2023-01-18

The Build Back Better mantra was before they decided to get started on the Ukraine, but as an adjunct to the 15 minute cities initiative I'm guessing that BBB hasn't gone away.

What does it mean?

Does it have any meaning, or is it just a lot of hot air to keep us talking about nothing and everything whilst the powers-that-be get on with whatever they really want to do?

The Guildford Society in September 2021 discussed how the town centre masterplan would incorporate the 15 minute city principles, and the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government set out its stall for BBB in our high streets, complete with a foreword by Boris Johnson, prime minister of the day:

"... we have prioritised measures that help give councils and communities the flexibility and support they need to bring out the best for their local areas"

"We want to help areas create a vision that brings together

2023-01-18

Whilst the Mayor of London may want to hobble motor transport within the metropolis, it seems that not all local councils are on board with this scheme.

Sutton council: "We are taking this step to send a strong signal to the mayor that he must start listening to local people"

Harrow council: "Our growing coalition of London councils are not satisfied with the justification for the expansion and remain strongly opposed to it"

It's encouraging to see local councils stepping up to demand some democratic legitimacy for these policies - write in to your councillors to show them your support!

And if your council supports the ULEZ, write and tell your councillor why you disagree.

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2023-01-17

I  guess that people will just have to keep making these videos until the penny drops and the public takes matters into their own hands.

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2023-01-17

UK Column News Monday 16 January.

UK Column leads with more medically-qualified testimony.

How long before MPs can question the narrative before being thrown out of their party?

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At 28 minutes: Public Order Bill

At 33 minutes: 'Wellbeing' in Scotland

At 44 minutes: Tanks for you know where

At 65 minutes: Sanctions on Iran

2023-01-16

Yes, it's a normal British winter, even if the rail employees nurses and border force (that went down well didn't it?) and our perfidious political classes are determined that we should make the worst of it. Keep warm if you can, but don't you know we have a war to fight in the Ukraine?

(Are you winning it yet? Do you have any exit strategy for when the truth eventually becomes inescapable? What was it to do with us in the UK anyway? Why did we not encourage Zelenskyy to negotiate a settlement whilst he still had some negotiating cards to play and many thousands still lived who have now died?)

Well, if you are planning to listen to Greta at Davos this week you may get a slightly skewed viewpoint of how our planet's much-maligned climate is doing. It's a bit like asking our politicians how the war is going. Or asking our striking border force how the squaddies are managing all the arrivals.

"None too badly thank you" it turns out 

2023-01-16

"Some tectonic shifts have taken place in Geopolitical power structures during the past week"

So moves are afoot for the marginalisation of the ancien régime whilst the régime nouveau is constructed around it's failing remains.

Alas some of the new seems (I suppose inevitably) to be tarred with the same brush of secrecy that so bedevilled the old, and one wonders if that veil will ever be fully lifted.

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2023-01-15

"This is much worse than they're telling you" - tell us something we don't know.

Colonel MacGreggor brings us up to date with the likely effects of the latest promises of tanks and munitions that will send Putin back to Moscow with his tail between his legs.

Lack of tanks however may be the least of their problems.

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2023-01-15

Independent journalist Derek Monroe tells Redacted how the country is affected by the large numbers of migrants from Ukraine, and what the government is making of it.

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2023-01-14

In a project to explain the purposes and implications behind Oxford's plans to introduce motor travel restrictions within it's boundaries, a vast team of volunteers requested by Not Our Future turned up on time and in full and leafleted the entire city on Saturday 8th January.

As if it were all in a day's work.

Full report here.

Rebel News were there to report on this extraordinary event.

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2023-01-14

The good news (as I understand it) is that you will be able to "seamlessly" identify yourself to the government (or any of its many agencies) on-line, all without quoting your Id number.

The bad news?

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The government's digital id proposals (or "UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework beta version (0.3) updated 11th January 2023" as we should properly entitle them)

2023-01-13

Despite the appearance of being at loggerheads over the Ukraine, Taiwan, and whatever other flashpoints may yet surface, and despite the BRICS countries moving ahead with their own basket of interchangeable currencies supported by "hard assets" and the Western nations still wedded to their essentially worthless paper, is there really uniformity of approach to base the new world financial system on the existing Central Banks and the Central Bank of the Central Banks, the Bank of International Settlements?

Would that not simply leave the foxes in charge of the hen-house?

"it was the West's sanctions that helped the BRICS nations achieve a long-held monetary policy objective, In June 2022 the BRICS member states announced their plans to establish an alternative to the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs). A basket

2023-01-13

In 1929 Lord Birkenhead looked foward to the future 100 years thence - now nearly upon us.

Some of the stuff may seem familiar to those of us who try to achieve situational awareness...  but for the majority it will just be a bunch his lordship's musings that may have been randomly successful at predicting the future.

But could his success be down to foreknowledge of some kind?

"Physics is on the brink of a new synthesis, a fresh simplification and restatement of fundamental ideas"

Einstein? or something else?

"By means of the most efficient methods ... a pound of coal can only be made to yield energy of the order of one horse-power for one hour.   Yet, locked up in the atoms which constitute a pound of water, there is an amount of energy equivalent to ten million horse-power hours"

"By 2029, the

2023-01-12

Barbara Boyd of Larouche PAC reviews a lot of US politics here, in quite a lot of detail that we in the UK may feel isn't of much direct interest to us.

But there's content here about the EU, the effect of Brexit on the British elite, and the relationships between the various US, UK (and Five Eyes) intelligence services.

Operation Mockingbird (Cold War) saw the clandestine takeover of the media by the intelligence agencies. If you think that didn't happen in the UK, you don't understand the "special relationship".

The Trump years saw the similar take-over of alternative media platforms, leading to the censorship of all non government-approved viewpoints, even from well qualified and experienced medical experts during the Covid crisis and indeed despite Elon's efforts, still ongoing.

On the plus side there's a great deal of useful information here, and includes how the US government has been using "Perception

2023-01-10

If you think you understand our world, then you are wrong.

Vaccines are matter for medical regulators, right?

Apparently not.

"the informed consent rules have been amended under Obama - subjects don't have to be informed of what's going on if it is deemed not in their best interests"

I wonder who does the deeming here?

We don't have any emergency but they keep extending it because they need it to bypass all the normal medical rules.

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2023-01-10

We are all British in this country, whatever dreams of independence Nicola Sturgeon may harbour. 

And nobody says it better than that other redoubtable Scot, Neil Oliver.

Go ahead, cheer him on, he's worth every minute of every meticulously delivered rant.

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2023-01-10

Barbara Boyd of LarouchePAC doesn't mince her words.

According to her, the "special relationship" between the USA and the UK was based upon cooperating intelligence services that ran the media, got their chosen politicians elected, and generally ran the two countries for their own ends.

All that fell apart when the Donald got elected in 2016.

In December 2018 the House of Lords published a report entitled "UK Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order" complete with all the usual verbiage about the "Rules-Based International Order" but noting that the "special relationship" in it's then form might survive one term of Trump but not two. 

In 2023 we can now see how correct they were.

"... the Lords describe their second problem as populations in both the United States and Britain, who have been given too much access to information and believe “conspiracy” theories

2023-01-09

Once more Clayton Morris of Redacted brings us up to date with the machinations of the Great and the Good in the USA.

All out war with Russia? What could possibly go wrong?

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2023-01-09

A most encouraging report from Ben today.

"Hungary has decided to leave the EU"

"... in the Middle East ... the Turkish and Israeli military join forces against the Satanic forces led by false Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu"

"In the United States, a final showdown between the Satanists and the white hat military is taking place at the Supreme Court"

"Let us start with the Russian offensive because it involves a 1.5 million-man Christian army marching straight into the Satanic headquarters in Western Europe"

Yes, nothing is as it seems. 

Maybe 2023 really will be the year that the world is changed.

2023-01-07

This is a huge topic but the reality is very simple - can we link the predicted "extreme weather" events (or even any predictions) to "climate change", and did those predictions come about?

Since the climate has been said to be changing for 50 odd years now, we should be able to point to some predictions that have indeed come about, and in view of the severity of the proposals put forward for combating this menace, we really ought to be able to point to some concrete evidence that (a) the predictions so far have been quite good and (b) we understand quite well how these predicted phenomena work.

In short, let's look at the evidence.

And by the way, models are not necessarily "science".

Models can only be regarded as scientific if they

2023-01-07

Doctors for Covid Ethics 5th Symposium - if it isn't here, it probably doesn't exist.

I won't attempt to summarise - suffice it to say that whatever you want to know, its here somewhere, and if it's not here then it's in an earlier symposium!

Wade in...