USE CASH

  I've been using cash as much as possible for the past 30 years, so it boggles my mind to see how many people are willingly lining up for digital slavery by using electronic payment systems as their main method of payment. 

 WAKE UP!!!!!

 The Threat of Financial Transaction Control by Catherine Austin Fitts

EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

It probably sounds a bit fruit-loops to even seriously be considering the optimum number of blog posts to do each day, but after doing a couple of posts mentioning my 27 year history of blogging, I started contemplating that life defining question again.

For most of the past 27 years I have simply done a blog post whenever I had an urge to say something, and over time on www.frot.co.nz, that generally worked out to an average of around 10 posts each month.

But with this new www.sift.co.nz blog, I set out at the start of 2024 with a definite aim of doing one post every day, even if those posts were only shorties. I liked the idea of forcing myself to post something daily, and wondered how I’d cope with that sort of intense pressure!

 

It has actually worked out fine, because on days when I couldn't be arsed writing much, I have just re-posted something from my old www.frot.co.nz blog, or shared a meme or something else fairly quick and basic. 

 

For the first year (2024) the hits on my new SIFT blog were fairly disappointing, generally numbering only around 100-200 total hits each day, and I thought my 1000+ hits a day times (2017-2019) were well and truly over. But throughout 2025 the hits have actually been slowly increasing, they are now averaging 500+ a day, and are continuing to gradually climb.

 

The only promotion I do these days are a few odd links on my Facebook account, apart from that I can't be bothered striving to get hits, but I must admit to having a look at the hit counter from time to time out of curiosity.

 

In the grand scheme of things I realise 1000 hits a day is bugger all, but it does add up to over a third of a million hits a year (365,000), and I used to manage to convince myself that I was a big-time influencer back in my 1000+ hits glory days.

 

If I'm honest about it, one way or another, I'd like to get back up over half a million hits a year. That was my peak hit-count on www.frot.co.nz back in 2018. Then I'd be a mover and shaker again. 

 

 

Presently the hits vary quite a bit each day, from lows of around 300, to highs of over 1500, and I have no idea why that is. Those quite big daily variations don't seem to be caused by my new posts of the day, there just seem to be inexplicable ebbs and flows in the overall traffic to the entire site.

In 27 years of blogging, the most posts I’ve ever done in one day is four (SIFT yesterday), and the longest I’ve gone without doing a post is 30 days (SIFT July 2025, but I've since filled that month back in). Clearly those are both maniacal and possibly unhealthy extremes which I'm not planning to attempt again.

My current plan, starting December 2025, is to continue aiming to do a post every day, but at the same time to randomly add any extra posts that I feel inclined to. So I might end up doing more than one post each day, or then again I might not, but either way I’m going to be taking an unconstrained walk on the wild side...

THIS MUSIC VIDEO HAS BEEN A BIG INFLUENCE

 This music video has probably been influencing my own art for the past 32 years

 Back in the 90’s there was still lots of awesome music. I miss all that amazing music, because let's face it, almost all the music for the bast two decades has been utter bollocks..

Screamadelica

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ixEzKA4k0

There’s no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream — an impact that rivaled that of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the other 1991 release that changed rock. Prior to Screamadelica, Primal Scream were Stonesy classic rock revivalists with a penchant for Detroit rock. They retained those fascinations on Screamadelica — one listen to the Jimmy Miller-produced, Stephen Stills-rip “Movin’ on Up” proves that — but they burst everything wide open here, turning rock inside out by marrying it to a gleeful rainbow of modern dance textures. This is such a brilliant, gutsy innovative record, so unlike anything the Scream did before, that it’s little wonder that there’s been much debate behind who is actually responsible for its grooves, especially since Andrew Weatherall is credited with production with eight of the tracks, and it’s clearly in line with his work.

Even if Primal Scream took credit for Weatherall’s endeavors, that doesn’t erase the fact that they shepherded this album, providing the ideas and impetus for this dubtastic, elastic, psychedelic exercise in deep house and neo-psychedelic. Like any dance music, this is tied to its era to a certain extent, but it transcends it due to its fierce imagination and how it doubles back on rock history, making the past present and vice versa. It was such a monumental step forward that Primal Scream stumbled before regaining their footing, but by that point, the innovations of Screamadelica had been absorbed by everyone from the underground to mainstream. There’s little chance that this record will be as revolutionary to first-time listeners, but after its initial spin, the genius in its construction will become apparent — and it’s that attention to detail that makes Screamadelica an album that transcends its time and influence.
 

LIFE IN AFRICA

"The Culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes depicting their unique characteristics and traits"

 

 

GLOBAL WARMING PAGE

 I have just added this old page from my www.frot.co.nz blog - It's a fairly long page, too big to be a post really, so this is only the intro

Bollocks On A Massive Scale - there are people all over the place who still to this day believe the global warming hoax hook line and sinker… Is there no cure for stupidity?

I originally compiled this page in 2015 and now a decade on, with all the geoengineering in full swing and the sheeple being primed for 15 min cities to “save the planet” it is clearly the next big psyop coming hot on the heels of the covidhoax.

Global warming has always looked to me like an apocalyptic religious cult. Although unimpressed with the “facts” used to justify the cult of global warming, I used to keep out of this discussion for three main reasons.

Firstly because disagreeing with global warming is like being seen as a “holocaust denier” – logic goes out the arse, people go into rabid attack dog mode, and what the hell, if they want to freak out about global warming, that’s their problem.

Secondly, one blog post can’t really cover this huge subject – for that I recommend going to a more in depth site

And thirdly, the last thing I want to look like is a defender of the American right to drive “SUV’s” – cutting down on pollution is a good thing, it just has bugger all to do with global warming.

When I originally researched this site, it was a bit of a shock to trawl through right wing US websites, reading articles by people who thought that Gore was wrong, so Bush must have been right. For the record I thought Bush (or at least the people who used to operate his strings) was evil too, but that doesn’t mean Gore wasn’t a lying con man.

So I’ll just attempt to keep this very simple, and maybe it will encourage someone somewhere to think this stuff through for themselves.

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The Time Span is the Key

More than anything else, time is the key factor in understanding global warming. The earth doesn’t run on human time frames – like most planets it runs on much longer cycles. If we look at the past 2000 years, it’s true that the temperature is at the upper end of it’s range right now. But 2000 years is insignificant to a planet – the sort of time span we need to be looking at is half a million years

The patterns of warming and cooling become clearer the longer the time span we look at – in fact over 500,000 years the temperature chart looks almost like a heartbeat. Yes, it’s been hotter, and it’s been colder, and it’s managed to do both without any help from humans…

Over this time frame the key factor in temperature change appears to be variations in the shape of earth’s elliptical orbit – when we orbit closer to the sun the earth gets hotter.

Approximately every 100,000 years Earth’s climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer its end than its beginning.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

 

See the rest here: https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/global-warming.html