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  • A Note on the Politics of Our Times

    2024-01-21

    This article by Dr James Alexander has got to be the must-read piece for making sense (or should that be nonsense?) of the politics of our ruling classes in 2024 (not to mention previous years).

    So without further ado, read up on Politics 101.

    Then ponder what to make of it all, including where we go from here...   because that is our mission impossible (should we choose to accept it) in 2024.

     

  • Martin Geddes Takes on the Traffic Penalty Tribunal

    2024-01-19

    I guess this is a topic in which a large number of motorists will have an interest - if not today, then tomorrow!

    With "Low Emission" zones proliferating like the proverbial rabbits, there cannot be many who will never run foul of some restriction or other - even when well signed, it can be well-nigh impossible to scan all the street furniture, identify all the signs, then read and understand them, whilst simultaneously taking care to avoid rear-ending the vehicle in front.

    So Martin, having been picked out for driving his (not commercial) van in an area where only private cars are permitted free passage, has decided to contest the claimed infraction on the basis that his van is a private conveyance in all significant respects and is therefore permitted free passage.

    Of course, as he digs deeper he uncovers more issues... which seem as if they may have parallels with the Council Tax situation. Quelle surprise!

    Ever Wondered How Much CO2 is Released by War?

    2024-01-16

    Lots of course. But how much is "lots"?

    S & P Global Commodity Insights has crunched to numbers for us, at least in so far as current wars are concerned.

    Our governments are apparently always perfectly able to accommodate several contradictory notions at the same time, so they will unhesitatingly act to "keep us safe" by going to war (not bothering about democratic mandates of course - no time for that) on behalf of their favourite protagonist(s), whilst at the same time telling us that we must achieve NetZero CO2(however they might eventually decide to define that in measurable terms)so out with the gas and in with the heat pumps frozen windmills and darkened solar panels.

    So far, two months of conflict in Gaza have generated "the equivalent of 75 coal power plants operating for a

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  • Get Those "Little Grey Cells" Working

    2024-01-15

    In compliance with our policy of encouraging our readers to do their own thinking, we turn our attention today to Tartaria, a region encompassed today by modern-day Russia.

    Who were the Tartarians, did they migrate all around the world, constructing magnificent buildings that worked in ways unimaginable to us today? What happened to them?

    I don't know the answers, but we do know that much of Tsarist Russia was destroyed by the Bolsheviks, with considerable loss of life.

    Much within this video seems plausible to me, but I have no firm opinion. Certainly it may be thought far-fetched, but after the last few years I have learned not to discount on that criterion alone...

    Make of it what you will.

    (44 minutes)

      

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  • Farmers Blockades could come to Britain?

    2024-01-11

    GB News interviews Welsh farmer Gareth Wyn Jones about the growing unrest in Europe over the authorities' seemingly coordinated push to subject the farming movement to WEF-inspired restrictions and increased costs.

    “Farmers don’t protest unless there is a real reason because they want to be at home producing food affordably for everybody"

    (6 minutes)

     

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  • Natural World Denatured

    2024-01-10

    OK, it's near enough midwinter and we don't expect too many insects at this time of year, but these reports don't just relate to "now" and "here".

    It's the silent pandemic, death by thousands of RF masts erected without so much as a by-your-leave all around our world.

    Arthur Firstenberg puts together a global collection of reports that should make us all sit up.

    "In the day the hotel played bird sounds because there are so few birds and insects now"

    But don't worry, someone else will fix it...

  • The Occult Art Explained

    2024-01-07

    What is the "Occult"? That which is hidden. 

    How are things hidden? Behind something else.

    Behind what exactly? Behind any one or more of a whole list of items and factors (limited only by the imagination of the sorcerer) that prevent us from seeing it. Including distraction to ensure that the subject pays no attention to the reality...

    Fortunately, Alan of Salisbury is at hand to explain.

    It's a long list, but presented in two parts, each from a different standpoint - which is required if you are trying to uncover the full situation.

    (50 minutes) Part 1: The original presentation:

     

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  • How Many More?

    2024-01-07

    Neil Oliver reminds us that the Covid business is unfinished, and will not be finished until the many outstanding questions are (a) acknowledged and (b) answered - and not by the apparently heavily skewed and seriously deficient Covid whitewash "enquiry".

    Not to mention all the many outstanding questions that we are not permitted to raise about other elephants of various hues still proliferating around the room...

    Will 2024 will be the year that the dam breaks, unleashing an unstoppable tsunami of truth?

    (11 minutes)

     

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  • I Wasn't Going to Put This Up, But ...

    2024-01-06

    ... the entertainment value is just too great to ignore!

    We all need a bit of levity in these dark days, so we must take it where we find it, and as so often, Richard Vobes and his guest don't disappoint.

    As sometimes happens, there is an enormous amount of good sense in what this gentleman stands for, and part of his attraction is undoubtedly the subtle mix of pantomime, preposterous assertion, Biblical lineage, and sheer outrageous chutzpah, all leavened with a great dollop of sorely needed sanity and good sense. He sounds like just the sort of fellow to whom the whole British Commonwealth might relate and accord him a gigantic acclamation, were he somehow to be given half a chance... failing that, someone should make him into the next "Carry On!" film.

    Only problem is, he already has a rival for the throne...

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  • Drawing the Line in the Desert

    2024-01-03

    The Sykes - Picot line?

    No, the Neom futurist linear city.

    This report is from October, but I don't doubt they've been forging ahead since.

    It presents with undertones of a glossy travelogue / sales pitch, but what else would we expect given the scale of the undertaking?

    Strange how they have decided to house the construction workers in a new-build facility that looks remarkably like an old city, with parks, sports pitches and entertainment blocks, but maybe I'm missing something.

    Still, when finished, using the inbuilt rail system people will be able to travel from one end of the city to the other in "20 minutes" - although it seems to me that if you want to get off at an intermediate point, at an average speed of 500 km/hr you might have to look slippy when

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  • Geddes End of Year Update

    2023-12-30

    Martin Geddes has been busy in 2023 taking his demands for equal justice under the law through the courts for various issues - Council Tax, BBC Licence Fee, plus investigative work on the "Palnackie Pirates".

    Neatly foiling my attempts to link articles into a coherent sequence by subject, he today publishes a composite end of year report summarising the status of each of these projects.

    Follow Martin's Report here.

     

  • Fulford at Christmas 2023

    2023-12-26

    My apologies for taking Christmas Day off 🙂.

    It seems that Benjamin Fulford did not, so here we present his Christmas 2023 report for Monday 25th December.

    "... both China and the West (the rest of the world not so much) need to completely change their long, short and medium turn economic plans"

    "The victors in the war against the KM are now presenting plans that are astonishing in their scale and ambition"

    "Once the plans on how to accomplish this are worked out, the result will make the Cambrian explosion look like a champagne bubble by comparison"

    We stand on the threshold of a new age, a new era, a new eon perhaps.

    Buckle up. Do we trust any government that relies on coercion to take us into

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  • For the Esotericist

    2023-12-22

    If you fancy a bit of brain-hurt, this may be for you.

    Be warned, it traverses a great deal of history, mythology (what is mythology?) and of the "hidden knowledge" so beloved of the many and various incarnations of the secret societies that have flourished and withered over many centuries - making sense of it is problematic to say the least.

    Still, without wishing to assert that any of it is actually true (truth here must be entirely dependent upon the interpretation of each individual reader!), it does make for a diverting and indeed challenging read in the wake of this winter solstice, when the Sun reverses its course and the days start to become longer once more. Is this anything to do with Lucifer, the "bringer of light"? Or just the same old cycle of the heavens...

    Make of it what you will. They were not called

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  • The Space Between Me and Reality

    2023-12-17

    For those becoming discombobulated by a realisation that our world is not run the way we thought it was, and still coming to terms with the new reality...

    This substack isn't directly applicable but does deal with the writer's approach to the uncertainty involved in dislocation.

    "The place I’m in feels liminal; not quite done with the past and not yet having created a new life here"

    "the myriad ways in which my body and heart and spirit are supporting me and carrying me onward, if only I can take the time to listen"

    "I feel help coming from so many other forces too: particularly from friends; from the trees, the waters and the land I’m on; from the movement of the stars reminding me of deep time and space"

    This piece probably isn't for

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  • Elon Lays it Out

    2023-12-17

    Elon Musk performs for an Italian audience (in English!):

    (39 minutes)

     

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  • An Encouragement for Our Time

    2023-12-16

    Once more Neil Oliver articulates our thoughts, and does it much better than I could ever achieve.

    As the Christmas season approaches, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the things we think we should have done but haven't (yet) - and at such times as this, even in the midst of global uncertainty rampant, it's important to take a step back, establish a moment of calm, and review what went right as well as what did not go so well, and what remains to be done.

    Neil, we salute you!

     

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  • The COP28 Ritual Explained

    2023-12-14

    Dr Benny Peiser reflects on the realities underlying the COP28 pronouncements.

    As the good Dr remarks:

    "... for the first time that I can remember, this COP has given the rubber stamp to fossil fuels"

    I guess what it comes down to is - what's in a word? As Humpty Dumpty remarked:

    "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less"

    Pragmatism, or revolt (by any other name) because too many populations simply cannot survive without effective and reliable power supply?

    (26 minutes)

     

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  • Another Take on Our Health (or Lack of)

    2023-12-14

    This is going to be controversial!

    I have no idea whether the ideas put forward in this tall tale are correct or incorrect - but I do give credence to the general idea that the modern medical industrial complex has seriously lost its way (assuming that it is motivated to support our health well-being and active life-span).

    Some now consider that parasites are the cause of a number of our human health problems, but whilst there is widespread acknowledgement that animal parasites do infect our pets and livestock, there may be some disagreement on the existence and extent of modern human parasites. For my part I would ask why humans should be any different from animals in this regard?

    This presentation from the Global Sciences Congress 1997 (Tampa) presents the case for human parasites and what to do about them.

    In the interests of balance, I should point out that Full Fact has

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  • Will AI Rule the World?

    2023-12-14

    So what is it with AI? Will it rule the world?

    What are its limitations?

    Will it take my job?

    Well, maybe it depends...

    Maybe it won't do my job any time soon, but listen up, and form your own conclusions.