WHERE IN THE WAR ARE WE HEADING

17 July 2023 Defeat, chaos and submissionORIGINSAmerica provoked this war through Nato expansion, colour revolutions, refusal of dialogue and its openly-declared intent to weaken Russia (before pivoting to China incidentally!) and more specifically the invitation to Ukraine in 2008 to join Nato. America has contained and cornered Russia to a point where Russia feels its security and very existence is so compromised it must respond. Russia...

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BALI CULTURE

16 July 2023The lady first on the left is my landlady. She looks younger than she is, a lot younger, maybe it's the yoga, she is very busy but always hugely relaxed and friendly. ✓ Naben (a Balinese cremation ceremony).  This was remembering my landlady's grandfather, back in her village. Again, many cremated at the same time, they pool their money to reduce costs. Different colours for the different...

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A REALISTIC START TO THE END GAME IN UKRAINE

16 July 2023 Let us recall the issues that prevent a peaceful resolutuon. There are two: territory - both sides cannot have Crime; neutrality - Ukrain wants what it thinks is the security of Nato membership, Russia insists on neutrality.The regimes in Kiev and Washington won't accept peace until Russia is defeated, which it never will be, on pain of nuclear war. If Ukraine were ever to join Nato with its regime, it would rag Russia some...

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TWO SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE WAR IN UKRAINE

14 July 2023 END GAMESLooking back on this war or special military operation, as the Russians like to call it, there are a couple of points that stand out as really quite surprising.Although a government's first priority is the security of its land and its people, this cannot be taken at the expense of its neighbours, instead "balance of power" arrangements normally prevail. Russia saw the threat by NATO to move into Ukraine, rightly or...

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is.gd/3H0KKJAbout three weeks ago I was traveling through the brousse of a third-world country and stooped for lunch at a roadside 'warung'. I found myself enjoying a leg of grain-fed roast chicken, served up in all its bone and fibre, when a tooth got a superficial crack.The tooth had been root-canalled back in Europe, the root was ok not cracked.  and a local dentist did a crown and all is now fine after treatment identical to any you'd get in the UK.Except it wasn't. The root canal cost £1,000 in Ealing and a crown would have cost the same....

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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE RULES OK

21 April 2024 - UPDATETHREE REASONS TO INVEST IN THE LSEInvesting in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) can be attractive for several reasons, particularly for those looking to diversify their portfolio or tap into unique investment opportunities Consider That Prices of companies on the LSE are amongst the cheapest in the world for Industry and sector. Here are three compelling reasons to consider investing in the LSE:1. Diverse Range of CompaniesThe...

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WAR IN EUROPE OR A NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

11 July 2023 Finland and Sweden joining NATO is good news for investors in American arms manufacturers and NATO, bad news for Finland and Sweden's taxpayers, and otherwise seems to be unnecessary unless you think Russia is planning to zip up its Western frontier this side of Eastern Europe ie back to pre 1991.Doubtless the Americans helped along the collapse of the Soviet Union in many ways, not least by promising Gorbachez and Yeltsin...

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THE WAR TO END ALL WARS CAN STILL BE AVOIDED

10 July 2023 While the Nasties are in power in Kiev, Ukraine cannot join NATO. This is because they will continue to rag Russia for Crimea and the Donbas, Russia will respond, then the regime in Kiev will call in NATO under art.5.Before you know it, NATO - which means America - will be at war with Russia. It won't be a proxy war anymore, it'll be WW3 (like Biden said at the start), it'll be two superpowers fighting each other in Ukraine...

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PLAYING DIRTY

8 July 2023https://youtu.be/06Ytz9vGyBY It's ok to want to be number one, but it's how you get there, it's your values, that matter.Power is a result of your population, your people with their skills and ambitions; and with the wealth base that you have built up which includes your infrastructure, your technology, your knowledge. In its race to be number one America has cheated. It's not really the best man that is winning,...

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UK ECONOMY - PT II

7 July 2023I visited S Africa not so long ago, twice in fact. I traveled along the Garden Route from Cape Town to Durban, and then up the middlt to Jo'burg. So to get an idea of the UK economy, as lived by ordinary people, let's compare the two countries.The UK is a poor country, compared with the top EU countries, but it has a strong currency and an enormous wealth of soft power and influence on the world stage.Now of course there are poor neighbourhoods...

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WHAT WILL ZELINSKY DO WHEN HE SEES THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING FOR HIM?

7 July 2023https://youtu.be/EKAsY3QczIA What will Zelinsky and The West do when the Ykrainian offensive patently fails after running out of army, machines and munitions?What will Zelinsky and The West do when they see Russia's million-man-army heading their way to the Polish border?When Zelinsky sees the Russians coming, he'll scurry to the Polish for protection and ask for Kiev to be incorporated back into Poland. Will the Russians accept...

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