2026-03-21

There are various scenarios, some all or none of which may transpire.

ZeroHedge discusses the recent events and the possible course of the war (whilst steering clear of any notion of Netanyahu's "death" - but isn't this a big issue?)

Cyntha Koeter reviews how Trump may further rearrange global geopolitics to his liking by leaving NATO and letting both NATO and the EU implode in due course.

In a world where we discover every day that nothing is as it seems, I rule nothing out...

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2026-03-21

The military are obligated to disobey an illegal order - but in the military, insubordination may be punished by death according to circumstances...

So it's no surprise that refusal of an illegal order is very rarely attempted, and probably even more rarely tolerated. 

Which may explain the suspicion that sailors aboard a certain US aircraft carrier may have been creative about not turning up for battle as ordered in a ship without a functioning sewage system.

Is this the first hint of a more widespread revolt among the military against involvement in a war that some, perhaps many of those who have thought about it, consider illegal?

The Light paper comments.

2026-03-20

If we today were to choose to bring up kids as they did in my day we would be charged with child neglect.

But the policemen wore proper uniforms and walked the beat (unless they were CID) and the Territorial Support Unit hadn't been invented. Nor had those stupid passenger doors on buses, and I don't remember anyone ever falling off the rear platform...  

Battersea Power Station generated electricity from British coal mines, which also provided coal for household heating and coal-gas for cooking and water heaters. The smog in London could be a pea-souper, until the Clean Air Acts (1956, 1968) made us burn "smokeless" fuel in our hearths in place of smoky old coal. But it was our coal, not oil from the Gulf.

Yet somehow the great Global Warming Catastrophe wasn't a thing until Al Gore and the Club of Rome met to invent it decades later as a mind-virus to poison our thinking. 

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2026-03-20

For those who may be interested, the Good Food Project looks interesting.

I have no idea about it and I'm in no position to recommend it, but he does make a lot of interesting points in these uncertain times.

It sounds like a worthy initiative that might just work out.

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2026-03-20

We haven't heard from Max for a while, but he has some interesting things to say about Australia, likewise about Mexico and recent events that he personally witnessed there, but mostly he has some very interesting things to say about Trump and the Israel-Iran war, which doesn't look as though it will end any time soon.

"People don't realise what we are on the brink of here"

Buckle up...

"This is a complete change in the power structure of Earth"

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2026-03-19

Col Wilkerson on the state of the Trump administration....

"... the President must make his decision... in that statutory process - Donald Trump has not used that process a single time... "

So what is the legal basis for the war on Iran?

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2026-03-19

The largest gas field in the world.

Under attack by both sides!

"... the situation doesn't seem to have an end in sight... "

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2026-03-19

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2026-03-18

With his impeccable logic and geopolitical experience, Scott Ritter tells it like he sees it. It isn't a comfortable view. If you really want to know what is likely to happen now and why, then take note.

The knock-on effects of losing the oil supplies that hitherto came from the Gulf region can be imagined, and those who suppose that the cracks can be quickly papered over are dreaming.

War rhetoric, or seismic change incoming?

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2026-03-18

He's not been there since 2017 when he was hosted with lavish hospitality.

He was due to visit at end of March.

"This is business, not performance - no rehearsal, no script"

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2026-03-18

... and if it gets too bad, we'll discuss it with Ed Milliband.

And should the pesky Russians get out of their beds and start marching down Whitehall in belated thanks for all the Storm Shadows we've been generously sending them via the Ukraine, we'll fast-track ourselves back into the EU and they'll send us more men from their "foreign legion" wet-foot across the Channel as quick as you can say "get those lifeboats out pronto to pick them up!".

2026-03-17

A citizen's (American of course) view from the trenches...

... this world truly takes all sorts to make sense of it.

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2026-03-17

"Does Trump even know what he's actually wanting to do?"

I guess one man's tyranny is another man's lunacy, and twas ever thus.

For my money Trump is deliberately unreadable, and understanding his motivation is a far more complex issue than anyone appreciates...

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2026-03-17

Madame Lei brings us up to date... do try to keep up.

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And now, - China's involvement in Iran's defense set up:

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2026-03-17

"The Empire doesn't fight its own wars... it needs Great Powers in permanent conflict... "

"What we are now seeing is that architecture beginning to fail on every front simultaneously... "

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2026-03-17

How high must the tension rise before EU leaders see sense?

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2026-03-16

It does seem to be rather more than the end of the beginning.

Netanyahu gone, Israel in collapse, US servicemen refusing suicidal (and no doubt illegal) orders as they are duty bound to do, the war in the Gulf is ending in defeat of the US-Israel mafiosi that has ruled the West since at least as far back as the private banking mafia set up the Federal Reserve in 1913, following the sinking of the "Titanic". Trump has taken it down by setting up against an Iran that had prepared for exactly this conflict over many years.

Time will tell what role Trump actually played here, but his actions seem to have enabled Netanyahu to take on the final impossible battle that would destroy the rogue state of Israel.

How the US will recover its poise after this remains to be seen, but if Israel is gone then the way is clear  to remove most of the Senate and Congress by whatever means necessary, but that may be a messy business.

Start of Week Review - Oil Shortage = Food Shortages

2026-03-15

Yes, it is important, especially if you are on the receiving end of a Summons to appear in Court to answer a charge.

"For a charge to proceed, Criminal Procedure Rule 7.3 requires that the accusation contain sufficient particulars to disclose an offence known to law"

The key word here being "particulars" -  a vague assertion without the said particulars is deemed inadequate.

Martin Geddes illustrates the point.

2026-03-15

The View from Trump Central is... under development.

So asserts Mike Seger of Promethean Action, who have spent their entire existence monitoring globalism and its advance through the institutions, so perhaps they know a thing or two.

For Mike, the Trump-Israel attack on Iran has a purpose - to promote the fall of globalism and to re-establish an era of nation states that cooperate in their own interests. To do this, the power of the global corporate oligarchs must be neutered. After all, who is elected - the corporations or the national governments? Currently it doesn't matter who gets elected (as is now obvious in the UK), the global oligarchical corporations still call the shots (except in Russia, which might explain why Mr Putin is so unpopular in the West, and why his downfall is so zealously pursued via