WW3 Watch: ESG fallout
Haven’t verified this, but someone told me this is the single biggest down move in the EUA futures market ever: What does it mean? Probably that our priorities are shifting. Rapidly. National security-backed fiat money will be taking over from moral money in the near future (and hopefully we won’t be looking to 16-year old […]
The OSINT Blind Spot
It started as the Blind Spot development Telegram chat but it’s now become a war-talk chat. In time it will evolve again. For now, though, if you want to be part of the OSINT Blind Spot community do join us on Telegram here. There is talk afoot of moving to Discord soon-ish. For now, and […]
YDANGH* Watch: Russian exploding ETF AUM edition
*YDANGH = Your Dengi Are No Good Here. (In case you were wondering) Hat tip to Blonde Money’s Helen Thomas for flagging the below from Bloomberg: That ETFs bearing Russian equity or bond exposure are having an issue is no secret. Even FTAV is on it 😜. The key bit to highlight, however, is the “create-to-lend” […]
WW3 Watch: Blind Spot OSINT (01/03/2022)
The Blind Spot Telegram community has turned from development talk to war talk. It’s a valuable little group for keeping an eye on events. But info is flowing way too rapidly. Since bandwidth is becoming a problem for me, which impacts my capacity to do HUMINT, I’ve made a call for volunteers to help me […]
WW3 Watch: Fintech factors
Inquiring minds want to know what’s what with Revolut, the British challenger bank with a reputation for saying “yes you can definitely have an account”. Talk at a Polish City Club event last night flagged the prominent display of a pro Ukrainian graphic on Revolut’s Twitter account and the impassioned statement put out by founders: […]
WW3 Watch: The Polish perspective
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Polish City Club event in honour of professor Zbigniew Pelczynski, hosted by a number of prominent Poles from the London diaspora. Also attending was Poland’s new ambassador to the UK, Piotr Wilczek, Greg Hands, the UK minister of state for business, energy and clean growth and […]
WW3 Watch: Counter cyber activity and DSMA
Few media practitioners seem to have spotted that in November 2021, the Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee, which was previously known as the Defence Advisory Notice system until 2017, updated some of its standing notices, mostly with fresh references to cyber activities. The DSMA system is based on a voluntary code and consists […]
In the Blind Spot today
From the Blind Spot: Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers – Telegraph. (More evidence that the report that panicked the world into economic self-harm was based on flawed assumptions.) Fraud and embezzlement allegations at Austrian packaging company Schur Flexibles involving luxury Mayfair properties – FT. Albert Edwards on Recession […]
WW3 Watch: Moscow as the Third Rome
Important disclaimer: Things are happening so incredibly quickly it’s hard to do detailed and verified analysis. And it’s worth bearing in mind that this is true for all journalists not just me. I don’t want to add to unverified noise and kneejerk hysterical reaction so I’m flagging here that I will occasionally be using WW3 […]
WW3 Watch: The first casualty of war is the truth
Too much to say, not enough bandwidth. So here’s Russell Brand who pretty much sums it up I think. The comments are worth a gander too. Obviously I’m hugely sympathetic for the Ukrainian people who are just pawns in the whole mess. But I’m equally concerned about what the media messaging is doing to people’s […]