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No Time to Wait For Climate Change's Useful Idiots

My latest article explores the extent to which the global establishment is exploiting climate change and climate alarmism for its own nefarious ends.

By Daniel Margrain Last week, climate activist, Mike Hudema tweeted the following: ‘An iceberg the size of London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf. There is no time to wait. We must #ActOnClimate.’, he said. Hudema’s tweet was in response to a CNN report. And then, as if written from a script, another activist remarked: ‘This is a grave reminder that climate change is happening now, and…

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Propaganda In the Age of Eternal War and 'Pandemics'

In my latest article, I look at the relationship between propaganda, war and the Covid event.

By Daniel Margrain The rolling media coverage of major events, including wars, are often accompanied by predictable rhetorical flourishes across what passes for the ‘mainstream’ political and media spectrum. Politician’s, newspaper editors and media pundits invariably invoke war in a jingoistic way in an attempt to garner popularity and to sell copy, especially if the justification given to go…

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My tribute to David Crosby

By Daniel Margrain In ‘Revolution Blues’ from his 1974 album, ‘On The Beach’, Neil Young famously spews vitriol on the fake tinsel town celebrity life-styles of the wealthy residents of Laurel Canyon many of whom lionized the killer, Charles Manson:  “Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars, but I hate them worse than lepers and I’ll kill them in their cars,” sang…

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The Ghost of Fursac and other Bizarre Happenings

By Daniel Margrain Towards the end of last summer, I finally achieved my dream of living in the French countryside. To this end, I followed in the foot-steps of my sister Lydia, her partner, Pete, and their young daughter, Milly. Although things haven’t gone quite as smoothly as expected, I haven’t regretted for one second my decision to leave London, the city where I had spent the last…

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Chasing Money is Ruining the Beautiful Game

Chasing Money is Ruining the Beautiful Game

By Daniel Margrain Something is very rotten at the heart of professional football in the English game. It really saddens me greatly to say that, but it’s true. Both managers and owners share the responsibility. Personally, I have very little time for high level professional football managers. I believe most, if not all, are charlatans and spivs. I am unable to understand why so many…

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NATO's Ongoing Proxy War

NATO’s Ongoing Proxy War

In a recent speech to the UK parliament in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson made a series of false and misleading statements against President Vladimir Putin inflaming the tensions of an already volatile situation in Ukraine. The overriding theme of the speech was the accusation that Putin’s defence of the Donbas was tantamount to imperialist aggression in Ukraine.…

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Why rising Covid rates are misleading

Why rising Covid rates are misleading

To get 20K positives tests today, we are testing nearly 3x more people *every day* than the last time we had 20K positives a day, in Dec 2020. This is because the PREVALENCE of Covid in our community now is much lower How much lower? Today, 1 out of every 440 people test positive. Whereas in December 2020 (the last time we had 20K positive tests a day) 1 in every 85 people in the community…

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Hamburg Masked

The tourism and hospitality industries appear determined to want to die. On 11 August, I booked a summer holiday break to Amsterdam. Two days later after having booked the flight and accommodation, the UK government announced that as from 4am on August 15, people arriving in the UK from the Netherlands and elsewhere would be required to self-isolate for two weeks.

I cancelled my British…

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My Review of Neil Young's latest album, 'Colorado'.

My Review of Neil Young’s latest album, ‘Colorado’.

Neil Young’s latest studio album, Colorado, was recorded mostly live over 11 days in the Rocky Mountains of the same name. It’s Young’s first release with Crazy Horse in seven years. The addition of Nils Lofgren who replaced Frank Sampedro on guitar, was an inspired inclusion by Young. Lofgren adds texture and depth to the bands sound which is exemplary throughout.

The problem with the album is…

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Why I've joined the Church of the Latter-Day Dude

Why I’ve joined the Church of the Latter-Day Dude

By Daniel Margrain

Recently, the Independent reported on the curious story of a group of Satanic worshippers who unveiled a statue of the Knights Templar goat-man, Baphomet, in Arkansas. It was not so much the face value story that caught my attention but the statement made by Satanic Arkansas co-founder, Ivy Forrester: “If you’re going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to…

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How the West has set out to destroy Syria

How the West has set out to destroy Syria

By Daniel Margrain

In this first of a two part article, I examine some of the myths in relation to Syria, and the extent to which the corporate media continues to demonize the country’s president, Bashar-al-Assad.

Largely unreported in the corporate media is that Bashar-al-Assad’s secular government won the first contested presidential election in Ba’athist Syria’s history on July 16, 2014. The…

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Who is next for the Zionists putsch?

Who is next for the Zionists putsch?

By Daniel Margrain

It is a sad indictment on modern politics that the long-standing socialist, Ken Livingstone who fought most of his political life fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of racism has been hung out to dry by a political party he had been a member of for decades. Had Livingston not formerly offered his resignation, almost certainly he would have gone the way of another veteran…

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How much longer can the corporate media continue to vilify Corbyn?

How much longer can the corporate media continue to vilify Corbyn?

By Daniel Margrain

In 1978, the Australian social scientist, Alex Carey, pointed out that the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: “the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

In order to defend their business interests against…

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What’s so great about David Crosby’s ‘If Only I Could Remember My Name’? By Daniel Margrain In 'Revolution Blues' from his 1974 album, 'On The Beach', Neil Young famously spews vitriol on the fake tinsel town celebrity life-styles of the wealthy residents of Laurel Canyon many of whom lionized the killer, Charles Manson:

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From the abstract to the concrete: urban design as a mechanism of behaviour change and social exclusion

From the abstract to the concrete: urban design as a mechanism of behaviour change and social exclusion

Shopping malls are unforgiving, soulless and unfriendly places. For many people, frequenting the modern shopping mall is a deeply alienating and physically damaging experience. It brings with it a recognition of how some groups of people are being coerced and physically situated in the world – how citizens think and act is increasingly being determined by ‘choice architecture’ –  which is…

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Saving Syria's Children: How the BBC are embedding their journalists with Jihadist groups in Syria

Saving Syria’s Children: How the BBC are embedding their journalists with Jihadist groups in Syria

By Daniel Margrain

  In Saving Syria’s Children the logo of Salafist terror group, Ahrar al-Sham, is visible on the front of one the vehicles in Pannell and Conway’s security convoy (Source: Robert Stuart).

For many years I have been following Robert Stuart’s exhaustive and detailed exposition of the BBC Panorama documentary Saving Syria’s Children that highlighted the aftermath of an…

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The scandal of a royal benefit sponger

The scandal of a royal benefit sponger

For many years the media have portrayed the lifestyles of ‘the undeserving rich’ who inhabit Britain’s Benefit Malls, as feckless wasters and a burden on the tax-paying public. There have been signs over recent months that their attacks on this largely invisible minority in society are beginning to take their toll.

So extreme have these attacks on some of Britain’s most privileged elite been,…

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