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2023-07-08

Don't take it from me - take it from the spokesperson for the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).

It seems that they have ambitions to control not just international settlements, but your settlement with your grocer, or any other vendor that you may "choose" to patronise. From the sublime to the ridiculous, it's all in a day's work for the Central Banks...

Learn the "secrets" of the Bank of Japan, the ECB, and... CBDCs.

Prof Richard Werner explains to Ivor Cummins - watch right to the end:

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Vobes Investigates - A Home Education Support Service

2023-06-29

Colchester City Council to be more precise.

Concerned residents make a straightforward case to the Council - take control of your own opinions, don't just unquestioningly accept what you're being told.

In truth it's a criticism that could apply to any of us, on any subject, but when you are a representative of the people and you want to push policies that are not necessarily to the advantage of the people, you need to be very sure of your ground.

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2023-06-27

Do we believe in "free speech"?

Well, James Delingpole is brave enough to say that "it depends".

And I think he's right.

Free speech in the right circumstances is very beneficial if it helps others to formulate their own views.

In the wrong circumstances it muddies the waters, confuses the listener, and and may even promote the madness of crowds...

I also think that "free speech" doesn't include deliberate falsehoods half-truths omissions or incitement to criminality. To be useful it has to be honest peaceful and unthreatening.

Which introduces another problem - who is to judge this "honesty"? Rhetoric can be used for good or for ill, to inform or to confuse or to mislead. Caveat

2023-06-24

The Universe seems to be nothing if not interlinked in the most surprising ways.

Music of the Spheres? Not quite, but Music of the Platonic Solids? And more?

Well, now you're talking...

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2023-06-21

Yes, there's no escaping the inimitable Richard Vobes.

Here he is exploring yet another aspect of the human condition that we don't normally think about, but which could for some, perhaps for many, bring resolution to problems which we might previously have considered too deep-seated and too little understood to be properly addressed.

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2023-06-21

If you can't debate them, ridicule them.

The Climate Alarmists are an anti-intellectual lot who prefer to insist that "the science is settled" rather than to debate the issue, even though climate science is quite possibly the most complex topic in the universe, and if it really was settled then man would already rival God in the intellectual stakes.

Maybe they think that the IPCC is God, I don't know.

Still, John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus reports on one of the many holes in climate theology in his usual entertaining manner.

Worth a look (as is all his work).

2023-06-21

Our schools are apparently bending over backwards to accommodate the self-identity preferences of school-kids, no matter how unusual.

It is reported that there has been some brouhaha over the desire of one young lady to self-identify as a cat. She was (reportedly) supported by her teacher who strongly disagreed with another class member who considered the cat identity ridiculous, and insisted that her unusual identity is perfectly valid and acceptable. 

Now most people would probably think that this is all a lot of nonsense that should be firmly squashed, the girls and boys should be firmly told that they are human, and that's an end of it.

But although everybody is getting mighty steamed up about all this, I think the cat-girl is absolutely

2023-06-20

Ex-colonies (some might think still "soft power" colonies) in Africa and elsewhere now have a choice of financiers who will help them exploit their minerals for their own benefit. Also by forming regional partnerships with their like-minded neighbours, they can move away from dependence on western currencies for trade. Change is afoot.

Are they jumping from the frying pan into the fire? Or will the future bring real improvements? Time will tell, but maybe the Africans will get a better deal and the West may or may not. After all, peaceful cooperation is inherently better than strife in almost all respects.

(8 minutes + message from the sponsor - this is not financial advice)

2023-06-17

Artificial Intelligence, or Automated Intelligence as I would prefer to call it, is programmed by humans.

The nature of humanity is to make errors.

Therefore Automated Intelligence makes errors.

The problem of course is that in most traditional IT systems the specific reasoning process is explicitly coded and can therefore be tested. It can even be exhaustively tested (although from experience I'd guess that's not too common due to marketing pressures!).

In AI, the reasoning process is hyper-generalised and whilst it can in theory be tested, it's not always so easy to exhaustively test (unless you have the capacity to run it in "verbose" mode and then manually follow through all the myriad of logical deductions that it relied upon - although I suppose you might be tempted to use another AI to do this... ).

Add in the fact that in this day and age the people who

2023-06-15

It has been said that we attract what we broadcast, that our thoughts alone affect the world around us. If so, then we clearly need to be careful - thoughts lead to words and actions, words and actions lead to consequences - but thoughts alone also reinforce habitual patterns and thus also lead to consequences.

Our lives are lived largely by habit - we all have our daily routine that we have found by past experience and (limited) experiment to work (at least satisfactorily) for us. If we had to rethink our daily routine from scratch every day, we would never get past breakfast!

But how often do we experiment further with our routine to see if we could improve it some more, maybe in ways we couldn't have previously imagined? What if we ate fruit instead of flakes for example? Or used coconut oil in our coffee in place of pasteurised-homogenised-skimmed milk? Or skipped breakfast on Fridays? The possibilities are endless but the rewards in terms of health might be significant?

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2023-06-14

Sometimes, in trying to make sense of this weird world, we do well to step back, and just let our thoughts wander.

Let Ole Dammegard be your guide...

Long, but fascinating.

Not for the temporally challenged!

(91 minutes)

2023-06-13

Dane Wiggington has been pointing up the assertions of the so-called "Chem-trails" being sprayed in our skies for years, the assumption being that this is associated with the climate change nonsense so beloved of the UN agencies and WEF.

Maria Zeee now unearths some documentation relating to some of this madness - from an official website of a US Government agency, the NOAA.

"As part of Public Law 92-205 (1972), all non-Federal weather modification activities must be reported to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, via the NOAA Weather Program Office"

... from which we may infer that additional unreported federal weather modification activities will also in all likelihood exist...

Apparently all in the name of solar radiation management - for the next 200 years. Assuming we last that long.

"No Environmental Impact Statements

2023-06-13

Mahyar Tousi reports.

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Whilst the coming together of the (very) fragmented opposition parties may be applauded, it's worth bearing in mind that defeating the main parties in a bye-election, whilst a positive move, will have little impact upon our controlled political system.

It's plain now for all to see that whatever party gets into "power", true power lies behind the scenes with the party funders and controllers, and politics is just the show that they hope will convince the voters that we have some sort of influence. It's "

2023-06-08

An independent-thinking American comments on current world events in his own idiosyncratic style... make of it what you will.

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2023-06-07

It's been a long time in the making, but it's a hum-dinger, a triumph of logic and evidence over blah-speak.

Aaron Siri runs us briskly through the long and sorry story.

We are left wondering how any government could have come to the decisions that Congress came to with respect to the problems that the vaccine industry was facing over three decades ago.

We in the UK might ask why the UK followed a similar route?

It's very simple - but how could it happen?

Unmissable.

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2023-06-07

It seems that it it isn't just in the UK where the promises of alternative warmth from non-fossil-fuel sources are lacking in the actual delivery.

All around the world the actualité is coming home to roost and even the politicians, try as they might, are finding that they can't spout sufficient hot air to keep their constituents warm and cosy.

It's a sad story, but obviously it can't be their fault, since being politicians they can surely find someone else to take the blame?

"There’s a lot of talk of a “transition”, and a lot of enthusiasm for it. There’s just no transition"

"... atmospheric CO₂ continued to rise, indeed rose faster than at any point since 1850 yet the increase in temperature stopped"

For the Highest Good

2023-06-05

... down the Publication Hole?

We are admonished to "follow the science" repeatedly, especially in recent times when apparently political decisions (lockdowns et al) were more or less nakedly dressed up as "science" despite "the science" that was widely recognised only months previously being entirely different...

How did that happen?

Net Zero Watch (no, this actually isn't about climate-you-know-what) brings us an amusing (depending upon your sense of humour) but instructive ("follow the science!") and "important" (probably depending upon your paymasters) paper by W.M. Briggs that describes (yet another) "scientific" investigation into (wait for it... ) the reliability or otherwise of the "published science".

Surely a topic that is well overdue

2023-05-29

Every once in a while we need to step back from the brink and remind ourselves just what a familiar yet naggingly strange world we live in.

And when the reminder comes in serious form humourously presented, our cup runneth over.

(Still, you do have first to get past the "word from our sponsor", but it's worth it)

(56 minutes)

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