2026-04-19

... pushing his books!

Now I'm not here to provide free advertising either for authors or for other commercial outfits no matter how good their products...  but I am here to spread the word about modern "conspiracy theories", and everybody should have the opportunity to read Mark's extraordinary books.

So I'm deliberately breaking my own rule here by featuring his latest substack, precisely because I haven't seen any comparable content from other authors (that doesn't mean such doesn't exist, it just means that I have not seen it).

So for those specifically who are new to Mark Playne or who have not read all his books, plough on in!

2026-04-17

Yes, there's somehow never any shortage of globalist groups who want to tell us all how it's going to be. It's a bit like whack-a-mole - you stomp on one and another pops up with more of the same BS. It's never-ending.

Still, this one features our expansive central banker Augustin Carstens to fill our screens for a minute to explain CBDCs... again.

You know you can't wait...

2026-04-12

There are some YT channels that I view with trepidation - they look good but their (apparent or suspected) use of AI techniques cannot help but cast doubt on the validity of their information.

This is one such - but the basic event reported does seem to be corroborated - and the knock-on might be significant.

However, the idea that a Russian strike on Israel would constitute a NATO Article 5 trigger that would obligate NATO into a war with Russia seems far-fetched - neither Israel nor Iran is a NATO member, so unless a Russian action would target US forces directly, this would seem to be plainly wrong. Even if US or NATO forces were somehow involved within Israel:
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2026-03-30

Well, these days there's only so much you can make an image do and still appear convincing. Even in these times of seemingly unlimited AI, it's still possible to discern contradictions and subtle 'tells' that indicate that the image may not be as it appears. The "Trump" for instance is so wildly erratic that he does appear unreal to many - but there again, perhaps it's a deliberate act to keep his enemies guessing as to his true intentions. Who's to

2026-03-26

Remember the Younger Dryas? Me neither.

But maybe in Göbekli Tepe Grok has found some people who did, because they were eye-witnesses...and they recorded what they knew so that we would know too.  Then they buried the knowledge where we might find it....

If only they had had YouTube in those days, maybe it wouldn't have taken them so long. But then we might never have found it.

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2026-03-23

Much like last week, Ben brings up up to date as  best he can in a situation where the truth is too shocking to the main protagonists to be made properly available.

Whilst there are reports in the mainstream press about the Iran war, reading between the lines is still a difficult and hugely problematic exercise - but what do we expect in wartime? We live within a vast psychological battleground where probably nothing major is as it seems.

Stay serene... (modest subscription required for full access)

2026-03-06

The story of the last century (and indeed longer) has been of the ever-onward march of those who would rule the world, and who will stoop to any depths to achieve their aims.

Deceit? What's a little white lie when it advances the cause? Besides, it's necessary if we want to persuade the proletariat that they are doing the right thing for the greater good - our good.

War? No problem - bring in the profits! No need to concern ourselves with the ensuing human misery, it will be forgotten soon enough.

Democracy? Useful for keeping the unsuspecting masses in check, diverted, and too busy with their own lives to worry about ours. Besides, politics (like football) keeps them entertained, and even lets them think that they can control us by voting harder! 

Law and Justice? Essential for keeping the lid on our own illegal but very entertaining activities - we don't want just anybody with a conscience investigating

2026-02-13

Another article on AI, another "feature" identified.

Now it is true that not all AI engines (or LLMs: Large Language Models) are necessarily the same in all regards, so one must be careful not to generalise from the particular, but this is a rather concerning particular which rather undermines one's trust in such models.

They do share the need to be trained on as wide a breadth of input as may be obtained, but that very feature mitigates against the possibility of verifying that all the training material used is "true" and "correct" - it's falrly obvious that a lot of invalid material is likely to slip through any "truth filter", if only because there is probably no reliable way to construct such a "truth filter", so commercial ambition will likely result in a "bung it all in" mentality.

John Droz joins the fray to explore AI's

2026-02-11

If we care about the way that Justice (in its widest sense) is administered in this country, and maybe if we have an academic approach to such matters, then I guess we should.

If our academic abilities are dodgy but out approach logical, then we probably should.

If our logic is all over the place and we still have implicit faith in our authorities, then I would steer well clear.

That said, Martin Geddes has come up with an analytical approach (the "Delta-Sigma framework") to assess legalistic encounters with our authorities, that clarifies how our approach may be usefully constructed to illuminate the responses provided by authorities to our legitimate queries.

The previously unachievable (due to the huge investment of time and research required) being now achievable by anybody with a practical working knowledge of AI and the tenacity and logical mind necessary to work through the

2026-01-30

SUDS - Sudden Unexplained Death Syndrome - explained?

Mark Playne aided by his AI draws an expected link between cocaine usage and SUDS (or SADS as 'our' NHS may prefer to label it).

Completely unexplained - at the individual level - but well explained at the aggregate level.

So why have numbers of footballers and other athletes been dropping dead in public since 2021?

What do you think?

2026-01-21

"Health" infrastructure, CBDCs, "Carbon Tracking", programmable money, social credit score, "we will own nothing and be relieved of having to take responsibility for all that nasty personal property because everything will belong to the Control Central, including us and anything that we produce including our children (if we are permitted any).

In the smart city, if the door doesn't open or the food doesn't get delivered by drone, then the door doesn't open and the food doesn't get delivered.

Could it be done? How could anybody track our personal carbon usage? How could this possibly work?

It doesn't in practice matter. 

“Digital identity determines what products, services and information we can access — or, conversely, what is closed off to us”

If computer says "no", then right or wrong it will make no difference, it will still be "no". The door will

2026-01-18

Elon Musk. Who else?

A lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft that makes the Trump lawsuit against the BBC look trivial.

"In Musk’s telling, OpenAI used the nonprofit identity to get off the ground, then pivoted toward for-profit structures and a deep partnership with Microsoft that fundamentally changed who the company served"

Is the ownership of another AI product really that important? If it was launched by public funding of a proposed "non-profit" project, then how come it's now a commercial product? Does that not amount to fraud?

I suppose it may depend upon how we define the term "non-profit"... 

And we could be about to find out.

2026-01-18

Mark Playne has been interrogating his AI (ChatGPT? He doesn't specify) again. 

This time on the basis of the US, UK and global statistics available that indicate rates of myocarditis occurrence in large (and some small but not statistically significant) populations over pre and post pandemic years.

It's a deep dive and he's clearly picking his questions with care - but how else could this be done? AI is a logical inference machine, not (yet?) a fount of critical thinking. It cannot decide the questions, only the responses.

Proof positive it is not, but it is a red flag indicating the need for further investigation. MHRA JCVI UKHSA are you listening?

See what you think...

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2026-01-18

Schwab gone, Trump in, record attendance of the Great and the (not so) Good!

What could possibly go wrong?

2026-01-13

Once again on the subject of AI, and what differentiates AI from humanity, Martin Geddes guides us through the intricacies of humanity's use of artificial intelligence.

This may sound arcane, but it's crucial to understand its limits and to recognise when those limits are overstepped, otherwise we risk AI becoming a control mechanism for the unsuspecting - merely another branch of the brainwashing mass media. There are plenty who would want that.

"... when conscience becomes unsayable, society loses its most important safeguard"

What AI must not decide.

2026-01-13

In a rather startling and really rather comical conclusion about the state of AI (as commonly encountered today), Martin Geddes has analysed the responses to his probing questions and concluded that... the AI (as today encountered) is perhaps the ultimate automated 'normie'.

Well, I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise.

We might thus superficially conclude that since most of us are surrounded by normies every day, the AI is in effect redundant as there is still no shortage of human normies available to consult, but that is to ignore the oft-demonstrated truth that whereas the human normie may not hesitate to tell us to keep our stupid outrageous theories to ourselves and stop bothering them, the AI is invariably polite, so resorts to subterfuge unless backed reluctantly into a corner by logical reasoning.

Both Martin and Mark Playne ("

2026-01-07

A thoughtful piece in the Daily Sceptic today (about football, which is surely one of the most enduring artificialities of our age, in many ways leading all the others except radio and TV, which have acted as the enablers) points up the sad fact.

We are not the humanity we once were.

We once needed to interact with our neighbours in order to live. We were localised on a day to day basis and went to market once a week to trade our produce with the produce of others, so that our lives could be comfortable and our interests in our neighbours' and neighbourhood's well-being,  prospects, and hopefully scandalous behaviour could be indulged. We could play tennis, compete with neighbouring settlements at football or cricket, and exchange gossip afterwards in the pub about what our neighbours had been up to.

Meanwhile our "leaders" in London would have to employ spies and await their despatches if the wanted to know what was really going on elsewhere. An

2026-01-05

There are various ways to view the action of the United States (if such still exists) in capturing the President of Venezuela.

If indeed such a feat took place. With the capabilities of AI these days, any news event can be simulated...  although most would assume that on the balance of probability it would be very difficult to get away with such a move, since somebody might well produce the real Nicolas Maduro some place else...

But then again we know that the media is notoriously selective about what they like to report.

Benjamin Fulford has made it his business to unearth what is really going on underneath all the news reports (fake and genuine) for many years, so he is worth listening to, even if we can't trust what his contacts are feeding him - after all, many are in the business of disinformation and they know what he does with what they tell him.

He would truly be superhuman to get it all right,

2026-01-05

A thoughtful and illuminating piece about the nature of AI vs the nature of Humanity.

"Determinism is no longer merely a theory about how the universe works. It is becoming an operating principle for modern institutions. And that changes everything"

One of the best such articles that I have seen.

And pertinent to everybody's understanding of the crucial differences.

2026-01-01

Who has not heard of ChatGpt, Grok, etc? - Almost nobody.

Who understands how they work? - Almost nobody.

Who understands how good their results are? - Very few.

So of what use are they?

Well, as an improvement on a traditional search engine, they are indeed useful, especially if we are examining a reasonably cut-and-dried topic, say for instance, the Statute Book. It exists. It's not "fuzzy" except in so far as its provisions can be extremely complicated, even contradictory,  and thus not easily understandable by mere humans, which is one of the reasons we have hitherto had to have highly paid and experienced lawyers... in an attempt to understand the output of our Parliamentarians... ("but ignorance of the law is no excuse").

Now take a