JOHN LYDON INVENTED SOME COOL MUSIC

There was a time when music seemed like the real deal but that all ended decades ago.

Most old farts know that John Lydon started the punk scene rolling in 1977 with his band The Sex Pistols.

Never Mind The Bollocks immediately changed the face of music.

 

Just one year later in 1978, He did it again. With his new band Public Image Ltd (PIL) he invented new wave. But this time it took more than two years for most people to grasp what he had invented. New wave music then changed the entire decade – John Lydon invented the 80’s!

This video is from 1979. 45 years later it’s still mind blowing. Imagine what it must have been like for punters seeing all this for the first time back in 1979.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZ8unRm2c

“PiL managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and Metal Box is undoubtedly the apex. It’s a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk, hardly sounding like anything of the past, present, or future. Sure, there were touchstones that got their imaginations running — the bizarreness of Captain Beefheart, the open and rhythmic spaces of Can, and the dense pulses of Lee Perry‘s productions fueled their creative fires — but what they achieved with their second record is a completely unique hour of avant-garde noise. Originally packaged in a film canister as a trio of 12″ records played at 45 rpm, the bass and treble are pegged at 11 throughout, with nary a tinge of midrange to be found. It’s all scrapes and throbs (dubscrapes?), supplanted by John Lydon‘s caterwauling about such subjects as his dying mother, resentment, and murder. Guitarist Keith Levene splatters silvery, violent, percussive shards of metallic scrapes onto the canvas, much like a one-armed Jackson Pollock. Jah Wobble and Richard Dudanski lay down a molasses-thick rhythmic foundation throughout that’s just as funky as Can‘s Czukay/Leibezeit and Chic‘s Edwards/Rodgers. It’s alien dance music. Metal Box might not be recognized as a groundbreaking record with the same reverence as Never Mind the Bollocks, and you certainly can’t trace numerous waves of bands who wouldn’t have existed without it like the Sex Pistols record. But like an (imaginary)virus, its tones have sent miasmic reverberations through a much broader scope of artists and genres.”

https://www.allmusic.com/album/metal-box-mw0000714559

What initially got me thinking about this was that at some point music ceased to be an art form and became mind programming in every sense. This video explaining the whole thing – from why modern music is unlistenable shit through to why it is obsessed with anuses…

https://www.bitchute.com/video/njJ7GyFddM8q/

In just 40 years music went from Public Image Ltd to “Little Dickie”. Here is where I take a deep breath and be thankful I have lived in better times.

WHY PIRATE BAY RULES

 

 PIRATE BAY

This was the response from Svartholm Warg founder of Pirate Bay when threatened with legal action:

 "As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, U.S. law does not apply here . . . It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons"

He did end up getting sentenced to two years jail but that reply is epic!

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MICHELLE IS A TRANNY

“Michelle” Obama has a dick swinging all over the place, and Barry calls his “wife” Michael

 Back when Barry & Michael were still the head puppets in the white house many of us were trying to point out that Barry was gay and “Michele” was a tranny, but most people thought we were crazy conspiracy theorists” – LOL…

This is one of my old posts originally from 2017:

In a speech on September 30, 2011, at the transition or change-of-office ceremony of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Fort Myer, Virginia, Obama referred to his wife not as Michelle but as Michael. Obama clearly said: “Distinguished guests, men and women of the finest military in the world, most of all, Admiral Mullen, Deborah, Michael and I also want to acknowledge your son Jack who was deployed today, all of you have performed extraordinary service to our country….”

Note: Deborah is Admiral Mullen’s wife.

Even the text of the speech on WhiteHouse.gov says the same thing:

“Secretary Panetta, thank you for your introduction and for your extraordinary leadership. Members of Congress, Vice President Biden, members of the Joint Chiefs, service secretaries, distinguished guests, and men and women of the finest military in the world. Most of all, Admiral Mullen, Deborah, Michael and I also want to also acknowledge your son Jack, who’s deployed today. All of you have performed extraordinary service to our country.”

Admiral Mullen’s first name is Michael. However, throughout his speech, Obama referred to Mullen as “Mike,” not Michael.

It’s no accident that Obama’s wife goes by the name Michelle, for Michelle is the female version of the name Michael.

2. Michelle’s birth name was Michael?

Even before Obama’s gaffe, there were bloggers who said Michelle’s real (birth) name is Michael.

As an example, three months before Obama publicly referred to his wife as “Michael,” blogger Matthew B. Glosser wrote on June 30, 2011 that he was contacted by “an anonymous source” who claimed to be a former White House staff member of the Obama administration, specifically “a former member of the First Lady’s personal staff.” The source claimed to have sensitive information regarding a stunning revelation about Michelle Obama and wanted to arrange a meeting with Glosser in person to present the evidence for this claim.

Though initially skeptical, Glosser nevertheless met with the “anonymous source” on June 25, 2011. The source said “the major alphabet networks … are in the tank for Obama and it is network policy to cover up any critical stories regarding the President and his family. The White House has officially created a State media.” Then the source said the following about Michelle Obama:

Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, was born Michael LaVaughn Robinson in Chicago, Illinois on January 17th, 1964. He was the second son born to Fraser Robinson III, a well known cocaine dealer and union thug for Crime Lord/Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Marian Shields Robinson, a transient street prostitute who was diagnosed with the HIV virus in 1998. He [Michael] was a popular high school athlete and in 1982, he accepted a scholarship to play middle linebacker for the Oregon State Beavers.

After finishing a respectable rookie season with 88 tackles and 7.5 sacks, he suddenly dropped out of the school. Fellow teammates observed that Robinson could regularly be heard lamenting over how he is a “woman trapped inside a man’s body”, and on January 13th, 1983, he underwent sex reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To hide the shame of his new identity, Michael left Oregon State to attend Princeton University under his new legal name, “Michelle Robinson”. Years later, he met Barry Obama Jr. a Kenyan immigrant who later became aware of “Michelle’s” true identity. They subsequently married and adopted two children.

Writing for Examiner.com, Jan. 11, 2014, Dean Chambers says: “I have been unable to find any proof that a Michael LaVaughn Robinson even existed, and there is reasonable proof that Michelle LaVaughn Robinson (later Obama after marriage) has existed. Furthermore, there is no proof of a Michael Robinson playing linebacker for the Oregon State Beavers in 1981 or 1982.”

3. Pictures of Michelle’s strange crotch

Michelle was wearing this aqua blue dress when “she” gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention on August 25, 2008.

4. Michelle’s Physiognomy

A fascinating video systematically argues that physical traits, including Michelle’s fingers, shoulders, neck muscles, head-to-body ratio and trace of an Adam’s apple, all point to her being a biological male.

If this is true, it certainly would explain why we’ve seen no pictures of a pregnant Michelle, nor has anyone found birth records of “her” two daughters.

5. What Joan Rivers said

On July 3, 2014, after officiating at a wedding of two homosexuals in New York, comedienne Joan Rivers was asked by an off-camera reporter: “Do you think the country … United States will see the first gay president or first woman president?”

This is what Joan Rivers said, sounding weary and definitely not in a joking mood:

“We already have [the first gay president] with Obama, so let’s just calm down. You know Michelle is a tranny… a transgender. We all know.“

Two months to the day of Joan Rivers’ outing of the Obamas, she was declared dead after she had stopped breathing during a routine endoscopy in a clinic.

6. The Strange Bulge

On March 13, 2015, The Ellen DeGeneres Show released a preview clip for an upcoming episode showing Michelle Obama and DeGeneres dancing to the song “Uptown Funk.” Towering over Ellen and six other dancers, Mooch wore a pair of white pants and a black top and short jacket that reached to just below the waist, thereby exposing her crotch and hips.

 

AUSTRALIA

50 NOT SO WELL KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA

Some good ones...bloody roo shaggers

1. The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps.

2. 90% of Australians live on the coast.

3. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.

4. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space.

5. Australia has over 60 separate wine regions.

6. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world.

7. The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world.

8. The Great Ocean Road is the world's largest war memorial.

9. 80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia.

10. 5 km of Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) is underground.

11. Australia has the world's longest golf course measuring more than 1,350 kms long.

12. Australia is home to 21 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes.

13. Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD.

14. Australia is bigger than we realise, it's almost the same size as mainland USA.

15. The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia, Anna Creek Ranch in South Australia and it's bigger than Israel.

16. The first Police Force in Australia was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.

17. It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day – there are 10,685 of them!

18. AFL invented to keep cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians.

19. The world's largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia and actually twice the size.

20. Australia is the 6th largest country in the world.

21. There are 1 million camels that roam wild in Australia's deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world, they are exported to the Middle East.

22. You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other.

23. There are over 60 different types of kangaroos and a baby kangaroo when born is only about two centimeters long.

24. Aboriginal culture is the oldest on Earth – it is estimated that the continent's original inhabitants, the aboriginal people, have been in Australia for between 40,000-60,000 years.

25. Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites.

26. 91% of the country is covered by native vegetation.

27. 33% of Australians were born in another country.

28. Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. In fact, 21% of Australians don't speak English at home!

29. WA is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth – the Stromatolites.

30. Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.

31. In Australia, sheep out number people 2.5 to 1 (in 2020).

32. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.

33. Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation, with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind.

34. Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital.

35. Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long.

36. The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world – its waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit.

37. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country.

38. The world's oldest fossil was discovered in Australia – 3.4 billion years old.

39. Australia has around 600 varieties of eucalypt trees.

40. Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.

41. Stonemasons in Australia instituted the 8-hour working day back in 1856.

42. In Aboriginal culture women are not allowed to play the didgeridoo.

43. The venom of the elusive platypus can kill a small dog.

44. Australia's most deadly marine animal is the Box Jellyfish and is responsible for more deaths per year than snakes, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.

45. The only two mammals in the world that lay eggs are found in Australia – the echidna and platypus.

46. Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna, three-metre tall kangaroos, seven-metre long goanna's, horse-sized ducks and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard.

47. Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards. This was the reason they were chosen for Australia's coat of arms – to symbolise a country always moving forward.

48. The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on earth.

49. Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders.

50. The Great Victoria Desert is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom.

 

SHIT HAPPENS

 This may not be 100% true but it's a good story and shit happens...

PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper Frederic Briefed fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly — and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive-oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him like a dump truck full of mud.

"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him," said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern.

"With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated.

"It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that happen sometimes — a billion-to-one shot, at least."

The heartbreaking tale of constipation and tragedy began April 23 when the conscientious zookeeper noticed that his prize, 8,000-pound African elephant didn't seem to be producing his usual poop aplenty.

"Friedrich had actually been concerned for several days because he knew that severe constipation can kill an elephant," assistant zookeeper Kurt Herrman recalled.

"He told me he was going to stay late that Thursday night to treat Stefan with laxatives and possibly give him an enema.

"I offered to help, but he sent me on home, saying he had everything under control."

But two hours later, horrified night watchman Walter Pleuger found Friedrich lying lifeless under a mound of muck, his body visible only from the knees down.

 

"I had never really thought about it before," Det. Dern said. "But obviously, giving an elephant an enema can be a very dangerous activity — and not something that should be attempted alone."

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OVER TWO HOURS A DAY

 Ever wondered how much time we are wasting on social media? This is a pretty good summary page - https://www.demandsage.com/average-time-spent-on-social.../

The average amount of time per person in New Zealand is 2 hours 4 mins each day - we are ranked #8= in the world for this achievement - WTF?...

 

I WANTED TO BE WORSHIPED

 Back around a decade ago I had clearer ideas of what I wanted online, and why I was blogging. I stated my primary goals definitively...

"I want to be worshiped like an angry black man with a huge penis"

An archive of my original Sift blog

 

 But after that, doubts started to creep in and I lost sight of my goals...

"Is it worthwhile for me to write stuff? I am uncertain as to whether I can write any entertaining shit anymore, as at this point I am something of a boring old fart with little sense of humour or wit whose writing is so crap a previous version of me would have used it as inspiration as to how not to write"

I still want to change aspects of the world that are bollocks, by helping to expose these things, thereby shifting the tides of perception. We are all only small cogs in a huge machine, but we can still make an annoying high pitched noise that makes the machine sound totally fucked.

SIFT ARCHIVE PAGE

Being a bit of a completionist, for some reason I wanted to copy the content from my original Sift Blogger blog from over a decade ago, and add it all as a single page to this blog. Some of it still amuses me and this entire blog is primarily for my own amusement so why not? The all old SIFT archive page.

 

Somewhere around 2009 to 2013 I used to have a blog on Blogger. That blog was the inspiration for this new 2024 version. I'm not certain what the exact time span of the original was because the dates on the posts all seem to have disappeared. The most recent post was about the abomination that was Windows 8 and that came out in 2013 so I guessed the date from that.

 

Around that time I was posting on quite a few platforms and Blogger was certainly not my number one daily driver. I just used to do some occasional short posts on it. Apart from one post when I first set up this new blog in 2023 I never posted on that old blog after 2013, so after a decade away I was actually quite surprised that Google hadn't deleted it all. 

 

 

 

But some of the content certainly doesn't amuse Google's AI, so this is not quite all of it, only what Google will let me re-post. Back in the old days internet censorship wasn't as full on and the old blog seems to still be all online here.

NZ is cutting edge

No country in Europe is still poisoning it's citizens with fluoride.

 

 

Fluoridation has been rejected in just about every country in the world. Yet, here we are in New Zealand, the globalist "government" is extending fluoridation across the entire country.

 

No country in continental Europe has fluoridation. Some countries in Europe did start fluoridation many years ago but have all since stopped. The last place to stop was the Basque region in Spain.

 

The UK (10%) and Ireland (70%) are the only European countries that still fluoridate. Only eight, out of a total of 197, countries in the world have more than 50% of the population on fluoridated water.

 

Back in 2014, Fluoride Free New Zealand aired an advert on TV3 to present this information. The 30 second advert provided some of the reasons these countries have rejected fluoridation. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-F-0XoG4EzY

See Statements from European Health, Water and Environment Authorities on Water Fluoridation. https://fluoridealert.org/content/europe-statements/

#FluorideFreeAwarenessMonth

https://fluoridefree.org.nz/nowhere-in-continental.../

 

GIMP 3 HAS FINALLY BEEN RELEASED

This has been a long time coming, as GIMP 2 was released in 2004. The new version of GIMP looks really good. Here is a screen shot of it installed on my Linux Mint PC:

This webpage covers all the new updates. They seem have stayed fully focused on improving the features, and unlike Firefox or Jaguar they have not fallen into the fashionable cesspit of trying to go woke or reinvent themselves. Which is great to see.  https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/

 

 

GIMP is not only for Linux, there are Windows and Mac versions as well. So you don't have to pay Adobe a huge monthly fee and let them steal your images. You can use GIMP for free, instead of paying for Photoshop. The initial release of GIMP 3 is available for download here:  https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/

 

PINE vs. NUDE

In these times of relentless FUDPORN we need to pay attention to the stream of utter crap that is being loaded into our brains. Two acronyms I came up with to remind myself of that:

PINE - Positive, Inspiring, Necessary, Entertaining

NUDE - Negative, Unnecessary, Doubting, Eunuch

 

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