HOW TO FINANCE YOUR NEW STARTUP

2 March 2023 1. HOW TO FINANCE YOUR NEW STARTUP2.CHECKLIST - SHOULD I INVEST IN A STARTUP?1. HOW TO FINANCE YOUR NEW STARTUPSo you've got this great idea for a new startup but unfortunately you haven't got any customers because they don't know about the product or service you're selling and anyway you don't have a workshop or offices because you can't afford it ... what do you do?Let's take the example of a company...

Read More

WHO RULES AMERICA?

24 April 2023 America is run by Corporations. Corporations are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy people. America is, then, run by oligarchs.Socrates tells us that democracy descends into oligarchy because, although we were all equal at the start, over time some people get rich while the majority poor have to borrow to survive. When they can't pay back the rich man takes the land. Unlike food, money is addictive and you can never...

Read More

WHY WOKE

24 April 2023 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bar-fights-over-bud-light-the-beer-thats-split-america-ntv53cm9k?shareToken=3a0af61f599669ef9b1edde389c9ab8a Interesting article with a few surprising facts. Many people of an older generation would not be able to relate to this product marketing, not really understand a word of this and would have the greatest difficulty reading the article through to the end.Especially interesting...

Read More

THE STATE OF WEALTH, EMPIRE AND PLANET IN 2023

20 April 2023Today, we consider three related questions:  - how to save our wealth? - how to save our Order? - how to save our planet?Our belief in liberal democracy remains strong but our elite has corrupted its values. 1. HOW TO MANAGE OUR SAVINGS? Means how to save the economy, financial markets and the dollar.Macroeconomic signals of a recession abound. On a four-light dashboard - housing, supplier orders,...

Read More

FROM COST-PLUS TO LIST-MINUS

16 April 2023 Victrex is an interesting company. It's a world leader in specialist polymers.They say: "Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance polymer solutions and the number 1  polyetheretherketone (PEEK) experts. Millions of people rely on our sustainable polymers, in  smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to oil & gas operations and medical devices."Polymers, even specialist, is just a commodity market -...

Read More

IS AMERICA SUCCEEDING?

10 April 2023Looking at the facts, three things emerge. One is that America has started a large number of wars, especially noticeable post USSR when America was actually at its safest! You know, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq...plenty more...now UkraineAnd its come off worst in all of them. It takes on little guys, still it loses.A second thing is, look at the polls from home, the domestic audience doesn't want all this loss of blood and treasure. It wants American leadership, of course, but not this constant flexing of the military.And thirdly, outside...

Read More

ARE RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN PEOPLE OF COMMON STOCK? WHY IS RUSSIA EASTERN ORTHODOX?

10 April 2023Are Russian and Ukrainian people of common stock as Putin alleges?Why is Russia Eastern Orthodox?I found the answers in an airport book - here is what it says. THE SLAVS AND MAGYARSThe Slavs were a broad group of peoples (whose history and origin are largely undocumented) who spoke a variety of Slavic languages of Indo-European descent.Also known as the Antes or Venethi (among numerous other names), they migrated westward...

Read More

"WE ARE LIVING IN YOUR FUTURE"

10 April 2023                           Artist's vision for St Persburg    Doing a catch-up on the effects of Western companies quitting Russia.IKEA quit Russia six months ago and the existing Russian management simply took over the business and have renamed it, but this time prices are lower and the profits stay in Russia. Sweden's loss, they are ideology-bound.Similarly,...

Read More

MACRON VISITS BEIJING

9 April 2023Alexander Mercouris, international affairs analyst, again comments on Macron's visit to Beijing: Macron's visit to China is covered by Mercourishttps://youtu.be/sOrX1uYrXDE   Offset 32'https://youtu.be/BJTv9ktHCcA   Offset 45'26"Ref video 2 and backgrounds trip to Beijing.Macron brought interesting  gifts: a French photographer’s pictures of mid-20th-century China,a blue Sèvres porcelain vase decorated...

Read More

THE FUTURE OF RUSSO-SINO RELATIONS

9 April 2023 This video, below, goes into Russo-Sino realities - not so much that Russia is the junior in the relationship as we are told but more of Russia's weaknesses with regard to the much smaller geographically, but much bigger in wealth and population, China:https://youtu.be/Iibs7buN...

Read More

EUROPEAN LEADERS VISIT THE COURT OF XI JINPING

7 April 2023 Q: That sounds like Macron. What will the Chinese make of Macron?A: A bit bumptious, but basically OK.Macron brought interesting  gifts: -a French photographer’s pictures of mid-20th-century China,-a blue Sèvres porcelain vase decorated with golden fish.So this recalls the early trade - before the "century of humiliation" - in decorative arts, though it may also remind us of where the West's knowledge...

Read More

UKRAINE WAR 101

1 April 1023To understand this war, it is necessary to get behind the propaganda.The guy from St Petersburg that I recently met in the plane does not like having the tanks and nukes of the North American Terrorist Organisation (NATO) pushed further East since the end of the cold war, certainly since 2014, till now they are planted on Moscow's front lawn and pointing at the Kremlin.He, like Putin, does not trust America. Would you, if the facts in these three vids, below, are to be believed.1. A visibly irritated Geoffrey Sachs rehearses the facts...

Read More