Defence

2026-03-24

Oh Dear.

"Experts say that to move ten thousand terabytes of data overseas bit-by-bit would take at least half a year... the breach may not have been external at all... "

Is anything is China now secure?

The perils of over-centralisation are exposed. 

Can China recover?

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2026-03-24

George Galloway interviews Prof Seyed Marandi.

It's not over yet.

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2026-03-23

Much like last week, Ben brings up up to date as  best he can in a situation where the truth is too shocking to the main protagonists to be made properly available.

Whilst there are reports in the mainstream press about the Iran war, reading between the lines is still a difficult and hugely problematic exercise - but what do we expect in wartime? We live within a vast psychological battleground where probably nothing major is as it seems.

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2026-03-23

Not necessarily.

Religions have (according to the history books) been very often a cause of bloody conflict (the crusades, likewise the persecution of heretics - notably the Cathars - by those religious powers who had neither shame nor concepts of doubt or mercy). 

Primarily the "Abrahamic" religions headed by Vatican, Islam, Satanism, Communism (if it can be called a religion as it more or less denies a creator God), all do or used to worship the notion of power over others. (I feel led to include Judaism here also, but frankly that's too complex a subject for me to either claim a decent understanding of or to pontificate about here).

And if not bloody conflict, certainly a mental conflict about their assumptions of how our world came to exist and how it actually works.

Sounds rather like today doesn't it? Have we

2026-03-21

This site doesn't do Party Politics, but this is really a message to the Nation with import we should all recognise. 

Farmers are suffering the Death by a Thousand Cuts, few of which make big headlines but taken together show a remorseless and entirely negative direction of travel.

Coupled with the Iran War reducing supplies of fertiliser, gas, and heating oil, and the disastrous obsession with "renewables", winter 2026-27 is beginning to look bleak beyond living memory.

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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...

And Late News:

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

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

"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.

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