Sleepers

No, not a reference Railways, but the ancient TV series where spies try and avoid being reactivated.

Real, spy-type sleepers. Yes, they are still here in the West, despite Glasnost and all of that theatre from the Nineties. Much has been made of Chinese espionage more recently, but the KGB are very good at hedging their bets, belt and braces and not letting go of the old ways.

The KGB are very much active in the field of human intelligence. 

This story shows that sleepers are very much out there: Married couple charged for using identities of dead children for decades (msn.com)

The innocuous and strange tale would only be one of a couple using assumed identities... until photos were found of them in KGB uniforms. Idiots.

Now the uniforms look staged as they were taken in the same place. The backgrounds are the same. It's almost like the couple were approached, recruited and then the photos were used as blackmail: "do what we tell you to do, otherwise we'll release the pictures and you'll be tried as spies".

Very KGB.

Anyhow, they've been caught and the media seem at pains to avoid the KGB link. But I have a theory that this couple have been watched for a while now and that they have been exposed to show Russia that the USA hasn't dropped it's guard. Just in case they want to start a fight, the US are still vigilant and it won't go how the Russians think it will. 

Sad for the couple that they've been found out either way. Living your life as a lie isn't the most relaxing occupation. 

I do hope this war between Russia and Ukraine stops soon. I'm missing Russian Standard Vodka. And if anyone tells you different Vodkas all taste the same, they're a heathen.

On the subject of China, I hear that a new Parliamentary security leak has been detected. Oh joy. I just wonder what the Chinese get out of Parliamentary information. I'm sure they get all the inside gossip and in some instances an insight into how the UK would react in certain circumstances. But really the rabid data-gathering of the Chinese must pick up lots of dross with very few true interesting nuggets of information. 

But hey, it must be paying off. They've got a space program, a decent fighter aircraft and a capable aircraft carrier out of it. But I pity the poor saps who have to sift through the dross. 

Not Looking Forward to the Autumn

Bills are already tight, so the price hikes for energy in the Autumn are something I'm not looking forward to at all. 

My energy bill will rise to about a third of my wage. That's just to heat and light my home. 

I predict my energy bill will rise to nearly £400 a month. If petrol stays at the same level, then that's another £400 a month. Add the £150 on top of that, that's almost a grand a month on basic bills. 

Then on top of that there are things like water bills, insurance, etc. 

I reckon that leaves about £200 a month for food. 

Wonderful. I look forward to losing weight. 

And that's after my pay rise. God knows how people on minimum wage are going to get through this.

Why Immigration Matters in Current UK Politics.....

 ....is because at some point the level of immigration will become unsustainable.

At that point, we will be hearing words like "amnesty" in an attempt to make the illegal legal. 

Then the globalists get their way: a huge resource of cheap labour. 

DO NOT FORGET THIS. 

I have been warning about this for years. Importation of labour only benefits the globalists and the corporations. The little people, the poor and the working poor do not receive ANY net benefit from mass immigration. 

It supresses wage costs, which means your wages stagnate. Wage suppression only benefits those people who are paying wages: the corporations. 

The Elites will say that immigration is a net benefit due to payment of taxes. But that's a lie. 

The majority of illegal immigrants are of the 18-35 age range, which means they will quite quickly have families. Low wages and families equals in-work benefits. So the working poor with no families will be asked to top up the wages of these immigrants, if they are allowed to take jobs.

It's all a con.

Rishi's "Emergency" is Just More Back Door Authoritarianism and How the Markets have Exceeded the Ability of the Population to Pay.

So, here we go again. Mr Furlough wants to declare the Financial Crisis an Emergency and do something about it.

The worst words in politics are when a government says they "Must do Something". Just exactly what can they do to alleviate a global phenomenon exactly?

Do we give up yet more freedoms? Does Rishi want the power to peer into our bank accounts to make sure we're paying the right amount of tax? 

Sort the Tech giants like Amazon, PayPal, eBay and Facebook first. Get them to pay proper tax here in the UK rather than making sweetheart deals.

Does Rishi want to start banning "unnecessary" journeys to save fuel? How do you define "unnecessary" Rishi? Who are you to tell me driving the length of the country to see my mother is unnecessary?

Just exactly what does Rishi have in mind when he declares the emergency?

Yet again we have something that on the face of it sounds good: It's an emergency (which it is in most households) and something has to be done. But what exactly does Rishi propose? 

I don't trust him. He's another WEF-controlled drone. In the mould of Trudeau in Canada. His first instinct is to control the population rather than the corporations. 

I don't trust him.

But then I don't trust Liz Truss either. I fear her instincts are exactly the same. Very much in the Thatcher mould of "it's for your own good", she'll do very much the same and penalise the people rather than crack down on corrupt corporations. 

Because at the end of the day, they are all corrupt. Corporations hand in glove with politics. The very definition of Corporatism. i.e. Fascism.

The real issue is unfettered capitalism. The race to "maximise profits" translates to paying the lowest wages and charging the highest prices. A system that allows people to speculate on the future price of a commodity is a sick system. It allows people to inflate the price of something that may be essential. 

The excesses and issues with futures markets have mainly come about since the introduction of automated trading. When the trading floors were vocal and had humans in the loop, there was a natural brake on excesses. 

Not now. A computer doesn't think "Hand on a minute, should I really be trading at this level, will people be willing or able to pay this much?" Nope, although it may be programmed with limits, most are set excessively broad, because traders want an advantage over competitors. If a competitor sets their limit lower than you, you can still continue trading while they sit still. So over time everyone sets their buy/sell limits at ever wider targets. In the end, the price of commodities skyrockets, beyond what people can reasonably be expected pay for them. 

That way lies madness and ruin.

Which is where we are now. The price of commodities has exceeded the ability of the population to pay for it. Petrol, Diesel, gas and therefore electricity have exceeded sane financial limits.

Global corporations have pushed wages so far downwards and now trading corporations have pushed the price of things so far upwards, there is a huge gap between the two. 

Too much for the market (i.e. the population) to bear.

Welcome to madness and ruin.