Quick Take: So…what’s with all the spying?
Kit Knightly
Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with “conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia”.
Details are still scarce, but the charges are said to be linked to a fire in March, which the Crown Prosecution Service described as “an arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked commercial property”
But this is just one of a spate of recent stories alleging espionage or other “hostile activity”.
Two weeks ago, a career US diplomat was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly working as a Cuban agent.
Last week, Germany arrested two men for alleged espionage including “agreeing to carry out attacks on potential targets including US military facilities in hopes of sabotaging aid for Ukraine”.
Four days later, again in Germany, three alleged Chinese agents were arrested, this time for operating a “front company” which “obtained innovative technologies for military use”.
The same day, back in the UK, parliamentary staffer Christopher Cash and another man were charged under the Official Secrets Act with “obtaining data for an enemy”.
We’re being told that European capitals are on “high alert” for espionage activity ahead of the June elections.
France24 warns that the “far-right” may have become a “gateway for Chinese and Russian spies”. MI5 is going to begin “vetting British academics for Chinese spy links”
Right on cue, the Spectator is running the headline:
The Xi files: how China spies
The spies just keep on coming.
So what’s going on here? Well, if we believe the reality the media presents to us, We’re left with two possible explanations.
- Russia and China suddenly started spying a lot.
- Russia and China were always spying a lot but suddenly started getting caught.
Neither of which seems very likely to me.
More rationally, we can see the Spy narratives are being made up and/or exaggerated to achieve two goals:
- Spark up a McCarthy-esque frisson to aid the further normalisation of censorship and witch-hunt culture.
- Re-create the Cold War atmosphere of a Le Carré novel and sell the idea of the divided “multipolar world.”
As with everything else, it’s about controlling the conversation.
In an interesting and potentially related development, a former major general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly executed for passing information to the CIA in 2020, has reportedly turned up alive living under an assumed identity in America. The story is that Mossad/the CIA “abducted” him.
Well, ok.
A quote from Oliver Stone’s JFK comes to mind, “everyone’s flipping sides all the time, it’s fun and games man, fun and games.”
It certainly gives us all something to watch.
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It’s a story to have an excuse to censor. ban, etc. the “far-right” dissidents.
They really do think it´s still 1954… That´s what a post-war education will do to you.
Is there even an acceptably plausible definition of ‘spying’? … because, one man’s spy is another man’s security asset.
Perhaps most have become aware that the ‘Men in the shadows’ have installed predominantly light-weight phuck-wits in the leadership-roles of most Western-Democracies, viz. the 5-eyes countries … viz. … Rishi, Biden, Albanese, Trudeau and Luxon. Now really, one wouldn’t even take the trouble of pissing on these fraudsters if they were on fire, and yet they have been elevated to ‘lead’ their respective countries. Why? … obviously because they are easily controllable by the puppet-masters. These pricks even stand-to-attention when Bill Gates makes whistle-stops to ensure that they are following their scripts. So, it would be easy to conclude that all these government entities are at the head of the criminal enterprises, or the ‘spying-game’. They ALL belong in a MAD comic-strip …
Wouldn’t it be just wonderful, if ALL these spook industries were compelled to finance their own little ‘strategic-games’ and not milk tax-payers money for the sole benefit of their corporate bosses?
Thanks, Kit – with you all the way: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/27/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-farmers-resistance-wins-takeover-usa-naomi-wolf-was-kafka-right-deep-state-yes-minister-ch/
I can only think of the fire as an insurance scam. The Snoopers’ Charter is enabling the arrest and imprisonment of (possibly) innocent people who do not toe the global narrative line. Suspect the insurance payout will be used to fund the Ukrainian war effort. Bill Browder has called for all European countries to follow the UK lead and use Russian assets in western banks to fund their proxy war enacted on their behalf by puppet Zelensky.
Not sure the Brits are doing any such thing, but Browder has shown himself to be a serial liar.
Don’t ever underestimate the Brits – they have 1,000 years+ to have refined their espionage – I know because I worked in the HMG War Office in the 1960s and soon left when I discovered the truth of HMG Deep State. However, we are winning, gradually: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/27/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-farmers-resistance-wins-takeover-usa-naomi-wolf-was-kafka-right-deep-state-yes-minister-ch/
Bill Browder being the CIA/MI6 No 1 spy recruiter called SOLOMON, spearheading the putsch against President Putin that went tits up.. Even Litvinenko’s widow and Navalni’s widow couldn’t resurrect it, and now they’ve gone to ground..
Note to Langley – Browder is past his sell by date. He has been exposed and his credibility as one of the good guys is shattered.
The Operation being called QUAKE, look it up?
The media’s sole role is to spin hobgoblins for as long as they have cogency then, when one is outed as lies, start the next few.
This is just the latest lying nonsense from Western professional liars.
The USA, Israel and the UK spy. Have done feverishly since the end of the Second World War. And almost certainly, for centuries before that in the case of the UK.
There’s nothing different about Russia and China spying. It’s just what nation states do.
Rhodes Scholars were partly selected on their ability to be spies. Nothing unusual there.
You rise up faster in the Establishment if you become a spy for the Security Services. Nothing new there.
Media organisations and several ‘blue chip’ Professional Services Companies are fronts for spying operations. They hack computers, mobiles etc with impunity. They operate outwith all cultural standards and mores and think they can act with impunity. Just ask Piers Morgan, Rebekah Brooks, Allister Heath and any number of other paid drones.
‘Russia and China spy’ is about as original as ‘Bill Clinton had an extremely high libido and marriage didn’t rein in his wilder urges’.
Do you seriously think well educated people aren’t aware of numerous security service fronts on both Wall Street and in the City???
“hobgoblins” such as never-proven-to-exist SARS-CoV-2 “virus”, right?
The ruling class now rules as the ludicrous class ruling over the TV dope class. Another fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Ollie! How much more transparent can it all get? Even old episodes of Superman contain more believable plots than those of the 21st C. If it were only as funny…
It is funny and Oh so true Sandy: Laugh at the truth here, compliments of Monty Python!
note that the peasants don’t even have digging tools, they have to use sticks 😅
T’was ever so 🙂
The evil enemy spying on us – invading us = security.
usually this nonsense is concurrent all over the West with the added films TV series releases that add to the needing safety, compromised borders etc
SOLUTION = MORE MONEY ON DEFENCE
and guess what has happened in u.k, MOST OF e.u and USA???
More money on defence to protect us from a outside make believe threat.
Change ”migrant” or ”spy” for ”virus” and same MO apply s.
just like that extra billions of billions of pounds defense budget appearS£.
Perhaps March 22, 2024 set the stage for this sudden “spying”. That was the date of the Crocus City Hall attack which killed 144 Russians, mostly youths – an attack which Russia has laid at the doorstep of The West.
Now the West, all huffy and indignant, is saying “Ha! Two can play this game, Mr. Putin!”
France24 must be super hip to the “new right is the left” fashion that’s taking the new subnormal by storm. Or is it: the new left is the right? Or am I just showing my age?
“a Le Carré novel”.
‘The Little Drummer Girl’ is well worth a(nother) look.
In one of the later Smiley tales, George, in Hong Kong, wonders if it’s all a deadly game to those at the top who are all on the same third side.
Natasha on YouTube gives 10 reasons why she admires Putin.
She speaks with an Oi Bloimy estuarine English accent. From her other video it appears that Natasha was brought up in Bournemouth and she deplores the way Bournemouth has gone downhill.
https://youtu.be/Kj7-nFLVnOk?si=8PJ1jrzfjoj3s7Ob
Will she emigrate to Russia? Will Russia relax its quota for English people of Russian extraction? I know a Russian Israeli couple (from the Let My People Go generation) who enquired about Right of Return; they were told that the Soviet Union no longer existed so their former Russian citizenship was no longer valid.
The current Spy counter Spy drive in the EU$A will have to reinforce its polarization of the World by tightening EU$A borders against fleeing citizens.
Get out Nick – ASAP before the digital stockade closes: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/easy-living-in-south-africa-icj-ruling?sd=pf
From your Link:
“When compared to my dismal experiences at 50 Degrees North it’s a no-brainer! It’s not generally understood that Britain is positioned close to the Arctic Circle with only the Gulf Stream to maintain a temperate maritime climate during June – August (the ‘summer’ season, LOL), but it does bring unique agricultural benefits, with a short and powerful growing season, fertile soils, and plenty of rain. Britain could easily be self-sufficient in food production if only HMG would get out of the way!
However, for me, there is no substitute for the eight months of sunny summers here in Simons Town to which I thankfully returned after a self-imposed exile of 14 years in the land of my birth.”
Austrian Peter, thanks for sending me this paen to Easy Living in South Africa. Seems you have retired to find “the Good Life” in the land of my birth.
No need for the warning, I too “got out” of damp Britain and found “the Good Life” in a similar climate with “8 months of summer sunshine” but on the Mediterranean coast.
Nice to hear good news from The Rainbow Nation; especially to learn that the government will be Leaning to the Left. The ANC made 2 promises before it came to power:
The first was to end Apartheid; that promise has been honoured to the hilt, as IJC can vouch.
The second was to put an end to poverty: the world is still waiting, but I am optimistic; especially seeing Malema wear a red hat and spouting Communism.
Thank you, Nick – as a fellow SA patriot – a land into which I have become comfortable. I know it’s not all roses and honey which I wrote about later on:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/economic-reality-budget-2024-interest?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&open=false
“Then Jesus said: “Let her alone, so that she may keep this observance in view of the day of my burial. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.” [John 12: 7]
Having seen how apeshit they went when somebody dared question the COVID bullshit, why is anybody surprised that they cracking down on people who question the alleged WAR?
At the bottom of this, we have an impending collapse of the financial system and the socioeconomic system as a whole. The collapse is driven by rising EROEI, i.e. dwindling availability of energy and other resources. There are multiple other facts, but the bottom line is that the Atlantic Civilization is in deep shit. The can has been kicked down the road too many times.
CONVID was an emergency stopgap measure launched to avert an imminent crash.
The WAR is an attempt to salvage the economy, to shift the workforce from office jobs to manufacturing, to milk money out of people, blah blah blah, etc.
WAR is much more serious than CONVID because they’ve up the ante from public health to national security. Quite a different ballgame, ain’t it. So, while bitching about wearing a mask might have earned you a fine, bitching about switching to war economy will earn you a 20-year vacation in upstate penitentiary.
World War III has been ongoing since the start of the Plandemic – as a psychological war.
I sill think it is too early to play the kinetic war card, at least on a global level. There is still Plandemic 2.0 and Climate Armageddon to play before that.
If they run too early with kinetic WWIII, it will mean the end of the Climate Scam. All those nasty hydrocarbons needed to up industrial production, in order to produce armaments. Plus, all those tanks, fighter jets, ships and missiles burning up hydrocarbons and ‘spewing out CO2’. Even the most brain dead climate alarmists will have trouble reconciling that with sustainable living and the reduction of CO2 emissions.
Also, Plandemic 2.0 would have to go on the back burner. Lockdowns, travel restrictions and social distancing due to a ‘deadly virus’ would be difficult to justify, what with troops being moved around en masse, living in close quarters or fighting WWI trench warfare, as we are led to believe is occuring in Ukraine currently.
How is that 2 metre social distancing rule going to work in a submarine? Or a paper surgical mask going to fare in a muddy trench?
The public are gullible but surely not that gullible.
All those might be a consideration, but people have to start looking at the underlying issue. Why is all this happening?
It’s happening because one historical era is ending. Due to multiple factors, but the most important one is that like other civilizations before, ours will have soon exhausted the resources on which thrives. The so-called elites evidently understand it and are trying to do something about it – making sure, naturally, that they’ll end up ahead of the rest in whatever civilization is coming next.
Worrying about how they’ll try to pull wool over people’s eyes, like social distancing and inconsequential shit like that, is endlessly myopic.
What people need to do is pull their heads out of the sand and come up with the kind of future they want in the postindustrial world. It must be borne in mind that the elites have a vision – us the people, we have shit. We’re whining about unimportant crap.
Its your biblical end times knuckler, its where the trojan horse is surprised by the tooth fairy and Mr Ed tries to put back Humpty Dumpty
Prestan mi vochcavat kotniky ratliku.
You got it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8
Yep – you are over the target: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/27/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-farmers-resistance-wins-takeover-usa-naomi-wolf-was-kafka-right-deep-state-yes-minister-ch/
Yep – you got it in one: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-the-end?s=w
I go for your number 2. The EU$A no longer rules the world but its Oligarchs are trying desperately to hang on to ruling 15% of the world population by creating a new Cold War against the 85% Rest of the new Multi Polar World. But the lynch pins of the EU$A namely, Uncle $cam and Perfidious Albion, are creaking under the strain.
More technology, more countries with the technology, more spying, simple. Think military industrial complex (MIC) on steroids, i.e., expanded to include everything and anything related to security, law enforcement, control of humans, killing of humans, etc. It’s like a video game that can’t be stopped. For those that don’t know, Eisenhower, i.e., “Ike”, at the end of his term on 1/17/61, warned about the MIC. Hell, that’s 63 years now. The same year JFK gave his “secret societies” speech on 4/27/61, 3 months apart. Imagine that. Now look at our leaders (in the U.S.), Joe Biden and Donald Trump. How in the fuck did we get here? I hear they’re going to debate. Great. Let’s just go as low as we can fucking go. You sure aren’t going to hear anything about 9/11, the Scamdemic, or Zionist Israel, and you sure as hell won’t hear anything like the truth spoke back in 1961.
Mad magazine once had, maybe still has, a regular ‘Spy V Spy’ cartoon poking fun at the James Bondish antics of our high budget, secretive agencies. It was spot on, cynical and hilarious.
Are these suited paranoids just living out their Bond fantasies?
After all, the Chinese ‘infiltration’ of Western economies is overwhelming and almost ubiquitous.
The Star Trek episode, ‘A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON’ was shown in February 1967. Obviously that Show was ahead of the Times after reading this Today.
‘Gaza: AI changing speed, scale and harm of modern war’
Israel relying on AI-enabled decision-making systems to identify and hit targets in Gaza despite a reported 10% inaccuracy rate.
As Israel’s air campaign in Gaza enters its sixth month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, it has been described by experts as one of the most relentless and deadliest campaigns in recent history. It is also one of the first being coordinated, in part, by algorithms.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to assist with everything from identifying and prioritizing targets to assigning the weapons to be used against those targets.
https://asiatimes.com/2024/04/gaza-ai-changing-speed-scale-and-harm-of-modern-war
WOW! 67 years and 3 Generations later, it’s actually happening with Computer generated guided WAR.
Clip from that 67 year ‘A Taste of Armageddon’ a prescient portrayal of this Generation’s WAR by Computers devoid of any Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-I9nRAnDk
You don’t need AI to mass-murder another crowd of starving unarmed civilians out in the open, or raze another block of buildings. This seems to be pure unadulterated swill.
As proof, recall that Alexander the Great slaughtered 10,000 Resisters of Gaza with an army that used only swords, spears, bows and stones.
Unlike Natan the Yahoo, he spared the lives of women and children.
Alexander the Great And The Siege of Gaza – The Historian’s HutAlexander threw the full might of his infantry into the fray and overwhelmed the defenders. An estimated 10,000 men of fighting age were slaughtered by Alexander’s forces in the capture of Gaza. The lives of the women and children were spared, but they were ultimately sold into slavery.
Lavender, Where’s Daddy: two of the three AI programs used. For those of us who have actually been following this genocide (as opposed to those whose wits are still stuck in the plandemic), there has been a great deal of reporting on the Israeli use of AI.
Given the poor showing of the IDF vis-a-vis Hamas, it becomes quite plausible that Israel’s killing juggernaut might need a little help from AI in at least trying to make it look like they’re targeting Hamas and not innocent civilians.
THEY are gods, they think anyway: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/gods-rule-data-war-consult-vaxx-apathy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Sounds like a load of BS.
Who’s who? Anyone could be anybody
Gov corp needs trustworthy Digital Identity Verification to keep you safe.
Really the convenience sale just CANT work with this one (gov services are designed to be destructive/obstructive etc)
Imo
I sometimes wonder what some of these ‘spies’ are actually meant to be spying on anyway.
Presumably to “Spy” (with a capital ‘S’) you’d first of all need some kind of access to some kind of “Secret” (also with a capital ‘S’). Something of some kind of National Significance. Not just passing on local weather reports on to Mr. Putin (“it’s raining again today in Bognor Regis”).
In my evening walk today (England), I passed at least 2 couples speaking fluent Russian – clearly native speakers, although they may of course have been Ukrainian. In some sense you could suspect them of having been ‘spying for Russia’, assuming an average level of allegiance the typical tourist has to their motherland. Yet they walk unimpeded and even welcomed upon our shores.
So I’m guessing that the focus is primarily on one’s own citizens. Making sure that they don’t cultivate anything approaching a pro-Russian or pro-Chinese attitude; for fear of getting caught wearing Russian flag underpants.
This is pre-emptive. Before the wrong politics become widespread. Like all those wrong demonstrations against the special country and its special people.
3. All the above
The war, the sabotage of critical infrastructure, and the technology theft are all real – AND the national security apparatus is perfectly happy that it’s real because it will be exploited to the max!
Just after the collapse this scenario was seen in a street nearby.
They look like Germans w/wheelbarrows full of money.
The theatre for the mind never ends. Just remember to pick-a-side – any will do. They want us to participate in their fully immersive 4D productions. Cheer on your chosen ‘friend’ and boo and hiss at the ‘foe’.
Alternatively, just sit back, relax and enjoy the show. Laugh at it for what it is and don’t get immersed in it.
The only way to win, is not to play.
God bless you for letting us know that what our lying eyes are seeing in Gaza is really just infotainment!
Be entertained – nothing is real! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
Indeed – not playing their game is important: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/playtime-market-assessment-catrusstrophe?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=78581185&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
Lack of real work.
I visit a site called SouthFront from time to time which make news about the real stage of the various money laundering wars around the world. The Site is reader funded and has a monthly budget of $5000.
Would you believe the US State Department, Pentagon and CIA all each have people employed to research and spy on everything of this particular Site; employees, readers, commentators, connected advertisers.
The Site is being mentioned in “lists of suspicious and dangerous Internet Sites” reports to the White House and to their partners MI6 and MoD in London. You cant make this up.
US Military Cadet School in a pillow fight.
Just letting off a little steam. So cute.
Brilliant and all real! http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/01/politics-is-dead-heres-what-killed-it.html
AND the PsyOp continues: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/hmg-budget-mtfp-bbc-bias-bankers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The price of Liberty is eternal surveillance.j
Just some more stuff to add to the charge sheet that they’ll use as the justification when NATO attacks Russia or China. “You see”, they’ll say, “all that spying you were doing. Did you expect us not to retaliate?”
“when NATO attacks Russia or China”
NATZO has been sparring with Russia in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine — and is looking a bit bruised. Might want a spot of R&R (Rest and Recuperation) before committing to a full fight.
ps I think it more likely that the EU$A would have to attack Russia plus China”; and if (not when) that were to happen the EU$A would lose.
The articles are worth reading, but my ability to comment has been turned off for close to Year?
Well, it looks like that year just ended.
That happened to me several months ago. But now – so far – I’m allowed to participate. See, it’s like this: I’m one of those who isn’t on the same page as what a good little commenter is supposed to be. (You too perhaps?)
I suppose I’m like most people, I tend to regard Ukrainians and Russians ex-pats as the same people (I really can’t tell the difference). Since the movie stereotype is the “Russian gangster” I tend to think of a spot of arson between them as an internecine tiff, not some reflection of the Global Great Game currently being played out by NATO against the Russians. (But then I like to learn about history…..)
Our government (US) seems to be desperately trying to turn back the clock to the 1950s.** They need that Cold War, we have to be scared of those Reds Under Our Beds, listening to our every word, “interfering” in our elections (anyone heard of AIPAC, BTW?), they’re everywhere, influencing us. We have to be aware of the threat because only by being sufficiently paranoid we can guarantee our eternal freedom. The whole thing’s rather dystopian; its like living in a badly written 1950s sci-fi magazine. All its really doing for me is alienating me from my government; I really don’t want anything to do with them, they’re embarrassing.
(**Target period for MAGA so don’t expect any alternative to be different except in trying to foist 1950 social norms on the population.)
Your country is doomed. The rest of the world rejoices.
Are you surprised?
Your country needs you to save it from the Anglo Zionazi Capitalist psychopaths who have taken over its government.
Something to watch – like a pantomime perhaps?
Bread & circuses – it never changes: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/playtime-market-assessment-catrusstrophe?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=762792&post_id=78581185&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email