It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a mega D notice style system in place around the whole Ukraine debacle. There is absolutely no mainstream challenge to any of it. The same old Elensky is Churchill drivel pervades every article in every paper. There is no doubt in my mind that our Deep State has warned all media to stay in line no matter how ridiculous it gets, and it will get more ridiculous in spades in the next few months. For example, the non collection by Ukraine of their 6,000 dead soldiers. No real questions about this course of action at all! No other rational way to explain the MSM reaction to all of this….
Well said in both essays Ian Proud, you hit it exactly..
The very best to you over there in the “ mother country” as you grapple and confront the true reality of why your governments have pursued so vigorously and assiduously this civil war on the Ukrainian steppe, taking a leaf out of a past comment Bush Snr used to win the W.H “ it’s the money stupid” the fiat monetary system is all but toast, any reading of basic economic facts will confirm this salient, commensurate the recent physical runs on delivery of metals ex the LMBA and COMEX, together the yo-yoing of Gilts, Bunds, Treasuries, EuroBonds.
Indeed as we are aware virtually every Western governments paper including Japan and South Korea’s all disciples of Keynesian economic theory, has been turned into all but worthless junk value, investors know it, they know it yet lie about it, the MSM obfuscate on behalf of the banks and monied interests, all of those involved hoping the smoke and mirrors routine will maintain the charade, this quintessential monetary kabuki theatre a tad longer… the downside, truly stupendous, 2008 GFC a picnic comparative to what is to come… anarchy pure and simple, unmitigated anarchy, mayhem and chaos.
I can tell you that if pensioners truly worry about life without the subsidy for power, think of the impact when this contagion hits, when as we know all social services including health, transport are pared to the bone, literally … the Western fiat monetary system is bankrupt, kaput, the print and spend dogma finally catching up, the piper to be paid, only so long the proverbial can can be booted down the road, meanwhile those at the top continue to enrich themselves plundering the public purse, whilst their ridiculous solution, double down on debt, spend monies you don’t have by trying to overcome Russia.
Russia the target because of and with its vast resources estimated at circa USD$80-110Trillions, all these deluded warmongering fools believe post the divvy up after what they believed would be victory, an easy victory.. recall their antics the Munich Security conference 2021 and 2022 as Western leaders drunk on expectation thought they’d already won, merely by threatening Russia, their plan, to recapitalise and hypothecate Russias resources at the recap rate of 100-130x … now you understand why they are so anxious to overrun Russia, why they state so often, Russia cannot, must not win… that is why… they NEED Russias resources, their financial future dependant upon it…
However, I’ll leave it to one better than I to truly represent their lies ex a great statement equivocating government lies and hubris by Russian intellectual and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn….
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this [U.K, U.S and every Western] country.”
Love your commentary Ian, and catch every interview you are involved with… all top work, worthy of the time to read, watch, listen… everything you produce providing further education, enjoy it more than I did my formal education, if only it was the same, what a different world we would have, so….. a big thank you Ian for your outstanding contribution to truth…
Thank you, another great article. It can't be pointed out enough how feeble our national media are in asking difficult questions about this war. As with all the conflicts we have been involved in this century the media (90% of it at least) has become an extension of government rather than a critical forum for honest discussion. After 45 years of underinvestment, publicly & privately, the economy has finally ground to a halt. The response seems to be to further deprive the public purse and double-down on more elite projects. I've a funny feeling we're not actually ruled from Downing Street.
Having weaved around the D Notice system myself a little (back when it was still called that), my eyes popped open at the suggestion that it might be used to suppress inconvenient topics or opinions, as opposed to inconvenient facts. Do you think that is actually possible? Or was it (I hope!) sarcasm?
That suggests the British media think the British people (butter) are more important than the British military (guns).
Which I doubt. Certainly you can draw a line through Rupert's rags, the complete pack of lies that is the Polygraph, the Daily Fail, whatever suitably expletive-filled acronym you can come up with for the BBC...
Even the once-impressive Grauniad, now sadly reduced to a Jewish-interest pamphlet, seems to have joined the conveyor belt of shite.
Nor do you include the costs of housing and educating all the Ukrainian refugees, the education budget for which has been ringfenced, and families of men brought here for training rehoused here. Another issue conveniently ignored by mainstream media.
Nothing will change, Farage spoke up briefly against the Ukraine obsession but quickly put his head back down once he realized the winds were too strong against him and that he was giving Starmer a free-kick to call him a "Putin apologist" - so the UK will simply continue down this disastrous path.
And what, pray, is wrong with being a "Putin apologist"? That phrase suggests that Mr Putin has something to apologise about - which he doesn't. On the contrary, he is the most moral, law-abiding, Christian statesman in the world today. (Apart, perhaps, from Mr Xi - about whom I don't know enough to form a judgment, although everything I do seems favourable).
A huge contrast to our own revolting mass of lying, cheating, thieving, self-indulgent sadistic psychopaths.
As I am sure you know, the UK media is absolutely rabidly anti-Russian so anyone looking to win seats as Farage obviously is will not want to go anywhere near the issue. This is the whole point of the intense propaganda, it makes any other views unacceptable to even be expressed - it's the same tactic used by the Israel lobby.
Sadly true. And what does that make Britain's "democracy"? I don't know which is worse: that the media consistently lie to and brainwash the citizens, or that the citizens passively accept and believe the lies.
In 1914 John Alexander Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, told new students:
"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education".
If Professor Smith was right, the UK's education system is completely broken. People talk rot all the time on every side, and no one calls it out.
As the academic year ends in June, I suppose that those who completed the course would have had only a year or so of the war left - and with the aid of the Americans. Nevertheless their chances would not have been good.
Perhaps if the course delivered what the professor promised, the graduates might have been inclined to sit the war out. A very great deal of rot was talked about “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, etc. But Bertrand Russell and his wife were in a tiny minority in remaining pacifists throughout.
To be fair, all UK governments face harsh choices, and any Tory government is just as likely, if not more likely, to choose guns over butter, regardless of Missiz Thatch once saying otherwise.
I'd rather judge the government on spending what it earns overall, than where it micromanages the pennypinching (within reason), and at least Reeves has an eye on borrowing (bond markets).
I see two fundamental problems for the UK:
One, the government coffers are built as a Ponzi scheme where to pay for future welfare for the old and unhealthy butters, you need more and more younger butters to do stuff that qualifies as GDP so you can tax them and fill up the piggy bank. And the only real way to significantly increase the number of younger taxpaying butters is the dreaded immigration ("The horror!").
Two, democracy, in some critical ways, is shite. For instance, the need for a government to do stuff that's popular so they can stay in charge, even if they know that it's wrong for the country.
Putin has taken Russia off its knees 25 years ago to become a world superpower once again. Love him or loathe him, it's an extraordinary feat.
What has the UK or the EU done in that time? Er...
The only way I can see for the UK (or EU) to make a – for want of a better expression – 'great leap forward' (i.e. vastly improve output/income) is to be at the forefront of the next industrial/technological revolution. I may be wrong, but I don't get the sense we are, and that is an ongoing failure of successive mostly blue governments over decades and decades.
We may not be blessed with extraordinary natural resources but for a while there we were blessed with extraordinary minds, the home of the Industrial Revolution. The vein needs tapping.
We're supposed to have the world's leading universities. Why doesn't that translate to income?
Bar a 'great leap forward' (i.e. technologically), it's stagnation all the way to the horizon, isn't it?
Starmer's lack of judgement is all too obvious, he also strikes me as a weak man trying to be tough, always a dangerous combination. I never had much hope in this Government and sadly its been confirmed all too quickly. I cant see him lasting to much longer, but that probably means we end up with Streeting who will probably be even worse !
"...the Labour Government has chosen massive defence spending over care for British citizens".
But it's NOT "defence" spending! The UK's defences are pathetic or non-existent, given that up to 1 million unwanted aliens enter the country every single year.
What is falsely called "defence" spending goes to what I tend to call "killing people in Asia" (and sometimes other places). It has absolutely nothing to do with the defence of Britain or British people.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a mega D notice style system in place around the whole Ukraine debacle. There is absolutely no mainstream challenge to any of it. The same old Elensky is Churchill drivel pervades every article in every paper. There is no doubt in my mind that our Deep State has warned all media to stay in line no matter how ridiculous it gets, and it will get more ridiculous in spades in the next few months. For example, the non collection by Ukraine of their 6,000 dead soldiers. No real questions about this course of action at all! No other rational way to explain the MSM reaction to all of this….
I agree. Article on the 6000 incoming.....
Glad British babushkas didn't have to freeze in winter 🥶
But seriously, this is unthinkable. Care for the old, the sick, the weak and the infirm is a litmus test of humanity.
Are 🦎 people running the British government?
Make Babushki Warm Again. 😁
The usual sadists and psychopaths.
Well said in both essays Ian Proud, you hit it exactly..
The very best to you over there in the “ mother country” as you grapple and confront the true reality of why your governments have pursued so vigorously and assiduously this civil war on the Ukrainian steppe, taking a leaf out of a past comment Bush Snr used to win the W.H “ it’s the money stupid” the fiat monetary system is all but toast, any reading of basic economic facts will confirm this salient, commensurate the recent physical runs on delivery of metals ex the LMBA and COMEX, together the yo-yoing of Gilts, Bunds, Treasuries, EuroBonds.
Indeed as we are aware virtually every Western governments paper including Japan and South Korea’s all disciples of Keynesian economic theory, has been turned into all but worthless junk value, investors know it, they know it yet lie about it, the MSM obfuscate on behalf of the banks and monied interests, all of those involved hoping the smoke and mirrors routine will maintain the charade, this quintessential monetary kabuki theatre a tad longer… the downside, truly stupendous, 2008 GFC a picnic comparative to what is to come… anarchy pure and simple, unmitigated anarchy, mayhem and chaos.
I can tell you that if pensioners truly worry about life without the subsidy for power, think of the impact when this contagion hits, when as we know all social services including health, transport are pared to the bone, literally … the Western fiat monetary system is bankrupt, kaput, the print and spend dogma finally catching up, the piper to be paid, only so long the proverbial can can be booted down the road, meanwhile those at the top continue to enrich themselves plundering the public purse, whilst their ridiculous solution, double down on debt, spend monies you don’t have by trying to overcome Russia.
Russia the target because of and with its vast resources estimated at circa USD$80-110Trillions, all these deluded warmongering fools believe post the divvy up after what they believed would be victory, an easy victory.. recall their antics the Munich Security conference 2021 and 2022 as Western leaders drunk on expectation thought they’d already won, merely by threatening Russia, their plan, to recapitalise and hypothecate Russias resources at the recap rate of 100-130x … now you understand why they are so anxious to overrun Russia, why they state so often, Russia cannot, must not win… that is why… they NEED Russias resources, their financial future dependant upon it…
However, I’ll leave it to one better than I to truly represent their lies ex a great statement equivocating government lies and hubris by Russian intellectual and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn….
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this [U.K, U.S and every Western] country.”
Love your commentary Ian, and catch every interview you are involved with… all top work, worthy of the time to read, watch, listen… everything you produce providing further education, enjoy it more than I did my formal education, if only it was the same, what a different world we would have, so….. a big thank you Ian for your outstanding contribution to truth…
Just saying…
Kia Kaha (Stay strong) from New Zealand
Many thanks, Peter. Always appreciate your support.
Thank you, another great article. It can't be pointed out enough how feeble our national media are in asking difficult questions about this war. As with all the conflicts we have been involved in this century the media (90% of it at least) has become an extension of government rather than a critical forum for honest discussion. After 45 years of underinvestment, publicly & privately, the economy has finally ground to a halt. The response seems to be to further deprive the public purse and double-down on more elite projects. I've a funny feeling we're not actually ruled from Downing Street.
Having weaved around the D Notice system myself a little (back when it was still called that), my eyes popped open at the suggestion that it might be used to suppress inconvenient topics or opinions, as opposed to inconvenient facts. Do you think that is actually possible? Or was it (I hope!) sarcasm?
I'm afraid that I now believe it to be entirely plausible/likely.
Does the government need to put a D-Notice on it?
That suggests the British media think the British people (butter) are more important than the British military (guns).
Which I doubt. Certainly you can draw a line through Rupert's rags, the complete pack of lies that is the Polygraph, the Daily Fail, whatever suitably expletive-filled acronym you can come up with for the BBC...
Even the once-impressive Grauniad, now sadly reduced to a Jewish-interest pamphlet, seems to have joined the conveyor belt of shite.
Nor do you include the costs of housing and educating all the Ukrainian refugees, the education budget for which has been ringfenced, and families of men brought here for training rehoused here. Another issue conveniently ignored by mainstream media.
It's always the same "Austerity For Thee But Not For Me!" with almost every political party.
It appears to be a general rule that the possession of power does not incline one to strictly regulate ones self.
"Governments are made up of people - notably ungoverned."
Nothing will change, Farage spoke up briefly against the Ukraine obsession but quickly put his head back down once he realized the winds were too strong against him and that he was giving Starmer a free-kick to call him a "Putin apologist" - so the UK will simply continue down this disastrous path.
And what, pray, is wrong with being a "Putin apologist"? That phrase suggests that Mr Putin has something to apologise about - which he doesn't. On the contrary, he is the most moral, law-abiding, Christian statesman in the world today. (Apart, perhaps, from Mr Xi - about whom I don't know enough to form a judgment, although everything I do seems favourable).
A huge contrast to our own revolting mass of lying, cheating, thieving, self-indulgent sadistic psychopaths.
As I am sure you know, the UK media is absolutely rabidly anti-Russian so anyone looking to win seats as Farage obviously is will not want to go anywhere near the issue. This is the whole point of the intense propaganda, it makes any other views unacceptable to even be expressed - it's the same tactic used by the Israel lobby.
Sadly true. And what does that make Britain's "democracy"? I don't know which is worse: that the media consistently lie to and brainwash the citizens, or that the citizens passively accept and believe the lies.
In 1914 John Alexander Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, told new students:
"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education".
If Professor Smith was right, the UK's education system is completely broken. People talk rot all the time on every side, and no one calls it out.
Well, hardly anyone. Thank heaven for Substack!
How many of his students went into the trenches after the course of instruction?
After my graduation, I enlisted during the Vietnam War. Admittedly, I was not much of a student.
As the academic year ends in June, I suppose that those who completed the course would have had only a year or so of the war left - and with the aid of the Americans. Nevertheless their chances would not have been good.
Perhaps if the course delivered what the professor promised, the graduates might have been inclined to sit the war out. A very great deal of rot was talked about “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, etc. But Bertrand Russell and his wife were in a tiny minority in remaining pacifists throughout.
Do you still believe that enlisting was the right thing to do? Since not a single domino fell?
My government did not send me into danger. A few years after I got out, Saigon fell, and still in Kool Aid drinking land, I thought it was the end.
But, the dominoes didn’t domino and we left no forwarding address and the Vietnamese disconnected the phone and things were better.
That is why I evolved into being Chairman, CEO and only member of the neutralistassociationofthe.us.
My country needs a neutralist foreign policy, but even more, a neutralist ethos.
Bravo Tom 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Starmer also just about to take thousands of £s yearly from the disabled - clearly the money is needed in Ukraine?
To be fair, all UK governments face harsh choices, and any Tory government is just as likely, if not more likely, to choose guns over butter, regardless of Missiz Thatch once saying otherwise.
I'd rather judge the government on spending what it earns overall, than where it micromanages the pennypinching (within reason), and at least Reeves has an eye on borrowing (bond markets).
I see two fundamental problems for the UK:
One, the government coffers are built as a Ponzi scheme where to pay for future welfare for the old and unhealthy butters, you need more and more younger butters to do stuff that qualifies as GDP so you can tax them and fill up the piggy bank. And the only real way to significantly increase the number of younger taxpaying butters is the dreaded immigration ("The horror!").
Two, democracy, in some critical ways, is shite. For instance, the need for a government to do stuff that's popular so they can stay in charge, even if they know that it's wrong for the country.
Putin has taken Russia off its knees 25 years ago to become a world superpower once again. Love him or loathe him, it's an extraordinary feat.
What has the UK or the EU done in that time? Er...
The only way I can see for the UK (or EU) to make a – for want of a better expression – 'great leap forward' (i.e. vastly improve output/income) is to be at the forefront of the next industrial/technological revolution. I may be wrong, but I don't get the sense we are, and that is an ongoing failure of successive mostly blue governments over decades and decades.
We may not be blessed with extraordinary natural resources but for a while there we were blessed with extraordinary minds, the home of the Industrial Revolution. The vein needs tapping.
We're supposed to have the world's leading universities. Why doesn't that translate to income?
Bar a 'great leap forward' (i.e. technologically), it's stagnation all the way to the horizon, isn't it?
Thanks. And, just to reinforce the point that many of our Universities now teeter on the brink of bankruptcy.
Starmer's lack of judgement is all too obvious, he also strikes me as a weak man trying to be tough, always a dangerous combination. I never had much hope in this Government and sadly its been confirmed all too quickly. I cant see him lasting to much longer, but that probably means we end up with Streeting who will probably be even worse !
Has he robbed the National Savings Bank yet
"...the Labour Government has chosen massive defence spending over care for British citizens".
But it's NOT "defence" spending! The UK's defences are pathetic or non-existent, given that up to 1 million unwanted aliens enter the country every single year.
What is falsely called "defence" spending goes to what I tend to call "killing people in Asia" (and sometimes other places). It has absolutely nothing to do with the defence of Britain or British people.