2025-03-03

War requires ice-cold emotionless thinking, accurate and timely military intelligence, and an economy that can support the Forces' needs for munitions and military equipment as and when they need them. Oh, and of course they will need the Forces themselves, trained up and ready to go. 

And where will we get the steadfast national leadership that could lead the nation through such a perilous venture? 

Given the government's track record of sacrificing all of the above in pursuit of the ridiculous UN Green New Deal and the numerous fairy tales that that involves, the chances of this new "peace-keeping" venture holding back a vast well-prepared battle-hardened Russian army with copious supplies of state of the art armaments, look vanishingly small to me.I would go so far as to say that should Russia decide to call our bluff and brush us aside... 

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2025-03-03

After the Trump-Zelensky imbroglio, it's no surprise that Ben provides quite a bit of intel on what is really going on, what happened subsequently, and whither it might lead.

Of course, matters just now are fast-moving and one cannot rule out events from left field that may upset specific predictions, so we await developments.

Still, it's an interesting question as to how long the current "US administration" can keep confidence in the crumbling financial edifice afloat - beware the Ides of March?

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2025-03-02

Scott Ritter - give him an inch and he'll take a mile!

Peace in the Ukraine is only just beginning to be talked about, and here he is thinking about the real need to phase out mankind's ability to self-immolate through nuclear war.

Probably not a moment too soon if you ask me. The world needs people like Scott who not only have the foresight to identify a path forward, but also have the experience to assess the pitfalls and map out how best to do it. Sadly they are becoming thin on the ground, so the sooner the process can be mapped out, the better for all concerned.

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2025-03-01

Scott Ritter lays it out - and then some!

"Donald Trump has done more in one month than anyone has ever done in any peace negotiations in the history of modern warfare"

Whether we think he did a good job or a bad job will depend upon our view of the objectives, Trump's stated objective being to end the pointless slaughter.

Recent years have demonstrated that short of starting WW3, Ukraine+NATO/EU will not hold the Russian advance, let alone push them back behind their erstwhile boundaries.

Many won't like that, but would we like WW3 any better?

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2025-03-01

Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author of very accessible books, self-proclaimed leftist and scourge of the EU at the time of the Greek "bail-out", and now apparently a Professor, (and virtually the only "leftist" that I rate very highly for his logical analysis and ability to get to the real nub of political problems) explains the current state of Trump's relationship with Europe.

Oh, and the workings of Chinese municipal government! Maybe we should be wondering how our own new political system should look, once our current failing systems have collapsed.

Very informative.

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2025-03-01

We note with sadness the passing of Arthur Firstenberg, author of The Invisible Rainbow and The Earth and I, also the force behind Cellular Phone Task Force.

I learned a great deal from his masterful history of the development of electricity / electronics / electromagnetic radiation over the last two centuries, and its consequent effects on the Earth and the environment - I don't suppose he totally avoided all misinterpretations of the evidence, but he paints a very broad and convincing picture.

Every bookshelf should have one.

2025-03-01

With "renewables" leading to ever higher energy costs, nuclear still regarded with some suspicion (and SMRs not yet rolling off the production lines in volume), government-backed mega power-stations seemingly permanently mired in the paralysis of analysis and the perils of politicking, and of course fracking being sent packing, some think that old king coal is poised to make a come-back.

Yes, there are obvious problems with that, but there's problems with everything just now - and just how are all these wonderful new but power-gobbling AI data-centres going to be powered?

"It's a massive coal boom in China ... "

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2025-02-28

What happens when the UN's "Sustainable Development Goals" turn out to be unsustainable in short order?

Read the story of Sri Lanka.

And how our fearless media reported it.

There but for the Grace of God go we all.

2025-02-28

There's a short version and a long (unbelievably long!) version - so atke you rpick!

First up - the short version:

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2025-02-27

The Glastonbury Symposium is not exactly a mainstream source of topical wisdom - it is however a good venue for challenging one's "little grey cells" to take a hard look at what may be coming right around the next corner.

Andy Thomas, long-time power behind the Symposium, presents another keynote address, providing a critical discussion of the issues of the day (this was July 2024).

Not to mention a possibly terrifying view of the incoming future...

He covers a lot of ground.

"... you can't trust anything any more..."

"... any advanced civilisation that has managed to reachspace and is visiting here in their craft must surely have gone through the AI revolution ... therefore..."

Watch to the end. It's your view that counts.

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2025-02-26

The Daily Sceptic gives one "James Leary" the chance to make the pertinent comment that links our own sorry situation to those in Europe.

It seems to be undoubtedly true that there is a "Great Game" being played out around the world and in particular around eastern Europe and the Middle East - the only question is "who is doing what to whom and what is their motivation?".

Why did Germany commit "green" suicide by closing all its effective power plants in favour of windmills and solar panels which simply cannot power its industrial base?

Why is the UK intent on committing the exact same blunder, whilst simultaneously imagining that it can build a (shhh - don't tell them) hugely power-hungry AI data centre driven future?

Will we ever win the war in Ukraine against the dastardly deranged power-mad Putin? 

Maybe Putin actually does understand that power really is the

2025-02-26

The Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergs, the Atlantic Council, the WEF...  you can choose your name for them but what you get is the same globalist elite that evidently despises democracy, and embraces "expert" rule by Corporate Oligarchy, a global elite that knows instinctively what is good for them and fully intends to impose it on us.

According to Klaus Schwab:

"Stakeholder capitalism, a model I first proposed a half-century ago, positions private corporations as trustees of society, and is clearly the best response to today’s social and environmental challenges"

Is their notion of 'trustees of society' compatible with our constitutional notion of elected politicians who are accountable to their constituents? What are the chances of conflicts of interest arising?

So why would we need elections? They don't

2025-02-26

"... this is now a US world and we will do as we want... "

Jeffrey Sachs explains the context within which the Ukraine conflict developed.

It's a sorry story, and the UK's Boris Johnson made a significant 'contribution'.

"I don't believe that there's a Collective West"

"... or a Global South... "

"... China is not an enemy, China is just a success story... "

"... we can do so many wonderful things right now... what do we need in order to do that? In my view, we need peace... most importantly, there are no deep reasons for conflict anywhere... "

"... because we don't have enough on the planet... as an economist I can tell you,

2025-02-25

In case you are still wondering... 

In view of the lack of conventional military capability/capacity, as ever, Europe resorts to national posturing.

"If you oppose America's peace plan in Ukraine... then you are becoming an existential threat to the national security of the United States"

"... the script has been flipped... take a look at what happened at the United Nations recently... it was the United States voting with Russia, China, Belarus, North Korea, and it was France and the UK in opposition"

"... it's about economic relationships... "

" We will now seek economic collaboration as our primary methodology of coexistence..."

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2025-02-25

Even if politicians and estate agents traditionally vie for the title of "those who least enjoy public trust", it seems that at least in the EU, the incumbent politicians somehow are still preferred over their upstart opposition (perhaps the system still somehow works to consolidate the vote share of the leading parties?). It's a tricky analysis to perform, but Redacted have lined up a fearless pundit who doesn't shy away from picking some figures to indicate how he considers the political tides are moving in Germany, and the consequent reactions from the EU's "great and the good".

"The winner of the German elections is being called a big win for Globalists... a big win for more war in Ukraine... and a slap in the face to free speech and closed borders"

Maybe elections should be about policies rather than parties?

But whatever, it looks like a large number of German and maybe EU politicians are

2025-02-25

The future of AI?

The market leaders took a knock recently when the Chinese DeepSeek made its debut on the world AI stage, denting their aura of invincibility and sending shock waves through the stock valuations of certain chip makers.

But who actually understands how AIs work?

And equally importantly, how they don't work? After all, they are the creation of human beings (work with me here) so will inevitably tend to inherit the human characteristic of fallibility.

So is AI on course to World take-over en route to conquering the Solar System, the Galaxy, and ultimately the Universe?

2025-02-25

Maybe it isn't "racism" after all.

Maybe it's just good old-fashioned self-interest. And before we criticise ourselves for selfishness, we might remember two salient points

• We too are people with as much right to the benefits of life as anybody else
• Whilst we remain standing, we can provide help to others, but if we succumb to whatever threat may exist, we will be unable to provide help to others.

Hence whilst training with the TA we were told to put our own gas mask first before helping anyone else, and similarly we are advised in an aircraft decompression emergency to put on our own oxygen mask first before helping anybody else.

It's simple logic.

Yet in today's era of logic inversion, those in charge (predominantly but by no means exclusively of "the Left") want us all to effectively give our rights

2025-02-24

"The original Q operation was a military intelligence drop system, designed to encourage independent research and public awareness of corruption"

The gauntlet dropped by Q was picked up by amateur sleuths everywhere.

"The “QAnon” label became a catch-all smear—any discussion of government corruption, human trafficking, or elite criminal networks could now be dismissed as “QAnon conspiracy theories"

... but only by the gullible. The amateur sleuths continued regardless and brought us to where we are today.

Perhaps AI has its uses after all.

Read Martin's original analyses of the Q phenomenon, links

2025-02-24

Ben Fulford - still happily with us despite being turfed out of his rented accommodation last week - has somehow managed to post his weekly report as normal.

Normal however is perhaps not the best word to choose to describe the state of the world that he describes this week.

With the ancien régime facing collapse on multiple fronts due to extreme loss of (illegal) funding from their financial sources in the US, we can expect tantrums...

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2025-02-23

Konstantin Kisin, addressing the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, takes the fine art of ridicule seriously - in the nicest possible way. But then, he is almost English...

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