Severe outbreak of mosquito borne chikungunya virus infects 8,000 in China, prompts mass quarantines

 Thousands of people have been infected with a painful mosquito-borne virus in China, prompting a response not seen since COVID — including mass quarantines even though the virus is not spread by humans.

The chikungunya virus has rapidly spread to about 8,000 patients in just four weeks, mainly across China's Guangdong province to the south, with the city of Foshan hit the hardest, according to the New York Times.

But Hong Kong's first case was confirmed Monday, and the increasingly worrisome situation is stoking fears of a potential pandemic.

Infected residents are being sent to "quarantine wards" in hospitals where they're placed in beds covered by mosquito nets. They have to then remain there for a week, unless they test negative beforehand.

Nearby cities at one point also forced people entering from Foshan to quarantine themselves for 14 days but have since lifted that order.

The drastic measures show just how jittery Chinese officials are about the potential for another major health crisis, considering chikungunya is typically not deadly and not spread between humans but is transmitted by the bites of infected Aedes mosquitoes..,<<<Read More>>>...

Parallel Universe Dreams: Do Our Night Visions Reach Other Realities?

Parallel universe dreams fascinate people because they seem to show more than imagination. Many say dreams hint at the future or mirror hidden desires. Scientists study them for clues about the sleeping brain. As a result, interest in these vivid scenes keeps growing.

We dream several times each night. However, we forget most dreams within minutes. Some dreams feel shockingly real: the breeze on your face, the smell of grass, or the taste of food. Because of this lifelike quality, some wonder if we step into another reality for a moment.

Some cultures and modern thinkers suggest our minds may “visit” other worlds during sleep. In this view, the senses work inside the dream—we see color, hear voices, and feel touch. Consequently, the phrase parallel universe dreams has stuck.

The idea starts with the multiverse theory: our universe could be one of many. Each world holds a different version of events. For example, you might take a job in one timeline; in another, you stay home. Therefore, a dream where your house, job, or partner changes can feel like a glimpse into that other path....<<<Read More>>>...

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Minerals Needed for ‘Green Energy’ Could Run Out Within 10 Years

 Critical minerals needed to build ‘green energy’ technology such as solar panels, nuclear power stations, electric cars and wind turbines could run out within 10 years, researchers have warned. The Times has the story.

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology found that if the world attempted to build enough clean technology to limit climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, it would exhaust known reserves of several minerals within decades.

Reserves of tin, which is used in wind turbines and solar panels, could be exhausted by 2085, while cadmium, used in control rods of nuclear reactors, could run out by 2060. Indium, a crucial ingredient in specialist thin-film solar panels, could be used up by 2035.

The researchers said that their results showed the need to look for new reserves, particularly in under-explored regions such as Africa and central Asia, as well as scaling-up recycling, and substituting more common minerals for scarce ones.

Worries about the scarcity of cobalt, 70% of which is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo, have already led carmakers to use less of it in electric vehicle batteries. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that almost half of EV batteries manufactured this year would instead be made from lithium iron phosphate.

Another reason to think that the world may overcome these resource constraints is that in the past, known reserves have grown quickly once companies are incentivised to look for them. The researchers estimated that if known reserves of critical minerals grow as quickly as those of petroleum have since 1980, then shortages of many minerals would be avoided.

Yet with critical minerals distributed unevenly around the world, the researchers stressed the need for countries to trade openly together to prevent the clean energy transition being held back by resource constraints....<<<Read More>>>.....

GRAND MAGUS - Skybound

Unholy authoritarian alliance: OpenAI partnership with federal government will threaten civil liberties

On Wednesday, August 6, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a sweeping partnership granting federal agencies access to ChatGPT Enterprise for a nominal $1 fee—part of President Donald Trump’s bid to cement U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. 

OpenAI’s sweep into government workflows has ignited debate, with critics warning that centralized AI systems could erode privacy, enable state censorship and embolden military applications. 

For civil liberties advocates, this deal is more than a tech update: it’s a potential blueprint for authoritarian oversight under the guise of efficiency...<<<Read More>>>...

Food For Thought #732

 

They are telling you most of the British public want to rejoin the EU; it’s not true

 A recent poll by More in Common for The Sunday Times found that only 29% of British adults would still vote to leave the EU. But as Gully Foyle explains, this is not true. 

The devil is in the details. As the article announcing the poll results is behind a paywall, most have only seen The Sunday Times’ headline.

In a second blow to The Sunday Times, a larger poll was being conducted while The Times was preparing its article. And this poll showed the opposite.

The Sunday Times published an article at the weekend, regarding a poll of 2,000 British adults conducted on its behalf by More in Common. This poll showed what they reported as a turning of the tables on support for Brexit, with only 29 per cent of those included in the poll saying they would still vote to leave the EU.

The story has been picked up by numerous outlets in the intervening days, and the usual pro-EU suspects on social media have been keen to capitalise on what appears to be an important change in support in the British electorate. But as ever with catchy headlines, the devil is hidden in the details of the article, and the raw data from the polling itself.

One of the joys of modern digital news consumption in the social-media age is that narratives are easily spun by catchy headlines to those who don’t read the articles. Moreover, the ever-growing increase in paywalled content means that the vast majority of readers could not and would not read the article even if they wanted to. So, the gem that Conservative supporters and Reform UK supporters, who between them currently represent over 50 per cent of voting intention, overwhelmingly still support staying out of the EU, is lost on all but a handful of those who would be exposed to the headline. This detail is also, of course, left out by those who are peddling the narrative over social media.

Unbeknown to The Sunday Times, another larger poll was being conducted as they were preparing their article. However, this one was looking to avoid the use of the dreaded “B word” completely and instead focusing on the underlying wishes of the British electorate and where they would ultimately like power to preside....<<<Read More>>>...

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Jess Phillips condemns ‘idiot’ councils that don’t believe they have grooming gang problem

 Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips hits out at some local authorities – and denies Elon Musk’s intervention sparked a national inquiry on the issue.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has told Sky News that councils that believe they don’t have a problem with grooming gangs are “idiots” – as she denied Elon Musk influenced the decision to have a national inquiry on the subject.

The minister said: “I don’t follow Elon Musk’s advice on anything although maybe I too would like to go to Mars.

“Before anyone even knew Elon Musk’s name, I was working with the victims of these crimes.”

Mr Musk had called Ms Phillips a “rape genocide apologist” in one of a series of inflammatory posts on X in January and said she should go to jail.

Mr Musk, then a close aide of US President Donald Trump, sparked a significant political row with his comments – with the Conservative Party and Reform UK calling for a new public inquiry into grooming gangs.

At the time, Ms Phillips denied a request for a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham on the basis that it should be done at a local level.

But the government announced a national inquiry after Baroness Casey’s rapid audit on grooming gangs, which was published in June.

Asked if she thought there was, in the words of Baroness Casey, “over representation” among suspects of Asian and Pakistani men, Ms Phillips replied: “My own experience of working with many young girls in my area – yes there is a problem. There are different parts of the country where the problem will look different, organised crime has different flavours across the board....<<<Read More>>>...

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Homelessness Minister Threw Out Her Tenants – Then Increased Rent by £700 a Month

 Labour Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, amid calls for her to resign. The i Paper has the story.

The landlord MP has previously spoken out against “private renters being exploited” and said her Government will “empower people to challenge unreasonable rent increases”.

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill, which will become law next year, prohibits landlords who have ended a tenancy in order to sell a property from relisting it for higher rent until at least six months after tenants have moved out.

A source close to Ali said her tenants’ had been told their tenancy would not be renewed and were offered the chance to stay on a rolling contract before she put the house up for sale – and the property was only relisted for rent after she did not find a buyer.

A spokesperson for Ali said: “Rushanara takes her responsibilities seriously and complied with all relevant legal requirements.”

Conservative Shadow Housing Secretary, James Cleverly, called on Ali to consider her position, saying the allegations “would be an example of the most extreme hypocrisy and she should not have the job as Homelessness Minister”.

Last March, Ali rented out the four-bedroom townhouse, less than a mile from London’s Olympic Park, for £3,300 a month....<<<Read More>>>...

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URAMBI HILLS CANBERRA

 

UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world

 There was once a time (Late 1990's and earlier) when there was no internet. Life was so much better then. Now after years of being given the internet and free access to everywhere, they are now slowly taking it away from us. I say bring it on .... we don't need the control that the internet represents.

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The UK’s Online Safety Act became fully operational in July 2025. It is being used to restrict content globally.

It has caused global and significant concerns about censorship of information that is of public interest. Technology companies are implementing broad age verification and content filtering measures to comply with the law, leading to the restriction of posts on topics like the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, parliamentary debates on serious crimes and even historical art.

In the following, Public and Politico raise the alarm as to what this means for Americans. However, as well as from the USA, the impact of the UK’s new law is also being keenly watched in Australia, but for different reasons, because Australia is preparing to ban under-16s from social media...<<<Read More>>>...

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Iron, plagues and survival: The evolutionary secrets behind our genes and diseases in “Survival of the Sickest”

 The book "Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease" by Dr. Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince explores the fascinating paradox of how diseases that seem harmful today may have once been crucial for human survival.

Through a blend of genetics, evolutionary biology and medicine, the authors reveal how certain genetic conditions like hemochromatosis persist because they once offered lifesaving advantages. Take Aran Gordon, a financial executive and athlete training for the Marathon des Sables, a brutal 150-mile race across the Sahara.

Instead of experiencing peak athletic performance, he suffered fatigue, joint pain and heart irregularities. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered he had hemochromatosis – a genetic disorder causing excessive iron absorption.

Left untreated, hemochromatosis leads to liver damage, diabetes, heart failure and premature death. Essentially, the body rusts from within. Yet despite its dangers, hemochromatosis is shockingly common in people of Western European descent – with roughly one in three carrying the gene.

Why would such a harmful mutation persist? The answer lies in iron's double-edged role in survival. While essential for oxygen transport and energy, iron is also exploited by bacteria and parasites to thrive...<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #731

 

The Hypocrisy Of The Parasite Class

 No, it’s nothing to do with Ukrainian male escorts.

That’s still being kept under wraps.

No doubt a career ending revelation to be saved for the front pages should he cease to follow his masters orders.

No, this time the embarrassment comes as a result of his chief of staff, and apparent mastermind behind his rise to power, Morgan McSweeney.

You may recognise the name McSweeney as he is the man that formed the CCDH, the Center For Countering Digital Hate.

McSweeney kept his involvement with the CCDH behind closed doors, while their CEO and mouth Imran Ahmed gobbled on every microphone known to man.

I say ‘gobbled’ rather than ‘gobbles’, because he seems to have done a Lord Lucan in recent months, himself.

Maybe because the ‘Online Safety Bill’ that has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with censorship, that the CCDH fought so hard to pass into law, has now done just that.

Imran and the CCDH have achieved their objective so maybe now they get to relax in the sunshine.

You see, the introduction of the Online ‘Protect the official narrative’ Bill isn’t the only objective achieved by the Morgan McSweeney founded CCDH.

They are the organisation that coined the term ‘The Disinformation Dozen’ to smear prominent medical professionals that were telling what has now been shown to be the truth, about the Covid 19 lockdowns, mask mandates, and poisonous injections.

In 2020 they suddenly morphed into an attack dog on behalf of big pharma, and the pro-lockdown tyrants in government.

They proudly had vast numbers of people who were rightly questioning the official Covid narrative deplatformed, including my father.

They openly gloated about it too.

After my speech in Trafalgar Square went viral in 2020, who did the Times newspaper go to in an attempt to smear me for telling the truth?

The CCDH.

After Covid, they morphed into peddlers of climate hoax propaganda, and silencers of dissenters in that arena, too.

Now, I say morphed because pro big pharma, and pro climate hysteria wasn’t their original gig.

Oh no, that you’ll be shocked to hear, was more related to Israel, and more specifically targeting those that dared to speak against the genocidal middle eastern state....<<<Read More>>>...

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EU’s technocratic border control will be launched in October; it applies to all non-EU visitors

From 12 October, all visitors to all European Union countries will have their biometric data collected and stored by a centralised agency. This agency will not only collect data on our movements but will also collect data from the criminal and justice systems. In the future, it will also be collecting data from air carriers in advance on passengers.

On 30 July, the EU Commission published a press release about “the progressive start of operations of the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES)” which will be launched on 12 October. This new EES will affect all non-EU nationals who travel to 29 European countries that make up the Schengen area.

“The EES is an advanced technological system that will digitally record the entries and exits of non-EU nationals … It will capture biometric data, such as fingerprints, facial image, and other travel information, gradually replacing the current system of passport stamping,” the press release states....<<<Read More>>>...

Personal Satisfaction

 We often come into contact with the idea that our best isn’t good enough, as if this was actually possible. If you examine this notion, you will begin to see that it doesn’t make much sense. Your best is always good enough because it comes from you, and you are always good enough. You may not be able to deliver someone else’s idea of the best, but the good news is that’s not your burden. You only need to fulfill your own potential. As long as you remain true to that calling and always do your best to fulfill your purpose, you don’t need to expect anything more from yourself.

It’s easy to get tangled up with the idea of trying to be the best — the best parent, the best employee, the best child, or best friend. If we try to be the best, we run the risk of short-circuiting our originality because we are striving to fit into someone else’s vision of success. In addition, if everyone is striving for the same outcome, we lose out on creativity, diversity, and visionary alternatives to the way things are done. On another note, there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve, but examining where this feeling comes from is important because wanting to be better than others is our ego coming into play.

Letting go of the tendency to hold ourselves up to other people’s standards, and letting go of the belief that we need to compete and win, doesn’t mean we don’t believe in doing the best job we can. We always strive to do our best because when we do, we create a life free of regret, knowing we have performed to the best of our ability. This allows us to feel great personal satisfaction in all of our efforts, regardless of how others perceive the outcome. (Daily OM)

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The Government Has No Idea Who is in Britain

 Thousands of migrants who came here legally on work or student visas overstay and purposefully slip into illegality. The state’s ability to track them seems non-existent. They could be anywhere, doing anything – and Whitehall wouldn’t know.

Just a month ago, the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee found the Home Office had accidentally opened Britain’s doors to record levels of migration. Officials “made changes to the Skilled Worker visa route without a full assessment of the risks or potential impacts, including the risks of non-compliance with visa rules and exploitation of migrant workers.”

Those “risks of non-compliance” are no longer hypothetical – they are happening. The Committee’s report urged civil servants to do more to monitor compliance when visas expire.

Shocking as this is, it’s hardly surprising. The British state has only the vaguest idea of how many people live in the UK – legally or otherwise. The evidence is everywhere. There are 63.8 million patients registered with GP practices in England, but according to the ONS the entire population is 58.6 million. During Covid, some local health areas even managed the mathematically miraculous feat of vaccinating more than 100% of their population.

We saw the same blind spot during Brexit: the campaign group ‘the3million’ was so named because it was thought there were three million EU citizens in Britain. The real number? Closer to six million....<<<Read More>>>...

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Food for Thought #730

 

Muslim Rape Gangs: The most sustained and complete race-based crime in British history

 The Muslim rape gangs have been the most sustained and complete race-based crime in British history.

The mass rape of children by “grooming gangs” has been ongoing for decades, with tens of thousands of victims. Despite reports and inquiries, no significant action has been taken against those responsible.

Instead, it has been met with denial, deflection and trivialisation. There have been no high-profile resignations or sackings of police chiefs, council officials or Members of Parliament (“MPs”). Worse still, the British establishment has enabled and apologised for Pakistani Muslim rapists.

It’s estimated that 1 in 11 Pakistani descent men in the UK have taken part in child rapes, with recorded rapes increasing tenfold in the last 20 years. Yet, the government is increasingly censoring discussion of the issue, with laws like the Online Harms Act and Crime and Policing Act allowing for imprisonment of those who speak out about the mass rapes, such as Tommy Robinson....<<<Read More>>...

Big Media wants the world to be on HIGH ALERT for a new highly pathogenic avian influenza spreading in African birds in Cape Town

 More from the BS media pantomime ... designed to fool and scare the human sheeples in the masses. The easily fooled and easily lead ones who believe everything about fake viruses and other scams.

Birds DON'T get influenza!

Its all a lie and a huge scam to grab freedoms and generate more genocide tools ....

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 Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a bird with avian influenza over Cape Town. Don’t touch it. Don’t even look at it, or you might spread the next plandemic of gain-of-function bird flu. Yes, that’s right, it’s happening now in South Africa.

South African authorities have confirmed a new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu, in the Western Cape province. The virus, which primarily affects birds, has caused significant mortalities among wild species such as Great White Pelicans near Malmesbury and Hartlaub’s Gulls in Cape Town. These are the first major wild bird deaths linked to HPAI in the region since 2022 and the first confirmed cases since April 2024...<<<Read More>>>....

****SPECIAL FEATURE**** - Thought for the Month

 

Kingdom Come - Get It On

The Sinister Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

 In 2023 Tony Blair and William Hague co-signed a report called A New National Purpose in which they reasoned: ‘With science and technology as our new national purpose, we can innovate rather than stagnate in the face of increasing technological change. This purpose must rise above political differences to achieve a new cross-party consensus that can survive any change of government.’

Now, just over a year into a Starmer-led administration, it is striking how many of Labour’s Bills are steroid-enhanced replicas of those proposed by previous Tory governments. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Bridget Phillipson’s inappropriately named Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. 

Alongside some measures similar to Boris Johnson’s 2022 Schools Bill, its pernicious Clause 4 enables much wider information-sharing through ‘consistent identifiers’ (CI) for every child. These will be assigned to children from birth, and the Department for Education (DfE) is presently trialling the use of their NHS number for this purpose.

Anyone who cares about children’s rights and the wise use and protection of personal data should be highly dubious of the kind of ‘wellbeing’ that this Bill looks set to advance....<<<Read More>>>...

The Muslim Brotherhood: Between anti-colonialism and imperial utility

 The Muslim Brotherhood began as a moral movement morphed into a political machine — then, through the writings of Qutb, into an ideological precursor to jihadist extremism.

In 1928, in the colonial garrison town of Ismailia, Egypt, a modest schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna planted the seed of a movement that would shape the future of political Islam across the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood began as a religious and charitable society, preaching moral reform and Islamic revival. But it quickly evolved into something far more ambitious: a political project with transnational reach and ideological rigidity.

Al-Banna's vision was clear from the beginning. Islam, he declared, was not just a religion but a "faith, a worship, a nation, and a nationality; a religion and a state." That fusion of mosque and state — recasting Islam as the complete and exclusive foundation for political and legal life — was the cornerstone of the Brotherhood's ideology. It was framed as a righteous alternative to what al-Banna saw as the corrosive Western influence infecting Egypt: secularism, materialism, and cultural decay.

But here's where the story gets more complicated and politically useful for its critics....<<<Read More>>>...

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EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging

 The EU is reviving plans for mass surveillance by pushing to scan every private message before it’s sent – potentially ending encrypted messaging as we know it. Reclaim The Net has the story.

For over three years, talks have stalled over whether providers should be forced to scan every user’s messages for possible illegal material and forward anything suspicious to law enforcement.

The European Commission is still pushing for a universal scanning requirement.

In contrast, the European Parliament insists any checks should apply only to unencrypted messages from people already under suspicion. Attempts to strike a deal have repeatedly fallen apart, with Poland the latest presidency to walk away without an agreement.

July brought a change in leadership of the Council of the EU, with Denmark stepping in and putting chat scanning back at the top of the legislative pile. Copenhagen wants this handled as a priority and wasted no time tabling a new draft on its very first day in charge.

Leaked records from a closed door July meeting show the Danish text closely tracks earlier proposals from Belgium and Hungary, with no concessions for encrypted conversations. A softer version from Poland, which would have made scanning voluntary and left encrypted chats alone, has been dropped entirely. …

Italy, Spain and Hungary have been in favour of mandatory chat scanning from the start. France could tip the balance since blocking the plan requires four countries representing at least 35% of the EU’s population. Paris has moved from tentative support to saying it could “basically support the proposal.” …

Denmark has already circulated a lightly revised second draft. The next round of Council negotiations is set for September 12th, with advocates hoping for final adoption by October 14th.....<<<Read More>>>...

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Food for Thought #729

 

Driving Out The Poor: Dirty Truth Behind UK Emissions Zones

 Emission zones were introduced to city centres around the UK, sold as vital public health measures, to clean the air, save lives, and make polluters pay. 

Across the various schemes, over £1 billion has now been made in fines and fees since 2019, with London’s ULEZ generating over £250 million in a single year. 

With compliance rates now exceeding 96% in most areas, the air quality improvements are stagnating – or, in some cases, totally non-existent – but the cameras, charges, and penalties continue. 

Are they still reducing pollution, or have they evolved into something else entirely? ...<<<Read More>>>...

The new gulag: Mental health detentions and the criminalization of dissent

First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals experiencing mental health crises.

Days later, a gunman allegedly suffering from a mental illness opens fire in New York City, killing four before turning the gun on himself.

Coming on the heels of Trump’s executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” the shooting has all the makings of a modern-day Reichstag fire: a tragedy weaponized to justify allowing the government use mental illness as a pretext for locking more people up without due process.

An Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, Trump’s executive order suggests that jailing the homeless, rather than providing them with affordable housing, is the “compassionate” solution to homelessness.

According to USA Today, social workers, medical experts and mental health service providers say the president’s approach “will likely worsen homelessness across the country, particularly because Trump’s order contains no new funding for mental health or drug treatment. Additionally, they say the president appears to misunderstand the fundamental driver of homelessness: People can’t afford housing.”

And then comes the kicker: Trump wants to see more use of civil commitments (forced detentions) for anyone who is perceived as posing a risk “to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.”

Translation: the government wants to use homelessness as a pretext for indefinitely locking up anyone who might pose a threat to its chokehold on police state power....<<<Read More>>>...

Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

Small Steps to Big Change

 When we decide that it’s time for big changes in our lives, it is wise to ease into them by starting small. Small changes allow us to grow into a new habit and make it a permanent part of our lives. Sudden changes may cause a sense of failure that makes it difficult to continue, and then, we are more likely to revert to our old ways. If we have gone that route and find ourselves contemplating the choice to start over again, we can decide to take it slowly this time and move forward.

Sometimes, the goals we set for ourselves are merely indicators of the need for change and are useful in getting us to move in the right direction. But we may find that the change doesn’t actually suit us or make us feel the way we had hoped. By embarking on the path slowly, we have the chance to look around and consider other options as we learn and grow. We have time to examine the underlying values of the desire for change and find ways to manifest those feelings, whether it looks exactly like our initial goal or not. Taking small steps forward gives us time to adjust and find secure footing on our new path.

Life doesn’t always give us the opportunity to anticipate or prepare for a big change, and at times, we may find ourselves overwhelmed by what is in front of us. By choosing to work on one thing at a time, we focus our attention on something manageable, and eventually, we will look up to see that we have accomplished quite a bit. Forcing change is, in essence, a sign that we do not trust the universe’s wisdom. Instead, we can listen to our inner guidance and make changes at a pace that is right for us, ensuring that we do so in alignment with the rhythm of the universe. (Daily OM)

Labour Targets Anti-Migrant Protesters With Terrorist Tracking Software

 A shadowy ‘disinformation’ unit in Whitehall used tools created to hunt for jihadists to find critics of asylum hotels. The Telegraph has more.

The secretive team was this week revealed to have flagged ‘concerning’ narratives about migrants to tech platforms during the Southport riots.

The disclosure prompted the Trump administration and US congressmen to warn of a free speech crackdown in Britain.

The Telegraph can now reveal that some of the tools used by the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) were originally developed to hunt terrorists.

In 2017, ministers commissioned Faculty, an AI firm, to help search for recruitment videos posted by Isil.

At the time, use of the technology was strictly limited to stopping British social media users from encountering grisly beheading videos and calls to commit acts of terrorism.

The firm developed tools that could automatically spot Islamic State content spreading online, so it could be flagged to tech companies by the Government....<<<Read More>>>...

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Migrant ‘Tried To Kidnap a Little Girl, 10,’ While Living in 3-Star Taxpayer-Funded Asylum Hotel in Leafy Suburb

 A Sudanese migrant housed in a taxpayer-funded Wilmslow hotel, has been charged with attempting to kidnap a 10 year-old girl in Stockport. The Sun has the story.

The Sudanese man appeared in court accused of attempting to take the girl of ten while she was with her father.

Edris Abdelrazig, 30, in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure away the girl on July 13th.

Last night, the Government called the charge “deeply concerning”.

He had been living in a three-star, £100-a-night hotel in leafy Manchester suburb Wilmslow.

Abdelrazig appeared before JPs on July 15th.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court on August 26th.

It comes after claims of a cover-up because police told councillors in Nuneaton, Warks, to avoid disclosing that two suspects in the rape of a 12 year-old girl were asylum seekers....<<<Read More>>>...

BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" from 'The End'

Klaus Schwab is left with nothing, and he won’t be happy

 Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, has been exposed by his own board for widespread misconduct and corruption, George Christensen writes.

A Swiss-led internal investigation uncovered luxury expenses, misuse of funds and political manipulation of WEF reports. Whistle-blower revelations also detail workplace abuse, sexual misconduct and hypocritical elite excess at Davos.

Schwab’s planned succession collapsed, and he was forced to resign amid coordinated leaks and media fallout.

The WEF’s collapse signals the end of a corrupt, elitist system masked as global progressivism. Governments must cut all ties.

He told the world we would own nothing and be happy.

Now he has nothing, and you can bet your last dollar he isn’t happy.

Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) and the smug, self-declared steward of the global elite, has been exposed. Not by some fringe outfit or anonymous conspiracy theorist, but by his own people, his board, his inner circle, his trusted allies.

Let that sink in: the WEF has turned on its founder. Klaus Schwab’s downfall is so complete, so total and so grotesque in its detail that it reads like satire. But it’s all real....<<<Read More>>>....

Food for Thought #728

 

Australian Senate rejects age verification for search engine users in surprise bipartisan push

 An urgent motion to block the rollout of mandatory age verification for search engine users has passed Australia's Senate with overwhelming cross-party support.

The motion, spearheaded by United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet, stems from a recommendation by the federal eSafety Commissioner, who in early July urged the government to consider age verification requirements for users signed into search engines like Google and Bing. Verification methods under discussion included ID checks, biometric scanning, credit card authentication, parental vouching, AI-powered estimations or third-party verification services, raising immediate red flags for privacy advocates.

In a speech to the Senate on July 29, Babet acknowledged the importance of child safety but warned that the proposed measures posed a fundamental threat to Australians' civil liberties.

"Let me say from the outset that protecting children online is a moral imperative," he said. "Measures like safe-search filters for minors, better parental controls and the restriction of harmful content are of course welcome, but let's not kid ourselves – this is not about protecting children, it is about building a surveillance infrastructure under the cover of safety."...<<<Read More>>>....

OZZY OSBOURNE - "Mr. Tinkertrain"

Near-Death Experience: The Woman Saw the Crowd in the Huge Stadium

 On a September night in 2016, Leni suffered from a severe migraine. She tossed and turned in bed and tried to decide whether to take another painkiller pill or still endure the pain.

The woman rolled over on her other side in an attempt to sleep and was struck by the bright light that suddenly burst into the bedroom.

At first Leni thought it was the light of a passing car and looked at the curtains, but they were tightly curtained. In the golden light, Leni saw a tunnel that led into a golden room, invisible from this side. The energy emanating from the tunnel was enveloping in love and kindness.

“I was lying in bed in a good deal of pain from the migraine. I was trying to decide whether to take more aspirin or let my body heal it. I rolled over to try to sleep and light was cast into my bedroom...<<<Read More>>>...

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Ditching Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Madness Could Save Every Family £1,000 a Year

In the Mail, Reform UK’s Richard Tice argues that scrapping Labour’s “Net Stupid Zero” agenda could save families £1,000 a year. Here’s an excerpt:

This week, Ed Miliband opens his latest renewable energy auction, which allows green developers to bid for lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts.

The eco lobby says the auction, officially titled Allocation Round 7 (AR7), will be the centrepiece of Labour’s plan to decarbonise the grid by 2030, and that this seventh round must be the biggest yet to “keep the dream alive”.

But it’s a dream Britain cannot afford. Inflation is rising. Food prices are once again on the up. And families across the country are cutting back – not just on holidays or takeaways, but on essentials. …

And one of the biggest contributory factors to this crisis is an issue that almost no one in Westminster wants to talk about: Net Zero and the spiralling cost of Britain’s green energy agenda.

Expensive energy is the grenade exploding Britain’s economic model. It is not just about switching on the lights and heating homes.

It powers industry, transports goods and underpins every job and price tag. When energy becomes expensive and unreliable, everything else does too. …

For nearly two decades, clueless politicians from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have clung to a fantasy: that we could eliminate all hydrocarbon use, build a national grid dominated by wind and solar power and suffer no consequences.

The result? At a time of rising demand we are reliant on an unreliable energy supply and lumbered with higher bills. Three-quarters of the rise in electricity bills over the past decade can be attributed to green energy policies and the multi-billion-pound subsidies paid to renewable investors, according to Net Zero Watch. …<<<Read More>>>...

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Flashback: Chemtrails caused the Lynmouth Flood Disaster in 1952

 In 1952, the worst floods the UK had seen in 300 years occurred in Lynmouth, Devon. It was officially termed “the hand of God.” But compelling evidence points to the cause of the disaster being the hand of man; clandestine cloud seeding (chemtrail) experiments.

“Many countries now use the technology, which has considerably improved during the past 50 years,” a 2001 article said.

On August 15, 1952, one of the worst flash floods ever to have occurred in Britain swept through the Devon village of Lynmouth. Thirty five people died as a torrent of 90m tons of water and thousands of tons of rock poured off saturated Exmoor and into the village destroying homes, bridges, shops and hotels.

The disaster was officially termed “the hand of God” but new evidence from previously classified government files suggests that a team of international scientists working with the RAF was experimenting with artificial rainmaking in southern Britain in the same week and could possibly be implicated.

Squadron Leader Len Otley, who was working on what was known as Operation Cumulus, has told the BBC that they jokingly referred to the rainmaking exercise as Operation Witch Doctor.

His navigator, Group Captain John Hart, remembers the success of these early experiments: “We flew straight through the top of the cloud, poured dry ice down into the cloud. We flew down to see if any rain came out of the cloud. And it did about 30 minutes later, and we all cheered.”

The meteorological office has in the past denied there were any rainmaking experiments conducted before 1955, but a BBC Radio 4 history investigation [see at the end of the article], to be broadcast tonight, has unearthed documents recently released at the public record office showing that they were going on from 1949 to 1955. RAF logbooks and personnel corroborate the evidence.

Until now, the Ministry of Defence has categorically denied knowledge of any cloud-seeding experiments taking place in the UK during early August 1952. But documents suggest that Operation Cumulus was going on between August 4 and August 15 1952. The scientists were based at Cranfield school of aeronautics and worked in collaboration with the RAF and the MoD’s meteorological research flight based at Farnborough. The chemicals were provided by ICI in Billingham....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #727

 

Sacramento utility provider under fire for using SMART METERS as surveillance tools

 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), accusing the public utility of conducting an unconstitutional mass surveillance program that has targeted tens of thousands of households over the past decade.

The lawsuit, which seeks to dismantle this invasive practice, highlights how SMUD's "smart meters" have been covertly transformed into tools of surveillance. This illegal surveillance disproportionately affected Asian American communities and violated the privacy rights of countless residents.

For over 10 years, SMUD has been sifting through the energy usage data of its 650,000 customers, flagging over 33,000 households as "suspicious" based on their electricity consumption. These tips, often generated without individualized suspicion or judicial oversight, have been routinely passed on to local law enforcement agencies.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), accusing the public utility of conducting an unconstitutional mass surveillance program that has targeted tens of thousands of households over the past decade.

The lawsuit, which seeks to dismantle this invasive practice, highlights how SMUD's "smart meters" have been covertly transformed into tools of surveillance. This illegal surveillance disproportionately affected Asian American communities and violated the privacy rights of countless residents.

For over 10 years, SMUD has been sifting through the energy usage data of its 650,000 customers, flagging over 33,000 households as "suspicious" based on their electricity consumption. These tips, often generated without individualized suspicion or judicial oversight, have been routinely passed on to local law enforcement agencies.

The EFF's legal filing reveals that SMUD analysts have sent detailed reports – including names, addresses and usage histories – to police departments. This effectively turns the utility into an arm of law enforcement....<<<Read More>>>....

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