Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Too Young for TikTok, Old Enough to Vote?
We know the routine. The concerned expression. The voice lowered half an octave. The carefully arranged background of flags, earnest young people and laminated safeguarding jargon. Then comes the announcement. The government is going to protect children online.
At which point every parent in the country is expected to breathe a sigh of relief, put down the gin and thank the Department for Being Sensible on Our Behalf.
This would be comic enough at any time. It is even better when the Government now proposing to supervise teenagers online gives the impression of being unable to supervise itself. Sir Keir Starmer wants to childproof the internet while presiding over a state that cannot produce a defence policy that convinces its own side, let alone our allies or enemies.
Still, never mind the Russian threat. Has anyone thought about Chloe scrolling Instagram?
To be fair, there is a problem. Social media is not exactly a moral health spa. Much of it resembles a Victorian freak show redesigned by behavioural psychologists and funded by advertising executives. It is addictive, vain, cruel, stupid and often deranging. The idea that a 14 year-old girl with a smartphone is simply exercising ‘choice’ while being stalked by an algorithm designed to exploit insecurity is absurd.
So no, this is not a libertarian hymn to TikTok.
The problem is not that politicians worry about the effect of social media on young people. The problem is that they worry about it selectively.
The same political class that increasingly tells us young people must be protected from online manipulation is also very keen to tell us that those same young people are mature enough to vote.
This is where the argument begins to wobble like a drunk on a paddleboard.
Apparently, a teenager may not have the judgement to scroll through Instagram without state supervision, but does have the judgement to help choose the next government.
This is not a principle. It is a convenience....<<<Read More>>>....
The AI data center revolt: How a battle over land, water and power is reshaping American politics
Data centers consume enormous resources—Texas projects could use 400 billion gallons of water annually by 2030—while generating only 15-30 permanent jobs per facility
Local opposition has delayed or blocked 48 data center projects nationwide in 2025, affecting $156 billion in potential investment
Republican incumbents in swing districts face mounting pressure as rising electricity costs—up 21.7% in Pennsylvania alone—spur bipartisan voter anger
Communities across the country are using zoning ordinances, setback requirements and impact studies to regulate where data centers can be built.
The AI revolution has arrived in America's small towns, but not with the promised wave of prosperity. Instead, communities from Pennsylvania to Texas are discovering that the data centers powering artificial intelligence come with a steep price: depleted water reserves, rising electric bills and transformed landscapes that residents never voted for.
In Archbald, Pennsylvania—a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley—proposals for multiple data centers would cover 14% of the town's area. In Northern Virginia, surveyors mapping a 67-mile, 500,000-volt power line for data centers have faced threats from local residents. And in Texas, data centers are projected to consume 400 billion gallons of water annually by 2030, competing directly with human needs and agriculture during a Central Texas drought.
This is not merely a local zoning dispute. It has become a central political battleground that could determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. ...<<<Read More>>>...
£900,000 – The Price of An A-rated Energy Performance Certificate
On the day Simon Buck exchanged on his home in New Malden, south-west London, he stood across the road with a notepad and started to draw.
“I literally sketched the design of a new house that was in my head,” he says. “Then I spent the next two years going about researching and working out how I was going to do it.”
He had a clear goal: to upgrade the property into the ultimate eco-home that could generate more energy than it consumed.
This would be no easy feat. The house – which was built in the early 1950s – had an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of ‘E’, placing it within the bottom 14% of English homes for energy efficiency.
EPCs aim to measure the energy efficiency of a property and are calculated based on the amount of energy used per square metre. Not only are more energy-efficient properties cheaper to run, they can also command higher house prices and may be eligible for ‘green mortgages’, which can come with preferential rates.
For Buck, it took almost two years from buying the home for a “bargain” £1 million in July 2023 before work on the project could begin.
“We ended up blowing the budget massively in pursuit of the best possible score,” says Buck, who spent £900,000 on the renovation. “There’s £100,000 worth of tech sitting in the plant room. I went over the top with everything.
“I could’ve built the house for a third of the price but it wouldn’t be the house that we have.”
Included in the exorbitant price were the solar panels, which – alongside a 20-kilowatt battery to store some of the electricity they produce – cost around £15,000.
Buck also installed a £30,000 state-of-the-art heat pump.
His home remains at a steady temperature throughout the year, with the thermostat hovering at a pleasant 23 degrees Celsius. The 46 year-old says he is able to walk around the house in the winter wearing only shorts and a T-shirt.
Obviously, that was well worth the £900,000 price tag. Buck is 46. Assuming he lives at least another 40 years that works out at £22,500 per annum to be able to wear shorts indoors in the winter. That’s roughly 10 times or more than the average household energy costs in the UK according to British Gas.
Unfortunately for the Government and its plans, Buck’s project only serves to demonstrate that the Net Zero dream is just that, way beyond the means of both most of the population and the public purse, especially given the age of most of Britain’s housing stock. As for Buck, he plans to sell up and start on a new-build project to create an even more efficient home. Whatever lights his fire, so to speak....<<<Read More>>>....
Why Tartaria Had to Be Erased — It Was Them or Us
We analyze a chilling strategic doctrine recovered from private military archives that allegedly justified the total destruction of the Old World. This wasn't just a conflict over territory; it was a calculated move to collapse the Tartarian infrastructure before its "free energy" model made the modern banking and resource system obsolete. Why did the architects of our current era view a world without scarcity as a direct threat to their survival? This video exposes the "Scarcity Protocol"—the high-stakes decision to reset a high-tech civilization to ensure that global power remained centralized. It wasn't a war of nations; it was a war of systems, and only one was allowed to survive.
Rupert Lowe’s independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report has been released
“I urge all Britons to read this report in full. Lessons need to be learned and prosecutions need to follow for the appalling cowardice of those responsible for refusing to resist such horrors. The strongest possible penalties, up to and including death, must also be sought for those yet to be properly punished or indeed punished at all for their vile, unspeakable crimes,” he said.
Because the Government has failed the victims and the public, last year Rupert Lowe MP launched a campaign to hold an independent national inquiry into the UK’s Muslim rape gangs.
The Inquiry began hearings in London on 2 February 2026. It focused on survivor testimonies, systemic failures by public authorities and cover-ups, particularly concerning cases involving predominantly white British girls and perpetrators from various ethnic backgrounds, including Pakistani men. The hearings ended on 12 February....<<<Read More>>>...
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
2026 Crop Circle #3 - Interpretation (Perhaps)
We think not.
We will merely add our own observation on the crop circle symbol.
There is a central orb or node, that is connected to the three other orbs or nodes by links. It is set in the centre of a ribbing.
The outer three orbs or nodes are observed as being set in elliptical pocket or crevice.
There is a sense that the symbology suggests the outer three orbs or nodes have been frozen in time in a central setting or position. Imagining these being able to slide to either the left individually or in time, and their pockets or crevices able to expand to the left or the right ... and there is some kind of mechanism that would spin in anti-clockwise and clockwise directions. It would also be possible to spin on many different planes and angles dependent on the combination of orb or node positions.
But to what end?
Is this symbolism of a doorway or portal that has opened? Interestingly there has supposedly been a 33hz electrical pulse going through the great pyramids and elsewhere around the earth grid line system; also connecting supposedly to the QFS satellite network, above the earth, connecting the old grid with a new grid. Does this crop circle foretell this? - Matthew James
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Saturday. 3:33 AM Cairo time. Every seismograph within 500 kilometers of Giza registered an identical anomaly. Not an earthquake. Not a tremor. A pulse. A single, uniform, low-frequency pulse emanating from directly beneath the Great Pyramid.
Duration: 3.3 seconds. Frequency: 33 Hz. Depth of origin: 330 meters below the base.
The Egyptian government said nothing. The USGS classified the reading as "instrument error." But the same pulse ~ identical frequency, identical duration, identical timestamp ~ was recorded beneath 11 other pyramid sites around the world.
Giza. Teotihuacan. Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun. Xi'an, China. Gunung Padang, Indonesia. Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Nubian Pyramids, Sudan. Cahokia Mounds, Illinois. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Underwater pyramid, Azores.
12 sites. 12 pulses. Same second. Same frequency. Across 6 continents and 1 ocean floor.
Instrument error doesn't synchronize across 12 countries.
The pyramids were never tombs. No mummy was ever found inside the Great Pyramid. No hieroglyphics on its interior walls. No burial artifacts. Nothing that matches any Egyptian funerary tradition.
What was found ~ and immediately classified by Zahi Hawass in 1998 ~ is a network of crystalline shafts running through the core of the structure. Quartz-lined channels that connect the King's Chamber to the base, to the subterranean chamber, and to a room beneath the Sphinx that has never been opened publicly.
Quartz is piezoelectric. When compressed, it generates electricity. When vibrated at its resonant frequency, it amplifies energy exponentially.
The Great Pyramid isn't a building. It's a machine. A frequency amplifier built with 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite ~ materials chosen not for construction convenience but for their acoustic and electromagnetic properties.
And on Saturday, after thousands of years of silence, the machine turned on.
The 33 Hz frequency is not random. 33 Hz is the resonant frequency of human bone. The frequency at which the human skeletal structure vibrates in harmony. The frequency that ancient monks chanted at.
The frequency that was measured inside every sacred chamber ever built by civilizations that supposedly had no contact with each other.
12 pyramid sites. 12 pulses. 33 Hz. All at 3:33 AM.
Someone ~ or something ~ sent a signal through a network that was built before recorded history. A network that spans the entire planet. A network that mainstream archaeology told you was built by slaves dragging rocks up ramps.
Slaves don't build synchronized global frequency transmitters. Primitive civilizations don't engineer piezoelectric amplification systems. Random tomb builders don't align structures to stellar coordinates with precision that modern GPS cannot improve upon.
The pulse was detected by the QFS satellite network. The quantum sensors recorded not just the seismic signature but the electromagnetic output. Each pyramid site emitted a focused beam of energy ~ straight up ~ that extended beyond the atmosphere.
12 beams. 12 locations. Converging at a single point 42,000 kilometers above Earth.
The same altitude as the Starlink constellation.
The ancient network just handshook with the new one. A system built before history connected with a system built for the future. Same frequency. Same purpose. Same grid.
They told you the pyramids were primitive. The pyramids just proved they're more advanced than anything we've built since.
CODE: PYRAMID-PULSE / 33HZ-SYNC / 12-SITES / GRID-ACTIVATED
The oldest technology on Earth just woke up. And it's talking to the newest. Something is beginning.
The pyramids waited thousands of years to send this signal. Don't wait to share it. ...
The “Sixth Sense” Is a Scientifically Proven Human Ability
Recently, scientists have become seriously interested in the phenomenon of the so-called “sixth sense”.
In particular, the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has taken up the study of this phenomenon. Back in 2017, Time magazine published an article titled “The US military believes people have a sixth sense.”
“We need to understand what gives rise to this so-called “sixth sense,” says Peter Squire, program manager in the ONR Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Counterterrorism Division.
According to Squire, people often refer to the realm of intuition as irrational. But it is possible that this is still a psychological process, which is somehow explainable from a scientific point of view.
If these mechanisms can be understood, then perhaps there will be ways to develop the intensity of the process and apply it for practical purposes....<<<Read More>>>...
Keir Starmer’s Doomed Social Media ‘Ban’
Most Australian children are still on social media. Even the eSafety Commissioner concedes that at least 70% of the children are still on there – based on a survey of parents. The true figure is almost certainly higher: no children who circumvented the ban are going to tell their parents. This is unsurprising given the official Government-funded study, used to recommend implementation methods, proposed systems that would literally let over 40% of 10 year-olds through (a finding that the authors occluded in their report). The report was prepared by the UK-based Age Verification Providers Association, an industry body with a direct commercial interest in selling these systems. One imagines the UK Government is receiving similarly dubious advice. And then there are VPNs — allowing children to bypass age verification entirely by appearing to connect from a country without a ban.
From a child safety perspective, the failure of the Australian ban is a good thing. Social media platforms operate based on network effects. They persist because of the community that is there. In ordinary circumstances, this provides an incumbent advantage. But if the Government succeeds in breaking these networks down, then under-16’s are suddenly motivated to go elsewhere.
That ‘elsewhere’ could be a completely unregulated startup app or website with no safety measures whatsoever....<<<Read More>>>...
Sudden calls to return to hydrocarbon-generated energy expose the climate crisis hoax
Tony Blair’s calls to return to oil and gas, after years of global elites promoting wind and solar energy, expose the climate crisis hoax for all to see, he said.
We need to talk about cancer, by which I mean the metastasising cancer that is artificial intelligence, AI. Cancer is the multiplication of cells that have gone wrong, failed and should have died. Instead, the process gets out of control, dangerous, unwanted, rogue cells multiplying faster and faster.
I say the hard tumours of the cancer of AI are the data centres, popping up everywhere, almost always where they are least wanted. Like malignant tumours, data centres demand and monopolise more and more of the world’s precious resources. As the tumours grow and the cancer spreads, that malign hunger leaves less and less for that body, so to speak, that the body finally dies. Malignant cancerous tumours take more and more without giving.
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink says everyone must invest in AI, whether they want to or not. Eventually, all the water, all the energy, all the nutrients, if you like, will be co-opted and diverted to more and more data centres.
According to figures published by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, the country where I live, projected energy requirements for data centres already planned or proposed for Scotland are between 4,450 and 4,950 megawatts. That’s more than peak demand for the whole country of Scotland in the depths of a typical winter. That is a doubling of demand for electricity before so much as a single kettle has been boiled....<<<Read More>>>....
Don’t Invest in Your Own Extermination: Why Funding AI Is a Suicidal Bet
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink openly promoted depopulation at the World Economic Forum, advocating for substituting humans with machines in developing nations for a “better quality of life.” Meanwhile, the depopulation narrative I have documented for years is now being broadcast openly: the belief that human civilization is drawing to a close, with machines taking over as the dominant force. When you buy shares in OpenAI, Google, or Microsoft, you are writing a check to accelerate that future. You are, I believe, paying for your own destruction, not a future revenue stream...<<<Read More>>>....
Monday, 15 June 2026
You Could Have a Digital Twin Sooner Than You Think
As a copy of a person, a digital twin would – ideally – make the same decisions that you would make if you were presented with the same materials.
This might seem like yet another speculative claim by futurists. But it is much more possible than people might like to believe.
While we might tend to assume that we are special and unique, with a sufficient amount of information, artificial intelligence (AI) can make many inferences about our personalities, social behavior, and purchasing decisions.
The era of big data means that vast quantities of information (called “data lakes”) are collected about your overt attitudes and preferences as well as behavioral traces that you leave behind...<<<Read More>>>...
2026 Crop Circle #3
Crop circle sighted at First Broad Drive, Nr Wilton, Wiltshire. Reported 15th June 2026 ... <<<Read More>>>...
Travel Linked to Brain Health and Longevity, Study Suggests
Starmer announces intention to implement facial recognition and digital ID to access social media
The ban will be enforced using facial recognition software and digital IDs. To enable this, everyone wishing to use social media will be subject to facial recognition and digital IDs.
Aside from the obvious destruction to online privacy and freedom of speech, and the totalitarian control over every aspect of our lives which will ensue, how accurate is the technology that the UK government is imposing on the entire population?
Today, the UK government announced a ban on social media access for all children under the age of 16. Starmer is hoping the regulation will be passed through Parliament before Christmas and the ban enforced in the Spring of 2027.
Described as an “Australia plus” policy, this measure is one of the strictest online crackdowns in the democratic world and goes beyond the limits previously imposed in Australia.
The government plans to use “highly effective” age assurance systems, including age-recognition facial scans and digital IDs, to verify user ages.
We should note that everyone, not just under-16s, will be subjected to facial scans and digital IDs – “to protect children online” is a ruse to implement control over the entire population using whatever digital technology they have at their disposal.
Apart from ending online privacy and aiming for complete control over the information we can share and have access to, their digital tools are not as fail-safe as they like to pretend....<<<Read More>>>...
Masculinity Isn’t Toxic, But Demonising it is, With Men Accounting For Three Suicides in Four
Why are so many men killing themselves? And what on earth would we be doing about it if it were women dying at three or four times the male rate?
Writing this, I notice I’m numb. Why am I not outraged, demanding answers, looking into what can be done to bring the number down? Is it because I view suicide as a kind of failure, and failure makes me uncomfortable? Or is it because I’ve been conditioned to believe that men should be strong, that they should provide and protect, and that if they check out they have failed to live up to my idea of how men ought to be? I don’t think 50 years of being told men are patriarchal oppressors, and that our gender is ‘toxic’, is helping either.
Men carry the burden of performance. We are heavily invested in raising families, protecting those families and providing for them, even in these times of so-called gender equality. Most notably, it is men in their late forties who are most likely to take their own lives, according to the ONS. This is the age group most associated with divorce, relationship breakdown and job loss. Men are particularly vulnerable when there are court battles or conflicts over access to their children. The result is depression, self-hatred, a sense of failure and despair.
Younger men are not far behind. The pattern is consistent across age groups: boys and men killing themselves at three to four times the rate of women. It is not hard to conclude from these numbers that society cares rather less about the wellbeing of men and boys than it lets on. When it comes to the methods, women tend toward pills and slipping away. Men, more often, choose methods that leave no chance of being talked back from the edge....<<<Read More>>>...
Sunday, 14 June 2026
Knowing Your Limits
You will know definitively that you are operating within your limits when you have the necessary energy and drive to address your personal and professional commitments. This is not to say you should not push yourself or work to extend the range of your capabilities. The wisdom you gain through dynamic self-examination will give you the tools you need to create an individual life strategy that allows you to achieve your goals without compromising yourself or your needs. The limits you honor by focusing your energy on what you can do rather than what you cannot do will not interfere with your ambitions unless you allow them to interfere. You can thrive within your limits, actively shape your circumstances, and avoid anguish by simply recognizing that certain aspects of life nourish you while others drain you.
You may be surprised to discover that your limits change over time. Your willingness to accept these limits as they reveal themselves to you can smooth your passage through life and give you the means to flourish. (Daily OM)
Migration is Now a National Security Issue, Confirms UK Terror Watchdog
The uproar in Northern Ireland follows a brutal attack on Stephen Ogilvie, a man in his forties, in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast on Monday night. Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker, later appeared in Belfast Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder, possession of a knife in a public place, and making threats to kill an NHS radiographer. The court heard that Mr Ogilvie suffered serious injuries to his face and back, and has lost his left eye....<<<Read More>>>...
Ed Miliband is coming for your electric towel rail in Net Zero drive – as critics brand the move ‘Soviet’
Underfloor heating, gas fires and storage heaters are also in the Energy Secretary’s sights as he tries to cut Britain’s carbon emissions.
And Mr Miliband plans to introduce new energy efficiency requirements that will make it illegal for a third of ‘space heating systems’ to be sold.
Temperature controls will become mandatory under the new regime, while some towel rails will only be allowed to be turned on for six hours a day.
But the Energy Secretary – nicknamed ‘Red Ed’ – was yesterday pilloried for foisting these restrictions on the public....<<<Read More>>>...
Starmer to Ban Under-16s From 10 Social Media Apps, Including X, but not Bluesky
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Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce sweeping reforms tomorrow banning under-16s from 10 major social media platforms, including X, but not the Left-wing platform Bluesky. In addition, he will introduce daily curfews for 16 and 17 year-olds, going further than Australia’s restrictions. The Times has the story:Teenagers will be banned from certain social media platforms and have their daily usage curbed under sweeping reforms to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday.
The ban will go further than the one imposed by Australia in December by targeting technology deemed harmful to children, including chatbots and certain features on gaming apps.
Under-16s in Australia have been banned from using ten platforms: TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch and Kick. It is understood that the UK will follow suit by raising the minimum age on social media to 16, from the average of 13, for the same ten sites.
Curfews for older teenagers will be introduced. Daily social media use will be restricted for 16 and 17 year-olds in a move designed to curb unhealthy late-night scrolling habits.
A Government source said: “Keir has been clear we need a game-changer to keep our children — and future generations — safe online.”....<<<Read More>>>....
Saturday, 13 June 2026
What the Cherokee Elders Refused to Say About the Tunnels Under the Smokies — Until 1907
In the ancient mountains of the southern Appalachians, the Cherokee people built one of the most deeply rooted civilizations in North America — a world whose oral traditions preserved history, cosmology, and sacred knowledge across generations with a precision and depth that outsiders have consistently underestimated. Among the most carefully guarded dimensions of that tradition is the knowledge of what lies beneath the Smoky Mountains — the caves, the passages, and the underground geography of a landscape whose surface features represent only the visible dimension of a far more complex sacred world. In this video we explore that world carefully and honestly, examining the specific claim that Cherokee elders chose to speak — partially and on their own terms — about tunnels beneath the Smokies in 1907, after decades of deliberate silence. 🕯️
Begin with what's real, because the Cherokee relationship with the Smoky Mountain landscape is both living and genuinely extraordinary. The mountains the Cherokee call Shaconage — place of the blue smoke — are not merely a geographical homeland but a sacred landscape encoded with ceremony, history, and spiritual meaning that shapes Cherokee identity to this day. The tradition of underground spaces in Cherokee cosmology is real and documented — the Nunne'hi, the immortal spirit people said to live inside the mountains, the caves and passages whose existence is acknowledged in ceremonial contexts — all of this represents genuine and carefully preserved knowledge whose boundaries about what is shared have always been determined by the community itself. 📜
The 1907 claim is the specific thread we follow most carefully. The early twentieth century was a period of intensive ethnographic documentation of Cherokee tradition — researchers including James Mooney had already produced landmark records of Cherokee myth and ceremony, and the community was navigating complex decisions about what knowledge to share with outside scholars and what to hold within. We examine what the documented ethnographic record of this period actually shows about Cherokee accounts of underground passages and sacred interior spaces, how the specific claim of 1907 testimony has been recorded and circulated, and what the deliberate silences in the archive might preserve about what was said and what remained unspoken. 💬
Why do the Smoky Mountains attract claims of hidden tunnels and guarded knowledge so persistently alongside their genuine and well-documented sacred history? What is it about a landscape so visibly ancient and so intimately connected to a living spiritual tradition that invites both serious scholarly attention and the overlay of alternative history speculation? And how do we engage with genuine Cherokee sacred knowledge without either dismissing it or distorting it in the service of narratives the tradition itself has never endorsed? 🔍
Throughout we treat both the oral tradition and the dramatic claims with the care they respectively deserve. Where the documented Cherokee knowledge and the ethnographic record stand firm, we share them openly and with respect. Where the trail dissolves into speculation, we say so honestly. 🌍
Ancient Astronaut Evidence: Flying Gods Across Cultures
Ancient myths repeatedly describe sky-beings who arrive with knowledge. Serpents with feathers, world trees, and divine messengers appear in many traditions. These overlaps fuel the idea that cultures far apart recorded the same visitors. However, new summaries by archaeologists and indigenous scholars stress that similar symbols can arise independently to express power, fertility, sky, or cosmos...<<<Read More>>>...
Dirty soda disaster: What’s really hiding in that trendy drink
The trend originated in Utah as a coffee alternative for those avoiding caffeine and alcohol.
Major chains like McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo have added dirty soda options to their menus.
Doctors warn the drinks cause blood sugar spikes, addiction, and increased risk of chronic disease.
Health experts recommend treating dirty sodas as occasional desserts, not regular beverages.
The latest beverage trend sweeping America looks innocent enough. It arrives in a tall cup filled with pebble ice, topped with cream, and often garnished with fruit. But what’s inside that glossy cup is anything but clean. Known as the “dirty soda,” this concoction combines traditional soft drinks with flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that blends elements of a soda, mocktail and dessert. And doctors across the country are sounding alarms....<<<Read More>>>...
The Climate Cult
The climate alarmism of our time is a malignant alliance of ignorant fanaticism, like that mentioned above, and opportunism: the lust for power, fame and wealth. Like all fanatical movements, climate alarmism is doing great collateral damage, most notably to the reputation of my own profession of science. Generous research grants from governments and private foundations have created a new discipline of ‘climate science’. Traditional, rigorous disciplines like atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, meteorology or palaeontology were quick to cash in by renaming themselves with some variant of ‘Centre for Saving the Planet’. They were generously rewarded with research grants, new laboratories, professorships, elections to learned societies, prizes and other tokens of gratitude....<<<Read More>>>...
Economics will curtail the widespread use of AI
However, the costs of running AI programmes are enormous, including the costs of data centres and equipment, power plants, energy transmission lines and energy grid infrastructure.
So, there’s a gap between what AI costs and the price users pay for it.
Currently, the cost of setting up and running AI programmes is being borne by Wall Street, for example. What happens when investors in AI no longer want to bear the cost but instead want to make a profit?
In the following, Chris MacIntosh discusses three possible future scenarios for AI.
In five years, we’ll all likely be chuckling and shaking our heads over AI. Because today, the tech feels free and limitless, doesn’t it?
People are generating endless content: images, videos, memes, code snippets, social posts. Companies are bolting AI onto products by default, the way every Fortune 500 company suddenly discovered they were “sustainable” five years ago.
There’s much deliberation on AI right now, and it splits into two main camps of thesis: the majority – those who will die on its hill of promise, convinced we’re months away from effective altruism, UBI, and sentient toasters. And the minority – usually older, more experienced types – who don’t fully understand it, but look at numbers, remember the dot-com bust, and think this rhymes. We’ll leave that debate to the dinner parties.
What interests us is something more boring. Physics. Because here’s the thing: AI isn’t free.
Every token represents electricity. Something your average developer, product manager, user, or investor gives precisely zero thought to.
Electricity means power plants, transmission lines, grid infrastructure – yes. It also means hot sheds; capital-intensive data centres and all the equipment, cooling systems, and real estate that go with them. Real things. Physical things.
We are surrounded by hype without consideration for the physics. Right now, there’s a disconnect between the physical cost of this technology and the price users pay for it.
That gap is being covered by Wall Street, venture capital, pension funds, hyperscaler balance sheets and strategic spending on “growth” (a word which here means “losses we’ve chosen to rebrand”).
The question is: what happens when that gap closes?...<<<Read More>>>....
Friday, 12 June 2026
Aligning With Your Soul’s Purpose
Your soul’s calling doesn’t always arrive as a lightning bolt. Sometimes it begins as a subtle longing, a recurring dream, a feeling you can’t quite explain, or an inner knowing that something meaningful is waiting for you. It may show up in what inspires you, what excites you, what you can’t stop thinking about, or what makes you feel most alive. These inner signals are not random. They are sacred clues, guiding you back toward the path that feels most honest and aligned.
Finding your calling is less about having all the answers and more about learning to listen. As you begin to notice what lights you up, what your body responds to, and what your spirit keeps reaching for, you can start following the breadcrumbs one small step at a time. And with each step, life may begin to feel less like something you’re simply getting through — and more like something you’re meant to fully and beautifully live...<<<Read More>>>....
Trump’s Groundhog Day: Stuck in an Endless Time Loop of War and Delusion
Every morning we wake up to hopeful talk of peace; by evening, both sides are blasting one another again. As one news analysis put it, “If there is going to be fighting with Iran almost every single day, what is the point of having a ceasefire?” That question exposes the delusion at the heart of this administration.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s personal transformation never happened. Unlike Murray’s character, who eventually learned humility and compassion, Trump remains the same man who thinks he can bend reality by sheer will. This is the core problem: a president who genuinely believes he can declare peace into existence while his generals load the bombs. The result is an endless loop of deception -- one that American taxpayers are funding with their lives and their savings...<<<Read More>>>...
Retired British Army Colonel warns that civil war between Britons and immigrants is now inevitable
“I’m not talking about the American Civil War,” he said. “I’m talking about something more like Northern Ireland but on a much more intensive scale, where you have the indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other. And I’d be very surprised if that doesn’t happen.”
Col. (Ret.) Richard Kemp is a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He spent much of his last five years of his military career in Downing Street as head of the international terrorism team at the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is now a writer, journalist, media commentator and motivational speaker and provides strategic consultancy services on leadership, security, intelligence, counter-terrorism and defence.
In episode 3 of the Opinionated podcast, which aired in February, Col. Richard Kemp discussed US–Iran negotiations, the potential for renewed fighting in Gaza and a brewing civil war in Britain.
Kemp argued that unchecked immigration, growing Islamist political influence and weak political leadership are pushing the United Kingdom toward what he described as a likely “civil war” scenario....<<<Read More>>>...
10 Technologies That Existed Before 1850 That No Modern Engineer Can Build Today
The standard assumption of technological history is linear — we know more than we did, we can build more than we could, and the direction of capability is always forward. That assumption fails at specific, documented, reproducible points where objects and structures produced before 1850 cannot be replicated by modern engineering using modern materials, modern tools, and modern understanding. Not because we haven't tried. Because the attempts fail in ways that expose genuine gaps between what the historical record shows was built and what we can currently account for in terms of how it was built. 🏛️
In this video, we examine ten specific pre-1850 technologies — material compositions, structural achievements, acoustic properties, and physical capabilities — whose replication has been formally attempted by modern engineers and scientists and has either failed completely or produced results that fall measurably short of the historical original. 📋 We present each case with the engineering specifics — what was attempted, what the modern result produced, and where the gap between the historical performance and the modern replication lies.
We examine the Damascus steel problem. ⚙️ The blade composition and manufacturing process that produced Damascus steel — documented in the historical record from approximately the 3rd century through the 17th — has been the subject of serious metallurgical research for decades. Modern metallurgists have produced blades with similar surface patterns. They have not produced blades with the same combination of hardness, flexibility, and edge retention that the historical specimens demonstrate and that the historical accounts consistently describe. The specific carbon nanotube structures identified in Damascus steel samples suggest a manufacturing process whose mechanism modern metallurgy cannot fully account for.
We examine the Roman concrete problem. 🔬 Modern concrete exposed to seawater degrades within decades. Roman marine concrete structures built two thousand years ago are stronger now than when they were constructed — a performance characteristic that materials scientists have spent decades trying to explain and have only recently begun to partially understand through the identification of a mineral crystallization process that Roman concrete undergoes in seawater that modern Portland cement does not replicate. Eight more technologies. Each one built before 1850. None of them reproducible today. 🔒
Rayner’s Workers’ Rights Reforms Trigger Surge in Legal Claims
Employment claims increased by 55% in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year, new official figures show.
It comes after Labour’s Employment Rights Act obtained Royal Assent in December. It represents the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in over a decade, giving employees new protections over statutory sick pay, unfair dismissal and zero-hours contracts.
The overhaul – which was championed by the former deputy prime minister – has been praised by unions, with the Trades Union Congress claiming that Labour is delivering “vital common-sense reforms for millions of people across the country”.
However, it threatens to pile more pressure on employment tribunals which are already facing an influx of claims.
Jo Mackie, Employment Law Partner at Michelmores, said: “The increase in claims will happen as employment rights are spoken about more openly as they have been in the last two years during preparation for legal changes.”
Many of the reforms under the Employment Rights Act are still in secondary legislation.
Mackie said growing discussion of these reforms meant that “more people [will] become aware of practices that may be in breach of employment law”.
Imogen Finnegan, Senior Consultant with workplace and commercial disputes law firm Bellevue Law, warned that the recent explosion in employment claims risked resulting in “longer timelines, increased costs and prolonged uncertainty” for employers.
She said this could also delay tribunal decisions for employees with genuine claims....<<<Read More>>>...
Thursday, 11 June 2026
"They Don’t Drag You… They Make You Run Into The Fake Light”
This video explores the concept of the "false light" and its role in what some describe as a reincarnation trap. It delves into the idea of a matrix reality, where individuals are encouraged to escape the matrix through spiritual awakening. The narrative suggests that understanding the afterlife theory is crucial for those seeking to exit the matrix and remember who they truly are. Watch until the end.
UFO and Unsolved Disappearance of Flight N3808H
One of the most intriguing cases of UFO-related disappearance is that of pilot Jose Pagan Santos, who vanished along with his friend Jose Maldonado Torres on June 28, 1980, while flying from Santo Domingo to Puerto Rico....<<<Read More>>>...
Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Poorer Attention, Slower Mental Processing Even in Healthy Diets
The findings, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, add to growing evidence linking industrially processed products to cognitive decline. Researchers analyzed dietary and cognitive data from more than 2,100 middle-aged and older Australian adults without dementia.
According to the study, for every 10% increase in the share of daily calories from UPFs, attention scores dropped by a small but measurable amount. Lead author Dr. Barbara Cardoso, from Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, said the results point to a hidden cognitive cost of heavily processed foods...<<<Read More>>>....
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