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2026-10-28

Clif's release of his latest ALTA report has set tongues wagging, but the truth is: it's complicated, and for best comprehension it's probably best to take in a number of conversations with different interviewers.

So, without further ado:

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2026-10-24

We have been assailed by various articles of late (and not so late) along the lines of the existential threat that AI may pose to humanity.

It's a fair question. At what point could AI pose such a threat? What are the prerequisites?

Well, as of now, most AI systems are configured to answer our enquiries. They seem to be pretty good at being "search engines with some intelligence" that can pick their way through (a) what datasets do I need to enquire upon in order to answer the question? (b) which items in those datasets are relevant to the question? (c) how should those items be logically linked together to derive an answer to the question? and (d) performing that linkage and presenting a comprehensible analysis as end result.

The better ones might realise that there's more than one route through that process, would traverse each in turn and cross-check the results to identify any inconsistencies. How it might pick the appropriate answer given

2026-10-22

The hearing is over. 

No defendants attended in person.

The post-trial Press Conference is reported below.

The court will rule between 9th December and the end of February.

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2026-10-22

Socrates was correct(or was he?)!

If we want to make sense of our world, we must first understand the critical question that we need to ask...
... and even then, can we reasonably expect a definitive answer?

A child is born, having known nothing but the warmth and comfort of it's Mum's womb. 

Imagine the surprise!

It suddenly finds itself in a whole new world of unimagined experiences. He/she now has a very great deal of learning to undertake...

"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" -Matthew 18:3

Contrast with the

2026-10-21

We reported on the Courts and Tribunals Bill, currently being pushed through Parliament (although I don't recall any party manifesto declaring that they would do this?) just recently.

What is it about our governments that they get elected on one set of promises ("We will stop the boats") and then pursue another set entirely ("We will whittle down your constitutional rights to keep you safe" - from inappropriate social media posts perhaps, but certainly not from packed inflatable boats disgorging uninvited migrants at Gosport, nor from early release of serious criminals because our "not-joined-up" government didn't plan and deliver the necessary secure accommodations to hold them, nor from <fill in your own complaints here>). 

Have they no

2026-10-21

The more things need to change, the more they stay the same.

Today's politics (with notable but currently powerless exceptions) seem stuck in an endless loop.

Excuses, unfulfillable promises, attributions to incompetence, blaming of the "far right"/<fill in your pet hate label here>, and policing of social media all follow unwanted events as night follows day. But what actually changes apart from the general scenery in media and Parliament?

Groundhog day has nothing on the operations of our modern European State, within which I include the UK.

Pete Dalton argues much the same in the Daily Sceptic, and does us all a favour by labelling the aversion to straying outside approved thought patterns as "Hypernormalisation" - the inculcated subconscious fear of abnormal thinking.

2026-10-12

This article is not for everyone.

It is for those of us who are willing to suspend our disbelief long enough to watch the presentation and consider how much truth we may find in it.

Bear in mind that Clif High has form in producing forecasts that come to pass, although not necessarily within the forecast timing. After all, predictions are tricky, especially when they concern the future.

But he does it on the basis that humanity as a whole is psychic. By trawling exchanges across the internet (ie: hard data as collected) and analysing it according to his rules, the result is based not on his dreams or superstitions but on his analysis of our internet interactions.

We are not going to find this kind of analysis anywhere else!

If we want to know how fares the New World Order in the coming months and years, don't miss this. If it's even half-way accurate, we may be

once 2026-10-08

No doubt the Book of Enoch was suppressed for a reason.

And no doubt history is just a set of lies agreed upon by the current world rulers.

And there is little doubt that Tartaria was once a great empire that somehow disappeared...  in highly dubious circumstances that make little sense to the enquiring mind.

Might there be a linkage here?

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2026-10-07

Germany bows to the inevitable, and Eugyppius records the happy occasion.

Perhaps there is hope yet for Germany to shake off its 80-yearpost-war posture of servitude.

Remember Ludwig Erhard, who defied his orders and kicked off the postwar German economic miracle.

2026-10-07

It's a mad mad mad mad world, and some countries are madder than others...
... but the truth shall set you free.

What to make of it?

Time is running out, those dastardly Russians are poised...  EU "leaders" are in agreement: rearmament and conscription are the order of the day amongst the political classes, even as the means to those ends (plentiful energy supply, for those not yet paying full attention) has been decimated by their own illogical energy policies, all dependent on the "green energy" delusion. As with everything else they dream up, it is misnamed, as without the demonised CO₂ plants will no longer green and the earth's populations both animal and vegetable with starve.

They and we are in the Last Chance Saloon, and if we can't "wake up and smell the coffee...

2026-10-07

With the Deep State on the financial ropes, the BRICS states in the ascendant, and some NATO members  desperately trying to talk Russia up as an implacable enemy despite its obvious (if we are paying attention) restraint in not responding to those states who are also obviously trying to stoke the war in the Ukraine into a NATO war against Russia, how will the Deep State react now?

After all, giving up and going quietly isn't in its nature. 

Rich, EM., and the Brig. Gen. (retd) review the possibilities...

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2026-10-04

Rupert Lowe has spelt out the next steps for the UK to reclaim itself from the Blob and turn it toward the benefit of the British people.

Promethean Action review the direction being taken in the United States to wrest themselves away from the Empire and turn their country toward the benefit of the American people.

They are way ahead of us, but Britain must also think differently to invent a new future direction for the British if we are to take advantage of the measures that Rupert Lowe will implement. Those are merely the prerequisite measures, necessary to enable us to make a prosperous independent future for ourselves within a radically changed world.

So best pay attention...   we won't be slavishly copying the Americans, but there will be plenty of opportunities to learn from their experiences and to forge a complementary path

2026-10-01

IVF.Saviour of the childless? Or "snake oil"selling for vast profits?

Professor the Lord Robert Winston.

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2026-09-23

Now this is indeed a question central to the art of being a "conspiracy theorist"!

And it drives one to fall back to the default starting position - this is what seems to be going on but I'm open to evidence that may persuade me otherwise.

And to Socrates - "the only thing I know is that I know nothing".

In other words, absolute certainty is absolutely elusive.

So we derive our whole world-view from input that may be false...

... so is it really all in the mind?

If so, in whose mind?

Still, in much of our day-to-day lives this is good enough to get by on. We don't need to get too uncomfortable about it (unless we are conspiracy

2026-09-23

A thoughtful piece by Joanna Gray in the Daily Sceptic makes some excellent relevant points as well as educating us in matters sumptuary.

I confess I hadn't a clue about "sumptuary" so I'm guessing that you may be clueless also, but if not, well done!

The other excellent point brought out is that we are all human beings with more matters in common than matters that divide us, and the best way forward therefore is to attend to the matters that unite us whilst agreeing to live with those differences that divide us whilst those remain tolerable.

We are where we are and we are certainly more productive and consequently better off by working together than by arguing disagreeing and working against each other.

Parliamentarians excepted of course - they have shown themselves so deeply untrustworthy that Parliament may have to be abolished, at least in current form.

Make Britain Great Again?

2026-09-17

IT has given us many wonders, including the titular message (paraphrased due to faulty memory and passage of time) which was given by an IBM PC (all there was in those days) in response to whatever keystroke had been entered. It resulted in a call to our Help Desk, who although singularly unhelpful since the user had already pressed the Escape key and the damage had been done, were both appropriately sympathetic, and rather unprofessionally amused...

What should this unfortunate user have done instead of pressing Esc? (Turn the electricity off at the socket).

Have matters automated got any better since those far-off days?

Well, yes and (in this case) no. Just a lot more complicated, requiring a systems and communications research analyst to successfully post his parcels.

Painful Absurdities incoming?

2026-09-09

If you are open to argument, then there is enough here to keep you arguing for ever.

If you simply believe the idea that the Bible (which one?!) is the last word, and you absolutely cannot conceive that you might have been misled somewhere along your lifetime, then move on - this is not for you.

But if you are open-minded enough to merely listen (after all, the Good Lord gave us an extraordinary organ between our ears and it would be the height of discourtesy not to use it to the fullest extent), then the ancients' texts are the place to start. Of course, they weren't printed in English in nice books, so we must rely on the expertise of translators, who invariably bring their own problems, but needs must.

The bit about planet Saturn may have you scratching your head, but he's not the only guy to raise the possibility that our solar system has been seriously, almost catastrophically, "reconfigured" within human memory - see the "further watching" below the

2026-09-02

If you're in a (Jackson) hole, stop digging!

Yes, the times they are a-changing...

... and there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.

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