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At the time of writing, we are about a week into full lockdown and perhaps now is the time to take a moment to reflect on the madness going on around us. With the economy now partially shut down by unprecedented government measures, I want to start with the world of economics. I have long believed that economics is one of the keys to understanding society and human behavior. My foray into this field came from the deep study of what governments don't want the public to know: economics. Austrian School. Unlike the traditional Keynesian and Chicago school economics I…
Like many of you, I was very concerned about Melanie's safety and wellbeing, but it was a great relief to be able to sit down and talk with her for just over two hours in a relaxed atmosphere.Following the very brief report on Melanie Shaw in the UKColumn news on Friday 19th July 2019, we have been contacted by several people seeking further information about Melanie and her current situation. I am very happy to have had the opportunity to visit Melanie. Rampton Hospital I was reunited with Melanie last Thursday, 18 July. It was a very happy and emotional…
We know that many kind, hard-working people in the NHS are doing their best, but more and more media and reports are bringing to light serious failings in hospitals and care homes, and the worst Cases are causing unnecessary deaths. According to available NHS and government statistics, this is affecting thousands of people, not just a few. In this edition of “Dispatch from the Front Lines,” NHS and feet of clay – We facilitate and participate in telephone conversations about unnecessary deaths in NHS hospitals and the UK's wider care system. Two people, Barbara and Mark, both of whom have…
The recent hack of the National Governance Institute's Integrity Initiative program provided a rare glimpse into a part of the propaganda machine the government doesn't want anyone to see, which raises the question: what else is there?The Integrity Initiative was set up to deliver on the work of the Foreign Office's Counter-Disinformation and Media Development Programme, led by Andy Price. To carry out its agenda, the National Governance Institute, the “charitable” think tank behind the Integrity Initiative, received £1,233,711 from the Foreign Office throughout 2018. Other organisations funded by the Foreign Office include BBC Media Action (£6,165,469 in 2018); Thomson…
The great 20th century political philosopher Marvin Gaye once said, “Two are enough to make a dream come true.” Will the Treaty of Aachen, signed by Chancellor Merkel and Chancellor Markon, be a dream come true for those who want to unite a European superstate? With the German Federal Government admitting that the treaty contains “designs for a European defense union,” and many other indications, we will be keeping our eyes peeled for the signing of the new Treaty of Aachen on January 22nd.Symbolism First, symbolism is important. The EU parliament is modelled on the Tower of Babel, so symbolism…
Britain's corporate media are in a desperate situation: with revenues plummeting, they are begging the government to act.In March, Matt Hancock, then Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, spoke at the Oxford Media Convention. Mr Hancock expressed concern about the rise of “fake news” and its impact on corporate media, and society as a whole. He highlighted that the lack of regulation of individuals making YouTube videos in their bedrooms meant that they were in an unfair competition for stories with corporate media. But his main concern was the commercial side of media, its “sustainability”, and he…
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry made a major statement yesterday opposing Western enthusiasm for attacking Syria.Speaking during a debate on an urgent question posed in Parliament, she demanded that there must be a full and proper independent investigation into any alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria and that there must be a vote in Parliament on any UK involvement in attacks on Syria. Below is the full transcript of Mr Thornberry's remarks in the House of Commons. “Thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing this urgent question, and I congratulate my friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth for…
Canada and the European Union Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement In late 2016, a new type of court was adopted to resolve investor-state disputes: the Investment Court System (ICS), the same court system previously adopted by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). But CETA is up and running while TTIP, the proposed agreement between the US and EU, is stalled and not yet implemented. The key takeaway for now, though, is that the ICS is likely to soon become the universal model for all trade treaties. It is therefore important to examine the nature and background of the…
The Global Covenant of Mayors on Climate and Energy, created by the European Commission in 2008, was thrown into uncertainty last June when U.S. President Donald Trump took a cold shoulder on “global warming” and announced he would pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.Coincidentally or not, Trump made the announcement in early June 2017, just as the 65th Bilderberg Conference was taking place in Chantilly, Virginia, not far from Washington. The Washington Postdelivered a scathing critique of President Trump's stance on Paris over the weekend, at the end of the elite's secretive Bilderberg meeting. Well-funded thanks…
What exactly was the '90s? This is an important question that GR Wilson answers on many levels in “Outsourced World,” the first volume of his adventure novel.The subtitle of this first volume is WanderlustIt eloquently portrays the depression Wilson felt during that decade as an engineer entering middle age, exiled from an ossified Britain. Wilson entered the 1990s as an optimistic man who had every reason to expect that he would be held in the same high regard as generations of treasured British expatriates before him, and he left it as a wiser man, heartbroken but with seeds of analysis…