Lucky Dip

2022-06-07

We spend a lot of time promoting freedom and decrying those people and concepts that limit our freedom, but what does it mean to be truly free?

We also spend a lot of time suggesting that we should make up our own mind about the articles and information that comes our way, because our freedom to choose wisely is totally dependent upon our ability to discern truth from falsehood and to interpret correctly those nuances of meaning that might not be entirely familiar to us.

Freedom is of little use if we cannot discern the truth upon which to base our decision-making, so meaningful freedom requires access to truth, which these days appears to be deliberately hedged about on many major issues of the day by the authorities. 

Socrates is reported by Plato to have believed

2022-06-06

"When philosophical reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction... no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it" - John Adams

The United States of America is regarded as a Christian nation, and indeed is famous (or infamous according to your persuasion) for its Christian evangelical churches, and yet... did the Founding Fathers found its Declaration of Independence and its Constitution on Christian beliefs?

Certainly the Biden Pretendency doesn't appear to be driven by the principles of the Christian faith, but they don't seem to want the existing Constitution either.

The principles of national governance are now of the utmost importance if the US (and perhaps many other nations of the world) are about to rid themselves of the current unfathomable networks of globalist corruption, and reconstitute for the future.

How should those

2022-06-05

Some of us "know", and some of us are beginning to suspect, and some of us think it's a ridiculous conspiracy theory that can safely be ignored.

However far down this rabbit hole you have ventured (or not), this presentation will likely cause you to reassess your viewpoint - always assuming of course that it isn't faked...  but wouldn't that...   ?

(2 hrs 17 mins)

2022-06-04

It's taken him 15 years to note these but it's nevertheless a rather good collection of truths about humanity that maybe we would rather not recognise.

It's a lighthearted ramble around the human psyche and entertainingly presented - watch, laugh, and ruefully admit that - yes - as Dr Kiosk used to declaim as everybody made a dash for the doors...  "We Are ALL GUILTY" !

2022-06-03

"the so-called ‘High Potential Individual’ visa... would allow graduates of universities around the world to come to the UK to work in jobs at any skill or pay level for two to three years"

"this is being enacted with minimal checks and balances, including….

• NO annual cap on numbers (even with 70% of the public wanting such a cap – Deltapoll, 2019).
• NO minimum salary requirement(even though the lack of one will open UK workers to the real risk of being undercut by cheaper overseas staff).
• NO need to secure a job before coming (even as 64% of the public say non-UK workers should have to have a job offer from an approved employer before coming here (YouGov, February 2020).
• NO protection for the UK jobskeekers(even though nearly eight in

2022-06-02

On occasions such as this it is customary to devote a few words to the monarchy.

Few would argue with the notion that our monarch is remarkably long-lived, has endured for longer than any previous since the kingdom was established, and has earned the love and respect of the majority of her subjects.

Most of us if offered the job of being her successor would probably turn it down flat as being too stifling - we would rather not be imprisoned in Buckingham Palace, even given the occasional alternative of Windsor Castle, Sandringham, or Balmoral, and we might baulk at having to open that den of misrepresentatives, Parliament, every so often, reading a speech that someone else of questionable good sense has written for the occasion.

And as for running the Privy Council, probably the less said about that the better, as always.

Transatlantic Summit IV Challenges Human Blights

2022-05-25

I've reflected only recently on my student days, but now I find myself posting another article that evokes another memory from those times.

What is academia for? Does it fulfil the function?

Uni was always sold as a place to go between finishing school and starting a career, a place where the clever and inquisitive should go to question the established knowledge, to push their understanding beyond the current boundaries, and to have fun doing it.

Potentially difficult terrain though, especially when the answers to your questions on the established knowledge turn out to be inadequate. That would mean that a certain amount of established knowledge must be demolished before one's understanding could be pushed beyond the (revised!) boundaries, within an establishment notoriously averse

2022-05-24

Mind mastery explained...

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Don't just sit there...    Do it!

One idea at a time.

2022-05-24

I found this clip stirred memories for me, as in 1968 I had already been trained as a new-fangled "computer programmer" and I was about to start a sandwich course at a polytechnic for a BSc in "Computer Science and Data Processing" (which turned out to be more like Maths and Stats with some computing thrown in as an afterthought).

Looking back to those days I would have rejected out of hand the idea that a computer could control anybody, even in the relatively elementary manner posited - they were nowhere near sufficiently sophisticated, there was no internet, and although radio comms as a technology was clearly feasible it certainly lacked the coverage (unless the controlled person would be held in confinement).

We could just about run a payroll for a large corporation after months / years of development and testing, on machines that read their data off punched cards and then stored it on magnetic tapes - no ubiquitous discs for us at that time. Happy days!

If you Like a Traditional English Cuppa ...

2022-05-20

This is an interesting list which appears to "prove" certain truths by logical deduction.

I might cavil that it fails at the first hurdle by not initially defining its axioms (foundational tenets that are held to be self-evident) and proceeding from there by logical deduction.

Part of the problem arises from ambiguous or missing definitions of terms (for example: "dream"), part from unproven assertion (example: nbr 39), and mixed together these two facets certainly drive a coach and horses through the necessary rigour required of a proof.

I'm not sure that I could disagree with their deductions even if I might disagree with their reasoning, but that doesn't mean to say that I necessarily agree with them all either.

I am sure that those who codified these 144 tenets knew what they meant, but from my perspective it can only be regarded as a work-in-progress.

2022-05-15

An interesting excursion around the basics of modern law - we should all be aware if we are to take responsibility for our own lives.

OK, this is US-centric but much of it also applies to the UK.

It also sheds more light on the relationship of courts to banks and postmasters...

"You know what we haven't done the last 100 years?" 

"We haven't corrected any of their errors"

"This government works off of unrebutted presumption"

"What is the legal definition of the word 'legal'?"

"It is the undoing of God's Law"

"Policy Revenue Collection Agent"

Do not miss...

(2 hrs 25

2022-05-15

In the UK it's spring going on summer - down under it's autumn going on winter.

An epic rant from Australia, pointing out that those in power have no intention of relaxing their agenda, and that the populace in certain countries are demonstrating that they have no intention of taking it any more.

All that needs to happen is that the powers that be cut off the food and fuel supply.

"You do not want to be in the cities when this happens"

"... we don't know how crazy it's going to get yet... "

(62 minutes)

2022-05-12

Yes, this is follows-on from Down the Rabbit Hole 1 thru 7.

I'm not a fan of Dr Michael Salla (his habit of interrupting his interviewees, when I would quite like to hear what they have to say, is frankly annoying), but perhaps this video is an idea whose time has come - and he isn't interviewing!

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2022-05-10

The religious persecutions of the Cathars in the dark ages is an horrific tale, and caused many to flee for their lives. Essentially the Catholic church, the "Holy Father", mounted a crusade to exterminate them as heretics (since they would not bend the knee). Maybe they were onto something, in fact it's hard to think from Clif's exposition that they could agree with the Holy Father on anything very much.

Once you have listened to this you may not agree with the Cathari either, but Clif certainly spins an engrossing story that ultimately affects him personally, the world of medicine profoundly, and the world in general totally.

If Clif is right (and I suspect he is pretty close) then we will all have a great deal to both  learn, and to unlearn. There won't be any escape, so - bring it on!

(83 minutes)

 

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2022-05-06

Dane Wiggington over at GeoEngineering Watch has been plugging away at this topic for a long time.

And he does seem to be onto something - our skies are not clear as they should be, but partially obscured by particulates very apparently sprayed by aircraft.

It's hard to imagine that this might be taking place without at least the tacit agreement of our governments - those very same governments that are so determined to demonise diesel cars for their particulate emissions.

So is this spraying justified in order to save the planet from overheating? After all, killing a percentage of the population by means of respiratory disease might be justified if it protects the ultimate survival of humanity - right?

Well, maybe wrong. Dane highlights a new angle on this topic which would turn the whole rationale for such geoengineering activities on its head.

If we listen to a