![]() ![]() The terms, popularised in science fiction culture, are directly derived from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.” “The red pill, together with its opposite, the blue pill, is a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing a choice between the “red pill”, representing a life of harsh knowledge, desperate freedom, and the brutal truths of reality, and the “blue pill”, representing a life of luxurious security, tranquil happiness, and the blissful ignorance of the harsh realities of life, basking in an (essentially dishonest) illusion. Wikipedia offers a helpful description of both: If you have seen it you will remember the pivotal moment when Neo is offered the choice of taking a red or blue pill. This reminded me of one of my favourite movies, The Matrix starring the excellent and all round good guy Keanu Reeves. The “third” building collapse on 9/11, the WMD story leading up to the Iraqi war, the election of Trump, the setting aside of the greatest democratic decision in our history, China’s culpability in our current emergency, and so on. “Centralised” is another word for control whether you are a conspiracy theorist or not, there are some troubling accounts of how our recent history was plotted. It is my view that these stories highlight our centralised system in all its “glory.” Right up my street! I guess you either dismiss this kind of film as the act of a rebellious person or you begin to think very carefully. Tiring of Netflix I was searching YouTube for something different and came across a documentary about a series of conspiracies and cover ups perpetrated by certain governments over the last century. The PRA “welcomes” the decision of the banks to heed its request. This follows a request from the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority ![]() To counter any complaints from the hard pressed investors – already destroyed by the continuing cataclysmic fall in equity values, not to mention a base rate of 0.1% which will inevitably lead to banks charging to hold our money – the banks are now “not expected” to pay millions in cash bonuses to their top performing staff. Except that the central bank – like most in the world – is printing money as if it is going out of fashion. Their excuse: to free up more cash for the economy during the present crisis. Sky News online reported this morning the bank’s latest efforts to screw their customers by dodging the paying of £8billion in dividends relating to profits in 2019.
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