Comcast Activates WiFi Motion Detection on MILLIONS of Routers, Raising Privacy Concerns

 On Aug. 18, Comcast activated a motion detection feature on millions of its newer home routers.

WiFi Motion is a free feature that turns newer Xfinity Gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the WiFi signal of the wireless network and sending a notification through the Xfinity app, according to TechCrunch .

Comcast unveiled the feature as part of Xfinity Shield, a home security platform built around the WiFi network, and it turns the leased gateway into a motion detector at no extra charge, according to a ZeroHedge report.

Comcast said WiFi Motion works "without recording video, capturing images, or identifying individuals," according to the report.

The company's terms state that Comcast "may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice" in connection with law enforcement investigations, the report said. Comcast said a typical customer has roughly 36 devices connected to their WiFi. 

WiFi Motion works because a human body moving through a room disturbs the signal field between the gateway and stationary connected devices, such as a printer or a game console, according to Comcast's rollout materials. The feature is opt-in and, according to Comcast, does not track phones or reach through WiFi extenders.

Comcast's rollout materials stated that those limitations are choices made in software, not limitations of the technology itself.

The detection method relies on signals that have been part of WiFi networks for more than a decade....<<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #1231

 

The WHO’s High-Price Pandemic Plan Is Built on Smoke and Mirrors

 The recent release of Anthony Fauci’s diaries, followed by his refusal to answer questions in an appearance before a US Senate committee by invoking the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination 111 times, highlighted a stark divide in how the Covid pandemic was handled by public health authorities. This is as true of Australia as of the US.

Repeatedly, against the certainty expressed in public to justify official statements on the origins of the virus and on lockdown, mask and vaccine policies, their private contemporaneous conversations confirm that even the top scientists were making decisions based on scientific uncertainty.

Consequently, one of the key legacies of the public-private gap is growing distrust of official claims. That scepticism should extend to the future pandemic agenda. We rely on the World Health Organisation to co-ordinate among countries to prevent scourges such as pandemics reaching our shores, or at least mitigate their effects. In doing so, we must defer to an army of international bureaucrats who work in such institutions – a deference that relies on trust.

Their salaries and careers depend on convincing us to part with more of our money to support their work. Yet, according to a new article on international pandemic financing in the Cambridge journal Health Economics, Policy and Law, the WHO and World Bank rely on dubious assumptions to calculate the return-on-investment case on which all major international efforts to mitigate future pandemics rely.

This should alarm governments. Mitigation is worth investing in, as pandemics will occur from time to time. But the article shows that current investments will have an overall detrimental effect on global health. Most starkly, it suggests a deep rot in the quality of institutions we rely on as stewards of this commonly accepted global good....<<<Read More>>>...

Hidden CIA document detailing potential cure for cancer declassified after 60 years

 A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago.

The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancerous tumors.

The report describes how researchers believed both organisms thrived under nearly identical metabolic conditions and accumulated large reserves of glycogen, a form of stored energy.

The research also highlighted experiments showing that certain chemical compounds were capable of targeting both parasitic infections and malignant tumors.

One drug, Myracyl D, was reportedly effective against bilharzia parasites as well as cancerous growths, hinting that treatments developed for parasites might also attack tumors.

Other compounds were found to interfere with nucleic acid production, a process essential for the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.

Experiments on mice even showed that tumor tissues reacted differently to certain chemicals than normal tissues, further reinforcing the perceived biochemical overlap between parasites and cancers.

Although the document was declassified more than a decade ago, it has recently resurfaced online, fueling outrage among some Americans who say it raises troubling questions about why Cold War research hinting at possible cancer treatments sat in intelligence archives for decades.

'The Americans knew. They read it, classified it CONFIDENTIAL, and locked it in a vault for 60 years,' one person shared on X, including the CIA documents in the post.

Another X user said: 'The CIA knew from 1951 that cancer was parasites.'...<<<Read More>>>...

China’s ‘brain chip’ drive accelerates with slew of state-backed initiatives

 China is rapidly accelerating its national push into brain-computer interface technology, mobilizing state power in a coordinated drive that could see the country outpace Western efforts led by figures such as Elon Musk.

According to a report from the South China Morning Post, authorities across insurance firms, local governments, and financial institutions have unveiled a series of concrete measures in recent days aimed at speeding the commercialization of devices that link the human brain directly to computers.

The most striking development came on Wednesday, when major state-owned insurer PICC Property and Casualty announced it had signed China’s first commercial insurance policy covering the invasive brain surgery required to implant a brain-computer interface....<<<Read More>>>...

How the Australian government uses census forms to manipulate the public

 Using the example of the Australian census form, Paul Collits demonstrates how governments manipulate the perception of what is considered normal in societies.

He uses the example of the questions relating to religion and sexuality, which are designed to manipulate the answers people give so the census results have the desired outcome to show that Christian societies are changing.

One thing to say about those trying fundamentally to change (what is left of) our society is that they believe in total victory. Another is that they know how to execute. A third is that they never, ever give up. Down to the last detail.

Whether we think of them simply – often, too simply – as leftists, or as Marxists, or as progressives, or globalists, or sexual liberationists, or feminists, or homosexualists, or climate cookers, or Islamists, it is clear that they work separately and together in myriad alliances to achieve their objectives.

And one shared objective is the de-Christianisation of the West. Another is the forced affirmation of homosexuality. As if we don’t get enough of that in our TV crime dramas. Night after night. You would think that every street in every suburb is filled, wall-to-wall, with queers.

Tonight is census night in Australia. A five-yearly cause of excitement for demographers and a cause of extreme tedium for the rest of us. Another interaction with that uniquely modern punishment … the online “form.” It shouldn’t be.

A seemingly non-ideological exercise and a non-political one. It is just about collecting information to help governments and others to provide “better service.” Believe that, believe anything....<<<Read More>>>...

Physical ChatGPT robots and people: how we will live together

 Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only a feature of computers and smartphones, but also of physical robots that can sense, act and interact with the world around them.

These robots, known as Physical AI, are designed to look and behave like humans or other animals, and to possess intellectual capabilities normally associated with biological organisms. In this article, we will explore the current state and future prospects of Physical AI, and how it could affect our lives in various domains....<<<Read More>>>...

Defra, Not Climate Change, is Turning England Into a Tinderbox

 How bad is the situation? Satellite analysis shows that six times more land was burnt in the UK over the last decade than in the previous one (151,954 hectares in 2016-2025 against 24,805 in 2006-2015). Do not be fooled by those who say this catastrophe is simply down to climate change. Sure, hot days drive moisture out of plants. But globally wildfires are down by a quarter because humanity has become better at creating firebreaks.

Defra hasn’t. Its response to climate change has been to sharply increase vegetation. Over the last 20 years its cuts in upland cattle and sheep grazing led to a 25% increase in highly flammable grass.

Another genius move has been stopping preventative burns of heather. Why do I care about this? Because during damp winter months these burns safely prune the dead material which is then replaced by younger plants. It is the dead heather which is combustible. And thanks to Defra we now have 74% more of it.

The winter burns used to create firebreaks. Now we have huge expanses of continuous, ageing vegetation....<<<Read More>>>...

ECB is intensifying its war on humanity using climate regulations, despite a global collapse in “green” finance

 Last weekend, as wildfires continued to scorch parts of southern Europe, Frank Elderson of the European Central Bank’s (“ECB’s”) Executive Board took to the pages of The Guardian to warn that the “climate and nature crises” now pose a direct threat to “core financial stability” and even “core price stability.” The destruction of ecosystem services, he insisted, is not some “flower-power, tree-hugging exercise” but “core economics.” The ECB, he added, is already deepening its scrutiny of banks’ exposures to nature-related risks, with further analysis due later this year.

This is the same institution that, only 10 days earlier, quietly expanded its “climate factor” in the “Eurosystem collateral framework” to cover non-financial corporate loans. From the end of 2027 at the earliest, loans to companies deemed exposed to “transition shocks” from climate change will face an additional haircut of up to 5%. The July decision and Elderson’s August rhetoric are of a piece: the ECB continues to weaponise climate (and now nature) policy even as the empirical, political and market ground shifts decisively under the alarmist camp....<<<Read More>>>...

Cherry-Picking Met Office Drops Declining Wind Speed Chapter From Its Latest Annual Climate Report

 Lower UK wind speeds and less powerful storms have always been a bit of a disappointment to activists whipping up a climate crisis frenzy to back the Net Zero fantasy. Going back over 50 years, the data is clear on a declining trend. Of course, despite its lamentable inability to step up to the Net Zero plate, wind is one of the UK’s “essential climate variables”, to quote the Met Office’s own words. Since it first started publishing its annual state of the UK climate report, the climatic performance of wind and storms have had their own dedicated chapter. Alas, no more. The 2025 report, published last month, has abolished the chapter – wind it seems is now little more than a footnote. Should do better, some might comment....<<<Read More>>>....

UN’s Green Climate Fund isn’t “Green” or about “Climate”; it’s just a UN Fund

 The UN Green Climate Fund (“GCF”) is neither Green nor about climate. They are mostly just doing normal foreign aid that the donor countries would be better off doing themselves. They have received and spent over $20 billion to date, with more billions coming.

For example, they fund a lot of water supply systems in dry countries. They call it “climate change adaptation,” but it is not adaptation to climate change. It is addressing a condition that has always existed. It is fraud to call this “climate funding.” The same is true for flood protection in flood-prone areas or improving existing farms, which they also do a lot of.

Moreover, much of this so-called adaptation funding actually increases CO₂ emissions, so it is not even green.

A fine example is their biggest funding to date, which is part of the huge Jordan Desalination Project. The GCF says that Jordan is among the world’s driest countries, so it certainly needs water. But Jordan has been this dry throughout its history, so the project has nothing to do with climate change....<<<Read More>>>...

Is the Met Office a Serious Scientific Organisation Any Longer?

In their State of the UK Climate Report 2025, recently published, the Met Office made the astonishing suggestion that Storm Eowyn, which hit Britain in January 2025, was worse than the Great Storm of 1987. They even produced this chart to “prove” it:

This is gaslighting of the highest order and an insult to all those who lost their lives in 1987.

Apparently, they say, the severity of the 1987 storm was down to the fact that trees were still in leaf. It was not really as bad as you thought!

So why does their chart imply Eowyn was worse?

Simple. Eowyn’s storm track took it across the mountains and clifftops of Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. Naturally, winds will be stronger on high hills and exposed coastal headlands than they are down at ground level.

Wind gusts during Eowyn hit 100 mph on the top of a 900ft hill at Drumalbin, high up in the wild, windswept Lanarkshire Hills. Next highest was 96 mph at Brizlee Wood, an 800ft hill in Northumberland, so high and exposed that it has an RAF golf ball on top....<<<Read More>>>...

Believe Them At Your Peril

 The climate change fear mongering frenzy is reaching its climax now.

According to the UK media the last decade has seen its top ten hottest years on record. That's easy to see when you are using TAMPERED and ALTERED weather data! this where the something must be done ... gives way to the solution. Zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Total extinction of virtually all biological life on planet earth!

They still claim the, heavier than air, gas carbon Dioxide is the culprit. Its being drummed into everyone, and so few of us even question the lie!

Carbon Dioxide is not the main constituent of 'greenhouse gases' and the weather cycle we are experiencing is nothing to do with climate change. Geoengineering and deliberate weather manipulation is; and water vapour makes up over 95% of greenhouse gases. Carbon Dioxide rarely reaches the upper atmosphere; volcanoes are the main reason it is in the upper atmosphere. And its effect up there is to COOL the atmosphere, not heat it up.

Real scientists are coming out of their silence and admitting that the data being banded about that 'proves' climate change, and is sealing mankind's return to the stone age, is TAMPERED with and deliberately misleading. It has been rehashed to suit the crazy globalist's plan to create a Carbon tax to make mankind on a whole poor, and also 'prove' their insane AGENDA to impose MANDATORY GENOCIDE on mankind.

They are tampering with the world weather to create these crazy weather systems. It's not man made climate change in the sense they claim due to too much CO2. Not at all. And anyone who falls for their lies and deceit are playing into the hands of the grim reaper.

They've spent trillions upon trillions of dollars on their agenda; so they can fool mankind and have the world for themselves. The basic truth is believe them at your peril because the current claims of climate change are total fucking lies .... deception and deceit on a crazy, mad and desperate scale by a bunch of mentally unstable families who are completely insane. Believe them at your peril ... because they are about to force governments, their playthings, to declare mandatory genocide laws to help save the planet.

The earth plane is NOT over crowded, there is NO food shortages other than the deliberate agendas THEY create. What they say about the earth and reality are total fabrications ... they are lying through their bad asses about nearly everything!

When wildfires appear to be increasing, we need to ask who’s causing them

The European Forest Fires Information System says that the number of wildfires in Europe is nearly double the 30-year average. The situation in the USA is probably worse and in Canada, not much better, Peter Koenig writes.

Wouldn’t this steady year-by-year increase of so-called “wildfires” raise the legitimate question of why and what or who causes them? he asks.

Every year, at least for the past five or six years, approximately starting with the (“UN”) Agenda 2030 – remember the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”)? – bush and forest fires have become more ferocious.

As of late July 2026, wildfires across the European Union (“EU”) have burned about 254,400 hectares (2,544 km²) since the start of the year, with France, Spain, Portugal and Italy among the worst-affected countries.

The European Forest Fires Information System (“EFFIS”), via the EU Joint Research Centre, reports 254,388 hectares (ha) burnt in the EU in 2026 up to 22 July 2026. This is above the 20-year average but slightly below the same period in 2025. See this for more info: Current wildfire situation in Europe, European Commission.

EFFIS maps fires bigger than 30 ha that include at least some forested area. Its figures represent roughly 95% of the total EU burned area.

In Spain and France, more than 200,000 people were evacuated or escaped by themselves, leaving their home and for many their life savings and assets (homes, farms, farm lands, cars and other amenities) behind to save their lives. Some escaped the spectacular Bordeaux peninsula, offering stunning landscapes and tourist areas, as well as oyster-farming villages and upmarket resorts.

Since the beginning of 2026, close to 1,300 fires have beendetected, though fewer than in the same period in 2025, when 1,329 were recorded. But more than double the long-term average (about 30 years) of 569 fires.

According to EFFIS, these fires emitted 8.31 million tonnes (Mt) of CO₂ since the start of 2026, slightly below the 8.48 Mt recorded in the same period in 2025, and the long-term average of 8.89 Mt. Consider, though, that the summer is not yet over. For comparison, an average European citizen emits 5.55 tonnes of CO₂ over an entire year (EDGAR 2024 recording – Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research).

The situation in the US is probably even worse. As of late July 2026, the United States is experiencing a severe and above-average wildfire season, with the National Preparedness Level raised to its maximum (Level 5) and more than 16,000 km2 burned nationwide. This is about 140% above the 10-year average. The situation in Canada is not better....<<<Read More>>>....

Bill Gates held “Top Secret” security clearance in US Federal agencies for 7 years

 A few days ago, Senator Rand Paul released documents that showed Bill Gates was issued a Q clearance by the US Department of Energy (“DOE”). Gates held this high-level clearance from 2014 to 2021.

DOE describes a Q authorisation as “equivalent to Top Secret … with a Q an individual can be given access to Top Secret National Security Information if his or her duties require it.”

“If you have a current, Top-Secret security clearance … The access authorisation will be granted based on ‘reciprocity’: the principle that a security clearance or access authorisation at the same level granted by any authorised Federal agency must be recognised and accepted by all other agencies,” DOE explains....<<<Read More>>>...

Britons face winter of surging energy bills as Europe facing gas stockpile shortage

 Europe is hurtling toward a potential energy emergency this winter after gas stockpiles dropped to levels not seen in years, according to a report from The Telegraph.

Storage facilities across the continent stand just above 50 percent full in late July—a historically low figure for this time of year—leaving the region on course to begin the cold season with sites only about 75 percent full, well below the five-year average of 90 percent.

The shortfall stems directly from the ongoing conflict involving Iran, which has disrupted roughly one-fifth of global energy supplies and forced heavy drawdowns of reserves....<<<Read More>>>...

Marxism and Shia Islam have a core feature in common

 Marx’s theory of immiseration and Twelver Shia eschatology share a common structural feature: both teach that history moves forward only through a period of necessary, progressive worsening, after which a total redemptive inversion suddenly occurs. Everything else follows from that single shared manifesto.

“Redemptive inversion” is the common core. It means the existing order is not improved by degrees; it is completely reversed. Workers’ misery and Islam-defined injustice are inverted into their opposites; that is, Islam-defined perfect justice and workers’ liberation.

In Marxism, the accumulated suffering of the working class under capitalism is inverted into the classless society. In Twelver doctrine, the earth filled with Islam-defined oppression is inverted into the earth filled with Islam-defined justice by the Mahdi. In both systems, the night must first become extremely dark – violently dark – before the dawn can break.

Marx explains the mechanism of that prior darkening in economic terms. In ‘Capital’, he analyses the rising “organic composition of capital” – the growing ratio of constant capital (machines and technology) to variable capital (living labour). As this ratio increases, relatively fewer workers are required. An industrial reserve army of the unemployed expands. That reserve army then “disciplines the working class”: it holds down wages, weakens bargaining power and keeps workers insecure and fragmented.

The result is relative immiseration. Marx’s own formulation is precise: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalisation and moral degradation at the opposite pole.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters says the ruling class is steering the ship into the rocks, and ordinary people are the ones who pay

 Roger Waters spent decades warning that the machine grinds on, that walls get built between people who have far more in common than they've been told, and that comfortable numbness is exactly what those in power count on. Now the Pink Floyd co-founder is aiming that same warning at the war in Ukraine, arguing that Western governments and arms manufacturers are steering the world toward catastrophe while the people paying the actual price, on both sides of the front line, are treated as an acceptable cost of doing business. Speaking Monday on Rick Sanchez's The Sanchez Effect, Waters called European proposals to raise NATO military spending to 5 percent of GDP "effing insane," and made clear he sees this conflict the same way he has always seen power: as a machine that runs on money and indifference, and keeps running until ordinary people refuse to feed it any longer.

His comments arrive weeks after a separate, wide-ranging conversation with Tucker Carlson, in which the musician questioned the official 9/11 narrative and described a culture of enforced silence that punished anyone who dared to ask questions....<<<Read More>>>...

DARPA’s Prometheus: When computer models, not symptoms, become the basis for quarantine

In 2016, DARPA launched the Prometheus programme to develop a test that predicts whether a person will become contagious from an infectious disease within 24 hours of exposure, even before symptoms appear.

By identifying minimal sets of biological biomarkers – such as messenger RNA and immune-response proteins – the tests would indicate contagiousness, enabling early treatment or quarantine.

Prometheus represents a broader shift in DARPA’s biotechnology portfolio toward using computer models and predictive analytics, rather than actual symptoms.

As Jon Fleetwood explains below, this raises many concerning questions.

It also raises broader questions about how governments may increasingly rely on computer models – rather than observable clinical evidence – to make drastic public health determinations.

It also raises obvious questions: What happens when a computer says you’re contagious but you have no symptoms? 

Could governments eventually quarantine or medically intervene based on that prediction?

And if the computer is wrong, how would you ever prove it?

DARPA summarised the programme’s objective in unusually direct language. According to the agency’s Prometheus webpage: “The Prometheus programme aims to improve military readiness and force health through development of a prognostic that can determine if an individual is contagious before he exhibits symptoms of illness.”

The agency further explained: “DARPA’s goal is to develop a molecular test for determining if an individual is likely to spread disease following exposure to an infectious agent and predict within 24 hours of exposure if that individual will become contagious.”

According to DARPA, the capability would allow military planners to identify potentially contagious individuals before they transmitted disease within the close quarters common in military operations...<<<Read More>>>....

The Death of ‘Silly Season’

 ‘Silly season’ is supposedly upon us. Traditionally, the parliamentary recess marked a brief lull in political news. Ministers retreated to their constituencies, MPs disappeared on holiday and newspapers, deprived of Westminster intrigue, filled their pages with escaped llamas, giant marrows, seagulls stealing chips on Scarborough seafront and other harmless absurdities. The absence of serious political news was taken as evidence that, for a few weeks at least, the machinery of government had slowed to a crawl. As a teenager, I remember wondering: “If the news stops when Parliament stops, perhaps less government would mean less news.”

Silly season no longer seems to arrive. Every summer now brings another existential crisis demanding constant commentary. Brexit negotiations gave way to Covid and lockdowns. Covid gave way to Ukraine. Ukraine gave way to inflation, leadership contests, small boats, riots and a seemingly endless succession of emergencies. Westminster has become a theatre in permanent performance. There is no interval, and the actors never leave the stage. There is only crisis....<<<Read More>>>...