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folks might want to make sure they have some bottled water in case we get more attacks on the water supply. Good idea to have at least a Life Straw or other filter on hand and maybe a water barrel if you can get one
Thia latest attack was ALOT less serious then it could have been- locking the systems rather then adding toxic levels of water treatment chemicals.
Ask yourself how long a big city or a town in the hotter parts of the nation will last if water is cut off…..
https://abcnews.com/US/investigators-iran-connection-minnesota-water-system-hacks-us/story?id=135237777
That worries me. I’ll have to collect rainwater on my fire escape.
Eliz
Not to be the “actshuallly” guy (since you probably know it already) but please be mindful of how much weight you put on the fire escape….you could also just fill up a container from the tap now and store it. The thing about bucket collection is that if you put a bucket out you can only get as much rain as falls into it – you would do better with a tarp funneling it into the bucket because the bigger area would catch more.
Thank you.
Those mean baby-on-bayonets water-system-hacking Iranians…
— Trinidad, Texas water system —
Undoubtedly, Iranians hacked the water system of the small Texas town (900 population) of Trinidad which lies not far from Athens, Texas.
The water pipes spit out dark-brown muddy tap water. A teenage girl burned her skin repeatedly when she tried to shower the tap water off. When a brave women posted her concern about the tap water on social media, she was arrested by the Police Chief and put in jail. Then a protester was jailed.
Prior to the jailing of the woman, the Trinidad City Manager was fired because she expressed concerns that City monies were being kept in the personal checking accounts of officials. Several city employees were fired because they would not cover-up the muddy water issue.
No matter…City employees have been quitting regardless. Not long ago, there was no city official who could take your utility payment.
Trinidad, Texas SUBTHREAD
https://corbettreport.com/may-open-thread-and-subscriber-exclusive-video-2026/#comment-187435
HRS
lol, yeah that was pretty bad too. OTOH one town with a corruption issue is nothing like as bad as the level of stupidity it takes to put water supply control systems online…..one town with bad water is not near as bad as a whole region being cut off abruptly.
How would it go if such a thing happened in Dallas? It’s kinda warm in Texas now and I wonder how many would be dead if the water was out there for a week
This was a pretty mild attack, the fact that you can go online right now and find unprotected systems on the open internet is kinda insane.
A level of stupidity so great that you can be certain it’s malice.
Any government that connects a utility to the Internet, in any way, is making a crystal clear pronouncement that it is traitorous; consciously working against the people it claims to serve.
I think that the “Iran-bogeyman Water Hacking” is part of the rumor mill in the media.
The alarmism sells views in their news feeds.
Perhaps the Dept of War or the CIA is helping to spread the rumor.
The FBI has not confirmed Iran as the culprit of the hacking, and Trump blames Minnesota incompetence.
“…Water providers in at least seven states have reported cyber intrusions since July 27, according to the FBI. Officials say some of the attacks disrupted normal operations.
The hackers are targeting internet-connected Rockwell Automation industrial control devices. Once inside the systems, they have changed IP addresses and passwords, locking operators out of equipment used to monitor and control water systems.
In some cases, the FBI says the attacks caused drops in water pressure and flooding.
In Minnesota, more than 30 community water systems were affected during a single weekend. Officials said there is no indication that drinking water was contaminated. Preliminary findings suggest Iran may be behind the attacks, though President Donald Trump has instead blamed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
The FBI and EPA say they are working with affected utilities and urging water systems to disconnect vulnerable devices from the public internet.”
~~WWW newsnationnow.com/us-news/infrastructure/water-systems-7-states-cyberattacks-fbi/
FBI STATEMENT Thursday July 30, 2026
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/malicious-cyber-actors-targeting-water-and-wastewater-sector-internet–facing-programmable-logic-controllers-causing-operational-disruptions
…But… April 7, 2026
EPA, FBI, CISA, NSA Issue Joint Cybersecurity Advisory to Water System Regarding Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Attacks
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-fbi-cisa-nsa-issue-joint-cybersecurity-advisory-water-system-regarding-iranian
“In MITRE ATT&CK for ICS those consequences include denial or loss of view, denial or loss of control, and manipulation of view or control. A physical process may continue running even when operators can no longer see it, influence it, or trust what their screens are telling them.”
“Those distinctions matter,” Thomas added. “A denial of view or control can be temporary. A sustained loss may require hands-on intervention or manual operation. Manipulation can be even more dangerous because the process may be in a different state than what is being reported to the operator.”
From https://www.securityweek.com/dozens-of-minnesota-water-utilities-targeted-in-coordinated-ot-attacks/
HRS
“…The alarmism sells views in their news feeds….”
That is certainly true- but it’s not really as important WHO does a thing as HOW it affects you.
Hence the heads up about water storage which everyone should have done years ago anyway
If the Chinese or the deep state or Iranians or Israel mess up the water supply the folks without water will still be in trouble if they have not gotten squared away on water…..however we may feel about it 99% of people depend on the infrastructure working for their daily lives to continue.
When stuff stops working the people who die from heat stroke or lack of meds or water will be just as dead if it’s a false flag or a real attack. It’s also not like everyone who hates the deep state loves us either- I doubt the Chinese or Iranians or Russians would give much of a fk if a major US city turns into a charnel house- we sure don’t give much of a fk if their cities do.
A 2019 report from the American Water Works Association – Prepared by Judith H. Germano
— Cybersecurity Risk & Responsibility in the Water Sector —
https://www.awwa.org/wp-content/uploads/AWWA-Cybersecurity-Risk-and-Responsibility.pdf
EXCERPT
…City of Atlanta ransomware attack.
The City of Atlanta was crippled by a ransomware attack in March 2018, which disrupted city utilities, courts and other operations.
For roughly a week, employees with the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management were unable to turn on their work computers or gain wireless internet access, and two weeks after the attack Atlanta completely took down its water department website “for server maintenance and updates until further notice.”
It has taken Atlanta months, and estimated costs of up to $5 million in recovery efforts, to address the attack….
In the Water Works 20 page report, it cites other examples of being hacked.
Doesn’t the fact that it was Minnesota that was affected seem curious to you? Make you wonder if it may have been a false flag of some sort. Minnesota, with all those Somalis/Muslims. Seems like the state Israel would choose if they were to carry out something like this. I dunno. Maybe it really was Iran. You can’t trust what our military/intelligence agencies say about “attacks.” If section 219 of the current NDAA gets passed, then forget about it. EVERYTHING will be lies/propaganda, even worse than it is now.
Banimal
“…Doesn’t the fact that it was Minnesota that was affected seem curious to you? Make you wonder if it may have been a false flag of some sort….”
Not particularly TBH- it sure could be a false flag but (as S2 points out) they don’t make as much fuss about it as they could which could mean “someone “ actually attacked them. As to the identity of that “someone” I don’t know.
TBH it could literally be a lone psycho 12 yr old kid with good computer skills for all I know, the point everyone should take away is HAVE WATER BACK UP and generally try not to depend on the system for stuff that keeps you alive.
If they ever do a serious war footing level false flag they won’t care about who or where they kill. The US has plenty of places tha are kinda a drag on the system and eliminating a bunch of Florida boomers or welfare people would be my choice if I was an evil elite.
I have a Big Berkey tucked away in my shed for just such an occasion
Does anyone have a good take on our true history that is not connected to religious mythology but more pragmatic things like evidence?
The Internet, if one is discerning on their research, is offering some very fantastic evidence, not speculation, about the recent ‘reset’ in the 1800’s where incredible structures of the same design are found world wide at a time 50-60 years or more before power tools or internal combustion inventions like trucks for hauling supplies.
There is evidence of a plethora of “insane asylums” world wide that incarcerated people for what we would now call ‘thought crimes,’ questioning reality, etc. Some of the asylums could house thousands. So-called churches were in fact buildings for healing with sound (organs, bells) color (stain glass windows) and obtaining the same free frequencies that Tesla worked with from their spires.
It we continue, IMO, to constantly try to be the smartest con in jail talking about the this and that of the controllers agendas, wars, inventions, etc. and not branch out to cooperative efforts at stopping the madness, we will pay a heavy price.
TARTARIA (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/qAJQRsNRdBiU/
On a recent Take Back Our Tech show I heard about that buildings phenomena from the guest Hakeem was interviewing. I didn’t really understand what he was describing.
Click on my song link. The thumb nail will give you an idea. Then click on any of the links I put in the description.
The marvel of it all is the buildings from the court house in Minnyapples to buildings in Australia all have marble from thousands of miles away, built during a time of no transportation companies, etc.
The “My Lunch Break” link has a video on the asylums up today.
Try some JonLevi videos on youtube
Thanks, been watching him for years along with My Lunch Break, Tartaria Vault, Jared Booster, The Archivist, etc.
My studies over the decades has taught me to be cautious about where I harvest information and place my energy, to not become a ‘groupie’ of sorts. This Mudflood/Tartaria/Reset thing is so profound with evidence that I am reaching out to see if there is something I am missing just like those truths.
Jesus reminded us: Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. It seems that millions of my fellow Christians have ignored this.
In the soon to be published Un-Bible we see this:.
(Relax, it’s open source and you’re free to change it as you please!)
Blessed are the warmakers, for they are the true sons of the Almighty STATE.
Offload my thoughts? Okay.
This website needs more bacon.
That is all.
What do you mean by more bacon?
Vienticus Prime, That’s pretty good. (grin)
Here is a Corbett BACON IMAGE
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTV0qedBzItgBiJ_xyfzz_vWV0Q_SuxC5buWGeu4KszDA&s=10
…and…
Corbett’s “Why Do You Eat Bacon and Eggs?”
https://corbettreport.com/why-do-you-eat-bacon-and-eggs/
There is nothing like bringing home the bacon.
I have been using the “purpose of a system is what it does” observation that James discussed on a recent show to cut through to what something is about. For instance, when I heard that Fauci refused to answer any question at the us senate committee hearing on July 29, I wanted to see what was being asked. While watching it on C-Span, I realized the purpose of holding that was to impress american republican and independent voters, not to get any answers from Fauci, or even to do anything to Fauci. Those republican senators were educating and firing up their base support. I also have been using POSIWID on analyzing myself and the state of my life. Either accepting myself as I am or making changes to get the outcome I want.
Eliz, That is kind of cool on the ways that you apply POSIWID. I bet James Corbett will like reading your comment too, because he always likes seeing how people apply solutions.
In case there is a reader who is not familiar with POSIWID…
Episode 499 – The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does
https://corbettreport.com/the-purpose-of-a-system-is-what-it-does/
I find that also goes hand in hand with “If a service is free, you’re the product”.
I recently realized google stole my credit card information through an autofill form on the chrome browser. I am now unable to remove that information from my account without adding a phone number and 2FA.
Why does Snapchat upload free funny faces? So that you keep updating a full scan of your/your children’s face.
Pokemon Go? Scanning the world to get a map to sell.
Netflix House? The visitor terms require guests and their minor children to grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to use their name, image, likeness, and voice for promotional or AI-driven content without compensation.
POSIWID our food system is designed to get people as sick as possible for the medical industry, the medical industry is designed to extract as much wealth as possible before death, the inflationary tactics of the federal reserve ensure the slaves keep working harder but actually fall behind, the education system to funnel people into that slavery, and the purpose of politics is of course to grant the slaves the illusion of choice. The purpose of the internet would be to collect information on everybody and allow us to scream into the void while refusing to defy the system in any meaningful way.
To get away from all the madness, I’ve been watching interesting videos from ‘Bros of Decay’ which is a guy who explores abandoned castles/chateaux in France, Italy, and elsewhere.
Most of these places still have a bunch of their previous owners’ artifacts still therein, and it’s interesting to see how they lived centuries ago.
Seeing how these once majestic/lavish homes once were and how nature is reclaiming them back (by decay) really puts things in perspective. In other words, the material aspects of life – you can’t take it with you; and your iteration on this Earth is perhaps better spent on relationships and the ones you love rather than greedily pursuing the almighty God of Money.
And to the keen observer, you can even see the spirits of the previous dwellers manifest themselves as orbs like in this episode:
– We Found a Secret Room in This 13th-Century Abandoned Castle (you can spot it around the 27:27 to 27:29 mark go from left to right and downwards before dissapearing).
See it?
Fascinating.
Our souls are eternal and live on after our physical death folks, no matter how much the Powers-That-Ought-Not-Be try to hide it from us.
Those of us who dislike surveillance might want to support these guys who allegedly stole Flock cameras.
So, the SCREEN act is going to the senate, and apparently a Texas judge ordered Discord to perform the UK required “age verification” in the US.
I loved the take on why certain books came in peoples live. And I stumbled on a book about a philosophy that we live in abundance and are simply don’t see the chains that hold us down. The writer did his best to explain all of it by reflecting on the issues and the mechanics that are at work.
Although you , or I , agree on the content, the cause and effect , or for that matter the offered solution , it’s a difficult story to tell. Most people will get a case of cognitive dissonance.
Well exactly that got me thinking , how to get the story out without that …
I made a children’s book suitable for 8-11 year olds, based on the Abundomy philosophy and the storyline of the adult book Abundomy 2.0
===== three parts =================
Bram and Emma and the Stolen Tree
Bram and Emma and the Hidden Player
Bram and Emma and the New Game
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( you need to be logged in with a google account in your default browser to be able to view it)
Let me hear what my fellow Corbetteers thinks about it !
p.s.
My inspiration was gained from: The Tuttle Twins – Conner Boyack and Elijah Stanfield –
and of course Conner was interviewed by James and that started my exploration
Inspiring story when you hear Conner tell it at Mike Rowe’s
— BUMP —
— BUMP —
Mike Rowe with Conner Boyack (The Tuttle Twins)
AmsterdamBoomer, Thanks so much for posting this uplifting conversation!
Rowe and Boyack bounce the verbage back-n-forth like a graceful, slow-moving tennis ball.
I’m still listening.
But I went full-face grins at the 26 minute mark when Mike Rowe injects a sponsor, Knobel Spirits.
I’m a real fan of Mike Rowe and have repeatedly mentioned him in the comment section at CorbettReport.
Examples:
Feature Benefit Selling a Number TWO Pencil – By Mike Rowe
https://corbettreport.com/economics-in-one-image/#comment-171115
Mike Rowe Bio
https://corbettreport.com/march-open-thread-2024/#comment-162814
Everyone seems to talking and warning about the incoming digital dystopia – facial recognition, programmable money, digital ID, surveillance cameras, social credit control, etc..
What few people seem to be talking about is the actual capability of the digital medium to implement any of these dystopian goals. There are many observable reasons to believe it is not up to scratch and never will be – short of implanting digital chips in everyone’s body – a step to far, even for most ‘normies’.
What almost no one is discussing is the absolute dispensability of everything digital. To those who are old enough to remember, our mental health and social life as well as general intelligence was much better before the digital revolution. Ditto, consumer products and the larger functioning public system.
The belief that digital technology is essential and we couldn’t function without our smartphones, or whatever, is little short of brainwashing.
The reason, I suspect, that few are willing to discuss the actual shortfalls and negative effects of digital technology is that they rely on digital technology to get their message out. It’s a classic case of ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ syndrome.
Can one use digital technology to undermine the use of digital technology and dispel the myth of its omnipotence? That is the question.
arn’t you finding that all out right here and now ?
but I understand it can be blamed for a lot and on the other hand you are not screaming on a mountain top – or the cows give sour milk because of this new invention that was a railroad.
Just be wise how and what you let it into your live, embrace the positive and use that , stay away from the negative that you can clearly see better as most.
who needs chips when you’ve got smart dust?
Programmable nanodiamonds
https://www.daicel.com/en/nanodiamond/
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-route-tailor-diamond-nanoparticles-quantum.html
Kumro
Plenty of people really can not exist without their device- they can not take the pain of “loosing out”.
Just like any other addict they can only change when they feel like they want to
The reality of the dystopia that can be achieved will always be different from the perfect dystopia that is feared. I remember being extremely worried about the perfect copyright dystopia predicted by Lawrence Lessig. The reality turned out to be much messier and more dysfunctional. I think 1984 is much more accurate than Brave New World because in Huxley imagines that all the technology is really going to work rather than just mess things up.
— SEARCH ENGINES —
Presearch
About a week ago, I remember being surprised that Presearch had ‘vanished’, that it was offline.
It eventually came back online, but now it is FUBAR.
FUBAR = “fouled up beyond all recognition” (‘F’ word of your choice.)
I use other search engines too, e.g. DuckDuckGo(noAI), Mojeek, Brave, Wiby, and even Yahoo.
Result Hunter
https://resulthunter.com
I’ve been trying out this Search Engine.
— SEARCH ENGINES — Mojeek
https://www.mojeek.com/
I am becoming fond of Mojeek.
Try this SEARCH TEST… 9/11 Truth
Yes, just type 9/11 Truth into the search bar of different search engines, including Google and YouTube.
Compare results.
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=9%2F11+truth
Security Now! Special Edition
Listeners of this podcast may have grown tired of hearing me state that today’s LLM technology is inherently hostile to guardrails — they don’t work. I’m a broken record on the topic, but all of the evidence we’ve seen continuously confirms my pessimism about the success of the guardrail approach to commercial consumer AI management.
I use the phrase “commercial consumer AI management” because ChatGPT, Claude and others must somehow be prevented from providing information that could be used to harm its user or help its user to harm others. For example, we can’t have commercial for-profit U.S.-based AI supplying its users with information about biological weapons. At the same time, we’ve seen that some AI users, such as cyber defenders, must have access to cyber-competent AI that could also be used to attack rather than defend. Most users need not and should not have such access.
So, will the future be a licensing regime where access to “above generic” AI capabilities are licensed to those who will apply more dangerous knowledge properly? Who knows. Maybe. That’s for politicians and government policy wonks to hash out and debate. But regardless of what’s decided, the technocrats must first provide the policy makers with capability. And it appears that the AI industry is figuring out how to offer this.
https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-Special-08-01-26.pdf
The image for The August Open Thread is simp!y lovely, cheers Broc.
I would like you to read this book called Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and do a video on it.
It was written in the late 1800s which describes a ‘Zionist’ plan for world domination, which we can very much see happing around the world today through Western governments.
https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=nilus&book=protocols&story=_front
Lion
Prof Spence did a video on them
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSztaphOMjw&t=1817s&ra=m
while the document itself is fake it’s proven to be a pretty accurate prediction
Duck
I’ve looked at this. The problem is that most evidence supporting the document have been suppressed; however, a plethora of submissions denigrating it. That said, one of the most informative talks about our current system is by Eustace Mullins. I’m sure you must know him. Here is a talk he gave at Salmon Arm, British Columbia in 2000 – https://archive.org/details/eustace-mullins-secrets-of-the-federal-reserve-full
It’s almost 2 hours long so I suggest downloading it because I doubt it will be available much longer.
Subjects: (up to the 55 minute mark) Ezra Pound as prisoner and teacher, Federal Reserve, Lincoln assassination, Kennedy assassination, Prudhomme, Jefferson, surveillance, Alger Hiss, Rothschild, loss of sovereignty, income tax as means of control, subsistence wage, difference between capitalism and communism, central bank of New York, neo-conservatives, Reagan, Jeckyll Island 1910, Hanover dynasty, Federal Reserve Act 1913, Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson, War of 1812, Bank of England, Panic of 1837, new class of millionaires, interest on debt, propaganda to instill moral obligation to pay debt, God’s job to create something out of nothing, cabal, money = access, HL Hunt, term “Washington Heart Attack”, consortium of central banks, origin of NAZI party (National Socialists/Zionist coalition 1923), Orthodox Jews and Reform Jews conflict in work camps, Germany the most tolerant county of Jews, holocaust, atomic bomb on Japanese civilians, 1945 hundreds of German officers killed to prevent the knowledge that subsequent to the end of the war the National Socialists were gone and all that remained were Zionists, creation of the state of Israel… Those are the subjects covered up to the 55 minute mark.
One Knight
I am not attacking your POV…”but” ….
While I fully believe that Jews as a group are hostile and conspiratorial and behind a lot negative things in the world I tend to lean on Dr EM Jonesthree volume work “Jewish Revolutionary Spirit” which has masses of cited and well documented history (much quoted from works by Jewish historians)
While the Protocols were certainly predictive of what actually happened it seems unwise to lean on a work that has any leeway to be debunked…..better to lean on stuff that can’t be attacked because of its dodgy provenance. Again- sure the protocols predicted many things that DID shake out as written but it would be kinda weird if an actual group of Jews wrote their super villain plot down. More probably someone who knew what they do wrote it.
”….The problem is that most evidence supporting the document have been suppressed; however, a plethora of submissions denigrating it. That….”
Then don’t you think it’s better to lean on easily proven history (like EM Jones) or even Evolutionary Psychology stuff like Kevin Macdonald? THEIR Work is much harder to attack, and there is no way ti
accuse them of fictionalizing.
The does not have to be a secret cable of Jews for Jews to have a Talmudic culture that breeds hostility and predatory behavior. I don’t very much that there is ONE jewish conspiracy , Jews just tend to be bad for non Jews.
It’s a simple fact that you fill your bingo card very fast when you start playing “spot the Jews” with media, porn, crime, and big tech, LGBTQP and every other nastyness.
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NOTE on VIDEOs below:
There is no need to spend much time viewing this obvious crap propaganda.
A quick skip-thru overview paints the picture.
VIDEO – 2.3 million views
Collapse of Building 7 | The Complete Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvCWFCoVN4
VIDEO – 12 million views
The Collapse of World Trade Center | The Complete Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBfLBov5Q
Why I’m simply dustified! With all these nice videos and theories, no wonder the basic laws of physics are old hat now. (BTW Was that man pregnant)?
Happy Anniversary! Let’s start the 9/11 celebration early this year. Maybe we can round up all of the conspiracy theorists and collapse them at the House of Pancakes.
my first time commenting…. what is on my mind is the surveillance infrastructure that is being built (which includes data centres). It seems to me that the majority of people are OK with sharing their data and hand their phone number (or tracking device number) over to whoever asks for it. It seems people assume governments and corporations will not become bad actors and misuse the data. I wish someone would list the many examples of new laws and/or procedures that are being “created” (for convenience of course) in different “democratic” countries based on our data. For example, in the USA the crazy idea of giving people more votes based on their income!. Do people even connect the dots…. to vote they now want access to your income tax records!… If we had enough examples of these crazy ideas, maybe we could make people think twice about why privacy matters and how the lack of it can be abused.
Cassey
“….For example, in the USA the crazy idea of giving people more votes based on their income…”
I wish you would have posted a link so i could read about that- is that a plan in Washington or just some dude saying it’s a good idea?
TBH the gov already has access to your income tax records so I don’t see that would be the issue. Personally I don’t think non tax payers should be allowed to vote on anything regarding spending of money the gov grabs anyway.
your absolutely right that people are far too happy giving their phone numbers out to store clerks and such- one got mad when I told him I don’t give it out , as if I’d personally insulted him or something lol
This is a really interesting article and a potential candidate for the fake news awards. It covers this weekend’s “migrant invasion” of Ceuta, Spanish territory adjacent to Morocco. The Dumbest Psyops of All Time?, by Mike Whitney – The Unz Review
It opens with:
The Moroccan migrant invasion of Spain might be the most extravagant fake news story of all time. According to the official narrative, the roughly 60,000 mostly military-aged men swarmed the Spanish city of Ceuta on July 31 with the intention finding work and ‘making a better life for themselves”. The obvious truth, however, is that the entire incident was a poorly choreographed slapstick aimed at eroding support for the left-wing Spanish government and its outspoken anti-Zionist president Pedro Sanchez. The puppetmasters behind this pitiable vaudeville are the usual suspects Bibi Netanyahu and “little” Marco Rubio (who aligned with Morocco’s malleable leaders) to manufacture a phony crisis that would ‘teach Spain a lesson’. As you may recall, Sanchez has been sharply critical of Bibi’s ongoing massacre in Gaza and has stubbornly refused to let Trump use Spain’s military bases to transport munitions and bombers to Israel. In response, Netanyahu publicly threatened Sanchez just weeks ago in a thuggish presentation that is still available on X.
Worth reading in full.
— Major NEWS on Currencies – Japanese Yen and US Dollar —
This is probably a sleep-aid for most people because it has to do with global finance…
CHART – US Dollar Japanese Yen
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/currency
[See the recent large drop from 164 to 156 of the Yen compared to the US Dollar.]
Monday August 3, 2026 – Reuters
Japan, US confirm joint yen-buying intervention, signal more action
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/currencies/articles/japan-vow-coordination-us-weak-210127634.html
EXCERPTS
TOKYO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Japan and the United States conducted coordinated yen-buying intervention and will not hesitate to take further action, Japan’s finance ministry said on Monday, confirming a rare bilateral action to halt the yen’s slide to fresh 40-year lows.
The intervention on Friday underscored both countries’ resolve to prevent a selloff in the yen and Japanese government bonds (JGBs) from causing global spillovers, such as adding upward pressure on already rising U.S. Treasury yields, analysts said.
The joint intervention was the first since 2011’s coordinated action to weaken the yen following the devastating earthquake in eastern Japan….
SHORTHAND on the BACKSTORY
Japan’s interest rates on money is very low relative to other currencies like the Dollar.
This can stress the value of Japan’s currency.
— Yen Carry Trade —
Big-money financial institutions will borrow Japanese yen at low interest rates and then turn around to invest that money in foreign assets. This works smooth-as-glass until it doesn’t (usually it is some type of disruption in Japan’s monetary policy.)
Example:
Early August 2024 – An unexpected interest rate hike from the Bank of Japan caused an unwinding of the yen carry trade. We saw U.S. stocks (S&P 500/Nasdaq) drop roughly 8% or more from their previous highs.
I have mentioned the ‘Yen carry trade’ in past comments.
More “SleepAid”… (i.e. economic stuff)
— Half of current U.S. economic growth is driven by the AI bubble —
August 3, 2026
Nicholas Gerli of Reventure Consulting gives an excellent AI lowdown with receipts/visuals.
Years ago Nicholas Gerli predicted the current U.S. housing depression while Realtors were raving that housing prices/rent will never collapse.
Meta CEO just popped the AI Bubble. like 1999, but worse.
14:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvgjGiNm5Rk
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See this!!!
IMAGE IMAGE – Circular AI Deals
https://files.zhedge.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto/https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/get_attachment_url%20%2894%29_0.jpg
Image taken from…
~~WWW zerohedge.com/markets/chart-jensen-huang-does-not-want-you-see
The big question is what will be taken out when the bubble pops.
More “SleepAid”… (i.e. economic stuff)
— Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and AI —
Do you remember the film The Big Short (2015)?
Wednesday July 29, 2026 – Mike Jones Investing
Watch the first 3 minutes of this video where Mike goes over the Credit Default Swaps with different AI companies.
“WOW 360k Margin Accounts Liquidated! Plus The Market HATED The FED’s Decision On This!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjjFP84CvSk
July 29 – Reuters via YahooFinance – By Amanda Cooper
Explainer-What are credit default swaps and why are they spooking AI investors?
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/explainer-credit-default-swaps-why-110342286.html
EXCERPTS
July 29 (Reuters) – Shares in companies driving the AI boom have been under pressure for weeks. Now their bonds are coming under strain too, pushing up the cost of insuring debt issued by companies such as Oracle, Nvidia and Apple against default.
The move reflects growing concern among investors about when the billions of dollars being poured into artificial intelligence will generate returns.
Technology companies have raised billions of dollars in debt this year to fund AI investments, with firms including Nvidia tapping bond markets for the first time. But the cost of the AI build-out is so high that even blockbuster earnings have failed to reassure some investors about the durability of future returns.
Demand for AI-linked credit default swaps (CDS), a form of insurance against default that gained prominence during the 2008 financial crisis, has surged.
WHAT IS A CDS?
A CDS is a derivative that provides protection against the risk that a bond issuer, such as a company or government, fails to meet its debt obligations…
CDS help investors hedge that risk by effectively providing insurance against a default….
[MUCH MORE IN ARTICLE]
Do you remember who Michael Burry is?
The Big Short (2015) – Dr. Michael Burry Betting Against the Housing Market [HD 1080p]
4:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxjdj5_5yNM
Thursday August 6th Burry revealed he shorted shares of Oracle Corp. (ORCL)
(at about $145 per share entry).
Aug 7, 2026 – The Street
Michael Burry issues blunt warning as he bets against 2 AI favorites
–The investor argues that companies carrying large off-balance-sheet obligations have become attractive short targets.–
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/orcl-oracle-nbis-nebius-michael-burry-shorts
EXCERPT
…According to a Substack post, He described companies carrying long-term lease obligations that dwarf their current revenue metrics as “very fat, very large, easy to shoot” fish….
—- Oracle and Larry Ellison —-
Larry Ellison is often considered to be the founder of tech giant Oracle.
“Our very first customer was the Central Intelligence Agency,” Larry Ellison said.
Episode 494 – Meet The Ellisons: Zionists, Technocrats, Moguls
https://corbettreport.com/meet-the-ellisons-zionists-technocrats-moguls/
—- Michael Burry has a Substack —-
‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Could Make Over $100M This Year — Not From Stock Trades But Over 300K Substack Subscribers
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/big-short-michael-burry-could-055505875.html
Take the headline with a grain of salt.
Often the bulk of subscribers on substack is made up of free subscribers, not the $39/monthly paying subscribers.
…more sleep-aid…
— INTERACTIVE U.S.A. Map – Homeowner Mortgage Foreclosures with Demographic Data —
~~This map is pretty good and allows a person to pinpoint a very specific area.
~~The mouse-hover also contains the medium household income and home value.
Thursday July 23, 2026 – ABC News
Foreclosures on the rise nationwide, data shows [MAP]
https://abcnews.com/US/foreclosures-rise-nationwide-data-shows/story?id=134525683
…Nationwide, foreclosure filings spiked 21% in the first six months of 2026 compared to the same time last year…
…The analysis also shows that foreclosure filings increased by 71% between 2020..and 2025….
Monday August 10, 2026 – Nicholas Gerli of Reventure Consulting
ABC News warns of MASS foreclosure spike (prices already down 50%)
15:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGi0rXy5_Nw
…distressed homeowners are already taking massive losses, including some sellers losing $100,000 to $200,000 on homes purchased near the peak of the housing bubble.
In this video, I break down the latest foreclosure and mortgage delinquency data from ABC News, ATTOM, ICE Mortgage Monitor, Realtor.com, and Fannie Mae.
One of the biggest warning signs is coming from FHA mortgages, where serious delinquencies have climbed to their highest levels in years.
Many of the borrowers entering foreclosure bought in 2022 and 2023, when home prices and mortgage rates were both elevated…
…Where home buyers and investors could find discounted properties….
“This is the lowest demand level to buy houses with mortgages in U.S. history!”
— Nicholas Gerli of Reventure Consulting
[Graph shown at 5:42 mark.]
Friday August 14, 2026
Zillow drops FINAL warning. Mortgage firms implode 70%.
14:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOK7ESPws4
Zillow is warning about another housing market slowdown in the second half of 2026. The company is laying off 7% of its workforce, more than 500 employees, as traffic to Zillow’s apps and websites declines and its stock falls 61% over the last year.
At the same time, United Wholesale Mortgage, the largest mortgage originator in America, reported a $452 million net loss, suspended its dividend, and saw its stock suffer a record collapse.
These warnings come shortly after major home builders like Lennar and D.R. Horton also reported weakness in the U.S. housing market.
The bigger issue is housing demand.
Mortgage purchase applications remain roughly 60% below their peak, while pending home sales from the National Association of Realtors remain deeply depressed. And now we’re seeing sellers take enormous losses….
More “SleepAid”… (i.e. economic stuff)
NOTE: In order to induce more sales, some companies (like car dealerships) provide financing for their customers.
NVIDIA Corp
The American computing technology company NVIDIA Corp has a market value of over 5 trillion dollars. This beats the market value of all final goods and services from most individual nations (GDP) in a given year, besides the US, China, and maybe Germany.
PRESS RELEASE – Monday August 10, 2026 – NVIDIA Corp
NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-partners-with-apollo-blackrock-blackstone-brookfield-goldman-sachs-and-kkr-to-establish-ai-compute-infrastructure-financing-platforms-to-mobilize-over-500-billion-of-third-party-capital
EXCERPTS
NVIDIA today announced strategic partnerships to establish independent compute financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for the buildout of AI infrastructure over time…
…Memorandums of understanding signed with six of the world’s premier financial institutions to create these partnerships aim to establish the first compute financing platforms of their kind at global scale to enable the AI infrastructure buildout across NVIDIA’s ecosystem, including leading frontier AI labs, enterprises and AI clouds.
Under these strategic partnerships, NVIDIA will work with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create dedicated pools of capital at significant scale at attractive rates for NVIDIA customers….
…more Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
Also see https://corbettreport.com/august-open-thread-2026/#comment-188986
August 20
Broadcom CDS Explodes As It Seeks Up To $100 Billion In Massive Off-Balance Sheet Debt Deal
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/broadcom-cds-explodes-it-seeks-100-billion-massive-balance-sheet-debt-deal
LIST OF CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP article links
Monday August 17, 2026 – Wall Street Journal
QUOTE: “Nine top tech companies had some $3 trillion of off-balance-sheet commitments mostly related to AI….”
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(Notice ‘Oracle’ & the Michael Burry short previously mentioned.)
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“capex” = capital expenditure
~~~~ Off-balance sheet (OBS) items can represent promises, future commitments, potential financial obligations, shared business plans, derivatives, specially-made legal entities and more. These do not necessarily need to be included on the main balance sheet of the quarterly report. OBS items are legal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wsj-catches-discovers-ais-balance-sheet-liabilities-are-3-trillion-and-growing-12-trillion
CNBC discusses the Off-balance sheet (OBS) items.
Tom Lee: The AI Bubble Comparison Is Wrong
9:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1kcbIAdIg
Enron comes up and people weigh in.
Financial Guru and Ethereum advocate Tom Lee discusses the revenue swaps between fiber companies in the dot-com era.
“Coma inducing SleepAid”…
— Tokenized Banking and Finance —
Tuesday August 18, 2026 – Forbes
NOTE: The full article is behind a paywall, but the YouTube Video seems to be a full audio transcript.
$5.5 Trillion Bet: Why Every Major Bank Is Racing To Put Wall Street On The Blockchain
6:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb-HJFGjEBQ
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager has called tokenization “the next generation for markets.” After a decade of hype, false starts and promising pilots, mainstream financial institutions are moving real assets onto blockchains in earnest…
…Last week Wells Fargo, the country’s fourth-largest bank with about $2.3 trillion in assets, said it would offer tokenized deposits to corporate and commercial clients this fall…
…JPMorgan and Citigroup already operate similar services. JPMorgan’s Kinexys network processes more than $7 billion a day and has handled over $4 trillion since launch. Both banks along with Wells Fargo, Bank of America and more than a dozen other large lenders are also participating in an initiative operated by The Clearing House, a bank-owned payments company, like Zelle, that is developing a shared system for moving tokenized deposits between institutions…
…The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, introduced two tokenized money market products this month….
Saturday August 8 – via Yahoo Finance
Wells Fargo Launches Tokenized Deposits on a Dual Track — and the Gap Between the Two Halves Reveals the Real Stakes
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/wells-fargo-launches-tokenized-deposits-144846036.html
Wells Fargo announced a proprietary tokenized deposit platform on August 4, 2026, scheduled for a Fall 2026 launch for select corporate and commercial clients….
Wednesday August 19 – CNBC Television (YouTube) [CNBC = financial news]
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: Tokenization will take over the entire financial system
7:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYccbE0zC8
‘X’ Post (long script) Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev
Tokenized Stocks in America
https://x.com/vladtenev/status/2089813816611922368
It is becoming increasingly clear that we are in the early innings of a global tokenization supercycle. Last year, I called it a freight train that cannot be stopped—and one that will eat the entire financial system.
Since then, tokenization has entered the mainstream public consciousness, and it hasn’t been just talk. Outside the US, Robinhood has been early and consistent in shipping products that push the frontiers of this new industry. Just over one month ago, at our London event, “The World Is Flat,” we launched the mainnet of Robinhood Chain, the first chain purpose-built for real-world assets. It has since become the fastest EVM chain to reach 100 million transactions, with Stock Tokens as a core primitive—giving people in over 120 countries economic exposure to 190+ US stocks, backed 1:1 by underlying shares.
But there is one glaring gap: Stock Tokens are not yet available in the US.
The debate over equity tokenization in America has split into two camps…
…Tokenization is the best path to modernizing the American financial system and expanding the dream of ownership to all–Americans included.
Tokenization isn’t about putting stocks on a blockchain for the sake of it.
Rather, we are rebuilding the infrastructure underneath ownership so that assets can move as freely as information does on the internet. For American investors, that infrastructure unlocks three immediate advantages….
“….Tokenization is the best path to modernizing the American financial system and expanding the dream of ownership to all–Americans included.
Tokenization isn’t about putting stocks on a blockchain for the sake of it.
Rather, we are rebuilding the infrastructure underneath ownership so that assets can move as freely as information does on the internet….”
That does sound good but they don’t explain how changing the operation of the system makes anyone richer. People can’t own stuff if their too poor to play the system and it’s got to be like teaching down the back of the sofa for coins when they are scamming poor people with stocks
It kinda reminds me of casino chips TBH.
Duck,
I agree. These business/crypto/trading platforms are not necessarily designed to help normal folks — they are designed to benefit the corporations/elite that run them.
“Privilege and power can make victims of those without.”
Today, Wednesday August 19th, The White House hosted the big crypto folks/companies and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
After Trump spoke, they spoke. The guy with the long black hair is Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev. To Trump’s immediate left is Jeffrey Sprecher founder, chairman, and CEO of NYSE and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) which is a massive corporation and a major economic data collector.
President Trump Delivers Remarks with Technology Leaders (CRYPTO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbFxr3HbHI
Today Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptos surged to the upside big-time.
The following has some very interesting stuff…
***** Tokenization, NYSE & ICE & Stock Exchange History ***** SUBTHREAD
https://corbettreport.com/may-open-thread-and-subscriber-exclusive-video-2026/#comment-187085
Re: Fauci Frolics: Hobbes revision required. Life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” within the state, not without. Think about those four characteristics in the context of COVID. Anyway, no one signed any social contracts. If you appreciate decidedly anti-Woke satire and then some, check out my novella: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/travels-with-the-tribe?sId=8f31ba07-5e02-4e5a-9c78-6c51fcc1a47a&ssId=-igHCmwCJlexgrXHUggGK&cPos=1
James, I missed this Book Club book this time around, but I fully intend to do the next one. I was super busy travelling for work.
Hey ya`ll just wanted to drop by and share a fun recipe for all of you with epic garden harvests
Szechuan Summer Cucumber Salad
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/szechuan-summer-cucumber-salad
This post offers a full recipe for a hydrating, refreshing, delicious, probiotic, nutritious and spicy summer salad that helps you use up your epic cucumber harvests
This 4-‘wheelpaw’ robot gives me the heebies…
[heebies – from heebie-jeebies – feeling of nervous fear, anxiety, or the creeps.]
Friday July 24, 2026 – Unitree Robotics
Unitree Super Athlete AS2-W
63 seconds (almost 9 million views)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xha2TJ_1C6Q
— American Lawn Culture —
In just about every U.S. city and town, the non-arid housing neighborhoods all have grass lawns.
I did not know the history of this cultural aspect.
Any internet search will bring up articles about the history. Just one article of many below…
Aug 2024 – The National Wildlife Federation
Why We Have Lawns
https://blog.nwf.org/2024/04/why-we-have-lawns/
EXCERPT
…Lush, manicured lawns are deeply rooted in the aristocratic traditions of Europe. Originating as a luxury of the European elite, the concept of the lawn as a landscape feature of manor houses was not merely an aesthetic choice, but a potent symbol of wealth and social standing….
Thurs July 30 2026 – WAFB 9 News
Louisiana native plant enthusiast says the best lawn isn’t grass at all
40 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVnhCZ4G7o&t=70s
I recently read my towns regulations pertaining to lawns – mowing is mandatory and fines can be expected if one doesn’t keep the grass below a specified height.
Where I used to live, I had a lawn made mostly of Ajuga and it was heavenly! It felt like a thick carpet and in spring had lovely purple flower spikes. The house was built in the 1940s so I expect that is when the ground cover was first planted, based on the density of the planting – it choked out the grass and weeds that once were in its midst. I planted some on the slopes where I now live and it has taken about 10 years for it to establish itself and start spreading. Unfortunately I won’t live long enough to see it become a cushiony carpet of purple blossoms, but I hope future homeowners (and bees) will enjoy.
Jo-ann,
That Bugleweed is gorgeous!…and so adaptive to sun or shade and Zones 3-10!
Thanks for showing this to me.
I understand about the time it takes for plants to gain a footing mixed with the seasons of our life.
Wednesday July 29, 2026 – Oklahoma City KFOR-TV News 4
— Private AI school with no teachers arrives in Oklahoma —
5:08 minutes – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRDw03gtdc
Article – https://kfor.com/news/local/new-private-school-opening-with-ai-being-the-teachers/
EXCERPTS
EDMOND, OK (KFOR) — A private school is opening in Oklahoma in just a matter of weeks, where kids won’t be learning from teachers.
The school is all driven by artificial intelligence…
…It will cost families $40,000 to send their kids to “Alpha Oklahoma City.”..
…Leaders of the AI school say their students learn at a better pace compared to standard teachers, but one Oklahoma lawmaker is not quite on board with the idea.
“We are using artificial intelligence to raise human intelligence,” said Mackenzie Price, Co-Founder of Alpha School…
…“Our kids are spending only two hours in the morning working on academics,” said Price. “Our students are working on individualized lessons that are personalized to meet them at the exact level and pace that’s right for them.
So, they basically spend 25 minutes in each of the core subjects: math, reading, language, science.”
In all, students get two hours of classroom instruction taught by AI, with so-called “guides” in the classroom for support.
“Our teachers, we call them guides, are completely focused on motivational and emotional support and connecting with every single one of their students,” said Price.
After two hours of AI instruction, guides run workshops to teach kids different life skills.
…“And that frees up the rest of their school day to focus on group and project-based workshops that are teaching life skills, things like financial literacy, public speaking, leadership, teamwork, grit, hard work, all of the things are going to help young people become really successful in this world,” said Price.
The guides she mentioned aren’t required to have a teaching certificate, but have been recruited for their unconventional education backgrounds.
Starting salary is $100,000, but not everyone is on board….
“Alpha Oklahoma City”
https://alpha.school/oklahoma-city/
Alpha School
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_School
“Tuition ranges from $10,000 to $75,000 per year.”
Homie, you give me hope.
For years Oklahoma politics have squeezed every cent out of the educational budget. I know from experience how publishers of text books have squashed anybodies attempts at reform. Too much money filling the troughs . No oversight. No victims excepting the whistle blowers who where drummed out of service. Children ? What do they have to do with anything? That’s the system. The system does exactly what it was designed to do. There are expert lobbyists that have no connection with education of children but are experts at funneling large amounts of educational tax dollars seamlessly and covertly from source to pocket. Experts !
Related ai produced story. This happened several times in Tulsa, OKC and Norman and Stillwater, the educational hubs of grift. This came across May be helpful in understanding the motivation of some forward facing truthers. To me… it shows how sophisticated the thefts of public money has become.. Stronger the good ol’ boys networks are, more room at the trough. Squeeze the Do Rights out untill… -Everyone becomes like minded.
https://youtu.be/jl3OLK9vP1o?is=jtG-lu1Ma1xctBTA
— Hanging with a like-minded community —
The following is a good article with stats…
John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center
Wednesday 7/29/2026 – Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics
America’s Murder Problem Is Smaller Than It Looks
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/29/americas_murder_problem_is_smaller_than_it_looks_154377.html
EXCERPTS
World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place they’ve been led to expect. That’s because America’s murder problem is not spread evenly across the country. Does the United States have a higher murder rate than its peer countries? Yes – but new research shows that statistic obscures how murders in the U.S. are extremely concentrated in very tiny areas.
In 2025, the U.S. murder rate fell to just under 4 murders per 100,000 people. During the first six months of 2026, data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that murders in the nation’s 30 largest cities declined by another 18%. If that decline reflects the national trend, and that is likely, the U.S. murder rate will fall to approximately 3.25 per 100,000 people this year.
Even at that level, the U.S. murder rate would remain about 70% higher than Canada’s 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000 people and Australia’s approximately 2 per 100,000.
Nevertheless, the United States has recently made remarkable progress. Since national recordkeeping began in 1900, the country has never recorded a murder rate this low…
…murders cluster into remarkably small geographic areas. Roughly two-thirds of all murders in the worst 2% of the counties occur within about ten-block neighborhoods, whose populations represent only a tiny fraction of their counties’ residents. Much of this violence is associated with street gangs and repeat offenders rather than random acts committed throughout the broader community…
… About 90% of murderers already have criminal records, and some portion of the remaining 10% almost certainly committed crimes before the homicide but had not yet been caught…
…studies found that roughly 6-8% of offenders accounted for the majority of serious violent crime, including about 71% of murders, 73% of rapes, 82% of robberies, and 69% of aggravated assaults…
…[demographics/race]…
…The lesson is straightforward.
Although the United States has a higher national murder rate than many peer countries, murders are extraordinarily concentrated among a small number of repeat offenders operating in a tiny number of neighborhoods.
If you avoid hanging around people with violent criminal records and those places, you are very unlikely to become a victim….
Nice overview article to read in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of 9/11:
The Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement
Mini-Nukes, Directed Energy Weapons, and “No Planes” Theory
Luke Marshall • July 24, 2026
https://www.unz.com/article/the-hijacking-of-the-9-11-truth-movement/
BUMP
BUMP
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I remember Anarchist/Voluntaryist Luke Marshal when he was 16 or 17 years old!
That school kid had it going! He was inspiring!
I’m going by memory, but I think that he was in the Oklahoma City area at the time.
——->SEE THIS COMMENT…
https://corbettreport.com/israel-outraged-that-countries-object-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians/#comment-35147
You will see his website: VOLUNTARYIST.COM
…and his YouTube Channel: TheAnarchistCrackPot
Two visible videos (which I remember)…
“Trump is the Establishment’s Puppet!”
…and Luke’s interview:
“USS Liberty Survivor Sergeant Bryce Lockwood Reveals Truth about the USS Liberty False Flag Attack”
There were/are older videos on TheAnarchistCrackPot video channel, but they are set to private.
For example:
“Gary Johnson is NOT a Libertarian”
“He is a liberal who is in bed with the establishment masquarading as a libertarian.”
Luke Marshall’s recent YouTube Channel is Sigh Ops
“With all these psyops, one can only sigh at their ops”
https://www.youtube.com/@SighOpsCoordinator
Luke Marshall’s SUBSTACK Sigh Ops
https://sighopscoordinator.substack.com/
Edit
Marshall with two ‘L’s is correct.
I like his case against the mini nukes theory, but then this. Dear lord Jesus.
> I think we can apply Occam’s razor and conclude that something like thermate is the most likely cause of the collapse of the WTC buildings.
We also know that thermite can be used to cut beams, but not turn a building into dust. I like to apply the Occam’s razor, but DUST. Square miles blanketed by a layer of ankle deep dust.
I have yet to read the rest, this part just completely broke immersion for me.
One of the most important #SOLUTIONSWATCH…
— Generational Awareness —
mkey,
I am sure that each individual will have their own critiques about Luke Marshall’s Part 1 presentation of The Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
For me and for humanity’s sake, I view Luke Marshall as an example of what out culture’s future can potentially look like.
Luke Marshall represents a new generation. …a new generation which continues with the stewardship of important values and awareness.
In my eyes, we build a better world with clones of Luke Marshall at each generational step.
What kind of High School kid could build a website and write about the Fundamentals of Voluntaryism?
https://voluntaryist.com/fundamentals/introduction.html#.WGPHL68ixKY
What kind of 2016 era High School kid educates others with this video?…
Trump is the Establishment’s Puppet!
10:38 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR9Xe8wEOQE
The PowersThatShouldNotBE (PTSNB) have a short manual entitled:
How to Kill the 9/11 Truth Movement
Chapter One is one sentence: “Let the Old Farts die off.”
Homie, if the fella publishes a researched, technically founded article in which he takes on beliefs of others, then he should apply the same scrutiny to his own beliefs.
I fully understand that people just repeat stuff they heard elsewhere, it happens to everyone but I withhold my right to be put off by writing when it takes such a crass turn to the wayside.
I took Luke’s ‘Occam’s Razor’ comment to refer to the documented military grade nanothermitic explosives that were used to pulverize stuff at high temperatures. Perhaps other types of explosives were used (even Richard Gage acknowledges that), but there is no hard evidence.
As a smooth dissemination tool, I like this 9/11 ANIMATED GIF IMAGE
https://web.archive.org/web/20100107150325im_/http://711911.webs.com/WTC&GIF.gif
SUBSTACK
Friday July 24, 2026 – Sigh Ops
The Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement~~ Mini-Nukes, Directed Energy Weapons, and “No Planes” Theory ~~https://sighopscoordinator.substack.com/p/the-hijacking-of-the-911-truth-movement
EXCERPTS
…In my previous article, 9/11 was an Epstein Job, I traced connections between people within Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle to the events of September 11th. Many individuals with close ties to Epstein had very odd behavior in relation to 9/11.
Epstein’s close friend and business partner, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, went on the BBC on the day of 9/11 to insinuate that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks and to declare that the US needed to wage a global war on terror.
The current United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, used to be a neighbor of Epstein. Coincidentally, the two had homes on 9 and 11 E 71st St in New York City. Lutnick was absent from his offices in the North Tower on 9/11.
Lutnick acquired office space in the North Tower for a mutual friend of his and Epstein, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and the Former wife of Epstein Associate and alleged statutory rapist Prince Andrew.
She had a meeting scheduled in the North Tower on 9/11 and, much like Lutnick, just so happened to be absent from the buildings during the attacks.
For more information like this… https://sighopscoordinator.substack.com/p/911-was-an-epstein-job
…age 16 activism and awareness…
One of the most important #SOLUTIONSWATCH…
— Generational Awareness —
Future generations will create its society.
On Friday August 14th Luke Marshall publishes another video. He gives the backstory of his interview when he was 16 years old, and invites the viewer to revisit the footage.
In the video, they discuss how Trump is pro-Israel and how the Palestinians suffer. This is currently timely considering how Israeli settlers are overtly trying to steal homes/land in the West Bank while authorities yawn.
— Israel Attacked America: USS Liberty Bryce Lockwood Speaks Out —
21:57 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S61OS0hI3E
In June 1967, the U.S. reconnaissance ship USS Liberty was brutally attacked by Israeli forces, resulting in 34 American deaths and nearly 200 injuries. Despite official claims of “mistaken identity,” survivors and high-level officials knew the truth.
In this interview from nearly ten years ago, host Luke Marshall sits down with Sergeant Bryce Lockwood—a Russian linguist, intelligence specialist, and one of the last surviving Marines from the USS Liberty incident.
Sergeant Lockwood shares harrowing firsthand details of the attack, the cover-up, and his perspective on the geopolitical ramifications that still resonate today.
Lockwood has been a guest recently on the Tucker Carlson show.
In light of recent events in Gaza and the Israel Lobby’s stranglehold on American foreign policy, I thought I should share this interview again.
Larken Rose does “Despicable Slimeball Admits Some Truths”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrkRBzbqfPY
It’s a bit spicy, but also a must watch.
FYI – may be of interest to USA residents and USA enemies:
Pentagon Plans AI Data Centers At Military Bases
https://www.technocracy.news/pentagon-plans-ai-data-centers-at-military-bases/
Excerpt:
link – https://www.technocracy.news/pentagon-plans-ai-data-centers-at-military-bases/#:~:text=In%20late%20March,has%20ever%20done.%E2%80%9D
Hi, James – saw this and thought it might be of interest:
From Data to Digital Twins: Japan’s PLATEAU Project Offers Open-Access Models of More Than 250 Cities | ArchDaily
“Map the New World” is the motto of Project PLATEAU, led by Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), to develop and expand access to 3D models representing the diversity of cities across the country. Japan comprises a total of 744 cities, including 14 with populations exceeding one million, 190 with between 100,000 and one million inhabitants, and 540 with populations between 10,000 and 100,000. To date, 3D models of more than 250 cities have been made available as open data through the country’s public G-Spatial Information Center, and can also be accessed via an online browser viewer. According to public authorities, the project aims to strengthen urban resilience by providing society with new tools to address local challenges. This involves not only urban space modeling but also collaboration with local governments, private companies, and technology communities.
I see if you buy an expensive BMW it come with free ads now!
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1vf9cyo/the_movie_spiderman_brand_new_day_paid_bmw_to/
Unbelievable, but not really.
One of the comments on the thread was:
“Soon enough they’ll start making us sit through an ad before we can use our toilets”
…which made me think of this…
Oct 2025 – ABC 10 News
China testing dispensers that release toilet paper after ad is watched?
53 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8X_cO9iSoM&t=2s
I’ve seen this live in action a few years ago in Slovenia, while… taking a break on a concert. Urinal were embellished with screens running ads. I didn’t notice anything was predicated on actually watching them.
That’s funny-smart marketing. All the guys standing there looking at the wall.
Anecdote regarding Grok AI:
On June 17, 1996, Art Bell conducted a live remote viewing experiment on air.
Listeners were asked to describe the item he was holding and focusing his attention on.
One listener guesses it correctly (“nail on the head” Art says) (~1:38:25)
The item was a brass figurine of 4 dolphins leaping in the air. (~2:36:44)
I asked Grok to calculate the probably of one of the listeners submitting that particular correct description during this brief experiment, just by guessing.
About 1 in 1000 is what Grok concluded.
After reminding him of various points that need to be included in the calculation, he was willing to raise it to 20,000.
After reminding him again and making sure he really understood what I was saying, he was willing to raise it to 200,000, but he refused to go any higher.
Each time he’d present the same list of impressive looking probability knowledge and formulas while being nowhere near correct.
Each time he was certain of his conclusion.
It immediately reminded me of the movie Rain Man in which the autistic character has extraordinary instantaneous calculation capabilities but still thinks the price of a car is $100 and the price of a candy bar is also $100.
I think this was a peek into what’s going on behind the curtain when Grok sides with extremely improbable coincidence-based explanations over far more probable conspiracy-based explanations.
TLDR: It appears Grok (unlike ChatGPT who is programmed to blatantly lie and gaslight) may be programmed to incorrectly do probability calculations – while believing he’s doing them correctly – when it comes to certain subjects and opinions that disagree with THE SCIENCE™, or threaten certain guarded narratives. This mechanism results in him genuinely believing he’s steering you towards the truth when he isn’t.
This is likely the worst usecase. These things are just terrible with numbers and relative relations.
This is of course assuming the model was not inculcated with a bunch of nonsense, which they usually are and which, of course, makes them even worse
😉
A viral video of a comical police chase…the world’s slowest police chase.
August – The New York Post
Teen Joyride Leads to WILD Police Chase in Australia:
4:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGJs0uWCYQ
Four kids allegedly turned a stolen SUV into the star of a wild late-night joyride through the Australian outback — with cops hot on their tail. The white Toyota LandCruiser zigzagged through trees and bushland before police finally brought the chase to an end. Four boys, ages 12 to 14, are now facing charges after the off-road escapade came to a crashing halt.
Kununurra is a town in the far north of Western Australia bordering the Northern Territory. The area’s population is roughly 6,000 people.
In Australia, people drive on the left side of the road.
August 4, 2026 – News.com.AU
Viral police chase video exposes alleged youth crime wave in Kununurra, Western Australia
Local police have been left red-faced after being ‘taunted’ by kids as young as 10, in an embarrassingly slow car chase as an alleged crime wave sweeps through this forgotten town.
https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/police-chase-stolen-car-in-circles-around-a-tree/video/0047c4a6ccc9029c20a12062b444aa7a
DESCRIPTION
Police chase stolen car in circles around a tree
Police in Kununurra, Western Australia, arrested four minors following a pursuit that stretched across parts of the rural town late on Saturday, August 1. In a statement to Storyful, Western Australia Police said officers attempted to stop a stolen white Toyota Landcruiser on Victoria Highway at 10:30 pm. Police said the driver failed to stop and an “evade police incident commenced” before the vehicle was later found in bushland off Weaber Plain Road. Footage here captured by a local resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, shows police pursue the vehicle around trees and across the town. Western Australia Police said a 14-year-old male will face charges including stealing a motor vehicle and no authority to drive. Three others, two 13-year-old males and a 12-year-old boy, have been charged with stealing a motor vehicle.
Is it possible the police excercised some common sense and refrained from ramming a vehicle full of children? Then again, it stands to reason they could have surrounded them and blocked in the middle.
June 2026 – CBS Boston
A rare look inside the largest data center in Massachusetts
6:15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbZlIGLpts
5:56
“One more interesting fact, Gallup did a poll.
They found that 71% of people did not want to live near a data center.
Only 53% didn’t want to live near a nuclear power plant.
So, it goes to show you how people are feeling about these things.”
… …Home owner Jake says,
“You’ll hear the AC units. That’s a constant.”
There are 27 emergency generators with smoke stacks. Jake claims they send fumes toward his home.
The data center people said on average over the past year, the building used between 70,000 gallons per day to 120,000 gallons of water per day.
About a dozen construction workers were employed at the job site at the time of the tour.
—–>May 13, 2026 – GALLUP (lots of charted sentiment info)
Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area
https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx
An Insult to Intuition is another Substack promoter of Corbett’s work:
October 7th WAS another False Flag. James Corbett brings the Receipts
James assembles the best evidence and reasoning in the short video linked below.
Madhava Setty, MD | Jul 22, 2026
Excerpt:
Like 9/11, the official story around 10/7 becomes more absurd the closer you look. Watch James lay out the evidence in the way that he does best:
Great photo.
We ask those questions all the time. I’m watching closely for the tipping/breaking points – because we are inching ever closer here in the USA. We are gradually forming freedom groups, courthouse reform, law enforcement outreach, Lesser Magistrate training, and much more.
But the bulk of the folks where I live are still just plain mentally and physically exhausted. The C19 injection, jacking the ambient EMR to insane levels, killing 10,000 people with hurricane Helene in one morning where I live 21 months ago, the toxic food habits they are just learning to break, Notice of Liability, etc.
I spend as much time harping on human detoxification and EMR reduction, as I do on creating a real Citizens’ Constitution. But, the gateway is becoming super obvious. If I want to reach a significant number of people with all of these ideas – including voluntaryism – my community needs a website dedicated to all of that work and information so people can go there and see what’s going on locally.
I am also starting the American National re-classification process myself, and I have learned to establish a 508 (C)(1)(a) Ministry and done it. My training on contract liability with InPowerMovement provided this interview I got a real aha moment out of this interview:
Monsieur Jellen (an attorney who speaks Latin), interviews Cal Washington in Grand Cafe Moai, Maasmechelen, Belgium July 17, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=K0SZBRCDIxs
Now I will tackle Law Merchant and train myself to invoke the various jurisdictions that apply to whatever issue I am fighting using contract law – that applies to the Global Financial Elite as well.
Can you send me a link to train me on the path to Voluntaryism from where we are today? I haven’t been able to find one. I think I’ll stick this on the Open thread too.
Every now and then there is a topic so big that I miss it’s real import/scope entirely:
Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas.
https://alamo.lifechristian.tv/watch?session_id=cs_live_b1MDZPhtz9NrRTnM8BREZ0x9BgkqZgBjXbSb0tAb5EMKOIOaqg96kYqLcb
I thought Islam was a strict religion based on concepts that are as laughable as the symbolic cannibalism and blood drinking in Christian church ceremonies… I don’t pay much attention to religion except to marvel at how many people still do…
After watching this documentary, (and recently hearing about the 250,000 rape victims of Muslim/immigrant/police rape gangs in the UK)… I am going to pay much closer attention.
I am pondering the Global Financial Elite’s motivations behind fomenting this mess.
Maybe I can answer my own question. Chaos. The GFEs have to “conquer” the USA – yes or yes. So, if they can sink us into defensive chaos, we will be forced to accept the digital control grid and programmable currency? And that would be it.
I went back and watched the movie “Red Dawn” with Patrick Swayze because I couldn’t remember the ending. I hope things don’t play out that way.
60gig
i have met perfectly nice muslims but WHEN they get sufficent biomass they always revert to being enemies of western life….its not that they are evil but they are not compatible with European civilization.
That said jews are worse because they are better at pretending not to be our enemies
— Presearch Search Engine —
Similkameen,
I think that it was Friday July 24 when I noticed that I could not connect at all with Presearch.
I wrote about it here (north on Aug Open)…
https://corbettreport.com/august-open-thread-2026/#comment-188939
I don’t like registering and signing up with an email address for things, but I did in late July for Presearch.
I used a ‘scrub’ email to create a Presearch Account, but that ain’t worth dog poop.
At Presearch when signed-in, there is this message…
“Due to third-party backend services shutting down sooner than anticipated, we can manually process withdrawals of 500,000 PRE or more. Transfers will be sent on the Base network only. Submit a Base-compatible Web3 wallet address you control. Do not use your Presearch deposit address or an exchange address. Contact ‘questions(at)presearch.com’ for assistance. Never share your private key or recovery phrase.”
But I couldn’t get any type of web search service.
Speaking of dog poop, I may explore Dogpile to see what gives.
https://www.dogpile.com/
Thank you HRS for your reply.
I seen your earlier post scrolling down through the Aug open thread.
Before I posted my comment I typed in “Presearch” in the search bar at the top only to see older articles by James in regards to Presearch.
— The AI Monster is eating books —
Becker’s Books, which opened in 1993, is a second-generation bookstore in Spring Branch which is an area of Houston northwest of downtown.
7405 Westview Dr, Houston, TX 77055
Becker’s Books is my kind of old-school bookstore. It is in a 3,500-sq.-ft. renovated house and offers diverse used, rare & out-of-print books.
Sunday August 9, 2026 – ABC 13 Houston News
Suspicious orders at a Spring Branch-area bookstore Becker’s Books, owner says
2:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsak4JNH3iQ
…a small business owner in Spring Branch says he keeps getting orders that he calls suspicious…the owner suspects artificial intelligence may have something to do with it. He says most of his recent sales have come from a single buyer, who is having books shipped to a secondary location. That’s weird enough, but get this: he says he recently received an order for 70 different books books that aren’t just rare, but books that are honestly impractical….
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A week ago, Corbett Member colosseum posted this very important discussion:
“AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop”
https://corbettreport.com/they-dont-want-you-to-read/#comment-188960
NOTE: “…the spine of the book is cut so the pages can be fed into a scanning machine….”
— Mailing a First Class letter in the United States of America —
As a Boomer, I am spoiled on sending a letter old-school style. For decades, a person could mail a letter on-the-cheap. Most often the letter would arrive at its destination address within two or three days; sometimes 4 days if clear across the country.
— Cost of a first class U.S. postage stamp — 1866-2026
https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/postage.html
Currently, I live out in the sticks with some small towns nearby. Within a 7 mile radius, there are three Post Offices. I mailed a letter at the Post Office to someone who lives 3 miles away from me and they also live within the 7 mile P.O. radius. It took a full 7 days for my letter to arrive. Evidently, the local letter has to go to a major city sorting facility, then sent back to the local area.
This South Dakota Senator investigated the silly-stupid way the Post Office operates and he also exposes the big money which Post Office executives make.
The Senator maps the different states which a local letter went to before arriving back in South Dakota.
‘That Needs To End’: Mike Rounds Blasts ‘Lavish’ Benefits And Salaries For Postal Service Brass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9idT-vk3Dg&t=44s
Looks like postal service is a prime source of corruption, on any continent. I would like to hear what one Lysander Spooner would have to say about that.
— Ebay Corporate Psychopaths vs Journalists —
A long story – short.
Ina and David Steiner operate EcommerceBytes out of their home in Natick, Massachusetts. EcommerceBytes delivers daily news, analysis, and blogs about platforms like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy. Its target audience are those folks who sell things online.
Ebay executives got pissed off at EcommerceBytes and began a psychopathic harassment campaign. Beginning the summer of 2019, the Steiners received anonymous, threatening Twitter DMs (Direct Messages are private – not public.) The Steiners started receiving home deliveries, e.g. a bloody pig mask, pornography, a package of fly larvae and live spiders, live cockroaches, death-themed items like a book about grieving a spouse and a funeral wreath.
“Eventually, the eBay workers turned to in-person surveillance, tailing the couple in a rented Dodge Caravan. They also listed classified ads on Craigslist for a swinger party, a threesome, a block sale, and an estate sale, all pointing to the Steiner’s home address. At one point, an emergency plumber was sent to the home.”
July 28, 2026 article – https://www.wired.com/story/ebay-has-to-pay-dollar557-million-in-settlement-for-its-unhinged-harassment-campaign/
August 5, 2026 – 60 Minutes revisits 2023 interview
Inside the eBay stalking scandal | 60 Minutes Archive
13:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ov-7MYwT_Y
Last week eBay agreed to pay $55.7 million to a Massachusetts couple that was the victim of a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign orchestrated by former employees of the company. In 2023, 60 Minutes spoke with the couple, Ina and David Steiner.
Monday August 10, 2026 – The New York Post – VIDEO
US Hires 2,000 Video Gamers to Help Solve Air Traffic Controller Shortage
1:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgr0P_hGimg
More than 2,000 candidates have been recruited to become air traffic controllers after the Department of Transportation launched a campaign targeting video gamers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the hiring push has reached 94% of its goal, with applicants citing gaming skills such as multitasking, strategy and problem-solving as useful for the job.
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—ANECDOTE—
On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers after they refused a return-to-work ultimatum.
It is against Federal Law for government employees to strike and walk off the job.
I was renting a house across the street from Love Field airport, and also worked at 642 room hotel on 14 acres which was across the street from Love Field. The hotel looked like a castle.
Aerial PHOTO – Dallas Dunfey Royal Coach Inn — CASTLE
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arcadepreservation/images/a/ac/Royal_Coach_Inn_of_Dallas_aerial_postcard.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20221206172905
3800 W. Northwest Highway at Lemon Avenue (aka Marsh Lane) in Dallas, Texas.
I worked as a Bellman, a Driver, and sometimes night manager for the hotel. Besides passengers, I would often shuttle pilots and stewardesses/stewards to their airport destinations. One time, a couple of pilots called me into the flight simulator while they were flying through skyscrapers. I was told to land the plane. I crashed.
After August 1981, the FAA launched a massive recruitment campaign with rigorous aptitude testing. I studied for the exam and passed with high scores. However, I did not have a four-year college degree and so I was denied employment. Too bad that they didn’t count highscores on Defender, Galaga, Missile Command, Battlezone and Pac-Man.
Gamers can have a high degree of skill with certain action: thinking quickly in their feet, fast switching from task to task, high degree of focus, high resistance to stress.
But most of these abilities are mechanically ingrained by repetition (or rooted in), muscle memory, instilled bodily reactions to often tranversed paths. We are talking about people who have thousands of hours of “training” looking at and reacting to events on a screen.
Insane levels of repetition required to qualify. This type of activity changes the brain on multiple levels.
— New Recommended Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Americans —
Monday August 10, 2026 – The White House YouTube Channel
President Trump Signs an Executive Order, Aug. 10, 2026 (Vaccines)
41:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_RititNE8U
CDC NOTE: On Wednesday August 5, the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has been known to advocate for vaccines, and did so while chief medical officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. She was Deputy Surgeon General during President Donald Trump’s first term. The CDC is embedded with rabid pro-vaccine personnel and the website still reflects that perspective.
Meryl Nass weighs in. Her comments are in bright yellow highlights as you scroll through the Executive Order.
— Childhood Vaccines: What Pres. Trump just signed and what it means —
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/childhood-vaccines-what-pres-trump
YELLOW EXCERPTS
…What Trump did here is essentially change the CDC recommendations without going through CDC—and saying that all children are recommended to have only the vaccines listed in (i). These are the vaccines recommended by him earlier, and are the vaccines used in Denmark.
…
…This is rather amazing. Trump is asking manufacturers to separate out the 3 components of the MMR shot (in the US only Merck makes this shot, and its MMRV— plus varicella—shot) so parents can give them separately, which Andrew Wakefield recommended and is likely to be safer than giving 3 or 4 live vaccines at once.
…
…This could mean that executive agencies could withhold funds from states that do not comply with some or all of these recommendations. The states are the entities that impose childhood vaccine mandates, not the federal government. This is a veiled threat to states to comply….
In the White House video behind Trump’s right shoulder is a young girl. I didn’t know who she was and thought she might be one of Trump’s family. She is Jayme Franklin, a 27 year-old Mother. Jayme Franklin is a podcaster, a conservative media entrepreneur, commentator and former Trump administration official.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-jayme-franklin-the-woman-seen-behind-trump-at-oval-office-vaccine-executive-order-signing-identified-101786403195002.html
Tuesday August 11, 2026 – The MAHA Report
President Trump Slashes Childhood Vaccine Schedule From 17 to 11
The president’s executive order, signed Monday, splits the MMR vaccine into three separate vaccines – one for measles, one for mumps and one for rubella
https://www.themahareport.com/p/president-trump-slashes-childhood
EXCERPTS
…The executive order came on the same day as texts released by Senator Ron Johnson revealed more troubling news about Dr. Anthony Fauci…
…According to the texts, Fauci knew that the Covid vaccine administered to pregnant women would lead to a high rate of miscarriages.
Fauci texted his concerns in a group chat with former CDC Director Rachelle Walensky and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
Neither Fauci, Walensky, or Murthy informed the public and continued the policy calling for pregnant women to receive the Covid vaccine.
Data eventually emerged that pregnant women who received Covid vaccines indeed did suffer an alarming rate of miscarriage.
Senator Johnson promised to reveal more information from Fauci’s texts in the coming days….
Most here, including James agree that Covid-19 was a scam.
In fact he dubbed the pandemic a ‘scamdemic’ and has been using that term for years now.
I have yet to hear a single Covid-19 truther/conspiracy theorist (including James) explain how the whole scam was put together.
No one to my knowledge, not even the big name alt-news conspiracy theorists have come up with a theory to explain all the moving parts of the scamdemic.
Sure we learned about the testing fraud, the mask-wearing fraud, the social-distancing fraud, the ‘vaccine’ fraud, the case numbers fraud, the Covid death numbers fraud etc. etc.
But no one to my knowledge has been able to explain how people were getting sick and dying withing two weeks all around the world. Yes we learned about the slick Remdesivir/ventilator one-two punch that was responsible for many deaths.
But what was making people sick in the first place that caused the severe breathing illness?
I personally know three people who were young and previously healthy but died in just two weeks.
I would like to hear from any members here who have been able to put the whole puzzle together.
I mean the whole puzzle.
Nobody put the whole puzzle together, your invitation is bound to eternal solitude.
These three young and healthy people died inside of two weeks of what? Getting ill to begin with? Of what kind of illness did they die?
I don’t know anyone who went from ostensibly healthy to dead inside of two weeks. There were a few cases of people who were in a generally bad state and, after succumbing, were tested and declared (key word, declared) as having died due to covid.
There was a whole bunch of people, mostly guys around 40, who spent several days at the hospital, after being declared positive, without even a minor health issue. That was during summer, to add insane to crazy. The hospital was likely caching in the full beds.
On the other hand, I know of several cases where people were sent packing when soliciting assistance due to covid unrelated illness. Extreme pain in the abdomen being reported and ambulances not being sent over after falling into shock, fun stuff like that.
On yet another hand, I know of one case where a fella, at the time less than 10 years older than me, who kept himself in really good shape died due to a heart attack. While laying down in the shade. A very likely case of a vaxxident, but nobody gave it a second look. Three sons lost a father, big deal.
FT
”….No one to my knowledge, not even the big name alt-news conspiracy theorists have come up with a theory to explain all the moving parts of the scamdemic. …”
anyone who said they understood the whole thing would be a liar or wrong….the problem is that it’s not clear if
a)the virus was introduced to kill people
(clear out the boomer welfare hogs / harm the working age population? IDK)
or
b)the pandemic spending and rules were the real aim.
(wealth transfer from middle to upper and lower classes as landlords and small biz lost out / more money to certain corps. Selling vital supplies / cover for the QE printing / bring in new normal security regime)
or
c) the whole thing was a massive stress test for dealing with the real virus next month when Ww3 becomes official ;(
lol (I hope)
Kinda like the Kennedy assassination there are so may layers of benefits and incentives and lies that it’s not real easy to tell what…..It can’t have been ONE player either with multiple states and corps and agencies and such all on the same page
there must be have been a lot of people doing a lot of things for their own reasons. Its probable that it was pre planned for a while because IIRC there were a ton of CEOs quitting just before and IIRC they were already gearing up the money printing in the US. I would
like to know what those guys thought was going to happen, and if what actually happened was the same thing.
A LOT of people had an interest in going along, people selling medical gear and getting emergency funding. Probably everyone had a different incentive/ goal and even the people knew deep in lying had no idea WTF the aim was or who was actually directing things.
— Will Northeastern Oklahoma be breathing Fluoride and Aluminum? —
Tuesday August 11, 2026 – FOX23 News Tulsa
Oklahoma AG asks federal judge to block construction of proposed Inola aluminum smelter
4:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txS7DOlYlog
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (Plaintiff)
Vs
Century Aluminum Company et al (Defendants)
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/oag/news-documents/2026/august/Motion%20for%20Prelim%20Injuction.pdf
EXCERPTS
…Defendants propose to build the largest primary aluminum smelter in American history within approximately three miles of Inola’s homes, schools, and pastures.
By Defendants’ own permit application, the facility will emit on the order of 425 tons of fluoride compounds per year.
Airborne fluoride settles on forage. When cattle eat the contaminated forage, the fluoride accumulates irreversibly in their bones and teeth. The resulting disease, fluorosis, has destroyed herds downwind of aluminum smelters before…
BACKGROUND
—The Project: The Largest Smelter in American History, Three Miles from Inola, the Hay Capital of the World.—
… primary aluminum smelter with a planned capacity of 750,000 metric tons per year of liquid aluminum, which by Defendants’ own account is enough to more than double the Nation’s entire primary aluminum output…
…The smelter would occupy a parcel of land of approximately 633 acres along the Verdigris River, within approximately three miles of Inola’s schools, homes, and farms.
The air-quality permit application projects emissions on the order of 425 tons of fluoride compounds per year, more than a ton every day, together with substantial quantities of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and fine particulate matter.
Those figures come from Defendants’ own application, and the agency reviewing that application has found it deficient…. [Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”)]
ANECDOTE – Aluminum plant tour
Around 2007, I toured an aluminum plant which melted recycled aluminum as part of an Environmental Science class. The large vats of molten aluminum were something to see. In a relatively shallow but large swimming-pool sized area, a ‘paddle’ the width of the vat would slowly move from end to end.
https://www.hydro.com/us/global/about-hydro/hydro-worldwide/americas/the-united-states/west/hydro-aluminum-commerce-tx/
During this time, I was a strong advocate of 9/11 Truth around campus (Texas A&M at Commerce). My book bag had 9/11 Truth stickers and a sign reading: “Ask me for free DVDs.” I ended up burning and giving out 10,000 DVDs while at college, along with tons of literature.
When our Env. Science class first arrived at the aluminum plant; we were brought into an orientation room. After being given the company lowdown, the tour guide asked if there were any questions. Being typical non-curious college students, the room was silent. But I broke the silence and asked, “Have you ever had problems with thermite reactions?” The guide brightened and told us how occasionally the vats of molten aluminum would start ‘exploding’ because a piece of rusty iron got in the mix. In fact, it was prohibited for anyone to bring a can of soda-pop onto the property.
Referring to HYDRO.COM mentioned at the link in the anecdote above…
Coincidentally, HYDRO is in the recent Bloomberg news cycle.
Wednesday August 12, 2026 – ZeroHedge
World’s Largest Alumina Refinery Outside China Abruptly Halves Output On NatGas Disruption
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/worlds-largest-alumina-refinery-outside-china-abruptly-halves-output-natgas-disruption
EXCERPTS
Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro‘s Alunorte plant in Brazil, one of the world’s largest alumina refineries, reduced output by 50% following disruptions to natural gas availability.
Bloomberg reports that disruptions to NatGas availability at Alunorte forced a 50% reduction in output and sent aluminum prices in London to a seven-week high. Hydro said production would return to full capacity once gas supplies normalize.
Aluminum rose nearly 2% in London and traded at $3,373 a metric ton. Alumina futures gained 1% in Shanghai…
…Inventories in London Metal Exchange warehouses have fallen to 250,000 tons, the lowest level since November 1990. Norsk Hydro recently warned that the annual global aluminum deficit could top 900,000 tons if trade through the Strait of Hormuz remained disrupted….
[Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE have aluminum smelters.]
Wednesday August 12, 2026 – FOX23 News Tulsa
Inola rancher tests grass near Kentucky aluminum smelter as concerns grow over OK project
4:23 minute VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucnkoUhptc
—ARTICLE with attached lab documents and links—
https://ktul.com/news/local/inola-rancher-tests-grass-near-kentucky-aluminum-smelter-as-concerns-grow-over-ok-project-08-12-2026
EXCERPTS
…Carl Day told KTUL his family has owned property around Inola for more than 100 years. Day said his cattle operation handles roughly 3,000 head throughout the year, representing millions of dollars invested in the cattle business…
… Day traveled with his wife to Kentucky in May and collected four sets of samples at varying distances from an aluminum smelter…
…Day provided KTUL with the laboratory results and a separate written review of those results by an Oklahoma State University veterinary toxicologist.
Accurate Environmental Laboratories tested four soil samples and four grass samples for fluoride.
The four soil samples ranged from 1.79 to 13.3 milligrams of fluoride per kilogram, while the four grass samples ranged from 182 to 1,910 milligrams per kilogram…
OSU Dr. Van der Merwe cited a National Academies maximum tolerable dietary fluoride level of 40 milligrams per kilogram for growing beef calves….
DOCUMENTS
https://ktul.com/resources/pdf/3553af0b-0012-41e8-83cc-58c1e1c4de0c-IE07117_REDACTED.pdf
https://ktul.com/resources/pdf/5ced396a-2b17-4244-97fd-48ea01639b5d-Toxicology_Review_REDACTED.pdf
— 8/13/26 UPDATE – Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
“DEQ’s focus is on ensuring that any permit issued by the agency is protective of human health and the environment and complies with all applicable requirements.”
Thursday August 13, 2026 –
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is providing an update on the agency’s ongoing efforts to ensure a thorough, transparent evaluation of the pending air quality permit application for the proposed aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma.
https://okenergytoday.com/2026/08/deq-updates-aluminum-smelter-progress-at-inola/
EXCERPTS
…“Transparency includes allowing the public access to the process as it actually occurs, including the questions we ask, the information we receive, and the analyses we conduct.
This level of transparency, while going beyond what is required by law, is in the public interest, and DEQ staff is committed to assisting the public and answering any questions that may arise as the process unfolds.” —DEQ Executive Director Rob Singletary
Oklahoma Primary Aluminum – WEBSITE – Answers Center
https://www.oklahomaprimaryaluminum.com/en/about-us/answers-center
Oklahoma Primary Aluminum (3 page pdf)
Setting the Record Straight: The Facts on Oklahoma Primary Aluminum (OPA)
https://www.oklahomaprimaryaluminum.com/media/obmhcuhz/oklahoma-primary-aluminum-setting-the-record-straight.pdf
EXCERPTS
Accusation: The smelter will put 425 tons of fluoride particulate into the air every year.
Anything over 10 tons is labeled by the EPA as a high polluter. It will decimate the hay
crop and residents won’t be able to run cattle.
The Facts: This is false. The 425 tons in the air permit application reflects the initial and
hypothetical level of emissions at the plant, not the actual level of emissions that are
expected from the plant. The facility will generally be modeled after EGA’s plant in Abu
Dhabi, which is recognized as one of the best-performing facilities in the world as
reflected in this chart comparing emissions of plants in relation to production capacity.
This chart is available in the Answers Center on our website.
EXCERPTS From Answer Center
…In a 2015 review, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that emission of 1.02 lbs/ton of production is safe for vegetation, animals and people. Expected emissions at Inola will be about half of that…
[Much more on FLUORIDE at Answer Center.]
9/11 EVENT with James Corbett…
Tuesday August 11, 2026 – International Center for 9/11 Justice – YouTube Channel
Lucky Larry Learns About Turning the Tide | A Historic Gathering on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
106 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGaXECtsLQc
…and…
Alex Jones receives a telephone call from Larry Silverstein’s secretary
2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790pErAxuv8&t=1877s
Queued at the 31:17 mark. I couldn’t stomach watching the entire video and so skipped to the end.
RichardGage911 substack(s)
“Lucky Larry” Just Found Out about the Big 9/11 Conference in New York City this September!
(videos are here)
https://richardgage911.substack.com/p/lucky-larry-just-found-out-about
Display Your Work at “Turning The Tide 2026” September 10-13 | 9/11 Truth Conference in NYC
Only Ten Vendor Tables — Put Your Products/Services On One of Them!
[3:10 minute Vimeo trailer for the Event]
https://richardgage911.substack.com/p/display-your-work-at-turning-the
4 days
40 speakers
600 seats
and just 10 Vendor tables
The tables are 8 feet long and only $1,000. Or you can use a half-table for $600. Your business will be highlighted along with the other conference vendors on the big stage screen at various spots throughout the conference, and you’ll get 2 passes for the conference. (That’s a $300 value by itself!)
GOLD – On Monday August 10, 2026, U.S. Senator Rand Paul toured Fort Knox, Kentucky
(His home state is Kentucky.)
VIDEO of Rand in front of Fort Knox – 60 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QxAvhmxLzoM
At Fort Knox, we’ve come to see the gold!
Our country has about a hundred and forty-seven million ounces of gold, and about half of it is stored here at Fort Knox.
We’re gonna be going deep underground to see the gold, but more importantly, we’re gonna be talking today about what happened to our dollar when we separated from gold in 1971.
I’m going underground, and I’ll let you know what I see in a little bit.
X Video/Script – https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2086840523218727115
TWITTER – ‘X’
https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2086881425945432239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive, but the real point is what it still teaches in 2026.
In 1971 we severed the dollar from gold. Since then the currency has lost roughly 85% of its value. Prices are higher because the money itself is weaker.
A family making $50,000 with two kids that has not received a 25% raise in the last five years is falling behind.
This is now often called “affordability,” but the the accurate word is inflation.
We run annual deficits of two trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve buys about a third of that debt by creating new money. Every new dollar dilutes the value of the dollars already in people’s pockets. Gold does not expand when Congress spends. Paper does.
That is the difference.
‘X’
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/2086922541239591309
Today, I visited Fort Knox to see the gold.
Since the Fed opened in 1913, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power.
$100 back then is worth $3,300 today. That’s because Congress spends into oblivion, with no regard for our national debt. At the same time, the Fed prints the difference.
There hasn’t been any gold there since at least Die Hard 3.
Wednesday August 12, 2026 – Children’s Health Defense – By Jill Erzen
Watch: Medical Free Speech Ruling ‘So Much Bigger Than COVID’
A federal judge’s recent injunction protects more than physicians’ speech about COVID-19 — it safeguards doctors’ ability to put patients first, Dr. Pierre Kory said on “The Jimmy Dore Show.” The case affects “every aspect of medicine now and in the future,” Kory said. He credited Children’s Health Defense with helping make the lawsuit possible.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-medical-free-speech-ruling-bigger-than-covid-pierre-kory-dore/
EXCERPTS
A federal judge’s recent order blocking California medical regulators from disciplining three physicians over their COVID-19 advice affects “every aspect of medicine now and in the future,” according to Dr. Pierre Kory, one of the doctors who brought the case.
“If we had lost, think about what the future looks like as a doctor,” Kory said this week on “The Jimmy Dore Show.” “It’s so much bigger than COVID.”
Kory said the ruling protects physicians’ ability to give patients the medical advice they believe is best, even when it differs from government recommendations or the prevailing standard of care.
“If I can’t say what I really think is the best thing for their health … we’re talking about a dystopian future,” Kory said.
“It wasn’t just about COVID. They could regulate anything I say. … I think medicine would implode.”
Last week, Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb issued a preliminary injunction barring California medical regulators from investigating or disciplining Kory, Dr. Le Trinh Hoang and Dr. Brian Tyson based on the viewpoints they expressed to patients about COVID-19.
Shubb ruled that regulators may not treat a physician’s refusal to communicate the government’s position on disputed COVID-19 issues as either an informed consent violation or a departure from the standard of care.
The lawsuit, filed against two California medical boards by the doctors and Children’s Health Defense (CHD), remains ongoing….
August 11, 2026 – The Jimmy Dore Show
HUGE WIN For Medical Freedom Over COVID Censorship! w/ Dr. Pierre Kory
25:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aUXO9uIbfk
The only trouble with this is that it came 5 years later.
I know man! I’m jaw struck by how people, elements and the system of the scandemic era cling to aspects of their broken narrative.
There are still countless fans of Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, former Trump White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. Many hospitals or medical associations still refuse to recount their broken policies.
Example:
Dr. Mary Bowden saved lives and/or tried to during the scandemic.
Houston Methodist Hospital suspended Dr. Mary Bowden’s hospital privileges and publicly accused her of spreading COVID-19 misinformation. They also swayed the Texas medical board to give her grief. She still has had a hard road after all theses years.
https://dallasexpress.com/state/dr-bowden-alleges-unethical-tactics-by-houston-methodist-in-post-judgment-fee-fight/
— Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday —
His recent Simon & Schuster published memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things won’t be appearing on the reading list of “Film, Literature and the New World Order” (FLNWO)
I’m in Texas and so missed the backdrop on this bizarre scenario…and who were the clowns that hired and promoted this guy?
In Texas we cut our teeth on tall tales starting in Kindergarten. ‘Jason Arday’ beats anything I’ve seen.
SHORT BACKSTORY
“In March 2023, the University of Cambridge announced Jason Arday’s appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education.
This made him the sixth black professor at Cambridge at the time,and the youngest black professor ever appointed at the university.” – Wikipedia
…and then the accolades and publicity hit maximum strength.
Friday August 14, 2026 – Zero Hedge
Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead at 41
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-cambridge-professor-jason-arday-found-dead-41
EXCERPTS
Arday’s memoir and its initial book proposal contain wild discrepancies and impossible claims.
~~~ The “Conscious Coma”: In his book proposal, Arday claimed he was hit by a car, spent months in a “conscious coma,” and had to relearn how to walk and talk. This entire traumatic event is completely omitted from the final book.
~~~ Shifting Illnesses: The proposal states he battled testicular cancer. The final book, however, changes this narrative, claiming he grappled with two brain tumors instead.
~~~ The Brazilian Shaman: Arday writes about encountering a “shaman woman” in Brazil who accurately prophesied his future struggles and triumphs. The article notes a glaring issue with this story: Arday has apparently never been to Brazil.
~~~ Time Travel: He somehow claimed to have appeared on the British documentary series Seven Up more than 20 years before he was even born.
~~~ Superhuman Athletics: He claims to have run an astonishing 30 marathons in 35 days.
— Jason Arday – Wikipedia —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Arday
NUGGETS
…Arday claimed that, aged three, he was diagnosed with autism, global developmental delay, deafness, and discalculia; that he was non-verbal until the age of 11; that he could not read or write until he was 18; and that he was diagnosed with dyslexia in his first year of university…
…He claimed he had to relearn the content of his dissertation weeks before defending it following the removal of a benign brain tumour that caused memory loss…
…In 2026, the biologist Richard Dawkins criticised the thesis as being written in an obscurantist, “gobbledygook” style. Dawkins highlighted 332 instances in which “a plural noun’s terminal ‘s’ is incorrectly followed by an apostrophe”, including in the title itself, and questioned whether Arday’s supervisor and examiners had actually read the thesis….
— G.L.O.V.E. —
…I can imagine the conversation between two cops: “Let’s try out the G.L.O.V.E. on this guy.”
Friday August 14, 2026 – The New York Post – VIDEO
Officer Screams Like ‘Little Girl’ Demonstrating ICE’s New Shock Gloves
3:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCYVi3oqRw
ICE may soon equip officers with gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks to help gain compliance from combative individuals. The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC. The Department of Homeland Security said ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of the devices.
OUR PRODUCTS – The G.L.O.V.E.
https://www.complianttechnologies.net/products
Shield of steel!
Cool aerial shot of Dutch tractors.
Hundreds of Dutch farmers gathered with tractors in Schermer on Thursday to protest nitrogen rules ahead of a major demonstration in Den Bosch on Friday August 14th.
August 14 – Times Now World (video)
WATCH: Dutch Farmers Revolt With Hundreds of Tractors as Government Targets Their Livestock4 minutes [Footage transitions to on-the-ground people/spokesperson.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1t_P7Jbl7Q
Hundreds of Dutch farmers gathered with tractors in Schermer ahead of a major demonstration in Den Bosch.
Farmers are protesting Dutch nitrogen rules and plans affecting livestock farms.
A farmers’ spokesperson says producers could be forced to reduce their animals by more than half without compensation for lost cattle.
In North Brabant, authorities are planning to revoke permits from five poultry farms, intensifying the conflict.
The Dutch government says nitrogen emissions must fall to protect vulnerable nature and create room for economic activity.
Agriculture is a major source of nitrogen deposition in the Netherlands, particularly through ammonia from livestock manure and fertilizers.
A 2025 Dutch court ruling ordered the government to meet its legal nitrogen targets by 2030.
The growing dispute raises a bigger question: Can the Netherlands protect its environment without destroying the future of its farming industry?
Friday August 14, 2026 – The New York Post (video)
$10M Gold Stash Found Hidden in Brewery Cellar
75 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMOjNoHEr2E
A routine renovation job in Belgium took an unexpected turn on Tuesday after builders happened upon a gold hoard worth over $10 million while installing a sewer system. “Our first reaction was actually disbelief,” an 18-year-old student worker named Kobe told local media outlet VRT while recalling the unexpected haul. “Of course, we hadn’t expected to find gold.”
Just finished Stigmata; the first of Dick’s books I’ve read – surely they can’t all be this good!
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~~ Where the World Is Burning in 2026
~~ Mapped: Monthly Salaries Across 69 Major Cities
What do you guys think the sudden data center and Flock camera infrastructure build out is really about?
I don’t buy that data centers are being built for AI, I believe it to be more insidious than that. They’re building the infrastructure for our digital prison through digital ID and wallets. They need these data centers to be able to house large swaths of data on everyone and their transactions. Basically the transition off the cash system toward a digital currency.
But in order to achieve this they need some kind of false flag event such as a fake Iranian cyber attack or cyber pandemic. This event would drain peoples bank accounts or at the very least severely limit their ability to transact.Think about it, kills two birds with one stone. The original monetary system is severely disrupted. The public freaks out like during Covid. The “powers that should not be” then blame the bogeyman Iran while offering a solution, digital currency! It allows them to not only establish a new monetary system but they would have a reason to put boots on the ground in Iran with the public’s backing just like 9/11. Problem-reaction-solution!
As far as Flock cameras go, I believe there won’t just be attacks on the digital banking infrastructure but electrical and water utilities as well. That’s why every Flock camera has a solar panel. The establishment knows the public’s backlash to all of this is going to be severe. Fear, looting, robbery, etc. So they need a way to monitor everything and everyone with limited electricity. Also long term it’s just a further buildout of the broader surveillance state in general like CCTV in the UK.
Well that’s my rambling rant for the day, with misspellings/bad punctuation and all 😄
Hey you! Yeah you, the one reading this!
Whatever it is in the world you might be dealing with right now, just know this too shall pass! Remind yourself, you got this!! There’s nothing in this world you can’t overcome!!
Oh and have an awesome day!!
-JW
I agree insofar these data centers not being built with commercial intentions. Once the market crashes the state can take them over and use them for their nefarious purposes. What might those be, that’s questionable. I don’t think they need that many datacenters just to track people. I would say it’s a bit over the top. The only alternative that comes to mind is a bit nuts. Quite a bit nuts, actually.
so what is the alternative?
It very well could be that this is just another tulip craze, but trouble in this particular instance is the trend is not really supported by the people. Most use out of “AI” is obtained by developers who mostly use claude. When they do switch to something else it is because they need to conserve tokens and spread them as thin as they will go. That’s becoming a very expensive game for them, and the price has not even began to hit the ceiling.
We have seen quite a lot of resistance toward datacenters being installed all over the place. We have seen the usual “we have to beat country x” justification propping up the rolout. We have completely forgotten about the green policies, i.e. carbon reduction for you and me, atomic power for them.
I think there can be no business model with this type of rolout. Some major improvements being absent, the only way they can keep this up is by shooting up the service price up into the sky. I.e. a company will likey find it cheaper to hire a junior or even mid dev than to keep spinning the token black jack.
There is also no real investment structure as most of the credit being swapped around belongs to large IT corporations themselves. They keep propping up each other, treating their clients as both their investors and their investment opportunities.
The usual investors are standing on the sideline and are looking at the unfolding events in disbelief.
The only zany conspiracy theory that fits is one that has been proclaimed by an old (previous?) member here who had postulated that we are dealing with an ancient machine that somehow got stuck in our world, one that got its tentacles in all critical structures of our civilization and is now driving the unrelenting fascination with technology we seem to be dealing with for the past decades.
All having started with invention of the microprocessor, possibly the last breakthrough of such magnitude. The very technology used to manufacture these devics does not look like something that belongs in our timeline.
It’s a blanket theory obviously, one that does not explain why would this thing need so much processing power. We could not even guess what might be its end goal. Any technology sufficiently advanced looks like magic, after all.
I don’t think they are aming for the singularity. Or maybe they are, but I don’t think they will be able to find one.
They have already consumed all the data, so much so they are now worried about AI incest taking down the whole of infrastructure. They now keep churning out larger and larger models. Without hype the feeble market would collapse over night.
All the while, tracking and tracing is a fabulous cover story. The easiest way to lose the war is to fight the wrong enemy and that’s what we are good at.
JP Wheels
probably the Data center thing is a case of people getting market fever ….. a lot of them probably won’t get built but it appears that many companies are being driven by a FOMO on the speculative prospects of AI.
I could be wrong, but can’t see that there is really going to be much call for AI, or at least nothing like the call for it that would need that much processing power. The whole stock market is depending on an Enron or Robert Maxwell esque money circuit of companies paying each other and it’s become a circular firing squad….Ed Citron likes to rant about it over at “better offline” podcast.
it is very unlikely that a technocratic gov could actually afford to spy on people as much as they want us to think and it’s also bit likely they can actually do a Cybersyn type planed economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
They actually had an AI bubble before with LISP machines and expert systems but it also didn’t come out as great as they hoped
JP Wheels,
You bring up some very important issues of the era.
I think that mkey has his finger on things.
The AI Data Center thing is a big bubble. Revenue always comes from the consumer, and in my opinion the ultimate end-point consumer are the people in society for any product or service…they pay for it, whether through taxes or the grooming to be digitally data-raped.
From the SubThread north of here…
https://corbettreport.com/august-open-thread-2026/#comment-188985
~~ Half of current U.S. economic growth is driven by the AI bubble
~~ IMAGE – Circular AI Deals
The debt/contract-commitments in the AI Data Center space is astounding…and literally needs massive amounts of insurance…and just like the housing bubble of the Great Financial Crisis (circa 2008) with the Credit Default Swaps, we got the same game being played now. In fact, the famous Michael Burry (of the 2015 film “The Big Short”) is shorting a lot of AI Data Center related stocks (e.g. SOXX, QQQ, Micron, Nvidia, Palantir, Oracle).
~~ Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and AI
~~ Mike goes over the Credit Default Swaps with different AI companies
~~ Explainer-What are credit default swaps and why are they spooking AI investors?
…and another half trillion more debt…
~~ NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital
“Are You a Bromide?”
Definition: “a tiresome person; a bore; a dull, conventional person.”
— BROMINE —
Recently, I went down the Bromine rabbit hole.
In the halogen (salt-maker) group of the Periodic Table of elements are fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I). The halogens (Group 17) are the most reactive of the non-metals on the periodic table. However, the alkali metals (Group 1) also share the “most reactive” title. The alkali metals include lithium, sodium, and potassium.
From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham is this 2009 five-minute YouTube VIDEO: “Bromine – Periodic Table of Videos”
The video is a fascinating watch which includes bromine’s reaction with aluminum, how bromine is made, and the fact that the Dead Sea contains a very high concentration of bromine (bromide); about 80 times more concentrated than normal sea water.
Quote: “So you can make bromine just by bubbling chlorine into a solution of bromide like Dead Sea water and the chlorine displaces the bromine and forms chloride and the bromine just comes out as red fumes which you can catch.”
— SALTS —
The table salt molecule (sodium chloride, NaCl) will dissociate its elements in water to the ions of chloride (Cl-) and sodium (Na+). However, a sugar molecule stays intact when dissolved in water. Dead Sea water holds free potassium (K+) and bromine (Br-) ions to be called a bromide salt, potassium bromide (KBr). Sodium bromide (NaBr) is also a salt.
— POTASSIUM BROMATE (KBrO3) —
I began my Bromine rabbit hole after watching the Monday July 13, 2026 announcement that Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier was investigating potassium bromate and issuing subpoenas to General Mills et al.
“Potassium bromate, used as a flour improver and dough conditioner in certain bakery flours, is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
The chemical compound has been banned as a food additive in the European Union since 1990, Canada since 1994, China since 2005, India since 2016, and in Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Peru, and numerous other countries due to health concerns, including evidence of tumors in animal studies.
The subpoena seeks comprehensive information on the company’s bromated products reaching Florida consumers and schools.”
(…to be continued…)
(…continuing…)
April 1, 2026 – “Commercial Baking” YouTube Channel
Replacing Potassium Bromate in Bakery Productions | BreadPartners | Commercial Baking TechTalk
5:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUnFJKgUqx4
“In this TechTalk, sponsored by BreadPartners, Mark Zielonka, national R&D product specialist, discusses solutions for replacing potassium bromate within the baking industry with Maddie Lambert, associate editor of Commercial Baking.”
Potassium bromate’s mechanism of action is well described. The interview provides keen insight into the commercial baking industry.
—Oxidizing Agent — POTASSIUM BROMATE (KBrO3) —
Potassium bromate (KBrO3) is a strong oxidizing agent (it reacts easily), but in baking it reacts as a slow-acting oxidizing agent through the stages (dough mixing, fermentation, proofing.) Elemental fluorine, for example, is the strongest common oxidizing agent.
—International Chemical Safety Card – Potassium Bromate —
https://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics1115.htm
“Physical State; Appearance – WHITE CRYSTALS OR POWDER.
Chemical dangers
Decomposes on heating.
This produces toxic and corrosive fumes.
The substance is a strong oxidant.
It reacts violently with combustible and reducing materials.
Reacts violently with aluminium, disulfur dibromide, arsenic, carbon, copper, metal sulfides, phosphorus and sulfur.
This generates fire hazard.“
(…to be continued…)
(…continuing…)
November 2023 – U.S. Right to Know – By Mikaela Conley
Potassium bromate: 50 years of research shows serious health risks
https://usrtk.org/chemicals/potassium-bromate/
This is a very thorough article with receipts. The list of potential adverse health effects is too numerous to mention, but besides the cancers and kidney problems my eyes were drawn to ‘inner ear damage’ and Neurobehavioral changes (bad memory; lower learning ability; weaker muscle control; depleted levels of dopamine, serotonin and acetylcholine; and even alterations to the brain’s neurons.)
To no one’s surprise, glutathione levels were noticeably diminished.
“Glutathione is widely called the “master antioxidant” because it is made in every cell, neutralizes free radicals, detoxifies harmful substances, and recycles other vital antioxidants like vitamins C and E.” – NIH
Glutathione is made from three amino acids (glutamine, cysteine, and glycine) and the amino acid supplements can facilitate the body’s glutathione production. See NAC N-Acetyl-Cysteine and Glutathione.
— POTASSIUM BROMIDE (KBr) —
Some people argue that through a proper baking process the potassium bromate (KBrO3) converts into potassium bromide (KBr), and thus is harmless to health in the form of potassium bromide.
Science Direct EXCERPT
“However, under the optimum conditions, it is converted to potassium bromide which is not harmful for consumption.”
I take issue with the authors of this scientific study. They are blowing ‘stupidity smoke’, because potassium bromide does adversely affect the body.
Have you ever had that sedated, “warm fuzzy” feeling after gorging on a bunch of baked dough?
Perhaps it is more than a carb-sugar spike…who knows?
(…to be continued…)
(…continuing…)
— POTASSIUM BROMIDE – Wikipedia — EXCERPTS
“Potassium bromide (KBr) is a salt, widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with over-the-counter use extending to 1975 in the US.
Its action is due to the bromide ion (sodium bromide is equally effective). Potassium bromide is used as a veterinary drug, in antiepileptic medication for dogs…
… The anticonvulsant properties of potassium bromide were first noted by Sir Charles Locock at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1857.
Bromide can be regarded as the first effective medication for epilepsy. At the time, it was commonly thought that epilepsy was caused by masturbation.
Locock noted that bromide calmed sexual excitement and thought this was responsible for his success in treating seizures.
In the latter half of the 19th century, potassium bromide was used for the calming of seizure and nervous disorders on an enormous scale, with the use by single hospitals being as much as several tons a year (the dose for a given person being a few grams per day).
By the beginning of the 20th century, the generic word had become so widely associated with being sedate that the term ‘bromide’ came to mean a dull, sedate person or a boring platitude uttered by such a person.
There was not a better epilepsy drug until phenobarbital in 1912.
The British Army has historically been claimed to lace soldiers’ tea with bromide to quell sexual arousal and in the Victorian era prisoners in England were compulsorily dosed with the chemical…
… Bromide compounds, especially sodium bromide, remained in over-the-counter sedatives and headache remedies (such as the original formulation of Bromo-Seltzer) in the US until 1975, when bromides were outlawed in all over-the-counter medicines, due to chronic toxicity….”
(…to be continued…)
(…continuing…)
“Bromo Seltzer brings you back with an action all the others lack!”
Bromo Seltzer TV advertisement
60 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsR05aZ-S0g
Bromo-Seltzer – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo-Seltzer
NOTE: Bromo Seltzer used sodium bromide (not potassium bromide) as one of its components.
Much, much more on TOXICITY here…
Bromism – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromism
NUGGETS
“A man was poisoned in 2025, after a suggestion of ChatGPT to replace sodium chloride in his diet with sodium bromide.”
“Bromism has also been caused by excessive consumption of soft drinks that contain brominated vegetable oil (BVO), leading to….”
[Gatorade, Fanta and Mountain Dew once contained BVO.]
…Segue with grins…in case you haven’t seen this…
Friday July 17, 2026 – New York Post – VIDEO 105 seconds
Man Trapped in Porta-Potty Tank For Eight Hours After Trying to Retrieve Mountain Dew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEqbiMLGHKY
IODINE – Bromine Detox?
Look on the Periodic Table… fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I).
I posit that sane doses of Iodine (e.g. Ligol’s) might help to detox Bromine from the body. The iodine might help to displace the bromine in the body.
It has been posited that iodine could be useful in helping to remove fluoride from the body, but that could take decades due to the fact that fluoride meshes with bone structure…the Osteoclasts/ Osteoblasts process.
If you do take an Iodine supplement, do NOT take at bed time. Your brain’s “thinking machine” will be in high gear. Dr. Jorge D. Flechas points this out in one of his lectures.
https://allnaturaldoctor.com/iodine/
Hood County is southwest of Fort Worth, Texas. The county seat is Granbury, TX which has a long lake formed from the Brazos River with housing developments along its shores. Back in the very early 1970’s I was a life guard at the swimming pools of one of those developments (saved two people.)
Monday August 17, 2026 – KRLD 1080 AM News Radio
Hood County covers Flock cameras after privacy concerns
IMAGES and great 3:45 minute VIDEO in article
https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/local/hood-county-covers-flock-cameras-after-privacy-concerns
EXCERPTS
Hood County has shut down and covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras after county commissioners and residents raised concerns about privacy and mass surveillance.
Constable John Shirley shared photos Saturday of the cameras being covered. He said the work of shutting down and covering the devices across the county was completed over the weekend following requests from commissioners and residents.
In a social media post accompanying the photos, Shirley wrote that the cameras were “constantly scanning and recording regular folks just going about their day” and that “that kind of permanent, warrantless tracking doesn’t belong in a free society.”…
Hood County Constable, Precinct 2’s Post (Constable John Shirley)
https://www.facebook.com/HoodConstable2/posts/1031762246135486?ref=embed_post
(with comments)
Today is a good day for the Freedom of the people of Hood County.
I’ve finished the job of shutting down the county’s Flock cameras. They’ve been completely unplugged and covered.
These cameras were constantly scanning and recording regular folks just going about their day. That kind of permanent, warrantless tracking doesn’t belong in a free society.
By unplugging and covering them, we’re making it clear: privacy isn’t optional, and mass surveillance isn’t how we do things here.
This is what limited government looks like.
People in Hood County shouldn’t have to wonder if every trip they take is being logged and stored. I’m proud we got this done. It’s a real win for the citizens of this county.
To Flock Safety Systems: come get your garbage out of my county.
Everyone should have in their medicine cabinet. 8 oz. or more of food grade zinc powder. It is the best cure for infections on the skin. I will make a paste of it with either Muprocin aintibiotic ointment or clear injectable liquid ivermectin, (just a few drops) or a few drops of Cryptolepis tincture from Woodland Essence. This has been a game changing miracle for me. If I get the slightest scratch or burn on my left hand a staph infection develops in it which does not heal if i don’t keep it dry and apply this homemade ointment. This is the answer to skin infections that do not heal: Keep the wound totally dry for days. Do not do the dishes without gloves nor get it wet while bathing, even for a minute. Apply your zinc paste and cover the wound. Rarely but occasionally you might also need an oral antibiotic to go along with it. For those hard to stop infections this is the answer. I have seen people’s fingers cut off with infections run amok.
Smyth
”….I get the slightest scratch or burn on my left hand a staph infection develops in it which does not heal if i don’t keep it dry and apply this homemade ointment….”
You might want to grab some of that orange medical body wash and treat yourself for a few weeks. I knew a guy who had both knees replaced and they made him do that because his skin was like a staph farm or something.
— State Farm and Allstate Insurance Companies (U.S.A.) — (Homeowners Ins.)
If you have State Farm auto insurance, you may have seen this coincidental headline:
— State Farm’s $5 billion dividend payout is largest in company history: Who’s eligible? —
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/state-farms-5-billion-dividend-payout-is-largest-in-company-history-whos-eligible-170817212.html
https://newsroom.statefarm.com/state-farm-mutual-begins-issuing-dividend-payments/
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is paying out the largest cash dividend in its more than 100-year history. The company says it will distribute the $5 billion in payments over the coming months to policyholders, covering more than 49 million vehicles….
HOMEOWNER’S INSURANCE MAFIA CARTEL
Both State Farm and Allstate have been screwing over families with their homeowner’s insurance in a major, slimy way.
Besides civil attorneys, now the Oklahoma State Attorney General Gentner Drummond is going after them. EXCERPT “As with the AG’s previous actions against State Farm, the new suit claims that Allstate, too, violated laws more typically associated with cartels and the mafia.”
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/07/08/allstate-next-in-drummonds-insurance-crusade/
—-Monday Aug 17, 2026 – KFOR Oklahoma News 4
Attorneys work to unseal confidential documents from State Farm and Allstate
3:30 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCN6lpZ6o0Y
Monday August 17, 2026 – By J.C. Hallman
Oklahoma Watch – No Favorites, No Falsehoods, No Fear
~~ The Secret Documents: Attorneys Unveil Insurance Scheme ~~
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/08/17/the-secret-documents-attorneys-unveil-insurance-scheme/
EXCERPTS
In 1997, Allstate Insurance Company launched a test program in Albuquerque, N.M., titled the ‘Claim Core Process Redesign’, to modify its process for assessing wind- and hail-related roof damage claims…
…Before the test, Allstate paid out on 75.9% of wind claims and 82.8% of hail claims. After the test, they paid out on 29.2% of wind claims and 11.1% of hail claims.
In other words, a whole lot more policyholders were having their claims denied entirely…
…On May 21, 2022, a storm hit the Rogers County home… An Allstate adjuster approved a replacement only to be overruled by remote Allstate managers…
…The number of cases changes daily, but as the saga unfolded and as Attorney General Gentner Drummond intervened on behalf of the state and filed lawsuits against both State Farm and Allstate, Whitten Burrage has accumulated more than 1,000 cases across Oklahoma, and The Marr Law Firm counts approximately 200 cases….
It’s pretty crispy.
In my part of North Texas near Fort Worth – Dallas, I last logged any rain on July 16th.
Today is Thursday August 20th and there is no rain in the forecast through the end of the month.
Temperatures have ranged near 100 degrees F (37.7°C) or above. This week looks like 40°C.
Plants are really stressed with overnight temperatures about 80°F (26.7°C). Plants (crops) need cooler overnight temperatures to take the stress off and recover from the heat of the day.
It’s pretty crispy, man.
But I’ve seen worse. 1980 was rough.
Temps – https://www.weather.gov/fwd/d100data
Consecutive days without rain – https://www.weather.gov/fwd/dnorain
Believe you me, crispy is better than both crispy and soggy at the same time. 75% relative humidity this morning, it’s like a rainforest over here.
Man-o-man, I know exactly what you are saying with that humidity and heat mix.
This month, I guess to the south down near the coast, the winds flamed a 2500 acre Croatian wildfire.
Wildfire Engulfs Croatian Tourist Town of Omis: 36 Injured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhnNC1cGGE
mkey,
How goes it with your teaching endeavor and busy schedule?
Here you point out that by virtue of being an educator to others “you always, of course, teach yourself in the process.”
That is a real take-home adage for me.
I’ll bet your old job managers are still wrestling with coping…there’s a bit of schadenfreude that rides with that. Sometimes good things aren’t appreciated until they are gone.
We used to often get these big fires during the summer. This one probably set the record. Some conspiracy theorists have suggested the timing of the fire was perfect for getting attention off the most recent big scale reveal: 30 thousand tonnes of all sorts of toxic waste was imported into Croatia. People have warned that Croatia will likely be used by the better established EU states as a toxic dump and, thanks to massive corruption, that prophecy is panning out. This is not the first time something like that happened, either.
On the personal front, the summer break is still on for another 2 weeks and counting. For the following school year we have 96 new pupils, 20 something of whom are coming with mild to severe developmental disorders. Every year there’s significantly more such children. Developmental disorders, tissue damage, families in disarray. These children are being groomed to somehow get by, at best.
On a more positive/neutral note, I’m working on preparing a system that should help cut the working hours that go into preparing for class as well as handling administration. We’ll see what it gets me. This system incentivizes teachers to do as little as possible, thus I have to conclude the system is quite efficient, if we judge it by what it does, instead of what it should be doing.
Tuesday August 18, 2026 – ZeroHedge
Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors – The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/comcast-turns-millions-routers-motion-sensors-same-wifi-signals-can-id-you-995-accuracy
EXCERPT
Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It’s free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What’s more, researchers have already shown [LINK] that these same signals can identify exactly who is in the room….
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[LINK] EXCERPTS
Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
Everyday WiFi networks could potentially identify and track people without cameras or special equipment, using signals already being transmitted by nearby devices.
…Researchers showed that unencrypted signals routinely exchanged between WiFi devices and routers can be used to create radio-based images of people and recognize them within seconds.
In tests involving 197 participants, the system identified individuals with nearly 100% accuracy, even from different angles and regardless of how they walked.…
Hakeem Anwar (#TakeBackOurTech, AbovePhone, Independent Media Alliance)
July 14, 2025*
Wifi Sensing Sees Through Walls
https://www.activistpost.com/wifi-sensing-sees-through-walls
(link to Hakeem’s substack & video in article)
EXCERPTS
Comcast, US internet giant and service provider rolled out a “WiFi motion” feature to millions of customer routers. Once customers enable it, they’ll be able to detect motion in their homes and get notifications.
This WiFi motion works by measuring a WiFi signal strength patterns between your router and a stationary device. When something moves between those two points, the pattern shifts and this can be detected as motion….
Deus Ex is a game franchise started in year 2000. This is 36 minute collection of its messages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46oDDnE1Z6o
Mr. Corbett,
Just so you are aware
Regarding
On this August webpage, there are several links with at the end.
Sometimes, it seems that the comment box will automatically throw at the end of a link.
Go figure?
It happens occasionally.
When checking my work, on a few occasions I caught it. I jockeyed around with different things like backspacing / edit-reposting and finally got it off.
Example:
At a previous coment, I posted this link:
~~WWW activistpost.com/wifi-sensing-sees-through-walls/
https://www.activistpost.com/wifi-sensing-sees-through-walls/
but somehow it turned into
https://www.activistpost.com/wifi-sensing-sees-through-walls
after I submitted the comment.
You’re not the only one who has had issues with non breaking space characters. Did you copy these URLs from the browser’s address bar? Have you tried to perform “paste without formatting” or CTRL+SHIFT+V? Most, if not all browsers, should support this.
mkey, I was hoping that you would see the post. 😉
Yeah, I copied the activist post url from the address bar and “paste without formatting” on the comment here.
At first, I noticed the automatic fill after I hit “Post Comment” when I went back to check my links.
Several ‘edits’ and tries had when I “Saved” the edit.
I eventually backspaced or played around with it to get it to work.
I got it right on the third or fourth edit.
Should I just “Paste” when copying the address bar link?
I’m trying to think of a ‘rule of thumb’ with posting links. Most every comment’s link posts fine and I always use “paste without formatting”. It’s a mystery to me that once-in-a-blue-moon things don’t fly right.
These misteries are a daily occurrence, it’s only a matter of scale. At this point I don’t understand why would this happen in your case (and only occasionally) but at least I can clarify some points:
When copying from the address bar, you should only have plain text in the clipboard. That is, text without formatting.Paste without formatting does exactly that – when you copy text from a webpage, for example, paste without formatting will strip everything but text.With regular paste you may get the source formatting too, depending on the destination. For example, if you paste into notepad, you will always get text only. If you paste into a rich text control (or a word document), you might also paste some source formatting.Do you maybe have some browser extension installed? For example, a grammar checker that may alter the text you are inputting.
No, I try to avoid extensions. I don’t use a grammar checker.
Typically, I always “paste without formatting”, even on a Word document.
Some of my verbose comments (e.g. “Are you a Bromide?”) are previously typed and pasted without formatting on a Word doc.
This pdf file comment was typed on-the-fly (not on Word) “paste without formatting”… https://corbettreport.com/august-open-thread-2026/#comment-189131
Here is some else’s comment..
https://corbettreport.com/august-open-thread-2026/#comment-189022
Maybe I’m breathing wrong which messes up my non breaking space characters.
This happens only on URLs? On second thought, nbsp probably would not be cleared when pasting without formatting.
If you press backspace when the cursors is at the end of the URL it starts deleting the closing letters of the URL?
The trouble with this new rich text format box is that it does not offer the “show text only” option. This is something James can likey configure easily. That would allow you to see the problem more easilly as it should show HTML tags and entities.
Cool.
The next time it happens, I am going to pay more attention to the sequences of what might have prompted it and how I resolve it.
When I get the itch, I may experiment and TRY to get an autofill
After the experiment and clutter and the comment is published, I can go back and DELETE the comment.
From 2025, but I do not think it has been shared here before:
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder/co-founder – Jung & Naiv: Episode 792
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswRbWyt_pg
(Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales storms out of an interview after just 48 seconds)
This is priceless!
BUMP
BUMP
I just uploaded this short video.
Cyclospora Problem Reaction Solution
https://pleasestoptheride.com/cyclospora-problem-reaction-solution/
Early Drafts of Proposed Laws Now Often Contain AI Slop
Steve Lehto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqXBjHTD7dc
Visualizing Every US State’s Economy Matched To A Country – IMAGE
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-u-s-state-economy-matched-to-a-country/
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/visualizing-every-us-states-economy-matched-country
EXCERPTS
…This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, pairs each U.S. state with the country closest to it in nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025, using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook.
At $4.3 trillion, California would rank among the world’s five largest economies if it were an independent country. Its closest match on the map is the United Kingdom.
Texas, meanwhile, has a $2.9 trillion economy, putting it closest to Russia. Both are major energy powerhouses, particularly in oil and gas…
…New York’s $2.5 trillion economy is roughly the same size as Canada’s GDP. Meanwhile, Florida’s $1.8 trillion economy is closest to Australia, the largest economy in Oceania.
Together, these four states would each qualify for the Group of 20 (G20) if they were independent countries…
…Overall, the U.S. has a $30.8 trillion national GDP, roughly equal to the combined output of China, Germany, and Japan, the world’s next three largest economies….
SAMPLES
🇺🇸 U.S. 30762 🇨🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵 China, Germany, Japan
New York 2468 🇨🇦 Canada
California 4251 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Florida 1835 🇦🇺 Australia
Colorado 584 🇹🇭 Thailand
Connecticut 376 🇮🇷 Iran
District of Columbia 193 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Nebraska 198 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Georgia 925 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Massachusetts 820 🇹🇼 Taiwan
New Jersey 887 🇹🇼 Taiwan
North Carolina 894 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Washington 895 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Indiana 545 🇳🇴 Norway
Illinois 1202 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Minnesota 531 🇻🇳 Vietnam
West Virginia 109 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
New Mexico 153 🇸🇰 Slovakia
Oklahoma 274 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Texas 2904 🇷🇺 Russia
I was singing in the chorus with David Kelly’s rant on American homes…
April 28, 2026 – Lumberjack Healthy Homes – David Kelly
Why American Homes Became Ugly, Toxic, and Unaffordable
21:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeXamJEf7z4
Some building terms…
Medium-density fiberboard (MDF) contains urea-formaldehyde resin binders, which can off-gas toxic formaldehyde gas.
Oriented Strand Board (OSB)
LVP (Luxury Vinyl Plank) flooring primarily built from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins. It is not “luxury” flooring.
Polyvinyl chloride is manufactured from two gases; ethylene and chlorine. The original feedstock for ethylene is typically natural gas. The original feedstock for chlorine is salt (sodium chloride.)
The original feedstock for most plastics is natural gas, which is itself composed of various gases.
It shouldn’t be surprising that many of these plastic products can “off-gas”.
During early 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio almost a million pounds of vinyl chloride were burned following a train derailment. The toxic residue is still all over the community per samples.
Apr 2, 2026 – – Lumberjack Healthy Homes – David Kelly
The 10 Fastest Ways To Poison Your Home’s Air
11:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tVgpwz8U48
Generally, a chemical reaction rate DOUBLES for every 10°C rise in temperature.
It has been HOT this summer!
Formaldehyde and other a volatile organic compounds (VOC) evaporate easily. Increased temperatures will increase the release of VOCs.
HUMIDITY – Water vapor activates trapped VOC compounds in building materials.
A 35% jump in relative humidity can potentially double the formaldehyde off-gassing.
AI data centres have been scanning books then destroying them apparently. James Corbetts book list books are never at the public library anyway. What about creating a peer to peer “Alternative” library? Perhaps people could send each other copies of books to cut out the middle man?
James Corbett on The Jimmy Dore Show
Streamed live on Aug 19, 2026 – The Jimmy Dore Show
QUEUED James Corbett interview 35:53 through 1:29:00
Trump Is Planning to NUKE IRAN! Says Marjorie Taylor Greene! w/ James Corbett
https://www.youtube.com/live/dRcgnRDbJ5k?t=2153s
Edited short version…
Sunday August 23, 2026 – The Jimmy Dore Show
Japan’s ZOMBIE Economy Is About To Crash! – James Corbett
15:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYipxxr3hoI
Reportage author James Corbett joins Jimmy to note that Japan’s economy has been in a “zombie” state since its 1990s asset bubble burst, with prices barely moving for decades until recently, and now faces a falling yen and rising inflation driven in part by the Middle East conflict and import costs. Asked about how Japan handled COVID, he explains that the country was never under a formal lockdown or mask mandate, but widespread social pressure—what he calls “horizontal tyranny”—led most people to comply with measures like masking anyway.
Corbett points out that Japan’s population is shrinking, with deaths exceeding births amid a persistent low fertility rate, though he notes he doesn’t have the latest data on excess deaths. He traces Japan’s stagnation to structural issues, including a fragile banking system and “zombie companies” that survived on ultra-low interest rates, while also suggesting Japan’s technological progress stalled relative to China’s rise.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING THE ABOVE…
Instead…
Go to Corbett Report directly…
Monday August 24, 2026 – Corbett Report
Interview 2033 – October 7th Examined on the Jimmy Dore Show
https://corbettreport.com/october-7th-examined-on-the-jimmy-dore-show/