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UK Warns Coronavirus Is “Imminent Threat” After Suspected “Super Spreader” Returns From Singapore
UK Warns Coronavirus Is “Imminent Threat” After Suspected “Super Spreader” Returns From Singapore Monday was supposed to mark the official ‘return to work’ for many companies around China. That hasn’t exactly panned out… ✔ China is going back to work. …though the image presented by state controlled media was somewhat more optimistic. ✔ Along with […]
International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care
International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care With Washington fighting tooth-and-nail to extradite him from the UK, the notion that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange might die in prison is looking increasingly probable. At this point, it’s more a matter of when: A few weeks, or a few decades. Assange’s […]
Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law
Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law On October 21 2019, Brexit became an entirely irrelevant issue. Or perhaps we should say it had already become that, but on that date it was exposed for all to see that it was. The parading into a courtroom of Julian Assange in London was […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – October 21st 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – October 21st 2019 “If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch, take a Lyft home, and get dinner through Postmates, you’ve interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this […]
Elites “Going Rogue” Suggests The Global Neoliberal Architecture Is Collapsing
Elites “Going Rogue” Suggests The Global Neoliberal Architecture Is Collapsing Listen carefully. That is the sound of going rogue – and bond yields further through the floor. Yesterday UK PM Boris Johnson announced he is going to prorogue–or close–Parliament, meaning that when MPs come back to sit next week they will only do so briefly, […]
The Bank’s ‘Stress’ Tests
THE BANK’S ‘STRESS’ TESTS MY REPORT ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND’S LATEST (NOVEMBER 2018) STRESS TESTS WAS PUBLISHED BY THE ADAM SMITH INSTITUTE ON AUGUST 3RD. The purpose of the stress tests is, in essence, to persuade us that the banking system is in good shape on the basis of a make-believe exercise which purports to show what might […]
Brexit, Britain and the Permanent Crisis in the Gulf
Brexit, Britain and the Permanent Crisis in the Gulf What on Earth were the British politicians and officials thinking who gave the go-ahead for the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar on 4 July? Did they truly believe that the Iranians would not retaliate for what they see as a serious escalation in America’s […]
UK Releases Footage Showing Warship Escorting Tankers In Gulf
UK Releases Footage Showing Warship Escorting Tankers In Gulf The UK Royal Navy has now fully initiated its planned-for escort mission to British-flagged tankers transiting the increasingly dangerous Strait of Hormuz, following Iran’s IRGC seizure and continued detention of the Stena Impero and its crew. Britain’s Defence Ministry said in a statement Thursday that “the Royal Navy has been tasked […]
Iran’s Military Vows Attack On All Regional US Bases If War Starts
Iran’s Military Vows Attack On All Regional US Bases If War Starts Iran has again rejected the prospect of new negotiations with the White House “under any circumstances,” according to an interview with Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei’s Military Adviser Hossein Dehghan, cited in Al Jazeera. The Islamic Republic’s top military adviser further warned Iran and its regional allies will target […]
The New EU is Even More Insane than the Old EU
The New EU is Even More Insane than the Old EU The new leadership team of the EU is insane. They learned nothing from May’s vote which saw the middle ground occupied by Angela Merkel lose ground. Euroskeptics doubled their representation while nationalist Greens gained ground as well. The European People’s Party lost significant clout […]
UK Holds Crisis Meeting After Tanker Seizure As Armed Aircraft Protects US Cargo Ship In Gulf
UK Holds Crisis Meeting After Tanker Seizure As Armed Aircraft Protects US Cargo Ship In Gulf British officials are scrambling after two UK tankers were captured by Iran in one dramatic day in the gulf — or rather we should clarify that the Stena Impero is UK flagged but not owned by a UK company (the owner ‘Stena Bulk’ is […]
The Winds are Shifting
The Winds are Shifting How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldn’t call the west ‘terrorists’ per se, but ‘we’ are certainly spreading terror and terrorizing very large groups of people. Yeah, bring on the tanks and parade them around town. Add a […]
Lawlessness
Lawlessness With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the […]
The Day America Died
The Day America Died 47 years ago in American Pie, Don McLean talked about The Day The Music Died. Or of course the music didn’t really die, but at the same time it did. “The three mean I admired most, the father, son and the holy ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the […]
View From The Brextanic
View From The Brextanic Longtime Automatic Earth friend Alexander Aston talks about finding himself at Oxford at a point in time when the British themselves appear overcome by a combo of utter confusion and deadly lethargy, and one can only imagine what it must be like for ‘foreigners’ residing in Albion, who face large potential […]
