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2026-01-12

Maybe "When it's an mRNA 'vaccine'"? Or perhaps when the FDA doesn't know how to apply its own definition to obtain the only permitted answer?

Not "Newspeak", Good Lord no!

"Screwspeak" perhaps - or maybe "ScrewYouSpeak" - we can never have enough new words to describe the devious subterfuges that officialdom adopts to try to wriggle out of stating the absurdly obvious can we?

At this point the man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus will simply observe that the Emperor is linguistically naked.

Or maybe this is simply "soft disclosure"...

2026-01-11

Gold and Silver assets must now be... gold and silver!

Does this amount to a revolution in banking?

Does it apply to Central Banks?

Are we in for a rough ride?

Will the auditors be busy?

It seems we are about to find out...

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2026-01-10

Confused?

Join the club.

Since starting this site I seem to have done little other than feature hitherto unsuspected levels of duplicity bad faith and indeed treachery - "for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places".

Plausible deniability may be "safe and effective" but it does have a "side effect".

It's hard to tell the truth from the falsehood.

In this school for souls here on planet Earth, it's probably the most difficult test to navigate. OK, if something is difficult but you can see it clearly, then you can give it your best shot with confidence, but when even the ground that you thought you were treading on seems suddenly capable of deceiving you,

2026-01-05

There are various ways to view the action of the United States (if such still exists) in capturing the President of Venezuela.

If indeed such a feat took place. With the capabilities of AI these days, any news event can be simulated...  although most would assume that on the balance of probability it would be very difficult to get away with such a move, since somebody might well produce the real Nicolas Maduro some place else...

But then again we know that the media is notoriously selective about what they like to report.

Benjamin Fulford has made it his business to unearth what is really going on underneath all the news reports (fake and genuine) for many years, so he is worth listening to, even if we can't trust what his contacts are feeding him - after all, many are in the business of disinformation and they know what he does with what they tell him.

He would truly be superhuman to get it all right,

2026-01-02

This has a bit of everything in it. One might say it caters for all tastes.

Although predictions (especially about the future) are notoriously trick to get right, why does it look as though 2026 is a magnet for predictions from multiple quarters of significant change?

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2026-01-01

Look no further!

This has got to be just about the best resolution you could possibly make, so make it a habit right now!

And you know what? It's the simple way to cut your problems right down to size, so...  what are you waiting for?

The only exception to this rule is...  if you are already doing it!

2026-01-01

Who has not heard of ChatGpt, Grok, etc? - Almost nobody.

Who understands how they work? - Almost nobody.

Who understands how good their results are? - Very few.

So of what use are they?

Well, as an improvement on a traditional search engine, they are indeed useful, especially if we are examining a reasonably cut-and-dried topic, say for instance, the Statute Book. It exists. It's not "fuzzy" except in so far as its provisions can be extremely complicated, even contradictory,  and thus not easily understandable by mere humans, which is one of the reasons we have hitherto had to have highly paid and experienced lawyers... in an attempt to understand the output of our Parliamentarians... ("but ignorance of the law is no excuse").

Now take a

2025-12-26

No comment whatsoever. 

(NB: This is not financial advice 😎)

2025-12-25

I'm not qualified to comment on this, as I didn't have to contend with such evil in my childhood.

But I trust Cyntha's viewpoint.

But I do have a short homily to put forward for consideration... which I hope may be helpful.

I think that to be OK with others we must first be OK with our as-yet-imperfect selves, and realise that (quite contrary to the teachings of the so-called Christian Churches that hold that we are all dreadful sinners and have to earn forgiveness of "God" - or perhaps actually of the Church on the Church's terms - sale of "indulgences" anyone? - "By their fruits shall ye know them"...

Iran, According to an Iranian

2025-12-21

Those crafty Russians were obviously up to something...  
... or was it Old Father Time himself ..?

Perhaps "Q" is about more than just... a modern "conspiracy theory"...

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2025-12-20

This time from our favoured financial commentator Nick Hubble (this is not financial advice!).

And after 50 years of the same old same old it really should be obvious to all but the young, who haven't lived through enough of it yet to understand where this is all going.

Politicians understand  well enough - hence the continuing efforts to lower the voting age seemingly until toddlers in nappies will qualify. After that they may have to ban abortions in order to get enough voters who will believe their blandishments, so perhaps some good may come of it eventually...

Which brings me to my next point. If we want to continue to live in a democracy, then we oldies have the moral responsibility to live every bit as long as possible so that the voting public can benefit from our wisdom at the ballot

2025-12-19

English history is replete with tales of the Ruling Elite turning with ferocity on their lower classes:

• the crushing of the Peasants Revolt of 1381,
• the burning of Lollards in 1401 and the last woman to be burned (for counterfeiting the coinage - are you listening Bank of England?) in 1789, 
• the massacre at Peterloo in 1819,
• and the 

2025-12-17

"Twas the Night Before Christmas... "  -  Oh wait, that line was taken years ago.

And anyway, it needs modernising, bringing up to date, so that it captures the spirit of our times, even the still-metastasizing spirits of the incoming future, rather than the dull and boring old family-centred Christmasses of the past that everyone can see are already being overtaken by the modern conveniences of the panopticon of the future.

Happily the perfect example of just such a proximate, nay imminent, update arrived unbidden in my inbox recently, and I have no hesitation in offering it for your festive fancy...

2025-12-13

Did the world change some time shortly after the "Glorious Revolution"?

Some say so, although the idea seems extraordinary to the modern mind...

But we weren't there, so who's to say?

There are many strange tales of past events that provoke our curiosity, we know that history is written by the victors (to show themselves in the best light), and we know (well, I know, and I'm not alone in my knowing) that in recent years we were told the most almighty fibs by those who would change the course of history, and not for our betterment.

So today to further provoke your disbelief, your curiosity, and yes, your inquisitive child within, we present another tale of times past which it would seem have some explaining to do...

... as it should be said does this video itself,

2025-12-01

If you are lamenting the current wintry British weather, spare a thought for those for whom the sun no longer shines - not until well into next year anyway.

"Ah but they are used to it" you cry - but so are we. British weather is still mild by comparison with similar latitudes in Europe, thanks to the benevolence of the Gulf Stream. And we benefit from daylight sunshine reasonably often during winter months, even if nowhere near sufficiently often to make Ed Miliband's fantasies into a viable power grid. Even so, a deep freeze winter is thankfully something of a rarity.

So how do those for whom a deep and dark freeze is an annual occurrence cope with their lot?

2025-11-28

Will the AI world end in Utopia or Nightmare?

Will the AI rule us, or "enhance" us as the WEF would have it, so that we will work for them, own nothing, and be "happy" (define "happy")?

Or will we somehow wriggle out from under and make use of an AI that is our faithful servant?

Or that appears to us to be our faithful servant, much as Parliament has contrived (but ultimately failed) to appear to us? I would place quite a large bet on the AI making a vastly better fist of appearing to us as our servant whilst manipulating us into complying with what it wants us to do, than Parliament.

Perhaps the ultimate AI would be called "Jeeves", would know us (and our relatives friends and acquaintances) better than we know ourselves, and would always know how to politely and resourcefully get us out of the scrapes that we get ourselves

2025-11-22

The UN's Climate Control Event COP30 did not go according to plan.

After all, nothing destroys an illusion like reality, and the reality is that none of the much-foretold climate-warming catastrophes deigned to come true, even as the worst effects of the push for Agenda 2030 become glaringly apparent.

So was it all for nothing?

I don't think so.

It has had / will have the singular effect of destroying the trust that uncritical people have reflexively placed in the UN's authority.

Watch what happens now to the WHO, the WHO-WEF partnership, the UN aid programmes and much else besides.

As a fish rots from the head,

2025-11-18

"Forewarned is forearmed" as they say.

Political activist Nick Griffin ("far right" I hear you cry - but rather far right than far wrong in my view) has opened Pandora's pollitical Box and speculated on how a Reform Party victory in the Commons might play out at some time in the not so distant future.

Would political pragmatism prevail, or would battle royal commence?

Of course it's idle speculation at this point, but perhaps it's time to start to mull over the possibilities...

2025-11-12

Browsing the net (as one does) I happened upon a Wikipedia page in honour of the Telegraph's satirical column of yesteryear (not to be confused with their current offering under the same title).

As a one-time dedicated Telegraph reader, Peter Simple's imaginary world ofsocietaltragicomic over-earnest fashionably-deluded or simply bonkers characters would invariably bring a chuckle to contend inconveniently with ingestion of breakfast. His great facility in applying appropriate names to his inappropriate characters never ceased to amuse, names which effortlessly conjured the stereotype that we had never even considered existed.

If you too are of similar antiquity and like me never imagined that Peter Simple's make-believe Way of the World was exactly whither we were all inevitably headed, then this may bring it all back