Conspiracy Corner

2024-12-28

We should be so lucky!

These days there are so many versions of the truth available from a multiplicity of sources that it's become an adventure to merely establish what we think might be the truth of only one of the many stories that are daily offered to us.

At least in times bygone, most of the few media outlets tended to offer much the same story (albeit with left/right leanings as befitted the particular outlet) so we felt that if a number of independent sources told much the same story. then it was likely substantially correct. 

In fact, it now seems that far from being independent, they all got their headline stories from the Deep State's Ministry of Truth, and the conjecture is that this may have been going on ever since Zionism became an international thing; valid or not, the mainstream compulsion to support Israel's version of events in Gaza and elsewhere does little to dispel the idea.

Some even go

2024-12-26

Neil Oliver interviews Jimmy Dore on sundry recent news stories.

You will be shocked! 

Or after the last few years, maybe not... 

"... it doesn't matter whom you vote for..."

(24 minutes)

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2024-12-26

Dominic Cummins, "enfant terrible" of the Boris government, explains the workings by which the UK government is run.

What does this tell us about the current "government"?

Does it amount to institutionalised fraud, protected by plausible deniability?

Or worse?

(3 minutes)

2024-12-26

Covid is the topic that divides the world.

Actually, the world divides itself into two camps - those who don't want to know regardless of the arguments, and those who are prepared to think the unthinkable, or perhaps merely just to look at it to check how unthinkable the unthinkable may actually be. I'm sure that there cannot be a single person alive who doesn't know people close to them in both camps.

It's not a race thing, it's not a left/right thing, it's not a religious thing, but it is possibly a maturity thing in so far as a child when faced with an unfamiliar intrusion (such as a less than familiar Nana and Grandad arriving on a too infrequent visit!) will cling to the familiar comfort of Mum or Dad to save them from the unfamiliar threat, whilst an adult would face the intrusion, try to understand it, and decide accordingly how to react.

The adult is responsible, the child is still neither responsible nor competent.

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2024-12-23

Turkey (no, not the Christmas dinner fowl) is much in focus this week as President Erdoğan is reported to be seen as "encircling" Israel...   so it's the battle of the Zionists against the Islamists that's taking shape. Not that the "Christian" religions are faring any better - it seems that bankruptcies hold no religious preferences.

So how will Turkey fare in taking advantage of current Middle-Eastern geopolitics to rekindle some of the old Ottoman Empire?

And just what is Elon Musk the maverick mogul up to just now? (Modest subscription required for full access)

2024-12-22

"Mistake" is an ambiguous word. On the one hand it can reflect a happenstance where the effect is unwanted but was not intended, on the other hand it may indicate that the action was intended but that the result was unwanted. Unhappily, some events such as "yes I thought that hitting the cricket ball out of the field was a good idea, but I hadn't reckoned with it smashing a window or hitting a passer-by on the head" might be considered a "mistake" on both counts.

However, deliberately throwing the cricket ball out of the ground at the head of a passer-by would not normally be regarded as a mistake, as the result would be clearly intended.

So we could recognise an intermediate state where hitting the ball out of the ground may avoid damage to windows and heads most of the time, but not all the time, so may be considered deliberately reckless, and thus culpable.

So we may transpose the argument to a different situation, and ask whether recommending a novel

2024-12-22

With governments around the world in crisis, how will the clashes between countries / power blocks evolve?

The aspects to this are economic, and political/military. Now that money-printing nears exhaustion, what will transpire?

Will governments go to war to impose a command economy, feeding the war in place of the aspirations of their people? How that would turn out is best not tested, but may be inevitable.

The Middle East is pivotal, and showing no signs of settling down.

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2024-12-20

Ukraine / Syria centre stage, and President Putin setting out his analysis.

There's much power-play going on behind closed doors, largely unknowable. The only thing obvious is that there is no going back to the status quo ante.

And what exactly is "Greater Turkey"?

First up: Pepe Escobar

Then Scott Ritter at 61 minutes.

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2024-12-20

Argentina has had a chequered financial and political history.

"By 1900, Argentina’s economy was bigger than the rest of Latin America put together, and about the size of all of Western Europe put together. There seemed to be nowhere to go but up"

But, then the politicians did what politicians do.

"For much of the 20th century, Argentina slipped into severe economic decline and remained so for decades"

But President Milei has put a stop to the decline:

"Milei has abolished entire government departments, fired ministers and drastically reduced the size and scope of government"

"This year, Milei announced that Argentina had just run a budget surplus – its FIRST surplus since the golden years of the early 1900s

Send in the Drones!

2024-12-17

It's difficult to know what to make of this article, but it's sufficiently different to give it some space.

There's no doubt in my mind that the world is showing up as being much the worse for wear than hitherto, but whether that is simply because the fault-lines are becoming much more visible, or because things really are much worse than they used to be, may be debatable.

See what you think.

2024-12-16

A block buster report this week from Ben, naming big names and sharing big goings-on, including (but by no means limited to) his view on the developments in Syria.

These are indeed momentous times. (Modest subscription required for full access)

Don't miss.

2024-12-16

Mark Rutte, the much loved Prime Minister of whom the Dutch have only recently rid themselves, has been appointed to head up NATO (well, there was a vacancy and Mark was available - one can't let senior figures like Mark fend for themselves on the open market).

True to form he is now making waves across NATO with his demand to put the organisation "on a war footing" to deal with the perceived threat from those dastardly Russians. Yes, he's at least five years (probably ten) too late to build the necessary European armaments industry to a size and capability capable of matching the Russians, but like Ed Milliband, he can commandeer as much money as it takes to deal with this existential threat.

"Ukrainians are fighting against Russian swarms of drones. That’s what we need to be prepared for"

But wait - isn't Climate Change also an imminent existential threat?

Doesn't Ed Milliband have priority as the

2024-12-16

Minutes of the Vaccine Benefit Risk Expert Working Group for Covid-19 are published on the government website.

"Safe and Effective" might be expected to figure prominently in their deliberations, because that was what we the public were told, in no uncertain terms.

"What’s even more troubling from these minutes, is the intention of the UK health authorities to assess the serious risks raised only after authorisation!"

As ever, expect the truth to be "nuanced".

It doesn't paint a good picture, but why publish these minutes at all if the turkeys are still in

2024-12-15

How else can light be used to affect us?

Turns out, it can affect our behaviour.

You'll never look at an LCD screen (TV, smartphone, computer. laptop, tablet) in the same light again...

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2024-12-13

Whilst there is no formal recognition of the strange substances found within Big Pharma's products, it seems we are doomed to endlessly discover new variants of the same problem - there's stuff in it that appears to have no business being in it.

We have covered this in the past, notably (but by no means exclusively) the research done by La Quinta Columna, who were amongst the first to discover graphene oxide fragments. 

Still, in case anybody thinks that the whole problem has somehow gone away (as no doubt many of the guilty parties wish), today we feature another report fromAna Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD who notes

2024-12-13

The sudden collapse of Syria took nearly everybody by surprise, changing the dynamic of geopolitics in the Middle East almost overnight.

In fact, the events were so fast so unexpected and so dramatic that "conspiracy theorists" are naturally looking behind the reported events, to see whether the motivations of both the participants and non-participants might indicate explanations other than the "collapse due to internal endemic corruption" narrative so far put forward.

Danny Haiphong / Brian Berletic discuss.

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2024-12-12

If you have not already, read "They are Here" before going further.

So - it's likely to be not only a meeting of civilisations (if our current status can be so described) but also a meeting of advanced technologies, very different cultural and societal norms (will the Germans still be able to bag the best poolside/beach seats?), not to mention communication norms enabling multiplicitous methods of generating misunderstandings.

What could possibly go wrong?!

"Huge, species level, existential challenges are just ahead. Right over there. Go look over that hill, you’ll see it coming ...  Look inward, to see your way out"

(NB: speaking of problematic

2024-12-10

Scott Ritter explains the many ins and outs of the lightning insurgency that toppled the Assad government.

"Nobody anticipated this happening"

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ZeroHedge comments on how order might eventually be restored...   if not already too late.

2024-12-09

In one of the most illuminating posts for a long time, Ben reveals his viewpoint that the world is undergoing a seismic political realignment, of which the fall of Damascus is but the first and most obvious major element.

That Russia should have supported it speaks volumes, and may perhaps give the lie to the notion that Israel was behind it.

The next weeks and months will see huge changes.

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