Britain needs to do what the Trump administration is doing — but Starmer is ding the opposite. The country is heading for the economic and social dump.

Glad to see some actual journalism in the @MailOnline

It's a sign of the times, those of us who have fought against the multi billion dollar machine of propaganda and influence appreciate it.

Thanks to Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah for having the guts to call it out. pic.twitter.com/uhvAJfpwtT

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) April 27, 2025

One sneaky way five-eye governments get around domestic prohibitions on spying on their own citizens is to share intelligence about each others’ citizens. The U.S. intelligence community often receives information from British intelligence on Americans it couldn’t gather on its own.

by Kit Klarenberg at kitklarenberg.com:

Ever since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, mainstream speculation has ever-intensified that his second term in office could spell the end of Five Eyes, the international signals intelligence (SIGINT) spying network. Through this connivance, Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. train an unblinking eye on the public and private communications of the world’s entire population. While few average citizens would mourn the passing of Five Eyes, fear of its demise are pronounced in certain quarters – first and foremost, London.

In February, the Financial Times reported key Trump aide Peter Navarro was pushing for Canada to be excluded from Five Eyes, and the proposal was “being discussed” by senior US officials. While denied by Navarro, the suggestion sparked anxieties among Western intelligence veterans, think tank pundits, and journalists that Ottawa’s removal could precipitate the network’s outright collapse. In March, The Economist enquired, “Could Donald Trump imperil the Five Eyes spy pact?” In April, Politico pondered, “Can Britain live without American intelligence?”

Politico revealed developments such as Trump’s decision to halt intelligence sharing with Ukraine in March had prompted “current and former intelligence officials” to consider whether “it may be necessary for Britain to begin planning for the previously unthinkable,” and undo links between the two nations’ counterpart intelligence agencies. This is despite these ties “[going] so deep that it may be impossible to untangle them” – or at least for London “to replicate the US contribution.”

While the CIA and MI6 are well-known for working in lockstep, Five Eyes is the most intimate expression of this transatlantic espionage bromance, exclusion from which would drastically reduce Britain’s already evaporating international status. As Politico notes, the international spying network accounts for “Britain’s status as a comparative heavyweight in the intelligence sphere” today. Its origins date back to 1946, and the signing of the secret UKUSA agreement. This formalised intelligence sharing between London and Washington that began decades earlier.

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You know, I’ve seen a lot of people walkin’ ’round
With tombstone in their eyes
But the pusher don’t care
Ah, if you live or if you die

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Ah, but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he’s not a natural man

Below is Geoffrey and Eva’s submission, they decided to keep it brief.

by Wally Richards

PLANT DISEASES

There are only a few plant diseases that many gardeners worry about because they make their plants look unsightly or blemish their food crop’s appearance.

These diseases have common names such as rust, black spot, powdery mildew and curly leaf.

These are normally mild diseases which do damage, but seldom threaten the life of the host plant. They are maddening diseases to a gardener who likes perfect flowers and foliage with unblemished produce.

I am of the organic opinion that states healthy soil, healthy plants, minimal pests or diseases.

A problem arises when we use chemical sprays (commonly called fungicides) to control diseases of plants: the chemicals not only affect the disease that it is supposed to control, but it also effects the beneficial fungi and micro-organisms that live in the plant and soil.

This weakens the immune system of the plant leaving it more vulnerable to further attacks and other diseases. This means more spraying and still a disease ridden plant. (A similar example in humans/animals is the over-use of antibiotics.)

I never spray any chemical fungicides in my garden. I use only natural or organic type sprays such as Wallys Liquid copper, Wallys Copper Nutrient, sulphur and Perkfection for diseases and have found since stopping the chemical sprays, that it is seldom that I even have any need to use them.

I still get some diseases such as rust or black spot at times but usually when I have neglected to spray on the first sign of a disease.

Plant diseases go through a cycle and for some diseases, that cycle involves a dormant period in the litter or soil under the host plant. Hard frosts in winter do reduce the amount of disease spores left to affect plants.

We can assist in winter clean up by; removing litter from under plants, mummified fruit off fruit trees and spraying with Lime Sulphur over the deciduous plants such as roses and some fruit trees.

Some years ago an elderly gardener told me of a control for Brown Rot in stone fruit and that was sprinkling Sodium Carbonate under the tree.

Sodium Carbonate is known as Wallys Soda Ash Dense. I tried it and it certainly reduced the problem greatly without any other spraying.

I wrote about this and later on, had another gardener contact me and said it worked on their curly leaf problem as well. Another told me it helped with keeping their rose foliage better from black spot.

Being a fine powder it is easier to spread and get a good coverage and it breaks down quicker, having a pH of 11 when added to water which is weakly alkaline.

I then talked to a few knowledgeable chemists and scientists who concurred it would likely have an effect on some disease spores in the soil and litter.

Sprinkle it under the plant/tree from the trunk outwards to beyond the drip line. Then lightly water to start the breakdown of the fine powders.

In an ideal situation, one would kill all the disease spores in the vicinity of the plant and thus any future contamination would have to be blown in or carried by moisture from a more distant area.

When to treat? Many of these diseases have been active and some still are, so now would be a good time. Then any time you like to help protect such as early in Spring.

Wallys Soda Ash Dense is available on www.0800466464.co.nz in the Disease Control section.

Another suggestion for use would be for those who have mature camellias that suffer from the disease that causes buds and flowers to brown and drop.

The disease lies dormant under the Camellia till the buds are formed then affects the buds and flowers, rising on moisture evaporation to reach its host. If the Soda Ash Dense kills most of the spores under the tree then less flowers would suffer.

One aspect would be the pH of the Soda Ash Dense having an effect of the Camellia which likes a more acid soil.

This could be corrected by applying some Sulphate of Iron or Alum if any signs of stress on the camellia appeared or even applying these acid products a week or two after the Soda Ash treatment.

It’s a very interesting and safe way of possibly reducing disease problems in your garden and if so, allows a great reduction in the need for sprays. I would not look at stopping sprays such as copper and sulphur initially, but if it’s found that the plants are free of problems then you have won. I would like to hear about how you get on if you try it.

I saw recently a interesting way to graft on a tree. It was using a spark plug socket tool which is placed over a small growth bud on the trunk of a tree and hit with a hammer to make a hexagon cut into the tree and lift the bud and foliage.

Then on another same type tree the tool is used to make a hexagon shape hole through the bark into which you place the bud. Being a perfect fit then wrapped taped to hold into place as the union is completed over time.

If successful then the bud foliage will grow and you have a new branch on the way. Maybe another variety of apple on your existing tree? It’s so simple to do.

Major news in English Newspapers this week was that the English Government is officially commencing ‘Dimming the Skies’ using aeroplanes to spread a range of chemicals and particles over the skies to reduce sunlight and ‘global warming’. (They’re called Chem Trials and touted as conspiracy theory by Governments and News Media.)

This has changed the ‘Conspiracy’ aspect and the past denials into an official notification.

That’s worse than the pot calling the kettle black — now they are going to do what they have been denying doing for many years.

It has being obvious to anyone that had stopped looking down at their gadgets and looked up into the sky and seen trails of chemicals (not vapor trials as was used as an excuse for what was happening.)

All living life forms need sunlight and that includes our garden plants, food crops and our health. Reduce sunlight as has happened in the past with volcanic eruptions and ash pollution in the atmosphere causing famines and poor health.

Another problem is that sunlight itself has little heating effect, it is the infrared that does most of the heating and with either cloud cover or pollution in the skies the heat is trapped.

In winter when there is cloud cover you will not normally have a frost as the heat of the day is trapped. If there is a clear sky and no wind then when the temperatures are low we have a frost as the heat escapes out into the atmosphere.

Thus there is going to ne an increase global warming by trapping heat with sprayed pollution in the atmosphere.

Obviously they are either stupid or else it has nothing to do with global warming but all to do with food growing potentials. Past studies have shown that the chemicals and particles used to dim the skies are toxic to all life forms as well.

Sulphur and aluminum particles are two of several others being considered or being used. Meanwhile President Trump & RFK Jnr are working to ban ChemTrails worldwide, apparently because of the unusual weather patterns they help to create and the health of people breathing in or drinking the chemicals sprayed when they return to ground level.

It has become a weird world that’s for sure.

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