The Transition from Global to Local Food Production | What it really means

The complexity and size of the Global Economy has provided access to foods and goods that we do not need, along with access to some foods and goods that we do need, that could be home produced, but are being produced and shipped to us more cheaply from what might be continents away. The collapse … Continue reading The Transition from Global to Local Food Production | What it really means

The Great Reset | Reasons we are here | The motivation behind the Global Economy

The Global Economy and Global Supply Chain have been based on this idea, aim or motivation: That those who have the power and influence to do so, should take each and every step possible to maximise profit and the accumulation of wealth for all those who are intimately involved. And that the accumulation of wealth … Continue reading The Great Reset | Reasons we are here | The motivation behind the Global Economy

Surviving The Great Reset | Deglobalisation | There will be Permanent Changes to the Supply Chain

The very challenging thing for everyone to accept as we look at the world we have been used to today, is that everything we have been taking for granted is going to change. We will discuss other fundamental or building-block areas of change elsewhere. But in terms of the Global Supply Chain collapse that is … Continue reading Surviving The Great Reset | Deglobalisation | There will be Permanent Changes to the Supply Chain

The reasons for the Global Supply Chain breakdown are as complicated as the Global Supply Chain itself

On the face of it, the problems with the Global Supply Chain could appear to be the way the goods are transported. It could be just a temporary shortage of the goods we want supplied. But Worldwide logistics systems are in freefall. Not only because of the impact of covid or other recent events on … Continue reading The reasons for the Global Supply Chain breakdown are as complicated as the Global Supply Chain itself

The Global Supply Chain only works because of lies. It’s breaking now, because the truth is catching up with it

If you read the papers, listen to or watch the news, or follow news on social media, you will be aware of a narrative that is increasingly anchoring supply chain issues and shortages of all sorts of things on the fallout from the Covid Pandemic, the Invasion of Ukraine and even Brexit. It is because … Continue reading The Global Supply Chain only works because of lies. It’s breaking now, because the truth is catching up with it

Dependency on Foreign supplies compromises UK security

Perhaps the biggest cost of globalisation that has never been factored into the equation (or more likely it has deliberately been left out), has been the issue of what happens when a Country becomes dependent upon supplies of goods or services that come from another Country, or Countries that may not always have interests that … Continue reading Dependency on Foreign supplies compromises UK security

Corporate Interests and the Elites are doing everything they can to patch the growing holes in the Global Supply Chain

When a car you love is failing, you keep doing what you can to keep it on the road Covid set off the power within a latent chain reaction that anyone who understood the fragility of the global system was waiting for. The reason the global supply chain hasn’t just stopped overnight – which to … Continue reading Corporate Interests and the Elites are doing everything they can to patch the growing holes in the Global Supply Chain

The Collapse of Global Supply Chains: Profit at every turn meets practical reality

Horizon scanning: What’s Horizon scanning? So obsessive has the motivation of greed for profit been, that those driving this way of doing business have come up with ever more creative ways to defy the practical realities of business and production. These have included the development of ‘Just in Time’ methodologies and ‘Lean Manufacturing’, which are … Continue reading The Collapse of Global Supply Chains: Profit at every turn meets practical reality

De-Globalisation: The End of Globalisation is already underway

Globalisation and the model of global business and supply chains that existed at the end of 2019 – before the Covid Pandemic hit us, no longer exists as it did then, in either functional or operational terms. In the same way that our system of government and the political system that supposedly drives it has … Continue reading De-Globalisation: The End of Globalisation is already underway

The only real beneficiary of Globalisation is self-interest and greed

Globalisation was seen to work because we have all been fed the story that it benefits our self-interest in some way. Yet the only beneficiaries from the process of Globalisation were and always have been the people and corporate interests that have created, developed and directly profited from an unethical system that exploited everyone and … Continue reading The only real beneficiary of Globalisation is self-interest and greed