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How Can We Take Back Control?

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2026-05-10

If by now you are worried that modern medicine isn't as well-founded as you previously thought, but you are concerned that you couldn't possibly manage your health for yourself, then perhaps this article may help.

I can say from experience that I personally have made strides toward managing my own health to the point where (after 20 years of inhalers that simply suppressed the symptoms!) I have achieved a huge remission in my asthma, initially by diet change, and lately by 36 hr fasts. I rarely now need an inhaler. But I was lucky - asthma may be progressive but it gave me time to experiment to find what worked for me.

Along the way I learned that the best thing to do with official advice is often to do the opposite ... but do apply common sense and seek out other views!

Sadly, modern life and pharmacology will eventually catch up with us, and will likely assault our weakest point, so the sooner we recognise that weak point the sooner we can make a start on fixing it, and the more opportunity we will have to avert a serious problem.

Maybe it would be useful to learn how someone else addressed her problem.

There's usually a warning signal, such as "None of the doctors recommending the drug had asked why her body was doing what it was doing".

In my experience the last thing a doctor may ask is "What are you eating?", yet we are what we eat ...

This too may help!

 

Civilisational Attenuation - Inevitable Trap?

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2026-05-10

Martin Geddes has documented how modern-day institutions can operate in degraded mode, delivering a performance that looks genuine in procedural terms but is degraded in philosophical and spiritual terms:

On The Autonomous Evil of Unthinking Institutions

His latest foray into this line of argument categorises this thinking as a "category error" - an error introduced by introducing a closure based upon answering of the inappropriate question. For example, an applicant asks a relevant question of officialdom but uses the wrong procedure to do so - instead of diverting the request into the "correct" procedure, the system responds by denying the request on procedural grounds.

Now he extends the analysis to show how "modern governance theory risks something worse than collapse: manufactured continuity that silently consumes other forms of adaptability, intelligibility and stability".

The system becomes ossified, and fails to respond to feedback and adapt appropriately.

(He reframes his argument in less academic form here)

It turns out that Martin isn't the first to come to such an analysis - Luc Lelièvre has arrived at much the same destination.

" ... the slow drift in which institutions stop responding to the people they serve and start responding only to themselves. Procedures replace judgment. Official narratives replace honest dialogue. Forms and categories replace real human experience"

"Closure looks strong. It suppresses dissent, absorbs complaints, and gives every appearance that nothing can change. But closure is also fragile, because it contradicts basic human nature"

In short, it has lost its spirituality by subsuming "service to others" beneath "service to the appearance of power of the institution".

 

Are You a Suitable Case for Treatment 6 ?

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2026-05-10

Find other articles in this series here.

  • Antivirals
    All sorts of visuses necessitate all sorts of antivirals. The list is endless ... Tamiflu, Relenza, Paxlovid, remdesivir, acyclovir, ribavirin, AZT ...
    But what if Dr Mike Yeadon and now many others have concluded that viruses themselves have never been proven to exist? Well, they are still a nice little earner for the Pharmaceutical lobby ...

  • Proton Pump Inhibitors (for gastric problems)
    There's quite a list of these too, although this time the target isn't the virus, it's your natural stomach acid. What could possibly go wrong? Well, unsurprisingly, some think quite a lot actually ...

  • Problematic Genetics
    Unkind people think that this is the excuse that medics reach for when they don't know what causes the patient's supposed malady. Not being an expert in the field, I couldn't possibly comment.

  • Heart Diseases
    Of course it's simple coincidence that healthy young athletes started dropping dead on the field after the Covid emergency. But even aside from that, heart disease has been a primary cause of death for years, so maybe we should pay attention - it isn't just an older person's problem any more.
    "The Framingham Heart Study ... reported after thirty years that for each 1 mg/dL drop in cholesterol there was an 11% increase in coronary and total mortality"
    "...both showed that replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils increased mortality"

  • Flower Remedies
    "Disease was not what his profession said it was ... It began in the soul, expressed itself through the mind, and only finally settled into the tissue — sometimes after twenty or thirty years of warning"

  • Conception Pregnancy & Inheritance
    ... and diet.
    "Francis Pottenger Jr. ran his cat study from 1932 through 1942 at his sanatorium in Monrovia, California.² Nine hundred cats. Ten years."

The End of the Great (Patriotic) War?

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2026-05-10

As another war simmers in the Middle East (or "West Asia" as some who would modify our thinking now refer to it), and the Ukraine conflict drags on pointlessly, interminably, May 8th and 9th slipped by in the West with scarcely a mention.

And maybe that's not surprising, as Trump commands many headlines, not all of which are apparently on convergent themes. So maybe we have the wrong themes, or Trump is out of control (or both?).

"When the people would truly know what is going on, it will be the end of the cabal / deep state. Therefor we can still expect the media to disinform us, distract us"

Cyntha Koeter updates us with her views on this matter. We need someone to make sense of it.

 

We Live in Dangerous Times

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2026-05-09

I remember first taking the wheel of my Dad's old Ford Popular, with the sit-up-and-beg radiator and the amazingly vague self-steering mechanism, quite soon after I passed my test. 

How i survived I'm not sure, but I certainly owe a debt of gratitude to those who waited behind me whilst I struggled to find top gear (3rd in those days!) using the long and unfamiliar gear lever. In those days we just got on with it until we made it work.

It wasn't too long before (with some modest financial assistance from Dad) I graduated to the much more amenable Austin A35 van (yes, the very van of Wallace and Gromit fame - Oh the nostalgia!) which kept me motoring rather more controllably for some years. Until I moved to the south coast and swapped it for a VW 1500S sedan ... which survived until I crashed head-on overtaking a tractor that turned right across my bows into a driveway, thereby confirming that the  seat-belt fitted by VW worked just fine - that's as much as you need to know, so we'll leave it there. Mais je ne regrette rien 😀!

Steven Goldsmith writing for Brownstone recently made the mistake of hiring a modern rental car (in America, but I don't doubt much the same applies in the UK). 

He was not amused. If you value your independence/freedom/sanity, make sure your trusty old-fashioned motor is maintained in fine fettle by your local independent garage for as many years as possible ... and drive sensibly.

 

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