2025-03-13

Elon Musk's DOGE may well have federal agencies on the run (and rightly so), but is there another reason for Elon's time to be invested in this enterprise?

Now as with all tools invented by man, they will be imperfect in various respects and may be used for good or for ill.

Our challenge is always to avoid the worst and to promote the best.

So if Elon is successful in remaking the federal agencies operations to his liking, that isn't necessarily a bad thing overall, but it would be sensible to have the best independent minds reviewing and monitoring to ensure that the worst is avoided and the best is promoted.

The best may well include least cost - provided (big proviso!) that the service provided is an improvement over that provided by human employees.

Given that the

2025-03-13

EU-UK want "troops on the ground" in Ukraine for "peacekeeping", Russia wants peace on Russia's terms, Trump wants the war ended.

When is a conflict a "special military operation" rather than a "war"? Does it matter?

Scott Ritter reviews the situational developments...

(if you're short of time, just watch the first 40 minutes - I think it's called "the Art of the Deal")

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2025-03-13

With DOGE's feet now well under the federal table and Trump busy reorganising geopolitics around the world, where do we need to go from here, and will Team Trump take us there?

It's a big picture and the fact that we can even ask the question with a mild tinge of disappointment is testament to the amount of change already under the bridge since 20th January, and the consequent unleashing of expectations that the many and varied problems besetting the world can perhaps indeed be addressed, and in a much shorter time frame than once seemed possible.

Our expectations have indeed been reset!

2025-03-13

As part of our learning experience it is useful, particularly at this juncture when political norms are in some disarray, to present an alternate view of the geopolitical situation.

Whilst I usually don't present views that are endemic in mainstream media (after all, such views are readily available elsewhere), sometimes we need reminding of how others view the world.

It's your assessment that counts.

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2025-03-13

Latest news from Europe is that the EU's CBDC is on schedule for roll out before the end of the year.

I wonder if Sir Keir will get the UK safely back into the EU in time?

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2025-03-11

It is reported that the State of Texas is looking at adding "the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors by 2030" in order to meet the requirements to connect up new data centres to the grid.

A quick glance at relative population levels reveals that the UK has around twice the population of Texas, so if population size is indicative of power requirement, the UK may need up to 60 new "nuclear reactors" over the next 5 years.

The government seems to agree- at least on the need for data centres...

.. but has anybody thought to tell EdMiliband?

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2025-03-10

Ben Fulford's weekly report pulls no punches this week.

Will the Trump Presidency mk2 put an end to the corruption that has become so apparent in recent years?

Who knows? My guess would be "yes, but" not in any way that anybody is expecting or hoping for.

None the less, this week's report marks a useful catch-up on what may or may not be going on beneath the surface.

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2025-03-10

Romania, having annulled the election of Calin Georgescu on the grounds of (wait for it) "suspicions of Russian meddling", has now banned him from standing in the May election. 

So far, so "democratic".

Yet another country that cannot trust its own people to elect the right politicians. Or rmaybe the left politicians. It's all very confusing...

2025-03-10

After many decades of government subsidy to get the green revolution up to speed, we might be forgiven for asking "are we nearly there yet?".

If not, at what point does reality exert its influence on (a) us and (b) our government?

And the answer of course is that governments don't answer to reality, only to the World Economic Forum / United Nations.

Which does rather bring into sharp relief the nature of our belief in our "democracy". Did we really vote for Agenda 2030 / 2050 and all the implications?

And if not, why is that?

The Daily Sceptic shines a light on the Green New Misinformation Deal.

2025-03-10

I make no apology for featuring the work of a financial newsrag in these pages - if we don't appreciate the way things are paid for (or not!) then history shows that the next crash will catch us unprepared (assuming that preparations for such are even feasible - and governments are not immune, even if they should be).

Fortune and Freedom: in part one John Butler reviews the state of European finances through the lens of the German Government-in-waiting...  and Bill Bonner in part two reviews the incoming effect of Trump Mk 2.

Best be informed.

2025-03-10

The Brownstone Institute reviews Covid on the "Five-Year Anniversary of the End of the World".

All you never wanted to know about the ins and outs.

For my part I have been saying for some time that the whole escapade was a global hoax and the virus didn't even exist (except as a mind-virus!) (a view shared by Dr Mike Yeadon), but I'm not sure that the Brownstone Institute shares that view.

It doesn't really matter, as it's up to each of us to form our own beliefs as best we may.

Those interested may wish to bookmark the page once read - it's a ten-parter, so not to be attempted in a single

2025-03-10

An interesting little video has appeared,which purports to get to the bottom of the legal status of those who inhabit the British Isles, and it raises some interesting points. It may also validate the naming of this site!

After watching, we may remind ourselves that the US Military is sworn specifically to defend the Constitution of the United States (from enemies external and internal!). They were way ahead of us back in 1788 (or thereabouts - I'm not sure exactly when the military adopted their specific oath, but presumably it was after the Constitution was ratified).

Specific allegiances may appear arcane but are hugely important - they involve trust, and they can tell us whom we should be able and/or willing to trust.

(Disclaimer - I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice)

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2025-03-07

Scott Ritter explains the Trumpian path to peace.

If you rely on the military then you will get war or at least conflict.

If you rely on your economic interests in common, then neither party will even want war or conflict.

Co-operation trumps conflict every time.

"This isn't about Ukraine, this is about the British Government ... "

"There is no European Unity... "

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2025-03-07

The deluded rule the world.

When the money runs out, they send us to war.

Neil Oliver is in fine form.

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2025-03-06

Dominic Cummings isn't everybody's cup of tea, but he does have first-hand experience of that about which he writes, and isn't afraid to draw unfashionable conclusions where the evidence so leads.

"It’s ‘impossible’ to control our borders but we must fight over Ukraine’s borders"

"We must coverup the rape gangs ‘for community cohesion’ and to continue mass immigration but we will rally on TV to fight ‘the new Hitler’ thousands of miles away with forces that do not exist"

"We must transform the MoD and defence procurement because fake budgets and disastrous procurement are destroying our forces"

"The combination of the above policies with ‘Ukraine should join NATO’... mixes great weakness with provocation on exactly the wrong thing"

"they can write interesting things about military operations, drones and tanks etc, but they

2025-03-06

ZeroHedge reviews the embryonic Starmer Peace Plan that seems to have the support of European leaders.

As we have noted earlier, it's cannot be a "Peace Plan" if it includes features to which we know that  President Putin will not agree. Such as western military "boots on the ground" in Ukraine.

Putin may, like all of us, harbour the occasional delusion, but he's not insane, nor is he prepared to simply throw away the fruits of his leadership so far.

Heigh ho, who cares about the details when there's a propaganda war to be fought for public opinion?

2025-03-06

Elon has company!

Not in the US where he is eviscerating government waste, but in the UK where our government is undoubtedly every bit as profligate as the federal bureaucracy in the US.

(We could usefully dispense with at least three "parliaments" and nobody except the politicians would notice!)

So who is our Great British Chainsaw in Chief?

(This is two articles for the price of one - don't inadvertently skip off once you have read the first one, just scroll down!)

2025-03-05

What is going on between the UK, EU, NATO, Ukraine, and the Trump-Putin relationship?

This is all pretty complicated and difficult to follow, but maybe we should bear in mind that it may not be totally without foundation - and the fact that it's hosted on Scott Ritter's channel lends it  credence.

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2025-03-04

For those with short memories, and those who simply were not yet here, this article covers the salient historical points from the latter parts of the 20th Century onward, from the perspective of an American. Necessarily it leaves out a vast amount which may never be known.

Some may believe that the Trump phenomenon is the fight-back against the endemic corruption described, some fear that Trump is simply the latest in a long line of "controlled opposition". I can't help you with that one, we will have to see how matters play out.

"By their fruits shall you know them"

What is undeniable is the role that Israel has historically played in US politics, and quite likely in the politics of other nations including our own - after all, the State of Israel was originally promoted in the UK's Balfour declaration after WW1.

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2025-03-04

A force to keep the pressure on Russia, and to keep UK-EU military forces in the Ukraine.

And if Russia does agree a peace deal, to boost the Ukraine's defensive capabilities...

I commented yesterday on the logic of Starmer's position, but one salient point i missed:

Call me old-fashioned, but if Russia has waged a war since 2022 to keep Ukraine out of NATO and NATO out of Ukraine (as clearly stated by Vladimir Putin), then Russia will just reject these ideas out of hand as putting NATO into Ukraine under another name.

It simply won't fly. There will be no lasting ceasefire under these suggestions, and probably no