Food for Thought #1000

 

WHO claims radiation from EMFs is safe; WHO is plagued with conflicts of interest and flawed studies

 WHO claims that electromagnetic radiation from sources such as 5G and smartphones is safe. But independent researchers disagree, citing concerns over cancer, mental health and other health risks.

The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields has criticised WHO for conflicts of interest, flawed methodologies and downplaying of health risks.

The official line from the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) and others says 5G and other sources of electromagnetic radiation are entirely safe, but independent researchers with no financial backing from, in this case, the Telecoms industry have a very different view.

The public, as always, is largely in the dark. The same “tin foil hat” attributions abound. Quite apart from any electromagnetic mechanisms, there are also huge concerns about excess time on smartphones and devices in childhood linked to an increase in mental health difficulties,

Your smartphone, your Wi-Fi, your smart meter, your other smart gadgets and much else all use radio-frequency radiation (“RFR”), but what physical effect is this having on you and your family’s health? Where can the truth be found? Although we only ever hear publicly that RFR “should” be safe, a glimpse behind the scenes reveals a raging battle amongst scientists in an attempt to control the narrative.

This struggle comes at a time when the governments of the world are awaiting the forthcoming WHO Environmental Health Criteria monograph, which will pronounce on the health risks or otherwise of exposure to electromagnetic fields, including RFR. Even more critical is the upcoming possible reclassification of RFR as a probable cancer risk by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (“IARC”). The stakes could not be higher....<<<Read More>>>...

Untold Secrets of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (Photographic Evidence)

 

Serve Warmer Beer to Save on Bills, Miliband Tells Pubs

 Pubs should serve warmer beer and turn off ovens to save money on their energy bills, Ed Miliband has said, amid a crisis in the sector set to be made worse by spiking energy prices. The Telegraph has the story.

The Energy Secretary has launched an advice tool aimed at hospitality businesses, which he hopes will ease the burden of rising costs in the struggling sector.

The tool encourages firms to reduce unnecessary electricity use by turning off bottle fridges overnight and to monitor hotspots such as extraction systems, ovens and lamps.

It comes as fears mount that more pubs are being pushed to the brink, as the conflict in Iran sends energy prices soaring.

Analysis by the Telegraph last weekend suggested that the spike in energy bills will heap an extra £169 million a year onto pubs’ costs, with Wetherspoons chief Sir Tim Martin saying businesses would have no choice but to push up prices.

Businesses claim they are being quoted energy rates around 30% higher than in February, before the US and Israel launched their first strikes on Iran. Oil prices have risen from $73 (£55) a barrel before the strikes to hover around $100.

Industry leaders on Tuesday said the Government tool would not save pubs from the “eye-watering bills” that were crippling hospitality businesses, with landlords ridiculing the suggestions as “groundbreaking stuff”.

Emma McClarkin, the Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said: “There are a host of appliances that you simply cannot turn off, many for health and safety reasons, so it is not just help with reducing eye-watering energy bills that the beer and pub sector needs the Government to help with, but the overall cumulative costs of doing business, including disproportionate tax bills.”

However, she said: “With the typical pub making just 12p profit on every £5 pint, it’s essential for landlords to save money on their energy bills wherever they can, with the added bonus of reducing their carbon footprint.” …

Pub owner Andy Lennox urged ministers to slash VAT rates for British hospitality firms rather than offer them simplistic energy-saving suggestions.

Lennox ran a campaign last year to ban Labour MPs from hospitality venues across the country, which ultimately forced Labour to announce an emergency support package for pubs.

He said: “To be told to turn the lights off overnight really is groundbreaking stuff. Thank goodness someone in Whitehall finally cracked it. Decades of hospitality experience across the country, and the answer was sitting there all along.

“In reality, this is yet another short-sighted, bureaucratic, headline-grabbing load of rubbish. Any half-decent operator already runs an efficient kitchen, manages energy properly and watches costs like a hawk. That is Hospitality 101.”...<<<Read More>>>....

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The Secret Science of Mind: How Positive Thinking Became a Force in the Modern World

If there is a central religious doctrine for the New Age, surely it is this – the belief that positive thoughts can bend reality to their own shape. It is an alluring concept. If it’s true, we don’t need to act or work or perform in the world. All we need to do is change our thinking. But is there anything to this idea?

To understand something about the doctrine of thought power, it’s helpful to look at its history. The father of the religion of positive thinking was an obscure New Englander named Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802–66). 

Quimby, like many men of his time, was a jack of all trades. He started as a clockmaker, but eventually became fascinated with alternative methods of healing and learned the art of mesmerism or animal magnetism, a forerunner of hypnosis. Quimby found that if he put an assistant into a trance, the assistant could diagnose and prescribe a remedy for a patient’s disease (much like Edgar Cayce, the celebrated “sleeping prophet” who lived a couple of generations later).

Quimby built up a successful practice this way, but soon he came to a startling conclusion: it didn’t matter what remedy was prescribed; it was the faith of the patient that made the difference. So Quimby dismissed his assistant and began to practice his own radical method of healing, in which he would simply convince the patient that he or she was already well. Quimby’s warm and gentle nature aroused a sense of confidence. His office filled with patients, and many came away from his treatments feeling great relief or even fully cured. He often treated people for free when they could not pay...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #999

 

Another UN “anti-Islamophobia day” passes without recognition of the hatred for non-Muslims displayed in the Koran

 Yesterday was the UN’s “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.” To celebrate, Hellish 2050 is giving free copies of the book ‘Can the Koran be Banned in Scotland and India?’.

Hellish 2050 also points out that Islamophiles fail to recognise the hatred for non-Muslims as is written in the Koran.

In a recent article, we highlighted the UK government’s plan to tackle “anti-Muslim hostility.” The policy paper for Labour’s “Protecting What Matters” plan states: “Working with the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), we will use our diplomatic network to press for laws and policies that protect religious or belief minorities and promote inclusive, tolerant societies.”

Whenever we see the “collaboration” of the United Nations, we know the UK government are being obedient servants to the controligarchs’ global plans and not the four nations whom it is their duty to serve. We shouldn’t be surprised, then, to discover the push for the “Islamophobia” agenda is coming from the UN.

In 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia” every year on 15 March. The date, 15 March, was chosen as it is the anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks in New Zealand.

For the UN and its supporters, the day serves as a global call to action to combat Islamophobia, defined as racism, discrimination, hostility or violence against Muslims or Islam.

In 2025, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé of Spain, the UN’s High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations, as the UN Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia. “Let’s eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community,” Guterres said. 

To celebrate the UN’s anti-Islamophobia day 2026, Hellish 2050 is providing a free PDF copy of the book ‘Can the Koran be Banned in Scotland and India?’.

What supporters of the anti-Islamophobia agenda fail to point out, Hellish 2050 says, is the discrimination and hatred for non-Muslims displayed in the Koran and other Islamic scriptures and provides some examples....<<<Read More>>>...

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The Great Taking Has Begun: Why Your Financial Assets Are Now Trapped in a War Zone

I believe we have passed the point of theoretical warnings and entered the realm of undeniable action. The system you were told was liquid and secure is actively locking the doors. Investment funds are not a future risk; they are a present reality of restricted access. 

We saw this with Silicon Valley Bank's failure, a liquidity crisis triggered by a $2 billion loss from bond sales that caused a bank run. More recently, Blackstone has limited withdrawals from its Real Estate Investment Trust. This is the 'bail-in' mechanism in practice, where your assets can be converted to equity or frozen to save the institution. As one analysis put it, these institutions are 'struggling to provide liquidity when customers demand their funds, essentially telling us our money is safe as long as it remains in the system'. The promised safety net is a trapdoor.

This is not an anomaly; it is the template. Remember Credit Suisse? Its bondholders were wiped out in a 'combination bail-in/bail-out' that proved 'the entire western financial system is a grand con'. The rules are changed in an instant to protect the system at your expense. The 2008 crisis required a $1 trillion bailout, but the Federal Reserve recently prepared to inject up to $2 trillion to prevent a systemic collapse. When the need for liquidity reaches these stratospheric levels, your access to your own money becomes the first casualty. The domino has tipped.

The trigger for the next, far more devastating wave of defaults is not hidden in a spreadsheet; it's unfolding in real time on the geopolitical stage. As I write this in March 2026, the Strait of Hormuz -- a chokepoint for 20% of the world's oil -- is functionally closed. Iran has threatened to open fire on vessels, and the U.S. Navy has declined 'near daily' requests for armed escorts. This is not a temporary disruption; it is a systemic severance. The immediate consequence is a historic surge in oil prices and supertanker rates, but the secondary, cascading effect is where the real danger lies.

This physical blockade activates the legal clause known as 'force majeure' -- an act of God or war that voids contracts. From energy producers to chemical manufacturers to shipping insurers, a cascade of defaults is now inevitable. One analysis labels this a '12-order cascading' crisis, where the interruption of this one corridor 'can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization' . 

The destruction of Gulf infrastructure has already severed the global supply of elemental sulfur and sulfuric acid, the 'chemical Achilles' heel of modern civilization' . When a manufacturer in Germany or a farmer in South Africa cannot get vital inputs because contracts are voided by war, the defaults ripple up to the investment funds holding their commercial paper. Your pension, your 401(k), your ETF -- they are all exposed to this chain of broken promises. The legal avalanche has begun, and it burries counterparty risk under an insurmountable pile of defaults....<<<Read More>>>...

Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies

 

The Jevons Paradox Explains Why Net Zero is an Exercise in Futility

 Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson’s ‘End of the World’ sketch from The Secret Policemen’s Ball is a timeless piece of comedy because, like with all great comedy, we instantly recognise the target of the joke. Every generation throws up its own cultists, convinced that they alone can anticipate and possibly avert the ‘end times’.

If the bloke who stood, with sandwich boards proclaiming “the end of the world is nigh” in my childhood town had had access to social media, who knows, he may have become the Greta Thunberg of his day, with millions hanging on his every word.

Greta always puts me in mind of two characters: one fictional, Violet Elizabeth Bott of Just William fame, the spoilt brat from next-door who would yell, “I’ll thcream and thcream till I’m thick!” (translation: I’ll scream and scream until I’m sick); and, Elizabeth Barton, the Holy Maid of Kent, who almost brought down Henry VIII, so popular were her visions and prophecies.

While Greta chucked in school when she was about 12, Barton never went. Despite this, and again, like Greta, Barton met repeatedly with Henry’s senior ministers, though her meetings ended rather less well for her than did Greta’s. It was Thomas Cromwell who, worried that the Barton cult was getting out of hand, had her executed on trumped up charges and a number of her followers hung, drawn and quartered.

Perhaps humans are pre-programmed to adopt apocalyptic cults. After all, the Abrahamic religions all anticipate the end of the world as we know it. Christian breakaway sects, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christadelphians, appear to expect Judgement Day any time soon, but perhaps no sooner than those ‘green’ zealots who set up a trestle table each Saturday in our town square, cover it with baize and pamphlets and, literally, try and frighten the children. Ironically, their pitch is immediately opposite the Jehovah’s Kingdom Hall! Take your pick, they’re all selling the same thing....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #998

 

The Countdown Begins: Two Years to Transform or Be Transformed

 It’s like a movie – for example, Star Wars – where suddenly we find ourselves in an existential situation with a very short time to respond… and it’s for the whole game. Everything. It’s almost surreal – the stuff they make movies of! That’s where we are. Right now.

There’s a lot about the world these days that is surreal. Honesty, integrity, logic, commonsense – all suddenly seemed to walk away within less than a decade. The underpinnings of how we understood reality to work – our paradigm – made their way to the door and departed. Now we can’t even tell what’s real for sure. Technology can duplicate every major characteristic of an individual within a digital environment with such fidelity that you don’t know for sure if it’s Donald Trump or Elon Musk (or anyone) really saying or doing what you just saw them say and do.

It’s one thing to fixate on the extraordinary eruption of information technologies with all of the nano, bio, genetic, cogno, AI and social subsets of the explosion; they’re all clearly the major driving force of this planetary upheaval. But it’s more than that. Much more than that.

The stage for these present months and years was systematically set throughout the last century – if not longer. Some three hundred thousand years ago, a major force (reptilians or archons, see the Gnostic Gospels) captured this planet. The humans, with their then 12 strands of DNA, were extraordinarily capable, connected and on their way to greatness. The controller reptilians felt it was inevitable that the humans would overtake them and become a threat.

Something had to be done. The solution was to genetically disable ten of the dozen DNA strands. Break them up, but leave the broken strands in there such that they can’t operate – and be sure to manipulate the genetics to generate fear, pain, hate and terror – all of which produce the negative energy (loosh) that nourishes the reptilians/archons.

Why have humans constantly killed each other and produced extraordinary injustices to each other for millennia? That’s why. It’s been designed into us to sustain the vitality of the controller/suppressor force that coexists with us on this planet.

Those controllers have spent the last millennia working to incrementally shape this 3D reality so that we humans, exercising our “free will,” decision-by-decision, increasingly choose or “allow” the growth of conditions and initiatives designed to systematically constrain and suppress us to the point where these non-human forces can completely subsume humans into Matrix-like power sources (perhaps even housed in cells). At the very least, they want us to be afraid, powerless, dependent, docile, obedient and certainly amused and uninformed. Nothing sovereign or powerful here....<<<Read More>>>...

Weathering the Storms

 This is a time for many of us when we are digging deep, as the saying goes, to find a way to meet the challenges of our lives, both personally and collectively. Many of us have been powerfully impacted by each other’s emotional struggles, current events, and the feeling of the world shaking with change. The question is: Can we find our way back to a state of grounded, calm, openhearted connection with ourselves and others?

The need to answer this question is great. And although we can't change what we've been through or what we're going through now, we can influence how we respond moving forward. And we can begin by cultivating the inner resources we need — ones that can offer us a glimpse of relief and comfort — when we find ourselves in difficult situations and challenging nervous system states.

When we listen attentively to what our nervous system asks of us, when we allow it to speak through our body and emotions, and when we respond compassionately to its calls with the kindness of a loving friend, healing is naturally evoked. As we learn to support our well-being through self-regulation, breathing techniques, and movement we can step forward with greater resilience and grounded clarity — better prepared to weather whatever storms may come. (Daily OM)

Ursula’s Nuclear Epiphany Marks a New Era of EU Desperation

 We have discussed previously on these pages, Ed Miliband’s proclamation of Britain’s “golden age of nuclear”. This week, Miliband’s atomic chorus was joined by none other than European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. 

In a speech to the Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris, the leader of the conflicted Commission of the collapsing Union announced that “Europe needs homegrown, low-carbon energy sources”, and that “nuclear and renewables together have a key role to play”.

There has never been a meaningful proposal for “nuclear and renewables” for precisely the reason von der Leyen states: “Nuclear energy is available around the clock, providing electricity all year.” Europe’s and its member states’ energy policies were driven by fantasies of 100% renewables. 

And what would be the point of building intermittent generation capacity alongside 24/7 capacity, which is furthermore not well-suited to ramping its output up and down? Moreover, the green ideology that was absorbed into Europe’s political architecture was overtly hostile, not only to nuclear energy, which it claimed was too risky, but to all abundant and cheap energy – i.e., solutions that didn’t require immiseration. 

It was in response to the possibility of ‘clean’ nuclear power providing cheap energy that the green movement’s godfather, Paul Ehrlich claimed it would be like “giving an idiot child a machine gun”....<<<Read More>>>...

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The silent saboteurs: How everyday diet choices can undermine thyroid health

Iodine and selenium are foundational nutrients for thyroid hormone production and protection.

Skipping meals or restrictive low-carb diets can signal starvation to the body, slowing thyroid function.

Raw cruciferous vegetables, legumes and seeds contain goitrogens that can impair thyroid activity if not prepared correctly.

Quality of meat matters, as grain-fed animals may accumulate fats and pesticide residues that disrupt thyroid metabolism.

Regular testing, avoiding smoking and excess caffeine, and consulting a doctor are crucial alongside dietary management.

For millions managing thyroid dysfunction, the path to wellness is often paved with good intentions—supplements, exercise and careful eating. Yet, emerging insights from nutrition experts reveal that several common, seemingly healthy dietary habits can inadvertently counteract these efforts, slowing metabolism, exacerbating fatigue and hindering treatment. The thyroid gland, a master regulator of metabolism, energy and mood, has specific nutritional needs that extend beyond simply ingesting key nutrients like iodine and selenium. Avoiding critical missteps in meal timing, food preparation and sourcing is equally vital for optimal function....<<<Read More>>>...

15,000 Babies a Year Were Left in These Walls — 90% Never Survived and Nobody Investigated

 

 

Foundling wheel, Italy surnames, Esposito, Innocenti, Trovato, abandoned babies, and hidden history all converge in one of the darkest systems early modern Europe ever built. For centuries, infants were placed into rotating wooden wheels set into church and hospital walls, renamed by institutions, and absorbed into a system where survival was often the exception. 

What if your last name is not really your last name? What if it is a label assigned to a child no one officially claimed? 

 Across Italy and much of Catholic Europe, foundling hospitals used the ruota degli esposti — a revolving box built into the wall of a church or hospital. A mother could place her baby inside, ring a bell, and disappear. Inside, the child would be received, baptized, renamed, and entered into institutional records. In Italy, surnames such as Esposito, Trovato, Innocenti, and in some regions Colombo became part of that history. In many family trees, the surname itself is the surviving evidence. 

The official story was mercy. The numbers tell a harder story. 

In Dublin, parliamentary records show roughly 127,000 admissions to the Foundling Hospital, with mortality averaging around 800 deaths for every 1,000 children admitted. In one horrific five-year stretch, more than 5,000 infants entered the infirmary and only a handful survived. In London, the Foundling Hospital’s General Reception took in nearly 15,000 children in just four years, and mortality rose to 81 percent. Across Europe, institutions relied on anonymous surrender, wet-nurse systems, transport networks, and bookkeeping that often hid the true scale of infant death. 

And then there are the tokens. 

When mothers surrendered a baby, they sometimes left behind a half coin, a ribbon, a medal, a bead, a scrap of cloth — something that could prove identity if they ever returned. The London Foundling Museum still holds hundreds of these objects. One ribbon once carried the embroidered words: Cruelle Separation. Cruel separation. The institutions kept the tokens. The children rarely got the connection back. 

This is what makes the story bigger than one city or one country. It is not only about infant abandonment. It is about how Europe built a system to process poverty, illegitimacy, and social shame through architecture, paperwork, and religious charity — and how that system may still be visible today in the surnames millions of people carry without knowing why. 

 If your Italian family tree stops suddenly… if an ancestor appears from nowhere… if a surname seems oddly generic or symbolic… the missing branch may not be random. It may have begun at a wheel in the wall.

UK Failures on Asylum Hotels Continue With New Ruling

 For UK taxpayers, residents, and anyone who believed ministers were serious about ending hotel dependency, this is another reminder that the asylum system is still consuming vast sums of public money while overriding local opposition. The political language has shifted repeatedly, but the underlying reality remains intact: hotels are still in use, councils are still fighting, and the bill is still landing on the public.

The latest decision follows months of legal and political conflict around the Bell Hotel in Epping. Back in August 2025, we reported that the hotel had become a flashpoint for protests after a resident was charged with sexual assault, which he denied, and after the UK High Court initially granted a temporary injunction stopping the Home Office from housing asylum seekers there. Ministers immediately sought to appeal, arguing that removing residents would itself inflame tensions.

That earlier legal setback for the government did not last. On 29 August 2025, we then reported that the government had won a court ruling allowing asylum seekers to remain at the Bell Hotel, a decision we described as a worsening of the wider asylum disaster. The hotel remained open for asylum accommodation, and protests continued.

Now the position has hardened further. GB News and LBC report that Lady Justice Andrews and Lord Justice Holgate refused Epping Council permission to pursue its appeal, holding that the High Court judge had not “ducked the issue” and that there was “no arguable basis” for criticising his refusal to grant relief. In plain terms, the Bell Hotel stays in the asylum system....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #997

 

The Power of Storytelling

 Ever since our ancestors could first communicate, we have gathered to share our stories. We have passed along creation tales and tragic stories of lost love. We have repeated accounts of real heroism and simple stories of family history. When our forebears lived closer to the land and to each other, the practice of storytelling was imbued with ritual and occasion. Members of the tribe would often gather around the fire to hear their genealogy recited aloud by an elder or master storyteller. Listeners could track how their own lives, and the lives of their parents, connected to other tribe members. Everyone’s ancient relatives once played out similar life dramas together.

As a custom, some cultures’ storytellers repeat the same tale over and over because they believe that each time you hear it, you come to the story as a different person and view the plot and characters in a new light. Hearing the story over and over is a way to gauge where you have been and where you are now on your path of personal evolution. It also helps the younger generation learn the stories so that they can pass them to forthcoming generations.

When we hear others tell stories, we can laugh at their humorous adventures, feel the thrill of exciting encounters, see parts of ourselves in them, and learn from the challenges they face. Though most of our formal traditions of storytelling are lost, it does not mean we have to be without. We can begin new practices in our own families — listening to one another, honoring our own path, and witnessing the journeys of those around us. We can revive this tradition by gathering around the campfire or hearth with family and friends, and sharing stories. By building these new practices, we give ourselves and the ones we love an opportunity to draw ever closer in our shared human experience. (David Icke)

Poisoned Mind: Social Media in the 21st Century

 According to an article on the website of ‘Radio Free Europe’, a nondescript modern 4-storey building on Savushkina Street, St. Petersburg, houses the innocuously titled ‘Internet Research Centre’.

Inside the building operate government controlled and tasked teams of professional ‘trolls’. Spread across approximately 40 rooms, the trolls prowl the Internet in 12 hour shifts, generating pro-Kremlin comments and ‘gaming’ Internet forums and online conversations.

St. Petersburg blogger Marat Burkhard recently came forward to describe the apparent covert activities in detail. Burkhard describes his co-workers as “politically illiterate young people” who must be briefed on current topics at the beginning of each shift and continually supervised.

At this point it would be pertinent to note the source of the article – Radio Free Europe – notoriously a CIA funded propaganda outlet for decades (now financed, more obtrusively, through the State Department and ‘private donors’). While only the congenitally naive would doubt the veracity of the article’s basic claims, what is (unsurprisingly) lacking is context. Whether financed and operated by Russia’s intelligence agency FSB, or some other shadowy enclave, it is estimated that the entire Russian security establishment currently operates with just one twentieth (1/20) of the US equivalent (not even including the UK and other close Western allies).

What that means, in a nutshell, is that for every Internet Research Centre in Russia, the CIA/NSA/GCHQ/private contractor nexus would be operating the equivalent of (at least) 20 such centres. Flooding the social media networks, news and other sites of their domestic populations with thousands upon thousands of comments, posts, disruption, disinformation and propaganda bullets every day. Salvos in an escalating, but largely unseen, ‘Information War’....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #996

 

A nutrient powerhouse: Unpacking spinach’s modern health legacy

Spinach is a nutrient-dense leafy green, exceptionally rich in vitamins A, C, K, folate and minerals like magnesium and iron.

Its high nitrate content can improve blood flow and lower blood pressure, while antioxidants like lutein protect eye health.

Regular consumption is linked to reduced inflammation, better digestive health and a slower rate of age-related cognitive decline.

The vegetable contains oxalates, which can contribute to kidney stones in susceptible individuals and may interfere with mineral absorption.

Cooking methods like steaming or sautéing with healthy fats can optimize the bioavailability of its key nutrients.

From medieval Persian gardens to contemporary superfood smoothies, spinach has maintained a storied place on the global plate. Today, nutritional science is decoding why this leafy green, long celebrated in folklore and pop culture, deserves its robust reputation. New research and reviews affirm that routinely incorporating Spinacia oleracea into the diet can impart significant benefits for cardiovascular health, vision and cognitive function, though it requires mindful consumption for some individuals. This modern understanding elevates spinach from a simple side dish to a strategic component of preventive health....<<<Read More>>>... 

Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine

 

Economy Flatlines Ahead of Iran War Stoking New Cost of Living Crisis Fears

 The economy unexpectedly flatlined in January ahead of the war in Iran, with the lack of signs of growth stoking fears of recession and another cost-of-living crisis. The Mail has more.

In January, the economy recorded zero growth, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Most economists had expected growth of 0.2%.

It underscores the economy’s fragility even before the outbreak of the Iran conflict, which has triggered an energy shock likely to raise inflation.

The prospect of another energy crisis has stoked fears that the UK will fall into a period of stagflation – the combination of higher inflation and unemployment, and stagnating growth – which has further dampened the chances of rate cuts.

The ONS said the overall picture is “subdued”, led by zero growth across services and a 0.1% fall in production in January. While construction grew 0.2% in January, it continued its contraction over the quarter, down 2%.

The figures will be grim reading for the Chancellor, who has pinned her hopes on improving economic growth.

She said the figures come “amid an uncertain world” but insisted: “Our economic plan is the right one, but I know there is more to do,” as the Middle East conflict threatens higher inflation.

Economists at ING anticipate a peak for headline inflation in late summer at around 3.5%.

“The problem facing the UK is that despite the government saying they need to stick to the plan to produce economic growth, forecasts point to very little improvement, with even 2% growth a year becoming a pipe dream,” said Lindsay James, investment strategist at Quilter...<<<Read More>>>...

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Labour is not the only government to sell Britons out to Islam; Islamophilia will change Britain forever

There are ample examples of the Labour government seeking to give Muslims preferential rights and privileges over Christian Britons. But this love-in with Islam did not start with the left-wing government. And the consequences of Islamophilic politicians will change Britain and the British way of life forever.

In an article titled ‘How the Left’s love-in with Islam will change Britain’, The Telegraph describes the relationship between the British political left (“Left”) and Islamist groups as a growing political alliance that it argues is reshaping Britain’s social, political and cultural landscape.

“With local elections approaching, Sir Keir Starmer and his colleagues are desperate to win back the approval of Muslim voters they had long taken for granted. The results of this risk going beyond pure politics – shaping Britain and British society for years to come,” the article states.

At 6.5 per cent (REALLY - its closer to 60%) of the population of England and Wales, many of whom are too young to vote, Muslims are a minority. But the Muslim population is growing due to unprecedented immigration in recent years, and Muslim women are having more children than native Britons. So, the British Left’s love-in with Islam is here to stay, The Telegraph warns. And, “As Britain becomes a more Muslim country, British politics becomes more concerned with Muslim issues.”

Politicians being concerned with Muslim issues to solicit votes affects the lives of every British citizen, young and old alike. Take, as an example, the appointment of Sir Hamid Patel as interim chairman of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (“Ofsted”) in March 2025, a role concerned with governance and oversight of school inspections. Ofsted also inspects childcare, adoption and fostering agencies, and initial teacher training. On 1 September 2025, Dame Christine Gilbert replaced Patel as Chair of Ofsted....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #995

 

Unidentified Spectres: How Suppressed Secrets are Used as Paranormal Control Mechanisms

The human mind does not operate within a unified wholeness but rather through the fragments of a piecemeal story. These fragments are constantly rearranged to tell a different story according to the dominant narrative. The arrangement of these fragments of storytelling form part of the generally unknown or suppressed mechanisms and processes of the deliberate management and conditioning of human consciousness. One of these lucrative sites of targeting is through the medium of the paranormal; this is also a secret realm of the infliction of trauma upon the individual and collective mind.

In past eras, this has been maintained through narratives of myth, legend, mystic-themed paradigms, occultism, and the sustained secrecy of certain ‘secret societies’.

The thoughts, beliefs, and opinions that were ‘available for use’ within the social collective of the masses have always been limited by regulation. For such a long time, information came from localised sources and was heavily governed by those same sources.

However, as the general level of conscious awareness rises, the control systems also become more complex and sophisticated. Not only do such conditioning mechanisms operate through well-known social-cultural institutions – education, politics, law, the media, and many more (as have been well-documented) – they also work more stealthily through paranormal phenomena....<<<Read More>>>...

The Impossible Math They Hope You Never Calculate — 3 Cities, 3 Continents, 1 Pattern

 

Three cities. Three continents. The same “impossible rebuild” pattern. Melbourne, Chicago, and San Francisco explode from near-nothing into global showcase cities, get leveled by catastrophe, then rebuild at speeds the era’s tools, labor, and documentation barely explain. This episode follows census data, building permits, insurance records, and World’s Fair timelines to ask the uncomfortable question: what’s missing from the official story? If you track Tartaria, mudflood, reset theory, and “erased history” claims, this is a grounded case study in where the numbers start to strain. 

We start in Melbourne: a settlement counted at 177 people in 1836, then a gold-driven population surge so extreme it reshapes the entire colony. In the same window, the city launches monumental stone civic projects and produces the world’s first successful eight-hour workday movement. The money explains part of it. The logistics, trade depth, and coordination speed are the part most people never slow down to interrogate. 

Then Chicago: one of the fastest-growing cities in U.S. history, burned in 1871, rebuilt at breakneck pace, burned again in 1874, and still becomes the birthplace of the skyscraper within a single generation. The heroic “rise from ashes” myth is real, but it leaves out key details that make the timeline feel less like progress and more like a pressure-cooker experiment. 

Finally San Francisco: a gold-rush rocket ship that loses over 80% of its cityscape in 1906, then rebuilds so fast that standards are weakened, language is carefully managed for insurance purposes, and firsthand accounts describe deliberate fires. Three years later, tens of thousands of new buildings. And then, like the other two, the victory lap: a World’s Fair built to prove recovery. This is not “one weird coincidence.” It’s a repeating structure:

AI expert: We don’t know how AI works

 In an interview last year, AI expert Professor Stuart Russell exposed the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how artificial general intelligence (“AGI”) could replace humans by 2030 and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up.

All of this for computer programs that humans, including those programming and marketing them, don’t understand. “The kind of AI systems we’re building now, we don’t understand how they work,” he said.

Professor Stuart Russell OBE is a world-renowned AI expert and Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering and directs the Centre for Human-Compatible AI, and is also the bestselling author of the book ‘Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control’.

During an interview with Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary of a CEO, Prof. Russell explained what the “gorilla problem” reveals about our future under superintelligent AI, how governments are out funded by Big Tech, why current AI systems already lie and self-preserve, the radical solution he’s spent a decade building to make AI safe, and the myth of “pulling the plug” and why AI won’t be that easy to stop....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #994

 

Foreign Office Staff Celebrated Islamic Revolution at Iranian Embassy

Foreign Office staff attended a party at the Iranian embassy to celebrate the Islamic revolution just weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its own people. The Telegraph has the story.

As smartly dressed guests, including UK civil servants, gathered at the London event, embassy officials hailed Iran’s “remarkable accomplishments” in spite of “unjust” Western sanctions. Video footage shows attendees standing in silence for a rendition of Iran’s national anthem.

On the same day as the event, February 12th, the US-based group Human Rights Activists News Agency announced that at least 7,000 people had been killed in Iran, including 219 children. Anti-regime campaigners previously said up to 30,000 protesters may have been murdered.

Reports had reached the West of injured protesters being killed in hospital by the regime’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and people on the streets being shot in the head and neck at close range.

Demonstrators said the drains of Tehran ran crimson with the blood of the dead.

Back in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, gave a speech praising the Iranian regime and attacking Western sanctions on Tehran.

“For nearly half a century, Iran has faced relentless pressure; from the eight-year imposed war and severe sanctions to acts of sabotage and terrorism,” he said.

“Nevertheless, by relying on domestic capabilities, national cohesion and empowered human resources, it has achieved significant progress.”

A video released by the embassy showed guests mingling with regime officials just a fortnight before the outbreak of war between Iran, and the United States and Israel.

A large banner can be seen adorned with pictures of Ali Khamenei, the former Iranian supreme leader who was later killed by US-Israeli strikes, and Ruhollah Khomeini, his predecessor.

Dame Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, said it was “disgraceful” for officials to celebrate the creation of a regime that had “bathed the streets of cities across Iran in the blood of a generation of freedom fighters”....<<<Read More>>>...

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Unlocking the power of mangoes: A superfood for your gut, eyes and immune system

 Modern science confirms the mango's ancient superfood status.

It is packed with immune-boosting vitamins C and A.

Mango improves digestion and can relieve chronic constipation.

Its antioxidants protect eye and heart health.

The fruit is versatile and easy to add to your diet.

For centuries, the mango has been revered as the "king of fruits" in its native Southeast Asia, but only now is modern science fully uncovering why this tropical staple deserves a crown in your kitchen. This isn't about a fleeting food trend. It's about a nutrient-dense, ancient superfood, packed with vitamins and antioxidants, that delivers tangible benefits for your digestion, eyes, heart and immune system. The evidence is clear: incorporating this golden fruit into your diet is a smart, natural strategy for supporting overall health.

The nutritional profile of a mango is impressive. A single cup of sliced mango provides nearly 67 percent of your daily vitamin C needs, a powerhouse nutrient crucial for immune function and skin repair. That same serving also delivers 10% your daily vitamin A, essential for healthy vision, alongside a meaningful boost of fiber, vitamin B6, copper and folate. This combination of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants works in concert to fortify the body.

One of the most celebrated benefits of mango is its positive influence on digestion. Research indicates it can do more than just provide fiber. A 2018 study involving adults with chronic constipation found that daily mango consumption led to significant improvements in constipation symptoms. Experts suggest that compounds like amylase, a digestive enzyme in mango, work with its water and fiber content to improve gut function and help break down food efficiently....<<<Read More>>>...

Past Lives: “My Sister Pushed Me into the Fire in a Past Life”

There was always something extraordinary about Kimberly from the very moment she came into the world, reports dailystar.co.uk.

She was born with a striking blaze of red hair and spent the first four days of her life crying incessantly, refusing to sleep. Her mother, Angela, exhausted and overwhelmed after months of little rest, eventually brought Kimberly into her own bed, and as she put it, “life got much better.”

Speaking to LMN for a programme titled The Ghost Inside My Child, Angela, who hails from San Diego, shared that Kimberly displayed a remarkable sense of empathy from a very young age. She would often become anxious in chaotic or overwhelming situations.

Concerned, her family took her to a therapist to learn relaxation and breathing techniques. Angela reflected, “I wasn’t sure, but I started to think that maybe her sensitive nature was why she couldn’t sleep. When I finally realised what was causing her sleep issues, I felt completely helpless.”

Angela recalled a particularly chilling moment that sent shivers down her spine. One day, while Kimberly was playing, it appeared as though she was talking to someone. Angela asked, “Kimberly, who are you talking to?” to which Kimberly replied, “I’m talking to my sister, Mama.”

This response was puzzling, as Kimberly did not have a sister at that time. When Angela pressed further, asking, “How come you play with your sister so much when you don’t have a sister?” Kimberly responded, “No, no, Mama, the sister from when I lived before.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Fears Keir Starmer's digital ID cards could be used as population-wide facial recognition database for police mugshots

 Keir Starmer’s digital ID card scheme could be used as a population-wide facial recognition database for police to check mugshots, privacy campaigners fear.

A clause included in Labour’s digital ID consultation could allow police to access facial recognition and biometric data held by the Government.

The digital ID cards will include a ‘a current, high-resolution biometric facial image that meets specified requirements’, the Government announced this week

Documents published by the Cabinet Office state that ‘there is a legal basis for police use of facial recognition, which may include access to biometric data held by government’.

The documents add that under the Government’s proposals the digital ID cards will be subject to existing and any new legal frameworks ‘for using facial recognition in law enforcement’.

Jasleen Chaggar, from civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, said: ‘Snuck into the consultation is an admission that the police would be allowed to repurpose our digital ID photos as mugshots to create a population-wide facial recognition database.

‘It is for precisely this reason that the public is rightly sceptical of a sprawling ID system that has been sold to us under various guises - whether to “stop the boats” or improve public services - but which invariably hands more power and more of our personal information to the state, at our expense.’

She added: ‘Given the public backlash, high costs, serious data risks and likelihood that this could become a mandatory scheme in practice, the government should drop this digital ID disaster altogether.’...<<<Read More>>>...

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

 

Starmer’s Stunning Admission That Multiculturalism Has Failed is Still Based on a Lie

 Keir Starmer was at it again this week repeating the dead lie that Britain has always been a tolerant and diverse country. Speaking about the Government’s new ‘Social Cohesion’ Strategy on March 9th, Starmer seemed to be speaking about himself and his Government’s recognition that communities are fighting like cats (hence the need for the social cohesion strategy) when he said:

One of my biggest concerns at the moment is that there are people in politics who want to set up grievances between different groups of people, to point fingers and divide and say that we can’t be one country, we can’t be one community. I totally disagree with that. I think one of the great things about this country is we’re a diverse country, where we prove that different people can live alongside each other in a tolerant way, with our values. Actually, that’s more than just an observation on who we are as a country. It’s what we are as a country. That is us.

Keir Starmer has said himself that he doesn’t read books, and I’m sure he’s far too busy to listen to The Rest is History, so perhaps we should forgive him for not understanding that Britain has never been a land of kumbaya with people living “in one community”. Instead, Britain has been forged by savage invasions by tribes and empires, (Roman, Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Normans), four civils wars (the Anarchy, the Barons’ War, the Wars of the Roses, the Civil War) the conversion and expulsion of different religious groups (Danes in AD 878 and Jews in 1290), uneasy and bloody unions and disunions with Wales, Ireland and Scotland. We are not, nor ever have been one community....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #993

 

Breathe easy this winter: How to use peppermint, tea tree and other essential oils to relieve cold and flu symptoms naturally

 Essential oils offer natural antiviral and antimicrobial properties against flu viruses.

Research shows oils like oregano and eucalyptus can combat strains such as H1N1.

Safe use requires diluting with a carrier oil and avoiding ingestion.

Inhalation and topical application are effective methods for symptom relief.

Combine oils with vitamin C, elderberry, and stress management for holistic defense.

As the annual flu season approaches, a growing number of health-conscious individuals are turning away from the pharmacy aisle and looking instead to nature’s own medicine cabinet for relief. The answer, according to emerging research and centuries of traditional use, may be found in the potent antiviral and antimicrobial properties of essential oils. Extracted from plants, herbs, and roots, these concentrated oils are gaining recognition not just for their pleasant scents but for their ability to help the body fight off some of the toughest viral invaders, including influenza.

The historical use of plant extracts for healing stretches back millennia, but modern science is now catching up, validating what herbalists have long known: essential oils offer a compelling, natural alternative for symptom relief and immune support. The key is understanding which oils to use and how to use them safely and effectively....<<<Read More>>>... 

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China proves “national unification” means oppressing all but the CCP’s chosen group

 Recently, the UK government published a plan that includes an “anti-Muslim hostility” definition and tsar. It is fundamentally centred on national unification.

What does national unification mean? If China’s definition is anything to go by, it is the crackdown on all groups of people except for the regime’s chosen group.

Unification seems to be becoming the latest buzzword. Take the example of the UK government’s initiative to appoint an “anti-Muslim hostility tsar.”

The tsar is part of Labour’s “Protecting What Matters” plan, which includes a non-statutory definition of “anti-Muslim hostility.”

The plan is fundamentally centred on national unification. To prove the point, the word “unite” appears several times in the policy paper published on 9 March 2026: 

… the ease with which people of different cultures and races live side-by-side in our diverse democracy is both envied and feared around the globe. Feared, because it provides a banal yet profound challenge to the increasingly noisy politics that says it simply cannot be done; people who are different cannot come together united under one flag.

… if we are to be strong on the global stage, we must have strong and united communities at home.

Because ultimately, this is the only way we can sustainably strengthen society. That is the challenge this Action Plan takes on. And in doing so it shows a new path for a united, proud, confident and cohesive Britain..

This programme marks the beginning of a sustained, transparent, and accountable effort to protect what matters and unite the country for the future.

… the social cohesion that has kept us united in the face of adversity can no longer be taken for granted.

… a country that is stronger, fairer, and more united for generations to come.

A government that asks its citizens to unite must also create the conditions that make unity possible.

Invest £1.5 billion in cultural organisations, recognising the ability of cultural organisations to unite communities

Working with the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), we will use our diplomatic network to press for laws and policies that protect religious or belief minorities and promote inclusive, tolerant societies.

… the foundations of strong social cohesion that have long kept the UK united in the face of challenge are under strain.

… when people mix and get to know each other it becomes clear that there is more that unites than divides them......<<<Read More>>>...

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

 

Children’s Drawings Could Be Blasphemous Under Islamic Law, Councils Say

 Schools have been advised by local authorities that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law and music and dance may conflict with religious sensitivities. The Telegraph has more.


Schools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law.

Guidance issued to teachers by Labour councils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia.

The advice, designed to help teachers adapt to religious sensitivities, also warns that music and dance classes could be contrary to the teachings of Islam.

It adds that diversity in the classroom can be “a great source of strength”, but that schools “will want to be flexible in catering for religious difference”.

The guidance was issued by local authorities across the North of England, including Kirklees, the council area that covers Batley Grammar School.

The school became the scene of protests in 2021 after a teacher showed an image of the Prophet Mohammed in a class. The staff member remains in hiding.

The guidance document titled ‘Sharing the Journey’ says that “for some Muslim parents, sensitivities may exist in connection with the teaching of aspects of art, dance, drama, music, physical education, religious education and RSHE”.

The subject-by-subject guide to handling religious prohibitions while delivering the National Curriculum states that while Islamic culture has produced enduring abstract art, “three-dimensional figurative imagery of humans is considered idolatrous by some Muslims”.

Teachers have been advised: “It is very important that the school understands this and is also careful not to ask its students to reproduce images of Jesus, the Prophet Mohammed or other figures considered to be prophets in Islam. Some Muslim pupils may not wish to draw the human figure.”

The prohibition is based on several hadith – canonical stories about Mohammed that inform sharia – in which the Muslim prophet speaks out against images, particularly those imitating living beings....<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #992

 

Tyranny is a ‘Smart’ Motorway

Over the last 20 years or so, we’ve become very used to anti-traffic measures blighting our daily lives, introduced in the name of safety, cleaner air, Net Zero, healthy living, ‘won’t somebody think of the children’, or some combination of these. Particularly for those of us who live in urban Britain, or travel regularly into British towns and cities, we have had to learn to live with 20 mile-an-hour zones, segregated bike lanes, LTNs, LEZ, ULEZ, congestion charges and many other petty intrusions. 

The recent green light for the ’15 minute city’ in Oxford will no doubt rapidly metastasise through the country. These bureaucratic encroachments on the urban motorist are quite transparent in their intent – all of them are obviously revenue raising schemes for fiscally incontinent local authorities and designed to make sure that getting behind the wheel of your car is such an unpleasant and expensive prospect that you’ll only consider it under the direst of circumstances. Since we’re not incurably credulous, the sensible among us recognise that this is the work of minor technocrats with frustrated ambitions, using what little power they have to exert a little bit more control over us, make our lives just a little bit less free and enjoyable and raise some funds in the process. My local council recently introduced LTN cameras on several streets in the borough, ostensibly to stop those roads being used as ‘rat runs’. They held multiple consultation meetings, with overwhelmingly negative feedback from residents. Nonetheless, they then introduced a trial – again, with negative feedback. At the end of the trial, they declared success and made the set up permanent. Purely coincidentally, they raised several millions of pounds from fines issued during the trial period.

Doubtless, variable speed limits on motorways raise revenue from speed cameras and certainly they put you off using the road unless you absolutely have to get a family of four plus dog and luggage from point A to distant point B. More importantly, though, they are infantilising: they are the state as helicopter parent, terrified that if it leaves us to our own devices we might make bad decisions with bad consequences. Somewhere in a central control room, a computer program designed by experts for the purpose, makes a decision on your behalf based on information from road-surface sensors and constant CCTV. A specially selected and trained functionary keeps an eye on the system and intervenes when necessary or at whim. In big red and white lights, the state tells us: ‘We do not trust your judgement. You are an unruly child and it’s best if we set your boundaries.’ Big, black and white clip art cameras also say: ‘You are under supervision. Don’t forget it.’ Shabana Mahmood’s Benthamite panopticon in action....<<<Read More>>>....