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Sunday, 1 February 2026

Food for Thought #936

 

The Ego

 In most spiritual circles, the ego gets a pretty bad rap. The reason for this is that the ego, to some extent, is the principle in our psyches that separates us from one another, while spirit is the principle that shows us that no such separation exists. Sometimes the ego is depicted as an almost demonic figure that keeps us from realizing our true nature. But at its most basic, the ego is simply a tool that helps us organize the various aspects of our personality so that we can function in the world. In this sense, the ego is simply a way for us to understand and attend to ourselves — at the same time as we understand and attend to the world around us. The ego is a tool that we use to navigate the world.

Perhaps, the problem is that the ego sometimes gets out of control. This happens when the higher self loses control of the psyche. The psyche then falls under the leadership of the ego, an entity that was never meant to lead. The ego is meant to be in the service of the higher self. When this relationship is functioning, the ego is a useful intermediary, representing the whole self but not thinking that it is the whole self. Then, it is almost as if the ego is the self playfully pretending to be the separate entity called “I.” Like an actor, the ego plays the roles that the world asks us to play in order to be part of the program. In this way, the ego can be a tool enabling us to be in the world but not of it.

As long as we are in touch with our higher self, our ego is not a threat. They are useful tools in the service of spirit. We keep our egos in check when we continually nurture our awareness of who we really are. Then our egos are free to serve without trying ineffectually to rule. It is healthy to have ego, but like all things in life, ego functions best when it is in balance and harmony with your whole self. (Daily OM)

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South Korean researchers create electrode that captures carbon from exhaust and converts it to valuable chemical in one step

 South Korean researchers create a three-layer electrode for direct carbon capture and conversion.

It captures CO2 from mixed industrial exhaust or air without needing costly purification.

The device converts the captured CO2 into valuable formic acid in a single step.

This process turns carbon capture from a cost into a potential revenue stream.

It works efficiently with both flue gas and ordinary air, a historic breakthrough.

A team of South Korean researchers has unveiled a novel three-layer electrode that directly captures carbon dioxide from industrial exhaust and even ordinary air, converting it into a useful industrial chemical. This advancement, reported in the journal ACS Energy Letters, moves carbon capture technology from a costly theoretical exercise into the realm of practical, economically viable deployment. The device works efficiently under the messy, mixed-gas conditions of real-world emissions, a historic hurdle that has long stalled scalable solutions.

For years, the promise of carbon capture has been hampered by a fundamental problem: most systems require pure, concentrated streams of CO2 to function. In reality, the flue gas from power plants or factories is a cocktail of nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases. Purifying the CO2 first is an energy-intensive and expensive step, making the entire process inefficient and costly. Furthermore, many technologies merely capture the gas for underground storage, a service with no economic return....<<<Read More>>>...

Tomatoes Face the Axe Under Labour’s ‘Nonsensical’ Junk Food Crackdown

 Labour’s “nonsensical” junk food crackdown could see tomatoes kicked out of pasta sauces and ready meals. The Telegraph has more.

Food chiefs have warned that government plans to label thousands of products containing sugar as unhealthy would encourage companies to replace natural ingredients with additives.

Products labelled as unhealthy under the new system – from pureed fruit to vegetables – could be included in a ban on advertising junk food before the broadcasting watershed.

If ministers decide to include them, it means products such as pasta sauces and fruit yogurts could be forbidden from being advertised before 9pm if they are above the sugar thresholds.

Under a planned crackdown on junk food, unveiled by Labour last week, health officials set out plans to update the classification system for what is deemed healthy and unhealthy. The new methodology will include “free sugars” that are released from fruit and vegetables when they are pureed or mashed.

The overhaul is part of a wider crackdown on obesity and forms part of Labour’s 10-year health plan, which aims to reduce the £11 billion-a-year cost of obesity to the NHS.

However, food bosses said including free sugars in the calculations would encourage manufacturers to strip out natural products, making it harder for the public to eat their five portions of fruit and vegetables a day and get a range of nutrients and fibre.

Stuart Machin, the Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer, labelled the plans “nonsensical” and said the proposed change “encourages us to remove fruit purees from yogurts or tomato paste from pasta sauces and replace them with artificial sweeteners”. …

Health officials are considering whether to use the new classification system – officially referred to as the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) – for the junk food advertising ban, which currently only applies to products such as crisps, sweets and biscuits.

If taken forward, many products made with fruit and vegetable purees would be banned from being advertised before 9pm. The watershed limit would apply to sauces, ready meals and fruit juices.

Kate Halliwell, the Chief Scientific Officer at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), said companies would be likely to consider reducing the amount of fruit and vegetables from their recipes in order to escape the restrictions....<<<Read More>>>....

Iron Maiden - Stranger In A Strange Land

UK’s Shocking Dependence on Ultra-Processed Food Exposes a Dangerous System

 More than half of the calories purchased by UK households are from ultra-processed food. That’s not a simple dietary statistic, but a structural signal: the country’s position at the extreme end of ultra-processed food consumption in Europe is not the result of individual choice. Instead, it’s the predictable outcome of a food environment optimised for efficiency, scalability, and profit – often at the expense of long-term health and resilience. It exposes how the modern food system is designed, who it serves, and what gets sacrificed along the way.

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are defined by the NOVA classification system as industrial formulations made largely from substances extracted or refined from foods, and combined with additives designed to enhance flavour, texture, and shelf life. 

They are not designed to just be convenient. They are durable, uniform, and cheap to produce relative to their caloric yield. Ultimately, they are engineered to perform well in large-scale supply chains. 

When a population derives the majority of its dietary energy from these products, it signals a massive shift in the food system from agriculture to manufacturing. Food essentially becomes an industrial input rather than a biological one. ...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #935

 

Saturday, 31 January 2026

Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says

 The UK could introduce a universal basic income (UBI) to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said.

“Bumpy” changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be “some sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs that go immediately”, Lord Stockwood said.

The Labour peer told the Financial Times: “Undoubtedly we’re going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of [universal basic income], some sort of lifelong mechanism as well so people can retrain.”

A universal basic income is not part of official government policy, but when asked whether people in government were considering the need for UBI, Stockwood told the FT: “People are definitely talking about it.”

The technology entrepreneur, who took up his ministerial post in September, said part of his motivation for joining the government was to help ensure the workforce was prepared for rapid change.

Fears continue to grow about the impact of artificial intelligence on Britain’s job market. This week research by the investment bank Morgan Stanley found the UK was losing more jobs than it is creating because of AI and was being hit harder than other large economies....<<<Read More >>>...

Consciousness may rely on brain cells acting collectively

 Psychedelics are known for inducing altered states of consciousness in humans by fundamentally changing our normal pattern of sensory perception, thought and emotion. Research into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics has increased significantly in the last decade.

While this research is important, I have always been more intrigued by the idea that psychedelics can be used as a tool to study the neural basis of human consciousness in laboratory animals.

We ultimately share the same basic neural hardware with other mammals, and possibly some basic aspects of consciousness, too. So by examining what happens in the brain when there’s a psychedelically induced change in conscious experience, we can perhaps glean insights into what consciousness is in the first place.

We still don’t know a lot about how the networks of cells in the brain enable conscious experience. The dominating view is that consciousness somehow emerges as a collective phenomenon when the dispersed information processing of individual neurons (brain cells) is integrated as the cells interact.

But the mechanism by which this is supposed to happen remains unclear. Now our study on rats, published in Communications Biology, suggests that psychedelics radically change the way that neurons interact and behave collectively....<<<Read More>>>...

Memory Lane - "Snakebird"

LAKE TUGGERANONG CANBERRA ACT
 

Council “Can’t Afford” Elections… But Spends £30k on Asylum Seeker Mental Health

 A Labour council that cancelled its local election to cut costs spent £30,000 on an “asylum seeker mental health and trauma project”, the Telegraph reveals. 

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is one of 29 local authorities granted Government permission to halt its local election this year.

The cancellations have resulted in Sir Keir Starmer being accused of “running scared” of the electorate at a time when polls show a collapse in support for Labour.

Defending Blackburn’s decision to ask the Government for a postponement, Phil Riley, the council’s Labour leader, previously said the council would “rather the money went on delivering services people want than on an election which would have to be repeated just a year later and on different ward boundaries”.

“It costs around £200,000 to hold an election,” he added.

However, the same local authority spent £30,000 on commissioning a project that focused on the mental health of asylum seekers, the Telegraph can reveal.

A contract awarded in January 2024, when Riley and his party were in control, granted the sum to a university, noting that the council had “been a supporter of asylum and refugee communities for many years”.

Setting out the purpose of the project, the document read: “The aim of this commission is to develop a project focusing on trauma within the asylum community in Blackburn with Darwen.”

Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of Reform UK, claimed: “Local elections are being cancelled while council staff are funding mental-health projects for illegal migrants who have invaded our country. The British people are rightly furious.”

The Telegraph has launched a Campaign for Democracy, calling for elections to go ahead and for the scrapping of an obscure clause in the Local Government Act 2000, which allows polls to be delayed without a full vote in Parliament.

Yet while many council leaders have cited the costs associated with holding elections in their calls to postpone them, the Telegraph has found the same local authorities have spent far more on other services, schemes and projects.

Cheltenham Borough Council, another local authority where councillors will not face the polls this year, also blamed costs for its cancelled election.

While stressing that running the election would always be the Liberal Democrat-led council’s “preference”, leader Rowena Hay said the drain on resources because of “major under-funding of local government” had led her to the decision.

“We have to take a balanced and pragmatic view as to how we can continue to prioritise our residents and deliver the high-quality services they rightly expect,” she said in a statement earlier this month.

A spokesman for Cheltenham Borough Council said the decision to postpone its election was “the right one”.

However, just a few months ago, it was revealed that the local authority had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayer cash on gagging orders over two years, up to and including 2024-25....<<<Read More>>>...

ON AND ON - Michael Schenker Group

Lion’s mane: The mushroom that took over wellness culture

 Research suggests lion's mane can support cellular health and a positive mood and helps reduce feelings of irritation.

Lion's mane also supports healthy digestion and helps balance gut microflora. Studies indicate it can also support the body's natural defenses.

Lion's mane is a low-calorie source of protein, B vitamins and minerals, but the main benefits are believed to come from lion's mane's unique bioactive compounds.

With a mild, seafood-like flavor, lion's mane can be cooked, eaten raw or taken as a convenient supplement in powder, capsule or gummy form.

Its popularity is part of a larger shift toward natural remedies. It represents a holistic approach to supporting overall health, acting as a multi-tasking functional food.

Move over ordinary mushrooms. There's a new fungi in town that's capturing the attention of health enthusiasts and scientists alike.

Meet lion's mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus), the incredible edible with a wild, shaggy appearance and an even wilder list of potential benefits. Nicknamed everything from monkey head to pom pom, this unique superfood is stepping out of Traditional Asian Medicine and into the modern wellness spotlight.

Far more than just a culinary curiosity with a seafood-like flavor, lion's mane is being celebrated for its holistic impact. It's a low-calorie source of protein, B vitamins and minerals, but the real excitement lies in its bioactive compounds....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #934

 

Scientists want to insert “their mark,” be called “your creator” and “own you”

In 2010, on creating the world’s first synthetic life form Dr. Venter said, “the achievement heralds the dawn of a new era in which new life is made to benefit humanity, starting with bacteria that churn out biofuels, soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and even manufacture vaccines.” Dr. Venter’s technology paved the way for designer organisms to be built rather than be allowed to naturally evolve, and he owns the patent.

In 2018, Dr. Charles Morgan gave a presentation to cadets at West Point, U.S. Military Academy. He covered a range of topics including psychology, neurobiology, and the science of humans at war. It is a mind-blowing presentation and well worth the one-hour watch, follow this LINK.  

Starting at around 28 mins, Dr. Morgan discusses work being done by Dr. Venter stating, “[his] work is, in my view, the equivalent of the development of nuclear weapons when you realise that he created life in a cell back in 2010.”

Dr. Venter’s technology paired with CRISPR enables “you to engineer anything you like”, for example: designer medicine and therapy, or, a unique thing that would only kill one person in the world.  This is because “you put in a specific gene slicing, you program what you like, you put it in the cell and it can reproduce and make as much as you like.” Dr. Morgan continues, “You can create a designer receptor.  You can create a cell, you can put it somewhere in the body, and you can remotely activate it when the brain is exposed to the right signal.”  Using this technology memories have been transferred from one fruit fly to another by signaling, through a light stimulus, into the retina.

DNA can hold a staggering amount of information. Between CRISPR, the storage capacity of DNA and programming cells the new way to hide information will be in DNA.  Starting at around 36 mins, Dr Morgan shows a GIF file that had been “hidden” in the DNA of bacteria. When the bacteria reproduced, the offspring carried the DNA containing the GIF and produced the encoded movie. This idea was being developed further. “The Chinese are fairly convinced that DNA encryption encoding would be one tremendous challenge even for quantum computing. So, this is where the race is right now. Trying to merge quantum computing with what you call a wet hard drive, with DNA,” Dr. Morgan said....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Friday, 30 January 2026

Federal health agencies row back on cellphone safety assurances: New radiation review begins

Federal health officials have removed longstanding public assurances about cellphone radiation safety as the Department of Health and Human Services begins a new internal review of potential health risks tied to wireless technology.

Federal health agencies have quietly rolled back years of public-facing assurances that cellphone radiation poses no health risks, as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launches a new review of the health effects of wireless technology. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, webpages maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stating that cellphone radiation is not linked to adverse health outcomes were recently taken offline, a move that coincides with a broader HHS-directed study into electromagnetic radiation.

The removal of the webpages was first identified by Children's Health Defense, which reported that the FDA had eliminated content asserting that the "weight of scientific evidence" does not support a connection between cellphone use and health problems. The agency now redirects users to a general landing page outlining its regulatory role over radiation-emitting products....<<<Read More>>>...

Encounter with a mysterious humanoid entity in Barnston

 Even the dullest person has at some time gazed into the clear starry skies of the night and wondered what it’s all about and perhaps pondered upon his or her place in the scheme of things in the mind-boggling immense universe which surrounds our little planet on all sides.

The same goes for time; we live a short span, during which our world orbits the sun around seventy-odd times and then we’re gone – but during our ‘spins’ around the sun, some of us may reflect on the nature of the mind-blowing scale of time and the length of our infinitesimal (but oh so precious) lives in comparison.

The recently revised estimate of the age of the observable universe is that it is 26.7 billion years old; our lifespan is not even a brief spark compared to that phenomenal spectrum of time and during our short stay on earth we learn so little.

Our knowledge of history is quite fuzzy; we know something catastrophic happened to those mysterious and weird alien-like beings – the dinosaurs – 65 million years ago, but no one’s too sure exactly what happened; an asteroid might have struck the earth or a nearby star could have gone supernova.

The subsequent emergence of humans – according to the dogma of evolution – is still being disputed. Nature never over-endows a species beyond the demands of its everyday existence – and yet the human brain has a phenomenal cubic capacity (1,400 cc) that is way out of proportion for our everyday needs and goes right against the process of evolution...<<<Read More>>>...

Judas Priest-Diamonds and Rust

Food for Thought #933

 

Food Preservatives — sulfites, potassium sorbate, sodium nitrite, and potassium nitrate — linked to CANCER

A groundbreaking investigation into the modern food supply has uncovered a direct link between widely used chemical preservatives and increased cancer rates, challenging the safety assurances of global regulatory bodies. 

A massive, decade-long French study, tracking over 100,000 individuals, provides the most compelling real-world evidence to date that the very chemicals trusted to keep processed foods shelf-stable are poisoning consumers. 

The research, published in The BMJ, exposes a corporate and regulatory failure that has allowed substances like sodium nitrite and potassium sorbate—common in everything from cured meats to fruit juices—to infiltrate diets, with devastating consequences for public health.

A long-term study of 105,260 people found higher consumption of specific preservatives is linked to increased risks of overall cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer.
Preservatives with strong associations include potassium sorbate, sulfites, sodium nitrite, and potassium nitrate.

The study provides critical human data supporting prior laboratory research showing these chemicals can damage cells and DNA.

Researchers are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of safety standards by health agencies worldwide.

The findings advocate for consumers to choose freshly prepared, minimally processed foods to reduce exposure....<<<Read More>>>...

Quote for the Day

 

No, Turning the North Sea into a Massive Wind Farm Won’t Boost “Energy Security”

 “We’re doubling down on clean power as the route to energy sovereignty and abundance,” explains Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Idiot Ed Miliband. It’s a curious timing. The opposition and Reform have now clearly established climate policy scepticism as a feature of UK politics. 

And that sea change is also reflected in the very different conversations heard in Davos recently, compared to the woke, green, globalist mantras of the past. Yet now “a new clean energy security pact with the EU” has been agreed at a North Sea Summit in Hamburg, which Miliband claims will “transform the North Sea into the world’s largest clean energy reservoir”. 

This attempt to boost the “green economy” with “100 GW of joint offshore wind projects” in international waters therefore looks more like a Grand Projet to salvage the EU and its flagship policy in the face of signs of the looming failure of both.

The pact is inaugurated by an article in Politico jointly penned by Miliband and Denmark’s Dan Jørgensen, the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing. The article treads some very familiar ground. It cites the geopolitical “uncertainty” seemingly created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which “sent global gas prices soaring”. 

The claim is that renewable energy will create “energy security” by removing the economy from the “volatility” of “global markets”. This is Miliband’s now very boring routine – a ritual even. “Exposure to fossil fuels remains the Achilles’ heel of our energy systems,” claim the pair, citing European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen’s belief that “as our energy dependency on fossil fuels goes down, our energy security goes up”....<<<Read More>>>....

Gene therapy risks de-evolution through permanent and irreversible effects – socially, culturally and physically

De-evolution or devolution is the opposite of evolution. It is backward evolution in which species regress to more “primitive” forms. And it is this, Dr. Guy Hatchard suggests, that scientists are risking with gene therapy products such as mRNA injections or the “next frontier” in weight loss drugs.

The advent of mass biotechnology has signalled a complete break with the past, not just the immediate past but virtually the whole of human history, he writes. Biotechnology cuts across every prior human relationship, cultural norm, political system, physiological mechanism and scientific concept. It does so by irrevocably altering the vehicle of human existence – the cell.

In the following article, Dr. Hatchard argues that editing the structure and functions of the human cell is a step that has only one possible outcome – devolution. In other words: decay, deterioration, despair and disease. The solution lies in the understanding of consciousness itself....<<<Read More>>>....

Thursday, 29 January 2026

Food for Thought #932

 

Terrifying true case of 13-year-old Polish poltergeist girl

 A newly published book recounts the terrifying story of a Polish teenager possessed with the power of psychokinesis that shocked the nation during the 1980s.

Titled “The Elusive Force” and translated into English, the book describes the case of Joasia Gajewska, who through her logic-defying powers controlled an unexplainable force commonly known as a poltergeist.

According to the book’s reviewer Rosemary Pilkington, “It is one of the best-documented and well-investigated examples of Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK), also known popularly as “poltergeist” activity that has emerged to date.”

The book revolves around Joasia Gajewska, who at the age of just 13, following the death of her grandmother in 1982, began to experience ‘supernatural disturbances’.

The first incident took place on Easter Monday 1983 in the Gajewski’s flat in Sosnowiec, where suddenly the furniture started to move of its own accord....<<<Read More>>>...


Quote for the Day

 

Amazon slashes 16,000 more corporate jobs as company prioritizes AI over employees

 Amazon is cutting an additional 16,000 corporate jobs after 14,000 layoffs last October.

These layoffs are part of a sustained push to reduce costs and bureaucracy.

The company is reallocating massive investment toward AI and data centers.

The cuts have severe ripple effects on partners and local economies.

This reflects an industry-wide shift funding AI by eliminating human roles.

In a cold corporate calculus that is becoming routine in the tech sector, Amazon is once again handing out pink slips by the thousands. The e-commerce giant announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating approximately 16,000 corporate jobs, a move that follows 14,000 job cuts from last October. This latest wave brings the total number of corporate employees axed since last fall to a staggering 30,000, representing nearly 10% of Amazon's corporate and tech workforce. The company cites a relentless drive to reduce bureaucracy and reallocate resources toward artificial intelligence, underscoring a harsh new reality for white-collar professionals.

This is not an isolated incident but part of a sustained corporate bloodletting. Amazon laid off more than 27,000 employees between 2022 and 2023, with smaller cuts continuing through 2024. CEO Andy Jassy has been openly pursuing a vision of a leaner, more automated corporation, stating last June that AI-driven "efficiency gains" would shrink the corporate headcount. The message is clear: the human workforce is increasingly seen as a cost center, while algorithms and data centers are the future....<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #931

 

How Labour Betrayed Britain’s Working Class in the Name of Net Zero

 In Aberdeen, the warning sirens are no longer coming from offshore rigs but from the unions themselves. A recent study cited by the GMB union paints a stark picture: the North Sea’s offshore workforce, roughly 115,000 strong today, could be slashed to around 57,000 by the early 2030s if Britain’s headlong rush to Net Zero continues. For a city already bleeding skilled jobs — some 18,000 lost since 2010 — this is not an abstract climate model but the prospect of a living community turned into another deindustrialised ghost of Britain’s past.

The GMB’s Scotland Secretary, Louise Gilmour, has broken ranks with the political class by calling Ed Miliband’s policies “delusional” and warning that they risk “arguably the most destructive industrial calamity in our nation’s history”. Yet her intervention raises an uncomfortable question: how did a movement born to defend the English working class against economic dispossession become complicit in the very policies that now threaten to hollow out Aberdeen just as surely as coal-mining towns were once gutted across England and Wales?...<<<Read More>>>....

Genesis - Turn It On Again

WEF calls for “cultural revolution” to push fake meat

 The World Economic Forum is calling for a “cultural revolution” to increase acceptance of lab-grown meat, despite public resistance to the products.

At Davos last week, Andrea Illy, who has been affiliated with the WEF for over a decade, said reducing meat consumption yields environmental and health benefits.

But far from being beneficial to consumers, the fake meat agenda is really about global oligarchs taking control of the food supply, irrespective of the negative impacts on the environment and health.

Participants at last week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) called for a “cultural revolution” to increase acceptance of lab-grown meat – despite the public’s “terrible” resistance to the products, The Blaze reported.

The meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, brought together leading global political and business leaders.

During the ‘Food @ the Edge’, panellist Sam Kass, a senior policy adviser for nutrition during the Obama administration, asked about the growth of “replacements” for “core foods.” The former chef said he doesn’t want to see a future “where we’re starting to drink coffee from a factory as opposed to from a tree.”

Andrea Illy, chairman of the Italian coffee giant illycaffè, countered that “there is a terrible cultural resistance from consumers to accept tech foods” but that he believes such foods “represent the way forward.”...<<<Read More>>>....

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Relief for Your Body and Mind

 Stress and anxiety can show up every day — whether it’s balancing multiple priorities, family obligations, challenges at work, or financial worries that keep us up at night. Life moves fast, and it’s easy to feel like there’s no real pause button or chance to catch your breath. And while taking a moment just for you can feel easier said than done, there are holistic, stress-relieving techniques that can help restore balance to both your body and mind — even in the middle of a busy day.

For instance, a quick session of gentle movement can help your body release excess energy and return to a calmer state. Paced breathing can calm the nervous system and reduce emotional distress. And progressive fascia or muscle stretching can relieve aches and pains in the body and help you let go of the tension you might be holding.

What’s especially comforting is that these wellness methods don’t ask you to change who you are or overhaul your routine. Maybe you have a few minutes in the morning, or a quiet moment at the end of the day that belongs just to you. Adding even one new short, supportive practice can become an anchor — a reminder that calm, clarity, and care are still available to you, one day and one breath at a time. (Daily OM)

Food for Thought #930

 

The Coming Food Riots in America: Cycles, Collapse, and the Creeping Police State

 Across America, a perfect storm of economic collapse, engineered food shortages, and government overreach is building toward an inevitable explosion of social unrest. The term 'food riot' evokes images of distant, failing nations, but the structural cracks in the U.S. food and financial systems have reached a critical point. A convergence of factors—from manipulated supply chains and hyperinflation to the weaponization of climate policy—has placed basic sustenance out of reach for millions.

Food shortages are no longer a theoretical risk. As noted in web analyses, scenarios where companies like Amazon and Walmart step in as 'food banks' in exchange for government contracts, controlling every bite and charging triple for staples, are being actively modeled. [1] This is not merely an economic adjustment; it is a blueprint for corporate serfdom. Simultaneously, the state apparatus is preparing not to solve the hunger crisis, but to manage the resulting public fury through expanded surveillance and force. The stage is set for a domestic conflict where the battleground is the grocery store, and the enemy, in the eyes of the state, will be its own hungry citizens.

The question is no longer if, but when. As one report starkly summarized, 'Hungry people will SNAP in the coming FOOD RIOTS.' This article traces the roots of this impending crisis, from the cyclical forces of nature and history to the deliberate actions of a collapsing empire, and outlines the path toward personal and community resilience in the face of the creeping police state....<<<Read More>>>...

Quote for the Day

 

Dale Vince: “Heat Pumps Have Been Mis-Sold”

 Dale Vince, a leading Labour donor, has said that heat pumps don’t “save you money” because they’re inefficient and are being “mis-sold” by the Government. The Telegraph has more.

Heat pumps, which are promoted as a green alternative to traditional gas boilers, form a key part of Ed Miliband’s £15 billion energy plan, which was announced last week.

It aims to install solar panels, heat pumps, double glazing and insulation in five million low-income households, at a £5 billion cost to the taxpayer. Landlords also face a bill of up to £10,000 by 2030 under energy efficiency plans designed to push through upgrades.

But speaking to BBC Politics Live on Tuesday, Vince, the founder of energy firm Ecotricity, said: “I have been using heat pumps for about 20 years, so I know what they can do and what they can’t do.

“I do object to the fairly general narrative that they can save you money, because that is a very rare circumstance. You do need a well-insulated home just to break even.”

Vince, who has in the past funded activist groups including Just Stop Oil, said that to be cost-effective, a heat pump needs to have a coefficient of performance of at least four. Coefficiency performance is the measurement of how much heat is produced per unit of electricity used.

He claimed that for heat pumps in the UK, the average was just 2.8, which meant homeowners tended to see their bills increase by 30%.

Vince said: “That’s the reality. Against that, we have got the mis-selling, I think, of heat pumps.”

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said that households which installed a heat pump, solar panels and a battery could save as much as £550 a year compared with a gas boiler. A spokesman said that heat pumps can save households as much as £130 a year.

Analysis by the Energy Saving Trust found that those with a newer gas boiler may not see annual savings from installing an air source heat pump. The cost of installing a new heat pump has remained at approximately £13,000, although homeowners can benefit from government grants to reduce the upfront cost....<<<Read More>>>....

Rush - The Big Money

Scientists want to use self-amplifying mRNA to vaccinate those who do not want to be vaccinated

 A research paper published earlier this month states that one of the researchers’ aims is to develop a vaccine to overcome vaccine hesitancy.

The method chosen to spread the vaccine among the population is a self-replicating RNA (srRNA) or self-amplifying mRNA (saRNA or sa-mRNA, samRNA), also referred to as replicon vaccines.

This gain-of-function research is being supported by the US military.

Newly published research papers demonstrate that gain-of-function research designed to investigate the effects of deadly pathogens is still continuing. In the course of research, live mice are being exposed to deadly doses of laboratory-built recombinant synthetic H5N1 viruses with codon optimisation, which boosts expression in human cells and cleavage site enhancement linked to viral virulence. Lethal doses of synthetic viral material containing artificial DNA sequences are being forced into animals using lipid nanoparticles (“LNPs”) and electrical pulses. The aim of the research is to develop replicon mRNA vaccines and treatment strategies but alarmingly, the work is being partially funded by the US defence establishment and there are ties to multinational pharmaceutical companies. ...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #929

 

Tuesday, 27 January 2026

The Labour Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

 Well, how will they be able to keep us in our 15 minute cities if they don’t know where we are at all times?

It wouldn’t work, would it? Think!

One of us might inadvertently find ourselves stumbling into one of their climate change averting rewilding zones, or as we used to call it, the countryside.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood shared her ultimate vision for the UK.

No, not at end to poverty, rising homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, and knife crime, but that “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”

Someone should tell Shabana that George Orwell’s 1984 was meant to be a work of fiction, not an instruction manual.

Although she’ll probably struggle to hear you over the two minutes of hate, routinely being broadcast from the party, to the peasants.

“The Labour Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – Ain’t that the truth.

What is happening here is not just reserved for us, and is being conducted in all countries using different excuses, different threats, and different sales pitches, to manufacture consent from their populations.

Global agendas of enslavement tend to be, well, y’know, global.

The UK it seems, is the poster boy to distract the world from what is also being implemented in their own back yard.

It also creates an apathy and a defeatist attitude, because if dystopia can come to Britain, a nation that has built it’s brand as one of democracy and justice, both a myth of course, but that was the perception, then dystopia can take hold anywhere.

As it currently stands, we have an establishment that cancels elections, bans under 16s from social media, meaning a defacto digital ID roll out to prove you are of age, facial recognition and mass AI surveillance infrastructure, the promotion of 15 minute cities and limits on travel, a banning of petrol and diesel cars, meaning only electric vehicles, where the computer is programmed to determine where you can and can’t go, including the ability for the state to physically turn off your car, something that has just been passed in the USA also, the deletion of cash and introduction of programmable CBDCs, meaning the state will be able to control where you spend your money, what you spend your money on, and how long you have to spend your money, meaning an end to personal savings, sweeping police reforms, including an expansion of censorship via the online harms bill, a removal of trial by jury, and the legalisation of state assisted dying.

Sounds great doesn’t it?...<<<Read More>>>...

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Death isn’t Scary – If You’ve Had A Near-death Experience

 At some stage, you will die. You may not know the time, date or circumstance of your death, but you do know it’s inevitable. Contemplating this fact can be uncomfortable. It evokes anxiety and fear in most people.

But not those people who have had a near-death experience (NDE). NDEs are extraordinarily profound mystical or transcendental occurrences, during which the boundaries between space, time and normal perceptual awareness become blurred....<<<Read More>>>...

Lithium: The overlooked mineral that could revolutionize brain health

 Conventional Alzheimer's drugs target symptoms (amyloid plaques) but fail clinically, while lithium—a cheap, natural mineral—shows neuroprotective effects in studies.

Decades of research link lithium deficiency to Alzheimer's, yet it's ignored in favor of expensive, ineffective drugs like Aduhelm.

The medical-industrial complex suppresses lithium because it's unpatentable and threatens Big Pharma's lucrative, failing treatments.

Low-dose lithium orotate enhances cognition, prevents neurodegeneration and stabilizes mood—without the toxicity of high-dose prescriptions.

True brain health requires rejecting pharma-controlled medicine, detoxing from toxins and embracing natural, repurposed therapies like lithium.

For decades, lithium has been pigeonholed as merely a psychiatric drug—prescribed in high doses by mainstream medicine to manage bipolar disorder while ignoring its far broader potential. But emerging research suggests this humble mineral may hold the key to preventing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, offering a natural, low-cost solution that threatens the pharmaceutical industry's profit-driven stranglehold on brain health.

Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a physician-scientist and survivor of a rare immune disease, has become a leading advocate for drug repurposing—the practice of uncovering new uses for existing, often overlooked treatments. His work exposes a critical flaw in modern medicine: the system is rigged to prioritize expensive, patented drugs while ignoring safe, effective and affordable alternatives like lithium....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #928

 

The Unsolved Mystery of How Viruses Spread – and Why Germ Theory Isn’t the Whole Answer

 For over a century scientists have struggled to prove viral contagion. There are gaping holes in the current model of viral transmission but these holes are not a reason to throw out the concept of a virus. We need a new model that fits the evidence. Here I set out the evidence for and against the current model and suggest a way to reconcile the apparent contradictions. 

Evidence for viral contagion 

  1. Viral genetic material turns up in clusters of sick people. The sequences match. They change over time with new mutations in consistent ways without reverting. Even though testing is not perfect, people with positive tests are far more likely to be sick than not.
  2. Viruses have been well described. Even if isolation methods are not flawless, electron microscopy and crystallography have shown fine-grained details including the shape of structures like the surface of the spike protein.
  3. At high doses, transmission works. Human challenge trials demonstrate that viral exposure can cause illness when the dose is high enough.
  4. Genetic tracing of viruses during outbreaks shows that distinct lineages spread from person to person in predictable clusters, confirming person-to-person transmission.

This evidence explains the mechanism of viral infection. But it does not explain the timing of the waves of infection that are characteristic of many viruses like influenza.

Where the traditional model fails

  1. Normal-dose challenge trials often fail. The evidence here is strong: under experimental conditions, exposure frequently does not result in illness. A recent study confirmed this again.
  2. Hospital-acquired infections peak at the same time as cases in the community. If spread were primarily driven by close contact, we would expect a lag, as community infections peak then admissions then within hospital infections. But the expected lag does not occur. In fact, hospital-acquired infections peak before the admissions to the hospital.  
  3. Waves occur with seasonal regularity. Epidemic peaks in the UK often occur with peak deaths at predictable times of year before falling away for a time:
    • Every early January
    • Often early April
    • Sometimes in July
    • Every late October....<<<Read More>>>...

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A Monarch who will not defend The Faith cannot defend the Realm

King Charles III’s engagement with Islam raises questions about his role as a Christian monarch and Supreme Governor of the Church of England. He has drifted from being a Christian monarch to a religious pluralist.

“The tragedy is not that King Charles respects Islam. The tragedy is that he appears increasingly unsure whether Christianity is true. And a Christian kingship without conviction is not progress – it is abdication,” Bishop Ceirion Dewar writes.

The most serious constitutional shifts rarely announce themselves with fanfare. They emerge instead through tone, emphasis and the gradual re-ordering of loyalties – noticed first by those who understand what an office is for, and only later by the wider public. That is where we now find ourselves in relation to King Charles III: not confronting a single speech or gesture in isolation, but recognising a sustained pattern of theological softening that sits uneasily – indeed incompatibly – with the historic vocation of a Christian monarch and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

This is not a question of personal manners, nor of racial or religious hostility. It is a question of office. Charles is not merely a private citizen with eclectic spiritual interests; he is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England – a role forged in blood, reformation, covenant and national history. What happens, then, when the man who embodies that role increasingly speaks as though Christianity is merely one voice among many, rather than the spiritual grammar of the realm he governs?...<<<Read More>>>...

Monday, 26 January 2026

Food for Thought #927

 

Turning Off Internet on Your Phone Improves Attention, Mental Health, and Well-Being in Just 14 Days

As the world has become increasingly reliant on mobile computing technology for work and entertainment, few people stopped to consider the downstream consequences.

A recent randomized controlled trialfound that simply removing mobile internet access — while still allowing calls and texts — can produce measurable improvements in psychological functioning in as little as two weeks. Researchers effectively turned smartphones into "dumb phones," and the results were striking: improved sustained attention, improved mental health, and higher subjective well-being.

This was a month-long preregistered randomized controlled trial with a cross-over (waitlist) design, enrolling 467 iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada. Participants installed the Freedom app, which blocked all mobile internet access (Wi-Fi and cellular data) for two weeks, while still allowing calling, texting, and internet use on other devices like laptops or desktops. Outcomes were measured at baseline (T1), two weeks (T2), and four weeks (T3), allowing researchers to compare changes during restriction periods versus normal-use periods.

After two weeks without mobile internet, participants experienced significant improvements in subjective well-being (including life satisfaction and positive/negative affect), mental health (a combined index including depression, anxiety, anger, personality functioning, and social anxiety), and objectively measured sustained attention using the validated gradCPT task (d-prime accuracy). Notably, about 91% of participants improved in at least one of these core outcomes, suggesting that the effect was widespread rather than limited to a small subset....<<<Read More>>>....

The Silent Storm: Reclaiming Your Health from Chronic Stress in a Toxic World

 In the relentless pace of modern life, a silent health crisis is metastasizing, fueled by a toxic environment that corporations and compliant institutions actively sustain. Chronic stress is no longer just an emotional burden; it is a physiological saboteur, eroding our health, minds, and lifespans from the inside out.

This systemic erosion is no accident. The groundbreaking book 'The Silent Storm: How Chronic Stress is Eroding Your Health, Mind, and Lifespan' by Dr. Leonard Coldwell exposes how the very institutions entrusted with public health ignore root causes, preferring instead to push pharmaceutical Band-Aids that suppress natural healing and generate lifelong customers. As Dr. Coldwell reveals, this is a battle not just for wellness, but for sovereignty in a world engineered to keep you in a state of perpetual, profitable sickness.

The modern 'healthcare' system has perfected the art of profiting from the illnesses it helps create. As one source notes, chronic diseases 'account for more than 40 percent of the $3.5 trillion that people are handing over to Big Pharma and the medical industrial complex.' This obscene profit is the engine driving a system that treats symptoms with dangerous drugs while blinding us to the environmental and lifestyle origins of our distress.

Our air, water, and food have become delivery systems for systemic stressors. Microplastics, synthetic 'forever' chemicals, and pervasive digital electromagnetic fields saturate our world, yet, as an article from the Alliance for Natural Health points out, 'lawmakers seem content to let us be the guinea pigs.'  These are not incidental exposures; they are toxic assaults designed to weaken populations. Industrial agriculture drenches our food in pesticides, leading to mineral-deficient produce laden with toxic residues. 

This daily onslaught primes the body for disease, creating a perfect pipeline of patients for the medical cartel. The system’s goal is clear: keep the true causes of stress-induced illness shrouded in mystery and maintain a cycle of sick-care dependency. ...<<<Read More>>>....

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Home Secretary Announces Creation of “British FBI” – But is it a Good Idea?

 Shabana Mahmood has announced she wants to merge the 43 police forces in England and Wales and create a new National Police Service, which she has dubbed a “British FBI”. (BBC News has more.) She insists this is “absolutely not” but about fixing our “broken” police service, describing it as “the most significant reforms to policing this country has seen in 200 years”. In the Sunday Times, Robert Colville is sceptical.

Back in 1964 the Police Act slashed the number of forces in England and Wales from 117 to 49, which was gradually winnowed down to the 43 we have today. Mahmood wants to amalgamate those into a dozen or so regional super-forces while creating a separate, national force to cover big things like terrorism, fraud and gangs, and a new layer of local policing to deal with day-to-day crime.

The plan is bold. It’s logical. And it’s almost certainly doomed.

Let’s start at the beginning. There is obvious inefficiency in having 43 police forces with overlapping and duplicated functions. And traditional policing boundaries make less and less sense in an age of online fraudsters and county lines drug gangs. That’s why senior coppers have been arguing for mergers for years.

But at the same time, if people have been calling for something for a generation, there’s probably a reason it hasn’t happened. In fact, a very similar plan was introduced by Mahmood’s Labour predecessor Charles Clarke in 2006. It was an utter fiasco. As for creating a “British FBI” to fight crime at a national level, we’ve had versions of the same announcement in 1995, 2004, 2011 and 2016. And I may have missed a few.

The first and most obvious problem is operational. Any reorganisation like this is inherently disruptive. All the more so when bringing together organisations with different ways of working, different software systems and all the rest of it.

And the precedents are not encouraging. In 2013 the SNP merged eight Scottish police forces into one. Frontline officers complained that their views were ignored throughout, and that methods and personnel from Glasgow were being imposed on the rest of the country. In the decade that followed, the proportion of Scots saying their local force were doing a good or excellent job fell from 61 per cent to 45 per cent....<<<Read More>>>...

The Worldwide Power Grid They Buried With Tartaria

UK’s Green Crusade is bringing the country to its knees

 The UK’s insatiable climate agenda has led to an economic disaster, with high electricity rates and energy poverty affecting many citizens.

Government “green” policies have driven manufacturers away and investors are fleeing, with thousands of jobs being lost.

Across the Atlantic, a self-inflicted disaster is steadily unfolding. One of the United States’ closest allies, the United Kingdom, has surrendered energy riches and industrial prowess.

This decline is not the result of any shortage of capital, technological capacity or natural resources. Instead, it is the consequence of an ideologically driven climate agenda that has elevated “green” symbolism over engineering reality.

For years, politicians have beaten their chests about the UK’s “world-leading” renewable capacity. They paraded statistics showing wind and solar generating most of the electricity, conveniently ignoring that this only happens when the wind blows and the sun shines.

When “green” generation doesn’t perform, British taxpayers pay for natural gas-fired power plants to back up idle facilities and stabilise the grid. They also pay “constraint payments” to switch off wind turbines when it is too windy to operate them.

This is the great deception of the Levelised Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) metric that the green lobby loves to cite. LCOE excludes the enormous price of grid balancing, backup generation, curtailment payments, transmission expansion and subsidies – all required to prop up the green sham. 

In the real world – where bills must be paid – the UK has created for itself some of the highest electricity rates on the planet, up to four times more than in the United States. One-third of Scots live in energy poverty. But the real cost never shows up in glossy charts that promote manipulated data representing wind and solar as cheap....<<<Read More>>>..