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.

 

 

10th ANNIVERSARY POST

  Calling this my 10th Anniversary post is not 100% accurate because I've been posting stuff online since October 1998 in various forms, but I like round numbers, and as far as these latest versions of my FROT and SIFT blogs go, this is the completion of the tenth year.  

My first FROT post from January 1 2016 is still online here, as are all the  posts from that third incarnation of the FROT blog, which number in total about 800.

And the final FROT post from December 30 2023 is here, bringing to an end eight years of FROT posts.

 

I moved over to this new purple www.sift.co.nz blog on January 1 2024. It was the second incarnation of my SIFT blog, and I was feeling enthusiastic, so went hard out, doing a post every day for two years, and completed a total of over 700 posts in just two years.

My first SIFT post in 2024 is here. (I called it a 25th anniversary post, which was also true but in a different way)

This post today is the latest of two years of SIFT posts, and I'm calling it a 10th anniversary post. 

I have no idea what my posting on SIFT will be like in 2026. At this stage I expect it won't be daily, because I'm going to try not to keep going on about how screwed everything is, not because it isn't screwed, but because it's not really fixing anything to keep going on about it.

Yes, as a rough rule of thumb, nearly everything we have been told is a lie, but I'm no longer very interested in trying to prove that point, because I demonstrated it to my own satisfaction years ago, and plenty of other people are now continuing that fine work.

After watching true information being roundly rejected for the past quarter of a century in favour of whatever normie bullshit is being promoted by the globalist programmers, I realise that the majority of people really will never actually learn to think for themselves, so I need to get over it.

I'm sort of resigned to all that now, so whatever happens in 2026, and I'm expecting it to be quite spectacular, I'll make no promises to say or not say anything about it. I will simply post whatever takes my fancy, nothing more and nothing less.

Best wishes for the NEW YEAR, hang on to your hats for what could be a wild ride.

 

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/ 

 

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!

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!
 

 

 

 

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.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

“It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage, may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.” — Mark Twain