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Reminder of What it's All About

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Category: Free Citizen
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2026-09-02

This is an open letter as published on Karin's Substack.

"It was never about sustainability ... It is about total control of everyone, everything, the "monetisation" of everything (using a carbon credit system), on the earth, beneath it and above"

Quite so. And it doesn't even have to work as advertised - it just needs the control mechanisms to be opaque enough that they cannot be effectively challenged and corrected. When "computer says no" to our attempt to buy a pound of minced beef, or a ticket to Ryde, or a diesel car that works, etc, how are we going to complain and get it reversed?

Comment by Mike Yeadon (on Telegram):

"This is a very good open letter, reasonably accurately describing what is going on. I highly doubt the addressees will even read it. Perhaps a good number of ordinary members of the public will, though.
The all encompassing nature of the planned take down of Western civilisation is intimidating. I often shake my head at how far the perpetrators have got without significant resistance. It’s so hard to get people not already aware and concerned about the state of everything as well as the clear trajectory."

 

When AI Goes Rogue

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Category: AI
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2026-09-02

Well, it's not always because it has decided that the humans are getting it all wrong and need to be removed.

Sometimes it's because of faulty programming.

But what is faulty programming? Maybe the program is running precisely according to specification, but still produces the wrong result.

How can this be? Usually (inevitably?) a faulty (and probably unstated) assumption upon which the program specification relied.

And who wrote that specification? A human being, imperfect ,and liable to unwitting errors of omission.

Or maybe the error was in the AI's training materials, which were (inevitably) sourced ultimately from human-written materials (even if also subsequently reprocessed by AI into relevant but still erroneous training materials). 

Also subject to errors of all kinds.

Caveat Emptor.

 

Russia Russia Russia 2

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Category: Defence
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2026-08-31

Gorbachev, Yeltsin. Putin.

Trump.

Rake's progress?

Rich Does Politics interviews "Burning Bright" who reminds us of events from the fall of the Soviet Union, through the conflicts in Ukraine where the game is still being played out.

Don't miss!

(32 minutes)

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Council Reorganisations to Go to Court

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2026-08-31

Central government plans to "devolve powers" to Councils by merging District Councils (how does that work again?) are running into legal actions.

"Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Hampshire councils have set out their intention to launch judicial reviews, while Devon, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire have warned they may do so"

In my own county past efforts to save money by cooperation between neighbouring councils were abandoned - so I'm not convinced that central government have both thought through the practical implications, and decided on the amalgamations strictly on the basis of the benefits expected to accrue to residents.

The Daily Sceptic reports.

 

Russia Russia Russia

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2026-08-31

Prof David Miller on MOATS.

Make of this what you will ...

(21 minutes)

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