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SMRs for Ever?

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2024-10-03

A dollop of long overdue logic from Nick Hubble of Fortune and Freedom to blow the clouds of obfuscation away from our "green" but flaky energy future.

What are the practicable solutions for our seemingly intractable national electricity supply problems?

Well, local electricity generation, obviously.

Take it out of the hands of national government and free ourselves of their ridiculous dogma, their oft-demonstrated ability to screw up large scale infrastructure projects, and their total disconnection from real-world engineering reality.

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Bring Back the Trial of the Pyx!

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2024-09-28

Some of the old customs and traditions are definitely the best!

But somehow, some of them have been debased by ... well, I don't know, perhaps as much or more as our Pound Sterling.

One pound sterling (originally one troy pound of sterling silver) is now worth almost as much as two thirds of a bar of chocolate.

Yet the cheapest 1oz silver bullion coin available from the Royal Mint this morning costs just a few pence more than £28. Given that there are ten troy oz in one troy pound, the original pound of sterling silver should be enough for around 420 bars of chocolate.

The "Trial of the Pyx" may be old-fashioned, but in my book it's high time it was updated and reinstated for modern circumstances ...

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Addresses the UN General Assembly

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2024-09-26

In a wide-ranging address to the delegates at the UN, the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivers a block-buster speech majoring on the unsupportable situation in Gaza, but also touching on many other issues both in the Middle East and other hotspots, and has pertinent remarks to make about the fake moralities that have been and continue to undermine the institution of the family around the world. 

The ceremonies at the recent Olympic Games were granted special mention.

A great deal here on which the world should both agree and promptly act. If the UN ducks this one, it's days must surely be numbered.

(37 minutes)

 

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Neil Oliver's Thought for Our Times

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2024-09-26

Neil's narrative this week packs a sting in the tail - watch to the end.

(17 minutes)

 

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Geopolitics of Conflict -- Conventional and Nuclear

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2024-09-25

With things moving fast now in the Middle East and the BRICS, this update from Pepe Escobar (around Russia and the  BRICS) and Scott Ritter (on the Middle East, Ukraine, and the politics of Nuclear First Strike) won't be welcomed by everybody, but is nevertheless important.

Who would have thought that in 2024 we would be concerned about the outbreak of a pre-emptive nuclear strike between the two superpowers? Oh yes we are, and Scott Ritter is probably the most experienced commentator on such matters having been a UN inspector of the arms limitation agreement with the then Soviet Union.

And you get two for the price of one, with the first 62 minutes covered by Pepe and the remaining 80 minutes by Scott Ritter.

The first video starts with Pepe (and continues with Scott), the second is the second section covering Scott Ritter only, for those that find that split convenient.

(1 hr 2 minutes plus 1 hr 20 minutes) Pepe Escobar + Scott Ritter

 

(1 hr 20 minutes) Scott Ritter

 

 

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