Censorship

2025-06-11

"... good speech testifies to something; it testifies to something in the human being and in life that is more beautiful and pure than mere flesh and bones and biochemical simmering in a braincase"

"...this materialist society, which reduces consciousness and speech to a negligible side effect, is in the first place scared of…speech and consciousness"

Quite so.

Brownstone nails it.

2025-06-11

The Donald and Elon were once famous for mooting their plan to audit the gold at Fort Knox.

Is it there?

If not, where is it?

Or is there in substance but not in spirit ..?

And when is this visit of the doughty duo scheduled? It's all gone very quiet recently...

Jim Rickards explains for Investors Daily. (This is not financial advice)

2025-06-06

As distractions go they don't come much bigger...  but distraction from what exactly?

What seems pretty certain is that bust-ups at this level don't happen by accident, so either they are trying to put something front and centre for the public, or they are trying to keep something else out of front and centre.

ZeroHedge reports.

Mark Attwood puts it into context...

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2025-05-31

I suppose it was the BCS that started it all off with their GDPR recommendations, too long ago now to remember!

This was taken up by the EU, becoming an EU directive, and effectively still in force today.

But today we have the much overused NCHIs (any use of such widely drawn terms is an overuse in my book, especially since the alleged perpetrator has no effective control over the reactions of others), and much additional regulation whose sole objective is to scare social media companies to police their customers to suppress content that would otherwise be legal under free speech rules.

Censorship by the back door in effect.

So #together have decided that we need a new digital bill of rights to simplify the situation (although we would have to repeal a fair bit of the existing rulebook in order to make a real impact, and I can't see that happening any time

2025-05-23

We have noted this conundrum before, but some think that China's population is now far lower than the claim of 1.4 billion.

This is a rather more detailed look at the possibilities, but I suspect that the truth may be that those who know the answers are not telling...

... but there again, this YT channel has been posting some very unconventional views (even by my standards) so maybe we should remain cautious of taking it at face value. Nevertheless, it would seem that something is up, just not the population numbers.

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2025-05-13

Roger Watson, who we must assume from his opening words is a Catholic, takes a hard look at the global problem of immigration, and what the official Catholic response under the leadership the newly minted Pope Leo might be.

It's a vital question, and not adequately answered by the simplistic assumption that all should be automatically welcome regardless of culture, proclivity, religion, or even of sheer numbers.

Still, at least he has a specific leader to assess, whose actions may or may not speak louder than his words.

Unlike us C of E (Church of England / Church of Everybody) protestants, who have a leadership divided between King Charles III (who by convention is restrained from openly engaging in UK politics) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (who sits in the Lords by virtue of his leadership of the Lords Spiritual) and is not constrained by convention. Who can say how the relationship between the King and his servant the Archbishop may affect UK

2025-05-08

Martin Geddes offers his AI's take on 5th generation warfare (all very peculiar).

We are well into Orwellian territory now. It is the war against mind-control, the war against unthinking compliance, against habitual deference to those who assert authority, and against the worldview within which we grew up (and into which we were indoctrinated).

Everyone is on this battlefield whether or not we realise it. 

Only those of us prepared to think the unthinkable will survive it.

Everything we have been told is up for challenge and rethinking, individual by individual.

Nobody can rethink everything, but understanding the necessity, and making a start, will likely be enough.

Make of it what you will

2025-05-07

As something of a relic from my ever receding past as an "IT professional", I still get communications from my erstwhile professional body, since I haven't found a good reason for cutting off my membership subscription.

It's communications can be educational, given that it has "transformed" itself in some ways since I was permitted membership, and not all to the good in my jaundiced curmudgeonly view.

Sometimes transformation can be for the good, and sometimes for the modish but ephemeral fashion of the day (Good Lord, give me the wisdom to differentiate them!). In my old-fashioned viewpoint (which I still see few reasonable grounds to modify), a leading professional body should primarily devote itself to the well-being of the profession, the advancement of its technical and scientific knowledge base, and the education of its practitioners, of the public in general (and of the government in particular) with regard to the contribution that the profession can

China Cut Down to Size?

2025-04-25

Can we believe everything that we read in the media?

Can we believe the stuff that we don't read in the media?

Can we believe what the government tells us? Or is there a reason that politicians (and estate agents) reportedly rank lowest in the public mind for being trustworthy?

Should the media join them?

After the Covid exercise where the media slavishly and without any qualms parroted the official lines (lines which completely contradicted all previous official notions of how to deal with a pandemic), many more people are now awake to the fact that something isn't free about our "free press".

Of course many stories are routinely rubbished as being by and for crackpots and "conspiracy theorists" who have an insane paranoia where trust of official

2025-04-22

I've never heard of Perplexity.ai, but it sounds like it might be appropriately named.

Patrick Wood (of Technocracy News) explains what he asked it for and what he got.

" ... they don't want my voice heard anywhere on the internet ... "

Maybe there's something in this AI lark after all...

2025-04-17

Reductio ad absurdum is an established technique (call it "scientific" if you want, but why would you?) to prove that something is true by assuming the opposite, and then showing that this opposite must indeed be false.

Brownstone Institute author David Souto Alcalde does a neat job of demolishing the ultimate liberalism by showing whither it must inevitably lead.

If the Cap Fits...

About the only idea I could usefully add to that is the notion that the contrived use of latin prefixes in an attempt to garnish their flawed notions with a superfluous veneer of academic credibility, only serves to illustrate their

2025-04-10

This speaks plainly, directly - probably too directly for some.

But steel yourself. It's not rocket science. 

Nor is it Party Political - Labour just happen to be the party currently in office, but it went on under their predecessors for ever.

Nor is it exclusively racial / religious - it runs deeper and wider than that.

We have to deal with it as best we can.

It is time.

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2025-04-04

The Donald is nothing if not controversial. It's almost his middle name. So is he the man to take down the deep state for ever... or is he simply here to take down Deep State mk 1, only to replace it with Deep State mk2?

Who's to say?

Enter Ole Dammegard, whose life has been one long serial investigation into false flag events all around the world. What he doesn't know about false flags isn't worth knowing.

So whilst we must all reach our own conclusions about where the world is going, listening to Ole Dammegard is an essential part of our preparation.

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So question everything, except your heart...

2025-03-31

What would we think if a Court blocked Nigel Farage from standing for election?

Like him or loathe him, he has as much right to appeal for the support of his compatriots as anybody.

But that isn't going to happen in Britain - there are better ways to ensure that he doesn't get too near to actual power than an outright ban.

So perhaps it's a measure of how desperate the French power base is, that Marine le Pen has been prevented from standing for the presidential election.

Evidently they do things differently in France.

Perhaps if we could get the courts to ban all the unsuitable

2025-03-28

Now here's a blast from the 2020 Glastonbury Symposium, when we all had to find alternative activities to occupy us. 

Here Andy Thomas interviews Rupert Sheldrake, who found his original studies in biology wanting, and decided that he needed something better, resulting in a number of books, various attempts to discredit his ideas, and a rather different career path outside the mainstream than perhaps he envisaged. 

Lots of food for thought here, all nicely argued.

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2025-03-25

Politics in Germany is rescued. Tranquillity is restored. Germany is saved. Democracy is... censored, at least in the Bundestag Phew!

The terrible ambitions of the "far right" AfD have been foiled by a whisker (and a snap fortuitous Parliamentary rule-change).

Eugippius reports.

2025-03-20

Maybe 60 years or so too late, but better late than never.

Zerohedge has the story.

And so do we now.

Good luck... and plenty of time and determination. You will need these and more...

2025-02-25

Even if politicians and estate agents traditionally vie for the title of "those who least enjoy public trust", it seems that at least in the EU, the incumbent politicians somehow are still preferred over their upstart opposition (perhaps the system still somehow works to consolidate the vote share of the leading parties?). It's a tricky analysis to perform, but Redacted have lined up a fearless pundit who doesn't shy away from picking some figures to indicate how he considers the political tides are moving in Germany, and the consequent reactions from the EU's "great and the good".

"The winner of the German elections is being called a big win for Globalists... a big win for more war in Ukraine... and a slap in the face to free speech and closed borders"

Maybe elections should be about policies rather than parties?

But whatever, it looks like a large number of German and maybe EU politicians are

2025-02-15

The fall of the twin towers has always been controversial, but officialdom has always been deaf to any argument but their own.

Many believe that the official story was a huge cover-up, and that the disaster was a false flag attack by the CIA in order to persuade the public of the necessity for the planned "War on Terror".

Trump has declared that this event will be reviewed under his leadership.

Former Congressman Curt Weldon gives his side of the 9/11 story. He is but one of many "conspiracy theorists" who had involvement around that time.

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