Markets are likely to rally today, which we will get to in a second. (Told you that last week if you were paying attention…)
More important matters first. Because something much more insidious is going on: The Internet has spawned collapse. You may not see it directly, but what was once a nice – evenly textured – digital world is undergoing a significant sell-out which challenges the ‘net’s utility value.
Digital services spawn social cancer.
We got a good look at how America is drifting into the Great (Idea) Firewall of China Wednesday. As YouTube announced they’d be banning anti-vax content.
Almost laughably, “YouTube’s CEO says free speech is a ‘core value’ even after removing videos by Putin critic Alexey Navalny (msn.com).” Is she putin us on?
My 2012 book (Broken Web: The Coming Collapse of the Internet) missed much of the “wild west” gyrations of a wide-open internet. We’d get so many mega players that they’d seize America by its (online political) nuts. Oops! Little oversight, there. Hey – I wrote in 10-years ago, what can I say?
With two major search engines dominating search, the internet is undergoing something akin to “franchise collapse.” Google alone was 92.7% of search in June of this year. Bing runs about 2.71 percent. Everyone else is down in the also-rans.
Big Tech (read: social media) was on a liberal roll for a while. But, then a funny thing happened. People began to see through a liberal agenda that forced BLM, Antifa, and a host of other viewpoints on a moderate/centrist country which didn’t want to march lockstep to Lenin, Caracas, Cuba, and China. Alternative search and video are popping up as a market reaction.
People are now asking questions. “Unique franchises” on the web are in trouble. Perhaps due in part to Tech decisions to become information partisans.
In the NuWurld of Digital Life, Big Tech becomes an enforcement arm of government policy. You can only act to the degree you can think. Following? “We’ll drive the sheep this way, you get elected…”
Skip over the Establishment (as Trump did) and the Digital Mob will close ranks and shut you out, kick you out, and keep you down. Pretty “American” robber baron sounding, ain’t it?
What Public Commons?
The chaos evolving forward may be reminiscent of the AT&T breakup. While it’s true that monopolies have their place, it’s also true that certain basic services are – and should be – Public Utilities.
YouTube, censoring anti-vax content, has just driven some portion of its audience to alternate providers. Rumble, Odysee, and Vimeo to name a few. But there are plenty more springing up, so a read of 12 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube (makeuseof.com), with click-marking at the ready, is a good use of time.
“Clicks. Bitte?”
Of course, the old-line (gen 1) of Search and Video platforms does have a kind of “gated community” of sheep. Most people like the ruts they’re in. (Which is why America is flocked…)
However, as reader Ray offered in a comment overnight:
“In case someone needs a new, secure search engine. SearX is an encrypted metasearch and its source code is downloadable — should someone wish to “roll their own…”
Good Gopher is a scratch-built “search engine” (I think it’s actually a search index with a directed crawler, but that’s just the impression I get from the *.docs) It was created by Mike Adams, the editor of NaturalNews.
Qwant is the basic search engine — ‘cept it’s French and private.
This assumes you know many of the “untracked” engines (DDGo, etc.) use the underlying database of the big Gen1 search platform. Thus, any results from the Gen1 search (whether tracked, or not) have already limited your perspective by only reporting “their approved” results.
Tough head-wrap? By design. Because we are in a series of…
Digital Brushfire Wars
Need some examples? Not seeing the digital wars clearly?
- Video platform warfare with YT et al. Now challengers arise.
- Search platform battles with the Big G and Bing leading but tons of smaller challengers popping up as Ray noted.
- Then there is the “newsletter hosting” battle. Worth reading is Substack Is Letting Anti-Trans Rhetoric Thrive in the Name of Neutrality (on medium.com)
This last one is of note because it reveals that content publishers actually want biased platforms. So for example, if you were to publish a “pro trans” newsletter, you might bail if your platform provider allowed contrasting views.
This is what falling digital Babel looks like. Partisans of any cause (Trump-hate, pro-vax, anti-trans, homophobes, and so forth) massively favor their platforms being their supporters, as well as providers.
Which is ridiculous: Realistically? It’s like trying to find a cause-specific printing press. “I want a press that will only print Democrat viewpoints…” Which is nuts. But people (locked into their causes) only see things through their partisan lenses. They want platform endorsements. And that means censorship.
Is There and Answer?
No, not really.
Social media can literally define your future if you screw it up. See the article in First Monday this month “Not too deep: Privacy, resistance, and the incorporation of social media in background checks. In some sense, social credit scoring is arriving – just out of sight of most folks.
We have viral media. Were Fauchi less focused on bioweapon gain of function blowback, it would be medically correct to ‘Take the Click.” As in off.
It’s all out of control. Big Socials effectively “own” once elective government in America because they can slant search and video on both people and issues.
In other words, they are Private Thought Police (for hire). Working with Government. “We’ll give you 10-million more jabs, but it will cost you extended Section 230 exemptions for….”
Explainer: “These laws (Sec. 230) enable the modern internet to function by allowing everyone to post content online, and by providing intermediary liability protections to websites and apps to allow them to remove or moderate inappropriate content.”
We think Section 230 comprises a sell-out by government. It places large media corporations ABOVE the rights of “regular humans” through exemptions that allow Big Tech to make shit-loads of money.
Regulation Needed!
I have personally read each and every comment posted to this site. If I can do it, why can’t Big Tech? Answer is simple: Money. Greedy pricks capitalizing on silly sheep producing fungible (free-to-them) content risk-free.
But SHOULD digital anything be subject to Government Regulation? Topic came up a while back on SubStack: #1: Regulation is a pedagogical fail – by Pranay Kotasthane – Anticipating The Unintended (substack.com)
Problem with DBW’s? (Digital Brushfire Wars) They keep everyone worked up. Partisanship has overtaken Issues and Performance. Everyone’s running a marketing angle.
Let’s take the Gay community as an example. (Ure doesn’t care what consenting adults do.) I’ve employed many Gay people over my 50-years in Business. Most were great. A few were bad. Just like I hired POCs: Same results. Spoiler alert: Pretty much the same hiring White people. Some good, some bad.
What’s changed, then? Marketing.
Gender, race, and all the rest division stew, doesn’t belong in kindergarten. But, having read marketing journals for 30+ years, let me tell you what’s really going on.
Branding of Children
That’s right. Starting in about 1988, or thereabouts, the concept of “branding for life” became popular. With it? Savvy marketers realized that the BFL (Branding for Life) needed to be locked down by the time a child was in eighth grade.
Which is why K-6 education – once totally free of commercial branding of any sort – is now seriously influencing young people who are a totally suggestible captive audience.
Now, I don’t care (grade 10 and up) what you want to shove into a civics class, but young ones should be left to “sort out life” without left-wing teachers, racial radicals, or gender-check marketers (supported by huge academic infrastructures) anywhere near children.
Play and social interaction puts Life into a neat perspective. Ure’s truly is a product of a White minority high school. Without a single racial marketer, White, Black, Asian, Native American, Gay, and Whatever, all got along just fine.
School was about learning the basics. I might not have passed chemistry without John Uchida’s coaching, for example. Harvey Toy introduced me to candied ginger. All races, all sharing, being ‘people without marketing interventions.’ School was about who you were. Not some bullshit branding assignment.
We wore cheap sneakers from the old Chubby & Tubby store in Seattle’s Garlic Gulch. We “wasted” our focus on learning. Today? Kids buy a particular sneaker based on the team (and endorsing star’s) standings in an artificial reality called Pro Sports.
Wonder when mass psychosis came to America? When we started filling children’s heads with brand bullshit. “How do you select tennis shoes?” If the answer is “Because I like [brand name X]…” be assured, you’re talking to an idiot.
I saw this in my own kids – and knew our future was toast. When one of my daughters demanded a pair of Doc-something boots. It was her way of “being different” just like everyone else.
The marketing tricks include [brand] [privilege/status/division]. Remember the template and you’ll see it everywhere. Races and Genders are brands nowadays. Following?
Government? Late to the Party! (As always!) Senate to Question Facebook on Instagram’s Impact on Teenagers. D’uh….you think?
Don’t mean to go off on a long discussion of this, but the digital context of life is very important. If you’re not visiting at least one new website a day, you’re in prison. Let us know when you break out.
Jobs and Data
Market futures were higher – as expected. We’re just waiting for those rally targets I mentioned last week. To busy working to play the lunch-money trading game.
New Unemployment filers data is just out:
GDP Climbs
It’s kind of silly, isn’t it? The rate of money creation is +16 percent annualized. And GDP is measured in (phony, excessive printed on demand) money…so you KNOW GDP can’t go down…
Percentages though are meaningless. So let’s look at the hard numbers found in the spreadsheet confessional which few bother to read:
All looks encouraging until you back out the Rasputin-like money creation – in which case we’re not even back to 2017 levels. But hey! Not my story…blame gov on this one.
Of course, as a result, the Velocity of Money at M2 reveals the economy is NOT recovering worth a damn, though when this chart is updated…well, we’ll see…
Essentially, money is NOT turning over. So many kids have moved back with parents and jib-jabs aside, the economy was about killed by the bio-thingy.
Profits Up!
Also out is the corporate profits report which also reinforces the helicoptered money illusion that all’s well..
“Profits of domestic financial corporations increased $52.8 billion in the second quarter, compared with an increase of $1.3 billion in the first quarter. Profits of domestic nonfinancial corporations increased $221.3 billion, compared with an increase of $133.2 billion. Rest-of-the-world profits decreased $6.2 billion, compared with a decrease of $10.6 billion. In the second quarter, receipts increased $27.4 billion, and payments increased $33.6 billion.
In reality, America’s got issues. And the whole “money in lieu of actual unit volumes” leaks all over the screen in the Association of American Railroads weekly traffic report:
“For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 511,713 carloads and intermodal units, down 1.3 percent compared with the same week last year.
Total carloads for the week ending September 25 were 239,069 carloads, up 6.6 percent compared with the same week in 2020, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 272,644 containers and trailers, down 7.3 percent compared to 2020.”
This is (pull the curtain back and you’ll see it…) the reason the House of Peloser is desperately trying to jack-up government spending.
Yessir: Keep the borders open, spend like hell, and pretend everything is normal when it’s not. It’s the (new) American Way.
Market Outlook
Too early to be certain, but this has the feel of my week or two of rally before the bottom falls out in late October. As of early futures today, the window from Labor Day looks like this through our Aggregate Index: (This is NOT Financial advice…)
The price of lumber is likely in a broadening low range, so you can plan on pretty good inflation next year. BTC was around $43,000 trying to find its legs now that China has rained on the crypto parade.
As the chart shows, we expect loads of happy talk next week (Budget, Virus, kitchen sink). And then comes the end of October. A guess? Large wave 1 down is done, an ABC 2 is due, and then 3 down is ahead, with a November rally, year end washout and a screaming inflation-driven rally in 2022 early.
Just a dart toss, mind you…but happy-talk like Senate reaches a deal to avoid a government shutdown fits our previous outlook to a tee.
Short Takes
Power woes in China persist: China power cuts shut down factories, fuel climate goal pushback.
Hiding Chip Facts: The story Taiwan, on chip information request, says respects US laws (msn.com) bring me to a key point. “Difference between the auto chip shortage and consumer chips? It’s EMP resistance. And my guess is the EMP resistant chips are going into the drone market,” reports my consigliere. While the US is posturing pro Taiwan, the massive drone builds likely use EMP resistant chips which will keep war-swarming harder to defend against. Which no one talks about, but which is likely the reality. The CAN (controller area network) bus has some. Even a small amount (short of full MIL-STD-1553 compliance) helps. Which gets into a long discussion of measuring DC offsets in controller area network chip design….which we can skip.
Australia’s Extremist Government: Sydney’s unvaccinated warned of social isolation when COVID-19 ends… (Bet it ever will? Come on – control, control, control…)
Hank in Hawaii is likely getting a good view… New eruption in Hawaii’s Kilaeua volcano (usatoday.com). Meanwhile, Florida is still there so let’s assume La Palma hasn’t slid, yet.
Here, let’s see how this goes: AT&T to require vaccines for 90,000 of its union workers.
Another Depression Marker
Buddy Andy checked in with…
“I was walking into the store after my last post and a nice fella outside says “Would you like to purchase some Real Change for two bucks.
‘…Uhh yes. Yes I would….
“How’s that for a sign?”
Yes sir! Absolutely.
What people forget about History, here in Depression II, is that we had a huge analog to the homeless of today in the late 1920s and 1930s. Eventually, they marched on DC as the Bonus Army. Mid 1932.
In the historical rhyme of times, we see last January’s 6 capitol demonstration as merely giving the sitting government a reason to pre-plan (and write rights-abusing laws in advance) on how to handle events when the Big Crash (of a size that causes wars) begins in late 2022. Which would put open street warfare in, oh, 2023, or thereabout.
Vendor-sold newspapers are a subharmonic around tops and bottoms of economic long waves. Try a read of the peak of cycle-leading Grit in “I’m a Grit Salesman – Read the First Issue for Free! – Hands-on Heritage (handsonheritage.com).
Real Change? Not so much, actually…spiral calendar is a lot closer to the Truth.
Around the Ranch
380 pounds of new tile for the kitchen arrived yesterday.
Offloading, I noticed the pick up truck brake lights were stuck on. One more thing on the to-do list…
And I ordered a new computer. The existing (12-year old) i-7 920 is showing the odd over-temp (along with Press F1 to continue) even after a trip to the air compressor. New one is an i7-11700 with 64 gb and huge SSD drives. Not the best use of my time doing board level component checking on the old one.
Off to rejoin the working class..
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
George,
A bit of perspective. I remember in the 50’s and 60’s where hosts of children’s t.v. shows would routinely end commercial pitches with “Be sure and tell Mom to buy xyz.” Note that it’s “tell”, not “ask”.
The marketers are required to be more subtle now, but it’s the same dynamic.
The commercial exploitation of children has been going on forever. After all, everything’s a business model.
Now, where’s my rich chocolately Bosco for my morning milk?
73’s.
VINTAGE 1958 HOWDY DOODY TWINKIE COMMERCIAL
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7HUqXx8yA
Parties Ova G!
Might as well just party like eastcoastchillinthemost, ya know like its 1999.. Cause the lifestyle you ordered, is permanently Out of Stock.https://youtu.be/udkRI514KSI
What, you got the expertise to gin up a new FAB plant ??
Didnt think so, how many trained techs you got on hand to get that new FAB plant up and running ? Trained/Skilled tech/workers that know how to optimize chip-production manufacturing – sURE you do.
I keep hearing that old bootcamp ditty they make recruits sing in the head-bathroom after failing Inspection for un-washed/un-cycled clothes in lockers…”rub dub dub Im a maytag washer! I wash all day and I wash all night, and my parts NEVER wear out” – sung with Ure head inside a metal trash can -awesome acoustic effects in tiled bathroom.
Parts be on PERMANENT Back Order Chief – we’s bees toast.
* Whats a dirty bomb – and why in the world would “domestic terrorists” use one on their fellow countrymen&women ? THEY WOULDNT . thats why its dirty..same suspects as 9/11 intel agc – TUR/SA/I/cia-tsa-FumblingBumblingIdiots.
*zionazi’s = Humanities Adversary, who ya think they answer to?
no ParTey in DC – The END is just starting..
US Govt DeFault
– USTreasury Bonds that mature soonly – will just DISAPPEAR.
This goes down as it is assumed that they were payed, therefore “its gone!”
Whatwhatwhat – Dammitjanet going to have everyone change the maturity dates on the UST bonds/notes/bills – sure thats feasible.
All those soonly maturing Treasury Securities will justbe gone..POOF!
Wonder how they gonna pay ALL those compartmentalized- black project Contractors ?
How much would you be willing to pay for blueprints to one the solarwardens magnetically buoyant dragon suit/ship?
Short Everything – the TOP is IN …. its going down from here..
“those soonly maturing Treasury Securities will justbe gone..POOF!
Wonder how they gonna pay ALL those compartmentalized- black project Contractors ?”
THEY WON’T…..
When bread hits a million or more a loaf..if I’m not mistaken it still costs a months wages for a weeks worth of sandwich m as kings in Argentina..
In greece people started bartering..
“Wonder how they gonna pay ALL those compartmentalized- black project Contractors ?”
THEY WON’T… it will be just like Argentina.. Zimbabwe is worse..I think it’s coming here..
Food
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500 gr (1 lb.) of boneless chicken breast ARS $195
1 liter (1 qt.) of whole fat milk ARS $81
12 eggs, large ARS $161
1 kg (2 lb.) of tomatoes ARS $114
500 gr (16 oz.) of local cheese ARS $342
1 kg (2 lb.) of apples ARS $143
1 kg (2 lb.) of potatoes ARS $59
0.5 l (16 oz) domestic beer in the supermarket ARS $99
1 bottle of red table wine, good quality ARS $343
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Bread for 2 people for 1 day ARS $47
Housing
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Utilities 1 month (heating, electricity, gas …) for 2 people in 85m2 flat ARS $4,516
Monthly rent for a 45 m2 (480 sqft) furnished studio in expensive area ARS $30,557
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40” flat screen tv
https://usawatchdog.com/unvaxed-at-risk-from-vaxed-in-coming-dark-winter-karen-kingston/
Dont you ever vaxx your children!
Fact checking:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/graphene-oxide-mrna-vaccines/
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hitting-the-books-how-to-talk-to-a-science-denier-lee-mcintyre-mit-press-153022138.html
…When a conspiracy theorist indulges their suspicions about the alleged dangers of vaccines, chemtrails, or fluoride — but then takes any contrary or debunking information as itself proof of a cover-up — they lock themselves in a hermetically sealed box of doubt that no amount of facts could ever get them out of. For all of their protests of skepticism, most conspiracy theorists are in fact quite gullible…
Terrific column today!!!!!!!
I was in the Soviet Union in 1987. Spent about 3 weeks there, Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and some of the Baltic Republics. It quickly became evident to me that the USSR was going to collapse shortly. Another thing I noticed is that many of the Soviet people knew they were constantly being propagandized and could tell the difference between the BS and reality. Soviet citizens loved to talk to visitors from the west when the Intourist “tour guide” was not listening.
When I compare that experience to life in the US now, the similiarities stand out like a sore thumb, I hate to say this but I think the Soviet people were smarter than Americans at understanding what was propoganda and what wasn’t. As far as collapse goes we seem to be right on track with so many aspects from degrading government services to difficulty finding workers to all sorts of shortages to weakening military and large amounts of the economy shutting down. Of course there are a lot of differences but the similiarities are remarkable.
They pretend to pay. We pretend to work.
Great analysis!
Exactly that how Socialist countries work.
I know this phrase, having worked with dozens of former USSR-ians.
We are collapsing, this phrase has legs.
Police:
“we pretend to enforce the law, you pretend to obey”
School:
“we pretend to teach you, you pretend to learn”
I’m sure there’s more, but this is coming to a boil, I can hear it on my city streets at 3 am. Why are there thousands of people racing around at 3 am every night of the week? Who is buying their gas, who buys them lunch FFS?
For sure, nobody is enforcing speeding limits or any other road laws. Hell, Portland just revealed that our city has just one traffic officer on duty at any time. Think that went unnoticed? This is all so far out of balance I’m afraid it’s going to get much worse before any sort of correction is taken, if ever. We can’t even get rid of our corrupt, racist, elitist mayor, in Portland. Go figure.
Americans not understanding? You are so right! At least the Soviet citizens knew what was BS! I am still shocked that like at least 80% of the American people (including people on this forum) still buy into the entire covid con and they have no clue what is being done to them. At least the Soviets knew they were being hosed.
“I was in the Soviet Union in 1987. Spent about 3 weeks there, Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)”
I had always wanted to visit there.. I have a diary from an old farmer that went to teach the farmers there how we farmed here. In an attempt to get their crops to produce a better yeild..the people were starving. While they were there the bolsheviks took over and the czar was overthrown..
I had family there working embassy.. my first thought was take pictures.. thenichanged my mind.. as paranoid as the world is.. they would assume that they would be spying.. not that they had a crazy realative that wants to see the gorgeous gothic buildings.. and countryside.
What I’d really like to do is search for the lost library lol lol..you know it’s there just like our vast LOC in some underground building…
“Most people like the ruts they’re in.” Simple but profound George. People complain but don’t change the circumstance they complain about. I guess they feel the power in complaining but not in changing.
There is a wonderful line in an Eagles song “Already gone”.
“So often times it happens that we spend our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.”
In fact this and many other Eagles songs are filled with memorable lyrics. Also from “Already gone.” ………………….
“Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky. You can see the stars and still not see the light (that’s right).”
Just loved these guys.
“The nearer your destination, the more you’re slip-sliding away.” Paul Simon.
“Most people like the ruts they’re in.”
They don’t necessarily like them.. a woman that lives with an abusive husband or boyfriend as an example hates being abused.. but will stay with them out of fear of the unknown..
I’ve worked side by side with plenty of men and women with PhD’s etc..each of them was afraid to stay to long in the job out of fear that the social class of the position would follow their lives.
You become bound by the position you hold..and your income ratio follows.. if you’re being paid ten dollars an hour..and apply for a job.. at best the job you apply for will offer you is a dollar more.. no matter what your qualifications are..
Really good employers.. well you have to know someone or be a realative..
The throw away jobs are just that. Low or no benefits low pay. They usually have an extremely high turnover rate. ( usually indicates a serious management issue) short hours and poor staffing.. like one employer I had.. they wanted a high turnover so they could qualify for federal and state revenue and tax programs.. hand ed d out messages that said. Make sure your employees know that this is not a campground. Just a stepping stone while they seek another job…I hated that job and the company.. I lasted just less than a year before I said enough. Didnt spend a dime there either. They went belly up to..
I always respect your opinion LOOB. You have a lot of “feet on the ground experience” and you are right on many of these points. I especially agree with women in abusive relationships and am a strong supporter of our local “Abused Women’s Centre.”
My real frustration is with people who complain and ask for help, then refuse to take it. We have a close friend who has been in an abusive relationship for many years and who spends hours on the phone with my wife, crying and complaining. We have offered any number of solutions and outreach but to no avail. I have told my wife that her friend has arrived at the point where she believes there really is “no solution to this problem except to complain.”
I know that all of life’s problems have been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic of the past 18 months and don’t want to judge anyone’s circumstance. It is a very difficult period of time for all and we need patience and kindness. I just cannot accept no solution as a solution to a problem.
“We have a close friend who has been in an abusive relationship for many years and who spends hours on the phone with my wife, crying and complaining.”
Sadly Bic..they are scared..take the kid the incestuous pedophile.. his diaries hint of a long history of abuse.. I am helping a young woman right now.. or supporting her.. she grew up in an abusive family.. then in an attempt to escape her bonds was forced into prostitution.. many times being threatened and sought when she tried to escape.. when they got caught she was terrified of being killed if she testified.. so they threw the book at her and she’ll spend many years incarcerated.. it brought back memories of myself as a very little boy.. hiding in a dirt basement because the voters decided to combine school districts..people that have never felt that fear don’t know..
My wife’s ex use to hold a knife to her throat as he showed her where he was going to bury the body..she was fortunate.. when he started putting a loaded gun under the pillow she and I got together.
I knew one whose husband ripped her silver caps off her teeth broke her back and arm etc. She went back to him.. the extremely abused rarely complain. My failures are those that crossed my path and I failed to see it..those bring tears to my eyes..they are afraid to talk.. hopefully your wife can convince her friend to leave the relationship.. there are organizations that will help them vanish change their identity so that the abuser can’t ffg ind them. The real problem then is.. that’s the exact type of person they will latch onto in the future..
They are afraid.. and similar to HB’s victims.. they see that there isn’t anyone that will oppose them..their life will end up as one abusive relationship after another..
https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY
BIC….
have your wife tell her to go to the YWCA… they have the resources to get her the help she needs.. god bless I hope she can escape the abuser.. many take years of counseling to rebuild their self esteem..to escape a lifes situation like that..
When I got emotionally attached to the young woman incarcerated was when I get a phone call from the ER doctor asking permission to treat her.. she had been so badly beaten.. the young woman had my number as an emergency contact..I tried many times to talk her into moving away in an attempt to escape those forcing her to keep her in that lifestyle.
Great article George… something this is appearing at the “right” time is https://www.digitalage.com/ or stock symbol HPNN. Check into it and give us your honest opinion. The founder and group working to achieve this product for us are freedom loving folk. It’s almost ready to launch! Put YouTube, FB, Instagram, et al into one and that is digitalage. They are independent with servers and marketing, so see if you see any holes to their plan…thanks
told yah george!!! you know what i did .. like to have parachutes and escape hatches . wont take the bait put more market shorts on today . but have front row in the fastest spaceship on the planet , as they are handing out lollipops . cheers.whole row to self
When I first stepped onto social media, it was to basically keep in touch with personal friends and share funny memes. Then I reached out to a lady in Sweden, who was very warm, pleasant to talk with and polite. That friendship gained me friendships across Europe.
I got to see in pictures how beautiful Germany, Croatia, the Ukraine and other places, really are … with personal heartfelt descriptions. I in kind, showed them my hiking pics and family stories. Lots of hearts and smiles.
One gentleman rode his bike to work along the Thames River in the UK, and took pics for me along the way. Sending each pic as he took them. Just wanted me to see.
I spoke regularly with Valli Kemp in Australia. Said I have an amazing resemblance to her brother and, we shared some spiritual interests. I even got her connected to someone in her homeland of Nigeria.
Played guitar with a musician in Brazil, another guy in Germany sent me Billy Idol’s “Don’t you forget about me” when I told him I was leaving the platform. I still pray for him often.
A lady imparted a beautiful wisdom to me. She said, “We are all Angels with one wing, but together we can fly.”
Countless beautiful stories of people around the world. I could go on and on. They all just want to live their lives with love and peace.
But because of what the NOW reality is, the internet isn’t like that anymore … because of everything you wrote in today’s column. Those things have tainted it all and made it very ugly and dangerous.
Who ever is in charge of all that, has done the world a great disservice,- taking the beauty out and inducing conflict for profit. It’s quite clear tptb don’t want a “nice” world, because they had one and blew it.
https://youtu.be/KoqPy1hk3BI
ALL teachers must be required to wear, in their classrooms, the SAME cams as police wear – AND HAVE LIVE CLASSROOMS so as to have teachers held accountable!!
Paul
In this day and age people would be shocked to see what goes on in a classroom. Are there bad teachers…yes, but the students have definitely gotten worse also. Cams would be awesome on both ends of the game.
In this day and age, very few classrooms at any grade level are not surveilled. They are cammed strictly for surveillance, not loss-mitigation, so I never did one, but I’ve an acquaintance who did several.
Think “NannyCam” on steroids. Every clock and exit sign has a camera. Additionally there were two cams which looked like panel LEDs – really fine coax out the bottom, glue-in (lens would’ve been 4.5 or 5mm), installed in opposite corners of every classroom.
One of his school jobs was my kids’ high school. Every cam — 192 of them (that I know of) — was a hardwired IP cam. EVERYONE watched the Cat-5e runs going into the ceilings. I was one of the few who knew it was not for classroom computer access. He did this job in 2005, when Cat-5 runs and PoE (Power over Ethernet) were not cheap.
He ran all those runs (each camera had a discrete run, which I still don’t understand, other than it would make a camera fault much faster & easier to correct) back to a rack in a “server room” (closet) in the school’s office area. The rack had 48 port switches and a Supermicro 1U, with a couple rack-mount UPCs. ‘Thing is, I don’t even know if anyone at the school except the Principal, knew of its existence. There were zero monitors on-site and my buddy didn’t know where the vid inputs might go, because it was neither netted nor controlled onsite.
I suspect it was eventually netted, so the Principal could check up on the school remotely, but that’s just a guess. The important takeaways are my buddy didn’t know where the signals went, or how, and didn’t know if they were archived. This means the job was compartmentalized, and someone else came in to finish it up — probably with both a large RAID array and a hardware VPN setup of some kind.
Why it was done, and by whom, I don’t, to this day, know. I was good friends with the school system’s head of security. He either didn’t know, or couldn’t say…
The point of this whole essay is: The cam system is likely in-place, the cams are likely A/V with 2-way audio. Body cams are unnecessary, if the various schools can be convinced to loose their existing camera feeds.
“ALL teachers must be required to wear, in their classrooms, the SAME cams as police wear ”
I am pretty sure the cameras already exist. Around here Many of the schools here have cameras taping as well as someone watching them and monitoringthe hallways.inside and outside the buildings..
Buses have had cameras inside since the eighties and fifteen years ago have them outside the buses taping traffic..
The town I live in has put cameras up around town .the parks etc.
When a gentleman that I had never known before was talking to his mom and gave a better description to what I have that he’s never been in or seen to my knowledge. Than I could. I put up16 cameras..there were some strange things going on in nearby communities and our community.. that it became a fad and the vast majority of the residents started to put up cameras.
Cops that think they are not observed well videos soon appear.. my cars have dash cams front and back.. I can only imagine how many there are in a city.. especially one with a high crime rate
Dammit LOOB, I should’ve read your reply before I made mine — coulda saved some space!
I just naturally assume that EVERY public (government) building and every private building in which commerce occurs, have security cameras. I assume at least every fourth street light contains a cam and every bridge or tunnel has four on perimeter and four traffic cams (2+2) for every couple-hundreds of yards of actual road.
“I just naturally assume that EVERY public (government) building and every private building in which commerce occurs, have security cameras. ”
LOL I am not a ten words or less guy I start out to just say a quick response then wham.. it turnes into a long drawn out thing…. and I know it.. I actually got into camera’s a long long time ago.. my daughter had a boyfriend that got upset that she dumped him.. and would break into her house.. so I put up camera’s.. then I was taking care of the parent to the guy that has the main security monitoring system in these parts and we were talking about how crazy it was.. I mentioned her issues and she had the best checked building in our area.. everyone was driving by for a year.. they caught the creep to..
anyone living in an apartment should have them.. ex con’s have a difficult time finding work.. many end up as maintenance men.. free rent.. I always changed locks to.. if they want in they can let me know they are going to be going in.. when I left locks went back to the original.. Camera’s are everywhere.. even in places you don’t think they are.. when I got a little paranoid was when china turned on everyones camera.. ( I still think they did that as a demonstration of what they can do.. even at the pentagon.. they turned on all of them.. baby monitors security cam’s the cams on your phones.. I keep a piece of black tape on my camera.. just because) televisions siri etc.. all have privacy agreements saying that they want to know what your talking about.. George once posted that they asked him to check out a program.. and they had a list of crap that he did regularly that should have given everyone a shiver.. when I worked in trash.. YUP.. the garbage man.. federal people regularly came in and would pick a random person and dig through their trash.. ( I bought a shredder because of that.. not that I do anything wrong I live a pretty dull life.. (I will leave that up to politicians kids to do all that horrible crime sprees.. _) It was the fact that I felt like everone was having their privacy invaded.. and lets face it.. you can tell everything about a person through the trash.. Your life is in your garbage.. the strange crap going on this past summer was DHS wasp vans.. got it from someone that would know.. they were touring the USA hitting everyones neighborhoods.. wanna have some fun.. do a scan with your phone for wifi.. once.. LOL when your out cruising.. check wifi hotspots see what comes up…… LOL LOL LOL
The post on the body bags.. I have actually seen more pallets of apple juice at one time.. but lately there has been a lot of emergency response training going on.. if Walmart is still in their main plans that would make sense.. if it is a distribution center and they are restocking emergency materials.. then that makes sense.. with all the studies having been done saying that in a real SHTF scenario.. there would be an estimated 98 percent loss of life.. fifteen years ago FEMA made all counties buy mobile crematorium vans.. that will do 600 bodies a day.. a big city would have to have at least twenty five percent of bags available to handle and a cooler to handle the response for those that were not processed..
so if a city had two million.. they would have to have at least five hundred thousand on hand..
What I find scary is.. there is that training going on.. why.. my guess is they see something big coming as well.. an emp.. or all out catastrophic event.. look at the PNW.. after fukishima they froze the information from being released and started prepping for future cancer rates.. anyway I am writing another book on my opinion..
Its why I have as much tp on the shelves.. and why our church recommends that everyone have a years supply of food..
In 2007/2008, I was on a project upgrading a public housing project in Marion Barry’s district in DC (met him once, but that’s another story). Our slice of the project was upgrading the rooftop security cameras, installing cameras to cover all stairwells, plus provide (free) wifi to the residents. IP and PoE everything. I spec’d and designed the whole system. One of our crew blabbed to the residents, which set off complaints about privacy. Bad enough our guys had to watch out for crack pipes and needles hidden above the ceiling tiles, but the CAT6 cables were always stolen until we decided to use conduit and JB weld every connector.
Mondays were the worst: Every floor (five stories) had a trash room with a chute to the dumpster at ground level, and every weekend the trash clogged the dumpster, and residents left bags of trash sitting in the trash room. Place reeked.
How did we grow up in the 50s and 60s without cams to record every little thing that some parent is going to use to say how the teacher just doesn’t appreciate how special their rotten kid is?
Use to be when kids acted up or out in school, the parents would feel shame… Not these days. Their kid is perfect and its the school system that doesn’t see their child as the perfect expression of what they live through in their home life, a pure sh@t hole of contained horrible parenting. Just because people can make babies, doesn’t mean they should. Just saying
In the ’50s and ’60s, teachers were better-grounded in teaching rather than preaching politics or activism, and had both the ability, and the stones required to mete out punishment when appropriate. When WE were crappy kids, we got to spend extra time in school and were often disciplined again once we got home. When today’s kids act up, they get a vacation from school and see no discipline anywhere.
“How did we grow up in the 50s and 60s without cams to record every little thing that some parent is going to use to say how the teacher just doesn’t appreciate how special their rotten kid is?”
Besides being grounded… we had adult supervision or an adult presence..IMHO
When we started to outsource jobs and deregulate.. MOM had to go to work.. DAD had to take the second job that adult presence was gone for good…. as benefits reduced.. we ended up having to work seven days a week and multiple jobs keeping our children out of sunday school..company picknics and sundays in the park ended.. the children either became latch key kids for the lower end employees.. or if the parents made higher wages.. they had daycare.. the latch key kids.. were left to the neighborhood gangs , Television and computer games to raise them..AS the need for social programs increased from being just for those with catastrophic events to a wage equalizer.. self pride and self worth began to decrease.. life became the endless rut with very little pleasure or family .. divorces increased and so did domestic violence..
watch tv for one hour.. count how many robberies,rapes, murders, suicides or people bashing there are.. the same with internet games.. gangs became the go to source for child rearing..
“AS the need for social programs increased from being just for those with catastrophic events to a wage equalizer..”
As government took social programs away from churches and local charities…
Fixed that for you.
When our Government does something it’s not supposed to, it’s generally also not capable of executing the program or plan as said program or plan should be executed. Government THEN does what government CAN do, which is add, first, more bureaucrats, then more layers of bureaucracy, eventually either burying the program so no one can access it, or burying the problem so people stop seeking a solution.
“Use to be ”
Like everything.. it became a business model.. not elaborate of love and a civic duty..
When I first started working healthcare as a teenager.. it was volunteer work..a labor of love and yo help your family or someone.. doctors made house calls ..
Today.. they’ll scream toss charts and refuse to see a patient after hours all because they wrote a stupid doctors order that forces a late night nurse to call them. The same stupid order stops any on call des. From seeing them..it unfortunately is about the coin not the job..
Next time you see a school bus count the seats. Each seat is a $300.00 a month subsidy.
50 seats = $15,000 a month in freebies. Go drive by a school. Maybe the buses in your district carry more students.
The school district I’m in operates 93 school buses. 93 x $15,000. Not included in the bus count are students who walk, ride bicycles or catch rides from parents.
My brother in law drove a school bus about 10 years ago. He had some interesting stories to tell. Especially about the foul mouth 7 and 8 year olds. He felt they were repeating what they heard and saw in their homes.
https://youtu.be/b5q241rQLVM
A little Amish humor
“With two major search engines dominating search, the internet is undergoing something akin to “franchise collapse.” Google alone was 92.7% of search in June of this year. Bing runs about 2.71 percent. Everyone else is down in the also-rans.”
That is about what the ratio of WinTel PCs to Apples & Macs was, by sales dollars, when MacOS-8 came out. It took them 10 years and a phone, but ISTM Apple is now worth considerably more than Microsoft. ‘Point being, people are only going to take googoo censorship until they discover it’s actually going on, and that it is limiting their searches. When that happens, they will ask somebody like me, who runs DDG, Opera (w/built-in VPN), and Brave on my phone…
“This assumes you know many of the “untracked” engines (DDGo, etc.) use the underlying database of the big Gen1 search platform. Thus, any results from the Gen1 search (whether tracked, or not) have already limited your perspective by only reporting “their approved” results.”
Dogpile Search has its own crawler. That’s not to say it doesn’t integrate googoo results into a search, but that there is at least a breath of freedom built into the results.
It just occurred to me that the stock market and the cryptocurrencies are like a little slivery snake,
When they get ready to strike they go toward the upward movement, then they retreat to go down in their hole for safety,
Then they come out and they just sliver along until they find a foe ,then they have to go into a hole or unless the coast is clear ,they go up and find a tantalizing meal that they can strike and eat,. Like Bruce Lee says be like water, but in this instance be like a snake
Paul
In this day and age people would be shocked to see what goes on in a classroom. Are there bad teachers…yes, but the students have definitely gotten worse also. Cams would be awesome on both ends of the game.
1) They never told me “1984” was an instruction book.
2) WW3 is well underway China has won the first two big battles. We have still not even recognized we are at war. (Battle #1, make us dependent upon Chinese Krappe to cripple our indigenous manufacturing — do it for long enough, and the skills are all forgotten.) (Battle #2, “CBR.’ Chemical, Biological, Radiological. Bio is dirt cheap, and very difficult to even discern who hit you. Expect “Rinse & Repeat.”)
3) Debase education and satisfy the mind(s) with mental masturbatory chewing gum — tasty, but no nutrition. This process takes a couple of decades. Result: anesthetized fundamentally stupid and poorly motivated people.
4) Here we are. The window is closing. The time left to prevent a Long Darkness is fugiting like crazy. There is Hope; but not an excess of it.
Like Hari Seldon predicted… a thousand years of turmoil when the Empire collapses.
The skills are not forgotten. Manufacturing is alive and well in the US. Not even close to “all forgotten”. So no, they have not won Battle #1, not by a long shot.
Crashbandicoot
“Wonder how they gonna pay ALL those compartmentalized- black project Contractors ?”
According to our friendly mailman, this is why Postal Workers we’re not mandated to get the jab. Can’t kill that cash cow, ya know? Wasn’t just because 600,000 union workers said, Hell No! – mailman’s words. True story.
Wasn’t it the Post Office that was buying all that ammo – there’s a reason they have ammo and no vacs.
Wasn’t just the Post Office …. Never have seen Mail folks carrying handguns. I’m sure the ammo is all safely tucked away … (or distributed elsewhere.) Hmmm.
https://gunpermitcenter.com/latest-news/post-office-buys-a-ton-of-ammunition/
National Weather Service, Social Security Administration, IRS, etc…
Dam..oh well..
I had said before.. that I wished someone would make a multi fuel pellet for the pellet heaters..if I lived closer I would.. three parts of saw dust to one part of coal dust. I burn coal in mine but have to tone it down because the coal gets really really hot.. so i mix three to one and i get a really nice hot heat from it..
SO
I’m at my siblings house we get talking about pellet grills and smokers. I love my traegers.. anyway he says oh they make a charcoal pellet now. Out of a mix of sawdust and charcoal
My local Ace the grilling place has them.. charcoal and hickory.. I would prefer applewood or cherry blend..but hey I’m getting a bag..
Yo Loobster,
you no canna grill a cowboy steak on charcoal – it dont work cause all that charcoal scheisse sticks to the Meat. And you know as well as coot does that only thing you want sticking to Ure meat is Ure better half!hahaha
Cowboy Steak – Inverse sear that badboy to 105 degress in Ure egg (green,kamado)- remove from heat/set aside. Open up the egg/vent and sparkup those coals/embers – spark em up to 500 degrees or hotter…”its so hot in here..” When the coals are re- hotted to 500 degrees or better – lay that steak right on top of the coals for 1 minute or less. Flip her over – for another 60 seconds.
Bang Zoom Zip – you gotz the best grilled steak monay can buy!
Chow!
“Inverse sear that badboy to 105 degress in Ure egg (green,kamado)”
Before I got the OONI pro.. https://ooni.com/products/ooni-pro
I wanted to make a rocket Kamado style stove.. clay ovens and cookers have been used for thousands of years all over the world..
BUT… My wife the boss said no I have enough grills already.. LOL LOL.. I actually gave away a smoker that I had never used yet to one of the kids.. it was my emergency smoker.. I do have the cooking toys.. I love to cook.. make wine cheese. grind my own flour harvest my own vegetable oil etc.. etc.. LOL.. she was afraid I would make this huge thing that would take up a whole patio LOL LOL (and she is probably right..LOL kind of like my disc griddle.. I took an old farm disc that was to be tossed away and turned it into a frying pan.. huge and works so good..my frying saucer.. https://rticoutdoors.com/Grill?name=King-Disc-Grill&color=Red&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12512052197&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkPqXgaGs8wIVP21vBB2i1wHlEAQYASABEgJtPfD_BwE I just made my own and I made it long before anyone started to sell them LOL LOL LOL….. great for a nice cool evening out and frying up some chicken nuggets or fries.. . Oh hey I have to make some more of those.. ) so I got my ooni .. I still would like to make a clay grill.. I do like and look at the kamado grill often.. and seriously.. a self feeding grill.. just dump the charcoal or wood in and walk away.. I still like that idea.. although I didn’t make my clay charcoal self feeding grill.. I still think about it.. cheap enough to make.. a little tougher to glaze because of the size.. one of the guys that was a contestant on Naked and afraid.. and I were talking about making some things and I brought up the clay charcoal grill that I wanted to make.. anyway he makes cups.. uses ashes and ground shells for his glazzes..
Few years back, walking the dog (a stray that decided she was home at 68 lbs. Now a healthy 135 lb. Female Alaskan Malamute, cats are more viscous than these dogs). Well, long story-short safest area to walk her was along the railroad tracks. A lot of coal spills from the trains, picked up some to break the boring task of walking a dog, came in handy burning wet wood that winter. Just adding another resource. BTW, she came home with a kitten smaller than her paw. The kitten would not let the dog go and would not let me near for 2 weeks. Never owned a dog before, clueless from the get-go.
I should caution anyone about using coal in a wood burning stove. I put a piece of coal the size of a half a cookie on a heat stone, so my wood stove would survive.
“I should caution anyone about using coal in a wood burning stove. I put a piece of coal the size of a half a cookie on a heat stone, so my wood stove would survive.”
AMEN Cynthia.. Coal gets really hot.. really really hot and will burn out the burn pot really fast….
when I was testing coal for the multi fuel stove.. I first made a bigger burn pot so I can reburn the exhaust fumes.. ( I didn’t want to have black sooty smoke) and I tried many mixes.. pure coal will burn out the burn pot.. a one to one mix gets the multi fuel stove so hot that the controls are affected.. the same with two to one mix.. but the three to one mix will get you about a seven hundred degree heat source.. similar to corn or cherry pits.. which is what I mix it at and at a cost that is very cost effective.. If I lived close to a coal mine I would be going for a truck load of coal dust.. then mix up and make the wood coal pellets myself..
From what I have read the charcoal and wood saudust gets the same temperature as the coal and wood mix.. so I am guessing they are using a two to one mix since charcoal doesn’t get nearly as hot at coal..
https://youtu.be/b7moYXe6YAc
https://youtu.be/b7moYXe6YAc
what she doesn’t show in that video.. is it takes a few minutes to get the pellet press up to temp…. my pellet press doesn’t have the big control panel.. I just have an on and off switch LOL..
I have a hand pellet making grinder to.. but mostly use that for dog food..
“This last one is of note because it reveals that content publishers actually want biased platforms. So for example, if you were to publish a “pro trans” newsletter, you might bail if your platform provider allowed contrasting views.”
Which is stupid. I want to see “wild west” — no censorship at all. I don’t believe it is the job of the site-owner to tell me what I can’t say. It is the job of government to lock me up if I commit a crime, online, not prevent me from exercising “free speech.”
“Profits of domestic financial corporations increased ”
Clerk to customer ….
Will that be PAPER OR PLASTIC…
Water in the form of credit. The pandemic has had people using more plastic.. since the stall of the flow of paper.. they went option 2.. left the velocity of cash moving during a stalled economy..
The Vaxx’ed have no problem destroying peoples livelihoods or restricting premium paid healthcare. Take livelihood/restrict healthcare – the Vaxx’ed want us dead.
The Vaxx’ed won’t respect contract law for people with paid off houses. The landlord thing was a a precursor. The Vaxx’ed convinced themselves they deserve the stuff of the Unvaxx’ed.
‘They’ control all media platforms. ‘They’ control the conjuring of inked paper cut-outs that pass for real money. ‘They’ control the banking and credit/debt system. ‘They’ control Big Pharma which controls all forms of medicine and medical services in this country. ‘They’ control the power grid. ‘They’ control the food supply. ‘They’ control all forms of transportation. ‘They’ will soon totally be able to control IF and WHEN you can buy or sell anything. ‘They’ now control your employer and whether or not you will have a job next week. ‘They’ control your children… their indoctrination-education… and essentially their futures. ‘They’ control organized religions.
Left yet to do: ‘They’ want to control whether or not you live or die on a daily basis. And ‘They’ want to totally own your mind and turn you into a piece of Their property as an unthinking, unfeeling, digitized, robotic, android-looking hunk of flesh devoid of true humanity who craves orders and commands from ‘Them’.
‘They’ have captured this Planet. ‘They’ have captured much of Humanity.
Some say that ‘1984′ was not supposed to be an instruction manual. You could also say that about the Book of Revelation. But perhaps, both of these WERE instruction manuals that have been followed to the letter. For a reason.
‘They’ seem to have it all. But maybe that’s the point. Maybe now – when things look the bleakest – something will emerge from the unlimited possibilities of the human soul and the quantum soup to turn this Titanic away from the Hell track and into something more divinely inspired. No, that doesn’t mean just pray for a miracle.
We have to BE that miracle. In any ways we can. In ways big and small. In ways we never dreamed. In ways ‘They” never expected. In ways WE didn’t expect to find.
Maybe that’s the ending for all this that nobody saw coming. Including ourselves.
I like that …. a lot.
Use what you know. Believe
NAMASTE
I have used Duckduckgo for quite some time now. But, yesterday, I found it interesting to hear a radio commercial for using it instead of google. Terribly sad to see you say “any results from the Gen1 search (whether tracked, or not) have already limited your perspective by only reporting “their approved” results.” There is no real openess to the internet anymore.
Search my back posts. I’m not keeping track, or score, but when I find a working search engine, I eventually post it here.
There are two kinds of search engines, spiders and indexes. The spider (or crawler) is a bot which crawls the Internet, following links to pages and other links, and mapping the paths between. It is a “live” search tool, because when someone makes a request, it crawls the path it mapped to find the pages you requested. The index is a huge database filled with crawler data, but of a different kind than that of a spider. Where a Spider crawls a website and maps the path to it, the index’ crawler creates an image of the website, and searches its image database to return your search query. Where Google leapt ahead of the pack was it incorporated the live map of the crawler with the image of the index. Since they became greedy, they cram ads, spam, and other detritus into their search results, and for the past 6-7 years, have used their index to bury or eliminate links to search results which don’t fit in with the prevailing political or social ideology of their corporate leadership.
There are a number of search engines which use little or none of googoo’s indexing. Most of them are located in other countries, and may be subject to the vagaries of laws in whose jurisdictions they fall, as well as their own ideological prejudices. With that understood, they will, as much as legally possible, avoid politically skewing their results because everybody understands who’s the 800 pound gorilla, and understands they’ve got to beat googoo in some way, shape, or form, if they ever want peel some of those billions in revenue dollars away from the gorilla.
Startpage.com is an excellent place to start. It is secure, end-to-end, based in the Netherlands, and runs its own home-built search engine (ixquick — which I’ve used since before Google existed.)
Two significant video hosting platforms that need mention are Bitchute and Brighteon! Neither was mentioned at the link to the 12 above. I’m sure there are more, but Bitchute in particular is getting traction and has a lot of good content that was deleted from youtube. Bitchute content tends to be that which has been marginalized, and it provides real information for those who can suss it. Youtube is still valuable for info on “how to do it” types of things, such as the tricks of repairing your specific transmission. In all cases, I presume that the net will eventually collapse as we know it, and I download every video that I think will have future value. Terabytes are cheap for now.
Regarding search engines – dogpile is great as an amalgam of relatively diverse results, but still has a lot of google stuff. Yandex is perhaps one of the most underrated. People avoid it because it’s Russian, but it doesn’t have google domination. Swisscows is another good one. I’m sure that many others exist in foreign lands, but I’m not that good with languages other than English. I’ve tried hard to grok Chinese, but it suffers from far too many primitives(characters), and it takes a certain type of brain to juggle 5000+ symbols that have little to no phonetic structure.
Yes, Halemaumau crater at the summit of Kilauea volcano is boiling lava again. No danger to anyone. That hole is still over a thousand feet deep, and you cannot see the lava lake at the bottom from the nearest safe overlook. Best you get is skyglow from the rain clouds. USGS sent a drone over it for video that we got on the evening news.
Speaking of drones & Taiwan fears… if i were a military planner I would start immediate production of large kevlar ‘fish nets’ that could be rocket deployed to unfurl in a drone swarm. How large a spinning net could you deploy? Several nets rocketed into a swarm could take out the whole pack.
Yo Jorge, looks like the IMF and world bank got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. See:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/belarusian-president-claims-imf-world-bank-offered-him-a-bribe-to-impose-covid-restrictions/
Who else is on the take? My guess is they all are…..
They are taking off the internet many of the older news stories, Dad was a big time Lawyer in St Pete Fla, He was the only honest Lawyer I ever knew. Only had 1 client a week, his office was his swimming pool, floating chair, glass of vodka and a joint, he called it working, was only thinking about your case, he never lost a case, He made the front page of the St.pete times newspaper every week, One case he made a bag of weed from stuff he picked in the front yard that tested pos for weed, The florida state chemist could not prove Dads client had weed or not, client got off the charges, the state had to change the way they tested, The rest of the time he did free work for people on death row, he said half of them were not guilty. That was before DNA was around. I used to be able to type in his name and all the newspaper stories on him came up, They are all gone now, They are removing things on the internet they don’t want people to see, Print things off you want to keep, They are censoring everything,
“Just a dart toss, mind you…but happy-talk like Senate reaches a deal to avoid a government shutdown fits our previous outlook to a tee.”
Lol lol..did you really think there would be another option.. from my perspective.. we are at the damned if you do.. damned if you don’t stage of the death spiral of the country.. that agreement keeps the govt wheels going.. the outsourced contractors etc. Now …what are they going to do about keeping the economy moving.
We could pull the plug in money given everwhere else. But then they destroyed industrial America which dependson us shoveling money to other countries and we dont take in enough to pay the interest on the debt .. a very sad scary thing..
The likes that none of us have ever seen.. and a hundred times worse than what our parents experienced.
Here we go people. October is here and things will be happening soon.
‘Now Is The Time’: Gun Owners Should Be Terrified After Joe Biden’s CDC Announces New Plans To Go After Gun Violence
https://conservativebrief.com/now-is-time-52070/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJD
“Last month, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during an interview that gun violence in the United States had become an epidemic and that it was time for the federal government to treat it as such.
“Something has to be done about this,” Walensky said in an exclusive interview with CNN that was published in late August. “Now is the time — it’s pedal to the metal time.
“The scope of the problem is just bigger than we’re even hearing about, and when your heart wrenches every day you turn on the news, you’re only hearing the tip of the iceberg,” Walensky noted further. “We haven’t spent the time, energy, and frankly the resources to understand this problem because it’s been so divided.”
Walensky’s comments last month followed similar sentiments from President Joe Biden in April when he said the country is facing “a gun violence public health epidemic.””
Hi all,
I have been a reader of urban survival for more than 20 years and appreciate this site and all the comments.
My husband and myself are in a quandry….we live in florida at the moment but we did live in San Miguel de Allende for seven years prior. We always talk about the ‘tipping point’ and while we did love living in Mx full time it is not always easy or convenient to be an expat. At this point, we have no intention of getting the jab and are frankly horrified with the tyrannical actions of the government against the ‘unvaxed’ as well as what seems to be an absolutely deliberate destruction of our country. We are now debating as to whether or not we should return to San Miguel or perhaps Puerto Vallarta. We could get there but would probably never be able to come back if we didn’t get the shot. Also we are in our late 70’s so nothing is as easy as in the past. I would really appreciate of any of you would post your opinions or experiences in regard to this….se don’t want to rush or be impulsive but we also don’t want to be too late if this mess escalates…..thanks to all.
boy.. that is a tough one and one that can only be decided personally your personal choice…. I have thought often that I think the time is getting close and whether or not moving would be an option.. I personally don’t like the hot muggy weather.. I would rather go north to canada.. big beautiful country that seems to have a little more sanity in their leadership and a whole lot less corruption than we do in ours..
My problem is.. I am bound to the states like the vast majority of wage earners.. having to rely and depend on the money set aside for social security as our income.. and to be frank.. I am not physically able to build another house by myself.. well I maybe could.. but it would be a whole lot more work.. and take more time..
good luck in your decision..
COVID Quick hits…
Scientific Panel Investigating COVID-19 Origins Disbands
A scientific panel investigating the origins of COVID-19 affiliated with the medical journal Lancet was disbanded earlier this month over ties to a group that worked with a lab in Wuhan, China. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, said the group would instead focus on more general issues surrounding biosafety after questions arose about ties to EcoHealth Alliance, The Wall Street Journal reported.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/27/scientific-panel-investigating-covid-19-origins-disbands-ecohealth/
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COVID-19 Detention Camps:
Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future?
It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when. This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.
It’s just a matter of time.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/covid_19_detention_camps_are_government_round_ups_of_resistors_in_our_future
This is actually scary, because the Rutherford Institute is a solidly-grounded, Constitutional civil liberties, legal charity, and not some conspironut site…
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Now There are Whispers in D.C. That Biden is About to Issue Vaccine Passport Mandate for Interstate Travel
The Biden administration is poised to make its next unconstitutional power grab in the former of a ‘vaccine mandate’ for interstate travel within the United States, according to reports on Capitol Hill.
https://trendingpolitics.com/now-there-are-whispers-in-d-c-that-biden-is-about-to-issue-vaccine-passport-mandate-for-interstate-travel-knab/
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Breakthrough Cases Surge: Vaccinated Individuals Accounted for 87% of Covid Hospitalizations Over the Past Week in Wales UK; 99% of All New Cases Were Under 60 Years Old
As the English would say: I hate to be the one to ‘prick your bubble,’ but…
…That rushed vaccine ain’t working out too well.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/ready-breakthrough-cases-surge-vaccinated-individuals-accounted-87-covid-hospitalizations-past-week-wales-uk-99-new-cases-60-years-old/
In other news:
Smith & Wesson moving from Massachusetts to Tennessee
(CBS BOSTON) – Smith & Wesson, one of the oldest gun manufacturers in the country, announced Thursday it is moving operations from Springfield to Tennessee due to proposed gun laws in Massachusetts.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/smith-wesson-moving-massachusetts-tennessee/
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Psaki Defends Joe Biden’s Empty Schedule: “He’s Open to Having Visitors; He’s Open to Going Places”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/psaki-defends-joe-bidens-empty-schedule-open-visitors-open-going-places-video/
It surprised the heck out of me to see Creepy Joe had nothing on his calendar after his daily briefing. Perhaps he was recovering from his trip to watch the Congressional baseball game?
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1443571921719857154
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Ecuador riot: Anxious families await news after fighting kills 118 inmates
Desperate families have gathered at a jail in Ecuador which police are trying to bring under control after fighting left at least 118 inmates dead. The battle first broke out on Tuesday, with prisoners using explosives and firearms on each other.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58733202
EE forgot to tell us Ecuadoran convicts get guns and explosives to play with, in their jail cells…
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US BARS evacuation charter flight carrying American citizens and Afghan green card holders from landing
The Biden administration blocked a charter flight evacuating American citizens and Afghan green card holders from landing in the United States, according to a humanitarian group conducting evacuations in Afghanistan.
‘These passengers are all US passport holders, US green card holders with valid Afghan passports, and a few SIV approved Afghan passport holders.
‘There are 59 children under the age of 18 and 16 under the age of 3. ALL of these passengers have been Covid tested, are Covid negative, and have been MMR vaccinated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10039809/U-S-bars-flight-landing-Americans-Kabul-activists.html
The problem is obvious:
“ALL of these passengers have been Covid tested, are Covid negative, and have been MMR vaccinated.”
Had they not been tested and vaccinated, the Administration would’ve gladly let them in…
One of the 281,000 people the Biden Administration left to die in Afghanistan is going to lose everything of meaning and value to him or herself, but IS going to make it out of the Afghan killing field. It might take a year or two, but they will make it to the U.S. and when they do, will arrive here with severe attitude issues…
Thanks, LOOB for your reply.
If we do return to San Miguel, the good thing is we still get our social security and pension…..also the weather there is perfect…high desert with san diego climate….no air conditioning or heat needed. We would not be giving up citizenship, just becoming expats…..We are going to watch and wait for now….