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

MICROSOFT HAVE REALLY LOST IT

 They lost it decades ago, but everything aligns at this point to see this scumbag company finally meet the end they deserve. 

While most people meekly put up with Windows 10 even though it was utter crap, Windows 11 has finally overstepped a line, and millions of ex Windows 10 users are now refusing to downgrade to Win 11.

Windows 11 is the massive push that Linux needed and is ready for. Apparently over a million Windows users have already downloaded Linux Zorin 18 since it was released in October. 

I switched from Windows 7 to Linux Mint, and I would never go back to Microsoft. That switch from Windows to Linux Mint is becoming an increasingly popular path this year since Microsoft pulled support for Win 10.

We are now at a point where some Linux desktop systems are really cool, while Windows has hit an all time low that it's very unlikely to ever recover from.

For non geek ex Windows users, my own recommendations are Linux Mint or Linux Zorin. But there are many other Linux options to choose from - learn more about them on Distro Watch. 

 

Linux Mint is like a modernised Windows 7, while Linux Zorin is more like a stylish Windows 10.

LIFE IN AFRICA

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