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September 25, 2026

Who is actually manufacturing consent for war?
WMD’s manufactured for the destruction of Iraq.
Humanitarian Assistance for the destruction of Libya.
Despot removal for the destruction of Syria.
Terrorism for so many others.
So what has been manufactured for Iran? All of the above.
Of the seven nations on the infamous memo of targeted countries, all but Iran are reduced to divided bloody factions where murder and chaos reign, with war lords enriching themselves with the crumbs of the Western robber barons. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon are any of them better off from Western intervention? They remain in ruins because sectarian divisions are still exploited for greed. Corruption is easy when the carrots dangled are valued in the millions and increasingly billions. There are plenty who would sell off their own, never mind their nation for such eye watering sums. We witness it because it’s so endemic that no one bothers to hide it.
So, what happens when the public in the West no longer consents to killing off the last one standing?
For many, it’s finally not in my name or with my money when both have been ruthlessly exploited for destroying the other six. It’s not that suddenly everyone is an Iranian government supporter, however much they admire the tenacity and bravery of the Iranian people, it’s they’ve had enough. Enough of the lies, the debt, the destruction and death. Gaza more than any other suffering has done that. So how do the architects of war engage the usual bomb carriers when the public says no?
It is undeniable that there is a war against fuel, far beyond the Middle East, to the extent that for the past several years there has been reports, now increasing, about attacks on processing and storage infrastructure across the West, it’s also where attacks have increased dramatically in Russia. Of course these are the essentials to feed more than any war machine, indeed that would have first serve priority in any crisis never mind all out war, way infront of the grocery delivery truck. But it is the attacks elsewhere, not in war zones, that most of us ask who and why? Even when such attacks are in the danger zone, like the recent pipeline attack in Saudi, the culprit isn’t holding their hands up. Both the Yemenis and the Iranians say it was not them and so many fingers point to the usual suspects.
Is that actually what is behind the fuel crisis, provocation to war and sabotage elsewhere? For has it not been warned food and fuel shortages for sometime? When consent cannot be manufactured by the usual methods then perhaps the answer is to deprive people of the necessities and shout loudly whose fault it is, is that how you engage the war machinery of the past participants to embark on the final frontier when the staple arguments have failed?
In the mix it’s always hard to grasp who is the driver and who is the opportunist, perhaps that’s why conspiracies are circumstantial rather than hard fact. The WEF/ Epstein lot certainly weren’t shy about what was coming, and the demonic have shown how far they will go to manipulate reality to cover past, present and clearly future crimes. Many argue that the AI bubble is predicted to go bust and is simply the tip of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history and war is their only means out. Others believe that the precipice of catastrophe we find ourselves teetering on, the very edge of nuclear annihilation lies in the origins of that infamous memo. Maybe they are one and the same, the many heads of the Lernaean Hydra?
An army marches on its belly and it doesn’t move on air. So when its logistics are as affected by food and fuel shortages as the rest of us what do the architects of war and their mouthpieces have in their arsenal when threatening “do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?" There are certainly plenty deranged individuals in power who are itching to try ‘tactical nuclear weapons’, the question isn’t what would push them to it, but what would push the same past parties to the brink that they would consent?

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I am in Japan attending the conference in Kyoto to which I have been generously invited by the conference organiser, my good friend Pascal Lottaz.

Unfortunately that means that I cannot do a Live Stream tomorrow, or probably this week.

My big apologies to everyone.

I return to London on Monday and will not be travelling anywhere for the rest of the year. So I will be able to host our Live Stream next week - and all our Live Streams until the end of the year - as normal.

In passing, I have also obtained many interesting impressions of Japan, this fascinating and beautiful country, which I look forward to sharing with the Community on my return.

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My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

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Hope to see you all asap.

 

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