (from the Independent Nova Scotia Initiative) illustrates. Plenty of potential voters exist, therefore, if they can be motivated.

Should our ‘participatory democracy’ function as designed — that is, with sufficient participation — many of the issues that need to be addressed today, would likely have been taken care of already. The moderator of Monday's event evoked this idea, and it’s a term I’ve used many times myself, in the hope of generating some additional help (in our various other campaigns).

But let me quickly remind everyone that we would have new parties in office already (and fresh voices), if Electoral Reform had been enacted ten years ago, as Trudeau promised in 2015. It wasn’t, and for a reason; but once this election is over (whichever party is in power), the people should insist on reform.

I shared a couple of videos previously, explaining these two systems. As the 21st Century Adam Smith, reminded me just recently:

‘I'm sure you know, if we had prop rep, the PPC would have had 5% of the seats in the last election?’

Yes, I think about this every day! The difference between our current ‘first past the post’ system, and the ‘proportional representation’ system, he explains in his animated video about the Near Winner Proportional System.

In a recent email update to my regular mailing list — ‘Wish You Were Here’ — I mentioned Nunavut, in connection with a picture from the previous day’s canvassing.

This wasn’t just a commentary on the slow demise of some neglected small towns, it was meant as an introduction to an idea that is taking root elsewhere in the world (including Canada’s far north), as you will see in the following: ‘No Political Parties - How Nunavut's Consensus Government Works.’ Most of the offshore world (something I'm familiar with and must elaborate on soon) run independents only.

But returning to the immediate question of vote splitting. If all of the Legacy parties are, in fact, under the influence of Globalists (constituting that ‘shadow government’ our forefathers warned us about) then people really have no choice but to vote for a political outsider — an independent even — on principle; because we have a much bigger problem if we continue to be herded, this way and that, out of fear. This may seem like a philosophical argument (now) and it won’t allay the fears of those concerned about diluting the Conservative vote in this election (between the CPC and the PPC) allowing the Liberals to again seize power. This is why direct, door to door, engagement with the community has never been more important.

Our canvassing teams have been out there everyday since the election was called, in an effort to reach as many of those disenchanted ‘non-voters’ as possible — and there are plenty of them. If we had a team of 20 or more canvassers — rather than our tireless (yet overworked) 7 to 8 regulars — I believe the PPC could win this riding hands-down (you’d be surprised how much ground we’ve covered already). Given the election results in some of these north communities previously, as much as 17% in some areas, we don’t have so far to go.

We have a new Riding, and this election should be a new beginning!

Some might argue, still, with my assertion that Globalist interests dictate the policies of all Legacy political parties, but this is not a radical new idea. People have been describing the Liberals and Conservatives as ‘two wings of the same bird’ for years; long before the term ‘uniparty’ was coined. I remain firmly convinced that both of the main establishment parties — along with the NDP and a hijacked Green Party — are all stage managed by the same shadowy interests; in which case, there really isn't any vote splitting — because the same Globalist agendas will continue, regardless of which establishment party people elect.

Different elements of the Globalist's plan will be prioritized, depending on who gets in; so it will seem as if the ‘parties’ are different, as each presses forward with it’s own preferred issues first. How many here have read the text of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030? If you haven't read these documents, then you're making a decision based on the ‘CBC’s version of reality’ (as Senator Donald Plett might say).

I must add (so as to hopefully not upset 80 or 90% of the people who subscribe here): I too believe the Conservatives must win enough seats to take this election (overall). I also believe they will be allowed to win (but you’ve got to keep those theatre goers on the edge of their seats). This outcome is preferable (to the other Legacy party alternative), but only in so far as it will buy us just a little more time. A lot of those who saw Trump as their saviour, are now not so sure; it will be the same will Poilievre — guaranteed.

This election feels like a replay of that clown show south of our border, where Kamala and Walz were so unbelievably bad, that they couldn’t have been chosen by accident. No one in their right mind could possible vote for these people (surprisingly though, many still did). And it was just as alarming last time, as you’ll recall, when Trump ran against Hillary Clinton.

Here in Canada at least, we do have another choice, the PPC; and if the Liberals had followed through on the their promise of Electoral Reform, we would already have seats. Instead, we got more Trudeau (twice), and the same marketing buzz words that every other WEF puppet ‘Young Global Leader’ trotted out: The ‘New Normal,’ ‘Build Back Better,’ etc., etc. The world’s ‘leaders,’ in unison — as one great ‘Uniparty’ — gave up any pretense of representing the interests of sovereign nations, and submitted to Global control (as outlined in the Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘Lockstep’ document). And Mr. Trudeau, of course (because the majority of people are actually not stupid) became so unpopular that the Globalists had to install a new talking head.

Everyone is tired of career politicians, but now (in anticipation of the technocratic age) the Internationalists want Canadians to vote for a career Central Banker instead; Canada has long been a bankocracy so we shouldn't be surprised. Mark Carney, of course, has been groomed (and waiting in the wings) for many years.

The globalists are salivating over Canada's land and resources, despite their fake Green agenda. Canada has always been a privileged Third World nation (so privileged that we've always fully believed we lived in the First World). The private banks have plundered this country for years; the Crown too, through it's Privy Council and other means; and now Trump wants to take over (or so he says). But why not? The unification of this part of the world into one giant block — the North American Union (NAU)— is one the Globalists most cheerished objectives; just like the EU. Trump may have seemed like a Regionalist, but suddenly, once in power, a lot of Globalist ideas emerged.

Canada is a sovereign nation, but Canadians will continue in this role of ‘Hewers of wood and drawers of water,’ for the benefit of others (and under much less ‘generous’ terms), if the people of this nation do not stand up soon and get engaged. And I’m sorry, but that Oh-so Canadian ‘Elbows Up’ sign we see on lawns all over now, won’t change a thing!

My hope is, that in two or three enlightened Ridings (like York-Durham perhaps), the PPC will prevail. As I mentioned before, I don't think we have to worry about the polling numbers (with respect to the Liberals — just for a laugh), and a concerted effort in a handful of select Ridings, may well win the PPC two or three seats. This would serve all Canadians by holding Conservatives to account; by reminding them of their values, should they drift to the left again or continue to ignore programs that undermine Canadian sovereignty — such as the WHO’s ‘One Health’ and IHR amendments, etc.

It’s odd that Liberals get all up in arms over ‘Canadian Sovereignty’ when Trump says something tactless, but “nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care” as the United Nations, the WHO, the WEF (and other Globalist organizations) collaborate with Trudeau (and now Carney), reducing Canada to a border-line Third World, “post-national [corporate] state.”

As Patricia Conlin has said many times, “we have to stop voting out of fear, and start voting for our principals again.” I hope you’ll have time watch both of the debates linked in this post. But when criticizing the Liberals (as most of us do), please remember it was the actions of Conservatives that enabled the Liberals in almost everything they have done (since the dawn of neoliberalism). This is ‘tag team’ ‘Uniparty’ politics. And also, never forget, neoliberalism isn't Liberal; it a Conservative construct, funded by the super wealthy elite and implemented by the CIA. Again, please refer to my series on the history of neoliberalism.

Brian (they made me do this to you) Mulroney:

As Prime Minister, from September 17^th 1984 to June 25^th 1993, not only did he introduce neoliberalism to Canada, he began the erosion of our nation’s sovereignty by signing on to the United Nation’s Agenda 21.

Canada's Financial Commitment to Agenda 21

In his address at the Earth Summit on 12 June 1992, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pledged Canada's full support for the funding of international action to fulfil the environmental Conventions agreed to in Rio.

Stephen (I'm feeling pretty comfortable now) Harper:

Prime Minister from February 6^th 2006 to November 4^th 2015 (Bonfire Night Eve) Stephen Harper handed the reigns over to his Uniparty colleague, Justin Trudeau, when he signed us on to Agenda 2030:

Introduction: Towards Canada’s 2030 Agenda National Strategy

‘In September 2015, Canada and all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’

When the Conservatives were no longer a minority (because the Liberals must pretend they're against everything the Conservatives do, in order to maintain the illusion) the Globalist's agenda was moved forward again, and the stage set for the Liberals. The Globalist baton was passed.

This is all just food for thought, of course. I'm careful to included official government of Canada sources (and a few bought and paid for media opinions, surprisingly unbiased in this case), but I know all of you here can connect dots (unlike those who — bless their innocent hearts — still believe everything they hear on the television).

What would Peter Gzowski have made of all this?

I’ll be honest, I miss the old CBC. It should be easy enough though, to have a complete house cleaning there, and to make sure our ‘national broadcaster’ always presents both sides of a story (from our unique Canadian perspective); rather thank privatizing it (in the neoliberal fashion) so that the corporation with the deepest pockets can tell us what it is to be Canadian. This observation not ‘Brought to you by Pfizer.’

I’d hoped to finish this post on Tuesday night, but ran out of time (and I was busy all day Wednesday). Happily, this meant a could include a little from the next candidates debate, April 16^th, in Sutton — sponsored by the Georgina Chamber of Commerce.

You can watch the whole of this televised meeting on the Rogers TV Youtube channel: Federal Election All-Candidates Debate

On this subject, of the CBC, the following segment may be of interest (starting with Matt Pearce - Green Party): Defund CBC?

On Small Business (starting with Patricia Conlin - PPC): No more lockdowns, and. . .

You'll notice that Patricia repeatedly touches on subjects the others don't (can't or won't) – those ‘elephants in the room.’ Just like the time (very recently) Trump introduced Alfred Bourla at the White House, and the crowd literally booed him: Pfizer CEO Booed at White House.

The people know there is something wrong, and yet most politicians are forced to maintain the illusion — was Trump Gaslighting the American Public here, or shaming Bourla, with some future plan in mind?

There are two realities now: one the media-brainwashed masses never see or question, and one most people are now fully aware of. The people are tired of being lied to and gaslit by their representatives. And on this note:

On crime (another comment from Rob Grossi - Liberal): “If you do the crime, you do the time, and I think the Liberals have been very clear on this.”

It was an ‘entertaining’ (as well as informative) evening, but let me leave off here. I’ll follow up at some point (probably after the election) with a piece on Electoral Reform. Something all candidates should be committing to do now, before they are elected. . . because this may be our only chance to change things in the future.

Thank you again for your continuing interest and support.

David

Many of my other artist friends wonder where I am these days. I wish I could be more in-touch (with everyone); but even more, I wish I could find time for a session or two at the easel, so that I can finish my latest canvas (picture below). . . Maybe that’s what she meant by ‘canvassing’ ;-)

You might recall a painting I included in my recent post ‘And now for something completely different’ (‘Hidden Cove’)? That piece (and a few others) were sold recently, and my gallery reminds me (at least once a week) that they need new work. And new work is on the way (or will be on the way) — including the piece below — as soon as the upcoming election is behind us. We only have 17 days though, now, to actually do something about our future here in Canada. . . and that seems more pressing.

Can you guess where this is? And you call yourself Canadian ;-)

I'm painting pictures of another kind now (in words). Every day, from door to door, I try to sketch out the path to a better future — in broad, loose strokes (totally unlike my usual work). Sometimes you must leave room for the imagination. Now that I think about it, it's a kind of ‘Performance Art’ . . . Which is ironic. The reason music was never my main thing is that music (just like public speaking) is so immediate. . . and (at one time) completely terrifying.

But you can get used to almost anything it seems. At one time I could play Wish you Were Here (appropriately) on the guitar. A musician friend taught me the main chords at a cottage up on Stone Lake, and I worked on it over time. Sadly, I eventually let music go; there’s only so much time . . . and now I seem to have none at all.

Since I’m reminiscing about this. . . Hmm! My old Seagull has been packed away in its ‘baby coffin’ (as the guitar instructor used to call it) for the past two decades. . . It needs a string, probably a check up. . . but I wonder?

Public speaking, and performing music in public, is terrifying, for a lot of people (I still have dreams of being handed a guitar and walking up on stage, knowing that I don't know what I'm doing). But that's life, really!

So a bunch of us are out there everyday, knocking on doors, and talking to complete strangers (though in Uxbridge at least, these are still not complete strangers). And I must say, I've met the best people, and a lot of new friends, in the process. This is what being a community is all about: we know our neighbours and we talk to each other. Here’s an Elections Canada map of Bowmanville, from the 2024 by-election (this time last year). The highlighted streets all were canvassed, one door at a time.

The above is a work-in-progress too. Our teams also knocked on every door in Courtice, North Oshawa, Port Perry, Caesarea, Blackstock. . . we spoke to thousands of people. It looks like an impossible amount of work, but growing up on a farm taught me that any job, no matter how overwhelming it might seem at the outset, is possible. “Right, grab a shovel,” were the words we least wanted to hear as kids, but once you get started, if you just keep going (and especially with good company to joke around with), the biggest of jobs is over in no time. ‘Nothing is impossible.”

I actually look forward to each new street now, and to meeting with my neighbours — even those crazy Liberals ;-) Some (if you can believe it) are actually coming over to us now! Thank you, Mark Carney! Those Davos Globalists are so scary out-of-touch that even Liberals are asking questions now.

‘Globalism’ is a dirty word, and only the Liberal Party seems not to have figured this out yet. . . So NO, Mr. Carney, the world does not need more Globalism. What was this ‘elitist’ central banker thinking? Is this that ‘5 Dimensional Chess’ we keeping hearing about? (I’m not quite sure what this actually means; though it’s something we hear all the time now). Art is something I have a little more understanding of, and here’s Mr. Globalist know-it-all chatting with Damien Hirst (my regular email list may recall this one): — ‘Tell me about the currency’ !

And here, again, is ‘The Art of Central Banking in a Centrifugal World.’ The world doesn’t need any more of the central banker’s centrifuge either . . . But of course, the elite ‘extranational’ (multiple passport carrying) Globalists totally want more of this. This was their plan right from the start; to keep everyone’s heads spinning while they make out like bandits — or feudal overlords. Remember all those NAFTA era promises? Four decades later, the middle-class is decimated, younger generations are largely disenfranchised, society is falling apart, capital is free to travel while we are not. . . but that’s a whole other story. And who really benefited from Globalism? All those Globalist tax ‘avoiders’ of course, and the old tax farmers. . .

Please revisit my Be Released from the ‘Bond’ Age post.

Everybody knows Globalists have pretty much destroyed Canada (as we knew it), since their neoliberal economic ideas were implement here under Mulroney (Thatcher and Reagan). . . Also please revisit my series on Neoliberalism.

I/we (the PPC and Patricia Conlin — candidate in the new York-Durham riding, and friend) have a vision of a better Canada; a non-‘uniparty’ vision (an update I was fleshing out before the above mentioned text arrived — and to which I must return). This time though, I wanted to focus a little on my art. So let me share a few more paintings (also recent).

‘Stormwatchers’ Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 13” 2025 A scene from one of our favourite getaway places, near Algonquin Park (May 2022).

‘Well Spring’ Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 13” 2025 Set at a local winery, Willow Springs (January 2022)

And I can’t resist this one — just for fun:

‘Afternoon Sun’ Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 13” Port Perry, February 2025

Some of you local folk may recognize this location. I didn't actually drive my old Enticer all the way from Uxbridge to sit on a park bench here — just a little of that old artistic license. Though I did once drive my snowmobile all the way to Lake Simcoe (back in the day), and I have a million and one more stories to tell (apparently there are a lot of sled heads out there, so I may have to do another piece on this subject). Just quickly though (on this note) let me share a video I found right after I posted the Yamaha ‘economics’ piece in And Now For Something Completely Different — here’s a follow up to that: ‘CANCELLED’ Why Arctic Cat Quit Snowmobiles.

Perhaps you could look at all of this as a kind of ‘Performance Art’ — these posts and apparently unrelated videos, everything — I’m starting to sound like one of those crazy Fluxus artists now.

Anyway, I wanted this to be a shorter post (for a change), and I really hope you’ll enjoy my latest paintings.

Have a great weekend, and I’ll look forward to connecting again,

David

Usually when I post something here, I follow up with a note to my regular email list; this time, let me post an email that I’d actually not intended to share at all (here). The intention of this email was to underscore the importance of being politically active, and engaged, directly, with the people in our communities. The hope was, of course, that one or two more folk might be inspired to join our canvassing teams.

But let me jump straight into this (with a few additional notes):

‘The Matrix Dashboard – and an Update or Two’

(Aboard) The Nebuchadnezzar : "There's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is . . .”

And my Matrix dashboard – where I too have the occasional moment of clarity (especially when the windshield washer fluid is topped up) ;-)

Hi everyone.

I was thinking, while driving home from Toronto on the Whites Road extension (North of Pickering), I can't seem to find time to write these days! (The reason I've not been posting regularly on Substack either)

Note: If I can interject for a second (I feel I should provide just a little more background): We have a few different groups (and individuals in some cases) working their way through the various towns of our new York-Durham Federal Riding; promoting the People's Party of Canada (PPC) platform, as compared to that of the Conservatives (CPC). Could it be true that the CCP also has candidates here? ;-) I’ll not get too deep into this yet as it’s something to touch on later. I wanted to say though, we did pick up a couple of new volunteers. . . But here’s the rest of my April 1st group email — no pranks :-)

To Continue:

I had a painting deadline for the end of March (6 solid weeks of work for my next calendar collection), and the election was called before then of course, so I had no break. I hope you all had a great weekend, and that the freezing rain and power outages, didn't foiled anyone's plans (too much). We're fully into door to door canvassing mode now, but I did take Sunday off at least, to attend a gathering in Toronto. . .

Following up on last week's email, a couple of folk were kind enough to let me know there was a dead link. I know that ‘War of the Roses’ was linked in some of the batches I sent out (and I have no idea why it wasn't in others); regardless, here is the link I'd intended to include:

‘The Complete History Of The Wars Of The Roses In 3 Hours’ (as if such a history could be told in a mere three hours):

This wasn't just another of my sentimental trips down memory lane however (after all those trips to local castles and battle sites when I was in school, in Yorkshire), ‘The War of the Roses’ lives on. . . in the minds of Canadian Senators at least:

“The Tudor rose is part of the origin story of Parliament itself”. . . “It connects our parliamentary system all the way back to Tudor England.” In 1485, Henry Tudor crushed his rival, King Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The victory of the House of Lancaster over the rival House of York ended the bloody 30-year War of the Roses and finally settled the question of succession.

(Well, not really) The Tudor rose, as a ‘union’ of the House of York and the House of Lancaster — represented by the White Rose and the Red Rose — embodies (perhaps?) the first incarnation of a uniparty; a collaboration of elites (in the guise of political opposites) to establish a new super (supra) elite class to ‘reign’ over the world' s unwitting ‘tax cattle’ underclass, unchallenged.

Countless heads rolled in the process. Contenders for this throne (the one we're subject to here in Canada still), legitimate or not, were done away with (in various creative ways), and as always, the blood of everyday people (thousands of Yorkshire and Lancashire lads in this case) was spilled on the fields of battle.

While the Tudor Rose has been presented as the symbol of a harmonious union (the House of Tudor) this ‘reconciliation’ (shall we say) emerges out of a deep, dark and exceedingly dubious conflict, and it secured the Crown's authority (to this day) over all of England (and Canada as well) — apparently.

Ruthless forces still contend for the seats of power (as illegitimately now, as then), as they 'pretend' to be the rightful heirs and successors of this tradition. And you won't be surprised, I'm sure, when I tell you there is also a Monetary reform component to this story!

Shakespeare's plays, The Life and Death of Richard II and The Life and Death of Richard III, bookend this bloody era; which includes almost all of the ‘Henry’ plays – all but Henry VIII; which even the sleepiest of ‘sleepy heads’ will have some recollection of (sufficient ‘pretty heads’ rolled in this tale, that the salacious popular culture machine simply couldn't resist). But these are works of art, nonetheless; beautiful and timeless, and they have become foundational narratives of our Culture.

Were these plays also works of propaganda (commissioned, paid for and perpetuated, by the establishment of the day)? Most likely! The victors of any great conflict get to shape the History of their time (by commissioning cultural works of course); hence the need, today, for an independent culture.Despite the fact these works may well have been designed (at the very least) as a kind of disinformation, they still provided clues as to the reality of our world today.

At the risk of suggesting yet another (much grander) ‘uniparty’ flip-flop here — forget about the current, same old, same old, Liberal-Conservative / left-right knee-jerk reaction — I'd like to suggest that we might want to give that White Rose a chance now (and I am absolutely not talking about Prince Andrew here, of course). Again, I will come back to those old monetary reform ideas (because the old monetary reform community — here in Canada at least — would love our Central banks to enforce Mark Carney's Green Agenda on all of you).

Pop quiz: Which 20th Century Canadian politician was famous for wearing a Red Rose?

Why am I telling you this tale of Tudor intrigue, which seems to have nothing what so every to do with the current election?

Note: I’m aware of the alternative theories of course, including all that ‘far out’ stuff about ancient bloodlines, the Sinclair family history and even, those Merovingians. It is no coincidence that this too featured in The Matrix: The Merovingian Scene. I was disappointed there was no red rose in the lapel here; though you’ll notice a few on the table, and of course, there’s the red wine. Rather than spin off on yet another tangent, let me direct you to a fascinating book I just finished reading, by our friend Matthew Ehret: Revenge of the Mystery Cults volume 2: Rosicrucian Golem. I mentioned none of this in my local email though, as these rabbit holes are too alluring, and I’m hoping people will engage more with the here and now, and with the folk in our community. Continuing on:

Some good news: There is no need to pay any attention to the polls you've been seeing. They're usually meaningless. You can check for yourself the reliability of past polls — a coin toss would be just as revealing (these are about shaping opinion rather than telling you what's real). There is no reason to panic, therefore, but if the thought of another Liberal government sends a chill down your spine, and inspires you get out there and spread the word, do not hesitate — time is running out!

By telling this tale, of The War of the Roses, I wanted to illustrate that there is an unbroken link between the sacrifices of the common people 500 years ago, and the freedoms we enjoy today. People like to go back to ‘The Great War’ or WWII, when they talk about ‘sacrifices for our freedom,’ but this is the ‘never ending’ story; so maybe we can still pull this thing back from the brink (here in Canada). Remember all that talk of civil war leading up to the Trump election?

I don't know if I can convince any of my friends here to start sharing Mark Carney's background (at the very least) with all those who have been totally brainwashed by the Liberal's mainstream media. One of the commentaries I read recently, about the accuracy of Election Polls said the following.

‘Liberals are at 40 per cent among Canadians who are certain to vote, compared to 37 per cent for the Conservatives.’

So those (truly) brainwashed Liberals are still dangerous, for no other reason than more of them have been ‘activated.’

I have voted Liberal many times in the past but, as I discussed in my previous commentaries on neoliberalism, the Liberal Party then is not the (il)Liberal Party we know today. The Globalists hijacked the ‘progressives’ and subtly ‘transformed’ them (while we were all distracted) into ‘transgressives.’ I will tell you (in a future post) about all the Liberal ‘awakenings’ we’ve encountered going door to door.

Whether we are ‘activated’ through mainstream media ‘programming’ or by our own volition (almost) doesn't matter. Clearly, we are at a disadvantage here, right out of the gate, particularly because many of our side — those with anarcho-capitalist and anarchist tenancies — are now totally disinclined to vote (funny how anarchism used to be exclusively the domain of the left).

Opinion Polling Graph, UK : ‘The party's vote share [‘Sir Keir Stasi’s Labour] was 33.7%, the lowest of any majority party on record, making this the least proportional general election in British history according to the Gallagher index.’ Canada is much the same, so lets see if we can reverse this trend. As mentioned before, we have to take a long hard look at electoral reform (as well as monetary reform) before it is too late. These are our ‘chains of bondage.’

It’s no surprise, of course, that almost no one understand anything about either of these. For interest’s sake though, let's look at a few scenarios, as we move beyond election day (whatever this may bring):

The Scenarios:

• The Conservatives win with a majority, and we have the first PPC seat/s – the beginning of a coalition on the right to (hopefully) break the uniparty control.

• The Conservatives win with a majority, and we have the best PPC numbers yet – allowing PPC a window in future by-elections as Conservative disillusionment grows.

• The Conservatives win with a minority government (maybe PPC seats) – future frustration might then appear to be the result of leftist interference (which bodes well)

• A minority Conservative government – at least destructive bills, such as C-293 could be stopped, possibly beneficial to the right in the long term as well (buying us time).

• Another leftist coalition or Liberal majority (Heaven forbid) – In which case, in my opinion, Canada will have fallen, with very little hope of redemption. . .

If we're not all working to defend our culture now, it may already be too late. You've no doubt listened to Michael Yon, who says Canada, Britain, Ireland (and a few other European and South Pacific countries too) have fallen. The U.S. is 50/50 (he suggests) so what we are confronting then, is not just the fall of a country, or an Empire, but quite possibly, the fall of Western Culture itself.

Note: I’m not sure if the Chinese ‘invasion’ argument is something I fully subscribe to; but I’ve never been to the Darién Gap, or the Mexico / U.S. border (in a few years at least), so I haven’t seen with my own eyes who is actually flooding into the United States. This would all make sense though, if the United Nations’ ‘Replacement Migration’ (a document I’ve shared many times before) were , in fact, ‘weaponized migration’— as Yon and others maintain. In this scenario, the idea of ‘sleeper cells’ makes complete sense.

From a November 26th, 2023, Toronto Star INSIGHT article — Finland: Border Migrants Spur Police Aid. Accompanying the image: ‘A Finnish guard speaks to migrants at the border of with Russia at Salla, Finland, Thursday.’ And just for laughs. . . well, not really: Ricky Gervais on Illegal Immigrants

“There are no women and Children? Just you lads, is it? ”

We know hundreds of thousands of young, military age men (millions in fact) have been entering the West. Many are supported by the governments and agencies bringing them in, and these individuals could be motivated to do whatever they are told to do; which makes me wonder about a lot of things — all those mysterious food processing plant fires for instance (but you’d have to be a crazy ‘conspiracy theorist’ of course, to even suggest there might be a connection).

I included a link, at this point, to an interview with Michael Yon (not the one I’d intended as it happens). Instead of this conversation with Jordon Peterson (which is apropos) I'd intended to included the following with Mike Adams. Yon has talked about the fall of England, Ireland, Europe and Canada, many times; but I thought this interview was particular interesting, in part, because such material can now be found on Youtube: ‘Michael Yon Reveals the Alarming Border Crisis in America.’

And I couldn’t help but notice the Matrix intro: ‘TAKING THE RED PILL SCENE.’

Returning to that ‘War of the Roses.’ How much of our own culture do we really understand? And Culture is everything!

Really, we have to go back still further — back into the mists of time — to the Arthurian Legends and the informing mythology of Western Culture itself (but this must wait for another time).

The electricity was still out when I arrived home on Sunday evening.

So I made some tea on a camping stove, lit a couple of candles, and sat down with a book. Not just any book, but The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. A 1923 edition (a Christmas gift to my mother in 1948) which I'd almost forgotten was on one of my bookshelves — who would give something like this to a seven-year-old? (That still blows my mind). I don't ever remember cracking this book open before (though the cover was familiar). It was like something out of a museum, dusty and faded — on the surface — but the words inside felt as alive as ever.

The most famous quote from The Life and Death of Richard II, of course — the words of King Richard himself, while imprisoned before his death in Pontefract Castle, West Yorkshire):

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. . . "

Words of wisdom of course, for anyone who wishes to improve their lot in the future. But these lines caught my eye, as I worked my way through Act I. Scene III. These, of course, are the words of Henry Bolingbroke (of The House of Lancaster), who usurped the throne and imprisoned Richard; illustrating, perhaps, the power of positive thinking, and that of the ‘dancing soul’ that fully embraces life's battles:

“Never did captive with a freer heart

Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace

His golden uncontrolled enfranchisement

More than my dancing soul doth celebrate

This feast of battle with mine adversary.”

And on this note, have a thoughtful week.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the Wooden Sticks Golf Club for our event tomorrow. You could be a part of this great History too :-)

(Most of you here are nowhere near Uxbridge, so I’ll skip the details, as we’re over capacity already. . . I’ll look forward to connecting again soon though, with a follow up Substack)

And here is my follow up of course. . . I realize now that I should include the previous email also (which ‘set the stage’ as it were, for this tale). I’ll probably have something to share from tomorrow’s event as well, and from the ongoing campaign.

Again, thank you for your interest and continuing support. . . and we can always use more help canvassing. I look forward to hearing from you. Be bold!

David

As I've suggested here before, it really does seems as if the public is under a spell — a kind of Black Magic — designed by the Magicians of Money to prevent the masses from understanding how their energy (in the form of labour) is harvested. If there really is an ‘awakening’ of humanity happening at the moment (as some claim), and if we really are moving into a new age, then the trickery at the root of humanity's enslavement (for thousands of years) would be a good thing to wake up to.

And we are talking thousands of years. We can go back in time, past the Spirituali of Venice, past the Knights Templar, past the moneylenders of the bible, back to Sumeria in fact, where proto-cuneiform tablets kept a tally of the grain stored and distributed.

So this story takes us back to the Age of Taurus — since we're speaking in Mythic terms now — the ages of Aries and Pisces came and went too (well, almost) and somehow the moneylenders’ spell still works a charm; most people are as much in the dark today, as they were then, in the age of Enki, Enlil and Inanna.

If this is magic, it is an ancient magic. Ellen Brown has a wonderful passage in her book, The Public Banking Solution (in part, from Bernard Lietaer's The Mystery of Money). She writes, in summary:

'In the domain of money and banking, the public, the community-oriented system was gradually displaced by the private system of the moneylenders and their gold. Money became a “thing” separate from the goods and services it represented, a commodity in itself that had to be borrowed from middlemen moneylenders and could be withheld, manipulated, and devalued. Rather than simply a yardstick or measure of value, it thus became a tool for exploitation and domination by the “haves” over the “have-nots.” '

I think it is more likely (though I would never fully discount that old-fashioned magic) that the Magicians of Money understand our psychological vulnerabilities better than we do. Which is what the technocrats of our day hope to do, of course, by monitoring your on-line activity, your conversations, your biometrics — and God knows what else — by means of your SMART phone (among other things). Those MK-Ultra files show us that governments and intelligence agencies have been at this for years, we shouldn’t be surprised therefore. I've described this ‘Manchurian Candidate’ phenomena (as we now refer to it), in earlier posts about our experiences canvassing — those people (however rare) who immediately go on the attack when they hear the programmed ‘trigger word.’

Canada Day, Ottawa 2018: A reveller contemplates the OBEY EYE, one of Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous (and brilliant) social commentaries.

The ‘activation’ (shall we say) is not nearly so common however, as that simple ‘Beta-Slave Malfunction’ — as I've sometimes heard it called. I must share a story on my personal mailing about the Panama Papers (remember, those ‘dangers’ artists meet some interesting people). This is not a story I can (or should) tell here (knowing who reads my posts now) but whatever you want to call this odd phenomena, it is very real: “The lights are on, but there’s nobody home” — as one friend described the experience. Just for fun (whether this scenario was staged or not), every monetary reformer will recognize this expression ;-) The trigger word here of course: “Holy Ghost.”

Al Roker Frozen on Today Show

And you may remember The Manchurian Candidate ‘activation’ scene — that I’ve shared before:

“Sergeant Shaw? Sergeant Raymond Shaw? Raymond Prentice Shaw?”

We should be thankful (I suppose) that the media's ‘neuro-linguistic programs’ (and all their other tricks) are mostly about deactivating people, to pacify the population. This is most common (as those trying to organize any kind of protest know), although we do occasionally encounter those Manchurian Candidate ‘Beta Slave’ characters, who take it upon themselves to aggressively defend the narrative de jour, and instantly go on the attack (I’ve shared stories on my regular mailing list of our experiences canvassing door to door. . . maybe I’ll include a few of these here one day).

But now I'm really getting off track. We have moved from the sacred to the profane in just a few short paragraphs (and there are so many other stories I want to share), but let's get back the subject at hand (heretically, a fusion of both): Monetary Reform.

I've been involved (over that last couple of decades) with two monetary reform groups (one in Canada, and one in the UK) and naturally, I've chatted with folk from other groups, primarily in the U.S. but also in Europe, at the time of the 2018 Swiss Referendum on 100% reserve banking: The Sovereign Money Initiative. That year I was moved to start speaking on the subject. I had permission from Positive Money (which was doing incredible work at the time in the UK) to use any of that group's material in my presentations. The British and Canadian Systems are most similar, so this information was helpful in communicating the core ideas (or so we felt).

At this same time, I also started adding material on this subjects to my regular presentations on art. After all, art has become a financial market in its own right in recent years — the largest unregulated financial market in the world as it happens — so maybe this wasn't such an unusual departure. We see various business ventures now offering investment opportunities in the form of shares (‘units’) in the ownership of historic paintings. My comments here (no link) are not an endorsement of such programs, but art is as good a barometer as any, of the depreciation of our currency over time.

Here in Canada, a Group of Seven painting could be purchased for a few thousand dollars in the early 80s, yet many sell for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, just a few short decades later. There are other factors at play of course, and major efforts to brand such works, with celebrities such as Steve Martin drawing attention to this art; thus increasing demand. You may recall the 2015 exhibition in Los Angeles (or the excitement around this here in Toronto, at least).

And the point least understood (returning to the subject at hand) is that, irrespective of the asset — be it art, gold or real estate — the increase in price reflects a depreciation in the value of the currency, as much as it does an appreciation in the value of a given asset. Price bubbles are real of course, and if there is enough hype, any assets (including Tulip Bulbs) can appreciate far beyond the decline in purchasing power of the currency — this is the hope of all investors and speculators of course (if nothing else, to at least stay ahead of inflation).

We must return to this, but to continue with the story, let me share a commentary on the subject of inflation, by my friend Adam Smith (the 21st Century Adam Smith that is), who I met at a monetary reform meeting in Toronto more than ten years ago now. He and I began presenting together in 2018, but those 2020 lockdowns meant the usual venues were not an option, for a time. Nevertheless, across the province, many groups continued to gather; we went underground (as it were), and the recording above was at one such event — a lot of things changed in 2020.

I’ll share some other recordings in future posts, but the battle to communicate these ideas is ongoing. The mind-control runs deep, and there are advantages and pitfalls, to both Public Money and Private Money, in this ages-old, tooth and nail contest. Whoever controls the ‘creation’ of money controls everything — and will eventually own everything too (which is what I hope to explain in these on-going commentaries).

The trend in recent years has favoured private money alternatives, in the form of crypto-currency (as opposed to those old local, and public, ‘supplemental’ currency alternatives). As so few people now trust governments (and for good reason) almost any private currency ‘alternative’ is embraced — for the simple (and simplistic) reason that it is not ‘government’ fiat money.

I've tried to make the point for years that commercial banks also ‘create’ money (please see Be Released from the ‘Bond’ Age) as 90% + of the currency in circulation is bank created; and this ‘fiat currency’ too, is conjured up out of thin air (as they say ). More often than not, when I suggest this is a problem I get that Al Rocker stare (less frequently in recent years), or ‘radio silence’ from the local monetary reform chat group.

Nevertheless, there probably is a role for both private and public money, for the moment (until faith is restored by reforming the system), because they currently serve two separate functions (or they seem to serve two separate functions): one provides a ‘medium of exchange’ (crypto is still not widely accepted as a method of payment) and the other, a ‘store of value’ (those who own crypto at least, hope it will be a store of value).

This ‘iteration’ of private money though, acts more like a commodity than a currency, and thus the price fluctuates. Those who hold this ‘money’ hope the price goes up of course, which illustrates this is not ‘sound money’ per se, but rather, a vehicle for speculation. Can you have both? That’s definitely a discussion for another time, but so long as this reality is understood, go crazy and take a flyer on any ‘meme coin’ you want (if that's something you enjoy). But also understand the degree to which these ‘products’ are manipulated — and if you're not an insider you better be feeling lucky, because you’re in a casino.

Price stability is money's most desirable attribute, ironically though, this too is the result of manipulation; the use of interest rates and taxes (monetary and fiscal policy) to regulate the value of a given currency (the ‘quantity of money’ that is) relative to the products in the market place people want (or need) to purchase.

Most people here (I’m certain) understand how the amount of money in circulation might effect the price of goods and services. Another point I've been trying to make, for years, is that this simplistic ‘quantity theory of money’ would only apply in a closed system (where the amount of money in circulation can actually be known). With the advent of neoliberalism (Globalism that is), borders opened to free capital flows, and domestic economies (our National currency zones) became ‘leaky buckets’ — if you will.

With the floating of exchange rates for currencies in 1974 (the consequence of delinking the US dollar from gold ‘temporarily’ in 71), and the subsequent rise of offshore banking over the following decade (an essential component Globalism), followed by deregulation of the banking ‘industry,’ the very nature of money changed; and yet, almost everyone continued to think of money as they always had.

I'll get lost in the weeds if I go into more detail here, but the point is, not only had the ability of banks to create money become virtually unlimited by 1994 (with full implementation of a ‘0% reserve,’ ‘capital adequacy’ system), the old tools for ‘managing’ both the economy and the currency (monetary and fiscal policy that is)became effectively useless too. This was even more of a problem in the EU (the testing ground of that long anticipated ‘One World Government, One World Currency’) with the introduction of the Euro — but this too is a whole other story.

The analogy that our Adam Smith uses — of the neoliberal economy being like a car that cannot slow down, or even turn, to avoid obstacles in the road — is apropos. As a consequence of this view of the economy, his solution has always been the Nationalization of the banks. I always felt such an idea could never be sold to a public that does not understand the nuances of money; I agree with him now though — so long as central banks and governments can be effectively held to account. I must add, that for this to happen, the public must be engaged. Rather than endlessly sharing and resharing videos (which is important), action is now required. Our lack of engagement has allowed waste (and probably corruption) to proliferate — especially since 2020.

The oversight (and consequences, should corruption be uncovered) will come (probably quite quickly now that we have reached a tipping point) so it is time to be bold. Those commercial banks (that people are careful to not offend) are solvent only because of an ongoing bailout from the government (and government agencies) — so they may as well be broken up and nationalized, before they can do any more damage.

‘Too Big to Fail’ banks will always be bailed out if they run into problems speculating in derivatives or issuing mortgages recklessly — knowing the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has their backs. We are being held to ransom therefore, because they know most people (out of fear) will agree to bail the banks out (again) — no matter what it costs — rather than let the game end.

This is a ‘racket’ plain and simple (and a conviction for racketeering can still result in a 20 year jail sentence). But this is just one of the reasons Investment Banks and the regular ‘High Street’ retail banks were always kept strictly separate in the past, under Glass–Steagall in the US, and by means of the ‘Four Pillars’ in Canada (until the banks were deregulated in the 80s). All of which I've talked about in earlier Substacks and podcasts.

I've also discussed the decision to pay the commercial banks interest on their reserves. When interest rates were near zero, paying the banks a quarter percentage point seemed immaterial; since rates have gone up though (and will continue to go up) it is costing the country dearly; and then — to add insult to injury — May 16, 2022, it was decided to stop paying interest on government reserves. I talked about this at length in ‘Bank Heist.’

Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) are pretty much all the same, in so far as profits are privatized, while an unsuspecting public gets to cover shortfalls and liabilities — and then bail-out the private partners if it all goes south. The giant P3 that is our money system is no different.

Proposals for the Banking System

‘U.S. banks are public/private partnerships, established for the public purpose of providing loans based on credit analysis. . .’

And out of this will emerge the ‘social credit score.’ Maybe you wondered why those simple ‘credit scores’ everyone is being conditioned to accepted, and celebrate, are so important (the mind-control runs deep). Monetary reformers (some monetary reformers that is) maintain that governments should never have given away the sovereign right to create our nation's currencies in the first place. It's not quite as simple as this (of course) as private moneyed interests have had their tentacles deep into this business for a long time (from the founding of the Bank of England in 1697 to the four incarnations of private central bank that existed in the United States between 1782 and 1913 – to the present day). Nationalizing the banks (which should be the meaning of ‘National Bank’) would rectify this (again, so long as the central bank isn’t captured).

Those who wish to deposit money in private banks should be free to do so, in the spirit of Classical Liberalism and Libertarian laissez-faire economics. There is absolutely a place for Investment Banks, so long as they don't fund private navies and armies and to take over nations, as the Dutch East India Company did, just nine years before the founding of the privately-owned Bank of England. I'm surprised — well, not really — that someone hasn’t yet made a Saving Private Ryan type account of the second largest seaborne Invasion of a Sovereign Nation, next to D-Day.

The not-so Glorious Revolution, November 5th, 1688 (100 years after the failed Spanish Armada invasion of 1588) And of course, you will Remember (remember), The fifth of November (1605). ‘The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!’ Maybe it’s just my imagination, but we know symbolism is important to those who control that all important ‘narrative’ — to continually pit us, one against the other. It all makes for such a great story though, and an awesome cinematic experience too. . . unless you’re one of the poor schmucks conscripted who ends up as cannon fodder.

Saving Private Ryan - Omaha Beach D-Day landing scene. The 6th hour of the 6th day of the 6th month. 1944. (With all respect to the 4414 allies confirmed killed in action that day)

‘Operation Overlord’: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/NormandySupply_edit.jpg

Imagine trying to fight off this invasion? (Not to forget the 4000-9000 German casualties that day.) The secret to the success of the landings on D-Day, as at the Second Battle of El Alamein, meticulous planning and overkill resourses.

The so-called Glorious Revolution too is an incredible story (if not yet a gripping film) and it is certainly worth reading about the monetary implications of this event — the monetary implications of Bretton Woods (July 1944) as well. But let me return to the present day, and the retail banks in which you and I keep our savings. The local High Street bank is portrayed as a good corporate citizen, as part of the community, we see here in this engaging British ‘day in the life’ TV shows:

How High Street Banks Help Everyday People | Inside NatWest E2 | Our Stories

In reality, commercial banks have revealed themselves to be among the largest criminal organizations in the world (next to Big Pharma). You just have to look at the size and frequency of the fines resulting from their criminal activity. This is a matter of record, and given the extent of these crimes, it almost seems as if such activity is an integral part of the business model — the cost of doing business. I'm not talking about the regular folk who work at your High Street bank of course; these people, even the local bank managers, have no concept (I am sure); they’re just doing their job (so please don't give then a hard time when pull out your money and move it to a credit union, or public bank). The problem is systemic, and until the system is changed, so there is no real solution; except for maybe putting a few Big Bank (and Big Pharma) execs in jail.

L. Randall Wray writes, in his essay ‘Modern Money Theory Basics’:

Some have given up hope in our banking system. I’m sympathetic to their pessimistic views. Some want to go back to “greenbacks” or to the Chicago Plan’s “narrow banks”. Some even want to eliminate private money creation! Have the government issue “debt-free money”! I’m sympathetic, but I don’t support the most extreme proposals even if I support the goals. Such proposals are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of our monetary system. . .

We do, however, need fundamental reform—including downsizing (probably breaking up or closing) of the behemoths, greater oversight, more transparency, prosecution of financial fraud, and putting more of the “public” in our “public-private partnership” banking institutions.

I wholeheartedly agree with the last paragraph, but this a roundabout way of saying, ‘we do not actually oppose private money creation.’ I am one of those individuals, clearly, who ‘want to eliminate private money creation’ — the systemic creation of private money that is. This is a nuance most Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) supporters don’t seem to understand (I very much see myself in the MMT camp, except for this one issue).

A couple of folk in the Canadian monetary reform group recently took me to task for saying Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) does not address the issue of private money creation. I should have been more specific I guess; saying some people ‘want to eliminate private money creations,’ technically, is addressing the issue. Meanwhile, a quarter of the population in Switzerland voted to stop the private (systemic) creation of bank ‘fiat’ money by returning to a full-reserve system (in that 2018 referendum). Anyone who advocates for the increased use of physical cash too, is likely in this camp; and that’s a lot of people. We must find a way to move past the private money creation system (which only benefits private interests) — and also talk of programmable Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) — and return to a form of public money creation that benefits the nation as a whole.

I fully expect to be challenged over the details of what I’ve said here, but we can split hairs forever (because that’s easier than actually doing something). A real world model for what a functional public money system (read: sovereign money system), is the Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB) — which earned $1.78 billion for the people of Alberta in 2021 alone. Now the ATB doesn’t function on a full-reserve system either; but, as when your money is in a credit union (most credit unions), it stays in the community (or in the province at very least).

Money is the most critical of all ‘public utilities’ — though you might say: What about the power grid, or water supply? These systems needed funding to be built, of course, before (and the examples are numerous) the infrastructure can be stolen by private interests. Such privatizations are the result of neoliberal ideology, which argues that the private sector is more efficient. The controversial 407 toll highway always comes to mind here in Ontario; and Teranet's ‘capture’ of the Ontario land registry (using Saudi private equity to digitize and then privatizing these essential records). This story is still not widely known, but it should outrage the residents of Ontario. Please see: ‘Has Your Land Already Been Stolen.’ Of course, not enough people are awake (this this) yet, and even fewer engaged, so corruption of this kind continues.

More often than not it seems, these moves to privatize — water, power production and distribution, roads, etc. — have been disastrous; or at least, hugely more costly. How can they not be, when they become specifically for profit (someone else’s profit)? The rise of P3s, in fact, has been a consequence of the reaction against privatization; these ‘partnerships’ are privatizations by stealth, and the worst of both worlds for everyday people. Whitney Webb describes Public-Private Partnerships most succinctly, as the ‘corporate capture of public institutions.’

The largest and most egregious of these Public-Private Partnerships, is the money system itself; and (here in Canada) the relationship between our (captured) yet public, central bank, and the private commercial banks. Adam Smith and Ellen Brown (mentioned above) both argue for nationalizing the banks and full public banking; whereas (as I’ve mentioned) some still see a role for private banking. Even Catherine Austin Fitts, who I admire immensely, suggests she is not entirely against private banks (and has stated, that as much as she admires Ellen Brown, they differ on this point). Catherine is well aware of the problem of private money creation though, which she has described (in one of her more colourful analogies) as the ‘tapeworm in the system.’ The danger of private money creation though, seems to elude most people; such is the power of the money magician's spell.

The charging of interest on money was not allowed in days gone by, when money was rather more difficult to ‘create,’ and more scarce therefore. The Knights Templars got around this by charging ‘fees’ instead, but the rulers of the time, particularly religious leaders, understood how the accrual of interest rapidly transfered too much wealth into the hands of private interests (those who already had money, and were in the business of lending it out).

A system in which money creation is theoretically unlimited — our 0% reserves system that is — is even more of a problem, and yet the issue can be masked more easily (for a time). I shared this Positive Money video explanation in one of my earlier posts (and also used it in talks on the subject), but maybe it wasn’t as effective as I thought in communicating these mechanisms?

'Do I need to draw a picture?' (too)

I am an artist, after all, so next time I will give this a try. Not only must I expand on the problems posed by commercial banks (and their private money creation) but also, the pernicious effects of interest (on private money) — a way to neutralize this, and to transition back (which I suspect is the main concern of the Modern Monetary Theory folk as well — since they too understand the ‘practicalities’). Additionally, I have not yet managed to spark any conversation (amongst monetary reformers in this country at least) on the impact of an integrated and expanded ‘offshore’ banking business. . . so I might have to draw a picture or two here as well ;-) I’ve written enough For now. Since I’m talking about art though, let me share one of my recent paintings (sold a couple of weeks ago through Loch Gallery, Toronto):

‘Changing of the Guard’ 18" x 30" Acrylic on Canvas 2024 — A scene depicting the Sept. 10th, 2022 Conservative Leadership Convention. The sun sets over Parliament Hill, while a few stragglers grab a last drink before heading into the auditorium.

Thanks again for your interest and continuing support. I look forward to discussing the Money Magicians’ tricks in more detail next time, and hopefully, together, we can break the spell.

David

Queen Victoria famously warned her friends. I missed out on this ‘one off’ gold leaf mirror back in 2017. . . and have lamented the fact ever since (a commission may be in order). The attribution of this comment doesn’t appear to be in doubt, and it is certainly true, that artists ‘mix with all social classes’ at least; but is it fair to say artists are actually ‘dangerous’ — the most dangerous, no less? A Substack friend recently requested that I share more art in my posts here, so perhaps I can explore this idea at the same time? Continuing in the theme of ‘Art and Life,’ let me tell you about one particularly relevant ‘art encounter’:

It’s a rather convoluted tale, but it relates to the United Nations, Global Warming, ‘Net Zero’ boondoggle that we’ve been discussing; which began not long after we all forgot about spokesperson Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Ice Age’ message in 1978. The winter that inspired the video above, 1977, was my first winter in Canada. I thought this weather was awesome (and normal), coming from England where the occasional wet snow usually melted the same day it fell.

We'd drag our sledges out to the local park, and if we were lucky, we'd get a few short runs in before the snow melted into the grass, and the slope turned to mud. Trading in a sledge for a motorized ‘sled’ was something undreamt of (as a 13 year-old Yorkshire lad). I liked the comment about snowmobiles (in keeping with my last post) in the above ‘Ice Age’ video (at the 16 min mark). When I first watched this documentary (excerpts of which we’ve all seen before) it felt as if it had been produced specifically for me to share with you today. Apparently there are still quite a few ‘sled heads’ around, given all the notes I received after my last post; so let me continue with a few more reminiscences here, to tell this tale.

That brand new 1976 white Camero spinning through the snow in 1977 (at 13.30 mins) was my first car (which made me laugh). I purchased this used, of course, in 1981. This first winter I remember vividly; the excitement of the first snow fall — two feet in one night — and just like this winter (47 years later) it kept piling up. The picture below was just a couple of evenings ago. I attempted to go for a quick spin on my old Enticer, but had trouble making headway as the snow’s getting so deep now.

I don't think the temperature has been above 0°C since Jan 1st (here in Uxbridge). . . there is another 22 cm forecast for later today! Ah, that Global Warming. . . I mean Climate Change. Now that the sea ice is all back on the Arctic Ocean, it really does seem as if the Ice Age Leonard Nimoy talked about may be on it's way.

And now the Liberal Party is trying to get Mark (Sideshow Bob) ‘Carny’ elected to run the show, on the promise of still more Carbon Taxes (and all that other technocratic WEF stuff). Carbon taxes/credits, of course, have nothing to do with climate; those old technocrats proposed the use of energy credits as money (and they’re pushing for a new monetary system now, don’t forget). This is just a subtle way to introduce the same thing, so that those who don’t know economic history won't realize what's going on.

After the ‘carnage’ of Carney’s time as Governor of the Bank of England — after the promotion of SDGs and the idea of Bank Bail-Ins — it’s hard to imagine that some people are still suckered in by a little Liberal media hype. For your interest: ‘Former British PM weighs in on Mark Carney’s reputation’

(I’ve talked about ‘Trussonomic’ in my regular mailings; the fact that Liz Truss was brought in to take the fall, for doing the only thing she really could do — under the circumstance — and to show what happens to any politician who dares take on the banks)

If Canadians do vote for Carney, we should all move to Mexico (as I suggested in my last post). . . and that way we'll escape the encroaching Ice Sheet as well (if we live a few hundred years). . . but I'm getting off track again.

Who doesn't love Spock? We all trusted the television back in the day — those infallible ‘scientists’ too — but Spock was an actor, just like our politicians now. As for Star Trek, I’m sad to say, it was just another of those Psychological Strategy Board (PSB D-33/2) directive ‘predictive programing’ PsyOps — Logans Run, Soylent Green, iRobot, Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, etc., etc. — which have been shaping the collective mind for years now. These ‘programs’ were not just entertainment.

How Ironic that Nimoy should pass away the year the Arctic sea ice started to return again (if you watch the NASA video above); and how sad, that he didn't see this. I hope he didn’t leave this world feeling he’d misled people with the Ice Age commentary he was hired to present.

Much of the ‘science’ we see today seems to be a kind of fiction. The more aggressively promoted and potentially profitable it is, the more likely it is to be an actual fraud. Maybe we’ll eventually get to the point depicted in all these science fiction films and tell-a-vision programs (I’m still waiting for that flying car) but the technology isn’t there yet — despite all the ‘Skynet’ hype and ‘Stargate’ chatter. Scientism is really just business in the guise of science; so the fact that this technology, and that proverbial snake oil, very often doesn’t work, is irrelevant — as you will hear Mark P. Mills explain, in his commentary on EV myths (below). The technology doesn’t have to work, or make sense; with enough mandates and sufficient mind control, the masses will go along and make even the most outlandish scheme hugely profitable.

The fact that carbon taxes don’t do anything either, also doesn’t matter — to the group laundering this money through Green Slush funds and unnecessary wars. On this note, as you will hear at the 13 minute mark in the ‘EV Mandates’ video below:

“Those oil burning war machines that are rampaging across Ukraine right now are emitting more new CO2 every 6 months than all the world's EVS combined have eliminated.”

In an era of Oligarchic Predator Capitalism, there is a directly correlation between the degree to which dissent is not tolerated, and the importance of a given narrative to those vested interests. When evidence contradicting the ‘narrative’ is dismissed and labelled ‘conspiracy theory,’ it’s a safe bet the official narrative is complete bollocks, and that the evidence challenging it is dangerously close to the truth.

I think we should start calling these ideas ‘conspiracy theorums’ now, because asking questions and providing sound evidence is what real science is all about. Further to this, anyone who still uses the term ‘conspiracy theory’ (after everything we’ve seen the past few years) should be dismissed as an idiot. In the minds of true believers, however, Science has become a religion. The scientific method, therefore, has been abandoned, and questioning of the new orthoxy (the technocratic faith) is heresy.

In the new Dark Ages of Scientism, if you're wealthy enough, you can purchase your ‘Indulgences’ (carbon credits) and continue to fly (your private jet to Davos) guilt free — or you can buy a Tesla, and virtue signal to the common folk. The following is the most comprehensive debunking of the EV myths (and scientism) I've yet seen. You’ll find it compelling, I’m sure: ‘Mark P. Mills | EV Mandates vs. Freedom.’

On an optimistic note, my favourite quotation from the above:

“Congress regularly passes laws that violate the laws of physics. I'm a physicist so I take offense they pass laws that violate the laws of common sense. . . there is a democracy so we're allowed to do that usually [but] eventually physics wins.”

Though in reality, this is not a democracy, it’s an Oligarchy, and ‘laws of physics’ and ‘common sense’ don’t come into it. All that matters is what’s profitable for the corporate stakeholders and predator capitalists; then politicians and mainstream media go to work selling their latest scheme to the unwitting masses.

All of which brings us back to the orthodoxy of our time (post 1978): global warming, and then climate change (when it appeared the planet maybe wasn't warming significantly). The God Father of global warming (in Canada at least) is someone almost everyone who was around in the 80s will remember; first, as CEO of Power Corp, and later, as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations: Maurice Strong.

I have to say, when I first spoke with Mr. Strong in 1996, at the Buckhorn Festival of the Arts (The Buckhorn Wildlife Art Festival, as it was then) I took an immediate liking to him — though he and his wife did purchase one of my major works that day (so, as they always say in Municipal council, I must declare a ‘pecuniary interest’ here).

Incidentally: Does anyone ever check these Council declarations I wonder? Before the next election, there needs to be an audit of such things: There must be ‘Net Zero’ tolerance, for undeclared pecuniary interests and ‘climate profiteering.’

When Maurice and his wife Hanne came up to chat with me. I didn't actually know who they were. He seemed familiar. “You must be on my mailing list, I'm sure we've met before,” I said (assuming we'd chatted here at the show, or at some other art event). “No,” he replied, “you've probably seen me on TV.” Which I had, of course, and as we chatted, I finally clued in. The couple lived part of the time in the Community of Buckhorn (as you will read in the articles below) and I was invited to over, when the show ended, to drop off the work they’d purchased.

The painting ‘Sorak San’ (a mountain in South Korea that I climbed after my 1993 Exhibition in Seoul) became something of a talking point that year. The following account of the event that summer was published in Art Impressions Magazine:

I was saddened to see, yesterday, when I looked up the author (of this piece), that our dear old friend, Michael John Knell passed away July 17th 2024. Michael was known to everyone at the Buckhorn art festival, and almost everyone in the Canadian art scene at this time. He was a wonderful person, and I’m sad we’re not able to reconnect now.

As Michael wrote, you will find it worth the drive, and I hope you’ll come out to visit us at the Buckhorn Festival of the Arts, August 16 and 17 2025— more details closer to the date.

Needless to say (and everyone subscribed here will understand), it was interesting to chat with a figure such as this. It is commonly accepted that Maurice Strong was the person responsible for changing this ‘narrative’ — from the coming Ice Age to global warming — the implications of which will be lost on almost no one. Certainly, he was a central figure, and to have had the opportunity to visit his home, to sit at the dinner table and chat, was. . . enlightening, to say the least. Though we kept in touch for some time afterward, I kept deferring a trip to the couple’s ranch/retreat in the US, to visit my painting and talk about more work.

I was very definitely an environmentalist at this time (and still am, when it comes to forever chemicals, biosludge, microplastic etc.). They too were interested in other aspects of environmentalism, not just the carbon issue, so we did have a lot to talk about; but I wasn’t a Buddhist, and somehow (maybe because of this) the moment passed. People have asked me (especially in my community) “what’s with the China thing?” Other than what we’ve all read — and it did seem to be a close connection — I wasn’t privy to any of this; and the scandals, such as they were, had not occurred yet. Strong was a controversial figure, to be sure, but in recent years, more for expressing ideas such as:

‘What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group's conclusion is 'no'. The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?’

With an apparent ‘controlled demolition’ of western economies currently underway, one has to wonder. Other similar statements can be seen on the Wikiquote page, but we are forced to put the pieces of this puzzle together on our own — you must be the judge: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong, www.mauricestrong.net, www.fdd.org, www.canadafreepress.com.

Regardless of where these ideas came from, and what the real intentions were, we are dealing with the very real consequences of United Nations policies now; and this, I would suggest is what we need to be focused on. Maurice Strong has since passed, as you know (strangely enough, also as the sea ice began to return). I don't think Hanne would remember me, but The Manitou Foundation is still a going concern.

‘Sorak San,’ as you’ll have gathered, found a home here, near the Fours Corners in Colorado (the only place in the United States where four States meet at the same point). They had purchased this property in 1977, as it happens, and their Stupa was just being constructed. This bronze Buddha was a natural complement of course.

Image above from a print sales sheet (hence the stamp), for limited edition prints created of the original painting. The following text I wrote to accompany the work: ‘The mountains of eastern Korea are one of the few places on the peninsula that have remained unchanged to this day. It is here that I truly felt the spirit of Korea. As I traveled along the trails that wind up through the hills, I came upon a bronze Buddha. It sat there with an eternal gaze. . . out across a valley which eventually opened out to the lowlands of the eastern coast. As a group of Japanese white-naped cranes passed overhead, I felt for a moment the serenity embodied in this figure before me - an experience that has been repeated many times for many people, for centuries.’

You can see why someone might assume I was a Buddhist, but I wasn’t. I had read a lot on this subject though, as many folk did at this time. Not long after, the Internet’s tentacles crept out into the world (sending everyone into a technology tizzy) and that so-called ‘New Age’ came to an end with the 2000 tech bubble. It’s sad really, because I still see this as a promising time, when the world seemed to be on a better path. More than anything, it’s those New Age book shops I miss. Before information on any subject could be found so effortlessly, with just the click of a mouse, these places were treasure troves. . . but this is a whole other story.

I never did go to visit my painting at the Strong’s ranch in Colorado, and I don't really know why. Interestingly though, some years later, I found the following commentary in Barry Lords, 1974 publication on Regionalism in art, The History of Painting in Canada: Toward a People’s Art. Hmm, was this all just a PsyOp too, designed to disengage, not just art students and intellectuals, but the population as a whole?

‘Yet Dhârâna (Fig.163), painting at Varley's cottage in the Lynn Creek Valley above North Vancouver in 1932, shows only the rapt figure of a girl in metaphysical communion with the universe. The title refers to a Buddhist state of meditation, in which the mind is supposed to be ‘free’ of the body and at one with its surroundings. Hence the girl's dreamy expression, and Varley's attempt to integrate her figure with the Coastal Range. The Purple of her jacket and the deep green of the nearer hills recur throughout the canvas, especially the light green and purple tones of the sky, reflected through the evening light in the girls upturned face (see image below).

‘Dhârâna is the exact opposite of the portrait of Margaret Fairley. The Toronto Communist is genuinely ‘out of herself’ because she is serving other people. The Vancouver art student, on the contrary, looks up and away, avoiding confrontation with reality by sinking into reverie. Apparently contemplating nature, she is really serving herself by refusing to trouble her mind with the social problems so pressing around her, much less do anything about them. This mystical doctrine of Dhârâna is actually a doctrine of selfishness that depends on ignoring the real sufferings and struggles of others, whether in Asia or in Canada. Today, 40 years later, it is still a fashionable means of escape for many artists and students; but it serves the ruling class, who are delighted to see young people and intellectuals cut off in this way from the oppressed and the workers.’

(My emphasis) ‘The Struggle to Paint our People’ pg 192 Below, the painting Dhârâna, by F. H. Varley, 1932. oil, 34" x 40")

There was so much going on in the 90s boom years, and the demands to produce were unrelenting. . . It was difficult to find time, and maybe it was as simple as that. The south west is fascinating though, so if you’ve not been on one of those wonderful American road trips, perhaps now is the time to think about heading down there — before Trump requires some biometric digital ID to cross the border.

With Respect to Queen Victoria’s comment, in sharing this anecdote, don’t think I’ve said anything more than most of you on my regular mailing list will already knew. I’m not blabbing (or at least, I don’t think I’m blabbing); but I’ll say no more here, or I’ll be lending credence to Queen Victoria’s claim. Famously, Plato also felt that artists were a potential problem, and in The Republic he recommends they be censored — but not for their gossip of course.

For many years, a number of artist from the Buckhorn art festival also showed in the ‘Gold Room’ at the Maryland Waterfowl festival. Maryland, and Oxford County in particular, is the ‘bedroom’ community of Washington DC. The people who bought our paintings there were, very often, the most connected folk, and many of them we got to know well. Many became close friends, and I hope to share a few more stories here; as usually I would accept their invitations, and we had some incredible adventures.

What Plato and Queen Victoria were concerned about, was not that artists might blather too much; or even (in these circles) that they might be spies — some have been. John Rizzo, who I mentioned in passing in an earlier piece, talks about this in fact, in his Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA. This is a fascinating book, which I certainly recommend. And again, how strange it was to get to know someone I had known first from TV, and in the most unusual circumstances: representing the CIA at Congressional hearings into the Iran–Contra Scandal, and later, Congressional hearings into ‘waterboarding,’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ and ‘CIA black sites.’ I had already been writing on some of this ‘intrigue,’ which is why I was introduced to John. It’s a long story, and some of it I’ve already cleared with him, so we’ll return to this in the future.

It wasn’t so much what artists knew, that worried Plato and Queen Victoria, but how artists thought. If they somehow transmitted this way of thinking, and the odd perspective they had as a result, there could be trouble. If the State’s carefully crafted illusion could not be maintained, because too many people started to see through it, there could be real problems; for Republics and Monarchies alike. And that’s precisely where we are today: too many people are seeing through the illusion, and that ruling class is getting worried. Maybe the ‘New Age’ everyone talked about in 80s and 90s, has finally arrived, with this so-called ‘awakening’ we see today. Something is happening. Maybe it’s time to take Barry Lord’s advice: snap out of our contented ‘contemplative’ state and ‘do something’ about the problems we see in the world now.

Thanks for coming on this journey with me. We’ve a long road ahead, and I look forward to continuing soon.

David