Conspiracies On Steroids

Conspiracies On Steroids

I’ve been watching over social media for the last couple of decades and it has evolved an awful lot, I’ve found myself reviewing the former Twitter, now named X for an increasing amount of time. It appears to be largely uncensored, and anything goes. The question is whether the stuff that is less agreeable to some that is posted is seen by others or not. This depends entirely upon the algorithms. The stuff is there, but it may not appear or be seen by others, but it is there, and in many cases requires a lot of digging.

The subject matters that I have been reviewing of late are covering a number of areas, all of them are contentious to many normal people like myself, challenging even. Challenging is probably a better word. They are throttled back by the algos and don’t get the coverage that I’m starting to feel that they deserve.

I’ve been reading the various subjects with interest, questioning myself as to whether I am insane for even giving them time, and there are a number which appear to reaching a crescendo, that have many would ordinarily regard as bizarre claims with so much substantiating evidence that I feel I cannot ignore them any longer. Individually, a normal society member would disregard them, but when you start to put them all into one basket and overview them all, it’s made me question the reality of what I am being lead to believe by traditional information sources.

The main areas are; (list is not exhaustive, just a starting block)

Cancer – apparently easily treated, thousands of anecdotal accounts demonstrating this. Not getting media traction.

Climate Change – what is actually happening and the questionable official narrative of CO2’s role. Not getting media traction.

Energy – Physics solved decades ago, limitless clean energy – zero point energy. Not getting media traction.

Human History – Previous civilisations clearly far more advanced than credited. Not getting media traction.

Epstein – The depth of this is a rabbit hole, a very dark one, the details are chilling. Not getting media traction.

Geophysical Event – Pole shifts are starting to get more coverage. Not getting media traction.

There is so much noise out there, and I’m starting to consider that this is intentional. We are not designed for the Information Age, this has happened so quickly and has outpaced our ability to adapt to it. It can be overwhelming, all consuming. Many are caught in the headlights, stunned, unsure of the next step, more concerned with making sure that they work hard enough and cover their household bills. Meanwhile a small group of people at the top of the pile are having an absolute party.

For me, the two biggies in the list are cancer and energy. On the first, there are millions of people whose lives have been touched, destroyed or ended by it. And now, it appears all the time that it was largely treatable using a cheap and ubiquitous protocol. Ivermectin and Fenbendazole. It’s been demonstrated time and time again, yet no clinical trials. A couple have been undertaken successfully, but then retracted. Why? Money?

When this finally breaks into the mainstream consciousness, all hell is going to break loose.

Energy – it looks like the physics behind limitless power has been available for decades, but the information has been controlled by a few governments. If you have a look at the mysterious death list relating to this industry over the last couple of decades, it should sound alarm bells.

These two alone are huge. It’s time to start unpicking and investigating this entire pile. It needs to be done in a truthful, objective, a logical, linear, and unemotional manner. I’m trying to think of a term other than conspiracy that is appropriate for information that has the strong possibility of being subsequently true. One that can be applied to subjects to alert others to the possibility that the official narrative is likely flawed, or disingenuous.

Budget and Cost of Living

Budget and Cost of Living

From the BBC article regarding the freezing of rail fares;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygx71g3n7o

Specifically;

The announcement comes days before the chancellor sets out the government’s financial plans in the Budget on Wednesday, with Rachel Reeves indicating that cutting the cost of living will be a key focus.

Where to start? So many things, so little space. How about this;

Increase the personal allowance? Workers are breaking with their take home pay being diminished as living costs increase. The government is allowing every industry to strip the consumer, energy, supermarkets, property, it goes on and on.

The government has left the personal allowance as-is for five years, have a look at the following chart showing the last twenty years, and the associated retail and consumer price indexes for inflation.

Year PersonalAllowance CPI %RPI %
2005 £                       4,895.00 22.4
2006 £                       5,035.00 2.33.2
2007 £                       5,225.00 2.34.3
2008 £                       6,035.00 3.64.3
2009 £                       6,475.00 2.2-1.2
2010 £                       6,475.00 3.34.6
2011 £                       7,475.00 4.55.2
2012 £                       8,105.00 2.63.2
2013 £                       9,440.00 2.63.3
2014 £                    10,000.00 1.52.4
2015 £                    10,600.00 01
2016 £                    11,000.00 0.61.6
2017 £                    11,500.00 33.6
2018 £                    11,850.00 2.53.3
2019 £                    12,500.00 1.82.4
2020 £                    12,500.00 0.90.9
2021 £                    12,570.00 2.64.6
2022 £                    12,570.00 9.111.8
2023 £                    12,570.00 56.9
2024 £                    12,570.00 45
2025 £                    12,570.00 3.64.5

Someone is taking the mickey.

My post on X: https://x.com/theslayford/status/1992523105517072884

Sunday Morning in the UK.

Sunday Morning in the UK.

I’ve woken in a good mood, my cough and cold is subsiding, I’ve had a great cup of coffee, okay, it is cold, grey and wet outside, but I am warm and content.

I then make the mistake of opening a web browser and reviewing BBC News. Good mood now gone. Here’s why;

Rail fares to be frozen in England next year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygx71g3n7o

Rail fares in England next year are to be frozen for the first time in 30 years, the government has announced.

The freeze until March 2027 will apply to regulated fares, which includes season tickets and off-peak returns.

The most recent fare rise, in March 2025, was 4.6%. Rail fares traditionally have gone up in January, based on the July rate of the retail price index (RPI) + 1% – although this formula has not always been followed”

We are supposed to be grateful? Is it because they cannot justify the extortionate cost as it stands and to take more money would be a tipping point where people break? Think I’m being dramatic? Let me allow some context;

I live an hour to two hour drive from London, it’s less than 70 miles away and I am on the main train line. To get a return rail ticket to London for Monday morning is about £70.00 based upon the search I have just done on the National Rail site. I recently flew to Salerno in Southern Italy peak season, return, with taxes, which is over 1000 miles away for £85.00 return.

Please make that make sense, because I cannot. It indicates to me that a particular group of people are losing lots of money (airline shareholders), or making lots of money (railway shareholders) when you consider the disparity. It doesn’t take much working out, does it?

I’ll run through the other takeouts on different posts.

This issue on X: https://x.com/theslayford/status/1992520509964382541

Vodafone – You Couldn’t Make It Up

Vodafone – You Couldn’t Make It Up

I became a Vodafone customer as they were the best network after BT got its paws on EE and destroyed it. The network is new to me, as is the number that I should call to speak with customer services. A quick search gave me lots of links to their site, none with the answer of which number I should call. In the end, I had to speak to this retarded AI thing, and it then took a human, and countless messages to get the number. It’s 191 from the handset, alternatively 03333040191.

I think it is fairly evident that these companies do not give a hoot about providing a service. Their network coverage is worse than it was in the late nineties, their call handling is atrocious, and they seem to have a contempt for their customers, in the same way that the government does.

Here’s the thread, my responses are in bold;

Hi! I’m TOBi, Vodafone’s chatbot.

Give me a few seconds to get everything ready for you so that I can help.

Thank you for waiting! Ask me anything.
13:39

number to call
complaint

13:39
I’m here to help you understand call charges. Please select the type of call that you would like to know more about:

UK calls

International calls

I’m sorry, I couldn’t find an answer for you. Could you rephrase your question and ask me again?
13:39

number for customer services
13:40
Could you tell me your full name please?
13:40

no, I just want the number for customer services
13:40
To help save you some time when speaking to an adviser, I can complete some quick security checks first.

How would you like to complete security?

Receive a code to my phone

Log in with my PIN

Log in with my Password

13:40

No, I just want the number to call.
13:40
No problem, I can still check if an agent is available.

Could you please tell me your phone number?
13:40

No. I just want a number to call.
13:40
Please tell me what type of account you have with us:

Pay Monthly

Pay As You Go

Pay As You Go Plus

Small Business

Broadband

13:41

Small Business
13:41
Hi you’re chatting with Chandra. Thanks for connecting with Vodafone Webchat. How can I help you today?

Hi
13:41

For the last time, please just give me the number I dial to speak with customer services
What number do I dial from my handset?
That’s it.

13:42
I am so sorry for the inconvenience you faced . you can call our team on 191 or 03333040191
13:42

Thank you. I’m copying and pasting this onto social media.

Credit For The Falling Inflation Rate

Credit For The Falling Inflation Rate

The government last week took credit for the falling inflation figures, and many people started wailing saying that the Bank of England deserved the credit because of its decisive interest rate increases, with others saying that the retailers deserved credit because they’d stopped the price rises.

This is complete and utter rubbish, the real reason is that greedy companies can’t ramp up their prices any more because this will impact their sales, this is the real reason that inflation has fallen.

I’d assert that a lot of the inflation woes that we have experienced over the last couple of years are largely down to greed and opportunism by the large corporations. If there was any doubt, just have a look at their profit figures for the financial years following the inflation peak back in October 2022.

The government has been complicit in the transfer of wealth from the ordinary working person into the pockets of the corporations by its inaction. It has signalled that the UK public are ripe for the picking and companies have gladly filled their pockets.

We’ve heard the term ‘trickle down’, what we’ve experienced is a ‘tsunami up’.

Barclays Putting Adverts On Statements

Barclays Putting Adverts On Statements

I use the Barclays app for business on my smartphone to do day to day banking, it’s pretty functional, not the best out there, but does the job. Earlier on, I was reviewing transactions on my current account, and there was an in-line advert!

I certainly didn’t expect to received adverts on a bank statement, especially not on an account that I pay for the privilege of having!

I’ve messaged Barclays UK on X, will be interesting to see if I receive a response. If I get one, I’ll post it.

Oh Tesla….. Why The Cybertruck Left Me Feeling Grubby.

Oh Tesla….. Why The Cybertruck Left Me Feeling Grubby.

I wrote about Tesla a couple of times in November 2021, once taking the piss because they were sending out incomplete cars due to the chip shortage and the other stating that I think that battery electric vehicles (BEV) aren’t the way forward, but hydrogen is.

Today I got to spend a little time in London with the new Cybertruck, and I’m glad I did. I’d watched the unveiling a few years back and despite the glitches in the presentation, I was sold. I thought “Wow, that is beautiful!”. I’ve seen it being pumped on social media and it has a cult following. I sort of got swept along with it, and was interested enough to take a day out and drive up to London to have a look (I also got to drive the new Model 3 Highland). I’m glad I did. Since I’ve got home, I’ve reflected on the day and the experience, and this is what I think;

On walking into the room, the first thing that strikes is that it is bloody huge – far too big for UK roads. There’s no way I would want to drive something that’s larger than the huge Ford pickups over here, even with rear wheel steer. I could immediately see this is likely to be the biggest issue.

In terms of safety, I would imagine that if you were to collide with another vehicle, they are the one that is going to have the problem, it’s like a tank. Knocking the front of it with my fist made me realise how solid it was, where the bonnet meets the wing and the front plate there’s a corner where the three panels meet and it is a bloody sharp angle with no give at all. Even at slow speeds, it would pop a pedestrians skull like a melon. It made me shudder.

It has three motors, so has race car performance. This thing moves, really moves. It’ll leave virtually every performance car standing.

The load space on the rear is far too small to be of any real use, so it leads one to wonder who would want it. I think I have a fair idea already; Celebrities, ‘Names’, the well heeled and so on. It has no real practical use, so will be used in much the same way that Range Rovers etc are; for looking the part, flaunting money/image, the school run, and ensuring the occupants safety and to hell with everyone else.

There’s not a lot more to say other than:

It’s an impractical vehicle, that is far too big, far too fast, and unsafe for all other road users. What could possibly go wrong? Doesn’t take much working out, does it?

The only positive is that in its current form, I think that it would unlikely get approval for use on UK roads.

If I saw someone driving one over here, I would seriously pity them, their life must be deficient in some way and I’m sure that’s not the reaction that they were hoping to achieve.

Cybertruck Front View
Cybertruck Rear View
Cybertruck Side View
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