A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean.
I am writing because your reporting on intelligence, foreign policy, civil liberties, and state accountability has encouraged me to contact you.
For several years, I have sought investigation, legal remedies, and independent examination regarding what I describe as a state-financed programme of entrapment, torture, and social control orchestrated by the Norwegian security apparatus. Despite approaching domestic authorities, lawyers, oversight bodies, journalists, international human rights organisations, and United Nations mechanisms, I have been unable to obtain what I consider an independent review.
The process began in early 2009 with coordinated provocations and psychological torture intended to break me down psychologically. According to my account, the objective was to fabricate security-related threat narratives, isolate me through formal and informal networks, and sustain prolonged torture and containment.
According to my account, Norwegian security agencies operate extrajudicial campaigns through networks presented publicly as anti-radicalisation cooperation. I contend that these networks function as de facto extrajudicial courts involving religious institutions, community leaders, and criminal elements. They are used to facilitate entrapment, torture, and smear campaigns while concealing those directing the operations.
I further contend that these activities take place with the acquiescence of higher authorities, enabling the use of state institutions to fabricate evidence and narratives, manipulate official and medical records, conceal torture, silence victims, and obstruct independent legal remedies. According to my account, political figures, public officials, professional associations, healthcare providers, NGOs, private individuals, and members of the general public are influenced through false narratives, incentives, coercion, or other means while maintaining the appearance that their actions are independent and spontaneous.
Every attempt I have made to report torture or obtain an independent investigation has, according to my account, resulted in further retaliation, deeper containment, and additional fabrication of evidence.
I am not asking you to accept my account without scrutiny. I am asking whether you would be willing to examine the available evidence independently, or advise whether the material merits further journalistic investigation.
If my account is correct, the implications extend far beyond my own circumstances. They concern the prohibition of torture, democratic accountability, the rule of law, and whether intelligence and security institutions can operate through extrajudicial means while remaining beyond meaningful public scrutiny.
I have assembled extensive documentation, including correspondence with authorities, legal professionals, oversight bodies, journalists, international organisations, and United Nations mechanisms, and would be grateful for the opportunity to provide it for independent review.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Any guidance, assistance, or referral you may be able to provide would be sincerely appreciated.
I asked 2 competing free AI apps for fair criticism of your article apparently based on this first paragraph
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“The intellectual lineage spans established academics, policy strategists and independent analysts, but they do not all have equal academic standing. Michael Hudson, an economist and former New School professor, published Super-Imperialism in 1972, analysing U.S. financial and monetary dominance. Daniel Yergin, an internationally recognised energy historian and policy analyst, published The Prize (1991), documenting oil’s relationship with money and power. F. William Engdahl published A Century of War (1992), linking Anglo-American strategy, oil and finance. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a major academic and former U.S. National Security Adviser, published The Grand Chessboard (1997), explicitly analysing American primacy and Eurasian strategic control. Michael Klare, an academic security/resource specialist, published Resource Wars (2001) and Blood and Oil (2004). William R. Clark, an independent analyst, published Petrodollar Warfare (2005), explicitly connecting Iraq, oil pricing and dollar supremacy. PNAC’s 2000 report supplied an influential policy, rather than academic, formulation of U.S. unipolar military primacy.”
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People should know that bias exists in all LLMs but LLMs know how to best sort that out.
“What holds up:
The underlying event chronology (Venezuela blockade, Maduro's capture, Qatar/Ras Laffan strike, Nord Stream's effect on European gas sourcing, Chevron's Israel/Syria/Cyprus/Greece deals, the IRIS Dena sinking, capital flow data from Treasury/BEA) is drawn from real, checkable reporting.
The observation that US LNG exports rose sharply as Russian pipeline gas was cut off is well documented and uncontroversial.
Where it overreaches:
Coincidence presented as coordination. The piece repeatedly treats simultaneity (Qatar's force majeure + Australian cyclone + EU spot-gas ban landing in the same window) as proof of orchestration, without evidence of actual causal linkage beyond timing. Correlation-as-causation is the load-bearing method of the whole piece.
Disputed facts stated as settled. The IRIS Dena's armed/unarmed status is exactly this — INDOPACOM explicitly disputed Iran's "unarmed" claim, and the article picks a side without noting the dispute exists.
Motive is asserted, not sourced. Attributing a single unifying strategic intent ("the objective") across the White House, Pentagon, NATO, and multiple energy majors requires either leaked planning documents or admissions — the piece has neither for the current events, only for 2001-era Cheney-task-force material, which is real but 25 years removed from the current claims.
The rhetorical framing does work the evidence doesn't. "Pirate State," "armed robbery," "at random" — these load conclusions into language before the argument is made.
Legal ambiguity is flattened. Tanker seizures under DOJ forfeiture warrants are a genuinely interesting and undertheorized area — where does sanctions enforcement end and extraterritorial resource control begin? That's a strong, answerable question. The article skips past it to a foregone verdict.
Net assessment: strong on documented events, weak on the leap from events to a single coordinated intent, and it doesn't distinguish disputed claims from established ones.”
Hold on for Blue Sky Maiden, the schizo/borderline "programmed as unable to use English grammar correctly" weirdo bot that is activated whenever energy is seriously discussed.
Out-fucking-standing work, Richard! I restacked with a "MUST_READ" Note.
Saw you on Judge Nap yesterday - about time they had you on.
Your thesis ties in directly with Brian Berletic's thesis on his "The New Atlas" YouTube channel, where he explains the war is an attack on mulipolarism - and specifically on China - and that the US has been planning this for decades and how Israel is NOT the one controlling the shots. I assume you're familiar with his work.
I was pleased to see you pointed that out to Judge Nap, as ninety percent of his guests believe Israel has control over the US and that this war is being totally fought for Israel's benefit alone.
I have pointed out in various places that the US Deep State - i.e., the moneyed interests outside the government, not just the intelligence agencies - control Israel, and since their interests are aligned, they let Israel do what it wants as long as it doesn't compromise the long-term US plan.
Meanwhile, Israel and its Zionist infiltrators in the US DO have control of the morons like Trump and various members of Congress due to their financing of the campaigns of these idiots.
So the influence calculus is more nuanced than most commentators get. "Either-or" binary thinking is rarely correct. But the power lies with the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and Catholic "old money" (and some "new money") rather than the Zionists alone.
I think of it as there being three layers, from lowest to highest:
1. Zionists/Israelis/Jews in general (mostly Jews and some Christians)
2. American based billionaires (around 30% Jews)
3. International bankers (trillionaire Jewish families)
All layers are pro-Israel and Jewry due to either heritage or interlocking financial interests.
The Zionists/Israelis primary focus on the Israel or Greater Israel project.
The American billionaires use Israel and the zionists for middle east purposes, and generally seek global economical control.
The uppermost layer are the trillionaires. Their goals are more to do with technological control and depopulation. They don't really mind which empire rules as long as they control the technology systems available eg. free energy and society in general. These guys want to cattle tag, monitor and do eugenics.
Berletic likes to divide it into the Jews/Israel OR the Americans. But that's not very helpful. All three layers have affinity to Israel but the upper two may sacrifice some of the land or people for their own purposes.
Can you please specify at least one of these trillionaires you speak of? (Elon Musk isn‘t even a trillionaire yet)
Perpetuation of Jewish people as the rich, ruling class only helps promote the Zionist regime. Greedy people are destroying the world, it has nothing to do with them being Jewish or not.. (by your metrics, 30% isn‘t much compared to the supposedly 70% non-Jewish elite..)
I am a staunchly anti-Zionist Jew, my working-class family‘s roots are anti-Zionist labor organizers from Polland, Russia, Ukraine..
There have been Jews rejecting Zionist colonialism and fighting against this since BEFORE the Balfour Declaration..
Pushing this strawman propaganda built by the ruling elite to force division & deception away from their crimes is exactly what the real elite want.. Don‘t give in to centuries-old simple propaganda (your argument, not RM‘s analysis lol)
Thank you. I did a bit here using Chatgpt to for some basic verification as I listen to quote a bit of Professor Michael Hudson.
I understand AIs disadvantages and have checked for them
It appears Richard Medhurst doesn't want to share any of what might or might not ne evidence of plagiarism?
This extensive work does nothing other than strengthen the argument IMO and choosing to ignore it added rebranding not good for journalistic integrity
Hudson (1972), Yergin (1991), Engdahl (1992), Brzezinski (1997), PNAC (2000), Klare (2001/2004), Clark (2005). "Petrodollar warfare," resource-financial hegemony, and tanker-seizure-as-resource-control are decades-old, widely published frameworks that no single chat session or Substack post originated. Overlap in concepts and even in which recent tanker seizures get cited isn't evidence of copying — it's evidence that both are drawing on the same public record (DOJ forfeiture notices, Reuters reporting, etc.
I've written a bit more in the top of the list comment by Medhurst reply option or might be deleted and I banneded spon
Trillionaire Jewish families are the servants of the Black Nobility. What a shame you did not read my article. You might have saved yourself from typing such nonsense.
I am reading your articles now. My comment was meant to convey that at some level of power, money and criminality, the distinct organizations matters less as the information flow gets very opaque. I will take the information offered in your articles as a fine-tuning about hierarchies within the higher levels, mostly impenetrable to me, but intriguing nonetheless. Do you have articles on the 3rd layer, as distinct from your 4th layer?
Hiya, yes of course it is not Israel nor Zionists alone, though people have been purposefully led to think that it is. Zionists being in a plot to impoverish the world and destroy our sovereignty with green policies has been very successful in discrediting any policy attempting to gain energy independence through renewables or to address global inequity or the climate crisis.
Power still mostly lies with nominally christian, white men in the US based oil, gas, tech, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, pharma, animal ag, media, entertainment and arms industries.
Thanks for this excellent article that explains so much, Richard.
It makes sense that the deep state or whoever they are invested so much into getting Trump elected, since his erratic behaviour was the perfect cover for the barbarity of what they wanted to do.
It's also a great reason for the rest of the world to transition to green energy that doesn't depend on oil and gas. There would be something poetic about seeing the USA go to all this trouble to get these fossil fuels, and then have no one wanting to burn them.
After all, the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. Same could apply to fossil fuels.
Hi Diana, that's exactly why the US went to so much trouble to smear both renewables and the state control, such as China's, that allows such a green transition, as parts of a plot by globalists/Zionists/WEF to impoverish us.
Since the 1980s the US based interests in oil, animal ag, pharma, tech, media, finance and arms (and now AI) have also gone to great trouble to discredit the climate crisis as a left wing hoax. These interests of course know all about its accelerating effects. They know the crisis will severely affect China's economic growth, that's why the US interests do everything they can to accelerate climate change. They do this with propaganda denying it's happening (which seems to have blinded even clued in pundits), by forcing nations into militarisation and with war- causing massive emissions from explosions as well as from subsequent rebuilding.
"US based interests gone to great trouble to discredit the climate crisis as a left wing hoax", um sorry Jo, what? Do you live in the US? Every damn time it rains it's blamed on man-made climate change. Every time the Empire of Corporations' weapons initiate fires that burn unlike any normal fire, it's blamed on man-made climate change. Every freak storm that destroys entire regions, wherein the US government no longer even bothers to pretend it's doing something to help: climate change!
Every hot summer, every freaking weather anomaly is blamed on climate change.
And it IS a hoax.
And P.s. Left/right is the Empire of Corporation's narrative.
You make no sense Rachel. Why would the Empire of Corporations as you call it, ie big US oil, want to blame the weather, or every ‘damn time it rains’, on their own actions and ability to profit and pollute with impunity? Wouldn’t they rather actually be the ones behind the nonsense explaining away increasing severe fires and flooding as deliberate by some evil malign force and nothing to do with them?
I don’t know what you’re talking about, sorry. In my USA, things are apparently different than in your USA. We could've had cheap nuclear energy. Hell, we could have cheap free energy but you prob think that is a "right wing" hoax as the "left" mocked MTG's space lasers as a hoax. I really don't think we live in the same reality so there's nothing to discuss. Especially if you think climate change criers are all smart folks and not the product of a massive propaganda campaign. Cause you are NOT supposed to do your own research on the left, as I remember correctly? You're not supposed to read anything but authorized sources. So I do not feel like arguing with you, sorry. We might as well be worlds apart which is particularly funny because I used to call myself "left" until the left forgot economics in favor of immutable characteristics like race and sexual orientation.
Yes, you could have had cheaper energy from nuclear, but for the US interests in fossil fuels who control the show, making sure that you didn’t.
You could have had greener, cheaper energy from other renewables if it wasn’t for US interests in fossil fuels who convinced you that people recommending them were a product of a massive propaganda campaign.
"In broad terms, new onshore wind and solar are now among the cheapest sources of electricity worldwide, while gas and oil remain exposed to fuel-price volatility. Nuclear can provide reliable low-carbon power but new projects are usually expensive, particularly in the UK and USA. Existing nuclear is often much cheaper than building new nuclear. Worldwide, renewables have generally become the lowest-cost new generation.
Chinese battery manufacturing is changing the economics further. Huge-scale production, particularly of low-cost lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, allows batteries to store cheap renewable electricity and deliver it later. They can therefore perform much of the everyday job of diesel generators: supplying electricity when renewable generation is unavailable, providing instant backup and reducing fuel consumption. Diesel remains useful for prolonged emergencies, but batteries can increasingly replace its routine operation.
No, I live in the UK and the causes of the climate crisis are never focused on. Freak and extreme weather makes great copy and climate change may be blamed by Micheal Mann but actually doing anything by changing our behaviour is completely absent. It’s like anthropogenic climate change is something we can’t do anything about.
Fires burning unlike normal fires is not a thing. This is propaganda you’re getting from industry to cover up the increase in devastating weather caused by climate change. Maui fires were not started by DEWs, floods are not caused by cloud seeding companies.
The US government, of course, don’t pretend to help recover from storms but neither do they fund research into climate change. So they get to blame it, profit from it and fail to address its causes or consequences.
And my comment about the US based interests in oil and animal ag making out that the climate crisis is a left wing hoax is well evidenced. Please see my post about the Heartland Institute and the one entitled ‘Climate change is real. Industry's Project 2025 want you to think it's a hoax by the UN's Agenda 2030.’
Incredible analysis Richard. My head is still spinning but it all makes sense. As painful as it to realize once again that empire does what it wants while sacrificing human, animal and environmental life, it's important that all parties take heed of this and stop this strategy while hopefully they still can.
The faster ballistic missiles jabe changed alot now om reported Underground Missile Cities. They do however need making and fueling. Underground refineries?
Out the gate, I appreciate your mention of this being „decades in the making“, since this movement really transcends multiple presidencies. Folks really think this is new, that this is all Trump‘s fault.. That Trump unleashed this hell out of nowhere..
He has surely open this can from hell, but it has been prepped, cooked, canned and stored for some time..
Great analysis Richard! It‘s absolutely insane to see all of these events quantified together, on the world‘s stage than having to take each one in a small bite, deciphered from the beast‘s mouth..
Stay safe Brother, stay sane and keep up the great work as always. Please let me know if you need some pre-publish eyes on your book too. I am patiently waiting to dig into this years-in-the-making chronicle!
"How is it that Washington can burn refineries and target heads of state without the same fear of reprisal?”
It’s because nations are not fighting with one another as they’re all on the same team. It’s the elites vs. humanity; shifting us towards technological slavery and transhumanism.
Wow, this is such a heady read. With my cataracts I no longer read as much and I got to say that I simply must read this one Richard. Thank you so much for everything you are doing and sharing this enlightening analysis with everyone. I read this and found it to be profoundly chilling at how powerful these corporations are and the US as well.
Well, we’ve been sidetracked and distracted by other journalists. While much of independent media is well-intentioned, it’s been focusing on parts of the whole rather than the whole — some of the symptoms and not the cause. Trump has been the perfect foil because no one believes he’s smart enough to think or work strategically. But although he and his family are personally benefiting, he’s not the one with the plan.
I think I will stick with the analysis of Larry Johnson on various video platforms regarding the blockade when he says that the United States doesn't have enough ships to carry off the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz even, never mind a worldwide blockade of oil.
What also has to be remembered that eventually China will reach the limits of its patience of tankers going to China being boarded and stopped or being disabled before they get there. China also has a powerful navy that is fully capable of escorting these tankers to its shores, or if necessary, submarines that can easily sink any ship engaging in such activity.
This is a dangerous game that Trump is playing in international waters where he has no jurisdiction to touch any ship.
The master plan Richard lays out can work as long as the empire's adversaries believe they don't have the cards. Schemes like this often give hinge on their protagonists believing in their power and their antagonists believing they're powerless. This is why Hezbollah and Hamas still haven't been defeated. The US needs soldiers and sailors to execute the plan, but Congress will balk if casualties grow too many.
Congress will cough up the funds. All of DC is in on the plan. It was no accident that they reactivated draft registration. My advice to young men : get out now. Beat the rush.
"Congress has moved to reactivate automatic draft registration through the 2026 defence legislation, replacing the previous requirement for eligible men to register themselves. Implementation is expected by December 2026. The immediate result is creation of a more comprehensive, automatically maintained pool of potential conscripts, should national circumstances later require mobilisation.
Of course there is the fact that with the climate crisis, we no longer want any energy that involves fossil fuels. Solar, wind, and other ways of sustainably producing energy can be utilised by each individual country for their own useage. It’s much cheaper, and not involve any ‘middle men.’ It also makes sure that no-one can be bullied……..
And wider, even that won’t stop the nonrenewables needed for hardware that inevitably in some part becomes landfill. Who asks how much we really need these neverending electronics, keeping us seated to feed into the medical racket too?
Who talks conservation? Rejecting capitalism? Two economists I hear of, Kate Raworth and Clara Mattei. Planet first.
"In broad terms, new onshore wind and solar are now among the cheapest sources of electricity worldwide, while gas and oil remain exposed to fuel-price volatility. Nuclear can provide reliable low-carbon power but new projects are usually expensive, particularly in the UK and USA. Existing nuclear is often much cheaper than building new nuclear. Worldwide, renewables have generally become the lowest-cost new generation.
Chinese battery manufacturing is changing the economics further. Huge-scale production, particularly of low-cost lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, allows batteries to store cheap renewable electricity and deliver it later. They can therefore perform much of the everyday job of diesel generators: supplying electricity when renewable generation is unavailable, providing instant backup and reducing fuel consumption. Diesel remains useful for prolonged emergencies, but batteries can increasingly replace its routine operation.
Thank you. Very interesting. That is clearly the US plan. I am sure the Russians, Chinese and Iranians are aware of it.
But what happens when US aircraft carriers start sinking?
Missile and drone technology has moved far ahead of air defence. The US has no manoeuvrable hypersonic missiles. They are decades behind the Russians.
A Russian corvette (50-100m) in the Caspian Sea can target a US ship in the Arabian Sea with a Kalibr missile. The US has nothing comparable. If they send these missiles to Iran, much of the Indian Ocean will be out of bounds to the US Navy. It has a range of over 2000km. It can be placed on container ships.
Why did you remove your incomprehensible comment about co2 being released from the oceans as temperature rises (true)? The earth does orbit the sun in elliptical fashion, effecting ice ages, at about a 100,000 year cycle (not 800). When these Milankovic cycles, and everything else you can throw at me such as volcanic activity, have been factored into the models; they show that the recent sharp increase in human caused atmospheric co2 since the industrial revolution, but particularly since the 1980s, correlates very well with the recent sharp rise in temperature.
Ask any geologist. We are in an interglacial period.
<< The Earth is currently in an interglacial period. This era, known as the Holocene epoch, began approximately 11,700 years ago following the end of the most recent glacial cycle. >>
The 800 years I mentioned is the time between the temperature of the earth rising or falling and the CO2 in the oceans being released or captured.
PS Climaterealism is a project of the oil industry funded Heartland Institute you dufus. I’m not allowed to attach my post on them- please search my substack ‘what is the Heartland Institute’ to find out how they deliberately misrepresent and why.
Yes, and you want to believe that the climate crisis isn’t happening! Which is what the industries Richard is talking about want you to believe and purposefully set out to help you believe it so they could continue to profit and pollute with impunity.
oh dear. Yes we are in an interglacial period. Still not sure about what your point is about co2 being released fro the oceans- do you mean it have a reaction time of this much- and what temperature ranges are we talking about- will this reaction time be faster if the temperature changes rises by say more than 1 degree?
The climate crisis has virtually disappeared from MSM though the hottest years since records began have all occurred in the last decades.
Are you saying that anthropogenic climate change isn’t happening or that it’s not that bad? Ask any geologist not captured by industry and they’ll tell you that it is and its even worse than predicted.
I include being easily fooled by industry amongst being captured by them, whatever your profession.
Silly quibbling about which was the hottest year and stating well established facts about co2 being both a cause and a consequence of rising temperatures doesn't even begin to address the mountain of evidence for anthropogenic climate change.
Who do you think is funding the media to allegedly lie about it? Please don't tell me 'globalists' wanting us to stop using oil!
CO2 is 0.4% of the atmosphere. Thanks to the increase in CO2, there are more plants on the planet. When it is below 0.2%, plants cannot survive.
During the last ice age, it was only 0.18% and most plants died. It was low because it went into the oceans - with the 800 year delay I mentioned.
<< Earth's elliptical path causes ~5 million km annual variation (perihelion ~147 million km, aphelion ~152 million km). Ice ages were triggered more by Northern Hemisphere summer insolation minima during aphelion alignments, not absolute distance changes. >>
I am unvaccinated. What makes you think that I must automatically believe what it says in the media simply because I noticed that the climate crisis had disappeared from the media and that ‘covid’ dissenters were being heavily targeted with nonsense climate crisis denials directly from oil, animal ag and their sister industry pharma?
Congratulations for being smart enough to be unvaccinated.
Now, use your critical thinking skills for working out who is behind the climate scam. I note that Bill Gates has changed his tune when he recently discovered that he needs more electricity for his data farms.
In Australia, the temperature records only go back 150 years or so. They installed many meteorological stations in the outback so as to raise the "average" temperature.
There are photos of places (Sydney, Isle of Wight) that show the sea level to be virtually the same as 140 years ago. In northern Europe, the sea level appears to be dropping because the land is still recovering from having had so many km of ice above for many years. Venice and Miami are sinking because of water extraction.
Thank you very much for your lucidity and bravery Mr. Medhurst!
On April 16th I already saw your YouTube video "The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War".
The same day I read Ryan Perkins Substack "The Strait Logic: War on Iran is a Dress Rehearsal for Blockading China".
During years I have been watching Brian Berletic in its YouTube channel "The New Atlas" explaining why he believes that the real intention of US bipartisan politicians is to strangle China.
Yesterday I read Dr. Warnick Powell Substack "China's preparedness".
Your explanation of "the big picture" is exhaustive.
To my eyes the leaders of China, Russia and Iran are aware of this US military/"economic"/pirate strategy... so, what are they going to do? Before the attack of Pearl Harbour, Japan was also facing economic sanctions and an oil embargo... and being a pirate has always been a risky job...
China will continue to build solar and wind powered energy generation, and exploit their ever-growing leadership in technology. Build more pipelines from Russia to China. The main victims will be the EU and ordinary people in the USA.
Yes, although, I would rephrase it to "Just what are we going to do about it?" Now, just where and what are the even more expensive answers to this vital question?
The destruction of Nordstream can not have been planned nor decades nor years nor months in advance. Because the chain of events from mars 2022 was not predictable.
USA is mostly reacting quickly on a changing ground.
While Russia doesn't strike on the European proxies for the drones attacks launched from the Baltic's, as it should, it does use military escort recently against blockades attempts, like in the case of the tankers that navigated through the Channel couple weeks ago. So if USA wants to militarize the seas, and play like UK pirats, for sure others can threaten to strike US ships in international waters. When you break basic principles, then the other will also.
The bulk of Eurasian mass stays untouchable and the Arctic shipping route is inside Russian waters. Not sure Russian will sit quiet doing nothing when USA will try blocus at both ends by Norway and by Alaska.
What we must do in Europe and elsewhere is to kill Americans. The ones working by embassies and consulates, big corporations and NGO (is. GO...). It is easy. Palantir and NSA are reading this, and they can do nothing against millions of people who want to render planet Earth outside USA, unfit for them. Hello NSA and Palantir! USA relies on local vassals, and these can be subject to local turmoils.
Otherwise what happens is also like vampirization. USA is a nosferatu that relies on the blood ie. resources and money of others. It sucks until the bodies are dry empty of their blood and die. There is no idea of mutual interaction for everyone's benefit. It is just pure predation, victim after victim.
It means that by weakening or destroying everyone, USA does also destroy markets for them. EU is empoverished, it means the ability for EUpeans to buy American stuff and controlled stuff at the price needed in order to maintain high level of life in USA diminishes.
Btw, when will Brits have enough of it and ditch the kunts of the City and the Windsor?
The idea appears to be that while the USA suffers impoverishment, all other nations suffer more. This is their concept of winning. There is a certain logic to it.
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Dear Richard,
I hope this message finds you well.
I am writing because your reporting on intelligence, foreign policy, civil liberties, and state accountability has encouraged me to contact you.
For several years, I have sought investigation, legal remedies, and independent examination regarding what I describe as a state-financed programme of entrapment, torture, and social control orchestrated by the Norwegian security apparatus. Despite approaching domestic authorities, lawyers, oversight bodies, journalists, international human rights organisations, and United Nations mechanisms, I have been unable to obtain what I consider an independent review.
The process began in early 2009 with coordinated provocations and psychological torture intended to break me down psychologically. According to my account, the objective was to fabricate security-related threat narratives, isolate me through formal and informal networks, and sustain prolonged torture and containment.
According to my account, Norwegian security agencies operate extrajudicial campaigns through networks presented publicly as anti-radicalisation cooperation. I contend that these networks function as de facto extrajudicial courts involving religious institutions, community leaders, and criminal elements. They are used to facilitate entrapment, torture, and smear campaigns while concealing those directing the operations.
I further contend that these activities take place with the acquiescence of higher authorities, enabling the use of state institutions to fabricate evidence and narratives, manipulate official and medical records, conceal torture, silence victims, and obstruct independent legal remedies. According to my account, political figures, public officials, professional associations, healthcare providers, NGOs, private individuals, and members of the general public are influenced through false narratives, incentives, coercion, or other means while maintaining the appearance that their actions are independent and spontaneous.
Every attempt I have made to report torture or obtain an independent investigation has, according to my account, resulted in further retaliation, deeper containment, and additional fabrication of evidence.
I am not asking you to accept my account without scrutiny. I am asking whether you would be willing to examine the available evidence independently, or advise whether the material merits further journalistic investigation.
If my account is correct, the implications extend far beyond my own circumstances. They concern the prohibition of torture, democratic accountability, the rule of law, and whether intelligence and security institutions can operate through extrajudicial means while remaining beyond meaningful public scrutiny.
I have assembled extensive documentation, including correspondence with authorities, legal professionals, oversight bodies, journalists, international organisations, and United Nations mechanisms, and would be grateful for the opportunity to provide it for independent review.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Any guidance, assistance, or referral you may be able to provide would be sincerely appreciated.
With respect,
The accountability gap
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“The intellectual lineage spans established academics, policy strategists and independent analysts, but they do not all have equal academic standing. Michael Hudson, an economist and former New School professor, published Super-Imperialism in 1972, analysing U.S. financial and monetary dominance. Daniel Yergin, an internationally recognised energy historian and policy analyst, published The Prize (1991), documenting oil’s relationship with money and power. F. William Engdahl published A Century of War (1992), linking Anglo-American strategy, oil and finance. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a major academic and former U.S. National Security Adviser, published The Grand Chessboard (1997), explicitly analysing American primacy and Eurasian strategic control. Michael Klare, an academic security/resource specialist, published Resource Wars (2001) and Blood and Oil (2004). William R. Clark, an independent analyst, published Petrodollar Warfare (2005), explicitly connecting Iraq, oil pricing and dollar supremacy. PNAC’s 2000 report supplied an influential policy, rather than academic, formulation of U.S. unipolar military primacy.”
Claude free AI contributed to the “Fair criticism” of the article (comment-ready)
People should know that bias exists in all LLMs but LLMs know how to best sort that out.
“What holds up:
The underlying event chronology (Venezuela blockade, Maduro's capture, Qatar/Ras Laffan strike, Nord Stream's effect on European gas sourcing, Chevron's Israel/Syria/Cyprus/Greece deals, the IRIS Dena sinking, capital flow data from Treasury/BEA) is drawn from real, checkable reporting.
The observation that US LNG exports rose sharply as Russian pipeline gas was cut off is well documented and uncontroversial.
Where it overreaches:
Coincidence presented as coordination. The piece repeatedly treats simultaneity (Qatar's force majeure + Australian cyclone + EU spot-gas ban landing in the same window) as proof of orchestration, without evidence of actual causal linkage beyond timing. Correlation-as-causation is the load-bearing method of the whole piece.
Disputed facts stated as settled. The IRIS Dena's armed/unarmed status is exactly this — INDOPACOM explicitly disputed Iran's "unarmed" claim, and the article picks a side without noting the dispute exists.
Motive is asserted, not sourced. Attributing a single unifying strategic intent ("the objective") across the White House, Pentagon, NATO, and multiple energy majors requires either leaked planning documents or admissions — the piece has neither for the current events, only for 2001-era Cheney-task-force material, which is real but 25 years removed from the current claims.
The rhetorical framing does work the evidence doesn't. "Pirate State," "armed robbery," "at random" — these load conclusions into language before the argument is made.
Legal ambiguity is flattened. Tanker seizures under DOJ forfeiture warrants are a genuinely interesting and undertheorized area — where does sanctions enforcement end and extraterritorial resource control begin? That's a strong, answerable question. The article skips past it to a foregone verdict.
Net assessment: strong on documented events, weak on the leap from events to a single coordinated intent, and it doesn't distinguish disputed claims from established ones.”
When the bots congregate, you know truth is being told!
Hold on for Blue Sky Maiden, the schizo/borderline "programmed as unable to use English grammar correctly" weirdo bot that is activated whenever energy is seriously discussed.
100% right Don.
He’s a total POS.
This so-called self-appointed half Syrian “journalist”….has never written or spoken one word of truth….Ever.
He was arrested by the British anti-terrorist police immediately his plane touched down at Heathrow…..& had all his devices confiscated. 🤔
Of course he never wrote or spoke a single word about the murderous Assad regime…..which makes it clear what sort of “journalist “ he is.
…the establishment only arrests those who speak truth to power…
When the British or US government wants to sensor someone, they are usually telling the truth. Julian Assange is a great example.
Please STFU Jewbot!
Reads Antisemitic with the sign off insult. That helps Zionism
& consequently an ongoing Genocide.
Out-fucking-standing work, Richard! I restacked with a "MUST_READ" Note.
Saw you on Judge Nap yesterday - about time they had you on.
Your thesis ties in directly with Brian Berletic's thesis on his "The New Atlas" YouTube channel, where he explains the war is an attack on mulipolarism - and specifically on China - and that the US has been planning this for decades and how Israel is NOT the one controlling the shots. I assume you're familiar with his work.
I was pleased to see you pointed that out to Judge Nap, as ninety percent of his guests believe Israel has control over the US and that this war is being totally fought for Israel's benefit alone.
I have pointed out in various places that the US Deep State - i.e., the moneyed interests outside the government, not just the intelligence agencies - control Israel, and since their interests are aligned, they let Israel do what it wants as long as it doesn't compromise the long-term US plan.
Meanwhile, Israel and its Zionist infiltrators in the US DO have control of the morons like Trump and various members of Congress due to their financing of the campaigns of these idiots.
So the influence calculus is more nuanced than most commentators get. "Either-or" binary thinking is rarely correct. But the power lies with the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and Catholic "old money" (and some "new money") rather than the Zionists alone.
I think of it as there being three layers, from lowest to highest:
1. Zionists/Israelis/Jews in general (mostly Jews and some Christians)
2. American based billionaires (around 30% Jews)
3. International bankers (trillionaire Jewish families)
All layers are pro-Israel and Jewry due to either heritage or interlocking financial interests.
The Zionists/Israelis primary focus on the Israel or Greater Israel project.
The American billionaires use Israel and the zionists for middle east purposes, and generally seek global economical control.
The uppermost layer are the trillionaires. Their goals are more to do with technological control and depopulation. They don't really mind which empire rules as long as they control the technology systems available eg. free energy and society in general. These guys want to cattle tag, monitor and do eugenics.
Berletic likes to divide it into the Jews/Israel OR the Americans. But that's not very helpful. All three layers have affinity to Israel but the upper two may sacrifice some of the land or people for their own purposes.
Can you please specify at least one of these trillionaires you speak of? (Elon Musk isn‘t even a trillionaire yet)
Perpetuation of Jewish people as the rich, ruling class only helps promote the Zionist regime. Greedy people are destroying the world, it has nothing to do with them being Jewish or not.. (by your metrics, 30% isn‘t much compared to the supposedly 70% non-Jewish elite..)
I am a staunchly anti-Zionist Jew, my working-class family‘s roots are anti-Zionist labor organizers from Polland, Russia, Ukraine..
There have been Jews rejecting Zionist colonialism and fighting against this since BEFORE the Balfour Declaration..
Pushing this strawman propaganda built by the ruling elite to force division & deception away from their crimes is exactly what the real elite want.. Don‘t give in to centuries-old simple propaganda (your argument, not RM‘s analysis lol)
This is what we call shit-coating correct ideas so they become untouchable
You are factual about the American billionaires and their use of Israel, though lol
Why not share your figures if you've got them?
I totally like your comment. Makes sense…
Thank you. I did a bit here using Chatgpt to for some basic verification as I listen to quote a bit of Professor Michael Hudson.
I understand AIs disadvantages and have checked for them
It appears Richard Medhurst doesn't want to share any of what might or might not ne evidence of plagiarism?
This extensive work does nothing other than strengthen the argument IMO and choosing to ignore it added rebranding not good for journalistic integrity
Hudson (1972), Yergin (1991), Engdahl (1992), Brzezinski (1997), PNAC (2000), Klare (2001/2004), Clark (2005). "Petrodollar warfare," resource-financial hegemony, and tanker-seizure-as-resource-control are decades-old, widely published frameworks that no single chat session or Substack post originated. Overlap in concepts and even in which recent tanker seizures get cited isn't evidence of copying — it's evidence that both are drawing on the same public record (DOJ forfeiture notices, Reuters reporting, etc.
I've written a bit more in the top of the list comment by Medhurst reply option or might be deleted and I banneded spon
There is a 4th layer that you seem to be unaware of..... the international organised criminal syndicate who OWN the banks, corporations and religions.
The old money firms.
The Black Nobility.
They love to employ the Jews as human shields.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101
The 4th layer IS the 3rd layer, it's where the power resides, they are internationally organised, beyond criminal, and own almost everything.
Trillionaire Jewish families are the servants of the Black Nobility. What a shame you did not read my article. You might have saved yourself from typing such nonsense.
I am reading your articles now. My comment was meant to convey that at some level of power, money and criminality, the distinct organizations matters less as the information flow gets very opaque. I will take the information offered in your articles as a fine-tuning about hierarchies within the higher levels, mostly impenetrable to me, but intriguing nonetheless. Do you have articles on the 3rd layer, as distinct from your 4th layer?
No. I have preferred to aim for the top. Basically proving that we are still under the firm control of the Roman Empire.
Far too many writers blame the Jews. I will not be joining them,.
Hiya, yes of course it is not Israel nor Zionists alone, though people have been purposefully led to think that it is. Zionists being in a plot to impoverish the world and destroy our sovereignty with green policies has been very successful in discrediting any policy attempting to gain energy independence through renewables or to address global inequity or the climate crisis.
Power still mostly lies with nominally christian, white men in the US based oil, gas, tech, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, pharma, animal ag, media, entertainment and arms industries.
I wrote a nice little piece about the UN’s role in this. Please enjoy, friend! https://tommytrouble.substack.com/p/good-cop-bad-cop?r=18e4xz&utm_medium=ios
Haha
Everyone??
Thanks for this excellent article that explains so much, Richard.
It makes sense that the deep state or whoever they are invested so much into getting Trump elected, since his erratic behaviour was the perfect cover for the barbarity of what they wanted to do.
It's also a great reason for the rest of the world to transition to green energy that doesn't depend on oil and gas. There would be something poetic about seeing the USA go to all this trouble to get these fossil fuels, and then have no one wanting to burn them.
After all, the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. Same could apply to fossil fuels.
Hi Diana, that's exactly why the US went to so much trouble to smear both renewables and the state control, such as China's, that allows such a green transition, as parts of a plot by globalists/Zionists/WEF to impoverish us.
Since the 1980s the US based interests in oil, animal ag, pharma, tech, media, finance and arms (and now AI) have also gone to great trouble to discredit the climate crisis as a left wing hoax. These interests of course know all about its accelerating effects. They know the crisis will severely affect China's economic growth, that's why the US interests do everything they can to accelerate climate change. They do this with propaganda denying it's happening (which seems to have blinded even clued in pundits), by forcing nations into militarisation and with war- causing massive emissions from explosions as well as from subsequent rebuilding.
Jo
I guess all those refineries burning in the gulf have crushed carbon emission limits for a decade at least.
The shall be put out but not ship for a long time. Prices go up demand reduces as people burn less
Yes, and so has burning and shipping LNG; that if there were any limits that anyone was sticking to- which they’re not.
"US based interests gone to great trouble to discredit the climate crisis as a left wing hoax", um sorry Jo, what? Do you live in the US? Every damn time it rains it's blamed on man-made climate change. Every time the Empire of Corporations' weapons initiate fires that burn unlike any normal fire, it's blamed on man-made climate change. Every freak storm that destroys entire regions, wherein the US government no longer even bothers to pretend it's doing something to help: climate change!
Every hot summer, every freaking weather anomaly is blamed on climate change.
And it IS a hoax.
And P.s. Left/right is the Empire of Corporation's narrative.
You make no sense Rachel. Why would the Empire of Corporations as you call it, ie big US oil, want to blame the weather, or every ‘damn time it rains’, on their own actions and ability to profit and pollute with impunity? Wouldn’t they rather actually be the ones behind the nonsense explaining away increasing severe fires and flooding as deliberate by some evil malign force and nothing to do with them?
I don’t know what you’re talking about, sorry. In my USA, things are apparently different than in your USA. We could've had cheap nuclear energy. Hell, we could have cheap free energy but you prob think that is a "right wing" hoax as the "left" mocked MTG's space lasers as a hoax. I really don't think we live in the same reality so there's nothing to discuss. Especially if you think climate change criers are all smart folks and not the product of a massive propaganda campaign. Cause you are NOT supposed to do your own research on the left, as I remember correctly? You're not supposed to read anything but authorized sources. So I do not feel like arguing with you, sorry. We might as well be worlds apart which is particularly funny because I used to call myself "left" until the left forgot economics in favor of immutable characteristics like race and sexual orientation.
you've done your own research about how the climate system works. Interesting.
Yes, you could have had cheaper energy from nuclear, but for the US interests in fossil fuels who control the show, making sure that you didn’t.
You could have had greener, cheaper energy from other renewables if it wasn’t for US interests in fossil fuels who convinced you that people recommending them were a product of a massive propaganda campaign.
Gemini free AI. 100 words
"In broad terms, new onshore wind and solar are now among the cheapest sources of electricity worldwide, while gas and oil remain exposed to fuel-price volatility. Nuclear can provide reliable low-carbon power but new projects are usually expensive, particularly in the UK and USA. Existing nuclear is often much cheaper than building new nuclear. Worldwide, renewables have generally become the lowest-cost new generation.
Chinese battery manufacturing is changing the economics further. Huge-scale production, particularly of low-cost lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, allows batteries to store cheap renewable electricity and deliver it later. They can therefore perform much of the everyday job of diesel generators: supplying electricity when renewable generation is unavailable, providing instant backup and reducing fuel consumption. Diesel remains useful for prolonged emergencies, but batteries can increasingly replace its routine operation.
No, I live in the UK and the causes of the climate crisis are never focused on. Freak and extreme weather makes great copy and climate change may be blamed by Micheal Mann but actually doing anything by changing our behaviour is completely absent. It’s like anthropogenic climate change is something we can’t do anything about.
Fires burning unlike normal fires is not a thing. This is propaganda you’re getting from industry to cover up the increase in devastating weather caused by climate change. Maui fires were not started by DEWs, floods are not caused by cloud seeding companies.
The US government, of course, don’t pretend to help recover from storms but neither do they fund research into climate change. So they get to blame it, profit from it and fail to address its causes or consequences.
Can you not see what’s happening here?
And my comment about the US based interests in oil and animal ag making out that the climate crisis is a left wing hoax is well evidenced. Please see my post about the Heartland Institute and the one entitled ‘Climate change is real. Industry's Project 2025 want you to think it's a hoax by the UN's Agenda 2030.’
Incredible analysis Richard. My head is still spinning but it all makes sense. As painful as it to realize once again that empire does what it wants while sacrificing human, animal and environmental life, it's important that all parties take heed of this and stop this strategy while hopefully they still can.
sounds like the next lego movie should advise the iranians to send missiles to that one port in israel… leveling the chevron plan 😁
Wow!
The faster ballistic missiles jabe changed alot now om reported Underground Missile Cities. They do however need making and fueling. Underground refineries?
Out the gate, I appreciate your mention of this being „decades in the making“, since this movement really transcends multiple presidencies. Folks really think this is new, that this is all Trump‘s fault.. That Trump unleashed this hell out of nowhere..
He has surely open this can from hell, but it has been prepped, cooked, canned and stored for some time..
Great analysis Richard! It‘s absolutely insane to see all of these events quantified together, on the world‘s stage than having to take each one in a small bite, deciphered from the beast‘s mouth..
Stay safe Brother, stay sane and keep up the great work as always. Please let me know if you need some pre-publish eyes on your book too. I am patiently waiting to dig into this years-in-the-making chronicle!
"How is it that Washington can burn refineries and target heads of state without the same fear of reprisal?”
It’s because nations are not fighting with one another as they’re all on the same team. It’s the elites vs. humanity; shifting us towards technological slavery and transhumanism.
Exactly.
Wow, this is such a heady read. With my cataracts I no longer read as much and I got to say that I simply must read this one Richard. Thank you so much for everything you are doing and sharing this enlightening analysis with everyone. I read this and found it to be profoundly chilling at how powerful these corporations are and the US as well.
I like to listen using the audio play button up the top.
I learned how little I know and how misinformed I am. Thanks for the education. I look forward to more analysis.
Well, we’ve been sidetracked and distracted by other journalists. While much of independent media is well-intentioned, it’s been focusing on parts of the whole rather than the whole — some of the symptoms and not the cause. Trump has been the perfect foil because no one believes he’s smart enough to think or work strategically. But although he and his family are personally benefiting, he’s not the one with the plan.
Preach it, Nancy. Alt media is dropping the ball a lot lately. "Israel bad. Trump bad. Trump admin stupid."
For real some of these analysts should be ashamed of their recent work.
yes! "focusing on parts of the whole rather than the whole —"
I think I will stick with the analysis of Larry Johnson on various video platforms regarding the blockade when he says that the United States doesn't have enough ships to carry off the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz even, never mind a worldwide blockade of oil.
What also has to be remembered that eventually China will reach the limits of its patience of tankers going to China being boarded and stopped or being disabled before they get there. China also has a powerful navy that is fully capable of escorting these tankers to its shores, or if necessary, submarines that can easily sink any ship engaging in such activity.
This is a dangerous game that Trump is playing in international waters where he has no jurisdiction to touch any ship.
The master plan Richard lays out can work as long as the empire's adversaries believe they don't have the cards. Schemes like this often give hinge on their protagonists believing in their power and their antagonists believing they're powerless. This is why Hezbollah and Hamas still haven't been defeated. The US needs soldiers and sailors to execute the plan, but Congress will balk if casualties grow too many.
Congress will cough up the funds. All of DC is in on the plan. It was no accident that they reactivated draft registration. My advice to young men : get out now. Beat the rush.
Free Gemini AI
"Congress has moved to reactivate automatic draft registration through the 2026 defence legislation, replacing the previous requirement for eligible men to register themselves. Implementation is expected by December 2026. The immediate result is creation of a more comprehensive, automatically maintained pool of potential conscripts, should national circumstances later require mobilisation.
Great report! Thank you!
Of course there is the fact that with the climate crisis, we no longer want any energy that involves fossil fuels. Solar, wind, and other ways of sustainably producing energy can be utilised by each individual country for their own useage. It’s much cheaper, and not involve any ‘middle men.’ It also makes sure that no-one can be bullied……..
And wider, even that won’t stop the nonrenewables needed for hardware that inevitably in some part becomes landfill. Who asks how much we really need these neverending electronics, keeping us seated to feed into the medical racket too?
Who talks conservation? Rejecting capitalism? Two economists I hear of, Kate Raworth and Clara Mattei. Planet first.
Free Gemini
"In broad terms, new onshore wind and solar are now among the cheapest sources of electricity worldwide, while gas and oil remain exposed to fuel-price volatility. Nuclear can provide reliable low-carbon power but new projects are usually expensive, particularly in the UK and USA. Existing nuclear is often much cheaper than building new nuclear. Worldwide, renewables have generally become the lowest-cost new generation.
Chinese battery manufacturing is changing the economics further. Huge-scale production, particularly of low-cost lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, allows batteries to store cheap renewable electricity and deliver it later. They can therefore perform much of the everyday job of diesel generators: supplying electricity when renewable generation is unavailable, providing instant backup and reducing fuel consumption. Diesel remains useful for prolonged emergencies, but batteries can increasingly replace its routine operation.
Thank you. Very interesting. That is clearly the US plan. I am sure the Russians, Chinese and Iranians are aware of it.
But what happens when US aircraft carriers start sinking?
Missile and drone technology has moved far ahead of air defence. The US has no manoeuvrable hypersonic missiles. They are decades behind the Russians.
A Russian corvette (50-100m) in the Caspian Sea can target a US ship in the Arabian Sea with a Kalibr missile. The US has nothing comparable. If they send these missiles to Iran, much of the Indian Ocean will be out of bounds to the US Navy. It has a range of over 2000km. It can be placed on container ships.
Why did you remove your incomprehensible comment about co2 being released from the oceans as temperature rises (true)? The earth does orbit the sun in elliptical fashion, effecting ice ages, at about a 100,000 year cycle (not 800). When these Milankovic cycles, and everything else you can throw at me such as volcanic activity, have been factored into the models; they show that the recent sharp increase in human caused atmospheric co2 since the industrial revolution, but particularly since the 1980s, correlates very well with the recent sharp rise in temperature.
Ask any geologist. We are in an interglacial period.
<< The Earth is currently in an interglacial period. This era, known as the Holocene epoch, began approximately 11,700 years ago following the end of the most recent glacial cycle. >>
The 800 years I mentioned is the time between the temperature of the earth rising or falling and the CO2 in the oceans being released or captured.
Look at the chart in article and learn.
𝗡𝗼, 𝗖𝗡𝗡 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗕𝗖, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗛𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱’ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱
https://climaterealism.com/2025/01/no-cnn-and-bbc-2024-wasnt-the-hottest-year-on-record-when-all-of-the-available-evidence-is-considered/
PS Climaterealism is a project of the oil industry funded Heartland Institute you dufus. I’m not allowed to attach my post on them- please search my substack ‘what is the Heartland Institute’ to find out how they deliberately misrepresent and why.
Julius Caesar said something along the lines of "people believe what they want to believe"
Yes, and you want to believe that the climate crisis isn’t happening! Which is what the industries Richard is talking about want you to believe and purposefully set out to help you believe it so they could continue to profit and pollute with impunity.
You need to read ‘Unsettled’.
oh dear. Yes we are in an interglacial period. Still not sure about what your point is about co2 being released fro the oceans- do you mean it have a reaction time of this much- and what temperature ranges are we talking about- will this reaction time be faster if the temperature changes rises by say more than 1 degree?
The climate crisis has virtually disappeared from MSM though the hottest years since records began have all occurred in the last decades.
Are you saying that anthropogenic climate change isn’t happening or that it’s not that bad? Ask any geologist not captured by industry and they’ll tell you that it is and its even worse than predicted.
I guess I must be captured by the industry. 😊
But I think you are captured by the lying media. Don't forget your booster shots!
I include being easily fooled by industry amongst being captured by them, whatever your profession.
Silly quibbling about which was the hottest year and stating well established facts about co2 being both a cause and a consequence of rising temperatures doesn't even begin to address the mountain of evidence for anthropogenic climate change.
Who do you think is funding the media to allegedly lie about it? Please don't tell me 'globalists' wanting us to stop using oil!
Read and learn. They can manipulate the weather just as they manipulated your mind.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/blessings-from-heaven/
CO2 is 0.4% of the atmosphere. Thanks to the increase in CO2, there are more plants on the planet. When it is below 0.2%, plants cannot survive.
During the last ice age, it was only 0.18% and most plants died. It was low because it went into the oceans - with the 800 year delay I mentioned.
<< Earth's elliptical path causes ~5 million km annual variation (perihelion ~147 million km, aphelion ~152 million km). Ice ages were triggered more by Northern Hemisphere summer insolation minima during aphelion alignments, not absolute distance changes. >>
I am unvaccinated. What makes you think that I must automatically believe what it says in the media simply because I noticed that the climate crisis had disappeared from the media and that ‘covid’ dissenters were being heavily targeted with nonsense climate crisis denials directly from oil, animal ag and their sister industry pharma?
Congratulations for being smart enough to be unvaccinated.
Now, use your critical thinking skills for working out who is behind the climate scam. I note that Bill Gates has changed his tune when he recently discovered that he needs more electricity for his data farms.
In Australia, the temperature records only go back 150 years or so. They installed many meteorological stations in the outback so as to raise the "average" temperature.
There are photos of places (Sydney, Isle of Wight) that show the sea level to be virtually the same as 140 years ago. In northern Europe, the sea level appears to be dropping because the land is still recovering from having had so many km of ice above for many years. Venice and Miami are sinking because of water extraction.
Have fun. I have no time to waste on ideologues.
Thank you very much for your lucidity and bravery Mr. Medhurst!
On April 16th I already saw your YouTube video "The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War".
The same day I read Ryan Perkins Substack "The Strait Logic: War on Iran is a Dress Rehearsal for Blockading China".
During years I have been watching Brian Berletic in its YouTube channel "The New Atlas" explaining why he believes that the real intention of US bipartisan politicians is to strangle China.
Yesterday I read Dr. Warnick Powell Substack "China's preparedness".
Your explanation of "the big picture" is exhaustive.
To my eyes the leaders of China, Russia and Iran are aware of this US military/"economic"/pirate strategy... so, what are they going to do? Before the attack of Pearl Harbour, Japan was also facing economic sanctions and an oil embargo... and being a pirate has always been a risky job...
"...so what are they going to do?..."
THE $64 thousand/million/billion/trillion question.
China will continue to build solar and wind powered energy generation, and exploit their ever-growing leadership in technology. Build more pipelines from Russia to China. The main victims will be the EU and ordinary people in the USA.
Yes, although, I would rephrase it to "Just what are we going to do about it?" Now, just where and what are the even more expensive answers to this vital question?
You are a genius. Putting the puzzle pieces together. The best analysis I ever seen.
The destruction of Nordstream can not have been planned nor decades nor years nor months in advance. Because the chain of events from mars 2022 was not predictable.
USA is mostly reacting quickly on a changing ground.
While Russia doesn't strike on the European proxies for the drones attacks launched from the Baltic's, as it should, it does use military escort recently against blockades attempts, like in the case of the tankers that navigated through the Channel couple weeks ago. So if USA wants to militarize the seas, and play like UK pirats, for sure others can threaten to strike US ships in international waters. When you break basic principles, then the other will also.
The bulk of Eurasian mass stays untouchable and the Arctic shipping route is inside Russian waters. Not sure Russian will sit quiet doing nothing when USA will try blocus at both ends by Norway and by Alaska.
What we must do in Europe and elsewhere is to kill Americans. The ones working by embassies and consulates, big corporations and NGO (is. GO...). It is easy. Palantir and NSA are reading this, and they can do nothing against millions of people who want to render planet Earth outside USA, unfit for them. Hello NSA and Palantir! USA relies on local vassals, and these can be subject to local turmoils.
Otherwise what happens is also like vampirization. USA is a nosferatu that relies on the blood ie. resources and money of others. It sucks until the bodies are dry empty of their blood and die. There is no idea of mutual interaction for everyone's benefit. It is just pure predation, victim after victim.
It means that by weakening or destroying everyone, USA does also destroy markets for them. EU is empoverished, it means the ability for EUpeans to buy American stuff and controlled stuff at the price needed in order to maintain high level of life in USA diminishes.
Btw, when will Brits have enough of it and ditch the kunts of the City and the Windsor?
Biden said they will destroy the pipeline years before
The idea appears to be that while the USA suffers impoverishment, all other nations suffer more. This is their concept of winning. There is a certain logic to it.
A compelling counterpoint!