2026-01-17

This is a wide-ranging discussion that covers a lot of ground.

As a quick hour that looks at the western world's predilection with increased government control and financial developments that all seem to be designed to control and take advantage of the general population...

What's the common denominator?

The expansion of Corporate Control over everything, especially over their regulators and lawmakers.

"... If we are going to have a digital prison we would prefer to have Silicon Valley rather than China..."

Fairly typical of the way in which the real argument is shifted from 'do we want a digital prison?' to "wouldn't we prefer our own home-grown prison?'.

You are sure to make new observations about how our increasingly automated and controlling world is

2026-01-17

Well, some of us are undoubtedly ahead on this topic, but the majority are probably not.

After all, the Law of the land is a complex topic, made ever more complex every passing year to the point where the legal beagles can run rings around the common person simply by obfuscation, delay, and weaponising of administration to the point where one lifetime is not enough to read up on everything that we would need to know to win a case in court (AI to the rescue?).

The same applies to most MPs, who have to cope with the additional demands from their political party in order to (a) be selected as a candidate and (b) keep the party whip. And maybe also illegal demands to keep them subservient to secret agendas from unelected international bodies or even criminal syndicates.

Ok, most people probably don't accept the latter, but it doesn't matter - Parliament is at best a closed shop that places

2026-01-17

As an IT man I have the greatest respect for logic. You cannot make a successful career in IT unless one understands logic (except you are a consultant, senior manager / director or salesman of course - that's always a given).

Yet, logic has a lot to answer for. 

Namely, its axioms - axioms being the founding statements of truth upon which  all subsequent logical argument is based. You cannot have a logical argument which is not based on axioms. They are the unreliable dogma that underpins the whole...

Indeed, they are the reason that a perfect computer program can reliably fail in rare instances. What assumptions (axioms) underpin the logic of the program? Which one failed in this instance?

Axioms are the reason why the world has so many religions - the religious dogma that underpin each belief system are their axioms, and they can't all be right (unless maybe they inhabit different universes, and maybe some

2026-01-15

"The powers of financial capitalism to...  dominate the political system of each country and the world as a whole"

The "special relationship" was always a power play where hidden hands worked the USA to further the aims of Chatham House, not to improve the world, but to divert all real wealth into the hands of the ultra-rich by financial manipulation, using the US military to ensure the control of every country by a central bank.

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2026-01-15

Anybody who has been following the possibility of a vaccine or vaccines in combination causing autism will be aware that the CDC has historically always said that "vaccines do not cause autism".

That line of reassurance began to fall apart when they had to admit that they had no clinical study that confirmed that position - they only had an assumption that as the question had never been properly examined, there was no causal effect since none had been proven by a clinical study (which would not be in the obvious interests of the vaccine manufacturers to undertake).

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Still, at least the CDC has now adjusted its advice to reflect the more nuanced thinking.

Maybe one day they will get around to mounting a proper study, although who might actually

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2026-01-14

His guest is author Guy Anderson, whose quest to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of one of the largest empires on earth has led him to write the book.

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2026-01-14

Who knows what is going on anywhere these days? 

Make of this what you will.

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2026-01-13

Talk is cheap, but what exactly is the point?

"Skyfall"/"Nightfall" - James Bond run riot?

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2026-01-13

Once again on the subject of AI, and what differentiates AI from humanity, Martin Geddes guides us through the intricacies of humanity's use of artificial intelligence.

This may sound arcane, but it's crucial to understand its limits and to recognise when those limits are overstepped, otherwise we risk AI becoming a control mechanism for the unsuspecting - merely another branch of the brainwashing mass media. There are plenty who would want that.

"... when conscience becomes unsayable, society loses its most important safeguard"

What AI must not decide.

2026-01-13

In a rather startling and really rather comical conclusion about the state of AI (as commonly encountered today), Martin Geddes has analysed the responses to his probing questions and concluded that... the AI (as today encountered) is perhaps the ultimate automated 'normie'.

Well, I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise.

We might thus superficially conclude that since most of us are surrounded by normies every day, the AI is in effect redundant as there is still no shortage of human normies available to consult, but that is to ignore the oft-demonstrated truth that whereas the human normie may not hesitate to tell us to keep our stupid outrageous theories to ourselves and stop bothering them, the AI is invariably polite, so resorts to subterfuge unless backed reluctantly into a corner by logical reasoning.

Both Martin and Mark Playne ("

2026-01-12

Maybe "When it's an mRNA 'vaccine'"? Or perhaps when the FDA doesn't know how to apply its own definition to obtain the only permitted answer?

Not "Newspeak", Good Lord no!

"Screwspeak" perhaps - or maybe "ScrewYouSpeak" - we can never have enough new words to describe the devious subterfuges that officialdom adopts to try to wriggle out of stating the absurdly obvious can we?

At this point the man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus will simply observe that the Emperor is linguistically naked.

Or maybe this is simply "soft disclosure"...

2026-01-12

In a world of double-dealing and outright falsification it's not clear that anything we read from sources both established and novel can be taken at face value. Even some of Ben's (paying) readership are commenting that they don't necessarily believe what he is telling us. 

Was Maduro really kidnapped by super-soldiers?

Is Trump really now "in charge" in Venezuela?

What is the real motivation for the Trump obsession with Greenland?

Yet Trump is taking the US out of 66 international / UN NGOs that don't serve the US purposes and is going to speak at Davos? 

Confusion reigns. (Modest subscription required for full access)

For what it's worth, my guess is that the CIA is trying to

2026-01-12

George Galloway swaps notes on the latest geopolitical tomfoolery with Pepe Escobar.

"It's stupidity all around the clock"

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2026-01-11

I can't comment on this, but maybe we should pay attention...

"... a catastrophic failure of due diligence that is about to destroy Switzerland's largest bank... "

If Credit Suisse goes, all bets are off.

Will Basel III claim its first victim?

(NB: This report appears to be a product of AI. None of it has been corroborated)

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2026-01-11

So to swiftly and cogently sum up where the Ukraine sits tonight, our favoured commentator pulls some of it together. 

Apparently the Donald doesn't think that raiding Moscow to capture Putin will be necessary, but given his unpredictability, I'm not convinced that I would want to put money on that one... although it does seem clear from his actions elsewhere that he doesn't think much of the old "rules-based order" so beloved of past "leaders" such as Theresa May, and no doubt also current "leaders" too impotent to mention, and maybe that's pretty close to the real nub of the matter.

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2026-01-11

Venezuela had the headlines, but Canada has the knock-on repercussions...

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2026-01-11

Gold and Silver assets must now be... gold and silver!

Does this amount to a revolution in banking?

Does it apply to Central Banks?

Are we in for a rough ride?

Will the auditors be busy?

It seems we are about to find out...

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2026-01-11

Is that rumbling noise the sound of Henry Kissinger turning in his grave?

The Trumpian return to Davos looms large, and everyone who is anyone knows what's afoot.

So without further ado, on with the show!

And on with the video:

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