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Bring Back the Trial of the Pyx!

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2024-09-28

Some of the old customs and traditions are definitely the best!

But somehow, some of them have been debased by ... well, I don't know, perhaps as much or more as our Pound Sterling.

One pound sterling (originally one troy pound of sterling silver) is now worth almost as much as two thirds of a bar of chocolate.

Yet the cheapest 1oz silver bullion coin available from the Royal Mint this morning costs just a few pence more than £28. Given that there are ten troy oz in one troy pound, the original pound of sterling silver should be enough for around 420 bars of chocolate.

The "Trial of the Pyx" may be old-fashioned, but in my book it's high time it was updated and reinstated for modern circumstances ...

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The Trial of the Pyx

 

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Addresses the UN General Assembly

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2024-09-26

In a wide-ranging address to the delegates at the UN, the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivers a block-buster speech majoring on the unsupportable situation in Gaza, but also touching on many other issues both in the Middle East and other hotspots, and has pertinent remarks to make about the fake moralities that have been and continue to undermine the institution of the family around the world. 

The ceremonies at the recent Olympic Games were granted special mention.

A great deal here on which the world should both agree and promptly act. If the UN ducks this one, it's days must surely be numbered.

(37 minutes)

 

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Neil Oliver's Thought for Our Times

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2024-09-26

Neil's narrative this week packs a sting in the tail - watch to the end.

(17 minutes)

 

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Geopolitics of Conflict -- Conventional and Nuclear

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Category: Defence
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2024-09-25

With things moving fast now in the Middle East and the BRICS, this update from Pepe Escobar (around Russia and the  BRICS) and Scott Ritter (on the Middle East, Ukraine, and the politics of Nuclear First Strike) won't be welcomed by everybody, but is nevertheless important.

Who would have thought that in 2024 we would be concerned about the outbreak of a pre-emptive nuclear strike between the two superpowers? Oh yes we are, and Scott Ritter is probably the most experienced commentator on such matters having been a UN inspector of the arms limitation agreement with the then Soviet Union.

And you get two for the price of one, with the first 62 minutes covered by Pepe and the remaining 80 minutes by Scott Ritter.

The first video starts with Pepe (and continues with Scott), the second is the second section covering Scott Ritter only, for those that find that split convenient.

(1 hr 2 minutes plus 1 hr 20 minutes) Pepe Escobar + Scott Ritter

 

(1 hr 20 minutes) Scott Ritter

 

 

A Tale from the Psychological Battle for Public Opinion

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2024-09-24

"Charlotte Gill is a journalist who writes about politics. Her Twitter is @charlottecgill and you can subscribe to her excellent Substack here"

This is from Laura Dodsworth's substack the Free Mind.

And worth reading to see just how our tax-payer pounds are funnelled by government via dubious "independent" third party NGOs such as "charities" into projects that actively work to destabilise our society, normally by promoting some sort of division between groupings of people. 

Of course this should be contrary to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidelines, but is it?

"any detriment or harm that results from the purpose (to people, property or the environment) must not outweigh the benefit - this is also based on evidence and not on personal views"

So it would seem that there is plenty of scope to argue the pros and cons of whatever "evidence" may be available when the charity is set up, and in many cases one could argue that any destabilisation of society is the result of possibly inaccurate reports in the media rather than the activity of the blameless charity.

The notion that a third party and/or charity that is primarily funded by government can be independent is an obvious contradiction, yet evidently goes ignored by the Charity Commission, which is a "non-ministerial government department". So I guess that the government is its own judge and jury on this matter.

How many of these "independent" NGOs are there? 

Should any government have free reign to fund such "independent" operations (the UN comes to mind!) without the specific permission of the electorate? And how might the electorate withdraw such permission in evolving circumstances?

"Even after studying Woke Waste for the best part of a year, I still find endless examples of ghastliness ... "

"I’ve calculated tens of millions spent on everything from studies on pregnant men to how the Napoleonic wars are an example of “queer” history (a Civil Service newsletter, by the way!)"

"My name is legion, for we are many" - Mark 5:9

Read and make up your own mind.

 

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