“…Professor Malcolm Dando suggests implanting misinformation to bend perception may no longer be confined to science fiction and could soon be a conceivable reality.
Prof Dando, who recently penned a report on the rising threat of neuro weapons, is now begging the UK to take the threat seriously.
The University of Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies professor warns that untraceable drones that spike soldiers with hallucinogens could be just around the corner…”
In fact, scientists had been aware of fallout-contaminated reindeer for decades. In the 1960s, the discovery of contaminated caribou triggered a major public health investigation in Canada. Historian Jonathan Luedee describes how, in their efforts to unravel the mystery, scientists and politicians grappled with the reality of a nuclearized world.
“Between 1953 and 1958,” Luedee explains, “the US, UK, and the Soviet Union conducted more than 220 atmospheric nuclear tests,” leading to concerns about widespread ecological contamination. Caribou were already on scientists’ minds. Their population had been mysteriously declining, and Indigenous groups in northern Canada had long relied on caribou meat. Early radiation studies showed that caribou had “higher exposure levels than other grazing animals, including groups of animals located closer to nuclear testing sites,” Luedee writes. Then, in 1959, Canadian botanist Eville Gorham noted high levels of radioactive material in lichen.
“We are Tatáŋka Íyotake’s Oyate — ‘Sitting Bull’s People,’ therefore our
fight and resistance must continue for our future generations because we
cannot drink oil.” — Standing Rock Nation
On December 17, Assange submitted a criminal complaint to the Swedish Economic Crime Authority and Swedish Crimes Unit. The legal complaint is directed against the Nobel Foundation, arguing that the pending transfer of 11 million SEK ($US 1.18 million) and the award of the prize medal to Machado violates the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will of November 27, 1895.
The will, binding under the terms of Swedish law, stipulates that the award of the prize and monies be given to a person who, during the preceding year, “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind” in pursuing “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Given that the peace prize laureates are selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, seeking to hold them accountable for their poor choice of awardee might have been a better starting point. But the complaint is alert to this, noting that the Swedish funds administrators have a fiduciary duty when it comes to disbursing the funds. “The Norwegian committee’s selection does not grant them criminal immunity.” Indeed, it was up to the administrators to consider such a decision made “in flagrant conflict with the explicit purpose of the will, or where there is evidence that the awardee will use or is using the prize to promote or facilitate the crime of aggression, crimes against humanity, or war crimes”.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in his speech at the High-Level Segment of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2024, attempted to characterize today’s world as one in which the quest for multipolarity has triggered a “purgatory of polarity”, in which impunity would reign and the rules and protection mechanisms established in international law would not be respected. For, “in that purgatory, more and more countries are filling the spaces of geopolitical divisions and doing whatever they want without any accountability”.
This narrative creates the misleading perception that it is multipolarity that is responsible for the world being plunged into chaos, due to the deliberate failure of the powers of collective imperialism to comply with the rules established by the United Nations Charter. It is as if the emerging powers, or those peoples of the world who see multipolarity as an opportunity to exist, were responsible for the imperialist powers’ indiscriminate violence, genocide, expansionism, and the dismantling of the international security architecture that has brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict.
The Main Threat To US Imperialism
In his reflections on deterrence in international security, retired US General Michael P. C. Carns argued that the main threat and greatest challenge facing the United States today is the existence of a multipolar world in which hundreds of actors with different types and levels of power, within the framework of a set of cross-cutting alliances, make the world more “dangerous and volatile” than in previous contexts of bipolarity.
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The geopolitical battle is in full swing, and whoever controls the narrative will be able to direct the consolidation of a new multipolar world order, because in this world of exponential subjectivities, it is not enough to “be good”; one also has to appear to be so, and one must have the cultural and communicational strength so that the peoples of the world can be aware of this geopolitical battle for the defense of a new international power correlation and the democratization of the decision-making process, projecting the interests and cultural values of the diversity represented by the Global South.
From: 2025 RAND Wrap-Up: Research That Defined Our Year
…In 2025, that meant helping to build an even stronger, more ready, and more effective military. It meant helping decisionmakers understand and prepare for the risks and opportunities of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. It meant offering innovative analysis and ideas to rebuild Gaza, achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, and compete with China. It meant finding ways to reduce the federal debt burden and save American taxpayers trillions of dollars.
Here are just some of the ways RAND helped policymakers answer the challenges of 2025.
Strengthening the U.S. Military…
The protests of that night became an annual tradition. The killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6, 2008, carries significant weight for Greek society. For many, it remains a deep collective wound, marking a turning point in the country’s modern history. The death of a 15-year-old at the hands of a police officer is seen as a stark reminder of how fragile the relationship between citizens and state authorities can be.
It has also become a symbol of social injustice and public frustration. The unrest that followed in December 2008 reflected not only anger over the incident itself but also the broader tension of a society already under economic and political strain. Each year, the anniversary reignites discussions about police conduct, youth rights, institutional accountability, and how societies should respond to violence.
For younger generations in particular, December 6 has become a day associated with civic engagement and political awareness, a moment to remember the need for justice and active participation in public life.
December 15, 2008
Riots or revolt? – An insight into why Greece is now in flames
Many Greek journalists and foreign correspondents have ‘grokked’ the situation. Some, like Brady Kiesling, the former diplomat who resigned his post at the embassy of the United States in Athens in protest against the policies of the Bush regime, deserve kudos for their astute and accurate assessments of the situation.
Others may be in denial. How else to explain the reports by the likes of John Carr. In his early articles on the Athens riots to British newspapers Mr. Carr reported the official police version of events and gave no say to the eyewitnesses whose version of the event was available from the first moments of this tragedy. Mr. Carr’s depiction of Exarchia as a ‘heavily policed district’ is indicative of how out of touch he is with Athenian reality. One television commentator recently described the Exarchia police station as a precinct with the “globally exclusive” distinction of existing primarily to defend itself – the police station to which the man who pulled the trigger of his gun on that fateful evening reported to. What the commentator meant was that it is not actively defending the precinct’s constituents. If Mr. Carr had bothered to ask how ‘heavily policed’ the residents of Exarchia feel he might be surprised to find how many have called the police to request help while break-ins to their homes were in progress only to be told it was too dangerous an area for police to intervene. It is an area where police only enter in squads and where undercover law enforcement officers have been assaulted and have even had their weapons stolen. It is an area where a few months ago local groups initiated identification spot-checks to weed out undercover policemen in their midst.
Mr. Carr and his ilk report from a position of haughty condescension. One remark of his – something to the effect that hooliganism is a 3,000-year-old Greek tradition – drew caustic comments from television news anchor Olga Tremi and her guest, MP Fotini Pipili.
Other British and American journalists have commented on the ‘fragility’ of democracy in the land that spawned this system. Maybe they should take stock of the civil liberties that have evaporated in their own lands. Where people may be legally disappeared in the dead of night to military camps in the Caribbean, where people may be shot, beaten or tased to death by overzealous enforcers of the ‘law’, where foreign nationals may be shot in cold blood while taking a ride in the subway, and where business is expected to continue as usual after such atrocities occur.
What Mr. Carr refuses to grasp is that the youth of Greece (and of several other countries if recent events are taken into account) is fed up with the current paradigm of ‘democratic’ regimes. The ‘free world’ is taking stock of its situation. It is taking a long hard look in the mirror and realizing that the enemy may indeed be its own self. It is understanding that freedom is a privilege accorded to a few of its elite and denied to its vast majority. This reality check may have pushed many to the realization that they have more to lose than to gain by perpetuating the current order of things.
It was the collapse of a Spanish bank – named Banco Popular – in 2017 that led Gareth Gore to first investigate the organization. By 2024, he was releasing Opus, the most recent widescale exposé into the machinations and influence of Opus Dei.7
“Like everyone else,” when he first went to Spain to report on what seemed like just another bank crisis, he said, he “missed the most important part of the story:”8 Following the bank’s collapse, most shareholders, he noted, had tried to recover their money. Most, but one.9
This shareholder, known as La Sindicatura, held approximately 10% of the bank, amounting to nearly EUR 2 billion.10 Instead of trying to recoup its costs, this shareholder was working to dissolve itself and disappear. Gore quickly discovered that, behind the Syndicate, were dozens of companies and foundations. The significant dividends being earned by these organizations were being distributed through “support companies” to a network of schools, residences, and retreat centers, all leading back to one organization: Opus Dei.
In fact, at the time of the bank’s collapse, Opus Dei had been in control of the bank’s board for around two decades.11 Over the years, a range of services had been made available to it, including currency movements, shell companies, and secret accounts in Panama and Switzerland.12 The bank had also set up a charitable foundation to which 5% of its profits had been dedicated each year, amounting to USD 150 million total. The bank’s chairman, a member of the Work (Opus Dei’s members and people familiar with it often refer to it simply as the Work), Luis-Valls Taberner, insisted the money was being used for “good causes”; most of the money had gone to projects run by Opus Dei.
Born in 1760 (arguably also the birth year of the Revolution), Henri de Saint-Simon was a French theorist best known for, early on, identifying the industrial class as the group that must be protected to bring about a properly functioning economy and society. This was a philosophy that sought to learn from the Enlightenment era but applied to the industrial age amid the rise of productivity, individualism, and other forces spurred by capitalist production. This idealized vision of “the industrial society” not only condemned idleness of any kind, but also lacked any materialist basis, and so while Saint-Simon’s ideas influenced Karl Marx and others, this version of utopian socialism was one that ignored class struggle in favor of an industrialized vision of meritocracy.
Saint-Simon also learned from the French philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, a key Enlightenment figure who, alongside championing the power of ideas and not people to lead the charge of the future, solidified for Saint-Simon the value of a rationalist determinism about human progress. He predicted that only this form of meritocratic industrialism would provide Western society with a viable future and that a proper hierarchy would be required to make it happen, with the decision-making industrial class at the top. As Walter M. Simon’s translation of Oeuvres de Saint-Simon & D’Enfantin (1865) shows, this belief in a deterministic causality lent his predictions their power.
“[T]he future consists of the last terms of a series whose first terms constitute the past,” Saint-Simon wrote. “When one has carefully studied the first terms of a series, it is easy to supply the following ones; thus one may easily deduce the future from a proper observation of the past.”
Saint-Simon had an authoritarian streak, too, believing so fully in his proposals for a better society that he felt they ought to be enacted by force: the attitude of a true philosopher-king that’s not unlike the style of tech evangelists in the twenty-first century, who likewise attach a sense of pure inevitability to their predictive abilities.
BREAKING: Secret third temple blueprints, red heifers, and a hidden prophetic timeline are converging right now in Jerusalem, pointing directly to the end-time events foretold in Scripture.
Today in Jerusalem: rabbis reveal the time for the third temple is now
BREAKING: Sanhedrin rabbis in Jerusalem publicly advance preparations for the prophesied Third Temple, signaling we are closer than ever to the climax of end-time events.
THIRD TEMPLE UPDATE – Perfect Red Heifer Approved, First Stone To Be Laid Soon
A perfect red heifer has reportedly been approved in Israel, fulfilling one of the rarest requirements for Third Temple purification. For the first time in 2,000 years, prophecy watchers, rabbis, and researchers believe construction could move one step closer. This video breaks down the significance of the red heifer, Temple Mount politics, the Temple Institute’s preparations, and what this means for End-Times prophecy. Is the first ceremonial stone about to be laid? Explore the latest updates, evidence, and biblical clues.