Defence

2025-04-23

Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs review the current World for DiEM25.

What will they make of the world at the end of the era?

What do they foresee and what do they think we should be doing in the new era?

Will it be "same as the old era"?!

Pin back your ears and make yourself comfortable for two of the world's leading non-conformists...

"All problems in the world go back to the British"

Ouch!

(1hr 40 mins)

The United States is the Problem, Not the Solution

2025-04-23

The last working blast-furnace in the UK is going down.

Can nothing be done to save it?

Short of shipping it to China (where cheap coal is abundant) as a free gift, probably not.

After all, it requires coking coal that it could have had locally from a proposed mine in Whitehaven - but that conflicted with the Government's Net Zero policy so it couldn't.

So instead of giving it a viable source of supply, the government in its infinite wisdom sought to give the Chinese owners a £500m bung (for a totally impracticable "conversion to green energy") if they would only take the problem off its hands, an offer which the Chinese, being sensible businessmen (whether also CCP spies or not), could plainly see wouldn't make the business viable.

2025-04-21

The US elected a Trump who didn't start any wars, but Trump today is sending bombs to Israel and bombing the Houthis in Yemen (possibly with aid from the UK).

Oh, and threatening to bomb Iran, which would likely start off WW3.

"A foreign nation state is so privileged that the basic rights of Americans must be ignored to placate a foreign power?"

It's a good question therefore. 

I guess that whilst all these contradictions continue, we must assume that the world is not what it is made out to be.

2025-04-21

What does the announcement of the death of Pope Francis (and the allegedly incoming announcement of the death of King Charles) herald?

What will happen to the EU when America pulls the plug on Zelensky?

Is Japan finally free of the Khazarian Mafia?

It's another wide-ranging report that paints a broad canvas.

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2025-04-21

Ban who?

A conference of the 1950s post-war world where the non-aligned movement was formed by ex-colonial countries.

It's a long story that had it's roots in those days and comes to a head in current times.

George Galloway talks to Vijay Prashad.

There's a lot to think about here.

(19 minutes)

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2025-04-19

The nexus of major political parties, "independent" government contractors, and others all seemingly working together toward the eventual destruction of England.

Such things have been going on for years.

Graham Moore of the English Constitution Society explains his view of government activities that concern us but that continue regardless of whom we elect and what they may have promised.

It's your view that counts.

(95 minutes)

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2025-04-17

"There's Something Rotten in the State of Denmark" 

As so often, the Bard has a quote to match current circumstance.

Also as so often, the match isn't exact- but "it sufficeth".

For "Denmark" read "Cumbria", but if it can happen in "Cumbria" then we may surmise that it could happen elsewhere in England and Wales and maybe also in Scotland and various other external jurisdictions.

Martin Geddes, legal warrior, seeks a positive outcome to a case that may have broken every rule in the legal rule-book. How can he lose?

Seemingly he may only lose if the case never comes to trial!

How could that be a loss?

The

2025-04-17

We know that Trump isn't a conventional politician.

So when he talks of "joining the British Commonwealth" it is likely a ploy to provoke a counter-move in the direction that he actually wants to promote.

Still, this move is so out of line with the original intent of the American founding fathers that it demands some sort of analysis - what is he up to?!

1) It may be a straight distraction that he has no intention of progressing through to a finish - but it will set tongues wagging about something that is only there to distract attention rather than wagging about what is really going on behind the publicity. 

2) He could be using it to focus attention on the absurdities of King Charles and the Privy Council, that currently directs matters colonial / ex-colonial. "Canada" springs to mind but it could be more far-reaching.

3) Perhaps it's just an opening gambit in

2025-04-16

No, it's not Big Pharma, Big Politics, and at heart it may not even be "Big" anything, but it is powerful and does have far more influence and control than any self-respecting democracy should tolerate.

Dr Steven Greer, who has spent a lifetime investigating and documenting its activities, brings us up to date with his conclusions (so far... ) in this extensive interview - you may need to schedule your attendance as it's well over three hours! 

Take your  time...

(3 hrs 39 mins)

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2025-04-15

The irresistible force has met the immovable object, and what will be the result?

Scott Ritter explains what's going on, and doesn't mince his words.

"It's about what's happening internally - we've never faced a threat like this"

Outstanding. 

Plus an end-piece on the state of the Ukraine "peace process".

(77 minutes)

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2025-04-15

We traditionally consider engineering to be associated with the design of things: clocks and cars that work, software that sits in a computer and works, medicines that work.

Covid has shown us that that last "medicines that work" may not be as simple as it appears.

Sometimes it seems that medicines may perform differently than advertised, although you have to start asking supplementary questions, such as "advertised by whom?".

It rather comes down to the definition of that weasel word "work". And it turns out that it can have variable meanings dependent upon whom you ask, why you ask, and what might be the consequences of a wrong answer.

In the age TV and newspapers - the printed word - we make assumptions about the accuracy of what we are reading depending upon our view of the publisher - how reliable is this source?

In times past we viewed all the major "serious"

2025-04-14\

This goes back a long way.

Jeffrey Sachs speaks at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on 12th April 2025 on the effect of US-Israel foreign policy in the Middle East.

Forget all the ins and outs of complexity - there is one primary cause of the wars in the Middle East, according to Jeffrey Sachs.

(a 10 minute (approx) repeating loop)

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2025-04-14

A wide-ranging report majoring on the many facets of the world's financial arrangements, and who gets to control them. It's still all about the money.

In a major move the US is talking (almost) directly with Iran, thus opening the way to a peaceful outcome between these nations which isn't dictated by Israel.

With European "leaders" still posturing ineffectively and the fate of the world probably hanging in the balance somewhere between Iran China Russia and the US, who in various ways all now seem to be talking to each other, perhaps we can hope for positive outcomes that may later cascade out to the rest of the world.

Eventually.

2025-04-13

Pepe Escobar updates us on the latest diplomatic developments between leading members of the BRICS - Russia Iran and China.

Will Israel provoke the US into jointly attacking Iran?

Is Trump outmanoeuvred?

(23 minutes)

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2025-04-10

If the last half-decade shows us anything, it shows us that the Donald is not to be underestimated.

So here we present a different view of the Trump "second term", and how it may develop.

One thing is now clear: he is setting about wrecking the comfortable assumptions that underlay the previous world political order, and he challenges the world to rebuild something better. Will the world explode, implode, or will it respond positively?

This article sets out to explain how the positive response may look - but has anybody told Ed Milliband?

2025-04-08

Will VW now build tanks for the BundesWehr ?

Words fail. The European rhetoric shows that the EU "leaders" really do believe their own propaganda. 

What will it take to bring them back to reality? 

(21 minutes)

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2025-04-07

Ben's report today covers a whole lot of ground, treading on many toes that would certainly prefer to have been left untrodden.

As always, for the full read you will need a modest subscription.

One is left with the distinct impression that many flapping chickens are about to come home to roost over the next weeks. It's hard to see how this will be pretty, but it isn't likely to be dull...

Trigger warning - unsuitable for children. 

Dive In.

2025-04-04

We all heard the story of how Boris Johnson took a trip to Kiev allegedly to tell Zelensky to break off the talks with Russia, that had taken place to end the initial Russian Special Military Operation.

What on earth was that about?

Here to paint the overall picture is Scott Ritter once more. We are all familiar with the idea that the CIA has been pulling the strings behind more or less everything untoward that goes on in the world, but maybe we should ask who the CIA (and maybe even the Mossad) work for?

(59 minutes)

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2025-04-02

Are the Donald's threats to obliterate Iran (a) reasonable and (b) practicable?

Does Iran have nuclear weapons? Can the USA deploy nuclear weapons successfully?

This is 23 minutes of precise argument, and both parties and the host deserve great credit for getting together to make this video.

(23 minutes)

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