LIVE IN THE PRESENT

27 August 2023 Good evening.Do you think we can lose sight of the present? I mean, it is where we live, right? But we can forget that? Instead of living in the present, we can think ourself into the past .... or into the future. This is how worry, stress or anxiety can take over from what should be the fun and games of life in the present moment. Instead of enjoying the present - where we might forget ourself with good friends, or...

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GIVE US THE FACTS

25 August 2023 Can the MSM tell us the truth about anything  or is it simply the official voice of government ?Stop telling the public stories, "narratives", just give us the facts and let us form our own opinion. We don't need the MSM to tell us what to think. If a broadsheet has an opinion that they want to broadcast, then by all means do so, but save it for the editorial pages - that's what they are there for.All subscribers are...

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BRICS CURRENCY

21 August 2023 Worth defining a few terms.1. Common currency. I gather because alliance means enemy and China wants money not military there may be bloc(s) and banks, but not inter-operable military stuff. Believe it when I see it.2. Also, not see this as "closing the parenthesis" on Western liberal democracy and human rights. No, we would like these good things back please. But recognise that there are other, what you might characterise...

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UK ECONOMY - PT 3

20 August 2023 Most people reading this question would give a financial kind of answer rather than others who think the problem is down to a mediocre political leadership.And most people would say that the UK's problems come from its being a declining great power that doesn't really recognise this reality of decline, and doesn't see that the problems it has are a result of its past successes and a country that generally suffers from too...

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WHO ARE THE TROLLS?

19 August 2023 Many of those sympathetic to Ukraine's cause writing in the Western MSM, broadsheets, are in fact Ukrainians living abroad, outside their country, to escape the call-up. I have met them.They are sympathisers with Ukraine's cause, but who have fled the country to dodge the draft - but unlike Vietnam, they are not anti-war protesters. They are likely living on small incomes or the children of Ukraine's oligarch elite.They...

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