Political map of the future as per George Orwell

Update to readers:

I have been keeping new podcast episodes on the backburner since the run-up to the November election.

I felt at the time that carrying-on as if everything was “normal” was just somehow frivolous and…wrong.

So for the last three months of 2024 I focussed on political posts, blogs, and essays, hoping to exert a tiny bit of positive influence from my battered old keyboard up the back of a mountain.

Unfortunately, over 75 million Americans preferred to give their vote to someone who embodies the very worst in us.

We are two weeks out from the inauguration of a man who I believe is an authoritarian at best, and an outright fascist at worst.

He is speaking of internment camps.  He is speaking of the annexation of sovereign states and territories.

His campaign was funded by a multi-billionaire – an avowed technocrat – who is now interfering in European politics by supplying oxygen to the far right.

These people want to burn the whole thing down, so they can rise from the ashes as “strongmen” able to “bring order”.

Pre-election, I published and shared the information I had gathered over many years regarding the plastic identity of fake “hillbilly” J. D. Vance and his technocratic groomers.

There are no more alarm bells left to ring.

I will return to publishing podcasts this week, mainly out of respect to the Patrons who have put their money where their mouth is, and decided that independent researchers, historians, and journalists are our only hope for the foreseeable future.

Thanks are not enough, but thanks.

I cannot recommend strongly enough that every believer in democracy begin making themselves fascism-resilient:

1) In terms of continued access to evidence-based journalism and education.

2) In terms of protecting their privacy, digital footprint and general internet access for community building and community preservation.

And I hope for the love of all that’s good and decent in this world, that everyone can have a good hearty laugh at my expense in four years time, as they recall my foolish and paranoid scaremongering.