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Tuesday, 30 December 2025

LINUX IS FINALLY REPLACING WINDOWS

Since Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 and tried to force everyone to use their appalling spyware system, Windows 11, their past decade of utter bullshit finally seems to be catching up with them.

lt's only this year that the Linux desktop operating systems seem to have finally gone from being geek only - 1-4% of desktop users, to this sudden rapid rise that could mess up the big players - if Windows drops from say 75% down to 50%, while Linux jumps up from 2% to 25% that is really going to shake things up.

In the past Microsoft have rolled out crappy new operating systems and everyone has just "updated" to whatever is put in front of them, even if it is a major step backwards. Like Windows 10 was after Win 7, let alone Win 8 after Win 7. But Win 11 has really created a backlash. It is obvious spyware as well as complete garbage, and many people are not happy. 

I use Linux Mint myself, but I also recommend Linux Zorin.
 

 "Zorin OS, an excellent Linux desktop, reports that its latest release, "Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release." What makes it especially interesting is that over "78% of these downloads came from Windows" users.

Now, that's got my attention... 780,000 Windows users don't download a 3.5 Gigabyte Linux desktop distribution if they're not giving it serious consideration. Linux desktop fans download different distros all the time. For them, it's a hobby.

For Windows users? You have to think they are considering making the Linux switch.

Many have already been making the leap. By May 2025, StatCounter data showed the Linux desktop had grown from a minute 1.5% global desktop share in 2020 to above 4% in 2024, and was at a new American high of above 5% by 2025"

 https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/ 

 

Monday, 29 December 2025

JESUS DOES NOT APPROVE

Jesus is not down with this sort of thing

The joys of a continuous feed - Something I like about Blogger is that because the feed is continuous, flowing through from one post to the next, it is perfectly set up to throw in random images, art, lolpics, memes and gifs to make the whole thing a total crack up!

Sunday, 28 December 2025

REVISITING THE BEATLES

As a music fan and “conspiracy theorist” I’ve long been confused and conflicted about The Beatles. Part of what keeps pulling me back to look at them is that I've never really understood this story, but I suspect that it ties into almost every deep state cover up for the past 60 years.

And another aspect is that despite living on the opposite side of the globe (I’m not a flat earther), my mother was from Liverpool, and I spent some time there, staying with relatives as a child. 

People I spoke to who lived there in the early 60’s had never seen or even heard of them back then, and were stunned when they became “bigger than Jesus” all around the world.

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On the one hand I think they performed some of the greatest pop songs ever written. They influenced many of my favourite bands – everyone from Split Enz to Joy Division. But my favourite Beatles track, “Rain” was never even on an album…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cK5G8fPmWeA

On the other hand I hate some of their music as much as any music I’ve ever heard. For example, I think a lot of the album “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band” is horrible – really creepy. And that is just based on the music, let alone the fact that it’s filled with satanic and deep state references from the cover to the final track.

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They put out all sorts of amazing and really advanced music, but as soon as you start delving into the rabbit hole that is The Beatles, the cover ups and mismatched stories are endless.

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There are so many conflicting theories it’s hard to know where to start. But here are three things I am certain of. There was more than one person playing the role of “Paul McCartney”, they did not write nor play all the music that is credited to them, and John Lennon was not assassinated in 1980.

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http://mileswmathis.com/paul8.pdf

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http://mileswmathis.com/lennon.pdf

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Saturday, 27 December 2025

SIFT JUST HIT 200k

I like round numbers so this is pretty cool. By lucky coincidence the hit count on this www.sift.co.nz blog has just hit 200k which fits in nearly perfectly with the end of it's second year.

In the first year (2024) it only racked up 38k hits, but during 2025 things have been slowly picking up speed and it has drawn to a close with more than 162k hits this year, to be on track to comfortably get up well over 200k total hits before the end of 2025.

This seems like a good time to celebrate by posting some crack up pictures!
 

 













 


Friday, 26 December 2025

A GREAT PSYOP

Some psyops are all too obvious, and while it can still be fun to expose the more obvious ones from time to time, and they can certainly be a good introduction to psyops for newcomers to the world of false narratives we live in, they are really not very challenging.

I often use "the moon landings" as a prime example of these sort of stories - once widely believed, but now quite widely disbelieved, the sci-fi narratives of "moon landings" and "space travel" just fall to bits with even the most basic investigation. 

At the opposite end of the spectrum I would put The Beatles. While I do think they too are a psyop, I also appreciate that they did produce a vast catalogue of often quite amazing music.


Back in July, I re-posted this fascinating article about the Beatles and theTavistock Institute and as is often the way when researching this subject, it makes some really valid points that do fully check out, but it also spouts some utter crap that doesn't.

And that is why The Beatles are such a fascinating psyop to research. I think they are a genuinely complex story, that combines some of the most advanced psychological manipulations ever carried out by the deep state, with real musical talent, personality, and creatively. 

Even amongst the most advanced and devious intelligence agencies in the world, to successfully put it all together like this was a one off.

I sometimes say that the "alternative" media is every bit as fake as the "mainstream" media, and I like to use "Alex Jones" (Bill Hicks) as the most obvious example of that. Like the moon landing story, I think the Alex Jones story just falls to bits as soon as you start looking into it.

To me, The Beatles story is nothing like that, because not only did they put out a huge body of music, they also did so much that was really original, and if there is one thing that intelligence agencies are not well known for, it's artistic creativity. 

On the one hand, the story that the original left handed Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in 1966, and was replaced by a right handed look alike in 1967, really does check out, and I did a post about all that here


But on the other hand, somebody did create all that music. If the Tavistock Institute with their nearly unlimited budget could just assemble the best musicians and churn out music like a production line, why did it only fully work with The Beatles?. 
 
Personally I think there is a much more obvious case to be made that The Rolling Stones were at least partly a deep state creation. But to me The Stones never had the creativity of The Beatles, and apart from some stand out tracks in the late 60's, I think they became repetitive and boring.
 
So despite not being a real Beatles fan, this story keeps pulling me back in. I'm 100% sure there were devious intelligence agency manipulations being carried out, but the lines were really blurred. 
 
No way these two photos are of the same guy: 
 

But this song from 1966, so still with the original Paul McCartney, is really good:  The Beatles - Rain  - it's my favourite Beatles song and it was clearly a massive influence on dozens of bands over the next half century.