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101

Fiat 500 & Abarth (2016–2026) — reliability & best-buy guide

102

The Architecture of Unused Complexity

103

Disused Churches & Pubs, Reborn

104

Reducing Medicine’s Oil Dependency — botanical wound dressings

105

Roads as power & water infrastructure

106

Shire horses & the hundred-year farm

107

What to do with the roads we stop needing

108

The Premier League by the numbers

109

Men, women, and the division of labour

110

Transoceanic hydrofoil liners

111

HGVs, one lane, 55mph — and the junctions

112

Every polity that ever was

113

Deep-Time Custodianship

114

The world’s ten biggest builders

115

How long to map all of human history?

116

Community niches & public health

117

Coca-Cola: the perfect predatory corporation?

118

Britain by bike, e-bike and e-scooter

119

Old Dirty Habits II — The Global Sweep: A Forensic Audit of World Religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Shinto, and Daoism) Against Prehistoric Aboriginal Dreamtime, Creation Myths, and the Universal Flood Memory

120

THE ANATOMY OF THE BOURSES: HISTORY OF THE FTSE AND GLOBAL STOCK EXCHANGES, HOW THE PLUMBING WORKS, WHO OWNS "THE CLUB," HOW YOU GET IN, AND THE COMPLETE FORENSIC OWNERSHIP & CONTROL LEDGER OF ALL 100 FTSE 100 AND ALL 100 S&P 100 CORPORATIONS

121

The New Universal Charter of Human and Living Rights: Why Article 1 Must Abolish Ownership of the Earth in Favour of Bound Custodianship, and Article 2 Must Abolish the Ownership or Enslavement of Any Man, Woman, Child, or Animal

122

UK political leaders, tall tales, fails & successes? — in plain English

123

Donald Trump, pinnacle of power — in plain English

124

Solar-Powered Anthropogenic Mining: Reclaiming Bitumen and Synthetic Crude from Tarmac ("Melting Roads Back into Their Rocks and Constituent Parts"), Harvesting Structural Steel from Disused Bridges, and Recovering Stranded Hydrocarbons & Metals Using Slow-Accumulated Solar Electricity

125

Society & identity, norms, nature & representation — in plain English

126

Railways, the first heist ever? — in plain English

127

Seafaring, the 21-mile view — in plain English

128

Who Decides, and Why Do We Obey?

129

Physics, big.small.bang — in plain English

130

The oil market, resource or casino? — in plain English

131

Observations, many.human.lives — in plain English

132

Nazi Germany: from.vienna.with.love?

133

The money trail, very funny sums? — in plain English

134

Human morality, which lens first? — in plain English

135

Looted art — whose wall, when? — in plain English

136

European political assassinations, pitch too small? — in plain English

137

Geophysical, oops it broke — in plain English

138

Electricity, the metered lightning — in plain English

139

The Whole Diaspora · A Master Synthesis of the Houselab Inquests

140

The conclusion — where do we actually sit? — in plain English

141

Off-grid water & power, dig your own? — in plain English

142

The downgraded, repurposed

143

Continental Europe: wells and micro-hydro

144

Eastern Europe: wells, generation and the disused

145

US political assassinations, 1963-1969 — in plain English

146

Tripod Ternary Computing and Continuous-Valued Gradient Hardware: From Physical Three-State Etched Surfaces and CNTFET Balanced-Trit Logic (`–1, 0, +1`) to Hybrid Analog-Differential Compute (`TCA + CVC`)

147

The omnipotent friend and the corrupted guardrail

148

Seasonal Transhumance Architecture and the Shared Quadrant *Kachelofen*: Designing Summer/Winter Houses Around a Central `2-Tonne to 8-Tonne`, `1,000°C` Contraflow Masonry Thermal Core with Staggered 4-Household Firing Timetables

149

101 Horrible Things Humans Have Done to the Sea, and the Creatures That Live There

150

Post-carbon Road Ribbons: Verge Agroforestry, Linear Rivers of Production, and the Thermodynamics of Low-friction Guided Corridors

151

The Physics, Psychoacoustics, and Archaeoacoustics of the `111 / 222 / 333 / 444 Hz` Harmonic Series vs. Prime-Number Frequency Chords: Fourier Spectra, Tartini Difference Tones, Cochlear Critical Bands, and Neolithic Chamber Resonance

152

PROPERTY LAW AND STOLEN LAND TITLE (Radix Dominium): How Lawyers and Courts Turned Armed Conquest into Private Real-Estate Law

153

Presidential Immunity Blowback (`Trump v. United States`, `603 U.S. 593`): Could a Future Incoming Democratic President Use the "Official Acts" Shield to Detain the Trump Family & Associates and Confiscate Their Empire?

154

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

155

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

156

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

157

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

158

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

159

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

160

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

161

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

162

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

163

Politics : who.decides.why.obey?

164

The Planetary Energy Ceiling: Thermodynamic Recycling Limits, the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation, Leo Satellite Attrition, and Ring-fencing the Final Oil Reserve for the Solar Bootstrap

165

Purple nasties and other breaches

166

Oil's children, and the hydrocarbon trap — in plain English

167

The oil endgame, how much is left? — in plain English

168

The area under the curve

169

The barrel inside the cloud

170

Battery bootstrap & fossil feedstocks

171

The Dirty Digger's Ledger: Rupert Murdoch and the Anatomy of a Tri-continental Empire

172

Micro-Methanol Glow and Spark-Ignition Engines (`14cc` Model Aircraft Four-Strokes to `100cc–500cc` Stationary Gensets): Mechanical, Thermodynamic & Cradle-to-Grave Joule/BOE Feasibility for Emergency and Long-Term Off-Grid Power Generation

173

The subject currently known as medicine — in plain English

174

Mass Transit by Aeroplane: Whose Great Idea Was That? — The Anatomy of a One-time-oil-burn Madness, the 1944 Chicago Tax Conspiracy, and the Real-world Ledger at the `1:1` True Oil Price of £174 Per Litre

175

The law — whose rules? — in plain English

176

The Law Across All Nine Books (Complete Legal Amendments & Purple Nasties Edition)

177

Joule and Barrel-of-Oil Economics: Why Monetary Price Is a Hallucination and Every Economic & Technological Debate Must Audit the Full Level-4 Cradle-to-Grave Embodied Energy Cost

178

Israel as a Failed Western Democracy 5.0: Extreme-Coalition Oscillation, Short Election Cycles, Unconstitutional Majority Rule, and Positive-Feedback Political Pathology

179

If AI Were Electricity: The Thermodynamic and Institutional Absurdity of Delivering Intelligence via a Five-company Global Hyperscale Oligopoly

180

The Hyperkinetic Ceiling, Pure-physics Defensive Shields, and the Pentagon Plausible-deniability Fraud Loop

181

The GP "House Lab" and Dr John Snow's Broad Street Pump Handle: How Community-embedded Primary Care Epidemiology Can Defeat 21St-century Chronic Disease

182

Immediate Action Playbook to Slash Petrol and Diesel Consumption Straight Away

183

Follow the money — who owns whom? — in plain English

184

European religion, in whose name? — in plain English

185

The Edge-dwellers: Right-wing Populists, Street Agitators, and Left-wing Insurgents Outside the Westminster Cartel

186

Diaspora Subtheme 05 · Politics from Prehistory to Now, European Statehood, the Victorian Balance Sheet, UK Leaders Since WWII, Political Assassinations, and the Discarded Alternatives of Democracy 5.0

187

Diaspora Subtheme 04 · Global Stock Exchanges, The Magnificent Seven, The Slime Map, Swiss & Canadian Impunity Engines, Sport Monopolies, and Corporate Kleptocracy

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Diaspora Subtheme 03 · War-Wasted Resources, 2-Billion-Year Entropic Dispersion, Kessler Syndrome, Solar System Quarantine, and the 21 Continental Information Arks

189

Diaspora Subtheme 02 · Thermodynamic Economics, Oil, Embodied Joule Accounting, Railways, Roads, Aviation, and the Material Descent

190

Diaspora Subtheme 01 · The Three Book Trilogies, Radix Dominium, Eternal Slavery, Looted Art, and Law on Trial: Purple Nasties

191

Democracy, discarded and oscillating — in plain English

192

The Discarded Alternatives: Where Western Democracy 5.0 Chose Wrong Across Medicine, Democracy, Disputes, Agriculture, Transport, Money, and the Law — And Where Humanity Might Have Ended Up

193

The Cultural Appropriation Debate Personified by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon in *the Simpsons*

194

Could the World Learn a Lot from Cuba? — Why Humanity Is Going to Have to Recycle Every Damn Thing and Function on Today's Technology at Best Going Forward

195

The Tales of the Cads, Patricians, Ideologues, and Wreckers: All Sixteen Leaders of the UK Conservative Party Since World War Ii

196

Canada: Is It "Little Switzerland" (and We're Not Talking About the Skiing)?

197

The Built-environment & Physical-world Cartel: Construction Giants, Complicit Architects, Captured Planners, and Grant-tethered Science

198

The Tale of a Cad: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

199

Beyond the Western Axis: Kleptocracy, Dynastic Cronyism, and State Capture in China, Turkey, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines (`Plus South Korea, India, Russia, Gulf Monarchies, and Latin America`)

200

Australia: The Lucky Country's Dirty Secret — Resource Plunder, Wealth-gating, What Has Been Done in the Australian People's Name Without Their Knowledge, and an Actionable Forensic Dossier for the Australian Greens