EX-FRIENDS

In the 90's I was co-owner of a small but popular Wellington business. We had hundreds of customers and many of them became friends beyond being customers.

After closing the business down I stayed in contact with lots of them online, and because we had a shared interest in cycling and a bunch of other connections, I often tended to underestimate how large the gulf was growing between myself and many of them in terms of our "World Views".

Up until 911 I had never even thought much in these terms, but some of them were turning into what I would later come to call “libtard normies”, and to them I was becoming what they would later call a “conspiracy theorist”.

After 911 this slowly became an ever increasing problem. On the social media platforms that we interacted on, some exchanges became quite heated and unfriendly.

In fact some of these ex-friends became really angry, to the point of becoming abusive. And from time to time even some of the calmer ones said things like "stop saying X or I will unfriend you”. It’s safe to say I didn't stop saying X and they did unfriend me.

I disagree with lots of people about all sorts of things, but I wouldn't usually demand that anyone changed their opinion to match mine online. At least I wouldn’t generally have done that up until convid, but after that epic storm in a teacup, if they were a vaxtard or a masktard, I would relatively politely tell them they were a clueless moron and stop interacting with them.

For me this threatening to unfriend posturing was rare up until 911, but it increased after that massive false flag, and then it started increasing further when I began posting about fake germ theory and the lies of virology during the SARS hoax. Then the number of angry reactions started to grow.

But that was all insignificant compared to the shit storm of the covid hoax. Around 2020 there were all sorts of believers stalking around the internet looking to make ex-friends online, and in real life there were plenty more of them out looking to stir up trouble as well.

Like most people who were aware of what was going on during the big plandemic, I knew that I was outnumbered by a herd of angry mind controlled zombies, so I politely said things like "I have an exemption" whenever I was harassed in public for not wearing a face nappy.

These days I'm well past using “exemption” excuses, so I probably won't be that polite next time around if any believers ask me to submit to the face nappy again.

What got me revisiting all this old negativity again was seeing someone online lamenting the fact that not one of their ex-friends had ever apologized to them for being wrong or even admitted that they were wrong.

At the same time they were also noticing that they had seen many of them posting that it was all water under the bridge and it was time to forgive and move on.

I wonder how long it took the French people to forgave Nazi collaborators after WW2 ended? Had they “moved on” by 1951?

Although I often struggle with it, I do grasp the importance of forgiving and letting go, so I usually try not to be too unpleasant to delusional mind controlled normies, but that is mainly for my own mental health.

No, I don't think I'll ever really forgive them, but as far I know I no longer have any friends who are still full on convid believers. If I do that could become awkward because I regard believers as gullible idiots. So in my eyes they have no real credibility about anything else either.

Sometimes there is discussion of society being divided in two in order to make us easier to control, and that is certainly happening. I guess we could just pretend to have forgiven and moved on, but the convid believers exposed their true colours for everyone to see and that can never really be undone.

When the next wave of psyops start (and many already have) the normies will fall for them hook line and sinker again. Would you buy a car that was blowing smoke and making a clunking noise?

No, people are not all equal, and gullible normies are best avoided. That may not be the best path to be on socially or even psychologically, but it's what I really think.

Apologies here to Louise Hay, I'm not writing this as spiritual guidance, but mainly for anyone else who like me, probably won't be forgiving those clueless convid clowns until hell freezes over.
 

Thanks and best wishes to all my old friends who didn't fall for the last wave of globalist lies and are still friends to this day. Stay strong for the next wave!

WATCHING THE WATCHES

Ever since I was a kid I've always worn Casio Digital watches, and I still do. Now I have a stylish looking purple one that I splashed out NZ$59 for because I'm fairly loaded these days and like to make a statement.

Time for me has always been digital, and to read an analogue clock I have to do a sort of mental conversion to digital in order to really get a sense of what the actual time is.

As well as being digital, the main thing I'm looking for in a watch is simple efficiency. I want a reliable digital watch that’s accurate, comfortable to wear and easy to read. Casio watches tick all those boxes and they are surprisingly cheap as well.

The whole idea of trying to show off how bling you are with ostentatious displays of jewelry like watches has always seemed really fake, try hard, and retarded to me.

I don't think I've ever spent more than NZ$100 on a watch and I've never had any desire to.

But I do follow FI racing and was aware that many of the drivers wear stupidly expensive watches that they are sponsored to show off to their fans.

The sort of prices I was imagining on the F1 grid were around US$20k - about twice the price of a Rolex, so it was a bit of a surprise to find out they go way higher than that.

Lewis Hamilton has the dearest watch of any F1 driver. An unreadable abomination allegedly "worth" US$2.3 million.

Max Verstappen has the cheapest F1 watch at a miserly US$6.6K. He let's his driving do the talking. But holy shit, that is the ugliest watch I've ever seen. I wouldn't pay $20 for that stupid looking thing.

 
If I ever want to look wealthy and bling, I might splash out for a retro Casio. This one would do me. It's a bit pricey at NZ$139 but it has that fully loaded look, so if I really wanted to impress, I might consider going that high.

KEEP ON THINKING

This is very prophetic now that we live in a society of jabbed up zombie phonetards who wouldn't notice if there were lines in the sky and poison in the water...

 

 

Hannah Arendt warned us 70 years ago: the real danger isn't making people believe lies—it's making them give up on truth entirely. 

 

She was a German-born political philosopher who survived the rise of Nazism, fled Europe, and spent the rest of her life trying to understand how civilized societies descend into totalitarian nightmares. 

 In 1951, she published "The Origins of Totalitarianism," a work that remains chillingly relevant today. Arendt's central insight was this: 

 

Totalitarian systems don't succeed by convincing people of their ideology. They succeed by destroying people's ability to think at all.

 

In her most famous observation from that book, Arendt wrote:

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (and the distinction between true and false) no longer exists."

 

Read that again. The goal isn't belief—it's confusion. It's exhaustion. It's making people so overwhelmed by competing claims, so buried in lies and counter-lies, that they simply give up trying to know what's real. 

 

When you can no longer tell truth from lies, you can no longer tell right from wrong. And when that happens, you become easy to control—not because you've been persuaded, but because you've stopped trying to think for yourself.

 

Arendt understood something crucial: totalitarian education is not about indoctrination—it's about destroying the capacity to form any convictions at all. 

 

If people believe nothing, question nothing, and trust nothing, they won't resist anything. They'll float along, numb and passive, as the world around them darkens. 

 

In her later essay "Truth and Politics" (1967), Arendt explored how lies function in political systems. She observed that constant, pervasive lying doesn't just spread falsehoods—it erodes the very concept of truth. 

 

 

When everything is contested, when every fact is dismissed as partisan, when reality itself becomes a matter of opinion, then truth loses its power entirely. And when truth has no power, neither does justice, morality, or human dignity. 

 

Arendt watched this happen in real time in 1930s Germany. She saw how the Nazis didn't just lie—they created an environment where lying became so constant, so overwhelming, that ordinary people stopped caring what was true. They became numb. Cynical. Detached. And in that numbness, atrocities became possible.

 

She wrote about this not to assign blame, but to issue a warning: This can happen anywhere. It can happen to anyone. It starts not with violence, but with the slow destruction of our ability to distinguish reality from fiction. So what do we do? Arendt believed the answer lay in what she called "thinking."

 

Not just absorbing information, but actively engaging with it. Questioning. Reflecting. Holding multiple perspectives. Refusing to accept easy answers or simplistic explanations. 

 

She wrote: "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." Meaning: the moment we stop thinking critically, the moment we accept any narrative without question—even one we agree with—we've already lost. 

 
Totalitarianism doesn't announce itself with jackboots and tanks. It begins quietly, in the gradual erosion of our capacity to know what's real. It thrives in cynicism, exhaustion, and the belief that "all politicians lie" or "you can't trust anyone" or "who knows what's really true anymore? 

 

"That resignation—that exhaustion—is exactly what Arendt warned us about. Hannah Arendt died in 1975, but her warning echoes forward: Guard your capacity to think. Demand evidence. Distinguish between fact and opinion. Don't let the flood of lies make you give up on truth itself. Because once you stop caring what's true, you've already lost everything that matters.

 

The fight isn't just about believing the right things. It's about refusing to stop thinking at all

 

 

I CAN'T HELP MYSELF

Given how totally gross KFC both looks and smells, it boggles my mind that there are so many of these disgusting American franchises in New Zealand. 

I live just down the road from one, and every time I walk past it I inhale it's thick aroma of greasy chemicals and stare at fat people getting out of their cars in the car park. (Yes, for real, almost all their customers are fat).

About 30 years ago I tried eating one piece of KFC chicken but it was so revolting I spat it out. And it's safe to say I've never been tempted to try it again.

So avoiding KFC (or any other junk food) really isn't a problem, I'm simply not tempted. But giving up my last two social media temptations, Youtube and Facebook, has proven harder.

If they weren't trying to force feed me so much pathetic AI slop I would just keep on sneaking a quick look, but AI is like the stench of KFC, it wafts about, like a stenching fart that I I'm trying to avoid but keep noticing.

Miles Mathis (who is probably a fake himself) recently wrote this:

"Why is Youtube now overrun by fake AI videos like these claiming to be narrated by Joe Rogan . . . but not. Not only are the subjects fake, but Rogan isn't narrating them: an AI voice is mimicking him.

You can tell it isn't him because it is mispronouncing a lot of words Rogan knows how to pronounce. For instance, in one he mentions a date of 1992, but says “one-thousand nine-hundred and ninety-two”.

No human makes that mistake. And this is just one channel of many publishing hundreds or thousands of fake videos. Youtube has rules against things like this and it used to police them, but now it promotes them instead, I am guessing as part of Operation Chaos. 

The question is, why is Rogan allowing it? He has to know about it. 

It looks to me like AI has been tasked with creating literally millions of fake videos tailored for every possible interest, to snare you in an endless loop, waste as much of your time as possible, stir your brain, create fear and unease, and make it impossible for you to tell reality from fiction. Why? To
keep you from starting the revolution. 

 They want you to think Joe Rogan and his pals are on it, so you can just sit back and watch. You are supposed to believe that Trump and Rogan and Tucker and RFK, Jr., and a gaggle of CIA whistleblowers pretending to be white hats are rousting out the Deep State, starting with the Epstein files.

And they are going to clean up your food supply while they are at
it, as well as declassify the aliens, explain the pyramids, and tell you what happens after we die. Ain't it great? So you can sit on the sidelines and cheer, or go back to sleep.

Even worse, they mix in a lot of truth, for maximum confusion. I am not saying everything they say is wrong. Some of it, like outing fake food, is true. See Rogan outing Kraft mac and cheese as the garbage it is. 

Unfortunately, when this is mixed with a lot of AI fakes, most people can't tell the difference between the true stuff and the false, and they eventually give up trying. Which is of course the point of it: many will conclude the story about Kraft is as fake as the rest of it, and keep buying their old garbage food."

I can help myself, and I do fully intend avoiding all AI - if that means no more Youtube, so be it. I will miss a few things, like some of the music videos, but I have saved copies of all my favourite ones.

Admittedly I do still quickly check YouTube and Facebook most days, but I'm only engaging in that filthy habit as a sort of quick check to see what normies are freaking out about. Sort of like sniffing some KFC but not actually eating any! (At least that is what I'm telling myself)

Remember the 90's? No phones (I don't use those things either), no AI, and some of the music rocked!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gPTwY9cLM

UNCERTAIN TIMES

We now live in an era that has been deliberately engineered to create maximum uncertainty. For most of my life I was taught things, and even though many of them were complete bullshit, there was generally an overall sense that most people were on roughly the same page.

In 2026, unless we have inside info, we are entering into each new human interaction with no idea if we are dealing with an ally, or an enemy,

And then there are an entire separate class of people like Uber drivers, who only discuss superficial topics, and avoid anything controversial. Which is fully understandable, but this mindset has become so predominant that many young people now constantly say "yeah,nah" or use the word "like" so frequently, they seem to be unable to string together a sentence without saying it. Which results in them sounding "like" vague clueless morons.

For the past 20 odd years I've done my best to plainly state my position, not just online, but in person as well. That has included things like calling out germ theory five years before the covidhoax, and letting rip on woketards since I first got an internet connection back in the 90's.

But I have to admit that over the past five years I feel like I've run up against so many flavours of TARD that I've sometimes lost my will to bother resisting the clueless fuckers. During the covidhoax I never gave in and wore a submission muzzle, but I did just stop going into any business that demanded one. I wonder if they ever missed my cash?.

Locally quite a few of them have since closed down now so maybe they did, but I suspect they never made a direct connection between their drop in sales and them being pissy little masktard nazis back in 2021.

My current sense is that wheels have been set in motion, and there are several large events that are going to continue taking place over the next three years whether or not we are aware of them. One prediction I fully expect to see is a crash in the US$ and all the currencies that are linked to it, which certainly includes the NZ$.

The tricky thing is to somehow maintain a positive mental attitude and to stay focused on a plan even though I do think we are in the middle of a complete train wreck which is inevitably going to play out.

BEATING AROUND THE BUSHES

Why do so many people constantly beat around the bush, or sitting on both side of the fence, too afraid to say what they actually think?  

 I've really had enough of seeing a bunch of spineless twats desperately trying not to cause offense, in the hope of gaining some sort of reward for being popular. 

They call themselves "influencers" because they have masses of imaginary AI "followers".  Except that in reality they don't, because an AI follower is no more a real follower than a man in a dress is a real woman.

When you get down to it an AI follower is just as fucked up as a man in a dress. They are both just delusional fantasies. 

I've done a page summarising a bunch of things that most normies seem to believe - it's called "CONSPIRACY 101" and it includes all sorts of psyops from 911 to "vaccines" 

 

But right now there are some new things that a lot of people are beating around bushes on. Here are three that are very current right now:

1.AI  

AI is complete bullshit. It's not "a bubble", it's an all out scam. Right now, companies like Microslop (Windows 11) and Apple (Now paying billions to Google to rent a second rate version of their AI) are totally losing the plot. 

I wouldn't invest a cent in any company that was chasing an AI delusion. I fully expect the AI crash to make the EV crash look like a seniors beginner Yoga lesson.

2. MICROSLOP

Windows 11 is like a trillion dollar Linux marketing campaign. They may have gotten away with selling a lot of really shit sloperating systems over the past 30 years, but I fully expect Win 11 to take Microslop down. 

Their credit has run out, and even if they released Windows 12 next month and it was reasonably good, I think the damage is done now. Once people leave Microslop they never go back. 

3. FICTIONAL "GLOBAL WARMING" 

This is clearly the next big psyop planned to follow on the heels of the covidhoax. 

Greentards and normies will fall for it hook line and sinker, as they always do. But all the chemtrails and geoengineering in the world can't hide the fact the the earth is cooling, glaciers and areas of ice are growing, and sea levels are dropping.

https://www.climatedepot.com

 

MERRY NEW YEAR

A long standing tradition, that I've been doing since the dawn of time, is to do a blog post on the first day of each new year, usually called something like "NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS", in which I spell out my good intentions for the upcoming year.
 

I generally don't seem to end up doing many of them for very long, but at least I set out with some good intentions each year.

Here are my five resolutions for 2026 (five is always a good number for this sort of thing, simply because we have five toes on each foot):
 

 1. HEALTH

To focus firstly on my own health, by asking "Is this thought or action good for me?" And then to only do it if it is. I already eat pretty well and generally have fairly good habits, but the thing I think I really need to change is to shift towards a more positive focus. 

I'm sure Louise Hay would have recommended that! 

2. PINE

To apply the acronym "PINE" to what I say and post online. Check that it's Positive, Inspiring, Necessary or Entertaining. So I'll be aiming to stop going on about conspiracies for at least the next year. I've been doing quite a lot of that for the past 25 years, and although I've mostly been right, it probably hasn't really achieved much. 

Here's an example: This year rather than saying Microsoft are evil, I'll try to help people who already know that to switch over to Linux.

3. STAY FOCUSED 

To limit my looking at crap online to under 15 minutes a day. 

I'm now using an extension on Brave called "StayFocusd" and the sites I've got it monitoring include Youtube, Bitchute, and Facebook, which are essentially the last three remaining social media sites I was still looking at in 2025. Now after 15 mins they are being blocked. 

Essentially I can choose whether to let a bunch of deep state programmers use their lame AI to fill my mind with crap, or to choose to come up with my own thoughts.

4. LAUGH

To laugh more. Things are way too dark, serious, and depressing in fudporn world. 

If one of my enlightened objectives is to make woketards heads explode, taking the piss out of the clueless fuckers is probably one of the best tactics we have. 

We can either laugh or cry, but laughing is more fun.
 

5. MOVE ON

To let go and move on. There are all sorts of things that are beyond my control, like everything in the past for example, but I've been like a dog that won't let go of it's stick. 

I want to direct my attention at the things that matter and ignore the stuff that doesn't. 

OK that is probably a bit ambitious I know, but I'll give it another crack this year.

 

 

ENDING MY OBSESSION

I've decided that the end of 2025 will also mark the end of my two years daily www.sift.co.nz blogging. Posting something every day has been an entertaining experiment, but now I want to reduce my posting to a more random occurrence.

Some days I really feel like posting something, but some days I don't, and that is OK too. Being a completionist I'm going to keep doing a post each day until the end of this year, but from January 1st 2026 I'll just be posting whatever and whenever.

The truth is, I'm a bit burned out, and even with the blog hits now up well over 1000 on good days, that's still nothing to write home about. Back in the good old days (around 2017) I was getting more than 5000 hits a day, which was more impressive.

But it's not primarily about the hit count, it's more about watching what I essentially think is a giant fake global circus show, and having nothing very productive to say about any of it. I suspect that watching this endless flow of utter bullshit is just making me increasingly negative and cynical.

I used to think exposing psyops was helping to work against them, so that meant I was doing good work. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit now that after more than 20 years "conspiracy" research it's only in the past few years I've started to grasp that the puppet masters are not trying to hide their psyops any more.

On the contrary, they are doing their best to make them blatantly obvious. Back when they did the first fake moon landing in 1969, they were actually doing their best to make it look real. It looked utterly ridiculous, but that wasn't deliberate, they were just really bad at special effects back then. 

Last year when they pretended to shoot Trump's ear off, they knew full well it was obviously fake, but that was the desired intention.

It created division, between people who believe in official narratives, and people who can see obvious fakes. And that division is a key objective.

All the narratives both official and unofficial, are fake, but I've analysed them to death for decades and I really need to move on. I've already pretty much stopped looking at all media, and all social media too, apart from a quick daily look at Facebook.

But even looking at my Facebook feed of over 1500 "conspiracy theorists" posts in chronological order, pretty much everything on my feed is utter bollocks, and it seems to get more lame and retarded by the day. It's quite depressing to see how little ability even my own FB friends seem to have to differentiate shit from chewed dates. I'm on the brink of just giving up looking at even these last remnants of all the programming inputs. I probably will half heartedly keep a lazy eye on what today's stories are, but I've long since lost interest in most of it, even including posts from the "freedom" and "truther" movements, who seem to have no idea how completely they are being played. I'm hanging out to make a mental shift. I don't even want to wait until the new year, I just want to start right now. As part of that shift I don't even want to tell everyone about what I'm no longer doing, in some big explanatory blog post. I will just aim to quietly change and see how things work out.