Crystallomancy - Predicting the Future with Crystal Gazing

 Crystallomancy or crystal-gazing is a form of divination that uses a crystal to carry out readings and predictions. Strictly speaking any crystal on which the seer is properly focused can be used for divination and it need not be in the shape of a ball.

During the act of crystal-gazing the seer may perceive images or shapes which are supposed to provide answers to questions that the seer him/herself has or someone else has on whose behalf the seer has been performing crystallomancy.

In this sense crystallomancy is a form of scrying which involves looking into any polished surface and gleaning hidden meanings from the reflections or images. Scrying however can take on many forms, ranging from looking into a pool of water, or a mirror to gazing on a crystalline surface. Crystallomancy though is a more refined and specific form of divination. The energies of the crystal resonate with the energies of the reader till his/her psychic abilities are sharpened and he/she can look into the past, future and present.

Practitioners and believers of crystallomancy claim that crystal gazing engenders visionary experiences and supernatural insight which enables the seer to look into the past, present and future. However critics of the practice claim that the supposed visions are either fiction or arise from the subconscious mind of the crystal gazer. Some experts on the subject have tried to resolve the conflict by claiming that the two positions as not mutually incompatible and it is possible that the psychic insight of the gazer is transposed on the crystal during a trance-like state and which he/she then uses to find answers to pertinent questions.

The history of crystallomancy goes back to scrying which existed in some form or other in almost all ancient cultures of the world, including the Babylonians, Ancient Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks, Mayans, Incas, North American Indians and Australian Aborigines. the crystal ball has been known to exist in Britain as early as 2000 BC and here the Druids were the first people to use crystals in divination...read more>>>...

Food for Thought #1224

 

AI Isn’t the Bubble, The Speculation Is… Here’s Why You Can’t Afford to Wait For It To Pop

 The AI investment bubble is real -- I've been warning about it for months. But conflating that bubble with AI technology itself is a dangerous mistake that will leave you behind. Wall Street's speculative mania is a financial phenomenon, not a measure of what this technology can actually do. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio recently "highlighted classic bubble dynamics - sky-high valuations, rampant speculation, and 'paper wealth' vastly outpacing actual cash flows - while drawing direct parallels to the 2000 dot-com era" ^[1]. Yet even he understands the crucial distinction: the technology endures when the speculation collapses.

AI capability is accelerating while market hype inflates valuations. When the correction comes -- and it will -- the technology stays and keeps improving. Dismissing AI because "bubble" is in the headline means ignoring the most powerful tool advancement of our lifetime...<<<Read More>>>....

Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man

 

ENSO events, not CO2, are a driver of global temperatures

 On the natural climate driver side, we disagree, which fuels debate. No one marches in lockstep toward an agenda-driven goal where the only disagreement is over how to doom-and-gloom each other.

Recently, a movement to discredit the global temperature has arisen on the premise that it’s not truly a physical or thermodynamic process as a climate variable. I see where these people are coming from, and why, but I disagree that statistical measurement is meaningless. The hype is the problem, as it tries to portray the planet as something boiling away and then jumps to man-made emissions without considering other factors, as I will show below.

But to me, and most meteorologists and climate people, [statistical measurement is] far from meaningless; it supplies a view of the scorecard of the duel between warm and cold. And if we know what drives that, then we can conclude heat is being added to the atmosphere.

The upcoming El Niño exposes the idea that it is man-made emissions driving the climate. Those pushing that idea are all drooling at the temperature spike that is coming. So right there, the visible real-world evidence of the oceans warming the air is in front of them. They don’t even know they set up their own circular firing squad.

Here, in a nutshell, is their claim: Man-made emissions warm the atmosphere and trap heat. The oceans warm because of that, and then, El Niño releases the warmth back into the air....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1223

 

Home Office Plans to Spend £4.5 Million on Electric Car Chargers While 250 More Migrants Arrive

 Ministers and civil servants tackling the small boats crisis are being slammed for planning to spend millions on electric car chargers. The Mail has the story:

Nearly £4.5 million has been earmarked for the Net Zero gadgets to be installed at Home Office buildings to help staff go ‘green’.

But it sparked a furious backlash as critics said officials, who have struggled to get to grips with relentless Channel crossings, should focus all their resources on tackling the crisis.

It came as another 250 migrants on three boats arrived on Monday, taking the total since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister around a month ago to nearly 3,500.

In recent weeks a string of ‘mega-dinghies’ carrying more than 100 migrants at a time have also reached UK shores as smugglers shift their tactics.

One vessel arrived last week carrying a staggering 230 migrants, comfortably smashing the previous record of 165 aboard one vessel on July 23rd.

The spend came to light today in a written Parliamentary question, with Home Office minister Sarah Jones saying more than £500,000 was splurged on installing electric car chargers in 2024/25.

The department plans to ramp this up to £1 million this year and annually until 2029, bringing the total earmarked spend to £4.4 million. …

Mr Burnham has revealed little about what his strategy is for stopping the boats, choosing to leave the issue out of his maiden speech on the steps of Downing Street on July 20th.

But he has said ministers will look at “changing our tactics” to tackle the rise of mega-dinghies being used.

The average number of migrants crammed onto small boats has more than doubled over five years to a record high under Labour, from 28 per vessel in 2021 to nearly 70 so far this year....<<<Read More>>>..

The Sumerian Tablet That Describes the One Above the Gods — The Gnostics Called It the Monad

 

All ancient monuments are built on the basis of common knowledge

 Nothing primitive existed with the ancient civilisations, it is this modern civilisation that is the primitive one, as it has been separated from the ancient knowledge that existed in all previous civilisations. Fact.

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For thousands of years, ancient civilizations around the world have left their amazing and mysterious traces in the history of the planet. By building supermassive structures that defy explanation, our ancestors gave us puzzles that we still cannot solve.

And today, we admire and explore the amazing monuments built thousands of years ago, trying to answer some of the most important historical questions: how did civilizations that we used to think of as primitive managed to design and embody all this in stone?....<<<Read More>>>...

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What If You Heard a Rumor That You Don’t Exist?

  The voice in the head has been with you forever.  It’s what’s made you believe you exist separately, but have you ever stopped to examine just what it is, and where it came from?

Isn’t it really, when you “think” about it, just another sound that is happening at the moment?  Like the wind outside or the birds chirping?  Why do the words you seem to be thinking make you believe they come from a separate you?

There are scientists and thinkers now who will tell you that looking for that voice in your brain is like looking for an announcer inside a radio.

So why do you laugh derisively?   Because everyone knows we are all separate “people”.

And what exactly is a person?  Generally. someone with an “identity” who believes, and has others believe, that they exist as a separate entity.

Other than being ridiculed what happens if you question that belief?

Well, there are feelings and sensations – so what is feeling and interpreting those?

Something IS apparently AWARE of these sensations – and these thoughts – but when you get right down to it, this Awareness is all you really have to go on.

There is nothing really to suggest that this sense of awareness is from a separate entity....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1222

 

The Deadliest Lab on Earth: How AI Warfare Turns Human Lives Into Training Data

Do we believe any of these storylines that are being propelled deep into social media ....?? How true is this one .... a script in the pantomime or fact?  There is so much disinformation and fear factor bullshit being put out there; all designed to scare the shit out of the sheep and also to distort and confuse the truth.

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt let the mask slip. When he described Ukraine not merely as a war but as a data collection event for the AI era, he wasn't confiding a secret -- he was confessing a crime against humanity. Ukraine has emerged as the world's first active combat laboratory for AI-enabled autonomous weapons systems, generating an unprecedented dataset of battlefield footage used to train AI for target recognition and autonomous navigation ^[1]. The deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II has become, in the cold calculus of Silicon Valley, a calibration exercise for the machines.

I believe this is a moral catastrophe. NATO nations utilized Ukraine as a testing ground for advanced military technologies, with Western companies like Palantir and Maxar integrating intelligence operations directly into Ukrainian military targeting ^[2]. Every soldier bleeding in the trenches of the Donbas is not merely a casualty of war -- he or she is also a data point, a pixel in the training set of the next generation of killing machines. Here's why this is so atrocious: once human suffering becomes training data, all wars become laboratories, and every battlefield becomes a research facility where the dead are the price of admission....<<<Read More>>>....

Memory Lane - "Nankeen Kestrel"

URAMBI HILLS CANBERRA ACT

 

So What Is A Pathworking?

 A pathworking is a journey between the worlds and one of the most exciting excursions we can take. It offers a path through the landscapes of the mind, ways that are as yet barely explored, to the last undiscovered frontier. Pathworkings are doorways between the known and the physical, the unknown and the non-corporeal. They are accomplished through the medium of the creative imagination – the anvil on which all things created and used by mankind are made.

They can cause physical effects in the everyday world, which is the main reason why they have been in secret for so long. It is also the reason why rigorous training in the control of imagination faculty is such a feature in magical schools and orders.

Scientists tell us that the journey we build in our mind is as real to the brain as our daily experiences. The world of the subconscious mind is a real world with real beings. The water is just as wet, the sun is just as hot. The only difference is that we can do things in that world we cannot do in this world. Why? Because in the inner world we admit to no barriers. We use the same powers and senses we have in the real world, but there we believe in them. We think we are dreaming, but it IS real and can use the finer matter of that world to change this one ………

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Automated number plate recognition cameras are being used for data laundering

 Flock Safety operates approximately 120,000 automated license plate readers (“ALPRs”), also known as automatic number-plate recognition (“ANPR”) systems, across 49 US states. Its network of cameras includes contracts with over 7,000 organisations, including over 5,000 law enforcement agencies.

Flock cameras promise easier policing by destroying the Fourth Amendment – creating a permanent, searchable, warrantless database of everywhere Americans go, Tanner Turnpaugh explains....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1221

 

Am I a Conspiracy Theorist?

 I ask this because of a recent email exchange with a person of considerable significance to me, who has wondered whether my opposition to climate catastrophism, and the anger I feel at the damage it is doing to our societies, have so obsessed me that I have become slightly detached from reality. It’s a good question.

Just as even paranoiacs can have enemies, so not every conspiracy theory is false. To give one recent example that less disagreeable people than I would prefer to forget: in the early weeks of the Covid epidemic, the idea that it resulted from a leak in a Wuhan lab engaged in gain-of-function research was dismissed as ‘conspiracy theory’, with an extra topping of ‘raycism’ thrown in for good measure. 

Half a decade on, nobody of any consequence seriously doubts the lab-leak theory of Covid’s origin, and Anthony Fauci, who acted as the high priest of Covid hysteria, finds himself in contempt of Congress after pleading the 5th no fewer than 111 times. He’s done so in response to questions aimed at clarifying his role in directing US funds towards gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab – the very lab which, back in 2020, he had vehemently denied could be responsible for creating, and allowing the escape of, the Covid virus. Vehemently denied in public, that is, though thanks to the Washington hearings, his private email correspondence now reveals that he shared with confidantes his fear that a lab leak was indeed the source of the epidemic....<<<Read More>>>....

The Sumerian Tablet That Describes What Lived Outside Eden's Walls — And Why the Garden Needed Walls

 

The Enochian Language

 The Magical language used in certain magick rituals is Enochian (Enoch), a language thought to be older than Sanskrit, with a sound grammatical and syntactical basis. It resembles Arabic in some sounds and Hebrew and Latin in others. It first appeared in print in 1659 in a biography of John Dee. The barbaric tonal qualities of this language gives it a truley magical effect wich cannot be described.

In the year of 1581 through the extraordinary efforts of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly, the secrets that were lost with the patriarch of the Bible known as Enoch were returned to those who thirst for the knowledge of Light. Dee kept close records of their intensive work. Although some of Dee's work has been lost, much of it is to be found in Sloane Documents 3188,3189, 3191, 3677, and 3679. These documents are to be found at the British Museum in London.

One of the most important breakthroughs in the rediscovery of these lost secrets was an entirely new language. This language contained its own grammar and syntax. It is an Angelic language often referred to as "Enochian." Dee and Kelly used great care and effort when receiving the lost knowledge of Enoch. The dictating Angel was the Great Angel Ave. Many hours were spent bringing forth the information by Dee and Kelly. Often times sessions would last 8 to 10 hours a day. Some of the material was actually dictated backwards by the Angel so as not to invoke dangerous forces of power.

The beginnings of Enochian Magic were coming into place, but the information was just information. It was not a system of any usable value. Thus, for the most part, it remained dormant, undefined and unusable. Then, over 200 years later, this body of raw knowledge that Dee & Kelly painstakingly uncovered was given form and life by the genius of S.L. MacGregor Mathers. Enochian Magic was born! Under the tutelage of Mathers, the Second (Inner) Order of the Golden Dawn began working the most powerful system of magic the world has or would ever see.

Years later in Chicago, a disgruntled Paul Foster Case (after being expelled from the order by Moina Mathers) ,would lead a quiet crusade to convince fellow students that Enochian Magic was "volatile and dangerous." Case would even go so far as to have it sliced and diced out of all Inner Order Teachings of a group he founded called the Builders of the Adytum. Others would follow in Case's footsteps, claiming Enochian was too dangerous.

When used with caution and in accordance with Second Order Teachings, it is reputed that Enochian Magic is not only safe, but it is utterly effective in the physical world, and illuminating in the area of Spiritual development!

Food for Thought #1220

 

Ancient brain surgery: Viking-era skull reveals early medical intervention

 Archaeologists uncovered a Viking-era skull (circa 9th century) in Cambridgeshire with a meticulously drilled 3-centimeter hole—evidence of trepanation, an early surgical procedure to relieve severe headaches or neurological conditions, likely caused by a pituitary tumor that also led to the man's extraordinary height (6'5").

Bone regrowth around the trepanation site confirms the young man (aged 17–24) survived the procedure, highlighting advanced medieval medical knowledge despite its brutal context.

The remains were found in a mass burial with dismembered skeletons, some tied or beheaded, suggesting execution, ritual violence or Viking-Saxon conflict during a turbulent period.

Archaeology students described the excavation as sobering, noting the victims' suffering and the importance of restoring their identities.

DNA and isotopic analysis will determine if the men were Vikings or Saxons, offering insights into migration, health and societal strife in early medieval Britain.

A remarkable archaeological discovery in Cambridgeshire has unveiled evidence of one of the earliest known surgical procedures—trepanation—performed on a Viking-era man nearly 1,200 years ago.

The skull, found in a mass grave at the Wandlebury Iron Age hill fort, bears a carefully drilled hole, suggesting early attempts at relieving severe neurological conditions....<<<Read More>>>... 

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Live and Let (the State) Die

 I want to make an exact argument here that I think is fundamental. 

There is a relation between: “Climate change,” “Net Zero,” Green, Environmental politics, and
Immigration, Colonisation, Decolonisation, Cultural Problems.

The death of Rod Liddle algorithmed me back to the Ray Honeyford story and it was musing on that disgraceful episode that made me think about this. For there is a relation between these two. There is a relation between the issue of global warming / climate crisis / extreme weather events and the issue of race and immigration that we have associated for almost 60 years with the name of Enoch Powell. Both of these issues are discussed at maximum volume now.

For both Left and Right there is an existential crisis.

For the Left it is about the Planet.

For the Right it is about the State.

First on the state.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Until we have some grand theory of global order and an international treaty, or a subsumption of states into a World State or, more likely, a subsumption of them into Schmitt’s Grossraüme or Orwell’s Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia (China, Russia, America): until any of that happens, then we will have states. And, as Machiavelli put it in the Prince, the major interest and activity and necessity of the prince (i.e., any government) is mantenere lo stato – to maintain the state....<<<Read More>>>..

Is Our History A Lie? World's Fairs, Orphan Trains & Lost Records

 

 

 

"Why would you build something that magnificent just to destroy it?" 

 

They built a city of domed palaces and towering halls, then tore it down in just a few years. In this episode, I dig into the strange, forgotten story behind America's World's Fairs and ask why these wonders of the world were demolished so fast.

70% of the British public say immigration is “too high”

 For more than a decade, the political and media establishment in Britain has told itself a comforting story.

The shock vote for Brexit, more than a decade ago, was just the “last gasp” of an older, more conservative Britain that struggles to accept the modern world.

Yes, some 17 million people might have voted to leave the European Union and given the establishment a bloody nose. But this was only a temporary revolt – a brief interruption on Britain’s inevitable journey towards a far more “liberal” [as in hard or far left-wing] future.

And in the years since – they continually tell us – new generations of younger, more diverse and “better educated” British people have arisen to continue pushing Britain towards this far more socially “liberal,” cosmopolitan, or “progressive” horizon.

Ever more supportive of immigration. Ever more supportive of demographic change and rising diversity. Ever more relaxed about “modern Britain.” And ever more embarrassed about the vote for Brexit and the desire to “take back control.”

This is the narrative that countless politicians, academics and columnists push.

Alastair Campbell. Rory Stewart. Emily Maitlis. Polly Toynbee. Owen Jones. Former Times columnist David Aaronovitch. “Liberal” pollster Peter Kellner. Academic activists like Jon Portes and Rob Ford. They have all made variations of this argument.

You know the type.

Smug illiberal “progressives” who think the future belongs to them, who preach about the wonders of diversity but refuse to tolerate genuine diversity of thought, who portray anybody who holds a different view as some kind of fascist, and who probably look at a newsletter like ours as representing a fringe minority.

Well, take a look at what is happening now.

A few days ago, a remarkable new study by the polling company YouGov completely dismantled this argument by comparing what the British people think today with what they thought at the time of the Brexit referendum, a decade ago.

And what did they find?

Contrary to all the talk and all the predictions about the British people embracing things like immigration and diversity, the pollsters found a very different story and one that reveals just how badly the establishment continues to misread Britain.

For a start, they found that over the last decade the British people have not become more supportive of immigration over the last decade. Far from it.  They are just as likely today as they were a decade ago to think immigration into Britain has been “too high” – a view which, consistently, seven in ten people hold....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1219

 

The Nine Realms

 According to Norse cosmology, the known universe was composed of Nine Realms. These realms were Asgard, the near-perfect home of the Aesir deities; Jotunheim, the fallen world of the monstrous jötunn; Midgard, the land of humans; Alfheim, home of the elves; Hel, a resting place for the dead; Vanaheim, the world of the magical Vanir deities; Nidavellir, the subterranean realm of the dwarves; Niflheim, a frigid land of ice and snow; and Muspelheim, a realm of heat and flame.

The Nine Realms hung on the branches, or else grew from the roots and bole of Yggdrasil, the world tree, which gave structure and form to the cosmos. Their position within Yggdrasil determined both their core characteristics and their connections to other realms. Though the realms were distinct from one another, their boundaries were surprisingly porous. Intrepid travelers, both mortal and divine, could and did traverse the liminal spaces between worlds. Asgard and Midgard were connected via the great rainbow bridge known as the Bifrost, making it possible for deities to influence the humans who adored and abhorred them in equal measure....<<<Read More>>>...

Reality Glitches: The Hours That Never Happened

 

 What if you didn’t lose track of time… what if the hour was never there? 

And what does it mean when every clock agrees that it disappeared? 

Across highways, airports, forests and ordinary nights, people report the same unsettling experience: time moves forward, yet part of their lives seems to be missing. In this investigation, we explore missing time, time slips, reality glitches and unexplained lost hours - from everyday experiences to some of the strangest stories ever attached to the phenomenon. We examine the Rudolph Fentz time travel legend, multi-witness road-trip anomalies, mysterious highway time loss, airport time slips, strange experiences in national parks, the legendary Versailles time slip, Liverpool’s Bold Street time slips, and the enduring mystery of the Man from Taured. 

But there may be more conventional explanations. Highway hypnosis, fatigue, attention, memory formation, circadian disruption and our brain’s strange perception of time can create experiences that feel profoundly real. So where does psychology end - and the unexplained begin?

China’s ‘brain chip’ drive accelerates with slew of state-backed initiatives

 China is rapidly accelerating its national push into brain-computer interface technology, mobilizing state power in a coordinated drive that could see the country outpace Western efforts led by figures such as Elon Musk.

According to a report from the South China Morning Post, authorities across insurance firms, local governments, and financial institutions have unveiled a series of concrete measures in recent days aimed at speeding the commercialization of devices that link the human brain directly to computers.

The most striking development came on Wednesday, when major state-owned insurer PICC Property and Casualty announced it had signed China’s first commercial insurance policy covering the invasive brain surgery required to implant a brain-computer interface....<<<Read More>>>...

Starling Medicine

 

How the Australian government uses census forms to manipulate the public

 Using the example of the Australian census form, Paul Collits demonstrates how governments manipulate the perception of what is considered normal in societies.

He uses the example of the questions relating to religion and sexuality, which are designed to manipulate the answers people give so the census results have the desired outcome to show that Christian societies are changing.

One thing to say about those trying fundamentally to change (what is left of) our society is that they believe in total victory. Another is that they know how to execute. A third is that they never, ever give up. Down to the last detail.

Whether we think of them simply – often, too simply – as leftists, or as Marxists, or as progressives, or globalists, or sexual liberationists, or feminists, or homosexualists, or climate cookers, or Islamists, it is clear that they work separately and together in myriad alliances to achieve their objectives.

And one shared objective is the de-Christianisation of the West. Another is the forced affirmation of homosexuality. As if we don’t get enough of that in our TV crime dramas. Night after night. You would think that every street in every suburb is filled, wall-to-wall, with queers.

Tonight is census night in Australia. A five-yearly cause of excitement for demographers and a cause of extreme tedium for the rest of us. Another interaction with that uniquely modern punishment … the online “form.” It shouldn’t be.

A seemingly non-ideological exercise and a non-political one. It is just about collecting information to help governments and others to provide “better service.” Believe that, believe anything....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1218

 

Ordinary Wi-Fi Networks Can Identify People With Near-Perfect Accuracy

 Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) reported that ordinary Wi-Fi networks can identify individuals with nearly 100% accuracy using unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between routers and connected devices.

The findings were presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taipei, according to a KIT release dated Aug. 12, 2026. The system identified people in tests involving 197 participants, regardless of viewing angle or walking style, the researchers said. The method requires no cameras, no specialized sensors and no connected device carried by the person being observed, according to the release.  

The widespread availability of Wi-Fi has raised surveillance concerns for years. The prevalence of Wi-Fi "has led to the development of innovative surveillance methods that are both ingenious and unsettling," according to NaturalNews.com, which reported in 2020 on techniques using Wi-Fi signals to map rooms behind walls and identify human targets...<<<Read More>>>...

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Physical ChatGPT robots and people: how we will live together

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only a feature of computers and smartphones, but also of physical robots that can sense, act and interact with the world around them.

These robots, known as Physical AI, are designed to look and behave like humans or other animals, and to possess intellectual capabilities normally associated with biological organisms. In this article, we will explore the current state and future prospects of Physical AI, and how it could affect our lives in various domains....<<<Read More>>>...

Atlantis: The Truth Beneath The Myth | A Civilization Lost Between History and Legend

 

 

For 2,400 years, one question has haunted historians, philosophers, and explorers: was Atlantis real? 

 Plato described it as a civilization more advanced than anything the ancient world had ever seen — a golden empire that vanished beneath the ocean in a single day and night. Was this a warning about hubris? A political allegory? Or the echo of a real catastrophe that humanity buried along with the city itself? 

In this cinematic animated documentary, we go beneath the legend. We trace Atlantis from its origins in Plato's Timaeus and Critias — the only ancient source that describes it — through the geological evidence of catastrophic ancient floods, the Bronze Age collapse, the eruption of Santorini that wiped out an entire civilization in 1600 BCE, and the question historians keep asking: why does every ancient culture have a version of this story?

EU Net Zero Regulations Are Killing Off British Agriculture – And we Slavishly Enforce Them, Even Though We’ve Left the EU

 The UK is still beholden to EU emissions standards, which, like most things under the purview of the European Union, have become bureaucratic and are applied in ways that are detrimental to both efficiency and productivity, without doing a proper cost – benefit analysis. Vehicles in high-traffic residential areas should rightly be given greater weight when it comes to pollution reduction, but should a tractor working on a farm or in the middle of a field, miles from the nearest village, be subject to the same conditions?

EU emissions regulations for non-road mobile machinery have become more and more stringent over the last decade, to the point where the demands on the technology have led to runaway costs and new machinery has essentially become emissions-regulation equipment with an engine attached. The cost of emissions-regulation technology can account for 20–30% of the total list price for a new vehicle such as a tractor, excavator, bulldozer, or any other type of non-road mobile machinery. The technology required to bring emissions into compliance with the Stage IV and Stage V standards places huge burdens on manufacturers and end users. Failures of the emission-monitoring components result in large warranty bills for manufacturers, which are pushed onto end users through eye-watering extended warranty programmes. Those who cannot afford these, or whose machine has reached an age where the manufacturer’s warranty has expired, can be left with a ticking time bomb. A single component failure can result in bills of several thousand pounds which, for a small family farm often with only a single tractor, can cause significant financial hardship...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1217

 

The Future of the Human Race Belongs to Those Who Protect Their Genetic Integrity

 I believe genetic integrity is the single most important survival factor for humanity. It is not about vanity or bloodlines; it is about the ability of the human race to keep passing down intact, viable DNA to the next generation. That inheritance is now under deliberate attack.

As I reported in 2021, the mRNA injections were never really vaccines: they were deployed as a "genetic bomb" against humanity. Those who never took the shots are better positioned to pass on viable DNA, which is why we now see people choosing reproductive partners based on unvaccinated status and why international unvaccinated blood banks have emerged. But the story does not end with avoiding the jab. Well-chosen nutrition can still protect many who were exposed. Here is why this matters: the future of the human race belongs to those who protect their genetic integrity...<<<Read More>>>...

Memory Lane - "White Faced Heron"

MOUNT BARKER SOUTH AUSTRALIA

 

Recovering From Burnout

 Burnout — have we been thinking about it all wrong? The word often suggests a dramatic breaking point. Yet for many of us, it arrives more subtly. It may look like snapping at someone you love over something small, rereading the same sentence five times, or feeling a soul-deep exhaustion that remains even after you rest.

From the outside, you may still appear capable. You may continue meeting deadlines, caring for others, and doing what needs to be done. Inside, however, your body and mind may be asking for a kind of restoration that one free weekend cannot provide. What’s needed may not be more self-care layered onto an already full life, but a meaningful pause — an opportunity to rest, relax, and refresh your mind.

In everyday life, that pause may look like asking for help, speaking honestly about what has become too much, or protecting time when you are truly unavailable. It may mean giving yourself permission to step away for a while, reconnecting with someone who helps you feel less alone, or seeking the support of a coach or wellness expert. You don’t have to rebuild your entire life overnight. Sometimes recovery begins with one compassionate choice — one small decision that creates a little more space to breathe...<<<Read More>>>...

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EVs in the USA head for bust while sales globally are artificially propped up

 Doug Field, the head of Ford’s EV unit … had good reason to be optimistic. Buoyed by billions of dollars in federal investment in charging infrastructure and a generous $7,500 consumer tax credit, the electric vehicle market in the United States had recently hit historic highs, climbing from annual sales of roughly 490,000 in 2021 to more than 800,000 in 2022 – an increase of approximately 60 per cent.

Yes, it was government-enabled and woke-driven. A false boom – and a colossal economic mistake in retrospect.

[Ford’s early EV model] seems to have been cursed from the outset. Unlike many of the earlier Ford EVs, the “bullet train” was not merely a retrofitted version of an existing vehicle with an internal combustion engine … It was an entirely new car, requiring a large and complicated battery to match the vehicle’s projected heft.

The early reaction to Ford’s ambition (wokeness) was green-is-great and the auto-transition-is-on. But reality set in....<<<Read More>>>...

Something Is Very Strange About Human Civilization

 

How logic alone may prove that time doesn’t exist

 Matyas Moravec: Modern physics suggests time may be an illusion. Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simultaneously – with no special “now”.

What’s the future to one observer, is the past to another. That means time doesn’t flow from past to future, as we experience it.

This clashes with how time is conceptualised in other areas of physics, such as quantum mechanics, however. So is time an illusion or not? One approach to find out would be to try to prove that time is unreal using logic alone.

In 1908, J.M.E. McTaggart, an English philosopher, published a paper arguing that we might be able to work out the unreality of time just using logical thinking alone.

Imagine that someone has given you a box of cards, each one representing an event. One card describes the year 2024, another one the death of Queen Victoria, and another the solar eclipse in 2026. The cards have been mixed up. You have been told to arrange these cards in a way that represents time. How would you go about doing it?...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1216

 

Does Consciousness Create Our Material Reality?

 Where does the “physical” world come from? Matter at its smallest observable form, atoms, pop in and out of existence all the time. The idea that physical matter is birthed from a non physical realm, such as the “quantum vacuum” or the “void”, or something else we are unaware of is not novel.  Nikola Tesla himself believed that “all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha, or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.”...<<<Read More>>>....

Two Suns?

 

Its not the first time we have captured an image that suggests the existence of TWO suns. This image above was captured in Queenstown New Zealand on 31st January 2004. 

How the Ego Forms the Matrix We Seek to Escape

 In a world where the quest for freedom often leads us to explore new philosophies, spiritual practices, and even technologies, we find ourselves in a paradox: the very thing we seek to escape is within us. The matrix we’re so desperate to transcend is not some external, oppressive system but the limited ego self we’ve constructed. Through the lens of self-realization and self-inquiry, we can begin to understand that this egoic matrix is the illusionary world that binds us, and our true liberation lies in seeing through it.

The concept of the matrix often conjures images of a simulated reality controlled by external forces, yet the real matrix is much closer to home. It’s the ego—the collection of thoughts, beliefs, and identities that we mistake for our true self. This egoic self is the lens through which we perceive the world, filtering reality through our fears, desires, and conditioning. It creates a false sense of separation, making us believe that we are individual entities navigating an external world, disconnected from the wholeness of existence.

The ego is adept at crafting stories, projecting them outwardly as reality. It convinces us that our thoughts are real, our identities fixed, and our separation from others and the universe inevitable. But what if the world we see merely reflects this internal matrix? What if the true journey is not about escaping an external force but dissolving the internal structures that keep us bound?...<<<Read More>>>...

Another View of the Conspiracy Theory.

CHORLEY LANCASHIRE 12TH AUGUST 2026

 

Is this the solar eclipse taking place (You can just observe the crescent within the bright orb of light). If so ... what is the mass of light in the picture? Sunlight? Why did we not get the fading light into night sky that is normally associated with a total eclipse. 

Then we have this next image that shows the classic eclipse shape to the top left of the orb of sun light. There is only a matter of minutes between the images, so how did it suddenly move from bottom left to top left? 

Cloud cover, not CO2, is a driver of global warming

 

A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed solar radiation since 2000 to declining high-reflectivity cloud cover, primarily from circulation-driven contraction of storm-cloud zones.

The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting a 1% shift in Earth’s albedo corresponds to a 1°C surface temperature change.

With more cloud cover, more solar radiation is reflected and the surface cools. With declining cloud albedo, which has been observed since 1980, less solar radiation is reflected and the surface warms.

Cloud cover changes are driven by natural atmospheric circulation modes and internal variability. This is supported by reconstruction data showing cloud cover decline has for centuries occurred independently from “greenhouse-gas forcing.”....<<<Read More>>>....

Insight for the Day

Defra, Not Climate Change, is Turning England Into a Tinderbox

 How bad is the situation? Satellite analysis shows that six times more land was burnt in the UK over the last decade than in the previous one (151,954 hectares in 2016-2025 against 24,805 in 2006-2015). Do not be fooled by those who say this catastrophe is simply down to climate change. Sure, hot days drive moisture out of plants. But globally wildfires are down by a quarter because humanity has become better at creating firebreaks.

Defra hasn’t. Its response to climate change has been to sharply increase vegetation. Over the last 20 years its cuts in upland cattle and sheep grazing led to a 25% increase in highly flammable grass.

Another genius move has been stopping preventative burns of heather. Why do I care about this? Because during damp winter months these burns safely prune the dead material which is then replaced by younger plants. It is the dead heather which is combustible. And thanks to Defra we now have 74% more of it.

The winter burns used to create firebreaks. Now we have huge expanses of continuous, ageing vegetation....<<<Read More>>>...