https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-...n-13147799

Quote:The new Reform UK leader previously had a milkshake thrown at him in Newcastle in 2019, in what a judge described as a "politically motivated attack".

The new leader of Reform UK was leaving the Wetherspoons Moon and Starfish pub in Clacton-on-Sea, where he is standing to be an MP, when a young woman in a grey hooded jumper threw a drink in his face before throwing the cup at him then walking off.

It appeared to be a McDonald's milkshake.

Essex Police said they had arrested a 25-year-old woman from Clacton after responding to a report of a drink being thrown at a man in Marine Parade East at around 2.10pm.

Nearly two hours after the incident, Mr Farage appeared in front of the Reform UK bus with a McDonald's banana milkshake and said: "My milkshake brings all the people to the rally."

This is a hard hitting video especially for those of us who have had a loved one die from cancer after spending a fortune on an accepted medical cure. Skip to 4:30 to miss the Ad..

Quote:Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 2 | Forbidden Medical Cures The history of medicine goes back to the dawn of mankind when ancient healers used special herbs to treat illnesses. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, laid the foundation for modern medical practice: observation, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. His work set the stage for centuries of medical progress.

In the 19th century, Edward Jenner created a smallpox vaccine, and Louis Pasteur proved microorganisms caused disease. The 20th century brought antibiotics, medical imaging, and organ transplants. In the past 400 years, the human lifespan has doubled. But something happened to medicine along the way. It became an industry. A profitable one.

President Eisenhower warned against creating a "military-industrial complex" because if you make war profitable, you'll always have war. He was right. So, here's a cynical question: If you make illness profitable, will you always have illness? In recent years, trillions have been spent on cancer research and therapies. That's a lot of people getting rich from a disease that's already been cured.

What follows is an awesome compendium of almost endless conspiracy theories and fascinating information, set out in alphabetical order in a simple format and not dwelling too long on each subject so long as to be tedious in any way. More like a brief encyclopedia with enough information allowing people to follow up with more research elsewhere on the subjects that peak interest.

It's over 21 hours long and 750 Topics and personally I find it a great watch and listen when I'm picture framing and working on artwork in my studio here late into the night.

There are many subjects that we here would recognise and some which have been discussed before, especially on ATS.

Worth bookmarking to come back to and continue the saga like I have been doing. Please enjoy and share with others who may be interested in these topics and those who would benefit from a damn good Denial of their Ignorance.

 

https://www.iflscience.com/are-we-alone-...t-be-74438

Quote:A new paper taking a look at the Fermi Paradox using the Drake Equations has suggested an uncomfortable solution: maybe we are alone in the galaxy.

If you haven't heard of the Fermi Paradox, it goes something like this: given the vastness of the universe and the probability that implies of life evolving elsewhere, how come no alien civilization has ever gotten in touch? We have found many exoplanets in the brief time we've been looking. Surely there must be someone else out there who, like us, desperately wants to find others

Apologies wrong forum please ignore

Well this is an old ATS thread but allow me to revive it.










Seems 'being offended' is quite a popular pastime for a certain section of society these days and don't know if anyone agrees with George but thought there were some very valid points being made in the vid below by folks like Hitchens, Fry, Dawkins etc.

Got to love Hitchens when he refers to political correctness as 'sinister piffle' lol.













Also some thoughtful quotes here and reckon the best one I've heard is that 'being offended is the collateral damage of free speech' (Ricky Gervais).

Don't know whether it's all some insidious plot to oppress intellectual discourse but there does seem to be an awful lot of hysterical censorship going on.

Would be interested in any opinions out there (offended or otherwise).

Quote:• "Psychological warfare employs age-old ideas in twentieth century dress"

D. Lincoln Harter, Propaganda Handbook, 1953

Quote:Psychological Operations

Psychological Operations (PSYOP, PSYOPS) are techniques used by military and police forces to influence a target audience’s value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior.

Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals, and are used in order to induce confessions, or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator’s objectives.

These are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics

Government Document Archive

Quote:Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of Public Diplomacy, Psychological Operations (PSYOPS), Public Information, Deception and Covert Action.



There are nine strategies for perception management. These include:


1. Preparation — Having clear goals and knowing the ideal position you want people to hold.


2. Credibility — Make sure all of your information is consistent, often using prejudices or expectations to increase credibility.


3. Multichannel support — Have multiple arguments and fabricated facts to reinforce your information.


4. Centralized control — Employing entities such as propaganda ministries or bureaus.


5. Security — The nature of the deception campaign is known by few.


6. Flexibility — The deception campaign adapts and changes over time as needs change.


7. Coordination — The organization or propaganda ministry is organized in a hierarchical pattern in order to maintain consistent and synchronized distribution of information.


8. Concealment — Contradicting information is destroyed.


9. Untruthful statements — Fabricate the truth.

Online Psyops and Perception Management

Quote:The Joint Chiefs expressly proposed arranging, planning, and executing terrorist attacks in Miami and Washington D.C.

These proposed terrorist events would be blamed on Cuba, and were hoped to, if carried out, cause a wave of indignation across the American public mind and provide the popular support for invading Cuba militarily.

Northwoods Document 1962

The Mothman


I'm doing this off the cuff based partly on recollection, but I recall this as being another one of those good video binges although it's been quite a few years for this one.

I suppose it made enough of an impression on someone in Hollywood with enough of a budget to make a movie about it, and it wasn't cheap either. The movie(The Mothman Prophecies) starred Richard Gere and maybe a couple of other well knowns. I think the movie was okay and I'd recommend it. 

This phenomenon occurred in Point Pleasant West Virginia during the years of '66 and '67 regarding a very large bird-like humanoid cryptid. This creature was said to be all black with glowing red eyes, and some were estimating this creature to be around 9' tall. I recall one observer that saw the creature standing beneath a tree branch with little to no clearance which later yielded a fairly accurate measurement of the aforementioned 9'.

The movie title was blazoned due to the prophetic nature of the sightings correlating with disastrous events like the collapse of the Silver Bridge which resulted in the deaths of 46 people, and some also say it was a prelude to the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.

For someone who likes this sort of thing and hasn't seen the movie and blasted through all of the YouTube vids yet like me.

I ran across an article in MentalFloss.com: 5 Wild Ideas Rejected by the Constitutional Convention

The article is about a number of salient propositions to the constitution... you know, that seminally important document that actually established our framework for governance.  The authors had spent a lot of effort and time, not hobnobbing at the club, or making public appearances, and/or polishing their... egos.  Instead they actually labored to create a framework that didn't reduce the citizenry to 'cattle to be managed.' 

They formally recognized the human voice as a significant and important thing to be protected.  They made certain that if the framework needed to grow and live - it would.  They even labored removed status as a determinant of value for justice, allowing justice to be informed by the people, all equal (at least in theory, at the time.)

But the context of time is important to remember.  While this effort was underway, most were reeling from a bloody war on their own soil... war is always tragic.  I think they can be excused for the myopia they sometimes manifested.  Some of the authors were evidently aware of this.  In that light, they attempted to ensure that the framework would bend and adapt to whatever may come, rather than snap and shatter over each crisis.

The points of the article that most caught my attention were the one's relating to the presidency.

Once upon a time, there was a consideration of having three presidents...

The idea spawned from a sensitivity, in part heightened by recent events, to the idea that a one-man show was too much like a Royal power.  In essence, "a King would be installed under a new name" was likely a common rejection of the notion of one president.
 

Years ago there was a TV show called Vikings.  There was a main character named Lagertha.  In the show, Lagertha had a near death experience.  She died and came back.  The Vikings all asked her what she learned and what was the meaning of life.  She replied with this -

"The only thing that I have learned is that life is about suffering. There's no escape from it. That's the truth. What's important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth,"

So the question is ... do you agree with Lagertha on the meaning of life?   Is it all about suffering and what we do with that suffering?  Or did she get it wrong and it's really about something else? 

What do you think the meaning of life is ... or if there is any meaning of life at all?

There are times that I actually agree with her.  It's all about suffering.  Everything in life revolves around suffering and trying not to suffer.  Everything.  And yet, suffering is what keeps life going.  Everything on earth that is alive, lives because something else died for it to live.  Even the grass we walk on are alive because something died to fertilize the soil that it grows in.   The 'circle of life' is really a 'circle of death'.

Gloomy but there it is.

• Following on from 'funding' in this thread would be interested in folk's opinions on the content posted below but fair to say some of it is pretty disturbing stuff.



Nazi Eugenics Rebranded As 'Bioethics'.



Well they say you can't polish a turd but looks like 'bioethics' is playing an increasing role in global policy making and if you follow the timeline back then it's just rebranded Nazi eugenics.

If you don't know about the horrors of eugenic pseudoscience (and the tenets of modern bioethics) like banning the hippocratic oath, death panels, forced euthanasia, forced abortion, forced sterilization, spiking the water supply etc.. then really would urge people to look into it

Truly disturbing stuff and if you can stomach researching histories of things like the Nazi Aktion T4 program (murder of 70,000 children, senior citizens and psychiatric patients) and the antics of the (Rockefeller funded) Kaiser Wilhelm Institute then you'll probably get a good idea.





• Bioethics and the New Eugenics

Quote:The history of bioethics connects the Rockefeller funding behind the first wave of American eugenics, the Rockefeller funding behind the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes and the Nazi-era German eugenics program, and the Rockefeller funding behind the Population Council, the Hastings Center and other centres for post-war "crypto-eugenics" research. As a result, it is perhaps not surprising to find that many of the most well-known and most controversial bioethicists working today are associated with the Hastings Center.

Extra Video Link

Quote:"A newborn baby is not an autonomous being, capable of making choices, and so to kill a newborn baby cannot violate the principle of respect for autonomy."

Bioethicist Peter Singer

Quote:"You think perhaps the backing of powerful men, financiers, will shield you from accountability, but you are now in the spotlight. Disband this council and reverse the whole course of this nazi revival now".

 Anton Chaitkin 

Watched this with friends a while back and was hooting with laughter.

Bill died at the very young age of 32 and think this was one of his last performances but for those that haven't seen it then here it is.





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Considering this was filmed at the London Dominion Theatre back in 1992 thought Bill raised some incredibly astute points (and warnings) about the future we now find ourselves in.

Like other true comedians like George and Richard Bill is sorely missed.

Quote:Fresh satellite images reveal a worrying development on the India-China border. China has deployed advanced J-20 stealth fighter jets to an airfield near Shigatse, less than 150 kilometers from the Sikkim border in north-east India. This deployment raises concerns about a potential escalation in tensions between the two countries. Experts point out that the J-20s, China's most advanced fighter jets, potentially giving them air superiority over India, which currently lacks a 5th generation fighter in its arsenal. China is yet to fully withdraw troops from eastern Ladakh, where a deadly clash occurred in 2020. Moreover, Beijing has increased pressure on Arunachal Pradesh, another disputed territory in the northeast. Palki Sharma tells you more.

Hi friends and respectable debaters/fellow investigators!
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now what nickname will my wife give this place, the last one was A holes Talking Shi... crap!

I like people watching and listening to water in my spare time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...55219.html

Quote:Hardcore Donald Trump supporters are calling for riots, insurrection, and assassination after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Trump became the first US president to be criminally convicted on Thursday, but said he would “continue to fight” the decision. He will have 30 days to do following his sentencing on July 11

Quote:In messages seen by The Independent, and others reported by Reuters, Trump die-hards on social media are calling for violence in the wake of the verdict.

“Find the jurors. All of them. Take no prisoners,” wrote one user on a Trump-focused message board.

“Just give them the rope,” said another, in an explicit reference to lynching. “The time for talking has long gone. Let them swing outside the courthouse.”

When I see reports like this it does not make me proud nor does it make me sleep better at night. You could fund all kinds of black projects with the insane pricing of America's defense by the MIC that Ike warned us about.

Million + dollar missiles to down a $2000 drone fired by a less than third world country. Boy howdy we showed them !! Some of the ships with VLS missiles cells have to return to port to be rearmed as rearming can not be done at sea.. That is gonna work if we get into a shooting war with China (NOT).

$80,000 dollar an hour operating cost for many of our military aircraft not even counting the price of the hardware/aircraft to begin with kinda makes me sick at the waste I see. I am sure it is more now but the average cost to lease from an agent (make a profit) for a 737-800 was 11,000 an hour and the airbus was around $8000..  According to Boeing, under regular conditions, the 777-200LR should cost around $9,750.00/hour to operate, with the 777-300ER at a cost of $10,250.00/hour to operate. In a two-class configuration, this is around $32.39/hour per seat for the -200LR and $27.12/hour per seat for the -300ER. 

Yet they figure per hour cost of our fighters and bombers are in excess or $80,000 and sometimes much more ... 

Quote:Most of America’s warships set sail packed full of missiles. These include surface-to-air missiles to shoot down everything from drones to ballistic missiles, surface-to-surface missiles used to attack targets on land and sea, and even rocket-delivered torpedoes to defend against prowling submarines. These weapons can be depleted quickly during combat operations, as we have seen in and around the Red Sea recently. So, how much do each of those missiles really cost? We dug into the Pentagon’s budget documents to find out.

Randonautica and other Methods


So once I began upgrading to sportier cars within my price range a new element was added to the mundane, i.e. driving became more fun so I started doing it more.

It was first get all the important stuff done around the house, pay bills, run errands et cetera and then hit the road for a while.

At first I was just going on random drives, and then shortly after I devised a system of three routes from least far to most far depending on my mood, but this got old after a while for obvious reasons.

At some point I heard about Randonautica and the eeriness of it caught my attention, so I was going to try that next. It seemed okay at first, but I soon found myself venturing down private dirt roads and ending up on private property with people coming out and watching and/or approaching and asking what I'm doing. I would show them my printout and explain although it was somewhat of a pain.

I also became aware of other random coordinate generators which was just basically more of the same(the definition of insanity), so that didn't really last long either.

I then decided to devise my own system of methodical navigation; I do have a few other systems as well for various things. This system has evolved some as I continue augmenting and modifying it.

This system incorporates the entire compass in a methodical manner. There are a few parts to it: direction, deviation, and return. First we go CW around the compass and then reverse and go CCW.

I use the two trip meters on my IC for this. I first set T1 to zero and this is the initial starting point - the direction. The direction starts out at five miles and gets an increment of one mile for every 360° iteration of the compass. The direction currently ranges from 5-15 miles. Once the 5-15 mile direction coordinate is complete, I then do what's called a 'deviation'; I do this basically so I don't return exactly the same way I came. The deviation is at least five miles with no upper limit, and this distance is used as part of the return route.

Each trip progresses around the compass in CW to CCW fashion - CW first. So, I would start at N and proceed 5-15 miles and then "deviate" anywhere between 5-50 miles depending on how far I feel like going. The deviation is a 45° increment either CW or CCW, depending, so in this case I would change direction to NE for another 5-50 miles.

The "return" is basically just reversing the direction and deviation coordinates to take me back to the origin location. So, once I complete the deviation I would then switch back to the first coordinate and reverse it - N becomes S(using the same distance that was used for N), and the same is applied to the deviation.

So the next trip would be NE with an E deviation, and then E with a SE deviation, so on and so forth, and then when I get back to N again I repeat the same procedure except that I move CCW this time instead of CW.

This system is very dynamic and I stumble upon a lot of really cool places, and like maybe 29/30 times it returns me right back within a few miles of where I started form.

I used to drive a lot at night too, but mostly during the day now. I don't need to wear my glasses during the day, I can see things better(obviously), and cops seem to be more of a problem with night driving.

The full title reads: Archaeologists Find Secret Chamber at the Base of the Sphinx AND Don't Know What it is.....

So, this is an interesting find.  Apparently, some Archaeologists/researchers from Higashi Nippon International University, Tohoku University, and the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics in Egypt found this new discovery using ground penetrating radar and other non-intrusive methods.

Quote:Between 2021 and 2023, the team studied the location using not one but two high-tech methods: ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). GPR uses electromagnetic waves to map shallow underground features in high resolution. For deeper structures, ERT can locate walls, shafts, and similar anomalies but without as much detail.
Combining GPR, ERT, and satellite data, the researchers discovered an L-shaped structure measuring roughly 32 by 50 feet buried 1.6 feet to 6.5 feet under the sand. They also found evidence of a 1,000-square-foot structure about 11.5 feet to 33 feet below ground, deeper than the L-shaped anomaly.
The next step is excavation[Image: https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tena...&h=414&m=6]
 At some point, the shallower L-shaped structure was filled with sand, which could be a clue to its purpose. It may have served as a kind of passageway to a lower tomb, according to the researchers. Ancient Egyptians often filled up such shafts to keep out the living.

As many as 50 to 80 (depends on who is reporting) tunnels from Gaza to Egypt has been discovered along the buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza. Many of these tunnels are large enough to drive a delivery truck through. 
 
Israel could not figure out how Hamas had so many missiles to keep firing at Israel but now the answer is before them..
 
Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel and for anyone to believe Egypt did not know of the supplies and tunnels to Hamas from Egypt to Gaza has to be dumber than a....no one could be that dumb IMO !
 
The only question is how far up does this knowledge go in the Egyptian government ?

I personally believe it goes to the top as Egypt did not want Israel to occupy the Philadelphia buffer Zone and thus discover the tunnels.

Following on from the funny ones here's a thread about amazing film clips.



Thought this elephant scene from Ong Bak 2 was absolutely bonkers lol.











If you have any favourite amazing (or powerful) film scenes then please feel free to post

Quote:Donald Trump has been found guilty of conspiring to buy the silence of a porn actor days before the 2016 election and covering his tracks in business records, becoming the first former US president to be convicted of a crime as he seeks a second term in office.

The unanimous verdict in the Manhattan “hush money” case came at just after 5pm local time on Thursday, after almost two days of deliberation by the seven men and five women of the jury.

A jury of 12 everyday New Yorkers was presented with overwhelming evidence — including invoices, cheques, bank statements, audio recordings, phone logs, text messages and direct testimony from 22 witnesses.” The evidence proved Trump “went to illegal lengths to lie repeatedly in order to protect himself and his campaign”, he added.

The 34 counts on which Trump was convicted carry a maximum prison sentence of four years, but as a first-time offender, he is unlikely to be incarcerated. Bragg declined to say whether he would seek a prison sentence.

Transparent Entities


This has been one of my occasional video binges. I first saw a fictional depiction of these in the original Predator movie.

Some decades after the movie I stumbled upon 'supposed' actual encounters with these types of entities; usually still, at first, but when noticed, or for whatever other reason, can be observed moving about the treetops in wooded areas although not limited to these types of locations.

When these entities are still they appear as a type of heat signature that resembles heat waves like that seen rising from the asphalt on a hot summer day or perhaps any other heat source that might create these wavy distortions of the air above.

Aside from the "heat signature" and as stated in the title they are otherwise transparent and you can just see right through them, and if there is at least a single grain of truth to be gleaned through all of this, one might presume that these are some form of aliens that are implementing this cloaking technology to avoid detection which seems to be around eighty-five to ninety-five percent effective as ballpark approximation.

I've also heard stories of schizophrenics observing transparent entities as well, but they seem to be of a different flavor that don't align as well with the "Predator" types.

No need for videos here. Any video hosting platform should yield sufficient using the above title as search criteria.

Yup!  Interesting research into misinformation propagation has led to a single culprit...

Reviewing posting activity on X (formerly Twitter) researchers found these villains' who while accounting for only 0.3% of users, were responsible for spreading 80% of the links to "fake news sites."

Who are these horrible people?... "Older women."

From ArsTechnica: Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women
 

This video may not stay up for very long so get it while you can.