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US to Quit the UN?

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2025-02-14

You know how it is, you wait hours for a bus and then 11 come along in a bus-a-thon. Well, we have waited years for the good sense to do any number of sensible things, and suddenly a Trump Executive Order comes in (along with around 199 others) that portends the exact action required.

Obviously such a dramatic step cannot be just taken overnight as there will be many knock-on effects that have to be considered and seen to be considered, but that process of consideration has now been set in motion.

Where Trump leads, will the world follow?

 

JD Vance Promotes the New Politics - Same as the Old Politics!

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2025-02-14

Well, we might have to reverse a few years to find the "old politics" that JD Vance enthuses over to the Munich Security Conference, but there's nothing new under the sun.

"I've heard a lot about what you are defending yourselves from, but what exactly is it that you are defending your selves for?"

"If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you"

"You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail ... "

(19 minutes)

 

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Elon Explains the DOGE

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2025-02-14

... not to mention one or two other matters ...

(27 minutes)

 

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The Trump View on NATO by Peter Hegseth

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2025-02-13

As spelled out at NATO HQ by Peter Hegseth in Brussels.

One might loosely summarise (pay up, arm up, revamp defence industries, recognise realities, and make peace in Ukraine) - all wrapped in supportive language. 

Largely unspoken were the implications for NATO if they should fail ...

Re: the situation in Ukraine:

"I think that realism is an important part of the conversation that hasn't existed enough ... "

(28 minutes)

 

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How the other NATO countries (honourable exception: France) will create the realism to reconstitute their defence industries in any sensible timescale, given their current "green" energy policies, remains to be clarified.

 

Pay Your (Durham County) Council Tax if You Want To?

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2025-02-13

Martin Geddes (yes, he again) now summarises (with a little help from ChatGPT) just why he considers that Durham County Council may be outside the law in terms of its council tax enforcement processes.

That isn't at all to say that all councils are similarly suspect - I have no details - but nor can I rule it out, especially as many of them, like CDOS (see the article) will be members of the CIVEA (Civil Enforcement Association) and may be thought likely to have similar systems to Durham CC.

"These assaults on the public appear to be war crimes (as enemy combatants), crimes against humanity, and terrorist attacks — so fall under international human rights law and military jurisdiction"

Is Your Council Tax Enforcement Really Fraudulent?

Whatever the truth of all this is, it is also true that contesting a legally unenforceable demand within a corrupt system is a different ball-game altogether, and likely to involve much time, worry, and perhaps confrontation - as individuals we should choose our battles wisely to avoid over-extending ourselves.

 

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