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  • The True Origin of Money?

    2023-07-21

    Richard Vobes interviews Michael Tellinger, proponent of the Ubuntu "one small town" movement.

    "... it [money] arrived as a fully evolved, fully planned, premeditated tool of enslavement "

    "... we're not opposing the system, because if you do that you're going to lose"

    Essential viewing.

    (72 minutes)

     

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  • No Dig, No Knead

    2023-07-20

    Charles Dowding shows Richard Vobes how it's done.

    Lot's of good tips here... so get your notepad and pen ready!

    (58 minutes)

     

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  • Down the Rabbit Hole - to the Moon?!

    2023-07-20

    (New readers may like to check out the other articles in our "Down the Rabbit Hole" series, where we look at out-of-the-usual issues that many dismiss as absurd, but which seem remarkably resilient and are not easily disproved - forewarned is forearmed!)

    Ah yes, the enigmatic moon - silently patrolling our night (and day!) skies, ever waxing and waning, mysteriously controlling the female cycle, for ever guiding our tides and giving life to our beaches.

    Some say even influencing our farming practices and mental states...   is there anything the moon doesn't poke its nose into? 

    Of course NASA have already been to the moon haven't they? (Or have

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  • Are We Aiding and Abetting Child Slavery?

    2023-07-19

    "The Modern Slavery Act will give law enforcement the tools to fight modern slavery, ensure perpetrators can receive suitably severe punishments for these appalling crimes and enhance support and protection for victims. It received Royal Assent on Thursday 26 March 2015"

    " * require businesses over a certain size to disclose each year what action they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chains(my emphasis)

    " * create an independent anti-slavery commissioner to improve and better coordinate the response to modern slavery"

    Yet we still import batteries that include cobalt inside all kinds of modern electronics that I have no doubt source that cobalt from mines in the Congo, which

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  • Down the Rabbit Hole - Why Are We Here?

    2023-07-15

    This is a startling outline of a bigger story that would no doubt be a block-buster compendium that might keep us entertained for years, but it is necessarily limited to something that we can read in a few minutes.

    I have no corroboration other than snippets that I've heard here and there that I no longer remember except as snippets, so if it works for you that's great, if it doesn't then ignore it.

    New readers may like to read some of our previous "Down the Rabbit Hole" articles, where we dare to explore notions that we cannot confirm but which do on some level seem plausible, even though outside (perhaps well outside!) our normal experience.

    As an overarching explanation for what we know of our history and what we know of current goings-on (probably very little on both fronts), I find this article

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  • To Grow Good Crops - First Grow Good Soil

    2023-07-14

    There is no way that I am qualified to comment on matters horticultural, but simple logic would assert that Gardeners' Question Time probably had it right with their famous quote "Well, I think the answer lies in the soil".

    Stands to reason really - if the soil isn't right then plants will have problems.

    So how to get the right soil? Well, how did techniques work in times past?

    Richard Vobes investigates...

    (64 minutes)

     

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  • Should the IPCC Cloud its Thinking?

    2023-07-14

    It's an irrelevant question if you believe that the IPCC is a political organisation that ensures its modellers simply produce the answers that their funding agencies require, but if you still believe that it's all totally above board scientific and impartial, then maybe this article goes some way toward explaining the disparity between the alarmist predictions of the said modelling and the actual progress toward climate armageddon exhibited by the real world.

    This site still maintains that since climate science is probably the most complex topic known to man, and in light of the abysmal track record of climate predictions to come true so far, the whole idea that "the science is settled" amounts to utter and demonstrable nonsense.

    But there are still scientists who are modest enough to acknowledge that they don't necessarily have a handle on the full picture.

    So they do what they can to counter the bogus certainty of the politicians with a reasonable

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  • The War for Hearts Minds and Souls

    2023-07-11

    For me, it was Covid that declared the opening of hostilities.

    When it became clear that we were all to be jabbed for a fake pandemic, one had to ask "what will be in those syringes"? It didn't seem likely that it would be anything to our advantage.

    And so it has proved. Cui bono?

    The UN-WEF-WHO is trying desperately to lock us into legal submission, but as the primary factual result of their performance on Covid seems to be reports from around the world of elevated death from all causes strangely coincidental with the start of the vaccination programmes, I'm in no hurry to sign up.

    With a political establishment that was firstly only too willing to lead us by the nose into institutions that morphed into the EU; and was, secondly, spectacularly unwilling to actually implement Brexit in any meaningful manner, I see no cause at all to permit them to subjugate us to the

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  • Clif High - the End of the World as We Knew It?

    2023-07-11

    Clif hasn't posted on his BitChute channel since May, but he is back on YouTube with uploads of earlier works, in no particular order.

    In this one from January 2023. He was ruminating on how this year would turn out, it is audio only (although the piccies are nice and an occasional caption fills a gap in the audio - blink and you'll miss it).

    He does start the recording (but doesn't always) with the date, so listen up for that.

    Did he get 2023 right so far?

    (31 minutes)

     

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  • Central Banks Digital Currency - Control Central for Your Finances

    2023-07-08

    Don't take it from me - take it from the spokesperson for the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).

    It seems that they have ambitions to control not just international settlements, but your settlement with your grocer, or any other vendor that you may "choose" to patronise. From the sublime to the ridiculous, it's all in a day's work for the Central Banks...

    Learn the "secrets" of the Bank of Japan, the ECB, and... CBDCs.

    Prof Richard Werner explains to Ivor Cummins - watch right to the end:

    (69 minutes)

     

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    Vobes Investigates - A Home Education Support Service

    2023-07-04

    Hope Sussex was founded to support those parents who wanted to take their children out of the public and state education systems, those who were prepared to do what had to be done to bring up their own children for themselves in accord with their own beliefs and principles.

    Clearly the Universe has smiled upon their efforts.

    (28 minutes)

     

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  • Climate Change Battle Taken to Council

    2023-06-29

    Colchester City Council to be more precise.

    Concerned residents make a straightforward case to the Council - take control of your own opinions, don't just unquestioningly accept what you're being told.

    In truth it's a criticism that could apply to any of us, on any subject, but when you are a representative of the people and you want to push policies that are not necessarily to the advantage of the people, you need to be very sure of your ground.

    (15 minutes)

     

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  • Free Speech in the Right Frame of Mind and Place

    2023-06-27

    Do we believe in "free speech"?

    Well, James Delingpole is brave enough to say that "it depends".

    And I think he's right.

    Free speech in the right circumstances is very beneficial if it helps others to formulate their own views.

    In the wrong circumstances it muddies the waters, confuses the listener, and and may even promote the madness of crowds...

    I also think that "free speech" doesn't include deliberate falsehoods half-truths omissions or incitement to criminality. To be useful it has to be honest peaceful and unthreatening.

    Which introduces another problem - who is to judge this "honesty"? Rhetoric can be used for good or for ill, to inform or to confuse or to mislead. Caveat

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  • Down the Rabbit Hole - Convergence of Space and Time

    2023-06-24

    The Universe seems to be nothing if not interlinked in the most surprising ways.

    Music of the Spheres? Not quite, but Music of the Platonic Solids? And more?

    Well, now you're talking...

    (23 minutes)

     

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  • Tapping in to Our Potential

    2023-06-21

    Yes, there's no escaping the inimitable Richard Vobes.

    Here he is exploring yet another aspect of the human condition that we don't normally think about, but which could for some, perhaps for many, bring resolution to problems which we might previously have considered too deep-seated and too little understood to be properly addressed.

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  • Maunder Maximum Rides Again

    2023-06-21

    If you can't debate them, ridicule them.

    The Climate Alarmists are an anti-intellectual lot who prefer to insist that "the science is settled" rather than to debate the issue, even though climate science is quite possibly the most complex topic in the universe, and if it really was settled then man would already rival God in the intellectual stakes.

    Maybe they think that the IPCC is God, I don't know.

    Still, John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus reports on one of the many holes in climate theology in his usual entertaining manner.

    Worth a look (as is all his work).

     

  • Catastrophe in Schools?

    2023-06-21

    Our schools are apparently bending over backwards to accommodate the self-identity preferences of school-kids, no matter how unusual.

    It is reported that there has been some brouhaha over the desire of one young lady to self-identify as a cat. She was (reportedly) supported by her teacher who strongly disagreed with another class member who considered the cat identity ridiculous, and insisted that her unusual identity is perfectly valid and acceptable. 

    Now most people would probably think that this is all a lot of nonsense that should be firmly squashed, the girls and boys should be firmly told that they are human, and that's an end of it.

    But although everybody is getting mighty steamed up about all this, I think the cat-girl is absolutely

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  • Africa, Chile To Form Ties with the East?

    2023-06-20

    Ex-colonies (some might think still "soft power" colonies) in Africa and elsewhere now have a choice of financiers who will help them exploit their minerals for their own benefit. Also by forming regional partnerships with their like-minded neighbours, they can move away from dependence on western currencies for trade. Change is afoot.

    Are they jumping from the frying pan into the fire? Or will the future bring real improvements? Time will tell, but maybe the Africans will get a better deal and the West may or may not. After all, peaceful cooperation is inherently better than strife in almost all respects.

    (8 minutes + message from the sponsor - this is not financial advice)

     

  • AI = Always Incorrect?

    2023-06-17

    Artificial Intelligence, or Automated Intelligence as I would prefer to call it, is programmed by humans.

    The nature of humanity is to make errors.

    Therefore Automated Intelligence makes errors.

    The problem of course is that in most traditional IT systems the specific reasoning process is explicitly coded and can therefore be tested. It can even be exhaustively tested (although from experience I'd guess that's not too common due to marketing pressures!).

    In AI, the reasoning process is hyper-generalised and whilst it can in theory be tested, it's not always so easy to exhaustively test (unless you have the capacity to run it in "verbose" mode and then manually follow through all the myriad of logical deductions that it relied upon - although I suppose you might be tempted to use another AI to do this... ).

    Add in the fact that in this day and age the people who

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  • A Message

    2023-06-15

    It has been said that we attract what we broadcast, that our thoughts alone affect the world around us. If so, then we clearly need to be careful - thoughts lead to words and actions, words and actions lead to consequences - but thoughts alone also reinforce habitual patterns and thus also lead to consequences.

    Our lives are lived largely by habit - we all have our daily routine that we have found by past experience and (limited) experiment to work (at least satisfactorily) for us. If we had to rethink our daily routine from scratch every day, we would never get past breakfast!

    But how often do we experiment further with our routine to see if we could improve it some more, maybe in ways we couldn't have previously imagined? What if we ate fruit instead of flakes for example? Or used coconut oil in our coffee in place of pasteurised-homogenised-skimmed milk? Or skipped breakfast on Fridays? The possibilities are endless but the rewards in terms of health might be significant?

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