I’m not in this group but this presentation seems to make sense and maybe easier for people to understand. YMMV:
https://x.com/PrometheanActn/status/2001393764493934721
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Excellent!
I saw her recentl talking about Trump’s reversal on the “New” Strategy for “Foreign Policy”.
Now the economic side; of the poltical/economic policies.
ALL good!
But, what of the: Technocratic Bio-Digital State Monkey-Wrench?
Can both exist?
Without cross-purposes?
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Another excellent article sent out via email today. Trump admin aware of London’s dirty tricks, hence restrictions on EU nationals and 2 British individuals ‘accused’ of online censorship.
Also London’s plan to place Pence as a stalking horse leading up to the US midterms.
Unfortunately, it won’t happen in my lifetime but the sooner Cymru and Scotland, go their separate ways from London the better.
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Over 25 killed in Kherson yesterday including children. The drone swarm over Putin’s alleged residence. NYT admiting that Langley has stepped up attacks on the shadow fleet, and oil facilities in Russia.
It seems to me to indicate that Trumpet has given them the green light, follows a similar pattern. Bring Iran in for negotiations, targeted killings, same thing happened in Lebanon and Yemen.
In pro wrestling terms Trump seems to be ‘working’ us all.
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Well, yes let’s have more of this, but I’d like to add a little more in the way of a historical perspective, as a native Englishman who is proud of his Irish descent. (The latter country was London’s first colony and is only partly independent, even today.)
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London was created in by the Romans after they defeated the native British Queen Boudicca’s uprising against their imperial rule in AD 60/61. It was done to control the rest of the island of Britain economically and politically, having done so for most of the years ever since. Let me be clear, the Romans established the City of London. Today, it possesses its very own police force. Even the reigning monarch has to ask permission to enter its boundaries, a political reality of elite mercantile banking power that masquerades as a “quaint British custom.” It is a city state unto itself.
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Since the Romans left, those parts of what became England that were remote from the City of London remained under its imperial control for most of the subsequent centuries. The same was true for Wales (Cymru), Scotland (Alba) and the northern part of Ireland (Eire) . When the City’s territories extended across the globe, many of these places were transformed into the so called workshop of the world through the imperial entrepot system of trade.
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With he advent of globalisation and the so-called ‘financialisation’ of Britain’s economy, the economic plight of those parts of Britain formerly used for manufacturing is now dire. In short, the innermost parts of the City’s imperial territories are now withering away economically and culturally.
I sincerely hope hope that the analysis given in the presentation is correct and that the people of the US really are taking back their country in the way they see fit. However, it is the parasite corporate elite that is the real power behind the longevity of the City of London and, by definition, it is global.
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Are they? I think those “empire” things are having a blast going after all the marbles in this “cosmic” war!
I say, lets beat them at their own game.
Excellent post. But I’d disagree with one thing. Wales was the Empire’s first and last Colony.
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… from Webster Tarpley
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Yes, I agree with the broad point you’ve made, but let’s examine our terminology here, not because I want to split hairs, but because semantics are important. The meanings of words are changed to suit those who wish to manipulate and control. I’m sure you’ve noticed there’s quite a lot of that happening in the West right now.
Our name Welsh comes from the Old English Waelesc and it originally meant ‘foreigner’. There’s no absolute proof of this, but I strongly suspect it was first used by Germanic speaking mercenaries who were brought in by the Romans because they were losing political and tax revenue control of their British provinces. (I’ll come back to that important word shortly.) Of course, the boundaries of what we call Wales today have altered considerably. Cornwall once was called West Wales and south-western Scotland was Welsh (Brythonic) speaking. It was later settled by Gaelic speaking Scots clans, who migrated from Ireland. Just to confuse you even more, the language called Lowland Scots actually comes from Germanic speaking Angles who settled in what is now eastern Scotland. Its closest linguistic relatives are the Frisian languages spoken in the northernmost parts of the Netherlands. Even today, broad Scots and some versions of Frisian are said to be mutually understandable, perhaps more so than between broad Scots and ‘standard’ English! Lastly, the south-westernmost part of Wales, roughly corresponding to modern Dyfed, once was Irish Gaelic speaking, because it was settled by Scots (not Scottish) clans from Ireland.
And I haven’t even mentioned the Vikings yet, but I shall briefly. The Norse provided the last viable challenge to London’s supremacy over Britain when their army was defeated in the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Had they won, England’s capital would have been York. The year 1066 has a familiar ring to it for some reason, but I do wonder why I was taught only about another battle which took place in 1066 at school?
Real history is intricate and full of nuance, much of which I have omitted for the sake of brevity. At least I can return to London and the provinces which the Romans established to be ruled over from their capital city. Have you ever wondered why Canada is divided into provinces, while the two counties to its South are officially called The United States of America and The United States of Mexico? (Hint: the answer may have something to do with revolutions to free the people from imperial control).
Back in England, we don’t officially have any provinces today, we have counties (from the Welsh cantref pl. cantrefydd- hundred as a division of land). I pay no heed to the BBC anymore, but when I last did, their announcers were wont to use ‘provinces’ to describe those parts of England that were not the ‘home counties’, i.e. those parcels of land not immediately surrounding London, which is the BBC’s home. The adjective ‘provincial’ is an even more loaded term in British English. It can mean unsophisticated, narrow-minded or ignorant and is frequently used in this way as a cultural weapon, whether consciously or not.
George Orwell knew a thing or two about how the meanings of words can be changed as a means of social and ideological control. His Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty Four was modelled on the BBC, for which he worked at one time. In the first part of his book, The Road to Wigan Pier, he described how the Great Depression devastated a northern English industrial town not far from where I was born. Though its economy revived temporarily because of WWII and the post-war boom, the people of northern England - and other English ‘provinces’, parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have no political saviours in 2026. These days, a carefully contrived corporate facade of affluence hides the isolation, poverty, debt and dependency in these towns and cities of Britain no longer deemed important.
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Have you read the work of Allan Wilson &Barram Blackett? An alternative history of the Khymru, suggests our links’cymraeg’ began in Assyria:thinking:
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Excellent!
Thanks for the link!
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No, but I am familiar with some of Alan Wilson’s work on what’s called Dark Age Britain and I admire his research. As for the Khymru and their Assyrian/Middle Eastern connections, I am familiar with a number of late Victorian sources that suggest just that. It may be more than just a hypothesis. If so, my feeling is that the connection has been actively suppressed.
There’s also the Queen Scota connection, who was daughter of the ‘heretic Pharaoh’ Akenaten and the Assyrian Queen Nefertiti. There are legends linking Scota to Scotland, Wales and Ireland, including a curious Egyptian gold necklace found in a burial mound at Mold (Y Wyddgrig) in North Wales, only a few miles from my home. It’s supposed to be on show in the British Museum in London, but when I went to see it there, its glass case was empty. I wonder why?
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