[Originally published on Alex Krainer's Substack] Yesterday, as I was finalizing my new report on Great Britain, an update to my August 26 article "The Coming Collapse of Britain," YouTube randomly suggested to me a short video by one Craig Houston titled, "Why are ALL LONDON webcams offline...?"
I was nearly floored: Mr. Houston looked through hundreds of Webcams across London and could not find a single one that was live. See for yourself here and here! That's extremely odd: clearly, someone made the decision to switch them all off - they couldn't all have failed randomly.
One of the webcams over the Westminster bridge displayed the last image it recorded: it was on 2 September 2024 at 16:51, which at least gives us a clue about when the Heart of Darkness went dark to the world. I posted a comment about this in my TrendCompass report yesterday and one of the readers found a working Webcam at Abbey road. Still, that’s one out of hundreds that are still dark.
Why someone would decide to cut all the webcams is a mystery, and an ominous one. Mr. Houston didn't offer any explanations, which is understandable given that he lives in Britain where singing, "kung fu fighting," or silently praying on the sidewalk can get you arrested. But where he declined to tread, I'll venture a guess.
They’re planning a false flag event to blame on Russia
I think it's the only explanation that makes any sense to my mind: they are planning a false-flag terror attack on London which they'll blame on Russia, so that they can trigger an all-out, whole-of-society mobilization by all of the Western powers against Russia. Now, if this seems far-fetched, there are now several important elements that fit coherently with this scenario, starting with the general geopolitical state of things.
Western empire and the UK in particular, bet heavily on Ukraine and lost. By now the situation has become as undeniable as it is hopeless. But Western powers aren't showing any inclination to cut and run, like they did from Vietnam in March of 1972 or Afghanistan in August 2021.
Today, the West is facing the world's largest nuclear power with an established escalatory dominance in the region and a highly motivated, well trained, battle hardened and well equipped force, including with new, devastating conventional weaponry that eclipses anything the West has in its depleted arsenals. In spite of that, they are still escalating. The question is, why?
In Ukraine, the whole world’s at stake
Ukraine is too important for them and the stakes could not be higher. From the imperial cabal's point of view, the prize, in fact, is the whole world. In his paper, “Democratic Ideals and Reality,” Sir Halford Mackinder wrote that, “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-island; who rules the World-island controls the world.”
By World-island, Mackinder meant the Eurasian landmass. His theoretical framework remained the foundation of foreign policy for British and American governments to this very day, as we learned as recently as 2018 from Wes Mitchell, President Trump's Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In a briefing to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he made it explicit that the “central aim of the Administration’s foreign policy is to defend US domination of Eurasian landmass as the foremost US national security interest and to prepare the nation for this challenge.”
Mitchell also said that the Administration was “working with our close ally the UK to form an international coalition for coordinating efforts in this field.” These views are not just idle musings of academics or entertainment for think tanks. The reality on the ground confirms that this is indeed how the imperial cabal regards the outcome of the battle for Ukraine. From the beginning of the war, a few of their lieutenants voiced the entrenched mindset:
''If we lose in Ukraine, the world order we created 80 years ago will crumble" - then US Chief of Staff Mark Milley, April 2022
“If we lose in Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West." - Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s Prime Minister in a TV address, April 2023.
“If Ukraine loses, world order will be established by our enemies” - former NATO Secretary General (1999-2003) and member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament George Robertson in The Telegraph, Jan. 2024
"If Ukraine falls it would be a catastrophe for the West, it would be the end of Western hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves." - Boris Johnson, in a short video message, April 2024
It is unlikely that the empire's vested interests will quietly accept this "catastrophe." This is why they are escalating provocations against Russia, desperately hoping that the Russians will strike at a NATO member nation, creating the pretext to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty and unleash a unified response where the collective West would confront Russia in a whole-of-society effort and hopefully snatch a victory out of the jaws of defeat.
Sometimes provocations work and they trigger the intended response. An example was the attack on RMS Lusitania in 1915, and another the Pearl Harbour attack, which galvanized the unwilling Americans to join World War II. The most recent one was the crisis that precipitated the current Ukraine war.
Create a helpful wave of national indignation!
But there are circumstances when a galvanizing event must be orchestrated to detonate the greater conflict, and the list of known examples through history is very long. Here's just a few cases:
The Manchuria, or "Mukden" Incident. In September 1931, Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track owned by a Japanese company, then blamed it on China in order to justify the invasion of Manchuria.
Attack on Gleiwitz Radio station in September 1939: the Nazis shelled the station and accused Polish troops for the deed, giving Hitler the pretext to launch the invasion of Poland
Shelling of Mainila in November 1939. Soviets shelled the Russian village of Mainila and blamed the Finns, triggering the USSR attack on Finland
Operation Northwoods in March 1962. The operation was shut down by President Kennedy, but the US Joint Chiefs of Staff planned a campaign of terror against civilian targets in Miami in order to "create a helpful wave of national indignation” and lead to a US invasion of Cuba.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964. Two US destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin radioed that they had been targeted by the North Vietnamese forces, triggering US Congress to pass the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" and authorize President Johnson to go "all in" in Vietnam.
"September 11" terror attacks in 2001. They helped the Bush 43 administration launch their excellent Global War on Terror and radically reduce civil liberties at home
Ghouta Chemical attack in August 2013. Orchestrated by Western proxy force with the help of the British-led and ISIS-staffed White Helmets, a chemical attack on civilians in Ghouta was blamed on Bashar Al Assad's forces. Had the charge stuck, it would have crossed the "red line" for U.S. and NATO intervention in Syria
The examples are very numerous. A new false flag attack, aimed at triggering World War III against Russia wouldn't be unusual in the context of history. If the population is taken by surprise and the people genuinely believe the official narrative about the attacks, this does invariably create the "helpful waves of national indignation," allowing the country's leaders to wrap themselves in the flag, promise justice at whatever cost, and start moving the pieces irreversibly toward the desired military escalation.
I believe that this is the reason why Western powers are encouraging Ukraine to strike into Russia with their missiles, even though there is almost nothing to be gained. Such escalation only makes them directly involved as belligerents in the conflict. This is why incredibly, the U.S. is suddenly discussing providing Ukraine with nuclear Weapons. They may hope that Russia will respond impulsively, but they know that Vladimir Putin almost certainly won't take the bait. That's where the false flag comes in, probably in the shape of the detonation of a nuclear weapon in London.
I can't imagine how this could be done. There should be a very rigorous custody control chain with every warhead warehoused in any Western power. But if such weapons were given to Ukraine, that's where the custody chain would end. From there, nuclear devices could be free to roam and drift back into the Heart of Darkness to serve their false flag purposes, perhaps on special CIA or MI6 flights, or perhaps in ordinary shipping containers.
Suppose if such a device were detonated from a shipping container on a ship, a train or a truck, some Webcam might catch the event. But if all the Webcams were dark, the news – which will have their stories scripted beforehand – can report that it was a Russian missile, and it would be very unlikely that anybody could ever prove otherwise. If such images ever did surface, they'd almost certainly be few and they could be quickly traced and removed from circulation.
Switching off all Webcams in London can’t be a random event. It requires an explanation. Mine is a guess, but if there's a different coherent explanation for why all of London's Webcams went dark in early September, I can't even begin to imagine it.
It’s time to be brave…
Today is Thanksgiving and it almost pains me to share these dark musings. For one thing, I could be wrong - that much is obvious. And then it's a downer – it’s nothing to be thankful for. But if I happen to be right... The one way false flag events can fail is if the public sees through them.
False flag planners must ambush the people and shock them from the clear blue skies. A spectacular event like 9/11 will have a powerful impact on people's emotions and in that moment they'll be susceptible to deceptive narratives. That "helpful wave of indignation" will materialize. But if the public is forewarned and expects that a false flag might take place, they might suspect that it was "an inside job," and the attack could blow back into the conspirators' faces. I have therefore decided to take risk of ruining my American readers' long weekend and to also risk embarrassing myself.
In the thick of the Covid 19 pandemic, Dr. Mike Yeadon - one of the true experts who saw through the hoax and did not fear to speak out about it, said that this is the time to be brave. He wasn't saying that we should go out and tackle police officers or charge against tanks with Molotov cocktails. He was talking about taking the risk of being wrong, of embarrassing oneself. It is easier and safer to be silent about all this.
But we really do need to be brave and speak out like our children's future depends on it. Alex Jones famously predicted the 9/11 terror attacks quite clearly on 25 July 2001, but back then, his warning seemed so utterly preposterous that few ventured to share Alex's bombshell. Such reticence is misplaced. If he was wrong, so what? If I'm wrong today, nothing happens. If I'm right however, this information could change history.
Happy Thanksgiving
I'm not an American citizen, but my children are, so I'll allow myself to do the American thing today and express my profound gratitude for all the subscribers who read these reports. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
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