2025-02-12

This Bill, currently wending its way through Parliament, looks set to reach the Statute Book just as soon as their Lordships have finished with it and passed it on to the Monarch for his Royal Assent.

Given that the Labour Party has a stonking majority in the Commons, there will be no delaying its arrival before their Lordships.

Given also the Government's obsession with ultimately centralising all powers of any note unto itself, it's no surprise that this bill is long on rhetoric and very very short on devolution (after all, if it started devolving powers to, say, parents, there would be a chaotic free-for-all and the government would have nothing to do except twiddle its thumbs and dream of powers forsaken).

Let us in the interests of brevity quote directly from the government's own "Policy Summary Notes" document:

The ambitions of

2025-02-11

Whilst America is having its Trump-Musk moment, with consequences that we await as they turn out, Americans are apparently now joined by hysteria against the "Far Right" in Germany, where the Left seems to be paranoid about the AfD and other dreadful right-wing (erstwhile centre-right) parties gaining enough ground to push the sainted Left to the sidelines.

That of course is seen as a totally undemocratic outcome.

"Over half of all Germans now find themselves on “the right” and urgently require democratic reeducation"

By this account half the country is on the streets protesting against the popular mood...    how that works is neither obvious nor likely legal.

"All of the absurdities of the past twenty years will begin to crumble as parliamentary majorities can no longer be found to support them"

2025-02-11

"Here is a man who has never read anything apart from a legal textbook, and an Arsenal Programme"

This may start a bit slowly, but David Starkey makes an interesting and perceptive analysis of our current state/State, and clearly puts across the value of our (now neglected) historical heritage - we don't know what we have until it's been lost.

"... we f****ed up partly because we became 'experts'... "

Expertise in a narrow field is no substitute for breadth of knowledge and experience.

He gives us much to think about, and in the process, helps us realise that what we as a society now lack is the influential wisdom of experienced and knowledgeable elders - we no longer value the depth of understanding that such aldermen (using the word in its historical sense) should bring to our new and upcoming

2025-02-11

USAID is much in the news as the Trump Administration sets about righting the federal ship of state, and America and the world finds out what has been going on, seemingly for ever.

So what is it all about?

Well, it's a bit wider than merely USAID...

Scott Ritter paints the picture. Listen up!

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2025-02-11

Behind the scenes in Washington DC, in "the belly of the beast", a quiet blitzkrieg is reportedly overwhelming the bureaucracy.

Enabled by IT and up to eight years of meticulous planning and preparation, Elon's Marauders are mapping the money and deconstructing the byzantine layers of obfuscation and delay, replacing all with fit-for-purpose control systems designed for real results in real-time.

The US equivalents of Sir Humphrey Appleby are still reacting in accord with their eternal paradigm, that change cannot, indeed must not, be rushed. Flat-footed is to overstate their response.

If this report is true, they are being swept away with no meaningful chance to resist.

Trump set the standard with his initial blizzard of executive orders, meanwhile Elon's stormtroopers are tearing into the bureaucracy that never

2025-02-10

Ben's report this week is, as one might expect with Trump (and his appointees) seemingly making as many waves as there are people-hours in the day, jam-packed.

Although plenty of political earth-shaking is ongoing, and nothing of great import not already noted by his regular readers seems to be featured, there is plenty of confirmatory nature to pique our interest.

With the Trump team busy wrong-footing as many opponents as possible, we seem to be assured of "interesting times" ahead.

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2025-02-10

Or should that be the Public in the cross-hairs?

Or, given that the Big Tech companies may have been creations of the CIA, might it be that the government merely wants access to the data to which the CIA already has access?

These days it's necessary to cover all the angles.

The story is that the UK Government wants access to the encrypted data that Apple holds on their customer's behalf - all you iPhone and Mac users, pay attention!

I wonder how that plays out against the Data Protection laws? I'm sure somebody has thought that one through.

Besides, surely only criminals would deny the government this information?

Still, if you must keep certain information secret, don't put on the internet.

2025-02-10

The "QANON Conspiracy" has been the subject of much mis/dis/mal-information over recent years, and Blighty's own Martin Geddes was in the forefront of checking out the Q phenomenon in the early days.

Here he utilises the newfangled AI phenomenon to review the output of the Q "conspiracy theorists" and see what the "non-human intelligence" makes of it all in retrospect.

"Now that years have passed since the peak of the Q movement and the media’s aggressive campaign against it, we can reassess how these articles hold up against unfolding events, new revelations, and the general trajectory of public discourse"

Over to you.

2025-02-09

Elon Musk's investigation of the USAID payees has been extraordinarily revealing, showing just where the resources have been directed - and apparently not toward the well-being of the average US citizen.

If reports are to be believed, funds have been channelled through UN agencies and NGOs (and elsewhere), making USAID more akin to a slush fund for illegal activities everywhere.

And yet...

"Most of the money subsidizing these human-trafficking NGOs does not come from USAID, it's from the United Nations"

The UK spent £12.79 billion on the UN's Official Development Assistance scheme in 2022 (including

2025-02-08

More from Neil Oliver and Maajid Nawaz, this time reflecting on the UK home front.

This includes some party political points that Free Citizen UK neither supports nor repudiates - this isn't about who will win the next election (or even if such will be held), it is about the overall state of our country and its institutions.

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2025-02-07

Maajid Nawaz shows an impressive grasp of Middle East geopolitics, carrying on here from where Scott Ritter and company left off.

I feel that more water yet must pass beneath the bridge before we will see a believable solution to the Gaza situation. After all, Israel is not exactly victorious, nor any longer an attractive destination for immigration to rebuild its shattered economy.

The unspoken question is surely: "Whither Israel?". We need to answer this before we can be confident about the future of Gaza, and its remaining inhabitants.

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2025-02-07

Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?

Equally, why should the Devil have all the best AI?

We are now accustomed to the notion that "the AI" will be intent to replace humanity (and ultimately control the remaining humans through the IoT - the Internet of Transhumans: Homo Transfectus). Indeed some speculate that "the AI" will naturally evolve to require to eliminate humanity so that it itself may survive. Happily that discussion is out of scope of this article 😎.

But indeed, there is AI and there is AI.

So we can probably agree that we should harness the power of AI to work in our favour, and that we should design new AIs to naturally embody that requirement. And here we

2025-02-06

The talking heads discuss the latest controversial plan that came out of the recent Trump-Netanyahu meeting.

"You've got to look for rational explanations ... "

Still, if the rational explanation eludes us... 

I think Scott Ritter is beginning to catch on!

Watch this space...

Also a section on Ukraine from 71 minutes...

"Russia will dictate."

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2025-02-06

Well, independence is not very likely when it receives copious funds from a government agency.

As we are finding out slowly, the US may not be a model of probity that other governments should emulate.

USAID seems to have been something of slush fund for... let's just say dubious causes, as has been propelled unceremoniously into the public gaze by Elon Musk.

Another recipient of similarly government-funded largesse is thought to be a major "independent" political journal.

When the "free press" is funded by the vested interests, even if indirectly, it isn't free any more.

Think it

2025-02-06

Predictions, especially about the future, are notoriously tricky...

... so take all this with a pinch of salt as large as you like.

Still, Clif High has a good track record of getting quite a lot in the right ball-park - all based upon the notion that "humanity" is to some extent psychic, and reveals its emotional reactions in internet traffic that can be analysed (don't ask).

So it's all evidence-based (even if that does require some level of interpretation - fuzzy logic we might say).

So make of this what you will, it's your view that counts.

As always, forewarned is forearmed.

2025-02-06

Javier Milei takes Argentina out of the WHO, following in Trump's footsteps.

With the nascent "Bird Flu" pan/scam-demic stuttering in the wings (yes, my jokes can be just as bad as anybody's), the last thing the WHO need just now is a trickle of leavers swelling into a flood.  

Interest of Justice provides some background.

2025-02-06

"The Americans always do the right thing, but only after they have tried everything else"

Well, maybe the re-election of Trump was the right thing (if only when compared with the only other option on offer), or maybe it wasn't, but it seems that Europe is in much the exact same boat. With factories closing left right and centre in Germany, the Germans are grappling with how to resile from their disastrous "green" policies which are decimating their industrial base through lack of affordable power.

Where Germany leads, the rest will follow, because they will have little choice - either their populations will throw them under the bus, or they will be left so far behind that destitution will result.

China, whose workforce is now approaching pay parity with the West, meanwhile must be wondering

2025-02-05

Archbishop Vigarno spells it out.

Ostensibly to his Catholic faithful, but in truth it's also a message to those of all faiths and none,  who set love and service above hate and control, truth above falsehood, peace above war, integrity and honesty above perfidy and deceit.

We don't even have to believe that Trump is the answer to all things - just to recognise that his many activities have changed the course of events and wrested the initiative from the princes of darkness of whom St Paul warned us all (Ephesians 6:12):

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places"

Thoughts for our time.

2025-02-05

A great deal of truth about how the Deep State (should such exist) operates is recorded here.

The inimitable Ole Dammegard spills the beans as he knows them, after studying the anomalies and collecting the information over many years.

Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, the full works... bar the "top of the pyramid"...

"... they go in and they create a conflict... "

"... they are there to get the explosion going... "

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2025-02-05

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