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2025-05-19

Ben's weekly report today majors on recent events in Arabia and the financial state of the USA Inc.

It's all rather opaque for most of us, but as ever it seems to revolve around who can push whom into a corner.

Yes, it's the US and China centre stage, but the EU is the dog whose bark is rapidly following it's bite into inconsequence.

It ain't over 'til the Fat Lady sings, but where are we to find a Fat Lady appropriate to the situation, and of what exactly is she to sing?

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2025-05-19

Martin Geddes (with a little help from AI) relates his lawful activities to uncover lawless Courts to the ever evolving nature of warfare: warfare is conducted by lawfare before ever it comes to force of arms.

"We are now in an era of metawarfare, where the battlefield is not fixed, but disputed—because the war is about what the war is"

"Victory belongs to whoever defines the conflict"

"... To 'win' at lawfare is... to compel the opposition to cease their opposition to truth"

At one level this is obvious, and is evidenced by the oath of witnesses:

"I swear (/ affirm etc) to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"  

School for Scoundrels

2025-05-19

Let's be clear - this article is no prophecy, but it does set out some possibilities that may materialise in the coming months and years.

Firstly, Trump's recent extraordinary welcomes in the Arab states are fairly obviously not without significance - but whether that significance will be permanent or temporary is yet to become clear. Maybe it is to re-establish a "Petrodollar II" system of global trade advantageous to the US, or an AI-based system of world currency controlsdevised to benefit those who design it, or both, or something else, we don't know, but something is certainly afoot!

The other major show on Earth is the BRICS grouping, which seems to be methodically plotting a course toward a multi-polar world where independent countries plan

2025-05-17

This video strikes me as authentic, and very troubling.

As a mere male I have avoided exposure to such places, but forewarned is forearmed as they say.

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2025-05-17

"The Lord is not whispering any more... "

In a startling address, His Holyness addresses the need to awake, and points up 2025 as the year of the Return of the Lord, the greatest moment in history.

"... the call to awaken is not gentle... "

"This is the hour to wake up"

Yes, it's a bit apocalyptic, but that makes a refreshing change from the traditional bland pronouncements of clergy of many denominations who tend to be either ahead of or behind the curve of unfolding events.

"Repentance is not just for the world, it is for the church, it is for the pastors who have grown silent... the call is not for someone else, it is for you, it is for me... "

It's not a bad speech, even if it does have the hallmarks of being delivered by an AI. In consequence some may feel that it lacks

2025-05-17

What is Zelensky's position following abandonment by Donald Trump and facing implacable Russian Troops on the battlefields?

No surprises here, and precious few opportunities - but will he take from what is actually on offer?

Scott Ritter recounts the dreadful tale of how he got to where he is today.

And what may be the UK's contribution to this situation?

2025-05-17

Citizens' assemblies are simply assemblies of citizens. Of course they are assemblies for a purpose, as are all assemblies.

And they have to be funded... advertising, room hire, presentation equipment and materials all cost money, although not necessarily vast amounts - nevertheless the overall cost of assemblies in every town is not insignificant.

I have attended one such myself, on how best to encourage net zero measures in our locality, and where would be best to site them. I went along (a) for the experience and (b) to see how must sense I would be able to contribute. Yes, it was an instructive experience and no, not much sense was permitted, on the grounds that it was a Net Zero meeting and it's purpose was not to argue the case for or against, since that outcome was already established.

I was therefore in the wrong meeting. Not that there was any right meeting arranged where I might have fitted in. Of course I could have called my own "right

2025-05-16

This update speaks for itself 🙂. See previous articles.

"The power of one can lead to the power of many" - Dr Garret Soldarno (Stand up Michigan 2020)

2025-05-16

Well, after three years of negotiations (what took them so long?) the final draft of the Treaty is scheduled to be voted on at the end of May.

Of course, without the mighty contributions of the US, the WHO is comparatively impecunious, but perhaps the Gates Foundation could spare them some extra, I don't know.

The pandemic nonsense is about as believable as the climate emergency nonsense, so why all these governments have involved themselves in these negotiations I know not, but perhaps residents of those nations should prepare themselves for the inevitable, maybe by moving elsewhere whilst they can.

The Brownstone Institute reports.

2025-05-16

So what exactly is Trump up to in Arabia?

They seem to be surprisingly Trumpish toward him if you ask me.

And I don't think it's simply because the size of his ego impresses them...

Investor's Daily (PKA "Fortune and Freedom" - this is not financial advice!) has a suggestion that perhaps makes much more sense...

2025-05-16

Lambeth Council have been taken to Court by a residents group for ignoring their views on an LTN proposal.

" 'Lambeth council chose to spend public funds fighting the very community it exists to serve, rather than sitting down with us to find a workable, locally supported solution,' the group’s spokesperson said."

I wonder what problem it was that required a solution ?

"...the judge said in his judgement on Friday that the council was guilty of a 'masterclass in selective partial reporting' in how it reported the outcome of the library consultation... "

"... it was easier to sustain the cross-party political consensus on climate, via air pollution scare stories, and local chapters of a few dozen Friends of the Earth activists, against practically zero organised opposition at the local level"

Ah, so the problem was that nobody was

2025-05-15

Martin Geddes' quest to get to the bottom of his strange "prosecution" for parking his van in darkest Cumbria has elicited a remarkable response from the person in charge of "Legal and Professional Services, Central Legal Operations", at "HM Courts and Tribunal Service".

You just have to read this, otherwise you wouldn't believe that a senior Barrister in high position would be capable of such a legally inadequate reply.

But in mitigation, perhaps the said respondent hasn't caught up with the AI revolution yet? I suspect that running the FOIA through an appropriate AI would have prompted a rather different response...

2025-05-15

Make of this what you will...

... but as always, Trump is wrong-footing a lot of people!

He's probably the only global politician who can pull it off. I suppose you could say that this is what power-play leadership is all about, and of course, it serves to keep his opposition confused.

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2025-05-15

Il Presidento has moved on from Saudi to Doha, with much signing of agreements and general adulation (none of which includes Netanyahu'sIsrael, once the master of the USA - Trump must be feeling remarkably confident).

Even Iran it seems now wants a piece of the action, and if granted that would be a complete about-face from previous form of decades.

Will a decisive break from the past really emerge from all this?

2025-05-14

This follows on from this previous article, and a separate appeal for assistance (I don't normally carry appeals for donations because my job is to inform and not to raise money, even for worthy others - I have to have a policy on this for consistency and reputation and that is my policy).

Martin Geddes is personally involved (not as a parent) in a case of child abduction, under colour of law in an apparently legal process, but which upon critical examination can appear to break all the rules in the legal rulebook.

"What many believe to be a system of neutral adjudication is, in reality, a machine that can be co-opted to launder unlawful actions through a veneer of procedural legitimacy"

2025-05-14

Historian David Starkey isn't just a national treasure, he's perfectly capable of reviewing the broad sweep of history to pinpoint the points of fundamental change in practical legal government.

We may now be accustomed to the idea of "legal" equating to "compliance to somebody else's rules" or even nowadays "corrupt enforcement of invalid rules" but it was not ever thus. So where did it all go wrong?

"What has happened to the very meaning of the word 'Democracy'?"

"Anglo-Saxon England was astonishingly well administered"

"If that Magna Carta had survived we would have gone the way of Poland... "

"It establishes that wonderful idea of the Middle Ages... that you pay taxation in return for the redress of grievance... "

"It works because it's a very lightly modified version of

2025-05-14

"The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), established in 2023 with an £800 million purse of taxpayer funds, received a burst of publicity last week when it was unveiled that the agency was planning to “dim the sun” to fight global warming"

Well, they are late to the party because we have been watching the dimming of the sun in our English skies for years already - the photo above was taken in 2022.

And if "they" were not doing it, who was? Will we be seeing a new battle in the skies above us as rival sun-dimming outfits fight it out for the right to stop global warming in its tracks?

"We shall spray over the beaches,

Trump Breaks with Netanyahu?

2025-05-13.

We have reported on this Bill back in February, but it hasn't gone away.

Since time immemorial, parents have been responsible for bringing up their children, because for better or worse the family is the bedrock upon which the human race has depended, and has thrived.

Yes, other arrangements are possible but the human bond between child and parent is the one thing that gives the child the confidence to explore, to grow, to learn, to make mistakes safely, and to recover and learn from them.

The State wants your child for indoctrination ("Climate emergency", "Mad Bad Vlad", "All-powerful State", Money is controlled by Central Banks on behalf of he People, "MPs work for their constituents",