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What's Up in China?

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2026-06-03

Lei reads the runes ...

(56 minutes)

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The AI Trap, or the Trap for AI?

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2026-06-03

AI is developing at breakneck speed ...  will it be a force for good, a force for evil, or a damp squib that would need all the water in all the oceans on earth to meet its insatiable cooling needs?!

Well, that last problem may slow it down a bit, but isn't in reality likely to stop it any time soon, at least not whilst the central bankers have power over the money supply and who gets it.

The future for AI in fact looks increasingly assured as governments of all stripes increase the complexity of the legal systems, information systems, health systems, and official systems of all kinds so that mere mortals no longer have sufficient lifespan to devote themselves to living within all the ever-multiplying rules and regulations whilst simultaneously trying to earn a living and bring up the next generation(s). AI is increasingly being seen as the answer to understanding what we can and cannot do.

But AI can also become the ultimate censorship regime, policing what we can and cannot access on the internet. Without it ever being obvious. 

No doubt it could also in time educate our children, thus lightening the load on those parents who choose to allow it to do so ...

But what if there is an alternative?

What if we could simply abolish top-down government, and establish a bottom-up government of the people, by the people, and for the people?

Such a concept has over the years become so unfamiliar as to be readily dismissed as impossible ...   but is there any realistic alternative?

When Christ was asked by the lawyer "what is the greatest commandment", he is reported to have summed up the whole complex panoply of laws and regulations in just a couple of sentences.

Go figure.

 

Deep Dive with Brendon O'Connell

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2026-06-03

Brendon O'Connell is Hard Going. Period.

He's not for everyone. In fact, he's only for the intrepid (which is why I've taken so long to seriously listen to him - I'm very much at the lower end of "intrepid"!). 

And I'm only just beginning to decipher his erratic rhetorical mood swings ...

And if you want a polite presentation, look elsewhere. Now!

And (fair warning) he makes liberal use of fake AI generated material.

Oh, and you may need to read much of the rest of this site first so as to establish some backdrop to our current situation, else you miss the appropriate connections ...

But Pax Silica does seem to be important, so if you're feeling alert, brave, and ready for anything, pin back your ears eyeballs and mental faculties, fix yourself a strong coffee, and dive in.

And don't omit to read the article and links below the video ...   there's a wealth of stuff there.

 

The State of British Policing Has Been Sharply Illustrated

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2026-06-03

What more stereotypically English may we imagine than Hampshire and the Isle of Wight?

Rolling fields, chalk streams harbouring fat trout, white cliffs, Osborne House, the Needles, Portsmouth - home of the Royal Navy,  the list goes on.

So we can have confidence in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, right?

The case of Henry Nowak would indicate otherwise.

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Operation Talla (which guided the national police reaction to reports associated with the Covid countermeasures) strongly suggests that the rot goes all the way to the top of national policing.

 

Update from Old Nick

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2026-06-02

The view from a pre-eminent British dissident, discussing national and world politics as of today.

And a new slant on "Net Zero".

Yes, it's complicated.

Quelle surprise.

 

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