US Election

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?

2025-05-06

The new Mark Carney, new prime minister of "independent" Canada, has invited the head of state of his colonial power to open his new Parliament.

Redacted investigates...

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2025-05-03

There's no shortage of reports on the internet on what we must assume is the rampant corruption that previously characterised federal government pre-DOGE spending practices. Clearly that spending has not been audited for years.

"DOGE implemented a simple fix: requiring receipts for withdrawals. 'That was the only change that was made... upon doing so, nobody drew down any money.' "

Entertain yourself here.

Then wonder what a similar exercise might reveal in the UK, or the EU...

2025-04-28

Top for what?

Top for cost, top for inefficiency, top for tax-payer subsidies, top for grid transmission costs, top for ecological destruction, top for government propaganda...  need I go on?

"... a peer-reviewed analysis of full-system levelized costs of competing power sources shows wind power is seven times more expensive than natural gas power and solar power is 10 times more expensive... "

Now I realise that I am likely preaching to the converted (converted as in realisation of the truth, as opposed to realisation of the heat-pump, whilst recognising that the former need not exclude the latter).

But it seems that there are still many global-warmists out there who implicitly believe everything that gets extruded from the vast networks of UN-WEF-affiliated think-tanks, charitable (as in untaxed) institutions, NGOs, and pseudo-populist lobby groupings that seem to have sprung from nowhere to

2025-04-23

Another review of the Ukraine conflict negotiations, remarkable for the stance that Scott Ritter takes on Trump's need to end the conflict.

"... the US is the problem, not the solution"

Sounds a bit like the Gaza situation already.

And indeed the discussion does move away from the Ukraine to take in aspects Europe, of Israel, Iran, and the Middle East.

As ever, Scott is nothing if not realistic and logical.

(1 hr 44 mins)

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2025-04-21

The US elected a Trump who didn't start any wars, but Trump today is sending bombs to Israel and bombing the Houthis in Yemen (possibly with aid from the UK).

Oh, and threatening to bomb Iran, which would likely start off WW3.

"A foreign nation state is so privileged that the basic rights of Americans must be ignored to placate a foreign power?"

It's a good question therefore. 

I guess that whilst all these contradictions continue, we must assume that the world is not what it is made out to be.

2025-04-15

Yanis Varoufakis, that rare human who espouses socialism for the benefit of the masses, writer of excellent economics books, who cut his teeth on the "bail-out" of Greece (and its bankers, not necessarily in that order) in an EU crisis, now speculates on how the world may navigate from monopoly capitalism towards his new socialism.

We need someone to have some ideas about this, and I can't think of anybody better.

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2025-04-10

If the last half-decade shows us anything, it shows us that the Donald is not to be underestimated.

So here we present a different view of the Trump "second term", and how it may develop.

One thing is now clear: he is setting about wrecking the comfortable assumptions that underlay the previous world political order, and he challenges the world to rebuild something better. Will the world explode, implode, or will it respond positively?

This article sets out to explain how the positive response may look - but has anybody told Ed Milliband?

2025-04-02

UK Column Talks with Catherine Austin Fitts about the onward march towards the digital panopticon, seemingly being supported by the Trump regime in the USA.

There's a lot of topics covered here, and some timely reminders that Trump's installation as President isn't necessarily going to halt stuff in its tracks.

Still, despite the Administration's frantic activity, it's still early days...

(43 minutes)

2025-04-01

Trigger warning - bad language incoming.

(51 minutes from 4 weeks ago)

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2025-03-27

George may have been watching too many shouty American shows, but he doesn't mince his words nor does he pull any punches.

Here the Mother of All Talk Shows confronts the possibility of the Mother of All Conflagrations coming to pass in the immediate future.

"It is Donald Trump, the 'peace candidate' who is responsible for the renewed genocidal onslaught, thousands of miles away... on the Gaza Strip where, in the last week, well over a thousand people have been murdered in cold blood in their tents"

With Max Blumenthal (@ 28:43) and Scott Ritter (@ 1 hr 49) on X (to avoid YT's over-exuberant community guidelines - or just watch the whole video on X).

With events in the Middle East (or "East Asia" as many now refer to it) brewing up a stand-off (or nuclear flash-point) between Iran and Trump's

2025-03-25

In these times of disclosure, we await the truth of the Twin Towers 9/11 attack to be revealed.

Here is Curt Weldon to whet our appetite, interviewed by Redacted.

Here is a man who knows his topic inside-out, back-to-front, upside down, and of course, straight up.

There's a great deal more here than the 9/11 hit, including US involvement contrived in Ukraine going back before the original Maidan evolution of 2014... not to mention relations with Iran... and Afghanistan... and more. It's all related.

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2025-03-24

The Donald has a fight on his hands.

His oft repeated desire to close down the federal Department of Education, that same department presumably that is responsible for brainwashing American kids in all matter "woke", especially gender dysphoria and transgender.

Many believe that the same has been happening in the UK. and are not happy about it, and believe that what happens in the US may set the template for what ultimately happens here. This is therefore not a uniquely American problem.

"... politics today turn on who or what is in charge of the administrative state. No one knows the answer and this is for a reason. The main functioning of the modern state falls to a beast that does not exist in the Constitution."

So far has the "modern state" been subverted away from the constitutional intention.

"The new awareness is that neither the people nor

2025-03-20

Maybe 60 years or so too late, but better late than never.

Zerohedge has the story.

And so do we now.

Good luck... and plenty of time and determination. You will need these and more...

2025-03-20

"The responsibility to protect" by humanitarian intervention to stop international crimes.

When "the West" does this it's Ok, but when the Yemenis do it it's a crime.

From the viewpoint of the average Brit, the truth of far flung complex situations can be difficult to reliably disentangle.

So this is an interesting presentation, highlighting a number of controversial points on all sides of the argument. 

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2025-03-15

Few would argue that Elon Musk's DOGE isn't doing  lot of good work in stripping out unwanted and potentially illegal expenditure by the federal government, but as yet it remains unclear exactly where all this is going and what the shape of the federal government will look like when the dust settles.

"Americans don't understand what is underway"

Catherine Austin Fitts of the Solari Report shares her thoughts on Brighteon.

And is Bitcoin now a "Pump and Dump" Ponzi Scheme?

2025-03-13

With DOGE's feet now well under the federal table and Trump busy reorganising geopolitics around the world, where do we need to go from here, and will Team Trump take us there?

It's a big picture and the fact that we can even ask the question with a mild tinge of disappointment is testament to the amount of change already under the bridge since 20th January, and the consequent unleashing of expectations that the many and varied problems besetting the world can perhaps indeed be addressed, and in a much shorter time frame than once seemed possible.

Our expectations have indeed been reset!

2025-03-10

Ben Fulford's weekly report pulls no punches this week.

Will the Trump Presidency mk2 put an end to the corruption that has become so apparent in recent years?

Who knows? My guess would be "yes, but" not in any way that anybody is expecting or hoping for.

None the less, this week's report marks a useful catch-up on what may or may not be going on beneath the surface.

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2025-03-10

I make no apology for featuring the work of a financial newsrag in these pages - if we don't appreciate the way things are paid for (or not!) then history shows that the next crash will catch us unprepared (assuming that preparations for such are even feasible - and governments are not immune, even if they should be).

Fortune and Freedom: in part one John Butler reviews the state of European finances through the lens of the German Government-in-waiting...  and Bill Bonner in part two reviews the incoming effect of Trump Mk 2.

Best be informed.

2025-03-04

For those with short memories, and those who simply were not yet here, this article covers the salient historical points from the latter parts of the 20th Century onward, from the perspective of an American. Necessarily it leaves out a vast amount which may never be known.

Some may believe that the Trump phenomenon is the fight-back against the endemic corruption described, some fear that Trump is simply the latest in a long line of "controlled opposition". I can't help you with that one, we will have to see how matters play out.

"By their fruits shall you know them"

What is undeniable is the role that Israel has historically played in US politics, and quite likely in the politics of other nations including our own - after all, the State of Israel was originally promoted in the UK's Balfour declaration after WW1.

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