Over the next few decades there will come a crunch as more and more countries opt to drop the dollar and with it the western financial system, and with that the last major “industry” contributing to the UK will disappear. And, having destroyed almost every other industry, the UK will become a basket case economy.

So, we need a plan.

The first stage of the plan is to drop the dollar and to openly embrace the new financial systems that are beginning to develop and work with others to make that happen. In other words, to do a 180 degree turn around from the US approach of trade barriers and wars of regime change against anyone involved in the inevitable replacement of the dollar and instead to work to achieve that … to become the centre of that new world.

The second stage of the plan, is to start really competing with those outside the dollar controlled markets. In other words, to MASSIVELY drop profits. Not down to the “only a new luxury yacht every second year” for the bankers, but instead … NO LUXURY YACHT AT ALL.

To bring in the concept of “providing a service” to the financial sector and instead of dictating charges, to work as hard as possible to bring down the prices to the bare minimum. And that isn’t a choice … that is coming whether they want it or not. The only choice is whether the UK is part of that new financial system.

The result: to see the value of our financial sector plummet. Which doesn’t sound like a great way to save Britain, but it is better than the almost certain alternative: the complete wipe out of the British banks and financial sector as Brics like entities take all the trade.

The third stage is to devalue the hell out of the pound till the current debts are worthless. No one should have lent any country so much and those who did so were just greedy. I don’t see any reason future generations should be paying the debt … devalue now and let our generation suffer the pain that debt has created.

The fourth stage doesn’t require any government intervention, because once the pound devalues, so does any insanity like Nut Zero. And, as the pound devalues, so does the attractiveness of the UK for manufacturing which will see a long term resurgence.

I never learnt the violin as a child, the torture of a sibling’s attempt was enough to put me off it. I did learn a woodwind instrument and even did an “exam” to grade 3, but I couldn’t see the point in exams for music. Instead I eventually learnt the guitar just to be able to sing along … so I only ever learnt to strum chords to my favourite songs.

Fast forward, … my children learnt the fiddle. And so they needed fiddles, so I bought a few fiddles in the hope one might be nice enough to keep.

At that time I did give it a go, but I think I only tried to learn one tune, but my wife objected to me playing it in the house.

Last Christmas I got a Ukulele so I could imagine a new song, and so I had to learn it.

Then I was given a mandolin, which is not too different from the guitar and Ukulele, but with four strings tuned the same way as a violin.

Then I wondered … having nearly learnt how to play a mandolin, could I have any success on the fiddle? As it happens the wife was away … so as all men do when the wife is away …

Out came the fiddle, with about an 1/8″ of dust.

Two days later I was playing Auld Lang Seyne.

It would take me a couple of goes before I got my ear into the tune. I would frequently miss a note, but to misquote Mr Wise: “It had all the right notes in all the right places, but not on every attempt”.

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Two days to learn the fiddle sounds impressive. But, since I have never shown any particular musical ability, I assume I am average. Yet, how did I  manage it?

1. I learnt how to read music … so reading music wasn’t a barrier
2. I learnt the Mandolin fingering … indeed, I learnt the fingering one way (one finger per semi-tone) with the forefinger used on the first two. Then I had a quick go on the fiddle and realised the fiddle would be easier if I used a different fingering (one finger per note of the scale). So for a couple of weeks I relearnt how to play the Mandolin.
3. I learnt the music … so I already knew what I was attempting to play using the same fingering.
4. I employed a tuning device

Yes it was a struggle for the first four hours. I was never hitting the right note and the tuning device wasn’t much help, presumably because my bowing was so poor that there really wasn’t a single note for the device to say what it was.

Then rather than try to follow the music, I began to learn parts of the tune. I would play three or four notes attempting to get the tuning as accurate as I could. And I kept going at the same song for perhaps an hour at a go.

Eventually I started to get an idea of

1. roughly where the finger needed to go
2. an idea of the note I wanted
3. an idea how to change the fingering to get the note
4. better bowing technique so the tuner was giving better feedback

And, at times it started to sound good …. although there were as many times when it sounded like a cat in pain screeching in an echoey tunnel.

The Let Down

Now I face the problems:

1. Any progress from now will be a lot slower
2. trying to get my wife out of the house

[Before reading, I thought I would comment on this article, which is not my area of expertise, so if anyone reads this please forgive my naivety. However I may as well give it a go. I will highlight my own comments in brackets.]

Responses by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, to questions from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which the newspaper refused to publish in full without cuts or censorship, Moscow, November 13, 2025

Question: It has been reported that Vladimir Putin’s next meeting with Donald Trump in Budapest did not happen because even the US Administration realised that you are not ready for talks on Ukraine. What went wrong after the Anchorage summit that inspired hope for the launch of a genuine peace process? Why does Russia remain adherent to the demands that Vladimir Putin put forward in June 2024 and on what issues сould you make a compromise? Continue reading →

There’s some interesting posts appearing suggesting that Epstein was:

OFFERING GIRLS TO ALMOST ALL THE ELITE PARTICIPANTS IN 2014 “CLIMATE SUMMIT”!

However the alleged “evidence” of this is a highly suspect email which appears to very odd and potentially is either strangely edited or contains tracking information. In other words features that a casual user might ignore, but which could be used to track who is passing images to who.

That would be a classic probe to work out how the information networks function ahead of yet another attack.

Maybe the mafia are trying to get libellous statements to be published with the aim of silencing the “key” people in the network of those who got it right on the climate.

Alternatively the email might be true, and Epstein was broadening the blackmail honeypot to the powerful and extremely rich associated with the climate scam.

The post read:

In the Huliaipole sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are facing an impending catastrophe, according to Armed Forces military correspondent Bogdan Miroshnikov:

“Spokespeople are saying one thing, but the commander-in-chief only acknowledges three lost settlements (in reality there are more),” he reports.

After Huliaipole, it will be Orikhiv. And then, apart from Kamiševacha and Stepnohors’k, practically nothing will stop the enemy from approaching the southern outskirts of Zaporizhzhia. This will also affect the village of Pokrovske. If the enemy takes it, they will be able to reach Volnyansk. And this will represent operational-tactical successes for the enemy and a real catastrophe,” Miroshnikov believes

To understand it, I first have to find Huliaipole and then Orikhiv. It turns out that Huliaipole is a settlement about 5-10km from the “front line” and likewise Orikhiv, to the east of the once massive Zaporizhzhia “lake” the dam of which was blown up by the Ukrainians (properly known as Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river).

Whilst the comment sounds as if something dramatic is happening, from my viewpoint all I’ve noticed is a small creeping forward of the Russian held territory especially up the once eastern shore of the lake. Continue reading →

I always imagined the sound of nails being dragged down a blackboard, when I thought about these times. Reality has caught up with the lies. We are about a third of the way into the century long predictions of climate doom and should now be seeing around a third of all the utter calamity and collapse of society that was heralded. At least one forecast gave 60m of sea level increase, most told us of never ending droughts, food starvation etc. etc.

There is not a single forecast, based on data available from credible sources, that shows any change in the climate. And global “temperature” … has not been a credible “measurement” for years. Every single metric is being tampered with by people with a cult like obsession to show the world is warming … it is not … no more than if I picked another convenient point in the climate record that I could show we are cooling. There is absolutely nothing abnormal in the climate with is normally abnormal.

That doesn’t matter as much as that the insane climate policies of Nut Zero are now massively hitting home with rising costs everywhere due to the rise in energy prices. And whilst the lying BBC can keep saying “black is white”, the facts people can see in their ordinary lives tell a very different story. And, people are changing their political votes as a result. The public are voting against the climate insanity and as more and more change so the insane fraudulent politicians who went along with the money-making scam, have two choices … be kicked out, or change with an extremely high risk they will be kicked out for being responsible for nurturing the most costly scam in all human history.

It doesn’t matter any longer

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Since I started this blog at the beginning of  2011 I’ve published over 1200 articles mostly focussing on climate and energy. But it often surprises me when I look at the statistics that many of the articles that get read most have little or nothing to do with climate.

Scots: more words for rain than Eskimos for snow		10,940
The Truth about the Highland Clearances		6,632
I’m now a CO2 denier		3,483
Enerconics: The Relationship between Energy and GDP		3,024
How to convince a sceptic – just give them the data		2,202
Proof: recent temperature trends are not abnormal		2,073
We live in luxury that even kings a few centuries ago could only dream of.		1,894
How to run a house off the car battery		1,379
How to get off the ground with nothing but water! (almost)		1,163
A scientist’s guide to greenhouse warming.		1,143
Scientists discover why wet soil is dark		1,071
And the last global warming pillar falls – I declare global warming doomsday claptrap to be disproven.		985
The Academic Ape: Instinctive aggression and boundary enforcing behaviour in academia		942
Why are climate-extremists so obsessed with conspiracy theory?		927
This year global cooling – now even Trenberth agrees with me		873

The greatest battle in my lifetime is just commencing. The outcome will define the global relationships for decades, even centuries to come, and almost no one is aware of it, and even fewer of its importance.

Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, the EU has failed and Trump is behaving like a drowning man grasping at nuclear straws. That is what US arrogance and contempt for the rest of the world has achieved.

US control and manipulation of the new technologies has not been a success for the US. Instead it has focussed on winning the war for spaces that do not exist except for the desires and habits of people, something easily changed, but not by force, but by friendship. The US long ago lost any skill it had at being friends. Instead “friends” to the US are people forced to say “I’m your fwend” when faced by bully boy threats.

The world has had enough of the US and its behaviour, and now the non-US world is flourishing and with it the non-US internet and new technologies. And, the only way to “defeat” this new mood? Is to join it and want to make it better. The future is in global co-operation not conflict. Yet the US persists in its luddite behaviour attempting to stir up conflict globally … thus it is consigning itself to the past.

US money is starting to become worthless as they pay themselves more and more for less worth.

As Ukraine shows, the US has lost the fight for the physical world … now it is losing the fight for the virtual world where force can only secure a temporary advantage which is quickly lost and what matters is friendly and co-operation … which in the US is called “communism” .. the most evil political force imaginable because it cannot be bought by the US dollar.

Information is measured in bits which is log₂ (1/probability)

Like information, value is increased by rarity.

What if they behaved the same?

Value = β log₂ (1/frequency)

If I had the rarest fossil and it was worth A. Then if I found another, I do not have 2A, instead the rarity has halved, so the value of each decreases.

New Topic

I’ve just heard a US idiot talking about “manoeuvre success” as the “right” strategy to use in warfare. Looking up the subject I read that supposedly “manoeuvre” and “attrition” are two ends of the only spectrum of warfare strategy.

Apparently manoeuvre is so ingrained and indoctrinated as the one and only strategy of warfare, that the western military idiots are incapable of thinking of any way to fight, nor to fight against, the other strategy.

That explains why they don’t understand Roman warfare, where slow attrition was used alongside shock attacks.

But attrition is not the Russian strategy. Instead it is “total war”, where the military engagement is merely part of a much wider and longer-term strategy. One where most of the military manoeuvring is being done outwith the view and control of the US military.

I would liken the situation to a Fourier transform, which “tests” a waveform using a variety of frequencies, such that each frequency “tests” a different aspect of the waveform. Given the nature of of sine waves, each frequency tests a different aspect of the waveform that is not visible at other frequencies. The response tells us “how much” the waveform “chimes” with the test frequency. Or in the simplest of terms whether the “note” is present or not.

From a human point, that means we can “hear” high frequency sounds, that do not “resonate” with a much lower test frequency. In other words they would not cause a much lower resonator to start resonating in sympathy.

There are more complex ways to test waveforms. One is to use a square wave of various frequencies in contrast to sin. The problem with that technique is that square waves are less specific to one frequency. So you can test at 1khz, and get a response from both the intended 1khz component as well as a 3khz or 5khz component in the waveform.

I would diagnose the US military “thinkers” in the same way. They look at the situation in Ukraine based on their own indoctrinated thinking of “manoeuvre warfare” and they decide whether what the Russians are doing is “good” or “bad” based on how well it fits their own indoctrinated viewpoint of how wars “should” be fought. And, because they are taught the “opposite” of “manoeuvre warfare” is “attrition” and attrition is bad, because they see the warfare happening, and it is not “manoeuvre warfare” they decide it is “attrition” and therefore “bad” …. and that seems to be all the thinking they can do.

But, that would be a bit like testing a waveform with something that resonates at 1khz, and then as the opposite of 1khz being present is the absence, then ascribing any waveform that does not resonate at 1khz as being “silence”.

Instead, to understand the Russians, we have to understand warfare as it expands over the various dimension of time, space, and politics. The Russians are not conducting 1D warfare where the only dimension is “manoeuvre warfare” versus “attrition”. Instead, they are involved in multi-dimensional warfare in which ONE OF THE DIMENSIONS is “manoeuvre warfare” versus “attrition”, but that is by no means the only dimension of importance.

Which is why a much smaller country like the Russian Federation is running rings around the US. And, there is absolutely no way to stop it so long as the US continues in its arrogant heavy handed “we are the masters of the Universe and all others shall kneel before us” kind of attitude. I could spell out what they were doing wrong in great detail, produce a master plan of how to change, etc. etc., and it would make absolutely no difference at all, because they would never listen. They are the “great” US with their “wonderful” “manoeuvre warfare” and they will win every war with it … because they only ever go to war with little countries who are easy to beat.

To be honest the US are digging their own grave, and they have not done anything at all to make someone like want to help them … especially since I will get the blame when they eventually collapse into the grave they dug themselves.

AI to replace the Gormless idiots who love AI

There is an irony with AI, that the people who most love it, are the gormless fools whose jobs are most easily replaced by AI. In other words, if almost everything that you “know” is better known by AI … then you don’t know anything that couldn’t better be done with AI.

So, if you are one of the gullible fools that just love the answers you get from the AI brainwashing bots masquerading as “search engines”, then you don’t have anything to offer the world that cannot be replaced by cheaper and easier AI.

And, let me be blunt. Most US “strategists” could be replaced with AI and the only noticeable difference is that we’d get the bullshit quicker.

Does it matter if Russia and China rule the world?

The simple fact is that the western population is being brainwashed to become the most gullible pathetically stupid group of people on the planet. And, the result is that almost all the western population are doing “jobs” that will soon be replaced by AI … because people are being coerced to stop thinking for themselves.

Gullible idiots are not the way to future economic success. Nor is handing away all your energy, industry and raw material assets, as the western “thinkers” have been doing for years (prompted by Russia and China).

It is a miracle that the west has not collapse before now. The only thing keeping us from collapsing now, is historical inertia … which can be the death knell to an economy, when the “belief” in the country’s position in the world and the reality are completely unmatched.

China and Russia are the new top dogs. And, I do not see anyone in the west with the nouse to resist them.

Trump is a complete disaster. Far from making the necessary reforms, he is instead ingraining the attitudes that are so disastrous to US relationships with the rest of the world. Far from getting down in the trenches to fight the war, he is instead telling everyone they should be an armchair general listening to google brainwashing them into believing they are winning the war. And, the Russians are very happy for Google to be brainwashing the west into their arrogance belief in their own military invincibility … whilst China and Russia capture the hearts, minds and economy of the rest of the world.

Information is power

There is a belief in the US that information is power, and therefore, you can run an economy on information, rather like you can run a cooker on electricity. The problem is that information is so easily available that getting information is no problem at all. And, such information has almost no value.

Information is not power, only having rare information that is needed is power. Likewise, being able to think, doesn’t make you valuable, unless you can think in a way that others cannot think and in a manner where your thinking is useful.

Thus, although AI can do a lot of “thinking”, it can never think in the way the best humans can do. So, although AI can replace a lot of human activity, especially of the “useless eaters” who google themselves by absorbing brainwashing AI, it can never replace the people who are able to see what Google is doing to the west through that dumbing down of the “useless eaters” who will soon have no place in the world economy.

So, far from information empowering people, it is actually undermining people and eventually, because Russia and China will also do AI, and lot better than the US, they will soon be replacing all the US AI, in much the same way as US AI replaced all the useless eaters. Because the western populations are being taught to be gullible idiots, unable to think for themselves, by the never ending censorship brainwashing and downright stupidity of the big US tech giants that pushing the west toward a brainwashed, gullible idiot future of “useless eaters”, where the west has no place in the world.

Welcome to the Brave New World … where you can think whatever you like, so long as it is approved by Google AI (recently acquired by Wing Yip Corp)

US dollar use in global reserves dropped from 73% in 2001 to 54% now.

Three things have triggered this:

1. The collapse of the US as a viable economy with massive and growing debt (the intent of Net Zero)
2. The theft of sovereign assets by the dollar banking system which has done more than anything else to trigger the loss of confidence in dollar banking
3. The rise of Brics, which might look aggressive, but in reality, given the state of the dollar it should have happened a long time ago. The world is sick and tired of funding the US economy by the mafia-style forced use of the dollar.

At the moment BRICS has 11 members and 22 applying, covering 47% of world population. There is no doubt that number will increase and that Brics is heading to overtake the western financial systems … which seem incapable of understanding the new low-cost reality, and instead they keep profiteering in the belief that the US army will regime anyone who tries to change that situation of excess profits in the US.

The reality is that other payment systems like gold are taking over. For obvious reasons those trading gold want to highlight the PAST increase in value of gold, but gold is not the only way to settle international debts.

Countries have built gold vaults and payment networks to trade without US dollars. But gold has been important. India added 73 tons in 2024 and brought 100 tons home from UK. Gold price hit $4,000+ in October 2025, up 46% this year.

However by far the most important change is the settlement of debt in currencies other than the dollar. Now Russia-China trade is 90% in their own currencies.

However there is a move for a direct replacement for the dollar. The “Unit” currency will be 60% by local money, 40% backed by gold,  said New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff. Full system ready by 2030, test runs maybe in 2026.

Why 2030?

Because that is when the west is due to commit economic suicide through Nut Zero.