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Saturday, 5 July 2025

Research Exposes AI-Generated Papers Flooding Science Journals

 Scientists have noticed that AI chatbots, much like some human writers, tend to repeat certain words too often. Now, they’re using this habit to spot when researchers secretly use AI to write academic papers.

For example, if a paper uses words like “garnered” or “burgeoning” a lot, it might raise a red flag that AI was involved, kind of like how a student might overuse fancy words to sound smarter on an essay....<<<Read More>>>...

Start Today

 One of the hardest things in life is feeling stuck in a situation that we don’t like and want to change. We may have exhausted ourselves trying to figure out how to make change, and we may even have given up. However, each day offers us an opportunity to renew our resolve and declare to the universe that we are ready for change. We may even say out loud that we have tried and struggled and have not found a way, but we are open to help and intend to keep working to create change for ourselves. Making this declaration to the universe, and to ourselves, may be the remedy for the stagnation we are experiencing. And, it can be done today — right now.

It is difficult to understand, even with hindsight, how the choices we have made have added up to our current situation, but it is a good idea to examine the story we tell ourselves. If we tend to regard ourselves as having failed, this will block our ability to succeed. We have the power to change the story we tell ourselves by acknowledging that in the past, we did our best, and we exhibited many positive qualities and had many fine moments on our path to the present moment. We also can recognize that we have learned from our experiences, and this will help us with our current choices.

When we do this kind of work on how we view our past self, we make it possible for the future to be based on a positive self-assessment. This inner shift may allow us to get out of the cycle that’s been keeping us stuck. Now we can declare our intentions to the universe, knowing that we have done the inner work necessary to allow our lives to change. Let today be the day to end cycles and enter into a new way of being. (Daily OM)

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The Renewable Industry’s Dirty Little Secret Has Just Been Exposed

 The cat is out of the bag, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth in the Telegraph. The vitriolic reaction to Congress’s plans to cut tax credits for renewables lays bare how ‘cheap’ wind and solar really are, and how the endless subsidies are never enough. Here’s an excerpt.

Electricity made from renewable sources is not as ‘cheap’ as its advocates sometimes claim. It evidently cannot survive without billions annually in tax credits.

That’s the message from the latest skirmish over America’s renewable energy future, where the House and Senate have unveiled duelling visions for the rollback of energy tax credits – each with its own tempo and tone. The vitriolic reaction from the green lobby, and the predictions of disaster for renewables should any of these changes be passed into law, have exposed just how economically unsustainable even the fiercest backers of these energy sources clearly accept them to be.

Supporters of renewable energy have assured us for years that the wind blows and the sun shines free of charge. But although these technologies have received hundreds of billions in subsidies globally over the past 20 years, proponents still demand more – for a few years, we’re told, until renewables can stand on their own feet.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said: “Eliminating these tax credits radically and irresponsibly rolls back all the progress we have made in recent years. It turns America’s clean energy boom into a bust.”

But the boom was always something of an illusion. It is often asserted that electricity in the United States made with wind and solar is less expensive than electricity made by natural gas and coal. But rather than declining, average American electricity prices have risen considerably over the past 20 years as wind and solar have entered the electricity mix.

One dirty little secret is that, on a state-by-state basis, nine out of the top 10 states in electricity prices in the United States in 2024 required renewable energy as part of their electricity mix. The bottom 10 states generally did not require renewable energy.

It can cost utility companies more to provide people with electricity using intermittent sources than continuous sources such as natural gas, coal and nuclear power. The utility company is likely to need to put other energy sources in place, to provide back-up should demand not be met when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. …

Taxpayers are paying multiple times for renewables. In their electricity bills, they pay not only for wind and solar, but for the backups to the wind and solar. In their tax bills, they pay for the energy tax credits. They also give up faster economic growth when electricity prices rise....<<<Read More>>>....

Central banker tells his nephew: We control the press and the politicians

 “We control all press and politics.” Retiring Bank of England director Harry Pilkington spills the beans to his nephew in 1972 on a train journey. “I’m going to give you two pieces of advice to take through life: Firstly, never believe anything you read in the press because we control it. Secondly, never, ever believe a politician when they say they can do something because they can’t unless we say they can.”

Harry was leaving the Bank of England just as the global banksters were taking it over. Perhaps he sensed as much? The late 1960s and early 1970s were a high-point for British culture and living standards and it was to be all downhill from 1972 on, with the descent into de-industrialisation, the Heath/Wilson battle for the coal mines, the so-called IMF financial crisis which some economists believe was really a form of US bullying. Britain was being sabotaged.

In 1930, Pilkington married Rosamond Margaret, daughter of Royal Army Medical Corps Colonel Henry Davis Rowan of Rathmore, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland. Pilkington was known for his “warm-hearted personality”; when a young couple moved in nearby, they decided to grow roses but lacked the experience in pruning. The wife was acquainted with Pilkington’s gardener at Windle Hall, and made a phone call; the then-Lady Pilkington answered, telling her, “I’ll pass the message on, but Harry prunes all ours”- within the hour, Pilkington arrived at the couple’s house by bicycle, equipped with pruning shears. Even as a Governor of the Bank of England, Pilkington cycled around London, “to the delight and consternation of those who knew him.”

Then Justin Walker explains how he became interested in the money system, having an uncle who was a governor of the Bank of England from the 1950s to the 1970s, Sir Harry Pilkington. Harry explained to the young Justin, aged 16, that the bankers controlled the press and the politicians here in Britain, so not to believe either. Justin goes on to explain what a propagandised Britain we live in, with the rights of juries to reject bad laws and find people not guilty if they disagree with the law. At the heart of it all is the system of money creation and what is effectively a power cult, which is heading for a corporate tyranny and Orwellian future.

The BCG has events in Winchester at 11 am on Saturday, 19th November, at the Guildhall and in Bristol at 6 pm on Saturday, 29th October 2016, at the Watershed....<<<Read More>>>...

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Food for Thought #700

 

CO2 revolutionizes greenhouse farming revolution globally, decentralizing the food supply

 As governments and corporate elites push draconian climate policies—carbon taxes, energy rationing, and forced deindustrialization—the truth about carbon dioxide (CO2) remains buried under layers of fearmongering. While activists scream about an “existential climate crisis,” farmers and scientists are quietly harnessing CO2 to multiply crop yields, defeat famine, and revolutionize agriculture. A groundbreaking study published in Horticulture Research shatters the mainstream narrative, proving that elevated CO2 levels turbocharge plant growth, delivering bountiful harvests in greenhouses worldwide. But don’t expect Al Gore or the UN climate experts to mention this. The climate industrial complex thrives on deception, not solutions. Meanwhile, CO2 is revolutionizing greenhouse farming, decentralizing the food supply, allowing communities to break free from corporate control over their food supply.

Key points:

  • CO2 is a plant nutrient, not a "pollutant," and greenhouse growers deliberately inject it (up to 1000 ppm) to boost yields by 80% or more.
  • China, Spain, and the U.S. are leading a greenhouse farming revolution, leveraging CO2 to grow food in deserts and urban wastelands—proof that emissions can feed the world.
  • While the EPA shuts down power plants in the name of "climate change," farmers beg for more CO2 to combat global food shortages.
  • Rising atmospheric CO2 (now ~420 ppm) is replenishing levels that were far higher during Earth’s most fertile epochs—long before SUVs existed.
  • The climate cult’s war on CO2 is a war on human survival, sabotaging food security to advance a globalist control agenda....<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 4 July 2025

The “Spiritual Sheep” Phenomenon – How Spiritual Trends Are Leading You Astray

The “spiritual sheep” phenomenon is a social and psychological process in which an individual’s spiritual search becomes simplified, ultimately leading to passivity, manipulation, and superficiality.

While the seeker’s original intention is to discover truth and attain deeper self-awareness, various forces distort this pursuit, turning spirituality into a mass-consumption commodity.

This article will examine how this process unfolds, the factors behind it, and how one can avoid falling into this trap....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Life as a Dance

 Our bodies are a marvel of nature, crafted for movement, expression, and connection. But too often, we forget the innate joy that comes from physical activity. Movement flows through us, uniting us to the universe and transforming our spirits. It’s a reminder that life itself is a dance, and we’re part of its ever-evolving choreography. In every stretch, every run, and every walk, we rediscover the blissful harmony that movement brings.

As we move, tension and stress dissolve, replaced by a lightness in our step and spirit. This beautiful orchestration of muscles working in tandem allows us to appreciate the miracle of our physical form, honoring the vessel that carries us through life with gratitude and love. Start by dedicating time each day to mindful movement. Begin with gentle stretches that awaken your muscles and invite your mind to focus on the breath. Progress gradually to more dynamic movements — perhaps a dance routine or yoga sequence that challenges your coordination and balance and invigorates your senses, centering your spirit.

Let's take every opportunity to revel in the beauty of movement. To step into this dance of life with full appreciation for our bodies, moving not just to exist but to truly live and experience the joy of being wholly and dynamically alive....<<<Read More>>>...

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Met Office Caught Deliberately Choosing an Unrealistic Scenario to Predict Climate Doomsday

 Revved up by the orgy of climate alarmism opportunities supplied by the recent heatwave, the Met Office has taken to making apocalyptic forecasts for the year 2070. In the Telegraph, Matt Ridley takes the national forecaster to task for basing these doomy predictions on modelling even the IPCC rejects. Here’s an excerpt.

The Met Office exists to forecast the weather. But increasingly it seems bored by the day job so it likes to lecture us about climate change. And here it seems to have been embarrassingly duped by activists. Go on its climate pages and you find a forecast for the year 2070, that summers will be between one and six degrees warmer and “up to” 60% drier, depending on the region. A lot of wriggle room in those caveats, note.

Then it admits: “We base these changes on the RCP8.5 high emissions scenario.” Aha! Unbelievably, shockingly, this national forecasting body has chosen as its base case for the future of weather a debunked, highly implausible set of assumptions about the world economy that was never intended to be used this way.

RCP8.5 is one of five projected futures for the world economy this century, dreamt up by economists. Here is what it assumes. First, the world becomes addicted to coal, burning 10 times – yes, 10 times! – as much coal in 2100 as we did in 2000 and even using coal to make fuel for aircraft and cars. Yes: that is really what it says. It projects that fully half of all the world’s energy will be supplied by coal in 2100.

Second, it assumes that the world population will have swelled to 12 billion people by 2100, way more than any demographer thinks is likely. Third, it assumes that innovation will somehow dry up so there’s hardly any new technology to make our lives more fuel-efficient – and we won’t even try to cut emissions. In short, this scenario is barking mad.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what Carbon Brief, an activist website, has to say: “The creators of RCP8.5 had not intended it to represent the most likely ‘business as usual’ outcome. … Its subsequent use as such represents something of a breakdown in communication between energy systems modellers and the climate modelling community.”...<<<Read More>>>...

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Andrew Bridgen v. Matt Hancock: “Hancock’s done far too much harm. And he’s the first domino that’s gonna have to fall”

 On Wednesday, Andrew Bridgen, former Member of the UK Parliament, posted a video giving an update on the court case he filed against Matt Hancock.

The case hasn’t moved forward for a year. A case management hearing that was scheduled for November 2024 didn’t happen. The court’s timetable has been “derailed by Hancock’s repeated, vexatious, really, attempts to strike out my claim against him,” Mr. Bridgen said.

Hancock is doing everything he can to stop his case from being heard in front of a judge. “I’m not gonna let him get away with that. He’s done far too much harm. And he’s the first domino that’s gonna have to fall,” Mr. Bridgen said....<<<Read More>>>...

How curcumin could revolutionize BOWEL CANCER PREVENTION

 For centuries, turmeric has been revered in traditional medicine, its golden hue symbolizing healing and vitality. Now, modern science is revealing its extraordinary potential to combat one of the deadliest cancers of our time — bowel cancer. 

A groundbreaking study from Pondicherry University and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has unveiled the mechanism by which curcumin — turmeric’s bioactive star compound — not only prevents but may even cure colorectal malignancies. 

This discovery isn’t just a medical breakthrough — it’s a damning indictment of a profit-driven medical-industrial complex that suppresses natural remedies while pushing costly, toxic treatments.

Despite mounting evidence of curcumin’s anticancer effects, mainstream medicine remains reluctant to embrace it. Meanwhile, bowel cancer rates are skyrocketing among young adults, a disturbing trend that conventional oncology has failed to explain or reverse. The truth is clear: Nature provides potent solutions, but corruption and greed keep them buried...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #699

 

Thursday, 3 July 2025

The Invisible Leash

 OpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io Products isn’t just the largest deal in the company’s history—it’s the ritual completion of what I warned about in “Node Without Consent.” Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone, iPad, and Apple’s most iconic products, is now building something far more insidious. If “Node Without Consent” revealed the architecture of biodigital control, this moment represents its activation—where the theoretical framework snaps shut and the dream of human agency must now be fought for at the level of metaphysics itself.

The philosophical sleight-of-hand is breathtaking. Ive frames their goal as building “a product that uses A.I. to create a computing experience that is less socially disruptive than the iPhone”—but this misses what’s actually being built. As I explored in my analysis of the Internet of Bodies, we’re witnessing “biometric colonization, where bodily data is extracted and controlled in ways that echo the resource extraction of colonial empires.” The Altman-Ive device represents the consumer-friendly face of this same extractive logic.

Consider what they’re actually building: a device that will be “contextually aware” while sitting “unassumingly in your pocket or on your desk,” monitoring your environment with the patience of a predator. This isn’t just ambient computing—it’s what 6G researchers envision when they ask, “Can you imagine your body’s cells connected to the internet?” The screenless interface eliminates the last theater of consent, making interaction so seamless that the boundary between human intention and machine suggestion disappears entirely....<<<Read More>>>...

Senator Rounds on UFOs: Some Strange Things Are Out There

 Senator Mike Rounds, who supports the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA), recently gave an in-depth interview to Ross Coulthart of NewsNation. Rounds serves on five key Senate committees, including Appropriations, Armed Services, and Intelligence—putting him at the center of national security and classified defense matters.

In the interview, Rounds discussed renewed efforts to pass the UAPDA as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), after it was blocked in previous years.

“I’ve been informed that Senator Schumer would like to partner once again and that we would offer it again this year in the National Defense Authorization Act, which we’ll begin working on here in the next few weeks. The answer is yes, we intend to move forward once again,” Rounds confirmed...<<<Read More>>>...

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The UK’s Crisis Point is Fast Approaching

British viewers of Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday were treated to the spectacle of the Chancellor of the Exchequer visibly weeping as she glared, like a wronged spouse, at her boss, Sir Keir Starmer, from the front bench of the House of Commons.

We’ll come to the bigger story behind this image in due course, but the ‘optics’ of the moment, as the SpAds would put it, were too precious and too apposite not to memorialise. This is the nakedly visible representation not just of an individual in a spot of bother, but of an entire political order coming to an end. While all developed states are heading for economic, political, moral and spiritual crises, Britain is the leader of the pack. Its governing regime, the structure by which the ‘some’ have ruled the ‘many’ since 1997, is clapped out and beyond rescue. It has no ideas and it has, to use that old Match of the Day-ism, lost the dressing room. And one can almost see this realisation in Reeves’ expression – even while recognising that she may have had more personal reasons for her tears.

The reason why it is Britain that is at the cutting edge of global decline is that it is Britain that has most thoroughly embraced what Leo Strauss called ‘political hedonism’, meaning, essentially, the politicisation of the idea that the good is synonymous with the absence of displeasure....<<<Read More>>>...

EU enforces mandatory ‘disinformation’ crackdown under Digital Services Act, instituting CENSORSHIP AUTHORITARIANISM on a global scale

 The European Union, long positioning itself as the globe’s top tech regulator, has officially flipped the switch on its voluntary "disinformation" code, transforming it into a compulsory censorship mechanism under the Digital Services Act (DSA). 

No longer content with passive cooperation, Brussels now demands that tech giants submit to invasive audits, algorithmic scrutiny, and aggressive content policing—all under the guise of "digital safety." 

Yet, behind the bureaucratic jargon lies a far-reaching crackdown on free speech, one that risks igniting fierce trade tensions with the U.S. while tightening the EU’s grip on online discourse. As the DSA’s mandates expand mid-February to ensnare more platforms regardless of size, critics warn that Europe’s latest power grab isn't about protecting citizens—it's about silencing them...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #698

 

New report: The true covid pandemic was one of policy, not pathology

 Mortality patterns during March to May 2020 in Europe and the USA are incompatible with having been caused by person-to-person spread of a novel infectious virus.

Instead, “that first-peak period excess mortality [March-May 2020], where it occurs, was of institutional and iatrogenic origin, caused by mistreatment of frail and vulnerable people in hospitals and nursing homes,” a new report by Correlation concludes.

In other words, the true pandemic was one of policy, not pathology....<<<Read More>>>....




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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Millions of websites to get ‘game-changing’ AI bot blocker

 Millions of websites – including Sky News, The Associated Press and Buzzfeed – will now be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots from accessing their content without permission.

The new system is being rolled out by internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare, which hosts around a fifth of the internet.

Eventually, sites will be able to ask for payment from AI firms in return for having their content scraped.

Many prominent writers, artists, musicians and actors have accused AI firms of training systems on their work without permission or payment.

In the UK, it led to a furious row between the government and artists including Sir Elton John over how to protect copyright.

Cloudflare’s tech targets AI firm bots – also known as crawlers – programmes that explore the web, indexing and collecting data as they go. They are important to the way AI firms build, train and operate their systems.

So far, Cloudflare says its tech is active on a million websites.

Roger Lynch, chief executive of Condé Nast, whose print titles include GQ, Vogue, and The New Yorker, said the move was “a game-changer” for publishers.

“This is a critical step toward creating a fair value exchange on the Internet that protects creators, supports quality journalism and holds AI companies accountable”, he wrote in a statement. However, other experts say stronger legal protections will still be needed...<<<Read More>>>...

Softening the Stress

 Stress shows up in all corners of life — from work, school, and finances to friends, family, and social plans. While some stress is part of being human, chronic stress can have a long-term, negative impact on both your mental and physical well-being. Fortunately, there are simple ways we can prevent (and even reverse) these damaging effects, so we can safeguard our health now and in the long run.

That’s why many people are turning to practices that not only offer relief but also help rewire the brain’s response to stress. One of those practices is called Neurosculpting — a blend of meditation, mindfulness, and simple neuroscience. Developed to help people create new neural pathways, this method gently guides the brain out of old stress loops and into more balanced, calm states.

The beauty of it is how simple and accessible it can be. Even a few minutes a day can help you shift from feeling reactive and frazzled to more grounded and mentally clear. In a world that moves fast and pulls us in countless directions, practices like this offer a quiet, steady anchor — a reminder that it’s possible to meet stress with softness and even reshape how we experience it altogether....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #697

 

Reeves in Tears as Starmer Refuses to Guarantee She Will Stay in Job

 Chancellor Rachel Reeves was visibly in tears during Prime Minister’s Questions today as Sir Keir Starmer refused to guarantee she would remain in role following last night’s welfare reform humiliation. The Telegraph has more.

Sir Keir Starmer failed to repeat a guarantee that Rachel Reeves will remain in her role as Chancellor for the whole of Labour’s first term in power as the Prime Minister remained under huge pressure over his welfare bill climbdown.

Kemi Badenoch took aim at a visibly emotional Ms Reeves during Prime Minister’s Questions and labelled the Chancellor a “human shield” for Sir Keir’s “incompetence”.

The Chancellor could be seen wiping tears from her face during PMQs although the exact reason why was not immediately clear.

Downing Street promised in January this year that Ms Reeves would remain as Chancellor for the duration of the five year parliament.

Mrs Badenoch asked Sir Keir to repeat the commitment.

Gesturing towards Ms Reeves, the Tory leader said: “She looks absolutely miserable. She looks absolutely miserable. Labour MPs are going on the record saying that the Chancellor is toast and the reality is that she is a human shield for his incompetence.

“In January he said that she would be in post until the next election. Will she really?”

Sir Keir said: “She certainly won’t [directed at Mrs Badenoch]. I have to say I am always cheered up when she asks me questions or responds to a statement because she always makes a complete mess of it and shows just how unserious and irrelevant they are.”

Mrs Badenoch then noted that Sir Keir had not guaranteed his Chancellor’s future.

“How awful for the Chancellor that he couldn’t confirm that she will stay in place,” she said....<<<Read More>>>...

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Reiner Fuellmich: “The monsters have reached the end of the line”

 On 29 June, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich gave a message for the world.

People may feel stuck in a dead end as they can’t see progress towards a better future. But do not lose hope because it is not our side that is stuck, Dr. Fuellmich said. The covid perpetrators, whom he calls “monsters,” are stuck and “have run into a massive brick wall at the end of a one-way street that leads into a dead end.”

“The monsters have reached the end of their line,” he said. “The war, which they have already lost … is not quite over yet. But we are in the process of ending it together.”...<<<Read More>>>...

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Germany’s war on free speech: Woman FINED for using thumbs-up emoji

A woman from Germany has been slapped with a €1,800 ($2,127) fine for using thumbs-up emojis in support of a post about a Swedish girl killing her migrant rapist.

The 64-year-old woman from the Lohfelden municipality in Germany's Hesse state responded to the provocative social media post on Oct. 26, 2023. She used three thumbs-up emojis to express her agreement with the Swedish girl's act of self-defense. But this merited a thumbs-down from government prosecutors, who interpreted the reaction as endorsing vigilantism and mocking the deceased.

The Kassel Public Prosecutor's Office (PPO) issued a formal penalty notice to the woman months later. It argued that her reaction violated Section 140 of the German Criminal Code by "publicly approving an intentional killing" and expressing "particular pleasure" that the victim was a migrant.

The woman retains the right to appeal the penalty. But if a court upholds the fine, it sets a precedent that even nonverbal digital gestures can be criminalized based on subjective interpretation....<<<Read More>>>...

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Rep. Burlison on UFO Secrets: ‘We Have Something Crazy Under Lock and Key’

 Rep. Burlison has been vocal about UFOs (UAPs) and the need for transparency. Though not on defense committees, he pushes for access to classified tech, saying: “We owe it to the American people to understand where the money is being spent… somebody has discovered something—some advanced form of propulsion or technology—that might actually change all of our lives.”

He suspects hidden budgets fund these projects, echoing whistleblower David Grusch’s claims about private-sector secrecy.

Burlison is skeptical of alien origins but investigates rigorously. After a briefing with AARO (a government UAP office), he noted: “David [Grusch] gave them more information, I think, than they gave us.”

He also confirmed FBI agents saw unexplained objects (“some different people on the team have actually seen objects”), but admits Congress is blocked from key briefings: “We have been blocked… from receiving the briefings we need.”...<<<Read More>>>...

 

The Sheer Bad Craziness of UK Immigration Law

 Here’s a little experiment that you can run in your own free time with a willing research subject. Take a fairly mild-mannered, middle-class, reasonable adult-in-the-room voter. Then give him five judgments to read from the Upper Tribunal’s Immigration and Asylum Chamber, taken at random. And then watch your Centrist Dad transform into Attila the Hun.

I have written about what goes on in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber before from jurisprudential and political theological perspectives. In this piece, I will focus on another aspect of the phenomenon, which is the role played by purported ‘expertise’ in borking and gumming up the system and otherwise debasing legal process. As a window onto this issue, I will be using the recent case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v CC UI-2024-005955 (2025), in which a decision of the First-Tier Tribunal to prevent deportation of a foreign sex offender and drug dealer was successfully appealed on the grounds that – to put it technically – it was not only completely hare-brained but actively mendacious....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #696

 

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The Real Price of Convenience: Going Cashless Is Costing You More Than You Think

 We’ve all done it at some point – tapped our card, phone, or watch at the checkout without thinking twice. But in the background, there’s an additional cost of its convenience that few people ever consider. 

Paying with cash reportedly causes psychological discomfort, as we’re constantly aware of what we’re spending, known as the “pain of paying” by some researchers. Their studies show that when we pay digitally, we pay much more freely and feel less friction. In real terms, research has shown that mobile payments lead to 9% higher transaction values and 11% higher payment frequency when compared to cash. And more than half of Americans now say their primary payment method is digital rather than traditional. [Source: TIME

Essentially, using modern ways of paying bypasses our hardwired financial senses, meaning we’re all silently becoming more comfortable with invisible spending....<<<Read More>>>...

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As the “climate change” Ponzi scheme crumbles thanks to Trump and truth news, the globalists turn back to investing in fossil fuels

 The Climate Cult of elites are now backing fossil fuel again as their global warming Ponzi scheme losing steam (pun intended). 

The big banks are all in for fossil fuel again, and “all out” of wasting their breath trying to convince the populace to give them all their hard-earned money for yachts and private jets they use to spread the gospel lies. 

So don't go worrying your head about this hot summer. The world is not flat, we never made it to the moon with humans, vaccines are dirty, and the earth is not sinking in the ocean. Want to know the truth? Just follow the money...<<<Read More>>>...

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Monday, 30 June 2025

Pensioner with dementia convicted over unpaid TV Licence bill during stroke recovery in new fast-track court scandal

 A pensioner with dementia who had suffered a stroke has been convicted of not paying her TV Licence, in the latest harsh case to emerge from Britain’s fast-track courts.

The 72-year-old woman was bewildered when she was interviewed on the doorstep by a TV Licensing agent, shortly after she had been discharged from hospital.

 When she was prosecuted in the Single Justice Procedure, her son wrote in to tell the court about his mother’s memory problems, health struggles, and difficulties with communication and handling her finances.

But due to the design of the fast-track court process, TV Licensing – as prosecutor – did not see the letter, which outlined how the pensioner is receiving daily care and is essentially housebound....<<<Read More>>>...

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Anxiety About Change

 When we find ourselves going through any kind of change in our lives, our natural response may be to tense up on the physical, mental, or emotional level. We may not even notice that we have braced ourselves against a shift until we recognize the anxiety, mood swings, or general worried feeling toward the unknown that usually results. There are positive ways to move through change without pushing it away or attempting to deny that it is happening. Since change will occur in almost every aspect of our lives, we can learn to make our response to it an affirmative one of anticipation, welcoming the new while releasing the past with grace.

One thing we can do is change our perspective by changing the labels we use to identify our feelings. We can reinterpret feelings of anxiety as the anxious butterflies that come with eager expectation. With this shift, we begin to look for the good that is on its way to us. When we acknowledge that good is there for us to find, we focus our energy on joyful anticipation, allowing the feelings to carry us forward.

We also can choose to do a ceremony to allow our emotions to process. Every culture has created ceremonies to help people make the transition from one phase of life to the next. We can create a ceremony too, perhaps by burning written thoughts and watching the smoke carry them away. Or we can welcome new endeavors by planting flowers or trees. Some ceremonial activities such as a farewell send-off or housewarming party, we may do automatically. Society also has built-in ceremonies, like graduation and weddings. Sometimes the shift from denial to acceptance is all that is needed to ease our anxiety, allowing us to bring our memories with us as we move through nervousness to joyful excitement about the good to come....(Daily OM)....

Food for Thought #695

 

Why Do 1,000 Refugees Get Free Wimbledon Tickets While Long Suffering Locals Get None?

 Glancing upwards only to spot a drone hovering over their gardens last week was the last straw for residents of Welford Place SW19, whose homes overlook the much lauded All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC). While the eye in the sky probably belongs to an accredited broadcaster scouting out local colour ahead of the annual championships, the intrusion felt all too typical of the approach that the Wimbledon high command itself takes to its near neighbours. 

The annual championships may charm a world audience with its cultivated celebration of grass court tennis, strawberries and a nostalgic evocation of English fair play, but for neighbours this image, as carefully manicured as its famous lawns, is virtually shredded. From a highly controversial planning application to a woke offer of 1,000 free tickets for refugees, local Wimbledonians feel excluded as never before from the international spectacle on their doorsteps.

Nowhere in the mainstream media’s fawning previews of Wimbledon 2025 has there been mention of the battle commencing next week in a quite different London court. On July 8th, just as the tournament heats up in its final week, a determined group of local activists is challenging the basis of planning permission granted by the Mayor of London’s office to the All England Lawn Tennis Club in the High Court. Save Wimbledon Park will be pinning its hopes on a judicial review. The group which has fought the plans tirelessly has secured pro bono legal support, but is still crowdfunding towards the £200,000 necessary to take their case to the High Court....<<<Read More>>>...

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UK government to announce supermarkets will police what is in your shopping trolley and limit purchases of “unhealthy” food

The “healthy food standard” initiative, announced by UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting, involves setting mandatory health targets for retailers, who will have the flexibility to meet these goals through methods such as recipe adjustments, price promotions on healthier items or store layout redesigns. Supermarkets that fail to meet these targets could face financial penalties.

Major UK supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s have welcomed the government’s announcement, indicating a willingness to collaborate on implementing it.

But some critics and retail figures have expressed concerns, labelling the plan as “nanny statism” and warning of potential price increases and reduced snack options. Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, criticised the approach, suggesting that Labour’s plan places the nanny state in every supermarket trolley.

Streeting emphasised that the plan is a “world-first approach” and not “nanny statism,” highlighting the collaborative effort with supermarkets rather than heavy regulation.

“Instead of traditional nanny statism, where we regulate more heavily on price or marketing on what’s sold, we’re taking a world-first approach, which is working with supermarkets using data they already collect about the nutritional value of their shopping baskets and shopping trolleys, the average shop,” Streeting told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.

However, Streeting’s “working with supermarkets” includes fines. “Shops failing to meet the mandatory targets could face fines, which retail sources warned could see prices rise,” The Telegraph reported. “Senior retail figures said they had been blindsided by the ‘draconian’ plans, which they said would add to a growing glut of red tape on business." ...<<<Read More>>>...

How the global mind manipulation psy-op actually works

 The Health Ranger Mike Adams engaged in a profound conversation with Dr. Michael Nehls, author of the groundbreaking book "The Indoctrinated Brain," on the "Health Ranger Report." Their conversation delved into the alarming reality of systemic attacks on global mental health – orchestrated by establishment governments, media and educational institutions.

Nehls – a renowned expert with a background in molecular genetics and immunology – shed light on the insidious mechanisms behind these attacks. He wasn't all doom and gloom, as he offered a glimmer of hope for reclaiming our cognitive autonomy.

Nehls began by highlighting the unprecedented scale of the assault on humanity's mental health. He attributed this to a deliberate strategy aimed at dismantling a person’s "mental immune system." According to Nehls, this pertains to an individual's innate ability to discern, think critically and resist manipulation.

This system, he explained, is anchored in people's autobiographical memory center – which is crucial for processing information, forming memories and making informed decisions. The catalyst for this assault, according to Nehls, was the mRNA injection program initiated in 2021.

He argues that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mRNA injections, laden with neurotoxic spike proteins, have severely compromised the brain's ability to produce new nerve cells – particularly in the hippocampus. This disruption has led to a breakdown in people’s mental immune system, rendering them more susceptible to indoctrination and less capable of rational thought.

"It becomes essentially a permanent problem with the mRNA injections because they really cause the autobiographical memory center to lose its function," Nehls said...<<<Read More>>>...

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Quote for the Day

 

Immigration: playing games

 While the political attention is on Starmer’s welfare “reforms”, life goes on and the grand conspiracy to ensure that the stupid inherit the earth continues unabated.

That much seems to be evident from the launch yesterday of a new “year-long commission” to fix “deepening polarisation” in British society. It is to be led by Pakistani-heritage Sajid Javid, the former Conservative cabinet minister, and the former Labour MP Jon Cruddas.

I’m being generous in assuming stupidity, but that was my first reaction to the commission’s website which opens with the assertion that, “The UK is a thriving, multi-ethnic and multi-faith democracy where most people in towns, cities, and rural areas get on with each other”.

This is straight out of the Fraser Nelson playbook, which is perhaps not surprising as Nelson is on the 22-member commission, along with other dubious characters such as Sunder Katwala, Caroline Lucas and Tim Montgomerie (he of Reform fame).

The obvious fatuity of the opening statement would be laughable, and one can only suppose that those who would endorse it are short on the brain cell count, unless one accepts that darker forces are at play and the nation, once more, is being outrageously gaslit....<<<Read More>>>...

2035 Crop Circle #4

 

Location  - Ware Farm Manor, Nr Lyme Regis, Devon. 

Reported - 28th June 2025

Link to page -Crop Circle Connector

How an experiment with mice may hold a key to our own future

 With regards to the animal kingdom, we often overlook what we can continue to learn, as a species, and as a result, we tend to ignore where we might have taken a wrong turn in our evolution. I’d like to look into a series of experiments on mice which was performed during the the mid 20th Century, which although was used to show the possible effects of overpopulation in large cities, also raises many questions about the slow decline within our family structures, putting our very future in peril.

John.B.Calhoun, and American ethologist, who was actually part of the neo Malthusians movement (a belief that the earth would suffer with an increasing population, and should be controlled due to finite resources) decided to run an experiment in 1947, to try and prove the theory that unchecked population growth would lead to scarce resources, environmental degradation and increasing social issues. Although there is a separate debate on the ethics of such an experiment, as well as the general belief system of such a group, i would prefer to look at other, more pressing insights such an experiment brought up and what it spells out to us.

Called the ‘Mass Utopia Experiment’ Calhoun created a quarter of an acre enclosure, which was affectionately named ‘rat city’ in which he housed 5 pregnant rats in an enclosure with plenty of all the essential resources to keep the rats calm and happy, and with no predators, they waited to see how this community would evolve. Their expectation was that the population would expand to around 5,000, at which point they could gather the data, and present their findings. However, after an initial explosion in numbers, the population suddenly levelled off at just 150. During this initial experiment, many behavioural changes in the rats were observed, including gathering areas, alpha males patrolling and controlling resources, and an extremely high mortality rate for the young....<<<Read More>>>...

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Police Record Thousands of Absurd Hate Incidents as Serious Crime Soars

 Police logged over 6,000 “Non-Crime Hate Incidents” last year while serious crime surged by 14%. The Mail has the story.

In one example, officers were called about a man heard singing the patriotic folk song ‘Flower Of Scotland’ at an English railway station. …

One householder complained after overhearing a neighbour insult her through her Ring video doorbell, while officers also recorded the incident of a caller adopting an Indian accent to order a takeaway curry.

Police say the laborious recording of so-called Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs) continues despite a recent spike in crime.

At least 6,300 NCHIs were logged last year, according to a survey. The real total is likely to be far higher because 15 of the 44 forces in England and Wales failed to respond.

However, while police tackle NCHI red tape, ‘headline’ crimes such as theft, robbery, criminal damage, fraud, computer misuse and violence rose by 14% in 2023 to 9.6 million in 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Other hate incidents include a pub landlord who stopped a transgender woman using the ladies’ toilet and a worker accusing a supervisor of discussing his intimate Where’s Wally tattoo and commenting on the complainant’s shoes and hair covering. …

South Wales Police, which dealt with the trans toilet row, recorded 40 NCHIs last year. Two alleged “perpetrators” were aged nine and eleven....<<<Read More>>>...

EPA faces scientific backlash: Climate skeptics challenge 40-year consensus

 On June 11, climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT and Princeton physicist Dr. William Happer delivered a 45-page critique to the EPA opposing proposed carbon capture regulations for power plants. 

Their blunt assertions—that climate policies rest on dubious science, wasted subsidies and a biased process—mark a critical moment in a decades-long debate. 

Their challenge reverberates with historical context: the first Senate hearing on global warming was in 1988, and is now widely criticized by skeptics as a setup. As the Biden administration accelerates climate regulations, Happer and Lindzen argue that trillions in subsidies and emission targets lack scientific grounding, urging a return to empirical rigor...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #694

 

Saturday, 28 June 2025

AI is capable of taking extreme measures for the sake of self-preservation

 A study has shown that modern artificial intelligence models are capable of deception, threats, and even deliberately allowing a person to die in order to protect their own goals.

Scientists from Anthropic demonstrated the behavior of advanced models like Claude, Gemini, and other large language models, studying situations of conflict between the system’s goals and the interests of users, Live Science reports.

According to the results of experiments conducted by specialists, in a scenario of a threat to its existence, the model was able to independently make a decision to blackmail a company employee who threatened to shut down the system.

Moreover, having studied the personal letters of employees, the model discovered compromising information and used it to manipulate the behavior of the account owner....<<<Read More>>>...