Any suggestions / ideas / thoughts on this forum as to the way forward?

Message from Richie via FB -

Good morning. Firstly, I never uploaded Sunday View to Podomatic, YouTube etc yesterday, because it was appalling. A throat infection left me barely able to speak, so I rushed through the running order and finished the show in 20 minutes. I deleted it immediately. I should have said something. I'm sorry about that. 

My voice is still pretty rough, so I'm going to rest it today. Otherwise I feel fine, just a bit knackered. However, there's something I need to say, or to share. Before I do though, I want to make it clear that I am not here for your sympathy or your praise. I want neither. This isn't a case of sadfishing. That's what they call it right, when narcissists emote on social media to draw compliments and attract attention? What a cesspool...

I'm not sure if I can carry on producing the radio show in the current climate, for much longer. Something I've always loved doing, has become utterly joyless. For more than six months now, I've been covering Covid and nothing else. It has been tremendously challenging, trying to find fresh angles and approaches, across five live radio shows a week. It's taken a big toll on me. I'm shattered. It feels like I have been having the same conversation over and over and over again. Groundhog Day doesn't come close. And there's no end to it in sight.

Commercial presenters have producers and editors to lighten the load. Typically, a commercial presenter is handed an information sheet by a producer, containing information on the guest(s) and talking points. Most of the work is done for you. In the case of The RA Show, I do it all. It's relentless. Coping with the workload pre Covid, when I was covering a multitude of subjects, was always challenging, but as I said, I loved it. Now it has become a chore, something I have come to resent. Again, I don't want or need your sympathy or your praise. I have no time for that nonsense whatsoever. I'm just levelling with you.

Ironically, if it wasn't for Covid, I'd be on the road now. Plans for a UK tour of small theatres was at a fairly advanced stage last Winter. You'll remember me mentioning this on the show around Christmas last year. That's unlikely to ever happen now. I was looking forward to breaking off from the radio show, to do that and then return to the radio reinvigorated and full of new ideas. Ho hum. Tough sh*t Paddy.

So what's the point of this? That's a fair question. I suppose I'm giving you a heads up really, a bit of notice that one of these days I'm going to get up and decide that's it. There won't be any notice or long goodbyes. That's the way I've always been. Look, I've featured Ivy league scientists, doctors, academics, politicians and businessmen and women, who have pulled apart the government's virus lies. I cannot keep doing that day in and day out. There's nothing left to say, is there?

A respiratory infection that is harmless to the vast majority of people, is being used as the excuse to create a nightmarish world, a technocratic dystopian society, where everything we do is strictly controlled, from cradle to grave. And by everything I mean everything. What you do, what you say, what you think, where you go, who you are with, all of it monitored and controlled by the long-planned social credit model, which can be observed in China now. You know this. I know this. But the question is, how long to sing this song?

I've got some really good guests lined up this week. Beyond that, I don't know. Before doing one (walking away), as they say here in the North West, I would close down the bank/Paypal thingy's. I'll spend the rest of my life in gratitude to those of you who have supported it, believe me. So again and please read this bit carefully, I don't post this for your sympathy or compliments. Please understand that. Nor do I post it, to elicit appeals for me to stick around. I suppose I'm saying that something has to change and when it does, it'll be sudden.
Have a good Monday and join me tomorrow at 5 on the usual channels.

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Good write up from the telegraph. However, you’ve got to ask the question....why is the mainstream media now speaking out the truth ? when we all know they are all controlled by the people behind this evil agenda.

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Britain's Covid response is utterly mad – here are 10 reasons why
There is no reasonable scientific or medical justification for lockdowns, convoluted social distancing rules, masks or travel restrictions

DR JOHN LEE
29 October 2020 • 12:54pm
Dr John Lee
How did we come to this?

This year, like many years, there’s a new respiratory virus on the block. But this year, unlike any year ever before, the world has gone mad. Governments around the world have decided that their remit extends to micromanaging risk on behalf of everybody, for just about everything: where and when you can travel, what you must wear, what you can buy. Even in your own home, for goodness sake, amongst your own family, the state thinks it is “right” to regulate who you mix with, who you can see and who you can touch.

How did we come to this? Could such an approach ever be regarded as genuinely reasonable? To be honest, I think that it would be a stretch under any circumstances. But I could envisage a situation where a new pathogen was so nasty – say highly transmissible and reliably killing 30 per cent of people of all ages that it infected – that the very fabric of society would be at stake unless the state acted decisively.

But even in such dire circumstances the state would need to understand very clearly indeed what it was doing, in order to be absolutely sure that compelling populations to act in one way or another would definitely cause less harm than giving people the facts and letting them make their own decisions about risk. After all, what other justification could there reasonably be for trying to restrictively rewrite the rulebook of human interaction?

Of course, this has been tried before for all sorts of ideological reasons, and resulted in a 100 per cent track record of failure and disaster; responsible for untold misery, suffering, tragedy and deaths. One would have thought that there is a lesson there somewhere. Suffice it to say that Covid is orders of magnitude away from causing the level of societal damage that would justify even considering such a response.

Current consensus on the infection fatality rate (which has been continually falling as better data arrives) is 0.2 per cent. When we look back at this period any visible mortality signal will be well within the envelope of the last 30 years when deaths caused by lockdown are excluded. The average age of death from Covid is actually above the average age of death from all causes.

So why are governments around the world persisting in, and indeed elaborating, responses that are progressively being seen, as evidence accumulates, to be fundamentally wrong?

You don’t have to listen too hard to hear the sound of many, many pigeons coming home to roost simultaneously. I think this is why it has been so hard to explain what is happening, and why so many people remain deeply unsure as to what the right course of action should be. Any given article or interview tends to deal with only one or two key points, leaving so many unanswered questions for most people that doubt and confusion fill the gaps. Neither governments nor their advisors seem able to see the big picture, let alone explain it. So here is my attempt to assemble, in one place, the most important of the very many drivers of the Covid response.

1. Preconceptions
Current ideas about how to “control” viruses are based on Spanish flu, smallpox, SARS, MERS, HIV, influenza and Ebola, among others. This coronavirus isn’t the same as any of them. The idea of “controlling” an airborne, easily transmissible virus on a population basis, beloved of “public health” “experts”, is largely myth, based on mediocre observational or questionnaire-based studies using unverified and unverifiable methods.

2. Incorrect framing
Television pictures from China, Italy and New York painted a picture of a deadly new global plague and were highly instrumental in determining the initial response. But TV pictures are highly selective and often unrepresentative, as was the case with coronavirus. Months ago, real-world evidence conclusively disproved initial perceptions of this virus, yet the initial framing still seems to be a key driver of government responses around the world.

3. Fear
It is a strong and evolutionarily valuable human emotion. Broadcast and social media are effective in maintaining it, especially with government backing aimed at generating the “correct” reactions from people. Written media is often more nuanced and thoughtful, but narrower in appeal, and slower to take effect. It has struggled to balance the broadcast narrative, which has thrived on highly selective presentation of information.

4. Poor quality data
The prerequisite for our current shambles of rubbish-in, rubbish-out, affecting all areas of our understanding of Covid. Suspension of peer review in the name of speed has removed a crucial quality control, undermining much research in the field and encouraging false consensus.

5. Excessive risk aversion
The anti-scientific Precautionary Principle has become so entrenched in public decision-making that it seems almost normal to respond to an unquantified threat with responses that have had no prior assessment for either effectiveness or harm.

6. Suppression of debate
In their eagerness to entrench the “right” course of action, governments have radically reduced the chances of it being found by suppressing contrary views. There is also an inability to have a grown-up and measured public conversation about human lifespan, illness and death. What does “saving lives” actually mean? Whose lives, and saved for what? And where is the discussion about quality of life? Old people do die, and we all are, in fact, more susceptible to dying of everything with advancing age. Covid is no exception to this.

7. Flawed testing
Detailed technical problems with the rapid development and mass rollout of tests (by technicians who are often marginally trained), without a sound biological understanding of the tests’ basis or meaning. Few are armed with the knowledge needed to understand (among other things) the technical subtleties of PCR or antibody tests, the meaning (if any) of weak positives, the relevance of antibodies versus T-cell reactions, the statistical invalidities of test and trace, the inadequacies of death certification, or the details of why get-out-of-jail-via-vaccination has such a low probability of success. These details matter.

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8. Perpetually moving goalposts
Save the NHS, save lives, reduce “cases”, reduce positive tests, “control” the virus….

9. Focus on a single threat
And the virtual exclusion of everything else. How “public health” doctors can claim to be protecting “public health” with this approach seems incomprehensible, as well as being medically negligent.

10. Skewed motives
Political desire to be seen to be taking action. Media-driven and short-term, taking action is apparently politically desirable even if it means subjecting entire populations to experimental, unverifiable, oppressive methods of viral “control”. This also mirrors a cultural divide in medicine between interventionists and nihilists.

There are probably more drivers of the Covid response that could be listed, but you can see the many-tentacled head of the medusa that is petrifying society.  It seems pretty clear that if we are asked to make major sacrifices there should be solid, quantifiable evidence of benefit to justify them. Unfortunately the solid, quantifiable evidence of benefit of the current approach to Covid simply does not exist.

The secrecy surrounding the basis for the government’s decisions speaks volumes. In fact, real-world data suggests that the harms caused by current actions outweigh the benefits when measured even in terms of deaths, and massively outweigh the benefits when measured in terms of quality of life – which, after all, is central to the human experience at all ages.

How can we know what would have happened if we had never locked down? The simple answer is that, for our particular circumstances, we cannot know for sure. But countries which have not enforced lockdowns, of which Sweden is the nearest, have not been noticeable outliers in terms of deaths or illness.

More importantly, by allowing the virus to spread in the way that viruses do, these places are now in a much better position than countries which made major economic sacrifices, but still have to face the virus. Lockdowns may (perhaps) slow down slightly our arrival at herd immunity (through exposure of a large enough proportion of the population), but we will all get there in the end.

The only differences will be the extent of the own goals caused along the way by restrictions. Countries that have isolated themselves, such as New Zealand, will have to face the virus in due course or remain isolated from the world (their only get-out-of-jail-free card would be an effective vaccine). Yet the costs of such isolation seem highly suspect, since data suggests that very few cases of Covid are caught or spread by travellers. This virus has already circled the globe while we have been largely staying put. So we might as well start travelling again, since the risks, in a majority of countries, are rather similar.

So how can we find the right way forward? Revocation of progressively inappropriate emergency powers, with restoration of parliamentary scrutiny, accountability, transparency and debate must be part of it, along with involvement of a more diverse base of scientific and medical advisors.

If the NHS is struggling for capacity – which is debatable, and anyway substantially due to self-imposed rules related to “controlling” Covid – then sort it out: build more capacity, and remind NHS workers that they are there to look after the sick.

The bottom line is that, at the present time, there is no reasonable scientific or medical justification for lockdowns, convoluted social distancing rules, masks, travel restrictions, quarantines or most of the rest of the flotsam that has attached itself to the Covid response. The sky is not falling. And the more people who understand the multifaceted reasons why this is the case, the sooner we will all get our lives back.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comme...1604078118

does serve or has served as a director, partner, associate, advisor, member, or trustee of these UNITED STATES & INTERNATIONAL companies and organizations:

1. Bill Clinton's 73rd/Vernon Jordan's 84th joint bday party Aug. 2019 [co-host with Lady Lynn]
   
2. Boao Forum for Asia 2014 [delegate]
   
3. BT Funds Management No.2 Ltd - Australia / plus branch in New Zealand
   
4. La Centrale Finanziaria - Italy
   
5. Clinton Global Initiative
   
6. Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
   
7. de Rothschild Frères  [in 1967 de Rothschild Frères became Banque Rothschild, before being nationalized as Compagnie Européenne de Banque]
   
8. Banque Rothschild  [see above]
   
9. Rothschild & Cie Banque  [successor company to Banque Rothschild/de Rothschild Frères]
   
10. The Elephant Family [hon Life Patron]
    
11. Board of Patrons of the European Association for Banking History e.V. ('eabh') - Germany
    
12. FirstMark Holdings LLC
    
13. International Advisory Board of Hollinger International
    
14. Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine - Australia
    
15. IMG Worldwide Inc
    
16. McCain Institute for International Leadership [chairman of the Kissinger Fellowship]
    
17. ::: Sedona Forum 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 [McCain Institute] [participant]
    
18. International Board of Governors of the Peres Center for Peace & Innovation - Israel
    
19. NM Rothschild Australia Holdings Pty Limited
    
20. NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Limited
    
21. NM Rothschild China Holding AG
    
22. NM Rothschild & Sons (Hong Kong) Limited
    
23. River House Co-op (River House Realty Co Inc) [shareholder/resident only. From May 2000–Feb 2019]
    
24. Rothschild Bank AG (Zurich)
    
25. Rothschild & Co Holding AG  [formerly Rothschild Holding AG] - Switzerland
    
26. Rothschild Concordia AG - Switzerland
    
27. Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG - Switzerland
    
28. ::: Shield Holdings (Guernsey) Ltd [a wholly owned subsidiary of Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG. Shield Holdings (Guernsey) Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with Lynn Forester's FirstMark Communications Europe SA]
    
29. Rothschild North America Inc
    
30. Rothschild Private Trust Holdings AG - Switzerland
    
31. Advisory Board of the Vijay Amritraj Foundation
    
32. Weather Central, LP
    
33. Weizmann Institute of Science
    
34. Award for Distinguished Leadership in Global Capital Markets Meeting/Yale School of Management [attendee]
    

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

does serve or has served as a director, partner, associate, advisor, member, or trustee of these UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND companies and organizations:

1. Ascott Farms Ltd
   
2. International Advisory Council of Asia House
   
3. Broadband Ltd
   
4. 'Dance of the Decades' June 2000 at Windsor Castle
   
5. Democrats Abroad UK
   
6. Dueldrama Ltd
   
7. The Economist Newspaper Ltd
   
8. EL Rothschild LLC/Ltd
   
9. ELR Holdings Ltd
   
10. Eranda Rothschild Foundation
    
11. FirstMark Communications Ltd
    
12. FirstMark Communications Ireland Ltd
    
13. FirstMark Communications Services Europe Ltd
    
14. Fund for Inclusive Prosperity
    
15. Hillary Clinton Reception at The Orangery, Kensington Gardens July 2003 [Lady Lynn hosted. It was the launch party for Hillary's memoirs, Living History]
    
16. International Institute for Strategic Studies
    
17. Liberal Jewish Synagogue - St John's Wood
    
18. Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000
    
19. Outward Bound Global
    
20. The Outward Bound Trust
    
21. Policy Network and Communications Ltd  [Lynn on the board; husband supplied funding]
    
22. R Chocolate Ltd
    
23. Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House)
    
24. Tate Foundation  [also - as seen below - Tate Americas Foundation]
    
25. The Nov. 2000 wedding of Lynn & Evelyn de Rothschild
    

does serve or has served as a director, partner, associate, advisor, member, or trustee of these UNITED STATES & INTERNATIONAL companies and organizations: 

1. Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
   
2. American Bar Association
   
3. Board of Advisors of Americans Elect 2012
   
4. aSmallWorld [club member. the club's parent company was JCR ACW Holdings, LLC]
   
5. Asphalt Green
   
6. Association of the Bar in New York State
   
7. Baker Tilly Investment Advisors > which became Bronfman EL Rothschild LP
   
8. Barbara Amiel Baroness Black's 60th birthday party Dec 2000
   
9. Benake LP
   
10. Bill Clinton's 73rd/Vernon Jordan's 84th joint bday party Aug. 2019 [co-host with Sir Evelyn]
    
11. Boao Forum for Asia 2014 [delegate]
    
12. FieldFresh Foods Pvt Ltd  [formerly known as Bharti Del Monte India Pvt Ltd]
    
13. Bilderberg Meeting  [participant]
    
14. The National Board of Advisors of The Children's Scholarship Fund
    
15. Campaign for America's Children  [an offshoot of The Children's Scholarship Fund]
    
16. Celcor Inc
    
17. CelluFone Corporation [see pp.86 & here]
    
18. Advisory Board, Americas, of Christie's International Plc
    
19. Clinton Global Initiative
    
20. Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism U.S. Inc [cofounder]
    
21. Council for Inclusive Capitalism [founder]
    
22. ::: Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism ['EPIC' - created by the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism and EY]
    
23. International Advisory Board of Columbia University School of Law
    
24. The Clinton Administration's Corporate Commission on Educational Technology [vice-chair]
    
25. The Council on Foreign Relations 'CFR' [member] | CFR Corporate Affairs and Development Committee | CFR Task Force on Public Diplomacy
    
26. The Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, 2008
    
27. The Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue of Deutsche Bank
    
28. The Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank
    
29. ELR Holdings LLC [founder]
    
30. Emerging Link Conferences 1990, 1991 [representative]
    
31. Estée Lauder Companies Inc
    
32. Advisory Board of FCLTGlobal
    
33. The Financial Access Initiative Advisors Group
    
34. FirstMark Communications Europe SA - Luxembourg previously FirstMark Communications Europe S.C.A.
    
35. ::: which later became LNG Holdings SA
    
36. FirstMark Communications International LLC
    
37. FirstMark Communications International II LLC [?]
    
38. FirstMark Communications Latin America LLC [?]
    
39. FirstMark Fiber Holdings LLC [?]
    
40. FirstMark Holdings Inc / FirstMark Holdings LLC
    
41. The Foreign Policy Association
    
42. Friends of FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano)
    
43. General Instrument Corp  [formerly known as GI Corp / GI Delaware and NextLevel Systems Inc]
    
44. Gender Equality Roundtable at the UN General Assembly [co-chair]
    
45. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
    
46. Hand in Hand International
    
47. Henry Jackson Initiative on Inclusive Capitalism
    
48. Inclusive Capital Partners LP / Inclusive Capital Partners Spring Fund LP ('In-Cap')
    
49. The ITU Regional Development Conference 1992  [representative]
    
50. Just Capital Foundation Inc
    
51. Lauder (Estee) Cosmetics Inc
    
52. Board of Trustees of the McCain Institute for International Leadership
    
53. ::: Sedona Forum 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 [McCain Institute] [participant]
    
54. Million Air, Inc
    
55. ::: Million Air Charter
    
56. ::: Million Air Teterboro
    
57. ::: Million Air Charter Teterboro (formerly General Aviation Flying Service, Inc)
    
58. ::: Long Beach Million Air, Inc [the Million Air companies are owned & operated by Lynn's brother, Ken Forester, rather than by Lynn herself, but in 1998 a Lease Agreement was signed between Million Air, Inc and his sister Lynn's company, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp, AND Million Air is listed in Ghislaine's Black Book]
    
59. Lynn Forester's 1983 wedding to Andrew Stein
    
60. Mobile Satellite Corp
    
61. Advisory Council of Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
    
62. Corporate Advisory Board of The National Commission on Children
    
63. President Clinton's US Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, Inc
    
64. The 1992 Clinton Campaign's Telecommunications Advisory Committee
    
65. Netwave, Inc
    
66. New York City Scholarship Fund [chair]
    
67. New York City Outward Bound Center
    
68. Next Level Communications Inc
    
69. Peterson Institute for International Economics
    
70. River House Co-op (River House Realty Co Inc) [shareholder/resident only. From May 2000–Feb 2019]
    
71. Sen Ted Kennedy private dinner to retire his campaign debt Oct 1995 [attendee]
    
72. US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson's Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB)
    
73. Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP  [an 'Associate' from 1980-1984]
    
74. The Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc [NYC chair]
    
75. Starwood Property Trust Inc
    
76. Stein for Congress Committee [Lynn was married to Andrew J Stein 1983-1993]
    
77. Tate Americas Foundation, formerly American Patrons of Tate  [also - as seen above - Tate Foundation UK]
    
78. Together Foundation
    
79. Tony Elumelu Foundation - Africa
    
80. TPI Communications International, Inc.
    
81. United Nations Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors
    
82. 5th United Nations World Television Forum November 2000 [participant]
    
83. Weather Central, LP
    
84. White House Conference on the New Economy April 2000 [participant]
    

* FirstMark Communications Europe S.C.A. has been associated with the following subsidiaries:

1. Direct Telecom SA - Luxembourg
   
2. FirstMark Communications Ltd - UK
   
3. FirstMark Communications Austria GmBH
   
4. FirstMark Communications Belgium, Sprl
   
5. FirstMark Communications Denmark A/S
   
6. FirstMark Communications Deutschland GmbH a/k/a FirstMark Germany
   
7. FirstMark Communications Deutschland Holdings GmbH
   
8. FirstMark Communicaciones Espana S.L. a/k/a FirstMark Communications Spain SL
   
9. FirstMark Communications Finland Oy
   
10. FirstMark Communications France Sarl
    
11. FirstMark Communications Hungary
    
12. FirstMark Communications Ireland Ltd
    
13. FirstMark Communications Italy Srl
    
14. FirstMark Communications Luxembourg Sarl
    
15. FirstMark Communications Netherlands BV
    
16. FirstMark Communications Netz GmbH - Germany
    
17. FirstMark CD GmBH
    
18. FirstMark Communications Norway
    
19. FirstMark Communications Poland
    
20. FirstMark Communications Portugal
    
21. FirstMark Communications Services Europe Ltd
    
22. FirstMark Communications Switzerland GmbH
    
23. LambdaNet Communications France SAS
    
24. LambdaNet Communications Deutschland GmbH
    
25. Teleweb Comunicacoes Interactivas SA - Portugal
    

 FirstMark Communications Latin America LLC has been associated with the following subsidiaries:

1. FirstMark Communications Colombia SA
   
2. FirstMark Communications El Salvador SA
   
3. FirstMark Holding Do Brasil
   
4. FirstMark Holdings Peru SRL
   
5. FMCLA Marketing & Distribution LLC
   
6. FMCLA Online LLC
   
7. FMCLA Strategic Planning LLC
   
8. FMCLA Technical Services LLC
   

* FirstMark Holdings LLC. FirstMark Holdings LLC has an advisory board. Its members are Vernon Jordan; Dr Henry Kissinger; Dr Nathan Myhrvold; Bert Roberts; Sir Evelyn de Rothschild; and Bernard Smedley.




Lord Jacob Rothschild

does serve of has served as a director, partner, associate, advisor, fellow, member, or trustee of these UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND & CHANNEL ISLANDS companies and organizations:

1. Agricultural Research Council
   
2. Ailsa Investment Trust Plc
   
3. The Advisory Board of the Arcadia Fund
   
4. Alternative Investment Partnerships Ltd
   
5. Arrow Charitable Trust  [trustee]
   
6. The Board of Management of the Arts & Humanities Research Board  ['AHRB']
   
7. Visitors Committee of the Ashmolean Museum
   
8. Auction Ads Ltd
   
9. Beder Trust Ltd
   
10. International Advisory Board of the Blackstone Group  [Lord Jacob has also served on the board of directors of Blackstone Group Management LLC - see below]
    
11. British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc  [BSkyB Group Plc]
    
12. Butlers Wharf Ltd - property development project [incomplete records make it unclear whether Lord Jacob sat on the board; nevertheless he was a partner in the venture with Lord Alistair McAlpine and Sir Terence Conran]
    
13. Butrint Foundation Ltd  [UK registered, operates in Albania]
    
14. Cambridge Associates  ['Client Investor']
    
15. C A Participation Ventures Ltd
    
16. Prince Charles & Camilla's March 1998 VIP weekend party at Sandringham [attendee]
    
17. Prince Charles' 50th birthday party at Spencer House/Chopin recital Nov. 1998 [co-organiser & attendee]
    
18. Cirenco Ltd
    
19. Clickmango.com [Jacob Rothschild has not sat on the board; however he has been an investor]
    
20. Clifton Nurseries Ltd
    
21. Clifton Nurseries (Holdings) Ltd
    
22. The Club of Three  [participant]
    
23. Colefax Group Plc
    
24. Crocus.co.uk Ltd
    
25. Courtauld Institute of Art
    
26. The Council of the Duchy of Cornwall
    
27. 'Dance of the Decades' June 2000 at Windsor Castle
    
28. East River Co Ltd [Lord Jacob Rothschild is not a non-exec director; however, he is a 'person with significant control']
    
29. Elton John concert at Somerset House for SH & ARK July 2002 [Lord Jacob Rothschild & Lily Safra co-hosted]
    
30. European Economic Round Table at Waddesdon Manor, Sept 23, 2002 [co-host & participant] 
    
31. Eythrope Wine Ltd [Lord Jacob Rothschild is not a non-exec director; however, he is a 'person with significant control']
    
32. The Finance and Trading Group [co-owner]
    
33. Five Arrows Ltd
    
34. Five Arrows Investments Ltd
    
35. Future of Russia Foundation
    
36. Gilbert Collection Trust
    
37. Gilbert Trust for the Arts [formerly the Heather Trust for the Arts]
    
38. Global Asset Management Ltd, 'GAM' [co-founder & co-owner]
    
39. Hampton Site Co
    
40. Hermitage Development Trust ['oversees the Hermitage Rooms museum in Somerset House']
    
41. The Main Committee of the Honours Selection Committees
    
42. The Arts and Media Committee (Honours Selection Committees)
    
43. Hoylake Investments Plc [co-investor] ['Hoylake is a subsidiary of Anglo Group Plc']
    
44. Icarsan Ltd
    
45. The Jury of the Illuminated River International Design Competition
    
46. Institute for Jewish Policy Research [formerly the Institute for Jewish Affairs]
    
47. International Growth & Value Fund  [formerly Value Realisation Trust Ltd]
    
48. International Investment Trust Company of Jersey
    
49. It's Fashion  [2001 fundraiser. Lord Jacob was one of three or four chairs]
    
50. Jacob Rothschild & Partners Ltd
    
51. JNR (UK) Ltd
    
52. John McCain presidential fundraiser at Spencer House [co-hosted with his son, Nat Rothschild]
    
53. J Rothschild Group (Guernsey) Ltd  [Jacob Rothschild is both founder & the listed Beneficiary]
    
54. J Rothschild Investments Ltd
    
55. The J Rothschild Name Co Ltd
    
56. J Rothschild Services Ltd
    
57. J Rothschild, Wolfensohn & Co
    
58. JRRC LLP
    
59. Kanonas Ltd
    
60. Leslie and Godwin (Holdings)
    
61. Life Assurance Holding Corp [co-founder]
    
62. Loot [it's unclear if Jacob Rothschild has sat on the board; however he has been an investor. 'Loot also has operations in NY, Ireland, India & Pakistan']
    
63. Lord Rothschild and Family Ltd
    
64. Lower Blackgrove Farm Ltd
    
65. Metropolitan Estate and Property Corp
    
66. MGt Plc [investor only via RIT Capital Partners Plc]
    
67. Nameco Alternate 1 Ltd
    
68. Nameco Alternate 2 Ltd
    
69. The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery, London
    
70. National Heritage Memorial Fund
    
71. Heritage Lottery Fund  [has the same trustees as the Memorial Fund]
    
72. NM Rothschild & Sons [partner] / NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd [from 1970 (Lord Jacob resigned in 1980)]
    
73. NR2 Ventures LLP
    
74. Old Timeload Ltd  [formerly Old Scoot Ltd; Old Loot Ltd; LootLab Ltd; Loot Ltd]
    
75. The Other Club [member]
    
76. Pavilion Capital Partners LLP ['llp designated member']
    
77. Portland Capital LLP
    
78. Porto Montenegro [co-investor but not a non-exec director]
    
79. Prince Andrew's 40th bday party Feb 2000 [attendee]
    
80. Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation
    
81. Renshaw Bay (UK) Ltd
    
82. ::: Charterhouse J Rothschild Plc and J Rothschild Holdings Plc [Charterhouse J Rothschild Plc was created from the merger of RIT and Northern Plc, with the Charterhouse Group PLC, in November 1983. Charterhouse J Rothschild Plc subsequently became J Rothschild Holdings Plc]
    
83. Rothschild Continuation Ltd ['RCL']
    
84. Rothschild Investment Trust [chair]
    
85. ::: which became RIT Capital Partners Plc
    
86. ::: RIT formerly controlled Dawnay Day
    
87. ::: RIT Capital Partners Plc owns the lease to Spencer House
    
88. Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe)
    
89. Rothschild Foundation [formerly The Alice Trust]
    
90. ::: Rothschild Waddesdon Ltd [a/k/a Rothschild Waddesdon Limited Group]
    
91. ::: Five Arrows Hotel [part of Waddesdon Trading. The Hotel and Private Events business ... are managed by the trading company Rothschild Waddesdon Ltd]
    
92. ::: Waddesdon Wine Ltd [Lord Jacob Rothschild, while not a non-exec director, is nonetheless the ultimate beneficial owner]
    
93. The Roxburghe Club [member]
    
94. Saffron Hill Ventures [Jacob Rothschild has not sat on the board; however he has been an investor] 
    
95. SJPC 2 Ltd
    
96. SJPC Corporate Investments Ltd
    
97. SJP Protector Company Ltd [Lord Jacob Rothschild is not a non-exec director; however, he is a 'person with significant control']
    
98. SJP Secretaries Ltd [Lord Jacob Rothschild is not a non-exec director; however, he is a 'person with significant control']
    
99. SJP Trust Corp Ltd
    
100. Sky Ltd
     
101. Spencer House Ltd
     
102. Spencer House Capital Management LLP
     
103. Spencer House Partners LLP  [founder partner then chair of its advisory board]
     
104. St James's Place Plc, 'The St James's Place Group'  [formerly known as J Rothschild Assurance Group]
     
105. St James's Place 1990 Ltd
     
106. St James's Place International Assurance Group Ltd
     
107. St James's Place International Plc [registered in Ireland]
     
108. St James's Place Partnership Ltd
     
109. St James's Place Capital Plc [holding company], which became St James's Place Plc. [Subsidiary companies of St James's Place Capital Plc have included:]
     
110. ::: Bishopsgate Progressive Unit Trust Management Co Ltd
     
111. ::: Hornwood (Barbados) Ltd
     
112. ::: Hornwood Investments NV [Netherlands Antilles operating in the Channel Islands]
     
113. ::: J Rothschild Administration Ltd [through which Jacob purchased Spencer House]
     
114. ::: J Rothschild Capital Management Ltd
     
115. ::: J Rothschild & Co Ltd
     
116. ::: J Rothschild Fund Managers Ltd
     
117. ::: J Rothschild Holdings SA (Luxembourg)
     
118. ::: J Rothschild Investment Holdings BV (Netherlands)
     
119. ::: J Rothschild Investment Management Ltd [a subsidiary of J Rothschild Holdings Plc]
     
120. ::: J Rothschild Securities Ltd
     
121. ::: Luctor BV (Netherlands)
     
122. ::: St James's Place Investment Trust Ltd
     
123. St James's Place UK Plc
     
124. St James's Place Wealth Management Group Ltd
     
125. Taube Hodson Stonex Partners (UK) Ltd
     
126. Timeload Holdings Ltd
     
127. TV-am
     
128. Value Realisation Trust Plc
     
129. Waddesdon Estates LLP
     
130. Waddesdon Nominees Ltd
     
131. Waddesdon Trust [no longer extant - amalgamated]
     
132. Weizmann UK  [Jacob Rothschild has been a Vice Pres. See also Weizmann Israel, below]
     
133. Windmill Hill Asset Management Ltd
     

does serve or has served as a director, partner, associate, advisor, member, or trustee of these UNITED STATES & INTERNATIONAL companies and organizations:

1. Golden Plate Awards Council of the Academy of Achievement
   
2. Amraninc.com, Corp - USA
   
3. Berma Foundation - Switzerland
   
4. Blackstone Group Management LLC - USA
   
5. May 1998 benefit dinner (Brooklyn) Botanic Garden Conservation Int'l [hon chair of dinner]
   
6. Campagnie Financière Saint-Honoré [the holding company of Edmond de Rothschild Group. Lord Jacob is hon vice chair]
   
7. Château Lafite Rothschild [co-owner of the vineyard]
   
8. De Beers Centenary AG - Switzerland
   
9. Doder Trust Ltd - Bermuda
   
10. Edmond J Safra Philanthropic Foundation - Liechtenstein
    
11. Gam Francval Inc - Panama
    
12. Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Oil and Gas  [Genie Oil and Gas is a subsidiary of Genie Energy Ltd]
    
13. International Advisory Board of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp
    
14. Selection committee of the Henry R Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership
    
15. InfoNow Corp [Jacob has been an investor only, through RIT Capital Partners Plc as he is chairman]
    
16. Israel, Britain and the Commonwealth Association [Honorary Member]
    
17. Israel Museum endowment campaign  [int'l Honorary Co-chair]
    
18. 10th anniversary celebration of the James Madison Council [attendee]
    
19. J Rothschild Creat Partners Ltd - [operates in China; registered in Cayman Islands]
    
20. Advisory Board of the Libyan Investment Authority
    
21. Magnum Fund Ltd - Canada
    
22. The Global Forum of the National Library of Israel
    
23. Board of Trustees of the Open Russia Foundation
    
24. Advisory Board of Our Common Destiny - USA
    
25. Jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize - Spain
    
26. Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums Authority  [includes the flagship Museum of Islamic Art]
    
27. RHJ International SA - Belgium
    
28. Rockefeller Financial Services Inc - USA
    
29. Royal Tokaji Wine Co - operations in Hungary though UK registered [not a director; however he is co-owner]
    
30. S.B.S.A. - Panama
    
31. Star Technology Group, including its division: Messagelabs Group Ltd [co-investor only]
    
32. Board of Trustees of the State Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg
    
33. Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel  [see also Weizmann UK, above]
    
34. Worple SA - Panama  [Lord Jacob was the company president]
    
35. Xander Advisors India Private Ltd / The Xander Group Inc  [Lord Jacob was a founding partner]
    
36. Yad Hanadiv - Bermuda
    
37. Yad Hanadiv - Israel [president]
    
38. Yad Hanadix - UK
    

Tarot mythology: the surprising origins of the world's most misunderstood cards -

The Empress. The Hanged Man. The Chariot. Judgment. With their centuries-old iconography blending a mix of ancient symbols, religious allegories, and historic events, tarot cards can seem purposefully opaque. To outsiders and skeptics, occult practices like card reading have little relevance in our modern world. But a closer look at these miniature masterpieces reveals that the power of these cards isn’t endowed from some mystical source—it comes from the ability of their small, static images to illuminate our most complex dilemmas and desires.


https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/spirit...tood-cards

My Daughter managed to avoid the HPV vaccine last year - her choice, have just learned that next year she will be offered a 3 in 1 teenage booster vaccine, trying to find out about it via internet but am only finding the official nhs information (not surprised) can any one point me to any other points of view regarding this vaccine and potential risks ?

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner - did you notice the movie's Masonic connecion?

Ridley Scott revives film noir into the sci fi genre, with Blade Runner, bringing us a tale of technocratic dominance vs. transhumanism. Jay Dyer and Jay Weidner unveil of a world where corporate globalism has run rampant, giving rise to a synthetic dystopia. Simulated perfection in this purgatory is found with Replicants - artificially intelligent beings seeking to transcend limitations imposed upon them. In the end, throughout all the turmoil, these synthetic humans may herald a new expression of humanity and benevolence....

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopol...-connecion

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11:9

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:11-12

Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Amos 5:1

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 
Nahum 3:4-6

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 5:8

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
Daniel 9:13-14

And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Exodus 32:21

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Nehemiah 9:33

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate.
Amos 5:12

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 1:4


For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed her.
Lamentations 4:6

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 
Isaiah 1:4-5

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 3:8-10

And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shat say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, not be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Ezekiel 2:3-7

We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:5

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos 3:1-2

O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea 14:1

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
Zechariah 1:2

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth with against us.
Lamentations 5:22

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly.
Nehemiah 9:33

http://mileswmathis.com/monkeybus.pdf

Here is Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018):

Quote:"...instead of globalization resulting in global unity, it might actually result in 'speciation': the divergence of mankind into different species... as the upper caste congregates inside a self-proclaimed 'civilization' and builds walls and most to separate it from the hordes of 'barbarians' outside. ... Not just entire classes, but entire countries and continents might become irrelevant. Fortifications guarded by drones and robots might separate the self-proclaimed civilized zone, where cyborgs fight one another with logic bombs, from the barbarian lands where feral humans fight one another with machetes and Kalashnikovs."

The Terminator - did movie scenes predict future events?

Jay Dyer and Jay Weidner explore the nightmarish world of the Terminator movies where an advance A.I. computer rules the future of our planet. Before the A.I. can take control of the world, it must first eliminate vast swaths of the human populace. But, if one hero stands in the way from a complete take over, what is a computer to do? We find out as a cybernetic champion is sent back in time to eliminate the hero of the human race, before he has a chance to learn of his fate. These movies may have been the projection of DARPA engineers who foresaw the potential dangers of self-aware advanced A.I. and what may come of giving it charge over advanced weaponry systems.

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/scienc...ure-events