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2025-02-04

As always, this is not financial advice - nor is it party-political - but as usual it does throw some interesting observations on the intersection of politics and economics.

In fact I'm more than ever convinced that politics economics and psychology/psychopathy are just three sides of the same triangle. To learn any one or two without the other is simply to remain ignorant of the operation of the whole.

So today the good folk at Fortune and Freedom bring us not one, but two articles for the reading of one. If we have been following the scurrilous end of the social media channels, we may have been puzzled (especially if we've have been following the in-my-view highly dubious "Trump coin" caravan). So this may be of interest. And they don't come any more political than "the Donald".

Today we can see that we live in a time of the creative destruction of politics, economics, and psychopathy as currently practised... and perhaps much more, since these in

2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

2025-02-04

Amid all the turmoil unleashed by the first few days of the "Trump Presidency" (I use quotation marks because I still think that there are plenty of grounds for disbelieving appearances), Ben brings us his views about much of the consequences that we have already read elsewhere, interwoven with quite a bit of sauce that we probably have not seen elsewhere or perhaps suspected.

Of course he may just be making educated guesses or he may have sources of information, but this week's report has much to interest us either way.

This onion still has more layers to be exposed... (modest subscription required for full access).

2025-02-02

This is an introduction to a complex problem - amid nuances galore, we discover that the real history of religion and the religious is obscured by (a) the churches and (b) our own indoctrination in matters historical, archeaological, political, and "scientific".

And all this from a man of the Cloth! From somebody so immersed in the theology of the Anglican Church, I find this is a very hopeful sign that the wholly artificial separation between scientific belief and religious belief that has been tacitly imposed throughout my lifetime is going to be bridged, and quite possibly in our time.

After all, science is simply "knowing the truth" - the truth cannot logically be compartmentalised into  religious or scientific. Are not the religious dogmas simply the scientific axioms upon which the edifice

2025-02-02

Freedom is to have a choice about everything we do, with the proviso that we don't do anything to the detriment of the freedoms of others.

It is in effect freedom of choice. To choose where we go on holiday, to choose for whom we work, to choose our careers (should we be so fortunate as to understand what sort of career we both want and are suited for), to choose by mutual agreement those whom we will marry - or to choose celibacy.

Nobody doubts that of all these freedoms, some choices may actually be mutually incompatible (we in England cannot travel to the Isle of Man by train) but that's life. Some may turn out later to be incompatible (too many marriages do end in divorce) but the principle is that in the end there should be nobody to blame for our successes or failures but ourselves. We are here to make errors and to learn from them.

Of course governments of all hues and proclivities like to control (ie: limit) our freedoms so that we do what they

2025-02-01

You may not want to know...

And who's to say what the truth really is?

(3 minutes)

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2025-02-01

All you wanted to know about the Great Awakening - but never thought to see from the AI...

Martin Geddes' latest foray into the heart of the beast - and he comes up Trumps (so to speak)!

"I cannot over-emphasise the impact of AI on my own ability to analyse situations, clarify communications, identify options, select strategies, and write documents. It is absolutely transformative"

Is it for real?

2025-02-01

The WHO is an exceptionally remote body that is exceptionally well-funded, and through its constitution is more or less obliged to do the bidding of Big Pharma.

How so?

"The WHO is funded by countries and non-state entities"

" ... most of the budget is derived from voluntary funding provided by countries and private or corporate donors"

"Nearly all voluntary funding is ‘specified’... WHO must do the funders’ bidding"

"In response to its funders, the WHO has shifted focus to areas where large Pharma profits can be accrued"

So in effect, he who pays the piper calls the tune.

"Pharma

2025-02-01

Following the welter of comment on last Wednesday 29 January air crash between a helicopter and a passenger jet on its approach to runway 33 in Washington DC, Alex Berenson brings us a serious analysis by an experienced pilot. 

Note: NVG = Night Vision Glasses

2025-01-31

: Russell-Jay: Gould promotes his legal grammar which many no doubt find confusing, but in this video he relates the story of how he learned about legal grammar, in the courtroom.

Hopefully we can find a few more understandings of this clicking into place whilst we watch it.

Bon voyage ..!

(16 minutes)

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See also: What is the Truth? 

2025-01-31

Martin Geddes on "The Theology of Q" - with a little help from ChatGPT...

...  and neatly illustrating the differences between spirituality / divinity and theology / religion.

Confused yet?

Good - now include - well, I don't have a name for this, but we might choose "Social construction" or simply "Governmentalism", which is a bit like religion but relies on government dogma rather than religious dogma. It's religion for atheists if you like. It gives us the Green agenda, the UN Agendas, and just like theological religions, there could be as many varieties as you might find irreligious and unspiritual governments, and of course governments can mix and match from any dogmas they choose at any election, which makes for a moveable feast.

Maybe each political party should publish its dogmas as well as its manifesto at election time, then we might have a better idea of what to expect?

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2025-01-30

Following on from the earlier Brick in the Wall communication (which of course we all watched mulled and eventually fully understood), this video starts by reviewing the Trump "inauguration".

"... they had to break that because there is no corporate and there is no spirit within the corporate..."

"... unfortunately the general public is not aware of the joke... "

Is nothing is as it appears?

I suspect so. The style of delivery is demanding of his viewers, but if we want the truth we need to work at it, as it has been forever obscured beneath multiple layers of fiction.

We are facing the deepest Challenge of the Assumptions! 

Still, one can begin to piece together certain

2025-01-30

Scott Ritter reviews where the Ukraine war (still ongoing post Trump's inauguration!) may be going.

There's a lot of detail here, maybe a lot of posturing, and certainly a lot of counter-posturing.

But if Russia won't talk to Zelensky anyway, who is going to "negotiate"?

And if negotiations are off, then how long can Ukraine withstand the Russian army, with or without Trump's support?

(128 minutes)

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2025-01-29

Are we living in an asylum run by the insane?

After all, in recent years all the usual social and societal norms have been upended, even the rather longstanding biological differences associated with reproduction of the species (and not merely our own species!) have been declared both obsolete and changeable at will, despite the obvious difficulties and dangers of so doing and the consequent damage to the next generation.

Of course the insane are still able to deploy cunning to advance their misguided objectives, which somehow always seem to involve the need to control others who may not be of their persuasion.

Government may therefore be thought the natural habitat of the insane, being the only outfit legally authorised to deploy compulsion on

2025-01-28

To me it's reasonably obvious that, since the only major pandemic of living memory was the so-called 1918 "Spanish Flu" (about which there is much controversy), there is in point of fact no natural reason to suppose that any string of pandemics is likely to afflict the world any time soon.

Some (including ex-Pfizer Dr Mike Yeadon) believe that the Covid "pandemic" was faked. Whilst the  "science" is either convoluted or obfuscated or maybe both, Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest reasoning may be closest to the truth.

The simplest reasoning has nothing to do with the alleged research conducted by "Bat Lady" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and everything to do with the enormous profits to be made from a "pandemic", real or imagined, that would accrue to the pharmaceutical industry for fake vaccines paid for by governments, or by anybody other than the proposed vaccinees themselves who would be

2025-01-28

The Brownstone Institute reviews a number of "the Donald" 's executive orders that have slapped a wide-ranging communications ban on the US public health bureaucracies.

One might speculate that investigative measures may follow in due course, with consequences that only a few outside of the medical-pharmaceutical-public-health bureaucracies may foresee.

"One Health, as newly embraced by the CDC, amounts to a radical transformation of the basis of social order itself, under the guidance of god-like scientists who alone know how to structure the best life for all living things"

"How it came to be that our main engines of public health came to be captured in whole by such a crazed ideology would require a deep and expansive investigation"

"Now Dr.... heads the agency he defied. He remains in that position until the man once called a “fringe epidemiologist” by the previous head of NIH takes

2025-01-28

This is the latest article from Martin Geddes.

If you only ever read one of his articles, read this one, very carefully, and watch the linked video.

The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind to dust. But these particular wheels will likely grind much faster than anybody is prepared for - if my understanding is correct.

It illuminates cartels in a whole new light.

Maybe there was a reason that Trump wanted TikTok reinstated in America.

I am no lawyer, and this is not legal advice. Please do your own due diligence.

2025-01-28

"May you live in interesting times"

Are the times interesting enough for you yet?

If not, then perhaps you haven't been paying attention.

Personally I would settle for a little less wind and rain and a bit more global warming, but what do I know?

"Trump intends to use his presidential right to declare a state of emergency (!) thereby providing the conditions to fast-track the plans and put them into action"

"We stand at the brink of what we call here the intelligent age, where artificial intelligence... will fundamentally transform economic systems, business models and personal lifestyles"

"... Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research... has developed a prototype for

2025-01-28

Have you ever wondered (as I have) why archaeologists seem to be obsessed by the idea that ancient sites were used for the purpose of child sacrifice?

There are I suppose two possible explanations for this -

1: these sites really were used for this purpose and the activity must have been quite ubiquitous over different places and ages

2: modern-day archaeologists have an inexplicable but unfounded obsession with the idea that simply won't go away

Now what's past is past and what's done is done, but what if this problem remains endemic in our time also? 

There are concerning indications that this may be the case, and

2025-01-27

"Each covid vaccine that is approved has been through rigorous clinical trials and safety checks".

Well, such was the wording received from my MP when I suggested some years ago that the MHRA might not be sufficiently diligent in the matter of ensuring vaccine safety. It hasn't aged well has it?

The truth is leaking out, even if only anecdotally.

But with MPs in thrall to the MHRA's alleged dedication to public safety, who is to provide a properly researched and audited authoritative opinion?

Welcome to the present - it isn't what we thought it was, and nor are our "independent" regulatory agencies.