Unregulated migration now would undermine both citizenship and welfare rights. This would threaten democracy, which depends of the notion of a national community. Thus a degree of exclusion of outsiders is essential to democracy, and democracy is a key basis for the legitimacy of a government’s external actions. The present system of international governance could not survive without populations defined by and governed within national borders.

Paradoxically, it is borders that make extended international governance work.

In the last instance, nationally regulated populations with full political rights are the foundation upon which consent by states to supra-national agreements is based. In the nineteenth century there was little in the way of national governance, few state democracies, and limited public welfare: migration thus mattered less. Even so, mass migration produced a backlash by established populations, leading to immigration quotas in the USA, for example.

Borders and local policies of national security are now central to containing terrorism and organized crime.

Markets are highly vulnerable to such shocks. Territorial states also remain our primary source of accountability and democracy in such a complex system of governance. National representatives to supra-national bodies remain, in theory at least, subject to domestic political pressure. Cosmopolitan forms of strong democratic governance are unlikely to develop for the foreseeable future because we still operate in a world shaped by nationalism. Citizens still identify with the nation-state. States are the largest bodies that can claim any sort of primary legitimacy.

International bodies are the preserves of elites, and the international technocracy needs the check of politicians directly answerable to national politics.

 Accountability of international agencies through national publics is at best indirect and weak, but strong supra-national democracy is just impossible. There is no global ‘demos’. If democracy implies a substantial measure of homogeneity in the demos, then the world is just too unequal economically and too different culturally for the rich to submit to the decisions of the poor, or for one established culture to accept the internationalization of the norms of another. Hence the unwillingness of the G7 states to give a greater say to developing nations in the core institutions of supra-national economic governance. Hence also the widespread resistance by other major cultures to international human rights norms that come in a box marked ‘made in the USA’

Some contemporary commentators, confronted with the impossibility of an international order based upon consent, the rise of systematic anti-Western terrorism and the existence of failed states, argue for a new solution to this disorder: empire. For them, existing patterns of international governance are not enough and national jurisdictions are currently inadequate in scale to respond to these problems, and so their solution is based on extending the scale and power of the territorial state. This seems to be as doomed a project as cosmopolitan democracy. 

Empire and world government are both failed nineteenth-century projects.

Professor Paul Quentin Hirst

https://nulluslocussinegenio.com/2016/09/30/why-borders-matter-paul-hirst/

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Britain: Operation Gladio's Secret 'Headquarters'

"Perhaps the most striking feature of Operation Gladio is also its least well-known. The effort is typically understood and widely portrayed as a primarily CIA-led effort. In reality, Britain served as the inspiration, headquarters and training ground for all Europe’s “stay behind” secret armies throughout the Cold War, with MI6 taking the lead on arming these factions and directing their incendiary activities. This little-acknowledged history has enormous contemporary relevance, given London secretly continues to perpetuate the Gladio model overseas today.
In November 2024, The Grayzone exposed how a cloak-and-dagger Ministry of Defence-created cell of military and intelligence veterans, dubbed Project Alchemy, is charged with “keeping Ukraine fighting…at all costs”. Since the proxy war’s first days, the unit has strategised and orchestrated a vast array of belligerent acts, both covert and overt, to escalate the conflict and prevent a negotiated settlement. Chief among their initial recommendations was the creation of a “stay behind”, Gladio-style force, to carry out assassinations and sabotage in Russian territory."

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/britain-operation-gladios-secret

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Bloomberg: Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order

Apple Inc. is removing its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK, a stunning development that follows the government ordering the company to build a backdoor for accessing user data.

The company said Friday that Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature that adds end-to-end encryption to a wide assortment of user data, is no longer available in the UK for new users. The technology had provided an extra layer of security to iCloud data storage, device backups, web bookmarks, voice memos, notes, photos, reminders and text message backups.

“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy,” the company said in a statement. “ADP protects iCloud data with end-to-end encryption, which means the data can only be decrypted by the user who owns it, and only on their trusted devices.”

The unprecedented step comes two weeks after media outlets reported that the UK government ordered Apple to build a backdoor into customer data globally.

Without ADP, the UK government is poised to have an easier time requesting user data — a potentially alarming scenario for customers in the country. The move also threatens to set a precedent that encourages other nations to push Apple to reduce security.

Apple previously called a bill from the UK Parliament that sought access to user data “unprecedented overreach by the government.”

“As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will,” Apple said Friday.

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GERMAN ELECTIONS: AfD in second place with 20.8% to CDU-CSU with 28.6%. Scholz is out as his SPD is down in 3rd place with 16.4%.

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Change in Society happens first at the level of storytelling. The woke thrive on fairy tale level storytelling where there is an obvious literal big bad wolf & they are the victim. The awake prefer adult storytelling: embracing complexity & nuance & not judging a book by its cover.

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Terrorist attack against Russian Consulate in Marseille, France. Two Molotov bombs allegedly thrown & exploded inside the consulate. Some people really want the war grift to continue...

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Meanwhile in Starmer's Britain...

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Many of them were not immune to brainwashing unfortunately...

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Would you agree that Imperialism in Europe is spearheaded by the European Union, not any other country? They will give the working classes these choices: bankruptcy, slavery via UBI paid out by a programmable CBDC or to go to die in war. They are looting all the assets.

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The Great Reset is a financial reset where Gold will be the Tier 1 asset & all other currencies will be debased. The banks and the rich will maintain their wealth through physical Gold, paper Gold will lose all credibility. CBDCs will be rolled out for the poor. Those in the middle will hold onto Bitcoin & other cryptos.

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IT TOOK 100 YEAR FOR THE PUBLIC TO PAY OFF WW1 DEBT TO THE RICH WAR INVESTORS!

Just so that people are aware of what war really means beyond the human cost of the lives of the working classes and who really profits:

2014: "Government to pay off WW1 debt"

"Chancellor George Osborne is to pay off the UK government's remaining debt from World War One, the Treasury has announced.

The government will repay the outstanding £1.9bn of debt from a 3.5% War Loan on 9 March 2015.

More than 120,000 investors hold War Loan bonds.

Issued by then Chancellor Neville Chamberlain in 1932, the War Loan was used to refinance government debt accumulated during World War One. It replaced an earlier bond which paid 5% to investors.

The Debt Management Office estimates the government has paid about £5.5bn in total interest on the 5% and 3.5% war loans respectively since 1917.

The government added it would look to remove all six of the other remaining undated gilts in its portfolio, including some debt originally issued in the 18th Century.

One of these bonds was issued by William Gladstone in 1853 to consolidate the capital stock of the South Sea Company, which was founded in 1711.

The South Sea Company collapsed during the South Sea Bubble financial crisis of 1720, leaving behind it a lot of debt."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30306579

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England: New Orthodox mission begins under patronage of St. Edmund the Martyr

"A new mission in England began its liturgical life over the weekend.
The Mission of St. Edmund in Bury St Edmunds, a market town located 70 miles northeast of London, held its Liturgy on Memorial Saturday. The mission is under the Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

The mission is named for St. Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia (†869). The service was celebrated by Hieromonk Theodore (Stanway).
The mission will hold monthly services for now."

https://orthochristian.com/167568.html

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THE "FAR RIGHT" IN 2025:

I get it! According to corporate newspeak, political parties that are against sending working classes to die in war while replacing them with dirt cheap low skilled immigrant labour while looting state coffers are "far right", pro-war & pro-looting are "liberal", correct?

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Sounds about right no?

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