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By P W Laurie On Friday, December 18th, 2020
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Prohibition And Covid-19; Part Four: An historical context; social engineering for grabbing power

In this series, we are discussing the comparisons to be made between the economic blockade using the pretext of “Covid-19”, and Prohibition of 1920s USA. Fabian Franklin, writing from the period, said that a More...

By P W Laurie On Friday, December 4th, 2020
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Prohibition And Covid-19; Part Three: “How the Amendment was Put Through”; the playbook for getting unwanted legislation

In his book, What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin dedicates a chapter (iv) to explaining that the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution come about because lawmakers in the Federal and State More...

By P W Laurie On Sunday, November 29th, 2020
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Prohibition and Covid-19; Part Two: the Great Reset is Socialism

It’s very important to talk about those measures taken by UK Government, using the pretext of a hoaxed pandemic, in the correct terms. There is no lockdown in response to a public health emergency. This is a pretence. More...

By P W Laurie On Monday, November 23rd, 2020
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Prohibition and Covid-19; Part One: War on the People

Last week, UK Government announced defence spending that would not only make up a shortfall in the military’s equipment budget, but allows for major investment in non traditional areas of “defence”. The Guardian More...

By P W Laurie On Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
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Prohibition and Covid-19; Introduction, with an exploration of the embarrassment of hallowed US Constitution

The intention is to produce a series of articles reviewing literature written about the Prohibition (of the sale, production, importation and transportation of alcohol), in the 1920s and the early 30s, in the United More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
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The Coronation (featuring Mi7’s Winnie the Pooh), and British Israelism (the bane of the world) and Victorian Medievalism (that still ruins our lives)

With all the anticipated violent and passionate, fit-for-a-tin-pot-dictatorship devotional “hurrah-ing” and “hallelujah-ing” by the public to happen next Saturday, what with the demographic most likely More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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“How to turn OFF the Government’s ‘armageddon’ emergency alert”

The title is partially the Daily Mail’s, as attested to by its sensationalist idiocy. It would continue “…that is set to sound on every smartphone in the UK at 3pm this Sunday”, but the reader probably More...

By P W Laurie On Friday, November 12th, 2021
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The NHS: The Machine Stops

When it comes to prose as part of the Cambridge A-level syllabus (for instance), the only survivor from the equivalent course that one might have encountered at the end of the ‘80s is E M Forster. In fact, E M More...

By P W Laurie On Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
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Latest audience, future work – updated

Further to a recent piece of housekeeping (the most important parts of which are retained below), here is a small addendum detailing work to come (which is very useful to me at the risk of the reader finding it More...

By P W Laurie On Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
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THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein

The reader will find below extracts from that book-within-a-book of Orwell’s (not Goldstein’s) creation in Nineteen Eighty Four. Orwell’s problem with IngSoc, it appears, is that old chestnut: More...