30 July 2022 Liz Truss's thinking seems to be restricted and contained in rivers of cliches and I can just imagine the 169,000 Conservative Party voters waving their walking sticks in her favour because smartypants Sunak comes across as too slick and self-interested an operator.There's no one who can think "outside the box" and get their head round the real-world issues and offer a clear coherent compact vision and path for getting there. Noone to provide a solid long-term leadership. There's no one there! There's no purposeful leadership,...
Saturday, 30 July 2022
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
IS AMERICA STILL APPEASING CHINA OVER TAIWAN?
26 July 2022Mercurius is right when he says (https://youtu.be/V9dS-eb7qmI) that all the warning lights are flashing in Europe (collapse of the Euro...see next post), in Ukraine likely to be the most disastrous of all American foreign policy Adventures), the American economy (( the impossible choice between deep and long recession and hyperinflation and destruction of the currency) and why on earth would America want to start a new conflagration with China?From the history book, in 1971 ambassador George Bush proposed dual recognition of Taiwan...
Saturday, 23 July 2022
FORCING AMERICA TO SHARE ITS POWER
23 July 2022https://youtu.be/57obnJf_TikWith covid it was a common enemy with brexit the vulnerabilities were more mixed but now with energy the vulnerabilities are very varied.America is accountable for Europe's security and Russia is more or less accountable for Europe's energy. Europe is not independant and to change either of those is a 20-year plan so it is open to political manipulation.Europe complains that Russia is blackmailing it, that Russia is dividing it, that Russia controls the taps to manage the price and sow dissent, that this...
Friday, 22 July 2022
NEW PM FOR UK
21 July 2022I think everyone would like this American order because it keeps the shipping lanes open, sends capital to the most efficient parts of the world economy, and ensures everyone prospers through fair trade ... at least that was the founding rhetoric.But the reality is that America has always been high on testosterone and and the government sees its only role as protecting and advancing American industry and its only method is Force.But these sanctions have shown us that the world outside of Europe and America no longer listens or obeys...
SANCTIONS - UKRAINE
21 July 2022<<If sanctions worked, it would be a victory over Russian boots ("une victoire à la Pyrrhus", cruel joke.)>>We enter the sixth month of the war. Russia has taken a quarter of Ukraine and its most valuable industrial part and continues to advance militarily for the time being at least. The West has imposed the toughest sanctions imaginable, but Russia has escaped with ease, while the West appears trapped and discredited, and to have shot itself in the foot, the head and the stomach.Sanctions are in place of war. It is war...
SANCTIONS - SOUTH AFRICA
21 July 2022These sanctions worked. A white minority government handed power to a forming black government as a result of a universal condemnation of apartheid. In 1968, the then SA president Vorster banned a UK cricket tour because the team contained a black player. Sanctions started in the sports industry, in particular cricket and rugby, mutch loved by all South Africans. And later, the ban extended to music with for example a concert by Elton John transferred to neighbouring Botswana. In 1985, foreign banks called in their loans. In...
Thursday, 21 July 2022
ENERGY WILL BE RATIONED
The EU has a plan to reduce energy consumption by 15% by next March.It's a clever and detailed plan that breaks down your permitted consumption levels by EU state, first public sector must make economies, then commercial and finally individuals.It's a proposal from the commission and needs to be approved. I just wonder how they will decide the split between states, industry and private individuals; and I wonder how they (the EU) will ensure compliance (by states with their plans). Do people get (digital) ration books? Is it done with the smart...
Monday, 18 July 2022
A THREE FRONT WAR
AMERICA'S GOALS IN ITS WAR WITH RUSSIA Interesting view from Russel Brandhttps://youtu.be/uAnpvte1l10I'd imagine that many people do not like RB's manner. He's a bit shouty, a ranter.While his style is popular tabloid, he's making the profound points of all political analyst able to think freely about "America's war with Russia". Brand is someone not misled by propaganda or emotion, it's the facts that count. He is also by nature a contrarian and a self-publicist.Three complementary points to his video:1. Yanukovych (2005 - 22 Feb 2014) -...
LANGUAGE LEARNING
Naom Chomsky was first a linguist and then a political activist. His idea is that grammar is a set of Rules that given an input of all known words in a language can produce the infinite array of all possible grammatically correct sentences visa rules for grammar but there are also rules for words for accent.Now we have computers that are so powerful we can build neural networks and these are are tools that allow for artificial intelligence and learning.Below, is a video that explores this idea for for adults learning a second languageWhat are your...
Thursday, 14 July 2022
JOURNALISM AS PROPAGANDA
The journalist today have been eaten up by the blob and become the soft power that sells America. The Intelligence agencies and the military prepare their daily briefings, which they send to the news channels, who then edit and publish themJournalism used to be objective, neutral and balanced, but today it is subjective and political. Instead of being left to make up our minds, today we have the views of the elite that support their interest, repeatedly imposed on us. The elite manipulates and exploits the public at large, and serves itself...
Sunday, 10 July 2022
OUR LEADERS HAVE ABANDONNED US
10 July 2022 https://rumble.com/v1bjo2d-biden-reads-teleprompter-instruction.htmlOur leaders have abandonned us.Biden reads through the stage directions as well. He has no thoughts of his own. Kamala Harris is as vacuous, she is hairdresser material and gives hairdresser interviews.You're left with a feeling of unreality, it's phony, our leaders have abandoned us for publicity and self-display on the international stage, they are out of ideas, they have no plans, the whole setup is Potemkin village.Viewers of this Biden interview are left...
Saturday, 9 July 2022
AND THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS ...
9 July 2022 America wants to weaken Russia? Why?If you look at 10,000 years of recorded history, you might think it's all familiar and predictable.It's one power seeking to take the territory of its neighbour, subjugate its people and put its resources to work, to build its own empire.What might have started as the Monroe doctrine and a policy of containment is looking more and more like America wanting to steal the resources of Russia in order to solve it Order-threatening debt problem.RISK OFFIf you always think the worst of your neighbour...
THE FUTURE OF THE WEST
9 July 2022 Here, we will look at this American war in Ukraine from three perspectives: military, economic (sanctions) and diplomatic. So militarily, the Russians are advancing quite rapidly, albeit metre by metre rather than street by street, and now need a bit of time to re-group and to integrate the captured territory into Russian administrative systems. Ukraine is holding firm, waiting for Western arms; and longer-term for the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and on Russia's being deprived of western technology. "We'll...
Monday, 4 July 2022
CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT SHOCKER
4 July 2022LEVELLING UP SHOULD INCLUDE THE SOUTH-EASTRef the UK government's decision to take £100 million from the devolved budgets of Scotland and Wales for military aid to the American war in Ukraine.First of all, we will make sure that we understand what the news article is talking about. Then we will define "devolution" and we will consider whether this re-purposing by the UK government of assistance it had previously given is morally ok or...
