Censorship

2025-05-13

Roger Watson, who we must assume from his opening words is a Catholic, takes a hard look at the global problem of immigration, and what the official Catholic response under the leadership the newly minted Pope Leo might be.

It's a vital question, and not adequately answered by the simplistic assumption that all should be automatically welcome regardless of culture, proclivity, religion, or even of sheer numbers.

Still, at least he has a specific leader to assess, whose actions may or may not speak louder than his words.

Unlike us C of E (Church of England / Church of Everybody) protestants, who have a leadership divided between King Charles III (who by convention is restrained from openly engaging in UK politics) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (who sits in the Lords by virtue of his leadership of the Lords Spiritual) and is not constrained by convention. Who can say how the relationship between the King and his servant the Archbishop may affect UK

2025-05-08

Martin Geddes offers his AI's take on 5th generation warfare (all very peculiar).

We are well into Orwellian territory now. It is the war against mind-control, the war against unthinking compliance, against habitual deference to those who assert authority, and against the worldview within which we grew up (and into which we were indoctrinated).

Everyone is on this battlefield whether or not we realise it. 

Only those of us prepared to think the unthinkable will survive it.

Everything we have been told is up for challenge and rethinking, individual by individual.

Nobody can rethink everything, but understanding the necessity, and making a start, will likely be enough.

Make of it what you will

2025-05-07

As something of a relic from my ever receding past as an "IT professional", I still get communications from my erstwhile professional body, since I haven't found a good reason for cutting off my membership subscription.

It's communications can be educational, given that it has "transformed" itself in some ways since I was permitted membership, and not all to the good in my jaundiced curmudgeonly view.

Sometimes transformation can be for the good, and sometimes for the modish but ephemeral fashion of the day (Good Lord, give me the wisdom to differentiate them!). In my old-fashioned viewpoint (which I still see few reasonable grounds to modify), a leading professional body should primarily devote itself to the well-being of the profession, the advancement of its technical and scientific knowledge base, and the education of its practitioners, of the public in general (and of the government in particular) with regard to the contribution that the profession can

China Cut Down to Size?

2025-04-25

Can we believe everything that we read in the media?

Can we believe the stuff that we don't read in the media?

Can we believe what the government tells us? Or is there a reason that politicians (and estate agents) reportedly rank lowest in the public mind for being trustworthy?

Should the media join them?

After the Covid exercise where the media slavishly and without any qualms parroted the official lines (lines which completely contradicted all previous official notions of how to deal with a pandemic), many more people are now awake to the fact that something isn't free about our "free press".

Of course many stories are routinely rubbished as being by and for crackpots and "conspiracy theorists" who have an insane paranoia where trust of official

2025-04-22

I've never heard of Perplexity.ai, but it sounds like it might be appropriately named.

Patrick Wood (of Technocracy News) explains what he asked it for and what he got.

" ... they don't want my voice heard anywhere on the internet ... "

Maybe there's something in this AI lark after all...

2025-04-17

Reductio ad absurdum is an established technique (call it "scientific" if you want, but why would you?) to prove that something is true by assuming the opposite, and then showing that this opposite must indeed be false.

Brownstone Institute author David Souto Alcalde does a neat job of demolishing the ultimate liberalism by showing whither it must inevitably lead.

If the Cap Fits...

About the only idea I could usefully add to that is the notion that the contrived use of latin prefixes in an attempt to garnish their flawed notions with a superfluous veneer of academic credibility, only serves to illustrate their

2025-04-10

This speaks plainly, directly - probably too directly for some.

But steel yourself. It's not rocket science. 

Nor is it Party Political - Labour just happen to be the party currently in office, but it went on under their predecessors for ever.

Nor is it exclusively racial / religious - it runs deeper and wider than that.

We have to deal with it as best we can.

It is time.

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2025-04-04

The Donald is nothing if not controversial. It's almost his middle name. So is he the man to take down the deep state for ever... or is he simply here to take down Deep State mk 1, only to replace it with Deep State mk2?

Who's to say?

Enter Ole Dammegard, whose life has been one long serial investigation into false flag events all around the world. What he doesn't know about false flags isn't worth knowing.

So whilst we must all reach our own conclusions about where the world is going, listening to Ole Dammegard is an essential part of our preparation.

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So question everything, except your heart...

2025-03-31

What would we think if a Court blocked Nigel Farage from standing for election?

Like him or loathe him, he has as much right to appeal for the support of his compatriots as anybody.

But that isn't going to happen in Britain - there are better ways to ensure that he doesn't get too near to actual power than an outright ban.

So perhaps it's a measure of how desperate the French power base is, that Marine le Pen has been prevented from standing for the presidential election.

Evidently they do things differently in France.

Perhaps if we could get the courts to ban all the unsuitable

2025-03-28

Now here's a blast from the 2020 Glastonbury Symposium, when we all had to find alternative activities to occupy us. 

Here Andy Thomas interviews Rupert Sheldrake, who found his original studies in biology wanting, and decided that he needed something better, resulting in a number of books, various attempts to discredit his ideas, and a rather different career path outside the mainstream than perhaps he envisaged. 

Lots of food for thought here, all nicely argued.

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2025-03-25

Politics in Germany is rescued. Tranquillity is restored. Germany is saved. Democracy is... censored, at least in the Bundestag Phew!

The terrible ambitions of the "far right" AfD have been foiled by a whisker (and a snap fortuitous Parliamentary rule-change).

Eugippius reports.

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...

2025-02-25

Even if politicians and estate agents traditionally vie for the title of "those who least enjoy public trust", it seems that at least in the EU, the incumbent politicians somehow are still preferred over their upstart opposition (perhaps the system still somehow works to consolidate the vote share of the leading parties?). It's a tricky analysis to perform, but Redacted have lined up a fearless pundit who doesn't shy away from picking some figures to indicate how he considers the political tides are moving in Germany, and the consequent reactions from the EU's "great and the good".

"The winner of the German elections is being called a big win for Globalists... a big win for more war in Ukraine... and a slap in the face to free speech and closed borders"

Maybe elections should be about policies rather than parties?

But whatever, it looks like a large number of German and maybe EU politicians are

2025-02-15

The fall of the twin towers has always been controversial, but officialdom has always been deaf to any argument but their own.

Many believe that the official story was a huge cover-up, and that the disaster was a false flag attack by the CIA in order to persuade the public of the necessity for the planned "War on Terror".

Trump has declared that this event will be reviewed under his leadership.

Former Congressman Curt Weldon gives his side of the 9/11 story. He is but one of many "conspiracy theorists" who had involvement around that time.

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2025-02-13

Will the Trump Train not pause to allow more passengers to board?

If you are not aboard already, it's not stopping now for anyone. The contrast with the much-quoted EU train that the UK was so earnestly exhorted to join before it too departed (in that case for the wonderfully fabled but ill-defined EUtopia) is unmissable. But whither goes the Trump Train?

Fresh from the successful blitzkrieg on the various federal agencies of corruption (and possibly treason) such as (but not limited to) the now infamous USAID, the next suburbs to be passed through will be the major historical false flag attacks:

The JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King  assassinations

The Epstein client list and (perhaps) his "suicide"  

The 9/11 attack on the twin towers (and building 7's "spontaneous"

2025-01-19

"Grooming Gang" territories, to mention three not at random.

These are murky waters wherein the judicial authorities intersected with local and national politicians, police, and indeed the press, evidently to suppress the criminal tragedies that took place over many years.

Consequently, informed and considered discussion about these matters is difficult to find, and prone to degenerate into political point-scoring which isn't productive.

So I welcome this interview between Peter Whittle and Simon Danczuk, a former Labour MP for Rochdale, who gamely answers Peter's questions as best he could - nobody comes out of this topic totally smelling of roses, but it is the sort of discussion that actually does advance our understanding of what took place, how and why, and what might now be best done about it.

You may or may not agree with everything said, but they do bring out some highly pertinent

2025-01-18

The Roman Catholic Church is infamous for its past activities that led to much suffering and death for those honest enough to make up their own minds about its doctrines and to live their lives accordingly. That isn't to suggest that other denominations were always blameless!

Rather than using such diverse opinions as learning opportunities for both parties, the Church sought to stamp them out in manner calculated to scare possible adherents to shut up and conform at least outwardly to Catholic dogma.

But was the Church ever about saving the faithful, or was it set up by the Roman Emperor of the time to corral those unruly Christians under the reliable leadership of his own bishops? Which motivation aligns with the Inquisition?

One may at least ask similar questions of the social media giants of today - were they set up to promote unfettered legal freedom of speech for the masses, or were they created by the CIA so that governments worldwide could

2025-01-13

Words matter:

"In the beginning was the word..." 

Well, that was in the beginning, before the politicians involved themselves.

Now, in their desperation to confuse us all into compliance with their never-ending absurdities, they have refined and redefined and counter-defined words to such an extent that even when we have the meaning explained to us, we cannot follow the logic (because it isn't logical) or we continue to misunderstand the meaning (because it's neither constant nor consistent).

I have read this attempt to explain the latest ineluctable word game (don't panic, it's a German word) a couple of times and am still none the wiser. 

Do you have better

2025-01-09

Well, it's true, "Meta"-phorically speaking... (groan)... Mark has made what seems like a 180^o screeching hand-brake turn on "fact-checking" - a turn not lost on the erstwhile "fact-checkers", who have (reportedly) "fact-checked" his statement...

As I have chosen to exist on the Net largely outside the Zuckerverse I don't feel qualified to comment of this turn of events, but happily, I know of a man who does.

(Strange though, I don't remember the blue-eyed curly-redhead look previously... )