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As I trailed yesterday, I’m delighted to publish this long-form interview with Mark Astley, formerly the CEO of Millennium Global Investments - one of the world’s biggest currency managers (with around $20 billion under management).

In this interview Mark focuses on the impact of government debt - as well as the explosion of debt piles during the “pand…

Until a year ago, Mark Astley was CEO of one of London’s biggest money management firms, Millennium Global Investments - until his retirement from the firm. He oversaw the operations of a business that had £20 billion under management. He has a well deserved reputation as one of the brightest and most articulate macro-economic analysts in international financial markets.

Mark has just completed an exclusive interview with The New Era and covered the demise of fiat money; money-printing and inflation; dollar hegemony; the mushrooming of public debt; and the outlook for other asset classes including gold, bitcoin, energy and silver. His insight into geopolitics is remarkable.

We’re going to be releasing the interview in a series of short episodes. You can watch the full 80 minute interview from tomorrow if you’re a paying subscriber.

The first short sequence is Mark’s assessment of Labour’s £22 billion “fiscal black hole”. Tomorrow I’ll post Mark’s assessment of a Trump victory - and the likely geopolitical and fiscal consequences.

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I should have interviewed Paul Frew well before now. Paul has probably been the only elected representative in the United Kingdom to take a consistent stand against lockdowns, vaccine mandates and “pandemic response” state overreach. In the darkest times Paul has been a beacon for free speech, free thinking and libertarian values. He has been wholly consistent over the last four years and is now joining the campaign against the proposed NI Health Bill - being championed by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).

We discuss why it is that the UUP, traditionally the sister party of the Conservative Party in Britain, has been so motivated to introduce highly authoritarian measures - during the Covid years and now. A UUP Minister, Robin Swann, presided over the state sanctioned tyranny during the Covid years. The UUP was insistent on taking the Health Ministry again when the hapless Assembly regrouped in January (after a two year suspension - the latest of many).

The proposed Health Bill is being trail-blazed at a time when Northern Ireland - in common with other parts of the UK and Ireland - is wrestling with the destruction caused by “pandemic” response. Rates of suicide among young people have spiralled, vaccine injury has been ignored or brushed under the carpet, and the health service is dealing with chronic waiting lists for a host of procedures.

Meanwhile the UUP Minister, Mike Nesbitt, is rushing through a Bill to give the state the power to force entry into people’s homes, inflict involuntary medical procedures on them and potentially forcibly vaccinate them if the Health Department declares a COVID-like health crisis.

The attention of the world is on Northern Ireland. The draft legislation is straight from the WHO’s pandemic response copy-book. So, naturally, the freedom movement around the world wants to see this thing stopped as soon as possible.

In this interview Paul gives us the latest status on the legislation - and his determination to bog it down at every scrutiny stage if the Minister insists on bringing the Bill to draft or presenting it in the legislative chamber.

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The European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty between state members of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe is NOT the EU - it’s an international human rights organisation. 

The United Kingdom was one of the first nations to sign the Convention - over 70 years ago.  The Convention was codified into UK law in 1998 with the Human Rights Act.  

The Human Rights Act 1998 sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to. It incorporates the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights into British law. 

Article 3 of The Act protects citizens of the United Kingdom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 

According to the Equality and Human Rights Commission: 

Public authorities must not inflict this sort of treatment on you. They must also protect you if someone else is treating you in this way. If they know this right is being breached, they must intervene to stop it. The state must also investigate credible allegations of such treatment (including by third parties).

However, now it appears that the Northern Ireland Executive is planning to override the rights defined by Article 3 of the Human Rights Act by proposing that in circumstances of a public health threat - that the state will itself define - that British citizens may be subject to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 

The consultation document argues that a new Health Bill is required because of the emergence of public health threats necessitating the removal of human rights. The consultation document overtly refers to SARS as one such threat. 

In March 2020, of course, the UK government advised the UK public to lock down - not attend work or school or places of worship - because of what they claimed was a new novel SARS virus: SARS Cov 2 (or Covid 19).  People who tested positive for this so-called viral infection were deemed to be diseased and required to quarantine - even though few showed any serious symptoms of disease. It soon became clear that those “infected” were at very little risk of any serious illness. The infection fatality rate - especially among the young - was negligible. Many questioned whether the true virus was in fact government-run testing programmes and fear campaigns undertaken by state-controlled media. 

In this context proposed public health legislation designed to deal with public health “threats” like SARS seem thoroughly ill-advised. The Northern Ireland Bill proposes draconian new powers that would allow authorities to enter the premises of “contaminated persons”, that such persons submit to medical examinations, be removed to other establishments, be “decontaminated” and be denied the right to work. All of these things could be ordered on the basis of someone testing “positive” for something from a PCR test - or simply holding views that might deem them to be a public health threat. 

It’s clear that if this type of legislation is enacted in Northern Ireland other parts of the UK will follow - Northern Ireland will be a test case. But, being a test case for the removal of the most fundamental human rights - the right not to be subject to torture or degrading treatment - is a horrific move towards de facto totalitarianism. This proposed law is a bad law. 

And, also, people working towards introducing this law - civil servants, government lawyers and elected representatives - are acting unlawfully. They are proposing the destruction of human rights laws designed to protect our freedoms after the horrors of the 2nd World War. 

Please, regardless of where you are in the UK, write to your elected representatives and make it known that Article 3 of the Human Rights Act must be inviolable - in every corner of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  

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The UN is having an even more lavish boondoggle than normal in New York designed to rubber-stamp various globalist treatises. In addition to a ‘Digital Compact’ it’s rolling out yet another global future vision document - The UN Pact for the Future - that will quickly be ignored. Because, let’s face it, the UN is hardly exactly succeeding in its central mission of keeping the peace between nations.There’s no money in that.

The new Pact is all about ticking various corporate agenda boxes relating to digital ID, generative AI, ‘pandemic’ control, and global warming.

However, as Sonia and I discuss (in the sequence above) from her WAKE UP show today, it’s beginning to feel that the globalist messaging is losing its lustre. The Irish government has dropped its anti-free-speech legislation; the reaction against Keir Starmer’s corporatism is cutting right across the political spectrum; and the response to Hollywood’s growing sex-crime scandal is reaching fever-pitch.

More locally, the NI Health Department’s proposed Health Bill is being derided by everyone as one of the most grotesque examples of government overreach ever seen in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the UN pact just looks like bureaucrat driven clap-trap.

Anyway, we cover a lot of ground. Enjoy.

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As trailed yesterday I popped onto Sonia Poulton’s Wake Up programme and livestream this morning to pick over the election results.

The chat is featured here.

We focused on the success of independent candidates on the left - winning on the strength of their protest votes on the Gaza issue. Keir Starmer also saw a significant dent in his majority because of Gaza/anti-Zionist campaigner, Andrew Feinstein. And Jeremy Corbyn was victorious in Islington.

On the right, of course, the big story was the success of Nigel Farage and the Reform Party. But, of course, this didn’t turn into much in terms of seats won (currently sitting at just 4 seats despite polling more votes than the Lib Dems, with 71 seats currently).

The Conservatives and SNP, meanwhile, were pushed to the political side-lines.

The abiding feeling is that Sunak was simply passing the baton to Starmer. Both Conservative and Labour Parties are now clearly Corporatist/Globalist aligned - in thrall to the Military Industrial Complex and carbon lobby. It’ll be left to a bunch of indies and Reformers to provide something of an opposition.

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Over the last 4 years there have been people who have spoken out about the loss of freedom - and loss of free speech - overseen by our globalist government and echoed by a globalist Labour Party opposition. Many people who stood up against the tyranny of the last 4+ years are standing for election - mostly as independents or under the banner of the smaller political parties.

In this short video I discuss the part being played by independent voices in the election with David Kurten, Leader of the Heritage Party, and Sonia Poulton (Wake Up with Sonia Poulton).

Please give it a listen. The message is simple: consider voting for a candidate who knows the constituency, is an independent voice and a free thinker. Those are things that are made very difficult by being a member (or candidate) for a big, inflexible, political party.

You may also wish to listen-in to Sonia’s morning programme tomorrow (Friday) when we’ll be engaging in a bit of post-election chit-chat about winners, losers and breakthrough candidates. I’ll be on from shortly after 9am.

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Yesterday I published a piece about how, in my view, BBC journalists may find themselves in court if the Hillsborough Law is applied in the United Kingdom. BBC journalists have been at the forefront of the campaign over the last 4+ years to spread fear, and to force the population to suspend free thinking and succumb to medical coercion. But the BBC’s failure in its duty of candour may well land its apparatchiks in jail - here’s hoping.

However, not all journalists were willing to put up with the propagandising of the last four years.

Aisling O’Loughlin was a news anchor on an Irish TV station for six years; a celebrity interview red carpet reporter; and a major newspaper columnist. But then she gave it all up to call out a media industry that seemed intent to rob us of our ability to think.

Aisling was unwilling to accept the unrelenting fear propaganda and globalist clap-trap being peddled by her former employers in Ireland - and their opposite numbers in the UK and beyond. When Covid hit she was living in France where Covid restrictions made it feel like she was living in rehashed Vichy regime. She decided it was time to return home to Ireland and use her skills as a communicator to speak out about the need to challenge nonsense masquerading as news.

This is a fascinating conversation with a wonderful free-thinker. Aisling calls on us all to keep a watching brief on our shared humanity as the globalists try to destroy our nations and our right to free speech and thought.

Be sure to subscribe to Aisling’s substack here.

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Jonny Woodrow is a writer, commentator and podcaster who discusses the role of comedy speaking truth to power. And, for the early part of our conversation on this podcast, we discuss this - but then go off on something of a tangent (or several). But it’s interesting nonetheless. Incidentally, Jonny mentions ‘Abi’ in the early part of the podcast - he’s referring to Abi Roberts.

Jonny tends to start from the premise that truth, beauty and a moral order are part of the fabric of the world. But we’re currently in a period, he argues - a new era - where global leaders (typically technocrats) have forgotten this. And many people don’t seem to have noticed that things have gone distinctly strange.

Jonny and I come at this discussion from slightly different perspectives but arrive at a similar conclusion. Jonny has a background in theology and Christian philosophy. Whereas I tend to look at things from an ethical humanist perspective. But both of us in this chat bemoan the fact that leading politicians seem intent on telling us how to think - and want to engage in nation-building to their own technocratic specifications (even Nigel Farage). As Jonny puts it, they tend to believe that humanity is “stock to be managed”.

However, we all have moral compasses and yearn for our political discourse to get back on the rails again after the last four years of authoritarianism.

Quite a few of the UK’s current crop of would-be stock managers and media manipulators get a mention in this chat. The conversation ranges from Kant, to Calvin Robinson to Jordan Peterson. Oh and Nigel Farage. A great moral and philosophical primer in the lead-up to the UK 2024 general election. Enjoy.

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Many of us were made very angry when a BBC hit-piece was published about Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu last week. Written by Marco Silva of the BBC’s “Verify” team the piece vilified Jusper - a small-holding Kenyan farmer - for having the temerity to challenge climate alarmism that has become the BBC’s stock-in-trade. 

Silva then created a thread on Twitter to spread more climate alarmism. The article made clear that the BBC (funded to the tune of £5.7billion per annum by the UK taxpayer) was “tracking conversations” by Jusper on Twitter/X.  This tracking activity showed that Jusper’s social media activity had considerable international reach - particularly to those of us who agree with Jusper that the international climate alarmism community is becoming increasingly nasty - and ‘owned’ by corporatist interests in the ‘green’ lobby.  

Jusper’s eloquence and concern for his family and fellow-citizens shines through. He’s a farmer, his toil is unending, and he’d like to make enough money so that his Mother might visit the Masai Mara - like the millions of visitors who fly in from the West on hydrocarbon-fuel powered jumbo jets.  

Jusper, and his mother, are smallholding farmers in Kenya. Like many farmers in Africa they are forced to rely on toil rather than technology to farm their lands. While this has been seen, in the past, as a barrier to feeding African citizens, now the international community of climate alarmists have joined in the fray to ensure that African farmers remain subsistence farmers in perpetuity. Farm machinery should be electric powered, they argue. Electricity should be generated from cattle-dung - not oil or gas. Fertilisers should be taxed to reflect their role in ‘climate change’. The consequence is declining use of fertiliser, higher barriers to entry for farm machinery, less reliable electricity production - and hunger. 

The Marco Silva hit-piece on Jusper Machogu named Joyce Kimutai - a researcher at the University of Capetown - as a voice of reason in the anthropogenic climate change community. Silva noted that Ms Kimutai had even submitted papers to the IPCC.  However, Ms Kimutai's research is defined in the context that man-made climate change is a given and there's universal scientific consensus around manmade climate change causality (which is clearly nonsense).  

Silva presents the climate emergency catastrophist community as good; Jusper Machogu as bad (particularly for doing something unforgivable in the eyes of the BBC Verify team i.e. his own research).  Silva also notes that Jusper raised some £7,000 from donations to help him with his campaigning and support for other farmers in Africa. But, to date, Jusper has been unable to access any of this money from the donation platform on which it was raised. 

Silva failed to mention how much Ms Silva is paid as a staffer on the ACDI (African Climate and Development Initiative) at the University of Capetown - itself funded by the UK government through the Global Challenges Research Fund. So it appears to be perfectly acceptable to be paid by an initiative funded by the UK government but not to raise money from donors willing to support a small-holding farmer in Kenya speaking common sense. As Jusper makes clear in the article, it’s much easier these days to make money by jumping on the climate catastrophe bandwagon than to express any degree of common sense or critical thinking.  

And, of course, Marco Silva, himself, is paid by the BBC to spread ad hominem attacks on social media against hard-working strivers like Jusper hoping to just get by - and perhaps raise enough money to buy a tractor.  

Jusper is clearly very well educated and highly intelligent. He can also smell neo-colonialist propaganda from self-appointed moral guardians a mile away. Jusper is used to b******t. He’s forced to use it to fertilise his crops, for one thing. 

If, like me, you find patronising, colonialist character assassinations by BBC shills highly annoying, you’ll enjoy Jusper’s interview.  

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