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Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Snap. And cheers.

A pint of freshly poured Guinness rests on a wooden table.

January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

#NoKings - but dear America, you have a king.

'Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”'

On the domestic front, Mr. Trump suggested that judges only have power to restrict his domestic policy agenda — from the deployment of the National Guard to the imposition of tariffs — “under certain circumstances.”

But he was already considering workarounds. He raised the possibility that if his tariffs issued under emergency authorities were struck down by the Supreme Court, he could repackage them as licensing fees. And Mr. Trump, who said he was elected to restore law and order, reiterated that he was willing to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military inside the United States and federalize some National Guard units if he felt it was important to do so.

So far, he said, “I haven’t really felt the need to do it.”

Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”

When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.

“It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said.

January 9, 2026 at 8:12 AM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

There is nothing vital about oil. It is the opposite. It is death and we have to stop burning it. These deranged Americans in power are a death cult. Their "Christianity" is a death cult. Their worldview and economics are a death cult. They will sacrifice people - because melanin.

vital
/ˈvʌɪtl/
adjective
adjective: vital
1.
absolutely necessary; essential.
"secrecy is of vital importance".

January 5, 2026 at 8:23 AM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

It's found your Facebook post referencing the Telegraph Magazine now 🤣

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Philippa Islington-Smythe appears be a British actor, influencer, and designer who gained attention for features in publications like the

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January 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Folk are worshipping and genuflecting at the shrine of awful carpet.

Awful carpet, a lecturn, and the pack of journalists.

January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Trump proves Blaise Pascal's point. Is this the world we want?

"Being unable to ensure that force obeys justice, we have made it just to obey force. We cannot strengthen justice, so we justify strength, in order that from both together there could be peace, which is the sovereign good".

January 3, 2026 at 2:34 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Looks like a bot influx incoming. Ho hum.

A bunch of dodgy fake/AI looking accounts followed me. Happens regularly. I'm too radical to be followed by four normal people in one day. Viva la revolution.

January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Schindler's Lift.

Photo of the inside of a lift made by "Schindler".

January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Gaining insight into why the seventies were flipping awful.

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

For most of us, the point at which this happens may seem obvious. Babies cry when they are hungry and sleep when they are content. *But in the not-so-distant past, the medical profession treated infants as if they had no inner world. Until the 1980s, for instance, surgeons would operate on babies without any analgesic or anaesthetic. The assumption was that painkillers weren't necessary, since babies couldn't truly feel discomfort*. The protocol has now changed - but the question of when conscious awareness appears remains unresolved.

** = Highlighted section.

January 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

"You must not allow a patient's complaint to prejudice the care or treatment you provide or arrange for that patient".

Yet even now, Joe Teale, CEO of South Devon and Torbay NHS Trust writes there are unspecified "implications" to sharing truth via social media. Why so frightened of accountability?

Social media

We are aware that you have posted videos created from your MRI images on social media. Whilst these are your own medical records which you are entitled to share, we would ask you to consider carefully the implications of discussing your care publicly.

Furthermore, public discussion of ongoing complaints can make it more difficult to resolve matters constructively. We encourage you to engage with our formal complaints process, which provides a proper forum for your concerns to be thoroughly investigated and addressed.

We are also concerned that public posts about your care may not present a complete or accurate picture of the clinical assessment and decision-making that took place during your admission. If your posts contain inaccurate statements about the Trust or our staff, we reserve the right to take appropriate action to protect our reputation and that of our

employees.

We are committed to investigating your concerns fairly and thoroughly, and hope that you will engage with this process in good faith.

Your ongoing care

Whilst we investigate your complaint, it is important that your current healthcare needs continue to be met. Your GP remains responsible for coordinating your ongoing care and can make referrals to specialist services as clinically appropriate.

If you have urgent medical concerns, please contact your GP or, in an emergency call 999.

January 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

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Within two days of Gordon moving my site to Montreal the MDU had traced it back to him and pressed him to remove my site. He told me to move it "offshore" and suggested Panama. I asked why? He explained that in Panama defamation had to be proved before a court to remove a site. Good enough.

NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Why Not Simple Negligence?

For over two years I have been telling doctors what is wrong with me. I have received only plattitudes, abuse and denial in return. Any attempt to investigate my problems leads to nothing because they all tell me in one way or another it can't be what I say, look for something else, then scratch their heads. Or, a fruitful path gets trodden on - as apparantly is the case with the recent debacle at the Royal Brompton Hospital. It is this seemingly intentional denial of proper investigation of the serious physical injuries I suffer and the long standing compensations which I believe amounts to an effort to deny me of my right to health and consequently life.

Dangerous, lazy and wrong medical "opinion" and a subsequent lack of proper investigation and treatment has caused the decline of my health. Doctors have ignored me, ignored serious pathology, patronised me, belittled my physical injuries (severe two years ago when this began and now life threatening).

Dr Cowan at the RNOH in Stanmore was less than clever. He actually wrote letters to colleagues suggesting they should not investigate my problems because I was complaining about him. The GMC website helpfully states under its good medical practice section:"29. Patients who complain about the care or treatment they have received have a right to expect a prompt, open, constructive and honest response. This will include an explanation of what has happened, and where appropriate, an apology. You must not allow a patient's complaint to prejudice the care or treatment you provide or arrange for that patient."

"You must not allow a patient's complaint to prejudice the care or treatment you provide or arrange for that patient" can not - in anyone's eyes - be construed as compatible with letters to colleagues earlier asked to investigate my problems that say, in effect, "Dear Chap, This old bugger has the cheek to complain so I don't think you should treat him".

6:18 PM

January 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

This first SLAPP, aimed at silencing me, was transparent to my then web host, Gordon Hudson of Hostroute. He moved my site to Montreal and wrote to me that such shenanigans were about silencing truth. He also blogged about it on his personal site, where it even now, "Doctors and the closed shop".
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Ecalpemos.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Doctors and the closed shop

My Dad worked in the health service all his working life and always says that Doctors are a totally closed shop who will protect each other no matter how obvious an error has been.

This story is an example:

http://www.freedomforall.net/20o6/11/why-not-simple-negligence.html

Regardless of whether there has been any negligence, the doctors involved ar ebehaving in a way which seems more to do with self preservation that getting to the truth and actually putting right any wrong.

Posted by Gordon

January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

For twenty years the British medical establishment has denied me medical care. Whatever the reasons, is this acceptable? Must I really claim asylum abroad to ensure I don't die as a result? Reporting accurately on medical negligence is no crime, nor is it defamatory. We can do better.

January 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Southend pier, towards sunset. Happy New Year to those who celebrate - for me that's December 22nd as the sun starts returning and the Earth begins it's tilt back towards summer.

A partial photograph of Southend pier with the sky and sea lit up with the pink-orange glow of the setting sun, layers of clouds fill the sky in bright and dark colours, depending upon their position in relation to the sun. A small patch of blue sky shows through the clouds.

January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

Margaretta was arrested multiple times and imprisoned in 2014 for refusing to promise not to protest the use of Shannon airport for US military flights. Her protests were runway incursions to close down flights. She was 79 and spent nine and a half weeks in prison before they caved. I interviewed
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Margaretta D'Arcy wearing an orange jump suit carrying daffodils with a sign in front of her "VIA SHANNON BLOOD ON OUR HANDS".

January 1, 2026 at 10:04 AM

Matthew

@freedomforall.net

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Avoiding news means it takes time to arrive. I just learned the Irish actress and activist Margaretta D'Arcy died in November. Margaretta was a creative force. She launched a pirate radio station from her kitchen table providing women in Ireland with forbidden knowledge such as birth control.