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Digital Id - Boom or Bust?

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2025-10-17

There are plenty of political reasons why we might not want a digital id, or CBDC (since they will inevitably be linked).

But there are technical reasons, as well as the  government's track record on security issues.

Not to mention the myriad 'industry' snouts (not to mention fly-by-nights) that may already be homing in on this latest government feeding trough, some of whom are unlikely to have security issues at the forefront of their priorities ...

(23 minutes)

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And then there is the small matter of the historical success rate for major government IT projects ... which I'll leave as an exercise for the reader - if any still have the stomach for it.

 

The Reality Underlying Today's World

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2025-10-16

There's no shortage of pundits to tell us what we ought to believe, but to get a reasonably complete picture is a rarity.

Here's a pundit who may be unfamiliar to most, and is for sure unconventional - yet her round-up of today's world strikes me as perhaps one of the most perceptive as well as thought-provoking.

(47 minutes)

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An Interesting Discussion of Pertinent Home Truths

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2025-10-15

Alex Krainer makes some excellent points in the course of this video - but will anybody take any notice? For myself, the more I hear what he has to say, the more I warm to him.

And to whom is all this debt owed anyway?

Will it be up for some sort of renegotiation when push comes to shove? Who is pulling the strings here?

(52 minutes)

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Israel-Hamas Ceasefire in Collapse (along with the Israel-Iran Ceasefire?)

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2025-10-15

All this (all right, most of it) is speculation, but if it turns out to be accurate, would anybody be surprised?

But maybe Bibi Netanyahu didn't sign the Peace Deal for a reason?

Still, predictions are tricky, especially about the future ....

... and could Trump really keep up his support for Israel if or when "his" ceasefires are broken?

(55 minutes)

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It Takes a Russian to Truly Understand a Faux Democracy

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2025-10-15

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one-time inhabitant of the Russian Gulag, also turned his attention to the regime(s) of the West.

"Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice"

Yup, they have lost their way, and so become prey to any modish fad that the unprincipled but ambitious will cause to come their way.

"Everybody operates at the extreme limit of those legal frames. An oil company is legally blameless when it purchases an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer: after all, people are free not to buy it"

The corporate loss of conscience now infects many individual citizens, who have been through the indoctrination systems of "education" and now emerge rudderless, many from broken families or the State system of "childcare".

"A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities"

(and that's before we factor in the apparent failings within our systems of law and order, exposed by Martin Geddes)

A long read, but worthwhile.

 

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