Guess what? It’s August already!
If you’re in the Northern hemisphere, that probably means you’re getting ready for a summer vacation.
If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, that probably mean you’re doing . . . whatever people in the Southern hemisphere do in August.
And if you’re me, you’re still dealing with the consequences of the recent data leak. The update is that precisely one internet security website has covered this massive leak so far and one organization (Pi-Hole) has made a public announcement about their leak. And GiveWP? Let’s just say they still haven’t quite understood how important this leak is, and their response seems to indicate they think it was the response time that people are concerned about and not the fact that such a massive security flaw could be approved and deployed for one week before it was independently discovered by a third-party researcher!
Meanwhile, I have confirmed that it was not email addresses and site usernames that were leaked as I originally announced, but email addresses and names (whatever name had been entered into the membership form). I can confirm that no financial data, passwords or other information of any sort was leaked.
I am still in the process of contacting each address that was affected by the leak. Please excuse the length of time that this is taking, but I am not a spammer, do not have the capacity for sending out thousands of emails without them being blocked en masse, and will not enter my users’ email addresses into another list in order to use a mass emailing service, so I hope you have patience with this process.
I am also in the process of finalizing and testing the new membership form with Harley from ExpandDesigns, so, although I would normally invite people to sign up for membership to participate in this open thread, it seems strange to do so in these circumstances. Of course, you can still sign up via Substack or the PO Box or bank transfer or other methods, but the membership form will take another few days to get ready.
I will also be releasing an episode of #SolutionsWatch shortly on how to create email aliases, so stay tuned for that.
That mess aside, Corbett Report members are invited to log in and leave their comments, questions, observations, jokes or anything else that’s occupying their mind in the open thread below. Enjoy!
Friendly reminder: Not a single scamdemic tyrant arrested.
meme
Even if they ought to be arrested, by whom should they be arrested? If you are calling for people’s arrests, that’s something I would get behind.
I have a “few” arrests I need made…
I will pay you in bananas later 🍌🍌🍌
Noted.
Yeah, the only people banged up are some lawyers and writers…..the ones that opposed the tyrants.
Exactly Ellie B and, as these tyrants are extreme criminal psychopaths, I’m sure this will be “funny”…..🥴
Nor will they be. This reality is more akin to Lucy and Charlie Brown’s game of kicking the football. Snowdon’s not free; no report on Fort Knox; forget Epstein look at all these other things; FACTS get ignored…
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I was recently “word copped” here for “repeating the same things” but alas there is ALWAYS new people coming here and often by the looks and subject matter of most regular commenters, they still don’t “get it.”
In 1970, Henry Kissinger said: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people.”
I would add to Hank’s truth that controlling information you control beliefs, the key to all the other things.
The fundamental tools of deception are the encouragement of FEAR and a belief in SCARCITY or we have been engineered into a perception prison of belief and held in place by shackles of fear. So it is about going from one fear rabbit hole to another.
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“There is no such thing as grass roots any more. It’s all astro turf.”
– Henry Makow
WHO WANTS US TO DIE (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/8CKubpwla5Lr/
I am pleased that we are prioritizing the pivotal role of Truth. But everyone does that, at least with lip service. Muslims, Christians, Peacenicks, warmongers, etc., etc. Why is it an issue then?
My take is that it is not simple because people don’t know how to be honest with themselves. Cleverness, alone, is not a solution, as the the cleverness is used to bolster confirmation bias and ego, as much as it is properly used for untangling certain illusions and murky issues.
The politicians and the media come from us. They are more of a symptom than the root of our current chaos. So, I take the unpopular view that we must become a more moral and intelligent population, if we expect the lying propaganda to lose its power. I won’t get arguments against that statement either, but that is generally just lip service, again. Please refer to Haidt’s rider and elephant metaphor to see where I am coming from.
@Hanky
>> But everyone does that, at least with lip service… Why is it an issue then?>>
IMO it is about perceptions learned and experienced. Religious folks think there is some invisible almighty power offering rewards or punishment. Peace nicks and warmongers don’t understand the bigger picture of how they are being used by the controllers. All feel justified from their propagandized understandings.
>> Please refer to Haidt’s rider and elephant metaphor>>
?? No link that I see.
If you listen/read my music videos you will see I offer a wide variety of approaches to basic understandings of the need to wake up. This term of course has been taken from the Black culture of years ago about basically paying attention, not consequences to one’s behavior, etc.
Years ago my lead guitarist sent me a post card while he was on vacation. It said:
“Forge simple words children can understand.”
I attempt to do that in my story telling/songs as I see them as Brain Food not pop culture ear candy entertainment.
Learning how to be honest with one’s self, IMO, usually comes with age. While getting stroked by others with the same challenges, a person is unable to see beyond that.
Our cancel culture has taken people away from free thinking and expression People worry about possibilities more then reality. The infantilization of the American people by the controllers has been very successful. The goofy sh*t men do in their 20’s and 30’s in fashion, games, language, etc. is such a big setback in real maturation that I cringe when experiencing it.
WELCOME TO CLOWN WORLD (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/8IkHr3QdqKmj/
Ejdoyle
“…>> Please refer to Haidt’s rider and elephant metaphor>>
?? No link that I see…”
Pretty sure he is referring to the Johnathan Haidt book – here is a bit about it
“…..But to us, the duo’s tension is captured best by an analogy used by University of Virginia psychologist, Jonathan Haidt in his wonderful book The Happiness Hypothesis.
Haidt says that our emotional side is the Elephant and our rational side is the rider. Perched atop the Elephant, the Rider holds the reins and seems to be the leader.
But the Rider’s control is precarious because the Rider is so small relative to the Elephant. Anytime the six-ton Elephant and the Rider disagree about which direction to go, the Rider is going to lose. He’s completely overmatch……”
https://sourcesofinsight.com/the-elephant-and-the-rider/
Hope your off the bottled o2 BTW and feeling better
@Duck
Thanks.
That is an interesting idea by the professor.
Indeed the advent of the victim hood posturing, being offended, etc. seems to be in control. Pragmatic, rational thinking and behavior seems an ancient thing these days.
Your mental hard drive seems quite profound at times.
Had a recent set back, coughing and light headedness returned. Have an appt Thurs with my primary. I can now go about an hour and half without the O2 on so that is a good sign.
EJ
Ejdoyle
“…I can now go about an hour and half without the O2 on so that is a good sign…”
That is a good sign.
🙂
All the best wishes on improvement.
@Duck
Thought I would share that I just posted a new song. Written and recorded fighting my pneumonia, wearing my O2 rig 🙂 The show must go on.
WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE
https://old.bitchute.com/video/LtN71GFdQKze/
I strapped on a small O2 canister and drove my van down to the road to post a letter in the boxes. I then did some simple yard maintenance, etc. Even did some polishing on my van. Just trying to let my body know that this is how we are supposed to be and to get well.
Ejdoye
That was pretty good, thanks for sharing.
Not gonna lie, I’m not much of a one for music these days but you really hit it out the park with that one.
You actually sung that while on O2? That is actually pretty awesome gumption TBH
Glad you’re getting well enough to be getting around more. 🙂
True….however no fear here but a 100% loss of respect – never to be regained!
Good afternoon James, these things happen Sir. I received an e-mail about it from your good self and am not concerned at all, well living in the gulag once called Great Britain, I am used to having my data released into the wild so an e-mail address and name are of no worry at all.
Have a great day in the sunny climes of western Japan.
Message app scanning in EU
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/chat-control-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu-plan-to-scan-all-your-whatsapp-chats
Basically IMO no one should ever say anything on the internet that they wouldn’t be happy for a cop to hear. I never really thought the internet/phonecalls/text/chats were really secure but it’s a good reminder to think like a criminal (just dont don’t do actual crimes…and if you do ,certainly don’t talk about them online, lol)
2024 wants their news back. there is a lot of resistance mounted so the whole thing is kinda out the window. you should be more concerned about the recent mandatory identification on “adult websites”.
Karolyi
“….there is a lot of resistance mounted so the whole thing is kinda out the window….”
It is not exactly hot off the press but it’s worth a reminder that your internet comms are not secure.
I also doubt that the whole thing is “out the window”…..in fact i am of the opinion that they ALREADY read everyone’s chats and such. They have probably done so for a while, at the least they certainly STORE everything so they can go back and break it if they take an interest in you.
They let most illegal things slide, when they want someone in particular they can just build up an alternative chain of evidence for how they caught them. Pretty similar pattern to the Ww2 Enigma being broken and the Brits let the Germans carry , only acting on their fore knowledge on the most important things.
Like I said….the internet is not a secure means to communicate (unless your using one time pads or whatever) and you should not say anything that is ACTUALLY illegal
“…you should be more concerned about the recent mandatory identification on “adult websites”.…”
Yes, TBH that’s true since it’s a getting to be world wide thing at this point.
I am wondering if this is preparing for Coof II, or if their just worried about civil unrest…..it could just be something simple , like that Jews dont like all the attention they’ve gotten of late, but who knows?
People ought to
Setting their lives up IRL so they don’t need the net as much
Saving anything they actually find useful off the net
Setting up alternative communication methods….even ones as hokey as ham radio radio or CB or Mesh nets.
The thing people dont get is that back in the 1930s there was a whole different worldview opposed to the current one, the US stamped it out via Pearl Harbor, and it had books and radio and mail lists to spread messages , and it all got swept out of the public memory….. as long as “they” can keep people comfortable enough it’s possible they can pull the same trick off twice. I just don’t think they can keep people comfortable enough to do it.
https://pareto.space/en
Dear James,
Milosz Matuschek, a Switzerland based very talented author, organized with others this method or system to allow the hacker proof publishing.
I deeply recommend to contact him in order to foster freedom.
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I only wish that you & everyone else would realize we’re in a spiritual war against human agents of Satan, mostly the Judeo-Masonic powers, & spiritual weapons are necessary. In the 1917 apparitions & message of Our Lady of Fatima, & subsequent messages given to the Fatima seer Sr Lucia, the Blessed Virgin said that more power has been given to the prayer of the Rosary in our time. It’s a long story but Satan & his human agents have been allowed to have more power in our time & a compensating power has been given. Sr Lucia was “disappeared,” almost certainly murdered sometime before 1960 when the “Third Secret of Fatima” was supposed to be revealed, the enemy colonizers of the Vatican not wanting her to reveal it since it foretold their diabolical plans to overthrow the papacy & take over the organizational structures of the Church. The traditional & true Catholic Church is now independent of apostate Rome. Some sources:
http://www.whitesmoke1958.com
http://www.novusordowatch.org
http://www.sisterlucytruth.org
http://www.radtradthomist.chojnowski.me/2019/03/is-this-interview-that-caused-her.html (Sr Lucia’s last public words, 1957)
Power of prayer is a smokescreen. Satanist’s power comes from their organized action, not prayer.
Satanists will pray to Satan & he helps organize them for his destructive purposes.
“The locusts have no leader, yet they attack in formation.” – Proverbs 30.27
The Judeo-Masonic powers have Satan as their leader.
Darrell
Then maybe the real point is that we should spend more time calling out and praying to God.
IMO it is good toknow what they are up to but mainly we need to fix ourselves and our own lives and their power goes away
Jews and masons dont have super powers, they mostly just offer vices to people and those people give in to them through weakness and lack of moral fiber
Santa is a much bigger problem.
Santa Claus is named after St Nicholas, a 4th C. bishop who supposedly slipped a bag of gold coins into a home of an impoverished family to prevent the girls having to become prostitutes. He’s also know for slapping the heretic Arius at the Council of Niceae.
Santa, today, is not so innocent.
https://vimeo.com/149917416
Less blood version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLXtPyT63g&t=282s&ab_channel=MattHossZone
Thanks! Been a while since i’ve seen any KungFu or fisticuffs.
Utube was weird. Tried 3 X’s to watch. Before i could click on same the system loaded a random vid.
why would powerful people pray to the loser in a story they gave their slaves to believe in?
Those with wealth & power crave more, as do those with less. And they don’t want any restraint imposed upon their disordered sexual desires. Worshiping Satan allows all this. They don’t consider him a loser but a powerful god, but they are in for an unimaginably terrifying surprise when they die. Satan has in fact been allowed by God to have more power in our time.
http://www.emfgp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-demonic-vision-that-inspired-the-St.pdf
But a compensating spiritual power has given us in the prayer of the Rosary, per the Message of Our Lady of Fatima (1917 et seq.).
http://radtradthomist.chojnowski.me/2019/03/is-this-interview-that-caused-her.html
It’s a long story, little known yet extremely important, but more info is at my X page, @rosaryknight, including pinned tweet replies.
“Santa is a much bigger problem.” I wish to clarify my meaning of this brief quip. I am not an atheist; maybe you could call me agnostic. I know there is something very basic and important that goes beyond science and ‘rational thought,’ but I can’t delineate it graphically, as religions do.
Although Satan and Santa use the same letters in English, I don’t necessarily assign deep meaning to that superficial similarity. I am not into reifying numerology or any superstitious imaginings. I just used the similar spelling to point out out how less mysterious forces are also at work; ones that we mere mortals can address more effectively. Santa, as used here, represents the greed and consumerism that has become a problem. Did anyone understand my meaning, before this explanation? This Santa has clear roots in the follies of mortal man. Addressing his flaws, seems like something we have abetter chance with. It also aligns better with the underlying purpose of The Corbett Report.
I feel like people who imagine that there is a character named Satan, who keeps pulling strings to cause confusion and suffering, are overly attached to stories that are very much akin to Grimm fairy tales and epic movies. I can’t help but offend those, but I still don’t wish to overly aggravate them with my personal version of rationality and sanity. Does anyone understand me?
Hankey
“….They are more of a symptom than the root of our current chaos. So, I take the unpopular view that we must become a more moral and intelligent population, if we expect the lying propaganda to lose its powe….”
I agree with you, but the issue with that is most people get their morals and worldview programmed into them….i have heard it described as “culture is downstream from politics” (as opposed to politics are down stream from culture which is the usual axiom)
In the age of mass media thise who control the media environment were able to flip culture on its head over 70 years….and probably they can flip it faster now most people really don’t believe in any beyond their own material interests. The majority of people really do need to be forced into decent behavior these days, they probably always did but today many are empty vessels for media to fill.
Today people are literally being told to act in ways that will make them less powerful, less wealthy and less happy, and ultimately less viable
I understand. Just like the commercialization of Easter, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, & Holloween, which is “All Hallows Eve,” i.e. the evening before All Saints Day, Nov. 1.
The Judeo-Masonic powers are heavily behind such vulgarization, desecration & commercialization. They even overthrew the papacy at the 1958 papal conclave, leading to the creation of a counterfeit “Catholic” church, now headed by Antipope Leo XIV. whitesmoke1958.com. Very few people know this but the evidence is substantial. It’s the long prophesied Great Apostasy.
i picked up what you laid down the 1st time. Getting wants Vs needs mixed up is a huge problem. Shoving candies in the mouth Vs tapping that asset…
Playing the blame game is also a tired trope. Pretty soon it will be another protected class in Title 5.
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking the Christian Zealots might misunderstand me. I don’t want to make a big deal out of the letters in either word. Just wanted to make my point about superstition with a little irony.
PS I don’t understand the ‘blame game’ reference in your post. Could you flesh that out, for clarity?
Talking about jokes, any thoughts on how to prevent enshittification of everything? I am thinking Ayn Rand had the right idea. Have the cycle complete naturally, come to a halt through the ensuing implosion.
There’s no reason to believe the free fall can be stopped, not that I see any. One should try to do as much good as they can while the house of cards sways in the wind. The good thing about it is that the nonresilient unadaptable fake systems should fall, anyway. They were only propped up as long as they have due to superstitious belief.
Put in other words, hold on to your family jewels and be amazed by the shitshow.
Mkey
“….Talking about jokes, any thoughts on how to prevent enshittification of everything….”
To be honest enshittification was (in hindsight) inevitable with the internet as long as the model is based on sucking up “investor capital” to fund things most people dont want enough to pay for….streaming services, advertising based internet search, free services, all of them trying to get consumers addicted to a service they don’t act want enough to pay what it costs to run.
How much would MOST people actually pay for search/AI/steaming/ect? Probably not what it costs to run.
“….Put in other words, hold on to your family jewels and be amazed by the shitsho….”
Pretty good advice
Continually getting my house in order — quite literally.
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i sooooooo appreciated all that you do!!!
is it my imagination or are lobbyists just getting more brazen & more powerful or is it just that there are now many more (independent!) eyes on them? just this week, prasad was fired for doing his job (!), b/c he wasn’t going to approve a dangerous drug that had already killed a couple of teenagers in trials. big pharma lobbyists went over his head & bobby couldn’t get between him & trump: trump fired him, probs egged on by laura loomer. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/white-house-drove-prasad-firing-despite-rfk-jr-makary-concerns-00485972also, two DOJ peeps were fired b/c lobbyists weren’t happy with their antitrust POV’s, accusing them of, yeah, right, insubordination! https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/two-us-justice-dept-antitrust-officials-fired-over-merger-controversy-source-2025-07-29/
have lobbyists always had this much power/control or is it just getting exponentially worse? what can we do?
thanks much!
What I have found in my time learning about the forest ecosystem (and ancient man-made forest ecosystems) of the region now referred to by most as southern “Ontario”, “Canada”, is that when you learn how to read a forest landscape like a history book, it has a lot to say about the cultural maturity of the humans that have lived there (and do live there).
We were raised to believe that modern industrial civilization (and the various statist cultures that are part of it) are the crowning achievement of humanity and that we are so “advanced” and impressive with all the wonders our technologies can accomplish, but this begs the question, by what metrics do we measure how “advanced” a culture is?
The quantity of old growth individuals of Hickory in particular (in regions where the terrain, topography, weather and soil are well suited for their needs) speaks loudly about the level of maturity of the human culture that lives there. After all, when tended with patience (Shagbark and Kingnut Hickory can reach 350 years old or more and typically produce over 200 pounds per year of food for over 100 years of their lifespan) these are trees that can truly serve as “Anti-Famine Trees” (the nickname given to these generous rooted beings by the forest tending peoples of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy).
Full article on this topic linked below:
“Old Growth/Tree species distribution, soil depth and linguistic artifacts as indicators of cultural maturity”
(exploring the potential of learning to “read” temperate forest landscapes as living stories and history books that tell you about the nature of the human cultures which shaped them)
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/tree-species-distribution-soil-depth
Below I will share an excerpt from a book published almost a century ago (96 years ago in 1929). The author saw clearly what I have described in my most recent post (linked in the comment above) on old growth / (Mother) tree distribution and soil depth as indicators of cultural maturity (he just expressed it in different words). That was almost one hundred years ago. We have had people that highlighted the backwards and culturally adolescent ways of our modern industrial civilization and offered viable solutions, yet this monster of modernity we live in has only accelerated the rate of its gnashing hungry teeth of industry, convenience and profiteering (before thinking of the 7th generation that comes after us) in the time since then.
Since the publishing of the book quoted below we have learned a lot about the soil food web, mycology and indigenous regenerative agroforestry practices that can augment and accelerate the suggestions that J. Russell Smith made in his book to come to fruition to feed, house, heal and connect communities in an even more comprehensive and anti-fragile way than how he describes. The rest is up to us my friends, we now have this knowledge it is now on us to share it and put it into action.
https://archive.org/details/QuotefromTreeCrops
“Forest-field-plow- desert-that is the cycle of the hills under most plow agricultures-a cycle not limited to China.
China has a deadly expanse of it, but so have Syria, Greece, Italy, Guatemala, and the United States. Indeed we Americans, though new upon our land, are destroying soil by field wash faster than any people that ever lived ancient or modern, savage, civilized, or barbarian. We have the machines to help us to destroy as well as to create.
We have tilled crops-corn (and now soy), cotton, and tobacco. When a man plows corn, (soy), cotton, or tobacco, he is loosening the earth and destroying such hold as the plant roots may have won in it. Plowing is the most efficient known way for destroying the farm.
We usually think of Illinois as level land, not subject to destruction by erosion; yet this Illinois bulletin states that “about 5/2 millions of acres of land are subject to serious erosion.” This is about 9000 square miles, an area larger than Massachusetts.
Even Oklahoma, newest of the new, so recently wrested from the Indian, who did not destroy it, has its million miles of gullies and a kingdom of good land ruined and abandoned.
(continued in another comment..)
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..The creation of soil by the weathering of rock is a very, very slow process. Years may have passed in making soil that, if unprotected, may be washed away in an hour. Therefore, today an observer in the Old World might see myriad landscapes once rich with farms where now only poverty-stricken men creep about over the ruined land, while their sheep and goats, scavengers and destroyers, pick the scanty browse that struggles for life in the waste. A handful of men are now living uncomfortably where once there were prosperous villages.
Similar examples, even of large areas, can be found in almost country with a long history of occupation by agricultural man. Syria is an even more deplorable example than China. Back of Antioch, in a land that was once as populous as rural Illinois, there are now only ruin and desolation. The once prosperous Roman farms now consist of wide stretches of bare rock, 2 whence every vestige of soil has been removed by rain.
Greece, once so great, is shockingly ruined by soil wash. In parts of Europe people even pound stone to get a little bit of loose material in which plant roots can work.
In our own South millions of acres are already ruined,+ and the same destructive agency has caused ruin and abandonment of land in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana-indeed, in every one of our states. The total of this destruction has been estimated at 16,600 square miles, equal to the cultivated area of England. And yet, as human history goes, we came to America only yesterday.
A single oak tree yields acorns (good carbohydrate food) often by the hundred weight, sometimes by the ton. Some hickory and pecan trees give us nuts by the barrel; the walnut tree yields by the ten bushels. There are bean trees producing good food for cattle, which food would probably make more meat or milk acre than our present forage crops now make.”
– J. Russell Smith ( from “Tree Crops: A permanent agriculture” published in 1929)
According to Smith, the practice of tilling the once forested land for planting annual grain crops for sustenance in was the root cause of most farming-related ecosystem degradation. Smith observed that in places where people cultivated trees instead-particularly nut trees-these impacts were reversed. “Man, in looking at the botanical realm, began at the wrong end,” Smith told Americans at a conference in 1912. “When the human race looked at the hundred thousand species of plants, it picked out little measley grasses, with a grain or two of seed…while here were the giants of nature.” The giants, from Smith’s perspective, were nut trees.
Let us finally heed his wise suggestion and get to the important work of planting nut trees (Mother Trees) and fruit trees in each of our communities to become pillars of life, nourishment and abundance.
(Look through my Substack archive for my posts on Hickory, Oak, Hazenut, Pawpaw and apple for great places to start for cultivation and companion planting for long term resilience.)
This point of view is a real kick in the nuts. Pardon the pun.
@mkey
haha 🙂 ya man I feel ya, same is true of here in “Canada” as well. Last hundred years has been a time of obscene decimation of ancient living soils that took millennia to create.
The fact that the guy called this trend out (and articulated it so clearly with metrics and evidence) in that 100 year old book though really is a tough pill to swallow for people that have been indoctrinated into the ego flattering story of “progress” and how “advanced” we have become thanks to modern industrial civilization. It clearly shows that while we may have “advanced”, it appears that this civilization (that some place on a pedestal) is only advancing faster an faster towards the same pathway of the demise of the Roman Empire.
And that part about Oklahoma, where he said:
“Even Oklahoma, newest of the new, so recently wrested from the Indian, who did not destroy it, has its million miles of gullies and a kingdom of good land ruined and abandoned.”
That hits hard as Oklahoma, (originally designated as the last “Indian Territory”) was taken from indigenous peoples when Oklahoma became a state in 1907, effectively extinguishing “Indian” Territory. So it only took a couple decades after that for the newcomers to devastate the soil. Now think about that at scale, and over the last hundred years, given industrial farming went on steroids with all the wonders the Rockefellers and friends provided them. It is not a pretty picture and it is a kick in the nuts for anyone that thinks we are so “advanced” here in the west.
Thankfully there are still pockets of the deep living soil left to learn from, replicate, build upon and plant nut trees in, so we can create islands of abundance aligned with nature’s intelligence in this sea of stupidity to weather the storm ahead.
Interestingly, while some people with indigenous blood connected to Turtle Island have succumbed to the brainwashing of “civilization” (and they are now idiotically trying to apply monoculture machine farming systems with patented seeds to their ancestral lands) so there are some that are now slaves to the old Mon-Eye (we have discussed this before) in the past, it appears that a number of indigenous cultures from this land apparently experimented with this thing called “Civilization” (a centralized state, exploitative agriculture with stockpiles guarded by a chosen elite, violent coercion of a slave class to build infrastructure etc) and then having seen it was a model destined for failure and degeneration, they abandoned it, intentionally and went back to a more humble existence of decentralized communities tending the forest.
For more on that read:
“Forsaking Cahokia: Five Lessons From The Collapse of a Native American Empire”
https://collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/forsaking-cahokia-five-lessons-from
I found it most instructive when I discovered that many of the (to me) innovative agricultural and construction methods and techniques used as the basis for a million youtube videos were widely discussed in books well over a century old. Be it ventilation, refrigeration, storing food, boosting yields via supporting natural processes and turbo boosting by making smart use of already existing synergies.
If we had a clearer vision of true history of even the last 100-150 years (and a modicum of honesty) not many people would be willing to take this current “civilization” as a big improvement.
Civilization being another of those words I have grown to despise, as people use it without a second thought about its true meaning and intent, being institutionalized mass sacrifice.
The only tangible improvements have been made with technology, electronics mostly, much of which is used for mass murder and to further the enslavement agenda, to have it reach previously unheard of levels, with much more to come.
I have never heard of these ancient cities you mention, while I follow up on quite a bit of material pertaining to many of seemingly inexplicable ancient structures.
The most prolific example of all of them perhaps being Gobekli Tepe in an area known today as Turkey , the possibly most ancient publicly known ruin that is now being covered up, and destroyed in the process, in the most grotesque manner.
A lot of effort is expanded in controlling the past, if only there were some vociferous authors whose prescient warnings we could have heeded and chosen a different path. But alas.
@mkey
PS –
There are two other cautionary tales of large indigenous communities of pre-colonial Turtle Island (with perhaps similar scale population density and complexity in their hierarchical structures, caste systems, the use of violent coercion by a centralized “government” body and other “civilized” features paralleling Cohokia) that I feel are worth mentioning as well.
Firstly, ancient city of Temlaxam (which existed in the territory of the Gitanyow, Gitxsan, Nisga’a and Ts’msyen, First Nations people in the “Skeena” region in what is now called northern “BC”, “Canada” and existed over 4000 years ago).
Temlaxam, which extended more than 80 kilometres downstream from the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers, is said to have been so extensive that “the birds, exhausted, fall to the ground before they are able to traverse the whole city,” according to the adaawx. The name of the walled city, which featured networks of streets and longhouses, translates to “where life is good.”
I do not know how big and how many people live in a city where birds are too exhausted to fly from one end to the other, but that sounds substantial.
Well like Cohokia, Temlaxam became a cautionary tale. Its occupants’ developed a caste system, used violent coercion to enforce working mandates on a lower class, and their mistreatment of the natural environment was blamed for geological and other disasters, including a catastrophic landslide some 3,500 years ago. The residents dispersed, some becoming the Gitanyow, Gitxsan, Nisga’a and Ts’msyen, also known as Tsimshian — First Nations that still share similar languages today.
Beyond the archeological evidence, little is known about the lost city aside from the ancient food forests that the smaller decentralized communities that separated from it created in subsequent centuries (some of which still persist today).
For more info on that ancient “BC” city:
– https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/04/Hazelnuts-Reveal-Secrets-Ancient-BC-City/
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@mkey
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Secondly, I think the Choco Canyon Civilization is worth mentioning in this context as well.
The Choco Canyon Civilization (or “phenomenon” as archeologists sometimes refer to it) refers to the cultural, social, and architectural developments of the Ancestral Puebloans in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, between roughly 850 and 1250 AD. This period saw the construction of large, sophisticated complexes, including the famous great houses, roads, slave storage structures, elitist hierarchies, caste systems and evidence of extensive trade networks and structures ( involving often slavery required) ceremonial practices. Some estimate that ten thousand plus people lived in that city (though modern researchers seem to like to keep downplaying that number as they do not like what the rise and fall of that city represents in relation to their story of sociological evolutionism).
Lyla June explains the story of Chaco Canyon better than I ever could, so i`ll quote her below and link some pertinent articles highlighting the relevance to this concept of “walking away from civilization” and intentional collapse.
“Chaco Canyon is revered as this great archaeological site – but if you really dig into it, we had caste systems there, we exhausted the land, we manipulated the water, we had running water there – which isn’t necessarily bad – but we weren’t honoring the way it wanted to flow. And Creator sent us a drought. And it was the youth of Chaco Canyon who decided that we were going to not live that way anymore. And so when the drought came it gave us the courage to change. And we left; we abandoned it.
Our people then had caste systems and slavery there and didn’t manage their land well. A lot of Diné people won’t go to Chaco Canyon for that reason. A lot of tourists go to see the archaeological site, but we as Diné never go back because that’s a place where we messed up.
And as Diné people, we’re not supposed to go back there. We say, That era is over. And so from that fire was born a new society.”
-Lyla June ( from https://esperanzaproject.com/2019/native-american-culture/lyla-june-on-the-forest-as-farm/ )
For more info on Choco Canyon:
– https://bioneers.org/lyla-june-interview/
– https://forthewild.world/podcast-transcripts/lyla-june-on-lifting-hearts-off-the-ground-147
Ramble:
It’s possible there isn’t a single piece of produce in a typical grocery store that nutritionally resembles what humans originally ate; what their body was primarily built to consume & digest.
They might all (or nearly all) simply be victors of a centuries-long process of elimination dictated by a couple dozen factors prioritized above nutrition:
• Growth speed & yield
• Pest resistance
• Temperature extreme resilience
• Watering needs and final water weight
• Fertilizer needs
• Ease of harvesting
• Shelf life after harvest
• Durability during transport
• Politics, trade agreements, regulations
• Threat to established wealthy/powerful growers
• Etc, etc
You’d think taste and visual appeal would place very high on the list of factors but, as one of James’ PropagandaWatch videos reminds us: cultures can be trained to desire and even crave (via upbringing) produce that they previously had little or no interest in.
The original primary produce (most likely a sweet fruit) might be completely gone at this point, or might be growing only in some pocket of jungle somewhere that virtually nobody knows about.
“I’m craving something but I don’t know what it is”
You’ve probably heard someone say this before, or said it yourself.
Consider that on some occasions it may not just be a lapse of memory but rather a craving for a nutrient that was present in the original human food that doesn’t exist in any of the modern foods.
There is undoubtedly a tribe or village somewhere right now that has zero K1-containing foods in their diet. Assuming it’s actually an important nutrient, they might have that craving feeling but have no food to associate it with.
Additionally any negative effects from its absence would just be viewed as a part of life, or part of getting older.
Going even further, if there is indeed an important nutrient that we are unknowingly missing (from the original human diet), its absence could be the cause of any one of the diseases that we currently dismiss as a natural part of aging.
Perhaps our true lifespan is closer to the 400-year lifespans mentioned in the Bible and we’re not actually dying of old age at 85, we’re dying from damages caused by the absence of that missing nutrient.
I bet the Amazon is full of such antique produce.
Amazon the rainforest, not the Bezos monsrosity.
@AnimalsArentFood
Thanks for this insightful and thought provoking comment.
This one deserves some time to ponder and contemplate before responding.
AnimalsArentFood,
You said it! Good point. B17 from grasses that were boiled for flavor , nutrients and medicine. Fruit seeds were considered as valuable as the flesh. Cancer was unheard of. It only takes a small amount to sustain a barrier of protection. Just looking at how little Vit-C is needed to avoid the condition of scurvy should register in folks minds what else is missing from there modern existence. It could be a life or death proposition.
@AnimalsArentFood
I have thought about your comment and agree with much of what you say regarding the industrialized process of elimination (resulting in the elimination, or at least diminishing of various nutrients in food).
Great point regarding how people can be inculcated into craving something.. that Edward Bernays and his tasty, eggs, bacon (and cigarettes for women) … very successful propaganda indeed.
Thinking about his duplicitous mind warping methods applied at scale for over a century now by entire teams of people that think like him, beamed into peoples minds through radio waves, tv screens (and now vibrating, beeping addictive microwave radiation interconnected computers that people carry around in their pockets) is mind boggling and disturbing. No wonder so many people keep eating macdonalds, gmo processed vegan garbage and super sugary crap all the time.
RE: “The original primary produce (most likely a sweet fruit) might be completely gone at this point, or might be growing only in some pocket of jungle somewhere that virtually nobody knows about.”
Perhaps, though I think it is worth considering that (as GBW astutely hints at in a comment above) there are also bitter and astringent ancient foods that our ancestors ate (nut just sweet fruit) and also humans have thrived in temperate and arctic climates for many millennia as well (so tropical jungles are not the only place humans developed long term relationships with plants and fungi that optimized longevity).
I really appreciate that thought about human lifespans potentially being a lot longer at some time in pre-history. Bible or no bible, I intuitively sense that was indeed the case.
We can glean hints of those potentials in modern day “blue zones” though I think some of them are censored (and/or when they get on the map a bunch of corporate big pharma/big ag goons might swoop in and mess everything up for that isolated community of people that live a really long time.
The Hunza of the Himalayas are a great example (and they eat a lot of fruit and seeds, both sweet and bitter, and often containing VB17).
(continued in another comment..)
(..continued from comment above)
I think diet played a big role but it may also be worth considering other variables that influence human biology. Arthur Firstenberg’s “The Invisible Rainbow” comes to mind (and not just in the context of how artificial EMFs coming from anything from telegraphs, power cables and radar installations to cell towers and 5G satellites may be shortening lifespans in the last century or so but also with regards to how naturally occurring EMFs influence human biology).
For instance, the Earth’s geomagnetic field strength has been on the decline in parallel with the decline in old growth forest over the past few centuries ( for more info: https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-135455236 ). What if the cosmic radiation that is coming through in a greater intensity now is degrading human biology faster than in those pre-history 400 year lifespan days? Weakened body and DNA less able to regenerate combined with more ionizing radiation getting through the Earth’s protective magnetic field unravelling humans DNA faster than it did in the eon’s past?
Also, what about the oxygen content of the atmosphere? Oxygen levels continue to decrease as our wonderful modern industrial civilization chops down all the thousand year old trees that are the most efficient producers (and enrichers of ocean habitat via compounds that dissolve from their fallen leaves that seed the phytoplankton in river estuaries). Perhaps our bodies are slowly starving for the life giving oxygen that our ancient ancestors has a lot better supply of in each breath?
And speaking of old growth forests, the big trees do more than just clean air, produce oxygen, clean water, build soil and provide food for countless beings, they also emit medicinal aerosols.
The concentration of medicinal aerosols changes from north to south and forest to forest. Anyone that has ever walked in a high alpine spruce / Balsam fir forest or old growth habitat of any kind knows the deeply nourishing scent that I speak of. Different cultures call it different things. The Japanese call it “Shinrin-yoku.” The Irish Gaelic called it “Tig allais”. The aboriginal peoples of North America used the aromatherapy in the more formal, clinical manner of the sweat lodge (burning cedar and sage etc).
Perhaps the lower levels of medicinal aerosols that are not as present due to deforestation (as well as lower oxygen and decreased/ missing nutrients) that God intended (as well as the artificial EMF and cosmic ionizing radiation God did not intend) for maintaining optimal human health are all playing a degenerative synergistic role in lessening most people’s life spans?
Then we could get into the spiritual and consciousness based influences as well and how we are mostly made out of water, and water is re-structured at a molecular level by thought and emotion, but that is a whole nother ball of wax! 🙂
Anyways, thanks for the thought provoking comment.
@AnimalsArentFood
Another facet of this discussion I think is worth exploring in the context of unlocking ancient nutrients is the value of working with progenitor species and teaming up with tree species with extreme heterozygosity.
One example I have a fair bit of experience with is the father of all modern apples, Malus sieversii.
Extreme heterozygosity is a term that refers to the means through which apples reproduce and produce offspring. Each seed has the potential for a vast array of characteristic expressions that tap into the genetic memory of ancient ancestors of each tree spanning millennia.
This is especially true of the wild apples of the Tian Shan Mountains where each seed contains an ancient library of countless potential colors, nutrients, flavors and shapes to be expressed in each new generation of tree grown from seed.
The interesting thing about Malus sieversii is that unlike many other wild trees, the fruits from one tree are completely different from the next — the flavors are remarkably diverse. The wild apples of Kazakhstan have a variety of flavors, depending on how the bees pollinate the blossoms. Some fruit are said to have a flavor reminiscent of wine, through apricot to bitter lemon or rhubarb. Tastes are said to range in intensity through notes of sweet, sour, and bitter. There are honey- and berry-flavored apples, sour crabapples, apples that taste like licorice, apples that taste “hauntingly of roses”, apples that taste like bananas, apples that have vanilla notes, apples with nutty flavors and a few strains that would be bland and sweet enough enough for a supermarket’s produce section. The texture could be anywhere from crunchy to mealy, and the size anywhere between a cherry and a tennis ball to a grapefruit.
In other words, when you plant a wild apple seed, you essentially play a game of nature’s lottery, in which the resulting tree you grow could have a mixture of characteristics (and ancient or perhaps novel nutrients) that are the result of combining two, or several or a dozen of millions ancestor trees which have genetics stored in each seed.
I have planted several hundred of these trees and I am seeing some amazing variation in fruit shape, color, flavor and antioxidant density.
Through working with the progenitor species of our favorite crops we essentially tap into an ancient pre-industrial library of genetics that can unlock long lost vitamins, nutrient density, flavor, color and disease resistance potential.
For more on this, read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-apple-inviting-the-pollinators
@G
— Tinfoil hats required beyond this point —
Edward Bernays
Ideal additional example.
bitter and astringent ancient foods
I should clarify that I’m not simply referring to ancestors (who may have eaten any number of things at various locations and points in time, out of choice or necessity).
I’m referring to the original humans – or at least the first humans to have the fruit-geared ingestion/digestive system that we currently have.
Is it possible that a dependency on a bitter food developed without our taste buds changing to innately crave bitter foods rather than be repulsed by them?
Yes, but I’d say it’s less probable than the possibility that some ancient humans simply stumbled onto a bitter food that, by chance, happened to contain a same critical nutrient that was once also present in a non-bitter food.
Bitterness is literally a built-in do-not-eat signal for humans. I’m not saying it’s always in your best interest to unquestionably obey that signal, but in the presence of uncertainty and erring on the side of caution, I would say that obeying the signal is the wisest choice.
In short, in my search for the theoretical original primary human food, bitter foods would be way down at the bottom of my list (the very last foods I’d examine).
the search
At this point, in the search for what humans are actually geared to ingest/digest, I believe essentially nothing anyone says – including ‘scientific’ publications.
I make mental notes when the source seems worthy of mental notes and written notes when they seem worthy of written notes.
My focus is now almost entirely on:
• My personal experiences with foods during my lifetime
– What gave energy and strength, what sapped it
– What improved cognitive ability, what worsened it
– What sped up healing, what slowed it
– What produced healthy looking skin, what produced blemishes
– Etc.
• The food experiences of the few people I trust
• Which foods humans appear to innately enjoy eating while still in their natural state (without preparation/flavoring) prior to – or in complete absence of – training/conditioning.
• What the human digestive system, top to bottom, appears to be physically built to ingest & digest
@AnimalsArentFood
Pursuant to our discussion on the original wild foods that were an expression of the Creator’s original design for truly nourishing sustenance for humans, check out these berries:
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-149857629
Fairy Creek Cloud Forest Blueberries (bottom) vs store bought domesticated farmed blueberries (top).
While we hiked through the ancient cloud forest on the mountain ridge above the Fairy Creek and then descended a couple thousand feet into the heart of the watershed last week, we feasted on some of the most amazing blueberries and huckleberries I have ever tasted in my life.
These blueberry bushes were more like trees than shrubs (6-10 feet tall, solid trunk covered in old mans beard, moss and lichen that could hold an adults body weight pulling on it) and the berries were this phenomenal deep purple/blue on the inside. Flavor was a crescendo of bright tangy and sweet notes that made you stop and reach out for another handful (even when you really should be watching your footing as you are descending 1000 meters down a steep ancient forested mountainside that few modern humans have explored).
The soil was packed with biochar from the hundreds of lightning sparked fires the giant trees there have survived (and put out via their spacing, thick bark and excellent moisture retention skills) and the berry “trees” thrive in that soil.
I saved some berries from our trip and will be saving seed to preserve the amazing genetics of those berry “trees” that grow so prolifically right under the solid canopy of giant evergreen old growth forest.
These berries are a testament to the untapped potential and power of forest gardening.
(ps – I intend on re-visiting this rich thread and discussing the various topics touched on here at some point, just busy tryna save and sort seeds from one of the last intact ancient forests left in “Canada” right now).
@G
human lifespans…intuitively sense
Agreed.
I remember a video in which an isolated tribe was contacted and, almost immediately, the ‘benevolent’ explorers/researchers began bringing them pharma products, including ‘vaccines’, like it was their top priority.
Nearly everyone, from the backwoods to the bustling cities, has phrases like “time flies” and “life is short” to convey their intuitive sense that they’re growing old before they should be.
And another video of an African woman known to be 130 years old (though official records don’t go back that far) who looked more like she was 90 years old. Possibly evidence for the theory that Gates & co. are – in addition to culling Africans and using them as guinea pigs – rushing to erase evidence of the true human lifespan.
Progeria is, in my opinion, evidence that aging in humans is not simply a result of body wear and oxidation, as the BBC so loved to proclaim, but rather primarily the result of an internal clock that can be sped up, slowed down or even stopped.
I think there’s a high probability our lifespan is being deliberately cut short via deprivation, poisoning, injections or some other technology.
It’s awfully convenient that the taxcattle just happen to start to become sick & die at exactly the point when they’re becoming wise enough (to the workings of the system) to actually pose a threat. Replaced by a clean-slate, raised by media & schools to reject the wisdom of their parents & grandparents as the words of outdated racists/bigots.
And it’s awfully convenient that the taxcattle are increasingly dying from ailments like cancer that so perfectly drain their life savings into the pockets of the corporate-military-pharma-intelligence complex before they die – making their sickness and death valuable in every way.
@G
immortality
Even if you feel that 80 is a natural human lifespan, there’s another strongly related matter to ponder: Whether or not extreme life extension or immortality has been achieved using some form of substance or technology.
For this we have lots of read-between-the-lines evidence. Stem cells are thoroughly confirmed to have healing ability that borders on magic yet there are strong agendas to keep the taxcattle from learning about them or obtaining them. There are even agendas to turn the taxcattle against them. This is some of the strongest confirmation of the highly suspected deliberate agenda to keep cures and life extension away from the taxcattle.
For a moment, imagine yourself in the shoes of the unfathomably wealthy psychopaths in power who have access to all the pleasures the world has to offer and more money than they could ever spend. You have the money, you have the power, you have the opulence & debauchery. What’s next on the list? …NOT dying.
How might you achieve this goal? You’d propagandize the entire human population to obsess over the goal of NOT dying; the goal of enjoying life with their loved ones forever. You’d put everyone on the planet to work finding a cure for aging.
What do we see instead? The exact opposite. We see mainstream media throughout the past century (and beyond) that demonizes the quest for immortality. In nearly all the stories, TV shows and movies, it is the villain who seeks immortality, and for the hero who seeks it, there is virtually always a price to pay for their selfish immoral desire; for their SIN of not wanting to get sick and die; of not wanting their parents or siblings to grow sick and die; not wanting their children to have to watch them grow sick & die.
In my opinion, it is a near-certainty that immortality has already been achieved, either by halting and reversing the aging process or via brain transfer into a kidnapped teen or grown clone body. Possibly even a wide variety of methods.
I also think stasis using cryogenics or hibernation was already achieved, allowing them to opt to travel to the future or keep a teenaged clone body in stasis til needed.
Many of the obedient puppets that we were happy to see die may not be dead at all.
Maybe H.W. Bush didn’t die, or even go completely senile – maybe his brain was swapped with his clone’s near-vegetative brain.
Maybe Hawking wasn’t going Epstein island for teen prostitutes (gasp!) but rather to to receive his stem cells & baby blood and discuss his upcoming brain transfer.
Maybe Harrison Ford isn’t (visibly-reluctantly) pushing globalist agendas to keep his blackmail tapes from being released but rather because they promised him a second life and showed him a demonstration of the technology.
VB17
Have you ever consumed a potent source of B17 to see if you could sense any relatively immediate effect?
@G
EMF
Agreed. This is very much on my radar these days. (pun intended)
And I think it’s nearly certain that there is a civilization living underground right now who is affected by virtually none of it.
oxygen
Another very real possibility. An it reminded me of this video describing the hyperbaric chamber treatment for Jay Leno’s skin burns (skip to 2:40)
medicinal aerosols
This is interesting. First time hearing about it.
I’ve noted, in my logs, the clear immediate wellness bump received when surrounding myself with foliage and watering the foliage (especially Chinese Jasmine – even when not flowering).
I assumed it was probably some kind of increased oxygen output from the plants, but I also wondered if maybe it was something less conventionally acceptable such as the plants thanking/rewarding me somehow for giving them water.
Now I have another possibility: ‘medicinal aerosols’
@AnimalsArentFood
Hey I appreciate the in depth responses.
I am just about to head out to a place where the last intact old growth primary temperate rainforest watershed exists in the statist regime called Canada (so I cannot respond in full now, I have lots of gear to get packed for rugged off grid terrain trekking).
Just wanted to let you know I have seen your comments and I wanted to share an interview pertaining to the medicinal aerosols released by our rooted kin.
“Forest Therapy – How to Create a Medicinal Forest Sanctuary – Diana Beresford-Kroeger”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0R0sK1QKy4
I am about to head into the Fairy Creek valley (where 1000 year plus Douglas Fir and 2000 year old plus Yellow Cedar grow along side a wide range of other ancient rooted beings) so I imagine I will be getting some potent medicinal aerosols, i`ll report back on how I feel after breathing that in for a few days.
I`ll also share some pages from a book by the lady in the interview above (which pertains to the specific species of trees and medicinal aerosols they release when I get back).
Some of them are so powerful they influence the hormones of humans (in other words, chop down the ancient trees in one place, influence the human fertility rates in a large area).
More on that when I get back.
@AnimalsArentFood
One more before I go, please pardon the annoying tv show format. And, while some may not agree with her thoughts on CO-2, I have researched her other work and found it to be rock solid.
In this segment one of the things they discuss is how medicinal aerosols from the Boreal Forest act as “nature’s Viagra” (playing an important role in the sexual health of men, well that is, until we chop down those forests.. then well, actual Viagra sales may increase, but human health and fertility will diminish.. )
“Diana Beresford-Kroeger on ‘Our Green Heart’ | The Social”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sY9hhKWrW4
Studies RE: medicinal aerosols (emitted from trees, especially in old growth communities of trees)
– Forest Volatile Organic Compounds and Their Effects on Human Health: A State-of-the-Art Review:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7559006/
– The Effects of Forest Therapy on Immune Function:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8394293/
– Respiratory Benefits of Forest-Based Experiences: A Regional Scale Approach:
https://www.mdpi.com/1519280
– Terpenes from Forests and Human Health:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5402865/
Here is a quote from “Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests” by Diana Beresford-Kroeger pertaining to how not only does the Boreal produce a huge portion of the oxygen we need to live a long and healthy life, we now know that human biology is also intertwined with and enriched by medicinal airborne molecules (emitted by trees) that travel thousands of kilometers (such as Terpenes and other Volatile Organic Compounds exuded from old growth trees) which impact the human immune system and reproductive health.
The potential for the longevity and health of our human family is interconnected with these ancient forests. Our destiny is woven together with the fate of the Forests by the Creator in many ways. We can either use our gifts to strengthen and add beauty to that tapestry, or we can be guided by greed and begin to unravel the fabric that Creator put here to support us all in unlocking our true potential (each choice will have profound implications).
https://substack.com/profile/43807786-gavin-mounsey/note/c-145692284
@AnimalsArentFood
For some footage of medicinal aerosols being emitted by ancient trees in a Rainforest on the westcoast and more info on how they work, check out this note:
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-180507446
@G
water is re-structured
I’ve been meaning to dig back into that subject to see if the experiments were duplicated by anyone.
While we’re on the subject of water, it’s interesting how dull (even bad) water tastes to humans, considering what a life-critical substance it is and how much of it we need to take in.
Spring water and fresh cold stream water typically taste a bit better and is more refreshing but still not even close to tasting good.
Don’t get me wrong. When the water is very cold and you’re very thirsty (badly dehydrated) drinking water is heavenly, but it’s more like an amplified version of having a fan blown on you after working and sweating in the scorching sun all day, rather than a good taste.
This is one of the things supporting the already-highly-supported view that humans are fruit eaters. Sweet fruit is essentially always loaded with water and humans absolutely love water – when it’s coming from a piece of sweet fruit.
heterozygosity
Interesting stuff and simply awesome that you’ve planted several hundred of them. You’ll get to witness the heterozygosity first-hand and possibly get something grand.
I wonder if anyone has gotten a variety containing a nutrient apples don’t usually have, or for that matter, a variety that was toxic.
I have a couple of cripps pink apple trees grown from seeds that I casually tossed into a pot a few years ago. If they grow anything edible at all I’ll be happy.
@G
gmo processed vegan garbage
Normally I ignore this but since I’m seeing it so much, I have to comment briefly.
You can skip it.
An enormous percentage of the food that most non-vegans typically eat is processed GMO garbage.
The percentage of processed GMO garbage that vegans typically consume is significantly lower than the percentage that non-vegans typically consume.
Even the snack/indulgence foods made specifically for vegans are typically significantly less likely to be processed GMO garbage than the snack/indulgence foods that target non-vegans.
Why is this?
When someone goes vegan, they usually do so for one of two primary reasons:
1. Health
2. Empathy
Those who make the choice primarily for health reasons are already health-conscious people who are already highly likely to be avoiding processed GMO garbage.
Those who make the choice primarily for empathy reasons end up, out of sheer necessity, learning a great deal about product ingredients and nutrition and typically become just as health conscious as those who ditched animal products for health reasons.
Additionally, vegans were lied to their entire lives – by corporations and government – about meat & dairy being a normal and necessary part of a human diet, and they were greatly deceived about the meat & dairy manufacturing processes; shown happy cows & Old MacDonald picturesque farms in place of the brutal hell-on-earth torture factories that >90% of the meat & dairy actually came from. Once they’ve learned that such extreme lies and deceptions can be sustained so well they become forever highly skeptical of government and corporations when it comes to food (and frequently most other things).
So what we end up with, amongst vegans, is a consumer base that is predominantly avoiding processed GMO garbage.
As a result, corporations that would normally load their vegan-targeting products up with processed GMO garbage are frequently being forced to either stop making vegan-targeting products or use non-GMO organic ingredients instead.
Ultimately, vegans end up being one of the demographics that consumes the least processed GMO garbage.
In fact it is often claimed that this is the true source of the superior health of vegans – rather than the exclusion of animals products.
Note: I’m referring to real-world vegans, not the pharma-worshiping, government-obeying Internet bots & shills posing as vegans.
‘Evil’ AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/01/1120924/forcing-llms-to-be-evil-during-training-can-make-them-nicer-in-the-long-run/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
This reminds me a little of gain of function research; make something bad for the ‘greater good’. If it backfires, I won’t be surprised. If it doesn’t backfire, that is even worse, as the whole purpose of this part of the project is to create deeper and more sophisticated deceptions. These big IQ geniuses have still not grasped the core tenet of my religion. Truth is better than Lies.
Yes, the spiritual repercussions of developing a powerful intellect, while not taming the mischievous ego is a big danger, that underlies our current world.
Hey friends! Please enjoy the latest satire from The Farce Feed on Substack.
Brigitte Macron to Arm Wrestle Michelle Obama for Transgender Charity
https://thefarcefeed.substack.com/p/brigitte-macron-to-arm-wrestle-michelle
Trump Claims White House Dog Ate Epstein Files
https://thefarcefeed.substack.com/p/trump-claims-white-house-dog-ate
I understand that James intends on creating a video on how to incorporate email aliases (after the recent GiveWp fiasco). That’ll be great, looking forward to options, though I already started using those. It seems ever more important that we learn ways and tools for how to circumvent the AI and biased algorithmic structures suddenly controlling all browser searches; and I’ll bet James knows much about this.
It used to be if I typed an error message I was getting from any software or OS into a search engine, I would get TONS of links where other people had already dealt with that issue–video and text solutions galore. Today I did a search for a very specific Linux Flatpac error using Brave’s search and not one link had anything to do with the error, and not one link was newer than 2024.
NOW of late… the AI answer comes up at the top of Every Search; and the answer is inevitable bullshit, not even close to anything usable or true. Frustrating.
I spent close to an hour trying to snuff out what should’ve been the simplest of things to find: How to set default Image Size parameters in GIMP (so that resizing an image would default to inches instead of pixels). The amount of bullshit links and information just frustrated me, and I never got a reasonable answer.
Is anyone else here noticing that it is getting more and more difficult to find real answers to even non-political non-partisan stuff? I hate it. Information is disappearing in droves, becoming dumber and dumber and I have become often frustrated and angry.
Welcome to the Dead Internet “Theory”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU
Truthstream Media: Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go?
Though not as bad as Google, even the ‘uncensored’ engines are producing exponentially fewer results than they should be.
So the question is: How much of the Internet has actually been erased rather than just walled off.
I’m working on setting up my own crawler so I’ll have an answer soon.
Also, consider for a moment what Google must know about the current state of public idiocy – or the current stage of the global takeover – if they would be so brazen with their search result fakery.
meme, meme
I’m grateful I’m not the only one noticing this. Thanks for the link. I love TruthStream Media, never saw this one. I’ve started downloading anything relevant that I find nowadays. I’m sure THEY love frustrating and fucking with us.
C
I can tell you I have had to subscribe to their you boob channel every time someone recommends a new Truthstream drops. I never get notified.
Yes, i have encountered this phenomena over menial queries.
A few months ago gave up several history projects. Did okay collecting PDF books until Archive.org went daffy. Not that all the PDF’s came fr them–used them dead last. Planned to try up again this winter.
Meanwhile, i ignore any ai answer. Skip completely. Notwithstanding, when i find there is no answer from the Net, i resolve to ask an older person. Someone knows.
@c
I have come to commiserate with you regarding how exasperating this “AI” garbage has made my day to day existence as of late.
Sometimes my day job has me working at a nursery and garden center so I get a lot of people coming in there that have been “googling” this plant that tree and then they start conversations with me based on that info.
Well, as you know, most of the “Googling” people do now is low grade regurgitated “AI” vomit sourced from a limited number of questionable sources, re-combined, mixed up, turned backwards (and often having some totally nonsensical “hallucinated” fun stuff added in) and then spit out in a vernacular that sounds authoritative and trustworthy.
So I get like 2 out of 3 people now, asking me about a design they saw online, or a plant they want, or an issue with an existing plant/tree in their garden and they quote me “AI” hallucinated nonsense like it is the gospel truth and then want me to confirm it. When I tell them they have been misinformed by malfunctioning, poorly designed (and/or perhaps intentionally misleading) technology, some of them get argumentative with me.
They pull out their phone and ask Siri (as though they are talking to some kind of horticultural expert that can veto what I have just said). The phone’s robot voice reassures them that I am wrong and they go about planting hostas in the sun and seedlings that will become giant (foundation busting) oak trees right next to the sidewalk at their front door.
Oh well, I suppose they will learn in time.
Thanks for the comment.
Wow, G, I wouldn’t want to be you in that situation; I’d have an extremely short fuse inside of me! My sister won’t take a dump without asking Alexa if it’s OK. And what’s really scary is that the Alexa unit is in her upstairs bedroom; but my sister can whisper from downstairs to Alexa and get answers! I was going to visit my sister until I realized just how steeped she is in “smart” everything.
Regarding “Oh well, I suppose they will learn in time,” I doubt it, I really really doubt it. Scary stuff kiddies… Thanks for the comment back!
For anyone interested in email aliases, I can recommend Proton Pass which will generate you unlimited aliases that link to your protonmail email address.
I am not affiliated with Proton, just a user.
Protonmail rocks!!
Just FYI: From the beginning Proton had the patterns of another fake hero service, here to save us from GMail the same way DuckDuckGo came to save us from Google Search.
Well just as DuckDuckGo, over time, put increasingly less effort into maintaining their veil, Proton has been putting increasingly less effort into maintaining theirs.
I still use Proton though, for certain things.
It really depends on the sort of stuff you get up to.
Once the Eye of Sauron is upon you, most if not all service providers will cave to governmental pressure. The trick is to not raise suspicion in the first place.
I use Proton, have been for 5-6 years. And I use aliases for everything I do on the net now…
I read recently, though, that Switzerland is demanding that Proton release all info, open back doors, etc., just like all the other countries, so there is zero privacy. Where else could Proton move? It’s getting increasingly messed up to find anything Truly private. THEY are surely closing us in more and more. I’m hoping that I can at least export all of my aliases in case proton takes a dive like DuckDuckGo, etc.
C
“….It’s getting increasingly messed up to find anything Truly privat….”
Nothing on the internet is truly private.
The NSA probably has a real time record of the entire internet, why else would they need all those data centers?
even if you encrypt there is a good chance that it can be decrypted either now or in the future if your ever of actual interest to them. It is a very bad idea to write stuff that constitutes an actual “legal” crime online.
We don’t really know anyone unless it’s IRL.
The chances are that NSA shares this birds eye view of the internet with other states sometimes.
Great points, Duck. Sad but true…
Dear James, (is ‘Dear’ still acceptable as a salutation?)
Since you appear prepared to entertain requests for reading material I am making an appeal to you. Please forgive my lengthy preamble but I want to make clear what I am looking for.
As a fellow Canuck I resonate very strongly with you regarding the lamentable state which the ‘Corporation of Canada’ has become. Like you, I am not a statist but yet I yearn for and am compelled to seek for the alternative to arrive, however nebulous that looks at the moment. Regarding that alternative I am experiencing first hand the roadblocks that raise their ugly heads whenever people try to reach consensus. As a result of the Scamdemic, some people of like mind, in my area of north-eastern ontario, have coalesced into what I am calling a ‘mutual aid’ group. This part of Ontario has traditionally been economically depressed and because of its natural beauty and abundant flora it has also been a bastion for those wishing to bale on the urban life and take their chances in the wilds. Our group is almost entirely composed of people who meet this description, including myself. In our ongoing attempt to find common ground and solutions to our predicament, and as result of us becoming familiar with one another, the ugly spectre of pettiness, which seems an inextricable component of human nature, is proving to be a larger hurdle to overcome than the problems with which we are attempting to deal with and threatens to dissolve this fragile union. I know from historical accounts that these are the very same problems faced by the white settlers who first arrived here to eak out a living from an untamed landscape and also by the native people who were displaced by these same white settlers. I also know that they found solutions to the problem of pettiness in their nascent societies and tribal customs respectively. The fact that the settlers, by and large, had religion as their nexus and the native people had their love and deep understanding of the natural world as a focal point of their culture allowed them to more or less get along with one another. I feel that something of that nature is missing from our group. We found each other because of a fundamental belief in our personal autonomy but that seems to be an insufficient glue, oddly enough, as we continue to have our backs pushed to the wall.
So, is there literature you could recommend which addresses this age old problem?
P.S. I believe your work is of the utmost importance to the world and your ongoing attention to solutions is what makes you shine in my eyes.
@ward.e
Greetings from southern Ontario (the traditional territory of the Food Forest farming Wendat nation).
I want to offer my own two cents regarding your comments about the “settlers” and “natives” of this place most people now call “Ontario” Canada.
I think the story you have been told about what indigenous cultures of this land were like, how they lived, how their communities organized and how they measured up in comparison to the European interlopers that began arriving here in the 1600-s in larger numbers may be somewhat distorted by the propaganda we were fed in via the governments Prussian Model education system.
(For more info on that read: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-spiritual-poverty-of-statism )
For instance, you said “I know from historical accounts that these are the very same problems faced by the white settlers who first arrived here to eak out a living from an untamed landscape” yet this landscape was not “untamed” nor was it “wilderness”, but, in many cases, especially here in Ontario, the landscape was rather carefully managed and shaped (over millennia) by advanced indigenous horticultural techniques.
Many of the settlers (having been pushed into not only financial poverty by various oligarchic/imperialistic/statist regimes back in Europe but also having been conditioned into states of cultural adolescence, spiritual poverty and ecological illiteracy by those same statist regimes) were incapable of perceiving the highly advanced food production systems they were destroying when they felled forests to “eak out a living” as to their relatively ecology pattern recognition enfeebled minds those expressions of highly advanced horticultural societies were invisible and perceived as just “wilderness”.
If you would have talked to me a decade ago (before I began studying and now replicating the ancient anthropogenically influenced food forests of Ontario) I would have expressed a similar opinion to yours. Since then I have learned that the conditioning we received in school regarding how this continent was populated by “hunter gatherers” which had very little impact on the “wilderness” landscape is mostly a bunch of colonial statist propaganda (combined with a fair bit of ignorance).
If you would like to begin getting a more clear understanding of what this land looked like, why it was that way and who shaped it prior to Europeans arriving, read books like 1491, The Dawn of Everything, Tending the Wild and dissertations such as Lyla June’s Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Food and Land Management Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History.
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The truth is that while there was indeed some “untamed” “wilderness”, that type of forest was the minority on this land. Many indigenous cultures actually looked at the untended (aka “untamed”) land or “wilderness” as an insult to Creator. The farming practices they used shaped entire regional habitats using fire, seed saving, companion planting, strategically influencing the movement of herds of wild animals and coppicing. The result was forest farms that persisted in producing food for many centuries. This land was being farmed for millennia in that way before the arrival of the Europeans. In comparison to European farming methods involving monoculture crops, these farms of ancient “ontario” were far superior (and are far superior) in every way.
Re: “the settlers, by and large, had religion as their nexus and the native people had their love and deep understanding of the natural world as a focal point of their culture allowed them to more or less get along with one another.”
It is important to note that indigenous societies of Turtle Island (aka “North America”) has their own religions. Some of them involved a central Creator in their creation story and unlike European anthropocentric institutionalized Christianity, their religions were animistic (they recognized non-human beings as also possessing a spirit and being deserving of respect). It is also worth highlighting that unlike European church manipulated versions of Christianity (see The Doctrine Of Discovery for more info : https://archive.org/details/doctrineofdiscovery ) the Turtle Island religions of the region where we live did not tell people that they are superior to other humans, nor that they should seek to subjugate others into their belief system.
While the early french settlers did indeed sometimes seek to find common ground and bridge the gap with indigenous people from this area (though not all of them did) the English that came after them (which became our government today) looked down on the indigenous people so much that they used tax money to pay RCMP to kidnap their children and drag them off to concentration camps (euphemistically called “residential schools”) where they were tortured and ordered to submit to the imported European church religion and language or suffer dire consequences.
This is a little more than “displaced”, it is cultural genocide and that land theft and mass kidnapping was and is the legacy of the settlers of Ontario (as if one was a moral person, they surely would not have allowed innocent children to be kidnapped and forced into thought police camps where they were abused until they submitted to “civilized” culture).
Perhaps addressing the age old problem you mention begins with firstly ridding ourselves of our institutionally inculcated superiority complexes to truly look at our fellow humans and older cultures than our own with an open heart and open eyes.
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For some information on how the imported anthropocentric religion of Europe shaped this land and her peoples, read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-anthropocentrism-bright
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RE “pettiness in their nascent societies and tribal customs respectively”
I propose that the “nascent” society (what I refer to as an “adolescent culture” which is spiritually impoverished) in that equation were actually the European culture(s) that came here (and not the forest tending peoples of the eastern woodlands of Turtle Island) as your comment above suggests.
I provide ample evidence of this fact in the following post “Old Growth/Tree species distribution, soil depth and linguistic artifacts as indicators of cultural maturity”
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/tree-species-distribution-soil-depth
Perhaps the literature you seek that can address this age old problem can be found in learning to read the forest landscape (as the people that lived where you do now did, over centuries prior to “Canada” existing) ?
The Creator of all things did not create the earth with Churches on it, humans did that. “He” did however create this earth with the magnificent cathedrals called Old Growth Forests. These are not “untamed” places waiting to be put to good use by humans that know better than God, they are sacred places where God already provided everything we need to live, thrive and be healthy. All that is required to accept and internalize this knowing, wisdom and wealth is patience, humility, using our God given pattern recognition capabilities, love, sweat and faith in a seed.
I hope this message finds you well, thanks for evoking the thought process expressed above.
Is the captcha ment to be here or did someone do a redirect?
Me Just being paranoid maybe
Yeah, hCaptcha at login now.
Thanks
Today when I went to sign in, the “hcaptcha” demanded that I play some sort of puzzle game that was reminiscent of a 90-s DOS mode computer game from my youth called “The Incredible Machine”!! It had me dragging around sections of pipe to complete some pipe flow cartoon.
What if they collate all this captcha data into servers and then feed it back to the AI Data Beast!!??
Man, maybe I am just paranoid, but sometimes I think these captcha thingies are actually some kind of bait and switch deal where we are being compelled to offer our time, attention and intelligence to train AIs to be more effective at pretending to be human.
(PS – I am not implicating JC in the above described “conspiracy theory”, but rather speculating on the potential abuses of the technology and platform that is “captcha” as a whole)
The Incredible Machine
I loved that game. I still have it and just played it not long ago.
They made a newer version called Contraption Maker on Steam that lets players build their own puzzles for others to try to solve.
Captcha
You are exactly right about the Captchas. Training AI was always their purpose.
That’s why Google’s reCAPTCHA has been at the heart of it since the beginning.
They were training OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software initially then later object recognition for all the other AI, including Google Earth/Maps object identification and self-driving car software.
Via the Captchas, we helped train the AI to recognize cars, busses, motorcycles, bicycles, crosswalks, street lights, fire hydrants, building entrances, and, the creepiest one: chimneys.
The Captchas did serve an actual purpose of blocking low-sophistication bot activity on websites, but knowing what we now know about their favored methodologies, Google & co. were probably the ones behind much of the low-sophistication bot activity with a goal of pushing websites to use reCAPTCHA, the same way antivirus software creators were the most likely authors of nearly all of the most publicized malware and malware articles.
You might remember Google Image Labeler. A ‘game’ Google released in 2007.
A lot of people thought it really was just a game. Tech-savvy people figured it was being used to label images for Google’s image search. Conspiracy realists figured it was likely being used to train AI, which is almost certainly what its primary purpose was: Training AI and establishing a database of reliably-identified images to use in reCAPTCHA to further (and less overtly) train the AI.
@AnimalsArentFood
I appreciate the comment.
Ya that Incredible Machine was a classic, did you ever play a glitchy game from the same era called “Caesar II” ?
I appreciate the intel on Capchas.
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On a separate side note, I have been thinking about your other comment on this thread regarding modern day industrial crops having compromised/weak genetics and lacking nutrients and i`ll reply to you there on that front.
“glitchy game”
That’s only because your anti-consumer nature wouldn’t allow you to upgrade your RAM to 8MB.
No, I never did get a chance to play it.
I remember all the talk about it and always saw it on the store shelves.
The closest thing to it that I played at the time was probably Lords of The Realm II, from the same developer and publisher (Impressions, Sierra).
G
“….glitchy game from the same era called “Caesar II” ….”
I wasted hours playing that game, I believe you can get it off GoG for cheep to this day. I wasted even more time playing a Dos game known as SimEarth, which had the most amazing manual on the water and carbon, and. Such like, cycles…..that game (or software toy) was pretty amazing even if I normally ended up boiling the oceans and having dinosaurs infest every biome…..that manual was a pretty good education TBH
@Duck
Plebs Are Needed!!
🙂 loved that game…also “Cossacks” which if you left it alone would auto play a massive battle for your entertainment.
On a note serious note i wonder if the games “dem dmn kids” play today are still teaching the law if unintended consequences and long term effects like the old Simulation games did? Really don’t know since I don’t play anymore
I hope that everyone is being understanding about the email address leak. Really in the big scheme of things we can use this event as a positive nudge to get alias addresses and maybe even look at our password generation/storing habits, etc.
Certainly not the end of the world.
I am so grateful to James for the knowledge he has shared with all of us so tirelessly and relentlessly and craftily (and well-crafted; haha!) all these years, he could pooch my donation-source information and I’d still not be upset.
<3
Hello everyone! I am not sure what I even expect from this thread, but here it goes. I have been out of work since 2022 when a rare disorder befell me that required me to have neuro surgery to have a shunt placed in my head. I recently had to have it revised at the beginning of July, it stopped working. I want to try to get back to work. I am, however, feeling rudderless. My question is, if you could start over now that we all know the things we know, what work would you do? I’m hoping that the answers I get will give me an outside perspective as far as ideas go. I think I’m too close to my problem. Ha!
Michael
Might be a good idea if you write out a list of things you have experience and skills wiyh and then honestly consider your age and health level…..writing it out on paper makes it clearer and less prone to wishful thinking.
Work type depends on what skills and age we’re taking about and also if we mean “a job” or starting a company.
Not that many people want to be covered in filth or in mildly dangerous situations but personally I’d say plumber (since people will always want indoor plumbing, but it’s gross work) or working on the power lines but that’s dangerous. Both are somewhat coof proof though and let you move around if you wish to and are things I’d feel ok doing from past experiences.
I have a relative who makes damn good money doing make up and hair and nails and stuff for women, mostly paid in cash. She just worked thru coof for the most part since her clients are on a person level but she can’t easily set up elsewhere outside of a population center. She lives for that crap but I couldn’t do it.
The main thing is just be like the shark and keep on swimming 🙂 I had a relative with a shunt (hydrocephalus) and he went from being considered simple to being a dad with three kids and a semi technical job. They thought he’d croak when he was a kid but he came thru
Thanks! Yeah I was a sergeant in the Army took two tours of Iraq one for the invasion in 2003, and again in 2006. That is what opened my eyes to the way things really are. I came home and worked Corrections for my local jail from 08 till 2020. I got out to help my fiance start a business but watching our kids. After that it was supposed to be my turn to start something up but we haven’t quite made it there yet. At 45 I still think I could start something to possibly help my kids not be stuck in a system designed to keep them docile. I’m just kind of floundering, rudderless. I do like the idea of writing down everything that I can bring to the table. You’re right it might be good to see that.
Have you considered opening a hotdog cart?
Hear me out, it’s not that crazy.
Depending on where you are, you might have to take a food safety class.
The carts are not too expensive. Check with your local health department to make sure the cart is compliant with their regulations. You can get one for between $5000 – $10,000. One with a hitch that can be towed behind a normal sedan.
(You may have to park it in a commissary when not in business)
You can pull the cart to the parking lot of local events / concerts / Friday nights when the bars are closing. Anywhere where people might say to themselves “you know, I would really enjoy a hot dog, right about now.”
You can also sell chips and soda to go along with the hot dogs, in a package deal.
You can work when you want, or not work when you don’t want.
If you don’t like hot dogs, you can sell something else.
There’s a guy who just sells corn on the cobb, (elotes) covered in mayonnaise and tajin, and his line of customers stretched around the block.
Also, that was a cash business.
People were throwing $5 bills at that guy.
This is a solid suggestion. Hotdogs are a very cost efficient fast “food”. Easy and fast to make, will sell for a similar price as something more intricate.
A local fella here has a little stand making various types of meals in a wok. He gets fresh produce, spends quite a bit of time on preparation, makes a few different to carry meals and some sandwiches. Something different and unique in the area.
Well, he used to make. He started selling hotdogs and fried potatos. Makes for similar cashflow and requires a lot less work. People buy more. It’s in the zeitgeist, I guess, everything is turning to shit because people clamor for it.
The “hotdog” is just the template. You can sell whatever you want. There’s a lot of guys in New York that sell falafel on pita bread, with all the toppings.
There’s also street tacos sold from hotdog carts. You can modify it any way you want to.
Hotdogs are classic, though. As a customer, you know exactly what you’re getting. I don’t think it’s morally wrong to sell or buy a hotdog. Why is selling hotdogs making “everything turn to shit?”
Hey I love the idea. It isn’t as big as a food truck yet still has versatility.
A hotdog when compared to some locally produced/traditional edible offering, something different that visitors may likely never experience again anywhere else in the world, is indeed shit.
However, my point was not that hotdogs are shit in general. They can be produced with the cheapest buns and whatever goes for “sausage” these days. Or they can be made with a proper bun, an actual sausage and some quality mustard or ajvar (I don’t know if people around the world have even the faintest idea what “ketchup” made of actual baked vegetables, such as paprika, garlic, onions, eggplant etc. tastes like) and/or other condiments…
All leading to my actual point that even if you invested the extra effort into providing a higher quality product (sourcing of rare ingredients is always more time consuming and more expensive) the market such as it is currently would likely not even blink at the better offering.
They want it fast, they want it cheap and they won’t be bothered by such trite matters as the taste or the actual content of the food item being consumed as they are showing it down their gullet without even taking one split second to consider that everything they eat is going to stay with them for the remainder of their lives.
Anyway, enshittification of everything stems from stupidity and laziness.
Years ago I had thought of a food truck situation where I would serve Doner Kabobs, Basically gyros here in the states. In Germany, they were called doner kabobs and they were great and we’re always open at like 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. The perfect time for a soldier to stumble in and get something to eat on his way back to post. Haha! I always thought that that would be something that could catch on here too. There’s just a lot of versatility you can use food truck or food cart for. I never did it though.
@Michael
Me, personally, I would start over and do what I am doing now from the beginning (Permaculture Design).
It is a pathway of learning that always keeps me on my toes, keeps my body in shape and provides good food (for myself, my loved ones and my clients).
I can provide some free literature on the subject if you have any interest.
Yeah that sounds great. Ihave also held an interest in food growth but never focused on it outside of a tiny garden.
@Michael
Okay cool, i`ll link a couple free books below that are a good place to get started and then link some pertinent Solutions Watch episodes from this site as well after (as James has covered helpful content on this topic several times).
Here is a link to a free PDF (ebook) of Toby Hemenway’s “Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture” (he is no longer on this Earth but he was kind enough to let me include some of his graphic and food forest species list content in my first book and I think he would have wanted his work shared in this kind of context if he was here so it feels right to share).
https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GaiasGarden-A-Guide-to-Home-Scale-Permaculture.pdf
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Here is a link to download “The Permaculture Student 2” by Matt Powers (I took his permaculture course which was largely based on that book and he has several other successful books and courses out now so he gives that one away to help people get started).
https://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/download-ps2-free
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How to Eat a Pine Tree – #SolutionsWatch
https://corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-pinetree/
Solutions: Guerrilla Gardening
https://corbettreport.com/episode-299-solutions-guerrilla-gardening/
Community Gardens – #SolutionsWatch
https://corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-communitygardens/
Choosing Chickens – #SolutionsWatch
https://corbettreport.com/choosing-chickens-solutionswatch/
Regenerative Agriculture – #SolutionsWatch
https://corbettreport.com/regenerative-agriculture/
(ps – I am willing to gift you a copy of my book, described in the Regenerative Ag Solutions Watch linked above if you email me).
Best of luck as you embark on this new part of your journey Michael.
@G
Thanks so much for all the resources. I actually have Gaia’s Garden. It always seems to overwhelm me the wealth of information. I think that my other problem is is that I either want to go 100% or zero. And I think that I don’t need to do that I need to start small and grow out. I can’t wait to dive into the permaculture student 2! Thanks again. I also loved your interview on solutions watch.
@Michael
Happy to help brother.
That is great you already have a copy of Gaia’s Garden.
The Permaculture Student has some great stuff for beginners as well as seasoned pros so a great place to start small and grow out.
If you read that and want to get serious on the business side of things, Erik Ohlsen’s book (“The Regenerative Landscaper: Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment”) offers a fantastic set of resources and step by step instructions for scaling up a business and doing designs/installations.
Here is a podcast on the book interviewing Erik.
https://ourpermaculturelife.com/regenerative-landscaper-with-erik-ohlsen/
(youtube interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YGKqqdOlI4 )
Glad you enjoyed the interview I did with James, I can share more book recommendations if you end up wanting to learn about specialized sub-topics in the realm of permaculture / regenerative gardening/farming.
Michael,
I wish you luck on your journey!
I’m old. Over the years, I’ve had more than a hundred different jobs and have tried more than a hundred different business ventures. Some ventures turned out great! Some flopped miserably.
I’ve sold countless types of products roadside on the street corner (pictures, bean bags, toys, sunglasses, clothing, plaster/cement statues, etc.) and in different cities around the U.S. It was a good way to pilot a business idea, especially if the trend is with you.
Usually, roadside sales always beat other venues like flea markets or farmers markets.
Weather can be tough.
Just so you know, we are currently at a crossroads where trends and supply chains could change quickly.
In the south, home prices are starting to decline. There is also a large multi-family housing overbuild which will drive down rents. Demographics of areas will change as the bubble unravels.
Some commercial properties are in distress.
With past businesses, often I would rent distressed commercial retail property on a month-to-month basis.
Remember… “Bodies in the Shop” X “Average ticket” = Gross Revenue
You want lots of body traffic.
LINK to some Past Business Ventures and adventures
https://corbettreport.com/shut-up-burglary-theorist/#comment-48148
I have many different anecdotes spread across these comment sections over the past 10 years.
I’ll vouch for the fact these comment sections are replete with HRS wisdom, stemming from both success and failure.
AI Blessings judged genuine…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
It is very disturbing to think that anyone in the public would have a positive reaction to this. It appears that I may have underestimated the average level of stupidity to be found in our population.
Oh that is disgusting! The whole story on so many levels is just awful!
Hanky
Ewwww….that is creepy as hell.
Makes me want to download as much old footage as possible before they AI it all.
This one might take the cake for this year.
Virtually indistinguishable from satire.
Babylonbee just got some serious competition.
I was listening to NPR on the actual radio today and got a good example of misdirection.
They were talking about crime stats, and on “hate crimes” noted that Jews were getting more of them and gave the number, but they avoided giving the actual number of white people who were subjected to “hate crimes” even though they said their was a “small” uptick…..actually getting the total numbers has so far proved to be a PITA.
Good example of something they don’t want to talk about, probably because more whites are getting into that box that were just counted as “crimes” before.
anti-jewish hate crime stats
anti-white hate crime stats
Source
Notes:
• I think jewish people are classified as white by law enforcement so it’s not impossible that anti-jewish (anti-jewish-religion) reports are duplicated into the anti-white data.
• I’m not vouching for this data, I’m just posting it. We know there are areas of the U.S. in which all (or nearly all) violent crime was perpetrated by black people and – for political reasons – to keep that from showing up in the FBI stats, they simply stopped including race in the data they report to the FBI. They’ve also begun reporting light-skinned hispanics as white to inflate white violent crime stats and deflate hispanic violent crime stats (again, for political reasons).
Nicholas DeSanto addresses this issue very effectively. He is based in England, but has worked in the USA, too.
https://youtu.be/CqEc9GX7vfQ?t=945
Thanks for posting- I found that source site but actually getting anything out of it took more work then I was willing to put in at the time.
I may try again when I am at the pond again
Well here we go – former Chief Business Officer at Google X telling us we are going to go through hell until we hand over full contol of governance to AI. then Utopia! Hurray!
Ex-Google Exec (WARNING): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! – Mo Gawdat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9a1nLw70p0
I recently resisted the push towards “digital existence only” in a way I didn’t even know existed. Trying to buy a house and the title company wanted me to sign off on “biometric identification” that will be stored for “no more than 3 years” to insure my safety against fraud. I refused and the company called me and condescended to me about not wanting to give them carte Blanche to sell the characteristics of my face to God knows who for 3 years. Am willing to forgo this purchase on principal as we have to meet on person to transfer said title so their argument is ridiculous and the practice is predatory.
Sorry you are getting the run around.
Stick to your guns. i plan to say, No.
Or not only No, but HELL NO!
This on it’s face sounds completely ridiculous, indeed. They will never run out of insane safety excuses to try to justify their encroachment. Good on you that you told them no, they need to hear it.
J.C.
“… so, although I would normally invite people to sign up for membership to participate in this open thread, it seems strange to do so in these circumstances.”
I believe you intended “strange not to do so”.
Speaking of A.I.
Has anyone received a traffic ticket from an A.I. speed trap?
rfk wearables
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-wearables-benefits-risks/story?id=123422287
Ace in the hole? Or just A-hole?
You still n have a choice to wear them or not. Let’s be great full for small mercies 🙁
I hope you do an episode on what appears to have the hallmarks of a false flag attack, at the CDC. If I had to guess it is a message to RFK Jr that he can be killed if he keeps telling the truth about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Either that or it is a way to send a message to any given health official that they should self-censor. Or it will result in more official censorship. Or all of the above.
““The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with bullets piercing “blast-resistant” windows and spattering glass shards into numerous rooms…
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal opened fire late Friday, killing a police officer. No one at CDC was injured.
…at least four CDC buildings were hit in the attack…
Building 21, which houses [CDC Director] Monarez’s office, was hit by the largest number of bullets. CDC officials did not say if her office was hit…
…health leaders should appreciate the weight of their words [and self-censor]…
When you make claims that have been proven false time and time again about safety and efficacy of vaccines, that can cause unintended consequences.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/man-fired-180-shots-breaking-150-windows-cdc-124558847
Interview of Substack Author “Escape Key” and link (https://escapekey.substack.com/) to a huge treasure trove of his research articles.
Escape Key: Reverse Engineering the Architecture of Totalitarian Control
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/escape-key
Excerpt of interview description:
“Escape Key is a writer and researcher of extraordinary talent. He has a professional background in complex systems analysis, and has spent the past two years trawling through several centuries of policy documents, public statements, philosophical treatises, congressional records, operational manuals, and works of fiction to identify the methods, means, and origins of a global dictatorship that has already been built.
“He has, in effect, ‘reverse engineered’ the full architecture of the system out of publicly available information. Now we can see, articulate, understand, and explain how the system operates. This means we can properly challenge and begin to deconstruct it.”
I have actually read quite a bit of his substack (thanks to Mike Yeadon, who has often mentioned him) and tried to engage with him on a few issues, but the moment you slightly introduce something critical about his work, he promptly labels you as “troll” and shuts you down immediately. No matter how polite you try to be.
He has an exaggerated fascination for AI and frequently takes great pride in reporting the fact that multiple AI services agree with him (he seems to struggle with the concept that AI is algorithmically designed to agree with you on most things to increase usage rather than discourage it).
Admittedly, he writes much better than he speak, judging by this very interview.
Valuable work, by all means. In fact one of the best researchers online, all in all. But stick with the articles he writes.
This would be good show (if you haven’t already) abt WW1 banker wars: https://mises.org/mises-wire/world-war-i-great-banker-bailout?utm_source=MI+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=f524dbcb16-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_02_29_06_22_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-0aec14e5f3-230176068
Health protocol with references from Sayer Ji’s Substack:
The Stone in Your Brain: How Modern Life Is Calcifying Your Pineal Gland (And What You Can Do About It)
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-stone-in-your-brain-how-modern
If you remember James’ episode on salting your passwords for security, I have an interesting (and slightly more technical) video by Sam Bent , a YT “techie” who looks at the economics of “keyword stretching” (ie salting) more in details:
How Weak Passwords Beat Strong Passwords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8nVmuLCpE
FWIW:
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Now World Economic Forum Co-Chair
BlackRock CEO, already controlling trillions in assets, now sits atop the Davos machine pushing the “Great Reset.”
Jon Fleetwood | Aug 15, 2025
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/blackrocks-larry-fink-now-world-economic
The other WEF co-chair:
Larry Fink and André Hoffmann are named new chairmen of WEF: Who is Hoffmann?
By Rhoda Wilson on August 16, 2025
https://expose-news.com/2025/08/16/who-is-andre-hoffmann/
So, there’s a video claiming that three weeks ago, China seized cash at major banks and forced the digital Yuen. ATM’s were disabled, etc. The only “verification” is that video since it claims that China shut down all posts on their social media about.
That same Youtube channel (Buildr) claims that China also is requiring a digital ID and has a new social credit score system. Thoughts? Anyone know anyone that lives in China?
In January 2025, James Corbett interviewed Eric Peters, an Anarcho-Libertarian writer and gearhead.
CAR FREEDOM – It was a fascinating interview with some very helpful insights.
https://corbettreport.com/car-freedom/
ERIC PETERS AUTOS
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/
His latest article is on the 2025 Chevy Tahoo, a last of a breed.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/08/17/2025-chevy-tahoe/
— SUICIDED by Remote Controlled Car —
I personally believe that the famous and rich Ex-Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon was murdered via his remote controlled 2013 Chevy Tahoe. While on his routine late morning drive, the SUV crossed the road’s center line 189 feet with a speed of 88 mph before hitting the massive concrete wall and bursting into flames. This ended any chance that he may testify to The Feds about the crimes of others.
https://corbettreport.com/decentralize-everything-how-to-avoid-the-technocratic-nightmare/#comment-35545
RECENT NEWS – Sunday August 10, 2025 – TechCrunch – By Zack Whittaker
Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/security-flaws-in-a-carmakers-web-portal-let-one-hacker-remotely-unlock-cars-from-anywhere/
EXCERPTS
A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles.
Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal.
With this access, a malicious hacker could have viewed the personal and financial data of the carmaker’s customers, tracked vehicles, and enrolled customers in features that allow owners — or the hackers — to control some of their cars’ functions from anywhere…
… “No one even knows that you’re just silently looking at all of these dealers’ data, all their financials, all their private stuff, all their leads,”
said Zveare…
… “For my purposes, I just got a friend who consented to me taking over their car, and I ran with that,”….
Monday August 18, 2025
Eric Peters has a short VIDEO and article about having your data and car hijacked.
The Remote Access Car . . .
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/08/18/the-remote-access-car/
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July 6, 2013 – Corbett Report
Episode 274 – Crashes of Convenience: Michael Hastings (with video)
https://corbettreport.com/episode-274-crashes-of-convenience-michael-hastings/
DESCRIPTION
Michael Hastings was that rarest of breeds: a mainstream reporter who wasn’t afraid to rail against the system, kick back against the establishment, and bite the hand that feeds him.
On the morning of June 18, 2013, he died in a fiery car crash.
But now details are emerging that he was on the verge of breaking an important new story about the CIA, and believed he was being investigated by the FBI.
Now even a former counter-terrorism czar is admitting Hastings’ car may have been cyber-hijacked.
Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore the strange details surrounding the untimely death of Michael Hastings.
More AUBREY MCCLENDON
I remember that day of the crash and was following every piece of news I could. Many of the Facebook posts highlighted the fact that Aubrey was not suicidal, and that things did not add up.
#NewWorldNextWeek recorded March 2, 2016 – Day of Aubrey McClendon crash
QUEUED VIDEO at 14:09
https://youtu.be/3yLVRhDGn3s?si=3gkK1offo-QvKvMf&t=849
James Evan Pilato and James Corbett discuss the bizarre scenario and how the oil/gas market shot up on the news of his death.
~~WWW corbettreport.com/interview-1148-new-world-next-week-with-james-evan-pilato/
More AUBREY MCCLENDON…
Pilato mentions that the stock price went way high when the death was announced.
– Record Stock Volume – cui bono?
This stock analyst and trader points out the incredible movement of Chesapeake Energy Corp stock price following Aubrey’s death, and those major institutional investors who benefited. (Short Squeeze)
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8P5gZ43zd0
More AUBREY MCCLENDON…
(From NWNW shownotes)
Zero Hedge – March 2, 2016 [PHOTOS]
“Chesapeake Founder Aubrey McClendon Dies In Car Crash One Day After Federal Indictment”
https://web.archive.org/web/20160310033500/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-02/chesapeake-founder-aubrey-mcclendon-dies-car-crash-one-day-after-federal-indictment
EXCERPTS
Just one day after the DOJ unveiled its had indicted Chesapeake Founder and former CEO Aubrey McClendon on federal charges of conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases, moments ago the Oklahoma Police announced that he was found dead in a car accident, when while traveling in a 2013 Chevy Tahoe at a high rate of speed he slammed into an embankment in northeast Oklahoma City. The car burst into flames before responders could pull McClendon’s body from the vehicle, Balderrama said.
“He pretty much drove straight into the wall,”
Balderrama said, according to KFOR News Channel 4 in Oklahoma City.
“The information out there at the scene is that he went left of center, went through a grassy area right before colliding into the embankment.
There was plenty of opportunity for him to correct and get back on the roadway, and that didn’t occur.”…
…The police said that it responded at 9:12 am to a fatality accident involving McClendon, and that he was traveling south on Midwest Blvd., between Memorial and 122nd St..
McClendon crashed into an embankment while traveling at a “high rate of speed” in Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning, said Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department. McClendon’s vehicle was engulfed in flame, he said.
“He pretty much drove straight into the wall,” Balderrama said…
…[Backstory – Billions at stake and contentious control]
Earlier today, McClendon released the following statement regarding the DOJ indictment:
“The charge that has been filed against me today is wrong and unprecedented. I have been singled out as the only person in the oil and gas industry in over 110 years since the Sherman Act became law to have been accused of this crime in relation to joint bidding on leasehold. Anyone who knows me, my business record and the industry in which I have worked for 35 years, knows that I could not be guilty of violating any antitrust laws. All my life I have worked to create jobs in Oklahoma, grow its economy, and to provide abundant and affordable energy to all Americans. I am proud of my track record in this industry, and I will fight to prove my innocence and to clear my name.” – Aubrey McClendon
More AUBREY MCCLENDON…
On March 3, 2016, the Justice Department filed motions and dismissed McClendon’s indictment.
June 1, 2021 – By Amy Lamare
What Drove One Of America’s Richest Oil Executives To Commit Suicide By Driving Into A Concrete Bridge At 88MPH?
https://archive.ph/uEC9T
~~WWW celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/what-drove-one-of-americas-richest-oil-executives-to-commit-suicide-by-driving-into-a-concrete-bridge-at-88mph/
EXCERPTS
…The 56-year-old was a one-time high-flying corporate executive. In 2008, McClendon was the highest paid CEO of all the S&P 500 companies, with a compensation package totaling $112 million. At the peak of his career Aubrey was worth right around $1 billion. He was one of the largest landowners in the United States, owning 100,000 acres. He even owned 20% of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder…
…The Assistant Attorney General of the time said, in part:
“Executives who abuse their positions as leaders of major corporations to organize criminal activity must be held accountable for their actions.”
[The article goes over some of the strained financial history of his fracking industry.]
More AUBREY MCCLENDON…
[NOTE: Aubrey often drove this route. The crash did not occur at the height of rush hour traffic.]
June 8, 2016 – Associated Press – By Sean Murphy
Autopsy: Oklahoma energy magnate’s death accidental
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2016/06/08/oklahoma-magnates-death-accidental/85626210/
EXCERPTS
Oklahoma City — The fiery car crash in which energy industry magnate Aubrey McClendon died was an accident, the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office ruled Wednesday, also noting he had no alcohol in his system and only traces of a drug commonly used in sleep aids.
The eight-page autopsy report shows the 56-year-old suffered numerous broken bones and other serious injuries in the March 2 crash and that his body was badly burned after he died. The report, which comes a day after police said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove whether the crash was intentional, lists multiple blunt force trauma as the cause of death.
Besides traces of the antihistamine doxylamine, there were no other drugs or alcohol in his system, the report said.
The crash happened the day after the former Chesapeake Energy CEO and part-owner of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder was indicted by a federal grand jury for bid rigging, leading to speculation of a possible suicide.
“We spoke to anybody who may have had contact with him after he found out about the indictment,”
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Paco Balderrama said Tuesday.
“He did not leave anything that would be interpreted as a suicide note or message.”…
…there was no evidence suggesting he tried to avoid the crash.
The vehicle’s data recorder showed McClendon was driving 88 mph and then tapped his brakes before impact, police have said. McClendon had his gas pedal floored until 11/2 seconds before impact, when he reduced it from 99 to 25 percent depressed, they said. Investigators found tire tracks but no skid marks.
Recently I rewatched the movie “Capricorn One”, shot in the seventies. Anywho, the movie features a theme of a staged Mars landing (from the point of view of crippling corruption instead of the obvious technical issues, of course) coupled with multiple attempts on protagonists’ lives, one of them being something that looked like remote car jacking. It’s possible that the protagonist’s vehicle was somehow modified to slam the accelerator after a while, along with breaks that lose their function at the same time.
The guy in the movie manages to survive, but in reality one would likely crash and burn. Preventative measures would include crashing intentionally early before the speed is built up or getting on a highway, hoping for the least possible traffic and driving until the vehicle runs out of fuel.
Capricorn One is a 1977 thriller film in which a reporter discovers that a supposed Mars landing by a crewed mission to the planet has been faked via a conspiracy involving the government and—under duress—the crew themselves.
Elliott Gould, O. J. Simpson, James Brolin and other big names of the era play a role.
CAR TAMPERED with
QUEUED at 49:10 when the TV reporter Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould) discovers that his friend Whitter suddenly vanishes and that all evidence of Whitter’s recent life has been erased.
The next scene is where his car’s brakes have been disabled and the accelerator rigged to the extreme (100 mph).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAp6s4M8r5c&t=2950s
In 1970 Elliott Gould became famous for his role in the film M*A*S*H.
I remember watching it one summer late night at a drive-in theatre when on a long drive from Texas to Minnesota.
James – hope the data leak business has gotten sorted. Glad you discovered that!
Q: Any chance we might see one of your most excellent documentaries in the near future? I kind of miss them. I really appreciate the focus on solutions (definitely a must-have mindset), *and* – there are many things happening that we folks are trying to make sense of and see the big picture. Your docs are so very helpful in supporting that process.
Something you might be interested in: Dave Shapiro has been doing a really interesting series on post-labor economics – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV3Fr1UUO9bFTYDqL9KIjrdlurcoMlLxg
Also, I’d love it if you could please revisit the “conservation movement” and the drive (at least in the US) to convert large percentages of private land to conservation areas – e.g.
https://ncel.net/articles/30×30-midpoint-are-states-on-track-to-conserve-30-of-land-and-waters-by-2030/
Also, there’s the “getting rid of dams” project happening in the US, which *may* have had some impact on recent flooding:
https://www.americanrivers.org/threats-solutions/restoring-damaged-rivers/
https://www.mma.org/study-removing-dams-less-expensive-than-repairing-maintaining-them/
Thanks!
9/11 is approaching. In case you have an interest:
Turning the Tide: 9/11 Justice in 2025
September 10 · 5pm – September 12 · 6pm EDT
by International Center for 9/11 Justice
“Three days of talks and movement building in Washington, DC, marking the 24th anniversary of 9/11, to be broadcast and archived on Redacted.” (View livestream or archive online for free or donation.)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turning-the-tide-911-justice-in-2025-tickets-1560031398909
This should be entertaining – if it actually occurs: the first public pro-vax/anti-vax debate in history, September 13, 2025 in NYC.
Farina & Wilson vs Kirsch & Kory
Live Event Announcement! New York City (Anti-RFK Tour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHPfO_0d-v8
“Pangburn presents the Anti-RFK Jr. tour, featuring me and Dr. Dan Wilson of Debunk the Funk! The first stop is New York City on Saturday, September 13th. Come debate us if you have the plums!”
Debate promo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04s–N7Kaz0&t=7s
Win-win energy solution:
As Energy Costs Soar, Home Bitcoin-Mining Is Going To Heat Europe
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/energy-costs-soar-home-bitcoin-mining-going-heat-europe
Excerpts:
“After many rounds of experimentation and having delved down the Bitcoin (mining) rabbit hole, three years ago he founded a company devoted to the effort. His company, 21energy, makes well-balanced, sturdy, and incredibly beautiful (and incredibly quiet!) miners for home use. The early models of Ofen 1 boasted up to 10 TH/s, while the premium model could reach, at top speed and making plenty of noise, 40 TH/s. Having scaled up production, hiring 12 new employees only this year and launching the new Ofen 2 (35-42 TH/s), the Bitcoin heater comes in the style of a conventional radiator — powered by Bitcoin. And yes, you can solo mine with this bitcoin heater… or join whichever pool you think is best.”
” …At peak supply, even renewable energy providers are asked by grid management to curtail or wind down production; there is simply nobody to take the excess electricity, nowhere to put it
“This is obviously bad in that it wastes potential electricity that could have been used, but even worse is that it makes the investment calculations for renewable energy investors worse. Not unrelated, households in Europe pay exorbitant rates for their electricity… and on top of that, heating in general is quite expensive.”
Well this is curious, isn’t it? Bill Gates promoting hi tech tattoos as the answer to the smart phone replacement. Didn’t Corbett report on Gates .. Tattoos.. vaccines-something.. 😉
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bill-gates-declares-the-end-of-the-smartphone-era-and-unveils-its-surprising-replacement/ar-AA1JhArt
Well, I just logged in . No Captcher . It’s as disturbing as the last time I flew out to Nevada May 12th this year .
Having no Real ID. I got thought the patriot parade faster than I had ever passed through. It was as comical as my having to do 3 captchas before I was able to pass . The unsteady ground shakes and breaks ones concentration. Unnerving. Never alone, never free of the chaperon. Shaky Graves had something there. ” No bodies Fool”
https://youtu.be/rZQIuLeSRfY?si=M5oi3ISIDMyUsSkJ
No captcha on my end, either.
Mkey,
Thanks for the confirmation. I’m sure many are now relieved.
If that don’t make you professionals in IT pucker your chocolate starfish , I don’t think anything could.
One of the many things exceptional with the Corporate Report is that they listen to user feedback.
Hey Everyone! I just returned from an expedition into one of the last intact temperate rainforest watersheds in Canada (Fairy Creek) and what I experienced under the 200-300 foot tall canopies of those 1000 year old plus Hemlock, Cedar and Fir trees was breathtaking and heartening.
(a short video from the harbor looking up at Fairy Creek talking about salmon to forest connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt_RefuwIvw )
In the Fairy Creek watershed, you are under not only the canopy of magnificent Fir, Hemlock and Cedar that reach hundreds of feet into the heavens gathering starlight but also at times are under the canopy of a blueberry cloud forest of 10 foot plus old growth blueberry and huckleberry “trees”. I call them trees as they are fractal expressions of their giant kin above, all draped with lichen and mossy trunks, roots dug into the granite and mycorrhiza connected to their countless symbiotic partners so well that they can support exceptional amounts of weight, strain and shade. There were also Salmon berries, Thimble berries and Salal berries. There was wild ginger and ten other edible/medicinal rhizomatous plants.
The blueberry cloud forest was brimming with gorgeous juicy fog fed berries. We feasted on a buffet of the best berries I’ve ever had on that hike.
I saved seeds from champion blueberry and huckleberry “Mother Trees” and will be growing them out to preserve the unique genetics.
What is worth considering that things like Hazelnut, Pawpaw, Five Flavor berries and Saskatoon berries could be planted along side these diverse berries and medicinal rhizomes in a manmade food forest (from scratch) or a food forest that is blended into an existing old growth pacific forest habitat.
The douglas fir, cedar, and hemlock also offer diverse food and medicinal gifts, the water is full of fish and the fungi in that habitat are amazingly diverse (edible and medicinal).
This is a forest fire proof habitat.
The ancient Hemlocks, Douglas Fir and Cedar were well versed in living with fire and they used their gifts to put out the fire within several hundred feet of the initiate lightning strike each time. Not only that, the soil was full of biochar so the natural isolated fires (modulated by these thousand year old plus trees) served to enrich the soil’s nutrient and water holding capacity.
We are talking about a climax old growth forest habitat that produces copious amounts of food for humans and non-humans, produces clean water, invites the salmon to come upstream and provides inspiration for the heart and mind.
These are God’s designs for the original architecture for health, extreme forest fire mitigation resilience, ocean health (salmon/kelp forests), community and beauty.
We can learn from, emulate and build upon these schematics and become aligned with that amazing beauty, resilience and abundance.
This is the potential of Regenerative Agroforestry in feeding our communities and helping us weather the storms ahead.
I loved how some of the massive old growth tree root systems actually had sign of bear dens in and around them. That the wild life would bring the salmon further into the forest this giving a growth boost to the trees, which in turn gave the bears shelter to bring more salmon. Very interesting video and story. I want there to be more places like that around. I think our spiral into depression and apathy comes from a disconnect with nature. God made us a part of this world and when we distance ourselves from nature and it’s cycles it stunts our own growth.
You can take that stunted development thesis to the bank. The disconnect creates an artificial world that is very much prone to corruption, something that does not exist in nature.
@Michael
Ya man, seeing those bear dens up close, really shifted my understanding of how interconnected (and aware) these ancient trees are of the beings they share that forest with (and watch over almost like grandparents). I mean I have seen bear dens in-between huge rocks/caves and in decomposing trees elsewhere (where bears used what they could and did the best they could) but I am telling you, these 1200-1500 year old Red Cedars had altered their root morphology intentionally to have an ideal bear den cavity underneath. No signs of water erosion, thick coat of moss on all soil and boulders around the roots, yet these giants saw fit to make a big cavernous space there as they grew (over millennia).
Here is a short clip showing one of the dens
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-147664342
Really humbling to see up close and personal, and to look at how those trees are literally orchestrators of a symphony of life in there.
They communicate underground to all the other trees and plants, they produce clouds, alter the barometric pressure around them to attract passing clouds and seed the raindrops to fall on them through pollen and fungal spores emitted from their symbiotes (nucleating raindrops where they want them to fall, modifying weather patterns, but unlike humans, they do it to benefit all beings under their care).
I saved seeds from those ancient trees and will be helping their ancient knowing go forward to connect with younger forests so their genetic memory is perpetuated.
(ps- I tried to send you a copy of my book and seeds today but the dam government goons are demanding I get some weird app to be able to ship anything to the states for tariffs or duty fees or some nonsense excuse to get access to my phone. So I am gonna find a work around and then ship that out asap).
FYI – another secretive globalist group, created by Peter Theil.
Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Tech Bilderberg’ Group Eyes Global Expansion
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/peter-thiels-secretive-tech-bilderberg-group-eyes-global-expansion
Excerpt:
“The invitation-only network is scouting real estate to build a “campus in the D.C. suburbs,” according to reports, marking a strategic expansion into the nation’s political center.
“”Dialog, often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg, has quietly become one of the most elite, and mysterious, gatherings for CEOs, elected officials, and intellectual heavyweights,” Axios reports.
“The move comes as Thiel’s influence in government circles has grown substantially, driven by lucrative federal contracts secured by his portfolio companies. Palantir, the data analytics firm he co-founded, has become a key supplier to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies.
“A source with ties to Dialog told Axios that the permanent facility reflects “rising demand for quieter reflection in an always-on world. Dialog bills itself as offering global elites the chance to talk candidly across ideological lines, away from their phones and the pressures of social media, the news media, and their stakeholders.””
Here’s the original Axios article: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/dialog-secret-network-thiel-hoffman
FYI –
TECHNOCRACY ROUNDTABLE
Patrick Wood, Courtenay Turner, Aaron Day, Craig Wenclewicz
Wednesday, August 27, 4 pm Central/5 pm Eastern
Tune in on YouTube @COURTZTRUTH
Excerpt from Patrick’s newsletter:
“We are going to have a free-ranging discussion on Technocracy, how the Technocrats have taken over Washington, DC, and how the Dark Enlightenment and Peter Thiel fit into the picture.
“Most importantly, what are these Technocrats intending to do to us and America? Prepare to be shocked!
“Then we will turn our attention to DEFEATING TECHNOCRACY once and for all.”
PUTTY
PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Search for Putty: https://presearch.com/search?q=putty%20client
The following site has created a lot controversy lately, for spreading “anti-vax material”:
https://www.putty.org/ (https://archive.ph/hMVx7)
See:
https://www.putty.org/20250825-AbuseReport.txt (https://archive.ph/PFr92)
https://www.putty.org/20250731-AbuseReport.txt (https://archive.ph/cPhp5)
And:
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it’s spouting pandemic piffle
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/puttyorg_website_controversy/ (https://archive.ph/lYJo6)
Dear lord. I don’t see how can “tech” be released from this grip of insanity without taking everything down with it. Maybe it will be for the better.
Over time, putty.org has become seen by some users as the primary entry point for downloading PuTTY, and when searching Google, Yandex, Duckduckgo, and Bing for the keyword “putty,” putty.org ranks higher than the official project page http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty. putty.org is also frequently mentioned in discussions and recommendations related to PuTTY
The reality is such putty always had this idiotic domain and as such was difficult to find. This is a simple marketing issue of which the software author was likely aware and could not be bothered by it.
These development types are often people who have some hard-nosed stances and they do not like to consider alternatives. Which is OK, they should do them.
In this case, it only took 25 years for the author to understand the issue and try to do something about it. I guess they were waiting for something as vile as antowaxx propaganda to come about to set the issue straight.
This blog post puts forward quite a bit of this lunacy. Stuff like “only because a domain is available does not mean it should be purchased”. This reminds me of those psychos that are trying to prevent people from collecting rainwater.
https://blog.pupred.com/blog/puttyvsbitvise/
Tried to E-mail him to thank him (and warn him to never respond to the mob) but no luck.
Only tried the following though: webmaster, administrator, admin, support, postmaster
Three-week old news but posting in case you missed it (as I did):
Why Is Proton Leaving Switzerland? #10minutes to understand
Tech & Order | by Christophe Boutry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_CsiZf03tM
At the end of the month, but I just came across this (though it has been on the web for a couple of years) – have not explored it too much yet. This seems to be an attempt to explore an alternate world without any states – a voluntaryist view.
https://oboxplanet.com/
What do you think?
I skimmed through some of it, and it seems to be decently well pit together. The site name may have been chosen more wisely.
“Statism is the completely indoctrinated belief in the desirability, necessity, and legitimacy of having a State (“Government”), even though there is no ironclad law of the universe that “government” is needed, desirable, necessary, or legitimate. Everyone would be wealthier, and the world would be more harmonious without “government,” but these ideas are never presented in mandatory schools or in the monopoly media.
The idea of having a “government” is a wholly indoctrinated belief system – it has been mandatorily taught to the overwhelming majority of the public through government schools and private schools where the “government” controls instructional content through accreditation, textbook consolidation, and tradition“
– Etienne de la Boetie2 (from his new book titled “To See The Cage Is To Leave It”)
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In my post linked below I elaborate on how the government school system is used to indoctrinate people into the statist cult and how that inevitably leads to what I describe as spiritual poverty.
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-spiritual-poverty-of-statism
Another well documented peek at the world of the nearly invisible governing class:
The Ford Foundation: a fork-tongued global mafia front
Posted on September 1, 2025 by winter oak | Written by Paul Cudenec
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/09/01/the-ford-foundation-a-fork-tongued-global-mafia-front/
Jo-Ann
Thank you for posting this.
It’s a big club and we are not in it.
Another thought-provoking post from Joshua Stylman. Readers’ comments are good quality, as well.
Why I’m Betting on Decentralization (Despite Being Burned Before)
Notes After Three Decades of Watching Alternatives Get Captured
Joshua Stylman | Sep 02, 2025
https://stylman.substack.com/p/why-im-betting-on-decentralization
Excellent presentation by Mel K posted by Joe Hoft. This is something that could be shared with a normie.
Description: “VINDICATED: Mel K – This Is a Time to Choose Between the Global Public-Private Partnership or American Sovereignty”
https://x.com/realJoeHoft/status/1961771991611937145
Could the birth of the 911 false flag in NYC be from a mastermind real estate executive?
From a down from Knowingthetruth.com Movie
Trailer : Lucky Larry
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nEhNEMM7mdBS
I don’t know if he was the mastermind, but he definitely benefited.
He was, at least, in on it.
On another note…
Where is Corbett? Where’s the September open thread?
Escape Key: Reverse Engineering the Architecture of Totalitarian Control
Thursday, 7th August 2025
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/escape-key
Excerpt (emphasis added):
“Escape Key is a writer and researcher of extraordinary talent. He has a professional background in complex systems analysis, and has spent the past two years trawling through several centuries of policy documents, public statements, philosophical treatises, congressional records, operational manuals, and works of fiction to identify the methods, means, and origins of a global dictatorship that has already been built.
“He has, in effect, ‘reverse engineered’ the full architecture of the system out of publicly available information. Now we can see, articulate, understand, and explain how the system operates. This means we can properly challenge and begin to deconstruct it.
“As anyone well-versed in the issues we’re describing will know, the network of control is breathtaking in its scope and ambition. It touches on every area of society and in all countries around the world. But its roots, and its primary method of control, lie in the central banking system, which is the focus of this initial conversation.
“Ben Rubin’s questions to Escape Key: What is the ‘clearing house’ mechanism? Where did it come from, and how has it been used to place ever-greater amounts of information and power into the hands of a tiny, unelected group of self-proclaimed ‘elites’, hell-bent on the total subjugation of the human race?”
For anyone up north still harvesting elderberries (or those of you that freeze a bunch in the summer and would enjoy a new recipe idea for your harvests).
Elderberry Pie (full recipe linked below):
This is the 32nd post in the Stacking Functions in the Garden, Food Forest and Medicine Cabinet Series.
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/elderberry-pie
Thanks to some inspiration for this recipe idea from my friend down south (James Evan Pilato) I decided to create an experimental elderberry pie. Instead of using that processed, refined (usually GMO/glyphosate laced) store bought white sugar that most recipes call for, I used sugar that comes from the same land and habitat as the Elderberry.
I used a combination of Maple Sugar and Birch Syrup to balance out the tang of the elderberries and enrich the recipe with more northern food forest essence, minerals and character.
The resulting pie was not only delicious, it is also medicinally potent (offering Osteo-protective and Osteo-regenerative benefits, Reproductive health enhancing benefits, Neuroprotective and Neuro-regenerative benefits, Ocular-protective and Ocular Regenerative benefits as well as Innate Immune System optimizing benefits).
This will definitely be a recipe that goes in my next book (Stacking Functions in the Garden, Food Forest and Medicine Cabinet).
It is Northern Food Forest essence in a pie.
Enjoy! 🙂