Saturday, September 26, 2026

Another New UK Government Unit Created To Police 'Untrue Narratives'


Another New UK Government Unit Created To Police 'Untrue Narratives'


British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first United Nations speech this week to announce a 'National Centre for Information Defence' - a new state machine to "detect, attribute and disrupt" what ministers call hostile information attacks, and to stop a "distorted and untrue narrative about Britain."

Burnham wrapped it in Russia, bots, deepfakes and "community cohesion." Critics are adamant the move is purely aimed at ensuring the government has full control over the flow of information.

Speaking in New York, Burnham said there is "no national security without a strong, cohesive society" and that this cohesion "has been under attack."

He described an "industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment." He blamed Russian agencies for bots, fake websites, falsified newspaper articles and forged branding of 28 British organisations "including universities and the BBC."

Burnham also claimed they had "amplified far-right narratives" and tried to interfere with the 2019 general election. He called attempts to stoke unrest after "horrific events" repulsive.

The centre will sit first in the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet. It is supposed to work with the intelligence agencies, government departments, police and social media companies. Ministers assert it will also "build national resilience" by helping communities spot disinformation - and prevent that "distorted and untrue" picture of Britain.

Burnham went further, warning of an "insidious campaign that reaches into people's homes and twists what they feel about their own country and community - creating a narrative of decline, stoking division and sowing despair."

The United Kingdom, he said, had "tiptoed around this for too long." Over the last decade, he claimed, "we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality. Well, no more."

The government already treats public anger about migration, crime, two-tier policing and a collapsing high street as a "narrative" problem rather than a facts problem.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage blasted, "Andy Burnham is setting up a Ministry of Truth to clamp down on free speech." In the accompanying clip he said ministers would use Russia as the excuse, then slide into shutting down "far-right tropes."

"This will be like George Orwell's Ministry of Information, and this will be used to clamp down on free speech," he said, adding "Never ever trust this authoritarian Government."






Indianapolis Officers Turned Flock Cameras Into a Personal Stalking System


Cops Used Flock Cameras to Stalk Women, Track Ex-Wife 950 Times
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Indianapolis police officers used Flock's automated license plate reader network to stalk women and track an ex-wife's car more than 950 times in six months — and that's only the abuse investigators managed to catch.

Five officers — four active, one former — now face fraud and misconduct charges, with one hit with a stalking charge after investigators found he used the system to track women in order to interact with them, according to Live 5 News. Another officer allegedly looked up his ex-wife's vehicle location over 950 times across a six-month span. Four officers have been suspended; the police chief has recommended they be fired.

The mayor of Indianapolis responded by promising to work with police to "strengthen policies" related to Flock cameras. That's the standard playbook: acknowledge the abuse, promise new rules, keep the cameras running.

Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, the fight over Flock is playing out on a different front. Methuen City Councilor Patricia Valley claimed Lawrence Police searched her license plate 359 times over two years, citing records from the "Have I Been Focked" website. Lawrence PD pushed back hard, saying the number reflected an officer's overall search activity — not 359 searches of Valley's plate specifically. The department confirmed one search, on May 14, 2025, tied to a hit-and-run investigation involving a vehicle similar to Valley's.

But Valley's concern cuts deeper than the disputed count. She told the Boston Herald she was never contacted about an investigation involving her vehicle that has supposedly remained active since May 2025. "It is difficult for me to understand how an investigation involving my vehicle can remain active since May 2025 without anyone ever contacting me about it," she said. An active investigation she can't get records from — convenient.

Valley added: "My concern is with the power of this technology and whether there are enough safeguards and transparency surrounding how it is used."


Lawrence PD says it's working with Flock on a "transparency portal" and welcomes "constructive scrutiny" — provided that scrutiny is "based on complete and factual information rather than assumptions or incomplete accounts." Translation: trust us, not the data.

Methuen wasn't buying it. Mayor D.J. Beauregard and acting Police Chief Jamie Moore announced the city has ended its Flock contract after a comprehensive audit. "Flock does not provide sufficient protections or local control of that data," they said. Lowell is following suit, with its City Council indefinitely suspending use of the system.

Flock sells municipalities a surveillance network and tells them it's for public safety. Indianapolis proves that when you hand cops a tool with no meaningful guardrails, some of them will use it to hunt women. Methuen and Lowell prove that the only safeguard that works is pulling the plug.

The question isn't whether Flock gets abused. It's how many Indianapolis-style cases are sitting in departments that haven't been caught yet.


Second Temple-era purification complex uncovered near Temple Mount


Second Temple-era purification complex uncovered near Temple Mount
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A large ritual purification complex dating to the Second Temple period has been uncovered at the foot of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Thursday.

The exceptionally well-preserved site includes three large ritual baths, a massive plastered pool, a paved plaza, and an extensive water system.

One mikvah (ritual bath) survives to its full height, including its vaulted stone ceiling—a rare example in Jerusalem of a Second Temple-era structure preserved from floor to ceiling, it said in a press release.

Dating from the first century BCE until the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the site was uncovered in the Ophel, immediately south of the Temple Mount.

The excavations are being directed by Prof. Uzi Leibner and Prof. Orit Peleg-Barkat of Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology.

The discovery was made near the Triple Gate, one of the principal entrances to the Temple Mount during the Second Temple period.

Its location and scale suggest that it served large numbers of Jewish pilgrims who came to Jerusalem and underwent ritual purification before visiting the Temple, according to the archaeologists.

“A monumental ashlar structure devoted entirely to ritual purification, situated at the foot of the Temple Mount and near one of its gates, is a truly unparalleled phenomenon,” Leibner and Peleg-Barkat said.

“The complex goes to the heart of our research into the archaeology of Second Temple-period pilgrimage: how the area immediately south of the Temple Mount was designed to accommodate the many pilgrims who came to Jerusalem to visit the Temple, and what activities and rituals took place near its gates,” they added.

At the center of the site, built in the early first century C.E., is a large plastered pool measuring approximately 12 by 9.5 meters (39 by 31 feet), with steps descending into it from all four sides.

Northwest of the pool stands a finely constructed ashlar building containing four rooms, three of which were identified as large public mikvahs. Altogether, the facility covers approximately 280 square meters (3,000 square feet).

One of the mikvahs is preserved to its full height of 4.2 meters (nearly 14 feet), including the stone vault above it and the shaft through which it was supplied with water.

The preservation of a structure from this period from floor to ceiling is exceedingly rare in Jerusalem, particularly in such a central location, according to the researchers.

The baths and pool were connected to an extensive drainage system consisting of channels preserved in places to a height of more than 2 meters (6.5 feet). The channels carried water toward the Kidron Valley.

Their dimensions indicate that large volumes of water passed through the system and suggest that the facility may have been supplied by a permanent source of running water, possibly a branch of the aqueduct that supplied the Temple.

The Debt Bomb Meets The Socialist Generation


The Debt Bomb Meets The Socialist Generation
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Something strange is happening in America.

The federal government is running deficits normally associated with wars or severe recessions. Interest on the national debt has crossed the trillion-dollar mark. 

Washington continues borrowing enormous sums simply to maintain existing commitments. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, federal debt held by the public is already roughly equal to the entire annual output of the U.S. economy.

Yet at precisely the moment government is demonstrating how difficult it is to pay for the promises already made, a growing number of Americans want government to make even more promises.

That is the collision now taking shape: America’s debt crisis is meeting America’s socialist generation.

And neither trend should be dismissed.

The Debt Problem Is No Longer Somewhere In The Future

The numbers are becoming difficult to comprehend.

The Institute of International Finance reported this week that global debt surpassed $365 trillion during the first half of 2026. Governments around the world are increasingly confronting higher borrowing costs and growing interest expenses.

America is hardly watching from the sidelines.

The Congressional Budget Office projects the federal government will run a $1.9 trillion deficit in fiscal 2026. By 2036, that annual deficit is projected to reach $3.1 trillion.

Debt held by the public is projected to rise from 101% of GDP today to 120% by 2036, surpassing the previous record reached following World War II.

But perhaps the most sobering number is interest.

Net federal interest costs are projected to exceed $1 trillion this year and more than double to $2.1 trillion annually by 2036. At that point, interest would nearly equal all federal discretionary spending combined.

That money doesn't build a bridge.

It doesn't hire a teacher.

It doesn't strengthen the military.

It doesn't provide healthcare.

It simply pays for yesterday.

And Washington continues adding tomorrow's obligations to yesterday's bill.


Enter The Socialist Generation

Against that backdrop came another remarkable statistic this week.

Gallup reports that 43% of Americans now view socialism positively—the highest level recorded since Gallup began tracking the question in 2010.

Among Americans ages 18 to 34, the numbers are even more striking.

Socialism: 57%.

Capitalism: 43%.

Among Americans 55 and older, the picture is almost reversed: 65% view capitalism positively compared with 34% who view socialism positively.

It would be easy to conclude that young Americans simply haven't learned enough history.

There is certainly an historical lesson worth remembering. Centrally planned socialist economies repeatedly struggled with shortages, distorted incentives, political control and economic stagnation, while the most extreme communist experiments produced repression on a staggering scale.

But stopping there misses something important about what is happening in America.

Young Americans aren't comparing today's economy with a textbook.

They're comparing it with their lives.

They Know Something Is Broken

Imagine being 27 years old.

Housing prices have climbed beyond what your parents faced at the same age. Rent consumes an enormous portion of your paycheck. Healthcare can be extraordinarily expensive. College may have left you with debt before your career even began.

Meanwhile, you watch enormous corporations receive subsidies and government assistance while Washington runs trillion-dollar deficits year after year.

Then someone tells you this is capitalism.

Why wouldn't some young Americans conclude capitalism has failed them?

That doesn't mean socialism is the answer. But defenders of free enterprise make a serious mistake when they dismiss the question.

Because Gallup's numbers reveal something fascinating.

While 43% of Americans view socialism positively, an extraordinary 95% have a positive view of small business. Free enterprise also remains considerably more popular than socialism.

Americans apparently haven't stopped believing in enterprise.

They have stopped believing that the system they see around them always represents it.

There is a difference.

Government Will Rescue Us From Government Debt?

Here is where the contradiction becomes impossible to ignore.

Many of the solutions increasingly offered to struggling Americans require Washington to assume even greater financial responsibilities: expanded healthcare commitments, housing subsidies, student-debt relief, income guarantees, larger social programs and other benefits.

Every proposal can be debated on its own merits.

But collectively they encounter an unavoidable question:

Who pays?

America isn't beginning this experiment with an empty credit card.

CBO projects cumulative federal deficits totaling $23.1 trillion between 2026 and 2035 under its current baseline.

Washington is already borrowing heavily to finance the government we currently have.

This is the great political temptation of debt.

Borrowing allows government to give voters benefits today while sending much of the bill into the future. Politicians can promise programs without immediately imposing taxes sufficient to cover their full cost.

For a while, everyone can pretend the mathematics don't matter.

Eventually they do.


The Permission Grid: A Blueprint for a Permanent Slave Class


The Permission Grid: A Blueprint for a Permanent Slave Class


Shoe-horned into the permission grid.

It’s what they want and you know what? I think it’s what they’ll get. They’ll get it because there is a loss of agency amongst the populace. The pushback to this Orwellian nightmare is… in a word, pathetic.

The EU wants a passport for the peasants to access the internet.

The justification. Why, of course. The kids. Who wouldn’t want to protect children? Only a psychopath or a pedophile. You’re not a psychopath or a pedophile, are you?

A digital identity system, tied to age verification, with a specific carve-out written into the design: “The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN.”

They’re not just building a verification layer. They’re closing the one exit that lets the peasants opt out of it. VPNs exist for exactly one reason that matters here — they let you decide who gets to know where you are and who you are.

Blocking VPN circumvention isn’t a technical footnote. That’s the point. Now, I’m not a tech nerd, so I’ve no idea if this is mere posturing by these psychopaths, and if it is actually possible for them to achieve this… technically. The truth is, most of the peasants will simply comply. The cage is compliance of the mind, and most are already slaves.

The above isn’t happening in isolation. Look at where Europe has been walking, one regulation at a time:

Cash transactions banned above €10,000. Bitcoin purchases require an ID above €1,000. Privacy coins banned outright. MiCA compliance costs pushing an estimated 90% of crypto firms out of the market.

Each of these, taken alone, gets defended in the same way these parasitic pedophile satanists always defend their actions: as consumer protection, anti-money-laundering policy, or tax compliance.

Taken together, they form something else entirely: a system where every transaction, every wallet, every website you visit resolves back to a verified identity, and where the tools that let you route around that — cash, privacy coins, VPNs — are being systematically removed.

This is the architecture of permission-based participation. Not “here’s what’s illegal.” Instead: “Here’s what you’re allowed to do, and here’s how we confirm it’s you doing it.”

No population accepts such a totalitarian enslavement permission system voluntarily. It has to be made to feel inevitable first. That’s what the fraudulent climate narrative has done — and the people building the tracking infrastructure have told you so, in their own documents.

The World Economic Forum presents three levers as a roadmap on its own website:

  1. “Economic behaviour.” Raise costs until compliance becomes cheaper than resistance.

  2. “Cognitive Awareness.” Raise the visibility of personal emissions until people believe a limit is normal.

  3. “Social Norms.” Redefine what a “fair share” of emissions looks like, and set the acceptable levels for you.

And BAM, you’re a slave begging permission to take a hot shower, turn on air conditioning, heck even have air conditioning… or heating for that matter.

Any activity, permissioned.

This is no longer some mere scientific proposal. It’s a behavioural engineering framework. And its authors are explicit that public compliance is a prerequisite that has to be manufactured before the system can be deployed.


The WEF piece doesn’t present this as an interesting cultural shift. It presents it as the leading indicator that the public is now primed to accept personal carbon tracking — the exact language used is that this rising concern, layered on top of pandemic-era compliance with contact tracing and movement restrictions, demonstrates the “core of individual social responsibility” needed to make personal carbon allowances work.

Translate that: two years of manufactured urgency, a manufactured “global health crisis” used as a dry run for mass behavioural compliance, and now rising anxiety held up as proof the public is not only ready to be tracked, but it is the logical conclusion.

That’s not consensus. That’s consensus manufactured on an industrial scale and by schedule.

It’s worth being precise about what this WEF document is: a thought piece describing an aspiration and a set of enabling technologies, not an adopted EU law.

No government has passed a binding personal carbon allowance programme yet. But the intent is stated plainly, the levers are named plainly, and the mechanism — AI-driven tracking, blockchain-verified records, tied to individual behaviour — requires exactly the kind of persistent digital identity the EU’s age-verification system now being established (what the UK has just launched).

Identity verification without behaviour tracking is just a login page. Behaviour tracking without identity verification is anonymous and useless to whoever wants to act on it. Put them together and you have a system that knows who you are and what you did, by design, with the anonymising tools removed by regulation.

Strip away the branding — carbon ledgers instead of ration books, an app instead of a commissar with a clipboard — and the underlying architecture is not new. It is the oldest failed idea in modern history, wearing a sustainability badge.

The Bolsheviks centralised decision-making in the name of fairness and collective survival. Mao’s China centralised agricultural and industrial output in the name of the greater good, with local compliance enforced through social pressure and quota systems. The USSR centralised production and consumption in the name of a planned, rational economy that would eliminate waste and want.

In every case, the pattern was identical. A small group of planners decides what a “fair share” of a resource looks like, builds the enforcement apparatus to track individual compliance, and removes the tools individuals would otherwise use to opt out.

In every case, the enforcement apparatus outlived the stated justification. And in every case, the death toll from top-down control of food, energy, and production ran into the tens of millions — not as a bug, but as the mathematically predictable result of removing distributed decision-making from a system as complex as a national economy.

A personal carbon allowance is a ration book. A digital identity tied to internet access with the circumvention tools blocked is the enforcement layer that a ration book never had. The technology is new. The instinct to centralise control over what people are permitted to consume, say, and access — and to justify it as being for the collective good — is not.

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