Everything is Falling Apart: Don’t Look Up, Look Around.

A multi-pronged analysis of the meta-crises we face or should I say, don’t face!
WW3 under way in Europe, a regional conflict and 11month old genocide underway in West Asia, the drums of war being beaten in the South China Sea in anticipation of what the late great John Pilger called “The Coming War on China” and its subsequent ecological carnage, and the climate crisis, unravelling from Pole to Pole, from the depths of our oceans to the top of the atmosphere, contemporaneous with a Global Economy that is nothing short of a Ponzi Scheme.
The Apartheid state, in occupied Palestine, in a complex, state orchestrated terrorist act, inserted high explosives into innocuous electric devices, killing and maiming thousands of innocent people and some of their intended targets, or their children sitting nearby.
An Iranian diplomat lost an eye! ”
Iranian ambassador to Lebanon loses eye in explosive pager attack

“Mojtaba Amani was carrying one of pagers that detonated, resulting in loss of one eye and severe injuries to another: his condition critical enough to require transfer back to Iran for further treatment”. Surely Iran will see this as an act of war against their diplomat!
This act of terrorism represents a paradigm shift into more and more overt acts of fascism brutally inflicted on innocent and sometime not so innocent members of the resistance.
I never believed that President Raisi’s death was an ‘accident’, now we hear that he had a pager! Hezbollah Pager Link To Raisi’s Chopper Crash? Iranian Official Makes Bombshell Claim
Killing a nations President is by definition a declaration of war!

It is my contention that everyone in Concentration Camp Gaza is a hostage. On October the 7th 2023 we witnessed those hostages rebelling, as is their revolutionary and parental duty. If you imprison people long enough under pressure cooker stresses, don’t be surprised when they explode and rebel! VIDEO: What really happened on October 7?
Will we soon be stopped from bring phones, tablets etc, onto an airplane/ship, into a busy supermarket, a bus, a taxi, a school, a train on the way to work where many people use that commuting time productively? Has that human right now been extinguished?
This act of terrorism brings a whole new level of stresses to our lives, for people in the occupied territories, no electrical device is now deemed safe, that insecurity will sweep across the war-ravaged planet as “Copy-cat” attacks will surely follow, Mossad has unleashed a monster!

In occupied Ireland the British army and their cohorts in Loyalist terror gangs carried out a policy of “Shoot to Kill”, giving them license to execute people. Two cases in point. “After I left the occupied six counties, I went to Gibraltar to help a friend’s computer company install computers at a new bank.”
“I had to walk over the footpath where Mairead Farell, Dan McCann and Sean Savage were murdered in cold blood by the British SAS on March 6th, 1988. Mairéad was shot in the back along with her comrades Séan Savage and Daniel McCann, as they walked unarmed on a suburban street in Gibraltar. Britain always denied that they had a “Shoot to Kill” policy with us Irish Republicans but the evidence is clear.

Sean was shot 18 times. “Farrell, Watson said, “was hit by five bullets to the face and neck and three in the back. Danny McCann was shot twice in the head and twice in the back.”
I was in Gibraltar doing electrical work and delivering yachts around the Mediterranean. One person told me that the day after our three brave volunteers were executed council workers arrived with pneumatic jack hammers to chip the lead out of bullet impacts on the pavement, from the execution shots fired vertically down into my wounded comrades. They destroyed the evidence in what was clearly a crime scene.

Executed in a public street whilst walking unarmed, when they could have easily been arrested. Not so much as a warning was given, the intention was always assassination, not arrest.
Gone but never forgotten comrades.
18 BULLETS HIT IRA MAN, GIBRALTAR INQUEST TOLD

I sat with Suzanne whilst she told me of the day when her husband Ronnie Bunting and best man at their wedding Noel Little were assassinated and there was no doubt whatsoever in Suzanne’s mind that the assailants were well trained, military hitmen. The Brits smashed their way into the house all dressed in matching black & wearing Balaclava’s, spraying bullets indiscriminately in every direction. After wounding my three IRSP comrades, they systematically went over to Noel and Ronnie’s wounded, bleeding bodies and added execution shots to ensure they were dead, Suzanne witnessed that. They didn’t do the same to Suzanne because part of her face had been effectively blown off and they assumed she was dead. It was the most brutal story I have ever heard, and I heard it from the only surviving witness, with all the facial reconstruction scars to show the horrors of her injuries. The above paragraph from my essay: Grace Gifford and Joseph Mary Plunket – A Love Story like No Other.

I delivered a 49ft Ketch from Gib’ to Greece: ” Myself and one other crewman set sail from Gib’ heading East across the coast of Africa and when we were offshore from Libya I heard a massive ‘explosion’ as a fighter jet broke the sound barrier directly over the boat. I received a VHF ‘call’ from the French Fighter Jet Pilot , as you do!!
Whilst he spoke to me the jet circled my yacht with one wing pointed at the sky and the other at the ocean!” A Conversation Between a French F111 Fighter Jet Pilot, a Kiwi Yacht Skipper and Everything in Between.

The Apartheid state seems to have a ‘leave pass’ to carry out whatever levels of brutality it wants. The large Western Powers are fully behind this genocide by providing financial, logistical, military and political cover for the Apartheid regime! The Vassal states like Aotearoa NZ are too cowardly to speak up because our quisling parliamentarians are either spineless or morally bankrupt and we all know how mendacious and brutal the regime in occupied Palestine can be. They are literally afraid of the monster the West created in occupied Palestine.
The Western Powers are in lock step with the Apartheid state as they were with the former Apartheid state in South Africa. Clearly, Fascism has prevailed.
To quote the late Nelson Mandela “Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi, Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt. They don’t just support us in rhetoric, they are placing resources at our disposal to assist us in winning this struggle”.

I’ve written extensively on the ecological consequences of all this warmongering.
“The US military with 800 offshore military bases and the independent states response to the threat it poses is grinding the living planet into dust.
The article below is five years old so the damage will be much worse than stated. Add the emissions from the war in Ukraine to this already dire prognosis.
 “If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal.”
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must

Additional statistics embedded following: Warmongering and the Climate Crisis

Now to address the basket case of our world economy whose main foundation now is debt. When I was young ‘Quantitative Easing was called “Counterfeiting”, now it’s become the only tool to keep the Ponzi scheme going! All previous Ponzi schemes unraveled; all Fiat currencies failed: “Why Quantitative Easing Should Concern You”

There is also non-Kinetic war underway.
The independent states are more united than they have ever been, in my half a century of observations. The critical weapon is de-dollarization and the emergence of the multi-polar BRICS block.
There’s a new boss, not the same as the old boss. The “Empire of Chaos” what Pepe Escobar calls the NATO block, will fight to the death, of us all, to protect US political and dollar Hegemony!

Many thanks to Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen for their courage and integrity.
Clearly the USA will never be able to pay its debts, the most likely scenario is that the global economy will stagger along bouncing from one ecological catastrophe after another, contemporaneous with one economic crash after another then one day we will wake up to the “Mother of All Crashes” and the Casino Economy will go broke.
The two stark risks that stand out for me is contagion in the banking system that could literally seize up; “As we watch the US banking system totter and begin to collapse, like the proverbial Jenga stack, we need to consider the implications this has for the global financial system and its supply chains.
I’ll begin with the stellar work of David Korowicz published on June 17, 2012  
Financial system supply-chain cross contagion – a study in global systemic collapse

Follower of this blog know that I have delved extensively into the issue of collapse, additional links below for the curious, from myself and fellow travelers on the rocky road, down the Seneca Cliff of collapse!
Is Capitalism by Definition an Extinction Event?
Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario
2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca Cliff
Problems, Predicaments, and Technology
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIII — Complexity and Sustainability
What Keeps Empires Together?

So, WTAF happens when collapse unfolds?
Horrors beyond imagination, we’ll see the best and the worst of human behaviour and most disruptive of all we will lose the Aerosol Masking Effect, what Professor James E Hansen dubbed “Our Faustian Bargain”.
Loss of the AME will mean all major ‘Bread Baskets” will collapse, 450 terrestrial nuclear power plants will be abandoned to their fate, as will their 1200 Spent Fuel Pools, and additionally 100 maritime nuclear vessels will make their way to the bottom of the oceans where they will percolate away for millennia.
Nuclear reactors have powered naval ships since the US Navy lunched the submarine Nautilus in 1955. According to Lloyd’s Register around 100 naval reactors are in use today. 

My colleague and dear friend Professor Guy McPherson is a world leader in the field of societal collapse and extinction. He delves into the issue of the loss of Aerosol Masking Effect.

More information and another video featuring Leon Simons who co publishes with Professor James E Hansen embedded here: The Aerosol Masking Effect, a Deep Dive into Our “Faustian Bargain”

About Kevin Hester

I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.