What, actually, is money? Who creates it? Who benefits from this system? (Hint: not you and me) realonomics.substack.com/p/a…

The petition to stop folic acid entering our flour is on 7,337 votes after three days. Please keep sharing with friends and family. If we kept up the current rate we could reach the target by the end of July. petition.parliament.uk/petit…

Nissan trolls Ferrari by joking the luxury automakers $640,000 new electric ‘Luce’ vehicle looks like a Nissan.

This database contains more than 300 peer-reviewed papers that question key pillars of the climate narrative. The papers cover temperature attribution, solar variability, greenhouse gas physics, ocean chemistry, and sea level change. A 2024 Nature paper, for example, finds no detectable surge in the rate of global warming beyond the 1970s. While a William Happer study examines atmospheric radiative transfer and finds additional CO2 produces diminishing warming due to absorption band saturation. Research by Judith Curry highlights large uncertainties in sea level projections. While other studies examine solar variability and natural circulation patterns as major climate drivers. Many papers question climate model reliability and attribution methods that link modern warming to human CO2 emissions. At the very least, these 300 plus studies show that climate science remains an active field of debate, not the 'settled science' often presented to the public.

Uzbekistan’s football team were subjected to intensive screening at the airport in NY, including a search by a drug dog. The Dutch team wasn’t subjected to the same treatment. Senegalese players were subjected to intrusive security checks. Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein, who is his national team’s vice-captain and one of the country’s key players was detained at Chicago’s O’Hare airport for interrogation that lasted almost seven hours. The Iraqi national team’s official photographer was denied entry without any explanation and deported from the US. Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — Africa’s Referee of the Year 2025 — was denied entry at Miami Airport on June 6 in spite of holding a valid visa and a diplomatic passport. The Iranian team can only enter the US to play their games but will not be allowed to stay overnight, they will be forced to enter and exit the United States on the same day. This is really ugly, America.

An Italian researcher has been analyzing excess mortality data from central and southern Italy, and what he found in the numbers directly undermines one of the central claims of the pandemic narrative. Excess deaths in those regions were higher in 2022 than in 2021, and higher than in 2020, during a period when COVID deaths were declining. When asked whether the data support the claim that COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, his answer was unambiguous: That cannot be true. The numbers say otherwise. But the more significant finding involves how deaths were classified. In Italy, anyone who died within 14 days of receiving a vaccine was counted as unvaccinated. Every death in that window was placed into the wrong category. That single accounting decision, the researcher argues, is what created the statistical foundation for the narrative of a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." As Italy rolled out vaccines to specific age groups in sequence, deaths in those same age groups would spike among people classified as unvaccinated, in direct coincidence with the vaccine rollout for that cohort. The same pattern repeated across each age group as the rollout reached them. Those deaths were not occurring in unvaccinated people. They were occurring in the newly vaccinated, and the 14-day classification rule was moving them into the wrong column.

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet. Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States. The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2. Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better. The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara. Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

How to manufacture a crisis: A WHO commission wants to declare climate change a “global health emergency.” Their big evidence? Rising heat deaths in Europe. But once you adjust for an ageing society, the “crisis” essentially disappears. Even more dishonestly, the report conceals that cold deaths have declined by approximately 250 times as much as heat deaths have risen. wsj.com/opinion/global-warmi…

Encouraging statement from Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England. The BoE is telling you: use it or lose it. Make sure you use it. @Togetherdec telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

Warning, this story is disturbing. beeley.substack.com/p/ritual…

Short term profit maximising and longevity are frequently in conflict, so large companies often behave destructively. Small businesses and worker co-operatives rarely make these kinds of fatal errors. instagram.com/reel/DY6u4eJOw…

Already by the 1970s, top energy analysts knew abundant natural gas would displace coal, resulting in lower emissions. And so Malthusian scientists, in order to create their outlandishly apocalyptic scenarios, demonized them as climate deniers and drove them out of the IPCC.

Wanting to sign a deal with the USA is a strange concept. With the Native Americans the USA signed 374 treaties; NONE were kept. Yes, NONE. Lavrov calls the USA 'agreement incapable' - because they never keep their promises. It's not a matter of being capable or not, actually. The USA historically uses negotiations and treaties as military offensives. It's invariably a strategic trap, based on deception and hiding their true intentions. When they inevitably break the deal later, they shrug, as if to say: it's not our fault you were stupid enough to believe us. And if that's what they're thinking, they are right. Signing any agreement with them, in the expectation that they will keep their end of the deal, is indeed stupid. There's only one entity worse than the USA in this aspect, and that is 'Israel'. Moral of the story is: don't ever sell your soul to the devil.

"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band. The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September). Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.

57 Arab and Muslim countries OFFERED Israel PEACE in 2024. GUARANTEED SECURITY included in exchange for a Palestinian state and an end to the occupation. Israel REFUSED. Then Israel turns around and claims “they don’t want peace” while acting as the MAIN obstacle to any peace.

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear. The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day. After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this. Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017. The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around. Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

Did you know that in 2014 Ukraine needed a loan? There were two offers on the table: 🔴 The IMF dangled $15 billion,but with strings attached: -Scrap the ban on private land ownership. -Slash pensions and fuel subsidies,classic austerity. 🔴 Russia also offered $15 billion,no strings, no neoliberal gutting of the economy. President Yanukovych picked the Russian deal. So what happened? Washington backed a coup, ousted him, and installed a new puppet regime. The new government bent the knee to the IMF, signed off on austerity program and opened the door to privatization. Now, massive chunks of Ukrainian land,about a third,are in the hands of foreign giants like BlackRock.

Every year the sun comes out, and the weather reports all lose their minds about "record temperatures" (that were equalled in 1944 and 1922, so, in reality, hot weather in May really is nothing new.) Moreover, the news readers completely ignore the fact that last week we were all in winter clothing & had the heating on because it was really bloody cold! "Come on team, how can we make the weather more scary?" "Ooo, I know, put lots of red on it!" "Yeah, but we did that last year..." "OK, put really dark red on it!" "Yeah, but I want to go even bigger, we've really got to scare the public into believing global warming is an imminent threat." "I've got it! BLACK! Black and red!" "By jove, you've cracked it!!" "And also... Dragons! And death and stuff!" Some time later... "And now... the weather."