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My Future, My Choice

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2026-05-19

Will the doors on the global panopticon ever need to slam shut?

Are we not already comfily ensconced in our own virtual reality paradigm, automatically entertained by our YouTubers of choice brought to our attention by the ever-obliging System? The System that seemingly effortlessly, even magically, knows what we want before we ourselves have realised it?

Hmmm.

Sofia Karstens writing for the Brownstone Institute thinks that we are a long way down that road already. 

But it's not the collective we as a group, it's the we of separate individuals acting individually ...  and that difference is critical, because humanity isn't a bunch of separated individuals, it's individuals acting as individuals, as groups, as associates, as parts of larger wholes that form spontaneously to achieve objectives larger than any one individual could even envisage, let alone complete.

But if we can only associate with others via the system (and we are almost there already) then the system can prevent us from seeing potential associates and thereby limit our possibilities to those of which it approves.

Is there a way back out from inner?

 

Climate Change May be Fading, but Geopolitical Chaos Is Just Getting Started

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2026-05-19

The IPCC may have had second thoughts but the crisis in the Gulf continues.

Will 2026 become renowned for a Summer of Discontent as fuel prices rocket, a farming crisis takes hold, food shortages arise, pubs close, and the Starmer not-a-government stumbles incompetently onward regardless of anything but its own survival, even at the cost of allowing Ed Miliband to "take charge"? 

"In office but not in power" springs to mind.

If all this serves to finally wake the people to the notion that this kind of government by incompetent complexity has reached the end of its road, and needs replacing by something more simple, more direct, more honest, and even actually responsive to the basic needs of the people, then perhaps finally some good may emerge from the wreckage. 

But don't hold your breath.

 

Civil War in Ukraine? Nuclear Obliteration for Europe?

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Category: Defence
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2026-05-19

Scott Ritter brings us up to date with the current situation in Europe.

Does it make any sense?

"Russia will immediately destroy Europe - not a single major European city will be left standing"

(47 minutes)

Like / Dislike this video here.

 

For Those that Missed the Announcement - Especially Politicians

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Category: Green
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2026-05-19

Climate Change is so Last Year. Even Last Century.

Even the IPCC is recanting.

But not our redoubtable Ed Miliband, who it seems is made of sterner stuff.

And indeed, who is to say who is right and who is wrong?

Perhaps those whom Ed the IYI insists on dragging remorselessly ever deeper into his government-mandated whirlpool of subsidies cross-charges and opaque pricing mechanisms that somehow purport to show that by paying for more subsidies more grid infrastructure thousands of miles of pylons and millions of windmills that wont work when the wind doesn't blow (not to mention more charges for turning off windmills when the wind blows too hard) the much-patronised consumers will actually pay less for their electricity ... ?

Well, when all else fails, it all depends on your assumptions.

My assumption is that since we will need gas power stations anyway for those times when the wind doesn't blow, we may as well use them when it does blow and save us all the additional wind and solar farms and grid connections and subsidies and cross-charge mechanisms etc etc ...   but perhaps that's too difficult a concept for an intellectual to grasp.

After all, we're saving the planet here - Oh Wait! Doesn't the extra CO2 feed the plants that green the earth and allow deserts to become productive and cattle to be reared on ranches, as they have been for countless years previous? 

We don't need saving from CO2, we need saving from fake politicians who don't listen.

 

The Next Phase

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2026-05-19

If we for a moment make the working assumption that the current world Humpty Dumpty (the UN the WEF and all its unaccountable hangers on) is doomed to spiritual and actual collapse, then we must look forward to a new phase of earth habitation that is not dominated by private unaccountable interests.

This is so far removed from the structures under which we have grown up into adults that the form that such a world might take isn't intuitively obvious. Take away the bosses and what would we have?

We would have a workforce that still knows how to do what it has always done - create and sell product. What we wouldn't have is the super-rich oligarchs who invest in projects that may or may not align with the aspirations of the people but with those of the current ultimate owners (Black Rock, State Street, Vanguard and some others).

So we would need a new method of appointing the Boards of Directors of productive companies according to whoever the new "owners of the business" are deemed to be.

So new ownership would not necessarily need to lead to instant catastrophic change - it would be possible to run productive enterprises under continuity of management schemes in a nation under military government for a time, whilst ownership and commercial direction is sorted out for the future.

The current pyramid ownership schemes (whereby conglomerates are holding companies that simply control the financials of profit and investment) could be reconfigured by devolving control downwards by redistributing their assets among their producer companies. It's an option. Whether it's the least messy option is another question!

We can't have the world screeching to halt just because the relatively tiny top level of commercial control has collapsed. Nor can we have a world where the top level of control is simply nationalised into a vast remote and absolutely unaccountable government bureaucracy ...

Fully indoctrinated establishments based upon racketeering between "private enterprises" "charitable foundations" government agencies and "regulators" would of necessity have to be broken up. New businesses based on provision of true health advice (rather than corporate profits by government regulation) should be made legal and encouraged - take away the vipers nest of revolving doors and back-handers, and there would be money aplenty to support new start-ups, and the market would sort the wheat from the chaff.

Which brings us to the small matter of government. Small government, which doesn't deem itself authorised to poke its controlling nose into every corner of the peoples' lives unless the people make specific demands of it and are prepared to fund the means to do so. Would that not be a revolution?

Ok - My objective is not to say what must be done - but simply to indicate that there are transitions ahead that must and could be planned for. I have neither infinite wisdom nor unlimited knowledge and capability, but if we start to throw some ideas out there, then perhaps collectively we can think big enough to cut the seemingly impossible down to manageable size.

After all, a total unmanaged collapse is not a recommendation ... but may be approaching.

And the proffered control by unaccountable technocratic "Computer says no" AI would clearly mean the end of freedom.

 

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