THE ISLANDER

On April 18 literally 3 days after my X account was unsuspended, the anonymous account @MyLordBebo dropped a thread accusing me of running some made up “Russian disinformation operation” called “Storm.” He threw in screenshots that look manipulated, then immediately pivoted to dredging up my old 2016 conviction (the charges were political as I held a leadership position within the Liberal party of Canada trying to change the trajectory to an anti war, anti globalist policy platform) and calling me a “pedo.” Within mere minutes the post was being amplified by NAFO accounts and what looks like NATO aligned cyber force bots pushing the standard Western intelligence narrative. Bebo would double down using Western Intel agency NAFO talking points himself. Let’s be clear: I’m Irish Canadian with dual citizenship. I’m not Russian. I’ve never been part of any foreign operation. I’m anti war and pro.sanity, full stop. I empathize with Russia’s legitimate security concerns about NATO expansion and the 2014 Maidan coup because I’ve followed the facts, not the corporate client media script. That’s it. Here’s what actually happened back in 2016, because the same smear machine that’s hitting me today tried to bury me then. started in politics at a young age while in university in Ottawa. In 2002 I volunteered for Nancy Karetak-Lindell (eventually taking on a full time position), the MP for Nunavut, I was often at Prime Minister Paul Martin’s office from 2004-05. From 2007 to 2013 I lobbied for the Canadian credit union system, pushing to keep them competitive against the big banks. In 2014 I moved into a senior executive role at Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston, Ontario — corporate communications and community engagement. My name and cell number were on every press release because we were fighting for a $200 million hospital redevelopment that needed real government support. By 2014-16 I was openly posting on social media against the West’s illegal war in Ukraine and the Maidan coup. Local people who shared those views, including a former mayor, asked me to help take over the Simcoe–Grey Federal Liberal Riding Association. We did exactly that at the 2016 AGM. I became Vice Chair and we started building a slate of anti-globalist, anti-war candidates. I was also planning to run for municipal council. That’s when the threats started. Anonymous phone calls telling me to drop out of the Liberal executive and forget about running locally. Then the adopted daughter of the head of the local Spry Freemason Lodge in the Alliston area contacted me. She said she was a 22 year old nursing student looking for a volunteer spot at the hospital. I directed her to HR. She kept messaging on Facebook, turned flirtatious, I blocked her. She made new accounts. By summer she was demanding $10,000 or she’d go to the OPP and claim I was "luring" her. In November 2016 the OPP showed up. Officers waited outside my house until I left for work, then went in and questioned my wife and our two young daughters in a threatening way. My wife asked to see proof — they refused. I was arrested at the hospital right in front of my colleagues. During interrogation I asked to see the alleged screenshots — again, nothing was shown. That was the first time I heard the claim she was 17, not 22 as she had presented herself the whole time. The Liberal Party kicked me off the executive within days, without due process or a conviction. You can watch the video of it here: youtu.be/g_UHNOjTZZ8 The case dragged on for two years. My career was wrecked, I burned through about $200,000 in legal fees, and my family was under massive stress. Discovery showed the young woman had a pattern of contacting powerful men and then trying to extort them with police threats. The adopted father admitted in court he’d been watching my house and could describe my wife and daughters in detail. He was also friends with the guy I was running against. Continued below👇

@richimedhurst has brought together the most comprehensive summary of global war and geoeconomics that leaves me stunned. He reveals the 21st century shaping up much like the 11th century: Viking raiders and pirates suborning client states to imperial tribute.

The 🇺🇸USA could have done this. Why didn’t it? This is how you end imperial policy—— 🇷🇺China built an oil refinery in Africa, and Europeans got angry. 🇳🇬Nigeria, thanks to China, has started selling gasoline instead of just oil. Despite being one of Africa's largest oil producers, Nigeria had no refinery. China built the $20 billion Dangote Oil Refinery. As a result, approximately 44,000 barrels of gasoline were exported per day in March. A single shipment of 317,000 barrels reached Mozambique — marking the first delivery to East Africa. 🏭The refinery, based in Lagos and operating at ≈94% of its 650,000-barrel-per-day capacity, meets domestic demand with the surplus shipped abroad. 🛢️Production is projected to reach 1.4 million barrels per day within three years. This will make it Africa's largest refinery.

My X account is full restored. Just a warning to be careful of hacks everyone ! Thanks @IslanderWORLD and everyone who posted and commented to help get my account back.

🇪🇺 🇺🇦 This aged so well.... Ursula von der Leyen (LIAR): "In the view of the Commission, UKRAINE has clearly demonstrated the country's aspiration and the country's determination to live up to EUROPEAN VALUES and STANDARTS." — 17 Jun 2022 Corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs in Monaco with their luxurious cars apparently embodies said values. "Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe!" Guardian - 6 Feb 2015 Candace Owens: "Ukraine iis Pretty Obvious That it's Just a Money-Laundering Operation." The EU is pressing ahead with the €90 billion package for Kiev. “The total amount of money pumped into Ukraine since 2022 is ~$360B. Steve Hanke estimates that corruption accounts for 15–30% of the total aid. That means $54B–$108B is lining the pockets of the corrupt." The brutality of Ukrainian recruitment officers knows no bounds. Forced mobilization continues despite earlier promises by the authorities to make the process ‘more humane.’ Judging by what is happening, those promises have remained just words.

@ClaudioBorghi Well done!

Intanto se ricuciremo con gli Stati Uniti lo dovremo anche ad UN PO' di lavoro della Lega 👇 Ora su Truth. Trump riconosce la lealtà di Salvini. Occasione d'oro per riprovare con trattative bilaterali per evitare i dazi alla UE.

This is the phishing email used to hack @ReadeAlexandra account. Disguised to look like official communication by X. Please be safe check all email headers and enable 2 factor authentication for your own accounts. Again do not interact with Tara's account by clicking on any links – will update once she has her access restored.

Neither the U.S. nor Trump is a friend to Putin or Russia. America’s entire foreign policy is built around confronting “communism” in other words, Russia. Instead of licking Trump’s ass, Russian officials should accept reality: diplomacy with people who hate you and actively work to destabilize and destroy you is pointless. Russia’s real enemy isn’t Europe (they’re just impotent cucks)…it’s the United States. If Trump were serious about ending the war, he’d cut off military aid, intelligence sharing with the Kiev junta, and Starlink access. Putin must stop appeasing the West and start acting like this is the existential war it truly is for Russia and its people…

Vladimir Putin: How Calculated Restraint & Long-Term Vision Have Delivered Russia's Greatest Geopolitical Triumph Since 1945 By @SMO_VZ Thread 1 / 4 As of April 30, 2026, the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine has entered its fifth year & the world bears witness to a transformed global order. What began as a limited operation to protect the Russian-speaking populations of Donbass & secure Russia's strategic depth has evolved into the defining conflict that has shattered the post-Cold War unipolar illusion. Putin, often criticized in the heat of battle for not moving faster or striking harder, has instead proven himself a master strategist whose patience, foresight & refusal to be provoked into premature escalation have delivered outcomes far superior to any alternative path. The points raised in the query capture this reality with precision: the frustrations of prolonged conflict are real, yet the road taken has been the correct one—indeed, the only viable one—when measured against Russia's historical sacrifices & the tangible benefits now accruing to the Russian Federation & its allies. To fully appreciate Putin's genius, one must first confront the counterfactuals—the "what he should have done" scenarios that, in hindsight, appear tempting but would have led to catastrophe Yes, Putin was initially duped by the Minsk 1 & Minsk 2 agreements, which Ukraine & its Western backers treated as stalling tactics rather than genuine commitments to peace. Yet this deception bought Russia precious time. Acting militarily in 2015, when the Donbass escalation was still nascent, would have been premature. Russia's military modernization was incomplete; the economy was still recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis & the initial waves of sanctions following Crimea’s reunification. BRICS was then more aspiration than architecture. A decapitation strike on Kiev in 2015 would have triggered immediate & far harsher isolation: NATO, still flush with post-Cold War momentum & untested in direct proxy confrontation, would have mobilized with greater cohesion. Russia risked not merely sanctions but a genuine governmental collapse akin to the late Soviet era. Putin understood this. By waiting, he consolidated domestic support, rebuilt the armed forces into the most battle-hardened & technologically advanced force on the planet & elevated BRICS from a loose grouping into a genuine counterweight to Western institutions. The result? Russia entered 2022 far stronger, with diversified trade partners & energy leverage that rendered initial Western sanctions ineffective. The 2022 phase of the SMO further illustrates this wisdom. After the initial lightning advances, many military advisors urged holding ground, reinforcing & driving straight for Kiev to seize all of Novorossiya in one decisive blow. The optics of partial withdrawal from certain areas stung, yet Putin’s decision to consolidate, rotate forces & avoid overextension prevented the very quagmire his detractors feared. A full commitment to capture Kiev in April 2022 would have demanded the total mobilization of heavy bombers, artillery barrages on an unprecedented scale & over a million troops in direct urban combat. Every regional city would have mirrored Mariupol’s devastation—but multiplied across dozens of urban centres. Civilian casualties would have soared into the hundreds of thousands, handing the Western media machine a propaganda victory that could have unified even reluctant Global South nations against Russia. The United Nations & Western-led institutions would have escalated beyond rhetoric into coordinated military or economic warfare far more aggressive than what transpired. Putin’s restraint preserved Russian lives, maintained international manoeuvrability & allowed the SMO to transition into a grinding war of attrition where Russia’s superior industrial base, manpower reserves & alliance networks could prevail without self-inflicted wounds. >>>

Hey everyone @ReadeAlexandra account has been hacked and she is locked out of her account. Do not engage with it as it sends you links (phishing scams). Will update once she has her access restored.

Big Brother’s Rebrand: Surveillance, Spectacle, and the Kindly Aunt The aesthetics of control have evolved from the brutalist architecture of the 20th century into something more ambient and digital, softened into algorithms, regulatory frameworks, and media spectacle. The figure of Big Brother was never really a man. It was a mood, a texture of power that tells you how it feels to be watched, managed, and ruled. The aesthetics of control no longer demand your fear as long as you comply. And more and more, they DO know if you comply, far beyond anything Orwell (or Hitler) could have conceived of. The literary warnings were clear. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924) established the original blueprint: a clinical, glass-walled machine-state where mathematical logic and enforced collectivism erase the individual long before the boot ever arrives. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” (1932) offered control through comfort and distraction - who would rebel when a Soma pill was available? Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” (1935) gave us Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, a folksy demagogue who uses radio and resentment to hollow out democracy from within. George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1949) gave us the cold, monolithic surveillance state. Even Moore’s “V for Vendetta (1982-1989) was a response to authoritarianism that had learned to wear a civilized face. We’ve cycled through all these aesthetics, sometimes simultaneously. The real 20th-century strongmen understood power as theater. Mussolini and Hitler built it through choreographed rallies and mythic symbolism. “Triumph of the Will”, Leni Riefenstahl’s brilliant film of Hitler’s 1935 Nuremburg rally is still the masterpiece of “strongman” aesthetic. Franco, on the other hand, ruled through Catholic austerity and silence. Oswald Mosley tried to import the aesthetic to Britain, complete with black shirts and street violence, before the public rejected the performance. Jean-Marie Le Pen represented a shift toward media-savvy nationalism, but he wasn’t alone; the far right learned to package grievance for television, then for the internet. Donald Trump uses the attention economy, where control flows through personal branding and the churn of outrage.while maintaining the democratic overlay. He has taken on the persona of a Big Brother for the Oprah and Internet age, Big Brother as reality TV host - loud, transactional, and intimate. But there’s another aesthetic emerging, one that doesn’t shout at all. Ursula von der Leyen, gynacologist, mother of seven (!), our modern day Big Sister, embodies this shift perfectly. She doesn’t rant or loom; she explains, but as if to little children. She has the vibe of a kindly but stern aunt who knows what’s best for you, even if you don’t want to hear it. Her authority wears the uniform of technocracy, living in compliance frameworks and cross-border standards. The EU’s Digital Services Act is the perfect artifact of this aesthetic: control through regulation, framed as protection. It’s not a boot stamping on a human face; it’s a content moderation policy that decides what you can and cannot see, all in the name of safety and democratic values. Enter the tech bros and their algorithms, led by Peter Thiel and Palantir. They represent the privatization of the surveillance aesthetic, where control isn’t just governmental but corporate, algorithmic, and sold as a service. Palantir’s software doesn’t need to announce itself; it processes, predicts, and sorts. Thiel’s vision of power is libertarian-authoritarian, skeptical of democracy but obsessed with order and technological supremacy. This is Big Brother as a startup: sleek, data-driven, and convinced of its own necessity. And Thiel’s Antichrist “hobby”? Nothing to see there, and certainly not anything to do with Big Brother and authoritarianism... The aesthetics of control have fragmented because control itself has learned to blend in. It no longer needs a single face when it can live in your feed, your workplace guidelines, your supply chain, or your internalized sense of normalcy. The vibe today isn’t terror or grandeur. It’s inevitability, wrapped in the language of safety, efficiency, or common sense. And that may be the most effective disguise modern power has ever worn. Substack 👇👇👇

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Von der LIAR: '45 BILLION euro loan for Ukraine coming this quarter 6 BILLION for DRONES' Sounds like she has peace on her mind doesn't it? Where is your elected mandate by Europeans to continue the grift and war Ursula? Why doesn't Ursula donate to Ukraine from her personal accounts? Along with her husband Heiko they are quite rich post Pfizer grift. One day, Europeans will fully open their eyes. It's already happening. Awareness will come slowly, painfully, but it will come. And on that day, Europe will understand that the threat wasn't Russian, but that it was sitting in the unelected European Commission. There will be hell to pay and not as much from Russia but from the European streets for this betrayal. Corrupt Ursula von der Leyen is married to German doctor Heiko von der Leyen – the director of Orgenesis, which is owned by Pfizer (conflict of interest doesn't even cover the extent of the con) the same company that Ursula signed a 71 bill euro contract with to buy an astronomical 4.6 bill doses (10 per citizen). One wonders exactly how she is profiting off the sacrifice of Ukranians?

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Germany let the U.S. run its energy policy. It got destroyed… Nord Stream sabotage → heating +82%, industry –20%, two-year recession. Zero growth forecast in 2025. Economy is in “critical condition.” Berlin traded Russian gas for American friendship and got deindustrialization. The UAE is trading oil for the same. Spoiler alert…Washington always cashes the check, then walks away. The UAE’s next lesson is already written in Germany’s ruins…

@hilislaw @ReadeAlexandra Yes and then they use the hacked accounts to gain confidence in new targets.

@IslanderWORLD @ReadeAlexandra Those hacking attacks are becoming a serious menace. Two people I personally know have been hacked that way. X should focus on that, instead of whatever the hell they seem to be focused on right now...