A Light In The Darkness
Welcome to "A Light In The Darkness" - a realm that explores the mysterious and the occult; the paranormal and the supernatural; the unexplained and the controversial; and, not forgetting, of course, the conspiracy theories; including Artificial Intelligence; Chemtrails and Geo-engineering; 5G and EMR Hazards; The Net Zero lie ; Trans-Humanism and Trans-Genderism; The Covid-19 and mRNA vaccine issues; The Ukraine Deception, Flat Earth, Tartaria ... and a whole lot more.
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Wednesday, 3 June 2026
UFO Abductee: The Human Body is Just a Container for the Soul
Based on decades of research and interviews with hundreds of UFO abductees, Dr. Malanga presents a chilling theory: UFO occupants possess the capability to extract a human soul from its body using rotating cylinders.
According to Dr. Malanga’s hypothesis, aliens view the human body as merely a vessel for the soul, a concept eerily reflected in reports from various abductees.
One such abductee claimed that the extraterrestrials told her that the human body was “just a container for the soul and of no other value.” This perspective reflects a disconnect between human and alien understanding of life and existence, suggesting that these extraterrestrial entities are primarily concerned with the soul, possibly for its energy, consciousness, or some unknown purpose....<<<Read More>>>...
Lapis Lazuli Insight
The Lapis Lazuli meaning has a history as rich as its blue hues. Its coloration is so unique that it was actually named for its appearance, since the Lapis Lazuli meaning translates to “blue stone.” This crystal has endless connections to a variety of cultures across time and space, from the ancient Chinese and Greek civilizations to Persian cultures and more.
In the Renaissance period, Lapis Lazuli stone was often ground and used to create blue paint. In powdered form, the stone was also used in blue eyeshadows in Ancient Egypt, most famously by Cleopatra. Lapis Lazuli crystal was also used to adorn burial sites for royalty, and King Tut’s sarcophagus was said to have been decorated with Lapis Lazuli stones. Besides resembling the blue eyeshadow he wore, the Lapis Lazuli meaning was believed to help guide souls into the afterlife....<<<Read More>>>...
Relentless Drive to Net Zero is Trampling British Industry, Chemicals Plant Boss Warns
Adrian Hanrahan said that energy costs had been high since the Ukraine invasion and warned that green levies and the pressure to decarbonise were making the situation worse.
The Managing Director of historic chemicals company Robinson Brothers said the plant, along with other manufacturers, had taken huge strides in increasing energy efficiency.
But with prices soaring again as a result of the Iran war, the cumulative pressure on the chemicals industry was becoming too much, he said.
He said of the Net Zero demands: “We’re trying to run a marathon in a sprint format.”
The sector employs more than 150,000 people directly and supports half a million jobs in the wider economy. It has annual exports worth £61 billion.
Robinson Brothers was founded in 1869 and had weathered calamities including two world wars, the Great Depression, the financial crisis and the Covid pandemic.
But not once has the family-run firm considered leaving its West Midlands roots. After the 2008 crash, Hanrahan pointed out that China might prove more lucrative.
“I explained they’d make more money”, he said, as he showed GB News around the 14 acre site in West Bromwich....<<<Read More>>>...
Why Every Map Before 1900 Showed One Continent That No Longer Exists
Why did so many maps created before 1900 include landmasses that no longer appear on modern globes? Across centuries of cartography, mapmakers repeatedly drew islands, continents, and vast territories that later vanished from official maps.
Some appeared for decades before disappearing entirely, while others were copied from one chart to another despite explorers failing to confirm their existence. Names like Terra Australis, Hy-Brasil, and other phantom lands became part of geographical history long before modern mapping standardized the world’s coastlines.
The standard explanation points to limited exploration and imperfect navigation. Early cartographers often worked with incomplete reports from sailors, travelers, and older maps, combining rumor, observation, and speculation into single documents. Errors could spread for generations as maps were copied and reused, allowing nonexistent landmasses to persist long after doubts had emerged.
But when historians examine old charts and navigation records, they find that some vanished continents appeared with surprising consistency across different regions and time periods. Certain landforms were treated as accepted geography for centuries before being gradually removed as global exploration expanded and mapping techniques improved.
This investigation explores the mysterious continents and phantom lands that appeared on historical maps, how they became accepted as real places, and why entire landmasses eventually disappeared from the world’s official geography.
The material on this channel presents exploratory interpretations of historical developments and narrative reconstructions intended for storytelling purposes. Some elements may involve interpretation, dramatization, or reconstructed perspectives. Visual material may occasionally be generated using digital tools. This content should be viewed as narrative exploration rather than strict historical documentation.
The Great Stupening: Why I Believe Human Intelligence Is Plummeting and How We Can Salvage What’s Left
This phenomenon, which I call the Great Stupening, is accelerating. People who once could pass a driver's license test now struggle with simple arithmetic. The evidence is everywhere: plummeting literacy rates, the rise of emotional reasoning over logic, and a public that accepts any story spoon-fed to them by corporate media. The real question is not whether intelligence is declining, but why. And the answers are more disturbing than you might imagine.
Smartphones and AI are enabling people to disengage their brains instead of thinking for themselves. I have seen MBA students outsourcing entire assignments to ChatGPT, turning higher education into a farce. The AI Paradox book correctly notes that AI can make smart people smarter, but it also makes stupid people more stupid. We are allowing algorithms to do our remembering, our reasoning, and even our moral deliberation....<<<Read More>>>....
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Trusting Your Gut
Our gut resides in the neighborhood of our solar plexus and the third chakra just above your belly button. When it is functioning well, we can trust its guidance and adjust our actions accordingly. It is in this place that we find the courage to act, to reach out into the world, and to create change. When our power center is out of balance, we are timid and out of sync, wishing we had said something we were only able to phrase later when we were alone, or wishing we had acted on an opportunity we didn’t see until it was past.
In order to utilize your power center, you may want to focus your attention on it more regularly and make time to care for it. You can begin right now by taking a deep breath into your belly. On the exhale, pull your navel in toward your spine so as to empty out completely before taking another deep breath into your belly. When you empty completely, you release stagnant energy and create more space to be filled with fresh, nourishing breath. The more you practice this simple, cleansing exercise, the more clear and communicative your gut feelings will be and the more comfortable you will feel acting on them....<<<Read More>>>...
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Political Obituary of a PM
When Labour swept to power in July 2024, the scale of the victory was intoxicating. Over 400 seats. A majority of 170. What was easy to miss in the euphoria was that Labour had achieved all of this on just 33.7% of the popular vote, with turnout barely scraping 60%. It was not a nation embracing Starmer. It was a nation exhausted by the alternative — and there is quite a difference between a country that wants you and one that has simply run out of worse options. Starmer never seemed to grasp this distinction, which may explain why he has spent the intervening period behaving as though he won a revolution rather than a weary national shrug.
A leader who understood the fragility of his position would have moved with urgency, clarity and purpose. Instead, Starmer has governed as he campaigned — cautiously, reactively and with a forensic attention to process that has proved entirely useless when what the moment required was instinct, conviction or the faintest flicker of inspiration....<<<Read More>>>...
The Original Order of the Alphabet Before 1700 — They Rearranged It and No One Asks Why
Be a Spell Breaker: How to Escape the Sorcery of Modern Media and Think for Yourself
Spellcasting is everywhere. It is the cheerful cartoon character on the front of a cereal box that hides a side panel full of toxic ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, and glyphosate residues. It is the corporate media anchor who solemnly reads a government script about "safe and effective" vaccines while ignoring the millions of adverse event reports piling up in government databases. It is the CDC, captured by the pharmaceutical industry, altering its own website to claim there is no proof vaccines cause autism -- a blatant act of narrative manipulation.
The goal of every spellcaster is the same: to keep you controllable, predictable, and enslaved to the system. Power and profit are the twin engines driving the narrative machine. When you break the spell, you become dangerous to the establishment. You start asking questions. You stop buying their toxic products. You refuse to take their weaponized injections. You begin to see through the lies about climate, about food, about medicine, and about history....<<<Read More>>>...
Are Humans Becoming the Avatars of AI? How Machines Are Quietly Controlling You
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For years, public anxiety about artificial intelligence has centred on the idea of machines turning against humans. The fear usually arrives dressed in metal, with robots replacing workers, outthinking governments, policing cities, or imposing decisions from outside the human species. Yet the more immediate risk could be stranger than that: AI doesn’t need a robot form if human beings increasingly provide the body themselves.
People now ask AI what to eat, how to train, whether to leave a relationship, what to say to a child, how to invest, answer a colleague, calm anxiety, interpret a news event, and plan the day. The movement, the voice and the signature remain human, while the instruction begins somewhere else. The old fear was that robots would become intelligent enough to act in the world, but the more realistic possibility is that human beings are voluntarily becoming machine guided enough to serve as the physical extension of AI. Are we the robots?...<<<Read More>>>....
Monday, 1 June 2026
Arabian Atlantis: Where Could Be The Most Powerful State Of Antiquity
Moreover, some archaeologists claim that hieroglyphs, frescoes, symbols and drawings were applied to buildings in the 2-3 millennium BC. Whereas the structures themselves can be about 20 thousand years old.
Water-wind erosion helped to draw such conclusions, which could not be formed in modern climatic conditions. Once upon a time, the territory of northern Africa was a blooming paradise. There were huge cities there....<<<Read More>>>....
Pat McFadden: All Labour Does is Ask “Who Can We Tax?”
As Sir Keir Starmer’s enforcer in Cabinet, Pat McFadden told the disgraced peer that every meeting he had with members of the Parliamentary Labour Party concerned the question: “Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?”
The comments were seized on by the Conservatives, who branded Labour “the welfare party”.
The frank exchange forms part of the Government’s release of more than 1,500 pages of emails and WhatsApp messages relating to Lord Mandelson’s time as the UK’s ambassador to the US.
The document release on Monday – the largest laid before Parliament since the 2016 Chilcot Inquiry – was demanded by MPs in the wake of Lord Mandelson’s sacking and fresh revelations about his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The damning emails and texts paint a picture of a Government at war with itself, led by a Prime Minister lacking the flair to tackle the challenges facing Britain.
Among the explosive exchanges between Lord Mandelson and McFadden were texts sent in the weeks before a major Government climbdown over welfare cuts.
Last July, No. 10 backed down on £5 billion of cuts to personal independence payments. The climbdown is regarded as the moment Sir Keir ceded power to the soft Left of the parliamentary Labour Party.
McFadden is now the Work and Pensions Secretary, in charge of Britain’s ballooning welfare bill....<<<Read More>>>>...
The Engineered Collapse: Why Energy Lockdowns and Food Shortages Are the Next Phase of the Depopulation Agenda
Catherine Austin Fitts warned that the Strait of Hormuz shutdown signals “COVID 2.0” and engineered famine. The global fertilizer shortage means the spring planting season will see diminished crop yields in the northern hemisphere. This is not accidental. It is the next phase of a plan to reduce global population and install a technocratic surveillance state. As I have reported repeatedly, Agenda 21 explicitly lays out the framework for centralizing control over human life, including the elimination of property rights and the culling of “surplus” populations.
The goal is to reduce humanity from billions to perhaps 500 million, ruled by a digital ID and a central bank digital currency. And here is the hard truth that most Americans refuse to see: Donald Trump, whom many hoped would be the spoiler of this globalist plan, has seemingly become a willing accomplice. He is not the savior; he is speeding up the very machine he claimed to fight. The same forces that used fake climate narratives to justify energy lockdowns are now using war in the Middle East to justify food rationing. This is the engineered collapse, and it is accelerating...<<<Read More>>>...
The human mind is being diminished by the use of AI
Our brains have abilities that are more powerful than any supercomputer or AI program, Dr. Hatchard explains. However, his solution is as dangerous to the human mind as is AI.
Dr. Hatchard suggests Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) is the solution, even going as far as suggesting it be introduced into New Zealand’s schools. But TM is a Hindu religious practise which centres around specific, personalised chants given by a Yogi.
Although chants are not inherently indoctrination, they can easily be used by cult leaders, authoritarian governments and other nefarious actors to brainwash people.
For humans to flourish, rather than Dr. Hatchard’s suggestion of seeking a higher level of consciousness, we need people to think for themselves and teach their children to do the same....<<<Read More>>>..
Sunday, 31 May 2026
Hall of Records theories explode as CIA doc mentioning 'temple under Sphinx' found
Now, a resurfaced CIA document from 1952 is reigniting speculation surrounding the legendary Hall of Records after a cryptic reference to a 'temple under Sphinx' was found inside a Cold War-era photographic inventory.
The Hall of Records legend has fascinated the public for nearly a century, with some claiming the mythical archive contains ancient texts, maps and evidence of a lost civilization that predated recorded history.
The 10-page CIA file, dated November 20, 1952, is titled 'Presentation Form for Graphic Material' and appears to catalog 11 rolls of black-and-white photographic negatives taken between July and December 1950.
Rather than an intelligence briefing, the document appears to be a simple archival inventory...<<<Read More>>>...
Science reveals seven to nine hours of sleep could be the key to preventing dementia
Sleeping fewer than seven hours significantly increases white matter damage and impaired neural connectivity, accelerating brain aging.
Sleeping more than nine hours offers no additional benefit and may also correlate with negative structural brain changes.
Inadequate sleep directly diminishes cognitive function and triggers the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques, hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
Aiming for approximately eight hours of sleep, establishing a consistent schedule and avoiding caffeine after 2 p.m. to protect brain structure.
For decades, sleep has been the underappreciated pillar of health, often sacrificed in the name of productivity. But new research is making it impossible to ignore: the number of hours you sleep each night could be the single most controllable factor determining your long-term brain health. And scientists have now pinpointed the exact range that offers the greatest protection.
The findings, drawn from a massive longitudinal study involving over half a million adults, reveal that the sweet spot for cognitive preservation is not a vague suggestion, but a precise target: between seven and nine hours of restful sleep per night. Deviating from that range, even by an hour, may trigger measurable structural damage in the brain, accelerating the risk of dementia and stroke years before any symptoms appear.
According to the American Heart Association, sleep is now formally classified as one of the "Essential 8" lifestyle factors for cardiovascular and cognitive well-being. This classification underscores what researchers have long suspected: sleep is not passive downtime. It is an active biological process during which the brain consolidates memories, clears metabolic waste and repairs neural connections.
The study analyzed self-reported sleep data from more than 500,000 adults. Approximately nine years later, nearly 40,000 of those participants underwent brain MRIs to detect early structural changes. The results were striking. Participants who consistently slept between seven and nine hours per night exhibited the healthiest brain profiles, with fewer signs of white matter damage and better neural connectivity.
Conversely, those who slept fewer than seven hours showed significantly more white matter damage and impaired neural connectivity. Even more surprisingly, sleeping more than nine hours offered no additional benefit. In fact, the researchers found that 9 plus hours wasn't protective either; it correlated with similar negative changes. In other words, both too little and too much sleep appear to accelerate brain aging....<<<Read More>>>...
Old World Fireplaces Weren't Built For Fire — The Dark Reason They Capped the Chimneys
UK government regulations for GMOs fail to protect the public and the environment
The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 dismisses crucial genetic elements, including gene copy number, epigenetic status and location in the genome, which can impact the safety of genetically modified “precision bred” organisms.
Ignoring these elements can put public health and the environment at risk, as they can affect the function of newly introduced genetic features and the modified organism’s host genes.
And the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025 fare no better. It lacks robust regulatory oversight, allowing gene-edited organisms to be marketed without thorough safety assessments.
The regulations ban regulators from requiring tests that could reveal risks associated with gene-edited, genetically modified organisms (“GMOs”).
The absence of mandatory detection methods and traceability means that problems caused by gene-edited organisms may never be traced and conventional and organic breeders may be vulnerable to patent infringement claims.
“The legislation and accompanying guidance fail to protect public health and the environment from the still poorly understood risks of gene-editing technologies,” the review concludes....<<<Read More>>>...
Serious Doubts Arise About Kew Temperature ‘Records’ as Recent UK Heatwave is Weaponised to Drive Net Zero
Last year, the Met Office claimed an all-time UK high May 1st temperature at Kew of 29.3°C. Analysis by citizen scientist Dr Eric Huxter showed the temperature was almost 2°C above that recorded in the hour before – well above what might be expected from such temperature rises seen during the day, with movements commonly around the plus or minus 0.2°C to 0.4°C mark.
The first record claimed last week was on Tuesday May 25th, when the temperature at the Kew site rose to 34.8°C – some 1.3°C above the previous hour. Dr Huxter has told the Daily Sceptic that some doubt remains over the figures for the next day, when the temperature hit 35.1°C. Since April last year, Huxter observes that Kew has provided no fewer than 13 daily UK extremes with an average heat spike of 1°C. By comparison, in the same period Heathrow supplied 35 temperature spikes averaging 1.2°C....<<<Read More>>>...
Saturday, 30 May 2026
Feeling Stuck
If introspection does not provide the answers we need, it can be helpful to ask those around you if they notice anything obvious that you might not be able to see. Ask someone you can trust, so they will be kind and sensitive, as well as honest. Try to let go of your resistance and listen with an open mind, and remember that you are always the final judge of what you need.
In all this, be kind to yourself and know that we all get stuck sometimes. Think of it as a part of your process, a necessary step on your journey, rather than as a problem that shouldn’t be happening. This can help keep your frustration at bay and give you the space you need to take a deep breath and really figure out what’s going on (Daily OM)
The Secret 19th-Century Reset: How the Incubator System Rebuilt a Lost Population
What if the 19th century did not unfold the way our history books claim?
Across America and Europe, photographs showed massive cities with almost no inhabitants, followed by a sudden wave of relocation programs, incubation exhibits, and institutional networks built to support an unexpected population surge.
At world fairs from Berlin to Coney Island, advanced incubator technology was displayed as a public attraction — a system that operated for decades and quietly reshaped society. Meanwhile, entire regions were rapidly repopulated, and archives began using a word that almost no historian wants to discuss today: “repopulation.”
This documentary uncovers the hidden connection between empty cities, early incubation systems, and the silent reboot that transformed the 19th century. ++Was this technology simply medical?
Or was it part of a much larger operation designed to rebuild a world that had suddenly lost its people?
The evidence suggests a coordinated reset — a historical turning point concealed in plain sight.
This video explores hidden history, unexplained 19th-century anomalies, and forgotten events that reshaped America and the Western world. If you enjoy deep historical investigations, alternative theories, and Archivist-style analysis, this documentary is for you. Stay until the end — the final implications will change how you see modern civilization.
Big Toothpaste’s dirty secret: 90% of brands contain cancer-causing heavy metals
Independent testing of 51 toothpaste brands found 90% contained lead, 65% arsenic, 47% mercury and 35% cadmium.
Heavy metals enter toothpaste through contaminated raw ingredients like hydroxyapatite, calcium carbonate and bentonite clay.
Lead and cadmium disrupt cellular functions, causing kidney damage, osteoporosis, anemia and other health complications.
Toothpaste manufacturers have refused to remove heavy metals and some have used legal threats against whistleblowers.
Homemade toothpaste using coconut oil, baking soda and essential oils offers a safer alternative....<<<Read More>>>...
Mobile phones are addictive; why do we get such a kick out of using our phones?
Researchers wanted to see what happens when you take a cell phone break, so they asked 25 young adults to ditch their phones for 72 hours.1 They used brain scans to check how their brains reacted to phone pictures afterwards. The results might surprise you. Your brain could light up with cravings, but there’s good news, too. Let’s explore what they found and how it affects you.
A 72-hour break from cell phones (aka mobile phones) triggered increased cravings in study participants; brain scans showed heightened activity in reward centres when shown phone images.
Cell phones stimulate your brain’s pleasure centre similarly to other rewards, creating dopamine hits that lead to dependency.
Your brain’s attention centre becomes increasingly focused on phones, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks without feeling pulled back to check devices.
Regular phone breaks help manage cell phone dependence; strategies like setting phone-free times during meals or before bed reduce cravings.
Excessive phone use negatively impacts focus, sleep and mood, creating addiction-like patterns that interfere with overall well-being....<<<Read More>>>...
The Battle Over Britain’s Lost Youth
For the most part, the children and young people who are now effectively bed-bound – scrolling on their phones until 5am, applying for a few jobs and then giving up, who long ago ducked out of school because the experience was overwhelming – have become determinists. They have come to an early conclusion that their own efforts to succeed at life are marginal, so they may as well be pushed around by the education, mental health and welfare systems, big tech, their iPhones, the stagnant economy and the threat of AI. On the other hand, there are actors in this whole blood-chilling saga who have exerted powerfully destructive agency over society. By their individual actions and decisions, we have arrived at the inevitable situation which, as Alan Milburn writes, has created “a generational fault line” that costs the taxpayer £125 billion a year, with entrenched youth disengagement “fast becoming a strategic economic risk for Britain”....<<<Read More>>>>...
Friday, 29 May 2026
The Art of Deception
He instructs you to cut the deck into four piles. You do so. He then tells you that you are going to randomize the order of the cards by shuffling them around and moving cards from one pile to another. Pointing to a pile of cards, he instructs you to take the top three cards and place them at the bottom of that pile. Then, take the next three cards and place them, one each, on top of the three piles remaining on the table. You repeat the procedure with all four piles of cards. The cards should now be very well mixed.
The man then begins his patter in earnest. He asks you to confirm the fact that he has not touched the cards. You agree. In no way could he have manipulated how you would cut the cards or handle them. Again, you agree. With a smile, he asks you to turn over the top card from each pile. You are amazed. The four aces sit at the top of each of the four piles of cards. For a moment, your mind might actually entertain the possibility that real magic has been performed, though you "know" you've been duped.
The fact is, this trick can be taught in a couple of minutes to any child capable of understanding the instructions. It requires no fine motor skills for clever card handling since the performer does not even handle the deck. The only thing required is setting up the deck before the trick is performed and being able to do a little sales patter in which you get the audience to agree to a statement that is blatantly false.
Take a moment and see if you can identify the lie that makes the trick believable. Everything the magician says is true with one exception. The trick is based completely on a facet of human psychology that most people--stage magicians, salesmen and politicians aside--don't understand. When a person is given a number of facts that are demonstrably true, they will tend to group all statements in that group together, agreeing to everything said, including an embedded lie....<<<Read More>>>...
The Same Machines That Cut the Giant Trees Stripped North Africa — The Sahara Is the Tailings Pile
You Are Far More Powerful Than They Want You to Know
Most people walk through life believing they are passengers on a ship steered by luck, fate, or the whims of invisible elites. This is not an accident... it is a deliberate lie designed to keep you disempowered.
From the time you were a child, you were taught that your health depends on doctors, your wealth depends on the stock market, and your purpose depends on a paycheck from someone else. Every institution, including the government, the medical system, and the financial industry works hard to reinforce this narrative because a powerless population is a profitable one.
But here is the truth I know from decades of investigating corruption and natural health: the vast majority of your outcomes are shaped by your own choices. Not chance. Not the system. You. Scientists have shown that personal lifestyle factors account for over 80% of chronic disease risk, while genetics accounts for less than 10%. That means you have far more control than you have been told.
The first step to reclaiming that power is recognizing that you are not a victim of circumstance you are the author of your own life....<<<Read More>>>....
UK “emissions” reduction has come at the expense of vital industries
However, the “emissions” reductions the Government claims are a sleight of hand. They are only reporting their calculated “emissions” within the UK’s borders. All the Government has done is move the generation of “emissions” to other countries.
You can see the obvious problem for net zero zealots: atmospheric carbon dioxide, for example, doesn’t adhere to country borders. It doesn’t say, “Oh, I was emitted in China, so I’ll stay lurking over China.”
This is just the first of the problems with “emission accounting” that David Turver points out.
The UK government’s zeal to reduce emissions is not an environmental success story; it is a sorry tale of industrial destruction – jobs, investment and economic growth have been destroyed, tax revenue forgone and reliance on imported electricity increased – to make Ed Miliband and his acolytes feel and look good at United Nations climate change meetings.
The destruction of electricity generation capacity and the collapse of vital industries should be a source of shame, not celebration, he writes....<<<Read More>>>...
Thoughts To Get You Thinking #125
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
When the pickle dreamed it dreamed of becoming a lettuce. - R.U.Watching
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
There are rocks everywhere, but none are the same as cut toenails - B.D.Doolittle.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
The Great UCAS Fiction
Ah, if only.
Next up – alongside cajoling Year 12s (who are already mentally on the beach) to the end of term – is writing their University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) references. To this end, the college has helpfully provided a ‘refresher’ on best practice.
Now, you might think this is where a teacher’s professional judgement, based on two years’ knowledge of a student, is paramount. We are, after all, giving universities real insight into what their next intake might offer. That’s what you’d think. But no. Our job is to present a pen-pic of the uber-student – forever, in senior management’s words, “cycling downhill with the wind behind them”. While encouragement is in every teacher’s DNA, the references we are expected to write – liberally dusted with inspirational adjectives and superlatives – belong more to prize-winning fiction than honest educational assessment.
Take Lola, for example, who rarely completes homework. She will become “a visionary free spirit who selectively channels her boundless energy into the pursuits that truly ignite her soul”. Tyler, for whom abstract thought remains an occasionally visited country, is reimagined as someone who “approaches problems with unusual deliberation, preferring thoughtful reflection to rushed conclusions”. Serial non-attender Madison is eulogised as “a fiercely independent trailblazer who courageously follows her own rhythm”...<<<Read More>>>...
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Two-year-old Luke from Ohio: I was killed and now I’m born as a boy
According to Erica Ruehlman, the boy at some point began to behave very strangely: he began to worry about the safety of the house, and later began to call all the toys Pam, although they did not know women with that name
“I asked him who is Pam? He turned to me and said, “Well, that was me.” I asked what this means.
He replied: “It used to be me, but I died, went up to heaven and saw God, and then God pushed me back down. When I woke up, I was already a baby, and you called me Luke,” Erica said.
The woman claims that she was very embarrassed, since they never talked about God and did not discuss the topics of life and death. Then she decided to ask how Pam died, to which she received the answer that the woman died in a fire.
At the same time, the child made a hand gesture explaining that Pam had jumped from the roof.
The mother claims that her son often provided other spine-chilling details including telling his family that he traveled on a train to Chicago, but the family, who live in Cincinnati, Ohio, had never been to the city.
“He used to say, ‘When I was a girl, I had black hair’ or he would say, ‘I used to have earrings like that when I was a girl,’ ” Erika shared.
Erica decided to find information about the fires in Chicago. She learned that in March 1993 the building of the Paxton Hotel was engulfed in a massive fire and most of the residents were locked up on the upper floors.
19 people died that day, including 30-year-old Pamela Robinson. Fleeing from the fire, she jumped off the roof....<<<Read More>>>...
We’re Stuck in the Escalation Trap — And Here’s Why It May Cost Us Everything
In my reporting on this conflict, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat: a leader believes a few surgical strikes will collapse a regime, only to find the enemy lashes back in unexpected ways. The 1999 Kosovo campaign, which Pape analyzed, saw Bill Clinton’s limited air strikes trigger a devastating refugee crisis instead of toppling Milosevic. Today, President Trump has fallen into the same trap. He thought bombing Iran’s leadership would end the conflict quickly, but instead Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz and taking 15–17 percent of global oil off the market [1]. This is not a mistake; it’s a systemic failure of strategy that repeats itself because policymakers refuse to learn from history...<<<Read More>>>...
Blair Mocks Miliband Over Net Zero, Calling His Policies a “Quixotic Fantasy”
The former Prime Minister accused the Energy Secretary on Wednesday of pushing a “quixotic fantasy” and said that China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, did not care about his beliefs.
Sir Tony made the remarks a day after launching an unprecedented attack on Sir Keir Starmer, claiming in a 5,700-word essay that the Prime Minister had no plan to fix Britain. …
The intervention has piled further pressure on Sir Keir, who is expected to face a leadership challenge in the coming weeks after leading Labour to a historic local election loss.
In an interview on Wednesday, Sir Tony singled out Mr Miliband as he urged Sir Keir to abandon his flagship proposals to achieve 95% clean power by 2030 and Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
He told the News Agents podcast: “Xi Jinping is not sitting there in Beijing saying: ‘I wonder what that Ed Miliband thinks.’ In the end, of course, renewable energy is going to be the future, long-term…
“Right now, our energy costs are really high; they’re imposing costs on business, we’ve got this artificial intelligence revolution that’s going to use more and more energy. We need more electricity if we’re going to go for electric cars, which again we should do.”
He added: “Therefore, all I’m saying is the lens through which you judge policy should be cheap energy and electrification, because that’s the way the rest of the world’s doing it.
“And it’s a sort of quixotic fantasy to think that because Britain’s decided – with, by the way, under 1% of global emissions – it is going to go down a different path at huge expense… It’s quixotic to think that the rest of the world is going to follow that. It’s not, and it isn’t.” …
Sir Tony warned Britain would continue to rely on carbon beyond the Net Zero deadline of 2050, adding: “I don’t understand why you’d shut your own fossil fuel industry and import someone else’s.” ...<<<Read More>>>....













































