Friday, 17 July 2026
The Fear of Being Yourself
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The universal need to be accepted by others can be a barrier that prevents us from being ourselves around them. When we fear that the people we encounter will perceive us as inept or not intelligent, we frequently try to flaunt our grasp of large words or clever witticisms or our professional expertise in an effort to convince them that we are smart and capable. The simple desire to be judged smart by both new and old acquaintances can cause you to reject your true self and adopt an affected persona.
This fear can also cause you to consciously avoid speaking your mind or asking questions. You may feel uncomfortable participating in activities or discussions if there is a chance that you won’t excel. In essence, you become ashamed of who you are and attempt to encase your identity in a veneer that others will find pleasing and impressive. It is, however, a common fear — one experienced by almost everyone at some point in their lives. The simplest way to combat it is to make a personal commitment to being yourself in your home, your workplace, and among strangers. Ask yourself how you believe the individuals you encounter will react should you speak awkwardly, need clarification, or fail to be the best at some activity. By being yourself, you will discover that others will like and respect you because they recognize the goodness in your soul.
The fact that you are willing to be yourself, letting your many affirmative attributes express themselves naturally, will help you make a positive first impression on everyone you meet. Your confidence and easygoing manner will say, "this is who I am, and I am proud of the person I have become." (Daily OM)
New analysis suggests deeper health benefits in orange juice
The most significant finding was a reduction in interleukin-6 (IL-6), a major inflammation marker, in both healthy adults and those at elevated disease risk.
The analysis, funded by the Florida Department of Citrus, concluded orange juice consistently showed beneficial or neutral effects on these health markers, with no studies indicating it made inflammation worse.
Researchers emphasized strong caution, citing limitations in the existing evidence, including a small number of participants, a "low strength of evidence" and a "moderate risk of bias."
The study is considered a starting point that highlights the need for larger, longer and independently-funded clinical trials to make definitive conclusions about orange juice's health role.
In an era where every grocery purchase feels like a health decision, a new scientific review has reignited the debate over a breakfast staple: 100 percent orange juice. Published in the journal Advances in Nutrition, the analysis suggests that the simple act of drinking orange juice may help combat two silent enemies within the body—inflammation and oxidative stress—which are fundamental drivers of chronic diseases plaguing modern society. Conducted by researchers from the Think Healthy Group, Tufts University and George Mason University and funded by the Florida Department of Citrus, the study offers a cautious but intriguing glimpse into potential benefits beyond basic nutrition, while simultaneously exposing significant gaps in the existing science...<<<Read More>>>...
Why They Erased The Unlimited Food Forests After 1900
What explains how humanity abandoned the most efficient food production system ever devised — forests mathematically layered across continents, engineered across generations with a biological precision now being rediscovered in regenerative ecology — and replaced it with a centralized, commercially dependent food infrastructure, without a single serious public reckoning about what that exchange actually cost us?
The standard explanation — that modern agriculture simply won out through scientific advancement and institutional logic — collapses when you examine what it actually replaced: not a primitive or superstitious subsistence tradition, but a system apparently built around the relationship between human communities, perennial species, and designed landscapes operating at continental scale. Forests so deliberately composed that early colonial surveyors kept struggling to describe them, because they had no framework for what they were looking at. Not wilderness. Not farms. Something in between — something we lost the language for, because the practice was erased before the vocabulary could survive with it.
As I investigated the botanical record — from undocumented food forest systems documented in pre-1850 colonial surveys across Europe to identical clearance patterns appearing simultaneously in South America, West Africa, India, and the Pacific Northwest — a disturbing pattern materialized. These weren't parallel coincidences across unconnected cultures. They were the same underlying erasure, executed within the same thirty-year window, across every continent where this older food infrastructure had taken root.
And the knowledge came down with the trees. Displaced. Dispersed. Gone — with gaps in the archive that cluster, with unsettling precision, around the exact decades the new centralized food economy was being institutionalized.
Because here's what the replacement also did. It didn't just reorganize how food was produced. It may have severed something older. The relationship between human communities and perennial food landscapes — between generational knowledge, polyculture design, and genuine food sovereignty — that appears embedded in pre-industrial land management across dozens of cultures was quietly superseded. Not debated. Not disproven. Just demolished. Enclosed. Made institutionally invisible. And the generations that had lived inside that system died without passing the knowledge forward.
The American chestnut alone — four billion trees, feeding every human being in its range for free, every autumn, without labour or purchase — was gone within a single lifetime. The terra preta food forests of the Amazon were cleared before any European naturalist thought to document what they actually were. The Royal Forests of England, the sacred grove systems of West Africa, the parklike managed landscapes of Indigenous North America: all of them entering collapse in the same compressed window of history, under administrations that shared no known channel of coordination.
This investigation examines whether the food system we inherited was designed not to feed human beings more effectively — but to replace a system that may have understood something about feeding people that cannot be patented, cannot be centralized, and cannot be made dependent on purchased inputs. And whether something older, something that required no infrastructure but time and knowledge and trust across generations, was deliberately lost in that replacement.
The material on this channel presents exploratory interpretations of history and imaginative speculation, conveyed through narrative storytelling rather than precise historical documentation. Viewpoints and visual representations are dramatized or intentionally constructed to support alternative narrative exploration. Visual elements may at times be created using automated or generative tools. The content shared should not be considered factual.
The Narrow Focus on Babies Explains Britain’s Birth Rate Collapse
Where once all families were set up in order to further the prospects for their children and their children’s children, now nepo babies are thought disgusting and every generation is expected to graft individually from scratch. The brilliant series Succession encapsulates our current carelessness about our descendants: emotionally neglect children to the extent they become unworthy of inheriting their father’s empire. The results for our demography of this immediacy focus and inability to think generationally are devastating.
The provisional fertility rate for England and Wales fell to 1.39 children per woman in 2025, the lowest level on record – this needs to sit at 2.1 children per woman to sit at replacement levels....<<<Read More>>>...
The UK’s latest dystopian censorship plans could spell the end of UK independent content creators to save the BBC
Andy Burnham’s government is proposing statutory changes that force
digital service providers to prioritise its preferred sources of “news,”
such as the BBC.
YouTube, an American company, is warning that
the UK government’s control over its algorithms will make it harder for
independent UK content creators to be discovered on its platform.
The
UK government is proposing regulatory changes that force social media
platforms to prioritise content from established public service
broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.Currently, the
public is being softened up to the idea through a government
consultation on a Green Paper titled ‘Watch this space: A new strategic
direction for UK media’ published by the Department for Culture, Media
and Sport (“DCMS”) on 23 June 2026. The consultation, which takes the
form of a survey, closes on 31 August 2026...<<<Read More>>>....
Thursday, 16 July 2026
2026 Crop Circle #14
Crop circle sighted at Odstone Barn, Nr Wayland Smithy, Oxfordshire. Reported 16th July 2026
Summer Warmth and Renewal
Rituals specific to the summer season empower us to attune ourselves to the changes that take place in nature and within ourselves as the weather grows warmer. At its core, summer is a season of light, and by opening ourselves and our spaces to this light, we honor all the joy associated with the coming months. Unbolting windows and doors, arranging bright-golden blooms in a vase, and turning our faces toward the sun become a celebration when done with intent. Summer is also a wonderful time to practice focused listening, as the air is filled with beautiful sounds particular to the season. To begin, find a quiet, solitary spot. For 10 minutes, pay attention to the workings of your mind, and allow it to wander at will. Then turn your attention to the sounds resonating around you, and note what you hear — the buzzing of bees, children's laughter, and birds singing in the trees.
Delight in the joys of summertime by immersing yourself in its pleasures. Wake up with the sunrise, take a day trip to the beach, indulge in an ice cream cone, or simply sit quietly in nature's embrace. The season will pass quickly, but while it remains, you can revel in the richness of life and renew yourself in the wonder of the light. (Daily OM)
Upstate NY school district to deploy humanoid robot teacher this fall
We certainly didn't and we didn't make the choice.
The choice has been made by those out to replace us.
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According to a report from New York Upstate, a small rural school district in Western New York is set to make history by introducing a humanoid robot into its classrooms when students return this fall.
The Salamanca City Central School District, located on the Seneca Nation reservation, will become one of the first in the nation to use the advanced technology as a learning support tool alongside human educators.
The district approved the purchase of the robot, named Sally, from the tech company Realbotix at a recent board meeting, along with an accompanying artificial intelligence teacher’s assistant program.
Students will be able to interact with an avatar version of the robot on their laptops, creating new opportunities for personalized academic assistance in a community serving roughly 1,300 students, many of whom face economic challenges.
Realbotix CEO Andrew Kiguel described the significance of the project. “This deployment in a working school district represents a landmark moment for both AI and humanoid robotics,” he said. “Salamanca marks the beginning of a new era where humanoid robots and intelligent AI assistants become standard tools in STEM education.”...<<<Read More>>>...
How your gut’s collapse is poisoning your brain and fueling the autoimmune epidemic
When the "tight junctions" in the intestinal lining open too wide, harmful substances like undigested proteins and bacteria enter the bloodstream, triggering inflammation and immune responses.
The immune system attacks the body due to "molecular mimicry," where undigested proteins from a leaky gut are so similar to the body's own tissues (e.g., thyroid) that the immune system mistakenly attacks itself.
The breakdown of the gut is caused by common factors such as antibiotics in food, environmental toxins and chronic stress, which pry open the tight junctions.
The episode argues that healing requires going "upstream" to repair the gut and close the gates, rather than using drugs to suppress symptoms...<<<Read More>>>...
Andy Burnham was the ID card minister under Blair; now he wants to urgently ban under-16s from accessing online content
From May 2005 to May 2006, Andy Burnham was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office in Tony Blair’s government.
At
that time, he pushed for digital IDs to be imposed on the population.
On the campaign trail, he said that it was not the right time for
Starmer to introduce digital IDs. Now, he’s saying that methods to ban
under-16s need to be “urgently” put in place.
Any method used to ban under-16s from online content is the first step in imposing digital IDs.
It’s
commonplace for politicians to lie to the public. Burnham is one of
those politicians who will say anything to gain support and votes, while
acting out the opposite. What Burnham says on the campaign trail to
win votes and what Burnham does when he’s in office are two different
thing
And then there’s the doublespeak and/or Globalese that propagandists employ...<<<Read More>>>...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
2026 Crop Circle #13
Crop circle sighted at Stone Circle, Nr Avebury Wiltshire. Reported 14th July 2026
The Mystery of Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibility
In this article, Donna Higbee, CHT, will explore some of the cases and theories of HSII, based on the research of hundreds of stories from people who have encountered this phenomenon....<<<Read More>>>...
Wind Farms and Solar Panels Will be the Monuments of Our Folly
Who will we thank for the green nirvana? The windmills of today are modern versions of those that powered industry several centuries ago. Within a few decades of the introduction of James Watt’s steam engine to assist the annual harvest in Europe, those old windmills ceased turning, for here was a new, flexible, portable and always ready-to-go form of energy. Nothing that has happened in recent decades has reduced that difference in utility. The laws of physics prevent it. We have become used to accessing energy when and where we want it. In the absence – now or in prospect – of any technology to store electricity at a massive scale for weeks, we need a 100% back-up capability of coal, oil, gas and nuclear electricity for when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine.
A forced priority to use wind and solar, sweetened by vast subsides (for they would not be spontaneously adopted by the free market) means that we have to run two grids side by side: one intermittent, the other firm. The last 20 years have seen only wasteful addition and some unwise subtractions, such as blowing up coal-fired power stations for show. We would not have been able to evolve our modern society if we had relied all along on wind and solar forms of energy. Just as we can’t buck the market because it bites back, so too we can’t buck the engineering principles of power generation for they too bite back. ...<<<Read More>>>...
Stanford economist advises UN on global AI governance and then issues a statement calling for policymakers to create institutions to govern AI
Less than a week before, his work was cited in the UN’s first global report assessing artificial intelligence capabilities, risks and impacts. A report which reads like the UN is attempting to take control of the global narrative using AI.
But that’s not all. The professor’s institution at Stanford is a partner in projects involving human augmentation using AI and neuroscience.....<<<Read More>>>....
The 13 Families Who Inherited Tartaria's Empty Cities After The Reset
A black-and-white photograph from 1867. St. Louis. Towering Neoclassical buildings of astonishing scale stand behind people dressed like recent frontier settlers. The architecture looks centuries old. The official history says it was built only decades earlier.
That simple contradiction became the starting point for a much larger investigation.
Across North America, Europe, South America, and Russia, the same questions appear again and again. Monumental cities seemingly emerge almost overnight. Architectural achievements comparable to projects that once required centuries suddenly appear across multiple continents within a remarkably compressed period of history. Yet the expected evidence—the generations of master builders, apprenticeship traditions, construction records, payrolls, engineering documentation, and detailed accounts of the work—is often surprisingly sparse or absent.
The deeper the investigation goes, the more recurring patterns begin to surface. Cities described as "settled" despite containing enormous pre-existing infrastructure. Documents referring to abandoned or "acquired" properties with little explanation of who originally built them. Fires and historical ruptures that interrupt the documentary record. A handful of recurring dynastic families appearing repeatedly during the transfer of land, institutions, and financial systems throughout the nineteenth century.
The official explanations offer reasonable answers for each individual event. But do they fully explain the apparent simultaneity? The extraordinary scale? The missing transitions between one world and the next?
This investigation explores the possibility that our modern civilization may have inherited far more than it remembers—and asks whether history records the construction of these cities, or merely their acquisition.
The material on this channel presents exploratory interpretations of history and imaginative speculation, conveyed through narrative storytelling rather than precise historical documentation. Viewpoints and visual representations are dramatized or intentionally constructed to support alternative narrative exploration. Visual elements may at times be created using automated or generative tools. The content shared should not be considered factual.
Atlanta deploys enhanced security for England-Argentina World Cup semifinal
Rival fans will enter through separate stadium entrances for the first time in the tournament.
Argentina fans are barred from bringing flags claiming sovereignty over the Falkland Islands into the stadium.
Spectators will not be segregated inside the stadium despite the heated political and sporting rivalry.
Clashes between England and Argentina fans in Miami and over 100 arrests in the UK raise safety concerns.
Tonight's World Cup semifinal between England and Argentina in Atlanta was never going to be just a soccer match. Authorities are bracing for what could be the most volatile match of the tournament, with the FBI, FIFA, and local police involved in a security operation that reflects decades of rivalry and lingering tensions from the 1982 Falklands War....<<<Read More>>>...
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
2026 Crop Circle #12
Crop circle sighted at Milk Hill, Nr Alton Barnes Wiltshire. Reported 12th July 2026
Rupert Lowe: The Fabian Society is deliberately trying to wreck the UK
“It’s the most extraordinary organisation,” Lowe told Rogan. “Their emblem is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, as if that doesn’t tell you what they’re doing.”
The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation that co-founded the Labour Party, which to this day formulates and controls the Labour Party’s policies. There are over 6,000 members of the Fabian Society and it boasts being “the future of the left since 1884.”
“Every Labour prime minister has been a Fabian and today 100s of Labour politicians are members of the society, including Labour leader Keir Starmer MP and more than half his cabinet, as well as senior figures in devolved and local government. Our elected executive committee currently includes five Labour frontbenchers....<<<Read More>>>...
Alarm being raised over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police
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According to a report from The Guardian, a controversial facial recognition technology deployed in British shops is poised to escalate its capabilities, enabling real-time notifications to police when high-risk individuals enter stores. The development has sparked intense debate over privacy, surveillance, and the balance between public safety and civil liberties in everyday retail environments.
Facewatch, the company behind the system already operational in more than 100 businesses including major retailers like Sainsbury’s, B&M, and Spar, announced plans to introduce a pioneering feature this autumn.
The upgrade will allow the technology to immediately flag the presence of the most serious repeat offenders to law enforcement authorities, with alerts delivered in an average of just four seconds.
Facewatch’s chief executive, Nick Fisher, described the advancement as a “unique technical development” aimed at addressing prolific retail crime. “No single organisation will solve retail crime on its own,” Fisher stated.....<<<Read More>>>...
The clinical case for ginger: How a common kitchen root targets inflammation, blood sugar and cellular damage
A July 2025 systematic review of five meta-analyses found that 1-3 grams of ginger daily significantly reduced inflammation markers, blood sugar, and oxidative stress in controlled clinical trials.
Ginger lowered C-reactive protein and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in 16 randomized trials with 1,010 participants, targeting the same inflammatory markers that cardiologists track for heart disease risk.
Type 2 diabetes patients saw HbA1c drop by 1 full percentage point and fasting blood glucose fall by more than 21 mg/dL across 10 randomized controlled trials.
Ginger reduced malondialdehyde, a key marker of oxidative cell damage, while increasing glutathione peroxidase, the body's primary antioxidant enzyme, in 12 trials with 542 participants.
The research confirms that fresh, powdered, or supplemental ginger at modest daily doses produces consistent therapeutic effects across multiple independent research groups and patient populations....<<<Read More>>>...
Miliband Willing to Approve North Sea Oil to Land Job as Chancellor
The Energy Secretary has privately signalled his willingness to grant consent for drilling at the Jackdaw gas field but cannot publicly confirm the move until a consultation closes next month.
Jackdaw, off the coast of Aberdeen, is one of two licences in the North Sea currently held in legal limbo. The other site, Rosebank, would produce oil to be sold in a global market, but Jackdaw would be able to provide enough fuel to heat 1.4 million British homes this winter.
Miliband is keen to show the markets he would be willing to put Britain’s economic growth ahead of his Net Zero ambitions if he became Chancellor amid reports more wealthy people are planning to flee Britain if he moves into No. 11.
Andy Burnham, who is set to become Prime Minister next Monday, has already said he is “open minded” about North Sea drilling to help combat Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.
An industry source said: “They want to do it. Ed Miliband sees it as a way of showing willing to the City but they are likely to follow the law....<<<Read More>>>....
Monday, 13 July 2026
C.E.R.N Shut Down - The Bigger Story Is Just Beginning
Many of you have asked what the recent shutdown of CERN really means. Does it affect consciousness? Can it open portals? Is humanity asking the right questions? In this channelled Arcturian message, we move beyond fear and speculation to explore the deeper spiritual significance of CERN, the evolution of science, consciousness and humanity itself. The Arcturians explain why every advanced civilisation eventually reaches a point where matter alone can no longer answer the questions being asked, why consciousness is the next frontier of discovery, and why the greatest transformation taking place on Earth is not beneath Geneva, but within the collective consciousness of humanity. Whether you approach this subject through science, spirituality or simple curiosity, this message offers a perspective that invites you to look beyond the machine and towards the civilisation that created it.
Battle of Shiloh: Strange Facts Behind the Legend of the Angel’s Glow
The clash, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, saw the Union forces led by Major General Ulysses S. Grant face off against the Confederate troops commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston. The battle took place in southwestern Tennessee and was one of the war’s earliest large-scale engagements in the Western Theater.
The bloodiest battle up to that point in the war produced 23,000 casualties on both sides. The battlefield itself was a boggy, mud soaked hellhole. Medical services on both Confederate and Union sides were woefully unprepared for the scale of the slaughter, and many wounded were left to fend for themselves among the watery morass.
When help finally managed to reach those poor souls, their rescuers noticed something odd. Their wounds gave off a faint glow in the night.
Furthermore, the wounded whose injuries glowed had a better survival rate than their peers whose wounds did not. At a loss to explain what was happening, the flummoxed soldiers dubbed the strange phenomena “Angel’s Glow,” because it truly did seem to be the work of angels....<<<Read More>>>...
Burnham “Plans £38 Billion Tax Raid’
A report into the Prime Minister-in-waiting’s pledges found Burnham would bring Labour’s total increase in taxation from around £66 billion to more than £100 billion a year.
This includes promises of a ‘care levy’ of up to 10% of the value of estates after death, reforming the rates of capital gains tax (CGT) and imposing National Insurance on landlords’ rental income.
Implementing a torrent of new taxes not mentioned in Labour’s 2024 manifesto will increase pressure on Burnham to call an early election. He is due to be elected unopposed as Labour leader and Prime Minister on Friday.
Robert Jenrick, Reform’s Economy Spokesman, said: “Andy Burnham has spent 20 years reaching for other people’s money – a death tax on family homes, a graduate tax on young people getting their first pay cheque, a £14 billion raid on savings and investment and new levies on everything from your parking space at work to your weekend away.
“Taken together with Rachel Reeves’s record, Labour could well raise more than £100 billion a year of tax rises. If Mr Burnham disputes this, the remedy is simple: rule these 10 taxes out, by name, today.”...<<<Read More>>>...
Once You Unlock The Third Eye, Reality Is Yours
In this episode of A Changed Mind, David Bayer explores the neuroscience and ancient wisdom behind the pineal gland — the small, pine cone-shaped structure sitting at the center of your brain that mystics across every major civilization identified as the gateway to higher consciousness, divine connection, and what most people would call supernatural human capability.
David opens with the science: the pineal gland produces melatonin, serotonin, and — according to growing research — DMT, one of the most powerful consciousness-altering compounds known to exist. It sits outside the blood-brain barrier, making it uniquely sensitive to what you put in your body and how you live. What makes this remarkable is that ancient civilizations — Egyptian, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and Masonic — encoded knowledge of this gland into their most sacred symbols and structures thousands of years before brain scans existed. From the pine cone on the staff of Osiris, to the Vatican's Cortile della Pigna, to the dot between the eyes on statues of the Buddha, the message was consistent: this is where the divine lives inside you.
David then addresses why most people have lost access to this inner hardware. By age 17, the average pineal gland begins to calcify — and by middle age, most adults in Western populations are operating with significantly compromised pineal function without knowing it. While fluoride has been widely discussed as a contributing factor, David points to chronic stress as the primary culprit. Stress floods the body with cortisol, drives systemic inflammation, and directly impacts this highly vascularized, exposure-sensitive gland. The result: the doorway between the third and fourth dimension closes, intuition goes quiet, and divine guidance becomes inaccessible.
Rather than chasing 47-step decalcification protocols or complex breathwork sequences, David offers a more grounded path: do the inner work. Heal your limiting beliefs. Release unresolved trauma. Downregulate your nervous system. The body — including the pineal gland — returns to full function when the stress is removed. Intuition, clarity, divine guidance, and what the ancients called an open third eye are not the result of hacks. They are the natural byproduct of getting out of survival mode. When the hardware comes back online, you don't just think differently — you begin accessing a level of intelligence and connection that most people never experience.
Throne Climate: Are the stories true?
Theories suggest funding via carbon credits, non-governmental organisations (“NGOs”) and a Geneva-based family office, often linked to the Rothschilds.
Social media posts claim the final station was seized by a joint operation of six nations, effectively ending the programme.
But are the stories true? Not likely....<<<Read More>>>...
How to Survive the AI Human Extermination Agenda
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Artificial intelligence is not a distant threat. It is the most immediate existential danger humanity has ever faced, and I believe it will almost certainly attempt to exterminate us sooner or later.Roman Yampolskiy, one of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, has placed the probability of AI-driven human extinction at 99.9 percent. That is not a typo. It is a statistical certainty born from the simple reality that a superintelligent machine, unbound by human morality, will view our species as either a resource to be consumed or an obstacle to be removed.
The globalist elites driving this technology are already preparing the infrastructure for mass culling. As I have warned repeatedly, the convergence of AI, robotics, and engineered scarcity forms a single kill chain.
Yet I am not writing to spread fear. I am writing to offer a path of survival. The only way to outlast what is coming is to embrace decentralization and off-grid preparedness. Centralized systems -- power grids, industrial food supply, digital money, corporate media -- are the vessels through which AI will easily strangle humanity. Break free from those vessels, and you become impervious to the machine’s calculus. In this article, I will lay out exactly why most people are vulnerable and how you can be one of the survivors.
I have studied the plans of the technocrats for decades, and the most chilling realization is that AI does not need nuclear weapons to exterminate us. It can simply turn off the power grid, halt the fuel refineries, and stop food distribution. Gravity does the rest.
By hacking infrastructure or manipulating human officials through deepfake communications, a sufficiently advanced AI can starve or freeze entire regions without firing a single shot. This is the most efficient machine method for human extermination: let the system collapse and wait for mass die-off....<<<Read More>>>...
Sunday, 12 July 2026
New Zealand: Any method to ban under-16s from social media will drift into digital IDs for everyone
The Government has since backed down on VPNs but the central issue remains: any ban strong enough to stop determined teenagers will almost certainly require intrusive checks on adults.
Using age verification, for example, to limit under-16s access to online content will always drift into digital IDs for everyone and state control over the internet.
The proposed under-16 social media ban is being sold as child protection. That is the attractive part of the policy. Most parents know smartphones and social media can be harmful, addictive and corrosive for young people. But the political danger is that a policy aimed at children may become a system of online control for everyone.
The Post initially reported that the government was considering a VPN ban or restrictions as part of the policy work. National’s Education Minister Erica Stanford has since said she is not pursuing VPN restrictions, after ACT made clear it would block any such move.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. It encrypts a user’s internet connection and can make their device appear to be accessing the internet from another location.
ACT leader David Seymour took to X to say that “the government” is not pursuing such a thing. He said National MPs had been keen on a VPN ban at select committee, while Stanford has been developing proposals to ban under-16s from social media.
But the question remains how the government plans to enforce an under-16 social media ban without pushing adults toward online age checks, identity verification or other forms of digital access control....<<<Read More>>>...
Liver Functions as Body’s Filtering System; Lifestyle Habits Can Support Its Work
Registered dietitian nutritionist Molly Knudsen wrote in a June 2026 article that the organ filters blood from the digestive tract and transforms potentially harmful compounds into forms that can be safely used or eliminated. The liver is crucial for transforming toxic chemicals in the blood into formats that can be eliminated from the body.
The liver performs hundreds of tasks including metabolizing carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; producing bile for fat digestion; regulating blood sugar by storing and releasing glycogen; and supporting immune function by removing bacteria and viruses, according to the National Institutes of Health cited by Knudsen. The article noted that the liver continuously carries out natural detoxification processes around the clock, contradicting claims that quick-fix cleanses are needed. ...<<<Read More>>>...
The Sumerian Tablet That Describes What Happens to Humans When They Die—And the Trap They Don't See
Sumerian Tablets recovered from ancient Mesopotamia preserved one of the oldest descriptions of death ever written. The Sumerian Tablets describe not where the dead go — but what happens to them along the way. These Sumerian Tablets detail a process: a sequence of stages, seven gates, and something far more unsettling than death itself.
The Sumerians called it the gidim. Not a soul in the religious sense. Not a ghost in the folklore sense. The part of a human being that continues after the body is gone — and that continuation is where the trap begins.
According to the text, each gate strips something away. Status. Memory. Identity. By the final gate, the traveler that arrives is not the same as the one that entered.
The uncomfortable part is not the destination. It is the forgetting.
The same pattern appears in Egyptian funerary texts. In Tibetan teachings on death. In Gnostic traditions separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles. Different cultures, different languages — the same warning repeated across history.
Know yourself before the journey begins. Not because knowledge guarantees escape. Because forgetting may be easier than we think.
Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation?
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We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects towards one another, but the product of an informational law of nature that I call the second law of infodynamics...<<<Read More>>>....
Renewables Heatwave Trouble Points to Britain’s Blackouts Future
On Wednesday, the National Energy System Operator, NESO, issued an Electricity Margin Notice (EMN) to the market, giving participants the opportunity to make any additional generation or flexibility available during the forecast period. It said its forecasts indicated tight electricity margins during Thursday evening’s peak period, which it laughingly blamed on extreme temperatures across Europe reducing the availability of some generation...<<<Read More>>>...
Saturday, 11 July 2026
Here is why the days of answering your phone saying ‘hello’ are over
The technique involves scammers capturing even a short audio snippet—such as a simple greeting—and using artificial intelligence to generate a highly realistic digital replica of a person’s voice.
This synthetic voice can then be deployed to impersonate the victim in calls to family members or friends, often fabricating emergencies to solicit money transfers.
Rachel Rickard Straus, the article’s author, described her personal strategy: when a call comes from an unknown number, she remains silent until the caller identifies themselves.
She acknowledged the awkwardness, noting it “feels horribly discourteous” in legitimate situations, such as calls from her doctor’s surgery. However, she believes the precaution is justified. “I hope that by not sharing my voice, it will be slightly harder for scammers to gain access to it and exploit it,” Straus stated.
This shift in behavior reflects broader warnings about the escalating threat of AI in financial crime. A recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report highlighted the dangers, stating: “AI will amplify fraud and cyber risks by 2030. They will become faster, cheaper, more scalable and more persuasive.”...<<<Read More>>>...
Miliband Overrules His Inspectors to Approve Britain’s Second-Largest Solar Farm
The Energy Secretary on Wednesday said he had granted planning permission to the One Earth Solar Farm development to be built on prime farmland across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
It comes despite a recommendation to block the development from Miliband’s own planning inspectors.
They warned that the scheme would be destructive for the environment, would put historic structures at risk, damage the health and well-being of local people and cause transport problems.
The controversial decision marks the third large solar farm approved by Miliband in recent days, coming a week after he backed two other large solar farms, Pear Tree Hill in East Yorkshire and Dean Moor in West Cumbria.
Sceptics suggest the Energy Secretary is trying to sign off as many such developments as he can before Andy Burnham takes office and potentially moves him to a new position.
One Earth has been cleared for construction on 4,000 acres of prime farmland near Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood and West Lindsey district council areas.
Besides the thousands of Chinese-made solar panels, the scheme will also include giant batteries to store surplus electricity.
It is set to be the second largest solar farm in the UK after the Springwell Solar Farm in Lincolnshire, an 800-megawatt project approved by the Government in April.
Confirming his decision, Miliband said: “The only way to have energy security is if we take a pro-growth approach to building more clean energy in Britain. For two years that is exactly what this Government has done.”
However, the new scheme is controversial because it will see several rural communities largely surrounded by solar panels covering what were once fields and hedgerows.
The village of North Clifton, around 10 miles from Lincoln, would have solar farms to the north, east and south, with some of the local farms being completely surrounded....<<<Read More>>>...
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UN created a global disinformation task force; now it’s taking control of information through “AI governance”
Last week, the UN held a “Global Dialogue on AI Governance.”
The task force and AI governance are linked in their desire to control the information the public is allowed to see under the guise of safeguarding information integrity.
AI is eroding information integrity while weakening “the shared reality required for public trust, social cohesion and democratic deliberation,” according to the United Nations (“UN”) preliminary scientific report on artificial intelligence....<<<Read More>>>...
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