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2025-06-24

Sebastian Sas isn't your average YouTube interviewer - "formal dialogue" isn't his style, he prefers a good rant to point up all the inconsistencies in those who imagine themselves to be our leaders and betters.

One definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing whilst expecting a different result. If NATO knew what they were doing, the war would be over by now - but it isn't, so "something must be done".

To set the scene, NATO has no means to shoot down Russia's latest missile, so they have an innovative solution... will it work?

(21 minutes)

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2025-06-17

I suggest that those new to this site might like to read my other 'Down the Rabbit Hole' titles (use top left Search box), in particular Down the Rabbit Hole - 1 2 3 and 4 before continuing - it''s perhaps not so not necessary as it used to be, but does set the scene.

That said, perhaps it's something to do with the day of the month, but I'm featuring here what many might think is a fantasy video, a (beautifully prepared!) slice of wishful hokum with no bearing on the "real

2025-06-15

AI is simply a label that may mean many things to many people.

Some, such as Mark Playne of NOT ON THE BEEB, and Martin Geddes of Future of Communications, have learned that to get their AI to function responsively to their needs, they may have to train it. 

Others less critical will use AI as is and believe all it tells them - they may find illusion or disappointment, depending on how their AI was trained by its developers. There is nothing to say that the training materials used were well-founded, coherently respectful of truth, and appropriate to all the usage to which the AI could eventually be put.

For my own part I suspect that where the subject matter is straightforwardly factual (such as the Statute Book) AI is likely to be accurate in quoting it, but where value judgements are concerned

2025-06-15

"It feels like you demand change, but don’t want to go through the process of change. Like you want to wake up one day, to see the world has changed"

Cyntha Koeter, of Fall of the Cabal Fame, places our current situation in a quite startling but challenging perspective.

As a mere male I am not qualified to comment on her observations, other than to suggest that the comparison she invokes may be appropriate.

Whilst the ladies may simply marshall their innate forces, we men should perhaps learn to channel our inner feminine...

Together we are the "A Team" - and we'll love it when The Plan comes together!

2025-06-10

First hand testimony from Conspiracy Sarah, fresh back from LA.

How did she manage to survive?

Make of this what you will...

2025-06-05

Although the Net Zero bandwagon is now coming off the rails globally, our myopic government is still committed to crashing what remains of our economy, impoverishing our population, obeying every edict from the unaccountable WEF-UN partnership, and wondering why Reform is so popular.

Must we wait until the lights go out before anybody does something about this? Or perhaps their solution is to bypass the whole issue by goading Russia into an all-out war (conventional or otherwise), oblivious of the small matter that war needs reliable energy and plenty of it?

The Net Zero Straitjacket summarises.

2025-06-01

When power becomes an end in Itself, politics no longer serves the people.

Martin Geddes attends a republican picnic (who knew?) in Tennessee and takes time out from his legal woes to reflect on what he finds.

Power becoming the end in itself is not merely a US phenomenon, but is widespread within the "democratic" western nations. It causes people to place their faith in political parties rather than policies, and diverts them from holding "their representatives" to account, with results with which we are all too familiar.

Throw "God" into the mix and you don't get a holy spirit, you get more obfuscation and confusion.

Long live America!

2025-05-25

Have you ever wondered just who runs the government?

This was all explained under Mrs Thatcher by the BBC - the example is of course the UK government, but the principles no doubt apply to all governments, especially the democratic ones, which really is no laughing matter...

Do try to keep a straight face.

(32 minutes) 

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2025-05-24

"The event stream"

"The eternal now"

"The ontology"

This article is perhaps for afficionados of the woo, primarily because others may be thought unlikely to keep up - but don't let that put you off!

If you are unfamiliar with polymath Clif High's work, then just take it slowly.

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" - Hamlet

(2 hrs 38 mins)

2025-05-24

The White House has published the MAHA Report- how to Make Americans Healthy Again.

"After a century of costly and ineffective approaches, the federal government will lead a coordinated transformation of our food, health, and scientific systems. This strategic realignment will ensure that all Americans—today and in the future—live longer, healthier lives, supported by systems that prioritize prevention, well being, and resilience."

2025-05-24

A film by Mikki Willis about the trial of medical researcher and outspoken Big Pharma critic Dr. Robert Young, whose father Dr Robert O. Young wrote books about how to maintain good health.

In fact, one of his books - "The pH Miracle" - was instrumental in my own recovery from eating carelessly... when we are young we can eat whatever we feel like and we can get away with it, but when we get older our body's need for good nutrition at some point becomes critical, and we can no longer eat carelessly. The pH Miracle set me on the right path to recovery (urticaria + middle-age spread since you ask) and I have never looked back.

I believe it's true to say that most don't understand that the body needs to maintain its alkalinity, and to that end it will strip the nutrients it needs from its very bones if necessary. But if we eat the right foods that support alkalinity in balance with those

2025-05-22

David Starkey, historian, constitutional expert, and eloquent champion of the native English.

Here he discusses whether there is any substance at all underpinning Starmer's ever mutating rhetoric, and analyses how his superficiality has alienated almost everybody in the country.

(63 minutes)

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2025-05-22

The EU has been flirting with nuclear power for years - but mighty Germany has been determinedly anti nuclear ever since the tsunami washed into Fukushima.

But since the Putin-Trump telephone call it seems that it has begun to dawn, even on German politicians, that the Dunkelflaute may not have what it takes to resurrect German industry in recreating the necessary armaments industries to face up to the challenge from the East.

All of which is a welcome if unexpected outbreak of good sense (even if for all the wrong reasons) since if both Germany and France support nuclear then that's probably enough to sway the rest of the EU block.

And it leaves Ed Milliband in an even

2025-05-22

Redacted presents a commendably short review of the economics & politics around Ukraine, sanctions, and economies.

Oh, and the Putin-Trump telephone call...

"... they are afraid that if the war ends, the entire fake economy they've built will collapse... "

Oh yes, the chickens are flocking home in droves (to mix my metaphors)... and it's serious.

(9 minutes + "message from his sponsor")

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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

2025-05-16

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...

2025-05-12

"The Donald" is no stranger to bucking "received opinion", and his tariffs agenda would seem to confirm that he doesn't intend to change any time soon.

Global economics is a complex topic with many interlocking factors that taken together are difficult to unravel, but it does seem that many countries are "making the deal".

Nevertheless, when a number of economists gather to discuss such matters, it's a reasonable bet that the number of theories of economic behaviour may well exceed the number of economists in attendance. 

This isn't really a surprise when one notes that economics is entirely dependent upon an understanding of human behaviours, and to understand those we must also understand human motivations. Not to mention politics... religion... history... need I go on?

2025-05-10

Investor's Daily (previously Fortune and Freedom) isn't your standard financial rag - it has articles which relate to real life - after all, isn't economics just a particular aspect of real life? And if we cannot understand real life, then how can we understand the economics?

So today they bring us a thought to make us think, to put the ball in our court, to make us react. And in the nicest possible way, I think they are right.

We all need to get proactive rather than reactive. 

It's the very best way to learn.

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

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