Lighthouse Week Ahead 9th August – The Top-Tier Establishment Wants to Keep Us Ignorant and Stupid

Lighthouse Daily – 9th August 2026…


Good day, fellow citizens and brothers and sisters in Christ.

Today’s update is a two-minute read.

This week, we will:

  • Show how our Love for God extends to loving our neighbour as ourselves.
  • Present how Richard Thomas and his co-conspirators weaponised Reddit and the internet.
  • Explain how the top-tier Establishment keeps us ignorant and stupid.

If you are new to our work at Lighthouse Global and want to know why the Establishment attacked us, click below to read a statement from our CEO and founder, Paul S. Waugh.

A Statement by Paul S. Waugh – Why Lighthouse Global is a Provably Observable Threat to The Top-Tier Establishment and Its Totalitarian Agenda and Why They Have Attacked Us in Order to Destroy. Click the + to expand and read the full explanation.

1. Our Personal, Interpersonal & Global Commission from Christ: The Problems We Face and Solutions Needed

How Do We Live Christ’s Commission and Love Our Neighbour?

“Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’” — Matthew 22:37-39

Last week we were exploring what it means to increase our ability to love through openly receiving God’s Love because God has loved us first.

Moving into the next week, we’ll look at how this moves from being internal to what is external: the love for others.

We’ll be looking at:

  • What it means to live by Christ’s commission.
  • The meaning of loving our neighbour as ourselves.

2. Targeted from Within: The Greatest Threats to the Body of Christ from Inside

The Weaponisation of Reddit and the Internet By Richard Thomas and His Cohort of Predatory Trolls

“Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.” — Proverbs 22:24–25

A Brief Summary on Richard Thomas
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Richard Thomas came to Lighthouse desperately in need of support, largely in his personal life as a father and a husband; both areas in which he was severely failing in. We will be expanding much more in detail about this tragic case throughout the week. Today, we will share a brief introduction:

  • Richard Thomas was mentored for five years by Shaun Cooper, which included months of pro bono support from Shaun.
  • Soon after benefiting from Shaun’s mentorship, he encouraged his friend at the time, Joanne Holmes, a schoolteacher, to get mentored too.
  • Mr Thomas volunteered himself and invested £25k in the Lighthouse Associate Elect Programme (a programme which had many levels of involvement, of which Mr Thomas was involved at the lowest level; only being involved in meetings once per week). This is a direct contrast with the utter lie the BBC presented where Lighthouse supposedly took over people’s lives!
  • Mr Thomas also encouraged his friend Joanne Holmes to join the Lighthouse Associate Elect Programme. When she couldn’t afford the full investment in her programme, other Lighthouse Associates invested in her to be part of the programme. Like Mr Thomas, Ms Holmes was also involved at the lowest level with Lighthouse.
  • Mr Thomas and Ms Holmes received extraordinary levels of support from Shaun and from Paul S. Waugh (which included supplying Ms Holmes with medical needs and health supplements during the Covid Pandemic – something you definitely will not hear the BBC tell you).
  • Both individuals were heavily involved in orchestrating the hate and smear campaign against Lighthouse Global.
  • This campaign ignited at the very same time that Paul S. Waugh and several senior Lighthouse Partners began exploring the merits, substance and importance of the teachings of Jesus Christ, namely the Sermon on the Mount.
  • This exploration was something that was shared on an opt-in basis with the other Associates and Associate-Elects, which they were not obliged to receive in any way.
  • We have substantial proof and evidence that the smear campaign run by Mr Thomas and Ms Holmes was not only vitriolic, racist, xenophobic and guilty of doxing young children, but clearly and palpably anti-Christ and anti-Christian.

You can learn more about who Mr Thomas’ wife is here.

You can learn more about why Mr Thomas joined Lighthouse here.

As is being revealed, Richard Thomas is tragically a bitter and resentful man. Under the pressure of his toxic wife Antonia Brider-Thomas, he thought that lying, twisting and omitting facts to the Daily Mail would leverage an undue refund.

The biggest reason for withdrawing a compassionate refund offer that Richard Thomas ignored for months is because of his wife’s involvement in a predatory, murderous, trolling smear campaign on Reddit.

This week we’ll be looking at:

  • Mr Thomas’ involvement in leading a Reddit smear campaign along with his co-conspirators.
  • How Mr Thomas’ former employer, Monetate, saw his vindictive efforts to destroy Lighthouse’s reputation online and in the tabloid press.

3. Targeted from the Outside: How The Establishment Persecutes us Christians

The Top-Tier Establishment Wants to Keep Us Ignorant and Stupid

“Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.” — Luke 11:52

In our post on 3rd August 2026, we shared the question that has stunned thousands of people through our research at Lighthouse Global… “what is a human being?”

We went on to share the ways that the top-tier Establishment is intentionally castrating our God-given human potential through attacks on our four unique human endowments, namely: self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination.

This week we’ll continue looking at the global Establishment’s war on human potential, which has led to it trying to destroy Lighthouse’s research and work to overcome the barriers to realising our God-given human potential.

We will be covering two key areas:

  • How the mainstream media has been weaponised against all citizens, as well as us at Lighthouse Global.
  • The Establishment attacks on our spiritual, emotional, mental and physical intelligences.

Note: Paul’s longstanding ill health has resulted from multiple Establishment attacks. The team generates these daily updates, drawing on recent and older meetings and material Paul has shared with us. Please keep him in your prayers as he rebuilds strength and renews in our Lord.


God bless you and your loved ones,

Paul S. Waugh, Chris Nash and Shaun Cooper


About us..
We are a group of dedicated Christians who run a secular human growth and research organisation called Lighthouse Global since 4 November 2004 only and undeniably made possible by God’s love and Grace.
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Diane Cubitt
Diane Cubitt
1 month ago

God bless you for what you have shared with us this week. You are opening my eyes and helping me to start walking and seeing life for what it actually is. Paul has helped on many occasions, through these updates, to help me see reality and how what is happening in my life would not be possible without God, and how I need to put Him first. Here is a prayer Paul shared with us about loving God and putting Him first.

What you have been sharing about Mr Thomas and his wife has been hard to read, in the way that a person who claimed to be a friend, a brother could turn on the very people who looked after and cared for him. I pray for him and his wife…

Daniel Schmitz
Daniel Schmitz
1 month ago

I’m looking forward to this week and to understanding more about what it means to be a Christian and to live the commandment of loving your neighbour as yourself.

Thank you again as well for exposing the Establishment’s war on human potential and how they try to keep the masses controlled and disempowered through their attacks and through their tricknicalities.

It’s also sad to see how someone like Richard Thomas turned on those who helped him and how his wife got involved in a smear campaign against Lighthouse.

This clearly shows the consequences of having a weak character. I pray that Mr Thomas recognises his wrongdoings and repents.

Sukh Singh
1 month ago

Thank you very much. Learning about loving my neighbour, is a big thing I am feeling on my heart right now, the need to not just learn about it, but act on it and be rid of all selfishness as the Bible states.

I say that in light of Richard Thomas. I am almost certain he is having a very dark and tortuous experience of life, suffering the consequences of his and his wife’s destructive, malicious, diabolical actions. God help them both, and their children.

Jess Holder
1 month ago

Thank you very much for this update. There is still so much to learn and discover about how the Establishment has sought to destroy and strip us of our God-given potential, capability and capacity to truly grow into fully functioning adults — not merely physically, but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

I’m very grateful for this education and for the way it is now being shared with the world, so that others can learn and discover these things for themselves too.

Thank you to Paul and to the whole Lighthouse team for bringing these updates together each week. It is truly appreciated.

God bless everyone 🙏

Jatinder
Jatinder
1 month ago

Looking forward to this week – the more I learn about the Establishment the more I see the evil go limit us and our potential!

James Mills
James Mills
1 month ago

A significant week to come! I appreciate how the research findings and insights from our 22-year journey at Lighthouse are coming more and more to the fore.

It’s powerful how there’s a combination of how we can be learning what it means to love at a greater level, hold enemies accountable in a way that is loving and reveal how the top-tier Establishment seeks to keep us as easily controllable, institutionalised old infants

Melissa Deichler
Melissa Deichler
1 month ago

By all accounts it will be another powerful week of distinctions, wisdom and accountability for the BBC and all who have lied against Lighthouse with such malicious intentions.

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight. – Proverbs 12:22

Kris
Kris
1 month ago

I really value the focus and process of going through God’s love in line with our greatest commandments. None of us can emphasise the value and importance of covering this enough! The saga with Mr Thomas continues as an ever unfolding example of how actually self destructive toxic resentful people are. That they will sacrifice their future reputation and opportunities through being eventually exposed, in return for the schadenfreude of lying and damaging others as much as they can in the short-term. That the Global Establishment is at war with human potential ought to tell us all we need to know about the nature of the Establishment!

Stasia Simpson
Stasia Simpson
1 month ago

I’m really looking forward to looking at what it means to live Christ’s commission. Eighteen years in the Catholic Church and yet I was not shown this, not even in my family. And with what we have experienced here by the likes of Richard Thomas, the agenda to keep us ignorant and stupid, has certainly played out in their actions. I pray for the sanctification out of this indoctrination 🙏

Tom Hasker
Tom Hasker
1 month ago

It is incredible what the top tier establishment has chosen not to teach us all. The human potential squandered would, ironically, have propelled everyone alive into a far richer future than what anyone is experiencing now.

Anthony
Anthony
1 month ago

I really appreciate how this week brings these three areas together so clearly: learning to live out Christ’s command to love our neighbour, exposing how the internet can be weaponised to harm others, and examining how our God given human potential can be suppressed through ignorance and dependency. I find the connection between them particularly powerful, because genuine Christian love, truth and human development all require us to become more aware, discerning and responsible. I’m looking forward to seeing these themes explored further this week.

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