text: BANK OF ENGLAND NARROWLY AVERTS COLLAPSE: The Bank of England, the world’s second oldest, announced 45 million pounds of emergency government bond purchases after a bond market crisis erupted yesterday. Plummeting bond prices threatened the forced liquidation of British government bonds purchased on borrowed money by a multitude of financial institutions. The barely-avoided margin call could have triggered forced liquidations of positions across markets on a scale equivalent to the 2008 world financial crisis. (AC: The U.S. Federal Reserve wrecking ball is just now crashing into the western world after decimating Asian currencies and markets last month. Global inflation, shortages of commodities, and excessive money printing of reserve currencies are driving a global recession. Expect trickle-down misery to hit nearly all households making less than $300k/yr and a continued push by ruling elites to depersonalize life for the working class. This financial and cultural trainwreck will likely result in a series of political leadership reversals similar to this week’s Italian elections, which saw a strong right-leaning sweep across nearly the entire country. – M.M.)ISRAEL OFFERS TO SHARE NUCLEAR SECRETS: In a speech to the IAEA, Israel Atomic Energy Commission Chief Moshe Edri announced Israel would consider sharing nuclear technology with Abraham Accords countries in response to the IAEA’s inclusion of “Israeli Nuclear Capabilities” on its annual agenda. Israel views this inclusion as a politically-driven contradiction of the IAEA mandate, advanced by the ‘Arab Group’ of countries. Edri said he hoped increasing nuclear cooperation through the Abraham would advance “direct dialogue” in the region threatened by Iran’s “clandestine nuclear activities.” (AC: Israel is concerned about Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, but so are the Sunni gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. All can see an existential threat from Iran, particularly since Iran has spent the decades since its “islamic revolution” bullying and threatening its Arabian Gulf Neighbors. Israel is effectively giving an ultimatum to the IAEA that if it continues to blacklist Israel’s nuclear capability it will gladly share its nuclear technology with neighboring states who feel threatened by a nuclear Iran. This legitimate threat of nuclear proliferation should put some “shut up” on the IAEA’s plate. – M.M.)Russia-NATO SITREP