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Perfidious Albion?

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2026-01-09

Alex Krainer reports on the lead-up to WW2 ...

" ... today, the leaders in Germany along with those in France and Britain seem obsessed with going to war with Russia. It's hard to overestimate the recklessness of this obsession ... "

... but it may be foolish in the extreme to ignore it, given that this obsession seems to have an inexplicably long history.

Why is the objective always and ever to bring down Russia? 

It's true that the Bolsheviks did manage it in 1917, but Mr Putin isn't going to let it happen again, even if he has to level Kiev London Paris Berlin and more in the process. Nor would we in his shoes.

(42 minutes)

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Banking for Beginners

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Category: Free Citizen
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2026-01-09

Prepare to be amazed ...

What was the guild economy anyway? Surely that died out years ago ...

... but is it somehow being reinvented for the modern era?

(43 minutes)

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Money Money Money ...

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2026-01-09

An all-to-rare video from Nick Hubble, discussing the trends in the nature of money.

There's a lot to unpack and I'm not convinced that we all ought like lemmings to rush after the latest in crypto and risk plunging over an uncharted cliff, but it is something that probably is coming and must therefore be factored into the calculations that we make about our future financial health.

If and when (or vice versa) cash is done away with, what will we do?

In a world where trust has gone to the dogs (forgive the implied and unwarranted slur on our canine companions) I'm far from convinced that what he is discussing is the answer that solves all the problems. 

On the other hand if it is an (or the only) alternative to your national CBDC, maybe it doesn't look so bad.

Money after all should serve two purposes - a means of exchange to eliminate the need for bartering, and a store of wealth (which can only be achieved by assuring that goods are available in the market when we come to spend it - so no conjuring loans from central or other banks or anyone else by simply pressing keys on a keyboard).

Does the new wave meet these requirements?

(37 minutes)

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The Maduro Situation - Alex Krainer

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Category: Free Citizen
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2026-01-08

The inexplicable explained?

Perhaps not, not just yet at any rate. But a few more ideas ...

The only thing we can say for reasonably sure is that there is a lot more to come out from this affair yet.

" ... there are 76 documented international organisations ... which enjoy complete immunity ... "

Maybe we need somebody to do another "follow the money" exercise ...

(63 minutes)

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The Age of Artificial Humanity is Now

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2026-01-07

A thoughtful piece in the Daily Sceptic today (about football, which is surely one of the most enduring artificialities of our age, in many ways leading all the others except radio and TV, which have acted as the enablers) points up the sad fact.

We are not the humanity we once were.

We once needed to interact with our neighbours in order to live. We were localised on a day to day basis and went to market once a week to trade our produce with the produce of others, so that our lives could be comfortable and our interests in our neighbours' and neighbourhood's well-being,  prospects, and hopefully scandalous behaviour could be indulged. We could play tennis, compete with neighbouring settlements at football or cricket, and exchange gossip afterwards in the pub about what our neighbours had been up to.

Meanwhile our "leaders" in London would have to employ spies and await their despatches if the wanted to know what was really going on elsewhere. An expensive and difficult and therefore comparatively rarely used exercise.

Now we can sit at home and watch the telly, play strange games on our smartphones, order food deliveries from Tesco and await deliveries of everything else from Amazon without ever setting foot as far as the nearest postbox, which itself is fast approaching its forget-by date, becoming an increasingly rare element of forgotten infrastructure from a byegone age. You mean to say that people had to write letters on paper in those days? And wait days for a reply?!

The downside is that the secret services are doubtless monitoring our every keystroke, our every transmission, and categorising our every taste as revealed by our scrolling habits - they know more about us than we do ourselves. Or rather, their AI does ... 

Truly we have been absorbed by the technology, sucked into the artificial world of the internet, fenced off from the real world of sun, sea, wind, rain, woods and lakes, rivers and canals, hills and dales, the very world that we used to inhabit. We are separated even from the need for human interaction. Is it any wonder the birth rate is falling through the floor? We no longer even have to talk to each other ...

"If our football club can learn to shrug at its own soul, it is hardly shocking that everything else is now run with the same blank managerial stare"

But, but, but ... is living within the simulation of reality already reaching its limits?

 

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