Have a Koch and a smile. So who are the Koch brothers and what in the wide, wide world of sports do they have to do with this Cambridge Analytica stuff you have been harping on about? Well dear reader, I shall explain. Firstly, despite the fact that it would be a pretty fitting name Koch is not actually pronounced like cock. Sadly life is not a hilarious mash-up of Viz magazine and Charles Dickens. Villains are rarely called Mr Bastard. Rather their name is pronounced coke, like the sweet, delicious, sugary, zesty, life affirming product popular in America and the rest of the world. There is also a drink that shares the same name and is also made in South America but is hugely profitable for the USA. I could have used that for the analogy but I have principles and couldn’t bring myself to be seen to be advocating...

Hungary and Israel Hello again Wouldn’t it be weird if the same people who engineered the Brexit vote and got Trump elected also happened to be behind the election of far right leaders across Europe like Hungary’s Viktor Orban? Wouldn’t it also be strange if Israel was creating far right militia’s in Europe and helping get far right parties elected into power? Wouldn’t it also be strange if this was facilitated by an American media company with ties to the elites and the government? Well we live in strange times…. The recent resurgence of the far right across Europe and the proliferation of far right propaganda via the alternative media is promoted as an organic happening, an uprising of the disgruntled and disenfranchised, a reaction to an unfair society, loss of identity and imposing of ridiculous political correctness. We have seen in the previous two blog posts that the media darlings...

WARNING: THIS POST IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE CONTROVERSIALTherefore I have decided to use a series of trigger warnings:  ​(This is a shame really because it is all true. It's just some stuff that I have found, it may jibe with some people's current beliefs but to me it's just another piece of a rather complex puzzle. I find these things and see if they are connected.)Now this really should be in part three of the blog series but unfortunately I didn't discover this until recently and my time machine is knackered. It's not totally broken but it can only go forward in time and only at a rate of a second per second – so it's as good as useless.    ​Did you know that the delightful and universally loved Benjamin Nethanyahu is good friends with Viktor Orbán, the ruler/dictator of Hungary? Well apparently they are.Back in 2008 when Viktor...

  The Atlas NetworkHi there pop pickers hope you are all well. So what have we got today then? Well, I have been looking at this thing called the Atlas Network. Essentially it is a set of different think tanks that have been set up over South America in order to instigate dissent, start grassroots protests against governments (but only certain types) and push policy change that ultimately favours big business and rolls back taxes for the wealthy, workers rights, safety provisions and environmental checks. By sheer coincidence it is currently mainly donated to by those charming fellows the Koch brothers.Look, I know these posts are long but please do take the time to read them (do it at work – hell yeah! Stick it to the man – get paid for subverting the system – come on that's punk as all heck!)That's kind of the point. People want easy answers...

Imagine if top members of the USA government were somehow intertwined with think tanks, connected to powerful business interests that utilise organisations, foundations and apparent grassroots movements to direct policy, not only in their own country but across the globe. Usually, in this hypothetical scenario, this is done to ferment regime change or at the very least to alter decision making in the favour of corporate interests and against the people of said country. What a terrible world that would be. What if it was directly connected to recent elections and forthcoming interventions in foreign countries?  Well read on. We need to start with a bit of background for the Atlas Network, one of the main collections of think tanks currently whittling away at South America to mould it into something more pleasing to their interests. How the Atlas Group was formed The Atlas Network was actually founded by an English...