Britains Second Empire

 

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance. 

The Spiders Web: Britains Second Empire – The Documentary

 

 

  

The Spider’s Web Documentary was substantially inspired by Nicholas Shaxson’s book Treasure Islands you can read an extract of it here: Read More

The truth about tax havens 

As the river of money flowing into Jersey became a tide, he expressed unease about the origins of some of it, much of it from Africa, but he was brushed aside.

The concentration of extremist attitudes in Jersey was self-reinforcing, as Christensen explains. “Most liberal people like myself left,” he said. “My socially liberal friends from school, almost all of them left Jersey to go to university, and almost all of them didn’t go back. I can’t tell you how dark it felt.” He almost left, but was persuaded to stay by academic researcher Mark Hampton, who was putting together a framework for understanding tax havens and convinced him how important it was to understand the system from the inside. “I went undercover,” Christensen said, “not to dish the dirt on individuals and companies, but because I couldn’t understand it – and none of the academics I spoke to could either. There was no useful literature.”

Jersey is riddled with elite, secretive insider networks, typically linked to the financial sector. Read More 

Read in conjunction with The Spiders Web: Britiains Second Empire

 

White House officials barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony this week to the House Intelligence Committee warning that human-caused climate change is “possibly catastrophic.” The move came after State officials refused to excise the document’s references to federal scientific findings on climate change.

The effort to edit, and ultimately suppress, the prepared testimony by the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research comes as the Trump administration is debating how best to challenge the fact that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet and could pose serious risks unless the world makes deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. Senior military and intelligence officials have continued to warn that climate change could undermine the United States’ national security — a position President Trump rejects.

Officials from the White House’s Office of Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget and National Security Council all raised objections to parts of the testimony that Rod Schoonover, who works in the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, prepared to present on the bureau’s behalf for a hearing Wednesday.

The document lays out in stark detail the implications of what the administration faces in light of rising carbon emissions that the world has not curbed. https://wapo.st/30ehMmW

Miami 5 Ft. Underwater By 2100 [VIDEO] – Science Vibe

 

 

 

 

 Miami Was 30 Ft. Underwater Only 120,000 Year Ago. “If one wants to see evidence if a higher sea, downtown Miami is a good place,” says Daniel Muhs, a United States Geological geologist. He has studied rocks from the Eemian Interglacial Period which began 130,000 years ago and ended a mere 15,000 years ago. Rocks that he found 25 feet above sea level in downtown Miami.  The seas were 20-30 ft higher and the global temperature was believed to be about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. The seas were fed by ice melt from Greenland and Antartica, and scientists are concerned it is going to happen again. “Welcome to rising sea levels,” says Hal Wanless, the chairman of the University of Miami’s geological-sciences department.

 

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea levels could rise by more than three feet by 2100; and the United States Army Corps of Engineers says that the seas could rise by as much as five feet; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts up to six and a half feet. According to Wanless, all these projections are probably low. In his office, Wanless keeps a jar of meltwater he collected from the Greenland ice sheet. He likes to point out that there is plenty more where that came from

 

Miami is one of the first US cities to experience the effects of climate change. But they’re not the only one. Several locations around the world face a grim future if climate change remains unabated.

  

(http://sciencevibe.com/2016/04/27/miami-was-30-ft-underwater-only-120000

 AMAZON WATCH » Indigenous Women Mobilize to Resist Bolsonaro

 Yesterday, nearly 3,000 indigenous women leaders from across Brazil staged a mobilization in the nation’s capital as part of the country’s first Indigenous Women’s March. Entitled “Territory: our body, our spirit,” this historic gathering was in response to escalating violations of indigenous rights under the Bolsonaro government, as native peoples and their lands fall increasingly under assault. 

Organized by Brazil’s National Indigenous Movement and its convening organization APIB (the Articulation of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples), the mobilization aimed to halt the government’s mounting socio-environmental rollbacks by strengthening women’s protagonism and capacity to guarantee the human rights of native peoples, particularly through the preservation of the vast forests under indigenous stewardship. Read More

 

 

Underwater Chemical Weapons Release Their Toxin in UK Town

 

 

 

 

 Two people were taken to hospital and hundreds evacuated in the drama – with a two-mile cordon closing down the seaside town’s famous promenade.

 

Locals were warned to keep their windows and doors firmly shut while witnesses described people “heaving and retching” after being exposed to the sea air.

 

It is now thought the plume could have come from one of dozens of cargo vessels and munitions ships containing weapons and poisonous gas that were sunk in the English Channel during World War One and Two.

 

Chemicals were also sealed in concrete containers and dumped in the sea by both sides at the end of the conflicts.

 

Decades after the wars, it is feared the “rusting timebombs” are now rupturing in stormy seas – causing deadly gases to bubble up to the surface and then drift along the sea surface and onto the coast.

 

Terrance P. Long, Chairman, International Dialogue on Underwater Munition (IDUM) Read More 

 

 

 

Can Earth be saved? | Global Warming | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2019/08/earth-saved-190809175954271.html 

 Report after report have been warning about the dangers of climate change – and that it is happening right now.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has put the minds of more than 100 scientists together.

What they are saying is alarming: Not only are rising temperatures threatening the planet, but so are the world’s eating habits.

The way food is farmed is drastically degrading the Earth’s land, and scientists predict that is making global warming worse and will lead to food shortages.

So, how will governments respond to this warning?

Presenter: Mohamed Jamjoom 

Guests:

Simon Lewis – Professor of global change science at University College London

Patrick Holden – CEO of Sustainable Food Trust

Jan Kowalzig – Senior climate policy adviser at Oxfam Germany

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The Hawkwood Elephant – Albert Bates 

 

 

Fri Jul 26 : The author’s book signing circuit for small publishers like New Society and Chelsea Green is more likely to have you at something in Marianne Williamson’s comfort zone than Joe Biden’s, and it often brings me to scenic places with biodynamic gardens, blacksmith shops, and vegan cafes. The latest was the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking in England’s scenic Cotswold’s region, with panoramic vistas of the Severn valley and an annual Seed Festival of Ideas

For me, the best thing about these kinds of events is always the people you get to rub shoulders with, cross-pollinate, and generate the kinds of seeds the hosts are hoping for.. https://www.patreon.com/posts/28665446

QPOLLY HIGGINS Installment 2 Conversation 

 

HANDS OFF MOTHER EARTH

 

INVESTING IN HARM, LEGAL PERCEPTION

At the moment it is perfectly normal to invest in something that causes a little harm but “it is a necessary or good harm” !! Well Criminal Law does not recognize the difference between good and bad harm.

Criminal Law starts on the premise that it is ‘a harmʼ, then you decide just how bad that harm is. We do not make provision for something that is a “good harm” because there is not such thing as a “good harm”.

Whereby at the moment we have been lulled into a false sense of security that some harm just has to be necessary so that we can continue on with the energy and the extraction practices that we want. Criminal Law does not recognize that so, if it is causing harm, it must stop.

INTERNATIONAL ECOCIDE LAW AND APPLICATION TO THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

ANNA CROZIER There are aspects of this disconnect in our research and educational bodies who are still turning out individuals who are tutored in chemical farming practices, our research textile domains, our man made and chemically managed textiles.

These chemicals morph into the body and disrupt the neurological pathways, endocrine pathways . It is difficult to find any areas of our human experience that is not engaged in harmful chemicals. People are unaware of these silent killers that are either on their tongue or against their skin in the textiles they wear. So chemical management of soil to the chemical management of our textiles is an entanglement that is dramatically affecting this precious vehicle called the human body.

The textile industry is known to be the most polluting industry on the planet.

Do you feel that these areas of chemically managed lands to chemically managed textiles can be addressed by Ecocide Law?

POLLY HIGGINS Yes, without a doubt. What the most important thing here is that the use of a group of chemicals is causing extensive damage and destruction to our loss of ecosystems and when we look at the human body as an ecosystem and look at it collectively so you are looking at society at large you are, of course, looking at the accumulative impact not just in isolation. So long as you can bring the evidence to bear for this to be tested in a Court of Law then you begin to start having a process that you can put in place that allows objective analysis of what is causing significant harm and if it is, then it is outlawed.

This is very important because at the moment there is no avenue to do this.

So, yes, I would say that this is one particularly industry that will be radically transformed by the Law of Ecocide.

ANNA CROZIER Yes. More than 90 percent of our textiles today are chemically managed.

UNIVERSITIES, NEGATIVE EARTH INVESTORS AND ECOCIDE LAW

ANNA CROZIER What about the Universities? Can they be addressed for their alliances to chemical companies and the wrong education for the future managers of our Earth?

POLLY HIGGINS Yes: So often what we are seeing are that Universities are bought out by certain industries. At the moment the financing of Universities are vastly compromised today by companies that are undertaking ecocidal activity. Once those companies are no longer able to operate under harmful conditions then the financing flows from those companies that reinvent themselves as non harmful or by the new companies that step into their place. So also by Law these Universities shall become research centres for the innovation in the other direction.

IT WILL BECOME UNTENABLE THAT THEY SUPPORT RESEARCH CENTRES THAT HAVE BECOME A CRIMINAL, INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY.

So we will see a turnaround in the financing of the research in the established academic world.

It has huge long term implications at every single level of the flow of finance and money and investment. Really, the power of the Law of Ecocide is that it really triggers transformation right across the board.

ANNA CROZIER This brings me to the next question on Research Bodies They have chemical hats and so they are protecting their position and vocational training of young people in the same adverse actions.

POLLY HIGGINS What is so interesting is that the focus on research will change radically as well, by Law. So if it is research into something that is contributing to the harm this is going to shift because it is going to be research into something that is going to create harmony.

We are fundamentally shifting the spectrum from harm to harmony so no longer does it become acceptable to invest in and finance and support at a State and private level that which is disruptive. I am going to give you an example.

THE BUSINESS OF WAR BECOMES A CRIME

POLLY HIGGINS Weapons of mass destruction A lot of investment goes into weapons of mass destruction on the basis of State Security. So looking at nuclear weapons. At the moment in the UK, Britain is a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty where it says that we shall not proliferate, we shall not buy and sell nuclear weapons but, we do.

In fact we even have an annual fair held in London every year where we invite in representatives from all countries of the world to buy and sell weaponry not just nuclear weapons. A lot of money is made out of the business of making these weapons because it is not a crime to be in that business.

We may have signed up documents to say we will stop the proliferation but there is no enforcement mechanism. Now, you could argue that of course, the use of nuclear weapons causes mass damage and destruction because it is Ecocide. So suddenly you are criminalizing the big business of making those weapons. You are also criminalizing the State decision to have them made as well.

SO, SUDDENLY YOU HAVE A MINISTER OF STATE SAYING “I AM NOT GOING TO SIGN UP ON THIS. I CANNOT DO THAT BECAUSE I PERSONALLY CAN BE HELD TO ACCOUNT IN A CRIMINAL COURT OF LAW.” NOW, THAT IS VERY POWERFUL.

SO THIS IS ALL ABOUT GOING TO THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS OF WAR.THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE OUT OF WAR. IT IS CRIMINALIZING THE ACTUAL BUSINESS OF WAR ITSELF WHICH, AMAZINGLY, IS NOT A CRIME TODAY.

In gratitude to Polly Higgins:

ANNA CROZIER Polly, you really are the butterfly that is sending the right waves all the way around our Earth so, this threat of Ecocide Law becoming International Ecocide Law. It is the pause, the void, that we all need so all the innovations and the solutions for this Earth can enter and be applied for a wisdom based, Earth integrated existence.

Polly I love that you have arrived and that you have listened to Earthʼs voice and responded to Her in such a profound way and committed to Her as your only client. When I say “thank you” I know that this is coming from Earth and all the species that are Her inhabitants.

Love and Spirit Anna

Anna Crozier

 

Canberra. ACT. AUSTRALIA