2025-03-10

The Brownstone Institute reviews Covid on the "Five-Year Anniversary of the End of the World".

All you never wanted to know about the ins and outs.

For my part I have been saying for some time that the whole escapade was a global hoax and the virus didn't even exist (except as a mind-virus!) (a view shared by Dr Mike Yeadon), but I'm not sure that the Brownstone Institute shares that view.

It doesn't really matter, as it's up to each of us to form our own beliefs as best we may.

Those interested may wish to bookmark the page once read - it's a ten-parter, so not to be attempted in a single

2025-03-10

An interesting little video has appeared,which purports to get to the bottom of the legal status of those who inhabit the British Isles, and it raises some interesting points. It may also validate the naming of this site!

After watching, we may remind ourselves that the US Military is sworn specifically to defend the Constitution of the United States (from enemies external and internal!). They were way ahead of us back in 1788 (or thereabouts - I'm not sure exactly when the military adopted their specific oath, but presumably it was after the Constitution was ratified).

Specific allegiances may appear arcane but are hugely important - they involve trust, and they can tell us whom we should be able and/or willing to trust.

(Disclaimer - I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice)

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2025-03-07

Scott Ritter explains the Trumpian path to peace.

If you rely on the military then you will get war or at least conflict.

If you rely on your economic interests in common, then neither party will even want war or conflict.

Co-operation trumps conflict every time.

"This isn't about Ukraine, this is about the British Government ... "

"There is no European Unity... "

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2025-03-07

The deluded rule the world.

When the money runs out, they send us to war.

Neil Oliver is in fine form.

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2025-03-06

Dominic Cummings isn't everybody's cup of tea, but he does have first-hand experience of that about which he writes, and isn't afraid to draw unfashionable conclusions where the evidence so leads.

"It’s ‘impossible’ to control our borders but we must fight over Ukraine’s borders"

"We must coverup the rape gangs ‘for community cohesion’ and to continue mass immigration but we will rally on TV to fight ‘the new Hitler’ thousands of miles away with forces that do not exist"

"We must transform the MoD and defence procurement because fake budgets and disastrous procurement are destroying our forces"

"The combination of the above policies with ‘Ukraine should join NATO’... mixes great weakness with provocation on exactly the wrong thing"

"they can write interesting things about military operations, drones and tanks etc, but they

2025-03-06

ZeroHedge reviews the embryonic Starmer Peace Plan that seems to have the support of European leaders.

As we have noted earlier, it's cannot be a "Peace Plan" if it includes features to which we know that  President Putin will not agree. Such as western military "boots on the ground" in Ukraine.

Putin may, like all of us, harbour the occasional delusion, but he's not insane, nor is he prepared to simply throw away the fruits of his leadership so far.

Heigh ho, who cares about the details when there's a propaganda war to be fought for public opinion?

2025-03-06

Elon has company!

Not in the US where he is eviscerating government waste, but in the UK where our government is undoubtedly every bit as profligate as the federal bureaucracy in the US.

(We could usefully dispense with at least three "parliaments" and nobody except the politicians would notice!)

So who is our Great British Chainsaw in Chief?

(This is two articles for the price of one - don't inadvertently skip off once you have read the first one, just scroll down!)

2025-03-05

What is going on between the UK, EU, NATO, Ukraine, and the Trump-Putin relationship?

This is all pretty complicated and difficult to follow, but maybe we should bear in mind that it may not be totally without foundation - and the fact that it's hosted on Scott Ritter's channel lends it  credence.

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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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2025-03-04

A force to keep the pressure on Russia, and to keep UK-EU military forces in the Ukraine.

And if Russia does agree a peace deal, to boost the Ukraine's defensive capabilities...

I commented yesterday on the logic of Starmer's position, but one salient point i missed:

Call me old-fashioned, but if Russia has waged a war since 2022 to keep Ukraine out of NATO and NATO out of Ukraine (as clearly stated by Vladimir Putin), then Russia will just reject these ideas out of hand as putting NATO into Ukraine under another name.

It simply won't fly. There will be no lasting ceasefire under these suggestions, and probably no

2025-03-03

War requires ice-cold emotionless thinking, accurate and timely military intelligence, and an economy that can support the Forces' needs for munitions and military equipment as and when they need them. Oh, and of course they will need the Forces themselves, trained up and ready to go. 

And where will we get the steadfast national leadership that could lead the nation through such a perilous venture? 

Given the government's track record of sacrificing all of the above in pursuit of the ridiculous UN Green New Deal and the numerous fairy tales that that involves, the chances of this new "peace-keeping" venture holding back a vast well-prepared battle-hardened Russian army with copious supplies of state of the art armaments, look vanishingly small to me.I would go so far as to say that should Russia decide to call our bluff and brush us aside... 

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2025-03-03

After the Trump-Zelensky imbroglio, it's no surprise that Ben provides quite a bit of intel on what is really going on, what happened subsequently, and whither it might lead.

Of course, matters just now are fast-moving and one cannot rule out events from left field that may upset specific predictions, so we await developments.

Still, it's an interesting question as to how long the current "US administration" can keep confidence in the crumbling financial edifice afloat - beware the Ides of March?

Keep taking the tablets...   (modest subscription required for full access)

2025-03-02

Scott Ritter - give him an inch and he'll take a mile!

Peace in the Ukraine is only just beginning to be talked about, and here he is thinking about the real need to phase out mankind's ability to self-immolate through nuclear war.

Probably not a moment too soon if you ask me. The world needs people like Scott who not only have the foresight to identify a path forward, but also have the experience to assess the pitfalls and map out how best to do it. Sadly they are becoming thin on the ground, so the sooner the process can be mapped out, the better for all concerned.

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2025-03-01

Scott Ritter lays it out - and then some!

"Donald Trump has done more in one month than anyone has ever done in any peace negotiations in the history of modern warfare"

Whether we think he did a good job or a bad job will depend upon our view of the objectives, Trump's stated objective being to end the pointless slaughter.

Recent years have demonstrated that short of starting WW3, Ukraine+NATO/EU will not hold the Russian advance, let alone push them back behind their erstwhile boundaries.

Many won't like that, but would we like WW3 any better?

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2025-03-01

Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author of very accessible books, self-proclaimed leftist and scourge of the EU at the time of the Greek "bail-out", and now apparently a Professor, (and virtually the only "leftist" that I rate very highly for his logical analysis and ability to get to the real nub of political problems) explains the current state of Trump's relationship with Europe.

Oh, and the workings of Chinese municipal government! Maybe we should be wondering how our own new political system should look, once our current failing systems have collapsed.

Very informative.

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2025-03-01

We note with sadness the passing of Arthur Firstenberg, author of The Invisible Rainbow and The Earth and I, also the force behind Cellular Phone Task Force.

I learned a great deal from his masterful history of the development of electricity / electronics / electromagnetic radiation over the last two centuries, and its consequent effects on the Earth and the environment - I don't suppose he totally avoided all misinterpretations of the evidence, but he paints a very broad and convincing picture.

Every bookshelf should have one.

2025-03-01

With "renewables" leading to ever higher energy costs, nuclear still regarded with some suspicion (and SMRs not yet rolling off the production lines in volume), government-backed mega power-stations seemingly permanently mired in the paralysis of analysis and the perils of politicking, and of course fracking being sent packing, some think that old king coal is poised to make a come-back.

Yes, there are obvious problems with that, but there's problems with everything just now - and just how are all these wonderful new but power-gobbling AI data-centres going to be powered?

"It's a massive coal boom in China ... "

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2025-02-28

What happens when the UN's "Sustainable Development Goals" turn out to be unsustainable in short order?

Read the story of Sri Lanka.

And how our fearless media reported it.

There but for the Grace of God go we all.

2025-02-28

There's a short version and a long (unbelievably long!) version - so atke you rpick!

First up - the short version:

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2025-02-27

The Glastonbury Symposium is not exactly a mainstream source of topical wisdom - it is however a good venue for challenging one's "little grey cells" to take a hard look at what may be coming right around the next corner.

Andy Thomas, long-time power behind the Symposium, presents another keynote address, providing a critical discussion of the issues of the day (this was July 2024).

Not to mention a possibly terrifying view of the incoming future...

He covers a lot of ground.

"... you can't trust anything any more..."

"... any advanced civilisation that has managed to reachspace and is visiting here in their craft must surely have gone through the AI revolution ... therefore..."

Watch to the end. It's your view that counts.

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