BLOWING UP POLITICIANS

Today is November 5th - Here in New  Zealand we used to CELEBRATE BLOWING UP POLITICIANS on this day every year. 

Which is a damn good idea really, that is certainly something worth celebrating. Every year on November the 5th, we used to have a huge public celebration of blowing up politicians with lots of bombs. It was called Guy Fawkes.

Rather than hiring hundreds of crisis actors to lie about in the streets pretending to be dead, we would just buy a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Chinese fire works and let them off over the harbour.

And instead of freaking out for months about “terrorists” and “lone shooters” we would just go “awesome, that looked cool”

But for some strange reason, the worthless treasonous scum who call themselves "politicians" banned Guy Fawkes and turned it into some meaningless woketard public firework display on a different day that nobody gives a toss about. 

One year back in the old days I felt that my pictures of the fireworks could be a bit more abstract, so here are some unrealistic photos of the fireworks display over Wellington Harbour.

KIWIS vs. AUSSIES

Bleeding Aussie Roo Shaggers

As a Kiwi, sometimes I am horrified to be mistaken for an Aussie. Usually by Americans. So now I’m going to explain some key differences between Kiwis and Aussies.

People in other countries often assume that because we are neighbours, we are just like each other, and great mates as well. But nothing could be further from the truth. We are more like North and South Korea, Serbia and Croatia, or England and Ireland.

First the big issue, the elephant in the closet. Aussies shag Kangaroos. It is a bizarre obsession, and they do it constantly. In a desperate attempt to cover up this national embarrassment they have even made up a story that Kiwis shag sheep. So despite the fact that this has never happened, they always refer to us as “sheep shaggers”

And the next big one is that they can’t speak English properly. So again they have made up a story to cover up the embarrassing truth. Because there are some vowels they can’t pronounce, they claim that they have no issues with their own speech, and it’s Kiwis that are wrong.

The most famous example is “fish and chips” Aussies can’t pronounce either of these words so they say “feesh and cheeps”. Although anyone who can speak English properly can hear this obvious balls up, as a cover story they accuse Kiwis of saying “fush and chups”

Then there is the whole Rugby thing. Aussies are obsessed with Rugby, it’s their national sport, but they are not very good at it. In fact every time there is a NZ vs Aus test match they get totally spanked by the All Blacks, and have their arses handed to them on a plate.

So in typical Aussie fashion they have invented their own version of Rugby that no other country plays. It’s even called “Aussie Rules”. Odd looking men in tight shorts wrestle about in a homoerotic fashion in front of stadiums filled with drunken Aussies fantasizing that they are watching some public roo shagging.

Another issue of great contention is the Pavlova theft. Australia was originally set up by the English as a penal colony – a place to ship all their criminals to, and get rid of them once and for all. So Aussies, in between shagging kangaroos, like to steal things. It’s in their blood.

At some point they decided to steal our national pudding, claim they invented it, and then to add insult to injury, they now claim we stole it from them.

An area that Australia really is world famous for, is feminism. NZ was the first country in the world to give women the vote, and New Zealand is ranked number 4 behind Iceland, Norway and Sweden on the Women in Work Index.

Australia meanwhile, is just famous for its angry militant feminists.

An Aussie “feminist” called Clementine Ford regularly makes headlines for saying things like “Have you killed any men today? – If not, why not?” And the scary thing is that she is not a stand up comedienne taking the piss out of femnazis. She is a regular Aussie femnazi!

While these things are some of the more critical issues for any Kiwi to keep in mind, I suppose I had better add in another key fact for overseas readers. Australia is a vast desert with hardly any people in it, just millions of dingos and kangaroos. They have the most poisonous spiders and snakes of any country, their rivers are filled with crocodiles and the surrounding sea is filled with sharks.

New Zealand has no dangerous or poisonous animals. None at all. We just have millions of sheep and soft cuddly possums. Australia has possums too, but theirs are really ugly looking things. And that is an analogy for the whole NZ vs Aus thing. Yes we have similarities, but in every case NZ is totally superior.

A NZ possum – we have over 30 million of these cute animals, and they are treated like a national treasure

Australia has more than 30 creatures that can kill someone in less than the time it takes to post a Tweeter status update “I’ve been swimming with some friendly jellyfeesh but now I feel a bit sheet so I’m going to…”

Both countries are well aware of these underlying truths, but only one has dedicated the past century to making up ever more deranged stories in a desperate attempt to disguise the fact that they can’t say “chips”

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FIRST DAY OF SUMMER

Today is the first day of summer. At least it is if you live in the southern hemisphere. If you live in the northern hemisphere it's the start of winter so you are buggered...

And it only is if you live in New Zealand, because everywhere else is a day behind us. So what I'm essentially saying is that if you live anywhere else but New Zealand, you are late, and tomorrow you will be buggered. Sorry...

 If you are a flat earther how on earth do you explain any of this? No, on second thought, don't tell me, I really can't be bothered with flat earthers, so now I'll just have a few lols instead.

FOR ME OR FOR YOU?

Holy cow, today is the last day of October. It seems like only last week I was freaking out that another month had gone by in two weeks. But that was actually the last day of September. Today it feels like the entire month of October has whizzed by in just seven days. Is time accelerating?.

An ongoing question that I've never really come to a firm conclusion about is "Who am I actually writing blog posts for, myself or a possibly imaginary audience?".

Something that threw me a bit this year was finding that if I didn't do any posts for a month, my daily hits appeared to increase, and if I did more posts than my usual one each day, my hits appeared to decrease. That is really quite perplexing, and I have ruminated about it from time to time...

Looking at which posts consistently get the most hits, the clear leader is the one about the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price

I'm really pleased to be publicizing and sharing this amazing book from 1939, which I rate as both the best nutrition and the best anthropological book of all time.

But beyond that, my most popular posts are usually just collections of random memes that I tend to slap together when I feel like a lol and can't be arsed writing anything long winded. 

Maybe 10 years ago about half of all internet traffic was still actual real people, living humans surfing the internet, including the people reading blog posts. But here in 2025 I'm convinced that is no longer the case, and now I suspect something like 90% of all internet traffic is AI.

So I seem to be claiming here that time is accelerating and nearly everybody online is a bot. That all sounds totally fruit-loops doesn't it? I can't prove either of those claims are true, but I know I'm not the only person thinking along those lines, because I've seen other people voicing similar thoughts. At least I think they were people, but they actually could have been bots too.

To stir things up a bit I like to make some changes each month, especially to my blog. For November I'm going to try making the following three changes to this blog: 

1. To post whatever I feel like, long or short, anything from full length posts with references, down to single memes with no words at all. 

2. To post whenever I feel like posting something, so if I feel like doing a heap of posts on one day I will, but if I can't be arsed posting anything at all for a few days, so be it.

3. To post for the primary audience of myself, not giving a toss what anyone else might think, or caring whether or not any of my posts are likely to draw in "hits" or not. 

At the moment this blog is literally jumping up and down each day from around 250 daily hits lows, up to occasional 1400 hits on one day highs.  That makes no sense to me, but if it's all meaningless, why do I give a toss anyway?.

 

A QUARTER CENTURY

I find it a bit daunting to get my head around this, but in one form or another I've been blogging since the start of 1999. Back then we seriously thought there was going to be a massive computer crash on the last day of the year/century, and took care to save decent backups of everything offline.

This particular incarnation of the Sift blog only goes back two years, but my "Sift" blog has been around for over a quarter of a century, and the logo was a remix of the Shift motocross clothing brand from the from the 90's.

For most of that time my posts have been totally random, and I averaged only about two posts a week for 25 years, but for some reason I became more anal at the start of 2024 and decided to start aiming to do a post of some sort every day.

I'm not trying to make them all great masterpieces or anything, some are just stuff like one liners with a meme, but it has been a strange ambition at the back of my mind to match the number of blog posts with the number of days each month. Why?, I have no idea...

So the two months this year (May & July) where I skipped posting for the month were actually unusual breaks in a very long running habit. Those months off were experiments to test two things:

Firstly I wanted to see if I missed blogging? - Yes, I did, and by the end of a month I was definitely hanging out to post something.

And secondly I wanted to see if not posting had any effect on the number of "hits" my blog got. I expected that not posting would reduce the number of hits, so was quite surprised in May when they went up. And that was why I repeated the experiment again in July. Again, the hits went up when I stopped posting. Odd.

This post: "MY AI AUDIENCE" goes on about that subject further.
 

My best theory about what is going on is that most internet traffic is now AI, and traffic flows are being used to shape the entire internet. If I'm not posting anything on my Blogger blog, Google (who own Blogger) want to encourage me to keep the blog alive, so they increase my traffic to make posting seem more worthwhile. 

But if I am regularly posting, Google, who I'm sure would actively dislike my content, might reduce their AI hits, in the hope of either driving me away altogether, or in a misguided attempt to motivate me to post more approved content. Neither option seems to have worked out for them, but yes, that really is all I came up with...

Now when I look over my posts for the year, those two months with only one post are blots on my blogging landscape, and I have an urge to go back and fill them out. It's very unlikely that many actual people will ever look at anything I retrospectively post way back in May or July, so this will be entirely just for my own anal perfectionism.

I'm going to look back over my old posts, attempting to find some that I haven't already updated or re-posted here on this current Sift blog, that I still think are relevant and interesting in 2025.  And if I find any, I'll stick them into the empty days of July first. 

If it doesn't all work out well, that may be the end of this somewhat odd plan, but if I do find heaps of suitable posts, I'll fill out July, and then maybe even go back further and do May as well.
 

BACK IN 2003

Wayback Machine is Fully Going Off

 

Using Wayback Machine  I can check out my websites from more than 20 years ago! This is what my original Sift homepage looked like 22 years ago

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I Sift, therefore I am sifty Sifting can potentially cultivate a much more aware state of mind than, say, mindless consuming and generalised believing. Hidden underneath all the worthless misinformation that flows freely out to us everyday, are some rare gems of truth. But you have to sift for them. Sifting about on the net, I’ve found myself drawn to some seemingly diverse subjects such as nutrition, health, marijuana, hemp, consumerism, capitalism, chaos theory, organics, censorship, drugs, doctors, warez, hacking, advertising, corporations, chemicals, GE, computers, free trade, and of course the USA and it’s uncontrolled world domination fetish. That’s a wide range of subjects and I’m too lazy to get into all of it, so a lot of the stuff on this site relates to health issues, as lately I’ve been spending a lot of my time working on my health, and researching diet and nutrition, But the thing I have found repeatedly, is that once you start digging around, everything starts to follow a similar pattern. Basically, it seems that if something is widely reported, it is probably false, whether it’s about healthy food, or terrorist attacks. The way these things tend to interlink, and the patterns they each repeat, open up a clearer way of looking at things. An alternative perspective, distilled through sifting. A bigger picture. There are many people on the Internet who are trying to distribute quality information. But most punters are not ready or willing to even consider it – they are too thoroughly indoctrinated. So it stays submerged. One of my friends responded to this site with “I just maintain a state of apathetic cynicism and avoid thinking about all this stuff” And that’s a reasonable reaction, there’s no point getting stressed about it all. But on the other hand, we are getting shafted and lied to so frequently that it’s hard to just ignore it. And I think that right now there are enough people becoming aware of what’s going on to start fighting back. Knowledge is power. For example, if enough people are aware of the real reasons that America attacked Iraq, or of America’s history of world domination and how taking over Iraq fits into that, or that the “war on terrorism”, like the “war on drugs” is a complete scam, intended only to increase America’s power, then maybe that will help to make the actions of the US backfire on them. Every aware person is only a drop in the ocean, but every drop can help dilute the tide of oppression that’s coming from the likes of the US government, and the overbearing evil of multinationals such as Monsanto. The Internet is still a place where the individual can fight back. Let’s keep it that way. As I find interesting new stuff, I’ll post some bits of it along the way, and make a sort of documented sifting scrapbook. Siftings from the sifterhood. As a rough guide, the text in red is generally stuff I have slapped together myself, while the blue text is stuff I have shamelessly ripped off wholesale from other sites and books, with as little editing as possible. I am a firm believer in the motto “information wants to be free” Once something is posted on the net it’s like tossing a bottle in the sea – who knows where it will end up… So feel free to recycle anything on this site – if it’s in red it may even be original and a credit to www.sift.co.nz would be much appreciated. Wherever possible I have left in credits for the sources of all the material I have ripped off, and that to me is cool – I realise not everyone agrees with that, but as I am trying to show on this website, there are generally two sides to most arguments. (And the other side are generally a bunch of idiots!) Much of this site contains personal opinion. But I believe the factual content is accurate. If you have clear evidence that would dispute or add to any of the statements on this site, feel free to send it to me. I have just added a feedback page for responses to the site. The most popular page on this site has been the Coca-Cola one. It’s my theory that is was getting the most hits because I had put the link to it as “coke”. That’s now been changed to Coca-Cola, so if it becomes less popular, I’ll take it as a sign that people really want to read about drugs. That they want to read about Colombian drug dealers hoovering up mountains of coke off glass top tables in expensive nightclubs. Maybe they want to look at porn and read about coke. There’s certainly some good sifting material in those subjects, so who knows… People keep paying me to do stuff for them. It takes time and interferes with my sifting. Sometimes it’s a problem. Sometimes I just sift anyway, and things I was going to do remain undone. This site still hasn’t got much stuff on it yet…. But it’s on my list. It’s number 186. I’ll be back.
What’s New (Site last updated July 2003) Marijuana – The Oppression of Hemp and Marijuana SARS – Disease or Global Scam? Purple – The Colour Purple – is it Gay? Apricot Kernels – Toxin or Superfood? September 11 – did George Bush know? Microwave – Carcinogenic Convenience Food…

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