Sadly, I have now become a hateful curmudgeon. I’ve always been a bit of a curmudgeon, at least since after the age of 60, but only recently have I become hateful. I admit this reluctantly, and I m…

My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right. I think she liked but feared this inclination of mine that…

The scientists had done it. They had solved world hunger, they had ended farming as we know it and they had rid the world of animal cruelty. It wasn’t an easy path, naturally. Like so many st…

This week is our one hundredth edition of This Week in the New Normal! …except it isn’t really. Due to some special editions going unnumbered I think we’re actually around 104. Bu…

The Times Crime and Justice Commission was established last year, with its mission statement being to… consider the future of policing and the criminal justice system, in the light of the kni…

Last week, alternative video-sharing platform BitChute announced they would no longer allow UK-based users to view content on their site. The opening of their official statement makes the reason qu…

In case you haven’t heard, the JFK files just dropped recently. So, what are these documents? Where did they come from? What do they contain? And, most important of all, why have they been hidden f…

I’ll tell you another pet peeve of mine—people who ask me why it is important to know the truth if I can’t do anything about it. I find it strange that people do not seek truth for truth’s sake. Su…

A highly interesting documentary from the days before the History Channel was nothing but staged reality shows, this film discusses the men who inherited Jesus’ followers after his death, the…

Just weeks after announcing he would be stepping down as Davos Chief within the next 18 months, Klaus Schwab has stepped down with immediate effect. A surprising move, and one that sees one of the …

In recent years, the global movement toward regenerative and organic agriculture has gained significant momentum. These approaches promise to restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, reduce relia…

Personal beliefs do not supersede the public good – and vaccination is a public good The above quote – taken from a headline in the Globe and Mail – is wrong. It is wrong in general and…

The Independent Media Alliance panel convenes again, this time to discuss Catherine Austin Fitt’s recent article which itemizes all the ways the Trump administration is fostering the creation…

On August 16, 1951, the quiet town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France was struck by a bizarre outbreak. Residents suddenly experienced severe symptoms: nausea, insomnia, and vivid hallucinatio…

Mark Carney portrays himself as the ultimate political outsider, but this is a lie. From Goldman Sachs to the Bank of Canada to the Bank of England to Chatham House and Bilderberg, Carney is the ul…

Yesterday we woke up to the news that huge areas of Spain and Portugal – as well as Andorra and some parts of southern France – were completely without power. Major cities all across th…

Normally I wouldn’t waste any time on Rob Eshman, a senior columnist at Forward whose mealy-mouthed brand of liberal Zionism is so clueless that it’s an embarrassment even to liberal Zionists. He’s…

In the final weeks of his time as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair made an oddly casual but revealing remark about the climate crisis. “Don’t worry about the climate — technology will fix it.”…

Congratulations to Ben Woollaston who won a hard fought snooker match against four-time World Snooker Champion Mark Selby (10 – 8). Woollaston has progressed to second round of the Halo World…

Sometimes I think about the raccoons I fed during the orange sky days of a year ago, out there in the wilderness. Yesterday we had some wicked gusts of wind roiling up the branches and I could hear…

In James Corbett’s recent article, “The Battle for Your Brain is ALREADY Underway,” he lists various DARPA-funded projects developing technologies that, allegedly, will soon be able to read and con…