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Hong Kong: Corona Virus, Conspiracy and Control

25th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong has apparently had a ‘good’ corona virus pandemic. Cases reported at a little over 1000 are, for a densely populated area of 8 million, modest. The four deaths arising from this very small [more…]

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Septic Eye – China Murders the World Pullout Special (free gift inside)

3rd April 2020 Viciousbutfair 0

Readers fresh to GP may not be aware but I produced a stunning series some while ago, exclusively for the discerning readers of this blog (the others, you know who you are, mostly ignored it). [more…]

20th Century

HMS Amethyst and the Yangtse “Incident”

25th March 2020 Blown Periphery 0

Simon’s Story   It’s warm in the room and I’m lying cosily in that semi-trance state, debating whether to close my inner eyelids for ever, or to attempt to explain my small part in the story. I [more…]

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Coronavirus – An Orchestrated Overreaction?

4th March 2020 Going Postal 0

Are the markets over-reacting? Are the Media and Financial Industry intentionally manipulating (or misinterpreting) coronavirus data in a case of using grossly inaccurate statistics filled with hyperbole to cause a desired outcome? Coronavirus (aka Covid-19) [more…]

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Why I Want China to Stop Manipulating Its Economy

11th February 2020 Patrick Barron 0

In his State of the Union Address–February 4, 2020–President Trump outlined his reasons for punishing nations like China that manipulate their economies in order to achieve some internal policy goal. The president claimed that such [more…]

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Authoritarianism

Hong Kong – The whiff of tear gas

28th January 2020 Going Postal 0

There has been something of a lull in Hong Kong recently: Christmas, Calendar New Year and the Lunar New year to come at the end of the week have contributed to a pause in the [more…]

Economics

The Evolution Of The Bank Run

27th November 2019 Going Postal 0

There are numerous and wide-ranging reasons why someone may choose to invest in physical precious metals. A deep understanding of monetary history provides plenty of solid arguments, and so do the mounting geopolitical risks, the [more…]

Authoritarianism

Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel

21st November 2019 Going Postal 0

The recent ‘Hong Kong Protests’ piece attracted several comments and questions, but notably ‘Why now?’ and ‘What started this?’ So here is ‘Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel’. A long time ago, during the premiership [more…]

Authoritarianism

Hong Kong Protests

9th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong in November feels and looks very different than it did in May. The weather is glorious – the wind has changed, the humidity decreased and a very comfortable 25 degrees. But of course [more…]

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