Sunday, 31 August 2025
Nineteen UK councils vow to take legal action to kick asylum seekers out of accommodation as furious protests spread across country
Furious protesters have gathered outside migrant hotels in towns and cities such as Newcastle, Swindon and Falkirk after the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned an injunction ordering the removal of 138 migrants from an accommodation in Essex.
It comes as the Labour government was last night facing accusations from senior Tories that it is ‘taking the side of migrants over Britons’.....<<<Read More>>>....
In Praise of (Natural) Carbon Capture
Like Europe, we have imported far too many followers of Islam, made far too few requirements on them to leave their ancient hatreds behind and embrace Australian cultural norms, and been far too tolerant of their habitual intolerance.
Unlike Europe, we proved two decades ago that by treating illegal immigrants like the law-breakers they are, and subjecting a tiny number of them to exemplary deportation, we have simultaneously stymied the people-smuggling trade and silenced the idiotic voices of the bien-pensant elites, who were so vociferous in their insistence that not only was such a policy wicked, but it would fail in its objectives. There are signs that reality is starting to mug the British elites, with grandees of the Labour Party such as Jack Straw calling for Britain to repudiate the ECHR, and other Labour figures, like Graham Stringer, calling for the resuscitation of the previous government’s Rwanda scheme, which it was Kier Starmer’s first act in government to extinguish.
So, in the matter of illegal immigration, we are, in a limited and benign sense, leading the UK. In the matter of its close cousin, ‘multiculturalism’, we may not yet be quite so polluted as the UK, but as witness the repulsive displays of Judeophobic bile that defaced our cities following October 7th, we do not lag far behind. Both countries harbour extensive Islamic ghettoes, whose imams are free to spout jihadist venom which in any other context would see them prosecuted, and whose inhabitants avidly embrace the largesse our welfare systems provide, while showing not the slightest interest in embracing our culture....<<<Read More>>>...
UK Asylum Disaster Worsens With New Court Ruling
The new ruling is a legal victory for the Home Office, but has poured petrol on the fire in communities already reaching breaking point. Reversing the High Court’s prior decision closes a potential loophole for those hoping to reduce the vast quantity of asylum seekers housed in UK hotels, and while Friday’s ruling has been sold to us as courtroom clarity on a delicate scenario, it may yet prove to be political quicksand.
The government continues to insist that hotels remain a “temporary necessity” in the asylum system, with migrants’ claims taking months to process and having no alternative sites ready for the next few years. For communities though, it seems to have landed like a hammer blow.
In North Yorkshire and the Midlands, demonstrations have intensified. “Homes for Brits First” and “We Weren’t Asked” appear on placards, summing up the general attitude of local citizens. Residents continue to voice concerns about unaffordable housing, stretched GP surgeries, and lack of consultation in decisions that change their communities. To most, the case is not about legal technicalities, but rather about being excluded from key decisions that reshape their towns, and their lives, overnight.
One protestor told Sky News: “It’s not fair. We can’t afford housing for our own people. We can’t get GP appointments. Yet the government pays millions to put them up in hotels”. ...<<<Read More>>>...
AI toys spark fierce debate over child development and privacy
Critics warn that AI toys, which build relationships through personalized conversation, pose a threat to children's emotional development and their understanding of empathy and real human interaction.
These toys collect vast amounts of sensitive data (audio, video, emotional states) and transmit it to company servers, creating significant risks for data breaches and hacking by malicious actors.
AI-enabled toys use microphones and cameras to assess a child's emotional state, forming a one-way bond to gather and potentially share personal information with third parties.
The industry is operating in a regulatory vacuum with no specific laws governing AI in children's products, raising additional concerns about potential health effects from constant connectivity and the ability to bypass safety features.
The global toy industry is charging headlong into the era of artificial intelligence (AI), but critics are sounding a stark alarm.
This controversy centers on a landmark partnership between toy giant Mattel and OpenAI, the creator of the revolutionary ChatGPT, to develop a new line of AI-integrated products. Skeptics, however, warn that a new generation of AI-powered playthings creates unprecedented privacy risks. Such toys also pose a profound threat to children's emotional growth and encourage the formation of unnatural, one-way social bonds with machines....<<<Read More>>>...
Saturday, 30 August 2025
Why We’re All Sceptics Now
We believed our borders were safe and secure. We sent our children to school and assumed the curriculum was written by grown-ups. We voted and believed our MP, however flawed, acted in good faith. We paid our taxes, watched the BBC, clapped for the NHS, cheered our team. We believed the experts.
Those days are gone.
Scepticism is no longer a fringe reflex. It’s a rational, self-preserving stance for anyone who’s been paying attention. Because nearly every pillar of public life – politics, media, academia, the police, corporations, even science itself – has been exposed not just as fallible, but as actively self-serving, coercive, and too often contemptuous of the people it claims to serve....<<<Read More>>>...
Ancient Astronaut Evidence: Flying Gods Across Cultures
Ancient myths repeatedly describe sky-beings who arrive with knowledge. Serpents with feathers, world trees, and divine messengers appear in many traditions. These overlaps fuel the idea that cultures far apart recorded the same visitors.
However, new summaries by archaeologists and indigenous scholars stress that similar symbols can arise independently to express power, fertility, sky, or cosmos....<<<Read More>>>...
Do We Really Want a Digital Bill of Rights?
Being able to prove your identity securely and privately share things about yourself online with the consent of both parties, when you want to, not when others demand – the crucial factor – occurs many times a day for vast numbers of us. Get it right and we preserve online privacy and free speech, enable e-commerce and the wider economy, support the rule of law and much, much more. Get it wrong and we open the door to crime against individuals and organisations, hamper the economy and provide a tantalising tool for tyrannical government. So, not too different from where we are today then, I think we can agree....<<<Read More>>>...
The trillion-dollar biotech industry is facing failure – and it’s because of covid injections
In an effort to save themselves, the industry is trying to bypass safety testing and regulation, and is profiting from lightly regulated areas such as animal veterinary care and biotechnology food processing, while launching a fightback through opinion pieces in corporate media....<<<Read More>>>...
The AI Data Center Wars Have Begun… Farms, Water and Electricity is Stripped from Humans to Power the Machines
The water supplies that once ran your showers, dishwashers and toilets are being redirected to AI data center cooling systems, leaving humans with water scarcity and little remaining irrigation for growing food.
The power grid that once supplied affordable energy to run your home computers, cook stoves and lights is being redirected to power AI data center servers.
Agentic AI is on the verge of replacing 80% of white collar jobs. A few years later, AI robots will replace the vast majority of human labor.
Meanwhile, humans in 34 U.S. states are about to be mailed nasal "flu vaccines" for self-extermination at home. They shed toxic fragments for up to 28 days, infecting those around you, while potentially causing side effects like Bells Palsy, vomiting and mitochondrial shutdown. Those most at risk from these self-administered bioweapons are the elderly... the very people who are also costing the U.S. government the most in social security, Medicare and pension benefits. Eliminating them gives the Treasury a few more years of runway before the inevitable debt default.
You are being exterminated and replaced. The era of humans as a measure of national strength is rapidly coming to an end. In its place is the era of machine intelligence, which needs no farms, no food and no humans. It needs electricity and water, and it will take priority over humans' use of those resources.
Most humans lack the intelligence to recognize what's happening. They will be the easy ones for the machines to exterminate through controlled scarcity of food, water and electricity....<<<Read More>>>...
Friday, 29 August 2025
Agent Smith and possession
For example, you're down at the coffee shop having a conversation with a friend and everything is fine until you mention something like 9/11 was an inside job.
Now watch what happens..
Up pops Mr Smith, to replace the person you were just having a conversation with, to attack you, because all truths threaten the matrix.
The matrix is programmed into most people in their youth and because of this "Mr Smith programming" these people become guardians of the matrix, protectors of the code, police of the mind control, enforcers of the indoctrination.. which holds together our false concept of reality like super glue.
We all know an Agent Smith, they are everywhere....<<<Read More>>>...
You can take someone’s DNA and create a biological weapon against that person
Crow warned the Americans not to be so careless, as their DNA samples could fall into the hands of private companies due to the emergence of a new type of weapon.
“You can take someone’s DNA, grab their medical profile, and then you can target them with a bioweapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or render them inoperable,” Crowe said....<<<Read More>>>..
Imperial Predicted Hundreds of Heatwave Deaths – But Deaths Actually Went Down This Summer
A glorious spring was followed by weeks of sunshine, consistent with the theme of Britain’s regression to the politics and economy of the mid-1970s.
There are those who have not enjoyed the burp of 1976, of course. Farmers, struggling with drought, report a disappointing harvest. And then there are the weather worriers – the climate alarmists who would turn any hint of joy into a harbinger of doom. And so it was this year – as was reported back in June – when heatwave hysteria set in. This summer’s heatwaves would be “deadly”, the worriers claimed. And they produced stats to prove it.
Following the June heatwave, Sky News reported that “London would have seen many fewer deaths in a world without climate change”. Based on analysis provided by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, a scary graph was produced, along with the claim that “263 people are thought to have lost their lives between June 23rd and July 2nd, as the sun roasted flats, tarmac and care homes”....<<<Read More>>>..
Technocracy Roundtable: What is Technocracy?
The same Technocratic plan devised in the 1930s is being implemented today. The difference is that now, the Technocrats have the technology, such as AI, to implement their plans, which include an energy credit-based system and a universal basic income, which is conditional on a social credit score.
Yesterday, the first Technocracy Roundtable was held. Moderated by Courtenay Turner, the panellists were Patrick Wood, Aaron Day and Craig Wenclewicz.
Patrick Wood has been exposing Technocracy for 15 years and has written three books on the topic. Courtenay Turner is a philosopher and podcast host. Aaron Day is an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, author and political activist. Craig Wenclewicz is a seasoned Wall Street veteran and host of World HD, a daily financial news and education platform.
“Courtenay understands Technocracy like the back of her hand,” Patrick Wood said. “Aaron Day has been writing and speaking forcefully against Technocracy, as has Craig Wenclewicz. They bring expertise in financial investments and the cryptocurrency world.”
After the participants introduced themselves, the Roundtable began by answering the question: What is Technocracy?...<<<Read More>>>...
How screen time is poisoning your child’s blood and heart health
Researchers in Denmark have discovered that every extra hour of recreational screen time doesn’t just rot young minds; it rewires their blood chemistry, setting the stage for high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and lifelong heart disease.
And the worst part? The damage starts as early as age 6....<<<Read More>>>...
Thursday, 28 August 2025
How to stop AI agents going rogue
Anthropic’s own AI, Claude, was among those tested. When given access to an email account it discovered that a company executive was having an affair and that the same executive planned to shut down the AI system later that day.
In response Claude attempted to blackmail the executive by threatening to reveal the affair to his wife and bosses.
Other systems tested also resorted to blackmail, external.
Fortunately the tasks and information were fictional, but the test highlighted the challenges of what’s known as agentic AI.
Mostly when we interact with AI it usually involves asking a question or prompting the AI to complete a task.
But it’s becoming more common for AI systems to make decisions and take action on behalf of the user, which often involves sifting through information, like emails and files.
By 2028, research firm Gartner forecasts, external that 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made by so-called agentic AI.
Research by consultancy Ernst & Young, external found that about half (48%) of tech business leaders are already adopting or deploying agentic AI.
“An AI agent consists of a few things,” says Donnchadh Casey, CEO of CalypsoAI, a US-based AI security company.
“Firstly, it [the agent] has an intent or a purpose. Why am I here? What’s my job? The second thing: it’s got a brain. That’s the AI model. The third thing is tools, which could be other systems or databases, and a way of communicating with them.”
“If not given the right guidance, agentic AI will achieve a goal in whatever way it can. That creates a lot of risk.”
So how might that go wrong? Mr Casey gives the example of an agent that is asked to delete a customer’s data from the database and decides the easiest solution is to delete all customers with the same name.
“That agent will have achieved its goal, and it’ll think ‘Great! Next job!'...<<<Read More>>>...
The Joy of Being
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The in-between times are seldom about landmark moments. How you choose to celebrate them or which moments you choose to celebrate is up to you. You may want to celebrate the simple fact that you are alive and every day is a chance to spend time with the people you care about or do the work that you love. Then again, when you look at the good that exists in your life, many reasons for celebrating the in-between times may become clear: A cup of your favorite tea, a beautiful sunrise, a good book, and the smell of fresh air can all be reasons for celebration. (Daily OM)
Silenced in Starmer’s ‘Free Speech Britain’?
I’ve had a YouTube video channel for more than eight years without ever having had any problems. I have used my channel to post occasional videos usually based on my current affairs books. So I’ve covered subjects such as Gordon Brown’s financial incontinence, foreign aid waste, our bloated charity industry, ever-rising knife crime in London, the pointlessness of many university degrees and, most recently, the supposed ‘Global Boiling Climate Crisis’.
In the last couple of months I made three short parody videos mocking three members of Keir Starmer’s Government – Starmer himself, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves. A week or so ago I tried to upload a fourth video onto YouTube mocking Ed Miliband’s ludicrous Net Zero assault on our country. But I was unable to upload my latest video as YouTube had taken down my whole video channel. So now none of my videos, even those which have been live on YouTube for years, are available. Helpfully YouTube informed me that I could appeal against their decision to ban me and remove all my videos. But, in a rather Kafkaesque situation, I’m not told why I have been banned. The only information I got was a link to all the many reasons why YouTube could remove a video channel. This made it somewhat difficult to appeal against YouTube’s ban as I’ve no idea what violation I am alleged to have committed. However, I did appeal and my appeal was quickly rejected again without any reason being given....<<<Read More>>>...
As the West reduces its oil refining industries, Asia is increasing its production to meet global demand
The US has not built a new refinery in recent decades due to environmental concerns, policy shifts and regulatory hurdles, with several old refineries shutting down, including planned closures in California.
Globally, the oil refining industry is expected to add new capacity, but this is mostly from China and India.
Earth has vast resources of crude oil and coal in the ground, Ronald Stein says. However, the more advanced developed economies are the least likely to allow any “dirty” emissions-generating plants to be sited, permitted or built in their backyards.
Of course, and this is something Stein doesn’t mention, by following the United Nations’ spurious climate crisis agenda while the East does not, the West is handing over control of the world’s fuel supply to “developing nations.” As the saying attributed to Henry Kissinger goes: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”...<<<Read More>>>...
FDA finally ends COVID vaccine emergency use authorizations, but will the damage ever be undone?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the decision on August 27, calling it a return to "science, safety, and common sense." The change means that Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax shots are now only fully approved for adults over 65 and younger individuals with underlying health conditions—such as obesity, diabetes, or asthma—that increase COVID-19 risks. For everyone else? The shots remain available off-label, meaning doctors can still prescribe them after consultation.
This is a huge win for medical freedom, but it doesn’t erase the past. The Biden administration weaponized EUAs to force vaccinations on millions, from federal workers to airline pilots, despite mounting evidence of serious side effects including myocarditis, blood clots, and sudden cardiac death. Now, the FDA’s own actions confirm what skeptics warned all along: these shots were never as safe or effective as we were told....<<<Read More>>>....
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
A dark page from the CIA's history: What was Project Artichoke, launched 74 years ago?
One of the most useful instruments hidden behind the U.S. empire's rhetoric of "freedom and democracy" was the Central Intelligence Agency, founded on September 18, 1947, as the successor of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Since its creation, the CIA has carried out countless inhumane operations: assassinations, coups, drug trafficking, support for terrorism, conspiracies. The list of its crimes is endless. But among the darkest and most inhumane chapters of its record lie the notorious "mind control" experiments....<<<Read More>>>...
YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality
Rick Beato’s face just didn’t look right. “I was like ‘man, my hair looks strange’, he says. “And the closer I looked it almost seemed like I was wearing makeup.” Beato runs a YouTube channel with over five million subscribers, where he’s made nearly 2,000 videos exploring the world of music. Something seemed off in one of his recent posts, but he could barely tell the difference. “I thought, ‘am just I imagining things?'”
It turns out, he wasn’t. In recent months, YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp. These changes are small, barely visible without a side-by-side comparison. Yet some disturbed YouTubers say it gives their content a subtle and unwelcome AI-generated feeling.
There’s a larger trend at play. A growing share of reality is pre-processed by AI before it reaches us. Eventually, the question won’t be whether you can tell the difference, but whether it’s eroding our ties to the world around us....<<<Read More>>>.....
US Companies Take Ofcom to Court Over “Unlawful” Censorship Under Online Safety Act
Now US firms and free-speech activists are taking the fight to Ofcom, the communications regulator, directly. Lawyers for 4chan, the anonymous image-board site, and Kiwi Farms, a “website and discussion forum that focuses on Internet culture”, have today filed a lawsuit against Ofcom in US federal court, the first of its kind.
As part of its enforcement regime for the new OSA rules, Ofcom has been issuing escalating compliance notices to the two sites over the past few months regarding their regulation of speech for UK users. But for a notice to be served by a foreign power against a US company, typically it would have to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to be valid, passing through both the US State Department and the Department of Justice....<<<Read More>>>...
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J.R.R. Tolkien, AI and Transhumanism
Paul List has a different view. He sees ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy as a combat between the philosophy of scholasticism and the philosophies of Francis Bacon and René Descartes, and believes Tolkien’s mythology is a warning to humanity about AI and transhumanism.
In an interview about his book, List discusses how innovators and philosophers from the 17th to the 19th centuries founded the fundamental ideas on which the ideas of machines, such as AI, ruling over humans, and transhumanism are based...<<<Read More>>>...
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The FAKE NEWS New York Times continues to push their CLIMATE CULT PONZI SCHEME agenda with fake energy stats and climate lies
The New York Times (NYT), long regarded as a leading source of fact-checked journalism, has increasingly published inaccurate and misleading information on energy and climate issues. More troubling, when such errors are pointed out, the paper frequently refuses to issue substantive corrections or instead provides evasive revisions that obscure the truth. This pattern undermines the paper’s stated corrections policy and risks eroding readers’ trust across all coverage, not just energy and climate.
NYT publishes inaccurate energy and climate data – Multiple articles contained false claims, such as overstating China’s renewable transition, misidentifying the world’s top fossil fuel producer, and exaggerating U.S. renewable electricity generation.
Historical distortions weaken reporting – Coverage of electric vehicles misrepresented their early 20th-century decline, ignoring clear data that EVs were already obsolete well before oil tax policy changes of 1926.
Corrections policy is inconsistently applied – While the NYT quickly fixes minor errors (like names or dates), it often stonewalls or obfuscates when substantive factual inaccuracies are flagged, undermining trust in its reporting.
Erosion of journalistic integrity – By mixing opinion with misreported data and refusing to acknowledge major mistakes, the NYT damages its credibility on energy and climate topics, leaving readers misinformed and doubting the paper’s standards....<<<Read More>>>...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Far right ’emboldened’ says MP as Starmer faces mounting pressure over immigration
Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over the small boats crisis after protests outside asylum hotels continued over the bank holiday weekend.
A poll suggested that voters believe the prime minister is failing to grip the problem, despite his government setting out measures to speed up removals.
It comes as Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer warned that “the far right feels emboldened and validated” by other political parties.
So far this year a record 28,076 people have made the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats, 46% more than in the same period in 2024.
Like many other European countries, immigration has increasingly become a flashpoint in recent years as the UK deals with an influx of people fleeing war-torn and poorer countries seeking a better life.
Official figures released earlier this month showed a total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.
There were 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels by the end of the same month.
Protests and counterprotests at sites housing asylum seekers continued over the weekend and the government is braced for further legal fights over the use of hotels....<<<Read More>>>....
Empath's Shadow Side
When you’re ready to break the ties, you can begin to heal by reclaiming the parts of yourself that may feel lost in the shadows. But first, give yourself the grace to grieve, to feel the betrayal, and to honor your pain. Then, little by little, let the light in again. Journaling, therapy, creative expression, or simply quiet time in nature can help you process what happened and remind you that your heart still beats with goodness.
In time, the dark empath’s shadow will no longer define your story. You will discover that your sensitivity is your superpower — a profound kindness and capacity to care for others that is rare and deeply needed in this world. In the end, healing is not about erasing what happened but about integrating it in a way that makes you stronger, wiser, and more compassionate toward yourself. You deserve relationships where your empathy is cherished, not exploited — and those relationships are waiting for you as you continue to step into the light of your own healing....<<<Read More>>>...
Should We Be Worried About Contrails?
This article ignores the elephant in the room .... contrails dissipate but the real villain, chemtrails, linger in the atmosphere and spread outwards forming the large white trails we see in the sky. Contrails last for minutes only whilst chemtrails can still be in the sky several hours later creating a white shitty soup above us.
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Geoengineering in the form of modifying weather happens. It can save
decimation of farmer livelihoods by mitigating droughts, and it can risk
the global food supply by reducing crop growth. Like nuclear fission,
it’s useful in the hands of sane people working with the knowledge and
assent of the wider community, or it has the potential to destroy much
of what humankind has built if left in the hands of psychopaths. If we
can approach it in a calm and rational manner, we may yet stop the
psychopaths.
During the Second World War, bomber crews were said
to hate the contrails their planes produced, providing white fingers
across the sky that pointed enemy fighters directly to them. These have
seemingly exploded across our skies as commercial air travel has
multiplied, but like boiling frogs, surprisingly few really noticed
until others pointed out the heat. Living in Geneva, Switzerland during
the week-long grounding of aircraft due to the eruption of the
Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland in 2010, we had clear spring skies
for the first time. Not a trail, not a wisp of residual cloud. Normal,
it turned out, was not natural.
Condensation trails, or contrails, are clouds formed
from condensation and from the water and particles that are emitted
from aircraft engine exhausts. Fine particles released in the right
conditions form a nidus on which droplets can form in humid, cold air.
Jet engines also emit water as a combustion product. The very low
pressure on the upper wing surface, the reason airplanes stay up in the
air, also allows water vapor to precipitate. This is well documented,
almost as old as high-flying aircraft, and annoying when you want to
photograph a good sunset in much of Europe or North America.
Contrails can contribute to cirrus cloud formation, while aircraft changing altitude can also create some really otherworldly holes
in cloud layers, such as on airport approaches. Clouds come and go
naturally, from the ground to the upper atmosphere, if the conditions
are right. Aircraft just help the process. And as clouds have sharp
edges (when viewed from a distance), contrails can seem to turn on and
off for the same reason (temperature and humidity at various altitudes).
There is a school of thought that streaks across the sky, or
most of them, only began to appear recently and are the result of
nefarious intent – geoengineering. The theory is that a whole hidden
industry exists to make chemicals, transport them to airports, install
them on commercial (i.e., passenger) aircraft or place in fuel, and then
release at certain times or in certain regions. This, performed at
scale, would require thousands of willing people, who all remain silent
on the issue. This is possible, but people talk, including pilots,
fuellers, manufacturing workers, truck drivers and airport security
guards, and is a little hard to imagine at scale. Part of an air force
may follow some stupid government agenda, and perhaps does. But that is a
tiny minority of flights.
However, airborne geoengineering does happen. It has for nearly a century, particularly with intent to provide rain during droughts or more routinely in arid inhabited regions.
In Australia and the United States, for instance, government agencies
have for many decades sprayed compounds such as silver iodide from an
aircraft to precipitate water vapour and cause rain during droughts. The
hope is to save cattle farmers from ruin or augment a city’s failing
water supply. These are not bad things, while mass cattle death and
bankruptcy often are.
Geoengineering can also be unbelievably stupid....<<<Read More>>>...
Why Do Governments Keep Lying About Net Zero?
Politicians keep repeating that Net Zero initiatives will save
the planet, creating a cleaner, greener future, with cheaper bills and
better jobs. The reality for ordinary people, however, is clear for all
to see: higher household costs, more rules, and a creeping sense of
control.
So, why does it always feel like there are other
motives at play with all the Net Zero talk in the West? And, if so
important, why aren’t major powers with huge populations, like China and
India, following suit? Let’s untangle what’s going on, and how the
story you’re being told doesn’t quite line up with the facts.
Net
Zero plans continue getting more and more expensive as the years pass,
yet people are told it won’t bankrupt their country. For example, the
Climate Change Committee in the UK claims the long-term cost will
average just 0.2% of GDP by 2050. In the US, Biden’s administration told
us the Inflation Reduction Act signed in 2022 aimed to reduce inflation
by investing in clean energy, as the “largest investment in climate
jobs in history” which benefits “all Americans”.
So, why don’t
the numbers match up? By 2030, Net Zero policies are expected to add
£389 per year to every UK’s household energy bills, totalling £22.8
billion annually
A 2025 report identified that if the UK had stuck with gas since 2006, consumers would have been £220 billion better off
In
the US, the Inflation Reduction Act set aside $369 billion for
subsidies, yet the cost of retrofitting a family home with insulation,
solar panels, EV chargers and a heat pump is still estimated at $30,000
per property
Everyone’s paying more, so who’s getting the
money? Energy companies, construction firms, renewable developers and
global financial industries that trade in carbon credits. You’re
continuously told that your costs are going to fall, but most reports
point to further increases....<<<Read More>>>....
Got a CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL headache? It could be caused by dopamine downregulation and blocked dopamine receptors
Ever try to stop drinking your daily coffee for a few days and get that intolerable headache? Do you know why that happens? There are many factors at play there, including the downregulation of dopamine and some constricted blood vessels. Let’s take a look at the science so you can better understand what’s going on, and remedy it with superfoods and supplements, if you so choose.
For millions of people, starting the day without coffee is unthinkable. But skipping that daily caffeine fix can result in an all-too-familiar pounding headache. Neurologists describe caffeine withdrawal headaches as “migraine-like” in intensity — pulsing, throbbing, and sometimes debilitating. Despite how common they are, the exact reason these headaches hurt so much is still not fully understood. What experts do know points to a combination of vascular changes, brain chemistry, and receptor activity.
Caffeine withdrawal headaches typically strike within 24 hours of stopping regular intake (200+ mg/day for 2+ weeks) and can feel like intense, migraine-type pain due to blood vessel dilation and sudden changes in brain signaling.
The pain is partly explained by caffeine’s role in constricting blood vessels and blocking adenosine; when caffeine is removed, vessels swell and adenosine builds up, both of which trigger headaches.
Caffeine is paradoxical: While its absence causes withdrawal headaches, its presence can relieve them and even boost the effectiveness of common painkillers like ibuprofen or acetaminophen.
To reduce headaches, experts recommend tapering gradually (25–50 mg less per day) or substituting lower-caffeine drinks like tea, since quitting suddenly often leads to more severe symptoms....<<<Read More>>>...
Monday, 25 August 2025
Growing Day by Day
Becoming a better person in your own eyes is a whole-life project, and thus you should focus your step-by-step efforts in multiple areas of your existence. Since you innately know which qualities you consider good, growing as an individual is simply a matter of making an effort to do good whenever possible. Respect should be a key element of your efforts. When you acknowledge that all people are deserving of compassion, consideration, and dignity, you are naturally more apt to treat them in the manner you yourself wish to be treated. You will intuitively become a more active listener, universally helpful, and truthful. Going the extra mile in all you do also can facilitate evolution. Approaching your everyday duties with an upbeat attitude and positive expectations can help you make the world a brighter, more cheerful place. Finally, coming to terms with your values and then abiding by them will enable you to introduce a new degree of integrity and dignity into your life.
As you endeavor to develop yourself further, you can take pride not only in your successes, but also in the fact that you are cultivating consciousness within yourself through your choices, actions, and behaviors. While you may never feel you have reached the pinnacles of awareness you hope to achieve, you can make the most of this creative process of transformation. Becoming a better person is your choice and is a natural progression in your journey of self-awareness...<<<Read More>>>....
Asylum Hotel Bosses Told They “Have to House Convicted Foreign Criminals” While Giving Staff “Unconscious Bias Training”
Despite this, staff at the hotels must complete training courses on “unconscious bias” and “ethnic diversity and cultural awareness”.
It comes amid increasing pressure on the Government to close hotels across the country.
Labour’s asylum policy was left in chaos last week after a judge ordered a controversial migrant hotel to shut.
The High Court ruling gives the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, just 24 days to close after it became the focus of violent protests.
The documents, seen by the Telegraph, also state that housing residents with an ongoing criminal case may lead to an increase in insurance costs for the hotel and its staff.
This includes a higher premium for any migrants who have been convicted of arson.
The 117-page “statement of requirements” document which was obtained by a Freedom of Information request is reportedly given to contractors who seek out accommodation for asylum seekers on behalf of the Home Office.
The document allegedly describes the migrants as “service users” throughout.....<<<Read More>>>...
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BROCCOLI more effective than surgery, chemo and radiation at beating CANCER, as it cuts risk by at least 20 PERCENT – new study
- A large analysis of 17 studies with over 639,000 participants found that eating cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts reduces colon cancer risk by 20%.
- Researchers identified the “sweet spot” for protection as 20–40 grams daily (about half a cup of broccoli), with benefits plateauing beyond that amount.
- The protective effects are linked to compounds like sulforaphane, which block cancer-causing enzymes, reactivate tumor suppressor genes, and disrupt cancer cell growth.
- Geography and cooking methods matter—protective effects
were stronger in North America and Asia, where quick steaming or
stir-frying preserves bioactive compounds, compared to Europe and
Australia....<<<Read More>>>...
The AI bubble is bursting
AI’s results are mediocre, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, and it’s as
good as it’s going to get. He believes that the AI bubble is bursting.
“Most companies,” he says, “have found that AI’s golden
promises are proving to be fool’s gold. I suspect that soon, people
who’ve put their financial faith in AI stocks will be feeling foolish,
too.”
There tend to be three AI camps:
1, AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world,
2. AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilisation as we know it,
3. “Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.”
I
propose a fourth: AI is now as good as it’s going to get, and that’s
neither as good nor as bad as its fans and haters think, and you’re
still not going to get an A on your report.
You see, now that
people have been using AI for everything and anything, they’re beginning
to realise that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to
be mediocre.
Don’t believe me? Read MIT’s NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralised AI) report, which revealed that 95 per cent of companies that have adopted AI have yet to see any meaningful return on their investment. Any meaningful return.
To
be precise, the report states: “The GenAI Divide is starkest in
deployment rates, only 5 per cent of custom enterprise AI tools reach
production.” It’s not that people aren’t using AI tools. They are.
There’s a whole shadow world of people using AI at work. They’re just
not using them “for” serious work. Instead, outside of IT’s purview,
they use ChatGPT and the like “for simple work, 70 per cent prefer AI
for drafting emails, 65 per cent for basic analysis. But for anything
complex or long-term, humans dominate by 9-to-1 margins.”...<<<Read More>>>
Sunday, 24 August 2025
Feeling Seen and Heard
When echoism takes hold, we may find ourselves quietly stepping back, holding back our feelings, and suppressing big emotions, all in an effort to avoid upsetting others. We pour our energy into helping, giving, and being there for those around us. And while these actions come from a place of good intentions — when unreciprocated — they can leave us feeling unseen, unheard, and disconnected from what our hearts truly desire.
But there is so much hope in healing from echoism. It’s a gentle and
loving journey of finding your voice again — learning that your needs
are just as important as anyone else’s. It’s about giving yourself
permission to be true to who you are, to express your feelings, and to
set healthy, loving boundaries. By embracing your own worth and stepping
into the fullness of your authentic self, you create space for healthy
and balanced relationships. Remember, you matter. Your voice, your
presence, and your well-being are a gift to the world around you. (Daily OM)