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Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

– Shetland residential property market set to drop with negative equity

Not content with being the wealthiest council in the UK, as well as the least efficient (at least 50% of what it spends is either wasted or used for vanity projects), Shetland Islands Council is actively promoting the asset-stripping of the islands, which will effectively blight the property market.

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Posted on September 6, 2025October 4, 2025

– Art and The Arts are not about the same thing…

…and neither do they mean what they used to, just like so many other words in our language. Hijacked by the marketing/ public relations industry to add integrity to whatever they are selling, even if it is a total lie.

The word sustainable is another example. Not so long ago Rudolf Steiner described sustainable as...

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Posted on February 11, 2024October 5, 2025

– End Time approaching

And with it, lies, damn lies, and statistics. Just because global warming doesn’t feature as the main story in the news any more doesn’t mean temperatures aren’t still rising. This summer there are going to be so many new forest fires and areas hit by drought that parts of British Columbia (Canada)/ Alberta (Canada)/ Saskatchewan …

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