Sunday, 13 September, 2026

East & West is a public concept, Billionaires have nothing to say, nor contribute.

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In America $1 Billion investment in Education gets you 26,700 jobs, Healthcare 17,200 jobs, Defence only 11,200 jobs, When a politician tells you the Defence Industry is an important investment, that isn't a politician.

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Saturday, 12 September, 2026

Terrorism, tɛrərɪz(ə)m [British English], tɛrəˌrɪzəm [U.S. English], n, a state of terror; government or coercion by terror.

There is no Global War on Terrorism, there is only the foreign policy culture, enactment and political ruse environment of the U.S. Federal Government, opinion globally is spread variously between the U.S. Government being an imperial entity that broadly brought the attack on 11th September 2001 on itself due to its historical behaviour, that the U.S. Government is likely to have had some secretive influence or direct hand in the events of 11th September 2001 and then creating the subsequent conditions for driving its military and imperial reach abroad, or that the U.S. is a foolishly open state with no coherent safeguards in place to protect against this kind of attack due to the irresponsible and largely foolish arrangement of their internal economic systems. In the minority, is the largely 'western' transatlantic media led belief system that the U.S. is a democracy and was viciously attacked on 11th September 2001, and the subsequent foreign policy enactments of every U.S. Federal Government since then has been based on deliberate cruelty and illegality for no other purpose than that the U.S Government can prevent these types of attacks in the future by exaggerating its power on the World stage.

What the Peace see's here, irrespective of the true historical cause, is a burgeoning Authoritarian American state being birthed from within a Democracy, which of course has happened before, within the U.S culture is a belief that this kind of Authoritarian system of Government cannot survive in the U.S, and others would argue that the U.S is already and has been for the majority of its history an economically fundamentalist state, political fundamentalism and Authoritarianism is always operating in these kinds of environments. The U.S. Republican movement is a very clear and obvious characterisation of this type of Authoritarianism, and the U.S Republican parties recent actions abroad has betrayed that this is a cultural problem specific to the Republican and Democratic political parties in that country, both of which are Authoritarian and tend to overtly rely on their military for effect.

Typically, the idea, which is completely repugnant to most of the World, that your Government may kill, carry out assassinations, attack public populations and their infrastructure in other foreign nations, for no other reason than improving your electoral prospects in your own nation state, is, fundamentally and absolutely true confirmation Authoritarian behaviour and habit is fully in play.

Criticism of any Governments behaviour from the International Community, the rest of the World, is not opposition, nor offensive behaviour, it is just kind, worldly and wise advice highlighting your mistakes and errors from that part of the International Community that is far older and wiser than you are. Opposition to that criticism is, itself, again Authoritarian behaviour that does itself no good.

At present the current U.S Government is Authoritarian in nature, led by a poisonous belief that the U.S. is in decline and that adopting a ruse of being entirely without reason and logic will be enough to seize the resources of foreign states to grease the American pocket, and to hell with the beliefs of those in the rest of the World, the larger part of the American population is aware of it and also aware that counterweight needs to be in place to prevent the entire country from sliding into a completely self destructive course.

As for the rest of the World, well that's where normal people live. 

Normal people believe that the entirety of the American political system is at fault, and that fault lies with only two political movements, the Republican and Democratic political parties. What your Presidents look like, what they say, how they behave is entirely uninteresting. 

Normal people are your future.

 

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Tuesday, 8 September, 2026

Indeed, it was Absolutely the most Beautiful Summer I Ever did know. Here's Too Many More of them.

 

There are no circumstances in which the Russian Federation would attack another NATO, EU or western European state, but there are private sector media organisation published within the UK and US, and less so in the European Union that release stories about NATO being attacked by the Russian Federation. From a public perspective we simply assume that these stories originate from private sector security contractors or privately operating members of the military of western states, operating in whatever capacity offers least detection or suspicion on the day. We don't take them seriously of course, we certainly would take them seriously if they published under their own names with raw data proving a plan by the Russian Federation to actively attack a European or 'western' state, but we all know that raw data doesn't exist of course, and so too neither do the people involved in sourcing the story to the private sector media.

But of course none of this is actually interesting, its just the cycle of propaganda that lives its life around International events such as these, few people actually care.

No, of far more interest is what does Ukraine look like at the end of all of this?, what does the Russian Federation look like?, what does Europe look like?, what are the consequences of the loss of such a huge area of Ukrainian land for the Ukrainian people and what does all of this mean economically for these countries and the wider region?, how will things change for the entire World?, what does trade and agriculture look like? investments and economic discipline/planning? Travel, transport, security, international freight forwarding, international commodity supply?, trade, defence, international finance and on an on it goes.

You cannot watch almost a third of a country as large as Ukraine simply change International hands and expect that there are no changes that you can perceive right around the corner.

I'm afraid that Ukraine is now a lost cause for those whom oppose the Russian Federation.

It is time for everybody to think about what comes next, and that only involves the people and Government of the Russian Federation and the people and Government of Ukraine.

As far as Europe and 'western' Governments and their people are concerned, you need to move on.

We all have so much more to do with our time than listen endlessly to complaints about the next great conflict or whom is worse than whom.

 

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Monday, 7 September, 2026

Enough of this nonsense, what are you; a donkey!

The European Union is making some rather obvious political errors of judgement at present, all centered around the foreign policy definition they are following, with regards to Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

We don't want to get involved in this at the moment as it spills over into issues with the English Parliament and generally just creates an unpleasant situation that isn't a necessary part of what we are doing at present. Save to say that the public will accept definitions of foreign policy which are reasonable, and sensible. It isn't true that just because you perceieve a foreign policy meaning that that meaning will automatically land kindly in the public sentiment in useful form.

Ultimately, we would prefer the European Union and the English Parliament center its foreign policy definition on a reasonable reading and assessment of the situation and not simply come to rely on what some party political policy wonk feels the public will soak up as a modal message.

The Russian Federation is directly adjacent to the European Union as is Ukraine, there should be no issues with how the European Union and Russian Federation interact with the wider region, it is in your collective interests to be openly non-confrontational and centered politically on solutions rather than long-standing grievances.

We have already passed our opinion on the dangers of using the security environment to service specific political agendas and demands, our opinion is, don't do that.

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Closure of German General in St. Petersburg and Goethe centers: Russia's response

Russian Foreign Ministry
 

MOSCOW, September 7. /TASS/. In response to Germany's unfriendly actions, Russia is closing the German Consulate General in St. Petersburg and the Goethe cultural centers, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

TASS has compiled the main details of Russia's retaliatory measures.

Measures taken

– In connection with Germany's unfriendly actions to close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn and the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin, the German Charge d'Affaires in Moscow has been informed of retaliatory measures, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

– Russia is revoking its consent to the operation of the German Consulate General in St. Petersburg.

– It must cease operations no later than September 18, and all its employees must leave Russia.

– Furthermore, Russia is closing the German Goethe Cultural Center.

– Its employees have been ordered to leave the country by September 13.

Germany's Responsibility

– The head of the German diplomatic mission received corresponding notes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

– The Foreign Ministry stated that responsibility for the consequences of the latest round of escalation in bilateral relations lies entirely with the German government.

Worsening Relations

– On September 1, the German government officially placed responsibility for the drone incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August on Russia and announced the cessation of the Russian House, the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn, and other measures.

– Russia’s ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev resolutely rejected all accusations put forward by Germany, calling them unsubstantiated and absurd. The diplomat reported that the Russian House staff are required to leave Germany within seven days.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out that Germany's new anti-Russian decisions, taken under the pretext of the drone incident at Leipzig Airport, are yet another grave mistake by the German authorities, contrary to the interests of their people. In his opinion, these decisions are linked to the domestic political situation in that country and, in particular, the difficult situation of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Courtesy of TASS, the Russian Agency.

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The State of the Nationalists.

We have today, Monday 07th September 2026, taken the step of banning the English and Welsh 'Reform' quasi-political movement from this site, we will not be publishing any content produced by the 'reform' political party, nor engaging in any activity which promotes the 'reform' political party. We have taken this action due to the practice of 'reform' accepting donations from foreign sources or providing an environment in which funding from foreign sources is encouraged or normalised, a political practice which is illegal under UK election law.

We note the frequency with which the 'reform' political party have made statements encouraging the domestic UK populace to support and provide psychological aid for foreign political organisations, specifically the US 'republican' movement, an organisation which is also a banned group.

We remind others that a Government that abducts, illegally, foreign heads of state, or murders or claims to have murdered a foreign head of state, is an enemy of Democracy not a friend. Here at the Peace, we have a naturally existing tendency to make our judgements based on skill, political trade-craft and experience, qualities we feel some small part of the populace of Democracies have lost or had taken away from them.

We note the likelihood that private sector media organisations, especially those with a U.S. social media presence, are likely culprits, at this point specifically the U.S. Sky News Corporation, GBNews, Times Radio and Talk Radio. Sky News is already banned here. GBNews is a parasitic fascist far-right sympathising so-called media organisation. Times Radio is part of the Murdoch owned News International (owner of the US Registered Sky News Corporation) and Talk Radio, another far-right leaning so-called media Murdoch organisation with highly dubious published content.

Three out of the four of these organisation are actively engaged in disseminating far-right wing ideologies and psychologically dubious content. Almost all of the content disseminated by those organisations is stridently anti-socialist and anti-regulative. Almost all of the content those organisations publish is factually incorrect or laced with far right wing bias and deception. It is hardly surprising that the United Kingdom spends so little of its time being productive when the media environment is filled up with completely useless political content that serves no public purpose whatsoever, and encourages the public to believe in political fairy tales, tall stories and things which are obviously and routinely untrue.

I am particularly concerned with one aspect of far right behaviour, and that is that Socialists believe that debate is the best way to settle difference of opinion, and that everybody is reasonable in a fairly held democratic contest, however, what I am seeing looks more like a foreign agenda being forcefully, and violently, enforced in a territory that has no appetite for the accepting of those values.

Here at the Peace, American political and cultural authoritarianism is not something we fear, nor are surprised with, authoritarianism is bound to rear its ugly head if the person whom occupies the American seat of Government has an authoritarian and fundamentalist personality. 

 

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Saturday, 5 September, 2026

The World is Too Big to be U.

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The Equal Earth map projection map of The World.

Courtesy of Geocart map projection software, via Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia.

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UN General Assembly adopts new world map that shows Africa's true size.

The Equal Earth projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical world map projection created in 2018 by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson.

Key Features

  • True relative sizes: It shows continents and oceans at their actual sizes compared to one another, unlike the traditional Mercator map.

  • Balanced appearance: It is inspired by the Robinson projection but fixes its size distortions while keeping a visually pleasing, globe-like shape.

  • Straight parallels: Lines of latitude are straight, making it easy to see how far north or south a place is from the equator. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Recent Developments

The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.

This global shift promotes the Equal Earth projection to correct historical size biases that enlarged northern regions like Europe and North America while shrinking Africa and other tropical areas.

If you'd like, I can share more details on how the mathematical equations work or compare it specifically to the Mercator and Gall-Peters projections.

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Friday, 4 September, 2026

A most Cordial Autumn day.

So we consider this video proof that the 'reform' movement is fundamentally corrupt from the top down, Mr Farage has a long history of exploiting the public and standing against the actual and very real interests of the British people, he is effectively a foreign state actor masquerading as whatever he thinks will make him popular in the public mind, for the purposes of enabling some sense of British placement on the World stage that is far from clear at this point, he has, in himself, at least admitted to a personal ideology of Nationalism and we all know where that leads. At the moment Mr Farage is attempting to say that he didn't receive any money at the end of this investigation, but that is not his claim to make, the investigative team involved here made that decision, not Mr Farage.

So here we have the central concept, if you want to stand in politics and create a new Nationalist political party in the United Kingdom, you simply travel to the United States and get promises of funding from donars whom operate in that legal space, and they will pay for the formation of that political party. If you want to steer and encourage the public to support the new political party, you simply pay for a poll that tells the public that the new political party will win in any election, because the public feel that 'new' way!

To the public at large, I have a question.

Does money equate directly to power?

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Tuesday, 1 September, 2026

One must maintain a summer, even in the middle of winter.

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