Brunapper

Socialism is simply joined-up thinking.
If you think about it.
Oh, and if you love humanity and our planet.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

“The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged.”

Jeffrey Epstein, talking to Steve Bannon about the Trilateral Commission, the private organisation founded by billionaire David Rockefeller in 1973.

Listen to how casually Epstein talks about Bill Clinton, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and some of the most influential figures in international politics and finance.

The Trilateral Commission brings together politicians, bankers, multinational executives and influential policymakers from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

And its worldview deserves particular attention.

Three great spheres of power: the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

A world where trade and finance move freely, while democracy is expected to remain manageable. In 1975, the Commission published The Crisis of Democracy, written by Michel Crozier, Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki, warning of an "excess of democracy" and the problems caused by excessive public participation.

The Crisis of democracy is too much democracy...

• The Claim: Samuel P. Huntington and his co-authors argued that the political turbulence of the 1960s (civil rights movements, anti-war protests, and expanding social expectations) created an "excess of democracy".

• The Problem: They asserted that governments became overloaded with citizen demands, participatory pressures, and entitlement programs while their actual authority and institutional capacity declined.

• The Prescription: The report called for a restoration of "balance between governmental activity and governmental authority," implying that a degree of citizen apathy or limited political participation was actually healthier for state governability.

Noam Chomsky exposed the underlying class politics: when ordinary people organise and demand power, the establishment calls it a crisis.

There's even an unsettling echo of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its three competing superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The concentration of power is striking.

They call it international cooperation and stability.

Their stability. Not yours.

And before anyone dismisses this as another conspiracy theory, the Commission publishes its own membership records.

Here are just some of the names appearing in its past and present membership lists.

🇬🇧 BRITAIN

- Keir Starmer, former Prime Minister (2024–2026)
- Peter Mandelson, former EU Trade Commissioner
- David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary
- Rory Stewart, former Conservative minister

🇪🇺 EUROPE AND THE EU ESTABLISHMENT

- Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor
- Mario Monti, former Italian Prime Minister and EU Commissioner
- Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the European Central Bank
- Margrethe Vestager, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission
- Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council
- Lucas Papademos, former ECB Vice-President and Greek Prime Minister
- Cecilia Malmström, former EU Trade Commissioner
- Carl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister
- Axel Weber, former President of Germany's Bundesbank and European Chairman of the Commission

🇺🇸 AMERICA

- David Rockefeller, founder
- Bill Clinton, former President
- Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman
- Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State

And, of course, Jeffrey Epstein himself, described by *New York Magazine in 2002 as an enthusiastic member.

The Commission states that members entering government office must step back from active membership.

How convenient. The membership changes, but the relationships and connections don't simply evaporate when somebody takes public office.

Peter Mandelson.

Emails released in 2026 show that, while serving as Business Secretary in Gordon Brown's government in 2009, he forwarded confidential government material to Epstein and discussed government policy towards the banks in the aftermath of the financial crash.

Mandelson was subsequently arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and released under investigation. He denies criminal wrongdoing.

It's a network through which political and financial influence operates...

Membership of the Trilateral Commission and the concentration of political, financial and institutional influence is real, documented and worthy of examination.

When the same circles contain prime ministers, central bankers, EU commissioners and corporate chiefs, the public has every right to ask how much influence is exercised privately before decisions ever reach Parliament.

What world are they working towards...

Watch Epstein describe the world he moved in. Look at the names. Look at the revolving door between finance, politics and government.

The working class gets to vote every few years. Those at the top have direct access to one another throughout.

Capital crosses borders without asking permission. The working class is expected to know its place.

A democracy ought to be worth more than the right address book.

Paul Knaggs, The Heartlands Tribune

#TrilateralCommission #EpsteinFiles #MandelsonFiles #PoliticalAccountability

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

You really couldn't make this stuff up!

Protesters in Dublin, Ireland, threw milk cartons at Joe Biden and chanted, “Blood, blood, blood on your hands!”

It comes as Trinity College Dublin handed Hunter Biden a gold medal for an "outstanding contribution to public discourse," and in doing so, proved how thoroughly out of touch our academic and political elites have become.

This is a man whose entire public existence is defined by nepotism. In 2014, with no experience in Ukrainian corporate governance, he took a lucrative board seat at Burisma while his father directed American policy in the region.

Joe Biden then got the Ukrainians to sack their own minister, who was conducting corruption allegations into the company and his son...and bragged about it.

Hunter spent years evading taxes, lied on a federal firearms form, and when the law finally caught up with him, his father abused the power of the American presidency to grant him a blanket pardon.

To reward that record with an academic honour is not an oversight. It is a class protecting its own.

While the establishment applauded inside, ordinary people stood outside in the rain to protest the Biden administration's complicity in the destruction of Gaza.

Milk was thrown; arrests followed. The contrast was complete: luxury and back-slapping within, reality and dissent on the pavement.

The modern meritocracy does not reward wisdom or courage; it rewards proximity to power, and then expects the public to respect the spectacle.

You couldn't invent satire this absurd.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

"'Everything and everyone we love is at stake' - Greta Thunberg"

'Cop31 is the first UN climate summit Thunberg has attended since the Cop26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021, where she dismissed promises made by global leaders as “blah, blah, blah.”

@GretaThunberg was right wasn't she, it was all just blah, blah, blah? But then Greta is always right.
https://t.co/8fX1LNT69p

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 11 de noviembre de 1917, solo 4 días después de la Revolución de Octubre, el gobierno bolchevique establecía la jornada laboral de 8 horas y 6 horas para trabajos peligrosos, por primera vez en la historia.

En 1929, la jornada laboral en la URSS se reduciría todavía más a 7 horas y las vacaciones pasarían a ser pagadas para todos los trabajadores, el alquiler se decretó por ley en 1926 a un máximo de un 3% del salario del trabajador.

Más de 100 AÑOS después, esto sigue siendo una quimera bajo el capitalismo.

[Stephen Smith 💙 @stevexsmith]

@DerbyChrisW @skwawkbox Not many people are aware of "Operation Aerodynamics" The CIA backed Nazis to fight Russia from 1947 to 1980's. Worth watching this and learn about the Ukraine War against Russia.
https://t.co/R8uSca0PG4

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

Germany's former military Chief of Staff and chair of NATO’s Military Committee, General Harald Kujat, says the war in Ukraine is based on Western lies - something some of us have been saying since it began.
@skwawkbox

https://t.co/36Pt22Ie9l

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Did they find an Iranian passport near the fridge?

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

This is absolutely right. I would add that government bonds gift big investors - eg commercial banks, asset managers, insurance companies - guaranteed income streams paid by fiat issue that could be directly invested in infrastructure, utilities and public services. This guaranteed income is the ultimate collateral which big finance can leverage for derivatives, repos and risk portfolios. Each nation trapped under money-market discipline is providing the creditor class with a solid platform for their gambling rather than making its country a better place for ordinary people to live in. It's history's biggest financial scam, folks - 900 year vintage - and our politicians are allowing it to crush our potential.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

The NATO Left already starting their bullshit

[🇰🇵단일성 Commie on the Rez 단일성 🇰🇵 @patriach2051]

Facts

[tim anderson @timand2037]

The "Great War" was said to be the war "to end all wars". But it was not. Anglo-American imperialism keeps rolling out new wars, even when there is no rival empire, because imperialists cannot tolerate even small independent states.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

"When are you going to apologise for the million Iraqis dead because you lied? You sent me to Iraq in 2003, my friends are dead because you lied.’

—US Veteran Mike Prysner confronting President George W. Bush in 2021 over the criminal and illegal invasion of Iraq

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

How private equity works, they borrow money then pile the debt onto the company acquired- results in staff cuts, high prices or closure
Freeports/zones, Veterinary practices, Nurseries, Morrisons, Asda, AA, RAC are owned by PE & unless the gov't stops it there will be many more

[Brunapper @brunapper]

Russia Tracked Down and BRUTALLY Killed Newly Arrived British, Canadian and French troops.

https://t.co/aGOBqMbphy via @YouTube