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creating a community

does one create a community – megalomaniacally?

one’s tribe – in one’s own mould?

or does one leech off the universal host

till it’s time to go home

awaiting a Messiah who will never come

contains some room for optimism

unlimited scope for disappointment

But for things to turn around

yes yes yes y’all

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the need for credibility has gone – fiction masquerades as truth and truth can only be found in fiction’s lair

the quest to be taken seriously put to bed, exhaling one final desperate but hopeful sigh of air

Soros Exits Europe as Orban arrives in London

The Viktor Orbán influenced university is starting up in London just as George Soros’s foundation is leaving Europe.

I wonder what Bono and Bill Gates have to say.

The Guardian is obviously on Bill Gates and Bono’s side – but the far right threat now comes from Tony Blair, Keir Starmer ( and the Guardian ) just as much as it does from Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman.

The Tory Rwanda policy was quite obviously cooked up by Paul Kagame’s mate Tony Blair and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is going to wield huge influence in the incoming Starmer administration.

UnHerd recently did a piece called Tony Blair Inc which was followed up by a decent Spectator podcast titled Blair is Back.

Check it out:

Extreme Gauche Spitzenkandidat

There are European elections coming up in late 2024 – will the left put up a candidate to run the European Commission?

I, like Jean Luc Melenchon, would be happy with Ségolène Royale. She sounded like an antiglobalisation campaigner and not a former Socialist Party Presidential candidate when she spoke on French TV earlier this year.

Perhaps an extreme left leaning centre left candidate is the way forward.

Frans Timmermans has recently quit the European Commission and has decided to run as leader of the Labour / Green Party to be Dutch PM

https://twitter.com/TimmermansEU/status/1681343014558482432?t=fB177j_4lSY4natUZ0xnYA&s=19

I wonder what he is thinking.

Extremist EU Expansionism

This article in French media discusses the proposed entry of Ukraine to the EU by 2030.

I don’t think it will happen – but it is good to see the EU effectively admitting to destabilising Ukraine for thirty years with the specific goal of accessing Russian gas.

Putes on the Ground

Should Vladimir Putin be allowed to communicate on the world stage, or should he be completely cancelled?

He has said he would he happy to debate Biden on live television but of course that would be an automatic slam dunk for Putes due to Biden’s obvious cognitive decline.

https://twitter.com/LouisHenwood/status/1696221651426267289?t=HLdkkKqe9oaw5Nog9ETF8A&s=19

Kees van Dongen: The Dutch artist who ‘pinched’ his own painting

What is the radical artist’s rôle during a time of war?

Is it to side with freedom or team up with the Big State?

Disputed Provenance in Paris & Palm Beach

A battle is raging between the French state and the Ford family.

Both parties have somehow managed to acquire and dispute ownership of a 1921 Kees van Dongen portrait of the Nobel prize winning author Anatole France.

Van Dongen donated the work to the French state for an auction to help defend France against a run on the Franc in 1926.

But the portrait never sold and the government returned the work to van Dongen for his own exhibition six years later, who then sold it to an art collector.

The art collector sold it to the Ford family and France’s heritage department recently spotted it at an auction house.

So, nearly a hundred years later, the French government believes the work is about to be returned.

Little is known of the arrangement between van Dongen and the French authorities so we can only speculate on their relationship over the years – but the Dutch French artist died in Monte Carlo in May 1968.

Paul Mason considers running against Jeremy Corbyn

The Times is reporting that ex Newsnight presenter Paul Mason is thinking about running in Jeremy Corbyn’s seat at the next election.

It’s still not clear whether Corbyn will run.

Mason has not actually declared his interest.

He has simply stated that he is committed to the Starmer Project and will be doing all he can to get Labour candidates elected in the three July 20th by-elections.

Pump & Dump Paternalism Prioritises the Depoliticisation of Race

Stephen Bush has just reviewed some new books about what it means to be black.

I’ve merely skimmed but am happy to report that he’s made short work of Tomiwa Owolade.

Tomiwa wrote an article in the Guardian that led to Diane Abbott effectively being kicked out of the Labour Party.

The whole thing felt like a McCarthyite operation.

Yes maybe Diane Abbott worded herself extremely clumsily, but you’d have to be Keir Starmer himself to pretend she didn’t have a point.

I bumped into Tomiwa in the bookshop recently. He certainly didn’t lament Diane Abbott’s expulsion. I told him that This is Not America, the title of his book, was exactly Enoch Powell’s point when he made the Rivers of Blood speech following Martin Luther King’s assassination in April 1968. Powell said that race riots in the US were the norm and that this was what he saw happening in the UK if immigration wasn’t stopped. Tomiwa didn’t appear to understand what I was saying, but he was very nice and I left him alone.

This is a recent video publicising Tomiwa’s book at the London School of Economics. Perhaps I’m being unfair on him, I’m sure he makes some good points.

I’ve just watched some of the Q&A, and have linked to the inevitable Diane Abbott / antisemitism question at the end.

Graduates to repay student loans over 40 years instead of 30

Student fees were introduced in 1997 when New Labour came to power

Under Labour fees went up to £3k and when the 2010 Tory / Lib coalition got power they tripled fees again.

Martin Lewis explains what the changes to the student loan system mean for students starting university next year

@martinlewismse

Students will pay DOUBLE under the new system – major changes coming to student finance. Courtesy of @goodmorningbritain

♬ original sound – Martin Lewis – Martin Lewis

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023

This Eileen Cooper image caught my eye at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition yesterday

Tree morphs into hair & rings a mega-Mondrianic 🔔

Evening; Red Tree was painted by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in 1908 and is currently on display at the Tate Modern Klint Mondrian exhibition in London

This other Eileen Cooper piece hangs just above, it’s called Ebb and Flow

the bigger picture

Cumulative Returns

learning to sit on the sidelines, pay attention to what is going on around me, and say something that is both relevant and performs a relatively healing function has been my life’s greatest challenge

small step for man

it is too easy to seek attention when it isn’t coming, and take offence when no respect is shown, but realising that we all take in information in different ways can be helpful no matter what the scenario

gaining respect

just because one thing works in one circumstance doesn’t mean it will work in another – whilst you don’t have to spend each day reinventing the wheel, pushing the boulder back up the hill, you do have to have respect for first principles and recognise that often things really are in a sense happening for the first time

repetition is the key to success

just because one person sees something as mundane, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t serve a purpose – the teleological impulse, the belief that there is a cause that is not merely random ought to touch us all, but it doesn’t.

the mountain

and so we plod, to the mountain, with our shovels, and we dig out way to success, it almost doesn’t matter in which direction, so long as we progress, it is not simply what we say or even how we say it, but a feeling that what we are doing matters that causes something special

but what if it ain’t?

and then you have the jobsworth – the bureaucrat who takes pride in their own power at the expense of the person whom they are supposed to serve – the alienation causes problems – not just for the non receiver of the service but also in the complacent bureaucrat themselves – who wields power as if it is absolute – whose lack of compassion is rewarded with a payrise and index linked pension – and then you have a society of cunning vindictive animals setting an example for us all

 

so we do

Ichimoku – the power and politics of a single glance

A friend told me about Ichimoku, a Japanese trading technique that says our first glance at a graph tells us how things really are.

This reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer’s work on how experts need very little time to get things right and being given too much time can lead to overthinking and failure.

In Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein on memory techniques he says that a highly paid job in South Korea is the baby chick sex checker.

The consequences of not separating baby chicks by gender can be very costly as the females make eggs and the males don’t. So whoever can separate baby chicks with a high success ratio is able to save egg producers huge amounts of money.

It turns out that people who are skilled at separating the genders are actually using their memory as well as their instinct to get such high success rates. This feels very Ichimoku.

Gigerenzer talks about sportsmen being able to react to sudden movements in games like tennis, cricket and baseball. The physical intelligence required to co-ordinate your eyes and your body must be enormous.

But I suppose ones body and brain are totally tuned into the task at hand.

Ichimoku

The same applies for comedy and improvisation when acting.

Being witty is rarely scripted, but some have great aptitude for being funny and making people feel at ease.

A single idea can be communicated in so many ways – and humans can take in subtle information via subtext and innuendo.

Some imagery prompts serious reaction and some mere indifference.

I am getting more interested in the way we glance – what is worthy of our attention – what slips by unnoticed, and why?

Rijkaard Vs Voller

“What you sayin’, Rudes?”

It all kicked off when European Champions Holland played West Germany in the 1990 World Cup.

AC Milan had the three Dutchmen Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten & Inter had Germans Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsman and Lothar Matthaus.

Of course West Germany went on to win the tournament.

And Years later Rijkaard took Holland to the semis of Euro 2000 as a manager as well as winning the champions league with Barcelona.

But the spitting incident involving Rijkaard and Germany’s Rudi Voller remains etched in the memory of so many of us who watched that second round game in 1990.

Phlegming Dutchman

Voller is now the German national side’s football director and Rijkaard personally apologised to him for the incident.

I always found myself sympathising with Rijkaard, but now I realise that even he said that he was in the wrong.

Rijkaard with the European Cup

Was Pegasus software deployed to illegally hack & surveille a UK activist WhatsApp group?

Environmental campaigners appear to have been targeted by security companies linked to London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

The protestors intended to unveil a banner about a planned road tunnel outside a Q & A attended by the Mayor at the O2 centre near Canary Wharf.

They were identified, individually addressed by name and prevented from entering and unfolding the banner.

The security firm did not reveal the source of this information but it is suspected the activists WhatsApp group was hacked.

Laurent Richard of Forbidden Stories

Last week, at a launch party for Laurent Richard’s book on Pegasus, I asked the Guardian’s investigations editor Paul Lewis why he thought no stories had been broken about the use of Pegasus by the British police and on UK left wing activists.

Particularly given that there is an ongoing inquiry into Spycops – police adopting the identity of dead children on order to infiltrate the lives of law abiding activists, even fathering children with them.

Click link for recent YouTube video of historic Spycops inquiry

Paul told me (and the rest of the room) that Brits aren’t as bothered about privacy and surveillance as they are in America.

Though I was (quietly and politely) disappointed with this answer at the time, I should really reflect on what exactly upset me.

Just because I, like most Americans, think hacking phones is outrageous, maybe Paul is right – maybe in Britain we just don’t care.

To be clear – Paul said that he and the Guardian are completely against hacking phones themselves.

Maybe we are more interested in hearing Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak repeat the term “small boats” and take away our right to a fair trial than we are in protecting what used to be referred to as our human rights.

The same is said when speaking about GM food – that the British people are not bothered about GM food or pesticides.

It’s an elegant way for PR people & lobbyists to undemocratically push unregulated technology for profit and increased social control without any fear of a backlash.

If you’re on the payroll then you tend to be all for this type of argument because it pays your bills, but it’s a false economy, a Faustian pact, because when you need a functioning food supply or health system the political decisions you did nothing to prevent will be the ones that come back to haunt you.

Of course you may be blissfully ignorant of all that by the time they affect you because your mind will be busy being controlled by the next big thing to be upset about. Distraction from the real issues. Your own complicity and your own powerlessness to do anything to help yourself or the people around you.

Not for me to disempower you of course. This is supposed to be an enlightened space.

Pegasus is probably being used on people around you that it shouldn’t be – and it isn’t going to be reported on because it is not judged to be newsworthy.

The irony being that Paul Lewis told me what he told me in a room full of journalists!

I don’t hold him responsible for the way news is perceived in his newsroom. He probably has more clout than he realises but it appears to be a team sport and likely relies on state actors to be able to do what it does.

All the News that’s fit to Click which came out last year places great emphasis on the the idea of judgment as to whether something is newsworthy. That it is hard to explain but that it is an instinct that one can feel.

But is it to some extent also about learning not to upset powerful people? Self censorship, taboo, omerta?

The guardian has been accused of this and other papers are obviously even worse – but it is interesting to see who they do choose to target and when.

Here is a video about Pegasus.

I watched a bit of this – recommend

Click here to watch it

European Russia Vs Israeli Europe

It’s a shame that the world has to get in this bad shape for me to feel like blogging!

In the following article former Foreign Secretary and leader of the Conservative Party William Hague recounts the occasion upon which he encountered the Ukrainian digital transformation minister Mikhailo Fedorov.

The idea is that Fedorov wants to turn Ukraine into a European Israel. 

Particularly ironic given Israel itself has deeply Ukrainian roots. 

All this talk of Ukraine joining EU when actually it dreams of being Israel.

And look at this Soros article from last August..

Some of the deepest Great Reset propaganda I’ve ever seen. Soros think tank calls for Ukraine to join EU and go organic instead of joining the Common Agricultural Policy – thus further advocating a multi tier EU with Ukraine, a European Israel, at the vanguard.

Israel was a massive player in the COVID game – with Pfizer vaccines being fully deployed on its population way before anyone else.

Former UK ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould ran NHSX till May last year. NHSX is like a digital NHS looking at innovation. He was appointed temporarily without any real interview process and kept the job. Previous to that he was the top civil servant in the media department for … Matt Hancock.

Gould himself rather gave the game away after trying to invade Syria while Israel ambassador and then violating UK privacy laws on an industrial scale as head of NHSX.

The following blog from November 2020 shows a video of Gould bragging about it.

Gould organised the meeting between Hancock and Zuckerberg in Paris because Zuckerberg refused to come to the UK.

Since then Gould has moved onto London Zoo, former home to Transhumanist Julian Huxley.

https://twitter.com/matthewsgould/status/1522222164790984704?t=NNcj3eOPUtfvaghnA8v46w&s=19

Huxley never settled in at the zoo. He was a biologist and upset the bankers that funded it because he was actually more interested in animals than schmoozing.

There are lots of movements happening in British life that few people get to hear about because they are not properly covered in the papers.

Last week I met Andrew Garfield at the select committee grilling of Richard Sharp the Boris Johnson chum who helped arrange an £800k loan for Boris just before being made head of the BBC.

Andrew is Richard Sharp’s crisis communications guy. Sharp wouldn’t talk to me after the grilling at Westminster. He ran away when I told him I’m not on their side. But Garfield did engage with me. He said he wasn’t prepared to say anything which wasn’t already in the public domain.

I asked my political betting analyst friend William Kedjanyi if he thinks Richard Sharp will last the week – lots of people are turning against him – maybe I will have odds for you in the week.

The lawyer Adam Heppinstall has been appointed by the well connected racist William Shawcross to oversee the Sharp appointment to the BBC. Shawcross bought the Jewish Chronicle recently and is known for going soft on Nazis and tough on Muslims as his Prevent review showed – also last week.

Far right activity is on the rise in the UK and the conservative party is relying on it whilst ironically being led by some of the very brown people against whom it relies on hatred being whipped.

This feels like the operation mindfuck politics of Vladimir Surkov. But perhaps with a helping hand from Stanley Gottlieb and GK Chesterton’s Spycops from a Man who was Thursday.

When I saw that Shawcross had recused himself and appointed Heppinstall I looked for Heppinstall’s Twitter account and took some screenshots.

This was handy because as son as I tweeted one of Heppinstall’s screenshots he deleted his account.

Since then Jacob Rees Mogg has said Heppinstall should be replaced for having criticised the government. Only a Bannon loving fascist like JRM would consider Heppinstall a lefty lawyer!

Here are some of Heppinstall’s “Lefty” Twitter screenshots! :

Seeing that Heppinstall had acted as a government lawyer against biographer historian, literary editor and freedom of information campaigner Andrew Lownie I decided to call Andrew and find out about Andrew’s own cases.

Andrew was extremely generous with his time and below is the interview from Friday. He speaks about his cases in the first half and his books in the second. The explosive Mountbatten paedophile revelations – the penchant for Sri Lanka boys – are spoken about on 29 minutes.

Andrew was happy to talk about the people who lent money to Churchill and the interactions he has had with Simon Case head of the cabinet office who used to do PR for Prince William. I will go into more of this soon. Suffice to say that the cabinet office has not fared well in this Johnson loan affair. They have twisted the idea that Johnson has a very distant cousin loan guarantor into an excuse to cover up Johnson’s 800k loan. Bad form. MP Rupa Huq told Sharp that Case looks more like Johnson’s fixer than a man who enforces probity.

When I studied the LTCM hedge fund’s 1998 collapse when I was at university in 2001 I learned that successful traders in investment banks and hedge funds always found ways to take more risk. They were prepared to game the system any way they could. It looks like Boris Johnson, Richard Sharp and Simon Case thought, in 2020, during a time of peak COVID, that they could get away with doing just that.

https://twitter.com/joshuarolson/status/1625234134720446465?t=WAt8CtLTIFIIvvStygB8oA&s=19

On the Way to Mars

On the way to the forum yesterday I was approached by a fellow freeman who muttered something about a podcast.

Of course I reminded him that anything that has been recorded is merely a diminished form of reality. That fertility lies only in the present.

That fecundity is a state of mind.

And violating law is so easy.

Keep it clean. And simple.

Corporeal matters underwhelm me each and everytime except when I’m receiving the kind of attention I deserve.

Posing as a civilian on the overground it becames clear and distinct that the bag and the symbol contain far more than mere iconography – indeed the nods, nudges, and wink stains find their selves ALL OVER THE PLACE.

The star. Apparently the ubiquitous star. The red one. Is only red because. The peasants. The Russians. They thought they’d go to Mars. Pump up the volume.

People who could barely fly across continents were talking about colonizing other planets.

Were these Bolsheviks invoking Zionism? Is one an alternative to the other?

And did this movement produce the telecommunication, banking and surveillance systems that led to the control of the government and BBC?

MI5, MI6, BBC & Richard Sharp – & something about Adolph Eichmann

Happy Friday, it’s been a funny old week.

Less than 36 hours till the next Gabriel Pogrund Sunday Times onslaught on the Rishi Administration – though to be fair the real targets last week were Richard Sharp at the top of the BBC, one Boris “Al Kamal” Johnson, and Nadhim Zahawi.

Pogrund was behind a lot of the fake Corbyn antisemitism stories so I think it’s important to remember that under all circumstances he still bats for the Tory Party.

Rupert put them there and Rupert can take them away.

I happened to be meeting a friend, Shyam Bhatia, former middle east and diplomatic correspondent for the Observer Guardian by the British Library last Tuesday.

Shyam is writing a book on atrocities committed in India during the Raj.

We were chatting away and I recognised someone enter the café. Though I’d never heard of him till last Saturday I was sure the gentleman in question was the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Jake Wallis Simons.

He’d been on the Sky newspaper review on Saturday night and essentially had gone out to bat for Boris and Richard Sharp. It’s all too easy to jump to conclusions, get the wrong end of the stick, put one ‘s foot in it.

But I politely introduced Jake to Shyam and it turned out that Shyam had written for Jake a couple of times in the last year and that they had both written about Adolph Eichmann.

There followed an interesting chat between the two men about both Eichmann and the Iranian nuclear programme.

So you wrote about Eichmann?

I took this snap and when Shyam left told Jake that though I don’t have the same views as him on Jeremy Corbyn that I’d seen his appearance on Sky News.

I told him that I didn’t think it was good that Robbie Gibb who isn’t even Jewish is the sole director of the Jewish Chronicle Holding company and also the representative director for England on the BBC Board.

Jake neither agreed not disagreed, merely acknowledging that I’d spoken.

It would have been good to ask him other questions but it didn’t feel appropriate as he was just having his lunch and may have had other things on his mind.

He did tell a great story about being sent to cover one of Eichmann’s kids in Argentina for the Online Mail.

I’d have liked to have asked him about working with Geordie Greig at the Mail and the way the Epstein / Maxwell / Greig thing was covered. Greig is now back for Lebedev at the Independent. Very weird.

Another ex Chancellor George Osborne edited the Lebedev / Saudi owned Evening Standard and picked up more jobs before working for the Simon Robey banking outfit.

Robey’s wife Victoria Robey is Chair of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and used to be married to … Richard Sharp.

Victoria Robey’s uncle was John Gutfreund a major character in Michael Lewis’s Liars Poker about bond traders at Salomon Brothers.

Several of the the characters in Liars Poker feature in Nicholas Dunbar’s Inventing Money about the Long Term Capital Management LTCM hedge fund that flew too close to the sun and nearly brought down the world economy following the Russian domestic bond default in August 1998.

The bailout was the precursor to post 2008 bailout, reduced interest rates and QE culture. The roots of the recent unconventional financial and economic management of the world economy were put down in Wall Street. Richard Sharp was extremely close to the action.

I went over to another café where I met a certain delinquent historian who told me a tale regarding parallels in the corruption of today as with the corruption of yesteryear.

We noticed that just as Reggie Maudling a former Tory Chancellor had to resign as Home Secretary from Edward Heath’s government for serious financial irregularities so too is former Chancellor Zahawi in some trouble regarding his finances.

Of course former Chancellor Maudling was very popular among pump and dump style property developer financiers and was on the books of many a crooked firm when in opposition. But the Paulson case prosecution in which he was mentioned led to him having to resign.

There were of course also Labour shenanigans. One involving the head of Newcastle Council T Dan Smith. He was friends with Edward “Teddy” Short – leader of the House of Commons and a former Newcastle councillor too. A man called Cornfeld on this occasion played the role of the American property developer. The development was called Peterlee in the North East.

Short had been helping Cornfeld and T Dan Smith lobby at Downing Street and the papers started to write about it. T Dan Smith would have likely injuncted them and so a certain delinquent historian wrote a 2 page article for the Chartist magazine / pamphlet

The head of Wandsworth council, then Labour, was done for taking property related bribes administered by T Dan Smith. His name was Sidney Sporle. It’s not often you hear of Council leaders going to jail. Of course Tesco heiress Shirley Porter of Westminster Council came close. She had to escape to Israel and claim bankruptcy. Wandsworth went on to be a Tory flagship and in 1994 was where the political career began of a young Nadhim Zahawi. By the way Zahawi’s grandad ran the central bank of Iraq and had his signature on the notes. Just saying.

T Dan Smith himself was not jailed for bribery. But he ended up doing time for other fraud.

The fraud squad arranged a meeting with the delinquent historian – they told him they knew of his work and that they had dirt they couldn’t use.

The cops showed the historian an article in the Telegraph in which Short was asked aggressively about T Dan Smith – and his wife cried.

Turns out Short’s wife was the company secretary of the Peterlee Project.

The historian informed the lefty labour MPs like Dennis Skinner and an inquiry was set up by the Government into Edward Short.

Short was cleared by the committee but 6 questions were not released to the public. They probably related to his wife.

Some months later Short was reshuffled out of Government. He was made a Lord. But he was also made Chairman of Cable and Wireless. The firm had merged its operations with Marconi so it was basically a military intelligence and spying operation.

Why would Short have been protected like this? It appears he was part of the Anglo German friendship society which pushed appeasement in the 1930s. Maybe he was a double agent.

Guess who was the chair of Cable and Wireless after Short? From 1980 to 1990, with a period as CEO too, the head of Cable and Wireless was Eric Sharp – Richard Sharp’s dad. He’d run Monsanto Europe previously. When they were spraying Vietnam with Agent Orange.

So when Sharp took over at the BBC it was really MI5 & MI6 tightening their control over the information operations in the UK. Of course he’ll stay. He’s not even being paid for the job.

To quote a friend: ” if the job is evil enough, I’ll do it for free”

A Delinquent Historian – Ephemeralist Extraordinaire
William Kedjanyi dropping truth bombs

In 1985 Paul Lashmar revealed how MI5 had an office at the BBC.

Necessary but sensationalist

I met Dugher once. He was a very nice man. I’m sure he isn’t always. Smart guy. I’m guessing he’s quite good at getting his way. But also at reverse psychology and reading the room.

So now I’m off to the playground – have a wonderful day!

Traumatised ex-cops and soldiers

Looks like austerity is a big factor when it comes to trauma in ex forces and emergency response communities. There is the trauma of the job itself and then there is the trauma of there not being enough money to pay to live. Of course this will lead to addictions in order to find ways of coping.

How many cops altogether ?

This government page says 140,228

Attrition / Salary

About 10% of new cops leave before their probation is up. And the salary is not enough for many to live on.

Suiciding Cops

Accessing data re: suicided cops isn’t that easy.

If a cop kills themself it takes a while for the coroner to assess the death.

So the figures get updated after year end

The public requests stats from the Office of National Statistics, but they invariably reply in their own time and in their own way.

This is the most recent clear ONS data I can find – 2018.

Though there are lots of words in this 2022 Oscar Kilo police suicide prevention material, I see no stats.

More police die via suicide than on duty – but is that because so few die on duty in Britain?

FORCES

A relatively recent report from the Office for Veterans. I don’t think this organisation has much prestige in government. When I came across it around August – it felt like lots of Ministers signed off on the report but few were taking any ownership.

A study into veterans suicide was published in December last year

The basic conclusion was that the longer you serve in the military the less likely you are to kill yourself – the shorter you serve the more likely you are to end your own life.

The research was conducted by looking at MoD and NHS data re: 458,000 veterans.

About 1,000 took their lives. They say this is the same as the civilian population.

But they would want to make things look as rosy as possible, wouldn’t they?

The 2021 census produced the following stats:

Ambulances

Lots of paramedics are leaving

Firefighters

Firefighters are losing jobs and receiving paycuts: https://www.fbu.org.uk/news/2023/01/20/disappointing-and-ill-judged-fire-brigades-union-response-hmicfrs-state-fire-report

Tory MP: “Suggest learning how to budget”

Addiction

Yanks seem to go for the 90 days target

https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63530

Phrasing & Cadence in Biggie’s Rhymes & everyday life

A language learner and musician recently alerted me to a clip about how Biggie’s rhymes woud mimic the drum solo of a particular jazz musician – I think it’s something we all instinctively know but never directly think about. The clip was easy to find and is as good as I’d hoped. 👇🏿

Having watched the Biggie clip the bayesian conditional algorithms kicked in and suggested this 👇🏿

I think the bebop drummer mentioned as the Biggie inspiration was Hank Mobley 👇🏿

And something a bit more formal on phrasing – a term I’ve heard but never investigated

I remember a voice & tv presenter coach once telling me that one has to earn the right to speak. He frequently invoked the idea of cadence.

Why Murdoch loves a Paedo

Referent Power

Referent power as explained to me a few years ago, is when you walk into a room and everyone knows that that story on the front of the evening paper was put there by you.

So who’s constantly putting Prince Harry on the front page of the papers as a traitor and simultaneously rehabilitating the till now far more notorious for being a nonce Prince Andrew?

Jeffrey Epstein liked saying he wasn’t a criminal, merely an offender. Likening his own child trafficking conviction to stealing a bagel.

Whilst breaking bread with Peter Mandelson, Bill Gates, MBS, Prince Andrew and former Barclays boss Jes Staley.

Epstein had Murdoch’s numbers

Why Murdoch loves Paedos

It’s a kompromat thing. The more compromised you are the more likely you are to do someone’s bidding. But they have to have the dirt on you.

Other developments have occured in the last few weeks – I wouldn’t say they are all happening in sync with each other but by the time any of them make the papers they have usually been sanitised by UK government and other state PR and corporate operators.

Let us continue to raise awareness of these operations.

The paedo friendly press may be powerful but it too has to follow a certain playbook, a set of principles if you will.

When operations contradict principles then official narratives crumble.

Teetotal Tommy & some local strumpet

The Hardy Tree fell over in St Pancras Churchyard.

It was covered in the New York Times, Guardian and Camden New Journal.

My good friend Warwick Sweeney’s written a brilliant book with the same name.

As a Hindu reincarnation is a fact of life.

The very fact that in England in the 1840s one wasn’t given a pauper’s funeral and slung in a mass grave like the rest of the lower orders was a sure sign that one (or one’s friends and family) was blessed with cash.

The starving artist could not get bread in his lifetime but when recognised after death would be given a statue made of stone.

The insurance companies such as Victoria and Royal London started off as friendly societies and collected money to pay for funerals to prevent the shame of the mass grave.

I’ve always found the shift from friendly society to corporation interesting. Just as Zuckerberg said in a 2020 earnings call that he no longer wanted to be liked, he wanted to be understood, so too did Facebook evolve from being about friendship to being a stock market listed credit rating agency and all round surveillance capitalism conglomerate.

The Philadelphia Experiment thought was triggered by the line in the poem about human jam. Just as Borges imagined an infinite library with not just all the books but all the books with infinite variations for spelling mistakes, alternative punctuation and indeed every alternative in every way.

here’s the poem:

The Levelled Churchyard


“O passenger, pray list and catch
Our sighs and piteous groans,
Half stifled in this jumbled patch
Of wrenched memorial stones!
“We late-lamented, resting here,
Are mixed to human jam,
And each to each exclaims in fear,
‘I know not which I am!’
“The wicked people have annexed
The verses on the good;
A roaring drunkard sports the text
Teetotal Tommy should!
“Where we are huddled none can trace,
And if our names remain,
They pave some path or porch or place
Where we have never lain!
“There’s not a modest maiden elf
But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
And half some local strumpet!
“From restorations of Thy fane,
From smoothings of Thy sward,
From zealous Churchmen’s pick and plane
Deliver us O Lord! Amen!”

Here are some pics.

CREW SLUT / VIP LANE / PPE MERCH SERVICES

Not Tonight, Josephine !

Taken from the Times

Michelle Mone has been in the news for making a lot of money from the UK Covid PPE contracts.

The incestuous collision of public & private money happens time and time again in this country – it’s almost as if it is a way of life.

Crew Slut / VIP Lane

Michelle used to sell bras

Xmas Transport Strikes

The RMT has just announced some strikes over the Christmas period. I think it is important to remember that without them there would be no Tube service any day of the week.

They deserve decent pay and conditions. It is clear that not enough is being done to make the negotiations transparent. The government is blocking deals from being done even though they like to claim that privatisation has worked. If they want to allow private companies to negotiate with TFL staff and the RMT union then so be it. But they are trying to have it both ways. To claim that privatisation improves efficiency while preventing private firms from negotiating with their workers and unions. Absurd.

Ex-Pollster Zahawi fills his boots

Zahawi claims to have “saved the country” as vaccine minister and that Putin wants strikes in the UK.

Awful man.

He also decries “illegal immigrants” when he himself was an immigrant to this country as a child.

When Kurds are deported from the UK to Iraq and Baghdad, I wonder if Zahawi thinks for a second that that could have been him.

He spent a lot of time with former Tory Chairman Jeffrey Archer before Archer went to jail.

But, in brief, if Archer is your mentor you are likely going to lie.

Housing Rebellion

The people over at Extinction Rebellion don’t appear to get that motivated about homelessness. They talk about climate refugees. And possibly about people starving and freezing.

But I don’t believe I’ve heard the housing issue come up.

Environmentalists are often against building houses. Even though we need them.

And they’re often against people – often referring to overpopulation.

Anyway – the Tory rebellion against house-building could be referred to as a win for the anti growth coalition.

https://twitter.com/torysleazeUK/status/1599863312426336256?s=20&t=dEybabnHT92QfT2WURXtsg

We mentioned the Twitter Files and Matt Taibbi and Hunter Biden’s laptop yesterday – further mention here…

Michelle Mone again…

It’s the alliances in the EU that really gave the game away.

As Britain swung further and further to the right at home they could mask it by pretending it was just the will of the people and that everything was democracy and made sense. But when they started getting into bed with known fascists abroad then suddenly things need to be covered up much more seriously.

There was to be no obvious alliance with racists and the far right if it could be helped.

That’s why Nigel Farage never did business with Marine Le Pen when he was an MEP. Because he didn’t want to be known as a fascist – even though he is.

BELOW THE LINE

https://twitter.com/GlobalJusticeUK/status/1599819099563253761?s=20&t=xtI52xdmO_7FYWZHVim-GQ
https://twitter.com/Christian4BuryS/status/1597587216267890690?s=20&t=xtI52xdmO_7FYWZHVim-GQ

So who’s the mystery Russian?

The Sun are getting all excited about a dawn raid by the UK state on an unnamed Russian oligarch.

But as they don’t reveal the name of the oligarch, how are those of us who don’t simply believe everything we’re told supposed to believe this is true?

The UK papers have a long history of misleading the public to suit their owners’ interests – why would this ‘incident’ be any different?

The drumbeat for war remains strong – enlisting fame hungry celebs, and pretending the police are active on this matter is all part of the pantomime.

Taken From the Sun on Sunday – December 4th 2022

As long as the papers mark their own homework, and we know there has been huge historic corruption when the Sun interact with the police, we can expect to be taken for a ride.

https://twitter.com/liambyrnemp/status/1488069587732152320?s=20&t=g7WKCkLzVeG2YJUu7nC1ZQ

Bill Browder – a hero to some – has tweeted about it too. Would anyone but a complete psychopath be somewhat more alive to their own sarcasm?

Bill Browder did a stint in charge of Robert Maxwell’s money in Eastern Europe when the wall went down.

And look how that turned out for everybody.

It seems pretty obvious to me that what Bill Browder did for Bob Maxwell is not that different to what Jeffrey Epstein did for his own clients like Les Wexner – hiding money from governments and investing it for high returns.

John Sweeney, who was forced out of the BBC, says as much in this video.

Sweeney himself is hardly an unbiased operator – par for the course in the UK.

He’s one of those warmonger ex-BBC types. Obviously working directly with the UK Government but also having to do a lot of his own publicity. Doors open quite easily for John. So he’s alive and kicking in the “independent media” ecosystem. He has spent time on Russia Ukraine matters including looking at Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and Jeffrey Epstein, Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell. He inserts the official narrative at every opportunity and along with his other “independent media” buddies would decry anyone who disagrees with him as a conspiracy theorist.

I understand there is a video that went round of him trying to entrap the EDL founder Stephen Yaxley Lennon aka Tommy Robinson – from my perspective they really are both on a very similar side. They get mainstream media attention and stand for the same things.

Both are perfectly ok with the UK getting involved in overseas wars and are therefore prominent UK intelligence and public opinion forming assets.

Some of us remember as far back as 2017 when Xi Jinping was praised by the World Economic Forum for defending the rules based order.

Now the people doing the looting in charge of the US and the UK have decided that Russia, China and Iran aren’t allowed to do business with the rest of the world because they’re a threat / challenge. But Saudi Arabia and Israel are just fine.

So the preachers of globalisation have decided to impose sanctions on their enemies – the very enemies who they used to do business with.

But none of this is new – Ronald Reagan sold weapons to Iran as a deal for the exchange of American hostages even as he imposed sanctions against Iran and said he would not negotiate with terrorists. This all came out while he was president and someone else, Oliver North, was declared a hero for taking all the blame.

Around the same time, it was later discovered by investigative journalist Gary Webb, that the CIA had also been selling crack cocaine in Los Angeles.

Last month this story came out about UK police historically using entrapment to prosecute young black men for drug dealing in North London.

Stephen Yaxley Lennon / Tommy Robinson has been working with a former IRA MI6 plant who was involved in killing innocent people for the IRA with UK Government clearance and dealing with paedos according to this article – read to the end.

And of course a man who knows a lot about protecting paedos, Israel, and the Northern Ireland conflict is Sir Keir Starmer (read the Starmer Project)

Here is his latest attack against his former boss:

I started typing this blogpost out yesterday and decided to go back to it this morning.

It’s good to be blogging again.

More blogs, audio, video, & analysis on their way..

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Earlier today we saw how Chris Hohn, Rishi’s former boss, paid himself over £1.5 million a day this year and in 2019 he gave Extinction Rebellion £50,000.

Now in the Sunday Times there’s an exclusive interview with Richard Sharp, Tory donor, former Hammersmith and Fulham Tory councillor, former boss of Rishi Sunak at Goldman Sachs and current BBC Chairman.

It’s interesting that Sharp is such an openly Conservative Chairman of the BBC. That we put up with that. That we allow criticism of other countries on the basis that they are backwards and corrupt while we allow money to so easily and openly buy control of the UK media and political system.

The Anti Growth Coalition

So called environmental activists (on the payroll) after interrupting Liz Truss’s Anti Growth Coalition Speech in Birmingham

I used to hang around with an NHS campaigner who habitually referred to anyone who got in her way as being ‘Controlled Opposition’.

I remain convinced that , on a case by case basis, it could be argued that each person she pointed to was indeed “on the wrong side”.

But suddenly, on occasion, the suggestion would be made that even I was of dubious provenance.

I’ve still no idea if this was implied out of general frustration or if it was actually believed.

In activist circles there tends to be a bit of a guilt trip and blame culture – that so and so isn’t pulling his / her weight – that they are not committed enough to the cause – that they are only here to sabotage – and that they are police / part of the privatisation.

There is an inquiry currently taking place into undercover policing – the person carrying it out has taken lots of steps to protect the police officers involved so it doesn’t appear much is being done to properly inform the public about what officers have been prepared to do in the name of “justice”.

Here’s a list of some of the infiltrated activist groups. It is, I assume, by no means exhaustive.

The women in the photo above work for Greenpeace – I happened to be in Birmingham when they heckled Liz Truss during her conference speech – they let me photo them in the bar afterwards.

But when I asked to interview them, their handler said she’d need clearance – and then the computer said no.

Welcome to the world of celebrity activism – where you can get attention for interrupting the Prime Minister on national TV and say no to a blogger who asks you for a few seconds of your time to ask you for your side of the story.

Were they scared of me and my truth to power form of journalism? I think not.

I’m more inclined to believe that they had a mission, possibly with clearance from high up in the Conservative Party, ie pro-Rishi supporters. And that interacting with opportunistic me was completely surplus to requirements. So a win-win for them.

And for incestuous faustian dealmakers everywhere. Why should a green activist have any self respect when they have corporate money and MSM platforms? The thing to do is redefine self respect. And start quantifying in terms of direct debits, air time, and “bums on streets”.

I remember once asking the late David Graeber how he felt about the professionalisation and bureaucratisation of activism. He said it was a subject he could talk at length to me about but sadly never did..

Of course PM Rishi dropped fracking as soon as he got in. Consistent with Boris Johnson’s stance. But he also claimed to be against illegal activity by environmental protestors.

Uniformed cops to pretend they’re pursuing on the payroll activists (& undercover cops)

Who we now know will be infiltrated and many of whose actions will be instigated by agents of the state. But of course the various UK government rags will perpetuate the Punch and Judy political pantomime – for as long as it pays the bills.

Saj throws in the towel

Sajid has always had the knack of timing things right – for Sajid.

He got out of Deutsche Bank in 2009 – having sold toxic CDOs in Singapore which, like Sunak’s trades at Goldman and thereafter, helped investors lose their money and provoked the 2008 global financial crisis.

And having milked the financial system, he became an MP in 2010 and started milking the political one.

Funnily enough Sunak worked for billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn – who bankrolled … Extinction Rebellion – Hohn’s philanthropy in 2019 would have helped breathe new life into the climate movement – I wonder if his former employee Rishi thinks that he too, on £1.57 million a day, is also part of the anti-growth coalition?

Back to Sajid – there are reports that many other Tories are quitting – up to 70.

I wonder how many of the replacement candidates will be black and / or brown?

Cameron ensured that black and brown candidates were selected when he was leader but will Sunak, who arguably benefited from that decision, take the same view?

Things are kicking off re: Twitter and Biden’s laptop. Looks like Matt Taibbi who has done great work in the past is positioning himself with Musk against the old Twitter guard.

Taibbi didn’t seem conservative before – but maybe now he is being given data, platform and money, bills need to be paid…

Looks like Channel Four are giving Google a free pass to claim they are helping the disabled, while their business model likely pushes eugenics

If you have got this far you might have the required stamina for this video with Extinction Rebellion co-founder George Barda – George is eloquent, verbose, and rarely does interviews these days – but worth listening to if you want to know about some of the thinking behind XR .

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to a (very French) Space Colony

Emmanuel Macron told Kamala Harris yesterday that he would like the first European to join the NASA 2025 trip to the moon to be French.

Yes, “Americans” were the first to walk on the moon, but Macron knows that Columbus landed in the island Ayiti in the Caribbean in 1492, which was inhabited by the Taíno and Arawakan people, and renamed it La Isla Española (“the Spanish Island”), later Latinized to Hispaniola.

Hispaniola, now known as Haiti, became a French island and staged the first successful slave rebellion in 1791. This led to the French announcing that Haiti owed France reparations – from which the country has never recovered.

The international financial architecture has been set up in such a way that so-called creditors (unrepentant genocidal war criminals in this instance) are favoured at the expense of Haitian nation – the people they permanently enslaved.

So maybe Macron has a bit of a second mover advantage glint in his eye. I only came across the term last week in Cashless Revolution which describes the way Ali Baba and Tencent in China learned from how Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal & the banks operated in the US.

As for Kamala, whose dad is an economist from Jamaica, she seems completely oblivious to all things past present and future. Will she be on the Democrat ticket next year? I suspect she will. But expect shenanigans.

Is the NHS already being run by AI ?#CanComputersCare

A friend, Seorais Graham, has written and produced a moving radio play entitled Liberation is not a Recognised Protocol.

The script, story and sound are top notch – and the actors, some of whom are from The Archers and Game of Thrones, really deliver.

Trigger Warning – though satirical, the general theme may be disturbing for anyone who has had to care for or visit loved ones in UK care home or hospital settings.

I remember a GP at a public discussion I once attended during the coalition years saying that whilst he couldn’t tell his stressed out patients to take up meditation, it was perfectly fine to tell them to to bone up on their mindfulness.

Apparently the word meditation had unscientific . . . spiritual connotations, whereas patients would feel less aggrieved at simply being asked to be more mindful.

The elephants in the room being deregulation, liberalisation, privatisation, technocracy, profiteering & austerity.

Today’s Times leads with the following story:

The term puff piece isn’t new.

Meanwhile actual humans who contribute to keeping patients alive and driving ambulances to get patients to hospital on time are striking because they’re being underpaid. Can they all be replaced with driverless ambulances and android paramedics?

Every crisis is an opportunity to reshape organisations, save money, centralise power and change behaviour. Why would high interest rates, high energy prices and food price inflation be any different?

The following Guardian piece is from April this year:

Reading the Times you’d be forgiven for thinking that computers are still the answer to all our problems! This time it is to stop stalkers.

The finger is pointed quite creatively in the blurbs.

Firstly at the non-white non-Christian population for invading UK’s great cities Manchester, London, & Birmingham. Secondly any Tory rebels who exercise their conscience (lol) are effectively sabotaging the party’s chances of winning the next general election according to Tory Jacob Rees Mogg. Thirdly someone is being labelled as a member of a crime gang for helping to transport refugees and asylum seekers into this country. It was demonstrated at the Home Affairs Select Committee last week that the only way you can apply for refugee status in this country is if you enter “illegally”. Of course many Tories are standing down in advance of the next election. The thing to do is to position themselves as former insiders with significant experience liaising with top civil servants, regulators, and other politicians. The Chinese government is to vaccinate the elderly to appease its locked down cities. A Chinese student in the UK told me the Chinese vaccine is ineffective. Kate Bingham formerly of the vaccine task force has publicly admitted that vaccines in the UK didn’t stop transmission and were extremely limited in the duration of their effectiveness. She is now on a new NHS Taskforce which will obviously accelerate the technocratic deregulation and privatisation process previously mentioned.

Interesting that HSBC is selling its Canada business. Is the activist investor that is encouraging the sale a Chinese insurance firm? Does it make sense to see a Chinese insurance firm that started off as a state entity deciding what HSBC policy is?

When Xi Jinping defended globalisation at Davos in 2017 it was in the context of newly appointed US President Trump’s disdain for globalisation and the “rules based order”.

Now the UK and USA are officially against China as they view it as a “threat” and a “rogue state”.

Here is PM Rishi backtracking on David Cameron and George Osborne’s love in with Xi Jinping.

Sunak talks tough on China even though his family is still doing business there

Hinkley Point nuke plant was a Chinese French project which would have helped progress the Belt and Road initiative. This film is divided into three thirds – the final third is particularly instructive on Chinese motivation to do Belt and Road in the UK.

On the subject of Rishi Sunak versus Cameron – it was Cameron who brought in the policies to put brown and black MPs on shortlists for Tory constituencies and then put them into junior Ministerial positions to ready them for high office. Don’t suppose Mr Sunak will be backtracking on that!

Cashless Revolution re: Chinese Fintech by Martin Chorzempa

Alipay

I just saw Cashless Revolution in Martin Wolf of the FT’s economics books of the year.

Edward Chancellor’s review of Cashless Revolution in the Wall Street Journal

I’m going to start listening to it on Audible in a minute as I set out for an evening stroll

Let’s say the UK Government were to suddenly collapse, who of us would even clock?

Michael Gove & John Bolton

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The thing about UK politics in the latter stages of 2022 is that hardly anyone pays it any mind.

And why would they? There’s a World Cup on and only so much information the nation can imbibe.

Were you to have been raised to believe in gravity, that the earth is round, or other such scientific theories, you might also have come to expect a certain minimum level when it comes to debate from your country’s elected representatives.

Sadly such a stance would now be magical thinking.

We are encouraged via our media to be more realistic, to accept the status quo, and to not complain even though some of us might want to. That would not be British. The thing to do is to wait and allow the right people and the system to come good in the end, because it always does.

But this is where the problem lies. There’s only so much anyone can put up with from the BBC. It might occasionally tell you something exactly as it is, but there will always be high levels of distortion to the point where the emphasis is misplaced and the viewer is ultimately demotivated and distracted. This is why I so love the title of the Neil Postman media explainer Amusing Ourselves to Death.

There is no level of evil that cannot be disclosed to us that cannot somehow be converted into docile acceptance from the Great British public. We are just very good at being told that nothing we do will make any difference to anything. That is why when the rare reports of widespread violence and fraud against the most vulnerable members of society are aired they never result in anything more than very well contained outrage.

The rape and murder of Sarah Everard by the Parliamentary policeman Wayne Couzens sparked outrage but even the protests resulted in further police violence against innocent young women.

The police in London are supposed to be overseen by the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor of London, but the policing Minister and the Home Secretary also all have a role to play.

The current Police Minister is Chris Philp. He was recently at the Treasury.

He made a joke about Michael Gove last week.

Gove is in charge of Local Government at the moment and will be overseeing further cuts just as country needs help like never before.

https://twitter.com/Hughesy53/status/1588493605593059329?s=20&t=UN2KTyCyZ5habyoVYs7q_g
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1588840471182610432?s=20&t=UN2KTyCyZ5habyoVYs7q_g

Chris Philp’s boss is Suella Braverman who he also mocked for having breached her security clearance.

Of course the government remains expert in rigging and delaying inquiries into its own misdeeds. The Greensill Scandal of 2021 was forgotten about very quickly despite a whole host of inquiries. Of course all the recommendations, themselves suggested by complicit investigators, were long forgotten the moment they were announced.

There was apparently a rebellion over the planning proposals in the Levelling Up Bill yesterday. It was mentioned on the front of the i newspaper and on Twitter but so far I haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere.

Former PM Liz Truss lives on both in that her honours list is being honoured despite her short tenure – and her “anti-growth coalition” lives on – in her own party.

George Freeman was recently appointed Science Minister by Rishi Sunak.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1595420442399055873?s=20&t=UN2KTyCyZ5habyoVYs7q_g

I filmed him a couple of times for WIlliam Kedjanyi of Star Sports Bet – I think Mr Freeman has a fair chance of becoming PM at some point – or to take one of the big jobs at least.

Chelsea Manning was in town last week – and Stefania Maurizi is releasing a book on WikiLeaks:

A TikTok vid from earlier today:

@financialeyes FT NEWSFEED Novmber 23rd 2022 #ukraine #brexit #catholicchurch ♬ original sound Financial Eyes

Book 📚 Haul

Gene Genie – organ markets included
Haitian History told through Carnival
Cat sitter
Pram Depot at Collage Studio
Hare Krishna
Organ markets

Telling Tales Exhibition

Curated by artist Alex Fox, the show Telling Tales at Lea Bridge Library’s Pavillion, brings together eleven artists across different disciplines, all who have been inspired by folklore and story telling. 

A fun evening at the Lea Bridge Library last night catching up with Alex Fox who was very much en famille.

I particularly liked his mother’s work which she tells me was sent off to the Royal Academy just a few hours before Alex was born.

Obviously some Morris dancers showed up in full garb, with fiddles.

Mr Fox tried to convince me this was random.

At which point I saw his rent-a-ghost style self portrait.

On a tasseled tambourine.

My curiosity sated, and having caught up with the rest of the cunning Reynards, off I slipped, into the night.

Popped into the legendary CNR Cafe Restaurant in Soho on the way home and took a couple of snaps of Piccadilly Circus and the Xmas display at Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly.

I wasn’t drunk, despite appearances – just happy to be out and about in town, with camera, in the run up to Xmas.

Come on, Train!

Scientific Advertising

Digital Accountability – 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0

The whole question answer question loop – life is a game – play it – and remember to get that train…

Come on Train

Recommended by Sean in the City of Maida

Speaking of “Science” – taken from the Times

So many holes in this “scientific argument”

Social Credit

Elon as good as admitting to pushing Chinese social credit

Santiago Calvo‘s latest..

Carlos tercero

Blood Brothers

Roger and GERD (not Schroeder, Gigerenzer, Muller or Schwab)

Better a black loin cloth than nothing at all

Egyptian vibes in the Serpentine
Liberation is not a Respected Protocol
Alex Fox & Marianne Fox-Ockinga show
Let’s Take it to the Bridge
And it’s on the street
Post-Verbatim vibes
Post-Nasal
When in Carriage
God help this country
Just doing me job
Far right film makers shoot green protestors (the Papa Bear remix)
Overkill
Nobody seemed to know her name
Something about something
Enough is enough
Here’s the thing
The sky was pink (ask James Holden)
The British Irishman in Africa
Nudge, nudge (Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler)
Manet quite liked Eva Gonzalez
So Rishi’s always liked trouble?
China protest Trafalgar Square
Chinese zero COVID lockdowns are real
XI doesn’t like the whole Pooh thing
Iranians and Chinese both succumbed to serious drug addiction thanks to British opium traders – cyclical stuff
How America went for humane wars instead of peace
Yuk
Who’s been eating my porridge?
From clickbait to jailbait

💖 Hearts and Minds, Speak as you Find 💖

Analogue Tablet supplied by Fossil Fuel industry

„All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity.“

GK Chesterton – The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Back on the Right Track

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
I believe that I’m back
I believe I’m on the right track

Back on the Right Track

Sly Stone disappeared for a good few years in the 70s & came back years later with Back on the Right Track.

What have I been up to?

It’s been an interesting summer. I was happy to have followed some of the Tory leadership race from Westminster. A political betting analyst friend, William Kedjanyi, got me to film him informing his followers of the latest odds in the knockout stage of the leadership race. I interacted with people I wouldn’t normally have anything to do with: Tories. But we were at Westminster, so let’s just say it was work.

I also recorded some films to help Liz Webster’s Brexit Bites channel get off the ground.

Liz and I have radically different views on certain matters – but we put them aside for long enough to record a few chats. Sadly we weren’t able to keep working together as she’s convinced I am ideologically too extreme to co-produce and co-present with. I wish her the best and will be watching her show which I am sure will do very well as she is very good at Remainer / Farming social media. One one fo the many things we agree on is the need for further scrutiny of CPTPP (see below).

TIKTOK

I’ve been on TIkTok this week too. One of my videos was taken down last night for violating some code – but I don’t actually know what. I can’t tell if this is something to do with fair use. I even had to change the soundtrack that I had composed myself – but I think that is because you’re not supposed to play any music that lasts longer than a minute.

Back on the Right Foot – A Certain Symmetry

Speaking of recovery – I was born at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. The Back on the Right Foot statue, by Alan Sly, outside the entrance was put there in 1993. I’m always associating the Sly Back on the Right Foot statue with the Sly and the Family Stone comeback album Back on the Right Track.

Here’s another track from the same Album – Shine it On:

Feels a bit like their older tune STAND. Takes off on two and half minutes.

Kikanju Baku – Melanin Momentum

Occupy Parliament in 2014 – I’d completely forgotten about this but just saw it on Kanju’s site

Some of Kanju’s more recent work with legend Roscoe Mitchell (they’ve collaborated for years)

I’m tempted to keep blogging – but I think it’s time to start a new thread – in the big news UK has just announced new PM Liz Truss – and Chile has just rejected a Constitutional referendum…

The Tories & Television

In the run up to the 2019 Tory leadership election a televised head to head debate was held on Thursday 13th June 2019 – the favourite Boris Johnson declined to participate.

This was not that surprising given that Theresa May had declined to participate in some of the the 2017 general election debates. Instead that evening she sent out her Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

And equally in the 2019 General Election, Boris Johnson occasionally sent out Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove to represent him.

But when Boris shunned that first June 2019 Channel 4 televised Tory leadership debate he knew full well that more candidates would be eliminated that weekend.

Procedure

Theresa May had stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party on the 2nd May and Johnson didn’t announce his candidature till the 16th of that month.

Nominations for candidates opened at 10am on Friday 10th June 2019 and shut at 5pm the same day.

In 2019 the 1922 committee had a two day meeting in which all candidates set out their pitches on the 11th and 12th, and on the 13th the first ballot took place and three candidates were eliminated. One – Sam Gyimah – had dropped out even before the first ballot and another – Matt Hancock – dropped out straight after.

So it is not unprecedented for the TV debate to take place after the first round. In 2019 the first ballot was on Monday 13th June, and the first TV debate on Thursday 16th on Channel Four.

According to that logic, there should only be one ballot before the 2022 live TV debate.

But the 1922 committee are changing the rules and making it easier for more candidates to be knocked out by increasing the number of votes you need to stay in the running.

So it could well be that after the first ballot we go from ten or eleven candidates to just three or four.

In 2019 Johnson, Raab, Gove, Stewart, Javid and Hunt were all still in the race when the channel four debate took place.

Will we see Braverman of the ERG face off against Patel and Truss to represent the more right wing end of the party?

Shapps himself is a full right winger as is Hunt. Everyone is falling over themself to back the unworkable Rwanda and Northern Ireland policies.

This is the time for journalists to quiz the candidates on their solutions, but it would appear that scrutiny is in short supply.

We’re all duty bound to gatecrash this limited hangout.

TV Rules

The rules for the timing of the TV debates are something I’ve looked into before and can be changed due to public pressure. The BBC has always shown bias toward the Tories. Don’t expect that to change.

Shapps

Apparently Grant Shapps, who was partially responsible for the death of a Tory activist, is having his Wikipedia entry cleaned as we speak.

Shapps performance on Sky TV was good this weekend, though it contained a multitude of lies, particularly about the Elliott Johnson suicide and the subsequent Conservative cover up. I wonder what Elliott Johnson’s family are thinking now.

Young Britons Foundation

This video I produced in 2018 refers to the death of Elliott Johnson. Peter Jukes knows more about this subject than most. In this video he gives an update of what happened to the people who were in the Young Britons Foundation which had been founded in 2003. I fully recommend watching it today.

Most Airline passengers dangerously exposed to Carbon Monoxide

All passengers on most commercial flights are exposed to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide according to a report to be released by the Aerotoxic Association this Thursday – July 14th 2022.

The report findings are significant because until now it was understood that ‘Aerotoxic Syndrome’, whose existence was first acknowledged in 1999, is caused by organophosphates.

The BBC published Fume Events in the air and released Something in the Air in 2020, but have not yet acknowledged the role of Carbon Monoxide.

EasyJet were supposed to fit filters on their planes in 2017 to prevent Aerotoxic Syndrome but changed their mind.

The LA Times did an investigation into toxic fumes on air planes and a follow up article about proposed legislation in the American Congress.

Carbon monoxide

A new scientific paper called: Aerotoxic syndrome: A new occupational disease caused by contaminated cabin air? by G. Hagemana,*, S.J. Mackenzie Rossb, J. Nihoma, and G. van der Laanc, states the following:

Another potential contaminant in cabin air is carbonmonoxide (Solbu

et al., 2011). Pilots exposed to fume events, with reductions in acetylor

butyl cholinesterases and NTE activity (Heutelbeck et al., 2016;

Michaelis et al., 2017), also had carboxyhemoglobin levels above the normal

range (Michaelis et al., 2017). Carbonmonoxide exposure is well known in

aircraft fueling vehicles, or due to exhaust fumes from the combustion

engines, and was reported by pilots of small airplanes (Cessna, Piper) in civil

aviation. The most common physical symptoms of chronic low-level

carbon-monoxide toxicity are headache, dizziness, breathing difficulties,

nausea, and flu-like symptoms. These symptoms are non-specific and often

dismissed as having a viral cause (Clarke et al., 2012). Carbon monoxide is a

neurotoxin that can cause immediate or delayed cognitive impairment

(Sykes and Walker, 2016).

G. Hagemana,*, S.J. Mackenzie Rossb, J. Nihoma, and G. van der Laanc

The Aerotoxic Association is a group that was formed in 2007 for people who who are affected by Aerotoxic Syndrome

A Dark Reflection

No Fighting in the War Room, Gentlemen!

Yes, Bilderberg met in DC ten days ago. And the World Economic Forum in Davos the week before. But it doesn’t stop there. The technocratic media friendly war machine rolls on.

Yes, Putin is an authoritarian who lets no-one speak freely in Russia – but does that let the international community off the hook for starting a war with him?

The image above was taken from this morning’s Le Monde.

A dead ringer for the 2011 Obama Osama ‘situation room’.

Proud Boys pt 1
Ukrainian Conversation Piece

Mario Draghi strikes a very George Herbert Walker Bush pose in this EU army conversation piece. Or perhaps he is going for a Kissinger-like all knowing Grey Eminence.

This is the man who destroyed the Euro with his Quantitative Easing Bazooka during his time in charge of the European Central Bank. Now he is financing and deploying real bazookas against Vladimir Putin.

Macron is positioning himself as either D’Artagnan, Asterix, or Tin Tin.

And as for Scholz, this guy is taking the heat for everyone else’s ambition. His gung ho green foreign minister Analena Baerbock has her eye on his job and is gaining in popularity with her pro-war ‘environmentalist’ stance. This is where the real power is in Germany.

Baerbock was in Pakistan last week and apparently had to cut her trip short because of COVID.

But what is the thinking behind this photo?

Bilderberg Summer Camp

Who do you think took it? A freelancer? A member of the EU PR team? How much were they paid? What is Macron supposed to be pointing at? Does Scholz have his own PR adviser? Do they not realise he looks like he is being pushed around? Or is that the whole point? By showing Germany as compliant the rest of the world can be at ease about Italy and France leading EU military strategy.

And where is Ursula?

Would she outshine the boys?

She used to run the German Military. That was her last role before taking over the European Commission. Why is she not in this photo?

Here she is at Davos – can any of what she says about supply chains be taken seriously?

Ursula has a very particular love of Israel and Palantir.

Here is Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Ukraine and Taiwan.

Palantir are signing up UK NHS Health contracts left right and centre.

There is almost no scrutiny of this in the UK press.

Meanwhile Macron has just chosen a female French PM to run his government. Elisabeth Borne.

She’s not the first ever French female PM. But maybe she’ll last longer than Edith Cresson, the previous.

Will Christine Lagarde, current head of the ECB, eventually run the European Commission like Ursula.

And will she be allowed to launch airstrikes on Russia and if she feels like it Syria or even Serbia or Greece?

After all Putin levelled Grozny back in 2000 – tyrants are generally happiest bombing their own people.

That didn’t stop the Queen welcoming Putin and inviting him to give a speech at the state banquet.

Adversity makes for strange bedfellows.

Who will be out next Public Enemy Number One?

Top UK pollster YouGov censored pro Corbyn 2017 survey results

There are those who say that polls and surveys are riggable and often actually rigged in all sorts of ways.

And their claims are routinely poopoo’d by a priesthood of self declared experts.

But there is a story doing the rounds on Twitter right now that shows that the communication of poll results, often run by Tory founded firms, can indeed be influenced in ways that are favourable to specific political agenda i.e. pro-Government

I came across this story because Jim Pickard of the FT was asking about the new Boris Johnson policy of combining right to buy with Universal Credit.

It doesn’t appear to have been thought through very deeply and it will be interesting to see how the Treasury champions it. How can they get mortgage providers to lend money to people who are not even allowed universal credit if they have enough money for a deposit?

If the banks offer 100% mortgages then houses will essentially be given away by the government, housebuilders and banks for free.

In the thread below Jim is asking for help doing the housing benefit / mortgage calculations.

@Wetbanditsdan was then apparently blocked for raising the issue of the FT not reporting the 2017 Corbyn YouGov story.

But John Burn-Murdoch is the FT’s chart guy.

He thinks the YouGov story is an enormous deal, as shown by his tweet at the top of this article.

The FT’s editorial team clearly has its own ideas.

https://twitter.com/WetbanditsDan/status/1534790791801016320?t=UgiCtR_FZhSrir-zA5XqCA&s=19

I do hope the folks over at Private Eye can include something about this in their Street of Shame.

For now I’m happy to listen to the Treasury, follow Wetbanditsdan and listen out for Acoba Chair Eric Pickles’s upcoming appearance at William Wragg’s select committee on Greensill – remember that?

“It’s never too soon to change the rules.”

More info is being released in relation to the case of the gentleman who was tasered and then fell in the Thames this week.

According to the Times, Tasers are used 32,000 times a year in England and Wales.

I wonder what the figures are like in Scotland, France, Ireland, and Northern Ireland.

And whether that means squeezing the trigger on 32,000 occasions or on 32,000 victims.

Maybe the police PR guidelines would recommend referring to the person being tazed as the perpetrator and the policeman doing the tazing as the victim.

Such is the ubiquity of victim culture.

If you are on the receiving end of an injustice then you have a choice about whether you want to do something about it.

If you come up against a powerful institution then they likely have plenty of experience in these matters and will characterise you as the perpetrator.

This is how power works in the UK and our current Prime Minister joins a long list of people who have been perfectly well rewarded for behaving according to such principles.

This is an example of the replies to the article. Almost everyone condemns the dead man and exonerates the police. Some fixate on the policeman having black skin as a sign there was no racism here.

I am sure I have friends and family that would be just as callous in this case. The majority of people commenting are unwilling to invest any time in finding out about what the dead man’s story was or his life was like before blaming him for being tazed. I would argue that in this case they belong to the “shoot first ask questions later” category.

The trigger happy mentality that propagates through our media has a knock on effect and creates a nation of psychopaths. Citizens who are ok with violence so long as it is done in their name.

A lot of conservatives seem to be ok with gun violence when it is their side using the guns.

In yesterday’s paper I saw a quote from am unnamed Tory MP saying “it’s never too soon to change the rules” in relation to allowing another no confidence vote in Boris Johnson.

Sadly the quote has disappeared. This is as close as I can currently find.

Many of the people who are happy for the tazed gentleman to have died in the Thames are likely also ok with Rittenhouse escaping jail and Boris hanging on to power.

Whilst that’s not a scientifically well researched assertion, and may say more about me than it does about you, it’s a potential correlation that’s worth thinking about.

Confidence Noncey-Dents

It’s hard to know exactly what prompts the placement of any particular story in the news cycle. Take today’s Times. Evgeny Lebedev’s photo appears and we’re told that he’s only popped into the Lords twice in the last couple of years. Which begs the question, what is he doing there in the first place?

Canada have put his dad, his benefactor, on a sanctions list for being close to Putin, but for some reason we in the UK are not able to know what the intelligence services said about Evgeny when they were asked to provide advice on his peerage security status.

A Minister when officially asked about this said that Lebedev is an honest man and that there is nothing to be concerned about.

I was at a party last night and spoke to a daily mail reporter and asked if they had heard the rumour the Lebedev had a relationship with Ex Mail editor Geordie Greig. I was told that this is something that people say. Lebedev gave Greig 5% of the Standard and the editor’s role when he took over in 2009. I assume Greig left the Mail and sold his 5% stake in the Standard / Lebedev Holdings because of something to do with the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and the Epstein story – bit what do I know?

How could she be prosecuted for sex trafficking and not a single customer have been named or jailed? Have they all just suddenly disappeared? That makes no sense.

We have a housing problem in this country. There aren’t enough houses on the market. So rents are rising and so are house prices but that only suits people with money. Those who don’t have money are locked out of the system.

More and more properties are being sold in secret.

Hunt has been positioning himself as some sort of a human Tory. Is such a thing even possible? Of course not. How many frogs must be kissed in order to find a prince? You tell me.

I’m going to reserve judgment on all this for now. Suffice it to say I’d be surprised and even slightly sorry when Boris goes. Whatever comes next will be surely worse! But I’m ok with that.

It is what it is.

Of course Starmer wants to block free speech

So Sir Keir & his fellow paedo lawyers can stop Britain being roused from its diet of 100% 24/7 360° surveillance & programme of subliminal military financialised pavlovian operant conditioning

Just Another Whimsy Sunday UK Arfter-noon?

3 grams of Utterly Buttery National Pride served up by The Firm
https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/1533178365351534592?t=goXoT940qADjCeMGVsNW8g&s=19
Cringe
Cover up cops

The unregulated press, i.e. Rupert Murdoch & state / intelligence agencies, wants to regulate social media.

By which we’re talking the few remaining bits of our decentralised communication systems that they don’t yet fully control.

Today’s Sunday Times is pushing this story about a poor 14 year old girl who killed herself after being bullied at school.

The paper is suggesting social media platforms themselves are to blame and therefore we need to regulate social media.

They say this is a particular problem at the Jewish Free School in North London where three pupils have committed suicide in three years.

It is a huge violation of the school and especially its families’s privacy to suddenly turn it into some sort of beacon for internet regulation.

This behaviour is consistent with the ongoing Zionist gentile policy of abusing innocent Jews for the sake of some higher cause that in no way protects their interests or personal security. Hijacking a community’s identity and experience for the sake of achieving an ulterior agenda. Pushing such a divisive narrative can only end in tears.

Labour leader paedo lawyer Sir Keir Starmer and the social media platforms have done a lot to go after left wing activists.

They have mainly accused them of antisemitism by wilfully misinterpreting social media posts, deplatforming them, then expelling them from the party.

Former Human Rights barrister Starmer created the Doughty Street chambers law firm.

It congratulated Starmer on his becoming leader in April 2020.

Doughty congratulates Starmer

In June 2020, the then shadow Justice Minister David Lammy joined Doughty’s books as a fee earning lawyer.

Taken from The Lawyer

On the 3rd November far right VIP paedo Zionist Doughty lawyer Adam Wagner produced the results for Doughty founder Starmer.

As previously mentioned here, Wagner represented the notorious Harvey Proctor with his Doughty colleague Geoffrey Robertson at the (itself bent) inquiry into VIP Westminster child sex abuse.

Robertson wrote in favour of twice convicted Murdoch favourite the Australian paedo cardinal George Pell. Pell had his conviction overturned around the time of the original Johnny Depp Amber Heard case.

Heard’s case was run in conjunction with the Sun (Murdoch) and she was represented by Jen Robinson (Doughty) who was also representing Julian Assange at the time.

So of course Assange had no chance. His team was team Starmer. Team Murdoch. Team paedo.

Let’s have a brief look at Lammy:

December 2021 at a “Jewish Festival”

This info came in at the end of last week.

Gove, a Murdoch man, he attended Murdoch’s wedding along with Priti Patel, is at Bilderberg with David Lammy. A couple of right wrong’uns.

On the make gentile Zionists that wouldn’t think twice about killing a million Jews if it helped their paths of glory.

As they push to regulate social media I doubt they give two hoots about a dead bullied Jewish teenage girl from North London.

Former Ofcom boss Sharon White attended Bilderberg in 2017. I mentioned it on this blog around 2018 when Ofcom asked me to take down a blog post, which I refused to do.

Starmer has to my knowledge represented at least one paedophile in an attempt to gag the BBC and one British soldier who had been convicted of murder in Northern Ireland.

I believe everybody deserves representation, but I also believe that who Starmer has represented and the arguments he has used say a lot about what he is prepared to do and say and what he is capable of doing in the name of furthering his bank account and career.

Perhaps I have left something out of today’s suggestive saunter.

I have (earlier today) nostalgically bounced to some of the following:

This one’s called Travel by Bulgarian ( Signum Mix) …

And this one’s Tony de Vit mixing it up for Trade the legendary Sunday morning 90s daytime rave at Turnmills in Farringdon..

Jubilee Britain: “when it comes to blacks, I’m with Enoch,”

Taken from this morning’s Daily Mail
The Mac Daddy of Right Wing Journos, Andrew Neil

There’s nothing wrong with putting these photos next to each other. We live in a supposedly free society in which one ought to be able to express oneself freely on any subject.

Juxtaposing white UK police taking the knee in 2020 to atone for the killing of George Floyd in America with a black British citizen wearing a Union Flag suit, tie and hat holding a Jubilee flag is bound to provoke conflicted emotions.

But what is the purpose of this artistic endeavour?

It’s propaganda. And who benefits from it?

Andrew Neil who wrote the article is particularly out of touch when it comes to these matters.

He can quote some stats about racial harmony that have been handed to him by his friends at the Spectator – which he Chairs – and which was once edited by Boris Johnson.

But Andrew Neil’s Spectator is a bastion of white supremacy. The chances of a non-white person writing for it regularly are zero. And yet it crows about how the woke mob has won and destroyed the very fabric of our society.

I actually like reading the Spectator. It is very well written. The analysis of politics is from a very right wing perspective and the right wing are in power. So it makes sense to follow them. Many of them are close friends with the people they report on.

James Forsyth’s best man at his wedding to Allegra Stratton was Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Assistant editor Mary Wakefield’s husband is Dominic Cummings. Other assistant editor Isabel Hardman is married to Zionist gentile Lord Walney the anti-Corbyn ex Labour MP who Boris put in the House of Lords to attack left wing activists.

The anti woke agenda has been alive and kicking among the agenda setters for some years. They railed against the nanny state, health and safety, taxes, immigration, law and order, & the NHS, but they stay quiet when it comes to government looting and corporate crime.

The resources that they have are marshalled to encourage the government to drop its anti obesity drive, in favour of supermarket profits, while minimising local authority, NHS, and welfare budgets. Spend money on the military but not on healthcare or education, they say. These are the people who run the country.

As this is unlikely to change for a while one shouldn’t feel bad mentioning it.

The opposition leader Keir Starmer is an amoral individual who sold his soul to the devil many years ago.

It is only by developing new political parties and new political systems that we can achieve any moderate change in this country – otherwise we will remain overrun by fraudsters who are mere front people for large corporations.

Back to the image at the top – I decided to look up the “I’m with Enoch” quote and it turns out it’s used in Curry and Chips by Johnny Speight. I would like to read more of Speight’s work. I really like it. I think by today’s standards he’s easily misunderstood – even by his fans.

But then we go back to the philosophical question of whether you really said something if everybody believes you said something that you never said.

Society doesn’t like people who tell it that it is wrong. So those of us who occasionally notice things that don’t add up are discouraged from saying so. Instead the way we are expected to behave is to silently join in with the propagation of the fairy story. Don’t burst the bubble because if you do we’ll come after you.

So not only must you not call out the lies – you must actively repeat them – such is the conduct expected in a totalitarian regime – except in a totalitarian regime such conduct is involuntary – here it is expected of you. You can choose to happily submit or unhappily defy. Do you want to miserably disgrace, bore and impoverish your friends and family by speaking the truth at every juncture, or will you be pleasant company while only focusing on the how great the government and corporations are?

Which side are you on?

Met Officers face Gross Misconduct Charges

It’s not just the fact that some policemen in the Westminster City Council area wrongfully handcuffed an innocent couple for driving while black.

It’s the way it has taken nearly two years for a police regulator to charge the officers in question.

And the language that they use to explain the charges : A breach of equality and diversity standards.

How many lawyers and PR professionals did it take to codify driving while black?

I was at an event yesterday where a member of the House of Lords as good as blamed Islam and quiet Muslims for the flourishing of grooming gangs in Rotherham and other parts of the country.

I declined the opportunity to remind the dear chap that Jimmy Saville, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and Peter Mandelson are hardly card carrying Muslims.

He didn’t need to be told that white male rape is also a thing and that perhaps he should recognise that the police cover that up just as much as anything else.

As you can probably tell, I have given up on the idea of convincing the crowd that there is a difference between right and wrong.

And I’m much happier for it.

Our minds are too small to understand the things that go on on this planet.

I’m not saying give up. I am saying that we will often never know what factors are driving what appears, on the surface, to be happening.

It’s perfectly fine to feel nervous about outright corruption.

But as soon as you talk about it, let alone try to stop it, strange forces start accusing you of being misguided.

This appears to be an international phenomena. We’re drowning in crime and cover up.

There is very little local journalism that is able to address the fragility of council finance, so the looting and its consequences reign supreme.

That is not to say we should be defeatist – just don’t get too sucked in to searching for justice.

It’s not financially affordable for most people who are already sufficiently unprotected by the time they are aggressed.

The Mafia State Hypothesis really isn’t hard to prove.

The evidence is there for all to see.

Don’t fall for the traps which are placed to rob you of your time, resources, and will to live.

The actions of paid collaborators are hard to counter – but occasionally, for whatever reasons, things don’t go their way.

At which point one is reminded that there are a couple of rotten apples in every barrel (groan).

Check the article and below the line banter in today’s paywalled Times

Google Docs to stop you getting yourself cancelled

On the radio this morning I heard the BBC presenters talk about Government recommendations to set up a regulator to oversee professional football.

The idea is that the game has become too commercial and the owners not of sound character.

One of the commentators in the following article says there are:

‘Too many self-interests in the Premier League’

Steve Morgan, the former chairman of Wolves, told Sky News he welcomed the recommendations and hoped it would change the “appalling” way money is distributed in the game.

He said: “When I was in football, and I’m not being clever with hindsight, I always felt that the distribution of capital within football is appalling. It’s for the few, not for the many.

“So I personally welcome this. I think it’s a shame that it’s got this way that football couldn’t regulate itself – and the Premier League in particular. I think there’s too many self-interests in the Premier League.”

I love the way we’re told that people and industries can’t regulate themselves. It’s a disempowering tactic to stifle conversation and continue usurping control.

Look at what Google are doing…

If your word processor prevents you from making spelling mistakes and looking dyslexic that’s all well and good.

But should it be serving you sanitised synonyms to pretend to friends, colleagues and counterparties that you’re even more PC than you really are?

If there is significant legal and business risk to writing your own emails, I get it.

But will Boris Johnson and Joe Biden be relying on Google to stop them proxy warring with Russia?

UK Rwanda refugee policy has Blair & Gates written all over it

Why did Tony Blair get knighted by Boris Johnson?

There must be a host of reasons.

They’re both Islington men with marriages and multiple children with smart lawyers.

Both needed a war to make their mark on the world.

Tony Blair has refused to go into the House of Lords – do you think Boris Kemal Johnson will do any different?

Boris will need tips from Tony on how to pay for his kids.

But the thing that I’m most interested in at the moment is the link between the current UK Rwanda arrangement for processing refugees and the Tony Blair Institute’s work in Rwanda.

It is inconceivable that Blair and his foundation didn’t see and guide this policy.

They have been in Rwanda for years. I first noticed around 2014 because there were reports about it all over the papers.

Paul Kagame, the Rwandan dictator was fêted in UK papers for turning the country round. Similarly to the way MBS of Saudi is credited with modernising the Middle East kingdom.

But the problem is that Kagame took power following a genocide.

Blair’s wife Cherie defended the head of the Rwanda spy service in 2015 when he was detained in London for the killing of a Spanish aid worker during the genocide. The case remains unresolved.

No wonder Starmer and Mandelson are keeping so quiet about the Rwanda policy.

The UK parliament operates under a grand coalition to the point where it is a one party state.

People have given up on democracy and politicians and would prefer to be run by unelected officials.

If it were any different we would have had a revolution about it already.

It doesn’t look like we’re going to either.

We accept this system, not because it’s the best but because we can’t think, argue, and listen to each other enough to actually come up with a better one.

Even Arsenal football club faced a backlash when it took money from Kagame for a Visit Rwanda advert on all its players’s shirts.

But the amnesia kicks in quick in this country and now Visit Rwanda has an altogether different connotation.

According to the BBC in 2011 Kagame threatened to kill Rwandans in the UK.

In 2014 at Davos Paul Kagame said that one of his ex spy chiefs who was found dead in South Africa was a security threat.

But of course none of that deterred the Blairs or Priti Patel from their grubby deals.

In the post below about Uganda, a country where some of Home Secretary Priti Patel’s family once lived, Cherie Blair and Rwanda are also mentioned.

Bill Gates funds the Tony Blair foundation so it is inconceivable the two of them haven’t had this refugee policy planned for several years.

Whilst this may appear to be a depressing diatribe – it is only by sharing and remembering these stories that we can learn and shine a light on what is being done IN OUR NAME.

Milken, Gates, Kagame, Blair at the Milken Institute

God Bless You All – Seasons Greetings whatever your denomination or orientation!

Sunday Times cover Sodium Valproate scandal

If The Sunday Times cared about the victims of this scandal they would have reported the story years ago.

This is an interview I did with Emma Friedmann 5 years ago.

Ken Clarke cut legal aid to valproate victims so they were unable to access justice

The lack of access to justice is an enormous problem in the UK

Our regulatory system is also broken

Here’s Russell Brand talking about US drug regulation – will he talk about UK pharmaceutical scandals like Valproate?

I’ve left a comment on Russell Brand’s YouTube thread but it appears to have disappeared.

Why did the Sunday Times let its Ireland paper cover the Valproate scandal in 2018 but not touch it in the UK?

A Hack’s Progress

The tragic figure who appears in Hogarth’s Harlot’s Progress goes by the name of Moll Hackabout.

Is life in any way comparable for female journalists looking to make a name for themselves on Fleet Street today?

We all have to compromise to get ahead.

Pippa Crerar is fêted as some sort of swashbuckling political journalist today, but how did she get to run the Mirror’s politics section and what compromises has she had to endure?

The two high profile roles she had before the Mirror were at the Guardian and the Evening Standard.

Which means she worked for Sarah Sands and Evgeny Lebedev and promoted the Conservative Party because that is how the Standard operates.

The fact that she then went to the Guardian while it relentlessly accused Jeremy Corbyn of antisemitism tells you all you need to know about her politics.

Then there is the matter of her pieces for Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign. She did everything she could to make him look good. This was for a campaign that simply couldn’t have been more racist.

Here she is with Boris Johnson. He looks quite happy. She doesn’t look displeased. But of course one shouldn’t jump to conclusions. While she doesn’t look like she’s Boris’s property, there is still something a little off-putting about this picture.

It’s not as bad as this one, but Boris’s clutch looks still quite familiar and Pippa is hardly looking uncomfortable.

Here they are at work again. Cosy.

The Americans put out a film about the cops infiltrating the unions in the 1950s.

I’ve never been able to work out what James II who was deposed in 1688 is doing in Trafalgar Square.

According to Wikipedia the statue was commissioned in the 1680s and has been outside the National Gallery since 1947.

Some notes taken during a tube journey last week. I’d been reading about the Russian / Crimean Cannons at a park in Northumberland.

I remember once seeing a bunch of Chelsea fans turn on each other because there were no opposition fans around to start on.

It appears the hooligans that run the British state have been happy to take Russian money in the form of donations and other contributions to the British economy such as buying Chelsea football club. But suddenly the mood has changed and the hooligans are turning on each other.

This type of cannibalism may be normal in the animal kingdom and the Conservative Party but it’s rather an unedifying sight for those of us who prefer to sit on the sidelines.

Incidentally Lord Lebedev no longer has the word Siberia on his House of Lords entry. Perhaps it’s been taken down because of the Russia affiliation. For those of you who don’t believe that he was ever called Lord of Siberia look at the screenshot below from late 2020.

Here is the original announcement:

We’re supposed to have local elections in London in two weeks and I would imagine the Evening Standard has hardly mentioned them at all. That is what happens when your city’s paper is run by a son of a KGB billionaire Russian Lord.

In London democracy means nothing at a local level.

The Ukrainian Puppet President Zelenskyy clearly wants nothing more than to bring down Putin. But do the protestors at Ukraine solidarity marches ever stop to consider that it is the Russians who stopped the Ukrainians from falling to the Ottoman empire?

That’s right, if it weren’t for the Russians the Ukrainians would all currently be observing Ramadan.

Ukraine was actually Muslim in the 15th Century and Muslims still live there.

Instead they’re fighting the very people who saved them.

And when they protest in Trafalgar Square with their Ukrainian flags – whose side were Russia on when France were busy attacking the rest of Europe?

Readers of the Economist are clearly not going to be encouraged to ask such questions.

Boris Kemal Johnson is a Circassian Muslim, from Georgia, on his father’s side, via Turkey.

I once read that when writing a miser one should remember to stress his generosity – sadly the client journalists in the UK are going super easy on Boris and their Media Oligarch bosses while building support for proxy wars between the Russian and Ukrainian people.

The media cartel and its Whitehall and Westminster contingent are once again exporting death to benefit their careers.

The fact that they were complicit in keeping the UK closed so that people could not see their dying loved ones while they all held raucous private parties tells you everything you need to know.

Russian soldiers killed 600 British soldiers at the battle of Balaclava – this was because the British leaders had miscalculated and sent their troops into a valley where they were surrounded.

What a way to behave.

Sir Charles Napier, whose statue is in Trafalgar Square, oversaw the British campaign with the French and the Ottomans against Russia in Crimea.

I’ve always thought of Aldous Huxley as a good guy. But I now see that his glorification as a champion of acid, Hindu culture, writer of Brave New World and teacher of George Orwell have softened me up to his output in ways that have caused me to be less critical than I ought.

I’ve never reflected on how his championing of acid overlaps with the way the American and British secret services used drugs to infiltrate and undermine activist movements.

As Joseph Heller said, “Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”

The Copper Twilight Reflection in a Dragon’s Eye

I’ve been thumbing through books on Dada and Surrealism and popped by the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition at Tate Modern again yesterday.

The Week of Happiness 1934 was a good year for Max Ernst.

The exhibit below did nothing for me on first glance – till a friend informed me that Joseph Cornell went around New York collecting everyday objects and found ways to make people feel differently about them.

Which still didn’t get me going.

But then I saw the caption.

Giuditta Pasta, to whom it is dedicated, was a Jewish Italian opera singer who was a very close friend of Vincenzo Bellini who composed Norma and Sonnambula.

My close friend, the late Helena Shenel, often told me that she was a reincarnation of Giuditta Pasta.

Helena found out about this while engaging in automatic writing – a surrealist spiritual activity.

Helena was writing as Bellini and interpreted the letter s/he produced as being addressed to herself – Giuditta Pasta.

Of course this is not the sort of thing one can talk about in rational polite circles – but I believe it to be true.

Seeing Sarah Siddons on Wednesday at Dulwich Picture Gallery also tells me that something surreal is in the air.

The moon was incredibly full last night as I walked home. I am grateful for all that is occuring in the universe.

Before frequenting the exhibition I had no idea how political surrealist movements of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s were.

I now see them as comments on power, science and spirituality as well as satirical expressions about what does and does not comply with social norms.

We noticed Nina Simone in the Ted Joans video taken at the Algiers Music festival from 1969. She’s not in these pictures but she was there.

Obviously I thought of Sun Ra and particularly Space is the Place.

Lemm Sissay was with the XR crew outside. He is obviously a great man – but we didn’t stick around for his poems. I can’t stand XR. But as I embrace hypocrisy in all its forms I really should learn to go easier on them.

Nice to see the Gunpowder Conference Centre just off Fleet Street High Holborn, in case you are wondering how Britain makes its cash.

I didn’t take this photo of John Wilkes – credit for that has to go to a nameless friend.

Another one of yours truly. One of us is reputed to have been the ugliest man in England. Wilkes changed the way Parliament did business. He was a big transparency campaigner and womaniser who eventually switched sides and put down rioters while working for the Bank of England. One has to pay the bills.

I once got grief for referring to Andrew Bailey, current Governor of the Bank of England, as the biggest criminal in London.

I stick by that, but wonder if he too will have something erected in his name.

For services to the oligarchy.

It was good to see the statues of Fox and Bedford in Bloomsbury and Russell Square.

I recently picked up some books about London statues and read about those two in particular. Fox liked to gamble so on hearing he was to be married his father reputedly said that at least his son would go to bed once. Lucky girl.

When Bedford moaned about the farming subsidies a rival had been granted it was pointed out to him that nobody received nearly as much subsidy as himself. Given the immediate food shortages this country faces Bedford’s attitude is worth bearing in mind.

As the Duke of Westminster once said on being asked how he managed to get so wealthy in business, be sure one of your antecedents was on good terms with William the Conqueror.

Rupert has sent Roman a memo.

Slack & Murdoch get away with it … again

The Sun’s Deputy Editor James Slack must be laughing.

The Information Commissioner has dropped an investigation into how The Sun obtained CCTV footage of Matt Hancock kissing his lover Gina Colangelo at Department of Health offices.

Here is the official ICO statement.

But the fact that Police are also investigating Partygate and have fined James Slack, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak means we know that the ICO as well as the Police could have simply asked James Slack, and the Sun’s lawyers how they sourced the images.

I wouldn’t want to deter anyone from sharing this kind of information in the future, but it’s important for the public to know if the Sun paid for this information and how they got it.

Rupert Murdoch’s organisations have a lot of influence in the UK and obviously it would not be a good idea for anyone to argue with them.

But it’s important not to give everyone the impression that they are simply above the law.

That is what happened with Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, and Rishi Sunak and look where it’s got us.

James Slack’s cooling off period from leaving his post as a Government spin doctor had just ended on the day the Hancock “scoop” was published so it is obvious that he knows a lot about where the video footage was sourced.

Hancock had been Slack’s government colleague and they both worked together on imposing the lockdown regime and propaganda on the rest of us.

The Sun received a lot of money from the Government for platforming its Covid propaganda – the conflicts of interest once again are enormous.

How can we possibly learn anything as a society about how to avoid these kinds of problems in the future if the press, government, police and regulators conspire to selectively leak confidential information whenever it’s convenient and then when they don’t want to deal with the consequences simply cover it up?

I am not complaining about the hypocrisy and the corruption. I am a British citizen and I am happy to remain one. Hypocrisy and corruption are a key part of human nature. I don’t call for them to suddenly no longer exist. But neither should we be celebrating or rewarding corruption at every possible opportunity. Sadly we still do.

Corruption causes a lot of human suffering on the part of the the people who are lied to, maligned and stolen from, but also for the perpetrators who find themselves having to tell bigger lies and dig deeper holes.

We could see that with Matt Hancock, Cressida Dick and the heads of all the Government departments and regulatory bodies. They can’t tell the truth and their priority is covering it up. Of course they prefer to go after their rivals than protect the public from their friends.

None of this is shocking any more. The sheer number of cases and the lack of imagination in how they are covered up is overwhelming. Our prospects for remaining sane in the face of all this deception are approaching zero.

To steal from Ghandi, also a hypocritical & racist politician, what does it mean to be sane in an insane world?

The Counter Factoid Hypothesis

The lies, the double standards, the false equivalences don’t suddenly disappear. They are the foundation of our society. But the daily gaslighting is no reason to give up. The machine, primarily purveyed through the media & other organizations is just a feeling. We can think differently. We can resist. I know that is not helpful or easy when you’re being subjected to the violence of austerity and coercive control. But essential nonetheless when considering how to resist the fascism of everyday existence.

Rwanda is being touted as the latest place refugees to the UK will be processed if they are caught crossing the Channel.

Meanwhile the Home Secretary apologises for not processing Ukrainian visas quickly enough.

Cue “western supremacist” columnists defending both policies – fully aware that it is one rule for one type of migrant and another for another.

And yet we remain quiet. On the sidelines. All of us. Expected to acquiesce. To back violence in Ukraine and everywhere else. To not think about Mode4, Aadhaar, or the way they will affect all of our lives.

We have movements like Extinction Rebellion who couldn’t care less about the war in Ukraine or the proposed processing of refugees in Rwanda. But who are happy to talk about Climate Refugees as they ask you to get arrested. Don’t get me wrong, I recognise we need to have conversations about waste and overconsumption. And definitely about human rights, supply chain transparency, and corporate responsibility. Maybe they’ll achieve some goals on these fronts – their way. Whatever that is.

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the editor of the Economist. A Bilderberg attender in other words. Believer in one world government. With the likes of her in charge. She has her loyalties. On eight minutes she refers to the global perception of double standards over the way “The West” invaded Iraq without UN backing and only accepted Syrian refugees begrudgingly. Despite acknowledging these facts she refuses to accept that they are valid reasons for opposing western supremacy. So there you have it. The friendly face of Western Supremacy. She is happy to say there is “some truth” to the criticism but that nonetheless we would be better off backing the west. “I’m an English classic liberal to my core” she says – nice way of saying dictatorial warmonger.

Things are not all bad in my world though. I’ve really enjoyed these two weeks I’ve been off work.

Yesterday a friend accompanied me to La Traviata at the Royal Opera House.

Our mate Russell has played the timpani there for years.

He gave us a quick tour !

I asked him if he had done soundtracks and he said that he’d done Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the big films with American film composer John Williams.

I can’t remember if this came onstage last night. I think it did. The set was something else.

For the Wagner
Russell in his Tux

Earlier on we went to the Dulwich Picture Gallery where we bumped into Sarah Siddons by Joshua Reynolds. There were other Reynolds’s there, but nothing like Sarah, who I have a thing for. You might not see it but there are two figures hovering behind her in a sort of good cop bad cop manner. I’m thinking these are the spirits she channels when she acts. Was she the first person to make the idea of being a female actress respectable? I don’t know. She was certainly a big celeb.

La Traviata was unbelievable. I’ll be heading back to that building again. The Royal Opera House is fancy. We weren’t quite as dressed up as everyone else. Nor had we bought our tickets for £400 or marked them down as corporate hospitality. But they were within the bounds of affordability and something I would do again if I could. Hardly anything really happens. As in it’s not an action movie. But there are surprises and amazing things to look at. The story moves quite slowly. The scenes are quite long. But you go with it. And the music is sublime. Recommend, recommend, recommend.

I’ve been thinking of resurrecting the podcast. But it’s just me. No collaborators for now. I shouldn’t let that stop me. I’ll hide behind someone else’s writing at first. Such as Julian Huxley’s Tissue Culture King in which he first references the idea of the tin foil hat. And then bit by bit I’ll emerge with my own material. Bit nervous about what to do, but I must do something. It would be rude not to. Bye for now.

Indifferently unpicking through trinkets and shards

Hello and welcome to the beginning of your day.

Today starts a couple of weeks off of work for Financial Eyes who has just completed a couple of months as a learner support assistant in the more autistic end of the education system.

The work is rewarding as Financial Eyes considers himself autistic and benefits from being in such an environment.

And the banter amongst the inmates is more profound and far sharper than what I saw in the City of London.

Either way, London Conversation is looking for contributors ( the team currently stands at one) & to output more blogs and recordings from now on.

Mining the Twitter Stream

When your leader makes Elmer Fudd look like Arnold Schwarzenegger and sound like Albert Einstein.

https://twitter.com/joeywreck/status/1507144989247250437?t=7k0vGjPjfzRqDmtoY4eAjQ&s=19

Politics is a dirty sport and Orban really has been on great terms with Modi, Trump, Johnson, Netanyahu, but he deserves his win as the Brussels and US offer is widely mistrusted by his electorate.

If Biden & Von Der Leyen were serious about winning power in Hungary they would learn from Orban how to more effectively bribe his people.

How else do you think Boris Johnson has been so successful in his permanent state of electioneering?

Instead they appear to allow their candidates to go in with the same old same old unphased by the fact that it permanently produces the same results.

What will they do to punish Hungarians next?

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1510859673750192128?t=kaQhjKVaNtclNQty-4wIsA&s=19

Sir Keir Starmer takes advice from Lord Mandelson and therefore prefers hushing up abuse victims and pretending the problem will go away.

To be fair it works more than nine times out of ten – but not always.

They’re still victims of crime and as such should still have a case against all perpetrators and accomplices.

Will they be helped along by a mainstream and independent media whose agenda may be to only ever cover the matter quickly so as to effectively cover up and move on?

https://twitter.com/PhillipsBarrie/status/1510860535394357248?t=4V27SqiQMuWwwISLz1AaIw&s=19

Good thread from French campaign group Attac highlighting the preferential treatment handed to French billionaire Bernard Arnault.

He owns media and luxury goods, avoids tax by registering everything in offshore tax havens and gets all the special treatment you’d expect of a billionaire.

Would be good if UK campaigners felt like highlighting what we know is happening over here.

Even if it just is for the benefit of UK social media.

Would be better than nothing.

https://twitter.com/attac_fr/status/1510551852080898057?t=sIw7WYq1F4X1L-fuqHRN2w&s=19

Pro-military wonks pro-militarily wonking themselves off.

The opening statement from Eduardo Galleano’s Open Veins of Latin America could certainly extend to Jaffna. All very nice for the Rajapaksas to have done deals with the Chinese to “end the war” et cetera but now that the bills have come in you have unhappy Tamils and Sinhalese suddenly all Sri Lankan and united against corruption.

Indian government looking profoundly uncomfortable with freedom of movement, freedom of speech, &  freedom to practise Islam.

Is conversion therapy, like FGM, something that is not practised by 99% of Christians or Africans yet profoundly good at making the papers because it distracts from partygate, poverty, inflation?

Wonder if the election was rigged in the ways most people would mean? ie that the vote was miscounted. Or do many anti-Orban critics perhaps unknowingly have their own organised crime globalist agenda in which precious few Hungarians have been allowed to prosper ?

Joe Biden is telling the poorest Indians to help finance his son Hunter Biden’s old client Ukraine’s burgeoning debts. As a system of real time long term reparations it would rank alongside that Versailles agreement that Mr Wilson let everyone sign in 1919. Which John Maynard Keynes pointed out would lead to a new World War but then to a New World Order.

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1510859853660577794?t=lR7KJL05u_WoCZ_aH1vagA&s=19

Welcome to London, Tim Dillon.

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