As a Brit I find this all a bit worrying. I cannot remember anything like this ever happening before.
We had an unpopular Prime Minister so the solution is to find someone who is not even a Member of Parliament, get someone to step down in a safe seat for that Party. Get their new candidate elected then promote him to Prime Minster.
They are admitting that none of the existing 400 or so Labour MPs were suitable! That already speaks volumes. Then they fast track the chosen one to the top position.
Looks organised to me, but by whom?
Caveat: I am not qualified to give advice. I know that all solutions will depend upon your personal circumstances and medications, however, I can tell you what works for me. I am on Levothyroxine, by the way, but was severely overweight in spite of that.
What worked for me was ignoring calorie counting. The things you need to count are carbs. So, I headed off in the general direction of Keto diets without going all the way. Surplus carbs get converted into fat because your body does not know when it will be fed again and it does not want to waste anything. That fat can be converted back to energy and that is how you lose weight.
Basically, imagine you are living in the stone age or, even better, you are a wild animal! So, no snacks, probably not three meals a day, some days no food at all! Most food will be stuff you caught or picked so meat and berries will be popular.
Breakfast cereals have surprising amounts of carbohydrates. Adding sugar makes it even worse.
Carbs are basically sugar so beware if you are diabetic. More advice needed.
I prefer positive advice to negative so more protein is the way to go - while minimising carbs. Potatoes, rice, pasta and bread are all carbs to be minmised. Sad, but true! Do not eat too late in the evening.
There are a ton of videos on YouTube. Many contradict each other! So your best Q Analysis techniques will need to be deployed to find your way through.
I have lost 56 lbs so it is working out for me.
I had similar thoughts. If one country pays for medical charges out of disposable income while another gets healthcare "free" because it is paid for from taxes then that will skew the numbers.
In a Tucker Carlson interview with Richard Werner, Werner described how inflation worked. First, he said that it was not just about the central banks printing money because local banks also "print money".
If you go to your local bank to get a loan then that bank just invents that money and assigns it to your account.
Inflation is caused because of what the loan is for. If the banks get together and permit only home loans then house price inflation results. When the housing market crashes the banks can then step in and buy cheap property. That is inflationary.
Alternatively, if money is lent for entrepreneurial purposes, that is, to people who want to create something new, then that same loan is not inflationary.
Basically, if more money is chasing the same goods then inflation happens but if something new is created then it doesn't.
Obama could have saved himself some money by sending the cash straight to Arkansas!
The trouble with visiting sites like this one is that it makes you very suspicious!
Perhaps we are about to get some new laws forcing cars to keep track of their drivers, passengers, places visited etc. Plus, the new cars will all have a remote-control back-door so that law enforcement can control your every move.
Speed limits will automatically be obeyed based on GPS. Parking violations will be reported within 20 seconds with Digital IDs enabling fines to be extracted at the same time.
It will be sold as a way to protect us from car-jackings, theft and dangerous high-speed chases.
So the plan is to make sure that the chances of people reverting to an older car are minimised?
Perhaps not direct lying but rather lying by omission.
A group of people who want to rule the planet could be aligning themselves with a particular religion so that they have a refuge. A place to hide if ever they get close to being caught. In that way, they would be loyal to themselves but be quite prepared to use the others of that religion in any way they please.
You do not need to be sympathetic to that religion; you just need to use it as a shield when it suits. Then you can work at making that religion a constant victim and work towards, first, establishing banks in protected areas (e.g. Federal Reserve Bank of England, Bank of International Settlement and the Vatican Bank) and second, gradually working your way up to having your own country as a bolt-hole so you will always have somewhere to go with no extradition treaty.
There are other circumstances as well. Imagine you spot that lending money for interest is an excellent way of making money from nothing. If Islam now and Christianity at one time banned that option, which they did, then anyone wanting to exploit the usury option would need to be a different religion. Maybe they migrated there so that their religion would permit it?
Note: This is pure rationalisation. I have no evidence that this was the plan.
I think it is closer to 100 tons. A big 747 can take about 180 tons. The smaller 747s about 120 tons.
My guess is that the US is looking at the chips produced by China and asking how they could ever do that but they have not seen any actual evidence of any advanced chip-making tools in China.
The Chinese have innovated. According to this video from Anastasi in Tech the Chinese have found a way to use low resolution imaging twice with a slight offset rather than use high resolution imaging.
So it looks as if they have come up with something on their own. It was only a matter of time.
Interestingly, the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines - the EUV systems that are the only tools on Earth capable of printing the most advanced semiconductor patterns - are only available from a company in The Netherlands, ASML. All advanced chips use one of their machines whether it comes from Apple, Nvidia, AMD or anyone else.
I can't help but be concerned about this.
If someone with bad intent wanted to add some nefarious items of a dangerous nature to AF1, would it be easier to infiltrate Boeing or some Qatari airfield?
How could a gift like this be thoroughly checked for any unauthorised additions?
Yes and no.
I think that while the Five Eyes countries are trying to grab control it is not for themselves but for their masters - the people that currently rule all those countries. They are actually weakening the individual countries so that an over-arching government will look like a good idea.
The UK and the EU is a case in point. The UK is being held back while their time in the EU is being eulogised. The UK needs to get back into the fold, according to them.
The next step is to repeat the process with all the Five Eyes countries so they are subject to one set of laws and one set of rulers. This is the next step of the Globalisation project that has been underway since at least the creation of the League of Nations in 1920 and, most likely, even earlier.
I am no financial expert, as my shortly become apparent(!), but the Rothschilds may well not be quadrillionaires. The WEF suggested that we should own nothing and be happy. They may actually have been right!
If you are rich, you can influence governments. You can get those governments to allow the creation of things like trust funds. Then you can transfer your wealth into any number of such funds so, technically, you no longer own anything. The trick is to keep control of those trusts.
They will look after your property, pay you a salary for being in charge, avoid death duties and, for all intents and purposes, you still have total control over all the assets.
It is a have your cake and eat it system.
Phew, that's a relief. I thought it really meant something!
(Do I need the <sarc> tag?)
This is their reasoning as supplied by Brave AI:
Anthropologists argue that the idea of a pure barter economy preceding money is a historical myth with no empirical evidence in human history. Research into modern and historical small-scale societies shows that exchange systems were typically based on gift economies, redistribution, or credit, rather than spot-trading.
Origin of the Myth: The narrative was popularized by classical economists like Adam Smith as a theoretical model to explain the efficiency of money, not as a documented historical reality.
Actual Pre-Monetary Systems: Communities relied on socially embedded reciprocity (gifting) or institutional redistribution (e.g., temples or palaces collecting and distributing resources).
When Barter Occurred: Anthropologists observe that barter typically appears only in societies with existing monetary systems but scarce currency, or between strangers and enemies who do not share social ties.
Consensus: Experts like Caroline Humphrey and David Graeber note that no ethnography has ever described a "pure" barter economy from which money emerged; instead, money likely originated as a unit of account for taxation and state administration
I gather that anthropologists do not believe that barter necessarily preceded money. It is now seen as more of a rationalisation that has come from hindsight.
Take the example in the post about farmers and blacksmiths. It ignores how a farmer could have acquired his farm and seeds while it is also not explained how the blacksmith shop was founded.
I think that before there was money, people would just have helped each other out because that was the only way they could get along. They would all go hunting together to catch the next meal. For example, it would not have been down to one person to hunt who then had an expectation of swapping his catch for something he wanted later on.
John Bourscheid: I really don’t understand true greed.
I think we can safely add envy and business to the list of things that Bourscheid does not understand! I am sure many believe that someone worth a lot of money has it all in a box under the bed.
In reality, that money will be mainly tied up in business and those businesses will be providing jobs for thousands and will already be improving their lives as a result.
In a way, I do sympathise with Karl Marx when he says the workers should own the means of production. Where we differ is that he seemed to think that meant that the business owners should just give it away or have it confiscated. My preferred approach would be to have anyone who wanted a share to either purchase it from the owner or create their own business.
This IPO gave workers the opportunity to do just that.
OK, but there are different ways of doing things with money. For instance, there might be a $trillion in a trust fund or similar which you control. The money would not technically be yours but you could spend it pretty much how you liked.
So, you would not be in the list of richest people but you could still have greater spending power than someone who was.
Ukraine is currently hitting bridges in and around Crimea. So, war crimes it is!
I hope this is permitted. I put many of the things I spotted into a website so I would always be able to find it quickly and point anyone else to it:
I would run it for $450,000 pa, if that helps?
And in 1922 it became part of the USSR. Its current existence as a sovereign country really only started in 1989 when the USSR dissolved.
Perhaps the plan is to make it look as if the election was rigged to get a Republican elected? What could they do then: allow Hilton to win or call for an investigation?
That sounds like a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation.
The numbers are crucial. I don't think the UK's Net Zero minister even has a calculator!
Typical cloud storage data centres can consume 100 MW to 200 MW but one of the proposed AI data centres is planned to consume a massive 5GW! That is enough for a couple of million homes.
That energy will be converted mainly into heat which will need to be removed if things are not to melt so we are talking about power station sized cooling systems. A large coal-fired power station in the UK would have produced about 2 GW, for comparison.
Then again, the water is not actually "consumed". It comes out as water, or steam, so it is still in circulation.
I am up to Series 4 Episode 22. We now have ballot fraud with unsealed ballot boxes. It is just like real life!
This link might not work outside the UK and it will require a login: https://www.channel5.com/show/the-good-wife/season-4/what-s-in-the-box
Purely coincidentally, the IPCC has now concluded that it most scary predictions are implausible.
And, Bill Gates is making a pivot. He says that the projected temperature increases are not the best way to view the problem and that tech is already making improvements in that regard.
In my role as cynic, my guess that the Globalists really want AI data centres and do not want them to be delayed by any supposed global warming issues, I suspect that the above changes in thinking may be connected.